[Senate Report 104-236]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



                                                       Calendar No. 343
104th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE

  2d Session                                                    104-236
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  MAKING OMNIBUS CONSOLIDATED RESCISSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE 
     FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1996, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

                                _______


                 March 6, 1996.--Ordered to be printed

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

                              R E P O R T

                         [To accompany S. 1594]

    The Committee on Appropriations reports the bill (S. 1594) 
making omnibus consolidated rescissions and appropriations for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other 
purposes, reports favorably thereon and recommends that the 
bill do pass.


                            C O N T E N T S

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Title I--Omnibus appropriations..................................     6
    Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
      and Related Agencies.......................................     6
    District of Columbia.........................................    37
    Department of the Interior and Related Agencies..............    42
    Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
      Education, and Related Agencies............................   106
    Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
      Development, and Independent Agencies......................   190
Title II--Emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal 
  year ending September 30, 1996.................................   213
    Department of Agriculture....................................   213
    Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
      and Related Agencies.......................................   215
    Energy and Water Development.................................   216
    Department of the Interior and Related Agencies..............   218
    Department of Transportation.................................   221
    Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
      Development, and Independent Agencies......................   222
    Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs...   223
    Department of Defense........................................   227
    Military Construction........................................   232
    Rescinding certain budget authority..........................   232
    General provisions...........................................   233
Title III--Miscellaneous provisions..............................   241
Title IV--Contingency appropriations.............................   243
    Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
      and Related Agencies.......................................   243
    Department of the Interior...................................   245
    Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
      Education, and Related Agencies............................   245
    Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
      Development, and Independent Agencies......................   247
Compliance with paragraph 7(c), rule XXVI of the Standing Rules 
  of the Senate..................................................   254
Compliance with paragraph 12, rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of 
  the Senate.....................................................   254
Budgetary impact statement.......................................   255
    Despite the best efforts of this Committee, five of the 
regular appropriations bills for fiscal year 1996 have not been 
enacted into law. Three of those, the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act; the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act; and the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act were vetoed by the President and 
those vetoes were sustained. The other two bills: the District 
of Columbia Appropriations Act and the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act have been delayed by procedural motions in 
the Senate. Existing funding authority for the departments and 
agencies in those five bills contained in Public Law 104-99 
expires on March 15, 1996. To avoid the disruption of another 
funding hiatus interrupting Government services, and to 
conclude fiscal year 1996 deliberations, the Committee 
recommends combining all five bills within title I of this 
bill.

                                                                                       SUMMARY OF THE BILL                                                                                      
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                                                                                                                                                      Senate bill compared with--               
                                                      1995 appropriation    Budget estimate     Conference \1\         Committee     -----------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                                    recommendation    1995 appropriation    Budget estimate       Conference    
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Commerce-Justice:                                                                                                                                                                               
    New budget (obligational) authority.............     $26,698,342,000     $31,158,679,000     $27,287,525,000     $27,285,234,000       +$586,892,000     -$3,873,445,000         -$2,291,000
        Appropriations..............................      24,541,692,000      27,148,479,000      23,538,956,000      23,572,165,000        -969,527,000      -3,576,314,000         +33,209,000
        Rescissions.................................        -171,250,000  ..................        -207,400,000        -242,900,000         -71,650,000        -242,900,000         -35,500,000
        Crime trust fund............................       2,327,900,000       4,010,200,000       3,955,969,000       3,955,969,000      +1,628,069,000         -54,231,000  ..................
    (By transfer)...................................          56,500,000          55,500,000         106,000,000         106,000,000         +49,500,000         +50,500,000  ..................
    (Limitation on administrative expenses).........           3,463,000           3,559,000           3,559,000           3,559,000             +96,000  ..................  ..................
    (Limitation on direct loans)....................             741,000             741,000             741,000             741,000  ..................  ..................  ..................
    (Liquidation of contract authority).............         214,356,000         162,610,000         162,610,000         162,610,000         -51,746,000  ..................  ..................
    (Foreign currency appropriation)................           1,420,000           1,420,000           1,420,000           1,420,000  ..................  ..................  ..................
District of Columbia: Appropriations................         712,070,000         712,070,000         727,000,000         727,000,000         +14,930,000         +14,930,000  ..................
Interior:                                                                                                                                                                                       
    New budget (obligational) authority.............      13,519,230,000      13,817,404,000      12,164,636,000      12,163,355,000      -1,355,875,000      -1,654,049,000          -1,281,000
        Appropriations..............................      13,549,230,000      13,832,204,000      12,194,636,000      12,195,527,000      -1,353,703,000      -1,636,677,000            +891,000
        Rescissions.................................         -30,000,000         -30,000,000         -30,000,000         -32,172,000          -2,172,000          -2,172,000          -2,172,000
        Crime trust fund............................  ..................          15,200,000  ..................  ..................  ..................         -15,200,000  ..................
    (By transfer)...................................         107,764,000         187,000,000         187,000,000         187,000,000         +79,236,000  ..................  ..................
Labor-HHS-Education:                                                                                                                                                                            
    Total budget (obligational) authority...........     244,495,303,000     268,133,087,000     258,971,170,000     258,357,553,000     +13,862,250,000      -9,775,534,000        -613,617,000
    New budget (obligational) authority, 1996.......     204,547,586,000     226,132,133,000     217,325,820,000     216,722,203,000     +12,174,617,000      -9,409,930,000        -603,617,000
        Appropriations..............................     205,154,584,000     225,956,733,000     217,360,820,000     216,769,203,000     +11,614,619,000      -9,187,530,000        -591,617,000
        Rescissions.................................        -617,998,000  ..................        -100,000,000        -100,000,000        +517,998,000        -100,000,000  ..................
        Crime trust fund............................          11,000,000         175,400,000          65,000,000          53,000,000         +42,000,000        -122,400,000         -12,000,000
        Advance appropriations, 1997................      39,687,717,000      41,704,554,000      41,385,350,000      41,385,350,000      +1,697,633,000        -319,204,000  ..................
        Advance appropriations, 1998................         260,000,000         296,400,000         260,000,000         250,000,000         -10,000,000         -46,400,000         -10,000,000
    (Limitation on trust funds).....................      11,396,796,000      12,259,261,000      11,487,093,000      11,490,092,000         +93,296,000        -769,169,000          +2,999,000
VA, HUD:                                                                                                                                                                                        
    New budget (obligational) authority.............      89,927,686,000      90,551,351,093      80,606,927,000      83,108,196,000      -6,819,490,000      -7,443,155,093      +2,501,269,000
        Appropriations..............................      90,260,686,000      90,746,470,093      80,805,046,000      83,306,315,000      -6,954,371,000      -7,440,155,093      +2,501,269,000
        Rescissions.................................        -333,000,000        -198,119,000        -198,119,000        -198,119,000        +134,881,000  ..................  ..................
        Crime trust fund............................  ..................           3,000,000  ..................  ..................  ..................          -3,000,000  ..................
    (By transfer)...................................         100,061,000              63,000          17,561,000          17,561,000         -82,500,000         +17,498,000  ..................
    (Limitation on administrative expenses).........         623,746,500           2,502,000          17,602,000          17,602,000        -606,144,500         +15,100,000  ..................
    (Limitation on direct loans)....................       1,200,523,034       1,075,421,120       1,075,363,000       1,075,363,000        -125,160,034             -58,120  ..................
    (Limitation on guaranteed loans)................     264,939,072,000     237,400,000,000     238,900,000,000     238,900,000,000     -26,039,072,000      +1,500,000,000  ..................
    (Limitation on corporate funds).................         516,041,000         549,626,000         554,401,000         554,401,000         +38,360,000          +4,775,000  ..................
Title I--Omnibus appropriations:                                                                                                                                                                
    Total budget (obligational) authority...........     375,601,631,000     404,493,591,093     379,952,258,000     381,838,338,000      +6,236,707,000     -22,655,253,093      +1,886,080,000
    New budget (obligational) authority.............     335,653,914,000     362,492,637,093     338,306,908,000     340,202,988,000      +4,549,074,000     -22,289,649,093      +1,896,080,000
        Appropriations..............................     334,218,262,000     358,395,956,093     334,626,458,000     336,570,210,000      +2,351,948,000     -21,825,746,093      +1,943,752,000
        Rescissions.................................      -1,152,248,000        -228,119,000        -535,519,000        -573,191,000        +579,057,000        -345,072,000         -37,672,000
        Crime trust fund............................       2,587,900,000       4,324,800,000       4,215,969,000       4,205,969,000      +1,618,069,000        -118,831,000         -10,000,000
        Advance appropriations, 1997................      39,687,717,000      41,704,554,000      41,385,350,000      41,385,350,000      +1,697,633,000        -319,204,000  ..................
        Advance appropriations, 1998................         260,000,000         296,400,000         260,000,000         250,000,000         -10,000,000         -46,400,000         -10,000,000
    (By transfer)...................................         264,325,000         242,563,000         310,561,000         310,561,000         +46,236,000         +67,998,000  ..................
    (Limitation on administrative expenses).........         627,209,500           6,061,000          21,161,000          21,161,000        -606,048,500         +15,100,000  ..................
    (Limitation on direct loans)....................       1,201,264,034       1,076,162,120       1,076,104,000       1,076,104,000        -125,160,034             -58,120  ..................
    (Limitation on guaranteed loans)................     264,939,072,000     237,400,000,000     238,900,000,000     238,900,000,000     -26,039,072,000      +1,500,000,000  ..................
    (Limitation on corporate funds).................         516,041,000         549,626,000         554,401,000         554,401,000         +38,360,000          +4,775,000  ..................
    (Liquidation of contract authority).............         214,356,000         162,610,000         162,610,000         162,610,000         -51,746,000  ..................  ..................
    (Foreign currency appropriation)................           1,420,000           1,420,000           1,420,000           1,420,000  ..................  ..................  ..................
Title II--Emergency supplemental appropriations:                                                                                                                                                
    New budget (obligational) authority.............  ..................         856,329,000  ..................       1,229,214,000  ..................        +372,885,000  ..................
        Appropriations..............................  ..................       1,676,329,000  ..................       2,049,214,000  ..................        +372,885,000  ..................
        Rescissions.................................  ..................        -820,000,000  ..................        -820,000,000  ..................  ..................  ..................
    (Liquidation of contract authority).............  ..................         375,000,000  ..................         375,000,000  ..................  ..................  ..................
    (Exempt obligations)............................  ..................         267,000,000  ..................         300,000,000  ..................         +33,000,000  ..................
    (Limitation on direct loans)....................  ..................         118,874,000  ..................  ..................  ..................        -118,874,000  ..................
Title IV--Contingency appropriations: Appropriations  ..................  ..................  ..................       4,781,500,000  ..................      +4,781,500,000  ..................
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\1\ Senate-reported level for Labor-HHS-Education.                                                                                                                                              

                    TITLE I--OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED 
                                AGENCIES

    On December 19, 1995, the President vetoed H.R. 2076, the 
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996. An attempt to 
override the President's veto in the House of Representatives 
on January 3, 1996, failed on a vote of 230-149.
    In response to that action and under existing funding 
constraints, the Committee recommends funding for the accounts 
in this section at the levels and under the terms and 
conditions set forth in the conference report to accompany H.R. 
2076 (House Report 104-378) with the exceptions described 
below.
    Recommended funding changes relative to conference report 
levels are summarized in the table below. An explanation of 
recommended legislative and funding changes follows.

          COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES RECOMMENDED FUNDING CHANGES         
                                   [Budget authority in thousands of dollars]                                   
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                                                                 Fiscal year                                    
                            Agency                             1996 conference   Recommendation       Change    
                                                                    level                                       
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Department of Justice: Drug Enforcement Administration:                                                         
 Salaries and expenses.......................................         792,909          797,409           +4,500 
Department of Commerce: National Oceanic and Atmospheric                                                        
 Administration: Operations, research, and facilities (GLOBE)       1,795,677        1,802,677           +7,000 
Department of State and related agencies: Eisenhower Exchange                                                   
 Fellowship Program..........................................             300              509             +209 
Related agencies:                                                                                               
    Federal Communications Commission:                                                                          
        Salaries and expenses................................         175,709          195,709          +20,000 
        Offsetting fee collections...........................        (116,400)        (136,400)         (20,000)
    Legal Services Corporation: Payment to the LSC...........         278,000          300,000          +22,000 
    Ounce of Prevention Council..............................  ...............           1,500           +1,500 
Rescissions:                                                                                                    
    Department of State: Administration of Foreign Affairs:                                                     
     Acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad                                                            
     (rescission)............................................         (60,000)         (95,500)        (+35,500)
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                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

                         General Administration

    The Committee recommendation strikes language from H.R. 
2076 prohibiting funds for the Associate Attorney General and 
includes a technical change requested by the Department of 
Justice.

                      Community Relations Service

    The Committee recommendation includes language requested by 
the Department of Justice which would exempt this account from 
the reprogramming ceilings outlined in section 605 of the 
conference report if the Attorney General determines that 
emergent circumstances require additional funding for conflict 
prevention and resolution activities of the Community Relations 
Service. This recommendation is an attempt to address an issue 
raised in the President's veto message within existing funding 
constraints.

                    Drug Enforcement Administration

    The Committee recommends $4,500,000 in additional 
discretionary appropriations above conference levels for the 
Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] to support DEA's 
Southwest border initiative. This additional funding brings 
DEA's operating budget up to the level requested by the 
President.

                 Immigration and Naturalization Service

    The Committee recommends a technical change to bill 
language under the Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] 
``Salaries and expenses'' account to reflect a bipartisan, 
bicameral agreement with the administration on INS training 
priorities for fiscal year 1996. The Committee recommendation 
also contains modifications to the allocation of violent crime 
reduction trust fund resources to INS accounts to correct a 
technical error in the conference report. These changes were 
requested by INS.

                       Office of Justice Programs

   violent crime reduction programs, state and local law enforcement 
                               assistance

    In an attempt to reach a compromise with the administration 
within existing funding constraints, the Committee recommends 
providing a minimum of $975,000,000 in fiscal year 1996 funding 
for the Community Oriented Policing [COPS] Program, a minimum 
of $25,000,000 for the Drug Courts Program, a minimum of 
$80,000,000 for crime prevention block grants, and $10,000,000 
for the Police Corps as earmarks from the $1,903,000,000 local 
law enforcement block grant. Neither COPS nor drug courts 
received direct funding in the conference report to accompany 
H.R. 2076.
    For COPS and drug courts, Committee-recommended funding 
levels are at or above the levels that would be available for 
these programs if the current continuing resolution (Public Law 
104-99) were extended for the remainder of fiscal year 1996.
    Under the Committee proposal, the remaining $893,000,000 of 
block grant resources would be provided under the same terms 
and conditions as outlined in the conference report. These 
funds would be provided directly to local communities to permit 
them to combat violent crime according to their local needs and 
priorities. States and localities are encouraged to use these 
resources to put more police on America's streets.

               General Provisions--Department of Justice

    With the exception of section 114 (prison grants), the 
general provisions in this portion of the conference report 
were enacted into law as part of Public Law 104-99. Since 
sections 116 through 119 of the conference report were enacted 
as changes to permanent law, they are not repeated in this 
bill.
    Sec. 109. The Committee recommendation includes a technical 
conforming change to a U.S. Code citation regarding the assets 
forfeiture fund.
    Sec. 114. The Committee recommendation includes revised 
language establishing violent offender incarceration and truth-
in-sentencing grants for States. The Committee is concerned 
that while H.R. 2076 contained adequate incentives to States 
that already have adopted truth-in-sentencing, the language 
failed to provide sufficient seed money to States which have 
yet to adopt truth-in-sentencing.
    For this reason, the Committee has revised section 114 to 
ensure that 50 percent of the funds appropriated for State 
prison grants in fiscal year 1996 is distributed as seed money 
in the form of violent offender incarceration (general) grants 
to immediately finance construction to increase prison 
capacity. Remaining funds would be set aside for truth-in-
sentencing. The percentage of prison grant funds dedicated to 
these general grants would decline from 50 percent in fiscal 
year 1996 to 10 percent in fiscal year 2000 to encourage States 
to adopt truth-in-sentencing policies.
    Under the revised language, States would no longer be 
forced to choose between mutually exclusive grant programs. 
States qualifying for truth-in-sentencing grants would receive 
those funds in addition to general grant funds. Finally, the 
revised Committee language provides an incentive to States to 
aggressively increase the number of violent criminals committed 
to prison. A State would automatically qualify for truth-in-
sentencing grants if it could demonstrate that it has increased 
these commitments by more than 10 percent over the past 3 
years.
    Sec. 116. The Committee recommendation includes a new 
section 116 which extends the Justice Department's pilot debt 
collection project through September 30, 1997.

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                 U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration

    The Committee recommendation does not include funding for 
the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration [USTTA]. On February 
6, 1996, the Committee approved a Commerce Department 
reprogramming request to transfer available departmental 
resources to fund reductions in force and transfer core 
governmental functions of USTTA to the International Trade 
Administration. The Commerce proposal states, ``USTTA will no 
longer exist as a separate, independent entity within the 
Department of Commerce.'' No additional funds are required to 
complete this transition.

       National Telecommunications and Information Administration

    The Committee recommendation includes language requested by 
the Department of Commerce regarding the use of offsetting 
collections to support spectrum management, analysis, and 
operations.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

                  operations, research, and facilities

    The Committee recommends $7,000,000, above the conference 
level for the ``Operations, research, and facilities'' account 
within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
[NOAA]. This amount is provided in order to fund worldwide 
collection of environmental data through the Global Learning to 
Benefit the Environment Program as requested by the 
administration.

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                    Diplomatic and Consular Programs

    The Committee recommendation strikes language in H.R. 2076 
which prohibited the extension of current machine readable visa 
fees after April 1, 1996.

                    United States Information Agency

                   educational and cultural exchanges

    The Committee recommends bill language providing $1,800,000 
to the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program as authorized by 
Public Law 103-326. These funds are to cover the Mansfield 
Center for Pacific Affairs' costs in fully implementing the 
Mike Mansfield fellowships including the posting of seven 1995 
fellows and their immediate families in Japan in order that the 
fellows may work in a Japanese agency for 1 year, preparation 
and training for 10 1996 fellows, the recruitment and selection 
of 10 1997 fellows, and attendant administrative costs.

      General Provisions--Department of State and Related Agencies

    Sec. 405. The Committee recommendation would extend for the 
remainder of fiscal year 1996, the current waiver (expires 
April 1, 1996) of the limitation on operations of the 
Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency in the absence of an 
authorization.
    Sec. 408. The Committee recommendation includes language 
allowing the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program to use one-
third of earned but unused trust income each year for 3 years 
beginning in fiscal year 1996. The Senate-passed bill had 
included a similar provision.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                   Federal Communications Commission

    In addition to funds provided in the conference report 
(H.R. 2076) for the Federal Communications Commission [FCC], 
the Committee recommends an additional $20,000,000 bringing the 
total program level for FCC to $195,709,000. This represents a 
6-percent increase above fiscal year 1995 operating levels. The 
Committee has included bill language so that these enhanced 
operating resources are offset by a commensurate increase in 
section 9 regulatory fees, which are authorized under current 
law. Thus, the discretionary appropriation for the FCC remains 
unchanged at $59,309,000. Additional resources are intended to 
help the FCC implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

                       Legal Services Corporation

    The Committee recommendation includes $22,000,000 above the 
amount provided in the conference report for payment to the 
Legal Services Corporation for a total appropriation of 
$300,000,000.
    In almost all respects the Committee recommendation for the 
Legal Services Corporation follows the conference report to 
H.R. 2076. Aside from the changes to funding amounts, the only 
changes from the conference report relate to the procedures by 
which Legal Services Corporation grantees are audited, the 
manner in which recipients contract for these audits with 
licensed independent certified public accountants, and the role 
of the Office of the Inspector General regarding the 
performance of audits and proper follow-up relating to the 
results of these audits.

