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PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020
CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
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* Editorial note: Part 1 contains pages 134 Stat. 1182 through 134 Stat. 2247. See note at the
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134 STAT. 1182 PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020
Public Law 116–260
116th Congress
An Act
Dec. 27, 2020 Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021,
[H.R. 133] providing coronavirus emergency response and relief, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
Consolidated the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Appropriations
Act, 2021. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2021’’.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.
Sec. 4. Explanatory statement.
Sec. 5. Statement of appropriations.
Sec. 6. Availability of funds.
Sec. 7. Adjustments to compensation.
Sec. 8. Definition.
Sec. 9. Office of Management and Budget Reporting Requirement.
DIVISION A—AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Agricultural Programs
Title II—Farm Production and Conservation Programs
Title III—Rural Development Programs
Title IV—Domestic Food Programs
Title V—Foreign Assistance and Related Programs
Title VI—Related Agency and Food and Drug Administration
Title VII—General Provisions
DIVISION B—COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Department of Commerce
Title II—Department of Justice
Title III—Science
Title IV—Related Agencies
Title V—General Provisions
DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Military Personnel
Title II—Operation and Maintenance
Title III—Procurement
Title IV—Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
Title V—Revolving and Management Funds
Title VI—Other Department of Defense Programs
Title VII—Related Agencies
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Title VIII—General Provisions
Title IX—Overseas Contingency Operations
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PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020 134 STAT. 1183
DIVISION D—ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Corps of Engineers—Civil
Title II—Department of the Interior
Title III—Department of Energy
Title IV—Independent Agencies
Title V—General Provisions
DIVISION E—FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Department of the Treasury
Title II—Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President
Title III—The Judiciary
Title IV—District of Columbia
Title V—Independent Agencies
Title VI—General Provisions—This Act
Title VII—General Provisions—Government-wide
Title VIII—General Provisions—District of Columbia
Title IX—General Provision—Emergency Funding
DIVISION F—DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS
ACT, 2021
Title I—Departmental Management, Operations, Intelligence, and Oversight
Title II—Security, Enforcement, and Investigations
Title III—Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Title IV—Research, Development, Training, and Services
Title V—General Provisions
DIVISION G—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Department of the Interior
Title II—Environmental Protection Agency
Title III—Related Agencies
Title IV—General Provisions
DIVISION H—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Department of Labor
Title II—Department of Health and Human Services
Title III—Department of Education
Title IV—Related Agencies
Title V—General Provisions
DIVISION I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Legislative Branch
Title II—General Provisions
DIVISION J—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Department of Defense
Title II—Department of Veterans Affairs
Title III—Related Agencies
Title IV—Overseas Contingency Operations
Title V—General Provisions
DIVISION K—DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND
RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Department of State and Related Agency
Title II—United States Agency for International Development
Title III—Bilateral Economic Assistance
Title IV—International Security Assistance
Title V—Multilateral Assistance
Title VI—Export and Investment Assistance
Title VII—General Provisions
Title VIII—Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act of 2020
Title IX—Emergency Funding and Other Matters
DIVISION L—TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT,
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AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Title I—Department of Transportation
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Title II—Department of Housing and Urban Development
Title III—Related Agencies
Title IV—General Provisions—This Act
DIVISION M—CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE AND RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
DIVISION N—ADDITIONAL CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE AND RELIEF
DIVISION O—EXTENSIONS AND TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS
Title I—Immigration Extensions
Title II—Commission on Black Men and Boys Corrections
Title III—U.S. Customs and Border Protection Authority to Accept Donations Exten-
sion
Title IV—Livestock Mandatory Reporting Extension
Title V—Soil Health and Income Protection Pilot Program Extension
Title VI—United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act Technical
Corrections
Title VII—Deputy Architect of the Capitol Amendments
Title VIII—Pandemic Response Accountability Committee Amendments
Title IX—Adjustment of Status for Liberian Nationals Extension
Title X—Clean Up the Code Act of 2019
Title XI—Amendments to Provisions Relating to Child Care Centers
Title XII—Alaska Natives Extension
Title XIII— Open Technology Fund Opportunity to Contest Proposed Debarment
Title XIV—Budgetary Effects
DIVISION P—NATIONAL BIO AND AGRO-DEFENSE FACILITY ACT OF 2020
DIVISION Q—FINANCIAL SERVICES PROVISIONS AND INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
DIVISION R—PROTECTING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OF PIPELINES AND
ENHANCING SAFETY ACT OF 2020
DIVISION S—INNOVATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
DIVISION T—SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM ACT
AND NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN LATINO
DIVISION U—HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
PROVISIONS
DIVISION V—AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION, SAFETY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY
DIVISION W—INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021
DIVISION X—SUPPORTING FOSTER YOUTH AND FAMILIES THROUGH THE
PANDEMIC
DIVISION Y—AMERICAN MINER BENEFITS IMPROVEMENT
DIVISION Z—ENERGY ACT OF 2020
DIVISION AA—WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2020
DIVISION BB—PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
PROVISIONS
DIVISION CC—HEALTH EXTENDERS
DIVISION DD—MONTANA WATER RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT
DIVISION EE—TAXPAYER CERTAINTY AND DISASTER TAX RELIEF ACT OF
2020
DIVISION FF—OTHER MATTER
Title I—Continuing Education at Affected Foreign Institutions and Modification of
Certain Protections for Taxpayer Return Information
Title II—Public Lands
Title III—Foreign Relations and Department of State Provisions
Title IV—Senate Sergeant at Arms Cloud Services
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Title V— Repeal of Requirement to Sell Certain Federal Property in Plum Island,
New York
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PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020 134 STAT. 1185
Title VI— Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children
Title VII—FAFSA Simplification
Title VIII—Access to Death Information Furnished to or Maintained by the Social
Security Administration
Title IX—Telecommunications and Consumer Protection
Title X—Bankruptcy Relief
Title XI—Western Water and Indian Affairs
Title XII—Horseracing Integrity and Safety
Title XIII—Community Development Block Grants
Title XIV—COVID–19 Consumer Protection Act
Title XV—American COMPETE Act
Title XVI—Recording of Obligations
Title XVII—Sudan Claims Resolution
Title XVIII—Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Conveyance Act of 2020
Title XIX—United States-Mexico Economic Partnership Act
Title XX—Consumer Product Safety Commission Port Surveillance
Title XXI—COVID–19 Regulatory Relief and Work From Home Safety Act
SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 1 USC 1 note.
Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to ‘‘this
Act’’ contained in any division of this Act shall be treated as
referring only to the provisions of that division.
SEC. 4. EXPLANATORY STATEMENT.
The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the
House section of the Congressional Record on or about December
21, 2020, and submitted by the Chairwoman of the Committee
on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same effect with
respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions
A through L of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement
of a committee of conference.
SEC. 5. STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2021.
SEC. 6. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. President.
(a) Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress as
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
shall be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President
subsequently so designates all such amounts and transmits such
designations to the Congress.
(b) Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress for
Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or rescinded, if
applicable) only if the President subsequently so designates all
such amounts and transmits such designations to the Congress.
SEC. 7. ADJUSTMENTS TO COMPENSATION. 2 USC 4501 note.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no adjustment
shall be made under section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization
Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501) (relating to cost of living adjustments
for Members of Congress) during fiscal year 2021.
SEC. 8. DEFINITION. 5 USC 5547 note.
In divisions A through M of this Act, the term ‘‘coronavirus’’
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means SARS–CoV–2 or another coronavirus with pandemic poten-
tial.
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134 STAT. 1186 PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020
Estimates. SEC. 9. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET REPORTING REQUIRE-
MENT.
Notwithstanding the ‘‘7 calendar days’’ requirement in section
251(a)(7)(B) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(a)(7)(B)), for any appropriations Act
for fiscal year 2021 enacted before January 1, 2021, the Office
of Management and Budget shall transmit to the Congress its
report under that section estimating the discretionary budgetary
effects of such Acts not later than January 15, 2021.
Agriculture, DIVISION A—AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT,
Rural FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED
Development,
Food and Drug AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Administration,
and Related TITLE I
Agencies
Appropriations
Act, 2021. AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS
PROCESSING, RESEARCH, AND MARKETING
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary,
$46,998,000, of which not to exceed $5,101,000 shall be available
for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to exceed $1,324,000
shall be available for the Office of Homeland Security; not to exceed
$7,002,000 shall be available for the Office of Partnerships and
Public Engagement, of which $1,500,000 shall be for 7 U.S.C.
2279(c)(5); not to exceed $22,321,000 shall be available for the
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, of which
$21,440,000 shall be available for Departmental Administration
to provide for necessary expenses for management support services
to offices of the Department and for general administration, secu-
rity, repairs and alterations, and other miscellaneous supplies and
expenses not otherwise provided for and necessary for the practical
and efficient work of the Department: Provided, That funds made
available by this Act to an agency in the Administration mission
area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to one
administrative support staff for the Office; not to exceed $3,908,000
shall be available for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Congres-
sional Relations and Intergovernmental Affairs to carry out the
programs funded by this Act, including programs involving intergov-
ernmental affairs and liaison within the executive branch; and
not to exceed $7,342,000 shall be available for the Office of Commu-
nications: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any office of the
Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office of the
Secretary: Provided further, That no appropriation for any office
shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 percent: Provided
further, That not to exceed $22,000 of the amount made available
under this paragraph for the immediate Office of the Secretary
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses,
not otherwise provided for, as determined by the Secretary: Provided
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Reimbursements. further, That the amount made available under this heading for
Departmental Administration shall be reimbursed from applicable
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PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020 134 STAT. 1187
appropriations in this Act for travel expenses incident to the holding
of hearings as required by 5 U.S.C. 551–558: Provided further,
That funds made available under this heading for the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations and Intergov-
ernmental Affairs may be transferred to agencies of the Department
of Agriculture funded by this Act to maintain personnel at the
agency level: Provided further, That no funds made available under Time period.
this heading for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Congressional Notification.
Relations may be obligated after 30 days from the date of enactment
of this Act, unless the Secretary has notified the Committees on
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress on the allocation of
these funds by USDA agency: Provided further, That during any Notification.
30 day notification period referenced in section 716 of this Act, Time period.
the Secretary of Agriculture shall take no action to begin
implementation of the action that is subject to section 716 of this
Act or make any public announcement of such action in any form.
EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ECONOMIST
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Economist,
$24,192,000, of which $8,000,000 shall be for grants or cooperative
agreements for policy research under 7 U.S.C. 3155.
OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS
For necessary expenses of the Office of Hearings and Appeals,
$15,394,000.
OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS
For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget and Program
Analysis, $9,629,000.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Information
Officer, $66,814,000, of which not less than $56,000,000 is for
cybersecurity requirements of the department.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief Financial
Officer, $6,109,000.
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Civil Rights, $908,000: Provided, That funds made available
by this Act to an agency in the Civil Rights mission area for
salaries and expenses are available to fund up to one administrative
support staff for the Office.
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS
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For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights,
$22,789,000.
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134 STAT. 1188 PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020
AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For payment of space rental and related costs pursuant to
Public Law 92–313, including authorities pursuant to the 1984
delegation of authority from the Administrator of General Services
to the Department of Agriculture under 40 U.S.C. 121, for programs
and activities of the Department which are included in this Act,
and for alterations and other actions needed for the Department
and its agencies to consolidate unneeded space into configurations
suitable for release to the Administrator of General Services, and
for the operation, maintenance, improvement, and repair of Agri-
culture buildings and facilities, and for related costs, $108,124,000,
to remain available until expended.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Department of Agriculture, to
comply with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) and the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), $6,514,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That appropriations and funds
available herein to the Department for Hazardous Materials
Management may be transferred to any agency of the Department
for its use in meeting all requirements pursuant to the above
Acts on Federal and non-Federal lands.
OFFICE OF SAFETY, SECURITY, AND PROTECTION
For necessary expenses of the Office of Safety, Security, and
Protection, $23,218,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General,
including employment pursuant to the Inspector General Act of
1978 (Public Law 95–452; 5 U.S.C. App.), $99,912,000, including
such sums as may be necessary for contracting and other arrange-
ments with public agencies and private persons pursuant to section
6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–452;
5 U.S.C. App.), and including not to exceed $125,000 for certain
confidential operational expenses, including the payment of inform-
ants, to be expended under the direction of the Inspector General
pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–
452; 5 U.S.C. App.) and section 1337 of the Agriculture and Food
Act of 1981 (Public Law 97–98).
OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the General Counsel,
$45,390,000.
OFFICE OF ETHICS
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For necessary expenses of the Office of Ethics, $4,184,000.
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OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND
ECONOMICS
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Research, Education, and Economics, $809,000: Provided, That
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Research,
Education, and Economics mission area for salaries and expenses
are available to fund up to one administrative support staff for
the Office.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the Economic Research Service,
$85,476,000.
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the National Agricultural Statistics
Service, $183,921,000, of which up to $46,300,000 shall be available
until expended for the Census of Agriculture: Provided, That Surveys.
amounts made available for the Census of Agriculture may be
used to conduct Current Industrial Report surveys subject to 7
U.S.C. 2204g(d) and (f).
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Research Service
and for acquisition of lands by donation, exchange, or purchase
at a nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land exchanges
where the lands exchanged shall be of equal value or shall be
equalized by a payment of money to the grantor which shall not
exceed 25 percent of the total value of the land or interests trans-
ferred out of Federal ownership, $1,491,784,000: Provided, 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 appropriations here- 7 USC 2254.
under shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the construc-
tion, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements, but
unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building
shall not exceed $500,000, except for headhouses or greenhouses
which shall each be limited to $1,800,000, except for 10 buildings
to be constructed or improved at a cost not to exceed $1,100,000
each, and except for two buildings to be constructed at a cost
not to exceed $3,000,000 each, and the cost of altering any one
building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the
current replacement value of the building or $500,000, whichever
is greater: Provided further, That appropriations hereunder shall Contracts.
be available for entering into lease agreements at any Agricultural
Research Service location for the construction of a research facility
by a non-Federal entity for use by the Agricultural Research Service
and a condition of the lease shall be that any facility shall be
owned, operated, and maintained by the non-Federal entity and
shall be removed upon the expiration or termination of the lease
agreement: Provided further, That the limitations on alterations Maryland.
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contained in this Act shall not apply to modernization or replace-
ment of existing facilities at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further,
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That appropriations hereunder shall be available for granting ease-
ments at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Provided
further, That the foregoing limitations shall not apply to replace-
ment of buildings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948
Easements. (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That appropriations hereunder
shall be available for granting easements at any Agricultural
Research Service location for the construction of a research facility
by a non-Federal entity for use by, and acceptable to, the Agricul-
tural Research Service and a condition of the easements shall
be that upon completion the facility shall be accepted by the Sec-
retary, subject to the availability of funds herein, if the Secretary
finds that acceptance of the facility is in the interest of the United
States: Provided further, That funds may be received from any
State, other political subdivision, organization, or individual for
the purpose of establishing or operating any research facility or
research project of the Agricultural Research Service, as authorized
by law.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For the acquisition of land, construction, repair, improvement,
extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities
as necessary to carry out the agricultural research programs of
the Department of Agriculture, where not otherwise provided,
$35,700,000 to remain available until expended, of which
$11,200,000 shall be allocated for ARS facilities co-located with
university partners.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
For payments to agricultural experiment stations, for coopera-
tive forestry and other research, for facilities, and for other
expenses, $992,642,000, which shall be for the purposes, and in
the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘National Institute of
Food and Agriculture, Research and Education Activities’’ in the
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided, That funds
for research grants for 1994 institutions, education grants for 1890
institutions, Hispanic serving institutions education grants, capacity
building for non-land-grant colleges of agriculture, the agriculture
and food research initiative, veterinary medicine loan repayment,
multicultural scholars, graduate fellowship and institution chal-
lenge grants, and grants management systems shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That each institution eligible
to receive funds under the Evans-Allen program receives no less
Grants. than $1,000,000: Provided further, That funds for education grants
Alaska. for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions be
Hawaii. made available to individual eligible institutions or consortia of
eligible institutions with funds awarded equally to each of the
States of Alaska and Hawaii: Provided further, That funds for
education grants for 1890 institutions shall be made available to
institutions eligible to receive funds under 7 U.S.C. 3221 and 3222:
Provided further, That not more than 5 percent of the amounts
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made available by this or any other Act to carry out the Agriculture
and Food Research Initiative under 7 U.S.C. 3157 may be retained
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PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020 134 STAT. 1191
by the Secretary of Agriculture to pay administrative costs incurred
by the Secretary in carrying out that authority.
NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT FUND
For the Native American Institutions Endowment Fund author-
ized by Public Law 103–382 (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $11,880,000, to
remain available until expended.
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
For payments to States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
Guam, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, the Northern Marianas, and
American Samoa, $538,447,000, which shall be for the purposes,
and in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘National Institute
of Food and Agriculture, Extension Activities’’ in the explanatory
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division
A of this consolidated Act): Provided, That funds for facility improve-
ments at 1890 institutions shall remain available until expended:
Provided further, That institutions eligible to receive funds under
7 U.S.C. 3221 for cooperative extension receive no less than
$1,000,000: Provided further, That funds for cooperative extension
under sections 3(b) and (c) of the Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b)
and (c)) and section 208(c) of Public Law 93–471 shall be available
for retirement and employees’ compensation costs for extension
agents.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES
For the integrated research, education, and extension grants
programs, including necessary administrative expenses,
$39,000,000, which shall be for the purposes, and in the amounts,
specified in the table titled ‘‘National Institute of Food and Agri-
culture, Integrated Activities’’ in the explanatory statement
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this
consolidated Act): Provided, That funds for the Food and Agriculture
Defense Initiative shall remain available until September 30, 2022:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
indirect costs shall not be charged against any Extension
Implementation Program Area grant awarded under the Crop
Protection/Pest Management Program (7 U.S.C. 7626).
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR MARKETING AND
REGULATORY PROGRAMS
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, $809,000: Provided, That
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Marketing
and Regulatory Programs mission area for salaries and expenses
are available to fund up to one administrative support staff for
the Office.
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134 STAT. 1192 PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Animal and Plant Health Inspec-
tion Service, including up to $30,000 for representation allowances
and for expenses pursuant to the Foreign Service Act of 1980
(22 U.S.C. 4085), $1,064,179,000, of which $478,000, to remain
available until expended, shall be available for the control of out-
breaks of insects, plant diseases, animal diseases and for control
of pest animals and birds (‘‘contingency fund’’) to the extent nec-
essary to meet emergency conditions; of which $13,597,000, to
remain available until expended, shall be used for the cotton pests
program, including for cost share purposes or for debt retirement
for active eradication zones; of which $38,093,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, shall be for Animal Health Technical Services;
of which $2,009,000 shall be for activities under the authority
of the Horse Protection Act of 1970, as amended (15 U.S.C. 1831);
of which $63,213,000, to remain available until expended, shall
be used to support avian health; of which $4,251,000, to remain
available until expended, shall be for information technology infra-
structure; of which $196,553,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be for specialty crop pests; of which, $10,942,000,
to remain available until expended, shall be for field crop and
rangeland ecosystem pests; of which $19,620,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, shall be for zoonotic disease management;
of which $41,268,000, to remain available until expended, shall
be for emergency preparedness and response; of which $60,456,000,
to remain available until expended, shall be for tree and wood
pests; of which $5,736,000, to remain available until expended,
shall be for the National Veterinary Stockpile; of which up to
$1,500,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for the
scrapie program for indemnities; of which $2,500,000, to remain
available until expended, shall be for the wildlife damage manage-
ment program for aviation safety: Provided, That of amounts avail-
able under this heading for wildlife services methods development,
$1,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided further,
Kansas. That of amounts available under this heading for the screwworm
program, $4,990,000 shall remain available until expended; of which
$20,252,000, to remain available until expended, shall be used
to carry out the science program and transition activities for the
National Bio and Agro-defense Facility located in Manhattan,
Brucellosis Kansas: Provided further, That no funds shall be used to formulate
eradication. or administer a brucellosis eradication program for the current
fiscal year that does not require minimum matching by the States
of at least 40 percent: Provided further, That this appropriation
shall be available for the purchase, replacement, operation, and
maintenance of aircraft: Provided further, That in addition, in emer-
gencies which threaten any segment of the agricultural production
industry of the United States, the Secretary may transfer from
other appropriations or funds available to the agencies or corpora-
tions of the Department such sums as may be deemed necessary,
to be available only in such emergencies for the arrest and eradi-
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cation of contagious or infectious disease or pests of animals,
poultry, or plants, and for expenses in accordance with sections
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10411 and 10417 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C.
