[Senate Report 105-16]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



                                                        Calendar No. 43
105th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE

 1st Session                                                     105-16
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         SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND RESCISSIONS ACT, 1997

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                 April 30, 1997.--Ordered to be printed

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

                              R E P O R T

                         [To accompany S. 672]

    The Committee on Appropriations reports the bill (S. 672) 
making supplemental appropriations and rescissions for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes, 
reports favorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass.


                            C O N T E N T S

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Title I--Department of Defense supplementals.....................     4
Title II--Natural disasters and other emergencies:
    Chapter 1--Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, 
      and Related Agencies.......................................    10
    Chapter 2--Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the 
      Judiciary, and Related Agencies............................    13
    Chapter 3--Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development......    14
    Chapter 4--Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies.....    18
    Chapter 5--Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
      Agencies...................................................    24
    Chapter 6--Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies.    25
    Chapter 7--Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, 
      and Education, and Related Agencies........................    27
    Chapter 8--Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government...    28
Title III--Other supplementals:
    Chapter 1--Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, 
      and Related Agencies.......................................    29
    Chapter 2--Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the 
      Judiciary, and Related Agencies............................    30
    Chapter 3--Subcommittee on the District of Columbia..........    31
    Chapter 4--Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies.....    32
    Chapter 5--Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch............    33
    Chapter 6--Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
      Agencies...................................................    33
    Chapter 7--Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government...    35
    Chapter 8--Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies.    36
    Chapter 9--Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, 
      and Education and Related Agencies.........................    38
    Chapter 10--General provisions...............................    41
Title IV--Defense offsets........................................    46
Title V--Nondefense offsets:
    Chapter 1--Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the 
      Judiciary, and Related Agencies............................    53
    Chapter 2--Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies.....    53
    Chapter 3--Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
      Agencies...................................................    54
    Chapter 4--Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government...    55
    Chapter 5--Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies.    55
    Chapter 6--Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, 
      and Related Agencies.......................................    58
    Chapter 7--Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development......    58
Title VI--Social services block grant amendment..................    59
Title VII--Government Shutdown Prevention Act....................    60
Compliance with paragraph 7(c), rule XXVI of the Standing Rules 
  of the Senate..................................................    61
Compliance with paragraph 12, rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of 
  the Senate.....................................................    61
Budgetary impact.................................................    61
Comparative statement tables.....................................    63

    The President's supplemental requests are contained in the 
1998 budget appendix transmitted on February 6, 1997 (H. Doc. 
105-3, volume III), budget estimate No. 5, transmitted on March 
19, 1997 (H. Doc. 105-58), budget estimate No. 6, transmitted 
on April 7, 1997 (H. Doc. 105-61), budget estimate No. 7, 
transmitted on April 23, 1997 (H. Doc. 105-78), and budget 
estimate No. 8, transmitted on April 23, 1997 (H. Doc. 105-71). 
In addition, the Committee addresses the special message of 
February 6, 1997 (H. Doc. 105-44), and the special message 
submitted on March 19, 1997 (H. Doc. 105-56).
    The Committee has taken the unusual step of recommending an 
original Senate bill in order to expedite Senate consideration. 
Supplemental funding, as requested by the President, is 
required to address natural disasters and unbudgeted 
peacekeeping needs. In addition, due to the scope of the 
proposed rescissions, expedited action is required in order to 
provide the affected agencies with time to make adjustments in 
their budgets.
    The rescissions recommended by the Committee reflect a work 
in progress. The Committee is dedicated to fiscal restraint and 
deficit reduction, and further reduction in discretionary 
spending is likely in the Committee's consideration of fiscal 
year 1998 appropriations bills. These actions will continue a 
steady decline in discretionary funding which has decreased 
from 13.6 percent of gross domestic product [GDP] in fiscal 
year 1968 to 7.1 percent of GDP in fiscal year 1996.

                                           BILL SUMMARY--DISCRETIONARY                                          
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                                                                                                    Committee   
                                                                                                 recommendation 
                                                              Supplemental        Committee       compared with 
                                                                 request       recommendation     supplemental  
                                                                                                request (+ or -)
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Title I--Department of Defense............................    $2,098,214,000    $1,805,480,000     -$292,734,000
Title II--Natural disasters and other emergen-  cies......     2,338,679,000     5,581,847,000    +3,243,168,000
Title III--Other supplementals............................       123,092,000       273,576,000      +150,484,000
Title IV--Department of Defense offsets:                                                                        
    Unspecified reductions................................    -4,800,000,000  ................    +4,800,000,000
    Rescissions...........................................       -72,000,000    -1,805,943,000    -1,733,943,000
Title V--Other offsets....................................      -391,111,000    -5,855,800,000    -5,464,689,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Total discretionary.................................      -703,126,000          -840,000      +702,286,000
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              TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SUPPLEMENTALS

                        SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE

                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

    The Department of Defense has requested a total of 
$2,098,214,000 within the jurisdiction of the Defense 
Subcommittee in new budget authority, to fund the incremental 
costs of contingency operations in Bosnia and Southwest Asia, 
to fund the OPLAN 34A/35 prisoner of war payments, and to fund 
benefits under the Ready Reserve Mobilization Income Insurance 
Program.
    A summary of the Department's request and the Committee's 
recommendations are detailed within the following table:

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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                                                                 request       recommendation        Change     
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Military personnel:                                                                                             
    Army..................................................  ................      $306,800,000     +$306,800,000
    Navy..................................................  ................         7,900,000        +7,900,000
    Marine Corps..........................................  ................           300,000          +300,000
    Air Force.............................................  ................        29,100,000       +29,100,000
Operations and maintenance:                                                                                     
    Overseas contingency operations transfer fund.........    $2,006,214,000     1,312,900,000      -693,314,000
    OPLAN 34A/35 POW payments.............................        20,000,000        20,000,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal............................................     2,026,214,000     1,677,000,000      -349,214,000
                                                           =====================================================
Revolving and management funds: Reserve mobilization                                                            
 income insurance fund....................................        72,000,000        72,000,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Subtotal............................................        72,000,000        72,000,000  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Total...............................................     2,098,214,000     1,749,000,000      -349,214,000
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                           MILITARY PERSONNEL

                        Military Personnel, Army

1997 appropriation to date.............................. $20,633,998,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                             306,800,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $306,800,000 for 
military personnel, Army to fund pay and allowances in support 
of operations in Bosnia and Southwest Asia. The following table 
summarizes the military personnel funding requirements for the 
Army:

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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                         Category                                request       recommendation        Change     
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Operations in support of Bosnia...........................  ................      $302,000,000     +$302,000,000
Operations in support of Southwest Asia...................  ................         4,800,000        +4,800,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Grand total.........................................  ................       306,800,000      +306,800,000
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                        Military Personnel, Navy

1997 appropriation to date.............................. $16,986,976,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                               7,900,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $7,900,000 for 
military personnel, Navy to fund pay and allowances in support 
of operations in Bosnia and Southwest Asia. The following table 
summarizes the military personnel funding requirements for the 
Navy:

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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                         Category                                request       recommendation        Change     
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Operations in support of Bosnia...........................  ................        $5,800,000       +$5,800,000
Operations in support of Southwest Asia...................  ................         2,100,000        +2,100,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Grand total.........................................  ................         7,900,000        +7,900,000
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                    Military Personnel, Marine Corps

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $6,111,728,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                                 300,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $300,000 for 
military personnel, Marine Corps to fund pay and allowances in 
support of operations in Bosnia. The following table summarizes 
the military personnel funding requirements for the Marine 
Corps:

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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                         Category                                request       recommendation        Change     
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Operations in support of Bosnia...........................  ................          $300,000         +$300,000
Operations in support of Southwest Asia...................  ................  ................  ................
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Grand total.........................................  ................           300,000          +300,000
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                     Military Personnel, Air Force

1997 appropriation to date.............................. $17,069,490,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              29,100,000

    The Committee recommends appropriations of $29,100,000 for 
military personnel, Air Force to fund pay and allowances 
associated with operations in Bosnia and Southwest Asia. The 
following table summarizes the military personnel funding 
requirements for the Air Force:

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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                         Category                                request       recommendation        Change     
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Operations in support of Bosnia...........................  ................       $22,500,000      +$22,500,000
Operations in support of Southwest Asia...................  ................         6,600,000        +6,600,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Grand total.........................................  ................        29,100,000       +29,100,000
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                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

             Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $1,140,157,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................   1,646,100,000

Committee recommendation

                                                           1,312,900,000

    The administration has requested emergency supplemental 
appropriations of $2,006,214,000 for the overseas contingency 
operations transfer fund. This total includes $1,549,414,000 
for operations and maintenance and $360,100,000 for military 
personnel requirements in Bosnia and Southwest Asia, 
$62,000,000 for DLA defense distribution depot costs in support 
of Bosnia, and $34,700,000 for drawdown recovery costs in 
various locations.
    The Committee will continue to include only operation and 
maintenance contingency funding in this account; military 
personnel requirements will be funded in the respective service 
accounts.
    The following table summarizes adjustments to the fiscal 
year 1997 supplemental request for the transfer fund.

                                  OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS TRANSFER FUND                                 
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                                                              Supplemental        Committee                     
                          Account                                request       recommendation        Change     
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Operations in support of Bosnia...........................    $1,007,400,000      $794,800,000     -$212,600,000
Operations in support of Southwest Asia...................       542,000,000       508,000,000       -34,000,000
Drawdown recovery costs...................................        34,700,000        10,100,000       -24,600,000
DLA--DBOF.................................................        62,000,000  ................       -62,000,000
                                                           -----------------------------------------------------
      Grand total.........................................     1,646,100,000     1,312,900,000      -333,200,000
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                              ADJUSTMENTS

    Adjustments to the overseas contingency operations transfer 
fund are as follows:

Operations in support of Bosnia:
    Updated estimates:
        Reduced LOGCAP costs............................   -$146,000,000
        Reduced OPTEMPO, Navy...........................     -10,000,000
        Reduced deployment level, SOCOM.................      -9,000,000
        Force structure, OPTEMPO increases..............     +21,000,000
        NIMA............................................      -2,600,000
    Projected OPTEMPO and force reductions..............     -66,000,000
Operations in support of Southwest Asia: Projected 
    OPTEMPO and force reductions........................     -34,000,000
Working capital funds: Over ocean costs reimbursement to 
    DBOF-T..............................................     -62,000,000

    Drawdown costs.--The request for drawdown recovery costs 
should not be included under the emergency appropriation 
designation. However, the Committee has decided to provide 
funding for drawdown costs which are linked to either Bosnia or 
Southwest Asia. The Department is encouraged to resubmit the 
remaining requirements for reprogramming consideration.

                  contingency operations cost controls

    When the overseas contingency operations transfer fund was 
established, the Committee did not require prior notification 
of transfers from the account, but did establish a quarterly 
reporting requirement. The Committee now directs a subdivision 
of the fund to further identify costs by individual contingency 
operation. The Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) shall 
notify the Committee 30 days in advance if the Department 
expects to exceed the total allotment for a given contingency, 
and shall continue the established quarterly reporting 
requirement.
    The Committee is troubled by the lack of fiscal 
accountability for contingency operation planning and 
execution, and has conveyed these concerns to the Chairman of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense. 
However, the Committee has deferred legislative action at this 
time, while the Vice Chairman of the JCS and the Under 
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) work to establish a 
mechanism to develop, monitor, and report contingency operation 
cost estimates to the Congress. The Committee will continue to 
work with the Department to formulate this process which will 
be addressed in the Fiscal Year 1998 Defense Appropriations 
Act.
    Additionally, the Committee continues to be concerned about 
the impact contingency operations can and do have on the combat 
readiness of military personnel; the resulting expenditures on 
these operations consume critical service training dollars. 
Even when these funds are eventually replaced, through either 
supplemental appropriations or reprogramming, training 
evolutions canceled are all too often training opportunities 
lost.
    In the downsized military of today, this allows the 
services reduced opportunities for critical unit or service-
unique training. The Committee intends to closely evaluate the 
funds requested in fiscal year 1998 for the JCS Exercise 
Program, in the context of ongoing contingency operations.

                       OPLAN 34A/35 POW Payments

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     $20,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              20,000,000

    The Department has requested and the Committee recommends 
approval of a supplemental appropriation of $20,000,000 for the 
``OPLAN 34A/35 POW payments'' account.

                     REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS

               Reserve Mobilization Income Insurance Fund

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     $72,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              72,000,000

    The Department has requested and the Committee recommends 
approval of a supplemental appropriation of $72,000,000 for the 
``Reserve mobilization income insurance fund'' account.
    The Committee understands that the Department is examining 
significant restructuring options for this program due to 
fundamental difficulties experienced with financing the fund. 
Therefore, the Committee directs the Department of Defense to 
provide the Defense Committees with a detailed analysis to 
determine the long-term operation of the fund by June 30, 1997.

                    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $6,404,980,000
1997 rescission request.................................................

Committee recommendation

                                             ...........................

    F-15A.--Under the chapter of this report detailing 
Department of Defense offsets, the Committee has recommended a 
rescission of $21,000,000 from the F-15 aircraft procurement 
program in the ``Aircraft procurement, Air Force'' account. The 
Committee understands that a total of $32,000,000 is available 
in this program, based on contract savings. The Committee 
directs that the remaining contract savings, $11,200,000, be 
transferred to the F-16 line item within the aircraft 
modifications budget activity of the ``Aircraft procurement, 
Air Force'' account. The Committee further directs that these 
funds shall only be used to acquire high speed anti-radiation 
missile [HARM] targeting systems [HTS] and to install these HTS 
systems on Air National Guard aircraft which have been assigned 
the suppression of enemy air defense [SEAD] mission and were 
deployed to Desert Storm.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                          (transfer of funds)

    Sec. 101. The Committee has included a general provision 
which provides $100,000,000 of transfer authority that is in 
addition to the transfer authority provided in section 8005 of 
the fiscal year 1997 Department of Defense appropriations bill 
(Public Law 104-208). This additional transfer authority shall 
only be used for costs associated with United States 
participation in the Bosnia Stabilization Force [SFOR] and for 
the continuation of enforcing the no-fly zones in northern and 
southern Iraq.
    Sec. 102. National missile defense lead system 
integrator.--The Committee has included a general provision 
preventing the transfer of authority for development of 
national missile defense [NMD] system elements until the lead 
system integrator [LSI] award is made. The provision further 
requires the Joint Requirements Oversight Council [JROC], with 
the advisement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to assess the 
roles of the military services in developing and acquiring a 
national missile defense system and to certify that the LSI 
contract conforms to the JROC's assessment recommendations.
    Sec. 103. The Committee has included a general provision 
which provides $50,000,000 to the Overseas Humanitarian, 
Disaster and Civil Aid Program for reimbursement for disaster 
relief and recovery expenditures in Puerto Rico, the American 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana 
Islands.
    Sec. 104. Marine Corps disaster repairs.--The Committee has 
included a general provision which provides a transfer of 
$23,000,000 of available Marine Corps funding to operation and 
maintenance, Marine Corps to pay for repairs to real property 
and facilities damaged by Hurricanes Fran and Bertha and 
flooding in January 1997.
    Sec. 105. Family housing--Navy and Marine Corps.--The 
Committee further recommends appropriations of $6,480,000 to 
partially reimburse the family housing, Navy and Marine Corps 
account for hurricane and flood repair operation and 
maintenance costs that have been absorbed.
    Sec. 106. Bosnia cost reporting.--The Committee has 
included a general provision prohibiting the Department of 
Defense from obligating any funds in support of operations or 
activities in Bosnia 60 days after enactment of this act, 
unless the President submits a comprehensive cost report to 
Congress outlining all expenditures in Bosnia since December 1, 
1995.
    Sec. 107. Panama Canal Commission designee.--The Committee 
has included a general provision which allows the Secretary of 
Defense discretionary authority to allow his designee on the 
Board of the Panama Canal Commission to continue service.
           TITLE II--NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER EMERGENCIES

    The Committee recommends that each appropriation contained 
in this title be designated by Congress as an emergency funding 
requirement as specified in the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. Recommended offsets 
are included in title V of this bill.

                               CHAPTER 1

  SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

               Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    The Committee is aware of the boll weevil problems in New 
Mexico that have potentially devastating economic consequences. 
The Committee expects the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service to provide monitoring and technical assistance in the 
State, including Dona Ana, Sierra, Luna, Lea, and Roosevelt 
Counties, and to keep the Committees on Appropriations informed 
of the situation.
    The Committee concurs with the House report language 
regarding the Department's regulations on the wheat disease 
Karnal Bunt.

                          Farm Service Agency

           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

                    EMERGENCY INSURED LOAN SUBSIDIES

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $25,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              18,000,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $18,000,000 to 
support an estimated $59,000,000 in emergency disaster loans to 
provide assistance to farmers and ranchers whose farmland, 
livestock, and crops were damaged due to the blizzards and 
flooding in the Midwest and other natural disasters.

                     emergency conservation program

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate.............................. \1\ $37,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      77,000,000

\1\ Includes contingency of $17,000,000.

    The Committee recommends an additional $77,000,000 for the 
Emergency Conservation Program to provide cost-sharing 
assistance to farmers and ranchers whose farmland was damaged 
by flooding and other natural disasters. The amount recommended 
is that needed to satisfy needs identified by USDA. These 
additional funds will assist with farmland restoration, 
cleaning up debris, mending fences, and restoring conservation 
structures (including some cover crops). The Committee has 
added carcass removal as an eligible use of these funds.

                        TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              $9,500,000

    The Committee provides $9,500,000 for assistance to small 
orchardists to replace or rehabilitate trees and vineyards 
damaged by natural disasters in California and Arkansas. 
Included in the amount recommended is $500,000 which may be 
made available through the Forestry Incentives Program for 
replanting of trees damaged by tornadoes in 1997.

                   COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND

                  DISASTER RESERVE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

    The Committee recommends the Secretary to use up to 
$50,000,000 which can be earned from the sale of grain in the 
disaster reserve to implement a livestock indemnity program for 
losses incurred during the blizzards, flooding, and other 
natural disasters in a manner similar but not identical to 
other commodity insurance programs. These funds only are to be 
available for fiscal year 1997.