                      Ounce of Prevention Council

    The Committee recommendation includes $1,500,000 for the 
Ounce of Prevention Council, a freeze at fiscal year 1995 
funding levels, as requested by the administration.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 609. The Committee recommendation deletes section 609 
of the conference report which included the restrictions on 
diplomatic relations with Vietnam.
    Sec. 616. The Committee recommendation includes a new 
provision to address a Congressional Budget Office scorekeeping 
anomaly with respect to Public Law 104-99. This provision has 
no programmatic effect.

                              RESCISSIONS

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

            Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad

    In order to finance the funding changes described above 
within existing budgetary resources, the Committee recommends 
increasing the rescission of unobligated balances in this 
account from $60,000,000 to $95,500,000.


                          DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

    Section 101(b) of the bill contains the provisions of the 
conference report on H.R. 2546, District of Columbia 
appropriations bill for fiscal year 1996, House Report 104-455, 
with four modifications. On February 27, 1996, the Senate 
failed to invoke cloture on consideration of this conference 
report by a vote of 54 yeas to 44 nays. The Senate failed to 
invoke cloture again on February 29, 1996, by a vote of 52 yeas 
to 42 nays. On March 5, 1996, the vote was 53 yeas to 43 nays.
    First, the Committee recommends technical modifications 
under subtitle F to section 2551, concerning technical 
assistance by the Administrator of the General Services 
Administration to the superintendent of D.C. public schools, 
and to section 2561, regarding certain waivers of procurement 
statutes for voluntary donations of materials and services. 
These technical modifications remove the possibility of 
potential unintended interpretations of the language contained 
in the conference agreement of the effect of the Davis-Bacon 
Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
    The second change to the conference report also occurs in 
title II. In subtitle J, management and fiscal accountability, 
section 2751(c) is deleted to correct an unintended requirement 
that may have compelled the Board of Education to transfer all 
funds provided for the operations of the board to the 
development of new management and data systems.
    Third, subtitle N of title II concerning low-income 
scholarships, is deleted.
    Finally, the Committee recommends the appropriation of 
$5,250,000 for the repair, modernization, maintenance and 
planning consistent with subtitle A and subtitle F of title II 
of the bill, the August 14, 1995, recommendations of the 
``Superintendent's Task Force on Education Infrastructure for 
the 21st Century'' and the June 13, 1995, ``Accelerating 
Education Reform in the District of Columbia: Building on 
BESST''. Bringing Educational Services to Students, BESST, is 
the superintendent's educational reform agenda.
    The facilities problems of the District of Columbia public 
schools have been widely reported. The superintendent and the 
Board of Education have taken steps to repair fire code 
violations that kept schools from opening last year and to make 
emergency repairs to boilers at other schools during a recent 
winter cold spell.
    The superintendent's task force on education infrastructure 
for the 21st century reported in August 1995 that it would take 
$1,200,000,000 to restore the District's 164 school buildings 
to a good state of repair. The Committee does not intend that 
these funds be used for that purpose, although the Committee 
does encourage the Board of Education, superintendent, District 
Council, the Mayor and Financial Responsibility Authority to 
implement the recommendations of the task force at the earliest 
possible time.
    The funds provided should be used to plan for and deal with 
the highest priority health and safety needs some of which are 
identified in the June 1995 document ``Building on BESST''. 
This report identified $56,500,000 in facilities renovation 
investments needed in the city's schools. Those include 
$10,500,000 for replacing boilers in 30 schools; $15,000,000 to 
upgrade and repair lavatory facilities; and $18,500,000 to 
replace roofs on 37 school buildings. The amount provided is, 
of course, inadequate to accomplish all of the listed items, 
however, the $250,000 allowed for planning should be used to 
develop plans to make the best use of donated services expected 
to be received from private industry. The balance should be 
used for the most urgent health and safety items to be 
addressed. The superintendent is to develop a plan for the use 
of these funds, with the technical assistance of the GSA 
Administrator, and the concurrence of the control board. The 
Committee intends that to the greatest extent possible these 
projects be undertaken before school opens for the 1996-97 
school year.
    Other than these changes the language in section 101(b) is 
identical to the conference report.

                 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996                
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                                                                     appropriation                                        recommendation          1995                                          
                                                                                                                                             appropriation     Budget estimate     Conference   
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                             TITLE I                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                 FISCAL YEAR 1996 APPROPRIATIONS                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                          FEDERAL FUNDS                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                                
Federal payment to the District of Columbia......................     $660,000,000      $660,000,000      $660,000,000      $660,000,000   .................  ................  ................
Federal contribution to retirement funds.........................       52,070,000        52,070,000        52,070,000        52,070,000   .................  ................  ................
Federal contribution for education reform........................  ................  ................       14,930,000        14,930,000       +$14,930,000      +$14,930,000   ................
                                                                  ==============================================================================================================================
      Total, Federal funds to the District of Columbia...........      712,070,000       712,070,000       727,000,000       727,000,000        +14,930,000       +14,930,000   ................
                                                                  ==============================================================================================================================
                    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                        Operating Expenses                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                
Governmental direction and support...............................     (131,077,000)     (150,721,000)     (149,130,000)     (149,130,000)      (+18,053,000)      (-1,591,000)  ................
Economic development and regulation..............................     (149,858,000)     (142,711,000)     (140,983,000)     (140,983,000)       (-8,875,000)      (-1,728,000)  ................
Human resources development......................................      (87,752,000)  ................  ................  ................      (-87,752,000)  ................  ................
Public safety and justice........................................     (902,466,000)     (960,747,000)     (963,848,000)     (963,848,000)      (+61,382,000)      (+3,101,000)  ................
Public education system..........................................     (832,303,000)     (800,080,000)     (795,201,000)     (795,201,000)      (-37,102,000)      (-4,879,000)  ................
Education reform.................................................  ................  ................      (14,930,000)      (14,930,000)      (+14,930,000)     (+14,930,000)  ................
Human support services...........................................   (1,542,648,000)   (1,859,622,000)   (1,855,014,000)   (1,855,014,000)     (+312,366,000)      (-4,608,000)  ................
Public works.....................................................     (279,627,000)     (297,568,000)     (297,568,000)     (297,568,000)      (+17,941,000)  ................  ................
Financing and other..............................................  ................     (269,654,000)  ................  ................  .................    (-269,654,000)  ................
Washington Convention Center Fund................................      (12,850,000)  ................       (5,400,000)       (5,400,000)       (-7,450,000)      (+5,400,000)  ................
Repayment of loans and interest..................................     (306,768,000)  ................     (327,787,000)     (327,787,000)      (+21,019,000)    (+327,787,000)  ................
Repayment of general fund recovery debt..........................      (38,678,000)  ................      (38,678,000)      (38,678,000)  .................     (+38,678,000)  ................
Short-term borrowing.............................................       (5,000,000)  ................       (9,698,000)       (9,698,000)       (+4,698,000)      (+9,698,000)  ................
Pay renegotiation or reduction in compensation...................  ................  ................     (-46,409,000)     (-46,409,000)      (-46,409,000)     (-46,409,000)  ................
Optical and dental benefits......................................       (3,312,000)  ................  ................  ................       (-3,312,000)  ................  ................
Pay adjustment...................................................     (106,095,000)  ................  ................  ................     (-106,095,000)  ................  ................
D.C. General Hospital deficit payment............................      (10,000,000)  ................  ................  ................      (-10,000,000)  ................  ................
Rainy day fund...................................................      (22,508,000)       (4,563,000)       (4,563,000)       (4,563,000)      (-17,945,000)  ................  ................
Job-producing economic development incentives....................      (22,600,000)  ................  ................  ................      (-22,600,000)  ................  ................
Cash reserve fund................................................       (3,957,000)  ................  ................  ................       (-3,957,000)  ................  ................
Incentive buyout program.........................................  ................  ................      (19,000,000)      (19,000,000)      (+19,000,000)     (+19,000,000)  ................
Outplacement.....................................................  ................  ................       (1,500,000)       (1,500,000)       (+1,500,000)      (+1,500,000)  ................
Boards and Commissions...........................................  ................        (-500,000)        (-500,000)        (-500,000)         (-500,000)  ................  ................
Government reengineering program.................................  ................  ................     (-16,000,000)     (-16,000,000)      (-16,000,000)     (-16,000,000)  ................
Personal and nonpersonal services adjustments....................     (-13,632,000)  ................    (-165,837,000)    (-165,837,000)     (-152,205,000)    (-165,837,000)  ................
Sec. 138(a) reduction in fiscal year 1995 expenses...............    (-140,000,000)  ................  ................  ................     (+140,000,000)  ................  ................
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      Total, operating expenses, general fund....................   (4,303,867,000)   (4,485,166,000)   (4,394,554,000)   (4,394,554,000)      (+90,687,000)     (-90,612,000)  ................
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                          Capital Outlay                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                
General fund.....................................................      (94,238,000)      (62,562,000)      (62,562,000)      (62,562,000)      (-31,676,000)  ................  ................
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                         Enterprise Funds                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                
Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund:                                                                                                                                                                
    Operating expenses...........................................     (275,576,000)     (243,853,000)     (242,253,000)     (242,253,000)      (-33,323,000)      (-1,600,000)  ................
    Capital outlay...............................................      (23,354,635)      (39,477,000)      (39,477,000)      (39,477,000)      (+16,122,365)  ................  ................
                                                                  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund.....................     (298,930,635)     (283,330,000)     (281,730,000)     (281,730,000)      (-17,200,635)      (-1,600,000)  ................
Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund.....................     (192,068,000)     (229,950,000)     (229,950,000)     (229,950,000)      (+37,882,000)  ................  ................
Cable Television Enterprise Fund.................................       (2,654,000)       (2,351,000)       (2,351,000)       (2,351,000)         (-303,000)  ................  ................
Sports Commission (STARPLEX).....................................       (6,392,000)       (6,580,000)       (6,580,000)       (6,580,000)         (+188,000)  ................  ................
D.C. General Hospital............................................     (143,920,000)     (115,034,000)      (58,299,000)      (58,299,000)      (-85,621,000)     (-56,735,000)  ................
D.C. Retirement Board............................................  ................      (13,440,000)      (13,440,000)      (13,440,000)      (+13,440,000)  ................  ................
Correctional Industries..........................................       (7,642,000)      (10,516,000)      (10,516,000)      (10,516,000)       (+2,874,000)  ................  ................
Washington Conventional Center Enterprise Fund...................      (19,541,000)      (37,957,000)      (32,557,000)      (32,557,000)      (+13,016,000)      (-5,400,000)  ................
D.C. Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority  ................       (3,500,000)       (3,500,000)       (3,500,000)       (+3,500,000)  ................  ................
                                                                  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Enterprise Funds....................................     (671,147,635)     (702,658,000)     (638,923,000)     (638,923,000)      (-32,224,635)     (-63,735,000)  ................
                                                                  ==============================================================================================================================
      Total, District of Columbia funds..........................   (5,069,252,635)   (5,250,386,000)   (5,096,039,000)   (5,096,039,000)      (+26,786,365)    (-154,347,000)  ................
                                                                  ==============================================================================================================================
      Total, title I, fiscal year 1996 appropriations:                                                                                                                                          
          Federal Funds to the District of Columbia..............      712,070,000       712,070,000       727,000,000       727,000,000        +14,930,000       +14,930,000   ................
          District of Columbia funds.............................   (5,069,252,635)   (5,250,386,000)   (5,096,039,000)   (5,096,039,000)      (+26,786,365)    (-154,347,000)  ................
                                                                  ==============================================================================================================================
                          Capital Outlay                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                
General fund.....................................................     (117,614,000)  ................  ................  ................     (-117,614,000)  ................  ................
                                                                  ==============================================================================================================================
                                                                                                                                                                                                
                         Enterprise Funds                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                
Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund:                                                                                                                                                                
    Operating expenses...........................................     (275,576,000)     (-61,693,000)  ................  ................     (-275,576,000)     (+61,693,000)  ................
    Capital outlay (rescission)..................................         (-21,365)  ................  ................  ................          (+21,365)  ................  ................
                                                                  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund.....................     (275,554,635)     (-61,693,000)  ................  ................     (-275,554,635)     (+61,693,000)  ................
Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund.....................     (192,068,000)        (-606,000)  ................  ................     (-192,068,000)        (+606,000)  ................
Cable Television Enterprise Fund.................................       (2,654,000)        (-354,000)  ................  ................       (-2,654,000)        (+354,000)  ................
Sports Commission (STARPLEX).....................................       (6,392,000)  ................  ................  ................       (-6,392,000)  ................  ................
D.C. General Hospital............................................     (143,920,000)  ................  ................  ................     (-143,920,000)  ................  ................
Correctional Industries..........................................       (7,642,000)  ................  ................  ................       (-7,642,000)  ................  ................
Washington Conventional Center Enterprise Fund...................      (19,541,000)  ................  ................  ................      (-19,541,000)  ................  ................
                                                                  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Enterprise Funds (net)..............................     (647,771,635)     (-62,653,000)  ................  ................     (-647,771,635)     (+62,653,000)  ................
                                                                  ==============================================================================================================================
      Total, title II, fiscal year 1995 supplemental: District of                                                                                                                               
       Columbia funds (net)......................................   (5,069,252,635)      (75,872,000)  ................  ................   (-5,069,252,635)     (-75,872,000)  ................
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            DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

    The funding for the Department of the Interior and related 
agencies is to be guided by the joint explanatory statement of 
the committee of conference (H. Rept. 104-402) accompanying 
H.R. 1977. Departures from H.R. 1977 and from the direction 
provided in its statement of the managers follow.
    Adjustments are made to provide additional funding for park 
maintenance, to offset prior appropriations action which 
provided $2,000,000 for C&O Canal flood damage repair (Public 
Law 104-99) to offset international forestry expenditures, to 
offset Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation 
expenditures, and for a Bureau of Land Management/Forest 
Service office colocation. The following table outlines the 
funding changes:

                                            [In thousands of dollars]                                           
                                                                                                                
                               Prior conference agreement           Revised amount      Change                  
DEPARTMENT OF THE                                                                                               
 INTERIOR                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                
Bureau of Land                                                                                                  
 Management:                                                                                                    
    Management of                                                                                               
     lands and                                                                                                  
     resources:                                                                                                 
     Administrative                                                                                             
     support.......  45,500.......................................          44,590            -910              
    Oregon and                                                                                                  
     California                                                                                                 
     grant lands:                                                                                               
     Facilities                                                                                                 
     maintenance...  7,208........................................          11,281          +4,073              
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        Subtotal,                                                                                               
       Bureau of                                                                                                
       Land                                                                                                     
       Management..  .............................................  ..............          +3,163              
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Fish and Wildlife                                                                                               
 Service: Resource                                                                                              
 management central                                                                                             
 office operations.  13,628.......................................          13,355            -273              
National Park                                                                                                   
 Service:                                                                                                       
    Operation of                                                                                                
     National Park                                                                                              
     System:                                                                                                    
        General                                                                                                 
         reduction                                                                                              
         headquarte                                                                                             
         rs                                                                                                     
         administra                                                                                             
         tion......  .............................................          -1,000          -1,000              
        Park                                                                                                    
         maintenanc                                                                                             
         e.........  352,681......................................         356,544          +3,863              
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          Subtotal,                                                                                             
           National                                                                                             
           Park                                                                                                 
           Service.  .............................................  ..............          +2,863              
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U.S. Geological                                                                                                 
 Survey: Surveys,                                                                                               
 investigations,                                                                                                
 and research:                                                                                                  
 General                                                                                                        
 administration....  25,373.......................................          24,865            -508              
Minerals Management                                                                                             
 Service: Royalty                                                                                               
 and offshore                                                                                                   
 minerals                                                                                                       
 management:                                                                                                    
 General reduction                                                                                              
 headquarters                                                                                                   
 administration....  .............................................            -655            -655              
Departmental                                                                                                    
 offices:                                                                                                       
    Departmental                                                                                                
     management:                                                                                                
        Secretary's                                                                                             
         immediate                                                                                              
         office....  2,947........................................           2,650            -297              
        Congression                                                                                             
         al                                                                                                     
         Relations.  1,514........................................           1,360            -154              
        Communicati                                                                                             
         ons.......  1,090........................................             980            -110              
        Assistant                                                                                               
         Secretary,                                                                                             
         Water and                                                                                              
         Science...  838..........................................             795             -43              
        Assistant                                                                                               
         Secretary,                                                                                             
         Land and                                                                                               
         Minerals                                                                                               
         Management  790..........................................             750             -40              
        Assistant                                                                                               
         Secretary,                                                                                             
         Fish and                                                                                               
         Wildlife                                                                                               
         and Parks.  788..........................................             745             -43              


                                            [In thousands of dollars]                                           
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                                                                       Prior                                    
                                                                    conference    Revised amount      Change    
                                                                     agreement                                  
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                                                                                      
        Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs.....................             782             740             -42
        Assistant Secretary, Policy, Management and Budget......           1,120           1,000            -120
        Policy analysis.........................................           2,220           2,110            -110
        Central services........................................          18,881          18,500            -381
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
          Subtotal, departmental management.....................  ..............  ..............          -1,340
    Office of the Solicitor: General administration.............           5,441           5,170            -271
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, departmental offices............................  ..............  ..............          -1,611
                                                                 ===============================================
Department of Agriculture: Forest Service:                                                                      
    Research: International forestry adjustment.................  ..............            -243            -243
    State and private forestry:                                                                                 
        International forestry adjustment.......................  ..............            -189            -189
        Office colocation.......................................  ..............              90             +90
    National Forest System:                                                                                     
        International forestry adjustment.......................  ..............          -2,052          -2,052
        Office colocation.......................................  ..............             804            +804
    Construction:                                                                                               
        International forestry adjustment.......................  ..............            -216            -216
        Office colocation.......................................  ..............             100            +100
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
          Subtotal, Forest Service..............................  ..............  ..............          -1,706
                                                                 ===============================================
Department of Energy:                                                                                           
    Fossil energy: Headquarters program direction...............          11,321          11,095            -226
    Energy conservation: Policy and management..................           7,666           7,510            -156
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Subtotal, Department of Energy............................  ..............  ..............            -382
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation rescission..........  ..............          -2,172          -2,172
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Total, changes from prior conference agreement............  ..............  ..............          -1,281
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                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                   management of lands and resources

    The provision providing $599,999 for the management of the 
East Mojave National Scenic Area has been removed.

                   oregon and california grant lands

    Funding of $4,073,000 is provided for colocation of the 
Pacific Northwest Regional Office of the Forest Service and the 
Oregon State Office of the Bureau of Land Management. Both 
agencies have gone through considerable downsizing efforts and 
have reduced to organization sizes such that the building 
occupied presently by the Forest Service in Portland, OR, can 
accommodate both agencies. This should facilitate further cost 
savings and efficiencies.