8310 and 8316) and sections 431 and 442 of the Plant Protection
Act (7 U.S.C. 7751 and 7772), and any unexpended balances of
funds transferred for such emergency purposes in the preceding
fiscal year shall be merged with such transferred amounts: Provided
further, That appropriations hereunder shall be available pursuant
to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the repair and alteration of leased
buildings and improvements, but unless otherwise provided the
cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not
exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value of the building.
In fiscal year 2021, the agency is authorized to collect fees Fees.
to cover the total costs of providing technical assistance, goods, Reimbursement.
or services requested by States, other political subdivisions,
domestic and international organizations, foreign governments, or
individuals, provided that such fees are structured such that any
entity’s liability for such fees is reasonably based on the technical
assistance, goods, or services provided to the entity by the agency,
and such fees shall be reimbursed to this account, to remain avail-
able until expended, without further appropriation, for providing
such assistance, goods, or services.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For plans, construction, repair, preventive maintenance,
environmental support, improvement, extension, alteration, and
purchase of fixed equipment or facilities, as authorized by 7 U.S.C.
2250, and acquisition of land as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 2268a,
$3,175,000, to remain available until expended.
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE
MARKETING SERVICES
For necessary expenses of the Agricultural Marketing Service,
$188,358,000, of which $6,000,000 shall be available for the pur-
poses of section 12306 of Public Law 113–79: 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
the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall
not exceed 10 percent of the current replacement value of the
building.
Fees may be collected for the cost of standardization activities, Fees.
as established by regulation pursuant to law (31 U.S.C. 9701),
except for the cost of activities relating to the development or
maintenance of grain standards under the United States Grain
Standards Act, 7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Not to exceed $61,227,000 (from fees collected) shall be obli-
gated during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses:
Provided, That if crop size is understated and/or other uncontrol- Notification.
lable events occur, the agency may exceed this limitation by up
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to 10 percent with notification to the Committees on Appropriations
of both Houses of Congress.
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FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, AND SUPPLY
(SECTION 32)
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
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 1956 (16 U.S.C.
742a et seq.); (2) transfers otherwise provided in this Act; and
(3) not more than $20,705,000 for formulation and administration
of marketing agreements and orders pursuant to the Agricultural
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 and the Agricultural Act of
1961 (Public Law 87–128).
PAYMENTS TO STATES AND POSSESSIONS
For payments to departments of agriculture, bureaus and
departments of markets, and similar agencies for marketing activi-
ties under section 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946
(7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), $1,235,000.
LIMITATION ON INSPECTION AND WEIGHING SERVICES EXPENSES
Not to exceed $55,000,000 (from fees collected) shall be obli-
gated during the current fiscal year for inspection and weighing
Notification. services: Provided, That if grain export activities require additional
supervision and oversight, or other uncontrollable factors occur,
this limitation may be exceeded by up to 10 percent with notification
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD SAFETY
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Food Safety, $809,000: Provided, That funds made available
by this Act to an agency in the Food Safety mission area for
salaries and expenses are available to fund up to one administrative
support staff for the Office.
FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE
For necessary expenses to carry out services authorized by
the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection
Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act, including not to exceed
$10,000 for representation allowances and for expenses pursuant
to section 8 of the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766),
$1,075,703,000; and in addition, $1,000,000 may be credited to
this account from fees collected for the cost of laboratory accredita-
tion as authorized by section 1327 of the Food, Agriculture, Con-
servation and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 138f): Provided, That
funds provided for the Public Health Data Communication Infra-
structure system shall remain available until expended: Provided
Employment further, That no fewer than 148 full-time equivalent positions shall
positions. be employed during fiscal year 2021 for purposes dedicated solely
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to inspections and enforcement related to the Humane Methods
of Slaughter Act (7 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.): Provided further, That
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the Food Safety and Inspection Service shall continue implementa-
tion of section 11016 of Public Law 110–246 as further clarified
by the amendments made in section 12106 of Public Law 113–
79: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available
pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alteration and repair of
buildings and improvements, but the cost of altering any one
building during the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the
current replacement value of the building.
TITLE II
FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FARM PRODUCTION AND
CONSERVATION
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Farm Production and Conservation, $916,000: Provided, That
funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Farm Produc-
tion and Conservation mission area for salaries and expenses are
available to fund up to one administrative support staff for the
Office.
FARM PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION BUSINESS CENTER
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Farm Production and Conserva-
tion Business Center, $231,302,000: Provided, That $60,228,000
of amounts appropriated for the current fiscal year pursuant to
section 1241(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act
of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841(a)) shall be transferred to and merged
with this account.
FARM SERVICE AGENCY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Farm Service Agency,
$1,142,924,000, of which not less than $15,000,000 shall be for
the hiring of new employees to fill vacancies and anticipated vacan-
cies at Farm Service Agency county offices and farm loan officers
and shall be available until September 30, 2022: Provided, That Notification.
not more than 50 percent of the funding made available under Expenditure
plan.
this heading for information technology related to farm program Cost estimates.
delivery may be obligated until the Secretary submits to the
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, and
receives written or electronic notification of receipt from such
Committees of, a plan for expenditure that (1) identifies for each
project/investment over $25,000 (a) the functional and performance
capabilities to be delivered and the mission benefits to be realized,
(b) the estimated lifecycle cost for the entirety of the project/invest-
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ment, including estimates for development as well as maintenance
and operations, and (c) key milestones to be met; (2) demonstrates
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that each project/investment is, (a) consistent with the Farm Service
Agency Information Technology Roadmap, (b) being managed in
accordance with applicable lifecycle management policies and guid-
ance, and (c) subject to the applicable Department’s capital planning
and investment control requirements; and (3) has been reviewed
by the Government Accountability Office and approved by the
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided
Reports. further, That the agency shall submit a report by the end of the
Assessment. fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021 to the Committees on Appropria-
tions and the Government Accountability Office, that identifies
for each project/investment that is operational (a) current perform-
ance against key indicators of customer satisfaction, (b) current
performance of service level agreements or other technical metrics,
(c) current performance against a pre-established cost baseline,
(d) a detailed breakdown of current and planned spending on oper-
ational enhancements or upgrades, and (e) an assessment of
whether the investment continues to meet business needs as
intended as well as alternatives to the investment: Provided further,
That the Secretary is authorized to use the services, facilities,
and authorities (but not the funds) of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration to make program payments for all programs administered
by the Agency: Provided further, That other funds made available
to the Agency for authorized activities may be advanced to and
merged with this account: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able to county committees shall remain available until expended:
Provided further, That none of the funds available to the Farm
Service Agency shall be used to close Farm Service Agency county
Notification. offices: Provided further, That none of the funds available to the
Approval. Farm Service Agency shall be used to permanently relocate county
based employees that would result in an office with two or fewer
employees without prior notification and approval of the Committees
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
STATE MEDIATION GRANTS
For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the Agricultural Credit
Act of 1987, as amended (7 U.S.C. 5101–5106), $6,914,000.
GRASSROOTS SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to carry out wellhead or groundwater
protection activities under section 1240O of the Food Security Act
of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb–2), $6,500,000, to remain available until
expended.
DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses involved in making indemnity payments
to dairy farmers and manufacturers of dairy products under a
dairy indemnity program, such sums as may be necessary, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That such program is carried
out by the Secretary in the same manner as the dairy indemnity
program described in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
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and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387, 114 Stat. 1549A–12).
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AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct and
guaranteed farm ownership (7 U.S.C. 1922 et seq.) and operating
(7 U.S.C. 1941 et seq.) loans, emergency loans (7 U.S.C. 1961
et seq.), Indian tribe land acquisition loans (25 U.S.C. 5136), boll
weevil loans (7 U.S.C. 1989), guaranteed conservation loans (7
U.S.C. 1924 et seq.), relending program (7 U.S.C. 1936c), and Indian
highly fractionated land loans (25 U.S.C. 5136) to be available
from funds in the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, as follows:
$3,300,000,000 for guaranteed farm ownership loans and
$2,500,000,000 for farm ownership direct loans; $2,118,482,000 for
unsubsidized guaranteed operating loans and $1,633,333,000 for
direct operating loans; emergency loans, $37,668,000; Indian tribe
land acquisition loans, $20,000,000; guaranteed conservation loans,
$150,000,000; relending program, $33,693,000; Indian highly
fractionated land loans, $5,000,000; and for boll weevil eradication
program loans, $60,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary shall Pink bollworm.
deem the pink bollworm to be a boll weevil for the purpose of
boll weevil eradication program loans.
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans and grants,
including the cost of modifying loans as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: $38,710,000
for direct farm operating loans, $23,727,000 for unsubsidized
guaranteed farm operating loans, $207,000 for emergency loans,
$5,000,000 for the relending program, and $742,000 for Indian
highly fractionated land loans, to remain available until expended.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $307,344,000: Pro-
vided, That of this amount, $294,114,000 shall be transferred to
and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Service Agency, Sala-
ries and Expenses’’.
Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agricultural Credit Insur-
ance Program Account for farm ownership, operating and conserva-
tion direct loans and guaranteed loans may be transferred among
these programs: Provided, That the Committees on Appropriations Notification.
of both Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 days in advance Time period.
of any transfer.
RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Risk Management Agency,
$60,131,000: Provided, That $1,000,000 of the amount appropriated
under this heading in this Act shall be available for compliance
and integrity activities required under section 516(b)(2)(C) of the
Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1516(b)(2)(C)), and
shall be in addition to amounts otherwise provided for such purpose:
Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000 shall be available
for official reception and representation expenses, as authorized
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by 7 U.S.C. 1506(i).