                 Natural Resources Conservation Service

               Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $101,036,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................  \1\ 84,100,000
Committee recommendation................................     161,000,000

\1\ Includes contingency of $18,000,000.

    The Committee recommends an additional $161,000,000 for 
watershed and flood prevention operations to reduce hazards to 
life and property in watersheds damaged by recent and prior-
year disasters. The amount recommended is that needed to 
satisfy emergency funding requirements identified by USDA as a 
result of Hurricane Fran, blizzards, tornadoes, severe storms 
and rains, and other natural disasters. Emergency work may 
include opening dangerously restricted channels and waterways, 
repairing diversions and levees, and erosion control on 
denuded, steep slopes. Of the funds provided, up to $10,000,000 
may be used for floodplain easements.
    The Committee also recommends that the USDA, in cooperation 
with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, address flood mitigation 
requirements in Waianae, HI, as a result of severe flooding 
which occurred in November 1996.

                         Rural Housing Service

              Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account

            Section 515 Rural Housing Direct Loan Subsidies

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $28,987,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................         250,000

Committee recommendation

                                                                 250,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $250,000 for the 
subsidy cost of section 515 direct loans. This amount would 
support $488,000 in loans to borrowers in the Pacific Northwest 
to repair multifamily housing.

                          prior-year balances

    In addition, the Committee recommends bill language to make 
unobligated balances remaining in the ``Rural Housing Insurance 
Fund Program'' account from prior years' disaster supplementals 
available until expended for emergency purposes only for 
section 502 housing loans, section 504 loans and grants, and 
section 515 loans.

                    Rural Housing Assistance Program

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $130,433,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................         750,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               4,000,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $4,000,000 for the 
Rural Housing Assistance Program. This additional funding is 
for very low-income housing repair grants to assist elderly 
citizens in the repair of their homes and for grants to repair 
damaged farm labor housing facilities as a result of flooding 
and other natural disasters.
    The Committee notes the damage to College Station, AR, 
resulting from spring 1997 storm events and has included 
language making this community eligible for programs of the 
Rural Housing Service for assistance related to those storms. 
The Committee notes the availability of funds in the 
``Community facilities grants'' account and directs the 
Secretary to provide State Directors discretion to provide 
these and other funds to communities otherwise eligible for 
community facilities loans for response to direct and indirect 
damage resulting from recent natural disasters.

                        Rural Utilities Service

                   Rural Utilities Assistance Program

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $566,935,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       1,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               6,500,000

    The Committee recommends $6,500,000 for loan subsidies or 
grants for the repair of rural water and sewer systems directly 
or indirectly damaged by flooding and other natural disasters. 
This amount is to be used once other sources of emergency 
assistance are exhausted to help communities provide safe water 
and wastewater treatment facilities and for systems for which 
Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] assistance is not 
available.

                               CHAPTER 2

   SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                  Economic Development Administration

                Economic Development Assistance Programs

1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                             $54,700,000

    EDA transfer.--The Committee does not recommend approval of 
the request for a transfer of $1,200,000 from the economic 
development revolving fund to the Economic Development 
Assistance Program for expenses resulting from flooding and 
other natural disasters. The economic development revolving 
fund is a liquidation fund into which loan repayment receipts 
are received and any use of these funds is restricted to the 
care and protection of collateral reverting to the Government 
on defaulted loans. Funds in this account, which was 
established prior to the Credit Reform Act of 1992, cannot be 
offset against another account and any withdrawal from the 
account would be scored as lost revenue to the Treasury.
    Emergency grants.--The Committee recommends $54,700,000 for 
emergency grants. Of this amount, the Committee proposes 
spending $45,000,000 for infrastructure grants such as water 
and sewer projects, and to capitalize economic development 
revolving loan funds to provide emergency grants under the 
authority of title IX of the Public Works and Economic 
Development Act. Title IX provides assistance to areas whose 
economies have been undermined by natural disasters and other 
dislocations. The remaining funds would be used for planning 
and technical assistance grants and administrative expenses.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

                              Construction

1997 supplemental estimate..............................     $22,800,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              10,800,000

    Pacific Northwest flooding.--The Committee recommends 
$10,800,000 for emergency expenses associated with the severe 
damage to fish hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest due to 
flooding and other natural disasters. These funds are to remain 
available until expended from the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] ``Construction'' account.
    Acquisition of land.--The request for emergency expenses 
for land acquisition totaling $11,000,000 from the 
``Operations, research, and facilities'' account is not 
recommended as part of this emergency appropriation measure. 
Little detail was provided to the Committee regarding the land 
to be acquired. The request for a supplemental appropriation 
for land acquisition states the funds would be used by local 
watershed councils to acquire key riparian areas critical to 
salmon restoration, conservation easements to prevent 
development in channel migration zones, and acquisition of 
wetlands. No plan has been presented to the Committee by the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] for 
interim and long-term habitat restoration through the 
acquisition of land in Washington, Oregon, California, and 
Idaho. While the Committee is aware of other Federal agencies 
who have requested funds for the acquisition of land for the 
purpose of salmon habitat restoration, NOAA has not been one of 
them. In its request for these funds, NOAA indicates it does 
not intend to own or manage these lands once they are acquired. 
The Committee does not provide an additional $1,000,000 
requested for technical assistance and public education. NOAA's 
intended redirection of $2,000,000 in existing funds for this 
purpose is not recommended.

                           INDEPENDENT AGENCY

                     Small Business Administration

    Disaster Loan Program.--The Committee understands that the 
SBA Disaster Loan Program allows for loans for replacement and 
rebuilt houses in amounts to meet building code, including 
energy code requirements. The Arkansas code for energy 
conservation in new building construction is applicable to 
homes rebuilt with SBA disaster loans but the SBA may not 
provide loan amounts to meet that code's requirements in 
certain situations because the code is self-enforcing. The 
Committee directs SBA to provide loan amounts sufficient to 
meet the Arkansas' code requirements even when there is no 
local building permit.

                               CHAPTER 3

              SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

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

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $310,374,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              20,000,000

    The Committee has included $20,000,000 for extraordinary, 
unforeseen maintenance dredging and emergency flooding needs in 
the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries. The 
requirement, which is a direct result of the severe flooding in 
the Ohio River basin, became known after the current request 
was transmitted to Congress for consideration. The amount 
recommended does not reflect the potential for additional 
maintenance needs which may be required as the result of 
expected high flows from significantly higher snow pack in the 
upper Missouri River basin.
    The Committee remains concerned about the reduction in 
funding for many Yazoo basin projects from previously planned 
levels. In the Senate report accompanying the Fiscal Year 1997 
Energy and Water Appropriations Act, the Committee expressed 
its concern about the impact of these reductions, and the 
possibility that they could result in schedule slippages. The 
Committee further requested a detailed report from the Corps of 
Engineers outlining the impacts of these reductions. The 
Committee finds the report submitted to be deficient in 
outlining these impacts including, but not limited to (1) 
projected timetable delays; (2) construction interruptions; (3) 
additional costs due to extended completion dates; and (4) 
projected adverse impacts to project area due to delay in 
completion. Therefore, the Committee expects the Corps of 
Engineers, within 30 days of enactment of this legislation, to 
resubmit a report to the Committee which better details the 
impact of these delays as described above.

                       Operations and Maintenance

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $1,697,015,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................      39,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             137,000,000

    The Committee recommends additional appropriations of 
$137,000,000 in fiscal year 1997 for the Corps of Engineers to 
undertake repairs of damage caused by the winter flooding in 
the Pacific Northwest, California, Texas, and Ohio River 
Valley, and other natural disasters to navigation channels and 
harbors, locks and dams, hydroelectric units, reservoir 
facilities, and flood control channels and facilities. This 
includes dredging, snagging, drift and debris removal, scour 
protection, and related repairs.
    The amount recommended by the Committee is the minimum 
needed at this time to address known requirements. It should be 
pointed out that the emergency funding request of the President 
did not address the additional flooding experienced in the 
Pacific Northwest in late March, the impact of high shoaling 
rates on the lower Mississippi River navigation channel, flood 
damages experienced in the Ohio River basin, channel 
maintenance requirements resulting from the flooding in Texas, 
high river stages in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and 
the current flooding in the northern Great Plains. The 
Committee has, therefore, recommended an additional 
$98,000,000, over the amount requested, for the Corps to 
undertake this work.
    The Committee is aware of the potential for increased 
maintenance dredging costs resulting from the decision within 
the executive branch to preclude use of the existing ocean 
disposal sites for dredged material from New York/New Jersey 
Harbor and related navigation channels. The Committee is 
concerned about this escalation and its implications for the 
efficient dredging in one of the Nation's major ports. 
Therefore, the Committee urges the Corps to reassess their 
maintenance dredging needs in an effort to make available 
additional dredging funds during the current year.
    The Committee is aware of the potential for increased 
maintenance dredging costs resulting from the decision within 
the executive branch to preclude use of the existing ocean 
disposal sites for dredged material from New York/New Jersey 
Harbor and related navigation channels. The Committee is 
concerned about this escalation and its implication for the 
efficient dredging in one of the Nation's major ports. 
Therefore, the Committee urges the Corps to reassess their 
maintenance dredging needs in an effort to make available 
additional dredging funds during the current year.

                 Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................    $251,700,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             390,000,000

    An additional amount of $390,000,000 is recommended for the 
Corps of Engineers in fiscal year 1997 for flood control and 
coastal emergencies. The additional appropriations provide for 
the repair of eligible Federal and non-Federal levees damaged 
by the floods last fall and winter in Hawaii, California, the 
Pacific Northwest, other western States, spring floods in the 
northern Great Plains and other areas; for emergency operations 
related to these floods; for response and preparedness 
activities, and other work authorized by Public Law 84-99 and 
in support of Public Law 93-288, as amended, and Executive 
Order No. 12148.
    In light of the ongoing flooding in some parts of the 
country and the fact that numerous flood control works are 
still underwater making assessment of damages impossible, the 
Committee has designated the entire amount as an emergency.
    The Committee concurs that the situation at Devils Lake, 
ND, is an emergency and immediate measures must be undertaken 
to prevent massive flooding from occurring this spring and 
summer and in the future. Since 1993, Devils Lake has doubled 
in size and tripled in volume and is projected to rise over 6 
feet this year. The Committee has, therefore, included 
$5,000,000 for the Corps of Engineers for preconstruction 
engineering and design of an emergency outlet from Devils Lake 
to the Sheyenne River and to undertake all other measures 
prepatory to construction. The preconstruction engineering and 
design shall be at full Federal expenses. It is also the 
Committee's intention to provide timely funding for the 
construction of the outlet in fiscal year 1998 if requisite 
requirements have been completed.
    The Committee also recognizes that current plans by the 
Corps of Engineers to enhance the levee at Devils Lake to a 
level of 1,445 feet are insufficient to protect the Devils Lake 
community given the most recent National Weather Service 
forecast for the rise of the lake to 1,444 feet. Accordingly, 
the Committee directs the Corps to expedite action to raise the 
emergency levees at Devils Lake, as appropriate, beyond 1,445 
feet using funding appropriated herein. The Committee expects 
the Corps to complete this work by November 1997, if possible, 
and to report back to the Committee in a timely manner if it is 
unable to meet this timetable.
    The Committee has included sufficient funding for the Corps 
to mitigate the threat of flooding to the Ramsey County Rural 
Sewer System in North Dakota, if appropriate. The Secretary may 
use up to $600,000 to develop and implement measures to 
mitigate damages, if warranted.
    The Committee is aware of prolonged heavy rains, high surf, 
flooding, and land and mud slides which impacted Hawaii last 
November causing a disaster of major proportion, including a 
declaration of a public health emergency. In light of this 
emergency, the Corps is directed to use up to $200,000 of 
available general investigation funds to undertake a 
reconnaissance study for a flood control mitigation project in 
the area of the Lualualei Naval Magazine.
    The Committee directs the Corps to use available funds to 
assess the need for a flood preparedness and warning plan for 
the Reno, NV, area, and to advise the Committee on the need for 
such a plan prior to Committee's consideration of the Energy 
and Water Development appropriations bill for fiscal year 1998.
    The Committee recognizes the catastrophic damages in 
Falmouth, KY, resulting from severe flooding which occurred in 
March 1997. This destruction, dislocation, and loss of life 
compels the Committee to consider solutions as the 
appropriations process continues for fiscal year 1998.
    The Committee understands that a recent landslide into the 
Kootenai River in Montana may have created the potential for 
adverse impacts due to reduced channel capacity and expects the 
Corps to monitor the situation to ensure that flooding does not 
develop. Further, the Committee expects the Corps to use its 
authority, if appropriate, to adjust flows released from Libby 
Dam to ensure that flooding does not occur.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         Bureau of Reclamation

                       Operation and maintenance

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $267,876,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       4,500,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               7,355,000

    An additional amount of $7,355,000 is recommended for the 
``Operation and maintenance'' account of the Bureau of 
Reclamation. This is the same as the budget request.
    These funds will allow the Bureau to repair damage to 
certain facilities that occurred during the winter flooding in 
the western States, particularly California and Nevada. Mud and 
land slides, floating debris, and erosion and undercutting 
caused major repair and replacement requirements, including 
damage to pipelines, access roads, pump plants, electrical 
equipment, canal linings, and other facilities.

                       Tennessee Valley Authority

    The Committee is aware that there are additional funding 
requirements at Land Between the Lakes [LBL] resulting from 
severe flooding in Kentucky and the entire Ohio River Valley. 
The Committee has no objection to TVA using available carry 
forward or unspent appropriated balances and nonpower revenue 
proceeds, up to $900,000, to make necessary repairs to LBL 
facilities and to ensure visitor safety. Further, the Committee 
encourages TVA to review LBL's current work and reprioritize 
such work in response to the flooding.

                               CHAPTER 4

             SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

    The Committee understands that the estimates of emergency 
requirements used to determine the funding levels recommended 
in this chapter are based on preliminary information, and that 
these initial estimates, because of time constraints, may not 
include every project that needs to be addressed. In some 
instances, the Committee has provided resources that presently 
cannot be allocated to particular States because the disaster 
event continues. The Committee expects each agency to develop 
on-the-ground estimates of all its natural disaster-related 
needs and to address these needs consistent with established 
agency priorities. Before proceeding with a final allocation of 
funds to the field, the Committee expects the agencies to 
provide a report which identifies all of the projects 
considered for funding, including those which may be proposed 
to receive less funding than estimated initially.

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                              construction

                     (including transfer of funds)

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $4,333,000 
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     (3,003,000)
Committee recommendation:
    New budget authority................................        393,000 

    Transfer of funds

                                                             (4,403,000)

    The Committee recommends $4,796,000 for construction 
instead of $3,003,000 as proposed by the administration. Within 
the total, $4,403,000 are to be derived by the transfer of 
unobligated balances from supplemental appropriations made 
available for Oregon and California grant lands in fiscal year 
1996. These funds are to be used for road repairs, restoration 
of eroded recreation sites, bridge repair, and other repairs 
associated with snow and flood damage.

                   OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS

    The Committee recommends $2,694,000 for Oregon and 
California grant lands as proposed by the administration for 
road repair, bridge repair, damage due to mud slides, and other 
repairs associated with snow and flood damage. These funds are 
derived from unobligated balances from fiscal year 1996.

                     U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

                          RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $526,047,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       2,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               3,350,000

    The Committee recommends $3,350,000 for resource 
management, of which $2,000,000 is to provide technical 
assistance to Federal agencies and private landowners in 
implementation of emergency and long-term flood restoration 
projects. An additional $250,000 is provided to replace salmon 
fry killed during the April snow storm in New England, and 
$1,100,000 is provided to complete fire restoration at Bosque 
Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.

                              CONSTRUCTION

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $59,256,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................      32,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              91,000,000

    The Committee recommends $91,000,000 for construction, an 
increase of $59,000,000 over the request. The amount 
recommended is for damages, including damage to cultural 
resources, from flooding in the West, the Midwest, and Ohio 
River Valley; storms in the East; and tornadoes in Arkansas and 
Louisiana. Many of these needs were identified subsequent to 
the submission of the supplemental request. The Committee 
expects further revisions and additions to damage estimates, 
and as such has not allocated $10,000,000 of the amount 
provided to any particular region.
    The Committee recommends the following distribution of 
funds:

        Region:                                                   Amount

1. California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington........     $45,546,000
2. Oklahoma, Texas......................................       6,292,000
3. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, 
    Wisconsin...........................................      12,789,000
4. Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee.       4,387,000
5. West Virginia........................................       1,431,000
6. Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah..      10,555,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Regional totals...................................      81,000,000

                            LAND ACQUISITION

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $44,479,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................      15,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               5,000,000

    The Committee recommends $5,000,000 for land acquisition 
from willing sellers in instances in which acquisition is 
demonstrably less expensive than levee repair or land 
restoration. The Committee recognizes that outright acquisition 
in such circumstances can be cost effective. However, the 
Committee also feels that certain private land uses are 
compatible with both periodic flooding and wildlife habitat 
protection, and that resources available to the Service can be 
stretched further through the use of conservation easements and 
other alternatives to fee title acquisition. As such, the 
Committee directs the Fish and Wildlife Service and cooperating 
agencies to reevaluate and pursue more thoroughly opportunities 
for the use of easements and related strategies in flood 
impacted areas. The Service should report its findings to the 
Committee prior to proceeding with any acquisitions under this 
program. The Service's report should include more detailed 
descriptions of the easements and lands to be acquired under 
this program.

                         National Park Service

                              construction

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $172,744,000
1997 supplemental estimate.............................. \1\ 177,779,000
Committee recommendation................................ \1\ 187,321,000

\1\ Including contingency of $30,000,000.

