PUBLIC LAW 97-377, 96 STAT. 1830
for productive employment
for the fiscal year 1983, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues,
receipts, and funds, for the several departments, agencies,
corporations, and other organizational units of the Government for the
fiscal year 1983, and for other purposes, namely:
Sec. 101. (a)(1) Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing
projects or activities (not otherwise specifically provided for in this
joint resolution) which were conducted in the fiscal year 1982 and for
which appropriations, funds, or other authority would be available in
the following appropriations Act:
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation
Act, 1983.
(2) Appropriations made by this subsection shall be available to the
extent and in the manner which would be provided by the pertinent
appropriation Act.
(3) Whenever the amount which would be made available or the
authority which would be granted under an Act listed in this subsection
as passed the House as of December 17, 1982, is different from that
which would be available or granted under such Act as passed by the
Senate as of December 17, 1982, the pertinent project or activity shall
be continued under the lesser amount or the more restrictive authority:
Provided, That where an item is included in only one version of an Act
as passed by both Houses as of December 17, 1982, the pertinent project
or activity shall be continued under the appropriation, fund, or
authority granted by the one House, but at a rate for operations of the
current rate or the rate permitted by the action of the one House,
whichever is lower, and under the authority and conditions provided in
applicable appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1982: Provided
further, That for the purposes of this joint resolution, when an Act
listed in this subsection has been reported to the House or the Senate
but not passed by that House as of December 17, 1982, it shall be deemed
as having been passed by that House.
(4) Whenever an Act listed in this subsection has been passed by only
the House as of December 17, 1982, the pertinent project or activity
shall be continued under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted
by the House, but at a rate for operations of the current rate or the
rate permitted by the action of the House, whichever is lower, and under
the authority and conditions provided in applicable appropriation Acts
for the fiscal year 1982.
(5) No provision which is included in an appropriation Act enumerated
in this subsection but which was not included in the applicable
appropriation Act of 1982, and which by its terms is applicable to more
than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be applicable to any
appropriation, fund, or authority provided in the joint resolution
unless such provision shall have been included in identical form in such
bill as enacted by both the House and the Senate.
(b)(1) Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing the activities
of the Foreign Assistance Appropriations Act of 1982, Public Law 97 -
121, // 95 Stat. 1647. // under the terms and conditions, and at the
rate, provided for in the Act, notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law
91 - 672, // 22 USC 2412. // and section 15(a) of the State Department
Basic Authorities Act of 1956, // 22 USC 2680. // or any other
provision of law or section 102 of this joint resolution: Provided,
That amounts allocated to each country under this paragraph shall not
exceed those provided in fiscal year 1982 and new country programs shall
not be initiated unless submitted through the regular reprograming
procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That
notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph making amounts
available or otherwise providing for levels of program authority, the
following amounts only shall be available and the following levels of
authority only shall be provided for the following accounts or under the
following headings: $284,100,437 for payment to the " Inter-American
Development Bank" and not to exceed $828,137,742 in callable capital
subscriptions; $126,041,553 for payment to the " International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development" and not to exceed $1,530,275,913 in
callable capital subscriptions; $700,000,000 for payment to the "
International Development Association"; $131,882,575 for payment to the
" Asian Development Bank" and not to exceed $2,243,811 in callable
capital subscriptions; $50,000,000 for payment to the " African
Development Fund"; $249,002,000 for " International Organizations and
Programs"; including the provisions of section 103(g) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, // 22 USC 2151a. // except that such funds
shall be made available only in accordance with the Joint Explanatory
Statement of the Committee of Conference accompanying the conference
report on this joint resolution (H.J. Res. 631); $140,288,000 for "
Energy and selected development activities, Development Assistance";
$25,000,000 for " International disaster assistance"; $93,757,000 for "
Sahel development program", of which not less than $2,000,000 shall be
available only for the African Development Foundation; $35,403,000 for
" Payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund";
$1,700,000 in foreign currencies for " Overseas training and special
development activities (foreign currency program)"; $2,576,000,000 for
the " Economic Support Fund" (without applying prior year earmarking of
funds for Sudan and Poland), of which not less than $785,000,000 shall
be available for Israel and not less than $750,000,000 shall be
available for Egypt; $31,100,000 for " Peacekeeping operations";
$335,000,000 for " Operating expenses of the Agency for International
Development"; $10,500,000 for " Trade and development"; $109,000,000
for the " Peace Corps", $395,000,000 for " Migration and Refugee
Assistance" (without applying prior year earmarking of funds);
$290,000,000 for necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
section 503 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 // 22 USC 2311. //
and the provisions of title I of S. 2608, as reported, of which not less
than $110,000,000 shall be available for Turkey, not less than
$37,500,000 shall be available for Portugal, and not less than
$25,000,000 shall be available for Morocco; $45,000,000 for "
International Military Education and Training"; $1,175,000,000 for
necessary expenses to carry out sections 23 and 24 of the Arms Export
Control Act // 22 USC 2563, 2564. // and the provisions of title I of
S. 2608, as reported, of which not less than $750,000,000 shall be
allocated to Israel ($1,700,000,000 of the amount provided for the total
aggregate credit sale ceiling during the current fiscal year shall be
allocated only to Israel) and not less than $425,000,000 shall be
allocated to Egypt; $3,638,000,000 of contingent liability (of which
not less than $290,000,000 shall be available for Turkey, not less than
$52,500,000 shall be available for Portugal, not less than $75,000,000
shall be available for Morocco, and not less than $400,000,000 shall be
available for Spain) for total commitments to guarantee loans under "
Foreign Military Credit Sales"; not to exceed $125,000,000 are
authorized to be made available for the " Special Defense Acquisition
Fund"; and not to exceed $4,400,000,000 of gross obligations for the
principal amount of direct loans and $9,000,000,000 of total commitments
to guarantee loans under " Export-Import Bank of the United States":
Provided further, That none of the funds available under this paragraph
may be made available for payment to the " International Finance
Corporation": Provided further, That in addition to the funds made
available under this paragraph for the " Economic Support Fund"
$85,000,000 is available for the " Economic Support Fund" to be
transferred to the Agency for International Development for economic
development assistance projects, under the terms and conditions of
sections 103 through 106 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, // 22
USC 2151a-2151d. // such projects to be approved through the
established reprograming processes of the Appropriations Committee of
the House of Representatives and of the Senate, except that none of the
funds provided herein shall be available for nondevelopment activities
including balance of payments support, commodity imports, sector loans,
and program loans: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
provision of this joint resolution or any other Act, $5,500,000 of the
funds provided for Honduras under the authority of this joint resolution
shall not be made available until that country meets the final terms of
the binding arbitration award established by the Inter-American
Commercial Arbitration Commission as regards Construction Aggregates
Corporation.
(2) Notwithstanding section 102 of this joint resolution, chapter 1
of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by adding at
the end thereof the following new section:
" Sec. 128. // 22 USC 2151z. // Targeting Assistance for Those
Living in Absolute Poverty.--In carrying out this chapter, the President
in fiscal year 1983, shall attempt to use not less than 40 per centum of
the funds made available to carry out this chapter to finance productive
facilities, goods, and services which will expeditiously and directly
benefit those living in absolute poverty (as determined under the
standards for absolute poverty adopted by the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development and the International Development
Association). Such facilities, goods, and services may include, for
example, irrigation facilities, extension services, credit for small
farmers, roads, safe drinking water supplies, and health services. Such
facilities, goods, and services may not include studies, reports,
technical advice, consulting services, or any other items unless (A)
they are used primarily by those living in absolute poverty themselves,
or (B) they constitute research which produces or aims to produce
techniques, seeds, or other items to be primarily used by those living
in absolute poverty. Research shall not constitute the major part of
such facilities, goods, and services.": Provided further, That within
six months after the date of approval of this joint resolution, the
Administrator of the Agency for International Development shall report
to Congress on the implementation of this provision, the types of
projects determined to meet these requirements, and the effect on the
overall United States foreign assistance program.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution,
such amounts as may be necessary for programs, projects or activities
provided for in the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1983, at a
rate of operations and to the extent and in the manner provided, to be
effective as if it had been enacted into law as the regular
appropriation Act, as follows:
the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1983, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, for
military functions administered by the Department of Defense, and for
other purposes, namely:
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including all
expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of
the Army on active duty (except members of reserve components provided
for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; $14,454,848,000.
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including all
expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of
the Navy on active duty (except members of the Reserve provided for
elsewhere), midshipmen, and aviation cadets; $10,537,408,000.
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including all
expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of
the Marine Corps on active duty (except members of the Reserve provided
for elsewhere); $3,293,277,000.
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including all
expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of
the Air Force on active duty (except members of reserve components
provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; $12,099,850,000.
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and
related expenses for personnel of the Army Reserve on active duty under
sections 265, 3019, and 3033 of title 10, United States Code, or while
serving on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, United States
Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) of
title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, or
while performing drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and for
members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and expenses authorized
by section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, as authorized by law;
$1,247,250,000.
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and
related expenses for personnel of the Naval Reserve on active duty under
section 265 of title 10, United States Code, or personnel while serving
on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, United States Code, in
connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) of title 10,
United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, or while
performing drills or equivalent duty, and for members of the Reserve
Officers' Training Corps, and expenses authorized by section 2131 of
title 10, United States Code, as authorized by law; $657,125,000.
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and
related expenses for personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve on active
duty under section 265 of title 10, United States Code, or while serving
on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, United States Code, in
connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) of title 10,
United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, or while
performing drills or equivalent duty, and for members of the Marine
Corps platoon leaders class, and expenses authorized by section 2131 of
title 10, United States Code, as authorized by law; $170,900,000.
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and
related expenses for personnel of the Air Force Reserve on active duty
under sections 265, 8019, and 8033 of title 10, United States Code, or
while serving on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, United
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section
678(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve
training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty or other duty,
and for members of the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and
expenses authorized by section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, as
authorized by law; $358,925,000.
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and
related expenses for personnel of the Army National Guard while on duty
under sections 265, 3033, or 3496 of title 10 or section 708 of title
32, United States Code, or while serving on active duty under section
672(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, in
connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) of title 10,
United States Code, or while undergoing training, or while performing
drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by
section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, as authorized by law;
$1,698,800,000.
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and
related expenses for personnel of the Air National Guard on duty under
sections 265, 8033, or 8496 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32,
United States Code, or while serving on active duty under section 672(
d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, in
connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) of title 10,
United States Code, or while undergoing training, or while performing
drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by
section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, as authorized by law;
$548,425,000.
For retired pay and retirement pay, as authorized by law, of military
personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air
Force, including the reserve components thereof, retainer pay for
personnel of the Inactive Fleet Reserve, and payments under section 4 of
Public Law 92 - 425 and chapter 73 of title 10, United States Code; //
10 USC 1448, 1431 // $16,154,800,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance of the Army, as authorized by law; and not to exceed
$7,310,000 can be used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be
expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Army, and
payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential
military purposes; $15,847,425,000, of which not less than
$1,240,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real
property facilities.
For the Army stock fund; $221,138,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine Corps, as authorized by law;
and not to exceed $2,620,000 can be used for emergencies and
extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of
the Secretary of the Navy, and payments may be made on his certificate
of necessity for confidential military purposes; $21,079,712,000, of
which not less than $657,000,000 shall be available only for the
maintenance of real property facilities: Provided, That of the total
amount of this appropriation made available for the alteration,
overhaul, and repair of naval vessels, not more than $2,887,000,000
shall be available for the performance of such work in Navy shipyards:
Provided further, That funds herein provided shall be available for
payments in support of the LEASAT program in accordance with the terms
of the Aide Memoire, dated January 5, 1981.
For the Navy stock fund; $354,372,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance of the Marine Corps, as authorized by law;
$1,481,671,000, of which not less than $218,000,000 shall be available
only for the maintenance of real property facilities.
For the Marine Corps stock fund; $11,812,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance of the Air Force, as authorized by law, including the
lease and associated maintenance of replacement aircraft for the CT-39
aircraft to the same extent and manner as authorized for service
contracts by section 2306(g), title 10, United States Code; and not to
exceed $4,490,000 can be used for emergencies and extraordinary
expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary
of the Air Force, and payments may be made on his certificate of
necessity for confidential military purposes; $16,915,766,000, of which
not less than $1,100,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance
of real property facilities.
For the Air Force stock fund; $161,600,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance of activities and agencies of the Department of Defense
(other than the military departments), as authorized by law;
$5,715,778,000: Provided, That not to exceed $7,890,000 can be used for
emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval
or authority of the Secretary of Defense, and payments may be made on
his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes:
Provided further, That not less than $80,000,000 of the total amount of
this appropriation shall be available only for the maintenance of real
property facilities.
For the Defense stock fund; $160,500,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance, including training, organization, and administration,
of the Army Reserve; repair of facilities and equipment; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead;
recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equipment; and
communications; $705,584,000, of which not less than $35,000,000 shall
be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance, including training, organization, and administration,
of the Navy Reserve; repair of facilities and equipment; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead;
recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equipment; and
communications; $637,507,000, of which not less than $25,000,000 shall
be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance, including training, organization, and administration,
of the Marine Corps Reserve; repair of facilities and equipment; hire
of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the
dead; recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equipment;
and communications; $51,094,000, of which not less than $1,000,000
shall be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation
and maintenance, including training, organization, and administration,
of the Air Force Reserve; repair of facilities and equipment; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead;
recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and equipment; and
communications; $765,735,000, of which not less than $17,500,000 shall
be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities.
For expenses of training, organizing, and administering the Army
National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment and related
expenses in non-Federal hospitals; maintenance, operation, and repairs
to structures and facilities; hire of passenger motor vehicles;
personnel services in the National Guard Bureau; travel expenses (other
than mileage), as authorized by law for Army personnel on active duty,
for Army National Guard division, regimental, and battalion commanders
while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard regulations
when specifically authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau;
supplying and equipping the Army National Guard as authorized by law;
and expenses of repair, modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies
and equipment (including aircraft); $1,195,067,000, of which not less
than $35,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real
property facilities.
For operation and maintenance of the Air National Guard, including
medical and hospital treatment and related expenses in non--, Federal
hospitals; maintenance, operation, repair, and other necessary expenses
of facilities for the training and administration of the Air National
Guard, including repair of facilities, maintenance, operation, and
modification of aircraft; transportation of things; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; supplies, materials, and equipment, as authorized by
law for the Air National Guard; and expenses incident to the
maintenance and use of supplies, materials, and equipment, including
such as may be furnished from stocks under the control of agencies of
the Department of Defense; travel expenses (other than mileage) on the
same basis as authorized by law for Air National Guard personnel on
active Federal duty, for Air National Guard commanders while inspecting
units in compliance with National Guard regulations when specifically
authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; $1,822,603,000, of
which not less than $35,000,000 shall be available only for the
maintenance of real property facilities.
Army
For the necessary expenses, in accordance with law, for construction,
equipment, and maintenance of rifle ranges; the instruction of citizens
in marksmanship; the promotion of rifle practice; and the travel of
rifle teams, military personnel, and individuals attending regional,
national, and international competitions; $875,000, of which not to
exceed $7,500 shall be available for incidental expenses of the National
Board; and from other funds provided in this Act, not to exceed
$680,000 worth of ammunition may be issued under authority of title 10,
United States Code, section 4311: Provided, That competitors at
national matches under title 10, United States Code, section 4312, may
be paid subsistence and travel allowances in excess of the amounts
provided under title 10, United States Code, section 4313.
For payment, not otherwise provided for, of claims authorized by law
to be paid by the Department of Defense (except for civil functions),
including claims for damages arising under training contracts with
carriers, and repayment of amounts determined by the Secretary
concerned, or officers designated by him, to have been erroneously
collected from military and civilian personnel of the Department of
Defense, or from States, territories, or the District of Columbia, or
members of the National Guard units thereof; $147,500,000.
For salaries and expenses necessary for the United States Court of
Military Appeals; $3,271,000, and not to exceed $1,500 can be used for
official representation purposes.
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and
modernization of aircraft, equipment, including ordnance, ground
handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized
equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private plants,
including the land necessary therefor, without regard to section 4774,
title 10, United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands
and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted
thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised
Statutes, // 40 USC 255. // as amended; and procurement and
installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and
private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor--, owned
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing
purposes; $2,506,572,000, of which $10,000,000 shall be available only
for procurement of C-12 cargo aircraft for the Army National Guard, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1985: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, after the head of
the agency concerned gives written notification of a proposed multiyear
contract for the CH-47D Helicopter Modernization Program to the
Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and
House of Representatives, such contract may not then be awarded until
the end of a period of 45 days beginning on the date of such
notification.
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and
modernization of missiles, equipment, including ordnance, ground
handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized
equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private plants,
including the land necessary therefor, without regard to section 4774,
title 10, United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands
and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted
thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised
Statutes, as amended; and procurement and installation of equipment,
appliances, and machine tools in public and privat plants; reserve
plant and Government and contractor--, owned equipment layaway; and
other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes; $2,287,000,000, of
which $422,100,000 shall be available only for purchase of the Multiple
Launch Rocket System under a multiyear contract, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 1985.
Army
For construction, procurement, production, and modification of
weapons and tracked combat vehicles, equipment, including ordnance,
spare parts and accessories therefor; specialized equipment and
training devices; expansion of public and private plants, including the
land necessary therefor, without regard to section 4774, title 10,
United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and
interests therein may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon
prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes,
// 40 USC 255. // as amended; and procurement and installation of
equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway;
and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes;
$4,551,946,000, and in addition, $198,200,000, of which $67,000,000
shall be derived by transfer from " Procurement of Weapons and Tracked
Combat Vehicles, Army, 1981/1983", and $131,200,000 shall be derived by
transfer from " Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles,
Army, 1982/1984", to remain available for obligation until September 30,
1985.
For construction, procurement, production, and modification of
ammunition, and accessories therefor; specialized equipment and
training devices; expansion of public and private plants, including
ammunition facilities authorized in military construction authorization
Acts or authorized by section 2673, title 10, United States Code, and
the land necessary therefor, without regard to section 4774, title 10,
United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and
interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon
prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes,
as amended; and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances,
and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses
necessary for the foregoing purposes; $2,122,394,000, to remain
available for obligation until September 30, 1985.
For construction, procurement, production, and modification of
vehicles, including tactical, support (including not to exceed 7
vehicles required for physical security of personnel notwithstanding
price limitations applicable to passenger carrying vehicles but not to
exceed $1000,000 per vehicle), and nontracked combat vehicles; the
purchase of not to exceed two thousand and twenty-five passenger motor
vehicles for replacement only; communications and electronic equipment;
other support equipment; spare parts, ordnance, and accessories
therefor; specialized equipment and training devices; expansion of
public and private plants, including the land necessary therefor,
without regard to section 4774, title 10, United States Code, for the
foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be
acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title
as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, // 40 USC 255. // as
amended; and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, and
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses
necessary for the foregoing purposes; $4,123,404,000, to remain
available for obligation until September 30, 1985.
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and
modernization of aircraft, equipment including ordnance, spare parts,
and accessories therefor; specialized equipment; expansion of public
and private plants, including the land necessary therefor, and such
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by section
355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procurement and installation of
equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway;
$10,416,107,000, of which $267,800,000 shall be available only for
purchase of C-2 aircraft under a multiyear contract, to remain available
for obligation until September 30, 1985: Provided, That none of the
funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this paragraph for the
F/ A-18 aircraft program may be obligated or expended until the
Secretary of the Navy submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate a certified plan to incorporate
a United States manufactured ejection seat system in F/A-18 aircraft
purchased with fiscal year 1983 and future funds: Provided further,
That none of the funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this
paragraph for F/A-18 advance procurement may be obligated or expended
for any of those aircraft scheduled to replace Navy attack mission
aircraft squadrons until such time as the Secretary of Defense
certifies, in writing, that the A-18 version of the aircraft meets the
originally established attack mission requirements, goals, and
specifications.
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and
modernization of missiles, torpedoes, other weapons, and related support
equipment including spare parts, and accessories therefor; expansion of
public and private plants, including the land necessary therefor, and
such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by section
355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procurement and installation of
equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway;
$3,561,700,000, of which $124,700,000 shall be available only for the
purchase of Mark-46 torpedoes under a multiyear contract, to remain
available for obligation until September 30, 1985, distributed as
follows: For missile programs, $2,844,200,000; for the MK-48 torpedo
program, $119,300,000; for the MK-46 torpedo program, $124,700,000;
for the MK-60 torpedo program, $133,200,000; for the MK-30 mobile
target program, $19,400,000; for the MK-38 minimobile target program,
$2,300,000; for the antisubmarine rocket (ASROC) program, $10,100,000;
for modification of torpedoes, $76,500,000; for the torpedo support
equipment program, $66,900,000; for the MK-15 close in weapons system
program, $118,740,000; for the MK-75 76-millimeter gun mount program,
$10,700,000; for the MK-19 gun mount program, $400,000; for the
20-millimeter gun mount program, $400,000; for the modification of guns
and gun mounts, $19,700,000; for the guns and gun mounts support
equipment program, $17,460,000; and reductions of $1,100,000 for
consultants, studies and analyses, and $1,200,000 for personnel security
clearances.
For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisition, or
conversion of vessels as authorized by law, including armor and armament
thereof, plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools and installation
thereof in public and private plants; reserve plant and Government and
contractor-owned equipment layaway; procurement of critical, long
leadtime components and designs for vessels to be constructed or
converted in the future; and expansion of public and private plants,
including land necessary therefor, and such lands and interests therein,
may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval
of title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, // 40 USC 255.
// as amended, as follows: for the Trident submarine program,
$1,462,600,000; for Trident submarine program advance procurement,
$81,300,000; for the CVN aircraft carrier program, $6,559,500,000, to
be available for construction only under a firm, fixed price type
contract; for the SSN-688 nuclear attack submarine program,
$1,420,200,000; for the reactivation of the U.S.S. Iowa, $300,800,000;
for the aircraft carrier service life extension program, $699,500,000;
for the CG-47 AEGIS cruiser program, $2,901,700,000; for the LSD-41
landing ship dock program, $415,600,000; for the FFG guided missile
frigate program, $646,300,000, of which not less than $40,000,000 shall
be available only for an X-band phased array radar, and in addition,
$35,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the " FFG guided missile
frigate program" of " Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, 1982/1986";
for the T-AO fleet oiler ship program, $173,000,000; for the MCM mine
countermeasures ship program, $100,000,000; for the ARS salvage ship
program, $50,000,000; for the T- AKRX fast logistics ship program,
$44,000,000; for the T- AHX hospital ship program, $300,000,000,
however, none of these funds may be obligated or expended until such
time as the Department of the Navy provides a budget quality cost
estimate, based upon a completed contract design which supports the
original hospital ship requirements as presented to the Congress; for
the LHD-1 amphibious assault ship program, $55,000,000; for craft,
outfitting, post delivery, cost growth, and escalation on prior year
programs, $907,900,000; and reductions in the amounts, as follows:
$5,900,000 for personnel security clearances; $34,800,000 for
consultant, studies and analyses; in all: $16,076,700,000, and in
addition, $35,000,000 to be derived by transfer, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 1987: Provided, That of the
appropriation for " Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy," that expired for
obligation on September 30, 1982, $176,200,000 shall remain available
for obligation until September 30, 1984: Provided further, That none of
the funds herein provided for the construction or conversion of any
naval vessel to be constructed in shipyards in the United States shall
be expended in foreign shipyards for the construction of major
components of the hull or superstructure of such vessel: Provided
further, That none of the funds herein provided shall be used for the
construction of any naval vessel in foreign shipyards.
For procurement, production, and modernization of support equipment
and materials not otherwise provided for, Navy ordnance and ammunition
(except ordnance for new aircraft, new ships, and ships authorized for
conversion); the purchase of not to exceed three hundred and
twenty-four passenger motor vehicles of which two hundred and ninety-two
shall be for replacement only (including not to exceed 2 vehicles
required for physical security of personnel notwithstanding price
limitations applicable to passenger carrying vehicles but not to exceed
$100,000 per vehicle); expansion of public and private plants,
including the land necessary therefor, and such lands and interests
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to
approval of title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, // 40
USC 255. // as amended; and procurement and installation of equipment,
appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve
plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway;
$3,727,075,000, to remain available for obligation until September 30,
1985, distributed as follows: For ship support equipment, $543,689,000;
for communications and electronics equipment, $1,481,798,000; for
aviation support equipment, $552,636,000; for ordnance support
equipment, $667,456,000; for civil engineering support equipment,
$172,837,000; for supply support equipment, $81,224,000; and for
personnel/command support equipment, $227,435,000.
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, and
modification of missiles, armament, ammunition, military equipment,
spare parts, and accessories therefor; plant equipment, appliances, and
machine tools, and installation thereof in public and private plants;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway;
and vehicles for the Marine Corps, including purchase of not to exceed
one hundred and forty-three passenger motor vehicles for replacement
only; $2,008,083,000, of which $6,779,000 may not be obligated or
expended for procurement of the 81mm SMAW Assault Rocket Launcher and
ammunition until the Secretary of Defense certifies to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate that all
technical and operational requirements have been demonstrated and that
no other weapon is available to fulfill those requirements, to remain
available for obligation until September 30, 1985.
For construction, procurement, and modification of aircraft and
equipment, including armor and armament, specialized ground handling
equipment, and training devices, spare parts, and accessories therefor;
specialized equipment; expansion of public and private plants,
Government-owned equipment and installation thereof in such plants,
erection of structures, and acquisition of land without regard to
section 9774 of title 10, United States Code, for the foregoing
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and
construction prosecuted thereon prior to the approval of title as
required by section 355, Revised Statutes, // 40 USC 255. // as
amended; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes
including rents and transportation of things; $17,658,500,000, of which
$186,100,000 shall be available for contribution of the United States
share of the cost of the acquisition by the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization of an Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS)
and, in addition, the Department of Defense may make a commitment to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization to assume the United States share of
contingent liability in connection with the NATO E-3A Cooperative
Programme; of which $71,300,000 shall be available only for the
procurement of B-707 aircraft to provide for engines and parts to
reengine KC-135 aircrft; and of which $94,800,000 and, in addition,
$50,000,000 to be derived by transfer from " Aircraft procurement, Air
Force, 1982/1984", shall be available only for procurement of commercial
wide body cargo aircraft; of which $795,000,000 shall be available only
for purchase of KC-10 aircraft under a multiyear contract, and in
addition, $120,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from " Aircraft
procurement, Air Force, 1982/1984", and shall be available only for the
purchase of KC-10 aircraft under a multiyear contract, notwithstanding
the provisions of the language contained in the Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 1982; to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 1985.
For construction, procurement, and modification of missiles,
spacecraft, rockets, and related equipment, including spare parts and
accessories therefor, ground handling equipment, and training devices;
expansion of public and private plants, Government-owned equipment and
installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and
acquisition of land without regard to section 9774 of title 10, United
States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests
therein, may be acquired and construction prosecuted thereon prior to
the approval of title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as
amended; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes
including rents and transportation of things; $4,941,100,000, of which
$102,000,000 shall be available to initiate multi-year contracting for
the global positioning system, and in addition, $15,000,000 shall be
derived by transfer from " Missile Procurement, Air Force, 1982/1984",
to remain available for obligation until September 30, 1985.
For procurement and modification of equipment (including ground
guidance and electronic control equipment, and ground electronic and
communication equipment), and supplies, materials, and spare parts
therefor, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of not to exceed one
thousand three hundred and fifty-nine passenger motor vehicles of which
eight hundred and eighty-five shall be for replacement only; and
expansion of public and private plants, Government--, owned equipment
and installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and
acquisition of land without regard to section 9774 of title 10, United
States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon, prior to
the approval of title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, //
40 USC 255. // as amended; reserve plant and Government and
contractor-owned equipment layaway; $5,563,777,000, and in addition,
$4,963,000, which shall be derived by transfer from " Other Procurement,
Air Force, 1982/1984", to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 1985.
For procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat
vehicles, torpedoes, other weapons, and other procurement for the
reserve components of the Armed Forces, not to exceed $125,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 1985, distributed as follows: Army
National Guard, not to exceed $50,000,000; Air National Guard, not to
exceed $15,000,000; Army Reserve, not to exceed $15,000,000; Naval
Reserve, not to exceed $15,000,000; Marine Corps Reserve, not to exceed
$15,000,000; Air Force Reserve, not to exceed $15,000,000.
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Department of Defense
(other than the military departments) necessary for procurement,
production, and modification of equipment, supplies, materials, and
spare parts therefor, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of not
to exceed one thousand one hundred and thirty-nine passenger motor
vehicles of which three hundred and forty-five shall be for replacement
only; expansion of public and private plants, equipment, and
installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and
acquisition of land for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and
interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon
prior to the approval of title as required by section 355, Revised
Statutes, as amended; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned
equipment layaway; $828,145,000, to remain available for obligation
until September 30, 1985.
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research,
development, test, and evaluation, including maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as
authorized by law; $3,879,683,000, to remain available for obligation
until September 30, 1984.
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research,
development, test, and evaluation, including maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as
authorized by law; $5,965,751,000, of which not less than $15,000,000
shall be available only for the phased array radar improvement program
for the Mark 92 fire control system, to remain available for obligation
until September 30, 1984: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated
or made available pursuant to this paragraph for the development of the
Undergraduate Flight Training System (VTX--, TS) may be obligated or
expended until the Secretary of the Navy submits to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a
certified plan to incorporate a United States manufactured ejection seat
system in the new Undergraduate Flight Trainer Aircraft.
Force
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research,
development, test, and evaluation, including maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as
authorized by law; $10,650,661,000, to remain available for obligation
until September 30, 1984: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated
in this Act may be obligated or expended to initiate full scale
engineering development of a basing mode for the MX missile, until such
basing mode is approved by both Houses of Congress in a concurrent
resolution, as specified in subsection (1) hereof.
(1) For the purposes of this section, the term "concurrent
resolution" means only a resolution introduced in either House of
Congress, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows:
" That the approves the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated
in Public Law for MX missile procurement and full-scale engineering
development of a basing mode for the MX missile," the first blank space
therein being filled with the name of the resolving House, and the
second blank space being filled with the public law number of this
statute. It shall not be in order to introduce any such resolution
prior to the receipt by the Congress of the report of the President
required under subsection (7).
(2) A resolution in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on
appropriations of the Senate. A resolution in the House of
Representatives shall be referred to the Committee on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives.
(3) If the committee to which is referred the first resolution
introduced in the Senate or the House, as the case may be, expressing
approval of the obligation and expenditure of funds referred to in this
subsection has not reported the resolution at the end of 45 calendar
days after the introduction of a resolution pursuant to subsection (1)
hereof, such committee shall be automatically discharged from further
consideration of the resolution and the resolution shall be placed on
the calendar of the Senate, in the case of a resolution of the Senate,
or the Union calendar, in the case of a resolution of the House of
Representatives.
(4) When the committee has reported a resolution or been discharged
under subsection (3) hereof it is at any time thereafter in order (even
though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to
move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion is
highly privileged in the House and is privileged in the Senate and is
not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion
to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other
business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed
to or disagreed to shall not be in order.
(5)(A) Debate on the resolution shall be limited to not more than
fifty hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and
those opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate is not
debatable. An amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution is
not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the resolution
is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order.
(B) Motions to postpone and motions to proceed to the consideration
of other business shall be decided without debate.
(C) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the
application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives,
as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be
decided without debate.
(6) Subsections (1) through (5) are enacted by the Congress--,
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and
the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are
deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but
applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in
that House in the case of resolutions described in subsection (1),
and they supercede other rules only to the extent that they are
inconsistent therewith; and
(B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either
House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedures of
that House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent
as in the case of any other rule of that House.
(7)(A) The President shall submit a report to the Committees on
Appropriations and Armed Services of the Senate and the House of
Representatives, not earlier than March 1, 1983, contaning:
(i) a detailed technical assessment of the closely spaced
basing system transmitted by the President to Congress on November
22, 1982 or such modifications thereto as the President determines
to be advisable;
(ii) a detailed technical assessment of other MX basing systems
that might serve as alternatives to the closely spaced basing
system transmitted by the President to Congress on November 22,
1982;
(iii) a detailed technical assessment of different types of
intercontinental ballistic missiles that might serve as
alternatives to the MX missile; and
(iv) a comparative detailed technical assessment of alternative
programs including acceleration of the Trident II program to
provide target coverage equivalent to that of the MX missile
system, enhancements and improvements to the Minuteman
missile force, and development and deployment of a land-based
missile system in deep underground basing, multiple protective
shelters and closely spaced basing incorporating mobility and
deception, a road mobile missile smaller than the MX and a common
missile for land and sea deployment.
(v) a reaffirmation by the President of his selection of the MX
missile basing plan transmitted to Congress on November 22, 1982
or a proposal for an alternative basing plan.
(B) The President shall also include in the report submitted pursuant
to paragraph (A) an assessment of the military capability of each
alternative system or missile; an assessment of the survivability of
each such system or missile against current and projected Soviet
threats; an assessment of the projected cost of each such system or
missile and possible upgrades thereof; an assessment of the impact each
such system or missile might have on present and future arms control
negotiations; an assessment of the geographic, geological, and other
qualifications a site for each such system or missile would likely
require; an assessment of the environmental impact each such system or
missile would likely have; and the identification of possible sites for
each such system or missile.
(C) The Report required under this subsection shall not be subject to
the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, // 42 4332. // relating to environmental impact
statements. Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision
of this Act, no initial flight test of the MX missile may be conducted
until after both Houses of the Congress have agreed, in accordance with
the provisions of subsections (1) through (5) of the preceding proviso,
to a concurrent resolution approving the obligation and expenditure of
funds for full-scale engineering development of a basing mode for such
missile.
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Department of Defense
(other than the military departments), necessary for basic and applied
scientific research, development, test, and evaluation; advanced
research projects as may be designated and determined by the Secretary
of Defense, pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and
operation of facilities and equipment, as authorized by law;
$2,153,189,000, to remain available for obligation until September 30,
1984: Provided, That such amounts as may be determined by the Secretary
of Defense to have been made available in other appropriations available
to the Department of Defense during the current fiscal year for programs
related to advanced research may be transferred to and merged with this
appropriation to be available for the same purposes and time period:
Provided further, That such amounts of this appropriation as may be
determined by the Secretary of Defense may be transferred to carry out
the purposes of advanced research to those appropriations for military
functions under the Department of Defense which are being utilized for
related programs to be merged with and to be available for the same time
period as the appropriation to which transferred.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, of independent activities
of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation in the direction and
supervision of test and evaluation, including initial operational
testing and evaluation; and performance of joint testing and
evaluation; and administrative expenses in connection therewith;
$55,000,000, to remain available for obligation until September 30,
1984.
For payment in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department
determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States
for expenses in carrying out programs of the Department of Defense, as
authorized by law; $3,800,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 1984: Provided, That this appropriation shall be
available in addition to other appropriations to such Department, for
payments in the foregoing currencies.
Sec. 701. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.
C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are
a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive
order issued pursuant to existing law.
Sec. 702. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the
Congress.
Sec. 703. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense
and the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively, if
they should deem it advantageous to the national defense, and if in
their opinions the existing facilities of the Department of Defense are
inadequate, are authorized to procure services in accordance with
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, under regulations
prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, and to pay in connection
therewith travel expenses of individuals, including actual
transportation and per diem in lieu of subsistence while traveling from
their homes or places of business to official duty stations and return
as may be authorized by law: Provided, That such contracts may be
renewed annually.
Sec. 704. // 31 USC 700. // During the current fiscal year,
provisions of law prohibiting the payment of compensation to, or
employment of, any person not a citizen of the United States shall not
apply to personnel of the Department of Defense.
Sec. 705. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be available
for insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries, when
required by laws of such countries; payments in advance of expenses
determined by the investigating officer to be necessary and in accord
with local custom for conducting investigations in foreign countries
incident to matters relating to the activities of the department
concerned; reimbursement to General Services Administration for
security guard services for protection of confidential files; and all
necessary expenses, at the seat of government of the United States of
America or elsewhere, in connection with communication and other
services and supplies as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of
this Act.
Sec. 706. // 31 USC 649a. // Any appropriation available to the
Army, Navy, or Air Force may, under such regulations as the Secretary
concerned may prescribe, be used for expenses incident to the
maintenance, pay, and allowances of prisoners of war, other persons in
Army, Navy, or Air Force custody whose status is determined by the
Secretary concerned to be similar to prisoners of war, and persons
detained in such custody pursuant to Presidential proclamation.
Sec. 707. Appropriations available to the Department of Defense for
the current fiscal year for maintenance or construction shall be
available for acquisition of land or interest therein as authorized by
section 2672 or 2675 of title 10, United States Code.
Sec. 708. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the
current fiscal year shall be available (a) for transportation to primary
and secondary schools of minor dependents of military and civilian
personnel of the Department of Defense as authorized for the Navy by
section 7204 of title 10, United States Code; (b) for expenses in
connection with administration of occupied areas; (c) for payment of
rewards as authorized for the Navy by section 7209(a) of title 10,
United States Code, for information leading to the discovery of missing
naval property or the recovery thereof; (d) for payment of deficiency
judgments and interests thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings;
(e) for leasing of buildings and facilities including payment of
rentals for special purpose space at the seat of government, and in the
conduct of field exercises and maneuvers or, in administering the
provisions of title 43, United States Code, section 315q, rentals may be
paid in advance; (f) payments under contracts for maintenance of tools
and facilities for twelve months beginning at any time during the fiscal
year; (g) maintenance of defense access roads certified as important to
national defense in accordance with section 210 of title 23, United
States Code; (h) for purchase of milk for enlisted personnel of the
Department of Defense heretofore made available pursuant to section
1446a, title 7, United States Code, and the cost of milk so purchased,
as determined by the Secretary of Defense, shall be included in the
value of the commuted ration; (i) transporting civilian clothing to the
home of record of selective service inductees and recruits on entering
the military services; (j) payments under leases for real or personal
property, including maintenance thereof when contracted for as a part of
the lease agreement, for twelve months beginning at any time during the
fiscal year; (k) pay and allowances of not to exceed nine persons,
including personnel detailed to International Military Headquarters and
Organizations, at rates provided for under section 625(d)(1) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, // 22 USC 2385. // as amended; (l) the
purchase of right-hand-drive vehicles not to exceed $12,000 per vehicle;
(m) for payment of unusual cost overruns incident to ship overhaul,
maintenance, and repair for ships inducted into industrial fund
activities or contracted for in prior fiscal years: Provided, That the
Secretary of Defense shall notify the Congress promptly prior to
obligation of any such payments; (n) for payments from annual
appropriations to industrial fund activities and/or under contract for
changes in scope of ship overhaul, maintenance, and repair after
expiration of such appropriations, for such work either inducted into
the industrial fund activity or contracted for in that fiscal year; and
(o) for payments for depot maintenance contracts for twelve months
beginning at any time during the fiscal year.
Sec. 709. // 10 USC 858 // Appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the current fiscal year shall be available for: (a)
donations of not to exceed $25 to each prisoner upon each release from
confinement in military or contract prison and to each person discharged
for fraudulent enlistment; (b) authorized issues of articles to
prisoners, applicants for enlistment and persons in military custody;
(c) subsistence of selective service registrants called for induction,
applicants for enlistment, prisoners, civilian employees as authorized
by law, and supernumeraries when necessitated by emergent military
circumstances; (d) reimbursement for subsistence of enlisted personnel
while sick in hospitals; (e) expenses of prisoners confined in
nonmilitary facilities; (f) military courts, boards, and commissions;
(g) utility services for buildings erected at private cost, as
authorized by law, and buildings on military reservations authorized by
regulations to be used for welfare and recreational purposes; (h)
exchange fees, and losses in the accounts of disbursing officers or
agents in accordance with law; (i) expenses of Latin American
cooperation as authorized for the Navy by law (10 U. S.C. 7208); (j)
// 10 USC 807 // expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters,
prisoners, and members absent without leave, including payment of
rewards of not to exceed $75 in any one case; (k) for carrying out
section 10 of the Act of September 23, 1950, as amended; and (l)
providing, without reimbursement, not to exceed $50,000,000 to procure
secure communications systems, equipment and related items throughout
the United States Government.
Sec. 710. The Secretary of Defense and each purchasing and
contracting agency of the Department of Defense shall assist American
small and minority-owned business to participate equitably in the
furnishing of commodities and services financed with funds appropriated
under this Act by increasing, to an optimum level, the resources and
number of personnel jointly assigned to promoting both small and
minority business involvement in purchases financed with funds
appropriated herein, and by making available or causing to be made
available to such businesses, information, as far in advance as
possible, with respect to purchases proposed to be financed with funds
appropriated under this Act, and by assisting small and minority
business concerns to participate equitably as subcontractors on
contracts financed with funds appropriated herein, and by otherwise
advocating and providing small and minority business opportunities to
participate in the furnishing of commodities and services financed with
funds appropriated by this Act.