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NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE
CONSERVATION OPERATIONS
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of the
Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a–f), 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 materials centers; classification and mapping of soil; dissemi-
nation of information; acquisition of lands, water, and interests
therein for use in the plant materials program by donation,
exchange, or purchase at a nominal cost not to exceed $100 pursuant
to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 2268a); purchase and erection
or alteration or improvement of permanent and temporary
buildings; and operation and maintenance of aircraft, $832,727,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2022: Provided, That appro-
priations hereunder shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250
for construction and improvement of buildings and public improve-
ments at plant materials centers, except that the cost of alterations
and improvements to other buildings and other public improvements
shall not exceed $250,000: Provided further, That when buildings
or other structures are erected on non-Federal land, that the right
to use such land is obtained as provided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided
further, That of the amounts made available under this heading,
$3,000,000 shall remain available until expended for planning and
implementation assistance associated with land treatment measures
that address flood damage reduction, bank stabilization and erosion
control in the watersheds identified under section 13 of the Flood
Control Act of December 22, 1944 (Public Law 78–534).
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS
For necessary expenses to carry out preventive measures,
including but not limited to surveys and investigations, engineering
operations, works of improvement, and changes in use of land,
in accordance with the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention
Act (16 U.S.C. 1001–1005 and 1007–1009) and in accordance with
the provisions of laws relating to the activities of the Department,
Applicability. $175,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
for funds provided by this Act or any other prior Act, the limitation
regarding the size of the watershed or subwatershed exceeding
two hundred and fifty thousand acres in which such activities
can be undertaken shall only apply for activities undertaken for
the primary purpose of flood prevention (including structural and
land treatment measures): Provided further, That of the amounts
made available under this heading, $65,000,000 shall be allocated
to projects and activities that can commence promptly following
enactment; that address regional priorities for flood prevention,
agricultural water management, inefficient irrigation systems, fish
and wildlife habitat, or watershed protection; or that address
authorized ongoing projects under the authorities of section 13
of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944 (Public Law 78–
534) with a primary purpose of watershed protection by preventing
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floodwater damage and stabilizing stream channels, tributaries,
and banks to reduce erosion and sediment transport: Provided
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further, That of the amounts made available under this heading,
$10,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the authori-
ties under 16 U.S.C. 1001–1005 and 1007–1009 for authorized
ongoing watershed projects with a primary purpose of providing
water to rural communities.
WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM
Under the authorities of section 14 of the Watershed Protection
and Flood Prevention Act, $10,000,000 is provided.
CORPORATIONS Contracts.
The following corporations and agencies are hereby authorized
to make expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing
authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord
with law, and to make contracts and commitments without regard
to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Govern-
ment Corporation Control Act 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.
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION FUND
For payments as authorized by section 516 of the Federal
Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1516), such sums as may be necessary,
to remain available until expended.
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND
REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary
to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for net realized
losses sustained, but not previously reimbursed, pursuant to section
2 of the Act of August 17, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a–11): Provided,
That of the funds available to the Commodity Credit Corporation
under section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter
Act (15 U.S.C. 714i) for the conduct of its business with the Foreign
Agricultural Service, up to $5,000,000 may be transferred to and
used by the Foreign Agricultural Service for information resource
management activities of the Foreign Agricultural Service that
are not related to Commodity Credit Corporation business.
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
(LIMITATION ON EXPENSES)
For the current fiscal year, the Commodity Credit Corporation
shall not expend more than $15,000,000 for site investigation and
cleanup expenses, and operations and maintenance expenses to
comply with the requirement of section 107(g) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42
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U.S.C. 9607(g)), and section 6001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act
(42 U.S.C. 6961).
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TITLE III
RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Rural Development, $812,000: Provided, That funds made avail-
able by this Act to an agency in the Rural Development mission
area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to one
administrative support staff for the Office.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for carrying out the administration
and implementation of Rural Development programs, including
activities with institutions concerning the development and oper-
ation of agricultural cooperatives; and for cooperative agreements;
$264,024,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, funds appropriated under this heading may be used for
advertising and promotional activities that support Rural Develop-
ment programs: Provided further, That in addition to any other
funds appropriated for purposes authorized by section 502(i) of
the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472(i)), any amounts collected
under such section, as amended by this Act, will immediately be
credited to this account and will remain available until expended
for such purposes.
RURAL HOUSING SERVICE
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct and
guaranteed loans as authorized by title V of the Housing Act of
1949, to be available from funds in the rural housing insurance
fund, as follows: $1,000,000,000 shall be for direct loans and
$24,000,000,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaranteed loans;
$28,000,000 for section 504 housing repair loans; $40,000,000 for
section 515 rental housing; $230,000,000 for section 538 guaranteed
multi-family housing loans; $10,000,000 for credit sales of single
family housing acquired property; $5,000,000 for section 523 self-
help housing land development loans; and $5,000,000 for section
524 site development loans.
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, including the
cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, as follows: section 502 loans, $55,400,000
shall be for direct loans; section 504 housing repair loans,
$2,215,000; section 523 self-help housing land development loans,
$269,000; section 524 site development loans, $355,000; and repair,
rehabilitation, and new construction of section 515 rental housing,
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Fees. $6,688,000: Provided, That to support the loan program level for
section 538 guaranteed loans made available under this heading
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the Secretary may charge or adjust any fees to cover the projected
cost of such loan guarantees pursuant to the provisions of the
Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.), and the interest
on such loans may not be subsidized: Provided further, That
applicants in communities that have a current rural area waiver
under section 541 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490q)
shall be treated as living in a rural area for purposes of section
502 guaranteed loans provided under this heading: Provided further,
That of the amounts available under this paragraph for section Deadline.
502 direct loans, no less than $5,000,000 shall be available for
direct loans for individuals whose homes will be built pursuant
to a program funded with a mutual and self-help housing grant
authorized by section 523 of the Housing Act of 1949 until June
1, 2021: Provided further, That the Secretary shall implement provi- Incentives.
sions to provide incentives to nonprofit organizations and public Determination.
housing authorities to facilitate the acquisition of Rural Housing
Service (RHS) multifamily housing properties by such nonprofit
organizations and public housing authorities that commit to keep
such properties in the RHS multifamily housing program for a
period of time as determined by the Secretary, with such incentives
to include, but not be limited to, the following: allow such nonprofit
entities and public housing authorities to earn a Return on Invest-
ment on their own resources to include proceeds from low income
housing tax credit syndication, own contributions, grants, and devel-
oper loans at favorable rates and terms, invested in a deal; and
allow reimbursement of organizational costs associated with owner’s
oversight of asset referred to as ‘‘Asset Management Fee’’ of up
to $7,500 per property.
In addition, for the cost of direct loans, grants, and contracts,
as authorized by sections 514 and 516 of the Housing Act of 1949
(42 U.S.C. 1484, 1486), $15,093,000, to remain available until
expended, for direct farm labor housing loans and domestic farm
labor housing grants and contracts: Provided, That any balances
available for the Farm Labor Program Account shall be transferred
to and merged with this account.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $412,254,000 shall
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Rural
Development, Salaries and Expenses’’.
RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Time periods.
For rental assistance agreements entered into or renewed
pursuant to the authority under section 521(a)(2) of the Housing
Act of 1949 or agreements entered into in lieu of debt forgiveness
or payments for eligible households as authorized by section
502(c)(5)(D) of the Housing Act of 1949, $1,410,000,000, of which
$40,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2022; and in
addition such sums as may be necessary, as authorized by section
521(c) of the Act, to liquidate debt incurred prior to fiscal year
1992 to carry out the rental assistance program under section
521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That rental assistance agreements
entered into or renewed during the current fiscal year shall be
funded for a one-year period: Provided further, That upon request
by an owner of a project financed by an existing loan under section
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514 or 515 of the Act, the Secretary may renew the rental assistance
agreement for a period of 20 years or until the term of such
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loan has expired, subject to annual appropriations: Provided further,
That any unexpended balances remaining at the end of such one-
year agreements may be transferred and used for purposes of any
debt reduction, maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation of any existing
projects; preservation; and rental assistance activities authorized
under title V of the Act: Provided further, That rental assistance
provided under agreements entered into prior to fiscal year 2021
for a farm labor multi-family housing project financed under section
514 or 516 of the Act may not be recaptured for use in another
project until such assistance has remained unused for a period
of 12 consecutive months, if such project has a waiting list of
tenants seeking such assistance or the project has rental assistance
eligible tenants who are not receiving such assistance: Provided
Applicability. further, That such recaptured rental assistance shall, to the extent
practicable, be applied to another farm labor multi-family housing
project financed under section 514 or 516 of the Act: Provided
Determination. further, That except as provided in the fourth proviso under this
heading and notwithstanding any other provision of the Act, the
Secretary may recapture rental assistance provided under agree-
ments entered into prior to fiscal year 2021 for a project that
the Secretary determines no longer needs rental assistance and
use such recaptured funds for current needs.
Vouchers. MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING REVITALIZATION PROGRAM ACCOUNT
Loans.
For the rural housing voucher program as authorized under
section 542 of the Housing Act of 1949, but notwithstanding sub-
section (b) of such section, and for additional costs to conduct
a demonstration program for the preservation and revitalization
of multi-family rental housing properties described in this para-
graph, $68,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That of the funds made available under this heading, $40,000,000,
shall be available for rural housing vouchers to any low-income
household (including those not receiving rental assistance) residing
in a property financed with a section 515 loan which has been
prepaid after September 30, 2005: Provided further, That the
amount of such voucher shall be the difference between comparable
market rent for the section 515 unit and the tenant paid rent
for such unit: Provided further, That funds made available for
such vouchers shall be subject to the availability of annual appro-
priations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to the max-
imum extent practicable, administer such vouchers with current
regulations and administrative guidance applicable to section 8
housing vouchers administered by the Secretary of the Department
Determination. of Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That if the
Secretary determines that the amount made available for vouchers
in this or any other Act is not needed for vouchers, the Secretary
may use such funds for the demonstration program for the preserva-
tion and revitalization of multi-family rental housing properties
described in this paragraph: Provided further, That of the funds
made available under this heading, $28,000,000 shall be available
for a demonstration program for the preservation and revitalization
of the sections 514, 515, and 516 multi-family rental housing prop-
erties to restructure existing USDA multi-family housing loans,
as the Secretary deems appropriate, expressly for the purposes
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of ensuring the project has sufficient resources to preserve the
project for the purpose of providing safe and affordable housing
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for low-income residents and farm laborers including reducing or
eliminating interest; deferring loan payments, subordinating,
reducing or reamortizing loan debt; and other financial assistance
including advances, payments and incentives (including the ability
of owners to obtain reasonable returns on investment) required
by the Secretary: Provided further, That the Secretary shall as Contracts.
part of the preservation and revitalization agreement obtain a
restrictive use agreement consistent with the terms of the restruc-
turing: Provided further, That if the Secretary determines that Determination.
additional funds for vouchers described in this paragraph are
needed, funds for the preservation and revitalization demonstration
program may be used for such vouchers: Provided further, That Advance
if Congress enacts legislation to permanently authorize a multi- approval.
family rental housing loan restructuring program similar to the
demonstration program described herein, the Secretary may use
funds made available for the demonstration program under this
heading to carry out such legislation with the prior approval of
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress:
Provided further, That in addition to any other available funds,
the Secretary may expend not more than $1,000,000 total, from
the program funds made available under this heading, for adminis-
trative expenses for activities funded under this heading.
MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS
For grants and contracts pursuant to section 523(b)(1)(A) of
the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490c), $31,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For grants for very low-income housing repair and rural housing
preservation made by the Rural Housing Service, as authorized
by 42 U.S.C. 1474, and 1490m, $45,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
RURAL COMMUNITY FACILITIES PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct and
guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 and described in
section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act, $2,800,000,000 for direct loans and $500,000,000 for guaranteed
loans.
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees and grants,
including the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, for rural community
facilities programs as authorized by section 306 and described in
section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act, $74,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That $6,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this heading
shall be available for a Rural Community Development Initiative:
Provided further, That such funds shall be used solely to develop
the capacity and ability of private, nonprofit community-based
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housing and community development organizations, low-income
rural communities, and Federally Recognized Native American
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Tribes to undertake projects to improve housing, community facili-
ties, community and economic development projects in rural areas:
Provided further, That such funds shall be made available to quali-
fied private, nonprofit and public intermediary organizations pro-
posing to carry out a program of financial and technical assistance:
Provided further, That such intermediary organizations shall pro-
vide matching funds from other sources, including Federal funds
for related activities, in an amount not less than funds provided:
Provided further, That $6,000,000 of the amount appropriated under
this heading shall be to provide grants for facilities in rural commu-
nities with extreme unemployment and severe economic depression
(Public Law 106–387), with up to 5 percent for administration
and capacity building in the State rural development offices: Pro-
Loans. vided further, That of the amount appropriated under this heading,
$25,000,000 shall be available to cover the subsidy costs for loans
or loan guarantees under this heading: Provided further, That if
any such funds remain unobligated for the subsidy costs after
June 30, 2021, the unobligated balance may be transferred to the
Loans. grant programs funded under this heading: Provided further, That
any unobligated balances from prior year appropriations under
this heading for the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees and grants,
including amounts deobligated or cancelled, may be made available
to cover the subsidy costs for direct loans and or loan guarantees
under this heading in this fiscal year: Provided further, That no
amounts may be made available pursuant to the preceding proviso
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution on the
Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985: Provided further, That $5,000,000 of the amount appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for community facili-
ties grants to tribal colleges, as authorized by section 306(a)(19)
of such Act: Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 381N
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act are not
applicable to the funds made available under this heading.
RURAL BUSINESS—COOPERATIVE SERVICE
RURAL BUSINESS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the cost of loan guarantees and grants, for the rural busi-
ness development programs authorized by section 310B and
described in subsections (a), (c), (f) and (g) of section 310B of
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, $56,400,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the amount
appropriated under this heading, not to exceed $500,000 shall be
made available for one grant to a qualified national organization
to provide technical assistance for rural transportation in order
to promote economic development and $9,000,000 shall be for grants
to the Delta Regional Authority (7 U.S.C. 2009aa et seq.), the
Northern Border Regional Commission (40 U.S.C. 15101 et seq.),
and the Appalachian Regional Commission (40 U.S.C. 14101 et
seq.) for any Rural Community Advancement Program purpose
as described in section 381E(d) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural
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Development Act, of which not more than 5 percent may be used
for administrative expenses: Provided further, That $4,000,000 of
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the amount appropriated under this heading shall be for business
grants to benefit Federally Recognized Native American Tribes,
including $250,000 for a grant to a qualified national organization
to provide technical assistance for rural transportation in order
to promote economic development: Provided further, That of the
amount appropriated under this heading, not to exceed $2,000,000
shall be for Rural Business Development Grants in rural coastal
communities, with priority given to National Scenic Areas that
were devastated by wildfires that are in need of economic develop-
ment assistance, to support innovation and job growth: Provided
further, That sections 381E–H and 381N of the Consolidated Farm
and Rural Development Act are not applicable to funds made avail-
able under this heading.
INTERMEDIARY RELENDING PROGRAM FUND ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized by
the Intermediary Relending Program Fund Account (7 U.S.C.
1936b), $18,889,000.
For the cost of direct loans, $2,939,000, as authorized by the
Intermediary Relending Program Fund Account (7 U.S.C. 1936b),
of which $557,000 shall be available through June 30, 2021, for
Federally Recognized Native American Tribes; and of which
$1,072,000 shall be available through June 30, 2021, for Mississippi
Delta Region counties (as determined in accordance with Public
Law 100–460): Provided, That such costs, including the cost of
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan programs, $4,468,000 shall be transferred to and merged with
the appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’.
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized under
section 313B(a) of the Rural Electrification Act, for the purpose
of promoting rural economic development and job creation projects,
$50,000,000.
The cost of grants authorized under section 313B(a) of the
Rural Electrification Act, for the purpose of promoting rural eco-
nomic development and job creation projects shall not exceed
$10,000,000.
RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
For rural cooperative development grants authorized under
section 310B(e) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act (7 U.S.C. 1932), $26,600,000, of which $2,800,000 shall be
for cooperative agreements for the appropriate technology transfer
for rural areas program: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000,000
shall be for grants for cooperative development centers, individual
cooperatives, or groups of cooperatives that serve socially disadvan-
taged groups and a majority of the boards of directors or governing
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boards of which are comprised of individuals who are members
of socially disadvantaged groups; and of which $15,000,000, to
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remain available until expended, shall be for value-added agricul-
tural product market development grants, as authorized by section
210A of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, of which
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for Agri-
culture Innovation Centers authorized pursuant to section 6402
of Public Law 107–171.
RURAL MICROENTREPRENEUR ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For the cost of loans and grants, $6,000,000 under the same
terms and conditions as authorized by section 379E of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008s): Provided,
That such costs of loans, including the cost of modifying such
loans, shall be defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974.
RURAL ENERGY FOR AMERICA PROGRAM
For the cost of a program of loan guarantees, under the same
terms and conditions as authorized by section 9007 of the Farm
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107),
$392,000: Provided, That the cost of loan guarantees, including
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE
RURAL WATER AND WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For gross obligations for the principal amount of direct and
guaranteed loans as authorized by section 306 and described in
section 381E(d)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act, as follows: $1,400,000,000 for direct loans; and $50,000,000
for guaranteed loans.
For the cost of loan guarantees and grants, including the cost
of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974, for rural water, waste water, waste disposal,
and solid waste management programs authorized by sections 306,
306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B and described in sections
306C(a)(2), 306D, 306E, and 381E(d)(2) of the Consolidated Farm
and Rural Development Act, $621,567,000, to remain available until
expended, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available
for the rural utilities program described in section 306(a)(2)(B)
of such Act, and of which not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be available
for the rural utilities program described in section 306E of such
Act: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000,000 of the amount appro-
priated under this heading shall be for grants authorized by section
306A(i)(2) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act
in addition to funding authorized by section 306A(i)(1) of such
Loans. Act: Provided further, That $68,000,000 of the amount appropriated
under this heading shall be for loans and grants including water
and waste disposal systems grants authorized by section
306C(a)(2)(B) and section 306D of the Consolidated Farm and Rural
Development Act, and Federally Recognized Native American Tribes
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authorized by 306C(a)(1) of such Act: Provided further, That funding
provided for section 306D of the Consolidated Farm and Rural
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Development Act may be provided to a consortium formed pursuant
to section 325 of Public Law 105–83: Provided further, That not Alaska.
more than 2 percent of the funding provided for section 306D
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act may be
used by the State of Alaska for training and technical assistance
programs and not more than 2 percent of the funding provided
for section 306D of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act may be used by a consortium formed pursuant to section 325
of Public Law 105–83 for training and technical assistance pro-
grams: Provided further, That not to exceed $35,000,000 of the Determination.
amount appropriated under this heading shall be for technical
assistance grants for rural water and waste systems pursuant to
section 306(a)(14) of such Act, unless the Secretary makes a deter-
mination of extreme need, of which $8,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for a grant to a qualified nonprofit multi-State regional tech-
nical assistance organization, with experience in working with small
communities on water and waste water problems, the principal
purpose of such grant shall be to assist rural communities with
populations of 3,300 or less, in improving the planning, financing,
development, operation, and management of water and waste water
systems, and of which not less than $800,000 shall be for a qualified
national Native American organization to provide technical assist-
ance for rural water systems for tribal communities: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $20,157,000 of the amount appropriated Contracts.
under this heading shall be for contracting with qualified national
organizations for a circuit rider program to provide technical assist-
ance for rural water systems: Provided further, That not to exceed
$4,000,000 of the amounts made available under this heading shall
be for solid waste management grants: Provided further, That
$10,000,000 of the amount appropriated under this heading shall
be transferred to, and merged with, the Rural Utilities Service,
High Energy Cost Grants Account to provide grants authorized
under section 19 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C.
918a): Provided further, That any prior year balances for high-
energy cost grants authorized by section 19 of the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 918a) shall be transferred to and merged
with the Rural Utilities Service, High Energy Cost Grants Account:
Provided further, That sections 381E–H and 381N of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act are not applicable to the
funds made available under this heading.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOANS PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
The principal amount of direct and guaranteed loans as author-
ized by sections 305, 306, and 317 of the Rural Electrification
Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935, 936, and 940g) shall be made as follows:
loans made pursuant to sections 305, 306, and 317, notwithstanding
317(c), of that Act, rural electric, $5,500,000,000; guaranteed under-
writing loans pursuant to section 313A of that Act, $750,000,000;
5 percent rural telecommunications loans, cost of money rural tele-
communications loans, and for loans made pursuant to section
306 of that Act, rural telecommunications loans, $690,000,000: Pro-
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vided, That up to $2,000,000,000 shall be used for the construction,
acquisition, design and engineering or improvement of fossil-fueled
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electric generating plants (whether new or existing) that utilize
carbon subsurface utilization and storage systems.
