[House Report 117-97]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


117th Congress }                                          { Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session   }                                          { 117-97

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              COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
                       APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2022

                                _______
                                

 July 19, 2021.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                             MINORITY VIEWS

                        [To accompany H.R. 4505]

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report in explanation of the accompanying bill making 
appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for 
other purposes.

                        INDEX TO BILL AND REPORT

                                                            Page Number

                                                            Bill Report
Title I--Department of Commerce............................     2
                                                                     13
Title II--Department of Justice............................    26
                                                                     56
Title III--Science.........................................    94
                                                                    120
        Office of Science and Technology Policy............    94
                                                                    120
        National Space Council.............................    95
                                                                    122
        National Aeronautics and Space Administration......    95
                                                                    122
        National Science Foundation........................   106
                                                                    138
Title IV--Related Agencies.................................   110
                                                                    148
        Commission on Civil Rights.........................   110
                                                                    148
        Equal Employment Opportunity Commission............   111
                                                                    148
        International Trade Commission.....................   112
                                                                    149
        Legal Services Corporation.........................   112
                                                                    150
        Marine Mammal Commission...........................   114
                                                                    150
        Office of the United States Trade Representative...   114
                                                                    150
        State Justice Institute............................   115
                                                                    151
Title V--General Provisions................................   116
                                                                    151
        House of Representatives Reporting Requirements....
                                                                    154
        Minority Views.....................................
                                                                    219

                         Highlights of the Bill

    The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
Subcommittee has jurisdiction over a diverse group of agencies 
responsible for promoting economic development; researching 
climate change and mitigating its impacts; protecting civil 
rights; promoting criminal justice reform and police reform; 
combating violent crime, financial fraud, terrorism, cyber 
threats, and espionage; addressing gun violence; ensuring 
access to justice; enforcing trade laws; conducting periodic 
censuses; forecasting the weather; managing fisheries; 
exploring space; and advancing science. The activities of these 
agencies impact every American and are integral to the 
operations of our government.
    The bill provides a total of $81,315,000,000 in 
discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2022. Within the 
level of funds provided, the bill prioritizes funding to help 
reform law enforcement practices across the country and to 
ensure the civil rights of all Americans. The bill also 
prioritizes numerous public investments important for job 
creation, infrastructure improvements, American 
competitiveness, public safety, climate, and other scientific 
research, and improving the accuracy of weather forecasting.
    Policing Reform and Racial Justice.--The Committee takes 
very seriously its solemn obligation to help improve the state 
of policing and ensure racial justice in the United States. The 
appalling mistreatment of African Americans and other 
minorities at the hands of police officers in communities 
throughout the country is a longstanding epidemic that demands 
immediate reforms throughout the Nation, including decisive 
action from this Committee. Hate-based violence and incidents 
that continue to exist across our Nation must be reported, 
investigated, and prosecuted. To that end, the Committee has 
included a number of meaningful investments and reforms. The 
Committee's recommendation includes the following:
           Provides $193,161,000 for the Civil Rights 
        Division of the Department of Justice, an increase of 
        $35,014,000 above fiscal year 2021. Within this amount, 
        an increase of not less than $10,000,000 is provided 
        for investigations and enforcement related to the 
        patterns and practices of police departments, including 
        compliance with consent decrees. In addition, increases 
        of $10,000,000 within the appropriation for United 
        States Attorneys and $5,000,000 within the Federal 
        Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are provided for this 
        same purpose.
           Directs the Attorney General to develop and 
        implement strong and uniform accreditation standards 
        for Federal, State, and local law enforcement, based on 
        an analysis of existing accreditation standards and 
        methodology development by law enforcement 
        accreditation organizations nationwide, as well as the 
        May 2015 recommendations of the President's Task Force 
        on 21st Century Policing.
           Prohibits Justice Department funds from 
        being made available for any law enforcement agency of 
        any State or unit of local government unless the 
        Attorney General has certified that such agency has 
        begun or completed the process of obtaining 
        accreditation from a certified law enforcement 
        accreditation organization.
           Directs the Attorney General to continue 
        efforts to implement a program to improve training for 
        all Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers, 
        including the development of standards that can be 
        applied in hiring and performance assessments, 
        specifically aimed at racial profiling, implicit bias, 
        and procedural justice, as well as the use of force and 
        the duty for officers to intervene when witnessing the 
        use of excessive force against civilians. The 
        recommendation further directs the Attorney General to 
        establish standards for such training to be adopted 
        nationwide.
           Provides $5,000,000 for the National Task 
        Force on Law Enforcement Oversight. This Task Force is 
        designed to coordinate the detection and referral of 
        complaints regarding incidents of alleged law 
        enforcement misconduct nationwide, in consultation with 
        professional law enforcement associations, labor 
        organizations, and community-based organizations.
           Provides $5,000,000 for continued 
        development and implementation of a first-of-its-kind 
        National Police Misconduct Registry, designed to serve 
        as a central repository of data with respect to all 
        Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers, to 
        be compiled and maintained by the Department of 
        Justice. This would provide a publicly available 
        resource to help ensure accountability and transparency 
        and help restore trust in the credibility of the 
        Nation's law enforcement agencies and improve their 
        relationships with the communities they serve.
           Prohibits any State or unit of local 
        government from receiving any Byrne JAG program funds 
        or COPS program funds, unless the United States 
        Attorney General certifies that the jurisdiction 
        satisfies all of the following requirements:
          1. Maintains adequate policies and procedures 
        designed to eliminate racial profiling in law 
        enforcement, and has eliminated any existing practices 
        that permit or encourage racial profiling in law 
        enforcement;
          2. Requires each law enforcement officer in the State 
        or unit of local government to complete training 
        programs on racial profiling, implicit bias, de-
        escalation, use of force and a duty to intervene in 
        cases where another law enforcement officer is using 
        excessive force against a civilian, and procedural 
        justice;
          3. Has in effect a law that prohibits law enforcement 
        officers from using a chokehold or carotid hold, 
        consistent with the requirements as described in 
        section 363 of H.R. 1280, The George Floyd Justice in 
        Policing Act, as passed by the House of Representatives 
        on March 3, 2021;
          4. Has in effect a law that prohibits law enforcement 
        officers from using less lethal force, consistent with 
        the requirements as described in section 364 of H.R. 
        1280;
          5. Has in effect a law that prohibits law enforcement 
        officers from using deadly force, consistent with the 
        requirements as described in section 364 of H.R. 1280;
          6. Has in effect a law that prohibits the issuance of 
        a ``no-knock warrant'' in a drug case, consistent with 
        the requirements as described in section 362 of H.R. 
        1280;
          7. Has provided the United States Attorney General a 
        law enforcement practice report that includes 
        information on the race, ethnicity, age, and gender of 
        the officers and employees of the law enforcement 
        agency and of members of the public involved in:
                  (a) traffic violation stops;
                  (b) pedestrian stops;
                  (c) frisk and body searches; and
                  (d) instances where officers or employees of 
                the law enforcement agency used deadly force, 
                including detailed information on such 
                instances.
          8. Has not entered into or renewed any contractual 
        arrangement, including a collective bargaining 
        agreement with a labor organization, which:
                  (a) would prevent the Attorney General from 
                seeking or enforcing equitable or declaratory 
                relief against a law enforcement agency 
                engaging in a pattern or practice of 
                unconstitutional misconduct, or
                  (b) conflicts with any terms or conditions 
                contained in a consent decree.
           Prohibits any State or unit of local 
        government from receiving any Byrne JAG program funds 
        or COPS program funds, unless the United States 
        Attorney General certifies that the jurisdiction 
        (including all members of multi-jurisdictional or 
        regional consortia applying for COPS funds) has in 
        effect a law that makes it a criminal offense for any 
        person acting under color of law to engage in a sexual 
        act with an individual, including an individual who is 
        under arrest, in detention, or otherwise in the actual 
        custody of any law enforcement officer.
           Requires ten percent of each applicant's 
        Byrne JAG formula funds to be spent to develop and 
        implement best practices to eliminate racial profiling, 
        including training to prevent racial profiling and to 
        encourage more respectful interaction with the public, 
        the acquisition and use of technology to facilitate the 
        accurate collection and analysis of data, the 
        development and acquisition of feedback systems and 
        technologies that identify officers or units of 
        officers engaged in, or at risk of engaging in, racial 
        profiling or other misconduct, and the establishment 
        and maintenance of an administrative complaint 
        procedure or independent auditor program.
           Requires five percent of each applicant's 
        Byrne JAG formula funds to be spent to assist law 
        enforcement agencies of the applicant, including campus 
        public safety departments, gain or maintain 
        accreditation from certified law enforcement 
        accreditation organizations.
           Requires five percent of each applicant's 
        Byrne JAG formula funds to be used to study and 
        implement effective management, training, recruiting, 
        hiring, and oversight standards and programs to promote 
        effective community and problem-solving strategies for 
        law enforcement agencies.
           Requires five percent of each applicant's 
        Byrne JAG formula funds to be used to purchase or lease 
        body-worn cameras for use by State, local, and tribal 
        law enforcement officers; for expenses related to the 
        implementation of a body-worn camera program in order 
        to deter excessive force, improve accountability and 
        transparency of the use of force by law enforcement 
        officers, and improve evidence collection; or to 
        implement policies or procedures to be consistent with 
        requirements as described in section 382 of H.R. 1280, 
        as passed by the House of Representatives on March 3, 
        2021. The recommendation additionally includes 
        $35,000,000 for the competitive matching grant program 
        for purchases of body-worn cameras and related expenses 
        for State, local and Tribal law enforcement.
           Provides $42,000,000 for grants to train 
        State and local law enforcement officers on racial 
        profiling, implicit bias, de-escalation, use of force 
        and a duty to intervene when witnessing other officers 
        using excessive force, and procedural justice.
           Provides $100,000,000 for grants to assist 
        states in conducting pattern and practice 
        investigations of law enforcement.
           Provides $7,200,000 for grants to support 
        State and local law enforcement in complying with 
        reform efforts as a result of litigation including, but 
        not limited to, consent decrees, out of court 
        agreements, memoranda of understanding, findings, 
        technical assistance, and recommendation letters from 
        reform authorities.
           Provides $250,000,000 for grants to States 
        and Tribes to assist in implementing statutes providing 
        for independent investigation of law enforcement 
        officers.
           Provides $25,000,000 for grants to 
        community-based organizations to study and implement: 
        (1) effective management, training, recruiting, hiring, 
        and oversight standards and programs to promote 
        effective community and problem solving strategies for 
        law enforcement agencies; or (2) effective strategies 
        and solutions to public safety, including strategies 
        that do not rely on Federal or local law enforcement 
        agency responses. The studies shall address standards 
        relating to administrative due process, residency 
        requirements, compensation and benefits, use of force, 
        racial profiling, early warning systems, juvenile 
        justice, school safety, civilian review boards or 
        analogous procedures, or research into the 
        effectiveness of existing programs, projects, or other 
        activities designed to address misconduct by law 
        enforcement officers.
           Provides $25,000,000 for pilot programs and 
        the implementation of effective standards and programs 
        in the areas of training, hiring and recruitment, and 
        oversight that are designed to improve management and 
        address misconduct by law enforcement officers. In 
        addition, not less than $4,000,000 is separately 
        provided within the COPS account to develop best 
        practices for, and to create, civilian review boards, 
        consistent with the requirements as described in 
        section 104(b) of H.R. 1280 as passed by the House of 
        Representatives on March 3, 2021.
           Provides $15,000,000 for technical 
        assistance grants to tribes and small law enforcement 
        agencies (employing 100 or fewer officers) to help them 
        comply with the requirements of H.R. 1280, as passed by 
        the House of Representatives on March 3, 2021, related 
        to reporting data on the use of force by law 
        enforcement officers.
           Provides $5,000,000 for grants within the 
        Byrne JAG program for the development of best practices 
        for, and the creation of, local task forces on public 
        safety innovation.
           Provides $5,000,000 for up to five technical 
        assistance grants for data collection on the hit rates 
        for stops and searches by law enforcement agencies, and 
        provides $500,000 for analysis and evaluation of this 
        data.
           Provides $22,000,000 for the Community 
        Relations Service, an increase of $4,000,000 above 
        fiscal year 2021, including $3,300,000 for additional 
        conflict resolution efforts as authorized in section 
        116(2) of H.R. 1280 as passed by the House of 
        Representatives on March 3, 2021.
           Provides $13,000,000 for the U.S. Commission 
        on Civil Rights, an increase of $500,000 above fiscal 
        year 2021, including funding in support of the 
        Commission's efforts to further research and advise on 
        the topic of policing reform, as well as continued 
        funding for the Commission on the Social Status of 
        Black Men and Boys.
           Provides $12,000,000 for domestic 
        radicalization research and directs the National 
        Institute of Justice (NIJ) to prioritize funding toward 
        research efforts that explore the radicalization of 
        Americans to white nationalist extremism and identify 
        and advance evidence-based strategies for effective 
        intervention and prevention.
           Directs NIJ to conduct a nationwide study of 
        the prevalence and effect of any law, rule, or 
        procedure that allows a law enforcement officer to 
        delay the response to questions posed by a local 
        internal affairs officer, or review board on the 
        investigative integrity and prosecution of law 
        enforcement misconduct, including pre-interview 
        warnings and termination policies, consistent with 
        requirements as described in section 115 of H.R. 1280 
        as passed by the House of Representatives on March 3, 
        2021.
    In addition, the recommendation includes the following 
further measures aimed at promoting racial justice:
           Provides additional funding for the Justice 
        Department's Civil Rights Division for voting rights 
        enforcement.
           Provides $70,000,000 for grants authorized 
        under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate 
        Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law 111-84) to help 
        States, localities, and Tribal law enforcement agencies 
        to conduct educational outreach and training on hate 
        crimes, and to investigate and prosecute hate crimes. 
        Furthermore, an additional $30,000,000 is provided for 
        community groups for efforts to prevent hate crimes.
           Provides $13,500,000, as authorized, in 
        support of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes 
        Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-325) to 
        investigate and prosecute previously unresolved civil 
        rights era ``cold case'' murders suspected of having 
        been racially motivated, through a partnership among 
        the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, the 
        Civil Rights Unit of the FBI, the Community Relations 
        Service, State and local law enforcement officials, and 
        other eligible entities.
           Provides $445,933,000 for the Equal 
        Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an increase 
        of $41,443,000 above fiscal year 2021, to continue 
        prioritization of the enforcement of Federal anti-
        discrimination laws and to pursue litigation and 
        strategic initiatives quickly and aggressively. In 
        addition, funding is provided to increase front-line 
        and investigative staff to reduce wait times for intake 
        appointments, provide live help via the hotlines, 
        modernize information technology, and improve the 
        EEOC's methods of data collection, reporting, and 
        access.
           Provides $70,023,000 for the Minority 
        Business Development Agency, an increase of $22,023,000 
        above fiscal year 2021, to help create jobs and expand 
        business growth opportunities among minority-owned U.S. 
        companies, including $1,500,000 to continue the 
        Minority Serving Institutions Entrepreneurship Pilot 
        Program, as established in Public Law 116-260, to 
        support entrepreneurship for undergraduate students at 
        Minority Serving Institutions.
           Provides strong funding levels for an array 
        of programs dedicated to broadening participation in 
        science, technology, engineering, and mathematics 
        (STEM) fields among underrepresented groups, including 
        $48,000,000 for the Minority University Research 
        Education Project of the National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration (NASA); $22,000,000 for the National 
        Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) 
        Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving 
        Institutions as well as another $3,000,000 to launch a 
        similar Educational Partnership Program at the National 
        Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); and the 
        following funding levels for programs of the National 
        Science Foundation (NSF): no less than $69,500,000 for 
        the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, 
        no less than $67,000,000 for the Robert Noyce Teacher 
        Scholarship Program, no less than $75,000,000 for the 
        Advanced Technological Education Program; and no less 
        than $21,000,000 for the Tribal Colleges and 
        Universities Program.
    Infrastructure and Economic Growth.--This bill invests in 
our nation's infrastructure improvement needs by providing 
$433,110,000 for the Economic Development Administration (EDA), 
an increase of $87,110,000 above fiscal year 2021, including 
increases for EDA's Public Works program, Assistance to Coal 
Communities program, Regional Innovation Strategies program, 
and other EDA programs. These funds will support the Nation's 
economic recovery and provide the foundation for future growth 
in jobs and our standard of living.
    The bill also helps expand economic growth in other ways. 
The recommendation includes $275,000,000 for the Manufacturing 
Extension Partnership program, an increase of $125,000,000 
above fiscal year 2021. This program helps small- and medium-
sized U.S. manufacturers create jobs and expand business growth 
opportunities. The bill also provides $56,500,000 for the 
Manufacturing USA program, an increase of $40,000,000 above 
fiscal year 2021, to support the establishment of two new 
Manufacturing USA Institutes. A robust funding increase is 
provided for the International Trade Administration, to create 
U.S. jobs by expanding U.S. exports and fighting the unfair 
trade practices of other countries. Furthermore, the full 
budget request of $3,993,851,000 is provided for the U.S. 
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), to enable PTO to promote 
innovation in the United States by protecting the Nation's 
intellectual property rights both at home and abroad.
    The bill also ensures responsible investments in the future 
of the Nation's economy and workforce by providing increases 
for STEM engagement at NASA, NOAA, and NSF, as well as an 
increase for EDA's STEM Apprenticeship Program to create and 
expand STEM apprenticeships and other workforce training 
models. Within the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, strong funding increases are provided for research 
efforts related to key future technologies, including quantum 
information science and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, 
the bill includes a strong increase for the Broadening 
Participation in STEM program at the National Science 
Foundation. Global leadership requires diverse ideas that will 
charge innovation.
    All of these investments in our economy are especially 
important now, as the Nation continues to deal with the very 
real economic consequences associated with the coronavirus 
pandemic.
    Efforts Addressing Climate Change.--The bill provides very 
strong and responsible funding increases for critical efforts 
to better understand, and prepare for, the Earth's changing 
climate. Notable funding increases are provided for NASA's 
Earth Science activities and aeronautics research aimed at 
producing more environmentally sustainable aviation.
    NOAA also receives strong increases for its climate 
adaptation activities, such as $30,000,000 to increase the 
understanding of how sea level rise will affect coastal 
communities and $20,000,000 to address the impacts on fish 
stocks and the fishing industry of increasing ocean 
temperatures. Healthy increases are also provided for NOAA's 
National Coastal Resiliency Fund and Coastal Zone Management 
grant program. These grant programs fund green and grey coastal 
infrastructure solutions to help protect coastal areas 
threatened by rising sea level and other impacts of climate 
change.
    Furthermore, the recommendation includes an increase of 
$132,637,000 for NOAA's National Weather Service to enhance its 
ability to accurately forecast extreme weather events. Numerous 
other investments are included across NOAA in support of the 
weather mission, including $15,000,000 to improve the 
understanding and prediction of wildfire behavior that will 
help inform suppression efforts and provide more advanced 
notice to communities at risk from wildfires, as well as 
$100,000,000 to maintain and recapitalize NOAA's hurricane 
hunter aircraft.
    In addition, the bill provides a $1.2 billion investment 
for climate and clean energy-related research at the National 
Science Foundation, including research on atmospheric 
composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of 
climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials 
sciences, and social, behavioral, and economic research on 
human responses to climate change.
    Fighting the Opioid Epidemic.--The bill provides 
substantial resources to address the opioid epidemic. To assist 
State and local governments, the bill provides strong funding 
increases for grants authorized by the Comprehensive Addiction 
and Recovery Act. This includes strong increases for Drug 
Courts, Veterans Courts, and the Justice and Mental Health 
Collaboration Program (JMHCP).
    Fighting Cyberthreats.--Throughout the bill, robust funding 
is provided to strengthen agencies' cybersecurity, necessary in 
the face of increased threats to Federal assets. Additionally, 
the bill supports Executive Order 14028, ``Improving the 
Nation's Cybersecurity'', and provides an additional 
$15,000,000 for NIST's role in supporting the strengthening of 
Federal and private cybersecurity efforts, including educating 
the Nation's cybersecurity workforce. In addition, the bill 
includes an increase of $40,000,000 for the FBI's efforts to 
deter, investigate, and pursue cyberthreats and cybercrime.
    Further, strong increases are provided to NSF to support 
future innovations that will help secure our Nation from 
current and potential future cyber threats while protecting 
personal information from cyber intrusion.
    Justice Grants.--The bill provides other responsible 
increases for Department of Justice grant assistance. For 
programs funded under the Violence Against Women Act, the bill 
provides $753,800,000, an increase of $240,300,000 or 48 
percent above fiscal year 2021 and includes new grant programs 
specifically for communities that are underrepresented and 
underserved including the deaf and transgender communities. 
This significant increase is a step towards ending gender-based 
violence. For school safety, the bill provides $140,000,000, an 
increase of $15,000,000, to fund the STOP School Violence Act 
of 2018. In addition, the bill increases funding for other 
activities that will address school violence, including strong 
funding increases for youth mentoring grants and grants for 
juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. The bill also 
funds a new program aimed at providing alternatives to 
incarceration for parents as well as juveniles.
    Preventing Gun Violence.--The bill also takes important 
steps towards addressing gun violence in this country. The bill 
maintains funding for the FBI's National Instant Criminal 
Background Check System (NICS) and provides a strong funding 
increase for grants to help States improve their submissions 
into the NICS system. The bill also increases funding for the 
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to 
hire additional investigative personnel, expand oversight of 
Federal Firearms Licensees, and increase the capacity of the 
National Integrated Ballistic Information Network to expand its 
reach to communities as an essential tool in combatting gun 
violence.
    Legal Services Corporation.--The recommendation makes a 
historic investment to help ensure access to justice for all 
Americans by providing $600,000,000 for the Legal Services 
Corporation, an increase of $135,000,000 above fiscal year 
2021. This increase will ensure low income individuals and 
families have access to assistance to resolve civil legal 
problems, such as evictions and foreclosures that were 
exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
    First Step Act and Second Chance Act.--The recommendation 
includes not less than $409,483,000 for programs authorized 
under the First Step Act of 2018, to expand and develop 
opportunities for incarcerated individuals to participate in 
evidence-based, recidivism-reducing programming and productive 
activities. The recommendation also includes $125,000,000 for 
Second Chance Act grants, an increase of $25,000,000 above 
fiscal year 2021.
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).--For 
NASA, the bill includes $25,038,400,000, an increase of 
$1,767,122,000 above fiscal year 2021, including strong funding 
levels for NASA's science, aeronautics research, human space 
exploration, space technology, and STEM Engagement programs.
    Other Science Investments.--The recommendation makes other 
strong investments in science as well, providing $9,634,036,000 
overall for the National Science Foundation, an increase of 
$1,147,277,000 above fiscal year 2021, and $937,570,000 for 
scientific and technical research and services of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, an increase of 
$149,570,000 above fiscal year 2021.

                      Oversight and Budget Review

    In furtherance of the Committee's oversight 
responsibilities and to protect hard-earned taxpayer dollars, 
the Committee has included language that:
           Provides strong funding increases for the 
        agency inspectors general funded in this bill.
           Prohibits funding for the National Technical 
        Information Service to charge customers for a copy of a 
        document generated by the Legislative Branch unless the 
        customer is informed how to receive an electronic copy 
        free online.
           Prohibits the Executive Office for 
        Immigration Review from using case completion quotas in 
        immigration judge performance evaluations.
           Requires quarterly reporting of unobligated 
        balances.
           Requires agencies procuring sensitive 
        information technology systems to conduct supply chain 
        risk assessments.
           Requires contractors and grantees receiving 
        more than $5,000,000 to certify that they are not 
        delinquent on their Federal taxes.
           Prohibits funds from being used to purchase 
        first class and premium airline travel.
           Limits the number of agency staff who can 
        attend overseas conferences.
           Requires agencies to track undisbursed grant 
        balances.
           Requires agencies to submit spending plans 
        for the Committee's review.
           Requires agencies to notify the Committee of 
        project cost overruns and mitigation plans.
           Requires agency computer networks to block 
        pornography.
    Paper Reduction Efforts.--The Committee urges the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Science 
Foundation, and NASA to work with the Office of Management and 
Budget to reduce printing and reproduction costs and directs 
each agency to report to the Committee within 60 days of the 
enactment of this Act on the steps it has taken to achieve this 
goal. The report should specifically identify how much funding 
each agency expects to save by implementing these measures.
    Performance Measures.--The Committee directs all agencies 
funded by this Act to comply with title 31 of the United States 
Code, including the development of their organizational 
priority goals and outcomes such as performance outcome 
measures, output measures, efficiency measures, and customer 
service measures. The Committee directs all agencies funded by 
this Act to report on their implementation plans for these 
measures within 60 days of the date of enactment of this Act, 
and looks forward to receiving the reports on this subject as 
directed in House Report 116-455.
    Customer Service.--The Committee continues to support 
efforts to improve customer service in accordance with 
Executive Order 13571, ``Streamlining Service Delivery and 
Improving Customer Service''. The Committee directs all 
agencies funded by this Act to develop standards to improve 
customer service and incorporate the standards into the 
performance plans required under 31 U.S.C. 1115. The Committee 
directs all agencies funded by this Act to report on their 
implementation plans regarding this subject no later than 60 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, and looks forward 
to receiving the reports on this subject as directed in House 
Report 116-455.
    Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency.--The 
Committee notes the importance of ensuring access to Federal 
services and programs for all persons with limited English 
proficiency. Therefore, the Committee directs agencies and 
programs funded in this Act to comply fully with the 
requirements of Executive Order 13166, ``Improving Access to 
Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency,'' and on 
an ongoing basis, review and improve their efforts to provide 
meaningful access to the programs, services, and information 
they provide.
    Research Impacted by the Pandemic.--During the pandemic, 
the U.S. research enterprise has suffered greatly, particularly 
impacting early career researchers, putting at risk U.S. 
leadership on the global research and innovation landscape. The 
changing environment brought on by COVID-19 resulted in halted 
research projects and uncertain career prospects, not only for 
this generation, but also future generations of scientists and 
the overall U.S. research pipeline. To help address these 
problems, the Committee encourages the Department of Commerce, 
NASA, and NSF to provide funding to continue to support these 
researchers whose work in support of science agency missions 
has been impacted by the pandemic, with a particular focus on 
the needs of early career researchers.

                        Reprogramming Procedures

    Section 505 of the bill contains language concerning the 
reprogramming of funds between programs, projects, and 
activities. The Committee reminds the departments and agencies 
funded in this bill that the reprogramming process is based on 
comity between the Congress and the Executive Branch. This 
process is intended to provide departments and agencies enough 
flexibility to meet changing circumstances and emergent 
requirements not known at the time of congressional review of 
the budget while preserving congressional priorities and 
intent. In the absence of comity and respect for the 
prerogatives of the Appropriations Committees and the Congress 
in general, the Committee may opt to include specific program 
limitations and details in legislation and remove language 
providing the flexibility to reallocate funds. Under these 
circumstances, programs, projects, and activities become 
absolutes and the Executive Branch shall lose the ability to 
propose changes in the use of appropriated funds except through 
legislative action.
    Each department and agency funded in this Act shall follow 
the directions set forth in this bill and the accompanying 
report and shall not reallocate resources or reorganize 
activities except as provided herein. Reprogramming procedures 
shall apply to funds provided in this Act, unobligated balances 
from previous appropriations Acts that are available for 
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2022, and non-
appropriated resources such as fee collections that are used to 
meet program requirements in fiscal year 2022. As specified in 
section 505, the Committee expects that the Appropriations 
Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies of the House and Senate will be notified by letter a 
minimum of 15 days prior to any reprogramming of funds that--
          (1) creates or initiates a new program, project, or 
        activity;
          (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
          (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
        project or activity for which funds have been denied or 
        restricted;
          (4) relocates an office or employees;
          (5) reorganizes or renames offices, programs, or 
        activities;
          (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
        activities presently performed by Federal employees;
          (7) augments existing programs, projects, or 
        activities more than $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever 
        is less, or reduces by 10 percent funding for any 
        program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel 
        by 10 percent; or
          (8) results from any general savings, including 
        savings from a reduction in personnel, which would 
        result in a change in existing programs, projects, or 
        activities as approved by Congress.
    The Committee recognizes that the coronavirus pandemic may 
lead to unanticipated yet unavoidable agency costs that could 
require budgetary transfers and reprogrammings. However, the 
Committee expects to be promptly notified in advance of all 
such actions.
    Any reprogramming request shall include any out-year 
budgetary impacts and a separate accounting of program or 
mission impacts on estimated carryover funds. The Committee 
further expects any department or agency funded in this bill 
that plans a reduction-in-force to notify the Committee by 
letter at least 30 days in advance of the date of any such 
planned personnel action.

            Relationship With Budget and Comptroller Offices

    Through the years the Appropriations Committee has 
channeled most of its inquiries and requests for information 
and assistance through the budget offices or comptroller 
organizations of the various departments, agencies, and 
commissions. Such relationships are necessary to accomplish the 
work of the Committee. While the Committee reserves the right 
to call upon all organizations in the departments, agencies and 
commissions for information and assistance, the primary contact 
between the Committee and these entities must be through the 
budget offices and comptroller organizations, or through a 
legislative affairs unit designated by the Committee to work on 
appropriations and budget matters.
    The workload generated in the budget process is large and 
growing; therefore, a positive, responsive relationship between 
the Committee and the budget and/or comptroller offices is 
essential for the Committee to fulfill the Constitutional 
appropriations responsibilities of Congress.

                                TITLE I


                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


                   International Trade Administration


                     OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

    The Committee recommends $577,415,000 in total resources 
for the programs of the International Trade Administration 
(ITA), which is $36,415,000 above fiscal year 2021 and 
$7,100,000 above the request. This amount is offset by 
$11,000,000 in estimated fee collections, resulting in a direct 
appropriation of $566,415,000. The Committee directs ITA to 
continue to provide quarterly updates as described in the 
Explanatory Statement accompanying Public Law 116-93.
    Industry and Analysis.--The recommendation includes the 
requested increase for the Survey of International Air 
Travelers (SIAT). The SIAT provides statistical data on 
visitation patterns and traveler demographics that are used to 
facilitate and guide planning in both the public and private 
sectors. The increase in funding will enhance data for non-
traditional, non-urban markets, providing market intelligence 
for these small and rural communities. According to ITA, 
overseas international travel declined by 81 percent in 2020 
due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the travel industry. 
As COVID-19 vaccinations increase and COVID-19-related 
hospitalizations decline, the Committee anticipates 
international visitation to the U.S. will gradually increase to 
pre-pandemic levels and notes that the National Travel and 
Tourism Office (NTTO) within ITA has developed a publicly 
available COVID-19 Travel Industry Monitor to assess these 
trends and is currently developing an on-line ``SIAT Monitor,'' 
an interactive tool that will enable the public to access SIAT 
data based on their own selection criteria. The Committee 
applauds these ongoing efforts. Lastly, the Committee looks 
forward to receiving the report directed in House Report 116-
455 that will outline recommended steps, including policy or 
legislative proposals, the Federal government may pursue to 
assist industry as efforts to recover from the pandemic are 
underway, and in addition, encourages ITA to work with domestic 
stakeholders to further increase the competitiveness of U.S. 
destinations working to attract international trade shows and 
sporting events.
    Enforcement and Compliance.--The recommendation funds 
Enforcement and Compliance at $117,669,000, which is $7,100,000 
above the request. The Committee supports ITA's continued 
efforts to establish a web-based aluminum licensing and import 
monitoring system, known as the Aluminum Import Monitoring 
(AIM) system. The AIM system provides the public statistical 
data on aluminum imports entering the United States and 
provides an early warning system to the public regarding 
aluminum imports from throughout the world. The recommendation 
includes an additional $500,000 above the request, for a total 
of $1,300,000, to further enhance the AIM system program. The 
Committee also encourages ITA to regularly consult with U.S. 
aluminum manufacturers to ensure the AIM system fully supports 
the U.S. aluminum industry.
    The Committee is aware that the number of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty (AD/CVD) investigations, administrative 
reviews, circumvention and scope reviews, and court remands, 
are at an historically high level. Between 2017 and 2020, there 
was a 32 percent increase in orders, from 407 to 539, even as 
the number of staff spread among the eight AD/CVD enforcement 
offices declined by approximately 20 percent during this same 
period. As of May 2021, the number of AD/CVD orders exceeds 
600, an historic high, and many of the new orders issued in 
fiscal year 2020 will result in subsequent AD/CVD 
administrative reviews in the years ahead, thereby compounding 
the workload. Further, the continuing growth of AD/CVD workload 
has placed a substantial burden on ITA's case analysts, 
accountants, programmers and attorneys, whose staffing numbers 
have not kept pace with the increased casework. The Committee 
is aware that the rising caseload burden on ITA staff has 
resulted in difficulties retaining current employees who depart 
either for private sector jobs or for other U.S. Government 
agencies whose work, unlike ITA, is not driven by statutory 
deadlines. The Committee anticipates that an increase in 
overall staffing that would accompany the opening of a ninth 
AD/CVD enforcement office would help alleviate this growing 
workload on current personnel. Therefore, the recommendation 
includes an additional $6,100,000 above the request to support 
the creation of a ninth AD/CVD enforcement office. The 
Committee encourages the Department to review additional ways 
to increase retention within ITA and report on its findings to 
the Committee in ITA's quarterly updates.
    It has come to the attention of the Committee that ITA's 
administration of the AD/CVD laws may be impacted by factors 
that are not currently reported or otherwise monitored by the 
agency. Therefore, no more than 90 days after the close of each 
fiscal year and annually thereafter, ITA is directed to submit 
a report to the Committee providing the total number of 
preliminary and final determinations issued during the previous 
fiscal year in connection with AD/CVD proceedings, including 
investigations, administrative reviews, and all other actions 
conducted under the U.S. trade remedy statute. ITA's report 
shall also include the number of AD/CVD remand determinations 
submitted during the fiscal year by the agency to the U.S. 
Court of International Trade or to a binational panel. Each 
report shall include comparative data from previous fiscal year 
periods, and a version of each report shall be posted on ITA's 
website.
    Global Markets.--The recommendation provides $351,328,000 
for Global Markets, as requested. This amount fully supports 
ITA's current staffing level of 1,420 personnel deployed 
domestically and internationally. The Committee directs ITA to 
ensure that all U.S. Export Assistance Centers (EACs) have 
onsite, full-time permanent staff members and further directs 
ITA to continue updates on these efforts, by location, in its 
quarterly updates to the Committee. The Committee looks forward 
to receiving the supplement staffing plan for Export Assistance 
Centers (EACs), as directed in House Report 116-455. The 
Committee is encouraged by steps ITA has taken to staff vacant 
EACs and locate office space for staff. The Committee 
encourages ITA to continue these efforts to enhance services in 
locations with vacant export assistance centers. Further, the 
Committee directs ITA to report to the Committee, no later than 
120 days after enactment of this Act, with detailed options for 
potentially expanding the reach of the U.S. Commercial Service 
in regions of international strategic significance, such as the 
Pacific region, including outyear costs, and strategies to 
develop U.S. business and investment in such regions.

                    Bureau of Industry and Security


                     OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

    The Committee recommends $143,410,000 for the Bureau of 
Industry and Security (BIS), $1,000,000 above the request, and 
$10,410,000 above fiscal year 2021. The Committee applauds the 
work of BIS and Department budget officers who worked to align 
actual costs associated with national security activities that 
qualify under budget subfunction 054 defense spending into the 
BIS budget request for fiscal year 2022.
    Section 232 Exclusion Process.--The recommendation supports 
the continuation of BIS activities in support of its primary 
role processing exclusion applications for steel and aluminum 
products subject to tariffs under section 232 of the Trade 
Expansion Act of 1962, and expects that within the amounts 
provided, BIS will prioritize its resources and spend no less 
than the amount obligated in fiscal year 2021 on these 
activities. The Committee directs the Department to continue 
its quarterly reporting on the Section 232 exclusion process as 
described in the Explanatory Statement accompanying Public Law 
116-6.
    The Committee is aware of the current, publicly available 
section 232 web portal that serves as a database of all the 
exclusions that have been granted or denied since June 2019. 
The Committee understands that any member of the public is able 
to search the database using filtering criteria, such as by 
company, by product, or by application status (granted or 
denied). However, the Committee understands there are concerns 
regarding the Department's consistency and transparency in its 
consideration of exclusion request applications. Therefore the 
Committee directs the Department to submit a report to the 
Committee no later than 60 days after enactment of this Act on 
how the Department will promote transparency and consistency in 
its process of granting and denying exclusion requests, 
including the Department's recommendation regarding the utility 
of an additional, centralized database internal to the 
Department of Commerce personnel charged to review 
applications.
    Tariff Exclusions for Aluminum Products.--BIS is encouraged 
to review all section 232 exclusion requests of aluminum and 
aluminum products, including those for which no objections are 
filed, to ensure that volumes are proportional to historical 
U.S. import volumes, compared to aggregate annual volumes for 
individual applicants/importers as well as product category, 
and proportional to the overall size of U.S. market demand. 
Further, the Department should regularly consult with the 
aluminum industry on market dynamics to ensure the remedy is 
meeting its stated goal of supporting U.S. aluminum producers.
    Human Rights Violations.--The recommendation includes an 
additional $1,000,000 above the request to support additional 
resources, including personnel and contract services, expressly 
allocated for the purpose of formulating and implementing 
export controls intended to address items, including advanced 
surveillance technologies, and the foreign parties that use 
them to engage in or enable human rights abuses consistent with 
Section 1752(2)(D) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018.

                  Economic Development Administration

    The Committee supports the requested level for the Economic 
Development Administration (EDA) and recommends $433,110,000 
for the programs and administrative expenses of the EDA.

                ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

    The Committee provides $382,500,000 for the Economic 
Development Assistance Programs account for grants to 
economically distressed areas. The Committee notes with deep 
concern the increasing levels of inequality in the Nation that 
have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Committee 
expects EDA will play a critical role in ensuring that no 
communities are left behind in the economic recovery that is to 
come and is committed to supporting EDA in this endeavor.
    Funds are to be distributed as follows; any deviation of 
funds shall be subject to the procedures set forth in section 
505 of this Act:

                ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Program                               Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Works.........................................           $124,000
Partnership Planning.................................             36,000
Technical Assistance.................................             14,000
Research and Evaluation..............................              2,000
Trade Adjustment Assistance..........................             13,500
Economic Adjustment Assistance.......................             42,500
Assistance to Coal Communities.......................             80,500
Assistance to Nuclear Closure Communities............             10,000
Regional Innovation Program Grants...................             50,000
STEM Apprenticeship Program..........................             10,000
                                                      ------------------
    Total, Economic Development Assistance Programs..           $382,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Assistance to Coal Communities.--The Committee continues to 
support Assistance to Coal Communities and appreciates the 
strong support in the President's request that builds on the 
Committee's prior efforts to assist communities in Appalachia 
and throughout the country that are suffering from the long 
decline of the coal industry and related drop in economic 
activity. The recommendation includes $80,500,000 for 
Assistance to Coal Communities, which represents an increase of 
$46,500,000 above the amount provided in fiscal year 2021. The 
Committee directs EDA to prioritize communities that have not 
previously received funds through this program and that have 
suffered significant environmental degradation, including 
through the leaching of water from abandoned mines, due to the 
history of coal mining. EDA shall also continue reporting to 
the Committee on its efforts to assist coal communities, and 
the report shall include a detailed description regarding how 
EDA and other Federal agencies have assisted coal mining 
communities to date and how the Federal government plans to 
assist them in the future.
    Public Works.--The Committee provides $124,000,000 for 
Public Works and encourages EDA to prioritize projects that are 
resilient to the changing climate as well as those that 
incorporate green infrastructure solutions.
    Sustainable Development.--The Committee supports efforts by 
EDA to provide assistance to local- and state-level public-
private partnerships working on sustainable development and 
climate change, especially through stakeholder-based frameworks 
that measure progress through open-data platforms that inform 
public decision-making.
    Build to Scale.--The Committee continues to support the 
Build to Scale program--also known as the Regional Innovation 
Strategies program--and provides an increase of $12,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level. Further, the 
Committee encourages EDA to support the development of regional 
innovation clusters that focus on advanced wood products, which 
are a growing source of jobs in rural America and contribute to 
rural economic development. An initiative that successfully 
increased demand for wood products would also address several 
key land management priorities, including reducing forest 
treatment costs and wildfire risks. Further, the Committee 
urges EDA to invest in university based, high tech business 
incubators to diversify distressed manufacturing and legacy 
urban and rural communities by encouraging entrepreneurship, 
patent creation, and promoting technology commercialization 
through business startups.
    Nuclear Power Plant Closures.--The Committee notes that 
closures of nuclear power plants throughout the United States 
have had a significant impact on the economic foundations of 
surrounding communities through sudden job losses and a 
dramatic reduction to the local tax base. Additional plant 
closures are expected throughout the country in the coming 
years. The Committee appreciates the work EDA has undertaken to 
assist such communities in prior years and provides $10,000,000 
for competitive economic adjustment assistance to continue 
these efforts, which shall include, but not be limited to, 
public works investments and economic diversification 
initiatives in communities impacted by recent or scheduled 
nuclear power plant closures. The Committee directs EDA to 
report to the Committee no later than 90 days after enactment 
of this Act on the status of these efforts.
    STEM Apprenticeship Program.--The Committee notes that over 
the past decade, the growth in jobs requiring sophisticated 
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills was 
three times faster than growth in non-STEM jobs. Yet, U.S. 
employers have struggled to fill jobs in these fields. Because 
more than 50 percent of jobs that require STEM skills do not 
require a bachelor's degree, nontraditional higher education, 
such as apprenticeships, will be instrumental in meeting the 
urgent demand for a STEM-literate workforce. Therefore, the 
Committee provides $10,000,000 to continue the STEM 
Apprenticeship Program, first established in fiscal year 2020, 
to provide grants to create and expand STEM apprenticeship and 
other workforce training models, as directed in section 312 of 
the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (Public Law 
114-329).
    Persistent poverty.--The Committee is concerned that 
pockets of high poverty in urban areas are often overlooked by 
the Federal Government because, in the aggregate, their need is 
often masked by their affluent neighbors. In light of the 
impacts of COVID-19, the need in these areas is greater than 
ever. For purposes of this Act, the term ``high-poverty area'' 
means any census tract with a poverty rate of at least 20 
percent as measured by the 2015-2019 5-year data series 
available from the American Community Survey of the Census 
Bureau. When scoring competitive grant applications, EDA is 
directed to add additional priority, where practicable, to 
applications from grantees who can demonstrate that the 
individuals who will benefit from such grants reside in high-
poverty areas or persistent poverty counties, as defined by 
section 533 of this Act. In addition, EDA shall provide 
guidance to such prospective grantees, especially prior to 
their application submissions, including to help determine 
whether they qualify for additional priority.
    The Committee further directs the Department to develop and 
implement additional measures to increase the share of 
investments from all Department programs in persistent poverty 
counties, high-poverty areas, and any other impoverished 
communities the Department determines to be appropriate areas 
to target. The Committee directs the Department to submit a 
report to the Committee that includes a description of such 
measures implemented; itemized descriptions of projects and 
activities in impoverished areas implemented pursuant to such 
measures; an assessment of the economic impact of such projects 
and activities, including, to the extent practicable, data on 
impacted individuals disaggregated by household income, race, 
gender, age, national origin, disability status, and whether 
such individuals live in urban, suburban, or rural areas; and a 
list of programs with respect to which no measures were 
implemented, with an explanation with respect to each such 
program of why no such measures were implemented. Such report 
shall include the percentage of funds allocated by each EDA 
program in fiscal years 2018, 2019 and 2020 and estimates for 
fiscal year 2021 serving individuals living in persistent 
poverty counties and high-poverty areas. The Department shall 
report this information to the Committee within 90 days of such 
data being available and provide a briefing to the Committee 
not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act 
on how the Department is carrying out this directive. In the 
case of any program for which at least 10 percent of the funds 
allocated in fiscal year 2021 were not allocated to persistent 
poverty counties, such report shall explain why such benchmark 
was unable to be met and what steps are being taken to meet it 
in fiscal year 2022.
    Economic Assistance for Communities.--Economic and 
community development funding provided by other agencies can 
have even more impact if they are utilized in conjunction with 
other Federal funding sources, such as EDA. The Committee 
therefore encourages EDA to treat as acceptable funds any 
funding provided by other Federal programs which are explicitly 
authorized to be used for any required non-Federal share of the 
cost of a project so that funding from both agencies may be 
used if necessary and to the extent permitted by law.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The recommendation includes $50,610,000 for EDA salaries 
and expenses.

                  Minority Business Development Agency


                     MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

    The recommendation includes $70,023,000 for the Minority 
Business Development Agency (MBDA), an increase of $22,023,000 
over fiscal year 2021.
    Business Center and Specialty Project Center Programs.--As 
a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses around the 
country are facing enormous financial challenges, and the 
number of small businesses open and operating has plummeted by 
38.9 percent since January 2020, with minority-owned businesses 
suffering at a disproportionate rate. The Committee provides no 
less than $32,500,000, an increase of $14,500,000 above the 
fiscal year 2021 enacted level, for MBDA's Business Center and 
Specialty Project Center programs to ensure their network of 
business counselors, minority chambers of commerce, and other 
resources are able to continue providing assistance to 
minority-owned small businesses in need.
    Minority Chambers of Commerce.--The Committee recognizes 
the important role of minority chambers of commerce in 
supporting the mission of MBDA and encourages the Agency to 
utilize national and local minority chambers and their members 
in implementing the program's mission of providing resources to 
underserved populations.
    Native American Business Development.--The Committee 
provides not less than $3,000,000 for MBDA to award grants to 
Tribes and American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian 
populations to address barriers to economic development. MBDA 
shall coordinate with the Department's Office of Native 
American Business Development on these efforts.
    Minority Serving Institutions Entrepreneurship Pilot.--The 
Committee provides no less than $1,500,000 to continue the 
Minority Serving Institutions Entrepreneurship Pilot as 
established in Public Law 116-260 to support entrepreneurship 
for undergraduate students at Minority Serving Institutions. 
The Department is encouraged to include recommendations in its 
fiscal year 2023 budget submission on efforts to support this 
effort for a three-year period.

                   Economic and Statistical Analysis


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $120,500,000 for the Economics and 
Statistics Administration, $8,645,000 above the fiscal year 
2021 enacted level.
    The Committee notes that the report submitted pursuant to 
House Report 116-101 on the long-term strategy for the Federal 
Data Service failed to provide additional detail on projected 
out-year costs, robust details of the proposed pilots or 
projects, clear objectives for these projects, and timeframes 
or milestones to assess the Committee's return on this 
investment. The recommendation does not support the proposed 
increase to this initiative but assumes current services within 
the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for the Federal Data 
Service to continue its work in this area. The recommendation 
supports the proposed shift of these resources to the Office of 
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs. Additionally, the 
total includes an increase of $1,000,000 to meet requirements 
of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115-435).
    Satellite accounts.--Within the amounts provided, 
$1,500,000 is provided for the Outdoor Recreation Satellite 
Account (ORSA), which was created through the Outdoor 
Recreation Jobs and Economic Impact Act of 2016 (Public Law 
114-249). The Committee looks forward to receiving an update 
from BEA, as directed in House Report 116-455, on its efforts 
to consult with the Department of Labor to conduct a workforce 
needs study building upon the information provided by ORSA. 
Additionally, within the amounts provided, the Committee 
directs BEA to increase amounts allocated to the Travel and 
Tourism Satellite Account to assist the Department's efforts to 
provide comprehensive data on travel and tourism-related 
industries and their roles in the U.S. economy and recovery 
post-pandemic.
    Modernizing economic statistics in the territories.--The 
Committee commends BEA for releasing prototype annual estimates 
of gross domestic product (GDP) for Puerto Rico in September 
2020 and understands BEA is working on releasing new GDP 
statistics for Puerto Rico and plans to continue releasing 
Puerto Rico GDP on an annual basis. The Committee further 
reiterates its interest in BEA producing quarterly economic 
surveys and personal income statistics for the territories, in 
the same manner that such data is produced and collected for 
the 50 States and the District of Columbia. The Committee 
therefore directs the Department, no later than one year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, to submit an overall cost 
estimate and implementation plan to achieve this goal and 
integrate the five territories into the full set of the 
National Income and Product Accounts, which will require the 
territory-level GDP data to meet BEA's quality standards.

                          Bureau of the Census

    The Committee recommends a total of $1,442,401,000 for the 
Bureau of the Census, as requested. The amount reflects the 
penultimate investments in the 2020 Decennial Census 
operations, first year costs for planning of the 2030 Decennial 
Census including an early investment in information technology 
(IT) that will result in cost savings in later years of the 
decennial life cycle, an increase to support both the 2017 
Economic Census data release and the continued planning and 
implementation of the 2022 Economic Census, and a new High 
Frequency Data Program. The recommendation does not assume the 
new appropriations account structure proposed by the 
Administration. However, the Committee welcomes continued 
dialogue with the Department on this effort. The Committee 
directs the continuation of quarterly updates to the Committee 
and has identified areas of interest below in addition to the 
current updates.
    Cybersecurity Threats and Vulnerabilities.--The Committee 
applauds the efforts that led the Census Bureau to successfully 
and securely execute its first digital-age decennial census, 
including its work with the Cybersecurity Infrastructure 
Security Agency. However, the Committee remains concerned about 
vulnerabilities that could expose personal census data, thereby 
undermining the faith in census statistics which are vital to 
democratic institutions. These vulnerabilities include both 
system infrastructure weaknesses that could allow motivated 
cyberhackers to infiltrate Census Bureau servers, as well as 
reidentification attacks that threaten the confidentiality of 
personal census data. The Committee directs the Census Bureau 
to prioritize cyber protections for internal systems. In 
addition, the Committee expects the Census Bureau to maintain 
high standards of disclosure avoidance for publicly accessible 
data, while also ensuring the availability of data products 
that are useful and sufficiently accurate to inform policy 
decisions and resource allocations. The Committee expects the 
Bureau to consult regularly with its stakeholders, including 
members of its advisory committees, regarding the application 
of disclosure avoidance methods, and to keep the Committee 
updated on these efforts.
    Mobile Access to Census Bureau Data.--The Committee 
recognizes the growing usage and reliance on smartphones to 
access information quickly. Further the Committee notes that 
there is interest in having mobile access to Census Bureau data 
on an intuitive, multilingual user-interface platform and 
recognizes the Census Bureau is actively developing mobile 
enhancements to support new and recurring users whose primary 
mode of access is a smartphone. The Committee directs the 
Census Bureau to provide a report no later than 180 days after 
enactment of this Act that focuses on its expansion efforts 
toward mobile, multilingual, and user-friendly access to census 
data products, including a cost-benefit analysis of expanding 
the accessibility of this data to a smartphone application.
    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Population Data 
Collection.--The Committee appreciates the work the Census 
Bureau undertook to assess the feasibility for expanding data 
collection of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 
(LGBT) population in future Federal population surveys as 
directed in House Report 116-101, and understands that the 
report's conclusions would apply to those who identify as 
gender non-binary. The Committee also recognizes the work of 
the Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) 
Research Interest Group, an entity of the Federal Committee on 
Statistical Methodology (FCSM), which the Census Bureau co-
chairs, in this area. Within the amounts provided, the 
Committee urges the Census Bureau to begin research or pilot 
development on proxy data collection of SOGI questions in 
current surveys, in line with standard administrative rules and 
procedures for adding or modifying existing survey content, and 
to keep the Committee apprised of these efforts.
    Modernizing the collection and publication of race and 
ethnicity data.--The Committee understands that the Census 
Bureau conducted significant research, testing, and 
consultation with stakeholders in the decade leading up to the 
2020 Census, to ensure that the collection of data on race and 
ethnicity in the decennial census and American Community Survey 
reflected the continued diversification of the Nation's 
population. However, the Census Bureau was unable to implement 
changes to the race and Hispanic origin question because the 
Federal statistical standards governing collection and 
reporting of such data were not revised in time for the 2020 
Census. Therefore, the Committee urges the Census Bureau to 
work with the Office of Management and Budget to facilitate 
appropriate, scientifically-guided revisions to those standards 
that will allow the Bureau to modernize its collection of race 
and ethnicity data, including the addition of a Middle Eastern 
and North African (MENA) ethnicity category and a combined race 
and Hispanic origin question, as soon as practicable. The 
Committee directs the Census Bureau to report to the Committee, 
no later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, on its plan 
for implementing updated race and ethnicity questions for the 
2030 Census and the American Community Survey, including 
whether the Census Bureau believes that additional testing will 
be necessary.

                      CURRENT SURVEYS AND PROGRAMS

    The Committee recommends $309,865,000 for Current Surveys 
and Programs, which is $21,462,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
enacted amount. The recommendation supports the requested 
$10,000,000 for a new High Frequency Data Program that builds 
upon the success of the ``pulse'' surveys, which the Census 
Bureau conducted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to 
measure the impacts to small businesses and households. The 
Census Bureau is directed to keep the Committee updated on new 
initiatives the Census Bureau will explore under this program 
to produce timelier and more relevant economic and demographic 
statistics. The recommendation also supports the termination of 
the Federal Data Service under the Census Bureau.
    The Committee recognizes the proposed $1,000,000 reduction 
to the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 
represents a one-time expense related to a study funded in 
fiscal year 2021 to evaluate cost effective collection methods 
or alternative sources of comparable data on the economic well-
being of Americans. The Committee directs the Census Bureau to 
update the Committee on the findings of this study and 
encourages the Census Bureau to utilize all available resources 
to support an increase to the SIPP response rate.

                     PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $1,132,537,000 for Periodic 
Censuses and Programs, which is $314,296,000 above the fiscal 
year 2021 enacted level. The recommendation provides for a 
transfer of $3,556,000 to the Department of Commerce Office of 
Inspector General (OIG) for oversight and auditing of the 
Census Bureau.
    The Committee notes that the Census Bureau is making an 
early investment in the 2030 Decennial Census to build upon 
information technology investments from the 2020 Decennial 
Census that may result is an overall projected savings of $2 
billion over the decennial lifecycle. The Committee looks 
forward to continued updates on these efforts.

       National Telecommunications and Information Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $79,000,000 for the National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which 
is $33,500,000 above fiscal year 2021. The recommendation is 
distributed as shown in the table below:

       NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Domestic and International Policy.......................         $15,626
Spectrum Management.....................................           8,059
Advanced Communications Research........................          12,006
Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth..............          26,769
Public Safety Communications............................             371
Federal Advanced Communications Test Site...............          16,169
                                                         ===============
Total, National Telecommunications and Information               $79,000
 Administration.........................................
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    Advanced Communications.--The Committee provides the 
requested amount for Advanced Communications Research and 
$16,169,000 for the Federal Advanced Communications Test Site 
(FACTS) to expand research and development in radio frequency 
spectrum management to allow next generation communications use 
and to ensure that 5G networks and the broader 
telecommunications supply chain are secure, including through 
vendor diversity.
    Telecommunications Role in Hate Crimes.--The Committee is 
disturbed by the role of telecommunications technologies in 
propagating hateful messages that have led to offline violence, 
including a notable uptick in these events over the last 12 
months. The Committee looks forward to receiving the report 
regarding the role of telecommunications in hate crimes as 
directed in House Report 116-101. The Committee reminds NTIA to 
include the myriad new forms of telecommunications in its 
analysis. NTIA shall provide a briefing to the Committee on its 
progress no later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act.
    Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth.--The 
recommendation includes $26,769,000 for the new Office of 
Internet Connectivity and Growth, as authorized in Public Law 
116-260.
    Rural Broadband Coordination.--The Committee continues 
prior year direction to NTIA to coordinate with the Rural 
Utilities Service, the Federal Communications Commission, and 
other related Federal agencies, as well as the rural 
communications industry, to identify and pursue ways to 
continue sustainable broadband deployment and adoption, and to 
ensure that policies tied to one Federal program do not 
undermine the objectives and functionality of another. Further, 
the Committee continues to encourage NTIA to place equal 
priority on the deployment of the Nationwide Public Safety 
Broadband Network (NPSBN) in rural communities as it does in 
urban areas. NTIA shall submit a report to the Committee, not 
later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, on progress 
made in this regard.
    Spectrum Management for Science.--The Committee recognizes 
that ensuring access to key portions of spectrum for radio 
astronomy observations, environmental observations, and other 
scientific purposes is essential for scientific discovery. The 
Committee encourages NTIA, in coordination with the FCC and 
other appropriate stakeholders, to preserve spectrum access for 
scientific purposes as commercial use of radio spectrum 
increases. The Committee looks forward to the report 
highlighting NTIA's ongoing efforts on this front.
    Policy and Technical Training.--The recommendation includes 
up to $289,000 for programs to provide support for activities 
provided under section 7 of Public Law 98-549. As part of these 
activities, NTIA may provide assistance and guidance in policy 
and technical training to impart best practices to information 
technology professionals from developing countries.

               United States Patent and Trademark Office


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $3,993,851,000 for the United 
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), consistent with the 
projection of fiscal year 2022 fee collections as estimated by 
the Congressional Budget Office. The recommendation transfers 
$2,000,000 to the Office of Inspector General to continue 
oversight and audits of USPTO operations and budget 
transparency. The USPTO shall continue to provide monthly 
reports to the Committee on USPTO's actual and projected fee 
collections, application volumes, performance, and staffing.

             National Institute of Standards and Technology

    The Committee recommends $1,369,070,000 for the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is 
$334,570,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level.
    Small Manufacturing Cybersecurity Support.--The Committee 
encourages NIST, including through the Manufacturing Extension 
Partnership (MEP), to explore opportunities to partner with the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and 
Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and 
Infrastructure Security Agency to leverage expertise and help 
small manufacturers enhance the protection of controlled 
unclassified information within the supply chain, respond 
quickly to crippling cyber-attacks and theft of intellectual 
property, and prepare small manufacturing clients for 
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.

             SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $937,570,000 for NIST's Scientific 
and Technical Research and Services (STRS) programs, which is 
$149,570,000 above fiscal year 2021. Within these funds, the 
Committee provides increases above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
level of no less than $8,500,000 for Supporting the American 
Bioeconomy, $8,000,000 for Advanced Communications Research and 
Standards, and $7,500,000 for Next-Generation Semiconductor 
Research and Standards.
    Additionally, NIST is reminded of its obligation under 
section 9414 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-
283) to provide the required report to Congress by January 1, 
2023.
    Climate and Energy Measurement, Tools, and Testbeds.--The 
recommendation includes an increase of no less than $20,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2021 amount to support the request for 
Climate and Energy Measurement, Tools, and Testbeds. Within 
these funds, no less than $5,000,000 shall be for direct air 
capture and carbon dioxide removal and sequestration research.
    Forward-Looking Building Standards.--The Committee is 
concerned about how climate change will impact the built 
environment, and that standards previously set with an 
assumption of a stable climate system will expose many Federal 
and non-Federal investments to significant, but avoidable, 
risk. Therefore, the Committee was pleased to see that the 
proposal for Climate and Energy Measurements, Tools, and 
Testbeds included funding for research supporting building 
codes and standards that would be resilient to future weather 
extremes. As part of these efforts, the Committee directs NIST 
to continue to coordinate work with NOAA and other appropriate 
Federal agencies and interested non-Federal parties, as needed, 
to identify a consistent and authoritative set of climate 
information that emphasizes forward-looking climate data and 
projections that should be utilized in the standard-setting 
process. These data shall include projections of both chronic 
climate impacts, such as sea level rise, and extreme weather 
events, such as hurricanes and droughts. This effort shall 
serve to aid both Federal and non-Federal bodies to develop 
standards, building codes, and voluntary standards that take 
into account increasingly extreme weather events and other 
climate change challenges. In coordination with NOAA, NIST 
shall provide the Committee, no later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this Act, an assessment of priority Federal agency 
needs for these data, including infrastructure planning 
decision support tools.
    Greenhouse Gas Program and Urban Dome Initiative.--The 
Committee recognizes the significant value in NIST's Greenhouse 
Gas Program and Urban Dome initiative that seeks to leverage 
existing high-spatial density regional monitoring networks and 
external research and development (R&D) partnerships. These 
cost-effective capabilities substantially expand and broaden 
NIST laboratory capabilities for investigating and developing 
measurement tools that support independent means for 
determining the accuracy of emissions inventory data at urban 
and regional scales. The Committee has included no less than 
$15,000,000 for the Greenhouse Gas Program and Urban Dome 
Initiative to continue and expand sensor network deployments.
    Wildfires and the Wildland-Urban Interface.--The Committee 
commends the work of NIST's Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire 
Group, which conducts research into reducing the impact to life 
and property in WUI communities exposed to wildfires. The 
Committee notes that further efforts are needed to help ensure 
that building standards incorporate the most recent practices, 
science-based understanding, and research to help preserve 
human life and property, and to ensure that future city 
planning draws on this work. To further these efforts, as well 
as to improve understanding of fire behavior in WUI communities 
exposed to wildfires, the recommendation includes no less than 
$3,000,000 above the amount requested for this work as part of 
the Climate and Energy Measurement, Tools, and Testbed 
initiatives.
    Disaster Resilience Research Grants.--The Committee 
provides no less than the fiscal year 2021 level for Disaster 
Resilience Research Grants.
    Quantum Information Science.--The Committee provides no 
less than $12,500,000 above the fiscal year 2021 level for 
Quantum Information Science, as authorized in the National 
Quantum Initiative Act to support and expand basic and applied 
quantum information science and technology R&D of measurement 
science and standards.
    Quantum computing is an important emerging technology to 
which the private sector and government should have access. The 
Committee encourages NIST to support quantum computing hardware 
that is technology neutral, and directs NIST to evaluate the 
potential for public-private partnerships to develop and deploy 
practical quantum applications that government and the private 
sector can utilize within one to three years so that the 
government may have the benefit of near-term applications, 
while also researching next-generation technology. NIST shall 
provide a report to the Committee, not later than 120 days 
after the enactment of this Act, on the feasibility of public-
private partnerships using near-term application development 
and deployment.
    Artificial Intelligence.--The recommendation includes no 
less than $12,500,000 above the fiscal year 2021 level for 
Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has the potential to produce 
transformative technologies and scientific breakthroughs that 
will improve Americans' lives. The Committee further notes the 
comprehensive review of AI issues provided by the National 
Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). The 
Committee directs NIST to provide the Committee, no later than 
270 days after the enactment of this Act, with a review of the 
NSCAI report as it relates to NIST, including a discussion of 
how NIST intends to address the report's recommendations.
    Framework for Managing AI Risks.--The Committee reminds 
NIST of the direction provided in fiscal year 2021 regarding 
the Framework for Managing AI Risks and directs NIST to provide 
the Committee an update on its progress with this work as soon 
as is practicable.
    Cybersecurity.--The Committee is alarmed by the recent 
spate of cyber attacks against the Nation and therefore 
provides no less than $15,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
enacted level for NIST's cybersecurity initiatives.
    The threat of cyber attacks is exacerbated by the shortage 
of cybersecurity professionals across the government and 
private sector, from entry-level applicants to experienced 
professionals. The Committee therefore provides, from within 
the increase for cybersecurity, no less than $8,000,000 above 
the fiscal year 2021 enacted level for the National Initiative 
for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Regional Alliances and 
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships to Stimulate (RAMPS) 
Cybersecurity and Workforce Development program.
    Cybersecurity and Privacy.--The proliferation of data 
generation, storage, and usage associated with the digital 
economy is making it increasingly important to protect that 
data with effective cryptography and privacy standards. The 
Committee is concerned that individual, corporate, and public-
sector data privacy is continuously at risk from attacks by 
individual actors, criminal organizations, and nation-states. 
As part of the increase provided for Cybersecurity, the 
Committee urges NIST to address the rapidly emerging threats in 
this field by furthering the development of new and needed 
cryptographic standards and technologies.
    Guidelines for Secure Cloud Adoption.--The Committee 
encourages NIST to develop guidelines for secure cloud adoption 
that would provide information that consumers, including those 
in the public sector, need to make security-conscious choices 
when selecting a cloud service provider. The guidelines should 
account for existing standards and certifications, including 
the NIST SP 800 37 and SP 800 53 controls that FedRAMP relies 
on, as well as existing private sector standards and 
certifications such as SOC 1 and SOC 2.
    Vulnerability Patching Guidance.--The Committee notes that 
NIST last updated Special Publication 800-40, ``Guide to 
Enterprise Patch Management Technologies'', in 2013. Given the 
importance of timely patching to organizations maintaining a 
robust cybersecurity posture, NIST shall report to the 
Committee, no later than 120 days after the enactment of this 
Act, regarding its plans to revise and update this Special 
Publication.
    Forensic Sciences.--The Committee provides $22,000,000 for 
forensic science research, an increase of $2,200,000 above the 
fiscal year 2021 enacted level. Within these funds, the 
Committee provides no less than $3,500,000 to support the 
Organization of 22 Scientific Area Committees and no less than 
$1,500,000 to support technical merit evaluations previously 
funded by transfer from the Department of Justice.
    Circular Economy.--The Committee supports the proposed 
expansion of NIST's work on the circular economy and provides 
an increase of $4,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
level for these activities with plastics and other materials in 
the supply chain. Within these funds, not less than $1,000,000 
shall be to support further work on other classes of materials 
including electronics waste, battery and solar waste, and other 
waste streams.
    Workforce Diversity.--The Committee strongly supports 
NIST's initiative to increase equity and diversity in the 
standards workforce. The recommendation therefore provides no 
less than $3,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level 
for this purpose.
    Pyrrhotite Testing and Mitigation.--The recommendation 
includes not less than $2,000,000 for NIST to continue its 
efforts with academic research partners to study and develop a 
reliable and cost-effective standard for testing for the 
presence of excessive amounts of the mineral pyrrhotite in 
concrete used in residential foundations and municipal 
structures that can cause premature cracking and structural 
failure. In addition to funding widespread sample collection 
and studies needed to develop standardized tests, the 
investigation of mitigation strategies should also be robustly 
supported by NIST with these funds.
    Regenerative Medicine Standards.--The Committee provides 
$2,500,000 for NIST to continue the work on Regenerative 
Medicine Standards to improve measurement assurance and 
standards coordination for regenerative therapies, including: 
completion of a regenerative medicine assay validation and 
innovation core to provide laboratory support for evaluation of 
standardized assays, conducting inter-laboratory studies to 
improve measurement assurance and develop appropriate reference 
materials, and coordination of stakeholders for efficient 
development and implementation of relevant standards.
    Calibration Laboratory for Oceanographic Sensors.--The 
Committee recognizes a critical need for capacity in 
calibration of ocean sensors that is inhibiting maximum use of 
ocean sensing technologies. The Committee encourages NIST to 
support these technologies.
    Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.--The 
Committee recognizes the value of the Baldrige Program and the 
impact that it has on the performance of organizations that 
adopt its best practices. Therefore, the Committee provides no 
less than $2,500,000 for the Malcolm Baldrige Performance 
Excellence Program.
    National Construction Safety Team Act Investigations.--NIST 
has a vitally important responsibility under the National 
Construction Safety Team Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-231) to 
investigate building collapses to understand the source of 
failure and to provide recommendations for how to rectify any 
shortcomings in existing building standards in order to prevent 
future similar disasters. The Committee therefore provides 
$22,000,000 for this critical work.