    The Committee recommends $187,321,000 for construction. The 
increase above the request is provided to address needs 
identified subsequent to submission of the request.
    The recommended amount includes $176,053,000 for the repair 
and replacement of facilities and grounds at Yosemite National 
Park, including $30,000,000 in contingency funding for repair 
or replacement of concession use facilities. In title II of 
this bill, the Committee has also included a $10,000,000 
nonemergency appropriation for phase 2 of the Yosemite 
transportation plan, as proposed by the administration. That 
appropriation is offset by a rescission of clean coal 
technology funds.
    The Committee recognizes the devastating impact that the 
winter flooding has had on Yosemite, one of our Nation's most 
beautiful and frequently visited parks. The Committee also 
recognizes that the destruction of so many facilities within 
the park presents a unique opportunity to refurbish the park in 
a manner that will significantly improve the visitor 
experience. However, the Committee notes that the amount being 
appropriated in this bill for Yosemite alone is greater than 
the total amount of construction funds appropriated for the 
entire Park Service in fiscal year 1997. The Committee is also 
aware that damage estimates, repair priorities, and the overall 
restoration plan may change over time.
    As such, the Committee expects the Park Service to submit 
to both the Appropriations Committee and the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources a spending plan within 90 days 
after the enactment of this bill. The plan should detail the 
expected sequencing of planned construction and rehabilitation 
projects, associated cost estimates from the most recent 
assessment report, expected annual expenditures by major 
spending category, a description of work performed and 
obligations incurred to date, and an assessment of the impact 
of the rehabilitation plan on the annual operating needs of the 
park. The Committee further expects the Park Service to submit 
quarterly progress reports thereafter that describe work 
performed in the previous quarter, work expected to be 
performed in the coming quarter, costs and obligations 
associated with such work, the cost of such work as compared to 
original estimates, and other information relevant to the 
ongoing rehabilitation program.
    The Committee also expects the Park Service to work closely 
with local communities in planning and implementing the 
reconstruction, particularly with regard to measures that may 
impact long-term regional transportation planning efforts.
    The funding provided by the Committee for Park Service 
construction is distributed as follows:

                   NATIONAL PARK SERVICE--CONSTRUCTION                  
                        [In thousands of dollars]                       
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             Committee  
                  Site                       Estimate     recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yosemite National Park, CA (emergency)..         176,053         176,053
Devils Postpile National Monument, CA...              74              74
Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA.......             171             171
Lava Beds National Monument, CA.........              47              49
Redwood National Park, CA...............             855           8,955
Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, CA.             286             331
Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, CA             184             216
Oregon Caves National Monument, OR......              68              83
North Cascades National Park, WA........              41              41
Mount Rainier National Park, WA.........  ..............              13
Olympic National Park, WA...............  ..............             130
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY..........  ..............             542
North Dakota group......................  ..............             210
Cape Cod National Seashore, MA..........  ..............              60
Fire Island National Seashore, NY.......  ..............             125
Minute Man National Historical Park, MA.  ..............              79
Roosevelt/Vanderbilt sites, NY..........  ..............             189
                                         -------------------------------
      Total.............................         177,779         187,321
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         U.S. Geological Survey

                 SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $740,051,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       1,300,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               4,650,000

    The Committee recommends $4,650,000 for the U.S. Geological 
Survey, instead of $1,300,000 as proposed by the 
administration. The amount above the request is to address 
needs identified subsequent to submission of the request. These 
funds are provided to allow for the repair or replacement of 
equipment at hydrologic streamflow measurement stations damaged 
by recent floods, thereby enabling the Survey to maintain 
continuity of services for the national streamflow network.

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                      operation of indian programs

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $1,443,502,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       5,800,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              14,317,000

    The Committee recommends $14,317,000 for operation of 
Indian programs instead of $5,800,000 as proposed by the 
administration. The amount above the request is to address 
needs identified sebsequent to submission of the request. These 
funds are to be used for emergency welfare assistance, 
emergency school operations, heating costs, snow removal, and 
other activities related to flood and snow damage.

                              construction

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $100,531,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       5,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               6,249,000

    The Committee recommends $6,249,000 for construction 
instead of $5,000,000 as proposed by the administration. The 
amount above the request is to address additional requirements 
identified subsequent to submission of the request. These funds 
are to be used for emergency repairs related to flood and snow 
damage.
    The Committee has included bill language to ensure that 
funds appropriated to address emergency repair of the Wapato 
irrigation project are provided on a nonreimbursable basis. The 
nonreimbursability shall apply only to the funds appropriated 
for fiscal year 1997 for emergency repairs of the project. The 
Committee expects the Bureau to continue to assess and collect 
the operations and maintenance costs of the project.

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service

    The Committee recommends that supplemental funds be 
provided for repairs and restoration caused by a series of 
floods, landslides, and ice storms in the Pacific Northwest, 
California, Nevada, the northern Rockies, and the Ohio River 
area. The Committee recognizes that there may be a need to 
adjust funding allocations as original damage repair estimates 
are revised. These adjustments may be made within established 
reprogramming guidelines.

                         national forest system

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $1,278,176,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................      25,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              39,677,000

    The Committee recommends $39,677,000 for the national 
forest system, instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by the 
supplemental request. The amount above the request is to 
address additional requirements identified subsequent to 
submission of the request. These funds will provide for 
extraordinary road and trail maintenance and relocation, soil 
stabilization, recreational and administrative facility repair 
and restoration, fish and wildlife habitat restoration, 
studies, design, and National Environmental Policy Act 
assessment. The funds provided include $486,000 for restoration 
of the Markleeville guard station in region 4.
    The Committee recommends the following distribution of 
funds:

        Region:                                                   Amount

1. Northern (Idaho, Montana)............................      $1,361,000
4. Intermountain (Idaho, Nevada, California)............       5,596,000
5. Pacific Southwest (California).......................      14,816,000
6. Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington)...............      14,362,000
9. Eastern (Illinois, Indiana, Ohio)....................       3,542,000

                    reconstruction and construction

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $180,184,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................      13,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              27,685,000

    The Committee recommends $27,685,000 for reconstruction and 
construction, instead of $13,000,000 as proposed by the 
supplemental request. The amount above the request is to 
address additional requirements identified subsequent to 
submission of the request. The funds provided are for 
construction, reconstruction, and relocation of roads and 
trails, and for recreation and administration facility 
construction and reconstruction, including associated planning, 
design work, and technical support.
    The Committee recommends the following distribution of 
funds:

        Region:                                                   Amount

1. Northern (Idaho, Montana)............................        $165,000
4. Intermountain (Idaho, Nevada, California)............       1,636,000
5. Pacific Southwest (California).......................       8,945,000
6. Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington)...............      15,375,000
9. Eastern (Illinois, Indiana, Ohio)....................       1,564,000

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                         Indian Health Service

                         indian health services

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $1,806,269,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                               1,000,000

    The Committee recommends $1,000,000 for Indian health 
services. The administration proposed no funding for this 
account. These funds are to be used for emergency contract 
health services, medications and pharmaceuticals, and other 
emergency services associated with snow and flood damage.

                        indian health facilities

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $247,731,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                               2,000,000

    The Committee recommends $2,000,000 for Indian health 
facilities. The administration proposed no funding for this 
account. These funds are to be used for repair of fire 
sprinkler systems, building foundations, sewer systems, and 
other facilities damaged by storms.

                               CHAPTER 5

          SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                     Federal Highway Administration

                          federal-aid highways

                        Emergency Relief Program

                          (Highway Trust Fund)

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $100,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     291,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             650,000,000

    The Committee recommends a total of $650,000,000 for 
emergency relief activities of the Federal Highway 
Administration to repair highway damage resulting from floods 
in the Western, Midwestern, Northern Plains, and mid-Atlantic 
regions of the country. The Committee has also included bill 
language lifting the $100,000,000 limit on obligations per 
State for the December 1996-97 flooding in impacted States.
    The Committee's funding level exceeds the President's March 
19, 1997, emergency supplemental request by $359,000,000. Given 
that many regions of the country have seen recordbreaking 
floods during the winter and early spring, the Committee is 
concerned that the amount requested by the administration is 
insufficient to meet existing needs. By providing a higher 
amount of emergency funding at this time, the Committee hopes 
to avoid another highway emergency relief supplemental 
appropriation in fiscal year 1997.
    Of the funds provided, $374,000,000 shall be available only 
to the extent an official budget request for a specific dollar 
amount, that includes the designation of the entire amount of 
the request as an emergency requirement, is transmitted by the 
President to the Congress.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

              emergency railroad rehabilitation and repair

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                             $24,000,000

    The Committee recommends $24,000,000 for emergency expenses 
to repair and rebuild regional and short line railroad lines 
damaged by the spring 1997 floods in the Northern Plains 
States. These funds shall be awarded on a case-by-case basis at 
the discretion of the Secretary, contingent upon an official 
budget request that designates the entire amount as an 
emergency requirement. Only class 2 and 3 freight railroads are 
eligible for these funds. All funds made available under this 
head remain available through the end of fiscal year 1997.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         salaries and expenses

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $48,407,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................      20,200,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              14,100,000

    The Committee recommends $14,100,000 for the TWA flight 800 
accident investigation costs directly attributable to the 
National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB], and for assistance 
to families of aviation accident victims as authorized by the 
Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996. Investigation 
costs attributable to the NTSB in fiscal year 1997 include 
wreckage location and recovery, fuselage mockup, fire and 
explosion testing, and NTSB personnel travel, overtime, and 
command center costs. This level of funding does not include 
any supplemental resources for reimbursement to other Federal 
agencies. However, additional resources are provided for the 
NTSB's new responsibilities to coordinate the Federal response 
to aviation disasters, and to assist families of victims of 
aviation accidents in a year of unusually high investigation-
related costs.

                               CHAPTER 6

           SUBCOMMITTEE ON VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Community Planning and Development

                COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS FUND

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $4,600,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     100,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             100,000,000

    The Committee recommends the supplemental budget request of 
$100,000,000 for community development block grant [CDBG] funds 
to remain available until September 30, 2000, for emergency 
expenses resulting from the flooding in the upper Midwest and 
other natural disasters designated in fiscal year 1997 
including any natural disasters designated 30 days prior to the 
start of fiscal year 1997. This provision would restrict the 
use of CDBG funds to those emergency expenses which are for 
community development activities related to recovery efforts 
and for immediate recovery needs not reimbursable by the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency. The CDBG program is among 
the most flexible Federal programs for community development, 
and most importantly, relies primarily on local decisionmaking 
to address local needs. The CDBG program will be a powerful 
tool as communities begin to rebuild from these natural 
disasters.

                           INDEPENDENT AGENCY

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                            Disaster Relief

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $1,320,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate.............................. \1\ 979,000,000
Committee recommendation................................   3,500,000,000

\1\ Includes $438,000,000 in contingency funds.

    The Committee has recommended $3,500,000,000 for FEMA 
disaster relief. This approximates FEMA's current estimate of 
the costs arising from disasters occurring in fiscal year 1997 
and prior years, including those projected for the balance of 
fiscal year 1997 based on the 5-year historical average cost of 
disaster relief.
    The Committee does not recommend bill language proposed by 
the administration designating $438,000,000 in contingency 
funds. It is highly improbable that FEMA's current estimate of 
fiscal year 1997 disaster relief requirements will be revised 
downward; all funds recommended likely will be needed to meet 
fiscal year 1997 requirements.
    The Committee notes its continuing concern with the 
escalating costs of FEMA disaster relief. The number of major 
disaster declarations in the 1992-96 period has increased 54 
percent above the preceding 5-year period; and FEMA's 
calculation of the 5-year historical average cost of disaster 
relief for fiscal year 1998, excluding the Northridge 
earthquake, is $2,300,000,000, an increase of 28 percent over 
last year's 5 year average of $1,800,000,000.
    FEMA acknowledges that the escalation in costs is due not 
only to the increase in large-scale disasters, but also because 
``the scope of Federal disaster assistance has expanded, the 
Federal role in response has expanded considerably, and State 
and local governments are increasingly turning to the Federal 
Government for assistance.'' The Committee is concerned that, 
according to FEMA, ``the current system of disaster relief 
tends to discourage States and local governments from assuming 
primary responsibility for initiating appropriate mitigation, 
preparedness, response and recovery measures before disaster 
strikes.''
    The Committee is disappointed that FEMA has not responded 
satisfactorily to repeated congressional directives, including 
statutory requirements, to submit proposals to reform this 
program to be fiscally responsible. Such reforms would include 
the development of objective disaster declaration criteria and 
comprehensive Federal policies to control the Federal costs of 
disaster assistance, including but not limited to reducing 
appeals, eliminating funding for tree and shrubs replacement, 
eliminating assistance for cultural and decorative objects, 
eliminating funding for certain revenue-producing facilities 
such as golf courses and stadiums, and creating incentives for 
States and local government to carry insurance to cover the 
repair and rebuilding of their infrastructure after a disaster.
    The FEMA Director, in testimony before the VA, HUD, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriation Subcommittee on March 18, 
1997, committed to submitting a comprehensive proposal, 
including proposed legislation, by July 4, 1997. Should the 
Agency fail to meet this deadline, the Committee will be forced 
to take steps to effectuate cost savings at FEMA, including 
reductions to FEMA's operating programs. Bill language has been 
included prohibiting the expenditure of $2,500,000,000 of the 
funds provided herein until the FEMA Director submits his 
legislative proposal to control disaster relief costs. The 
Committee notes that sufficient funds are made available to 
meet all anticipated obligations this fiscal year.

                               CHAPTER 7

 SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                        Office of the Secretary

            public health and social services emergency fund

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                             $15,000,000

    The Committee recommendation includes $15,000,000 for the 
public health and social services emergency fund for the 
purpose of supporting multicenter research studies on 
environmental risk factors associated with breast cancer and 
factors related to regional variations in breast cancer 
incidence and mortality. The Committee understands that there 
may be a significant link between toxins and other chemical 
substances present in the environment and the high rate of 
breast cancer among women in certain areas of the country. The 
Committee notes that breast cancer incidence and mortality are 
significantly higher than the national average in several 
States in the Northeast, such as Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, 
New Hampshire, and New Jersey, as well as in many communities 
in New York, Utah, and California. These funds will be made 
available on a competitive basis and through mechanisms to be 
determined by the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors 
of the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer 
Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 
the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health. The 
Committee requests that the Secretary provide a report on the 
research plan and allocation methodology accompanying these 
additional funds by July 1, 1997.

                               CHAPTER 8

            SUBCOMMITTEE ON TREASURY AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

                  FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT

                          Unanticipated Needs

               Unanticipated Needs for Natural Disasters

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................    $200,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                             ...........................

    The President proposed $200,000,0000 for this account as a 
contingent emergency appropriation. The Committee does not 
recommend providing funding in this fashion, but rather to fund 
directly the appropriate accounts in title II.
                     TITLE III--OTHER SUPPLEMENTALS

                               CHAPTER 1

  SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                          Farm Service Agency

           agricultural credit insurance fund program account

                    operating direct loan subsidies

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $59,150,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              12,600,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $12,600,000 to 
subsidize the cost of farm operating direct loans. This amount 
will fund an estimated additional $100,000,000 in direct loans 
for fiscal year 1997. The Department has indicated that 
available funding for these loans will be exhausted by the end 
of May 1997.

                         Risk Management Agency

                         OPTIONS PILOT PROGRAM

    Section 191 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and 
Reform Act (Public Law 104-127) authorizes USDA to establish an 
options pilot program, to be funded through the Commodity 
Credit Corporation [CCC]. The Committee is aware that USDA is 
considering the establishment of an options pilot program for 
dairy, which could be very useful in helping dairy farmers 
adjust to increased volatility in milk prices. The Committee 
strongly urges the Secretary of Agriculture to establish this 
program this year and, if offset funding is needed, to use 
available balances in other CCC-funded programs, subject to the 
regular reprogramming notification requirements.

                       Food and Consumer Service

special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children 
                                 [wic]

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $3,729,807,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     100,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              58,000,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $58,000,000 for the 
special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and 
children [WIC]. This additional amount is to be used to fund 
shortfalls in State agency projected caseload maintenance 
requirements for the balance of fiscal year 1997.
    The Committee has provided the legislative authority 
requested by the administration to give the Secretary of 
Agriculture the flexibility to allocate this additional funding 
outside the regulatory funding formula. To the greatest extent 
possible, the Secretary is to allocate these funds to ensure 
that all States are serving at least the first four priority 
categories of need.
    The Committee also directs the Secretary to make 
unobligated fiscal year 1996 funds provided for the Farmers' 
Market Nutrition Program available to increase funding for the 
program for fiscal year 1997.

                             RELATED AGENCY

                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

    The Committee is aware that the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission has solicited public comment on the Chicago Board of 
Trade's proposal to amend its delivery specifications for corn 
and soybeans. The provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act 
require futures delivery points that ``will tend to prevent or 
diminish price manipulation, market congestion, or the abnormal 
movement of such commodity in interstate commerce.'' Giving due 
regard to public comments received and using the appropriate 
criteria, the Commission should complete the process and render 
a decision after taking into account the analysis available to 
it.

                               CHAPTER 2

   SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

                DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCIES

                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

              International Organizations and Conferences

              Contributions to International Organizations

1998 budget estimate....................................    $100,000,000
1999 budget estimate (advanced appropriation)...........     921,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             100,000,000

    As part of the fiscal year 1998 budget request, the 
administration is seeking $100,000,000 and an advance 
appropriation in fiscal year 1999 of $921,000,000 for United 
Nations arrears. Administration officials insist that paying 
the arrears is a precondition for successfully negotiating a 
reduction in U.S. assessments to the United Nations. The 
Committee is concerned, however, that paying arrears in 1999 
will do little to enhance our diplomatic leverage in 1997. 
Therefore, the Committee provides $100,000,000 as a down 
payment intended to bolster diplomatic efforts to reduce U.S. 
contributions to the United Nations. The bill prohibits the 
obligation or expenditure of the $100,000,000 until 
specifically authorized. The Secretary of State is directed to 
report to the Committees on Appropriations on its success in 
lowering our arrears to the United Nations not later than June 
15, 1997. In addition, the Secretary of State is directed to 
provide to the Committees on Appropriations a list of offsets 
for any outstanding arrears for which the administration 
desires funding in fiscal year 1998 or in future years. This 
report should be provided to the Committees on Appropriations 
not later than June 15, 1997.

