[House Report 105-504]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



105th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     105-504
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MAKING EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING 
               SEPTEMBER 30, 1998, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

                                _______
                                

                 April 30, 1998.--Ordered to be printed

_______________________________________________________________________


    Mr. Livingston, from the committee of conference, submitted the 
                               following

                           CONFERENCE REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 3579]

      The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of 
the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
3579) ``making emergency supplemental appropriations for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes'' 
having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to 
recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as 
follows:
      That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
amendment, as follows:
      In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
amendment, insert:
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes, namely:

 TITLE I--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 
                                DEFENSE

                               CHAPTER 1

                    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

                           MILITARY PERSONNEL

                        Military Personnel, Army

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Army'', 
$184,000,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                        Military Personnel, Navy

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Navy'', 
$22,300,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    Military Personnel, Marine Corps

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Marine 
Corps'', $5,100,000: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                     Military Personnel, Air Force

    For an additional amount for ``Military Personnel, Air 
Force'', $10,900,000: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                        Reserve Personnel, Navy

    For an additional amount for ``Reserve Personnel, Navy'', 
$4,100,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

                    Operation and Maintenance, Army

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Army'', $1,886,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    Operation and Maintenance, Navy

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Navy'', $48,100,000: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                  Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Air Force'', $27,400,000: Provided, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide'', $1,390,000: Provided, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide'', $125,528,000, for emergency expenses resulting 
from natural disasters in the United States: Provided, That the 
Secretary of Defense may transfer these funds to current 
applicable operation and maintenance and working capital funds 
appropriations, to be merged with and available for the same 
purposes and for the same time period as the appropriation to 
which transferred: Provided further, That the transfer 
authority provided in this provision is in addition to any 
transfer authority available to the Department of Defense: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for $125,528,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress.

                Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Army Reserve'', $650,000: Provided, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

              Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Air Force Reserve'', $229,000: Provided, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

             Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard

    For an additional amount for ``Operation and Maintenance, 
Army National Guard'', $175,000: Provided, That such amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

             Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For an additional amount for ``Overseas Contingency 
Operations Transfer Fund'', $1,814,100,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of Defense may transfer these funds to fiscal year 
1998 appropriations for operation and maintenance, working 
capital funds, the Defense Health Program, procurement, and 
research, development, test and evaluation: Provided further, 
That the funds transferred shall be merged with and shall be 
available for the same purposes and for the same time period as 
the appropriation to which transferred, except that funds made 
available for or transferred to classified programs shall 
remain available until September 30, 1999: Provided further, 
That the transfer authority provided under this heading is in 
addition to any other transfer authority contained in Public 
Law 105-56.

                     REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS

                       Navy Working Capital Fund

    For an additional amount for ``Navy Working Capital Fund'', 
$23,017,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                   Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund

    For an additional amount for ``Defense-Wide Working Capital 
Fund'', $1,000,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                  OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS

                         Defense Health Program

    For an additional amount for ``Defense Health Program'', 
$1,900,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Section 1. In addition to the amounts provided in Public 
Law 105-56, $36,500,000 is appropriated under the heading 
``Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid'': Provided, 
That from the funds made available under that heading, the 
Secretary of Defense shall make a grant in the amount of 
$16,500,000 to the American Red Cross for Armed Forces 
emergency services: Provided further, That from the funds made 
available under that heading, the Secretary of Defense shall 
make a grant in the amount of $20,000,000 to the American Red 
Cross for reimbursement for disaster relief and recovery 
expenditures at overseas locations: Provided further, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for $36,500,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 2. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available 
by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence 
activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the 
Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414).
    Sec. 3. In addition to the amounts appropriated to the 
Department of Defense under Public Law 105-56, there is hereby 
appropriated $47,000,000 for the ``Reserve Mobilization Income 
Insurance Fund'', to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That such amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$47,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of 
the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
    Sec. 4. The President is urged to encourage other nations 
who are allies and friends of the United States to contribute 
to the burden being borne by the United States in preventing 
the government of Iraq from using Weapons of Mass Destruction, 
which pose a threat to the world community. The President is 
also urged to seek financial, in-kind and other contributions 
to help defray the costs being incurred by the United States in 
this operation. For this purpose, a special account shall be 
established in the Treasury which will accept such financial 
contributions, and from which funds will be subject to 
obligation through the normal appropriations process. The 
Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the Secretary of 
State, shall provide a report to the Congress within 60 days 
after enactment as to the status of this effort, and shall make 
a comprehensive account of the efforts made and results 
obtained to share the burden of the common defense. The 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall report to 
the Congress within 30 days as to the establishment of such 
burden-sharing account in the Department of the Treasury.


                     (including transfer of funds)


    Sec. 5. (a) Quality Assurance Report on Military Health 
Care.--The Secretary of Defense shall appoint an independent 
panel of experts to evaluate recent measures taken by the 
Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and 
the Surgeons General of the Army, Navy and Air Force to improve 
the quality of care provided by the Military Health Services 
System.
    (b) Membership.--(1) The panel shall be composed of nine 
members appointed by the Secretary of Defense. At least five of 
those members shall be persons who are highly qualified in the 
medical arts, have experience in setting health care standards, 
and possess a demonstrated understanding of the military health 
care system and its unique mission requirements. The remaining 
members shall be persons who are current beneficiaries of the 
Military Health Services System.
    (2) The Secretary shall designate one member to serve as 
chairperson of the panel.
    (3) The Secretary shall appoint the members of this panel 
not later than 45 days after enactment of this Act.
    (c) Functions of the Panel.--The panel shall review the 
Department of Defense Access and Quality Improvement Initiative 
announced in early 1998 (together with other related quality 
improvement actions) to assess whether all reasonable measures 
have been taken to ensure that the Military Health Services 
System delivers health care services in accordance with 
consistently high professional standards. The panel shall 
specifically assess actions of the Department to accomplish the 
following objectives of that initiative and related management 
actions:
            (1) Upgrade professional education and training 
        requirements for military physicians and other health 
        care providers;
            (2) Establish ``Centers of Excellence'' for 
        complicated surgical procedures;
            (3) Make timely and complete reports to the 
        National Practitioner Data Bank and eliminate 
        associated reporting backlogs;
            (4) Assure that Military Health Services System 
        providers are properly licensed and have appropriate 
        credentials;
            (5) Reestablish the Quality Management Report to 
        aid in early identification of compliance problems;
            (6) Improve communications with beneficiaries to 
        provide comprehensive and objective information on the 
        quality of care being provided;
            (7) Strengthen the National Quality Management 
        Program;
            (8) Ensure that all laboratory work meets 
        professional standards; and
            (9) Ensure the accuracy of patient data and 
        information.
    (d) Report.--Not later than six months after the date on 
which the panel is established, the panel shall submit to the 
Secretary a report setting forth its findings and conclusions, 
and the reasons therefor, and such recommendations it deems 
appropriate. The Secretary shall forward the report of the 
panel to Congress not later than 15 days after the date on 
which the Secretary receives it, together with the Secretary's 
comments on the report.
    (e) Panel Administration.--(1) The members of the panel 
shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, at rates authorized by law for employees of 
agencies while away from their homes or regular places of 
business in the performance of services for the panel.
    (2) Upon request of the chairperson of the panel, the 
Secretary of Defense may detail to the panel, on a 
nonreimbursable basis, personnel of the Department of Defense 
to assist the panel in carrying out its duties. The Secretary 
of Defense shall furnish to the panel such administrative and 
support services as may be requested by the chairman of the 
panel.
    (f) Panel Financing.--Of the funds appropriated in Public 
Law 105-56 for ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Navy'', $4,700,000 shall be transferred to ``Defense Health 
Program'', to be available through fiscal year 1999, only for 
administrative costs of this panel and for the express purpose 
of initiating or accelerating any activity identified by the 
panel that will improve the quality of health care provided by 
the Military Health Services System.


                          (transfer of funds)


    Sec. 6. Of the funds appropriated in Public Law 105-56, 
under the heading ``Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, 
Defense'' for Operation and maintenance, $40,000,000 shall be 
transferred to ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide''.
    Sec. 7. (a) Congress urges the President to seek 
concurrence among the members of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization (NATO) on arrangements that set forth--
            (1) the benchmarks for achieving a sustainable 
        peace process that are detailed in the report 
        accompanying the certification that was made by the 
        President to Congress on March 3, 1998;
            (2) estimated target dates for achieving the 
        benchmarks; and
            (3) a process for NATO to review progress toward 
        achieving the benchmarks.
    (b) The President shall submit to Congress--
            (1) not later than June 30, 1998, a report on 
        efforts to gain agreement on arrangements described in 
        subsection (a), and such report should include an 
        explanation of the Administration's view of whether it 
        would promote United States interests to adopt firm 
        schedules or deadlines for achieving such benchmarks; 
        and
            (2) semiannually after that report, so long as 
        United States ground combat forces continue to 
        participate in the Stabilization Force for Bosnia 
        (SFOR), a report on the progress made towardachieving 
the benchmarks referred to in subsection (a)(1), including any 
developments which may affect the ability of the relevant parties to 
achieve the benchmarks in a timely manner.
    (c) The Congress urges the President to ensure that efforts 
to meet the estimated target dates described in this section do 
not jeopardize the safety of United States Armed Forces in 
Bosnia.
    (d) The enactment of this section does not reflect approval 
or disapproval of the benchmarks submitted by the President in 
the certification to Congress transmitted on March 3, 1998.
    Sec. 8. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the 
case of a person who is selected for training in a State 
program conducted under the National Guard Challenge Program 
and who obtains a general education diploma in connection with 
such training, the general education diploma shall be treated 
as equivalent to a high school diploma for purposes of 
determining the eligibility of the person for enlistment in the 
Armed Forces.
    Sec. 9. In addition to the amounts provided in Public Law 
105-56, $179,000,000 is appropriated under the heading 
``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'': 
Provided, That the additional amount shall be made available 
for enhancements to selected theater missile defense programs 
to counter enhanced ballistic missile threats: Provided 
further, That of the additional amount appropriated, 
$45,000,000 shall be made available only for the purpose of 
adjusting the cost-share of the parties under the Agreement 
between the Department of Defense and the Ministry of Defence 
of Israel for the Arrow Deployability Program: Provided 
further, That of the additional amount appropriated, 
$38,000,000 shall be made available only for the Sea-Based Wide 
Area Defense (Navy Upper-Tier) Program: Provided further, That 
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for $179,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    Sec. 10. (a)(1) The Secretary of Defense may enter into a 
lease or acquire any other interest in the parcels of land 
described in paragraph (2). The parcels consist in aggregate of 
approximately 90 acres.
    (2) The parcels of land referred to in paragraph (1) are 
the following land used for the commercial production of 
cranberries:
            (A) The parcels known as the Mashpee bogs, located 
        on the Quashnet River adjacent to the Massachusetts 
        Military Reservation, Massachusetts.
            (B) The parcels known as the Falmouth bogs, located 
        on the Coonamessett River adjacent to the Massachusetts 
        Military Reservation, Massachusetts.
    (3) The term of any lease or other interest acquired under 
paragraph (1) may not exceed two years.
    (4) Any lease or other real property interest acquired 
under paragraph (1) shall be subject to such other terms and 
conditions as are agreed upon jointly by the Secretary and the 
person or entity entering into the lease or extending the 
interest.
    (b) Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 
for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1998, up to 
$2,000,000 may be available to acquire interest under 
subsection (a).
    Sec. 11. In addition to the amounts provided in Public Law 
105-56, $272,500,000 is appropriated under the heading 
``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'': Provided, That the additional 
amount shall be made available only for the procurement of 
eight F/A-18 aircraft for the United StatesMarine Corps: 
Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the 
extent that an official budget request for $272,500,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.
    Sec. 12. Funds appropriated in fiscal year 1997, 1998 and 
hereafter for the Pacific Disaster Center may be obligated to 
carry out such missions as the Secretary of Defense may specify 
for disaster information management supporting mitigation, 
preparedness, response and recovery from this federal facility 
and assuring critical infrastructure availability and 
humanitarian assistance at the federal, state, local and 
regional levels in the geographic area of responsibility of the 
Commander in Chief, Pacific and beyond in support of the Global 
Disaster Information Network as appropriate.


                     (including transfer of funds)


    Sec. 13. Of the funds provided in Public Law 105-56 for 
``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'', $300,000 
shall be transferred to ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide'': Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall make 
grants from the ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' 
account in the total amount of not to exceed $300,000 to the 
Outdoor Odyssey at Roaring Run to initiate a youth development 
and leadership program.
    Sec. 14. Notwithstanding section 7306 of title 10 United 
States Code, and any other provision of law, of the funds made 
available to the Department of the Navy by Public Law 105-56, 
$3,000,000 may be used only for disposal of residual fuel 
contained on the U.S.S. Alabama.
    Sec. 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated for the Defense Health Program for fiscal year 
1998 may be used to provide health benefits under section 1086 
of title 10, United States Code, to a person who is described 
in paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of such section, would be 
eligible for health benefits under such section in the absence 
of such paragraph (1), and satisfies the requirements of 
subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) of such subsection 
(d), if the Secretary of Defense considers that the provision 
of health benefits under such section is appropriate to ensure 
health care coverage for such a person who may have been 
unaware of the termination of the person's eligibility for such 
health benefits.


                     (including transfer of funds)


    Sec. 16. In addition to the amounts provided in Public Law 
105-56, $28,000,000, to remain available until expended, is 
appropriated and shall be available for deposit in the 
International Trust Fund of the Republic of Slovenia, Mine 
Clearance, and Assistance to Mine Victims in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina (the ``Fund'') and other land mine-affected 
countries in the region: Provided, That the entire amount shall 
be available only to the extent an official budget request, for 
a specific dollar amount, that includes a designation of the 
entire amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted to the Congress by the President: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act: Provided further, That the amount 
designated as an emergency shall be transferred to the 
Department of State for administration: Provided further, That 
such amount may be deposited in the Fund in two equal annual 
installments, upon emergency designation, only if the President 
certifies annually to the Congress of the United States that 
such amounts could be used effectively and for objectives 
consistent with ongoing efforts to carry out humanitarian 
demining activities in and around Bosnia: Provided further, 
That such amount may be deposited in the Fund only to the 
extent of deposits of matching amounts in that Fund by other 
governments, entities, or persons.
    Sec. 17. It is the sense of the Congress that none of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may 
be made available for the conduct of offensive operations by 
United States Armed Forces against Iraq for the purpose of 
obtaining compliance by Iraq with United Nations Security 
Council Resolutions relating to inspection and destruction of 
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq unless such operations are 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
    Sec. 18. Cavalese, Italy Air Tragedy.--The United States 
Congress expresses regret and extends its deepest sympathies to 
the families of the victims for the tragic incident involving 
Marine Corps aircraft near Cavalese, Italy on February 3, 1998. 
The Secretary of Defense shall make available on a timely basis 
all legal and other technical assistance necessary to 
facilitate the expeditious processing and resolution of 
legitimate claims for wrongful death, loss of business and 
profits, and property damage under the procedures set forth 
under the NATO Status of Forces Agreement. The Secretary of 
Defense shall ensure that any claim to replace the destroyed 
funicular system before the upcoming winter tourist season be 
considered on a priority basis.

                               CHAPTER 2

              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

               Military Construction, Army National Guard

    For an additional amount for ``Military Construction, Army 
National Guard'' to cover costs arising from storm related 
damage, $3,700,000, to be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for a specific dollar amount that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                 Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps

    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Navy and 
Marine Corps'' to cover costs arising from Typhoon Paka related 
damage, $15,600,000: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Navy and 
Marine Corps'' to cover costs arising from El Nino related 
damage, $2,500,000, to be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for a specific dollar amount that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       Family Housing, Air Force

    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Air Force'' 
to cover costs arising from Typhoon Paka related damage, 
$1,500,000: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    For an additional amount for ``Family Housing, Air Force'' 
to cover costs arising from El Nino related damage, $900,000, 
to be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for a specific dollar amount that includes designation 
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
as defined in the Balanced Budget andEmergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

             Base Realignment and Closure Account, Part III

    For an additional amount for ``Base Realignment and Closure 
Account, Part III'' to cover costs arising from El Nino related 
damage, $1,020,000, to be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for a specific dollar amount that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                    GENERAL PROVISION--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 20. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, using 
amounts appropriated in Public Law 104-196 for ``Military 
Construction, Navy'', for the military construction project for 
North Island Naval Air Station, California, and contributions 
(if any) provided by the State of California and local 
governments to support that project, the Secretary of the Navy, 
in cooperation with local governments, shall carry out beach 
replenishment in connection with that project using sand 
obtained from any location. The contributions (if any) provided 
by the State of California and local governments shall be 
available only for beach replenishment activities performed 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.

            TITLE II--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                               CHAPTER 1

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                          Farm Service Agency


           agricultural credit insurance fund program account


    For additional gross obligations for the principal amount 
of emergency insured loans authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-1929, to 
be available from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance 
Fund, for losses in fiscal year 1998 resulting from natural 
disasters, $87,400,000.
    For the additional cost of emergency insured loans, 
including the cost of modifying loans as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, $21,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request for $21,000,000, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.


                     emergency conservation program


    For an additional amount for the ``Emergency Conservation 
Program'' for expenses resulting from natural disasters, 
$30,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for $30,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
    For an additional amount for the ``Emergency Conservation 
Program'' to provide cost-sharing assistance to maple producers 
to replace taps and tubing that were damaged by ice storms in 
northeastern States in 1998, $4,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided,That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request for 
$4,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.


                        tree assistance program


    An amount of $14,000,000 is provided for assistance to 
replace or rehabilitate trees, excluding trees used for pulp 
and/or timber, and vineyards damaged by natural disasters: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the 
extent that an official budget request for $14,000,000, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, 
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such 
Act.

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund


                 livestock disaster assistance program


    Effective only for losses incurred beginning on November 
27, 1997, through the date of enactment of this Act, $4,000,000 
to implement a livestock indemnity program to compensate 
producers for losses of livestock (including ratites) due to 
natural disasters designated pursuant to a Presidential or 
Secretarial declaration requested during such a period in a 
manner similar to catastrophic loss coverage available for 
other commodities under 7 U.S.C. 1508(b): Provided, That the 
entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for $4,000,000, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.


              dairy production disaster assistance program


    Effective only for natural disasters beginning on November 
27, 1997, through the date of enactment of this Act, $6,800,000 
to implement a dairy production indemnity program to compensate 
producers at a payment rate of $4.00 per hundredweight for 
losses of milk that had been produced but not marketed or for 
diminished production (including diminished future production 
due to mastitis) due to natural disasters designated pursuant 
to a Presidential or Secretarial declaration requested during 
such period: Provided, That payments for diminished production 
shall be determined on a per head basis derived from a 
comparison to a like production period from the previous year, 
the disaster period is 180 days starting with the date of the 
disasters and the payment rate shall be $4.00 per hundredweight 
of milk: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for $6,800,000, that includes designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service


               watershed and flood prevention operations


    For an additional amount for ``Watershed and Flood 
Prevention Operations'' to repair damages to the waterways and 
watersheds resulting from natural disasters, $80,000,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the entire 
amount shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for $80,000,000, that includes designation of 
the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, asamended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of such Act.

                               CHAPTER 2

                    United States Information Agency


                 international broadcasting operations


    For an additional amount for ``International Broadcasting 
Operations'', $5,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 1999, for a grant to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for 
surrogate radio broadcasting to the Iraqi people: Provided, 
That such broadcasting shall be designated ``Radio Free Iraq'': 
Provided further, That within 30 days of enactment into law of 
this Act the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall submit a 
detailed report to the appropriate committees of Congress on 
plans to establish a surrogate broadcasting service to Iraq: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the 
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to 
Congress.