                     INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

    The Committee recommends $331,500,000 for Industrial 
Technology Services, including $275,000,000 for the 
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program and 
$56,500,000 for Manufacturing USA, which represent increases of 
$125,000,000 and $40,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
levels, respectively.
    MEP Supply Chain Database.--The Committee notes that the 
U.S. supply chain experienced widespread and significant 
disruptions in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues 
exposed the need for manufacturers and suppliers to be able to 
communicate more effectively so as to rapidly respond when 
various national emergencies occur. The Committee provides up 
to $10,000,000 for NIST to create a national supply chain 
database for MEP Centers that would connect manufacturers and 
suppliers across the country in order to enhance the Nation's 
preparedness for future events that could disrupt supply 
chains.

                  CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES

    The Committee recommends $100,000,000 for NIST 
construction, an increase of $20,000,000 above the fiscal year 
2021 enacted level. NIST shall continue to provide updates on 
the projects funded within this account, to include milestones 
and total amount of funding necessary for completion.

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    The Committee recommends a total of $6,458,136,000 in 
discretionary funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration (NOAA), which is $1,027,529,000 above fiscal 
year 2021.
    The Committee's program and project recommendations for 
NOAA are included in the consolidated funding tables below and 
in narrative direction throughout this report. The Committee 
reminds NOAA that any deviations from the amounts included in 
the tables below are subject to section 505 requirements of 
this Act. When executing its budget for fiscal year 2022, NOAA 
shall incorporate the funding levels established in both the 
table and the narrative direction.

                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends a total program level of 
$4,689,458,000 under Operations, Research, and Facilities (ORF) 
for the coastal, fisheries, marine, weather, satellite, and 
other programs of NOAA. This total funding consists of 
$4,425,787,000 in direct appropriations, a transfer of 
$246,171,000 from balances in the ``Promote and Develop Fishery 
Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries'' 
account and $17,500,000 derived from recoveries of prior year 
obligations. The direct appropriation of $4,425,787,000 is 
$585,487,000 above fiscal year 2021.
    The following narrative and tables identify the specific 
activities and funding levels included in this Act.
    Extramural research.--The Committee continues to support 
NOAA's ongoing collaboration with academia and the private 
sector through cooperative institutes and competitive research. 
These relationships build broad community engagement, leverage 
external funding for mission-oriented research, strengthen the 
science within NOAA, and advance scientific knowledge.
    Climate Change Adaptation and Resilient Infrastructure.--
NOAA plays a vital role in providing accurate climate data and 
projections to other Federal agencies, States, Tribes, and the 
private sector, which is essential to the Nation's ability to 
prepare for and adapt to the changing climate. Executive Order 
14008, ``Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad'', 
requires Federal agencies to complete, and regularly update, 
Climate Action Plans. NOAA shall support the effort led by the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and in 
collaboration with the U.S. Global Change Research Program 
(USGCRP), to develop guidance to Federal agencies on the 
formulation of such plans. To support these efforts, and to 
expand the provision of forward-looking climate information 
generally, the recommendation includes no less than $10,000,000 
from amounts provided for broader climate services at the 
National Ocean Service, the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Research, and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and 
Information Service.
    As part of this larger effort to expand the provision of 
climate information and services, NOAA shall also identify and 
support the utilization by NIST of an authoritative set of 
climate information that emphasizes forward-looking climate 
data and projections to be utilized by NIST in their standard-
setting process. These data shall include projections of both 
chronic climate impacts, such as sea level rise, and extreme 
weather events, such as hurricanes and droughts. This effort 
shall include building internal capacity to aid both Federal 
and non-Federal bodies to develop standards, building codes, 
and voluntary standards that take into account increasingly 
extreme weather events and other climate change challenges. In 
coordination with NIST, NOAA shall provide the Committee, not 
later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, an 
assessment of priority Federal agency needs for these data, 
including infrastructure planning decision support tools.
    Oyster Aquaculture, Research, and Restoration.--The 
Committee provides up to $10,000,000 to support ongoing 
research on shellfish genetics to improve shellfish survival 
and growth rates and to classify and preserve natural genetic 
variation. As part of this work, NOAA is encouraged to support 
regional partnerships with research institutions on the Gulf of 
Mexico, East, and West Coasts.
    Mississippi River Restoration and Resiliency Strategy.--The 
Committee recognizes that the Mississippi River basin from 
Minnesota to Louisiana is a vital American waterway. The 
Committee continues to urge the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration to participate and coordinate as an 
essential federal stakeholder with the Environmental Protection 
Agency's development of the Mississippi River Restoration and 
Resiliency Strategy, as directed in House Report 116-455. NOAA 
is also directed to engage with the U.S. Geological Survey as 
they host the Mississippi River Science Forum and to contribute 
to the proceedings as a Federal agency with relevant scientific 
expertise.
    Nature-based Flood Mitigation Measures.--The Committee 
recognizes that environment-based mitigation measures such as 
the creation of wetlands, conservation easements, and natural 
flood plains to slow the flow rate of rivers, creeks, and 
streams, are innovative tools to mitigate the severity of 
future floods in the Great Lakes region. In addition to flood 
protection, such mitigation and climate resiliency measures 
offer both aesthetic and recreational value and provide a 
variety of environmental and conservation benefits including 
erosion control, species habitat, and improved air and water 
quality. The Committee urges NOAA to participate and coordinate 
as an essential Federal stakeholder with the Department of 
Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as well as 
State, local, and Tribal governments, and business and non-
profit stakeholders, on developing and supporting conservation 
and nature-based flood mitigation measures to reduce the impact 
of floods on communities, lives, and livelihoods in the Great 
Lakes region.
    Fire Weather.--The Committee is concerned with the 
increasing number and severity of wildfires, especially in the 
Western United States, and notes the important role NOAA plays 
in providing advanced notice of wildfire risks and active 
wildfire-weather coupled forecasts. The recommendation 
therefore provides a total of $15,000,000 to fully support fire 
weather initiatives across NOAA. The Committee encourages NOAA 
to utilize its satellite and artificial intelligence assets in 
these efforts and to continue working with interested Federal, 
State, Tribal, and local partners and land managers to improve 
information dissemination related to wildfire events.
    The Committee is additionally concerned about the need for 
additional resources to ensure that our Nation's science 
agencies are better prepared to help in the prediction and 
response to wildfires and therefore directs NOAA to conduct a 
workforce needs assessment on the training and potential need 
for additional Incident Meteorologists for wildfires and other 
extreme events. NOAA shall brief the Committee on the results 
of this assessment no later than 180 days after the enactment 
of this Act.
    National Ocean Service.--The recommendation provides 
$706,500,000 for National Ocean Service (NOS) Operations, 
Research, and Facilities, an increase of $86,800,000 above the 
fiscal year 2021 level.

                         NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Navigation, Observations and Positioning
    Navigation, Observations and Positioning............        $183,000
    Hydrographic Survey Priorities/Contracts............          32,000
    IOOS Regional Obervations...........................          50,000
                                                         ---------------
Navigation, Observations and Positioning................         265,000
                                                         ===============
Coastal Science and Assessment
    Coastal Science, Assessment, Response and                    101,000
     Restoration........................................
    Competitive Research................................          28,000
                                                         ---------------
Coastal Science and Assessment..........................         129,000
                                                         ===============
Ocean and Coastal Management and Services
    Coastal Zone Management and Services................          62,000
    Coastal Zone Mangement Grants.......................          82,500
    National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund...........          38,000
    Coral Reef Program..................................          38,000
    National Estuarine Research Reserve System..........          30,500
    Sanctuaries and Marine Protected Areas..............          61,500
                                                         ---------------
Ocean and Coastal Management and Services...............         312,500
                                                         ===============
Total, National Ocean Service, Operations, Research, and        $706,500
 Facilities.............................................
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    Sea Level Rise.--The Committee commends NOAA for its strong 
proposal to increase the Nation's understanding of the risk of 
sea level rise and to provide information and services to 
State, Territory, Tribal, and local governments, as well as 
private citizens, to support long range coastal planning and 
infrastructure investments. The recommendation includes no less 
than $30,000,000 for these efforts across NOS.
    Navigation, Observations, and Positioning.--The Committee 
provides $183,000,000 for Navigation, Observations, and 
Positioning, $20,500,000 above the level provided in fiscal 
year 2021. As part of these efforts, the Committee directs NOS 
to partner with States to provide accessible, high resolution 
integrated ocean and coastal mapping of U.S. nearshore waters 
to support navigation, infrastructure, habitat mapping, 
restoration projects, resource management, emergency response, 
coastal resiliency, and hazard studies. The recommendation also 
includes up to $8,000,000 for the Regional Geospatial Modeling 
Grants program.
    Marine Debris.--The recommendation includes an increase of 
no less than $2,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
level for the Marine Debris program to address the pervasive 
problem of marine pollution in coastal waters around the 
country. Within the funds available, the Committee provides 
$1,000,000 to create a regional pilot program to coordinate 
with Federal, State, or Tribal partners on efforts to inventory 
and remove derelict vessels and fishing gear, with a goal of 
developing a cost-effective national strategy for mitigating 
these sources of marine debris.
    Integrated Ocean Observing System.--The Committee continues 
to support the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and 
provides $50,000,000, an increase of $9,500,000 over the fiscal 
year 2021 enacted level. The Committee provides not less than 
$3,000,000 to support the ongoing pilot IOOS, launched in 
fiscal year 2020 to enhance the nation's capacity for 
monitoring and detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) by 
leveraging the expertise of the IOOS regional associations--
including through expanding the deployment of in-situ observing 
assets--in order to improve HABs warning and forecast accuracy. 
IOOS is directed to coordinate with the National Centers for 
Coastal Ocean Science on the implementation of these funds.
    Harmful Algal Blooms.--The Committee remains highly 
concerned about the increasing prevalence of HABs in every U.S. 
State and territory and the corresponding impacts on human 
health, drinking water, fisheries, and the broader economy. The 
Committee provides $28,000,000 for Competitive Research, 
including not less than $15,000,000 for HABs research. This 
research shall include the impacts of HAB-causing nutrient 
impacts from nitrogen and phosphorus as they enter coastal 
areas from tributaries. Further research should prioritize 
development of methods of prevention, mitigation, and control 
to reduce the frequency, severity, and impacts of HAB events in 
freshwater and saltwater systems and provide special attention 
to research in areas most economically and environmentally 
impacted by HABs, including the possible contamination of 
drinking water. The Committee encourages NOAA to work to ensure 
that new technology and mitigation efforts have minimal 
environmental impacts. For all HABs-related work, NOAA shall 
coordinate with the Interagency Working Group on Harmful Algal 
Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act.
    Further, within funds provided for Coastal Science, 
Assessment, Response and Restoration, NOAA, in collaboration 
with IOOS, the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, and 
other relevant stakeholders, shall develop an implementation 
plan for a National Harmful Algal Bloom Observing Network 
(HABON). This plan shall include a discussion of how it will 
incorporate existing assets and research efforts, as well as a 
five-year funding profile for operational monitoring and 
forecasting of HABs nationwide. This report shall be provided 
to the Committee not later than 270 days after the enactment of 
this Act.
    Great Lakes HABs.--The Committee recognizes the importance 
of NOAA's work to diagnose and track the changing climate, 
nutrient loading, and water quality impacts within the Great 
Lakes. The Lakes are ecologically productive but also home to 
destructive annual HABs that threaten the region. No later than 
270 days after the enactment of this Act, NOAA shall brief the 
Committee on efforts to coordinate with the other Federal 
agencies in the Great Lakes region, its joint efforts to manage 
and diagnose water quality problems, and shall provide a 
summary of resources NOAA is making available within the Great 
Lakes basin to address HABs.
    Blue Carbon.--The Committee notes the importance of the 
coastal zone as a potential carbon sink and the increased 
public interest in blue carbon. The recommendation includes no 
less than $2,000,000 for NOAA to expand its scientific and 
research efforts to understand the relative emissions and 
absorption potential of carbon pollution associated with 
various human activities in the coastal zone so as to inform 
future planning decisions regarding their carbon impacts. The 
ultimate goal of this research shall be to create a national 
map and inventory of coastal and marine blue carbon ecosystems. 
The Committee encourages NOAA to collaborate with other 
interested Federal agencies and other non-Federal stakeholders 
as part of their coastal work, including the U.S. Geological 
Survey, as well as the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
    Coastal Zone Management.--The Committee provides 
$62,000,000 for Coastal Zone Management and Services, including 
no less than $4,000,000 for implementation of the Digital Coast 
Act (Public Law 116-234) and activities to support it. Within 
these funds, the recommendation also includes no less than 
$3,500,000 for Regional Ocean Data Portals.
    Ocean Economy of the Territories.--The Committee looks 
forward to receiving the report on the steps NOAA has taken to 
expand the scope of the Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) 
dataset to include the Nation's territories. The Committee 
expects regular updates from NOAA on its plans to characterize 
the ocean economies of the five U.S. territories, and directs 
other bureaus within the Department of Commerce, including the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Census Bureau, to 
cooperate on this effort.
    Coastal Zone Management Grants and the National Oceans and 
Coastal Security Fund.--The recommendation includes $82,500,000 
for Coastal Zone Management Grants and $38,000,000 for the 
National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund, including for 
project planning and design, including watershed scale planning 
and technical assistance to identify where and what specific 
coastal resilience projects will provide the greatest benefit 
in preparation for expected climate impacts, such as sea level 
rise.
    Coral Reefs.--The Committee continues to be greatly 
concerned by the deterioration of the Nation's coral reefs, 
which are suffering from record levels of bleaching and 
disease. The recommendation therefore includes $38,000,000 for 
the Coral Reef Program. Within the increases provided for the 
Coral Reef Program and Competitive Research, NOAA shall expand 
its collaborative work with external academic partners that 
conduct scientific research for the conservation of corals and 
coral reef ecosystems, including those that are experiencing an 
increasing prevalence of disease outbreaks. The Committee 
recognizes that science sponsored through such collaboration is 
imperative for management of these coral reefs for ecosystem 
resilience and for the effective implementation of the National 
Coral Reef Action Strategy, especially with regard to the 
identification of local action strategies for addressing key 
threats in each of the jurisdictions that have coral reefs 
within its boundaries. Collaborative research focused on coral 
disease and degradation is required to address current declines 
in reef health and productivity in U.S waters in the Pacific, 
Atlantic, and Caribbean. Examples of this work include 
identifying the pathogens causing the disease, conducting 
appropriate disease interventions and remediations, researching 
resilient coral species and disease-resistant genetic strains 
of corals, and supporting restoration of appropriate and 
diverse coral species.
    Further, within the funds provided for the Coral Reef 
Program, the Committee provides up to $10,000,000 for NOS to 
continue to work with academic institutions and non-
governmental research organizations on innovative active 
restoration projects to restore degraded coral reefs. The 
Committee intends the funding to support coral restoration 
implementation and capacity building for both corals and 
herbivores; advancing community stewardship and restoration 
maintenance; and incorporation of next generation technology 
innovation with external partners to promote resilience and 
restoration efficiencies.
    National Estuarine Research Reserve System.--The Committee 
provides an increase of $2,000,000 over the fiscal year 2021 
enacted level for the National Estuarine Research Reserve 
System (NERRS). The Committee strongly supports this important 
partnership between NOAA and the coastal States and territories 
that protects and studies estuarine systems and encourages the 
continued expansion of the network.
    Sanctuaries and Marine Protected Areas.--The Committee 
provides $61,500,000 for Sanctuaries and Marine Protected 
Areas, which is $5,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
level. The Committee encourages the Office of National Marine 
Sanctuaries to collaborate with the Office of Ocean Exploration 
and Research to map and characterize the National Marine 
Sanctuaries, including through the use of telepresence 
technology as appropriate.
    National Marine Sanctuaries Designations.--The Committee 
continues to support the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries 
and the expansion of the network of protected marine and Great 
Lakes areas. The Committee notes that a number of sites have 
languished in the inventory of successful nominations without 
progressing to final designation as new National Marine 
Sanctuaries despite support from the Committee to move them 
forward. Therefore, the Committee directs NOAA, no later than 
30 days after the enactment of this Act, to provide the 
Committee with a briefing on plans to make final determinations 
on the areas which have been successfully nominated for 
consideration for designation.
    Marine National Monuments.--Within funding provided for 
National Marine Sanctuaries, up to $1,200,000 may be used for 
competitive research and management grants for existing marine 
national monuments administered by NOS, provided such grants 
are subject to a 100 percent non-Federal match.
    National Marine Fisheries Service.--The Committee 
recommends $1,044,590,000 for National Marine Fisheries Service 
(NMFS) Operations, Research, and Facilities, which is 
$79,728,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level. NMFS 
shall continue to provide quarterly updates to the Committee 
consistent with direction in fiscal year 2021.

                    NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Protected Resources Science and Management:
    Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Other Species......        $146,500
    Species Recovery Grants.............................           7,500
    Atlantic Salmon.....................................           6,500
    Pacific Salmon......................................          70,500
                                                         ---------------
Protected Resources Science and Management..............         231,000
                                                         ===============
Fisheries Science and Management:
    Fisheries and Ecosystem Science Programs and                 162,000
     Services...........................................
    Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and Assessments         192,500
    Observers and Training..............................          55,468
    Fisheries Management Program and Services...........         133,750
    Aquaculture.........................................          17,500
    Salmon Management Activities........................          66,000
    Regional Councils and Fisheries Commissions.........          43,000
    Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants................           3,372
                                                         ---------------
Fisheries Science and Management........................         673,590
                                                         ===============
Enforcement.............................................          78,500
                                                         ===============
Habitat Conservation and Restoration....................          61,500
                                                         ===============
Total, National Marine Fisheries Service, Operations,         $1,044,590
 Research, and Facilities...............................
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    Offshore Wind.--The Committee applauds the President's 
initiative to support the growth of offshore wind energy as 
part of the broader goal of reducing carbon emissions. As such, 
the recommendation includes no less than $20,380,000 for NMFS' 
initiatives in support of wind energy.
    Transition to Climate-Ready Fishery Management.--The 
Committee recognizes the serious impacts of climate change on 
fisheries and protected species, and the corresponding need for 
increased resources to prepare for climate-ready management of 
living marine resources. Sustainable fisheries management and 
protected species conservation is made more challenging by 
climate change driven impacts, including changes to the 
distribution, productivity, and abundance of fish stocks, 
protected species, and the habitats on which they depend. The 
Committee supports NMFS' proposals to address these new 
requirements and provides $20,000,000 overall to support this 
work, including $10,000,000 within Protected Resources Science 
and Management to support climate vulnerable species and 
$10,000,000 within Fisheries Science and Management to 
prioritize activities that will make fisheries and fishing-
dependent communities more adaptable to climate change. NMFS is 
also directed to increase the scope and pace of efforts and 
consider new initiatives that will maintain sustainability and 
yield greater stability in Federal fishery and protected 
species management as the oceans change.
    Protected Resources Science and Management.--The 
recommendation includes $231,000,000 for Protected Resources 
Science and Management, an increase of $25,336,000 above the 
fiscal year 2021 enacted level. Within this amount, the 
Committee provides no less than $5,000,000 for the John H. 
Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance grant program. The 
Committee further directs NMFS to continue to prioritize 
reducing the backlog of Endangered Species Act and Marine 
Mammal Protection Act permit applications.
    The Committee recognizes that the existing backlog is due, 
in part, to disagreements between NMFS and the U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers regarding the consideration of environmental 
baselines for in-water construction permit applications. This 
continued interagency dispute is unacceptable. The Committee 
therefore directs NOAA, no later than 15 days after the 
enactment of this Act, to report to the Committee on plans for 
resolving the ongoing interagency conflict and finding 
resolution on the backlog of pending permit applications in a 
timely manner.
    North Atlantic Right Whales.--Within Marine Mammals, Sea 
Turtles, and Other Species, the Committee provides no less than 
$16,900,000 for research and monitoring of North Atlantic right 
whales. Within this funding, up to $3,500,000 is provided for 
NOAA to address State and industry priorities addressing 
fishery data gaps to support improved modeling and analysis to 
inform future regulatory changes, including vessel or gear 
tracking or other harvester reporting enhancements to improve 
co-occurrence models of fishing activity and whale presence.
    Southern Resident Killer Whales.--The Committee provides 
not less than $2,000,000 for the Southern Resident Killer 
Whales program for research and monitoring to improve the 
recovery of the species. The Committee further encourages NMFS 
to support existing partnerships between Federal and State 
agencies, Native American tribes, public ports, and nonprofits 
to monitor and reduce noise impacts on this endangered species.
    Foreign Fisheries.--The Committee provides $1,000,000 to 
NMFS to ensure sufficient implementation of the Fish and Fish 
Product Import Provisions Section 101(a)(2) of the Marine 
Mammal Protection Act. NMFS shall use these funds to analyze 
the data provided by nations and to provide technical 
assistance to nations to comply with these provisions. NMFS 
shall prioritize the use of any funds for technical assistance 
to those fisheries interacting with endangered species. NMFS 
may use contractors to ensure that deadlines are met, but shall 
prioritize hiring staff with the increased funds for this 
initiative.
    Pacific Salmon.--The Committee provides $70,500,000 for 
Pacific Salmon, $3,500,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
level. The recommendation provides no less than $5,000,000 
within Pacific Salmon to implement NMFS' Hatchery and Genetic 
Management Plans (HGMPs) and to continue to address the backlog 
of HGMPs as directed in previous fiscal years.
    The Committee directs NOAA to examine opportunities to 
leverage the existing civilian conservation corps model to 
develop a dedicated workforce to accomplish priority salmon 
habitat improvement projects and other priority near-shore 
restoration goals that have been identified as part of the 
recovery strategy for one or more of the twenty-eight 
populations of salmon and steelhead currently listed as 
threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
    Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and Assessments.--The 
Committee provides $192,500,000 for Fisheries Data Collections, 
Surveys, and Assessments, $16,573,000 above the fiscal year 
2021 enacted level. Within these funds, no less than 
$24,000,000 is provided for Fisheries Information Networks, the 
State-Federal cooperative programs that coordinate data 
collection, data management, and informational management 
essential for accurate monitoring of commercial and 
recreational fishing impacts. The Committee encourages NMFS to 
support collaborative programs focused on improving 
recreational fishery data collection. The recommendation also 
directs NMFS to deliver technical support, as needed, to the 
Gulf States to prioritize and ensure successful implementation 
of each State plan.
    South Atlantic Reef Fish.--NMFS is encouraged to leverage 
efficiencies learned through the Gulf of Mexico red snapper 
process to better the science and management of the South 
Atlantic red snapper and other reef fish. NMFS shall consider 
employing the independent and alternative stock assessment 
strategies used in the Gulf of Mexico to supplement NMFS 
assessments of reef fish in the South Atlantic. The Committee 
provides up to $1,800,000 for these activities and encourages 
NMFS to incorporate this data into the agency's own stock 
assessments as expeditiously as possible.
    State Management for Recreational Red Snapper.--Within the 
amount provided for Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and 
Assessments, the Committee encourages NMFS to continue to work 
with the Gulf States to ensure successful implementation of 
State management for recreational red snapper. These efforts 
shall be a priority for NOAA and shall be done in coordination 
with the Gulf States. In addition, state agency independent 
data should be incorporated into NOAA stock assessments as 
expeditiously as possible.
    Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish.--Within funding for Fisheries and 
Ecosystem Science Programs and Services, the Committee 
encourages NMFS to continue to support Gulf of Mexico reef fish 
surveys, research, and sampling.
    For-Hire Electronic Monitoring and Reporting 
Implementation.--The agreement provides no less than $2,250,000 
within Fisheries Management Programs and Services and 
$1,500,000 within Enforcement to support the continued and 
timely implementation of electronic monitoring and reporting.
    Video Review of Electronic Monitoring Data.--Within funding 
provided for Fisheries Management Programs and Services, the 
Committee provides no less than $400,000 for the video review 
of the West Coast Groundfish electronic monitoring data and 
$400,000 for the video review of the Gulf of Alaska partial 
coverage electronic monitoring data.
    Pacific Bluefin Tuna.--The Committee continues to be 
concerned with the depleted status of the iconic Pacific 
bluefin tuna and therefore encourages NMFS to take a strong 
position in international negotiations, including by supporting 
the adoption of strict and more precautionary harvest control 
rules that ensure measurable interim progress in rebuilding the 
stock, in order to recover the population to sustainable levels 
by no later than 2034. The Committee provides up to $2,000,000 
to continue and expand efforts to support the rebuilding of 
this stock and directs NMFS to provide resources to support 
engagement of the Pacific Fishery Management Council and U.S. 
stakeholders in the formulation of a strong U.S. position 
throughout the international negotiations to ensure continued 
progress on the international recovery plan.
    Carbon Sequestration Through Aquaculture.--The Committee 
recognizes advances in aquaculture such as deep-water kelp 
sequestration and oyster farming play an important role in 
mitigating the impacts of a changing climate. Like land 
forests, kelp forests act as powerful carbon banks, removing up 
to 20 times more carbon per acre than land forests. The 
Committee encourages NOAA and the Office of Aquaculture to 
support sustainable carbon sequestration demonstration projects 
in deep ocean water.
    Salmon Management Activities.--The Committee provides an 
increase of $4,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
amount for Salmon Management Activities. This level includes no 
less than $41,500,000 for the Pacific Salmon Treaty activities 
and no less than $24,000,000 for Mitchell Act Hatcheries.
    Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing.--The 
Committee is troubled by the increasing accounts of Illegal, 
Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) fishing--not only in the U.S. 
Exclusive Economic Zone but around the world--which is a threat 
to the health of the oceans, undermines honest businesses and 
fishers who play by the rules, and enables human trafficking, 
forced labor, and other criminal activity. The recommendation 
includes an increase of $3,500,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
enacted level for Enforcement to address IUU fishing, among 
other enforcement priorities. Within these funds, the Committee 
directs NMFS to expand efforts to detect and deter IUU fishing 
through the use of emerging technologies available from the 
private sector.
    Lionfish.--The Committee encourages NOAA to award 
competitive grants to address invasive Lionfish in the Atlantic 
Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
    Horseshoe Crabs.--Adequate data is required to ensure 
States and interstate managers can effectively manage the 
Horseshoe Crab population, which is important to the biomedical 
and commercial fishing industries, as well as to the ecology of 
the Mid-Atlantic region. The Committee directs NMFS to continue 
the Horseshoe Crab survey to generate the data necessary to 
ensure that the Horseshoe Crab stock remains on a sustainable 
path.
    Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.--The Committee recommends 
$684,500,000 for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) 
Operations, Research, and Facilities, which represents an 
increase of $113,910,000 over fiscal year 2021.

               OFFICE OF OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Climate Research:
    Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.....        $120,000
    Regional Climate Data and Information...............          59,000
    Climate Competitive Research........................          74,000
                                                         ---------------
Climate Research........................................         253,000
                                                         ===============
Weather and Air Chemistry Research:
    Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.....          87,500
    U.S. Weather Research Program.......................          33,750
    Tornado Severe Storm Research/Phased Array Radar....          17,000
    Joint Technology Transfer Initiative................          13,000
                                                         ---------------
Weather and Air Chemistry Research......................         151,250
                                                         ===============
Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Research:
    Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.......          37,500
    National Sea Grant College Program..................          85,000
    Sea Grant Aquaculture Research......................          14,500
    Ocean Exploration and Research......................          44,500
    Integrated Ocean Acidification......................          17,000
    Sustained Ocean Observations and Monitoring.........          59,750
    National Oceanographic Partnership Program..........           2,000
                                                         ---------------
Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Research................         260,250
                                                         ===============
Innovative Research and Technology:
    High Performance Computing Initiatives..............          18,000
    Uncrewed Systems....................................           2,000
                                                         ---------------
Innovative Research and Technology......................          20,000
                                                         ===============
Total, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research,               684,500
 Operations, Research, and Facilities...................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Climate Research.--The Committee continues to be alarmed by 
the impacts of the changing climate and notes the critical 
importance of NOAA's climate change science and research to 
inform decisions about how best to prepare and adapt to these 
changes. The Committee, therefore, provides $253,000,000 for 
Climate Research, an increase of $71,000,000 above the fiscal 
year 2021 enacted level.
    Methane Emissions.--Like carbon dioxide, methane is a 
powerful greenhouse gas that is increasingly more prevalent in 
our atmosphere. Unlike carbon dioxide, however, methane only 
remains in the atmosphere for a relatively short amount of 
time, and as such, mitigation of these emissions can have a 
more near-term effect on the climate system. Unfortunately, 
there is limited understanding of the natural and anthropogenic 
sources and drivers of methane emissions that limits the 
accuracy of climate models and inhibits the proper 
prioritization of mitigation efforts. As part of the increase 
provided for Sustained Atmospheric Observations, the Committee 
directs OAR to increase its focus on methane as an important 
greenhouse gas and to increase efforts to improve the 
understanding of the sources and drivers of both anthropogenic 
and natural methane emissions.
    Atmospheric Baseline Observatories.--The Committee supports 
the work of the Global Monitoring Laboratory and its 
Atmospheric Baseline Observatories, which have provided 
measurements of the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere 
for over 60 years that are the basis of the world-renowned 
Keeling Curve and whose data is used by more than 500 external 
partners and stakeholders. The Committee provides not less than 
$4,500,000 to modernize these observatories' aging 
infrastructure to ensure measurement integrity and safety of 
the observatory facilities.
    Earth's Radiation Budget.--The Committee provides 
$11,000,000 for continued modeling, assessments, and, as 
possible, observations and monitoring of stratospheric 
conditions and the Earth's radiation budget. Within these 
funds, the Committee directs OAR, in coordination with other 
Federal agencies, as appropriate, to improve the understanding 
of the impact of atmospheric aerosols on radiative forcing, as 
well as on the formation of clouds, precipitation, and extreme 
weather to include observations and modeling of the impact of 
the introduction of material into the stratosphere from changes 
in natural systems, increased air and space traffic, and 
modeling of proposals to inject material to affect climate and 
solar climate interventions.
    Climate Services.--As the Nation continues to experience 
the increasingly disruptive impacts of climate change, NOAA's 
role as a provider of climate data, models, projections, and 
services is becoming more prominent and critical to the 
continued prosperity of our society. The Committee directs 
NOAA, across line offices, to coordinate efforts to provide 
improved and expanded climate services in order to improve 
customer service and integrate climate products. Further, a 
number of community project funding awards will support efforts 
to expand climate research and the provision of climate 
services. Where feasible, NOAA shall partner with these local 
efforts to meet the rapidly growing needs of the Nation for 
high quality climate products and information.
    As part of these efforts, the Committee supports the 
proposed expansion of the Regional Integrated Climate Sciences 
and Assessments (RICSA) program, formerly known as the Regional 
Integrated Sciences and Assessments program, with the long-term 
goal of comprehensive coverage of the Nation to provide high 
quality climate information and extension services to help 
local, State, and private leaders make informed decisions as 
they adapt to the changing climate. As such, the Committee 
includes $25,000,000, which is $3,200,000 above the requested 
amount, to launch the Climate-Smart Communities Initiative and 
expand the RICSA program. The Committee further encourages NOAA 
to more proactively engage with local stakeholders to provide 
extension services.
    Infrasonic Weather Monitoring Research.--Within funding for 
the U.S. Weather Research Program, the recommendation provides 
no less than the fiscal year 2021 enacted level to support 
external opportunities with academic institutions in promising 
areas of weather-related research that may advance NOAA's 
mission and benefit society, including infrasonic methods of 
monitoring extreme weather.
    VORTEX-USA.--The recommendation includes no less than 
$7,000,000 for the VORTEX-SE program within the VORTEX-USA 
initiative. The Committee looks forward to a briefing on OAR's 
proposed plan for the VORTEX USA initiative as directed in 
Public Law 116-260.
    Sensor Fusion for Snow Water Resource Management.--The 
Committee supports NOAA's activities to improve snow water 
resource monitoring to improve operational forecasts at NOAA's 
National Water Center (NWC). The Committee encourages NOAA to 
pursue research activities to demonstrate and integrate into 
the NWC's National Water Model accurately calibrated and 
validated snow water equivalent estimates at high resolution 
through extensive airborne and field experiments throughout the 
western United States.
    Wind Turbine Radar Interference.-- The Committee supports 
the rapidly growing wind energy industry as part of the effort 
to reduce carbon emissions. The Committee recognizes, however, 
that without proper mitigations and considerations, wind farms 
can interfere with NEXRAD weather radars. To ensure maximum 
compatibility between wind energy development and NEXRAD 
systems, the Committee encourages NOAA, working with the Wind 
Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation working group and 
industry, to identify, test, and validate proposed technical 
solutions to reduce potential wind turbine impacts to NEXRAD 
radar data. The Committee also encourages NOAA, the Wind 
Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation Working Group, and 
industry to fully explore other non-technical mitigation 
options. Not later than 270 days after the enactment of this 
Act, NOAA shall, in collaboration with other Federal agencies, 
industry, and academia, provide the Committee with an update to 
the 2019 Joint USAF/NOAA Report to Congress that details the 
status of scientific research of technical solutions and 
cooperation between government and industry on non-technical 
mitigation options.
    Flood Mapping Technologies.--The Committee recognizes that 
innovative, science-based flood mapping technologies help 
communities and businesses to better prepare for and mitigate 
flood-related disasters. Weather-based technologies provide 
real-time information on soil moisture, watersheds, 
precipitation, and stream levels to ensure communities in flood 
susceptible areas have the proper resources to respond before 
flooding disasters occur, and to help minimize impacts and 
associated damages. The Committee encourages NOAA to continue 
to support advancing weather and flood mapping technologies and 
enhanced data collection, and to partner with interested 
Federal agencies, Tribes, institutions of higher education, and 
State centers to become more resilient to flood disasters, such 
as with Joint Technology Transfer Initiative (JTTI) activities.
    Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Research Laboratories and 
Cooperative Institutes.--The Committee provides $37,500,000 for 
Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Research Laboratories and 
Cooperative Institutes. NOAA shall expand its works on genomics 
within the increased funds, including work on HABs with regard 
to real-time forecasting of HABs and their toxicity, and 
testing of remote observing systems and environmental sample 
processors. Further, the Committee expects NOAA to fully fund 
these cooperative institutes at appropriate levels in future 
years, including well-established institutes focused on 
watershed impacts on marine and Great Lakes ecosystems, remote 
sensing, and long-term monitoring of the impacts of 
environmental hazards on marine and Great Lakes ecosystem 
health. NOAA shall further support partnerships with 
universities on ocean observations, hurricane monitoring, ocean 
glider research, and research related to offshore wind energy.
    Sea Grant Resilient Coasts Initiative.--Of the funds 
provided for Sea Grant, no less than $10,000,000 shall be for 
the Sea Grant Resilient Coasts Initiative. As part of this 
program, the Committee encourages NOAA to support mitigation 
and relocation efforts of coastal tribal communities that are 
seeking to mitigate the threat of severe weather storms and 
promote public safety.
    Sea Grant Support for the Seafood Industry.--The U.S. 
fishing and seafood sector experienced broad declines in 2020 
as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Committee supports 
the ongoing work of NOAA programs such as Sea Grant in 
assisting in business diversification and economic recovery 
during the COVID-19 pandemic for fishermen, aquaculturists, and 
recreational charters through state Sea Grant programs. The 
Committee encourages the National Sea Grant program to identify 
areas of collaboration within the Department of Commerce and 
other federal agencies to advance business diversification 
efforts of coastal businesses to make the coastal industries 
more viable and resilient to disruptions in their economic 
markets as well as disruption to access or changing ocean 
conditions. Further, the recommendation includes up to 
$2,000,000 for Sea Grant to work with NMFS to build a 
consortium of researchers, government officials, technical 
assistance providers, and fishing and aquaculture community 
partners to support local and regional seafood systems (LRSS). 
Catalyzing LRSS will help to ensure the seafood sector is 
resilient to future shocks and will also contribute to the 
economic prosperity of coastal communities.
    Highly Migratory Species.--The Committee provides an 
additional $2,000,000 within Sea Grant to collaborate with the 
NMFS Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Research Initiative, for 
competitive extramural research exclusively for Atlantic and 
Gulf of Mexico HMS. Additional research is needed for 
collection of NOAA-prioritized scientific information to 
significantly improve fisheries management at both the domestic 
and international levels for these species that inject hundreds 
of millions of dollars into coastal communities and the Nation. 
Many HMS are threatened by overfishing or environmental 
challenges and are urgently in need of improved, science-based 
management and conservation, either regionally or throughout 
their distribution. The additional funding will enable NOAA to 
implement a set of management-based HMS research needs and 
priorities established in fiscal year 2020.
    American Lobster Research.--Within funding for the Sea 
Grant program, the Committee encourages the continued funding 
of partnerships between State agencies, academia, and industry 
to address American lobster research priorities. Research 
should focus on stock resilience in the face of environmental 
changes, including life history parameters, distribution and 
abundance, and species interactions, with the purpose of 
informing future management actions.
    Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program.--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of NOAA's aquaculture research and 
development activities that help coastal communities maintain a 
safe and sustainable local seafood supply through research and 
technology transfer to support and expand America's aquaculture 
industry. As such, the Committee provides $14,500,000 for the 
Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program.
    Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship Program.--Within 60 days of 
enactment of this Act, NOAA is directed to brief the Committee 
on steps the agency is taking to implement section 3 of the 
National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2020 
(Public Law 116-221).
    Ocean Exploration and Research.--The Committee rejects the 
requested decrease in funding for Ocean Exploration and 
Research and instead provides $44,500,000 and encourages NOAA 
to map and characterize the Nation's Exclusive Economic Zone 
and Extended Continental Shelf. NOAA is encouraged to work with 
the Department of Education and other relevant agencies to 
continue fundamental ocean exploration in which open source 
data are collected for the oceanographic community and private 
industries in real-time through telepresence technology that 
would be applied to educational research.
    Deep Seabed Mining.--The Committee provides $1,000,000 from 
Ocean Exploration and Research, for NOAA, not later than 90 
days after the enactment of this Act, to seek to enter into an 
agreement with the National Academies to conduct a 
comprehensive assessment of the environmental impacts of deep 
seabed mining, including assessment of potential impacts to 
deep seabed habitat and species from exploratory or extractive 
activities; assessment of the potential impacts of sediment 
plumes from disturbance of the deep seabed on the marine 
ecosystems and biota; and approximate quantification of the 
greenhouse gas emissions associated with deep seabed mining, 
including possible emissions from the release of greenhouse 
gases sequestered in the seabed.
    Integrated Ocean Acidification Program.--The Committee is 
increasingly concerned about the growing impacts of ocean 
acidification on coastal communities and industries and 
therefore provides $17,000,000 for the Integrated Ocean 
Acidification program. Within the increase, NOAA shall, in 
partnership with academia and the private sector, prioritize 
efforts at understanding, monitoring, and mitigating coastal 
ocean acidification, especially where it impacts fisheries and 
aquaculture. To allow NOAA's partners around the nation to 
scale up their regional-level monitoring programs, develop 
modeling tools, and improve coordination with regional 
stakeholders, the Committee encourages the Integrated Ocean 
Acidification program, in partnership with IOOS and Sea Grant, 
to make multi-year, competitive grant awards to university 
partners to operate regional-scale research and education 
centers to address the impacts of ocean acidification.
    The Committee encourages NOAA, in coordination with the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy, to implement a program 
to competitively award prizes under the Stevenson-Wydler 
Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3719) to stimulate 
innovation to advance the understanding, research, or 
monitoring of ocean acidification or its impacts, or to develop 
management or adaptation options for responding to ocean 
acidification. In prize competitions, the Committee encourages 
NOAA to prioritize communities, environments, or industries 
that are currently in distress due to the impacts of ocean 
acidification.
    Sustained Ocean Observations and Monitoring.--The 
recommendation provides $59,750,000 for Sustained Ocean 
Observations and Monitoring. Within the increase, NOAA shall 
expand coverage of biogeochemical and Deep Argo floats to 
improve ecological and sub-seasonal-to-seasonal weather 
forecasting as well as to provide observational data on the 
health and state of the ocean, particularly in the deep sea, 
the tropics, and the Arctic. Further, NOAA is directed to 
encourage international partners to meet their obligations for 
shared ocean science and observations.
    Uncrewed Systems.--Within Innovative Research and 
Technology, $2,000,000 is provided in support of the proposal 
for Uncrewed Systems. The Committee further encourages NOAA to 
address potential new challenges in the areas of data 
organization, automation, scale, processing, and presentation.
    National Weather Service.--The Committee recommends 
$1,218,113,000 for National Weather Service (NWS) Operations, 
Research, and Facilities, which is $117,337,000 above the 
fiscal year 2021 enacted level. The Committee reaffirms its 
commitment to the weather enterprise and the necessity of 
maintaining within the Federal Government the mission of 
protecting life and property.

                        NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Observations............................................        $245,750
Central Processing......................................         108,472
Analyze, Forecast and Support...........................         565,097
Dissemination...........................................         117,646
Science and Technology Integration......................         181,148
                                                         ===============
Total, National Weather Service, Operations, Research,        $1,218,113
 and Facilities.........................................
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    NWS Staffing.--The Committee remains concerned about 
continuing reports of staffing and management challenges within 
NWS. NOAA and the Department of Commerce are directed to ensure 
that NWS fulfills its critical mission to protect the lives and 
property of our Nation's citizens, including by filling all 
vacancies as expeditiously as possible. In its fiscal year 2022 
spend plan, NWS shall follow direction as provided in fiscal 
year 2021 regarding details of all NWS funded positions. The 
Committee further directs NWS to continue the quarterly 
briefings to the Committee consistent with prior year 
direction.
    National Mesonet Program.--The recommendation includes not 
less than $24,000,000 for the National Mesonet Program to allow 
the program to leverage large investments by other sponsors, 
enable the program to increase the number of observations, 
include new types of data, and introduce innovative 
capabilities to address capacity and coverage gaps.
    Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Decision Support Services.--The 
recommendation includes no less than $5,000,000 for the 
proposals across NWS for Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Decision 
Support Services.
    Low Altitude Rainfall.--The Committee is concerned about 
the limitations of NEXRAD due to its ineffectiveness in 
calculating low altitude rainfall, below 7,000 feet, in low 
lying areas on the edges of the radars' scannable range, lack 
of river gauges and lack of ground truth stations. The 
Committee therefore encourages NWS to install additional small 
data collection devices to better assess rainfall, water 
levels, and related climate data. NWS is urged to focus on 
watersheds where underestimates of local rainfall has led to 
damage of water infrastructure.
    Tsunami Warning Program.--The Committee continues to 
support the Tsunami Warning Program and provides no less than 
the fiscal year 2021 level for this critical program.
    Dissemination.--The Committee is very troubled by the 
ongoing issues with NWS' forecast dissemination systems. The 
recommendation therefore includes an increase of $39,284,000 
above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level. NWS shall provide 
monthly updates to the Committee on the status of the ongoing 
problems with its dissemination systems and its progress in 
carrying out the Integrated Dissemination Program plan.
    Atlas-14.--The Committee provides up to $1,450,000 within 
Science and Technology Integration for NWS to partner with 
interested states or regions to update their respective Atlas-
14 precipitation frequency estimates.
    National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information 
Service.--The Committee recommends $348,086,000 for National 
Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS) 
Operations, Research, and Facilities.

     NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA AND INFORMATION SERVICE
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environmental Satellite Observing Systems:
    Office of Satellite and Product Operations..........        $202,000
    Product Development, Readiness and Application......          47,000
    Office of Space Commerce............................          10,000
    U.S. Group on Earth Observations....................           1,000
                                                         ---------------
Environmental Satellite Observing Systems...............         260,000
                                                         ===============
National Centers for Environmental Information..........          88,086
                                                         ===============
Total, National Environmental Satellite, Data and               $348,086
 Information Service, Operations, Research, and
 Facilities.............................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Wildfire Demonstration Products.--The Committee supports 
NOAA's ongoing efforts to develop and provide new wildfire 
products which are critically important to informing the public 
about wildfire dangers and to supporting firefighters and other 
first responders. The Committee is aware and supports the fact 
that as part of the product development process, NOAA makes 
demonstration versions available online and that these products 
are rapidly adopted by external stakeholders. The Committee 
further understands that the rapid adoption of these 
demonstration products by external stakeholders has caused both 
hardware and software failures. The Committee directs NOAA to 
prioritize the availability of demonstration products that have 
been adopted by external stakeholders, particularly first 
responders, and provides no less than $500,000 within the 
Office of Satellite and Product Operations for this purpose.
    Office of Space Commerce.--The Committee provides 
$10,000,000 for the Office of Space Commerce and directs NOAA 
to continue the pilot program established by Public Law 116-
260, for which no less than the fiscal year 2021 enacted amount 
is provided.
    National Centers for Environmental Information.--The 
Committee continues to support the National Centers for 
Environmental Information (NCEI) and their efforts to provide 
more products and services for the Nation. Of the funds 
provided for NCEI, no less than $13,500,000 shall be for the 
Regional Climate Services, including no less than $10,000,000 
for the Regional Climate Centers. NOAA shall continue to 
prioritize hiring to meet the demand for climate services, most 
notably by filling the vacant Regional Climate Services 
Director positions.
    Mission Support.--The recommendation includes $364,316,000 
for Mission Support Operations, Research, and Facilities.

                             MISSION SUPPORT
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mission Support Services:
    Executive Leadership................................         $30,000
    Mission Services and Management.....................         185,000
    IT Security.........................................          35,365
    Payment to the DOC Working Capital Fund.............          67,867
    Facilities Maintenance and Capital Improvements.....           5,000
                                                         ---------------
Mission Support Services................................         323,232
                                                         ===============
Office of Education:
    BWET Regional Programs..............................          12,000
    Jose E. Serrano Educational Partnership Program with          22,000
     Minority Serving Institutions......................
    NOAA Education Program Base.........................           7,084
                                                         ---------------
Office of Education.....................................          41,084
                                                         ===============
Total, Mission Support, Operations, Research, and               $364,316
 Facilities.............................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Office of Education.--The Committee recognizes that the 
changing climate and increasing degradation of our environment 
will necessitate greater future investments in these scientific 
fields and their corresponding workforces. Consequently, the 
recommendation includes $41,084,000 for NOAA's Office of 
Education, an increase of $8,084,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
enacted level. Further, as part of all of its educational 
programming, the Committee encourages NOAA to prioritize 
improving Americans' understanding of climate change, including 
providing formal and informal learning opportunities to 
individuals of all ages, including individuals of diverse 
cultural and linguistic backgrounds, emphasizing actionable 
information to help people understand and promote 
implementation of new technologies, programs, and incentives 
related to climate change, climate adaptation and mitigation, 
and climate resilience.
    Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO).--The 
recommendation includes $299,373,000 for the Office of Marine 
and Aviation Operations, Operations, Research, and Facilities. 
The Committee appreciates the clear and concise regular 
briefings provided by OMAO's leadership and encourages them to 
continue with the same frequency and detail as in fiscal year 
2021.

                OFFICE OF MARINE AND AVIATION OPERATIONS
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations:
    Marine Operations and Maintenance...................        $194,000
    Aviation Operations and Aircraft Services...........          37,500
    Autonomous Uncrewed Technology Operations...........          14,500
    NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps.....................          53,373
                                                         ===============
Total, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations,                $299,373
 Operations, Research, and Facilities...................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Marine Operations and Maintenance.--The Committee 
appreciates and supports the proposal to increase the number of 
days at sea, and further directs OMAO to continue to implement 
the progressive maintenance program developed over the last few 
years to keep NOAA's ships available and operational at the 
highest possible rate. The Committee notes that missions in the 
Pacific Islands and territories have been delayed due to a lack 
of ship availability and the pandemic. The increase in funding 
for Marine Operations and Maintenance is intended, in part, to 
alleviate these constraints. The Committee directs NOAA to 
submit a report on its plan to ensure adequate ship time for 
the critical missions in this region no later than 90 days 
after the enactment of this Act.
    Monitoring of Atmospheric Rivers.--Improving understanding 
of atmospheric rivers is critical to preparing for concentrated 
rain storms and flooding along the U.S. West Coast. Therefore, 
the Committee provides no less than $2,300,000 for use of 
airborne assets to conduct increased winter storm observations 
to better observe and predict these extreme weather events.
    NOAA Community Project Funding.--The recommendation 
includes $23,980,000 for Community Projects as detailed in the 
table below. The Committee directs NOAA to provide the amounts 
listed in the table consistent with NOAA's existing 
authorities, jurisdictions, and procedures, as appropriate. 
NOAA shall further perform the same level of oversight and due 
diligence as with any other external partners.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Recipient                   Project              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alabama State Port Authority....  Physical                      $233,000
                                   Oceanographic Real-
                                   Time System
                                   (PORTS) Sensors,
                                   Port of Mobile.
Coastal Preservation Network....  Restoration &                 $263,000
                                   Stabilization of
                                   Two On-Water
                                   Platforms on
                                   Flushing Bay.
Columbia River Inter Tribal Fish  Upgrade and Expand            $760,000
 Commission.                       the Coastal Margin
                                   Observation and
                                   Prediction Program.
Florida International University  Aquarius Coral Reef         $1,135,000
                                   Observatory.
Florida International University  Greater Biscayne            $2,000,000
                                   Bay Harmful Algae
                                   Bloom Monitoring
                                   Program.
George Mason University.........  Virginia Climate            $1,979,000
                                   Center.
Greater Farallones Association..  Greater Farallones            $500,000
                                   National Marine
                                   Sanctuary Kelp
                                   Recovery.
Museum of Science, Inc..........  National Center for         $1,150,000
                                   Education and
                                   Conservation of
                                   Florida's Coral
                                   Reef.
NOAA's James J. Howard Marine     Social and                    $480,000
 Sciences Laboratory at Sandy      Ecological
 Hook.                             Resilience
                                   Projects for New
                                   Jersey Coasts and
                                   Oceans.
NOAA's Northeast Fisheries        Planning for the              $200,000
 Science Center.                   Future of Maine's
                                   Lobster Fishery
                                   and Right Whale
                                   Protections.
Northern Illinois University....  Understanding and             $660,000
                                   Mitigating Future
                                   Weather and
                                   Climate Risks to
                                   Agriculture.
Oceans Initiative...............  Targeted Acoustic             $322,000
                                   Startle Technology
                                   (TAST) at the
                                   Ballard Locks.
Oregon Department of Fish and     Whale Entanglement            $100,000
 Wildlife.                         Risk Reduction
                                   Research.
San Diego Unified Port District.  Habitat-Friendly            $1,000,000
                                   Shoreline
                                   Structures.
San Jose State University         Wildfire                    $1,150,000
 Research Foundation.              Interdisciplinary
                                   Research Center.
Texas State University..........  Texas State                 $2,000,000
                                   University Meadows
                                   Center Climate
                                   Change Impact on
                                   Water Initiative.
The Hawai'i Department of Land    Waikiki Marine Life           $415,000
 and Natural Resources, Division   Conservation
 of Aquatic Resources.             District Coral
                                   Restoration.
The Marine Mammal Center........  Emergency Marine              $500,000
                                   Mammal Field
                                   Response,
                                   Research, and
                                   Rehabilitation.
The Nature Conservancy Hawai'i..  Putting People to             $500,000
                                   Work Supporting
                                   Community-Based Co-
                                   Management of
                                   Coastal Resources
                                   in Hawai'i.
The Nurture Nature Center.......  CREATE Resilience             $140,000
                                   Research and
                                   Community Learning
                                   Hub.
The Regents of the University of  Mobile LiDAR System           $800,000
 California, Scripps Institute
 of Oceanography.
Town of Hempstead, New York.....  Marine Nature Study           $130,000
                                   Area.
University of Alaska Anchorage..  Engaging Diverse              $750,000
                                   Communities in
                                   Stewardship of
                                   Wild Salmon in
                                   Cook Inlet.
University of Hawai'i...........  Moku o Lo'e Marine            $200,000
                                   Laboratory Refuge
                                   Eco-Friendly Sea
                                   Wall Research.
University of Maine.............  Maine Climate                 $990,000
                                   Coordination
                                   Center.
University of Rhode Island......  University of Rhode         $1,000,000
                                   Island Integrated
                                   Plastics Research.
University of South Florida.....  Observing                   $2,000,000
                                   Infrastructure to
                                   Address Flooding
                                   Risks due to
                                   Climate Change at
                                   the Community
                                   Level.
University of Wisconsin-Madison,  Next Generation             $1,200,000
 Space Science and Engineering     Scanning High-
 Center.                           Resolution
                                   Interferometer
                                   Sounder (S-HIS)
                                   Aircraft
                                   Instrument.
Washington Department of Fish     Columbia River                $892,000
 and Wildlife.                     Pinniped Removal.
Waterfront Alliance, Inc........  Flushing Meadows              $531,000
                                   Corona Park: A Hub
                                   for Climate
                                   Resilience.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

               PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends a total program level of 
$1,998,000,000 for Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction 
(PAC), of which $1,985,000,000 is appropriated from the general 
fund and $13,000,000 is derived from recoveries of prior year 
obligations.
    The following narrative descriptions and tables identify 
the specific activities and funding levels included in this 
Act.

                PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
National Ocean Service:
    National Estuarine Research Reserve Construction....          $4,000
    Marine Sanctuaries Construction.....................           4,000
                                                         ---------------
      Total, NOS-PAC....................................           8,000
                                                         ===============
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research:
    Research Supercomputing/CCRI........................          53,500
                                                         ===============
National Weather Service:
    Observations........................................          24,000
    Central Processing..................................          68,000
    Dissemination.......................................           9,934
    Facilities Construction and Major Repairs...........          17,000
                                                         ---------------
      Total, NWS-PAC....................................         118,934
                                                         ===============
National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information
 Service:
    Common Ground Services..............................          73,633
    Geostationary Earth Orbit...........................         623,247
    Low Earth Orbit.....................................         512,730
    Space Weather.......................................         203,506
    Systems/Services Architecture and Engineering.......          68,500
    Satellite CDA Facility..............................           2,450
                                                         ---------------
      Total, NESDIS-PAC.................................       1,482,066
                                                         ===============
Mission Support:
    NOAA Construction...................................          43,000
                                                         ===============
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations:
    Fleet Capital Improvements and Technology Infusion..          95,500
    Vessel Recapitalization and Construction............          75,000
    Aircraft Recapitalization and Construction..........         120,000
                                                         ---------------
      Total, OMAO-PAC...................................         290,500
                                                         ===============
Total, Procurement, Acquisition and Construction........      $1,998,000
                                                         ===============
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Research Supercomputing.--The Committee recognizes the 
importance of supercomputing capacity to further research 
efforts regarding weather and climate modeling and therefore 
recommends $53,500,000 for OAR Research Supercomputing.
    Quarterly Satellite Reports.--The Committee directs the 
Department of Commerce to continue to provide oversight of 
NOAA's satellite programs as directed in fiscal year 2021. NOAA 
shall also continue to provide quarterly briefings to the 
Committee on all NOAA satellite programs not later than 30 days 
after the end of each quarter, consistent with prior years.
    America's Next Generation Weather Satellite System.--The 
Committee supports NOAA's next generation weather architecture 
plan, as developed through the NOAA Satellite Observing System 
Architecture (NSOSA) study and recognizes that many of that 
study's recommendations are included in the request. The 
recommendation directs NOAA to provide the Committee with a 
five-year budget plan that outlines how it intends to fully 
develop NSOSA. This plan shall be submitted to the Committee 
not later than 270 days after the enactment of this Act.
    Commercial Data.--The Committee provides $17,000,000 for 
the purchase and piloting of commercial weather data. Within 
these funds and consistent with direction from the Promoting 
Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the 
Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act, the Committee provides 
up to $5,000,000 for a Commercial Space Weather Data Pilot for 
NOAA to collaborate with commercial companies for the testing 
and analysis of space weather data.
    NOAA Construction.--There is significant concern that 
several NMFS laboratories will soon be unable to perform basic 
scientific functions, given the age of the infrastructure, 
state of disrepair, and changing physical environments in which 
they are located. The Committee therefore directs NOAA, not 
later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, to provide 
the Committee with a five-year budget framework to address 
regional facility modernization planning and redevelopment of 
priority labs in the Northwest, Northeast, and Southeast 
regions. NOAA is further encouraged to initiate the planning 
process, given the distressed state of these facilities, to 
help facilitate a competitive solicitation process for 
proposals from academic and nonprofit partners to co-locate 
NMFS laboratories, as a means of leveraging research efforts 
and enhancing scientific capabilities.
    Vessel Recapitalization and Capital Improvements.--The 
Committee reaffirms its support for NOAA's Fleet 
Recapitalization Plan by, as in prior fiscal years, providing 
the requested amount for Vessel Recapitalization. The Committee 
expects that NOAA will ensure that these new vessels facilitate 
the reduction of gaps in mission coverage as current ships fall 
into disrepair or are decommissioned. During the 
recapitalization process, NOAA is encouraged to evaluate its 
fleet plan regularly and consider cost-effective alternatives 
such as vessel leasing or chartering for meeting NOAA's mission 
requirements. The recommendation also includes $63,000,000 for 
the midlife maintenance of the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. The 
Committee directs NOAA, in all future budget submissions to 
Congress, to detail all operational and maintenance 
requirements in addition to capital requirements of vessels and 
aircraft to maintain the optimal operational tempo necessary to 
meet NOAA's missions.
    Hurricane Hunters.--The recommendation includes an increase 
of $100,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level for 
hurricane hunter aircraft. These funds shall be used to: (1) 
complete the outfitting with scientific equipment of the 
recently acquired Gulfstream 550; (2) perform the service depot 
level maintenance for the P-3 Orion hurricane hunter aircraft; 
and (3) exercise the contract option to acquire a second 
Gulfstream 550 to support hurricane surveillance and other 
missions.

                    Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery

    The Committee provides $65,000,000 for Pacific Coastal 
Salmon Recovery.

                      Fishermen's Contingency Fund

    The Committee recommends $349,000 for the Fishermen's 
Contingency Fund, which is the same as fiscal year 2020. This 
Fund is available to compensate U.S. commercial fishermen for 
damage or loss caused by obstructions related to oil and gas 
exploration, and is derived from fees collected by the 
Secretary of the Interior.

                   Fisheries Finance Program Account

    The Committee recommends language under this heading 
limiting obligations of direct loans to $24,000,000 for 
Individual Fishing Quota loans and $100,000,000 for traditional 
direct loans.

