[Senate Report 118-62]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


                                                      Calendar No. 132
118th Congress     }                                     {      Report
                                 SENATE
 1st Session       }                                     {      118-62

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  DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AND JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
                       APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2024

                                _______
                                

                 July 13, 2023.--Ordered to be printed

          Mrs. Shaheen, from the Committee on Appropriations, 
                        submitted the following

                                 REPORT

                         [To accompany S. 2321]

    The Committee on Appropriations reports an original bill 
(S. 2321) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, reports 
favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the 
bill do pass.



Total obligational authority, fiscal year 2024

Total of bill as reported to the Senate................. $73,063,480,000
Amount of 2023 appropriations...........................  87,151,120,000
Amount of 2024 budget estimate..........................  92,647,391,000
Bill as recommended to Senate compared to--
    2023 appropriations................................. -14,087,640,000
    2024 budget estimate................................ -19,583,911,000


















                                CONTENTS

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Purpose of the Bill..............................................     4
Summary of the Bill..............................................     4
Fighting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.................................     6
Reprogrammings, Reorganizations, and Relocations.................     7
Congressional Budget Justifications..............................     8
Reporting Requirements...........................................     8
Reductions-in-Force..............................................     9
Appropriations Liaisons..........................................     9
Title I: Department of Commerce..................................    10
    International Trade Administration...........................    10
    Bureau of Industry and Security..............................    12
    Economic Development Administration..........................    12
    Minority Business Development Agency.........................    16
    Economic and Statistical Analysis............................    17
    Bureau of the Census.........................................    17
    National Telecommunications and Information Administration...    19
    United States Patent and Trademark Office....................    21
    National Institute of Standards and Techology................    22
    Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration................    28
    Department Management........................................    65
    General Provisions--Department of Commerce...................    68
Title II: Department of Justice..................................    70
    Office of Inspector General..................................    86
    United States Parole Commission..............................    87
    Legal Activites..............................................    87
    United States Marshals Service...............................    92
    National Security Division...................................    93
    Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces.................    93
    Federal Bureau of Investigation..............................    94
    Drug Enforcement Administration..............................    98
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives..........   101
    Federal Prison System........................................   103
    State and Local Law Enforcement Activities...................   109
    Office on Violence Against Women.............................   113
    Office of Justice Programs...................................   115
    Community Oriented Policing Services.........................   136
    General Provisions--Department of Justice....................   142
Title III: Science...............................................   144
    Office of Science and Technology Policy......................   144
    National Space Council.......................................   145
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration................   145
    National Science Foundation..................................   167
Title IV: Related Agencies.......................................   180
    Commission on Civil Rights...................................   180
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission......................   180
    International Trade Commission...............................   181
    Legal Services Corporation...................................   181
    Marine Mammal Commission.....................................   182
    Office of the United States Trade Representative.............   183
    State Justice Institute......................................   185
Title V: General Provisions......................................   186
Compliance With Paragraph 7, Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of 
  the 
  Senate.........................................................   190
Compliance With Paragraph 7(c) Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of 
  the Senate.....................................................   192
Compliance With Paragraph 12, Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of 
  the Senate.....................................................   193
Budgetary Impact of Bill.........................................   193
Disclosure of Congressionally Directed Spending Items............   194
Comparative Statement of Budget Authority........................   212

                          Purpose of the Bill

    The bill provides funding for (1) the Department of 
Commerce [DOC]; (2) the Department of Justice [DOJ]; (3) 
several independent science agencies: the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy [OSTP], the National Space Council; the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], and the 
National Science Foundation [NSF]; and (4) several related 
commissions and agencies: the Commission on Civil Rights, the 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC], the United 
States International Trade Commission [ITC], the Legal Services 
Corporation [LSC], the Marine Mammal Commission, the Office of 
the United States Trade Representative [USTR], and the State 
Justice Institute [SJI].

                          Summary of the Bill

    The total amount of regular discretionary budget authority 
recommended by the Committee for fiscal year 2024 is 
$71,734,480,000, which is $12,106,356,000 below the fiscal year 
2023 enacted level for regular discretionary amounts. 
Additionally, the Committee makes available $1,200,000,000 
through the Crime Victims Fund [CVF] for victim compensation 
and victim services. This is equal to the President's Request. 
While the Committee was pleased with the passage of the VOCA 
Fix to Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 2021 (Public Law 
117-27), deposits into the CVF have only experienced a slight 
increase. The Committee remains concerned about the health of 
the CVF and its ability to continue to support compensation to 
and services for survivors of crime in future years. Therefore, 
the Committee directs the DOJ to continue to advise litigating 
components of the availability of the CVF as a repository for 
fines, fees, and other penalties.
    The Committee's recommendation is consistent with the 
allocation for the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies appropriations bill. The Committee has made difficult 
but necessary decisions to craft a bill that meets strict 
fiscal limitations established by the Fiscal Responsibility Act 
of 2023 (Public Law 118-5). Within these boundaries, the 
Committee has strived to achieve a careful balance between the 
competing priorities of law enforcement, national security, 
economic development, scientific research, and space 
exploration, while having limited resources. As a result, this 
bill represents responsible spending at a time when the United 
States is living within a constrained Federal budget.
    The DOC is charged with addressing and executing several 
critical functions, which include ensuring the effective 
operation of our Nation's world class weather satellites and 
forecasting severe storms; enforcing trade laws to ensure 
American businesses can compete on a level playing field; 
collecting economic and population data; working with 
distressed communities to spur economic development; and 
properly managing our Nation's fisheries.
    The Committee has made a concerted effort to spur U.S. 
economic growth both domestically and abroad through targeted 
investments in the Economic Development Administration [EDA] 
and our Nation's trade agencies such as the USTR and the ITC, 
as well as the International Trade Administration [ITA] and 
Bureau of Industry and Security [BIS] within DOC. Together, 
these agencies help businesses get started, compete 
internationally, and grow.
    Additionally, the changing landscape of criminal activity 
and national security both at home and abroad continues to test 
the DOJ's ability to deal with and adapt to emerging threats. 
The Committee believes that our Federal law enforcement 
agencies must work collaboratively to focus and streamline 
limited resources in a manner that safeguards taxpayer dollars 
while preserving public safety. The fiscal year 2024 bill 
provides funding for grants to help State, local, and Tribal 
law enforcement responsibly and safely protect our Nation's 
communities, help survivors of domestic violence and sexual 
assault, and respond to substance use disorder, including 
opioids, and fentanyl, and drug trafficking. The Committee also 
provides the necessary funding for the Bureau of Prisons to 
continue implementation of criminal justice reforms and 
programming created by the First Step Act (Public Law 115-391).
    For the science agencies, the Committee provides targeted 
investments to enable progress toward the goal of returning 
Americans to the Moon and enhancing the United States' 
leadership in space and science. Within NSF, NOAA, and the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST], the 
Committee recommendation supports initiatives to enhance 
American competitiveness through research in climate science 
and resiliency, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and 
other strategic fields. The bill also makes targeted 
investments in NSF to continue its core research, develop the 
scientific workforce, and fund programs in the Directorate of 
Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships [TIP].
    CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 Implementation.--The 
Committee provides $10,988,805,000 in new funding to continue 
implementing the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 
(Public Law 117-167). The CHIPS and Science Act sets out an 
ambitious goal of doubling funding for science and technology 
programs by 2027 to help drive U.S. economic competitiveness. 
Continuing these investments will allow the United States to 
keep pace with China and other competitors in scientific 
discoveries that can power the economy in fields like 
artificial intelligence, quantum computing, microelectronics, 
clean energy, and advanced communications.
    The Committee provides $9,500,000,000 for NSF, including 
$7,608,287,000 for NSF's research and related to implement the 
CHIPS and Science Act, including significant support for the 
TIP Directorate. The Committee provides $1,228,000,000 for 
NSF's education and training programs to build tomorrow's 
innovation workforce.
    The Committee provides $1,488,805,000 for DOC programs 
reauthorized or newly created by the CHIPS and Science Act. 
This includes: $41,000,000 for the EDA Regional Technology and 
Innovation Hub Program, to provide planning grants to create 
geographically-distributed ``regional technology hubs,'' 
focusing on technology development, job creation, and expanding 
U.S. innovation capacity; $175,000,000 for the NIST 
Manufacturing Extension Program to improve competitiveness of 
domestic manufacturers and strengthen domestic supply chains; 
and $37,000,000 for the Manufacturing USA program.

                    Fighting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

    The departments, agencies, boards, offices, and commissions 
funded in this bill can and should continue to reduce operating 
expenses by placing greater scrutiny on overhead costs. Savings 
can and should be achieved by reducing non-essential travel, 
office supply, rent, and utility costs. The Committee also 
calls on departments, agencies, boards, offices, and 
commissions funded in this bill to continue to achieve savings 
by lowering travel contractor costs related to air fares. The 
Committee continues longstanding restrictions on first class 
travel.
    The Committee is extremely concerned about the persistent 
pattern of cost overruns and schedule slippages on major 
projects and missions carried out by the agencies within this 
bill. In addition, reports have exposed a culture within many 
agencies that exhibits a lack of accountability and oversight 
of grant funding. Therefore, the Committee continues bill-wide 
provisions to ensure greater oversight and fiscal 
responsibility of taxpayer dollars.
    First, the bill requires each agency to notify the 
Committee immediately upon identification of program cost 
overruns greater than 10 percent.
    Second, the bill requires the Inspectors General of the 
DOC, DOJ, NASA, NSF, and LSC to conduct reviews of grant and 
contract funds to ensure funds are being spent appropriately. 
In addition, the Government Accountability Office [GAO] will 
review a random sample of Congressionally Directed Spending 
projects.
    Third, the bill requires all departments and agencies to 
link all contracts that provide award fees to successful 
acquisition outcomes, and prohibits funds to pay for award or 
incentive fees for contractors with below satisfactory 
performance.
    The Committee also supports long-standing provisions that 
were once solely included in this bill but have since become 
government-wide provisions. These include requiring each 
department, agency, board, and commission funded in this bill 
to report spending on large conferences to the Inspectors 
General for audit; requiring all departments and agencies 
funded in this bill to provide full access to documents and 
data for their respective Inspectors General to conduct 
investigations and audits; and prohibiting funds from being 
used for contracts, memoranda of understanding, cooperative 
agreements, grants, or loan activities if the proposed 
recipient has unpaid Federal tax liabilities or was convicted 
of a felony criminal violation.
    Finally, the Committee intends to continue to work with the 
GAO to expand the review of selected large-scale acquisition 
and construction projects. Specifically, the Committee directs 
ongoing GAO reviews of large NASA projects, major research 
equipment and facilities construction at the NSF, with reports 
to the Committee on a semiannual basis. The Committee 
recommendation includes funding for agencies' Offices of 
Inspectors General to ensure strong accountability and 
oversight of Federal programs in this bill.
    Agencies shall provide access to all necessary data, as 
determined by GAO, in order for these reviews to be completed 
and provided to the Committee in a timely manner. The Committee 
believes that these project status reports are valuable in 
identifying cost overrun and schedule slippage problems early 
so they can be addressed immediately and has used information 
in the reviews to develop this recommendation.
    Federal Vehicle Fleet Management.--The General Services 
Administration [GSA] issues guidance on Federal fleet 
management, but the Federal vehicle fleet is decentralized, 
with each agency maintaining flexibility to manage vehicle 
utilization as appropriate. In order to provide better 
transparency and accountability of funding for Federal 
vehicles, the Committee directs agencies funded in this bill to 
conduct an annual review of fleet utilization during the third 
quarter of each fiscal year and provide their corresponding 
Offices of Inspectors General [OIGs] with supporting 
documentation on the method used for determining optimal fleet 
inventories and justification for any deviation from GSA's 
Federal Property Management Regulations. OIGs shall be 
responsible for conducting annual audits of fleet management 
practices and make the subsequent results for non-law 
enforcement sensitive agencies publicly available.
    Reducing Duplication and Improving Efficiencies.--The 
Committee directs each agency funded in this bill to report to 
the Committee, within 1 year of enactment of this act, on all 
efforts made to address the duplication of Federal programs 
identified by annual GAO reports along with identifying 
substantive challenges and legal barriers to implementing GAO's 
recommendations and suggested legislative recommendations that 
could help the agency to further reduce duplication.

            Reprogrammings, Reorganizations, and Relocations

    Section 505, contained in the General Provisions of Title V 
of the bill, provides procedures for the reprogramming of 
funds. To reprogram is to change the use of funds from the 
specific purposes provided for in the bill and the accompanying 
explanatory statement or, in the absence of direction from the 
Committee, from the specific purposes provided for in the 
administration's budget request. Each title of the bill has 
also traditionally included separate provisions that define 
permissible transfers of resources between appropriation 
accounts. These transfer authority provisions are also pursuant 
to section 505 and were initiated in the early 1990s to provide 
additional flexibility to the agencies under the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction.
    The Committee expects each department and agency to closely 
follow the reprogramming procedures listed in section 505. 
These procedures apply to funds provided under this bill, 
provided under previous appropriations acts that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2024, or 
provided from any accounts in the Treasury available to the 
agencies funded by this bill. Section 505 requires that the 
Committee be notified by letter, at least 15 days prior to 
reprogramming of funds, whether permanent or temporary, in 
excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, between 
programs, projects, or activities. Section 505 of this act is 
also applicable in cases where funding for an activity is 
reduced by 10 percent. In addition, the Committee is to be 
notified of reprogramming actions which are less than these 
amounts if such actions would have the effect of committing the 
agency to significant funding requirements in future years; 
increasing funds or personnel by any means for any program, 
project, or activity for which funds have been previously 
denied or restricted by Congress; creating new programs, 
offices, agencies, or commissions or substantially augmenting 
existing programs, offices, agencies, or commissions; 
relocating offices or employees; or reorganizing offices, 
programs, or activities.
    The Committee also expects that any items that are subject 
to interpretation will be reported. The Committee expects that 
each department and agency funded in the bill will follow these 
notification policies precisely and will not reallocate 
resources or reorganize activities prior to submitting the 
required notifications to the Committee. Reprogramming or 
transfer requests shall be submitted only in the case of an 
unforeseen emergency or situation that could not have been 
anticipated when formulating the budget request for the current 
fiscal year.

                  Congressional Budget Justifications

    The Committee directs that all departments and agencies 
funded within this bill shall submit all of their fiscal year 
2025 budget justifications concurrently with the official 
submission of the administration's budget to Congress. Further, 
all departments and agencies with classified programs funded 
within this act are directed to submit their classified budget 
justification documents to the Committee, through appropriate 
means, at the same time the unclassified budget justifications 
are transmitted.
    These justifications shall include a sufficient level of 
detailed data, exhibits, and explanatory statements to support 
the appropriations requests, including tables that outline each 
agency's programs, projects, and activities for fiscal years 
2024 and 2025. For example, when requesting an enhancement of 
resources, the justification should detail the existing program 
and what the new resources would buy. The Committee directs the 
chief financial officer of each department or agency funded in 
this act's jurisdiction to ensure that adequate justification 
is given to each increase, decrease, and staffing and function 
change proposed in the fiscal year 2025 budget, particularly 
within the departmental operations and management accounts.
    The Committee expects that the fiscal year 2025 submissions 
will include sufficient detail to justify all programs, 
projects, and activities contained in each department, agency, 
office, or commission budget request. Budget justifications are 
prepared not for the use of the agencies but are the primary 
tool the Committee uses to evaluate the resource requirements 
and proposals requested by the administration.

                         Reporting Requirements

    The Committee directs the departments and agencies funded 
in this bill to submit reports by the deadlines detailed herein 
or to provide advance notification if there is sufficient 
reason why deadlines cannot be met, along with the expected 
date of submission.
    The Committee also recognizes that some enduring reporting 
requirements from previous appropriations laws may no longer be 
necessary for congressional oversight purposes. In the interest 
of reducing government waste and expediting responses to 
current report mandates, each department or agency is invited 
to submit a list of reporting requirements that it considers 
outdated or no longer relevant for the review of the Committees 
on Appropriations. Any list submitted for review shall cite the 
original authority, as well as a justification for eliminating 
each reporting requirement.

                          Reductions-in-Force

    The Committee directs departments or agencies funded in the 
accompanying bill that are planning to conduct a reduction-in-
force to notify the Committee in writing 30 days in advance of 
the date of the proposed personnel action.

                        Appropriations Liaisons

    The Committee prefers to channel the majority of its 
inquiries and requests for information and assistance through 
the budget offices or comptroller offices of the departments 
and agencies which it oversees but reserves the right to call 
upon any individual or organization in any agency under its 
jurisdiction.

                                TITLE I

                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

    The Committee recommends a total of $11,143,322,000 for the 
Department of Commerce [DOC]. The recommendation is $64,219,000 
below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $1,217,357,000 
below the budget request.
    The DOC is responsible for a variety of activities critical 
to our Nation's well-being, including economic development, 
intellectual property protection, standards and measurements, 
trade enforcement, weather forecasting, and fisheries 
management. Our Nation relies on the Department to maintain 
America's competitiveness within today's foreign markets while 
promoting and expanding international trade opportunities. The 
Department brings together a diverse set of bureaus, 
specialized experts, research laboratories, and applied 
technology programs to support and expand opportunities for 
growth in the private sector. Few departments have such 
potential to directly impact the strength and sustainability of 
our communities and local businesses.

                   International Trade Administration

                     OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $625,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     724,815,000
Committee recommendation................................     637,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $637,000,000 for 
the International Trade Administration [ITA]. The 
recommendation is $12,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $87,815,000 below the budget request. The 
discretionary appropriation is offset by $12,000,000 in fee 
collections.
    Offsetting Fee Collections.--ITA shall continue to identify 
and include an accurate assessment of expected fee collections 
and corresponding expenditures in both its fiscal year 2024 
spending plan and in its fiscal year 2025 budget request.
    Supply Chain Resilience.--Within the increase provided, the 
Committee directs ITA to establish a supply chain resiliency 
office within Industry & Analysis.
    United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement [USMCA] 
Secretariat.--The Committee provides no less than the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level for ITA to continue to support the U.S. 
Section of the Secretariat, authorized by the USMCA 
Implementation Act (Public Law 116-113).
    Section 232 Tariff Exclusions.--The Committee provides up 
to the requested amount within Enforcement and Compliance 
[E&C], to increase support for review of requests for exclusion 
from steel and aluminum tariffs applied under section 232 of 
the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862). Within the 
funding provided, the Committee expects ITA to adequately 
resource its section 232 tariff exclusion work without 
continuing to rely on additional resources or personnel from 
E&C.
    Trade Enforcement.--ITA is directed to submit an annual 
report to the Committee providing the total number of open 
antidumping and countervailing duty [AD/CVD] orders during the 
fiscal year, including investigations and administrative 
reviews, compared to the past three fiscal years, and the total 
number of final determinations and final results in AD/CVD 
proceedings remanded to the agency or subject to remand 
proceedings during the relevant fiscal year by the U.S. Court 
of International Trade.
    The Committee also awaits ITA's report, consistent with the 
directive contained in Division B of the joint explanatory 
statement accompanying Public Law 117-328, outlining ITA's 
efforts to counteract the use of third countries for 
transshipment by state-backed industries and producers to evade 
U.S. AD/CVD laws.
    Budget and Staffing Oversight.--The Committee directs ITA 
to continue to brief the Committee no later than 30 days after 
the end of each fiscal quarter on the previous quarter's 
obligations, by object class; the planned obligations for the 
current and ensuing fiscal quarters; and staffing levels within 
Global Markets [GM] including a breakout of Foreign Service 
Officers, Locally Engaged Staff, and U.S. field staff.
    Increased International Commercial Engagement and Export 
Promotion.--The Committee is concerned by the continuing 
erosion of the U.S. share of the global export market and 
believes that the Department must prioritize ITA's commercial 
engagement efforts to level the international playing field for 
U.S. exporters. In particular, the Committee remains concerned 
that the Federal Government does not have adequate resourcing 
in place to significantly increase exports to Africa, Latin 
America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific region. The Committee 
is pleased that the request articulates these same concerns and 
proposes increased investment areas with a focus on increasing 
U.S. export competitiveness and countering unfair trade 
practices and economic coercion by China. Prior to obligating 
funds to open any new international office and hire additional 
staff, ITA shall provide the Committee with a detailed spending 
plan, which shall include a staffing plan and a justification 
for the establishment of any new office.
    General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR].--The Committee 
urges ITA to continue its efforts to educate small businesses 
about the GDPR. The Committee is concerned that small 
businesses may be unaware of compliance obligations as a result 
of GDPR and could be vulnerable to fines and significant 
financial risk. The Committee encourages ITA to work with 
Federal, State, and local partners to raise awareness about 
GDPR obligations on American small businesses.
    Rural Export Assistance.--The Committee encourages the 
Secretary to prioritize expanding international trade 
opportunities for rural businesses and provides no less than 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level within GM to support 
existing rural export centers that have a demonstrated record 
of success.
    Post-conflict Support for Ukraine.--Where practicable, the 
Committee encourages ITA to engage in post-conflict 
reconstruction planning for Ukraine, including the expansion of 
U.S. activities to strengthen economic engagement with Ukraine.
    Quad Strategic Partnership.--The Committee encourages ITA 
to promote U.S. global leadership and strengthen the economic 
ties with the Quad strategic partnership among the United 
States, India, Japan, and Australia.
    Outbound Investments.--The Committee supports ITA's efforts 
to gather and analyze information regarding certain outbound 
investments from the United States into critical sectors.

                    Bureau of Industry and Security


                     OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $191,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     222,416,000
Committee recommendation................................     191,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $191,000,000 for 
the Bureau of Industry and Security [BIS]. The recommendation 
is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $31,416,000 
below the budget request.
    BIS is the principal agency involved in the development, 
implementation, and enforcement of export controls for 
commercial technologies and for many military technologies as a 
result of export control reform. The Export Enforcement 
Division detects, prevents, investigates, and assists in the 
sanctioning of illegal exports of such items.
    Export Control Regulatory Compliance Assistance.--The 
Committee directs BIS to continue its exporter outreach program 
to educate companies of all sizes on their obligations related 
to export controls. In this effort, BIS should continue 
targeting small- and medium-sized businesses and working with 
State and local trade and export associations, in addition to 
working with national industry groups, to ensure that small- 
and medium-sized businesses have clear, easy-to-understand 
information about complying with export control regulations.
    Enforcement of Russia Export Controls.--The Committee 
continues to support BIS's aggressive enforcement of Russian 
and Belarussian export controls and other BIS efforts to 
counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Committee 
recommendation fully supports the efforts articulated in the 
request to forcefully respond to Russia's aggression.

                  Economic Development Administration

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $498,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     804,009,000
Committee recommendation................................     466,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $466,000,000 for 
the Economic Development Administration [EDA]. The 
recommendation is $32,000,000 below the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $338,009,000 below the budget request.
    EDA provides grants to local governments and nonprofit 
agencies for public works, planning, and other projects 
designed to facilitate economic development. The Committee 
directs EDA to coordinate with regional development 
organizations to support projects that will address some of the 
pressing issues that challenge rural economic development, 
including the opioid epidemic, inequities in broadband access, 
and the need for innovation in legacy industries, including in 
the use and value-added manufacturing of forest products. 
Funding amounts for the two appropriations accounts under this 
heading are displayed below.

                ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $430,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     704,500,000
Committee recommendation................................     396,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $396,000,000 for 
Economic Development Assistance Programs. The recommendation is 
$34,000,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$308,500,000 below the budget request. The Committee directs 
EDA to focus on its core programs and mission to aid the most 
distressed communities across the country. The Committee 
expects EDA to use all available carryover and prior year 
recoveries to the maximum extent possible. EDA shall consider 
geographic equity in making all award decisions and shall 
ensure that rural projects are adequately represented among 
those selected for funding. Of the amounts provided, funds are 
to be distributed as follows, and any deviation shall be 
subject to the procedures set forth in section 505 of this act:

                ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                             Committee
                                                          Recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Public Works............................................         111,500
Economic Adjustment Assistance..........................          39,500
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms...................          13,500
Regional Innovation Program.............................          50,000
Partnership Planning....................................          36,000
Technical Assistance....................................          14,000
Research and Evaluation.................................           2,000
Assistance to Energy Transition Communities.............          56,000
STEM Apprenticeships....................................           2,500
Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs.................          41,000
Good Jobs Challenge.....................................          25,000
Assistance to Indigenous Communities....................           5,000
                                                         ---------------
      Total.............................................         396,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Outdoor Recreation Projects.--The Committee notes that 
projects supporting outdoor recreation are a catalyst for 
economic development and should be eligible for EDA funding. 
EDA is encouraged to consider such projects when consistent 
with a region's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.
    Economic Adjustment Assistance [EAA].--EAA is EDA's most 
flexible economic development program, providing access to 
appropriate funding for projects ranging from disaster recovery 
to business accelerators and incubators. Within funding for 
EAA, the Committee provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level to support EDA's collaborations with the Delta 
Regional Authority, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and 
the Northern Border Regional Commission to assist distressed 
communities. Eligible activities for the Northern Border 
Regional Commission collaboration shall contribute to the 
recovery of forest-based economies and may include support for 
forest-based businesses, outdoor recreation infrastructure, and 
activities that assist in the recruitment and retention of 
employees in rural communities within the territory.
    Assistance to Manufacturing Communities and Distressed 
Communities.--The Committee encourages EDA to invest in public-
private partnerships that target distressed areas seeking to 
diversify their local workforce through advanced manufacturing 
operations. When working with distressed communities, EDA shall 
work in good faith to identify the best funding sources to meet 
a community's needs and assist with the technical requirements 
that must be included in each grant proposal. The Committee 
reminds EDA that distressed communities most in need of funding 
are often poorly positioned to produce a technical and 
sophisticated proposal required for agency funding.
    Regional Innovation Program [RIP].--The Committee rejects 
the administration's proposed cut to RIP and provides 
$50,000,000 to EDA for grants under RIP, also referred to as 
Build to Scale [B2S]. Of the amount provided for RIP grants, no 
less than $40,000,000 shall be for the i6 Challenge, also 
referred to as the B2S Venture Challenge, and no less than 
$8,000,000 shall be for Seed Fund Support, also referred to as 
the B2S Capital Challenge. EDA shall continue to ensure that 
RIP awards go to multiple grantees in multiple and diverse 
geographic areas, including an increased focus on organizations 
and States that have not previously received funding from the 
program. Furthermore, within funds provided for RIP, EDA shall 
award not less than 40 percent of grants to support rural 
communities.
    New Forest Products.--The Committee notes that many forest-
based economies have experienced disruption and decline in 
recent years. EDA is encouraged to work, including through RIP, 
with communities and regions that have been adversely impacted 
by rapid changes in the timber and pulp marketplaces and to 
support projects that help these communities develop related 
industries, including commercialization of new forest products 
using low-grade wood. This work may include the coordination of 
economic development efforts across multiple States or Economic 
Development Districts.
    Aeronautics.--The Committee encourages EDA to consider 
economic development opportunities in communities looking to 
expand or bolster the presence of aeronautics-related 
industries, which are a key driver of economic development in 
communities across the Nation.
    Assistance to Power Plant Closure Communities.--The 
Committee notes that closures of energy plants throughout the 
United States have had a significant effect on the economies of 
the communities surrounding the plants due to job losses and 
dramatic reductions to local tax bases. The Committee 
appreciates the work EDA has undertaken in prior years to 
assist communities impacted by recent or scheduled plant 
closures and provides $56,000,000 for early-stage strategic 
planning and economic development projects to assist these 
communities. Of that amount, no less than $10,000,000 shall be 
for assistance to nuclear power plant closure communities, no 
less than $4,500,000 shall be for assistance to biomass power 
plant closure communities, and no less than $41,500,000 shall 
be for assistance to coal communities.
    Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math [STEM] 
Apprenticeships and Workforce Development.--The Committee notes 
the recent growth of STEM-related industries across the 
country. Given this trend, the Committee provides $2,500,000 to 
create and expand STEM apprenticeship and other workforce 
training models to help workers develop the skills necessary to 
join this growing industry. Within the funds provided, the 
Committee directs EDA to prioritize implementation grants, to 
the extent practicable.
    Rural Economic Development.--The Committee recognizes the 
economic development challenges rural communities face and 
encourages EDA, in coordination with regional development 
organizations, including regional councils, to continue to 
support projects that address these challenges, including 
access to affordable, high-speed broadband.
    Program Duplication.--EDA is directed to ensure, to the 
greatest extent practicable, that its grant programs, including 
the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs program, avoid 
duplication and overlap with any other Federal grant programs. 
The Committee directs the Government Accountability Office 
[GAO] to include EDA in its annual analysis of potentially 
duplicative programs.
    EDA Disaster Recovery Projects.--The Committee is committed 
to ensuring Federal post-disaster economic recovery efforts are 
executed efficiently and effectively. EDA plays an increasingly 
important role in post-disaster economic recovery under the 
National Disaster Recovery Framework. The Committee requests 
that the GAO produce a report evaluating the extent to which 
the roles and responsibilities of the agency's economic 
recovery support function are articulated adequately, with 
outcome-driven criteria by which the EDA measures its success 
in carrying out its economic recovery responsibilities. The GAO 
should evaluate EDA's criteria and suggest alternative criteria 
as appropriate. The Committee welcomes recommendations on how 
to improve economic recovery outcomes and better serve impacted 
communities.
    Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research 
[EPSCoR] States and the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs 
Program.--The Committee directs EDA, in accordance with section 
10621 of Public Law 117-167, to ensure that at least one 
eligible consortium so designated as a regional technology hub 
is headquartered in a low population State that is eligible to 
receive funding from the EPSCoR program of the National Science 
Foundation, regardless of funding levels appropriated.
    Economic Development Research.--The Committee recognizes 
the importance of university-based research in investigating 
the myriad economic development challenges facing many regions 
in the United States, especially in places that have not 
benefited from recent technological developments, places 
transitioning from legacy industries, among others. The 
Committee provides up to $2,000,000 to support Research and 
Evaluation to better inform economic development decision-
making.
    Assistance to Indigenous Communities.--The recommendation 
provides $5,000,000 to provide resources to address the needs 
of Indigenous communities that have historically suffered from 
a lack of investment in core economic development needs.
    Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience 
[NATIVE] Act.--Of amounts provided for Technical Assistance, up 
to $1,000,000 shall be available to provide technical 
assistance to eligible entities, consistent with the NATIVE Act 
(Public Law 114-221).
    Partnership Planning and Technical Assistance.--The 
Committee encourages the EDA to prioritize efforts to expand 
Economic Development Districts to States that currently do not 
have one.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $68,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      99,509,000
Committee recommendation................................      70,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $70,000,000 for 
salaries and expenses. The recommendation is $2,000,000 above 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $29,509,000 below the 
budget request.

                  Minority Business Development Agency


                     MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $70,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     110,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      70,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $70,000,000 for the 
Minority Business Development Agency [MBDA]. The recommendation 
is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $40,000,000 
below the budget request. MBDA is the only Federal agency 
dedicated to promoting the growth of minority-owned firms and 
assists small, medium, and large minority business enterprises 
in increasing revenues and creating jobs. The Committee notes 
that fiscal year 2024 is the second full fiscal year following 
the historic enactment of the MBDA Act, which was included as 
part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 
117-58). Among other changes, this law authorized the creation 
of rural business centers and created the Parren J. Mitchel 
Entrepreneurship Education Grants Program to cultivate the next 
generation of minority entrepreneurs on the campuses of 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority 
Serving Institutions.
    Hiring.--The Committee is concerned by MBDA's high vacancy 
rate and directs the agency to expedite its efforts to fill all 
outstanding vacancies.
    Native Entities.--The Committee's recommendation provides 
up to $5,000,000 for grants to American Indian, Alaska Native, 
and Native Hawaiian entities qualified to provide business, 
financing, and technical assistance services to Tribes.

                   Economic and Statistical Analysis


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $130,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     154,028,000
Committee recommendation................................     130,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $130,000,000 for 
Economic and Statistical Analysis [ESA]. The recommendation is 
equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $24,028,000 
below the budget request. ESA conducts research to provide a 
better understanding of the U.S. economy, helping government 
make more informed policy decisions.
    Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account.--The Committee 
recognizes the national economic importance of the outdoor 
recreation industry. Not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
amount is provided to continue implementing the Outdoor 
Recreation Jobs and Economic Impact Act of 2016 (Public Law 
114-249). The Committee directs the Department to continue 
working with the outdoor recreation industry, nongovernmental 
organizations, and other interested stakeholders to refine the 
National-level statistics and to continue developing regional 
statistics.
    Commodity Checkoff Programs.--The Committee recognizes that 
the Commerce Department's Concrete Masonry Checkoff Program is 
an industry-led program funding the research and promotion of 
concrete masonry products. The Committee encourages the 
Department to maximize the effectiveness of its checkoff 
programs by developing administrative remedies, where 
practicable, to ensure program resources are fully utilized for 
their intended purpose.
    Distributional Measures of Growth.--The Committee's 
recommendation supports ESA's efforts to improve and expand 
distributional measures of growth. The Committee directs ESA to 
further research methods that will allow a quarterly release 
schedule with minimal lag.

                          Bureau of the Census

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $1,485,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,606,004,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,501,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,501,000,000 for 
the Census Bureau. The recommendation is $16,000,000 above the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $105,004,000 below the 
budget request.

                      CURRENT SURVEYS AND PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $330,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     375,673,000
Committee recommendation................................     346,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $346,000,000 for 
current surveys and programs. The recommendation is $16,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $29,673,000 below 
the budget request. This account provides for the salaries and 
expenses associated with the statistical programs of the Bureau 
of the Census, including measurement of the Nation's economy 
and the demographic characteristics of the population.
    High Frequency Data Program.--The Committee provides no 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for the High 
Frequency Data Program.
    Population Estimate Challenge Program.--Within the increase 
provided, the Committee provides $6,200,000 to support the 
Population Estimates program and to improve the annual 
estimates upon which communities across the country rely.
    Puerto Rico Economic Program.--Within the increase 
provided, the Committee provides up to $10,800,000 to establish 
a new data program for Puerto Rico, including an annual Puerto 
Rico Economic Survey and a monthly or quarterly economic 
indicator collection for Puerto Rico. Such data products 
already exist for States, and this initiative will close 
longstanding gaps in the economic data available for Puerto 
Rico.

                     PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $1,155,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,230,331,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,155,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,155,000,000 for 
periodic censuses and programs. The recommendation is equal to 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $75,331,000 below the 
budget request.
    This account provides for the constitutionally mandated 
Decennial Census as well as other cyclical programs. 
Additionally, the Census Bureau conducts individual surveys for 
other Federal agencies on a reimbursable basis.
    Utilizing Libraries and Community Partners for Census 
Surveys.--The Committee encourages the Census Bureau to 
continue its partnership with public libraries and other 
community technology centers to maximize the response to the 
American Community Survey [ACS] and other surveys and 
assessments as appropriate. The Bureau is encouraged to work 
with libraries and library organizations, in coordination with 
the Institute of Museum and Library Services, regarding 
training for library staff and webinars or conference 
presentations to library audiences about Census surveys and 
assessments.
    American Community Survey.--The Committee supports the ACS 
and directs the Bureau to continue using the ACS as a testbed 
for innovative survey and data processing techniques that can 
be used across the Bureau. The Committee notes that the ACS is 
often the primary or only source of data available to State, 
local, and Federal agencies that need adequate information on a 
wide range of topics. These data are especially important to 
small towns and rural areas across the country, and the Bureau 
should ensure that rural areas are covered with the same 
accuracy as urban areas to the maximum extent practicable. To 
the greatest extent practicable, the ACS should reduce the 
number of questions included in the survey and ensure steps are 
being taken to conduct the ACS as efficiently and unobtrusively 
as possible.

       National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $62,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     117,277,000
Committee recommendation................................      62,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $62,000,000 for the 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
[NTIA]. The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $55,277,000 below the budget request. As 
proposed in the agency's budget justification, the 
recommendation establishes a new Facilities Management and 
Construction account within NTIA.

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $62,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     109,665,000
Committee recommendation................................      60,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $60,000,000 for 
NTIA salaries and expenses. The recommendation is $2,000,000 
below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $49,665,000 below 
the budget request.
    The Committee retains language from previous years allowing 
the Secretary to collect reimbursements from other Federal 
agencies for a portion of the cost resulting from the 
coordination of spectrum management, analysis, and operations. 
NTIA shall submit a report to the Committee no later than June 
1, 2024, detailing the collection of reimbursements from other 
agencies.
    Broadband Expansion.--Recognizing the vital role of high-
speed broadband Internet in the daily lives of the American 
people, the Committee directs the NTIA to prioritize broadband 
deployment to unserved and then underserved areas in accordance 
with Public Law 117-58. The Committee further directs the NTIA 
to coordinate with the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] 
to maintain broadband coverage maps completed in accordance 
with Public Law 116-130.
    Broadband Investments under the Infrastructure Investment 
and Jobs Act [IIJA].--In Public Law 117-58, Congress made a 
historic $65,000,000,000 investment in broadband 
infrastructure, equity, and affordability with the goal of 
connecting all Americans to high-speed, reliable, and 
affordable Internet service. On June 30, 2023, the NTIA took an 
important step toward realizing that goal by announcing 
allocations for $42,450,000,000 through the Broadband Equity, 
Access, and Deployment [BEAD] program. This funding will build 
broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas 
across the country.
    As eligible entities develop and submit their initial 
proposals to run their grant programs, the Committee emphasizes 
the importance of timely technical assistance. Further, the 
Committee directs NTIA to fully consider and account for each 
eligible entity's unique challenges when evaluating proposals, 
including by exercising authority under 47 U.S.C. 1702(f) to 
ensure resilience of broadband infrastructure. The Committee 
also emphasizes that funds dedicated to administer the BEAD 
program shall be used to properly implement the Buy America and 
Build America, Buy America standards, consistent with title IX 
of division G of Public Law 117-58 and all other applicable 
Federal laws.
    Next Generation Broadband in Rural Areas.--The Committee 
recognizes that access to broadband in all communities across 
the Nation, including in rural areas, is essential for 
improving economic growth, education, job creation, civic 
engagement, public safety and health, global competitiveness, 
and quality of life. NTIA is encouraged to coordinate with 
other relevant Federal agencies to identify and pursue policies 
that enable effective and efficient broadband deployment in 
rural areas while advancing next-generation technologies, such 
as 5G networks, and to avoid efforts that could duplicate 
existing networks. In pursuing these goals, NTIA's broadband 
programs shall not provide a scoring advantage based 
specifically upon the form of organization or commercial status 
of a broadband service provider, and NTIA should ensure States 
using funding obtained through NTIA do not do so.
    Supply Chain and Workforce.--In administering its broadband 
programs, NTIA shall consider the effect of supply chain, 
workforce shortages, and uniform guidance procurement 
requirements, in addition to other known barriers such as 
permit approvals, to determine whether providers can reasonably 
meet deployment deadlines. If NTIA determines these factors 
unduly impact project commitments or will deter program 
participation, the agency may use its discretionary authority 
to provide waivers of such requirements, in conjunction with 
other relief as necessary.
    Federal Spectrum Management.--The Committee directs NTIA to 
continue to evaluate options for repurposing spectrum for 
broadband in support of making 1500 megahertz [MHz] of spectrum 
available for wireless broadband use. NTIA shall also provide 
the Committee with annual updates on the progress in making 
spectrum available for commercial mobile use, including the 
strategy for freeing up additional spectrum from Federal 
agencies in coordination with the ongoing efforts on the 
National Spectrum Strategy.
    Policy and Technical Training.--The Committee encourages 
NTIA to work with the FCC and the Department of State to 
provide support for activities provided under section 7 of 
Public Law 98-549 and provides no less than the fiscal year 
2023 enacted level for these activities. 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.
    Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.--The Committee notes 
the historic investments Congress has made through the Tribal 
Broadband Connectivity Program in the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260) and the IIJA. The 
Committee directs NTIA to continue engaging with eligible 
entities to ensure the full potential of these investments is 
realized. The Committee also directs NTIA to accept 
applications for the Tribal BroadbandConnectivity Program by 
mail in addition to online.
    Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth [OICG].--As part 
of the Access Broadband Act, enacted into law as part of Public 
Law 116-260, NTIA created the OICG to further the deployment 
and use of broadband technology. As programs associated with 
the BEAD program are implemented, NTIA shall coordinate with 
other Federal agencies with broadband programs to improve 
overall data collection, efficiently manage broadband 
investments, identify funds used to upgrade systems versus new 
systems, and unify metrics and measurements to accurately 
represent the outcomes of BEAD and other Federal broadband 
programs.

    PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING, AND CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee provides bill language allowing NTIA to 
continue oversight and administration of previously awarded 
grants. NTIA shall not use unobligated balances to award new 
grants. The Committee requests a briefing on the need to 
maintain this account.

                 FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2023....................................................
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      $7,612,000
Committee recommendation................................       2,000,000

    The recommendation includes $2,000,000 and establishes a 
new account to support the restoration and modernization of 
NTIA's facilities, including the telecommunication 
infrastructure, roads, and grounds of NTIA's government-owned 
facilities. This amount is $5,612,000 below the budget request.

               United States Patent and Trademark Office


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $4,253,404,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   4,195,799,000
Committee recommendation................................   4,195,799,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $4,195,799,000 for 
the United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO], which is 
$57,605,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and equal 
to the budget request, to be derived from offsetting fee 
collections.
    USPTO examines patent applications, grants patent 
protection for qualified inventions, and disseminates 
technological information disclosed in patents. USPTO also 
examines trademark applications and provides Federal 
registration to owners of qualified trademarks.
    Transfer to the OIG.--The Committee provides $2,450,000 for 
the OIG to continue oversight and audits of USPTO operations 
and budget transparency, and USPTO is directed to work with the 
Department to implement all OIG recommendations.
    Reprogramming and Spend Plan.--USPTO shall follow the 
reprogramming procedures outlined in section 505 of this act 
before using excess fee collections to forward fund expenses 
beyond fiscal year 2024.
    Intellectual Property [IP] Attaches.--The Committee remains 
concerned that USPTO's IP attaches may not have adequate access 
to their foreign government counterparts and are not 
consistently involved in embassy or consulate conversations 
regarding intellectual property matters. The Secretary is 
directed to work with USPTO, ITA, and the Department of State 
to ensure that the attaches are appropriately utilized, 
including in discussions and negotiations at the counselor rank 
and above.
    IP Theft.--The Committee remains concerned with the growing 
theft of IP by and on behalf of foreign government actors, 
especially by China, as made clear in the United States Trade 
Representative's Section 301 report, ``Findings of the 
Investigation into China's Acts, Policies, and Practices 
Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and 
Innovation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.'' The 
Committee urges USPTO to work with all relevant agencies to 
protect U.S. IP through education, outreach, foreign IP 
attaches, and ongoing trade negotiations.

             National Institute of Standards and Technology

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $1,627,285,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,631,968,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,447,805,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,447,805,000 for 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST]. The 
recommendation is $179,480,000 below the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $184,163,000 below the budget request. Up to 
$9,000,000 may be transferred from the Scientific and Technical 
Research and Services [STRS] account to the Working Capital 
Fund.
    NIST's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial 
competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, 
and technology in ways that enhance economic security and 
improve our quality of life.

             SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $953,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     994,948,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,021,263,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,021,263,000 for 
NIST STRS. The recommendation is $68,263,000 above the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and $26,315,000 above the budget 
request. The Committee directs NIST to provide a detailed 
spending plan for NIST's highest priority laboratory programs 
that describes resources used for each program, project, or 
activity [PPA].
    Quantum Information Science [QIS].--The Committee supports 
NIST's research program in QIS, as authorized in section 201 of 
the National Quantum Initiative Act (Public Law 115-368) and 
provides up to the requested level for these activities. QIS 
promises to yield revolutionary new approaches to computing, 
sensing, and communication, among others.
    Cybersecurity.--The Committee remains concerned about the 
number of cyberattacks affecting the Nation and provides no 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for cybersecurity 
research, outreach, industry partnerships, and other activities 
at NIST, including the National Cybersecurity Center of 
Excellence [NCCoE]. Within the funds provided, the Committee 
directs NIST to support National Initiative for Cybersecurity 
Education [NICE] cooperative agreements with Regional Alliances 
and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Stimulate for 
cybersecurity education and workforce development as authorized 
in section 9401 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-
283).
    In addition, the Committee encourages NIST to bolster the 
technology foundations and put in place the practical steps 
needed to ensure the security and integrity of the technology 
supply chain, in partnership with the private sector, in 
accordance with Executive Order 14028. NIST is also encouraged 
to reduce the backlog at the Cryptographic Module Validation 
Program.
    Cybersecurity of Genomic Data.--The Committee provides no 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for NIST and NCCoE 
to continue the cybersecurity of genomic data use case. NIST 
and NCCoE shall continue to partner with non-governmental 
entities that have existing capability to research and develop 
state-of-the-art cybersecurity technologies for the unique 
needs of genomic and biomedical-based systems.
    Artificial Intelligence [AI].--The Committee provides up to 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level to expand NIST's ongoing AI 
research and measurement science efforts. The Committee directs 
NIST to develop standards, metrics, and tools for government, 
corporate, and academic uses of AI to train and test systems, 
model AI behavior, and compare systems. The Committee directs 
NIST to continue the multi-stakeholder process of developing a 
framework for managing risks related to the reliability, 
robustness, and trustworthiness of AI systems.
    Within the funding provided, the Committee encourages NIST 
to continue to improve and meet the growing demand for the 
Facial Recognition Vendor Test. The Committee is aware that 
this test is an important resource for government, commercial, 
and academic developers to assess the quality of their facial 
recognition technologies. As more companies and government 
users invest in this technology, the test will continue to be a 
critical step for responsible use. The Committee encourages 
NIST to: expand testing to include a more diverse combination 
of demographics and environmental settings in the test data, 
develop educational material and work on image quality 
standards for data collection, expand testing to improve 
enhanced privacy technologies for better template protection, 
and expand existing testing infrastructures in support of these 
improvements and provides up to the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level for those purposes.
    Forensic Sciences.--The Committee provides no less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level for forensic science research, 
including level funding to support the Organization of 
Scientific Area Committees and technical merit evaluations.
    Circular Economy.--The Committee provides up to the 
requested amount for circular economy related research. In 
addition, the Committee provides no less than the fiscal year 
2023 enacted level for competitive external grants for academic 
institutions to investigate plastic and polymeric materials, as 
well as novel methods to characterize both known and newly-
developed materials. Such investigations should address ways to 
increase the strength of recycled plastics and better 
understand mechanical properties including tensile stress, 
compressive stress, thermal properties, and nanostructure of 
polymeric materials that could serve as industry standards for 
recycled plastic products.
    Climate and Energy Measurement, Tools, and Testbeds.--The 
Committee recognizes the important role that NIST laboratories 
play to address climate change through climate measurements and 
modeling of greenhouse gas emissions as well as research and 
tools to build more resilient communities. The Committee 
provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
Climate and Energy Measurement, Tools, and Testbeds.
    Forward-Looking Building Standards.--The Committee remains 
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, within funding for Climate and Energy 
Measurement, Tools, and Testbeds, 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, like hurricanes, floods, and droughts. Further, the 
Committee directs NIST to provide technical assistance to 
standards developing organizations regarding use of the 
identified forward-looking information. No later than 90 days 
after the enactment of this act, NIST shall report to the 
Committee regarding progress the agency has made in aiding both 
Federal and non-Federal bodies in developing standards, 
building codes, and voluntary standards that take into account 
increasingly extreme weather events and other climate change 
challenges.
    Urban Dome.--The Committee recognizes the value of NIST's 
Greenhouse Gas Measurements Program and Urban Dome Initiative 
and the importance of accurate measurement science for 
environmental monitoring and human health. These cost-effective 
capabilities 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 
provides up to the fiscal year 2023 enacted amount for the 
Greenhouse Gas Measurements Program and Urban Dome Initiative 
to continue support for the established testbed activities and 
to expand sensor network deployments locations.
    Public Health Risk to First Responders.--The Committee 
directs NIST, in consultation with other relevant Federal 
agencies as appropriate, to conduct a study on firefighter 
occupational exposure to environmental sources of per- and 
polyfluoroalkyl substances (commonly known as ``PFAS''). In 
carrying out the study, NIST shall examine the identity, 
prevalence, and concentration of PFAS in common work 
environments of firefighters, such as fire scenes, fire trucks, 
and fire stations. No later than 180 days after the completion 
of the study, NIST shall provide Congress with a final report 
describing the findings of the study including recommendations 
on what additional research or technical improvements should be 
pursued to avoid unnecessary occupational exposure of 
firefighters to PFAS from environmental sources.
    Regenerative Medicine Standards.--The Committee is 
encouraged by the work of NIST and the Standards Coordinating 
Body to develop comprehensive standards for the development and 
evaluation of regenerative medicine products to fulfill the 
regenerative medicine standards provisions enacted under the 
21st Century Cures Act (Public Law 114-255). The Committee 
recognizes the need to continue ongoing efforts to develop and 
maintain standards and provides $3,000,000 to continue to 
support those activities. The Committee also understands that 
additional efforts are needed to ensure proper use of these 
standards by educating product developers and disseminating 
these standards nationally. The Committee provides $1,500,000 
to support the development of curricula in partnership with 
academic institutions and other stakeholders such as through 
establishment of consortia for workforce training around the 
use of regenerative medicine standards.
    Composites.--The Committee encourages NIST to work with 
academic institutions, in collaboration with State and industry 
partners, to develop new composite technologies to solve 
problems in the manufacturing space and related materials 
industries. Further, the Committee urges NIST to work with 
relevant Federal agencies, including the Federal Highway 
Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the 
Environmental Protection Agency, to aggregate existing 
standards and test methods for the use of composites and other 
innovative materials in infrastructure, as well as to identify 
barriers to broader market adoption.
    Pyrrhotite Testing and Mitigation.--The Committee provides 
no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for NIST to 
continue studying and developing 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, which can cause premature 
cracking and structural failure. In addition to funding 
widespread sample collection and studies needed to develop 
standardized tests, the Committee directs NIST to investigate 
mitigation strategies for concrete structures that may not yet 
have developed cracking but contain pyrrhotite.
    NIST Center for Neutron Research [NCNR].--The Committee 
provides up to the requested level for the repair and upgrade 
of NCNR physical infrastructure as well as to right-size 
operations and safety staffing and training.
    Critical and Emerging Technologies.--The Committee 
recognizes NIST's important role in U.S. engagement on 
standards development across areas of critical and emerging 
technologies. As our global competitors increase focus on 
international standards development, it is important for NIST, 
in partnership with the private sector, to maintain global 
leadership. Therefore, the Committee provides $12,000,000 above 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for these purposes.
    Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.--The 
Committee recognizes the value of the Baldrige Program and its 
impact on the performance of organizations that adopt its best 
practices. Therefore, the Committee provides no less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level for the Malcolm Baldrige 
Performance Excellence Program. The Committee commends the 
Baldrige program's efforts to improve the adoption of the NIST 
Cybersecurity Framework and encourages the program to build 
more partnerships and self-assessment tools to help 
organizations with their cybersecurity risk management.
    Dr. David Satcher Cybersecurity Education Grant Program.--
The recommendation includes up to $2,000,000 to implement the 
Dr. David Satcher Cybersecurity Education Grant Program.

                         NIST EXTERNAL PROJECTS

    The Committee's recommendation provides $118,795,000 for 
NIST External Projects as detailed in the table below. The 
Committee directs NIST to provide the amounts listed in the 
table, and NIST shall perform the same level of oversight and 
due diligence as with any other external partners.

                         NIST EXTERNAL PROJECTS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recipient                Project Purpose      Recommended ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Advanced Regenerative           Build-out of a                 1,200,000
 Manufacturing Institute         Biofabrication
 (ARMI).                         Standards-Related
                                 Test Lab.
Arkansas State University.....  Center for Advanced           10,000,000
                                 Materials and Steel
                                 Manufacturing.
Bradley University............  Electrical Power                 950,000
                                 Initiative.
Columbia Gorge Community        Convergent                       300,000
 College.                        Technologies and
                                 Advanced
                                 Manufacturing
                                 Equipment.
Gonzaga University............  Integrated Science and         1,847,000
                                 Engineering Facility.
Lewis University..............  Semiconductor Research           900,000
                                 Equipment.
Lorain County Community         District MEMS Program            500,000
 College District.               & Training Expansion.
Louisiana Tech University.....  Semiconductor                  3,500,000
                                 Infrastructure and
                                 Technology Equipment
                                 Upgrades.
Marshfield Chamber of Commerce  Marshfield Coastal             1,000,000
                                 Academy and Hazard
                                 Laboratory.
Michigan State University.....  Improved Techniques            1,350,000
                                 and Standards
                                 Development for
                                 Tracking
                                 Environmental PFAS.
Michigan Technological          Standards Development          2,000,000
 University.                     Center for Automated
                                 Driving Systems in
                                 Inclement Winter
                                 Weather.
Mississippi State University..  Center for Simulated           4,000,000
                                 Environments and
                                 Experiences in STEM.
Norwich University............  Operational Technology           250,000
                                 Advance Cyber
                                 Architecture.
Oklahoma State University.....  Oklahoma Aerospace             5,500,000
                                 Institute for
                                 Research and
                                 Education (OAIRE).
Oregon Institute of Technology  Solar Manufacturing            1,045,000
 (Oregon Tech).                  Research Equipment.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend    Equipment for String-          2,500,000
 College.                        Level Testing and to
                                 Establish the First
                                 Fully-Serviced Heavy
                                 Haul Battery Testing
                                 Center in the United
                                 States.
Pittsburg State University....  STEM Ecosystem........         5,000,000
Plymouth State University.....  Cybersecurity Program.         1,000,000
Rochester Institute of          Battery Prototyping            1,250,000
 Technology.                     Center Equipment.
The Evergreen State College...  Acquisition of                 2,135,000
                                 Laboratory Equipment.
University at Albany, State     Cybersecurity Incident         1,250,000
 University of New York.         Response Studio
                                 (CREST).
University at Buffalo.........  Center for Accelerated         1,250,000
                                 Innovation through
                                 Materials (AIM):
                                 Enabling the
                                 Transition to a Clean
                                 Energy Economy (AIM
                                 for Clean Energy).
University of Arkansas........  Center for Large-Scale         5,000,000
                                 Testing of Seismic
                                 Systems.
University of Arkansas Fay      Center for Design and          5,000,000
 Jones School of Architecture    Materials Innovation.
 and Design.
University of Delaware........  Biopharmaceutical              7,250,000
                                 Manufacturing
                                 Equipment.
University of Maine System....  Analytical Laboratory          1,900,000
                                 Equipment.
University of Maine System....  Forest Biomaterials            2,500,000
                                 Innovation Center
                                 Equipment.
University of Maryland,         UMBC Quantum Science           1,500,000
 Baltimore County.               Institute.
University of Mississippi       Cancer Research                2,800,000
 Medical Center.                 Laboratories.
University of Rhode Island....  Marine Geological              1,150,000
                                 Samples Laboratory.
University of Rhode Island....  URI STEEP.............           600,000
University of Rochester.......  Advanced Quantum               1,250,000
                                 Research Equipment.
University of South Carolina..  Semiconductor                  4,500,000
                                 Manufacturing.
University of Southern          Sustainable Materials          5,500,000
 Mississippi.                    Validation and
                                 Certification Lab.
University of Tulsa...........  Robotics Research and          5,500,000
                                 Instrumentation.
University of Washington......  Advanced Nano &                3,500,000
                                 Quantum Systems.
University of Washington......  Molecular Analysis             2,800,000
                                 Facility
                                 Instrumentation.
University of Washington......  Interdisciplinary              5,000,000
                                 Engineering Building
                                 Equipment.
University of Washington        Milgard Engineering            2,500,000
 Tacoma.                         Labs Buildout.
Washington State University...  Transmission Electron          2,500,000
                                 Microscope.
West Virginia University......  Liquid Chromatography            233,000
                                 Mass Spectrometry
                                 Equipment.
West Virginia University......  Electron Microscopy-           1,140,000
                                 Based Equipment and
                                 Research.
Western Washington University.  Advanced Technology            2,425,000
                                 Laboratory and
                                 Research Equipment.
Wichita State University /      Advanced Manufacturing         5,000,000
 National Institute for          Technology and
 Aviation Research.              Equipment.
Woodwell Climate Research       Science on the Fly:              250,000
 Center.                         Clean River Water
                                 Data Collection,
                                 Monitoring, and
                                 Analysis.
WRC--Connected Communities....  DigitalBridge                    270,000
                                 Colorado--Phase 2.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                     INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $212,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     374,872,000
Committee recommendation................................     212,000,000

    The Committee provides $212,000,000 for Industrial 
Technology Services. The recommendation is equal to the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and $162,872,000 below the budget 
request.
    Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program 
[MEP].--For the MEP program, the Committee provides 
$175,000,000, which is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level, to respond to the critical national needs of small- and 
medium-sized enterprises, including by increasing the number of 
enterprises that the program assists and by increasing 
awareness and usage of existing supplier scouting tools to fill 
supply chain gaps and support domestic manufacturing.
    Manufacturing USA.--The Manufacturing USA program promotes 
American competitiveness by fostering the development of new 
manufacturing techniques and fields, accelerating 
commercialization, and providing technical assistance to U.S. 
companies.
    For the Manufacturing USA program, the Committee provides 
$37,000,000, which is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level.

                  CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $462,285,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     262,148,000
Committee recommendation................................     214,542,000

    The Committee provides $214,542,000 for construction of 
research facilities, including not less than $134,000,000 for 
Safety, Capacity, Maintenance, and Major Repairs. The 
recommendation is $247,743,000 below the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $47,606,000 below the budget request.

                      NIST EXTRAMURAL CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee provides $80,242,000 for NIST Extramural 
Construction projects as detailed in the table below. The 
Committee directs NIST to provide the amounts listed the in 
table, and NIST shall perform the same level of due diligence 
as with any other external partners.

                      NIST EXTRAMURAL CONSTRUCTION
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recipient                Project Purpose      Recommended ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kansas State University Salina  Aerospace Innovation          28,000,000
                                 and Training Hub.
KU Innovation Park............  Kansas National               22,000,000
                                 Security Innovation
                                 Center.
University of Maine System....  Analytical Laboratory          3,100,000
                                 Modernization and
                                 Expansion.
University of Maine System....  Aquaculture Workforce          7,000,000
                                 Innovation Center.
University of Maine System....  Forest Biomaterials            7,500,000
                                 Innovation Center.
University of New Hampshire...  The Edge Innovation            5,000,000
                                 Community.
Washington State University...  Hot Cell Facility              7,642,000
                                 Construction.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

   CREATING HELPFUL INCENTIVES TO PRODUCE SEMICONDUCTORS [CHIPS] FOR 
                              AMERICA FUND

    Division A of Public Law 117-167 established the CHIPS for 
America Fund. The Committee allocates the funds according to 
the amounts listed in the following table.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ALLOCATION OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND
              TECHNOLOGY FUNDS: CHIPS ACT FISCAL YEAR 2024
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
               Account--Project and Activity                   Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Section 9902:
    Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors     $4,996,100
     (CHIPS) for America Fund.............................
        Administrative Expenses...........................        96,100
    Office of Inspector General, Salaries and Expenses....         3,900
                                                           -------------
        Total, Section 9902...............................     5,000,000
                                                           =============
Section 9906:
    Industrial Technology Services........................     1,245,000
        National Semiconductor Technology Center..........     1,100,000
        Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program..........        95,000
        Manufacturing USA Institute.......................        50,000
    Scientific and Technology Research & Services.........        53,900
        NIST Metrology Program............................        29,000
        Administrative Expenses...........................        24,900
    Office of Inspector General, Salaries and Expenses....         1,100
                                                           -------------
        Total, Section 9906...............................     1,300,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

            National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Appropriations, 2023...................................\1\$6,352,114,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   6,806,992,000
Committee recommendation................................   6,506,375,000

\1\Of the total amount provided for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration in fiscal year 2023, $150,838,000 was included under 
title II of division N of Public Law 117-328.

    The Committee's recommendation provides $6,506,375,000 for 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]. The 
recommendation is $154,261,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $300,617,000 below the budget request.

                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023...................................\1\$4,542,997,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   4,616,549,000
Committee recommendation................................   4,528,430,000

\1\Of the amount provided for NOAA Operations, Research, and Facilities 
in fiscal year 2023, $42,000,000 was included under title II of division 
N of Public Law 117-328.

    The Committee's recommendation provides $4,528,430,000 for 
NOAA's Operations, Research, and Facilities [ORF]. The 
recommendation is $14,567,000 below the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $88,119,000 below the budget request.

                      NOAA NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE

    The Committee's recommendation provides $680,722,000 for 
the National Ocean Service [NOS]. NOS programs provide 
scientific, technical, and management expertise to promote safe 
navigation; assess the health of coastal and marine resources; 
respond to natural and human-induced threats; and preserve 
coastal and ocean environments.
    The Committee's recommendations are displayed in the 
following table:

       NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                          recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Navigation, Observations and Positioning:
    Navigation, Observations and Positioning...........          184,702
    Hydrographic Survey Priorities/Contracts...........           32,500
    Integrated Ocean Observing System Regional                    42,500
     Observations......................................
                                                        ----------------
        Total, Navigation, Observations and Positioning          259,702
                                                        ================
Coastal Science and Assessment:
    Coastal Science, Assessment, Response and                     96,500
     Restoration.......................................
    Competitive Research...............................           22,500
                                                        ----------------
        Total, Coastal Science and Assessment..........          119,000
                                                        ================
Ocean and Coastal Management and Services:
    Coastal Zone Management and Services...............           51,220
    Coastal Zone Management Grants.....................           81,500
    National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund..........           34,000
    Coral Reef Program.................................           34,000
    National Estuarine Research Reserve System.........           33,300
    Sanctuaries and Marine Protected Areas.............           68,000
                                                        ----------------
        Total, Ocean and Coastal Management and                  302,020
         Services......................................
                                                        ================
        GRAND TOTAL, NOS...............................          680,722
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Navigation, Observations and Positioning.--The Committee 
strongly supports activities under Navigation, Observations and 
Positioning, including full operational funding for NOAA's 
Navigation Response Teams.
    Geospatial Modeling Grants.--The Committee provides 
$8,000,000 within Navigation, Observations and Positioning for 
the Geospatial Modeling Grants program, for which all funding 
shall be distributed externally.
    NOAA Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great 
Lakes Mapping.--The Committee provides $10,000,000 for the NOAA 
Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great Lakes 
Mapping. The Center shall work in unison with and leverage 
existing capabilities, including the Joint Hydrographic Center, 
and across NOAA line offices, including NOS, the Office of 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research [OAR], and the Office of 
Marine and Aviation Operations [OMAO], to support and grow the 
Nation's deep water, shallow water, and coastal mapping 
capabilities and data holdings, in partnership with industry. 
The Center shall be located at a university with expertise in 
(1) transitioning developments in mapping platforms, sensors, 
and concepts of operations into operations; (2) training for 
mapping and surveying operations; (3) providing technical 
support for ocean mapping technologies to operators in the 
field on an increasingly diverse set of platforms; and (4) 
leveraging public-private partnerships in advancing the 
Nation's ocean and Great Lakes mapping goals.
    Hydrographic Research and Technology Development.--The 
Committee provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level for the Joint Hydrographic Center for demonstration, 
testing, evaluation, and research-to-operations transition of 
hydrographic technology. In addition, the Committee provides 
$2,000,000 for NOAA to continue supporting joint ocean and 
coastal mapping centers in other areas of the country.
    Hydrographic Charting.--The Committee continues to note the 
massive backlog for charting of navigationally significant 
areas and provides $32,500,000 for Hydrographic Survey 
Priorities/Contracts.
    The Committee believes Arctic surveys could be completed 
more efficiently through increased and accelerated contracting. 
Therefore, NOAA is directed to award contracts for hydrographic 
surveys in the Arctic as early in the calendar year as possible 
to maximize the operational season, utilizing effective and 
efficient contract services. Within the amount provided for 
Hydrographic Survey Priorities/Contracts, NOAA is directed to 
accelerate the acquisition of survey data through the use of 
contractors. In addition, NOAA is directed to utilize all 
contractors that are available, qualified, and experienced in 
the Arctic for hydrographic surveys.
    Bathymetric Light Detection and Ranging [LiDAR] Workforce 
Development.--The Committee recognizes the increasing use of 
bathymetric LiDAR data and the unmet need for bathymetric LiDAR 
engineers to support monitoring, management and other 
programming responsibilities across marine navigation safety, 
storm surge and tsunami inundation modeling, marine ecosystem 
management, coastal resilience initiatives, and integrated 
ocean and coastal mapping. NOAA is encouraged to collaborate 
with university and industry partners on education and training 
programs needed to support the demand for advanced bathymetric 
LiDAR engineers.
    Integrated Ocean Observing System [IOOS].--The Committee 
notes the importance of the IOOS network that provides marine 
information used in disaster response, weather forecasting and 
hurricane prediction, water quality forecasting, detection of 
harmful algal blooms [HABs], and safe maritime operations. The 
Committee provides $42,500,000 for IOOS and supports the use of 
supplementary funds previously provided to the agency to 
recapitalize observing system infrastructure based upon the 
highest priority needs of each region. The Committee encourages 
the IOOS regional associations to consider leveraging existing 
capabilities of the commercial sector, including uncrewed 
systems, to meet observational needs through commercial data 
buys.
    The Committee provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level to continue the IOOS HAB pilot programs and to 
support the HAB monitoring and detection test bed in the Gulf 
of Mexico.
    Disaster Preparedness.--Within the funds provided for 
Coastal Science, Assessment, Response and Restoration, the 
Committee provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level for the Disaster Preparedness Program. The Committee 
encourages NOS to provide appropriate scientific guidance to 
other Federal agencies and States on preparedness, response, 
damage assessment, and restoration to spills of emerging fuels. 
This should include developing effective responses to the 
impact of oil spills in freshwater environments in partnership 
with the U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes Center of Expertise for 
Oil Spill Preparedness and Response.
    Marine Debris.--Within the funding provided, NOAA shall 
support competitive extramural funding programs and the 
programs authorized in the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (Public Law 
116-224).
    The Committee notes that the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act [IIJA] (Public Law 117-58) provides $150,000,000 over 
5 years for marine debris assessment, prevention, mitigation, 
and removal, including $30,000,000 in fiscal year 2024.
    National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science [NCCOS].--The 
Committee provides $55,500,000 for NCCOS and directs NCCOS to 
continue efforts related to offshore wind and coastal 
sustainability and resilience.
    The Committee provides $1,000,000 for NCCOS's continued 
collaboration on research priorities with NOAA's Cooperative 
Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology [CIROH].
    Harmful Algal Blooms.--Within funding for Competitive 
Research, the Committee provides not less than $14,000,000 to 
accelerate deployment of effective methods of intervention and 
mitigation to reduce the frequency, severity, and impact of HAB 
events in marine and freshwater systems. Of this amount, up to 
$2,000,000 shall be used to explore innovative methods to 
increase monitoring and detection of HABs in freshwater systems 
by partnering with academic institutions with expertise in 
uncrewed systems.
    Given the high economic cost related to HAB events relative 
to the current research investment in the Gulf of Mexico, the 
Committee encourages NOAA to fund long-term HAB research in the 
Gulf of Mexico that further develops ongoing partnerships 
involving academic institutions, the private sector, and State 
governments.
    Improving Coastal Resilience.--Within the funding for 
Competitive Research, NOAA is encouraged to provide information 
and predictive capabilities to coastal communities, especially 
those with underserved populations, and to encourage natural-
based solutions to address coastal hazards like sea level rise, 
flooding, and inundation.
    Digital Coast.--The Committee provides $3,500,000 for the 
implementation of the Digital Coast Act (Public Law 116-223).
    Regional Ocean Partnerships [ROPs].--Within funding 
provided for Coastal Zone Management and Services, the 
Committee provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level for the ROPs, or their equivalent, to enhance their 
capacity for sharing and integration of Federal and non-Federal 
data to support regional coastal, ocean, and Great Lakes 
management priorities.
    In addition, the IIJA provides $56,000,000 over 5 years to 
enhance ROPs, or their equivalent, including $11,200,000 in 
fiscal year 2024.
    Coastal Management Grants.--The Committee rejects the 
proposed cut to Coastal Zone Management Grants and provides 
$81,500,000. NOAA is encouraged, to the extent practicable, to 
work with States to ensure that Coastal Zone Management Grants 
support Tribal projects and objectives.
    National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund [NOCSF].--The 
Committee summarily rejects the administration's proposal to 
eliminate the NOCSF, also known as the National Coastal 
Resilience Fund, and provides $34,000,000. Of the amount 
provided, not less than $4,000,000 shall be for project 
planning and design. In selecting the areas of focus for the 
NOCSF, NOAA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 
should consider proposals that enhance ocean and coastal 
management, bolster coastal infrastructure and resilience, 
support regional collaborative efforts and partnerships, and 
help coastal communities adapt to changing ocean conditions.
    In addition, the IIJA provides $492,000,000 over 5 years 
for the NOCSF, including $98,400,000 in fiscal year 2024.
    Coral Reef Program.--The Committee recognizes the unique 
ecological and economic value of coral reefs, including the 
benefit of buffering coastal communities from hazards such as 
coastal storms and hurricanes. Urgent efforts are needed to 
reverse the decline of coral populations in the United States. 
Therefore, the Committee provides $34,000,000 to carry out 
coral reef restoration activities under the Coral Reef 
Conservation Act, as amended (title C of division J of Public 
Law 117-263). NOAA shall implement the new authorities provided 
under section 10001 of Public Law 117-263, including State 
block grants, the establishment of Reef Research Coordination 
Institutes, and coral reef stewardship partnerships.
    National Estuarine Research Reserve System [NERRS].--The 
Committee recognizes that the NERRS sites provide mixed-use 
areas that are protected for long-term research, monitoring, 
education, and coastal stewardship and provides $33,300,000 for 
the program, an increase of $800,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level to accommodate the expansion of the system.
    Sanctuaries and Marine Protected Areas.--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of Sanctuaries and Marine Protected 
Areas to preserve regions for conservation, recreational, 
ecological, historical, scientific, cultural, archeological, 
and educational purposes and supports the expansion of the 
network. The Committee provides $68,000,000 for Sanctuaries and 
Marine Protected Areas.
    Marine National Monuments.--Within funding provided for 
Sanctuaries and Marine Protected Areas, up to $1,200,000 may be 
used for competitive education, research, and management grants 
for existing marine national monuments administered by NOS.