                               CHAPTER 3

                SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

                          DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

              Federal Payment to the District of Columbia

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $660,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................  \1\ 52,379,000
Committee recommendation................................      31,150,000

\1\ Request from the D.C. Financial Responsibility and Management 
Assistance Authority (Control Board).

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $31,150,000. 
This is $21,229,000 less than the D.C. Financial Responsibility 
and Management Assistance Authority (Control Board) request. 
The President's supplemental budget did not include a request 
for the District of Columbia.
    The Committee recommends $22,350,000 in funds for emergency 
capital improvements to those D.C. public school [DCPS] 
facilities that have the most immediate facility improvement 
needs. In 2 of the last 3 years, public schools in the District 
of Columbia have not opened on time because of court orders 
citing the existence of fire code violations. During the 1996-
97 school year, six schools were closed due to fire code 
violations, resulting in the displacement of over 10,600 
schoolchildren.
    On September 30, 1997, Congress enacted the Omnibus 
Appropriations Act of 1997. In the accompanying conference 
report, House Report 104-863, the conferees addressed the 
severe mismanagement of the DCPS system, especially the need 
for school facility improvements. To assist in facility 
improvements, Congress reallocated to the Control Board 
approximately $52,000,000. The conferees stated their intent to 
monitor the progress of facility repairs and their willingness 
to consider providing additional funds in a supplemental 
appropriation bill, if necessary. The conferees directed the 
General Services Administration to provide program management 
services to assist in the short-term management of the DCPS 
system repairs and capital improvements. On November 15, 1996, 
the Control Board appointed a chief executive officer [CEO] for 
the DCPS. The CEO, in turn, appointed a chief operations 
officer to develop and implement a long-range school facility 
improvement plan. The first phase of the plan is an emergency 
capital improvement program.
    The Control Board will contract during fiscal year 1997 for 
facility repairs to satisfy fire code requirements and to 
provide warm, dry facilities throughout the winter months. The 
Committee remains committed to ensuring that the schoolchildren 
of the District of Columbia are able to attend safe schools 
free of deficiencies that could lead to a court-ordered 
closure.

                       public safety and justice

    The $8,800,000 in funds recommended by the Committee for 
the Metropolitan Police Department [MPD] will be used for a 10-
percent pay raise for MPD officers. On December 10, 1996, a 
memorandum of understanding [MOU] partnership was entered into 
by D.C. officials for the purpose of reorganizing law 
enforcement and reducing crime. The MOU partners include the 
Control Board, the Mayor, the Council of the District of 
Columbia, the chief of police, the U.S. attorney, the 
corporation counsel, and the chief judge of the superior court.
    The MOU partners agreed to delegate to the chief of police 
all personnel, purchasing and budget authority over the MPD. 
Consistent with the MOU plan to reduce crime, the chief of 
police reorganized MPD personnel and redeployed 400 officers as 
part of an enhanced enforcement effort to reduce crime. The 
Committee recommendation recognizes the additional 
responsibilities placed on MPD officers as a result of the 
enhanced enforcement effort. The Committee directs the chief of 
police to promulgate performance standards and work rule 
changes for the MPD. The Committee further directs that the pay 
raise for which funds are recommended be tied to the 
performance standards and work rule changes.

                               CHAPTER 4

             SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                         National Park Service

                              construction

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $172,744,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................      10,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              10,000,000

    The Committee recommends $10,000,000 in nonemergency 
appropriations for implementation of phase 2 of the Yosemite 
Valley transportation plan. This appropriation complements 
emergency funding provided in title II, chapter 4 for 
reconstruction and rehabilitation at Yosemite, and is offset by 
a rescission of funds from the clean coal technology program. 
The Committee expects the Park Service to work closely with 
local communities to ensure that the Service's transportation 
plan is compatible with local planning processes.

                               CHAPTER 5

                 SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

                        CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS

                                 SENATE

                   Contingent Expenses of the Senate

                        secretary of the senate

                          (transfer of funds)

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $1,511,000 
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                             (5,000,000)

    The Committee recommends the transfer of $5,000,000 from 
funds available under the heading ``Senate'' to the Secretary 
of the Senate, to be available through September 30, 2000, for 
development and implementation of a comprehensive, Senatewide 
legislative information system [LIS]. The accounts from which 
the transfers occur are contingent upon the approval of the 
Committee on Appropriations. Pursuant to section 8 of the 
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1997, the Secretary is 
required to develop and implement LIS under the oversight of 
the Committee on Rules and Administration.

                               CHAPTER 6

          SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                              Coast Guard

                           Operating Expenses

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $2,319,725,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                               6,473,000

    The Committee recommends $6,473,000 for TWA flight 800 
accident search and rescue, host liaison for all Government 
agencies, salvage operations support and coordination, 
logistics support, and establishing and maintaining safety.

                              Retired Pay

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $608,084,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       4,200,000

Committee recommendation

                                                               4,200,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $4,200,000 for Coast 
Guard retired pay, to cover an increase in the cost-of-living 
adjustment from 2.8 to 2.9 percent and an effective date of 
October 1, 1997.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                       Grants-in-aid for Airports

1997 appropriation to date (limitation on obligations)..  $1,460,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                              15,520,000

    The Committee recommends an additional $15,520,000 for the 
Federal Aviation Administration's ``Grants-in-aid for 
airports'' account, to make funds available for the 
unanticipated and verified costs incurred by State and local 
agencies related to appropriate support efforts in the 1996 
ValuJet flight 592 and TWA flight 800 air tragedies. Of the 
amount provided, not to exceed $12,420,000 shall be made 
available to State and local agencies in the Long Island, NY, 
area, where the July 1996 TWA flight 800 explosion occurred; 
and not more than $3,100,000 shall be made available to State 
and local agencies in the Dade County, FL, area, where the May 
1996 ValuJet crash occurred.
    The FAA Administrator shall work with the Secretary of 
Transportation to secure voluntary payment for any costs 
reimbursed under this provision from the involved airlines, the 
airlines' insurers, the airlines' subcontractors, and the 
airlines' subcontractors' insurers. The Secretary of 
Transportation and FAA Administrator shall report to the Senate 
Committee on Appropriations not later than December 31, 1997, 
on the status of their efforts to secure such payments and on 
their recommendations on how aviation insurance requirements 
should be modified to ensure that such costs are appropriately 
borne by the aviation industry and its insurers.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                          Federal-Aid Highways

                      (Limitation on Obligations)

                          (Highway Trust Fund)

1997 appropriation to date.............................. $18,000,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     318,077,043

Committee recommendation

                                                             933,193,000

    The Committee recommends a total of $933,193,000 in 
additional Federal-aid highway obligational authority for 
fiscal year 1997. Roughly one-half of this additional authority 
shall be made available to States that had their fiscal year 
1996 or 1997 limitations reduced as a result of a clerical 
error by the Department of the Treasury made in recording 
fiscal years 1994-95 highway trust fund receipts. The remainder 
of this additional authority shall be made available to States 
that had their 1997 limitations reduced below fiscal year 1996 
levels, despite the fact that the total obligation limitation 
for the program for fiscal year 1997 was increased 
substantially above the fiscal year 1996 level. Section 
1002(c)(1) of Public Law 102-240 and sections 310(c)(2) and 
310(e) of Public Law 104-205 shall not apply to the extent that 
they would interfere with the correct distribution of the 
additional authority. The Committee directs that $3,600,000 of 
the additional allocation for Utah shall be utilized on 
planning and preliminary engineering for highway projects 
critical to the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Committee directs 
that, within the additional amounts available to the State of 
New Mexico, $450,000 is provided for the ATR Institute to 
continue the Santa Teresa border technologies project. And, the 
Committee directs that the additional amounts made available to 
the State of Alabama are provided for right-of-way acquisition 
and construction of the warrior loop project. The Committee 
also directs that $12,600,000 of the additional allocation for 
Kentucky shall be utilized for completion of the William H. 
Natcher Bridge. The State of California's additional allocation 
may be utilized, in whole or part, for the repair or 
reconstruction of California Highway 1 at Devil's Slide in San 
Mateo County. The Committee also directs that the additional 
allocation for South Carolina be provided for the Charleston 
Highway 17 Cooper River Bridges replacement project. In 
addition, the Committee directs that $100,000 of the additional 
allocation for the State of Iowa shall be utilized for planning 
and environmental work on the 86th Street Highway Project in 
Polk County.

                               CHAPTER 7

            SUBCOMMITTEE ON TREASURY AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee is concerned that the State of Colorado, the 
county of Denver, and the city of Denver law enforcement 
agencies are facing significant costs associated with 
continuing to provide security support to Federal agencies for 
the Oklahoma City bombing trial, which has national 
implications, while concurrently hosting an international event 
the magnitude of the summit of eight scheduled for June 20 
through June 22, 1997. Therefore, the Committee recommends an 
appropriation of $1,950,000 to the ``Departmental offices'' 
account to be used to reimburse to the State of Colorado, the 
county of Denver, and the city of Denver law enforcement 
agencies, subject to verification of appropriate costs.

                          U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

                   Payment to the Postal Service Fund

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $85,080,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................   \1\ 5,383,000
Committee recommendation................................       5,383,000

\1\ Request from the U.S. Postal Service.

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $5,383,000 in 
fiscal year 1997 for payment to the postal service fund.
    Under current law, the Postal Service is entitled to 
receive $29,000,000 each year to reimburse it for subsidies 
provided in past years under the revenue forgone program. The 
fiscal year 1997 appropriation was $23,617,000. This 
supplemental appropriation provides the remaining funding for 
fiscal year 1997.

                           INDEPENDENT AGENCY

                      Federal Election Commission

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $28,165,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................       1,709,000

Committee recommendation

                                             ...........................

    The administration has requested an appropriation of 
$1,709,000 to the Federal Election Commission for startup costs 
associated with investigations and audits pursuant to the 
Federal Election Campaign Act. The Committee has not included 
that request.

                               CHAPTER 8

           SUBCOMMITTEE ON VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

                    Veterans Benefits Administration

                       Compensation and Pensions

1997 appropriation to date.............................. $18,671,259,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................     753,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             753,000,000

    The Committee recommends the supplemental budget request of 
$753,000,000 for veterans compensation and pensions. The 
increase is needed due to the cost-of-living adjustment enacted 
last year for compensation benefits ($340,400,000); an increase 
in the caseload and average payment in the compensation program 
($242,600,000); and an increase in the pension program caseload 
and average payment ($170,000,000). Compensation increases have 
resulted in part due to the regulation adding prostate cancer 
to the presumptive list of disabilities for herbicide exposure 
in Vietnam and the extension of the Vietnam era for veterans 
who served in Vietnam.

                        Administrative Provision

    The Committee recommends an administrative provision 
authorizing construction of a parking structure at the 
Cleveland VA medical center. Funds were provided for this 
project in the Fiscal Year 1997 VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act. The parking complex will correct a 
long-standing parking deficiency at the Cleveland VA facility.

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                            Housing Programs

               annual contributions for assisted housing

    The Committee recommends a provision which would redirect 
previously appropriated, but unexpended, funds included in the 
fiscal year 1992 VA/HUD appropriations bill from the 
construction of a parking garage to the acquisition of parking 
in Ashland, KY, and for the restoration of the Paramount 
Theater, an important historic landmark. These funds are no 
longer needed for the parking garage, but represent funds 
critically needed for parking and for the restoration of the 
Paramount Theater. An amount of $500,000 would be allocated for 
each activity.

   capacity building for community development and affordable housing

                          (transfer of funds)

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation (by transfer)

                                                           ($30,200,000)

    The Committee recommends that $30,200,000 be transferred 
from the Homeownership for People Everywhere Program [HOPE II] 
to the national community development initiative, with at least 
$10,000,000 of this funding dedicated to rural housing and 
economic development, including tribal needs. The HOPE II 
Program was one of the first homeownership programs at HUD 
which has helped to lay the foundation of the public/private 
partnerships which successfully characterize a new generation 
of homeownership programs at HUD. However, as this program 
winds down, there remains a significant need to provide funding 
through national nonprofits like LISC, Enterprise, Youthbuild, 
and Habitat for Humanity to work with local CDC's and 
nonprofits to meet local housing and community development 
needs. This is a successful program that works through 
leveraging private and public money to meet identifiable local 
housing and community development needs. The Committee also 
requires that at least one-third of the funding be used for 
rural needs, including tribal areas. Rural areas have often 
been overlooked, with housing too expensive for the population 
and scarce economic development.

             Drug Elimination Grants for Low-Income Housing

                          (transfer of funds)

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 supplemental estimate (by transfer)................   ($30,200,000)
Committee recommendation................................................

    The Committee recommends against the administration request 
for additional funding for public and assisted housing drug 
elimination grants. While there is great need to continue the 
fight against the devastation of drugs in public and assisted 
housing, the administration has not yet announced its fiscal 
year 1997 notices of funding availability for the Public and 
Assisted Drug Elimination Program which has been fully funded 
at $290,000,000.

                     Management and Administration

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee directs the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development to award $1,500,000 to the National Academy of 
Public Administration [NAPA] to update its 1994 report on 
``Renewing HUD: A Long-term Agenda for Effective Performance.'' 
The initial report questioned HUD's ability to achieve its 
mission because of an overload of programs that ``saps HUD's 
resources, muddles priorities, fragments the Department's work 
force, creates unmeetable expectations, and confuses 
communities.'' It is time to re-evaluate HUD's progress in 
reforming and revitalizing its programs and management, 
including its ability to estimate and allocate effectively 
staff and contracting out authority, monitor potential 
financial obligations and program performance, and give 
appropriate priority to the Department's primary housing and 
community development programs, such as the HOME Program, 
community development block grants, mortgage insurance, section 
8 programs, and public and Indian housing. The Committee 
believes this NAPA review will help both Congress and HUD to 
meet the requirements of the Government Performance and Results 
Act [GPRA] to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and 
accountability of HUD by focusing appropriate management 
practices on program results.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Environmental Protection Agency

                   state and tribal assistance grants

    The Committee urges EPA to make use of the flexibility 
provided in the Clean Water Act and the Fiscal Year 1997 VA, 
HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act to resolve 
expeditiously concerns about the non-Federal match to a grant 
to the town of Middlebury, VT, in such a way that the project 
will be able to move to completion in 1997.

                Department of Health and Human Services

                    u.s. office of consumer affairs

    The Committee does not recommend bill language proposed by 
the administration authorizing the Office of Consumer Affairs 
to accept and expend donated funds, and to use donations for 
printing, publishing, and distributing consumer information and 
educational materials. Such authority is not necessary as the 
Congress gave responsibility to the Consumer Information 
Center, rather than OCA, to produce the Consumer Resource 
Handbook in fiscal year 1997.

                               CHAPTER 9

 SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

                          DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

             Occupational Safety and Health Administration

    The Committee is aware of the workplace standard for 
methylene chloride published by the Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration [OSHA] on January 10, 1997. The Committee 
is concerned that some employers, particularly small 
businesses, may be unable to comply within the timeframe 
required by the standard. Therefore, the Committee directs OSHA 
to provide increased consultative services to ensure that any 
companies demonstrating difficulty complying with this standard 
are either granted additional time through variances or receive 
some other form of cooperative abatement.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

              Health Resources and Services Administration

               HEALTH EDUCATION ASSISTANCE LOANS PROGRAM

    Section 710(a)(2)(B) of the Public Health Service Act 
provides authority to the Secretary to utilize up to $1,000,000 
of the amounts collected from insurance premiums assessed on 
guaranteed loans made under title VII of the Public Health 
Service Act to be used to operate the Office of Health 
Education Assistance Loans [HEAL] Default Reduction 
specifically for fiscal years 1993-96. The Committee 
recommendation extends authority to utilize up to $499,000 from 
premium collections for the Office of HEAL Default Reduction in 
fiscal year 1997.

                  Health Care Financing Administration

                           PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

    The Committee is concerned about the Health Care Financing 
Administration's [HCFA] management of the development and the 
implementation of the Medicare transaction system [MTS]. The 
Committee supports the agency's recent decision to halt much of 
the work on MTS and to examine other options. The Committee 
understands that, over the next 60 to 90 days, HCFA will only 
continue work on that portion of the GTE contract which will 
develop the infrastructure and software to process managed care 
payments and after that time will make a decision on how to 
proceed with the overall system. The Committee expects HCFA to 
confer with this Committee before any final decision is made on 
how to proceed with MTS.
    House Report 104-659 requested that HCFA submit a long-
range budget for MTS, identifying expenses by quarter and 
appropriate benchmarks for completion of the design and the 
implementation of the system, any expenses to date and savings 
expected to result from MTS and the methodology used to 
calculate those savings. The Committee understands that this 
information has not yet been provided to the House. The 
Committee requests that the information be provided to both 
Committees once a decision has been made on how to precede with 
MTS, together with an accounting of funds both obligated and 
expended to date by contractor.
    Finally, the Committee is deeply concerned that HCFA's 
internal computer systems and those of its Medicare contractors 
will be prepared for the year 2000 conversion and expects to be 
regularly updated on HCFA's efforts to see that Medicare 
payments will not be disrupted beginning in the year 2000.

                Administration for Children and Families

                      Social Services Block Grant

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $2,500,000,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                             125,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation includes $125,000,000 in 
additional funding for the social services block grant. This 
amount is intended to be used solely for the purposes 
authorized by section 2008 of title XX of the Social Security 
Act, as amended by title VI of this act. These funds are 
provided to the States for temporary assistance to legal aliens 
who may lose their benefits under the Supplemental Security 
Income [SSI] Program as a result of title IV of Public Law 104-
193, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996. The Committee has provided this 
one-time appropriation due to the time constraints confronting 
States this fiscal year. Further action on this matter is 
expected to be considered by the authorizing committee.

                CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS

    Public Law 104-208 inadvertently excluded reference to 
section 1110 of the Social Security Act, which authorizes the 
Secretary to undertake research related to welfare reform and 
social services. The Committee recommendation amends Public Law 
104-208, the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997, to 
insert the appropriate legislative citation.

                        Department of Education

                    education for the disadvantaged

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $7,698,469,000
1997 supplemental estimate..............................................

Committee recommendation

                                                             198,176,000

    The Committee recommendation includes $198,176,000 in 
additional funding for title I grants to local education 
agencies. This action was taken to prevent some of the poorest 
States in the Nation from losing title I funds. The additional 
funds would be distributed to States that would otherwise 
receive a reduction in funding as a result of the Department of 
Education decision to use, in calculating title I allocations, 
a blend of 1990 and 1994 child poverty data instead of relying 
entirely on 1990 data. This blended rate was recommended by the 
National Academy of Sciences. The 1994 reauthorization of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act required the Academy 
study and recommendation as a safeguard against the use of the 
data if it was unreliable or inappropriate. The bill also makes 
this supplemental appropriation part of the delayed 
appropriation that will become available for obligation on 
October 1, 1997. These supplemental funds will be allocated to 
local school districts in States and counties within those 
States, that receive less in fiscal year 1997 basic and 
concentration grants than they would have received if the 1990 
census data had been used for distribution of these grants. The 
Committee questions the recommendation of the National Academy 
of Sciences panel and requests a further study of how the data 
was collected and validated for all areas including rural 
areas. The Committee directs the Department of Education, in 
consultation with Department of Commerce, to provide this 
information to the Committee by July 1, 1997.

                               CHAPTER 10

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 301. The Committee recommends a provision that limits 
the availability of the funds provided in this supplemental to 
fiscal year 1997 unless expressly provided otherwise.
    Sec. 302. Winter Olympic Games, Salt Lake City, UT.--The 
Committee recommends a provision clarifying language contained 
in Public Law 104-208 regarding counterterrorism communications 
network systems.
    Sec. 303. 2000 census.--The Committee clarifies the 
direction of Senate Report 104-353. The Committee has included 
a new general provision that specifies that none of the funds 
made available in any appropriations act for fiscal year 1997 
may be used by the Department of Commerce to plan or otherwise 
prepare for the use of sampling in taking the 2000 decennial 
census.
    Sec. 304. The Committee recommends adoption of language 
clarifying the application of patent terms consistent with the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act [URAA]. Under the URAA, U.S. 
patent terms were harmonized with those of other major 
industrialized nations. The law permitted patents in force on 
June 8, 1995, to extend their term from 17 years to 20 years. 
The amendment seeks to ensure equal treatment for all patents 
in force on the effective date of the URAA.
    Sec. 305. The Committee recommends repeal of section 5803 
of Public Law 104-208.
    Sec. 306 and 307. Susquehanna and Delaware River Basin 
Commissions.--The Committee has included general provisions 
related to the Delaware and Susquehanna River Basin Commissions 
which ensure that the Federal interests are represented in 
Commission proceedings. In action on the Fiscal Year 1997 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (Public Law 
104-206), the Congress terminated Federal funding for both 
river basin Commissions, but did not provide for continued 
Federal representation. The language recommended (sec. 306) 
redefines the Federal Commission positions so that beginning in 
1997 and thereafter, the U.S. member and alternate appointed 
under the Susquehanna and Delaware River basin compacts shall 
be military officers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who 
serve without additional compensation. Travel and other 
incidental expenses incurred by the U.S. member and alternate 
when performing official duties relating to the Commissions 
shall be paid by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
    In addition, the Committee has included language (sec. 307) 
which clarifies that the U.S. member of both Commissions serve 
at the pleasure of the President. The laws establishing U.S. 
membership differed slightly with the representative of the 
Delaware Commission serving during the term of the President, 
and the representative of the Susquehanna Commission serving at 
the pleasure of the President.
    Sec. 308. The Committee has included language that amends 
the recreation fee demonstration program that was enacted as 
part of the Fiscal Year 1996 Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act. The amendment removes the inflation 
escalator that is built into the demonstration program. This 
escalator has the effect of eroding the amount of fees that can 
be retained by the collecting sites and agencies and used for 
projects that enhance visitor experience and resource 
preservation. The amendment also changes the base year for 
calculating fee increases from fiscal year 1995 to fiscal year 
1994. These two changes will reduce the amount of revenue 
flowing to the Treasury through the end of the recreation fee 
program, but will greatly improve the effectiveness of the 
demonstration. The cost of the amendment in fiscal year 1997 is 
offset by a rescission in the clean coal technology program in 
the Department of Energy.
    Sec. 309. The Committee has included language that amends a 
provision enacted as part of the Fiscal Year 1997 Department of 
the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. That 
provision permitted the Indian Health Service to retain funds 
received from tribal compactors and contractors for goods, 
services, training, or technical assistance. The amendment, 
which strikes and replaces the provision, clarifies that the 
new authority permits the Indian Health Service to both receive 
and retain reimbursement from tribes or tribal organizations, 
in exchange for goods and services, said reimbursements 
received being creditable to the same or subsequent 
appropriation account which provided the funding and remaining 
available until expended.
    Sec. 310. The Committee has included language that repeals 
the recent policy on Revised Statutes 2477 rights-of-way 
announced by the Secretary of the Interior on January 22, 1997, 
as well as continues the present moratorium on the issuance or 
implementation of the proposed regulations that the Department 
of the Interior published on August 1, 1994. The Committee 
intends that the only valid rules, regulations, policies, 
statements, or directives of any agency of the Federal 
Government with respect to the recognition, validity, or 
management of rights-of-way established pursuant to Revised 
Statutes 2477 (43 U.S.C. 932) are those that were in effect 
prior to October 1, 1993. It is the Committee's intention that 
this section will restore the prior practice of deferring to 
the law of the State in which a right-of-way is located for 
purposes of determining the recognition, validity, and 
management of such right-of-way.
    Sec. 311. The Committee recommends language waiving some 
provisions of the Endangered Species Act during catastrophic 
natural disasters.
    Sec. 312. Department of Education, extended availability.--
The Committee has included bill language which provides the 
Department of Education with extended availability for State-
administered programs for fiscal year 1995 and for the 
Rehabilitation Act State programs for fiscal year 1996. This 
extended availability will expire on September 30, 1998. This 
applies only to those areas that have been designated as 
Presidentially declared disaster areas.
    Sec. 313. Department of Education, student aid waivers.--
With regard to student financial assistance funds, the 
Committee has included language which authorizes the Secretary 
of Education to waive or modify statutory or regulatory 
provisions available under title IV, that he may deem 
necessary. These include individuals and other program 
participants who suffered financial harm from natural disasters 
and who, at the time the disaster struck were operating, 
residing, attending an institution of higher education, or 
employed within these areas on the date which, the President 
declared the existence of a major disaster. This authority 
would be in effect for award year 1997-98.
    Sec. 314. The Committee recommendation includes a general 
provision prohibiting funding to implement or administer the 
Medicare competitive pricing/open enrollment demonstration 
project in Denver, CO, through the balance of fiscal year 1997. 
The Committee recognizes that competitive pricing may provide 
an important tool for containing costs in the Medicare Program, 
but in this case believes that HCFA has proceeded with this 
project without sufficient input from the affected community. 
The Committee expects that in the interim the Health Care 
Financing Administration will work with the Medicare 
beneficiaries, local risk contractors, State officials, and 
businesses affected by this proposed project to resolve the 
significant issues.
    Sec. 315. This provision allows for the establishment of a 
no-pay status for the Capitol Police appointed by the Senate. 
The provision is necessary to allow the Secretary of the Senate 
to transfer the payroll functions for the Senate Capitol Police 
to the National Finance Center [NFC] pursuant to the 
requirement of a unified payroll under title 40 U.S.C. 207a.
    This provision does not alter any of the prerogatives of 
the Senate. The Committee's only intention is to provide the 
Secretary of the Senate with the ability to outsource the 
payroll function for the Senate Capitol Police.
    Sec. 316. This provision provides the Sergeant at Arms, 
with the approval of the Rules Committee, the authority to 
grant temporary home State facilities, equipment, and office 
space to a Senator when there has been a disaster or emergency 
declared by the President. This provision is intended to 
provide the additional facilities, equipment, and office space 
consistent with those already provided to a Senator under 
current statutory authority and regulations.
    Sec. 317 and 318. These two sections make technical 
corrections of two enrolling errors within the Fiscal Year 1997 
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, Public Law 104-205, the first relating to 
the DeKalb County, GA, light rail project (sec. 317) and the 
second to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (sec. 318).
    Sec. 319. Includes a provision that increases the 
authorized level for National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration section 410 alcohol-impaired driving prevention 
grants so the higher fiscal year 1997 appropriated level can be 
fully obligated.
    Sec. 320. Includes a provision directing the Federal 
Aviation Administration to exempt general aviation operations 
from the user fee consistent with the assurances that the 
Committee received from the FAA at the time of the original 
language's passage. In addition, the intent of the original 
legislation was to exempt from United States overflight fees 
civilian domestic flights overflying the United States where 
such flights are operated by citizens (airlines, commuters and 
general aviation) of Canada or Mexico as long as both the 
origin and destination of such flights are respectively within 
Canada or Mexico and Canada or Mexico, respectively, similarly 
exempt United States civilian domestic flights. Under present 
circumstances, the amendment would only exempt Canadian 
domestic flights because of Canada's longstanding exemption of 
U.S. flagged-carrier domestic flights operated with aircraft 
weighing less than 200 tons. For the ``citizen of a country 
contiguous to the United States'' to mean an individual who is 
a citizen of that contiguous country; a partnership each of 
whose individual partners is a citizen of that contiguous 
country; or a corporation or association organized under the 
laws of that contiguous country or any subdivision thereof and 
in which at least 51 percent of the voting interest is owned or 
controlled by citizens of that contiguous country.
    Sec. 321. Public Law 104-208, making omnibus consolidated 
appropriations for fiscal year 1997, provides funding necessary 
to complete the construction of a courthouse in Montgomery, AL. 
As a result of project delays, stemming from a budgeting error 
in GSA's 1994 time-out and review exercise, this project has 
already incurred inflationary increases totaling $2,600,000. 
The chairman of the authorizing committee, Environment and 
Public Works, has no objection to this authorization.
    Sec. 322. This provision would prohibit the Internal 
Revenue Service [IRS] between July 1 and December 31, 1997, 
from imposing or enforcing penalties on small businesses who 
are not in compliance with the electronic Federal tax payment 
system [EFTPS], which was established pursuant to section 
6302(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Starting on July 
1, 1997, approximately 1.2 million small businesses will face a 
new IRS requirement to begin making their tax payments 
electronically through EFTPS. There is significant confusion in 
the small business community on the use of EFTPS in large part 
because of an inadequate education and implementation effort by 
the IRS. As with any new system, taxpayer and IRS errors may 
occur. This section will protect small businesses against 
potential penalties of 10 percent on each tax payment that does 
not completely meet the requirements of EFTPS.
    Sec. 323 The Committee recommendation includes a general 
provision to repeal section 1555 of the Federal Acquisition 
Streamlining Act of 1994.
    Section 1555 of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 
1994 provides State and local governments with the ability to 
purchase goods and services from the Federal supply schedule, 
which is managed by the General Services Administration. 
Following enactment of that provision, Congress mandated a 
moratorium on its implementation until the General Accounting 
Office could review the situation. Unfortunately, GAO found 
that there is currently insufficient information for them to 
make a determination on the Governmentwide impact. Therefore, 
the Committee believes that the possibility of increased costs 
to the Federal Government as a result of section 1555 is likely 
and recommends that the section be repealed.
    Sec. 324. Public notice of HUD contracting.--The Committee 
recommends a general provision which would require HUD to 
publish quarterly in the Federal Register a list of all 
contracts and task order changes in excess of $250,000 entered 
into by HUD, the Government National Mortgage Association 
[GNMA], and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight 
[OFHEO]. Each listing would identify the parties to the 
contract, the term and amount of the contract, and the subject 
matter and responsibilities of the parties to the contract. 
This provision reflects the Committee's continuing concerns 
that significant financial and management reforms need to be 
implemented by HUD consistent with the HUD Secretary's pledge 
to tackle head-on HUD's management and financial deficiencies. 
In addition, as the Department continues to downsize, it is 
important that the Committee remains informed on HUD's 
increased reliance on contractors and contracts. There are 
substantial funds at stake in HUD contracts and the Committee 
wants to ensure that appropriate contracting procedures and 
delegations of authority are maintained.
    Sec. 325. Section 8 notice requirements.--The Committee 
recommends a general provision to amend the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 to reduce the notice period from 12 months 
to 4 months for tenants when a section 8 contract may not be 
renewed. The purpose of this amendment is not to provide less 
notice to section 8 tenants; rather, the purpose is to provide 
tenants with more accurate and timely notice of the status of 
their housing assistance. Because of budget constraints over 
the last few years, all section 8 contracts, both tenant based 
and project based, are now being renewed on a yearly basis. 
This means that the current law of a 12-month notice requires 
that what might be considered an eviction notice by some be 
provided to all tenants regardless of Congress' and HUD's 
intent to renew the section 8 contract. To avoid unneeded fear 
and anxiety about the status of a household's housing 
resources, this provision would avoid an unnecessary 12-month 
notice period and allow a more reasonable 4-month notice 
period.
                TITLE IV--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFSETS

                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

                                Overview

    The Committee recommends a number of rescissions to fully 
offset the cost of contingency operations and funding increases 
requested by the Department of Defense.

                      foreign currency fluctuation

    The Committee recommendation rescinds $389,000,000 based on 
the increased value of the dollar relative to foreign 
currencies in countries where the Department of Defense 
operates. The rescissions are applied to the fiscal year 1997 
appropriation for the individual accounts as identified in the 
table which follows.

              FISCAL YEAR 1997 FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATION             
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                                                            Committee   
                     Item                        Qty.    recommendation 
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Military personnel:                                                     
    Army......................................  ......      -$46,000,000
    Navy......................................  ......       -11,000,000
    Marine Corps..............................  ......        -5,000,000
    Air Force.................................  ......       -15,000,000
Operation and maintenance:                                              
    Army......................................  ......      -155,000,000
    Navy......................................  ......       -27,000,000
    Marine Corps..............................  ......       -14,000,000
    Air Force.................................  ......       -99,000,000
    Defense-wide; DODEA.......................  ......       -17,000,000
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                          INFLATION ADJUSTMENT

    Based on lower than projected levels of inflation, the 
Committee recommends rescissions totaling $284,000,000 from 
selected appropriations accounts. The rescissions would reduce 
the fiscal year 1997 appropriation for the individual accounts 
as identified in the table which follows.

                  FISCAL YEAR 1997 INFLATION ADJUSTMENT                 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee   
                     Item                        Qty.    recommendation 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Operation and maintenance:                                              
    Army......................................  ......      -$19,000,000
    Navy......................................  ......       -24,000,000
    Marine Corps..............................  ......        -3,000,000
    Air Force.................................  ......       -18,000,000
    Defense-wide..............................  ......        -8,000,000
Environmental restoration:                                              
    Army......................................  ......          -250,000
    Navy......................................  ......          -250,000
    Air Force.................................  ......          -250,000
    Defense-wide..............................  ......          -250,000
Former Soviet Union threat reduction..........  ......        -2,000,000
Aircraft procurement, Army....................  ......        -8,000,000
Missile procurement, Army.....................  ......        -2,000,000
Procurement of weapons and tracked combat                               
 vehicles, Army...............................  ......        -5,000,000
Procurement of ammunition, Army...............  ......        -1,000,000
Other procurement, Army.......................  ......       -15,000,000
Aircraft procurement, Navy....................  ......       -28,000,000
Weapons procurement, Navy.....................  ......        -6,000,000
Shipbuilding and conversion, Navy.............  ......       -33,000,000
Other procurement, Navy.......................  ......        -8,000,000
Aircraft procurement, Air Force...............  ......       -20,000,000
Missile procurement, Air Force................  ......       -11,000,000
Other procurement, Air Force..................  ......        -7,000,000
Procurement, Defense-wide.....................  ......        -5,000,000
RDT&E:                                                                  
    Army......................................  ......       -10,000,000
    Navy......................................  ......        -9,000,000
    Air Force.................................  ......       -22,000,000
    Defense-wide..............................  ......       -15,000,000
Chemical agents and munitions destruction,                              
 defense......................................  ......        -2,000,000
Drug interdiction, defense....................  ......        -2,000,000
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                           EXPIRING BALANCES

    Based on experience in prior years, the Department of 
Defense is able to project that certain appropriation amounts 
in individual accounts will expire because the funds remain 
unobligated when the period of availability ends. The Committee 
recommends rescissions totaling $225,263,000 in the following 
accounts, and designated fiscal years, based on the Department 
of Defense's projection that these funds will not be obligated 
and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

                            EXPIRING BALANCES                           
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                                                            Committee   
                     Item                        Qty.    recommendation 
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Aircraft procurement, Army, 1995..............  ......       -$1,085,000
Missile procurement, Army, 1995...............  ......        -2,707,000
Procurement of weapons and tracked combat                               
 vehicles, Army, 1995.........................  ......        -2,296,000
Procurement of ammunition, Army, 1995.........  ......        -3,236,000
Other procurement, Army, 1995.................  ......        -2,502,000
Aircraft procurement, Navy, 1995..............  ......       -34,000,000
Weapons procurement, Navy, 1995...............  ......       -16,000,000
Procurement of ammunition, Navy and Marine                              
 Corps, 1995..................................  ......          -812,000
Procurement of ammunition, Navy and Marine                              
 Corps, 1996..................................  ......        -4,000,000
Shipbuilding and conversion, Navy, 1993.......  ......       -10,000,000
Other procurement, Navy, 1995.................  ......        -4,237,000
Procurement, Marine Corps, 1995...............  ......        -1,207,000
Procurement, Marine Corps, 1996...............  ......        -4,000,000
Aircraft procurement, Air Force, 1995.........  ......       -33,650,000
Missile procurement, Air Force, 1995..........  ......        -7,195,000
Other procurement, Air Force, 1995............  ......        -3,659,000
Procurement, Defense-wide, 1995...............  ......        -4,860,000
National Guard and Reserve equipment, 1995....  ......        -5,029,000
RDT&E:                                                                  
    Army, 1996................................  ......        -4,366,000
    Navy, 1996................................  ......       -14,978,000
    Air Force, 1996...........................  ......       -28,396,000
    Defense-wide, 1996........................  ......       -34,890,000
Developmental test and evaluation, defense,                             
 1996.........................................  ......          -890,000
Operational test and evaluation, defense, 1996  ......          -160,000
Chemical agents and munitions destruction,                              
 defense:                                                               
    Procurement, 1995.........................  ......          -456,000
    Research and development, 1996............  ......          -652,000
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                          PROGRAM RESCISSIONS