                               CHAPTER 3

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil


                   operation and maintenance, general


    For emergency repairs due to flooding and other natural 
disasters, $105,185,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which such amounts for eligible navigation projects which may 
be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund pursuant to 
Public Law 99-662, shall be derived from that Fund: Provided, 
That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an 
official budget request for a specific dollar amount that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress: Provided further, 
That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         Bureau of Reclamation


                      water and related resources


    For an additional amount for ``Water and Related 
Resources'' to repair damage caused by floods and other natural 
disasters, $4,520,000, to remain available until expended, 
which shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request for a specific dollar amount that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to Congress: Provided, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                               CHAPTER 4

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management


                              construction


    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $1,837,000, 
to remain available until expended, to repair damage caused by 
floods and other natural disasters: Provided, That the entire 
amount shall be available only to the extent that an official 
budget request that includes designation of the entire amount 
as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, 
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service


                              construction


    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $32,818,000, 
to remain available until expended, to repair damage caused by 
floods and other natural disasters: Provided, That of such 
amount, $29,130,000 shall be available only to the extent that 
an official budget request that includes designation of the 
entire amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                         National Park Service


                              construction


    For an additional amount for ``Construction'' to repair 
damage caused by floods and other natural disasters, 
$9,506,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request that includes designation of the entire 
amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
such Act.

                    United States Geological Survey


                 surveys, investigations, and research


    For an additional amount for ``Surveys, Investigations, and 
Research'' for emergency expenses resulting from floods and 
other natural disasters, $1,198,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available 
only to the extent that an official budget request that 
includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                              construction


    For an additional amount for ``Construction'', $1,065,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which $700,000 is to 
repair damage caused by floods and other natural disasters, and 
$365,000 is for replacement of fixtures and testing for and 
remediation of Polylchlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Bureau of 
Indian Affairs schools and administrative facilities: Provided, 
That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request that includes designation of 
the entire amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service


                       state and private forestry


    For an additional amount for ``State and Private Forestry'' 
for emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice storms, 
tornadoes and other natural disasters, $48,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of such amount, 
$28,000,000 shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request that includes designation of the entire 
amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
as amended.


                         national forest system


    For an additional amount for the ``National Forest System'' 
for emergency expenses resulting from damages from ice storms, 
tornadoes and other natural disasters, $10,461,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of such amount, 
$5,461,000 shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request that includes designation of the entire 
amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided 
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of 
theBalanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
as amended.


                        wildland fire management


    For an additional amount for ``Wildland Fire Management'' 
for emergency expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency fire 
suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under 
fire protection agreement, and for emergency rehabilitation of 
burned-over National Forest System lands, in response to 
damages caused by windstorms in Texas, $2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget 
request that includes designation of the entire amount as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, 
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                      Strategic Petroleum Reserve

    The paragraph under this head in Public Law 105-83 is 
amended by inserting before the period, ``: Provided further, 
That the drawdown and sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve shall be prohibited to the extent that such actions are 
determined by the President to be imprudent in light of current 
market conditions and that an official budget request for a 
prohibition of the drawdown and sale of oil from the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve and including a designation of the entire 
request and the $207,500,000 of revenue foregone as an 
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further, 
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such 
Act''.

                               CHAPTER 5

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                     Federal Highway Administration


                          federal-aid highways


                        emergency relief program


                          (highway trust fund)


    For an additional amount for the Emergency Relief Program 
for emergency expenses resulting from floods and other natural 
disasters, as authorized by 23 U.S.C. 125, $259,000,000, to be 
derived from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated 
by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That of such 
amount, $35,000,000 shall be available only to the extent that 
an official budget request for a specific dollar amount that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined in such Act is transmitted by 
the President to the Congress: Provided further, That any 
obligations for the Emergency Relief Program shall not be 
subject to the prohibition against obligations in section 
2(e)(3)(A) and (D) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act 
of 1997: Provided further, That 23 U.S.C. 125(b)(1) shall not 
apply to projects resulting from flooding during the fall of 
1997 through the winter of 1998 in California: Provided 
further, That if sufficient carryover balances for the 
necessary expenses for administration and operation (including 
motor carrier safety program operations) of the Federal Highway 
Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics are 
not available, and pending the reauthorization of the Federal-
aid highways program, the Secretary of Transportation may 
borrow such sums as may be necessary for such expenses from the 
unobligated balances of discretionary allocations for the 
Federal-aid highways program made available by this Act.

                    Federal Railroad Administration


              emergency railroad rehabilitation and repair


    For necessary expenses to repair and rebuild freight rail 
lines of regional and short line railroads or a State entity 
damaged by floods that occurred between and including September 
1996 and March 1998, $9,800,000, to be awarded to the States 
subject to the discretion of the Secretary on a case-by-case 
basis: Provided, That funds provided under this head shall be 
available for rehabilitation of railroad rights-of-way, 
bridges, and other facilities which are part of the general 
railroad system of transportation, and primarily used by 
railroads to move freight traffic: Provided further, That 
railroad rights-of-way, bridges, and other facilities owned by 
class I railroads are not eligible for funding under this head 
unless the rights-of-way, bridges, or other facilities are 
under contract lease to a class II or class III railroad under 
which the lessee is responsible for all maintenance costs of 
the line: Provided further, That railroad rights-of-way, 
bridges, and other facilities owned by passenger railroads, or 
by tourist, scenic, or historic railroads are not eligible for 
funding under this head: Provided further, That these funds 
shall be available only to the extent an official budget 
request, for a specific dollar amount, that includes 
designation of the entire amount as an emergency requirement as 
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That 
all funds made available under this head are to remain 
available until September 30, 1998.

                               CHAPTER 6

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Community Planning and Development


                   community development block grants


    For an additional amount for ``Community development block 
grants'', as authorized under title I of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974, $130,000,000, which shall 
remain available until September 30, 2001, for use only for 
disaster relief, long-term recovery, and mitigation in 
communities affected by Presidentially declared natural 
disasters designated during fiscal year 1998, except for those 
activities reimbursable by or for which funds are made 
available by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small 
Business Administration, or the Army Corps of Engineers: 
Provided, That in administering these amounts and except as 
provided in the next proviso, the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (the Secretary) may waive or specify 
alternative requirements for, any provision of any statute or 
regulation that the Secretary administers in connection with 
the obligation by the Secretary or the use by the recipient of 
these funds, except for statutory requirements related to civil 
rights, fair housing and nondiscrimination, the environment, 
and labor standards, upon a finding that such waiver is 
required to facilitate the use of such funds and would not be 
inconsistent with the overall purpose of the statute: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may waive the requirements that 
activities benefit persons of low and moderate income, except 
that at least 50 percent of the funds under this head must 
benefit primarily persons of low and moderate income unless the 
Secretary makes a finding of compelling need: Provided further, 
That all funds under this head shall be allocated by the 
Secretary to States to be administered by each State in 
conjunction with its Federal Emergency Management Agency 
program or its community development block grants program or by 
the entity designated by its Chief Executive Officer to 
administer the HOME Investment Partnerships Program: Provided 
further, That each State shall provide not less than 25 percent 
in non-federal public matching funds or its equivalent value 
(other than administrativecosts) for any funds allocated to the 
State under this head: Provided further, That, in conjunction with the 
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Secretary 
shall allocate funds based on the unmet needs identified by the 
Director as those which have not or will not be addressed by other 
Federal disaster assistance programs: Provided further, That, in 
conjunction with the Director, the Secretary shall utilize annual 
disaster cost estimates in order that the funds under this head shall 
be available, to the maximum extent feasible, to assist States with all 
Presidentially declared disasters designated during this fiscal year: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall publish a notice in the 
Federal Register governing the allocation and use of the community 
development block grants funds made available under this head for 
disaster areas: Provided further, That 10 days prior to distribution of 
funds, the Secretary and the Director shall submit a list to the House 
and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on VA, HUD and Independent 
Agencies, setting forth the proposed uses of funds and the most recent 
estimates of unmet needs (including all uses of waivers and the reasons 
therefore): Provided further, That the Secretary and the Director shall 
submit quarterly reports to the Subcommittees regarding the actual 
projects, localities and needs for which funds have been provided: 
Provided further, That these reports shall be based upon quarterly 
reports submitted to HUD and the Director by each State receiving funds 
under this head: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be 
available only to the extent an official budget request, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended.

                           INDEPENDENT AGENCY

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency


                            disaster relief


    For an additional amount for ``Disaster relief'', 
$1,600,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That these funds shall be available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for a specific amount, that includes 
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency 
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the 
President to Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount 
appropriated herein is designated by Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

                               CHAPTER 7

                              RESCISSIONS

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                    Federal Aviation Administration


                       grants-in-aid for airports


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


                 (rescission of contract authorization)


    Of the unobligated balances authorized under 49 U.S.C. 
48103 as amended, $241,000,000 are rescinded.

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                       Public and Indian Housing


                 section 8 reserve preservation account


                              (rescission)


    Of the amounts recaptured under this heading during fiscal 
year 1998 and prior years, $2,347,190,000 are rescinded.

                 TITLE III--SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                               CHAPTER 1

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                        Office of the Secretary

    During fiscal year 1998, not to exceed $543,000 from funds 
available to the Secretary of Agriculture to provide 
compensation to agriculture producers and other personsunder 
section 105(b) of the Federal Plant Pest Act (7 U.S.C. 150dd(b)) may be 
available for payments to any person who had wheat stored in a storage 
facility that was subject to an emergency action notice issued by the 
Secretary relating to the presence or presumed presence of Karnal bunt 
to compensate the person for economic losses incurred as a result of 
the effect of the notice on the operation of the storage facility 
(including wheat plowed under in calendar year 1996) after issuance of 
an emergency action notice due to Karnal bunt. The determination by the 
Secretary of the amount of any compensation to be paid under this 
section shall be final.

                      Departmental Administration

    For an additional amount for ``Departmental 
Administration'', $2,000,000.

                     Office of the General Counsel

    For an additional amount for the ``Office of the General 
Counsel'', $235,000.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


                    inspection and weighing services


    For expenses necessary to recapitalize the revolving fund 
established under section 7(j)(1) of the United States Grain 
Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 79(j)(1)), $1,500,000.

                          Farm Service Agency


           agricultural credit insurance fund program account


    For additional gross obligations for the principal amount 
of direct and guaranteed loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1928-
1929, to be available from funds in the Agricultural Credit 
Insurance Fund, as follows: farm ownership loans, $43,320,000, 
of which $25,000,000 shall be available for guaranteed loans; 
operating loans, $105,000,000, of which $35,000,000 shall be 
for subsidized guaranteed loans; and for boll weevil 
eradication program loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1989, 
$18,814,000.
    For the additional cost of direct and guaranteed loans, 
including the cost of modifying loans as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: farm 
ownership loans, $3,356,000, of which $967,000 shall be for 
guaranteed loans; operating loans, $7,973,000, of which 
$3,374,000 shall be for subsidized guaranteed loans; and for 
boll weevil eradication program loans as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 
1989, $222,000.

                           Food Stamp Program

    Of the amounts made available under this head in Public Law 
105-86, funds for employment and training shall remain 
available until expended as authorized by section 16(h)(1) of 
the Food Stamp Act.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                      Food and Drug Administration


                         salaries and expenses


    For an additional amount for ``Salaries and expenses'' from 
fees collected pursuant to section 736 of the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act, not to exceed $25,918,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That fees derived from 
applications received during fiscal year 1998 shall be credited 
to the appropriation current in the year in which fees are 
collected and subject to the fiscal year 1998 limitation.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 1001. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
permanent employees of county committees employed during fiscal 
year 1998 pursuant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and 
Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) shall be considered 
as having Federal Civil Service status only for the purpose of 
applying for United States Department of Agriculture Civil 
Service vacancies.
    Sec. 1002. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
regarding a competitive research, education, or extension grant 
program of the Department of Agriculture, the Secretary may use 
grant program funds, as necessary, to supplement funds 
otherwise available for program administration, to pay for the 
costs associated with peer review of grant proposals under the 
program.

                               CHAPTER 2

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                      Departmental Administration

    Such additional amounts as necessary, not to exceed 
$5,408,000, to cover increases in the estimated amount of cost 
of Work for Others notwithstanding the provisions of the Anti-
Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. 1511 et seq.): Provided, That such 
increases in cost of Work for Others are offset by revenue 
increases of the same or greater amount derived from fees 
authorized by sections 31 and 33 of the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 (42 U.S.C. 2051 and 2053), to remain available until 
expended.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 2001. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no 
fully allocated funding policy shall be applied to projects for 
which funds were identified in the Conference Report (House 
Report 105-271) accompanying the Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 1998, Public Law 105-62 (111 Stat. 1320, et 
seq.), under the Construction, General; Operation and 
Maintenance, General; and Flood Control, Mississippi River and 
Tributaries, appropriation accounts: Provided, That the 
Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
is directedto undertake these projects using continuing 
contracts, as authorized in section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 
September 22, 1922 (33 U.S.C. 621).
    Sec. 2002. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
Chief of Engineers, is directed to use available funds, up to 
the maximum amount authorized per project under Section 205 of 
the Flood Control Act of 1948, as amended, to provide a level 
of enhanced flood protection at Elba, Alabama.
    Sec. 2003. Section 2 of the Emergency Drought Relief Act of 
1996 (Public Law 104-318; 110 Stat. 3862) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section:
    ``(c) Extension of Periods for Repayment.--Notwithstanding 
any provision of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 
485 et seq.), the Secretary of the Interior--
            ``(1) shall extend the period for repayment by the 
        City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and the Nueces River 
        Authority under contract No. 6-07-01-x0675, relating to 
        the Nueces River reclamation project, Texas, until--
                    ``(A) August 1, 2029 for repayment pursuant 
                to the municipal and industrial water supply 
                benefits portion of the contract; and
                    ``(B) until August 1, 2044 for repayment 
                pursuant to the fish and wildlife and 
                recreation benefits portion of the contract, 
                and
            ``(2) shall extend the period for repayment by the 
        Canadian River Municipal Water Authority under contract 
        No. 14-06-500-485 relating to the Canadian River 
        reclamation project, Texas, until October 1, 2021.''.
    Sec. 2004. Section 303 of the Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105-62), does not apply to 
the worker transition plan for the Pinellas Plant site.

                               CHAPTER 3

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         National Park Service


                 operation of the national park system


    For an additional amount for ``Operation of the National 
Park System'', $340,000, to remain available until expended, to 
provide for public access at Katmai National Park and Preserve 
and for litigation costs related to the disposition of an 
allotment within the Park.

                      Minerals Management Service


                royalty and offshore minerals management


    For an additional amount for ``Royalty and Offshore 
Minerals Management'' to meet increased demand and workload 
requirements stemming from higher than anticipated leasing 
activity in the Gulf of Mexico, $6,675,000, to remain available 
until expended, to be derived from increased receipts resulting 
from increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate 
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf 
administrative activities performed by the Minerals Management 
Service over and above the rates in effect on September 30, 
1993, and from additional fees for Outer Continental Shelf 
administrative activities established after September 30, 1993.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement


                    abandoned mine reclamation fund


                          (transfer of funds)


    For an additional amount for the ``Abandoned Mine 
Reclamation Fund'', $3,163,000, to be derived by transfer from 
amounts available in Public Law 105-83 under the heading, 
``Regulation and Technology'', and to be subject to the same 
terms and conditions of the account to which transferred.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                      operation of indian programs


    For an additional amount for ``Operation of Indian 
Programs'', $1,050,000, to remain available until expended, for 
the cost of document collection and production,including 
electronic imaging, required to support litigation involving individual 
Indian trust fund accounts.

             Office of Special Trustee for American Indians


                         federal trust programs


    For an additional amount for ``Federal Trust Programs'', 
$4,650,000, to remain available until expended, for the cost of 
document collection and production, including electronic 
imaging, required to support litigation involving individual 
Indian trust fund accounts.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                         Indian Health Service