                         National Park Service

                 operation of the national park system

    The provision restricting the National Park Service's 
involvement in the Mojave National Preserve has been removed.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service

    Adjustments totaling $2,700,000 have been made to four 
Forest Service appropriations to reflect international forestry 
expenditures made by the agency. These expenditures were 
authorized under the continuing resolutions in effect through 
March 15, 1996
    Funds totaling $994,000 are provided in three Forest 
Service appropriations for colocation of the Pacific Northwest 
Regional Office of the Forest Service and the Oregon State 
Office of the Bureau of Land Management. Both agencies have 
gone through considerable downsizing efforts and have reduced 
to organization sizes such that the building occupied presently 
by the Forest Service in Portland, OR, can accommodate both 
agencies. This should facilitate further cost savings and 
efficiencies.
    A minor addition is made to the Columbia Gorge Discovery 
Center conference language to allow the Forest Service to 
include the granting of related trail construction funds to the 
Non-Profit Citizens for the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center.

                       administrative provisions

    The Tongass National Forest provision is similar to the 
language in H.R. 1977 in that it allows continuation of the 
current Tongass National Forest land management planning 
process. In amending or revising the current plan, the 
Secretary may establish habitat conservation areas, and impose 
any restriction or land use designations deemed appropriate, so 
long as the number of acres in the timber base and resulting 
allowable sale quantity is not less than the amounts identified 
in the preferred alternative (alternative P) in the October 
1992 Tongass land and resource management plan. The Secretary 
may implement compatible standards and guidelines, as 
necessary, to protect habitat and preserve multiple uses of the 
Tongass National Forest.
    The language has been augmented from the version included 
in H.R. 1977 to address the administration's concerns about 
clearcutting. The provision makes it clear that nothing in this 
section shall be interpreted as mandating clearcutting or 
unsustainable timber harvesting. The language also makes it 
clear that any revision, amendment, or modification shall be 
based on the application of the scientific method and sound, 
verifiable scientific data. Data is sound, verifiable, and 
scientific only when it is collected and analyzed using the 
scientific method. The scientific method requires the statement 
of a hypothesis capable of proof or disproof; preparation of a 
study plan designed to collect accurate data to test the 
hypothesis; collection and analysis of the data in conformance 
with the study plan; and confirmation, modification, or denial 
of the hypothesis based upon peer-reviewed analysis of the 
collected data. The data used shall be from the southeast 
Alaska ecosystem.
    The section also includes language to allow certain timber 
sales to be awarded that have cleared the National 
Environmental Policy Act [NEPA] and the Alaska National 
Interest Lands Conservation Act [ANILCA] review process if the 
Forest Service determines that additional analysis under NEPA 
and ANILCA is not necessary.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                 fossil energy research and development

    The Committee understands that the fiscal year 1997 budget 
will reflect the transfer of the health and safety research 
programs of the Bureau of Mines to the National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH]. The Committee 
encouraged such a transfer in the fiscal year 1996 conference 
agreement and sees no reason to delay this transfer. The 
Committee strongly encourages the Department of Energy to enter 
into an interagency agreement with NIOSH for the fiscal year 
1996 funding.

                          OTHER RELATED AGENCY

              Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation

                           public development

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $2,172,000 to be 
derived from prior year unobligated balances available through 
previous appropriations. The rescission offsets funding 
provided for salaries and expenses in previous continuing 
resolutions for fiscal year 1996.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 314. The Committee has modified the language dealing 
with the Columbia River Basin project to provide the 
administration with more time to complete the assessment and 
two accompanying draft environmental impact statements by the 
two project offices. The language is also modified to provide 
the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management more time 
to utilize the information contained in the assessment to amend 
individual unit plans of the National Forest System or the 
public domain, and to eliminate the requirement that any plan 
amendment which changes the plan's land allocation or goals and 
objectives must be treated as a significant plan amendment. 
Most importantly, the managers have deleted from the provision 
language that could be interpreted as limiting the contents of 
the documents to exclude information on fisheries and 
watersheds. In all other significant respects, the language has 
the same effect as the original language in section 314 of 
H.R.1977.
    The basic purposes of this section are to: (1) release all 
existing scientific information; (2) assure that the assessment 
and accompanying EIS's are not used to produce one-size-fits-
all solutions to land and water resource issues in the Columbia 
basin; (3) protect this effort from broad scale legal 
challenges that could enjoin land management activities 
regionwide, producing gridlock; and (4) direct the Forest 
Service and the BLM to follow proper National Forest Management 
Act and Federal Land and Policy Management Act procedures in 
revising individual land and resource management plans. The 
managers are especially concerned that local considerations be 
properly evaluated in any land management plan changes 
emanating from the project.
    The provision does not impede completion of the project, 
nor does it exclude any information from the project documents. 
Finally, the provision protects the land management agencies 
from the sort of litigation-induced gridlock that has plagued 
resource managers in the Columbia basin region for the past 
several years.
    Sec. 325. The previous language regarding the redefinition 
of the marbled murrelet nesting area is replaced with a 
provision that amends subsection 2001(k) of Public Law 104-19. 
The language does not expand the sales to be released under 
this provision, and does not affect prior judicial decisions. 
The Committee agrees with the interpretations of section 
2001(k) made by the Federal district court in Oregon on 
September 13, 1995, December 5, 1995, and January 17, 1996, and 
agrees with that court's January 19, 1996, ruling insofar as it 
determined that the administration's interpretation of 
subsection (k)(2) was in error.
    The amendment increases the administration's flexibility by 
allowing the Secretary concerned to agree with a purchaser 
within 45 days of the date of enactment of the amendment to 
provide alternative volume for part or all of any sale subject 
to subsection (k), in a volume, value, and kind satisfactory to 
the purchaser, by a date agreed to by the purchaser.
    The amendment also reflects that the administration has 
delayed implementing subsection 2001(k) well beyond the 
original 45-day time limit set by Congress, and still has not 
released all the sales required under the statute. For any sale 
that cannot be released due to paragraph (2), the amendment 
requires the agreement for alternative volume, in quantity, 
value, kind, and location satisfactory to the purchaser, and by 
a date agreed to by the purchaser, to be reached within 45 days 
of the date of enactment of this amendment.
    The precise designation of alternative timber need not 
occur within the initial 45-day period, but after the date for 
designation of timber agreed to between the purchaser and the 
Secretary, the purchaser is entitled to operate the original 
sale under subsection (k) until the Secretary designates and 
timber purchaser subsequently agrees to the quantity, value, 
kind, and location of the new volume. A purchaser may not be 
compelled to accept alternative volume over the purchaser's 
objection as he cannot be under present law. Sales with 
alternative volume under the amendment are subject to the 
original terms of the contract unless the parties agree 
otherwise, and are subject to paragraph (1) of subsection (k). 
Any alternative volume under paragraphs (3) or (4) shall not 
count against current allowable sales quantities or timber 
sales to be offered under subsections (b) and (d) of section 
2001 of Public Law 104-19 and may, in the Secretary's 
discretion, come from areas not otherwise contemplated for 
harvesting.
    Paragraph 5 would grant, upon request of the sale owner, 
the administration the authority to purchase all or a specific 
volume of timber under the sale contract covered under this 
subsection. The volume would be purchased from funds available 
to the Secretary concerned, except for those accounts governing 
or related to forest land management, fire-fighting, timber 
sale preparation, harvest administration, road construction and 
maintenance, timber sale program support; any accounts 
associated with preparing or administering the sale of timber 
from any public lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 
concerned, range or minerals management; or any permanent 
appropriation or trust funds, such as the timber salvage sale 
funds and the Knudsen-Vandenburg fund. The volume and payment 
must be mutually agreed to by the Secretary and the purchaser. 
The authority provided under paragraph 5 expires 45 days after 
the date of enactment.
    Sec. 336. In response to recent court decisions, this 
section has been added to the bill to prohibit the Department 
of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture from 
expending funds to assume management authority of navigable 
waters in the State of Alaska. The prohibition expires on May 
15, 1997.
    Assumption of additional subsistence management 
responsibilities could cost the two Departments well over 
$20,000,000 annually. In an era of declining budgets, this 
added burden would have an adverse impact on other important 
programs funded in the Interior bill. The Committee, therefore, 
has included a moratorium to provide sufficient time for the 
development of a viable, long-term solution to the subsistence 
problem. The Committee strongly urges all parties involved to 
work diligently toward this goal, and to develop a solution 
that provides State management of fish and wildlife in Alaska 
while protecting those who depend on subsistence resources.
    Sec. 337. This provision repeals the previous continuing 
resolution provisions related to Interior bill appropriations.


  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

    The Committee recommendation includes appropriations for 
the agencies and programs of the Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, for 
the fiscal year ending September 30 1996, with the exception of 
appropriations for the National Institutes of Health and the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These two agencies 
received full year appropriations in Public Law 104-91. In 
general, the Committee recommendation is consistent with H.R. 
2127 as reported on September 15, 1995. The Committee expects 
that the guidance provided in Senate Report 104-145 
accompanying H.R. 2127 be adhered to unless otherwise changed 
by the provisions of this bill or report.

                program terminations and consolidations

    The Committee recommendation terminates or consolidates 
funding for 118 programs viewed by the Committee as either 
having met their objectives, being duplicative of other 
programs, or having low priority. The terminations listed below 
yield savings of nearly $900,000,000 in fiscal year 1996.
Department of Labor
    Youth Fair Chance; Rural Concentrated Employment; JTPA 
Capacity Building; National Commission for Employment Policy; 
American Samoans; Microenterprise Grants; Veterans' Homeless 
Program; National Center for the Workplace; and Office of the 
American Workplace.
Department of Health and Human Services
    State Offices of Rural Health; Trauma Care; Health Care 
Facilities; Mental Health Clinical Training/AIDS Training; 
Community Support Demonstrations; Homeless Service 
Demonstrations; AIDS Demonstrations; Treatment Grants for 
Crisis Areas; Pregnant/Post-Partum Women and Children; Criminal 
Justice Programs; Designated Populations; Comprehensive 
Community Treatment Program; Substance Abuse Training; 
Substance Abuse Training (AIDS); Substance Abuse Linkage 
(AIDS); Substance Abuse Outreach (AIDS); Treatment Capacity 
Expansion Program; Substance Abuse Prevention Demos--High Risk 
Youth; Substance Abuse Prevention Demos--Pregnant Women; 
Substance Abuse Prevention Demos--Other Programs; Community 
Partnerships; Prevention Education/Dissemination; Substance 
Abuse Prevention Training; Health Care Reform Data Analysis; 
HHS Streamlining Costs; Health Service Management; National 
AIDS Program Office; Essential Access Community Hospitals; 
Insurance Counseling Program [HCFA]; New Rural Health Grants; 
SLIAG Civics and English Education Grants; Child Development 
Associate Scholarships; CS Homeless Grants; Runaway Youth 
Activities--Drugs; Youth Gang Substance Abuse; Advisory Board 
on Child Abuse and Neglect; Dependent Care Planning and 
Development; Child Welfare Research; Social Services Research; 
Family Support Centers; Rural Housing; Farmworker Assistance; 
Demonstration Partnerships; EBT Task Force; Community Schools 
(violent crime); Community Economic Partnerships (violent 
crime); Pension Counseling; Aging-Preventive Health; Federal 
Council on Aging; White House Conference on Aging; Office of 
Research Integrity; Office of Disease Prevention and Health 
Promotion; National Vaccine Program Office; and SSI Outreach.
Department of Education
    Goals 2000 National Programs; State School Improvement; 
Safe and Drug National Programs; Education Infrastructure; Law 
Related Education; Christa McAuliffe Scholarships; Women's 
Education Equity; Training and Advisory Services State Agency 
Programs; Dropout Demonstrations; Training in Early Childhood 
Education and Violence; Family and Community Endeavor Schools; 
Bilingual Education Support Services; NTID Construction; 
Community Based Organizations; Consumer and Homemaking 
Education; Vocational Education State Councils; Vocational 
Education Demonstrations; Adult Education-Evaluation and 
Technical Assistance; State Literacy Resource Centers; National 
Occupational Information Coordinating Committees; Literacy 
Training for the Homeless; SPRE; Endowment Grants; HBCU set-
aside; Higher Education Evaluation; Native Hawaiian and Alaska 
Native Cultural Arts; Eisenhower Leadership; Community Service 
Projects; Cooperative Education; Student Fin Aid Database; 
National Science Scholarships; National Academy of Science, 
Space, and Technology; Douglas Teacher Scholarships; Olympic 
Scholarships; Teacher Corps; Harris Fellowships; Faculty 
Development Fellowships; School, College, and University 
Partnerships; Legal Training for the Disadvantaged [CLEO]; 
Howard University Endowment--Regular Program; Howard University 
Endowment Clinical Law Center; Howard University Research; 
Howard University Construction; College Housing and Academic 
Facilities Loans--Subsidies; National Diffusion Network; 
Library Literacy; Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
Capital Financial Advisory Board; National Board of the Fund 
for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education; National 
Academy of Science, Space and Technology Board; President's 
Advisory Committee on Education Excellence for Hispanic 
Americans; and President's Board of Advisors on Historically 
Black Colleges and Universities.
Related agencies
    National Education Standards and Improvement Council; Vista 
Literacy Corps; and Senior Demonstration Program.

                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

                    training and employment services

    For training and employment services, the Committee 
recommends $3,308,978,000, which is more than the House 
recommendation and less than the original Senate 
recommendation. This includes $1,093,942,000 for the Job Corps, 
an increase over the 1995 program level. For year-round youth 
training, $326,672,000 is provided, which project sponsors have 
the option to use either for year-round training or for summer 
jobs. Also included is a $250,000,000 rescission of unneeded 
unemployment trust fund administrative balances from an 
extended benefits program (Public Law 102-318) which has been 
discontinued except for limited activities in a few States. The 
remaining balances are sufficient to meet future obligations.
    The Committee recommendation supports $5,000,000 for the 
proposal presented to the Secretary for a project to support 
the employment of people with disabilities, the procurement of 
essential products through the Industries for the Blind, and 
the creation of employment mechanisms with corporate sponsors 
in connection with the X Paralympic Games, and the Committee 
urges the Secretary to identify as expeditiously as possible 
funding for this initiative.
    For the Community Service Employment for Older Americans 
Program, the recommendation of $350,000,000 is the same as the 
House allowance in H.R. 2127. The Committee recommendation 
maintains the historical split of older worker resources 
between national and State sponsors, amounting to $273,000,000 
(78 percent) and $77,000,000 (22 percent), respectively. 
However, the Committee understands that the authorizing 
committee is taking action to revise the Older Americans Act 
program. Language is included in this appropriations bill to 
clarify that funds are to be utilized in conformance with a new 
authorization, if it is enacted.
    The Committee encourages the Secretary to award funds to 
carry out activities under the paragraph (1)(A) of section 
506(a) of title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as 
amended, only to entities incorporated under section 501(c)(3) 
of the Internal Revenue Code. In awarding such funds, the 
Secretary shall ensure the continuation of services to rural 
areas and avoid unnecessary displacement of participants by 
reallocating funds when possible to contiguous quality 
projects.

                           worker protection

    For worker protection activities, the Committee 
recommendation includes $1,098,074,000. This includes 
$288,985,000 for the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, and $196,673,000 for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration. For OSHA, included within the recommendation 
for compliance assistance activities is $24,858,000 for Federal 
assistance, compared to $13,410,000 enacted in 1995, and 
$32,479,000 for State onsite consultation programs compared to 
$31,564,000 in fiscal 1995. The Committee is aware that 
frontline regional field structure was previously identified 
entirely under the enforcement activity even though they 
performed compliance assistance activities. In part, this shift 
in funding addresses the need to clarify the level and nature 
of activity supported by the agency's budget. However, the 
recommended funding also represents the Committee's express 
intention that OSHA increase its reliance on compliance 
assistance and cooperative efforts with employers while 
reducing its emphasis on enforcement. Overall Federal 
enforcement is reduced $29,059,000 below the 1995 enacted 
level, while compliance assistance is increased by $12,363,000.
    The Committee has included a general provision that 
prohibits the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
from promulgating or issuing any proposal or final standard or 
guideline with respect to ergonomic protection but permits the 
agency to conduct any peer-reviewed risk assessment activity 
regarding ergonomics. This provision is identical to section 
602 of Public Law 104-19, the emergency fiscal 1995 
supplemental and rescissions legislation enacted last July. 
This provision was not included in the original Senate-reported 
version of H.R. 2127, the fiscal 1996 Labor, HHS, and Education 
appropriations bill.
    The provision included as section 103 of H.R. 2127, 
prohibiting funding to implement the President's Executive 
order concerning striker replacements, is not carried in this 
new bill; in February 1996, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 
D.C. Circuit voided this Executive order.
    The Committee has included a provision which restricts 
certain Labor Department Benefits Review Board and Solicitor's 
office activities, to insure prompt action on processing 
backlogged worker's compensation claims, consistent with a 
recent Supreme Court decision.

                       tribute to job corps youth

    The future of this Nation is dependent on the 
opportunities, capabilities, and energy of its youth. 
Similarly, the future of this country is irreparably damaged 
when its young people are unemployed and unskilled. Job Corps 
trainees are pursuing a chance to acquire the skills and work 
experience that will give them a solid start in their working 
lives. They recognize the value of job training to their lives 
and the future well-being of this country. The Committee wants 
to use this occasion to pay tribute to the eight Job Corps 
trainees, and three railroad employees, who lost their lives in 
the train collision in Maryland on February 16, 1996.
    The Job Corps workers were Dante Swain, 18, Baltimore, MD; 
Michael Woodson, 16, Philadelphia, PA; Diana Hanvichid, 17, 
Woodbridge, VA; Lakeisha Marshall, 17, Capitol Heights, MD; 
Carlos Byrd, 17, Baltimore, MD; Claudius Kesson, 20, Landover, 
MD; Thomas Loatman, 23, Vienna, VA; and Karis Rudder, 17, 
Elmhurst, NY.
    The railroad employees were: Richard Orr, James Quillan, 
and James Major, Jr.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration

    Community and migrant health centers were brought under the 
Federal Tort Claims Act in 1993. The Committee has included 
$5,000,000 for the health centers malpractice claims fund in 
fiscal year 1996.
    The Committee has included bill language, similar to 
language contained in the fiscal year 1995 bill, which deletes 
the limitation for Area Health Education Center [AHEC's] core 
programs included in Public Law 102-408. It is the intention of 
the Committee that funds appropriated over $18,700,000 for 
AHEC's be equally divided between core centers and model 
centers.
    The Committee has provided funding for each of the 
individual categorical health professions programs rather than 
fund health professions programs in either a single line-item 
or in clusters. This was necessary because the reauthorization 
legislation creating the heath professions clusters has not yet 
been enacted.
    The Committee has consolidated the $3,105,000 provided in 
H.R. 2127 for the Native Hawaiian Health Care Program in the 
consolidated health centers amount.
    The Committee has included $10,000,000 for health care 
facilities and urges HRSA to give priority to proposals from 
historically black colleges and universities, and proposals to 
fund facilities for providing health care to women with diverse 
socioeconomic and medical needs and to facilities related to 
research on and the delivery of oral health care.

                     National Institutes of Health

    Last Congress, as a component of the Dietary Supplement 
Health and Education Act, NIH was mandated to establish an 
Office of Dietary Supplements [ODS] to research the health 
effects of taking dietary supplements and for other purposes. 
This important office holds the hope of providing Americans 
important information about what they can do to improve their 
own health and to prevent disease and disability. The Committee 
reiterates that funding has been provided within the ``Office 
of the Director'' account sufficient to support ODS operations 
at no less than one-fifth of its first year authorized level.

                  Health Care Financing Administration

    For program management activities of the Health Care 
Financing Administration, the Committee recommends 
$2,111,406,000, a reduction of $142,388,000 from the fiscal 
year 1995 enacted level. Included in this amount is $13,089,000 
for rural hospital transition demonstrations, and $147,625,000 
for Medicare certification activities. Also included is bill 
language permitting collections from authorized user fees and 
the sale of data to be credited to this appropriation, and the 
Committee urges that these collections be utilized for Medicare 
certification activities.
    The Committee recognizes that the increase in health care 
providers seeking to obtain Medicare initial survey and 
certification has created a backlog, imposing a barrier to 
those providers who are striving to improve access to the most 
appropriate services in a cost-effective manner. The Committee 
encourages the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
consider alternatives such as: greater use of nongovernmental 
accrediting bodies for initial certifications, as long as the 
survey process meets or exceeds Medicare's standards and 
process; and permitting providers to pay for the cost of 
initial certification, either through independent accrediting 
organizations that have a process as stringent as Medicare's, 
or user fees to existing entities.