    In order to fully offset the costs of the Department of 
Defense contingency operations and other supplemental spending 
requests, the Committee recommends rescissions totaling 
$666,200,000 from the identified programs within the specified 
appropriations accounts and fiscal years. The reductions are 
made based on program delays, contract savings, reevaluation of 
project priority, slow execution, or program restructuring.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee   
                     Item                        Qty.    recommendation 
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Missile procurement, Army, 1997: ATACMS [AP-                            
 CY]..........................................  ......      -$69,000,000
Procurement of ammunition, Army, 1996:                                  
    Provision of industrial facilities........  ......        -8,000,000
    Layaway of industrial facilities..........  ......        -6,000,000
Procurement of ammunition, Army, 1997:                                  
 Armament retooling and manufacturing support.  ......       -10,000,000
Other procurement, Army, 1997: Family of                                
 medium tactical vehicles.....................  ......        -6,000,000
Other procurement, Navy, 1996: Shipboard                                
 tactical communications......................  ......        -3,000,000
Aircraft procurement, Air Force, 1996:                                  
    E-8B JSTARS...............................  ......       -25,000,000
    F-16 post production support..............  ......       -15,000,000
Aircraft procurement, Air Force, 1997: F-15                             
 contract savings.............................  ......       -21,000,000
Missile procurement, Air Force, 1997:                                   
    Titan IV program restructure..............  ......      -150,000,000
    Initial upper stage.......................  ......       -25,000,000
Other procurement, Air Force, 1996: Strategic                           
 command and control..........................  ......       -10,000,000
Research, development, test and evaluation,                             
 Navy, 1997: Advanced submarine combat systems                          
 development..................................  ......       -12,000,000
Research, development, test and evaluation,                             
 Air Force, 1997: Classified pro-  gram.......  ......      -100,000,000
Research, development, test and evaluation,                             
 Defense-wide, 1996: Defense reinvestment.....  ......        -6,200,000
Research, development, test and evaluation,                             
 Defense-wide, 1997:                                                    
    THAAD.....................................  ......       -40,000,000
    NIMA......................................  ......       -80,000,000
National defense sealift fund, 1997: LMSR                               
 contract slip................................  ......       -35,000,000
Chemical agents and munitions destruction,                              
 defense (operation and maintenance), 1997:                             
 Program delays...............................  ......        -5,000,000
Chemical agents and munitions destruction,                              
 defense (procurement), 1996: Program delays..  ......       -20,000,000
Chemical agents and munitions destruction,                              
 defense (procurement), 1997: Program delays..  ......       -20,000,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Operation and maintenance, Defense-wide.--The 
administration proposed a rescission (R97-4) of $10,000,000 in 
appropriated fiscal year 1997 funds for Defense-wide operation 
and maintenance activities, including operating forces, 
mobilization, training and recruiting, and administration and 
servicewide activities. The rescission would be taken from 
Reserve programs. The Committee specifically denies the 
rescission proposed by the administration.
    Army tactical missile system [ATACMS] [AP-CY].--The 
Committee recommends a rescission of $69,000,000 of advance 
procurement funds appropriated for the Army tactical missile 
system [ATACMS] for fiscal year 1997.
    Congress provided multiyear authority and an additional 
$69,000,000 above the budget request to allow the Army to begin 
economic order quantity [EOQ] procurement in fiscal year 1997 
for a 5-year multiyear procurement of ATACMS beginning in 
fiscal year 1998. Issues relating to the operational 
effectiveness and suitability of the block IA ATACMS have been 
raised by the operational test community and consequently the 
Army has decided to continue low-rate initial production for at 
least 1 additional year while these issues are addressed. 
Therefore, the additional funds provided by Congress 
specifically for fiscal year 1997 EOQ will not be obligated by 
the Army and are available for rescission.
    The Committee understands that additional research and 
development funds may be needed to fully demonstrate the 
operational effectiveness of the block IA and will address this 
potential shortfall in the fiscal year 1998 appropriations 
bill. The Committee encourages the Army to proceed with a 
multiyear procurement contract for block 1A ATACMS at the 
earliest opportunity once operational testing issues are 
resolved.
    National Guard and Reserve equipment.--The Committee 
specifically denies the administration request (R97-5) to 
rescind $62,000,000 of fiscal year 1997 funds appropriated for 
the ``National Guard and Reserve equipment'' account. The 
Committee directs that these funds, currently on withhold by 
the Office of the Secretary of Defense, shall be immediately 
released to the National Guard Bureau for programmed 
obligations.
    Advanced spacecraft technology.--The Committee is aware of 
an Air Force program called warfighter-1 which is to fly an 
experimental hyperspectral sensor on a satellite. The Director 
of Defense Research and Engineering has reviewed this 
experiment with the support of an integrated product team [IPT] 
and determined that the experiment does not merit science and 
technology funding at this time. However, unlike other IPT's, 
this team did not include industry representation. The 
Committee directs that the Under Secretary of Defense for 
Acquisition and Technology establish an IPT to review 
hyperspectral technology, existing hyperspectral sensors, 
planned sensors, and warfighter-1. The IPT shall include 
knowledgeable representatives from industry and the Air Force 
Phillips Lab as well as managers of other hyperspectral 
programs. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
Technology shall submit a report outlining the IPT's views and 
recommendations by June 15, 1997. The Committee further directs 
that none of the funds appropriated for warfighter-1 shall be 
reallocated or reprogrammed until 15 days after the required 
report is submitted to Congress.
    University research initiatives.--In the fiscal year 1997 
appropriation for the ``Research, development, test and 
evaluation, Defense-wide'' account, the Congress provided an 
additional appropriation of $3,000,000 for the Southern 
Observatory for Astronomical Research [SOAR]. The Committee 
directs that these funds be obligated for the congressionally 
directed purpose no later than May 30, 1997.
    Theater high altitude area defense.--The Committee has 
proposed rescission of $40,000,000 from the fiscal year 1996 
``Research, development, test and evaluation, Defense-wide'' 
account appropriation for the Theater High Altitude Area 
Defense [THAAD] Program. THAAD has failed to intercept the 
target in four flight tests. The rescinded funds were 
appropriated to procure missiles for a user operational 
evaluation system [UOES].
    The Department of Defense has determined that THAAD must 
successfully complete at least one intercept before the UOES 
procurement option can be exercised. As a result of a thorough 
review of the THAAD program by the Department of Defense, the 
Committee understands that further THAAD flight testing will 
now be delayed until fiscal year 1998. This delay in THAAD 
flight testing will prevent the Ballistic Missile Defense 
Organization from exercising the THAAD UOES option and will 
result in the fiscal year 1996 funds expiring. This rescission, 
therefore, allows the Committee to reapply these funds to other 
needs before the dollars lapse. The Committee looks forward to 
carefully reviewing the financial and technical status of the 
THAAD program as part of its fiscal year 1998 budget 
deliberations.
    Chemical agents and munitions destruction.--The Committee 
recommends the rescission of $48,108,000 of funds appropriated 
for the Chemical Agent and Munitions Destruction Program. These 
funds are available as a result of program delays, revised 
economic assumptions, and expiring balances for fiscal years 
1994 through 1997. The Committee has been assured that these 
rescissions will have no schedule impact on the program. The 
Committee wishes to reiterate its very strong support for the 
safe and timely destruction of the U.S. chemical stockpile and 
would not consider these reductions if either of these two 
objectives were compromised.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

    The following list describes the general provisions 
proposed by the Committee.
    Sec. 401. Military construction rescissions.--The Committee 
recommends rescissions of fiscal year 1996 appropriated amounts 
totaling $180,000,000 to offset unbudgeted costs associated 
with contingency operations. Of this total, $152,000,000 is 
rescinded to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions 
as follows:

Military construction:
    Air Force Reserve...................................     -$5,000,000
    Defense-wide........................................     -13,000,000
``Base realignment and closure'' account:
    Part II.............................................     -35,391,000
    Part III............................................     -75,638,000
    Part IV.............................................     -22,971,000

    In addition, $28,000,000 is rescinded to reflect savings 
from program execution, as follows:

Military construction, Defense-wide:
    Defense medical facilities..........................     -$9,000,000
    Defense Logistic Agency.............................     -19,000,000

    The Committee further recommends rescissions of fiscal year 
1997 appropriated amounts totaling $55,000,000. Of this total, 
$9,000,000 is rescinded to reflect savings from revised 
economic assumptions as follows:

Military construction:
    Army................................................     -$1,000,000
    Navy................................................      -2,000,000
    Air Force...........................................      -3,000,000
    Defense-wide........................................      -3,000,000

    In addition, $46,000,000 is rescinded from the ``Military 
construction, Defense-wide'' account, for the Pine Bluff 
Chemical Demilitarization Facility. The award of this contract 
for the first phase of this project has been delayed due to 
unresolved permit issues. The Committee expects the Department 
of Defense to add back in its fiscal year 1999 budget 
sufficient funds for the Pine Bluff chemical demilitarization 
facility to support the construction schedule.
    The Committee directs that these rescissions reflecting 
savings from revised economic assumptions and program execution 
shall not result in the delay or reduction in scope of any 
project for which funds have been appropriated.
    Sec. 402. MK-50 Torpedo Program.--The Committee recommends 
including a provision providing the necessary authority to 
follow the specific directions of the conferees on the Fiscal 
Year 1994 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Public Law 
103-139.
    Sec. 403. Joint Program Office limitations.--The Committee 
recommends a provision which limits the National Capital region 
manpower in the National Missile Defense Joint Program Office.
    Sec. 404. Titan IV/Cassini reimbursement.--The Committee 
has included a provision necessary to ensure that funds 
obligated by purchase order from the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration [NASA] to the Air Force for the Titan IV/
Cassini mission but not yet invoiced by the Air Force will be 
legally available for transfer to the Air Force as contemplated 
by the original agreements and legislation (sec. 115, Public 
Law 104-6 and sec. 8098, Public Law 104-61).
    Sec. 405. Marine Corps bachelor enlisted quarters--Norfolk, 
VA.--The Committee recommends project cancellation and 
rescission of $6,480,000 from funds appropriated in fiscal year 
1995 for a bachelor enlisted quarters project at Norfolk, VA. 
This project is no longer needed due to a reduction in overall 
Marine Corps personnel stationed in Norfolk.
                      TITLE V--NONDEFENSE OFFSETS

                               CHAPTER 1

   SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND 
                            RELATED AGENCIES

                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

                         General Administration

                          working capital fund

1997 rescission request.................................     -$6,400,000

Committee recommendation

                                                              -6,400,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $6,400,000 from 
the working capital fund as proposed by the President.

                               CHAPTER 2

             SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                         Clean Coal Technology

                              (rescission)

1997 appropriation to date..............................     $14,879,000
1997 rescission request.................................     -10,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             -17,000,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $17,000,000 from 
funds previously appropriated for the Clean Coal Technology 
Program. This includes a $10,000,000 rescission proposed by the 
administration to offset the cost of the second phase of the 
Yosemite National Park transportation plan, and an additional 
rescission of $7,000,000 to offset the costs of an amendment to 
the recreation fee demonstration program included in title III, 
chapter 10. These funds are available due to the termination 
and consolidation of several clean coal projects.

                      Strategic Petroleum Reserve

                              (rescission)

1997 appropriation to date..............................    $220,000,000
1997 rescission request.................................     -11,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                             -11,000,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $11,000,000 from 
funds previously appropriated for the strategic petroleum 
reserve. These funds are available due to cost savings achieved 
in the SPR life extension program.

                               CHAPTER 3

          SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                       Grants-in-Aid to Airports

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

                 (Rescission of Contract Authorization)

    The bill rescinds $774,000,000 in contract authority that 
is not available due to annual limits on obligations.

             National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

                     Highway Traffic Safety Grants

                          (Highway Trust Fund)

                 (Rescission of Contract Authorization)

    The bill rescinds $13,000,000 in contract authority that is 
not available for obligation due to annual limits on 
obligations.

                     Federal Transit Administration

                      Trust Fund Share of Expenses

                          (Highway Trust Fund)

                 (Rescission of Contract Authorization)

    The bill rescinds $271,000,000 in contract authority that 
is not available for obligation due to annual limits on 
obligations.

                          Discretionary Grants

                          (Highway Trust Fund)

                 (Rescission of Contract Authorization)

    The bill rescinds $588,000,000 in contract authority that 
is not available for obligation due to annual limits on 
obligations.

                Department of Transportation rescissions

Federal Aviation Administration, grants-in-aid for 
    airports (airport and airways trust fund)...........   -$778,000,000
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, highway 
    traffic safety grants (highway trust fund)..........     -10,600,000
Federal Transit Administration, trust fund share of 
    expenses (highway trust fund).......................    -271,000,000
Federal Transit Administration, discretionary grants 
    (highway trust fund)................................    -588,000,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................  -1,647,600,000

                               CHAPTER 4

            SUBCOMMITTEE ON TREASURY AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT

                           INDEPENDENT AGENCY

                    General Services Administration

                   expenses, presidential transition

                              (rescission)

1997 appropriation to date..............................      $5,600,000
1997 rescission request.................................      -5,600,000
Committee recommendation................................      -5,600,000

    The Committee has recommended a rescission of $5,600,000 
appropriated for fiscal year 1997 for expenses necessary to 
carry out the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. This amount 
is equal to the administration's request.
    Under current law, these funds are not to be expended when 
the incumbent President is reelected and shall be returned to 
the general funds of the Treasury.

                               CHAPTER 5

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

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                   Public and Indian Housing Programs

               Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing

                              (Rescission)

1997 appropriation to date..............................  $4,640,000,000
1997 rescission request.................................    -250,000,000

Committee recommendation

                                                          -3,650,000,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $3,650,000,000 in 
unobligated and unexpended section 8 reserves as an offset to 
the Committee's recommendation of $3,500,000,000 for FEMA 
disaster relief and $100,000,000 for emergency CDBG assistance.
    While this Committee considers disaster assistance a 
priority and is proud of its commitment to assist the citizens 
of our Nation to meet the challenges and tragedies of natural 
disasters, the Committee remains very concerned about its 
ability to meet the housing needs of certain low-income 
households, especially the elderly and the disabled. In 
particular, the Committee remains very concerned about the 
explosive growth in the cost of section 8 contract renewals 
from a cost of $3,600,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 to a cost of 
some $10,200,000,000 in budget authority for fiscal year 1998. 
It is the intent of this Committee to preserve additional HUD 
funds, where possible, to minimize the unprecedented future 
costs associated with the renewal of section 8 contracts.
    The Committee is deeply disturbed about HUD's recent 
discovery of $5,800,000,000 in section 8 reserves maintained by 
public housing authorities. HUD has been designated by GAO as a 
high-risk area of Government and a mystery discovery of 
billions of dollars emphasizes the real absence of good 
management and financial controls at the Department.
    The Committee also is disappointed over HUD's failure to be 
more forthcoming about the availability and amount of section 8 
reserves despite a number of requests by the Committee 
regarding section 8 reserves and other unobligated funds in HUD 
programs. The HUD Secretary has made a commitment to address 
HUD's management and financial deficiencies and the Committee 
expects the Secretary to fulfill this commitment. Moreover, the 
mystery discovery of billions of dollars of section 8 reserves 
only heightens the Committee's concerns. The Committee 
continues to expect the correction of HUD's management and 
financial deficiencies to be a priority and the Committee 
stresses the need to address HUD's problems through a 
bipartisan approach.
    As the HUD Secretary regularly acknowledges, the most 
critical issue facing HUD in fiscal year 1998 is the sharp 
increase in the budget authority needed to maintain rental 
subsidies to the nearly 3 million families assisted with 
section 8 assistance. This issue is the result of recent 
changes in the allocation of section 8 funding from multiyear 
contract to 1-year contract renewals. This means that the 
demand on budget authority for section 8 contract renewals is 
dramatic.
    For example, the VA-HUD Fiscal Year 1997 Appropriation Act 
appropriated $3,600,000,000 to cover the cost of renewing 
expiring section 8 contracts for fiscal year 1997. The cost of 
renewing all section 8 contracts for fiscal year 1998 (a total 
of 1,669,185 expiring contracts), however, will require an 
appropriation of some $10,200,000,000 in budget authority for 
fiscal year 1998. The cost of expiring section 8 contracts will 
then rise to $11,900,000,000 in budget authority for fiscal 
year 1999; $13,700,000,000 in budget authority for fiscal year 
2000; $15,100,000,000 in budget authority for fiscal year 2001; 
and $16,400,000,000 in budget authority for fiscal year 2002.
    The Committee supports preserving the existing Federal 
commitment to section 8 housing assistance. Renewing these 
section 8 contracts is an existing commitment to low-income 
families in need of affordable, safe, and secure housing. The 
continued availability of section 8 housing assistance is not 
only critical to the success envisioned in the promise of 
welfare reform, but also provides a critically needed safety 
net for the elderly and disabled in our communities. Finally, 
the Committee expects HUD to preserve all excess section 8 
contract funds and reserves to meet the significant and growing 
costs of future section 8 needs.
    Further, the Committee directs the establishment of a new 
account entitled the ``Section 8 reserve preservation'' 
account, to preserve $2,150,000,000 and other section 8 
recaptures for use in extending section 8 contracts expiring in 
fiscal year 1998 and thereafter.
    In addition, because of HUD's recent discovery of some 
$5,800,000,000 in unexpended and unobligated section 8 reserve 
funds, this Committee considers it critical that it receive a 
comprehensive audit of the financial status of all HUD 
programs, including all unexpended and unobligated funds. 
Because the Department has been unable to provide adequate or 
accurate information on its program funds and budgets, the 
Committee believes GAO should undertake a complete audit of HUD 
accounts, with a final report due to the Appropriations 
Committees no later than May 1, 1998.