For the cost of direct loans as authorized by section 305 of
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935), including the
cost of modifying loans, as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, cost of money rural telecommunications
loans, $2,277,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $33,270,000, which
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’.
DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND PROGRAM
For the principal amount of broadband telecommunication
loans, $11,869,000.
For grants for telemedicine and distance learning services in
rural areas, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., $60,000,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That $3,000,000 shall
be made available for grants authorized by section 379G of the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further,
That funding provided under this heading for grants under section
379G of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act may
only be provided to entities that meet all of the eligibility criteria
for a consortium as established by this section.
For the cost of broadband loans, as authorized by section 601
of the Rural Electrification Act, $2,000,000, to remain available
Loans. until expended: Provided, That the cost of direct loans shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
In addition, $35,000,000, to remain available until expended,
for the Community Connect Grant Program authorized by 7 U.S.C.
950bb–3.
TITLE IV
DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD, NUTRITION, AND
CONSUMER SERVICES
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, $809,000: Provided,
That funds made available by this Act to an agency in the Food,
Nutrition and Consumer Services mission area for salaries and
expenses are available to fund up to one administrative support
staff for the Office.
FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE
CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Richard B. Russell
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), except section
21, and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.),
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except sections 17 and 21; $25,118,440,000 to remain available
through September 30, 2022, of which such sums as are made
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available under section 14222(b)(1) of the Food, Conservation, and
Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–246), as amended by this
Act, shall be merged with and available for the same time period
and purposes as provided herein: Provided, That of the total amount
available, $18,004,000 shall be available to carry out section 19
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.): Provided
further, That of the total amount available, $15,299,000 shall be Studies.
available to carry out studies and evaluations and shall remain Evaluations.
available until expended: Provided further, That of the total amount
available, $30,000,000 shall be available to provide competitive
grants to State agencies for subgrants to local educational agencies
and schools to purchase the equipment, with a value of greater
than $1,000, needed to serve healthier meals, improve food safety,
and to help support the establishment, maintenance, or expansion
of the school breakfast program: Provided further, That of the
total amount available, $42,000,000 shall remain available until
expended to carry out section 749(g) of the Agriculture Appropria-
tions Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–80): Provided further, That
section 26(d) of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch
Act (42 U.S.C. 1769g(d)) is amended in the first sentence by striking
‘‘2010 through 2021’’ and inserting ‘‘2010 through 2022’’: Provided
further, That section 9(h)(3) of the Richard B. Russell National
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(3)) is amended in the first
sentence by striking ‘‘For fiscal year 2020’’ and inserting ‘‘For fiscal
year 2021’’: Provided further, That section 9(h)(4) of the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(h)(4)) is
amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘For fiscal year 2020’’
and inserting ‘‘For fiscal year 2021’’.
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, INFANTS,
AND CHILDREN (WIC)
For necessary expenses to carry out the special supplemental
nutrition program as authorized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition
Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), $6,000,000,000, to remain available
through September 30, 2022: Provided, That notwithstanding sec- Breastfeeding.
tion 17(h)(10) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C.
1786(h)(10)), not less than $90,000,000 shall be used for
breastfeeding peer counselors and other related activities, and
$14,000,000 shall be used for infrastructure: Provided further, That
none of the funds provided in this account shall be available for
the purchase of infant formula except in accordance with the cost
containment and competitive bidding requirements specified in sec-
tion 17 of such Act: Provided further, That none of the funds
provided shall be available for activities that are not fully
reimbursed by other Federal Government departments or agencies
unless authorized by section 17 of such Act: Provided further, That Waiver authority.
upon termination of a federally mandated vendor moratorium and
subject to terms and conditions established by the Secretary, the
Secretary may waive the requirement at 7 CFR 246.12(g)(6) at
the request of a State agency.
SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to carry out the Food and Nutrition
Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $114,035,578,000, of which
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$3,000,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2023,
shall be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at
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such times as may become necessary to carry out program oper-
ations: Provided, That funds provided herein shall be expended
in accordance with section 16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of
2008: Provided further, That of the funds made available under
this heading, $998,000 may be used to provide nutrition education
services to State agencies and Federally Recognized Tribes partici-
pating in the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations:
Workfare. Provided further, That this appropriation shall be subject to any
work registration or workfare requirements as may be required
by law: Provided further, That funds made available for Employ-
ment and Training under this heading shall remain available
through September 30, 2022: Provided further, That funds made
available under this heading for section 28(d)(1), section 4(b), and
section 27(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 shall remain
available through September 30, 2022: Provided further, That with
respect to funds made available under this heading for section
28(d)(1), the Secretary shall use 2 percent for administration,
training and technical assistance, and pilot projects under section
28: Provided further, That none of the funds made available under
this heading may be obligated or expended in contravention of
section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
Contracts. 1183A): Provided further, That funds made available under this
Studies. heading may be used to enter into contracts and employ staff
Evaluations. to conduct studies, evaluations, or to conduct activities related
to program integrity provided that such activities are authorized
by the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to carry out disaster assistance and
the Commodity Supplemental Food Program as authorized by sec-
tion 4(a) of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973
(7 U.S.C. 612c note); the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983;
special assistance for the nuclear affected islands, as authorized
by section 103(f)(2) of the Compact of Free Association Amendments
Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–188); and the Farmers’ Market Nutri-
tion Program, as authorized by section 17(m) of the Child Nutrition
Act of 1966, $426,700,000, to remain available through September
30, 2022: Provided, That none of these funds shall be available
to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities
donated to the program: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, effective with funds made available
in fiscal year 2021 to support the Seniors Farmers’ Market Nutrition
Program, as authorized by section 4402 of the Farm Security and
Rural Investment Act of 2002, such funds shall remain available
through September 30, 2022: Provided further, That of the funds
made available under section 27(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act
of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036(a)), the Secretary may use up to 20 percent
for costs associated with the distribution of commodities.
NUTRITION PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION
For necessary administrative expenses of the Food and Nutri-
tion Service for carrying out any domestic nutrition assistance
program, $156,805,000: Provided, That of the funds provided herein,
$2,000,000 shall be used for the purposes of section 4404 of Public
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Law 107–171, as amended by section 4401 of Public Law 110–
246.
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TITLE V
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND FOREIGN
AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary
for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, $887,000: Provided,
That funds made available by this Act to any agency in the Trade
and Foreign Agricultural Affairs mission area for salaries and
expenses are available to fund up to one administrative support
staff for the Office.
OFFICE OF CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
For necessary expenses of the Office of Codex Alimentarius,
$4,805,000, including not to exceed $40,000 for official reception
and representation expenses.
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agricultural Service,
including not to exceed $250,000 for representation allowances and
for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act approved August
3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), $221,835,000, of which no more than
6 percent shall remain available until September 30, 2022, for
overseas operations to include the payment of locally employed
staff: Provided, That the Service may utilize advances of funds,
or reimburse this appropriation for expenditures made on behalf
of Federal agencies, public and private organizations and institu-
tions under agreements executed pursuant to the agricultural food
production assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign
assistance programs of the United States Agency for International
Development: Provided further, That funds made available for
middle-income country training programs, funds made available
for the Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology
Fellowship program, and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricul-
tural Service appropriation solely for the purpose of offsetting fluc-
tuations in international currency exchange rates, subject to docu-
mentation by the Foreign Agricultural Service, shall remain avail-
able until expended.
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE I DIRECT CREDIT AND FOOD FOR PROGRESS
PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses to carry out the credit program
of title I, Food for Peace Act (Public Law 83–480) and the Food
for Progress Act of 1985, $112,000, shall be transferred to and
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merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Production and Conserva-
tion Business Center, Salaries and Expenses’’.
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FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE II GRANTS
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not otherwise
recoverable, and unrecovered prior years’ costs, including interest
thereon, under the Food for Peace Act (Public Law 83–480), for
commodities supplied in connection with dispositions abroad under
title II of said Act, $1,740,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION AND CHILD
NUTRITION PROGRAM GRANTS
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section
3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
(7 U.S.C. 1736o–1), $230,000,000, to remain available until
Reimbursement. expended: Provided, That the Commodity Credit Corporation is
authorized to provide the services, facilities, and authorities for
the purpose of implementing such section, subject to reimbursement
from amounts provided herein: Provided further, That of the amount
made available under this heading, not more than 10 percent,
but not less than $23,000,000, shall remain available until expended
to purchase agricultural commodities as described in subsection
3107(a)(2) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
(7 U.S.C. 1736o–1(a)(2)).
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT (LOANS) CREDIT
GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses to carry out the Commodity Credit
Corporation’s Export Guarantee Program, GSM 102 and GSM 103,
$6,381,000, to cover common overhead expenses as permitted by
section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act and
in conformity with the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, of which
$6,063,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the appropria-
tion for ‘‘Foreign Agricultural Service, Salaries and Expenses’’, and
of which $318,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the
appropriation for ‘‘Farm Production and Conservation Business
Center, Salaries and Expenses’’.
TITLE VI
RELATED AGENCY AND FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Administration,
including hire and purchase of passenger motor vehicles; for pay-
ment of space rental and related costs pursuant to Public Law
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92–313 for programs and activities of the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration which are included in this Act; for rental of special purpose
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space in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; in addition to
amounts appropriated to the FDA Innovation Account, for carrying
out the activities described in section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st Century
Cures Act (Public Law 114–255); for miscellaneous and emergency
expenses of enforcement activities, authorized and approved by
the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on the Secretary’s
certificate, not to exceed $25,000; and notwithstanding section 521
of Public Law 107–188; $5,876,025,000: Provided, That of the
amount provided under this heading, $1,107,199,000 shall be
derived from prescription drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C.
379h, and shall be credited to this account and remain available
until expended; $236,059,000 shall be derived from medical device
user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j, and shall be credited to
this account and remain available until expended; $520,208,000
shall be derived from human generic drug user fees authorized
by 21 U.S.C. 379j–42, and shall be credited to this account and
remain available until expended; $42,494,000 shall be derived from
biosimilar biological product user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C.