                         indian health services


    For an additional amount for ``Indian Health Services'', 
$100,000, to remain available until expended, for suicide 
prevention counseling.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 3001. Section 330C(c) of subpart I of part D of title 
III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b et seq.), 
as amended by section 4922 of Public Law 105-33, is further 
amended by inserting ``, to remain available until expended,'' 
after the words ``fiscal years 1998 through 2002, 
$30,000,000''.
    Sec. 3002. Construction of the Trappers Loop connector 
road, and any related actions, by any Federal or state agency 
or other entity are deemed to be non-discretionary actions 
authorized and directed by Congress under title III, section 
304(e)(3) of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act 
of 1996 (110 Stat. 4093).
    Sec. 3003. Neither the issuance by the United States of an 
easement on and across National Forest lands for the Boulder 
City Pipeline (also known as Lakewood Pipeline) nor the 
acceptance of such easement by the City of Boulder, Colorado, 
nor the relocation of such pipeline on such easement, shall 
cause, be construed as, or result in the abandonment, 
termination, relinquishment, revocation, limitation, or 
diminution of any rights claimed by such city pursuant to or as 
a result of any prior grant, including the Act of July 26, 1866 
(43 U.S.C. 661) and the Acts authorizing the conveyance of such 
city of the Silver Lake Watershed. The alignment of the 
relocated pipeline shall be considered neither more nor less 
within the scope of any prior grants than the alignment of the 
pipeline existing prior to the issuance of such easement.
    Sec. 3004. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, may hereafter directly transfer to Indian tribes in 
North and South Dakota portable housing units at the Grand 
Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota that have been declared 
excess by the Department of Defense and requested for transfer 
by the Department of the Interior: Provided, That the 
Department of the Interior shall not be responsible for 
rehabilitation of the portable housing units or remediation of 
any potentially hazardous substances.
    Sec. 3005. Petroglyph National Monument. (a) Short Title.--
This section may be cited as the ``Petroglyph National Monument 
Boundary Adjustment Act''.
    (b) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) the purposes for which Petroglyph National 
        Monument (referred to in this section as ``the 
        monument'') was established continue to be valid;
            (2) it is of mutual benefit to the trustee 
        institutions of the New Mexico State Trust lands and 
        the National Park Service for land exchange 
        negotiations to be completed with all due diligence, 
        resulting in the transfer of all State Trust lands 
        within the boundaries of the monument to the United 
        States in accordance with State and Federal law;
            (3) because the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 
        has acquired substantial acreage within the monument 
        boundaries, purchased with State and municipal funds, 
        the consolidation of land ownership and jurisdiction 
        under the National Park Service will require the 
        consent of the city of Albuquerque, and options for 
        National Park Service acquisition that are not 
        currently available;
            (4) corridors for the development of Paseo del 
        Norte and Unser Boulevard are depicted on the map 
        referred to in section 102(a) of the Petroglyph 
        National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 
        101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note), and the alignment of the 
        roadways was anticipated by Congress before the date of 
        enactment of the Act;
            (5) it was the expectation of the principal 
        proponents of the monument, including the cities of 
        Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and the 
        National Park Service, that passage of the Petroglyph 
        National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 
        101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note) would allow the city of 
        Albuquerque--
                    (A) to utilize the Paseo del Norte and 
                Unser Boulevard corridors through the monument; 
                and
                    (B) to design and construct infrastructure 
                within the corridors with the cultural and 
                natural resources of the monument in mind;
            (6) the city of Albuquerque has not provided for 
        the establishment of rights-of-way for the Paseo del 
        Norte and Unser Boulevard corridors under the 
JointPowers Agreement (JPANO 78-521.81-277A), which expanded the 
boundary of the monument to include the Piedras Marcadas and Boca Negra 
units, pursuant to section 104 of the Petroglyph National Monument 
Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note);
            (7) the National Park Service has identified the 
        realignment of Unser Boulevard, depicted on the map 
        referred to in section 102(a) of the Petroglyph 
        National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 (Public Law 
        101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note), as serving a park purpose 
        in the General Management Plan/Development Concept Plan 
        for Petroglyph National Monument;
            (8) the establishment of a citizens' advisory 
        committee prior to construction of the Unser Boulevard 
        South project, which runs along the eastern boundary of 
        the Atrisco Unit of the monument, allowed the citizens 
        of Albuquerque and the National Park Service to provide 
        significant and meaningful input into the parkway 
        design of the road, and that similar proceedings should 
        occur prior to construction within the Paseo del Norte 
        corridor;
            (9) parkway standards approved by the city of 
        Albuquerque for the construction of Unser Boulevard 
        South along the eastern boundary of the Atrisco Unit of 
        the monument would be appropriate for a road passing 
        through the Paseo del Norte corridor;
            (10) adequate planning and cooperation between the 
        city of Albuquerque and the National Park Service is 
        essential to avoid resource degradation within the 
        monument resulting from storm water runoff, and 
        drainage conveyances through the monument should be 
        designed and located to provide sufficient capacity for 
        effective runoff management; and
            (11) the monument will best be managed for the 
        benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations 
        with cooperation between the city of Albuquerque, the 
        State of New Mexico, and the National Park Service.
    (c) Planning Authority.--
            (1) Storm water drainage.--Not later than 180 days 
        after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
        of the Interior, acting through the Director of the 
        National Park Service (referred to in this section as 
        the ``Secretary''), and the city of Albuquerque, New 
        Mexico, shall enter into negotiations to provide for 
        the management of storm water runoff and drainage 
        within the monument, including the design and 
        construction of any storm water corridors, conveyances, 
        and easements within the monument boundaries.
            (2) Road design.--
                    (A) If the city of Albuquerque decides to 
                proceed with the construction of a roadway 
                within the area excluded from the monument by 
                the amendment made by subsection (d), the 
                design criteria shall be similar to those 
                provided for the Unser Boulevard South project 
                along the eastern boundary of the Atrisco Unit, 
                taking into account topographic differences and 
                the lane, speed and noise requirements of the 
                heavier traffic load that is anticipated for 
                Paseo del Norte, as referenced in section A-2 
                of the Unser Middle Transportation Corridor 
                Record of Decision prepared by the city of 
                Albuquerque dated December 1993.
                    (B) At least 180 days before the initiation 
                of any road construction within the area 
                excluded from the monument by the amendment 
                made by subsection (d), the city of Albuquerque 
                shall notify the Direct of the National Park 
                Service (hereinafter ``the Director''), who may 
                submit suggested modifications to the design 
                specifications of the road construction 
projectwithin the area excluded from the monument by the amendment made 
by subsection (d).
                    (C) If after 180 days, an agreement on the 
                design specifications is not reached by the 
                city of Albuquerque and the Director, the city 
                may contract with the head of the Department of 
                Civil Engineering at the University of New 
                Mexico, to design a road to meet the design 
                criteria referred to in subparagraph (A). The 
                design specifications developed by the 
                Department of Civil Engineering shall be deemed 
                to have met the requirements of this paragraph, 
                and the city may proceed with the construction 
                project, in accordance with those design 
                specifications.
    (d) Acquisition Authority; Boundary Adjustment; 
Administration and Management of the Monument.--
            (1) Acquisition authority.--Section 103(a) of the 
        Petroglyph National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 
        (Public Law 101-313, 16 U.S.C. 431 note) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``(a) The Secretary'' and 
                inserting the following:
    ``(a) Authority.--
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the 
        Secretary'';
                    (B) by striking ``, except that lands or 
                interests therein owned by the State or a 
                political subdivision thereof may be acquired 
                only by donation or exchange''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Land owned by the state or a political 
        subdivision.--No land or interest in land owned by the 
        State or a political subdivision of the State may be 
        acquired by purchase before--
                    ``(A) the State or political subdivision 
                holding title to the land or interest in land 
                identifies the land or interest in land for 
                disposal; and
                    ``(B)(i) all private land within the 
                monument boundary for which there is a willing 
                seller is acquired; or
                    ``(ii) 2 years have elapsed after the date 
                on which the Secretary has made a final offer 
                (for which funds are available) to acquire all 
                remaining private land at fair market value.''.
            (2) Boundary adjustment.--Section 104(a) of the 
        Petroglyph National Monument Establishment Act of 1990 
        (Public Law 101-313; 16 U.S.C. 431 note) is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) 
                as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and 
                indenting appropriately;
                    (B) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(a)''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2)(A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), effective as of the 
date of enactment of this subparagraph--
            ``(i) the boundary of the monument is adjusted to 
        exclude the Paseo Del Norte corridor in the Piedras 
        Marcadas Unit described in Exhibit B of the document 
        described in subparagraph (B); and
            ``(ii) the inclusion of the Paseo Del Norte 
        corridor within the boundary of the monument before the 
        date of enactment of this paragraph shall have no 
        effect on any future ownership, use, or management of 
        the corridor.
    ``(B) The document described in this subparagraph is the 
document entitled `Petroglyph National Monument Roadway/Utility 
Corridors', dated October 30, 1997, on file with the Secretary 
of the Interior and the mayor of the city of Albuquerque, New 
Mexico.''.
    (e) Administration and management of the Monument.--Section 
105 of the Petroglyph NationalMonument Establishment Act of 
1990 (Public Law 101-313, 16 U.S.C. 431 note) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(f) Boca Negra and Piedras Marcadas Units.--If the 
binding agreement providing for the expansion of the monument 
pursuant to section 104 is amended, in accordance with the 
terms of the agreement, to transfer to the National Park 
Service responsibility for operation, maintenance, and repair 
of any or all property within the Boca Negra or Piedras 
Marcadas unit of the monument, the Secretary may employ, at a 
comparable grade and salary within the National Park Service, 
any willing employees of the city assigned to the unit.''.
    (f) Double Eagle II Airport Access Road.--The Administrator 
of the Federal Aviation Administration shall allow the use of 
the access road to the Double Eagle II Airport in existence on 
the date of enactment of this Act for visitor access to the 
monument.
    Sec. 3006. County Payment Mitigation--Transportation System 
Moratorium. (a)(1) This section provides compensation for loss 
of revenues that would have been provided to counties if no 
road moratorium, as described in subsection (a)(2), were 
implemented or no substitute sales offered as described in 
subsection (b)(1). This section does not endorse or prohibit 
the road building moratorium nor does it affect the 
applicability of existing law to any moratorium.
    (2) The Chief of the Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture, in his sole discretion, may offer any timber sales 
that were scheduled October 1, 1997, or thereafter, to be 
offered in fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 1999 even if such 
sales would have been delayed or halted as a result of any 
moratorium (resulting from the Federal Register proposal of 
January 28, 1998, pages 4351-4354) on construction of roads in 
roadless areas within the National Forest System adopted as 
policy or by regulation that would otherwise be applicable to 
such sales.
    (3) Any sales offered pursuant to subsection (a)(2) shall--
            (A) comply with all applicable laws and regulations 
        and be consistent with applicable land and resource 
        management plans, except any regulations or plan 
        amendments which establish or implement the moratorium 
        referred to in subsection (a)(2); and
            (B) be subject to administrative appeals pursuant 
        to part 215 of title 36 of the Code of Federal 
        Regulations and to judicial review.
    (b)(1) For any previously scheduled sales that are not 
offered pursuant to subsection (a)(2), the Chief may, to the 
extent practicable, offer substitute sales within the same 
State in fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 1999. Such substitute 
sales shall be subject to the requirements of subsection 
(a)(3).
    (2)(A) The Chief shall pay as soon as practicable after 
fiscal year 1998 and fiscal year 1999 to any State in which 
sales previously scheduled to be offered that are referred to 
in, but not offered pursuant to, subsection (a)(2) would have 
occurred, 25 percentum of any anticipated receipts from such 
sales that--
            (i) were scheduled from fiscal year 1998 or fiscal 
        year 1999 sales in the absence of any moratorium 
        referred to in subsection (a)(2); and
            (ii) are not offset by revenues received in such 
        fiscal years from substitute projects authorized 
        pursuant to subsection (b)(1).
    (B) After reporting the amount of funds required to make 
any payments required by subsection (b)(2)(A), and the source 
from which such funds are to be derived, to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, 
the Chief shall make any payments required by subsection 
(b)(2)(A) from any funds available to the Forest Service in 
fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year 1999, subject to approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate, that are not specifically earmarked 
for another purpose by the applicable appropriation Act or a 
committee or conference report thereon.
    (C) Any State which receives payments required by 
subsection (b)(2)(A) shall expend such funds only in the 
manner, and for the purposes, prescribed in section 500 of 
title 16 of the United States Code.
    (c)(1) During the term of the moratorium referred to in 
subsection (a)(2), the Chief shall prepare and submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate a report on each of the following--
            (A) a study of whether standards and guidelines in 
        existing land and resource management plans compel or 
        encourage entry into roadless areas within the National 
        Forest System for the purpose of constructing roads or 
        undertaking any other ground-disturbing activities;
            (B) an inventory of all roads within the National 
        Forest System and the uses which they serve, in a 
        format that will inform and facilitate the development 
        of a long-term Forest Service transportation policy; 
        and
            (C) a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the 
        economic and social effects of the moratorium 
referredto in subsection (a)(2) on county, State, and regional levels.
    Sec. 3007. Provision of Certain Health Care Services for 
Alaska Natives. Section 203(a) of the Michigan Indian Land 
Claims Settlement Act (Public Law 105-143; 111 Stat. 2666) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``other than community based 
        alcohol services,'' after ``Ketchikan Gateway 
        Borough,''; and
            (2) by inserting at the end the following new 
        sentence: ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
        such contract or compact shall provide services to all 
        Indian and Alaska Native beneficiaries of the Indian 
        Health Service in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough without 
        the need for resolutions of support from any Indian 
        tribe as defined in the Indian Self-Determination and 
        Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)).''.
    Sec. 3008. Section 326(a) of the Act making Appropriations 
for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998 and for other purposes 
(Public Law 105-83; 111 Stat. 1543) is amended by striking 
``with any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village 
corporation'' and inserting ``to any Indian tribe as defined in 
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 
U.S.C. 450b(e))''.
    Sec. 3009. None of the funds in this or any other Act shall 
be used to issue a notice of final rulemaking prior to October 
1, 1998 with respect to the valuation of crude oil for royalty 
purposes, including without limitation a rulemaking derived 
from proposed rules published in 63 Federal Register 6113 
(1998), 62 Federal Register 36030, and 62 Federal Register 3742 
(1997).

                               CHAPTER 4

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


                disease control, research, and training


    For an additional amount for the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, ``disease control, research, and 
training'', $9,000,000.

                  Health Care Financing Administration


                           program management


    For an additional amount for ``Program management'', 
$2,200,000.
    Title II of Public Law 105-78 is amended under this heading 
by striking the fourth proviso and inserting the following new 
proviso: ``Provided further, That $20,000,000 appropriated 
under this heading for the transition to a single Part A and 
Part B processing system and $20,000,000 to be used only to the 
extent needed for Year 2000 century date change conversion 
requirements of external contractor systems shall remain 
available until expended:''.

                        Office of the Secretary


                    general departmental management


    Of the funds appropriated under the heading ``general 
departmental management'' in Public Law 105-78 to carry out 
title XX of the Public Health Service Act, $10,831,000 shall be 
for activities specified under section 2003(b)(2), of which 
$9,131,000 shall be for prevention service demonstration grants 
under section 510(b)(2) of title V of the Social Security Act, 
as amended, without application of the limitation of section 
2010(c) of said title XX.

                        DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

                           Special Education

    Public Law 105-78, under the heading ``special education'' 
is amended by inserting before the period the following: ``: 
Provided further, That $600,000 of the funds provided under 
section 672 of the Act shall be for the Early Childhood 
Development Project of the National Easter Seal Society for the 
Mississippi Delta Region, which funds shall be used to provide 
training, technicalsupport, services, and equipment to address 
personnel and other needs''.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 4001. (a) If a State child health plan under title XXI 
of the Social Security Act is approved on or after October 1, 
1998, and before October 1, 1999, for purposes of such title 
(including allotments under section 2104(b) of such title) the 
plan shall be treated as having been approved with respect to 
amounts allotted under such title for fiscal year 1998, as well 
as for fiscal year 1999.
    (b) The appropriation in section 2104(a)(1) of such title 
for fiscal year 1998 shall remain available to be obligated 
through September 30, 1999.
    Sec. 4002. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Department of Health and Human Services shall permit the 
submission of public comments until August 31, 1998, on the 
final rule entitled ``Organ Procurement and Transplantation 
Network'' published by the Department in the Federal Register 
on April 2, 1998 (63 Fed. Reg. 16295 et seq.), and such rule 
shall not become effective before October 1, 1998, after the 
end of such comment period.

                               CHAPTER 5

                           LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

                        CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

      Payments to Widows and Heirs of Deceased Members of Congress

    For payment to Lois G. Capps, widow of Walter H. Capps, 
late a Representative of the State of California, $133,600.
    For payment to Mary Bono, widow of Sonny Bono, late a 
Representative of the State of California, $136,700.

                        ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

                     Capitol Buildings and Grounds


                           capitol buildings


                         salaries and expenses


    For an additional amount for ``Capitol Buildings Salaries 
and Expenses'', $7,500,000, to remain available until expended, 
to begin repairs and rehabilitation of the Capitol dome: 
Provided, That this additional amount shall be available for 
obligation without regard to section 3709 of the Revised 
Statutes, as amended.


                            capitol grounds


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For necessary expenses for the design, installation and 
maintenance of the Capitol Square perimeter security plan, 
$20,000,000 (of which not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be 
transferred upon request of the Capitol Police Board to the 
Capitol Police Board, ``Capitol Police'', ``General Expenses'' 
for physical security measures associated with the Capitol 
Square perimeter security plan) to remain available until 
expended, subject to the review and approval by the appropriate 
House and Senate authorities: Provided, That this additional 
amount shall be available for obligation without regard to 
section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended.

                               CHAPTER 6

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary


                         amtrak reform council


    For necessary expenses of the Amtrak Reform Council, 
including the independent assessment of Amtrak, authorized 
under sections 202, 203, and 409 of Public Law 105-134, 
$2,450,000, to remain available until September 30, 1999: 
Provided, That not to exceed $400,000 shall be transferred to 
the Department of Transportation Inspector General for the new 
responsibilities associated with section 409(c) of Public Law 
105-134.

                    Federal Aviation Administration


                        facilities and equipment


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


    For an additional amount for Facilities and Equipment for 
expenses relating to Year 2000 computer hardware and software 
problems, $25,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
1999.

              Research and Special Programs Administration


                     research and special programs


    For an additional amount for Emergency Transportation 
activities, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That of these funds, $400,000 shall be available only 
for costs associated with construction and establishment of an 
emergency transportation response center in Arab, Alabama; 
$550,000 shall be available only for costs associated with 
purchase and establishment of a mobile emergency response 
system to be administered jointly by the Alabama Department of 
Transportation and the Alabama Emergency Management Agency; and 
$50,000 shall be for Research and Special Programs 
Administration administrative costs associated with these 
projects.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                  National Transportation Safety Board


                         salaries and expenses


    For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'' for 
necessary expenses resulting from the crash of TWA Flight 800, 
$5,400,000: Provided, That the entire amount is available only 
for costs associated with rental of the facility in Calverton, 
New York, of which not to exceed $500,000 is for security 
expenses: Provided further,That no funds or unobligated 
balances are available to provide for or permit flight operations at 
the Calverton airfield.

                    GENERAL PROVISION--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 6001. Of the balances available to the Federal Transit 
Administration from previous appropriations Acts, $1,000,000 
shall be made available for a comprehensive transportation 
investment analysis of the primary urban corridor from Ewa to 
east Honolulu, Hawaii: Provided, That these funds shall remain 
available until September 30, 2001.

                               CHAPTER 7

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


                         automation enhancement


                year 2000 century date change conversion


    For necessary expenses of the Department of the Treasury 
for Year 2000 century date change conversion requirements, 
$35,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2000.

                      Financial Management Service


                         salaries and expenses


    For an additional amount for ``Salaries and Expenses'', for 
Year 2000 century date change conversion requirements, 
$5,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2000.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

SEC. 7001. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE VOLUNTARY EARLY RETIREMENT.

    (a) Civil Service Retirement System.--Effective for 
purposes of the period beginning on the date of enactment of 
this Act and ending on September 30, 1999, paragraph (2) of 
section 8336(d) of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
applied as if it had been amended to read as follows:
            ``(2)(A) has been employed continuously, by the 
        agency in which the employee is serving, for at least 
        the 31-day period ending on the date on which such 
        agency requests the determination referred to in 
        subparagraph (D);
            ``(B) is serving under an appointment that is not 
        time limited;
            ``(C) has not been duly notified that such employee 
        is to be involuntarily separated for misconduct or 
        unacceptable performance;
            ``(D) is separated from the service voluntarily 
        during a period in which, as determined by the Office 
        of Personnel Management (upon request of the agency) 
        under regulations prescribed by the Office--
                    ``(i) such agency (or, if applicable, the 
                component in which the employee is serving) is 
                undergoing a major reorganization, a major 
                reduction in force, or a major transfer of 
                function; and
                    ``(ii) a significant percentage of the 
                employees serving in such agency (or component) 
                will be separated or subject to an immediate 
                reduction in the rate of basic pay (without 
                regard to subchapter VI of chapter 53, or 
                comparable provisions); and
            ``(E) as determined by the agency under regulations 
        prescribed by the Office, is within the scope of the 
        offer of voluntary early retirement, which may be made 
        on the basis of--
                    ``(i) one or more organizational units;
                    ``(ii) one or more occupational series or 
                levels;
                    ``(iii) one or more geographical locations;
                    ``(iv) other similar nonpersonal factors 
                the Office determines appropriate; or
                    ``(v) any appropriate combination of such 
                factors;''.
    (b) Federal Employees' Retirement System.--Effective for 
purposes of the period beginning on the date of enactment of 
this Act and ending on September 30, 1999, subparagraph (B) of 
section 8414(b)(1) of title 5,United States Code, shall be 
applied as if it had been amended to read as follows:
            ``(B)(i) has been employed continuously, by the 
        agency in which the employee is serving, for at least 
        the 31-day period ending on the date on which such 
        agency requests the determination referred to in clause 
        (iv);
            ``(ii) is serving under an appointment that is not 
        time limited;
            ``(iii) has not been duly notified that such 
        employee is to be involuntarily separated for 
        misconduct or unacceptable performance;
            ``(iv) is separated from the service voluntarily 
        during a period in which, as determined by the Office 
        of Personnel Management (upon request of the agency) 
        under regulations prescribed by the Office--
                    ``(I) such agency (or, if applicable, the 
                component in which the employee is serving) is 
                undergoing a major reorganization, a major 
                reduction in force, or a major transfer of 
                function; and
                    ``(II) a significant percentage of the 
                employees serving in such agency (or component) 
                will be separated or subject to an immediate 
                reduction in the rate of basic pay (without 
                regard to subchapter VI of chapter 53, or 
                comparable provisions); and
            ``(v) as determined by the agency under regulations 
        prescribed by the Office, is within the scope of the 
        offer of voluntary early retirement, which may be made 
        on the basis of--
                    ``(I) one or more organizational units;
                    ``(II) one or more occupational series or 
                levels;
                    ``(III) one or more geographical locations;
                    ``(IV) other similar nonpersonal factors 
                the Office determines appropriate; or
                    ``(V) any appropriate combination of such 
                factors;''.
    Sec. 7002. Notwithstanding section 2164 of title 10, United 
States Code, the Department of Defense shall permit the two 
dependent children of deceased United States Customs Senior 
Special Agent Manuel Zurita attending the Antilles Consolidated 
School System at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, to complete their 
primary and secondary education at this school system without 
cost to such children or any parent, relative, or guardian of 
such children. The United States Customs Service shall 
reimburse the Department of Defense for reasonable educational 
expenses to cover these costs.

                               CHAPTER 8

                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                    Veterans Benefits Administration


                       compensation and pensions


    For an additional amount for ``Compensation and pensions'', 
$550,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Environmental Protection Agency


                   state and tribal assistance grants


    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, eligible 
recipients of the funds appropriated to the Environmental 
Protection Agency in the State and Tribal Assistance Grants 
account since fiscal year 1997 and hereafter for multi-media or 
single media grants, other than Performance Partnership Grants 
authorized pursuant to Public Law 104-134 and Public Law 105-
65, for pollution prevention, control, and abatement and 
related activities have been and shall be those entities 
eligible for grants under the Agency's organic statutes.