                        Departmental Management

    The Committee recommends $252,587,000 for Departmental 
Management (DM), $124,464,000 above fiscal year 2021 and 
$41,092,000 below the request. This amount includes funding for 
DM Salaries and Expenses, the Renovation and Modernization of 
the Herbert C. Hoover Building, the Department of Commerce 
Nonrecurring Expenses Fund, and the Office of Inspector 
General.
    PPE Filter Industrial Base Expansion Initiative.--The 
Committee recognizes that during the COVID-19 global pandemic, 
the Nation has experienced a severe gap in manufacturing and 
supply chain industrial base to produce and deliver Personal 
Protective Equipment (PPE) to our military, first responders, 
medical and industrial workers. The Committee supports efforts 
to bolster the domestic production, including the supply chain, 
of PPE. The Committee further notes the proposal to establish a 
new office within the Department to support and monitor 
domestic manufacturing capacity and supply chains of products 
that are necessary for the health, safety, and security of our 
Nation. As part of any efforts to support domestic 
manufacturing and supply chains, the Committee directs the 
Department to prioritize the production of PPE as among the 
most critical of such products as evidenced by the COVID-19 
pandemic.
    EOP Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation.--The 
Committee appreciates the engagement between the Administration 
and Congress to elevate manufacturing to the highest levels 
within the Executive Office of the President through the 
creation of an Office of Manufacturing and Industrial 
Innovation. Given the Department of Commerce's jurisdiction 
over existing manufacturing programs and initiatives, the 
Committee highlights the importance of robust participation and 
engagement with the Administration's efforts to reassert 
America's manufacturing legacy, especially in strategies to re-
shore critical manufacturing and further advanced 
manufacturing.
    Human Rights Violations.--The Committee is concerned with 
violence and threats shown towards human rights activists 
around the world, and notes some of this has occurred in 
nations with which the United States has trade agreements with 
enforceable protections. The Committee encourages the 
Department to more actively engage with trade partner nations, 
alongside the U.S. Trade Representative, to end these human 
rights violations and report to the Committee no later than 90 
days after enactment of this Act on enforcement actions it has 
taken to promote compliance with labor and environmental 
obligations.
    Data Collection in U.S. Territories.--Executive Order 
13985, ``Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved 
Communities Through the Federal Government'', directed Federal 
agencies to address existing gaps in access to Federal programs 
among historically underserved communities. The Committee 
directs the Department provide the Committee, no later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, an action plan 
for bringing all of the U.S. territories fully into the 
programs and surveys of data collection managed by agencies 
such as BEA and the Census Bureau on the same terms as States. 
The plan should include a specific timeline for each territory 
and cost estimates for implementation. The Committee recognizes 
the prior work done by the Department related to Puerto Rico in 
this area in compliance with recommendations from the 2016 
Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in 
Puerto Rico and expects the plan to include updates on any 
progress related to survey and data expansion for Puerto Rico 
as well as any revisions to cost assumptions previously 
reported to the Committee.
    Regional Biosecurity Plan.--The Department shall continue 
to submit a report alongside its annual budget justifications 
describing the activities of the Department during the prior 
fiscal year to implement the Regional Biosecurity Plan for 
Micronesia and Hawaii--a strategic plan developed jointly by 
the Department and other Federal and non-Federal entities to 
prevent and control the introduction of invasive species in the 
U.S. Pacific region. The report shall include an update of the 
Departmental activities accomplished in implementation of the 
plan and next steps and planned activities for further 
execution of the plan, including estimates of funding that will 
be obligated toward the implementation and future year 
requirements.
    Remanufactured Products and Reclaimed Materials.--The 
Committee notes that House Report 116-455 directed the 
Department to study strategies to strengthen regional and local 
remanufacturing markets, and urges the Department to provide 
the results of this study to the Committee no later than 60 
days after the enactment of this Act. The Committee further 
directs the Department, in conjunction with the National 
Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, to build 
on the information gathered within this report to study 
strategies to safely extract cobalt, copper, nickel, and other 
critical minerals from industrial and electronic waste streams, 
and make recommendations for developing regional or local 
markets to encourage domestic, responsible, and sustainable 
sources of reclaimed critical minerals.
    Solid Sodium Cyanide Briquettes.--The Committee is aware 
that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has an ongoing 
investigation, in coordination with the Environmental 
Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, 
regarding the national security, health, and safety 
implications of imports of solid sodium cyanide briquettes as 
described in the explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 
116-260. The Committee encourages the Secretary of Commerce to 
make Department resources available, upon request, to support 
this ongoing investigation.
    Economic Assessment of Reducing Carbon Emissions from 
Public Schools.--The Committee recognizes the importance of 
reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions and 
the new target for the United States to achieve a 50 percent 
reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas 
pollution by 2030. The Committee recognizes the Secretary of 
Commerce is one of many Departmental leaders on the National 
Climate Task Force established through Executive Order 14008, 
``Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad'', and in this 
role will coordinate, alongside the Secretaries of Labor and 
Energy, the development of a comprehensive plan to create jobs 
and stimulate clean energy industries. As part of these ongoing 
efforts, the Committee strongly encourages the Department of 
Commerce, in consultation with the Departments of Energy, 
Education, and Labor, to conduct a study assessing the economic 
impact on the domestic clean energy and energy efficiency 
sectors of making all public school facilities net zero-carbon 
emitting by 2030, including projected job growth, benefits to 
students, teachers, and schools, and recommendations for 
implementation. The Committee recommends the Department publish 
a report on its findings from this study on its publicly 
available website within 30 days following the conclusion of 
the study.
    Interstate Commerce.--The Committee remains concerned about 
the Electronic Export Information (EEI) requirements located in 
15 CFR Part 30, which mandate reporting for certain goods 
between the States and Puerto Rico. The Committee understands 
that the Department, in coordination with the Government of 
Puerto Rico, established a working group to explore alternative 
options, and that the Census Bureau is evaluating public 
comments received through a Federal Register Notice concerning 
the overall impact of the removal of EEI filing requirements 
for shipments between the United States and Puerto Rico and the 
U.S. Virgin Islands. The Committee reminds the Department that 
the 2016 Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth 
in Puerto Rico recommended the Department conduct a thorough 
evaluation of its regulations requiring EEI filings and assess 
alternative data sets that could be used without modification. 
The Committee looks forward to receiving the report directed in 
House Report 116-455 on the analysis of alternatives and 
timeline for implementation.
    Congressional Budget Justification Materials.--The 
Committee remains frustrated with the piecemeal rollout of 
congressional budget justification materials by the Department. 
These delays hamper the Committee's ability to review the 
Department's budget request holistically. The Committee directs 
the Department, in coordination with OMB, to ensure that all 
materials are provided in a timely manner following the release 
of the budget, and that the justification materials are 
submitted cohesively.
    Investigations and Threat Management Service Division.--The 
Committee remains concerned by a recent Washington Post 
investigation published in May 2021 that unearthed troubling 
evidence that the Investigations and Threat Management Service 
(ITMS) Division within the Office of Intelligence and Security 
had been engaging in poorly managed law enforcement functions 
that far exceeded the scope of the unit's legal authority, with 
little internal oversight. The Committee understands that the 
Department suspended ITMS investigative operations, and that 
any new investigations must be approved by the Office of 
General Counsel on a case-by-case basis. The Committee 
appreciates the Department's efforts to treat this matter 
seriously and directs the Department to brief the Committee on 
its findings when internal reviews have been completed.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $87,500,000 for DM Salaries and 
Expenses, $14,500,000 above fiscal year 2021 and $4,246,000 
below the request. The recommendation does not assume the 
adjustment to base for certain positions that are not currently 
funded. The recommendation includes the requested $5,783,000 
increase to support the Department's implementation of 
Executive Order 13873, ``Securing the Information and 
Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain'', 
alongside the investments provided to BIS and NTIA. The 
Committee understands the important role the Department will 
play in protecting Americans' sensitive personal data from 
collection and utilization by foreign adversaries through 
connected software applications. However, the Committee does 
not support providing this funding to the Office of 
Intelligence and Security, as requested, and instead recommends 
the funds be managed through the Office of the Secretary.
    The recommendation assumes the Department will assume 
funding for the Office of Native American Business Development 
in compliance with the Indian Community Economic Enhancement 
Act (Public Law 116-261).

                      RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION

    The Committee recommends $1,100,000 for the salaries and 
expenses needed to continue the operation of the renovation 
project of the Herbert C. Hoover Building.

                       NONRECURRING EXPENSES FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $126,900,000 for the Nonrecurring 
Expenses Fund that was established in the fiscal year 2020 
Consolidated Appropriations Act. The recommendation includes 
the requested new authorities for the Department to address 
upgrades to cybersecurity and provides $106,900,000 for these 
purposes. The Committee understands that this funding will 
enable the Department to employ a ``whole of Commerce'' 
approach to mature cybersecurity practices for protecting high 
value data and network infrastructures, acquiring tools to 
increase the identification of cybersecurity risks on an 
ongoing basis, prioritizing those risks based on potential 
impacts, and enabling cybersecurity personnel to mitigate the 
most significant problems first. The Department is directed to 
review whether these expenses are better positioned in the 
components and to ensure future budget justifications clearly 
highlight these investments. The Department is encouraged both 
to develop a clear process for the bureaus to advocate for 
their cybersecurity requirements and to brief the Committee on 
its implementation plans no later than 30 days after enactment 
of this Act. Should transfers be necessary, the Committee 
directs the Department to provide these notifications in one 
package so the Committee may evaluate the Department's 
requirements as a whole.
    The recommendation includes the $20,000,000 requested for 
the Department's efforts to modernize its financial systems 
through Business Application Solutions. The Committee 
understands that the Department is evaluating how it can 
standardize appropriations and periods of availability across 
the Department for more consistent planning, programming, 
budgeting, and execution. The Committee looks forward to 
receiving the Department's analysis as directed in House Report 
116-101.

                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

    The Committee recommends a total of $46,463,000 for the 
Office of Inspector General (OIG), which includes the requested 
transfers for oversight activities from USPTO, the Census 
Bureau, and NOAA PAC, and recommends a direct appropriation of 
$37,087,000. Additionally, $2,000,000 is derived from the 
Public Safety Trust Fund for oversight of FirstNet. The 
Committee expects the OIG to continue its oversight work on 
cybersecurity, satellite procurements, telework, patent 
quality, and the work of the Census Bureau.

               General Provisions--Department of Commerce


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends the following general provisions 
for the Department of Commerce:
    Section 101 makes funds available for advanced payments 
only upon certification of officials designated by the 
Secretary that such payments are considered to be in the public 
interest.
    Section 102 makes appropriations for the Department 
available for hire of passenger motor vehicles, for services, 
and for uniforms and allowances as authorized by law.
    Section 103 provides the authority to transfer funds 
between Department of Commerce appropriations accounts and 
require 15 days advance notification to the Committees on 
Appropriations for certain actions.
    Section 104 extends congressional notification requirements 
for NOAA satellite programs.
    Section 105 provides for reimbursement for services within 
Department of Commerce buildings.
    Section 106 clarifies that grant recipients under the 
Department of Commerce may continue to deter child pornography, 
copyright infringement, or any other unlawful activity over 
their networks.
    Section 107 provides the NOAA Administrator with the 
authority to avail NOAA of needed resources, with the consent 
of those supplying the resources, to carry out responsibilities 
of any statute administered by NOAA.
    Section 108 prohibits the National Technical Information 
Service from charging for certain activities.
    Section 109 authorizes NOAA to receive payments from other 
entities to defray some costs of permitting and regulatory 
activities.
    Section 110 provides authority for the programs of the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of the Census to 
enter into cooperative agreements in order to assist in 
improving statistical methodology and research.
    Section 111 removes the requirement for matching funds for 
amounts provided in this Act through the Manufacturing 
Extension Partnership.
    Section 112 allows the Secretary of Commerce to waive the 
cost sharing requirements for funds provided in this Act under 
sections 306, 306A, and 315 of the Coastal Zone Management Act 
of 1972.

                                TITLE II


                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE


                         General Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $148,264,000 for Department of 
Justice, General Administration, Salaries and Expenses, which 
is $29,264,000 above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level and 
$5,000,000 above the request. The funding will maintain current 
operations of the Department's leadership offices, and includes 
requested increases for infrastructure; record management; 
compliance with requirements of Public Law 116-435, the 
Evidence Act of 2018, for evidence-based policymaking; and 
improved personnel operations. It also provides funding to 
continue the work of the new National Task Force on Law 
Enforcement Oversight.
    The Committee has provided separate funding recommendations 
by decision unit as follows:

 
 
 
Department Leadership.................................       $18,418,000
Intergovernmental Relations/External Affairs..........       $11,887,000
Executive Support/Professional Responsibility.........       $17,463,000
Justice Management Division...........................       $95,496,000
National Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight......        $5,000,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total, Salaries and Expenses......................      $148,264,000
 

    Prosecutions Related to January 6, 2021 Attack on the U.S. 
Capitol, Violent Extremism and Domestic Terrorism--The 
Committee expects the Department to seek prosecution of all 
persons involved in the attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of 
an insurrectionary effort to interfere with Congress and the 
exercise of its Constitutional duties, to include tabulating 
the 2020 election results, and to threaten and inflict violence 
on Congress, its Members and public servants.
    The Committee has included funding increases under General 
Legal Activities, the United States Attorneys, and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to ensure all responsible for the 
attack on January 6, and those who would undermine our system 
of government by law through violence and criminal action, are 
investigated and prosecuted. Additional funding is also 
included under the United States Marshals Service (USMS) to 
increase capacity to meet and deter such violent actors.
    Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization 
Act of 2016.--The bill includes not less than $13,500,000 for 
the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, the Civil 
Rights Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 
Community Relations Service, and in grant assistance, as 
authorized by the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes 
Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-325), to 
investigate and prosecute previously unresolved civil rights 
era ``cold case'' murders suspected of having been racially 
motivated. The Department of Justice (DOJ) shall continue to 
include, as part of the annual spending plan required under 
section 505 of this Act, details on actual and projected 
spending, by agency and appropriation, to carry out the Emmett 
Till Act. The Committee directs the National Institute of 
Justice, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Office for 
Victims of Crime to continue providing grants for cold case DNA 
investigations to aid State and local law enforcement agencies 
in their investigation and prosecution of unsolved civil rights 
cold cases. In addition, the Attorney General is directed to 
make full use of his authority to support and carry out the 
objectives of Public Law 115-426, the Civil Rights Cold Case 
Records Collection Act of 2018. These resources and oversight 
provided will continue efforts to solve outstanding civil 
rights crimes, improve public engagement with the Department, 
and bring healing, truth, and peace to the affected families, 
friends, communities, and our entire Nation.
    Combating Hate Crimes.--The Committee applauds the Attorney 
General's March 30, 2021, Memorandum directing a 30-day review, 
and commitment to a whole-of-agency approach to addressing 
hate-based violence and incidents against the Asian American 
and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The Committee also urges 
the Department to ensure a community-based approach and 
engagement with the AAPI community in devising solutions and 
tools that serve the needs of the community. Activities should 
include expanding culturally competent and linguistically 
appropriate public education campaigns, and, in coordination 
with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the COVID-
19 Health Equity Task Force, recommending best practices to 
mitigate racially discriminatory language in describing the 
COVID-19 pandemic.
    National Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight.--The bill 
includes $5,000,000 to continue the efforts of the National 
Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight established pursuant to 
the direction in the Explanatory Statement accompanying the 
fiscal year 2021 Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 
Public Law 116-260. The Task Force shall support the Attorney 
General and coordinate the detection and referral of complaints 
regarding incidents of alleged law enforcement misconduct 
nationwide, in consultation with professional law enforcement 
associations, labor organizations, and community-based 
organizations. The Committee directs the Department to submit a 
report on progress made in this regard not later than 60 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
    Use of force database.--The Committee has included 
$5,000,000 under State and Local Justice Assistance for the 
continued development and operation of a database concerning 
substantiated instances of excessive use of force related to 
law enforcement matters and officer misconduct, as established 
under section 222 of the fiscal year 2021 Department of Justice 
Appropriations Act, Public Law 116-260. The Department is 
directed to improve and enhance progress in ensuring oversight 
and accountability in policing conduct by adopting and 
implementing the provisions set forth regarding the 
establishment of a National Police Misconduct Registry, to 
include content, requirements for submission of misconduct 
records, public access to such information, and certification 
requirements for hiring, pursuant to sections 201 and 202 of 
H.R. 1280, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, as 
passed by the House of Representatives on March 3, 2021.
    Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies.--The Committee 
strongly supports efforts to develop and implement consistent 
accreditation standards for Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement, and notes that consistent standards, informed by 
broadly-applicable model guidelines and best practices, can 
ensure community accountability and promote policing with a 
guardian mentality. The Committee looks forward to receiving 
the recommendations of the Attorney General as specified in the 
Explanatory Statement accompanying the fiscal year 2021 
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, Public Law 116-260, 
in consultation with law enforcement accreditation 
organizations nationwide, informed by analysis of existing 
accreditation standards and methodology, as well as by the May 
2015 recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st 
Century Policing.
    National Use-of-Force Data Collection (NUOFDC).--The 
Committee looks forward to receiving the report required by the 
Explanatory Statement accompanying the fiscal year 2021 
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, Public Law 116-260, 
on the status of consultations by the Attorney General and FBI 
Director with the heads of each Federal law enforcement agency 
in furtherance of universal participation in the NUOFDC. The 
Department is also reminded to submit not later than December 
21, 2021, the report required by the aforesaid Explanatory 
Statement identifying those agencies that are not participating 
in the collection, and in each case, their explanation for such 
nonparticipation. In addition, the Committee reminds the 
Department and the FBI of the requirements to brief the 
Committees on the current status of NUOFDC and participation 
therein, and to submit a report, not later than September 21, 
2021, as specified in the Explanatory Statement accompanying 
the fiscal year 2021 Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 
Public Law 116-260. That report is to include details on 
collecting NUOFDC data and an assessment of strategies to 
increase Federal, State, and local law enforcement agency 
participation.
    DOJ Law Enforcement Agencies' Use of Force Policies.--The 
Department is reminded to comply with direction in the 
Explanatory Statement accompanying the fiscal year 2021 
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, Public Law 116-260, 
to review the policies governing the use of deadly force and 
less-than-lethal force for all of its law enforcement 
components, including the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), to ensure 
they are current and comply with the Department's Deadly Force 
Policy and statutory requirements, and to maintain these 
policies on its public-facing website.
    Training for Law Enforcement Officers.--The Committee 
supports vigorous action to improve training for all Federal, 
State and local law enforcement officers, to cover racial 
profiling, implicit bias, de-escalation, and procedural 
justice; the use of force and the duty for officers to 
intervene when witnessing the use of excessive force against 
civilians, and establish standards for such training to be 
adopted nationwide. The Committee, therefore, directs the 
Attorney General to work with the Secretary of Homeland 
Security to continue efforts to implement such a program, 
including mandatory training for all Federal law enforcement 
officers, and to develop standards that can be applied in 
hiring and performance assessments. The standards should also 
be designed to serve as a standard for State and local 
governments to meet to be eligible for Federal grant funding, 
including for Byrne Justice Assistance Grants and Community 
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants. The Committee directs 
the Attorney General to undertake this effort based on 
requirements set forth in H.R. 1280 as passed by the House of 
Representatives on March 3, 2021.
    The Committee additionally reminds the Department to submit 
the report directed by the Explanatory Statement accompanying 
the fiscal year 2021 Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 
Public Law 116-260, on its implementation of evidence-based 
training programs on de-escalation, the use-of-force, and the 
protection of civil rights that are broadly applicable and 
scalable to all Federal law enforcement agencies, including but 
not limited to curriculum topics and the availability of 
training capacity and space. The Department is also reminded of 
the requirement to report not later than December 21, 2021 on 
consultations with each Federal law enforcement agency and 
provide a determination of whether each agency provides 
training consistent with the aforementioned programs.
    National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).--
The Committee continues direction, as specified in the 
Explanatory Statement accompanying the fiscal year 2021 
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, Public Law 116-260, 
including with regard to NICS notifications to State and local 
authorities, and publication of monthly data on the Justice 
Department website by State and prohibition category.
    Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) facility audits.--PREA 
facility audits are key to helping agencies move their sexual 
abuse prevention and response policies from written documents 
to everyday practices. Congress recently made changes to the 
audit process to ensure greater oversight of the audit process 
and improved audits. The Committee supports DOJ providing the 
necessary resources to carry out this work.
    Federal police and Federal Task Force Officer cameras and 
accountability.--The Committee strongly supports the adoption 
of rigorous and consistent standards for the use of body-worn, 
vehicle-borne, and other video and camera technology used to 
record Federal police interaction with civilians while engaged 
in law enforcement activity. The Committee supports the June 
2021 announcement that Federal law enforcement officers shall 
wear body-worn cameras when making arrests or in pre-planned 
operations, and the October 2020 announcement that DOJ will 
permit State, local, territorial, and Tribal task force 
officers to use bodyworn cameras on Federal Task forces around 
the Nation. To ensure such technology is used effectively and 
facilitates safety for both the public and the law enforcement 
officers, as well as to support transparency and 
accountability, the Committee directs the Attorney General to 
adopt the requirements set forth in H.R. 1280, the George Floyd 
Justice in Policing Act of 2021, Title III, Subtitle C, Part I, 
the Federal Police Camera and Accountability Act, as passed by 
the House of Representatives on March 3, 2021.
    DNA Sample Collection from Immigration Detainees.--The 
Committee reminds the Department to submit as soon as possible 
the report directed by the Explanatory Statement accompanying 
the fiscal year 2021 Appropriations Act on the FBI role in the 
collection, use, and retention of DNA samples collected on the 
basis of the final rule ``DNA Sample Collection from 
Immigration Detainees'' (March 9, 2020), and the impact of that 
policy on FBI DNA sample testing processing rates.
    Working capital fund and non-appropriated fund budget 
requests and spending plans.--The Committee directs DOJ to 
continue to include detailed breakouts of non-appropriated 
funding sources with its budget submissions and expenditure 
plans, as directed in the fiscal year 2021 Appropriations Act, 
and to continue quarterly reports on the collections, balances, 
and obligations of such funds.
    Facial Recognition Technology.--The Committee is concerned 
about reports that government agencies may have made improper 
use, for purposes of biometric identification, of a facial 
recognition technology (FRT) platform comprising billions of 
open-source photos, and is aware of serious concerns about the 
potential for FRT to be used in ways that may conflict with 
Constitutional and civil rights, and policy concerns. At the 
same time, the Committee understands that the Department has 
identified circumstances where FRT can serve important 
purposes, including as an investigative tool to identify 
individuals involved in terrorism, espionage, or other serious 
crimes that pose threats to national security and public 
safety; develop leads to locate fugitives; and help identify 
missing or trafficked children. The Committee directs the 
Department to develop ethical policies for the use of FRT that 
would enable such use subject to privacy protection and 
incorporating recommendations by the Government Accountability 
Office (GAO). Furthermore, DOJ grant funding should not be made 
available for FRT applications until such privacy and use 
policies have been established and incorporated into grant 
conditions administered by the Office of Justice Programs 
(OJP). The Committee directs the Department to report not later 
than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act on the 
status of establishing such policies.
    Gun violence.--The Committee supports committing resources 
to prevent gun violence, and to support evidence-based violence 
prevention and intervention programs, including to better 
understand and address the radicalization of young people 
through online and social media platforms.
    Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions.--The Committee is 
aware that in 2004, nineteen former senior OLC officials 
authored a document entitled ``Principles to Guide the Office 
of Legal Counsel,'' which included a principle that ``OLC 
should publicly disclose its written legal opinions in a timely 
manner, absent strong reasons for delay or nondisclosure.'' The 
signers noted that such disclosure ``. . . helps to ensure 
executive branch adherence to the rule of law [and] promotes 
confidence in the lawfulness of governmental action. . . [It] 
also adds an important voice to the development of 
constitutional meaning . . . and a particularly valuable 
perspective on legal issues regarding which the executive 
branch possesses relevant expertise. . . .'' The Committee 
agrees with this argument for transparency, and its alignment 
with the precedent for the public reporting of judicial 
decisions. While the Committee understands that some OLC advice 
should properly remain confidential, it also agrees with the 
views of the OLC signers noted above that OLC should ``consider 
the circumstances in which advice should be kept confidential, 
with a presumption in favor of publication.''
    The Committee therefore asks the Attorney General to direct 
OLC to publish on a publicly accessible website all legal 
opinions and related materials, except in those instances where 
the Attorney General determines that release would cause a 
specific identifiable harm to the national defense or foreign 
policy interests; information contained in the opinion relates 
to the appointment of a specific individual not confirmed to 
Federal office; or information contained in the opinion is 
specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than 
sections 552 and 552b of title 5, United States Code). For 
final OLC opinions for which the text is withheld in full or in 
substantial part, the Attorney General should provide Congress 
a written explanation detailing why the text was withheld.
    In addition, not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General should submit to 
the Committee a report that lists each OLC opinion currently in 
effect that has been: designated by the Attorney General or 
his/her designee as final; followed by government officials or 
contractors; relied on to formulate current legal guidance; or 
cited in another OLC opinion. For each such opinion, subject 
only to redactions provided for by law and the need to protect 
a specific interest outweighs public interest in disclosure, 
the report should indicate the title and date of issuance, the 
signer, and the recipient identified in the opinion. An update 
of this list should be submitted to the Committee with its 
future annual budget requests.
    Immigration Vetting.--The Committee recognizes the critical 
role of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) as it 
provides Congress with timely, fact-based, and non-partisan 
information, including on changes to our nation's immigration 
vetting system. The Committee directs the GAO to report to the 
Committees of jurisdiction not later than one year after the 
date of enactment of this Act regarding: (1) how, if at all, 
screening and vetting practices for applicants seeking refugee 
status in the United States as members of categories 
established by the Lautenberg and Specter Amendments (the 
Lautenberg Amendment) have changed over time; (2) what 
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of State 
data indicate about the numbers, characteristics, and outcomes 
of applications submitted under the Lautenberg Amendment; (3) 
what DHS and State Department data indicate about the status 
and timeframes of pending applications submitted under the 
Lautenberg Amendment; and (4) how Federal agencies coordinate 
with international and bilateral partners.
    Prison contracts.--The Committee directs that any DOJ 
agency that enters into a contract or agreement with, and 
provides funding to, a nongovernmental entity or state or local 
government entity for the purpose of incarcerating or detaining 
Federal prisoners or detainees in non-Federal prison, jail, 
correctional or detention facility, shall include as a material 
term in any contract, agreement, or renewal of a contract or 
agreement with any nongovernmental or governmental entity 
regarding the incarceration or detention of Federal prisoners 
or detainees in a non-Federal prison, jail, correctional, or 
detention facility that the Agency shall be deemed to have 
access to all information of the contractor entity related to: 
(1) the incarceration, detention, treatment or condition of 
Federal prisoners or detainees; (2) any costs or the 
expenditure of any funds related to the contract or agreement 
(with the exception of firm fixed-price contracts); and (3) any 
other information related to the performance of the contract or 
agreement. In addition, such contractor should be subject to 
disclosure pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552 and provide access to such 
information requested pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(3)(A).
    White Supremacist Infiltration in Law Enforcement.--The 
Committee remains deeply concerned with the urgent threat that 
White supremacist and extremist infiltration in law enforcement 
poses to our national security, noting the continued relevance 
of concerns raised in the 2006 FBI Intelligence Assessment, 
``White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement'' that was 
released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 
request. While the Committee notes the apparent lack of public 
information about this sensitive security vulnerability in 
intervening years, it recognizes that the FBI recently released 
a May 2021 report, ``Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data 
on Domestic Terrorism'', in compliance with congressional 
direction in the fiscal year 2020 National Defense 
Authorization Act, and in 2020 began to publish an Annual 
Report on Terrorism. While the Committee understands 
constraints on publishing sensitive information on active 
investigations or intelligence assessments, it supports greater 
transparency and public information on this issue, and also 
expects the Department and the FBI to share new and significant 
information related to such threats with the Committee on a 
regular and continuing basis, to include consideration of 
intelligence assessments on the relationship of racially 
motivated violent extremism, including supremacist violence, to 
law enforcement.
    Savanna's Act.--The Committee urges DOJ to swiftly 
implement all provisions of Savanna's Act (Public Law 116-206). 
The Committee understands the Department is taking steps to 
implement the Act and expects to receive the first required 
annual report by October 2021.
    SUPPORT Act Enforcement.--The Committee recognizes the need 
to combat abusive practices in the addiction treatment and 
recovery industries, specifically the payment of kickbacks for 
referrals to recovery homes, clinical treatment facilities, and 
laboratories. DOJ shall make every effort to fully enforce 
Section 8122 of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, 
including the investigation and prosecution of potential 
violations. The Committee understands that DOJ is limited in 
the information it can share about its investigations, but 
directs DOJ to report not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act on the status of its prosecutorial 
efforts to enforce the SUPPORT Act.
    Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS).--The Committee 
recommends that DOJ continue to research, test, and evaluate, 
as appropriate, the use of C-UAS in support of the United 
States Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, the Drug 
Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives, and the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation to prevent drug and weapons trafficking. The 
Committee supports continued coordination and collaboration 
between the Department and the Federal Aviation Administration 
with respect to testing and evaluation of such technology, in 
accordance with subsection (a) of 49 U.S.C. 44810.
    Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).--The ADA requires 
certain businesses to make accommodations for people with 
disabilities. Web content should be accessible to blind users, 
deaf users, and those who must navigate by voice, screen 
readers, or other assistive technologies. The Committee 
recognizes that a lack of uniform website accessibility 
standards, as required by the ADA, can cause confusion and 
disadvantage small businesses that provide essential services 
for our communities. The Committee expects DOJ in fiscal year 
2022 to clarify such standards pursuant to the ADA.
    McGirt v. Oklahoma.--The Committee notes that the Federal 
government has had to assume broader law enforcement and 
judicial responsibilities in Oklahoma as a result of the 2020 
McGirt Supreme Court ruling, for which the Department has never 
been resourced. The Committee supports the President's fiscal 
year 2022 request of $70,000,000 to implement public safety 
measures required to comply with the McGirt decision. 
Additionally, the Committee expects DOJ to closely monitor the 
McGirt-related enforcement programs and provide the Committee 
as soon as possible an estimate of long-term costs of 
sustaining those programs.
    Coroners.--As the nation's public health infrastructure 
recovers from the shocks of COVID, the Committee notes the 
difficult strain that coroners face as front-line health 
employees in ensuring accurate, efficient, and quick access to 
reliable information about the cause of death, and that their 
work informs the fairness of our criminal justice system.
    Federal obscenity prosecution.--The Committee supports the 
work of DOJ in investigating and prosecuting major producers 
and distributors of hardcore adult pornography that meets the 
Supreme Court test for obscenity. Such enforcement is necessary 
to protect the welfare of families and children as traffickers 
in illegal adult obscenity seek to extend their influence 
through advances in technology. The Committee directs DOJ to 
increase its efforts in enforcing Federal obscenity laws.
    Northern Triangle Transnational Criminal Organizations 
(TCOs).--The Committee is concerned by reports of engagement by 
TCOs in drug trafficking, dangerous human smuggling and 
trafficking, and the targeting of legitimate businesses along 
drug trafficking routes across the Northern Triangle countries, 
particularly in Guatemala. Destabilizing legitimate businesses 
increases dependence on TCOs for security and financial support 
and reduces the economic opportunity and safety that deter 
migration. In order to disrupt the ability of TCOs to smuggle 
illicit drugs and persons to the United States along these 
routes, the Committee encourages DOJ, DEA, OPDAT, and ICITAP in 
coordination with OCDETF and other Federal agencies, to provide 
technical assistance to increase the capacity of host country 
criminal justice partners in responding to and disrupting these 
activities.
    Data Analytics.--The proliferation of digital services has 
resulted in vast amounts of data being collected concerning 
virtually every aspect of life. While the field of data 
analytics has made tremendous strides in industry, these 
efforts have not translated well to law enforcement. As a 
result, the FBI now finds itself with overwhelming amounts of 
digital and multimedia data to process as part of conducting 
investigations, while also addressing requirements for data 
privacy and minimization. This can often lead to delays as 
large digital and multimedia data sets are dissected in an 
effort to find the right data. In order to advance law 
enforcement-specific data analytics, the Committee encourages 
the FBI, with the National Institute of Justice, to partner 
with universities on research focused on developing and 
advancing tools and technologies that will provide data 
solutions to quickly and accurately acquire and analyze digital 
and multimedia data sets, overcoming the obstacles that 
currently face law enforcement.

                 JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $113,024,000 for Justice 
Information Sharing Technology (JIST), which is $79,024,000 
above the fiscal year 2021 enacted level and equal to the 
request. The Department was one of nine Federal agencies 
targeted in the SolarWinds supply chain attack, and the 
Committee supports the JIST request of $78,786,000 to address 
immediate cybersecurity response needs and modernize 
cybersecurity capabilities. This includes Justice Security 
Operations Center modernization; endpoint detection and 
response and logging capability; upgraded cloud security; and 
centralized identity authentication. The Department is also 
expected to make use of recovered balances from prior year 
obligations or its discretionary transfer authority to meet any 
other emergent needs for information technology transformation 
and cybersecurity, subject to the reprogramming procedures 
included in this Act.

                Executive Office for Immigration Review


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $891,190,000 for the Executive 
Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), of which $4,000,000 is 
from immigration examination fees. The recommendation is 
$157,190,000 above fiscal year 2021 and equal to the request. 
The Committee recognizes that beginning in fiscal year 2008, 
EOIR has received, through transfer, $4,000,000 from 
immigration examination fees collected by the Department of 
Homeland Security (DHS). This fee is the primary funding source 
for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) within 
DHS. The Committee encourages EOIR to engage with its DHS 
counterparts regarding EOIR's requirements that need to be 
considered as part of any future USCIS fee rules and during its 
annual budget formulation process.
    The recommendation supports the level of funding requested 
to hire an additional 100 immigration judges and support 
personnel. The Committee emphasizes that the primary mission of 
the EOIR is to adjudicate immigration cases by fairly, 
expeditiously, and uniformly interpreting and administering the 
Nation's immigration laws, and it is critical that EOIR hires 
highly qualified, diverse immigration judges to ensure the 
adjudication process is impartial and consistent with due 
process. The Committee is aware that EOIR is evaluating its 
training program and directs EOIR to update the Committee on 
any changes to the program following its review. Further, the 
Committee directs consistency in its training for all current 
and new immigration judge hires. The Committee directs EOIR to 
continue to submit monthly reports on performance and 
immigration judge hiring, as directed in the fiscal year 2021 
Explanatory Statement, including additional information on the 
status of hiring support personnel.
    The recommendation also supports the $55,628,000 increase 
to support efficiencies to reduce the over 1.3 million case 
backlog, including increased funding to transcribe audio 
recordings for cases on appeal and scanning existing paper 
records into an electronic format. The Committee notes there 
are other efficiencies proposed, including surging existing 
contracts to support expeditious onboarding of new hires as 
well as funding toward more digital licenses for teleworking 
capabilities. The Committee expects EOIR to ensure its efforts 
to expeditiously onboard new hires will not sacrifice the 
integrity of its hiring practices. Further, the Committee 
expects these investments will be revised to make its systems 
available nationwide and more user-friendly and accessible for 
attorneys and unrepresented individuals, including non-English 
speakers. The Committee directs EOIR to provide a quarterly 
report on all expenditures during the fiscal year, including 
contract activities with details on each contract, including 
the purpose of the contract; the type, cost, and schedule 
commitments associated with the contract; the historical 
funding for the program the contract will support, if 
applicable; a schedule for planned obligations; and the 
statement of work associated with the contract.
    Additionally, the Committee looks forward to receiving 
EOIR's implementation plan for the Unified Immigration Portal, 
in coordination with DHS, as directed in the fiscal year 2021 
Explanatory Statement.
    The Committee acknowledges the progress EOIR has made in 
recent years to increase staffing in its efforts to reduce the 
current case backlog. However, the Committee notes EOIR has 
stated that even with the proposed program increases, the 
agency expects the pending caseload to continue to grow. The 
Committee is equally aware that EOIR's ability to reduce the 
pending caseload backlog is predicated on the receipt of Notice 
to Appear (NTA) documents issued by DHS in a given year being 
less than EOIR's completion capacity. While the Committee 
supports the investments requested, the Committee needs to 
better understand the return on its investments. Therefore, the 
Committee directs EOIR, within the resources provided, to 
develop a resource optimization strategy that shall include a 
workload staffing model to inform EOIR's annual requirements. 
The strategy should focus on including existing and optimal 
staffing levels, for both immigration judges and support 
personnel, as well as information technology modernization and 
physical infrastructure requirements, with the goal of reducing 
the case backlog. The Committee recommends this strategy be 
evaluated on an annual basis and used to inform EOIR's annual 
budget submission. The Committee directs the Department to 
brief the Committee, no later than 45 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, on its efforts to develop this strategy.
    Within the amounts provided, the recommendation provides 
$50,000,000 to fund non-personnel requirements, which include 
increasing courtroom space required to support additional 
staff. As part of the recommended resource optimization 
strategy, the Committee directs EOIR to ensure costs associated 
with courtroom buildouts are included in its plan. 
Additionally, courtroom buildout costs should be more closely 
aligned with the schedule to onboard additional immigration 
judges and support personnel. As part of its efforts, the 
Committee recommends EOIR continue its ongoing work with the 
General Services Administration but encourages EOIR to also 
collaborate with DHS to explore co-location opportunities for 
DHS and DOJ components with immigration-related 
responsibilities. The Committee makes these funds available for 
five fiscal years to ensure EOIR makes a concerted effort to 
obligate these funds as quickly and efficiently as possible.
    Legal Orientation Program (LOP).--For the Legal Orientation 
Program and related activities, the recommendation includes 
$28,500,000, of which $3,500,000 is for the Immigration Court 
Helpdesk (ICH) program. The LOP improves the efficiency of 
court proceedings, reduces court costs, and helps ensure 
fairness and due process. The Committee directs the Department 
to continue LOP without interruption, including all component 
parts, including the Legal Orientation Program for Custodians 
of Unaccompanied Children (LOPC) and the ICH. The recommended 
funding will allow for the expansion of LOP and ICH to provide 
services to additional individuals in immigration court 
proceedings. The Committee supports access to LOP and ICHs and 
looks forward to receiving EOIR's evaluation of expanding this 
program to all detention facilities and immigration courts as 
directed in House Report 116-101. The Committee reminds EOIR 
that funding for this program is mandated by law and any 
diversion from the funds' intended purpose or transfer of these 
funds outside of the fiscal year appropriated must be formally 
communicated and convincingly justified to the Committee.
    Immigration case quotas.--The Committee understands the 
importance of performance metrics, but remains concerned with 
the performance review standards that went into effect October 
1, 2018, which require immigration judges to complete a quota 
of 700 case completions per year to receive a satisfactory 
review. Although the Committee appreciates efforts to reduce 
the current backlog, tying an immigration judge's performance 
to case completion threatens due process and affects judicial 
independence. Section 217 of this Act prohibits EOIR's use of 
case completion quotas for immigration judge performance 
reviews.
    The Committee is aware that pursuant to Executive Order 
14012, ``Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and 
Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New 
Americans'', EOIR is reviewing existing regulations, orders, 
guidance documents, policies, and other similar agency actions, 
to include the case quotas policies put into effect in 2018. 
The Committee directs EOIR to keep the Committee updated on any 
changes to this and all policies following its review.
    Video teleconferencing.--The Committee recognizes the 
unique role hearings conducted via video teleconferencing (VTC) 
played in 2020 while the Nation faced the challenges of the 
COVID-19 global pandemic. The Committee also acknowledges the 
updated Policy Memorandum issued in November 2020 regarding 
``Immigration Court Hearings Conducted by Telephone and Video 
Teleconferencing''. The Committee expects that pursuant to 
Executive Order 14012, this policy is also under review, and 
directs EOIR to keep the Committee updated on any changes to 
the existing policy following its review. The Committee 
encourages EOIR to evaluate whether the current policy is 
equally applicable for children under the age of 18. The 
Committee urges EOIR to consider methods to permit respondents 
to elect for VTC hearings versus in-person hearings similar to 
VTC policies under the Social Security Administration. EOIR 
shall continue to follow the directives regarding real-time 
data collection and quarterly reporting described in the 
explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 116-93.
    Court Operations during COVID-19 Pandemic.--The Committee 
is aware of concerns that immigration judges issued in absentia 
deportation orders during the pandemic. According to the DOJ 
OIG's April 2021 Pandemic Response Report, ``Limited-Scope 
Review of the Executive Office for Immigration Review's 
Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic'' (21-063), 
EOIR was unable to determine whether this was the case because 
this information is not tracked in the official record, and 
because a respondent may not have informed the immigration 
court that the reason for a failure to appear was due to COVID-
19 illness or exposure. As recommended by the OIG, EOIR should 
ensure that immigration judges are responsive in a timely 
manner to requests for continuances by respondents who 
represent that they have recently experienced symptoms of, or 
have been exposed to, COVID-19 and should encourage immigration 
judges to fully consider continuance requests.
    Interpretation Services.--Within the funds provided, EOIR 
is directed to properly fund interpretation services, and 
continues direction for EOIR to ensure appropriate language 
access is available for all respondents, including indigenous 
language speakers. EOIR should inform the Committees of 
operational requirements needed to enable optimal 
interpretation services and should identify any possible 
opportunities for sharing of interpreter resources with other 
Federal agencies, including DHS. EOIR is further directed to 
continue to submit the quarterly reports required by the 
explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 116-93.
    Legal Representation Pilot.--The Committee provides 
$50,000,000 under State and Local Justice Assistance for 
competitive grants to qualified non-profit organizations for a 
pilot program to increase representation for children and 
families. The amount is $35,000,000 above the request.
    Alternatives to Detention (ATD) Program.--The Committee 
looks forward to receiving the briefing and analysis of 
alternatives directed in House Report 116-455 to improve the 
timeliness of resolving cases before EOIR for individuals in 
the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Alternatives 
to Detention (ATD) program.

                      Office of Inspector General

    The Committee recommends $127,184,000 for the Office of 
Inspector General (OIG), $16,619,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
enacted level and the same as the request. The recommendation 
includes $5,850,000 requested for critical information 
technology and secure facilities.

                    United States Parole Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $14,238,000 for the United States 
Parole Commission.

                            Legal Activities


            SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $1,077,673,000 for General Legal 
Activities. Within the total provided, the Committee includes 
$5,000,000 for the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights 
Division (CRT) to implement the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil 
Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act. The recommendation also 
includes an increase of not less than $10,000,000 within the 
Civil Rights Division for additional expenses relating to the 
enforcement of section 210401 of the Violent Crime Control and 
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12601), criminal 
enforcement under sections 241 and 242 of title 18, United 
States Code, and administrative enforcement by the Department, 
including compliance with consent decrees or judgments entered 
into under such section 210401. The Committee directs the 
Department to report on progress in these efforts not later 
than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act. The 
Committee also includes requested targeted increases, 
including: $14,900,000 for COVID-19 criminal fraud and civil 
litigation; $20,700,000 for investments in critical civil 
rights priorities to include voting rights, fair housing, and 
disability rights; $5,000,000 to enhance environmental justice 
enforcement; $2,600,000 for critical information technology for 
INTERPOL Washington; $10,900,000 to enhance the executive 
clemency function; and $6,000,000 for the Office for Access to 
Justice. An additional $2,500,000 is provided to the Criminal 
Division for enhanced intellectual property rights enforcement, 
and $1,000,000 more is provided to the Criminal Division to 
enforce the Global Magnitsky Act. Within funding provided, the 
Committee directs the Department to continue to reduce its 
Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty-related backlog and prioritize 
human trafficking investigations. It also encourages the 
Department to exercise its authority to investigate and 
prosecute past, present, and future criminal violations of the 
Hatch Act.
    The Committee has provided separate funding recommendations 
by office and decision unit as follows:

 
 
 
Office of the Solicitor General.......................       $14,087,000
Tax Division..........................................      $116,169,000
Criminal Division.....................................      $218,673,000
Civil Division........................................      $328,537,000
Environment and Natural Resources Division............      $133,738,000
Office of Legal Counsel...............................        $9,872,000
Civil Rights Division.................................      $193,181,000
Office for Access to Justice (A2J)....................        $6,000,000
INTERPOL..............................................       $40,993,000
Office of Pardon Attorney.............................       $16,423,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total, General Legal Activities...................    $1,077,673,000
 

    Voting Rights Enforcement.--The Committee is concerned that 
multiple factors including the effects of the Supreme Court's 
decision in Shelby County v. Holder; the increasing proposal 
and adoption of restrictive, discriminatory State and local 
voting policies following the 2020 Presidential Election; and 
the ongoing need to negotiate agreements that ensure compliance 
with Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) will require 
the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division (CRT) to 
undertake an increased caseload of resource-intensive 
litigation to meet its responsibility under the VRA to ensure 
equal access to elections regardless of race, ethnicity, and 
linguistic ability. The Committee includes the requested 
increase of $20,700,000 for civil rights priorities, and 
directs that a significant amount of this increase be applied 
to expenses relating to the enforcement of Sections 2, 4(e), 5, 
10, 11, 203, and 208 of the VRA (52 U.S.C. Sec. Sec.  10301-
10311; 10503-10505; 10508).
    Section 203 compliance.--The Committee appreciates 
receiving the Department's January 2020 report on 2018 and 2019 
investigations pursuant to Section 203 of the VRA, and 
reiterates the importance of enforcing the VRA language 
assistance provisions on behalf of the covered language 
minorities, and making data on such enforcement publicly 
available. The Committee directs DOJ to include in its fiscal 
year 2023 budget request an update of that report for fiscal 
years 2020 and 2021, to include the number of Section 203 cases 
investigated, broken down by language(s) involved; the number 
of investigations opened and number closed, by reason closed 
(e.g., not enough evidence of noncompliance available, no 
evidence of non-compliance, etc.); the average number of 
Section 203 investigations per attorney; and the average length 
of time per Section 203 investigation.
    Civil Rights Division Performance and Workload.--The 
committee notes that the CRT budget justification has 
historically lacked sufficient detail to track the program 
implementation for specific CRT sections. The Committee remains 
interested in understanding CRT section caseloads and 
performance metrics related to enforcement of anti-
discrimination laws such as, but not limited to, fair housing 
and voting rights enforcement, and directs the Department to 
include such detail in future budget requests.
    Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.--The Department of 
Justice's Civil Rights Division (CRT) plays a lead role in the 
Department's efforts to enforce laws against human trafficking, 
including both sex trafficking and forced labor. Working with 
U.S. Attorneys Offices nationwide, and leading the multi-agency 
Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, the CRT 
Criminal Section's Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit (HTPU) 
leads prosecutions of novel, complex, multi-jurisdictional, and 
international cases. HTPU prosecutors work closely with 
Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) and law enforcement 
agencies to streamline fast-moving trafficking investigations, 
ensure consistent application of trafficking statutes, and 
identify multijurisdictional trafficking networks. The 
Committee directs the Department to prioritize the goal of 
ending modern day slavery and human exploitation and urges the 
Department, within the additional funding provided in this 
bill, to expand the HTPU in order to sufficiently support the 
U.S. Attorney's Offices.
    Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.--The 
Committee includes an additional $1,000,000 to enhance efforts 
of the Criminal and Civil Divisions to assemble and vet the 
large number of case files of individuals and entities subject 
to sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656 note).
    Animal fighting.--Animal fighting is a crime that causes 
undue suffering to animals and is often connected with violent 
crime and drug trafficking. The Committee supports vigorous 
enforcement of the Federal animal fighting statutes (7 U.S.C. 
Sec.  2156 and 18 U.S.C. Sec.  49) and other laws related to 
animal welfare crime, which the Department in 2014 determined 
would be administered concurrently by both ENRD and U.S. 
Attorneys' Offices. The Committee is aware of expressions of 
interest in the establishment of a new section to focus on 
animal fighting crime enforcement. However, the Committee 
understands that the current ENRD organization, which leverages 
complementary jurisdictions and workforce resources of the 
Environmental Crimes Section (ECS) and Wildlife and Marine 
Resources Section (WMRS), has achieved notable success in 
recent years with impactful prosecutions. DOJ is strongly 
encouraged to make it a priority to investigate and prosecute 
violations of animal welfare laws, and to include in future 
budget requests any requirements for resources or organization 
changes needed to support this effort.
    Illegal Streaming Services.--Streaming has fast become a 
dominant distribution medium for copyrighted works, both 
through legally licensed means and illegal piracy services. In 
addition to the significant consumer threats posed by streaming 
piracy services identified by the Federal Trade Commission and 
Department of Homeland Security, a 2019 study estimated that 
streaming piracy drains at least $29.2 billion annually from 
the U.S. economy and that 80 percent of copyright piracy occurs 
via streaming. Congress responded to the Department's repeated 
calls to close the legal loophole that treated streaming piracy 
differently than other forms of digital piracy with the 
bipartisan Protecting Lawful Streaming Act, enacted within the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which authorized DOJ 
to bring felony cases against services designed for the express 
purpose of illegally streaming copyrighted works. Because of 
the harm to American consumers and creative community, the 
Committee directs the Department to prioritize streaming piracy 
cases and to detail within existing reports on copyright 
enforcement activities the actions it brings under 18 U.S.C. 
Sec. 2319C.
    Fair Housing Act Enforcement.--The Committee is aware that 
in 2016 the Civil Rights Division and the Office of Fair 
Housing and Equal Opportunity of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development issued a joint statement entitled ``State and 
Local Land Use Laws and Practices and the Application of the 
Fair Housing Act.'' The Committee directs CRT to conduct 
further analysis on this subject to determine when State and 
local zoning and land use policy violates Federal law.

                 VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION TRUST FUND

    The recommendation includes $21,738,000, as requested, as a 
reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund 
for the costs of litigating cases under the National Childhood 
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-660).

               SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION

    The Committee recommends $201,176,000 for salaries and 
expenses of the Antitrust Division (ATR), $16,652,000 above 
fiscal year 2021 and the same as the request. The recommended 
funding level is offset by $138,000,000 in estimated fee 
collections for a net direct appropriation of $63,176,000. The 
Committee recognizes the danger consolidation and monopoly 
power pose to our economy and democracy and supports the 
requested increases to address the increasing complexity of 
ATR's growing workload, including international and technology 
elements of that workload. The Committee therefore includes the 
increased funding requested, particularly for information 
technology to protect and manage sensitive business 
information.
    Commodity Benchmark Merger.--The Committee expects DOJ, as 
part of its review of the proposed merger of commodity 
information and benchmark administrators, to consider whether 
anticompetitive and deceptive conduct has been used in setting 
the Midwest Premium (MWP) for the pricing of aluminum. The 
Committee directs the Department to consider behavioral 
remedies, consistent with federal antitrust laws, to end 
anticompetitive and deceptive pricing of the MWP. The 
Department shall also consider, as part of such a remedy, 
whether to mandate that only actual ``closed'' market 
transactions be used in assessing the price of the MWP, rather 
than to base such pricing on bids and offers that have not been 
consummated.

             SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS

    The Committee recommends $2,534,248,000 for the Executive 
Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) and the 94 United 
States Attorneys' offices, which is $192,071,000 above fiscal 
year 2021 and $5,000,000 below the request. The Committee has 
provided separate funding recommendations by decision unit as 
follows: $1,912,792,000 for criminal litigation; $592,139,000 
for civil litigation; and $29,317,000 for legal education.
    The recommendation fully funds increases needed to sustain 
operations at the fiscal year 2021 level. It also provides 
requested increases of $26,380,000 to address fraud related to 
the COVID-19 pandemic; $40,000,000 to support significant 
workload increases associated with domestic terrorism cases; 
and $33,000,000 to fund the costs of meeting Federal 
responsibilities mandated pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court's 
2020 McGirt v. Oklahoma decision. It also includes $5,000,000 
to support the EOUSA eLitigation initiative. Finally, the 
Committee provides $10,000,000 for continued enforcement of 
section 210401 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 
Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12601), criminal enforcement under 
sections 241 and 242 of title 18, United States Code, and 
administrative enforcement by the Department, including 
compliance with consent decrees or judgments entered into under 
such section 210401.
    Human trafficking.--The recommendation continues bill 
language requiring that each U.S. Attorney Office (USAO) 
participate in human trafficking task forces, and DOJ shall 
continue to submit semiannual reports on the performance of 
these task forces. USAOs work closely with Federal, state, and 
local law enforcement authorities to investigate and prosecute 
sex trafficking cases. Each USAO takes a victim-centered 
approach to human trafficking, partnering with non-governmental 
organizations to ensure that trafficking victims receive the 
trauma recovery and outreach services they need, while 
prosecuting traffickers to the fullest extent authorized by 
Congress.

                   UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $246,593,000 for the United States 
Trustee Program (USTP), which is $14,232,000 above the fiscal 
year 2021 appropriation and equal to the request. The Committee 
has included the requested increase of $7,915,000 to ensure the 
Trustees can meet growing bankruptcy filing workload following 
the COVID-19 pandemic.

      SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION

    The Committee recommends $2,434,000 for the Foreign Claims 
Settlement Commission (FCSC), which is $68,000 above the fiscal 
year 2021 appropriation and equal to the request.
    DOJ Review of Confiscated Properties in Honduras.--The 
Committee is aware that several U.S. citizens have longstanding 
claims against Honduras that remain unresolved. The Committee 
further notes that significant assistance to the central 
governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras has been 
conditioned on various factors including measurable efforts to 
combat corruption. Yet to date, little or no progress has been 
made in resolving claims involving real property confiscated 
from Americans. Accordingly, the Committee directs the Attorney 
General to provide to the appropriate congressional committees, 
not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
a report with recommendations on how best to resolve the 
aforementioned longstanding claims of U.S. citizens against 
Honduras, including an assessment as to whether a program for 
Honduras should be created within the FCSC in order to resolve 
these claims.

                     FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES

    The Committee recommends $270,000,000, which is the same 
amount as fiscal year 2021, for fees and expenses of witnesses 
who appear on behalf of the Government in cases in which the 
United States is a party. This appropriation is considered 
mandatory for scorekeeping purposes.

           SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $22,000,000 for the Community 
Relations Service (CRS), which is $4,000,000 above fiscal year 
2021 and $1,961,000 above the request. The recommendation 
includes not less than $1,500,000, as authorized, to implement 
Public Law 114-325, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights 
Crimes Reauthorization Act. The recommendation also includes an 
additional $3,300,000 for expanded conflict resolution efforts, 
to include mediation and conciliation services for communities 
experiencing tensions, as authorized in section 116(2) of H.R. 
1280, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, as 
passed by the House of Representatives on March 3, 2021.
    CRS has a unique role to play in the Justice Department. 
While not a law enforcement agency, CRS operates in all U.S. 
States and territories to advance justice and reconciliation by 
working with all parties, including State and local government 
units, private and public organizations, civil rights groups, 
and community leaders, to uncover the underlying interests of 
all involved in conflicts and engaging in healing and conflict 
resolution. It facilitates the development of mutual 
understanding in communities challenged by tension and helps 
them develop local capacity and tools to defuse tension and 
prevent hate crimes from reoccurring. It also complements DOJ 
law enforcement activities, particularly when those activities 
involve members of vulnerable and marginalized communities. The 
Committee expects these efforts to expand, and CRS's services 
to be offered in more communities, in Fiscal Year 2022.

                         ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND

    The Committee recommends $20,514,000 for expenses 
authorized by subparagraphs (B), (F), and (G) of section 
524(c)(1) of title 28, United States Code. This amount is the 
same as the fiscal year 2021 amount and the budget request.
    Section 528 of this Act requires the Department to submit a 
spending plan for fiscal year 2022. The Committee directs the 
Department to include in this plan proposed spending from the 
Fund, to include estimates of: Fund balances; equitable sharing 
payments; Joint Law Enforcement Operations obligations; and 
obligations by component.

                     United States Marshals Service


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $1,625,000,000 for the salaries 
and expenses of the United States Marshals Service (USMS), 
which is $129,000,000 above fiscal year 2021 and $15,550,000 
below the request. The recommendation includes requested 
increases to enhance missing child investigations pursuant to 
the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act; upgrade USMS 
fugitive apprehension communications technology; equip task 
force officers with bodyworn cameras; assume expanded workload 
mandated by the McGirt v. Oklahoma Supreme Court decision; and 
meet growing costs to return international fugitives to stand 
trial in the United States. The Committee also includes 
$23,432,000 to enhance judicial security, and $6,689,000 to 
expand USMS special operations capacity to address domestic 
terrorism and violent crime. The Committee also sustains 
funding to enforce laws relating to international travel of sex 
offenders, including through the Angel Watch Center.
    The Committee has provided separate funding recommendations 
by decision unit as follows:

 
 
 
Judicial and Courthouse Security......................      $561,723,000
Fugitive Apprehension.................................      $643,783,000
Prisoner Security and Transportation..................      $276,297,000
Protection of Witnesses...............................       $66,019,000
Tactical Operations...................................       $77,178,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total, Salaries and Expenses......................    $1,625,000,000
 

                              CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee recommends $15,000,000, which is the same 
amount as fiscal year 2021 and the request, for construction 
and related expenses in space controlled, occupied, or used by 
USMS for prisoner holding and related support. The Committee 
expects USMS to apply this funding to its top priority 
projects.

                       FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION

    The Committee recommends $2,165,000,000 for Federal 
Prisoner Detention, which is $118,391,000 above the fiscal year 
2021 appropriation and $5,015,000 below the request. The 
funding includes the requested funding to facilitate transition 
from commercial contract detention facilities to facilities 
owned and operated by Federal, State, or local government, with 
associated program oversight, and $7,178,000 in funding for IT 
infrastructure.
    Contract Detention.--The USMS does not own or operate any 
of its own facilities and has historically heavily relied on 
contract facility operators to maintain the necessary 
flexibility to manage fluctuating populations in an efficient 
and cost-effective way that best supports the courts as well as 
those in custody awaiting court action. However, Executive 
Order 14006 eliminates USMS ability to continue or enter into 
new contract facility operations. The Committee is concerned 
with the impact of this EO on the USMS. Within ninety days of 
enactment, the Department shall publish a report and brief the 
Committee on the impact of E.O. 14006 on the USMS, to include 
the effects on custody and transportation logistics, budgets 
and finances.

                       National Security Division


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $123,093,000 for the National 
Security Division (NSD), which is $5,642,000 above fiscal year 
2021 and equal to the request. This amount will sustain NSD 
operations at no less than the fiscal year 2021 level to 
address its national security and counterterrorism workload, 
including its responsibilities under the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act (FISA) and the Foreign Agents Registration Act 
(FARA). The Committee has included the requested increase for 
enhanced intelligence collection and oversight to support NSD's 
FISA mission, combat terrorism and respond to cyber attacks. 
The Committee encourages NSD to enhance its efforts in foreign 
investment review, counterintelligence and export control, and 
victim support, as well as intelligence collection, oversight, 
insider threat prevention, and activities to counter and 
prevent domestic terrorism.

                      Interagency Law Enforcement


                 INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT

    The Committee recommends $550,458,000 for Interagency Crime 
and Drug Enforcement, which is equal to both the fiscal year 
2021 enacted level and the request. Funds included under this 
heading will support interagency Organized Crime Drug 
Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), which target high-level drug 
trafficking organizations through coordinated, multi-
jurisdictional investigations. This funding level will sustain 
operations at no less than the fiscal year 2021 level.
    Decision unit subtotals.--The recommendation includes the 
requested funding of $381,513,000 for investigations and 
$168,945,000 for prosecutions. The Committee expects OCDETF to 
continue to enhance its investigative, intelligence, and 
prosecutorial efforts through OCDETF-led activities, including 
the OCDETF Fusion Center, OCDETF Co-located Strike Forces and 
the International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations 
Center, and direct collaboration with State and local law 
enforcement, United States Attorneys' offices and the Criminal 
Division. The Committee expects OCDETF to continue to focus on 
targeting opioid trafficking organizations.
    Full-Time Equivalents (FTE).--The Committee directs the 
Department to submit an updated report on historical 
investigative and prosecutorial FTE levels for OCDETF 
concurrent with its fiscal year 2023 budget request as 
specified in the fiscal year 2021 Appropriations Act.
    Transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) in the 
Caribbean.--The Committee is deeply concerned with the threats 
posed by TCOs operating in the Caribbean, particularly in and 
around Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Committee 
is especially concerned with the pervasively high homicide 
rates in the two U.S. territories and that such crime is linked 
to illegal narcotics trafficking in the region. The Committee 
recognizes the importance of the Caribbean Corridor Strike 
Force, the OCDETF Co-located Strike Force in Puerto Rico, to 
tackle these threats, and expects OCDETF to continue efforts to 
identify, disrupt, and dismantle drug trafficking and money 
laundering organizations in the Caribbean. OCDETF is directed 
to submit a report to the Committee detailing these efforts 
within 90 days of the date of enactment of this Act.