379j–52, and shall be credited to this account and remain available
until expended; $33,340,000 shall be derived from animal drug
user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–12, and shall be credited
to this account and remain available until expended; $22,797,000
shall be derived from generic new animal drug user fees authorized
by 21 U.S.C. 379j–21, and shall be credited to this account and
remain available until expended; $712,000,000 shall be derived
from tobacco product user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 387s, and
shall be credited to this account and remain available until
expended: Provided further, That in addition to and notwithstanding
any other provision under this heading, amounts collected for
prescription drug user fees, medical device user fees, human generic
drug user fees, biosimilar biological product user fees, animal drug
user fees, and generic new animal drug user fees that exceed
the respective fiscal year 2021 limitations are appropriated and
shall be credited to this account and remain available until
expended: Provided further, That fees derived from prescription
drug, medical device, human generic drug, biosimilar biological
product, animal drug, and generic new animal drug assessments
for fiscal year 2021, including any such fees collected prior to
fiscal year 2021 but credited for fiscal year 2021, shall be subject
to the fiscal year 2021 limitations: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may accept payment during fiscal year 2021 of user fees
specified under this heading and authorized for fiscal year 2022,
prior to the due date for such fees, and that amounts of such
fees assessed for fiscal year 2022 for which the Secretary accepts
payment in fiscal year 2021 shall not be included in amounts
under this heading: Provided further, That none of these funds
shall be used to develop, establish, or operate any program of
user fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701: Provided further, That
of the total amount appropriated: (1) $1,099,160,000 shall be for
the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and related field
activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs, of which no less than
$15,000,000 shall be used for inspections of foreign seafood manufac-
turers and field examinations of imported seafood; (2)
$1,996,126,000 shall be for the Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research and related field activities in the Office of Regulatory
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Affairs; (3) $437,071,000 shall be for the Center for Biologics Evalua-
tion and Research and for related field activities in the Office
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of Regulatory Affairs; (4) $244,350,000 shall be for the Center
for Veterinary Medicine and for related field activities in the Office
of Regulatory Affairs; (5) $609,121,000 shall be for the Center
for Devices and Radiological Health and for related field activities
in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (6) $66,712,000 shall be for
the National Center for Toxicological Research; (7) $681,513,000
shall be for the Center for Tobacco Products and for related field
activities in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (8) $188,707,000 shall
be for Rent and Related activities, of which $52,944,000 is for
White Oak Consolidation, other than the amounts paid to the
General Services Administration for rent; (9) $235,112,000 shall
be for payments to the General Services Administration for rent;
and (10) $318,153,000 shall be for other activities, including the
Office of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, the Office of Food
Policy and Response, the Office of Operations, the Office of the
Chief Scientist, and central services for these offices: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall be for official
reception and representation expenses, not otherwise provided for,
as determined by the Commissioner: Provided further, That any
transfer of funds pursuant to section 770(n) of the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379dd(n)) shall only be from
amounts made available under this heading for other activities:
Provided further, That of the amounts that are made available
under this heading for ‘‘other activities’’, and that are not derived
from user fees, $1,500,000 shall be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for ‘‘Department of Health and Human
Services—Office of Inspector General’’ for oversight of the programs
and operations of the Food and Drug Administration and shall
be in addition to funds otherwise made available for oversight
Advance of the Food and Drug Administration: Provided further, That funds
approval. may be transferred from one specified activity to another with
the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both
Houses of Congress.
In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 U.S.C.
263b, export certification user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 381,
priority review user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360n and 360ff,
food and feed recall fees, food reinspection fees, and voluntary
qualified importer program fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–
31, outsourcing facility fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–62,
prescription drug wholesale distributor licensing and inspection
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 353(e)(3), third-party logistics provider
licensing and inspection fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360eee–3(c)(1),
third-party auditor fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 384d(c)(8), medical
countermeasure priority review voucher user fees authorized by
21 U.S.C. 360bbb–4a, and fees relating to over-the-counter mono-
graph drugs authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–72 shall be credited
to this account, to remain available until expended.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, extension, alter-
ation, demolition, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities
of or used by the Food and Drug Administration, where not other-
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wise provided, $12,788,000, to remain available until expended.
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FDA INNOVATION ACCOUNT, CURES ACT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the purposes described
under section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st Century Cures Act, in addition
to amounts available for such purposes under the heading ‘‘Salaries
and Expenses’’, $70,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That amounts appropriated in this paragraph are appro-
priated pursuant to section 1002(b)(3) of the 21st Century Cures
Act, are to be derived from amounts transferred under section
1002(b)(2)(A) of such Act, and may be transferred by the Commis-
sioner of Food and Drugs to the appropriation for ‘‘Department
of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration
Salaries and Expenses’’ solely for the purposes provided in such
Act: Provided further, That upon a determination by the Commis- Determination.
sioner that funds transferred pursuant to the previous proviso
are not necessary for the purposes provided, such amounts may
be transferred back to the account: Provided further, That such
transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer authority
provided by law.
INDEPENDENT AGENCY
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Not to exceed $80,400,000 (from assessments collected from
farm credit institutions, including the Federal Agricultural Mort-
gage Corporation) shall be obligated during the current fiscal year
for administrative expenses as authorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249:
Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to expenses associated
with receiverships: Provided further, That the agency may exceed Notification.
this limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided further,
That the purposes of section 3.7(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Farm Credit
Act of 1971 (12 U.S.C. 2128(b)(2)(A)(i)), the Farm Credit Administra-
tion may exempt, an amount in its sole discretion, from the applica-
tion of the limitation provided in that clause of export loans
described in the clause guaranteed or insured in a manner other
than described in subclause (II) of the clause.
TITLE VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
SEC. 701. The Secretary may use any appropriations made
available to the Department of Agriculture in this Act to purchase
new passenger motor vehicles, in addition to specific appropriations
for this purpose, so long as the total number of vehicles purchased
in fiscal year 2021 does not exceed the number of vehicles owned
or leased in fiscal year 2018: Provided, That, prior to purchasing Determination.
additional motor vehicles, the Secretary must determine that such
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vehicles are necessary for transportation safety, to reduce oper-
ational costs, and for the protection of life, property, and public
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Notification. safety: Provided further, That the Secretary may not increase the
Approval. Department of Agriculture’s fleet above the 2018 level unless the
Deadline. Secretary notifies in writing, and receives approval from, the
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress within
30 days of the notification.
Notifications. SEC. 702. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
Advance the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated balances
approvals. of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act or any other avail-
able unobligated discretionary balances that are remaining avail-
able of the Department of Agriculture to the Working Capital Fund
for the acquisition of plant and capital equipment necessary for
the delivery of financial, administrative, and information technology
services of primary benefit to the agencies of the Department of
Agriculture, such transferred funds to remain available until
expended: Provided, That none of the funds made available by
this Act or any other Act shall be transferred to the Working
Capital Fund without the prior approval of the agency adminis-
trator: Provided further, That none of the funds transferred to
the Working Capital Fund pursuant to this section shall be available
for obligation without written notification to and the prior approval
of the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by this
Act or made available to the Department’s Working Capital Fund
shall be available for obligation or expenditure to make any changes
to the Department’s National Finance Center without written
notification to and prior approval of the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress as required by section 716 of
this Act: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated
by this Act or made available to the Department’s Working Capital
Fund shall be available for obligation or expenditure to initiate,
plan, develop, implement, or make any changes to remove or
relocate any systems, missions, personnel, or functions of the offices
of the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Information Officer,
co-located with or from the National Finance Center prior to written
notification to and prior approval of the Committee on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress and in accordance with the require-
ments of section 716 of this Act: Provided further, That the National
Finance Center Information Technology Services Division personnel
and data center management responsibilities, and control of any
functions, missions, and systems for current and future human
resources management and integrated personnel and payroll sys-
tems (PPS) and functions provided by the Chief Financial Officer
and the Chief Information Officer shall remain in the National
Finance Center and under the management responsibility and
administrative control of the National Finance Center: Provided
further, That the Secretary of Agriculture and the offices of the
Chief Financial Officer shall actively market to existing and new
Departments and other government agencies National Finance
Center shared services including, but not limited to, payroll, finan-
cial management, and human capital shared services and allow
the National Finance Center to perform technology upgrades: Pro-
vided further, That of annual income amounts in the Working
Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture attributable to the
amounts in excess of the true costs of the shared services provided
by the National Finance Center and budgeted for the National
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Finance Center, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 4 percent
for the replacement or acquisition of capital equipment, including
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equipment for the improvement, delivery, and implementation of
financial, administrative, and information technology services, and
other systems of the National Finance Center or to pay any unfore-
seen, extraordinary cost of the National Finance Center: Provided
further, That none of the amounts reserved shall be available for
obligation unless the Secretary submits written notification of the
obligation to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses
of Congress: Provided further, That the limitations on the obligation Determination.
of funds pending notification to Congressional Committees shall
not apply to any obligation that, as determined by the Secretary,
is necessary to respond to a declared state of emergency that
significantly impacts the operations of the National Finance Center;
or to evacuate employees of the National Finance Center to a
safe haven to continue operations of the National Finance Center.
SEC. 703. 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. 704. No funds appropriated by this Act may be used Contracts.
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 percent
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 institu-
tions when such indirect costs are computed on a similar basis
for all agencies for which appropriations are provided in this Act.
SEC. 705. Appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for
the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made available in the
current fiscal year shall remain available until expended to disburse
obligations made in the current fiscal year for the following
accounts: the Rural Development Loan Fund program account, the
Rural Electrification and Telecommunication Loans program
account, and the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account.
SEC. 706. None of the funds made available to the Department Determination.
of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire new information Approvals.
technology systems or significant upgrades, as determined by the
Office of the Chief Information Officer, without the approval of
the Chief Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive
Information Technology Investment Review Board: Provided, That Notification.
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds
appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be trans-
ferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer without written
notification to and the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding section 11319 of title 40, United States Code, none
of the funds available to the Department of Agriculture for informa-
tion technology shall be obligated for projects, contracts, or other
agreements over $25,000 prior to receipt of written approval by
the Chief Information Officer: Provided further, That the Chief
Information Officer may authorize an agency to obligate funds
without written approval from the Chief Information Officer for
projects, contracts, or other agreements up to $250,000 based upon
the performance of an agency measured against the performance
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plan requirements described in the explanatory statement accom-
panying Public Law 113–235.
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SEC. 707. Funds made available under section 524(b) of the
Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)) in the current fiscal
year shall remain available until expended to disburse obligations
made in the current fiscal year.