                        administrative provision


    No requirements set forth in any carbon monoxide Federal 
implementation plan (FIP) that are based on the Clean Air Act 
as in effect prior to the 1990 amendments to such Act may be 
imposed in the State of Arizona.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration


                           human space flight


                          (transfer of funds)


    The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration shall transfer from amounts made available for 
NASA in Public Law 105-65 under the heading, ``Mission 
support'', $53,000,000 to ``Human space flight'' for Space 
Station activities, to be merged with and to be available for 
the same purposes of such account: Provided, That the total 
amount available for Space Station activities in fiscal year 
1998 shall be up to $2,441,300,000.

                    GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 8001. Section 206 of the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Pub. L. 105-65; October 27, 
1997) is amended by inserting the following before the final 
period: ``, and for loans and grants for economic development 
in and around 18th and Vine''.
    Sec. 8002. Housing Opportunities for Persons With Aids. (a) 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 1998, and the amounts that 
would otherwise be allocated for fiscal year 1999, to the City 
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on behalf of the Philadelphia, 
PA-NJ Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (in this section 
referred to as the ``metropolitan area''), under section 854(c) 
of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall adjust such 
amounts by allocating to the State of New Jersey the proportion 
of the metropolitan area's amount that is based on the number 
of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the metropolitan 
area that is located in New Jersey.
    (b) The State of New Jersey shall use amounts allocated to 
the State under this section to carry out eligible activities 
under section 855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 
U.S.C. 12904) in the portion of the metropolitan area that is 
located in New Jersey.
    Sec. 8003. Ratification of Internet Intellectual 
Infrastructure Fee. (a) The 30 percent portion of the fee 
charged by Network Solutions, Inc. between September 14, 1995 
and March 31, 1998 for registration or renewal of an Internet 
second-level domain name, which portion was to be expended for 
the preservation and enhancement of the intellectual 
infrastructure of the Internet under a cooperative agreement 
with the National Science Foundation, and which portion was 
held to have been collected without authority in William Thomas 
et al. v. Network Solutions, Inc. and National Science 
Foundation, Civ. No. 97-2412, is hereby legalized and ratified 
and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the 
same had, by prior act of Congress, been specifically 
authorized and directed.
    (b) The National Science Foundation is authorized and 
directed to deposit all money remaining in the Internet 
Intellectual Infrastructure Fund into the Treasury and credit 
that amount to its Fiscal Year 1998 Research and Related 
Activities appropriation to be available until expended for the 
support of networking activities, including the Next Generation 
Internet.

                               CHAPTER 9

                         RESCISSIONS AND OFFSET

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                     Agricultural Research Service


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $223,000 are rescinded.

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service


                         salaries and expenses


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $350,000 are rescinded.

                     Agricultural Marketing Service


                           marketing services


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $25,000 are rescinded.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration


                         salaries and expenses


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $38,000 are rescinded.

                   Food Safety and Inspection Service


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $502,000 are rescinded.

                          Farm Service Agency


                         salaries and expenses


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $1,080,000 are rescinded.


           agricultural credit insurance fund program account


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available for the cost of the 
unsubsidized guaranteed operating loans under this heading in 
Public Law 105-86, $8,273,000 are rescinded.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service


                        conservation operations


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $378,000 are rescinded.

                         Rural Housing Service


                         salaries and expenses


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $846,000 are rescinded.


                      food program administration


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-86, $114,000 are rescinded.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management


                   management of lands and resources


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 104-208, $1,188,000 are rescinded.


                   oregon and california grant lands


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 104-208, $2,500,000 are rescinded.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service


                          resource management


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-18, $250,000 are rescinded.

                              construction


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 104-208, $1,188,000 are rescinded.

                         National Park Service


                              construction


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 104-208, $1,638,000 are rescinded.

                            Bureau of Mines


                           mines and minerals


                              (rescission)


    The following amounts, totaling $1,605,000, are rescinded 
from funds made available under this heading: in Public Law 
103-332, $1,255,000; in Public Law 103-138, $60,000; in Public 
Law 102-381, $173,000; and in Public Law 102-154, $117,000.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs


                              construction


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 104-208, $837,000 are rescinded.

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service


                     forest and rangeland research


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-83, $148,000 are rescinded.


                       state and private forestry


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-83, $59,000 are rescinded.


                         national forest system


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-83, $1,094,000 are rescinded.


                        wildland fire management


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-83, $148,000 are rescinded.


                    reconstruction and construction


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-83, $30,000 are rescinded.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration


                   health professions education fund


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under the Health Professions 
Education Fund appropriation account, $11,200,000 are 
rescinded.

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary


                        payments to air carriers


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 101-516 and subsequently obligated, $2,500,000 shall be 
deobligated and are hereby rescinded.


                        payments to air carriers


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


                 (rescission of contract authorization)


    Of the budgetary resources provided for ``Small Community 
Air Service'' by Public Law 101-508 for fiscal years prior to 
fiscal year 1998, $3,000,000 are rescinded.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                Facilities, Engineering, and Development


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in previous 
appropriations Acts, $500,000 are rescinded.


                       grants-in-aid for airports


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


                 (rescission of contract authorization)


    Of the unobligated balances authorized under 49 U.S.C. 
48103 as amended, $54,000,000 are rescinded.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                        Conrail Labor Protection


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in previous 
appropriations Acts, $508,234 are rescinded.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                     United States Customs Service


                         salaries and expenses


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 104-208, as amended by Public Law 105-18, $6,000,000 are 
rescinded.


   operations and maintenance, customs p-3 drug interdiction program


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 102-393, $4,470,000 are rescinded.

                        Internal Revenue Service


                   information technology investments


                              (rescission)


    Of the funds made available under this heading in Public 
Law 105-61, $30,330,000 are rescinded.

                    GENERAL PROVISION--THIS CHAPTER

    Sec. 9001. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in Public Law 105-86 shall be used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a conservation 
farm option program as authorized by section 335 of Public Law 
104-127 in excess of $11,000,000.

                     GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS TITLE

    Sec. 10001. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 10002. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this or any prior Act may be obligated or 
expended by the Patent and Trademark Office to plan for the 
lease of new facilities until 30 days after the submission of a 
report, to be delivered not later than May 15, 1998, to the 
Committees on Appropriations, on the space plans and detailed 
cost estimate for the build-out of the new facilities: 
Provided, That such funds shall be made available only in 
accordance with section 605 of Public Law 105-119.
    Sec. 10003. Section 203 of the National Sea Grant College 
Program Act (33 U.S.C. 1122) is amended by--
            (1) striking paragraph (5) and redesignating 
        paragraphs (6) through (17) as paragraphs (5) through 
        (16);
            (2) redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (F) of 
        paragraph (7), as redesignated, as subparagraphs (D) 
        through (G); and
            (3) inserting after subparagraph (B) of paragraph 
        (7), as redesignated, the following:
                    ``(C) Lake Champlain (to the extent that 
                such resources have hydrological, biological, 
                physical, or geological characteristics and 
                problems similar or related to those of the 
                Great Lakes);''.
    Sec. 10004. (a) Any agency listed in section 404(b) of the 
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, Public Law 105-119, 
may transfer any amount to the Department of State, subject to 
the limitations of subsection (b) of this section, for the 
purpose of making technical adjustments to the amounts 
transferred by section 404 of such Act.
    (b) Funds transferred pursuant to subsection (a) shall not 
exceed $12,000,000, of which not to exceed $3,500,000 may be 
transferred from the United States Information Agency, of which 
not to exceed $3,600,000 may be transferred from the Defense 
Intelligence Agency, of which not to exceed $1,600,000 may be 
transferred from the Defense Security Assistance Agency, of 
which not to exceed $900,000 may be transferred from the Peace 
Corps, and of which not to exceed $500,000 may be transferred 
from any other single agency listed in section 404(b) of Public 
Law 105-119.
    (c) A transfer of funds pursuant to this section shall not 
require any notification or certification to Congress or any 
committee of Congress, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law.
    Sec. 10005. Section 584 of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997 
(Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-171) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``For purposes'' and 
                inserting ``Notwithstanding any other provision 
                of law, for purposes''; and
                    (B) by striking ``fiscal year 1997'' and 
                inserting ``fiscal years 1998 and 1999''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
    ``(b) Aliens Covered.--
            ``(1) In general.--An alien described in this 
        subsection is an alien who--
                    ``(A) is the son or daughter of a qualified 
                national;
                    ``(B) is 21 years of age or older; and
                    ``(C) was unmarried as of the date of 
                acceptance of the alien's parent for 
                resettlement under the Orderly Departure 
                Program.
            ``(2) Qualified national.--For purposes of 
        paragraph (1), the term `qualified national' means a 
        national of Vietnam who--
                    ``(A)(i) was formerly interned in a 
                reeducation camp in Vietnam by the Government 
                of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; or
                    ``(ii) is the widow or widower of an 
                individual described in clause (i); and
                    ``(B)(i) qualified for refugee processing 
                under the reeducation camp internees subprogram 
                of the Orderly Departure Program; and
                    ``(ii) on or after April 1, 1995, is 
                accepted--
                            ``(I) for resettlement as a 
                        refugee; or
                            ``(II) for admission as an 
                        immigrant under the Orderly Departure 
                        Program.''.
    Sec. 10006. The President shall instruct the United States 
Representatives to the World Trade Organization to seek the 
adoption of procedures that will ensure broader application of 
the principles of transparency and openness in the activities 
of the organization, including by urging the World Trade 
Organization General Council to--
            (1) permit appropriate meetings of the Council, the 
        Ministerial Conference, dispute settlement panels, and 
        the Appellate Body to be made open to the public; and
            (2) provide for timely public summaries of the 
        matters discussed and decisions made in any closed 
        meeting of the Conference or Council.


                  district of columbia chief of police


    Sec. 10007. (a) Employment Contract.--Paragraph 2 of 
section 1 of the Act entitled ``An Act relating to the 
Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia'', approved 
February 28, 1901 (DC Code, sec. 4-104), and any other 
provision of law affecting the employment of the Chief of the 
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia 
shall not apply to the Chief of the Department to the extent 
that such paragraph or provision is inconsistent with the terms 
of an employment agreement entered into between the Chief, the 
Mayor of the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia 
Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority.
    (b) Appointment and Removal During Control Year.--
            (1) Appointment.--During a control year, the Chief 
        of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District 
        of Columbia shall be appointed by the Mayor of the 
        District of Columbia as follows:
                    (A) Prior to appointment, the District of 
                Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
                Management Assistance Authority (hereafter in 
                this subsection referred to as the 
                ``Authority'') may submit recommendations for 
                the appointment to the Mayor.
                    (B) In consultation with the Authority and 
                the Council of the District of Columbia, the 
                Mayor shall nominate an individual for 
                appointment and notify the Council of the 
                nomination.
                    (C) After the expiration of the 7-day 
                period which begins on the date the Mayor 
                notifies the Council of the nomination under 
                subparagraph (B), the Mayor shall notify the 
                Authority of the nomination.
                    (D) The nomination shall be effective 
                subject to approval by a majority vote of the 
                Authority.
            (2) Removal.--During a control year, the Chief of 
        the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of 
        Columbia may be removed by the Authority or by the 
        Mayor with the approval of the Authority.
            (3) Control year defined.--In this subsection, the 
        term ``control year'' has the meaning given such term 
        in section 305(4) of the District of Columbia Financial 
        Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995.
    (c) Effective Date.--This section shall be effective as of 
April 21, 1998.
    Sec. 10008. Support for Democratic Opposition in Iraq. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds made 
available under the heading ``Economic Support Fund'' in Public 
Law 105-118, $5,000,000 shall be made available for assistance 
to the Iraqi democratic opposition for such activities as 
organization, training, communication and dissemination of 
information, developing and implementing agreements among 
opposition groups, compiling information to support the 
indictment of Iraqi officials for war crimes, and for related 
purposes: Provided, That within 30 days of enactment into law 
of this Act the Secretary of State shall submit a detailed 
report to the appropriate committees of Congress on plans to 
establish a program to support the democratic opposition in 
Iraq.
    This Act may be cited as the ``1998 Supplemental 
Appropriations and Rescissions Act''.
    And the Senate agree to the same.
                                   Bob Livingston,
                                   Joseph M. McDade,
                                   Bill Young,
                                   Ralph Regula,
                                   Jerry Lewis,
                                   John Edward Porter,
                                   Harold Rogers,
                                   Joe Skeen,
                                   Frank R. Wolf,
                                   Jim Kolbe,
                                   Ron Packard,
                                   Sonny Callahan,
                                   James T. Walsh,
                                   John P. Murtha
                                           (except for IMF and section 
                                               8 housing rescission),
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Thad Cochran,
                                   Arlen Specter,
                                   Pete V. Domenici,
                                   C.S. Bond,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Mitch McConnell,
                                   Conrad Burns,
                                   Richard C. Shelby,
                                   Judd Gregg,
                                   R.F. Bennett,
                                   Ben Nighthorse Campbell,
                                   Larry Craig,
                                   Lauch Faircloth,
                                   Kay Bailey Hutchison,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                   D.K. Inouye,
                                   Ernest F. Hollings,
                                   Patrick J. Leahy,
                                   Dale Bumpers,
                                   Frank R. Lautenberg,
                                   Tom Harkin,
                                   Barbara A. Mikulski,
                                   Harry Reid,
                                   Byron L. Dorgan,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.
       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

      The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at 
the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on 
the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3579) making 
emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes, submit the 
following joint statement to the House and Senate in 
explanation of the effects of the action agreed upon by the 
managers and recommended in the accompanying report.
      Report language included by the House in the report 
accompanying H.R. 3579 (H. Rept. 105-469) which is not changed 
by the report accompanying S. 1768 (S. Rept. 105-168), and 
Senate report language not changed by the conference are 
approved by the committee of conference. The statement of the 
managers, while repeating some report language for emphasis, is 
not intended to negate the language referred to above unless 
expressly provided herein.

 TITLE I--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 
                                DEFENSE

                               CHAPTER 1

                    Department of Defense--Military

      Chapter 1 of the conference agreement recommends a total 
of $2,834,775,000 in new budget authority for the Department of 
Defense, for costs resulting from ongoing contingency 
operations in Southwest Asia and Bosnia, storm damage at 
defense facilities, and other urgent requirements. Chapter 2 of 
this conference agreement contains additional emergency 
appropriations associated with military construction.
      Of the funds provided in this Chapter, the conferees 
recommend $2,040,500,000 in emergency supplemental 
appropriations to finance personnel and operations and 
maintenance costs associated with contingency operations in 
Southwest Asia and Bosnia. In addition, the conferees recommend 
a total of $231,275,000 for the repair of defense facilities 
damaged by natural disasters. Of this amount, $125,528,000 is 
designated as contingent emergency appropriations, to be made 
available upon the President's submission of a subsequent 
budget request designating the entire amount as an emergency 
requirement.
      The following table provides details of the emergency 
supplemental appropriations in this Chapter for contingency 
operations and natural disasters.

                               SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE                               
                                            [In thousands of dollars]                                           
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                  Budget request       House          Senate        Conference  
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contingency operations--Military personnel:                                                                     
    Army........................................         184,000         184,000         184,000         184,000
    Navy........................................          22,300          22,300          22,300          22,300
    Marine Corps................................           5,100           5,100           5,100           5,100
    Air Force...................................          10,900          10,900          10,900          10,900
    Navy Reserve................................           4,100           4,100           4,100           4,100
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
      Total.....................................         226,400         226,400         226,400         226,400
Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund...       1,621,900       1,829,900       1,556,000       1,814,100
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
      Total, contingency operations.............       1,848,300       2,056,300       1,782,400       2,040,500
                                                 ===============================================================
Natural disasters:                                                                                              
    Operation and maintenance:                                                                                  
        Army....................................           1,886           2,586           1,886           1,886
        Navy....................................          48,100          53,800          33,272          48,100
        Marine Corps............................               0          26,810               0               0
        Air Force...............................          27,400          49,200          21,509          27,400
        Defense-Wide............................           1,390           1,390           1,390           1,390
        Defense-Wide (El Nino, Ft Stewart)......          50,000               0          44,000         125,528
        Army Reserve............................             650             650             650             650
        Air Force Reserve.......................             229             229             229             229
        Army National Guard.....................             175           5,925             175             175
        Air National Guard......................               0             975               0               0
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
          Total.................................         129,830         141,565         103,111         205,358
                                                 ===============================================================
    Working capital funds:                                                                                      
        Navy Working Capital Fund...............          23,017          30,467          23,017          23,017
        Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund.......           1,000           1,000           1,000           1,000
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
          Total.................................          24,017          31,467          24,017          24,017
                                                 ===============================================================
    Defense Health Program......................           1,900           1,900           1,900           1,900
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
          Total, Natural Disaster Relief........         155,747         174,932         129,028         231,275
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                     contingency operations funding

      The conferees agree to reduce the Department of Defense 
budget request for contingency operations in Southwest Asia by 
$50,000,000 for drawdown authority that will not be required in 
support of U.S. operations. The conferees also agree to reduce 
the budget request for operations in Bosnia by $7,900,000 for 
excessive infrastructure development costs.

                    Disaster Relief Transfer Account

      Under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-
Wide'', the conference agreement includes $125,528,000, which 
is available for transfer to the applicable appropriations 
accounts, to cover the cost of storm damage at military 
facilities. This amount reflects updated storm damage costs 
provided by the Department of Defense. The following table 
displays the revised estimates of the storm damage caused by El 
Nino and tornadoes at Fort Stewart, Georgia. The conferees 
recognize that more complete damage assessments may require the 
Department to adjust the priority for funding between these 
accounts.

                        [In thousands of dollars]                       
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                         Ft.            
                                             El Nino   Stewart    Total 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Operation and maintenance, Army...........       700    40,300    41,000
Operation and maintenance, Navy...........     6,861  ........     6,861
Operation and maintenance, Marine Corps...    27,185  ........    27,185
Operation and maintenance, Air Force......    21,800  ........    21,800
Operation and maintenance, Army National                                
 Guard....................................     5,750     3,200     8,950
Operation and maintenance, Air National                                 
 Guard....................................       975  ........       975
Navy Working Capital Fund.................    18,757  ........    18,757
                                           -----------------------------
      Total...............................    82,028    43,500   125,528
------------------------------------------------------------------------

           emergency use of funds for infrastructure projects

      The conferees direct that funds provided to the Overseas 
Contingency Operations Transfer Fund may not be used to 
construct or modify any facility or project where the costs 
exceed $2,000,000. Funds for such military construction 
projects in the Southwest Asia or Bosnia theaters of operations 
shall be requested by the Department of Defense and approved 
through the usual authorization and appropriation process.

                                 logcap

      The conferees are aware that the Army recently has 
entered into a Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) 
contract with a new contractor to provide various world-wide 
logistics services. The conferees understand that despite this 
new contract, the previous LOGCAP provider was allowed to 
continue providing services in the Bosnia theater of operations 
due to the possibility that U.S. forces could be withdrawn 
within a matter of months. Given the President's decision to 
extend the Bosnia mission indefinitely, the conferees direct 
the Army to carefully reassess the costs and benefits of its 
decision to retain the old LOGCAP contractor in Bosnia and to 
take action to change its Bosnia contractor if appropriate. The 
Secretary of Defense shall report to the congressional defense 
committees by June 1, 1998, on the results of this review.

                          classified programs

      The conference agreement concerning classified activities 
requested by the Administration is contained in a classified 
annex to this statement of the managers.

               Reserve Mobilization Income Insurance Fund

      In section 3 of the General Provisions, the conferees 
recommend $47,000,000 for the Reserve Mobilization Income 
Insurance Fund instead of $37,000,000 as proposed by the House. 
The Senate did not address this issue. The Department of 
Defense has recently advised the conferees that $47,000,000 is 
required to cover all remaining obligations for pending and 
future member appeals for this program. The conferees believe 
that this additional funding will resolve the outstanding 
financial obligations for those Reservists who participated in 
this program.