Sec. 711. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless
expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 712. // 50 USC 100a. // During the current fiscal year no funds
available to agencies of the Department of Defense shall be used for the
operation, acquisition, or construction of new facilities or equipment
for new facilities in the continental limits of the United States for
metal scrap bailing or shearing or for melting or sweating aluminum
scrap unless the Secretary of Defense or an Assistant Secretary of
Defense designated by him determines, with respect to each facility
involved, that the operation of such facility is in the national
interest.
Sec. 713. (a) During the current fiscal year, the President may
exempt appropriations, funds, and contract authorizations, available for
military functions under the Department of Defense, from the provisions
of subsection (c) of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, // 31 USC
665. // as amended, whenever he deems such action to be necessary in
the interest of national defense.
(b) Upon determination by the President that such action is
necessary, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide for the
cost of an airborne alert as an excepted expense in accordance with the
provisions of section 3732 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 11).
(c) Upoo determination by the President that it is necessary to
increase the number of military personnel on active duty subject to
existing laws beyond the number for which funds are provided in this
Act, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide for the cost of
such increased military personnel, as an excepted expense in accordance
with the provisions of section 3732 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C.
11).
(d) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately advise Congress of the
exercise of any authority granted in this section, and shall report
monthly on the estimated obligations incurred pursuant to subsections
(b) and (c).
Sec. 714. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available
in connection with the operation of commissary stores of the agencies of
the Department of Defense for the cost of purchase (including commercial
transportation in the United States to the place of sale but excluding
all transportation outside the United States) and maintenance of
operating equipment and supplies, and for the actual or estimated cost
of utilities as may be furnished by the Government and of shrinkage,
spoilage, and pilferage of merchandise under the control of such
commissary stores, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by
the Secretaries of the military departments concerned with the approval
of the Secretary of Defense, which regulations shall provide for
reimbursement therefor to the appropriations concerned and,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall provide for the
adjustment of the sales prices in such commissary stores to the extent
necessary to furnish sufficient gross revenues from sales of commissary
stores to make such reimbursement: Provided, That under such
regulations as may be issued pursuant to this section all utilities may
be furnished without cost to the commissary stores outside the
continental United States and in Alaska: Provided further, That no
appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to pay any costs
incurred by any commissary store or other entity acting on behalf of any
commissary store in connection with obtaining the face value amount of
manufacturer or vendor cents-off discount coupons unless all fees or
moneys received for handling or processing such coupons are reimbursed
to the appropriation charged with the incurred costs: Provided further,
That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available in
connection with the operation of commissary stores within the
continental United States unless the Secretary of Defense has certified
that items normally procured from commissary stores are not otherwise
available at a reasonable distance and a reasonable price in
satisfactory quality and quantity to the military and civilian employees
of the Department of Defense.
Sec. 715. No part of the appropriations in this Act shall be
available for any expense of operating aircraft under the jurisdiction
of the armed forces for the purpose of proficiency flying, as defined in
Department of Defense Directive 1340.4, except in accordance with
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Such regulations
(1) may not require such flying except that required to maintain
proficiency in anticipation of a member's assignment to combat
operations and (2) such flying may not be permitted in cases of members
who have been assigned to a course of instruction of ninety days or
more.
Sec. 716. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be available for expense of transportation, packing, crating, temporary
storage, drayage, and unpacking of household goods and personal effects
in any one shipment having a net weight in excess of thirteen thousand
five hundred pounds.
Sec. 717. // 40 USC 483a. // Vessels under the jurisdiction of the
Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation, the Department
of the Army, the Department of the Air Force, or the Department of the
Navy may be transferred or otherwise made available without
reimbursement to any such agencies upon the request of the head of one
agency and the approval of the agency having jurisdiction of the vessels
concerned.
Sec. 718. Not more than 20 per centum of the appropriations in this
Act which are limited for obligation during the current fiscal year
shall be obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year:
Provided, That this section shall not apply to obligations for support
of active duty training of civilian components or summer camp training
of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the National Board for the
Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army.
Sec. 719. During the current fiscal year the agencies of the
Department of Defense may accept the use of real property from foreign
countries for the United States in accordance with mutual defense
agreements or occupational arrangements and may accept services
furnished by foreign countries as reciprocal international courtesies or
as services customarily made available without charge; and such
agencies may use the same for the support of the United States forces in
such areas without specific appropriation therefor.
In addition to the foregoing, agencies of the Department of Defense
may accept real property, services, and commodities from foreign
countries for the use of the United States in accordance with mutual
defense agreements or occupational arrangements and such agencies may
use the same for the support of the United States forces in such areas,
without specific appropriations therefor: Provided, That the foregoing
authority shall not be available for the conversion of heating plants
from coal to oil at defense facilities in Europe: Provided further,
That within thirty days after the end of each quarter the Secretary of
Defense shall render to Congress and to the Office of Management and
Budget a full report of such property, supplies, and commodities
received during such quarter.
Sec. 720. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available
to the Department of Defense for research and development may be used
for the purposes of section 2353 of title 10, United States Code, and
for purposes related to research and development for which expenditures
are specifically authorized in other appropriations of the Service
concerned.
Sec. 721. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available
for the payment of more than 75 per centum of charges of educational
institutions for tuition or expenses of off-duty training of military
personnel (except with regard to such charges of educational
institutions (a) for enlisted personnel in the pay grade E-5 or higher
with less than 14 years' service, for which payment of 90 per centum may
be made or (b) for military personnel in off-duty high school completion
programs, for which payment of 100 per centum may be made), nor for the
payment of any part of tuition or expenses for such training for
commissioned personnel who do not agree to remain on active duty for two
years after completion of such training: Provided, That the foregoing
limitation shall not apply to the Program for Afloat College Education.
Sec. 722. // 10 USC 2103 // No part of the funds appropriated herein
shall be expended for the support of any formally enrolled student in
basic courses of the senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps,
who has not executed a certificate of loyalty or loyalty oath in such
form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.
Sec. 723. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, except
for small purchases in amounts not exceeding $10,000, shall be available
for the procurement of any article of food, clothing, cotton, woven silk
or woven silk blends, spun silk yarn for cartridge cloth, synthetic
fabric or coated synthetic fabric, or wool (whether in the form of fiber
or yarn or contained in fabrics, materials, or manufactured articles),
or specialty metals including stainless steel flatware, or hand or
measuring tools, not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the
United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the
Secretary of the Department concerned shall determine that satisfactory
quality and sufficient quantity of any articles of food or clothing or
any form of cotton, woven silk and woven silk blends, spun silk yarn for
cartridge cloth, synthetic fabric or coated synthetic fabric, wool, or
specialty metals including stainless steel flatware, grown, reprocessed,
reused, or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be
procured as and when needed at United States market prices and except
procurements outside the United States in support of combat operations,
procurements by vessels in foreign waters, and emergency procurements or
procurements of perishable foods by establishments located outside the
United States for the personnel attached thereto: Provided, That
nothing in this section shall preclude the procurement of foreign
produced specialty metals used in the production or manufacture of
weapons or weapons systems made outside the United States, except those
specialty metals which contain nickel from Cuba, or the procurement of
chemical warfare protective clothing produced outside the United States,
if such procurement is necessary to comply with agreements with foreign
governments: Provided further, That nothing herein shall preclude the
procurement of foods manufactured or processed in the United States or
its possessions: Provided further, That no funds herein appropriated
shall be used for the payment of a price differential on contracts
hereafter made for the purpose of relieving economic dislocations other
than certain contracts not involving fuel made on a test basis by the
Defense Logistics Agency with a cumulative value not to exceed
$4,000,000,000, as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense
pursuant to existing laws and regulations as not to be inappropriate
therefor by reason of national security considerations: Provided
further, That the Secretary specifically determines that there is a
reasonable expectation that offers will be obtained from a sufficient
number of eligible concerns so that awards of such contracts will be
made at a reasonable price and that no award shall be made for such
contracts if the price differential exceeds 2.2 per centum: Provided
further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used
except that, so far as practicable, all contracts shall be awarded on a
formally advertised competitive bid basis to the lowest responsible
bidder.
Sec. 724. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used
for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery,
laundry, or drycleaning facility in the United States, its territories
or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify in
writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be furnished
by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at
reasonable rates.
Sec. 725. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be
obligated under section 206 of title 37, United States Code, for
inactive duty training pay of a member of the National Guard or a member
of a reserve component of a uniformed service for more than four periods
of equivalent training, instruction, duty or appropriate duties that are
performed instead of that member's regular period of instruction or
regular period appropriate duty.
Sec. 726. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be available
for the purchase of household furnishings, and automobiles from military
and civilian personnel on duty outside the continental United States,
for the purpose of resale at cost to incoming personnel, and for
providing furnishings, without charge, in other than public quarters
occupied by military or civilian personnel of the Department of Defense
on duty outside the continental United States or in Alaska, upon a
determination, under regulations approved by the Secretary of Defense,
that such action is advantageous to the Government.
Sec. 727. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available
to the Department of Defense for pay of civilian employees shall be
available for uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5
U.S.C. 5901; 80 Stat. 508).
Sec. 728. Funds provided in this Act for legislative liason
activities of the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy,
the Department of the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of
Defense shall not exceed $9,100,000 for the current fiscal year:
Provided, That this amount shall be available for apportionment to the
Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of
the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense as determined
by the Secretary of Defense.
Sec. 729. Of the funds made available by this Act for the services
of the Military Airlift Command, $100,000,000 shall be available only
for procurement of commercial transportation service from carriers
participating in the civil reserve air fleet program; and the Secretary
of Defense shall utilize the services of such carriers which qualify as
small businesses to the fullest extent found practicable: Provided,
That the Secretary of Defense shall specify in such procurement,
performance characteristics for aircraft to be used based upon modern
aircraft operated by the civil reserve air fleet.
Sec. 730. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available
to the Department of Defense for operation may be used for civilian
clothing, not to exceed $40 in cost for enlisted personnel: (1)
discharged for misconduct, unsuitability, or otherwise than honorably;
(2) sentenced by a civil court to confinement in a civil prison or
interned or discharged as an alien enemy; or (3) discharged prior to
completion of recruit training under honorable conditions for
dependency, hardship, minority, disability, or for the convenience of
the Government.
Sec. 731. No part of the funds appropriated herein shall be
available for paying the costs of advertising by any defense contractor,
except advertising for which payment is made from profits, and such
advertising shall not be considered a part of any defense contract cost.
The prohibition contained in this section shall not apply with respect
to advertising conducted by any such contractor, in compliance with
regulations which shall be promulgated by the Secretary of Defense,
solely for (1) the recruitment by the contractor of personnel required
for the performance by the contractor of obligations under a defense
contract, (2) the procurement of scarce items required by the contractor
for the performance of a defense contract, or (3) the disposal of scrap
or surplus materials acquired by the contractor in the performance of a
defense contract.
Sec. 732. Upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that such
action is necessary in the national interest, he may, with the approval
of the Office of Management and Budget, transfer not to exceed
$1,200,000,000 of working capital funds of the Department of Defense or
funds made available in this Act to the Department of Defense for
military functions (except military construction) between such
appropriations or funds or any subdivision thereof, to be merged with
and to be available for the same purposes, and for the same time period,
as the appropriation or fund to which transferred: Provided, That such
authority to transfer may not be used unless for higher priority items,
based on unforeseen military requirements, than those for which
originally appropriated and in no case where the item for which funds
are requested has been denied by Congress: Provided further, That the
Secretary of Defense shall notify the Congress promptly of all transfers
made pursuant to this authority.
Sec. 733. During the current fiscal year, cash balances in working
capital funds of the Department of Defense established pursuant to
section 2208 of title 10, United States Code, may be maintained in only
such amounts as are necessary at any time for cash disbursements to be
made from such funds: Provided, That transfers may be made between such
funds in such amounts as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense,
with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, except that
transfers between a stock fund account and an industrial fund account
may not be made unless the Secretary of Defense has notified the
Congress of the proposed transfer. Except in amounts equal to the
amounts appropriated to working capital funds in this Act, no
obligations may be made against a working capital fund to procure war
reserve material inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has notified
the Congress prior to any such obligation.
Sec. 734. Not more than $217,600,000 of the funds appropriated by
this Act shall be made available for payment to the Federal Employees
Compensation Fund, as established by 5 U.S.C. 8147.
Sec. 735. No part of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be
used to provide a loan, guarantee of a loan, or a grant to any applicant
who has been convicted by any court of general jurisdiction of any crime
which involves the use of or the assistance to others in the use of
force, trespass, or the seizure of property under control of an
institution of higher education to prevent officials or students at such
an institution from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies.
Sec. 736. None of the funds available to the Department of Defense
shall be utilized for the conversion of heating plants from coal to oil
at defense facilities in Europe.
Sec. 737. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available for any research involving uninformed or nonvoluntary human
beings as experimental subjects: Provided, That this limitation shall
not apply to measures intended to be beneficial to the recipient and
consent is obtained from the recipient or a legal representative acting
on the recipient's behalf.
Sec. 738. Appropriations for the current fiscal year for operation
and maintenance of the active forces shall be available for medical and
dental care of personnel entitled thereto by law or regulation
(including charges of private facilities for care of military personnel,
except elective private treatment); welfare and recreation; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; repair of facilities; modification of
personal property; design of vessels; industrial mobilization;
installation of equipment in public and private plants; military
communications facilities on merchant vessels; acquisition of services,
special clothing, supplies, and equipment; and expenses for the Reserve
Officers' Training Corps and other units at educational institutions.
Sec. 739. No part of the funds in this Act shall be available to
prepare or present a request to the Committees on Appropriations for the
reprogramming of funds, unless for higher priority items, based on
unforeseen military requirements, than those for which originally
appropriated and in no case where the item for which reprogramming is
requested has been denied by the Congress.
Sec. 740. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to
pay claims for nonemergency inpatient hospital care provided under the
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services for
services available at a facility of the uniformed services within a
40-mile radius of the patient's residence: Provided, That the foregoing
limitation shall not apply to payments that supplement primary coverage
provided by other insurance plans or programs that pay for at least 75
per centum of the covered services.
Sec. 741. None of the funds contained in this Act available for the
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services under the
provisions of section 1079(a) of title 10, United States Code, shall be
available for (a) services of pastoral counselors, or family and child
counselors, or marital counselors unless the patient has been referred
to such counselor by a medical doctor for treatment of a specific
problem with results of that treatment to be communicated back to the
physician who made such referral; (b) special education, except when
provided as secondary to the active psychiatric treatment on an
institutional inpatient basis; (c) therapy or counseling for sexual
dysfunctions or sexual inadequacies; (d) treatment of obesity when
obesity is the sole or major condition treated; (e) surgery which
improves physical appearance but which is not expected significantly
restore functions including, but not limited to, mammary augmentation,
face lifts and sex gender changes except that breast reconstructive
surgery following mastectomy and reconstructive surgery to correct
serious deformities caused by congenital anomalies, accidental injuries
and neoplastic surgery are not excluded; (f) reimbursement of any
physician or other authorized individual provider of medical care in
excess of the eightieth percentile of the customary charges made for
similar services in the same locality where the edical care was
furnished, as determined for physicians in accordance with section
1079(h) of title 10, United States Code; or (g) any service or supply
which is not medically or psychologically necessary to prevent,
diagnose, or treat a mental or physical illness, injury, or bodily
malfunction as assessed or diagnosed by a physician, dentist, clinical
psychologist, optometrist, podiatrist, certified nurse-midwife,
certified nurse practitioner, or certified clinical social worker, as
appropriate, except as authorized by section 1079(a)(4) of title 10,
United States Code: Provided, That any changes in availability of funds
for the Program made in this Act from those in effect prior to its
enactment shall be effective for care received following enactment of
this Act.
Sec. 742. Appropriations available to the Department of Defense for
the current fiscal year shall be available to provide an individual
entitled to health care under chapter 55 of title 10, United States
Code, // 10 USC 1071 // with one wig if the individual has alopecia that
resulted from treatment of malignant disease: Provided, That the
individual has not previously received a wig from the Government.
Sec. 743. Funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for the
appointment, pay, and support of persons appointed as cadets and
midshipmen in the two-year Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
course in excess of the 20 percent limitation on such persons imposed by
section 2107(a) of title 10, United States Code, but not to exceed 60
percent of total authorized scholarships.
Sec. 744. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available to pay any member of the uniformed service for unused accrued
leave pursuant to section 501 of title 37, United States Code, for more
than sixty days of such leave, less the number of days for which payment
was previously made under section 501 after February 9, 1976.
Sec. 745. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to
support more than 300 enlisted aides for officers in the United States
Armed Forces.
Sec. 746. No appropriation contained in this Act may be used to pay
for the cost of public affairs activities of the Department of Defense
in excess of $32,900,000.
Sec. 747. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available
for the planning or execution of programs which utilize amounts credited
to Department of Defense appropriations or funds pursuant to the
provisions of section 37(a) of the Arms Export Control Act // 22 USC
2777. // representing payment for the actual value of defense articles
specified in section 21(a)(1) of that Act: // 22 USC 2761. //
Provided, That such amounts so credited shall be deposited in the
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts as provided in 31 U.S.C. 484.
Sec. 748. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available
to fund any costs of a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit--,
except to complete training of personnel enrolled in Military Science
4--which in its junior year class (Military Science 3) has for the four
preceding academic years, and as of September 30, 1982, enrolled less
than (a) seventeen students where the institution prescribes a four-year
or a combination four- and two-year program; or (b) twelve students
where the institution prescribes a two-year program: Provided, That,
notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, funds shall be available to
maintain one Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit in each State
and at each State-operated maritime academy: Provided further, That
units under the consortium system shall be considered as a single unit
for purposes of evaluation of productivity under this provision:
Provided further, That enrollment standards contained in Department of
Defense Directive 1215.8 for Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
units, as revised during fiscal year 1981, may be used to determine
compliance with this provision, in lieu of the standards cited above.
Sec. 749. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act or
available in any working capital fund of the Department of Defense shall
be available to pay the expenses attributable to lodging of any person
on official business away from his designated post of duty, or in the
case of an individual described under section 5703 of title 5, United
States Code, his home or regular place of duty, when adequate government
quarters are available, but are not occupied by such person.
(b) The limitation set forth in subsection (a) is not applicable to
employees whose duties require official travel in excess of fifty
percent of the total number of the basic administrative work weeks
during the current fiscal year.
Sec. 750. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available to pay the retainer pay of any enlisted member of the Regular
Navy, the Naval Reserve, the Regular Marine Corps, or the Marine Corps
Reserve who is transferred to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine
Corps Reserve under section 6330 of title 10, United States Code, on or
after December 31, 1977, if the provisions of section 6330(d) of title
10, are utilized in determining such member's eligibility for retirement
under section 6330(b) of title 10: Provided, That notwithstanding the
foregoing, time creditable as active service for a completed minority
enlistment, and an enlistment terminated within three months before the
end of the term of enlistment under section 6330(d) of title 10, prior
to December 31, 1977, may be utilized in determining eligibility for
retirement: Provided further, That notwithstanding the foregoing, time
may be credited as active service in determining a member's eligibility
for retirement under section 6330(b) of title 10 pursuant to the
provisions of the first sentence of section 6330(d) of title 10 for
those members who had formally requested transfer to the Fleet Reserve
or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve on or before October 1, 1977.
(b) None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to
pay that portion of the retainer pay of any enlisted member of the
Regular Navy, the Naval Reserve, the Regular Marine Corps, or the Marine
Corps Reserve who is transferred to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet
Marine Corps Reserve under section 6330 of title 10, United States Code,
on or after December 31, 1977, which is attributable under the second
sentence of section 6330(d) of title 10 to time which, after December
31, 1977, is not actually served by such member.
Sec. 751. None of the funds appropriated by this Act for programs of
the Central Intelligence Agency shall remain available for obligation
beyond the current fiscal year, except for funds appropriated for the
Reserve, which shall remain available until September 30, 1984.
Sec. 752. None of the funds provided by this Act may be used to pay
the salaries of any person or persons who authorize the transfer of
unobligated and deobligated appropriations into the Reserve for
Contingencies of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Sec. 753. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to
support more than 9,901 full-time and 2,603 part-time military personnel
assigned to or used in the support of Morale, Welfare, and Recreation
activities as described in Department of Defense Instruction 7000.12 and
its enclosures, dated September 4, 1980.
Sec. 754. All obligations incurred in anticipation of the
appropriations and authority provided in this Act are hereby ratified
and confirmed if otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this
Act.
Sec. 755. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be used to
perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be
endangered if the fetus were carried to term.
Sec. 756. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used
for the provision, care or treatment to dependents of members or former
members of the Armed Services or the Department of Defense for the
elective correction of minor dermatological blemishes and marks or minor
anatomical anomalies.
Sec. 757. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available for the purchase of insignia for resale unless the sales price
of such insignia is adjusted to the extent necessary to recover the cost
of purchase of such insignia and the estimated cost of all related
expenses, including but not limited to management, storage, handling,
transportation, loss, disposal of obsolete material, and management fees
paid to the military exchange systems: Provided, That amounts derived
by the adjustment covered by the foregoing limitations may be credited
to the appropriations against which the charges have been made to
recover the cost of purchase and related expense.
Sec. 758. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or heretofore
appropriated by any other Act shall be obligated or expended for the
payment of anticipatory possession compensation claims to the Federal
Republic of Germany other than claims listed in the 1973 agreement
(commonly referred to as the Global Agreement) between the United States
and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Sec. 759. During the current fiscal year the Department of Defense
may enter into contracts to recover indebtedness to the United States
pursuant to section 3 of the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966, as
codified at section 3711 of title 31, United States Code, and amended by
Public Law 97 - 258, September 13, 1982, and any such contract entered
into by the Department of Defense may provide that appropriate fees
charged by the contractor under the contract to recover indebtedness may
be payable from amounts collected by the contractor to the extent and
under the conditions provided under the contract.
Sec. 760. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available for a contract for studies, analyses, or consulting services
entered into without competition on the basis of an unsolicited proposal
unless the head of the activity responsible for the procurement
determines:
(a) as a result of thorough technical evaluation, only one
source is found fully qualified to perform the proposed work, or
(b) the purpose of the contract is to explore an unsolicited
proposal which offers significant scientific or technological
promise, represents the product of original thinking, and was
submitted in confidence by one source, or
(c) where the purpose of the contract is to take advantage of
unique and significant industrial accomplishment by a specific
concern, or to insure that a new product or idea of a specific
concern is given financial support:
Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to contracts in an amount
of less than $25,000, contracts related to improvements of equipment
that is in development or production, or contracts as to which a
civilian official of the Department of Defense, who has been confirmed
by the Senate, determines that the award of such contract is in the
interest of the national defense.
Sec. 761. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available to provide medical care in the United States on an inpatient
basis to foreign military and diplomatic personnel or their dependents
unless the Department of Defense is reimbursed for the costs of
providing such care: Provided, That reimbursements for medical care
covered by this section shall be credited to the appropriations against
which charges have been made for providing such care.
Sec. 762. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
obligated for the second career training program authorized by Public
Law 96 - 347. // 94 Stat. 1150. //
Sec. 763. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available
in this Act shall be obligated or expended for salaries or expenses
during the current fiscal year for the purposes of demilitarization of
surplus nonautomatic firearms less than .50 caliber.
Sec. 764. During the current fiscal year, not to exceed $125,000,000
of the funds provided in this Act for the Civilian Health and Medical
Program of the Uniformed Services may be used to conduct a test program
in accordance with the following guidelines: In carrying out the
provisions of sections 1079 and 1086 of title 10, United States Code,
the Secretary of Defense, after consulting with the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, may contract with organizations that assume
responsibility for the maintenance of the health of a defined
population, for the purpose of experiments and demonstration projects
designed to determine the relative advantages and disadvantages of
providing pre-paid health benefits: Provided, That such projects must
be designed in such a way as to determine methods of reducing the cost
of health benefits provided under such sections without adversely
affecting the quality of care. Except as provided otherwise, the
provisions of such a contract may deviate from the cost-sharing
arrangements prescribed and the types of health care authorized under
sections 1079 and 1086, when the Secretary of Defense determines that
such a deviation would serve the purpose of this section.
Sec. 765. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to
execute a multiyear contract which employs any economic order quantity
procurement or which includes an unfunded contingent liability in excess
of $20,000,000 unless the Committees on Appropriations and Armed
Services of the Senate and House of Representatives have been notified
in advance: Provided, That no part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be available to initiate multiyear procurement contracts
for major weapons systems except as specifically provided herein.
Sec. 766. None of the funds appropriated in this or any other Act //
10 USC 2399 // for the Department of Defense shall be available for
obligation to reimburse a contractor for the cost of commercial
insurance that would protect against the costs of the contractor for
correction of the contractor's own defects in materials or workmanship.
Sec. 767. None of the funds appropriated by this Act which are
available for payment of travel allowances for per diem in lieu of
subsistence to enlisted personnel shall be used to pay such an allowance
to any enlisted member in an amount that is more than the amount of per
diem in lieu of subsistence that the enlisted member is otherwise
entitled to receive minus the basic allowance for subsistence, or pro
rata portion of such allowance, that the enlisted member is entitled to
receive during any day, or portion of a day, that the enlisted member is
also entitled to be paid a per diem in lieu of subsistence: Provided,
That if an enlisted member is in a travel status and is not entitled to
receive a per diem in lieu of subsistence because the member is
furnished meals in a Government mess, funds available to pay the basic
allowance for subsistence to such a member shall not be used to pay that
allowance, or pro rata portion of that allowance, for each day, or
portion of a day, that such enlisted member is furnished meals in a
Government mess.
Sec. 768. Effective January 1, 1982, none of the funds appropriated
by this Act shall be available to pay the retired pay or retainer pay of
a member of the Armed Forces for any month who, on or after January 1,
1982, becomes entitled to retired or retainer pay, in an amount that is
greater than the amount otherwise determined to be payable after such
reductions as may be necessary to reflect adjusting the computation of
retired pay or retainer pay that includes credit for a part of a year of
service to permit credit for a part of a year of service only for such
month or months actually served: Provided, That the foregoing
limitation shall not apply to any member who before January 1, 1982:
(a) applied for retirement or transfer to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet
Marine Corps Reserve; (b) is being processed for retirement under the
provisions of chapter 61 of title 10 // 10 USC 1201 // or who is on the
temporary disability retired list and thereafter retired under the
provisions of sections 1210 (c) or (d) of title 10; or (c) is retired
or in an inactive status and would be eligible for retired pay under the
provisions of chapter 67 of title 10, // 10 USC 1331 // but for the fact
that the person is under 60 years of age.
Sec. 769. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
obligated under the competitive rate program of the Department of
Defense for the transportation of household goods to or from Alaska and
Hawaii.
Sec. 770. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available to approve a request for waiver of the costs otherwise
required to be recovered under the provisions of section 21(e)(1)(C) of
the Arms Export Control Act unless the Committees on Appropriations have
been notified in advance of the proposed waiver.
Sec. 771. So far as may be practicable Indian labor shall be
employed, and purchases of the products of Indian industry may be made
in open market in the discretion of the Secretary of Defense.
Sec. 772. Funds available to the Department of Defense during the
current fiscal year shall be available to establish a program to provide
child advocacy and family counseling services to deal with problems of
child and spouse abuse.
Sec. 773. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available for the transportation of equipment or materiel designated as
Prepositioned Materiel Configured in Unit Sets (POMCUS) in Europe in
excess of four division sets.
Sec. 774. (a) None of the funds in this Act may be used to transfer
any article of military equipment or data related to the manufacture of
such equipment to a foreign country prior to the approval in writing of
such transfer by the Secretary of the military service involved.
(b) No funds appropriated by this Act may be used for the transfer of
a technical data package from any Government-owned and operated defense
plant manufacturing large caliber cannons to any foreign government, nor
for assisting any such government in producing any defense item
currently being manufactured or developed in a United States
Government-owned, Government-operated defense plant manufacturing large
caliber cannons.
Sec. 775. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be made
available through transfer, reprograming, or other means for any
intelligence or special activity different from that previously
justified to the Congress unless the Director of Central Intelligence or
the Secretary of Defense has notified the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees of the intent to make such funds available for
such activity.
Sec. 776. Of the funds appropriated by this Act for strategic
programs, the Secretary of Defense shall provide funds for the Advanced
Technology Bomber program at a level at least equal to the amount
provided by the committee of conference on this Act in order to maintain
priority emphasis on this program.
Sec. 777. Section 766(c) of the Department of Defense Appropriation
Act, 1980, // 93 Stat. 1163. // is amended by adding the following to
the end thereof: ": Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to
individuals who are at the top step of the compensation schedule, and
who were employed as teachers in the Panama Canal Zone on September 30,
1979. This modification shall become effective on August 1, 1982".
Sec. 778. None of the funds available to the Department of Defense
during the current fiscal year shall be used by the Secretary of a
military department to purchase coal or coke from foreign nations for
use at United States defense facilities in Europe when coal from the
United States is available.
Sec. 779. None of the funds contained in this Act available for the
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services shall be
available for the payment for any service or supply for persons enrolled
in any other insurance, medical service, or health plan to the extent
that the service or supply is a benefit under the other plan, except in
the case of those plans administered under title XIX of the Social
Security Amendments of 1965 (79 Stat. 286). // 42 USC 1396. //
Sec. 780. None of the funds available to the Department of Defense
shall be available for the procurement of manual typewriters which were
manufactured by facilities located within States which are Signatories
to the Warsaw Pact.
Sec. 781. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, $500,000 of
the funds made available by this Act for Operation and Maintenance,
Army, shall be available for payment for the cost of extending utility
lines to connect with the proposed West Point Jewish Chapel.
Sec. 782. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to
appoint or compensate more than 35 individuals in the Department of
Defense in positions in the Executive Schedule (as provided in sections
5312 - 5316 of title 5, United States Code).
Sec. 783. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be
available to pay any member of the uniformed services a variable housing
allowance pursuant to section 403(a)(2) of title 37, United States Code,
in an amount that is greater than the amount which would have been
payable to such member if the rates of basic allowance for quarters for
members of the uniformed services in effect on September 30, 1982, had
been increased by 8 per centum on October 1, 1982.
Sec. 784. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available to convert a position in support of the Army Reserve, Air
Force Reserve, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard occupied by,
or programed to be occupied by, a military technician to a position to
be held by a person in an active Guard or Reserve status if that
conversion would reduce the total number of positions occupied by, or
programed to be occupied by, military technicians of the component
concerned, below the number of positions occupied by military
technicians in that component on September 30, 1982.
Sec. 785. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be
available to pay claims for inpatient mental health services provided
under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
in excess of sixty days per patient per year: Provided, That the
foregoing limitation shall not apply to inpatient mental health services
(a) provided under the Program for the Handicapped; (b) provided as
residential treatment care; (c) provided as partial hospital care; (d)
provided to individual patients admitted prior to January 1, 1983 for so
long as they remain continuously in inpatient status for medically or
psychologically necessary reasons; or (e) provided pursuant to a waiver
for medical or psychological necessities, granted in accordance with the
findings of current peer review, as prescribed in guidelines established
and promulgated by the Director, Office of Civilian Health and Medical
Program of the Uniformed Services.
Sec. 786. During the current fiscal year the Department of the Air
Force will transfer from aircraft assigned to the active Air Force one
C-130 H aircraft in good condition to the Coast Guard without
reimbursement.
Sec. 787. None of the funds provided in this Act to any department
or agency shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger
automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C. 2001 with an EPA estimated miles per
gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon. This section does not
apply to security or special mission automobiles.
Sec. 788. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to
impose civilian personnel ceilings on Department of Defense industrially
funded activities: Provided, That any increase in civilian personnel of
such industrial funds in excess of the number employed on September 30,
1982, shall not be counted for the purposes of any statutory or
administratively imposed civilian personnel ceiling otherwise applicable
during fiscal year 1983.
Sec. 789. Appropriations or funds available to the Department of
Defense during the current fiscal year may be transferred to
appropriations provided in this Act for research, development, test, and
evaluation to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs
authorized by or pursuant to law, to be merged with and to be available
for the same purposes, and the same time period, as the appropriation to
which transferred.
Sec. 790. Notwithstanding the budget authority levels provided in
title IV of this Act for the procurement appropriation accounts, the sum
total of such budget authority levels is hereby reduced by $386,000,000:
Provided, That not more than $2,100,000,000 of the remaining budget
authority provided in title IV of this Act and as further reduced herein
for the procurement appropriation accounts may be obligated or expended
to pay independent research and development and bid and proposal costs
allocated to procurement contracts as items of indirect expense.
Sec. 791. No later than the end of the second fiscal year following
the fiscal year for which appropriations for Operation and Maintenance
have been made available to the Department of Defense, unobligated
balances of such appropriations provided for fiscal year 1982 and
thereafter may be transferred into the appropriation " Foreign Currency
Fluctuations, Defense" to be merged with and available for the same time
period and the same purposes as the appropriation to which transferred:
Provided, That any transfer made pursuant to any use of the authority
provided by this provision shall be limited so that the amount in the
appropriation " Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense" does not exceed
$970,000,000 at the time such a transfer is made.
Sec. 792. During the current fiscal year, for the purposes of the
appropriation " Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense" the foreign
currency exchange rates used in preparing budget submissions shall be
the foreign currency exchange rates as adjusted or modified, as
reflected in applicable Committee reports on this Act.
Sec. 793. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used by the
Central Intelligence Agency or the Department of Defense to furnish
military equipment, military training or advice, or other support for
military activities, to any group or individual, not part of a country's
armed forces, for the purpose of overthrowing the Government of
Nicaragua or provoking a military exchange between Nicaragua and
Honduras.
Sec. 794. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be used
in any way for the leasing to non-Federal agencies in the United States
aircraft or vehicles owned or operated by the Department of Defense when
suitable aircraft or vehicles are commercially available in the private
sector: Provided, That nothing in this section shall affect authorized
and established procedures for the sale of surplus aircraft or vehicles:
Provided further, That nothing in this section shall prohibit such
leasing when specifically authorized in a subsequent Act of Congress.
Sec. 795. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be
available for any competition between the currently approved LAN--, TIRN
system and any other system under provisions of section 203 of Public
Law 97 - 252.
Sec. 796. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be used
in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional action on
any legislation or appropriation matters pending before the Congress.
Sec. 797. None of the funds made available in the Act or any
subsequent Act shall be available for the purchase of the alternate or
new model fighter aircraft engine that does not have a written warranty
or guarantee attesting that it will perform not less than 3,000 tactical
cycles. The warranty will provide that the manufacturer must perform
the necessary improvements or replace any parts to achieve the required
performance at no cost to the government.
Sec. 798. Section 308(g) and 308a(c) of title 37, United States
Code, are amended by striking " December 17, 1982" and inserting in lieu
thereof " March 31, 1983".
Sec. 799. Funds available under this Act may be used by the
Department of Defense to enter into purchases of or commitments to
purchase metals, minerals or other materials under section 303 of the
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, (50 U.S.C. 2093): Provided,
That the total funds under this Act for such purchases or commitments to
purchase shall not exceed $50,000,000.
Sec. 799 A. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used
to support active United States military personnel stationed on shore in
Europe at the end of fiscal year 1983 in excess of the planned number of
such personnel stationed on shore in Europe at the end of fiscal year
1982 (315,600): Provided, That this limitation may be waived by the
President upon a declaration to Congress of overriding national security
requirements.
Sec. 799 B. After the date of enactment of this Act, // 50 USC 98d
// annual sales of silver from the National Defense Stockpile under the
authority of Public Law 97 - 35, // 95 Stat. 357. // or any other Act,
shall not exceed 10 per centum of the silver produced from existing
domestic producing mines in the preceding 12 month period.
For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Community Staff;
$15,856,000.
For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and
Disability System Fund, to maintain proper funding level for continuing
the operation of the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and
Disability System; $91,300,000.
This Act may be cited as the " Department of Defense Appropriation
Act, 1983".
(d) Such amounts as may be necessary for programs, projects, and
activities provided for in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1983 (S.
2956), at a rate for operations and to the extent and in the manner
provided for in such Act as reported in the Senate on September 24,
1982, as if such Act had been enacted into law, except that the
following appropriation items shall be at a rate for operations and to
the extent and in the manner provided herein:
For expenses necessary for the general administration of the
Department of Commerce, including not to exceed $2,000 for official
entertainment, $31,613,000.
For expenses necessary to collect and publish statistics for periodic
censuses and programs, provided for by law, $97,294,000, of which
$150,000 shall be available together with $50,000 from non--, Federal
sources for a new combined monthly survey of men's and women's apparel,
to remain available until expended. None of the funds made available to
the Bureau of the Census under this Act may be expended for prosecution
of any person for the failure to return 1978 Agricultural Census forms
78-A40 A or 78-A40 B, or 78-A40 C or 78-A40 D, or form 79-A9 A, or form
79-A9 B, or for the preparation of similar forms for any future
agricultural census.
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of economic and
statistical analysis programs, $36,832,000.
For economic development assistance as provided by the Public Works
and Economic Development Act of 1965, // 42 USC 3121 // as amended, and
Public Law 91 - 304, and such laws that were in effect immediately
before September 30, 1982, $168,500,000, and in addition, $30,000,000
shall be available by transfer from the unobligated balances in the
Economic Development Revolving Fund, notwithstanding section 203 of the
Act of 1965: // 42 USC 3143. // Provided, That during 1983 total
commitments to guarantee loans shall not exceed $150,000,000 of
contingent liability for loan principal.
During fiscal year 1983, total commitments to guarantee loans to
steel companies shall not exceed $20,000,000 of contingent liability for
loan principal.
For necessary expenses for international trade activities of the
Department of Commerce, including trade promotional activities abroad
without regard to the provisions of law set forth in 44 U.S.C. 3702 and
3703; full medical coverage for dependent members of immediate families
of employees stationed overseas; employment of Americans and aliens by
contract for services abroad; rental of space abroad for periods not
exceeding five years, and expenses of alteration, repair, or
improvement; purchase or construction of temporary demountable
exhibition structures for use abroad; payment of tort claims, in the
manner authorized in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such
claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed $135,200 for official
representation expenses abroad; awards of compensation to informers
under the Export Administration Act of 1979, and as authorized by 22 U.
S.C. 401(b); purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use
abroad; $166,426,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That the provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of
section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these
activities. During fiscal year 1983 and within the resources and
authority available, gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans shall not exceed $12,484,000. During fiscal year 1983,
total commitments to guarantee loans shall not exceed $28,250,000 of
contingent liability for loan principal.
For necessary expenses of the Department of Commerce in fostering,
promoting, and developing minority business enterprise, including
expenses of grants, contracts, or other agreements with public or
private organizations, $48,000,000, of which $33,463,000 shall remain
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $14,537,000
shall be available for program management: Provided further, That none
of the funds appropriated in this paragraph or in this title for the
Department of Commerce shall be available to reimburse the fund
established by 15 U.S.C. 1521 on account of the performance of a
program, project, or activity, nor shall such fund be available for the
performance of a program, project, or activity, which had not been
performed as a central service pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1521 before July 1,
1982, unless the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have
approved the performance of the program, project, or activity as a
central service in accordance with the policies of said Committees
applicable to reprogramming of funds.
For necessary expenses of the United States Travel and Tourism
Administration, as provided for by law, including employment of aliens
by contract for service abroad; rental of space abroad for periods not
exceeding five years, and expenses of alteration, repair, or
improvement; advance of funds under contracts abroad; payment of tort
claims in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C.
2672, when such claims arise in foreign countries; and not to exceed
$5,000 for representation expenses abroad; $8,100,000 of which $500,000
shall be used only to provide direct financial assistance to the State
of Hawaii (which has been declared as a major disaster area by the
President) and that such funds: (1) shall be used to supplement and
increase rather than replace funds that normally would be used to
promote travel by foreign visitors to Hawaii; (2) shall be obligated or
expended within 60 days of the date of enactment of this Act; and (3)
shall not be used to pay the administrative costs of the United States
Travel and Tourism Administration or any other unit of the Federal
Government.
For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including maintenance,
operation, and hire of aircraft; // 33 USC 851. // 399 commissioned
officers on the active list; construction of facilities, including
initial equipment; alteration, modernization, and relocation of
facilities; and acquisition of land for facilities; $850,127,000, to
remain available until expended, of which so much as may become
available during the current fiscal year shall be derived from the
Pribilof Islands Fund, and, in addition, $22,600,000 shall be
transferred to this appropriation from the fund entitled " Promote and
develop fishery products and research pertaining to American fisheries",
and $4,140,000 from repayments of principal and interest on outstanding
loans in the fund entitled " Coastal Energy Impact Fund".
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of section 221 of
the American Fisheries Promotion Act of December 22, 1980 (Public Law 96
- 561), // 16 USC 3301 // there are appropriated to the Fisheries Loan
Fund, $10,000,000 from receipts collected pursuant to that Act:
Provided, That during fiscal year 1983 not to exceed $300,000 of the
Fisheries Loan Fund shall be available for administrative expenses.