                Administration for Children and Families

    The Committee recommends a fiscal year 1997 advance 
appropriation of $1,000,000,000 for the Low-Income Home Energy 
Assistance Program [LIHEAP], which is $100,000,000 more than 
the amount included for fiscal year 1996. The advance 
appropriation, for the period October 1, 1996 to September 30, 
1997, is required by the basic authorizing statute. Also 
included is an emergency allocation of up to $300,000,000 to 
remain available until expended. Together with $300,000,000 
previously made available for fiscal year 1996, a total of up 
to $600,000,000 would be available, upon submission of a formal 
request designating the need for the funds as an emergency as 
defined by the Budget Enforcement Act. The Committee intends 
that up to $22,500,000 of the amounts appropriated for LIHEAP 
for each of fiscal years 1996 and 1997 be used for the 
leveraging incentive fund.
    For refugee and entrant assistance, the Committee 
recommends $397,872,000, consisting of: $263,273,000 for 
transitional and medical services; $80,802,000 for social 
services; $51,097,000 for targeted assistance; and $2,700,000 
for preventive health. The Committee expects that domestic 
health assessment activities will be administered in accordance 
with the decisions of the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services. The Committee agrees that $19,000,000 is available 
for targeted assistance to serve communities affected by the 
Cuban and Haitian entrants and refugees.
    The Committee recommendation includes $2,380,000,000 for 
the social services block grant, a 15-percent reduction below 
the fiscal year 1995 level of $2,800,000,000. The Committee 
notes that the conference agreement on the Balanced Budget Act 
of 1995, if enacted, would impose a 20-percent reduction in 
this block grant beginning in fiscal year 1997. Without this 
reduction in fiscal 1996, it would be necessary to further 
curtail spending for such programs as low-income home energy 
assistance, or cut the existing level of Head Start and child 
care activities.
    H.R. 2127 had included $5,500,000 for the job creation 
demonstration authorized under section 505 of the Family 
Support Act of 1988 in the Office of the Secretary, Policy 
Research. In this bill, the Committee has consolidated funding 
for this job creation demonstration program with the Community 
Economic Development Program in the Office of Community 
Services. Under this job demonstration program, welfare 
recipients and those at risk for welfare are given training and 
financial assistance by nonprofit community development 
organizations to help them start their own small businesses or 
gain private sector employment. The Senate has voted to 
significantly expand the authorization for section 505 as part 
of welfare reform legislation. Although the Committee has 
funded JOLI within this account, it notes its strong support 
for this program and its willingness to consider further 
expansion pending passage of new authorizing legislation and 
the availability of adequate funds.

                        Administration on Aging

    The Committee recommendation includes a new provision which 
provides that the amount available to each State for 
administration of the State plan shall not be reduced by more 
than 5 percent below the amount that was available in fiscal 
year 1995.

                        Office of the Secretary

    The Committee directs that both the Family Planning Program 
and the Adolescent Family Life Program be administered in HRSA 
as separate programs in the Office of the Administrator. The 
Committee believes that program direction activities are better 
located in operating divisions rather than in the Office of the 
Secretary.
    The Committee understands that the Office of the Secretary 
has recently reorganized. The Committee has chosen not to 
identify separate funding for the various offices previously 
funded in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, with 
the exception of the Office of Womens Health and the Office of 
Minority Health, to provide the Secretary with maximum 
flexibility in organizing her office. The Committee further 
understands that the Secretary may choose to transfer some of 
these activities to agencies within the Department, and is 
given discretion to also transfer the funding allocated to 
these functions. However, the Committee believes that there is 
merit to keeping the Office of Emergency Preparedness in the 
Office of the Secretary because of the necessity to coordinate 
a number of activities among the various departmental agencies.

                      public health emergency fund

    The Committee has included $7,000,000 for the public health 
and social services emergency fund for expenses related to the 
development of emergency response plans for the health and 
medical consequences of terrorist attacks on the United States 
involving nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. The Federal 
response plan assigns the Office of Emergency Preparedness 
responsibility for this effort. As a part of these 
responsibilities, the Office of Emergency Preparedness also 
directs the national disaster medical system. The funds 
included in this bill are provided for all of the Office of 
Emergency Preparedness activities including response planning 
for terrorist attacks, all responsibilities under the Federal 
response plan, and direction of the national disaster medical 
system.
    The Committee has also included $2,000,000 in this account 
for the immediate implementation of clinical trials, 
coordinated by the Office on Women's Health, that will apply 
imaging technologies used for missile guidance and target 
recognition to new uses to improve the early detection of 
breast cancer. The Committee expects that the Office on Women's 
Health will establish and chair a Federal Consortium on Breast 
Imaging, including representatives from the Office on Women's 
Health, the National Cancer Institute, the Food and Drug 
Administration, the Department of Defense, the Central 
Intelligence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, and other Federal agencies with imaging 
expertise. This Federal consortium shall explore further the 
application of imaging technologies developed for defense, 
space, and intelligence gathering purposes to improve the early 
detection of breast cancer. This consortium shall convene by 
April 1, 1996, and should provide a report with recommended 
action to Congress by October 1, 1996.

                           General Provisions

    The Committee recommendation adds four general provisions 
that were not included in the general provisions section of 
H.R. 2127 as reported by the Committee on September 15, 1995.
    Section 208 makes clear that the rates of operation 
provided in Public Law 104-91 for the activities of the 
National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention shall be continued through the balance 
of the fiscal year.
    Section 209 rescinds $53,000,000 from funds provided in 
fiscal years 1995, 1994, and 1993 for the purchase of vaccine 
under section 317 of the Public Health Service Act. This action 
is taken due to the substantial amount of carryover in both 
vaccine purchase and infrastructure improvement funds at the 
State and local levels, and is consistent with H.R. 2127 as 
reported by the Committee.
    Section 210 makes clear that of the funds available in 
Public Law 104-91 for disease control, research, and training 
activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
$31,642,000 is to be derived from the violent crime reduction 
trust fund to carry out the activities authorized by the 
Violence Against Women Act in the crime bill. These programs 
are being funded for the first time in fiscal year 1996. 
Included are:


Funds derived from the violent crime reduction trust fund

Rape prevention and education...........................     $28,542,000
Domestic violence community demonstrations..............       3,000,000
Crime victim study......................................         100,000

    Section 211 provides authority to the Director of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] to utilize 
funds from the sale of surplus vaccine from the vaccine 
stockpile for other authorized disease control, research, and 
training activities of the CDC. Under current law, funds from 
the sale of surplus vaccine can only be used for other 
immunization activities.
    Section 211 provides the Director of the Office of AIDS 
Research [OAR] of the National Institutes of Health [NIH] with 
authority to transfer up to 3 percent of funds designated for 
AIDS activities among the agencies of the NIH to ensure 
compliance with the AIDS research plan authorized by section 
2353 of Public Law 103-43. The transfer authority is limited to 
a period of 30 days from the date of enactment of this act, 
should not decrease the amounts designated for AIDS research in 
each agency by more than 3 percent, and requires notification 
of the Committee prior to any transfer of funds under this 
section.
    Finally, section 213 provides that the Oregon Department of 
Human Services' waiver request, under section 1115 of the 
Social Security Act, is deemed to be approved upon enactment of 
this bill, unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
approves the waiver prior to that date.

                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

    The Committee recommendation includes a new provision which 
provides that Byrd scholarships be prorated to maintain the 
same number of new scholarships in fiscal year 1996 as in 1995.
    The Committee recommendation supports $4,500,000 for the 
proposal submitted to the Department of Education for a project 
to develop awareness of the paralympic mission in the months 
prior to the X Paralympic games. The Committee urges the 
Secretary to identify as expeditiously as possible funding for 
this initiative.
    The Committee recommendation also includes language which 
limits Pell grant recipient to 3,634,000 in award year 1995-96. 
This limitation will not deny awards to any eligible student 
and has been imposed to better reflect the actual number of 
students receiving grants. It is estimated that approximately 
3,601,000 students will receive grants in award year 1995-96.
    The Committee has included bill language to extend star 
school grant awards that received funding in 1995. This 
language would extend star schools partnership projects that 
received continuation grants in fiscal year 1995. These 
grantees were disproportionally impacted due to language 
contained in the rescission bill. No additional funds are 
necessary to continue these grants.
    In section 304, the Committee recommendation modifies 
previous language and caps funds available for section 458 of 
the Higher Education Act at $460,000,000. Language is included 
which directs the Department of Education to pay an estimated 
$95,000,000 in administrative cost allowances owed to guaranty 
agencies for fiscal year 1995. Language is also included which 
directs the Department of Education to pay cost allowances to 
guaranty agencies on a quarterly basis, calculated on the basis 
of 0.85 percent of the total principal amount of loans upon 
which insurance was issued on or after October 1, 1995. In 
addition, language is included which prohibits the Secretary of 
Education from requiring the return of guaranty agency reserve 
ends during fiscal year 1996, except after consulting with 
Congress; prohibits funds for evaluation of the direct loan 
program except as administered by the Advisory Committee on 
Student Financial Assistance; prohibits the Secretary of 
Education from using funds for marketing, advertising, or 
promoting the direct loan program; and eliminates the loan 
subsidy paid to direct loan schools.
    Section 512 modifies previous language which prohibited the 
use of funds under the Pell grant program as a result of 
certain default rate determinations specified by law. The 
modified language takes into consideration the percentage of 
students enrolled in an institution that participated in the 
loan program.
    Section 514 adds a new section regarding unsubsidized 
Stafford loan limits for students engaged in specialized 
training which results in exceptionally high education costs.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                     Social Security Administration

    For administrative expenses of the Social Security 
Administration, the Committee recommends $5,845,183,000, an 
increase of $301,080,000 over fiscal 1995, and the same as the 
amount in the original Senate-reported bill. This increase 
includes $407,000,000 for disability initiatives and 
$167,000,000 for automation initiatives. However, a bill 
language provision has been added specifying that funds 
unobligated at the end of the fiscal year remain available 
until expended to augment multiyear automation initiatives.

                      Supplemental Security Income

    For the Supplemental Security Income Program, the Committee 
recommends $25,661,012,000, compared to the budget request of 
$25,863,993,000. Reductions from the request relate to SSI 
administrative costs and investment initiatives. However, for 
research and demonstration projects, the recommendation 
includes an increase of $1,500,000 for a program to foster 
economic independence among people with disabilities in 
connection with the X Paralympic games. The Committee 
recommendation concurs with the budget request not to continue 
specific funding for the SSI outreach program.


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

    The Committee recommends enactment of the Departments of 
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, generally in the 
form of the conference agreement (H. Rept. 104-384) passed by 
the Congress in December of 1995, with exceptions delineated 
herein.

                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                    Veterans Benefits Administration

                       compensation and pensions

    The Committee recommends an additional $681,589,000 for 
compensation and pensions above the amount provided in the 
conference report, for a total of $18,331,561,000. The 
additional funds are required to accommodate the 2.6 percent 
cost-of-living adjustment authorized in Public Law 104-57 for 
compensation recipients, which became effective December 1, 
1995; an increase in the average compensation payment; and a 
higher than estimated caseload.

                      Departmental Administration

                       general operating expenses

    The Committee recommends deletion from the conference 
agreement language imposing restrictions on payroll costs for 
the Office of the Secretary, the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Policy and Planning, the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Congressional Affairs, and the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. 
The removal of these restrictions does not reflect a change in 
the Committee's objection to the Secretary's divisive advocacy 
of a partisan political character. Indeed, the Committee 
continues to be very troubled by the inaccurate and 
inflammatory statements made by the VA Secretary over the past 
year, and his refusal to focus his attention on fundamental 
management responsibilities in correction of glaring 
deficiencies of the Department. The Committee's action reflects 
its understanding that the payroll restrictions would 
negatively impact career employees who should not be held 
responsible for the Secretary's activities. The Committee, 
however, recommends retention of travel restrictions to those 
offices and limitations on noncareer personnel.
    The Committee recommends deletion of two provisions 
included in the conference report a provision relative to funds 
previously earmarked for the acquisition of automated data 
processing equipment to support the modernization program of 
the Veterans Benefits Administration, and a provision 
permitting excess revenues in three insurance funds to be used 
for administrative expenses. These provisions were enacted into 
law by Public Law 104-99.

                       administrative provisions

    The Committee recommends deletion of a provision included 
in the conference report permitting the transfer of not to 
exceed $4,500,000 of medical care funds to the medical 
administration and miscellaneous operating expenses account. 
This provision was enacted into law by Public Law 104-99.

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                            Housing Programs

               annual contributions for assisted housing

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$10,103,795,000 for annual contributions for assisted housing 
instead of $10,155,795,000 recommended in the conference 
agreement. This reduction of $52,000,000 is from amounts 
available for property disposition activities associated with 
multihousing developments mortgages and properties acquired or 
held by the Federal Housing Administration [FHA]. The Committee 
has recommended substantial flexibility in how the Department 
may deal with these properties for which defaults have occurred 
on mortgages guaranteed by FHA. A provision, previously 
included in the conference agreement which was enacted in 
Public law 104-99 which provides such flexibility, is 
recommended for deletion from this measure as surplusage. This 
flexibility is expected to lower the cost of inventory 
management and disposition cost associated with these defaults, 
while maintaining Federal support for residents occupying units 
in these developments and assisting the affected communities.
    The Committee expects that the reduction of $52,000,000 for 
this purpose should have no material impact on the Department's 
ability to meet its statutory and policy responsibilities in 
this regard. Since these costs are dependent on actual defaults 
and program activity levels, the Committee expects to be 
advised if additional resources are necessary, and will 
entertain reprogramming requests which may be necessary to 
accommodate efficient property disposition management 
activities.
    The Committee's recommendation also includes changes in 
certain calendar deadlines associated with the revised housing 
preservation program under the Low Income Housing Preservation 
and Resident Homeownership Act [LIPHRA] included in this 
account. These changes reflect legislation recently passed by 
the House which amends the conference agreement to adjust 
deadlines for filing and funding eligibility due to the delayed 
enactment of the appropriations bill.

                  financing adjustment factor savings

    The Committee recommendation includes language contained in 
the conference agreement which extends provisions of current 
law which permits the sharing of interest rate reduction 
savings resulting from refinancing of State housing finance 
agency debt. The Committee, however, was advised recently that 
several multifamily development mortgages, originally financed 
by such State-issued bonds, were permitted to be prepaid by the 
Department, and are continuing to receive full contract section 
8 rent, notwithstanding the owner's reduced interest costs. 
This action by the Department appears contrary to both the 
State and Federal governmental interests in reducing excessive 
subsidy costs. Furthermore, by permitting the owners of the 
properties in question to apply interest payment reductions 
toward principal, the State is denied its share of such savings 
which is needed to offset transaction costs associated with 
retiring these high-interest rate bonds, thereby frustrating 
the intent of Congress in providing incentives for such 
refinancing. The Committee directs the Department to 
investigate fully these reports and to seek such remedial 
action as is possible to recover these excessive rental subsidy 
payments. In addition, the Department is directed to take steps 
necessary to meet its obligations to the affected State housing 
finance agency to avoid unnecessary and costly litigation.

public housing demolition, site revitalization, and replacement housing 
                                 grants

    The Committee recommendation reflects the urgent need to 
accelerate the demolition of distressed public housing 
developments. A change to the conference agreement is 
recommended to delete a requirement for a formal competition in 
the award of these funds which is intended to facilitate the 
awarding of grants and to begin actual site demolition and 
rehabilitation. Under the HOPE VI Program, which preceded this 
revised severely distressed public housing demolition effort, 
planning and actual construction were subject to long delays 
due to excessive program requirements and burdensome 
replacement housing standards. The Committee strongly urges the 
Department to expedite the completion of plans under the HOPE 
VI Program and to give additional consideration to the priority 
that these efforts proceed to actual demolition and 
construction.
    In connection with such rehabilitation efforts of public 
housing, the Committee strongly supports efforts to provide 
replacement units in developments of a mixed-income character. 
Such housing developments are particularly appealing when 
public investment is leveraged by substantial private capital 
and development expertise. In many cases, however, the long-
term economic viability of such developments are dependent on 
continuing public housing or section 8 subsidies, in addition 
to initial project development capital investment. Current 
budgetary trends have increased concerns over the Federal 
Government's willingness to sustain such ongoing operating 
requirements and some further assurances are necessary to 
secure private financing of these developments. The Committee 
believes that continued Federal Housing Administration [FHA] 
participation in the form of limited mortgage guarantees can 
provide this crucial link in completing a viable and cost-
effective financing package for such mixed-income developments. 
The Committee, therefore, directs that such FHA participation 
continue in such innovative housing development efforts in a 
manner which balances the governmental interest in fostering 
such affording housing development with the potential loss-risk 
exposure associated with FHA loan guarantees.

             drug elimination grants for low-income housing

    The Committee recommends an additional provision under the 
conference agreement for the Drug Elimination Grant Program to 
permit the Secretary to waive a requirement that a portion of 
these funds be set aside for youth sport grants. This 
requirement has been burdensome for both the Department and for 
public housing authorities to administer these small separate 
activities. Such activities, however, do remain eligible for 
such grant funding, as part of the program application by the 
local housing authority.

                   Community Planning and Development

                      community development grants

    The Committee recommends an earmark of $80,000,000 under 
the community development block grant appropriation [CDBG] for 
economic development initiatives activities authorized by 
section 232 of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition 
Reform Act of 1994. These funds are to be competitively awarded 
to those communities which submit meritorious applications for 
the use of these grant funds in connection with section 108 
loan guarantees permitted under the Housing and Community 
Development Act.

                           general provisions

    The Committee recommendation deletes a number of provisions 
contained in the conference agreement under title II of the VA, 
HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal 
Year 1996 which were separately enacted into law by Public Law 
104-99, the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I. The 
recommendation also includes several technical corrections to 
these provisions.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                       Department of the Treasury

           community development financial institutions fund

                            program account

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $50,000,000 to 
continue activities of the Community Development Financial 
Institutions Program initiated in fiscal year 1995. Although 
awards for the first year of this program have yet to be made, 
the Committee believes that preparation should be made to 
continue this activity into fiscal year 1997 on the basis of 
such exemplary models as the Southshore Bank in Chicago, IL, 
which has proven to be an important stimulus in reversing long-
term disinvestment in urban centers of the Nation. The 
Committee expects to carefully monitor the utilization of these 
funds to maintain the financial integrity of such activities 
and to assure that careful management of lender risk and 
underwriting standards do not decline as the Southshore Bank 
model is expanded to other institutions that do not have 
comparable experience and expertise.

             Corporation for National and Community Service

                National and Community Service Programs

                           operating expenses

    The Committee recommends the appropriation of $383,500,000 
to continue the activities of the Corporation for National and 
Community Service. The conference agreement proposed that this 
entity be terminated.
    The Committee has been very disturbed by reports and 
program assessments by the General Accounting Office and the 
Corporation's own inspector general which indicated both 
excessive costs associated with support of volunteers and with 
certain awards to organizations engaged in impermissible 
political activities or which were made despite the existence 
of unfunded applications by well established voluntary 
organizations which were judged more meritorious by objective 
review panels. The most excessive abuse identified in these 
investigations were in evidence in awards made to other Federal 
agencies and other awards made on the national level to 
organizations which were not subject to scrutiny and evaluation 
by State and local boards.
    The Committee's recommendation eliminates these national 
awards to Federal agencies and assures that other awards, to 
the maximum extent possible, pass muster with local review 
panels. It remains the Committee's intent to carefully monitor 
the Corporation's activities to prevent the reoccurrence of 
such abuses in the future, and to emphasize the use of such 
scarce discretionary funding to augment the efforts of 
traditional private voluntary organizations which have served 
the Nation and their respective communities over many years 
without dependence on such direct Federal funding.

                      office of inspector general

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,000,000 to 
continue the activities of the Corporation's Office of 
Inspector General. The Committee is very sensitive to the heavy 
responsibilities of this office in investigating and monitoring 
the activities of the Corporation which provides funding to an 
aggregation of nongovernmental entities which have not 
traditionally dealt with requirements and restrictions on the 
use of public funding. Pending future year decisions on the 
wisdom of continuing such Federal support of, heretofore, 
private voluntary activities, the Committee believes it crucial 
to maintain vigilant program oversight and examination.