       Enhancements to Selected Theater Missile Defense Programs

      In section 9 of the General Provisions, the conferees 
agree to provide $179,000,000 for selected theater missile 
defense programs. The conferees direct that the following 
amounts shall be made available only for the following 
purposes: $35,000,000 for Patriot/Aegis/GBR integration; 
$15,000,000 for Patriot Remote Launch; $40,000,000 for PAC-3 
and Navy Area Demonstration; $6,000,000 for Enhanced Early 
Warning; $38,000,000 for Navy Theater Wide Missile Defense 
(Navy Upper-Tier); and $45,000,000 for the Arrow Deployability 
Program. The additional investment in the Arrow Deployability 
Program is made available for the purpose of purchasing 
components for a third Arrow battery.

                Youth Development and Leadership Program

      In section 13 of the General Provisions, the conferees 
agree to provide $300,000 for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs) to initiate the Outdoor 
Odyssey Youth Development and Leadership program. These funds 
are to be derived by transfer from the fiscal year 1998 Navy 
research, development, test and evaluation account (surface 
combatant combat system engineering, TBMD/UYQ-70). Funds are to 
assist a non-profit corporation to acquire suitable property 
and facilities and to initiate operation of a youth training 
program patterned after successful Marine Corps and Army 
National Guard methods and procedures. Special emphasis is 
expected to be given towards educating and recruiting qualified 
youth for possible duty in the armed forces. The conferees 
direct that funds for property acquisition be obligated within 
thirty days of enactment.

                          Disabled Health Care

      The conferees are aware that many CHAMPUS beneficiaries 
under the age of 65, who are entitled to Medicare on the basis 
of disability, do not know they must purchase Medicare Part B 
in order to have CHAMPUS as a secondary payer to Medicare. The 
Department has recently identified these beneficiaries and 
notified them of their ineligibility for CHAMPUS. However, 
notices were sent out on March 20, 1998, just prior to the 
Medicare enrollment closing date of March 31, 1998. The 
conferees believe this may not have provided beneficiaries 
sufficient time to enroll in Part B. In addition, for those who 
have enrolled, there will be a gap in coverage before the Part 
B policy takes effect. Therefore, the conferees have included 
section 15 in the General Provisions that will permit the use 
of fiscal year 1998 Defense Health Program funds to cover this 
potential temporary gap in health care for the disabled until 
they are covered or enrolled in Medicare Part B.

                            Bosnia Demining

      In section 16 of the General Provisions, the conferees 
agree to provide $28,000,000 to be deposited in the 
International Trust Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for 
Demining, Mine Clearance, and Assistance to Mine Victims in 
Bosnia and Herzegovina. The United States program and amounts 
appropriated will be administered by the State Department. 
Funding shall be deposited in two equal installments to the 
extent others have contributed matching amounts. It is the 
conferees' intent that the amounts deposited and interest 
earned may be expended by the Republic of Slovenia only in 
consultation with the United States Government and with the 
concurrence of the Fund's Board of Advisors. Any submission to 
the United States government for reimbursement of funds 
appropriated in this act must be made utilizing an 
internationally recognized accounting method in compliance with 
accepted United States government accounting standards and 
principals. The conferees recommend that the President 
nominate, after consultation with the United States Congress, 
at least two citizens of the United States for membership on 
the Fund's Board of Advisors, and that membership on the Board 
shall be proportionate to the percentage of the United States 
government's contribution to the Fund.
      The conferees agree that in the use of these funds, all 
economically feasible and commercially available equipment may 
be considered for demining activities. Some portion of these 
funds is directed for the flail method of demining. This method 
includes a robotically-controlled, skid-steer mobile unit with 
a flail attachment that detonatesmines without human risk. 
Funds may be used to procure this type of equipment. To provide 
necessary support facilities, the conferees direct that funds also be 
made available for the Ultimate Building Machine system currently used 
by the armed forces to rapidly construct low cost, durable, semi-
permanent structures.

                       bioenvironmental research

      The fiscal year 1998 Defense Appropriations Act provided 
$5,000,000 to the Defense Special Weapons Agency for 
bioenvironmental research. The conferees direct that this 
funding be used only for continuation of the Agency's core five 
year, integrated bioenvironmental hazards research program that 
focuses primarily on the development of biosensors and 
biomarkers of exposure for human and ecological 
bioenvironmental problems relevant to DoD.

                       air battle captain program

      The conferees are concerned that the Army is not 
complying with directives of the conferees on the fiscal year 
1998 Defense Appropriations Act and those of the Senate on this 
bill regarding the Air Battle Captain program. The conferees 
are disturbed with the apparent decision not to comply with 
these directives. The conferees reiterate their strongly held 
view that the Army shall obligate funds to cover the ongoing 
program and to initiate the recruitment of new students for the 
fall 1998 program.

                       white sands missile range

      The conferees understand that the White Sands Missile 
Range is in the process of completing civilian personnel 
drawdowns to reach personnel levels assumed in the fiscal year 
1999 Department of Defense budget. The conferees direct that 
the Army take no actions to implement any personnel reductions 
below the levels assumed in the fiscal year 1999 Department of 
Defense budget without notifying the congressional defense 
committees 45 days prior to taking any such action.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

      The conferees agree to delete language, as proposed by 
the House, which limits the availability of funds provided in 
this chapter to the current fiscal year unless otherwise 
specified.
      The conferees agree to retain section 1, as proposed by 
the Senate, which provides funds to ``Overseas Humanitarian, 
Disaster, and Civic Aid'' for a grant to the American Red Cross 
for Armed Forces emergency services and for reimbursement for 
disaster relief at overseas locations.
      The conferees agree to restore section 2, as proposed by 
the House, which provides technical language regarding 
obligation of funds in this Act for intelligence-related 
programs.
      The conferees agree to delete language, as proposed by 
the Senate, which requires the Secretary of the Army to comply 
with a 1991 Memorandum of Agreement with the Washington State 
Parks and Recreation Commission concerning the Yakima Training 
Center.
      The conferees agree to restore and amend section 3, as 
proposed by the House, to provide $47,000,000 for the Reserve 
Mobilization Income Insurance Fund.
      The conferees agree to retain section 4, as proposed by 
the Senate, which urges the President to seek burdensharing 
contributions from other nations to help defray the cost of 
United States deployments in the Gulf region.
      The conferees agree to restore and amend section 5, as 
proposed by the House, which establishes an independent panel 
to evaluate the quality of health care initiatives begun by the 
Department of Defense.
      The conferees agree to retain section 6, as proposed by 
the Senate, which transfers funds from ``Chemical Agents and 
Munitions Destruction, Defense'' to ``Operation and 
Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' for civil military programs.
      The conferees agree to delete language, as proposed by 
the Senate, which prohibits the Army from proceeding with 
civilian personnel reductions at all Army Test Ranges.
      The conferees agree to retain and amend section 7, as 
proposed by the Senate, which urges the President to enter into 
an agreement with NATO regarding a schedule for achieving 
benchmarks for a continued United States force presence in 
Bosnia.
      The conferees agree to retain section 8, as proposed by 
the Senate, which concerns participants of the National Guard 
Youth Challenge Program and their eligibility for enlistment in 
the military.
      The conferees agree to retain and amend section 9, as 
proposed by the Senate, which provides funds for selected 
theater missile defense programs.
      The conferees agree to retain section 10, as proposed by 
the Senate, which allows the Secretary of Defense to lease land 
near the Massachusetts Military Reservation.
      The conferees agree to delete language, as proposed by 
the Senate, concerning the termination date of the National 
Defense Panel.
      The conferees agree to retain section 11, as proposed by 
the Senate, which provides funds for ``Aircraft Procurement, 
Navy'' for eight F/A-18 aircraft for the Marine Corps.
      The conferees agree to include section 12 concerning 
obligation of funds for disaster information management.
      The conferees agree to include section 13 concerning a 
youth development and leadership program.
      The conferees agree to include section 14 which allows 
the Department of Defense to dispose of residual fuel.
      The conferees agree to include section 15 concerning 
CHAMPUS beneficiaries, under the age of 65, who are entitled to 
Medicare on the basis of disability.
      The conferees agree to retain and amend section 16, as 
proposed by the Senate, which provides funds for demining, mine 
clearance, and assistance to mine victims in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina.
      The conferees agree to restore and amend section 17, as 
proposed by the House, which expresses the sense of the 
Congress that the conduct of offensive operations by United 
States forces against Iraq should be specifically authorized by 
law.
      The conferees agree to include section 18 which directs 
the Department of Defense to expeditiously process claims as a 
result of the air tragedy in Italy.

                               CHAPTER 2

              Department of Defense--Military Construction

      The conferees provide a total of $25,220,000, of which 
$17,100,000 is designated as an emergency, for damage related 
to Typhoon Paka, and $8,120,000 is provided as a contingent 
emergency for storm damage, as follows:

               military construction, army national guard

      The conferees provide $3,700,000 as a contingent 
emergency appropriation in order to demolish and replace 
buildings destroyed by storm damage at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

                 family housing, navy and marine corps

      The conferees recommend $15,600,000, as requested, for 
repair of family housing units, fences, damaged landscaping, 
and debris removal at Naval Station Marianas, Guam, as a result 
of Typhoon Paka. In addition, the conferees recommend 
$2,500,000 as a contingent emergency, for repair of foundation 
slabs, pipes, erosion, and family housing units in California, 
associated with damages from El Nino.

                       family housing, air force

      The conferees recommend $1,500,000, as requested, for the 
repair of family housing units, debris removal, and replacement 
of furnishings at Andersen AFB, Guam, as a result of Typhoon 
Paka. In addition, the conferees recommend $900,000 for repair 
of family housing at Vandenberg AFB, California, associated 
with damages from El Nino. This funding was requested under 
``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide'', as a contingent 
emergency.

             base realignment and closure account, part iii

      The conferees recommend $1,020,000 for repairs to an 
ongoing project to provide an Aircraft Parking Apron at Camp 
Pendleton Marine Corps Air Station, California, for replacement 
of a protective berm surrounding the fuel farm facility, which 
was damaged as a result of El Nino. This funding was requested 
under ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide'', as a 
contingent emergency.

                    family housing improvement fund

      The Department of Defense is delaying the execution of 
family housing construction projects for which funds have been 
appropriated, for possible transfer into the Family Housing 
Improvement Fund. Funds that were appropriated for specific 
construction projects should be executed as justified to the 
Congress. The conferees support the Department's privatization 
efforts through the authorities that reside in the Fund, but 
intend that previously approved construction projects proceed 
in order to improve the quality of life for service members and 
their families at the earliest possible date.
      The President's Budget for fiscal year 1999 indicates 
that the Family Housing Improvement Fund had an unobligated 
balance of $28,000,000 available at the beginning of fiscal 
year 1998, and that no further funds would be transferred into 
the Fund during fiscal year 1998. Thus, based on the 
Administration's budget, this balance is sufficient to carry 
out planned activities throughout fiscal year 1998, and the 
execution of previously approved construction projects will 
cause no delays in privatization efforts. The conferees intend 
to review the operation of the Fund in detail in action on the 
budget request for fiscal year 1999.
      The conferees note that, on April 22, 1998, the 
Department of the Army cancelled the proposed award of the 
whole-installation capital venture initiative project at Fort 
Carson, Colorado. This contact would have been the first 
exercise of the authority sought by the Department of Defense 
and enacted in the National Defense Authorization Act for 
fiscal year 1996 on February 10, 1996 (section 2801 of Public 
Law 104-106, 10 U.S.C. 2871). The Army's decision was based 
upon litigation in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and has 
resulted in re-examination of the acquisition process. The Army 
is now studying corrective action alternatives, including a 
return to best and final offers and resolicitation. The 
conferees are concerned about this development, and will follow 
further events closely in order to review the operation of this 
program and the Department of Defense's management of Service 
activities.

              camp pendleton marine corps base, california

      The conferees direct that not later than 30 days after 
enactment, the Secretary of the Navy provide a report detailing 
the cost of the 1993 flood, any corrective actions taken 
subsequent to the flood, the cost of the corrective actions, 
and the impact of the current flooding on the bridge 
replacement and river flood control, Santa Margarita 
construction projects as authorized and appropriated in fiscal 
year 1998.

                     picatinny arsenal, new jersey

      In fiscal year 1998, $1,300,000 was provided for design 
of the Armament Software Engineering Center (ASEC) at Picatinny 
Arsenal. The conferees urge the Department of the Army to 
release this funding without delay.

                           General Provision

      Sec. 20. The conferees have included a provision relating 
to a project at North Island Naval Air Station, California, for 
which funds were appropriated in Public Law 104-196.

            TITLE II--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                               CHAPTER 1

                       Department of Agriculture

                          Farm Service Agency

           AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT

                        EMERGENCY INSURED LOANS

      The conference agreement provides a subsidy of 
$21,000,000 for emergency insured loans as proposed by both the 
House and Senate. The subsidy will support an estimated loan 
level of $87,400,000. The conference agreement deletes 
supplemental appropriations of $5,400,000 for subsidized 
guaranteed operating loans and $3,200,000 for direct farm 
operating loans as proposed by the Senate.

                     EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM

      The conference agreement provides $30,000,000 for the 
emergency conservation program instead of $20,000,000 as 
proposed by the House and $60,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement also includes $4,000,000 for 
maple producers to replace taps and tubing damaged by ice 
storms in the northeast instead of $4,480,000 as proposed by 
the Senate. The House bill had no similar provision.

                        TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

      The conference agreement provides $14,000,000 for the 
tree assistance program instead of $4,700,000 as proposed by 
the House and $8,700,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement also adds bill language to 
exclude producers from receiving assistance for trees used for 
pulp and/or timber.

                   Commodity Credit Corporation Fund

                 Livestock Disaster Assistance Program

      The conference agreement provides $4,000,000 for 
livestock disaster assistance as proposed by both the House and 
Senate.
      The conference agreement also makes producers of ratites 
eligible for compensation under this program as proposed by the 
House.

              DAIRY PRODUCTION DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

      The conference agreement provides $6,800,000 for dairy 
production disaster assistance as proposed by the House instead 
of $10,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement contains bill language to permit 
not more than $4.00 per hundredweight as compensation for 
diminished production or for milk produced but not marketed.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

               Watershed and Flood Prevention operations

      The conference agreement provides $80,000,000 for 
watershed and flood prevention operations instead of 
$65,000,000 as proposed by the House and $100,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.

                               CHAPTER 2

                    United States Information Agency

                 International Broadcasting Operations

      The conference agreement includes an additional 
$5,000,000, as proposed in the Senate bill, for the 
``International Broadcasting Operations'' account of the United 
States Information Agency, to remain available until September 
30, 1999, for the establishment of surrogate radio broadcasting 
to the Iraqi people by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which 
shall be designated ``Radio Free Iraq''. The House bill had no 
similar provision. The conferees agree that this funding shall 
provide for the total costs of such a broadcast service in 
fiscal years 1998 and 1999, including start-up costs, RFE/RL 
operational costs, and engineering and transmission costs 
incurred by the International Broadcasting Bureau. The 
conference agreement also requires the Broadcasting Board of 
Governors to submit a detailed report to the Congress, within 
30 days of enactment, containing plans for the establishment 
and operation of such a broadcast service within the amount 
provided. The conference agreement designates this amount as an 
emergency requirement, and provides that the entire amount 
shall be available only to the extent that the President 
transmits to the Congress an official budget request, 
designating the request as an emergency requirement.

                               CHAPTER 3

                      Department of Defense--Civil

                         Department of the Army

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

                         Construction, General

      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate appropriating: $8,000,000 for Archusa Dam in 
Mississippi; $25,000,000 for levee and waterway repairs at Elba 
and Geneva, Alabama; $2,500,000 for river and shoreline repairs 
along the Missouri River in South Dakota; $1,100,000 for levee 
repairs at Suisun Marsh, California; $1,400,000 for maintenance 
dredging at Apra Harbor, Guam; and $500,000 for repair of 
Mackville Dam in Vermont. The conferees note that supplemental 
funding for the Suisun Marsh project is provided to the Bureau 
of Reclamation in this chapter under the paragraph entitled 
``Water and Related Resources.'' The conferees do not intend to 
preclude the Corps from undertaking emergency repair work where 
appropriate, to the extent authorized by law.

                   Operation and Maintenance, General

      The conference agreement appropriates $105,185,000 
instead of $84,457,000 as recommended by the House and 
$30,000,000 as recommended by the Senate. The agreement deletes 
language proposed by the Senate providing for a transfer from 
the Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies account to the 
Operation and Maintenance, General account.

                       Department of the Interior

                         Bureau of Reclamation

                      Water and Related Resources

      The conference agreement appropriates $4,520,000 as 
recommended by the House to repair damage caused by floods and 
other natural disasters.

                               CHAPTER 4

            Department of the Interior and Related Agencies

      The managers understand that the estimates, which form 
the basis for many of these emergency appropriations, are based 
on preliminary damage determinations. Refinements and re-
estimates, possibly resulting in allocations different from 
preliminary projections, may be necessary. The managers expect 
funds to be provided consistent with established priorities. 
Before proceeding with final allocations to the field, the 
managers expect the agencies to provide a report that 
identifies all of the projects considered for funding, 
including any changes from earlier estimates.

                       Department of the Interior

                       Bureau of Land Management

                              Construction

      The managers have provided $1,837,000 for construction, 
contingent on a Presidential declaration of emergency, as 
proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no funds for this 
purpose.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service

                              Construction

      The managers have provided $32,818,000 for construction 
as proposed by the Senate instead of $28,938,000 as proposed by 
the House. Of that amount, $29,130,000 is contingent on a 
Presidential declaration of emergency. The allocation of these 
funds should be based on the most recent estimates and agency 
priorities, in accordance with the direction at the beginning 
of this chapter.

                         National Park Service

                              Construction

      The managers have provided $9,506,000 for construction as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $8,500,000 as proposed by the 
House. These funds are contingent on a Presidential declaration 
of emergency.

                    United States Geological Survey

                 Surveys, Investigations, and Research

      The managers have provided $1,198,000 for surveys, 
investigations, and research as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $1,000,000 as proposed by the House. These funds are 
contingent on a Presidential declaration of emergency.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                              Construction

      The managers have provided $1,065,000 for construction, 
contingent on a Presidential declaration of emergency, as 
proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no funds for this 
purpose.

                       Department of Agriculture

                             Forest Service

                       STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY

      The managers have provided $48,000,000 for State and 
private forestry as proposed by both the House and the Senate. 
Of that amount $28,000,000 is contingent on a Presidential 
declaration of emergency.

                         NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

      The managers have provided $10,461,000 for the National 
forest system as proposed by the House instead of $10,000,000 
as proposed by the Senate. Of that amount $5,461,000 is 
contingent on a Presidential declaration of emergency.
      The managers have not included $2,000,000 in non-
emergency payments to States as proposed by the Senate. The 
House had no similar provision. This issue is discussed in more 
detail in section 3006 under General Provisions for Chapter 3 
in Title III.

                        WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT

      The managers have provided $2,000,000 for wildlife fire 
management, contingent on a Presidential declaration of 
emergency, as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no 
funds for this purpose. A technical correction has also been 
made to the appropriations language.

                          Department of Energy

                      STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE

      The managers have included language which, upon a 
Presidential declaration of emergency, would negate the sale of 
Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil to pay for Reserve operations 
in fiscal year 1998. The language modifies a provision included 
by the Senate. The House had no similar provision.

                               CHAPTER 4A

                Department of Health and Human Services

               CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

                 DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH AND TRAINING

      The conference agreement deletes a provision in the 
Senate bill that provided $9,000,000 for polio eradication 
activities in Africa. The Senate bill declared the full amount 
of the appropriation an emergency for the purposes of the 
Budget Act and made obligation of the funds contingent upon a 
formal designation of the funds by the President as an 
emergency for the purposes of the Budget Act. The House bill 
contained no similar provision. Chapter 4 of Title III of the 
conference agreement provides a regular appropriation of 
$9,000,000 for polio eradication activities in Africa. These 
funds are not designated as an emergency for the purposes of 
the Budget Act.