                 NOAA NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,112,797,000 for 
the National Marine Fisheries Service [NMFS]. NMFS programs 
provide for the management and conservation of the Nation's 
living marine resources and their environment, including fish 
stocks, marine mammals, and endangered species.
    Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 
table:

 NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Protected Resources Science and Management:
    Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Other Species....           179,455
    Species Recovery Grants...........................             7,250
    Atlantic Salmon...................................             8,000
    Pacific Salmon....................................            76,000
                                                       -----------------
        Total, Protected Resources Science and                   270,705
         Management...................................
                                                       =================
Fisheries Science and Management:
    Fisheries and Ecosystem Science Programs and                 161,500
     Services.........................................
    Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and                     205,351
     Assessments......................................
    Observers and Training............................            58,383
    Fisheries Management Programs and Services........           138,250
    Aquaculture.......................................            24,000
    Salmon Management Activities......................            65,250
    Regional Councils and Fisheries Commissions.......            44,297
    Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants..............             3,377
                                                       -----------------
        Total, Fisheries Science and Management.......           700,408
                                                       =================
Enforcement...........................................            82,000
                                                       =================
Habitat Conservation and Restoration..................            59,684
                                                       =================
        GRAND TOTAL, NMFS.............................         1,112,797
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Promote and Develop Fisheries Products and Research Funding 
Transfer.--The bill maintains the provision restricting the use 
of the Promote and Develop Fisheries Products and Research 
funds transferred from the Department of Agriculture to NOAA in 
a way that better meets the intended purpose of the transfer 
mandated by the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act (15 U.S.C. 713c-3). 
None of the funds may be used for internal NOAA or DOC 
management but may only be used for activities that directly 
benefit U.S. fisheries and fishery communities.
    As part of the fiscal year 2024 spending plan, NOAA shall 
include a detailed accounting, by object class, of how the 
Promote and Develop transfer funds will be allocated based on 
the funding criteria described in this bill.
    Saltonstall-Kennedy [S-K] Grant Program.--Prior to 
obligating any funds for the S-K Grant Program, NOAA shall 
provide the Committee with a detailed spending plan describing 
which fisheries activities will be funded in each region and 
how the plan incorporates regional priorities. In doing so, 
NOAA shall consult with the regional committees authorized 
under the American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 
117-121) to identify funding priorities. The spending plan 
should also include an accounting of the administration of the 
regional committees. Within the funds provided, the Committee 
encourages NOAA to prioritize support for applications that 
improve marketing and development of the seafood industry, as 
was the original intent of the S-K Grant Program.
    National Seafood Council.--The Committee eagerly awaits the 
receipt of NOAA's report detailing how the agency would 
facilitate a National Seafood Council through the Fisheries 
Promotion Fund (16 U.S.C. 4008) to support a comprehensive, 
nationwide seafood marketing and public education campaign. The 
Committee encourages NOAA to bolster consumer confidence by 
aggressively conveying the availability, sustainability, and 
nutritional value of U.S. seafood, as appropriate.
    The Committee continues to be concerned with the lack of a 
level playing field for U.S. seafood industry. The Committee is 
concerned that recent surges in shrimp imports have flooded the 
U.S. market and overwhelmed domestic inventories to the point 
that U.S. shrimp processors no longer purchase domestic 
products. The Committee is further concerned that shrimp 
imports continue to be associated with illegal, unreported, and 
unregulated [IUU] fisheries; the use of forced labor; the 
illegal use of antibiotics; and other alarming fraudulent and 
illegal activities. The Committee directs NOAA to ensure its 
National Seafood Strategy or any other policies or programs 
will not be used to promote the U.S. consumption of imported 
seafood.
    Offshore Wind.--The Committee supports the responsible 
development of renewable energy projects and provides not less 
than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level across NMFS to address 
consultation and permitting, stock assessment, management, and 
protected resources needs related to the expansion of offshore 
wind energy projects.
    The Committee directs NOAA to collaborate with the Bureau 
of Ocean Energy Management, the Atlantic Coast States, and the 
offshore wind industry, to facilitate an entity tasked with 
assessing mitigation and compensation claims from the fishing 
industry related to offshore wind projects. NOAA shall report 
to the Committee on plans not later than 90 days of enactment 
of this act.
    Rigs-to-Reefs.--The Committee supports NOAA's participation 
in the Rigs-to-Reefs program in cooperation with the Bureau of 
Safety and Environmental Enforcement [BSEE] and the Gulf 
States, as appropriate, to conserve habitat for fish, corals, 
and other marine animals. The Committee encourages NOAA to 
provide technical or other support to BSEE to utilize the 
program to the maximum extent possible.
    NMFS Project Consultations.--Within Protected Resources 
Science and Management, the Committee provides not less than 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for NMFS to address the 
backlog of consultation requests under the Endangered Species 
Act [ESA] (Public Law 93-205) and authorization requests under 
the Marine Mammal Protection Act [MMPA] (Public Law 92-522).
    The Committee encourages NMFS to continue collaborating 
with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other Federal 
agencies to improve coordination and efficiency of 
consultations within the permitting process to work through the 
significant backlog in the permitting of in-water construction, 
particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
    North Atlantic Right Whales [NARW].--The Committee provides 
$4,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level within 
Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Other Species for NARW-related 
research, monitoring, and conservation efforts. The Committee 
supports the use of supplementary funds previously provided to 
the agency for these purposes, including innovative gear 
research, acoustic monitoring, and satellite tracking. NOAA 
shall continue to support disentanglement, stranding response, 
and necropsy activities, and is encouraged to develop 
alternative NARW models, such as occupancy or threat-based 
models, that can be used to validate or test the sensitivity of 
the Decision Support Tool. Within funding provided, NOAA is 
encouraged to develop and deploy innovative tags, which may 
include the use of foam metals, that are biologically 
compatible with animal tissues and that can attach to the 
animals long enough to provide crucial information on migration 
and habitat use patterns.
    Within funding provided, $30,000,000 shall be provided to 
States through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission 
to cover costs associated with testing or voluntary 
implementation of innovative gear to inform future Atlantic 
Large Whale Take Reduction Plan rule development and electronic 
tracking requirements within the Northeast lobster and Jonah 
crab fisheries. Funding may also support broad-scale monitoring 
efforts to inform understanding of NARW habitat use, dynamic 
management, and the development of alternative distribution and 
risk models. Funding to the States shall be proportional to the 
number of active federally permitted lobster trap harvesters in 
each State, and the allocation details shall be developed by 
the States through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 
Commission. Not more than 5 percent shall be used for 
administrative costs.
    Further, NOAA is encouraged to consider revising the Linden 
and Pace models and Decision Support Tool using ``most 
reasonably certain to occur'' rather than ``worst case'' 
scenarios and assumptions to more accurately predict future 
NARW populations before issuing any new proposed or final 
regulations.
    NOAA shall continue to work with Canadian officials to 
develop risk reduction measures that are comparable in 
effectiveness for both vessels and fisheries, and to 
incorporate Canadian fishery measures, Canadian vessel 
restrictions, and U.S. vessel restrictions into future 
assessment of overall risk reduction. To improve regional 
engagement, NOAA is encouraged to include regional management 
bodies and pertinent States in bilateral engagements with 
Canadian officials regarding coordinated efforts to enhance 
NARW recovery.
    Vessel Strike Reduction Actions.--The Committee notes that 
NMFS issued a proposed rule to amend the NARW vessel strike 
reduction rule in August 2022 (87 FR 46921) and is seeking to 
establish vessel speed measures to protect the Rice's whale in 
the Gulf of Mexico. The Committee supports the goal of reducing 
vessel strikes of endangered whales but is concerned that as 
part of the development of the proposed rule, NMFS did not 
engage with the recreational boating and fishing community, 
ports, nor other stakeholders that would likely be affected by 
the rule. Before NOAA issues interim or final rules to protect 
endangered whales, the agency shall engage with affected 
stakeholders and incorporate relevant comments. Further, the 
Committee has heard from other Member offices regarding 
difficulties receiving fulsome and timely responses to 
congressional inquiries regarding the proposed rule. As a 
result, NOAA is directed to provide timely, substantive 
responses to congressional requests for information.
    In addition, the Committee believes that the recovery of 
endangered large whales, including the NARW, will require the 
ability to deliver real-time monitoring of individual whales to 
mariners and other vessel operators to avoid ship strikes. NOAA 
is encouraged to use previously appropriated funds to support a 
near real-time monitoring and mitigation pilot program for 
NARWs as authorized under section 11303 of the James M. Inhofe 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public 
Law 117-263). NOAA is further encouraged to work with other 
Federal agencies, including the Office of Naval Research, the 
United States Coast Guard, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management, as well as industry and academia, to support 
technology development, test and evaluation of whale monitoring 
technologies through the National Oceanographic Partnership 
Program. The Committee expects NOAA to include funding for a 
pilot program and a research and development initiative as part 
of the fiscal year 2025 budget request.
    West Coast Whale Strikes.--The Committee is concerned by 
recent whale strikes off the West Coast and encourages NOAA and 
the U.S. Coast Guard to consider changes to reduce preventable 
whale strikes, especially by cargo vessels.
    Further, the Committee provides $200,000 for a pilot 
program to establish a cetacean desk within the Puget Sound 
Vessel Traffic Service as authorized under section 11304 of the 
James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263).
    Co-management of Marine Mammals.--The Committee notes the 
importance of marine mammal co-management under section 119 of 
MMPA. Co-management promotes full and equal participation in 
decisions affecting the conservation and management of marine 
mammals used for subsistence, to the maximum extent allowed by 
law. NMFS has entered into co-management agreements to monitor, 
study, and manage harvested marine mammal stocks. The Committee 
encourages NMFS to work with co-management entities, including 
the Indigenous Peoples Council for Marine Mammals, to develop a 
cooperative framework to promote co-management-related 
research, outreach, and youth engagement, while addressing 
basic capacity needs to meet those objectives. This cooperative 
framework should also include the consideration of new co-
management agreements for regions and/or species for which no 
agreements currently are in place.
    Protected Species in the Western Pacific.--Within Marine 
Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Other Species, the Committee provides 
not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for Hawaiian 
monk seals, Hawaiian sea turtles, and false killer whales. This 
includes the amounts made available to support State activities 
related to these protected species and for research to mitigate 
interactions between fisheries and false killer whales.
    Prescott Grants.--Within Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and 
Other Species, the Committee provides $4,500,000 for the John 
H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance grant program.
    Sea Turtle Stranding Response and Rehabilitation.--Within 
Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, and Other Species, the Committee 
provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
NOAA to provide direct support to institutions and 
organizations permitted to provide sea turtle stranding 
response and/or rehabilitation. In doing so, NOAA shall also 
seek to leverage and strengthen partnerships with capable 
university veterinary schools.
    Species Recovery Grants.--The Committee directs NMFS to 
utilize both the ESA Recovery Plan and the MMPA Take Reduction 
Plan priorities when evaluating marine mammal projects.
    Atlantic Salmon.--The Committee recognizes the benefits of 
restoring coevolved sea-run fish species in support of recovery 
of Atlantic salmon and provides $8,000,000 for Atlantic Salmon, 
which is $1,250,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. 
The Committee encourages NOAA to partner with States and the 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop fish passage 
performance standards for sea-run species and prioritize 
project selection, funding, and staff resources considering 
those benefits. The Committee further directs NOAA to ensure 
that adequate resources continue to be provided for State 
agencies to implement the recovery strategy effectively, 
including stable staffing levels.
    The Committee notes that the IIJA provides a minimum of 
$400,000,000 over 5 years for restoring fish passage, including 
$80,000,000 in fiscal year 2024.
    Pacific Salmon.--The Committee provides $76,000,000 for 
Pacific Salmon, which is $4,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level. Within the funding provided for Pacific Salmon, 
the Committee encourages NOAA to work with partners to address 
the backlog and expedite approval of Hatchery and Genetic 
Management Plans and to support the implementation of new 
Habitat Conservation Plans. In addition, no less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level is provided for pinniped 
removals.
    Climate-Ready Fishery Management.--The Committee recognizes 
that sustainable fishery management is made more challenging by 
climate change driven impacts, including changes in the 
distribution, productivity, and abundance of fish stocks. NMFS 
is encouraged to pilot an operational system that provides 
climate-informed advice on changing ocean conditions, impacts 
on marine resources, and best management strategies to reduce 
impacts and increase economic resilience. In addition, NMFS is 
encouraged to establish Fisheries and Climate Decision Support 
Systems to deliver the climate-informed advice needed for 
effective marine resource management in rapidly changing 
oceans. NMFS is also encouraged to develop guidance for how the 
regional fishery management councils should incorporate climate 
information into fishery management processes and create 
opportunities for cross-region collaboration on fishery climate 
resilience.
    Northeast Groundfish Research.--The Committee remains 
concerned about the decline of the Northeast multispecies 
fishery and the health of fishing stocks in the Gulf of Maine. 
Within funding provided for Fisheries and Ecosystem Science 
Programs and Services, the Committee provides $2,500,000 for 
groundfish research, with a focus on the effects of changing 
climatic conditions and warming waters on the fishery, 
including stock health and natural mortality. NOAA is further 
encouraged to prioritize research regarding relative gear 
efficiency, stock boundaries, and other topics that can improve 
groundfish stock assessments in the next 5 years. Within the 
funding provided, $500,000 shall be obligated to continue 
ongoing work on implementing the recommendations set forth in 
the New England Fishery Management Council's Fishery Data for 
Stock Assessment Working Group Report, and to continue ongoing 
work on implementing the recommendations set forth in the 2020 
report of the Groundfish Trawl Task Force, consistent with 
prior year direction. This funding is intended to support new 
and innovative research, including by the Northeast Fisheries 
Science Center, separately by, or in collaboration with, 
outside partners such as higher education institutions or State 
agencies, and in cooperation with the fishing industry.
    Electronic Monitoring and Reporting [EM/ER].--Within 
funding for Fisheries and Ecosystem Science Programs and 
Services, NOAA shall continue to support the development, 
testing, and installation of EM/ER technologies, including 
development of electronic reporting systems for commercial 
fishermen, image classification efforts in New England, and 
improving the National EM image library. Not less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level shall be available, in 
accordance with 16 U.S.C. 3701, for collaborative partnerships 
that include non-Federal matching funds to implement cost-
shared EM/ER programs that support fisheries conservation and 
management. During the development and implementation of EM/ER 
programs, NOAA shall consult directly with industry and work 
through the Fishery Management Councils to develop appropriate 
cost-sharing arrangements that are commensurate with the ex-
vessel value of the fishery.
    Furthermore, NMFS shall continue to work in fiscal year 
2024 with the charter for-hire recreational fishery fleet in 
the Gulf of Mexico; the Northeast multispecies groundfish 
fishery fleet, including small vessels within that fleet; the 
Maine lobster fleet; and any regional fishery fleet interested 
in implementing EM/ER technologies to better track information 
that is currently collected through the use of human observers.
    Gulf Reef Fish.--Within funding for Fisheries and Ecosystem 
Science Programs and Services, the Committee provides no less 
than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for NMFS to support 
Gulf reef fish surveys, research, and sampling.
    Fisheries Surveys.--The Committee is concerned that NMFS is 
not prioritizing and maintaining the needed level of fisheries 
survey coverage, despite having received more than the 
requested funding in previous fiscal years to do so. If 
additional funding is needed to maintain historic survey 
levels, the Committee expects NOAA to include this amount in 
the annual budget request. The Committee notes that any 
reduction in fisheries survey coverage is fundamentally 
unacceptable, especially in areas where the distribution of 
fish stocks are changing due to climate change. NMFS is 
directed to maintain historical levels of fisheries survey 
coverage in fiscal year 2024. The Committee expects NMFS to 
contract no fewer than six surveys for Alaskan bottom trawl 
surveys and cooperative research, including a survey to capture 
movement of fish populations out of historic survey areas, and 
no fewer than four vessels for West Coast groundfish surveys. 
This amount also fully funds both Northeast Area Monitoring and 
Assessment Program [NEAMAP] trawl surveys, including the Maine-
New Hampshire Inshore Trawl Survey, as well as the Southeast 
Area Monitoring and Assessment Program's [SEAMAP] existing 
surveys and addresses critical data gaps in the bottom longline 
and fall trawl surveys in the Gulf Coast States.
    The Committee is increasingly concerned that Federal 
vessel-based fisheries surveys necessary for determining 
sustainable and optimal harvest rates for commercial fisheries 
have been cancelled with increasing frequency in recent years, 
without effective contingency plans for covering the resulting 
data gaps. Cancelled Federal vessel-based surveys result in 
lost commercial fishing opportunity, as greater uncertainty 
around stock size and movement necessitates more conservative 
harvest strategies. Vessel-based surveys are necessary to 
ensure long-term continuity of critical fisheries information 
as commercial fish stock productivity, habitat, and 
distribution respond to changing ocean conditions. Such needs 
are highly evident in Federal waters off Alaska. Not later than 
90 days after enactment of this act, NOAA shall provide the 
Committee with a plan to ensure redundancy for survey vessels 
through contracted vessels or data from autonomous assets 
through the Autonomous Uncrewed Technology Operations [AUTO] 
program. NOAA is encouraged to prioritize fishery surveys and 
fulfill vessel-based science work for other programs, through 
private vessel contracts, public-private partnerships, and 
platforms other than NOAA research vessels to allow ample time 
for fishery surveys and assessments performed by the NOAA 
Fleet.
    Fishery Survey Contingency Fund.--The Committee supports 
NOAA's efforts to maximize the service life of its vessels, 
including planned service life extensions for each of its 
fishery survey vessels. The Committee is concerned that these 
efforts will impact NOAA's ability to conduct fishery surveys. 
Therefore, within Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and 
Assessment the Committee provides $1,500,000 for a fishery 
survey contingency fund. Funding shall be used for fishery data 
acquisition from commercially available sources including 
chartering commercial fishing vessels or other private sector 
vessels and for data purchases from autonomous systems to 
inform stock assessments. NOAA shall identify flexible charter 
and data purchase agreements in order to provide contingency 
and augmentation capacity for NOAA Fleet fishery surveys. NMFS 
is directed to provide the Committee, not later than 90 days 
after enactment of this act, with a plan for obtaining and 
incorporating data from this fund into the stock assessment 
process.
    State Management for Recreational Red Snapper.--The 
Committee remains invested in ensuring the sustainable 
management of Gulf of Mexico red snapper and supports full 
integration of the Great Red Snapper Count data and Gulf States 
catch data into stock assessments. Within the amount provided 
for Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and Assessments, the 
Committee provides not less than $5,000,000 for NMFS to 
continue to work with the Gulf States to ensure successful 
implementation of State management for red snapper.
    South Atlantic Reef Fish.--NMFS shall employ the 
independent and alternative stock assessment strategies 
directed by the Committee for the Gulf of Mexico to NMFS 
assessments of reef fish in the South Atlantic. The Committee 
provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
these activities and notes that the deficiencies that have 
plagued reef fish management in the Gulf of Mexico also affect 
NMFS management of reef fish in the South Atlantic.
    Fishing Gear Selectivity Study.--Within funding provided 
for Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and Assessments, NOAA 
shall consider conducting a multiyear, agency-independent study 
to evaluate if certain gear, such as Chevron traps, fail to 
adequately sample across age classes of reef fish, including 
red snapper, due to the different behaviors and habits 
exhibited by larger and smaller fish within the same or similar 
species. NOAA is further encouraged to initiate a multiyear, 
agency-independent study using multiple hooked-gears to sample 
South Atlantic red snapper for age composition, sexual 
maturity, and egg production.
    Fisheries Effort Survey [FES].--The Committee is concerned 
by reports that the Marine Recreational Information Program FES 
may be vastly overstating fishing effort. While the FES 
methodology represents a clear improvement from previous 
methodologies, the Committee supports the cautious approach to 
utilizing these estimates advocated by the Gulf of Mexico 
Fishery Management Council and South Atlantic Fishery 
Management Council Scientific and Statistical Committees. The 
Committee encourages NMFS to conduct a thorough analysis of the 
effect of such estimates on stock status and allocation before 
they are used for stock management.
    Data Collection for Recreational Fisheries.--The Committee 
provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
collaborative programs focused on improving recreational 
fishery data collection, as articulated in sections 102, 201, 
and 202 of the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management 
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-405). This funding should focus on 
assisting States to establish, test, and implement more 
reliable recreational fishery data collection tools, such as 
smartphone applications or text messaging supplements. The 
Committee directs NMFS to work with the Gulf States to develop 
a pilot study on a Gulf-wide recreational fishing effort to 
determine the best mechanism to collect data of the quality 
sufficient for management decisions through existing 
technologies. The Committee supports the use of supplementary 
funds previously provided to the agency for these purposes.
    Fisheries Information Networks.--The Committee provides not 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for Fisheries 
Information Networks. NMFS is encouraged to support the Gulf 
States Marine Fisheries Commission to collect samples for 
additional species that may be the target of future stock 
assessments.
    Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Research.--The Committee is 
concerned about the stock condition and lack of basic fishery-
independent data for many important fish species in the Gulf of 
Mexico. NMFS is encouraged, via a partnership with the Gulf 
States Marine Fisheries Commission, to provide grants to 
academic partners, including consortiums of universities, and 
other partners to conduct fishery-independent research on 
transboundary, multi-jurisdictional fish species in the Gulf of 
Mexico for which current data is deficient (e.g. cobia, 
tripletail, tarpon, and gray triggerfish), including species 
that are solely managed by the Gulf States.
    Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishing Effort.--The Committee 
remains concerned that shrimp fishing effort data collection 
and analysis in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery will be 
interrupted by the termination of 3G cellular transmission 
service used by NMFS in its Electronic Logbook [ELB] program. 
The Committee recognizes that this scientific data is essential 
to the annual evaluation of the fishery's effects on sea turtle 
and red snapper conservation mandates. Within the funding 
provided in Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and 
Assessments, the Committee provides $850,000 for NMFS, in 
consultation with the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council 
and shrimp industry stakeholders, to continue the development 
and implementation of a newly approved ELB that archives vessel 
position and automatically transmits scientific shrimp fishing 
effort data via cellular service to NMFS. The Committee awaits 
receipt of the report outlining progress made to develop and 
implement the new ELB program requested in the joint 
explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-103.
    Northwest Fisheries Ecosystem Monitoring System.--The 
Committee recognizes the importance of long-term monitoring 
data on ocean conditions and ecological indicators to inform 
fisheries management decisions, and to enable advance 
forecasting for early detection of ocean conditions known to 
produce harmful toxins that affect regional fisheries closures. 
Within funds for Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and 
Assessments, the Committee provides $850,000 to maintain a 
time-series monitoring system of hydrographic and ecological 
data to inform fishery management on the Northern California 
Current.
    Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Menhaden Abundance.--The Chesapeake 
Bay is a critical nursery area for Atlantic menhaden and other 
commercially and recreationally important species like blue 
crab and striped bass. Menhaden comprise a majority of the 
forage base in the Chesapeake Bay and are the primary food 
source for other fish, birds, and whales in the region. NMFS is 
encouraged to collect Atlantic menhaden abundance data in the 
Chesapeake Bay in partnership with the Atlantic States Marine 
Fisheries Commission and relevant States.
    Cooperative Research.--Depleted fish stocks result in 
significant economic losses to our Nation. At a time when 
fishing opportunities are constrained by uncertainty in stock 
assessments and increased access to healthy stocks depends on 
better data, the Committee believes that maintenance of ongoing 
monitoring programs and surveys is critical. The Committee 
encourages NMFS to continue to prioritize long-time series 
surveys that are conducted cooperatively with industry and 
States.
    American Lobster and Jonah Crab Research.--The Committee 
provides up to $300,000 within Fisheries Data Collections, 
Surveys, and Assessments to support a cooperative research 
program to collect biological, fishery, and environmental data 
for American lobster and Jonah crab using modern technology on 
commercial fishing vessels.
    Horseshoe Crab Survey.--The Committee remains concerned 
about the ability to estimate the abundance of the mid-Atlantic 
horseshoe crab population. Adequate data are required to ensure 
State and interstate managers can effectively manage the stock, 
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 this important 
survey to generate the data necessary to ensure the mid-
Atlantic horseshoe crab stock remains on a sustainable path.
    Plankton Recorder Survey.--The Committee notes the 
continued importance of understanding the distribution of 
Calanus finmarchicus plankton to inform the conservation of the 
NARW. Within the amount provided for Fisheries Data 
Collections, Surveys, and Assessments, the Committee provides 
not less than $300,000 to continue the continuous plankton 
recorder survey.
    Sharks and Rays.--To better protect and rebuild vulnerable 
and endangered shark and ray species, the Committee encourages 
NMFS to conduct regular assessments of population status and 
rebuilding needs, improve the documentation of relevant species 
as bycatch, and ensure transparency and public access for all 
fisheries catch information collected.
    The Committee directs NOAA to expeditiously implement the 
Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act, which was enacted as section 
5946 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263). NOAA is further 
directed to provide a report to the Committee not later than 90 
days after enactment of this act describing any resource needs 
required to fully implement; how the agency will coordinate 
with other Federal agencies, State and local law enforcement, 
and key stakeholders; and plans to raise public awareness on 
how to report violations.
    Northeast Multispecies Fishery.--The Committee recognizes 
that the New England groundfish fisheries management programs 
continue to present substantial financial challenges to the 
participants as well as to the economic sustainability of those 
fisheries and fishing communities. Therefore, the Committee 
provides not less than $5,500,000 within Observers and Training 
for grants to the fishing industry to fully cover At-Sea 
Monitoring industry costs, including all associated sector 
costs, in the New England groundfish fishery. Any additional 
At-Sea Monitoring costs, including shore side infrastructure, 
observer training, observer equipment and gear, electronic 
monitoring, and NOAA support costs shall be included in the 
fiscal year 2025 budget request. NOAA shall ensure the costs 
and benefits of At-Sea Monitoring are commensurate with the 
gross revenues of vessels in the fishery and is directed to 
submit a report to the Committee not later than 180 days after 
the enactment of this act outlining the progress made to 
achieve this requirement. Before obligating any of these funds, 
NOAA shall provide the Committee with a detailed spending plan.
    North Pacific Observer Coverage.--Within Observers and 
Training, the Committee provides no less than the fiscal year 
2023 enacted level for the North Pacific Observers Program. 
Funding shall offset observer costs normally paid for by 
harvesters in fisheries that are undertaking a transition to 
EM/ER. Additionally, NOAA is encouraged to identify and 
implement any efficiencies that would mitigate the cost burden 
shouldered by small vessel operators in the fixed-gear fleet.
    For-Hire Electronic Monitoring and Reporting 
Implementation.--The Committee provides no less than $1,500,000 
within Fisheries Management Programs and Services and 
$1,500,000 within Enforcement to support the continued, timely 
implementation of ELBs for the federally-permitted charter-for-
hire sector in the Gulf of Mexico.
    Video Review of Electronic Monitoring Data.--Within funding 
provided for Fisheries Management Programs and Services, the 
Committee provides no less than $600,000 for the existing video 
review of the West Coast groundfish EM data.
    Electronic Technologies Strategic Plan.--The Committee 
believes that there are substantial benefits to the 
implementation of EM/ER in U.S. fisheries and supports NOAA 
efforts to increase access to EM/ER technologies. The Committee 
directs NMFS to develop a strategic plan detailing actions the 
agency will take to expand the adoption of electronic 
technologies in U.S. fisheries and improve data governance, 
storage, and management systems and policies. NMFS is directed 
to solicit stakeholder input during strategy development and 
shall provide the Committee with the final plan and estimated 
costs for full plan implementation not later than 270 days 
after the enactment of this act.
    Further, the Committee encourages NMFS to clarify that 
fishery observer and At-Sea Monitoring programs may utilize 
their discretionary funding to augment human observers with 
cost-effective observation tools, including EM/ER technologies, 
that are vetted by the agency and appropriate for the 
regulatory needs of the region.
    International Fisheries Management Coordination.--The 
Committee is aware that conflicting American and Canadian 
fisheries management measures in the Gulf of Maine have 
generated concerns from the domestic fishing and lobster 
industries, due to differing conservation regulations. The 
Committee encourages NOAA to work with Canadian and State 
fisheries officials to explore the possibility of developing an 
agreement that provides for cooperative fisheries management of 
this unique area.
    Atlantic Bluefin Tuna.--The Committee recognizes that the 
success of the newly adopted assessment and management 
frameworks for Atlantic bluefin tuna is predicated on a greater 
scientific understanding for this species. Therefore, the 
Committee provides $1,000,000 to support research and data 
collection for the validation of proposed new spawning grounds, 
the application of a groundbreaking genetic population 
assessment, and the collection of necessary biological 
information from commercial and recreational fishery landings.
    Deep Set Buoy Gear.--The Committee is concerned by NMFS's 
efforts regarding exempted fishing permits for pelagic 
longlines, including 60-mile longlines, in the West Coast 
Exclusive Economic Zone [EEZ], which are prohibited under the 
Pacific Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan and 
California State law. Noting that Pacific Fishery Management 
Council analyses indicate a deep set buoy gear fishery could 
ultimately support a 500 vessel fleet, a level of participation 
in the fishery not seen in decades, within 60 days of 
enactment, NMFS shall report to the Committee on a plan for how 
deep set buoy gear can be expanded and scaled to increase 
domestic swordfish landings and achieve optimum yield in the 
fishery and justification for pelagic longlining targeting 
swordfish under the Pacific Highly Migratory Species Fishery 
Management Plan in light of requirements under 16 U.S.C. 
1826(c) to promote fishing methods that minimize bycatch in 
former large-scale driftnet fisheries, including any scientific 
data underpinning this policy approach.
    Advancing Equity within Fisheries Management.--The 
Committee encourages NMFS to implement projects and initiatives 
that advance equity and environmental justice within fisheries 
management. This could include improving Territorial fisheries 
science and management, building indicators of community social 
vulnerability, providing education and outreach for diverse 
participation in the regulatory and science process, and 
supporting workforce training within the seafood industry.
    Observer Data Integration.--The Committee provides $500,000 
within Fisheries Management Programs and Services to expedite 
efforts to integrate At-Sea Monitoring data into stock 
assessment models.
    Electronic Vessel Trip Reporting [eVTR].--In 2021, all 
federally-permitted vessels on the East Coast were required to 
submit trip reports electronically through a new eVTR system. 
The Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office's trip reporting 
program shows promise, but requires additional data 
architecture and application improvements to expand its utility 
in the Mid-Atlantic and to all East Coast commercial fishermen. 
Within Fisheries Management Programs and Services, the 
Committee provides $250,000 to support improvement and 
expansion of the eVTR program.
    Marine Aquaculture.--The Committee recognizes the 
significant potential for development of American offshore 
aquaculture to increase U.S. production of healthful, 
sustainable, and affordable seafood, while expanding the 
seafood value chain to include traditional agricultural 
producers as well. The Office of Aquaculture has performed 
commendable work to coordinate efforts within NOAA and across 
Federal agencies toward a comprehensive approach to aquaculture 
policy and regulation. The Committee provides $5,000,000 to 
establish a new cooperative institute [CI] to support the 
sustainable development of aquaculture in the United States to 
address the seafood import deficit and benefit the economy. The 
CI will help the agency fulfill the tenets of the NOAA 
Aquaculture Strategic Plan.
    NOAA is also encouraged to upgrade equipment and to 
increase the amount of staff focused on aquaculture at all NMFS 
fisheries science centers, including to return staffing levels 
to those in fiscal year 2010 at the Northeast and Northwest 
Fisheries Science Centers. Further, the Committee provides no 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level to continue the 
multi-year Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture demonstration 
pilot system.
    Oyster Aquaculture, Research, and Restoration.--Within NMFS 
Aquaculture, the Committee provides no less than the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level to support ongoing research in off-
bottom Eastern oyster production in coastal areas, particularly 
in areas where this method is being exploited for commercial 
production, including the Gulf of Mexico, and encourages NMFS 
to dedicate resources to support regional partnerships for 
genetics, disease, and economic modeling.
    Salmon Management Activities.--Within the amount provided 
for Salmon Management Activities, the Committee provides 
$41,000,000 to enable NOAA, the Pacific States, and Tribal 
communities to continue activities in support of the 
obligations set forth in the renegotiated annex of the Pacific 
Salmon Treaty. Before any of these funds may be obligated, NOAA 
is directed to provide the Committee with a detailed spending 
plan that is reflective of the funding recommendations produced 
by the U.S. section of the Pacific Salmon Commission. In doing 
so, NOAA is directed to consult with the Pacific States, Tribal 
communities, and other stakeholders. Further, NOAA is 
encouraged to minimize, to the extent practicable, the amount 
of funds withheld for administrative expenses.
    The Committee also provides not less than $23,500,000 for 
the operation and maintenance of Mitchell Act hatcheries and 
directs NOAA to continue genetic stock identification for 
salmon recovery and management.
    Automatic Identification System [AIS] Transponders.--The 
Committee recognizes that increased use of AIS transponders by 
fishing vessels could improve safety at sea, enhance domain 
awareness, and reduce illegal fishing. Not later than 270 days 
after the enactment of this act, NMFS shall provide the 
Committee with an assessment of the potential benefits of 
widespread deployment of Class A AIS transponders on fishing 
vessels less than 65 feet in length.
    Fishery Councils and Commissions.--The Committee provides a 
total of $44,297,000 to support the Regional Fishery Management 
Councils, Interstate Marine Fisheries Commissions, and 
International Fisheries Commissions. The Committee recognizes 
the important role that regional management plays in sustaining 
a balanced ecosystem and healthy fish populations and the 
advantage that aggregate data can provide in understanding 
emerging trends across our Nation's fisheries. The Committee 
directs the Regional Councils and Fisheries Commissions to 
prioritize research and monitoring of high priority species in 
the face of changing environmental conditions.
    Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated [IUU] Fishing.--The 
Committee notes NOAA's important role outlined in the National 
Security Memorandum on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and 
Unregulated Fishing and Associated Labor Abuses and directs the 
agency to continue to dedicate the necessary resources to 
combat IUU fishing.
    The Committee is aware that commercial space-based radio 
frequency [RF] detection technologies have been successful in 
tracking maritime vessels even when vessels turn off their AIS, 
which is a common practice among foreign fleets engaged in IUU 
fishing. Identifying when and where IUU fishing may be 
occurring is critical to NMFS Enforcement's mission and can 
help better allocate limited resources to areas of interest 
where illegal fishing is taking place. Therefore, the Committee 
provides not less than $750,000 for NMFS to further test and 
operationalize U.S. commercial space-based RF data collection 
capabilities to track foreign vessels engaged in IUU fishing 
activities in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and other remote 
maritime regions of economic, environmental, and national 
security significance. Further, the Committee encourages NOAA 
to improve existing enterprise systems to better integrate and 
operationalize commercial maritime domain awareness products 
and data, including commercial satellite RF, into agency 
workflows to create actionable insights that allow the Office 
of Law Enforcement to respond to illicit behavior at the speed 
of relevance.
    Cooperative Agreements with States.--The Committee is 
concerned by the critical staffing shortages among some partner 
State and territorial law enforcement agencies and provides no 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for Joint 
Enforcement Agreements [JEAs], which are critical for proper 
surveillance and enforcement of our Nation's fisheries laws. 
Additionally, the Committee directs NMFS Office of Law 
Enforcement to use a stable funding model and ensure that 
Federal enforcement requirements are better aligned with the 
priorities of State and territorial enforcement partners.
    Northeast Lobster Enforcement.--Within Enforcement, the 
Committee provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level for NMFS, in partnership with the relevant States, JEA 
partner agencies, and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 
Commission, to continue the pilot cooperative offshore lobster 
enforcement program.
    European Green Crab.--The Committee is concerned by the 
rapid and growing invasion of European green crab around the 
country, including in the Pacific Northwest. The Committee 
provides $2,000,000 within Habitat Conservation and Restoration 
for management, intervention, and mitigation of invasive 
European green crab.
    Northwest Straits Initiative.--The Committee provides 
$1,000,000 to protect and restore the marine waters, habitats, 
and species of the Northwest Straits region to achieve 
ecosystem health and sustainable resource use.
    Restoring Fish Passage.--The Committee directs NOAA to 
provide, not later than 120 days after enactment of this act, a 
report providing an update on recovery and restoration efforts 
for coho salmon and related salmonids in the Klamath River 
Basin. The report should include an investment strategy for the 
entire Basin in anticipation of the completion of historic dam 
removal efforts.
    Oyster Restoration.--The Committee provides not less than 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level within Habitat Conservation 
and Restoration to support oyster restoration in the Chesapeake 
Bay.

                 NOAA OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

    The Committee's recommendation provides $661,297,000 for 
OAR. OAR programs provide environmental research and technology 
needed to improve NOAA weather forecasts, climate predictions, 
and marine services. To accomplish these goals, OAR supports a 
network of scientists in its Federal research laboratories, 
universities, and joint institutes and partnership programs.
    Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 
table:

  OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Climate Research:
    Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes..           104,102
    Regional Climate Data and Information............            47,932
    Climate Competitive Research.....................            72,116
                                                      ------------------
        Total, Climate Research......................           224,150
                                                      ==================
Weather and Air Chemistry Research:
    Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes..            93,156
    U.S. Weather Research Program....................            39,100
    Tornado Severe Storm Research/Phased Array Radar.            20,916
    Joint Technology Transfer Initiative.............            13,244
                                                      ------------------
        Total, Weather and Air Chemistry Research....           166,416
                                                      ==================
Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Research:
    Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes....            39,500
    Ocean Exploration and Research...................            46,000
    National Sea Grant College Program...............            80,000
    Sea Grant Aquaculture Research...................            14,000
    Integrated Ocean Acidification...................            17,000
    Sustained Ocean Observations and Monitoring......            52,500
    National Oceanographic Partnership Program.......             2,500
                                                      ------------------
        Total, Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes                  251,500
         Research....................................
                                                      ==================
High Performance Computing Initiatives...............            19,231
                                                      ==================
        GRAND TOTAL, OAR.............................           661,279
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    Staffing Levels.--The Committee is concerned that as of the 
second quarter of fiscal year 2023, OAR has a vacancy rate of 
nearly 18 percent, which is inhibiting the critical scientific 
endeavors of the agency. OAR is directed to continue its focus 
on improving workforce management, particularly filling 
extended vacancies with highly-qualified candidates.
    Earth's Radiation Budget.--The Committee provides no less 
than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for continued modeling, 
assessments, and, as possible, initial observations and 
monitoring of stratospheric conditions and the Earth's 
radiation budget, including the impact of the introduction of 
material into the stratosphere from changes in natural systems, 
increased air and space traffic, and the assessment of solar 
radiation modification. The Committee also directs OAR, in 
coordination with NASA and the Department of Energy, 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 and to 
develop plans for sustained observations of the stratosphere. 
Further, NOAA is encouraged to coordinate with NASA for long-
range crewed and autonomous in situ atmospheric observational 
capabilities.
    NOAA, in coordination with NASA, NSF, and other relevant 
Federal agencies, shall provide the Committee, not later than 
180 days after enactment of this act, with a physical sciences 
research plan to support scientific assessment of near-term 
climate hazard risk and atmospheric solar geoengineering within 
5 years. The plan shall provide guidance on transparency, 
scientific integrity, scientific independence, risk management, 
and international research collaboration for publicly funded 
solar geoengineering research. Additionally, the research plan 
shall identify the capabilities needed to detect and identify 
attempts at solar geoengineering by other State and non-State 
actors and to forecast their effects. As part of this process, 
NOAA is encouraged to engage with nongovernmental stakeholders.
    Climate Adaptation Partnerships [CAP].--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 our society. Therefore, the Committee provides 
not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for the CAP 
program, formerly known as the Regional Integrated Sciences and 
Assessments program, to help communities plan for and build 
lasting and equitable climate resilience, especially in rural, 
Indigenous, and underserved urban communities. The Committee 
notes that it is important for the CAP teams to have a 
connection to the region they serve and, to the extent 
practicable, encourages NOAA to ensure that CAP teams are 
managed, staffed, and based at an institution located in the 
region served.
    Tribal Drought Resilience Initiative.--The recommendation 
includes not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
drought prediction outreach to Tribal communities through the 
National Integrated Drought Information System [NIDIS] as 
authorized in the NIDIS Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-430).
    National Integrated Heat Health Information System 
[NIHHIS].--The Committee encourages OAR, through NIHHIS, to 
support focused heat research to translate existing climate 
services and NOAA products necessary to build capacity to 
mitigate heat-related hazards, manage risks, advance heat 
equity, develop metrics, and promote governance structures, 
processes, and strategies to advance heat resilience across all 
U.S. geographies. This may include scaling-up the heat research 
capacity of academic institutions with established leadership 
in heat research, particularly those with the demonstrated 
ability to translate research to decision-making to advance 
heat resilience quickly.
    Forward-Looking Building Standards.--The Committee 
appreciates NOAA's efforts to assess needs for an authoritative 
set of climate information, including infrastructure planning 
decision support tools, but remains 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 
directs NOAA, in collaboration with NIST, to continue to 
support research that enables consistent, authoritative set of 
forward-looking long-term meteorological information that 
models future extreme weather events, other environmental 
trends, projections, and up-to-date observations, including 
mesoscale meteorological information.
    Precipitation Prediction Grand Challenge.--In order to 
better understand and predict rainfall events, the Committee 
provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
the Precipitation Prediction Grand Challenge.
    Greenhouse Gas Emissions Detection Technologies.--The 
Committee provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level for a pilot program of instrumentation for observing 
greenhouse gases and other atmospheric factors deployed on 
commercial aircraft and to support the evaluation of a 
sustained observing network using such platforms. The pilot 
program should be in cooperation with other Federal agencies, 
as relevant, and should leverage the NWS's Aircraft-Based 
Observation Program, as appropriate.
    In addition, NOAA is encouraged to collaborate with current 
and new partners to make use of commercial assets to monitor 
methane emissions from aircraft and satellites to pinpoint the 
source of emissions at the individual facility level anywhere 
in the world.
    Marine Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change.--The 
Committee recognizes the impacts of climate change on 
fisheries, including changes in the distribution, productivity, 
and abundance of fish stocks that make sustainable management 
more challenging. Within the funds provided for Climate 
Competitive Research, the Committee encourages OAR to fund 
improvements to ocean modeling systems and to build a high-
resolution regional ocean modeling and prediction system that 
can inform climate-ready resource management.
    Tornado Research.--Within the funding provided for Weather 
Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes, the Committee provides 
not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for the 
VORTEX-USA program. The Committee notes the lack of progress on 
improving tornado forecasts and warnings and directs NOAA to 
pursue and extend new partnerships, including with the 
commercial sector, to test novel and innovative data sources, 
including commercial radar capabilities, to improve coverage 
and forecasting skill. Further, NOAA is encouraged to 
accelerate coupling of the weather forecast model with radar 
observations to add the ability to classify hail size, detect 
tornado debris, and better determine the type and intensity of 
precipitation.
    The Committee encourages NOAA to pursue research on near 
real-time infrasonic monitoring of hurricanes and tornadoes. 
Advanced infrasound signal processing methodologies and 
studies, deployed through a network of infrasound arrays to 
detect tornadoes, have the potential to provide accurate and 
reliable locations and warnings of active tornadoes.
    Weather Modeling Improvement and Innovation.--Within 
funding for the U.S. Weather Research Program, the Committee 
provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
the Earth Prediction Innovation Center [EPIC], as authorized by 
the NIDIS Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-423). The 
Committee directs NOAA to prioritize funding for software 
engineering and community code management. The Committee 
further directs NOAA to support extramural grants for community 
adoption and development of the Unified Forecast System [UFS]. 
NOAA shall also secure the acquisition of commercial cloud high 
performance compute to support EPIC.
    Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather Prediction.--Within funding 
for the U.S. Weather Research Program, the Committee provides 
not less than $1,000,000 to continue the subseasonal to 
seasonal research program to seed innovative research testbeds. 
Such efforts shall include a pilot project for subseasonal to 
seasonal precipitation forecasts for water management in the 
western United States recommended in NOAA's report to Congress 
pursuant to section 201 of the Weather Research and Forecasting 
Innovation Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-25). The pilot project 
should be carried out in coordination with the National Weather 
Service and should be focused on achieving measurable 
objectives for operational forecast improvement, including 
forecasts of seasonal mountain snowpack accumulation and total 
seasonal precipitation. The Committee encourages NOAA to 
emphasize subseasonal to seasonal capabilities in their future 
budget requests.
    Fire Weather.--As the Nation combats yet another dangerous 
and extreme wildfire season, the Committee notes with urgency 
the importance of improving fire weather modeling, prediction, 
detection, and decision support tools. The Committee provides 
not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level within the 
U.S. Weather Research Program to continue the collaborative and 
integrated fire weather research program, including the Fire 
Weather Testbed.
    Advanced Quantitative Precipitation Information System.--
The Committee provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level within the U.S. Weather Research Program for a 
regional radar array demonstration project to enable better 
forecasting of extreme West Coast precipitation events, like 
atmospheric rivers.
    LiDAR Technology.--NOAA is encouraged to develop, 
demonstrate, and commercialize advanced, compact LiDAR systems 
uniquely tailored to near-surface marine and atmospheric 
profiling from UAS and mobile ground-based platforms. This new 
technology could increase NOAA's ability to flexibly collect 
real-time data that fills temporal and spatial gaps left by 
existing platforms.
    Drought and Agriculture Decision Support.--The Committee 
encourages OAR, through NIDIS, to create drought and 
agriculture decision support systems for western rangeland 
based upon synthesis of National Mesonet Program data and 
satellite remote sensing technologies in the Upper Missouri 
River Basin. Stakeholder training and the ability to accurately 
forecast drought is critical to supporting food security for 
our Nation, as well as Federal and State agencies in making 
decisions on land sustainability and critical ecosystem 
services on public lands that are used by wildlife and 
livestock.
    Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Laboratories and 
Cooperative Institutes.--The Committee provides $39,500,000 for 
Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes. The Committee 
expects NOAA to request funding these cooperative institutes at 
appropriate levels in future years, including well-established 
institutes focused on: watershed impacts on marine ecosystems; 
remote sensing; fisheries management; long-term monitoring of 
oil spill impacts on marine and freshwater ecosystem health; 
coastal resilience; air and marine autonomy; ocean exploration; 
tropical storms; hypoxia and HABs.
    Genomics.--The Committee supports the use of genomics 
research to uncover novel adaptations in marine life to extreme 
and dynamic environments; to develop sustainable strategies in 
fishing, aquaculture, and mining practices; and to provide 
foundational discoveries for biopharmaceuticals.
    Ocean Exploration.--The Committee directs OAR to accelerate 
efforts to map and characterize America's Exclusive Economic 
Zone and extended Outer Continental Shelf, including by 
maximizing the amount of funding provided for the Ocean 
Exploration CI. NOAA is also 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.
    National Sea Grant College Program.--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of the Sea Grant program to enhance 
the practical use and conservation of coastal, marine, and 
Great Lakes resources to create a sustainable economy and 
environment, while simultaneously providing invaluable 
educational opportunities to students. The Committee provides 
$80,000,000 the Sea Grant program.
    Coastal Resilience.--NOAA is encouraged to support Sea 
Grant coastal resilience activities across all State programs, 
including recruitment of resilience-focused staff and enhancing 
research, engagement, decision support, and project 
implementation. NOAA is encouraged to prioritize work to 
enhance the coastal resilience of remote communities most at-
risk for natural disasters and chronic events, with a priority 
given to challenges faced by Tribal, indigenous, and 
economically disadvantaged communities.
    Young Fishermen's Development Act.--Within funding for the 
Sea Grant program, the Committee provides not less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level for training, education, 
outreach, and technical assistance for young fishermen as 
authorized under the Young Fishermen's Development Act (Public 
Law 116-289).
    American Lobster Research.--Within funding for the Sea 
Grant program, the Committee provides $2,000,000 for 
partnerships among State agencies, academia, and industry to 
address American lobster research priorities in the Gulf of 
Maine, Georges Bank, and southern New England. Research should 
focus on stock resilience in the face of environmental changes, 
including life history parameters, distribution, and abundance, 
with the purpose of informing future management actions.
    Contaminants of Emerging Concern.--The Committee is alarmed 
by reports of contaminants of emerging concern that may cause 
ecological or human health impacts, including PFAS, in coastal 
and estuarine waters. The Committee notes that more research is 
needed to better understand the prevalence, transportation, 
accumulation, effects, and fate of contaminants of emerging 
concern within coastal waters. Therefore, the Committee 
provides $1,000,000 within the Sea Grant program to partner 
with State agencies and academic institutions to research and 
monitor these emerging contaminants.
    Sea Grant Aquaculture Research.--The Committee provides 
$14,000,000 for Sea Grant Aquaculture Research. Within the 
funding provided, NOAA is encouraged to explore new research 
topics, including engineering of ocean-based infrastructure, 
and accumulation and metabolization rates of brevetoxins in 
commonly farmed shellfish. The Committee further encourages Sea 
Grant Aquaculture to partner with Historically Black Colleges 
and Universities that conduct aquaculture research.
    National Oceanographic Partnership Program [NOPP].--The 
Committee provides $2,500,000 for NOPP to continue to 
facilitate interagency and public-private partnerships to 
advance ocean science research, development, and education. 
Within the funds provided, NOAA shall allocate no less than 
$500,000 to work with other appropriate Federal agency and 
industry partners to develop, test, and evaluate ocean-based 
carbon dioxide removal technologies.

                     NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,248,393,000 for 
the National Weather Service [NWS]. NWS programs provide timely 
and accurate meteorologic, hydrologic, and oceanographic 
warnings and forecasts to protect life and property and improve 
the economic productivity of the Nation. NWS is also 
responsible for issuing operational climate forecasts for the 
United States. The Committee has made saving lives and 
livelihoods through accurate weather forecasting a priority.
    The Committee's recommendations are displayed in the 
following table:

      NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Observations..........................................           251,462
Central Processing....................................           110,500
Analyze, Forecast and Support.........................           589,500
Dissemination.........................................           116,979
Science and Technology Integration....................           179,952
                                                       -----------------
    GRAND TOTAL, NWS..................................         1,248,393
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    NWS Staffing.--The Committee recognizes and appreciates 
NWS's commitment and efforts-to-date to fill vacancies, 
especially for weather forecast personnel. However, less than 
50 percent of Weather Forecast Offices [WFO] are ideally 
staffed, and the Committee continues to be concerned with the 
number of NWS employee vacancies given the critical nature the 
NWS mission to protect the lives and property of our Nation's 
citizens. The Committee expects NOAA to continue the agency 
focus on expeditiously increasing NWS staffing, particularly at 
WFOs.
    Observations.--The Committee provides not less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level for the Aircraft Based 
Observation Program and directs NWS to coordinate with and 
leverage existing capabilities of the National Mesonet Program 
to increase the use and deployment of commercial aviation-based 
atmospheric data, with an emphasis on water vapor data for 
numerical weather prediction improvement.
    National Mesonet Program.--The Committee rejects the 
proposed cut to the National Mesonet Program and provides not 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. Investments going 
forward should sustain coverage of data types and areas now 
included within the National Mesonet Program, as well as reduce 
weather radar gaps, expand in-situ and remote sensing 
capabilities to provide weather measurements in high-risk 
areas. The Committee encourages NWS to enhance coverage by the 
National Mesonet Program in non-contiguous States and 
territories. Further, the Committee encourages emphasis on the 
boundary layer of the atmosphere, marine zones, and select 
surface-based gap filling networks. NOAA is encouraged to 
assess the value of the data to improving forecast model skill 
through analytical and quantitative methods such as conducting 
observing system experiments, data denial, or equivalent 
methods.
    Of the funds provided, up to $900,000 may be used for 
Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System activities and 
up to $600,000 may be used for costs associated with the 
National Mesonet Program Office. NOAA is encouraged to build 
out the Program Office team commensurate with the program's 
size and scope.
    Automated Surface Observing System [ASOS].--The Committee 
supports NWS's ongoing efforts to prolong the service life of 
ASOS. NWS is directed to ensure that rural and remote 
communities who disproportionately rely on ASOS operability for 
continued reliable air service are provided with additional 
resources, such as trained human observers, to continue 
observing capabilities in the event of an ASOS outage.
    Space Weather.--The Committee provides not less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level to support the space weather 
prediction testbed to help drive research to operations to 
ensure national and global communities are prepared for space-
weather events in furtherance of NOAA's responsibilities under 
the Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to 
Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow [PROSWIFT] Act (Public Law 
116-181).
    National Data Buoy Center [NDBC].--The Committee lauds the 
recent efforts of the NDBC to both restore buoy operability 
throughout its station network and to offset critical outages 
within the network including using commercially-available 
uncrewed maritime systems. Within funding for Observations, the 
Committee directs NWS to continue to prioritize efforts to 
maintain NDBC station network operations at or above 80 percent 
data availability. Further, additional direction and resources 
are provided within the Office of Marine and Aviation 
Operations to support the continued use of commercially-
available uncrewed maritime systems to offset critical outages 
within the NDBC network.
    Tsunami Warning Program.--The Committee supports the 
proposal to ensure continuity of operations between the Tsunami 
Warning Centers. The Committee provides not less than 
$4,000,000 for the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program 
to support education, awareness, and inundation and evacuation 
map development.
    Weather Alerts.--The Committee supports NWS's ongoing 
efforts to provide Spanish translation of weather products. 
However, more steps must be taken to ensure that all weather 
forecast and warning products can be understood by individuals 
with limited English proficiency. Therefore, NOAA is encouraged 
to expand use of relevant technology, including adaptive neural 
machine translation technologies, to pursue translation models 
for additional languages.
    Office of Water Prediction [OWP].--The Committee provides 
not less than fiscal year 2023 enacted level for OWP, which 
receives funding across multiple NWS budget lines. The 
Committee maintains the direction carried in previous fiscal 
years for NWS to continue to expedite hiring within the 
National Water Center [NWC] Water Prediction Operations 
Division. NWS is encouraged to initiate Flood Inundation 
Mapping operations through the NWC.
    Hydrology and Water Resource Programs.--The Committee 
provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
NOAA to support CIROH. NOAA is encouraged to leverage the CI 
expertise to help NOAA assess the most operationally-relevant 
research.
    Data Assimilation.--The Joint Effort for Data assimilation 
Integration [JEDI] is the next generation, unified data 
assimilation framework under collaborative development between 
NOAA and cross-agency partners through the Joint Center for 
Satellite Data Assimilation [JCSDA]. JEDI will allow for a 
faster development and research-to-operations of advanced data 
assimilation and related components to meet the requirements of 
NOAA's Unified Forecast System [UFS]. The Committee provides 
$1,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level within 
Science and Technology Integration to support JEDI development 
at JCSDA. The Committee directs NOAA to include sufficient 
funding in their fiscal year 2025 budget request to advance 
JEDI and maintain access to the intellectual capacity necessary 
to ensure that NOAA maximizes the science and predictions 
derived from its Earth observing systems.
    Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project.--The Committee 
directs NOAA to continue the Hurricane Forecast Improvement 
Program authorized by section 104 of the Weather Research and 
Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-25).
    Consumer Option for an Alternative System To Allocate 
Losses [COASTAL] Act Implementation.--The Committee provides 
not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for the 
development and implementation of the COASTAL Act (division F, 
title II of Public Law 112-141). The Committee supports NOAA's 
work to assist homeowners impacted by destructive winds and 
storm surges associated with hurricanes and super-storms. The 
Committee directs NOAA to continue to leverage existing Federal 
assets, expertise, and partnerships in carrying out COASTAL Act 
activities.
    Development of Atlas 15.--The Committee recognizes that as 
States and communities work to implement transformational 
Federal infrastructure funding provided by the IIJA, they are 
also facing destructive and costly impacts from catastrophic 
flooding and extreme rainfall. This reality underscores the 
urgency of NOAA's ongoing development of the Precipitation-
Frequency Atlas of the United States in accordance with the 
Flood Level Observation, Operations, and Decision Support Act 
(Public Law 117-316). The Committee is aware that NOAA intends 
to release its authoritative Atlas 15 product for the 
continental U.S. in 2026, followed by a product for non-
contiguous States and Territories in 2027. The Committee is 
concerned that Federal, State, and local entities are currently 
making infrastructure investments using outdated precipitation 
data that fail to accurately account for current or future 
hazards. Therefore, the Committee encourages NOAA to 
expeditiously develop and release interim Atlas 15 data, 
consistent with NOAA's experimental information standard, for 
provisional use within the next fiscal year to support 
implementation of flood resilient infrastructure.

  NOAA NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA AND INFORMATION SERVICE

    The Committee's recommendation provides $383,637,000 for 
National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service 
[NESDIS] operations. NESDIS programs operate environmental 
polar-orbiting, geostationary, and space weather satellites and 
collect and archive global environmental data and information 
for distribution to users in commerce, industry, agriculture, 
science, and engineering, the general public, and Federal, 
State, and local agencies.
    The Committee's recommendations are displayed in the 
following table:

     NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA AND INFORMATION SERVICE
                  OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environmental Satellite Observing Systems:
    Office of Satellite and Product Operations........           251,665
    Product Development, Readiness and Application....            59,850
    U.S. Group on Earth Observations..................               750
                                                       -----------------
        Total, Environmental Satellite Observing                 312,265
         Systems......................................
                                                       =================
National Centers for Environmental Information........            71,372
                                                       =================
        GRAND TOTAL, NESDIS...........................           383,637
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Satellite Operations Technical Transfers.--The Committee 
accepts the $8,100,000 in technical transfers to the Office of 
Satellite and Product Operations and Product Development, 
Readiness and Application proposed in the administration's 
request to move operations funded within Low Earth Orbit from 
Procurement, Acquisition and Construction to ORF.
    Office of Satellite and Product Operations.--The Committee 
provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
Satellite and Product Operations Deferred and Extended 
Maintenance, including for upgrades to ground systems and 
antenna systems at facilities such as those in Virginia, West 
Virginia, and Alaska.
    NESDIS Common Cloud Framework [NCCF].--The Committee 
encourages NESDIS to prioritize dissemination and access 
services from the NCCF, which is a cloud-based repository for 
aggregation of real-time observations for the initialization of 
the UFS.
    National Centers for Environmental Information [NCEI].--The 
Committee provides $71,372,000 for NCEI, including not less 
than $10,000,000 for Regional Climate Services, $6,100,000 for 
Regional Climate Centers, and $5,500,000 for Coastal Data 
Development. NOAA shall consider the Coastal Data Development 
program as the central repository to manage data collections 
from NOAA uncrewed systems to achieve the Commercial Engagement 
Through Ocean Technology [CENOTE] Act (Public Law 115-394) 
goals by amplifying the use of data for environmental and 
economic innovation. NCEI is encouraged to continue the 
development of a Data Assembly Hub for uncrewed systems, in 
coordination with the related project supported through NOAA 
Special Projects.

                          NOAA MISSION SUPPORT

    The Committee's recommendation provides $414,760,000 for 
NOAA's mission support activities. These programs provide for 
overall NOAA management, including staffing of the Under 
Secretary's office and services to NOAA field offices, as well 
as NOAA's Education Office.
    Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 
table:

          MISSION SUPPORT OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mission Support Services:
    Executive Leadership..............................            31,743
    Mission Services and Management...................           183,375
    IT Security.......................................            16,393
    Payment to DOC Working Capital Fund...............            71,299
    Facilities Maintenance............................             6,500
    Office of Space Commerce..........................            70,000
                                                       -----------------
        Total, Mission Support Services...............           379,310
                                                       =================
Office of Education:
    NOAA Education Program Base.......................             6,000
    Jose E. Serrano Education Partnership Program with            20,750
     Minority Serving Insitutions.....................
    BWET Regional Progams.............................             8,700
                                                       -----------------
        Total, Office of Education....................            35,450
                                                       =================
        GRAND TOTAL, MISSION SUPPORT..................           414,760
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    NOAA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.--The Committee 
recognizes NOAA for taking steps to build a more diverse and 
inclusive workplace. The Committee provides not less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level to accelerate NOAA's Diversity 
and Inclusion Plan, to expand NOAA's recruiting program, and 
for equity assessment and implementation support in compliance 
with Executive Order 13985.
    Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment.--The Committee 
commends the agency for its efforts to provide employees a 
workplace free from sexual assault and sexual harassment, 
including issuance of NOAA Administrative Order [NAO] 202-1106 
and creation of the Workplace Violence Prevention and Response 
Program. The Committee directs NOAA to continue implementing 
NAO 202-1106 and expanding services and provides not less than 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for these purposes.
    NOAA Environmental Security Computing Center [NESCC].--The 
Committee supports NOAA's strategic priority to pursue economic 
development through the growth of the New Blue Economy and 
understands that the cost and complexity involved in accessing 
the agency's vast climate and weather data is an obstacle to 
achieving this growth. Not later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this act, NOAA shall provide the Committee with a 
plan to validate the technical approach, resources required, 
and feasibility of integrating a subset of the agency's data 
holdings at the NESCC to provide real-time data analysis, 
improved tools and access for commercial use of NOAA data and 
increase entrepreneurial engagement. The plan may include a 
Center of Excellence at the NESCC to facilitate a public-
private pilot program that will allow the use of commercially 
available technology where practical, as well as the 
recruitment and development of a high-skilled computational 
science and information technology workforce.
    Office of Space Commerce [OSC].--The Committee provides not 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for OSC to advance 
space traffic management and space situational awareness 
capabilities through a Traffic Coordination Space System, in 
collaboration with industry and Federal partners. The Committee 
expects operational capability not later than fiscal year 2025.
    Facilities Maintenance.--The Committee awaits receipt of 
the business case analysis for a new Center of Excellence as 
required in the joint explanatory statement accompanying Public 
Law 117-103. NOAA is directed to immediately provide the 
analysis to the Committee.
    Bay Watershed Education and Training [BWET].--The Committee 
encourages NOAA to expand BWET regional programs to new 
priority regions, which may include the Delaware Bay.
    Cooperative Science Center for Ocean Education.--The 
Committee encourages the administration to request funding for 
a cooperative science center for ocean education in its fiscal 
year 2025 budget request.
    National Ocean Sciences Bowl [NOSB].--The Committee is 
deeply disappointed that the 2023 competition was cancelled. 
NOSB has been highly successful in educating and inspiring the 
next generation of ocean leaders over the past 25 years. NOAA 
shall report to the Committee not later than 90 days after the 
enactment of this act regarding the plan to continue the 
program.

             NOAA OFFICE OF MARINE AND AVIATION OPERATIONS

    The Committee's recommendation provides $329,677,000 for 
NOAA's marine and aviation operations. The OMAO provides 
aircraft and marine data acquisition, repair, and maintenance 
of the existing fleet; planning of future modernization; and 
technical and management support for NOAA-wide activities 
through the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps.

   OFFICE OF MARINE AND AVIATION OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marine Operations and Maintenance.....................           204,000
Aviation Operations and Aircraft Services.............            40,500
Autonomous Unmanned Technology Operations.............            21,677
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps.......................            63,500
                                                       -----------------
    GRAND TOTAL, OMAO.................................           329,677
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Survey Vessel Capacity.--The Committee has consistently 
supported NOAA's plan to recapitalize its vessel fleet. 
However, the Committee is particularly concerned with regard to 
future operations capabilities as many of NOAA's vessels 
require midlife service extensions. The Committee directs NOAA 
to develop a strategy for having redundant capabilities for 
conducting surveys when their vessels are out of commission. 
This should include contingency chartering agreements, uncrewed 
assets capable of operating independent of vessels, and 
commercial data purchase agreements. This strategy shall 
include budget estimates and shall be provided to the Committee 
not later than 210 days after enactment of this act.
    Monitoring of Atmospheric Rivers.--Improving understanding 
of atmospheric rivers is critical to prepare for concentrated 
rain storms and flooding along the U.S. west coast. Therefore, 
the Committee provides up to $2,500,000 within Aviation 
Operations and Aircraft Services to better observe and predict 
these extreme weather events.
    Autonomous and Uncrewed Technology Operations [AUTO].--The 
Committee provides $21,677,000 for AUTO. No less than 
$10,000,000 shall be used for agency-wide data acquisition from 
commercially-available, mission-as-a-service uncrewed maritime 
systems [UMS] in support of relevant operational missions 
including: (1) hurricane intensity forecasting; (2) ocean 
monitoring, including in-situ observations in support of the 
NDBC and management and enforcement of marine national 
monuments in the Pacific; (3) acoustic fishery surveys; (4) 
ocean exploration; and (5) hydrographic surveys. Within the 
funds provided, no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
shall be used to support extramural partnerships with 
universities and oceanographic institutions for UMS research, 
development, testing, and training, including research to 
improve precise marine navigation and coastal resilience 
through improvements to uncrewed platforms.
    Aviation Accession Training Program.--The Committee 
provides no less than $3,000,000 within NOAA Commissioned 
Officer Corps to support OMAO's aviation accession training 
program, as authorized in section 105 of the NOAA Commissioned 
Officer Corps Amendments Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-259). The 
Committee encourages NOAA to designate one or more Cooperative 
Aviation Centers to facilitate the development and recruitment 
of aviators for the Commissioned Officer Corps at higher 
education institutions that have accredited professional flight 
and piloting programs.

                         NOAA SPECIAL PROJECTS

    The Committee's recommendation provides $85,169,000 for 
NOAA Special Projects as detailed in the table below. The 
Committee directs NOAA to provide the amounts listed in the 
table and NOAA shall perform the same level of oversight and 
due diligence as with any other external partners.