                    Environmental Protection Agency

                 environmental programs and management

    The Committee recommends the appropriation of an additional 
$40,000,000 above the amount provided in the conference report 
for environmental programs and management, for a total of 
$1,590,300,000. The additional funds are available for 
enforcement activities, which would restore this function to 
current levels. The Committee notes the amount provided for 
this account represents a reduction of $76,000,000, or 4.6 
percent, below the 1995 enacted level, and is generally 
consistent with overall constraints on discretionary activities 
funded in this bill.
    The Committee is very supportive of the recommendations 
made by the National Academy of Public Administration in 
``Setting Priorities, Getting Results: A New Direction for 
EPA.'' These recommendations offer significant opportunities to 
improve the allocation of EPA resources to achieve the most 
environmental results for the dollars available. Therefore, the 
Committee directs the administrator to provide a grant to the 
National Academy of Public Administration for an evaluation of 
EPA's implementation of the NAPA recommendations, including an 
assessment of how changes in EPA's authorizing statutes, 
management systems, and organizational structure provide an 
improvement over traditional regulatory approaches. NAPA should 
coordinate its efforts with and contribute to a parallel 
stakeholder initiative being conducted by the Center for 
Strategic and International Studies.
    The Committee is aware of the importance of granular 
carbofuran in controlling the water weevil pest which attacks 
and destroys the root system of rice plants. The Committee 
understands that while there are alternatives currently being 
developed, granular carbofuran is the only registered compound 
that is now available or will be available in the next year. 
Accordingly, the Committee urges EPA to act quickly to extend 
the registration for this compound until such time that EPA has 
registered new compounds that will provide viable alternatives 
for control of the rice water weevil.

                     hazardous substance superfund

    The Committee recommends an additional $100,000,000 above 
the conference level for Superfund, for a total of 
$1,263,000,000. This amount will bring the Superfund Program 
close to the 1995 enacted level. The additional funds, which 
shall become available September 1, 1996, may be used for 
enforcement and response activities, subject to normal 
reprogramming guidelines. With the additional funds, the amount 
available for Superfund response (cleanup) activities is 
$100,000,000 above the 1995 level of $800,000,000. The 
Committee reiterates its directive that priority be given to 
clean-up of sites posing the greatest risk to human health or 
the environment.

                   state and tribal assistance grants

    The Committee recommendation includes an additional 
$100,000,000 above the conference level for State and tribal 
assistance grants, for a total of $2,423,000,000. The 
additional funds are for water infrastructure financing, of 
which $50,000,000 is for clean water State revolving funds and 
$50,000,000 is for drinking water State revolving funds, if 
authorized by June 1, 1996. If an authorization for the 
drinking water State revolving funds is not enacted by June 1, 
1996, these funds shall become available immediately for clean 
water State revolving funds.
    The Committee notes that the total amount available for 
State revolving funds, together with $225,000,000 of carryover 
funds, is $1,725,000,000. This is an increase of $490,000,000 
above the amount available in 1995.
    These funds will help reduce the substantial backlog of 
water and waste water facility construction requirements 
nationwide.

                       administrative provisions

    The Committee recommends an administrative provision 
authorizing EPA to transfer property acquired for the 
development of the Center for Ecology Research and Training to 
the city of Bay City, MI, by donation or no-cost transfer. In 
the event that Bay City declines to accept the real property, 
the land may be donated to a willing local public or municipal 
entity. The authority to dispose of real and personal property 
hereunder shall supersede any requirements of the Federal 
Property Management Regulations or any other Federal property 
disposal laws or regulations. It is the intention of the 
Committee that the recipient of such real property shall accept 
full responsibility for compliance with any applicable 
environmental conditions on the real property, and that EPA's 
liability, therefore, shall terminate upon transfer of the real 
property. Not less than $3,000,000 shall be provided from funds 
previously appropriated for this facility to the recipient of 
the property for environmental remediation and rehabilitation 
costs.

                   Executive Office of the President

  council on environmental quality and office of environmental quality

    The Committee recommends an increase of $1,180,000 to 
maintain the operations of the Office of Environmental Quality 
in the White House at levels generally consistent with prior 
year support.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

              emergency management planning and assistance

    The Committee urges the Director of FEMA to give every 
consideration to the request from Harford County, MD, for 
supplemental chemical stockpile emergency preparedness [CSEPP] 
funds to complete the emergency operations center [EOC] 
project.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

                  research aircraft base consolidation

    The Committee understands that NASA is developing a 
proposal to consolidate its aircraft at Dryden Flight Research 
Center. Recent reports by the NASA Inspector General and an 
ongoing review by GAO have raised questions regarding the 
potential savings expected to result from such a move, and the 
adverse impact that this consolidation may have on research 
activities. In light of these questions, the Committee directs 
NASA to postpone action on this proposal to allow the Committee 
an opportunity to review all recommendations regarding NASA 
aircraft consolidation.

                       administrative provisions

    The Committee recommends the deletion of a provision 
included in the conference agreement regarding the disposition 
of land and facilities in Mississippi associated with a 
terminated NASA solid rocket motor production program. This 
provision was enacted into law by Public Law 104-99.


  TITLE II--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 
                       ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1996

                               CHAPTER 1

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service

    The fiscal year 1996 appropriation for the Food Safety and 
Inspection Service is $544,906,000, an increase of 5.5 percent 
above the previous fiscal year. This is evidence of the high 
priority the Committee places on the safety of the Nation's 
meat and poultry supply. But, because of the subcommittee's 
fiscal constraints for fiscal year 1996, full funding for all 
of the agency's initiatives was not possible. Therefore, the 
Committee recommends that funding for the field automation and 
information management initiative, the animal production food 
safety initiative, and the salmonella enteritidis pilot program 
be deferred to provide adequate funding for inspector positions 
and partial funding for training to implement the new hazard 
analysis and critical control point [HACCP] inspection 
regulations.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

               watershed and flood prevention operations

    The Committee recommends an additional $107,514,000 for 
watershed and flood prevention operations. The funds would be 
used to reduce hazards to life and property in watersheds and 
waterways damaged by floods caused by Hurricanes Alberto, 
Marilyn, and Opal; by heavy rains and melting snow from the 
blizzard of 1996; by recent severe floods in the Pacific 
Northwest; and by other floods and natural disasters. Emergency 
work may include opening dangerously restricted channels and 
waterways; repairing diversions and levees; and controlling 
erosion on denuded, steep slopes. Funds may also be used to 
purchase wetland easements through the Emergency Wetlands 
Reserve Program where the cost of cropland restoration and 
levee repair is greater than the value of the land.
    The entire amount has been designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    Consolidated Farm Service Agency

                     emergency conservation program

    The Committee recommends $30,000,000 for the Emergency 
Conservation Program [ECP]. These additional funds will assist 
with debris cleanup and the restoration of farmland damaged by 
Hurricanes Erin, Marilyn, and Opal; natural disasters in 
various States since early fall of 1995; floods in the mid-
Atlantic region; and massive recent flooding in the Pacific 
Northwest.
    The Committee notes the exceptional need for assistance in 
Tillamook and Washington Counties (Oregon) where flooding has 
devastated farmlands. Specifically, pasture lands are in need 
of immediate reseeding, debris needs to be removed, and 
hundreds of miles of fencing needs to be replaced.
    The entire amount has been designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

            Rural Housing and Community Development Service

              rural housing insurance fund program account

    The Committee recommends an additional $6,500,000 for the 
rural housing insurance fund program account. Additional 
funding of $5,000,000 is recommended for the cost of direct 
single-family housing loans authorized under section 502 of the 
Housing Act of 1949, and $1,500,000 is recommended for the cost 
of direct housing repair loans authorized under section 504 of 
the Housing Act of 1949. Under the Credit Reform Act of 1990, 
these amounts will fund an estimated $34,965,000 in direct 
loans to section 502 borrowers and $3,995,000 in section 504 
housing repair loans. These funds will assist in the repair of 
single-family dwellings financed by the Rural Housing Service 
damaged by Hurricane Marilyn and by the recent severe floods in 
the Pacific Northwest.
    The entire amount has been designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                 very low-income housing repair grants

    The Committee recommends an additional $1,100,000 for very 
low-income housing repair grants authorized under section 504 
of the Housing Act of 1949. These grants are made to very low-
income elderly owner occupants, at least 62 years of age, to 
make necessary repairs to improve and modernize their dwellings 
and to remove safety and health hazards. Hurricane Marilyn 
caused extensive damage to homes in the Virgin Islands, which 
has a large population of elderly, very low-income families. 
The additional funds would assist these families to repair 
their homes.
    The entire amount has been designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                        Rural Utilities Service

                   rural utilities assistance program

    The Committee recommends an additional $11,000,000 for the 
cost of loans and grants under the Rural Utilities Assistance 
Program. These additional funds would assist in the repair of 
water treatment plants and waste disposal plants and systems 
damaged or experiencing water quality problems caused by severe 
floods in the Pacific Northwest. Funds may also be used to 
provide emergency community water assistance grants to restore 
water quantity and quality in systems experiencing damage as a 
result of the floods.
    The entire amount has been designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                        Administrative Provision

    The Committee's recommendations are based, in part, on 
preliminary assessments of damage sustained and assistance 
required in areas affected by recent floods and other natural 
disasters. Recognizing this, the Committee has included an 
administrative provision in the bill to allow the Secretary of 
Agriculture to transfer supplemental emergency disaster funds 
appropriated to the Department between accounts with the prior 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

                               CHAPTER 2

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED 
                                AGENCIES

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                  Economic Development Administration

                economic development assistance programs

    The Committee is aware that severe flooding in the Pacific 
Northwest caused extensive damage to flood control levees in 
the region and has included funding elsewhere in the bill for 
the Corps of Engineers to repair structures eligible under the 
Corps' emergency authorities. In order to address damages to 
flood control levees not eligible under the Corps of Engineers' 
authorities, the Committee is recommending an appropriation of 
$16,500,000 under the Economic Development Administration's 
economic development assistance programs to bring these levees 
up to Corps of Engineers standards. Of this amount, $1,500,000 
is provided for administrative costs. The funding would be 
available only pursuant to an official budget request and the 
designation of an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended. The Committee recommendation corresponds with action 
taken by the Congress to address a similar situation regarding 
damaged levees during the Midwest floods of 1995.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

                              construction

    The Committee recommendation includes $10,000,000 in 
emergency funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration's [NOAA] ``Construction'' account as requested 
in the President's emergency supplemental request. These funds 
are to support the immediate repair of fish hatcheries along 
the Columbia River, many of which experienced severe damage 
from the recent flooding in the Northwest.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                     Small Business Administration

                     DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

    The Committee recommends an emergency appropriation of 
$100,000,000 for the disaster loans program account under the 
Small Business Administration [SBA] to supplement funds 
appropriated for this account under the conference report to 
accompany H.R. 2076 as described in title I of this act. This 
program is the primary form of Federal assistance for nonfarm, 
private sector disaster losses including loans for repairs to 
homes.
    Severe flooding in the Pacific Northwest and in the mid-
Atlantic region, in addition to continuing efforts with respect 
to hurricanes in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere, have caused 
the demands on this program to rise far above previous 
estimates this year. The SBA estimates that, without this 
supplemental appropriation, disaster efforts will discontinue 
this May, only 8 months into the fiscal year. This supplemental 
amount will allow for additional loan volume and associated 
administrative expenses to cover disaster needs for the 
remainder of the fiscal year based on current projections.

                               CHAPTER 3

                      ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

                       Operation and Maintenance

1996 appropriations.....................................  $1,703,697,000
Supplemental request....................................      30,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              30,000,000

    An appropriation of $30,000,000 is recommended by the 
Committee. This is the same as the budget request.
    This emergency funding is required to repair damages to 
Federal water resource projects caused by severe flooding in 
the Northeast, and flooding in the Pacific Northwest to 
navigation channels and harbors, locks and dams, reservoir 
facilities and flood control channels including snagging, drift 
and debris removal, scour protection, access road, and 
powerplant repair.

                 Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies

1996 appropriations.....................................     $10,000,000
Supplemental request....................................     135,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             135,000,000

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $135,000,000 
for flood control and coastal emergencies which is the same as 
the budget request. Emergency activities, pursuant to Public 
Law 84-99 includes the following work whenever and wherever 
required: preparation for emergency response, flood fighting 
and rescue operations, emergency repair and restoration of 
flood control works, and emergency supplies of water.
    This emergency supplemental request provides additional 
funds to address unexpected needs resulting from devastating 
floods in the Midwest and Southeast during 1995, and severe 
flooding in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest this year. The 
recommended appropriation also includes $10,000,000 to 
replenish the ``Flood control and coastal emergencies'' account 
so that the Corps of Engineers will be able to respond to other 
natural disasters which may occur during the remainder of 
fiscal year 1996.
    The entire $135,000,000 has been designated as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         Bureau of Reclamation

                          Construction Program

1996 appropriations.....................................    $411,046,000
Supplemental request....................................      18,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              18,000,000

    The Committee recommendation includes $18,000,000, the same 
as the budget request.
    On July 17, 1995, one of the eight spillway gates at Folsom 
Dam failed during normal operations, resulting in an 
uncontrolled flow from the reservoir. The Secretary of the 
Interior, using his emergency authority, made $5,000,000 
available in 1995 for the Bureau of Reclamation to begin work 
to remove the failed gates, conduct tests to determine the 
cause of failure, and assess the condition of the other gates. 
Analysis of the failed gate has identified additional 
strengthening requirements for the seven remaining gates. 
Therefore, $9,000,000 of funding is provided herein will allow 
the Bureau of Reclamation to initiate the required 
strengthening as quickly as possible in order to eliminate a 
serious dam safety problem.
    The Committee recommendation also includes $9,000,000 to 
cover claims resulting from severe flooding in March 1995 in 
California's San Joaquin Valley. Funding will be available to 
discharge claims following certification by the Secretary of 
the Interior and emergency designation by the President.

                               CHAPTER 4

            DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                              construction

1996 appropriation to date..............................      $3,115,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                               5,000,000

    The Committee recommends $5,000,000 to repair damage to BLM 
lands and facilities caused by the floods that occurred in 
Oregon and Washington during February 1996. Heavy rains 
combined with melting snow caused record flooding that resulted 
in heavy damage to BLM property and infrastructure. Many of the 
BLM recreational facilities located along flooded rivers 
sustained extensive damage. The urgency of repair and 
stabilization is compounded by the fact that the heaviest 
damage occurred on streams and rivers that provide critical 
salmon and steelhead spawning and rearing habitat.

                   oregon and california grant lands

1996 appropriation to date..............................     $93,379,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              35,000,000

    The Committee recommends $35,000,000 to repair BLM lands 
and facilities damaged extensively by the unprecedented floods 
in Oregon and Washington during February 1996. Urgent repair 
and stabilization are needed due to the heaviest damage 
occurring on streams and rivers that provide critical salmon 
and steelhead spawning and rearing habitat. In addition, it is 
necessary to repair damage to wildlife and fish habitat 
restoration projects.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service

                              construction

1996 appropriation to date..............................     $37,655,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              32,000,000

    The Committee recommends $32,000,000 to repair Fish and 
Wildlife Service facilities damaged by Hurricanes Marilyn and 
Opal, the 1996 blizzard and subsequent flooding in the East, 
the Pacific Northwest floods, and other acts of nature. More 
than 80 refuges and hatcheries were affected by these 
disasters.

                         National Park Service

                              construction

1996 appropriation to date..............................    $143,225,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              47,000,000

    The Committee recommends $47,000,000 to make emergency 
repairs to the National Park Service facilities which sustained 
substantial damage from hurricanes, recordbreaking floods, 
fires, and blizzards occurring during 1995-96. Intense winter 
storms with high winds and record rain and snow fall have hit 
across the country. Early snow combined with heavy winter rains 
and warm temperatures have caused record runoff levels and 
extensive flooding.
    These funds should be made available as soon as possible to 
ensure repair and preservation of structures and facilities and 
to ensure safe visitor access prior to the approaching park 
visitation period.

                    United States Geological Survey

                  survey, investigations, and research

1996 appropriation to date..............................    $730,503,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                               2,000,000

    The Committee recommends $2,000,000 for costs and equipment 
damages sustained at hydrologic streamflow measurement stations 
due to flooding associated with Hurricanes Marilyn, Opal, and 
Roxanne, the 1996 blizzard and subsequent flooding in the East, 
and the floods in the Pacific Northwest. Funds are also 
requested for costs associated with field measurements made 
during and after these flooding events to assess damage and 
reduce future flood loss.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                      operation of indian programs

1996 appropriation to date..............................  $1,384,434,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                                 500,000

    The Committee recommends $500,000 to repair damages to 
furnishings, equipment and related costs to a school facility 
caused by the flooding in the Pacific Northwest.

                              construction

1996 appropriation to date..............................    $100,833,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              16,500,000

    The Committee recommends $16,500,000 for damages sustained 
on Indian reservations caused by flooding in the Pacific 
Northwest. The funding will be used to repair facilities, and 
for evacuation and emergency response in response to the 
flooding, as well as to repair the Wapato irrigation system on 
the Yakama Reservation.

                 Territorial and International Affairs

                       assistance to territories

1996 appropriation to date..............................     $65,188,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              13,000,000

    The Committee recommends $13,000,000 to assist the U.S. 
Virgin Islands in recovering from the devastating effects of 
Hurricane Marilyn. The bulk of these funds will be used in 
conjunction with FEMA grants to repair essential public 
infrastructure and mitigate damage from future disasters. Such 
mitigation will lower the cost of responding to future 
catastrophies. Remaining funds will be used for engineering, 
construction management, financial management, and other 
purposes for which FEMA funds are not available. The local 
government's capability to perform many of these functions has 
been overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service

                         national forest system

1996 appropriation to date..............................  $1,254,201,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              26,600,000

    The Committee recommends $26,600,000 to repair Forest 
Service facilities damaged by winter storms occurring during 
1995-96 across the country. The February 1996 floods in the 
Pacific Northwest region caused extensive damage to natural 
resources and infrastructure of the national forests. Damage 
has occurred to major recreation sites, water systems, waste 
facilities, administrative sites, fish habitat, trails, roads, 
bridges, and watersheds.

                              construction

1996 appropriation to date..............................    $163,284,000
Supplemental request....................................................
House allowance.........................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              60,800,000

    The Committee recommends $60,800,000 to repair Forest 
Service facilities damaged by winter storms occurring during 
1995-96 across the country. The February 1996 floods in the 
Pacific Northwest region caused extensive damage to natural 
resources and infrastructure of the national forests. Damage 
has occurred to major recreation sites, water systems, waste 
facilities, administrative sites, fish habitat, trails, roads, 
bridges, and watersheds.

                               CHAPTER 5

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                        PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS

    The proposed bill language amends the fiscal year 1996 
appropriations to allow the expenditure on the essential air 
services program general funds carried over from previous 
years. The proposed language does not provide any new funds. It 
is currently estimated that approximately $2,140,000 in 
additional spending will be incurred in 1996 for hold-in rates 
to settle pending lawsuits and to pay higher than expected 
subsidies for communities' guaranteed service.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                          Federal-Aid Highways

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

    The Committee has proposed bill language which provides 
$300,000,000 for the emergency relief program of the Federal 
Highway Administration to repair highway and bridge damage 
resulting from the January 1996 flooding in the mid-Atlantic, 
Northeast, and Northwest States. This increase would allow work 
to continue on the repair of highways at over 800 damage sites 
and bridges. The current balance in the emergency appropriation 
is not adequate to complete repairs. The request is consistent 
with the practice of fully restoring Federal-aid highway 
facilities damaged in disasters. In addition, the Committee has 
included bill language which removes the $100,000,000 emergency 
relief per State per event limitation on obligations.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                     Local Rail Freight Assistance

    A number of small railroads have incurred damages and 
interruptions to service as a result of flooding in the early 
months of 1996. States cannot use Federal Emergency Management 
Agency funds to assist privately owned railroads; however, the 
Local Rail Freight Assistance Program can, with emergency 
supplemental appropriations, provide funds for flood relief. 
Similar relief was provided to Midwestern railroads in the 1993 
flood relief legislation.

                     Federal Transit Administration

                       Mass Transit Capital Fund

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

    The Committee has included bill language which provides 
funds to liquidate obligations incurred pursuant to the 
contract authority provided in 49 U.S.C. 5338(b) for the 
Federal Transit Administration's Discretionary Grants Program. 
This program is experiencing accelerated expenditures for 
several reasons. Beginning in the 1993 appropriations act, and 
continuing each subsequent year, funds earmarked for 
discretionary bus and new start projects were given a 3-year 
period of availability, after which they would be redistributed 
to other projects if they had not yet been obligated. This has 
had the effect of accelerating the use of earmarked funds, as 
have recent rescission bills targeting unused earmarks, and the 
advance drawdown policy which was implemented administratively 
by the Federal Transit Administration in June 1992.