                               CHAPTER 5

                      Department of Transportation

                     Federal Highway Administration

                          federal-aid highways

                        emergency relief program

                          (Highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement provides $259,000,000 in 
emergency appropriations for the emergency relief program to 
repair highway damage resulting from recent natural disasters 
nationwide. Of the amount provided, $224,000,000 has been 
designated by the President as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended. The conference agreement provides that 
the remaining $35,000,000 is available only if designated by 
the President as an emergency requirement.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate that provides that no announcement of allocation of 
emergency relief funds shall be made prior to 15 days after 
notification to the House and Senate Transportation 
Appropriations Subcommittees, the Senate Environment and Public 
Works Committee, and the House Transportation and 
Infrastructure Committee. The House bill contained no similar 
provision.
      The conference agreement includes a provision that 
permits the Secretary of Transportation to borrow, pending the 
reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
Efficiency Act of 1991, such sums as may be necessary for 
administrative expenses of the Federal Highway Administration, 
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the unobligated 
balances of discretionary allocations for the federal-aid 
highways program made available by this Act. The conferees 
further expect the Federal Highway Administration to proceed 
with highway research and development programs and projects to 
the extent to which funding is available after consultation 
with the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
      The conference agreement waives the per-state per-
disaster limitation for projects resulting from the fall of 
1997 through the winter of 1998 flooding in California, as 
proposed by the House. The Senate bill proposed to waive the 
limitation to projects resulting from the fall of 1997 and 
winter of 1998 flooding in the western states.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

              emergency railroad rehabilitation and repair

      The conference agreement provides $9,800,000 for 
emergency railroad rehabilitation and repair. These funds are 
available for flood and storm-related damages incurred by class 
II and III railroads from September 1, 1996 through March 31, 
1998. The House bill provided $9,000,000, of which $2,650,000 
was for flood damages in the Northern Plains states in March 
and April 1997, and $6,350,000 was for El Nino related damages 
in the fall of 1997 and winter of 1998. The Senate bill 
provided $10,600,000, of which $5,250,000 was for flood damages 
in California, West Virginia, and the Northern Plains states, 
and $5,350,000 was for storm damages in the fall of 1997 
through the winter of 1998.
      The conferees believe that, to the maximum extent 
possible, insurance should provide for damages incurred by 
railroads from floods and other natural disasters. Generally, 
the Department of Transportation should not be responsible for 
reimbursing privately owned railroads for these damages. A 
long-term approach on how to handle these damages should be 
developed. As such, the conferees direct the Secretary of 
Transportation to report to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees not later than December 31, 1998 on how future 
emergency railroad repair costs should be borne by the railroad 
industry and their underwriters. The Senate included this 
provision in bill language.

                               CHAPTER 6

              Department of Housing and Urban Development

                   Community Planning and Development

                   community development block grants

      Appropriates $130,000,000 for Community Development Block 
Grants to be used for disaster relief, long term recovery and 
mitigation in communities designated as Presidentially declared 
natural disasters during fiscal year 1998. The House had 
proposed $20,000,000 and the Senate had proposed $260,000,000. 
The House limited assistance to states affected by the January 
1998 Northeast ice storm.
      HUD is provided broad waiver authority, including the 
authority to waive statutory requirements that activities 
benefit persons of low and moderate income. States are required 
to provide a 25 percent match in nonfederal public funds, to 
administer the funds for unmet needs in conjunction with its 
FEMA program or its community development block grant program 
and to use annual disaster cost estimates. HUD must notify the 
VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Subcommittees on 
Appropriations 10 days prior to distribution of funds regarding 
how these funds are to be utilized and the most recent estimate 
of unmet needs. Additionally, HUD and FEMA must submit 
quarterly reports regarding the actual uses of the funds. These 
reports are to be based on quarterly reports submitted to HUD 
by the States that received funds.
      The conferees have serious misgivings about providing 
CDBG funds for disaster mitigation, particularly given the 
waiver authority and the possibility that the majority of the 
funds will be spent to cover the repair costs of investor-owned 
utility companies.
      In an attempt to deal with this concern, language is 
included by the conferees to require HUD to submit to the VA/
HUD subcommittees a list of the amounts of funds provided and 
the locality to which the funds are provided. HUD is directed, 
however, to allocate the funds in a fair manner to each 
jurisdiction that is eligible to receive them.

                           Independent Agency

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                            disaster relief

      Appropriates $1,600,000,000 for disaster relief as 
proposed by the Senate. The House had provided no funding for 
disaster relief. The amount provided is available only to the 
extent that an official budget request for a specific amount, 
which includes designation of the entire amount of the request 
as an emergency, is transmitted by the President to Congress.
      The conferees are concerned about the problems of 
providing emergency temporary housing to migrant farm workers 
in California and urge FEMA to take into account the special 
needs of migrant farm worker disaster victims.
      Finally, the conferees urge FEMA to approve expeditiously 
state requests under section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for buyout 
relocations designed to reduce overall disaster costs in future 
years.

                               CHAPTER 7

                              RESCISSIONS

                        Department of Education

                   Bilingual and Immigrant Education

      The conference agreement does not include a rescission of 
$75,000,000 as included in the House bill. The Senate bill 
included no similar provision.

                      Department of Transportation

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                       Grants-in-Aid for Airports

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

                 (Rescission of Contract Authorization)

      The conference agreement rescinds $241,000,000 in 
contract authority under title II. When combined with the 
rescission included under title III, the total rescission of 
contract authority in this bill is $295,000,000.

              Department of Housing and Urban Development

                       Public and Indian Housing

                 SECTION 8 RESERVE PRESERVATION ACCOUNT

                              (RESCISSION)

      Rescinds $2,347,190,000 from the Section 8 Reserve 
Preservation Account. The House proposed rescinding 
$2,193,600,000 from this account. The Senate did not include a 
similar rescission.
      These funds represent excess section 8 reserves that are 
unnecessary during the remaining portion of the current fiscal 
year. In fiscal year 1999, however, section 8 renewal needs are 
$10,800,000,000. As proposed by the President, the excess 
reserves could be used to reduce the fiscal year 1999 request, 
and thereby reduce the total appropriation for fiscal year 
1999. Clearly, the conferees understand that the section 8 
renewal account must be fully funded in order to protect the 
homes of those families who rely on the assistance.

                           Independent Agency

             Corporation for National and Community Service

       NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS OPERATING EXPENSES

                              (RESCISSION)

      Deletes language proposed by the House and stricken by 
the Senate rescinding $250,000,000 of fiscal year 1998 funds 
for National and Community Service Programs Operating Expenses.

                 TITLE III--SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

                               CHAPTER 1

                       Department of Agriculture

                        Office of the Secretary

      The conference agreement provides $543,000 to compensate 
wheat producers for economic losses associated with the 
presence or presumed presence of Karnal bunt instead of up to 
$5,000,000 as proposed in the House-reported bill, H.R. 3580. 
The Senate bill had no similar provision.

                      Departmental Administration

      The conference agreement provides $2,000,000 for 
Departmental Administration as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $4,300,000 as proposed in the House-reported bill, H.R. 
3580.

                     Office of the General Counsel

      The conference agreement provides $235,000 for the Office 
of the General Counsel as proposed in the House-reported bill, 
H.R. 3580, and by the Senate.

        Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration

                    inspection and weighing services

      The conference agreement provides $1,500,000 to 
recapitalize the revolving fund of the Grain Inspection, 
Packers and Stockyards Administration to accommodate losses in 
fiscal year 1998 and ensure the reserve has sufficient funds to 
carry out the provisions of the U.S. Grain Standards and 
Agricultural Marketing Acts. The House and Senate bills 
contained no similar provision.

                          Farm Service Agency

           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

      The conference agreement provides a subsidy of $2,389,000 
for direct farm ownership loans instead of $2,608,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $5,144,000 as proposed in the House 
reported bill, H.R. 3580. The subsidy will support an estimated 
loan level of $18,320,000.
      The conference agreement provides a subsidy of $967,000 
for guaranteed farm ownership loans as proposed in the House-
reported bill, H.R. 3580, instead of $966,197 as proposed by 
the Senate. The subsidy will support an estimated loan level of 
$25,000,000.
      The conference agreement provides a subsidy of $222,000 
for boll weevil eradication loans as proposed in the House-
reported bill, H.R. 3580, and by the Senate. The subsidy will 
support an estimated loan level of $18,814,000.
      The conference agreement provides a subsidy of $4,599,000 
for direct farm operating loans instead of $3,162,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and $626,000 as proposed in the House-
reported bill, H.R. 3580. The subsidy will support an estimated 
loan level of $70,000,000.
      The conference agreement provides a subsidy of $3,374,000 
for guaranteed subsidized farm operating loans as proposed in 
the House-reported bill, H.R. 3580. The Senate proposed a 
contingent emergency appropriation of $5,400,000. The subsidy 
will support an estimated loan level of $35,000,000.
      The Secretary of Agriculture is directed to revise the 
emergency loan program regulations to allow applicants who have 
suffered through natural disasters over the last several years 
and/or have a majority of the crops grown on leased land to be 
eligible to receive an emergency loan in fiscal year 1998 with 
reduced or waived security requirements. The conferees further 
expect the Secretary and congressional committees of 
jurisdiction to correct any unfair requirement of borrower 
ineligibility due to a lawful exercise of rights provided by 
the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987.
      The conferees are concerned about reports that county-
loss restrictions or other restrictions in the Non-insured 
Assistance Program (NAP) have worked against providing such 
last-resort disaster assistance to farmers in areas of high 
value specialty crop production. The Department is directed to 
report by July 1, 1998, NAP expenditures by state during the 
last two fiscal years, the degree to which program restrictions 
have affected the distribution of funds to any state, and to 
make recommendations to the Committee for program changes that 
would prevent such inequities in the distribution of funds.

                           Food Stamp Program

      The conference agreement deletes the words ``as amended'' 
which were included in the House-reported bill, H.R. 3580.

                Department of Health and Human Services

                      Food and Drug Administration

                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement provides language to allow the 
Food and Drug Administration to collect and spend an additional 
$25,918,000 in prescription drug user fees in fiscal year 1998 
as proposed by the Senate instead of $15,596,000 as proposed in 
the House-reported bill, H.R. 3580.
      The conference agreement also provides that fees derived 
from applications received during fiscal year 1998 shall be 
credited to the appropriation current in the year in which fees 
are collected and subject to the fiscal year 1998 limitation as 
proposed by the House.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

      The conference agreement provides that permanent 
employees of county committees employed during fiscal year 1998 
shall be considered as having Federal Civil Service status only 
for the purpose of applying for United States Department of 
Agriculture Civil Service vacancies as proposed by the Senate. 
The House bill contained no similar provision.
      The conference agreement provides bill language to permit 
funds for the Cooperative State Research, Education, and 
Extension Service competitively-awarded grants program to be 
used to pay for peer panel and review costs associated with 
that program. The House and Senate bills contained no similar 
provision.

                               CHAPTER 2

                          Department of Energy

                      Departmental Administration

      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the Senate to provide the Department of Energy the authority to 
increase the cost of work for other programs within the 
Department Administration account by $5,408,000, provided that 
the increased costs are offset by revenue increases of the same 
or greater amount.

                    atomic energy defense activities

                           weapons activities

      The conference agreement deletes the language proposed by 
the Senate to provide $4,000,000 for the development and 
demonstration of dielectric wall accelerator technology.

         defense environmental restoration and waste management

      The conferees direct the Department of Energy to find 
additional funding to accelerate the transfer of materials from 
the waste tanks at the Hanford site in Washington, and submit 
expeditiously a reprogramming request for this activity. 
Funding for this reprogramming is to be derived from within 
available balances in the defense environmental management 
accounts of the Department.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

      Section 2001. The conference agreement includes language 
vitiating OMB guidance prohibiting the award of continuing 
contracts for construction projects identified in the 
Conference Report accompanying the Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 1998. An explanation of this provision is 
included at page 5 of House Report 105-470.
      Section 2002. The conference agreement includes language 
directing the Secretary of the Army to use up to the maximum 
amount authorized per project under the Section 205 continuing 
authorities program of the Corps of Engineers to provide a 
level of enhanced flood protection at Elba, Alabama. Given the 
urgent situation, the conferees direct the Secretary to 
incorporate as part of any cost-sharing agreement for flood 
damage prevention a provision which permits the non-Federal 
sponsor to use other available Federal funding sources to 
satisfy the non-Federal share.
      Section 2003. The conference report includes language 
recommended by the Senate making a technical correction to 
legislation extending the periods of repayments of the Nueces 
River and Canadian River reclamation projects in Texas.
      Section 2004. The conference agreement includes language 
proposed by the Senate exempting the worker transition plan for 
Federal employees at the Pinellas Plant in Florida from section 
303 of Public Law 105-62, the Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 1998. The work force restructuring plan to 
support the accelerated closure of the plant was developed 
prior to enactment of the fiscal year 1998 appropriation.
      Provision not included in the conference agreement. The 
conference agreement deletes language recommended by the House 
and Senate prohibiting the Corps of Engineers from performing 
certain work at the Kennewick Man discovery site. The conferees 
understand that the work has already been completed.

                               CHAPTER 2A

                      International Monetary Fund

      The Senate amendment provided appropriations of 
$14,500,000,000 for an increase in the United States quota at 
the International Monetary Fund and $3,400,000,000 for the 
proposed New Arrangements to Borrow, as requested by the 
President. The House bill did not address these matters.
      The House Appropriations Committee has reported H.R. 
3580, a non-emergency supplemental appropriations bill that 
includes amounts for the International Monetary Fund and the 
New Arrangements to Borrow that are identical with the 
appropriations in the Senate amendment.
      The managers have deferred consideration of these matters 
without prejudice until later in the 105th Congress, with the 
understanding that the House will first consider both the quota 
increase for the International Monetary Fund and the request 
for the New Arrangements to Borrow.

                               CHAPTER 3

                       Department of the Interior

                         National Park Service

                 Operation of the National Park System

      The managers have provided $340,000 for operation of the 
National park system to be used to lease lands in Katmai 
National Park and Preserve. The managers note that a Federal 
district court recently upheld an application for an allotment 
of key lands in Katmai National Park and Preserve, and are 
advised that the location of the private lands will create a 
major disruption to park visitors in the upcoming season. The 
managers therefore have provided $340,000 to enable the Park 
Service to lease the inholdings, depicted in United States 
Survey 7623, in order to provide full public access, and to 
cover costs related to the recent litigation.
      To prevent the need to provide these lease moneys on an 
annual basis, the managers direct the Secretary of the Interior 
to begin immediate negotiations to secure permanent full public 
access through acquisition of the inholding depicted in United 
States Survey 7623, permanent conservation and access easements 
on the inholdings, land exchange, or a combination thereof. By 
July 1, 1998 the Secretary should report to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations on progress toward such an 
acquisition arrangement and inform the Committees whether a 
Declaration of Taking is necessary and would lead to a timely 
acquisition for the 1999 visitor season. If no agreement has 
been signed by July 15, 1998, the Secretary should advise the 
Committees of all other alternatives and any additional 
authority necessary for the Park Service or any other land 
management agency.

                      Minerals Management Service

                Royalty and Offshore Minerals Management

      The managers have provided $6,675,000 for royalty and 
offshore minerals management as proposed by both the House and 
the Senate. These funds are to be derived from increased 
receipts.
      The managers are aware of the success of the past four 
lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and understand that, since 
enactment of the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act, revenues from 
lease sales in the deep water have been more than $1.2 billion 
in excess of estimates. Furthermore, the managers expect that 
existing financial terms will be maintained for lease sales in 
the remaining incentive period, including minimum bids and 
royalty rates.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

                    Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund

                          (Transfer of Funds)

      The managers have provided $3,163,000 for the abandoned 
mine reclamation fund as proposed by both the House and the 
Senate. These funds are to be derived by transfer from the 
regulation and technology account.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                      Operation of Indian Programs

      The managers have provided $1,050,000 for operation of 
Indian programs as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

             Office of Special Trustee for American Indians

                         federal trust programs

      The managers have provided $4,650,000 for Federal trust 
programs as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

                Department of Health and Human Services

                         Indian Health Service

                         Indian Health Services

      The managers have provided $100,000 for Indian health 
services as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no funds 
for this purpose.
      The managers are concerned about the alarming rate of 
suicide attempts in Indian country, especially among youth and 
young adults. The managers intend to address this problem more 
fully in the context of the fiscal year 1999 appropriation. The 
$100,000 provided in this supplemental appropriation is 
intended to allow the Indian Health Service to begin to target 
especially troubling situations on an emergency basis. One 
example is the situation on the Standing Rock Sioux 
Reservation. The managers expect the Service to report to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, within 30 days 
of enactment of this Act, on what is being done to address the 
problem at Standing Rock and similar problems on other 
reservations.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

      Section 3001.--The managers have included language as 
proposed by the House making certain Indian Health Service 
diabetes funding available until expended. The Senate had no 
similar provision.
      Section 3002.--The managers have included language as 
proposed by the Senate dealing with construction of the 
Trappers Loop connector road. The House had no similar 
provision.
      Section 3003.--The managers have included language as 
proposed by the Senate dealing with an easement across National 
Forest lands for the Boulder City Pipeline. The House had no 
similar provision.
      Section 3004.--The managers have included language which 
modifies a provision proposed by the Senate dealing with the 
transfer of portable housing units at the Grand Forks Air Force 
Base in North Dakota to Indian tribes in North and South 
Dakota. The House had no similar provision. The modification 
adds language stipulating that the Department of the Interior 
is not responsible for rehabilitating the units for remediation 
of hazardous substances.
      Section 3005.--The managers have included language as 
proposed by the Senate to adjust the boundaries of the 
Petroglyph National Monument to allow for construction of a 
road. The House had no similar provision.
      Section 3006.--The managers have included language which 
modifies a provision proposed by the Senate regarding county 
payment mitigation for revenue that may be lost due to a 
proposed Forest Service moratorium on building roads in 
roadless areas. The House had no similar provision.
      The managers disagree with the Forest Service's proposed 
moratorium on road building in roadless areas. The managers 
consider such a moratorium to be in conflict with orderly 
project planning which results from land management planning 
activities. Despite this disagreement with the Administration's 
actions, nothing in this section prohibits or delays the Forest 
Service from implementing the moratorium subject to whatever 
legal challenges which may occur pursuant to existing law.
      The managers have made several modifications to the bill 
language proposed by the Senate. The managers have inserted new 
language clarifying that the provision neither endorses nor 
prohibits any road building moratorium resulting from the 
Forest Service proposal of January 28, 1998, and that the 
provision does not affect the applicability of existing law to 
any moratorium. The managers also have inserted new language 
which clarifies that previously scheduled timber sales to be 
considered for compensation or substitution should be those 
which were scheduled as of October 1, 1997, or thereafter. The 
managers have not provided an appropriation of $2,000,000, as 
was proposed by the Senate, to cover part of the cost of 
compensating States for lost timber-receipt revenue caused by a 
road building moratorium. Instead, the managers have provided 
authority to the Chief of the Forest Service to make the State 
payments using any funds available to the Forest Service in 
fiscal year 1998 or 1999, subject to the advance approval of 
the House of Senate Committees on Appropriations. The managers 
have maintained the language proposed by the Senate to 
accomplish three reports. The managers have not stipulated, as 
proposed by the Senate, that funds for the study, inventory and 
analysis required for the three reports should come from funds 
appropriated for Forest Research. The managers allow the Chief 
to use existing funds at his discretion to complete these three 
reports, subject to normal reprogramming procedures.
      Section 3007.--The managers have included language as 
proposed by the Senate making a technical correction to a 
provision of law dealing with certain health care services for 
Alaska Natives. The House had no similar provision. The 
language amends Title II of the Michigan Indian Land Claims 
Settlement Act to clarify the terms under which the Indian 
Health Service awards a contract or compact in the Ketchikan 
Gateway Borough and to identify the Alaska Native groups 
affected by the title.
      Section 3008.--The managers have included language as 
proposed by the Senate making a technical correction to a 
provision in the fiscal year 1998 Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act dealing with self-determination contracts 
and compacts for health care services to Alaska Natives. The 
House had no similar provision.
      The managers have not included bill language as proposed 
by the Senate regarding Floyd Bennett Field in New York City. 
The managers are aware, however, of ongoing discussions among 
the City of New York, the Department of Transportation and the 
Department of the Interior regarding the New York Police 
Department's proposed use for air and sea rescue and public 
safety purposes of the facility at Floyd Bennett Field that is 
to be decommissioned by the U.S. Coast Guard on May 22, 1998. 
The managers encourage all parties involved to continue these 
discussions, and direct the Secretaries of Transportation and 
the Interior to report to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science 
and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure on the status of these discussions no later 
than May 15, 1998.
      The managers have not included language proposed by the 
Senate prohibiting the promulgation and issuance of certain 
Indian gaming regulations. The House had no similar provision.
      Section 3009.--The managers have included language 
placing a moratorium on the issuance of final regulations by 
the Minerals Management Service on the valuation of crude oil 
for royalty purposes. This moratorium will remain in effect 
until October 1, 1998. The managers expect the Service to 
report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as 
soon as possible on the proposed regulations, including a 
description of the comments the Service has received and how 
those comments have been addressed.
      The managers considered, but did not adopt, language that 
would adjust the boundaries of the Coastal Barrier Resources 
System in Florida. These adjustments were enacted into law in 
1996 but were not implemented because the maps needed to make 
the adjustments were not received by the Fish and Wildlife 
Service in a timely manner. Evidently, these maps were lost in 
the mail and therefore were not on file at the time the 
legislation was enacted. The managers intend to look into this 
matter further and work with the legislative committees of 
jurisdiction to determine if a legislative remedy can be 
identified in the context of the fiscal year 1999 
appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies or some other legislative vehicle.