For necessary expenses of the National Bureau of Standards,
$117,861,000, to remain available until expended. Of the foregoing
amount, not to exceed $47,816,000 is for Measurement, Research and
Standards (including not to exceed $1,000,000 for " Measurement
Standards for the Handicapped"); not to exceed $21,635,000 is for
Engineering Measurements and Standards; not to exceed $10,000,000 is
for Computer Science and Technology; not to exceed $13,557,000 is for
Core Research Program for Innovation and Productivity; not to exceed
$5,491,000 is for the Fire Research Center; not to exceed $6,986,000 is
for Technical Competence; not to exceed $12,376,000 is for Central
Technical Support; and not to exceed $6,286,000 may be transferred to
the " Working Capital Fund". $7000,000 is provided for a metal
processing program.
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, $12,667,000, to
remain available until expended, of which $503,000 of prior year
unobligated balances in the appropriation " Public telecommunications
facilities planning and construction" shall be transferred to this
appropriation.
During the current fiscal year applicable appropriations and funds
available to the Department of Commerce shall be available for the
activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to
the extent and in the manner prescribed by said Act.
During the current fiscal year appropriations to the Department of
Commerce which are available for salaries and expenses shall be
available for hire of passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C 3109; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by
law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902).
No funds in this title shall be used to sell to private interests,
except with the consent of the borrower, or contract with private
interests to sell or administer, any loans made under the Public Works
and Economic Development Act of 1965 // 42 USC 3121 // or any loans made
under section 254 of the Trade Act of 1974. // 19 USC 2344. //
For necessary expenses of operations and training activities
authorized by law, including not to exceed $2,500 for entertainment of
officials of other countries when specifically authorized by the
Maritime Administrator; not to exceed $2,500 for representation
allowances; not to exceed $2,500 for contingencies for the
Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy, to be expended in
his discretion; $78,113,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That reimbursements may be made to this appropriation from
receipts to the " Federal ship financing fund" for administrative
expenses in support of that program.
For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Commission, including
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902;
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor
vehicles; and not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and
representation expenses; // 15 USC 57a // $63,638,000: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of sections
10, 11(b), 18, 20, and 21 of the Federal Trade Commission Improvements
Act of 1980 (Public Law 96 - 252; 94 Stat. 374) are hereby extended
until the termination date set forth in section 102(c) of H.J. Res.
631, as enacted into law, notwithstanding subsections 10(e) and 21(i) of
the Federal Trade Commission Improvements Act of 1980 (Public Law 96 -
252; 94 Stat. 374).
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Small
Business Administration, including hire of passenger motor vehicles and
not to exceed $1,500 for official reception and representation expenses,
$202,029,000; and for grants for Small Business Development Centers as
authorized by section 21(a) of the Small Business Act, // 15 USC 631 //
as amended $16,000,000. In addition, $25,600,000 for disaster loan
making activities, including loan servicing, shall be transferred to
this appropriation from the " Disaster loan fund".
For additional capital for the " Business loan and investment fund",
authorized by the Small Business Act, as amended, $128,700,000, to
remain available without fiscal year limitation; and for additional
capital for new direct loan obligations to be incurred by the " Business
loan and investment fund", authorized by the Small Business Act, as
amended, $185,000,000, to remain available without fiscal year
limitation; and for additional capital for new direct loan obligations
to be made only to disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era as
defined in section 1841, title 38, United States Code, under the general
terms and conditions of title III of Public Law 97 - 72, // 38 USC 1841
// $25,000,000.
For expenses necessary for the administration of the Department of
Justice, $54,873,000, of which $350,000 is to remain available until
expended for the Federal justice research program.
For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust, consumer
protection and kindred laws, $43,389,000.
MARSHALS
For necessary expenses of the offices of the United States attorneys,
and marshals, and bankruptcy trustees; including acquisition, lease,
maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $330,981,000.
For support of United States prisoners in non-Federal institutions,
$34,254,000: Provided, That not to exceed $4,050,000 shall be available
for the purpose of renovating, constructing, and equipping State and
local jail facilities that confine Federal prisoners under the
Cooperative Agreement Program: Provided further, That amounts made
available for constructing any local jail facility shall not exceed the
cost of constructing space for the average Federal prisoner population
for that facility as projected by the Attorney General: Provided
further, That following agreement on or completion of any Federally
assisted jail construction, the availability of such space shall be
assured and the per diem rate charged for housing Federal prisoners at
that facility shall not exceed direct operating costs for the period of
time specified in the cooperative agreement.
For expenses, mileage, compensation, and per diems of witnesses and
for per diems in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law, including
advances; $35,700,000.
For necessary expenses of the Community Relations Service,
established by Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, // 42 USC 2000g
// $5,764,000.
For expenses necessary for the detection, investigation, prosecution,
and incarceration of individuals involved in organized criminal drug
trafficking not otherwise provided for, $127,500,000, of which
$18,000,000 is to remain available until expended for construction of
new facilities and constructing, remodeling, and equipping buildings and
facilities at existing detention and correctional institutions.
For expenses necessary for detection, investigation, and prosecution
of crimes against the United States; including purchase for police-type
use (not to exceed one thousand three hundred for replacement only) and
hire of passenger motor vehicles; acquisition, lease, maintenance and
operation of aircraft; and not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen
emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the
direction of the Attorney General, and to be accounted for solely on his
certificate; $825,154,000, of which not to exceed $3,000,000 for
automated data processing and telecommunications and $600,000 for
undercover operations shall remain available until September 30, 1984:
Provided, That notwithstanding the provisions of title 31 U.S.C. 483(a)
and 484, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may
establish and collect fees to process fingerprint identification records
for noncriminal employment and licensing purposes, and credit not more
than $13,500,000 of such fees to this appropriation to be used for
salaries and other expenses incurred in providing these services:
Provided further, That passenger motor vehicles for police-type use may
be purchased without regard to the general purchase price limitation for
the current fiscal year.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
administration and enforcement of the laws relating to immigration,
naturalization, and alien registration, including not to exceed $50,000
to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be
expended under the direction of the Attorney General and accounted for
solely on his certificate; purchase for police-type use (not to exceed
four hundred one of which four hundred shall be for replacement only)
and hire of passenger motor vehicles; acquisition, lease, maintenance
and operation of aircraft; and research related to immigration
enforcement; and for expenses necessary under Section 501(c) of the
Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 (Public Law 96 - 442) // 94
Stat. 1799, 1809. // for the processing, care, maintenance, security,
transportation, and the initial reception and placement in the United
States of Cuban and Haitian entrants; $484,431,000, of which not to
exceed $400,000 shall remain available for research until expended:
Provided, That none of the funds available to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service shall be available for administrative expenses to
pay any employee overtime pay in an amount in excess of $20,000 except
in such instances when the Commissioner makes a determination that this
restriction is impossible to implement.
For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforcement Administration,
including not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a
confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the
Attorney General, and to be accounted for solely on his certificate;
purchase of not to exceed two hundred seventy-seven passenger motor
vehicles (for replacement only) for police-type use without regard to
the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year; and
acquisition, lease, maintenance, and operation of aircraft;
$248,162,000, of which not to exceed $1,200,000 for research shall
remain available until expended and $1,700,000 for purchase of evidence
and payments for information shall remain available until September 30,
1984.
Sec. 201. A total of not to exceed $35,000 from funds appropriated
to the Department of Justice in this title shall be available for
official reception and representation expenses in accordance with
distributions, procedures, and regulations established by the Attorney
General.
Sec. 202. Notwithstanding section 501(e)(2)(B) of Public Law 96 -
422, // 8 USC 1522 // funds appropriated to the Department of Justice in
this title may be expended for assistance to Cuban-Haitian entrants as
authorized under section 501(c) of said Act.
Sec. 203. Authorities contained in Public Law 96 - 132, " Department
of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1980", // 93
Stat. 1040. // are in effect until the termination date in section
102(c) of this joint resolution as enacted into law.
For expenses necessary for the Commission on Civil Rights, including
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $11,626,000.
For necessary expenses of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
as authorized by title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, // 42 USC
2000e. // as amended, 29 U.S.C. 206(d) and 621 - 634, including
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor
vehicles; and not to exceed $18,500,000 for payments to State and local
enforcement agencies for services to the Commission pursuant to title
VII of the Civil Rights Act, as amended and sections 6 and 14 of the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act; // 29 USC 624, 633. // $142,771,000.
For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to carry out the
purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974, // 42 USC 2996
// as amended, $241,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds
appropriated in this Act for the Legal Services Corporation shall be
expended to provide legal assistance for or on behalf of any alien
unless the alien is a resident of the United States and is--,
(1) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence as an
immigrant as defined by sections 101(a)(15) and 101(a)(20) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15), (20));
(2) an alien who is either married to a United States citizen
or is a parent or an unmarried child under the age of twenty-one
years of such a citizen and who has filed an application for
adjustment of status to permanent resident under the Immigration
and Nationality Act,
// 8 USC 1101 //
and such application has not been rejected;
(3) an alien who is lawfully present in the United States
pursuant to an admission under section 207 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157, relating to refugee admissions) or
who has been granted asylum by the Attorney General under such
Act; or
(4) an alien who is lawfully present in the United States as a
result of the Attorney General's withholding of deportation
pursuant to section 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1253(h)).
An alien who is lawfully present in the United States as a result of
being granted conditional entry pursuant to section 203(a)(7) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(a)(7)) before April 1,
1980, because of persecution or fear of persecution on account of race,
religion, or political opinion or because of being uprooted by
catastrophic natural calamity shall be deemed, for purposes of section
1007(b)(11) of the Legal Services Corporation Act, // 42 USC 2996f. //
to be an alien described in subparagraph (C) of such section: Provided
further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Legal
Services Corporation shall be used by the Corporation in making grants
or entering into contracts for legal assistance unless the Corporation
insures that the recipient is either (a) a private attorney or attorneys
(for the sole purpose of furnishing legal assistance to eligible
clients) or (b) a qualified nonprofit organization chartered under the
laws of one of the States for the primary purpose of furnishing legal
assistance to eligible clients, the majority of the board of directors
or other governing body of which organization is comprised of attorneys
who are admitted to practice in one of the States and who are appointed
to terms of office on such board or body by the governing bodies of
State, county, or municipal bar associations the membership of which
represents a majority of the attorneys practicing law in the locality in
which the organization is to provide legal assistance: Provided
further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be
expended by the Legal Services Corporation to participate in litigation
unless the Corporation or a recipient of the Corporation is a party, or
a recipient is representing an eligible client in litigation in which
the interpretation of this title or a regulation promulgated under this
title is an issue, and shall not participate on behalf of any client
other than itself: Provided further, That none of the funds
appropriated in this Act shall be available to any recipient to be
used--,
(A) to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram,
telephone communication, letter, printed or written matter, or
other device, intended or designed to influence any decision by a
Federal, State, or local agency, except where legal assistance is
provided by an employee of a recipient to an eligible client on a
particular application, claim, or case, which directly involves
the client's legal rights and responsibilities, or
(B) to influence any Member of Congress or any other Federal,
State, or local elected official to favor or oppose any Acts,
bills, resolutions, or similar legislation, or any referendum,
initiative, constitutional amendment, or any similar procedure of
the Congress, any State legislature, any local council, or any
similar governing body, except that this subsection shall not
preclude such funds from being used in connection with
communications made in response to any Federal, State, or local
official, upon the formal request of such official: Provided
further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for the
Legal Services Corporation shall be used to bring a class action
suit against the Federal government or any State or local
government unless (1) the project director of a recipient has
expressly approved the filing of such an action in accordance with
policies established by the governing body of such recipient; (2)
the class relief which is the subject of such an action is sought
for the primary benefit of individuals who are eligible for legal
assistance; and (3) that prior to filing such an action, the
recipient project director has determined that the government
entity is not likely to change the policy or practice in question,
that the policy or practice will continue to adversely affect
eligible clients, that the recipient has given notice of its
intention to seek class relief and that responsible efforts to
resolve without litigation the adverse effects of the policy or
practice have not been successful or would be adverse to the
interests of the clients: Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated in this Act for the Legal Services Corporation
shall be expended for any purpose prohibited or limited by or
contrary to section 11 of H.R. 3480, as passed the House of
Representatives on June 18, 1981: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any regulation, guideline, or rule of the
Corporation, the funds appropriated in this Act for the Legal
Services Corporation shall be used by the Corporation in making
grants or entering into contracts under section 1006(a)(1) and (3)
so as to insure that funding for each such current grantee and
contractor is maintained in 1983 at the annualized level at which
each such grantee and contractor was funded in 1982, or in the
same proportion which total appropriations to the Corporation in
fiscal year 1983 bear to the total appropriations to the
Corporation in fiscal year 1982, until action is taken by
directors of the Corporation who have been confirmed in accordance
with section 1004(a) of the Legal Services Corporation Act:
// 42 USC 2996c. //
Provided further, That no member of the Board of Directors of the
Legal Services Corporation shall be compensated for his services
to the Corporation except for the payment of an attendance fee at
meetings of the Board at a rate not to exceed the highest daily
rate for grade fifteen (15) of the General Schedule and necessary
travel expenses to attend Board meetings in accordance with the
Standard Government Travel Regulations: Provided further, That no
officer or employee of the Legal Services Corporation or a
recipient program shall be reimbursed for membership in a private
club, or be paid severance pay in excess of what would be paid a
Federal employee for comparable service.
For necessary expenses of the Department of State and the Foreign
Service, not otherwise provided for, including obligations of the United
States abroad pursuant to treaties, international agreements, and
binational contracts (including obligations assumed in Germany on or
after June 5, 1945); expenses authorized by section 9 of the Act of
August 31, 1964, as amended (31 U.S.C. 240 et seq.), and section 2 of
the Act of August 1, 1956, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2669);
telecommunications; expenses necessary to provide maximum physical
security in Government-owned and leased properties and vehicles abroad;
permanent representation to certain international organizations in which
the United States participates pursuant to treaties, conventions, or
specific Acts of Congress; acquisition by exchange or purchase of
vehicles as authorized by law, except that special requirement vehicles
may be purchased without regard to any price limitation otherwise
established by law; $995,000,000, of which $25,000,000 shall remain
available until September 30, 1984.
For necessary expenses of the Department of State and the Foreign
Service for reopening and operating certain United States consulates as
specified in Section 103 of the Department of State Authorization Act,
Fiscal Years 1982 and 1983, $1,000,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet annual
obligations of membership in international multilateral organizations,
pursuant to treaties, conventions, or specific Acts of Congress, // 22
USC 269a, 269b, 269f, 269g-1, 269h, 272a, 273 - 276, 279a, 280b, 280i,
280k, 280e, 287r, 290b, 1896b, 1928, 1928b, 2673 // $444,315,000, of
which $12,506,000 shall be for payment of the full 1983 assessed
contributions to the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on
Agriculture: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this
paragraph shall be available for a United States contribution to an
international organization for the United States share of interest costs
made known to the United States Government by such organization for
loans incurred on or after October 1, 1982, through external borrowings.
ACTIVITIES
For payments, not otherwise provided for, by the United States for
expenses of United Nations peacekeeping forces, $73,400,000: Provided,
That section 149 of Public Law 97 - 276 shall be effective until the
termination date of H.J. Res. 631 as enacted into law.
For a grant to the Asia Foundation, $4,100,000 to remain available
until expended.
For necessary expenses of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and
Internment of Civilians, as authorized by Public Law 96 - 317, // 50 USC
app. 1981 // $300,000 to be available only until June 30, 1983.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to enable the
United States Information Agency, as authorized by Reorganization Plan
No. 2 of 1977, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, // 5
USC app. // as amended (22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.), and the United States
Information and Educational Exchange Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1431 et
seq.), to carry out international communication, educational and
cultural activities, including employment, without regard to civil
service and classification laws, of persons on a temporary basis (not to
exceed $20,000); expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980
(22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.), living quarters as authorized by 5 U.S. C.
5912, and allowances as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5921 - 5928; and
entertainment, including official receptions, within the United States,
not to exceed $10,000; $407,830,000, of which not to exceed $2,671,000
of the amounts allocated by the United States Information Agency to
carry out section 102(a)(3) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural
Exchange Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2452(a)(3)), shall remain available
until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $500,000 may be used for
representation abroad: Provided further, That receipts not to exceed
$500,000 may be credited to this appropriation from fees or other
payments received from or in connection with English-teaching programs
as authorized by section 810 of Public Law 80 - 402, as amended; and,
for expenses of certain exchange programs of the United States
Information Agency, $84,292,000, of which $73,965,000 shall be for the
Fulbright and International Visitors Programs, $3,206,000 shall be for
the Humphrey Fellowship Program, and $7,121,000 shall be for the Private
Sector Programs.
For salaries and expenses of the judges and other officers and
employees of the Bankruptcy Courts of the United States, not otherwise
provided for, $89,000,000.
(e)(1) Such amounts as may be necessary for projects or activities
provided for in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1983, at a rate for
operations and to the extent in the following Act, notwithstanding any
other provision of the joint resolution; this subsection shall be
effective as if it had been enacted into law as the regular
appropriation Act:
Health and Human Services,
and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1983,
and for other purposes.
To carry out the activities for national grants or contracts with
public agencies and public or private nonprofit organizations under
paragraph (1)(A) of section 506(a) of title V of the Older Americans Act
of 1965, // 42 USC 3041e. // as amended, $219,921,000.
To carry out the activities for grants to States under paragraph (3)
of section 506(a) of title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as
amended, $62,029,000.
For payments during the current fiscal year of benefits and
allowances to ex-servicemen, as authorized by title 5, chapter 85 of the
United States Code, // 5 USC 8501 // as amended, of benefits and
payments as authorized by title II of Public Law 95 - 250, // 92 Stat.
172. // as amended, of trade adjustment benefit payments and
allowances, as provided by law (part I, subchapter B, chapter 2, title
II of the Trade Act of 1974, // 19 USC 2271. // as amended)
$230,000,000, together with such amounts as may be necessary to be
charged to the subsequent appropriation for payments for any period
subsequent to September 15 of the current year: Provided, That amounts
recovered from the States during the current fiscal year pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 8505(d) shall be available for such payments during the year.
Amounts received or recovered pursuant to section 208(e) of Public Law
95 - 250 // 92 Stat. 179. // shall be available for payments.
EMPLOYMENT
SERVICES
For grants for activities authorized by the Act of June 6, 1933, as
amended (29 U.S.C. 49 - 49n; 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E)); Veterans'
Employment and Readjustment Act of 1972, as amended (38 U.S.C. 2001 -
2013); title III of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 501
- 503); and necessary administrative expenses for carrying out 5 U.S.
C. 8501 - 8523, chapter 2, title II, of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended, and sections 101(a)(15)(H)(ii) and 212(a)(14) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, // 19 USC 2271. // as amended (8 U.S.
C. 1101 et seq.), including, upon request of any State, the payment of
rental for space made available to such State in lieu of grants for such
purpose, $22,200,000, together with not to exceed $2,454,300,000 which
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration account in
the Unemployment Trust Fund and of which $627,176,000 shall be available
only to the extent necessary to meet increased costs of administration
resulting from changes in a State law or increases in the number of
unemployment insurance claims filed and claims paid or increased salary
costs resulting from changes in State salary compensation plans
embracing employees of the State generally over those upon which the
State's basic grant was based, which cannot be provided for by normal
budgetary adjustments: Provided, That any portion of the funds granted
to a State in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State in
that year shall be returned to the Treasury and credited to the account
from which derived.
FUNDS
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized
by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 299e,
300d-2. // as amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as
authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954,
// 26 USC 9501. // as amended, and for nonrepayable advances to the
Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, United
States Code and by title VI of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility
Act of 1982, and to the " Federal unemployment benefits and allowances"
account, to remain available until September 30, 1984, $5,411,000,000.
For necessary expenses for the Labor-Management Services
Administration, $58,077,000.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is authorized to make such
expenditures, including financial assistance authorized by section 104
of Public Law 96 - 364, // 29 USC 1381. // within limits of funds and
borrowing authority available to such Corporation, and in accord with
law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal
year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government
Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 849), as may be necessary
in carrying out the program through September 30, 1983, for such
Corporation.
For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards Administration,
including reimbursement to State, Federal and local agencies and their
employees for inspection services rendered, $169,296,000, together with
$347,000 which may be expended from the Special Fund in accordance with
sections 39(c) and 44(j) of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers'
Compensation Act. // 33 USC 939, 944. //
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses (except
administrative expenses) accruing during the current or any prior fiscal
year authorized by title V, chapter 81 of the United States Code; // 5
USC 8101 // continuation of benefits as provided for under the head "
Civilian War Benefits" in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act,
1947; the Employees' Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1944;
and sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 (50 U.S.C. App.
2012); and 50 per centum of the additional compensation and benefits
required by section 10(h) of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers'
Compensation Act, // 33 USC 910. // as amended, $339,600,000, together
with such amount as may be necessary to be charged to the subsequent
year appropriation for the payment of compensation and other benefits
for any period subsequent to September 15 of the current year:
Provided, That in addition there shall be transferred from the Postal
Service fund to this appropriation such sums as the Secretary of Labor
determines to be the cost of administration for Postal Service employees
through September 30, 1983.
For payments from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, $673,544,000,
of which $639,255,000 shall be available until September 30, 1984, for
payment of all benefits and interest on advances under subsection (c)(2)
of section 9501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, // 26 USC 9501.
// as amended, as authorized by section 9501(d) (1), (2), (4), and (7)
of that Act and of which $21,192,000 shall be available for transfer to
Employment Standards Administration, Salaries and Expenses and
$13,097,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, Salaries and
Expenses for expenses of operation and administration of the Black Lung
Benefits program as authorized by section 9501(d)(5)(A) of that Act:
Provided, That in addition, such amounts as may be necessary may be
charged to the subsequent year appropriation for the payment of
compensation and other benefits for any period subsequent to June 15 of
the current year: Provided further, That in addition, such amounts
shall be paid from this fund into miscellaneous receipts as the
Secretary of the Treasury determines to be the administrative expenses
of the Department of the Treasury for administering the fund during the
current fiscal year, as authorized by section 9501(d)(5)(B) of that Act.
// 26 USC 9501. //
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, $205,256,000, including not to exceed $47,625,000, which
shall be the maximum amount available for grants to States under section
23(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, // 29 USC 672. //
which grants shall be no less than fifty percent of the costs of State
occupational safety and health programs required to be incurred under
plans approved by the Secretary under section 18 of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970: // 29 USC 667. // Provided, That none
of the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or
expended to enforce or prescribe as a condition for initial, continuing,
or final approval of State plans under section 18 of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970, State administrative or enforcement
staffing levels which are greater than levels which are determined by
the Secretary to be equivalent to Federal staffing levels: Provided
further, That none of the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall
be obligated or expended for the assessment of civil penalties issued
for first instance violations of any standard, rule, or regulation
promulgated under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 // 29
USC 651 // (other than serious, willful, or repeated violations under
section 17 of the Act) // 29 USC 666. // resulting from the inspection
of any establishment or workplace subject to the Act, unless such
establishment or workplace is cited, on the basis of such inspection,
for ten or more violations: Provided further, That none of the funds
appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to
prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard, rule, regulation,
or order under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 which is
applicable to any person who is engaged in a farming operation which
does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs ten or fewer
employees: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under
this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to prescribe, issue,
administer, or enforce any standard, rule, regulation, order or
administrative action under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 affecting any work activity by reason of recreational hunting,
shooting, or fishing: Provided further, That no funds appropriated
under this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to administer or
enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970 with respect to any employer of ten or
fewer employees who is included within a category having an occupational
injury lost work day case rate, at the most precise Standard Industrial
Classification Code for which such data are published, less than the
national average rate as such rates are most recently published by the
Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in accordance
with section 24 of that Act (29 U.S.C. 673), except--,
(1) to provide, as authorized by such Act, consultation,
technical assistance, educational and training services, and to
conduct surveys and studies;
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in response to an
employee complaint, to issue a citation for violations found
during such inspection, and to assess a penalty for violations
which are not corrected within a reasonable abatement period and
for any willful violations found;
(3) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to
imminent dangers;
(4) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to
health hazards;
(5) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to a
report of an employment accident which is fatal to one or more
employees or which results in hospitalization of five or more
employees, and take any action pursuant to such investigation
authorized by such Act;
(6) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect to
complaints of discrimination againt employees for exercising
rights under such Act: Provided further, That the foregoing
proviso shall not apply to any person who is engaged in a farming
operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and
employs ten or fewer employees: Provided further, That none of
the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or
expended for the proposal or assessment of any civil penalties for
the violation or alleged violation by an employer of ten or fewer
employees of any standard, rule, regulation, or order promulgated
under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
// 29 USC 651 //
(other than serious, willful or repeated violations and violations
which pose imminent danger under section 13 of the Act)
// 29 USC 662. //
if, prior to the inspection which gives rise to the alleged
violation, the employer cited has (1) voluntarily requested
consultation under a program operated pursuant to section 7(c)(1)
or section 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
// 29 USC 656, 667. //
or from a private consultative source approved by the
Administration and (2) had the consultant examine the condition
cited and (3) made or is in the process of making a reasonable
good faith effort to eliminate the hazard created by the condition
cited as such, which was identified by the aforementioned
consultant, unless changing circumstances or workplace conditions
render inapplicable the advice obtained from such consultants:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this
paragraph may be obligated or expended for any State plan
monitoring visit by the Secretary of Labor under section 18 of the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, of any factory, plant,
establishment, construction site, or other area, workplace or
environment where such a workplace or environment has been
inspected by an employee of a State acting pursuant to section 18
of such Act within the six months preceding such inspection:
Provided further, That this limitation does not prohibit the
Secretary of Labor from conducting such monitoring visit at the
time and place of an inspection by an employee of a State acting
pursuant to section 18 of such Act, or in order to investigate a
complaint about State program administration including a failure
to respond to a worker complaint regarding a violation of such
Act, or in order to investigate a discrimination complaint under
section 11(c) of such Act,
// 29 USC 660. //
or as part of a special study monitoring program, or to
investigate a fatality or catastrophe: Provided further, That
none of the funds appropriated under this paragraph may be
obligated or expended for the inspection, investigation, or
enforcement of any activity occurring on the Outer Continental
Shelf which exceeds the authority granted to the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration by any provision of the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act,
// 43 USC 1331 //
or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978.
// 43 USC 1801 //
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health Administration,
$153,828,000, including purchase and bestowal of certificates and
trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid work, and the
purchase of not to exceed eighty-eight passenger motor vehicles for
replacement only; the Secretary is authorized to accept lands,
buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public and private
sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies,
Federal, State, or private; the Mine Safety and Health Administration
is authorized to promote health and safety education and training in the
mining community through cooperative programs with States, industry, and
safety associations; and any funds available to the Department may be
used, with the approval of the Secretary, to provide for the costs of
mine rescue and survival operations in the event of major disaster:
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall
be obligated or expended to carry out section 115 of the Federal Mine
Safety and Health Act of 1977 // 30 USC 825. // or to carry out that
portion of section 104(g)(1) of such Act // 30 USC 814. // relating to
the enforcement of any training requirement, with respect to shell
dredging, or with respect to any sand, gravel, surface stone, surface
clay, colloidal phosphate, or surface limestone mine.
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including
advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and local agencies and
their employees for services rendered, $120,143,000.
For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, including
$1,973,000 for the President's Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped, $91,864,000, together with not to exceed $8,752,000, which
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration account in
the Unemployment Trust Fund and of which $8,535,000 shall be for
carrying into effect the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 2001 - 03.
For payments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department
determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States,
for necessary expenses of the Department of Labor, as authorized by law,
$67,000, to remain available until expended. This appropriation shall be
available in addition to other appropriations to such agency for
payments in foreign currencies.
For salaries and expenses of the Office of the Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
$38,133,000, together with not to exceed $6,835,000, which may be
expended from the Employment Security Administration account in the
Unemployment Trust Fund.
Sec. 101. Appropriations in this Act available for salaries and
expenses shall be available for supplies, services, and rental of
conference space within the District of Columbia, as the Secretary of
Labor shall deem necessary for settlement of labor-management disputes.
This title may be cited as the " Department of Labor Appropriation
Act, 1983".
For carrying out titles III, V, VII, VIII, X, and XIX of the Public
Health Service Act, // 42 USC 241, 219, 292, 296, 300; 95 Stat. 535.
// the Act of August 8, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 7901), section 1 of the Act of
July 19, 1963 (42 U.S.C. 253a), // 42 USC 300w // section 108 of Public
Law 93 - 353 section 427(a) of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety
Act, // 42 USC 253b. // as amended, and title V of the Social Security
Act, // 30 USC 937; 42 USC 701. // $1,018,563,000 of which $1,732,000
shall be available only for payments to the State of Hawaii for care and
treatment of persons afflicted with Hansen's disease; and of which
$3,292,000, to be available until expended, shall be used to renovate
the National Hansen's Disease Center: Provided, That this appropriation
shall be available for payment of the costs of medical care, related
expenses, and burial expenses hereafter incurred by or on behalf of any
person who has participated in the study of untreated syphilis initiated
in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1932, in such amounts and subject to such terms
and conditions as prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human
Services and for payment, in such amounts and subject to such terms and
conditions, of such costs and expenses hereafter incurred by or on
behalf of such person's wife or offspring determined by the Secretary to
have suffered injury or disease from syphilis contracted from such
person: Provided further, That when the Health Services Administration
operates an employee health program for any Federal department or
agency, payment for the estimated cost shall be made by way of
reimbursement or in advances to this appropriation: Provided further,
That during 1983, and within the resources and authority available under
sections 338 and 338 E of the Public Health Service Act, // 42 USC 254k,
254p. // gross obligations for the principle amount of direct loans
under section 338 E of that Act shall not exceed $1,000,000: Provided
further, That none of the funds made available by this Act shall be used
to provide special retention pay (bonuses) under paragraph (4) of 37
U.S.C. 302(a) to any regular or reserve officer of the Public Health
Service for any period during which the officer is providing obligated
service under section 338 B (or under former sections 225(e) or 752) of
the Public Health Service Act // 42 USC 234 note, 294u. // except that
this proviso shall not apply to any period of service covered by an
agreement entered into by an officer under 37 U.S.C. 302(c)(1) before
the date of enactment of this Act.
To carry out titles III, XI, and XIX of the Public Health Service
Act, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, and the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; // 42 USC 241, 300b; 95
Stat. 535; 42 USC 300w. // including insurance of official motor
vehicles in foreign countries; and purchase, hire, maintenance, and
operation of aircraft, $290,701,000, of which $2,050,000 shall remain
available until expended and shall be for construction and equipment of
facilities of or used by the Centers for Disease Control: Provided,
That training of employees of private agencies shall be made subject to
reimbursement or advances to this appropriation for the full cost of
such training.
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Public
Health Service Act with respect to cancer, $983,576,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to carry out the
Public Health Service Act with respect to heart, lung, blood vessel, and
blood diseases, $622,745,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out title IV of
the Public Health Service Act // 42 USC 281. // with respect to dental
diseases, $78,860,000.
DIGESTIVE AND
KIDNEY DISEASES
For expenses necessary to carry out title IV of the Public Health
Service Act with respect to arthritis, diabetes, digestive and kidney
diseases, $412,182,000.
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not otherwise
provided, title IV of the Public Health Service Act // 42 USC 281 //
with respect to neurological and communicative disorders and stroke,
$295,719,000.
DISEASES
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out title IV of
the Public Health Service Act with respect to allergy and infectious
diseases, $273,581,000.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to carry out
title IV of the Public Health Service Act with respect to general
medical sciences, $369,561,000.
DEVELOPMENT
To carry out, except as otherwise provided, title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to child health and human development,
$253,655,000.
For expenses necessary to carry out title IV of the Public Health
Service Act, with respect to eye diseases and visual disorders,
$141,561,000.
To carry out, except as otherwise provided, sections 301, 311, and
472 of the Public Health Service Act // 42 USC 241, 243, 289l-1. //
with respect to environmental health sciences, $164,367,000.
To carry out, except as otherwise provided, title IV of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to aging, $93,996,000.
To carry out, except as otherwise provided, sections 301 and 472 of
the Public Health Service Act with respect to research resources and
general research support grants, $213,804,000: Provided, That none of
these funds, with the exception of funds for the Minority Biomedical
Support program, shall be used to pay recipients of the general research
support grants program any amount for indirect expenses in connection
with such grants.
STUDY IN
THE HEALTH SCIENCES
For the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in
the Health Sciences, $10,147,000, of which $1,800,000 shall be available
for payment to the Gorgas Memorial Institute for maintenance and
operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.
To carry out, to the extent not otherwise provided for, section 301
with respect to health information communications and parts I and J of
title III of the Public Health Service Act, // 42 USC 241. //
$46,043,000.
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Director, National
Institutes of Health, $24,683,000, including purchase of not to exceed
thirteen passenger motor vehicles for replacement only.
For construction of, and acquisition of sites and equipment for,
facilities of or used by the National Institutes of Health, where not
otherwise provided, $17,500,000, to remain available until expended.
For carrying out the Public Health Service Act // 42 USC 201 // with
respect to mental health, drug abuse, and alcoholism, $777,556,000, of
which $100,000 for design, modernization and improvement of government
owned or leased intramural research facilities shall remain available
until expended.
For expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of Saint
Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia, $76,505,000: Provided,
That the Secretary of Health and Human Services // 24 USC 168b. // may
set rates for inpatient and outpatient services provided through Saint
Elizabeths Hospital that in the aggregate do not exceed the estimated
total cost of providing such services, and may bill and collect from
(prospectively or otherwise) individuals, the District of Columbia,
Executive agencies and other entities for any services so provided.
Amounts so collected shall be credited to the appropriation for Saint
Elizabeths Hospital for the year in which the services are provided.
For carrying out titles III, IV, VII, VII, and XVI of the Public
Health Service Act and section 1122 of the Social Security Act, // 42
USC 241, 281, 292, 296, 300o. // $188,531,000 of which $1,500,000 shall
remain available until expended for loan guarantees made prior to fiscal
year 1981 and interest subsidies under part B of title VII, // 42 USC
293. // $5,000,000 shall remain available until expended for grants for
construction of teaching facilities under section 720(a)(3) of the
Public Health Service Act, and $29,000,000 shall be available until
expended to enable the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter
into appropriate financial arrangements to repay in full any loan to
Meharry Medical College guaranteed under section 726 (formerly section
729) of the Public Health Service Act. // 42 USC 293f. //
For carrying out title XVI of the Public Health Service Act, // 42
USC 300o. // $32,000,000 shall be available without fiscal year
limitation for the payment of interest subsidies. The total principal
amount of loans to be guaranteed or directly made, which may be allotted
among the States, pursuant to titles VI and XVI of the Public Health
Service Act // 42 USC 291. // shall not exceed a cumulative amount of
$1,500,000,000. During fiscal year 1983, no commitments for direct
loans or loan guarantees shall be made.
For the expenses necessary for the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Health and for carrying out titles III, XIII, and XX of the Public
Health Service Act, $96,694,000 and section 2008(g) // 42 USC 241, 300e;
95 Stat. 578; 42 USC 300z. // does not apply to these programs.
GUARANTEE
FUND
Any amounts received by the Secretary as repayment of loans under
title XIII of the Public Health Service Act // 42 USC 300e. // for
direct loans as authorized by said title XIII, and not to exceed
$16,500,000 may be disbursed with respect to any liability or contingent
liability incurred prior to 1983. During 1983 and within the resources
and authority available, gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans shall not exceed $24,500,000.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
For retirement pay and medical benefits of Commissioned Officers as
authorized by law, and for payments under the Retired Serviceman's
Family Protection Plan and Survivor Benefit Plan and for medical care of
dependents and retired personnel under the Dependents' Medical Care Act
(10 U.S.C., ch. 55), // 10 USC 1071 // such amounts as may be required
during the current fiscal year: Provided, That none of these funds
shall be available for payment to retired personnel of the Coast Guard
or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or to the
survivors of such personnel or for payment of medical care for
dependents of such personnel and shall be used solely for Commissioned
Officers of the Public Health Service, their dependents and survivors.
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, title XIX of the
Social Security Act, // 42 USC 1396. // $19,361,845,000 to remain
available until expended.
For making, after June 30 of the current fiscal year, payments to
States under title XIX of the Social Security Act, for the last three
months of the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary, the
obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder for payments
under such title to be charged to the subsequent appropriation therefor
for the current or succeeding fiscal year.
In the administration of title XIX of the Social Security Act, // 42
USC 1396. // payments to a State under such title for any quarter in
the period beginning July 1 of the prior year and ending September 30 of
the current year may be made with respect to a State plan approved under
such title prior to or during such period. After a plan or plan
amendment is approved, payment may be made with respect to it for the
quarter in which it was submitted or any subsequent quarter in which it
remains in effect.
Such amounts as may be necessary from this appropriation shall be
available for grants to States for any period in the prior fiscal year
subsequent to June 30 of that year.
For making payments to States under title XIX of the Social Security
Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 1984, $5,105,600,000 to remain
available until expended.
For payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal
Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under sections
217(g), 229(b) and 1844 of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 417, 429,
1395w. // sections 103(c) and 111(d) of the Social Security Amendments
of 1965, // 42 USC 426a, 1395i-1. // and section 278(d) of P.L. 97 -
248, $15,347,000,000.
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI, XVIII and
XIX of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 1301, 1395, 1396. // and
sections 1526 and 1533(d) of the Public Health Service Act, // 42 USC
300m-5, 300n-2. // $92,905,000 together with not to exceed
$959,671,000, to be transferred to this appropriation as authorized by
section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 401. // from
the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical
Insurance Trust Funds referred to therein: Provided, That these amounts
shall be in addition to funding for this purpose available under section
118 of Public Law 97 - 248: Provided further, That $20,000,000 of the
foregoing amount shall be expended only to the extent necessary to
process workloads not anticipated in the budget estimates and to meet
unanticipated costs of agencies or organizations with which agreements
have been made to participate in the administration of title XVIII and
after maximum absorption of such costs within the remainder of the
existing limitation has been achieved: Provided further, That none of
the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be allotted or
otherwise awarded to any Professional Standards Review Organization
which the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has
determined should be terminated from the Professional Standards Review
Program because of its inability to effectively or efficiently discharge
its responsibilities under the Social Security Act. // 42 USC 1305 //
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under sections
217(g), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC
417, 429, 1320b-1. // $855,213,000.
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act
of 1977, including the payment of travel expenses on an actual cost or
commuted basis, to an individual, for travel incident to medical
examinations, and to parties, their representatives and all reasonably
necessary witnesses for travel within the United States, Puerto Rico,
and the Virgin Islands, to reconsideration interviews and to proceedings
before administrative law judges, $1,093,000,000: Provided, That after
July 31, such amounts for benefit payments as may be necessary may be
charged to the subsequent year appropriation.
For carrying out the Supplemental Security Income Program under title
XVI of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 1381, 1382e; 87 Stat. 155;
42 USC 1383 note. // section 401 of Public Law 92 - 603, section 212 of
Public Law 93 - 66, as amended, and section 405 of Public Law 95 - 216,
including payment to the social security trust funds for administrative
expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security
Act, // 42 USC 401. // $8,543,616,000 to remain available until
expended: Provided, That after July 31, such amounts for benefit
payments as may be necessary may be charged to the subsequent year
appropriation: Provided further, That any portion of the funds provided
to a State in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State
during that year shall be returned to the Treasury.
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles I, IV, X, XI,
XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24
U.S.C., ch. 9), // 42 USC 301, 601, 1201, 1301, 1351, 1381. //
$6,684,207,000, to remain available until expended.
For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to
States under titles I, IV, X, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act
for the last three months of the current fiscal year for unanticipated
costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, such sums as may be
necessary, the obligations and expenditures to be charged to the
subsequent appropriations therefor for the current fiscal year.
For making payments to States under titles I, IV, X, XIV, and XVI of
the Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 1984,
$1,718,000,000, to remain available until expended.
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles IV- D and XI
of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 651, 1301. // $347,500,000 to
remain available until expended.
For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to
States under title IV- D of the Social Security Act for the last three
months of the current fiscal year for unanticipated costs, incurred for
the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary, the obligations
and the expenditures to be charged to the subsequent appropriations
therefor.
For making payments to States under title IV- D of the Social
Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 1984, $118,000,000 to
remain available until expended.
For carrying out title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1981, // 95 Stat. 893. 42 USC 8621. // $1,850,000,000.
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Refugee Act
of 1980, as amended, and sections 501 (a) and (b) of the Refugee
Education Assistance Act of 1980, // 8 USC 1522 // $585,000,000:
Provided, That such funds may be expended for individuals who would meet
the definition of " Cuban and Haitian entrant" under section 501( e) of
the Refugee Education Assistance Act, 94 Stat. 1810, but for the
application of paragraph (2)(B) thereof.