                    Federal Bureau of Investigation


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $10,219,858,000 for the salaries 
and expenses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 
which is $471,172,000 above fiscal year 2021 and $6,000,000 
above the request. The recommendation includes funding to 
sustain all programs carried out in fiscal year 2021, to 
include not less than $125,000,000 to boost the capacity and 
speed of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System 
(NICS), and continues $5,000,000 in funding as authorized to 
implement the Emmett Till Civil Rights Act. It also includes an 
increase of $5,000,000 for the Corruption/Civil Rights Section 
for additional expenses relating to the enforcement of section 
210401 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 
1994 (34 U.S.C. 12601), criminal enforcement under sections 241 
and 242 of title 18, United States Code, and administrative 
enforcement by the Department, including compliance with 
consent decrees or judgments entered into under such section 
210401. The recommendation includes requested increases of 
$45,000,000 to counter domestic terrorism; $40,000,000 to 
address significant new cyberthreats, particularly from foreign 
actors, and $15,230,000 for FBI cybersecurity; $18,792,000 for 
emergent counterintelligence requirements; $25,500,000 to 
enable the FBI to meet new workload as a result of the McGirt 
v. Oklahoma Supreme Court decision; and $6,208,000 to support 
the use of body-worn cameras by State and local law enforcement 
participating in FBI task forces. The Committee also encourages 
the FBI to sustain its efforts to investigate fraud, white-
collar, and hate crimes, and build on its successes in human 
trafficking investigations. In a post-COVID-19 environment, it 
is essential that the FBI allocate its resources, agents and 
staff based on the unique threats and workload of each field 
office to meet the highest FBI priorities.
    The Committee has provided separate funding recommendations 
by decision unit as follows:

 
 
 
Intelligence..........................................    $1,900,553,000
Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence..................    $4,145,057,000
Criminal Enterprise and Federal Crimes................    $3,549,658,000
Criminal Justice Services.............................      $624,590,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total, Salaries and Expenses......................   $10,219,858,000
 

    Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA).--The Committee is 
concerned that incomplete reporting of hate crime data to the 
FBI hinders critically needed efforts to understand, prevent, 
and mitigate the harms of hate crime. The Committee urges the 
FBI to conduct outreach and provide technical assistance to law 
enforcement agencies that have not consistently reported hate 
crimes data, with particular attention to small agencies with 
the fewest resources for administrative management and data 
analysis. In addition, the Committee continues to urge State, 
local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to include the cost 
of participation in the FBI's HCSA program for the purposes of 
calculating extraordinary expenses associated with the 
investigation and prosecution of hate crimes under Public Law 
111-84, section 4704(b)(3).
    Counterterrorism Division.--The mission of the 
Counterterrorism Division is to identify and disrupt potential 
terrorist plots by individuals or terror cells freezing 
terrorist finances, sharing information with law enforcement 
and intelligence partners worldwide, and providing strategic 
and operational threat analysis to the wider intelligence 
community. The Committee supports sustained funding for all 
Division efforts and includes the requested increase of 
$45,000,000 to address the elevated threat of domestic 
terrorism.
    FISA Compliance.--The Committee directs the FBI, within 
increased funding provided in this bill, to bolster and enhance 
FISA compliance, audit, and training programs across the FBI 
and its field divisions. Improving FISA compliance and training 
is critical to the oversight of the authority.
    Cybersecurity.--The Committee is gravely concerned with the 
significant threat posed by cyberattacks on government 
agencies, economic institutions, and essential infrastructure. 
The potential damage from such threats, with recent examples 
including the SolarWinds supply chain attack, leads the 
Committee to strongly support increased investment and to 
recommend including the $40,000,000 increase to address such 
cyberthreats as well as $15,230,000 to bolster the FBI's own 
cybersecurity. The Committee directs the FBI to provide a 
briefing on the details of its cyber investments, including 
potential information-sharing collaboration with vulnerable 
communities such as the energy and academic research sectors, 
not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
    Cybersecurity Information Sharing.--The Committee is 
concerned with the security of our nation's sensitive networks 
and encourages the establishment and enhancement of two-way 
information sharing between cleared sector partners and the 
U.S. Government. In order to strengthen the security of 
critical network sectors, the Committee encourages the FBI as 
part of its cybersecurity enhancements included in this bill, 
to consider how it might leverage partnerships between the FBI 
(such as through its Innovation Center), academia and private 
industry through its Office of Private Sector improve 
information sharing for the energy and electricity sector and 
the academic research institution sector.
    Cyber Programs.--The Committee strongly supports the Cyber 
Assistant Legal Attache (ALAT) program, which facilitates 
intelligence sharing and helps coordinate joint law enforcement 
investigations, in the U.S. and working at key overseas 
missions. Eliminating safe havens for cyber criminals is a key 
priority, and international cooperation is essential to holding 
bad actors accountable. The Committee therefore encourages the 
FBI to consider increasing funding for the Cyber ALAT program.
    Cyber Threat Response.--The Committee strongly supports the 
Bureau's activities in furtherance of its role as the lead 
agency for threat response pursuant to Presidential Policy 
Directive 41. The Committee encourages the FBI to consider 
increasing funding for the National Cyber Investigative Joint 
Task Force as part of its essential mission and support 
information sharing for cyber threat investigations.
    Resources to Address Domestic White Supremacist Terrorist 
Activity.--The recent surge of domestic terrorism cases poses 
difficult challenges to the security of our nation. The 
Committee is aware that the FBI, jointly with the National 
Counterterrorism Center and Department of Homeland Security, 
released in May 2021 its report titled, ``Strategic 
Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism.'' It is 
also cognizant of the multifaceted approach to domestic 
terrorism exercised by the FBI and its Federal, State and local 
partners, through the FBI's own Counterterrorism Division, 
through its many Joint Terrorism Task Forces, and with partner 
agencies across the national security and law enforcement 
communities. The Committee has included the requested increase 
of $45,000,000 to expand FBI programs to counter domestic 
terrorism, and requests the FBI to include with its fiscal year 
2022 expenditure plan details on the scale and prevalence of 
domestic terrorism threats, based on the terminology used by 
the FBI, and a breakout of resources to pursue such threats, to 
include costs of personnel, operations, facilities and 
services.
    Elder fraud.--The Committee is concerned about the sharp 
rise in fraud perpetrated against senior citizens who are 
wrongly brought under guardianship or have their assets 
mismanaged or stolen. The Committee is aware that the FBI 
participates in the Elder Fraud and Elder Justice Initiatives 
and has Elder Fraud Strike Forces at six of its field offices. 
It is also aware that the Department has a National Elder Fraud 
Hotline, and that the FBI has complementary channels to report 
elder fraud perpetrated by foreign actors, in addition to the 
FBI tiplines and the Internet Crime Complaint Center. The 
Committee directs the FBI to put increased energy into efforts 
to prevent or investigate such guardianship abuse, including 
enforcement of Public Law 115-70, the Elder Abuse Prevention 
and Prosecution Act of 2017 (EAPPA), and provide detailed 
reporting on the FBI's progress in reducing such fraud, to 
include data on cases closed and convictions made, as part of 
the annual EAPPA report to Congress, and to request any 
necessary funding and staffing for such efforts in its fiscal 
year 2023 budget request.
    Disability Questions in Use of Force Data.--The National 
Use of Force Data Collection program is a vital tool used by 
the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in its efforts to 
combat the excessive use of force by law enforcement against 
the civilian population. Willing Federal and local police 
organizations respond to a questionnaire issued by the FBI, the 
answers to which help identify those law enforcement 
organizations that would benefit from remedial intervention. 
The Committee is concerned about the lack of a mental health 
crisis intervention program question, and a deaf and hard of 
hearing sensitivity awareness training question, which would 
collect the necessary data that could be used to combat the 
excessive use of force against people with disabilities. 
Without the data that addresses whether a police organization 
already has a mental health crisis intervention program in 
place, or whether a police organization provides deaf and hard 
of hearing sensitivity training for its officers, the excessive 
use of force used by a police organization that could have 
benefitted from such programs might continue undeterred. The 
Committee strongly encourages the FBI to include these two 
questions in the questionnaire used in its National Use of 
Force Data Collection program. In addition, the Committee 
strongly encourages the FBI to release this data to the public 
as with the other data released to the public through this 
program.
    Counter Explosives Research.--The Committee supports the 
critical counter explosive mission of the Critical Incidence 
Response Group, and is aware that the FBI is completing work 
this year on its Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center. 
It is also aware that traditional Improvised Explosive Devices 
(IED) or Homemade Explosive Devices (HED) include not just 
ground based possibly airborne explosive threats, such as via 
unmanned aerial vehicles. Therefore, the Committee encourages 
the FBI, as it pursues its counter-explosives mission, to 
consider expanding its ongoing research through its Research 
and Prototyping for IED Defeat (RAPID) program to bridge 
science and technology gaps needed to defeat both ground and 
airborne security threats and mitigate emerging IED/HED threats 
while also providing for improved training programs for 
counterterrorism and hazardous device personnel.
    Ranking Domestic Terrorism Threats.--The Committee expects 
the FBI to align its efforts in proportion to its threat 
assessments. In 2020, the FBI assessed the greatest terrorism 
threat to the United States was from lone actors or small cells 
who typically radicalize online and look to attack soft targets 
with easily accessible weapons, and in testimony before the 
Committee expressed confidence that this assessment remains 
accurate. Furthermore, the FBI noted such threats manifested as 
both Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) and Homegrown Violent 
Extremists (HVEs), two distinct threats, both of which are 
located primarily in the United States and typically radicalize 
and mobilize to violence on their own. The FBI has further 
noted that the DVE threat continues to be from those the FBI 
categorizes as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent 
Extremists (RMVEs), specifically those who advocate for the 
superiority of the white race, and who were the primary source 
of fatalities perpetrated by DVEs in 2018 and 2019.
    The Committee understands that the FBI is working to comply 
with the provisions of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense 
Authorization Act to provide documents that include threat 
category descriptions and terrorist threat rankings, consistent 
with requirements to protect sources, methods and ongoing 
investigations, and are developed as part of the Bureau's 
Threat Review and Prioritization (TRP). The Committee directs 
the FBI to provide the Committee such documents as part of the 
normal budget review process, as well as when requested or as 
new threat scenarios develop, to ensure this Committee has the 
necessary insight into the alignment of threats and resource 
allocation. The Committee supports the FBI's ongoing practice 
of conducting annual training to ensure compliance with civil 
rights and civil liberties laws and regulations, and urges FBI 
to consult with civil society stakeholders to improve public 
confidence in its threat prioritization.
    National Instant Background Check System (NICS).--Federal 
Firearms Licensees rely on NICS to be effective to ensure the 
lawful transfer of firearms to law-abiding citizens. To keep up 
with the growing number of background checks, the growing 
number of gun owners (an estimated 8,400,000 first time buyers 
in 2020), and to help ensure that firearms stay out of the 
wrong hands, additional resources are needed to provide timely 
and accurate determinations of an individual's eligibility to 
purchase or own a firearm under federal law. NICS verifies that 
a prospective purchaser does not have a criminal record or 
isn't otherwise ineligible to purchase or own a firearm. 
Providing NICS with the necessary resources will help to: 
ensure that NICS remains operational benefiting the lawful 
commerce of firearms throughout the U.S.; prevent further 
application backlogs; and protect lives in Alabama and 
throughout the nation by helping to keep firearms out of the 
wrong hands. The Committee therefore directs the FBI to provide 
NICS with no less than $125,000,000.
    Operational Medicine Program Partnership.--The health and 
safety of the Bureau's active duty agents should be a top 
priority for the FBI, given the routine risk of physical harm 
agents face daily carrying out critical national security 
missions. The Committee continues to strongly support the FBI's 
use of external partnerships as part of its Operational 
Medicine Program to support medical contingency planning and 
improve the delivery of medical care for high-risk law 
enforcement missions.

                              CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee recommends $61,895,000, which is the same as 
the request, for the construction of FBI facilities and related 
activities. Funding in this account will facilitate and 
expedite work on current design and construction projects, 
including necessary secure work environment building and 
modifications, and includes the requested increase of 
$10,000,000 for necessary safety and security upgrades at 
Quantico.
    The Committee remains greatly concerned about the risks and 
continuing costs associated with operating in the current, 
unsatisfactory headquarters, and urges the Department to answer 
longstanding concerns that have been raised by the Committee, 
and to submit a formal prospectus to be reviewed and approved 
by the appropriate committees of Congress.

                    Drug Enforcement Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends total budget authority of 
$2,920,181,000 for Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 
salaries and expenses, of which $511,659,000 is derived from 
fees deposited in the Diversion Control Fund, and 
$2,408,522,000 is provided by direct appropriation. The 
recommended appropriation is $123,419,000 above fiscal year 
2021 and equal to the request.
    The funding sustains core activities at the fiscal year 
2021 level, and includes the requested increase of $4,700,000 
to ensure DEA can equip its task force officers with body-worn 
cameras, and to cover the increased workload resulting from the 
McGirt v. Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling. In addition, the 
Committee includes $3,745,000 and an associated 25 new 
positions to support DEA's expanded community drug prevention 
partnerships, Operation Engage. The Committee has provided 
separate funding recommendations by decision unit for salaries 
and expenses as follows:

 
 
 
International Enforcement.............................      $470,111,000
Domestic Enforcement..................................    $1,925,862,000
State and Local Assistance............................       $12,549,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total, Salaries and Expenses......................    $2,408,522,000
 

    Methamphetamine and fentanyl cleanup.--The funding 
recommendation includes the requested $10,000,000 to assist 
State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies in efforts to 
remove and dispose of hazardous materials at methamphetamine 
and fentanyl labs and processing operations, to include 
training, technical assistance, purchase of equipment and a 
container program.
    Marijuana Research and E-cigarette or Vaping use-Associated 
Lung Injury (EVALI).--The Committee is aware that DEA recently 
published a rule (effective January 19, 2021) in 2020 DEA that 
amended regulations to facilitate the cultivation of marijuana 
for research purposes and other licit purposes to enhance 
compliance with the Controlled Substances Act, including 
registering cultivators consistent with treaty obligations. The 
Committee also understand that since the issuance of this new 
rule, DEA has registered additional growers, and supports DEA 
continuing efforts in support of such scientific research, and 
allowing Federal researchers to test marijuana products to 
characterize toxicological risks and health effects associated 
with EVALI products and the administration of those products in 
research subjects.
    Ryan Haight Act.--The Committee continues to place a 
priority on reducing the crisis of prescription drug abuse and 
recognizes that some controlled substances, such as those 
employed in medication-assisted treatment, can be a critical 
part of treatment and should be available as clinically 
appropriate. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the DEA has acted to 
avoid disruptions in this necessary care by allowing providers 
to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine regardless 
of the location of the patient. Prior to the pandemic, Congress 
directed DEA to expand access with similar flexibility. The 
Committee continues to urge the agency to review its policies 
to ensure access to safe, appropriate care post-pandemic. 
Accordingly, the Committee requests that DEA complete its 
statutory requirement, pursuant to Section 3232 of Public Law 
115-271, to promulgate regulations clarifying the limited 
circumstances in which Special Registration for Telemedicine 
may occur under the Ryan Haight Act.

          Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $1,554,461,000 for the salaries 
and expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives (ATF), which is $70,574,000 above fiscal year 2021 
and equal to the request. Bill language is included to prohibit 
the transfer of ATF's current enforcement authorities. A 
general provision is also included to prohibit the move of 
ATF's National Canine Training Center or the ATF National 
Canine Division.
    The recommendation assumes that within the resources 
provided, ATF will prioritize funding for the National Firearms 
Act Division to improve firearms licensing processing 
timelines. The Committee is concerned about the large number of 
pending applications awaiting processing by ATF. As of May 
2021, more than 90 percent of these applications are ATF Form 
4, Tax Paid Transfer and Registration of Firearm, which remains 
in paper form, and current processing times take several 
months. In 2013, ATF established eForms, an electronic filing 
process, to reduce submission and processing times as well as 
data entry processing backlogs. The Committee is aware ATF is 
currently developing ATF Form 4 into eForms and encourages ATF 
to prioritize funding for this continued development within the 
funds provided. Completing the modernization of the processing 
system and automating ATF Form 4 applications is critical and 
will free up additional resources for improved customer service 
and prevent backlogs from continuing to mount.
    The Committee understands that it may be beneficial to 
ensure third-party processors can access ATF's eForm electronic 
filing system as third-party assistance to transferees may 
serve to reduce submission errors and increase efficiency. The 
Committee looks forward to receiving the study directed in 
House Report 116-455 regarding the feasibility of allowing 
third-party processors access to ATF's eForm electronic filing 
system to further the goals of shortening processing times, 
reducing submission errors, and increasing efficiency. The 
Committee directs ATF to utilize its findings in order to work 
to enable meaningful third-party access, while safeguarding 
individual privacy and tax-sensitive information, at the time 
ATF commences electronic submission of Form 4 filings or as 
soon as practicable thereafter.
    National Integrated Ballistic Information Network 
(NIBIN).--The Committee supports the $5,336,000 increase toward 
expanding the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network 
(NIBIN) correlation capacity at the NIBIN National Correlation 
and Training Center (NNCTC), enhancing the NIBIN Enforcement 
Support System (NESS), and increasing field support for ATF 
Field Divisions and Federal law enforcement partners. The 
Committee is encouraged by the promise of improved crime gun 
intelligence and information sharing, and expects funding 
provided in this bill will aid in interdicting crime guns and 
preventing gun trafficking through the expansion of NIBIN.
    The Committee continues to support efforts to expand the 
use of NIBIN and to ensure all law enforcement agencies have 
access to NIBIN's correlation services and appreciates the 
investments being made by state and local partners to collect 
and share ballistics evidence across geographically separated 
law enforcement jurisdictions, and encourages ATF to continue 
to build on these investments. The Committee supports efforts 
to include both cartridge casings and bullets, where feasible, 
in the NIBIN program and encourages the Department to promote 
NIBIN as a critical forensic science tool and to identify 
opportunities to build partnerships with institutions of higher 
education to use NIBIN as part of their criminal justice 
training programs.
    The Committee is aware of efforts by ATF to increase NIBIN 
presence on the Southwest border, including an increase to 
Crime Gun Intelligence Centers allotted to Southwest border 
field offices and an upcoming deployment of ATF's Mobile 
Command Center to the region. The Committee supports and 
encourages ATF to continue these efforts. Further, the 
Committee is aware that the ATF's Firearms Trafficking Task 
Forces are working to combat the illegal flow of firearms into 
Mexico and encourages ATF, within the amounts provided, to 
continue its work with intergovernmental partners, including 
DHS, toward these efforts and encourages colocation with law 
enforcement partners where feasible.
    Federal Firearm Licensee Theft.--The Committee supports the 
request for additional Industry Operations Investigators (IOIs) 
to support the prioritization and investigation of Federal 
Firearm Licensee (FFL) burglaries and robberies. The Committee 
recognizes that ATF has explored utilizing ATF's National 
Center for Explosives Training and Research (NCETR) to conduct 
training for incoming IOI classes in light of capacity 
challenges at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center 
(FLETC), due in large part to the pandemic. The Committee 
encourages ATF to continue to work with FLETC to ensure ATF is 
able to onboard and train the maximum number of IOIs in the 
fiscal year and directs ATF to update the Committee, no later 
than 60 days after enactment of this Act, on its efforts to 
achieve its hiring goals.
    Firearms Trafficking Report.--On April 7, 2021, the 
Administration announced ``Initial Actions to Address the Gun 
Violence Public Health Epidemic'', which included a directive 
for the Department to issue a new, comprehensive report on 
firearms trafficking and annual updates necessary to give 
policymakers the information they need to help address firearms 
trafficking today. The Committee directs ATF to update the 
Committee on any resource requirements to support the annual 
delivery of this report.
    Privately Made Firearms.--The Committee is concerned about 
the emergence of privately made firearms (PMFs) or ``ghost 
guns''--firearms made from parts without serial numbers or 
background checks--as a weapon of choice for violent criminals 
or those who would normally be prohibited from purchasing a 
firearm. These weapons pose an equal threat to both the public 
and law enforcement. The Committee notes that pursuant to a 
Presidential directive, ATF recently issued a Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking redefining the meaning of ``frame or 
receiver'' and requiring PMFs to be marked when taken into 
inventory by FFLs. The proposed rule also contains data on the 
rate that Federal and state law enforcement agencies encounter 
PMFs. ATF has also revised its guidance to law enforcement 
agencies on how to report PMF crime gun recoveries to improve 
data collection.
    The Committee encourages DOJ, through ATF, to create a 
searchable database of privately made firearms reported by law 
enforcement to ATF, to develop better methods to track the 
recovery of such firearms used in crimes, and to assist State 
and local law enforcement in recording data related to the 
recovery of such crime guns. DOJ and ATF should assess how 
persons prohibited from possessing firearms, including minors 
and gun traffickers, are gaining access to such firearms, and 
report their findings to the Committee with recommendations to 
address such access not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
    Violent Gun Crime Reduction.--On June 22, 2021, the DOJ 
announced its plans to launch five cross-jurisdictional 
firearms trafficking strike forces to help reduce violent crime 
by addressing illegal gun trafficking in significant firearms 
trafficking corridors across the country as part of the 
Department's broader Violent Crime Reduction Initiative, 
announced on May 26, 2021, which supports local communities in 
preventing, investigating, and prosecuting gun violence and 
other violent crime. This effort, coupled with two new, 
proposed pilot grant programs totaling $50,000,000 under State 
and Local Justice Assistance that are aimed at incentivizing 
State, local, and tribal law enforcement to pursue voluntary 
gun buyback or relinquishment programs as well as red flag 
laws, are important investments in fighting the systemic growth 
in gun related violence and crimes across our country.

                         Federal Prison System


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $7,865,000,000 for salaries and 
expenses of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which is $156,625,000 
above fiscal year 2021 and $194,607,000 above the request. The 
Committee recommendation includes the requested funding of not 
less than $409,483,000 to sustain implementation of Public Law 
115-391, the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA), to continue to 
expand and develop opportunities for incarcerated individuals 
to participate in evidence-based, recidivism-reducing 
programming and productive activities. The recommendation 
sustains BOP operations at no less than fiscal year 2021 level 
of operations, and provides an additional amount of 
$194,607,000 for BOP to sustain and increase hiring efforts to 
reduce the use of staff augmentation and understaffing at high-
security institutions.
    The Committee has provided separate funding recommendations 
by decision unit as follows:

 
 
 
Inmate Care and Programs..............................    $2,989,673,000
Institution Security and Administration...............     3,652,035,000
Management and Administration.........................       334,239,000
Contract Confinement..................................       889,053,000
                                                       -----------------
    Total, Salaries and Expenses......................     7,865,000,000
 

    Augmentation, Reassignment and Staffing.--Overcrowding 
remains a serious threat to correctional officer safety, 
particularly at medium- and high-security facilities. To meet 
staffing needs, BOP routinely relies on the practice of 
augmentation or reassignment, whereby a non-custody 
correctional employee is assigned custody responsibilities, 
rather than limiting such practice to rare or exceptional 
circumstances. The Committee has provided $194,607,000 above 
the request to enable BOP to hire more full-time correctional 
officers until such augmentation or reassignment is no longer 
needed, as well as to improve staffing beyond mission-critical 
levels in custody and all other departments. The Committee 
expects BOP to increase staffing, as directed in the 
explanatory statement accompanying the fiscal year 2021 
Appropriations Act, and to eliminate staffing shortfalls that 
the Committee understands have grown and in cases led to 
significant overtime costs. In filling staff vacancies, the 
Committee expects BOP to ensure that comparable institutions, 
including those with changing missions, should have comparable 
staffing levels. BOP shall continue to follow directions in 
Public Law 116-260, the fiscal year 2021 Appropriations Act, on 
(1) reporting on its use of augmentation and reduction of such 
use; (2) reporting on its inmate-to-correctional officer ratio 
and progress in ensuring each high-security institution housing 
unit has at least two correctional officers on duty for each 
shift; and (3) reducing vacancy rates.
    BOP Retention Bonuses.--The Committee recognizes that 
agencies have the authority to approve a retention incentive 
without Office of Personnel Management (OPM) approval for 
payments of up to 10 percent for a group or category of 
employees. OPM approval is required when an agency would like 
to exceed these limits, based on critical agency need. Under an 
OPM retention incentive waiver, an agency could approve a 
retention incentive of up to 50 percent of basic pay. The 
Committee encourages BOP to work with OPM to provide retention 
incentives for groups and categories of employees at BOP 
facilities in which 10 percent or more of the total available 
positions are vacant, prioritizing facilities with the largest 
number of vacancies, and to include funding for such incentives 
in future budget requests.
    Direct hire authority.--The Committee is aware that BOP has 
requested the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) to 
delegate direct hire authority to BOP facilities. To ensure the 
safety of staff and inmates, the Committee once again 
encourages BOP to continue to work with OPM to provide direct 
hire authority for BOP facilities in which ten percent or more 
of the total available positions are vacant, prioritizing 
facilities with the largest number of vacancies.
    First Step Act (FSA) Productive Activity.--BOP is directed 
to utilize qualified incarcerated inmates to instruct or tutor 
FSA Evidence-Based Recidivism Reduction Programs, per existing 
BOP policy, as a First Step Act Productive Activity.
    Animal-assisted Therapy Classes for Incarcerated Women.--
The Committee is concerned that with 70 percent of incarcerated 
women in the United States responsible for a minor child, 
disruption to the mother-child bond when mothers are 
incarcerated places both populations at high risk for mental 
health problems and intergenerational incarceration. The 
Committee is also concerned that incarcerated women 
traditionally and persistently lack access to rehabilitation 
and reintegration support. However, the Committee is encouraged 
by the success of innovative parenting programs that 
incorporate animal-assisted therapy to help incarcerated 
mothers process trauma-based feelings, reduce anxiety, 
depression, and stress, while increasing parenting knowledge, 
and provide a supportive environment for their children during 
reunification efforts in a custodial setting. The Committee 
encourages DOJ to support animal-assisted therapy parenting 
programs, as part of existing BOP parenting classes.
    Medically Assisted Treatment.--The Committee encourages the 
Bureau of Prisons to make abstinence-based relapse prevention 
treatment options available to inmates with a history of opioid 
dependence.
    Contraband interdiction.--The Committee continues to urge 
BOP to explore ways to reduce the amount of contraband that 
enters its facilities without restricting inmate rights to 
receive postal mail or interfere with delivery of verifiable 
legal mail, to include enabling facilities to receive pre-
screened postal mail and packages, to eliminate contraband risk 
while ensuring continuing, prompt delivery of communications 
with loved ones and legal counsel. Such solutions should 
optimize security while minimizing any additional cost or 
infrastructure for mail processing. The Committee notes the 
recent incidents of BOP staff being endangered by toxic 
chemicals from mailed drug contraband. It is specifically 
expected that mail screening will occur in specialized 
locations so as to streamline mail inspection and maximize the 
safety those screening the mail, with suitable protective 
clothing and equipment.
    Contraband cellphones.--The Committee remains concerned 
about the rising use of contraband cellular phones and devices 
in facilities administered by BOP or under contract with them, 
and continues its direction to BOP to act on the 
recommendations of its fiscal year 2016 report to Congress, to 
include, as appropriate, managed access or other technology, to 
thwart illegal inmate telecommunications while not interfering 
with legitimate spectrum use.
    Land Mobile Radio.--The Committee considers Land Mobile 
Radio (LMR) communications and video security equipment used by 
BOP to be critical to officer and inmate safety and security. 
In an environment where other alternative forms of 
communication and security measures cannot be employed, LMR and 
video security continue to be the only safe and secure methods 
for BOP facilities and personnel. Therefore, the Committee 
urges BOP, within funding provided, to invest in necessary 
radio and video security upgrades.
    Employee firearms.--The Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati 
Correctional Officer Self-Protection Act of 2018 (Section 202 
of the First Step Act (Public Law 115-391)) requires that each 
Federal penal or correctional institution provide a secure 
storage area located outside of the secure perimeter of the 
institution for employees to store firearms or allow employees 
to store firearms in a vehicle lockbox. The Committee directs 
the BOP Director to continue to report to the Committee on 
progress in implementing the Act, as specified in House Report 
116-455.
    COVID-19 Practices.--The Committee supports efforts to 
ensure that Federal detainees are held in humane conditions, 
especially those that are detained in federally operated 
facilities. The Committee is concerned with reports coming out 
of the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, NY. The 
Committee understands that the spread of the coronavirus was 
difficult to manage in congregate correctional settings; 
however, the rate of infection and the repeated spikes in cases 
at the MDC exceeded those at other facilities, including the 
nearby MCC New York. Therefore, the Committee directs DOJ to 
report to the Committee not later than October 2022 on 
protocols followed by MDC Brooklyn and MCC New York to reduce 
the spread of COVID-19 and the protocols in place to provide 
medical care to detainees. Furthermore, the report should 
assess whether inadequate care under the public health 
emergency constituted a violation of the Federal right, as 
defined in section 3626, under Subchapter C of chapter 229 of 
Part II of title 18, United States Code, or criminal violations 
under 18 U.S.C. 242 with respect to the chronic conditions that 
have impacted detainees. Such report shall include (to the 
extent BOP recorded such information):
    a. the number of cells, holding areas, or other communal 
detainee settings that receive filtered air through HEPA 
filters;
    b. a detailed explanation of lockdowns, including 
justifications provided by prison staff during each such 
lockdown;
    d. accommodations provided by prison staff to ensure that 
all medical, dietary, and hygienic needs were met;
    e. documentation of how frequently detainees were given new 
masks throughout the pandemic;
    f. documentation of the provision of PPE to staff, 
including which staff received N 95 masks, and how often;
    g. documentation of the provision of sanitizing wipes and 
spray to the detainees' housing units;
    h. documentation of informational materials on vaccination 
being provided to detainees prior to BOP offering them COVID-19 
vaccinations;
    i. documentation of BOP's efforts to offer the vaccine to 
every person in BOP custody, in accordance with recent 
Executive Orders; and
    j. information regarding how notification to family members 
was made in cases of COVID-19-related hospitalization or death.
    Federal Inmate COVID-19 Transfer.--The Committee expects 
both BOP and USMS to test convicts and inmates for COVID-19 and 
wait for a negative test result before executing transfers 
between BOP facilities. The Committee understands that 
following a DOJ Office of Inspector General (OIG) 
recommendation, the USMS adopted a policy requiring its 
facilities to conduct testing of USMS prisoners for COVID-19 in 
accordance with Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance, to 
the maximum extent possible, prior to any transfer to other 
detention facilities or to BOP custody for the duration of the 
pandemic. The Committee also understands that BOP, as a matter 
of policy, does not transfer COVID-19 positive inmates and 
follows CDC guidance for handling such inmates. The Committee 
directs BOP and USMS to submit a report not later than 90 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act describing each 
instance where this policy was not followed, including reasons 
for waiving the policy, the date of the transfer, number of 
inmates transferred, and the facilities transferring and 
receiving the inmates. The report should also describe 
protocols in place to limit COVID-19 infections related to 
newly convicted COVID-19 positive inmates entering BOP 
facilities, including asymptomatic inmates, and recommendations 
on improving intake and transfer protocols to better prevent 
infection.
    BOP COVID-19 Testing.--The Committee directs the Bureau of 
Prisons to attempt to provide onsite COVID-19 testing to all 
employees who request it within 24 hours of such request. Where 
such testing is requested but not possible, BOP should report 
to the Committee not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act on the details of such instances, to 
include dates, facilities, and number of employees affected.
    Vaccination in Prison.--The risk of acquiring a 
communicable disease is significantly higher among the 
imprisoned population compared with the broader community. The 
CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) 
recommends universal vaccination for hepatitis B and several 
other immunizations in high-risk settings such as correctional 
facilities. Those in correctional facilities often have several 
risk factors for communicable diseases like hepatitis B, such 
as injection drug use, multiple sex partners, and tattoos or 
body piercings. The prevalence rate of current or previous 
hepatitis B infection among incarcerated individuals ranges 
from 13 percent to 47 percent, and the prevalence of chronic 
hepatitis B infection is estimated to be two to six times 
higher than the general population. Research has shown that 
prisons need a great deal of support to effectively respond to 
and manage an infectious disease outbreak. BOP policy requires 
that Federally-managed and contract prison observation steps 
include an assessment of inmate immunizations and the provision 
of basic medical care, including preventive health services 
such as immunizations. However, an August 2016 report by the 
DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that contract 
prisons, in particular, were out of compliance with this 
policy. The Committee recognizes that administering 
vaccinations may be complicated by the movement of prisoners 
between facilities and jurisdictions, sometimes before a 
vaccination series can be completed. Nonetheless, the Committee 
expects the Department to strive to improve vaccination rates 
as much as possible. The Committee therefore directs the 
Attorney General to report to the Committee not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this Act on efforts to 
improve compliance with the policy to assess inmate populations 
and administer necessary vaccinations. The report should 
identify gaps in services and barriers to the provision of 
immunization services as well as recommend steps, such as 
potential collaboration with health organizations, to address 
the issues raised in the OIG report.
    Private Sector Partnerships.--The Committee notes that 
Section 102 of the First Step Act (Public Law 115-391) directs 
the Attorney General to develop policies for the warden of each 
BOP institution to enter into partnerships with private 
entities that employ prisoners or assist prisoners in 
prerelease custody or supervised release in finding employment. 
The Committee recognizes the barriers to entering the labor 
market for formerly incarcerated individuals and the role 
stable employment plays in reducing recidivism. The Committee 
directs the BOP to build formal partnerships with private 
sector businesses and local BOP facilities to promote the 
development of job pipelines for individuals leaving 
incarceration.
    Voting rights.--Several jurisdictions authorize BOP to 
provide voting access and education in Federal prisons. The 
Committee directs the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to 
prioritize enabling all eligible persons in BOP custody to 
access the ballot and ensure that all those in custody have the 
information and resources needed to exercise their fundamental 
right to vote.
    Overtime.--The committee recognizes that the Federal Bureau 
of Prisons (BOP) has employees that either work or are mandated 
to work overtime but are not being paid at a true overtime 
rate. The Committee directs BOP to compensate all employees at 
full overtime rate, by giving them the same rights and 
protection as other employees and removing all references of an 
employee being FLSA exempt or non-exempt.
    Improving Methods for Reducing Recidivism.--The Committee 
encourages DOJ to explore programs that reduce offender 
recidivism and end repeated cycles of violence and abuse by 
teaching skills for reducing stress, processing past trauma, 
and providing practical knowledge of how to cope with negative 
emotions. The Committee further encourages the DOJ to explore 
rehabilitation methods such as mindfulness and meditation that 
encourage incarcerated individuals to live to each one's 
highest potential and contribute to society.
    Residential Re-entry Centers.--The Committee directs BOP to 
accelerate efforts to establish Federal residential re-entry 
centers (RRC), also known as halfway houses, in United States 
District Court districts that currently lack such facilities, 
especially prioritizing regions where no FRRC is within 
reasonable and accessible distance. The Committee directs BOP 
to report no later than 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act on the status of its efforts, impediments to progress, 
and any resourcing needs.
    Educational Programs.--The Committee supports the U.S. 
Department of Justice's coordination and collaboration with 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities to provide 
educational programs for recently released and soon to be 
released criminal offenders to assist them in obtaining skills 
that will help them successfully transition back into their 
communities and reduce recidivism rates.

                        BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

    The Committee recommends $185,000,000 for the construction, 
acquisition, modernization, maintenance, and repair of prison 
and detention facilities housing Federal inmates. This amount 
is $58,000,000 above fiscal year 2021, and $6,006,000 above the 
request. The Committee urges BOP to utilize its existing 
resources to mitigate the high crowding rates at its high 
security facilities that are contributing to increases in the 
number of serious assaults, and to move forward with ongoing 
facilities planning and new construction that supports that 
objective.
    Modernization and repair.--The Committee expects the Bureau 
to apply the funding to reduce its longstanding maintenance and 
repair (M&R) backlog and directs BOP to prioritize its funding 
for repairs that address life and safety issues, and facilities 
assessed as having deficiencies of a geological and seismic 
nature. BOP shall continue to provide monthly status of 
construction reports and notify the Committee of any changes 
reflected in those reports. The Committee also directs BOP to 
develop a schedule and timeline for repairs of facilities with 
geological and seismic deficiencies and include updates in the 
monthly M&R reports.
    Perimeter.--The Committee is aware of the growing concerns 
of dangerous contraband within the prison system including 
cellphones, drug paraphernalia, and weapons and the ability to 
deliver these items via drone or merely launching these objects 
over the physical barriers (walls) of the prison. Currently, 
perimeter security is primarily maintained through physical 
barriers, with a network of cameras that give security 
personnel views of the physical area surrounding the facility. 
The Committee is aware that BOP has been investigating counter-
Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS), and encourages it to continue 
to intensify its efforts at identifying proven technology, 
based on the appropriate and relevant environmental conditions 
at its facilities, and to continue to keep the Committee 
advised of its progress in such efforts.

   LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, 
                              INCORPORATED

    The Committee recommends a limitation on administrative 
expenses of $2,700,000 for Federal Prison Industries, 
Incorporated, which is the same as fiscal year 2021.

                   State and Local Justice Activities

    Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).--The Crime Victims Fund 
is not financed by taxpayer dollars but by fines and penalties 
paid by criminals. By statute, the Fund is dedicated solely to 
supporting victim services. The Committee recognizes the 
importance of these grants and the essential life-saving 
services provided to victims within State, local, and tribal 
jurisdictions, including domestic violence shelters, rape 
crisis centers, and child abuse treatment programs. The 
Committee encourages the Department to continue to fund these 
programs. The Committee directs OVC to provide an updated 
report to the Committee, not later than 90 days after the 
enactment of this Act, on the actions it is taking to ensure 
Crime Victims Fund resources are reaching communities most 
affected by violence.
    The Committee notes that funding from the Crime Victims 
Fund, under 34 U.S.C. 20103, may be used by the Department to 
fund the salaries of personnel who provide services to victims 
of crime, to the extent that such personnel provide such 
services. The Committee encourages the Department to offer such 
support.
    The recommendation includes a 5 percent set-aside for 
Tribal Victims Assistance within the Crime Victims Fund. The 
Office for Victims of Crime is directed to consult closely with 
Tribal stakeholders to improve services for Tribal victims of 
crime, to include expanded purpose areas described in the OVC 
final rule effective August 8, 2016. OVC shall continue to 
follow direction required by House Report 116-455 regarding 
grant application requirements, accountability, and assistance. 
The Department is directed to give Tribes maximum flexibility 
in use of funds in order to best meet the unique needs of 
victims in Tribal communities. The Department is also directed 
to streamline administrative requirements as much as possible 
to increase accessibility for those most in need in Indian 
Country.

                    Office on Violence Against Women


       VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $753,800,000 for the Office on 
Violence Against Women (OVW), which is $240,300,000 above 
fiscal year 2021. Funds are to be distributed as follows:

       VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAMS
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
STOP Grants.............................................        $223,000
Transitional Housing Assistance.........................          50,000
Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women.......           2,500
Consolidated Youth-Oriented Program.....................          22,000
    Engaging Men and Youth in Prevention................         (5,000)
Improving Criminal Justice Response (formally Grants to           70,000
 Encourage Arrest Policies).............................
    Homicide Reduction Initiative.......................         (4,000)
    Domestic Violence Firearms Lethality Reduction               (4,000)
     Initiative.........................................
Sexual Assault Victims Services.........................         100,000
Rural Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Enforcement.....          47,000
Violence on College Campuses............................          38,000
    HBCU, HSI and Tribal Colleges.......................         (4,000)
Civil Legal Assistance..................................          65,000
Elder Abuse Grant Program...............................          10,000
Family Civil Justice....................................          20,000
Education and Training for Disabled Female Victims......          10,000
National Resource Center on Workplace Responses.........           2,000
Research on Violence Against Indian Women...............           2,000
Indian Country Sexual Assault Clearinghouse.............           1,000
Tribal Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction..           5,500
Rape Survivor Child Custody Act.........................           3,500
National Deaf Services Line.............................           5,000
Restorative Justice Responses and Evaluations...........          20,300
Support to Transgender Victims..........................           2,000
Tech Assist for Community-Based Organizations...........           5,000
Culturally Specific Programs............................          40,000
Outreach to Underserved Victims.........................           2,000
Emerging Issues Related to Violence Against Women.......           5,000
Tribal Special Assistant US Attorneys...................           3,000
                                                         ---------------
    Total, Office of Violence Against Women.............        $753,800
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Family Justice Center.--The Department of Justice should 
provide robust funding to Family Justice Centers from the 
amount made available for the Improving Criminal Justice 
Responses to Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence 
and Stalking Program as authorized by Part U, Grants to 
Encourage Arrest Policies, of the 1968 Act.
    Rural victims.--The Committee is concerned about the rise 
in the number of sexual assaults in rural communities. Victims 
of sexual assault living in rural communities are often 
reluctant to report to law enforcement for fear of being 
exposed. The Committee encourages the OVW to implement projects 
that reduce barriers to the reporting of crime in rural areas, 
colonias, and persistent poverty counties and report to the 
Committee not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act. 
Such report shall include a description of the progress made 
since delivery of the report on the same topic as required in 
House Report 116-455.
    Human trafficking.--The Committee encourages OVW to ensure 
that the Transitional Housing Program can assist victims of 
human trafficking, and the Committee urges DOJ to take these 
victims into consideration when distributing OVW funds.
    Sexual Abuse Services in Detention Hotline.--There 
continues to be a significant need related to incarcerated 
individuals who do not have access to victim services. The 
Committee is interested in providing resources toward creating 
a national hotline that would provide sexual abuse and rape 
crisis counseling services to incarcerated individuals across 
the country. The Committee commends OVW and BJA for partnering 
on an initiative to identify what a national service line would 
require to be responsive to Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) 
Standards as well as identify the unique needs of incarcerated 
survivors. The Committee looks forward to the results of this 
initiative and directs DOJ to report on the status of its 
findings within 90 days of enactment of this Act. A national 
hotline would not only help incarcerated survivors, but it 
would also further meaningful PREA compliance.
    Studies on child custody and divorce in domestic violence 
cases.--The Committee recognizes that laws and regulations at 
the State and local levels may trap domestic violence victims 
in abusive marriages, harming both them and their children. The 
Committee directs DOJ, in consultation with the Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS), to conduct a study 
investigating whether victims who raise evidence of domestic 
violence are more likely to lose primary custody of children to 
an abusive partner or to the State, including: (1) a review of 
State laws, regulations, and practices on how child neglect and 
custody situations are handled in domestic violence situations; 
and (2) a list of recommendations on how to restructure State 
laws, regulations, and practices to better protect victims of 
domestic violence and their children. The Committee also 
directs the DOJ, in coordination with HHS, to conduct a study 
on the direct and collateral economic costs and risks 
experienced by victims of domestic violence who divorce their 
abusive partners. Such study should include an examination of 
how related personal financial issues impact domestic violence 
victims, including the payment of alimony, legal fees, spousal 
support, or the division of property, disaggregated on the 
basis of whether the domestic violence victim has higher 
earnings than their partner; and provide recommendations on how 
to restructure law, regulations, and practices governing 
divorce to better support victims of domestic violence in 
leaving abusive situations. The Committee directs the 
Department to provide a status report on this request within 
180 days of enactment of this Act.
    Technology Facilitated Harassment.--The Committee is 
concerned with the increased instances of severe harassment, 
stalking, and threats transmitted in interstate commerce in 
violation of federal law. These targeted attacks against 
Internet users, particularly women, have resulted in the 
release of personal information, forced individuals to flee 
their homes, have had a chilling effect on free expression, and 
are limiting access to economic opportunity. The Committee 
strongly urges the Department to intensify its efforts to 
combat this destructive abuse and expects to see increased 
investigations and prosecutions of these crimes.

                       Office of Justice Programs


                  RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS

    The Committee recommends $95,000,000 for Research, 
Evaluation and Statistics, which is $13,000,000 above fiscal 
year 2021 and $9,000,000 above the request. Funds are 
distributed as follows:

                   RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bureau of Justice Statistics............................         $50,000
National Institute of Justice...........................          45,000
    Domestic Radicalization Research....................        (12,000)
    Research on School Safety...........................         (1,000)
    Study of Clearinghouse for Online Extremism.........           (500)
    Data on Stops and Searches..........................           (500)
                                                         ---------------
        Total, Research, Evaluation and Statistics......         $95,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of the timely release of data on 
crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation 
of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are 
critical for policymakers and researchers to understand in 
combating crime and advancing equality in the justice system. 
The Committee's recommendation provides $50,000,000 for BJS, an 
increase of $5,000,000 above fiscal year 2021. This increase is 
provided to ensure that BJS has sufficient resources to clear 
any backlogs in data and report releases and ensure the timely 
release of data going forward. The increased funding should 
also be used to initiate the process of redesigning its public 
website in accordance with current statistical agency best 
practices for disseminating information in an accessible and 
usable format. The Committee directs BJS to provide a report no 
later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act detailing 
the agency's resource needs associated with such redesign.
    Incarcerated Population Communications.--The Committee 
directs NIJ to report on the feasibility and appropriateness of 
utilizing artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural 
language processing, and other technologies to monitor, 
analyze, and transcribe legally authorized, nonprivileged 
incarcerated population communications into actionable 
intelligence for legitimate Federal purposes, including, but 
not limited to, national security, homeland security, violent 
crime prevention, recidivism reduction, inmate mental health--
including suicide prevention--and other purposes as the 
Department deems appropriate. The report should identify 
current gaps in such actionable intelligence and identify 
potential collaborations to address identified disparities. The 
Committee encourages the Department to engage with stakeholders 
in the course of examining the feasibility of utilizing such a 
system.
    Police Use of Force Against Pets.-- It has been estimated 
that thousands of dogs are killed annually by law enforcement 
officers. Many States and municipalities do not require that 
police shootings directed at pets be reported. However, data 
from some localities suggests that anywhere from 25-75 percent 
of all law enforcement firearms discharges are directed at 
dogs, and that these incidents are geographically clustered in 
low income communities of color where police shootings 
involving people are also concentrated. Police shootings 
directed at pets escalate encounters with policed communities 
and erode trust in law enforcement. The Committee is concerned 
about the lack of data and reporting requirements for such 
encounters, and urges the Department to include these incidents 
involving pets in any nationwide Federal database created to 
track law enforcement's use of force against people, or to 
provide Congress with a report within 180 days on how the 
Department can collect and maintain comprehensive data on law 
enforcement's use of force against people and pets, as well any 
policy recommendations needed to implement that data 
collection.
    Solitary Confinement Data Collection.--The Committee 
directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics to collect data on 
solitary confinement practices, including frequency, conditions 
of solitary confinement, duration of solitary confinement, the 
impact of solitary confinement on an individual's physical and 
social-emotional health, and the recidivism rate of individuals 
who have experienced solitary confinement. The Committee 
directs the BJS to report back to the Committee annually on 
this topic, with the first report due not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
    National Institute of Justice (NIJ).--The recommendation 
includes $45,000,000 for NIJ. Within this amount, the Committee 
recommends $12,000,000 for domestic radicalization research, 
$1,000,000 for school safety research, $500,000 for research on 
online extremism, and $500,000 for the evaluation of data on 
stops and searches. In addition, $2,500,000 is to be 
transferred from the Office on Violence Against Women for 
research and evaluation on violence against Indian women.
    Access to Mental Health Services for Law Enforcement.--The 
committee recognizes that traumatic law enforcement work and 
vicarious trauma has been shown to increase law enforcement 
officers' risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder 
(PTSD) symptoms, which can be associated with major depression, 
panic attacks, phobias, mania, substance use, and increased 
risk of suicide. To ensure officers have access to services 
that can address the impact of traumatic law enforcement work, 
the Committee directs NIJ to conduct an evaluation of access to 
mental health, wellness, and resiliency services within law 
enforcement and offer recommendations to the Committee to 
improve access to these services for State, local, and Tribal 
law enforcement.
    Community-Based Public Safety Strategies.--The Committee 
continues to be concerned about the many challenges faced by 
expansive policing schemes--particularly in communities of 
color where over criminalization and rising police brutality 
has shattered public trust in law enforcement while having 
little impact on community violence. Accordingly, the Committee 
directs the Department to conduct a study on the most 
successful, non-carceral and non-punitive ways to encourage 
public safety and provide recommendations on ways to reduce 
harm and improve health without criminalizing minority 
communities.
    Evaluation of Data on Stops and Searches.--Within the funds 
provided in this account, $500,000 is included for analysis and 
evaluation of the data collected under the program, funded in 
this bill under Byrne JAG, for competitive demonstration grants 
to State and local law enforcement agencies to develop and 
implement data collection programs on hit rates for stops and 
searches by law enforcement officers, consistent with section 
333 of H.R. 1280 as passed by the House of Representatives on 
March 3, 2021.
    Law Enforcement Study Addressing Delayed Responses to 
Questions.--As part of the Committee's concerns about the 
accountability of law enforcement, the Committee directs the 
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct a nationwide 
study of the prevalence and effect of any law, rule, or 
procedure that allows a law enforcement officer to delay the 
response to questions posed by a local internal affairs 
officer, or review board on the investigative integrity and 
prosecution of law enforcement misconduct, including pre-
interview warnings and termination policies, consistent with 
requirements as described in section 115 of H.R. 1280 as passed 
by the House of Representatives on March 3, 2021. Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Department shall: (1) submit to the Committee a report 
containing the results of the initial analysis conducted under 
subsection (a)(2) of such section 115; (2) make the report 
submitted under subparagraph (A) available to the public; and 
(3) identify the jurisdictions for which the study described in 
subsection (a)(1) of such section 115 is to be conducted. In 
addition, not later than 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Department shall submit to the 
Committee a report containing the results of the data collected 
under this section and publish the report in the Federal 
Register.
    National System to Monitor Abuse in Youth Serving 
Organizations.--The Department is directed to work with a 
public institution of higher education conduct a feasibility 
study on establishing a Federal system to count and track 
substantiated cases of sexual abuse and other forms of child 
maltreatment in the nation's youth serving organizations (e.g. 
sports, scouting, religious institutions, camps, and schools).
    Study of Clearinghouse for Online Extremism.--To respond to 
the elevated threat of domestic extremist violence, the 
Committee recognizes the need to address the role of social 
media and other online content in fueling extremist violence 
without infringing on civil liberties. Therefore, the Committee 
recommends $500,000 for NIJ to conduct a study on the 
feasibility, costs, and operational options for an independent 
nonprofit clearinghouse for online extremist content that could 
proactively investigate online threats without providing 
surveillance powers to law enforcement. The Committee directs 
the Department to submit the findings of its report to Congress 
and to the public within 180 days of enactment of this Act.
    White Supremacist Domestic Radicalization Research.--The 
Committee is alarmed at warnings from the FBI and other 
authorities that white supremacists and violent anti-government 
domestic extremists pose the greatest present risk to national 
security. These groups are infiltrating security and law 
enforcement agencies and the military, including seeking to 
recruit members from within them, and pose a deep and 
continuing threat to our country's national security by 
disrupting ongoing investigations of white extremist 
organizations and routinely harassing Black, Latino, and other 
minority communities. To respond to this elevated threat, which 
manifested in the attempted insurrection of January 6, 2021, 
the Committee provides an increase of $6,000,000 over fiscal 
year 2021 funding for research concerning domestic white 
supremacy and violent anti-government ideology, and directs the 
National Institute of Justice to direct this increase toward 
research efforts that trace the most common methods and sites 
of radicalization of Americans to white supremacist and violent 
anti-government extremism. The Department is encouraged to 
partner with academic institutions to evaluate the 
effectiveness of existing targeted violence and terrorism 
prevention programs in matching investments to relative sources 
of threat and in increasing understanding of and effectiveness 
at countering white supremacist and violent anti-government 
extremism.

                   STATE AND LOCAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $3,045,469,000 for State and Local 
Justice Assistance programs, which is $1,131,469,000 above 
fiscal year 2021 and $996,469,000 above the request. Funds are 
distributed as follows:

                   STATE AND LOCAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants................        $684,469
    Officer Robert Wilson III VALOR Initiative..........        (13,000)
    Smart Policing......................................         (8,000)
    Smart Prosecution...................................        (10,000)
    NamUS...............................................         (2,400)
    Training Program to improve Responses to People with        (10,000)
     Mental Illness.....................................
    John R. Justice Grant Program.......................         (4,000)
    Prison Rape Prevention and Prosecution..............        (17,000)
    Kevin and Avonte's Law..............................         (3,000)
    National Center for Forensics.......................         (4,000)
    Project Safe Neighborhoods..........................        (20,000)
    Capital Litigation Improvement and Wrongful                 (15,000)
     Conviction Review..................................
    Community-Based Violence Prevention Initiatives.....        (14,000)
    National Center for Restorative Justice.............         (6,000)
    Ashanti Alert Network...............................         (1,000)
    Family Alternative Sentencing Pilot.................         (7,000)
    Child Advocacy Training.............................         (1,000)
    Rural Violent Crime Initiative......................         (9,000)
    Managed Access Systems..............................         (3,000)
    Public Safety Innovation Grants.....................         (5,000)
    Technical Assistance to Law Enforcement-Use of Force        (15,000)
     Reporting..........................................
    Data Collection Programs on Hit Rates for Stops and          (5,000)
     Searches...........................................
    Police Reform in Jurisdictions Responding to                 (7,200)
     Litigation.........................................
    Law Enforcement Training............................        (42,000)
    Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grants........       (102,769)
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.................         244,000
Victims of Trafficking Grants...........................          95,000
Economic, High-tech, White Collar and Cybercrime                  13,000
 Prevention.............................................
    Intellectual Property Enforcement Program...........         (2,500)
    Internet of Things..................................         (2,000)
Adam Walsh Act Implementation...........................          20,500
Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vests Partnerships............          30,000
    Transfer to NIST/OLES...............................         (1,500)
National Sex Offender Public Website....................           1,000
National Instant Criminal Background Check Systems               100,000
 (NCIS) Initiative......................................
    NICS Acts Record Improvement Program................        (25,000)
Paul Coverdell Forensic Science.........................          33,000
DNA Initiative..........................................         158,000
    Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grants.....................       (120,000)
    State and Local Forensic Activities.................        (19,000)
    Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grants.        (13,000)
    Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Program Grants.........         (6,000)
Community Teams to Reduce the Sexual Assault Kit (SAK)            60,000
 Backlog................................................
CASA--Special Advocates.................................          14,000
Indian Tribal Assistance................................          50,000
Second Chance Act/ Reoffender Reentry...................         125,000
    Smart Probation.....................................         (8,000)
    Children of Incarcerated Parents Demo Grants........         (5,000)
    Pay for Success.....................................         (7,500)
    Pay for Success (Permanent Supportive Housing Model)         (5,000)
    Project HOPE Opportunity Probation with Enforcement.         (5,000)
Opioid Initiative.......................................         458,000
    Drug Courts.........................................       (110,000)
    Mentally Ill Offender Act...........................        (45,000)
    Residential Substance Abuse Treatment...............        (40,000)
    Veterans Treatment Courts...........................        (40,000)
    Prescription Drug Monitoring........................        (33,000)
    Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse       (190,000)
     Program............................................
Keep Young Athletes Safe Act of 2018....................           2,500
STOP School Violence Act................................          87,000
Emmett Till Grants......................................           3,000
Hate Crimes Prevention Act Grants.......................          70,000
Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice.........          30,000
Community Trust Initiative..............................          95,000
    Body Worn Camera Partnership Program................        (35,000)
    Justice Reinvestment Initiative.....................        (35,000)
    Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program...........        (25,000)
Law Enforcement Accountability Grants...................         400,000
    Pattern and Practice Investigations.................       (100,000)
    Independent Investigation of Law Enforcement               (250,000)
     Officers...........................................
    Community-Based Improvement to Law Enforcement......        (25,000)
    Pilot Programs to Address Police Misconduct.........        (25,000)
Emergency Law Enforcement Assistance....................          10,000
Community Violence Intervention Initiative..............          90,000
Red Flag and Gun Licensing Laws.........................          40,000
Gun Buyback and Relinquishment Pilot Program............          10,000
Public Defender Improvement Program.....................          25,000
Regional Sexual Assault Investigative Training Academies          20,000
Legal Representation Pilot for Immigrant Children and             50,000
 Families...............................................
Study of Lethality Assessment Programs..................           2,000
Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry..............          10,000
Pretrial Incarceration Reduction Pilot Program..........          10,000
Police Misconduct Database..............................           5,000
                                                         ---------------
    Total, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance...      $3,045,469
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne JAG) Formula 
program.--In addition to the carveouts mentioned in the table 
above. The recommendation includes $360,100,000 for the Byrne 
JAG Formula grant program, equal to the fiscal year 2021 level. 
Funding under this formula program is authorized for law 
enforcement programs including those that promote data 
interoperability between disparate law enforcement entities; 
prosecution and court programs; prevention and education 
programs; corrections programs; drug treatment and enforcement 
programs; planning, evaluation, and technology improvement 
programs; and crime victim and witness programs, other than 
compensation. Use of this funding is broad and flexible to 
address community needs and fill gaps within State and local 
criminal justice systems such as strategic planning, research, 
testing, training, equipment, technical assistance, prevention 
programs, innovation programs and community partnerships.
    The Committee would like to reiterate the following 
allowable uses of Byrne JAG formula grant funding: body-worn 
cameras; gun-shot detection technology; law enforcement 
training including immersive training; newer, more efficient 
forensics testing tools; reality-based training programs that 
utilize role-playing and live-action scenarios for law 
enforcement officers; radio communications to provide secure 
communications systems; medication-assisted drug treatment; and 
supporting expungement and record clearing initiatives.
    Police Reform.--Combatting crime and keeping our Nation 
safe remains a top priority of the Committee. However, the 
Committee is aware that communities across our Nation have 
called for reforms in State and local law enforcement agencies. 
To support these much-needed reform efforts, the Committee 
recommends funding for the following programs and reform 
strategies.
    The Committee recommends $400,000,000 for police 
accountability grants, including $100,000,000 for grants to 
assist states in conducting pattern and practice investigations 
of law enforcement and $250,000,000 for grants to States and 
tribes to assist in implementing statutes providing for 
independent investigation of law enforcement officers.
    In addition, the Committee recommends $25,000,000 to 
develop pilot programs and implement effective standards and 
programs in the areas of training, hiring and recruitment, and 
oversight that are designed to improve management and address 
misconduct by law enforcement officers. The pilot program shall 
be consistent with the requirements as described in section 
114(d) of H.R. 1280 as passed by the House of Representatives 
on March 3, 2021, including: (1) training on law enforcement 
policies, practices, and procedures addressing training and 
instruction to comply with cited accreditation standards; (2) 
policies, procedures, and practices for recruitment, hiring, 
retention, and promotion of diverse law enforcement officers; 
(3) oversight/complaint procedures, including the establishment 
of civilian review boards or analogous procedures; (4) juvenile 
justice and school safety, including standards relating to 
interaction and communication with juveniles, physical contact, 
use of lethal and nonlethal force, notification of a parent or 
guardian, interviews and questioning, custodial interrogation, 
audio and video recording, conditions of custody, alternatives 
to arrest, referral to child protection agencies, and removal 
from school grounds or campus; and (5) victim services, 
including psychological counseling, for individuals and 
communities impacted by law enforcement misconduct.
    Furthermore, the Committee recommends $25,000,000 for 
grants to community-based organizations, as authorized by 
subsections (b) and (c) of section 114 of H.R. 1280 as passed 
by the House of Representatives on March 3, 2021, to study and 
implement: (1) effective management, training, recruiting, 
hiring, and oversight standards and programs to promote 
effective community and problem solving strategies for law 
enforcement agencies; or (2) effective strategies and solutions 
to public safety, including strategies that do not rely on 
Federal and local law enforcement agency responses. The studies 
shall address standards relating to administrative due process, 
residency requirements, compensation and benefits, use of 
force, racial profiling, early warning systems, juvenile 
justice, school safety, civilian review boards or analogous 
procedures, or research into the effectiveness of existing 
programs, projects, or other activities designed to address 
misconduct by law enforcement officers.
    Technical Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies.--The 
Committee recommends $15,000,000 for grants that will support: 
(1) the cost of assisting the State or Indian Tribe in which 
the law enforcement agency is located in complying with the 
reporting requirements described in section 224 of H.R. 1280; 
(2) the cost of establishing necessary systems required to 
investigate and report incidents as required under subsection 
(b)(4); (3) public awareness campaigns designed to gain 
information from the public on use of force by or against local 
and tribal law enforcement officers, including shootings, which 
may include tip lines, hotlines, and public service 
announcements; and (4) use of force training for law 
enforcement agencies and personnel, including training on de-
escalation, implicit bias, crisis intervention techniques, and 
adolescent development.
    Police Accountability and Community Engagement.--The 
Committee urges the Department to make funds available to help 
nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, 
community groups, youth groups, and faith-based organizations 
facilitate organized dialogues that bring together community 
members and law enforcement officers so that they may 
collaborate to develop shared goals that will enhance the 
collective safety of the community. The dialogues should 
include diverse groups of community members, local elected 
officials, law enforcement leaders and officers, business 
leaders, and community members, including youth groups, to 
assess the state of police-community relations in states and 
local communities. The Department is further urged to partner 
with these organizations to develop strategies that will result 
in concrete action items that will improve the relationships 
between the police and the communities and further the goal of 
enhancing collective safety.
    The Committee urges the Department to work with community-
based organizations to identify and develop opportunities to 
train law enforcement officers with respect to encounters with 
individuals suffering from impaired mental health, 
homelessness, and addiction; to identify areas where social 
workers may be able to support law enforcement agencies; and to 
provide guidance regarding the development and implementation 
of co-responder programs, which involve social workers or other 
mental health professionals working alongside law enforcement 
officers so that they arrive and address situations together.
    State and Local Law Enforcement Training Grants.--The 
Committee recommends $42,000,000 for training for State and 
local law enforcement officers on racial profiling, implicit 
bias, de-escalation, use of force, the duty to intervene when 
witnessing other officers using excessive force, and procedural 
justice. The Committee urges the Department to place the 
highest priority on applications from grantees who can 
demonstrate quantitative results from evidence-based training 
programs that will address these areas of concern.
    The Committee directs the Department to review the benefits 
of using virtual reality de-escalation training and the use of 
humane remote restraint devices to enable law enforcement the 
ability to restrain an uncooperative subject without requiring 
the infliction of pain. Providing such training and equipment 
can significantly improve the ability of law enforcement to de-
escalate confrontations with non-compliant subjects and avoid 
potentially lethal use of force, particularly with respect to 
individuals with mental health conditions. The Department is 
directed to report to the Committee, no later than 90 days 
after enactment of this Act, on the feasibility of using this 
type of training. The Committee notes that NIJ funding may be 
used for such research.
    In addition, the Committee directs the Department to assist 
small jurisdictions and small law enforcement agencies as they 
work through the application process related to grants for 
police training and police accreditation. The Committee further 
urges the Department to ensure that grants funded under this 
program also help address the unique challenges of policing in 
immigrant communities.
    Public Safety Innovation Grants.--The Committee recommends 
$5,000,000 for the development of best practices for, and the 
creation of, local task forces on public safety innovation. 
Such task forces shall be administrative entities, created from 
partnerships between community-based organizations and other 
local stakeholders, to explore and develop innovative law 
enforcement and non-law enforcement strategies to enhance just 
and equitable public safety, repair breaches of trust between 
law enforcement agencies and the communities they pledge to 
serve, and enhance accountability of law enforcement officers.
    Gunshot detection for Service Weapons.--The Committee notes 
the need for accurate, timely and dependable technology to 
record actual shots fired in an incident involving law 
enforcement weapons, to communicate that information to police 
dispatchers and to initiate body camera recording in such 
incidents. The Committee encourages DOJ to evaluate such 
technology and report to the Committee, not later than 180 days 
after enactment of this Act, with an assessment of its 
potential value for Federal, State and local law enforcement.
    Consent Decrees and Other Litigation Related to Police 
Practices.--The Committee recommends $7,200,000 for the 
establishment of a new grant program to provide funding to 
police departments for police training, equipment, and other 
necessities to help comply with law enforcement reform efforts 
as a result of litigation, including consent decrees, out-of-
court settlements, memoranda of understanding, findings, 
technical assistance, and recommendation letters provided by 
reform authorities. The Committee is aware of the Civil Rights 
Division's increasing investigations into law enforcement 
agencies and the resulting consent decrees currently being 
enforced. The Committee is also aware of the benefits received 
by the local communities and their citizens after a consent 
decree has been successfully enforced and the required reforms 
implemented. The Committee believes funding will cover the 
resource gap needed to fully implement such reform efforts and 
enable local governments to share with the Federal Government 
the cost of implementing the decree. Grant funding can be used 
for police training, equipment purchases, and other items 
deemed as necessary to establish the reforms cited in the 
consent decree. Local governments must share at least 25% of 
the cost of the consent decree implementation.
    Stops and Searches Data Collection.--The Committee 
recommends $5,000,000 for up to five competitive demonstration 
grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to develop 
and implement data collection programs on hit rates for stops 
and searches by law enforcement officers, including $500,000 
for the Bureau of Justice Statistics to collect and analyze the 
data submitted to the Department under this program by State 
and local law enforcement agencies.
    Combatting Justice Inequality.--Where justice is denied, no 
one is safe. The United States has one of the highest 
incarceration rates in the world. Unfortunately, the majority 
of those who are incarcerated matriculated from underserved and 
poorer communities. The Committee recommends funding for the 
following programs focused on combatting justice inequality and 
the disparities that exist within.
    Capital Litigation and Wrongful Conviction Review.--The 
Committee recognizes the need for legal representation and 
investigation services for individuals with post-conviction 
claims of innocence. The Committee recommends $15,000,000, an 
increase of $8,000,000 over fiscal year 2021, for the Capital 
Litigation Improvement and Wrongful Conviction Review program. 
Individuals exonerated in 2019 spent an average of about 13 
years incarcerated for their wrongful convictions, and 47 
percent of 2019 exonerations (67 of the total 143 exonerations) 
were a result of the work of innocence organizations. This 
program works to improve the quality and effectiveness of 
representation in death penalty cases through State level 
training for both the prosecutors who represent the public and 
the defense attorneys who represent indigent defendants in 
State capital cases, including forensic training. Given the 
urgent need to identify and remediate wrongful convictions, the 
Committee directs that at least 50 percent of the appropriated 
amount to the Capital Litigation Improvement and Wrongful 
Conviction Review grant programs shall be used to support 
Wrongful Conviction Review grantees providing high quality and 
efficient post-conviction representation for defendants in 
postconviction claims of innocence. Wrongful Conviction Review 
grantees shall be nonprofit organizations, institutions of 
higher education, and/or State or local public defender offices 
that have inhouse post-conviction representation programs that 
show demonstrable experience and competence in litigating post-
conviction claims of innocence. Grant funds shall support 
grantee provision of post-conviction legal representation of 
innocence claims; case review, evaluation, and management; 
experts; potentially exonerative forensic testing; and 
investigation services related to supporting these post-
conviction innocence claims.
    National Center for Restorative Justice.--The Committee 
recommends $6,000,000, which is an increase of $3,000,00 over 
fiscal year 2021, to support research on restorative justice, 
focusing on how best to provide direct services to address 
social inequities. Funds should be awarded through a 
competitive solicitation to academic institutions to implement 
the project.
    Family Alternative Sentencing Pilot.--The Committee 
recommends $7,000,000, which is an increase of $3,500,000 over 
fiscal year 2021, to support family-based alternative 
sentencing programs for parents who are in the criminal justice 
system. The Committee notes that decades of research have shown 
that incarcerating parents creates poor outcomes for children. 
Often the lack of parental support and supervision results in 
increased crime and harm to communities, particularly in the 
communities of color most affected by mass incarceration. This 
program allows judges to waive a sentence of incarceration for 
eligible individuals who are parents or caregivers and instead 
impose a sentence of community custody with additional 
conditions for treatment and programming. The Committee 
supports the Department entering into partnerships with State, 
local, and community agencies to provide grants and technical 
support toward the creation of such alternative sentencing 
programs.
    Pretrial Incarceration.--The Committee is concerned with 
the increasing rates of pretrial incarceration in rural 
counties and small and mid-sized cities. The Committee 
encourages the Department of Justice to explore evidence-based 
initiatives and alternatives to incarceration to reduce the 
rate and duration of pretrial incarceration. The Committee 
encourages the Bureau of Justice Assistance to establish a 
competitive grant pilot program to support local government 
entities, in partnership with qualified nonprofit 
organizations, to establish programs to reduce pretrial 
incarceration in local jails. Special consideration should be 
given to applications from small metropolitan, micropolitan, or 
noncore jurisdictions with the highest incarceration rates that 
are not currently in decline.
    Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program.--The Department 
is encouraged to prioritize grant awards for law enforcement 
agencies that utilize Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) 
program models. These pre-arrest diversion programs give police 
the authority to divert low-level, non-violent offenders to 
community-based treatment instead of processing an arrest. 
Within the amounts provided for the Comprehensive Opioid 
Stimulants and Substance Abuse program (COSSAP), no less than 
$11,000,000 shall continue to be made available for sites 
employing models consistent with LEAD.
    Legal Representation Pilot for Immigrant Children and 
Families.--The Committee provides $50,000,000 for the 
Department to establish a competitive grant program to 
qualified non-profit organizations for a pilot program to 
increase representation for immigrant children and families in 
civil proceedings. The amount is $35,000,000 above the request 
and $50,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 level. The Committee 
recognizes the compelling need to ensure due process for 
children and families who seek asylum and who must navigate a 
complex legal system for processing of asylum claims. The 
Committee supports coordination with grantees and organizations 
who offer other types of legal assistance or services to 
immigrants seeking asylum or other forms of legal protection. 
As with any new pilot program, the Committee expects the 
Department to assess this program with metrics that will be 
scaled appropriately to evaluate how this initial investment 
could be further enhanced to represent a larger portion of un-
represented individuals and the impact that it may have on 
improving attendance rates and decreasing court costs. Within 
90 days of enactment of this Act, the OJP shall brief the 
Committee on its implementation plan for this pilot.
    Combatting Hate.--The Committee is alarmed by the 
persistent, frequent occurrence of hate crimes across the 
country, particularly targeting Asian, Latino, and other 
communities perceived as having immigrant origins, LGBTQ 
individuals, Black individuals, and members of religious 
minority groups. The enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James 
Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law 111-84) 
provided the Federal Government with more tools and data to 
help States address and combat these bias-motivated attacks. 
The recommendation provides $70,000,000 for grant opportunities 
authorized in section 4704 of Public Law 111-84 to help States, 
localities, and tribal law enforcement agencies to conduct 
educational outreach and training on hate crimes and to 
investigate and prosecute hate crimes. The Committee further 
urges the Department and agency recipients of these grants to 
prioritize efforts to identify, investigate, report on, and 
prevent hate crimes that occur online or are related to bias-
motivated harassment and criminal activity occurring online. 
DOJ is urged to conduct outreach and provide technical 
assistance to law enforcement agencies that have not 
consistently reported hate crimes data, with particular 
attention to small agencies with the fewest resources for 
administrative management and data analysis.
    The Committee encourages the Department of Justice to 
prioritize grants to entities that propose to use funding to 
bolster community resilience to hate; to establish multilingual 
online or application-based portals to collect hate crime 
reports; and to conduct community education to prevent hate 
crimes motivated by animus toward a victim's actual or 
perceived gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, 
disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The 
Committee recommends that the Department expand culturally 
competent and linguistically appropriate public education 
campaigns that encourage people affected by hate crime to seek 
the Department's assistance. As with any new program, the 
Committee expects the Department to assess this program with 
metrics that will be scaled appropriately to evaluate the 
program's overall effectiveness. Within 90 days of enactment of 
this Act, the OJP shall brief the Committee on its 
implementation plan for this program.
    Community Support for Victims of Hate Crime.-- In addition 
to the Matthew Shepard grants, the Committee recommends 
$30,000,000 for grants awarded to community-based organizations 
that will further community-based strategies for conflict 
resolution and community empowerment and education. Grants will 
be provided to community-based organizations and civil rights 
groups to implement and facilitate educational classes and 
community services for defendants convicted of hate crimes 
directly related to the community harmed by the offense; 
culturally competent and linguistically appropriate public 
education campaigns on the collection of data and public 
reporting of hate crimes; safety ambassadors to escort 
vulnerable community members in public places; in-language 
support for victims and/or surviving families of hate crimes, 
including mental health support; provide upstander, de-
escalation trainings in multiple languages; and other 
community-based strategies deemed appropriate for communities 
of color and other vulnerable and historically disadvantaged 
communities.
    The Committee is also concerned by the amplification that 
results from the increasingly interconnected problems of 
misogyny and white supremacy. The Committee recommends that the 
Department of Justice develop a comprehensive strategy to 
counter growing misogyny and gender- and gender identity-
related hate crimes. This program should address the whole life 
cycle of hate, from awareness, to intervention, to 
rehabilitation, and victim services, in order to support 
comprehensive, evidence-based, whole-of-society programs that 
counter the drivers of gender-based hate.
    The Committee recognizes that individuals and communities 
that perpetrators of hate crimes target are frequently the same 
individuals and communities that have been historically 
discriminated against and overrepresented among those 
investigated, arrested, convicted, and incarcerated by law 
enforcement officials. Hate crime victims include noncitizens 
and people with immigrant family members who may fear 
immigration enforcement-related consequences of contact with 
law enforcement. For these and other reasons, communities 
affected by hate crime have called for increased investment in 
community-based social support and advocacy for victims as a 
necessary complement to law enforcement involvement in 
preventing and responding to hate crime. Accordingly, the 
Committee directs the agency to prioritize grants from programs 
for which institutions of higher education and nongovernmental 
nonprofit organizations are eligible to those applicants that 
are institutions of higher education and nonprofit 
organizations that propose to use funding to provide services 
that reduce the risk of hate crime or to provide legal, 
material, social, and other support to people and institutions 
affected by hate crimes.
    Violence Prevention and Intervention.--The Committee 
remains focused on keeping our Nation safe by providing grant 
opportunities for violence prevention and intervention efforts. 
The table above includes many grant programs focused in this 
area as well as the following highlights.
    Community-Based Violence Intervention Program.--The 
Committee recommends $100,000,000 for this new grant program in 
collaboration with the CDC to implement evidence-based 
community violence interventions locally that will assist local 
communities in developing comprehensive violence prevention and 
reduction programs, including efforts to address gang and gun 
violence, based on partnerships between community residents, 
law enforcement, local government agencies, and other community 
stakeholders. Within the recommended amount, $10,000,000 will 
be directed to focus on youth-based programs and will be funded 
within Juvenile Justice Programs. The Committee expects the 
Department to assess this program with metrics that will be 
scaled appropriately to evaluate the program's overall 
effectiveness. Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the OJP 
shall brief the Committee on its implementation plan for this 
program.
    National Criminal History Improvement Program.--The 
Committee recommends $100,000,000 for NCHIP to support States, 
territories, and tribes in ensuring the effective and efficient 
exchange of complete and accurate criminal-history records. 
These records are necessary for criminal-justice decisions on 
pretrial release, career-criminal charging, sentencing, and 
correctional assignments; and for pre-employment, licensing, 
and other noncriminal-justice decision-making purposes. The 
Committee is aware that many State laws and policies provide 
for the expungement or sealing of certain criminal records, 
making it possible for people with past convictions to access 
employment and housing, or exercise their social and civic 
rights, but many States do not have the resources for 
appropriate technology to effectively implement such policies. 
The Committee urges the Department to ensure that grants made 
under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) 
are made available for supporting the implementation of records 
systems that allow for the efficient expungement or sealing of 
criminal history records.
    Rural Violent Crime Initiative.--The Committee recommends 
$9,000,000 to support competitive grants and technical 
assistance to small law enforcement agencies in rural locations 
to address the unique challenges these departments face in 
combatting violent crime.
    Stop School Violence Act.--The Committee recommends 
$140,000,000 for the STOP School Violence Act grant program. 
Within this amount, $87,000,000 is provided to the Bureau of 
Justice Assistance (BJA) for evidence-based school safety 
programs outlined in the Act and $53,000,000 is provided within 
the Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) program. The 
Committee directs the offices to work with other Federal 
agencies to notify States, localities, tribes, and school 
districts of funding availability upon release, increase 
training and technical assistance for school district 
applicants, and provide microgrants for school districts, 
including rural, tribal, and low-resourced schools. Through the 
STOP School Violence Act program, school districts should use 
funds for security hardening measures; evidence-based school 
threat assessments and trainings for school personnel and 
students to identify threats of school violence; locks, 
lighting, ballistic glass and other deterrent measures; safety 
and security of school premises by utilizing design elements 
and principles; and technology for expedited notification of 
local law enforcement during an emergency and other measures 
determined to provide significant improvement in physical 
security of schools.
    The Committee recognizes the significant emotional impact 
of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth and teachers and directs BJA 
to prioritize evidence-based programming and students to 
identify warning signs and prevent tragedies such as suicide, 
mental health crisis, and interpersonal violence; develop and 
operate school-based teams to help receive, triage, and 
intervene when warning signs are reported; and create and 
implement anonymous reporting systems, among other allowable 
uses, as permitted under the Act.
    Restricting Online Obscenity.--The Committee is concerned 
that the expansion of unrestricted Wi-Fi in Government, 
Educational, and Commercial facilities is creating unsafe 
public environments due to the freely available access to 
online obscenity. The Committee encourages the Department to 
award Economic, High-tech, White Collar and Cybercrime 
Prevention grants for programs that encourage greater 
corporate, government, and institutional responsibility for 
safer, more secure public Wi-Fi networks using readily 
available technology solutions to filter illegal child abuse 
images and obscene content.
    Internet Safety Grants.--The Committee is concerned that 
existing Federal laws to prevent the Internet-enabled 
exploitation of children have not been adequately enforced, 
leading to increased harm to minors from obscenity, child 
pornography, predation, sex trafficking, and cyberbullying. 
Within funding provided for the Economic, High-tech, White 
Collar and Cybercrime Prevention grant program, the Department 
is encouraged to support grants to nonprofit organizations to 
produce Internet safety programs, using a comprehensive, 
evidence-based curriculum, to educate law enforcement and 
adults about the dangers children face on the Internet.
    Gun Buyback and Relinquishment Pilot.--The Committee 
provides $10,000,000 for a new pilot program that will develop, 
and expand where viable, State, local, and tribal gun buyback 
programs with an emphasis on buying back assault-style weapons 
and high-capacity magazines in order to reduce the number in 
circulation. The Committee also understands that there is a 
national need to support State, local, and tribal law 
enforcement to develop effective firearm relinquishment 
programs with an emphasis on removing firearms from individuals 
newly prohibited from possessing them. The Committee 
understands the program is intended to incentivize State, 
local, and tribal voluntary programs, and that some States have 
existing programs. The Committee encourages equal consideration 
for both new and existing programs as the grants are evaluated 
and awarded. As with any new pilot program, the Committee 
expects the Department to assess this program with metrics that 
will be scaled appropriately to evaluate the program's overall 
effectiveness. Within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the OJP 
shall brief the Committee on its implementation plan for this 
pilot.
    Incentivization Program for Red Flag and Gun Licensing 
Laws.--The Committee provides $40,000,000 for a new pilot 
program aimed to incentivize States to either establish or 
refine existing gun licensing and ``red flag'' laws, which 
allow courts to issue temporary removal orders of firearms for 
anyone who presents a danger to themselves or others. The 
Committee believes this increase will assist in expanding the 
presence of ``red flag laws'' and gun licensing laws across the 
country and could aid in the development of a greater body of 
evidence to systematically assess how these laws can be 
effectively and fairly implemented to ultimately reduce the 
number of incidents of gun-related violence that have 
systematically risen in our country. The Committee is aware 
that there are over a dozen States that have some form of ``red 
flag laws'' in place. The Committee encourages equal 
consideration for both new and existing programs as the grants 
are evaluated and awarded. As with any new pilot program, the 
Committee expects the Department to assess this program with 
metrics that will be scaled appropriately to evaluate the 
program's overall effectiveness. Within 90 days of enactment of 
this Act, the OJP shall brief the Committee on its 
implementation plan for this pilot.
    Hospital Based Victims of Violent Crime Interventions.--The 
Committee is aware of the considerable success of crime victim 
advocacy programs that utilize teams of advocates who intervene 
with violently-injured victims and their families immediately 
upon their presenting at a hospital emergency department and 
continue to do so throughout their hospitalization. Such 
programs have shown improvements in victim self-empowerment; 
improved utilization of victim support services; and a reduced 
likelihood of re-victimization of those who suffer penetrating 
wounds. The Committee instructs the Department to support 
expansion of programs that utilize this in-hospital, team-based 
approach and to support research to validate their outcomes 
relative to assistance programs that do not engage with victims 
until after their hospital discharge.
    Mentally Ill Offender Act.--The Committee recommends 
$45,000,000 for the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration 
Program. The Committee is aware that there can be a correlation 
between those suffering from mental health disturbances and 
repeat criminal offenders. Therefore, the Committee recommends 
that funds allocated to the Mentally Ill Offender Act should 
prioritize the operational expenses for centers that provide 
assistance to those with severe mental health needs who are at 
risk of recidivism. These mental health centers can provide, 
but are not limited to, the following services: crisis care, 
residential treatment, outpatient mental health and primary 
care services, and community re-entry supports. The Committee 
recommends that funding levels for grants made be commensurate 
with demonstrated community needs.
    The Committee commends the Administration's effort to 
expand partnerships between mental health providers and law 
enforcement agencies. To increase effective community policing, 
the Committee encourages the Department to prioritize Byrne JAG 
applications that establish or continue policing initiatives 
focused on mental health response.
    The Committee is concerned about the high rates of re-
incarceration among individuals with serious mental illness due 
to the inadequate management of their illness and encourages 
the Department to include long-acting injectable anti-psychotic 
medications as an allowable expense to improve treatment 
adherence and reduce risk for relapse and re-incarceration.
    Cybercrime as an Area of Emphasis.--The Attorney General 
shall identify the hiring of cybercrime analysts and 
investigators and training of law enforcement personnel and 
emergency dispatch personnel in areas of cybercrime as an Area 
of Emphasis and prioritize grant applications that will spend 
JAG funds to hire and retain those personnel for fiscal year 
2022. Prioritized grant application activities specifically 
include training for State or local law enforcement personnel 
relating to cybercrimes against individuals; training for State 
or local emergency dispatch personnel relating to cybercrimes 
against individuals; and the hiring of cybercrime analysts and 
investigators.
    DNA Initiative.--The Committee recommends $158,000,000 for 
DNA backlog and crime lab improvements to strengthen and 
improve Federal and State DNA collection and analysis systems 
that can be used to accelerate the prosecution of the guilty 
while simultaneously protecting the innocent from wrongful 
prosecution. The Committee expects that OJP will make funding 
for DNA analysis and capacity enhancement a priority in order 
to meet the purposes of the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant 
Program. Within funds provided, $120,000,000 is for Debbie 
Smith DNA Backlog Reduction grants, $13,000,000 is for Kirk 
Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing grants, and $6,000,000 
is for Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Program grants, of which up 
to $2,000,000 shall be expended to establish a Forensic Nursing 
Center of Excellence. A Forensic Nursing Center of Excellence 
is identified as establishing a level of excellence in forensic 
nursing and is qualified to prepare current and future sexual 
assault nurse examiners/forensic nurse examiners to be 
profession-ready and meet the applicable State certification 
and licensure requirements. The Center shall provide training 
and supervision to nurses with the purpose of increasing sexual 
assault forensic nurse capacity in rural areas, and in support 
of population-specific programs and hospitals including, but 
not limited to, underserved or historically underfunded 
communities. Any hospital receiving these funds shall promote 
best practices in forensic nursing throughout the State while 
continuing to research and develop the highest standards of 
care.
    Rapid DNA.--The Committee understands that under certain 
conditions, Rapid DNA technology can help law enforcement 
agencies quickly compare DNA samples against profiles in the 
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) and determine possible 
connections between a suspect and known criminal activity or 
facilitate exoneration of innocent suspects. The Committee 
encourages DOJ to consider supporting broad deployment of Rapid 
DNA technology that meets FBI quality assurance standards to 
help local, State, and Federal law enforcement agencies meet 
their mission requirements, improve the efficacy and efficiency 
of investigations, and protect and bring justice to the 
innocent.
    Prison Rape Prevention and Prosecution (PREA) Audit Quality 
Initiative.--Facility audits are a key component in helping 
agencies move their sexual abuse prevention and response 
policies from written documents to everyday practices. Congress 
enhanced the audit process in 2018 to ensure greater oversight 
of the audit process and improved audits. More than two years 
later, these changes have not been fully implemented by the 
PREA Management Office, in large part due to insufficient 
resources. The Committee supports the Department providing the 
necessary resources.
    Opioid Abuse.--The recommendation includes $458,000,000 for 
programs to reduce opioid abuse, as authorized by the 
Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (CARA; Public 
Law 114-198). Within this amount is $110,000,000 for drug 
courts; $45,000,000 for the Mentally Ill Offender Act; 
$40,000,000 for Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT), 
$40,000,000 for veterans treatment courts; $33,000,000 for 
prescription drug monitoring; and $190,000,000 for the 
Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP), which includes no 
less than $11,000,000 for additional replication sites 
employing the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) model, 
with applicants demonstration a plan for sustainability of LEAD 
model diversion programs, prioritizing sites with geographic 
barriers.
    The Committee recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has 
heightened the need to provide virtual transitional substance 
abuse and misuse services to individuals who are incarcerated 
and who struggle with substance abuse issues. By building on 
and leveraging investments in medication assisted treatment and 
telehealth services, the Committee supports programs that offer 
internet-based substance abuse and misuse education, peer 
coaching and case management. Such programs facilitate a 
seamless transition from jails to the community and reduce 
relapse and recidivism. The Committee encourages the Department 
to support programs at no less than $10,000,000 that provide 
comprehensive, virtual transition of care from jails to the 
community for individuals struggling with substance abuse and 
misuse challenges. Priority shall be given to under-served and 
under-resourced communities.
    The Committee is concerned about the growing epidemic of 
prescription drug and heroin abuse and its impact on law 
enforcement, and notes that funds within this account may be 
used for the implementation of medication-assisted treatment to 
help maintain abstinence from all opioids and heroin.
    Promoting Positive Outcomes for Veterans in the Criminal 
Justice System.--The Committee recommends the Department focus 
on programs that train local, State, and Native American law 
enforcement on techniques and procedures for identifying and 
de-escalating initial contact with veterans suffering from 
mental health and substance use disorders. The Committee 
further recommends the Department focus on programs to divert 
these veterans from the criminal justice system and instead 
offer access to appropriate medical and/or mental health 
treatment, to include such techniques as mindfulness, 
meditation, and other alternative therapies. The Committee 
directs the Department to submit a report to the Committee, not 
later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, on programs 
that support these goals. The report shall include information 
on current programs, including funding that supports such 
programs, and results.
    Supporting Local Communities.--The recommendation includes 
$102,769,000 for Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grants, 
which includes $100,754,000 for community projects and 
$2,015,000 for related agency administrative expenses, to 
assist State, local, and tribal law enforcement efforts to 
prevent crime, improve the criminal justice system, provide 
victims' services, and for other related activities. These 
project recommendations will allow recipients the opportunity 
to establish and enhance any of a variety of equipment, 
technology and/or programs to encourage the continuation and 
enhancement of community policing efforts within their 
jurisdictions. The accompanying table details funding for 
congressionally-designated activities, which are incorporated 
by reference in the bill:

              BYRNE DISCRETIONARY COMMUNITY PROJECT GRANTS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Recipient                     Project              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 A New Way of Life.............   A New Way of Life Safe        $250,000
                                  Homes--Women's Reentry
                                  and Economic
                                  Development Initiative.
 Adams County Government.......   Expanding Services to        2,000,000
                                  Domestic Violence
                                  Victims in Adams
                                  County.
 Ak-Chin Indian Community         Ak-Chin Indian                 500,000
 Police Department.               Community Police
                                  Department Equipment
                                  Modernization.
 Allegheny Police Chiefs Inc...   Body-Worn Camera and           550,000
                                  Technology Project.
 Alliance for Gun                 Restorative Justice            300,000
 Responsibility Foundation.       for Youth--South King
                                  County.
 Bell County...................   Bell County Sheriff's        1,563,000
                                  Department 2021
                                  Equipment
                                  Modernization Plan.
 Bexar County Sheriff's Office.   Bexar County Sheriff's          82,000
                                  Office Animal Cruelty
                                  Investigations Unit.
 Bowie State University........   Institute for                  750,000
                                  Restorative Justice
                                  and Practices.
 Broward County Sheriff's         Broward County Mental          563,000
 Office.                          Health Diversion
                                  Project.
 Calhoun County Sherriff's        Calhoun County Safe          1,700,000
 Department.                      Schools Initiative.
 Carroll County Sheriff's         Body-Worn Cameras, In-       1,429,000
 Office.                          Car Cameras, for
                                  Carrol County
                                  Sheriff's Office.
 Cherokee County Sheriff's        Cherokee County                340,000
 Office.                          Training Facility
                                  Equipment.
 CHOICES for Victims of           Safe Shelter for               750,000
 Domestic Violence, dba LSS       Victims of Domestic
 CHOICES.                         Violence.
 City of Albuquerque, Family      Trauma Recovery              1,000,000
 and Community Services.          Center--Services for
                                  Victims of Violent
                                  Crime.
 City of Alexandria (VA).......   Pilot Deployment of            600,000
                                  Body-Worn Cameras in
                                  the Alexandria Police
                                  Department.
 City of Alexandria (LA).......   City of Alexandria             276,000
                                  Police Body-Worn
                                  Camera Upgrade Project.
 City of Baltimore.............   9-1-1 Diversion Pilot        2,000,000
                                  Expansion.
 City of Belton................   City of Belton Public          374,000
                                  Safety Equipment.
 City of Burien................   City of Burien                 300,000
                                  Enhanced Youth
                                  Services.
 City of Charlotte.............   Cure Violence                1,000,000
                                  Charlotte
                                  Implementation.
 City of Clearwater, Florida...   Clearwater Police              144,000
                                  Department Mental
                                  Health Co-Responder
                                  Program.
 City of Deerfield Beach,         Security Technology            595,000
 Florida.                         Enhancements.
 City of Detroit--Detroit         Ceasefire Detroit              715,000
 Police Department.               Violence Reduction
                                  Program.
 City of El Paso...............   El Paso Police                 525,000
                                  Department Body-Worn
                                  Camera Program.
 City of Fresno Police            Advance Peace Fresno--         300,000
 Department.                      Violence Prevention
                                  and Intervention
                                  Program.
 City of Glendale..............   Expansion of Forensic          700,000
                                  Testing Services for
                                  the Verdugo Regional
                                  Crime Laboratory.
 City of Hollywood.............   Hollywood Police             1,702,000
                                  Department Body-Worn
                                  Cameras.
 City of Huntington............   Hydraulic Lift and               4,000
                                  Associated Equipment
                                  for Motor Vehicle
                                  Investigations.
 City of Indianapolis..........   Mental Health                1,000,000
                                  Diversion Program.
 City of Largo, FL.............   Police Officers Body-          230,000
                                  Worn Cameras for Largo
                                  Police Department.
 City of Los Angeles, Office of   CIRCLE 24/7: Crisis          1,500,000
 City Homelessness Initiatives.   and Incident Response
                                  through Community-Led
                                  Engagement.
 City of Manassas Police          Law Enforcement Mental         270,000
 Department.                      Health and Domestic
                                  Violence Case
                                  Management Team.
 City of Mansfield Division of    City of Mansfield               50,000
 Police.                          Division of Police Gun-
                                  shot Detection Program.
 City of McAllen...............   City of Mcallen Police         250,000
                                  Forensics Equipment.
 City of Napa..................   Napa County Public           1,800,000
                                  Safety Radio and
                                  Communication Upgrade
                                  Project.
 City of New Haven.............   New Haven Community          2,000,000
                                  Crisis Response Team
                                  (NH CCRT).
 City of New York, Office to      Crisis Management            3,000,000
 Prevent Gun Violence.            System (CMS).
 City of Omaha.................   Encompass Omaha: A             527,000
                                  Hospital-based
                                  Violence Intervention
                                  Program.
 City of Orlando...............   City of Orlando Police       1,200,000
                                  Department Next
                                  Generation Body-Worn
                                  Cameras.
 City of Pelham, Georgia.......   City of Pelham--Radio          225,000
                                  Communications System
                                  Upgrade.
 City of Portland..............   City of Portland               200,000
                                  Violence Prevention
                                  Outreach.
 City of Rialto................   City of Rialto Body-           700,000
                                  Worn Camera Upgrade.
 City of San Jose Police          Mobile Crisis                1,000,000
 Department.                      Assessment Team.
 City of Selma, Alabama........   Community Oriented             550,000
                                  Policing Services in
                                  Selma, Alabama.
 City of Simi Valley...........   Simi Valley Radio            1,000,000
                                  Replacement.
 City of Stanton...............   North Orange County          5,000,000
                                  Public Safety Task
                                  Force.
 City of Stockton..............   Safer Streets--Safer         1,000,000
                                  Communities: Group Gun
                                  Violence Reduction,
                                  Ceasefire, and
                                  Firearms Reduction
                                  Program.
 City of Syracuse..............   Body-Worn Cameras for          140,000
                                  the City of Syracuse.
 City of Thornton..............   Body-Worn Cameras for          310,000
                                  the Thornton Police
                                  Department.
 City of Tracy Police             City of Tracy Crime            255,000
 Department.                      Reduction Program.
 City of Vallejo Police           Vallejo Police                 900,000
 Department.                      Department Community
                                  Mobile Mental Health
                                  Response Unit Pilot
                                  Program.
 Cocaine and Alcohol Awareness    Cocaine and Alcohol            671,000
 Program, Incorporated.           Awareness Program,
                                  Incorporated (CAAP,
                                  Inc) Community
                                  Corrections Program.
 Community Leaders Roundtable     Snohomish County               246,000
 of Seattle, d.b.a. CHOOSE 180.   Community-Based
                                  Diversion with CHOOSE
                                  180.
 County of El Paso, Texas......   The Crisis                   2,015,000
                                  Intervention Team.
 County of Placer..............   Placer County Body-            580,000
                                  Worn Camera Program.
 County of Ventura.............   Ventura County Cold            950,000
                                  Case and Sexual
                                  Assault Investigation.
 Deerpark Town Police Dept.....   Deer Park Body-Worn             30,000
                                  Cameras.
 Delaware Criminal Justice        Statewide Body-Worn          1,600,000
 Council.                         Camera Project.
 Delaware Criminal Justice        Statewide Violence           1,900,000
 Council.                         Reduction Project.
 Durham County Government......   Community Violence             250,000
                                  Intervention Project.
 East Baton Rouge Sheriff's       East Baton Rouge Rapid         686,000
 Office.                          DNA System.
 Eastern Michigan University...   Prisoner Reentry               250,000
                                  Services.
 Educate Youth Ypsilanti.......   Police Community               149,000
                                  Relations Training
                                  Program.
 Essex County Sheriff's           STAR Program                   850,000
 Department.                      (Supporting
                                  Transitions and
                                  Reentry).
 Family Service of Rhode Island   Police Go Team                 413,000
 (FSRI).                          Critical Services and
                                  Expansion.
 Forrest County Sheriff's         Forrest County                 500,000
 Office.                          Sheriff's Office
                                  Radios & Body-Worn
                                  Cameras.
 Forsyth County Government.....   Forsyth County                  90,000
                                  Substance Abuse and
                                  Intervention Program.
 Forsyth County Government.....   Crisis Intervention            235,000
                                  Team.
 Genesee County................   Genesee County Justice         768,000
                                  Partnership for Reform.
 Graham County Sheriff's          Graham County In-Car            91,000
 Department.                      Radios for Patrol Cars.
 Graham County Sheriff's          Graham County Sheriff           53,000
 Department.                      Body-Worn Camera
                                  Project.
 Hennepin County...............   Hennepin County Family         500,000
                                  Dependency Treatment
                                  Court.
 Homestead Police Department...   Homestead Police               750,000
                                  Department Body-Worn
                                  Camera Program.
 Houston Police Department.....   Houston Police                 975,000
                                  Department Advocates
                                  for Violent Crime
                                  Victims.
 Huckleberry House, Inc........   Central Ohio Youth             610,000
                                  Homelessness Support
                                  for Victims of Crime.
 JEVS Human Services...........   The Choice is Yours...         400,000
 Johnstown Police Department...   Johnstown Police                79,000
                                  Department Mobile
                                  Office Technology
                                  Project.
 Kansas City, Missouri Health     Aim4Peace Hospital-            250,000
 Department.                      based Violence
                                  Intervention Program.
 Kings County..................   King's County Deputy           413,000
                                  Sheriff's Body-Worn
                                  Camera Project.
 Lackawanna County Government..   Lackawanna County Gun        2,000,000
                                  and Gang Reduction and
                                  Intelligence Project
                                  (GGRIP).
 Lansing Police Department.....   Lansing Police               1,342,000
                                  Department--Lansing
                                  Crisis Assessment Team
                                  (LCAT).
 Law Enforcement Planning         Modular Medical                659,000
 Commission.                      Examiner's Office
                                  Suite--Equipment.
 Lifebridge Health, Inc........   LifeBridge Health              600,000
                                  Community Violence
                                  Cessation.
 Los Angeles Brotherhood          Brotherhood Crusade            220,000
 Crusade, Black United Fund,      and 2nd Call:
 Inc..                            Answering the Second
                                  Call--A Holistic,
                                  Culturally-Responsive,
                                  Trauma-Informed Re-
                                  Entry Program.
 Louisiana Office of State        Less-Than-Lethal             2,300,000
 Police.                          Technology Training
                                  Center Equipment.
 Lower Richland Alumni            The Lower Richland             800,000
 Foundation.                      Alumni Foundation
                                  Community Cares
                                  Project.
 Lucas County Sheriff's Office.   Lucas County Jail            2,000,000
                                  Mental Health
                                  Evaluation and
                                  Stabilization Wing
                                  Planning and Design.
 Lutheran Settlement House.....   Strengthening Supports         125,000
                                  for Victims of
                                  Domestic Violence.
 Marion County Prosecutors        Marion County                   96,000
 Office.                          Prosecutor's Office
                                  Second Chance
                                  Workshops.
 Menifee County Sheriff's         Menifee County Schools         529,000
 Office.                          Security Project.
 Miami-Dade Police Department..   Operation Safe Ride--        2,010,000
                                  Public Safety Program.
 Morrow County Sheriff's Office   Morrow County                  288,000
                                  Sheriff's Office Radio
                                  Communications System.
 Mothers in Charge.............   Mothers In Charge              100,000
                                  Prevention,
                                  Intervention and
                                  Education (PIE).
 Municipality of Utuado........   Law Enforcement                116,000
                                  Equipment and
                                  Technology for the
                                  Utuado Municipal
                                  Police.
 National Institute for           Youth ALIVE! and               500,000
 Criminal Justice Reform.         Community & Youth
                                  Outreach (CYO).
 Nevada Department of Public      From Supervision to            235,000
 Safety Parole and Probation.     Success--Recidivism
                                  Reduction Program.
 New Britain Police Department.   Improving Community             15,000
                                  Youth & Police
                                  Relations in New
                                  Britain.
 New Hanover County Sheriff's     Forensic DNA                   400,000
 Department.                      Technology.
 New York City Police             Critical Response              350,000
 Department.                      Command K9-Training
                                  and Equipment.
 New York City Police             Forensic Equipment....       2,000,000
 Department.
 New York City Police             Personal Protective            550,000
 Department.                      Equipment.
 Newark Community Street Team,    Newark Community               471,000
 Inc..                            Street Team High Risk
                                  Intervention Expansion.
 NMI Judiciary.................   Technical Assistance           303,000
                                  to Determine the
                                  Viability of a Mental
                                  Health Treatment Court
                                  with a Specific Docket
                                  for Veterans.
 Oak Park Department of Public    Oak Park Body-Worn and         560,000
 Safety.                          In-Car Cameras.
 Orange County.................   Coordinated Reentry          5,000,000
                                  Center--Programs and
                                  Services.
 Pinellas County Justice Center   Pinellas County                200,000
                                  Intercept Unit.
 Portage County Sheriff's         Body-Worn and In-Car           616,000
 Office.                          Cameras for Patrol.
 Prince William County Police     Police Use of Force            250,000
 Department.                      Assessment,
                                  Evaluation, and
                                  Analysis.
 Raleigh/Wake City-County         Raleigh/Wake City-             500,000
 Bureau of Identification.        County Bureau of
                                  Identification DNA
                                  Testing Equipment.
 Ramsey County.................   Ramsey County                  900,000
                                  Community Violence
                                  Prevention Project.
Safelight, Inc.................   Safelight Child                300,000
                                  Advocacy Center.
Samadhi Center Inc.............   Samadhi Center SNUGS           430,000
                                  Program.
 San Antonino Police Department   San Antonio Mental           1,000,000
                                  Health Unit Expansion.
 Schuylkill County.............   Schuylkill County            1,064,000
                                  Intermediate
                                  Punishment Facility
                                  Equipment.
 Southern Methodist University.   Combatting Human             1,187,000
                                  Trafficking.
 Spokane Sheriff's Department..   Spokane Sheriff's              480,000
                                  Department Rapid DNA
                                  Technology.
 Stafford Township Police         On POINT--Proactive             32,000
 Department.                      Outreach in Needs and
                                  Treatment Program
                                  Expansion.
 State of Hawaii, Department of   DLNR/Division of               340,000
 Land and Natural Resources.      Conservation and
                                  Resources Enforcement
                                  Academy Program.
 The City of Grand Rapids......   Cure Violence Grand            600,000
                                  Rapids.
 The City of Opa-Locka Police     Opa-Locka Gunshot              109,000
 Department.                      Detection Violence
                                  Reduction Initiative.
 The Connie Rice Institute for    Urban Peace Institute          220,000
 Urban Peace.                     and Chapter TWO: South
                                  Los Angeles Peace
                                  Ambassadors.
 Toberman Neighborhood Center..   Toberman Neighborhood        1,000,000
                                  Center San Pedro
                                  Violence Interruption
                                  through Gang
                                  Deterrence Program.
 U.S. Institute Against Human     Combatting Human               750,000
 Trafficking.                     Trafficking in the
                                  State of Florida.
 University of Maryland Medical   University of Maryland         497,000
 Center R Adams Cowley Shock      Medical Center R Adams
 Trauma Violence Prevention       Cowley Shock Trauma
 Program.                         Violence Prevention
                                  Program.
 University of South Alabama...   Department Community-          500,000
                                  Based Crisis
                                  Intervention Training
                                  and Support for
                                  Primary Responders.
 University Park Police           University Park Police          20,000
 Department.                      Department Body-Worn
                                  Cameras.
 UTEC, Inc.....................   Supports for Proven            500,000
                                  Risk Youth and Young
                                  Adults in Haverhill.
 Village of Hoffman Estates....   Village of Hoffman             150,000
                                  Estates Domestic
                                  Violence Project.
 Village of Maywood............   Maywood Alternative            621,000
                                  Policing Strategies,
                                  Junior (MAPS, JR).
 Virginia Commonwealth            Richmond, Virginia Gun         996,000
 University.                      Violence Prevention
                                  Framework.
 Wolcott Police Department.....   Fixed Network                3,200,000
                                  Equipment Upgrade for
                                  Wolcott Police
                                  Department.
 Young Women's Christian          YWCA Greater Los               300,000
 Association of Greater Los       Angeles Sexual Assault
 Angeles.                         Response Team Project
                                  (SART).
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                       JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS

    The Committee recommends $494,000,000 for Juvenile Justice 
programs, which is $148,000,000 above fiscal year 2021 and 
$302,000,000 below the request. Funds are distributed as 
follows:

                        JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Part B--State Formula...................................         $80,000
Grants:
    Emergency Planning--Juvenile Detention Facilities...           (500)
Youth Mentoring Grants..................................         110,000
Title V--Delinquency Prevention Incentive Grants........          60,000
    Prevention of Trafficking of Girls..................         (6,000)
    Tribal Youth........................................        (14,000)
    Children of Incarcerated Parents Web Portal.........           (500)
    Girls in the Justice System.........................         (9,000)
    Opioid Affected Youth Initiative....................        (12,000)
    Children Exposed to Violence........................        (10,000)
Victims of Child Abuse Programs.........................          40,000
Missing and Exploited Children Programs.................         109,000
Training for Judicial Personnel.........................           5,000
Juvenile Indigent Defense...............................          10,000
Alternatives to Youth Incarceration Initiative..........          50,000
Community Violence Intervention Initiative..............          10,000
Juvenile Accountability Block Grants....................          20,000
                                                         ---------------
    Total, Juvenile Justice.............................        $494,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Alternatives to Youth Incarceration.--The Committee 
recommends $50,000,000 to develop a new initiative to fund 
states to close and repurpose youth prisons. Funding should be 
used by State grantees to support a robust planning process to 
help redirect resources freed up by youth prison closures to 
support more effective alternatives to incarceration and 
community-based programs for system-involved youth; needed 
services and opportunities outside of the justice system; and 
to address economic impact of youth prison closures on 
communities, such as the re-employment of laid-off employees of 
youth prisons. In addition, the Committee expects these funds 
would be utilized to assist States in closing youth prisons and 
directing State and local resources to support more effective 
community-based services and supports for young people involved 
in the juvenile justice system and their families, as well as 
provide workforce development for correctional staff who will 
need new employment upon facility closures.
    Arts-based programs.--The Committee strongly supports a 
comprehensive and innovative approach to programs that work to 
improve the lives of the youth in our communities. The Office 
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is encouraged to 
partner with leaders in the arts communities and art 
stakeholders to establish a demonstration program focused on 
providing competitive grants to partnerships between arts 
organizations and juvenile justice systems, programs, and 
nonprofit organizations, to pilot promising and effective art-
based and art therapy models for youth at-risk of, or engaged 
with, the juvenile justice systems.
    Missing and Exploited Children Programs.--The 
recommendation includes $109,000,000 for missing and exploited 
children programs, which is $15,000,000 above fiscal year 2021 
and $11,000,000 below the request.
    The Committee recommends $60,000,000 for task force grants, 
training and technical assistance, research and statistics, and 
administrative costs for the Internet Crimes Against Children 
(ICAC) program as authorized under Public Law 110-401. The 
Department is directed to include in its ICAC Task Force grant 
solicitation a prioritization of proactive investigations of 
suspects possessing, distributing, or producing violent and 
sadistic child sexual abuse imagery. The Committee also 
encourages the Department to encourage ICAC grantees to 
dedicate increased efforts to proactive investigations, which 
have demonstrated potential to rescue children.
    The Department is encouraged to support the development, 
refinement, and technological advancement of widely used tools, 
methods, and technologies that address child sexual 
exploitation and trafficking.
    The Committee recognizes the diverse and unique challenges 
identified in the report to Congress directed by the Ashlynne 
Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act (Public Law 115-166) for 
the integration of State AMBER Alert communications plans and 
tribal systems. Within the funds provided, the Committee 
recommends no less than $4,400,000 for the operation and 
activities of the existing AMBER Alert program. Of the funds 
provided for AMBER Alert activities, $1,000,000 shall be 
directed to addressing State/tribal integration consistent with 
(1) the findings of the report directed in Public Law 115-166 
and (2) a long-term budget and plan by the Department for 
implementation across all States with affected Tribal 
communities. The Committee directs the Department to submit to 
the Committee a long-term budget and plan for implementation 
across all States with affected tribal communities, not later 
than 90 days after enactment of this Act.
    National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 
Transparency.--The Committee recognizes the important work done 
by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children 
(NCMEC) to find missing children, reduce child sexual 
exploitation, and prevent child victimization. According to 
estimates, Federal funding comprised over 80 percent of NCMEC's 
budget for exploited children programs in 2019 and over 70 
percent in 2020. Despite this significant Federal financial 
support, as a private non-profit organization, NCMEC is not 
subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and has 
minimal statutory disclosure requirements. In order to better 
understand whether NCMEC is working effectively to achieve its 
organizational mission, the Committee directs the agency to 
issue a report within 60 days of the enactment of this Act that 
includes statistics for the preceding year detailing: (1) the 
number of tips to the Cybertipline containing child sexual 
abuse material (CSAM) disaggregated by how many images and 
videos are deemed to be unique using hash-matching technology; 
(2) the number of tips to the Cybertipline containing CSAM with 
unique images and videos after deconfliction or deduplication 
of visually similar imagery; (3) the number of unique image and 
video files reviewed by the Child Victim Identification Program 
(CVIP); (4) the total number of unique image and video files 
reviewed by the CVIP disaggregated by whether there was a known 
or suspected relationship between the suspected offender and 
the victim, including disaggregation by the type of 
relationship; and (5) the number of unidentified minor victims 
added to the National Center for Missing and Exploited 
Children's image repository for the first time.
    Preventing trafficking of girls.--The recommendation 
includes $6,000,000 for grants for nonprofits and other 
nongovernmental entities that have undergone rigorous 
evaluation and have a successful track record of administering 
research-based prevention and early intervention programs for 
girls who are vulnerable to trafficking and are most likely to 
end up in the juvenile justice system. Funds shall be used to 
scale up and replicate these programs. This expansion will 
bolster prevention and early intervention strategies and 
curricula throughout the country, and place vulnerable girls on 
a path toward success, stability, and long-term contribution to 
our society.
    Victims of Child Abuse Programs.--The recommendation 
includes $40,000,000 for Victims of Child Abuse (VOCA) 
programs, which is $10,000,000 above fiscal year 2021. The 
Committee is aware that statutes of limitation laws have 
prevented survivors of child sexual abuse, child exploitation, 
and child sex trafficking from seeking justice when their 
trauma causes them to delay disclosure of their abuse until 
later in life. The Department is encouraged to prioritize 
awards to grantees in States that are actively working to 
review and revise civil and criminal statutes of limitations 
laws and avenues for reviving time-barred civil claims for 
child sexual abuse, child exploitation, and child sex 
trafficking for adults who were a child at the time of the 
sexual abuse claim in question.
    Youth mentoring grants.--The recommendation includes 
$110,000,000 for youth mentoring grants, which is $10,000,000 
above fiscal year 2021.
    The Committee recognizes the success of the Youth Mentoring 
program. Through trusted peer-to-peer mentoring relationships, 
in the community and in schools, Youth Mentoring grantees can 
provide needed attention and support to at-risk children. 
Mentoring relationships enhance a child's overall well-being by 
improving their emotional, social, and educational development.
    The Committee believes that the Department must take a more 
aggressive approach to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline 
and limit out-of-school suspensions. The Committee encourages 
the Department to explore implementing programs that are 
focused on disadvantaged students of color in elementary and 
secondary school; available to all schools in all districts; 
and include a curriculum that prevents unnecessary trauma and 
harm; incorporates positive alternatives to suspension, in-
school arrests, and expulsion; and promotes educational 
development and attainment. The Committee looks forward to the 
report directed in House Reports 116-101 and 116-455, detailing 
how the Department could partner with relevant stakeholders to 
implement such a program.

                     PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BENEFITS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends a total of $156,800,000 for the 
Public Safety Officer Benefits program, which is $13,000,000 
above fiscal year 2021 and the same as the request. Within the 
funds provided, $122,000,000 is for death benefits for 
survivors, an amount estimated by the Congressional Budget 
Office that is considered mandatory for scorekeeping purposes. 
Also within the total, $34,800,000 is recommended for 
disability benefits for public safety officers who are 
permanently and totally disabled as a result of a catastrophic 
injury sustained in the line of duty, and for education 
benefits for the spouses and children of officers who are 
killed in the line of duty or who are permanently and totally 
disabled as a result of a catastrophic injury sustained in the 
line of duty.

                  Community Oriented Policing Services


             COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $450,881,000 for Community 
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Programs, which is 
$64,881,000 above fiscal year 2021 and $200,119,000 below the 
request. Funds are distributed as follows:

                  COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
COPS Hiring Grants......................................        $245,000
    Improving Tribal Law Enforcement Resources..........        (29,500)
    Regional Information Sharing Activities.............        (44,000)
    Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act......         (8,000)
    Tribal Access Program...............................         (3,000)
    Civilian Review Boards..............................         (4,000)
Community Policing Development/Training and Technical             35,000
 Assistance.............................................
Police Act..............................................          11,000
Anti-Methamphetamine Task Forces........................          15,000
Anti-Heroin Task Forces.................................          35,000
STOP School Violence Act................................          53,000
COPS Technology and Equipment Community Projects........          56,881
                                                         ---------------
    Total, Community Oriented Policing Services.........        $450,881
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Active shooter response.--The recommendation includes 
$11,000,000 for the POLICE Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-199). 
The Committee notes the importance of training partnerships 
that offer nationwide, dynamic force-on-force scenario-based 
training. The Committee understands the training has been 
adopted by numerous States and agencies as their standard 
active shooter training and that the FBI has adopted this 
program as its national training standard for active shooter 
response.
    As Congress works to reduce gun violence by enacting 
universal background checks and other gun safety measures, it 
is critical that all educational institutions, including our 
schools and universities, receive adequate training and 
assistance in responding to active shooter situations and that 
such training involves campus police officers who are 
particularly critical to the initial response in these 
situations.
    The Committee directs the Department of Justice to ensure 
that such grants authorized under the POLICE Act be made 
available for primary schools, secondary schools, and college 
campuses, and that such training is integrated with campus 
police officers and local law enforcement.
    The Department shall report to the Committee, within 180 
days of enactment, on the number of schools that have received 
active shooter training and the number of schools' campus 
police officer units that have received active shooter training 
in connection with this program over the last three fiscal 
years.
    Community Policing Development (CPD).--The Committee 
recommends $35,000,000 for CPD, for competitive grants provided 
directly to law enforcement, including training programs. Of 
this amount, (1) $15,000,000 is for officer training in de-
escalation techniques, of which no less than $4,000,000 is for 
grants to regional de-escalation training centers that are 
administered by accredited institutions of higher education and 
offer de-escalation training certified by a national 
certification program; (2) $5,000,000 is for assisting agencies 
with gaining accreditation to ensure compliance with national 
and international standards covering all aspects of law 
enforcement policies, procedures, practices, and operations, of 
which no less than $1,500,000 is to be provided for small and 
rural law enforcement agencies for this purpose; (3) $3,000,000 
is for the CPD Microgrants program, which provides funding for 
demonstration and pilot projects that offer creative ideas to 
advance crime fighting, community engagement, problem solving, 
and organizational changes to support community policing; (4) 
$2,000,000 is for grants to support tolerance, diversity, and 
anti-bias training programs offered by organizations with well-
established experience training law enforcement personnel and 
criminal justice professionals; and (5) $10,000,000 for grants 
to States to embed mental and behavioral health services with 
law enforcement, including training programs. The Committee 
directs the Department to provide a status update on the 
program within 60 days of the enactment of this Act.
    Civilian Review Boards.--Within the amount provided for 
COPS, the Committee recommends $4,000,000 for grants for the 
development of best practices for, and the creation of, 
civilian review boards to oversee local police departments. 
Civilian review boards funded under this program should be 
independent and adequately resourced, have investigatory 
authority and staff subpoena power, have representative 
community diversity, have policy making authority, provide 
advocates for civilian complainants, have mandatory police 
power to conduct hearings, and conduct statistical studies on 
prevailing complaint trends.
    Law Enforcement Screening and Training to Eliminate Bias.--
The Committee recognizes the importance to effective policing 
of law enforcement personnel reflecting the communities they 
serve, and of officers identifying and eliminating biases that 
impair their ability to earn and maintain community trust, and 
carry out their duties fairly. In addition, to fulfill their 
mission, law enforcement agencies should implement best 
practices to prevent active proponents of white supremacy and 
violent anti-government extremism from joining their ranks, and 
to eliminate such individuals from officers corps. The 
Committee encourages the Department to provide the highest 
priority to COPS Hiring program applicants and law enforcement 
agencies that request support for screening and counseling 
programs to identify and prevent the radicalization of 
applicants and personnel who endorse violent and hateful 
extremist movements. The Committee further encourages the 
Department to prioritize COPS Hiring grants to program 
applicants and law enforcement agencies that require their 
employees to complete trainings on ethnic and racial bias, 
racial profiling, gender bias, sexual orientation and gender 
identity bias, and/or cultural diversity.
    Police Accountability and Community.--The Committee urges 
the Department to make funds available to help nonprofit 
organizations, institutions of higher education, community 
groups, youth groups, and faith-based organizations facilitate 
organized dialogues that bring together community members and 
law enforcement officers so that they may collaborate to 
develop shared goals that will enhance the collective safety of 
the community. The dialogues should include diverse groups of 
community members, local elected officials, law enforcement 
leaders and officers, business leaders, and community members, 
including youth groups, to assess the state of police-community 
relations in States and local communities. The Department is 
further urged to partner with these organizations to develop 
strategies that will result in concrete action items that will 
improve the relationships between the police and the 
communities and further the goal of enhancing collective 
safety. Within 180 days of enactment of this Act, the 
Department shall submit a progress report to the Committee on 
the results of the dialogues as well as on any law enforcement 
practices that have changed as a result of the dialogues.
    Regional Information Sharing Activities.--Regional 
information sharing activities play a key role in assisting our 
local, State and Federal law enforcement agencies fight crime 
and terrorism. This recommendation provides $44,000,000, which 
is $4,000,000 above fiscal year 2021 for grants to State and 
local law enforcement for these activities.
    STOP School Violence Act.--The recommendation includes 
$53,000,000, which is equal to the fiscal year 2021 level for 
evidence-based school hardening measures including metal 
detectors, locks, lighting, ballistic glass, and other 
deterrent measures in coordination with law enforcement, as 
well as training for local law enforcement officers to prevent 
student violence, technology for expedited notification of 
local law enforcement during an emergency, and other measures 
determined to provide significant improvement in physical 
security of schools.
     School resource officers.--The Committee supports 
strategies that improve school climate in order to reduce 
harmful, disproportionate suspensions, expulsions, and arrests 
of students of color, and to protect the civil liberties of 
students in school.
    COPS Technology and Equipment Community Projects.--The 
recommendation includes $56,881,000 for grants to State, local, 
and Tribal law enforcement which includes $55,766,000 for 
community projects and $1,115,000 for related agency 
administrative expenses, to develop and acquire effective 
technologies and interoperable communications that assist in 
responding to and preventing crime. These project 
recommendations will allow recipients the opportunity to 
establish and enhance any of a variety of technical equipment 
and/or programs to encourage the continuation and enhancement 
of community policing efforts within their jurisdictions. These 
projects should help improve police effectiveness and the flow 
of information among law enforcement agencies, local government 
service providers, and the communities they serve.
    COPS is directed to ensure that all equipment funded under 
this program meets the requirements of the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology Office of Law Enforcement 
Standards. The accompanying table details funding for 
congressionally designated activities, which are incorporated 
by reference in the bill:

COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES, TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT COMMUNITY
                                PROJECTS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recipient                     Project              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Camden County Police Department  Cameras to Monitor             $500,000
                                  Illegal Dumping.
Chicago Police Department......  Chicago Integrated              500,000
                                  Intelligence Strategy
                                  Program Equipment.
Chittenden County Public Safety  Chittenden County               750,000
 Authority.                       Public Safety
                                  Authority Regional
                                  Dispatch Center--
                                  Equipment.
City of Alamo..................  City of Alamo Police            540,000
                                  Radio Equipment.
City of Clinton Police           Radio Upgrades and              173,000
 Department.                      Repeater Placement.
City of Elk Grove..............  Elk Grove Police                520,000
                                  Department
                                  Communications Center
                                  Equipment.
City of Fremont................  City of Fremont                 250,000
                                  Emergency Dispatch
                                  System.
City of Glendale...............  Glendale 911                    480,000
                                  Communication Center
                                  Upgrades.
City of Greensboro.............  Computer Aided Dispatch       3,000,000
                                  System Replacement for
                                  the City of
                                  Greensboro, NC.
City of Huntington.............  Nationally Integrated           219,000
                                  Ballistic Information
                                  Network (NIBIN)
                                  Terminal.
City of Lemoore................  City of Lemoore Police        1,000,000
                                  Dispatch.
City of Monroeville............  Monroeville Police              125,000
                                  Department Security
                                  Cameras.
City of Monrovia...............  Monrovia Public Safety          843,000
                                  Critical
                                  Communications
                                  Replacement Project.
City of Pomona--Police           Police Radio Upgrades..       3,404,000
 Department.
City of Saint Paul.............  Saint Paul Police             2,000,000
                                  Department Portable
                                  Radio Replacement.
City of Sparks.................  First Responder Radio         1,000,000
                                  Equipment.
City of Suffolk................  Suffolk Emergency             3,492,000
                                  Communication Center
                                  Computer Aided
                                  Dispatching (CAD) and
                                  Police Records
                                  Management System
                                  (RMS) Replacement.
City of Tampa..................  COPS Technology                 382,000
                                  Enhancement.
City of Vancouver..............  City of Vancouver             1,500,000
                                  Police Camera Program.
City of West Wendover..........  Police Interoperability         376,000
                                  Equipment.
City of Wilkes-Barre...........  City of Wilkes-Barre,         2,100,000
                                  Pennsylvania's
                                  Community Policing
                                  Technology and
                                  Equipment Initiative.
City of Winston-Salem, NC......  Winston-Salem Police            273,000
                                  Department Real Time
                                  Crime Center
                                  Technology Upgrades.
Coos County....................  Coos County Emergency           231,000
                                  Radio Communications
                                  System.
County of Northampton..........  Eastern Shore of              8,245,000
                                  Virginia's Regional
                                  Public Safety Radio
                                  Communications System.
Gary Police Department.........  Technology Upgrades--           500,000
                                  Gary Police Department.
Hamilton County Department of    Hamilton County P25           1,600,000
 Communications.                  Radio System
                                  Enhancement.
Hillsdale County Sheriff's       Communication                   210,000
 Office.                          Technology Improvement.
Johnson County Fiscal Court....  Johnson County First            859,000
                                  Responder
                                  Communications Project.
Manchester Police Department...  Manchester Gunshot              300,000
                                  Recognition Technology.
Marion County--Finance           Marion County Public          1,200,000
 Department.                      Safety Radio System
                                  Upgrade and Repairs.
Montgomery County Sheriff's      Montgomery County                25,000
 Office.                          Sheriff's Office
                                  License Plate Reader.
Nevada County Sheriff's          Nevada County Sheriff's       4,800,000
 Department.                      Office Radio
                                  Infrastructure
                                  Improvements.
Norwich Police Department......  Norwich Police                  700,000
                                  Department Computer
                                  Aided Dispatch and
                                  Records Management
                                  System.
Oceanside Police Department....  In-Car Camera System...         587,000
Pinellas County Government.....  Pinellas County               1,750,000
                                  Consolidated Computer
                                  Aided Dispatch (CAD)
                                  System.
Prince George's County           Mobile Camera System...         442,000
 Government.
San Luis Obispo County.........  County of San Luis            5,600,000
                                  Obispo Public Safety
                                  Communication System.
South Beaver Township Police     South Beaver Township           224,000
 Department.                      Police Department
                                  Communication System
                                  Improvement Project.
SouthCom Combined Dispatch       SouthCom Technology             276,000
 Center.                          Upgrades.
Strafford County Sheriff's       Strafford County                752,000
 Department.                      Sheriff Radio Systems.
The Borough of Leonia..........  The Strengthening               250,000
                                  Public Safety
                                  Communications Project.
Town of Paradise...............  Upgraded Radios for             615,000
                                  Paradise Police
                                  Department.
Union City Police Department...  Closed-Circuit                1,100,000
                                  Television (CCTV) for
                                  a Safer Union City.
Union County, New Jersey.......  Union County, New             1,270,000
                                  Jersey, Law
                                  Enforcement
                                  Interoperable
                                  Communications
                                  Expansion and Upgrades.
Village of East Alton..........  East Alton Law                   25,000
                                  Enforcement Cameras.
Waterford Township Police        911 Dispatch-Emergency          250,000
 Department.                      Operations Center
                                  Technology Upgrades.
Westmoreland County Department   Westmoreland County             528,000
 of Public Safety.                Department of Public
                                  Safety Backup 9-1-1.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

               General Provisions--Department of Justice


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee has included the following general provisions 
for the Department of Justice:
    Section 201 makes available additional reception and 
representation funding for the Attorney General from the 
amounts provided in this title.
    Section 202 prohibits the use of funds to require any 
person to perform or facilitate the performance of an abortion.
    Section 203 establishes that the Director of the Bureau of 
Prisons is obliged to provide escort services to an inmate 
receiving an abortion outside of a Federal facility, except 
where this obligation conflicts with the preceding section.
    Section 204 establishes requirements and procedures for 
transfer proposals.
    Section 205 prohibits the use of certain funds for 
transporting prisoners classified as maximum or high security, 
other than to a facility certified by the Bureau of Prisons as 
appropriately secure.
    Section 206 prohibits the use of funds for the purchase or 
rental by Federal prisons of audiovisual equipment, services 
and materials used primarily for recreational purposes, except 
for those items and services needed for inmate training, 
religious, or educational purposes.
    Section 207 requires review by the Deputy Attorney General 
and the Department Investment Review Board prior to the 
obligation or expenditure of funds for major information 
technology projects.
    Section 208 requires the Department to follow reprogramming 
procedures for any deviation from the program amounts specified 
in this title or the accompanying report, or the reuse of 
deobligated funds provided in previous years.
    Section 209 prohibits the use of funds for OMB Circular A-
76 competitions for work performed by employees of the Bureau 
of Prisons or of the Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
    Section 210 prohibits U.S. Attorneys from holding 
additional responsibilities that exempt U.S. Attorneys from 
statutory residency requirements.
    Section 211 permits up to 2 percent of grant and 
reimbursement program funds made available to the Office of 
Justice Programs to be used for training and technical 
assistance, and up to 2 percent of grant funds made available 
to that office to be used for criminal justice research, 
evaluation and statistics by the National Institute of Justice 
and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
    Section 212 provides cost-share waivers for certain DOJ 
grant programs.
    Section 213 waives the requirement that the Attorney 
General reserve certain funds from amounts provided for 
offender incarceration.
    Section 214 prohibits funds, other than funds for the 
National Instant Criminal Background Check System established 
under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, from being 
used to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to a 
known or suspected agent of a drug cartel where law enforcement 
personnel do not continuously monitor or control such firearm.
    Section 215 permits DOJ to participate in Performance 
Partnership Pilot collaboration programs.
    Section 216 provides for the use of offsetting collections 
credited to and made available in the Working Capital Fund.
    Section 217 prohibits EOIR's use of case completion quotas 
in immigration judge performance evaluations.
    Section 218 prohibits funds to move a Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives facility.
    Section 219 the awarding of funds under the Byrne JAG or 
COPS programs unless the United States Attorney General 
certifies that the recipient State or unit of local government 
satisfies several conditions.
    Section 220 prohibits Department of Justice funding from 
being made available to any law enforcement agency of any 
State, unit of local government, or federally-recognized Tribal 
Government unless the Attorney General has certified that such 
agency has begun or completed the process of receiving 
accreditation from a law enforcement accreditation organization 
approved by the Attorney General.
    Section 221 prohibits the awarding of funds under the Byrne 
JAG or COPS programs unless the United States Attorney General 
certifies that the recipient State or unit of local government 
has in effect a law prohibiting sexual activity while acting 
under color of law.
    Section 222 authorizes a National Task Force on Law 
Enforcement Oversight.

                               TITLE III


                                SCIENCE


                Office of Science and Technology Policy

    The Committee recommends $7,152,000 for the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which is $1,608,000 above 
the fiscal year 2021 enacted level.
    Climate Change Adaptation.--The Committee supports the 
direction provided by Executive Order 14008 regarding climate 
adaptation and resilience and the mandate for each Federal 
agency to produce annual Climate Action Plans. The Committee is 
concerned about the quality of these action plans and the 
climate information on which they are based. Therefore, the 
Committee provides $500,000 and directs OSTP, in collaboration 
with NOAA and the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), 
to develop, and make public, guidance for Federal agencies as 
they create and update their Climate Action Plans and annual 
progress reports to (1) assist agencies in identifying and 
accessing quality and appropriate climate information; (2) 
ensure consistent application of climate information 
parameters, including but not limited to timeframes, emissions 
scenarios, and risk tolerance levels; (3) ensure appropriate 
interpretation of climate information; and (4) ensure 
consistency across agencies with regard to the scope of the 
evaluations of the impacts of climate change to their 
operations, capabilities, facilities, and public services.
    Further, the Committee directs OSTP, in collaboration with 
NOAA and USGCRP, to review agency Climate Action Plans to 
assess the appropriateness of the climate information that was 
used, including parameters such as the timeframes, emissions 
scenarios, and risk tolerance. OSTP shall, not later than 90 
days after the enactment of this Act, provide the Committee 
with a detailed briefing on the findings from this review as 
well as its plan to provide guidance to the agencies to improve 
the quality and consistency of future climate action plans.
    Federally Funded Scientific Research.--The Committee 
recognizes the considerable progress made by OSTP in bringing 
to completion the department and agency public access plans 
called for by the OSTP Memorandum ``Increasing Access to the 
Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research,'' issued 
February 22, 2013. The Committee understands that 22 
departments and agencies with annual expenditures on research 
and development of $100,000,000 or more now have completed 
their public access plans for increasing access to peer-
reviewed scholarly publications and digital data resulting from 
Federally funded research. The Committee encourages OSTP to 
continue its efforts to coordinate the implementation of public 
access policies across Federal departments and agencies and to 
identify additional opportunities to enhance access to the 
results of Federally funded research. The Committee received 
OSTP's quarterly progress reports regarding department and 
agency public access planning efforts, the most recent report 
being issued on January 9, 2017. Further, OSTP shall report to 
the Committee on an annual basis on the progress of departments 
and agencies in implementing their public access plans, 
including relevant measures of progress, and regarding 
additional steps being taken to improve access to the results 
of Federally funded research. In addition, at least 90 days 
prior to making any changes to the Federal Government's public 
access policies as outlined in the 2013 OSTP memorandum on 
``Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded 
Scientific Research'', the Committee directs OSTP to submit to 
the Committee a report on the costs and budgetary impact of 
such changes. The report shall include a complete analysis of 
any newly-created costs, including any potential new costs for 
grant recipients.
    Arctic Observing System.--The Committee recognizes the 
significant impacts of the changing climate in the Arctic, 
which have dramatically outpaced the changes on the rest of the 
planet. Unfortunately, the Nation's ability to monitor, detect, 
and understand marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric changes and 
their implications for the rest of the planet is limited by the 
insufficient observing facilities in the Arctic. The Committee 
therefore directs OSTP, no later than 270 days after the 
enactment of this Act, to provide the Committee with a report 
on the need to establish and maintain a sustained Arctic 
observing network, including recommendations on the 
implementation and construction of such a network. The report 
should be developed in coordination with relevant Federal 
agencies and include ally Arctic nations, as appropriate.
    Microbiome.--The Committee requests an update from the 
National Science and Technology Council on the implementation 
of the Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research, 
which was developed by the Microbiome Interagency Working 
Group, and in particular, any proposal for the continuation of 
the plan at its completion in 2022. The Committee encourages 
OSTP to prioritize leveraging the National Microbiome Data 
Collaborative at the Department of Energy to ensure cross-
agency collaboration and integration of microbiome datasets.
    Career Technical Education (CTE) and Science, Technology, 
Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education and Workforce Pipeline 
Strategy.--The Committee supports improving the coordination of 
Federal efforts involved in growing and sustaining a robust 
STEM and skilled technical workforce. The Committee recognizes 
the Office of Science and Technology Policy's coordinating role 
of federal programs and activities relating to STEM education 
on the Committee on STEM Education. The Committee directs the 
Director to participate and coordinate as an essential federal 
stakeholder with department secretaries working to create a 
national CTE and STEM Education and Workforce Pipeline 
Strategy.