                          NOAA SPECIAL PROJECTS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recipient                Project Purpose      Recommended ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alaska Department of Fish and   Alaska Survey Charter          1,200,000
 Game.                           Vessel.
Alaska Department of Fish and   Juvenile Pacific               4,000,000
 Game.                           Salmon Research.
Alaska Department of Fish and   Research Vessel                2,500,000
 Game.                           Equipment Upgrades
                                 and Maintenance.
Alaska Fisheries Development    Alaska King Crab               4,000,000
 Foundation.                     Enhancement Project.
American Museum of Natural      Climate and                    1,250,000
 History.                        Biodiversity Research
                                 & Education.
Anacostia Watershed Society...  Anacostia River                  225,000
                                 Aquatic Ecosystem
                                 Restoration and
                                 Monitoring.
Board of Trustees of the        Offshore Seismic                 550,000
 University of Illinois.         Mapping.
Center for Coastal Studies....  Humpback Whale                   200,000
                                 Research Program.
College of Charleston.........  South Carolina Marine          1,325,000
                                 Resources Center.
Colorado State University.....  Open Soil Water Sensor         1,450,000
Commercial Fisheries Research   Black Sea Bass                   535,000
 Foundation.                     Research Fleet.
Coonamessett Farm Foundation,   Fishing for Data:              2,000,000
 Inc..                           Massachusetts
                                 Cooperative Fisheries
                                 Research.
Good Shepherd Food Bank.......  Maine Seafood and                750,000
                                 Community Partnership.
Hawaii County Department of     West Hawaii Island             1,000,000
 Water Supply.                   Watershed Restoration
                                 and Recharge.
Hawaii Department of Land and   Limu Cultivation at              700,000
 Natural Resources Division of   the Anuenue Fisheries
 Aquatic Resources (DAR).        Research Center.
Hawaii Department of Land and   Waiakea Pond and                 750,000
 Natural Resources Division of   Pelekane Bay
 Aquatic Resources (DAR).        Restoration.
Hawaii Department of Land and   Native Plant Carbon              300,000
 Natural Resources Division of   Sequestration.
 Aquatic Resources (DAR).
Hawaii Department of Land and   Hawaii Mesonet Network           350,000
 Natural Resources, Commission   Equipment.
 on Water Resource Management.
Institute for Marine Mammal     Marine Mammal and Sea          3,000,000
 Studies, Inc..                  Turtle Rehabilitation.
Inuit Circumpolar Council       Central Arctic Ocean           1,075,000
 Alaska.                         Fisheries Agreement
                                 (CAOFA) Engagement.
Kansas State University Salina  Full Motion Flight             1,500,000
                                 Simulator.
Louisiana Coastal Protection    Gauges and Data                3,000,000
 and Restoration Authority.      Collection Systems.
Louisiana Department of         Lower Mississippi                400,000
 Transportation and              River Physical
 Development.                    Oceanographic Real-
                                 Time System Sensors.
Marine Exchange of Alaska.....  Arctic Watch..........         2,010,000
Maritime Blue.................  Protecting Southern              300,000
                                 Resident Killer
                                 Whales from the
                                 Acoustic and Physical
                                 Impacts of Large
                                 Commercial Vessels.
Metlakatla Indian Community...  Invasive European              1,000,000
                                 Green Crab Control
                                 and Eradication.
Metlakatla Indian Community...  Tamgas Creek Hatchery            403,000
                                 Fishway Improvements.
Mount Washington Observatory..  World-Class Research           1,538,000
                                 Facility Project.
National Audubon Society, Inc.  Resiliency and                 2,696,000
                                 Sustainability of
                                 Hammonasset Beach
                                 State Park.
New England Young Fishermen's   Preparing the Next               956,000
 Alliance (NEYFA).               Generation of NH
                                 Fishermen and Women
                                 for Success:
                                 Preserving our
                                 Working Waterfronts.
New York Botanical Garden.....  Welikia Project.......           500,000
North Slope Borough Department  Bowhead Whale                  1,536,000
 of Wildlife Management.         Abundance Survey.
Old Dartmouth Historical        William Street:                  500,000
 Society (dba New Bedford        Stimulating Learning
 Whaling Museum).                through STEAM.
Oregon Kelp Alliance..........  Oregon Kelp Forest             2,521,000
                                 Protection and
                                 Restoration
                                 Initiative.
Oregon State University.......  Floating Offshore Wind         1,087,000
                                 Energy and Fisheries
                                 Assessment.
Partners for a Healthier        Creating Digital                 370,000
 Community d/b/a Public Health   Infrastructure to
 Institute of Western MA.        Expand the Healthy
                                 Air Network.
Polynesian Voyaging Society...  Access to Indigenous             500,000
                                 Ecological Knowledge.
Providence Resilience           Citywide Climate               1,000,000
 Partnership.                    Assessment.
RIMTA Foundation..............  Fiberglass Vessel                200,000
                                 Recycling Program.
Seabrook-Hampton Estuary        Building Coastal               1,473,000
 Alliance (SHEA).                Resilience and
                                 Community Capacity.
Stevens Institute of            Extreme Event Coastal            900,000
 Technology.                     Preparedness and
                                 Response System.
The Desert Research Institute.  Sustainable Planning           3,000,000
                                 for the Future at
                                 Lake Tahoe.
The Marine Mammal Center......  Education Campaign to            880,000
                                 Protect Monk Seals.
The Nature Conservancy........  Coastal Bluff                    750,000
                                 Restoration.
The Nature Conservancy in       Advancing Coastal and          1,000,000
 Hawaii and Palmyra.             Community Resilience.
The Regents of the University   Offshore Pollution             6,000,000
 of California.                  Impacts on Living
                                 Marine Resources and
                                 Bioremediation
                                 Assessment--DDT.
Town of Oxford................  Building Capacity for          1,060,000
                                 Sea Level Rise
                                 Adaptation on the
                                 Eastern Shore.
University of Alaska System...  Kelp Processing                  106,000
                                 Research in Southern
                                 Alaska.
University of Alaska System...  Aquatic Toxicology             2,800,000
                                 Research.
University of Delaware........  Fisheries &                    1,265,000
                                 Aquaculture
                                 Innovation Center.
University of Hawaii System...  Analysis of Satellite          2,250,000
                                 Imagery and
                                 Meteorological Data
                                 for Forest Health.
University of Maine...........  Ocean Habitat                    440,000
                                 Strategic Plan in
                                 Partnership with
                                 Maine's Lobster
                                 Industry.
University of Maine System....  Weather Station                3,548,000
                                 Network.
University of South Alabama...  Expansion and Upgrade          3,000,000
                                 of the South Alabama
                                 Mesonet.
University of Southern          Data Assembly Hub for          5,000,000
 Mississippi.                    Uncrewed Systems.
Washington Department of Fish   West Coast Whale               2,000,000
 and Wildlife.                   Conservation Plan
                                 NEPA.
Yukon River Drainage Fisheries  Fisheries Bio-                   520,000
 Association.                    Technician Training
                                 Program.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

             NOAA PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2023...................................\1\$1,762,468,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   2,139,794,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,927,296,000

\1\Of the amount provided for NOAA Procurement, Acquisition and 
Construction in fiscal year 2023, $108,838,000 was included under title 
II of division N of Public Law 117-328.

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,927,296,000 for 
NOAA's Procurement, Acquisition and Construction [PAC]. The 
recommendation is $164,828,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $212,498,000 below the budget request.
    Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 
table:

                PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
National Ocean Service:
    National Estuarine Research Reserve Construction..             8,500
    Marine Sanctuaries Construction...................             5,500
                                                       -----------------
        Total, NOS-PAC................................            14,000
                                                       =================
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research:
    Research Supercomputing/CCRI......................            60,000
    Research Acquisitions and Management..............            30,000
                                                       -----------------
        Total, OAR-PAC................................            90,000
                                                       =================
National Weather Service:
    Observations......................................            16,200
    Central Processing................................            69,000
    Dissemination.....................................            10,000
    Facilities Construction and Major Repairs.........            10,000
                                                       -----------------
        Total, NWS-PAC................................           105,200
                                                       =================
National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information
 Service:
    Geostationary Systems--R..........................           276,000
    Polar Weather Satellites..........................           342,410
    Space Weather Follow On...........................            97,200
    Geostationary Earth Orbit.........................           290,000
    Low Earth Orbit...................................           123,590
    Space Weather Next................................           219,446
    Common Ground Services............................           112,000
    Systems/Services, Architecture and Engineering....            70,000
    Satellite CDA Facility............................             2,450
                                                       -----------------
        Total, NESDIS-PAC.............................         1,533,096
                                                       =================
Mission Support:
    NOAA Construction.................................            80,000
                                                       -----------------
        Total, Mission Support-PAC....................            80,000
                                                       =================
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations:
    Fleet Capital Improvements and Technology Infusion            28,000
    Vessel Recapitalization and Construction..........            75,000
    Aircraft Recapitalization and Construction........            15,000
                                                       -----------------
        Total, OMAO-PAC...............................           118,000
                                                       =================
Unobligated balances from prior years.................           -13,000
                                                       -----------------
        GRAND TOTAL, PAC..............................         1,940,296
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    NOAA Acquisitions.--The Committee is concerned by the 
findings of GAO's recent report ``NOAA Acquisitions: Fully 
Aligning Procedures with Best Practices Could Improve the 
Reliability of Cost Estimates'' (GAO-23-105808) regarding 
NOAA's development of cost estimates before procuring assets 
including satellites, ships, high performance computing, and 
facilities. The Committee charged GAO with this study given 
NOAA's poor track record of acquiring assets within projected 
costs and schedules. Notably, GAO found that NWS and OMAO do 
not have documented cost estimating procedures. Furthermore, 
GAO found that the procedures used by NESDIS and the Office of 
the Chief Administrative Officer do not fully align with 
Federal Government best practices. The Committee directs NOAA 
to expeditiously implement GAO's recommended actions to 
establish an agency-wide policy and guidance and to require 
documented cost estimating procedures that are fully aligned 
with best practices.
    High Performance Computing.--The Committee recognizes 
NOAA's high performance computing needs and its current 
limitations on providing high-fidelity results in near real-
time and provides $60,000,000. Within funding provided for 
Research Supercomputing/CCRI, $15,000,000 shall be used to 
continue the development of a dedicated high performance 
computing facility in collaboration with partners that have 
existing high performance computing expertise and scientific 
synergies. Further, no less than $5,000,000 is to develop 
artificial intelligence systems and optimize software to 
support preprocessing of dense observation datasets to 
facilitate extraction of the most useful information for 
inclusion in data assimilation for model initialization.
    Cloud Computing.--The Committee remains concerned that NWS 
is purchasing servers to establish a ``NOAA cloud'' rather than 
utilizing commercial cloud services.
    NOAA Satellite Reporting.--The Committee directs NOAA to 
provide quarterly programmatic and procurement status reports 
of all satellites actively orbiting, in standby mode, and under 
development, unless any reprogramming, system failure, 
construction delay, or other extraordinary circumstance 
warrants an immediate update.
    Geostationary Extended Observations [GeoXO].--In the nearly 
20 years since the initiation of America's current 
geostationary satellite fleet, the United States space sector 
has made incredible technological advancements for scientific 
instruments and spacecraft to maintain U.S. leadership in space 
weather prediction capabilities. The Committee directs NOAA to 
focus on the delivery of the next-generation geostationary 
satellite fleet, known as GeoXO, to continue to improve data 
for its weather mission, and to leverage private sector 
advancements and innovative solutions to the greatest extent 
possible. NOAA is encouraged to continue partnering with NASA 
on the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer 
[GLIMR] mission to de-risk the ocean color instrument, as 
appropriate, for the GeoXO program.
    Systems/Services Architecture and Engineering.--The 
Committee provides $1,500,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level for the commercial data purchase and commercial 
weather data pilot programs, which is to be divided between the 
two programs as deemed appropriate. The Committee encourages 
NOAA to test hyperspectral sounder data and new capabilities 
including edge processing on orbit to optimize the use of 
existing data to extract more value and retain more information 
after downlink.
    Within funding provided, NOAA is directed to continue the 
pilot program to procure space weather observations consistent 
with the PROSWIFT Act (Public Law 116-181) and provides up to 
$5,000,000 for these purposes.
    NOAA shall ensure that funds provided for commercial data 
purchases to meet NOAA's space-based weather and environmental 
observation mission needs are used in a manner that maximizes 
competition by conducting solicitations for new qualified 
commercial data market entrants not less than once per year, 
preferably on a rolling basis to allow for novel innovations to 
be presented to the agency as early as possible. NOAA may also 
issue annual requests for information to seek commercial 
solutions for specific challenges on an annual or more frequent 
basis.
    NOAA Construction.--The Committee provides $80,000,000 for 
NOAA's highest priority facilities repair and deferred 
maintenance requirements. Thirty days before obligating any 
funds, NOAA shall submit a report detailing how the funds will 
be expended and an explanation of why these projects were 
prioritized. NOAA is also directed to immediately inform the 
Committee if there are any significant schedule delays or 
project cost increases.
    The Committee also directs NOAA to prioritize remediation 
of facilities impacted by natural disasters, including 
volcanoes, and infrastructure improvements at the atmospheric 
baseline observatories. Further, the Committee encourages NOAA 
to accelerate existing regional facility modernization planning 
and analysis efforts, including the competitive solicitation 
process for proposals from academic, university, and nonprofit 
partners to co-locate aging NMFS laboratories. As part of the 
fiscal year 2025 budget request, NOAA shall establish a 5-year 
budget framework to address regional facility modernization 
planning and redevelopment. The budget shall be updated 
annually as additional information and funding needs are 
refined as projects mature from planning estimates through 
design phases.
    Judgment Fund Repayment.--The Committee does not provide 
funding for NOAA to make payments to the Department of the 
Treasury's Judgment Fund.
    Vessel Recapitalization and Construction.--The Committee 
provides $75,000,000 in Vessel Recapitalization and 
Construction. Congress has provided sufficient funding for the 
acquisition of two Class B vessels to facilitate the reduction 
of gaps in mission coverage as current ships are 
decommissioned. The Committee notes that the current 
procurement plan for Class C vessels would result in a mission 
gap for fisheries surveys starting in 2027. Therefore, NOAA is 
directed to begin the process of acquiring Class C vessels. To 
ensure that NOAA can rapidly procure needed fisheries survey 
vessels, the cost of Class C vessels shall not exceed 
$75,000,000 each.
    Aircraft Recapitalization.--The Committee is flabbergasted 
that the request does not include funding to replace the aging 
WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft as outlined in the updated NOAA 
Aircraft Plan and authorized under section 11708 of Public Law 
117-263. The Committee expects NOAA and the Department of 
Commerce to make this a priority in the fiscal year 2025 budget 
request.
    The Committee provides $15,000,000 for Aircraft 
Recapitalization and Construction, which includes $2,500,000 to 
complete the Service Depot Level Maintenance for the two WP-3D 
Hurricane Hunter aircraft, $4,500,000 to continue procurement 
of a second high altitude jet as authorized under section 413 
of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 
(Public Law 115-25), and $8,000,000 for the replacement of the 
WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft.
    Mission Requirement Costs.--NOAA is directed to document 
within all of its future budget requests any unfunded mission 
requirement costs, and particularly those that are necessary to 
maintain the optimal operational tempo of NOAA assets and 
posture of NOAA facilities.

                  PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY FUND

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $65,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      65,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      65,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $65,000,000 for the 
Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund [PCSRF]. The 
recommendation is equal to both the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level and the budget request. Funds are to be used for 
conservation and restoration of Pacific salmon populations. 
State and local recipients of this funding will provide 
matching contributions of at least 33 percent of Federal funds. 
In addition, funds will be available to Tribes without a 
matching requirement. Further, in order to foster greater 
equity in the implementation of these funds, NOAA is encouraged 
to increase the 3 percent restriction on administrative 
expenses for Tribal consortia implementing grants from PCSRF to 
no less than 30 percent. The Committee reminds NOAA that Tribal 
consortia in remote and rural areas often face the same 
limitations and challenges as individual Tribes who are 
exempted from the 3 percent restriction on administrative 
spending, and restriction therefore disproportionately burdens 
Tribal consortia in rural areas.
    The Committee notes that the IIJA provides $172,000,000 
over 5 years for the PCSRF, including $34,400,000 in fiscal 
year 2024.
    NOAA is directed to report on how its current priorities 
meet the intent of the PCSRF to support the recovery and 
protection of all declining salmon stocks.

                     FISHERIES DISASTER ASSISTANCE

Appropriations, 2023....................................        $300,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................         300,000
Committee recommendation................................         300,000

    The Committee accepts the proposal to provide a new annual 
appropriation for Fisheries Disaster Assistance and provides 
$300,000, equal to both the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
the budget request.

                      FISHERMEN'S CONTINGENCY FUND

Appropriations, 2023....................................        $349,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................         349,000
Committee recommendation................................         349,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $349,000 for the 
Fishermen's Contingency Fund. The recommendation is equal to 
both the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and the budget request.

                   FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

Appropriations, 2023....................................    -$19,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     -15,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     -15,000,000

    The Committee recommends that direct loans administered 
through this account for individual fishing quotas may not 
exceed $24,000,000. Traditional direct loans may not exceed 
$150,000,000, which is an increase of $50,000,000 above both 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and the budget request.
    The Committee encourages NOAA to facilitate new vessel 
construction, vessel replacement, and upgrades within the 
Fisheries Finance Program using fuel-efficient technology to 
the greatest extent practicable.

                                 OTHER


                        Departmental Management


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $95,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     125,323,000
Committee recommendation................................      95,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $95,000,000 for 
Departmental Management [DM], Salaries and Expenses. The 
recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
and $30,323,000 below the budget request.
    Within Departmental Management, the Salaries and Expenses 
account provides funding for the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, 
and support staff. Responsibilities involve policy development 
and implementation affecting U.S. and international activities, 
as well as establishing internal goals for operations of the 
Department.
    Staffing Levels.--The Committee believes that staffing 
issues require the continued attention of the leadership of the 
Department and collaboration with the bureaus. Therefore, the 
Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Human Capital Officer of 
the Department shall continue to provide quarterly briefings to 
the Committee on all DOC human capital issues.
    Spending Plans.--Under section 528 of this act, the 
Department is required to submit a spending plan within 45 days 
of the enactment of this act. That plan should describe the 
PPAs of the Department so that the Committee receives detailed 
descriptions of how the Department intends to operationalize 
the funding provided in annual appropriations bills. The 
Committee expects to receive a detailed accounting of each 
bureau's spending, including mandatory, reimbursable, fee-
funded, or working capital fund spending, particularly with 
regard to specific PPAs described in the bill and accompanying 
explanatory statement. The Department shall continue to work 
with the Committee to ensure that its spending plans provide 
adequate information for continued oversight of the Department.
    Salary Lapse.--The Committee directs DOC to provide a 
detailed accounting, as part of the fiscal year 2024 spending 
plans, identifying the amount of expected salary lapse in 
fiscal year 2024 and an explanation of how all accrued salary 
lapse will be spent for all DOC bureaus and NOAA line offices 
that have a greater than 10 percent vacancy rate, as of 
September 30, 2023. Any of the identified amounts that cannot 
be justified as either augmenting staffing vacancies or 
supporting mission critical functions will be considered for 
rescission in fiscal year 2024.
    Working Capital Funds.--For each of the three working 
capital funds within DOC, the following is to be provided to 
the Committee and the OIG by November 30 of each year: (1) a 
comparison of the final budget or spending plan at the project 
or activity level to the actual year-end data as of September 
30 of the prior fiscal year, including detailed narratives for 
variances greater than 5 percent at the project or activity 
level; (2) the initial budget or spending plan by project or 
activity for the current fiscal year; and (3) a detailed 
schedule of fiscal year-end unobligated and carryover balances 
by source funding category and by expiring budget fiscal year, 
to include: direct authority, Federal and intragovernmental 
reimbursable authority by trading partner, non-Federal 
reimbursable authority, amounts held for future asset 
replacement, and other categories.
    Department of Commerce Working Capital Fund.--As part of 
the fiscal year 2025 budget request, the Department is directed 
to provide justification that clearly articulates why each 
Advancements and Reimbursements account and Working Capital 
Fund project administered by the Office of Acquisition 
Management, Office of Budget, Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration, and Chief 
of Staff should continue to be funded through the Working 
Capital Fund.
    Improving Trade Data Reporting.--The Committee directs the 
Department, in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, U.S. International Trade Commission, and other 
relevant agencies, to review and compare methodologies for 
collecting and publishing gross trade flows data and detailed 
supply chain data to better document the country of origin for 
components of each imported good before it reaches U.S. 
consumers.
    Enhancing Microelectronics Fabrication with Advanced 
Materials and Techniques.--The Committee supports investments 
in fabrication and supply chain enhancement of advanced 
semiconductors and microelectronics. As the Department assesses 
and makes investments using funds provided in regular and 
emergency appropriations bills, the Committee directs such 
assessments to include the value of investing in researching 
advanced techniques and upgrading existing fabrication 
facilities to use advanced materials which can increase those 
facilities' capability to produce more effective 
microelectronics for existing and evolving demand.
    Wildfire Mitigation.--The Committee awaits the Department's 
wildfire mitigation report, which was mandated in the joint 
explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-328.
    Anomalous Health Incidents [AHI].--The Department is 
directed to continue to submit quarterly reports on the number 
of requests for assistance, the unobligated balances of the 
original funding provided, and any additional resource needs to 
properly respond to the Department's AHI victims.
    U.S.-European Union [EU] Trade and Technology Council 
[TTC].--The Committee recognizes the importance of the TTC as a 
forum for promoting U.S. and EU competitiveness and prosperity 
through increasing transatlantic trade, investment, and 
engagement on matters related to critical and emerging 
technology. No later than 120 days following enactment of this 
act, the Department, in collaboration with the Department of 
State and the United States Trade Representative, is directed 
to transmit to the Committee a detailed report outlining the 
administration's involvement in the TTC, including the goals of 
the Council, its achievements to date, and consideration to 
formalize the Council as a means to maintain U.S.-EU 
cooperation in these critical areas.

                      RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $1,142,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      16,521,000
Committee recommendation................................       1,142,000

    The Committee recommendation provides $1,412,000, which is 
equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $15,379,000 
below the budget request, for continuing renovation activities 
at the Herbert C. Hoover Building.

                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $48,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      53,326,000
Committee recommendation................................      48,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $48,000,000 for the 
OIG. The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $5,326,000 below the budget request.
    In addition to funds provided under this heading, the 
Committee recommends a transfer of $2,450,000 from USPTO to the 
OIG to support activities associated with carrying out 
investigations and audits related to the USPTO. The Committee 
directs the OIG to continue to perform strict oversight 
activities for NOAA vessel and satellite procurements, 
cybersecurity, census data collection, and the Business 
Applications Solution [BAS] modernization.
    Working Capital Fund Audits.--The Committee continues to 
direct the OIG to audit all of the working capital funds within 
the Department to evaluate the Department's budgetary controls 
over all funds. The OIG shall assess: the controls in place to 
develop reimbursement formulas; the relationship of 
reimbursements to client services; the appropriateness of the 
level of fund balances; and compliance with appropriations law 
and direction. As part of this assessment, the OIG shall pay 
particular attention to the increasing amounts of funding 
needed to support the Department's Office of General Counsel 
[OGC], including the justification and metrics for how such 
funding is being levied against each agency and, reciprocally, 
how the agencies account for the services they receive from the 
OGC. If at any point during these audits the OIG encounters 
problems with accessing any necessary information or data from 
the Department, the OIG is directed to notify the Committee 
immediately.
    Audits and Investigations.--The Committee believes that 
robust investigations and audits are essential to rooting out 
waste, fraud, and abuse, but that limiting inquiries only to 
individuals in the Department does not necessarily lead to 
comprehensive findings and recommendations. The Committee 
directs the OIG to modify its policies and procedures to ensure 
that investigations or reports include interviews with all 
parties to the project or program in question, including, but 
not limited to, contractors responsible for projects under 
review. The Committee cautions the OIG against issuing 
preliminary findings prior to interviewing a majority of the 
entities involved with the program or project under 
investigation, unless the OIG believes the findings are time 
sensitive or additional interviews are immaterial.

               General Provisions--Department of Commerce


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    Section 101 makes Department 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 salaries and expenses 
available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles, and for 
services, uniforms, and allowances as authorized by law.
    Section 103 provides the authority to transfer funds 
between Department accounts. The provision makes transfers 
subject to the Committee's standard reprogramming procedures 
and requires notification to the Committee prior to capital 
asset disposal.
    Section 104 extends congressional notification requirements 
and codifies the life cycle costs for NOAA satellite programs.
    Section 105 provides authority for the Secretary to furnish 
certain services within the Herbert C. Hoover Building.
    Section 106 clarifies that grant recipients under the 
Department may continue to deter child pornography, copyright 
infringement, or any other unlawful activity over their 
networks.
    Section 107 provides NOAA the authority to share resources 
with entities outside the agency.
    Section 108 requires that, before charging for 
congressional reports, the National Technical Information 
Service [NTIS] advise the public of free ways to receive or 
access these reports. For those reports that cannot be found 
free of charge or when a customer requires a mailed, hard copy, 
NTIS may only charge a de minimis copying and mailing fee.
    Section 109 allows NOAA to be reimbursed by Federal and 
non-Federal entities for performing certain activities. The 
Committee remains concerned that agreements for offsetting 
collections provided for under this section could result in a 
conflict of interest, or the appearance of a conflict of 
interest, for the Department. The Department is directed to 
exercise caution and consider any unintended consequences that 
could result from such agreements including, but not limited 
to, augmentation of appropriations, initiation of new programs 
not authorized by this act or any other act of Congress, and 
liabilities extending beyond the period of any such agreement. 
The Department shall provide to the Committee monthly updates 
on all offsetting fee collections, including each entity 
participating in the agreement, as well as the terms of and 
specific activities funded by the agreement. Additionally, 
estimates of anticipated fee collections shall be included in 
the Department's annual spend plans. To further ensure the 
Committee maintains sufficient oversight for activities carried 
out under this section, language is included specifying that 
any offsetting collection would require the consent of each 
party subject to the agreement and all offsetting collections 
shall be subject to procedures set forth by section 505 of this 
act.
    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 (Public Law 92-583).
    Section 113 allows for the establishment of a recreational 
quota entity through which halibut quota may be traded between 
commercial and recreational fishing entities.
    Section 114 sets limitations on the Department's ability to 
obligate unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds 
transferred to the Nonrecurring Expenses Fund.
    Section 115 allows for the establishment of Cooperative 
Aviation Centers to aid in the recruitment of aviators for the 
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps.
    Section 116 allows for the modification of the Ketchikan 
port facility.

                                TITLE II

                         DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

    The Committee recommends a total of $37,956,590,000 for the 
Department of Justice [DOJ]. The recommendation is $761,324,000 
below the fiscal year 2023 funding level and $3,447,081,000 
below the budget request. The Committee's recommendation 
emphasizes key funding priorities in support of the 
Department's critical missions and activities to protect the 
safety, security, and rights of our citizens.
    Responding to Opioids, Methamphetamine, Synthetic Drugs, 
and Substance Abuse in Our Communities.--The Committee 
continues its commitment to helping States and local 
communities in the fight against opioids, methamphetamine, 
synthetic drugs, and the illegal diversion of prescription 
drugs through comprehensive programs covering law enforcement, 
prevention, and treatment. The Committee provides a total of 
$611,500,000 in DOJ grant funding to help State and local 
partners tackle these epidemics, an increase of $3,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2023 level. The Committee provides 
$2,589,000,000 for the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], 
an increase of $25,884,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level.
    Strengthening Police-Community Relations.--The Committee 
continues to recognize and support the important need for 
lasting collaborative relationships between local police and 
the public. Strong partnerships between the police and the 
communities they protect ensure that citizens' civil rights are 
protected, foster ongoing open communication, improve officer 
safety, and reduce crime. The Committee provides $226,000,000 
for State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance and Community 
Oriented Policing Services [COPS] Office grant programs related 
to police-community relations
    Crime Victims Fund.--The Committee renews its concern about 
the solvency of the Crime Victims Fund [CVF] and its ability to 
continue to support compensation to and services for survivors 
of crime in future years. The Committee remains concerned about 
declining deposits, specifically including the lack of 
predictability as to when the proceeds from criminal fines, 
penalties, settlements and other sources will be deposited in 
the CVF. It is exceptionally difficult for the Committee to 
plan without greater insight into potential future proceeds for 
the CVF. The Committee directs the Department to submit a plan 
within 120 days of enactment of this act to establish a system 
to track payments from concluded cases that may result in 
deposits into the CVF.
    Trafficking in Persons.--The Department shall dedicate no 
less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted levels for the Human 
Trafficking Prosecution Unit [HTPU], the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation [FBI], and the U.S. Attorneys' Offices [USAO] to 
investigate and prosecute crimes of human trafficking. The 
Committee continues to encourage the HTPU and Anti-Trafficking 
Coordination Teams to continue working with victim service 
providers and non-governmental organizations to ensure the 
prioritization of victim needs as part of the overall strategy 
to combat human trafficking and forced labor in the United 
States.
    The Committee is concerned about the relatively low number 
of dedicated FBI agents assigned to human trafficking cases, 
especially in rural communities. The Committee continues to 
expect the designation of a lead agent in each FBI field office 
as a point of contact for slavery and human trafficking 
investigations, and encourages the FBI to assign at least one 
full-time agent dedicated to investigating human trafficking 
and related crimes in each State. The Committee directs the 
Executive Office for United States Attorneys [EOUSA], in 
consultation with the United States Attorneys, to provide 
sufficient support and training and technical assistance to 
each Assistant U.S. Attorney designated as the lead human 
trafficking prosecutor, consistent with the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act. As communication and coordination across the 
Federal Government are critical to supporting survivors of 
trafficking, the Committee encourages EOUSA, in consultation 
with the Department of Homeland Security, to develop a process 
to enable survivors with T-visas to obtain an expedited letter 
of support from the DOJ when their criminal cases close, and to 
submit a report on a plan for ensuring that requests for 
letters can be processed in less than 3 months. This plan shall 
be submitted within 90 days of enactment of this act.
    Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Interagency 
Coordination.--The Committee recognizes the benefit of 
interagency coordination to combat human trafficking, child 
sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse material. The 
Committee directs the Department to establish an interagency 
working group, in coordination with relevant Federal agencies, 
to improve coordination and case de-confliction as well as 
support to survivors. The joint explanatory statement 
accompanying Public Law 117-328 directed the Department to 
submit a report on the status of this working group within 60 
days of enactment, and the Department has failed to do so. The 
Committee directs the immediate submission of this report. The 
Department is further directed to submit an interim report on 
this working group effort within 180 days of enactment of this 
act, and a final report within 1 year of enactment of this act.
    Domestic Trafficking Victims Fund Special Assessments.--
Section 101 of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 
2015 (Public Law 114-22) mandated the collection of a $5,000 
special assessment from persons convicted of certain Federal 
offenses related to human trafficking and sexual exploitation. 
Funds from this special assessment are to be deposited into the 
Domestic Trafficking Victims' Fund operated by the Department. 
The Committee encourages the Attorney General to use funds 
provided under this bill to ensure that Assistant U.S. 
Attorneys are specifically trained on the mandatory nature and 
enforcement of this special assessment, including the 
imposition of liens under 18 U.S.C. 3613, to provide additional 
funding, resources, and services for the victims of human 
trafficking and law enforcement officials involved in the 
elimination of this crime.
    Section 105(c) of the Abolish Trafficking Reauthorization 
Act [ATRA], which was passed on January 5, 2023, eliminated the 
sunset date in title 18, section 3014(a) by striking the phrase 
``and ending on December 16, 2021.'' However, as a result of 
recent amendments to 18 U.S.C. 3014(a), the sunset date had 
previously been extended to December 23, 2022, and then to 
December 23, 2024. As a result, the text that the ATRA 
purported to strike no longer existed. Nevertheless, the 
Committee finds that Congress clearly intended to strike any 
expiration date without inserting a substitute expiration date, 
thereby eliminating any expiration date from this provision. 
This finding is based on the clear contrast to prior amendments 
of section 3014(a)'s expiration date since its initial 
enactment in 2015, which consistently inserted new expiration 
dates when striking prior expiration dates.
    Human Trafficking Justice Coordinators.--The Committee 
appreciates the recent appointment of a National Human 
Trafficking Coordinator, consistent with the requirements of 
section 15 of the Abolish Human Trafficking Act (Public Law 
115-392). The Committee directs the Department to continue to 
comply with all requirements of Public Law 115-392, including 
the appointment of human trafficking justice coordinators in 
each USAO. The Committee further directs the Department to 
submit a report, within 90 days of the date of the enactment of 
this act, on the implementation of Public Law 115-392 and the 
National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking.
    Departmental Efforts to Combat Crimes Against Children.--
The Committee commends the Department for submitting its first 
National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and 
Interdiction since April 2016. As the June 2023 report notes, 
technological advancements present a unique and unprecedented 
threat to children today. The Committee directs the Department 
to continue submitting this report to Congress every 2 years, 
consistent with the requirements of U.S.C. 21111(b). 
Separately, the Department has not followed the direction 
provided in the joint explanatory statements accompanying 
Public Laws 116-260 and 117-103 to submit a report on staffing 
and funding for the office of the National Coordinator for 
Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, including 
staffing, travel, and temporary duty travel expenses, within 30 
days of enactment of this act. The information regarding the 
budget of the National Coordinator is to be submitted 
immediately.
    Protecting Children from Online Predators.--The Committee 
is concerned with the rise of child sexual exploitation and 
abuse, especially of children that are victims of both online 
and hands-on abuse. The Committee directs the Attorney General 
to identify what additional resources are needed for Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement agencies to successfully 
identify and rescue child victims of child sexual abuse 
material [CSAM] and to develop recommendations for a 
coordinated approach between the Department, other government 
entities, technology companies, and victim services' providers 
to address the rising prevalence of online child exploitation. 
The Department shall submit, within 120 days of enactment of 
this act, a report with this information to the Committees on 
Appropriations and the Judiciary.
    Anomalous Health Incidents [AHI].--The Committee directs 
the Department to continue working with other Federal agencies 
and DOJ leadership in order to ensure that policies and 
procedures are fully executed, including a financial system and 
process for handling requests for reimbursement. The Department 
is directed to submit quarterly reports on the number of 
requests for assistance, the number of eligible individuals who 
have received HAVANA Act payments, the unobligated balances of 
the original funding provided, and any additional resource 
needs in order to properly respond to the Department's AHI 
victims, including those affiliated with any of its components 
or related law enforcement agencies.
    Constitutional Policing.--The Committee directs the 
Department to enforce constitutional policing statutes, 
including 34 U.S.C. 12601, which may require the use of consent 
decrees as necessary, where constitutional policing standards 
are not being upheld.
    Enforcement of Federal Hate Crimes Laws.--The Committee 
remains concerned by the rise in reported incidents of bias-
motivated and hate crimes in the United States in the last 
several years. The Committee appreciates the work of the 
Community Relations Service [CRS], the Civil Rights Division 
[CRT], U.S. Attorneys' Offices, and the FBI to enforce the 
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act 
(Public Law 111-84). The Department shall continue to fully and 
expeditiously implement the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act (Public 
Law 117-13), and report to the Committees on Appropriations and 
Judiciary of the House and the Senate, within 90 days of 
enactment of this act, on all actions and expenditures to date 
to implement this legislation. In light of ongoing trends 
regarding hate crimes, the Committee further directs the 
Department to continue to prioritize this work and to 
aggressively investigate and prosecute these crimes, which 
affect entire communities.
    Combating Domestic Terrorism.--The Committee remains 
concerned by the significant threat posed by violent domestic 
terrorists and extremists and directs the FBI and the 
Department to vigorously investigate and prosecute incidents of 
domestic terrorism. The Committee directs the Domestic 
Terrorism Executive Committee to continue to meet on a regular 
basis and coordinate with United States Attorneys and other key 
public safety officials across the country to promote 
information sharing and ensure an effective, responsive, and 
organized joint effort to combat domestic terrorism.
    The Committee further directs the Department to review the 
anti-terrorism training and resource programs that the 
Department provides to Federal, State, local, and Tribal law 
enforcement agencies, and ensure that such programs include 
training and resources to assist these law enforcement agencies 
in understanding, detecting, deterring, and investigating acts 
of domestic terrorism and extremist infiltration of law 
enforcement agencies. The Committee directs the Department to 
report to the Committees on Appropriations and the Judiciary, 
within 90 days of enactment of this act, on the Department's 
assessment of the domestic terrorism threat, including 
extremist infiltration of Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement agencies and the uniformed services; and an 
analysis of incidents or attempted incidents of domestic 
terrorism that occurred in the United States during the 
preceding fiscal year.
    Human Rights Crimes.--The Committee remains concerned by 
the large number of suspected serious human rights violators 
from foreign countries who have found safe haven in the United 
States. The Committee directs the Criminal Division [CRM] and 
USAO to increase efforts to investigate and prosecute these 
crimes, including genocide, torture, use or recruitment of 
child soldiers, war crimes, and other crimes committed by human 
rights violators, particularly to support the newly-established 
War Crimes Accountability Team's efforts to respond to war 
crimes and other atrocities committed during Russia's invasion 
of Ukraine and the added responsibilities of the CRM to 
prosecute war criminals under the Justice for Victims of War 
Crimes Act (Public Law 117-351). For this purpose, the 
Committee's recommendation supports continued funding for CRM 
and USAO to investigate and prosecute these cases.
    The Committee is concerned by the low number of 
investigations and prosecutions of human rights violators and 
directs the Department to report to the Committees on 
Appropriations and the Judiciary, within 120 days of enactment 
of this act, on all investigations and prosecutions of human 
rights offenses and other offenses committed by serious human 
rights violators within each of the last five fiscal years, 
including the efforts of CRM and USAO to increase the number of 
prosecutions. The report should also include any organizational 
or legal impediments to investigating and prosecuting more 
human rights violators.
    Violence Against Indigenous Women.--In consultation with 
Tribal governments, the Department shall assess and update the 
best practices for the investigation and prosecution of 
violence against Native American and Alaska Native women. 
Additionally, DOJ shall provide an update on the review of the 
sufficiency and prioritization of its grant programs aimed at 
survivors of such violence, including temporary and 
transitional housing, education, and workforce development 
assistance, and shall include the results of this updated 
review, along with the plan to communicate such grant 
opportunities to Tribal governments and organizations, with the 
fiscal year 2024 spending plan. DOJ shall provide Congress with 
a report on the usage and implementation of the Tribal set-
aside funding from Public Law 117-328 that supports programs 
and initiatives in Indian Country and Alaska Native Villages. 
The joint explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-328 
directed the Department to submit a report on the status of 
implementing the recommendations published in the Government 
Accountability Office [GAO] report 22-104045, entitled 
``Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women: New Efforts Are 
Underway but Opportunities Exist to Improve the Federal 
Response'', within 90 days of enactment. The Department has 
failed to do so and the Committee directs the immediate 
submission of this report.
    Combatting Violent Crime in Indian Country.--The Committee 
encourages U.S. Attorneys to prioritize efforts to investigate 
and prosecute violent crimes against Native Americans and 
Alaska Natives that occur in Indian Country, to maintain 
communication with victims and family members about the status 
of ongoing investigations and cases, and to provide as much 
information as possible on any declinations. The Committee is 
concerned about the relatively low number of DOJ and FBI 
investigative resources in Indian Country and encourages DOJ 
and FBI, in consultation with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and 
State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies, to increase 
resources, including additional FBI agents, to investigate, 
respond to, and prevent crimes in Indian Country. The Committee 
further encourages the FBI to increase recruitment, retention, 
and placement efforts in order to fill existing positions in 
areas with large land-based Tribes or with high instances of 
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons cases.
    Fix NICS Act Requirements.--The Fix NICS Act of 2017 
(Public Law 115-141) requires DOJ to develop Federal agency and 
State implementation plans for the upload of relevant records 
to National Instant Criminal Background Check System [NICS]. 
The Committee continues to direct the Attorney General to 
publish the required semiannual reports on Federal, State, and 
Tribal government compliance with the act in a timely manner 
and make such reports available on the Department's website. 
The Committee reminds the Attorney General that the act 
requires these reports to be submitted semiannually.
    National Incident-Based Reporting System [NIBRS].--The 
Committee supports the FBI's transition to the sole use of 
NIBRS to collect detailed and useful data on crime in the 
United States. However, the Committee is concerned that 
published data is not comprehensive because thousands of law 
enforcement agencies are not yet submitting data through NIBRS. 
The joint explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-328 
directed the Department to submit a report on the roadblocks 
law enforcement agencies face that delay participation in 
NIBRS, and on efforts on behalf of the Department to increase 
participation, within 60 days of enactment. The Department has 
failed to do so and the Committee directs the immediate 
submission of this report.
    Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act.--The 
Committee fully supports the goals 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. These efforts are conducted through a 
partnership among the FBI, CRT, CRS, State and local law 
enforcement officials, and other eligible entities. The 
Committee directs that the Department provide $15,000,000 for 
Emmett Till Act activities, including $10,000,000 for the FBI 
and CRT's Cold Case Initiative; $1,500,000 for CRS to partner 
with law enforcement agencies and communities to help resolve 
conflicts resulting from the investigation of unsolved civil 
rights era cases; and $3,500,000 for grants to State and local 
law enforcement agencies for use of modern DNA and forensic 
tools to aid civil rights era cold case investigations.
    Zero Trust Architecture.--The Committee supports the 
Department's Information Technology Strategic Plan for Fiscal 
Years 2022-2024, particularly as it implements the Office of 
Management and Budget's [OMB] M-22-09 Federal Zero Trust 
Strategy. The Committee is aware of the ongoing cyber threats 
nation-states and other actors pose to the Department and other 
agencies and believes that the use of zero trust architecture, 
among other protective methods, could mitigate a significant 
number of these risks. The Committee directs the Department to 
submit a progress report on its efforts to implement zero trust 
architecture with 120 days of enactment of this act.
    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 
the Department of Homeland Security, a 2019 study estimated 
that streaming piracy drains at least $29,200,000,000 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 as 
part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 
116-260). The act provides the Department with the authority to 
bring felony cases against services designed for the express 
purpose of illegally streaming copyrighted works. Because of 
the harm to American consumers, the economy, and the 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. 2319(c).
    Financial Fraud.--The Committee recognizes that older 
Americans are increasingly targeted by criminals seeking to 
swindle them out of their hard-earned life savings through an 
ever-growing array of financial schemes and scams. The 
Committee commends the Department's work to combat these crimes 
in recent years, including through its dedicated Elder Justice 
Initiative. The Committee directs the Attorney General to 
continue to prioritize Departmental resources to ensure that 
reports of financial fraud, including scams against senior 
citizens, are thoroughly investigated, with the goal of 
bringing the perpetrators of these crimes to justice.
    McGirt v. Oklahoma.--Public Law 117-328 provided the 
Department with substantial additional resources for compliance 
with the decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma. The accompanying joint 
explanatory stated directed the Department to report, within 90 
days of the date of enactment, on the breakdown of cases per 
Assistant U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma, estimated caseloads for 
fiscal year 2024, and how such numbers compare with those of 
other USAOs around the country. The report was also to identify 
the number and type of cases indicted compared to all referrals 
received, from which jurisdictions the cases were referred, and 
the general reasons why cases were not accepted. The Committee 
directs the immediate submission of that report, and a 
quarterly update thereafter.
    Reentry Guidance for Prison Education Programs.--The 
Committee encourages DOJ, in collaboration with the Department 
of Education, to develop and provide technical assistance and 
guidance to the Bureau of Prisons, State departments of 
corrections, and other entities that are responsible for 
overseeing correctional facilities on how to support 
individuals who are preparing to leave prison, reentering their 
communities, and either continuing their education or seeking 
employment. The Committee directs the Department to provide 
guidance on best practices in integrating reentry planning for 
participants in prison education programs. This guidance should 
address evidence-based strategies to ensure successful reentry, 
including by securing employment or continuing their education.
    Election Threats Task Force.--The Committee is concerned by 
the rise in threats against election workers, administrators, 
officials, and others associated with the electoral process. 
Therefore, the Committee directs the Department to prioritize 
investigations into threats made against election workers, 
administrators, officials, and volunteers. The Committee also 
commends DOJ for establishing an Election Threats Task Force to 
address threats of violence against election workers, and to 
ensure that all election workers are permitted to do their jobs 
free from threats and intimidation. In order to improve 
outreach to election workers and organizations representing 
them, the Committee directs the Department to make all policies 
and procedures related to submitting threat reports, and 
understanding what to expect after filing a report, as well as 
the rights and protections offered to election workers, 
administrators, officials, and volunteers under current law, 
publicly available on its website.
    Better Cybercrime Metrics Act.--The Committee supports the 
directives described for DOJ in the Better Cybercrime Metrics 
Act (Public Law 117-116), including the development of a 
taxonomy for categorizing different types of cybercrime faced 
by individuals and businesses; the establishment of a category 
in NIBRS for collecting cybercrime reports from Federal, State, 
and local officials; and the addition of questions concerning 
cybercrime in the annual National Crime Victimization Survey.
    Analysis of Digital Evidence.--The Department's law 
enforcement components increasingly rely on the analysis of 
digital evidence in the course of their investigations. The 
Department is directed to provide a report, within 1 year of 
the date of the enactment of this act, on the conclusions and 
recommendations of the eLitigation Steering Committee. The 
report should address opportunities and challenges the 
components are facing with respect to processing backlogs; 
training requirements for digital forensic examiners and agents 
that use digital evidence in criminal investigations; technical 
and legal impediments to secure transmission and sharing with 
law enforcement and governmental partners; methods for secure 
and centralized storage; reliance on the use of removable 
media; and any resource challenges or gaps with respect to 
digital evidence.
    Law Enforcement Advanced Analytics.--DOJ's law enforcement 
components, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 
and Explosives [ATF], DEA, and the FBI, increasingly rely on 
the analysis of huge volumes of information, including open 
source information, in the conduct of investigations and the 
execution of their public safety missions. Within the funding 
recommendations for each agency, the Committee directs ATF, 
DEA, and the FBI to implement software using advanced analytics 
to correlate open source, commercial, and native agency data. 
Advanced analytics and data correlation can act as a force 
multiplier for each agency, supplementing and providing 
investigative leads and increasing velocity of investigations.
    Preventing Violence Through Community Partnerships.--The 
Committee appreciates DOJ's ongoing work on violence 
prevention. However, as incidents of trauma continue to rise, 
the Committee encourages DOJ, including the Bureau of Justice 
Assistance and the Office for Victims of Crime, to develop 
innovative approaches to reduce the incidence of reinjury and 
reincarceration caused by intentional violent trauma. Efforts 
may include facilitating partnerships between community and 
hospital-based violence intervention and prevention programs 
that focus on individuals at highest risk for experiencing 
community violence. This may be done through partnerships with 
trauma centers and non-profit entities, such as community-based 
violence prevention programs, providing technical assistance, 
and facilitating or conducting research of hospital-based 
violence prevention programs.
    Attorney Compensation Comparability Study.--Assistant 
United States Attorneys are compensated on the Administratively 
Determined [AD] pay scale, while nearly all other Department 
attorneys are compensated on the General Schedule [GS] or are 
members of the Senior Executive Service. The Department is 
directed to provide a briefing on pay comparability between 
Department attorneys on the AD scale and Department attorneys 
on the GS scale. The briefing shall: (1) assess the degree to 
which attorneys with similar education, experience, and years 
of service are compensated differently on the GS and AD scales; 
(2) identify the resources required to address any substantive 
differences in compensation; and (3) analyze key human capital 
metrics, including retention and satisfaction, to determine if 
scale-based disparity in compensation impacts the execution of 
the Department's missions. The Department is directed to 
provide this briefing within 6 months of the date of enactment 
of this act.
    Law Enforcement in the United States Antarctic Program 
[USAP].--Law enforcement responsibilities at the Antarctic 
research sites of the National Science Foundation [NSF] are 
vested in the McMurdo Station Manager. Pursuant to a 1992 
memorandum from the Deputy Attorney General, the U.S. Marshals 
Service appoints the Station Manager as a Special Deputy U.S. 
Marshal. The Committee is aware of concerns regarding the 
sufficiency of this arrangement, particularly with respect to 
the prevention of and response to sexual assault and stalking. 
The Department is directed to submit a report, in coordination 
with NSF and the NSF Office of Inspector General, assessing law 
enforcement in the USAP. The report shall assess the 
sufficiency of the existing law enforcement program and 
consider alternative approaches, and shall be submitted within 
180 days of the enactment of this act.
    Departmental Aircraft.--The Department relies on aircraft 
for surveillance and investigative operations, extraditions, 
and the transportation of detainees and inmates, among other 
law enforcement responsibilities. Aging aircraft incur ever-
increasing operations and maintenance [O&M] costs, and the 
Committee recognizes that a deliberate and well-executed 
recapitalization plan can produce significant savings.
    Within 180 days of the date of the enactment of this act, 
the Department shall submit a report that accounts for all 
departmental aircraft. The report shall specifically describe 
the purpose, age, and estimate of the annual O&M costs for each 
aircraft. The report further shall propose a long-term, multi-
year plan for recapitalizing departmental aircraft, in a manner 
that maximizes both the Department's capacity to execute its 
missions, and long-term efficiencies and savings. The report 
may be submitted through classified channels, as necessary or 
appropriate.
    COVID-19 Fraud.--The Committee is appalled by the 
individuals who, in a time of grave national crisis, enriched 
themselves through fraud against unemployment insurance and 
other pandemic-related aid programs. The Committee commends the 
Department for prioritizing the investigation and prosecution 
of such crimes, as evidenced in both its fiscal year 2023 spend 
plan and its fiscal year 2024 budget request. Within 6 months 
of the date of the enactment of this act, the Criminal 
Division, the Civil Division, and the Executive Office for 
United States Attorneys shall individually report on their 
respective efforts to address COVID-19 related fraud. This 
report shall describe: all relevant metrics, including the 
number of indictments and convictions, the amounts contemplated 
by settlements and judgments, and the amounts of actual 
recoveries, by fiscal year and by program; an estimate of the 
scope of criminal activity, including an estimate of the amount 
of losses to the United States Government; and a detailed 
description of each components' strategic plan for addressing 
fraud in unemployment insurance and other pandemic-related aid 
programs.
    Shelter for Victims and their Companion Animals.--The 
Committee recognizes the importance of providing shelter and 
transitional housing to victims of domestic violence and their 
companion animals and encourages DOJ to continue providing 
robust funding for grants under the Emergency Transitional Pet 
Shelter and Housing Assistance Grant Program.
    Illegal Gambling.--The Committee recognizes the multiple 
threats posed by illegal and unregulated gambling, including 
money laundering and the loss of tax revenue. The Committee 
encourages the Department to coordinate with USAOs and external 
Federal partners on efforts to combat illegal gambling and 
associated crimes. The Committee directs the Department to 
provide a briefing, within 60 days of the enactment of this 
act, on investigations and prosecutions against illegal 
gambling operations.
    FBI Domain Perspectives.--The Committee condemns the FBI 
Domain Perspective alleging ties between violent extremists and 
traditionalist Catholic places of worship, and appreciates the 
Department's subsequent disavowal and withdrawal. The Committee 
directs the Department, within 30 days of the enactment of this 
act, to provide a briefing on the circumstances that allowed 
its dissemination and on any remedial measures that have been 
instituted.
    Departmental Consultations.--The Committee directs the 
Department, within 90 days of the enactment of this act, to 
provide a briefing on ways the Department consults with and 
utilizes non-government organizations and non-profit entities 
to track extremist groups operating in the United States, 
including how the Department utilizes investigative reports, 
law enforcement trainings, intelligence, hate maps, and reports 
provided by such non-governmental organizations and non-profit 
entities.
    Spending Plan.--In compliance with section 528 of this act, 
the Committee directs the Department to submit a spending plan 
within 45 days of enactment of this act.

           JUSTICE OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT, AND ACCOUNTABILITY

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $145,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     212,497,000
Committee recommendation................................     140,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $140,000,000 for 
Justice Operations, Management, and Accountability salaries and 
expenses. The recommendation is $5,000,000 below the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and $72,497,000 below the budget 
request.
    The Justice Operations, Management, and Accountability 
account, previously named the General Administration account, 
provides funding for senior policy officials responsible for 
Departmental management and policy development. The specific 
offices funded by this account include the immediate Office of 
the Attorney General [OAG]; the immediate Office of the Deputy 
Attorney General [ODAG]; the immediate Office of the Associate 
Attorney General; Office of Legal Policy; Office of Public 
Affairs; Office of Legislative Affairs [OLA]; Office of 
Professional Responsibility; Office of Intergovernmental and 
Public Liaison; and the Justice Management Division [JMD].
    Timely Responses to Committee Inquiries and Meeting Report 
Deadlines.--The Committee has both budgetary and oversight 
responsibilities, and requests for additional information from 
the Chairs, Vice Chair, Ranking Member, or their Committee 
staff to OAG, ODAG, OLA, and any other Department component 
should be treated as a priority for the Department and 
responded to both courteously and expeditiously.
    The Committee again reminds the Department that deadlines 
directed in report or explanatory statement language are not 
merely suggestions. The Department is to immediately submit 
reports that remain outstanding from fiscal year 2023. Efforts 
should be immediately undertaken not only to submit these 
delayed reports, but also to ensure that full and complete 
information is provided.
    Wildlife Trafficking.--The Committee continues to note the 
dramatic and disconcerting increase of criminal activity 
involving wildlife that includes the illegal trade in 
rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory, and shark fins, poaching of 
wild animals for their parts, illegal capture and transport of 
endangered animals, and illegal harvest of timber, as well as 
money laundering that comes with these products' sale on the 
black market. There are indisputable linkages between these 
activities and the financing of armed insurgencies and 
transnational organized crime that threaten the stability and 
development of African countries and pose a serious threat to 
U.S. security interests. Wildlife trafficking is also known 
vector of the emergence and spread of novel viruses that may 
have devastating global health impacts.
    The Committee continues to direct the Attorney General to 
continue to submit an annual report on the specific steps the 
Department is taking to further address wildlife trafficking 
and the illegal natural resources trade. The Committee further 
directs the Department to provide dedicated resources for 
investigating and prosecuting wildlife trafficking crimes.
    Supplemental Environmental Projects.--The Committee 
acknowledges that the Environmental and Natural Resources 
Division's [ENRD] civil enforcement activity includes civil 
violation remediation through supplemental environmental 
projects [SEPs], which can provide tangible environmental or 
public health benefits to the harmed community or environment. 
The Committee encourages the Department to negotiate SEPs in 
cases where such projects would benefit communities affected by 
illegal pollution. The Committee appreciates the DOJ's guidance 
on use of SEPs in civil enforcement alongside other enforcement 
authorities, and further encourages the Department to consider 
remaining barriers to their incorporation.
    Animal Welfare Act Enforcement.--The Committee directs the 
Department to review and revise its on-boarding education 
materials and practices for new litigating attorneys to ensure 
a thorough explanation regarding the prosecution of Animal 
Welfare Act [AWA] violations, including handling referrals from 
other Federal agencies or law enforcement entities. The 
Committee further directs the Department to develop a plan for 
the distribution of this same information to litigating 
attorneys currently working within the Department to ensure 
they too are aware of the Department's responsibilities under 
the AWA.
    The Department is also directed to review its agreements 
and memoranda of understanding with other key Federal agencies 
to ensure that AWA violation referrals can be easily reported 
and swiftly reviewed and ensure that the Department is 
receiving the necessary information concerning violations from 
other agencies. The Department shall report to the Committee 
within 90 days of enactment of this act on its efforts to 
increase Departmental awareness of AWA litigation and the 
inter-agency referral process.
    Voting Rights.--The Attorney General is directed to 
prioritize resources to enforce the civil provisions of Federal 
laws that protect the right to vote, including the Voting 
Rights Act, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting 
Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote 
Act, and the Civil Rights Acts.
    FedRAMP Certification.--The Committee encourages the 
Department to ensure that small, medium, minority-owned, and 
veteran-owned business are not unfairly precluded from 
contracting opportunities with the Department due to avoidable 
and unnecessary burdens in the FedRAMP certification process.
    Voting-related Activities.--The Committee directs the 
Department to provide a briefing, no later than 90 days after 
the enactment of this act, regarding any strategic plans 
developed by the Department since January 20, 2021, outlining 
the ways that the Department is implementing Executive Order 
14019, Promoting Access to Voting.

                 JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $138,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     193,630,000
Committee recommendation................................      50,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $50,000,000 for 
Justice Information Sharing Technology. The recommendation is 
$88,000,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$143,630,000 below the budget request.

                EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $860,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,455,316,000
Committee recommendation................................     869,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $869,000,000 for 
the Executive Office for Immigration Review [EOIR], of which 
$4,000,000 is a transfer from the U.S. Citizenship and 
Immigration Services Immigration Examinations Fee account. The 
recommendation is $9,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level and $586,316,000 below the budget request. This account 
funds EOIR, including the Board of Immigration Appeals [BIA], 
immigration judges, and administrative law judges who decide 
through administrative hearings whether to admit or exclude 
aliens seeking to enter the country and whether to deport or 
adjust the status of aliens whose status has been challenged.
    Case Backlog and Reporting Requirements.--The Committee 
remains deeply concerned by the growing backlog of cases in our 
immigration courts. The current caseload exceeds 2 million 
cases.
    The Committee continues to direct the Department to submit 
an updated immigration judge [IJ] team cost break out, which 
should include salary, position, interpretation contract costs, 
and rent and facility costs, in its monthly hiring reports to 
the Committee. There should be a standardized baseline for what 
constitutes an IJ team cost, and when there are deviations from 
this baseline, EOIR shall include this in its monthly report by 
court location.
    As directed in the joint explanatory statement accompanying 
Public Law 117-328, EOIR shall continue to submit monthly 
performance and operating reports detailing the backlog of 
cases and the hiring of new IJ teams. These reports shall 
continue to include the cost break outs for IJ teams. As part 
of the monthly reporting requirement, EOIR shall continue to 
report on any IJs sent on a temporary basis to any court 
outside of their assigned location including the number of days 
designated for the temporary assignment, the location of the 
temporary assignment, and the IJs home location. The Committee 
believes that consistent policies regarding docket management 
and case adjudication will also allow IJs to reduce the 
overwhelming backlog. The Committee directs EOIR to continue to 
make its hiring processes for new IJs publicly available and to 
update its website within 30 days if any of the IJ hiring 
processes or rules change.
    Additionally, the Committee directs EOIR to report on the 
implementation of its case processing time standards and 
quotas, including how many judges met those metrics; how those 
metrics have affected the case backlog; and any employment 
actions taken against IJs as a result of these metrics. EOIR 
shall update the Committee if any of the IJ hiring, training, 
or performance management processes or rules change.
    Immigration Judge Hiring.--The Committee understands that a 
large number of supervisory IJ positions at EOIR were created 
in prior years, reducing the number of IJs available to 
adjudicate cases. The Attorney General shall ensure that IJs 
hired in fiscal year 2024 will adjudicate cases as their 
primary function. The Committee directs the Department to 
continue filling vacant IJ and BIA positions with highly 
qualified individuals who are trained to conduct fair and 
impartial adjudications. The Committee further directs EOIR to 
select individuals from a diverse pool of candidates to include 
candidates with non-governmental, academic, and private bar 
experience, to conduct fair, impartial hearings consistent with 
due process.
    Immigration Judge Training.--The Committee directs EOIR to 
review its training, to retrain all judges currently on a 
probationary period, and to increase the frequency and 
availability of training for IJs outside the probationary 
period. The Committee directs the Department to ensure IJ 
training emphasizes due process, humanitarian protections, and 
cultural sensitivity and includes diverse training faculty, 
including from the private bar, the non-governmental 
organization [NGO] community, and academia.
    Videoteleconferencing [VTC].--The Committee directs EOIR to 
make publicly available on its website all policies and 
procedures related to EOIR's use of VTC, including policies and 
procedures for immigration adjudication centers.
    EOIR shall also provide publicly on its website a list of 
locations where immigration judges are stationed and detailed, 
the corresponding docket location, and type of docket. The 
Committee directs EOIR to require immigration judges to 
consistently input each time a master calendar or individual 
merits hearing was conducted via video to allow for data 
collection on the use and impact of VTC. To get feedback on the 
use of VTC hearings, the agency should, in conjunction with a 
stakeholder working group, create uniform standards for issues 
such as when a hearing must be adjourned; how to access real-
time technical assistance; filing and presentation of evidence; 
camera placement; and interpretation best practices.
    The Committee directs EOIR to continue to provide quarterly 
reports to the Committee on the number and type of hearings 
conducted by VTC as described in the fiscal year 2020 joint 
explanatory statement and reaffirmed in the fiscal year 2022 
and fiscal year 2023 joint explanatory statements, including 
data on appeals related to the use of VTC and the number of in-
person hearing motions filed and their outcomes. Statistics 
should be broken out by representation, family unit, and 
detention statuses.
    Interpretation Transparency.--EOIR is directed to continue 
to ensure appropriate language access is available for all 
respondents, including indigenous language speakers, and should 
inform the Committee of special resource needs as well as 
identify any possible opportunities for sharing of interpreter 
resources with other Federal agencies. The Committee further 
directs that EOIR continue to submit, on a quarterly basis, the 
number of continuances or adjournments issued for reasons 
related to interpretation issues for both in-person appearance 
and VTC, as well as whether the respondent was detained at the 
time of the continuance.
    EOIR Technology Improvements.--The Committee recommendation 
includes up to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for EOIR to 
improve its technology systems, including for ongoing 
development of its electronic case management system [ECAS] and 
the digitization of older paper records. This recommendation 
reflects the Committee's view that such improvements will help 
yield much-needed efficiency gains more quickly than hiring IJs 
and IJ teams alone can. The Committee emphasizes that while 
hiring additional IJs and IJ teams is an important strategy to 
address the backlog of cases in our immigration courts, hiring 
alone is no panacea; rather, investments in hiring must be 
complemented by investments in technological improvements to 
allow IJs and IJ teams to do their jobs effectively. EOIR is 
further directed to continue to provide quarterly updates to 
the Committee on its ongoing development of the ECAS.
    VTC Data and Reporting.--The Committee continues to direct 
EOIR to collect real-time data indicating each time a master 
calendar or individual merits hearing is conducted via VTC to 
allow for better statistical data collection to help determine 
whether VTC has an outcome determinative impact. This 
information is to be provided in the quarterly reports 
submitted to the Committee and should include the number and 
type of hearings conducted by VTC, including data on appeals 
cases related to the use of VTC, and the number of in-person 
hearing motions filed. The Committee further directs EOIR to 
make all policies and procedures related to EOIR's use of VTC, 
including EOIR's immigration adjudication centers and temporary 
facilities, as well as a list of locations where IJs are 
stationed and detailed, the corresponding docket location, type 
of docket, and policies for public and media access for 
locations using VTC, publicly available on its website.
    BIA Pro Bono Project.--Developed by EOIR and several NGOs, 
the BIA Pro Bono Project connects pro se respondents with pro 
bono counsel in BIA proceedings. Representation can reduce 
procedural errors and enables BIA to provide more effective and 
timely case review. The Committee encourages continuation of 
the program and directs EOIR to report, within 30 days of the 
enactment of this act, on the number cases referred to NGOs and 
pro bono legal representatives.
    Legal Orientation Program [LOP].--The Committee supports 
LOP, which was created in 2003 and currently informs more than 
50,000 detained non-citizens per year about their legal rights 
and responsibilities in immigration court. The Committee 
emphasizes that LOP benefits taxpayers by increasing the 
efficiency of immigration proceedings and reducing costs 
related to immigration detention. According to a 2012 DOJ 
report transmitted to this Committee, LOP services resulted in 
net savings to the Government of more than $17,800,000.
    The Committee's recommendation includes no less than 
$30,000,000 for services provided by LOP, including $5,000,000 
for the operation of the Immigration Help Desk [ICH]. LOP 
funding is also provided for LOP for Custodians [LOPC] and the 
LOPC Call Center, including efforts, pursuant to the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 
(Public Law 110-457), for custodians of unaccompanied, 
undocumented children to address the custodian's responsibility 
for the child's appearance at all immigration proceedings and 
to protect the child from mistreatment, exploitation, and 
trafficking. The Committee directs the Department to continue 
all LOP services and activities, including that of the ICH, 
without interruption, including during any review of the 
program, and ensure continuity of staffing and service 
regardless of fluctuations in the immigration court docket or 
in the population in the detention centers served. The 
Committee further directs that all component parts of the LOP 
program, including the ICH, be operated by non-profit NGOs with 
demonstrated immigration law expertise.
    Currently, the LOP activities for detained adults only 
serve approximately one-quarter of immigration detention 
centers. The Committee recommends that EOIR work toward a goal 
of ensuring access to LOP for all detainees, and requests an 
evaluation of the resources necessary to provide LOP services 
at additional sites. The Committee directs that attention be 
paid to geographic equity as LOP expands, and the Committee 
notes the particular need for legal services at more remote 
immigration detention sites that are far from legal service 
providers in urban centers. The Committee directs the 
Department to utilize all appropriated funds solely for 
legitimate program purposes.
    Disposition of EOIR Adjudications.--The joint explanatory 
statement accompanying Public Law 117-103 directed EOIR to 
coordinate with the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] to 
brief the Committee, not later than 120 days after the date of 
enactment of that law, about the steps that each agency takes 
to effectuate and enforce rulings made by EOIR immigration 
judges, once the case is considered final, and any challenges 
EOIR and DHS face in this process. EOIR was further directed to 
provide to the Committee, within 90 days of the date of 
enactment of that law and monthly thereafter, and in 
collaboration with DHS, a report that provides metrics on the 
number of final orders of removal issued by EOIR that have 
resulted in actual removals by DHS during the previous month. 
Such report was to separately identify any such order for which 
the law does not permit DHS to effectuate the removal within 
the period reported. The report was to describe instances where 
removals have not been effectuated due to external 
circumstances, such as recalcitrant countries or visa 
sanctions.
    The Committee renews this directive, and further directs 
that this information be provided on a quarterly basis.
    Furthermore, the Committee directs EOIR to maintain and 
make available on its public website, not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this act, a database tracking 
appeals from findings of no credible fear or no reasonable 
fear.
    Online Address Change System.--The Committee recommends 
that EOIR take steps to develop and pilot a centralized online 
mechanism that enables individuals going through all 
immigration court proceedings to change their address online 
directly with EOIR and automatically provide service to 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    EOIR-NGO Working Group.--The Committee remains concerned 
about the hearing notice process and looks forward to the 
receiving the report directed in the joint explanatory 
statement accompanying Public Law 117-103 under the heading 
``EOIR Working Group''.

                      Office of Inspector General

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $139,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     151,636,000
Committee recommendation................................     142,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $142,000,000 for 
the Office of Inspector General [OIG]. The recommendation is 
$3,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$9,636,000 below the budget request.
    This account finances the activities of the OIG, including 
audits, inspections, investigations, and other reviews of 
programs and operations of the Department to promote efficiency 
and effectiveness, and to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and 
abuse, as well as violations of ethical standards arising from 
the conduct of Department employees in their numerous and 
diverse activities.
    Bureau of Prisons [BOP] Oversight.--Over the last three 
fiscal years, the OIG has received more than 28,000 complaints, 
many involving multiple subjects, regarding waste, fraud, or 
abuse at the BOP. The Committee understands that approximately 
50 percent of all OIG investigations involve allegations of BOP 
misconduct. The Committee continues to support OIG's newly 
established interdisciplinary team, which is working to enhance 
its oversight of the BOP by, among other things, increasing the 
number of BOP misconduct allegations accepted for 
investigation; establishing a routine, unannounced inspection 
program of BOP facilities; maximizing information sharing and 
collaboration; and continuously identifying, assessing, and 
tracking significant risks in BOP programs and operations to 
assist OIG leadership with identifying oversight priorities and 
the most effective use of OIG resources.
    Expansion of the OIG's Unannounced Inspections Program.--
The Committee recognizes the OIG's responsiveness to the 
Committee's direction to create an interdisciplinary BOP 
oversight team. The OIG reports that the BOP oversight team has 
conducted unannounced inspections of BOP facilities, and those 
inspections have resulted in significant findings and 
recommendations related to the proper care and custody of 
inmates at those facilities. The Committee believes that 
expanding the OIG's unannounced inspection program would 
produce similar benefits if applied to DOJ's other law 
enforcement components. The Committee directs the OIG to 
provide the Committee with an assessment of the potential 
costs, staffing needs, and potential oversight benefits of 
expanding its unannounced inspection program to other DOJ 
components.
    Review of the FBI Employee Disciplinary Process.--The 
Committee recognizes the OIG's prior oversight work on the 
FBI's disciplinary process. Most recently, the OIG conducted a 
review of the FBI's adjudication process for misconduct 
investigations and made recommendations to the FBI to ensure 
accountability by completing investigations and adjudications 
in all misconduct matters, even where the employee separates 
during an investigation. The Committee directs the OIG to 
continue its oversight of the FBI disciplinary process, by 
assessing three additional topics to promote internal and 
public confidence in this process, including: (1) a follow up 
on the previous OIG recommendations, including steps taken by 
the FBI to ensure that all investigations and adjudications are 
completed, even if the employee separates during the 
investigation; (2) a comprehensive review of the FBI's appeal 
process for misconduct adjudications, to ensure consistency in 
that process, regardless of the level of the employee appealing 
the adjudication decision; and (3) the due process that is 
afforded to FBI and other DOJ law enforcement personnel after a 
security clearance is suspended. The OIG shall issue the 
results of these reviews, which the Committee expects may be 
completed in one or more than one report, including any 
recommendations, within 1 year of the date of the enactment of 
this act, as OIG determines is appropriate and practicable.

                    United States Parole Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $14,591,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      15,104,000
Committee recommendation................................      15,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $15,000,000 for the 
United States Parole Commission. The recommendation is $409,000 
above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $104,000 below the 
budget request.