For necessary expenses, not more than $3,408,451,000 may be expended,
as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC
401. // from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein:
Provided, That travel expense payments under section 1631( h) of such
Act // 42 USC 1383 // may be made only when travel of more than
seventy-five miles is required: Provided further, That $50,000,000 of
the foregoing amount shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section
3679 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 665), only to the extent
necessary to process workloads not anticipated in the budget estimates,
for automation projects, and to meet mandatory increases in costs of
agencies or organizations with which agreements have been made to
participate in the administration of titles XVI and XVIII and section
221 of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 1381, 1395, 421. // and after
maximum absorption of such costs within the remainder of the existing
limitation has been achieved: Provided further, That $47,026,000
authorized herein shall be available only for acquisition of sites,
construction, renovation, and equipment of facilities and for payments
for principal, interest, taxes and any other obligations under contracts
entered into pursuant to the Public Buildings Purchase Contract Act of
1954 // 40 USC 356 // and the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972, // 40
USC 601 // and shall remain available until expended: Provided further,
That $151,625,000 for automatic data processing and telecommunications
activities shall remain available until expended.
For carrying out the Social Services Block Grant Act, $2,450,000,000.
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the Older Americans
Act of 1965, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, title VIII of
the Community Services Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance
and Bill of Rights Act of 1981, // 42 USC 3001, 5101, 2991, 6001. 95
Stat. 563. // and the Head Start Act of 1981, // 95 Stat. 499. 42 USC
9801 // $1,753,514,000, of which $43,180,000 shall be for grants under
part C of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights
Act, // 42 USC 6061. // and $7,320,000 shall be for section 113 of such
Act. // 95 Stat. 563. 42 USC 6012. //
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, parts A, B, and E of
title IV and sections 1110 and 1115 of the Social Security Act and title
II of Public Law 95 - 266 (adoption opportunities), $572,669,000.
For carrying out a work incentive program, as authorized by part C of
title IV of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 630. // including
registration of individuals for such programs, and for related child
care and other supportive services, as authorized by section 402(a)(
19)(G) of the Act, // 42 USC 602. // including transfer to the
Secretary of Labor, as authorized by section 431 of the Act, // 42 USC
631. // $270,760,000 which shall be the maximum amount available for
transfer to the Secretary of Labor and to which the States may become
entitled pursuant to section 403(d) of such Act, // 42 USC 603. // for
these purposes.
For carrying out the Community Services Block Grant Act, // 95 Stat.
511. // $360,500,000, of which $18,840,000 shall be for carrying out
section 681(a)(2)(A), $3,840,000 shall be for carrying out section 681(
a)(2)(D), $2,880,000 shall be for carrying out section 681(a)(2)(E), and
$5,760,000 shall be for carrying out section 681(a)(2)(F): Provided,
That the Secretary of Health and Human Services may waive the
requirements of section 138 of Public Law 97 - 276, relating to
continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1983, for any State applying
for such a waiver if--,
(1) the State had, prior to October 1, 1982, submitted an
application for fiscal year 1983 under the Community Services
Block Grant Act, containing provisions for the use of assistance
under that Act by political subdivisions; and
(2) the chief executive officer of the State certifies that, in
at least 45 percent of the counties of the State, services
assisted under the Community Services Block Grant Act were not
available in fiscal year 1982 (other than a State for which the
distribution of funds within the State for such fiscal year was
contested by more than one eligible entity).
For expenses not otherwise provided, which are necessary for general
departmental management, including hire of six medium sedans,
$158,143,000, together with not to exceed $8,000,000 to be transferred
and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security
Act // 42 USC 401. // from any one or all of the trust funds referred
to therein.
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General,
$44,921,000, together with not to exceed $6,000,000 to be transferred
and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security
Act // 42 USC 401. // from any one or all of the trust funds referred
to therein.
For making payments to States for medicaid State fraud control units
under section 1903(a)(6) of the Social Security Act // 42 USC 1396b. //
for fiscal year 1983, $36,346,000.
For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to
States under section 1903(a)(6) of the Social Security Act for the last
three months of the current fiscal year for unanticipated costs,
incurred for the current fiscal year, not to exceed $5,000,000, the
obligations and expenditures to be charged to the subsequent
appropriations therefor.
For making payments to States for medicaid State fraud control units
under section 1903(a)(6) of the Social Security Act for the first
quarter of fiscal year 1984, $10,000,000 to remain available until
expended.
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, $19,163,000,
together with not to exceed $2,350,000, to be transferred and expended
as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act from any
one or all of the trust funds referred to therein.
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, research
studies under section 1110 of the Social Security Act, // 42 USC 1310.
// $14,718,000: Provided, That not less than $1,500,000 shall be
obligated to continue research on poverty conducted by the Institute for
Research on Poverty.
Sec. 201. None of the funds appropriated by this title for
grants-in-aid of State agencies to cover, in whole or in part, the cost
of operation of said agencies, including the salaries and expenses of
officers and employees of said agencies, shall be withheld from the said
agencies of any State which have established by legislative enactment
and have in operation a merit system and classification and compensation
plan covering the selection, tenure in office, and compensation of their
employees, because of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner
of their selection by the agencies of the said States, or the rates of
pay of said officers or employees.
Sec. 202. None of the funds provided herein shall be used to pay any
recipient of a grant for the conduct of research an amount equal to as
much as the entire cost of such research.
Sec. 203. Appropriations in this Act for the Health Services
Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for
Disease Control, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administration, the Health Resources Administration, the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health, the Health Care Financing
Administration, and Departmental Management shall be available for
expenses for active commissioned officers in the Public Health Service
Reserve Corps and for not to exceed two thousand eight hundred
commissioned officers in the Regular Corps; expenses incident to the
dissemination of health information in foreign countries through
exhibits and other appropriate means; advances of funds for
compensation, travel, and subsistence expenses (or per diem in lieu
thereof) for persons coming from abroad to participate in health or
scientific activities of the Department pursuant to law; expenses of
primary and secondary schooling of dependents in foreign countries, of
Public Health Service commissioned officers stationed in foreign
countries, at costs for any given area not in excess of those of the
Department of Defense for the same area, when it is determined by the
Secretary that the schools available in the locality are unable to
provide adequately for the education of such dependents, and for the
transportation of such dependents, between such schools and their places
of residence when the schools are not accessible to such dependents by
regular means of transportation; expenses for medical care for civilian
and commissioned employees of the Public Health Service and their
dependents, assigned abroad on a permanent basis in accordance with such
regulations as the Secretary may provide; rental or lease of living
quarters (for periods not exceeding five years), and provision of heat,
fuel, and light and maintenance, improvement, and repair of such
quarters, and advance payments therefor, for civilian officers, and
employees of the Public Health Service who are United States citizens
and who have a permanent station in a foreign country; purchase,
erection, and maintenance of temporary or portable structures; and for
the payment of compensation to consultants or individual scientists
appointed for limited periods of time pursuant to section 207(f) or
section 207(g) of the Public Health Service Act, // 42 USC 218. // at
rates established by the Assistant Secretary for Health, or the
Secretary where such action is required by statute, not to exceed the
per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18; not to exceed $9,500
for official reception and representation expenses related to any health
agency of the Department when specifically approved by the Assistant
Secretary for Health.
Sec. 204. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be used to
perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be
endangered if the fetus were carried to term: Provided, however, That
the several States are and shall remain free not to fund abortions to
the extent that they in their sole discretion deem appropriate.
Sec. 205. Funds advanced to the National Institutes of Health
Management Fund from appropriations in this Act shall be available for
the expenses of sharing medical care facilities and resources pursuant
to section 327(a) of the Public Health Service Act. // 42 USC 254. //
Sec. 206. Funds appropriated in this title for the Social Security
Administration and the Office of Child Support Enforcement shall be
available for not to exceed $5,000 for official reception and
representation expenses related to income maintenance or child support
enforcement activities of the Department when specifically approved by
the Commissioner of Social Security.
Sec. 207. Funds appropriated in this title for the Health Care
Financing Administration shall be available for not to exceed $2,000 for
official reception and representation expenses when specifically
approved by the Administrator of Health Care Financing Administration.
This title may be cited as the " Department of Health and Human
Services Appropriation Act, 1983".
For carrying out chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and
Improvement Act of 1981, // 95 Stat. 464. 42 USC 3801. //
$3,160,394,000 to become available on July 1, 1983, and remain available
until September 30, 1984: Provided, That no funds shall be used for the
purposes of section 554(a)(1)(B), $4,746,000 shall be available for
purposes of section 555(d), $255,744,000 shall be available for the
purposes of section 554(a)(2)(A), $146,520,000 shall be available for
purposes of section 554(a)(2)(B), and $32,616,000 shall be available for
purposes of section 554(a)(2)(C).
For carrying out section 418 of the Higher Education Act, $7,500,000.
For carrying out the consolidated programs and projects authorized
under chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of
1981; title IX, part C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act;
title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Follow Through Act;
sections 1524 and 1525 of the Education Amendments of 1978; and Public
Law 92 - 506, // 95 Stat. 469. 20 USC 3811. 20 USC 3341. 42 USC
2000c. 95 Stat. 508. 42 USC 9861. 92 Stat. 2379. 86 Stat. 907. //
$534,500,000: Provided, That $450,655,000 to carry out the State block
grant program authorized under chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation
and Improvement Act shall become available for obligation on July 1,
1983, and shall remain available until September 30, 1984: Provided
further, That $28,765,000 for the purpose of subchapter D of the
Education Consolidation and Improvement Act // 95 Stat. 476. 20 USC
3851. // shall become available for obligation on October 1, 1982:
Provided further, That $3,000,000 of the amount appropriated above shall
be for the purpose of Public Law 92 - 506 of which $1,500,000 shall
become available on July 1, 1983, and shall remain available until
September 30, 1984.
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, title VII of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act // 20 USC 880b. // and part
B, subpart 3 of the Vocational Education Act, // 20 USC 2411. // as
amended, $138,057,000, of which $3,686,000 for part B, subpart 3 of the
Vocational Education Act shall become available on July 1, 1983, and
shall remain available until September 30, 1984: Provided, That
$2,400,000 of the funds appropriated by title III of this bill shall be
used for section 751 of title VII of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act. // 20 USC 3261. //
For carrying out title I of the Act of September 30, 1950, as amended
(20 U.S.C., ch. 13), // 20 USC 237 // $455,000,000, of which
$445,000,000 shall be for entitlements under section 2 and 3 // 20 USC
237, 238. // and $10,000,000 shall be for payments under section 7 of
said Act: // 20 USC 241 - 1. // Provided, That payment to any local
educational agency with respect to entitlements under section 3(a) shall
be 90 per centum of the amount of such payment for the fiscal year 1981
unless such agency is determined eligible for payment under section
3(d)(2)(B), except that payment to any local educational agency with
respect to entitlements under section 3(a) shall be 95 per centum of the
amount of such payment for fiscal year 1981 for any such agency in which
the number of children determined under such section 3(a) // 20 USC 238.
// is at least 20 per centum of the total number of children who are in
average daily attendance at the schools of such agency; and payment to
any local educational agency with respect to entitlements under section
3(b) shall not exceed the amount of such payment for the fiscal year
1982 unless such agency is determined eligible for payment under section
3(d)(2)(B): Provided further, That notwithstanding the payment
provisions stated herein, the Secretary is authorized to determine and
make payment of a fair and equitable amount with regard to an otherwise
eligible local educational agency which was not eligible in the fiscal
years 1981 or 1982: Provided further, That the aggregate amount for
payments of entitlements calculated under section 3(d)(2)(B) shall not
exceed $15,000,000: Provided further, That no payments shall be made
under section 3 of said Act to any local educational agency whose
payment under that section fails to exceed $5,000: Provided further,
That no payments shall be made under section 7 of said Act // 20 USC 241
- 1. // to any local educational agency whose need for assistance under
that section fails to exceed lesser of $10,000 or 5 per centum of the
district's current operating expenditures during the fiscal year
preceding the one in which the disaster occurred: Provided further,
That in addition to the $10,000,000 appropriated in the foregoing, there
is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 for section 2 for the purpose of
paying entitlements, including the payment of entitlements under this
section for the Douglas School District in the State of South Dakota
impacted as a result of Ellsworth Air Force Base which shall be made at
100 per centum of the amount to which such school district is entitled
under section 2.
For carrying out the Act of September 23, 1950, as amended (20 U.S.
C., ch. 19), // 20 USC 631 // $20,000,000 which shall remain available
until expended, shall be for providing school facilities as authorized
by said Act: Provided, That with the exception of up to $8,500,000 for
section 10 and up to $8,500,000 for section 14 (a) and (b), // 20 USC
640, 644. // none of the funds contained herein for providing school
facilities shall be available to pay for any other section of the Act of
September 23, 1950, until payment has been made of 100 per centum of the
amounts payable under sections 5 and 14(c).
For carrying out the Education of the Handicapped Act, // 20 USC 1401
// $1,110,252,000, of which $970,000,000 for section 611 and $25,000,000
for section 619 // 20 USC 1411, 1419. // shall become available for
obligation on July 1, 1983, and shall remain available until September
30, 1984.
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, // 29 USC 701 // as amended, and the
International Health Research Act of 1960, // 22 USC 2101 //
$1,036,727,000, of which $939,753,158 shall be for allotments under
section 100(b)(1), $4,146,842 shall be for activities under section
110(b)(3), and $650,000 shall be made available to the Navajo Tribal
Council for activities under section 130: // 29 USC 720, 730, 750. //
Provided, That of the amount appropriated for centers for independent
living under part B of title VII of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, //
29 USC 796e. // such amounts as are necessary shall be available for
fiscal year 1983 to fund all such centers which received assistance
under such part in fiscal year 1981 at the level of assistance made to
each such center in fiscal year 1981: Provided further, That of the
amount appropriated and available for projects with industry under
section 621 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, // 29 USC 795g. // such
amounts as are necessary shall be available for fiscal year 1983 to fund
all such projects which received assistance under such part in fiscal
year 1981 at the level of assistance made to each such project in fiscal
year 1981.
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Vocational Education Act, and the Adult Education Act, // 20 USC 1241,
1201 // $816,500,000 which shall become available for obligation on July
1, 1983, and shall remain available until September 30, 1984, except
that $7,678,000 for part B, subpart 2 of the Vocational Education Act //
20 USC 2401. // shall become available for obligation on July 1, 1983,
and shall remain available until expended: Provided, That $6,500,000
for State advisory councils under section 105 of the Vocational
Education Act // 20 USC 2305. // shall be used to provide to each
State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
American Samoa, Guam, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and
Northern Mariana Islands an amount equal to the amount it received in
the previous fiscal year: Provided further, That not to exceed
$99,590,000 shall be for carrying out part A, subpart 3, of the
Vocational Education Act: // 20 USC 2350. // Provided further, That
$2,243,100 shall be made available for the National Occupational
Information Coordinating Committee.
For carrying out subparts 1, 2, and 3 of part A, and parts C and E of
title IV of the Higher Education Act, // 20 USC 1070a, 1070b, 1070c; 42
USC 2751; 20 USC 1088. // $3,567,800,000 which shall remain available
until September 30, 1984: Provided, That amounts appropriated for Pell
Grants shall be available first to meet any insufficiencies in
entitlements resulting from the payment schedule for Pell Grants
published by the Secretary of Education for the 1982 - 1983 academic
year: Provided further, That pursuant to section 411(b)(4)(A) of the
Higher Education Act, // 20 USC 1070a. // amounts appropriated herein
for Pell Grants which exceed the amounts required to meet the payments
schedule published for any fiscal year by 15 per centum or less shall be
carried forward and merged with amounts appropriated for the next fiscal
year: Provided further, That the maximum grant a student may receive in
the 1983 - 1984 academic year shall be $1,800 notwithstanding section
411(a)(2)(A)(i)(III) of the Higher Education Act: // 20 USC 1070a //
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, such
sums as may be necessary not to exceed $30,000,000 of the amount
appropriated by Public Law 97 - 257 for Pell Grants shall be available
for the purpose of restoring eligibility for Pell Grants to individuals
adversely affected by the modification, pursuant to paragraphs (4) and
(5) of section 124 of Public Law 97 - 92, // 95 Stat. 1197. // of the
family contribution schedule with respect to the treatment of payments
under title 38, United States Code, to such individuals. For the
purposes of determining eligibility and amount of Pell Grant awards
under this section, only one-third of the benefits received under such
title 38 shall be considered as student financial assistance. The
Secretary of Education shall take such steps as may be necessary to
notify such individuals of restored eligibility and to make appropriate
allocations of the reserved sum: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of this Act, any other Act, or section 415 B of the
Higher Education Act of 1965, // 20 USC 1070c. // the Secretary shall
apportion the sums appropriated pursuant to section 415 A of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 for the fiscal year 1983 among the States so that
each State's apportionment bears the same ratio to the total amount
appropriated as that State's apportionment in the fiscal year 1982 bears
to the total amount appropriated pursuant to section 415 A for that
fiscal year.
For necessary expenses under title IV, part B of the Higher Education
Act, // 20 USC 1071. // $3,100,500,000, to remain available until
expended.
For carrying out titles III; VI, parts A and B; VIII; IX, parts B,
D and E; title X; and sections 417, 420, and 734 of the Higher
Education Act; section 406 A(2) of the General Education Provisions Act
(20 U.S.C. 1221e-1b(2)); section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961; title XIII, part H, subparts 1 and 2
of the Education Amendments of 1980; H.R. 3598 as passed the House on
November 4, 1981; and title V, section 528(5) of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1981, without regard to section 512(b) of the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, // 20 USC 1051, 1121, 1131,
1133, 1134d, 1134n, 1134r-2, 1135, 1070e-1, 1132d-3. 22 USC 2452. 94
Stat. 1496, 1502. 95 Stat. 450. 20 USC 3489. 95 Stat. 444. 94 Stat.
3170. // $385,525,000: Provided, That funds made available in Public
Law 96 - 536, section 110 for the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics
shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1985:
Provided further, That $2,000,000 shall be available until expended for
the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center: Provided
further, That $25,000,000 made available for interest subsidy grants
under section 734 of the Higher Education Act // 20 USC 1132d-3. //
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That sections
922(b)(2) and 922(e)(2) and the funding limitations set forth in section
922(e) of the Higher Education Act // 20 USC 1134e. // shall not apply
to funds in this Act.
For the payment of principal and interest on participation
certificates as authorized by the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare Appropriation Act, 1968, issued by the Government National
Mortgage Association as trustee on the behalf of the Department of
Education pursuant to the Federal National Mortgage Association Act (12
U.S.C. 1717(c)), and for the payment of interest expenses to the
Department of the Treasury as required by title VII, section 733(b)(2)
of the Higher Education Act, // 20 USC 1132d-2. // $20,143,000 to
remain available until expended. The Secretary is hereby authorized to
make such expenditures, within the limits of funds available under this
heading and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and
commitments without regard to fiscal year limitation as provided by
section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act (31 U.S.C. 849) as
may be necessary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget for
the current fiscal year. During fiscal year 1983, no new commitments
for loans may be made from this account.
The aggregate amount of commitments for loans made from the fund
established pursuant to title IV of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended
(12 U.S.C. 1749), for the fiscal year 1983 shall not exceed the total of
loan repayments and other income available during such period, less
operating costs. Payments of insufficiencies in fiscal year 1983 as may
be required by the Government National Mortgage Association, as trustee,
on account of outstanding beneficial interests or participations issued
pursuant to section 302(c) of the Federal National Mortgage Association
Charter Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1717) shall be made from the fund
established pursuant to title IV of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended
(12 U.S.C. 1749) using loan repayments and other income available during
fiscal year 1983. During fiscal year 1983 and within the resources and
authority available, gross commitments for the principal amount of
direct loans shall be $40,000,000.
For necessary expenses for education statistics activities and for
research and development, to carry out sections 405 and 406 of the
General Education Provisions Act, // 20 USC 1221e, 1221e-1. //
$64,203,000.
OVERSEAS
(SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM)
For payments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department
determines to be in excess of the normal requirements of the United
States, for necessary expenses of the Department of Education, as
authorized by law, $516,000, to remain available until expended.
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, titles I and
III of the Library Services and Construction Act (20 U.S.C., ch. 16);
// 20 USC 352, 355e, 351 // title II, part A, part B except section 224,
and part C of the Higher Education Act, // 20 USC 1022, 1031, 1034,
1041, 1031. // notwithstanding the provisions of section 221,
$80,320,000.
For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20 U.S.C. 101
- 105), $5,000,000.
For carrying out the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act
(20 U.S.C. 681 et seq.), $26,300,000.
For carrying out the Model Secondary School for the Deaf Act (80
Stat. 1027) and for the partial support of Gallaudet College authorized
by the Act of June 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 265), $52,000,000.
For patial support of Howard University, $145,200,000. If requested
by the university, construction financed by prior year appropriations to
this account shall be supervised by the General Services Administration.
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, as authorized
by section 203 of the Department of Education Organization Act,
$44,868,000.
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the
Department of Education Organization Act, including rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of three medium sedans,
$222,000,000. During the current fiscal year up to $10,500,000 from
collections of federally insured defaulted loans may be transferred to
this account for payment of related collection activities.
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General, as
authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education Organization
Act, // 20 USC 3422. // $12,840,000.
Sec. 301. None of the funds appropriated by this title for
grants-in-aid of State agencies to cover, in whole or in part, the cost
of operation of said agencies, including the salaries and expenses of
officers and employees of said agencies, shall be withheld from the said
agencies of any State which have established by legislative enactment
and have in operation a merit system and classification and compensation
plan covering the selection, tenure in office, and compensation of their
employees, because of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner
of their selection by the agencies of the said States, or the rates of
pay of said officers or employees.
Sec. 302. Funds appropriated in this Act to the American Printing
House for the Blind, Howard University, the National Technical Institute
for the Deaf, and Gallaudet College shall be subject to audit by the
Secretary of Education.
Sec. 303. None of the funds provided herein shall be used to pay any
recipient of a grant for the conduct of research an amount equal to as
much as the entire cost of such research.
Sec. 304. No part of the funds contained in this title may be used
to force any school or school district which is desegregated as that
term is defined in title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public Law
88 - 352, // 42 USC 2000c. // to take any action to force the busing of
students; to force on account of race, creed or color the abolishment
of any school so desegregated; or to force the transfer or assignment
of any student attending any elementary or secondary school so
desegregated to or from a particular school over the protest of his or
her parents or parent.
Sec. 305. (a) No part of the funds contained in this title shall be
used to force any school or school district which is desegregated as
that term is defined in title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Public
Law 88 - 352, // 42 USC 2000c. // to take any action to force the
busing of students; to require the abolishment of any school so
desegregated; or to force on account of race, creed, or color the
transfer of students to or from a particular school so desegregated as a
condition precedent to obtaining Federal funds otherwise available to
any State, school district or school.
(b) No funds appropriated in this Act may be used for the
transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase of equipment
for such transportation) in order to overcome racial imbalance in any
school or school system, or for the transportation of students or
teachers (or for the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in
order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or
school system.
Sec. 306. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to
require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a
school other than the school which is nearest the student's home, except
for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such
special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect requirement of
transportation of students includes the transportation of students to
carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of
schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any
combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. The
prohibition described in this section does not include the establishment
of magnet schools.
Sec. 307. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used to
prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and
meditation in the public schools.
This title may be cited as the " Department of Education
Appropriation Act, 1983".
For expenses necessary for Action to carry out the provisions of the
Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, // 42 USC 4951 // $129,321,000,
of which $11,831,000 shall be available to carry out title I, part A of
said Act: // 42 USC 4951. // Provided, That none of the funds
appropriated under this heading may be used to close State field offices
of the Action agency or to reduce the number of personnel engaged in
operating State field offices of the Action agency.
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as authorized
by the Public Broadcasting Amendments Act of 1981, // 95 Stat. 725. 47
USC 609. // an amount which shall be available within limitations
specified by said Act, for the fiscal year 1985, $130,000,000:
Provided, That no funds made available to the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to pay for receptions, parties
and similar forms of entertainment for government officials or
employees: Provided further, That none of the funds contained in this
paragraph shall be available or used to aid or support any program or
activity excluding from participation in, denying the benefits of, or
discriminating against any person on the basis of race, color, national
origin, religion or sex.
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor--,
Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171 - 180, 182), including
expenses of the Labor-Management Panel and boards of inquiry appointed
by the President, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and rental of
conference rooms in the District of Columbia; and for expenses
necessary pursuant to Public Law 93 - 360 // 88 Stat. 395. // for
mandatory mediation in health care industry negotiation disputes and for
convening factfinding boards of inquiry appointed by the Director in the
health care industry; and for expenses necessary for the Labor--,
Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 125a); // 29 USC 141 //
and for expenses necessary for the Service to carry out the functions
vested in it by the Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 95 - 454 (5
U.S.C. Chapter 71), // 5 USC 7101 // $21,321,000.
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review
Commission, $3,686,000.
Science
For necessary expenses of the National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science, established by the Act of July 20, 1970 (Public Law
91 - 345), // 20 USC 1501 // $674,000.
For necessary expenses to carry out section 491 of the Higher
Education Act, // 20 USC 1097. // $840,000.
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations Board to
carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management Relations
Act, 1947, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141 - 167), and other laws,
$124,045,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be
available to organize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or
used in connection with investigations, hearings, directives, or orders
concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural laborers as
referred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (29 U.S.C. 152),
and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended,
and as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June 25, 1938 (29 U.S.C.
203), and including in said definition employees engaged in the
maintenance and operation of ditches, canals, reservoirs, and waterways
when maintained or operated on a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least 95
per centum of the water stored or supplied thereby is used for farming
purposes.
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Railway
Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 - 188), including emergency boards
appointed by the President, $5,468,000.
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission, $6,316,000.
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, authorized under
section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, // 45 USC 231n.
// $430,000,000, which shall be credited to the account in 12
approximately equal amounts on the first day of each month in the fiscal
year.
For expenses necessary for the Railroad Retirement Board, $46,361,000
to be derived from the railroad retirement accounts: Provided, That
such portion of the foregoing amount as may be necessary shall be
available for the payment of personnel compensation and benefits for not
less than 1,162 full-time-equivalent employees: Provided further, That
$500,000 of the foregoing amount shall be available only to the extent
necessary to process workloads not anticipated in the budget estimates
and after maximum absorption of the costs of such workloads within the
remainder of the existing limitation has been achieved: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provisions in law, no portion of
this limitation shall be available for payments of standard level user
charges pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(j); 45
U.S.C. 228 a-r). For further expenses necessary for the Railroad
Retirement Board, for administration of the Railroad Unemployment
Insurance Act, not less than $16,644,000 shall be apportioned for fiscal
year 1983 pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended
(31 U.S.C. 665) from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment
insurance administration fund: Provided, That such portion of the
foregoing amount as may be necessary shall be available for the payment
of personnel compensation and benefits for not less than 416
full-time--, equivalent employees.
For administrative expenses authorized by section 14(c) of the
Milwaukee Railroad Restructuring Act, // 45 USC 913. // $250,000.
For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers' and
Airmen's Home, to be paid from the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home permanent
fund, $26,718,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be
available for the payment of hospitalization of members of the Home in
United States Army hospitals at rates in excess of those prescribed by
the Secretary of the Army upon recommendation of the Board of
Commissioners and the Surgeon General of the Army.
Sec. 501. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.
C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are
a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive
order issued pursuant to existing law.
Sec. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be expended by any executive agency, as referred to in the Office of
Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), pursuant to any
obligation for services by contract, unless such executive agency has
awarded and entered into such contract in full compliance with such Act
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Sec. 503. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for
salaries and expenses, shall be available for services as authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem
rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18.
Sec. 504. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for
salaries and expenses, shall be available for uniforms or allowances
therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902).
Sec. 505. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for
salaries and expenses, shall be available for expenses of attendance at
meetings which are concerned with the functions or activities for which
the appropriation is made or which will contribute to improved conduct,
supervision, or management of those functions or activites.
Sec. 506. No part of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be
used to provide a loan, guarantee of a loan, a grant, the salary of or
any remuneration whatever to any individual applying for admission,
attending, employed by, teaching at, or doing research at an institution
of higher education who has engaged in conduct on or after August 1,
1969, which involves the use of (or the assistance to others in the use
of) force or the threat of force or the seizure of property under the
control of an institution of higher education, to require or prevent the
availability of certain curricula, or to prevent the faculty,
administrative officials, or students in such institution from engaging
in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution.
Sec. 507. The Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Health and Human
Services are authorized to transfer unexpended balances of prior
appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropriations
provided in this Act: Provided, That such transferred balances are used
for the same purpose, and for the same periods of time, for which they
were originally appropriated.
Sec. 508. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless
expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 509. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be used, other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative
relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the
preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet,
publication, radio, television, or film presentation designed to support
or defeat legislation pending before the Congress, except in
presentation to the Congress itself.
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to
pay the salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient, or agent
acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to influence
legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress.
Sec. 510. The Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Health and Human
Services are each authorized to make available not to exceed $7,500 from
funds available for salaries and expenses under titles I, II, and III,
respectively, for official reception and representation expenses; the
Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized
to make available for official reception and representation expenses not
to exceed $2,500 from funds available for " Salaries and expenses,
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service"; and the Chairman of the
National Mediation Board is authorized to make available for official
reception and representation expenses not to exceed $2,500 from funds
available for " Salaries and expenses, National Mediation Board".
Sec. 511. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used
to pay for any research program or project or any program, project, or
course which is of an experimental nature, or any other activity
involving human participants, which is determined by the Secretary or a
court of competent jurisdiction to present a danger to the physical,
mental, or emotional well-being of a participant or subject of such
program, project, or course, without the written, informed consent of
each participant or subject, or a participant's parents or legal
guardian, if such participant or subject is under eighteen years of age.
The Secretary shall adopt appropriate regulations respecting this
section.
Sec. 512. Section 104 of Public Law 97 - 276 is deemed to charge no
amount appropriated by section 132, 134, 137, 141, or 142 of that joint
resolution to any appropriation, fund, or authorization contained in
this or any other measure whenever enacted.
This Act may be cited as the " Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1983".
(2) Such amounts as may be necessary for carrying out the following
activities, not otherwise provided for, at the current rate:
health planning activities authorized by the Public Health
Service Act:
// 42 USC 201 //
Provided, That, notwithstanding section 102 of this joint
resolution, no penalty shall be applied nor any State or agency
agreement terminated pursuant to sections 1512, 1515 or 1521 of
the Public Health Service Act
// 42 USC 300l-1, 300l-4, 300m. //
during fiscal year 1983;
activities under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
// 29 USC 801 //
as authorized by section 181 of the Job Training Partnership Act,
Public Law 97 - 300; sections 236, 237, and 238 of the Trade Act
of 1974,
// 19 USC 2296, 2297, 2298. //
as amended; section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954,
// 26 USC 51. //
as amended; and sections 210, 211, and 212 of Public Law 95 -
250;
// 92 Stat. 181. //
and
activities under the Department of Labor, Employment and
Training Administration, for " Program Administration".
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution,
neither the restriction contained in the proviso under the heading "
Occupational Safety and Health Administration: SALARIES AND EXPENSES"
in Public Law 97 - 257 (96 Stat. 844) nor any similar or comparable
provision of any other law shall apply or have any continuing effect
during fiscal year 1983 or any succeeding fiscal year.
(f) Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing activities which
were conducted in fiscal year 1982, for which provision was made in the
Energy and Water Development Act, 1982, at the current rate of
operations: Provided, That no funds under this heading shall be used
for further study or construction or in any fashion for a federally
funded waterway which extends the Tennessee Tombigbee project south from
the city of Demopolis, Alabama: Provided further, That no
appropriation, fund or authority made available by this joint resolution
or any other Act may be used directly or indirectly to significantly
alter, modify, dismantle, or otherwise change the normal operation and
maintenance required for any civil works project under Department of
Defense-Civil, Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers-Civil,
Operation and Maintenance, General, and the operation and maintenance
activities funded in Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries:
Provided further, That of such amount, $1,000,000 shall be available
only to provide for a wider navigation opening at the Franklin Ferry
Bridge, Jefferson County, Alabama: Provided further, That no
appropriation or fund made available or authority granted pursuant to
this paragraph shall be used to initiate or resume any project or
activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not
available during the fiscal year 1982 without prior approval of the
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That Department of
Energy, Atomic Energy Defense Activities, shall be funded at not to
exceed an annual rate for new obligational authority of $5,700,000,000,
of which not more than $4,372,000,000 shall be available for operating
expenses and not more than $1,328,000,000 shall be available for plant
and capital equipment, except that no funds shall be available for
Project 82-D-109: Provided further, That no appropriation, fund or
authority made available to the Department of Energy by this joint
resolution or any other Act, shall be used for any action which would
result in a significant reduction of the employment levels for any
program or activity below the employment levels in effect on September
30, 1982:
(g) Notwithstanding section 102(c) of this joint resolution, the
following amounts are provided for fiscal year 1983:
The amount of contracts for annual contributions, not otherwise
provided for, as authorized by section 5 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and heretofore approved in
appropriation Acts, is increased by $519,711,198: Provided, That the
budget authority obligated under such contracts shall be increased above
amounts heretofore provided in appropriation Acts by $8,651,475,689:
Provided further, That of the budget authority provided herein,
$361,760,000 shall be for assistance in financing the development or
acquisition cost of public housing for Indian families, $1,834,000,000
shall be for assistance for projects developed for the elderly or
handicapped under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12
U.S.C. 1701q), and $2,500,000,000 shall be for the modernization of
existing public housing projects pursuant to section 14 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 14371): Provided
further, That all budget authority recaptured and becoming available for
obligation in fiscal year 1983 shall only be made available for annual
contributions contracts under the section 8 moderate rehabilitation
program and the section 8 existing housing program (42 U.S.C. 1437f):
Provided further, That any balances of authorities made available prior
to the enactment of this Act which are or become available for
obligation in fiscal year 1983, shall be added to and merged with the
authority approved herein, and such merged amounts shall be made subject
only to terms and conditions of law applicable to authorizations
becoming available in fiscal year 1983: Provided further, That the
$89,321,727 of budget authority deferred and made available in
accordance with the provisos under the heading " Annual Contributions
for Assisted Housing" in Chapter VII of the Supplemental Appropriations
Act, 1982 (Public Law 97 - 257), shall be made available for the
modernization of vacant uninhabitable public housing units, pursuant to
section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, other
than section 14(f) of such Act: Provided further, That none of the
merged amounts available for obligation in 1983 shall be subject to the
provisions of section 5(c) (2) and (3) and the fourth sentence of
section 5(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1437c), and section 213(d) of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1439): Provided
further, That with respect to newly constructed and substantially
rehabilitated projects under section 8 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937, as amended, during 1983, the Secretary shall not impose a
percentage or other arbitrary limitation on the cost and rent increases
resulting from increased construction cost in exercising the authority
to approve cost and rent increases set forth in section 8(1) of such
Act: Provided further, That no funds provided in this joint resolution
or any other Act shall be used to administer or implement any
regulation, policy direction or handbook instruction concerning maximum
total development costs applicable to the public housing, Indian housing
or low-rent homeownership programs not in effect before September 7,
1982: Provided further, That the proceeding proviso may be waived by
the Committees on Appropriations after the Department of Housing and
Urban Development presents to the Appropriations Committees, and
analysis of the impact of the maximum total development cost regulation,
published September 8, 1982 in the Federal Register, amending 24 CFR
804, 805 and 841, upon the ability of local public housing authorities
to develop the units in the pipeline in a timely fashion.
For an additional amount for direct loan obligations for " Housing
for the Elderly or Handicapped Fund" under section 202 of the Housing
Act of 1959, as amended, (12 U.S.C. 1701q), $181,200,000: Provided,
That title I of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1983 (Public Law 97
- 272) is amended by striking out the period at the end of the paragraph
under the heading " Housing for the Elderly or Handicapped Fund", and
inserting in lieu thereof the following: Provided further, That
notwithstanding section 202(a)(3) of such Act, loans made in fiscal year
1983 shall bear an interest rate which does not exceed 9.25 per centum,
including the allowance adequate in the judgment of the Secretary to
cover administrative costs and probable losses under the program.".
The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments that may
be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into under
section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C.
1701s), is reduced in fiscal year 1983 by not more than $105,160,000 in
uncommitted balances of authorizations provided for this purpose in
appropriation Acts.
For an additional amount for commitments to guarantee loans to carry
out the purposes of the National Housing Act, as amended,
$6,100,000,000: Provided, That section 207(c)(3), the second proviso of
section 213(b)(2), section 220(d)(3)(B)(iii), section 221(d)(3)(ii),
section 221(d)(4)(ii), section 231(c)(2) and section 234(e)(3) of the
National Housing Act // 12 USC 1713, 1715e, 1715k, 1715l, 1715v, 1715y.
// are each amended by inserting "(by not to exceed 140 per centum where
the Secretary determines that a mortgage other than one purchased or to
be purchased under section 305 of this Act // 12 USC 1720. // by the
Government National Mortgage Association in implementing its special
assistance functions is involved)" after "90 per centum".
During 1983, within the resources and authority available, gross
obligations for the principal amounts of direct loans made pursuant to
section 305 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1720),
shall not exceed $500,000,000, which may be financed with collections
received in 1983, and additional obligations are authorized in such
amounts as are necessary for increases to prior year commitments.
(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution such
amounts as may be necessary for programs, projects, or activities
provided for in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriation Act, 1983 (H.R. 7356), to the extent and in the manner
provided for in the conference report and joint explanatory statement of
the Committee of Conference (House Report Number 97 - 978), passed by
the House of Representatives on December 18, 1982, and by the Senate on
December 19, 1982, as if such Act had been enacted into law: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution or any
other Act including the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriation Act, 1983, $2,000,000 is appropriated for " Fossil energy
research and development", Department of Energy, to remain available
until expended.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution such
sums as may be necessary for programs, projects, or activities provided
for in the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Related
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1983 (H.R. 7072), to the extent and in the
manner provided for in the conference report and joint explanatory
statement of the Committee of Conference (House Report Number 97 - 957),
filed in the House of Representatives on December 10, 1982, as if such
Act had been enacted into law.
Sec. 102. Appropriations and funds made available and authority
granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available from
December 17, 1982, and shall remain available until (a) enactment into
law of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this
joint resolution, or (b) enactment of the applicable appropriation Act
by both Houses without any provision for such project or activity, or
(c) September 30, 1983, whichever first occurs.
Sec. 103. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to this
joint resolution shall cover all obligations or expenditures incurred
for any project or activity during the period for which funds or
authority for such projects or activity are available under this joint
resolution.
Sec. 104. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution shall
be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization
whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or
authorization is contained is enacted into law.
Sec. 105. All obligations incurred in anticipation of the
appropriations and authority provided in this joint resolution for the
purposes of maintaining the minimum level of essential activities
necessary to protect life and property and bringing about orderly
termination of other functions are hereby ratified and confirmed if
otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this joint resolution.
Sec. 106. No provision in any appropriation Act for the fiscal year
1983 that makes the availability of any appropriation provided therein
dependent upon the enactment of additional authorizing or other
legislation shall be effective before the date set forth in section
102(c) of this joint resolution.
Sec. 107. // 5 USC 5343 // (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no part of any of the funds appropriated for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1983, by this Act or any other Act, may be used to pay any
prevailing rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5,
United States Code, or an employee covered by section 5348 of that
title, in an amount which exceeds--,
(1) for the period from October 1, 1982, until the next
applicable wage survey adjustment becomes effective, the rate
which was payable for the applicable grade and step to such
employee under the applicable wage schedule that was in effect and
payable on September 30, 1982; and
(2) for the period consisting of the remainder of the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1983, a rate which exceeds, as a result
of a wage survey adjustment, the rate payable under paragraph (1)
of this subsection by more than the overall average percentage of
the adjustment in the General Schedule during the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1983.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9(b) of Public Law 92 -
392 or section 704(b) of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, // 5 USC
5343 // the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall apply (in
such manner as the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe) to
prevailing rate employees to whom such section 9(b) applies, except that
the provisions of subsection (a) may not apply to any increase in a wage
schedule or rate which is required by the terms of a contract entered
into before the date of enactment of this Act.
(c) For the purposes of subsection (a) of this section, the rate
payable to any employee who is covered by this section and who is paid
from a schedule which was not in existence on September 30, 1982, shall
be determined under regulations prescribed by the President.
(d) The provisions of this section shall apply only with respect to
pay for services performed by affected employees after the date of
enactment of this Act.
(e) For the purpose of administering any provision of law, rule, or
regulation which provides premium pay, retirement, life insurance, or
any other employee benefit, which requires any deduction or
contribution, or which imposes any requirement or limitation, on the
basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic pay
payable after the application of this section shall be treated as the
rate of salary or basic pay.
(f) Notwithstanding the limitations imposed on prevailing rate pay
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and section 109 of Public Law
97 - 276, an Act to make continuing appropriations for the fiscal year
1983, such limitations shall not apply to wage adjustments for
prevailing rate supervisors provided by the supervisory pay plan
published in the Federal Register on May 21, 1982. (47 FR22100).