                         National Space Council

    The Committee recommends $1,965,000 for the National Space 
Council, which is equal to the fiscal year 2021 appropriation 
and equal to the request.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    The Committee recommends $25,038,400,000 for the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which is an 
increase of $1,767,122,000 over the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and $236,900,000 above the request.
    NASA's fiscal year 2022 request places a welcome emphasis 
on Earth science and aeronautics research, and STEM education, 
while also continuing human exploration and increasing our 
understanding of the solar system and beyond. NASA is meeting 
its responsibility to help lead a whole-of-government approach 
to helping Americans prepare for and respond to a changing 
climate. NASA's research will dramatically improve and 
streamline the collection and analysis of data that is critical 
to enhancing our understanding of climate change and our 
response to it. For the first time since fiscal year 2017, the 
Administration's budget submission requests funding for the 
Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM), and proposes a significant 
increase to that account. The Committee supports this increase 
and includes funding to greatly expand NASA's Office of STEM 
Engagement.
    The Committee's program and project recommendations for 
NASA are included in the consolidated funding table below and 
in narrative direction throughout this report. The Committee 
reminds NASA that any deviations from the amounts included in 
the table below are subject to section 505 requirements of this 
Act. When executing its budget for fiscal year 2022, NASA shall 
incorporate the funding levels established in both the table 
and the narrative direction.

              NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
                        (In thousands of dollars)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         Program                              Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Science:
    Earth Science.......................................      $2,250,000
    Planetary Science...................................       3,234,800
    Astrophysics........................................       1,446,300
    James Webb Space Telescope..........................         175,400
    Heliophysics........................................         773,000
    Biological and Physical Science.....................          90,000
                                                         ---------------
Total, Science..........................................       7,969,500
                                                         ===============
Aeronautics.............................................         935,000
                                                         ===============
Space Technology........................................       1,280,000
                                                         ===============
Exploration:
    Orion Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle....................       1,406,700
    Space Launch System (SLS) Vehicle Deployment........       2,635,900
    Exploration Ground Systems..........................         690,000
    Exploration Research and Development................       2,546,700
                                                         ---------------
Total, Exploration......................................       7,279,300
                                                         ===============
Space Operations........................................       3,961,300
                                                         ===============
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)         147,000
                                                         ===============
Safety, Security and Mission Services...................       3,030,000
                                                         ===============
Construction and Environmental Compliance and                    390,300
 Restoration............................................
                                                         ===============
Office of Inspector General.............................          46,000
                                                         ===============
Total, NASA.............................................     $25,038,400
                                                         ===============
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                SCIENCE

    The Committee provides $7,969,500,000 for Science, which is 
$668,500,000 above the fiscal year 2021 appropriation and 
$38,100,000 above the request.
    Earth Science.--The recommendation includes $2,250,000,000 
for Earth Science programs, which is $250,000,000 above the 
fiscal year 2021 enacted level and equal to the request. NASA's 
budget submission reflects a renewed focus on Earth science, 
which was sorely lacking in the prior Administration's 
requests. Climate change is a global crisis, and this research 
is critical to helping Americans understand the nature of 
climate change and how to effectively respond.
    Earth Science Research and Analysis.--The Committee 
recommends no less than $363,800,000 for Earth Science Research 
and Analysis, which is equal to the requested level.
    Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE).--The 
Committee provides $119,400,000, which is $25,700,000 less than 
the fiscal year 2021 appropriation and equal to the 
Administration's request. The data to be generated by PACE 
builds upon a multi-decade effort by NASA and other Federal 
agencies to generate information from space that helps, for 
example, to characterize and assess the health of the fisheries 
environment and to more accurately assess the status of fish 
stocks, as well as to help identify the extent and duration of 
harmful algal blooms. Such unique observational information 
cannot be replicated elsewhere, and industry itself does not 
have the financial means to acquire wide scale data such as 
that generated by PACE and its precursor missions. The 
Committee directs NASA to report to the Committee within 60 
days of enactment on NASA's efforts to maintain a 2022 launch 
date for this mission.
    Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory 
(CLARREO) Pathfinder.--The Committee provides $19,000,000 for 
this mission, $5,500,000 less than the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and $500,000 above the Administration's request. 
The Committee welcomes NASA's inclusion of adequate funding in 
this year's budget request, as directed by the fiscal year 2021 
Committee report.
    Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).--The Committee 
supports DSCOVR's continued operations through 2023 and 
recommends full funding for this important inter-agency 
initiative to maintain the nation's real-time solar wind 
monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and 
lead time of NOAA's space weather alerts and forecasts.
    Small Satellite Launch Services.--To enhance the breadth of 
research achieved using small satellite platforms and bolster 
NASA's overall scientific objectives, the Committee directs 
NASA to continue its work with commercial industry to examine 
ways for small satellite missions to procure launch services 
that are more tailored to their mission dependent orbits, 
locations, and schedules, while minimizing launch costs.
    University Small Satellite missions.--The Committee 
supports NASA's collaborative efforts with U.S. colleges and 
universities to conduct research through small spacecraft 
missions, including CubeSat and SmallSat missions. The 
Committee believes these competitively selected projects led by 
principal investigators at institutions of higher education 
help train the next generation of scientists and provide much-
needed research. The Committee directs NASA to provide not less 
than $30,000,000 for these missions.
    Earth Science Decadal.--The Committee supports the 
Administration's plan to consolidate upcoming missions 
recommended by the National Academy of Sciences' Decadal Survey 
for Earth Science and Applications from Space into its Earth 
Observatory System approach. As such, the Committee supports 
the Administration's request, which will fund the Mass Change 
and Surface Biology and Geology missions, as well as two 
missions to address Aerosols and Clouds, Convection and 
Precipitation.
    Planetary Defense.--The Committee provides $197,200,000 for 
Planetary Defense, which is equal to the request. The Committee 
recognizes NASA did not previously have the resources to invest 
in the capabilities required to satisfy its mandate to detect 
90 percent of objects greater than 140 meters that threaten 
Earth by 2020. In keeping with prior congressional direction, 
the Committee also directs that not less than $143,200,000 
shall be for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission (NEO 
Surveyor). The Committee welcomes NASA's commitment to the NEO 
Surveyor mission and to a 2026 launch date, and directs NASA to 
provide a report to the Committee, no later than 180 days after 
enactment of this Act, on the fulfillment of its NEO mandate 
and development progress of both the NEO Surveyor and DART 
missions.
    Double Asteroid Redirection Test.--Within the funds 
provided for Planetary Defense, the Committee recommends not 
less than $11,100,000, equal to the request, to ensure that the 
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) technology 
demonstration mission is ready for launch in fiscal year 2022. 
The Committee understands that this mission can be accomplished 
with NASA participation only using ground-based telescopes and 
radars to provide the needed measurements to assess the degree 
of deflection resulting from the DART impactor, and that this 
telescope support is already baselined in the NASA mission.
    Lunar Discovery and Exploration.--The Committee provides 
$497,300,000 for Lunar Discovery and Exploration, including 
$22,100,000 for continued operation of the Lunar Reconnaissance 
Orbiter and $107,200,000 for the Volatiles Investigating Polar 
Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission to the South Pole of the Moon 
to search for and sample lunar water ice. These funds are equal 
to the request. The Committee supports NASA's commitment to 
utilizing public-private partnerships to advance its lunar 
science and exploration agenda and encourages the agency to 
leverage the resources and expertise of both private industry 
and universities in pursuit of these goals. The Committee 
directs that the Lunar Discovery and Exploration program adhere 
to the lunar science priorities established by decadal surveys 
and the National Research Council's Scientific Context for the 
Exploration of the Moon, and that activities funded within the 
program meet both lunar science and human exploration needs.
    Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS).--The Committee 
provides the full budget request for Commercial Lunar Payload 
Services (CLPS), which will help grow the space economy and 
create lasting, affordable commercial operations on the Moon. 
The Committee applauds the recent addition of new companies 
into the CLPS portfolio and the awarding of new commercial 
delivery contracts.
    New Frontiers missions.--The Committee provides 
$271,700,000 for New Frontiers missions, including $201,100,000 
for Dragonfly, which is equal to the budget request. The New 
Frontiers program explores our solar system with medium-class 
spacecraft missions. Within the New Frontiers program, possible 
mission destinations and the science goals for each competitive 
opportunity are limited to specific science targets announced 
for the competition aligned with the scientific goals and 
priorities as described in the Planetary Science Decadal 
Survey. The Committee also supports continuation of the Juno 
mission and urges NASA to include sufficient funding in its 
fiscal year 2023 budget submission to do the critical 
engineering and navigation calculations needed to continue the 
entire approved science scope of the Juno mission extension.
    Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration 
(SIMPLEx).--SIMPLEx are the only competitive planetary science 
missions that innovative commercial companies can lead, and the 
only planetary small spacecraft program within all of NASA. The 
Committee supports SIMPLEx solicitations and encourages NASA to 
consider ways to maximize opportunities for SIMPLEx missions, 
including the potential for dedicated smallsat launch, in 
addition to the current option of using rideshare on large 
launch vehicles, which will further accelerate and enhance 
overall planetary science mission objectives.
    Venus Technology Project.--Within Planetary Science, the 
recommendation includes no less than $10,000,000, equal to the 
request, for Venus Technology and technology demonstrations for 
Venus Discovery, including Venus surface science 
instrumentation work.
    Mars Exploration Program.--The Committee provides 
$267,800,000, which is $32,600,000 below the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and equal to the requested level. This level 
reflects the establishment of the Mars Sample Return as a 
separate mission.
    Mars Sample Return.--The Committee provides $688,000,000 
million for Mars Sample Return, $34,800,000 above the request. 
The Committee does so in recognition of the important impact 
that the successful landing and operation of the Mars 
Perseverance rover is having for the nation and the scientific 
research community. In fulfillment of the objective to cache 
and return samples to Earth, and as the highest priority of the 
Planetary Science decadal survey, funding is provided for the 
Mars Sample Return mission to meet a 2026 launch window.
    Jupiter Europa Missions.--The Committee provides 
$472,100,000, which is $68,600,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and equal to the request level, for the Europa 
Clipper Mission. The Clipper mission will explore Europa, the 
smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and 
investigate its habitability. The Committee reiterates that 
following a full and open competition, the Administrator is not 
limited to the launch vehicles listed in the NLS-II contract of 
the Launch Services Program as of the date of the enactment of 
this Act, and the Europa Clipper Mission may launch on a 
commercial launch vehicle, if NASA makes such an award, in 
order to support a 2024 launch to reduce overall mission costs 
and complexity and expedite science results as supported by the 
decadal survey.
    Icy Satellites Surface Technology.--The Committee directs 
that not less than $14,200,000 shall be for Icy Satellites 
Surface Technology to meet the science goals for the Jupiter 
Europa mission as recommended in previous Planetary Science 
Decadal surveys and to enable a lander and Ocean Worlds 
Technology mission by the next decade, based on input from the 
next Planetary Science Decadal survey. Investments in landing, 
mobility, sampling, communications, autonomous operations, and 
power technology for low-temperature environments should be 
prioritized.
    Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).--
The Committee rejects the Administration's request to terminate 
SOFIA and provides $85,200,000, which is equal to the fiscal 
year 2021 level. SOFIA can undertake astronomical observations 
not possible with other ground-based or space-based telescopes 
available today. SOFIA has made significant recent scientific 
discoveries, including detecting, for the first time, helium 
hydride in interstellar space, which is thought to be the first 
molecule ever formed in the early universe, as well as 
identifying compelling evidence of water on the Moon, for the 
first time, in its sunlit regions.
    Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.--The Committee provides 
$501,600,000, which is equal to the request, and supports a 
mission launch in 2025. This mission was included as the 
highest priority in the 2010 Astrophysics Decadal Survey. 
Within this total, the recommended amount shall include 
continued development of the coronagraph as a technology 
demonstration mission.
    Astrophysics Explorers.--The Committee provides 
$277,700,000 for the Astrophysics Explorer program. The 
Committee is encouraged by NASA's commitment to accelerate the 
cadence of Astrophysics Explorer missions and to establish a 
new line of small Pioneer-class missions that leverage 
advancements in low-cost platforms such as CubeSats and 
balloons to support groundbreaking science. The Committee 
recognizes that such activities can improve scientific 
understanding while simultaneously developing the scientific 
workforce through increased research opportunities for students 
and faculty.
    Astrophysics Research.--The Committee recognizes the role 
of the Astrophysics Research program in supporting the 
development of novel astrophysics observation technologies that 
lay the foundation of future mission architectures, and 
recommends $279,100,000. A strong research program maximizes 
the scientific value of space-based missions by ensuring that 
the data collected through such observations can continue to 
provide new insights into the mechanisms behind cosmological 
phenomena. The Committee also understands that supporting these 
activities through extramural grant funding contributes to the 
long-term viability of the U.S. astrophysics community.
    James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).--The Committee provides 
$175,400,000, which is equal to the Administration's requested 
level.
    Heliophysics Technology.--The Committee appreciates NASA 
including this account in its fiscal year 2022 budget request, 
and provides the requested funding. The Committee recognizes 
the critical role that technology development programs play in 
enabling novel and transformative capabilities and mission 
concepts and notes the contributions of these programs in other 
divisions within the Science Mission Directorate. Activities 
supported by such programs in Heliophysics can help sustain a 
robust community of technologists with unique connections to 
the discipline while also contributing to the workforce 
development pipeline through funded research and technology 
development at universities.
    Solar Terrestrial Probes.--The Committee recommends 
$253,300,000 for the Solar Terrestrial Probes program. The 
Committee supports NASA's implementation of the Interstellar 
Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) and the Dynamical Neutral 
Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (DYNAMIC) mission as 
competitively selected, cost-capped, and principal 
investigator-led missions in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Decadal Survey. The Committee also 
directs that within these funds, not less than $21,400,000, 
$600,000 above the request, is provided for the continuation of 
the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission.

                              AERONAUTICS

    The Committee provides $935,000,000 for Aeronautics, which 
is $106,300,000 greater than the fiscal year 2021 appropriation 
and $20,200,000 above the requested level.
    Hypersonics Technology Project.--Within amounts provided, 
not less than $50,000,000 is for NASA's ongoing Hypersonics 
Technology Project (HTP), which is $10,000,000 above the 
request. Hypersonic flight involves speeds of Mach 5 and above 
and holds the potential for new military and civilian 
capabilities and to boost American leadership in new commercial 
flight technology applications. Program managers should 
continue to coordinate closely with partners in the Department 
of Defense (DOD) to enable NASA to leverage investments in 
ground and flight activities and to develop and validate 
advanced physics-based computational models as building blocks 
toward a long-term vision for high-speed, hypersonic and high 
Mach air transport. The Committee strongly encourages NASA to 
continue to explore additional opportunities to increase 
hypersonics research, including reusable vehicle technologies, 
hypersonic propulsion systems, and high temperature materials, 
including advancement of next-generation Carbon-Carbon 
composite and other advanced material development. No less than 
$15,000,000 of HTP funds should be prioritized for 
collaborations with academia and industry, including potential 
public-private partnerships as appropriate, with the goal of 
advancing hypersonic and high Mach technologies that meet both 
NASA's strategic goals as well as industry needs, with 
particular emphasis on reducing the environmental and 
operational barriers to flight at these speeds. The committee 
also notes the opportunities for commercial hypersonic usage, 
or low-speed hypersonic flight at Mach four to Mach five to 
enable development of the next generation of commercial 
aeronautics travel.
    University-led Aeronautics Materials Research.--Within 
funding for the Aeronautics, the Committee provides up to 
$10,000,000 to advance university-led aeronautics materials 
research for structural applications. With this funding, the 
Committee encourages NASA to partner with academic institutions 
that have strong capabilities in aviation, aerospace 
structures, inspection and the associated predictive life-cycle 
performance, and materials testing, inspection, and evaluation, 
to reduce material system time to acceptance.
    Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities.--The 
Committee fully funds the Aerosciences Evaluation and Test 
Capabilities wind tunnel management program at the 
Administration request, and directs NASA to report to the 
Committee within 90 days of enactment regarding NASA's 
Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) portfolio, 
which includes NASA wind tunnels, propulsion test facilities, 
and specialty tunnels. Because the Committee is aware that NASA 
is coordinating with DOD to repair the Hypersonics Tunnel 
Facility (HTF), such report should include a status of the 
NASA/Department of Defense coordinated assessment of the HTF.
    Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP).--The Committee 
provides $311,700,000 for IASP, which is $10,200,000 above the 
request. These funds support components of NASA's critical work 
on the Sustainable Flight National Partnership (SFNP), Low-Boom 
Flight Demonstration Mission, and the Advanced Air Mobility 
Mission. Taken together, these efforts have the potential to 
significantly reduce aircraft emissions and improve the 
efficiency of air travel.
    Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Project.--The Committee 
strongly supports NASA's planned Sustainable Flight 
Demonstrator Project (SFD) development and production of the 
Transonic Truss Brace Wing (TTBW) Subsonic X-Plane, which will 
demonstrate critical new structures, including the TTBW and 
high rate composites manufacturing, as well as new propulsion 
technologies on a national flight demonstrator platform. The 
Committee directs NASA to provide a report on the Agency's 
roadmap, technologies, and milestones for the program from 
development to flight, not later than 60 days after the 
enactment of this Act.
    Electric Aircraft.--With the development of the X-57 
electric aircraft, the Committee is encouraged by the 
capabilities that this aircraft brings to NASA and the agency's 
efforts to help develop the electric aircraft market. Because 
of the national significance of this program, the Committee 
directs NASA to provide a report to the Committee, not later 
than 60 days after the enactment of this Act, on NASA's plans 
to test and validate this aircraft's electronic power system, 
as well as its strategy for continued flight testing. The 
report should include a description of any additional 
infrastructure necessary, the estimated cost of the needed 
infrastructure, and recommendations that would assist NASA in 
testing and further developing this cutting-edge technology.
    Electric Air Flight.--The Committee encourages NASA to 
strengthen its collaborations with the Department of Energy and 
national laboratories to overcome energy storage challenges for 
mobility such as electric air flight. The Committee is 
encouraged by NASA's efforts within its Electrified Powertrain 
Flight Demonstration project, which focuses on flight 
demonstrations that advance the state-of-the-art in megawatt-
class more-electric aircraft to enable enduring leadership of 
the U.S. aviation industry for the benefit of the country and 
the U.S. flying public.
    Electrified Aircraft Propulsion Demonstrator.--The 
Committee encourages NASA to accelerate research and 
development for next generation commercial engine technologies 
for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion, Electrified Aircraft 
Propulsion Demonstrator (EPFD), and Hybrid Thermally Efficient 
Core (HyTEC). The Committee also encourages NASA to accelerate 
research and development for the Small Core Gas Turbine and 
High- Rate Composite, which will offer both fuel consumption 
and carbon emission savings for Single Aisle aircraft.
    Autonomous Aircraft Systems.--Autonomous aircraft systems 
are an emerging technology that benefits the civil, scientific, 
and defense sectors. NASA's efforts to test these systems have 
helped pave the way in assisting the Federal Aviation 
Administration in developing autonomous aircraft standards and 
will provide much-needed data to safely integrate this 
technology into the National Airspace System. NASA is directed 
to report to the Committee within 60 days of enactment on 
NASA's strategy on furthering autonomous aircraft system 
technology, including addressing flight testing resources, 
protocols, and operations. The report should also include 
information on how NASA plans to work with the Federal Aviation 
Administration on validating and regulating these systems to 
safely coexist with other air traffic, including air traffic 
from the Department of Defense.
    High-Performance Chase Aircraft.--The Committee understands 
the value of high-performance chase aircraft, such as F/A-18 
and F-15 aircraft, which enhance NASA's unique research 
capabilities. The Committee is aware that some of NASA's 
current chase aircraft are having end-of-life issues, and 
maintenance costs are increasing to sustain the aging aircraft 
for test requirements. Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, 
the Committee directs NASA to provide a briefing to the 
Committee on the strategy NASA is taking to resolve this issue 
in a timely manner, ensuring relevant NASA Centers have the 
necessary chase aircraft to support its testing mission. The 
Committee also directs NASA, within 180 days of enactment of 
this Act, to begin providing quarterly status updates to the 
Committee on the progress being made, challenges, and 
approaches to resolve this issue.

                            SPACE TECHNOLOGY

    The Committee recommends $1,280,000,000 for Space 
Technology, which is $180,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and $145,000,000 below the request. Investments 
in Space Technology hold promise for solving some of the 
biggest challenges facing the space economy, including 
improving space situational awareness, orbital debris 
management and spacecraft power. The Committee directs NASA to 
collaborate with universities to develop technologies 
applicable to forthcoming, scheduled missions.
    Space Technology Mission Directorate.--The Committee 
reaffirms its support for the independence of the Space 
Technology Mission Directorate and recognizes that its current 
status enables it to support the development of a wide array of 
various technologies. This diverse portfolio contains 
technology development activities that have broad applications 
beyond human exploration and that help to meet the agency's 
science objectives, establish new commercial and academic 
partnerships, and stimulate the growth of the Nation's 
technology sector. This approach also ensures that NASA 
technologists and their external partners maintain the ability 
to address long-term strategic goals rather than only focusing 
on short-term, mission-specific objectives. In addition, the 
Directorate's direct engagement with the academic community is 
supporting the development of the next generation of space 
technologists. The Committee directs NASA to preserve the 
Directorate's focus across NASA and in support of each of the 
mission directorates.
    Regional Economic Development.--The Committee provides 
$8,000,000, which is equal to the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation. NASA's regional economic development program 
focuses on partnerships with State and regional economic 
development organizations as they expand space-related 
commercial opportunities designed to address NASA mission 
needs. To ensure that the Agency has a vision and metrics for 
success with these funds, NASA is directed to report to the 
Committee within 120 days of enactment on how it will use these 
funds. Such a report shall contain clear metrics for success, 
including an accounting of the partnerships with economic 
development entities for Federal, state, and regional economic 
development agencies with experience in this area.
    Solar Electric Propulsion.--The Committee provides 
$40,000,000 to continue work on solar electric propulsion 
activities, which is $8,700,000 below the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and $15,800,000 above the requested level. 
According to NASA, high-powered solar electric propulsion can 
efficiently propel more ambitious robotic science and human 
exploration missions beyond the Earth and into deep space. 
Solar electric propulsion will enable more efficient orbit 
transfer of spacecraft and accommodate the increasing power 
demands for government and commercial satellites. The Committee 
also encourages the Agency to begin envisioning the next 
generation Solar Electric Propulsion thruster systems.
    On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing.--The 
Committee provides $227,000,000, which is equal to the fiscal 
year 2021 appropriation and the request, for the On-Orbit 
Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing-1 (OSAM-1) mission, 
formerly known as Restore-L. The Committee encourages NASA to 
provide funding for On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and 
Manufacturing-2 (OSAM-2, Archinaut) at not less than the 
requested level. The Committee recognizes the potential of on-
orbit satellite servicing to NASA, its Federal agency partners 
and the private sector, and thus urges NASA to consider future 
opportunities to develop Operational Demonstration, On-Orbit 
Robotic Assembly and Manufacturing of RF Antennas (OSAM-3), and 
to report to the Committee on planned funding in fiscal year 
2022 to be used for these activities, given the potential 
benefit of OSAM-3 capabilities to Earth Science missions. The 
Committee further directs NASA to continue to work with the 
interagency community and commercial partners to assess 
opportunities for the collaborative development and adoption of 
OSAM capabilities.
    Flight Opportunities Program.--The Committee provides 
$30,000,000, which is $3,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and $5,000,000 above the request for the Flight 
Opportunities Program, to enable NASA to continue to partner 
with commercial industry to advance technologies for sub-
orbital and orbital launch vehicles for small payloads, with 
the aim to increase affordability of those technologies and to 
allow for more frequent access to relevant launch environments, 
including low-Earth orbit. As a growing number of commercial 
space companies are providing low-cost and frequent access to 
suborbital space for humans and research payloads, the Flight 
Opportunities Program should also expand its contributions to 
NASA's broader science and technology development missions. An 
increase in funding will allow NASA to leverage additional 
commercial capabilities offered in the market and provide a 
channel for frequent and cost-effective research to support 
exploration and understanding our home planet.
    Nuclear Thermal Propulsion.--The Committee provides 
$110,000,000, which is equal to the fiscal year 2021 enacted 
amount, and $110,000,000 more than the Administration's 
requested level, for continued development and demonstration of 
a nuclear thermal propulsion system. The Committee looks 
forward to receiving the agency's plan for the design of an NTP 
flight demonstration system that was required in Public Law 
116-260, and strongly encourages the continued design of an NTP 
flight demonstration program. Not later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this Act, the Committee directs NASA to provide a 
report detailing whether the establishment of a Nuclear Thermal 
Propulsion and Nuclear Power Office in the Human Exploration 
and Operations Mission Directorate could accelerate NTP 
development to prepare for future deep space missions.
    Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP).--The Committee is 
encouraged by the great potential for space nuclear propulsion 
technologies relating to nuclear electric propulsion. As the 
National Academies identified in a February 2021 report, a 
multi-year research program would need to include subsystem 
development, prototype systems, ground testing, and cargo 
missions as a means of flight qualification prior to first 
crewed use. The agency is directed to respond to the National 
Academies conclusion and shall indicate its plans to develop 
consistent metrics and technical expertise to allow for 
opportunities to utilize NEP to meet space exploration mission 
requirements. The Committee also notes that key partners in the 
national laboratories possess capabilities needed to reach the 
frontiers of scientific development for nuclear electric power. 
The Committee provides that at least $10,000,000 shall be 
utilized to begin a systematic approach to Nuclear Electric 
Propulsion, to chart the basic framework needed in this 
frontier of investment. Within 180 days of the enactment of 
this Act, NASA, in coordination with other relevant Federal 
departments and agencies such as the Department of Energy, 
shall submit a multi-year plan for in-space propulsion-system 
demonstration for NEP.
    Fission Surface Power.--The Committee supports NASA's 
efforts to complete research, design work, test plan, and cost 
analysis for a Low-Enriched Uranium space power reactor. The 
Committee notes the importance of utilizing surface fission 
power to facilitate long term habitation on the Moon and Mars. 
As part of the fiscal year 2023 budget submission, NASA should 
provide the Committee with a long-term plan on how it intends 
to implement an achievable Fission Surface Power program.
    Tipping Point Solicitations for Lunar Infrastructure.--The 
Committee supports NASA's efforts to advance a wide range of 
technologies with benefits for many missions across the agency. 
In particular, the Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII) 
plays a key role in supporting infrastructure technologies that 
will enable robust robotic and human exploration activity on 
the Moon. The Committee supports the LSII's broad engagement 
with industry from across the country and urges NASA to advance 
a new round of lunar infrastructure-related solicitations in 
Fiscal Year 2022.
    Moon-to-Mars Landing Demonstrations.--To support Moon-to-
Mars specific technologies, crosscutting applications for the 
commercial space economy, as well as science and robotic 
exploration toward other planetary bodies and destinations, 
within Space Technology, the Committee provides no less than 
$75,000,000 for demonstration efforts to allow industry to 
compete for public-private partnership opportunities focused on 
high-level, NASA-defined objectives.
    Personal Protective Equipment Manufacturing.--The Committee 
is aware of the unique manufacturing requirements for certain 
personal protection equipment used on the International Space 
Station (ISS). The Committee therefore encourages NASA to 
explore ways to sustain or enhance domestic manufacturing of 
personal protection equipment for the ISS and commercial 
stations.

                              EXPLORATION

    The Committee provides $7,279,300,000 for Exploration, 
which is $1,147,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and $398,600,000 above the requested level.
    Orion.--The Committee provides $1,406,700,000, which is 
equal to the fiscal year 2021 enacted level and equal to the 
requested level for Orion. With advanced life support, 
communications and navigation capabilities, the Orion 
spacecraft will take humans deeper into space than ever before, 
and thus is an integral part of the Artemis program. NASA shall 
keep the Committee informed of the status of activities related 
to Orion, the European Service Module, and ongoing activities 
related to integration of Orion with Space Launch System and 
associated ground infrastructure.
    Space Launch System (SLS).--The Committee provides 
$2,635,900,000, $50,000,000 above the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation, and $148,900,000 above the Administration's 
request. Within the amount provided, not less than $579,000,000 
is provided for SLS Block 1B Development, which is $100,000,000 
above the Administration's request. Additionally, the Committee 
encourages NASA to study the procedures required to designate 
an integrator for private sector customers who wish to acquire 
an SLS vehicle. The Committee also directs NASA to engage an 
independent reviewer with aerospace production management 
experience to conduct a review of SLS completion costs and 
provide such reviewer with direct access to SLS program 
managers and production and pricing data, to determine how the 
cost of future flights of the SLS can be reduced. Further, the 
Committee directs NASA to undertake all work necessary in 
fiscal year 2022 toward completion of the SLS Block 1B as 
though the Block 1B were in the critical path for Exploration 
Mission-3.
    Exploration Ground Systems (EGS).--The Committee provides 
$690,000,000, which is $100,000,000 more than the fiscal year 
2021 appropriation and $100,000,000 greater than the requested 
level, for Exploration Ground Systems (EGS). Within this 
amount, the Committee provides $165,300,000 for the Second 
Mobile Launcher (ML-2). The Committee is troubled by NASA's 
failure to provide details on the rising cost of the ML-2 in 
its budget proposal, and directs NASA to report to the 
Committee within 30 days of enactment with a revised cost 
estimate, both phased and in total.
    Advanced Exploration Systems.--The Committee provides 
$195,000,000, which is equal to the request, for Advanced 
Exploration Systems. Within funding provided, the Committee 
encourages NASA to advance the study and applicability of ionic 
liquid-based sorption advanced technologies in addition to the 
potential benefits of non-planar continuous composite fiber 
molding for high-volume parts needed in space. The Committee 
also provides up to $10,000,000 to support Advancing Assembly 
of Deep-Space Long Duration Habitation and Exploration Systems 
within the NextSTEP Habitation program.
    Advanced Cislunar and Surface Capabilities.-- As part of 
the formulation of the fiscal year 2023 budget request, the 
Committee directs NASA to evaluate the need, timing, and 
procurement of Human Landing Systems for transport of useful 
heavy cargo to the lunar surface in support of a sustainable 
Moon to Mars program.
    Human Landing System (HLS).--The Committee includes no less 
than $1,345,000,000 for the HLS, which is no less than 
$150,000,000 above the request. While the Committee has elected 
not to further fence or condition funds for the Human Landing 
System program at this time due to the current Government 
Accountability Office (GAO) protest on the HLS Appendix H 
selection, the Committee urges NASA to bolster competition in 
lander development and production and improve the United 
States' prospects for landing astronauts on the Moon in 2024.
    Human exploration programs.--The Committee directs GAO to 
continue its review of NASA's human exploration programs, 
specifically the SLS program, the Orion program, and 
Exploration Ground Systems, to include the mobile launch 
platforms, and the Human Landing Systems program, and to 
include integration and software development issues that cut 
across these programs. In addition, the Committee directs GAO 
to review NASA's lunar-focused programs, including the Gateway 
program and other programs or projects that are expected to 
have an estimated life-cycle cost over $250,000,000, as part of 
GAO's semiannual assessment of NASA major projects. Separately, 
the Committee directs GAO to continue conducting in-depth 
reviews of NASA's lunar-focused programs. GAO shall report on 
the acquisition progress of these programs, as well as any 
challenges NASA faces in implementing its lunar efforts, as 
applicable. GAO shall provide periodic updates to the Committee 
on these reviews.

                            SPACE OPERATIONS

    The Committee provides $3,961,300,000 for Space Operations, 
which is $26,900,000 below the fiscal year 2021 appropriation 
and $56,100,000 below the requested level.
    Commercial Crew and Cargo Program.--The Committee strongly 
encourages NASA to invest these funds into a diverse group of 
cargo suppliers, with varying capabilities, to be able to meet 
future mission sizes, needs, and goals.
    Commercial Crew Program.--The Committee supports NASA's 
efforts to enhance human research capabilities on the 
International Space Station and acknowledges the increased crew 
transportation capability offered through NASA's Commercial 
Crew Program partners. The Committee directs NASA to continue 
assessing the Commercial Crew manifest for opportunities to 
conduct additional research and report on these findings no 
later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act.
    Sub-Orbital Crew Program.--Within the funds provided for 
the Commercial Crew and Cargo program, NASA is provided up to 
$10,000,000 for Sub-Orbital Crew. With this funding, and 
through the Flight Opportunities program in the Space 
Technology account, the Committee directs NASA, to the greatest 
extent practicable, to support flights for non-NASA personnel. 
Further, as NASA works to develop its Suborbital Crew Program, 
the Committee encourages NASA to assess whether it should 
establish a relevant program office to qualify commercial U.S. 
suborbital vehicles and procure flights for NASA personnel, 
while prioritizing safety and avoiding duplicative existing 
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) vehicle licensure 
processes.
    21st Century Launch Complex Program.--Within the amounts 
provided for Space Operations, the recommendation includes up 
to $20,000,000 for the 21st Century Launch Complex Program. The 
Committee remains concerned with efforts directed toward 
filling critical maintenance, capacity, and range safety gaps 
at NASA launch facilities, and further urges NASA to take into 
consideration the full potential of all NASA-owned launch 
complexes in awarding the funds.
    Rocket Propulsion Test program.--The recommendation 
includes the requested amount of $47,800,000 for the Rocket 
Propulsion Test program, which is $200,000 greater than the 
fiscal year 2021 appropriation. The Committee encourages NASA 
to prioritize facility and fixed infrastructure improvements 
specific to infrastructure that is shared among users of the 
facility in a continued effort to attract and facilitate 
commercial partnerships at NASA's test centers. NASA is 
directed to report to the Committee, not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment, on the specific uses of Rocket 
Propulsion Test Program funds over the past three fiscal years 
and expected uses in fiscal year 2022, including allocations of 
resources to specific NASA centers.
    Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN).--The 
recommendation includes $42,000,000 for the Communications 
Services Program (CSP), consistent with the budget submission, 
to begin deploying and testing the use of commercial services 
in the next generation LEO space communications system. With 
the proliferation of satellites capable of providing for NASA's 
communications needs, this program represents a significant 
opportunity to deliver more economical and efficient services. 
However, the Committee is concerned that NASA lacks a clear 
long-term vision for this program and is concerned about the 
proposal to consolidate CSP under SCaN. Therefore, NASA is 
directed to report to the Committee on its delineation of 
responsibilities for the program, CSP independence, and an 
explanation of how the program goals differ from those of SCaN.
    Domestic Launch Services.--The Committee recognizes that 
global competition in the spaces launch market is increasing, 
and the United States remains the only nation with domestic 
competition in this field. The Committee also recognizes that 
NASA is dependent on a healthy domestic industrial base and 
first-rate space transportation infrastructure for United 
States launch providers, and that the U.S. Government has made 
and continues to make major, strategic investments in the 
Nation's space transportation capabilities. Therefore, the 
Committee underscores the value of using domestic launch 
providers, U.S.-manufactured launch vehicles, and U.S. launch 
sites.
    Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development.--The Committee 
recommends $45,000,000, which is $28,000,000 above the fiscal 
year 2021 appropriation and is $56,100,000 below the request. 
The Committee is concerned that NASA lacks clear goals and 
metrics for the transition away from the International Space 
Station (ISS). Therefore, NASA is directed to report to the 
Committee within 180 days of enactment of this Act on its plans 
for the transition away from the ISS, including an assessment 
of future requirements for maintaining a continuous human 
presence in low-Earth orbit, an overview of current industry 
capabilities, and NASA's plans for ensuring government-
sponsored continued on-orbit science research. Such report 
should also discuss expectations for how NASA will sustain 
global leadership in space science research in the absence of a 
NASA-owned and operated station. The Committee appreciates 
receiving the report directed in House Report 116-455 assessing 
the costs, benefits, and challenges of repurposing launch 
vehicle upper stages as free-flying platforms for habitation or 
industrial modules. In fiscal year 2022, the Committee directs 
the Agency to consider making funding within Commercial LEO 
Development available to support free-flying robotic LEO 
Commercial Space platform development and related technologies.

  SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) ENGAGEMENT

    The Committee provides $147,000,000 for Science, 
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement, 
which is $20,000,000 greater than the fiscal year 2021 
appropriation and equal to the budget request. STEM is 
consistent with NASA's mission to inspire America's students, 
create learning opportunities, and enlighten inquisitive minds.
    National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.--The 
recommendation includes $60,000,000 for the Space Grant 
program. This amount will allow each State consortium to 
receive $1 million in base funding, which shall be allocated to 
State consortia for competitively awarded grants in support of 
local, regional, and national STEM needs.
    Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research 
(EPSCoR).--The recommendation includes $26,000,000 for EPSCoR, 
consistent with the budget request.
    Minority University Research and Education Project 
(MUREP).--The recommendation includes $48,000,000 for MUREP.
    Next Generation STEM.--The recommendation includes 
$13,000,000 for Next Generation STEM. The Committee appreciates 
NASA's relationships with TEAM II participants, museums, and 
planetariums through STEM Education and Accountability Projects 
(SEAP), as well as the productive use of cooperative agreements 
with NASA Visitor Centers, and encourages NASA to continue 
these successful partnerships. The Committee also encourages 
NASA to continue using OSTEM funding to support STEM 
partnerships.
    K-12 Designed Payloads.--The Committee encourages NASA's 
Office of STEM Engagement to work in coordination with the 
Space Technology Mission Directorate to create opportunities 
for students in K-12 to fly payloads onboard commercial 
suborbital vehicles and to ensure that these opportunities 
focus on a wide demographic of students, especially those in 
underrepresented areas.

                 SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES

    The Committee provides $3,030,000,000 for Safety, Security, 
and Mission Services, which is $93,500,000 above the fiscal 
year 2021 appropriation and $19,200,000 less than the requested 
level.
    Working Capital Fund (WCF) reporting.--NASA shall continue 
to submit quarterly reports to the Committee on the 
expenditures and unobligated balances of NASA's WCF.
    Cybersecurity.--Within Safety, Security and Mission 
Services, the Committee directs NASA to provide not less than 
$612,200,000 for Information Technology, consistent with the 
request.
    Science, Space, and Technology Education Trust Fund.--The 
Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act of 1989 (Public Law 100-404) 
established and funded the Science, Space, and Technology 
Education Trust Fund, with the funds required to be 
subsequently invested in special issue securities, earning 
interest from the corpus fund to be credited to the Trust Fund 
for the purpose of making grants for programs directed at 
improving science, space, and technology education in the 
United States. Recipients of these grants are required to 
provide matching funds from non-Federal sources. The Committee 
is aware that, due to current interest rates, interest derived 
from the corpus fund may soon be insufficient to meet the 
levels of legally required disbursements of funds, as specified 
in the original Act. Therefore, up to $1,000,000 is made 
available from amounts under this heading.
    Mission Support Future Architecture Program.--The Committee 
directs the Administrator to report to the Committee on impacts 
and operating losses experienced by NASA Centers, as well as 
any efficiencies gained, as a result of implementation of the 
Mission Support Future Architecture Program (MAP) program, not 
later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
    IV&V Program.--The Committee directs that within the 
amounts provided, not less than $39,400,000 is for NASA's IV&V 
Program and, if necessary, NASA is directed to fund additional 
IV&V activities from within the mission directorates that make 
use of IV&V services.
    Community Projects.--Within the appropriation for Safety, 
Security and Mission Services, the Committee recommendation 
also provides funds for the following Community Projects:

                         NASA COMMUNITY PROJECTS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Recipient                    Recipient           Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Louisiana State University,         Aerospace Systems         $5,000,000
 National Center for Advanced        and Technology
 Manufacturing.                      Development.
Oklahoma State University.........  6G Innovations......      $1,000,000
Oklahoma State University.........  Rapid Assured Fully       $1,200,000
                                     Transparent
                                     Integrated Circuit
                                     Platform Project.
Rancho Cucamonga Public Library...  Second Story and          $1,000,000
                                     Beyond Project.
Rush University Medical Center....  REACH for                   $650,000
                                     Information
                                     Technology Training.
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       CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND RESTORATION

    The Committee provides $390,300,000 for Construction and 
Environmental Compliance and Restoration, which is $38,200,000 
below the fiscal year 2021 appropriation and equal to the 
requested level.
    Construction.--The recommendation includes $315,600,000 for 
Construction of Facilities, minor revitalization, planning and 
design, and demolition, including the highest repair priorities 
described in the Administration's request.
    Environmental Compliance and Restoration.--The 
recommendation includes $74,700,000, which is $31,200,000 less 
than the fiscal year 2021 appropriation and equal to the 
requested level, for Environmental Compliance and Restoration 
activities. NASA's Environmental Compliance and Restoration 
(ECR) program cleans up hazardous materials and waste products 
released to the surface or groundwater at NASA installations, 
NASA-owned industrial plants supporting NASA activities, 
current or former sites where NASA operations have contributed 
to environmental problems, and other sites where the Agency is 
legally obligated to address hazardous pollutants.
    Santa Susana Field Laboratory.--The Committee is pleased 
with the progress of building demolition at the Santa Susana 
Field Laboratory but remains concerned about soil remediation. 
The Committee understands that NASA is working with the State 
of California under the 2007 Consent Order and 2010 
Administrative Order on Consent regarding soil and groundwater 
cleanup at the site and on expediting the State's environmental 
impact report. The Committee encourages NASA to continue 
working with the State of California on cleanup of the site.

                    OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

    The Committee recommends $46,000,000 for the Office of the 
Inspector General, which is $1,800,000 above the fiscal year 
2021 appropriation and equal to the requested level.

                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

    The Committee has included the following administrative 
provisions for NASA:
    The bill includes a provision that makes funds for any 
announced prize available without fiscal year limitation until 
the prize is claimed or the offer is withdrawn.
    The bill includes a provision that establishes terms and 
conditions for the transfer of funds.
    The bill includes provisions that require NASA to submit 
its agency spending plan at the activity level and subjects 
both the spending plan and specified changes to that plan to 
reprogramming procedures under section 505 of this Act.
    The bill includes a provision that limits the availability 
of funds for certain activities until a plan is submitted.
    The bill allows for the transfer of funds from Exploration 
to Construction.
    The bill includes a provision that provides NASA with 
additional flexibility to ensure completion of construction 
projects undertaken with fiscal year 2021 funds.

                      National Science Foundation

    The Committee recommends $9,634,036,000 for the National 
Science Foundation (NSF), which is $1,147,277,000 above fiscal 
year 2021 and $535,264,000 below the request.
    In addition, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public 
Law 117-2) included $600,000,000 for the National Science 
Foundation to fund or extend new and existing research grants, 
cooperative agreements, scholarships, fellowships, and 
apprenticeships, and related administrative expenses to 
prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
    NSF supports research and education in all major scientific 
and engineering disciplines through grants, cooperative 
agreements, contracts, and other forms of assistance within the 
United States. The Committee continues to support science, the 
academic community, and the next generation of scientists, 
mathematicians, astronomers, and engineers across the country. 
With increased funding levels, the Committee looks forward to 
the advancement of NSF priority investments that will stimulate 
innovation, identify new industries, accelerate the translation 
of research results into practice, and cultivate the diverse 
workforce needed to power our country forward.
    The recommendation includes up to $3,120,480,000 for 
investments in Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Wireless, 
Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Clean Energy 
Technology, Microelectronics and Semiconductors, Quantum 
Information Science and the U.S. Global Change Research 
Program. To ensure collaboration with industry, build on 
existing programs across the government, and get these 
important research investments to market, the Committee 
supports NSF's proposal to create a Directorate for Technology, 
Innovation, and Partnerships funded within the Research and 
Related Activities account.
    Broadening participation in science, technology, 
engineering, and mathematics will fuel innovation and provide 
additional expertise to solve complex problems. In support of 
NSF's mission to broaden participation in science, technology, 
engineering and mathematics, the Committee recommends up to 
$1,394,000,000 towards these efforts. Within this amount, 
strong increases are provided to advance equity in science. 
Embracing the contributions of all will produce better science 
and create a better society. Lastly, the Committee accepts 
NSF's proposal to consolidate the Graduate Research Fellowship 
Program (GRFP) within Education and Human Resources.
    In addition, the Committee supports infrastructure 
investments that expand our understanding of the universe and 
inspire students to pursue careers in the sciences. The 
Committee recognizes that current and future large scientific 
facilities represent an enormous investment of Federal 
resources that must be administered wisely. The Committee 
supports basic research in fundamental science areas and 
expects that as NSF uses the 10 Big Ideas as a focusing tool, 
the funding for the fundamental scientific disciplines will be 
maintained. Unless otherwise noted, within amounts provided, 
NSF shall allocate no less than fiscal year 2021 levels to 
support its existing scientific research laboratories, 
observational networks, and other research infrastructure 
assets, including the astronomy assets, the current academic 
research fleet, Federally funded research and development 
centers, and the national high-performance computing centers, 
so that they may provide the support needed for cutting edge 
research.
    Climate Science and Sustainability Research.--The 
recommendation provides $1,202,000,000 for climate and clean 
energy-related research, including $440,000,000 for Clean 
Energy Technology and $762,000,000 for the U.S. Global Change 
Research Program.
    Artificial Intelligence (Al).--The Committee believes it is 
important to maintain leadership in artificial intelligence and 
commends NSF for continuing to prioritize investments in this 
area. The Committee recognizes the potential of artificial 
intelligence to transform the economy, foster economic growth, 
support national security, and enhance well-being.
    To continue the progress in this emerging field, the 
recommendation includes up to $724,000,000 to support AI-
related grants and interdisciplinary research initiatives, 
which is $112,430,000 above fiscal year 2021 and equal to the 
request. The committee also recommends that of this funding 
increase, at least $50,000,000 will go toward workforce 
development for AI and other emerging technologies, including 
education programs for non-computer science students, with 
focused outreach to community colleges, Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, 
Tribal Colleges and Universities, and other Minority Serving 
Institutions.
    In addition, the Committee encourages NSF to increase the 
pipeline of students graduating with AI and data literacy 
through partnerships, cooperative agreements, and other pilot 
mechanisms. The Committee continues to urge NSF to invest in 
the ethical and safe development of AI. The Committee 
acknowledges receiving the NSF Leadership and Investments in 
Artificial Intelligence Research Report and further encourages 
NSF to report to the Committee on any cooperative projects on 
Artificial Intelligence between United States entities and 
international partners.
    Quantum Information Science and Technology.--The Committee 
supports NSF's research program in quantum information science 
and technology in support of the Department's authorized 
activities included in sections 301 and 302 of the National 
Quantum Initiative Act (Public Law 115-368). This emerging 
field of science promises to yield revolutionary new approaches 
to computing, sensing and communication. Accordingly, the 
Committee recommends up to $205,000,000 toward activities as 
authorized under Section 301 of the National Quantum Initiative 
and up to $50,000,000 toward the National Quantum Information 
Science Research Centers as authorized under section 302 of the 
National Quantum Initiative Act.
    Artificial Intelligence and Bias.--The Committee is looking 
forward to the report on artificial intelligence and bias as 
directed in House Report 116-455. The Committee recognizes the 
importance of studying the impact that algorithms have on 
protected classes and for developing an understanding of what 
kinds of discrimination and bias protected classes face in 
these particular activities.
    Disinformation and Misinformation.--The Committee 
recommends $1,000,000 for NSF to enter into an agreement with 
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 
to conduct a study on the current understanding of the spread 
of COVID-19-related disinformation and misinformation on the 
internet and social media platforms.
    The study shall address: (1) the roles disinformation and 
misinformation have played in the public response to COVID-19, 
including public acceptance of and demand for COVID-19 
vaccines; (2) the sources, both foreign and domestic, of COVID-
19-related disinformation and misinformation, and the 
mechanisms by which that disinformation and misinformation 
influence the public debate; (3) the role social media plays in 
the dissemination and promotion of COVID-19-related 
disinformation and misinformation content and the role social 
media platforms play in the organization of groups seeking to 
spread COVID-19-related disinformation and misinformation; (4) 
the potential financial returns for creators or distributors of 
COVID-19-related disinformation and misinformation and the role 
such financial incentives play in the propagation of COVID-19-
related disinformation and misinformation; (5) potential 
strategies to mitigate the dissemination and negative impacts 
of COVID-19-related disinformation and misinformation (and 
specifically the dissemination of disinformation and 
misinformation on social media), including through improved 
disclosures and addressing information literacy; and (6) an 
analysis of: (a) the limitations of the mitigation strategies 
described in paragraph (5); and (b) how the strategies can be 
implemented without infringing on the constitutional rights and 
civil liberties of the people of the United States.
    Misinformation and Disinformation Resiliency.--The 
Committee directs NSF to fund research grants on how to counter 
influence from foreign adversaries on social media platforms 
and into building public resilience against misinformation and 
disinformation. The NSF shall focus grant awards toward 
research projects that evaluate which activities help the 
public understand concepts such as media literacy and digital 
citizenship, the role of cognitive bias in powering information 
campaigns, responsible content sharing, and the prevalence of 
malicious online influence. To the extent practicable, NSF 
should engage other Federal agencies to help identify areas of 
research that will provide insight that can mitigate 
adversarial online influence.
    Divestment activities.--The Committee is aware that NSF is 
working with a variety of academic, private sector, and other 
government agencies with respect to the future operation of 
some of its observatories. NSF shall continue to keep the 
Committee informed regarding the status of these activities. 
Any proposal by NSF to divest the Foundation of these 
facilities shall be proposed as part of any future NSF budget 
request and is subject to NSF administrative provisions 
included in the accompanying bill.
    Lead Detection Testing and Monitoring.--The Committee 
encourages NSF to support funding for next-generation 
approaches to low-cost, high-quality lead testing detection and 
monitoring tools.

                    RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

    The Committee recommends $7,695,729,000 for Research and 
Related Activities, which is $785,960,000 above fiscal year 
2021 and $443,981,000 below the request. The Committee believes 
that strategic investments in the physical sciences are vitally 
important for the United States to remain the global leader in 
innovation, productivity, economic growth, and high-paying jobs 
for the future. The Committee supports NSF's proposal to create 
the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships 
within the Research and Related Activities account.
    Astronomy.--U.S.-based astronomy researchers and facilities 
funded through NSF continue to make groundbreaking discoveries 
utilizing world-class scientific research instruments and 
facilities. NSF funding enables research in the U.S., at 
facilities across the globe, and at observatories operated by 
universities, including the National Optical Astronomy 
Observatories, the National Radio Astronomy Observatories, The 
Arecibo Observatory, and the National Solar Observatory. As NSF 
determines the appropriate levels of support for astronomy 
research grants by scientists and students engaged in ground-
breaking research and investments, the Committee expects NSF to 
continue its support of world-class scientific research 
facilities and instrumentation to maximize its investments in 
research while preliminarily preparing for facility upgrades 
and activities associated with supporting the next Astrophysics 
decadal. In addition to this support, partnerships should be 
explored when feasible to maximize research capabilities at 
such facilities.
    Arecibo Observatory.--The Committee notes the significant 
loss to U.S. scientific research and capabilities resulting 
from the uncontrolled collapse of the iconic 305-meter radio 
telescope platform at the Arecibo Observatory (AO). The 
Committee recognizes that many of the instruments on the 
collapsed platform were crucial to science at AO, which 
fostered multiple discoveries and achievements in STEM fields, 
including astronomy and planetary sciences. The Committee 
further recognizes that future scientific capabilities at AO 
are currently being explored with community input, including an 
extended workshop to discuss future options with the scientific 
and educational communities in June, 2021. NSF is directed to 
report to the Committee not later than 120 days after enactment 
of this Act on the status of this effort, as well as clean-up 
efforts, repairs and preservation of associated AO facilities 
and surrounding areas including the reflector dish, and 
forensic evaluations of the collapse.
    Combating Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Incidents.--The 
Committee supports the President's directive to combat anti-
Asian hate and bigotry and supports NSF's research to address 
systemic racism and violence in our nation. The Committee 
directs NSF to report to the Committee, no later than 90 days 
after the date of enactment, on the status of this research.
    Carbon Dioxide Removal.--The Committee encourages NSF to 
prioritize research into carbon dioxide removal and utilization 
technologies, such as direct air capture, direct capture from 
emission sources, terrestrial and biological carbon removal, 
carbon mineralization, ocean-based carbon removal, and carbon 
conversion. The Committee further encourages NSF to fund 
research and development of these carbon dioxide removal 
technologies, and direct air capture materials research that 
includes early-stage application of sorbents, solvents, 
membranes, and related components.
    Critical Minerals.--The Committee recognizes the important 
role of NSF in carrying out activities for critical minerals as 
authorized by the Energy Act of 2020, and encourages 
cooperation with other agencies to the maximum extent possible 
in order to promote a secure and robust critical minerals 
supply chain and build a strong critical minerals workforce.
    Dyslexia.--The Committee believes it is important to 
continue research on the science of dyslexia and encourages NSF 
to support multi-directorate, merit reviewed, and competitively 
awarded research on the science of specific learning 
disabilities, including dyslexia, such as research on the early 
identification of children and students with dyslexia, 
professional development for teachers and administrators of 
students with dyslexia, curricula and educational tools needed 
for children with dyslexia, and implementation and scaling of 
successful models of dyslexia intervention.
    Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research 
(EPSCoR).--The recommendation includes no less than 
$227,000,000 for the EPSCoR program to help targeted 
jurisdictions strengthen STEM capacity and capability to 
broaden the expertise base, impact jurisdictional economic 
growth, and develop a skilled workforce capable of generating 
high-tech jobs in all States of the nation. EPSCoR states have 
many unmet needs, including equipment and computing/networking 
resources, sufficient numbers of researchers, especially at the 
graduate and post-doctoral levels, and better integration into 
regular NSF programs, which co-funding can help overcome.
    Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs).--The Committee supports the 
work of the Oceans and Human Health program to better 
understand the public health risk of environmental exposures 
and encourages NSF to continue to support research into the 
human health impacts of HABs in marine coastal regions, the 
Great Lakes Basin, and freshwater systems. HABs jeopardize the 
integrity of drinking water resources in these regions. The 
Committee further encourages research to help understand the 
impacts of dissolved nitrogen and phosphorous in the systems, 
and to understand their impacts on HAB's incidences. The 
recommendation provides no less than the fiscal year 2021 level 
for HAB research activities.
    High-Performance Computing.--The Committee commends NSF on 
its continuing commitment to its high-performance computing and 
data analysis capabilities and urges NSF to make timely and 
significant investments in high-performance computing. NSF 
should remain committed to developing and supporting systems 
that facilitate tremendous leaps in computational capabilities 
including artificial intelligence, storage, quantum computing, 
simulations, and data analyses that enable a broad range of 
scientific research. NSF should further commit to supporting 
access to at-scale data resources for advancing science in 
these fields, and likewise commit to expanding scientist access 
to these resources. Leading edge high-performance computing 
infrastructure is vital for continued U.S. world leadership and 
international scientific competitiveness, particularly given 
computational investments and technical achievements in high-
performance computing by other nations, notably China and 
Japan. The Committee encourages NSF to continue supporting its 
programs focused on providing world-class leadership computing 
for the national open science community.
    Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) 
Excellence in Research.--The Committee is supportive of the 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Excellence in 
Research program and as such, includes $33,960,000. This 
initiative provides strategic programs and opportunities for 
HBCUs that stimulate sustainable improvement in their research 
and development capacity and competitiveness. The Committee 
supports the recommendations outlined in the 2016 report to 
Congress from the NSF Subcommittee on Advancing Historically 
Black Colleges and Universities pursuant to instructions from 
Congress in fiscal year 2016. The report specifies strategies 
for accelerating greater HBCU participation in larger research 
directorates, and in the Broadening Participation programs in 
the Education and Human Resources directorate. The Committee 
directs NSF to use research infrastructure improvement grants, 
co-funding programs, and other innovative mechanisms to boost 
HBCU participation and capacity throughout NSF research 
programs.
    IceCube Neutrino Observatory.--The Committee supports 
research at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a national 
facility that enables a wide array of internationally 
collaborative scientific research in ground-based neutrino 
astrophysics. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Upgrade project 
was on schedule and maintained technical progress during the 
COVID pandemic, but required access to the South Pole was 
severely curtailed both for people and cargo. The Committee 
encourages NSF to continue its support of this program at the 
requested levels.
    Industrial Innovation and Partnerships.--The Committee 
recognizes that NSF's Industrial Innovation and Partnerships 
programs have long supported activities in advanced 
manufacturing of U.S. steel, and supports the continuation of 
these activities in fiscal year 2022.
    Innovation Corps.--The Committee recognizes the value of 
translating basic research for public benefit, and the 
recommendation includes $40,000,000 for the Innovation Corps 
program to continue to build on the initial successes of its 
highly innovative public-private partnership model and recent 
expansion of the program to additional academic institutions.
    International Ocean Discovery Program.--The recommendation 
includes $48,000,000 for the International Ocean Discovery 
Program as requested.
    National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.--
The Committee encourages the National Center for Science and 
Engineering Statistics (NCSES) to undertake a study to 
identify, compile, and analyze existing nationwide data, and 
conduct survey research as necessary, to better understand the 
national cyber workforce. The Committee directs NSF to provide 
the funding necessary to conduct this study and report to the 
Committee within 60 days of enactment of this Act.
    National Solar Observatory.--The Committee commends NSF's 
ongoing efforts to partner with academic institutions and the 
National Solar Observatory (NSO) to operate the Richard B. Dunn 
Solar Telescope (DST) that provides opportunities for solar 
astronomers to continue to use DST and its associated 
instrumentation, in the continental United States, in addition 
to the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. The Committee 
encourages NSF to continue its partnerships to ensure this 
valuable resource is available for research and educational 
programs.
    Navigating the New Arctic.--The Committee recognizes the 
critical need for greater understanding of the impact that 
Arctic warming will have on the environmental and socio-
economic conditions of communities along the eastern coast of 
North America. As NSF continues the Navigating the New Arctic 
program, the Committee urges NSF to address Arctic change in 
the North Atlantic including coordination activities, expanded 
observation networks and other research infrastructure, and 
workforce training.
    Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences.--The 
Committee supports SBE and recognizes the fundamental 
importance of its research for advancing our understanding of 
human behavior and its application to a wide range of human 
systems, including public health, national defense and 
security, education and learning, and the integration of human 
and machine. SBE funds over half of our nation's university-
based social and behavioral science research but remains the 
smallest of NSF directorates. The Committee believes this 
research provides an evidence-based understanding of the human 
condition, resulting in more-informed policymaking and better-
informed spending on a full range of national issues. The 
Committee encourages NSF to continue its support of these 
programs.
    Sustainable Chemistry Research.--The Committee recognizes 
the intent of Congress with enactment of the Sustainable 
Chemistry Research and Development Act of 2019, namely, that 
NSF and other agencies integrate sustainable chemistry 
principles and practices into existing research, development, 
demonstration, commercialization, education, and public 
outreach programs and activities and, where appropriate, expand 
or create new opportunities for funding to support such 
activities. To that end, the recommendation includes up to 
$2,500,000 to establish the Sustainable Chemistry Basic 
Research program authorized under section 509 of the America 
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (42 U.S.C. 1862p-3). NSF 
shall consult with a broad range of stakeholders within the 
chemistry community, including nonprofits, academia, and 
industry. NSF is directed to brief the Committee no later than 
180 days after enactment of this Act and quarterly thereafter 
on implementation of the program.

          MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee recommends $249,000,000 for Major Research 
Equipment and Facilities Construction, which is $8,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2021 level and equal to the request. The 
recommendation includes the following requested amounts: 
$1,000,000 for enhanced oversight; $90,000,000 for Antarctic 
Infrastructure Recapitalization; $36,000,000 for the Large 
Hadron Collider Upgrade; $76,250,000 for Mid-scale Research 
Infrastructure; $5,000,000 for Regional Class Research Vessels; 
and $40,750,000 for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. NSF shall 
continue to provide quarterly briefings to the Committee on the 
activities funded in this account.
    Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 
(Astro2020).--NSF funding enables astronomical research in the 
U.S., at facilities across the globe, and through its flagship 
observatories at NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy 
Research Laboratory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 
the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, and the National 
Solar Observatory. NSF should continue its support for existing 
astronomical facilities in its budget planning, including 
through its Windows on the Universe Big Idea. As Congress 
awaits recommendations from the 2020 Astrophysics and Astronomy 
Decadal Survey, the Committee also reiterates its support for 
preliminary investments in emerging priority facilities, such 
as the next generation Very Large Array and the Extremely Large 
Telescopes. The Committee is aware that NSF is providing 
funding in preparation for these future facilities, and the 
Committee encourages NSF to continue to do so over the coming 
year.
    Infrastructure planning.--The Committee is concerned about 
NSF's planning for the construction and development of the 
next-generation of competitive large-scale facilities to 
support NSF-funded science disciplines, including ground-based 
telescopes. Failure to plan for the next generation of 
facilities handicaps the U.S. science community and risks our 
nation's global leadership in science. The Committee encourages 
NSF to develop a comprehensive and prioritized list of large-
scale facilities requested by NSF-supported science 
disciplines.