                               CHAPTER 6

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

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Community Planning and Development

                      community development grants

    The Committee recommends an emergency supplemental 
appropriation of $100,000,000 for community development block 
grants [CDBG] to facilitate repairs and augment resources 
available to States and local entities for other emergency 
activities to address recently Presidentially declared 
disasters. Up to $10,000,000 of this amount may be allocated to 
jurisdictions designated as disaster areas for temporary 
housing assistance under section 8. These certificates and 
vouchers would be available for a period of up to 1 year only, 
under the clear understanding that they would not be subject to 
renewal. This appropriation is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and is available only 
upon such designation by the President in an official budget 
request.
    The Department of Housing and Urban Development has taken 
on an increasingly more active role in providing assistance to 
disaster stricken areas in recent years. Supplemental 
appropriations for CDBG assistance have been made to address 
disaster-related needs in a number of States including the 
Northridge earthquake in California, and hurricane-related 
flooding in Georgia and Florida. Recently the Department was 
able to reallocate unspent funding from previous commitments to 
meet emergency requirements of two flood-damaged communities in 
Pennsylvania. This emergency appropriation will enable the 
Department to provide such assistance to other communities on a 
more comprehensive basis without resorting to extraordinary 
reinterpretation of existing statutory authority or relying on 
the possibility of identifying such available prior-year 
allocations.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                            DISASTER RELIEF

                     (Including Transfer of Funds)

    The Committee recommends an emergency supplemental 
appropriation of $150,000,000 for FEMA disaster relief. These 
funds may be transferred to the ``Disaster Assistance Direct 
Loan Program'' account for the cost of community disaster 
loans, as authorized by section 417 of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Direct loans 
under section 417 of the Stafford Act are limited to 
$170,000,000.
    This appropriation is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and is available only 
upon such designation by the President in an official budget 
request.
    The Community Disaster Loan Program provides assistance to 
local governments that have suffered a substantial loss of tax 
and other revenues as a result of a major disaster. Any 
transfer of funds to the ``Disaster Assistance Direct Loan 
Program'' account for community disaster loans is to be made 
only upon certification by the FEMA director that all 
requirements of section 417 of the Stafford Act will be met, 
including that the locality demonstrate a need for financial 
assistance in order to perform its governmental functions. The 
amount of the loan is not to exceed 25 percent of the annual 
operating budget of the local government for the fiscal year in 
which the major disaster occurred.
    The Committee is aware that FEMA has received and is 
reviewing an application for a community disaster loan from the 
Governor of the Virgin Islands as a result of damage suffered 
during Hurricane Marilyn in 1995. FEMA has not made a 
determination as to the loan amount as of this date. The 
Committee also is aware of the significant costs associated 
with the recent floods in the Northeast and Northwest. The 
additional appropriation should be sufficient, along with 
current disaster relief reserves, for these requirements in 
fiscal year 1996.
    The administration recently submitted a supplemental budget 
request of $103,729,000 which specified a single direct loan 
for the Virgin Islands. The Committee's recommendation will 
permit such a loan, but makes it contingent on certification by 
FEMA that all requirements of law have been satisfied. Pending 
such approval, the funds recommended will remain in the 
disaster relief account to meet other eligible disaster needs.

                               CHAPTER 7

       FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS

               Economic Assistance for Bosnia-Herzegovina

    The Committee recommends approval of the administration's 
$200,000,000 request for economic assistance programs in 
Bosnia-Herzegovina. This request will supplement the 
``Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States'' account 
administered by the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for 
International Development.
    The administration's preliminary materials in support of 
this request designate $145,000,000 for economic 
revitalization, $45,000,000 for police monitors and training, 
$5,000,000 for demining assistance, and $5,000,000 for 
administrative costs.
    The $200,000,000 supplemental is in addition to a 
$339,000,000 commitment for this program from various fiscal 
year 1995 and fiscal year 1996 funding sources, including the 
SEED Act, peacekeeping, migration, and refugee assistance, 
disaster assistance, and Public Law 480.
    The Committee has included language in the bill which 
prohibits obligation of any of this money, except through the 
regular notification procedures of the Committee. The Committee 
makes this recommendation because thus far the justification 
material provided to the Committee, especially specific program 
and project information, is inadequate.
    The following table details the Bosnia peace implementation 
program together with funding sources:

                                                           PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 1995-96 BOSNIA PEACE IMPLEMENTATION FUNDING (REVISED)                                                           
                                                                                    [In thousands of dollars]                                                                                   
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                                                                                                                                Funding sources                                                 
                                                                  Anticipated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Program description                         commitment    1995      1996    $200 million                                                    Disaster/   Public           
                                                                                 SEED      SEED    supplemental    IO&P       PKO      USIA       NDF       MRA       OTI      Law 480    CIPA  
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Humanitarian programs...........................................     162,000   ........  ........  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........    70,000     32,000    60,000  ........
    Disaster assistance.........................................      32,000   ........  ........  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........     32,000  ........  ........
    Food assistance.............................................      60,000   ........  ........  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........    60,000  ........
    Refugee assistance..........................................      70,000   ........  ........  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........    70,000  .........  ........  ........
Revitalization and reconstruction...............................     176,500      7,000    24,500     145,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Reconstruction finance......................................      74,000   ........     9,000      65,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Debt reduction/arrears......................................       3,000   ........     3,000  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Municipal infrastructure and services.......................      97,500      7,000    10,500      80,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Infrastructure finance/commercial opportunities.............       2,000   ........     2,000  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
Economic transformation and democratic reforms..................      23,500   ........    23,000  ............  ........  ........       500  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Economic stabilization......................................      17,500   ........    17,500  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Privatization...........................................       5,000   ........     5,000  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Financial sector........................................       4,500   ........     4,500  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Enterprise restructuring................................       2,000   ........     2,000  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Fiscal/tax reform/customs...............................       3,500   ........     3,500  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Technical ass't--financial/treasury.....................       2,500   ........     2,500  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Democratic reform...........................................       6,000   ........     5,500  ............  ........  ........       500  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Media...................................................       1,700   ........     1,200  ............  ........  ........       500  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Elections and political process.........................       2,500   ........     2,500  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Public administration...................................         800   ........       800  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        Judicial reform.........................................       1,000   ........     1,000  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
Police training and monitors....................................      80,700   ........  ........      45,000    ........     5,000  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........    30,700
    International police task force--U.S. assessed share........      30,700   ........  ........  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........    30,700
    IPTF--200 U.S. monitors.....................................      30,000   ........  ........      25,000    ........     5,000  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Training....................................................      20,000   ........  ........      20,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
OSCE activities.................................................       8,200   ........  ........  ............  ........     8,200  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    OSCE electoral assessment...................................       2,600   ........  ........  ............  ........     2,600  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    OSCE mission assessment.....................................       3,000   ........  ........  ............  ........     3,000  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Elections and human rights monitors.........................       2,600   ........  ........  ............  ........     2,600  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
Other...........................................................      88,100   ........     2,500      10,000       1,000     3,000     1,800     3,500  ........  .........  ........    66,300
    Eastern Slavonia peacekeeping...............................      66,300   ........  ........  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........    66,300
    War Crimes Tribunal.........................................       1,000   ........  ........  ............     1,000  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Demining....................................................       8,500   ........  ........       5,000    ........  ........  ........     3,500  ........  .........  ........  ........
    High representative's office................................       3,000   ........  ........  ............  ........     3,000  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Training....................................................       2,300   ........       500  ............  ........  ........     1,800  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    AID project design, planning, support and audit.............       1,500   ........     1,500  ............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
    Operating expenses..........................................       5,500   ........       500       5,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        State...................................................       2,000   ........  ........       2,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        USAID...................................................       2,500   ........       500       2,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
        USIA....................................................       1,000   ........  ........       1,000    ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........
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          Total.................................................     539,000      7,000    50,000     200,000       1,000    16,200     2,300     3,500    70,000     32,000    60,000    97,000
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                          MILITARY ASSISTANCE

                        F-16 Transfer to Jordan

    The Committee recommends an additional $70,000,000 in 
fiscal year 1996 for the Foreign Military Financing Program. 
These funds, together with $30,000,000 provided in the regular 
Fiscal Year 1996 Foreign Operations Act and an expected 
$30,000,000 from the Fiscal Year 1997 Foreign Operations bill, 
will cover the initial costs of leasing sixteen F-16a's and b's 
to Jordan.
    In December 1995, in the context of the ongoing peace 
process, The Secretary of Defense presented this plan to 
transfer F-16's to King Hussein.
    The Committee recommendation fulfills the commitment made 
by Secretary Perry.
    This program will require a total appropriation of 
$200,000,000. It is expected, therefore, that an additional 
future regular or supplemental request of $70,000,000 will be 
presented to the Congress to complete the funding of this 
program.

                               CHAPTER 8

                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

    The Department of Defense has requested a total of 
$582,500,000 within the jurisdiction of the Defense 
Subcommittee in new budget authority, to fund the incremental 
costs of the Bosnia operation, including the costs of the NATO-
led Bosnia Peace Implementation Force [IFOR] and Operation Deny 
Flight. This supplemental request constitutes the second phase 
of the Department's plan to finance the cost of U.S. 
participation in the Bosnia Peace Implementation Force. The 
first phase, a reprogramming of $991,000,000 for the most 
urgently needed requirements was submitted by the Department on 
January 22, 1996, and approved by this committee on February 
26, 1996.
    The Committee recommends providing $777,700,000, an 
increase of $195,200,000 above the administration's request. 
The recommended increase is intended to offset increased 
logistical cost estimates identified after the administration 
submitted its supplemental request.
    The Committee also notes that no emergency designation has 
been applied to this supplemental defense appropriations. The 
entire $777,700,000 of new authority is fully offset, in both 
budget authority and outlays, by rescissions recommended in 
chapter 10 of this report.
    A summary of the Department's request and the Committee's 
recommendations are detailed within the following table:

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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                                                                 request       recommendation        Change     
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Military personnel:                                                                                             
    Army..................................................      $244,400,000      $244,400,000  ................
    Navy..................................................        11,700,000        11,700,000  ................
    Marine Corps..........................................         2,600,000         2,600,000  ................
    Air Force.............................................        27,300,000        27,300,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal............................................       286,000,000       286,000,000  ................
                                                           =====================================================
Operation and maintenance:                                                                                      
    Army..................................................        48,200,000       195,000,000     +$146,800,000
    Marine Corps..........................................           900,000           900,000  ................
    Air Force.............................................       141,600,000       190,000,000       +48,400,000
    Defense-wide..........................................        79,800,000        79,800,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal............................................       270,500,000       465,700,000      +195,200,000
                                                           =====================================================
Other procurement, Air Force..............................        26,000,000        26,000,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal............................................        26,000,000        26,000,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Total...............................................       582,500,000       777,700,000      +195,200,000
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                           MILITARY PERSONNEL

    The President requested supplemental appropriations of 
$286,000,000 for incremental military personnel costs for troop 
subsistence and pay for National Guard and Reserve personnel 
serving on active duty and allowances for all deployed troops 
in and around Bosnia. The Committee recommends an appropriation 
of $286,000,000 for military personnel for this requirement.

                        Military Personnel, Army

1996 appropriation to date.............................. $19,946,187,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................     244,400,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             244,400,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $244,400,000 for 
military personnel, Army to fund pay and allowances in support 
of operations associated with the IFOR and the Bosnia 
deployment. This amount is the same as requested by the 
administration. The following table summarizes the various 
military personnel funding requirements for the Army:

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                                                                   Supplemental      Committee                  
                            Category                                  request     recommendation      Change    
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Imminent danger pay.............................................     $41,498,700     $41,498,700  ..............
Family separation allowance.....................................      20,749,350      20,749,350  ..............
Foreign duty pay................................................       5,533,160       5,533,160  ..............
PCS (return of families)........................................       5,000,000       5,000,000  ..............
Enlisted BAS....................................................      21,955,000      21,955,000  ..............
Pay and allowance (Reserve components)..........................     149,663,790     149,663,790  ..............
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Grand total...............................................     244,400,000     244,400,000  ..............
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                        Military Personnel, Navy

1996 appropriation to date.............................. $17,008,563,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................      11,700,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              11,700,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $11,700,000 for 
military personnel, Navy to fund pay and allowances associated 
with Operation Deny Flight and IFOR operations in support of 
Bosnia. This amount is the same as requested by the 
administration. The following table summarizes the various 
military personnel funding requirements for the Navy:

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                                                                   Supplemental      Committee                  
                            Category                                  request     recommendation      Change    
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Imminent danger pay.............................................        $499,200        $499,200  ..............
Family separation allowance.....................................         198,750         198,750  ..............
Foreign duty pay................................................           7,600           7,600  ..............
Airfare and per diem processing.................................         965,000         965,000  ..............
Pay and allowance (Reserve components)..........................      10,029,450      10,029,450  ..............
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Grand total...............................................      11,700,000      11,700,000  ..............
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                    Military Personnel, Marine Corps

1996 appropriation to date..............................  $5,885,740,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................       2,600,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               2,600,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $2,600,000 for 
military personnel, Marine Corps to fund pay and allowances for 
Operation Deny Flight and IFOR operations associated with 
Bosnia. This amount is the same as requested by the 
administration. The following table summarizes the various 
military personnel funding requirements for the Marine Corps:

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                                                                   Supplemental      Committee                  
                            Category                                  request     recommendation      Change    
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Imminent danger pay.............................................        $164,700        $164,700  ..............
Family separation allowance.....................................         201,225         201,225  ..............
Foreign duty pay................................................          65,322          65,322  ..............
Pay and allowance (Reserve components)..........................       2,168,753       2,168,753  ..............
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
      Grand total...............................................       2,600,000       2,600,000  ..............
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                     Military Personnel, Air Force

1996 appropriation to date.............................. $17,207,743,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................      27,300,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              27,300,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $27,300,000 for 
military personnel, Air Force to fund pay and allowances 
associated with Operation Deny Flight and IFOR operations for 
Bosnia. This is the same amount as requested by the 
administration. The following table summarizes the various 
military personnel funding requirements for the Air Force:

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                                                                   Supplemental      Committee                  
                            Category                                  request     recommendation      Change    
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Imminent danger pay.............................................      $6,896,000      $6,896,000  ..............
Family separation allowance.....................................       3,298,000       3,298,000  ..............
Foreign duty pay................................................         906,000         906,000  ..............
Enlisted BAS....................................................       1,000,000       1,000,000  ..............
Pay and allowance (Reserve components)..........................      15,200,000      15,200,000  ..............
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
    Grand total.................................................      27,300,000      27,300,000  ..............
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                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

    The Committee recommends appropriations totaling 
$465,700,000 in operation and maintenance, an increase of 
$195,200,000 over the administration's supplemental estimate. 
These funds are intended to finance additional costs for IFOR 
operations in Bosnia and Operation Deny Flight identified 
subsequent to the administration's submission.

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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                          Account                                request       recommendation        Change     
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Operation and maintenance:                                                                                      
    Army..................................................       $48,200,000      $195,000,000     +$146,800,000
    Marine Corps..........................................           900,000           900,000  ................
    Air Force.............................................       141,600,000       190,000,000       +48,400,000
    Defense-wide..........................................        79,800,000        79,800,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Grand Total.........................................       270,500,000       465,700,000      +195,200,000
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                    Operation and Maintenance, Army

1996 appropriation to date.............................. $18,321,965,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................      48,200,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             195,000,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $195,000,000 for 
operation and maintenance, Army to cover incremental costs of 
contingency operations in Bosnia. This amount is $146,800,000 
above the amount requested by the administration and provides 
funding for unit OPTEMPO cost increases in ground support and 
rotary aircraft and additional costs directly related to 
logistics support contracts.

                Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps

1996 appropriation to date..............................  $2,392,522,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................         900,000

Committee recommendation

                                                                 900,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $900,000 for 
operation and maintenance, Marine Corps to fund incremental 
costs for both Operation Deny Flight and IFOR operations in 
Bosnia. This amount matches the amount requested by the 
administration providing $200,000 for transportation associated 
with two Aviano-based squadrons and $700,000 for activated 
Reserve personnel per diem costs.

                  Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

1996 appropriation to date.............................. $18,561,267,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................     141,600,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             190,000,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $190,000,000 for 
operation and maintenance, Air Force to fund incremental costs 
for both Operation Deny Flight and IFOR operations in Bosnia. 
This amount is $48,400,000 above the amount requested by the 
administration and provides funding for OPTEMPO flying hour-
related requirements, travel and per diem, deployment and 
sustainment airlift and site operational costs.

                Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide

1996 appropriation to date.............................. $10,388,595,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................      79,800,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              79,800,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $79,800,000 for 
operation and maintenance, Defense-wide to provide funding for 
incremental costs for both Operation Deny Flight and IFOR 
operations in Bosnia. This amount matches the amount requested 
by the administration's request and includes requirements by 
U.S. Special Operations Command, Defense Intelligence Agency, 
Defense Information Systems Agency, Washington Headquarters 
Services, Defense Logistics Agency, National Security Agency, 
and classified activities.

                              PROCUREMENT

                      Other Procurement, Air Force

1996 appropriation to date..............................  $6,284,230,000
1996 supplemental estimate..............................      26,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              26,000,000

    The Department has requested and the Committee recommends 
approval, of a supplemental appropriation of $26,000,000 for 
the ``Other procurement, Air Force'' account. A detailed 
explanation of this request and the Committee recommendation is 
provided in the classified annex to this report.

               RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION

        Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-wide

    The Committee provided a total increase of $663,939,000 for 
ballistic missile defense programs in the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 1996. To ensure that these programs have 
adequate resources and can proceed without delay, this 
Committee has rejected Department of Defense proposals to 
reprogram any amounts for inflation from the ballistic missile 
defense accounts to pay for costs related to Bosnia or other 
across-the-board reductions.
    The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 
mandated a cut of $30,000,000 from the Ballistic Missile 
Defense Organization [BMDO] Program Management and Support 
program element. It is expected that execution of the funding 
increases appropriated by this Committee will result in 
expanded workload at the Army's Space and Strategic Defense 
Command [SSDC]. Based on this additional management 
requirement, the Committee directs that none of the ``Program 
Management and Support'' account reduction be applied to the 
programs, activities or functions of the Army Space and 
Strategic Defense Command.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 801. Transfer authority.--The administration's 
supplemental budget request includes a legislative provision 
increasing total transfer authority available to the Department 
of Defense for fiscal year 1996 from $2,400,000,000 to 
$3,400,000,000. The Committee does not recommend providing the 
entire $1,000,000,000 increase at this time but has included 
language within this section increasing the Department's 
transfer authority by $300,000,000 to $2,700,000,000.
    Sec. 802. F-15E aircraft.--The Committee recommends a 
technical amendment to permit the obligation of funds 
appropriated and authorized for fiscal year 1996 for 
procurement and advance procurement of F-15E fighter aircraft.
    Sec. 803. C-17 multiyear procurement.--The Committee 
recommends a general provision permitting the Air Force to use 
previously appropriated funds to begin a multiyear procurement 
program for the C-17 advanced transport aircraft. The Committee 
has been informed by the Air Force that the multiyear 
acquisition of C-17 aircraft and engines will save $895,300,000 
over the life of the acquisition program.

                               CHAPTER 9

                         MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

     North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $37,500,000 
for IFOR projects within the NATO Security Investment Program 
[NSIP]. The Committee understands the need for flexibility 
within this program. The Committee, however, is concerned that 
this program is budgeted without a clear understanding of what 
the funds will specifically be used for and lacks the necessary 
oversight required by Congress. The Committee directs the 
Department to accelerate its budget process so that all 
specific projects are identified within 15 days of enactment of 
this act.