                     Federal Housing Administration

             fha--general and special risk program account

                              (rescission)

1997 appropriation to date..............................................
1997 rescission request.................................................

Committee recommendation

                                                            -$85,000,000

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $85,000,000 from 
available negative credit subsidy from the HUD sale of HUD-held 
assigned mortgage notes. This available credit subsidy is 
unneeded to meet existing FHA multifamily mortgage insurance 
demands.

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                  Federal Emergency Management Agency

                         Salaries and Expenses

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends a rescission of $5,000,000 from 
FEMA salaries and expenses from funds appropriated in Public 
Law 102-368, the Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
Act, 1992. These funds were appropriated to cover the 
incremental costs arising from the consequences of Hurricane 
Andrew, Hurricane Iniki, and Typhoon Iniki, and remain 
unobligated.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

                    national aeronautics facilities

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends the rescission of $365,000,000, 
originally appropriated in fiscal year 1995, for the 
construction of new national wind tunnel facilities, including 
final design, modification of existing facilities, necessary 
equipment, and for acquisition or condemnation of real property 
as authorized by law. In the intervening years, it has become 
apparent that the construction of new national wind tunnel 
facilities is not the highest priority within the constrained 
NASA aeronautics budget. The aerospace industry and other 
Federal agency users believe that maintaining NASA's 
aeronautics research and technology base is a higher priority. 
In addition, these customers have not stepped forward with 
appropriate cost-sharing arrangements for wind tunnel 
construction. Therefore, NASA is pursuing improvements to the 
Nation's testing capability at relatively low cost, through 
information technology, advanced instrumentation and model 
design technologies, and computational methods, instead of the 
construction of new national wind tunnel facilities.

                  funds appropriated to the president

                          UNANTICIPATED NEEDS

                              (rescission)

    The Committee recommends the rescission of $4,200,000, 
originally appropriated to the President and made available to 
NASA for damage to contractor facilities sustained in the 
Northridge, CA, earthquake. The repair of the contractor 
facilities was completed without consuming the entire amount 
that had been made available.

                               CHAPTER 6

  SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES

         Foreign Agricultural Service and General Sales Manager

                             export credit

    The Committee recommends a provision to prohibit the use of 
funds made available by Public Law 104-180 to carry out an 
export credit guarantee program in excess of $3,500,000,000 for 
fiscal year 1997. The Committee understands that the program is 
running behind last year's level in sales registrations and 
this reduction in program level should have no impact.

                       EXPORT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

    The Committee recommends that the fiscal year 1997 program 
level for the Export Enhancement Program [EEP] be reduced from 
$100,000,000 to $50,000,000 to partially offset disaster and 
other supplemental requirements for fiscal year 1997.

                               CHAPTER 7

              SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

                         CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL

1997 appropriation to date.............................. $1,081,942,000 
1997 supplemental estimate..............................   (-50,000,000)

Committee recommendation

                                                           (-30,000,000)

    The Committee recommends that current year appropriations 
for construction, general within the Corps of Engineers be 
reduced $30,000,000. This reduction is $20,000,000 less than 
the requested amount. All ongoing construction projects and 
activities should be reduced proportionally.
            TITLE VI--SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT AMENDMENT

    Title VI of this act amends title XX of the Social Security 
Act to create a new section. Public Law 104-193, the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 
specifies that noncitizens, except for those individuals in 
certain exempt groups, would no longer qualify for SSI benefits 
after August 22, 1997. After this date, such aliens would need 
to obtain naturalized citizenship in order to continue 
qualification for SSI. In recognition that some individuals may 
not be able to obtain naturalized citizenship in time to avert 
the loss of their SSI benefits, the Committee has included this 
language and $125,000,000 in additional funds to assist States 
and local governments to meet anticipated demands for services, 
including cash assistance, for an additional 2 months beyond 
the statutory cut off date for eligibility.
    States will receive proportionate funding based upon their 
percentage of noncitizen SSI populations as of June 1, 1997. 
Each State would receive a minimum of 0.2 percent of the 
appropriation, or $250,000. For States with SSI alien 
recipients of at least 0.15 percent of the total population, 
the minimum grant would be 0.6 percent of the appropriation, or 
$725,000. The States would determine eligibility requirements, 
type of benefits, and benefit levels for the 2-month period. 
Funds may not be used to pay for services covered by Medicaid 
or to create new entitlements for specific individuals.
    The amendment withstands the current law prohibition on 
cash payments with social services block grant funds. The 
Committee urges States that choose to provide cash benefits to 
consider utilizing the existing section 1616(a) mechanism to 
avoid unnecessary bureaucratic duplication and protect against 
fraud. This mechanism permits States to contract with the 
Social Security Administration to administer State SSI 
supplementary payments.
             TITLE VII--GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN PREVENTION ACT

    The Committee includes language providing continuing 
appropriations for fiscal year 1998 in the event the regular 
annual appropriations acts are not enacted into law by October 
1, 1997. The text is the same as Senate bill 547 as introduced 
on April 10, 1997.
COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(C), RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, the accompanying 
bill was ordered reported from the Committee by recorded vote 
of 16-12, a quorum being present.
        Yeas                          Nays
Chairman Stevens                    Mr. Gregg
Mr. Cochran                         Mr. Byrd
Mr. Specter                         Mr. Inouye
Mr. Domenici                        Mr. Hollings
Mr. Bond                            Mr. Leahy
Mr. Gorton                          Mr. Bumpers
Mr. McConnell                       Mr. Lautenberg
Mr. Burns                           Mr. Harkin
Mr. Shelby                          Ms. Mikulski
Mr. Bennett                         Mr. Reid
Mr. Campbell                        Mr. Kohl
Mr. Craig                           Mrs. Murray
Mr. Faircloth
Mrs. Hutchison
Mr. Dorgan
Mrs. Boxer

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

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

                            BUDGETARY IMPACT

    Section 308(a)(1)(A) of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as 
amended, requires that the report accompanying a bill providing 
new budget authority contain a statement detailing how that 
authority compares with the reports submitted under section 602 
of the act for the most recently agreed to concurrent 
resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. All funds 
provided in this bill are either offset or are within the 
remaining limits of the Committee's allocations.

                    Five-Year Projection of Outlays

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

                              [In millions]

Budget authority: Fiscal year 1997............................    $1,207
Outlays:
    Fiscal year 1997..........................................       948
    Fiscal year 1998..........................................     2,050
    Fiscal year 1999..........................................     1,275
    Fiscal year 2000..........................................       941
    Fiscal year 2001 and future years.........................     1,353

Note: The above table includes both mandatory and discretionary 
appropriations.
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               Assistance to State and Local Governments

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

                              [In millions]

New budget authority..........................................    $2,312
Fiscal year 1997 outlays......................................       423

                       COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL                       
                                                                  [Amounts in dollars]                                                                  
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                                                                                                                                          Committee     
                                                                                                                                        recommendation  
  Doc.                                                                                         Supplemental          Committee          compared with   
  No.                                                                                            request           recommendation        supplemental   
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                            TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                       Military Personnel                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Military personnel, Army (emergency appropriations)                              ...................         306,800,000         +306,800,000   
     -- Military personnel, Navy (emergency appropriations)                              ...................           7,900,000           +7,900,000   
     -- Military personnel, Marine Corps (emergency appropriations)                      ...................             300,000             +300,000   
     -- Military personnel, Air Force (emergency appropriations)                         ...................          29,100,000          +29,100,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Military personnel                                                  ...................         344,100,000         +344,100,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                   Operation and Maintenance                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Operation and maintenance, Marine Corps (by transfer) (sec. 104)                 ...................         (23,000,000)        (+23,000,000)  
  105-3 Overseas contingency operations transfer fund (emergency appropriations)              2,006,214,000        1,312,900,000         -693,314,000   
  105-3 OPLAN 34A/35 P.O.W. payments                                                             20,000,000           20,000,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Operation and maintenance                                                2,026,214,000        1,332,900,000         -693,314,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                 Revolving and Management Funds                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
  105-3 Reserve mobilization income insurance fund (emergency appropriations)                    72,000,000           72,000,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                       General Provisions                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Additional transfer authority (sec. 101)                                         ...................        (100,000,000)       (+100,000,000)  
        General provision (sec. 103)                                                     ...................          50,000,000          +50,000,000   
     -- Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps (sec. 105)                                 ...................           6,480,000           +6,480,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, general provisions                                                  ...................          56,480,000          +56,480,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, title I:                                                                                                                           
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                         2,098,214,000        1,805,480,000         -292,734,000   
                      Appropriations                                                            (20,000,000)         (76,480,000)        (+56,480,000)  
                      Emergency appropriations                                               (2,078,214,000)      (1,729,000,000)       (-349,214,000)  
                  (By transfer)                                                          ...................         (23,000,000)        (+23,000,000)  
                  (Additional transfer authority)                                        ...................        (100,000,000)       (+100,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                       TITLE II--NATURAL DISASTERS AND OTHER EMERGENCIES                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                        
                                           CHAPTER 1                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      Farm Service Agency                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
        Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account:                                                                                             
            Loan Subsidy:                                                                                                                               
     --         Emergency disaster loans (contingent emergency appropriations)           ...................          18,000,000          +18,000,000   
     --         (Loan authorization)                                                     ...................         (59,000,000)        (+59,000,000)  
 105-58 Emergency conservation program (emergency appropriations)                                20,000,000   ...................         -20,000,000   
 105-58     Contingent emergency appropriations                                                  17,000,000           77,000,000          +60,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Farm Service Agency                                                         37,000,000           95,000,000          +58,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                             Natural Resources Conservation Service                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Watershed and flood prevention operations (emergency appropriations)                     66,100,000   ...................         -66,100,000   
 105-58     Contingent emergency appropriations                                                  18,000,000          161,000,000         +143,000,000   
     -- Tree assistance program (contingent emergency appropriation)                     ...................           9,500,000           +9,500,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Natural Resources Conservation Service                                      84,100,000          170,500,000          +86,400,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                     Rural Housing Service                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
        Rural Housing Insurance Fund:                                                                                                                   
            Rental housing (sec. 515):                                                                                                                  
 105-58         Loan subsidy (emergency appropriation)                                              250,000              250,000   ...................  
 105-58         (Loan authorization)                                                               (488,000)            (488,000)  ...................  
 105-58 Rural housing assistance program (emergency appropriations)                                 750,000   ...................            -750,000   
            Contingent emergency appropriations                                          ...................           4,000,000           +4,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Rural Housing Service                                                        1,000,000            4,250,000           +3,250,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                    Rural Utilities Service                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Rural utilities assistance program (emergency appropriations)                             1,000,000   ...................          -1,000,000   
            Contingent emergency appropriations                                          ...................           6,500,000           +6,500,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Rural Utilities Service                                                      1,000,000            6,500,000           +5,500,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 1:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           123,100,000          276,250,000         +153,150,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Emergency appropriations                                                  (88,100,000)            (250,000)        (-87,850,000)  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                       (35,000,000)        (276,000,000)       (+241,000,000)  
                  (Loan authorization)                                                             (488,000)         (59,488,000)        (+59,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 2                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                        
                              Economic Development Administration                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Economic development assistance programs (emergency appropriations)              ...................          54,700,000          +54,700,000   
 105-58     (By transfer)                                                                        (1,200,000)  ...................         (-1,200,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Economic Development Administration                                 ...................          54,700,000          +54,700,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Operations, research and facilities (emergency appropriations)                           12,000,000   ...................         -12,000,000   
 105-58 Construction (emergency appropriations)                                                  10,800,000           10,800,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration                             22,800,000           10,800,000          -12,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Department of Commerce                                                      22,800,000           65,500,000          +42,700,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 2:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                            22,800,000           65,500,000          +42,700,000   
                      Emergency appropriations                                                  (22,800,000)         (65,500,000)        (+42,700,000)  
                  (By transfer)                                                                  (1,200,000)  ...................         (-1,200,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 3                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   Corps of Engineers--Civil                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky,  ...................          20,000,000          +20,000,000   
         Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee (emergency appropriations)                                                                     
 105-58 Operations and maintenance, general (emergency appropriations)                           39,000,000          137,000,000          +98,000,000   
 105-58 Flood control and coastal emergencies (emergency appropriations)                        201,700,000          390,000,000         +188,300,000   
 105-58     Contingent emergency appropriations                                                  50,000,000   ...................         -50,000,000   
 105-58     Advance appropriations, fiscal year 1998                                             30,500,000   ...................         -30,500,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Department of Defense--Civil                                               321,200,000          547,000,000         +225,800,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                   DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Bureau of Reclamation                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Operation and maintenance (emergency appropriations)                                      4,500,000            7,355,000           +2,855,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 3:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           325,700,000          554,355,000         +228,655,000   
                      Emergency appropriations                                                 (245,200,000)        (554,355,000)       (+309,155,000)  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                       (50,000,000)  ...................        (-50,000,000)  
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1998                                   (30,500,000)  ...................        (-30,500,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 4                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   Bureau of Land Management                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Construction (emergency appropriations)                                          ...................             393,000             +393,000   
 105-58     (By transfer) (emergency appropriations)                                             (3,003,000)          (4,403,000)         (+1,400,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Bureau of Land Management                                           ...................             393,000             +393,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                            United States Fish and Wildlife Service                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Resource management (emergency appropriations)                                            2,000,000            3,350,000           +1,350,000   
 105-58 Construction (emergency appropriations)                                                  32,000,000           91,000,000          +59,000,000   
 105-58 Land acquisition (emergency appropriations)                                              15,000,000            5,000,000          -10,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, United States Fish and Wildlife Service                                     49,000,000           99,350,000          +50,350,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                     National Park Service                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Construction (emergency appropriations)                                                 147,779,000          157,321,000           +9,542,000   
 105-58     Contingent emergency appropriations                                                  30,000,000           30,000,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, National Park Service                                                      177,779,000          187,321,000           +9,542,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                United States Geological Survey                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Surveys, investigations, and research (emergency appropriations)                          1,300,000            4,650,000           +3,350,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                    Bureau of Indian Affairs                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Operation of Indian programs (emergency appropriations)                                   5,800,000           14,317,000           +8,517,000   
 105-58 Construction (emergency appropriations)                                                   5,000,000            6,249,000           +1,249,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Bureau of Indian Affairs                                                    10,800,000           20,566,000           +9,766,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Department of the Interior                                                 238,879,000          312,280,000          +73,401,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                        RELATED AGENCIES                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
                                         Forest Service                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 National forest system (emergency appropriations)                                        25,000,000           39,677,000          +14,677,000   
 105-58 Reconstruction and construction (emergency appropriations)                               13,000,000           27,685,000          +14,685,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Forest Service                                                              38,000,000           67,362,000          +29,362,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                            DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Indian Health Service                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Indian health services (emergency appropriations)                                ...................           1,000,000           +1,000,000   
     -- Indian health facilities (emergency appropriations)                              ...................           2,000,000           +2,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Indian Health Service                                               ...................           3,000,000           +3,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 4:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           276,879,000          382,642,000         +105,763,000   
                      Emergency appropriations                                                 (246,879,000)        (352,642,000)       (+105,763,000)  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                       (30,000,000)         (30,000,000)  ...................  
                  (By transfer) (emergency appropriations)                                       (3,003,000)          (4,403,000)         (+1,400,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 5                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                  DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
                                 Federal Highway Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
        Federal-aid highways (Highway Trust Fund):                                                                                                      
 105-58     Emergency relief program (emergency appropriations)                                 276,000,000          276,000,000   ...................  
 105-58     Contingent emergency appropriations                                                  15,000,000          374,000,000         +359,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Federal Highway Administration                                             291,000,000          650,000,000         +359,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                Federal Railroad Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Emergency railroad rehabilitation program (contingent emergency appropriations)  ...................          24,000,000          +24,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Department of Transportation                                               291,000,000          674,000,000         +383,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                         RELATED AGENCY                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                        
                              National Transportation Safety Board                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                        
  105-3 Salaries and expense (emergency appropriations)                                          20,200,000           14,100,000           -6,100,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 5:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           311,200,000          688,100,000         +376,900,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Emergency appropriations                                                 (296,200,000)        (290,100,000)         (-6,100,000)  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                       (15,000,000)        (398,000,000)       (+383,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 6                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                          DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
                               Community Planning and Development                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                        
   105- Community development block grants fund emergency appropriations                        100,000,000          100,000,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                   OTHER INDEPENDENT AGENCIES                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                        
                              Federal Emergency Management Agency                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-58 Disaster relief (emergency appropriations)                                              541,000,000        3,500,000,000       +2,959,000,000   
 105-58     Contingent emergency appropriations                                                 438,000,000   ...................        -438,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Federal Emergency Management Agency                                        979,000,000        3,500,000,000       +2,521,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 6:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                         1,079,000,000        3,600,000,000       +2,521,000,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Emergency appropriations                                                 (641,000,000)      (3,600,000,000)     (+2,959,000,000)  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                      (438,000,000)  ...................       (-438,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 7                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                            DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                        
                        Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Breast Cancer research (emergency appropriations)                                ...................          15,000,000          +15,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 7: Emergency appropriations                                 ...................         (15,000,000)        (+15,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 8                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                              FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      Unanticipated Needs                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
   105- Unanticipated Needs for Natural Disasters: Contingent emergency appropriations          200,000,000   ...................        -200,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 8:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           200,000,000   ...................        -200,000,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                      (200,000,000)  ...................       (-200,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, title II:                                                                                                                          
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                         2,338,679,000        5,581,847,000       +3,243,168,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Emergency appropriations                                               (1,540,179,000)      (4,877,847,000)     (+3,337,668,000)  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                      (768,000,000)        (704,000,000)        (-64,000,000)  
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1998                                   (30,500,000)  ...................        (-30,500,000)  
                  (Loan authorization)                                                             (488,000)         (59,488,000)        (+59,000,000)  
                  (By transfer)                                                                  (1,200,000)  ...................         (-1,200,000)  
                  (By transfer) (emergency appropriations)                                       (3,003,000)          (4,403,000)         (+1,400,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                 TITLE III--OTHER SUPPLEMENTALS                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
                                           CHAPTER 1                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      Farm Service Agency                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
        Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account:                                                                                             
            Loan Subsidy:                                                                                                                               
     --         Direct operating loans                                                   ...................          12,600,000          +12,600,000   
     --             (Loan authorization)                                                 ...................        (100,000,000)       (+100,000,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
                      Total, Farm Service Agency                                         ...................          12,600,000          +12,600,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                   Food and Consumer Service                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
  105-3 Child nutrition programs                                                                  6,000,000   ...................          -6,000,000   
  105-3 Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC)           100,000,000           58,000,000          -42,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Food and Consumer Service                                                  106,000,000           58,000,000          -48,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 1:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           106,000,000           70,600,000          -35,400,000   
                      Appropriations                                                           (106,000,000)         (70,600,000)        (-35,400,000)  
                  (Loan authorization)                                                   ...................        (100,000,000)       (+100,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 2                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      DEPARTMENT OF STATE                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
                          International Organizations and Conferences                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Arrearage payments                                                               ...................         100,000,000         +100,000,000   
  105-3     (advance appropriation, fiscal year 1999)                                           921,000,000   ...................        -921,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 2:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           921,000,000          100,000,000         -821,000,000   
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1999                                  (921,000,000)  ...................       (-921,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 3                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                         FEDERAL FUNDS                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Federal payment to the District of Columbia                                      ...................          31,150,000          +31,150,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 3: New budget (obligational) authority                      ...................          31,150,000          +31,150,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 4                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     National Park Service                                                                                              
 105-58 Construction                                                                             10,000,000           10,000,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 4:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                            10,000,000           10,000,000   ...................  
                      Appropriations                                                            (10,000,000)         (10,000,000)  ...................  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 5                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                    CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
                                             SENATE                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                        
                               Contingent Expenses of the Senate                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Secretary of the Senate (by transfer)                                            ...................          (5,000,000)         (+5,000,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 5:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                    ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                  (By transfer)                                                          ...................          (5,000,000)         (+5,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 6                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                  DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
                                Federal Aviation Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Grants-in-aid for airports                                                       ...................          15,520,000          +15,520,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                          Coast Guard                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Operating expenses                                                               ...................           6,473,000           +6,473,000   
  105-3 Retired pay                                                                               4,200,000            4,200,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Coast Guard                                                                  4,200,000           10,673,000           +6,473,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                 Federal Highway Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
  105-3 Federal-aid highways (Highway Trust Fund): (Limitation on obligations)                 (318,077,000)        (933,193,000)       (+615,116,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Department of Transportation                                                 4,200,000           26,193,000          +21,993,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 6:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                             4,200,000           26,193,000          +21,993,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................         (21,993,000)        (+21,993,000)  
                  (Limitation on obligations)                                                  (318,077,000)        (933,193,000)       (+615,116,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 7                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      Departmental Offices                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Salaries and expenses                                                            ...................           1,950,000           +1,950,000   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                         POSTAL SERVICE                                                                                                 
  105-3 Payment to the Postal Service Fund                                                        5,383,000            5,383,000   ...................  
                                                                                                                                                        