                     EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

    The Committee recommends $1,274,270,000 for Education and 
Human Resources, which is $319,270,000 above fiscal year 2021 
and $13,000,000 below the request. The Committee accepts NSF's 
proposal to consolidate the Graduate Research Fellowship 
Program (GRFP) within Education and Human Resources.
    Broadening participation programs.--To broaden the 
participation of underrepresented populations in STEM education 
programs and, ultimately, the STEM workforce, the 
recommendation provides for Focused Programs, Geographic 
Diversity Programs, and Emphasis Programs that span across both 
the Research and Related Activities directorate and the 
Education and Human Resources directorate including $12,000,000 
for Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate; 
$39,000,000 for Centers for Research Excellence in Science and 
Technology; $46,000,000 for HBCU--Undergraduate Program; 
$69,500,000 for Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority 
Participation; $67,000,000 for the Robert Noyce Teacher 
Scholarship Program; and $21,000,000 for the Tribal Colleges 
and Universities Program. The Improving Undergraduate STEM 
Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (IUSE: HSI) program, 
managed and funded equally in the Division of Human Resource 
Development and the Division of Undergraduate Education, is 
provided $28,000,000 through each division, for a total of 
$56,000,000. Lastly, $45,500,000 is provided for NSF INCLUDES 
and $20,500,000 for ADVANCE.
    Bioprocessing and Workforce Development.--The Committee 
recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the 
Committee's concerns regarding the severe shortage of 
bioprocess scientists, engineers, technicians, and operators 
with the training and skills required to scale up advanced 
manufacturing processes that can respond rapidly and 
efficiently to global outbreaks and pandemics. Supply chain 
challenges--including cold storage, transportation and the 
time-sensitive nature of delivery--are just a sampling of the 
challenges facing the public health community. The Committee 
strongly believes that to maintain global leadership in the 
areas of biologics, advanced vaccines, and cell and gene 
therapies, increased investments to enhance the capacity of 
bioprocessing training facilities with integrated hands-on 
academic education, industry training, and workforce 
development are critical. Therefore, the Committee directs NSF 
to make investments promoting transdisciplinary workforce 
development, through training and education programs in the 
bioprocessing field to address the workforce gap and promote 
American ingenuity in this rapidly evolving field. The 
Committee strongly encourages NSF to look to institutions of 
higher education that have successfully demonstrated national 
and international collaborations when providing resources for 
these initiatives.
    CyberCorps, Scholarships for Service.--No less than 
$70,000,000 is provided, of which up to $6,500,000 should be 
used to continue work with community colleges that have a 
strong program in cybersecurity, either standalone or in 
collaboration with a 4-year institution, as demonstrated by the 
National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland 
Security designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in 
Information Assurance Cyber Defense 2-year education, or 
equivalent evidence.
    The National Science Foundation is encouraged to use the 
additional funding to increase the number of scholarships 
awarded at participating institutions and to increase the 
number of institutions that receive grants to participate in 
the program.
    IUSE Program.--The Committee supports the Improving 
Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program, and the 
recommendation provides no less than $90,000,000 for program 
activities.
    Marine and Ocean Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and 
Policy.--The Committee recognizes the dearth of minority 
students and faculty studying and teaching in the areas of 
Marine and Ocean Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Policy 
and encourages NSF to invest in programs that enable a robust 
academic environment for underrepresented minorities in these 
fields. NSF's Division of Graduate Education should convene 
leaders from Minority Serving Institutions, other graduate-
level institutions, and Marine Institutes to conceptualize and 
establish programs that will grow the pipeline of 
underrepresented minorities in the aforementioned areas.
    Quantum Computing at MSIs.--The Committee encourages NSF to 
continue support for quantum information science and 
engineering and especially collaborations with Minority Serving 
Institutions that are helping to train a quantum-ready 
workforce. This will help to grow U.S. national competitiveness 
in quantum information sciences by ensuring a diverse ready 
workforce is being developed as mandated in the Quantum 
Initiative Act (Public Law 115-368).

                 AGENCY OPERATIONS AND AWARD MANAGEMENT

    The Committee recommends $390,017,000 for Agency Operations 
and Award Management, which is $44,377,000 above fiscal year 
2021 and $78,280,000 below the request.

                  OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD

    The Committee recommends $4,600,000 for the National 
Science Board, which is $100,000 over fiscal year 2021 and 
equal to the request.

                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

    The Committee recommends $20,420,000 for the Office of 
Inspector General, which is $2,570,000 above fiscal year 2021 
and the equal to the request.

                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The bill includes a provision that establishes thresholds 
for the transfer of funds.
    The bill includes a provision regarding notification prior 
to acquisition or disposal of certain assets.

                                TITLE IV


                            RELATED AGENCIES


                       Commission on Civil Rights


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $13,000,000 for the Commission on 
Civil Rights, which is $500,000 above fiscal year 2021 and 
equal to the request. Within the amounts provided, $1,000,000 
is for the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and 
Boys. The Commission on Civil Rights is directed to provide a 
spend plan for the funds for this Commission, not later than 60 
days after the date of enactment of this Act.
    Field Hearings.--The Commission is encouraged to conduct 
field hearings on priority topic areas such as the treatment 
and diversion of mentally ill persons in our Nation's criminal 
justice system. The Commission should also consider 
investigating the related civil rights implications and 
disparate impacts of remote learning on the educational system 
during COVID-19.
    Policing Reform.--The Committee commends the Commission for 
its report, Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern 
Policing Practices, and directs the Commission to continue 
disseminating the findings and recommendations on 
constitutional policing reform found in that report and other 
related Commission reports.
    Donations.--The Committee includes bill language granting 
the Commission the authority to accept donations to carry out 
its mission, similar to authority provided to 45 other Federal 
agencies. The Commission shall provide the Committee quarterly 
updates on all gifts and donations, as well as the terms of, 
and specific activities funded by, the gift or donation. 
Additionally, anticipated funding from gifts or donations shall 
be included in the Commission's annual spending plan submitted 
to the Committee pursuant to section 528 of this Act.

                Equal Employment Opportunity Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $445,933,000 for the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which is $41,443,000 
above fiscal year 2021 and equal to the request. This increase 
will allow the EEOC to continue its prioritization of the 
enforcement of Federal anti-discrimination laws and to pursue 
litigation and strategic initiatives quickly and aggressively. 
In addition, funding is provided to increase front-line and 
investigative staff to reduce wait times for intake 
appointments, provide live help via the hotlines, modernize 
information technology, and improve the EEOC's methods of data 
collection, reporting, and access. The Committee directs the 
EEOC to provide a detailed hiring plan, organized by fiscal 
quarter, within 30 days of enactment of this Act.
    EEOC Training Resources on Workplace Harassment and 
Discrimination.--The EEOC is directed to engage in education 
and outreach activities, including providing training and 
technical assistance, for those with rights and 
responsibilities under employment antidiscrimination laws. 
Within the increased funding provided, the Committee expects 
the EEOC to develop and disseminate resource materials on 
comprehensive trainings to foster respectful workplaces free of 
harassment and discrimination, including best practices and 
training resources that address the needs of a diverse set of 
workplaces. The EEOC is directed to increase public awareness 
regarding access to workplace trainings, in addition to 
educating the public about the EEOC's overall work on this 
subject, including detailed information on how to report 
instances of harassment or discrimination. Resources and public 
education campaigns should be made available in multiple 
languages. The EEOC is directed to submit to the Committee, not 
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, a 
detailed plan and schedule for implementing these efforts.
    Summary of Equal Pay Data and Report.--The Committee is 
looking forward to the final report from the Committee on 
National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of 
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. CNSTAT is evaluating the 
quality and utility of data collected from U.S. employers by 
the EEOC through the EEO-1 Project, regarding compensation and 
hours worked. The Committee expects a thorough, transparent 
review of the data and looks forward to receiving the report 
upon completion no later than December 2021.
    Nondiscrimination report.--The Committee looks forward to 
receiving the report mandated by the Explanatory Statement 
accompanying Public Law 116-133, which directed the EEOC, in 
consultation with the Office of Management and Budget and 
Office of Personnel Management, to report on its efforts to 
prevent discrimination in the awarding of Federal grants, 
cooperative agreements, and other assistance.

                     International Trade Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $118,500,000 for the International 
Trade Commission (ITC), which is $15,500,000 above both the 
fiscal year 2021 enacted amount and the President's budget 
request. The recommendation includes full funding for all 
information technology requirements, as requested.
    The Committee recognizes that under the Trade Promotion 
Authority reauthorized in 2015 by the Bipartisan Congressional 
Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (Public Law 
114-26), the ITC is required to produce an assessment of the 
potential economic impact of trade agreements no later than 105 
calendar days after such agreements are signed. The Committee 
recognizes the importance of this work in prior trade 
agreements.

                       Legal Services Corporation


               PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

    The Committee recommends $600,000,000 for the Legal 
Services Corporation (LSC), which is $135,000,000 above fiscal 
year 2021 and equal to the request.
    LSC is a nonprofit corporation established to promote equal 
access to justice and to provide grants for high-quality civil 
legal assistance to low-income persons. LSC grants help the 
most vulnerable people, including thousands of low-income 
individuals, veterans, children, families, and seniors with 
civil legal assistance with matters addressing family law, 
including domestic violence, child support, and custody, as 
well as with housing matters, including evictions and 
foreclosures. The recommended funding level includes 
$557,400,000 for basic field grants, an increase of 
$131,900,000 above fiscal year 2021. The increased funding will 
enable LSC's grantees to expand their outreach and assist more 
low-income Americans. With State, local, pro bono, and private 
sources underfunded, LSC is critical to closing the access-to-
justice gap.

         ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

    The bill continues certain restrictions on the uses of LSC 
funding. In addition, the bill adopts the proposal to amend the 
requirement in Section 1007(c) of the LSC Act regarding certain 
requirements of the Governing Bodies of LSC Recipients.

                        Marine Mammal Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee provides $4,000,000 for the Marine Mammal 
Commission to continue the critical work of the Commission to 
protect these important species.

            Office of the United States Trade Representative

    The Committee recommends $72,800,000 for the Office of the 
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), which is $2,800,000 above 
fiscal year 2021 and $200,000 below the request. The Committee 
notes that Title IX of the United States-Mexico-Canada 
Implementation (USMCA) Act (Public Law 116-113) included 
$90,000,000 in supplemental appropriations available to USTR 
for obligation until fiscal year 2023. The Committee reminds 
USTR of the quarterly expenditure reports directed in House 
Report 116-101. The Committee directs the continuation of these 
reports for fiscal year 2022 and expects the inclusion of all 
funds provided to USTR, including supplemental appropriations, 
in its reports to the Committee, including information on 
staffing that supports the implementation of the USMCA.
    Bilateral Trade Agreements.--As the USTR continues multiple 
and simultaneous bilateral trade agreement discussions on 
behalf of the United States with various countries, including 
China and India, the Committee encourages USTR to continue to 
prioritize key U.S. export markets to ensure U.S. exporters are 
treated fairly, and where applicable, USTR is encouraged to 
prioritize resources to monitor compliance with trade 
obligations and enforce terms of such agreements. The Committee 
supports USTR's work to provide equitable market access for 
United States exports, including American-produced boric acid 
and America-grown almonds, pistachios, and walnuts, in India, 
and fresh citrus and other specialty crops, in China, and urges 
USTR to continue to prioritize fair treatment for American 
companies and enforcement of all of our trading partners' 
obligations. Further, USTR is directed to consult with the 
appropriate authorizing Committees, including the House 
Committee on Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee, 
regarding the inclusion of language related to Section 230 of 
the Communications Decency Act (Public Law 104-104) in any 
current trade or future trade agreement negotiations.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $57,800,000 for the salaries and 
expenses of USTR to support its current services and additional 
funding to support efforts to onboard additional staff.

                      TRADE ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends $15,000,000, as requested, which 
is to be derived from the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund, for 
trade enforcement activities authorized by the Trade 
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-
125).

                        State Justice Institute


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee recommends $7,600,000 for the State Justice 
Institute, which is $600,000 above fiscal year 2021.
    The additional funding is provided to enhance the 
Institute's efforts to help State courts address the unique 
challenges of the opioid epidemic, mental health issues, 
juvenile justice, child abuse, and technology in State courts.

                                TITLE V


                           GENERAL PROVISIONS


                        (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    Section 501 prohibits the use of funds for publicity or 
propaganda purposes unless expressly authorized by law.
    Section 502 prohibits any appropriation contained in this 
Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year unless expressly authorized.
    Section 503 provides that the expenditure of any 
appropriation contained in this Act for any consulting service 
through procurement contracts shall be limited to those 
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record 
and available for public inspection, except where otherwise 
provided under existing law or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law.
    Section 504 provides that if any provision of this Act or 
the application of such provision to any person or circumstance 
shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the 
application of other provisions shall not be affected.
    Section 505 prohibits a reprogramming of funds that: (1) 
creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) 
eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds 
or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which 
funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office 
or employees; (5) reorganizes or renames offices, programs, or 
activities; (6) contracts out or privatizes any function or 
activity presently performed by Federal employees; (7) augments 
funds for existing programs, projects, or activities in excess 
of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, or reduces by 10 
percent funding for any program, project, or activity, or 
numbers of personnel by 10 percent; or (8) results from any 
general savings, including savings from a reduction in 
personnel, which would result in a change in existing programs, 
projects, or activities as approved by Congress, unless the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 
days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
    Section 506 provides that if it is determined that any 
person intentionally affixes a ``Made in America'' label to any 
product that was not made in America that person shall not be 
eligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds 
made available in this Act. The section further provides that 
to the extent practicable, with respect to purchases of 
promotional items, funds made available under this Act shall be 
used to purchase items manufactured, produced, or assembled in 
the United States or its territories or possessions.
    Section 507 requires quarterly reporting on the status of 
balances of appropriations.
    Section 508 provides that any costs incurred by a 
department or agency funded under this Act resulting from, or 
to prevent, personnel actions taken in response to funding 
reductions in this Act, or, for the Department of Commerce, 
from actions taken for the care and protection of loan 
collateral or grant property, shall be absorbed within the 
budgetary resources available to the department or agency, and 
provides transfer authority between appropriation accounts to 
carry out this provision, subject to reprogramming procedures.
    Section 509 prohibits funds made available in this Act from 
being used to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco 
products or to seek the reduction or removal of foreign 
restrictions on the marketing of tobacco products, except for 
restrictions that are not applied equally to all tobacco or 
tobacco products of the same type. This provision is not 
intended to impact routine international trade services to all 
U.S. citizens, including the processing of applications to 
establish foreign trade zones.
    Section 510 limits the obligation of receipts deposited 
into the Crime Victims Fund to $2,600,000,000 during fiscal 
year 2022. The language also provides for a Tribal set-aside.
    Section 511 prohibits the use of Department of Justice 
funds for programs that discriminate against or denigrate the 
religious or moral beliefs of students participating in such 
programs.
    Section 512 prohibits the transfer of funds made available 
in this Act to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government, except for transfers made by, or 
pursuant to authorities provided in, this Act or any other 
appropriations Act.
    Section 513 requires the Inspectors General of the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and 
the Legal Services Corporation to conduct reviews of activities 
funded in this Act and requires certifications regarding 
conflicts of interest.
    Section 514 prohibits funds for acquisition of certain 
information systems unless the acquiring department or agency 
has reviewed and assessed certain risks. Any acquisition of 
such an information system is contingent upon the development 
of a risk mitigation strategy and a determination that the 
acquisition is in the national interest. Each department or 
agency covered by this section shall consult with the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other relevant agencies when 
reviewing supply chain risks and making a determination that 
the acquisition is in the national interest. Each department or 
agency covered by this section is directed to ensure it is 
following the criteria established by the FBI and the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology when acquiring or 
renewing certain information systems. Each department or agency 
covered under this section shall submit a quarterly report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate 
describing reviews and assessments of risk made pursuant to 
this section and any associated findings or determinations.
    Section 515 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to support or justify the use of torture by any 
official or contract employee of the United States Government.
    Section 516 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to include certain language in trade agreements.
    Section 517 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to authorize or issue a national security letter (NSL) 
in contravention of certain laws authorizing the FBI to issue 
NSLs.
    Section 518 requires congressional notification regarding 
any project within the Departments of Commerce or Justice, the 
National Science Foundation or the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration totaling more than $75,000,000 that has 
cost increases of 10 percent or more.
    Section 519 deems funds for intelligence or intelligence 
related activities as authorized by Congress during fiscal year 
2022 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act 
for fiscal year 2022.
    Section 520 prohibits contracts or grant awards in excess 
of $5,000,000 unless the prospective contractor or grantee 
certifies that the organization has filed all Federal tax 
returns, has not been convicted of a criminal offense under the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has no unpaid Federal tax 
assessment.

                             (RESCISSIONS)

    Section 521 provides for rescissions of unobligated 
balances from the Department of Justice.
    Section 522 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act for the purchase of first class or premium air travel 
in contravention of certain Federal regulations.
    Section 523 prohibits the use of funds, under certain 
circumstances, to pay for the attendance of more than 50 
department or agency employees, who are stationed in the United 
States, at any single conference outside the United States.
    Section 524 requires tracking and reporting of undisbursed 
balances in expired grant accounts.
    Section 525 requires funds, to the extent practicable, to 
be used to purchase light bulbs that are ``Energy Star'' 
qualified or have the ``Federal Energy Management Program'' 
designation.
    Section 526 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) or 
the National Space Council (NSC) to engage in bilateral 
activities with China or a Chinese-owned company unless the 
activities are authorized by subsequent legislation or NASA, 
OSTP or NSC after consultation with the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation have made a certification pursuant to subsections 
(c) and (d) of this section.
    Section 527 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to establish or maintain a computer network that does 
not block pornography, except for law enforcement or victim 
assistance purposes.
    Section 528 requires each department and agency funded in 
the bill to submit spending plans.
    Section 529 prohibits funds to pay for award or incentive 
fees for contractors with below satisfactory performance or 
performance that fails to meet the basic requirements of the 
contract.
    Section 530 prohibits funds from being used by the 
Department of Justice or Drug Enforcement Administration in 
contravention of section 7606 of Agricultural Act of 2014.
    Section 531 prohibits the Department of Justice from 
preventing certain States and territories from implementing 
State or territory laws regarding the use of medical marijuana.
    Section 532 requires a quarterly report from the Department 
of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
and the National Science Foundation on official travel to 
China.
    Section 533 requires not less than 10 percent of the funds 
provided for certain programs be provided to persistent poverty 
counties or any Territory or possession of the United States.
    Section 534 requires a report regarding construction of a 
new headquarters for the FBI.
    Section 535 prohibits funds from being used to prevent a 
Member of Congress from entering Federal facilities to conduct 
oversight.

            House of Representatives Reporting Requirements

    The following materials are submitted in accordance with 
various requirements of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives:


         Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following is a statement of 
general performance goals and objectives for which this measure 
authorizes funding: The Committee on Appropriations considers 
program performance, including a program's success in 
developing and attaining outcome-related goals and objectives, 
in developing funding recommendations.

                              Rescissions

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following table is submitted 
describing the rescissions recommended in the accompanying 
bill:

 
 
 
Department of Justice:
Working Capital Fund..................................      $108,400,000
Office of Justice Programs............................        90,000,000
Community Oriented Policing Services..................        15,000,000
Office on Violence Against Women......................        15,000,000
 

   Disclosure of Earmarks and Congressionally Directed Spending Items

    The following table is submitted in compliance with clause 
9 of rule XXI, and lists the congressional earmarks (as defined 
in paragraph (e) of clause 9) contained in the bill or in this 
report. Neither the bill nor the report contain any limited tax 
benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in paragraphs 
(f) or (g) of clause 9 of rule XXI.

                                                    COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES
                                                            [Community Project Funding Items]
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   Agency          Account           Recipient           Location           Project        House Amount                 House Requestor(s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Columbia River     Portland, OR.....  Upgrade and              $760,000                                       Bonamici
                                  Inter Tribal                          Expand the
                                  Fish Commission.                      Coastal Margin
                                                                        Observation and
                                                                        Prediction
                                                                        Program.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Alabama State      Mobile, AL.......  Physical                 $233,000                                               Carl
                                  Port Authority.                       Oceanographic
                                                                        Real-Time System
                                                                        (PORTS) Sensors,
                                                                        Port of Mobile.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  University of      Kaneohe, HI......  Moku o Lo'e              $200,000                                               Case
                                  Hawai'i.                              Marine
                                                                        Laboratory
                                                                        Refuge Eco-
                                                                        Friendly Sea
                                                                        Wall Research.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  The Hawai'I        Honolulu, HI.....  Waikiki Marine           $415,000                                               Case
                                  Department of                         Life
                                  Land and Natural                      Conservation
                                  Resources,                            District Coral
                                  Division of                           Restoration.
                                  Aquatic
                                  Resources.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  George Mason       Fairfax, VA......  Virginia Climate       $1,979,000                                               Connolly
                                  University.                           Center.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  University of      St. Petersburg,    Observing              $2,000,000                                               Crist
                                  South Florida.     FL.                Infrastructure
                                                                        to Address
                                                                        Flooding Risks
                                                                        due to Climate
                                                                        Change at the
                                                                        Community Level.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Florida            Miami, FL........  Aquarius Coral         $1,135,000                           Diaz-Balart; Gimenez
                                  International                         Reef Observatory.
                                  University.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Texas State        San Marcos, TX...  Texas State            $2,000,000                                        Doggett
                                  University.                           University
                                                                        Meadows Center
                                                                        Climate Change
                                                                        Impact on Water
                                                                        Initiative.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  The Marine Mammal  Sausalito,         Emergency Marine         $500,000                                        Huffman
                                  Center.            California.        Mammal Field
                                                                        Response,
                                                                        Research, and
                                                                        Rehabilitation.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Greater            San Francisco, CA  Greater                  $500,000                                        Huffman
                                  Farallones                            Farallones
                                  Association.                          National Marine
                                                                        Sanctuary Kelp
                                                                        Recovery.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Oceans Initiative  Seattle, WA......  Targeted Acoustic        $322,000                                        Jayapal
                                                                        Startle
                                                                        Technology
                                                                        (TAST) at the
                                                                        Ballard Locks.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  The Nature         Honolulu, Hawaii.  Putting People to        $500,000                                         Kahele
                                  Conservancy                           Work Supporting
                                  Hawai'i.                              Community-Based
                                                                        Co-Management of
                                                                        Coastal
                                                                        Resources in
                                                                        Hawai'i.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Northern Illinois  Dekalb, IL.......  Understanding and        $660,000                                      Kinzinger
                                  University.                           Mitigating
                                                                        Future Weather
                                                                        and Climate
                                                                        Risks to
                                                                        Agriculture.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  University of      Kingston, RI.....  University of          $1,000,000                                       Langevin
                                  Rhode Island.                         Rhode Island
                                                                        Integrated
                                                                        Plastics
                                                                        Research.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  The Regents of     La Jolla, CA.....  Mobile LiDAR             $800,000                                        Levin (CA)
                                  the University                        System.
                                  of California,
                                  Scripps
                                  Institute of
                                  Oceanography.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  San Jose State     San Jose, CA.....  Wildfire               $1,150,000                                        Lofgren
                                  University                            Interdisciplinar
                                  Research                              y Research
                                  Foundation.                           Center.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Waterfront         New York, NY.....  Flushing Meadows         $531,000                                           Meng
                                  Alliance, Inc..                       Corona Park: A
                                                                        Hub for Climate
                                                                        Resilience.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Coastal            College Point, NY  Restoration &            $263,000                                        Ocasio-Cortez
                                  Preservation                          Stabilization of
                                  Network.                              Two On-Water
                                                                        Platforms on
                                                                        Flushing Bay.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  NOAA's James J.    Highlands, NJ....  Social and               $480,000                                        Pallone
                                  Howard Marine                         Ecological
                                  Sciences                              Resilience
                                  Laboratory at                         Projects for New
                                  Sandy Hook.                           Jersey Coasts
                                                                        and Oceans.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  San Diego Unified  San Diego, CA....  Habitat-Friendly       $1,000,000                                         Peters
                                  Port District.                        Shoreline
                                                                        Structures.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  University of      Orono, ME........  Maine Climate            $990,000                                        Pingree
                                  Maine.                                Coordination
                                                                        Center.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  NOAA's Northeast   Augusta, ME......  Planning for the         $200,000                                        Pingree
                                  Fisheries                             Future of
                                  Science Center.                       Maine's Lobster
                                                                        Fishery and
                                                                        Right Whale
                                                                        Protections.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  University of      Madison, WI......  Next Generation        $1,200,000                                          Pocan
                                  Wisconsin-                            Scanning High-
                                  Madison, Space                        Resolution
                                  Science and                           Interferometer
                                  Engineering                           Sounder (S-HIS)
                                  Center.                               Aircraft
                                                                        Instrument.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Town of            Hempstead, NY....  Marine Nature            $130,000                                      Rice (NY)
                                  Hempstead, New                        Study Area.
                                  York.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Florida            Miami, FL........  Greater Biscayne       $2,000,000                                        Salazar
                                  International                         Bay Harmful
                                  University.                           Algae Bloom
                                                                        Monitoring
                                                                        Program.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Museum of          Miami, FL........  National Center        $1,150,000                                        Salazar
                                  Science, Inc..                        for Education
                                                                        and Conservation
                                                                        of Florida's
                                                                        Coral Reef.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Washington         Olympia, WA......  Columbia River           $892,000                      Schrader; Herrera Beutler
                                  Department of                         Pinniped Removal.
                                  Fish and
                                  Wildlife.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  Oregon Department  Newport, OR......  Whale                    $100,000                                       Schrader
                                  of Fish and                           Entanglement
                                  Wildlife.                             Risk Reduction
                                                                        Research.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  The Nurture        Easton, PA.......  CREATE Resilience        $140,000                                           Wild
                                  Nature Center.                        Research and
                                                                        Community
                                                                        Learning Hub.
         DOC  NOAA-ORF.........  University of      Homer, AK........  Engaging Diverse         $750,000                                          Young
                                  Alaska Anchorage.                     Communities in
                                                                        Stewardship of
                                                                        Wild Salmon in
                                                                        Cook Inlet.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Sparks...  Sparks, NV.......  First Responder        $1,000,000                                         Amodei
                                                                        Radio Equipment.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of West       West Wendover, NV  Police                   $376,000                                         Amodei
                                  Wendover.                             Interoperability
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Elk Grove  Elk Grove, CA....  Elk Grove Police         $520,000                                           Bera
                                                                        Department
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        Center Equipment.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Pinellas County    Clearwater, FL...  Pinellas County        $1,750,000                                      Bilirakis
                                  Government.                           Consolidated
                                                                        Computer Aided
                                                                        Dispatch (CAD)
                                                                        System.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Village of East    East Alton, IL...  East Alton Law            $25,000                                           Bost
                                  Alton.                                Enforcement
                                                                        Cameras.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Prince George's    Prince George's    Mobile Camera            $442,000                                          Brown
                                  County             County, MD.        System.
                                  Government.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  San Luis Obispo    San Luis Obispo    County of San          $5,600,000                                               Carbajal
                                  County.            County, CA.        Luis Obispo
                                                                        Public Safety
                                                                        Communication
                                                                        System.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of            Monroeville, AL..  Monroeville              $125,000                                               Carl
                                  Monroeville.                          Police
                                                                        Department
                                                                        Security Cameras.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Wilkes-    Wilkes-Barre, PA.  City of Wilkes-        $2,100,000                                               Cartwright
                                  Barre.                                Barre,
                                                                        Pennsylvania's
                                                                        Community
                                                                        Policing
                                                                        Technology and
                                                                        Equipment
                                                                        Initiative.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Tampa....  Tampa, FL........  COPS Technology          $382,000                                               Castor (FL)
                                                                        Enhancement.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Hamilton County    Cincinnati, OH...  Hamilton County        $1,600,000                                               Chabot
                                  Department of                         P25 Radio System
                                  Communications.                       Enhancement.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Norwich Police     Norwich, CT......  Norwich Police           $700,000                                               Courtney
                                  Department.                           Department
                                                                        Computer Aided
                                                                        Dispatch and
                                                                        Records
                                                                        Management
                                                                        System.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Coos County......  Coos County, OR..  Coos County              $231,000                                        DeFazio
                                                                        Emergency Radio
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        System.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Montgomery County  Montgomery         Montgomery County         $25,000                                        Delgado
                                  Sheriff's Office.  County, NY.        Sheriff's Office
                                                                        License Plate
                                                                        Reader.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Glendale.  Glendale, AZ.....  Glendale 911             $480,000                                        Gallego
                                                                        Communication
                                                                        Center Upgrades.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Alamo....  Alamo, TX........  City of Alamo            $540,000                         Gonzalez, Vicente (TX)
                                                                        Police Radio
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Vancouver  Vancouver, WA....  City of Vancouver      $1,500,000                                Herrera Beutler
                                                                        Police Camera
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  SouthCom Combined  Matteson, IL.....  SouthCom                 $276,000                                     Kelly (IL)
                                  Dispatch Center.                      Technology
                                                                        Upgrades.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Nevada County      Nevada City, CA..  Nevada County          $4,800,000                                        LaMalfa
                                  Sheriff's                             Sheriff's Office
                                  Department.                           Radio
                                                                        Infrastructure
                                                                        Improvements.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Town of Paradise.  Paradise, CA.....  Upgraded Radios          $615,000                                        LaMalfa
                                                                        for Paradise
                                                                        Police
                                                                        Department.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  South Beaver       South Beaver       South Beaver             $224,000                                           Lamb
                                  Township Police    Township, PA.      Township Police
                                  Department.                           Department
                                                                        Communication
                                                                        System
                                                                        Improvement
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Oceanside Police   Oceanside, CA....  In-Car Camera            $587,000                                        Levin (CA)
                                  Department.                           System.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  County of          Northampton        Eastern Shore of       $8,245,000                                          Luria
                                  Northampton.       County, VA.        Virginia's
                                                                        Regional Public
                                                                        Safety Radio
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        System.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Union County, New  Union County, NJ.  Union County, New      $1,270,000                                     Malinowski
                                  Jersey.                               Jersey, Law
                                                                        Enforcement
                                                                        Interoperable
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        Expansion and
                                                                        Upgrades.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of            Greensboro, NC...  Computer Aided         $3,000,000                                        Manning
                                  Greensboro.                           Dispatch System
                                                                        Replacement for
                                                                        the City of
                                                                        Greensboro, NC.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Winston-   Winston-Salem, NC  Winston-Salem            $273,000                                        Manning
                                  Salem, NC.                            Police
                                                                        Department Real
                                                                        Time Crime
                                                                        Center
                                                                        Technology
                                                                        Upgrades.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Saint      Saint Paul, MN...  Saint Paul Police      $2,000,000                                             McCollum
                                  Paul.                                 Department
                                                                        Portable Radio
                                                                        Replacement.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of            Huntington, WV...  Nationally               $219,000                                    Miller (WV)
                                  Huntington.                           Integrated
                                                                        Ballistic
                                                                        Information
                                                                        Network (NIBIN)
                                                                        Terminal.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Gary Police        Gary, IN.........  Technology               $500,000                                          Mrvan
                                  Department.                           Upgrades--Gary
                                                                        Police
                                                                        Department.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Monrovia.  Monrovia, CA.....  Monrovia Public          $843,000                                     Napolitano
                                                                        Safety Critical
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        Replacement
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Camden County      Camden County, NJ  Cameras to               $500,000                                       Norcross
                                  Police                                Monitor Illegal
                                  Department.                           Dumping.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Manchester Police  Manchester, NH...  Manchester               $300,000                                         Pappas
                                  Department.                           Gunshot
                                                                        Recognition
                                                                        Technology.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Strafford County   Strafford County,  Strafford County         $752,000                                         Pappas
                                  Sheriff's          NH.                Sheriff Radio
                                  Department.                           Systems.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  The Borough of     Leonia, NJ.......  The Strengthening        $250,000                                       Pascrell
                                  Leonia.                               Public Safety
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Chicago Police     Chicago, IL......  Chicago                  $500,000                                        Quigley
                                  Department.                           Integrated
                                                                        Intelligence
                                                                        Strategy Program
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Westmoreland       Greensburg, PA...  Westmoreland             $528,000                                  Reschenthaler
                                  County                                County
                                  Department of                         Department of
                                  Public Safety.                        Public Safety
                                                                        Backup 9-1-1.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Johnson County     Paintsville, KY..  Johnson County           $859,000                                    Rogers (KY)
                                  Fiscal Court.                         First Responder
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Clinton    Clinton, NC......  Radio Upgrades           $173,000                                         Rouzer
                                  Police                                and Repeater
                                  Department.                           Placement.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Marion County--    Marion County, OR  Marion County          $1,200,000                                       Schrader
                                  Finance                               Public Safety
                                  Department.                           Radio System
                                                                        Upgrade and
                                                                        Repairs.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Suffolk..  Suffolk, VA......  Suffolk Emergency      $3,492,000                                     Scott (VA)
                                                                        Communication
                                                                        Center Computer
                                                                        Aided
                                                                        Dispatching
                                                                        (CAD) and Police
                                                                        Records
                                                                        Management
                                                                        System (RMS)
                                                                        Replacement.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Union City Police  Union City, NJ...  Closed-Circuit         $1,100,000                                          Sires
                                  Department.                           Television
                                                                        (CCTV) for a
                                                                        Safer Union City.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Waterford          Waterford, MI....  911 Dispatch-            $250,000                                        Stevens
                                  Township Police                       Emergency
                                  Department.                           Operations
                                                                        Center
                                                                        Technology
                                                                        Upgrades.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Fremont..  Fremont, CA......  City of Fremont          $250,000                                       Swalwell
                                                                        Emergency
                                                                        Dispatch System.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Pomona--   Pomona, CA.......  Police Radio           $3,404,000                                       Torres (CA)
                                  Police                                Upgrades.
                                  Department.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  City of Lemoore..  Lemoore, CA......  City of Lemoore        $1,000,000                                        Valadao
                                                                        Police Dispatch.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Hillsdale County   Hillsdale, MI....  Communication            $210,000                                        Walberg
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Technology
                                                                        Improvement.
        DOJ   COPS Tech........  Chittenden County  Chittenden         Chittenden County        $750,000                                          Welch
                                  Public Safety      County, VT.        Public Safety
                                  Authority.                            Authority
                                                                        Regional
                                                                        Dispatch Center--
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Charlotte  Charlotte, NC....  Cure Violence          $1,000,000                                          Adams
                                                                        Charlotte
                                                                        Implementation.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Rialto...  Rialto, CA.......  City of Rialto           $700,000                                        Aguilar
                                                                        Body-Worn Camera
                                                                        Upgrade.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Southern           Dallas, TX.......  Combatting Human       $1,187,000                                         Allred
                                  Methodist                             Trafficking.
                                  University.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Omaha....  Omaha, NE........  Encompass Omaha:         $527,000                                          Bacon
                                                                        A Hospital-based
                                                                        Violence
                                                                        Intervention
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Mansfield  Mansfield, OH....  City of Mansfield         $50,000                                      Balderson
                                  Division of                           Division of
                                  Police.                               Police Gun-shot
                                                                        Detection
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Morrow County      Mt. Gilead, OH...  Morrow County            $288,000                                      Balderson
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Sheriff's Office
                                                                        Radio
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        System.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Menifee County     Frenchburg, KY...  Menifee County           $529,000                                           Barr
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Schools Security
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Toberman           San Pedro, CA....  Toberman               $1,000,000                                  Diaz Barragan
                                  Neighborhood                          Neighborhood
                                  Center.                               Center San Pedro
                                                                        Violence
                                                                        Interruption
                                                                        through Gang
                                                                        Deterrence
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  A New Way of Life  Los Angeles, CA..  A New Way of Life        $250,000                                           Bass
                                                                        Safe Homes--
                                                                        Women's Reentry
                                                                        and Economic
                                                                        Development
                                                                        Initiative.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Los Angeles        Los Angeles, CA..  Brotherhood              $220,000                                           Bass
                                  Brotherhood                           Crusade and 2nd
                                  Crusade, Black                        Call: Answering
                                  United Fund,                          the Second Call--
                                  Inc..                                 A Holistic,
                                                                        Culturally-
                                                                        Responsive,
                                                                        Trauma-Informed
                                                                        Re-Entry Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  The Connie Rice    Los Angeles, CA..  Urban Peace              $220,000                                           Bass
                                  Institute for                         Institute and
                                  Urban Peace.                          Chapter TWO:
                                                                        South Los
                                                                        Angeles Peace
                                                                        Ambassadors.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Young Women's      Los Angeles, CA..  YWCA Greater Los         $300,000                                           Bass
                                  Christian                             Angeles Sexual
                                  Association of                        Assault Response
                                  Greater Los                           Team Project
                                  Angeles.                              (SART).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  CHOICES for        Worthington, OH..  Safe Shelter for         $750,000                                         Beatty
                                  Victims of                            Victims of
                                  Domestic                              Domestic
                                  Violence, dba                         Violence.
                                  LSS CHOICES.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Huckleberry        Columbus, OH.....  Central Ohio             $610,000                                         Beatty
                                  House, Inc..                          Youth
                                                                        Homelessness
                                                                        Support for
                                                                        Victims of Crime.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of            Alexandria, VA...  Pilot Deployment         $600,000                                          Beyer
                                  Alexandria (VA).                      of Body-Worn
                                                                        Cameras in the
                                                                        Alexandria
                                                                        Police
                                                                        Department.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Pinellas County    Clearwater, FL...  Pinellas County          $200,000                                      Bilirakis
                                  Justice Center.                       Intercept Unit.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  U.S. Institute     Tampa, FL........  Combatting Human         $750,000                                      Bilirakis
                                  Against Human                         Trafficking in
                                  Trafficking.                          the State of
                                                                        Florida.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Pelham,    Pelham, GA.......  City of Pelham--         $225,000                                    Bishop (GA)
                                  Georgia.                              Radio
                                                                        Communications
                                                                        System Upgrade.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Portland.  Portland, OR.....  City of Portland         $200,000                                     Blumenauer
                                                                        Violence
                                                                        Prevention
                                                                        Outreach.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Delaware Criminal  Wilmington, DE...  Statewide Body-        $1,600,000                                Blunt Rochester
                                  Justice Council.                      Worn Camera
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Delaware Criminal  Wilmington, DE...  Statewide              $1,900,000                                Blunt Rochester
                                  Justice Council.                      Violence
                                                                        Reduction
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Forsyth County     Forsyth County,    Forsyth County            $90,000                                      Bourdeaux
                                  Government.        GA.                Substance Abuse
                                                                        and Intervention
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Forsyth County     Forsyth County,    Crisis                   $235,000                                      Bourdeaux
                                  Government.        GA.                Intervention
                                                                        Team.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Lutheran           Philadelphia, PA.  Strengthening            $125,000                                          Boyle
                                  Settlement House.                     Supports for
                                                                        Victims of
                                                                        Domestic
                                                                        Violence.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Mothers in Charge  Philadelphia, PA.  Mothers In Charge        $100,000                                          Boyle
                                                                        Prevention,
                                                                        Intervention and
                                                                        Education (PIE).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  County of Ventura  Ventura County,    Ventura County           $950,000                                       Brownley
                                                     CA.                Cold Case and
                                                                        Sexual Assault
                                                                        Investigation.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  University of      Mobile, AL.......  Department               $500,000                                               Carl
                                  South Alabama.                        Community-Based
                                                                        Crisis
                                                                        Intervention
                                                                        Training and
                                                                        Support for
                                                                        Primary
                                                                        Responders.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of            Indianapolis, IN.  Mental Health          $1,000,000                                               Carson
                                  Indianapolis.                         Diversion
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Marion County      Marion County, IN  Marion County             $96,000                                               Carson
                                  Prosecutors                           Prosecutor's
                                  Office.                               Office Second
                                                                        Chance Workshops.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Bell County......  Bell County, TX..  Bell County            $1,563,000                                               Carter (TX)
                                                                        Sheriff's
                                                                        Department 2021
                                                                        Equipment
                                                                        Modernization
                                                                        Plan.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Belton...  Belton, TX.......  City of Belton           $374,000                                               Carter (TX)
                                                                        Public Safety
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Lackawanna County  Lackawanna         Lackawanna County      $2,000,000                                               Cartwright
                                  Government.        County, PA.        Gun and Gang
                                                                        Reduction and
                                                                        Intelligence
                                                                        Project (GGRIP).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Graham County      Robbinsville, NC.  Graham County In-         $91,000                                               Cawthorn
                                  Sheriff's                             Car Radios for
                                  Department.                           Patrol Cars.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Graham County      Robbinsville, NC.  Graham County             $53,000                                               Cawthorn
                                  Sheriff's                             Sheriff Body-
                                  Department.                           Worn Camera
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Safelight, Inc...  Hendersonville,    Safelight Child          $300,000                                               Cawthorn
                                                     NC.                Advocacy Center.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Family Service of  Providence, RI...  Police Go Team           $413,000                                               Cicilline
                                  Rhode Island                          Critical
                                  (FSRI).                               Services and
                                                                        Expansion.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of New York,  New York, NY.....  Crisis Management      $3,000,000                                               Clarke (NY)
                                  Office to                             System (CMS).
                                  Prevent Gun
                                  Violence.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Kansas City,       Kansas City, MO..  Aim4Peace                $250,000                                               Cleaver
                                  Missouri Health                       Hospital-based
                                  Department.                           Violence
                                                                        Intervention
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Lower Richland     Columbia, SC.....  The Lower                $800,000                                               Clyburn
                                  Alumni                                Richland Alumni
                                  Foundation.                           Foundation
                                                                        Community Cares
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Cocaine and        Memphis, TN......  Cocaine and              $671,000                                               Cohen
                                  Alcohol                               Alcohol
                                  Awareness                             Awareness
                                  Program,                              Program,
                                  Incorporated.                         Incorporated
                                                                        (CAAP, Inc)
                                                                        Community
                                                                        Corrections
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Orange County....  Orange County, CA  Coordinated            $5,000,000                                               Correa
                                                                        Reentry Center--
                                                                        Programs and
                                                                        Services.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Fresno     Fresno, CA.......  Advance Peace            $300,000                                               Costa
                                  Police                                Fresno--Violence
                                  Department.                           Prevention and
                                                                        Intervention
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of            Clearwater, FL...  Clearwater Police        $144,000                                               Crist
                                  Clearwater,                           Department
                                  Florida.                              Mental Health Co-
                                                                        Responder
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Largo, FL  Largo, FL........  Police Officers          $230,000                                               Crist
                                                                        Body-Worn
                                                                        Cameras for
                                                                        Largo Police
                                                                        Department.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Village of         Village of         Maywood                  $621,000                           Davis, Danny K. (IL)
                                  Maywood.           Maywood, IL.       Alternative
                                                                        Policing
                                                                        Strategies,
                                                                        Junior (MAPS,
                                                                        JR).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  JEVS Human         Philadelphia, PA.  The Choice is            $400,000                                           Dean
                                  Services.                             Yours.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of New Haven  New Haven, CT....  New Haven              $2,000,000                                        DeLauro
                                                                        Community Crisis
                                                                        Response Team
                                                                        (NH-CCRT).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Community Leaders  Burien, WA.......  Snohomish County         $246,000                                        DelBene
                                  Roundtable of                         Community-Based
                                  Seattle, d.b.a.                       Diversion with
                                  CHOOSE 180.                           CHOOSE 180.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Samadhi Center     Kingston, NY.....  Samadhi Center           $430,000                                        Delgado
                                  Inc..                                 SNUGS Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Broward County     Broward County,    Broward County           $563,000                                         Deutch
                                  Sheriff's Office.  FL.                Mental Health
                                                                        Diversion
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Deerfield  Deerfield Beach,   Security                 $595,000                                         Deutch
                                  Beach, Florida.    FL.                Technology
                                                                        Enhancements.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Eastern Michigan   Ypsilanti, MI....  Prisoner Reentry         $250,000                                        Dingell
                                  University.                           Services.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Educate Youth      Ypsilanti, MI....  Police Community         $149,000                                        Dingell
                                  Ypsilanti.                            Relations
                                                                        Training Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of El Paso..  El Paso, TX......  El Paso Police           $525,000                                        Escobar
                                                                        Department Body-
                                                                        Worn Camera
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  County of El       El Paso County,    The Crisis             $2,015,000                                        Escobar
                                  Paso, Texas.       TX.                Intervention
                                                                        Team.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Simi       Simi Valley, CA..  Simi Valley Radio      $1,000,000                                       Garcia (CA)
                                  Valley.                               Replacement.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Homestead Police   Homestead, FL....  Homestead Police         $750,000                                        Gimenez
                                  Department.                           Department Body-
                                                                        Worn Camera
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Miami-Dade Police  Doral, FL........  Operation Safe         $2,010,000                                        Gimenez
                                  Department.                           Ride--Public
                                                                        Safety Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Bexar County       San Antonio, TX..  Bexar County              $82,000                            Gonzales, Tony (TX)
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Sheriff's Office
                                                                        Animal Cruelty
                                                                        Investigations
                                                                        Unit.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  San Antonino       San Antonio, TX..  San Antonio            $1,000,000                            Gonzales, Tony (TX)
                                  Police                                Mental Health
                                  Department.                           Unit Expansion.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of McAllen..  Mcallen, TX......  City of Mcallen          $250,000                         Gonzalez, Vicente (TX)
                                                                        Police Forensics
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Municipality of    Utuado, PR.......  Law Enforcement          $116,000                                      Gonzalez-Colon
                                  Utuado.                               Equipment and
                                                                        Technology for
                                                                        the Utuado
                                                                        Municipal Police.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  East Baton Rouge   Baton Rouge, LA..  East Baton Rouge         $686,000                                    Graves (LA)
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Rapid DNA System.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Louisiana Office   Baton Rouge, LA..  Less-Than-Lethal       $2,300,000                                    Graves (LA)
                                  of State Police.                      Technology
                                                                        Training Center
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Tracy      Tracy, CA........  City of Tracy            $255,000                                       Harder (CA)
                                  Police                                Crime Reduction
                                  Department.                           Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  New Britain        New Britain, CT..  Improving                 $15,000                                          Hayes
                                  Police                                Community Youth
                                  Department.                           & Police
                                                                        Relations in New
                                                                        Britain.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Wolcott Police     Wolcott, CT......  Fixed Network          $3,200,000                                          Hayes
                                  Department.                           Equipment
                                                                        Upgrade for
                                                                        Wolcott Police
                                                                        Department.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Nevada Department  Carson City, NV..  From Supervision         $235,000                                       Horsford
                                  of Public Safety                      to Success--
                                  Parole and                            Recidivism
                                  Probation.                            Reduction
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Bowie State        Bowie, MD........  Institute for            $750,000                                          Hoyer
                                  University.                           Restorative
                                                                        Justice and
                                                                        Practices.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Houston Police     Houston, TX......  Houston Police           $975,000                          Jackson Lee; Fletcher
                                  Department.                           Department
                                                                        Advocates for
                                                                        Violent Crime
                                                                        Victims.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Alliance for Gun   Seattle, WA......  Restorative              $300,000                                        Jayapal
                                  Responsibility                        Justice for
                                  Foundation.                           Youth--South
                                                                        King County.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Burien...  Burien, WA.......  City of Burien           $300,000                                        Jayapal
                                                                        Enhanced Youth
                                                                        Services.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Johnstown Police   Johnstown, PA....  Johnstown Police          $79,000                                     Joyce (PA)
                                  Department.                           Department
                                                                        Mobile Office
                                                                        Technology
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  State of Hawaii,   Honolulu, HI.....  DLNR/Division of         $340,000                                         Kahele
                                  Department of                         Conservation and
                                  Land and Natural                      Resources
                                  Resources.                            Enforcement
                                                                        Academy Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Lucas County       Lucas County, OH.  Lucas County Jail      $2,000,000                                         Kaptur
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Mental Health
                                                                        Evaluation and
                                                                        Stabilization
                                                                        Wing Planning
                                                                        and Design.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Syracuse.  Syracuse, NY.....  Body-Worn Cameras        $140,000                                          Katko
                                                                        for the City of
                                                                        Syracuse.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  University Park    University Park,   University Park           $20,000                                     Kelly (IL)
                                  Police             IL.                Police
                                  Department.                           Department Body-
                                                                        Worn Cameras.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Genesee County...  Genesee County,    Genesee County           $768,000                                         Kildee
                                                     MI.                Justice
                                                                        Partnership for
                                                                        Reform.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Stanton..  Stanton, CA......  North Orange           $5,000,000                                          Kim (CA)
                                                                        County Public
                                                                        Safety Task
                                                                        Force.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Stafford Township  Stafford           On POINT--                $32,000                                       Kim (NJ)
                                  Police             Township, NJ.      Proactive
                                  Department.                           Outreach in
                                                                        Needs and
                                                                        Treatment
                                                                        Program
                                                                        Expansion.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Portage County     Portage County,    Body-Worn and In-        $616,000                                           Kind
                                  Sheriff's Office.  WI.                Car Cameras for
                                                                        Patrol.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Village of         Hoffman Estates,   Village of               $150,000                                 Krishnamoorthi
                                  Hoffman Estates.   IL.                Hoffman Estates
                                                                        Domestic
                                                                        Violence Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  County of Placer.  Auburn, CA.......  Placer County            $580,000                                        LaMalfa
                                                                        Body-Worn Camera
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Allegheny Police   Gibsonia, PA.....  Body-Worn Camera         $550,000                                           Lamb
                                  Chiefs Inc..                          and Technology
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Detroit--  Detroit, MI......  Ceasefire Detroit        $715,000                                       Lawrence
                                  Detroit Police                        Violence
                                  Department.                           Reduction
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Oak Park           Oak Park, MI.....  Oak Park Body-           $560,000                                       Lawrence
                                  Department of                         Worn and In Car
                                  Public Safety.                        Cameras.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  National           Oakland, CA......  Youth ALIVE! and         $500,000                                          Lee (CA)
                                  Institute for                         Community &
                                  Criminal Justice                      Youth Outreach
                                  Reform.                               (CYO).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of            Alexandria, LA...  City of                  $276,000                                         Letlow
                                  Alexandria (LA).                      Alexandria
                                                                        Police Body-Worn
                                                                        Camera Upgrade
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Los        Los Angeles, CA..  CIRCLE 24/7:           $1,500,000                                           Lieu
                                  Angeles, Office                       Crisis and
                                  of City                               Incident
                                  Homelessness                          Response through
                                  Initiatives.                          Community-Led
                                                                        Engagement.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of San Jose   San Jose, CA.....  Mobile Crisis          $1,000,000                                        Lofgren
                                  Police                                Assessment Team.
                                  Department.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  New York City      New York, NY.....  Critical Response        $350,000                                    Malliotakis
                                  Police                                Command K9-
                                  Department.                           Training and
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  New York City      New York, NY.....  Forensic               $2,000,000                                    Malliotakis
                                  Police                                Equipment.
                                  Department.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  New York City      New York, NY.....  Personal                 $550,000                                    Malliotakis
                                  Police                                Protective
                                  Department.                           Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Deerpark Town      Town of Deerpark,  Deer Park Body-           $30,000                                   Maloney (NY)
                                  Police Dept..      NY.                Worn Cameras.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Ramsey County....  Ramsey County, MN  Ramsey County            $900,000                                             McCollum
                                                                        Community
                                                                        Violence
                                                                        Prevention
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Virginia           Richmond, VA.....  Richmond,                $996,000                                       McEachin
                                  Commonwealth                          Virginia Gun
                                  University.                           Violence
                                                                        Prevention
                                                                        Framework.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Stockton.  Stockton, CA.....  Safer Streets--        $1,000,000                                       McNerney
                                                                        Safer
                                                                        Communities:
                                                                        Group Gun
                                                                        Violence
                                                                        Reduction,
                                                                        Ceasefire, and
                                                                        Firearms
                                                                        Reduction
                                                                        Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Calhoun County     Battle Creek, MI.  Calhoun County         $1,700,000                                         Meijer
                                  Sherriff's                            Safe Schools
                                  Department.                           Initiative.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  The City of Grand  Grand Rapids, MI.  Cure Violence            $600,000                                         Meijer
                                  Rapids.                               Grand Rapids.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Schuylkill County  Pottsville, PA...  Schuylkill County      $1,064,000                                         Meuser
                                                                        Intermediate
                                                                        Punishment
                                                                        Facility
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of            Huntington, WV...  Hydraulic Lift             $4,000                                    Miller (WV)
                                  Huntington.                           and Associated
                                                                        Equipment for
                                                                        Motor Vehicle
                                                                        Investigations.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Essex County       Essex County, MA.  STAR Program             $850,000                                        Moulton
                                  Sheriff's                             (Supporting
                                  Department.                           Transitions and
                                                                        Reentry).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Orlando..  Orlando, FL......  City of Orlando        $1,200,000                           Murphy (FL); Demings
                                                                        Police
                                                                        Department Next
                                                                        Generation Body-
                                                                        Worn Cameras.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Ak-Chin Indian     Maricopa, AZ.....  Ak-Chin Indian           $500,000                                     O'Halleran
                                  Community Police                      Community Police
                                  Department.                           Department
                                                                        Equipment
                                                                        Modernization.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Forrest County     Hattiesburg, MS..  Forrest County           $500,000                                        Palazzo
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Sheriff's Office
                                                                        Radios & Body-
                                                                        Worn Cameras.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Newark Community   Newark, NJ.......  Newark Community         $471,000                                          Payne
                                  Street Team,                          Street Team High
                                  Inc..                                 Risk
                                                                        Intervention
                                                                        Expansion.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Adams County       Adams County, CO.  Expanding              $2,000,000                                   Perlmutter; Crow; Neguse
                                  Government.                           Services to
                                                                        Domestic
                                                                        Violence Victims
                                                                        in Adams County.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Thornton.  Thornton, CO.....  Body-Worn Cameras        $310,000                                     Perlmutter
                                                                        for the Thornton
                                                                        Police
                                                                        Department.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Hennepin County..  Hennepin County,   Hennepin County          $500,000                                       Phillips
                                                     MN.                Family
                                                                        Dependency
                                                                        Treatment Court.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Law Enforcement    St. Thomas, VI...  Modular Medical          $659,000                                       Plaskett
                                  Planning                              Examiner's
                                  Commission.                           Office Suite-
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Durham County      Durham County, NC  Community                $250,000                                       Price (NC)
                                  Government.                           Violence
                                                                        Intervention
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Carroll County     Carroll County,    Body-Worn              $1,429,000                                         Raskin
                                  Sheriff's Office.  MD.                Cameras, In-Car
                                                                        Cameras, for
                                                                        Carrol County
                                                                        Sheriff's Office.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Spokane Sheriff's  Spokane, WA......  Spokane Sheriff's        $480,000                                   Rodgers (WA)
                                  Department.                           Department Rapid
                                                                        DNA Technology.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Cherokee County    Centre, AL.......  Cherokee County          $340,000                                    Rogers (AL)
                                  Sheriff's Office.                     Training
                                                                        Facility
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Raleigh/Wake City- Raleigh, NC......  Raleigh/Wake City-       $500,000                                           Ross
                                  County Bureau of                      County Bureau of
                                  Identification.                       Identification
                                                                        DNA Testing
                                                                        Equipment.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  New Hanover        Castle Hayne, NC.  Forensic DNA             $400,000                                         Rouzer
                                  County Sheriff's                      Technology.
                                  Department.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Baltimore  Baltimore, MD....  9-1-1 Diversion        $2,000,000                        Ruppersberger; Sarbanes
                                                                        Pilot Expansion.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Lifebridge         Baltimore, MD....  LifeBridge Health        $600,000                        Ruppersberger; Sarbanes
                                  Health, Inc..                         Community
                                                                        Violence
                                                                        Cessation.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  University of      Baltimore, MD....  University of            $497,000                                  Ruppersberger
                                  Maryland Medical                      Maryland Medical
                                  Center R Adams                        Center R Adams
                                  Cowley Shock                          Cowley Shock
                                  Trauma Violence                       Trauma Violence
                                  Prevention                            Prevention
                                  Program.                              Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  NMI Judiciary....  Saipan, MP.......  Technical                $303,000                                         Sablan
                                                                        Assistance to
                                                                        Determine the
                                                                        Viability of a
                                                                        Mental Health
                                                                        Treatment Court
                                                                        with a Specific
                                                                        Docket for
                                                                        Veterans.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Glendale.  Glendale, CA.....  Expansion of             $700,000                                         Schiff
                                                                        Forensic Testing
                                                                        Services for the
                                                                        Verdugo Regional
                                                                        Crime Laboratory.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Selma,     Selma, AL........  Community                $550,000                                         Sewell
                                  Alabama.                              Oriented
                                                                        Policing
                                                                        Services in
                                                                        Selma, Alabama.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Lansing Police     Lansing, MI......  Lansing Police         $1,342,000                                        Slotkin
                                  Department.                           Department--Lans
                                                                        ing Crisis
                                                                        Assessment Team
                                                                        (LCAT).
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of            Albuquerque, NM..  Trauma Recovery        $1,000,000                                      Stansbury
                                  Albuquerque,                          Center--Services
                                  Family and                            for Victims of
                                  Community                             Violent Crime.
                                  Services.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Napa.....  Napa, CA.........  Napa County            $1,800,000                                     Thompson (CA)
                                                                        Public Safety
                                                                        Radio and
                                                                        Communication
                                                                        Upgrade Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Vallejo    Vallejo, CA......  Vallejo Police           $900,000                                     Thompson (CA)
                                  Police                                Department
                                  Department.                           Community Mobile
                                                                        Mental Health
                                                                        Response Unit
                                                                        Pilot Program.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  UTEC, Inc........  Lowell, MA.......  Supports for             $500,000                                         Trahan
                                                                        Proven Risk
                                                                        Youth and Young
                                                                        Adults in
                                                                        Haverhill.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Kings County.....  Hanford, CA......  King's County            $413,000                                        Valadao
                                                                        Deputy Sheriff's
                                                                        Body-Worn Camera
                                                                        Project.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Hollywood  Hollywood, FL....  Hollywood Police       $1,702,000                 Wasserman Schultz; Wilson (FL)
                                                                        Department Body-
                                                                        Worn Cameras.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  City of Manassas   Manassas, VA.....  Law Enforcement          $270,000                                         Wexton
                                  Police                                Mental Health
                                  Department.                           and Domestic
                                                                        Violence Case
                                                                        Management Team.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  Prince William     Prince William     Police Use of            $250,000                                         Wexton
                                  County Police      County, VA.        Force
                                  Department.                           Assessment,
                                                                        Evaluation, and
                                                                        Analysis.
        DOJ   OJP-Byrne........  The City of Opa-   Opa-Locka, FL....  Opa-Locka Gunshot        $109,000                                    Wilson (FL)
                                  Locka Police                          Detection
                                  Department.                           Violence
                                                                        Reduction
                                                                        Initiative.
       NASA   SSMS.............  Rancho Cucamonga   Rancho Cucamonga,  Second Story and       $1,000,000                                        Aguilar
                                  Public Library.    CA.                Beyond Project.
       NASA   SSMS.............  Rush University    Chicago, IL......  REACH for                $650,000                           Davis, Danny K. (IL)
                                  Medical Center.                       Information
                                                                        Technology
                                                                        Training.
       NASA   SSMS.............  Oklahoma State     Stillwater, OK...  6G Innovations...      $1,000,000                                          Lucas
                                  University.
       NASA   SSMS.............  Oklahoma State     Stillwater, OK...  Rapid Assured          $1,200,000                                          Lucas
                                  University.                           Fully
                                                                        Transparent
                                                                        Integrated
                                                                        Circuit Platform
                                                                        Project.
       NASA   SSMS.............  Louisiana State    New Orleans, LA..  Aerospace Systems      $5,000,000                                        Scalise
                                  University,                           and Technology
                                  National Center                       Development.
                                  for Advanced
                                  Manufacturing.
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          Compliance With Rule XIII, CL. 3(e) (Ramseyer Rule)

    In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, the Committee notes that the 
accompanying bill does not propose to repeal or amend a statue 
or part thereof.

                           Transfers of Funds

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following is submitted describing 
the transfers of funds provided in the accompanying bill:
    In title I, under Bureau of the Census, Periodic Censuses 
and Programs, language is included to transfer funds to the 
Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector General.
     Under U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included to transfer funds to the Civil 
Service Retirement and Disability Fund, the Federal Employees 
Health Benefit Fund, the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance 
Fund, and the Department of Commerce, Office of Inspector 
General.
    Under National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Scientific and Technical Research and Services, language is 
included allowing for transfers to the Working Capital Fund.
    Under National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Operations, Research, and Facilities, language is included to 
transfer funds from the Promote and Develop Fishery Products 
and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries fund.
    Under National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction, language is 
included to transfer funds to the Department of Commerce, 
Office of the Inspector General.
    Under Departmental Management, Nonrecurring Expenses Fund, 
language is included to transfer funds to appropriations within 
the Department, as may be necessary to carry out technology 
modernization projects.
    Under Office of the Inspector General, language is included 
to transfer funds from the Public Safety Trust Fund.
    Section 103 provides language for the transfer of funds 
between Department of Commerce appropriations in certain 
circumstances.
    In title II, under General Administration, Justice 
Information Sharing Technology, language is included allowing 
for the transfer of funds.
    Under Executive Office for Immigration Review, language is 
included to transfer funds to the Executive Office for 
Immigration Review from fees deposited in the Immigration 
Examinations Fee account.
    Under Legal Activities, Salaries and Expenses, General 
Legal Activities, language is included allowing for the 
transfer of funds in certain circumstances.
    Under Legal Activities, United States Trustee System Fund, 
language is included allowing for the transfer of funds.
    Under Legal Activities, Salaries and Expenses, Community 
Relations Service, language is included allowing for the 
transfer of funds in certain circumstances.
    Under National Security Division, Salaries and Expenses, 
language is included to allow the transfer of funds in certain 
circumstances.
    Under Federal Prison System, Salaries and Expenses, 
language is included to allow the transfer of funds to the 
Department of Health and Human Services.
    Under State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office on 
Violence Against Women, Violence Against Women Prevention and 
Prosecution Programs, language is included to allow the 
transfer of funds in certain circumstances.
    Under State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, State and 
Local Law Enforcement Assistance, language is included to allow 
the transfer of funds in certain circumstances.
    Under State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Public 
Safety Officer Benefits, language is included to allow the 
transfer of funds in certain circumstances.
    Under Community Oriented Policing Services, Community 
Oriented Policing Services Programs, language is included to 
allow the transfer of funds to the Office of Justice Programs.
    Section 211 provides language for the transfer of funds 
between certain grant funds and the National Institute of 
Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
    In title III, under National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, Administrative Provisions, language is included 
allowing for the transfer of funds between appropriations.
    Under National Science Foundation, Administrative 
Provisions, language is included allowing for the transfer of 
funds among appropriations.
    Under United States Trade Representative, Trade Enforcement 
Trust Fund, language is included providing for the transfer of 
funds.
    Under General Provisions, Section 508 provides for the 
transfer of funds in certain circumstances.
    Under General Provisions, Section 510 provides for the 
transfer of funds to the Department of Justice, Office of 
Inspector General.