Sec. 108. No part of any appropriation contained in, or funds made
available by this or any other Act, shall be available for any agency to
pay to the Administrator of the General Services Administration a higher
rate per square foot for rental of space and services (established
pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act of 1949, // 40 USC 490. // as amended) than the rate per
square foot established for the space and services by the General
Services Administration for the current fiscal year and for which
appropriations were granted: Provided, That no part of any
appropriation contained in, or funds made available by this or any other
Act, shall be available for any agency to pay to the Administrator of
the General Services Administration a higher rate per square foot for
rental space and services (established pursuant to section 210(j) of the
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended)
than the rate per square foot established for the space and services by
the General Services Administration for the fiscal year 1982.
Sec. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, the following administrative provision shall apply to the
Veterans Administration: The $35,000,000 limitation on Veterans
Administration medical automatic data processing services carried in the
Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies
Appropriation Act, 1983 (Public Law 97 - 272), is hereby repealed:
Provided, That none of the funds which are made available by this or any
other Act shall be used to further develop, implement, install,
administer, operate, or maintain the computerized medical information
support system (COMISS) as described in the VA ADP and
Telecommunications Plan, fiscal years 1984 - 1987, dated September 1982,
except to administer, operate and maintain the currently operational
outpatient automated pharmacy, prescription, labeling, and editing
system (APPLES) at locations where such system is currently operating:
Provided further, That fifty-two of the full-time equivalent employment
(FTEE) ceiling assigned to the Office of Data Management and
Telecommunications for the development of COMISS shall immediately be
transferred to the Department of Medicine and Surgery to support the
decentralized hospital computer program: Provided further, That the
FTEE ceiling for the Office of Data Management and Telecommunications in
fiscal year 1983 shall not exceed one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-four, including not to exceed one FTEE located in the Central
Office to support APPLES: Provided further, That $1,000,000 of the
amount appropriated to the " General operating expenses" account in the
Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies
Appropriation Act, 1983 (Public Law 97 - 272), is hereby transferred to
the " Medical care" account to support the transferred FTEE.
Sec. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, moneys deposited into the National Defense Stockpile
Transaction Fund under section 9(b) of the Strategic and Critical
Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98h(b)) are hereby made available,
subject to such limitations as may be provided in appropriation Acts and
in section 5(a)(1) of such Act, // 50 USC 98d. // until expended for
the acquisition of strategic and critical materials under section
6(a)(1) of such Act // 50 USC 98e. // (and for transportation and other
incidental expenses related to such acquisition). This paragraph
applies without fiscal year limitation to moneys deposited into the fund
before, on, or after October 1, 1982: Provided, That during the fiscal
year ending on September 30, 1983, not more than $120,000,000 in
addition to amounts previously appropriated in prior years, may be
obligated from amounts in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction
Fund for the acquisition of strategic and critical materials under
section 6(a)(1) of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act
(50 U.S.C. 98e(a)(1)) and for transportation and other incidental
expenses related to such acquisition.
Sec. 111 A. Notwithstanding section 102(c) of this joint resolution,
subsection (c) of section 4 of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and
Internment of Civilians Act (50 U.S.C. App. 1981 note) is amended by
striking out "shall submit" and all that follows through the end of the
subsection and inserting in lieu thereof "may make available to the
public such interim findings and other information as it deems
appropriate and shall submit a written report of its findings and
recommendations to Congress not later than June 30, 1983.".
Sec. 111 B. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution // 39 USC 403 // the Postal Service shall continue six-day
delivery of mail and rural delivery of mail shall continue at the 1982
level.
Sec. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 102(c), there are appropriated to the Postal
Service Fund sufficient amounts so that postal rates for all
preferred--, rate mailers covered by section 3626 of title 39, United
States Code, shall be maintained at Step 14.
Sec. 113. No reduction in the amount payable to any State under
title IV of the Social Security Act // 42 USC 603 42 USC 601. // with
respect to any of the fiscal years 1977 through 1983 shall be made prior
to the date on which this resolution expires on account of the
provisions of section 403(h) of such Act. // 42 USC 603. //
Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution or any other provision of law, none of the funds made
available under this resolution or any other law shall be used for the
purposes of conducting any studies relating or leading to the
possibility of changing from the currently required "at cost" to a
"market rate" or any other noncost-based method for the pricing of
hydroelectric power by the six Federal public power authorities, or
other agencies or authorities of the Federal Government, except as may
be specifically authorized by Act of Congress hereafter enacted.
Sec. 115. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, except section 102, expenditures from the Bonneville Power
Administration Fund, established pursuant to Public Law 93 - 454, // 16
USC 838. // are approved for construction of Boundary Integration and
Colville Valley Support; official reception and representation expenses
in an amount not to exceed $2,500; and for the purposes of providing
funds for conservation and renewable resource loans and grants as
specified in the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and
Conservation Act (Public Law 96 - 501), // 16 USC 839. //
$1,250,000,000 borrowing authority is made available to remain
outstanding at any given time: Provided, That the obligation of such
additional borrowing authority not exceed $276,000,000 in fiscal year
1983.
Sec. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, there is appropriated to the Department of the Treasury
$248,000,000 for " Salaries and expenses", Bureau of Government
Financial Operations; $170,510,000 for " Salaries and expenses",
Internal Revenue Service; $1,009,409,000 for " Examinations and
Appeals", Internal Revenue Service; $1,000,778,000 for " Taxpayer
Service and Returns Processing", Internal Revenue Service; $553,700,000
for " Salaries and expenses", United States Customs Service: Provided,
That none of these funds shall be available to close or relocate Customs
offices in Duluth, Minnesota/ Superior, Wisconsin; Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Hartford, Connecticut; Portland,
Oregon; Miami, Florida; St. Albans, Vermont; or Anchorage, Alaska, or
to consolidate or reduce personnel, programs or functions of these
offices; and $235,000,000 for " Salaries and expenses" (including the
hire of 200 new special agents), United States Secret Service.
Sec. 117. None of the funds contained in this resolution shall be
available for the implementation and enforcement of any Internal Revenue
ruling relating to the application of sections 511, 512, and 513 of the
Internal Revenue Code // 26 USC 511, 512, 513. // to revenues generated
as a result of North Dakota Century Code chapter 53 - 06.
Sec. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, $770,000,000 shall be available for rental of space within
the Federal Buildings Fund of the General Services Administration.
Sec. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, none of the funds made available by this Act shall be used
to reduce the number of positions allocated to taxpayer service
activities below fiscal year 1982 levels or to reduce the number of
positions allocated to any other direct taxpayer assistance functions
below fiscal year 1982 levels, including, but not limited to toll free
telephone tax law assistance and Internal Revenue Service walk-in
assistance available at Internal Revenue Service field offices.
Sec. 120. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, none of the funds made available to the General Services
Administration under this Act shall be obligated or expended after date
of enactment of this Act for the procurement by contract of any service
which, before such date, was performed by individuals in their capacity
as employees of the General Services Administration in any position
described in section 3310 of title 5, United States Code.
Sec. 121. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, funds available to the Federal Building Fund within the
General Services Administration may be used to initiate new
construction, purchase, advance design, and repairs and alteration
line-item projects which are included in the Treasury, Postal Service
and General Government Appropriation Act, 1983, as passed by the House
or as reported to the Senate.
Sec. 122. Section 2 of Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1979 (93
Stat. 1382, 5 U.S.C. Appendix) // 19 USC 2171 // is amended by adding
thereto a new subsection (e) as follows:
"(e) There shall be in the Department of Commerce a Director General
of the United States and Foreign Commercial Services who shall be
appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate prescribed by law for
level IV of the Executive Schedule."
Sec. 123. Section 5314 of title V, United States Code // 5 USC 5315.
// is amended by adding the following at the end thereof: " Executive
Director Property Review Board".
Sec. 124. Section 305(b) of Public Law 97 - 253 // 5 USC 8345 // is
amended by inserting before the period the following: ", except for
those individuals who serve three days or less in the month of
retirement".
Sec. 125. No funds appropriated by this joint resolution or any
other Act may be used to enter into a restructured contract of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration for tracking and data
relay satellite services if the estimated impact on total program cost
of such restructured contract exceeds $216,000,000, or if the estimated
total cost of the restructured tracking and data relay satellite
services program exceeds $2,704,000,000, unless the Committees on
Appropriations, having been apprised of higher estimates by the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
approve entering into such contract: Provided, That if at any time the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
estimates that the total cost of the tracking and data relay satellite
services program will exceed $2,704,000,000, or that the impact on total
cost of restructuring the contract for such services will exceed
$216,000,000, he shall promptly notify the Committees on Appropriations
and shall take no actions that would cause such costs to increase
without the approval of the Committees on Appropriations.
Sec. 126. Of the funds made available to the Department of Defense
by this joint resolution, $200,000 shall be transferred to the
Department of Education which shall grant such sum to the Board of
Education of the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery, New York central school
district. The funds transferred by this section shall be in addition to
any assistance to which the Board may be entitled under subchapter 1,
chapter 13 of title 20 United States Code. // 20 USC 236. //
Sec. 127. The provisions of H. Res. 611, 97th Congress, approved
November 30, 1982, // 2 USC 88b-2, 88b-3, 88b-4. // relating to the
House of Representatives Page Board, shall be the permanent law with
respect thereto.
Sec. 128. No funds provided under this joint resolution shall be
used to deny or reduce supplemental security income or aid to families
with dependent children benefits because of home energy assistance
provided by a private nonprofit organization, or any entity whose
revenues are primarily derived on a rate-of-return basis regulated by a
State or Federal governmental body, if the appropriate State agency has
certified that such assistance was based on need as determined by such
organization or entity.
Sec. 129. (a) Section 101(e) of Public Law 97 - 276 // 5 USC 5318 //
is amended by striking out " December 17, 1982," and inserting "
September 30, 1983,".
(b) In lieu of payment of salary increases of up to 27.2 percent as
authorized by law for senior executive, judicial, and legislative
positions (including Members of Congress), it is the purpose of this
section to limit such increases to 15 percent. Notwithstanding the
provisions of section 306 of S. 2939 made applicable by subsection (a)
of this section, nothing in subsection (a) shall (or be construed to)
require that the rate of salary or pay payable to any individual for or
on account of services performed after December 17, 1982, be limited to
an amount less than the rate (or maximum rate, if higher) of salary or
pay payable as of such date for the position involved increased by 15
percent and rounded in accordance with section 5318 of title 5, United
States Code.
(c) Subsection (b) shall not apply to Senators.
(d) For the purposes of any rule, regulation, or order having the
force and effect of law and limiting the annual rates of compensation of
officers and employees of the Senate by reference to the annual rate of
pay of Senators, the annual rate of pay of Senators shall be deemed to
be the annual rate of pay that would be payable to Senators without
regard to subsection (c) of this section.
Sec. 130. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, there is appropriated to the " Federal Labor Relations
Authority", $15,500,000.
Sec. 131. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United
States executive directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development, the International Development Association, the
International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank,
the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the African
Development Bank, and the African Development Fund to use the voice and
vote of the United States to oppose any assistance by these
institutions, using funds appropriated or made available pursuant to
this or any other Act, for the production of any commodity for export,
if it is in surplus on world markets and if the assistance will cause
substantial injury to United States producers of the same, similar, or
competing commodity.
Sec. 132. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, none of the funds appropriated or made available (other than
funds for " Operating expenses of the Agency for International
Development") pursuant to this Act for carrying out the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, // 22 USC 2151 // may be used to finance the
operating expenses of the Agency for International Development, except
that funds contained in deferral numbered D83 - 1 shall be used for
operating expenses of the Agency for International Development.
Sec. 133. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, none of the funds appropriated under section 101(b) of this
joint resolution may be available for any country during any 3-month
period beginning on or after October 1, 1982, immediately following the
certification of the President to the Congress that such country is not
taking adequate steps to cooperate with the United States to prevent
narcotic drugs and other controlled substances (as listed in the
schedules in section 202 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention
Control Act of 1971 (21 U.S.C. 812)) which are produced, processed, or
transported in such country from entering the United States unlawfully.
Sec. 134. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, of the new obligational authority appropriated under section
101(b) to carry out the provisions of sections 103 through 106 of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, // 22 USC 2151a-2151d. // not less than
30 percent shall be available for loans for the fiscal year 1983 (funds
for such loans shall remain available for obligation until September 30,
1984): Provided, That loans made pursuant to this authority to
countries whose annual per capita gross national product is greater than
$795 but less than $1,285 shall be repayable within twenty-five years
following the date on which funds are initially made available under
such loans and loans to countries whose annual per capita gross national
product is greater than or equal to $1,285 shall be repayable within
twenty years following the date on which funds are initially made
avaiable under such loans.
Sec. 135. Payments required by section 4 of Public Law 97 - 346 with
respect to the Vice President, Senators, and officers and employees of
the Senate shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate out of
the account in such fund for " Miscellaneous Items".
Sec. 136. // 45 USC 591 // Any commuter authority operating commuter
service transferred from the Consolidated Rail Corporation under part 2
of the Northeast Rail Service Act of 1981 // 95 Stat. 647. 45 USC 744a.
// shall be subject to applicable laws with respect to such service.
Sec. 137. // 45 USC 1113 // Conrail employees who are deprived of
employment by assumption or discontinuance of intercity passenger
service by Amtrak shall hereafter be eligible for employee protection
benefits under section 701 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of
1973 (45 U.S.C. 797), notwithstanding any other provision of law,
agreement, or arrangement, and notwithstanding the inability of such
employees otherwise to meet the eligibility requirements of such
section. Such protection shall be the exclusive protection applicable
to Conrail employees deprived of employment or adversely affected by any
such assumption or discontinuance.
Sec. 138. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, the provisions of section 616 of H.R. 7158, the Treasury,
Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act, 1983, and
section 614 of S. 2916, the Treasury, Postal Service, and General
Government Appropriation Bill 1983, shall not apply to funds
appropriated or otherwise made available by this joint resolution.
Sec. 139. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be
obligated or expended in any way for the purpose of the sale, lease, or
rental of any portion of land currently identified as Fort De Russy
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Sec. 140. The authorization for the water project on Bradley Lake,
near Cook Inlet, Alaska described in the plans recommended in the report
of the Chief of Engineers contained in House Document Numbered 455, 87th
Congress, which plan was adopted and authorized by the Flood Control Act
of 1962 (76 Stat. 1180, 1193) is hereby terminated: Provided, That for
clarification, funds in the amount of $31,050,000 authorized to be
appropriated in fiscal year 1978 for continuation of construction of
distribution systems and drains on the San Luis Unit, Central Valley
Project under Public Law 95 - 46 // 91 Stat. 225. // shall remain
available until expended: Provided further, That $4,000,000 shall be
made available for the Yatesville Lake construction project: Provided
further, That funds available or hereafter made available for the
project for flood protection on the Sacramento River, California,
authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1960, // 33 USC 701r-1, 709a. //
may be used for construction of bank erosion control works along the
banks of the Sacramento River for Chico Landing to the upstream ends of
the project levees.
Sec. 141. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, including section 102, there are appropriated $3,500,000 for
carrying out the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, which is in addition to
amounts otherwise available under section 137 of Public Law 97 - 276 and
under this joint resolution for carrying out such Act.
Sec. 142. (a) For payment to the Alaska Railroad Revolving Fund for
capital improvements, replacements, operations, and maintenance,
$7,600,000, to remain available until expended.
(b) For an additional amount to execute contracts for the Dodge
Island Bridge Project, Miami, Florida, in accordance with the provisions
of Title 23, United States Code, Section 144, $23,200,000 to be derived
from the Highway Trust Fund, and to remain available until expended:
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, obligations
incurred under this section shall not be subject to any limitation on
obligations for federal-aid highways.
Sec. 143. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, until the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia renders a final decision in Case No. 82 - 2389, (National Cable
Television Assoc., Inc. v. Copyright Royalty Tribunal), or March 15,
1983, whichever occurs first, no funds appropriated by this joint
resolution or any other Act of Congress which provides funds for the
Library of Congress and the Copyright Royalty Tribunal for fiscal year
1983 shall be expended to implement, enforce, award, or collect royalty
fees under, and no obligation or liability for copyright royalty fees
shall accrue until March 15, 1983 pursuant to, the decision announced by
the Copyright Royalty Tribunal on October 20, 1982, Docket Numbered 81 -
2, and any subsequent decision, order, memorandum, or opinion issued by
the Tribunal in such docket, insofar as such decision and any subsequent
decision, order, memorandum, or opinion relate to the establishment of a
royalty rate of 3.75 per centum of the gross receipts of certain cable
systems for the carriage of certain distant signal equivalents. Nothing
in this section shall be construed as barring the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal from expending funds to decide, and to issue written materials
with regard to its Docket Number 81 - 2, and to defend in court or
elsewhere its decisions, orders, memoranda, or opinions in such docket
or relating to the subject matter of such docket.
Nothing in this joint resolution shall inhibit the Library of
Congress and the Copyright Office from expending funds duly appropriated
for the general purpose of administering the Copyright Act, // 17 USC
101 // including the compulsory licensing provisions therein, except as
solely and specifically related to implementation of the Copyright
Royalty Tribunal's rate determination of October 20, 1982 as set out in
47 FR 52146 (November 19, 1982) until the Court of Appeals has rendered
a final decision regarding said determination as it relates to the
distant signal rate adjustment.
Sec. 144. Notwithstanding any provision of this joint resolution or
any other law or regulation, payments for local educational agencies
under the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, 81st Congress) //
20 USC 236. // in Montana for fiscal year 1983 shall be computed from
corrected 1981 financial data. The provisions of this section shall not
apply unless the following conditions are met:
(1) No such payments shall be made until an audit is conducted. (2)
No such payments shall be made prior to March 30, 1983. (3) The total
amount of the increase in payments made by reason of this section shall
not exceed $3,000,000. (4) No such payments shall be made prior to the
submission of the audit report to the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate and of the House of Representatives.
Sec. 145. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, section 5546a(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended
(1) by deleting the period at the end of paragraph (2) of subsection (a)
and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word "and", and (2) by
inserting immediately after paragraph (2) of subsection (a) the
following new paragraph:
"(3) any employee of the Federal Aviation Administration who
occupies a position at the Federal Aviation Administration
Academy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the duties of which are
determined by the Administrator to require the individual to be
actively engaged in or directly responsible for training employees
to perform the duties of a position described in subparagraph (a);
(b); or (c) or paragraph (1) of this subsection, and who,
immediately prior to assuming such position at such Academy,
occupied a position referred to in subparagraph (a), (b), or (c)
of paragraph (1) of this subsection.".
Sec. 146. No funds, including funds provided in this joint
resolution or in the account entitled " Expenses, Disposal of Surplus
Real and Related Personal Property" (Account No. 47 - 5254 - 0 - 2 -
804), may be expended by the General Services Administration to proceed
with any sale or disposal of real property and improvements known as the
Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center at Beavertail Point, Jamestown,
Rhode Island, containing 6.81 acres, more or less, and identified by
General Services Administration control number N-RI-482 A.
Sec. 147. Section 1618 of the Social Security Act // 42 USC 1382g.
// is amended by adding the following new subsection:
"(c) The Secretary shall not find that a State has failed to
meet the requirements imposed by paragraph (4) of subsection (a)
with respect to the levels of its, supplementary payments for any
portion of the period July 1, 1980 through June 30, 1981, if the
State's expenditures for such payments in that twelve--, month
period were not less than its expenditures for such payments for
the period July 1, 1976 through June 30, 1977 (or, if the State
made no supplementary payments in the period July 1, 1976 through
June 30, 1977, the expenditures for the first twelve-month period
extending from July 1 through June 30 in which the State made such
payments).".
Sec. 148. There is appropriated $25,000,000 for carrying out title
XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, // 95 Stat. 893.
42 USC 8621. // relating to low income home energy assistance, which is
in addition to amounts otherwise available for such title XXVI under
this joint resolution.
Sec. 149. (A) Notwithstanding the first sentence of section 103(e)(
4) of title 23, United States Code, the Secretary of Transportation
shall approve the withdrawal from the Interstate System the route of
Interstate Route 95 and Interstate Route 695 from the intersection with
Interstate Route 295 in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, to
the proposed intersection with Interstate Route 287 in Franklin
Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.
(B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of
Transportation is authorized and directed, pursuant to section 103 of
such title, // 23 USC 103. // to designate as part of the Interstate
Highway System the New Jersey Turnpike from exit 10 to the interchange
with the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the Pennsylvania Turnpike from such
interchange to and including the proposed interchange with Interstate
Route 95 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(C) The Secretary of Transportation is further authorized and
directed to designate Interstate Route 95 and assure through proper sign
designations the orderly connection of Interstate Route 95 pursuant to
this section.
Sec. 150. // 30 USC 1235 // Within 60 days of receipt of a complete
abandoned mine reclamation fund grant application from any eligible
State under the provisions of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation
Act (91 Stat. 460) // 30 USC 1235. // the Secretary of Interior shall
grant to such State any and all funds available for such purposes in the
applicable appropriations Act.
Sec. 151. Notwithstanding Public Law 95 - 622, // 42 USC 2689 //
funds made available to the President's Commission for the Study of
Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
under Public Law 97 - 216 shall remain available until March 31, 1983.
Sec. 152. Section 10526(a) of title 49, United States Code, is
amended--,
(1) by striking "or" at the end of paragraph (12);
(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (13), and
inserting in lieu thereof "; or,"; and
(3) by adding at the end thereof the following:
Sec. 153. None of the funds appropriated in this joint resolution or
Public Law 97 - 276 shall be used for the development, initiation, or
implementation of plans, drawings, architectural engineering work,
design work, site preparation or acquisition for, or the construction
of, any new Senate office buildings or additions to existing Senate
office buildings. This provision does not apply to planning,
construction, or completion for the Philip A. Hart Senate Office
Building.
Sec. 154. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or this joint
resolution, none of the funds provided for " International Organizations
and Programs" under section 101(b) of this joint resolution shall be
available for the United States' proportionate share for any programs
for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Southwest Africa Peoples
Organization, or Cuba.
Sec. 155. (a) It is the purpose of this section to provide the
Secretary of Energy the exclusive authority for the disbursement of the
designated petroleum violation escrow funds for limited restitutional
purposes (1) which are reasonably expected to benefit the class of
persons injured by such violations, and (2) which, based on information
previously provided to Congress by the Secretary of Energy, are likely
not to be, through procedures established by regulation, otherwise
refunded to injured persons because the purchasers of the refined
petroleum products cannot be reasonably identified or paid or because
the amount of each purchaser's over--, charge is too small to be capable
of reasonable determination.
(b) As soon as practicable, the Secretary of Energy shall disburse
designated petroleum violation escrow funds to the Governors of the
States in accordance with the formula set forth in subsection (d).
(c) Amounts disbursed to the Governor of any state shall be used by
the Governor as if such funds were received under one or more energy
conservation programs. The Governor shall identify to the Secretary
within one year after the time of disbursement the energy conservation
program or programs to which the funds are or will be applied. Funds
disbursed under this section shall be used to supplement, and not
supplant, funds otherwise available for such programs under Federal or
State law.
(d) The disbursement by the Secretary of Energy to each State shall
be based on the ratio, calculated by the Secretary, which--,
(1) the volume of refined petroleum products consumed within
that State during the period beginning September 1, 1973, and
ending January 28, 1981, bears to
(2) the volume of refined petroleum products consumed within
all States during such period.
Calculations made by the Secretary of Energy under this subsection shall
be based upon estimates by the Secretary from reasonably available
information.
(e) For purposes of this section--,
(1) The term "designated petroleum violation escrow funds"
means amounts (not in excess of $200,000,000) which are derived
from settlements from alleged petroleum pricing and allocation
violations generally resulting in overcharges to purchasers of
refined petroleum products and held in trust accounts administered
by the Department of Energy on December 17, 1982, and which--,
of
potential claimants identified in the proceedings of the
Office of Hearings and Appeals initiated prior to
December
17, 1982, or identified in judicial proceedings
initiated prior
to such date; and
with
the remedial order or consent order covering such funds.
(2) The term "energy conservation programs" means--,
Conservation
and Existing Buildings Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6861
and
following);
Energy
Policy and Conservation Act (relating to primary and
supplemental
State energy conservation programs; 42 U.S.C.
6321 and following);
Policy
and Conservation Act (relating to energy conservation
for
schools and hospitals; 42 U.S.C. 6371 and following);
Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 7001 and following); and
following).
(3) The term " State" means each of the several States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any
territory or possession of the United States.
(4) The term " Governor", when used with respect to any State,
means the Governor or the chief executive officer of that State.
(5) The term "refined petroleum product" means gasoline,
kerosene, distillates, (including Number 2 fuel oil), LPG (other
than ethane), refined lubricating oils, diesel fuel, and residual
fuel oil, but does not include refinery feedstocks.
(f) No funds disbursed under this section may be used for any
administrative expenses of the Department of Energy or of any State,
whether incurred in connection with any energy conservation program or
otherwise
Sec. 156. // 42 USC 402 // (a)(1) The head of the agency shall pay
each month an amount determined under paragraph (2) to a person--,
(A) who is the surviving spouse of a member or a former member
of the Armed Forces described in subsection (c);
(B) who has in such person's care a child of such member or
former member who has attained sixteen years of age but not
eighteen years of age and is entitled to a child's insurance
benefit under section 202(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.
C. 402(d)) for such month; and
(C) who is not entitled for such month to a mother's insurance
benefit under section 202(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.
C. 402(g)) by reason of having such child (or any other child of
such member or former member) in her care.
(2) A payment under paragraph (1) for any month shall be in the
amount of the mother's insurance benefit, if any, that such person would
receive for such month under section 202(g) of the Social Security Act
// 42 USC 402. // if such child were under sixteen years of age,
disregarding any adjustments made under section 215(i) of the Social
Security Act // 42 USC 415. // after August 1981. However, if such
person is entitled for such month to a mother's insurance benefit under
section 202(g) of such Act by reason of having the child of a person
other than such member or former member of the Armed Forces in such
person's care, the amount of the payment under the preceding sentence
for such month shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of
the benefit payable by reason of having such child in such person's
care.
(b)(1) The head of the agency shall pay each month an amount
determined under paragraph (2) to a person--,
(A) who is the child of a member or former member of the Armed
Forces described in subsection (c);
(B) who has attained eighteen years of age but not twenty-two
years of age and is not under a disability as defined in section
223(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 423(d));
(C) who is a full-time student at a postsecondary school,
college, or university that is an educational institution (as such
terms were defined in section 202(d)(7) (A) and (C) of the Social
Security Act
// 42 USC 402. //
as in effect before the amendments made by section 2210(a) of the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 97 - 35; 95
Stat. 841)); and
(D) who is not entitled for such month to a child's insurance
benefit under section 202(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.
C. 402(d)) or is entitled for such month to such benefit only by
reason of section 2210(c) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
of 1981 (95 Stat. 842).
// 42 USC 402 //
(2) A payment under paragraph (1) for any month shall be in the
amount that the person concerned would have been entitled to receive for
such month as a child's insurance benefit under section 202(d) of the
Social Security Act (as in effect before the amendments made by section
2210(a) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (95 Stat.
841)), disregarding any adjustments made under section 215(i) of the
Social Security Act after August 1981, // 42 USC 415. // but reduced
for any month by any amount payable to such person for such month under
section 2210(c) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (95
Stat. 842).
(c) A member or former member of the Armed Forces referred to in
subsection (a) or (b) as described in this subsection is a member or
former member of the Armed Forces who died on active duty before August
13, 1981, or died from a service-connected disability incurred or
aggravated before such date.
(d)(1) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide to
the head of the agency such information as the head of the agency may
require to carry out this section.
(2) The head of the agency shall carry out this section under
regulations which the head of the agency shall prescribe. Such
regulations shall be prescribed not later than ninety days after the
date of the enactment of this section.
(e)(1) Unless otherwise provided by law--,
(A) each time after December 31, 1981, that an increase is made
by law in the dependency and indemnity compensation paid under
section 411 of title 38, United States Code, the head of the
agency shall, at the same time and effective as of the same date
on which such increase takes effect, increase the benefits paid
under subsection (a) by a percentage that is equal to the overall
average (rounded to the nearest one-tenth of 1 per centum) of the
percentages by which each of the dependency and indemnity
compensation rates under section 411 of such title
// 38 USC 411. //
are increased above the rates as in effect immediately before such
increase; and
(B) each time after December 31, 1981, that an increase is made
by law in the rates of educational assistance allowances provided
for under section 1731(b) of title 38, United States Code, the
head of the agency shall, at the same time and effective as of the
same date on which such increase takes effect, increase the
benefits paid under subsection (b) by a percentage that is equal
to the overall average (rounded to the nearest one-tenth of 1 per
centum) of the percentages by which each of the educational
assistance allowance rates provided for under section 1731(b) of
such title
// 38 USC 1731. //
are increased above the rates as in effect immediately before such
increase.
(2) The amount of the benefit payable to any person under subsection
(a) or (b) and the amount of any increase in any such benefit made
pursuant to clause (1) or (2) of this subsection, if not a multiple of
$1, shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of $1.
(f) Payments under subsections (a) and (b) shall be made only for
months after the month in which this section is enacted.
(g)(1) During fiscal year 1983 the Secretary of Defense shall
transfer from time to time from the " Retired Pay, Defense" account of
the Department of Defense to the head of the agency such amounts as the
head of the agency determines to be necessary to pay the benefits
provided for under subsections (a) and (b) during such fiscal year and
to pay the administrative expenses incurred in paying such benefits
during such fiscal year. The Secretary of Defense may transfer funds
under this subsection in advance of the payment of benefits and expenses
by the head of the agency.
(2) The head of the agency shall establish on the books of the agency
over which he exercises jurisdiction a new account to be used for the
payment of benefits under subsections (a) and (b) and shall credit to
such account all funds transferred to him for such purpose by the
Secretary of Defense.
(h) The head of the agency and the Secretary of Health and Human
Services may enter into an agreement to provide for the payment by the
Secretary or the head of the agency of benefits provided for under
subsection (a) and benefits provided for under section 202(g) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402(g)) in a single monthly payment and
for the payment by the Secretary or the head of the agency of benefits
provided for under subsection (b) and benefits provided for under
section 202(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402(d)) in a single
monthly payment, if the head of the agency and the Secretary agree that
such action would be practicable and cost effective to the Government.
(i) For the purposes of this section:
(1) The term "head of the agency" means the head of such
department or agency of the Government as the President shall
designate to administer the provisions of this section.
(2) The terms "active military, naval, or air service" and
"service-connected" have the meanings given those terms in
paragraphs (24) and (16), respectively, of section 101 of title
38, United States Code, except that for the purposes of this
section such terms do not apply to any service in the commissioned
corps of the Public Health Service or the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
Sec. 157. Upon request of the city of Tacoma, Washington, the
Secretary of Commerce shall authorize such city to sell or lease to any
person the Pantages Centre for the Performing Arts building, without
affecting the Federal assistance provided under the Public Works and
Economic Development Act of 1965 // 42 USC 3121 // (project numbered 07
- 11 - 02513), if such transfer documents provide for the operation of
such facility as a performing arts center for at least twenty-five years
after such transfer.
Sec. 158. For activities of the White House Conference on
Productivity, including the conduct of regional and local conferences
throughout the United States, as authorized by Public Law 97 - 367,
$1,500,000.
Sec. 159 Funds in this joint resolution may not be made available for
payment to the International Atomic Energy Agency unless the Board of
Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency certifies to the
United States Government that the State of Israel is allowed to
participate fully as a member nation in the activities of that Agency,
and the Secretary of State transmits such certification to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and the President of the United States
Senate.
Sec. 160. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, there is appropriated $100,000,000 for carrying out title
XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, // 95 Stat. 893.
42 USC 8621. // relating to low-income home energy assistance, which is
in addition to amounts otherwise available for such title XXVI under
this joint resolution.
Sec. 161. The Nation's economy is entering the seventeenth month of
a severe recession, with few signs of recovery;
Nearly twenty million people are underemployed or unemployed due to
this recession;
Our Nation's steel, auto and housing industries and our agricultural
sector remain mired in a depression;
Given the current underutilization of both labor and capital, lower
interest rates will not rekindle inflation;
Lower interest rates are the key to higher employment, higher
production and sustained economic growth; therefore, be it
Declared that it is the Sense of the Congress that: In recent
months, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal
Open Market Committee have made a significant contribution to the lower
interest rates without rekindling inflation, and that, with due regard
for controlling inflation so as not to have an opposite effect of
driving interest rates upward, they should continue to take such actions
as are necessary to achieve and maintain a level of interest rates low
enough to generate significant economic growth and thereby reduce the
current intolerable level of unemployment.
Sec. 162. For an additional amount for " Employment and training
assistance", $25,000,000, which shall be for carrying out title III of
the Job Training Partnership Act (Public Law 97 - 300).
Sec. 163. None of the funds made available by this joint resolution
shall be used to furnish, or facilitate the sale or transfer of,
sensitive United States defense equipment, materials or technology to
any country for which the President does not certify to the Congress
that he has reliable assurances that such country will not transfer
sensitive United States equipment, materials or technology in violation
of agreements entered into under the Arms Export Control Act // 22 USC
2751 // to any Communist country, or to any country which receives arms
from a Communist country.
Sec. 164. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, $94,000 is appropriated to the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, " Resource Management".
Sec. 165. (a) Section 922(b)(5), title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding the words "except .22 caliber rimfire ammunition"
after the words "or ammunition".
(b) Section 923(9), title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding the words "except .22 caliber rimfire ammunition" after the words
"and ammunition" the first time they appear.
Sec. 166. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an additional
amount of $2,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary of Labor to
enter into a contractual or other agreement to support social science
and historical studies of international labor issues.
Sec. 167. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint
resolution, there is appropriated to the Department of the Interior
$3,000,000 for National Park Service Construction.
Approved December 21, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.J. Res. 631:
HOUSE REPORT: No. 97 - 959 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 97 -
980 (Comm. of Conference).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Dec. 14, considered and passed House.
Dec. 18, 19, considered and passed Senate, amended.
Dec. 19, House concurred in Senate amendments with amendments.
Dec. 20, Senate and House agreed to conference report.
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 18, No. 51 (1982):
Dec. 21, Presidential statement.
PUBLIC LAW 97-376, 96 STAT. 1828
judgment funds in dockets
124-B and 254 before the United States Court of
Claims, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the funds
appropriated on July 27, 1979, in satisfaction of the award in favor of
the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the Miami Indians of Indiana in dockets
124-B and 254 before the United States Court of Claims, including all
interest and investment income accrued, less attorney fees and
litigation expenses, shall be used and distributed as herein provided.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter secretary") shall
divide the judgment funds in dockets 124-B and 254, together with the
interest and investment income accruing thereon, between the two
beneficiary groups, on the basis of the number of enrollees of each
group as designated on the 1972 Miami Indians of Oklahoma and Indiana
payment roll, prepared pursuant to the Act of June 2, 1972 (86 Stat.
199), with 1398/5,080ths to the tribal organization, the Miami Tribe of
Oklahoma, and 3682/5,080ths to the descendant group which consists of
the Miami Indians of Indiana and other Miami descendants.
Sec. 3. For purposes of determining the number of lineal descendants
of the Miami Indians of Indiana and other Miami descendants entitled to
participate in such funds apportioned to the descendant group, the
Secretary shall prepare a roll of all persons of Miami Indian ancestry
who meet the following requirements for eligibility:
(a) They were born on or prior to, and living on, the date of this
Act.
(b) Their name or the name of an ancestor from whom they claim
eligibility appears on the roll of Miami Indians of Indiana of June 12,
1895, or the roll of " Miami Indians of Indiana, now living in Kansas,
Quapaw Agency, I.T., and Oklahoma Territory", prepared and completed
pursuant to the Act of March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. 903), or the roll of the
Eel River Miami Tribe of Indians of May 27, 1889, prepared and completed
pursuant to the Act of June 29, 1888 (25 Stat. 223), or the roll of the
Western Miami Tribe of Indians of June 12, 1891 (26 Stat. 1001). No
person whose name appears on the current tribal roll of the Miami Tribe
of Oklahoma shall be eligible to be enrolled under this section.
Applications for enrollment must be filed with the area director of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee, Oklahoma, on forms prescribed for
that purpose. The determination of the Secretary regarding the
eligibility of an applicant shall be final.
Sec. 4. On completion of the roll by the Secretary, as provided
under section 3 of this Act, the funds apportioned to the descendant
group, including the interest and investment income accruing thereon,
shall be distributed equally to the individuals enrolled.
Sec. 5. (a) Of the apportioned share belonging to the Miami Tribe of
Oklahoma, no more than 80 per centum of such funds, including the
interest and investment income accruing thereon, shall be distributed on
a per capita basis in amounts as equal as possible to all enrolled
members. For purposes of determining the number of enrollees of the
tribal organization, the membership roll shall be brought current
pursuant to tribal enrollment procedures, to include all persons born on
or prior to and living on the date of this Act.
(b) The remaining 20 per centum of such funds, including the interest
and investment income accruing thereon, shall be held and invested by
the Secretary pursuant to the Act of June 24, 1938 (52 Stat. 1037f 25
U.S.C. 162a), or invested by the tribe, in a private trust arrangement
as approved by the Secretary, and such funds shall be expended by the
tribe in accordance with tribal plans and budgets approved by the
Secretary, where the investments are handled by the Secretary, or in
accordance with the provisions of the private trust agreement.
Sec. 6. The per capita shares of living competent adults shall be
paid directly to them. Per capita shares of deceased individual
beneficiaries shall be determined and distributed pursuant to
regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Per capita shares of legal
incompetents and per capita shares of individuals under age eighteen
shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the
establishment of trusts, as the Secretary determines to be necessary to
protect the interests of such individuals.
Sec. 7. The funds distributed per capita or made available for
programing under this Act shall not be subject to Federal or State
income taxes nor shall such funds be considered as income or resources
in determining either eligibility for or the amount of assistance under
the Social Security Act. // 42 USC 1305. //
Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe
rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act;
including the establishment of deadlines.
Approved December 21, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5553:
HOUSE REPORT No. 97 - 815 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Sept. 29, considered and passed House.
Dec. 8, considered and passed Senate.
PUBLIC LAW 97-375, 96 STAT. 1819, CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS ELIMINATION
ACT OF 1982
reports to Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be
cited as the " Congressional Reports Elimination Act of 1982".
Sec. 101. (a) Section 616(b) of the Act of December 15, 1980, // 31
USC 1114 // entitled " An Act making appropriations for agriculture,
rural development, and related agencies programs for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1981, and for other purposes" (31 U.S.C. 28(b); 94
Stat. 3117), is repealed.
(b) Section 126(b) of the Military Construction Act of 1981 (31 U.S.
C. 28, note; 94 Stat. 1869) // 31 USC 1114 // is repealed.
Sec. 102. Section 6002(g) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.
C. 6962(g)) is amended to strike everything after the word "resources"
and to insert in lieu thereof a period.
Sec. 103. (a) Section 1303(d) of the Food and Agriculture Act of
1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011, note; 91 Stat. 980) is repealed.
(b) Paragraph (a) of the Act of March 4, 1913, entitled " An Act
making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen" (16 U.S.C.
502; 37 Stat. 843), is amended by striking out the second sentence.
(c) Section 9 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16
U.S.C. 590i; 50 Stat. 329) is amended by striking out the third
sentence.
Sec. 104. (a) Section 1081 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by striking out the second sentence.
(b) Section 2677(c) of title 10, United States Code, is repealed.
(c) Section 2110(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
striking out " The Secretary of each military department shall report to
Congress in April of each year on the progress of the flight instruction
program.".
Sec. 105. Section 112(b)(3) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29
U.S.C. 732(b)(3); 87 Stat. 372) is repealed.
Sec. 106. (a) Section 203 of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977
(42 U.S.C. 7551) is amended by--,
(1) striking out subsection (b); and
(2) striking out the subsection designator "(a)".
(b) The Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development and
Demonstration Act of 1976 is amended by striking out the last sentence
of section 7(e)(1) (15 U.S.C. 2506(e)(1)).
(c) Section 4(c)(8) of the Methane Transportation Research,
Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3808(c)) // 15 USC
3803. // is amended by striking out "and report to the Congress on".
(d) Section 742 of the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978
(42 U.S.C. 8452) is repealed.
SERVICES
Sec. 107. (a) Section 1120(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1320) is amended by striking out subsection (b) and by striking out
"(a)".
(b) Section 329(f)(5) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
254b(f)(5)) is amended by striking out the last sentence.
Sec. 108. (a) Section 4 of the joint resolution of August 14, 1976,
entitled " Joint resolution providing for Federal participation in
preserving the Tule Elk population in California" (16 U.S.C. 673g; 90
Stat. 1189), is amended by striking out the final sentence thereof.
(b) Section 3 of the Act of August 218 1951 (25 U.S.C. 673; 65 Stat.