                               CHAPTER 10

                  RESCINDING CERTAIN BUDGET AUTHORITY

                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

                             (Rescissions)

    The Department of Defense has submitted a total of 
$820,000,000 in proposed rescissions of funds made available 
within the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1995. The 
Committee recommends rescinding these funds identified by the 
Department as excess to its requirements.

                              PROCUREMENT

                     Missile Procurement, Air Force

                              (Rescission)

1995 appropriation to date..............................  $3,650,262,000
1995 rescission request.................................    -310,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                            -310,000,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $310,000,000 from 
the amounts provided for missile procurement, Air Force within 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1995.

                      Other Procurement, Air Force

                              (Rescission)

1995 appropriation to date..............................  $6,965,201,000
1995 rescission request.................................    -265,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                            -265,000,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $265,000,000 from 
the amounts provided for other procurement, Air Force within 
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1995.

               RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION

         Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force

                              (Rescission)

1995 appropriation to date.............................. $12,202,572,000
1995 rescission request.................................    -245,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                            -245,000,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $245,000,000 from 
the amounts provided for research, development, test and 
evaluation, Air Force within the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 1995.

                               CHAPTER 11

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    The Committee recommends language (sec. 1101) permitting 
maximum flexibility to the departments involved in providing 
funds for domestic assistance in this title. The Committee 
intends that the funds for domestic emergencies be made 
available as expeditiously as possible, and with the minimum 
redtape.
    The Committee also recommends language (sec. 1102) limiting 
the availability of funds in this title to the current fiscal 
year unless expressly provided otherwise.


   COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND   
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        TITLE II--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE                                                        
                 FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1996                                                                 
                                                                                                                       
                               CHAPTER I                                                                               
                                                                                                                       
                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                Natural Resources Conservation Service                                                                 
                                                                                                                       
104-   Watershed and flood prevention operations...............     $100,000,000      $107,514,000       +$7,514,000   
                                                                                                                       
                   Consolidated Farm Service Agency                                                                    
                                                                                                                       
104-   Emergency conservation program..........................       30,000,000        30,000,000   ................  
                                                                                                                       
            Rural Housing and Community Development Service                                                            
                                                                                                                       
       Rural housing insurance fund program account:                                                                   
104-       Section 502 direct loans............................        5,000,000         5,000,000   ................  
104-       Section 504 housing repair loans....................        1,500,000         1,500,000   ................  
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Subtotal, rural housing insurance fund program                                                            
              account..........................................        6,500,000         6,500,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
104-   Very low-income housing repair grants...................        1,100,000         1,100,000   ................  
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, Rural Housing and Community Development                                                            
              Service..........................................        7,600,000         7,600,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
                        Rural Utilities Service                                                                        
                                                                                                                       
104-   Emergency community water assistance program............        5,000,000   ................       -5,000,000   
104-   Rural utilities assistance program......................        6,000,000        11,000,000        +5,000,000   
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, rural utilities service....................       11,000,000        11,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter I: New budget (obligational)                                                               
              authority........................................      148,600,000       156,114,000        +7,514,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                              CHAPTER II                                                                               
                                                                                                                       
                        DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                  Economic Development Administration                                                                  
                                                                                                                       
       Economic development assistance programs................  ................       16,500,000       +16,500,000   
                                                                                                                       
            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration                                                            
                                                                                                                       
104-   Construction............................................       10,000,000        10,000,000   ................  
                                                                                                                       
                            RELATED AGENCY                                                                             
                                                                                                                       
                     Small Business Administration                                                                     
                                                                                                                       
       Disaster loans program account:                                                                                 
104-       Direct loans subsidy................................       69,700,000        69,700,000   ................  
104-       Administrative expenses.............................       30,300,000        30,300,000   ................  
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, disaster loans program account.............      100,000,000       100,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter II: New budget (obligational)                                                              
              authority........................................      110,000,000       126,500,000       +16,500,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                              CHAPTER III                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
                     DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL                                                                      
                                                                                                                       
                        DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                       Corps of Engineers--Civil                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
104-   Flood control and coastal emergencies...................      135,000,000       135,000,000   ................  
104-   Operation and maintenance, general......................       30,000,000        30,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, Department of Defense--Civil...............      165,000,000       165,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
                      DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                         Bureau of Reclamation                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
104-   Construction program....................................       18,000,000        18,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter III: New budget (obligational)                                                             
              authority........................................      183,000,000       183,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
                              CHAPTER IV                                                                               
                                                                                                                       
                      DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                       Bureau of Land Management                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
104-   Construction and access.................................        4,242,000         5,000,000          +758,000   
104-   Oregon and California grant lands.......................       19,548,000        35,000,000       +15,452,000   
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, Bureau of Land Management..................       23,790,000        40,000,000       +16,210,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                       Fish and Wildlife Service                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
104-   Construction............................................       20,505,000        32,000,000       +11,495,000   
                                                                                                                       
                         National Park Service                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
104-   Construction............................................       33,601,000        47,000,000       +13,399,000   
                                                                                                                       
                    United States Geological Survey                                                                    
                                                                                                                       
104-   Surveys, investigations and research....................        1,176,000         2,000,000          +824,000   
                                                                                                                       
                       Bureau of Indian Affairs                                                                        
                                                                                                                       
104-   Operations of Indian programs...........................          500,000           500,000   ................  
104-   Construction............................................        9,428,000        16,500,000        +7,072,000   
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, Bureau of Indian Affairs...................        9,928,000        17,000,000        +7,072,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                 Territorial and International Affairs                                                                 
                                                                                                                       
104-   Assistance to territories...............................        2,000,000        13,000,000       +11,000,000   
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, Department of the Interior.................       91,000,000       151,000,000       +60,000,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                            Forest Service                                                                             
                                                                                                                       
104-   National forest system..................................       20,000,000        26,600,000        +6,600,000   
104-   Construction............................................       60,000,000        60,800,000          +800,000   
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, Forest Service.............................       80,000,000        87,400,000        +7,400,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter IV: New budget (obligational)                                                              
              authority........................................      171,000,000       238,400,000       +67,400,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                               CHAPTER V                                                                               
                                                                                                                       
                     1DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION                                                                     
                                                                                                                       
                    Federal Highway Administration                                                                     
                                                                                                                       
104-   Federal-aid highways (highway trust fund): (Exempt                                                              
        obligations)...........................................     (267,000,000)     (300,000,000)      (+3,000,000)  
                                                                                                                       
                    Federal Railroad Administration                                                                    
                                                                                                                       
       Local rail freight assistance...........................  ................       10,000,000       +10,000,000   
                                                                                                                       
                    Federal Transit Administration                                                                     
                                                                                                                       
104-   Mass transit capital fund (highway trust fund):                                                                 
        (liquidation of contract authorization)................     (375,000,000)     (375,000,000)  ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter V:                                                                                         
                 New budget (obligational) authority...........  ................       10,000,000       +10,000,000   
                     (Exempt obligations)......................     (267,000,000)     (300,000,000)     (+33,000,000)  
                     (Liquidation of contract authorization)...     (375,000,000)     (375,000,000)  ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
                              CHAPTER VI                                                                               
                                                                                                                       
              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT                                                              
                                                                                                                       
                  Community Planning and Development                                                                   
                                                                                                                       
       Community development grants............................  ................      100,000,000      +100,000,000   
                                                                                                                       
                          INDEPENDENT AGENCY                                                                           
                                                                                                                       
                  Federal Emergency Management Agency                                                                  
                                                                                                                       
       Disaster relief.........................................  ................      150,000,000      +150,000,000   
       Disaster assistance direct loan program account:                                                                
104-       Community disaster loan.............................      103,729,000   ................     -103,729,000   
104-           (Limitation on direct loans)....................     (118,874,000)  ................    (-118,874,000)  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter VI:                                                                                        
                 New budget (obligational) authority...........      103,729,000       250,000,000      +146,271,000   
                     (Limitation on direct loans)..............     (118,874,000)  ................    (-118,874,000)  
                                                                                  =====================================
                              CHAPTER VII                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
                     BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE                                                                     
                                                                                                                       
                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT                                                                  
                                                                                                                       
                 Agency for International Development                                                                  
                                                                                                                       
104-   Assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.....      200,000,000       200,000,000   ................  
                                                                                                                       
                          MILITARY ASSISTANCE                                                                          
                                                                                                                       
                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT                                                                  
                                                                                                                       
104-   Foreign Military Assistance Program: Grants.............      140,000,000        70,000,000       -70,000,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter VII: New budget (obligational)                                                             
              authority........................................      340,000,000       270,000,000       -70,000,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                             CHAPTER VIII                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                          Military Personnel                                                                           
                                                                                                                       
104-   Military personnel, Army................................      244,400,000       244,400,000   ................  
104-   Military personnel, Navy................................       11,700,000        11,700,000   ................  
104-   Military personnel, Marine Corps........................        2,600,000         2,600,000   ................  
104-   Military personnel, Air Force...........................       27,300,000        27,300,000   ................  
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, military personnel.........................      286,000,000       286,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
                       Operation and Maintenance                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
104-   Operation and maintenance, Army.........................       48,200,000       195,000,000      +146,800,000   
104-   Operation and maintenance, Marine Corps.................          900,000           900,000   ................  
104-   Operation and maintenance, Air Force....................      141,600,000       190,000,000       +48,400,000   
104-   Operation and maintenance, Defense-Wide.................       79,800,000        79,800,000   ................  
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, operation and maintenance..................      270,500,000       465,700,000      +195,200,000   
                                                                                  =====================================
                              Procurement                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
104-   Other procurement, Air Force............................       26,000,000        26,000,000   ................  
                                                                                                                       
                          General Provisions                                                                           
                                                                                                                       
104-   Additional transfer authority (sec. 8005)...............   (1,000,000,000)     (300,000,000)    (-700,000,000)  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter VIII:                                                                                      
                 New budget (obligational) authority...........      582,500,000       777,700,000      +195,200,000   
                     (Additional transfer authority)...........   (1,000,000,000)     (300,000,000)    (-700,000,000)  
                                                                                  =====================================
                              CHAPTER IX                                                                               
                                                                                                                       
                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
104-   North Atlantic Treaty Organization infrastructure.......       37,500,000        37,500,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter IX: New budget (obligational)                                                              
              authority........................................       37,500,000        37,500,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
                               CHAPTER X                                                                               
                                                                                                                       
                              RESCISSIONS                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE                                                                         
                                                                                                                       
                              Procurement                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
104-   Missile procurement, Air Force (rescission).............     -310,000,000      -310,000,000   ................  
104-   Other procurement, Air Force............................     -265,000,000      -265,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  -------------------------------------
             Total, procurement................................     -575,000,000      -575,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
              Research, Development, Test and Evaluation                                                               
                                                                                                                       
104-   Research, development, test and evaluation, Air Force                                                           
        (rescission)...........................................     -245,000,000      -245,000,000   ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Total, chapter X: Rescissions.....................    (-820,000,000)    (-820,000,000)  ................  
                                                                                  =====================================
             Grand total, title II:                                                                                    
                 New budget (obligational) authority...........      856,329,000     1,229,214,000      +372,885,000   
                     Appropriations............................   (1,676,329,000)   (2,049,214,000)    (+372,885,000)  
                     Rescissions...............................    (-820,000,000)    (-820,000,000)  ................  
                     (Exempt obligations)......................     (267,000,000)     (300,000,000)     (+33,000,000)  
                     (Liquidation of contract authorization)...     (375,000,000)     (375,000,000)  ................  
                     (Limitation on direct loans)..............     (118,874,000)  ................    (-118,874,000)  
       ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                  TITLE III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                  Voluntary Family Planning Assistance

    Sec. 3001. The Committee strongly objects to the egregious 
restrictions placed on family planning programs in the last 
continuing resolution. The Senate accepted these restrictions 
to avert another Government shutdown. Under current law, 
therefore, no funding for family planning programs will be 
provided until July 1 of this year, and thereafter, a reduced 
level of funding will be apportioned on a monthly basis for 15 
months, creating an effective cut of 86 percent in this fiscal 
year.
    Such harsh treatment is not accorded to any other program 
in the Foreign Operations Act, and to few others under the 
purview of this entire Committee. It is based on several 
fundamental misconceptions about the relationship between 
pregnancy, the health of women and the well-being of their 
children in developing countries, and it singles out for 
punishment the neediest women and children in the world.
    Though the provision was written with an ostensibly prolife 
view, the terrible irony is that it will result in, at a 
minimum, hundreds of thousands more abortions and tens of 
thousands of deaths among women and young children, annually.
    Couples in developing countries who do not have access to 
family planning services experience unintended pregnancies 
repeatedly and in close succession. When these pregnancies are 
carried to term, the health of mothers, unborn children and 
young children suffers--too often to the point of death. 
Unintended pregnancies not carried to term frequently have 
ended through abortion. The restrictions on family planning 
funding in current law guarantee these outcomes.
    The provision regarding family planning in this bill seeks 
to remedy this serious problem through a Presidential 
determination. If the President determines and reports to the 
Congress that the restrictions in current law will result in 
significantly more abortions as well as a greater unmet need 
for family planning services, the restrictions will be 
nullified.
    Sec. 3002. The Committee recommendation includes a 
provision which amends the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act to 
increase flexibility in providing assistance to persons harmed 
by fisheries disasters. Greater flexibility in the program is 
intended to increase efficiencies and broaden participation in 
responding to fisheries disasters.

                    Bonneville Power Administration

    Sec. 3003. The Bonneville Power Administration [BPA] 
markets electric power produced by Federal hydroelectric 
projects in the Pacific Northwest and provides electric power 
transmission services over certain federally owned transmission 
facilities. Among other obligations, BPA establishes rates to 
repay to the U.S. Treasury the Federal taxpayers' investments 
in these hydroelectric projects and transmission facilities 
made primarily through annual and no-year appropriations. Since 
the early 1980's, subsidy criticisms have been directed at the 
relatively low interest rates applicable to many of these 
Federal Columbia River Power System [FCRPS] investments. The 
purpose of section 3003 is to resolve permanently the subsidy 
criticisms in a way that benefits the taxpayer while minimizing 
the impact on BPA's power and transmission rates.
    The legislation recommended by the Committee accomplishes 
this purpose by resetting the principal of BPA's outstanding 
repayment obligations at an amount that is $100,000,000 greater 
than the present value of the principal and interest BPA would 
have paid in the absence of this section 3003 on the 
outstanding appropriated investments in the FCRPS. The interest 
rates applicable to the reset principal amounts are based on 
the U.S. Treasury's borrowing costs in effect at the time the 
principal is reset. The resetting of the repayment obligations 
is effective October 1, 1996, coincident with the beginning of 
BPA's next rate period.
    While section 3003 increases BPA's repayment obligations, 
and consequently will increase the rates BPA charges its 
ratepayers, it also provides assurance to BPA ratepayers that 
the Government will not further increase these obligations in 
the future. By eliminating the exposure to such increases, the 
legislation substantially improves the ability of BPA to 
maintain its customer base, and to make future payments to the 
U.S. Treasury on time and in full. Since section 3003 will 
cause both BPA's rates and its cash transfers to the U.S. 
Treasury to increase, it will aid in reducing the Federal 
budget deficit by an estimated $89,000,000 over the current 
budget window.
    Sec. 3004. The Committee has included a provision 
clarifying that funds provided under the Federal Transit 
Administration's discretionary grants program for the County of 
Kauai in the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 appropriations acts 
shall be available for operating expenses, consistent with the 
directives of the Committee reports accompanying those two 
bills.
    Sec. 3005. The Committee has included a provision to permit 
the State of Vermont to use funds apportioned to it under the 
Surface Transportation Program [STP] and the Congestion 
Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement [CMAQ] Program for rail 
passenger services. Beginning in fiscal year 1997 and 
thereafter, Vermont may use up to 50 percent of its STP funds 
for operating costs of passenger rail services. Vermont also 
may use up to 50 percent of its CMAQ funds for operating costs 
of passenger rail services beginning in fiscal year 1996, and 
thereafter.
                  TITLE IV--CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

    The President vetoed three of the 1996 annual 
appropriations bills, in part, because he said that they did 
not provide sufficient funding for his priorities. Those bill 
were: the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the 
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (H.R. 
2076); the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1996 (H.R. 1977); and the Departments of 
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (H.R. 2099). In 
addition, the President has indicated that the funding levels 
of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (H.R. 
2127), as passed the House of Representatives in August 1995 
and reported to the Senate in September 1995 were inadequate 
for his priorities.
    In order to expedite resolution of the outstanding issues 
relating to 1996 appropriations, the Committee recommends 
inclusion of this title. These amounts are in addition to those 
contained elsewhere in this act. The Committee emphasizes that 
the amounts recommended in this title become available only 
upon the enactment into law of a subsequent act incorporating 
an agreement between the President and Congress relative to 
Federal expenditures in fiscal year 1996 and future fiscal 
years. Language to this effect is contained at the end of the 
title.

                               CHAPTER 1

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED 
                                AGENCIES

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

             National Institute of Standards and Technology

                     industrial technology services

    In addition to funds provided elsewhere in this act, the 
Committee recommends $235,000,000 for continuation grants under 
the Advanced Technology Program [ATP]. This recommendation is 
based upon February 15, 1996, Department of Commerce estimates 
of the cost of financing continuation grants plus 
administration for all fiscal year 1995 and prior-year ATP 
awards net of available carryover balances. The President's 
initial budget request for ATP was $490,939,000. The conference 
report provided no new funding in fiscal year 1996 for ATP.

                       Technology Administration

       under secretary for technology/office of technology policy

                         salaries and expenses

    In addition to funds provided either previously through 
reprogramming actions or elsewhere in this act, the Committee 
recommends $2,000,000 to support the United States-Israel 
Science and Technology Commission. On December 15, 1995, the 
Committee approved a Department of Commerce reprogramming 
request to shift $2,000,000 from fiscal year 1995 carryover 
balances in the International Trade Administration to this 
account to cover the Commerce Department's participation in the 
Commission's activities. The total U.S. Government contribution 
to this program is to be $15,000,000 over a 3-year period 
(fiscal year 1995 through fiscal year 1997). The fiscal year 
1996 budget request for this account included $1,920,000 for 
this program.

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                   Administration of Foreign Affairs

           security and maintenance of united states missions

    In addition to funds provided elsewhere in this act, the 
Committee recommends $8,500,000 for this account. Even with 
these additional funds, funding for this account would remain 
$28,000,000 below the request. These additional funds are to be 
used to address the backlog of maintenance requests currently 
estimated at more than $400,000,000. No funding for any new 
construction projects is provided.

              International Organizations and Conferences

              contributions to international organizations

    In addition to $700,000,000 of funding provided elsewhere 
in this act, the Committee recommends $223,000,000 to this 
account to pay the costs assessed to the United States for 
membership in 50 international organizations. This funding 
level is consistent with the President's request. Funds are 
provided under the same terms and conditions as stipulated 
elsewhere in this act.

        contributions for international peacekeeping activities

    In addition to funds provided elsewhere in this act and 
under the same terms and conditions, the Committee recommends 
$215,000,000 for this account. This funding level is consistent 
with the administration's most recent request.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                       Legal Services Corporation

               payment to the legal services corporation

    In addition, to funds provided elsewhere in this act, the 
Committee recommendation includes an additional $9,000,000 for 
the Legal Services Corporation. This recommendation would bring 
the total level of funding for the provision of legal services 
up to $309,000,000, consistent with the administration's most 
recent request.

                               CHAPTER 2

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                       payments in lieu of taxes

    The Committee recommends an additional $12,500,000, 
bringing the total for this account to $114,000,000. Use of the 
funds is to be guided by the joint explanatory statement of the 
committee of conference (H. Rept. 104-402) accompanying H.R. 
1977.