               Changes in the Application of Existing Law

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1)(A) of rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, the following statements are 
submitted describing the effect of provisions in the 
accompanying bill that directly or indirectly change the 
application of existing law.
    Language is included for a number of accounts placing 
limitations on representation and reception allowances in order 
to restrict the amount of money that would otherwise be spent 
on these activities. The bill also provides that a number of 
appropriations shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year. While these provisions are not 
specifically authorized for all of the items, it is deemed 
desirable to include such language for certain programs in 
order to provide for orderly administration and effective use 
of funds.
    In title I, Department of Commerce, under International 
Trade Administration, Operations and Administration, language 
is included providing that funds may be used for engaging in 
trade promotion activities abroad, including facilitating 
business investments, expenses of grants and cooperative 
agreements, for the purposes of promoting exports of U.S. 
firms. Language is also provided allowing for full medical 
coverage for dependent members of immediate families of 
employees stationed overseas and employees temporarily posted 
overseas; travel and transportation of employees of the 
International Trade Administration; employment of Americans and 
aliens by contract for services; rental of space abroad and 
expenses of alteration, repair, or improvement; purchase or 
construction of temporary demountable exhibition structures for 
use abroad; and payment of tort claims. In addition, language 
is included regarding official representation expenses abroad, 
purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use abroad, 
obtaining insurance on official motor vehicles, and rental of 
tie lines. Language is also recommended deriving a portion of 
available funds from fees. Furthermore, language is included 
designating funding for China antidumping and countervailing 
duty enforcement and compliance activities. Moreover, language 
is included providing for two-year availability for a portion 
of the funds. Finally, language is included regarding the 
contributions under the Mutual Educational and Cultural 
Exchange Act of 1961.
    Under Bureau of Industry and Security, Operations and 
Administration, the language provides for no-year availability 
of funds. Language is included regarding the costs associated 
with the performance of export administration field activities 
both domestically and abroad; full medical coverage for 
dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed 
overseas; employment of Americans and aliens by contract for 
services abroad; payment of tort claims; official 
representation expenses abroad; awards of compensation to 
informers; and purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
official use and motor vehicles for law enforcement use without 
regard to any price limitation established by law. In addition, 
language is included regarding the Mutual Educational and 
Cultural Exchange Act of 1961. Finally, language is recommended 
providing that payments and contributions collected and 
accepted for materials or services may be retained for use in 
covering the cost of those activities and other communications.
    Under Economic Development Administration, Economic 
Development Assistance Programs, the language provides for no-
year availability of funds.
    Also, under Salaries and Expenses, language is included 
regarding the monitoring of approved projects.
    Under Minority Business Development Agency, Minority 
Business Development, language is included making funds 
available for fostering, promoting, and developing minority 
business enterprises, including expenses of grants, contracts 
and other agreements.
    Under Economic and Statistical Analysis, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included providing for two-year 
availability of funds.
    Under Bureau of the Census, Current Surveys and Programs, 
language is included providing that funds may be used for 
collecting, compiling, analyzing, preparing and publishing 
statistics and for promotion, outreach and marketing 
activities.
    Also, under Periodic Censuses and Programs, language is 
included providing three-year availability of funds. Language 
is also included providing that funds may be used for 
collecting, compiling, analyzing, preparing and publishing 
statistics and for promotion, outreach and marketing 
activities. In addition, language is included providing for a 
transfer to the ``Office of Inspector General'' account for 
activities associated with carrying out investigations and 
audits related to the Bureau of the Census.
    Under National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration (NTIA), Salaries and Expenses, language is 
included permitting the Secretary of Commerce to charge Federal 
agencies for costs in spectrum management, analysis, 
operations, and related services; and to use such collections 
in telecommunications research. The language also allows the 
Secretary to retain and use as offsetting collections all funds 
transferred, or previously transferred for telecommunications 
research, engineering and activities by the Institute for 
Telecommunication Sciences of NTIA. Finally, language is 
included providing that funds so transferred shall remain 
available until expended.
    Also, under Public Telecommunications Facilities, Planning 
and Construction, language is included allowing recoveries and 
unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated to be 
available for the administration of all open grants until their 
expiration.
    Under United States Patent and Trademark Office, Salaries 
and Expenses, language is included providing that appropriated 
funds be reduced as offsetting collections are assessed and 
collected. Language is including making funds available until 
expended and providing that funds received in excess of 
appropriations be deposited in a Patent and Trademark Fee 
Reserve Fund, to be available until expended pursuant to the 
Director submitting a spending plan subject to section 505 of 
this Act, after which the funds shall be transferred to the 
Salaries and Expenses account. In addition, language is 
included limiting representation expenses. Language is also 
included regarding basic pay and certain retirement benefits. 
Additional language is included regarding USPTO's financial 
statements. Furthermore, language is included providing that 
fees and surcharges charged are available to USPTO pursuant to 
section 42(c) of title 35, United States Code. Finally, the 
language provides that an amount be transferred to the Office 
of Inspector General (OIG).
    Under National Institute of Standards and Technology 
(NIST), Scientific and Technical Research and Services, 
language is included providing for no-year availability of 
funds. In addition, language is included allowing transfers to 
the Working Capital Fund. Language is included limiting funds 
for official reception and representation expenses. Finally, 
language is included allowing NIST to provide local 
transportation for a certain fellowship program.
    Also, under Industrial Technology Services, language is 
included providing no-year availability of funds. The language 
also designates an amount for the Manufacturing Extension 
Partnership and the National Network for Manufacturing 
Innovation.
    In addition, under Construction of Research Facilities, 
language is included providing for no-year availability of 
funds. Language is also included regarding the submission of 
certain materials in support of construction budget requests.
    Under National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
(NOAA), Operations, Research, and Facilities, language is 
included allowing for two-year availability for funds. Language 
is also included allowing maintenance, operation, and hire of 
aircraft and vessels; grants, contracts, or other payments to 
nonprofit organizations for the purposes of conducting 
activities pursuant to cooperative agreements; and relocation 
of facilities. Language is included allowing fees and donations 
received by a particular office to be retained and used for 
expenses related to certain activities. In addition, language 
is included that provides that certain funds be derived from 
various sources and restricting their use to certain 
activities. Moreover, language is included specifying that 
deviations from amounts included in the report accompanying the 
Act shall be subject to section 505 of this Act. Finally, 
language is included providing for retired pay expenses.
    Also, under Procurement, Acquisition and Construction, 
language is included providing for three-year availability for 
funds, except for construction funds, which are available until 
expended. Language is also included providing that certain 
funds be derived from various sources. In addition, language is 
included specifying that deviations from amounts included in 
the report accompanying the Act shall be subject to section 505 
of this Act. Language is included regarding the submission of 
certain materials in support of construction budget requests. 
Language is included transferring an amount to the OIG.
    In addition, under Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery, 
language is included providing for two-year availability of 
funds. Language is also included allowing the Secretary of 
Commerce to issue grants to specific States and Federally 
recognized tribes for conservation projects for listed 
endangered or threatened salmon and steelhead populations, 
populations at risk to be so listed, and for maintaining 
populations necessary for the exercise of tribal treaty fishing 
rights, and for conservation of Pacific coastal salmon and 
steelhead habitat, to be allocated under scientific and merit 
principles and not available for marketing activities; and 
requiring a State match.
    Furthermore, under Fishermen's Contingency Fund, language 
is included providing for the appropriation of funds to be 
derived from receipts collected pursuant to Title IV of Public 
Law 95-372 and provides that these funds are available until 
expended.
    Additionally, under Fishery Disaster Assistance language is 
included providing two-year availability of funds.
    Moreover, under Fisheries Finance Program Account, language 
is included placing limitations on individual fishing quota 
loans and traditional direct loans.
    Under Departmental Management, Salaries and Expenses, 
language is included limiting funds for official reception and 
representation expenses. Further, language is included 
requiring reimbursement for Commerce employees detailed to 
offices within the Office of the Secretary of the Department of 
Commerce for more than 90 days. Finally, language is included 
that limits the Department of Commerce's ability to transfer 
funds into Salaries and Expenses except in certain 
circumstances.
    In addition, under Renovation and Modernization, language 
is included making available funds for expenses towards 
Department of Commerce facilities renovation and modernization.
    Additionally, under the Nonrecurring Expenses Fund, 
language is included making available funds available for a 
three-year period for expenses towards the modernization of its 
business application system. Further, language is included 
providing new authorities for the Department of Commerce to 
transfer funds for technology modernization projects, subject 
to congressional notification.
    Moreover, under the Office of Inspector General, language 
is included making funds available for purposes of carrying out 
provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978. Additionally, 
funds are provided from the Public Safety Trust Fund for 
activities associated with carrying out investigations and 
audits related to the First Responder Network Authority.
    Under Department of Commerce, General Provisions, the 
following general provisions that fall within the rule are 
recommended:
    Section 101 makes funds available for advanced payments 
only upon certification of officials designated by the 
Secretary that such payments are considered to be in the public 
interest.
    Section 102 makes appropriations for the Department 
available for hire of passenger motor vehicles, for services, 
and for uniforms and allowances as authorized by law.
    Section 103 provides language for the transfer of funds 
between Department of Commerce appropriations in certain 
circumstances and requires the Secretary of Commerce to notify 
the Committee of certain actions.
    Section 104 extends Congressional notification requirements 
for NOAA satellite programs and includes life cycle cost 
amounts for certain satellites.
    Section 105 provides for reimbursement for services within 
Department of Commerce buildings.
    Section 106 clarifies that grant recipients under the 
Department of Commerce may continue to deter child pornography, 
copyright infringement, or any other unlawful activity over 
their networks.
    Section 107 provides the Administrator with the authority 
to avail NOAA of needed resources, with the consent of those 
supplying the resources, to carry out responsibilities of any 
statute administered by NOAA.
    Section 108 prohibits the National Technical Information 
Service from charging customers for certain publications, 
except under certain conditions and requires charges be limited 
to recovering costs.
    Section 109 authorizes NOAA to receive payments from other 
entities to defray some costs of permitting and regulatory 
activities.
    Section 110 provides authority for the programs of the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of the Census to 
enter into cooperative agreements in order to assist in 
improving statistical methodology and research.
    In title II, Department of Justice, under General 
Administration, Salaries and Expenses, language is included 
providing for an amount for security and construction of 
Department of Justice facilities, which shall remain available 
until expended.
    Also, under Justice Information Sharing Technology, 
language is included providing that funds be available until 
expended. Language is also included allowing transfers up to a 
certain amount to this account for information technology 
initiatives, and that these funds may be transferred subject to 
requirements in this Act and shall be available until expended.
    In addition, under Executive Office for Immigration Review, 
language is included providing that an amount shall be derived 
by transfer from the Executive Office for Immigration Review 
fees deposited in the ``Immigration Examinations Fee'' account. 
Language is also included making an amount available for a 
four-year period for certain purposes.
    Moreover, under Office of Inspector General, language is 
included providing for not to exceed $10,000 to meet unforeseen 
emergencies of a confidential character. Language is also 
included making certain funds available for two years.
    Under United States Parole Commission, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included providing that upon the 
expiration of a term of office of a Commissioner, the 
Commissioner may continue to act until a successor has been 
appointed.
    Under Legal Activities, Salaries and Expenses, General 
Legal Activities, language is included providing not to exceed 
a certain amount for expenses of collecting evidence, to be 
expended under the direction of, and to be accounted for solely 
under the certificate of, the Attorney General. Language is 
also included providing for the administration of pardons and 
clemency petitions. Language is also included providing for 
rental of space in the District of Columbia. Language is 
included making an amount available until expended for 
litigation support and information technology contracts. In 
addition, language is included making certain funds available 
to INTERPOL available until expended. Also, language is 
included limiting the amount of funds for official 
representation and reception expenses available to INTERPOL 
Washington and to the Criminal Division. Additional language is 
included providing funds for the Civil Rights Division related 
to additional expenses related to enforcement of authorities 
under Titles 34 and Titles 18 of United States Code, including 
compliance with consent decrees or judgments. Furthermore, 
language is included providing funds to the Civil Rights 
Division for expenses associated with election monitoring, 
authority to reimburse the Office of Personnel Management for 
such expenses, and availability of such funds until expended. 
Language is also included regarding the transfer of funds for 
Civil Division litigation activities, which shall be subject to 
the provisions of section 505 of this Act. Finally, language is 
included for expenses associated with processing cases under 
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
    Also, under Salaries and Expenses, Antitrust Division, 
language is included providing for no-year availability of 
funds and the use of offsetting collections, and limiting the 
amount of funds for official representation and reception 
expenses. The language also provides that fees collected for 
premerger notification filings, regardless of the year of 
collection, shall be retained and used for necessary expenses 
in this appropriation, and shall remain available until 
expended.
    In addition, under Salaries and Expenses, United States 
Attorneys, language is included regarding inter-governmental 
and cooperative agreements. Additional language is included for 
additional expenses related to enforcement of authorities under 
Titles 18 and 34 of the United States Code, including 
compliance with consent decrees or judgments. Language is also 
included extending the availability of certain funds. Finally, 
language is included requiring each United States Attorney to 
establish or participate in a task force on human trafficking.
    Furthermore, under United States Trustee System Fund, 
language is included regarding refunds due depositors. Language 
is also included regarding transfer and deposit of funds into 
the Chapter 7 Trustee Fund and the special fund established 
under 28 U.S.C. 1931(a), and for providing for the extended 
availability of certain funds and the use of offsetting 
collections. Moreover, under Fees and Expenses of Witnesses, 
language is included regarding contracts for the procurement 
and supervision of expert witnesses. In addition, language is 
included regarding funds for construction of buildings for 
safesites, armored and other vehicles, and telecommunication 
equipment. The language also provides for no-year availability 
of funds. Under Salaries and Expenses, Community Relations 
Service, language is included regarding the transfer of funds 
for conflict resolution and violence prevention activities, 
which shall be subject to the provisions of section 505 of this 
Act.
    Under United States Marshals Service, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included limiting official reception and 
representation expenses, and providing for no-year availability 
for part of the appropriation.
    Also, under Construction, language is included providing 
for no-year availability of funds.
    In addition, under Federal Prisoner Detention, language is 
included providing for no-year availability of funds. Language 
is included limiting the amount of funds considered ``funds 
appropriated for State and local law enforcement assistance''. 
Language is also included providing that the United States 
Marshals Service shall be responsible for managing the Justice 
Prisoner and Alien Transportation System.
    Under National Security Division, Salaries and Expenses, 
language is included providing for the no-year availability of 
funds for IT systems. Language is also included providing that 
upon a determination by the Attorney General that emergent 
circumstances require additional funding for the activities of 
the National Security Division, the Attorney General may 
transfer such amounts to this heading from available 
appropriations for the current fiscal year for the Department 
of Justice, as may be necessary to respond to such 
circumstances. The language provides that such a transfer shall 
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act.
    Under Interagency Law Enforcement, Interagency Crime and 
Drug Enforcement, language is included providing for no-year 
availability for some of the funds. Language is also included 
regarding authorities under which funds may be used.
    Under Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included providing for no-year 
availability of certain funds. Additional language is provided 
related to funding for the Corruption/Civil Rights Section for 
enforcement of authorities under Titles 18 and 34 of the United 
States Code, including compliance with consent decrees or 
judgments.Language is included providing for a limitation on 
official reception and representation expenses.
    Under Construction, language is included specifying the 
purpose of the appropriation and making it available until 
expended.
    Under Drug Enforcement Administration, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included providing for funds to meet 
unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character. Language is 
also included allowing conduct of drug education and training 
programs, including travel and related expenses for 
participants in such programs and the distribution of items of 
token value that promote the goals of such programs. In 
addition, language is included providing for no-year 
availability of certain funds. Language is included providing 
for a limitation on official reception and representation 
expenses. Finally, language is included permitting use of some 
of the appropriation to reimburse expenses incurred to clean up 
and safely dispose of certain substances which may present a 
danger to public health or the environment.
    Under Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 
Salaries and Expenses, language is included allowing training 
of State and local law enforcement agencies with or without 
reimbursement, including training in connection with the 
training and acquisition of canines for explosives and fire 
accelerants detection, and allowing provision of laboratory 
assistance to State and local law enforcement agencies, with or 
without reimbursement. Language is also included limiting 
official reception and representation expenses. In addition, 
language is included providing funds for the payment of 
attorneys' fees. Additional language is included prohibiting 
expenses to investigate or act upon applications for relief 
from Federal firearms disabilities under section 925(c) of 
title 18, United States Code. Language is further included 
regarding expenses to investigate applications filed by 
corporations for relief from section 925(c) of title 18, United 
States Code. In addition, language is included providing for 
no-year availability of certain funds. Moreover, language is 
included that prohibits funds to transfer the functions, 
missions or activities of ATF to other agencies or departments.
    Under Federal Prison System, Salaries and Expenses, 
language is included making certain funds available for the 
First Step Act of 2018, and for transfer of some of that 
funding to the National Institute of Justice for evaluations of 
programs and activities related to that Act. Language also 
provides for the transfer to the Department of Health and Human 
Services funds necessary for medical relief for inmates. 
Language is also included that provides authority to the 
Director to enter into contracts to furnish health care. In 
addition, language is included placing a limitation on funds 
for reception and representation expenses. Furthermore, 
language is included extending the availability of certain 
funds. Finally, language is included providing authority for 
the Federal Prison System to accept donated property and 
services.
    Also, in Building and Facilities, language is included 
providing for no-year availability of funds. Language is also 
included stating labor of prisoners may be used for work under 
this heading.
    Additionally, under Federal Prison Industries, 
Incorporated, language is included authorizing Federal Prison 
Industries, Incorporated, to make such expenditures, within the 
limits of funds and borrowing authority available, and in 
accord with the law, and to make such contracts and 
commitments, without regard to fiscal year limitations, as may 
be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the 
budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation.
    Furthermore, under Limitation on Administrative Expenses, 
Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, language is included 
making available funds for its administrative expenses, and for 
certain services, to be computed on an accrual basis to be 
determined in accordance with the corporation's current 
prescribed accounting system, and such amounts shall be 
exclusive of depreciation, payment of claims, and expenditures 
that such accounting system requires to be capitalized or 
charged to cost of commodities acquired or produced, including 
selling and shipping expenses, and expenses in connection with 
acquisition, construction, operation, maintenance, improvement, 
protection, or disposition of facilities and other property 
belonging to the corporation or in which it has an interest.
    Under State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office on 
Violence Against Women, Violence Against Women Prevention and 
Prosecution Programs, language is included making funds 
available until expended. Language is also included placing a 
limitation on funds to be made available for expenses related 
to evaluation, training, and technical assistance. In addition, 
language is included providing for specific appropriations for 
various programs within the Office on Violence Against Women. 
Furthermore, language is included making available certain 
unobligated balances for specified programs. The language also 
applies certain conditions to specified grants. It provides for 
certain funds to be transferred to ``Research, Evaluation and 
Statistics'' for administration by the Office of Justice 
Programs.
    Under Office of Justice Programs, Research, Evaluation and 
Statistics, language is included to provide for no-year 
availability of funds. Language is also included to provide for 
specific appropriations for various programs within the Office 
of Justice Programs.
    Also, under State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance, 
language is included to provide for no-year availability of 
funds. Language is also included to provide for certain 
specified uses of funding within Byrne Justice Assistance 
Grants including Public Safety Innovation Grants, Law 
Enforcement Training, grants to improves reporting on the use 
of force, hit rates data collection demonstration grants, 
police report in jurisdictions responding to litigation, Byrne 
Discretionary Community Projects, and the application of 
certain sections and special rules. In addition, language is 
included regarding Federal immigration and other detainees 
housed in State and local detention facilities. Language is 
also included regarding DNA training and education for law 
enforcement, correctional personnel, and court officers. 
Language is included regarding certain time limitations under 
the Second Chance Act. Additional language is included 
regarding pattern and practice investigations, independent 
prosecution of law enforcement, community-based improvement of 
law enforcement and pilot programs to improve management and 
address police misconduct. There is further language included 
regarding the following grant programs; Community-Based Hate 
Crime Initiative, Law Enforcement Accountability, Emergency Law 
Enforcement Assistance, Red Flag and Gun Licensing Laws, Gun 
Buyback and Relinquishment Pilot, Public Defender Improvement, 
Regional Sexual Assault Investigative Training Academies, Legal 
Representation Pilot for Immigrant Children and Families, Study 
of Lethality Assessment, Crisis Stabilization and Community 
Reentry, Pretrial Incarceration Reduction Pilot and Police 
Misconduct Database. Furthermore, language is included 
regarding local government use of funds to increase the number 
of law enforcement officers.
    In addition, under Juvenile Justice Programs, language is 
included providing for no-year availability of funds. Language 
is also included waiving a provision of law with respect to 
funding for missing and exploited children programs. Finally, 
the language delineates certain amounts for various programs 
under this heading, including juvenile indigent defense.
    Furthermore, language is included waiving a provision of 
law that terminated the COPS Hiring Program after September 
2000. The language also provides for certain funds to be 
transferred to ``Research, Evaluation and Statistics''.
    Furthermore, under Public Safety Officer Benefits, language 
is included providing for no-year availability of funds. 
Language is also included providing for the transfers of funds 
in emergent circumstances, which shall be subject to the 
provisions of section 505 of this Act.
    Within the COPS Hiring program, language is included 
regarding the Tribal Resources grant program, Tribal Access 
Program, Community Policing, the Regional Information Sharing 
System, Civilian Review Boards, Law Enforcement Mental Health 
and Wellness Act, and a law enforcement technologies and 
interoperable communications program. In addition, the language 
includes Police Act grants, Anti-Methamphetamine and Anti-
Heroin Task Forces as well as grants under the STOP School 
Violence Act.
    Under Department of Justice, General Provisions, the 
following general provisions that fall within the rule are 
recommended:
    Section 201 makes available additional reception and 
representation funding for the Attorney General from the 
amounts provided in this title.
    Section 202 prohibits the use of funds to require any 
person to perform or facilitate the performance of an abortion.
    Section 203 establishes that the Director of the Bureau of 
Prisons (BOP) is obliged to provide escort services to an 
inmate receiving an abortion outside of a Federal facility, 
except where this obligation conflicts with the preceding 
section.
    Section 204 establishes the Committee's requirements and 
procedures for transfer proposals.
    Section 205 prohibits the use of certain funds for 
transporting prisoners classified as maximum or high security, 
other than to a facility certified by the Bureau of Prisons as 
appropriately secure.
    Section 206 prohibits the use of funds for the purchase or 
rental by Federal prisons of audiovisual equipment, services 
and materials used primarily for recreational purposes, except 
for those items and services needed for inmate training, 
religious, or educational purposes.
    Section 207 requires review by the Deputy Attorney General 
and the Department Investment Review Board prior to the 
obligation or expenditure of funds for major information 
technology projects.
    Section 208 requires the Department to follow reprogramming 
procedures prior to any deviation from the program amounts 
specified in this title or the reuse of specified deobligated 
funds provided in previous years.
    Section 209 prohibits funding from being used for certain 
public-private competitions.
    Section 210 prohibits U.S. Attorneys from holding dual or 
additional responsibilities that exempt U.S. Attorneys from 
statutory residency requirements.
    Section 211 permits up to 2 percent of grant and 
reimbursement program funds made available to OJP to be used 
for training and technical assistance, and up to 2 percent of 
grant or reimbursement funds made available to that office to 
be used for criminal justice research, evaluation and 
statistics.
    Section 212 gives the Attorney General the authority to 
waive matching requirements for Second Chance Act adult and 
juvenile reentry demonstration projects; State, tribal and 
local reentry courts; and drug treatment programs.
    Section 213 waives the requirement that the Attorney 
General reserve certain funds from amounts provided for 
offender incarceration.
    Section 214 prohibits funds, other than funds for the 
National Instant Criminal Background Check System established 
under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, from being 
used to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to a 
known or suspected agent of a drug cartel where law enforcement 
personnel do not continuously monitor or control such firearm.
    Section 215 provides authority to use certain grant funding 
for Performance Partnership Pilots.
    Section 216 clarifies that amounts credited to and made 
available in the Department of Justice Working Capital Fund as 
an offsetting collection pursuant to section 11013 of Public 
Law 107-273 shall be so credited and available.
    Section 217 prohibits the use of case closure metrics for 
immigration judge performance evaluations.
    Section 218 prohibits the use of funds to relocate ATF's 
Canine Training Center or National Canine Division.
    Section 219 prohibits funds made available under this Act 
for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program 
or Community Oriented Policing Services from being used unless 
the Attorney General certifies that the State or unit of local 
government (1) maintains adequate policies and procedures 
designed to eliminate racial profiling in law enforcement, and 
has eliminated any existing practices that permit or encourage 
racial profiling in law enforcement; (2) requires each law 
enforcement officer in the State or unit of local government to 
complete training programs on racial profiling, implicit bias, 
de-escalation, use of force and a duty to intervene in cases 
where another law enforcement officer is using excessive force 
against a civilian, and procedural justice; (3) has in effect a 
law that prohibits law enforcement officers in the State or 
other jurisdiction from using a chokehold or carotid hold; (4) 
has in effect a law that prohibits law enforcement officers in 
the State or other jurisdiction from using less lethal force; 
(5) has in effect a law that prohibits law enforcement officers 
in the State or other jurisdiction from using deadly force, (6) 
has in effect a law that prohibits the issuance of a ``no-knock 
warrant'' in a drug case; (7) has provided the United States 
Attorney General a law enforcement practice report that 
includes information on the race, ethnicity, age, and gender of 
the officers and employees of the law enforcement agency and of 
members of the public involved in, (A) traffic violation stops, 
(B) pedestrian stops, (C) frisk and body searches, (D) 
instances where officers or employees of the law enforcement 
agency used deadly force; and (8) will not make such funds 
available to a law enforcement agency that has entered into or 
renewed any contractual arrangement, including a collective 
bargaining agreement with a labor organization, that (A) would 
prevent the Attorney General from seeking or enforcing 
equitable or declaratory relief against a law enforcement 
agency engaging in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional 
misconduct or, (B) conflicts with any terms or conditions 
contained in a consent decree.
    Section 220 prohibits Department of Justice funding from 
being made available to any law enforcement agency of any 
State, unit of local government, or Federally recognized Tribal 
government unless the Attorney General has certified that such 
agency has begun or completed the process of receiving 
accreditation from a law enforcement accreditation organization 
approved by the Attorney General.
    Section 221 prohibits the awarding of funds under the Byrne 
JAG or COPS programs unless the United States Attorney General 
certifies that the recipient State or unit of local government 
has in effect a law prohibiting sexual activity while acting 
under color of law.
    Section 222 establishes a National Task Force on Law 
Enforcement Oversight.
    In title III, Science, under Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, language is included providing that certain 
funds be available for reception and representation expenses, 
and rental of conference rooms.
    Under National Space Council, language is included 
providing that certain funds be available for reception and 
representation expenses.
    Under National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
Science, language is included providing for the two-year 
availability of funds. Language is also included regarding a 
limitation on formulation and development costs of a certain 
program with an associated notification requirement and 
language is also included concerning a planetary science 
mission.
    Also, under Aeronautics, language is included providing for 
the two-year availability of funds.
    In addition, under Space Technology, language is included 
providing for the two-year availability of funds.
    Under Exploration, language is included providing for the 
two-year availability of funds. Language is also included that 
delineates amounts for program components. Language is also 
included describing certain reports and requiring the inclusion 
of estimates in future budget requests.
    In Space Operations, language is included providing for the 
two-year availability of funds.
    Additionally, under Science, Technology, Engineering, and 
Mathematics Engagement, language is included providing for the 
multi-year availability of funds. Language is also included 
delineating amounts for program components.
    Under Safety, Security and Mission Services, language is 
included providing for the two-year availability of funds. 
Language is also included to limit official reception and 
representation expenses.
    Under Construction and Environmental Compliance and 
Restoration, language is included providing for the multi-year 
availability of funds. Language is also included restricting 
receipts and expenditures made pursuant to enhanced use lease 
arrangements and requiring the inclusion of estimates in future 
budget requests.
    Under Office of Inspector General, language is included 
providing for the two-year availability of certain funds.
    In the Administrative Provisions, language is included 
regarding: availability of funds for announced prizes; 
limitations on transfers of funds among NASA accounts; the 
submission of a spending plan; and language limiting obligation 
of certain funds pending submission of certain reports.
    Under National Science Foundation, Research and Related 
Activities, language is included that provides for the multi-
year availability of funds. Language is also included that 
governs funding availability for polar research and operation 
support. In addition, language is included providing that 
certain receipts may be credited to this appropriation.
    Also, under Major Research Equipment and Facilities 
Construction, language is included providing for no-year 
availability of funds.
    In addition, under Education and Human Resources, language 
is included providing for the multi-year availability of funds.
    Furthermore, under Agency Operations and Award Management, 
language is included regarding contracts for maintenance and 
operation of facilities and other services. Language is also 
included limiting representation expenses.
    Under Office of the National Science Board, language is 
included limiting funds for official reception and 
representation.
    Under Office of Inspector General, language is included 
providing for the multi-year availability of certain funds.
    Under Administrative Provision, language is included 
regarding transfers of funds. Also, language is included 
requiring the Director to submit notification of certain 
activities 30 days in advance.
    In title IV, Related Agencies, under Commission on Civil 
Rights, Salaries and Expenses, language is included prohibiting 
expenses to employ in excess of a specific level of full-time 
individuals or to reimburse Commissioners for certain billable 
days. Language is also included prohibiting certain 
unauthorized activities. In addition, language is included for 
a Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys. 
Finally, language is included authorizing the Chair to accept 
donations or gifts to carry out the work of the Commission.
    Under Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included designating an amount for 
payments to State and local enforcement agencies. Language is 
also included limiting funds for official reception and 
representation expenses. Finally, language is included 
authorizing the Chair to accept donations or gifts to carry out 
the work of the Commission.
    Under International Trade Commission, Salaries and 
Expenses, language is included limiting funds for official 
reception and representation expenses. Language is also 
included providing for no-year availability of funds.
    Under Legal Services Corporation, Payment to the Legal 
Services Corporation, language is included regarding pay for 
officers and employees. Language is also included delineating 
amounts for specific programs and regarding authorities to 
transfer funds. In addition, language is included designating 
the Legal Services Corporation as an agency of the Federal 
Government for the purposes of reprogramming.
    Under Administrative Provision, Legal Services Corporation, 
language is included that prohibits the use of funds for 
certain activities.
    Under Office of the United States Trade Representative, 
Salaries and Expenses, language is included providing for the 
no-year availability of some funds. Language is also included 
limiting funds for official reception and representation 
expenses.
    Also, under Trade Enforcement Trust Fund, language is 
included regarding certain notifications.
    Under State Justice Institute, Salaries and Expenses, 
language is included limiting funds for reception and 
representation expenses. Language is also included providing 
for multi-year availability of certain funds. In addition, 
language is included designating the State Justice Institute as 
an agency of the Federal Government for the purposes of 
reprogramming.
    In title V, General Provisions, the following general 
provisions that fall within the rule are recommended:
    Section 501 prohibits the use of funds for publicity or 
propaganda purposes unless expressly authorized by law.
    Section 502 prohibits any appropriation contained in this 
Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year unless expressly authorized.
    Section 503 provides that the expenditure of any 
appropriation contained in this Act for any consulting service 
through procurement contracts shall be limited to those 
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record 
and available for public inspection, except whereotherwise 
provided under existing law or under existing Executive order issued 
pursuant to existing law.
    Section 504 provides that if any provision of this Act or 
the application of such provision to any person or circumstance 
shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the 
application of other provisions shall not be affected.
    Section 505 prohibits a reprogramming of funds that: (1) 
creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) 
eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds 
or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which 
funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office 
or employees; (5) reorganizes or renames offices, programs, or 
activities; (6) contracts out or privatizes any function or 
activity presently performed by Federal employees; (7) augments 
funds for existing programs, projects, or activities in excess 
of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, or reduces by 10 
percent funding for any program, project, or activity, or 
numbers of personnel by 10 percent; or (8) results from any 
general savings, including savings from a reduction in 
personnel, which would result in a change in existing programs, 
projects, or activities as approved by Congress, unless the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 
days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
    Section 506 provides that if it is determined that any 
person intentionally affixes a ``Made in America'' label to any 
product that was not made in America that person shall not be 
eligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds 
made available in this Act. The section further provides that 
to the extent practicable, with respect to purchases of 
promotional items, funds made available under this Act shall be 
used to purchase items manufactured, produced, or assembled in 
the United States or its territories or possessions.
    Section 507 requires quarterly reporting on the status of 
balances of appropriations.
    Section 508 provides that any costs incurred by a 
department or agency funded under this Act resulting from, or 
to prevent, personnel actions taken in response to funding 
reductions in this Act, or, for the Department of Commerce, 
from actions taken for the care and protection of loan 
collateral or grant property, shall be absorbed within the 
budgetary resources available to the department or agency, and 
provides transfer authority between appropriation accounts to 
carry out this provision, subject to reprogramming procedures.
    Section 509 prohibits funds made available in this Act from 
being used to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco 
products or to seek the reduction or removal of foreign 
restrictions on the marketing of tobacco products, except for 
restrictions that are not applied equally to all tobacco or 
tobacco products of the same type. This provision is not 
intended to impact routine international trade services to all 
U.S. citizens, including the processing of applications to 
establish foreign trade zones.
    Section 510 limits the obligation of receipts deposited 
into the Crime Victims Fund to $2,650,000,000 during fiscal 
year 2021, and provides for a transfer of $10,000,000 to the 
Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General for 
oversight and auditing of the fund. It also provides for a 
tribal set-aside.
    Section 511 prohibits the use of Department of Justice 
funds for programs that discriminate against or denigrate the 
religious or moral beliefs of students participating in such 
programs.
    Section 512 prohibits the transfer of funds made available 
in this Act to any department, agency or instrumentality of the 
United States Government, except for transfers made by, or 
pursuant to authorities provided in, this Act or any other 
appropriations Act.
    Section 513 requires certain timetables of audits performed 
by Inspectors General of the Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the 
National Science Foundation and the Legal Services Corporation 
and sets limits and restrictions on the awarding and use of 
grants or contracts funded by amounts appropriated by this Act.
    Section 514 prohibits funds for acquisition of certain 
information systems unless the acquiring department or agency 
has reviewed and assessed certain risks. Any acquisition of 
such an information system is contingent upon the development 
of a risk mitigation strategy and a determination that the 
acquisition is in the national interest. Each department or 
agency covered by this section shall consult with the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other relevant agencies when 
reviewing supply chain risks and making a determination that 
the acquisition is in the national interest. Each department or 
agency covered by this section is directed to ensure it is 
following the criteria established by the FBI and the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology when acquiring or 
renewing certain information systems. Each department or agency 
covered under this section shall submit a quarterly report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate 
describing reviews and assessments of risk made pursuant to 
this section and any associated findings or determinations.
    Section 515 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to support or justify the use of torture by any 
official or contract employee of the United States Government.
    Section 516 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to include certain language in trade agreements.
    Section 517 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to authorize or issue a national security letter (NSL) 
in contravention of certain laws authorizing the FBI to issue 
NSLs.
    Section 518 requires congressional notification regarding 
any project within the Departments of Commerce or Justice, the 
National Science Foundation or the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration totaling more than $75,000,000 that has 
cost increases of 10 percent or more.
    Section 519 deems funds for intelligence or intelligence 
related activities as authorized by Congress during fiscal year 
2021 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act 
for fiscal year 2021.
    Section 520 prohibits contracts or grant awards in excess 
of $5,000,000 unless the prospective contractor or grantee 
certifies that the organization has filed all Federal tax 
returns, has not been convicted of a criminal offense under the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has no unpaid Federal tax 
assessment.
    Section 521 provides for rescissions of unobligated 
balances from the Departments of Commerce and Justice.
    Section 522 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act for the purchase of first class or premium air travel 
in contravention of certain Federal regulations.
    Section 523 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to pay for the attendance of more than 50 department 
or agency employees, who are stationed in the United States, at 
any single conference outside the United States, unless the 
conference is a law enforcement training or operational event 
where the majority of Federal attendees are law enforcement 
personnel stationed outside the United States.
    Section 524 requires tracking and reporting of undisbursed 
balances in expired grant accounts.
    Section 525 requires, when practicable, the use of funds in 
this Act to purchase light bulbs that have the ``Energy Star'' 
or ``Federal Energy Management Program'' designation.
    Section 526 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) or 
the National Space Council (NSC) to engage in bilateral 
activities with China or a Chinese-owned company unless the 
activities are authorized by subsequent legislation or NASA, 
OSTP or NSC after consultation with the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation have made a certification pursuant to subsections 
(c) and (d) of this section.
    Section 527 prohibits the use of funds made available in 
this Act to establish or maintain a computer network that does 
not block pornography, except for law enforcement or victim 
assistance purposes.
    Section 528 requires each department and agency funded in 
the bill to submit spending plans.
    Section 529 prohibits the use of funds to pay for 
unsatisfactory contractor performance.
    Section 530 prohibits the use of funds by the Department of 
Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration in contravention 
of a certain section of the Agricultural Act of 2014.
    Section 531 prohibits the Department of Justice from 
preventing certain States or territories from implementing 
their laws regarding the use of medical marijuana.
    Section 532 requires quarterly reports from the Department 
of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
and the National Science Foundation on official travel to 
China.
    Section 533 requires not less than 10 percent of the funds 
provided for certain programs be provided to persistent poverty 
counties.
    Section 534 requires a report regarding a national 
headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
    Section 535 prohibits funds from being used to prevent a 
Member of Congress from entering Federal facilities to conduct 
oversight.

                  Appropriations Not Authorized by Law

    The Committee, in a number of instances, has found it 
necessary to recommend funding for ongoing activities and 
programs for which authorizations have not been enacted to 
date. Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1)(B) of rule XIII of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives, the following table lists the 
appropriations in the accompanying bill that are not authorized 
by law for the period concerned:

                                                               UNAUTHORIZED APPROPRIATIONS
                                                                [In thousands of dollars]
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                                                                                                              Appropriations in
                         Program                            Last year of    Authorization level in year of       last year of        Appropriations in
                                                            authorization           authorizations              authorization            this bill
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Department of Commerce:
  International Trade Administration:
    Operations and Administration:
      Export Promotion Activities.......................              1996  such sums.....................                264,885                      *
  Bureau of Industry and Security:
    Operations and Administration.......................              1994  such sums.....................                 34,747                143,410
  Economic Development Administration:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2008  Such sums.....................                 30,832                 50,610
    Economic Development Assistance Programs............  ................  Various.......................  .....................                382,500
      Public Works and Economic Development Act Programs              2008  500,000.......................                349,100              (396,350)
  Minority Business Development Agency:
    Minority Business Development.......................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 70,023
  Economics and Statistics Administration:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                120,500
  National Telecommunications and Information
   Administration:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              1993  17,900........................                 18,493                 89,531
  National Institute of Standards and Technology:
    Scientific and Technical Research and Services......              2013  676,700.......................                609,514                915,570
    Industrial technology services......................              2013  241,709.......................                140,316                331,500
      Manufacturing extension partnerships..............              2013  (165,100).....................              (126,088)              (275,000)
    Construction of research facilities.................              2013  121,300.......................                 58,874                100,000
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
    Operations, Research and Facilities:
      National Ocean Service............................              1993  121,183.......................                150,864                706,500
        Coastal Science, Assessment, Response and         ................  Various.......................  .....................              (101,000)
         Restoration.
        Competitive Research............................  ................  Various.......................  .....................               (28,000)
        Coastal Zone Management and Services............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (62,000)
        Coastal Zone Management Grants..................              1999  (50,500)......................               (52,700)               (82,500)
        National Oceans and Security Fund...............              2019  such sums.....................               (30,000)               (38,000)
        Coral Reef Program..............................              2004  (16,000)......................               (26,100)               (38,000)
        Sanctuaries and Marine Protected Areas..........              2005  (40,000)......................               (58,750)               (61,500)
        National Estuarine Research Reserve System......              1999  (4,600).......................                (4,300)               (30,500)
      National Marine Fisheries Services:                 ................  ..............................  .....................              1,044,590
        Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles and Other Species...  ................  ..............................  .....................              (146,500)
        Species Recoveries Grants.......................              1992  .............................                                      (7,500)
        Atlantic Salmon.................................              1992  .............................                                      (6,500)
        Pacific Salmon..................................              1992  .............................                                     (70,500)
        Fisheries and Ecosystem Science Programs and      ................  Various.......................  .....................              (162,000)
         Services.
         Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys and          ................  Various.......................  .....................              (192,500)
         Assessments.
        Observers and Training..........................  ................  Various.......................  .....................               (55,468)
        Fisheries Management Programs and Services......  ................  Various.......................  .....................              (133,750)
        Salmon Management Activities....................  ................  Various.......................  .....................               (66,000)
        Regional Councils and Fisheries Commissions.....  ................  Various.......................  .....................               (43,000)
        Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants............              2012  3,400.........................                  1,157                (3,372)
        Enforcement.....................................  ................  Various.......................  .....................               (78,500)
        Habitat Conservation and Restoration............  ................  Various.......................  .....................               (61,500)
      Oceanic and Atmospheric Research..................              1993  1,589,081.....................                202,172                     \\
        Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.              1993  (109,877).....................               (79,948)              (120,000)
        Regional Climate Data and Information...........  ................  Various.......................  .....................               (59,000)
        Climate Competitive Research....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (74,000)
        Ocean and Coastal Laboratories and Cooperative    ................  Various.......................  .....................               (37,500)
         Institutes.
        Ocean Exploration and Research..................              2015  (59,436)......................               (28,000)               (44,500)
        Integrated Ocean Acidification..................              2012  (20,000)......................                (6,359)               (17,000)
        High Performance Computing Initiatives..........              1996  (4,500).......................                (6,500)               (18,000)
      National Weather Service:                                       1993  395,822.......................                                            
        Observations....................................  ................  Various.......................  .....................              (245,750)
        Central Processing..............................              1993  ....................                           (108,472)
        Analyze, Forecast and Support...................  ................  Various.......................  .....................              (565,097)
        Dissemination...................................              1993  ....................                           (117,646)
        Science and Technology Integration..............  ................  Various.......................  .....................              (181,148)
      National Environmental Satellite, Data and          ................  ..............................  .....................                348,086
       Information Service:
        Office of Satellite and Production Operations...              1993  .............................                                    (202,000)
        Product Development, Readiness and Application..              1993  .............................                                     (47,000)
        Office of Space Commerce........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (10,000)
        Group on Earth Observations.....................              1993  n/a...........................                    n/a                (1,000)
        National Centers for Environmental Information..              1993  39,596........................                 32,646               (88,086)
      Mission Support:
        Mission Support Services........................              1993  75,750........................                 71,433                323,232
        NOAA Office of Education........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 41,084
      Office of Marine and Aviation Operations:
        Marine Operations and Maintenance...............              1993  68,518........................                 61,222                194,000
        Aviation Operations and Aircraft Services.......              1993  10,336........................                  9,872                 37,500
        Autonomous Uncrewed Technology Operations.......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 14,500
    Procurement, Acquisition and Construction:
      National Ocean Service:
        National Estuarine Research Reserve Construction               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  4,000
        Marine Sanctuaries Construction.................              2005  6,000.........................                 10,000                  4,000
      Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research:
        Research Supercomputing/CCRI....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 53,500
      National Weather Service:
        Observations....................................              1993  .............................                 84,516                 24,000
        Central Processing..............................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 68,000
        Dissemination...................................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  9,934
        Facilities Construction and Major Repairs.......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 17,000
      National Environmental Satellite, Data and
       Information Service:
        Common Ground Services..........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 73,633
        Geostationary Earth Orbit.......................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                623,247
        Low Earth Orbit.................................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                512,730
        Space Weather...................................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                203,506
        Systems/Services Architecture and Engineering...               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 68,500
        Satellite CDA Facility..........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  2,450
      Mission Support:
        NOAA Construction...............................              1993  94,500........................                 64,500                 43,000
      Office of Marine and Aviation Operations:
        Fleet Capital Improvements and Technology                     1997  such sums.....................                    n/a                 95,500
         Infusion.
        Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery.................              2009  90,000........................                 80,000                 65,000
        Fishermen's Contingency Fund....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                    349
        Fisheries Disaster Assistance...................              2013  such sums.....................                  5,000                      0
        Fisheries Finance Program Account...............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                -18,000
      Departmental Management:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 87,500
        Renovation and Modernization....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  1,100
        Office of Inspector General.....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 37,087
Department of Justice:
  General Administration:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2009  181,561.......................                105,805                148,264
    Justice Information Sharing Technology..............              2009  204,152.......................                 80,000                113,024
    Executive Office for Immigration Review.............         2009para.  n/a...........................                    n/a                891,190
    Office of Inspector General.........................              2009  81,922........................                 80,681                127,184
  United States Parole Commission:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2009  12,711........................                 12,570                 14,238
  Legal Activities:
    Salaries and Expenses, General Legal Activities.....              2009  764,526.......................                805,655              1,077,673
    Salaries and Expenses, Antitrust Division...........              2009  162,488.......................                157,788                201,176
    Salaries and Expenses, United States Attorneys......              2009  1,829,194.....................              1,851,336              2,534,248
    Salaries and Expenses, Foreign Claims Settlement                  2009  1,429.........................                  1,823                  2,434
     Commission.
    Fee and Expenses of Witnesses.......................              2009  203,755.......................                168,300                224,000
    Salaries and Expenses, Community Relations Service..              2009  10,977........................                  9,873                 22,000
    Assets Forfeiture Fund (discretionary)..............              2009  22,000........................                 20,990                 20,514
  United States Marshals Service........................              2009  900,178.......................                954,000              3,805,000
    Salaries and Expenses...............................  ................  Sec. .........................              (960,000)            (1,625,000)
    Construction........................................  ................  Sec. .........................                (4,000)               (15,000)
    Federal Prison Detention............................              2009  1,858,509.....................              1,355,319            (2,165,000)
  National Security Division:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                123,093
  Interagency Law Enforcement:
    Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement..............              2009  744,593.......................                515,000                550,458
  Federal Bureau of Investigation.......................              2009  6,480,608.....................              7,301,191             10,281,753
    Salaries and Expenses...............................  ................  Sec. .........................            (7,182,700)           (10,219,858)
    Construction........................................  ................  Sec. .........................              (153,491)               (61,895)
  Drug Enforcement Administration:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2009  1,930,462.....................              1,959,084              2,408,522
  Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2009  1,038,939.....................              1,078,215              1,554,461
    Construction........................................              2009
  Federal Prison System.................................              2009  5,698,292.....................              6,171,561              8,052,700
    Salaries and Expenses...............................  ................  Sec. .........................            (5,600,792)            (7,865,000)
    Building and Facilities.............................  ................  Sec. .........................              (575,807)              (185,000)
  Office on Violence Against Women:
    Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution
     Programs:
    STOP Grants.........................................              2018  222,000.......................                222,000                223,000
    Transitional Housing Assistance.....................              2018  35,000........................                 35,000                 50,000
    Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women...               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  2,500
    Consolidated Youth-oriented Program.................  ................  Various.......................  .....................                 22,000
        Engaging Men and Youth in Prevention............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  5,000
    Improving Criminal Justice Response.................              2018  73,000........................                 53,000                 70,000
        Homicide Reduction Initiative...................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (4,000)
        Domestic Violence Firearms Lethality Reduction                 n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (4,000)
         Initiative.
    Sexual Assault Victims Services.....................              2018  40,000........................                 35,000                100,000
    Rural Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Enforcement.              2018  50,000........................                 40,000                 47,000
    Violence on College Campuses........................              2018  12,000........................                 20,000                 38,000
    Civil Legal Assistance..............................              2018  57,000........................                 45,000                 65,000
    Elder Abuse Grant Program...........................              2018  9,000.........................                  5,000                  6,000
    Family Civil Justice................................  ................  Various.......................  .....................                 20,000
    Education and Training for Disabled Female Victims..              2018  9,000.........................                  6,000                 10,000
    National Resource Center on Workplace Responses.....              2018  1,000.........................                    500                  2,000
    Research on Violence Against Indian Women...........              2015  1,000.........................                    940                  2,000
    Indian Country--Sexual Assault Clearinghouse........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  1,000
    Tribal Special Domestic Violence Criminal                          n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  5,500
     Jurisdiction.
    Rape Survivor Child Custody Act.....................              2019  5,000.........................                  1,500                  3,500
    National Deaf Services Line.........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  5,000
    Restorative Justice Responses and Evaluations.......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 20,300
    Support to Transgender Victims......................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  2,000
    Tech Assist for Community-Based Organizations.......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  5,000
    Emerging Issues Related to Violence Against Women...               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  5,000
    Tribal Special Assistant US Attorneys...............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  3,000
  Office on Justice Programs:
    Research Evaluation and Statistics:
    Bureau of Justice Statistics........................              1995  33,000........................                 32,335                 50,000
    National Institute of Justice.......................              1995  33,000........................                 58,879                 45,000
        Domestic Radicalization Research................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (12,000)
        Study of Clearinghouse for Online Extremism.....               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  (500)
        Data on Stops and Searches......................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  (500)
  State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance:
    Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants............              2012  1,095,000.....................                470,000                684,469
        Officer Robert Wilson III VALOR Initiative......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (13,000)
        Smart Policing..................................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (8,000)
        Smart Prosecution...............................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (10,000)
        NamUS...........................................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (2,400)
        Training Program to Improve Responses to People                n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (10,000)
         with Mental Illness.
        John R. Justice Grant Program...................              2014  n/a...........................              Such sums                (4,000)
        Prison Rape Prevention and Prosecution..........              2010  40,000........................                 15,000               (17,000)
        National Center for Forensics...................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (4,000)
        Project Safe Neighborhoods......................              2021  n/a...........................                 20,000               (20,000)
        Capital Litigation Improvement and Wrongful                   2021  n/a...........................                  7,000               (15,000)
         Conviction Review.
        Community Based Violence Prevention Initiatives.               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (6,000)
        National Center for Restorative Justice.........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (6,000)
        Family Alternative Sentencing Pilot Program.....               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (7,000)
        Child Advocacy Training.........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (1,000)
        Rural Violent Crime Initiative..................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (9,000)
        Managed Access Systems..........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (3,000)
        Public Safety Innovation Grants.................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (5,000)
        Technical Assistance to Law Enforcement-Use of                 n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (15,000)
         Force Reporting.
        Data Collection Programs on Hit Rates for Stops                n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (5,000)
         and Searches.
        Police Reform in Jurisdictions Responding to                   n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (7,200)
         Litigation.
        Law Enforcement Training........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (42,000)
        Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grants....               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a              (102,769)
    State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.............              2011  950,000.......................                    n/a                244,000
    Adam Walsh Act Implementation.......................              2009  Such sums.....................                 18,000                 20,500
    National Sex Offender Public Website................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  1,000
    Paul Coverdell Forensic Science.....................              2021  n/a...........................                 33,000                 33,000
    DNA Initiative......................................
        Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing                  2021  n/a...........................                  8,000               (13,000)
         Grants.
        State and Local Forensic Activities.............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (19,000)
    Community Teams to Reduce the Sexual Assault Kit                   n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 60,000
     (SAK) Backlog.
    CASA-Special Advocates..............................              2018  12,000........................                 12,000                 14,000
    Indian Tribe Assistance.............................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 50,000
    Second Chance Act/Reoffender Reentry................
        Children of Incarcerated Parents Demo Grants....               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (5,000)
        Project Hope Opportunity Probation with                        n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (5,000)
         Enforcement.
    Opioid Initiative...................................
        Residential Substance Abuse Treatment...........              2000  Such sums.....................                 63,000               (40,000)
        Mentally Ill Offender Act.......................              2021  Such sums.....................                 35,000               (45,000)
    Hate Crimes Prevention Act Grants...................              2012  n/a...........................                  5,000                 70,000
    Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice.....               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 30,000
    Community Trust Initiative..........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 95,000
        Body-won Camera Partnership.....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (35,000)
        Justice Reinvestment Initiative.................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (35,000)
        Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program.......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (25,000)
    Law Enforcement Accountability Grants...............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                400,000
        Pattern and Practice Investigations.............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a              (100,000)
        Independent Investigation of Law Enforcement                   n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a              (250,000)
         Officers.
        Community-Based Improvement to Law Enforcement..               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (25,000)
        Pilot Programs to Address Police Misconduct.....               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (25,000)
    Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance........              2016  20,000........................                    n/a                 10,000
    Community Violence Intervention Initiative..........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 90,000
    Red Flag and Gun Licensing Laws.....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 40,000
    Gun Buyback and Relinquishment Pilot Program........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 10,000
    Public Defender Improvement Program.................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 25,000
    Regional Sexual Assault Investigative Training                     n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 20,000
     Academies.
    Legal Representation Pilot for Immigrant Children                  n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 50,000
     and Families.
    Study of Lethality Assessment Programs..............               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  2,000
    Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry..........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 10,000
    Pretrial Incarceration Reduction Pilot Program......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 10,000
    Police Misconduct Database..........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  5,000
  Juvenile Justice Programs:
    Youth Mentoring Grants..............................              2007  Such sums.....................             Sec. Sec.                 110,000
Title V--Delinquency Prevention Incentive Grants........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 60,000
    Prevention of Trafficking of Girls..................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (6,000)
    Tribal Youth........................................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (14,000)
    Children of Incarcerated Parents Web Portal.........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                  (500)
    Girls in the Justice System.........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (9,000)
    Opioid Affected Youth Initiative....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (12,000)
    Children Exposed to Violence........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a               (10,000)
    Training for Judicial Personnel.....................              2018  2,300.........................                  2,000                  5,000
    Alternatives to Youth Incarceration Initiative......               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 50,000
    Community Violence Intervention Initiative..........               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 10,000
    Juvenile Accountability Block Grant.................              2012  Such sums.....................                    n/a                 20,000
  Community Oriented Policing Services:
    COPS Hiring Grants..................................              2009  1,047,117.....................              1,000,000                245,000
        Regional information sharing activities.........              2003  100,000.......................                 29,000               (44,000)
        Tribal Access Program...........................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                (3,000)
    Community Policing Development/Training and                        n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 35,000
     Technical Assistance.
    POLICE Act..........................................  ................  ..............................  .....................                 11,000
    Anti-Methamphetamine Task Forces....................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 15,000
    Anti-Heroin Task Forces.............................               n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 35,000
    Community Policing Development/Training and                        n/a  n/a...........................                    n/a                 56,881
     Technical Assistance.
Science:
    National Space Council..............................              1990  1,200.........................                      2                  1,965
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
    Science.............................................              2017  5,500,000.....................              5,764,900              7,969,500
    Aeronautics.........................................              2017  640,000.......................                660,000                935,000
    Space Technology....................................              2017  686,000.......................                686,500              1,280,000
    Exploration.........................................              2017  4,330,000.....................              4,324,000              7,229,300
    Space Operations....................................              2017  5,023,000.....................              4,950,700              3,961,300
    STEM Engagement.....................................              2017  115,000.......................                100,000                147,000
    Safety, Security and Mission Services...............              2017  2,788,600.....................              2,768,600              3,030,000
    Construction and Environmental Compliance and                     2017  388,000.......................                360,700                390,300
     Restoration.
    Office of Inspector General.........................              2017  37,400........................                 37,900                 46,000
  National Science Foundation:
    Research and Related Activities.....................              2013  6,637,879.....................              5,983,280              7,708,249
    Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction              2013  236,764.......................                196,170                249,000
    Education and Human Resources.......................              2013  1,041,762.....................                895,610              1,289,270
    Agency Operations and Award Management..............              2013  363,670.......................                299,400                390,017
    Office of the National Science Board................              2013  4,906.........................                  4,440                  4,600
    Office of Inspector General.........................              2013  15,049........................                 14,200                 20,420
Related Agencies:
  Commission on Civil Rights:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              1995  9,500.........................                  8,904                 13,000
  International Trade Commission:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2004  57,240........................                 58,925                118,500
  Legal Services Corporation:
    Payment to the Legal Services Corporation...........              1980  such sums.....................                300,000                600,000
  Marine Mammal Commission:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              1999  1,750.........................                  1,240                  4,000
  Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2004  33,108........................                 41,552                 72,800
  State Justice Institute:
    Salaries and Expenses...............................              2008  7,000.........................                  3,760                  7,600
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*The recommendation does not provide a specific amount for this program.
Authorization provides a single amount for activities spread across multiple NOAA Control Table lines.
The National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-423) authorized Weather and Air Chemistry Research
  Programs. Other programs are unauthorized.
The last time the NWS was comprehensively authorized was 1993. Though specific programs, like the Tsunami Warning and Education Program, are
  currently authorized the recommendation does not provide a specific amount for those programs.
para.The authorization authorizes funding for the ``Administrative Review and Appeals'' account, which encompassed the activities of the Executive
  Office for Immigration Review and the Office of Pardon Attorney. The recommendation separates these into different accounts.
Sec. Authorization does not provide amounts for specific accounts within this agency.
#This was formerly the ``General Administration, Detention Trustee'' account.
**The authorization for this program expired in FY 2011. Since the government was funded by a full-year continuing resolution, the Committee did not
  provide a specific appropriation for this program.
These programs have been combined into the Consolidated Youth-oriented Program.
Sec. Sec. The authorization for this program expired in FY 2007. Since the government was funded by a full-year continuing resolution, the Committee did
  not provide a specific appropriation for this program.

                 Comparison With the Budget Resolution

    Section 308(a)(1)(A) of the Congressional Budget Act 
requires the report accompanying a bill providing new budget 
authority to contain a statement comparing the levels in the 
bill to the suballocations submitted under section 302(b) of 
the Act for the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution 
on the budget for the applicable fiscal year.

                                            [In millions of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        302(b) Allocations                   This Bill
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
                                                      Budget                          Budget
                                                     Authority        Outlays        Authority        Outlays
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comparison of amounts in the bill with Committee
 Allocations to its subcommittees: Subcommittee
 on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related
 Agencies
    Discretionary...............................          81,315          77,900          81,315       \1\77,685
    Mandatory...................................             326             339             326          \1\339
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\1\Includes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

                      Five-Year Outlay Projections

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

                                            [In millions of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                      Outlays
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Projection of outlays associated wtih the recommendation:
    2022.................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........       \1\47,497
    2023.................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........          19,617
    2024.................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........           7,411
    2025.................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........           3,776
    2026 and future years................................  ...........  ...........  ...........           3,479
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\1\Excludes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

               Assistance to State and Local Governments

    In accordance with section 308(a)(1)(C) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended, the Congressional 
Budget Office has provided the following estimates of new 
budget authority and outlays provided by the accompanying bill 
for financial assistance to State and local governments:

                        [In millions of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                              Budget
                                             Authority        Outlays
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Financial assistance to State and local            3,028           \1\34
 governments for 2022...................
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\1\Excludes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

                          Program Duplication

    No provision of this bill establishes or reauthorizes a 
program of the Federal Government known to be duplicative of 
another Federal program, a program that was included in any 
report from the Government Accountability Office to Congress 
pursuant to section 21 of Public Law 111-139, or a program 
related to a program identified in the most recent Catalog of 
Federal Domestic Assistance.

                           Committee Hearings

    Pursuant to clause 3(c)(6) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following hearings were used to 
develop or consider the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022:
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held an oversight hearing on March 18, 2021, entitled 
``COVID Outbreaks and Management Challenges: Evaluating the 
Federal Bureau of Prisons' Pandemic Response and the Way 
Forward.'' The Subcommittee received testimony from:
    Michael Carvajal, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held an oversight hearing on March 24, 2021, entitled 
``Management, Performance Challenges, and COVID Response at the 
Department of Justice.'' The Subcommittee received testimony 
from:
    Michael Horowitz, Inspector General of the Department of 
Justice
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held a budget hearing on April 14, 2021, entitled 
``The National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2022 Budget 
Request.'' The Subcommittee received testimony from:
    Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science 
Foundation
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held an oversight hearing on April 15, 2021, entitled 
``Increasing Risks of Climate Change and NOAA's Role in 
Providing Climate Services.'' The Subcommittee received 
testimony from:
    Dr. Steven Volz, Assistant Administrator for NOAA's 
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service 
performing the duties of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Environmental Observation and Prediction
    Ms. Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Acting Assistant Administrator for 
the National Ocean Service
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held an oversight hearing on April 21, 2021, entitled 
``Oversight of the Economic Development Administration's Role 
in Pandemic Response.'' The Subcommittee received testimony 
from:
    Dennis Alvord, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Economic Development
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held an oversight hearing on April 29, 2021, entitled 
``Violent Extremism and Domestic Terrorism in America: The Role 
and Response of DOJ.'' The Subcommittee received testimony 
from:
    Jill Sanborn, Executive Assistant Director, FBI National 
Security Branch
    Brad Wiegmann, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ 
National Security Division
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held a budget hearing on May 4, 2021, entitled 
``Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for The Department of 
Justice.'' The Subcommittee received testimony from:
    The Honorable Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the 
United States
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held a budget hearing on May 6, 2021, entitled 
``Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for the Department of 
Commerce.'' The Subcommittee received testimony from:
    The Honorable Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce
    The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies held a budget hearing on May 19, 2021, entitled 
``Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for NASA.'' The Subcommittee 
received testimony from:
    The Honorable Bill Nelson, Administrator, National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration

      Comparative Statement of New Budget (Obligational) Authority

    The following table provides a detailed summary, for each 
department and agency, comparing the amounts recommended in the 
bill with fiscal year 2021 enacted amounts and budget estimates 
presented for fiscal year 2022:



                             MINORITY VIEWS

    We appreciate the efforts of the Majority in producing a 
Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) 
Appropriations bill that addresses many priorities of Members 
on both sides of the aisle. We also want to thank Chairman 
Cartwright and his staff for their diligent efforts to 
incorporate many of our Members' proposed modifications into 
his Manager's Amendment.
    We are pleased that the bill prioritizes funding for the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and we note that 
the bill provides funding above last year's level and the 
Administration's request for the Space Launch System (SLS) and 
also supports deep space exploration technologies. The 
independent agencies and programs within the Department of 
Commerce that ensure compliance with our trade laws and 
agreements are also well funded.
    In addition to these key priorities, the bill addresses 
issues impacting all of our communities. It increases funding 
for drug court programs and other vital initiatives that 
address the opioid epidemic, as well as DNA programs that are 
helping to analyze the backlog of sexual assault evidence and 
solve cold cases. Most significantly, we appreciate the 
inclusion of funding to establish a new Forensic Nursing Center 
of Excellence program. Increasing the number of sexual assault 
nurse examiners, particularly in rural and under-resourced 
areas, is critical to ensuring that survivors are able to 
access appropriate care and that nurse examiners are equipped 
to serve as expert witnesses to help bring offenders to 
justice.
    Still, we have substantial unaddressed concerns with this 
bill. The bill imposes new, unauthorized conditions on many 
State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance programs, including 
the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) program, and on all 
of the Community Oriented Policing Services programs. It also 
imposes these unauthorized conditions on the Byrne 
Discretionary and COPS Technology and Equipment community 
projects. Besides encumbering Members' community projects, 
these conditions will effectively halt funding for many 
authorized programs with strong bipartisan support.
    This funding supports training and equipment purchases 
across the United States, as well as many other programs, 
including active shooter response training under the POLICE Act 
(P.L. 114-199) and suicide prevention measures for police 
officers under the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness 
Act (P.L. 115-113). Conditioning needed funding for local 
police departments on policies far outside the control of law 
enforcement is inappropriate, and it may impede communities' 
efforts to pursue their own police reform agendas.
    We are also concerned that this bill eliminates several 
longstanding riders that historically have enjoyed bipartisan 
support. For example, four Second Amendment protections are not 
retained and language protecting taxpayer dollars from being 
used by the Department of Justice for abortions is removed. 
These modifications are particularly objectionable and should 
be reversed before the bill is finalized.
    Finally, in addition to encumbering over $1.1 billion with 
unattainable pre-conditions, this bill simply spends too much. 
With a topline increase of over $10 billion and double-digit 
percentage increases across many of the agencies in this bill, 
the spending level is irresponsible in the absence of a broader 
agreement on the federal budget. The lack of fiscal discipline 
in this bill also jeopardizes the future viability of the Crime 
Victims Fund. Despite the Subcommittee's substantial 
allocation, the bill diverts increasingly scarce Crime Victims 
Fund balances to pay for discretionary programs.
    We do commit, as always, to working with the Majority in 
good faith as we proceed through the legislative process, to 
cure these and other deficiencies.

                                   Kay Granger.
                                   Robert Aderholt.

                                  [all]