                            Legal Activities


            SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $1,138,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,331,046,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,157,300,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,157,300,000 for 
General Legal Activities salaries and expenses. The 
recommendation is $19,300,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $173,746,000 below the budget request.
    This amount funds the establishment of litigation policy, 
conduct of litigation, and various other legal responsibilities 
through the Office of the Solicitor General, the Tax Division, 
CRM, the Civil Division, the Environment and Natural Resources 
Division [ENRD], CRT, the Office of Legal Counsel, INTERPOL 
Washington, the Office of Pardon Attorney, and the Office for 
Access to Justice.
    INTERPOL Washington.--From within the funds provided for 
General Legal Activities, the Committee directs the Department 
to provide no less than the fiscal year 2023 level for INTERPOL 
Washington. The Committee has provided no-year authority in the 
amount of $900,000 to ensure sufficient resources are available 
for INTERPOL Washington's increasing dues payments and help the 
Department better manage fluctuations in currency exchange 
rates.
    The Committee supports INTERPOL Washington's request for 
additional investigative analysts and law enforcement personnel 
in order to support the growing case workload and requests from 
international partners. In addition, the Committee continues to 
support INTERPOL Washington's long overdue IT modernization 
efforts. Should additional funding be needed, the Department is 
encouraged to submit a reprogramming request in order to 
complete this project. The Department is further directed to 
support additional secondments of DOJ law enforcement, legal, 
and other analytical personnel to INTERPOL General Secretariat.
    Civil Rights.--The Committee provides no less than the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level to continue its efforts to 
enforce civil rights laws; expand its capacity to prosecute and 
provide litigation support for human trafficking, hate crimes, 
and unsolved civil rights era crimes; carry out its 
responsibilities associated with the civil rights of 
institutionalized persons and the access rights of the 
disabled; investigate and prosecute police misconduct; and 
enhance the enforcement of fair housing and fair lending laws.
    Civil Rights Violations in State and Local Prisons and 
Jails.--The Committee continues to be concerned by reports of 
civil rights violations in State and local prisons and jails 
and directs CRT to increase efforts to investigate and address 
violations of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act 
(Public Law 96-247) in State and local prisons and jails. The 
Committee directs CRT to use such sums as necessary from 
amounts appropriated in fiscal year 2024 to address such issues 
in State and local prisons and jails.
    Tobacco Coordination and Enforcement.--The Committee is 
aware of a recent independent report from the Reagan-Udall 
Foundation identifying interagency challenges between DOJ and 
the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] in enforcement actions 
against violations of the Tobacco Control Act, in particular e-
cigarettes that are popular with children that are sold without 
authorization. The wide availability of such unauthorized vapes 
has contributed to millions of children using addictive e-
cigarettes. The Committee notes that FDA does not have 
independent litigation authority and the tobacco and e-
cigarette cases it refers must compete with DOJ resources and 
protocols. The Committee commends DOJ for recently acting, for 
the first time, to seek injunctions against six manufacturers 
of illegal e-cigarettes. The Committee encourages the 
Department to supplement interagency coordination efforts to 
improve enforcement action against violations of the Tobacco 
Control Act, with emphasis on e-cigarettes fueling addiction 
among children.

               THE NATIONAL CHILDHOOD VACCINE INJURY ACT

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $31,738,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      31,738,000
Committee recommendation................................      22,700,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $22,700,000 for 
legal costs, to be derived from the Vaccine Injury Compensation 
Trust Fund. The recommendation is $9,038,000 below both the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level and the budget request. However, 
according to the Department, the Vaccine Injury Compensation 
Program anticipates carryover of approximately $11,000,000 from 
fiscal year 2023 into fiscal year 2024.
    This account covers the Department's expenses associated 
with litigating cases under the National Childhood Vaccine 
Injury Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-660).

               SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $225,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     324,821,000
Committee recommendation................................     278,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $278,000,000 for 
the Antitrust Division. Of that amount, $50,000,000 is 
transferred to the Department's Justice Operations, Management, 
and Accountability account. The recommendation is $53,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $46,821,000 below 
the budget request. This appropriation is offset by 
$278,000,000 in pre-merger filing fee collections, resulting in 
a direct appropriation of $0.
    Pre-merger Filing Fees.--The Committee notes the passage of 
the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (division GG of 
Public Law 117-328). The statute substantially increases the 
estimated offsetting pre-merger filing fee collection for 
fiscal year 2024 and beyond, relative to the estimated 
collections using the previous fee structure. The Committee 
welcomes the new fee structure, which will provide the 
Antitrust Division with more funding as its work becomes 
increasingly complex and resource-intensive. However, the 
Committee also acknowledges the risk the new fee structure 
presents: If the Antitrust Division fully expends its fee 
collections in one fiscal year, and economic conditions change 
in future fiscal years (as they inevitably will) such that pre-
merger filing fees decline, the Committee will be under 
enormous pressure to accommodate the lost fees through cuts to 
the rest of the Department.
    To guard against the dynamic described above, and to 
realize the goal of allowing the Antitrust Division to have 
full access to its fee collections without encumbering the 
Committee's allocation, the Committee directs the Antitrust 
Division to establish an operating reserve to weather years of 
lower fee collections. In its fiscal year 2025 request, the 
Committee directs the Antitrust Division to include an 
assessment of what would be an acceptable range of funds--that 
is, a minimum planning level and an optimal planning level--for 
the operating reserve, based on empirical fee collection data, 
market projections, and other factors, as appropriate.
    The Committee is strongly committed to allowing the 
Antitrust Division full access to its fees provided that this 
guardrail is in place, and the Committee looks forward to 
working with the Department to effectuate that outcome.

                        UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $2,632,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   2,870,374,000
Committee recommendation................................   2,670,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $2,670,000,000 for 
the Executive Office for United States Attorneys and the 94 
USAOs. The recommendation is $38,000,000 above the fiscal year 
2023 enacted level and $200,374,000 below the budget request.
    As in past years, the Committee directs the United States 
Attorneys to focus their efforts on those crimes where the 
unique resources, expertise, or jurisdiction of the Federal 
Government can be most effective.
    Civil Rights Prosecutions.--The Committee's recommendation 
provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 level for continued 
civil rights enforcement that will advance both criminal and 
civil litigation, including the prosecution of sex and labor 
trafficking.

                   UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $255,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     276,771,000
Committee recommendation................................     257,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $257,000,000 for 
the United States Trustee System Fund. The recommendation is 
$2,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level $19,771,000 
below the budget request. The appropriation is offset by 
$230,000,000 in fee collections.
    The United States Trustee Program [USTP], authorized by 28 
U.S.C. 581 et seq., is the component of the Department with 
responsibility for protecting the integrity of the bankruptcy 
system by overseeing case administration and litigation to 
enforce the bankruptcy laws.

      SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $2,504,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................       2,610,000
Committee recommendation................................       2,600,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $2,600,000 for the 
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. The recommendation is 
$96,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $10,000 
below the budget request.
    The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission settles claims of 
American citizens arising from nationalization, expropriation, 
or other takings of their properties and interests by foreign 
governments.

                     FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $270,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     270,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     270,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $270,000,000 for 
fees and expenses of witnesses. The recommendation is equal to 
both the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and budget request.
    This appropriation, which is considered mandatory for 
scorekeeping purposes, provides for fees and expenses of 
witnesses who appear on behalf of the Government in cases in 
which the United States is a party, including fact and expert 
witnesses. These funds are also used for mental competency 
examinations and witness and informant protection. The 
Committee includes bill language prohibiting the Department 
from transferring funds out of this account.
    The Committee expects that no funds will be expended for 
expert witness services, including the payment of fees and 
expenses of expert witnesses, from any other DOJ accounts but 
Fees and Expenses of Witnesses.

           SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $25,024,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      28,121,000
Committee recommendation................................      25,500,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $25,500,000 for 
CRS. The recommendation is $476,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $2,621,000 below the budget request.
    Established by Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
(Public Law 88-352), CRS provides assistance to communities and 
persons in the prevention and resolution of disagreements 
arising from discriminatory practices. The CRS is encouraged to 
partner with and support community-based organizations when 
possible in order to better support community-based 
peacebuilding and violence prevention efforts.
    Hate Crimes Prevention.--Within the recommendation, the 
Committee provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 level to 
handle the workload and responsibilities stemming from passage 
of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes 
Prevention Act [HCPA] (Public Law 111-84). The HCPA expanded 
CRS's mandate, requiring that CRS help communities prevent and 
respond to violent hate crimes committed on the basis of 
gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, and 
disability, in addition to race, color, and national origin. 
This funding will maximize the CRS crisis response nationwide 
and enable CRS to fulfill both its original mandate and 
expanded mandate under the HCPA.

                         ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $20,514,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      20,514,000
Committee recommendation................................      20,514,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $20,514,000 for the 
Assets Forfeiture Fund [AFF]. The recommendation is equal to 
both the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and budget request.

                     United States Marshals Service


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $1,705,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,924,488,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,724,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,724,000,000 for 
United States Marshals Service [USMS] salaries and expenses. 
The recommendation is $19,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $200,488,000 below the budget request. The 
core missions of USMS include the apprehension of fugitives; 
protection of the Federal judiciary and witnesses; execution of 
warrants and court orders; and the custody and transportation 
of unsentenced prisoners. The Committee's recommended funding 
level provides for workforce transformation efforts that will 
ensure the USMS builds the most flexible, efficient workforce.
    In addition to receiving direct appropriations, the 
Committee is aware that USMS also receives funding from the 
Department's AFF to augment salaries and expenses that are 
intended to administer directly AFF-related activities like the 
management and sale of forfeited assets. The Committee directs 
the Department to continue to provide quarterly reports on 
USMS's use of AFF funding, as directed in Senate Report 116-127 
and adopted by Public Law 116-93.
    Regional Fugitive Task Forces.--USMS is directed to begin 
establishing regional fugitive task forces in the New England 
and Midwest regions. Should USMS need additional resources to 
fully fund this effort, funding from unobligated balances 
should be used.
    Judicial Security.--Over the last three fiscal years, 
Congress has made critical investments in judicial security, 
including the replacement of outdated home intrusion detections 
systems, establishment of an open-source intelligence office 
within the USMS Judicial Security Division, and additional 
staffing. The Committee supports the fiscal year 2024 request 
for Judicial Security and Protective Operations. Given the 
ever-changing threat landscape, the Committee directs USMS to 
provide quarterly reports on the cost of protective details, 
threat assessments and intelligence, and other needs required 
to protect the Federal judiciary. The costs and needs 
associated with the protection of Supreme Court justices should 
be specifically broken out in this report.
    Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System [JPATS].--
JPATS coordinates and executes prisoner and detainee movements 
for USMS and the Bureau of Prisons. JPATS also transports 
Department of Defense and State and local prisoners on a 
reimbursable, space-available basis. Within 180 days of the 
date of the enactment of this act, USMS shall submit a report 
assessing the utilization of JPATS by State and local law 
enforcement.

                              CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $18,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      24,260,000
Committee recommendation................................      18,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $18,000,000 for 
construction in space controlled, occupied, or utilized by USMS 
in Federal courthouses and buildings, including but not limited 
to the creation, renovation, and expansion of prisoner movement 
areas, elevators, and other law enforcement and court security 
support space. The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 
2023 enacted level and $6,260,000 below the budget request.

                       FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $2,129,789,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   2,125,724,000
Committee recommendation................................   2,100,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $2,100,000,000 for 
Federal Prisoner Detention. The recommendation is $29,789,000 
below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $25,724,000 below 
the budget request.

                       National Security Division


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $133,512,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     144,788,000
Committee recommendation................................     135,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $135,000,000 for 
the National Security Division [NSD]. The recommendation is 
$1,488,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$9,788,000 below the budget request.
    The NSD coordinates the Department's national security and 
counterterrorism missions through law enforcement 
investigations and prosecutions, and handles counterespionage 
cases. The NSD works in coordination with the FBI, the 
Intelligence Community, and USAO. Its primary function is to 
prevent acts of terrorism and espionage from being perpetrated 
in the United States by foreign powers.

              Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $550,458,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     550,458,000
Committee recommendation................................     550,458,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $550,458,000 for 
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement. The recommendation is 
equal to both the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and budget 
request.
    The Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement account funds 
the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces [OCDETF] 
program. The mission of the OCDETF program is to ensure a 
coordinated, multi-agency, intelligence-based, and prosecutor-
led approach to identifying, disrupting, and dismantling those 
drug trafficking and money-laundering organizations primarily 
responsible for the Nation's illicit drug supply and drug-
related violence.
    OCDETF Strike Forces.--The Committee directs the Department 
to ensure that appropriate personnel, including experienced 
ATF, DEA and FBI agents, deputy U.S. marshals, and assistant 
U.S. attorneys are participating in OCDETF Strike Forces in 
communities with rising levels of violent crime.

                    Federal Bureau of Investigation


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023.................................... $10,676,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................  11,324,120,000
Committee recommendation................................  10,825,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $10,825,000,000 for 
the FBI salaries and expenses. The recommendation is 
$149,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$499,120,000 below the budget request.
    Criminal Justice Information Services [CJIS].--The 
Committee supports the budget request for CJIS. The Committee 
provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
the NICS Section.
    OIG Audits on NICS Protocols and Procedures.--The FBI was 
directed to submit a report on NICS protocols and procedures 
not later than 90 days after the enactment of Public Law 117-
328 and has failed to do so. The Committee directs the 
immediate submission of this report. This report shall provide 
detailed explanations of how the FBI is addressing each of the 
recommendations described in both the OIG's September 2016 
Audit of the Handling of Firearms Purchase Denials Through the 
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (Report 16-
32) and the July 2021 Audit of Selected Aspects of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation's National Instant Criminal Background 
Check System (Report 21-095). If the FBI is not implementing a 
specific recommendation from these audits, the FBI shall 
explain whether it intends to implement the specific 
recommendations and if not, the FBI's justification for not 
pursuing the recommended course of action. Furthermore, the 
report shall include what, if any, changes to the Standard 
Operating Procedures the FBI has made since 2015 to better 
process NICS inquiries in the 3-day period. All unclassified 
data shall be publicly reported by the FBI.
    Computational Technology and Capacity.--Within the 
recommendation, the Committee directs the FBI to sustain 
efforts by the Operational Technology Division and the Science 
and Technology Branch, including through partnerships with 
industry and academia, to develop and procure infrastructure, 
technology, and associated manpower to strengthen the FBI's 
scientific computing initiatives. The FBI is directed to submit 
a report, within 120 days of the date of the enactment of this 
act, describing these investments and a long-term procurement 
strategy.
    Personnel Retention in High Cost of Living Areas.--The 
Committee understands there are disparities between FBI 
employee compensation and the cost of living in some field 
office areas of responsibility. This disparity underscores 
national security and personnel performance risks, thus 
affecting the FBI mission. Over the years, the FBI has tried to 
mitigate some of these risks by offering relocation and 
retention incentives to eligible personnel, however, these 
incentives are usually offered for a small duration and are not 
sufficient to fully resolve the problem. The Committee believes 
this problem exists across other law enforcement and litigating 
components within the Department as well. Therefore, the 
Committee directs the Department to report within 120 days of 
enactment of this act on what authorities and funding are 
needed, by component, for a permanent solution.
    Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center [TEDAC] and 
Hazardous Device School [HDS].--The Committee's recommendation 
provides no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
TEDAC and HDS.
    Swatting.--The Committee is concerned about the increase in 
swatting incidents and understands that State and local law 
enforcement are the front-line responders to these dangerous 
incidents. However, the Committee is encouraged to learn about 
the FBI's increased outreach to their State and local law 
enforcement partners and the FBI's newly-created national 
online database to facilitate information sharing pertaining to 
swatting incidents. The Committee directs the FBI to continue 
to support State and local partners as much as possible in 
swatting incidents, including providing resources sufficient to 
support the National online database and by preserving 
information, identifying common traits or patterns, and 
assessing where the attacks appear to be related.
    Human Rights Violations.--The Committee directs the FBI to 
increase its efforts to investigate and support the 
Department's criminal prosecution of serious human rights 
crimes, including genocide, torture, use or recruitment of 
child soldiers, war crimes, and other crimes committed by 
serious human rights violators, particularly in light of the 
newly established War Crimes Accountability Team's efforts to 
respond to war crimes and other atrocities committed during 
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the added responsibilities of 
the Criminal Division to prosecute war criminals under the 
Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act of 2022. The Committee 
recommends funding at no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level.
    The Committee directs the FBI to continue this effort 
through the International Human Rights Unit [IHRU], which the 
FBI shall not dissolve or merge with any other office, and 
which shall continue to fully cooperate with and participate in 
the Human Rights Violator and War Crimes Center [HRVWCC]. The 
Committee is concerned that the FBI's previously proposed 
realignment of personnel from the HRVWCC to its Civil Rights 
Unit would diminish the FBI's ability to adequately pursue 
human rights violators and upset the delicate relationship the 
FBI has created between investigators and NGOs focused on 
identifying and assisting victims of these atrocities.
    The Committee supports the FBI's stated goals of increasing 
the number of cases investigated and prosecuted, growing the 
number of investigators and prosecutors educated and trained to 
address the threat, and engaging more with affected communities 
throughout the Nation but is skeptical that merging 
international human rights into the civil rights program will 
accomplish these objectives. The Committee understands that the 
FBI has begun to incorporate international human rights issues 
in its annual civil rights conference efforts and encourages 
the FBI to continue to expand upon these endeavors.
    The Committee also encourages the FBI to utilize its civil 
rights program coordinators in the field to engage with 
partners in USAO, NGOs, and local communities to create a 
better understanding of the threat, drive prosecutions, and 
encourage reporting of international human rights violators. 
The Committee further directs the IHRU to provide training to 
all FBI field offices on how to detect and investigate crimes 
committed by serious human rights violators, and to report to 
the Committees on Appropriations and the Judiciary, within 90 
days of enactment of this act, on the IHRU's efforts to 
increase the number of human rights investigations and provide 
training to all field offices and opportunities for community 
engagements, including the numbers for each.
    Hate Crimes Reporting.--The joint explanatory statement 
accompanying Public Law 117-328 directed the FBI to submit a 
report on its continued efforts to ensure that all Federal, 
State, and local law enforcement agencies fully report hate 
crimes statistics, as provided by the Hate Crime Statistics Act 
of 1990 (Public Law 101-275, as amended) and the HCPA. The FBI 
has failed to do so, and the Committee directs the immediate 
submission of this report. The report shall include an 
assessment of whether jurisdictions reporting zero hate crimes 
are accurate in their reporting, and factors leading to 
inaccurate reporting. The report shall detail efforts to ensure 
all law enforcement agencies know of the reporting obligations 
and shall describe any gaps in reporting, strategies to 
overcome those gaps, and challenges to the full nationwide 
implementation of NIBRS. In addition, the report shall detail 
the FBI's continued outreach and education on hate crimes 
reporting, including the number of trainings conducted on best 
practices to address hate crimes and efforts the FBI is 
undertaking to help ensure that all victims feel secure 
reporting hate crimes to law enforcement authorities. Lastly, 
the Committee continues to urge State, local, and Tribal law 
enforcement agencies to include the cost of participation in 
the FBI's Hate Crime Statistics Act program for the purposes of 
calculating extraordinary expenses associated with the 
investigation and prosecution of hate crimes under the HCPA.
    National Bioforensic Analysis Center.--The Committee 
recognizes the need to maintain operations at the National 
Bioforensic Analysis Center [NBFAC]. The Committee supports the 
bioforensic analysis and investigations performed at NBFAC and 
appreciates that the NBFAC currently operates under a cost-
sharing memorandum with the DHS, for the FBI to maintain 
ongoing operations at this facility. The Committee provides 
$21,840,000 for the FBI's role at the NBFAC.
    Combatting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.--The 
Committee has long expressed serious concern about the 
sufficiency of efforts to combat modern slavery and human 
trafficking, particularly in rural areas. The Committee directs 
the FBI to allocate additional staff dedicated to human 
trafficking at its field offices with the largest geographic 
areas of responsibility.
    FBI Police.--The Committee encourages the FBI to coordinate 
with the Office of Personnel Management [OPM] and any other 
relevant agencies to assist with designating the members of the 
FBI Police as law enforcement officers, and to make the rates 
of basic pay, salary schedule, pay provisions, and benefits for 
its members equivalent to the rates of basic pay, salary 
schedule, pay provisions, and benefits applicable to other 
similar law enforcement divisions.
    Operational Medicine Partnership Program.--The health and 
safety of its agents should be a top priority for the FBI, 
given the routine risk of physical harm they 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.
    Small, Medium, and Veteran-owned Businesses.--As the FBI 
expands programs associated with its 21st Century Facilities 
plan, the Committee strongly encourages the FBI to better 
leverage the capabilities of established small, medium, and 
veteran-owned businesses. The Committee further encourages the 
FBI to pursue ``industry days'' and other means of outreach to 
expand upon these relationships.
    Transnational Repression.--Within the funds provided, the 
Committee directs the FBI to ensure its tip lines and 
electronic threat intake portals are staffed by people with the 
cultural and linguistic ability to communicate effectively with 
diaspora and exile communities and knowledge of the tactics of 
transnational repression. The FBI should ensure that the tip 
line, to the maximum extent practicable, protects the 
confidentiality of the identifying information of individuals 
who may report potential transnational repression.
    Within the funds provided, the Committee directs the FBI to 
provide specialized training to FBI employees on how to 
identify different tactics of transnational repression in 
physical and nonphysical forms, which governments are known to 
employ transnational repression most frequently, which 
communities and locations in the United States are most 
vulnerable to transnational repression, tools of digital 
surveillance and other cyber tools used to carry out 
transnational repression activities, and espionage and foreign 
agent laws.
    FBI Facilities.--The vast majority of FBI facilities are 
located at properties owned by the General Services 
Administration [GSA], leased through GSA, or leased directly 
with a lessor using GSA delegated authority. However, the FBI 
owns its facilities at Quantico, Clarksburg, Redstone Arsenal, 
Pocatello, and a small number of other sites. Direct ownership 
of these facilities saves millions in rental payments to GSA 
and private lessors, yet leaves the FBI responsible for basic 
operations and maintenance [O&M] costs. To avoid the 
deterioration of these assets, the Committee directs the 
Department to account for full O&M costs in future budget 
requests.
    Respect for Child Survivors Act.--The Committee directs the 
FBI to submit a report on the status of the implementation of 
the Respect for Child Survivors Act (Public Law 117-354), 
including its plans and protocols to use a multidisciplinary 
approach when interviewing all witnesses covered by the act. 
The report shall be submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary 
and the Committee on Appropriations within 6 months of the date 
of the enactment of this act.
    FBI Child Abduction Rapid Deployment [CARD] Teams.--The 
Committee commends the crucial work of the FBI's CARD teams, 
and acknowledges the support they provide for State and local 
law enforcement when a child is abducted. As child abduction 
cases are extremely time-sensitive, and require a comprehensive 
and rapid law enforcement response, the Committee directs the 
Department and the FBI to increase outreach to State and local 
law enforcement agencies, and to provide additional instruction 
on how the CARD team program can be utilized.
    Foreign Surveillance in the United States.--The Committee 
remains concerned by the growing threats of surveillance 
conducted by the People's Republic of China within the United 
States. Following the DOJ's arrest of two Chinese nationals in 
New York City on April 17, 2023, reports about Overseas Chinese 
Service Centers [OCSCs] located in the United States continue 
to mount. Committee Members have requested information and 
formal briefings on this matter, and the FBI has failed to 
provide fulsome and timely responses to these inquiries. As a 
result, the Committee directs the FBI, no later than 30 days 
after the enactment of this act, to provide the Committee a 
briefing regarding the agency's response to the threats and 
risks posed by the presence of OCSCs in the United States. This 
briefing shall address: (1) whether the Bureau has commenced a 
probe into the allegations of OCSCs located within the United 
States; (2) whether the Bureau is aware of all OCSCs present in 
the United States, and whether their respective scale or the 
number of their locations are increasing; (3) the scope and 
intent of OCSC activities in the United States; (4) the risks 
such activities pose to economic productivity; individual 
liberties; and national security; (5) a description of how the 
agency is currently addressing each of these risks; and (6) any 
proposed action to improve the identification or prevention of 
new OCSCs located in the United States.

                              CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $651,895,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      61,895,000
Committee recommendation................................      60,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $60,000,000 for FBI 
construction. The recommendation is $591,895,000 below the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $1,895,000 below the budget 
request.

                    Drug Enforcement Administration


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $3,144,603,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   3,280,924,000
Committee recommendation................................   3,210,719,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides total resources of 
$3,210,719,000 for the DEA salaries and expenses, of which 
$621,719,000 is derived from the DEA's Diversion Control Fee 
Account. The recommendation is $66,116,000 above the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and $70,205,000 below the budget 
request.
    The DEA's mission is to enforce the controlled substances 
laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the 
criminal and civil justice system of the United States--or any 
other competent jurisdiction--those organizations and principal 
members of organizations involved in the growing, 
manufacturing, or distribution of controlled substances 
appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United 
States; and to support non-enforcement programs aimed at 
reducing the availability of illicit controlled substances on 
the domestic and international markets.
    The Committee's recommendation supports DEA's efforts to 
reverse the significant decline in special agent employment 
levels to ensure the DEA has the personnel necessary to combat 
the ongoing methamphetamine and opioid crises. The Committee 
encourages the DEA to assign agents to the geographic areas 
that are most broadly impacted by methamphetamines and opioids.
    Social Media Platforms.--The Committee is aware that online 
drug sales pose a growing threat to Americans of all ages, but 
particularly teens. The Committee directs the DEA to report, 
within 120 days of enactment of this act, on the number of 
reports DEA receives from social media platforms on drug sales 
and activity on those platforms in each of the past 5 years, 
along with an analysis of whether and how such platforms are 
making commercially reasonable efforts to make such reports. If 
social media platforms are not making commercially reasonable 
efforts, DEA shall provide specific recommendations to the 
Committee on how the platforms may do so.
    Fentanyl Analogues.--Given the worsening opioid epidemic, 
Congress encourages DEA to continue its efforts to test and 
schedule fentanyl-related substances to advance the scientific 
and medical research of these dangerous substances. The DEA 
shall report, and make available for public comment, the 
scientific and medical evaluation provided by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services as part of any proposed rule in the 
Federal Register relating to the scheduling of a fentanyl-
related substance. The DEA shall include all pharmacological 
data that it considered, as well as information related to the 
identification and testing of the substance that is the subject 
of the proposed rule. The Department shall report to the 
Committees on Appropriations and the Judiciary, within 90 days 
of enactment of this act, the status of studies and scheduling 
recommendations for all fentanyl analogues it has identified.
    Fentanyl Trafficking.--The Committee directs the DEA to use 
the provided funding to develop a comprehensive fentanyl 
tracking system, which includes documentation of seizure 
location, chemical composition, probable or known manufacturing 
location, and probable or known point of entry into the U.S., 
if applicable. The DEA shall report back to the Committee on 
these efforts within 90 days of the enactment of this act.
    DEA Suspicious Orders Report System [SORS].--The Committee 
directs DEA to take further action to remove barriers to access 
for opioid use disorder medications. DEA must clarify the 
difference between suspicious orders of opioids and suspicious 
orders of buprenorphine on SORS. DEA should also work with 
other Federal regulators, including HHS and FDA, to ensure 
these barriers are removed after necessary clarifications are 
made. The DEA is directed to report back to the Committee on 
these efforts within 90 days of the enactment of this act.
    Xylazine.--The FDA and DEA have issued warnings regarding 
the risks of the human consumption of xylazine, a sedative used 
in veterinary medicine and in farming. Media reports indicate 
the increased use of the drug, by itself or in combination with 
other substances, is resulting in worsening addiction and is 
causing physical wounds to those who use illicit opioids. The 
DEA shall report to the Committees on Appropriations and the 
Judiciary, within 90 days of enactment of this act, on the 
prevalence of xylazine in drug seizures, information about 
known distribution networks for the drug, and potential harm-
reduction strategies.
    Hemp Testing Technology.--The Agriculture Improvement Act 
of 2018 (Public Law 115-334) removed hemp and its derivatives 
from the Controlled Substances Act (Public Law 91-513, as 
amended), and authorized the production, consumption, and sale 
of hemp and hemp-derived products in the United States. The act 
requires random testing to ensure hemp meets the definition 
under the law of having a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol [THC] 
concentration of less than 0.3 percent. The Committee is aware 
that DEA has developed field-testing kits that can distinguish 
between hemp and marijuana on the spot. The Committee directs 
the DEA to continue to work to ensure State and local law 
enforcement have access to this field test technology so they 
can more efficiently conduct their drug interdiction efforts at 
the local level. The Committee further directs the DEA to 
report to the Committee not later than 180 days after enactment 
of this act, and not less than every 6 months thereafter, until 
such time as testing kits are deployed to State and local law 
enforcement in the field.
    Destruction of Controlled Substances.--The joint 
explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-328 
encouraged DEA to engage in substantive conversations with 
industry stakeholders on alternatives to incineration; to 
report on steps the agency has already taken and plans to take 
to implement 40 C.F.R. 266.506 (b)(3); and to review 
technologies other than incineration that meet the non-
retrievable standard. In response to this direction, DEA 
advised that it intends to publish an Advance Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking [ANPRM] by August 2023 to facilitate the 
receipt of substantive information from industry stakeholders. 
The Committee directs DEA to continue this process 
expeditiously. However, the Committee notes that a formal 
rulemaking is not necessary as DEA may already ``deem in 
writing'' methods and technologies that meet the non-
retrievable standard. DEA shall submit, within 90 days of the 
date of the enactment of this act, an updated report on this 
matter to the Committee.
    Digital Evidence to Combat the Fentanyl Crisis.--Digital 
evidence technology enables adherence to standardized, secure 
operating procedures required to legally collect, forensically 
review, and efficiently analyze digital evidence with similar 
rigor and consistency to wiretaps, DNA, and fingerprint 
evidence. The Committee urges DEA to establish and formalize a 
tiered digital evidence enterprise program. Such a program 
should encompass the entire digital evidence workflow, 
including collection, review, and analysis by agents, analysts, 
and forensic examiners. DEA program personnel should uniformly 
deploy digital evidence technical capabilities and training 
across all DEA Divisions. With access to digital intelligence 
technology and training, DEA personnel can leverage 
capabilities like automation, machine learning, and optical 
character recognition to enable sharing and analysis of 
collected digital evidence both internally for deconfliction 
and externally with other Federal agencies and State and local 
partners.
    Sustainable Staffing and Personnel Allocations.--DEA is 
encouraged to continue to review the allocation and placement 
of its personnel, in order to ensure that it can fully execute 
its mission and key agency priorities. In addition, the 
Committee is concerned with the number of senior leadership 
positions occupied by acting personnel, particularly at the 
agency leadership and Senior Executive Service [SES] levels. 
The Committee encourages DEA to fill these positions with 
qualified individuals who are able to carry the mission of the 
agency forward. DEA shall report, within 120 days of the date 
of enactment of this act, on a strategy for filling leadership 
and SES positions, and on its allocation of personnel across 
divisions and offices.
    Preventing Drug Use By College-Age Individuals.--The 
Committee is concerned with the rise of fentanyl overdose 
deaths, especially among college-age students. The Committee 
directs DEA to report, within 90 days of the enactment of this 
act, on its efforts to educate students at public institutions 
of higher learning on the dangers of fentanyl, fentanyl-laced 
pills, and other illicit drugs.

          Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $1,672,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,875,466,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,689,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,689,000,000 for 
ATF salaries and expenses. The recommendation is $17,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $186,466,000 below 
the budget request.
    ATF reduces the criminal use of firearms and illegal 
firearms trafficking, and assists other Federal, State, and 
local law enforcement agencies in reducing crime and violence. 
ATF investigates bombing and arson incidents and assists with 
improving public safety by reducing the criminal misuse of and 
trafficking in explosives, combating acts of arson and arson-
for-profit schemes, and removing safety hazards caused by 
improper and unsafe storage of explosive materials.
    Combating Gun Violence and Enforcing Existing Gun Laws.--
The Committee's recommendation maintains ATF's ability to 
enforce existing firearms laws and perform regulatory oversight 
and training, including through the National Integrated 
Ballistics Information Network [NIBIN]. This funding will 
enable ATF to continue to collect, report, and share ballistic 
intelligence with Federal, State, local, and Tribal law 
enforcement partners to identify, target, and disrupt violent 
criminals, including serial shooters. Funds will support work 
with State and local law enforcement agencies and laboratories 
to collect ballistic hit information to provide leads to Crime 
Gun Intelligence Groups for investigations and document 
successful prosecutions as a result of NIBIN.
    Crime Gun Intelligence Centers [CGICs].--The Committee 
appreciates ATF's efforts with the CGIC program, an interagency 
collaboration focused on the immediate collection, management, 
and analysis of crime gun evidence in real time, in an effort 
to identify shooters, disrupt criminal activity, and prevent 
future violence. There are currently more than 55 CGIC sites 
across the country, and the Committee encourages the ATF to 
work with additional high-risk areas to identify solutions and 
metrics to demonstrate meaningful reductions in illegal gun 
trafficking and related violent crime.
    NIBIN Expansion.--The Committee supports efforts to expand 
the use of NIBIN and to ensure all law enforcement agencies 
have access to NIBIN's correlation services, including through 
the NIBIN National Correlation and Training Center [NNCTC]. The 
Committee 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 and 
consider additional service models to offer departments, 
including Tribal law enforcement agencies, access to NIBIN. The 
Committee further directs that ATF examine ways to expand 
access to NIBIN to State and local agencies in the New England 
and southwest border regions.
    Training Law Enforcement Partners.--The Committee expects 
ATF to continue to provide training to local and State law 
enforcement agencies on submitting trace requests of firearms 
recovered in criminal investigations to ATF. Firearm tracing 
provides critical information to assist law enforcement 
agencies investigate and solve firearms crimes. The Committee 
supports the ongoing efforts of Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement agencies to solve violent crimes and urges ATF to 
provide all possible training opportunities in support of these 
efforts.
    Bomb Arson Tracking System [BATS].--The ATF operates BATS, 
an online case management system which provides State and local 
arson and explosives investigators access to up-to-date arson 
and explosives investigative data from across the Nation. The 
Committee continues to support ATF in its efforts to utilize 
funding to upgrade and fully modernize the platform, which is 
nearing its end cycle.
    Preventing Firearm Straw Purchases.--The Committee notes 
that preventing firearms purchases by prohibited persons is 
critical to ATF's efforts to prevent violent crime and protect 
public safety. ATF has initiated a public awareness campaign to 
reduce firearm straw purchases at the retail level, and to 
educate would-be straw purchasers of the penalties of knowingly 
participating in an illegal firearm purchase. The Committee 
expects continued funding of this initiative, as now authorized 
under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Public Law 117-
159).
    National Services Center.--The Committee recognizes the 
importance of the ATF's National Services Center [NSC], which 
houses several mission-critical functions, including the 
National Tracing Center [NTC], the Firearms and Ammunition 
Technology Division [FATD], and the National Firearms Act [NFA] 
Division, among others. The Committee directs the ATF to submit 
a report to this Committee, within 120 days of enactment of 
this act, on the needs, including occupational hazards and 
risks as well as impact on ATF's mission, associated with the 
current Martinsburg facilities, and the cost and feasibility of 
constructing a new physical structure or expanding existing 
spaces versus continuing repairs over a ten-year period.

                         Federal Prison System


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $8,392,588,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   8,644,290,000
Committee recommendation................................   8,477,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $8,477,000,000 for 
BOP salaries and expenses. The recommendation is $84,412,000 
above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $167,290,000 below 
the budget request. The Committee reminds the Department and 
BOP that all reports, including those required on a quarterly 
basis, are to be submitted in a timely manner.
    Staffing Shortages.--The Committee continues to be 
displeased with BOP's staffing shortages, which were only 
exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Committee remains 
concerned about the lack of locality pay and wage increases for 
Bureau employees, which has negatively impacted the retention 
rate of correctional officers and other staff working at BOP 
institutions. Within 120 days of enactment of this act, the BOP 
must provide the Committee with a report detailing its employee 
retention methods and benefits provided to Bureau employees as 
well as the rate at which these benefits have maintained parity 
with other Federal agencies and inflation.
    Hiring and Staffing Reports.--The Committee directs BOP to 
submit quarterly hiring and staffing reports, including 
correctional officer to inmate ratios from Pay Period 26-2016 
to the present for the OPM position classification standard 
Correctional Officer Series GS-0007, broken out by region; 
institution, to include an additional subset for each facility 
within an institutional complex; and security level, no later 
than 90 days after enactment of this act. For further 
transparency, this data is also directed to be published on 
BOP's website.
    As BOP previously notified the Committee that it does not 
currently record staffing by shift (i.e., morning watch, day 
watch, and evening watch), the Bureau shall start recording 
this data and include these metrics in this report by the end 
of the current fiscal year. For any institution with a staffing 
ratio greater than 15:1 and in which there has been an incident 
involving deadly force, BOP shall provide a separate, detailed 
explanation of the role staffing may or may not have played in 
the incident along with a corrective plan to ensure it will not 
happen again.
    The Committee continues to be concerned about the 
significant number of vacancies in BOP institutions, creating 
an extremely dangerous environment for both staff and 
incarcerated persons. The Committee directs the Department to 
immediately improve hiring policies and ensure BOP is able to 
promptly fill existing and future vacancies and staff its 122 
Federal facilities across the United States at January 2016 
levels. The Committee again directs BOP to provide a report, 
within 90 days of enactment of this act, to the Committee 
regarding the number of vacancies at each facility further 
detailed by job title, job series, and General Schedule level 
as well as the number of applicants going through the hiring 
process for each vacant position. If there are expedited hiring 
efforts the Department can make to ensure BOP is properly 
staffed, the Committee directs the Department to do so, and to 
include these measures and their results in the aforementioned 
report. The Committee supports the use of recruitment and 
retention bonuses and rejects any further position 
eliminations.
    First Step Act [FSA] Staffing.--The staffing for many 
inmate programs have either had key positions removed from 
current staffing complements or have been slow to fill 
vacancies. The programs impacted are also needed to 
successfully implement the First Step Act of 2018 (Public Law 
115-391) including, but not limited to, drug treatment, 
psychology, religious services, vocational services, and 
education services. The Committee continues to direct BOP to 
hire additional programming staff to successfully provide these 
key programs and ensure that each facility has a Special 
Education Teacher on staff. The Committee also directs the BOP 
to hire a Special Populations Manager at each of the BOP 
institutions to ensure that additional FSA programming can be 
provided. Positions that are vital to the FSA should be added 
to institution staffing requirements and not taken from 
existing staffing complements.
    Staffing at High Security Institutions.--The Committee is 
concerned about reports of significant upticks in violence 
among inmates and against correctional officers at high 
security institutions. The Committee previously directed BOP to 
ensure at least two correctional officers are on duty for each 
housing unit for all three shifts at all high-security 
institutions, to include United States Penitentiaries and 
Administrative and Federal Detention Centers as well as Witness 
Security Program units and units housing high security pretrial 
inmates. BOP is directed to continue to submit quarterly 
reports to the Committee showing compliance with this directive 
and to provide a cost estimate and strategic plan for 
implementation for medium security institutions that currently 
do not have a second officer for all three shifts.
    Augmentation.--BOP reports that there is a higher incidence 
of serious assaults by inmates on staff at high and medium 
security institutions than at the lower security facilities, 
yet to meet staffing needs, BOP routinely uses a process called 
``augmentation,'' whereby a non-custodial employee is assigned 
custodial responsibilities. The continued use of augmentation 
stretches correctional facility staff too thin, leading to 
unsafe conditions for both staff and inmates.
    The Committee has expressed its concerns about the practice 
of augmentation since fiscal year 2017 and once again directs 
BOP to curtail its overreliance on augmentation, particularly 
in housing units, a directive issued again as part of Senate 
Report 116-127 and adopted by Public Law 116-93. BOP should 
focus on hiring additional full-time correctional staff before 
continuing to augment existing staff. BOP is further directed 
to submit quarterly reports to the Committee on the use of 
augmentation broken out by region, institution, and security 
level each time this practice is employed. As part of the 
quarterly report, BOP is required to also submit the number of 
hours, and subsequent cost, of overtime recorded at each 
institution. In addition, for each Federal correctional 
facility at which two or more Federal inmates have died in one 
calendar year, BOP shall submit to the Committee a detailed 
report describing each incident and the role augmentation may 
have played in exacerbating the inherent dangers.
    In addition to officer and inmate safety concerns, the 
Committee also notes that augmenting staff means that critical 
programs and services required for inmates under the FSA are 
imperiled when those who provide counseling, education, and 
other programs to inmates are being pulled from their original 
duties to work in the cellblock. BOP is directed to ensure that 
non-custody correctional employees must spend at least 90 
percent of their work week or pay period in their primary 
positions.
    Direct Hire Authority.--The Committee is aware that BOP has 
requested the OPM to delegate direct hiring 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 this authority for BOP facilities.
    The Committee also directs the BOP to review the current 
pay scale of BOP's Correctional Officers as compared with other 
DOJ law enforcement components and comparable State and local 
correctional agencies. This review should analyze opportunities 
to convert the pay band to a higher scale and the resource 
requirements to do so. The review should be conducted in 
consultation with the Department's JMD. The Committee directs 
this review to be submitted within 180 days of enactment of 
this act.
    Overtime Pay Rate.--BOP shall ensure that every bargaining 
unit Primary Law Enforcement position is being properly paid 
overtime at the full overtime rate under the Fair Labor 
Standards Act (29 U.S.C. 203). This includes, but is not 
limited to, the positions of all nursing staff, teachers, 
Special Education Teachers, Religious Services, and Psychology 
Services. All of these positions are considered Primary Law 
Enforcement positions and work with thousands of offenders in 
extremely hazardous environments. Each of the positions listed 
work in a correctional environment, and any overtime accrued 
would be performed in the duties providing a safe and secure 
correctional environment.
    FSA Implementation.--The Committee directs the Department 
of Justice and BOP to fully and expeditiously implement the 
FSA. The Committee is concerned that the Department has not met 
several reporting deadlines and not fully implemented several 
provisions of the act. The Committee, however, is encouraged to 
learn the Department is no longer proposing to transfer FSA 
implementation funding from the BOP to the Department of Labor 
as part of its fiscal year 2024 request. The Committee directs 
the Department to expeditiously expand programming and file all 
required reports no later than the deadlines established by the 
act. The Department shall report to the Committees on 
Appropriations and the Judiciary of the House and the Senate, 
within 90 days of enactment of this act, and every 90 days 
thereafter, on all actions and expenditures to implement the 
FSA including activities and expenditures to implement, review, 
validate, and maintain the risk and needs assessment system and 
to evaluate and provide evidence-based recidivism reduction 
programs and productive activities.
    The Committee directs BOP to immediately take steps to 
ensure compliance with FSA requirements, and to ensure that all 
those incarcerated in BOP facilities have access to robust 
programming opportunities, including third-party faith-based 
programs. The Committee further directs BOP to submit a report, 
within 30 days of the enactment of this act, on such efforts.
    The Committee reminds BOP that Congress intended for the 
FSA to expand BOP partnerships with external organizations. 
This specifically involves the opportunity for third-party 
partners to provide Evidence-Based Recidivism Reduction 
Programming [EBRR] and productive activities [PA]--including 
faith-based programs, taught from a specific faith tradition--
within Federal prisons. Further, the Committee reminds BOP that 
the FSA reflects a singular definition for EBRRs and PAs, 
regardless of whether the program is internal or external and 
does not require a third-party review of external program's 
evidence. BOP is directed to submit a report to the Committee, 
within 90 days of the enactment of this act, on the following: 
(1) an account of whether each approved EBRR and PA is an 
internal BOP program, a contracted BOP program, or an external 
third-party program; (2) any difference in the criteria and 
evaluation process for suitability of an internal BOP program, 
a contracted BOP program, or an external third-party program as 
an EBRR or PAs; (3) the number of external faith-based programs 
that applied to qualify as an EBRR and PAs since the FSA was 
enacted, including the number that have been denied, the number 
that are still pending, and the names of any accepted 
applicants and whether any are taught from a specific faith 
tradition; (4) actions BOP has taken to promote the opportunity 
for submissions of external programs for consideration as EBRRs 
and PAs; and (5) list and describe what program providers make 
up the ``faith-based recidivism-reduction partnerships'' noted 
in the Bureau of Justice Statistics reporting on FSA 
implementation. The report shall also include efforts to fill 
all vacant programming and other dedicated FSA positions, 
efforts to improve transparency regarding EBRR credit 
calculation, the EBRR programming currently available at each 
BOP facility, the associated hours of EBRR credit participants 
earn for participation in each program, and the need for and 
availability of medication-assisted treatment at each BOP 
facility.
    Compassionate Release.--The Committee requests an updated 
report on BOP's compassionate release and home confinement 
efforts, containing the information required by Senate Report 
116-127 and codified in Public Law 116-93, as well as including 
information on the expansion of these programs per the 
authority provided under Public Law 116-136.
    Restrictive Housing.--The Committee remains concerned about 
the growth in the restricted housing population in BOP 
institutions. In 2012, approximately 7.8 percent of Federal 
inmates in BOP facilities were held in some form of restricted 
housing. In 2014, that number had dropped to approximately 6.5 
percent. Unfortunately, the restricted housing rate has 
returned to 2012 levels, with approximately 7.3 percent of the 
Federal prison population currently placed in restricted 
housing, including special housing units, special management 
units, and the ADX Supermax facility. The Committee directs BOP 
to reduce significantly the number of Federal inmates in 
restricted housing, including by opening transition units and 
other specialized units for populations often sent to 
restricted housing and working with regional directors and 
wardens to address the widespread reliance on restricted 
housing.
    Contraband Cell Phones in BOP Facilities.--In an August 
2022 report, BOP observed that ``[c]ontraband cellphones remain 
a significant correctional security and public safety concern 
for the BOP as well as for State and local correctional 
agencies across the country.'' Since fiscal year 2020, the 
Committee has provided substantial resources for BOP to pilot 
and outfit its facilities with managed access system and micro-
jamming solution cellphone interdiction technologies. The 
Committee directs BOP to submit, within 90 days of the date of 
the enactment of this act, an updated report on the deployment 
of these technologies. The report shall identify the number of 
contraband devices confiscated through the use of each 
technology, and shall describe the long-term funding 
requirements for full deployment.
    Camera System Upgrades.--The Committee supports continued 
upgrades to security cameras that will help to better protect 
the safety, wellbeing and civil rights of those incarcerated 
and BOP employees, including correctional officers, medical 
personnel and other professional staff.
    Residential Reentry Centers [RRCs].--The Committee 
maintains its concerns and expectations regarding RRCs as 
outlined in Senate Report 116-127 and adopted by Public Law 
116-93, including the direction requiring BOP to alert the 
Committee before adopting any significant change in policy or 
practice involving RRCs or other recidivism-reduction measures. 
The Committee directs BOP to refrain from canceling or 
modifying any existing contracts for RRCs if another BOP-
contracted RRC facility does not exist within 100 miles of the 
existing RRC. In instances where RRC contracts are expiring, 
the Committee directs BOP to take interim and emergency 
measures to prevent facility closures and the interruption of 
services, including by expediting solicitations and re-
solicitations for existing services.
    Roadmap to Reentry.--The Committee recognizes the benefits 
of making our criminal justice system more fair, more 
efficient, and more effective at reducing recidivism by helping 
formerly incarcerated individuals successfully return to their 
communities. To that end, the Committee directs the BOP to 
reestablish the principles identified in the Justice 
Department's ``Roadmap to Reentry,'' and to begin the process 
of implementing these principles to improve the correctional 
practices and programs, including providing (1) individualized 
reentry plans for individuals; (2) access to education, 
employment training, life skills, substance abuse, mental 
health, and other programs; (3) resources and opportunities to 
build and maintain family relationships; (4) individualized 
continuity of care; and (5) comprehensive reentry-related 
information and access to resources.
    Extreme Weather Plans.--Recent examples of BOP's responses 
to extreme weather events--including extreme heat or cold--
raise concerns about unsafe conditions for inmates, 
correctional officers, and institution staff. The Committee 
continues to direct BOP to issue clear and consistent policies 
and guidance across all BOP facilities regarding preparations 
for and responses to extreme weather events, including by 
establishing temperature thresholds for health and safety at 
BOP facilities.
    Swift-Certain-Fair [SCF] Model in the Federal Prison 
System.--The SCF model has been an effective deterrent for 
incarcerated populations in State and local corrections 
settings. The Committee directs BOP (1) to establish SCF pilot 
programs in BOP housing units based upon best practices 
developed by other applicable corrections agencies, (2) to 
collect data on the effectiveness of the program, and (3) to 
provide a report evaluating the pilot and making 
recommendations on its replication.
    BOP Responsiveness During Disasters.--Within 180 days of 
enactment of this act, BOP shall submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations, Judiciary, and Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs a report covering fiscal years 2015 
through 2023 of disaster damage describing the scope of 
physical damage at BOP-owned or managed facilities impacted or 
struck by a major disaster that explains the effects of the 
damage on inmates and staff, including (1) injury and loss of 
life of inmates and staff; (2) access to health and medical 
care, food, special dietary needs, drinkable water, personal 
protective equipment, and personal hygiene products; (3) 
guidance used to adjudicate early release or home confinement 
requests, data on early release or home confinement approvals, 
denials, and justification for denials and explanation, as to 
whether using home confinement or early release was considered; 
(4) access to cost-free and uninterrupted visitation with legal 
counsel and visitors with justifications for facility decisions 
that resulted in suspended or altered visitations; (5) access 
to appropriate accommodations for inmates with disabilities; 
(6) access to educational and work programs; (7) assessment of 
the cost of the damage to the facility and estimates for 
repairs; (8) the impact on staffing, equipment, and financial 
resources; and (9) other factors relating to the ability of the 
BOP to uphold the health, safety, and civil rights of the 
correctional population.
    This report shall also include agency corrective actions 
that BOP has undertaken or plans to undertake to improve and 
modernize emergency preparedness plans, as they relate to 
natural disasters, extreme weather, and public health 
emergencies and a timeline to implement any corrective action 
plans.
    BOP Facilities and RRCs in Alaska and Hawaii.--The joint 
explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-328 directed 
BOP to submit, within 180 days of the date of the enactment of 
that act, a study and report on expanding BOP facilities in 
Alaska and Hawaii. The Committee directs BOP to comply 
immediately with this requirement.
    Improving Reentry by Addressing Dyslexia.--The joint 
explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-328 supported 
up to $1,200,000 for an initiative to satisfy the FSA 
requirement for an evidence-based dyslexia screener and 
directed BOP to report on its implementation of this 
initiative. BOP is directed to immediately initiate this 
program and to comply with the reporting requirement.

                        BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

Appropriations, 2023.................................... \1\$290,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     179,762,000
Committee recommendation................................     209,000,000

\1\Of the total amount provided for Federal Prison System, Buildings and 
Facilities, in fiscal year 2023, $182,000,000 was included under title 
II of division N of Public Law 117-328.

    This Committee's recommendation includes $209,000,000 for 
the construction, acquisition, modernization, maintenance, and 
repair of prison and detention facilities housing Federal 
inmates. The recommendation is $81,000,000 below the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and $29,238,000 above the budget 
request. Of this amount, $177,000,000 is designated for the 
modernization and repair of existing facilities. BOP shall 
proceed with ongoing planned and associated new construction 
efforts for BOP operated facilities to meet projected capacity 
requirements, as identified in its monthly status of 
construction reports to the Committee. BOP is directed to 
continue to provide such reports on a monthly basis, along with 
notifications and explanations of any deviation from 
construction and activation schedules, and any planned 
adjustments or corrective actions. Within the amount provided, 
$30,000,000 shall be for the development and planning of a BOP 
and DOJ correctional officer and law enforcement officer 
training facility. Before any of these funds may be obligated, 
the Department shall submit to the Committee for approval, as 
part of its fiscal year 2024 spending plan, a detailed 
prospectus, which shall describe the parameters, functions, and 
schedule of the project's initial phases, including the 
feasibility assessment, program office, and NEPA environmental 
impact study.

                FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

                (LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES)

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $2,700,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................       2,700,000
Committee recommendation................................       2,700,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides a limitation on the 
administrative expenses of $2,700,000 for the Federal Prison 
Industries, Inc. The recommendation is equal to both the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and equal to the budget request.

               State and Local Law Enforcement Activities

    In total, the Committee recommends $4,169,818,000 for State 
and local law enforcement and crime prevention grant programs, 
including: $3,995,818,000 in discretionary appropriations and 
$174,000,000 in mandatory appropriations. The total is 
$254,667,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$1,029,112,000 below the budget estimate.
    Management and Administration [M&A] Expenses.--The 
Department shall, in preparing its fiscal year 2024 spending 
plan, assess M&A expenses compared to program funding. The 
Committee directs the Department to ensure that its assessment 
methodology is equitable and that the assessment reflects a 
fair representation of the share of each program devoted to 
common M&A costs. The Committee also directs grant offices to 
minimize administrative spending to maximize the amount of 
funding that can be used for grants or training and technical 
assistance. The Committee reiterates the direction provided in 
Senate Report 113-78 that the Department shall detail, as part 
of its budget submission for fiscal year 2024 and future years, 
the actual costs for each grant office with respect to 
training, technical assistance, research and statistics, and 
peer review for the prior fiscal year, along with estimates of 
planned expenditures by each grant office in each of these 
categories for the current year and the budget year.
    Grant Funding Set-Asides.--The Committee notes the 
significant number of reductions in grant funding for various 
permissible purposes, including training and technical 
assistance; research, evaluation, and statistics activities; 
and peer review; with set-asides ranging anywhere from 2 
percent to 10 percent of total grant funding provided. The 
Committee directs the Department to continue providing a 
comprehensive report, concurrently with the spending plan, that 
details the total amount provided for each grant program in 
this act, the specific reductions taken, the purpose for those 
reductions, and the final use of those resources, including any 
transfers that may occur among Office of Justice Programs 
[OJP], Office on Violence Against Women [OVW], and COPS. The 
Committee expects that the report will provide a complete 
analysis of the final amounts externally awarded and the 
amounts retained internally for other purposes.
    Grant Funds for Rural Areas.--The Committee is concerned 
about the needs of rural areas, especially those communities 
with high crime rates. The Committee wants to ensure that the 
challenges encountered by the residents of these areas are 
being addressed through the equitable use of grant funding. The 
Committee reminds the Department to consider the unique needs 
of rural communities when making grant awards through the 
numerous programs funded by this bill.
    Tribal Grants and Victim Assistance.--The Committee 
provides a total of $139,000,000 in discretionary grant funding 
for Tribes as follows: $60,000,000 within OJP for Tribal 
assistance; $18,000,000 for a Tribal youth program within the 
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention [OJJDP]; 
$37,000,000 for Tribal resources and $6,000,000 for a Tribal 
Access Program within the COPS Office; and $15,000,000 for a 
special Tribal criminal jurisdiction program and $3,000,000 for 
a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney on Tribal land program within 
the OVW. In addition, a total of $65,948,535 is provided to 
Tribal governments and coalitions through OVW programmatic 
statutory set-asides and another $60,000,000 is provided to 
Tribal governments and Tribal coalitions in CVF funding.
    For Tribal assistance grants within OJP, funding is to be 
used to support efforts to help Tribes improve the capacity of 
their criminal and civil justice systems. OJP is expected to 
consult closely with Tribal stakeholders in determining how 
Tribal assistance funds will be awarded for detention 
facilities, including outdated detention facilities that are 
unfit for detention purposes and beyond rehabilitation; courts; 
alcohol and substance abuse programs; civil and criminal legal 
assistance; and other priorities. The Committee directs OJP to 
submit, as part of the Department's spending plan for fiscal 
year 2024, a plan for the use of these funds that is informed 
by such consultation.
    In addition, the bill includes a 5 percent set-aside for 
Tribes within the CVF. OVC 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 provided by the Committee in Senate Report 
115-275 and adopted by Public Law 116-6 regarding grant 
application requirements, accountability, and assistance.
    The Committee directs the Department to give Tribes maximum 
flexibility in the use of funds in order to best meet the 
unique needs of victims in Tribal communities. The Committee 
also directs the Department to streamline administrative 
requirements as much as possible to increase accessibility for 
those most in need in Indian Country.
    Science Advisory Board.--The Committee recognizes the 
contributions of OJP's Science Advisory Board [Board] and 
encourages the re-establishment of the Board. The Board worked 
to provide extra-agency review of, and recommendations for, 
OJP's research, statistics, and grants program. The re-
established Board should be comprised of scholars and 
practitioners in criminology, statistics, and sociology, as 
well as practitioners in the criminal and juvenile justice 
fields, and should be tasked with ensuring the programs and 
activities of OJP are scientifically sound and pertinent to 
policymakers and practitioners.
    Post-Conviction Relief for Trafficking Victims.--The 
Committee recognizes that serious, sustained efforts and 
investments in victim-centered programs are necessary to help 
address the rise in human trafficking, and is committed to 
helping victims seek justice and ensure that offenders are held 
accountable. The Committee is concerned about reports that 
trafficking victims are prosecuted, both at the Federal and 
State levels, for crimes directly related to their trafficking. 
Criminal convictions often disqualify victims from numerous 
Federal programs and impede their recovery. The Committee is 
concerned that removing expungement services from eligible 
activities for OVC grants contradicts the 2017 Trafficking in 
Persons Report released by the State Department, which 
encouraged the expansion of vacatur services.
    The Committee directs OVC to allow the use of funds for 
direct representation on vacatur and expungement for a 
conviction for a non-violent crime that is a direct result of 
being a trafficking victim. Furthermore, the Committee directs 
the Department to submit the report required in Senate Report 
115-275 and adopted by Public Law 116-6 regarding the Federal 
Government's ability to supplement State vacatur programs.
    STOP School Violence Act.--A total of $199,000,000 is 
provided for the STOP School Violence Act (Division S, title V 
of Public Law 115-141) grant program for fiscal year 2024. Of 
this amount, $60,000,000 is derived from the Bipartisan Safer 
Communities Act and $139,000,000, which is $39,000,000 more 
than the full authorized program funding level, is provided for 
in this act. Of the amount provided for in this act, 
$84,000,000 is provided to the Bureau of Justice Assistance 
[BJA] for evidence-based school safety programs outlined in the 
act and $55,000,000 is provided to the COPS Office for a 
competitive grant program as outlined in the act. The Committee 
directs BJA and the COPS Office to work with other Federal 
agencies to notify States, localities, Tribes, and school 
districts of funding availability upon release, to increase 
training and technical assistance for school district 
applicants, and to provide microgrants for school districts, 
including rural, Tribal, and low-resourced 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 to train students and 
school personnel on the warning signs of interpersonal violence 
and suicide for both students and school personnel, and mental 
health crisis intervention, as permitted under the act. The 
Committee directs BJA to prioritize applicants incorporating 
crisis centers and evidence-based trainings for students and 
staff within their anonymous reporting systems.
    Victim Services for Incarcerated Survivors of Sexual 
Abuse.--The joint explanatory statements accompanying the 
fiscal year 2022 and fiscal year 2023 appropriations acts 
directed the Department to explore opportunities for releasing 
existing grant funding, including through OVC's discretionary 
grant program, for efforts that would create a hotline to 
provide sexual abuse and rape crisis counseling services to 
incarcerated individuals across the country. There continues to 
be a significant need for these services and the majority of 
incarcerated individuals do not have access to victim services. 
A hotline would not only help incarcerated survivors, but it 
would also further meaningful Prison Rape Elimination Act 
compliance. Within 120 days of the date of the enactment of 
this act, the Department shall submit a report on its efforts, 
as well as a detailed proposal for the establishment of a 
hotline.
    National Sexual Assault Hotline.--The Committee urges OVC 
to fully support the National Sexual Assault Hotline, as 
authorized by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006, as amended (34 U.S.C. 20985(d)).
    OVC Center for Victims of Crime Act [VOCA] 
Administrators.--The Committee directs OVC to continue to 
provide peer-to-peer training on Federal grants management, 
administration and strategies to increase access to services 
and compensation for VOCA victim assistance and victim 
compensation grantees and subgrantees.
    DOJ Grant Oversight.--The Committee encourages the 
Department to review its multi-year grant award processes and 
protocols to ensure grantees have fully complied with the rules 
of year-one funding before year-two funding is disbursed in 
multi-year grant awards. In addition, the Committee supports 
the Department's efforts to create a high-risk designation for 
grantees, so as to increase fiscal responsibility throughout 
the grant making process. The Committee recommends that the 
Department promptly complete and publish an internal review of 
the program, to inform efforts to implement a high-risk grantee 
designation in other Federal agencies.
    Grant Funding for Payment of Bail.--In GAO-23-106012, the 
GAO reported that based on its review of available data and 
interviews with Department officials, it found no information 
to indicate the Department awarded grants to nonprofits to pay 
cash bond for bail or that nonprofit recipients used Department 
grant funds for this purpose. The Committee directs the Office 
of Justice Programs, the COPS Office, and the Office on 
Violence Against Women to continue to monitor this matter, and 
to report the Committee of any findings inconsistent with the 
GAO's conclusions.

                    Office on Violence Against Women


       VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAMS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $700,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,000,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     732,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $732,000,000 for 
OVW grants. The recommendation is $32,000,000 above the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and $268,000,000 below the budget 
request. Resources are provided to the OVW to respond to the 
needs of all victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, 
dating violence, and stalking, including, but not limited to, 
Native women, immigrants, LGBTQ victims, college students, 
youths, and public housing residents. To minimize fraud, waste, 
and abuse in these programs, OVW is encouraged to implement any 
open recommendations of the Department's OIG with respect to 
the recipients of grants under these programs.
    The table below displays the Committee's recommendations 
for the programs under this office.

       VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAMS
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Committee
                       Program                           Recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
STOP Grants..........................................           255,000
Transitional Housing Assistance......................            51,000
Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women....             2,500
Consolidated Youth-Oriented Program..................            17,000
    Engaging Men and Youth in Prevention.............             3,500
Improving Criminal Justice Responses Program.........            60,500
    Homicide Reduction Initiative....................             4,000
    Lethality Assessment Initiative..................             4,000
Sexual Assault Victims Services......................            80,000
Rural Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Enforcement..            51,000
Violence on College Campuses.........................            25,000
    HBCU, HSI and Tribal Colleges....................            12,500
Legal Assistance for Victims.........................            56,000
Abuse Later in Life Program..........................             9,000
Justice for Families Program.........................            22,000
Disabilities Program.................................            12,000
National Center on Workplace Responses...............             1,000
Research on Violence Against Indian Women............             1,000
Indian Country-Sexual Assault Clearinghouse..........               500
Tribal Special Criminal Jurisdiction.................            15,000
Rape Survivor Child Custody Act......................             1,500
Restorative Justice Responses and Evaluations........            15,000
Culturally Specific Programs.........................            11,000
Tribal Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys..............             3,000
LGBT Specific Services Program.......................             1,000
National Deaf Services Line..........................             2,000
Underserved Populations Program......................             5,000
Financial Assistance Program.........................             4,000
Abby Honold Act......................................             5,000
Access to Sexual Assault Nurse Examinations..........            20,000
Cybercrime Enforcement...............................             6,000
                                                      ------------------
    TOTAL, Violence Against Women Prevention and                732,000
     Prosecution Programs............................
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    Access to Sexual Assault Nurse Exams.--The Committee's 
recommendation includes $20,000,000 for grants for regional 
sexual assault nurse examiner [SANE] training, salaries for 
SANEs and sexual assault forensic examiners [SAFEs], and 
technical assistance and resources to increase access to SANEs 
and SAFEs, as authorized by the Violence Against Women Act of 
2022 (division W of Public Law 117-103). The Committee 
encourages the Department to prioritize areas where nationwide 
gaps exist in the availability and quality of post-sexual 
assault medical forensic care, including rural, Tribal, 
underserved communities, and urban areas. The Committee directs 
the OVW to collaborate with the Office for Victims of Crime to 
implement this program in coordination with other funding 
opportunities designed to enhance the quality and availability 
of post-sexual assault medical forensic care, to include 
multidisciplinary settings responding to the abuse of both 
children and adolescents.
    Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights.--The Committee 
again provides $10,000,000 as part of the STOP grants for the 
recently enacted Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights, a 
new and consequential grant program that incentivizes States to 
codify and standardize survivor rights. OVW did not request 
funding for this new program in fiscal year 2024, and the 
Committee is concerned about this gap in funding and apparent 
lack of urgency from OVW to implement this new program. The 
Committee directs the Department to submit a report to the 
Committee, within 120 days of enactment of this act, detailing 
any applicants deemed by OVW as ineligible for this funding, 
reasons for the ineligibility, and any recommended technical 
fixes to help the program achieve its intended goals.
    Statutory Set-Asides.--The underlying statutes for several 
grant programs, including STOP and Sexual Assault Services 
Program [SASP], outline set-asides for Tribal governments and 
coalitions, culturally specific community-based organizations, 
and organizations providing services to underserved 
populations. These set-asides would provide a total of 
$89,683,535 for fiscal year 2024, with $65,948,535 for Tribal 
governments and coalitions, $17,425,000 for culturally specific 
organizations, and $6,310,000 to meet the needs of underserved 
populations. The Committee expects OVW to ensure that the full 
amounts provided for in the authorizing statutes are released 
to these groups expeditiously.
    Rural Victims.--Victims of sexual assault living in rural 
communities may be reluctant to report to law enforcement. 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 directs the OVW to submit a 
report to the Committee not later than 90 days after enactment 
of this act.

                       Office of Justice Programs

    The OJP is responsible for providing leadership, 
coordination, and assistance to its Federal, State, local, and 
Tribal partners to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of 
the U.S. justice system in preventing, controlling, and 
responding to crime. As most of the responsibility for crime 
control and prevention falls to law enforcement officers in 
States, cities, and other localities, the Federal Government is 
effective in these areas only to the extent that it can enter 
into successful partnerships with these jurisdictions. 
Therefore, OJP is tasked with administering grants; collecting 
statistical data and conducting analyses; identifying emerging 
criminal justice issues; developing and testing promising and 
innovative approaches to address these issues; evaluating 
program results; and disseminating these findings and other 
information to State, local, and Tribal governments. The 
Committee directs OJP to submit an annual report on grant 
programs that have not received a sufficient number of 
qualified applicants.

                  RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $77,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     141,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      78,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $78,000,000 for the 
Research, Evaluation and Statistics account. The recommendation 
is $1,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$63,000,000 below the budget request.
    Funding in this account provides assistance in the areas of 
research, evaluation, statistics, hate crimes, DNA and 
forensics, criminal background checks, and gun safety 
technology, among others.
    The Committee's recommendations are displayed in the 
following table:

                   RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Committee
                       Program                           Recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bureau of Justice Statistics.........................            42,500
National Institute of Justice........................            35,500
    Study on Multidisciplinary Teams.................             1,200
                                                      ------------------
        TOTAL, Research Evaluation and Statistics....            78,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Spending Plans.--The Department shall submit to the 
Committee, as part of its spending plan for State and Local Law 
Enforcement Activities, a plan for the use of all funding 
administered by the National Institute of Justice [NIJ] and the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS], respectively, for approval 
by the Committee prior to the obligation of any such funds.
    Assessment of NIJ and BJS.--Directives under the 
Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Public 
Law 115-435) (Evidence Act) and other congressionally-requested 
initiatives have given NIJ and BJS additional responsibilities 
and obligations. The Committee directs OJP to conduct a full 
assessment of the impact of these dynamics on NIJ and BJS's 
ability to keep pace with cutting-edge scientific practices and 
emerging policy needs. OJP is further directed to develop a 
forward-looking vision for strengthening these agencies' 
ability to respond nimbly to and anticipate future needs and 
scientific developments over the next decade and identify the 
resources needed to achieve this vision. These activities 
should be integrated, where possible, into OJP's implementation 
of the Evidence Act. OJP shall provide an update to the 
Committee on its progress within 180 days from the enactment of 
this act.
    BJS.--The Committee's recommendation provides $42,500,000 
for the BJS. The recommendation is $500,000 above the fiscal 
year 2023 level and $35,500,000 below the budget request.
    Data on Police Suicide.--The Committee directed BJS to 
start the process of maintaining a data set on police suicide 
for Federal, State, and local law enforcement in fiscal year 
2020 and provided $3,000,000 for this data collection effort in 
fiscal year 2021. The Committee continues to recognize the 
importance of collecting information on police suicides and 
encourages BJS to continue its approach to improving the 
measurement of suicide fatalities among law enforcement 
agencies.
    National Crime Victimization Survey [NCVS].--BJS is 
directed, as part of the NCVS, to collect data on offenders 
under the influence at the time of the offense.
    NIJ.--The Committee's recommendation provides $35,500,000 
for the NIJ, in addition to $2,500,000 transferred from the OVW 
for research and evaluation on violence against women and 
Indian women.
    Correctional Education Evaluation.--The Committee directs 
NIJ to establish a public-private partnership with research and 
correctional institutions to collect and evaluate data, and 
continue to advance the research on the impact of correctional 
education on recidivism.
    Study on Multidisciplinary Teams.--The Committee provides 
$1,500,000 for NIJ to administer a competitive grant to an 
accredited research university for a study on the current 
landscape of multidisciplinary teams working on sexual 
exploitation crimes against children, including structure, 
participants, and outcomes, in addition to best practices for 
multidisciplinary teams to improve effectiveness, outcomes, and 
victim well-being.
    Report on Forensic Laboratory Resource Requirements.--NIJ 
shall submit a report to the Committee, within 1 year of the 
date of the enactment of this act, evaluating the projected 
workload, backlog, personnel, workforce, resource, and 
equipment needs of forensic science providers and forensic 
medical service providers. The study should be conducted in 
conjunction with the Forensic Laboratory Needs Technology 
Working Group and the Federal Interagency Medicolegal Death 
Investigation Working Group. The report should review all 
relevant reports and recommendations, as well as the practical 
and applied implications of any other scientific reports on 
forensic science with relevance to the operational, quality 
management, and practical needs of the forensic science 
community.
    Human Trafficking Study.--NIJ is directed to provide a 
briefing, within 30 days of the date of the enactment of this 
act, on the status of the study required by Section 20 of the 
Abolish Human Trafficking Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-392) and 
its estimated completion date.

               STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $2,416,805,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   2,438,130,000
Committee recommendation................................   2,201,139,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $2,201,139,000 for 
State and local law enforcement assistance. The recommendation 
is $215,666,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$236,991,000 below the budget request.
    The Committee's recommendations are displayed in the 
following table:

               STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Committee
                       Program                           Recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants.............           799,139
    Officer Robert Wilson III VALOR Initiative.......            13,000
    NamUs............................................             5,000
    Officer Training for Responding to People with               10,000
     Mental Illness and Disabilities.................
    John R. Justice Grant Program....................             6,000
    Prison Rape Prevention and Prosecution...........            15,500
    Kevin and Avonte's Law...........................             3,000
    Project Safe Neighborhoods.......................            20,000
    Capital Litigation and Wrongful Conviction Review            14,000
    National Center on Restorative Justice...........             3,000
    Ashanti Alert Network............................             1,000
    Family-Based Alternative Sentencing Pilot                     4,000
     Programs........................................
    Child Advocacy Training..........................             2,000
    Rural Violent Crime Initiative...................             8,000
    Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act.....             7,000
    Forensic Ballistics Programs in Higher Education.             2,500
    Multidisciplinary Partnership Improvements for                5,000
     Protective Orders...............................
    Presidential Nominating Conventions..............           100,000
    Byrne Discretionary Projects.....................           159,139
Victims of Trafficking Grants........................            97,000
Economic, High-Tech, White Collar, and Cybercrime                10,000
 Prevention..........................................
    Intellectual Property Enforcement Program........             2,500
    Internet of Things Training Modules..............             2,000
Adam Walsh Act Implementation........................            20,000
Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant                 30,000
 Program.............................................
    Transfer to NIST/OLES............................             1,500
National Sex Offender Public Website.................             1,000
National Instant Criminal Background Check System                89,000
 [NICS] Initiative...................................
    NICS Act Record Improvement Program..............            25,000
Paul Coverdell Forensic Science......................            35,000
DNA Initiative.......................................           170,000
    Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grants..................           130,000
    State and Local Forensic Activities..............            20,000
    Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing                 15,000
     Grants..........................................
    Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training Program                5,000
     Grants..........................................
Sexual Assault Kit Initiative [SAKI].................            55,000
CASA--Special Advocates..............................            15,000
Tribal Assistance....................................            60,000
Second Chance Act/Offender Reentry...................           125,000
    Smart Probation..................................             8,000
    Children of Incarcerated Parents Demo Grants.....             5,000
    Project HOPE Opportunity Probation with                       5,000
     Enforcement.....................................
    Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Act...            10,000
    Pay for Success..................................             7,500
Substance Use Disorder Initiative....................           445,000
    Drug Courts......................................            95,000
    Mentally Ill Offender Act........................            45,000
    Residential Substance Use Treatment..............            45,000
    Veterans Treatment Courts........................            35,000
    Prescription Drug Monitoring.....................            35,000
    Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance              190,000
     Use Disorder Program............................
Keep Young Athletes Safe Act.........................             2,500
STOP School Violence Act.............................            84,000
Emmett Till Grants...................................             3,500
Hate Crime Prevention Act............................            20,000
Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice......            10,000
Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act.............................            10,000
Body Worn Camera Partnership Program.................            30,000
Justice Reinvestment Initiative......................            35,000
Community Violence Intervention and Prevention.......            55,000
                                                      ------------------
        TOTAL, State and Local Law Enforcement                2,201,139
         Assistance..................................
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    Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.--
The Committee recommends $799,139,000 for Byrne-JAG. Funding is 
not available for luxury items, real estate, or construction 
projects. The Department should expect State, local, and Tribal 
governments to target funding to programs and activities that 
conform to evidence-based strategic plans developed through 
broad stakeholder involvement. The Committee directs the 
Department to make technical assistance available to State, 
local, and Tribal governments for the development or update of 
such plans. Funding is authorized for law enforcement programs 
including those that promote data interoperability among 
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.
    Byrne-JAG and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.--In 
addition to the funding provided in this act, the Committee 
notes that an additional $150,000,000 will be released to 
State, local, and Tribal governments this fiscal year under the 
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act [BCSA]. Government agencies 
and law enforcement can use BCSA funding for the following 
purposes, including, but not limited to: extreme risk 
protection order programs, drug courts, mental health courts, 
and veterans courts.
    Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement Officer 
Resilience and Survivability [VALOR] Initiative.--The 
Committee's recommendation provides $13,000,000 within Byrne-
JAG for the VALOR Initiative. The Committee expects Federal law 
enforcement agencies to continue to expand on efforts to 
provide local police with information as to whether a suspect 
has a violent history, to the extent that transfer of such 
information is allowable and available via Federal law 
enforcement databases, in an effort to prevent officer deaths. 
The Committee notes that an additional $13,000,000 is provided 
under the COPS heading for Protecting Our Lives by Initiating 
COPS Expansion Act (Public Law 114-199) programs, which help to 
provide active shooter training programs for State and local 
law enforcement officers.
    Law Enforcement Officer De-escalation Training.--The 
Committee recommends $10,000,000 for a competitive grant 
program to support training and related initiatives (with a 
particular emphasis on de-escalation practices) that help 
improve responses to individuals with mental illness, 
intellectual disabilities, or developmental disabilities and 
others who come into contact with law enforcement or 
correctional officers, including for purposes described in the 
Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022 (Public Law 
117-325).
    Prison Rape Elimination Act [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, but many of these 
changes have not been fully implemented by the PREA Management 
Office. The Committee supports the Department providing the 
necessary resources to carry out this work.
    Capital Litigation Improvement and Wrongful Conviction 
Review.--The Committee recognizes the need for legal 
representation and investigation services for individuals with 
post-conviction claims of innocence. Individuals exonerated in 
2021 spent an average of about 11.5 years incarcerated for 
their wrongful convictions, and 42 percent of 2021 
exonerations--67 of the total 161 exonerations--were a result 
of the work of innocence organizations.
    Given the urgent need to identify and remediate wrongful 
convictions, the Committee directs that at least 50 percent of 
the $14,000,000 appropriated 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 post-conviction 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 in-house 
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 on Restorative Justice.--Of the $3,000,000 
provided for this program, no less than $2,500,000 shall be 
used to continue a partnership with an accredited university of 
higher education and/or law school for the purposes of 
supporting a National Center on Restorative Justice to educate 
and train the next generation of justice leaders. The Center 
shall expand its partnerships with practitioners and 
facilitators to increase access and types of restorative 
justice training and education opportunities available across 
the country and continue to support research focusing on how 
best to provide direct services to address social inequities, 
such as simultaneous access to substance abuse treatment and 
higher education. Further, the Center will expand educational 
opportunities for those under sentence and in a court-
supervised substance abuse program, and, through research and 
evaluation, the Center will disseminate reports on the impact 
of attitudes, recidivism, and costs of the educational 
initiatives. Up to $500,000 may be used to support microgrants 
to innovative restorative justice projects in communities 
across the country.
    Child Advocacy Training.--The Report of the Attorney 
General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence 
acknowledged the need to include curricula in post-secondary 
educational programs to ensure that every child- and family-
serving professional receives training in multiple evidence-
based methods for identifying and screening children for 
exposure to violence. The Committee provides $2,000,000 for a 
competitive grant program to support child advocacy training in 
undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education. The grants 
should support the training of future mandated reporters and 
child protection professionals and support efforts across the 
country to train child protection professionals in the field, 
including law enforcement officers, social workers, mental and 
medical health professionals, and prosecutors.
    Forensic Ballistics and Higher Education.--Subject to 
approval from ATF, educational institutions can join NIBIN in 
collaboration with local law enforcement agencies. Through the 
use of ballistics identification equipment, these NIBIN 
initiatives can provide students with hands-on training in the 
processing of firearms evidence used to generate actionable 
crime gun intelligence. The Committee provides $2,500,000 for a 
competitive grant program for universities and technical 
colleges, to acquire ballistics identification equipment and 
support forensic ballistics programs.
    Rural Violent Crime Initiative.--State, local, and Tribal 
law enforcement agencies in rural areas face unique challenges, 
including limited financial and technological resources, and 
the need to cover large, remote areas with smaller staff. 
Violent crime, including drug- and human-trafficking, continues 
to grow in these locations. The Committee provides $8,000,000 
for a Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative for Law 
Enforcement Agencies, with grants to be awarded on a 
competitive basis to small law enforcement agencies in rural 
locations. Grants are to support improved training and 
technology, expanded community-based crime prevention programs, 
and partnerships with victim service providers. This initiative 
is intended to improve communication and collaboration among 
State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies with the 
communities they serve, to address the unique criminal justice 
challenges in rural areas. Of the total amount provided, no 
less than $4,000,000 shall be for a microgrant program with 
streamlined application and reporting requirements.
    Uses of Byrne-JAG Funds.--The Committee continues to 
recognize that novel equipment and technologies can improve 
public safety and public trust in criminal justice 
institutions. OJP is urged to promote awareness, through 
Statements on the OJP website, in ``FAQs'' and seminars, and in 
solicitation documents, that Byrne-JAG funds may be used for 
managed access systems and other cell phone mitigation 
technologies; fentanyl and methamphetamine detection equipment, 
including handheld instruments; opioid overdose reversal 
agents; virtual reality de-escalation training; humane remote 
restraint devices that enable law enforcement to restrain an 
uncooperative subject without requiring the infliction of pain; 
drug detection canines; and hiring and training of cybercrime 
analysts and investigators.
    Grants to Combat Human Trafficking.--The Committee's 
recommendation provides $97,000,000 for services and task force 
activities for U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and foreign 
nationals who are victims of trafficking, as authorized by 
Public Law 106-386 and amended by Public Law 113-4, of which no 
less than $22,000,000 is for the Enhanced Collaborative Model 
to Combat Human Trafficking Task Force Program. The Committee 
urges that human trafficking task forces funded under this 
grant program take affirmative measures to emphasize the 
investigation and prosecution of persons who patronize or 
solicit children for sex as a human trafficking demand 
reduction strategy. OJP shall consult with stakeholder groups 
in determining the overall allocation of Victims of Trafficking 
funding and shall provide a plan to the Committee for the use 
of these funds as part of the Department's fiscal year 2024 
spending plan.
    The Committee notes that funding provided in this program 
may be used for victims of sex and labor trafficking who are 
minors, as authorized under VAWA 2013. Child trafficking 
victims require specialized care, and these resources can be 
used for items like residential care, emergency social 
services, mental health counseling, and legal services. This 
funding level also includes $10,000,000 for the Minor Victims 
of Trafficking Grant program, of which $5,000,000 is for victim 
services grants for sex-trafficked minors, as authorized by 
Public Law 113-4, with the remaining $5,000,000 for victim 
services grants for labor-trafficked minors. The Committee 
encourages OJP to give an affirmative preference to applicants 
for grants that treat minors engaged in commercial sex acts as 
victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons, and 
discourages the charging of such individuals for prostitution 
or a sex trafficking offense. The Committee encourages DOJ to 
work in close coordination with the Department of Health and 
Human Services to encourage collaboration and reduce 
duplication of effort.
    Internet of Things Capabilities Database.--The growing use 
of Internet of Things devices requires understanding of 
existing capabilities of such devices for training on options 
and best practices for handling of evidence to meet judicial 
standards and privacy concerns. To meet this need, $2,000,000 
shall be dedicated for a separate competitive grant program in 
order to provide four awards of not less than $500,000 each for 
institutions of higher learning that provide training in 
computer forensics and digital investigation to develop a 
database on Internet of Things device capabilities and to build 
and execute training modules for law enforcement.
    Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program.--
Within the $30,000,000 provided for bulletproof vests, 
$1,500,000 is to be transferred directly to the NIST Office of 
Law Enforcement Standards to continue supporting ballistic- and 
stab-resistant material compliance testing programs. The 
Committee expects OJP to continue strengthening internal 
controls to manage the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest 
Partnership Grant Program. Improving grantee accountability in 
the timely use of Federal funds to purchase body armor will 
help every police officer who needs a vest to get one, thus 
saving officers' lives.
    National Instant Criminal Background Check System 
Initiative Grants.--A total of $129,000,000 is provided for 
this program, of which $40,000,000 is derived from the BSCA and 
$89,000,000 is derived from funding in this act. Funding 
provided in this act will be used to continue to improve the 
submission of State criminal and mental health records to NICS. 
This investment will strengthen the National background check 
system by assisting States in finding ways to make more records 
available in the NICS system, especially mental health records, 
thereby addressing gaps in Federal and State records currently 
available in NICS. Those gaps significantly hinder the ability 
of NICS to quickly confirm whether a prospective purchaser is 
prohibited from acquiring a firearm. The Committee expects OJP 
to track whether grant recipients are submitting data in a 
timely manner into the NICS system.
    The Fix NICS Act allows the Attorney General to waive the 
National Criminal History Improvement Program match for States 
that are in compliance with the implementation plan required 
under Section 107 of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 
2007 (Public Law 110-180). The Committee directs the Department 
to remind States of the possibility of this waiver in guidance 
or technical assistance regarding this grant program.
    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. However, many States do not have the resources 
for appropriate technology to implement such policies 
effectively. The Committee urges the Department to ensure that 
grants made under the National Criminal History Improvement 
Program [NCHIP] can be made available for supporting States in 
the planning and the implementation of records systems that 
allow for the efficient expungement or sealing of qualifying 
criminal history records without requiring those eligible to 
apply.
    Paul Coverdell Forensic Science.--The recommendation 
provides a total of $35,000,000, of which $17,000,000 is to 
target specifically the challenges the opioid and synthetic 
drug epidemic has brought to the forensics community.
    DNA Backlog and Crime Lab Improvements.--The Committee 
continues its strong support for DNA backlog and crime lab 
improvements by recommending $170,000,000 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. Within the funds provided, $130,000,000 is for 
Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Reduction grants, $15,000,000 is for 
Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing grants, $5,000,000 
is for Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Program grants, and 
$20,000,000 is for other State and local forensic activities. 
An additional $20,000,000 is provided for Access to Sexual 
Assault Nurse Examinations grants under the Violence Against 
Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs.
    The Committee expects that the 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. The Committee directs the Department to submit, as 
part of its fiscal year 2024 spending plan, a detailed 
description of the DNA-related and forensic programs, including 
a description of the alignment of appropriated funds with the 
authorized purposes of the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant 
Program.
    The Committee appreciates the Department's publication of 
data and metrics on the effectiveness of this program. For 
example, more than half of all matches made on the Combined DNA 
Index System [CODIS] are attributable to cases and offender 
samples processed through this Federal grant program. The 
Committee encourages the Department to continue to track and 
annually report such metrics related to how this program 
contributes to the number of cases and offender samples 
submitted to CODIS, as well as to the related number of CODIS 
matches.
    DNA-related and Forensics Programs.--The Committee 
continues to direct the Department to allocate funds for DNA-
related and forensics programs in compliance with all relevant 
requirements, including the Justice for All Reauthorization Act 
of 2016 (Public Law 114-235), the Justice Served Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115-257), and appropriations directives.
    Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.--The Committee's 
recommendation includes $55,000,000 to continue a competitive 
grant program started in fiscal year 2015 as part of the 
initiative to reduce the backlog of rape kits at law 
enforcement agencies. OJP shall provide competitively awarded 
grants with a comprehensive community-based approach to 
addressing the resolution of cases in the backlog.
    The Committee believes it is important for the Department 
to maximize the results of investments in sexual assault kit 
[SAK] testing through continued research to identify best 
practices for State, local, and Tribal jurisdictions in 
handling the myriad issues that arise from perpetrator 
identification-such as victim notification, investigation, 
prosecution, documentation, forensic advancements, inter-
jurisdiction sharing, and tracking. The Committee further 
believes it is critically important to fund efforts to support 
cross-jurisdiction and cross-site data sharing to identify and 
pursue repeat offenders operating in multiple jurisdictions. 
Finally, the Committee believes that further work to validate 
the extensive cost savings that result from the prevention of 
future offenses as a result of SAK testing is needed. The 
Committee directs the Department to support efforts that 
advance these objectives; and further directs BJA to issue a 
report within 1 year of the enactment of this act on the number 
of partially tested kits.
    Second Chance Act [SCA] Grants.--The recommendation 
provides $125,000,000 for SCA grants. The Committee expects 
that SCA funding will support grants that foster the 
implementation of strategies that have been proven to reduce 
recidivism and ensure adults released from prisons and jails 
safely and successfully reenter their communities. The SCA 
supports activities such as employment assistance, substance 
abuse treatment including MAT options, housing, local 
transportation, mentoring, family programming, and victim 
support. SCA grants will also support demonstration projects 
designed to test the impact of new strategies and frameworks. 
Of the amounts provided in this section, $10,000,000 is 
provided for the purposes of the Crisis Stabilization and 
Community Reentry Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-281), which also 
addresses the mental health and substance use disorder needs of 
individuals who are recently released from correctional 
facilities.
    When awarding SCA grants, the Committee directs OJP to 
consider the impact of reentry of prisoners on communities in 
which a disproportionate number of individuals reside upon 
release from incarceration. OJP shall assess the reentry 
burdens borne by local communities and local law enforcement 
agencies; review the resources available in such communities to 
support successful reentry and the extent to which those 
resources are used effectively; and make recommendations to 
strengthen the resources in such communities which are 
available to support successful reentry and to lessen the 
burden placed on such communities by the need to support 
reentry.
    Project HOPE Institute.--The Committee recognizes the 
success of Project HOPE. The Committee provides $5,000,000 for 
Project HOPE, of which not less than $500,000 shall be directed 
to continue the Project HOPE Institute to provide training, 
technical assistance, and best practices for jurisdictions 
replicating the HOPE model. The Committee directs BJA to award 
grants to support both existing Project HOPE models and new 
jurisdictions.
    Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Act.--The 
Committee directs BJA to ensure that the program includes 
grants for peer support specialists and peer-led mental health 
education classes or support groups for justice-involved 
individuals and families commensurate with community needs.
    Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act [CARA] Programs.--
The Committee provides a total of $445,000,000 for CARA 
programs, including $95,000,000 for drug courts; $35,000,000 
for veterans treatment courts; $45,000,000 for Residential 
Substance Abuse Treatment, including access to any of the three 
MAT options; $35,000,000 for prescription drug monitoring; 
$45,000,000 for the Mentally Ill Offender Act; and $190,000,000 
for the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use 
Disorder Program [COSSUP].
    The Committee directs that funding for COSSUP programs 
focus on prevention and education efforts, effective responses 
to those affected by substance abuse, and services for 
treatment and recovery from addiction. Of the $190,000,000 for 
COSSUP, no less than $11,000,000 shall be made available for 
additional replication sites employing the Law Enforcement 
Assisted Diversion [LEAD] model, with applicants demonstrating 
a plan for sustainability of LEAD-model diversion programs; no 
less than $5,500,000 shall be made available for education and 
prevention programs to connect law enforcement agencies with K-
12 students; and no less than $11,000,000 shall be made 
available for embedding social services with law enforcement in 
order to rapidly respond to drug overdoses where children are 
impacted.
    The Committee supports specialized residential substance 
abuse treatment programs for inmates with co-occurring mental 
health and substance abuse disorders or challenges. Given the 
strong nexus between substance abuse and mental illness in our 
prisons and jails, the Committee encourages the Attorney 
General to ensure that funds provided for residential substance 
abuse treatment for State prisoners are being used to treat 
underlying mental health disorders, in addition to substance 
abuse disorders.
    The Committee recognizes the importance of drug courts and 
the vital role that they serve in reducing crime among people 
with a substance use or mental health disorder. In recent 
years, drug courts have been on the front lines of the opioid 
epidemic and have become important resources for law 
enforcement and other community stakeholders affected by opioid 
addiction. The Committee applauds efforts already undertaken in 
communities across the country to utilize drug courts. The 
Committee encourages Federal agencies to continue to work with 
State and local governments and communities to support drug 
courts.
    The Committee supports the ability of drug courts to 
address offenders with co-occurring substance abuse and mental 
health problems, and supports court ordered assisted outpatient 
treatment programs for individuals struggling with mental 
illness. Within the funding provided for drug courts, the 
Committee encourages OJP to give attention to States and 
localities that have the highest concentrations of opioid-
related cases, and to prioritize assistance to underserved 
areas whose criminal defendants currently have relatively 
little opportunity to access drug courts. The Committee 
encourages OJP to coordinate, as appropriate, with other 
Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human 
Services, as it implements these activities in order to avoid 
duplication.
    The Committee supports the work of mental health courts 
across the country. The Committee is concerned, however, by the 
high rates of re-incarceration among individuals with serious 
mental illness due to the inadequate access to care for or 
management of their illness and directs that the Department 
include appropriate long-acting medications, including 
injectable anti-psychotic medication, as an allowable expense 
to improve treatment adherence and reduce risk for relapse and 
re-incarceration.
    Veterans Treatment Courts.--The Committee continues to 
strongly support veterans treatment courts [VTCs]. An 
evaluation of VTCs funded by BJA found limitations in access to 
VTCs due to challenges in identifying veterans and also 
emphasized that veterans' needs vary from other drug courts. 
The Committee supports the Department's efforts to offer a 
broader range of tools to address program needs. The Committee 
directs BJA to submit a report on the feasibility of 
establishing a National Center for Veterans Justice designed to 
continuously enhance coordination of data, best practices, 
original research, and technical assistance to further 
evidence-based practices for justice-involved veteran 
interventions. The report shall include an evaluation of the 
Status Query and Response Exchange System and the Veterans 
Reentry Search Service; opportunities to increase collaboration 
and data sharing between Federal, State, and local government 
partners; recommended funding sources; and organizational 
structure options for the Center. BJA is further directed to 
submit this report to the Committee within 180 days of the date 
of the enactment of this act.
    Keep Young Athletes Safe Act.--The Committee again provides 
funding of $2,500,000 for a competitive grant program to 
safeguard young athletes against abuse in sports, including 
emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. The Committee directs 
that funding be prioritized for curriculum development and 
training for abuse prevention education in youth athletic 
programs and for investigation and resolution of sexual abuse 
claims. The Committee further directs that the Department 
explore opportunities for supporting an athlete survivor 
leadership network to better incorporate survivors' lived 
experiences are incorporated as part of new curriculum, 
training materials, and technical assistance, including a 
better understanding of how and when to report. Any 
recommendations regarding youth athletes stemming from the work 
and reporting by the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics 
and Paralympics shall be incorporated into this program.
    Justice Reinvestment Initiative [JRI].--The Committee 
provides $35,000,000 for the JRI, which provides assistance to 
States to identify local issues arising in criminal justice 
systems and to develop data-driven and research-backed 
responses. Jurisdictions may use the JRI to reduce recidivism; 
control the size of corrections populations, either 
incarcerated or on community supervision; reduce crime; and 
create budgetary solutions to better balance correctional costs 
within a State's budget. Justice reinvestment is used to 
implement data-driven strategies to improve public safety by 
reducing corrections spending and reinvesting those savings in 
efforts to decrease crime and strengthen neighborhoods. Funding 
may be used to provide technical assistance to States with 
existing justice reinvestment programs to further such 
programs; provide technical assistance to additional States to 
expand the justice reinvestment initiative to those 
jurisdictions; or provide funding to States with existing 
justice reinvestment initiatives to expand or enhance the 
State's self-identified justice reinvestment initiative goals. 
Justice reinvestment funds shall not be restricted by Federal 
agencies for use on specific programs or policy initiatives, 
and States shall be permitted to establish their own priorities 
within the justice reinvestment framework.
    Addressing Hate Crimes.--The Committee provides a total of 
$40,000,000 to address hate crimes in our communities. Of this 
amount, $20,000,000 is for Hate Crime Prevention Act grants 
authorized under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate 
Crimes Prevention Act (section 4704 of Public Law 111-84). The 
Committee continues to urge the Department and grant recipients 
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. 
The Committee also provides $10,000,000 for grants authorized 
under the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Crime Act, and $10,000,000 for 
grants provided under the Community-Based Approaches to 
Advancing Justice program.
    Community-Based Approaches to Advancing Justice.--The 
Committee recognizes the importance of community-based 
organizations in conflict resolution and empowering communities 
to combat hate crimes and incidents, as Congress has directed 
for the last two fiscal years. These organizations provide 
direct assistance to targeted communities, train individuals on 
techniques to de-escalate dangerous situations, and provide 
timely statistical information on hate crimes to their 
communities. The Committee continues to provide funding for 
grants to these organizations to advance justice within their 
communities.
    Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative 
[CVIPI].--A total of $105,000,000 is provided for CVIPI in 
fiscal year 2024. This includes $50,000,000 from the BSCA and 
$55,000,000 in this act. This grant program supports 
communities in developing comprehensive, evidence-based 
violence intervention and prevention programs, including 
efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships 
between community residents, law enforcement, local government 
agencies, and other community stakeholders. Awards should be 
prioritized for communities with the highest number of 
homicides and the highest number of homicides per capita. The 
Committee directs OJP to prioritize that these grants be made 
to community-based violence intervention programs to the 
fullest extent possible and also track and publish information 
on this funding, including the number of awards made and a 
description of the use of funding for each project and the 
number of grant applications received.
    Agencies Adjacent to Federal Lands.--The Committee 
recognizes that local law enforcement agencies in jurisdictions 
that contain or are adjacent to Federal land play a critical 
role in preventing and responding to crime on Federal lands 
while also recognizing the strain on resources this proximity 
may cause. The Committee encourages the Department to consider 
proximity to Federal land when reviewing applications for 
competitive grants.
    Byrne Discretionary Grants.--The Committee provides 
$159,139,000 for Byrne discretionary grants to prevent crime, 
improve the criminal justice system, provide victim services, 
and other related activities. The following table details 
funding for congressionally-designated projects, which the bill 
incorporates by reference:

                    BYRNE DISCRETIONARY GRANTS TABLE
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recipient                Project Purpose      Recommended ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alabama Agricultural and        Public Safety                    375,000
 Mechanical University.          Equipment for
                                 University Law
                                 Enforcement.
Allentown Police Department...  Police Cruisers &                275,000
                                 Public Safety
                                 Technology.
Alton, NH Police Department...  Body Worn Camera                 255,000
                                 Project.
An Achievable Dream...........  Enrichment and                 1,961,000
                                 Discipline Reduction
                                 Program.
Anne Arundel County...........  Re-Entry Services.....           450,000
Anoka County Attorney's Office  Pre-Charge Diversion              89,000
                                 Program.
Augusta-Richmond County.......  Law Enforcement Body-            690,000
                                 Worn Camera
                                 Technology Upgrades.
Augusta-Richmond County.......  Mental Health Response           317,000
                                 Team.
Baltimore City................  School-Based Violence            738,000
                                 Prevention.
Baltimore City State's          Office Modernization             775,000
 Attorney.                       and Cybersecurity
                                 Enhancements.
Beaufort County...............  Communications Upgrade           893,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters        Big Brothers Big               1,000,000
 Independence Region.            Sisters Independence
                                 Region.
Blount County Commission......  Public Safety                    400,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Board of Harbor Commissioners   Patrol Boat                      317,000
 for the Harbor of Portland.     Replacement.
Breakthrough..................  Breakthrough Program             353,000
                                 Expansion.
Brooklyn District Attorney's    Mental Health Services         2,728,000
 Office.                         Vehicle.
Butler County Commission......  Public Safety                    120,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Cabell County Emergency         Dispatch Console               1,500,000
 Response Center.                Upgrades.
Cabell County Sheriff's         Body-Worn and Vehicle            386,000
 Department.                     Cameras.
Cedar Crest College...........  Expert Witness                   250,000
                                 Training Center &
                                 Crime Scene Lab.
Chaves County CASA Program....  Chaves County CASA               500,000
                                 Program Trauma
                                 Intervention Project.
Childern's Advocacy Center of   Mental Health &                  235,000
 Delaware, Inc.                  Advocacy Coordinator.
Chilton County Commission.....  Public Safety                    300,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Choose Freedom................  Community Violence               552,000
                                 Prevention Program.
CHRIS 180, Inc................  Expanding Violence               331,000
                                 Reduction Programs in
                                 South Atlanta.
City of Albuquerque Police      Substance                        364,000
 Department.                     Identification
                                 Equipment.
City of Beckley...............  Patrol Vehicles.......           270,000
City of Beckley...............  Bullet Proof Vests....            36,000
City of Belfast...............  Police Department                750,000
                                 Equipment.
City of Birmingham............  Real Time Crime Center         4,200,000
                                 (RTCC).
City of Bisbee................  Body Cameras and Crime           210,000
                                 Response.
City of Burlington............  Burlington Community             300,000
                                 Justice Center.
City of Charleston............  Charleston CARES Pre-            125,000
                                 Trial Diversion
                                 Initiative.
City of Charleston, West        Leon Sullivan Way                301,000
 Virginia.                       Safety Initiative.
City of East Lansing..........  Public Safety                  1,500,000
                                 Enhancement.
City of East St. Louis........  Camera and Lights              1,446,000
                                 Effectiveness for
                                 Anti-Dumping Needs
                                 (CLEAN).
City of Fairhope..............  Combatting Fentanyl...           200,000
City of Huntington Police       Huntington Police                776,000
 Department.                     Department Community
                                 Oriented Policing
                                 Endeavors (COPE)
                                 Project.
City of Huntington Police       Technology                     1,300,000
 Department.                     Modernization.
City of Linden................  First Responder                  355,000
                                 Vehicle Acquisition.
City of Meadville.............  Crisis Intervention              268,000
                                 and Support Staff.
City of Minneapolis...........  Minneapolis Community          2,500,000
                                 Violence Intervention.
City of Modesto...............  9-1-1 Call Center              2,692,000
                                 Project.
City of Muskegon..............  Police Modular Vehicle           190,000
                                 Barrier System.
City of New Orleans Office of   Crime Lab Equipment...         2,400,000
 Criminal Justice Coordination.
City of North Las Vegas.......  Public Safety                  1,620,000
                                 Enhancement Project.
City of Omaha.................  Law Enforcement Air            3,500,000
                                 Support Equipment.
City of Peoria................  Police Negotiation               103,000
                                 Response Vehicle.
City of Pittsburgh............  LEAD Criminal Justice            966,000
                                 Diversion.
City of Reno..................  Police Department              1,500,000
                                 Wellness Project.
City of Russellville..........  Public Safety                    500,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Santa Fe..............  Mobile Integrated                300,000
                                 Health Office (MIHO).
City of Sheffield.............  Public Safety                    495,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Shinnston.............  Public Safety                  1,000,000
                                 Technology.
City of Sumter................  Drug and Substance               157,000
                                 Analyzer.
City of Syracuse..............  Police Athletic/                 415,000
                                 Activities League
                                 Teen Program
                                 Expansion.
City of Tacoma Municipal Court  Municipal Therapeutic            500,000
                                 Court.
City of Trussville............  Public Safety                    150,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Tuscumbia.............  Public Safety                    325,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Winfield..............  Patrol Vehicle                    31,000
                                 Equipment.
Clark County..................  Eighth Judicial                  800,000
                                 District Court's
                                 Court Appointed
                                 Special Advocate
                                 [CASA].
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center..  Cleveland Rape Crisis            800,000
                                 Center.
Cobb Family Advocacy Center...  Family Advocacy Center         1,550,000
Colbert County Sheriff's        Public Safety                    250,000
 Office.                         Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Collaborative to End Human      Youth Human                      500,000
 Trafficking.                    Trafficking Victims.
Communities In Schools of Ohio  Crime Prevention and             500,000
                                 Youth Reengagement
                                 Program.
COMPASS Youth Collaborative...  Youth Violence                   137,000
                                 Intervention.
Concord Police Department.....  Evidence Equipment and            73,000
                                 Training.
Concord Police Department.....  Rapid DNA for                    188,000
                                 Investigations.
Confederated Tribes and Bands   Drug and Fentanyl              1,028,000
 of the Yakama Nation.           Taskforce.
Conflict Resolution Center of   Statewide Youth                  291,000
 Baltimore County.               Conflict Coaching.
Connecticut Coalition Against   Connecticut Coalition          4,204,000
 Domestic Violence.              Against Domestic
                                 Violence for Victim
                                 Services Funding.
Copiah Lincoln Community        Law Enforcement                   20,000
 College.                        Academy.
Council on Domestic Violence    Community-Based Victim         4,000,000
 and Sexual Assault.             Services Program.
County of Oxford..............  Jail Security                    174,000
                                 Equipment Upgrades.
County Sheriffs of Colorado...  Colorado Rural Impact            917,000
                                 Programs.
Covenant House................  Enhanced Victim                  250,000
                                 Services Transitional
                                 Program.
Crime Victims Center, Inc.      Sexual Assault                   565,000
 (dba Parents for Megan's Law).  Forensic Examiner and
                                 Response (SAFE/R)
                                 Capacity Building
                                 Program in Suffolk
                                 County.
Cumberland County District      DNA Analysis Expansion           284,000
 Attorney's Office.
Dallas County Sheriff's Office  Public Safety                    250,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Day One.......................  Child Sexual Abuse               220,000
                                 Prevention Program.
Delaware Department of          Body Worn Cameras                113,000
 Correction.                     (Level V and Level IV
                                 facilities).
Delaware Department of          Delaware Data                    788,000
 Justice, Office of the          Initiative.
 Attorney General.
Delaware Department of Safety,  Equipment to Enhance             950,000
 Division of Forensic Science.   Testing Capabilities
                                 in Toxicology Unit.
Derry Police Department.......  Acquisition of Body              586,000
                                 Worn Camera (BWC), In-
                                 car Video (ICV), and
                                 Facility Cameras.
Douglas County................  Pre-Trial Diversion               95,000
                                 Program.
Edgewood Police Department--NM  Edgewood Police                  800,000
                                 Department Emergency
                                 Vehicle Fund.
Enough is Enough..............  Virginia Initiative              974,000
                                 for the Prevention of
                                 the Online
                                 Exploitation of
                                 Children.
Establish.....................  Hanai Pilot Project...           700,000
Fairmont State University.....  Security Upgrades.....         1,701,000
Families and Youth Innovations  Trauma Informed Youth            675,000
 Plus (FYI+).                    Diversion Program.
Farmington Hills Police         Law Enforcement                   65,000
 Department.                     Emergency Vehicle
                                 Operation.
Faulkner County Sheriff's       Rapid DNA System Pilot         1,000,000
 Office.                         Program for
                                 Investigations.
Franklin County Sheriff's       Public Safety                    200,000
 Office.                         Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Franklin Police Department....  Body Worn Camera                 208,000
                                 Project.
Freedom Reads.................  Libraries in Prison              450,000
                                 Housing Units.
Friends of the HOPE Initiative  RI HOPE Initiative--             450,000
                                 Statewide Law
                                 Enforcement Opioid
                                 Overdose Deflection
                                 Program.
Fulton County Sheriff's Office  Body-Worn Camera                 298,000
                                 Technology Upgrades.
Georgia Justice Project.......  Georgia Justice                  475,000
                                 Project--Second
                                 Chance Desk.
Grand Rapids Community College  Public Safety Training         1,000,000
                                 Center Equipment.
Grant County District Court...  Courthouse Security            1,500,000
                                 Upgrades.
Greenville Police Department..  Equipment and                  1,400,000
                                 Technology Upgrades.
Halifax County................  Security Upgrades.....           225,000
Hampton Falls Police            Virtual Simulation                38,000
 Department.                     Training Equipment.
Hampton, NH Police Department.  Enhanced Criminal                200,000
                                 Justice Response Team.
Hancock County Commission.....  Law Enforcement                  391,000
                                 Technology and
                                 Equipment.
Hellam Township...............  Public Safety UTVs and            96,000
                                 Police Vehicles.
Henderson County Sheriff's      Bomb Squad Upgrades...           234,000
 Office.
Hillsborough County Sheriff...  De-Escalation Program.           276,000
Ho'ola Na Pua.................  Shining the Light on           1,000,000
                                 Sex Trafficking in
                                 Hawaii.
Honolulu Police Department....  Cybercrime Unit                  500,000
                                 Vehicle.
Houlton Police Department.....  Police Department                 57,000
                                 Equipment.
Justice Assistance............  Habitat for Justice...           420,000
Kanawha Institute for Social    Re-entry Learning                333,000
 Research & Action, Inc.         Platform.
 (KISRA).
Kapili Like Inc...............  Victims of Crime and           1,010,000
                                 Trafficking Safe Hale
                                 Project.
La Paz County Sheriff's Office  SWAT Team Response               305,000
                                 Vehicle.
La Pinon Sexual Assault         Sierra County                     56,000
 Recovery Services.              Children's Advocacy
                                 Center.
Lancaster County Sheriff's      Law Enforcement                  770,000
 Office.                         Vehicles.
Lander County.................  Crime Prevention                 563,000
                                 Technology.
Las Cumbres Community Services  Walking IN Grace with            360,000
                                 Survivors of Torture
                                 (WINGS).
Livingston County.............  Law Enforcement                  150,000
                                 Virtual Training
                                 Simulator.
Local Initiatives Support       Chesapeake &                     500,000
 Corporation (LISC) Hampton      Portsmouth Safety
 Roads.                          Coordinator.
Maine Coalition Against Sexual  Sexual Assault Expert             90,000
 Assault.                        Witness and Attorney
                                 Training.
Manchester School District....  Active Attack CRCC                48,000
                                 Training.
Marengo County Commission.....  Public Safety                    185,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Marion County Sheriff's         Public Safety                    980,000
 Department.                     Equipment and Law
                                 Enforcement
                                 Technology.
Marshall University Research    Forensic Genomics              2,000,000
 Corporation.                    Institute.
McDermott Center..............  First Responders                 910,000
                                 Mental Health
                                 Initiative.
McKean County Jail............  County Jail Security             136,000
                                 Scanner.
Mercer County Commission......  Courthouse Security              245,000
                                 Equipment.
Metro Police Athletic League..  Recreational,                     10,000
                                 Educational, and
                                 Cultural Activities
                                 for At-Risk Youth.
Metro-IAF / Manhattan Together  Community Care and               200,000
                                 Recovery.
Minnesota Third Judicial        Minnesota Third                1,500,000
 District--County Attorney       Judicial District--
 Electronic Evidence             County Attorney
 Collaborative.                  Electronic Evidence
                                 Collaborative.
Mission Kids Child Advocacy     Child Advocacy &               1,000,000
 Center.                         Regional Training
                                 Center.
Mississippi State University..  Updating Law                   1,800,000
                                 Enforcement Data in
                                 Mississippi.
Montgomery County.............  Crisis Co-Response               700,000
                                 Teams.
Morehouse College.............  Expanding Access to            1,636,000
                                 the Andrew Young
                                 Center's Higher
                                 Education in Prisons
                                 Initiative.
Morgan County Commission......  Public Safety                    595,000
                                 Equipment.
Navajo County.................  Public Safety                  2,307,000
                                 Interoperability
                                 Communication Project
                                 (Phase II).
New Mexico Child Advocacy       Child Abuse and                  150,000
 Networks (NMCAN).               Neglect Prevention.
New Mexico Department of        Santa Fe Forensic                500,000
 Public Safety.                  Laboratory DNA
                                 Analysis.
Nicholas County Commission....  Body Worn Cameras.....            84,000
Nicholas County Commission....  Patrol Vehicles.......           308,000
Not Another Child, Inc........  Survivor Support                 500,000
                                 System.
NYPD's Fighting Finest Inc....  NYC Youth Forward.....           150,000
Office of the New Mexico        New Mexico Crime Gun           1,150,000
 Attorney General.               Intelligence Center.
Ohio Alliance to End Sexual     Ohio Alliance to End             700,000
 Violence.                       Sexual Violence.
Ohio Quick Respones Team        Ohio Quick Response              230,000
 Association.                    Team (QRT)
                                 Association.
Pawtucket Police Department,    Public Safety Vehicle            335,000
 City of Pawtucket.              and Equipment Upgrade.
Peoria County.................  Cure Violence.........           564,000
Pima County Sheriff's           Pima County Adult                458,000
 Department.                     Detention Complex.
Piscataquis County Emergency    Public Safety                  4,175,000
 Management Agency.              Communications
                                 Equipment Upgrade.
Portland Police Department....  Police Department                372,000
                                 Equipment.
Providence Police Department..  Evidence Collection              225,000
                                 Vehicle.
Raleigh Police Department.....  Public Safety                    629,000
                                 Intelligence
                                 Management System.
Ramsey County.................  Ramsey County Radios..         2,965,000
Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.....  Law Enforcement                  265,000
                                 Personnel and
                                 Equipment.
Resolution Virginia...........  Police-Referred                  853,000
                                 Mediation Pilot
                                 Project.
Rhode Island Department of      Replacement of                 1,200,000
 Corrections.                    Transport Vehicles.
Rhode Island Department of      Rhode Island                     500,000
 Corrections.                    Correctional
                                 Industries program.
Roca Baltimore, LLC...........  After Shooting                 1,455,000
                                 Protocol Response
                                 Project.
Roca, Inc.....................  Intensive Support for            577,000
                                 Young Women and
                                 Mothers Impacted by
                                 Violence.
Rochester, NH Police            In-Car Camera                    123,000
 Department.                     Replacement Project.
Rowan County..................  Veterans Treatment               546,000
                                 Court.
Rutgers University-Newark.....  Re-Entry Opportunity           1,000,000
                                 Program for
                                 Entrepreneurship in
                                 Newark (RE-OPEN).
Saline County Sheriff's Office  Rapid DNA System Pilot         1,000,000
                                 Program for
                                 Investigations.
Sampson County Sheriff's        Security Upgrades.....           220,000
 Office.
Sandoval County...............  Sandoval County                  200,000
                                 Behavioral Health
                                 Planning Grant.
Santa Fe County...............  Law Enforcement                  339,000
                                 Assisted Diversion
                                 (LEAD) Program.
Sojourner Family Peace Center.  Domestic Violence                537,000
                                 Homicide Prevention.
Soldotna Police Department....  Urgent Casualty Care..           110,000
SouthCom Combined Dispatch      Equipment and                  1,000,000
 Center.                         Technology Upgrades.
Spokane Municipal Court.......  Municipal Therapeutic            982,000
                                 Court.
Statesville Police Department.  Body-Worn and Vehicle            410,000
                                 Cameras.
STEPS, Inc....................  Southside Center for             949,000
                                 Violence Prevention.
Stevens County District Court.  Adult Therapeutic                450,000
                                 Courts.
Strategies for Youth, Inc.....  Policy Development &             185,000
                                 Training to Improve
                                 Massachusetts Law
                                 Enforcement/Youth
                                 Interactions.
Stratham Police Department      Active Threat Incident            53,000
 (SPD).                          Equipment.
Talladega County Commission...  Public Safety                    200,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
Temple University.............  Philadelphia Healthy           1,500,000
                                 and Safe Schools
                                 (PHASeS) Program.
The Affiliated Sante Group....  Co-Respond Mobile                499,000
                                 Crisis Team Pilot
                                 Project.
The Community College of Rhode  Scaling Pathways to              350,000
 Island.                         the Workforce.
The Community Service Board of  Behavioral Health &            1,356,000
 Middle Georgia.                 Overdose Reduction
                                 Initiative.
The Exodus Road...............  Training and Technical           750,000
                                 Assistance to Combat
                                 Human Trafficking.
The Justice Education Center..  Justice Education                990,000
                                 Center Initiative.
The Lake County Committee on    Forbes House Program             163,000
 Family Violence and the         Expansion.
 Forbes House.
The Narragansett Indian Tribe.  Fitness Initiative....           430,000
The Phoenix...................  The Phoenix Reentry              650,000
                                 Program.
The Zekelman Holocaust Center.  Center Security Sector         1,100,000
                                 & Law Enforcement
                                 Professional
                                 Education Program.
Tiverton Police Department....  Public Safety Vehicles           280,000
Town of Anstead...............  Hire and Equip Project           202,000
Town of Elon..................  Public Safety                    102,000
                                 Equipment.
Town of Florence..............  Public Safety Dispatch         1,230,000
                                 Center.
Town of Madison...............  Town of Madison for              114,000
                                 Outreach Social
                                 Worker.
Town of Marion................  Servant Officer                  208,000
                                 Training.
Town of Mont Vernon...........  Acquisition of Body               25,000
                                 Worn Cameras.
Town of New Hampton...........  New Hampton Public                80,000
                                 Safety Cruiser.
Town of Poca Police Department  Law Enforcement                   54,000
                                 Equipment.
Town of Queen Creek...........  Critical Incident              1,948,000
                                 Management Resources.
Township of Monroe............  Installation of                  167,000
                                 Security Cameras and
                                 Entry Control System.
Troy University...............  Public Safety                    150,000
                                 Equipment for
                                 University Law
                                 Enforcement.
University of Charleston......  University of                  1,922,000
                                 Charleston WV Law
                                 Enforcement
                                 Leadership Training
                                 Program.
University of Charleston......  Campus Security                1,394,000
                                 Upgrades.
University of Kansas School of  Veterans Legal Support         1,600,000
 Law.                            Clinic.
University of Maryland........  Gun Violence Reduction           726,000
                                 Research Initiative.
University of Maryland Capital  Violence Intervention            275,000
 Region Health.                  Program.
University of Maryland Medical  Penetrating Injury             1,275,000
 Center R Adams Cowley Shock     Recovery Project.
 Trauma Center.
University of Mississippi       Advanced Policing                380,000
 Medical Center.                 Operations and
                                 Technologies.
University of Southern          Scalable Rural Digital         3,000,000
 Mississippi.                    Forensics.
Utica.........................  Police Cameras........           153,000
Vermont Department of Public    Center for Council             1,900,000
 Safety.                         Vermont Public Safety
                                 Project.
Weatherly Borough Police        Digital Radio System             120,000
 Department.                     Upgrades.
West Virginia Wesleyan College  WV Wesleyan Center for           795,000
                                 Ethical Professional
                                 Development in
                                 Criminal Justice.
Wetzel County Commission......  Wetzel County                    141,000
                                 Commission Upgrading
                                 of Police Cruisers.
Winnebago County..............  Technology Upgrades...           825,000
Winnebago County Sheriff's      Rescue Boat                      990,000
 Office.                         Replacements.
Women Helping Women...........  Trauma Informed                   88,000
                                 Advocates Program.
Women's Rights Information      Legal Assistance                 330,000
 Center.                         Program for Low-
                                 Income Victims of
                                 Crime.
WVU Potomac State.............  Security Equipment               439,000
                                 Enhancements.
YMCA of Greater Providence      Community Engagement..           220,000
 (GPYMCA).
York County...................  Public Safety Training         1,800,000
                                 Equipment.
Youth Services, Inc...........  Community Restorative            979,000
                                 Practices Project.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $400,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     760,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     415,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $415,000,000 for 
juvenile justice programs. The recommendation is $15,000,000 
above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $345,000,000 below 
the budget request.
    The Committee strongly supports a comprehensive approach of 
substantial funding for a robust portfolio of programs that 
work to improve the lives of the youth in our communities. 
Title II State Formula and Title V Juvenile Delinquency 
Prevention grants are the backbone of programs assisting State 
and local agencies in preventing juvenile delinquency and 
ensuring that youth who are in contact with the juvenile 
justice system are treated fairly. Combined with other critical 
programs like youth mentoring, the Committee believes that a 
balanced level of programming is the way to best help at-risk 
and vulnerable youth and their families.
    The Committee encourages OJJDP to review its suite of grant 
programs in order to offer services and programs for children 
and youth who have experienced complex trauma.
    The Committee's recommendations are displayed in the 
following table:

                        JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Committee
                       Program                           Recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Part B--State Formula Grants.........................            75,000
    Emergency Planning-Juvenile Detention Facilities.               500
Youth Mentoring Grants...............................           110,000
Title V--Delinquency Prevention Incentive Grants.....            65,000
    Prevention of Trafficking of Girls...............             5,000
    Tribal Youth.....................................            18,000
    Children of Incarcerated Parents Web Portal......               500
    Girls in the Justice System......................             6,500
    Opioid Affected Youth Initiative.................            12,500
    Children Exposed to Violence.....................            10,000
Victims of Child Abuse Programs......................            50,000
Missing & Exploited Children Programs................           108,000
Training for Judicial Personnel......................             4,500
Juvenile Indigent Defense............................             2,500
                                                      ------------------
        TOTAL, Juvenile Justice......................           415,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Any deviation from the above table is subject to the 
reprogramming requirements of section 505 of this act.
    Arts in Juvenile Justice.--The Department is to continue to 
develop the Arts in the Juvenile Justice Demonstration Program 
as described in fiscal year 2023. In addition, OJJDP is 
encouraged to prioritize applications with arts partners who 
have prior experience in serving youth who are engaged, or at 
risk of engaging, in the juvenile justice system as well as 
partnerships developed through authentic collaboration with 
young people who have lived expertise or experience. The 
Committee directs OJJDP to provide a report not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this act on the use of 
funds, grant recipients, and project purposes for fiscal year 
2023 as well as plans for fiscal year 2024 funds including 
expansion of the program and creation of best practices to 
replicate these kinds of partnerships.
    Youth Mentoring Grants.--To support the critical work of 
national, regional, and local organizations in nurturing and 
mentoring at-risk children and youth, the Committee recommends 
$110,000,000 for competitive, peer-reviewed youth mentoring 
grants, of which $16,500,000 is for helping youth impacted by 
substance abuse, including opioids and methamphetamine. The 
Committee expects that the OJJDP will take all steps necessary 
to ensure fairness and objectivity in the award of these and 
future competitive grants. The Committee expects OJP to 
maintain OJJDP's expanded eligibility for local mentoring 
programs, particularly in rural areas, unaffiliated with 
national mentoring organizations. The Committee further expects 
OJP and OJJDP to collaborate with mentoring stakeholders to 
expand youth mentoring services in rural areas inordinately 
affected by substance abuse, particularly heroin and opioids, 
and that are considered at-risk.
    Girls in the Juvenile Justice System.--Girls in the United 
States with a history of sexual and physical abuse, school 
failure, substance dependency, and involvement in the welfare 
system, and who live in impoverished communities or are 
experiencing homelessness, face unique and complex risks. The 
Committee provides $6,500,000 for the ``Girls in the Justice 
System'' grant program, which will enable organizations, 
including nonprofit entities, with a successful track record of 
administering prevention and early intervention programs for 
girls who are most likely to end up in the juvenile justice 
system, at a local or State level, to replicate these programs 
at a national level. Funding for this program will further 
support 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 
society.
    Children Exposed to Violence.--According to DOJ, nearly 
two-thirds of children in the United States have been exposed 
to violence, which can impact development, health, and 
educational outcomes, and perpetuate the cycle of violence and 
substance misuse. The Committee provides $10,000,000 for grants 
to help children exposed to violence through direct supportive 
services for them and their families; training and capacity 
building for communities to build sustainable partnerships to 
prevent and help children cope with exposure; State and local 
policy reform to heal from trauma through supportive services 
for the children and their families; training and awareness-
raising for communities on how to prevent and help children 
heal from violence; State and policy reform; and technical 
assistance for child and family-serving systems and 
organizations to help them better recognize and help families 
at risk for violence.
    Victims of Child Abuse Act.--The Committee's recommendation 
provides $50,000,000 for the various programs authorized under 
the Victims of Child Abuse Act (Public Law 101-647) and directs 
OJJDP to ensure that not less than 90 percent of the grants 
awarded are for the purposes of developing and maintaining 
child advocacy centers [CAC], including training and 
accreditation. The Committee further directs OJJDP to ensure 
the funds intended to support local CACs are used efficiently 
with the highest percentage possible of Federal funding 
expended for local CAC organizational capacity, which is 
essential for the effective support of implementing the 
multidisciplinary response to child abuse investigation, 
prosecution, and intervention services.
    The Committee continues to support efforts by CACs to use 
their unique model and expertise to help military installations 
address cases of child abuse, and again provides $1,000,000 
from within the funds provided to continue to support a pilot 
project to identify, develop, and operationalize best 
practices. As this effort has been funded since fiscal year 
2017, the Committee directs OJJDP to report on the status of 
this pilot, including the locations of CACs and military 
installations working together, the number of children served 
through these partnerships, and lessons learned from this pilot 
program.
    The Committee further directs OJJDP to coordinate with the 
Department of Defense on the implementation of recommendations 
made in GAO's report on ``Increased Guidance and Collaboration 
Needed to Improve DoD's Tracking and Response to Child Abuse'' 
(GAO-20-110), including national agreements between CACs and 
each military service.
    Missing and Exploited Children Programs.--The Committee 
recommends $108,000,000 for OJJDP's Missing and Exploited 
Children Programs in order to support law enforcement agencies 
and other national organizations that report and investigate 
missing children cases and also investigate those who exploit 
children both with and without an online nexus. The Committee 
directs OJP to provide a plan for the use of these funds as 
part of the Department's spending plan for fiscal year 2024, 
which shall include investments in authorized national programs 
that serve as a resource center and clearinghouse on missing 
and exploited children, task force grants, and administrative 
costs for the Internet Crimes Against Children [ICAC] program. 
The Committee directs OJJDP to continue to ensure that all 
grantees report regularly on these programs.
    Within funds provided, the Committee directs that the full 
authorized amount of $40,000,000 be provided for the purposes 
of the Missing Children's Assistance Act of 2018 (Public Law 
115-267), up to $32,200,000 of which shall be used to carry out 
the requirements of 34 U.S.C. 11293(b).
    Within the funds provided, $4,400,000 is provided for the 
AMBER Alert program. The Committee continues to recognize 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. Of the 
funds provided for AMBER Alert activities, $1,000,000 shall be 
directed to addressing State/Tribal integration consistent with 
the findings of the report directed by Public Law 115-166.
    The Committee addressed the increased tips of online child 
sexual exploitation and abuse reported to the National Center 
for Missing and Exploited Children's [NCMEC] CyberTipline in 
Senate Report 116-127, as adopted by Public Law 116-93, and 
continues the direction that OJJDP continue to provide for the 
development of IT solutions to address both duplicative tips 
and law enforcement deconfliction, so as to ensure that only 
high-quality information is being provided to law enforcement 
agencies, including ICAC task forces.
    The Committee directs that within the funds provided, 
$3,000,000 be for a competitive grant award program to increase 
the technological investigative capacity, and associated 
training of law enforcement, to support the development, 
refinement, and advancement of widely used investigative tools, 
methods, and technologies that address child sexual abuse 
material [CSAM], exploitation, and sex trafficking, as 
previously directed in fiscal years 2018 through 2023. The 
Committee also directs that OJJDP expand efforts to provide 
advanced skills training for ICAC officers.
    Advanced ICAC Skills Training.--The Committee directs that 
within the funds provided, no less than $1,000,000 be provided 
to maintain, strengthen, and enhance the ICAC Child Online 
Protection System [ICACCOPS] investigative tools that address 
CSAM, exploitation, and sex trafficking. The funding provided 
will significantly upgrade hardware, software, and other 
critical infrastructure components. These upgrades will 
increase investigative capacity and effectiveness to keep pace 
with the evolving threat of technology-facilitated child sexual 
exploitation and abuse. The Committee directs OJJDP to identify 
and provide a report on specific, long-term objectives 
associated with this funding within 90 days of enactment of 
this act.
    The Committee also directs the Department to prioritize 
expanded training on and use of the ICACCOPS program across 
Federal, State, local, Tribal, and military law enforcement 
agencies. The Committee further directs the Department to 
coordinate with the Department of Defense on the implementation 
of section 550D of Public Law 116-92.
    Statute of Limitations.--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 explore ways of supporting and encouraging 
States to review, pursue and revise, or continue reviewing, 
pursuing and revising, 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.

                    PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS BENEFITS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $167,800,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     208,800,000
Committee recommendation................................     208,800,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $208,800,000 for 
public safety officers benefits. The recommendation is 
$41,000,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and is 
equal to the budget request. This program provides a one-time 
death benefit payment to eligible survivors of Federal, State, 
and local public safety officers whose death was the direct and 
proximate result of a traumatic injury sustained in the line of 
duty or certain eligible heart attacks or strokes. Within funds 
provided, $174,000,000 is for death benefits for survivors, an 
amount estimated by the Congressional Budget Office and 
considered mandatory for scorekeeping purposes.
    The Committee also recommends $34,800,000, as requested, 
for disability benefits for injured officers and education 
benefits for the families of officers who have been permanently 
disabled or killed in the line of duty.

                  Community Oriented Policing Services


             COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS

                      INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $662,880,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     651,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     534,879,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $534,879,000 for 
community oriented policing services. The recommendation is 
$128,001,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$116,121,000 below the budget request.
    The Committee's recommendations are displayed in the 
following table:

                  COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Committee
                       Program                           Recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
COPS Hiring Grants...................................           284,926
    Tribal Resources Grant Program...................            37,000
    Regional Information Sharing Activities..........            48,000
    Tribal Access Program............................             6,000
    Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act...            10,000
    Collaborative Reform Model.......................             7,500
POLICE Act...........................................            13,000
Anti-Methamphetamine Task Forces.....................            16,000
Anti-Heroin Task Forces..............................            38,000
STOP School Violence Act.............................            55,000
Community Policing Development.......................            25,000
Law Enforcement Officer De-Escalation................            20,000
COPS Law Enforcement Technology and Equipment                    82,953
 Projects............................................
                                                      ------------------
        TOTAL, Community Oriented Policing Services..           534,879
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Any deviations from the above table are subject to the 
reprogramming requirements of section 505 of this act.
    COPS Hiring Program.--The Committee recommends $284,926,000 
for COPS Hiring grants to help State, local, or Tribal law 
enforcement agencies create and preserve police officer 
positions and to increase community policing capacity and crime 
prevention efforts. Hiring grants will have an award cap of 
$125,000 and require grantees to provide a 25 percent local 
match. The Committee encourages the COPS Office to focus on 
efforts to train and increase the capacity of law enforcement 
agencies, executives, and managers serving rural communities to 
enhance the use of community policing practices and innovations 
in policing to expand the effectiveness of limited resources.
    Additional Technical Assistance.--The Committee urges the 
COPS Office to provide increased technical assistance to 
applicants who have not previously received COPS grants or 
otherwise indicate that they are newly establishing community-
oriented policing programs.
    Grants for Rural Communities.--The Committee recognizes the 
importance of COPS Office in helping to staff and equip State, 
local, and Tribal law enforcement officers. However, the 
Committee is concerned about the administrative difficulties 
faced by small and understaffed departments, especially in 
rural communities, when applying for Federal grants. The 
Committee urges the Department to review and improve the 
application requirements for COPS Hiring Grants and other COPS 
Office grants so that more small and understaffed departments 
can apply and utilize the funding.
    Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Demographic Gaps in Law 
Enforcement.--The Committee is concerned about racial, ethnic, 
and demographic gaps in law enforcement agencies. In fiscal 
years 2021 and 2023, the Committee directed the COPS Hiring 
Program to give additional consideration to applicants that 
commit to recruiting officers from the communities in which 
they will serve. The Committee continues to support this effort 
and directs the COPS Office to submit a report, within 30 days 
of the enactment of this act, on the application of this 
criterion in COPS Hiring Program awards.
    Community Policing Development, Training and Technical 
Assistance.--The Community Policing Development [CPD] program 
assists State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies with 
the implementation of community policing strategies. Programs 
funded by CPD provide guidance on promising practices, develop 
and test innovative strategies, build knowledge about effective 
practices and outcomes, and support new, creative approaches to 
preventing crime and promoting safe communities. The Committee 
provides $25,000,000 for CPD. De-escalation training, which the 
Committee has explicitly funded through CPD since fiscal year 
2021, is funded through a new, separate program in light of the 
December 2022 enactment of the Law Enforcement De-escalation 
Training Act (Public Law 117-325).
    De-escalation Training.--The Committee provides $20,000,000 
for de-escalation training programs and implementation of the 
Law Enforcement De-escalation Training Act (Public Law 117-
325).
    Collaborative Reform Model.--The Committee provides 
$7,500,000 for the continuation of the Collaborative Reform 
Model, which assists local law enforcement agencies to identify 
problems and develop solutions to some of the most critical 
issues facing law enforcement today, such as use of force, fair 
and impartial policing, and improved accountability. Grant 
funding is to only be used to assist law enforcement agencies 
that choose to engage in the collaborative reform process with 
the Department.
    Regional Information Sharing Systems [RISS] Program.--The 
Committee provides $48,000,000 for the RISS Program, to be 
administered through grants.
    The Committee directs that the Department assess no more 
than 4 percent of the total appropriation for the RISS program 
for management and administration purposes, so as to ensure 
sufficient funding is available for law enforcement.
    Anti-Methamphetamine Task Forces.--The Committee's 
recommendation provides $16,000,000 for the COPS Office to make 
competitive grants to law enforcement agencies in States with 
high seizures of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, 
laboratories, and laboratory dump seizures. These funds shall 
be utilized for investigative purposes to locate or investigate 
illicit activities such as precursor diversion, laboratories, 
or methamphetamine traffickers.
    Anti-Heroin Task Forces.--The Committee reiterates concerns 
over the dramatic rise of heroin use, deaths, and related crime 
in the United States. The need for additional resources and 
training to address these challenges is apparent, and the 
Committee created the anti-heroin task force program within the 
COPS Office in fiscal year 2015, continually providing funding 
in succeeding fiscal years. The Committee provides $38,000,000 
for the COPS Office to make competitive grants to law 
enforcement agencies in States with high per capita levels of 
primary treatment admissions for heroin, fentanyl, and other 
opioids. These funds shall be utilized for drug enforcement, 
including investigations and activities related to the 
distribution of heroin or unlawful diversion and distribution 
of prescription opioids, and for securing equipment commonly 
used in opioid investigations. The Committee directs that 
funding can be used for existing positions supported by prior 
Anti-Heroin Task Force awards. Priority shall be given to drug 
task forces managed and operated by the State that serve a 
majority of counties in the State.
    Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Grants.--The 
Committee strongly supports efforts to protect the mental 
health and well-being of law enforcement officers. 
Unfortunately, the stress of officers' work and stigma 
associated with seeking assistance for emotional and mental 
health issues has led to an increase in suicides for officers 
across the country. To address this concern, $10,000,000 is 
provided for Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act 
Program grants which shall be distributed as a competitive 
grant program for State and local law enforcement agencies to 
provide better training on officer emotional and mental health, 
implement suicide prevention programming, and help officers 
seek assistance in receiving support services.
    School Resource Officers.--The placement of law enforcement 
officers in schools can promote school safety and reduce the 
risk of violence, but may also carry a risk that these officers 
could contribute to a ``school-to-prison pipeline'' process 
where students are arrested or cited for minor, non-violent 
behavioral violations and then sent to the juvenile court 
system. This ultimately can lead to academic failure and 
greater recidivism rates for these students, and wastes 
community resources. The Committee directs that the COPS Office 
continue to implement requirements and procedures regarding 
written memoranda of understanding and training requirements, 
including clear definitions of officers' roles and 
responsibilities on campus, for any COPS Hiring grant funds 
used to hire school-based law enforcement officers.
    POLICE Act.--The COPS Office's Preparing for Active Shooter 
Situations [PASS] program has supported training for more than 
130,000 law enforcement first responders in a response protocol 
adopted by the FBI as the National standard for special agent 
tactical instructors. Many State and local police departments 
have also adopted this response protocol as a standard for 
active shooter response, ensuring law enforcement officers 
arriving on the scene understand how others are trained to 
respond. The Committee encourages the Department to ensure that 
grants authorized under the POLICE Act may be made available 
for primary schools, secondary schools, and college campuses, 
and that such training is an integrated training with campus 
police officers and local law enforcement. The Committee 
further encourages the continued development of e-learning 
resources to supplement in-person training.
    COPS Law Enforcement Technology.--The Committee provides 
$82,953,000 for grants for State, local, Tribal, territorial, 
and other entities to develop and acquire effective equipment, 
technologies, and interoperable communications that assist in 
the prevention of and response to crime. COPS is directed to 
ensure that all equipment funded under this program meets the 
requirements of NIST's Office of Law Enforcement Standards. The 
accompanying table details funding for congressionally-
designated activities, which are incorporated by reference in 
the bill:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recipient                Project Purpose      Recommended ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Addison County Sheriff's        Body-Worn Cameras.....            18,000
 Department.
Alabama State University......  Department of Public             300,000
                                 Safety Equipment
                                 Upgrades.
Anchorage Police Department...  Special Weapons and              227,000
                                 Tactics Command
                                 Response Vehicle.
Arkansas Commission on Law      Technology and                   500,000
 Enforcement Standards and       Equipment.
 Training.
Atkinson, NH Police Department  Mobile Data Terminal              28,000
                                 (MDT) Upgrade Project.
Barber County Sheriff.........  Technology Upgrades...           323,000
Baxter Springs Police           Technology Upgrades...           166,000
 Department.
Berlin Police Department......  Communications is KEY.           355,000
                                 Help us Improve
                                 Public Safety &
                                 Response!.
Borough of Bergenfield........  Emergency Services             1,000,000
                                 Communications
                                 Improvement Project.
Braxton County................  Communications                 1,882,000
                                 Upgrades.
Braxton County Sheriff's        Mobile Law Enforcement           211,000
 Office.                         Technologies.
Bridge Valley Community &       BridgeValley CTC                 400,000
 Technical College.              Gunshot Detectors
                                 Equipment.
Chanute Police Department.....  Radio Upgrades........           140,000
City and Borough of Juneau....  Police Department              2,000,000
                                 Radio System
                                 Replacement.
City of Auburn................  Public Safety                    750,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Auburn Hills..........  Automatic License                 55,000
                                 Plate Reader (ALPR)
                                 Program.
City of Bayonne...............  Public Safety                  1,030,000
                                 Technology and
                                 Equipment.
City of Beckley...............  Beckley Police                    57,000
                                 Department Radios.
City of Bridgeport Police       Public Safety Training           650,000
 Department.                     and Technology.
City of Claremont.............  Enhanced Communication         1,300,000
                                 and Public Safety
                                 Assurance Project.
City of Clarksburg............  Public Safety                    446,000
                                 Equipment.
City of Dover, NH.............  Dispatch Console                 438,000
                                 Replacement Project.
City of Ely...................  Security Cameras                 610,000
                                 Installation Project.
City of Fort Payne............  Public Safety                    670,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Galax.................  Public Safety                  3,000,000
                                 Communications
                                 Equipment Upgrade.
City of Inkster...............  Emergency Warning                272,000
                                 System Replacement
                                 Project.
City of Lompoc................  Records Management               728,000
                                 System Upgrade.
City of Lynwood...............  Communication Radios              80,000
                                 14.
City of Medford...............  Medford Incident                 880,000
                                 Command Center.
City of Millbrook.............  Public Safety                    190,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Moody.................  Public Safety                    245,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Newberry..............  Technology and                    88,000
                                 Equipment.
City of Oconto................  Police and Fire Rescue           160,000
                                 Department
                                 Communications
                                 Equipment.
City of Omaha.................  Law Enforcement Bomb             500,000
                                 Response Vehicle.
City of Oxford................  Public Safety                    185,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Pell City.............  Public Safety                    612,000
                                 Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
City of Portland..............  Portland Police Bureau         1,359,000
                                 Body Worn Camera
                                 Pilot Program.
City of Sparks................  Police Security &                520,000
                                 Officer Safety.
City of Springfield Police      Technology Upgrades...           300,000
 Department.
City of St. Albans............  Technology Upgrades...           150,000
City of Warwick Police          Police Equipment......           570,000
 Department.
City of Waukesha..............  Computer Aided                 1,000,000
                                 Dispatch (CAD) and
                                 Record Management
                                 System (RMS)
                                 Replacement.
Clay County Sheriff's Office..  Law Enforcement                  175,000
                                 Technology Upgrades.
Cobb County Sheriff's Office..  Radio Network                    259,000
                                 Modernization.
Coffey County Sheriff.........  Technology Upgrades...           157,000
Colby Police Department.......  Training Equipment....            54,000
County of Burnett.............  Emergency                        950,000
                                 Communications System.
County of Cheshire............  Officer Training                  80,000
                                 Simulator.
County of Door................  Public Safety Radio            3,900,000
                                 System.
County of San Luis Obispo.....  Radio Dispatch Console         2,000,000
                                 Replacement Project.
Cullman County District         Public Safety                    110,000
 Attorney's Office, 32nd         Equipment for Local
 Judicial Circuit of Alabama.    Law Enforcement.
Delaware State University.....  Campus Safety                    540,000
                                 Improvements.
Downriver Community Conference  Cops Technology.......           850,000
Ellsworth County Sheriff......  Radio Upgrades........           670,000
Espanola/Rio Arriba E-911       911 Software and                  40,000
 Center.                         Training.
Fairbanks Emergency             Deltana Area                   2,200,000
 Communication Center.           Communications
                                 Equipment.
Franklin County Sheriff.......  Body Scanners.........           225,000
Fulton County.................  Radio System and                 735,000
                                 Dispatch Station
                                 Upgrades.
Garnett Police Department.....  Technology Upgrades...           114,000
George County Sheriff's Office  Communications                 1,100,000
                                 Technologies.
Goodland Police Department....  Radio Upgrades........            61,000
Grafton County Sheriff's        Police Department                520,000
 Office.                         Portable Radios.
Grant Parish Sheriff's Office.  Emergency                        340,000
                                 Communications
                                 Equipment.
Greenwood County Sheriff......  Technology Upgrades...           900,000
Hamilton County Sheriff.......  License Plate Readers.            25,000
Jacksonville State University.  Campus Security                  656,000
                                 Improvements.
Kearny County Sheriff.........  License Plate Readers.            72,000
Kingman County Sheriff........  Technology Upgrades...            37,000
Lake County...................  Lake County Public             2,000,000
                                 Safety Interoperable
                                 Radio and Microwave
                                 System.
Las Cruces Police Department..  Narcotic Analyzers and           194,000
                                 Awareness Program.
Le Sueur County Sheriff's       Records Management               500,000
 Office.                         System, Computer
                                 Aided Dispatch, and
                                 Jail Management
                                 Software Program.
Lyon County Sheriff...........  Technology Upgrades...           245,000
Marion County.................  Santiam Canyon Public          1,800,000
                                 Safety Alert System.
Marion County Schools.........  'Locked Into                     850,000
                                 Collaboration' Smart
                                 Technology for
                                 Student Safety &
                                 Security Project.
Marshall County Sheriff.......  Training Equipment....         1,383,000
Marysville Police Department..  Technology Upgrades...           173,000
McPherson Police Department...  Technology Upgrades...           275,000
Meade County Sheriff..........  Mobile Camera                     91,000
                                 Technology.
Merrimack County Sheriff......  Mobile Terminal Data             261,000
                                 Installation.
Merrimack Police Department...  Body/Cruiser Camera              420,000
                                 Program.
Mississippi Department of       Interdiction Equipment         2,021,000
 Public Safety.                  and Specialty
                                 Vehicles.
Mississippi Department of       Capitol Police                 1,237,000
 Public Safety.                  Technology
                                 Improvements.
Monroe County.................  Communications                   750,000
                                 Upgrades.
Montezuma County..............  Securing Southwest                50,000
                                 Colorado Police and
                                 Emergency
                                 Communications.
National Tactical Officers      Mental Health Critical         1,000,000
 Association.                    Incident Training for
                                 Law Enforcement.
New Mexico Department of        Alternative Pursuit            1,550,000
 Public Safety.                  Options and Highway
                                 Offender Safety
                                 Program.
New Mexico Highlands            Police and Security              200,000
 University Police Department.   Equipment.
Newmarket Police Department...  Computer Aided                   358,000
                                 Dispatch Systems
                                 (CAD) and Records
                                 Management Systems
                                 (RMS) Replacement and
                                 Upgrade Program.
Newport Police Department.....  Dispatch Radio                   218,000
                                 Consoles.
NH Dept. of Safety-Emergency    New Hampshire Public           4,878,000
 Communications/9-1-1 (DESC).    Safety Interoperable
                                 Communications
                                 Network (NHICNET).
Nicholas County Commission....  Dispatch System                2,062,000
                                 Upgrades.
Oakland Community College.....  Security Camera                  867,000
                                 Upgrade.
Office of the Sheriff, Cochise  Interoperable                    981,000
 County.                         Communications
                                 Upgrade.
Pearl River County Board of     Public Safety                  1,141,000
 Supervisors.                    Technology and
                                 Equipment.
Pickens County E-911..........  Radio Improvements....         1,805,000
Reno County Sheriff...........  Technology Upgrades...           408,000
Richland County Sheriff's       Unified Command Post..         1,000,000
 Department.
Riley County Police Department  Technology Upgrades...           250,000
Rush County Sheriff...........  Training Equipment....            49,000
San Juan County...............  Law Enforcement                   90,000
                                 Virtual Reality Use
                                 of Force Simulator.
Silver City Police Department.  Handheld Narcotics               172,000
                                 Analyzers.
South Kingstown Police          Mobile Command Vehicle         1,000,000
 Department.
Southwest New Mexico Council    Law Enforcement                  295,000
 of Governments.                 Equipment.
St. Clair County Sheriff's      Public Safety                  1,200,000
 Office.                         Equipment for Local
                                 Law Enforcement.
St. Landry Parish.............  Technology and                 1,800,000
                                 Equipment Upgrades.
Stark County Sheriff's Office.  Evidence Collection              125,000
                                 Vehicle.
Strafford County Sheriff's      Public Safety                    715,000
 Office.                         Communications
                                 Improvements.
Town of Bluffton..............  Equipment Upgrades....         1,348,000
Town of Clay..................  Patrol Vehicle                     8,000
                                 Equipment.
Town of Clinton...............  Public Safety Radio              600,000
                                 Equipment.
Town of Cumberland, Police      Public Safety Digital          1,010,000
 Department.                     Communications
                                 Upgrade.
Township of Belleville........  Automatic License                447,000
                                 Plate Reader Project.
Township of Old Bridge........  Police Technology              1,302,000
                                 Upgrades.
University of Arkansas for      Police Department              1,000,000
 Medical Sciences.               Equipment and
                                 Technology Upgrades.
Windham Police Department.....  Greater Windham                  419,000
                                 Emergency Regional
                                 Communications
                                 Interoperability
                                 Project.
Windsor County Sheriff's        Emergency                      1,240,000
 Department.                     Communication Radio
                                 Network Upgrades.
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               General Provisions--Department of Justice


                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends the following general provisions:
    Section 201 limits the amount of funding the Attorney 
General can use for official reception and representation.
    Section 202 prohibits the use of funds in this title to pay 
for an abortion except where the life of the mother would be in 
danger, or in the case of rape or incest.
    Section 203 prohibits the use of funds in this title to 
require a person to perform or facilitate an abortion.
    Section 204 requires female prisoners to be escorted when 
off prison grounds.
    Section 205 allows the Department of Justice, subject to 
the Committee's reprogramming procedures, to transfer up to 5 
percent between appropriations, but limits to 10 percent the 
amount that can be transferred into any one appropriation.
    Section 206 limits the placement of maximum or high 
security prisoners to appropriately secure facilities.
    Section 207 restricts Federal prisoner access to certain 
amenities.
    Section 208 requires review by the Deputy Attorney General 
and the Department's investigative review board prior to the 
obligation or expenditure of funds for major technology 
projects.
    Section 209 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 210 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, Incorporated.
    Section 211 prohibits U.S. Attorneys from simultaneously 
holding multiple jobs outside of the scope of a U.S. Attorney's 
professional duties.
    Section 212 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 permits up to 2 percent of grant and 
reimbursement program funds made available to that office to be 
transferred to the National Institute of Justice or the Bureau 
of Justice Statistics for criminal justice research and 
statistics.
    Section 213 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. If a waiver 
is granted, the Attorney General shall document any factors and 
material presented by a grantee upon determining that a fiscal 
hardship exists prior to making an award.
    Section 214 waives the requirement that the Attorney 
General reserve certain funds from amounts provided for 
offender incarceration.
    Section 215 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 216 places limitations on the obligation of funds 
from certain Department of Justice accounts and funding 
sources.
    Section 217 permits the Department of Justice to 
participate in Performance Partnership Pilot collaboration 
programs.
    Section 218 requires reports on Departmental funds.
    Section 219 prohibits funds from being used to conduct, 
contract for, or otherwise support, live tissue training.
    Section 220 is a new provision regarding section 702 of the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
    Section 221 is a new provision regarding freedom of 
expression.
    Section 222 is a new provision regarding freedom of 
religion.