195) is repealed.
(c) The Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978
is amended by striking out subsection (e) of section 106 and the last
sentence of subsection (c)(2) of section 107 (25 U.S.C. 1807(e) and
1808(c)(2); 92 Stat. 1327).
(d) Section 208 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 458d; 88 Stat. 2216) is amended by striking
out the last sentence.
Sec. 109. (a) Section 4352(b) of title 18, United States Code (88
Stat. 1141), is repealed.
(b) Section 203 of the Truth in Lending Act (18 U.S.C. 891, note; 82
Stat. 162) is repealed.
Sec. 110. (a) Section 6(f) of Public Law 90 - 83 (29 U.S.C. 606; 81
Stat. 221) is repealed.
(b) Section 41(b)(1) of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers'
Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 941(b)(1); 72 Stat. 835) is amended by
striking out "and from time to time make to Congress such
recommendations as he may deem proper as to the best means of preventing
such injuries".
(c) The second sentence of section 19(b) of the Occupational Safety
and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 668(b); 84 Stat. 1590) is repealed.
Sec. 111. (a) Section 151(g) of title 23, United States Code (87
Stat. 285), is amended by striking out the third and fourth sentences
and inserting in lieu thereof, " No State shall submit any such report
to the Secretary for any year after the second year following completion
of the pavement marking program in that State.".
(b) Section 602 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 (45
U.S.C. 792; 87 Stat. 1022) is repealed.
(c) Section 4417a(19) of the Revised Statutes (46 U.S.C. 391a(19)) is
repealed.
(d) Section 515 of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform
Act of 1976 (45 U.S.C. 835; 90 Stat. 82) is repealed.
(e) Section 10 of the Emergency Rail Services Act of 1970 (45 U.S.C.
669; 84 Stat. 1978) is repealed.
Sec. 112. Section 602(c) of the Act of June 3, 1980, entitled " An
Act to provide for increased participation by the United States in the
Inter-American Development Bank, and the African Development Fund" (22
U.S.C. 262j(c); 94 Stat. 433), is repealed.
Sec. 113. Section 10327(j) of title 49, United States Code (92 Stat.
1350), is amended by striking out the last two sentences.
ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 114. Section 2304(e) of title 10, United States Code, is
repealed.
Sec. 115. Section 11 of the Act of November 6, 1978, entitled " An
Act to authorize appropriations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for
fiscal year 1979, and for other purposes" (42 U.S.C. 2205a; 92 Stat.
2953), is repealed.
Sec. 201. (a) Section 552a(e)(4) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by striking out "at least annually" and inserting in lieu
thereof "upon establishment or revision".
(b) Subsection (p) of section 552a of title 5, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
"(p) Annual Report.--The President shall annually submit to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of
the Senate a report--,
"(1) describing the actions of the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget pursuant to section 6 of the Privacy Act of
1974
// 5 USC 552a //
during the preceding year;
"(2) describing the exercise of individual rights of access and
amendment under this section during such year;
"(3) identifying changes in or additions to systems of records;
"(4) containing such other information concerning
administration of this section as may be necessary or useful to
the Congress in reviewing the effectiveness of this section in
carrying out the purposes of the Privacy Act of 1974.".
(c) Effective July 1, 1983, section 6(c) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking out the first
sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: " The President
shall, not later than December 31 of each year, make an annual report to
the Congress on the activities, status, and changes in the composition
of advisory committees in existence during the preceding fiscal year.".
Sec. 202. (a) Section 302(d) of the Marine Protection, Research, and
Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1432(d)) is amended to read as
follows:
"(d) The Secretary shall submit a biennial report to the Congress, on
or before March 1 of every other year beginning in 1984, setting forth a
comprehensive review of his actions during the previous two fiscal years
undertaken pursuant to the authority of this section, together with
appropriate recommendation for legislation considered necessary for the
designation and protection of marine sanctuaries.".
(b) Section 7 of the National Climate Program Act of 1978 (15 U.S.C.
2906) is amended by striking out "not later than January 30 of each
year" and inserting in lieu thereof "not later than March 31 of each
year".
(c) Section 4(a) of the National Ocean Pollution Research and
Development and Monitoring Planning Act of 1978 (33 U.S.C. 1703(a)) is
amended by striking out "and a revision of the plan shall be prepared
and so submitted by September 15 of each odd-numbered year occurring
after 1979" and inserting in lieu thereof "and a revision of the plan
shall be prepared and so submitted by September 15 every three years
after 1979".
(d) Section 8 of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (15 U.S.C.
1457) is amended by striking out the following: "or to participate in
the development of voluntary product standards with respect to any
consumer commodity under procedures referred to in section 5(d) of this
Act,".
Sec. 203. (a)(1) Section 808(a) of the Department of Defense
Appropriation Authorization Act, 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1520(a); 91 Stat.
334) is amended by striking out clause (1) and by striking out "(2)".
(2) Section 409(a) of the Act of November 19, 1969 (50 U.S.C. 1511(
a); 83 Stat. 209), is amended by adding the following sentence at the
end thereof: " The report shall include a full accounting of all
experiments and studies conducted by the Department of Defense in the
preceding year, whether directly or under contract, which involve the
use of human subjects for the testing of chemical or biological
agents.".
(b) Section 201 of the Federal Voting Assistance Act of 1955 (42 U.
S.C. 1973cc-11; 69 Stat. 585) is amended by striking out "odd-numbered
years" and inserting in place thereof "the first odd-numbered year
following the year in which the Presidential election is held".
(c) Section 2455(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
striking out "yearly period ending with the preceding December 31" and
inserting "preceding fiscal year".
Sec. 204. Section 605(b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.
S.C. 1125(b); 79 Stat. 1264) is amended by striking out "which shall
include an index and analysis" and inserting in lieu thereof "listing".
Sec. 205. (a) Section 208(c) of the Department of Energy
Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7138(c); 91 Stat. 576) is amended to read
as follows:
"(c)(1) The Inspector General shall, not later than May 31 and
November 30 of each year, submit to the Secretary and the Congress
semiannual reports summarizing the activities of the Office during the
immediately preceding six-month periods ending March 31 and September
30. Such reports shall include, but need not be limited to--,
"(A) a description of significant problems, abuses, and
deficiencies relating to the administration of programs and
operations of the Department disclosed by such activities during
the reporting period;
"(B) a description of the recommendations for corrective action
made by the Office during the reporting period with respect to
significant problems, abuses, or deficiencies identified pursuant
to subparagraph (A);
"(C) an identification of each significant recommendation
described in previous reports under this subsection on which
corrective action has not been completed;
"(D) a summary of matters referred to prosecutive authorities
and the prosecutions and convictions which have resulted; and
"(E) information concerning the numbers and types of audit
reports completed by the Office during the reporting period.
"(2) Within sixty days of the transmission of each semiannual report
to the Congress, the Secretary shall make copies of such report
available to the public upon request and at a reasonable cost.".
(b) Section 208(d) of such Act // 42 USC 7138. // is amended by
striking out "thirty days" and inserting in lieu thereof "seven days".
SERVICES
Sec. 206. (a) Section 336 A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.
S.C. 254i) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking
out "on May 1 of each year".
(b) Section 8 of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (15 U.S.C.
1457) is amended by striking out the last two sentences and inserting in
lieu thereof the following: " All agencies except the Department of
Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission shall submit
their reports in January of each year. The Department of Health and
Human Services shall include this report in its annual report to
Congress on activities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,
// 21 USC 301. // and the Federal Trade Commission shall include this
report in the Commission's annual report to Congress.".
(c) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of Public Law 94 - 505 (42
U.S.C. 3524 (a),(b)) are amended to read as follows:
" Sec. 204. (a) The Inspector General shall, not later than May 31
and November 30 of each year, submit to the Secretary and the Congress
semiannual reports summarizing the activities of the Office during the
immediately preceding six-month periods ending March 31 and September
30. Such reports shall include, but need not be limited to--,
"(1) a description of significant problems, abuses, and
deficiencies relating to the administration of programs and
operations of the Department disclosed by such activities during
the reportin period;
"(2) a description of the recommendations for corrective action
made by the Office during the reporting period with respect to
significant problems, abuses, or deficiencies identified pursuant
to paragraph (1);
"(3) an identification of each significant recommendation
described in previous reports under this section on which
corrective action has not been completed;
"(4) a summary of matters referred to prosecutive authorities
and the prosecutions and convictions which have resulted;
"(5) a summary of each report made to the Secretary under
section 205(b)(2)
// 42 USC 3525. //
during the reporting period; and
"(6) information concerning the numbers and types of audit
reports completed by the Office during the reporting period.
"(b) Within sixty days of the transmission of each semiannual report
to the Congress, the Secretary shall make copies of such report
available to the public upon request and at a reasonable cost.".
DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 207. (a) Section 817 of the Housing Act of 1954 (12 U.S.C.
1701p; 68 Stat. 648) is amended by striking out ", and shall also
contain" and all that follows through "that section".
(b) Section 311(4) of the Energy Conservation and Production Act (42
U.S.C. 6840(4); 90 Stat. 1125) is amended by inserting before the
period at the end thereof the following: ",except that, with respect to
reports transmitted to the Congress after August 14, 1981, such reports
shall be transmitted biennially".
Sec. 208. (a)(1) The second proviso of the Act of July 1, 1932 (25
U.S.C. 386a; 47 Stat. 564), is amended to read as follows: " Provided
further, That the Secretary shall report such adjustments and
eliminations to the Congress not later than sixty calendar days
following the end of the fiscal year in which they made:".
(2) The last proviso of said Act of July 1, 1932, is amended by
striking out "sixty legislative days" each place it appears and, in each
instance, inserting in lieu thereof "ninety calendar days".
(b) Section 1136 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C.
2016; 92 Stat. 2327) is amended by adding the following at the end
thereof: " Such report shall also include the current status of
tribally controlled community colleges. The annual budget submission
for the Bureau's education programs shall, among other things, include
(1) information on the funds provided previously private schools under
section 208 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance
Act (25 U.S.C. 458d; 88 Stat. 2216) and recommendations with respect to
the future use of such funds; (2) the needs and costs of operation and
maintenance of tribally controlled community colleges eligible for
assistance under the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance
Act of 1978 (92 Stat. 1325; 25 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) and recommendations
with respect to meeting such needs and costs; and (3) the plans
required by section 1121(f), and 1122(c); and 1125(b) of this Act (25
U.S.C. 2001(f), 2002(c), and 2005(b)).".
(c) The first sentence of section 3 of the joint resolution of August
14, 1976, entitled " Joint resolution providing for Federal
participation in preserving the Tule Elk population in California" (16
U.S.C. 673f; 90 Stat. 1189), is amended by striking out "of each year"
and inserting in lieu thereof "of 1983 and each third year thereafter".
Sec. 209. (a) Section 918(a) of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (15
U.S.C. 1693p(a); 92 Stat. 3740) is amended by striking out the first
and fourth sentences thereof and inserting in lieu of the first sentence
the following: " Not later than twelve months after the effective date
of this title and at one-year intervals thereafter, the Board shall make
reports to the Congress concerning the administration of its functions
under this title, including such recommendations as the Board deems
necessary and appropriate.".
(b) Section 114 of the Truth in Lending Act (title I of the Consumer
Credit Protection Act) (15 U.S.C. 1613; 82 Stat. 151) is amended by
striking out the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the
following: " Each year the Board shall make a report to the Congress
concerning the administration of its functions under this title,
including such recommendations as the Board deems necessary or
appropriate.".
Sec. 210. (a) Section 409 of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 (49 U.S.
C. 1654a; 94 Stat. 1948) is amended by adding at the end thereof: " In
each report the Secretary shall advise the Congress on the past and
anticipated financial condition and operations during the fiscal year of
the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Fund established under
section 502(a) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act
of 1976 (Public Law 94 - 210) // 45 USC 822. // and of the Obligation
Guarantee Fund established under section 511(b) of that Act. // 45 USC
831. // In addition, the Secretary shall include in the report
information on the financial condition of each railroad having a loan
guaranteed under the Emergency Rail Services Act of 1970 (Public Law 91
- 663), // 45 USC 661 // throughout the existence of such loan.".
(b) Section 152(g) of title 23, United States Code (92 Stat. 2723),
is amended by inserting "(including but not limited to any projects for
pavement marking)" after "program" in the third sentence.
Sec. 211. Subsection (c)(1) of section 701 of the International
Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262d(c)(1); 91 Stat. 1070) is
amended by inserting immediately before "including" the following:
"excluding section 704 and".
Sec. 212. Section 4(d) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 797(d);
41 Stat. 1065) is amended by striking out " Such report shall contain
the names and show the compensation of the persons employed by the
Commission.".
Sec. 213. Section 3(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.
C. 153(c); 61 Stat. 139) is amended by striking out "stating in detail
the cases it has heard, the decisions it has rendered, and an account of
all moneys it has disbursed" and inserting in lieu thereof "summarizing
significant case activities and operations for that fiscal year".
Sec. 214. Subsection 4(j) of the National Science Foundation Act of
1950 (42 U.S.C. 1863(j); 64 Stat. 149) is amended to read as follows:
"(j)(1) The Board shall render to the President, for submission to
the Congress no later than January 15 of each even numbered year, a
report on indicators of the state of science and engineering in the
United States.
"(2) The Board shall render to the President for submission to the
Congress reports on specific, individual policy matters related to
science and engineering and education in science and engineering, as the
Board, the President, or the Congress determines the need for such
reports.".
POLICY
Sec. 215. The National Science and Technology Policy, Organization,
and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601, et seq.; Public Law 94 -
282) is amended as follows:
(1) section 209
// 42 USC 6618. //
is deleted; and
(2) in section 205(a)(11),
// 42 USC 6614. //
strike out "section 209" and insert in lieu thereof "section 206";
(3) section 206
// 42 USC 6615. //
is amended to read as follows:
" Sec. 206. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Reorganization
Plan Number 1 of 1977, // 5 USC app. // the Director shall render to
the President for submission to the Congress no later than January 15 of
each odd numbered year, a science and technology report and outlook
(hereinafter referred to as the 'report') which shall be prepared under
the guidance of the Office and with the cooperation of the Director of
the National Science Foundation, with appropriate assistance from other
Federal departments and agencies as the Office or the Director of the
National Science Foundation deems necessary. The report shall
include--,
"(1) a statement of the President's current policy for the
maintenance of the Nation's leadership in science and technology;
"(2) a review of developments of national significance in
science and technology;
"(3) a description of major Federal decisions and actions
related to science and technology that have occurred since the
previous such report;
"(4) a discussion of currently important national issues in
which scientific or technical considerations are of major
significance;
"(5) a forecast of emerging issues of national significance
resulting from, or identified through, scientific research or in
which scientific or technical considerations are of major
importance; and
"(6) a discussion of opportunities for, and constraints on, the
use of new and existing scientific and technological information,
capabilities, and resources, including manpower resources, to make
significant contributions to the achievement of Federal program
objectives and national goals.
"(b) The Office shall insure that the report, in the form approved by
the President, is printed and made available as a public document.";
and
(4) in section 205(a)(11),
// 42 USC 6614. //
insert "and the Congress" after " President".
Sec. 216. Section 4142(h)(4) of title 38, United States Code, is
amended by striking out the following "together with a summary of the
reasons that such scholarships were not accepted".
Approved December 21, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 6005 (S. 2258):
HOUSE REPORT No. 97 - 804 (Comm. on Government Operations).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Sept. 20, considered and passed House.
Dec. 8, considered and passed Senate.
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 18, No. 51:
Dec. 21, Presidential statement.
PUBLIC LAW 97-374, 96 STAT. 1818
Targhee National Forest in the
State of Idaho.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of
providing for the public use and enjoyment of the John Sack cabin,
Targhee National Forest, State of Idaho, and to protect and preserve
such cabin as a unique example of craftsmanship, the Secretary of
Agriculture, in consultation with the Island Park Interpretive
Association and other interested organizations, shall take such action
as may be necessary in order to provide for the protection and
maintenance of the John Sack cabin and associated structures. In carring
out the requirements of this Act, the Secretary is authorized, in
accordance with existing law, to enter into a cooperative agreement
with, or to issue a special use permit to, an appropriate person or
organization pursuant to which such person or organization shall provide
such protection and maintenance.
Approved December 20, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-- S. 764:
SENATE REPORT No. 97 - 184 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Vol. 127 (1981): Sept. 22, considered and passed Senate.
Vol. 128 (1982): Dec. 10, considered and passed House.
PUBLIC LAW 97-373, 96 STAT. 1817
Project Act, Public Law 90 - 537 (82
Stat. 885), as amended by Public Law 95 - 578 (92
Stat. 2471), and Public Law 96 - 375
(94 Stat. 1505).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law 90 - 537
(82 Stat. 885), // 43 USC 1501 // as amended is further amended to
provide for cost indexing as may be justified by reason of ordinary
fluctuations in construction costs.
Section 309(b), // 43 USC 1528. // first sentence, is amended to
read: " There is also authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for
construction of distribution and drainage facilities for non-Indian
lands plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason
of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by
engineering and cost indices applicable to the types of construction
involved therein from the date of the Colorado River Basin Project Act:
Provided, That the Secretary shall enter into agreements with
non-Federal interests to provide not less than 20 per centum of the
total cost of such facilities during the construction of such
facilities.".
Approved December 20, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-- S. 2177:
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 97 - 776 and No. 97 - 776, Pt. 2, both
accompanying S. 2177 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs).
SENATE REPORT No. 97 - 389 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
May 19, considered and passed Senate.
Sept. 30, considered and passed House, amended.
Dec. 8, Senate concurred in House amendment with an amendment.
Dec. 9, House agreed to Senate amendment.
PUBLIC LAW 97-372, 96 STAT. 1815
awarded to the Shawnee Tribe of
Indians in dockets 64, 335, and 338 by the Indian
Claims Commission and docket
64-A by the United States Court of Claims, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the funds appropriated on March 10, 1978, and
August 22, 1979, in accordance with section 1302 of the Supplemental
Appropriation Act (31 U.S.C. 724 A), // 31 USC 724a. // in satisfaction
of judgments granted to the Shawnee Tribe in dockets 64, 335, and 338 by
the Indian Claims Commission and in docket 64-A by the United States
Court of Claims, less attorney fees and litigation expenses, including
all interest and investment income accrued, shall be used and
distributed as herein provided.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter " Secretary")
shall divide the funds among the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, the
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Cherokee Band of Shawnee
descendants as follows:
514/1378ths to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma;
117/1378ths to the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; and
747/1378ths to the Cherokee Band of Shawnee descendants.
Sec. 3. The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma's share shall be
distributed as follows:
(a) A roll shall be prepared, in accordance with the procedures
enacted by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary, of
all members of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma who were born on
or prior to and living on the date of this Act. Subsequent to the
preparation of this roll, the Secretary shall make a per capita
distribution of 75 per centum of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe's share of
the funds, in a sum as equal as possible, to all persons listed on this
roll.
(b) The remaining 25 per centum shall be utilized as follows:
(1) A sum, not to exceed $150,000 shall be utilized as matching
funds to acquire an Economic Development Administration (EDA)
grant from the Department of Commerce to construct a multipurpose
restaurant: Provided, That if the tribe is unable to acquire this
grant that the funds herein discussed be distributed according to
the provisions of section 3(b)(2).
(2) The Executive Committee of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma shall prepare, subject to the approval of the Secretary,
administrative guidelines for the remainder of the funds for use
in education, health, economic, and related programs which will
benefit the entire tribe.
Sec. 4. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma's share shall be
distributed as follows:
(a) A roll shall be prepared, in accordance with the procedures
enacted by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary, of
all members of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma who were born on or
prior to and living on the date of this Act. Subsequent to the
preparation of this roll, the Secretary shall make a per capita
distribution of 80 per centum of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe's share of
the funds, in a sum as equal as possible to all persons listed on this
roll.
(b) The remaining 20 per centum shall be utilized for a tribal land
purchase program pursuant to the provisions of part 120-A of section 25,
Code of Federal Regulations: Provided, That no salaries shall be paid
from these funds: Provided further, That the funds shall be in the
custody of the tribal secretary/treasurer and all expenditures shall be
approved by the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma business committee.
Sec. 5. A roll shall be prepared by the Secretary based on the roll
of the Cherokee Shawnee compiled pursuant to the Act of March 2, 1889
(25 Stat. 994), and any other records acceptable to him, of all the
lineal descendants, except members of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma or the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, of the Shawnee Nation
as it existed in 1854, who were born on or prior to and living on the
date of this Act. Subsequent to the preparation of this roll, the
Secretary shall make a per capita distribution of the Cherokee Band of
Shawnee descendant's share of the funds, in a sum as equal as possible,
to all persons listed on this roll.
Sec. 6. The per capita shares of living competent adults shall be
paid directly to them. Per capita shares of deceased individual
beneficiaries shall be determined and distributed pursuant to
regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Per capita shares of legal
incompetents and per capita shares of individuals under age eighteen
shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the
establishment of trust, as the Secretary determines to be necessary to
protect the interests of such individuals.
Sec. 7. None of the funds distributed under this Act shall be
subject to Federal or State income taxes or be considered income or
resources in determining eligibility for or the amount of assistance
under the Social Security Act. // 42 USC 1305. //
Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe
rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved December 20, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-- H.R. 5795:
HOUSE REPORT No. 97 - 817 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Sept. 29, considered and passed House.
Dec. 8, considered and passed Senate.
PUBLIC LAW 97-371, 96 STAT. 1813
Wyandot Tribe of Indians in
docket 139 before the Indian Claims Commission and
docket 141 before the United
States Court of Claims, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the funds appropriated on October 31, 1978,
and March 2, 1979, in accordance with section 1302 of the Supplemental
Appropriation Act (31 U.S.C. 724 A), // 31 USC 724a. // in satisfaction
of judgments granted to the Wyandot (hereinafter " Wyandotte") Tribe in
docket 139 by the Indian Claims Commission and in docket 141 by the
United States Court of Claims, less attorney fees and litigation
expenses, including all interest and investment income accrued, shall be
used and distributed as herein provided.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter " Secretary")
shall divide the funds between the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma and the
absentee Wyandotte descendants as follows:
308/510ths to the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma; and
202/510ths to the absentee Wyandotte descendants.
Sec. 3. The Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma's share shall be distributed
as follows:
(a) A roll shall be prepared, in accordance with the procedures
enacted by the tribal government body and approved by the
Secretary, of all members of the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma who
were born on or prior to and living on the date of this Act.
Subsequent to the preparation of this roll, the Secretary shall
make a per capita distribution of 80 per centum of the Wyandotte
Tribe of Oklahoma's share of the funds, in a sum as equal as
possible, to all persons listed on this roll. Any amount
remaining after the per capita payment shall be utilized as
provided in section 3(b)(2)(iii) of this Act.
(b) The remaining 20 per centum shall be utilized as follows:
Secretary.
pursuant
to the Act of June 24, 1938 (25 U.S.C. 162a). The
interest
and investment income accrued shall be immediately
available
to the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma upon the
approval of the Secretary of the tribe's plan of
operation
and budget as set forth in Wyandotte Tribe of
Oklahoma
Resolution Numbered 9479, adopted September 4, 1979,
as
follows:
developed
by the tribe.
expended for salaries.
Sec. 4. A roll shall be prepared by the Secretary of persons: not
members of the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma, on, or lineally descended
from persons on, the " Census of Absentee or Citizen Wyandotte Indians"
compiled by Joel T. Olive, dated November 18, 1896, as corrected in
circular of October 28, 1904, by W.A. Richards, Commissioner of the
General Land Office; and born on or prior to and living on the date of
this Act. The Secretary's determination concerning eligibility for
inclusion on this roll shall be final. Subsequent to the preparation of
this roll, the Secretary shall make a per capita distribution, of the
absentee Wyandotte's shares, in a sum as equal as possible, to all
persons listed on this roll.
Sec. 5. The per capita shares of living competent adults shall be
paid directly to them. Per capita shares of deceased individual
beneficiaries shall be determined as distributed pursuant to regulations
prescribed by the Secretary. Per capita shares of legal incompetents
and per capita shares of individuals under age eighteen shall be paid in
accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts,
as the Secretary determines to be necessary to protect the interests of
such individuals.
Sec. 6. None of the funds distributed under this Act shall be
subject to Federal or State income taxes or be considered income or
resources in determining eligibility for or the amount of assistance
under the Social Security Act. // 42 USC 1305. //
Sec. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe
rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved December 20, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-- H.R. 6403:
HOUSE REPORT No. 97 - 819 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Sept. 29, considered and passed House.
Dec. 8, considered and passed Senate.
PUBLIC LAW 97-370, 96 STAT. 1787
Development, and Related Agencies
programs for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1983, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for other
purposes; namely:
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture,
including not to exceed $75,000 for employment under 5 U. S.C. 3109,
$3,884,000: Provided, That not to exceed $8,000 of this amount shall be
available for official reception and representation expenses, not
otherwise provided for, as determined by the Secretary.
For payment of standard level user charges pursuant to Public Law 92
- 313 for programs and activities of the Department of Agriculture which
are included in this Act, // 40 USC 601 // $56,377,000.
For necessary expenses for activities of Advisory Committees of the
Department of Agriculture which are included in this Act, $1,398,000:
Provided, That no other funds in this Act shall be available to the
Department of Agriculture for support of activities of Advisory
Committees.
For Budget and Program Analysis, and Public Participation,
$3,529,000; for Energy, $185,000; for Operations and Finance,
Personnel, Regulatory Hearings, Equal Opportunity, Safety and Health
Management, and Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization,
$9,452,000; making a total of $13,166,000 for Departmental
Administration to provide for necessary expenses for management support
services to offices of the Department of Agriculture and for general
administration of the Department of Agriculture, repairs and
alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise
provided for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the
Department of Agriculture, of which not to exceed $10,000 is for
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That this appropriation shall
be reimbursed from applicable appropriations in this Act for travel
expenses incident to the holding of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 551
- 558.
For necessary expenses to carry on services relating to the
coordination of programs involving governmental and public affairs and
emergency preparedness; acting as liaison within the executive branch;
and for the dissemination of agricultural information and the
coordination of information work and programs authorized by Congress in
the Department, $6,677,000; of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, and, not to exceed
$2,000,000 may be used for farmers' bulletins and not less than two
hundred thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty copies for the use of
the Senate and House of Representatives of part 2 of the annual report
of the Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture) as authorized by
44 U.S.C. 1301: Provided, That in the preparation of motion pictures or
exhibits by the Department, this appropriation shall be available for
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225).
For necessary expenses for liaison with the Congress on legislative
matters, $439,000.
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General,
including employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a)
of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), $27,943,000 including such
sums as may be necessary for contracting and other arrangements with
public agencies and private persons pursuant to section 6(a)(8) of the
Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95 - 452), and including a sum
not to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; and in
addition, $14,270,000 shall be derived by transfer from the
appropriation, " Food Stamp Program" and merged with this appropriation.
For necessary expenses, including payment of fees or dues for the use
of law libraries by attorneys in the field service, $12,386,000; and in
addition, $628,000 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation,
" Food Stamp Program" and merged with this appropriation.
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the United
States Grain Standards Act, // 7 USC 71. // as amended, and the
standardization activities related to grain under the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946, // 7 USC 1621 // as amended, including field
employment pursuant to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.
S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $50,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C.
3109, $5,369,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of
buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise provided, the cost of
altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per
centum of the current replacement value of the building: Provided
further, That none of the funds provided by this Act may be used to pay
the salaries of any person or persons who require, or who authorize
payments from fee-supported funds to persons or persons who require,
nonexport, nonterminal interior elevators to maintain records not
involving official inspection or official weighing in the United States
under Public Law 94 - 582 // 7 USC 71 // other than those necessary to
fulfill the purposes of such Act.
Not to exceed $44,313,000 (from fees collected) shall be obligated
during the current fiscal year for Inspection and Weighing Services.
For necessary expenses to enable the Agricultural Research Service to
perform agricultural research and demonstration relating to production,
utilization, marketing, and distribution (not otherwise provided for),
home economics or nutrition and consumer use, and for acquisition of
lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed
$100, $452,378,000: Provided, That appropriations hereunder shall be
available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to
exceed $115,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109:
Provided further, That funds appropriated herein can be used to provide
financial assistance to the organizers of international conferences, if
such conferences are in support of agency programs: Provided further,
That appropriations hereunder shall be available for the operation and
maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed one for
replacement only: Provided further, That of the appropriations
hereunder not less than $10,526,600 shall be available to conduct
marketing research: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder
shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construction,
alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but unless
otherwise provided the cost of constructing any one building shall not
exceed $110,000, except for headhouses connecting greenhouses which
shall each be limited to $500,000, and except for ten buildings to be
constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $200,000 each, and the
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not
exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of the building or
$110,000 whichever is greater: Provided further, That the limitations
on alterations contained in this Act shall not apply to a total of
$110,000 for facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, That
the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replacement of buildings
needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 113a):
Provided further, That the limitations on construction contained in this
Act shall not apply to the establishment of a fruit and nut germplasm
repository at Geneva, New York.
Special fund: To provide for additional labor, subprofessional, and
junior scientific help to be employed under contracts and cooperative
agreements to strengthen the work at Federal research installations in
the field, $2,000,000.
For acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement,
extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of
or used by the Agricultural Research Service, where not otherwise
provided, $1,927,000.
PROGRAM)
For payments in foreign currencies owed to or owned by the United
States for market development research authorized by section 104(b)(1)
and for agricultural and forestry research and other functions related
thereto authorized by section 104(b)(3) of the Agricultural Trade
Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(b)(
1), (3)), $2,977,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be
available, in addition to other appropriations for these purposes, for
payments in the foregoing currencies: Provided further, That funds
appropriated herein shall be used for payments in such foreign
currencies as the Department determines are needed, and can be used most
effectively to carry out the purposes of this paragraph: Provided
further, That not to exceed $25,000 of this appropriation shall be
available for payments in foreign currencies for expenses of employment
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), as amended by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for cooperative
forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other expenses,
including $149,295,000 to carry into effect the provisions of the Hatch
Act approved March 2, 1887, as amended by the Act approved August 11,
1955 (7 U.S.C.361A-361I), and further amended by Public Law 92 - 318
approved June 23, 1972, and further amended by Public Law 93 - 471
approved October 26, 1974, including administration by the United States
Department of Agriculture, and penalty mail costs of agricultural
experiment stations under section 6 of the Hatch Act of 1887, // 7 USC
361f. // as amended, and payments under section 1361(c) of the Act of
October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301n); // 7 USC 301 // $12,452,000 for grants
for cooperative forestry research under the Act approved October 10,
1962 (16 U.S.C. 582a--582a-7), as amended by Public Law 92 - 318
approved June 23, 1972, // 20 USC 1001 // including administrative
expenses, and payments under section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3,
1980 (7 U.S.C. 301n.); // 7 USC 301 // $22,394,000 for payments to the
1890 land-grant colleges, including Tuskegee Institute, for research
under section 1445 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (Public Law 95 - 113), // 7 USC 3222. // as
amended, including administration by the United States Department of
Agriculture, and penalty mail costs of the 1890 land-grant colleges,
including Tuskegee Institute; $26,533,000 for contracts and grants for
agricultural research under the Act of August 4, 1965, as amended (7
U.S.C. 450i); $17,000,000 for competitive research grants, including
administrative expenses; $5,760,000 for the support of animal health
and disease programs authorized by section 1433 of Public Law 95 - 113,
// 7 USC 3195. // including administrative expenses; $540,000 for
grants in accordance with section 1419 of Public Law 95 - 113, // 7 USC
3154. // as amended; $702,000 for research authorized by the Native
Latex Commercialization and Economic Development Act of 1978; // 7 USC
178 // $10,000,000 for grants to upgrade 1890 land-grant college
research facilities as authorized by section 1433 of Public Law 97 - 98;
// 95 Stat. 1312. 7 USC 3223. // and $290,000 for necessary expenses
of Cooperative State Research Service activities, including
administration of payments to State agricultural experiment stations,
funds for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a)
of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $50,000
for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; in all, $244,966,000.
Payments to States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, and Micronesia: For payments for cooperative agricultural
extension work under the Smith-Lever Act, as amended by the Act of June
26, 1953, the Act of August 11, 1955, the Act of October 5, 1962 (7 U.
S.C. 341 - 349), section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, // 86 Stat.
350. // and the Act of September 29, 1977 (7 U.S.C. 341 - 349), and
section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 (7 U.S.C. 301n.), // 7 USC
301 // to be distributed under sections 3(b) and 3(c) of the Act, // 7
USC 343. // for retirement and employees' compensation costs for
extension agents, and for costs of penalty mail for cooperative
extension agents and State extension directors, $230,376,000; payments
for the nutrition and family education program for low-income areas
under section 3(d) of the Act, $60,354,000; payments for the urban
gardening programs under section 3(d) of the Act, $3,000,000; payments
for the pest management program under section 3(d) of the Act,
$7,531,000; payments for the farm safety program under section 3(d) of
the Act, $1,020,000; payments for the pesticide impact assessment
program under section 3(d) of the Act, $1,716,000; payments for
carrying out the provisions of the Renewable Resources Extension Act of
1978, // 16 USC 1600 // $2,000,000; payments for extension work under
section 209(c) of Public Law 93 - 471, // D.C. Code 31 - 1719. //
$983,000; payments for extension work by the colleges receiving the
benefits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321 - 326, 328) and Tuskegg
Institute, $16,241,000; in all, $323,221,000, of which not less than
$79,400,000 is for Home Economics: Provided, That funds hereby
appropriated pursuant to section 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, // 7
USC 343. // and section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, // 86 Stat.
350. // as amended, shall not be paid to any State, Puerto Rico, Guam,
or the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Micronesia prior to
availability of an equal sum from non-Federal sources for expenditure
during the current fiscal year.
Federal administration and coordination: For Administration of the
Smith-Lever Act, as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953, the Act of
August 11, 1955, // 7 USC 341 - 349 // the Act of October 5, 1962,
section 506 of the Act of June 23, 1972, // 86 Stat. 350. // section
209(d) of Public Law 93 - 471, and the Act of September 29, 1977 (7 U.
S.C. 341 - 349), and section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 (7
U.S.C. 301n.), // 7 USC 301 // and to coordinate and provide program
leadership for the extension and higher education work of the Department
and the several States and insular possessions, $5,451,000, of which not
less than $2,300,000 is for Home Economics.
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Library,
$8,849,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $35,000 shall be
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That
not to exceed $575,000 shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for
the alteration and repair of buildings and improvements.
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, including those pursuant to
the Act of February 28, 1947, as amended (21 U.S.C. 114b-c), necessary
to prevent, control, and eradicate pests and plant and animal diseases;
to carry out inspection, quarantine, and regulatory activities; and to
protect the environment, as authorized by law, $267,915,000 of which
$1,000,000 shall be available for the control of outbreaks of insects,
plant diseases and animal diseases to the extent necessary to meet
emergency conditions: Provided, That $1,000,000 of the funds for
control of the fire ant shall be placed in reserve for matching purposes
with States which may come into the program: Provided further, That no
funds shall be used to formulate or administer a brucellosis eradication
program for the current fiscal year that does not require minimum
matching by the States of at least 40 per centum: Provided further,
That this appropriation shall be available for field employment pursuant
to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7
U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $40,000 shall be available for
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That this
appropriation shall be available for the operation and maintenance of
aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed two, of which one shall be
for replacement only: Provided further, That, in addition, in
emergencies which threaten any segment of the agricultural production
industry of this country, the Secretary may transfer from other
appropriations or funds available to the agencies or corporations of the
Department such sums as he may deem necessary, to be available only in
such emergencies for the arrest and eradication of contagious or
infectious diseases or pests of animals, poultry, or plants, and for
expenses in accordance with the Act of February 28, 1947, // 21 USC
114b. // as amended, and section 102 of the Act of September 21, 1944,
// 7 USC 147a. // as amended, and any unexpended balances of funds
transferred for such emergency purposes in the next preceding fiscal
year shall be merged with such transferred amounts.
For plans, construction, repair, extension, alterations, purchase and
improvement of fixed equipment or facilities, $2,386,000: Provided,
That this appropriation shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for
the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements:
Provided further, That unless otherwise provided, the cost of
constructing any one building (except greenhouses) shall not exceed
$115,000, and four buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not
to exceed $230,000 each: Provided further, That the cost of altering
any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per centum
of the current replacement value of the building or $90,000 whichever is
greater: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available
for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal
cost not to exceed $100.
For necessary expenses to carry on services to ensure that the
Nation's commercial supply of meat and poultry products is safe,
wholesome, and correctly labeled, as authorized by the Federal Meat
Inspection Act, // 21 USC 601 // as amended, and the Poultry Products
Inspection Act, // 21 USC 451 // as amended, $315,557,000: Provided,
That this appropriation shall be available for field employment pursuant
to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to
exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U. S.C. 3109:
Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available pursuant to
law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the construction, alteration, and repair of
buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise provided, the cost of
constructing any one building shall not exceed $90,000, except for two
buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed
$150,000, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal
year shall not exceed 10 per centum of the current replacement value of
the building: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be
available for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at
a nominal cost not to exceed $100.
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service in conducting
economic research and service relating to agricultural production,
marketing, and distribution, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing
Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621 - 1627), and other laws, including economics
of marketing; analyses relating to farm prices, income and population,
and demand for farm products, use of resources in agriculture,
adjustments, costs and returns in farming, and farm finance; research
relating to the economic and marketing aspects of farmers cooperatives;
and for analyses of supply and demand for farm products in foreign
countries and their effect on prospects for United States exports,
progress in economic development and its relation to sales of farm
products, assembly and analysis of agricultural trade statistics and
analysis of international financial and monetary programs and policies
as they affect the competitive position of United States farm products;
$37,751,000, of which not less than $200,000 shall be available for
investigation, determination and finding as to the effect upon the
production of food and upon the agricultural economy of any proposed
action affecting such subject matter pending before the Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency for presentation, in the public
interest, before said Administrator, other agencies or before the
courts: Provided, That not less than $350,000 of the funds contained in
this appropriation shall be available to continue to gather statistics
and conduct a special study on the price spread between the farmer and
consumer: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available
for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That
not less than $145,000 of the funds contained in this appropriation
shall be available for analysis of statistics and related facts on
foreign production and full and complete information on methods used by
other countries to move farm commodities in world trade on a competitive
basis: Provided further, That not less than $66,000 of the funds
contained in this appropriation shall be available for preparing and
disseminating forecasts of farm sector receipts, production expenses,
and net income indicators for crop year 1983 on a quarterly basis
commencing prior to December 31, 1982.
For necessary expenses of the Statistical Reporting Service in
conducting statistical reporting and service work, including crop and
livestock estimates, statistical coordination and improvements, and
marketing surveys, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of
1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621 - 1627) and other laws, $51,035,000: Provided, That
no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any
expense incident to publishing estimates of apple production for other
than the commercial crop: Provided further, That this appropriation
shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to
exceed $40,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
For necessary expenses to carry out the Cooperative Marketing Act of
July 2, 1926 (7 U.S.C. 451 - 457), and for activities relating to the
marketing aspects of cooperatives, including economic research and
analysis and the application of economic research findings, as
authorized by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621 -
1627), and for activities with institutions or organizations throughout
the world concerning the development and operation of agricultural
cooperatives (7 U.S.C. 3291), $4,639,000, of which $139,000 shall be
available for establishing a field office in Hawaii: Provided, That
this appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the
second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C.
2225), and not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employment under
5 U.S.C. 3109.
For necessary expenses of the World Agricultural Outlook Board to
coordinate and review all commodity and aggregate agricultural and food
data used to develop outlook and situation material within the
Department of Agriculture, as authorized by the Agricultural Marketing
Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), $1,403,000: Provided, That this
appropriation shall be available for employment pursuant to the second
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225),
and not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.
S.C. 3109.
For necessary expenses to carry on services related to consumer
protection, agricultural marketing and distribution and regulatory
programs as authorized by law, and for administration and coordination
of payment to States; including field employment pursuant to section
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed
$70,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $31,912,000; of which not
less than $1,480,000 shall be available for the Wholesale Market
Development Program: Provided, That this appropriation shall be
available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair
of buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise provided, the cost
of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10
per centum of the current replacement value of the building.
Not to exceed $30,910,000 (from fees collected) shall be obligated
during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses.
(SECTION
32)
Funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.
S.C. 612c) shall be used only for commodity program expenses as
authorized therein, and other related operating expenses, except for:
(1) transfers to the Department of Commerce as authorized by the Fish
and Wildlife Act of August 8, 1956; // 16 USC 742a. // (2) transfers
otherwise provided in this Act; and (3) not more than $5,670,000 for
formulation and administration of marketing agreements and orders
pursuant to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, // 7 USC
674 // as amended, and the Agricultural Act of 1961. // 7 USC 1911 //
For necessary expenses to carry on services related to agricultural
transportation programs as authorized by law; including field
employment pursuant to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.