                               CHAPTER 4

                Department of Health and Human Services

               Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

                disease control, research, and training

      The conference agreement includes $9,000,000 for polio 
eradication activities in Africa. The Senate bill provided the 
same amount, declared the funding as an emergency for the 
purposes of the Budget Act, and conditioned the obligation of 
such funding on the submissions by the President of a request 
designating the full amount as an emergency for the purposes of 
the Budget Act. The House bill contained no similar provision.

                  Health Care Financing Administration

                           program management

      The conference agreement includes $2,200,000 for the 
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) for program 
administration. The House included $16,000,000 for this account 
in H.R. 3580 as reported from the House Committee. The Senate 
bill included no similar provision.
      The conferees are very concerned that Medicare 
contractors will not be able to address their Year 2000 
computer requirements in time for the century change. Failure 
to meet these requirements could seriously disrupt the Medicare 
program which finances health care for over 30 million of our 
most vulnerable citizens. The conference agreement modifies 
language included in Public Law 105-78, the Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, to allow $20,000,000 to be 
used to supplement contractor budgets to meet these 
obligations.
      The conferees also understand that most, if not all, 
contractors refused to sign contract amendments assuring HCFA 
that the necessary software changes would be made. The 
conferees direct HCFA to report to the Committees on 
Appropriations on a regular basis during the rest of this 
fiscal year and during fiscal year 1999 on the progress that 
contractors are making to comply with the necessary Year 2000 
fixes by the Department's imposed deadline of December 31, 
1998. If the progress is not satisfactory, the Committees 
intend to provide additional enforcement tools to the 
Department to assure compliance in the fiscal year 1999 
appropriations bill.
      The conferees note that there has been considerable 
controversy about the accuracy of data originally used by HCFA 
in developing Medicare physician practice expense regulations. 
Concerns have been expressed that reductions in Medicare 
reimbursements for certain specialists, based on these data, 
could affect physician willingness to provide services to 
Medicare and therefore reduce beneficiaries' access to care. 
During the fiscal year 1999 appropriations process, it may be 
necessary to consider the use or collection of additional data 
to give a more accurate picture of physician practice expense 
costs.

                        Office of the Secretary

                    general departmental management

      The conference agreement includes language proposed in 
H.R. 3580 as reported from the House Committee to ensure that 
funds appropriated in Public Law 105-78, the Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, for the Adolescent Family 
Life program are allocated in a manner consistent with 
Congressional intent. The Senate bill included similar 
language.

                        Department of Education

                           Special Education

      The conference agreement includes language proposed in 
H.R. 3580 as reported from the House Committee modified to 
ensure that $600,000 is spent in fiscal year 1998 for the Early 
Childhood Development Project of the National Easter Seal 
Society for the Mississippi Delta Region. This project was 
specifically identified for funding in the conference report on 
the FY 1998 appropriations bill, as it had been also in the 
House and Senate committee reports. The modified language 
provides that the funds are to be derived from funds available 
for research and innovation under section 672 of the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and that they shall 
be used to provide training, technical support, services and 
equipment to address personnel and other needs. The Senate bill 
included no similar provision.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

      The conference agreement includes language proposed in 
H.R. 3580 as reported from the House Committee which allows a 
State's ``State Children's Health Insurance Program'' plan 
under title XXI of the Social Security Act to be approved up 
until September 30, 1999 and enable the State still to be 
eligible for its FY 1998 allotment. The language would also 
postpone to the end of FY 1999 the Administration's 
statutoryobligation to reapportion to other States any unused FY 1998 
funds. The Senate bill included no similar provision.
      The conference agreement includes language that was not 
contained in either the House or Senate bills that would extend 
the comment period on the final rule entitled ``Organ 
Procurement and Transplantation Network'' until August 31, 
1998. The agreement also prohibits such rule from becoming 
effective before October 1, 1998.
      The conference agreement does not include an 
authorization, included in the Senate bill, for the Safe 
Schools Security Act. This provision would have authorized up 
to $2,250,000 to establish a School Security Center, 
administered by the Attorney General, to provide technical 
assistance to improve school security. The provision would also 
have authorized up to $10,000,000 for competitive grants to 
Local Education Agencies to assist them in acquiring school 
security technology and carry out programs to improve school 
security. The House bill contained no similar provision.
      The conferees are concerned with the recent outbreaks of 
school violence as exemplified by the tragedies in Edinboro, 
PA; Pearl, MS; West Paducah, KY; and Jonesboro, AR. While the 
conferees recognize the complexity of the problem, they 
understand that no single approach, by itself, will prevent 
such tragedies. However, the conferees are aware that new 
technology is available to address school crime and violence.
      The conferees encourage the Department of Education to 
utilize funds within the Safe and Drug Free Schools and 
Communities Act to support grants to districts that exhibit the 
most serious crime problems. Such funds could be used to 
acquire security technology, support security assessments, and 
other assistance aimed at improving school security through the 
use of technology.

                               CHAPTER 5

                           Legislative Branch

                        congressional operations

                        House of Representatives

      Payments to Widows and Heirs of Deceased Members of Congress

      The conferees have agreed to provide funds for the 
customary death gratuity for the widow of Walter Capps, late a 
Representative of the State of California, and for the widow of 
Sonny Bono, late a Representative of the State of California. 
The amounts provided reflect the annual salary of Mr. Capps and 
Mr. Bono at the time of their deaths.

                        Architect of the Capitol

                     Capitol Buildings and Grounds

                           Capitol Buildings

                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $7,500,000 for 
repairs and rehabilitation of the U.S. Capitol dome, as 
proposed in the Senate amendment. The conferees agree that this 
work must proceed without delay due to the extent of 
deterioration of the structural elements of the interstitial 
space in the dome. There is urgent need to evaluate the 
integrity of these structural elements through a lengthy 
process of paint removal, inspection, and reapplication of 
paint. This phase of the project will provide basic information 
upon which the balance of the dome rehabilitation project will 
be planned.

                            capitol grounds

                     (including transfer of funds)

      The conference agreement appropriates $20,000,000 for 
implementation of the Capitol Square perimeter security plan, 
including a transfer of not to exceed $4,000,000 to the Capitol 
Police Board upon request of the Board. The remaining funds, 
$16,000,000, shall be available to the Architect of the Capitol 
for the non-electronic components of the plan. The expenditure 
of these funds is subject to the review and approval by the 
appropriate House and Senate authorities, including the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate, the 
Speaker of the House, the Committee on House Oversight, and the 
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. These funds will 
provide urgently needed improvements to the existing perimeter 
security that protects the Capitol grounds and buildings, 
including replacement of deteriorating planters and concrete 
barriers with more effective metallic bollards, and more 
effective vehicle entry/exit security. The conference agreement 
authorizes up to $4,000,000 to be transferred to the Capitol 
Police Board, upon the request of that body, for the electronic 
components of the perimeter security plan. It may be that the 
Architect of the Capitol and the Capitol Police Board will 
consolidate this project into one or more centrally 
administered contract(s). In that event, the language of the 
bill is sufficiently flexible to allow a single source of funds 
to be used. On the other hand, if the Police Board and 
Architect decide that separately administered contracts are 
more desirable or cost-effective, the bill language authorizes 
that up to $4,000,000 may be transferred to the Police Board 
for those purposes. That transfer will be at the discretion of 
the Capitol Police Board. Unspent savings from these funds by 
either the Capitol Police Board or the Architect of the Capitol 
are subject to normal reprogramming procedures.

                               CHAPTER 6

                      Department of Transportation

                        office of the secretary

      The conferees direct the Secretary of Transportation to 
notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not 
less than 3 business days before any discretionary grant award 
or letter of intent in excess of $2,000,000 is announced or 
made by the Department or its modal administrations from: (1) 
any discretionary program of the Federal Highway Administration 
other than the emergency relief program; (2) the airport 
improvement program of the Federal Aviation Administration; or 
(3) the transit planning and research and discretionary grants 
programs of the Federal Transit Administration.

           transportation planning, research and development

      The conference agreement deletes the appropriation 
proposed by the Senate of $6,900,000 for transportation 
planning, research and development. No similar appropriation 
was provided by the House. The conferees have agreed to provide 
resources for the Amtrak Reform Council and the independent 
assessment of Amtrak under a separate heading as proposed by 
the House. The conferees are aware that the Department has 
allocated $400,000 from resources provided in the fiscal year 
1998 Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act for transportation planning assistance for 
the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and $50,000 
for initiation of a multimodal transportation study for 
Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

                         amtrak reform council

      The conference agreement provides $2,450,000 for the 
Amtrak Reform Council and an independent assessment of Amtrak 
authorized by the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997. 
Funds provided under this heading are available until September 
30, 1999. The conference agreement also includes a provision 
that not to exceed $400,000 of the funds provided under this 
heading shall be transferred to the Department of 
Transportation Inspector General to cover costs associated with 
the independent assessment.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                               operations

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

      The conference agreement deletes the appropriation of 
$47,200,000 proposed by the Senate for additional funding to 
address Year 2000 computer problems. The House bill contained 
no similar appropriation. However, the agreement does include 
funding of $25,000,000 under ``Facilities and equipment'' for 
this purpose.

                        facilities and equipment

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

      The conference agreement includes $25,000,000 for 
``Facilities and equipment'' instead of $108,800,000 as 
proposed by the Senate and zero as proposed by the House. As 
specified in the Senate bill, these funds are specifically 
provided to address Year 2000 computer hardware and software 
problems. Although these funds were not requested by the 
administration, the conferees believe that additional funding 
is needed now to ensure the success of this critical activity. 
Since submission of the fiscal year 1999 budget, the FAA has 
agreed to accelerate the timetable for the Year 2000 effort by 
five months. Although the cost of this has not yet been 
estimated by the FAA, the conferees believe that additional 
funding may be required. The conference agreement makes these 
funds available for obligation until September 30, 1999. The 
conferees agree that these funds may also be used for the Host 
repair and replacement program, to the extent necessary to 
address Year 2000 concerns and risks.
      The conferees agree with reporting requirements proposed 
by the Senate for monthly status reports and for compliance 
with the Inspector General's February 4, 1998 recommendations 
regarding the Year 2000 program. The House proposed no similar 
reports.
      In addition, the conferees give final approval to 
reprogramming requests of the Department of Transportation 
which provide additional fiscal year 1998 funding of 
$12,710,000 for Year 2000 remediation efforts and$63,400,000 
for replacement of the Host, Oceanic Display and Planning System 
(ODAPS), and Off-Shore Flight Data Processing System (OFDPS). The 
conferees agree that the following sources are to be used to finance 
these reprogrammings:

                        [In thousands of dollars]                       
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                     Fiscal year--      
             Source program name              --------------------------
                                                 1996     1997     1998 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEXRAD.......................................  .......  .......    1,000
ARTCC modernization..........................  .......  .......    8,000
Voice switching and control system...........  .......  .......   16,700
BUEC replacement.............................  .......  .......    2,500
Low density RCL..............................  .......    2,097   13,840
Chicago tracon...............................  .......    1,350  .......
Non-directional beacon.......................  .......  .......      700
Aeronautical center training facilities......  .......  .......    3,000
Aviation safety analysis system..............  .......  .......    1,000
Atlanta metroplex............................  .......  .......    1,000
Critical telecommunications support..........  .......  .......    1,000
DASI.........................................  .......  .......    1,600
Distance learning............................  .......    1,400    3,000
DoD base closure.............................  .......  .......    1,006
ERSDS........................................  .......  .......    2,850
Long range radar improvements................  .......  .......    2,200
SETA.........................................  .......  .......    1,000
Technical services support contract..........  .......  .......    4,800
Voice recorder replacement program...........  .......  .......    1,000
Program support leases.......................      258      947      565
NAS infrastructure management system.........  .......  .......    1,285
FAA corporate systems architecture...........    1,195  .......  .......
Environmental compliance/OSHA................  .......  .......      500
Oceanic automation build 1.5.................  .......  .......      317
                                              --------------------------
      Total..................................    1,453    5,794   68,863
------------------------------------------------------------------------

      These sources were all submitted by the Department of 
Transportation to finance the reprogramming requests.

              research and special programs administration

                     research and special programs

      The conference agreement provides $1,000,000 for 
emergency transportation activities of the Research and Special 
Programs Administration. These funds shall be utilized to 
increase the emergency preparedness of the State of Alabama in 
responding to natural disasters and other emergencies. On April 
8, 1998, tornadoes swept through central Alabama, killing 33 
persons, injuring more than 265 persons, and destroying at 
least $125,000,000 in residential and commercial property. 
Improved command and control emergency response capability 
would speed the dispatch of rescue teams, provide quicker 
clearance of road blockages, and aid in coordinating the many 
on-scene federal and state response teams. Of the funds 
provided, $400,000 shall be for construction and establishment 
of an emergency transportation response center in Arab, 
Alabama, to be administered by the Alabama Emergency Management 
Agency, for emergency communication and response services in 
the northern part of Alabama. The State will provide necessary 
matching funds for construction of this facility. The 
Department of Transportation will provide no ongoing consulting 
or other services after the establishment of the center. In 
addition, $550,000 is provided for a mobile emergency response 
system (MERS) vehicle, to be jointly operated by the Alabama 
Department of Transportation and the Alabama Emergency 
Management Agency, which will enable on-scene command and 
control response coordination. In addition, $50,000 is provided 
for departmental administrative costs associated with this 
program.

                             Related Agency

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $5,400,000 for the 
National Transportation Safety Board for expenses resulting 
from the crash of TWA Flight 800, as proposed by both the House 
and the Senate. Technical changes have been made to the bill 
language relating to the location and designation of the 
facility, as proposed by the House.

                     General Provisions--Chapter 6

      The conference agreement includes a provision (sec. 6001) 
that provides $1,000,000, to be derived from balances available 
to the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration from 
previous appropriations Acts, to conduct transit investment 
analysis from Ewa to east Honolulu, Hawaii. Funds shall remain 
available until September 30, 2001.
      The conference agreement deletes the provision proposed 
by the Senate which related to administrative handling of 
exemption requests for air service to slot-controlled airports. 
The conferees are concerned by the Department's lack of 
timeliness in the consideration and disposition of exemption 
requests for air service to slot-controlled airports, and by 
the lack of responsiveness to inquiries from interested members 
of Congress.

                               CHAPTER 7

                       Department of the Treasury

                Year 2000 Century Date Change Conversion

      The Administration requested transfer authority, subject 
to advance notice being transmitted to the Appropriations 
Committee, of up to $250,000,000 from any funds available to 
the Department to any other Department account in order to fund 
essential Year 2000 century date change conversion 
requirements. The conferees are committed to providing the 
resources the Department needs to successfully complete Year 
2000 conversion activities; however, the conferees have denied 
the Administration's request for Department-wide transfer 
authority.
      The conference agreement provides, through direct 
appropriations ($40,800,000) and through the approval of 
reprogramming actions ($133,100,000), the total additional 
amount currently estimated by the Department of the Treasury to 
be required for Year 2000 conversion activities in fiscal year 
1998 at the Internal Revenue Service ($63,200,000), the 
Financial Management Service ($7,400,000), the United States 
Customs Service ($37,300,000), and for the Department-wide 
communications system ($66,000,000).
      The conferees agree with the language in House Report 
105-470 regarding the accountability for Year 2000 
expenditures.
      The conferees have also recommended the rescission of 
previously appropriated funds to offset amounts provided in 
this Act. The specific actions taken by the conferees in this 
bill are described below.

                         Automation Enhancement

      The conference agreement provides $35,500,000 for 
Automation Enhancement instead of $28,110,000 as proposed in 
H.R. 3580, as reported by the House Committee on 
Appropriations, and $39,410,000 as proposed by the Senate. This 
appropriation, combined with the approval of a reprogramming 
action, will provide a total of $66,000,000 for Year 2000 
activities associated with the Treasury Communications System. 
Funds are made available until September 30, 2000.

                      Financial Management Service

                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement provides $5,300,000 for the 
Financial Management Service as proposed in H.R. 3580, as 
reported by the House Committee on Appropriations, and as 
proposed by the Senate. This appropriation, combined with the 
approval of a reprogramming action, will provide a total of 
$7,400,000 for Year 2000 work at the Financial Management 
Service. Funds are made available until September 30, 2000.

                     United States Customs Service

             customs facilities, construction, improvements

      The conference agreement provides no funds for the 
Customs Facilities, Construction, Improvements account, instead 
of $5,512,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                          Independent Agencies

                      Federal Election Commission

                independent audit and management review

      Public Law 105-61 provided $750,000 for an independent 
technological and performance audit and management review of 
the Federal Election Commission. These funds were provided to 
the General Accounting Office (GAO) for the sole purpose of 
entering into a contract with an independent entity for the 
purpose of completing this review. The fiscal year 1998 
conference agreement (House Report 105-284) further required 
the GAO to consult with the Committees on Appropriations and 
the House Oversight Committee on the parameters of the review. 
GAO has consulted with the Committees, as required. The 
conferees direct GAO to proceed no later than 15 days after 
enactment of this bill with implementation of the statement of 
work agreed to by the Committees on Appropriations and the 
House Oversight Committee on April 28, 1998, absent additional 
changes agreed to by all parties.

                    General Provisions--This Chapter

              federal employee retirement open enrollment

      The conferees have taken no action in response to the 
Administration's proposal to repeal section 642 of the Treasury 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 1998, the Federal 
Employees' Retirement System Open Enrollment Act of 1997.

              Federal Employee Voluntary Early Retirement

      The conferees have included a new provision providing 
temporary government-wide authority for agencies to offer 
targeted early retirement. This authority expires on September 
30, 1999. The conference agreement does not affect the existing 
statutory requirement in section 8336(d)(2) and section 
8414(b)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code, that, in order to 
be eligible for voluntary early retirement, an individual must 
have completed 25 years of service or have reached age 50 and 
completed 20 years of service.

           educational expenses for children of manuel zurita

      The conferees have included a new provision permitting 
the two dependent children of deceased Customs Service Senior 
Special Agent Manuel Zurita to complete their primary and 
secondary education at the Antilles Consolidated School System 
at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico at no cost to the children or 
their family. The Customs Service shall reimburse the 
Department of Defense for all reasonable educational expenses.