                               TITLE III

                                SCIENCE

                Office of Science and Technology Policy

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $7,965,000
Budget Estimate, 2024...................................       8,195,000
Committee recommendation................................       7,965,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $7,965,000 for the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy [OSTP]. The 
recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
and $230,000 below the budget request.
    OSTP was created by the National Science and Technology 
Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (Public Law 
94-282) and coordinates science and technology policy for the 
White House. OSTP provides scientific and technological 
information, analyses, and advice for the President and the 
executive branch; participates in the formulation, 
coordination, and implementation of national and international 
policies and programs that involve science and technology; 
maintains and promotes the health and vitality of U.S. science 
and technology infrastructure; reviews and analyzes, with the 
Office of Management and Budget, the research and development 
budgets for all Federal agencies; and coordinates research and 
development efforts of the Federal Government to maximize the 
return on the public's investment in science and technology and 
to ensure Federal resources are used efficiently and 
appropriately. The Committee expects OSTP to be at the 
forefront of promoting American competitiveness through 
scientific research and technology development.
    Emerging Contaminants.--OSTP submitted the ``Update to the 
Plan for Addressing Critical Research Gaps Related to Emerging 
Contaminants in Drinking Water'' in January 2022, which 
included an updated cross-agency Federal research strategy for 
addressing critical research gaps related to detecting and 
assessing exposure to emerging contaminants in drinking water 
through the National Emerging Contaminant Research Initiative. 
OSTP also issued a ``Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances [PFAS] 
Report'' in March 2023, which provided a high-level overview of 
research on PFAS that included a review of current Federal 
funding and activity. The Committee appreciates OSTP's work and 
requests that OSTP provide an update on program, policy, or 
budgetary resources included in the fiscal year 2024 budget 
request, by agency, to support the implementation of the 
Federal research strategy, as well as anticipated needs for 
fiscal year 2025, not later than 180 days after the enactment 
of this act.
    Microbiome Interagency Working Group.--The Committee 
recognizes that microbiome research is foundational research 
with the potential to advance human, animal, and environmental 
health through the bioeconomy. The Committee supports the 
continuation of the Microbiome Interagency Working Group and 
requests an update of the Interagency Strategic Plan for 
Microbiome Research. OSTP is encouraged to consider the renewal 
of the charter for the Microbiome Interagency Working Group.

                         National Space Council

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $1,965,000
Budget Estimate, 2024...................................       2,018,000
Committee recommendation................................       1,965,000

    The Committee provides $1,965,000 for the National Space 
Council. The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $53,000 below the budget request.
    The National Space Council provides advice and assistance 
to the President on national space policy and strategy. The 
Council reviews U.S. Government space policy, including long-
range goals; develops strategies for national space activities; 
and develops recommendations for the President on space policy 
and space-related issues. The National Space Council's 
additional roles are to monitor and coordinate implementation 
of the Nation's objectives in space by executive departments 
and agencies; foster close coordination, cooperation, and 
technology and information exchange among the civil, national 
security, and commercial space sectors; and facilitate 
resolution of differences concerning major space and space-
related policy issues.
    The Committee directs the National Space Council to 
continue to provide the Committee with quarterly briefings on 
its activities, including its current assessment of current and 
emerging threats to maintaining U.S. leadership in space-based 
activities by the Federal Government, industry, and academia 
and any associated plans and policies to maintain that 
leadership. The Committee notes that there has been a delay in 
scheduling recent quarterly briefings and expects the National 
Space Council to prioritize these important updates.

             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Appropriations, 2023..................................\1\$25,383,701,000
Budget Estimate, 2024...................................  27,185,000,000
Committee recommendation................................  25,000,320,000

\1\Of the total amount provided for the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration in fiscal year 2023, $367,000,000 was included under 
title II of division N of Public Law 117-328.

              NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Committee
                                                        recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Science:
    Earth Science...................................           2,218,700
    Planetary Science...............................           2,683,320
    Astrophysics....................................           1,543,900
    Heliophysics....................................             805,000
    Biological and Physical Science.................              90,000
                                                     -------------------
        Total, Science..............................           7,340,920
                                                     ===================
Aeronautics.........................................             935,000
Space Technology....................................           1,118,000
Exploration.........................................           7,736,300
Space Operations....................................           4,200,000
STEM Engagement.....................................             143,500
Safety, Security and Mission Services...............           3,100,000
Construction and Environmental Compliance and                    379,000
 Restoration........................................
Office of Inspector General.........................              47,600
                                                     -------------------
        GRAND TOTAL, NASA...........................          25,000,320
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Committee's recommendation provides $25,000,320,000 for 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]. The 
recommendation is $383,381,000 below the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $2,184,680,000 below the budget request.
    NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space 
Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-568) to conduct space and 
aeronautical research and development and to conduct flight 
activities for peaceful purposes. NASA's unique mission of 
exploration, discovery, and innovation is intended to preserve 
the United States' role as both a world leader in aviation and 
as the pre-eminent space-faring nation. It is NASA's mission to 
advance human and robotic exploration, use, and development of 
space; advance and communicate scientific knowledge and 
understanding of the Earth, the Moon, the solar system, and the 
universe; and research, develop, verify, and transfer advanced 
aeronautics and space technologies.
    The bill continues investments in human spaceflight that 
will enable travel to the Moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA-
developed crew and launch vehicles; build a Gateway, landers, 
space suits, and other infrastructure for Moon landings; enable 
the burgeoning domestic launch industry that is bringing cargo 
and crew to the International Space Station and encouraging the 
development of new destinations in low-Earth orbit [LEO]; and 
support NASA's science and technology programs. These elements 
should be viewed as complementary pieces of a balanced whole. 
NASA is the American people's space agency. In advancing the 
U.S. national interest, NASA should seek, to the extent 
practicable, to retain public ownership of technologies, 
scientific data, and discoveries made using public funds.
    For Science, the Committee's recommendation strives to keep 
NASA's near-term launches on track to continue progress in 
exploring our solar system and the universe, understanding the 
Sun, and observing our changing planet. The Committee expects 
NASA to continue making progress on the recommendations of the 
National Academies' decadal surveys, now and in the future.
    For Exploration and Space Operations, the Committee's 
recommendation maintains support for ongoing activities in LEO, 
for the production of the vehicles that will take U.S. 
astronauts to the Moon, and for the continued development of 
systems that will enable human exploration of space.
    NASA is directed to continue providing the Committee with a 
quarterly launch schedule, by mission, which describes the 
risks associated with launch delays due to problems with the 
launch vehicle, impacts of launch delays to other missions in 
the launch queue, and a budget estimate of the anticipated 
carrying costs for missed launch windows. Due to disruption of 
NASA activities and missions, NASA shall also include any 
adjustments to launch windows for delayed missions. This launch 
schedule should also be made available for the public on the 
NASA website.
    The Committee expects NASA to maintain focus on improving 
oversight and accountability throughout the agency. While 
progress has been made, NASA's acquisition management continues 
to be on GAO's ``High Risk List.'' The annual appropriations 
provided in this bill only represent a fraction of the 
lifecycle cost of NASA's major projects costing more than 
$250,000,000. In its most recent assessment, GAO analyzed 34 
major projects, 14 of which are related to the return of humans 
to the Moon. With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, 
NASA's performance improved. However, total cost overruns 
exceed $7,500,000,000 with schedule delays of 20.9 years. NASA 
must do better if the agency is to fully realize its current 
ambitious plans for science and exploration. Cost growth and 
schedule delays mean that NASA must annually choose among 
continuing ongoing projects, moving projects from formulation 
into development, and beginning new projects, including those 
that meet high priority National needs and decadal survey 
recommendations. When NASA prolongs projects or requests 
insufficient funding early in their development, the inevitable 
result is cost and schedule overruns caused by inadequate early 
funding for technology development and project management. NASA 
is directed to continue to cooperate fully with GAO to provide 
timely program analysis, evaluation data, and relevant 
information so that GAO can continue to report to Congress 
shortly after the annual budget submission, and semiannually 
thereafter, on the status of large-scale NASA programs, 
projects, and activities. NASA shall also work expeditiously to 
address any GAO recommendations intended to correct its 
practices that lead to performance delays and cost overruns.
    In addition, NASA is directed to provide the Committee, 
concurrently with its budget justification, the reserves 
assumed by NASA to be necessary within the amount proposed for 
each directorate, theme, program, project, and activity; or, if 
the proposed funding level for a directorate, theme, program, 
project, or activity is based on confidence level budgeting, 
the confidence level and reserves assumed in the proposed 
funding level.
    The Committee understands that NASA projects undergo major 
reviews in addition to regular oversight throughout the year. 
When one of these reviews results in changing the cost profile 
of a project in the current or budget request year, the 
Committee expects to be informed in a timely fashion so that 
its actions can consider the most recent NASA analysis and 
expectation. Keeping the Committee up to date should mitigate 
NASA's propensity to submit spending plans that disregard 
congressional direction.
    The Federal funding priorities for NASA set forth in this 
bill and explanatory statement should not be interpreted as 
suggestions. They are equivalent to any statutory requirement 
levied upon NASA in this act. The Committee articulates the 
funding levels of programs, where appropriate, in the form of 
tables and, if necessary, supplements with explanatory 
statement language.

                                SCIENCE

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $7,795,000,000
Budget Estimate, 2024...................................   8,260,800,000
Committee recommendation................................   7,340,920,000

    The Committee provides $7,340,920,000 for Science, which is 
$454,080,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$919,880,000 below the budget request. The decrease below the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level is related to a reduction to the 
Mars Sample Return program. The Science account encompasses: 
Earth Science, Planetary Science, Astrophysics, Heliophysics, 
and Biological and Physical Science. This funding supports NASA 
programs that seek to answer fundamental questions concerning 
the ways in which Earth is changing; the comparison of Earth 
with other planets in the solar system and around other stars; 
the connections between the Sun and Earth; and the origin and 
evolution of planetary systems, the galaxy, and the universe, 
including the origin and distribution of life in the universe. 
These objectives are assisted by input from the scientific 
community through decadal surveys and are achieved through 
orbital and suborbital experiments, robotic flight missions, 
ground-based scientific research and data analysis, and the 
development of new technologies for future missions. NASA shall 
continue its progress toward implementing the recommendations 
of decadal surveys in Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary 
Science, Astrophysics, and Biological and Physical Sciences.
    The Committee notes that the number of commercial providers 
offering suborbital and orbital platforms for scientific 
experiments continues to grow, making these platforms 
affordable and essential for researchers, particularly when 
missions require a tailored launch to mission-dependent orbits, 
locations, and schedules or frequent iteration and repetition. 
NASA shall ensure that its merit review systems encourage 
principal investigators [PIs] to use these platforms. In fiscal 
year 2024, NASA expects to support 12 small satellite missions. 
Due to continued and increasing demand for these services, NASA 
is directed to continue competitive processes to ensure they 
are readily available, including encouraging the utilization of 
Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare 
opportunities.
    Life Cycle Costs.--The Committee agrees that NASA ought to 
strictly control development costs of NASA missions. However, 
the Committee notes that it generally regards the development 
costs as occurring through Phase D and not into Phase E. 
Operation of NASA missions far beyond their originally planned 
life is something to celebrate, and NASA's Senior Review 
process ensures that its operations funds are spent on 
scientifically productive missions.
    Earth Science.--Within the amount for Earth Science, the 
Committee recommendation includes $91,400,000 for the Plankton, 
Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem [PACE] mission to maintain its 
target launch date of May 2024; and up to the request level for 
Earth Venture Class Missions to support missions under 
development while maintaining the cadence of future missions. 
Consistent with the National Academies' Decadal Survey for 
Earth Science and Applications from Space, the Committee 
acknowledges the vital role of the Venture Class Missions 
program in supporting the development of novel remote sensing 
technologies and sustaining the scientific workforce. The 
Committee remains supportive of NASA's collaborative research 
that works to advance our understanding of the behavior of the 
Earth by engaging academia, particularly students, in studies 
and investigations, as these partnerships ensure that NASA's 
data expertise remains up-to-date and increases research 
capacity at universities. NASA should consider setting aside 
funding within an appropriate Earth Science program, including 
Venture Class Missions, for educational payloads.
    The Committee notes that NASA supports airborne science 
platforms for observing stratospheric conditions and the 
Earth's radiation budget, including the impact of the 
introduction of material into the stratosphere from changes in 
natural systems, increased air and space traffic, and solar 
radiation modification, and for calibrating and enhancing the 
value of NASA's satellite and Earth Sciences programs.
    Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer 
[GLIMR].--The Committee lauds NASA's confirmation of the GLIMR 
mission and provides required funding to achieve instrument 
delivery in 2025. The Committee directs NASA to continue 
working with NOAA to ensure that GLIMR meets the requirements 
of the GeoXO program, as appropriate.
    Earth System Observatory.--The Committee is pleased to see 
NASA's continued support for the Earth System Observatory to 
address this decadal survey priority together with our 
international partners. The Committee expects NASA to continue 
formulation of the four Earth System Observatory missions: 
Surface Biology and Geology, Atmospheric Observing System-Sky, 
Atmospheric Observing System-Storm, and Mass Change and 
provides the request level for these four missions.
    Earth System Explorers.--The Committee notes that National 
Academy's Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications 
from Space identified seven critical Earth monitoring needs and 
proposed launching three satellites within the decade to 
address these needs. The Committee provides up to the request 
level for Earth System Explorers. The Committee understands 
that NASA intends to launch only two of the three planned, mid-
size satellite missions and with potential delayed launches 
beyond 2030. The Committee encourages NASA to prioritize this 
program and to adhere to the decadal survey and launch three 
satellites to ensure the Nation has the best scientific 
information to address Earth observation needs. In keeping with 
previous direction from Congress, NASA should plan to select 
competitively future Earth System Explorers missions. The 
Committee believes an increase in competitive, PI-led missions 
will encourage responsible cost and schedule constraints, 
develop novel remote sensing technologies, and leverage the 
talents and expertise of scientists at universities and 
research institutions.
    Harmful Algal Blooms [HABs].--The Committee notes that NASA 
has unique capabilities and experience in using aerial vehicles 
to conduct surveillance activities for remote sensing of HABs 
in the Great Lakes and other regions with high spatial 
resolution, and to measure toxicity in algal blooms. The 
Committee supports NASA contributions, in coordination with 
NOAA and other Federal agencies under the Harmful Algal Bloom 
Research and Hypoxia Control Act, as amended (section 9 of 
Public Law 115-423), to freshwater HAB monitoring and detection 
and urges NASA to continue using crewed and uncrewed aircraft 
to perform this work.
    Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition [CSDA].--The CSDA 
program identifies, evaluates, and acquires data from 
commercial sources to support NASA's Earth Science research and 
application goals. The Committee provides up to the request 
level for CSDA and encourages NASA to begin formal assessments 
of novel commercial data sources through this program early in 
the calibration and validation process.
    Space-Based Wildfire Detection Technologies.--The Committee 
appreciates NASA's partnership with the commercial sector on 
concept studies to develop and demonstrate a remote sensing 
wildfire early detection and warning system. NASA is encouraged 
to transition from concept studies to the development and 
demonstration of the technologies and techniques needed to 
prove this capability, as appropriate. No less than the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level is provided for NASA to continue these 
efforts, including for aerial and in-space demonstration 
activities.
    Terra, Aqua, and Aura.--While the Committee understands 
that the Terra, Aqua, and Aura missions have drifted from their 
original orbits, the Committee is concerned by the proposal to 
reduce support for these missions before completing the ongoing 
Senior Review and without existing transition plans or follow-
on data sources for some instruments. NASA shall keep the 
Committee apprised of the results of the Senior Review to 
understand if additional support above the request is required 
to continue scientifically productive operations. The Committee 
provides up to the fiscal year 2022 enacted levels for these 
missions.
    Planetary Science.--The Committee recommendation includes 
$250,700,000 for planetary defense. The Committee 
recommendation supports funding for Near Earth Object 
Observations, which makes critical observations of Near Earth 
Objects and potentially hazardous asteroids, and provides 
$209,700,000 for the Near Earth Object Surveyor Mission [NEOSM] 
to maintain a 2028 launch date.
    The Committee expects NASA to continue the selection and 
launch cadence of Small Innovative Missions for Planetary 
Exploration [SIMPLEx], New Frontiers, and Discovery class 
missions in spite of any cost pressures from planetary flagship 
missions or the Mars program. The Committee is pleased that 
NASA will release the final announcement of opportunity for the 
next New Frontiers mission in early fiscal year 2024. However, 
the Committee is still awaiting a briefing about how NASA's 
planned investments over the next 5 years will advance the 
recommendations of the 2022 Planetary Science Decadal Survey 
titled ``Origins, Worlds, and Life,'' including for New 
Frontiers and for the exploration of Uranus, as called for the 
joint explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 117-328. 
Within the $407,500,000 for New Frontiers, $327,650,000 is 
provided for the Dragonfly mission to ensure a launch readiness 
date of no later than 2027.
    Lunar Discovery and Exploration.--The recommendation 
includes up to the request level for Lunar Discovery and 
Exploration, including $22,100,000 to continue the Lunar 
Reconnaissance Orbiter, and up to the request level for 
Commercial Lunar Payload Services. 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. 
Developing an industrial base of new space companies is 
paramount for the United States to be a leader in returning to 
the Moon and increasing cislunar operations. The Committee 
directs the Lunar Discovery and Exploration program to adhere 
to the lunar science priorities established by decadal surveys 
and the National Research Council's consensus report titled 
``Scientific Context for the Exploration of the Moon.'' 
Activities funded within the program should meet both lunar 
science and human exploration needs.
    VERITAS.--The Committee acknowledges that NASA delayed the 
Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and 
Spectroscopy [VERITAS] mission for at least 3 years due to 
budgetary pressures in other Planetary Science missions. While 
the VERITAS mission is still in early formulation and has not 
been confirmed, NASA shall provide the Committee with a 
notional budget profile and schedule.
    Mars Sample Return [MSR].--The Committee notes that MSR is 
the highest priority of the 2022 Planetary Science Decadal 
Survey to cache and return samples to Earth. However, the 
Committee is alarmed that despite Congress providing the full 
request for this mission in prior years for a total of 
$1,739,000,000, the expected launch schedule continues to slip 
and the increasing fiscal and human resources devoted to MSR is 
causing NASA to delay other high priority missions across the 
Science Mission Directorate [SMD]. The Committee has 
significant concerns about the technical challenges facing MSR 
and potential further impacts on confirmed missions, even 
before MSR has completed preliminary design review. Further, 
the Committee notes that NASA has convened an independent 
review board to assess the technical feasibility, schedule, and 
costs of the mission. As the Committee awaits the results of 
the independent review board, NASA shall submit, not later than 
180 days after the enactment of this act, a year-by-year 
funding profile for MSR within the $5,300,000,000 lifecycle 
cost for the mission outlined in the 2022 Planetary Science 
Decadal Survey. The Committee recommendation includes not less 
than $300,000,000 for MSR, which brings the total provided to 
date to more than $2,000,000,000 before mission confirmation. 
If NASA is unable to provide the Committee with a MSR lifecycle 
cost profile within the $5,300,000,000 budget profile, NASA is 
directed to either provide options to de-scope or rework MSR or 
face mission cancellation. If NASA decides to cancel the 
mission, the fiscal year 2024 funding shall be reallocated as 
follows: (1) $235,000,000 transferred to Exploration for 
Artemis Campaign Development; (2) $30,000,000 for the Dragonfly 
mission; (3) $5,000,000 for a flagship orbiter and probe 
mission to explore Uranus; and (4) $30,000,000 for the Geospace 
Dynamics Constellation mission.
    Sample Receiving Facility.--The Committee encourages NASA 
to locate the sample receiving facility in a State that does 
not currently host a NASA facility. In selecting the location 
for the facility, NASA is encouraged to prioritize National 
Laboratories in the stewardship of the Department of Energy's 
Office of Science. The Committee recommends NASA prioritize 
laboratories with: demonstrated bioanalytical scientific 
capabilities, a biological and environmental research user 
facility, and biodefense capabilities. Not later than 180 days 
after the enactment of this act, NASA is directed to provide 
the Committee with a plan outlining the facility requirements, 
expected construction schedule, and estimated cost, as well as 
the criteria that will be used to determine the facility 
location.
    New Horizons.--The Committee is aware of the ongoing 
discussion regarding the future of the New Horizons mission, 
including potential support through the Heliophysics Division. 
The Committee notes that New Horizons is the only NASA mission 
flying in the most distant portion of our solar system, the 
Kuiper Belt, and will remain there for several more years. The 
Committee encourages NASA to support this mission, as 
appropriate, beyond 2024.
    Astrophysics.--The Committee recommendation for 
Astrophysics includes no less than $98,300,000 for the Hubble 
Space Telescope, $407,300,000 for the Nancy Grace Roman Wide-
Field InfraRed Survey Telescope [Roman], and up to $259,300,000 
for Astrophysics Explorers. The Committee is encouraged by 
NASA's commitment to accelerate the cadence of Astrophysics 
Explorer missions and to continue a new line of small Pioneer-
class missions that leverage advancements in low-cost platforms 
such as CubeSats and balloons to support groundbreaking 
science. Such activities can improve scientific understanding 
while simultaneously developing the scientific workforce 
through increased research opportunities for students and 
faculty.
    Roman Telescope.--The Committee notes this telescope was 
the highest priority of the 2010 Astrophysics decadal survey to 
further investigate fundamental questions about the nature of 
dark energy. The Committee reiterates the expectation that NASA 
will use a $3,500,000,000 development cost cap in its future 
execution of the mission. Roman and the Vera C. Rubin 
Observatory will provide data rich, large-scale observations of 
the universe. Combining data from these complementary 
facilities could speed breakthrough discoveries. As such, the 
Committee directs NASA to work with NSF to develop essential 
computational tools and interfaces, strengthen and formalize 
science and engineering collaborations, and enable joint data 
analysis.
    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 for future mission architectures. 
Additionally, 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. As 
such, the Committee recommends up to $289,900,000 for 
Astrophysics Research.
    Science Mission Directorate Education.--The Committee 
provides up to $55,600,000 for education and outreach efforts 
and supports the Astrophysics Division continuing to administer 
this SMD-wide education funding. The Committee encourages SMD-
funded investigators to be directly involved in outreach and 
education efforts and support citizen science. NASA should 
continue to prioritize funding for ongoing education efforts 
linked directly to its science missions.
    James Webb Space Telescope [JWST].--The Committee 
congratulates NASA on the success of the JWST mission thus far 
and provides $187,000,000. JWST observations are fundamentally 
changing our understanding of the universe and our place within 
it, and demonstrate continued U.S. leadership in science and 
technology.
    Habitable Worlds Observatory.--The Committee supports the 
Great Observatory Maturation Program [GOMAP] as recommended by 
the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, ``Pathways to 
Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s'' 
[Astro2020]. GOMAP will mature science and technologies needed 
for future flagship missions starting with the Habitable Worlds 
Observatory to observe habitable exoplanets. In order to cement 
continued American leadership in astronomy, the Committee 
provides the requested level for GOMAP to implement the 
Astro2020 recommendations. NASA is encouraged to articulate 
funding for GOMAP separately in future budget requests.
    Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy [SOFIA].--
Up to $20,000,000 is provided for SOFIA to continue the orderly 
closeout of the mission.
    Heliophysics.--The Committee once again rejects NASA's 
proposal to reduce Heliophysics funding, instead provides no 
less than $805,000,000. The Committee recognizes that a greater 
understanding of our Sun and the accompanying technologies 
developed for that purpose will help to mitigate the hazards 
that solar activity poses to ground- and space-based platforms 
that strengthen our national security, economic 
competitiveness, and scientific prowess. The Committee also 
notes that the priorities outlined below are guided by the 
recommendations of the National Academies' decadal survey 
titled ``Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological 
Society'' and awaits the release of the new decadal survey in 
2024. The Committee is supportive of NASA's collaboration with 
external stakeholders on efforts to foster scientific consensus 
on future directions.
    Solar Terrestrial Probe.--The recommendation includes 
$194,000,000 for Solar Terrestrial Probes to: support continued 
development of Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe 
[IMAP] to maintain a 2025 launch schedule; implement 
accompanying Missions of Opportunity [MOs]; maintain operations 
for ongoing missions, including the Magnetospheric Multiscale 
[MMS] mission at up to $26,000,000; and make awards under the 
announcement of opportunity for the Dynamic Neutral Atmosphere-
Ionosphere Coupling [DYNAMIC] mission. The Committee directs 
NASA to maintain operations and scientific analysis for MMS at 
a level that will achieve the phase two objective of night side 
reconnection events.
    Heliophysics Explorer.--The Committee is encouraged by 
NASA's commitment to accelerate the cadence of alternating 
Small Explorer [SMEX] and Medium-class Explorer missions while 
also enabling a regular selection of MOs to allow heliophysics 
researchers to rapidly respond to and participate in missions 
both inside and outside of NASA. This commitment follows the 
recommendations of the decadal survey and can accelerate 
scientific understanding while developing the scientific 
workforce through increased research opportunities for students 
and faculty. The Committee looks forward to selections from the 
SMEX and MOs solicitations. The recommendation provides 
$190,700,000 for Heliophysics Explorers, including no less than 
$9,500,000 for HelioSwarm.
    Diversify, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate [DRIVE] 
Initiative.--The Committee supports the ongoing execution of 
the DRIVE initiative, a top priority of the heliophysics 
decadal survey, and encourages NASA to implement the goal of 
increasing the competitive research program to 25 percent of 
the Heliophysics budget request to support competitively-
awarded DRIVE Science Centers; the development of new 
technologies, including advanced computational tools; 
multidisciplinary research collaboration using integrated 
observatory data; and early career investigators. In addition, 
the Committee recognizes that the continued success of DRIVE 
relies upon a robustly supported research budget, and provides 
$238,800,000, an increase of $7,500,000 above the request, for 
Heliophysics Research.
    Heliophysics Technology Program.--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 SMD. Activities supported by such 
programs in Heliophysics 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. The 
recommendation provides $19,900,000 for Heliophysics 
Technology, an increase of $11,500,000 above the request.
    Geospace Dynamics Constellation [GDC].--The Committee is 
disappointed by NASA's proposal to delay the GDC mission, which 
will fulfill the recommendations of the Heliophysics decadal 
survey through improved understanding of the variability of the 
space weather environment surrounding Earth, because of 
budgetary pressures outside the Heliophysics Division. The 
ability to achieve the science goals of the decadal survey 
should not be contingent upon the performance of any project of 
the Planetary Science Division. The recommendation provides 
$135,000,000 for Living with a Star [LWS], which supports a 
diverse portfolio of activities that contribute to our 
understanding of the societal impact of the Sun-Earth system. 
This includes $35,000,000 above the request level for the GDC 
mission.
    Space Weather.--In response to the National Space Weather 
Strategy and Action Plan and the recommendations of the decadal 
survey, the Committee provides no less than $26,600,000 for 
Space Weather. The Committee also notes the relevance of NASA 
Space Weather activities to safeguarding human health against 
radiation during long-duration deep space exploration 
activities. NASA should coordinate with NOAA, NSF, and the 
Department of Defense to ensure that NASA is focused on 
research and technology that enables other agencies to 
dramatically improve their operational space weather assets and 
the forecasts they generate using data from those assets, 
including current and future ground-based telescopes and 
instruments, such as the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope.
    Within Space Weather, the Committee allocates $2,000,000 in 
fulfilment of the PROSWIFT Act (Public Law 116-181) for a 
center-based mechanism to support multidisciplinary space 
weather research, advance new capabilities, and foster 
collaboration among university, government, and industry 
participants aimed at improving research-to-operations and 
operations-to-research. NASA should coordinate with NOAA to 
ensure that research pursued through this activity meets NOAA 
operational needs.
    Biological and Physical Science.--Biological sciences are 
integral to future crewed Moon, Mars, and long-duration LEO 
missions. The Committee directs NASA to continue research into 
understanding the effects of living and working in low- and 
micro-gravity environments on humans and other living 
organisms. The recommendation provides $90,000,000 for 
Biological and Physical Science, including $5,000,000 to 
establish a consortium including academic institutions with 
demonstrated expertise within the human health, animal, and 
plant sciences. The consortium shall consist of at least one 
Space Grant Consortia member. NASA shall establish the 
consortium in a State or region that is does not currently host 
a NASA facility. In selecting the consortium, NASA shall 
prioritize institutions that have a demonstrated ability to 
execute Federal research awards, specifically those originating 
from NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, and that have a history of 
successful collaboration with the Federal research enterprise, 
including the Department of Energy's National Laboratories and 
Technology Centers.

                              AERONAUTICS

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $935,000,000
Budget Estimate, 2024...................................     995,800,000
Committee recommendation................................     935,000,000

    The Committee provides $935,000,000 for Aeronautics, which 
is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $60,800,000 
below the budget request. The Aeronautics account funds 
research in key areas related to the development of advanced 
aircraft technologies and systems, including those related to 
aircraft safety, ultra-efficient vehicles and fuel efficiency, 
hypersonics, and research that supports the Next Generation Air 
Transportation System.
    Low Boom Flight Demonstrator [LBFD].--The Committee 
supports New Aviation Horizons and is encouraged by NASA's 
efforts toward developing a Low Boom Flight Demonstrator X-
plane, referred to as LBFD. Sufficient funds are also included 
to enable the next X-plane demonstration planned beyond LBFD.
    Optimization of Stitched Composites.--NASA has invested in 
early technology development of stitched composites that will 
help lead to revolutionary aircraft structures. The Committee 
provides $10,000,000 to industrialize stitched composites for 
next generation sustainable aircraft architectures. The 
Committee recommends NASA partner with entities experienced in 
high-rate, large scale aerostructure design and manufacturing 
to successfully promote U.S. capability for future classes of 
sustainable, next generation aircraft.
    Sustainable Aviation.--The Committee supports NASA's 
Sustainable Flight National Partnership, including the 
Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, the Electrified 
Powertrain Flight Demonstration, and the advancement of 
sustainable aviation fuels. The Committee encourages NASA to 
prioritize development of zero-emissions aircraft concepts 
through the highly successful University Leadership Initiative 
and to expand sustainable aviation fuel characterization.
    Hypersonics Technology.--The Committee notes that low-speed 
hypersonic flight opportunities enable development of the next 
generation of commercial aeronautics travel. The development of 
new hypersonic capabilities can sustain hypersonic competency 
for national needs while advancing fundamental research. Both 
require technology development that includes hypersonic 
propulsion systems, reusable vehicle technologies, high-
temperature materials, including carbon fiber components, 
polymer ceramic composites, and systems analysis. The Committee 
provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
hypersonics technology research. Within this amount, the 
Committee provides $10,000,000 for collaborative work between 
industry and academia for carbon/carbon material testing and 
$5,000,000 to develop and mature automation of high-temperature 
ceramic matrix composites for material characterization.
    Advanced Materials Research.--The Committee supports the 
NASA's Advanced Air Vehicles Initiatives including the Hi-Rate 
Composite Aircraft Manufacturing [HiCAM] and Hybrid Thermally 
Efficient Core [HyTEC] programs. Due to their extreme 
temperatures, hypersonic vehicles require specialized composite 
materials that rely upon a significant amount of testing and 
characterization to mature these advanced materials for 
airframes. The Committee provides no less than the fiscal year 
2023 enacted levels for collaborative research with industry 
and academia to develop and test the next generation of 
refractory composite materials for hypersonic applications. The 
Committee also encourages research and development of advanced 
polymer-aerogel materials and technologies in support of 
materials and structures for extreme environments.
    Aircraft Autonomy for Global Missions.--The Committee notes 
the real strategic and operational challenges associated with 
research and development for UAVs. The Committee also 
recognizes the important role that UAVs can play in advancing 
NASA's mission including aerial imagery that can monitor 
agriculture, trace severe storms, or detect wildfires. The 
Committee encourages NASA to consider a project demonstrating 
the capability of UAV circumnavigation of the globe.
    Airspace Operations and Safety.--The Committee supports 
NASA's ongoing activities related to Advanced Air Mobility, 
including the collaboration with the Federal Aviation 
Administration [FAA] to achieve harmony in the national 
airspace system as new aircraft are integrated.

                            SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $1,200,000,000
Budget Estimate, 2024...................................   1,391,600,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,118,000,000

    The Committee provides $1,118,000,000 for Space Technology, 
which is $82,000,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
and $273,600,000 below the budget request. The Space Technology 
mission directorate funds basic research that can advance 
multi-purpose technologies to enable new approaches to all of 
NASA's current missions. Space Technology also includes funding 
for NASA's Small Business Innovative Research [SBIR] and Small 
Business Technology Transfer programs.
    The Committee is supportive of many of the technologies 
being developed within Space Technology, which will have wide-
ranging benefits for NASA missions and throughout the agency. 
Of particular note are the enabling technologies of Solar 
Electric Propulsion, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, Moon-to-Mars 
Planetary Autonomous Construction Technology, Archinaut-2, 
optical communications, and artificial intelligence. These key 
supporting technologies will provide enabling capabilities for 
multiple robotic and human exploration missions.
    Innovative Nanomaterials.--The recommendation includes 
$5,000,000 to advance large scale production and use of 
innovative nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes and 
carbon/carbon composites.
    On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing-1 [OSAM-
1].--The Committee recommends $227,000,000 for the OSAM-1 to 
conduct and demonstrate the capabilities to refuel satellites 
in LEO utilizing Landsat-7. As the program progresses from 
research to implementation, the Committee encourages NASA to 
work with private sector and university partners to facilitate 
commercialization of the technologies developed within the 
program. The Committee encourages NASA to make OSAM-1's 
capabilities available to other government agencies that own 
and operate satellites. NASA is directed to keep the program on 
track for launch no later than 2026.
    Space Nuclear Technologies Portfolio.--The Committee 
supports a robust and diverse set of projects on space nuclear 
technologies, including the development of fission surface 
power, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion [NTP], and nuclear electric 
propulsion, which are critical to the success and 
sustainability of missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as 
satellites and space vehicles. The Committee is supportive of 
past and ongoing investments in a mix of technologies, such as 
vertical solar arrays, and urges NASA to devote the resources 
required to ensure that these systems are fully developed and 
prepared for deployment when the time for surface missions 
arrives
    Nuclear Thermal Propulsion.--NTP is a critical space 
propulsion technology that will enable a host of exploration, 
scientific, national security, and commercial applications. 
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA] 
recently agreed to partner on the Demonstration Rocket for 
Agile Cislunar Operations [DRACO] Program, in coordination with 
the private sector. While the development of a demonstration 
NTP system is essential to the eventual development of an 
operational system, the demonstration system as currently 
envisioned will not be sufficient to outperform existing 
propulsion technologies. Therefore, the Committee provides 
$110,000,000 for the developmental of NTP, of which not less 
than $10,000,000 is to continue to accelerate the development 
of an operational system with commercial partners, concurrently 
with DRACO, to ensure that the United States has an NTP system 
capable of performing future cislunar and deep space science 
missions. This funding should provide for a continued focus on 
development of an operational capability and aid in nuclear 
systems design, fabrication, and testing; materials development 
and advanced metal and composites manufacturing; spacecraft and 
launch vehicle design and fabrication; and satellite design, 
fabrication, and operation.
    Fission Surface Power [FSP].--The Committee continues to 
recognize the need for steady, reliable, and uninterrupted 
power for future extended science and exploration missions on 
the lunar surface, particularly at the poles, and is supportive 
of past and ongoing investments in a mix of technologies, 
including both FSP and Vertical Solar Array Technology [VSAT]. 
FSP systems, due to their ruggedness, resilience, and ability 
to survive the lunar night and operate in permanently shaded 
craters, are essential to sustained, long-duration missions on 
the lunar surface. The Committee supports designing, building, 
and testing the first ever space FSP for deployment to and 
demonstration on the lunar surface. Therefore, the Committee 
provides not less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for 
the developmental of FSP. Not later than 180 days after the 
enactment of this act, NASA is directed to provide the 
Committee with a plan, including requisite budget, to achieve a 
FSP demonstration project.
    Flight Opportunities Program.--The recommendation provides 
$27,000,000 for the Flight Opportunities Program. The funding 
provided for this program may be used to support undergraduate 
and graduate work in developing flight opportunities payloads. 
Within the amount provided, $5,000,000 to support payload 
development and flight of K-12 and collegiate educational 
payloads.
    Orbital Debris Remediation.--The Committee is concerned 
that NASA continues to lack a specific and comprehensive 
strategy to address the intensifying risks posed by orbital 
debris through remediation of the space environment using 
active debris removal. The Committee provides up to $5,000,000 
to advance early-stage technology for active debris remediation 
with a goal of an active debris removal demonstration in LEO by 
2026. NASA shall brief the Committee with a plan to achieve 
this goal within 180 days of enactment of this act.
    Tipping Point.--The Committee supports new Tipping Point 
and Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity [ACO] 
solicitations. NASA is encouraged to consult with industry and 
to consider prioritizing new opportunities for competition to 
select public-private partnerships and technology 
demonstrations for systems that satisfy specific technology 
needs to support the Moon-to-Mars program. The Committee 
expects NASA to prioritize the development and demonstration of 
cross-cutting technologies, which may include technologies 
relating to in-situ resource utilization and resource 
recycling; surface mobility; electromagnetic tools; and 
additive manufacturing.
    Regional Economic Development.--The Committee is supportive 
of Regional Economic Development, including partnering with the 
NIST Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership and its local 
offices to target technologies of interest to NASA's 
overarching mission of exploration, while also driving 
innovation and economic growth. NASA is encouraged to expand 
the program to all 50 States. Further, the Committee encourages 
NASA to establish a space technology innovation center focused 
on research and development commercialization, ecosystem 
development, and workforce development in the space sector in 
partnership with an industry-leading regional consortium.
    Small Business Innovation Research.--The Committee 
recognizes the importance of the SBIR program and its previous 
success in commercialization of results from federally-funded 
research and development projects, and includes the requested 
level for SBIR.

                              EXPLORATION

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $7,468,850,000
Budget Estimate, 2024...................................   7,971,091,000
Committee recommendation................................   7,736,300,000

    The Committee provides $7,736,300,000 for Exploration, 
which is $267,450,000 above the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
and $234,791,000 below the budget request.
    The Exploration account funds the capabilities required to 
develop, demonstrate, and deploy the transportation, life 
support, and surface systems that will enable sustained human 
presence beyond LEO and throughout the solar system. The 
Committee believes the Nation deserves a safe and robust human 
spaceflight program to explore beyond LEO, including 
establishing a sustainable lunar presence, and ensuring U.S. 
leadership in space.
    The Committee supports NASA's goal of returning U.S. 
astronauts to the surface of the Moon through the Artemis 
program and provides funding to move its lunar program forward. 
While the launch of Artemis I was a historic success, many 
challenges remain for future missions, including several 
critical elements for the initial crewed landing on the Moon 
that remain in early development. NASA also must work on 
developing the needed systems to enable Artemis to support a 
sustained lunar presence on and around the Moon. To accomplish 
this goal, NASA must coordinate and systematically advance the 
many programs under development through a plan that reflects 
the complexity of this undertaking. The Committee has provided 
funds for NASA to advance its human exploration program and 
expects NASA to provide further definition of the program and 
refined cost estimates that reflect NASA's plans as they become 
available.
    The Space Launch System [SLS], Orion multi-purpose crew 
vehicle [Orion], and Exploration Ground Systems [EGS] are all 
critical infrastructure for the development and sustainment of 
the Nation's human exploration goals. These investments are 
critical to human exploration of space beyond LEO, and provide 
flexibility for a variety of missions and destinations 
including the Moon and Mars. The Committee encourages NASA to 
prioritize the critical fiscal and human resources required to 
meet the launch schedules for Artemis II and III missions, 
launch Gateway, complete the Mobile Launcher 2 [ML-2] and Block 
1B infrastructure upgrades, and complete development of the 
Exploration Upper Stage [EUS] for the Artemis IV, V, and 
missions beyond.
    The Committee provides no less than the request level for 
SLS, Orion, and EGS. These funding levels ensure the earliest 
possible crewed launch of SLS, as well as prepare for the 
development of future science and crewed missions.
    The Committee directs NASA to follow its ``Priority of 
Use'' clause for ensuring that its missions are prioritized and 
that mission-related activities and schedules of NASA missions 
are not impacted by outside activities at its centers. In 
particular, NASA shall ensure that any non-Federal activities 
do not interfere with the progress of, and schedule for, the 
Artemis missions, and will report to the Committee any 
conflicting activities and how the conflict was resolved 15 
days prior to any activity taking place.
    Block 1B Development.--The Committee is supportive of 
NASA's plans to fully develop the capabilities of SLS and 
directs NASA to continue the simultaneous development of 
activities authorized under section 302(c)(1)(a) and (b) of 
Public Law 111-267. Enabling the evolution of SLS from the 
vehicle used in Artemis I to the Block 1B variant and 
eventually the 130 metric ton variant, requires the continued 
development of the interim Block 1B variation of SLS, including 
the continued development of EUS. It also requires 
modifications to SLS, the continued construction of a ML-2 as a 
Block 1B compatible mobile launch platform, and development of 
any additional processing and launch capabilities. To further 
enable NASA's goals for the Artemis program, the Committee 
provides up to $600,000,000 for Block 1B development for EUS 
engine development and associated stage adapter work from 
within the amounts provided for SLS.
    Mobile Launcher 2.--The Committee recognizes that in order 
for NASA's planned Artemis IV mission, which will utilize the 
Block 1B variant of SLS, a second mobile launch platform known 
as ML-2 will be necessary. Challenges experienced by both NASA 
and the awardee have led to the project cost increasing by more 
than three times the original cost-plus-award and to 
significant delays. The Committee strongly supports the 
recommendations in the Inspector General review from June 2022 
[IG-22-012] and expects NASA's continued focus on this issue. 
While the Committee awaits the ML-2 Agency Baseline Commitment, 
which must lay out a plan to achieve a May 2026 completion, the 
recommendation provides up to the request level for ML-2.
    Artemis Campaign Development.--The Committee provides 
sufficient funding to continue progress on the Artemis Campaign 
Development, which is comprised of Gateway, Advanced 
Exploration Systems, Advanced Cislunar and Surface 
Capabilities, and the Human Landing System [HLS].
    Human Landing System.--The Committee appreciates NASA's 
recent selection of a second HLS team, following longstanding 
Congressional direction regarding the importance of ensuring 
program redundancy and competition. To maintain progress for 
Artemis III as well as to continue development of the two 
crewed lunar landers to provide services from the Gateway, the 
Committee provides full funding for NASA to meet all 
contractual obligations for HLS in fiscal year 2024.
    Mars Habitation and Life Support Systems.--The Committee 
recognizes that the immediate and foremost national priority is 
to return Americans to the Moon, as part of a strategy for the 
United States and its international partners to land humans on 
Mars. The Committee strongly supports this goal, and in March 
2023 was pleased to approve the establishment of the Moon to 
Mars Program Office. The Committee recognizes that NASA is 
currently supporting the evaluation of multi-purpose habitation 
and life support systems for Mars transit and lunar surfaces. 
The Committee further recognizes NASA's capabilities, including 
in assembly facilities, currently involved in the Artemis 
mission, to manufacture mockup and eventual habitats for these 
missions. The Committee is encouraged by this initiative to 
support the Mars landing goal, and directs NASA to submit a 
report, with 180 days of the enactment of this act, on the 
status of these efforts.

                            SPACE OPERATIONS

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $4,250,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   4,534,609,000
Committee recommendation................................   4,200,000,000

    The Committee provides $4,200,000,000 for Space Operations, 
which is $50,000,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
and $334,609,000 below the budget request. The Space Operations 
account supports the International Space Station [ISS] and the 
supporting functions required to conduct operations in space up 
to the full requested level. The ISS is a complex of research 
laboratories in LEO in which American and international partner 
astronauts conduct unique scientific and technological 
investigations in a microgravity environment.
    Commercial Crew and Cargo.--The Committee provides up to 
the requested amount to enable cargo flights for all three 
current providers within the Crew and Cargo Program. The 
Committee notes that since 2011, it has been NASA's goal to 
have two providers for crew services to the ISS, yet only one 
is currently fully operational. NASA is encouraged to continue 
efforts to enhance competition to generate savings within the 
Crew and Cargo Program.
    Suborbital Crew.--NASA shall continue its Suborbital Crew 
Office to procure flights for civil servants on licensed U.S. 
suborbital vehicles. NASA shall leverage existing FAA safety 
regulations and FAA licensing requirements to prioritize safety 
and ensure coordination to protect public health and safety. 
NASA shall also establish a qualification process with a 
roadmap for operators to complete the required review process 
within a reasonable timeframe.
    ISS Deorbit Vehicle.--The Committee supports NASA's efforts 
to develop and procure a deorbit vehicle to ensure the safe and 
controlled deorbit of the ISS at the end of its useful life.
    Space Communications.--The Committee recognizes and 
appreciates the complexities involved in sustaining NASA's Near 
Space and Deep Space communications networks and 
infrastructure, which support NASA's scientific and exploration 
activities. With the proliferation of commercial satellites 
capable of providing communications for NASA's needs, this 
program represents a significant opportunity to deliver more 
economical and efficient services. The Committee supports 
NASA's goal to commercialize its Near Space network, including 
direct-to-Earth communications services. However, much work 
remains to demonstrate that services tailored to non-space 
users are capable of meeting NASA mission needs when NASA's 
Tracking and Data Relay Satellites reach the end of their 
service lives in the 2030s. If commercialization plans cannot 
meet NASA's needs, the agency will need to plan and budget for 
replacement of essential services.
    The Committee directs NASA to provide a timeline for 
sustainment of the existing network and infrastructure upgrades 
in the fiscal year 2025 budget request. NASA is also directed 
to identify adequate resources and provide a plan to address 
any upgrades identified in its Deep Space Network Road-to-Green 
initiative. NASA is directed to brief the Committee on these 
plans within 30 days after the enactment of this act. The 
recommendation supports up to the request level for the 
Communications Services Program.
    Optical Communications.--The Committee supports NASA's 
efforts to develop low-cost optical communications systems. The 
Committee is also aware that other agencies, including the 
Space Development Agency, are also working on advancing lower-
cost optical communications systems and as such, encourages 
NASA to coordinate on these activities when possible and in 
particular offer the ground terminal as a testbed.
    Human Research Program.--The Committee recognizes the 
importance of the Human Research Program to the current ISS 
mission as well as to preparing for upcoming Artemis missions. 
Crew health and safety will be integral to future crewed Moon 
and Mars missions, and NASA is directed to continue its efforts 
into understanding the effects of living and working in space 
on astronauts.
    21st Century Launch Complex.--The Committee notes that 
maintaining multiple launch sites contributes to assured access 
to the ISS for NASA, researchers, and industry. The 
recommendation includes up to $15,000,000 for NASA-owned launch 
facilities to fill critical maintenance, capacity, and range 
safety gaps. The Committee further directs NASA to submit a 
reprogramming to transfer this funding to Construction and 
Environmental Compliance and Restoration [CECR], if 
appropriate. The Committee acknowledges that NASA's original 
intent for this program was as a bridge between Constellation 
and new programs proposed in its fiscal year 2011 budget 
request. If NASA does not support continuation of this program, 
the agency should robustly fund needed investments in its 
launch facilities in this account and in CECR, specifically 
identifying them in the budget request.
    Rocket Propulsion Test Program and Testing 
Infrastructure.--The Committee recommends NASA funds up to the 
fiscal year 2024 requested amount for the NASA Rocket 
Propulsion Test program to ensure that test infrastructure 
remains adequate to support the SLS and other propulsion 
development programs. In managing the program and its 
infrastructure, NASA should 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.
    Commercial LEO Development.--The Committee supports 
maintaining the ISS as long as it can be operated safely. 
However, it is anticipated that current commercial efforts to 
develop viable alternatives will allow NASA to meet anticipated 
mission requirements using free flyers in LEO before the end of 
the decade. The recommendation provides up to the budget 
request of $228,400,000 for Commercial LEO activities to allow 
for continued opportunities for LEO commercialization that are 
not primarily dependent on continual NASA funding. This funding 
should be primarily focused on solving supply rather than 
demand problems. NASA's goal should be to buy services to meet 
its needs and grow promising research across all industries 
rather than to fund one-time novelty events, which are not 
indicators of future sustainable expansion of commercial 
activity in LEO. NASA shall not use funds provided in this or 
any other act to subsidize the cost of any project that is 
primarily intended for marketing, advertising, or 
entertainment.

      SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS ENGAGEMENT

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $143,500,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     157,800,000
Committee recommendation................................     143,500,000

    The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 
Engagement account funds STEM education activities to educate 
and inspire our next generation of explorers and innovators. 
The Committee provides $143,500,000 for STEM Engagement, which 
is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $14,300,000 
below the budget request. As part of this activity, NASA is 
directed to continue progress toward the shared goal of both 
the Committee and NASA of capping administrative costs at no 
more than 5 percent.

                             STEM ENGAGEMENT
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee
                                                         recommendation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
NASA Space Grant......................................            58,000
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research             26,000
 [EPSCOR].............................................
Minority University Research and Education Project....            45,500
STEM Education and Accountability Projects............            14,000
                                                       -----------------
        TOTAL.........................................           143,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Space Grant Program.--The Committee provides $58,000,000 
for Space Grant and directs that all 52 participating 
jurisdictions be supported at no less than $900,000 each. NASA 
shall limit administrative costs to the fiscal year 2023 level 
and shall continue to have a goal of reducing administrative 
costs to no higher than 5 percent. The Committee encourages 
NASA to continue using funds to evaluate program performance, 
augment base grants, and competitively respond to local, 
regional, and national needs.
    Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research 
[EPSCoR].--The Committee provides $26,000,000 for the NASA 
EPSCoR Program and directs that no more than 10 percent shall 
be used for administrative costs.
    Minority University Research and Education Project 
[MUREP].--The Committee continues to encourage MUREP to support 
programs that connect science, indigenous culture, and 
community, including the integration of indigenous practices, 
at minority-serving higher education institutions, including 
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions and 
American Indian Tribal Colleges and Universities. The academic 
institution or institutions should be located in a State or 
States where the need for such indigenous-academic 
collaboration is present.
    Competitive Program.--The Committee provides up to 
$5,000,000 within Next Gen STEM for the Teams Engaging 
Affiliate Museums and Informal Institutions [TEAM II] program, 
also known as Competitive Program for Science, Museums, 
Planetariums, and NASA Visitors Centers. This competitive grant 
program supports interactive exhibits, professional development 
activities, and community-based programs to engage students, 
teachers, and the public in STEM.

                 SAFETY, SECURITY, AND MISSION SERVICES

Appropriations, 2023....................................  $3,129,451,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   3,369,400,000
Committee recommendation................................   3,100,000,000

    The Committee provides $3,100,000,000 for Safety, Security, 
and Mission Services, which is $29,451,000 below the fiscal 
year 2023 enacted level and $269,400,000 below the budget 
request. The Safety, Security, and Mission Services account 
funds agency management, including NASA headquarters and each 
of the nine NASA field centers, as well as the design and 
execution of non-programmatic Construction of Facilities and 
Environmental Compliance and Restoration activities.
    Independent Verification and Validation [IV&V] Program.--
Within the amounts provided for Safety, Security, and Mission 
Services, the Committee recommends up to $40,200,000 for NASA's 
IV&V Program. If necessary, NASA shall fund additional IV&V 
activities from within the mission directorates that make use 
of IV&V services. The Committee applauds NASA's changes to the 
IV&V Program's governance and funding model to better align 
program requirements and associated costs, including the 
establishment of the IV&V Advisory Board to provide strategic 
direction for the program and work through program requirements 
with IV&V and the mission directorates.
    Cybersecurity.--The Committee's recommendation includes up 
to the full requested level for Agency Information Technology 
Services to support shifting NASA's IT model to one that 
enhances cybersecurity with strong governance and information 
security practices.
    Test and Launch Guidelines.--The Committee is aware of 
concerns that NASA's interim guidelines for liquid oxygen-
liquid methane fuel for vehicle launches and ground engine 
tests are more restrictive than the FAA's regulations that 
govern vehicles in flight. The Committee requests that NASA 
provide a report within 90 days either justifying the need for 
different standards or a plan to develop common standards with 
the FAA to ensure a consistent standard of safety and cost-
efficient launch performance.
    Payload Processing Capacity.--The Committee is concerned 
that U.S. civil and commercial space payload processing 
capabilities at NASA launch sites are insufficient to handle 
the projected launch rates, which could lead to launch delays 
in the future. The Committee notes the potential for public-
private partnerships with industry that may expeditiously add 
new processing capacity. Not later than 90 days after enactment 
of this act, NASA shall report to the Committee on: (1) the 
projected needs for civil space payload processing capabilities 
at NASA launch sites, and (2) the potential for public-private 
partnerships that enable new payload processing providers to 
add capacity.
    Digital Asset Management.--The Committee supports the 
ongoing efforts of NASA's Safety, Security, and Mission 
Services and Science accounts to efficiently manage its large 
and diverse collection of digital assets to help deliver 
modernized internal and external digital services. Therefore, 
the Committee provides up to the request level to be used to 
continue to scale a cloud enabled, interoperable, and 
extensible digital asset management solution to minimize 
redundancy, improve digital asset sharing, and enhance NASA's 
digital service delivery to comply with the 21st Century 
Integrated Digital Experience Act [IDEA] (Public Law 115-336).
    NASA Special Projects.--Within the appropriation for 
Safety, Security and Mission Services, the Committee 
recommendation also provides $20,978,000 for the following 
Special Projects:

                          NASA SPECIAL PROJECTS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Recipient                Project Purpose      Recommended ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aviation Museum of New          Alvirne High/Palmer               90,000
 Hampshire.                      Center Student Plane-
                                 Build.
Challenger Learning Center of   Space Mission                  2,186,000
 Maine.                          Education Simulators
                                 for Maine Students.
Framingham State University...  McAuliffe Simulation           1,000,000
                                 Lab at Framingham
                                 State University's
                                 Christa McAuliffe
                                 Center.
New Jersey Institute of         Ground-based Simulator           566,000
 Technology.                     for In-space
                                 Refueling Cryogenic
                                 Propellants.
Rocky Mountain Biological       Ecological Prediction            975,000
 Laboratory (RMBL).              Lab: Airborne
                                 Coverage to Inform
                                 Water and Forest
                                 Health Management.
University of Mississippi.....  Air and Space Law              1,500,000
                                 Program.
University of New Mexico......  Artemis in 3D--A STEAM           840,000
                                 Challenge and
                                 Training Program.
West Virginia University......  Laser-Induced                    465,000
                                 Fluorescence
                                 Diagnostic.
West Virginia University......  Acquisition of a High-         1,500,000
                                 Performance CPU
                                 Cluster for Research
                                 and Education in WV.
Wichita State University /      Advanced Manufacturing        10,000,000
 National Institute for          Technology and
 Aviation Research.              Equipment.
Worcester Natural History       NASA STEM Engagement             856,000
 Society EcoTarium.              at the EcoTarium.
WVU Chestnut Ridge Research     Robotics Lab Equipment         1,000,000
 Center.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND RESTORATION

Appropriations, 2023.................................... \1\$414,300,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     453,700,000
Committee recommendation................................     379,000,000

\1\Of the amount provided for Construction and Environmental Compliance 
and Restoration in fiscal year 2023, $367,000,000 is included under 
title II of division N of Public Law 117-328.

    The Committee provides $379,000,000 for Construction and 
Environmental Compliance and Restoration, which is $35,300,000 
below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $74,700,000 below 
the budget request. The Construction and Environmental 
Compliance and Restoration account provides for design and 
execution of programmatic, discrete and minor revitalization, 
construction of facilities projects, facility demolition 
projects, and environmental compliance and restoration 
activities. The Committee recommendation includes the full 
request for Exploration and Space Operations Construction of 
Facilities [CoF].
    Unmet Construction Needs.--The Committee is disappointed at 
the gulf between the amount NASA requested for this account and 
the cost of the projects identified as shovel ready and needed. 
NASA is directed to include no fewer than the top 10 
construction projects that are needed but unfunded in its 
fiscal year 2025 budget request, including any unmet 
construction due to aging buildings.
    Wallops PFAS Contamination.--The Committee is aware of 
issues related to groundwater PFAS contamination in drinking 
water wells around Wallops Flight Facility stemming from 
firefighting training activities. Not later than 270 days after 
the enactment of this act, NASA shall prepare a plan, in 
coordination with relevant State and local partners, for 
removal and relocation of all drinking water wells currently 
situated on NASA administered property to a location outside of 
the NASA property under administrative control and lease, 
ownership or easement, of neighboring communities.

                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $47,600,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      50,200,000
Committee recommendation................................      47,600,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $47,600,000 for the 
Office of Inspector General, which is equal to the fiscal year 
2023 enacted level and $2,600,000 below the budget request. The 
Office is responsible for promoting efficiency and preventing 
and detecting crime, fraud, waste, and mismanagement.

                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

    The Committee includes bill language regarding the 
availability of funds for certain prizes. NASA is reminded that 
under the authority provided in section 20144 of title 52, 
United States Code, no prize may be announced until the funds 
needed to pay it have been appropriated or committed to in 
writing by a private source. NASA is directed to provide any 
written notification under subsection (h)(4) of that section to 
the Committee.
    The Committee also includes bill language regarding 
transfers of funds between accounts and the NASA spending plan 
for fiscal year 2024.
    The Committee also includes bill language to extend the 
availability of certain funds.

                      National Science Foundation

Appropriations, 2023...................................\1\$9,539,011,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................  11,354,680,000
Committee recommendation................................   9,500,000,000

\1\Of the total amount provided for the National Science Foundation in 
fiscal year 2023, $700,162,000 was included under title II of division N 
of Public Law 117-328.

    The Committee's recommendation provides $9,500,000,000 for 
the National Science Foundation [NSF]. The recommendation is 
$39,011,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$1,854,680,000 below the budget request.
    NSF was established as an independent agency by the 
National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (Public Law 81-507) and 
is authorized to support research and education programs that 
promote the progress of science and engineering in the United 
States. The Foundation supports research and education in all 
major scientific and engineering disciplines through grants, 
cooperative agreements, contracts, and other forms of 
assistance in all parts of the United States. NSF also supports 
unique, large-scale domestic and international research 
facilities.

                    RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Appropriations, 2023...................................\1\$7,629,298,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   9,017,900,000
Committee recommendation................................   7,608,287,000

\1\Of the amount provided for Research and Related Activities in fiscal 
year 2023, $608,162,000 is included under title II of division N of 
Public Law 117-328.