                         National Park Service

                 operations of the national park system

    The Committee recommends an additional $35,000,000, 
bringing the total for the account to $1,121,014,000. The use 
of the additional funds is to be guided by the joint 
explanatory statement of the committee of conference (H. Rept. 
104-402) accompanying H.R. 1977.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                      operation of indian programs

    The Committee recommends an additional $35,000,000, 
bringing the total for this account to $1,419,434,000. The 
additional funding is for tribal priority allocations and use 
of the funds is to be guided by the joint explanatory statement 
of the committee of conference (H. Rept. 104-402) accompanying 
H.R. 1977.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                          energy conservation

    The Committee recommends an additional $35,000,000, 
bringing the total for this account to $588,293,000. The 
additional funding is for the Weatherization Assistance Program 
and the State Energy Conservation Program and use of the funds 
is to be guided by the joint explanatory statement of the 
committee of conference (H. Rept. 104-402) accompanying H.R. 
1977.

                               CHAPTER 3

  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

    Chapter 3 includes $3,300,000,000 in additional amounts for 
programs in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, funded in title I of this act as shown 
on the following table:

                      ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR PROGRAMS                     
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  Amount included in                    
             Program                   chapter 3             Total      
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Department of Labor:                                                    
    School-to-Work..............         $91,000,000        $186,000,000
    Dislocated Workers..........         333,000,000       1,200,000,000
    One Stop Career Centers.....          18,000,000         110,000,000
    Summer Youth Jobs...........         635,000,000         635,000,000
    Adult Job Training..........         154,300,000         900,000,000
    Department of Labor                                                 
     Termination Costs..........          12,000,000          12,000,000
Department of Health and Human                                          
 Services:                                                              
    Head Start..................         136,700,000       3,534,129,000
    Ryan White CARE Act, Title                                          
     II.........................          52,000,000         250,147,000
    National Health Service                                             
     Corps......................           3,256,000         118,256,000
    Substance Abuse Block Grant.          34,107,000       1,234,107,000
    Substance Abuse Treatment                                           
     Demonstrations.............          50,000,000         140,000,000
    Substance Abuse Prevention                                          
     Demonstrations.............          50,000,000         140,000,000
Department of Education:                                                
    Goals 2000..................          60,000,000         350,000,000
    Title I:                                                            
        Basis State Grants......       1,022,230,000       5,968,235,000
        Concentration Grants....         256,657,000         806,602,000
    Drug Free Schools...........         200,000,000         400,000,000
    School-to-Work..............          91,000,000         186,000,000
    Charter Schools.............           8,000,000          16,000,000
    Educational Technology......          10,000,000          35,000,000
    Vocational Education Basic                                          
     Grants.....................          82,750,000         972,750,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    These funds have been requested by the administration, and 
in the view of the Committee, are necessary for maintaining 
important labor, health and human services, and education 
programs.
    In addition, chapter 3 includes language which raises the 
maximum Pell grant to a level of $2,500 for fiscal year 1996.

                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

    The Committee recognizes that the amounts included in title 
I of this bill may not be sufficient to avoid reductions in 
force in some Labor Department agencies, and has, therefore, 
included $10,000,000 in the event additional amounts are needed 
for terminal leave, severance pay, and other costs directly 
related to the reduction of the number of employees in the 
Department. An additional $2,000,000 has also been included for 
the Benefits Review Board to partially offset a reduction due 
to a financing change.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

    The Committee has included additional funds for title II of 
the Ryan White CARE Act to support State AIDS drug assistance 
programs. Newly approved drug therapies are rapidly becoming 
standards of care and have placed additional demands on already 
strained drug assistance programs in many States.

                               CHAPTER 4

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

                     DEPARTMENTOF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                      Departmental Administration

                      Construction, Major Projects

    The Committee recommends an additional appropriation of 
$16,000,000 for construction, major projects. These funds are 
provided to augment funding made available in fiscal year 1995 
for the Portland, OR, VA medical center research addition.

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                            Housing Programs

               annual contributions for assisted housing

    The Committee recommends a supplemental appropriation of 
$200,000,000 for two assisted housing programs. For elderly 
housing authorized under section 202 of the Housing Act of 
1959, $150,000,000; and an additional $50,000,000 for housing 
for the disabled authorized under section 811 of the Cranston-
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act. The Departments of 
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996, 
included in title I of this act, provides sufficient resources 
to maintain the fiscal year 1995 level of housing production, 
in fiscal year 1996. In the Emergency Supplemental and 
Rescission Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-19) Congress provided 
greater flexibility in the terms and conditions associated with 
these forms of housing assistance to permit and stimulate 
innovation in providing housing opportunities for the elderly 
and handicapped. Legislative provisions extending this 
flexibility are included in the regular fiscal year 1996 
Appropriations act to promote such innovation and efficiencies, 
while maintaining the aggregate number of new subsidized 
housing units.
    The Committee's recommendations reflected a growing concern 
over future year budgetary constraints which limit 
appropriations to maintain rental subsidies for this expanding 
inventory of federally assisted housing units. Failure to 
increase such funding to meet cost growth due to inflation as 
well as the cumulative numbers of units under subsidy threaten 
the long-term viability of this important community resource. 
In the face of these budgetary constraints, the Committee was 
forced to conclude that increasing the rate of development of 
new subsidized units only would further jeopardize the 
viability of all such units in the inventory. Until the 
effectiveness of new cost reduction efforts and innovative 
financing proposals are demonstrated, well meaning attempts to 
increase new unit production may prove disastrous to the 
estimated 350,000 units of elderly and handicapped housing 
units already available for these needy families and 
individuals.
    The Committee recommendation, therefore, maintains the 
previously enacted production levels of 9,654 elderly and 2,915 
disabled units, and directs that these additional funds be 
applied to extending the term of rental subsidy support of 
these additional units. This augmentation will expand the 
number of options available to project sponsors in securing 
permanent financing of affordable rental housing necessary to 
serve these priority populations.

public housing demolition, site revitalization, and replacement housing 
                                 grants

    The Committee recommends a supplemental appropriation of 
$120,000,000 to accelerate the demolition of obsolete and 
distressed public housing developments. The Committee 
recommendation for title I of this act includes $380,000,000 
for this program, an increase of $100,000,000 over the original 
amount included in the conference agreement on the regular 
appropriations bill for fiscal year 1996. The additional amount 
recommended in this title will provide a total amount of 
$500,000,000 for this critical activity, maintaining the fiscal 
year 1995 program level.

          payment for operation of low-income housing projects

    The Committee recommendation includes a supplemental 
appropriation of $50,000,000 for public housing operating 
subsidies. Because of budgetary constraints on overall 
discretionary spending, the Committee has not been able to 
fully fund amounts necessary to maintain and operate public 
housing developments as calculated by the performance funding 
system [PFS] which is intended to match annual costs of 
providing affordable housing in accordance with mandated 
Federal requirements. In recent years these operating subsidies 
have fallen from 95 percent of the calculated amount to 89 
percent in the fiscal year 1996 appropriation included in title 
I of this act. Such shortfalls require even very well managed 
housing authorities to deplete their operating reserves, defer 
maintenance, or otherwise limit services and activities 
required for proper management of housing developments which 
represent an estimated $90,000,000,000 in prior-year Federal 
capital investment.
    In the face of increasing constraints on discretionary 
spending, which preclude more adequate ongoing operating 
support, the Committee has initiated a number of strategies 
designed to reduce Federal regulatory constraints on local 
housing authorities and to maximize flexibility in adoption of 
more efficient housing management policies and practices. While 
the Committee has urged these housing authorities to 
aggressively implement such cost-saving efforts, the long-term 
nature of housing tenure and real estate management activities 
allow for only incremental changes in their cost structure. The 
supplemental funding recommended herein will more adequately 
reflect the time necessary, inherent to this industry, to 
revise operating policies, and to transition to more efficient 
management practices.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Environmental Protection Agency

                 ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT

    The Committee recommends an additional $12,000,000 above 
the amount provided in title I for environmental programs and 
management, for a total of $1,602,300,000. At a January 26, 
1996, hearing before the Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Subcommittee, the agency indicated that $52,000,000 is the 
amount necessary to prevent agency furloughs without reductions 
to ongoing contractual activities. The amount provided in this 
title, together with the $40,000,000 added to this account 
above the conference level in title I, meets that important 
requirement.

                        Buildings and Facilities

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $50,000,000 
for buildings and facilities, in addition to funds provided in 
title I of this act. These funds are provided for the first 
phase of construction of a replacement laboratory facility in 
Research Triangle Park, NC. The Committee also recommends 
language authorizing EPA to construct this facility.

                   state and tribal assistance grants

    The Committee recommends an additional $100,000,000 above 
the amount provided in title I for State and tribal assistance 
grants, for a total of $2,523,000,000. The additional funds are 
for water infrastructure financing, of which $50,000,000 is for 
clean water State revolving funds and $50,000,000 is for 
drinking water State revolving funds, if authorized by June 1, 
1996. If an authorization for the drinking water State 
revolving funds is not enacted by June 1, 1996, these funds 
shall become available immediately for clean water State 
revolving funds.
    The Committee notes that the total amount available for 
State revolving funds, together with $225,000,000 of carryover 
funds, would be $1,825,000,000. This is an increase of 
$590,000,000 above the amount available in 1995.
    These funds will help reduce the substantial backlog of 
water and waste water facility construction requirements 
nationwide.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

                   Space, Aeronautics, and Technology

    The Committee recommends a supplemental appropriation of 
$83,000,000 to restore general reductions made in the 
appropriation for space, aeronautics, and technology activities 
reflected in the conference agreement included in title I of 
this act. These unspecified reductions were required to address 
overall constraints on discretionary activities, and are not 
reflective of assessments of specific project merit or 
priority. The reductions restored by this supplemental include 
the $33,000,000 general reduction in this account; $20,000,000 
from life and mirogravity science; and $30,000,000 from 
aeronautical research and technology. The Committee reaffirms 
its direction that any residual program-specific reduction 
required by the funding level for this account, or other 
proposed resource reallocations, be subject to standard 
operating plan requirements and reprogramming procedures.
    The Committee is very concerned over the recent decision by 
NASA to close the National Wind Tunnel Program Office. While 
very cognizant of the multiyear budgetary constraints which 
precipitated this action, the Committee remains resolute in its 
commitment to pursuing development of critically needed 
research and technology development facilities necessary to 
maintain U.S. leadership in aeronautics. This reversal of a 
previously initiated, and broadly supported, policy initiative 
should not be simply abandoned without a thorough examination 
of alternatives and appropriate public discussion.

                      National Science Foundation

                    Research and Related Activities

    The Committee recommends a supplemental appropriation of 
$40,000,000 for basic research grants of the National Science 
Foundation. This account reflects the Nation's commitment to 
the value of merit-reviewed, competitive research of a 
fundamental nature, largely conducted by university-based 
scientists and engineers. The Committee recommendation will 
better enable the Foundation to address inflation-related cost 
increases associated with these vital activities necessary to 
provide the basis for future technology development and 
economic growth.

   COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1995 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND   
                              AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996                              
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                                                                                                Senate committee
                                                                                                 recommendation 
                                                            Supplemental        Committee        compared with  
                                                              request         recommendation      supplemental  
                                                                                                request (+ or -)
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                        TITLE IV                                                                                
                                                                                                                
               CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATIONS                                                                       
                                                                                                                
                       CHAPTER I                                                                                
                                                                                                                
                 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE                                                                         
                                                                                                                
     National Institute of Standards and Technology                                                             
                                                                                                                
Industrial technology services.........................  .................      $235,000,000      +$235,000,000 
                                                                                                                
               Technology Administration                                                                        
                                                                                                                
Salaries and expenses..................................  .................         2,500,000         +2,500,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Department of Commerce....................  .................       237,500,000       +237,500,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                  DEPARTMENT OF STATE                                                                           
                                                                                                                
           Administration of Foreign Affairs                                                                    
                                                                                                                
Security and maintenance of United States missions.....  .................         8,500,000         +8,500,000 
                                                                                                                
      International Organizations and Conferences                                                               
                                                                                                                
Contributions to international organizations, current                                                           
 year assessment.......................................  .................       223,000,000       +223,000,000 
Contributions for international peacekeeping                                                                    
 activities, current year assessment...................  .................       215,000,000       +215,000,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, international organizations and                                                                    
       conferences.....................................  .................       438,000,000       +438,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                    RELATED AGENCIES                                                                            
                                                                                                                
               Legal Services Corporation                                                                       
                                                                                                                
Payment to the Legal Services Corporation..............  .................         9,000,000         +9,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
      Total, chapter I: New budget (obligational)                                                               
       authority.......................................  .................       693,000,000       +693,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                       CHAPTER II                                                                               
                                                                                                                
               DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                                                                       
                                                                                                                
               Bureau of Land Management                                                                        
                                                                                                                
Payment in lieu of taxes...............................  .................        12,500,000        +12,500,000 
                                                                                                                
                 National Park Service                                                                          
                                                                                                                
Operation of the national park system..................  .................        35,000,000        +35,000,000 
                                                                                                                
                Bureau of Indian Affairs                                                                        
                                                                                                                
Operation of Indian programs...........................  .................        35,000,000        +35,000,000 
                                                                                                                
                  DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                                                          
                                                                                                                
Energy conservation....................................  .................        35,000,000        +35,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
      Total, chapter II: New budget (obligational)                                                              
       authority.......................................  .................       117,500,000       +117,500,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                      CHAPTER III                                                                               
                                                                                                                
                  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR                                                                           
                                                                                                                
         Employment and Training Administration                                                                 
                                                                                                                
Training and employment services.......................  .................     1,213,300,000     +1,213,300,000 
State unemployment insurance and employment service                                                             
 operations............................................  .................        18,000,000        +18,000,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Employment and Training Administration....  .................     1,231,300,000     +1,231,300,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                Departmental Management                                                                         
                                                                                                                
Salaries and expenses..................................  .................        12,000,000        +12,000,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Department of Labor.......................  .................     1,243,300,000     +1,243,300,000 
                                                        ========================================================
        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES                                                                 
                                                                                                                
      Health Resources and Services Administration                                                              
                                                                                                                
Program operations.....................................  .................        55,256,000        +55,256,000 
                                                                                                                
       Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services                                                               
                     Administration                                                                             
                                                                                                                
Substance abuse and mental health services.............  .................       134,107,000       +134,107,000 
Administration for Children and Families: Children and                                                          
 families services programs............................  .................       136,700,000       +136,700,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Department of Health and Human Services...  .................       326,063,000       +326,063,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION                                                                         
                                                                                                                
Education reform.......................................  .................       151,000,000       +151,000,000 
Compensatory education for the disadvantaged...........  .................     1,278,887,000     +1,278,887,000 
School improvement programs............................  .................       208,000,000       +208,000,000 
Vocational and adult education.........................  .................        82,750,000        +82,750,000 
Education research, statistics, and improvement........  .................        10,000,000        +10,000,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Department of Education...................  .................     1,730,637,000     +1,730,637,000 
                                                        ========================================================
      Total, chapter III: New budget (obligational)                                                             
       authority.......................................  .................     3,300,000,000     +3,300,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                       CHAPTER IV                                                                               
                                                                                                                
             DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS                                                                     
                                                                                                                
              Departmental Administration                                                                       
                                                                                                                
Construction, major projects...........................  .................        16,000,000        +16,000,000 
                                                                                                                
      DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT                                                               
                                                                                                                
                    Housing Programs                                                                            
                                                                                                                
Annual contributions for assisted housing..............  .................       200,000,000       +200,000,000 
Public housing demolition, site revitalization, and                                                             
 replacement housing grants............................  .................       120,000,000       +120,000,000 
Payments for operation of low-income housing projects..  .................        50,000,000        +50,000,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Housing and Urban Development.............  .................       386,000,000       +386,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
                  INDEPENDENT AGENCIES                                                                          
                                                                                                                
            Environmental Protection Agency                                                                     
                                                                                                                
Environmental programs and management..................  .................        12,000,000        +12,000,000 
Buildings and facilities...............................  .................        50,000,000        +50,000,000 
State and tribal assistance grants.....................  .................       100,000,000       +100,000,000 
                                                        --------------------------------------------------------
      Total, Environmental Protection Agency...........  .................       162,000,000       +162,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
     National Aeronautics and Space Administration                                                              
                                                                                                                
Space, aeronautics and technology......................  .................        83,000,000        +83,000,000 
                                                                                                                
              National Science Foundation                                                                       
                                                                                                                
Research and related activities........................  .................        40,000,000        +40,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
      Total, chapter IV: New budget (obligational)                                                              
       authority.......................................  .................       671,000,000       +671,000,000 
                                                        ========================================================
      Grand total, title IV: New budget (obligational)                                                          
       authority.......................................  .................     4,781,500,000     +4,781,500,000 
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COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(C), RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, the accompanying 
bill was ordered reported from the Committee, subject to 
amendment and subject to the subcommittee allocations and 
authorizing the chairman to offer a Committee amendment to the 
House companion measure, by recorded vote of 26-2, a quorum 
being present.
        Yeas                          Nays
Chairman Hatfield                   Mr. Lautenberg
Mr. Stevens                         Mr. Kohl
Mr. Cochran
Mr. Specter
Mr. Domenici
Mr. Bond
Mr. Gorton
Mr. McConnell
Mr. Mack
Mr. Burns
Mr. Shelby
Mr. Jeffords
Mr. Gregg
Mr. Bennett
Mr. Campbell
Mr. Byrd
Mr. Inouye
Mr. Hollings
Mr. Johnston
Mr. Leahy
Mr. Bumpers
Mr. Harkin
Ms. Mikulski
Mr. Reid
Mr. Kerrey
Mrs. Murray

 COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 12, RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Paragraph 12 of rule XXVI requires that Committee reports 
on a bill or joint resolution repealing or amending any statute 
or part of any statute include ``(a) the text of the statute or 
part thereof which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a 
comparative print of that part of the bill or joint resolution 
making the amendment and of the statute or part thereof 
proposed to be amended, showing by stricken-through type and 
italics, parallel columns, or other appropriate typographical 
devices the omissions and insertions which would be made by the 
bill or joint resolution if enacted in the form recommended by 
the Committee.''
    In the opinion of the Committee, it is necessary to 
dispense with the requirements of paragraph 12 of rule XXVI to 
expedite the business of the Senate.

                            BUDGETARY IMPACT

    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 that 
authority compares with the reports submitted under section 602 
of the act for the most recently agreed to concurrent 
resolution on the budget for the fiscal year.

                                            SUBCOMMITTEE COMPARISONS                                            
                                            [In millions of dollars]                                            
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                                                                                 Senate 602(b)                  
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
                                                                     Allocation                 This bill       
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
                                                                 Budget                    Budget               
                                                               authority     Outlays     authority     Outlays  
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Commerce, Justice, State:                                                                                       
    Defense.................................................          151          218          151          217
    Nondefense..............................................       22,659       23,762       22,658       23,756
    Violent crime trust fund................................        3,956        2,113        3,956        2,112
    Mandatory...............................................          532          525          532          525
District of Columbia: Nondefense............................          727          727          722          722
Foreign Operations: Nondefense..............................           70           25           70           25
Interior:                                                                                                       
    Nondefense..............................................       12,241       13,215       12,239       13,213
    Mandatory...............................................           65           55           65           55
Labor, HHS, and Education:                                                                                      
    Nondefense..............................................       61,947       68,380       61,965       68,414
    Violent crime trust fund................................           53           44           53           25
    Mandatory...............................................      205,210      205,680      205,210      205,680
Veterans, HUD:                                                                                                  
    Defense.................................................          154          170          153          170
    Nondefense..............................................       61,802       74,270       61,801       74,265
    Mandatory...............................................       19,138       17,688       19,138       17,688
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                    Five-Year Projection of Outlays

    In compliance with section 308(a)(1)(C) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as 
amended, the following table contains 5-year projections 
associated with the budget authority provided in the 
accompanying bill:

                              [In millions]

Budget authority: Fiscal year 1996............................  $347,184
Outlays:
    Fiscal year 1996..........................................   253,338
    Fiscal year 1997..........................................    69,185
    Fiscal year 1998..........................................    18,238
    Fiscal year 1999..........................................     4,972
    Fiscal year 2000 and future years.........................     5,256

               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 is as follows:

                              [In millions]

New budget authority..........................................  $127,308
Fiscal year 1996 outlays......................................   112,785

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