                                       INDEPENDENT AGENCY                                                                                               
 105-61 Federal Election Commission                                                               1,709,000   ...................          -1,709,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 7: New budget (obligational) authority                               7,092,000            7,333,000             +241,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 8                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
                                Veterans Benefits Administration                                                                                        
  105-3 Compensation and pensions                                                               753,000,000          753,000,000   ...................  
                                                                                                                                                        
                          DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   Selected Housing Programs                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
  105-3 Drug elimination grants for low-income housing (by transfer)                            (30,200,000)  ...................        (-30,200,000)  
                                                                                                                                                        
               Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- National Community Development Initiative (by transfer)                          ...................         (30,200,000)        (+30,200,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Department of Housing and Urban Development                         ...................  ...................  ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 8:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                           753,000,000          753,000,000   ...................  
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                  (By transfer)                                                                 (30,200,000)         (30,200,000)  ...................  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 9                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                            DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                        
                            Administration for Children and Families                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Social Services Block grant                                                      ...................         125,000,000         +125,000,000   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                    DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Compensatory education for the disadvantage: Advance appropriations, fiscal      ...................         200,000,000         +200,000,000   
         year 1998                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 9:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                    ...................         325,000,000         +325,000,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................        (125,000,000)       (+125,000,000)  
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1998                            ...................        (200,000,000)       (+200,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 10                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                       GENERAL PROVISIONS                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- General provision (sec. 304)                                                     ...................        -100,000,000         -100,000,000   
     -- General provision (sec. 308)                                                     ...................           7,000,000           +7,000,000   
     -- General provision (contract authority) (sec. 319)                                ...................             500,000             +500,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 10:                                                                                                                        
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                    ...................         -92,500,000          -92,500,000   
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................        (-93,000,000)        (-93,000,000)  
                      Contract authority                                                 ...................            (500,000)           (+500,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 11                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      Department of Energy                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-78 Energy Supply Research Development (by transfer)                                        (19,700,000)  ...................        (-19,700,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 11:                                                                                                                        
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                    ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Appropriations                                                     ...................  ...................  ...................  
                  (By transfer)                                                                 (19,700,000)  ...................        (-19,700,000)  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, title III:                                                                                                                         
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                         1,801,292,000        1,230,776,000         -570,516,000   
                      Appropriations                                                           (123,092,000)        (273,076,000)       (+149,984,000)  
                      Contract authority                                                 ...................            (500,000)           (+500,000)  
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1998                            ...................        (200,000,000)       (+200,000,000)  
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1999                                  (921,000,000)  ...................       (-921,000,000)  
                  (Loan authorization)                                                   ...................        (100,000,000)       (+100,000,000)  
                  (Limitation on obligations)                                                  (318,077,000)        (933,193,000)       (+615,116,000)  
                  (By transfer)                                                                 (49,900,000)         (35,200,000)        (-14,700,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                            TITLE IV--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFSETS                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                        
                                       Military Personnel                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Military Personnel, Army (rescission)                                            ...................         -46,000,000          -46,000,000   
     -- Military Personnel, Navy (rescission)                                            ...................         -11,000,000          -11,000,000   
     -- Military Personnel, Marine Corps (rescission)                                    ...................          -5,000,000           -5,000,000   
     -- Military Personnel, Air Force (rescission)                                       ...................         -15,000,000          -15,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Military Personnel                                                  ...................         -77,000,000          -77,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                   Operation and Maintenance                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Operations and Maintenance, Army (rescission)                                    ...................        -174,000,000         -174,000,000   
     -- Operations and Maintenance, Navy (rescission)                                    ...................         -51,000,000          -51,000,000   
     -- Operations and Maintenance, Marine Corps (rescission)                            ...................         -17,000,000          -17,000,000   
     -- Operations and Maintenance, Air Force (rescission)                               ...................        -117,000,000         -117,000,000   
 105-44 Operations and maintenance, Defense-wide (rescission)                                   -10,000,000          -25,000,000          -15,000,000   
     -- Environmental Restoration, Army (rescission)                                     ...................            -250,000             -250,000   
     -- Environmental Restoration, Navy (rescission)                                     ...................            -250,000             -250,000   
     -- Environmental Restoration, Air Force (rescission)                                ...................            -250,000             -250,000   
     -- Environmental Restoration, Defense Wide (rescission)                             ...................            -250,000             -250,000   
     -- Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction (rescission)                                ...................          -2,000,000           -2,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Operation and Maintenance                                                  -10,000,000         -387,000,000         -377,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                          Procurement                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Aircraft Procurement, Army (rescission)                                          ...................          -9,085,000           -9,085,000   
     -- Missile Procurement, Army (rescission)                                           ...................         -73,707,000          -73,707,000   
     -- Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles Army (rescission)             ...................          -7,296,000           -7,296,000   
     -- Procurement of Ammunition, Army (rescission)                                     ...................         -28,236,000          -28,236,000   
     -- Other Procurement, Army (rescission)                                             ...................         -23,502,000          -23,502,000   
     -- Aircraft Procurement, Navy (rescission)                                          ...................         -62,000,000          -62,000,000   
     -- Weapons Procurement, Navy (rescission)                                           ...................         -22,000,000          -22,000,000   
     -- Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps (rescission)                    ...................          -4,812,000           -4,812,000   
     -- Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy                                                ...................         -43,000,000          -43,000,000   
     -- Other Procurement, Navy (rescission)                                             ...................         -15,237,000          -15,237,000   
     -- Procurement, Marine Corps (rescission)                                           ...................          -5,207,000           -5,207,000   
     -- Aircraft Procurement, Air Force (rescission)                                     ...................        -114,650,000         -114,650,000   
     -- Missile Procurement, Air Force (rescission)                                      ...................        -193,195,000         -193,195,000   
     -- Other Procurement, Air Force (rescission)                                        ...................         -20,659,000          -20,659,000   
     -- Procurement, Defense-Wide (rescission)                                           ...................          -9,860,000           -9,860,000   
 105-44 National Guard and Reserve equipment (rescission)                                       -62,000,000           -5,029,000          +56,971,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Procurement                                                                -62,000,000         -637,475,000         -575,475,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                           Research, Development, Test and Evaluation                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army (rescission)                    ...................         -14,366,000          -14,366,000   
     -- Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy (rescission)                    ...................         -35,978,000          -35,978,000   
     -- Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Air Force (rescission)                ...................        -150,396,000         -150,396,000   
     -- Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide (rescission)            ...................        -176,090,000         -176,090,000   
     -- Developmental Test and Evaluation, Defense (rescission                           ...................            -890,000             -890,000   
     -- Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense (rescission)                            ...................            -160,000             -160,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation                          ...................        -377,880,000         -377,880,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                 Revolving and Management Fund                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- National Defense Sealift Fund (rescission)                                       ...................         -35,000,000          -35,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                              Other Department of Defense Programs                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense (rescission)                  ...................         -48,108,000          -48,108,000   
     -- Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities (rescission)                       ...................          -2,000,000           -2,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Other Department of Defense Programs                                ...................         -50,108,000          -50,108,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                       General Provisions                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
  105-3 DOD-wide savings proposals (offset)                                                  -4,800,000,000   ...................      +4,800,000,000   
     -- Military construction (rescission) (sec. 401)                                    ...................        -235,000,000         -235,000,000   
     -- Military construction, Navy (rescission) (sec. 405)                              ...................          -6,480,000           -6,480,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, general provisions                                                      -4,800,000,000         -241,480,000       +4,558,520,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, title IV:                                                                                                                          
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                        -4,872,000,000       -1,805,943,000       +3,066,057,000   
                      Rescissions                                                              (-72,000,000)     (-1,805,943,000)     (-1,733,943,000)  
                      Offsets                                                               (-4,800,000,000)  ...................     (+4,800,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                  TITLE V--NON-DEFENSE OFFSETS                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
                                           CHAPTER 1                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     General Administration                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-44 Working capital fund (rescission)                                                        -6,400,000           -6,400,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 1: Rescissions                                                     (-6,400,000)         (-6,400,000)  ...................  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 2                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                                                                              
 105-57 Clean coal technology (rescission)                                                      -10,000,000          -17,000,000           -7,000,000   
 105-44 Strategic petroleum reserve (rescission)                                                -11,000,000          -11,000,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Department of Energy                                                       -21,000,000          -28,000,000           -7,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 2: Rescissions                                                    (-21,000,000)        (-28,000,000)         (-7,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 3                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                  DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
                                Federal Aviation Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Grants-in-aid for airports (Airport and Airway Trust Fund) (rescission of        ...................        -778,000,000         -778,000,000   
         contract authority)                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
                         National Highway Traffic Safety Administration                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Highway traffic safety grants (Highway Trust Fund) (rescission of contract       ...................         -10,600,000          -10,600,000   
         authority)                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                 Federal Transit Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Trust fund share of expenses (Highway Trust Fund) (rescission of contract        ...................        -271,000,000         -271,000,000   
         authority)                                                                                                                                     
     -- Discretionary grants (Highway Trust Fund) (rescission of contract authority)     ...................        -588,000,000         -588,000,000   
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              Total, Federal Transit Administration                                      ...................        -859,000,000         -859,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Department of Transportation                                        ...................      -1,647,600,000       -1,647,600,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 3: Rescission of contract authority                         ...................     (-1,647,600,000)     (-1,647,600,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 4                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                       INDEPENDENT AGENCY                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                        
                                General Services Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-44 Expenses, presidential transition (rescission)                                           -5,600,000           -5,600,000   ...................  
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Chapter 4: Rescissions                                                     (-5,600,000)         (-5,600,000)  ...................  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 5                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                          DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   Selected Housing Programs                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-44 Annual contributions for assisted housing (rescission)                                 -250,000,000       -3,650,000,000       -3,400,000,000   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                 Federal Housing Administration                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- FHA--General and special risk program account (rescission)                       ...................         -85,000,000          -85,000,000   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      INDEPENDENT AGENCIES                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
                              Federal Emergency Management Agency                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Salaries and expenses (rescission)                                               ...................          -5,000,000           -5,000,000   
                                                                                                                                                        
                         National Aeronautics and Space Administration                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- National Aeronautics facilities (rescission)                                     ...................        -365,000,000         -365,000,000   
                                                                                                                                                        
                              Funds Appropriated to the President                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Unanticipated Needs (rescission)                                                 ...................          -4,200,000           -4,200,000   
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              Total, Chapter 5: Rescissions                                                   (-250,000,000)     (-4,109,200,000)     (-3,859,200,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 6                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   Food and Consumer Service                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                        
  105-3 The emergency food assistance program (offset)                                           -6,000,000   ...................          +6,000,000   
        Public Law 480 Program Account:                                                                                                                 
            Title I--Credit sales:                                                                                                                      
 105-44         Ocean freight differential (rescission)                                          -3,500,000   ...................          +3,500,000   
 105-44     Loan subsidies (rescission)                                                         -46,500,000   ...................         +46,500,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Public Law 480 program account                                             -50,000,000   ...................         +50,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                  Foreign Agricultural Service                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
     -- Export credit (offset)                                                           ...................         -16,000,000          -16,000,000   
     -- Export enhancement program (offset)                                              ...................         -13,000,000          -13,000,000   
                                                                                        ----------------------------------------------------------------
              Total, Foreign Agricultural Service                                        ...................         -29,000,000          -29,000,000   
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, Chapter 6:                                                                                                                         
                  Rescissions                                                                  (-50,000,000)  ...................        (+50,000,000)  
                  Offsets                                                                       (-6,000,000)        (-29,000,000)        (-23,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                                           CHAPTER 7                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                        
                                  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                        
                                     DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                        
                                   Corps of Engineers--Civil                                                                                            
  105-3 Construction, general (offset)                                                          -50,000,000          -30,000,000          +20,000,000   
                                                                                                                                                        
                                      DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                        
                                Power Marketing Administrations                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                        
 105-44 Construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance, Western Area Power              -2,111,000   ...................          +2,111,000   
         Administration (rescis-  sion)                                                                                                                 
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              Total, Chapter 7:                                                                                                                         
                  Rescissions                                                                   (-2,111,000)  ...................         (+2,111,000)  
                  Offsets                                                                      (-50,000,000)        (-30,000,000)        (+20,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Total, title V:                                                                                                                           
                  New budget (obligational) authority                                          -391,111,000       -5,855,800,000       -5,464,689,000   
                  Discretionary budget authority                                         ...................  ...................  ...................  
                      Rescissions                                                              -335,111,000       -4,149,200,000       -3,814,089,000   
                      Rescission of contract authority                                   ...................     (-1,647,600,000)     (-1,647,600,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                      Offsets                                                                  (-56,000,000)        (-59,000,000)         (-3,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
              Grand total, all titles:                                                                                                                  
                  Discretionary budget authority                                                217,874,000          199,160,000          -18,714,000   
                      Appropriations                                                           (143,092,000)        (349,556,000)       (+206,464,000)  
                      Rescissions                                                             (-407,111,000)     (-5,955,143,000)     (-5,548,032,000)  
                      Contract authority                                                 ...................            (500,000)           (+500,000)  
                      Rescission of contract authority                                   ...................     (-1,647,600,000)     (-1,647,600,000)  
                      Offsets                                                               (-4,856,000,000)        (-59,000,000)     (+4,797,000,000)  
                      Emergency appropriations                                               (3,618,393,000)      (6,606,847,000)     (+2,988,454,000)  
                      Contingent emergency appropriations                                      (768,000,000)        (704,000,000)        (-64,000,000)  
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1998                                   (30,500,000)        (200,000,000)       (+169,500,000)  
                      Advance appropriation, fiscal year 1999                                  (921,000,000)  ...................       (-921,000,000)  
                  (Limitation on obligations)                                                  (318,077,000)        (933,193,000)       (+615,116,000)  
                  (Loan authorization)                                                             (488,000)        (159,488,000)       (+159,000,000)  
                  (By transfer)                                                                 (51,100,000)         (58,200,000)         (+7,100,000)  
                  (By transfer) (emergency appropriations)                                       (3,003,000)          (4,403,000)         (+1,400,000)  
                  (Additional transfer authority)                                        ...................        (100,000,000)       (+100,000,000)  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                  Mandatory budget authority                                                   (757,200,000)        (757,200,000)  ...................  
                                                                                        ================================================================
                  Total appropriations in bill                                                  975,074,000          956,360,000          -18,714,000   
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