    The Committee's recommendation provides $7,608,287,000 for 
Research and Related Activities [R&RA]. The recommendation is 
$21,011,000 below the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and 
$1,409,613,000 below the budget request.
    The R&RA appropriation funds scientific discovery, trains a 
dynamic workforce, and supports broadly accessible state-of-
the-art tools and facilities. Research activities contribute to 
the achievement of these outcomes through expansion of the 
knowledge base; integration of research and education; 
stimulation of knowledge transfer among academia and the public 
and private sectors, and international activities; and bring 
the perspectives of many scientific disciplines to bear on 
complex problems important to the Nation. NSF's discipline-
oriented R&RA account includes Biological Sciences; Computer 
and Information Science and Engineering; Engineering; 
Geosciences; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Social, 
Behavioral and Economic Sciences; Technology, Innovation and 
Partnerships; Office of International Science and Engineering; 
Office of Polar Programs; Integrative Activities; and the U.S. 
Arctic Research Commission. All of these disciplines are part 
of a balanced whole.
    The Committee's fiscal year 2024 recommendation supports 
Federal long-term basic and translational research that has the 
potential to transform our economy and way of life. Private 
industry, foundations, and non-profits bring additional 
expertise, resources, and capacity to NSF-funded research. This 
can further accelerate discovery and translation of research 
into products and services, enhance the preparation of the 
future workforce to benefit society, and grow the American 
economy. The Committee strongly encourages NSF to leverage the 
Nation's research communities through partnerships and 
collaboration to make available infrastructure, expertise, and 
financial resources to the U.S. scientific and engineering 
research and education enterprise.
    Technology, Innovation and Partnerships [TIP].--The 
Committee recognizes NSF's critical role in driving U.S. 
scientific and technological innovation and supports the TIP 
Directorate authorized under the Research and Development, 
Competition, and Innovation Act (division B of Public Law 117-
167). The directorate is a cross-cutting platform to advance 
science and engineering research leading to breakthrough 
technologies, to find solutions to national and societal 
challenges, to strengthen U.S. global competitiveness, and to 
provide training opportunities for the development of a diverse 
STEM workforce. As NSF works to incorporate the goals of TIP 
into its research portfolio, NSF is reminded that the success 
of TIP will be enhanced through investing in the necessary 
foundational basic research provided by scientific disciplines 
across the research spectrum.
    Regional Innovation Engines [NSF Engines].--As part of the 
TIP Directorate, the Committee provides up to $200,000,000 for 
the Regional Innovation Engines, authorized under section 10388 
of Public Law 117-167, to create regional-scale innovation 
ecosystems throughout the United States and help spur economic 
growth by bringing together the science and technology research 
enterprise and regional-level resources to promote long-term 
national competitiveness. The Committee directs NSF to award at 
least 20 percent of NSF Engines to institutions in EPSCoR 
States.
    Scientific Facilities and Instrumentation.--A critical 
component of the Nation's scientific enterprise is the 
infrastructure that supports researchers in discovery science. 
The Committee supports NSF's role in building and operating 
groundbreaking research facilities, especially in areas that 
maintain or enhance U.S. leadership in key disciplines. 
Investments to advance the frontiers of research and education 
in science and engineering are critical to the Nation's 
innovation enterprise. The Committee encourages NSF to fully 
fund its U.S. scientific research facilities and instruments to 
adequately support scientists and students engaged in 
sustained, cutting-edge research.
    As major research facilities transition from construction, 
funded in the Major Research Equipment and Facilities 
Construction account, to science operations and maintenance, 
funded in R&RA, it is necessary for NSF to accommodate this 
shift without impacting the existing scientific activities. The 
Committee notes that as a result of the National Science 
Board's ``Study of Operations and Maintenance Costs for NSF 
Facilities'' the agency created the Facility Operation 
Transition pilot to enable this shift. The Committee expects 
that as major research facilities, such as the Vera C. Rubin 
Observatory, move from construction into science operations NSF 
will continue to use the Facility Operation Transition to allow 
the ongoing operations and maintenance costs to gradually be 
absorbed into the managing division or directorate. Further, as 
part of the fiscal year 2025 budget request, NSF shall provide 
a 5-year operations and maintenance budget outlook for 
facilities that have recently graduated from the Major Research 
Equipment and Facilities Construction account.
    The recommendation includes up to the requested level for 
the operations of the Center for High Energy X-Ray Science 
[CHEXS], the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research 
Laboratory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatories, and the 
National Solar Observatory [NSO].
    Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope [DKIST].--The Committee 
provides no less than the requested level for DKIST operations. 
DKIST is the largest and most advanced solar telescope on the 
planet and is a valuable resource for research and educational 
programs in solar physics. The Committee recognizes the value 
of DKIST's operations and does not support a reduction in its 
observing time. As such, NSF is expected to review the bottom-
up operations and maintenance plan and cost estimate as 
presented in the pending operations proposal and include the 
appropriate amount for full-time DKIST operations in the fiscal 
year 2025 request.
    Astronomy.--The Committee expects NSF to provide 
appropriate levels of support for operating its current 
facilities, developing instrumentation, and preparing for 
investments in future world-class scientific research 
facilities. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, 
and Medicine [NAS] Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 
2020 [Astro2020] outlines a comprehensive research strategy and 
vision to maintain U.S. science and technology leadership at 
the frontiers of astronomy and astrophysics for ground-based 
instruments and observatories. The Committee therefore provides 
not less than $30,000,000 for NSF to support the development of 
next generation astronomy facilities recommended in Astro2020. 
NSF is expected to include a robust user support system and 
data archive in the development of any Astro2020-recommended 
facility to ensure community access to world class telescopes. 
NSF is also expected to support a balanced portfolio of 
astronomy research grants by scientists and students engaged in 
ground-breaking research. Not later than 90 days after 
enactment of this act, NSF shall provide the Committee with a 
briefing regarding the Foundation's progress for realizing 
Astro2020. Further, the Committee expects that NSF will request 
sufficient funding in the fiscal year 2025 budget request to 
continue to advance the projects recommended in the Astro2020 
as quickly as practicable and without delay.
    Solar Astronomy.--The Committee commends NSF's ongoing 
efforts to partner with academic institutions and the NSO to 
operate the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope [DST]. The 
Committee directs NSF to continue working with the NSO and the 
academic community to ensure DST and its associated 
instrumentation remain available for continued research and 
educational programs.
    Green Bank Observatory [GBO].--The Committee recognizes the 
significant investment NSF has made to develop the world-class 
scientific facility at the GBO and the benefit other agencies 
have gained through their use of the GBO facility. The 
Committee has therefore encouraged the development and support 
of multi-agency management plans for GBO, and supports NSF's 
efforts to complete these plans at GBO. In order to provide 
stability for the facility as these plans are finalized, the 
Committee recommends no less than the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level to support operations and maintenance at GBO through 
multi-agency plans or through the Foundation.
    Climate and Clean Energy.--The Committee supports the U.S. 
Global Change Research Program and Clean Energy Technology. As 
part of this effort, the Committee encourages NSF to support 
meritorious research into carbon dioxide removal technologies, 
such as direct air capture, including early-stage application 
of sorbents, solvents, membranes, and related components; 
terrestrial and biological carbon removal; carbon 
mineralization; and ocean-based carbon removal.
    Arctic Research.--The Committee supports NSF's intention to 
build upon the Navigating the New Arctic Big Idea and to expand 
its support of research and infrastructure in the North 
Atlantic sector of the Arctic, which is critical for 
understanding how Arctic warming will affect the environmental 
and socio-economic conditions of communities along the eastern 
coast of North America. This includes observations of emerging 
toxins and pathogens in the Arctic and supports the continued 
funding of long-term observations during this critical time of 
Arctic warming, including atmosphere and snow observations at 
Summit Station and projects observing permafrost thaw and 
microbiomes. In addition, to maximize investments, the 
Committee encourages NSF to develop new multinational 
partnerships to support research teams that address pan-Arctic 
and global concerns linked to Arctic change. Further, NSF 
should enhance support for Arctic-related student programs 
aimed at broadening participation, including graduate 
dissertation fellowships and the Research Experience for 
Undergraduate programs.
    EPSCoR.--In recognition that the success of our Nation's 
research enterprise relies on success in every State, the 
Committee reinforces the requirements codified under section 
10325 of Public Law 117-167 that, to the maximum extent 
practicable, 16 percent of NSF research funding and 18 percent 
of scholarship funding go to EPSCoR States in fiscal year 2024. 
To help achieve these targets, the agreement provides no less 
than $275,000,000 for the EPSCoR program. Within the amount 
provided, no more than 5 percent shall be used for 
administration and other overhead costs. NSF is encouraged to 
support projects in EPSCoR States across all funding 
initiatives and centers, including Regional Innovation Engines, 
Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure awards, and Science and 
Technology Centers.
    The Committee is pleased NSF has been responsive to the 
``Envisioning the Future of NSF EPSCoR'' report and created new 
funding opportunities to support EPSCoR States. NSF shall keep 
the Committee apprised regarding how the Foundation plans to 
formally engage and gather feedback from the EPSCoR community 
in the future, as well as lessons learned from the first round 
of awardees.
    Technical Assistance and Outreach to HBCUs and MSIs.--The 
Committee recognizes the important role that Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities [HBCUs] and Minority-Serving 
Institutions [MSIs] play in advancing scientific research and 
innovation. To ensure that these institutions have access to 
the resources and support needed to participate in federally-
funded research, NSF is directed to conduct technical 
assistance and outreach to applicants from HBCUs and MSIs, 
including through the Growing Research Access for Nationally 
Transformative Equity and Diversity [GRANTED] program, in 
fulfillment of section 10524 of Public Law 117-167. NSF shall 
provide the Committee with a report on agency efforts to 
increase outreach and support for HBCUs and MSIs not later than 
120 days after enactment of this act.
    Leverage the Power of Biology.--The Committee supports 
NSF's funding for research in genomics and biodiversity, and 
directs NSF to continue to advance plant genomics research 
programs, to further its work in crop-based genomics research, 
and to maintain a focus on research related to crops of 
economic importance and other elements of the bioeconomy.
    VORTEX-SE.--NSF has been working in conjunction with NOAA 
to build a full research campaign to study the unique 
characteristics of tornadoes in the southeastern United States. 
The Committee expects that future budget requests for VORTEX-SE 
will include adequate budgetary resources for associated 
research and instrumentation that will maximize the scientific 
return of this ongoing research. As part of VORTEX-SE, the 
Committee encourages NSF to look beyond its traditional 
research disciplines and programs and to utilize collaborative 
opportunities for co-funding grants that enhance understanding 
of the fundamental natural processes and hazards of tornadoes 
in the southeast and to improve models of these seasonal 
extreme events.
    Quantum Science.--The Committee supports continued 
investment in quantum science as fundamental, transformative 
research that can position the United States as a leader in 
emerging fields of economic and scientific importance. The 
recommendation provides up to the budget request level for 
quantum information science research to support basic 
interdisciplinary quantum information science and engineering 
research and human resources development in all aspects of 
quantum information science and engineering. Within the amount 
provided, the Committee recommendation includes $185,000,000 
for activities authorized under section 301 of the National 
Quantum Initiative Act (Public Law 115-368), and $50,000,000 
for National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, as 
authorized in section 302 of that act.
    The Committee also encourages NSF to partner with 
institutions of higher education, industry, and other Federal 
agencies in order to develop the next generation of quantum 
computing workforce. Such efforts could include quantum 
computing-related grants and interdisciplinary research 
initiatives related to workforce development activities.
    Artificial Intelligence [AI].--The Committee believes it is 
important to maintain leadership in AI and commends NSF for its 
significant investments in this area. The Committee not less 
than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level for AI research. The 
Committee encourages NSF to continue its efforts in 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 Minority Serving 
Institutions. In addition, the Committee encourages NSF to 
increase the pipeline of students graduating with AI and data 
literacy through partnerships and cooperative agreements.
    Transparency, Interpretability, and Explainability of AI.--
The Committee encourages NSF to fund meritorious research and 
develop technical methods and techniques to improve the 
transparency, interpretability, and explainability of AI to 
better understand why and how models arrive at their decisions, 
recommendations, and other outputs. NSF is encouraged to 
consider this as part of the pilot program for Research in 
Rapidly Evolving, High Priority Topics as authorized under 
section 5401 of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative 
Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-283).
    Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure.--The recommendation 
provides $50,000,000 for the Mid-scale Research Infrastructure 
program and encourages the Foundation to make no fewer than two 
mid-scale awards to EPSCoR States.
    HBCUs Excellence in Research.--The Committee supports the 
HBCUs Excellence in Research program, and the recommendation 
includes $25,000,000 for the program. The program helps to 
address NSF's previously troubling track record of only 
providing substantial research funding to a small number of 
HBCUs.
    Sustainable Chemistry Research.--The Committee directs NSF 
to continue research and related activities associated with the 
Sustainable Chemistry Basic Research program authorized under 
section 509 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 
(Public Law 111-358). NSF shall report to the Committee 
regarding agency activities for this program not later than 180 
days after the enactment of this act. In addition, NSF is 
encouraged to coordinate with OSTP to implement the provisions 
in subtitle E of title II of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public 
Law 116-283).
    Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences [SBE].--The 
Committee supports the SBE Directorate and recognizes the 
fundamental importance of the research it supports in advancing 
scientific understanding of public health, defense and 
security, education and learning, and the interface between 
humans and technology. The SBE Directorate funds more than half 
of our Nation's university-based behavioral science research 
but remains the smallest of NSF directorates. The Committee 
believes that behavioral science provides evidence-based 
understanding of human behavior and recognizes the SBE 
Directorate's unique role in funding this research and 
encourages NSF to continue its support of these programs.
    Research Security.--The Committee notes the importance 
placed on research security in subtitle D of Public Law 117-167 
and supports the continued implementation of the various 
provisions. The Committee further supports NSF's initiative to 
create clear guidelines that inform researchers and 
universities on disclosure requirements pertaining to research 
security. NSF is encouraged to continue to engage university 
and affinity groups to listen to any community concerns and 
share information about NSF's policies and processes. NSF is 
further encouraged to explore ways to assist less-resourced 
institutions on disclosure requirements and international 
talent retention.
    High-Performance Computing.--The Committee commends NSF on 
its continued commitment to high-performance computing and data 
analysis capabilities. NSF should remain committed to 
developing and supporting systems that facilitate major 
advances in computational capabilities, including artificial 
intelligence, storage, quantum computing, simulations, and data 
analyses that enable a broad range of scientific research to 
ensure continued U.S. world leadership and international 
scientific competitiveness, particularly given computational 
investments and technical achievements in high-performance 
computing by other nations. NSF is encouraged to support access 
to at-scale data resources for advancing science in these 
fields, and likewise encouraged to expand scientist access to 
these resources. The Committee looks forward to NSF's 
implementation of section 10374 of Public Law 117-167 and the 
required report outlining NSF's advanced computing needs. The 
Committee encourages NSF to fully support its programs focused 
on providing world-class research computing for the National 
open science community. NSF is encouraged to include plans to 
fully address these needs in the fiscal year 2025 budget 
request.
    Combating Sexual Harassment in Science.--The Committees 
strongly supports NSF actions to combat sexual harassment in 
science, including the implementation of the Combating Sexual 
Harassment in Science subtitle of Public Law 117-167. The 
Committee encourages NSF to work in partnership with 
stakeholders from across the ecosystem with experience in field 
safety and the prevention of sexual harassment in science as 
they support this important work.
    Further, not later than 180 days of enactment of this act, 
NSF, in collaboration with the National Science Board and the 
Department of Justice, shall provide the Committee with a plan 
to the address the findings of the U.S. Antarctic Program's 
Sexual Assault and Harassment Needs Assessment. The plan should 
include estimated costs to implement changes and should also 
address any needed changes at NSF-supported field stations and 
research vessels.
    Arecibo Observatory [AO].--The Committee recognizes the 
scientific and educational contributions made by AO and the 
significant loss to U.S. scientific research and capabilities 
resulting from the collapse of the iconic 305-meter radio 
telescope platform. The Committee understands that NSF will 
continue to support STEM education investments at the site. NSF 
is also encouraged to utilize the remaining scientific 
instrumentation going forward. NSF shall keep the Committee 
apprised of the status of these plans and ongoing operations at 
Arecibo.
    Intense, Ultrafast Lasers.--The Committee encourages NSF to 
continue planning and making the early stage investments needed 
to advance ultrafast and high power laser technologies to 
maintain U.S. leadership and implement the recommendations from 
the Brightest Light Initiative Workshop Report and associated 
NAS study. In particular, the Committee urges NSF to develop a 
plan to fulfill the recommendations of the Workshop Report, 
including a dedicated budget for the next generation of 
cutting-edge facilities needed to advance ultrafast and high-
power laser technologies.
    Critical Minerals Mining Research and Development.--The 
Committee encourages NSF to consider supporting critical 
minerals mining research and development activities as 
authorized under section 10359 of Public Law 117-167. In 
particular, NSF is encouraged to support, on a competitive 
basis, institutions of higher education or nonprofit 
organizations to provide training and research opportunities to 
undergraduate and graduate students to prepare the next 
generation of mining engineers and researchers.
    Entrepreneurial Fellowships.--The Committee supports NSF's 
proposed expansion of the Entrepreneurial Fellowships program 
within the TIP Directorate, as authorized under section 10392 
of Public Law 117-167. These immersive fellowships provide 
scientists with training, lab space, industry connections, and 
other resources to translate emerging technologies from lab to 
market in areas key to global competitiveness.
    International Ocean Discovery Program [IODP].--The 
Committee is surprised by NSF's proposal to cease operations of 
the JOIDES Resolution [JR] after fiscal year 2024. The 
Committee fully funds JR research drilling operations, to 
include support for no less than four such missions in fiscal 
year 2024. NSF shall provide the Committee a comprehensive plan 
not later than 180 days after enactment of this act that 
provides, at a minimum, timelines, milestones, and funding 
requirements for the future of U.S. scientific ocean drilling. 
The report may include options for acquiring a replacement 
research drilling platform, as appropriate. This report shall 
be developed collaboratively with the academic community to 
ensure that the scientific community may continue to advance 
scientific understanding of the Earth's history and dynamics.
    Key Technology Focus Areas Study.--The Committee encourages 
NSF to collaborate with the NAS to initiate the report 
authorized under section 10387(h) Public Law 117-167 and 
requests that NSF provide an estimate of the resources 
necessary to carry out and complete the report.
    Uncrewed Aircraft System Technologies.--The Committee 
encourages NSF to consider supporting meritorious uncrewed 
aircraft system technologies research activities as authorized 
under section 10352 of Public Law 117-167, including a prize 
competition and support for undergraduate and graduate 
curriculum development.

          MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $187,230,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     304,670,000
Committee recommendation................................     187,230,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $187,230,000 for 
Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction [MREFC]. 
The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted 
level and $117,440,000 below the budget request.
    The MREFC appropriation supports the acquisition, 
procurement, construction, and commissioning of unique national 
research platforms and facilities as well as major research 
equipment. Projects supported by this appropriation push the 
boundaries of technology and offer expanded opportunities for 
the science and engineering community. Preliminary design and 
development activities, ongoing operations, and maintenance 
costs of the facilities are provided through the R&RA 
appropriation account.
    The Committee appreciates that Congress has historically 
fully funded the MREFC request. However, the Committee 
understands that significant amounts of prior year funding 
still remain for the Antarctic Infrastructure Recapitalization. 
The Committee's recommendation supports the continued 
construction of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the Antarctic 
Infrastructure Recapitalization, and the High Luminosity-Large 
Hadron Collider Upgrade. The Committee encourages NSF and the 
National Science Board to continue planning and budgeting for 
the next generation of major facilities needed to ensure the 
United States maintains its scientific leadership, and to 
resubmit the proposal for the Leadership-Class Computing 
Facility as part of the fiscal year 2025 budget request.
    The recommendation provides $95,000,000 for Mid-scale 
Research Infrastructure, which fully funds existing projects in 
fiscal year 2024. The Committee continues to support 
investments in Mid-scale Research Infrastructure, including the 
procurement of larger mid-scale instrumentation under the MREFC 
account. Using MREFC for larger mid-scale projects will allow 
these projects to benefit from the oversight that all MREFC 
projects undergo. NSF is encouraged to award at least one mid-
scale project led by an institution in an EPSCoR State.
    The Committee encourages GAO to continue its annual review 
of programs funded within MREFC so that GAO can report to 
Congress shortly after each annual budget submission of the 
President and semiannually thereafter on the status of large-
scale NSF projects and activities based on its review of this 
information.

                             STEM EDUCATION

Appropriations, 2023...................................\1\$1,246,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................   1,496,180,000
Committee recommendation................................   1,228,000,000

\1\Of the amount provided for STEM Education in fiscal year 2023, 
$92,000,000 is included under title II of division N of Public Law 117-
328.

    The Committee's recommendation provides $1,228,000,000 for 
STEM Education. The recommendation is $18,000,000 below the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $268,180,000 below the 
budget request.
    The STEM Education appropriation supports a comprehensive 
set of programs across all levels of education in STEM 
including activities that unite school districts with 
institutions of higher learning to improve pre-college 
education. Other pre-college activities include the development 
of the next generation of STEM education leaders, instructional 
materials, and the STEM instructional workforce. Undergraduate 
activities support curriculum, laboratory, and instructional 
improvement; expand the STEM talent pool; attract STEM 
participants to teaching; augment advanced technological 
education at 2-year colleges; and develop dissemination tools. 
Graduate support is directed to research and teaching 
fellowships, internships, and instructional workforce 
improvement by linking precollege education systems with higher 
education. Programs also seek to broaden the participation of 
groups underrepresented in the STEM enterprise and promote 
informal science education.
    Advanced Technological Education.--The Committee provides 
$76,000,000 for Advanced Technological Education.
    Graduate Research Fellowship Program [GRFP].--The GRFP has 
a long history of supporting outstanding graduate students 
studying sciences, engineering, and mathematics fields, 
including behavioral science, and selects recipients who go on 
to achieve high levels of success in their future academic and 
professional careers. The Committee provides up to $325,000,000 
for GRFP. The Committee supports increasing the fellowship 
stipend and encourages NSF to consider such a proposal as part 
of the fiscal year 2025 budget request.
    Robert Noyce Scholarship Program.--The Committee provides 
$68,000,000 for the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program.
    Informal Science Education.--The Committee maintains its 
strong support for NSF's informal science education program and 
provides no less than $70,000,000 for Advancing Informal STEM 
Learning. The Committee encourages NSF to coordinate and 
provide necessary support for investments in both in- and out-
of-school time STEM education programs across Federal agencies, 
including support for extracurricular STEM programs. The 
Directorate for STEM Education is further encouraged to 
continue its NSF-wide efforts to support informal STEM 
education programs, including leveraging the research 
directorates to support activities that match their respective 
content areas.
    Hands-on and Experiential Learning Opportunities.--
Developing a robust, talented, and diverse homegrown workforce, 
particularly in the fields of STEM, is critical to the success 
of the U.S. innovation economy. The Committee directs NSF to 
provide grants to support the development of hands-on learning 
opportunities in STEM education as authorized under section 
10311 of Public Law 117-167, including via afterschool 
activities and innovative learning opportunities such as 
robotics competitions.
    Broadening Participation.--The Committee recognizes that 
the future of U.S. economic competitiveness and our Nation's 
ability to address national, economic, and health security 
threats depends on sustaining a robust STEM workforce. As the 
demographics of our Nation evolve, ensuring individuals from 
underrepresented communities across the country can enter and 
sustain a career as part of the STEM workforce is essential to 
securing the workforce going forward. The Committee is deeply 
concerned that entrenched financial barriers are increasingly 
deterring students, particularly those from underrepresented 
communities, from pursuing STEM careers. The Committee 
encourages NSF to evaluate the adequacy of compensation for 
trainees and early career researchers supported through 
fellowships, training grants, and research awards. NSF is also 
encouraged continue supporting the recruitment, retention, and 
advancement of underrepresented faculty at U.S. institutions of 
higher education through relevant existing programs.
    The Committee supports the requested increases related to 
Broadening Participation in STEM programs. The Committee 
provides $19,000,000 for the ADVANCE program, $43,000,000 for 
the HBCUs Undergraduate Program, $9,500,000 for the Alliances 
for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, $55,500,000 for 
the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, 
$20,000,000 for the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program, 
and $27,000,000 for Centers for Research Excellence in Science 
and Technology. In addition, $53,500,000 is provided for the 
Hispanic Serving Institutions program to build capacity at 
institutions of higher education that typically do not receive 
high levels of NSF funding.
    Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion Across the Nation of 
Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in 
Engineering and Science [INCLUDES] Initiative.--The Committee 
supports broadening participation in science and engineering by 
developing networks and partnerships that involve organizations 
and consortia from different sectors committed to the common 
agenda of STEM inclusion as authorized under section l0323 of 
Public Law 117-167. The Committee provides $24,000,000 for 
INCLUDES and encourages NSF to ensure the agency partners with 
communities with significant populations of underrepresented 
groups in the STEM workforce.
    Transformative Education Research and Translation.--The 
Committee encourages NSF to establish a program for Centers for 
Transformative Education Research and Translation as authorized 
under section 10395 of Public Law 117-167. These centers could 
instrument large-scale digital learning platforms, enable 
multi-stakeholder partnerships of institutions of higher 
education and State and local education agencies to support 
collaborative research and translation in K-12 STEM education 
innovation, and accelerate STEM learning outcomes of students 
from underserved regions and students of color. The Committee 
encourages NSF to collaborate with the Department of Education 
and consider how these centers could help address the learning 
recovery associated with the pandemic and foster the benefits 
of technology.
    National STEM Teacher Corps.--In order to prepare the 
future STEM workforce and to create a scientifically literate 
public, the Committee appreciates the importance of supporting 
and recognizing outstanding STEM teachers in our Nation's 
classrooms, rewarding them for their accomplishments, and 
creating rewarding career paths to which all STEM teachers can 
aspire. Therefore, the Committee provides $40,000,000 for a 
National STEM Teacher Corps pilot program authorized under 
section 10311 of Public Law 117-167.
    CyberCorps: Scholarships for Service.--The Committee 
provides no less than $69,000,000 for the CyberCorps: 
Scholarship for Service program. NSF is encouraged 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.

   CREATING HELPFUL INCENTIVES TO PRODUCE SEMICONDUCTORS [CHIPS] FOR 
                  AMERICA WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION FUND

    Division A of Public Law 117-167 established the CHIPS for 
America Workforce and Education Fund. The Committee allocates 
the funds according to the amounts listed in the following 
table.

 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ALLOCATION OF FUNDS: CHIPS ACT FISCAL YEAR
                                  2024
                        [In thousands of dollars]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
              Account-Project and Activity                    Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors             25,000
 [CHIPS] for America Workforce and Education Fund.......
    Research & Related Activities.......................          12,500
    STEM Education Activities...........................          12,500
                                                         ---------------
Total...................................................          25,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                 AGENCY OPERATIONS AND AWARD MANAGEMENT

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $448,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     503,870,000
Committee recommendation................................     448,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $448,000,000 for 
Agency Operations and Award Management. The recommendation is 
equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $55,870,000 
below the budget request.
    The appropriation provides salaries and expenses, including 
staff salaries, benefits, travel, training, rent, advisory and 
assistance services, communications and utilities expenses, 
supplies, equipment, and other operating expenses necessary for 
management of NSF's research and education activities.
    The Committee continues to believe that NSF should include 
criteria that evaluate how a grant proposal will advance our 
Nation's national security and economic interests, as well as 
promote the progress of science and innovation in the United 
States.
    The Committee reiterates its long-standing requirement that 
NSF submit reprogrammings when initiating new programs or 
activities of more than $500,000 or when reorganizing 
components. The Committee expects to be notified of 
reprogramming actions, which involve less than the above-
mentioned amount if such actions would have the effect of 
changing the agency's funding requirements in future years, or 
if programs or projects specifically cited in the Committee's 
explanatory statement are affected.

                  OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $5,090,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................       5,250,000
Committee recommendation................................       5,090,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $5,090,000 for the 
Office of the National Science Board. The recommendation is 
equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $160,000 below 
the budget request.
    The National Science Board is the governing body of NSF and 
is charged with serving as an independent adviser to the 
President and Congress on policy matters related to science and 
engineering research and education.

                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $23,393,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      26,810,000
Committee recommendation................................      23,393,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $23,393,000 for the 
Office of Inspector General [OIG]. The recommendation is equal 
to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $3,417,000 below the 
budget request.
    The OIG appropriation provides audit and investigation 
functions to identify and correct deficiencies that could lead 
to instances of fraud, waste, or mismanagement.

                       ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The bill includes two administrative provisions. One allows 
limited transfers of funds among accounts. The other requires 
notification for disposal of certain assets.

                                TITLE IV

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                       Commission on Civil Rights

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $14,350,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      15,587,000
Committee recommendation................................      14,350,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $14,350,000 for the 
salaries and expenses of the Commission on Civil Rights. This 
recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
and $1,237,000 below the budget request.
    Donations.--The Commission shall provide to 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 spend 
plan.

                Equal Employment Opportunity Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $455,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     481,069,000
Committee recommendation................................     455,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $455,000,000 for 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] salaries and 
expenses. This recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $26,069,000 below the budget request.
    The EEOC is the leading Federal agency dedicated to 
eradicating employment discrimination in both the public and 
private sectors on the basis of race, color, national origin, 
sex, religion, pregnancy, age, disability, and family medical 
history or genetic information. The EEOC serves both U.S. 
public and private workplaces by helping provide a fair and 
inclusive workplace, which engenders employee satisfaction and 
commitment and enhances employee retention, productivity, and 
profitability.
    Inventory Reduction.--The Committee notes that at the end 
of fiscal year 2022, the EEOC had a private sector inventory of 
51,399 cases and a substantial Federal sector hearing 
inventory. Using appropriated funds for activities that do not 
directly resolve this backlog of existing and incoming claims 
denies cases with complainants the opportunity of a timely 
resolution. Therefore, the Committee directs the EEOC to 
prioritize its staffing and resources toward reducing the 
number of current and outstanding unresolved private sector 
pending charges and public sector hearings.
    Public Comment on EEOC Guidance.--The Committee is 
concerned that, as the EEOC conducts its business in protecting 
against employment discrimination, its guidance proposals can 
be adopted without the opportunity of public input prior to 
implementation and enforcement. Therefore, if requested by at 
least two Commissioners, the EEOC shall make any new guidance 
available for public comment in the Federal Register for not 
less than 30 days prior to taking any potential action on 
proposed guidance.
    Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness.--The 
Committee is encouraged by the EEOC's recent efforts to ensure 
that the use of software, including artificial intelligence, 
machine learning, and other automated decision making systems 
used in hiring and other employment decisions complies with 
Federal civil rights laws. The Committee directs the EEOC to 
submit a report, within 90 days of the enactment of this act, 
outlining a timeline and process for information gathering 
about the impact of such technologies, the issuance of any 
technical assistance to employers, plans for education and 
training of software impacts on prospective and current 
employees, and any recommendations for the Congress.
    State and Local Enforcement Assistance.--The Committee 
recommends up to $31,500,000 to assist State and local 
enforcement agencies. This will help ensure that EEOC provides 
adequate resources to its State partners.

                     International Trade Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $122,400,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     127,400,000
Committee recommendation................................     122,400,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $122,400,000 for 
International Trade Commission [ITC] salaries and expenses. The 
recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level 
and $5,000,000 below the administration's budget request. The 
ITC's direct request to Congress was $131,000,000.
    ITC is an independent, quasi-judicial agency responsible 
for conducting trade-related investigations and providing 
Congress and the President with independent technical advice 
related to U.S. international trade policy.
    Section 337 Investigations.--The Committee supports robust 
factual records for determinations regarding exclusions that 
are essential to protecting public health and welfare. The 
Committee directs ITC to follow 19 U.S.C. 1337(d) regarding 
exclusion of articles from entry.

                       Legal Services Corporation


               PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

Appropriations, 2023....................................    $560,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................     800,000,000
Committee recommendation................................     560,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $560,000,000 for 
payment to Legal Services Corporation [LSC]. The recommendation 
is equal to the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $240,000,000 
below the President's budget request.
    The Committee's recommendation provides $516,000,000 for 
basic field programs, to be used for competitively awarded 
grants and contracts; $26,200,000 for management and 
administration; $5,000,000 for client self-help and information 
technology; $5,700,000 for the Office of the Inspector General 
[OIG]; $2,000,000 for loan repayment assistance; and $5,000,000 
for LSC's Pro Bono Innovation Fund.
    Governance and Management.--LSC must continue to improve 
its governance and management in order to further restore the 
transparency of the organization and direct additional funds 
into legal aid, where resources are desperately needed. The 
Committee expects the OIG to continue conducting annual audits 
of LSC grantees to ensure that funds are not being used in 
contravention of the restrictions by which LSC grantees are 
required to abide.

          ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS-LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

    The Committee's recommendation continues the administrative 
provisions contained in the fiscal year 1998 appropriations act 
(Public Law 105-119) regarding operation of this program to 
provide basic legal services to disadvantaged individuals and 
the restrictions on the use of LSC funds.
    LSC funds cannot be used to engage in litigation and 
related activities with respect to a variety of matters 
including: (1) redistricting; (2) class action suits; (3) 
representation of undocumented immigrants; (4) political 
activities; (5) abortion; (6) prisoner litigation; (7) welfare 
reform; (8) representation of charged drug dealers during 
eviction proceedings; and (9) solicitation of clients. The 
exception to the restrictions occurs in a case where there is 
imminent threat of physical harm to the client or prospective 
client.
    The Committee's recommendation adopts the administration's 
proposal to permit LSC recipients to operate with boards of 
directors that have as few as 33 percent attorneys without 
requiring appointment by bar associations. This provision 
improves the ability of LSC recipients to have fiscal experts, 
community representatives, and others with diverse skills and 
perspectives on their governing bodies.

                        Marine Mammal Commission


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $4,500,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................       5,040,000
Committee recommendation................................       4,500,000

    The Committee provides $4,500,000 for the Marine Mammal 
Commission. The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and $540,000 below the budget request.
    The Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of 
Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals provide oversight and 
recommend actions on domestic and international topics to 
advance policies and provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection 
Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-522, as amended). The Commission 
provides precise, up-to-date scientific information to Congress 
on issues related to the safety of marine mammals.

            Office of the United States Trade Representative


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $61,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      62,868,000
Committee recommendation................................      61,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $61,000,000 for the 
Office of the United States Trade Representative [USTR] 
salaries and expenses. The recommendation is equal to the 
fiscal year 2023 enacted level and $1,868,000 below the budget 
request. USTR is responsible for developing and leading 
international negotiations for the United States on policies 
regarding international trade, direct investment, and 
commodities. Its areas of responsibility include all matters 
relating to the World Trade Organization; trade, commodity, and 
direct investment matters dealt with by certain international 
institutions; industrial, agricultural, and services trade 
policy; and trade-related protection of intellectual property 
and the environment.
    Within funds provided, the Committee continues to support 
USTR's accepting full financial responsibilities of the 
Interagency Center on Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and 
Enforcement (formerly named the Interagency Trade Enforcement 
Center) in fiscal year 2024.
    Trade and Agricultural Exports.--The Committee supports 
efforts to reduce foreign tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers 
for U.S. agricultural exports, including the strong enforcement 
of trade rules and regulations. However, the Committee is 
concerned that trade actions resulting in decreased foreign 
market access for U.S. agricultural products due to retaliation 
threaten to harm our Nation's farmers and ranchers. The 
Committee urges USTR and the Secretary of Commerce to fully 
evaluate and consider the impact foreign tariffs and other 
retaliatory actions have on U.S. farmers and ranchers when 
negotiating with trade partners and in making trade-related 
decisions.
    Trade Enforcement.--The Committee recognizes that strong 
trade enforcement is critical to promoting free, fair, and 
reciprocal trade. As the administration continues to pursue new 
and modified trade agreements with global partners, the 
Committee encourages enhanced prioritization of compliance 
monitoring and enforcement actions.
    De Minimis Thresholds.--The Committee recognizes the 
importance of securing commercially-meaningful de minimis or 
``duty-free'' thresholds in other countries, and strongly 
supports the $800 de minimis level established in the Trade 
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (Public Law 114-125) and 
the higher de minimis levels in Canada and Mexico secured by 
USTR through the negotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada 
Agreement [USMCA].
    Economy Act Transfers.--USTR is directed to continue 
isolating Economy Act payments as individual transfers and to 
submit documentation of and justification for all Economy Act 
transfers, regardless of amount, to and from other Federal 
agencies, to the Committee not less than 15 days before such 
transfers of sums are made.
    Travel.--USTR is directed to provide monthly travel reports 
detailing all trips outside of the United States, including the 
purposes and costs of such trips. Additionally, USTR shall 
continue to provide the Committee with quarterly reports 
outlining the status of ongoing trade negotiations, enforcement 
activities, and objectives achieved for existing trade 
agreements.
    China Trade Deal Costs.--The Committee notes the creation 
of the Bilateral Evaluation and Dispute Resolution Office 
within USTR as part of the Economic and Trade Agreement Between 
the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the People's Republic of China, also known as the 
U.S.-China Phase One deal. The Committee requests, on a 
biannual basis, a report documenting USTR's obligations related 
to the Bilateral Evaluation and Dispute Resolution Office.
    United States-Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute.--The 
Committee recognizes the importance of the softwood lumber 
industry in the U.S. economy and encourages USTR and the 
Department of Commerce to work toward a resolution to this 
dispute that supports U.S. industry, workers, and consumers.
    Parity for American Exports.--The Committee directs the 
USTR to seek parity for American exports, which have been 
targeted and unduly harmed by retaliatory tariffs resulting 
from ongoing international trade disputes, to allow them to 
fairly compete in overseas markets.
    USMCA.--The Committee directs USTR to provide quarterly 
expenditure reports, by object class, no later than 30 days 
after the end of each fiscal quarter, for funding provided to 
USTR by title IX of the USMCA Implementation Act (Public Law 
116-113).
    U.S. European Union [EU] Trade and Technology Council 
[TTC].--The Committee recognizes the importance of the TTC as a 
forum for promoting U.S. and EU competitiveness and prosperity 
through increasing transatlantic trade, investment, and 
engagement on matters related to critical and emerging 
technology. No later than 120 days following enactment of this 
act, USTR, in collaboration with the Department of State and 
the Department of Commerce, is directed to transmit to the 
Committee a detailed report outlining the administration's 
involvement in the TTC, including the goals of the Council, its 
achievements to date, and consideration to formalize the 
Council as a means to maintain U.S.-EU cooperation in these 
critical areas.

                      TRADE ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2023....................................     $15,000,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................      15,000,000
Committee recommendation................................      15,000,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $15,000,000 for the 
Trade Enforcement Trust Fund as authorized under the Trade 
Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-
125). The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2023 
enacted level and the budget request.
    Trade Enforcement Trust Fund.--The Committee supports 
efforts to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and to 
increase compliance of U.S. trade partners. The Committee 
directs USTR, as part of its fiscal year 2024 spending plan, to 
provide a breakdown of expenses for the Trade Enforcement Trust 
Fund's activities.

                        State Justice Institute


                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2023....................................      $7,640,000
Budget estimate, 2024...................................       7,640,000
Committee recommendation................................       7,640,000

    The Committee's recommendation provides $7,640,000 for the 
State Justice Institute [SJI]. The recommendation is equal to 
the fiscal year 2023 enacted level and equal to the budget 
request.
    SJI was created in 1984 to further the development and 
adoption of improved judicial administration in State courts.
    Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices.--The Committee encourages 
SJI to continue investments in the areas of fines, fees, and 
bail practices, including assisting State courts in taking a 
leadership role in reviewing these practices to ensure 
processes are fair and access to justice is assured; 
implementing alternative forms of sanctions; developing 
processes for indigency review; promoting transparency, 
governance, structural reforms that promote access to justice, 
accountability, and oversight; and supporting projects that 
implement the principles of Conference of Chief Justices/
Conference of State Court Administrators National Task Force on 
Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices.

                                TITLE V

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                        (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

                     (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

    The Committee recommends the following general provisions 
for the departments, agencies, offices, and commissions funded 
in the accompanying act. Similar provisions were included in 
the fiscal year 2023 act.
    Section 501 prohibits the use of appropriations for certain 
publicity and propaganda purposes.
    Section 502 prohibits any appropriations contained in this 
bill from remaining available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year unless expressly provided.
    Section 503 limits funds for certain consulting purposes.
    Section 504 provides that, should any provision of the bill 
be held to be invalid, the remainder of the act would not be 
affected.
    Section 505 stipulates the policy and procedures by which 
funding available to the agencies funded under this bill may be 
reprogrammed for other purposes.
    Section 506 provides for a penalty for persons found to 
have falsely mislabeled products.
    Section 507 requires agencies to provide quarterly reports 
to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees regarding 
unobligated balances.
    Section 508 requires agencies and departments funded in 
this bill to absorb any necessary costs related to downsizing 
or consolidation within the amounts provided to the agency or 
department.
    Section 509 limits funds for the sale or export of tobacco 
or tobacco products.
    Section 510 stipulates obligation of receipts and the use 
of certain funds for victim services available under the Crime 
Victims Fund.
    Of the funds set aside for Indian Tribes, the Committee 
expects that the Office for Victims of Crime [OVC] will award 
such funds to Indian Tribes that have not been designated high-
risk grantees by the DOJ and that comply with grant application 
requirements. OVC is expected to provide instructional model 
grant applications and other guidance to aid Tribes in 
preparing grant applications. Grant-receiving Tribes will need 
to certify that grant funds will not be used to supplant funds 
otherwise available for Tribal victim assistance so that OVC 
can ensure grant accountability and that grants are being used 
effectively to improve services for Tribal victims of crime.
    Section 511 prohibits the use of DOJ funds for programs 
that discriminate against, denigrate, or otherwise undermine 
the religious beliefs of students participating in such 
programs.
    Section 512 limits transfers of funds between agencies.
    Section 513 requires the Inspectors General of the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, NASA, NSF, and LSC to 
conduct reviews of activities funded in this bill and requires 
certifications regarding conflicts of interest.
    Section 514 prohibits funds for certain telecommunications 
and information technology acquisitions unless the acquiring 
department or agency has assessed the supply chain risk of the 
technology, including risks from technology originating in 
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
    Section 515 prohibits the use of funds to support or 
justify the use of torture.
    Section 516 prohibits funds for activities that seek to 
include certain language in new trade agreements.
    Section 517 prohibits funds to authorize a national 
security letter in contravention of the statutes authorizing 
the FBI to issue national security letters.
    Section 518 requires notification to the Committees in the 
event of cost overruns.
    Section 519 authorizes funds appropriated for intelligence 
activities for the DOJ during fiscal year 2024 until the 
enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2024.
    Section 520 prohibits contracts or grant awards in excess 
of $5,000,000 unless the prospective contractor or grantee has 
certified in writing that he or she has filed all Federal tax 
returns, has not been convicted of a criminal offense under the 
IRS Code of 1986, and has no unpaid Federal tax assessment.
    Section 521 specifies rescissions of prior appropriations. 
The BOP Buildings and Facilities rescission relates to one 
project proposed for rescission in the fiscal year 2024 budget 
request. This identified project has an unobligated balance of 
$19,000,000.
    Section 522 prohibits the use of funds to purchase first 
class or premium airline travel in contravention of current 
regulations.
    Section 523 prohibits the use of funds to pay for the 
attendance of more than 50 employees at any single conference 
outside the United States and limits the cost of any such 
conference incurred by an agency, with certain exemptions.
    Section 524 requires agencies funded in this bill to report 
on undisbursed balances.
    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 by NASA, OSTP, or 
the National Space Council to engage in bilateral activities 
with China or a Chinese-owned company or effectuate the hosting 
of official Chinese visitors at certain facilities unless the 
activities are authorized by subsequent legislation or NASA, 
OSTP, or the National Space Council have made a certification 
pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of this section.
    Section 527 prohibits the use of funds to establish or 
maintain a computer network that does not block pornography, 
except for law enforcement purposes.
    Section 528 requires departments and agencies funded in 
this bill to submit spending plans to the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees within 45 days of enactment of this 
act.
    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. The Committee directs any head of any executive 
branch department, agency, board, commission, or office funded 
by this bill to require that all contracts within their purview 
that provide award fees to link such fees to successful 
acquisition outcomes, specifying the terms of cost, schedule, 
and 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 from implementing State 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 of travel to China.
    Section 533 requires 10 percent of the funds for certain 
programs be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty 
counties.
    Section 534 prohibits the use of funds in this act to 
require certain export licenses.
    Section 535 prohibits the use of funds in this act to deny 
certain import applications regarding ``curios or relics'' 
firearms, parts, or ammunition.
    Section 536 prohibits funds from being used to deny the 
importation of shotgun models if no application for the 
importation of such models, in the same configuration, had been 
denied prior to January 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun 
was not particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 
sporting purposes.
    Section 537 prohibits the use of funds to implement the 
Arms Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty.
    Section 538 includes language regarding detainees held at 
Guantanamo Bay.
    Section 539 includes language regarding facilities for 
housing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
    Section 540 extends the availability of certain funds.
    Section 541 provides that the Department of Commerce and 
Department of Justice may utilize funding to provide payments 
pursuant to section 901(i)(2) of title IX of division J of the 
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020.
    Section 542 sets certain requirements for the allocations 
of funds related to the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Public 
Law 117-167).
    Section 543 states that each amount designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is contingent 
on the President so designating all such emergency amounts and 
transmitting such designations to Congress. The provision is 
consistent with the requirements in the Fiscal Responsibility 
Act of 2023.
    Section 544 is a new provision regarding administrative 
resources for Department of Commerce broadband programs.

  COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7, RULE XVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Rule XVI, paragraph 7 requires that every report on a 
general appropriation bill filed by the Committee must identify 
items of appropriation not made to carry out the provisions of 
an existing law, a treaty stipulation, or an act or resolution 
previously passed by the Senate during that session.
    The Committee recommends funding for the following programs 
or activities that currently lack an authorization for fiscal 
year 2024, either in whole or in part, and therefore fall under 
this rule:

         APPROPRIATIONS NOT AUTHORIZED BY LAW--FISCAL YEAR 2024
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           Last year of
                     Agency/program                        authorization
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Department of Commerce:
    International Trade Administration:
        Export Promotion................................            1996
    Economic and Statistics Administration:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................             n/a
    National Telecommunications and Information
     Administration:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            1993
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
        Operations, Research, and Facilities:
            National Ocean Service......................            1993
            Coastal Zone Management.....................            1999
            National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund...            2019
            Marine Protection, Research, Preservation &             2005
             Sanctuaries................................
        National Marine Fisheries Service:
            Marine Mammal Protection....................            1999
            Species Recovery Grants.....................            1992
            NOAA Marine Fisheries Program...............            2000
            Interjurisdictional Fisheries...............            2012
            Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and               2013
             Management.................................
        Oceanic and Atmospheric Research:
            Climate Laboratories and Cooperative                    1993
             Institutes.................................
    Procurement, Acquisition and Construction:
        National Ocean Service:
            Marine Protection, Research, Preservation &             2005
             Sanctuaries................................
Department of Justice:
    General Administration:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
        Justice Information Sharing Technology..........            2009
    Executive Office for Immigration Review:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
    Office of Inspector General:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
    U.S. Parole Commission:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
    Legal Activities:
        General Legal Activities:
            Salaries and Expenses.......................            2009
        U.S. Attorneys:
            Salaries and Expenses.......................            2009
        Foreign Claims Settlement Commission:
            Salaries and Expenses.......................            2009
        Fees and Expenses of Witnesses..................            2009
        Community Relations Service:
            Salaries and Expenses.......................            2009
        Assets Forfeiture Fund Current Budget Authority.            2009
    U.S. Marshals Service...............................            2009
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
        Federal Prison Detention........................            2009
        Construction....................................            2009
    National Security Division:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................             n/a
    Interagency Law Enforcement:
        Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement..........            2009
    Federal Bureau of Investigation.....................            2009
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
        Construction....................................            2009
    Drug Enforcement Administration:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
    Federal Prison System...............................            2009
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2009
        Buildings and Facilities........................            2009
    Office of Justice Programs:
        Research, Evaluation, and Statistics:
            National Institute of Justice...............            1995
            Bureau of Justice Statistics................            1995
    State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance:
        Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants........            2012
            Body-Worn Camera Partnership................             n/a
            VALOR Initiative............................             n/a
            Smart Policing..............................             n/a
            Smart Prosecution...........................             n/a
        John R. Justice Grant Program...................            2014
        Adam Walsh Act..................................            2009
        State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.........            2011
        Smart Probation.................................             n/a
        Children of Incarcerated Parents Demo Grants....             n/a
        Pay for Success (Discretionary).................             n/a
        Pay for Success (Permanent Supportive Housing                n/a
         Model).........................................
        National Sex Offender Website...................             n/a
        Veterans Treatment Courts Program...............             n/a
        Rape Kit Backlog................................             n/a
        Justice Reinvestment Initiative.................             n/a
        Project HOPE Opportunity Probation with                      n/a
         Enforcement....................................
    Juvenile Justice Programs:
        Emergency Planning in Juvenile Justice                       n/a
         Facilities.....................................
    COPS Programs:
        COPS Hiring Program.............................            2009
        Regional Information Sharing Activities.........            2003
National Aeronautics and Space Administration:
    Science.............................................            2017
    Aeronautics.........................................            2017
    Exploration.........................................            2017
    Space Operations....................................            2017
    Education...........................................            2017
    Safety, Security and Mission Services...............            2017
    Construction and Environmental Compliance and                   2017
     Restoration........................................
    Office of the Inspector General.....................            2017
Related Agencies:
    Commission on Civil Rights:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            1995
    International Trade Commission:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2004
    Payment to the Legal Services Corporation:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            1980
    Marine Mammal Commission:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            1999
    Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2004
    State Justice Institute:
        Salaries and Expenses...........................            2008
------------------------------------------------------------------------

COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(c), RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE 
                                 SENATE

    Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, on July 13, 2023, 
the Committee ordered favorably reported a bill (S. 2321) 
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes, provided, 
that the bill be subject to amendment and that the bill be 
consistent with its budget allocation, and provided that the 
Chairman of the Committee or his designee be authorized to 
offer the substance of the original bill as a Committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute to the House companion 
measure, by a recorded vote of 28-1, a quorum being present. 
The vote was as follows:
        Yeas                          Nays
Chair Murray                        Mr. Hagerty
Mrs. Feinstein
Mr. Durbin
Mr. Reed
Mr. Tester
Mrs. Shaheen
Mr. Merkley
Mr. Coons
Mr. Schatz
Ms. Baldwin
Mr. Murphy
Mr. Manchin
Mr. Van Hollen
Mr. Heinrich
Mr. Peters
Ms. Collins
Mr. McConnell
Ms. Murkowski
Mr. Graham
Mr. Moran
Mr. Hoeven
Mr. Boozman
Mrs. Capito
Mr. Kennedy
Mrs. Hyde-Smith
Mrs. Britt
Mr. Rubio
Mrs. Fischer

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

    Paragraph 12 of the rule XXVI requires that Committee 
reports on a bill or joint resolution repealing or amending any 
statute or part of any statute include ``(a) the text of the 
statute or part thereof which is proposed to be repealed; and 
(b) a comparative print of that part of the bill or joint 
resolution making the amendment and of the statute or part 
thereof proposed to be amended, showing by stricken-through 
type and italics, parallel columns, or other appropriate 
typographical devices the omissions and insertions which would 
be made by the bill or joint resolution if enacted in the form 
recommended by the Committee.''
    In compliance with this rule, no changes to existing law 
are displayed because this bill proposes no changes.
                                ------                                


                        BUDGETARY IMPACT OF BILL


  PREPARED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE PURSUANT TO  SEC. 308(a), PUBLIC LAW 93-344, AS
                                                     AMENDED
                                            [In millions of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                               Budget authority                 Outlays
                                                         -------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Committee    Amount  in     Committee    Amount  in
                                                           allocation       bill       allocation       bill
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comparison of amounts in the bill with the subcommittee
 allocation for 2024: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice,
 Science, and Related Agencies:
    Mandatory...........................................          385           385           441        \1\441
    Discretionary.......................................       69,484        69,484        86,672     \1\86,661
        Defense.........................................        6,674         6,674   ............        6,620
        Non-defense.....................................       62,810        62,810   ............       80,041
Projection of outlays associated with the
 recommendation:
    2024................................................  ............  ............  ............    \2\48,726
    2025................................................  ............  ............  ............       19,760
    2026................................................  ............  ............  ............        6,927
    2027................................................  ............  ............  ............        3,341
    2028 and future years...............................  ............  ............  ............        3,474
Financial assistance to State and local governments for            NA         3,143            NA       \2\(159)
 P2024..................................................
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

         DISCLOSURE OF CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING ITEMS

    The Constitution vests in the Congress the power of the 
purse. The Committee believes strongly that Congress should 
make the decisions on how to allocate the people's money. As 
defined in Rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the 
term ``congressionally directed spending item'' means a 
provision or report language included primarily at the request 
of a Senator, providing, authorizing, or recommending a 
specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit 
authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, 
loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure 
with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality 
or congressional district, other than through a statutory or 
administrative, formula-driven, or competitive award process. 
For each item, a Member is required to provide a certification 
that neither the Member nor the Member's immediate family has a 
pecuniary interest in such congressionally directed spending 
item. Such certifications are available to the public on the 
website of the Senate Committee on Appropriations (https://
www.appropriations.senate.
gov/congressionally-directed-spending requests). Following is a 
list of congressionally directed spending items included in the 
Senate recommendation discussed in this report, along with the 
name of each Senator who submitted a request to the Committee 
of jurisdiction for each item so identified. Neither the 
Committee recommendation nor this report contains any limited 
tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in rule 
XLIV.