S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $20,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C.
3109, $2,367,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of
buildings and improvements, but, unless otherwise provided, the cost of
altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 per
centum of the current replacement value of the building.
For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus and departments
of markets, and similar agencies for marketing activities under section
204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)),
$1,000,000.
For necessary expenses for administration of the Packers and
Stockyards Act, as authorized by law, including field employment
pursuant to section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225),
and not to exceed $5,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,668,000.
For necessary administrative expenses of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Service, including expenses to formulate
and carry out programs authorized by title III of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1301 - 1393); the
Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.); sections
7 to 15, 16(a), 16(f), and 17 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic
Allotment Act, amended and supplemented (16 U.S.C. 590g-590o, 590p(a),
590p(f), and 590q); sections 1001 to 1008 and 1010 of the Agricultural
Act of 1970 as added by the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1501 to 1508 and 1510); the Water Bank Act, as amended
(16 U.S.C. 1301 - 1311); the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of
1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101); sections 401, 402, and 404 to 406 of the
Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2201 to 2205); and laws
pertaining to the Commodity Credit Corporation, $55,962,000: Provided,
That, in addition, not to exceed $314,818,000 may be transferred to and
merged with this appropriation from the Commodity Credit Corporation
fund for a total of $370,780,000: Provided further, That other funds
made available to the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service for authorized activities may be advanced to and merged with
this appropriation: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed
$100,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109:
Provided further, That no part of the funds appropriated or made
available under this Act shall be used (1) to influence the vote in any
referendum; (2) to influence agricultural legislation, except as
permitted in 18 U.S.C. 1913; or (3) for salaries or other expenses of
members of county and community committees established pursuant to
section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as
amended, for engaging in any activities other than advisory and
supervisory duties and delegated program functions proscribed in
administrative regulations.
For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity payments to dairy
farmers for milk or cows producing such milk and manufacturers of dairy
products who have been directed to remove their milk or dairy products
from commercial markets because it contained residues of chemicals
registered and approved for use by the Federal Government, and in making
indemnity payments for milk, or cows producing such milk, at a fair
market value to any dairy farmer who is directed to remove his milk from
commercial markets because of (1) the presence of products of nuclear
radiation or fallout if such contamination is not due to the fault of
the farmer, or (2) residues of chemicals or toxic substances not
included under the first sentence of the Act of August 13, 1968, as
amended (7 U.S.C. 450j), if such chemicals or toxic substances were not
used in a manner contrary to applicable regulations or labeling
instructions provided at the time of use and the contamination is not
due to the fault of the farmer, $7,000,000: Provided, THAT none of the
funds contained in this Act shall be used to make indemnity payments to
any farmer whose milk was removed from commercial markets as a result of
his willful failure to follow procedures prescribed by the Federal
Government.
The following corporations and agencies are hereby authorized to make
such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority
available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and
to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation
Control Act, // 31 USC 849. // as amended, as may be necessary in
carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the current fiscal
year for such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided:
For administrative and operating expenses, as authorized by the
Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1516), $235,200,000.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to subscribe and pay for
capital stock of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, as provided in
section 504(a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1504),
$150,000,000.
For payments as authorized by section 508(b) of the Federal Crop
Insurance Act, // 7 USC 1508. // as amended, $115,575,000, and for an
additional amount of $27,658,000, to reimburse the Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation Fund for agents' commission obligations incurred
during prior years, but not previously reimbursed, as provided for under
the provisions of section 516(a) of the Act. // 7 USC 1516. //
To reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized losses
sustained in prior years, but not previously reimbursed, pursuant to the
Act of August 17, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a-11, 713a-12), $3,783,244,000.
As authorized by law, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall carry
out an Export Credit Sales direct loan program of not less than
$500,000,000 in fiscal year 1983: Provided, That none of the funds in
this Act may be used to carry out a program of loan guarantees by the
Corporation for the production and marketing of industrial hydrocarbons
and alcohols from agricultural commodities and forest products.
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Office of
Rural Development Policy in providing leadership, coordination, and
related services in carrying out the rural development activities of the
Department of Agriculture, as authorized by section 603 of the Rural
Development Act of 1972, // 7 USC 2201, 2204, 2204a. // as amended (7
U.S.C. 2204b); and section 2 of the Rural Development Policy Act of
1980 (7 U.S.C. 1921, // 7 USC 2204b. // and for monitoring Rural
Development Planning Grants pursuant to section 306( a)(11) of the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended (7 U.S.C.
1926(a)(11)), $2,000,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed
$5,000 of this appropriation shall be available for employment under 5
U.S.C. 3109.
For direct loans and related advances pursuant to section 517(m) of
the Housing Act of 1949, // 42 USC 1487. // as amended, $24,000,000
shall be available from funds in the rural housing insurance fund, and
for insured loans as authorized by title V of the Housing Act of 1949,
// 42 USC 1471. // as amended, $3,261,000,000 of which not less than
$3,259,000,000 shall be available for subsidized interest loans to
low-income borrowers as determined by the Secretary; and not to exceed
$5,000,000 for advances as authorized by section 501(e) of such Act. //
42 USC 1471. //
During fiscal year 1983, no more than 22,310 units may be assisted
under rental assistance agreements entered into or extended during the
year pursuant to authority under section 521(a)(2) of the Housing Act of
1949, // 42 USC 1490a. // as amended, and the total new obligation
incurred over the life of these agreements shall not exceed $123,745,000
to be added to and merged with the authority provided for this prupose
in prior fiscal years: Provided, That the life of the agreements
entered into or extended during fiscal year 1983 shall not exceed five
years.
For an additional amount to reimburse the rural housing insurance
fund for interest subsidies and losses sustained in prior years, but not
previously reimbursed, in carrying out the provisions of title V of the
Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1483, 1487e, and 1490a( c)),
including $6,728,000, as authorized by section 521(c) of the Act, // 42
USC 1490a. // $1,109,722,000, and for an additional amount as
authorized by section 521(c) of the Act as may be necessary to reimburse
the fund to carry out a rental assistance program under section
521(a)(2) of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended.
Loans may be insured, or made to be sold and insured, under this fund
in accordance with and subject to the provisions of 7 U.S.C. 1928 -
1929, or guaranteed, as follows: real estate loans, $840,100,000,
including not less than $775,000,000 for farm ownership loans of which
$75,000,000 shall be guaranteed loans; and not less than $53,100,000
for water development, use, and conservation loans of which $6,000,000
shall be guaranteed loans; operating loans, $1,510,000,000 of which
$50,000,000 shall be guaranteed loans; and emergency insured and
guaranteed loans in amounts necessary to meet the needs resulting from
natural disasters: Provided, That 20 per centum of the farm ownership
loans and 20 per centum of the operating loans insured, or made to be
sold and insured, under this provision may be for low-income limited
resource borrowers; guaranteed economic emergency loans under the
Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978, // 7 USC 1961. //
$600,000,000.
For an additional amount to reimburse the agricultural credit
insurance fund for interest subsidies and losses sustained in prior
years, but not previously reimbursed, in carrying out the provisions of
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended (7 U.S.C.
1988(a)), $682,074,000.
For loans to be insured, or made to be sold and insured, under this
fund in accordance with and subject to the provisions of 7 U.S.C. 1928
and 86 Stat. 661 - 664, as follows: insured water and sewer facility
loans, $375,000,000; guaranteed industrial development loans,
$300,000,000; and insured community facility loans, $130,000,000.
For an additional amount to reimburse the rural development insurance
fund for interest subsidies and losses sustained in prior years, but not
previously reimbursed, in carrying out the provisions of the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended (7 U.S.C.
1988(a)), $336,217,000.
For grants pursuant to sections 306(a)(2) and 306(a)(6) of the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended (7 U.S.C.
1926), $125,000,000, to remain available until expended, pursuant to
section 306(d) of the above Act.
For grants to the very low-income elderly for essential repairs to
dwellings pursuant to section 504 of the Housing Act of 1949, // 42 USC
1474. // as amended, $12,500,000.
For financial assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations for
housing for domestic farm labor, pursuant to section 516 of the Housing
Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1486), $12,500,000, to be derived
from the unexpended balances of amounts appropriated under this head in
prior years.
For grants and contracts pursuant to section 523(b)(1)(A) of the
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1940(c)), $12,500,000.
For grants pursuant to section 7 of the Cooperative Forestry
Assistance Act of 1978 (Public Law 95 - 313), $3,250,000 to fund up to
50 per centum of the cost of organizing, training, and equipping rural
volunteer fire departments.
For compensation for construction defects as authorized by section
509(c) of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, $2,000,000.
For necessary expenses of the Farmers Home Administration, not
otherwise provided for, in administering the programs authorized by the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 - 1995), as
amended; title V of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1471 - 1490h); the Rural Rehabilitation Corporation Trust Liquidation
Act approved May 3, 1950 (40 U.S.C. 440 - 444), for administering the
loan program authorized by title III A of the Economic Opportunity Act
of 1964 (Public Law 88 - 452 approved August 20, 1964), as amended, and
such other programs for which Farmers Home Administration has the
responsibility for administering, $289,288,000, together with not more
than $5,000,000 of the charges collected in connection with the
insurance of loans as authorized by section 309(e) of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act, as amended, and section 517(i) of the
Housing Act of 1949, as amended, or in connection with charges made on
borrowers under section 502(a) of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended:
Provided, That, in addition, not to exceed $1,000,000 of the funds
available for the various programs administered by this agency may be
transferred to this appropriation for temporary field employment
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), to meet unusual or heavy workload increases:
Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of this appropriation may
be used for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That in
addition to any other authority that the Secretary may have to defer
principal and interest and forego foreclosure, the Secretary may permit,
at the request of the borrower, the deferral of principal and interest
on any outstanding loan made, insured, or held by the Secretary under
this title, or under the provisions of any other law administered by the
Farmers Home Administration, and may forego foreclosure of any such
loan, for such period as the Secretary deems necessary upon a showing by
the borrower that due to circumstances beyond the borrower's control,
the borrower is temporarily unable to continue making payments of such
principal and interest when due without unduly impairing the standard of
living of the borrower. The Secretary may permit interest that accrues
during the deferral period on any loan deferred under this section to
bear no interest during or after such period: Provided further, That if
the security instrument securing such loan is foreclosed such interest
as is included in the purchase price at such foreclosure shall become
part of the principal and draw interest from the date of foreclosure at
the rate prescribed by law.
To carry into effect the provisions of the Rural Electrification Act
of 1936, // 7 USC 901-950b. // as amended (7 U.S.C. 901 - 950(b)), as
follows:
LOAN
AUTHORIZATIONS
Insured loans pursuant to the authority of section 305 of the Rural
Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U.S.C. 935), shall be made as
follows: rural electrification loans, not less than $850,000,000 nor
more than $1,100,000,000, and rural telephone loans, not less than
$250,000,000 nor more than $325,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That loans made pursuant to section 306 of that Act
// 7 USC 936. // are in addition to these amounts but during 1983,
total commitments to guarantee loans pursuant to section 306, shall be
not less than $4,745,000,000, nor more than $5,950,000,000 of contingent
liability for total loan principal: Provided further, That as a
condition of approval of insured electric loans during fiscal year 1983,
borrowers shall obtain concurrent supplemental financing in accordance
with the applicable criteria and ratios in effect as of July 15, 1982.
For the purchase of Class A stock of the Rural Telephone Bank,
$30,000,000, to remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. 901 - 950(
b)). // 7 USC 901 - 950b. //
The Rural Telephone Bank is hereby authorized to make such
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority
available to such corporation in accord with law, and to make such
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as
provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as
amended, as may be necessary in carrying out its authorized programs for
the current fiscal year. During 1983, and within the resources and
authority available, gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans shall be not less than $185,000,000 nor more than
$220,000,000.
To reimburse the Rural Communication Development Fund for interest
subsidies and losses sustained in prior years, but not previously
reimbursed, in making Community Antenna Television loans and loan
guarantees under sections 306 and 310 B of the Consolidated Farm and
Rural Development Act, // 7 USC 1926, 1932. // as amended, $91,000.
For administrative expenses to carry out the provisions of the Rural
Electrification Act of 1936, // 7 USC 901 - 950b. // and to administer
the loan and loan guarantee programs for Community Antenna Television
facilities as authorized by the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 - 1995), and for which commitments were made prior to
fiscal year 1983, including not to exceed $7,000 for financial and
credit reports, funds for employment pursuant to the second sentence of
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to
exceed $150,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $28,945,000.
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of the Act of
April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-590f) including preparation of
conservation plans and establishment of measures to conserve soil and
water (including farm irrigation and land drainage and such special
measures for soil and water management as may be necessary to prevent
floods and the siltation of reservoirs and to control agricultural
related pollutants); operation of conservation plant material centers;
classification and mapping of soil; dissemination of information;
acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a nominal
cost not to exceed $100; purchase and erection or alteration of
permanent buildings; and operation and maintenance of aircraft,
$326,198,000, of which not less than $3,742,000 is for snow survey and
water forecasting and not less than $3,757,000 is for operation of the
plant materials centers: Provided, That the cost of any permanent
building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of
constructing a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same
to any such building and with the exception of buildings acquired in
conjunction with land being purchased for other purposes, shall not
exceed $7,500, except for one building to be constructed at a cost not
to exceed $75,000 and eight buildings to be constructed or improved at a
cost not to exceed $45,000 per building and except that alterations or
improvements to other existing permanent buildings costing $5,000 or
more may be made in any fiscal year in an amount not to exceed $1,500
per building: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation
shall be available for the construction of any such building on land not
owned by the Government: Provided further, That no part of this
appropriation may be expended for soil and water conservation operations
under the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-590f) in demonstration
projects: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available
for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a)
of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225) and not to exceed $25,000
shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided
further, That qualified local engineers may be temporarily employed at
per diem rates to perform the technical planning work of the Service.
For necessary expenses to conduct research, investigations, and
surveys of the watersheds of rivers and other waterways, in accordance
with section 6 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act //
16 USC 1006. // approved August 4, 1954, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1006 -
1009), $16,068,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be
available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence of
section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to
exceed $60,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
For necessary expenses for small watershed investigations and
planning, in accordance with the Watershed Protection and Flood
Prevention Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1001 - 1008), $8,675,000:
Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for field
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $50,000 shall be
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
For necessary expenses to carry out preventive measures, including
but not limited to research, engineering operations, methods of
cultivation, the growing of vegetation, and changes in use of land, in
accordance with the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act
approved August 4, 1954, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1001 - 1005, 1007 -
1009), the provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a-f),
// 16 USC 590a-590f. // and in accordance with the provisions of laws
relating to the activities of the Department, $194,925,000 (of which
$23,200,000 shall be available for the watersheds authorized under the
Flood // 33 USC 701a. // Control Act approved June 22, 1936 (33 U.S.C.
701, 16 U.S.C 1006a), as amended and supplemented): Provided, That this
appropriation shall be available for field employment pursuant to the
second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U. S.C.
2225), and not to exceed $10,000,000 shall be available for emergency
measures as provided by sections 403 - 405 of the Agricultural Credit
Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203 - 2205), and not to exceed $200,000 shall be
available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That
$26,000,000 in loans may be insured, or made to be sold and insured,
under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund of the Farmers Home
Administration (86 Stat. 663): // 7 USC 1931, 1932. // Provided
further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this appropriation is
available to carry out the purposes of the Endangered Species Act of
1973 (Public Law 93 - 205), // 16 USC 1531 // as amended, including
cooperative efforts as contemplated by that Act to relocate endangered
or threatened species to other suitable habitats as may be necessary to
expedite project construction.
For necessary expenses in planning and carrying out projects for
resource conservation and development and for sound land use pursuant to
the provisions of section 32(e) of title III of the Bank--, head-Jones
Farm Tenant Act, // 7 USC 1011. // as amended (7 U.s.c. 1010 - 1011;
76 Stat. 607), and the provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16
U.S.C. 590a-f), // 16 USC 590a-590f. // and the provisions of the
Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451 - 3461), // 95 Stat.
1337 - 1341. // $257,744,000: Provided, That $4,000,000 in loans may
be insured, or made to be sold and insured, under the Agricultural
Credit Insurance Fund of the Farmers Home Administration (86 Stat. 663):
// 7 USC 1931, 1932. // Provided further, That this appropriation
shall be available for field employment pursuant to the second sentence
of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not
to exceed $50,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
For necessary expenses to carry into effect a program of conservation
in the Great Plains area, pursuant to section 16(b) of the Soil
Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as added by the Act of August
7, 1956, as amended (16 U.S.C. 590p(b)), $21,315,000, to remain
available until expended.
For necessary expenses to carry into effect the program authorized in
sections 7 to 15, 16(a), 16(f), and 17 of the Soil Conservation and
Domestic Allotment Act approved February 29, 1936, as amended and
supplemented (16 U.S.C. 590g-590o, 590p(a), 590p(f), and 590q), and
sections 1001 - 1008, and 1010 of the Agricultural Act of 1970, as added
by the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1501
- 1508, and 1510), and including not to exceed $15,000 for the
preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at State,
interstate, and international fairs within the United States,
$190,000,000, to remain available until expended for agreements,
excluding administration but including technical assistance and related
expenses, except that no participant in the Agricultural Conservation
Program shall receive more than $3,500, except where the participants
from two or more farms or ranches join to carry out approved practices
designed to conserve or improve the agricultural resources of the
community: Provided, That no portion of the funds for the current
year's program may be utilized to provide financial or technical
assistance for drainage on wetlands now designated as Wetlands Types 3
(III) through 20 (XX) in United States Department of the Interior, Fish
and Wildlife Circular 39, Wetlands of the United States, 1956: Provided
further, that such amounts shall be available for the purchase of seeds,
fertilizers, lime, trees, or any other conservation materials, or any
soil-terracing services, and making grants thereof to agricultural
producers to aid them in carrying out approved farming practices as
authorized by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, // 16
USC 590q. // as amended, as determined and recommended by the county
committees, approved by the State committees and the Secretary, under
programs provided for herein: Provided further, That such assistance
will not be used for carrying out measures and practices that are
primarily production-oriented or that have little or no conservation or
pollution abatement benefits: Provided further, That not to exceed 5
per centum of the allocation for the current year's program for any
county may, on the recommendation of such county committee and approval
of the State committee, be withheld and allotted to the Soil
Conservation Service for services of its technicians in formulating and
carrying out the Agricultural Conservation program in the participating
counties, and shall not be utilized by the Soil Conservation Service for
any purpose other than technical and other assistance in such counties,
and in addition, on the recommendation of such county committee and
approval of the State committee, not to exceed 1 per centum may be made
available to any other Federal, State, or local public agency for the
same purpose and under the same conditions: Provided further, That for
the current year's program $2,500,000 shall be available for technical
assistance in formulating and carrying out rural environmental
practices: Provided further, That no part of any funds available to the
Department, or any bureau, office, corporation, or other agency
constituting a part of such Department, shall be used in the current
fiscal year for the payment of salary or travel expenses of any person
who has been convicted of violating the Act entitled " An Act to prevent
pernicious political activities" approved August 2, 1939, // 53 Stat.
1147. // as amended, or who has been found in accordance with the
provisions of title 18 U. S.C. 1913, to have violated or attempted to
violate such section which prohibits the use of Federal appropriations
for the payment of personal services or other expenses designed to
influence in any manner a Member of Congress to favor or oppose any
legislation or appropriation by Congress except upon request of any
Member or through the proper official channels.
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out the
program of forestry incentives, as authorized in the Cooperative
Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101), including technical
assistance and related expenses, $12,500,000, to remain available until
expended, as authorized by that Act.
For necessary expenses to carry into effect the provisions of the
Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301 - 1311), $8,800,000, to remain available
until expended.
For necessary expenses to carry out the National School Lunch Act (42
U.S.C. 1751 - 1761, and 1766), and the applicable provisions other than
section 3 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 // 42 USC 1772. // (42
U.S.C. 1773 - 1785, and 1788); $3,178,000,000, of which $896,324,000 is
hereby appropriated, and $2,281,676,000 shall be derived by transfer
from funds available under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7
U.S.C. 612c), including $80,000,000 for purchase and distribution of
agricultural commodities and other foods pursuant to section 6 of the
National School Lunch Act: // 7 USC 1755. // Provided, That funds
provided herein shall remain available until September 30, 1984:
Provided further, That funds appropriated for the purpose of section 7
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 // 42 USC 1776a. // shall be
allocated among the States but the distribution of such funds to an
individual State is contingent upon that State's agreement to
participate in studies and surveys of programs authorized under the
National School Lunch Act // 42 USC 1751 // and the Child Nutrition Act
of 1966, // 42 USC 1771 // when such studies and surveys have been
directed by the Congress and requested by the Secretary of Agriculture:
Provided further, That if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that a
State's administration of any program under the National School Lunch
Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 // 42 USC 1751, 1771. // (other
than section 17), or the regulations issued pursuant to these Acts, is
seriously deficient, and the State fails to correct the deficiency
within a specified period of time, the Secretary may withhold from the
State some or all of the funds allocated to the State under section 7 of
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 // 42 USC 1776. // and under section
13(k)(1) of the National School Lunch Act; // 42 USC 1761. // upon a
subsequent determination by the Secretary that the programs are operated
in an acceptable manner some or all of the funds withheld may be
allocated: Provided further, That if the funds available for Nutrition
Education and Training grants authorized under section 19 of the Child
Nutrition Act of 1966, // 42 USC 1788. // as amended, require a ratable
reduction in those grants, the minimum grant for each State shall be
$50,000: Provided further, That only final reimbursement claims for
service of meals, supplements, and milk submitted to State agencies by
eligible schools, summer camps, institutions, and service institutions
within sixty days following the claiming month shall be eligible for
reimbursement from funds appropriated under this Act. States may
receive program funds appropriated under this Act for meals,
supplements, and milk served during any month only if the final program
operations report for such month is submitted to the Department within
ninety days following that month. Exceptions to these claims or reports
submission requirements may be made at the discretion of the Secretary.
For necessary expenses to carry out the special milk program, as
authorized by section 3 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C.
1772), $20,100,000, to remain available until September 30, 1984:
Provided, That only claims for reimbursement for milk served during
fiscal year 1983 submitted to State agencies prior to January 1, 1984,
shall be eligible for reimbursement.
(WIC)
For necessary expenses to carry out the special supplemental food
program as authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966
(42 U.S.C. 1786), $1,060,000,000: Provided, That funds provided herein
shall remain available until September 30, 1984.
For necessary expenses to carry out the commodity supplemental food
program as authorized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Consumer
Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c (note)), including the pilot
projects in Detroit, New Orleans, and Des Moines, $32,600,000:
Provided, That funds provided herein shall remain available until
September 30, 1984.
For necessary expenses to carry out the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C.
2011 - 2027, 2029), $10,565,657,000: Provided, That funds provided
herein shall remain available until September 30, 1983, in accordance
with section 18(a) of the Food Stamp Act: // 7 USC 2027. // Provided
further, That up to 5 per centum of the foregoing amount may be placed
in reserve to be apportioned pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised
Statutes, // 31 USC 665. // as amended, for use only in such amounts
and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program
operations: Provided further, That funds provided herein shall be
expended in accordance with section 16 of the Food Stamp Act: // 7 USC
2025. // Provided further, That this appropriation shall be subject to
any work registration or workfare requirements as may be required by
law.
For an additional amount to carry out the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C.
2011 - 2027, 2029), $250,000,000 should it become necessary after the
Secretary has employed the regulatory and administrative methods
available to him under the law to curtail fraud, waste and abuse in the
program: Provided, That funds provided herein shall remain available
until September 30, 1983: Provided further, That this appropriation
shall be subject to any work registration or workfare requirements as
may be required by law.
For monthly payments to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for nutrition
assistance as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2028, $825,000,000.
For necessary expenses to carry out section 4(a) of the Agriculture
and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c (note)) and section
4(b) of the Food Stamp Act (7 U.S.C. 2013), $156,266,000.
For necessary administrative expenses of the Domestic Food Programs
funded under this Act, $82,146,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be
available only for simplifying procedures, reducing overhead costs,
tightening regulations, improving food stamp coupon handling, and
assistance in the prevention, identification and prosecution of fraud
and other violations of law: Provided, That this appropriation shall be
available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section
706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed
$150,000 shall be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109.
For necessary expenses to enable the Human Nutrition Information
Service to perform applied research and demonstrations relating to human
nutrition, consumer use and economies of food utilization, and for the
collection and dissemination of information relating thereto,
$8,096,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for
employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225).
For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service, including
carrying out title VI of the Agricultural Act of 1954, as amended (7
U.S.C. 1761 - 1768), market development activities abroad, and for
enabling the Secretary to coordinate and integrate activities of the
Department in connection with foreign agricultural work, including not
to exceed $110,000 for representation allowances and for expenses
pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U. S.C.
1766), $74,454,000: Provided, That not less than $255,000 of the funds
contained in this appropriation shall be available to obtain statistics
and related facts on foreign production and full and complete
information on methods used by other countries to move farm commodities
in world trade on a competitive basis.
Not to exceed $5,599,000 may be transferred from the Commodity Credit
Corporation funds to support the General Sales Manager who shall work to
expand and strengthen sales of United States commodities (including
those of the Corporation) in world markets pursuant to existing
authority (including that contained in the Corporation's charter), and
that such funds shall be used by the General Sales Manager to carry out
the above activities. The General Sales Manager shall report directly
to the Board of Directors of the Corporation of which the Secretary of
Agriculture is a member. The General Sales Manager shall obtain,
assimilate, and analyze all available information on developments
related to private sales, as well as those funded by the Corporation,
including grade and quality as sold and as delivered, including
information relating to the effectiveness of greater reliance by the
General Sales Manager upon loan guarantees as contrasted to direct loans
for financing commercial export sales of agricultural commodities out of
private stocks on credit terms, as provided in titles I and II of the
Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, Public Law 95 - 501, and shall submit
quarterly reports to the appropriate committees of Congress concerning
such developments.
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise
recoverable, and unrecovered prior years' costs, including interest
thereon, under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of
1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1691, 1701 - 1715, 1721 - 1726, 1727 - 1727f,
1731 - 1736g), as follows: (1) financing the sale of agricultural
commodities for convertible foreign currencies and for dollars on credit
terms pursuant to titles I and III of said Act, not more than
$859,000,000, of which $378,000,000 is hereby appropriated and the
balance derived from proceeds from sales of foreign currencies and
dollar loan repayments, repayments on long-term credit sales, and
carryover balances; and (2) commodities supplied in connection with
dispositions abroad, pursuant to title II of said Act, not more than
$650,000,000, of which $650,000,000 is hereby appropriated: Provided,
That not to exceed 10 percent of the funds made available to carry out
any title of this paragraph may be used to carry out any other title of
this paragraph.
For necessary expenses of the Office of International Cooperation and
Development to coordinate, plan, and direct activities involving
international development, technical assistance and training,
international scientific and technical cooperation in the Department of
Agriculture, $3,578,000, including those authorized by the Food and
Agriculture Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3291), and the Office may utilize
advances of funds, or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures made
on behalf of Federal agencies, public and private organizations and
institutions under agreements executed pursuant to the agricultural food
production assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 1736) and the foreign
assistance programs of the International Development Cooperation
Administration (22 U.S.C. 2392).
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Food and
Drug Administration; for payment of salaries and expenses for services
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to
exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18; for rental
of special purpose space in the District of Columbia or elsewhere,
$330,188,000.
For payment of standard level user charges pursuant to Public Law 92
- 313 // 40 USC 601 // for programs and activities of the Food and Drug
Administration which are included in this Act, $18,942,000.
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Commodity
Exchange Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including the purchase
and hire of passenger motor vehicles; the rental of space (to include
multiple year leases) in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and
not to exceed $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $22,892,000 to
be available as authorized by law: Provided, That not to exceed $700
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses.
Not to exceed $17,954,000 (from assessments collected from farm
credit agencies) shall be obligated during the current fiscal year for
administrative expenses including the hire of one passenger motor
vehicle.
Sec. 601. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.
C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are
a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive
order issued pursuant to existing law.
Sec. 602. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, appropriations
and authorizations made for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal
year 1983 under this Act shall be available for the purchase, in
addition to those specifically provided for, of not to exceed seven
hundred thirteen (713) passenger motor vehicles of which six hundred
sixty-two (662) shall be for replacement only, and for the hire of such
vehicles.
Sec. 603. Funds in this Act available to the Department of
Agriculture shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor as
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902).
Sec. 604. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of the
Department of Agriculture in this Act for research and service work
authorized by the Acts of August 14, 1946, July 28, 1954, and September
6, 1958 (7 U.S.C. 427, 1621 - 1629; 42 U.S.C. 1891 - 1893), shall be
available for contracting in accordance with said Acts.
Sec. 605. No part of the funds contained in this Act may be used to
make production or other payments to a person, persons, or corporations
who harvest or knowingly permit to be harvested for illegal use,
marihuana, or other such prohibited drug-producing plants on any part of
lands owned or controlled by such persons or corporations.
Sec. 606. Advances of money from any appropriation in this Act for
the Department of Agriculture may be made by authority of the Secretary
of Agriculture to chiefs of field parties.
Sec. 607. The cumulative total of transfers to the Working Capital
Fund for the purpose of accumulating growth capital for data services
and National Finance Center operations shall not exceed $1,500,000:
Provided, That no funds appropriated to an agency of the Department
shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund without the approval of
the agency administrator.
Sec. 608. New obligational authority provided for the following
appropriation items in this Act shall remain available until expended:
Scientific Activities Overseas (Foreign Currency Program); Public Law
480; Mutual and Self-Help Housing; Rural Housing for Domestic Farm
Labor; Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations; Resource
Conservation and Development; Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, Buildings and Facilities; Agricultural Research Service,
Buildings and Facilities; and Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service Salaries and Expenses funds made available to
county committees.
Sec. 609. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless
expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 610. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriations available to
the Department of Agriculture in this Act shall be available to provide
appropriate orientation and language training pursuant to Public Law 94
- 449. // 7 USC 1762. //
Sec. 611. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, employees of
the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, including employees of
the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committees, may
be utilized to provide part-time and intermittent assistance to other
agencies of the Department, without reimbursement, during periods when
they are not otherwise fully utilized, and ceilings on full-time
equivalent staff years established for or by the Department of
Agriculture shall exclude overtime as well as staff years expended as a
result of carrying out programs associated with natural disasters, such
as forest fires, drought, floods, and other acts of God.
Sec. 612. Funds provided by this Act for personnel compensation and
benefits shall be available for obligation for that purpose only.
Sec. 613. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be expended by any executive agency, as referred to in the Office of
Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), pursuant to any
obligation for services by contract, unless such executive agency has
awarded and entered into such contract as provided by law.
Sec. 614. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available
by this Act shall be available to implement, administer, or enforce any
regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to a resolution of
disapproval duly adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the
United States.
Sec. 615. Certificates of beneficial ownership sold by the Farmers
Home Administration in connection with the Agricultural Credit Insurance
Fund, the Rural Housing Insurance Fund, and the Rural Development
Insurance Fund shall be not less than 75 per centum of the value of the
loans closed during the fiscal year.
Sec. 616. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used to pay
negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative agreements or similar
arrangements between the United States Department of Agriculture and
nonprofit institutions in excess of 10 per centum of the total direct
cost of the agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrangements
is to carry out programs of mutual interest between the two parties.
This does not preclude appropriate payment of indirect costs on grants
and contracts with such institutions when such indirect costs are
computed on a similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations
are provided in this Act.
Sec. 617. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to carry out
any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and
Development Program.
Sec. 618. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to prevent or
interfere with the right and obligation of the Commodity Credit
Corporation to sell surplus agricultural commodities in world trade at
competitive prices as authorized by law.
Sec. 619. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, watershed
projects under Public Law 83 - 566 // 42 USC 1962 // are hereby exempted
from the requirements of Executive Orders 12113 and 12141.
Sec. 620. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, // 16 USC
1001 // commodities acquired by the Department in connection with
Commodity Credit Corporation // 42 USC 1962 // and section 32 price
support operations may be used, as authorized by law (15 U.S.C. 714c and
7 U.S.C. 612c), // 7 USC 612c // to provide commodities to individuals
in cases of hardship as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Sec. 621. Effective upon enactment of this Act and for the remainder
of fiscal year 1983, notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
funds may be paid out of the Treasury of the United States or out of any
fund of a Government corporation to any private individual or
corporation in satisfaction of any assurance agreement or payment
guarantee or other form of loan guarantee entered into by any agency or
corporation of the United States Government with respect to loans made
and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless the Polish
People's Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such
individual or corporation or unless the President has provided a monthly
written report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
President of the Senate explaining the manner in which the national
interest of the United States has been served by any payments during the
previous month under loan guarantee or credit assurance agreement with
respect to loans made or credits extended to the Polish People's
Republic in the absence of a declaration of default.
Sec. 622. None of the funds in this Act shall be available to
reimburse the General Services Administration for payment of standard
level user charges in excess of the fiscal year 1982 level.
Sec. 623. In fiscal year 1983, the Secretary of Agriculture shall
initiate construction on not less than twenty new projects under the
Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 566) // 16 USC
1001 // and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act
(Public Law 534). // 33 USC 701 - 1. //
Sec. 624. Funds provided by this Act may be used for translation of
publications of the Department of Agriculture into foreign languages
when determined by the Secretary to be in the public interest.
Sec. 625. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
appropriations under this Act to reimburse the Commodity Credit
Corporation for net realized losses sustained, but not previously
reimbursed, are $10,466,057,000, and, as authorized by law, the
Commodity Credit Corporation shall carry out an Export Credit Sales
direct loan program of not more than $500,000,000 in fiscal year 1983.
Approved December 18, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 7072 (S. 2911):
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 97 - 800 (Comm. on Appropriations) and 97 - 957
(Comm. of Conference).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 97 - 566 (Comm. on Appropriations), No. 97 - 545
accompanying S. 2911 (Comm. on Appropriations).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Sept. 21, considered and passed House.
Sept. 28, considered and passed Senate, amended.
Dec. 15, House agreed to conference report; receded from its
disagreement and concurred in certain Senate amendments, in others
with amendments; Senate agreed to conference report, and
concurred in House amendments.
PUBLIC LAW 97-369, 96 STAT. 1765, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1983.
Transportation and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the Department of Transportation and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for other purposes,
namely:
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of
Transportation, including not to exceed $31,000 for allocation within
the Department of official reception and representation expenses as the
Secretary may determine, $40,000,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be
transferred and made available to the Motor Carrier Ratemaking Study
Commission and, of which not to exceed $3,220,000 shall remain available
until expended and shall be available for the purposes of the Minority
Business Resource Center under title IX of Public Law 94 - 210: // 90
Stat. 147. // Provided, That all of the unexpended balances available
for the purposes of title IX of Public Law 94 - 210 under the heading "
Rail service assistance" shall be transferred to this account and remain
available until expended: Provided further, That none of the funds in
this Act shall be available for the execution of the sale or
transference of any Government-owned securities of the Consolidated Rail
Corporation without the prior consent of the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations.
For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning,
research, and development activities, including the collection of
national transportation statistics, to remain available until expended,
$4,900,000.
Necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of the
Department of Transportation Working Capital Fund not to exceed
$70,909,000 shall be paid, in accordance with law, from appropriations
made available by this Act and prior appropriation Acts to the
Department of Transportation, together with advances and reimbursements
received by the Department of Transportation.
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of providing
administrative services at the headquarters location of the Coast Guard,
including, but not limited to, executive direction; budget, planning
and policy; command, control, communication, and operations; financial
management; legal; engineering; civil rights; and personnel and
health services for the Coast Guard, $72,440,000, of which $14,000,000
shall be derived by transfer from appropriations for Retired pay.
For necessary expenses for the operation and maintenance of the Coast
Guard, not otherwise provided for; purchase of not to exceed eight
passenger motor vehicles, for replacement only; and recreation and
welfare, $1,518,963,000, of which $254,650 shall be applied to Capehart
Housing debt reduction: Provided, That the number of aircraft on hand
at any one time shall not exceed two hundred and ten exclusive of planes
and parts stored to meet future attrition: Provided further, That none
of the funds appropriated in this or any other Act shall be available
for pay or administrative expenses in connection with shipping
commissioners in the United States: Provided further, That none of the
funds provided in this Act shall be available for expenses incurred for
yacht documentation under 46 U.S.C. 103 except to the extent fees are
collected from yacht owners and credited to this appropriation, and,
notwithstanding any other law, the Secretary may prescribe fees to
recover the expenses of yacht documentation.
For necessary expenses of acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and
improvement of aids to navigation, shore facilities, vessels, and
aircraft, including equipment related thereto; to remain available
until September 30, 1987, $409,000,000, of which $9,000,000 shall be
derived by transfer from the unobligated balances of " Pollution Fund".
For necessary expenses for alteration or removal of obstructive
bridges, $12,700,000, to remain available until expended.
For retired pay including the payment of obligations therefor
otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose, and
payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor
Benefit Plans, and for payments for medical care of retired personnel
and their dependents under the Dependents Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C.,
ch. 55), // 10 USC 1071 // $336,000,000.
For all necessary expenses for the Coast Guard Reserve, as authorized
by law; maintenance and operation of facilities; and supplies,
equipment, and services, $50,000,000 together with an amount not to
exceed $4,000,000 which shall be derived from appropriations for retired
pay.
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for basic and
applied scientific research, development, test, and evaluation;
maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and
equipment, as authorized by law, $20,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation,
funds received from State and local governments, other public
authorities, private sources and foreign countries for expenses incurred
for research, development, testing and evaluation.
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of title III of
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 (Public Law 95
- 372), // 92 Stat. 670. // $1,000,000, to be derived from the Offshore
Oil Pollution Compensation Fund and to remain available until expended.
In addition, the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue to
the Secretary of the Treasury, to meet the obligations of the Fund,
notes or other obligations pursuant to section 302 of the Amendments //
43 USC 1812. // in such amounts and at such times as may be necessary.
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 18 of
the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (Public Law 93 - 627), // 33 USC 1517.
// $1,000,000, to be derived from the Deepwater Port Liability Fund and
to remain available until expended. In addition, the Secretary of
Transportation is authorized to issue, and the Secretary of the Treasury
is authorized to purchase, without fiscal year limitation, notes or
other obligations pursuant to section 18(f)(3) of the Act in such
amounts and at such times as may be necessary to meet the obligations of
the Fund.
For financial assistance for State recreational boating safety
programs to be derived from the National Recreational Boating Safety and
Facilities Improvement Fund, in accordance with the provisions of the
Recreational Boating Safety and Facilities Improvement Act of 1980
(Public Law 96 - 451), // 46 USC 1451 // $5,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of providing
administrative services at the headquarters location of the Federal
Aviation Administration, including but not limited to accounting,
budgeting, personnel, legal, public affairs, and executive direction for
the Federal Aviation Administration, $54,574,000.
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, not
otherwise provided for, including administrative expenses for research
and development and for establishment of air navigation facilities, and
carrying out the provisions of the Airport and Airway Development Act,
// 49 USC 1701. // as amended, or other provisions of law authorizing
obligation of funds for similar programs of airport and airway
development or improvement; payments to lenders required as a
consequence of any guaranty under Public Law 85 - 307, // 49 USC 1324 //
as amended; purchase of four passenger motor vehicles for replacement
only and purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes, $2,456,783,000, of
which not to exceed $1,264,000,000 shall be derived from the Airport and
Airway Trust Fund: Provided, That, in addition, not to exceed
$5,000,000 shall remain available until expended to be derived from the
Airport and Airway Trust Fund for reimbursement of expenses incurred by
certificated air carriers in the security screening of passengers moving
in foreign air transportation: Provided further, That there may be
credited to this appropriation, funds received from States, counties,
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, for
expenses incurred in the maintenance and operation of air navigation
facilities: Provided further, That none of these funds shall be
available for new applicants for the second career training program:
Provided further, That the Federal Aviation Administration shall not
undertake any reorganization of its regional office structure without
the prior approval of both House and Senate Appropriations Committees:
Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the total amount
available for operation shall be obligated for a contract with the
National Academy of Sciences and the Federal Aviation Administration
Administrator shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of
Sciences to study the state of knowledge, alternative approaches and the
consequences of wind shear alert and severe weather condition standards
relating to take-off and landing clearances for commercial and general
aviation aircraft: Provided further, That the Academy shall complete
the study within six months after funding arrangements have been made:
Provided further, That the Federal Aviation Administration Administrator
shall report to Congress within thirty days regarding the status of the
contractual arrangements and the conditions necessary to implement the
agreement with the National Academy of Sciences: Provided further, That
the Department of Transportation shall furnish to the National Academy
of Sciences any information which the Academy determines to be necessary
for the purpose of conducting the study: Provided further, That not to
exceed $150,000 of the funds provided to the Federal Aviation
Administration in this Act shall be available for doubling the number of
wind shear sensors at Moisant Airport in Kenner, Louisiana.