                               CHAPTER 8

                     Department of Veterans Affairs

                    Veterans Benefits Administration

                       compensation and pensions

      Inserts language proposed by the Senate appropriating 
$550,000,000 for compensation and pensions. The House, in H.R. 
3580, proposed language appropriating $550,000,000 for 
compensation and pensions.

                          Independent Agencies

                    Environmental Protection Agency

                   state and tribal assistance grants

      The conferees have included bill language as proposed by 
the House which clarifies that recipients for grant funds under 
the ``State and Tribal Assistance Grants'' account shall be 
those entities which were made eligible for such grants under 
the Agency's various organic statutes. This action will correct 
the inadvertent result of language included in the fiscal year 
1998 Appropriations Act limiting the eligibility for such 
grants.

                        administrative provision

      The conferees have included bill language as proposed by 
the House which stipulates that no requirements of any carbon 
monoxide Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) which are based on 
the Clean Air Act prior to the adoption of the Clean Air Act 
Amendments of 1990 may be imposed in the State of Arizona. The 
conferees understand that the State of Arizona and the 
Environmental Protection Agency have worked diligently to 
produce a carbon monoxide State Implementation Plan (SIP), and 
encourage the parties to complete this work and approve a new 
SIP at the earliest possible date.

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

              emergency management planning and assistance

      The conferees are concerned about the economic disruption 
that may take place in Sacramento and Los Angeles based on the 
Flood Insurance Rate Maps that were issued January 5, 1998 and 
are aware of the vigorous efforts by these cities to increase 
their level of flood protection. The Federal Emergency 
Management Agency is directed to work closely with the Army 
Corps of Engineers to determine whether the flood control work 
underway and planned will provide sufficient protection in 
Sacramento and Los Angeles to satisfy requirements for 
designation as an A99 zone.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

                           human space flight

                          (transfer of funds)

      The conferees have provided an additional $53,000,000 by 
transfer for Space Station activities in fiscal year 1998. The 
House had provided for a transfer of $173,000,000 and the 
Senate had provided for no additional funds. The transfer is 
from the Mission Support account and is to be combined with 
$37,000,000 which NASA may reallocate from within the Human 
Space Flight account. The total funding for Space Station 
activities in fiscal year 1998 will be up to $2,441,300,000 
after this transfer and reallocation.
      The amount transferred from Mission Support consists of 
$15,000,000 from space communications, $15,000,000 from 
salaries, $11,000,000 from research operations support, and 
$12,000,000 from construction of facilities. At a minimum, the 
conferees agree that NASA should reallocate to the 
International Space Station, within the Human Space Flight 
account, thefollowing amounts: $5,000,000 from the shuttle 
program, $10,000,000 from payload processing, and $12,000,000 from 
advanced projects.
      The conferees are in receipt of the report recently 
released by the Cost Assessment and Validation Task Force which 
concludes that the fiscal year 1999 budget request for the 
International Space Station program is not adequate to execute 
the baseline program, cover normal program growth, and address 
the known critical risks. As such, the conferees therefore 
remain deeply concerned that NASA not force reductions in 
current and future outyear projections for space science, earth 
science, aeronautics and advanced space transportation because 
of the need to accommodate overruns in the space station 
budget. The conferees call upon the Administration to submit a 
credible plan for responding to the recommendations contained 
in the report by June 15, 1998, with corresponding budget 
proposals that provide for necessary additional resources for 
fiscal year 1999 and beyond.

                           General Provisions

      Section 8001. Amends section 206 of the Fiscal Year 1998 
VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act to redefine 
an area of economic development in Kansas City, Missouri, as 
proposed by the Senate. The House did not include a similar 
provision.
      Section 8002. Requires HUD to allocate directly to New 
Jersey a portion of HOPWA funds designated for the 
Philadelphia, PA-NJ Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area as 
proposed by the Senate. The House did not include a similar 
provision.
      The conferees agree to include this provision until the 
end of fiscal year 1999 for the purpose of providing HUD 
sufficient time to review the delivery process, particularly as 
it relates to metropolitan statistical areas with multiple 
jurisdictions that cross state lines, and to make appropriate 
recommendations.
      Section 8003. The conferees have included a new section 
under ``General Provisions'' which would serve to ratify and 
confirm Congressional intent with respect to the collection and 
use of funds by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The 
explosive growth of the commercial segment of the Internet 
resulted in the collection of program fees in excess of the 
amount projected. These were in turn held in an ``Intellectual 
Infrastructure Fund'' until the Congress, as part of the fiscal 
year 1998 Appropriations Act, determined to use these funds for 
NSF's work on ``Next Generation Internet'' activities. This 
action by the Congress has since been held up by proceedings in 
the federal court system, and the language included in this new 
section will statutorily correct the lack of authority 
perceived by the court. The conferees would not in this regard 
that the federal judge in this case literally invited this 
action by the Congress, which would do nothing more than permit 
the NSF to proceed with the use of these funds as intended by 
Public Law 105-65.

                               CHAPTER 9

                         Rescissions and Offset

                       Department of Agriculture

      The following table reflects the conference agreement on 
rescissions.

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                                                           House-reported                                       
                                                            (H.R. 3580)           Senate           Conference   
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Agricultural Research Service..........................           $223,000  .................           $223,000
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, salaries                                                            
 and expenses..........................................            350,000  .................            350,000
Agricultural Marketing Service, marketing services.....             25,000  .................             25,000
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards                                                                        
 Administration, salaries and expenses.................             38,000  .................             38,000
Food Safety and Inspection Service.....................            502,000           $502,000            502,000
Farm Service Agency, salaries and expenses.............          1,080,000  .................          1,080,000
Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account.....          6,737,000          6,736,197          8,273,000
Natural Resources Conservation Service, conservation                                                            
 operations............................................            378,000  .................            378,000
Rural Housing Service, salaries and expenses...........            846,000            846,000            846,000
Food and Nutrition Service, food program administration            114,000  .................            114,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      The conferees direct that the rescission from the Animal 
and Plant Health Inspection Service affect only the agency's 
contingency fund.
      The Department of Agriculture indicates that the proposed 
rescission of funds appropriated for Farm Service Agency 
salaries and expenses should not result in staff reductions 
beyond those expected in fiscal year 1998. The conference 
directs that the funding rescission be applied only to the non-
salary portion of the Farm Service Agency budget.

                    General Provision--This Chapter

      The conference report includes a general provision 
prohibiting funds in P.L. 105-86 to be used to pay personnel 
who carry out a conservation farm option program in excess of 
$11,000,000 as proposed in the House-reported bill, H.R. 3580. 
The Senate bill contained no similar provision.

                       Department of the Interior

                       Bureau of Land Management

                   Management of lands and resources

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $1,188,000 
from management of lands and resources as proposed by both the 
House and the Senate.

                   Oregon and California Grant Lands

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $2,500,000 
from Oregon and California grant lands as proposed by both the 
House and the Senate.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service

                          resource management

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $250,000 
from resource management as proposed by both the House and the 
Senate.

                              construction

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $1,188,000 
from construction as proposed by both the House and the Senate

                         National Park Service

                              construction

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $1,638,000 
from construction as proposed by both the House and Senate.

                            Bureau of Mines

                           mines and minerals

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $1,605,000 
from minerals as proposed by both the House and Senate.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                              Construction

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $837,000 
from construction as proposed by the Senate instead of a 
rescission of $737,000 as proposed by the House.

                       Department of Agriculture

                             Forest Service

                     forest and rangeland research

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $148,000 
from forest and range land research as proposed by the House. 
The Senate did not propose a rescission from this account.

                       state and private forestry

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $59,000 
from State and private forestry as proposed by the House. The 
Senate did not propose a rescission from this account.

                         national forest system

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $1,094,000 
from the National forest system as proposed by the House. The 
Senate did not propose a rescission from this account.

                        wildland fire management

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $148,000 
from wildland fire management as proposed by the House. The 
Senate did not propose a rescission from this account.

                    reconstruction and construction

                              (rescission)

      The managers have agreed to the rescission of $30,000 
from reconstruction and construction as proposed by the House. 
The Senate did not propose a rescission from this account.

                Department of Health and Human Services

              Health Resources and Services Administration

                   health professions education fund

                              (rescission)

      The conference agreement includes a rescission of 
$11,200,000 from unobligated balances of the Health Professions 
Education Fund.

                      Department of Transportation

                        Office of the Secretary

                        payments to air carriers

                              (rescission)

      The conference agreement rescinds $2,500,000 in general 
fund authority from the payments to air carriers program as 
proposed by the House instead of $2,499,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                        payments to air carriers

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                 (rescission of contract authorization)

      The conference agreement rescinds $3,000,000 in contract 
authority provided for ``Small community air service'' by 
Public Law 101-508 for fiscal years prior to fiscal year 1998, 
as proposed by both the House and Senate.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                facilities, engineering, and development

                              (rescission)

      The conference agreement rescinds $500,000 in unobligated 
balances from ``Facilities, engineering, and development''. The 
FAA has no plans for using these funds, which have remained 
unobligated for many years.

                       grants-in-aid for airports

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                 (rescission of contract authorization)

      The conference agreement rescinds $54,000,000 in contract 
authority in this title of the bill. These funds are in excess 
of the annual obligation limitation placed on the program by 
the fiscal year 1998 Department of Transportation and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act and are therefore not available for 
obligation in fiscal year 1998.

                      (limitation on obligations)

      The conference agreement restores the reduction of 
$31,400,000 in the obligation limitation for ``Grants-in-aid 
for airports'' proposed by the House. The Senate bill contained 
no similar reduction. The conference action results in a 
funding level of $1,700,000,000 for this program, which was the 
original level enacted in the Department of Transportation and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                        conrail labor protection

                              (rescission)

      The conference agreement rescinds $508,234 for Conrail 
labor protection activities from unobligated balances under 
this heading, as proposed by the House, instead of from 
resources provided by direct appropriations by transfer as 
proposed by the Senate.

                       Department of the Treasury

                     United States Customs Service

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                              (RESCISSION)

      The conference agreement rescinds $6,000,000 from funds 
appropriated in fiscal year 1997 for the Automated Targeting 
System (ATS), as proposed in H.R. 3580, as reported by the 
House Committee on Appropriations, and as proposed by the 
Senate. ATS was scaled back to a voluntary pilot program in 
fiscal year 1998, thereby realizing significant savings. The 
conference agreement does not rescind $5,300,000 in Customs 
Service's unobligated balances, as proposed by the Senate.

                     United States Customs Service

   OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, CUSTOMS P-3 DRUG INTERDICTION PROGRAM

                              (RESCISSION)

      The conference agreement rescinds $4,470,000 from funds 
previously appropriated for the Customs P-3 Drug Interdiction 
Program, instead of $5,511,754, as proposed by the Senate. The 
conference agreement makes a technical correction to the Senate 
bill, rescinding funds from the Operations and Maintenance, 
Customs P-3 Drug Interdiction Program instead of the Customs 
Facilities, Construction, Improvements account.

                        Internal Revenue Service

                   INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS

                              (RESCISSION)

      The conference agreement rescinds $30,330,000 from funds 
appropriated in fiscal year 1998 for the Internal Revenue 
Service's Information Technology Investments program, instead 
of $27,410,000 as proposed in H.R. 3580, as reported by the 
House Committee on Appropriations, and $33,410,000 as proposed 
by the Senate. The conferees wish to make it clear that they 
fully support the program to modernize the Internal Revenue 
Service's information systems and only take this action in 
response to the Department's need to address urgent Year 2000 
century date change conversion requirements.

                     General Provisions--This Title

      Sec. 10002.--The conferees are aware of concerns 
regarding the Patent and Trademark Office's (PTO) lack of 
progress in its space planning activities for its new 
facilities which may result in unnecessary cost growth. In 
addition, the conferees are aware that questions have been 
raised regarding the justification for, and costs associated 
with, build-out of the new facilities. Therefore, language has 
been included requiring the PTO to submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations no later than May 15, 1998 
detailing its space plans and associated build-out costs for 
the new facility, and making funds for the build-out available 
only in accordance with standard reprogramming procedures. The 
conferees do not intend for this provision to prevent the move 
to new facilities to meet the PTO's space requirements. The 
Senate bill included language prohibiting expenditure of funds 
until submission of a report on the cost-benefit analysis of 
PTO's relocation to a new facility versus other alternatives to 
meet its space requirements. The House bill contained no 
provision on this matter.
      Sec. 10003.--The conference agreement includes language, 
as proposed in the Senate bill, to repeal a provision included 
in the National Sea Grant College Program Reauthorization Act 
of 1998 which designated Lake Champlain as one of the Great 
Lakes, and instead includes new language to make the study of 
Lake Champlain an allowable purpose for funding under the 
National Sea Grant College Program. The House bill included no 
similar provision.
      Sec. 10004.--The conference agreement includes a 
provision, as proposed in the Senate bill, to permit the 
transfer back to the State Department of up to $12,000,000 that 
was transferred out of the State Department to other agencies 
pursuant to section 404 of the fiscal year 1998 Commerce, 
Justice, State Appropriations Act. Section 404 provided funds 
for the implementation of the initial year of operation of the 
International Cooperative Administrative Support Services 
program. The transfer permitted under this provision is based 
upon a re-estimate of the allocation of costs among 
participating agencies. The conferees intend that the funds 
transferred back to the State Department pursuant to the 
provision shall only be used for State Department ICASS costs. 
The House bill did not include a provision on this matter.
      Sec. 10005.--The conference agreement includes a 
provision, as proposed in the Senate bill, which continues a 
refugee program for the unmarried sons and daughters over 21 
years of age of Vietnamese reeducation camp detainees who were 
previously admitted to the United States pursuant to the 
Orderly Departure Program. This section extends the original 
provision, included in the Foreign Operations Appropriations 
Act for fiscal year 1997, through fiscal years 1998 and 1999. 
The House bill included no similar provision.
      Sec. 10006.--The conference agreement includes a 
provision, as proposed in the Senate bill, requiring the United 
States Representatives to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to 
seek changes in certain WTO procedures to promote greater 
openness and transparency in its activities. The House bill 
included no similar provision.
      In addition, the conferees expect the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration to move promptly with the award 
of funds provided in the fiscal year 1998 Appropriations Act to 
the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space to 
undertake a ground-based demonstration of the collection of 
wind data.
      The conference agreement does not include Section 2004 of 
the Senate bill. This in no way can be considered as expressing 
the approval of the Congress of the action of the Federal 
Communications Commission (FCC) in establishing one or more 
corporations to administer Section 254(h) of the Communications 
Act of 1934. However, the conferees expect that the FCC will 
comply with the reporting requirement in the Senate bill, 
respond to inquiries regarding the universal service 
contribution mechanisms, access charges and cost data, and 
propose a new structure for the implementation of universal 
service programs. The conferees concur with the provisions of 
the Senate bill relating to compensation for employees 
administering these programs. In carrying out the reporting 
requirement, the conferees believe that any proposed 
administrative structure should take into account the distinct 
mission of providing universal service to rural health care 
providers, and include recommendations as necessary to assure 
the successful implementation of this program.
      The conference agreement does not include section 2008 of 
the Senate bill, waiving a matching funds requirement for a 
Small Business Development Center pilot project on Internet 
commerce in Vermont.
      The conference agreement does not include section 2010 of 
the Senate bill, setting forth the sense of the Senate relating 
to United States contributions in support of United Nations 
peacekeeping missions.
      The managers considered, but did not adopt, language that 
would create a Trade Deficit Review Commission, as proposed by 
the Senate. The conferees agree that serious concerns exist 
regarding continuing trade deficits and intend to work with the 
legislative committees of jurisdiction to establish such a 
Commission, including in the context of the fiscal year 1999 
appropriations process.
      Sec. 10007.--The conference agreement inserts a new 
section 10007 as a technical amendment which provides that 
provisions of the District of Columbia Code affecting the 
employment of the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department 
of the District of Columbia shall not apply to the Police Chief 
to the extent the provisions are inconsistent with the terms of 
an employment agreement between the Police Chief, the Mayor and 
the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and 
Management Assistance Authority. The section further includes 
language making the procedure for the appointment and removal 
of the Chief during a control year consistent with procedures 
for the Chief Financial Officer and certain department heads as 
set forth in the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility 
and Management Assistance Act of 1995 and the District of 
Columbia Management Reform Act of 1997.
      Sec. 10008.--Support for Democratic opposition in Iraq.
      The conference agreement includes a general provision 
providing that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$5,000,000 of the funds previously appropriated for the 
``Economic Support Fund'' in Public Law 105-118 (Foreign 
Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1998) be made available for support for the 
democratic opposition in Iraq. The funds are to be used for 
such activities as organization, training, communication, 
dissemination of information, developing and implementing 
agreements among opposition groups, compiling information to 
support the indictment of Iraqi officials for war crimes, and 
for related purposes. The provision also requires a report from 
the Secretary of State to the appropriate committees of 
Congress within 30 days of enactment into law of this Act on 
plans to establish a program to support the democratic 
opposition in Iraq.
      The Senate amendment contained similar language, but 
included a supplemental appropriation of $5,000,000 for these 
activities. It also designated these funds as an emergency 
requirement under the terms of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, and further 
provided that the entire amount would be made available only to 
the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
dollar amount, that included designation of the entire amount 
of the request as an emergency requirement, was transmitted by 
the President to Congress. The House bill did not address this 
matter.
      The managers expect that a significant portion of the 
support for the democratic opposition should go to the Iraqi 
National Congress, a group that has demonstrated the capacity 
to effectively challenge the Saddam Hussein regime with 
representation from Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish elements of Iraq.

            Offsetting Emergency Supplemental Appropriations

      The conference agreement deletes a sense of the House 
provision contained in the House bill that stated that all 
emergency supplemental appropriations considered in the 105th 
Congress should be offset. The Senate did not include such a 
provision.

                   CONFERENCE TOTAL--WITH COMPARISONS

      The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
fiscal year 1998 recommended by the Committee of Conference, 
with comparisons to the fiscal year 1998 budget estimates, and 
the House and Senate bills for 1998 follow:


                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority,                       
 fiscal year 1998...................................      22,597,439,000
House bill, fiscal year 1998........................         551,430,066
Senate bill, fiscal year 1998.......................      23,859,654,012
Conference agreement, fiscal year 1998..............       3,409,562,066
Conference agreement compared with:                                     
    Budget estimates of new (obligational)                              
     authority, fiscal year 1998....................     -19,187,876,934
    House bill, fiscal year 1998....................      +2,858,132,000
    Senate bill, fiscal year 1998...................     -20,450,091,946
                                                                        

                                   Bob Livingston,
                                   Joseph M. McDade,
                                   Bill Young,
                                   Ralph Regula,
                                   Jerry Lewis,
                                   John Edward Porter,
                                   Harold Rogers,
                                   Joe Skeen,
                                   Frank R. Wolf,
                                   Jim Kolbe,
                                   Ron Packard,
                                   Sonny Callahan,
                                   James T. Walsh,
                                   John P. Murtha
                                           (except for IMF and section 
                                               8 housing recission),
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Thad Cochran,
                                   Arlen Specter,
                                   Pete V. Domenici,
                                   C.S. Bond,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Mitch McConnell,
                                   Conrad Burns,
                                   Richard C. Shelby,
                                   Judd Gregg,
                                   R.F. Bennett,
                                   Ben Nighthorse Campbell,
                                   Larry Craig,
                                   Lauch Faircloth,
                                   Kay Bailey Hutchison,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                   D.K. Inouye,
                                   Ernest F. Hollings,
                                   Patrick J. Leahy,
                                   Dale Bumpers,
                                   Frank R. Lautenberg,
                                   Tom Harkin,
                                   Barbara A. Mikulski,
                                   Harry Reid,
                                   Byron L. Dorgan,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

                                
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