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                                                                                                                  Recommendation
               Account                         Project                   Location                Recipient              ($)            Requestor(s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOC-NIST Construction...............  Analytical Laboratory      Orono, ME..............  University of Maine          3,100,000  Collins, King
                                       Modernization and                                   System.
                                       Expansion.
DOC-NIST Construction...............  Aquaculture Workforce      Orono, ME..............  University of Maine          7,000,000  Collins, King
                                       Innovation Center.                                  System.
DOC-NIST Construction...............  Forest Biomaterials        Orono, ME..............  University of Maine          7,500,000  Collins, King
                                       Innovation Center.                                  System.
DOC-NIST Construction...............  Aerospace Innovation and   Salina, KS.............  Kansas State                28,000,000  Moran
                                       Training Hub.                                       University Salina.
DOC-NIST Construction...............  Kansas National Security   Lawrence, KS...........  KU Innovation Park....      22,000,000  Moran
                                       Innovation Center.
DOC-NIST Construction...............  Hot Cell Facility          Pullman, WA............  Washington State             7,642,000  Murray
                                       Construction.                                       University.
DOC-NIST Construction...............  The Edge Innovation        Durham, NH.............  University of New            5,000,000  Shaheen
                                       Community.                                          Hampshire.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  DigitalBridge Colorado--   Grand County, CO.......  WRC--Connected                 270,000  Bennet
                                       Phase 2.                                            Communities.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Center for Advanced        Jonesboro, AR..........  Arkansas State              10,000,000  Boozman
                                       Materials and Steel                                 University.
                                       Manufacturing.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Center for Large-Scale     Fayetteville, AR.......  University of Arkansas       5,000,000  Boozman
                                       Testing of Seismic
                                       Systems.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Center for Design and      Fayetteville, AR.......  University of Arkansas       5,000,000  Boozman
                                       Materials Innovation.                               Fay Jones School of
                                                                                           Architecture and
                                                                                           Design.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  District MEMS Program &    Elyria, OH.............  Lorain County                  500,000  Brown
                                       Training Expansion.                                 Community College
                                                                                           District.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Advanced Nano & Quantum    Seattle, WA............  University of                3,500,000  Cantwell
                                       Systems.                                            Washington.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Molecular Analysis         Seattle, WA............  University of                2,800,000  Cantwell, Murray
                                       Facility Instrumentation.                           Washington.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Milgard Engineering Labs   Tacoma, WA.............  University of                2,500,000  Cantwell, Murray
                                       Buildout.                                           Washington Tacoma.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Liquid Chromatography      Monongalia County, WV..  West Virginia                  233,000  Capito
                                       Mass Spectrometry                                   University.
                                       Equipment.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Electron Microscopy-Based  Morgantown, WV.........  West Virginia                1,140,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Equipment and Research.                             University.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  UMBC Quantum Science       Baltimore County, MD...  University of                1,500,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Institute.                                          Maryland, Baltimore
                                                                                           County.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Biopharmaceutical          Newark, DE.............  University of Delaware       7,250,000  Carper, Coons
                                       Manufacturing Equipment.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Semiconductor              City of Ruston, LA.....  Louisiana Tech               3,500,000  Cassidy
                                       Infrastructure and                                  University.
                                       Technology Equipment
                                       Upgrades.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Analytical Laboratory      Orono, ME..............  University of Maine          1,900,000  Collins, King
                                       Equipment.                                          System.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Forest Biomaterials        Orono, ME..............  University of Maine          2,500,000  Collins, King
                                       Innovation Center                                   System.
                                       Equipment.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Electrical Power           Peoria, IL.............  Bradley University....         950,000  Durbin
                                       Initiative.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Semiconductor Research     Romeoville, IL.........  Lewis University......         900,000  Durbin
                                       Equipment.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Equipment for String-      Erie County, PA........  Penn State Erie, The         2,500,000  Fetterman
                                       Level Testing and to                                Behrend College.
                                       Establish the First
                                       Fully-Serviced Heavy
                                       Haul Battery Testing
                                       Center in the United
                                       States.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Cybersecurity Incident     Albany, NY.............  University at Albany,        1,250,000  Gillibrand, Schumer
                                       Response Studio (CREST).                            State University of
                                                                                           New York.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Center for Accelerated     Buffalo, NY............  University at Buffalo.       1,250,000  Gillibrand, Schumer
                                       Innovation through
                                       Materials (AIM):
                                       Enabling the Transition
                                       to a Clean Energy
                                       Economy (AIM for Clean
                                       Energy).
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Advanced Quantum Research  Rochester, NY..........  University of                1,250,000  Gillibrand, Schumer
                                       Equipment.                                          Rochester.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Semiconductor              Columbia, SC...........  University of South          4,500,000  Graham
                                       Manufacturing.                                      Carolina.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Center for Simulated       Starkville, MS.........  Mississippi State            4,000,000  Hyde-Smith, Wicker
                                       Environments and                                    University.
                                       Experiences in STEM.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Sustainable Materials      Hattiesburg, MS........  University of Southern       5,500,000  Hyde-Smith, Wicker
                                       Validation and                                      Mississippi.
                                       Certification Lab.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Marshfield Coastal         Marshfield, MA.........  Marshfield Chamber of        1,000,000  Markey, Warren
                                       Academy and Hazard                                  Commerce.
                                       Laboratory.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Science on the Fly: Clean  Falmouth, MA...........  Woodwell Climate               250,000  Markey, Warren
                                       River Water Data                                    Research Center.
                                       Collection, Monitoring,
                                       and Analysis.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Convergent Technologies    Wasco County, OR.......  Columbia Gorge                 300,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       and Advanced                                        Community College.
                                       Manufacturing Equipment.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Solar Manufacturing        Clackamas County, OR...  Oregon Institute of          1,045,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       Research Equipment.                                 Technology (Oregon
                                                                                           Tech).
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  STEM Ecosystem...........  Pittsburg, KS..........  Pittsburg State              5,000,000  Moran
                                                                                           University.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Advanced Manufacturing     Wichita, KS............  Wichita State                5,000,000  Moran
                                       Technology and Equipment.                           University / National
                                                                                           Institute for
                                                                                           Aviation Research.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Oklahoma Aerospace         Stillwater, OK.........  Oklahoma State               5,500,000  Mullin
                                       Institute for Research                              University.
                                       and Education (OAIRE).
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Robotics Research and      Tulsa, OK..............  University of Tulsa...       5,500,000  Mullin
                                       Instrumentation.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Integrated Science and     Spokane, WA............  Gonzaga University....       1,847,000  Murray
                                       Engineering Facility.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Acquisition of Laboratory  Olympia, WA............  The Evergreen State          2,135,000  Murray
                                       Equipment.                                          College.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Interdisciplinary          Seattle, WA............  University of                5,000,000  Murray
                                       Engineering Building                                Washington.
                                       Equipment.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Transmission Electron      Pullman, WA............  Washington State             2,500,000  Murray
                                       Microscope.                                         University.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Advanced Technology        Bellingham, WA.........  Western Washington           2,425,000  Murray
                                       Laboratory and Research                             University.
                                       Equipment.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Improved Techniques and    East Lansing, MI.......  Michigan State               1,350,000  Peters, Stabenow
                                       Standards Development                               University.
                                       for Tracking
                                       Environmental PFAS.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Standards Development      Houghton, MI...........  Michigan Technological       2,000,000  Peters, Stabenow
                                       Center for Automated                                University.
                                       Driving Systems in
                                       Inclement Winter Weather.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Marine Geological Samples  Narragansett, RI.......  University of Rhode          1,150,000  Reed, Whitehouse
                                       Laboratory.                                         Island.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  URI STEEP................  Narragansett, RI.......  University of Rhode            600,000  Reed
                                                                                           Island.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Battery Prototyping        Rochester, NY..........  Rochester Institute of       1,250,000  Schumer
                                       Center Equipment.                                   Technology.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Build-out of a             Manchester, NH.........  Advanced Regenerative        1,200,000  Shaheen
                                       Biofabrication Standards-                           Manufacturing
                                       Related Test Lab.                                   Institute (ARMI).
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Cybersecurity Program....  Grafton County, NH.....  Plymouth State               1,000,000  Shaheen
                                                                                           University.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Operational Technology     Northfield, VT.........  Norwich University....         250,000  Welch
                                       Advance Cyber
                                       Architecture.
DOC-NIST STRS.......................  Cancer Research            Jackson, MS............  University of                2,800,000  Wicker
                                       Laboratories.                                       Mississippi Medical
                                                                                           Center.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Open Soil Water Sensor...  Fort Collins, CO.......  Colorado State               1,450,000  Bennet, Hickenlooper
                                                                                           University.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Resiliency and             Madison, CT............  National Audubon             2,696,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Sustainability of                                   Society, Inc..
                                       Hammonasset Beach State
                                       Park.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Extreme Event Coastal      Statewide, NJ..........  Stevens Institute of           900,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       Preparedness and                                    Technology.
                                       Response System.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Expansion and Upgrade of   Mobile, AL.............  University of South          3,000,000  Britt
                                       the South Alabama                                   Alabama.
                                       Mesonet.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Protecting Southern        King, WA...............  Maritime Blue.........         300,000  Cantwell
                                       Resident Killer Whales
                                       from the Acoustic and
                                       Physical Impacts of
                                       Large Commercial Vessels.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  West Coast Whale           Olympia, WA............  Washington Department        2,000,000  Cantwell
                                       Conservation Plan NEPA.                             of Fish and Wildlife.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Anacostia River Aquatic    Prince George's County,  Anacostia Watershed            225,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Ecosystem Restoration      MD.                      Society.
                                       and Monitoring.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Building Capacity for Sea  Talbot County, MD......  Town of Oxford........       1,060,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Level Rise Adaptation on
                                       the Eastern Shore.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Fisheries & Aquaculture    Lewes, DE..............  University of Delaware       1,265,000  Carper, Coons
                                       Innovation Center.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Gauges and Data            City of Baton Rouge, LA  Louisiana Coastal            3,000,000  Cassidy
                                       Collection Systems.                                 Protection and
                                                                                           Restoration Authority.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Lower Mississippi River    City of Baton Rouge, LA  Louisiana Department           400,000  Cassidy
                                       Physical Oceanographic                              of Transportation and
                                       Real-Time System Sensors.                           Development.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Maine Seafood and          Portland, ME...........  Good Shepherd Food             750,000  Collins, King
                                       Community Partnership.                              Bank.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Ocean Habitat Strategic    Walpole, ME............  University of Maine...         440,000  Collins, King
                                       Plan in Partnership with
                                       Maine's Lobster Industry.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Weather Station Network..  Orono, ME..............  University of Maine          3,548,000  Collins, King
                                                                                           System.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Sustainable Planning for   Reno, NV...............  The Desert Research          3,000,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       the Future at Lake Tahoe.                           Institute.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Offshore Seismic Mapping.  Chicago, IL............  Board of Trustees of           550,000  Durbin
                                                                                           the University of
                                                                                           Illinois.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Offshore Pollution         La Jolla, CA...........  The Regents of the           6,000,000  Feinstein, Padilla
                                       Impacts on Living Marine                            University of
                                       Resources and                                       California.
                                       Bioremediation
                                       Assessment--DDT.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Climate and Biodiversity   New York, NY...........  American Museum of           1,250,000  Gillibrand, Schumer
                                       Research & Education.                               Natural History.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  South Carolina Marine      City of Charleston, SC.  College of Charleston.       1,325,000  Graham
                                       Resources Center.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Hawaii Mesonet Network     Statewide, HI..........  Hawaii Department of           350,000  Hirono
                                       Equipment.                                          Land and Natural
                                                                                           Resources, Commission
                                                                                           on Water Resource
                                                                                           Management.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  West Hawaii Island         County of Hawaii, HI...  Hawaii County                1,000,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Watershed Restoration                               Department of Water
                                       and Recharge.                                       Supply.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Limu Cultivation at the    City and County of       Hawaii Department of           700,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Anuenue Fisheries          Honolulu, HI.            Land and Natural
                                       Research Center.                                    Resources Division of
                                                                                           Aquatic Resources
                                                                                           (DAR).
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Waiakea Pond and Pelekane  County of Hawaii, HI...  Hawaii Department of           750,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Bay Restoration.                                    Land and Natural
                                                                                           Resources Division of
                                                                                           Aquatic Resources
                                                                                           (DAR).
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Native Plant Carbon        Statewide, HI..........  Hawaii Department of           300,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Sequestration.                                      Land and Natural
                                                                                           Resources Division of
                                                                                           Aquatic Resources
                                                                                           (DAR).
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Education Campaign to      Statewide, HI..........  The Marine Mammal              880,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Protect Monk Seals.                                 Center.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Advancing Coastal and      County of Maui, City     The Nature Conservancy       1,000,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Community Resilience.      and County of            in Hawaii and Palmyra.
                                                                  Honolulu, County of
                                                                  Hawaii, HI.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Analysis of Satellite      Statewide, HI..........  University of Hawaii         2,250,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Imagery and                                         System.
                                       Meteorological Data for
                                       Forest Health.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Marine Mammal and Sea      Gulfport, MS...........  Institute for Marine         3,000,000  Hyde-Smith
                                       Turtle Rehabilitation.                              Mammal Studies, Inc..
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Data Assembly Hub for      Hattiesburg, MS........  University of Southern       5,000,000  Hyde-Smith
                                       Uncrewed Systems.                                   Mississippi.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Humpback Whale Research    Provincetown, MA.......  Center for Coastal             200,000  Markey, Warren
                                       Program.                                            Studies.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Fishing for Data:          East Falmouth, MA......  Coonamessett Farm            2,000,000  Markey, Warren
                                       Massachusetts                                       Foundation, Inc..
                                       Cooperative Fisheries
                                       Research.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  William Street:            New Bedford, MA........  Old Dartmouth                  500,000  Markey, Warren
                                       Stimulating Learning                                Historical Society
                                       through STEAM.                                      (dba New Bedford
                                                                                           Whaling Museum).
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Creating Digital           Springfield, MA........  Partners for a                 370,000  Markey, Warren
                                       Infrastructure to Expand                            Healthier Community d/
                                       the Healthy Air Network.                            b/a Public Health
                                                                                           Institute of Western
                                                                                           MA.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Oregon Kelp Forest         Curry County, OR.......  Oregon Kelp Alliance..       2,521,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       Protection and
                                       Restoration Initiative.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Floating Offshore Wind     Lincoln County, OR.....  Oregon State                 1,087,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       Energy and Fisheries                                University.
                                       Assessment.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Full Motion Flight         Salina, KS.............  Kansas State                 1,500,000  Moran
                                       Simulator.                                          University Salina.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Alaska Survey Charter      Statewide, AK..........  Alaska Department of         1,200,000  Murkowski
                                       Vessel.                                             Fish and Game.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Juvenile Pacific Salmon    Statewide, AK..........  Alaska Department of         4,000,000  Murkowski
                                       Research.                                           Fish and Game.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Research Vessel Equipment  Statewide, AK..........  Alaska Department of         2,500,000  Murkowski
                                       Upgrades and Maintenance.                           Fish and Game.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Alaska King Crab           Statewide, AK..........  Alaska Fisheries             4,000,000  Murkowski
                                       Enhancement Project.                                Development
                                                                                           Foundation.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Central Arctic Ocean       Statewide, AK..........  Inuit Circumpolar            1,075,000  Murkowski
                                       Fisheries Agreement                                 Council Alaska.
                                       (CAOFA) Engagement.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Arctic Watch.............  Statewide, AK..........  Marine Exchange of           2,010,000  Murkowski
                                                                                           Alaska.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Invasive European Green    Annette Islands          Metlakatla Indian            1,000,000  Murkowski
                                       Crab Control and           Reserve, AK.             Community.
                                       Eradication.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Tamgas Creek Hatchery      Annette Islands          Metlakatla Indian              403,000  Murkowski
                                       Fishway Improvements.      Reserve, AK.             Community.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Bowhead Whale Abundance    City of Utqiagvik,       North Slope Borough          1,536,000  Murkowski
                                       Survey.                    North Slope Borough,     Department of
                                                                  AK.                      Wildlife Management.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Kelp Processing Research   Anchorage, AK..........  University of Alaska           106,000  Murkowski
                                       in Southern Alaska.                                 System.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Aquatic Toxicology         Statewide, AK..........  University of Alaska         2,800,000  Murkowski
                                       Research.                                           System.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Fisheries Bio-Technician   Statewide, AK..........  Yukon River Drainage           520,000  Murkowski
                                       Training Program.                                   Fisheries Association.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Citywide Climate           Providence, RI.........  Providence Resilience        1,000,000  Reed, Whitehouse
                                       Assessment.                                         Partnership.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Access to Indigenous       Statewide, HI..........  Polynesian Voyaging            500,000  Schatz
                                       Ecological Knowledge.                               Society.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Welikia Project..........  New York, NY...........  New York Botanical             500,000  Schumer
                                                                                           Garden.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  World-Class Research       Carroll County, NH.....  Mount Washington             1,538,000  Shaheen
                                       Facility Project.                                   Observatory.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Preparing the Next         Seabrook, NH...........  New England Young              956,000  Shaheen
                                       Generation of NH                                    Fishermen's Alliance
                                       Fishermen and Women for                             (NEYFA).
                                       Success: Preserving our
                                       Working Waterfronts.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Building Coastal           Hampton, NH............  Seabrook-Hampton             1,473,000  Shaheen
                                       Resilience and Community                            Estuary Alliance
                                       Capacity.                                           (SHEA).
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Black Sea Bass Research    Narragansett and         Commercial Fisheries           535,000  Whitehouse
                                       Fleet.                     Newport, RI.             Research Foundation.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Fiberglass Vessel          Statewide, RI..........  RIMTA Foundation......         200,000  Whitehouse
                                       Recycling Program.
DOC-NOAA ORF........................  Coastal Bluff Restoration  East Providence, RI....  The Nature Conservancy         750,000  Whitehouse
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police and Fire Rescue     Oconto, WI.............  City of Oconto........         160,000  Baldwin
                                       Department
                                       Communications Equipment.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Computer Aided Dispatch    Waukesha, WI...........  City of Waukesha......       1,000,000  Baldwin
                                       (CAD) and Record
                                       Management System (RMS)
                                       Replacement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Emergency Communications   Burnett County, WI.....  County of Burnett.....         950,000  Baldwin
                                       System.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Radio        Door County, WI........  County of Door........       3,900,000  Baldwin
                                       System.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Securing Southwest         Montezuma County, CO...  Montezuma County......          50,000  Bennet, Hickenlooper
                                       Colorado Police and
                                       Emergency Communications.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Radio        Clinton, CT............  Town of Clinton.......         600,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Equipment.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Emergency Services         Borough of Bergenfield,  Borough of Bergenfield       1,000,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       Communications             NJ.
                                       Improvement Project.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Automatic License Plate    Township of Belleville,  Township of Belleville         447,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       Reader Project.            NJ.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police Technology          Township of Old Bridge,  Township of Old Bridge       1,302,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       Upgrades.                  NJ.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology and Equipment.  Little Rock, AR........  Arkansas Commission on         500,000  Boozman
                                                                                           Law Enforcement
                                                                                           Standards and
                                                                                           Training.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police Department          Little Rock, AR........  University of Arkansas       1,000,000  Boozman
                                       Equipment and Technology                            for Medical Sciences.
                                       Upgrades.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Radio Improvements.......  Carrollton, AL.........  Pickens County E-911..       1,805,000  Britt
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Department of Public       Montgomery, AL.........  Alabama State                  300,000  Britt, Tuberville
                                       Safety Equipment                                    University.
                                       Upgrades.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Auburn, AL.............  City of Auburn........         750,000  Britt, Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Campus Security            Jacksonville, AL.......  Jacksonville State             656,000  Britt, Tuberville
                                       Improvements.                                       University.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Radio System and Dispatch  Wauseon, OH............  Fulton County.........         735,000  Brown
                                       Station Upgrades.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Mental Health Critical     Statewide, OH..........  National Tactical            1,000,000  Brown
                                       Incident Training for                               Officers Association.
                                       Law Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Evidence Collection        Canton, OH.............  Stark County Sheriff's         125,000  Brown
                                       Vehicle.                                            Office.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Communications Upgrades..  Braxton County, WV.....  Braxton County........       1,882,000  Capito
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Training     Harrison County, WV....  City of Bridgeport             650,000  Capito
                                       and Technology.                                     Police Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Kanawha County, WV.....  City of St. Albans....         150,000  Capito
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Communications Upgrades..  Monroe County, WV......  Monroe County.........         750,000  Capito
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Dispatch System Upgrades.  Nicholas County, WV....  Nicholas County              2,062,000  Capito
                                                                                           Commission.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Patrol Vehicle Equipment.  Clay County, WV........  Town of Clay..........           8,000  Capito
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Mobile Law Enforcement     Sutton, WV.............  Braxton County                 211,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Technologies.                                       Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  BridgeValley CTC Gunshot   South Charleston /       Bridge Valley                  400,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Detectors Equipment.       Montgomery, WV.          Community & Technical
                                                                                           College.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Beckley Police Department  Beckley, WV............  City of Beckley.......          57,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Radios.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment..  Clarksburg, WV.........  City of Clarksburg....         446,000  Capito, Manchin
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Campus Safety              Dover, DE..............  Delaware State                 540,000  Carper, Coons
                                       Improvements.                                       University.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Emergency Communications   Grant Parish, LA.......  Grant Parish Sheriff's         340,000  Cassidy
                                       Equipment.                                          Office.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology and Equipment   St. Landry Parish, LA..  St. Landry Parish.....       1,800,000  Cassidy
                                       Upgrades.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Security Cameras           Ely, NV................  City of Ely...........         610,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       Installation Project.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police Security & Officer  Sparks, NV.............  City of Sparks........         520,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       Safety.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Springfield, IL........  City of Springfield            300,000  Durbin
                                                                                           Police Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Communication Radios 14..  Lynwood, CA............  City of Lynwood.......          80,000  Feinstein
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Records Management System  Lompoc, CA.............  City of Lompoc........         728,000  Feinstein, Padilla
                                       Upgrade.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Radio Dispatch Console     County of San Luis       County of San Luis           2,000,000  Feinstein, Padilla
                                       Replacement Project.       Obispo, CA.              Obispo.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Law Enforcement Bomb       Omaha, NE..............  City of Omaha.........         500,000  Fischer
                                       Response Vehicle.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology and Equipment.  Newberry, SC...........  City of Newberry......          88,000  Graham
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Greenwood, SC..........  Greenwood County               900,000  Graham
                                                                                           Sheriff.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Unified Command Post.....  Columbia, SC...........  Richland County              1,000,000  Graham
                                                                                           Sheriff's Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Equipment Upgrades.......  Town of Bluffton, SC...  Town of Bluffton......       1,348,000  Graham
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Narcotic Analyzers and     Las Cruces, NM.........  Las Cruces Police              194,000  Heinrich
                                       Awareness Program.                                  Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Handheld Narcotics         Silver City, Grant       Silver City Police             172,000  Heinrich
                                       Analyzers.                 County, NM.              Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Law Enforcement Equipment  Hidalgo, Catron and      Southwest New Mexico           295,000  Heinrich
                                                                  Grant Counties, NM.      Council of
                                                                                           Governments.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Alternative Pursuit        Statewide, NM..........  New Mexico Department        1,550,000  Heinrich, Lujan
                                       Options and Highway                                 of Public Safety.
                                       Offender Safety Program.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Interdiction Equipment     Statewide, MS..........  Mississippi Department       2,021,000  Hyde-Smith
                                       and Specialty Vehicles.                             of Public Safety.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Law Enforcement            Clay County, MS........  Clay County Sheriff's          175,000  Hyde-Smith, Wicker
                                       Technology Upgrades.                                Office.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Communications             George County, MS......  George County                1,100,000  Hyde-Smith, Wicker
                                       Technologies.                                       Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Technology   Pearl River County, MS.  Pearl River County           1,141,000  Hyde-Smith, Wicker
                                       and Equipment.                                      Board of Supervisors.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety              Galax City, Carroll      City of Galax.........       3,000,000  Kaine, Warner
                                       Communications Equipment   County, and Grayson
                                       Upgrade.                   County, VA.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Interoperable              Cochise County, AZ.....  Office of the Sheriff,         981,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Communications Upgrade.                             Cochise County.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Records Management         Le Center, MN..........  Le Sueur County                500,000  Klobuchar, Smith
                                       System, Computer Aided                              Sheriff's Office.
                                       Dispatch, and Jail
                                       Management Software
                                       Program.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  911 Software and Training  City of Espanola, Rio    Espanola/Rio Arriba E-          40,000  Lujan
                                                                  Arriba County, Village   911 Center.
                                                                  of Chama, Ohkay
                                                                  Owingeh Pueblo, Santa
                                                                  Clara Pueblo, Northern
                                                                  Santa Fe County, NM.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police and Security        City of Las Vegas, San   New Mexico Highlands           200,000  Lujan
                                       Equipment.                 Miguel County, NM.       University Police
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Law Enforcement Virtual    San Juan County, City    San Juan County.......          90,000  Lujan
                                       Reality Use of Force       of Farmington, City of
                                       Simulator.                 Bloomfield, City of
                                                                  Aztec, Town of
                                                                  Kirtland, NM State
                                                                  Parks, and Navajo
                                                                  Nation, NM.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  'Locked Into               Fairmont, WV...........  Marion County Schools.         850,000  Manchin
                                       Collaboration' Smart
                                       Technology for Student
                                       Safety & Security
                                       Project.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Technology   Bayonne, NJ............  City of Bayonne.......       1,030,000  Menendez
                                       and Equipment.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Medford Incident Command   Jackson County, OR.....  City of Medford.......         880,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       Center.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Portland Police Bureau     Multnomah County, OR...  City of Portland......       1,359,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       Body Worn Camera Pilot
                                       Program.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Lake County Public Safety  Lake County, OR........  Lake County...........       2,000,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       Interoperable Radio and
                                       Microwave System.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Santiam Canyon Public      Marion County, OR......  Marion County.........       1,800,000  Merkley, Wyden
                                       Safety Alert System.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Medicine Lodge, KS.....  Barber County Sheriff.         323,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Baxter Springs, KS.....  Baxter Springs Police          166,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Radio Upgrades...........  Chanute, KS............  Chanute Police                 140,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Burlington, KS.........  Coffey County Sheriff.         157,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Training Equipment.......  Colby, KS..............  Colby Police                    54,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Radio Upgrades...........  Ellsworth, KS..........  Ellsworth County               670,000  Moran
                                                                                           Sheriff.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Body Scanners............  Ottawa, KS.............  Franklin County                225,000  Moran
                                                                                           Sheriff.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Garnett, KS............  Garnett Police                 114,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Radio Upgrades...........  Goodland, KS...........  Goodland Police                 61,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  License Plate Readers....  Syracuse, KS...........  Hamilton County                 25,000  Moran
                                                                                           Sheriff.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  License Plate Readers....  Lakin, KS..............  Kearny County Sheriff.          72,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Kingman, KS............  Kingman County Sheriff          37,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Emporia, KS............  Lyon County Sheriff...         245,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Training Equipment.......  Marysville, KS.........  Marshall County              1,383,000  Moran
                                                                                           Sheriff.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Marysville, KS.........  Marysville Police              173,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  McPherson, KS..........  McPherson Police               275,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Mobile Camera Technology.  Meade, KS..............  Meade County Sheriff..          91,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Hutchinson, KS.........  Reno County Sheriff...         408,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Manhattan, KS..........  Riley County Police            250,000  Moran
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Training Equipment.......  La Crosse, KS..........  Rush County Sheriff...          49,000  Moran
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Special Weapons and        Municipality of          Anchorage Police               227,000  Murkowski
                                       Tactics Command Response   Anchorage, AK.           Department.
                                       Vehicle.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police Department Radio    City and Borough of      City and Borough of          2,000,000  Murkowski
                                       System Replacement.        Juneau, AK.              Juneau.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Deltana Area               Deltana-Southeast        Fairbanks Emergency          2,200,000  Murkowski
                                       Communications Equipment.  Fairbanks Census Area,   Communication Center.
                                                                  AK.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Radio Network              Cobb County, GA........  Cobb County Sheriff's          259,000  Ossoff
                                       Modernization.                                      Office.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Automatic License Plate    Auburn Hills, MI.......  City of Auburn Hills..          55,000  Peters
                                       Reader (ALPR) Program.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Security Camera Upgrade..  Bloomfield Hills, MI...  Oakland Community              867,000  Peters
                                                                                           College.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Emergency Warning System   Inkster, MI............  City of Inkster.......         272,000  Peters, Stabenow
                                       Replacement Project.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police Equipment.........  Warwick, RI............  City of Warwick Police         570,000  Reed
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Mobile Command Vehicle...  South Kingstown, RI....  South Kingstown Police       1,000,000  Reed
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Digital      Cumberland, RI.........  Town of Cumberland,          1,010,000  Reed, Whitehouse
                                       Communications Upgrade.                             Police Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Body-Worn Cameras........  Addison County, VT.....  Addison County                  18,000  Sanders
                                                                                           Sheriff's Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Mobile Data Terminal       Atkinson, NH...........  Atkinson, NH Police             28,000  Shaheen
                                       (MDT) Upgrade Project.                              Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Communications is KEY.     Berlin, NH.............  Berlin Police                  355,000  Shaheen
                                       Help us Improve Public                              Department.
                                       Safety & Response!.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Enhanced Communication     Claremont, NH..........  City of Claremont.....       1,300,000  Shaheen
                                       and Public Safety
                                       Assurance Project.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Dispatch Console           Dover, NH..............  City of Dover, NH.....         438,000  Shaheen
                                       Replacement Project.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Officer Training           Cheshire County, NH....  County of Cheshire....          80,000  Shaheen
                                       Simulator.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Police Department          Grafton County, NH.....  Grafton County                 520,000  Shaheen
                                       Portable Radios.                                    Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Mobile Terminal Data       Merrimack County, NH...  Merrimack County               261,000  Shaheen
                                       Installation.                                       Sheriff.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Body/Cruiser Camera        Merrimack, NH..........  Merrimack Police               420,000  Shaheen
                                       Program.                                            Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Computer Aided Dispatch    Newmarket, NH..........  Newmarket Police               358,000  Shaheen
                                       Systems (CAD) and                                   Department.
                                       Records Management
                                       Systems (RMS)
                                       Replacement and Upgrade
                                       Program.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Dispatch Radio Consoles..  Newport, NH............  Newport Police                 218,000  Shaheen
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  New Hampshire Public       Merrimack County, NH...  NH Dept. of Safety-          4,878,000  Shaheen
                                       Safety Interoperable                                Emergency
                                       Communications Network                              Communications/9-1-1
                                       (NHICNET).                                          (DESC).
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety              Strafford County, NH...  Strafford County               715,000  Shaheen
                                       Communications                                      Sheriff's Office.
                                       Improvements.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Greater Windham Emergency  Windham, NH............  Windham Police                 419,000  Shaheen
                                       Regional Communications                             Department.
                                       Interoperability Project.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Cops Technology..........  Wayne County, MI.......  Downriver Community            850,000  Stabenow
                                                                                           Conference.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Fort Payne, AL.........  City of Fort Payne....         670,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Millbrook, AL..........  City of Millbrook.....         190,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Moody, AL..............  City of Moody.........         245,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Oxford, AL.............  City of Oxford........         185,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Pell City, AL..........  City of Pell City.....         612,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Cullman County, AL.....  Cullman County                 110,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       District Attorney's
                                       Enforcement.                                        Office, 32nd Judicial
                                                                                           Circuit of Alabama.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Public Safety Equipment    St. Clair County, AL...  St. Clair County             1,200,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Sheriff's Office.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Emergency Communication    Woodstock, VT..........  Windsor County               1,240,000  Welch
                                       Radio Network Upgrades.                             Sheriff's Department.
DOJ-COPS Tech.......................  Capitol Police Technology  Jackson, MS............  Mississippi Department       1,237,000  Wicker
                                       Improvements.                                       of Public Safety.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Domestic Violence          Milwaukee, WI..........  Sojourner Family Peace         537,000  Baldwin
                                       Homicide Prevention.                                Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Rescue Boat Replacements.  Winnebago County, WI...  Winnebago County               990,000  Baldwin
                                                                                           Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Colorado Rural Impact      Statewide, CO..........  County Sheriffs of             917,000  Bennet
                                       Programs.                                           Colorado.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Training and Technical     Statewide, CO..........  The Exodus Road.......         750,000  Bennet
                                       Assistance to Combat
                                       Human Trafficking.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Breakthrough Program       Denver, CO.............  Breakthrough..........         353,000  Bennet, Hickenlooper
                                       Expansion.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Youth Violence             Hartford, CT...........  COMPASS Youth                  137,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Intervention.                                       Collaborative.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Connecticut Coalition      Statewide, CT..........  Connecticut Coalition        4,204,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Against Domestic                                    Against Domestic
                                       Violence for Victim                                 Violence.
                                       Services Funding.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Libraries in Prison        Hamden, CT.............  Freedom Reads.........         450,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Housing Units.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Intensive Support for      Hartford, CT...........  Roca, Inc.............         577,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Young Women and Mothers
                                       Impacted by Violence.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Justice Education Center   West Hartford, CT......  The Justice Education          990,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Initiative.                                         Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Town of Madison for        Madison, CT............  Town of Madison.......         114,000  Blumenthal, Murphy
                                       Outreach Social Worker.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Legal Assistance Program   BergenHudsonPassaic, NJ  Women's Rights                 330,000  Booker
                                       for Low-Income Victims                              Information Center.
                                       of Crime.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  First Responder Vehicle    City of Linden, NJ.....  City of Linden........         355,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       Acquisition.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Re-Entry Opportunity       Newark, NJ.............  Rutgers University-          1,000,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       Program for                                         Newark.
                                       Entrepreneurship in
                                       Newark (RE-OPEN).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Installation of Security   Township of Monroe, NJ.  Township of Monroe....         167,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       Cameras and Entry
                                       Control System.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Rapid DNA System Pilot     Faulkner County, AR....  Faulkner County              1,000,000  Boozman
                                       Program for                                         Sheriff's Office.
                                       Investigations.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Rapid DNA System Pilot     Saline County, AR......  Saline County                1,000,000  Boozman
                                       Program for                                         Sheriff's Office.
                                       Investigations.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Real Time Crime Center     Birmingham, AL.........  City of Birmingham....       4,200,000  Britt
                                       (RTCC).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Cleveland Rape Crisis      Cleveland, OH..........  Cleveland Rape Crisis          800,000  Brown
                                       Center.                                             Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Youth Human Trafficking    Cleveland, OH..........  Collaborative to End           500,000  Brown
                                       Victims.                                            Human Trafficking.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Crime Prevention and       Columbus, OH...........  Communities In Schools         500,000  Brown
                                       Youth Reengagement                                  of Ohio.
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Ohio Alliance to End       Independence, OH.......  Ohio Alliance to End           700,000  Brown
                                       Sexual Violence.                                    Sexual Violence.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Ohio Quick Response Team   Cincinnati, OH.........  Ohio Quick Respones            230,000  Brown
                                       (QRT) Association.                                  Team Association.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Forbes House Program       Painesville, OH........  The Lake County                163,000  Brown
                                       Expansion.                                          Committee on Family
                                                                                           Violence and the
                                                                                           Forbes House.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Trauma Informed Advocates  Cincinnati, OH.........  Women Helping Women...          88,000  Brown
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Drug and Fentanyl          Toppenish, WA..........  Confederated Tribes          1,028,000  Cantwell
                                       Taskforce.                                          and Bands of the
                                                                                           Yakama Nation.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Patrol Vehicles..........  Raleigh County, WV.....  City of Beckley.......         270,000  Capito
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Technology.  Harrison County, WV....  City of Shinnston.....       1,000,000  Capito
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Patrol Vehicle Equipment.  Putnam County, WV......  City of Winfield......          31,000  Capito
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement            Hancock County, WV.....  Hancock County                 391,000  Capito
                                       Technology and Equipment.                           Commission.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Re-entry Learning          Kanawha County, WV.....  Kanawha Institute for          333,000  Capito
                                       Platform.                                           Social Research &
                                                                                           Action, Inc. (KISRA).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Marion County, WV......  Marion County                  980,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       and Law Enforcement                                 Sheriff's Department.
                                       Technology.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Courthouse Security        Mercer County, WV......  Mercer County                  245,000  Capito
                                       Equipment.                                          Commission.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Hire and Equip Project...  Fayette County, WV.....  Town of Anstead.......         202,000  Capito
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Equipment  Putnam County, WV......  Town of Poca Police             54,000  Capito
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Dispatch Console Upgrades  Huntington, WV.........  Cabell County                1,500,000  Capito, Manchin
                                                                                           Emergency Response
                                                                                           Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body-Worn and Vehicle      Huntington, WV.........  Cabell County                  386,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Cameras.                                            Sheriff's Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Bullet Proof Vests.......  Beckley, WV............  City of Beckley.......          36,000  Capito, Manchin
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Charleston CARES Pre-      Charleston, WV.........  City of Charleston....         125,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Trial Diversion
                                       Initiative.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Huntington Police          Huntington, WV.........  City of Huntington             776,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Department Community                                Police Department.
                                       Oriented Policing
                                       Endeavors (COPE) Project.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Technology Modernization.  Huntington, WV.........  City of Huntington           1,300,000  Capito, Manchin
                                                                                           Police Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Security Upgrades........  Fairmont, WV...........  Fairmont State               1,701,000  Capito, Manchin
                                                                                           University.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Forensic Genomics          Huntington, WV.........  Marshall University          2,000,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Institute.                                          Research Corporation.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body Worn Cameras........  Summersville, WV.......  Nicholas County                 84,000  Capito, Manchin
                                                                                           Commission.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Patrol Vehicles..........  Summersville, WV.......  Nicholas County                308,000  Capito, Manchin
                                                                                           Commission.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  University of Charleston   Charleston, WV.........  University of                1,922,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       WV Law Enforcement                                  Charleston.
                                       Leadership Training
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Campus Security Upgrades.  Charleston/Beckley, WV.  University of                1,394,000  Capito, Manchin
                                                                                           Charleston.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Wetzel County Commission   New Martinsville, WV...  Wetzel County                  141,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Upgrading of Police                                 Commission.
                                       Cruisers.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Security Equipment         Keyser, WV.............  WVU Potomac State.....         439,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Enhancements.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Re-Entry Services........  Anne Arundel County, MD  Anne Arundel County...         450,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  School-Based Violence      Baltimore City, MD.....  Baltimore City........         738,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Prevention.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Office Modernization and   Baltimore City, MD.....  Baltimore City State's         775,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Cybersecurity                                       Attorney.
                                       Enhancements.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Statewide Youth Conflict   Baltimore County, MD...  Conflict Resolution            291,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Coaching.                                           Center of Baltimore
                                                                                           County.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Crisis Co-Response Teams.  Montgomery County, MD..  Montgomery County.....         700,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  After Shooting Protocol    Baltimore City, MD.....  Roca Baltimore, LLC...       1,455,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Response Project.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Co-Respond Mobile Crisis   Cecil County, MD.......  The Affiliated Sante           499,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Team Pilot Project.                                 Group.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Gun Violence Reduction     Prince George's County,  University of Maryland         726,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Research Initiative.       MD.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Violence Intervention      Prince George's County,  University of Maryland         275,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Program.                   MD.                      Capital Region Health.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Penetrating Injury         Baltimore City, MD.....  University of Maryland       1,275,000  Cardin, Van Hollen
                                       Recovery Project.                                   Medical Center R
                                                                                           Adams Cowley Shock
                                                                                           Trauma Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body Worn Cameras (Level   Dover, DE..............  Delaware Department of         113,000  Carper, Coons
                                       V and Level IV                                      Correction.
                                       facilities).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Delaware Data Initiative.  Wilmington, DE.........  Delaware Department of         788,000  Carper, Coons
                                                                                           Justice, Office of
                                                                                           the Attorney General.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Equipment to Enhance       Wilmington, DE.........  Delaware Department of         950,000  Carper, Coons
                                       Testing Capabilities in                             Safety, Division of
                                       Toxicology Unit.                                    Forensic Science.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Mental Health & Advocacy   Dover, DE..............  Children's Advocacy            235,000  Carper, Coons
                                       Coordinator.                                        Center of Delaware,
                                                                                           Inc.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Expert Witness Training    Lehigh, PA.............  Cedar Crest College...         250,000  Casey
                                       Center & Crime Scene Lab.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Crisis Intervention and    Meadville, PA..........  City of Meadville.....         268,000  Casey
                                       Support Staff.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  LEAD Criminal Justice      Pittsburgh, PA.........  City of Pittsburgh....         966,000  Casey
                                       Diversion.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  DNA Analysis Expansion...  Cumberland County, PA..  Cumberland County              284,000  Casey
                                                                                           District Attorney's
                                                                                           Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety UTVs and     Hellam Township, PA....  Hellam Township.......          96,000  Casey
                                       Police Vehicles.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  County Jail Security       McKean County, PA......  McKean County Jail....         136,000  Casey
                                       Scanner.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Philadelphia Healthy and   Philadelphia, PA.......  Temple University.....       1,500,000  Casey
                                       Safe Schools (PHASeS)
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Digital Radio System       Weatherly, PA..........  Weatherly Borough              120,000  Casey
                                       Upgrades.                                           Police Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Cruisers & Public   Allentown, PA..........  Allentown Police               275,000  Casey, Fetterman
                                       Safety Technology.                                  Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Child Advocacy & Regional  Montgomery County, PA..  Mission Kids Child           1,000,000  Casey, Fetterman
                                       Training Center.                                    Advocacy Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Crime Lab Equipment......  City of New Orleans, LA  City of New Orleans          2,400,000  Cassidy
                                                                                           Office of Criminal
                                                                                           Justice Coordination.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Enhanced Victim Services   City of New Orleans, LA  Covenant House........         250,000  Cassidy
                                       Transitional Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Jail Security Equipment    South Paris, ME........  County of Oxford......         174,000  Collins
                                       Upgrades.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Sexual Assault Expert      Augusta, ME............  Maine Coalition                 90,000  Collins
                                       Witness and Attorney                                Against Sexual
                                       Training.                                           Assault.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Department          Portland, ME...........  Portland Police                372,000  Collins
                                       Equipment.                                          Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Patrol Boat Replacement..  Portland, ME...........  Board of Harbor                317,000  Collins, King
                                                                                           Commissioners for the
                                                                                           Harbor of Portland.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Department          Belfast, ME............  City of Belfast.......         750,000  Collins, King
                                       Equipment.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Department          Houlton, ME............  Houlton Police                  57,000  Collins, King
                                       Equipment.                                          Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety              Piscataquis County, ME.  Piscataquis County           4,175,000  Collins, King
                                       Communications Equipment                            Emergency Management
                                       Upgrade.                                            Agency.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Training     York County, ME........  York County...........       1,800,000  Collins, King
                                       Equipment.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Enhancement  North Las Vegas, NV....  City of North Las            1,620,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       Project.                                            Vegas.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Department          Reno, NV...............  City of Reno..........       1,500,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       Wellness Project.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Eighth Judicial District   Clark County, NV.......  Clark County..........         800,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       Court's Court Appointed
                                       Special Advocate [CASA].
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Crime Prevention           Lander County, NV......  Lander County.........         563,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       Technology.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Personnel  Washoe County, NV......  Reno-Sparks Indian             265,000  Cortez Masto, Rosen
                                       and Equipment.                                      Colony.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Camera and Lights          East St. Louis, IL.....  City of East St. Louis       1,446,000  Duckworth
                                       Effectiveness for Anti-
                                       Dumping Needs (CLEAN).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Cure Violence............  Peoria, IL.............  Peoria County.........         564,000  Duckworth
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  First Responders Mental    Rosemont, IL...........  McDermott Center......         910,000  Duckworth, Durbin
                                       Health Initiative.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Equipment and Technology   Matteson, IL...........  SouthCom Combined            1,000,000  Durbin
                                       Upgrades.                                           Dispatch Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Technology Upgrades......  Rockford, IL...........  Winnebago County......         825,000  Durbin
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  9-1-1 Call Center Project  Modesto, CA............  City of Modesto.......       2,692,000  Feinstein
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Big Brothers Big Sisters   Philadelphia, PA.......  Big Brothers Big             1,000,000  Fetterman
                                       Independence Region.                                Sisters Independence
                                                                                           Region.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Air        Omaha, NE..............  City of Omaha.........       3,500,000  Fischer
                                       Support Equipment.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Mental Health Services     Kings County, NY.......  Brooklyn District            2,728,000  Gillibrand
                                       Vehicle.                                            Attorney's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Sexual Assault Forensic    Suffolk County, NY.....  Crime Victims Center,          565,000  Gillibrand, Schumer
                                       Examiner and Response                               Inc. (dba Parents for
                                       (SAFE/R) Capacity                                   Megan's Law).
                                       Building Program in
                                       Suffolk County.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Virtual    Livingston County, NY..  Livingston County.....         150,000  Gillibrand, Schumer
                                       Training Simulator.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Drug and Substance         City of Sumter, SC.....  City of Sumter........         157,000  Graham
                                       Analyzer.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Vehicles.  Lancaster County, SC...  Lancaster County               770,000  Graham
                                                                                           Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Substance Identification   Albuquerque, NM........  City of Albuquerque            364,000  Heinrich
                                       Equipment.                                          Police Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Mobile Integrated Health   Santa Fe, NM...........  City of Santa Fe......         300,000  Heinrich
                                       Office (MIHO).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Trauma Informed Youth      Dona Ana County, NM....  Families and Youth             675,000  Heinrich
                                       Diversion Program.                                  Innovations Plus
                                                                                           (FYI+).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Sierra County Children's   Sierra County, NM......  La Pinon Sexual                 56,000  Heinrich
                                       Advocacy Center.                                    Assault Recovery
                                                                                           Services.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Walking IN Grace with      Bernalillo, Santa Fe,    Las Cumbres Community          360,000  Heinrich
                                       Survivors of Torture       Rio Arriba, Taos, and    Services.
                                       (WINGS).                   Dona Ana counties., NM.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Child Abuse and Neglect    Bernalillo, Sandoval,    New Mexico Child               150,000  Heinrich
                                       Prevention.                and Valencia counties,   Advocacy Networks
                                                                  NM.                      (NMCAN).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  New Mexico Crime Gun       Farmington, Gallup, Las  Office of the New            1,150,000  Heinrich
                                       Intelligence Center.       Cruces, and Roswell,     Mexico Attorney
                                                                  NM.                      General.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Santa Fe Forensic          Santa Fe, NM...........  New Mexico Department          500,000  Heinrich, Lujan
                                       Laboratory DNA Analysis.                            of Public Safety.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Hanai Pilot Project......  Hawaii County; City and  Establish.............         700,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                                                  County of Honolulu;
                                                                  Kauai County; Maui
                                                                  County, HI.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Victims of Crime and       Hawaii County; City and  Kapili Like Inc.......       1,010,000  Hirono, Schatz
                                       Trafficking Safe Hale      County of Honolulu;
                                       Project.                   Kauai County; Maui
                                                                  County; Northwestern
                                                                  Hawaiian Islands, HI.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Academy..  Copiah and Lincoln       Copiah Lincoln                  20,000  Hyde-Smith
                                                                  Counties, MS.            Community College.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Scalable Rural Digital     Statewide, MS..........  University of Southern       3,000,000  Hyde-Smith, Wicker
                                       Forensics.                                          Mississippi.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Enrichment and Discipline  Statewide/Multiple       An Achievable Dream...       1,961,000  Kaine, Warner
                                       Reduction Program.         Locations, VA.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Virginia Initiative for    Statewide/Multiple       Enough is Enough......         974,000  Kaine, Warner
                                       the Prevention of the      Locations, VA.
                                       Online Exploitation of
                                       Children.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Chesapeake & Portsmouth    City of Portsmouth, VA.  Local Initiatives              500,000  Kaine, Warner
                                       Safety Coordinator.                                 Support Corporation
                                                                                           (LISC) Hampton Roads.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police-Referred Mediation  Statewide/Multiple       Resolution Virginia...         853,000  Kaine, Warner
                                       Pilot Project.             Locations, VA.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Southside Center for       Statewide/Multiple       STEPS, Inc............         949,000  Kaine, Warner
                                       Violence Prevention.       Locations, VA.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Servant Officer Training.  Washington County, VA..  Town of Marion........         208,000  Kaine, Warner
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body Cameras and Crime     Bisbee, AZ.............  City of Bisbee........         210,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Response.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Negotiation         Peoria, AZ.............  City of Peoria........         103,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Response Vehicle.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  SWAT Team Response         Parker, AZ.............  La Paz County                  305,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Vehicle.                                            Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety              Holbrook, AZ...........  Navajo County.........       2,307,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Interoperability
                                       Communication Project
                                       (Phase II).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Pima County Adult          Tucson, AZ.............  Pima County Sheriff's          458,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Detention Complex.                                  Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Dispatch     Florence, AZ...........  Town of Florence......       1,230,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Critical Incident          Queen Creek, AZ........  Town of Queen Creek...       1,948,000  Kelly, Sinema
                                       Management Resources.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Pre-Charge Diversion       Anoka County, MN.......  Anoka County                    89,000  Klobuchar, Smith
                                       Program.                                            Attorney's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Minneapolis Community      Minneapolis, MN........  City of Minneapolis...       2,500,000  Klobuchar, Smith
                                       Violence Intervention.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Minnesota Third Judicial   Third Judicial           Minnesota Third              1,500,000  Klobuchar, Smith
                                       District--County           District, MN.            Judicial District--
                                       Attorney Electronic                                 County Attorney
                                       Evidence Collaborative.                             Electronic Evidence
                                                                                           Collaborative.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Ramsey County Radios.....  St. Paul, MN...........  Ramsey County.........       2,965,000  Klobuchar, Smith
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Chaves County CASA         Chaves County,           Chaves County CASA             500,000  Lujan
                                       Program Trauma             Southeastern NM,         Program.
                                       Intervention Project.      Roswell, NM.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Edgewood Police            Town of Edgewood, NM...  Edgewood Police                800,000  Lujan
                                       Department Emergency                                Department--NM.
                                       Vehicle Fund.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Recreational,              Albuquerque, Bernalillo  Metro Police Athletic           10,000  Lujan
                                       Educational, and           County, NM.              League.
                                       Cultural Activities for
                                       At-Risk Youth.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Sandoval County            Sandoval County, NM....  Sandoval County.......         200,000  Lujan
                                       Behavioral Health
                                       Planning Grant.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Assisted   Santa Fe County, NM....  Santa Fe County.......         339,000  Lujan
                                       Diversion (LEAD) Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Leon Sullivan Way Safety   Charleston, WV.........  City of Charleston,            301,000  Manchin
                                       Initiative.                                         West Virginia.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  WV Wesleyan Center for     Buckhannon, WV.........  West Virginia Wesleyan         795,000  Manchin
                                       Ethical Professional                                College.
                                       Development in Criminal
                                       Justice.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Policy Development &       Cambridge, MA..........  Strategies for Youth,          185,000  Markey
                                       Training to Improve                                 Inc.
                                       Massachusetts Law
                                       Enforcement/Youth
                                       Interactions.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  The Phoenix Reentry        Boston, MA.............  The Phoenix...........         650,000  Markey, Warren
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Veterans Legal Support     Lawrence, KS...........  University of Kansas         1,600,000  Moran
                                       Clinic.                                             School of Law.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Community-Based Victim     Statewide, AK..........  Council on Domestic          4,000,000  Murkowski
                                       Services Program.                                   Violence and Sexual
                                                                                           Assault.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Urgent Casualty Care.....  City of Soldotna, AK...  Soldotna Police                110,000  Murkowski
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Community Violence         Burien, WA.............  Choose Freedom........         552,000  Murray
                                       Prevention Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Municipal Therapeutic      Tacoma, WA.............  City of Tacoma                 500,000  Murray
                                       Court.                                              Municipal Court.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Courthouse Security        Ephrata, WA............  Grant County District        1,500,000  Murray
                                       Upgrades.                                           Court.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Municipal Therapeutic      Spokane, WA............  Spokane Municipal              982,000  Murray
                                       Court.                                              Court.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Adult Therapeutic Courts.  Colville, WA...........  Stevens County                 450,000  Murray
                                                                                           District Court.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body-Worn Camera           Fulton County, GA......  Fulton County                  298,000  Ossoff
                                       Technology Upgrades.                                Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Body-Worn  Augusta-Richmond         Augusta-Richmond               690,000  Ossoff, Warnock
                                       Camera Technology          County, GA.              County.
                                       Upgrades.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Mental Health Response     Augusta-Richmond         Augusta-Richmond               317,000  Ossoff, Warnock
                                       Team.                      County, GA.              County.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Expanding Violence         Atlanta, GA............  CHRIS 180, Inc........         331,000  Ossoff, Warnock
                                       Reduction Programs in
                                       South Atlanta.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Family Advocacy Center...  Cobb County, GA........  Cobb Family Advocacy         1,550,000  Ossoff, Warnock
                                                                                           Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Expanding Access to the    Atlanta, GA............  Morehouse College.....       1,636,000  Ossoff, Warnock
                                       Andrew Young Center's
                                       Higher Education in
                                       Prisons Initiative.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Enhancement  East Lansing, MI.......  City of East Lansing..       1,500,000  Peters
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Modular Vehicle     Muskegon, MI...........  City of Muskegon......         190,000  Peters
                                       Barrier System.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Law Enforcement Emergency  Farmington Hills, MI...  Farmington Hills                65,000  Peters
                                       Vehicle Operation.                                  Police Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Cameras...........  Utica, MI..............  Utica.................         153,000  Peters
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Child Sexual Abuse         Statewide, RI..........  Day One...............         220,000  Reed
                                       Prevention Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Habitat for Justice......  Pawtucket, RI..........  Justice Assistance....         420,000  Reed
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Evidence Collection        Providence, RI.........  Providence Police              225,000  Reed
                                       Vehicle.                                            Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Scaling Pathways to the    Providence, RI.........  The Community College          350,000  Reed
                                       Workforce.                                          of Rhode Island.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Fitness Initiative.......  Charlestown, RI........  The Narragansett               430,000  Reed
                                                                                           Indian Tribe.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Vehicles...  Tiverton, RI...........  Tiverton Police                280,000  Reed
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Community Engagement.....  Warwick, RI............  YMCA of Greater                220,000  Reed
                                                                                           Providence (GPYMCA).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Replacement of Transport   Cranston, RI...........  Rhode Island                 1,200,000  Reed, Whitehouse
                                       Vehicles.                                           Department of
                                                                                           Corrections.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Rhode Island Correctional  Cranston, RI...........  Rhode Island                   500,000  Reed, Whitehouse
                                       Industries program.                                 Department of
                                                                                           Corrections.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Burlington Community       Burlington, VT.........  City of Burlington....         300,000  Sanders
                                       Justice Center.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Center for Council         Statewide, VT..........  Vermont Department of        1,900,000  Sanders
                                       Vermont Public Safety                               Public Safety.
                                       Project.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Community Restorative      Brattleboro and Bellows  Youth Services, Inc...         979,000  Sanders
                                       Practices Project.         Falls, VT.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Shining the Light on Sex   Hawaii County; City and  Ho'ola Na Pua.........       1,000,000  Schatz
                                       Trafficking in Hawaii.     County of Honolulu;
                                                                  Kauai County; Maui
                                                                  County, HI.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Cybercrime Unit Vehicle..  City and County of       Honolulu Police                500,000  Schatz
                                                                  Honolulu, HI.            Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Police Athletic/           Syracuse, NY...........  City of Syracuse......         415,000  Schumer
                                       Activities League Teen
                                       Program Expansion.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Community Care and         New York, NY...........  Metro-IAF / Manhattan          200,000  Schumer
                                       Recovery.                                           Together.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Survivor Support System..  New York, NY...........  Not Another Child,             500,000  Schumer
                                                                                           Inc..
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  NYC Youth Forward........  Brooklyn, NY...........  NYPD's Fighting Finest         150,000  Schumer
                                                                                           Inc..
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body Worn Camera Project.  Alton, NH..............  Alton, NH Police               255,000  Shaheen
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Evidence Equipment and     Concord, NH............  Concord Police                  73,000  Shaheen
                                       Training.                                           Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Acquisition of Body Worn   Derry, NH..............  Derry Police                   586,000  Shaheen
                                       Camera (BWC), In-car                                Department.
                                       Video (ICV), and
                                       Facility Cameras.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body Worn Camera Project.  Franklin, NH...........  Franklin Police                208,000  Shaheen
                                                                                           Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Virtual Simulation         Hampton Falls, NH......  Hampton Falls Police            38,000  Shaheen
                                       Training Equipment.                                 Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Enhanced Criminal Justice  Hampton, NH............  Hampton, NH Police             200,000  Shaheen
                                       Response Team.                                      Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  De-Escalation Program....  Hillsborough County, NH  Hillsborough County            276,000  Shaheen
                                                                                           Sheriff.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Active Attack CRCC         Manchester, NH.........  Manchester School               48,000  Shaheen
                                       Training.                                           District.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  In-Car Camera Replacement  Rochester, NH..........  Rochester, NH Police           123,000  Shaheen
                                       Project.                                            Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Active Threat Incident     Stratham, NH...........  Stratham Police                 53,000  Shaheen
                                       Equipment.                                          Department (SPD).
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Acquisition of Body Worn   Mont Vernon, NH........  Town of Mont Vernon...          25,000  Shaheen
                                       Cameras.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  New Hampton Public Safety  New Hampton, NH........  Town of New Hampton...          80,000  Shaheen
                                       Cruiser.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Training     Kent County, MI........  Grand Rapids Community       1,000,000  Stabenow
                                       Center Equipment.                                   College.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Center Security Sector &   Oakland County, MI.....  The Zekelman Holocaust       1,100,000  Stabenow
                                       Law Enforcement                                     Center.
                                       Professional Education
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Communications Upgrade...  Beaufort, NC...........  Beaufort County.......         893,000  Tillis
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Rapid DNA for              Concord, NC............  Concord Police                 188,000  Tillis
                                       Investigations.                                     Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Equipment and Technology   Greenville, NC.........  Greenville Police            1,400,000  Tillis
                                       Upgrades.                                           Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Security Upgrades........  Halifax County, NC.....  Halifax County........         225,000  Tillis
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Bomb Squad Upgrades......  Henderson County, NC...  Henderson County               234,000  Tillis
                                                                                           Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety              Raleigh, NC............  Raleigh Police                 629,000  Tillis
                                       Intelligence Management                             Department.
                                       System.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Veterans Treatment Court.  Rowan County, NC.......  Rowan County..........         546,000  Tillis
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Security Upgrades........  Sampson County, NC.....  Sampson County                 220,000  Tillis
                                                                                           Sheriff's Office.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Body-Worn and Vehicle      Statesville, NC........  Statesville Police             410,000  Tillis
                                       Cameras.                                            Department.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment..  Elon, NC...............  Town of Elon..........         102,000  Tillis
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Huntsville, AL.........  Alabama Agricultural           375,000  Tuberville
                                       for University Law                                  and Mechanical
                                       Enforcement.                                        University.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Blount County, AL......  Blount County                  400,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Commission.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Butler County, AL......  Butler County                  120,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Commission.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Chilton County, AL.....  Chilton County                 300,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Commission.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Combatting Fentanyl......  Fairhope, AL...........  City of Fairhope......         200,000  Tuberville
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Russellville, AL.......  City of Russellville..         500,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Sheffield, AL..........  City of Sheffield.....         495,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Trussville, AL.........  City of Trussville....         150,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Tuscumbia, AL..........  City of Tuscumbia.....         325,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Colbert County, AL.....  Colbert County                 250,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Sheriff's Office.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Dallas County, AL......  Dallas County                  250,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Sheriff's Office.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Franklin County, AL....  Franklin County                200,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Sheriff's Office.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Marengo County, AL.....  Marengo County                 185,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Commission.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment..  Morgan County, AL......  Morgan County                  595,000  Tuberville
                                                                                           Commission.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Talladega County, AL...  Talladega County               200,000  Tuberville
                                       for Local Law                                       Commission.
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Equipment    Troy, AL...............  Troy University.......         150,000  Tuberville
                                       for University Law
                                       Enforcement.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Pre-Trial Diversion        Douglas County, GA.....  Douglas County........          95,000  Warnock
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Georgia Justice Project--  Fulton County, GA......  Georgia Justice                475,000  Warnock
                                       Second Chance Desk.                                 Project.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Behavioral Health &        Laurens County, GA.....  The Community Service        1,356,000  Warnock
                                       Overdose Reduction                                  Board of Middle
                                       Initiative.                                         Georgia.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  RI HOPE Initiative--       Statewide, RI..........  Friends of the HOPE            450,000  Whitehouse
                                       Statewide Law                                       Initiative.
                                       Enforcement Opioid
                                       Overdose Deflection
                                       Program.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Public Safety Vehicle and  Pawtucket, RI..........  Pawtucket Police               335,000  Whitehouse
                                       Equipment Upgrade.                                  Department, City of
                                                                                           Pawtucket.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Updating Law Enforcement   Starkville, MS.........  Mississippi State            1,800,000  Wicker
                                       Data in Mississippi.                                University.
DOJ-OJP Byrne.......................  Advanced Policing          Jackson, MS............  University of                  380,000  Wicker
                                       Operations and                                      Mississippi Medical
                                       Technologies.                                       Center.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Ecological Prediction      Crested Butte, CO......  Rocky Mountain                 975,000  Bennet, Hickenlooper
                                       Lab: Airborne Coverage                              Biological Laboratory
                                       to Inform Water and                                 (RMBL).
                                       Forest Health Management.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Ground-based Simulator     Newark, NJ.............  New Jersey Institute           566,000  Booker, Menendez
                                       for In-space Refueling                              of Technology.
                                       Cryogenic Propellants.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Laser-Induced              Morgantown, WV.........  West Virginia                  465,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Fluorescence Diagnostic.                            University.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Acquisition of a High-     Morgantown, WV.........  West Virginia                1,500,000  Capito, Manchin
                                       Performance CPU Cluster                             University.
                                       for Research and
                                       Education in WV.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Robotics Lab Equipment...  Morgantown, WV.........  WVU Chestnut Ridge           1,000,000  Capito, Manchin
                                                                                           Research Center.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Space Mission Education    Bangor, ME.............  Challenger Learning          2,186,000  Collins, King
                                       Simulators for Maine                                Center of Maine.
                                       Students.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Artemis in 3D--A STEAM     Albuquerque, statewide,  University of New              840,000  Heinrich, Lujan
                                       Challenge and Training     NM.                      Mexico.
                                       Program.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Air and Space Law Program  Oxford, MS.............  University of                1,500,000  Hyde-Smith, Wicker
                                                                                           Mississippi.
NASA-SSMS...........................  McAuliffe Simulation Lab   Framingham, MA.........  Framingham State             1,000,000  Markey, Warren
                                       at Framingham State                                 University.
                                       University's Christa
                                       McAuliffe Center.
NASA-SSMS...........................  NASA STEM Engagement at    Worcester, MA..........  Worcester Natural              856,000  Markey, Warren
                                       the EcoTarium.                                      History Society
                                                                                           EcoTarium.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Advanced Manufacturing     Wichita, KS............  Wichita State               10,000,000  Moran
                                       Technology and Equipment.                           University / National
                                                                                           Institute for
                                                                                           Aviation Research.
NASA-SSMS...........................  Alvirne High/Palmer        Hudson, NH.............  Aviation Museum of New          90,000  Shaheen
                                       Center Student Plane-                               Hampshire.
                                       Build.
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  COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL FOR FISCAL
                                                                        YEAR 2024
                                                                [In thousands of dollars]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                                        Senate Committee recommendation
                                                                                                                            compared with (+ or -)
                             Item                                     2023         Budget estimate      Committee    -----------------------------------
                                                                  appropriation                      recommendation         2023
                                                                                                                        appropriation    Budget estimate
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
                TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
              International Trade Administration
 
Operations and administration.................................          625,000           724,815           637,000           +12,000           -87,815
Offsetting fee collections....................................          -12,000           -12,000           -12,000   ................  ................
    Direct appropriation......................................          613,000           712,815           625,000           +12,000           -87,815
 
                Bureau of Industry and Security
 
Operations and administration.................................           94,911            83,233            51,817           -43,094           -31,416
    CWC Enforcement (Defense).................................           96,089           139,183           139,183           +43,094   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Bureau of Industry and Security................          191,000           222,416           191,000   ................          -31,416
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
              Economic Development Administration
 
Economic Development Assistance Programs......................          430,000           704,500           371,000           -59,000          -333,500
    Economic Development Assistance Programs (emergency)......  ................  ................           25,000           +25,000           +25,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Economic Development Assistance Programs....          430,000           704,500           396,000           -34,000          -308,500
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................           68,000            99,509            70,000            +2,000           -29,509
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Economic Development Administration................          498,000           804,009           466,000           -32,000          -338,009
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
             Minority Business Development Agency
 
Minority Business Development.................................           70,000           110,000            70,000   ................          -40,000
 
               Economic and Statistical Analysis
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................          130,000           154,028           130,000   ................          -24,028
 
                     Bureau of the Census
 
Current Surveys and Programs..................................          330,000           375,673           346,000           +16,000           -29,673
Periodic censuses and programs................................        1,155,000         1,230,331         1,155,000   ................          -75,331
Censuses and Survey Programs..................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Bureau of the Census...............................        1,485,000         1,606,004         1,501,000           +16,000          -105,004
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
  National Telecommunications and Information Administration
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................           62,000           109,665            60,000            -2,000           -49,665
Facilities Management & Construction..........................  ................            7,612             2,000            +2,000            -5,612
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, National Telecommunications and Information                   62,000           117,277            62,000   ................          -55,277
     Administration...........................................
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
           United States Patent and Trademark Office
 
Salaries and expenses, current year fee funding...............        4,253,404         4,195,799         4,195,799           -57,605   ................
Offsetting fee collections....................................       -4,253,404        -4,195,799        -4,195,799           +57,605   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, United States Patent and Trademark Office..........  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
        National Institute of Standards and Technology
 
Scientific and Technical Research and Services................          953,000           994,948         1,021,263           +68,263           +26,315
    (transfer out)............................................          (-9,000)          (-9,000)          (-9,000)  ................  ................
Industrial Technology Services................................          212,000           374,872           212,000   ................         -162,872
    Manufacturing extension partnerships......................         (175,000)         (277,202)         (175,000)  ................        (-102,202)
    Manufacturing USA.........................................          (37,000)          (97,670)          (37,000)  ................         (-60,670)
Construction of research facilities...........................          462,285           262,148           164,542          -297,743           -97,606
    Construction of Research Facilities (emergency)...........  ................  ................           50,000           +50,000           +50,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Construction of Research Facilities                   462,285           262,148           214,542          -247,743           -47,606
         reclassification.....................................
 
Working Capital Fund (by transfer)............................           (9,000)           (9,000)           (9,000)  ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, National Institute of Standards and Technology.....        1,627,285         1,631,968         1,447,805          -179,480          -184,163
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 
Operations, Research, and Facilities..........................        4,500,997         4,616,549         4,513,430           +12,433          -103,119
    Operations, Research, and Facilities (emergency)..........  ................  ................           15,000           +15,000           +15,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Operations, Research, and Facilities........        4,500,997         4,616,549         4,528,430           +27,433           -88,119
 
        (by transfer).........................................         (344,901)         (355,081)         (365,022)         (+20,121)          (+9,941)
        Promote and Develop Fund (transfer out)...............        (-344,901)        (-355,081)        (-365,022)         (-20,121)          (-9,941)
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Subtotal..........................................        4,500,997         4,616,549         4,528,430           +27,433           -88,119
 
Procurement, Acquisition and Construction.....................        1,653,630         2,139,794         1,747,061           +93,431          -392,733
    Procurement, Acquisition and Construction (emergency).....  ................  ................          180,235          +180,235          +180,235
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Reclassification of Procurement, Acquisition        1,653,630         2,139,794         1,927,296          +273,666          -212,498
         and Construction.....................................
 
Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery...............................           65,000            65,000            65,000   ................  ................
Fishermen's Contingency Fund..................................              349               349               349   ................  ................
Fisheries Disaster Assistance.................................              300               300               300   ................  ................
Fisheries Finance Program Account.............................          -19,000           -15,000           -15,000            +4,000   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....        6,201,276         6,806,992         6,506,375          +305,099          -300,617
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                    Departmental Management
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................           95,000           125,323            95,000   ................          -30,323
Renovation and Modernization..................................            1,142            16,521             1,142   ................          -15,379
DOC Nonrecurring Expenses Fund................................           35,000   ................  ................          -35,000   ................
Office of Inspector General...................................           48,000            53,326            48,000   ................           -5,326
    Collection from the Public Safety Trust Fund..............  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Public Safety Trust Fund transfer.........................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Expenditure transfer......................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Departmental Management........................          179,142           195,170           144,142           -35,000           -51,028
                                                               =========================================================================================
        Total, title I, Department of Commerce................       11,056,703        12,360,679        11,143,322           +86,619        -1,217,357
                                                               =========================================================================================
        (by transfer).........................................          353,901           364,081           374,022           +20,121            +9,941
        (transfer out)........................................         -353,901          -364,081          -374,022           -20,121            -9,941
 
                TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
      Justice Operations, Management, and Accountability
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................          145,000           212,497           140,000            -5,000           -72,497
Justice Information Sharing Technology........................          138,000           193,630            50,000           -88,000          -143,630
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, General Administration.............................          283,000           406,127           190,000           -93,000          -216,127
                                                               =========================================================================================
Executive Office for Immigration Review.......................          860,000         1,455,316           869,000            +9,000          -586,316
    Transfer from immigration examinations fee account........           -4,000            -4,000            -4,000   ................  ................
        Direct appropriation..................................          856,000         1,451,316           865,000            +9,000          -586,316
Office of Inspector General...................................          139,000           151,636           142,000            +3,000            -9,636
 
                United States Parole Commission
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................           14,591            15,104            15,000              +409              -104
 
                       Legal Activities
 
Salaries and expenses, general legal activities...............        1,138,000         1,331,046         1,157,300           +19,300          -173,746
Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund........................           31,738            31,738            22,700            -9,038            -9,038
Salaries and expenses, Antitrust Division.....................          225,000           324,821           278,000           +53,000           -46,821
    Offsetting fee collections--current year..................         -190,000          -278,000          -278,000           -88,000   ................
        Direct appropriation..................................           35,000            46,821   ................          -35,000           -46,821
Salaries and expenses, United States Attorneys................        2,632,000         2,870,374         2,670,000           +38,000          -200,374
United States Trustee System Fund.............................          255,000           276,771           257,000            +2,000           -19,771
    Offsetting fee collections................................         -269,000          -230,000          -230,000           +39,000   ................
        Direct appropriation..................................          -14,000            46,771            27,000           +41,000           -19,771
Salaries and expenses, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission...            2,504             2,610             2,600               +96               -10
Fees and expenses of witnesses................................          270,000           270,000           270,000   ................  ................
Salaries and expenses, Community Relations Service............           25,024            28,121            25,500              +476            -2,621
Assets Forfeiture Fund........................................           20,514            20,514            20,514   ................  ................
Office for Access to Justice..................................  ................           13,688   ................  ................          -13,688
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Legal Activities...................................        4,140,780         4,661,683         4,195,614           +54,834          -466,069
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                United States Marshals Service
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................        1,705,000         1,924,488         1,660,235           -44,765          -264,253
    Salaries and expenses (emergency).........................  ................  ................           63,765           +63,765           +63,765
        Salaries and expenses reclassification (emergency)....        1,705,000         1,924,488         1,724,000           +19,000          -200,488
Construction..................................................           18,000            24,260            18,000   ................           -6,260
Federal Prisoner Detention....................................        2,129,789         2,125,724         1,950,000          -179,789          -175,724
Federal Prisoner Detention (emergency)........................  ................  ................          150,000          +150,000          +150,000
    Federal Prisoner Detention reclassification (emergency)...        2,129,789         2,125,724         2,100,000           -29,789           -25,724
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, United States Marshals Service.................        3,852,789         4,074,472         3,842,000           -10,789          -232,472
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                  National Security Division
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................          133,512           144,788           135,000            +1,488            -9,788
 
         Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces
 
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement........................          550,458           550,458           550,458   ................  ................
 
                Federal Bureau of Investigation
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................        4,331,253         4,594,195         4,291,703           -39,550          -302,492
    Salaries and expenses (emergency).........................  ................  ................          100,000          +100,000          +100,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Salaries and expenses.......................        4,331,253         4,594,195         4,391,703           +60,450          -202,492
 
        CR funding (Public Law 117-180) (Sec 121) (emergency).            6,212   ................  ................           -6,212   ................
Counterintelligence and national security.....................        6,344,747         6,729,925         6,433,297           +88,550          -296,628
    Counterintelligence and national security reclassification  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
     (emergency)..............................................
        CR funding (Public Law 117-180) (Sec 121) (emergency).            9,088   ................  ................           -9,088   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Total , Salaries and expenses.....................       10,691,300        11,324,120        10,825,000          +133,700          -499,120
                                                               =========================================================================================
Construction..................................................          651,895            61,895            60,000          -591,895            -1,895
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Federal Bureau of Investigation....................       11,343,195        11,386,015        10,885,000          -458,195          -501,015
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                Drug Enforcement Administration
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................        3,144,603         3,280,924         2,890,719          -253,884          -390,205
    Salaries and expenses (emergency).........................  ................  ................          320,000          +320,000          +320,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Salaries and expenses.......................        3,144,603         3,280,924         3,210,719           +66,116           -70,205
 
        Diversion control fund................................         -581,487          -620,000          -621,719           -40,232            -1,719
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Total, Drug Enforcement Administration............        2,563,116         2,660,924         2,589,000           +25,884           -71,924
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
      Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................        1,672,000         1,875,466         1,618,000           -54,000          -257,466
    Salaries and expenses (emergency).........................  ................  ................           71,000           +71,000           +71,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Salaries and expenses.......................        1,672,000         1,875,466         1,689,000           +17,000          -186,466
 
Construction..................................................           75,000   ................  ................          -75,000   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives        1,747,000         1,875,466         1,689,000           -58,000          -186,466
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                     Federal Prison System
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................        8,392,588         8,644,290         8,477,000           +84,412          -167,290
Buildings and facilities......................................          108,000           179,762            30,000           -78,000          -149,762
    Buildings and Facilities (emergency)......................  ................  ................          179,000          +179,000          +179,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Buildings and Facilities....................          108,000           179,762           209,000          +101,000           +29,238
 
Limitation on administrative expenses, Federal Prison                     2,700             2,700             2,700   ................  ................
 Industries, Incorporated.....................................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Federal Prison System..............................        8,503,288         8,826,752         8,688,700          +185,412          -138,052
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
          State and Local Law Enforcement Activities
 
Office on Violence Against Women:
    Prevention and prosecution programs.......................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
        (by transfer).........................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Crime Victims Fund (transfer out).........................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Violence Against Women Prevention & Prosecution Programs..          700,000         1,000,000           732,000           +32,000          -268,000
 
Office of Justice Programs:
    Research, evaluation and statistics.......................           77,000           141,000            78,000            +1,000           -63,000
    State and local law enforcement assistance................        2,416,805         2,438,130         2,101,139          -315,666          -336,991
        State and local law enforcement assistance (emergency)  ................  ................          100,000          +100,000          +100,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, State and local law enforcement assistance..        2,416,805         2,438,130         2,201,139          -215,666          -236,991
 
    Juvenile justice programs.................................          400,000           760,000           415,000           +15,000          -345,000
 
    Public safety officer benefits:
        Death benefits........................................          133,000           174,000           174,000           +41,000   ................
        Disability and education benefits.....................           34,800            34,800            34,800   ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Subtotal..........................................          167,800           208,800           208,800           +41,000   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Office of Justice Programs.....................        3,061,605         3,547,930         2,902,939          -158,666          -644,991
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
Community Oriented Policing Services:
    COPS programs.............................................          662,880           651,000           534,879          -128,001          -116,121
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, State and Local Law Enforcement Activities.....        4,424,485         5,198,930         4,169,818          -254,667        -1,029,112
                                                               =========================================================================================
Sec 218.......................................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, title II, Department of Justice....................       38,551,214        41,403,671        37,956,590          -594,624        -3,447,081
                                                               =========================================================================================
    (by transfer).............................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    (transfer out)............................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
 
                      TITLE III--SCIENCE
 
Office of Science and Technology Policy.......................            7,965             8,195             7,965   ................             -230
National Space Council........................................            1,965             2,018             1,965   ................              -53
 
         National Aeronautics and Space Administration
 
Science.......................................................        7,795,000         8,260,800         7,340,920          -454,080          -919,880
Aeronautics...................................................          935,000           995,800           935,000   ................          -60,800
Space Technology..............................................        1,200,000         1,391,600         1,118,000           -82,000          -273,600
Deep Space Exploration Systems................................        7,468,850         7,971,091         7,456,300           -12,550          -514,791
    Deep Space Exploration Systems (emergency)................  ................  ................          280,000          +280,000          +280,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Deep Space Exploration System...............        7,468,850         7,971,091         7,736,300          +267,450          -234,791
 
Space Operations..............................................        4,250,000         4,534,609         4,200,000           -50,000          -334,609
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Engagement..          143,500           157,800           143,500   ................          -14,300
Safety, Security and Mission Services.........................        3,129,451         3,369,400         3,100,000           -29,451          -269,400
Construction and environmental compliance and restoration.....           47,300           453,700            83,000           +35,700          -370,700
    Construction and environmental compliance and restoration   ................  ................          296,000          +296,000          +296,000
     (emergency)..............................................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Construction and environmental compliance              47,300           453,700           379,000          +331,700           -74,700
         and restoration......................................
 
Office of Inspector General...................................           47,600            50,200            47,600   ................           -2,600
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, National Aeronautics and Space Administration......       25,016,701        27,185,000        25,000,320           -16,381        -2,184,680
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                  National Science Foundation
 
Research and related activities...............................        6,931,136         8,915,900         7,086,287          +155,151        -1,829,613
    Research and related activities (emergency)...............  ................  ................          420,000          +420,000          +420,000
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Subtotal, Research and related activities.............        6,931,136         8,915,900         7,506,287          +575,151        -1,409,613
 
        Defense function......................................           90,000           102,000           102,000           +12,000   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Subtotal..........................................        7,021,136         9,017,900         7,608,287          +587,151        -1,409,613
 
Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction..........          187,230           304,670           187,230   ................         -117,440
Education and Human Resources.................................        1,154,000         1,496,180         1,228,000           +74,000          -268,180
Agency Operations and Award Management........................          448,000           503,870           448,000   ................          -55,870
Office of the National Science Board..........................            5,090             5,250             5,090   ................             -160
Office of Inspector General...................................           23,393            26,810            23,393   ................           -3,417
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, National Science Foundation........................        8,838,849        11,354,680         9,500,000          +661,151        -1,854,680
                                                               =========================================================================================
    Total, Title III, Science.................................       33,865,480        38,549,893        34,510,250          +644,770        -4,039,643
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                  TITLE IV--RELATED AGENCIES
 
                  Commission on Civil Rights
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................           14,350            15,587            14,350   ................           -1,237
 
            Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................          455,000           481,069           455,000   ................          -26,069
 
                International Trade Commission
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................          122,400           127,400           122,400   ................           -5,000
 
                  Legal Services Corporation
 
Payment to the Legal Services Corporation.....................          560,000           800,000           560,000   ................         -240,000
 
                   Marine Mammal Commission
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................            4,500             5,040             4,500   ................             -540
 
             Office of the US Trade Representative
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................           61,000            62,868            61,000   ................           -1,868
Trade Enforcement Trust Fund..................................           15,000            15,000            15,000   ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Office of the US Trade Representative..............           76,000            77,868            76,000   ................           -1,868
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                    State Justice Institute
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................            7,640             7,640             7,640   ................  ................
 
  Commission on the State of the US Olympics and Paralympics
 
Salaries and expenses.........................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, title IV, Related Agencies.........................        1,239,890         1,514,604         1,239,890   ................         -274,714
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                  TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Crime Victims Fund (transfer out) (Sec 510)...................         (-10,000)         (-10,000)         (-10,000)  ................  ................
    Department of Justice OIG (by transfer)...................          (10,000)          (10,000)          (10,000)  ................  ................
DOC, NOAA Operations, Research, and Facilities (rescission)...  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
Economic Development Assistance Programs (rescission).........          -10,000           -25,000           -25,000           -15,000   ................
DOC, Nonrecurring Expenses Fund...............................          -50,000   ................      -11,000,000       -10,950,000       -11,000,000
DOJ, Working Capital Fund (rescission)........................         -705,768           -82,572          -122,572          +583,196           -40,000
Federal Prison System, Buildings and Facilities (rescission)..  ................         -953,884           -19,000           -19,000          +934,884
DOJ, Federal Prison System, Buildings and Facilities            ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
 (rescission).................................................
Office of Justice programs (rescission).......................          -75,000          -100,000          -100,000           -25,000   ................
COPS (rescission).............................................          -15,000           -15,000           -15,000   ................  ................
DOJ, Violence against women prevention and prosecution                  -15,000            -5,000            -5,000           +10,000   ................
 programs.....................................................
DOJ, Assets Forfeiture Fund (rescission)......................         -500,000   ................         -500,000   ................         -500,000
HAVANA Act Payments (NDD).....................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
HAVANA Act Payments (Def).....................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, title V, General Provisions........................       -1,370,768        -1,181,456       -11,786,572       -10,415,804       -10,605,116
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                     OTHER APPROPRIATIONS
 
       THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT, 2022
 
                      (Public Law 117-58)
 
                  DIVISION J--APPROPRIATIONS
 
                    DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
  National Telecommunications and Information Administration
 
Digital Equity................................................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Appropriations available from prior year advances                   550,000           550,000           550,000   ................  ................
     (emergency)..............................................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, National Telecommunications and Information              550,000           550,000           550,000   ................  ................
         Admin................................................
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 
Operations, Research, and Facilities..........................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Appropriations available from prior year advances                   515,584           515,583           515,583                -1   ................
     (emergency)..............................................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Operations, Resarch and Facilities.............          515,584           515,583           515,583                -1   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery...............................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Appropriations available from prior year advances                    34,400            34,400            34,400   ................  ................
     (emergency)..............................................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration          549,984           549,983           549,983                -1   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
        Total, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 2022...        1,099,984         1,099,983         1,099,983                -1   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
 BIPARTISAN SAFER COMMUNITIES SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT,
                             2022
 
                     (Public Law 117-159)
 
                  DIVISION B--APPROPRIATIONS
 
                     DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
                  Office of Justice Programs
 
State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance....................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
    Appropriations available from prior year advances                   280,000           280,000           280,000   ................  ................
     (emergency)..............................................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance.....          280,000           280,000           280,000   ................  ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
Community Oriented Policing Services Programs (STOP School      ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
 Violence Act)................................................
    Appropriations available from prior year advances                    20,000            20,000            20,000   ................  ................
     (emergency)..............................................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, Community Oriented Policing Services...........           20,000            20,000            20,000   ................  ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
        Total, Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, 2022.........          300,000           300,000           300,000   ................  ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
Less prior year appropriations (emergency)....................       -1,399,984        -1,399,983        -1,399,983                +1   ................
 
 DISASTER RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2023 (Public
                         Law 117-328)
 
                          DIVISION N
 
                    DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
              Economic Development Administration
 
Economic Development Assistance Programs (emergency)..........        1,118,000   ................  ................       -1,118,000   ................
 
        National Institute of Standards and Technology
 
Scientific and Technical Research and Services (emergency)....           40,000   ................  ................          -40,000   ................
Industrial Technology Services (emergency)....................           27,000   ................  ................          -27,000   ................
    Manufacturing extension partnerships......................          (13,000)  ................  ................         (-13,000)  ................
    Manufacturing USA.........................................          (14,000)  ................  ................         (-14,000)  ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total, National Institute of Standards and Technology.           67,000   ................  ................          -67,000   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 
Operations, Research, and Facilities (emergency)..............           91,000   ................  ................          -91,000   ................
Procurement, Acquisition and Construction (emergency).........          436,539   ................  ................         -436,539   ................
Fisheries Disaster Assistance (emergency).....................          300,000   ................  ................         -300,000   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....          827,539   ................  ................         -827,539   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
Total, Department of Commerce.................................        2,012,539   ................  ................       -2,012,539   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                     DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
                     Federal Prison System
 
Building and Facilities (emergency)...........................          182,000   ................  ................         -182,000   ................
 
                            SCIENCE
 
         National Aeronautics and Space Administration
 
Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restoration               556,400   ................  ................         -556,400   ................
 (emergency)..................................................
 
                  National Science Foundation
 
Research and Related Activities (emergency)...................          820,662   ................  ................         -820,662   ................
STEM Education (emergency.....................................          217,000   ................  ................         -217,000   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, National Science Foundation........................        1,037,662   ................  ................       -1,037,662   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
    Total, Science............................................        1,594,062   ................  ................       -1,594,062   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
 
                       RELATED AGENCIES
 
                  Legal Services Corporation
 
Payment to the Legal Services Corporation (emergency).........           20,000   ................  ................          -20,000   ................
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total, Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act,           3,808,601   ................  ................       -3,808,601   ................
     2023 Div N...............................................
                                                               =========================================================================================
        Total, Other Appropriations...........................        3,808,601   ................  ................       -3,808,601   ................
                                                               =========================================================================================
Grand total...................................................       87,151,120        92,647,391        73,063,480       -14,087,640       -19,583,911
                                                               =========================================================================================
    Appropriations............................................      (84,647,987)      (93,828,847)      (71,600,052)     (-13,047,935)     (-22,228,795)
    Rescissions...............................................      (-1,320,768)      (-1,181,456)        (-786,572)        (+534,196)        (+394,884)
    Emergency appropriations..................................       (3,823,901)  ................       (2,250,000)      (-1,573,901)      (+2,250,000)
    Emergency advance appropriations..........................  ................  ................  ................  ................  ................
(by transfer).................................................          363,901           374,081           384,022           +20,121            +9,941
(transfer out)................................................         -363,901          -374,081          -384,022           -20,121            -9,941
                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Grand total excluding Other Appropriations....................       83,342,519        92,647,391        73,063,480       -10,279,039       -19,583,911
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