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, not
otherwise provided for, for acquisition and modernization of facilities
and equipment and service testing in accordance with the provisions of
the Federal Aviation Act (49 U.S.C. 1301 - 1542), including construction
of experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease
or grant and lease or purchase of four aircraft, $18,255,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That there may be credited to this
appropriation, funds received from States, counties, municipalities,
other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred for
engineering and development.
Fund)
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for acquisition,
establishment, and improvement by contract or purchase, and hire of air
navigation and experimental facilities, including initial acquisition of
necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and service testing
including construction of test facilities and acquisition of necessary
sites by lease or grant; construction and furnishing of quarters and
related accommodations for officers and employees of the Federal
Aviation Administration stationed at remote localities where such
accommodations are not available; and the lease or purchase of 21
aircraft; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to
remain available until September 30, 1987; $625,000,000, of which
$7,450,000 shall be derived from the unobligated balances of "
Grants-in-aid for airports": Provided, That there may be credited to
this appropriation, funds received from States, counties,
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, for
expenses incurred in the establishment and modernization of air
navigation facilities.
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for research,
engineering, and development, in accordance with the provisions of the
Federal Aviation Act (49 U.S.C. 1301 - 1542), including construction of
experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease or
grant, $103,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust
Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, That there may
be credited to this appropriation, funds received from States, counties,
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, for
expenses incurred for research, engineering and development.
For liquidation of obligations incurred for airport development under
authority contained in section 14 of Public Law 91 - 258, // 49 USC
1714. // as amended, and for liquidation of obligations incurred for
airport planning and development under other law authorizing such
obligations, $234,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway
Trust Fund and to remain available until expended.
For expenses incident to the care, operation, maintenance,
improvement, and protection of the federally owned civil airports in the
vicinity of the District of Columbia, including purchase of ten
passenger motor vehicles for police or ambulance type use, for
replacement only; and purchase of two motor bikes for replacement only;
purchase of one ambulance, for replacement only; purchase, cleaning,
and repair of uniforms; and arms and ammunition, $31,955,000:
Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation, funds
received from air carriers, concessionaires, and non-Federal tenants
sufficient to cover utility and fuel costs which are in excess of
$7,036,000: Provided further, That there may be credited to this
appropriation, funds received from States, counties, municipalities,
other public authorities, or private sources, for expenses incurred in
the maintenance and operation of the federally owned civil airports.
For necessary expenses for construction at the federally owned civil
airports in the vicinity of the District of Columbia $11,080,000, to
remain available until September 30,1985.
The Secretary of Transportation is hereby authorized to make such
expenditures and investments, within the limits of funds available
pursuant to section 1306 of the Act of August 23, 1958, as amended (49
U.S.C. 1536), and in accordance with section 104 of the Government
Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 849), as may be necessary
in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the current
fiscal year for aviation insurance activities under said Act.
In carrying out the program for guarantee of aircraft purchase loans
under the Act of September 7, 1957, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1324 note),
during fiscal year 1983 new commitments to guarantee loans shall be
exclusively for the purchase of aircraft designed to have a maximum
passenger capacity of sixty seats or less or a maximum cargo payload of
eighteen thousand pounds or less, and when combined with the aggregate
of all guarantees made during fiscal year 1982 shall not exceed in the
aggregate $100,000,000 in principal amount.
Necessary expenses for administration, operation, and research of the
Federal Highway Administration, not to exceed $188,500,000, shall be
paid, in accordance with law, from appropriations made available by this
Act to the Federal Highway Administration together with advances and
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration:
Provided, That not to exceed $38,000,000 of the amount provided herein
shall remain available until expended.
For necessary expenses to carry out motor carrier safety functions of
the Secretary, as authorized by the Department of Transportation Act (80
Stat. 939 - 940), $11,600,000, together with $1,000,000 to be derived by
transfer from the unobligated balances of " Inter-American Highway", of
which $520,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall remain available
until expended and not to exceed $1,917,000 shall be available for "
Limitation on general operating expenses".
For necessary expenses in carrying out provisions of title 23, United
States Code, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain
available until expended, $7,700,000, together with $300,000 to be
derived from the unobligated balances of " Baltimore--, Washington
Parkway".
For necessary expenses in carrying out section 131 of title 23, U.S.
C. and section 104(a)(11) of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act
of 1978, // 92 Stat. 2690. // $500,000 to remain available until
expended.
Contract
Authorization) (Trust Fund)
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of
title 23, United States Code, section 402, administered by the Federal
Highway Administration, to remain available until expended, $22,998,000,
to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That not to exceed
$833,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be available for "
Limitation on general operating expenses": Provided further, That
$9,623,000 available for obligation is hereby rescinded.
For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of title 23,
United States Code, sections 152, 153, 215, and 402, $3,000,000, to
remain available until expended.
For carrying out the provisions of title 23, United States Code,
which are attributable to Federal-aid highways, including the National
Scenic and Recreational Highway as authorized by 23 U.S.C. 148, not
otherwise provided, including reimbursements for sums expended pursuant
to the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 308, $8,200,000,000, or so much thereof
as may be available in and derived from the Highway Trust Fund, to
remain available until expended.
For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the Secretary
with respect to traffic and highway safety and functions under the Motor
Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act (Public Law 92 - 513, as
amended), // 86 Stat. 947. // $74,000,000, of which $21,685,000 shall
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That not to exceed
$28,375,000 shall remain available until expended, of which $9,507,000
shall be derived from the Highway Trust Fund: Provided further, That,
of the funds appropriated under this heading $2,000,000 shall be
available only for activities at the Transportation Systems Center.
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of
23 U.S.C. 402 and 406, to remain available until expended, $103,552,000,
to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund.
For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Administration, not
otherwise provided for, $13,000,000.
For necessary expenses in connection with railroad safety, not
otherwise provided for, $28,000,000, of which $4,800,000 shall remain
available until expended.
For necessary expenses for railroad research and development,
$17,000,000, to remain available until expended.
For necessary expenses for rail service assistance authorized by
section 5 of the Department of Transportation Act, // 49 USC 1654. //
as amended, for Washington Union Station, as authorized by Public Law 97
- 125, // 95 Stat. 1667. // and for necessary administrative expenses
in connection with Federal rail assistance programs not otherwise
provided for, $31,675,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That none of the funds provided under this Act shall be
available for the planning or execution of a program making commitments
to guarantee new loans under the Emergency Rail Services Act of 1970, //
45 USC 661 // as amended, and that no commitments to guarantee new
loans, under section 211(a) of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of
1973, // 45 USC 721 // as amended, shall be made: Provided further,
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the sale or
transference of Washington Union Station without the prior approval of
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
For labor protection as authorized by section 713 of the Regional
Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 // 95 Stat. 668 // as added by section
1143 of the Northeast Rail Service Act of 1981, // 45 USC 797 //
$20,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which $10,000,000
shall be derived from the unobligated balances of " Redeemable
preference shares": Provided, That such sum shall be considered to have
been appropriated to the Secretary under said section 713 for transfer
to the Railroad Retirement Board for the payment of benefits under
section 701 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, // 95 Stat.
665, 45 USC 797 // as amended: Provided further, That, for purposes of
section 710, of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, // 95
Stat. 665 // as added by section 1143 of the Northeast Rail Service Act
of 1981, // 45 USC 797 // such sum shall be considered to have been
appropriated under section 713 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act
of 1973 and counted against the limitation on the total liability of the
United States: Provided further, That such sums as may be necessary
shall be made available for necessary expenses of administration of
section 701 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 by the
Railroad Retirement Board.
For necessary expenses related to Northeast Corridor improvements
authorized by title VII of Public Law 94 - 210, // 45 USC 851 // as
amended, $115,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the provisions of
Public Law 85 - 804 // 45 USC 851 // shall apply to the Northeast
Corridor Improvement Program: // 50 USC 143 // Provided further, That
the Secretary may waive the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 322 (c) and (d) if
he determines such action would serve a public purpose: Provided
further, That all public at grade-level crossings remaining along the
Northeast Corridor upon completion of the project shall be equipped with
protective devices including gates and lights.
To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation, $700,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for operating losses incurred by the
Corporation, capital improvements, and labor protection costs authorized
by 45 U.S.C. 565: Provided, That none of the funds herein appropriated
shall be used for lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles or for
the hire of vehicle operators for any officer or employee, other than
the president of the Corporation, excluding the lease of passenger motor
vehicles for those officers or employees while in official travel
status: Provided further, That the Secretary shall make no commitments
to guarantee new loans or loans for new purposes under 45 U.S.C. 602 in
fiscal year 1983: Provided further, That the incurring of any
obligation or commitment by the Corporation for the purchase of capital
improvements not expressly provided for in an appropriation Act or
prohibited by this Act shall be deemed a violation of 31 U.S.C. 665:
Provided further, That, of the funds available, $25,000,000 shall be
held in reserve for 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act to
be available for the rehabilitation, renewal, replacement, and other
improvements on the line between Indianapolis, Indiana, Shelbyville,
Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio: Provided further, That, of the funds
available, $5,000,000 shall be made available only for the
rehabilitation, renewal, replacement, and other improvements on the line
between Attleboro, Massachusetts, and Hyannis, Massachusetts, to ensure
that such track will meet a minimum of class III standards as prescribed
by applicable Federal Railroad Administration regulations.
For necessary expenses to carry out the commuter rail activities
authorized by section 601(d) of the Rail Passenger Service Act (45 U.S.
C. 601), as amended, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended and
to be derived from the unobligated balances of " Redeemable preference
shares" and for necessary expenses to carry out section 1139(b) of
Public Law 97 - 35, $75,000,000, to remain available until expended and
to be derived from the unobligated balances of " Payments for purchase
of Conrail securities".
The Alaska Railroad Revolving Fund shall continue available until
expended for the work authorized by law, including operation and
maintenance of oceangoing or coastwise vessels by ownership, charter, or
arrangement with other branches of the Government service, for the
purpose of providing additional facilities for transportation of
freight, passengers, or mail, when deemed necessary for the benefit and
development of industries or travel in the area served and payment of
compensation and expenses as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8146, to be
reimbursed as therein provided: Provided, That no employee shall be
paid an annual salary out of said fund in excess of the salaries
prescribed by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, for grade
GS-15, except the general manager of said railroad, one assistant
general manager and five officers at not to exceed the salaries
prescribed for members of the Senior Executive Service.
Funds
The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue to the
Secretary of the Treasury notes or other obligations pursuant to section
512 of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976
(Public Law 94 - 210), // 45 USC 832. // as amended, in such amounts
and at such times as may be necessary to pay any amounts required
pursuant to the guarantee of the principal amount of obligations under
sections 511 through 513 of such Act, // 45 USC 831 - 833. // such
authority to exist as long as any such guaranteed obligation is
outstanding: Provided, That the aggregate principal amount of
guarantees and commitments to guarantee obligations under section 511 of
Public Law 94 - 210, as amended shall not exceed $600,000,000: Provided
further, That the total commitments to guarantee new loans shall not
exceed $100,000,000 of contingent liabilities for loan principal during
fiscal year 1983.
The Secretary of Transportation is hereby authorized to expend
proceeds from the sale of fund anticipation notes to the Secretary of
the Treasury and any other moneys deposited in the Railroad
Rehabilitation and Improvement Fund pursuant to sections 502, 505 - 507,
and 509 of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976
(Public Law 94 - 210), // 45 USC 822, 825 - 827, 829. // as amended,
and section 803 of Public Law 95 - 620, // 45 USC 821, 822, 825. // for
uses authorized for the Fund, in amounts not to exceed $5,000,000.
During fiscal year 1983, gross obligations for deferred interest
shall not exceed $2,301,000.
For necessary administrative expenses of the urban mass
transportation program authorized by the Urban Mass Transportation Act
of 1964, // 23 USC 101 // as amended (49 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), 23 U.S.
C. chapter 1, in connection with these activities, including hire of
passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$28,081,000.
University
Research and Training
For necessary expenses for research and training, as authorized by
the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1601 et
seq.), to remain available until expended, $58,250,000: Provided, That
$55,050,000 shall be available for research, development, and
demonstrations, $2,000,000 shall be available for university research
and training and not to exceed $1,200,000 shall be available for
managerial training as authorized under the authority of said Act.
For necessary expenses for urban discretionary grants as authorized
by the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C.
1601 et seq.), to remain available until September 30, 1986,
$1,606,000,000: Provided, That grants awarded for contracts for the
acquisition of rolling stock, including buses, which will result in the
expenditure of Federal financial assistance, shall only be awarded after
an evaluation of performance, standardization, life-cycle costs, and
other factors the Secretary may deem relevant, in addition to the
consideration of initial capital costs. Where necessary, the Secretary
shall assist grantees in making such evaluations.
For necessary expenses for public transportation projects in areas
other than urbanized areas as defined for the purposes of the Urban Mass
Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.),
$68,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That this
appropriation shall be apportioned and allocated using data from the
1970 decennial census for one-quarter of the sums appropriated and the
remainder shall be apportioned and allocated on the basis of data from
the 1980 decennial census.
For necessary expenses for urban formula grants as authorized by the
Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1601 et
seq.), $1,200,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That this appropriation shall be apportioned and allocated using data
from the 1970 decennial census for one-quarter of the sums appropriated
and the remainder shall be apportioned and allocated on the basis of
data from the 1980 decennial census: Provided further, That grants
awarded for contracts for the acquisition of rolling stock, including
buses, which will result in the expenditure of Federal financial
assistance, shall only be awarded after an evaluation of performance,
standardization, life-cycle costs, and other factors the Secretary may
deem relevant, in addition to the consideration of initial capital
costs: Provided further, That, where necessary, the Secretary shall
assist grantees in making such evaluation.
For payment to the urban mass transportation fund, for liquidation of
contractual obligations incurred under authority of the Urban Mass
Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and 23
U.S.C. 142(c) and of obligations incurred for projects substituted for
Interstate System segments withdrawn prior to enactment of the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1976, $681,135,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That none of these funds shall be made available
for the establishment of depreciation reserves or reserves for
replacement accounts: Provided further, That amounts for highway
projects substituted for Interstate System segments shall be transferred
to the Federal Highway Administration.
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 14 of
Public Law 96 - 184, // 93 Stat. 1320. // $240,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is hereby
authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and
borrowing authority available to such Corporation, and in accord with
law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal
year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government
Corporation Control Act, // 31 USC 849. // as amended, as may be
necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the
current fiscal year for the Corporation except as hereinafter provided.
Not to exceed $1,716,000 shall be available for administrative
expenses which shall be computed on an accrual basis, including not to
exceed $3,000 for official entertainment expenses to be expended upon
the approval or authority of the Secretary of Transportation: Provided,
That Corporation funds shall be available for the hire of passenger
motor vehicles and aircraft, operation and maintenance of aircraft,
uniforms or allowances therefor for operation and maintenance personnel,
as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902), and $15,000 for services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the Research and
Special Programs Administration, for expenses for conducting research
and development and for grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline safety
program, as authorized by section 5 of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety
Act of 1968 (49 U.S.C. 1674), $20,022,000, of which $9,550,000 shall
remain available until expended.
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, // 5
USC app. // $24,946,000.
For expenses necessary for the Architectural and Transportation
Barriers Compliance Board, as authorized by section 502 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, // 29 USC 792. // as amended, $2,020,000.
For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety Board,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; service as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS-18; uniforms, or
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902),
$19,970,000, of which not to exceed $300 may be used for official
reception and representation expenses.
For necessary expenses of the Civil Aeronautics Board, including hire
of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by
law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902); and not to exceed $4,000 for official
reception and representation expenses, $23,125,000: Provided, That of
the foregoing amount, not to exceed $10,625,000 shall be made available
for the period between April 1, 1983, and September 30, 1983.
For payments to air carriers of so much of the compensation fixed and
determined by the Civil Aeronautics Board under section 419 of the
Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, (49 U.S.C. 1389), as is
payable by the Board, $48,400,000, to remain available until expended
and such amounts as may be necessary to liquidate obligations incurred
prior to September 30, 1982, under 49 U.S.C. 1376 and 1389: // 49 USC
1376a. // Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
none of the funds hereafter appropriated by this or any other Act shall
be expended under section 406 (49 U.S.C. 1376) for services provided
after Septeember 30, 1982: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law or of the previous provision of this paragraph,
payments shall be made from funds appropriated herein and in accordance
with the provisions of this paragraph to carriers providing, as of
September 30, 1982, services covered by rates fixed under section 406 of
the Federal Aviation Act (excluding services covered by payments under
section 419(a)(7) and services in the State of Alaska): Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such payments
shall be based upon rate orders applicable to such carriers as of July
1, 1982, but shall not exceed $13,500,000 in the aggregate: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent
necessary to meet this limitation, such payments shall be reduced by a
percentage which is the same for all carriers eligible for such
payments: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be deemed to
prevent the Board from granting an application under section
419(a)(11)(A) (49 U.S.C. 1389) pertaining to a carrier receiving
compensation under this Act, in which event the standards and procedures
set forth in section 419(a)(11)(A) shall apply.
For necessary expenses of the Interstate Commerce Commission,
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed
$1,500 for official reception and representation expenses, $65,600,000:
Provided, That joint board members and coperating State commissioners
may use Government transportation requests when traveling in connection
with their official duties as such.
None of the funds provided under this Act shall be available for the
execution of programs the obligations for which can reasonably be
expected to be in excess of $10,000,000 for directed rail service under
49 U.S.C. 11125 or any other legislation.
For operating expenses necessary for the Panama Canal Commission,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; uniforms or
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902); not
to exceed $8,000 for official reception and representation expenses of
the Board; operation of guide services; residence for the
administrator; contingencies of the administrator; not to exceed
$25,000 for official reception and representation expenses of the
Administrator, and to employ services as authorized by law (5 U.S.C.
3109); maintaining, improving, and altering facilities of other United
States Government agencies in the Republic of Panama and facilities of
the Government of the Republic of Panama for Panama Canal Commission
use; and for payment of liabilities of the Panama Canal Company and
Canal Zone Government that were pending on September 30, 1979, or that
have accrued thereafter, including accounts payable for capital
projects, $405,000,000, to be derived from the Panama Canal Commission
Fund: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation, funds
received from the Panama Canal Commission's capital outlays account for
expenses incurred for supplies and services provided for capital
projects and funds received from officers and employees of the
Commission and/or commercial insurors of Commission employees for
payment to other United States Government agencies for expenditures made
for services provided to Commission employees and their dependents by
such other agencies: Provided further, That, to the extent that the
resources of the Fund are not adequate to provide the amount of budget
authority provided above, the Commission may incur obligations in
advance of adequate receipts in the Fund.
For acquisition, construction, and replacement of improvements,
facilities, structures, and equipment required by the Panama Canal
Commission, including the purchase of not to exceed forty-two passenger
motor vehicles of which nineteen are for replacement only; to employ
services authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 3109); for payment of liabilities
of the Panama Canal Company and Canal Zone Government that were pending
on September 30, 1979, or that have accrued thereafter; to improve
facilities of other United States Government agencies in the Republic of
Panama and facilities of the Government of the Republic of Panama for
Panama Canal Commission use, $29,024,000: Provided, That funds
appropriated are to be derived from the Panama Canal Commission Fund and
to remain available until expended.
For the acquisition, in accordance with section 509 of the Railroad
Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, // 45 USC 829. // as
amended, and section 803 of Public Law 95 - 620, // 45 USC 821, 822
note, 825. // of fund anticipation notes, $5,000,000.
For necessary administrative expenses to enable the United States
Railway Association to carry out its functions under the Regional Rail
Reorganization Act of 1973, // 45 USC 701 // as amended, $2,950,000, to
remain available until expended, of which not to exceed $500 may be
available for official reception and representation expenses.
For necessary expenses for interest payments, to remain available
until expended, $51,663,569: Provided, That these funds shall be
disbursed pursuant to terms and conditions established by Public Law 96
- 184 // 93 Stat. 1320. // and the Initial Bond Repayment Participation
Agreement.
Sec. 301. During the current fiscal year applicable appropriations
to the Department of Transportation shall be available for maintenance
and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and
aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor vehicles operating
in foreign countries on official departmental business; and uniforms,
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901 - 5902).
Sec. 302. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available
for the planning or execution of programs the commitments for which are
in excess of $600,000,000 in fiscal year 1983 for grants-in--, aid for
airport planning, noise compatibility planning and programs, and
development.
Sec. 303. None of the funds provided under this Act shall be
available for the planning or execution of programs, the obligations for
which are in excess of $10,000,000 in fiscal year 1983 for "
Highway-related safety grants".
Sec. 304. None of the funds provided under this Act shall be
available for the planning or execution of programs, the total
obligations for which are in excess of $95,000,000 in fiscal year 1983
for " State and community highway safety": Provided, That none of the
funds under " State and community highway safety" shall be used for
construction, rehabilitation or remodeling costs or for office
furnishings and fixtures for State, local, or private buildings or
structures.
Sec. 305. Funds appropriated for the Panama Canal Commission may be
apportioned notwithstanding section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as
amended (31 U.S.C. 665), to the extent necessary to permit payment of
such pay increases for officers or employees as may be authorized by
administrative action pursuant to law which are not in excess of
statutory increases granted for the same period in corresponding rates
of compensation for other employees of the Government in comparable
positions.
Sec. 306. Funds appropriated under this Act for expenditures by the
Federal Aviation Administration shall be available (1) except as
otherwise // 20 USC 241 // authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950
(20 U.S.C. 236 - 244), for expenses of primary and secondary schooling
for dependents of Federal Aviation Administration personnel stationed
outside the continental United States at costs for any given area not in
excess of those of the Department of Defense for the same area, when it
is determined by the Secretary that the schools, if any, available in
the locality are unable to provide adequately for the education of such
dependents and (2) for transportation of said dependents between schools
serving the area which they attend and their places of residence when
the Secretary, under such regulations as may be prescribed, determines
that such schools are not accessible by public means of transportation
on a regular basis.
Sec. 307. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department of
Transportation shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.
S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate
equivalent to the rate for a GS-18.
Sec. 308. None of the funds provided under this Act for Urban
formula grants shall be made available to support mass transit
facilities, equipment, or operating expenses unless the applicant for
such assistance has given satisfactory assurances in such manner and
forms as the Secretary may require, and in accordance with such terms
and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, that the rates charged
elderly and handicapped persons during nonpeak hours shall not exceed
one-half of the rates generally applicable to other persons at peak
hours: Provided, That the Secretary, in prescribing the terms and
conditions for the provision of such assistance shall (1) permit
applicants to continue the use of preferential fare systems for elderly
or handicapped persons where those systems were in effect on or prior to
November 26, 1974, (2) allow applicants a reasonable time to expand the
coverage of operating preferential fare systems as appropriate, (3)
allow applicants to continue to use preferential fare systems
incorporating the offering of a free return ride upon payment of the
generally applicable full fare where any such applicant's existing fare
collection system does not reasonably permit the collection of half
fares, and (4) allow applicants to define the eligibility of
"handicapped persons" for the purposes of preferential fares in
conformity with other Federal laws and regulations governing eligibility
for benefits for disabled persons.
Sec. 309. None of the funds contained in this Act shall remain
available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly
so provided herein.
Sec. 310. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law except
Public Laws 97 - 125 and 97 - 216, the total of all obligations for
Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for fiscal
year 1983 shall not exceed $8,100,000,000. This limitation shall not
apply to obligations for emergency relief under section 125 of title 23,
United States Code, projects covered under section 147 of the Surface
Transportation Assistance Act of 1978, or section 9 of the Federal-Aid
Highway Act of 1981. No obligation constraints shall be placed upon any
ongoing emergency project carried out under section 125 of title 23,
United States Code, or section 147 of the Surface Transportation
Assistance Act of 1978. // 23 USC 144 //
(b) For fiscal year 1983, the Secretary of Transportation shall
distribute the limitation imposed by subsection (a) by allocation in the
ratio which sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways
and highway safety construction which are apportioned to each State for
such fiscal year bears to the total of the sums authorized to be
appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction
which are apportioned to all the States for such fiscal year.
(c) During the period October 1 through December 31, 1982, no State
shall obligate more than 35 per centum of the amount distributed to such
State under subsection (b), and the total of all State obligations
during such period shall not exceed 25 per centum of the total amount
distributed to all States under such subsection.
(d) Notwithstanding subsections (b) and (c), the Secretary shall--,
(1) provide all States with authority sufficient to prevent
lapses of sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid
highways and highway safety construction which have been
apportioned to a State, except in those instances in which a State
indicates its intention to lapse sums apportioned under section
104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code;
(2) after August 1, 1983, revise a distribution of the funds
made available under subsection (b) if a State will not obligate
the amount distributed during that fiscal year and redistribute
sufficient amounts to those States able to obligate amounts in
addition to those previously distributed during that fiscal year;
and
(3) not distribute amounts authorized for administrative
expenses and forest highways.
Sec. 311. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any bond
issued under section 5 of the Act of May 13, 1954 (68 Stat. 94; 33 U.
S.C. 985), // 33 USC 985a. // is hereby canceled together with the
obligation to pay such bond and section 12(b)(5) of such Act // 33 USC
988. // is hereby repealed: Provided, That paragraphs (10), (11), and
(12) of section 4 of the Act of May 13, 1954, // 33 USC 984. // are
hereby redesignated as paragraphs (11), (12), and (13) respectively and
a new paragraph (10) is enacted to read as follows:
"(10) may retain toll revenues for purposes of eventual
reinvestment in the Seaway.".
Sec. 312. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available
for the implementation or execution of programs the obligations for
which are in excess of $60,000,000 in fiscal year 1983 for the "
Off-shore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund".
Sec. 313. None of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Panama
Canal Commission may be expended unless in conformance with the Panama
Canal Treaties of 1977 and any law implementing those treaties.
Sec. 314. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for
planning or construction of rail-highway crossings under section 322(a)
of title 23, United States Code, or under section 701(a)(5) or section
703(1)(A) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of
1976 // 45 USC 851,854 // at the--,
(1) School Street crossing in Groton, Connecticut; and
(2) Broadway Extension crossing in Stonington, Connecticut.
Sec. 315. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the
planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
Sec. 316. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to assist,
directly or indirectly, any State in imposing mandatory State inspection
fees or sticker requirements on vehicles which are lawfully registered
in another State, including vehicles engaged in interstate commercial
transportation which are in compliance with Part 396--, Inspection and
Maintenance of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations of the U.S.
Department of Transportation. // 49 CFR Part 39 //
Sec. 317. Except as otherwise provided under existing law or under
an existing Executive order issued pursuant to an existing law, the
obligation or expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for
contracts for any consulting service shall be limited to contracts which
are (1) a matter of public record and available for public inspection,
and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available list of all
contracts entered into within 24 months prior to the date on which the
list is made available to the public and of all contracts on which
performance has not been completed by such date. The list required by
the preceding sentence shall be updated quarterly and shall include a
narrative description of the work to be performed under each such
contract.
Sec. 318. For fiscal year 1982 and thereafter, the Inspector General
of such department or establishment, or comparable official, or if there
is no Inspector General or comparable official, the agency head or the
agency head's designee, shall submit to the Congress along with the
budget justification an evaluation of the agency's progress to institute
effective management controls and improve the accuracy and completeness
of the data provided to the Federal Procurement Data System regarding
consultant service contractual arrangements.
Sec. 319. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to implement,
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been disapproved
pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly adopted in accordance with
the applicable law of the United States.
Sec. 320. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available
for the implementation or execution of programs, the obligations for
which are in excess of $50,000,000 in fiscal year 1983 for the " Deep--,
water Port Liability Fund".
Sec. 321. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
authorized to be appropriated for any fiscal year under provisions of //
70 Stat. 374. // the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 shall hereafter be
apportioned to any State which imposes a vehicle width limitation of
more or less than 102 inches on any segment of the National System of
Interstate and Defense Highways, or any other qualifying Federal--, aid
highways as designated by the Secretary of Transportation, with traffic
lanes designed to be a width of twelve feet or more: Provided, That,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, certain safety devices which
the Secretary of Transportation determines as necessary for safe and
efficient operation of motor vehicles shall not be included in the
calculation of width: Provided further, That, not--, withstanding any
other provision of law or of this paragraph, a State may grant special
use permits to motor vehicles that exceed 102 inches: Provided further,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, no withholding of
apportionment shall be imposed upon a State by virtue of the provisions
of this paragraph prior to October 1, 1983.
Sec. 322. (a) Any air carrier having a claim for compensation under
section 406 or 419(a)(7)(B) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, // 49
USC 1376b. 49 USC 1376, 1389. // decided by the Civil Aeronautics Board
(hereinafter referred to as the " Board") may bring an action directly
on the claim in the United States Claims Court as provided in section
10(a) of the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 // 41 USC 609. // with
respect to claims which have been decided by a contracting officer.
Failure by the Board to issue a final decision on a final claim within
one year after it was filed with the Board, or by the date of enactment
of this section, whichever is later, shall be deemed to be a decision by
the Board denying the claim, and will authorize an action on the claim
as provided in this section. This section shall apply to any claim
decided, or deemed to have been decided, by the Board after January 1,
1981, including any claim remanded to the Board by a United States court
of appeals, irrespective of when the claim was filed with the Board. Any
action under this section shall be filed within one hundred and twenty
days after the claim has been decided or is deemed to have been decided
by the Board, or within one hundred and twenty days after the date of
enactment of this section, whichever is later. Any petition for review
of a decision of the Board with respect to any such claim pending in a
United States court of appeals on the date of enactment of this section
shall be dismissed without prejudice upon motion of the petitioner.
(b) Except as provided herein, the following provisions of the
Contract Disputes Act of 1978 // 41 USC 601 // shall apply with respect
to any claim to which this section applies as if such claim were a claim
with respect to a decision of a contracting officer under section 10(a)
of such Act // 41 USC 609. // and as if the Board were a contracting
officer:
(1) Section 12, // 41 USC 611. // relating to interest, which shall
be payable by decision of the Board or the Court of Claims at the rates
provided in such section, not to precede the date of enactment of the
Contract Disputes Act of 1978.
(2) Section 13, // 41 USC 612. // relating to the payment of claims
and judgments.
(3) Section 14(i), // 28 USC 1491. // relating to the jurisdiction
of the United States Claims Court.
(c) If an administrative law judge has issued an initial decision
after a hearing on the record in the case before the Board, the court
may, in its discretion, rely upon the evidence adduced at such hearing
and may give such initial decision such weight as it deems appropriate.
Sec. 323. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be used by
the Civil Aeronautics Board to substitute aircraft of lesser seating
capacity or lesser than necessary pressurized altitude capability, for
the type of aircraft now prescribed for essential air transportation to
any point in Alaska as set forth in Civil Aeronautics Board Order 80 - 1
- 167 without the prior concurrence of the applicable State agency of
the State of Alaska.
Sec. 324. No funds appropriated under this Act shall be expended to
pay for any travel initiated after January 1, 1983, by the Administrator
of the Federal Aviation Administration as passenger or crew member
aboard any Department of Transportation aircraft to any destination
served by a regularly scheduled air carrier: Provided, That this
limitation shall not apply if no regularly scheduled carriers' flight
arrives at the destination of the Administrator within 6 hours local
time of the desired time of arrival: Provided further, That this
limitation shall not apply to costs incurred by any flight which is
essentially for the purpose of inspecting, investigating, or testing the
operations of any aspect of the Federal Aviation Administration system
designed to aid and control air traffic, or to maintain or improve
aviation safety: Provided further, That this limitation shall not apply
to costs incurred by any flight in Department of Transportation aircraft
which is necessary in times of emergency or disaster, or for security
reasons, or to fulfill official diplomatic representation
responsibilities in foreign countries: Provided further, That written
certifications shall be issued quarterly on all flights initiated in the
previous quarter subject to this limitation and shall be made readily
available to Congress and the general public.
Sec. 325. (a) Neither the Secretary of the department in which the
Coast Guard is operating nor any other officer or employee of the United
States shall approve any project or take any action which would
interfere with the reasonable needs of navigation on the Columbia
Slough, Oregon.
(b) For purposes of subsection (a) of this section, any bridge which
is to be constructed across the Columbia Slough, Oregon, after the date
of enactment of this section shall be deemed to provide for the
reasonable needs of navigation on the Columbia Slough, Oregon, if such
bridge provides at least thirty feet of vertical clearance Columbia
River datum and at least eighty feet of horizontal clearance, as
determined by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard
is operating.
Sec. 326. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or of this Act,
the Secretary of Transportation shall approve, upon request of the State
of Indiana, $300,000 to be made available from funds available for
redistribution under 23 U.S.C. 118(b) for a project to relocate and
encase certain water line facilities crossing under I-80 and I-94 in
Hammond, Indiana. Such sums shall remain available until expended and
shall be subject to any obligation limitations for Federal-aid highway
programs.
Sec. 327. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary
of Transportation shall approve, upon request of the State of Indiana,
not to exceed $4,000,000, to be made available from funds available for
redistribution under 23 U.S.C. 118(b) for the construction of an
interchange to appropriate standards at I-94 and County Line Road at the
Porter-La Porte County Line near Michigan City, Indiana. Such amount
shall be subject to the obligation limitation enacted for fiscal year
1983 or any fiscal year thereafter on obligations for Federal-aid
highways and highway safety construction programs.
Sec. 328. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the
Secretary of Transportation is authorized to transfer appropriated funds
between the Coast Guard Operating expenses appropriation and the Coast
Guard Headquarters administration appropriation and between the Federal
Aviation Administration appropriation for Operations and the Federal
Aviation Administration appropriation for Headquarters administration:
Provided, That the Coast Guard and Federal Aviation Administration
Headquarters administration appropriations shall be neither increased
nor decreased by more than 7.5 per centum by any such transfers:
Provided further, That any such transfers shall be reported promptly to
the Committees on Appropriations and the appropriate authorizing
committees in the House and the Senate.
This Act may be cited as the " Department of Transportation and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1983".
Approved December 18, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-- H.R. 7019 (S. 2914):
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 97 - 783 (Comm. on Appropriations), No. 97 - 960
(Comm. of Conference).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 97 - 546 accompanying S. 2914 (Comm. on
Appropriations), No. 97 - 67 (Comm. on Appropriations).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Sept. 16, 21, considered and passed House.
Dec. 2, considered and passed Senate, amended.
Dec. 16, House agreed to conference report; concurred in
certain Senate amendments, in others with amendments; Senate
agreed to conference report; concurred in House amendments.
PUBLIC LAW 97-368, 96 STAT. 1764
Guardia Memorial Day".
Whereas December 11, 1982, is the one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Fiorello H. La Guardia (" The Little Flower"), who served with
great distinction for twelve years in the United States House of
Representatives and for ten years as mayor of New York City; and
Whereas his vast energy, fiery leadership, and considerable wisdom
contributed greatly to the betterment of our Nation and the city of New
York; and
Whereas his public service career serves as a benchmark from which
others are judged; and
Whereas his many accomplishments and the honesty and fairness which
characterized his work continue to serve as an inspiration to all
Americans, particularly those who share his Italian heritage: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That December 11, 1982, is
designated as " Fiorello H. La Guardia Memorial Day" and the President
is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the
United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and
activities.
Approved December 17, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-- H.J. Res. 595:
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Sept. 30, considered and passed House.
Dec. 10, considered and passed Senate.
PUBLIC LAW 97-367, 96 STAT. 1761, WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON
PRODUCTIVITY ACT
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
Sec. 101. This Act // 15 USC 2401. // may be cited as the " White
House Conference on Productivity Act".
Sec. 102. The Congress finds that--,
(1) the United States traditional annual productivity
improvement rate of approximately 3 per centum has fallen
drastically in recent years to a negative one-half of 1 per
centum;
(2) if our traditional productivity improvement rate has been
maintained, the average household would have received nearly
$5,500 in additional real income each year;
(3) the decline in productivity has inflated the cost of goods
and services produced in the United States relative to the goods
and services of nations with higher productivity rates;
(4) improved productivity will enhance our international
competitiveness, which will expand foreign market opportunities
and jobs;
(5) productivity improvement can be restored in the United
States through the application of policies and management
techniques which have brought substantial productivity gains on a
broad scale in other countries and in some businesses within the
United States;
(6) when adequate protections are provided, productivity
improvement techniques can bring great benefits to labor as well
as management; and
(7) the United States must act immediately to reverse our
productivity decline and to restore our annual productivity
improvement.
Sec. 103. For purposes of this Act--,
(1) the term " Conference" means the White House Conference on
Productivity;
(2) the term " Director" means a Director of the White House
Conference on Productivity who shall be appointed by the Secretary
of Commerce and who shall be paid at the rate of basic pay
provided for level V of the Executive Schedule pursuant to section
5316 of title 5, United States Code;
(3) the term "productivity" means output per paid employee hour
of all employees in the private sector; and
(4) the term " State" includes the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin
Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and
CONFERENCE ON
PRODUCTIVITY
Sec. 104. (a) The President shall conduct a White House Conference
on Productivity (hereinafter referred to as the " Conference") not later
than one year after the date of enactment of this Act in order to
develop recommendations to stimulate the Nation's productivity
improvement rate.
(b) For the purpose of ascertaining facts and developing
recommendations concerning the improvement of productivity, the
Conference shall bring together individuals who are experts in the field
of productivity, employees, and representatives of business,
associations, labor organizations, academic institutions, and Federal,
State, and local government.
(c) The Conference shall consider the following policy options with
regard to their role in improving national productivity:
(1) reorganization of the Federal Government so that it can
best promote productivity improvement in the private and public
sectors;
(2) bringing to the attention of American businesses, labor
organizations, and Government officials the benefits which result
from implementing productivity improvement techniques;
(3) improving the general training and skill level of American
labor;
(4) redirecting Government efforts to inform American
businesses of foreign technological developments;
(5) encouraging Government agencies to share with industry new
discoveries and processes that improve productivity;
(6) establishing annual Presidential awards of recognition for
those businesses and industries which accomplish outstanding
improvement in productivity and establishing similar awards at the
State and district levels;
(7) revising the tax laws to encourage companies to take
actions to improve productivity;
(8) reviewing the effect of the antitrust laws on efforts to
improve productivity;
(9) reviewing the patent laws to determine if changes are
needed to encourage more productive use of American patents;
(10) improving the accuracy and reliability of data gathered by
the Bureau of the Census and other Government statistical
collection centers which measure American productivity; and
(11) revising Federal civil service laws to improve the
productivity of Government workers and encouraging similar action
at State and local levels.
Sec. 105. A final report of the Conference on Productivity shall be
submitted to the President not later than one hundred and twenty days
following the date on which the Conference is called and the findings
and recommendations included therein shall be immediately made available
to the public. The President shall, within one hundred and twenty days
after submission of such final report, transmit to the Congress his
recommendations for the administrative action and legislation necessary
to implement recommendations contained in such report with which he
concurs.
Sec. 106. (a) In administering this Act, the Director shall--,
(1) request the cooperation and assistance of the Office of
Management and Budget and the Departments of Labor and the
Treasury and such other Federal departments and agencies as may be
appropriate in carrying out the provisions of this Act;
(2) render all reasonable assistance, including financial
assistance to groups and organizations which are conducting
district, State, or regional productivity conferences in
preparation for the Conference;
(3) prepare and make available background materials for the use
of delegates to the Conference which are deemed necessary, and
prepare and distribute any report of the Conference as may be
necessary and appropriate;
(4) engage such additional personnel as may be necessary to
carry out the provisions of this Act without regard to the
provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments
in the competitive service, and without regard to chapter 51 and
subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title
// 5 USC 5101. //
relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates; and
(5) enter into contracts only to such extent and in such
amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts, with organizations
with particular expertise in productivity to conduct preparatory
and followup work for the Conference.
(b) Personnel engaged under subsection (a)(4) shall be compensated at
a rate not to exceed the rate equal to the maximum rate for GS-15 of the
General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code.
Approved October 25, 1982.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-H.R. 7292:
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982):
Oct. 1, considered and passed House and Senate.
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 18, No. 43 (1982):
Oct. 25, Presidential statement.
PUBLIC LAW 97-366, 96 STAT. 1759
respect to the fees of the Copyright
Office, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
Section 1. Section 708 of chapter 7 of title 17 of the United States
Code is amended--,
(1) by striking out subparagraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph (a)
in their entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"(1) on filing each application for registration of a copyright
claim or a supplementary registration under section 408, including
the issuance of a certificate of registration if registration is
made, $10;
"(2) on filing each application for registration of a claim to
renewal of a subsisting copyright in its first term under section
304(a), including the issuance of a certificate of registration if
registration is made, $6;" and
(2) in paragraph (c), by striking out everything in the last
sentence following the word "section" the first time it appears
therein and inserting a period in lieu thereof.
Sec. 2. This Act // 17 USC 708. // shall take effect thirty days
after its enactment and shall apply to claims to original,
supplementary, and renewal copyright received for registration in the
Copyright Office on or after the effective date. Claims to original,
supplementary, and renewal copyright received for registration in
acceptable form in the Copyright Office before the effective date shall