SEC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
former Rural Utilities Service borrower that has repaid or prepaid
an insured, direct or guaranteed loan under the Rural Electrification
Act of 1936, or any not-for-profit utility that is eligible to receive
an insured or direct loan under such Act, shall be eligible for
assistance under section 313B(a) of such Act in the same manner
as a borrower under such Act.
SEC. 709. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law,
not more than $20,000,000 in unobligated balances from appropria-
tions made available for salaries and expenses in this Act for
the Farm Service Agency shall remain available through September
30, 2022, for information technology expenses.
(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not more
than $20,000,000 in unobligated balances from appropriations made
available for salaries and expenses in this Act for the Rural Develop-
ment mission area shall remain available through September 30,
2022, for information technology expenses.
SEC. 710. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be used for first-class travel by the
employees of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections
301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
SEC. 711. In the case of each program established or amended
by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) or by a suc-
cessor to that Act, other than by title I or subtitle A of title
III of such Act, or programs for which indefinite amounts were
provided in that Act, that is authorized or required to be carried
out using funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation—
(1) such funds shall be available for salaries and related
administrative expenses, including technical assistance, associ-
ated with the implementation of the program, without regard
to the limitation on the total amount of allotments and fund
transfers contained in section 11 of the Commodity Credit
Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i); and
(2) the use of such funds for such purpose shall not be
considered to be a fund transfer or allotment for purposes
of applying the limitation on the total amount of allotments
and fund transfers contained in such section.
SEC. 712. Of the funds made available by this Act, not more
than $2,900,000 shall be used to cover necessary expenses of activi-
ties related to all advisory committees, panels, commissions, and
task forces of the Department of Agriculture, except for panels
used to comply with negotiated rule makings and panels used
to evaluate competitively awarded grants.
Pornography. SEC. 713. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless
such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging
of pornography.
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds nec-
essary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency
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or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution,
or adjudication activities.
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SEC. 714. Notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 14222 of
Public Law 110–246 (7 U.S.C. 612c–6; in this section referred to
as ‘‘section 14222’’), none of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay
the salaries and expenses of personnel to carry out a program
under section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c;
in this section referred to as ‘‘section 32’’) in excess of $1,359,864,000
(exclusive of carryover appropriations from prior fiscal years), as
follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commodities—
$485,000,000; State Option Contracts— $5,000,000; Removal of
Defective Commodities— $2,500,000; Administration of Section 32
Commodity Purchases— $36,746,000: Provided, That of the total Notification.
funds made available in the matter preceding this proviso that Time period.
remain unobligated on October 1, 2021, such unobligated balances
shall carryover into fiscal year 2022 and shall remain available
until expended for any of the purposes of section 32, except that
any such carryover funds used in accordance with clause (3) of
section 32 may not exceed $350,000,000 and may not be obligated
until the Secretary of Agriculture provides written notification of
the expenditures to the Committees on Appropriations of both
Houses of Congress at least two weeks in advance: Provided further,
That, with the exception of any available carryover funds authorized
in any prior appropriations Act to be used for the purposes of
clause (3) of section 32, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this or any other Act shall be used to pay
the salaries or expenses of any employee of the Department of
Agriculture to carry out clause (3) of section 32.
SEC. 715. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel
who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the
President’s budget submission to the Congress for programs under
the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture,
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related
Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from the
previous year due to user fees proposals that have not been enacted
into law prior to the submission of the budget unless such budget
submission identifies which additional spending reductions should
occur in the event the user fees proposals are not enacted prior
to the date of the convening of a committee of conference for
the fiscal year 2022 appropriations Act.
SEC. 716. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided Notifications.
by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Approvals.
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the cur- Time periods.
rent fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury
derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through
a reprogramming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as author-
ized by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Department of
Agriculture, through use of the authority provided by section 702(b)
of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C.
2257) or section 8 of Public Law 89–106 (7 U.S.C. 2263), that—
(1) creates new programs;
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any
project or activity for which funds have been denied or
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restricted;
(4) relocates an office or employees;
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(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities
presently performed by Federal employees;
unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies
in writing and receives approval from the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance
of the reprogramming of such funds or the use of such authority.
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by
previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current
fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activities,
programs, or projects through a reprogramming or use of the
authorities referred to in subsection (a) involving funds in excess
of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that—
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities;
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program,
project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent
as approved by Congress; or
(3) results from any general savings from a reduction in
personnel which would result in a change in existing programs,
activities, or projects as approved by Congress;
unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (as the case may be) notifies
in writing and receives approval from the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance
of the reprogramming or transfer of such funds or the use
of such authority.
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of Health
and Human Services shall notify in writing and receive approval
from the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress
before implementing any program or activity not carried out during
the previous fiscal year unless the program or activity is funded
by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act.
(d) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided by
previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this Act
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in the current
fiscal year, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this
Act, shall be available for—
(1) modifying major capital investments funding levels,
including information technology systems, that involves
increasing or decreasing funds in the current fiscal year for
the individual investment in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent
of the total cost, whichever is less;
(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or vacant posi-
tions or agency activities or functions to establish a center,
office, branch, or similar entity with five or more personnel;
or
(3) carrying out activities or functions that were not
described in the budget request;
unless the agencies funded by this Act notify, in writing,
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress
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at least 30 days in advance of using the funds for these pur-
poses.
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(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used for
any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary
of Health and Human Services receives from the Committee on
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress written or electronic
mail confirmation of receipt of the notification as required in this
section.
SEC. 717. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the Consoli- Fees.
dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1932(g)(5)), the
Secretary may assess a one-time fee for any guaranteed business
and industry loan in an amount that does not exceed 3 percent
of the guaranteed principal portion of the loan.
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug
Administration, or the Farm Credit Administration shall be used
to transmit or otherwise make available reports, questions, or
responses to questions that are a result of information requested
for the appropriations hearing process to any non-Department of
Agriculture, non-Department of Health and Human Services, or
non-Farm Credit Administration employee.
SEC. 719. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, none News stories.
of the funds provided in this Act, may be used by an executive Notification.
branch agency to produce any prepackaged news story intended
for broadcast or distribution in the United States unless the story
includes a clear notification within the text or audio of the pre-
packaged news story that the prepackaged news story was prepared
or funded by that executive branch agency.
SEC. 720. No employee of the Department of Agriculture may Time period.
be detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this Reimbursement.
Act or any other Act to any other agency or office of the Department
for more than 60 days in a fiscal year unless the individual’s
employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by the receiving
agency or office for the salary and expenses of the employee for
the period of assignment.
SEC. 721. Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment Deadline.
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Commissioner of the Spending plan.
Food and Drug Administration, and the Chairman of the Farm
Credit Administration shall submit to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress a detailed spending plan by
program, project, and activity for all the funds made available
under this Act including appropriated user fees, as defined in the
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act).
SEC. 722. Of the unobligated balances from amounts made
available for the supplemental nutrition program as authorized
by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786),
$1,250,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That no amounts
may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Reso-
lution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 723. For the purposes of determining eligibility or level Determination.
of program assistance for Rural Development programs the Sec- Prisons and
retary shall not include incarcerated prison populations. prisoners.
SEC. 724. For loans and loan guarantees that do not require Loans.
budget authority and the program level has been established in
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this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may increase the program
level for such loans and loan guarantees by not more than 25
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Notification. percent: Provided, That prior to the Secretary implementing such
Time period. an increase, the Secretary notifies, in writing, the Committees
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 15 days
in advance.
Notification. SEC. 725. None of the credit card refunds or rebates transferred
Advance to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to section 729 of the Agri-
approval.
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public
Law 107–76) shall be available for obligation without written
notification to, and the prior approval of, the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That the refunds
or rebates so transferred shall be available for obligation only
for the acquisition of plant and capital equipment necessary for
the delivery of financial, administrative, and information technology
services, including cloud adoption and migration, of primary benefit
to the agencies of the Department of Agriculture.
Regulations. SEC. 726. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used to implement, administer, or enforce the ‘‘variety’’ require-
ments of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhancing Retailer Standards
in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)’’ pub-
lished by the Department of Agriculture in the Federal Register
on December 15, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary
of Agriculture amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as de
fined in section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, and ‘‘variety’’ as applied in the definition of the term ‘‘staple
food’’ as defined in section 271.2 of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, to increase the number of items that qualify as acceptable
varieties in each staple food category so that the total number
of such items in each staple food category exceeds the number
of such items in each staple food category included in the final
Applicability. rule as published on December 15, 2016: Provided, That until
Effective date. the Secretary promulgates such regulatory amendments, the Sec-
retary shall apply the requirements regarding acceptable varieties
and breadth of stock to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
retailers that were in effect on the day before the date of the
enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79).
SEC. 727. In carrying out subsection (h) of section 502 of the
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the Secretary of Agriculture
shall have the same authority with respect to loans guaranteed
under such section and eligible lenders for such loans as the Sec-
retary has under subsections (h) and (j) of section 538 of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 1490p–2) with respect to loans guaranteed under
such section 538 and eligible lenders for such loans.
Health and SEC. 728. None of the funds made available by this Act may
health care. be used to propose, promulgate, or implement any rule, or take
Electronic any other action with respect to, allowing or requiring information
records.
intended for a prescribing health care professional, in the case
of a drug or biological product subject to section 503(b)(1) of the
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to
be distributed to such professional electronically (in lieu of in paper
form) unless and until a Federal law is enacted to allow or require
such distribution.
Regulations. SEC. 729. None of the funds made available by this or any
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Alcohol and other Act may be used to carry out the final rule promulgated
alcoholic by the Food and Drug Administration and put into effect November
beverages.
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16, 2015, in regards to the hazard analysis and risk-based preven-
tive control requirements of the current good manufacturing prac-
tice, hazard analysis, and risk-based preventive controls for food
for animals rule with respect to the regulation of the production,
distribution, sale, or receipt of dried spent grain byproducts of
the alcoholic beverage production process.
SEC. 730. There is hereby appropriated $11,000,000, to remain
available until expended, to carry out section 6407 of the Farm
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8107a): Pro-
vided, That the Secretary may allow eligible entities, or comparable Loans.
entities that provide energy efficiency services using their own
billing mechanism to offer loans to customers in any part of their
service territory and to offer loans to replace a manufactured
housing unit with another manufactured housing unit, if replace-
ment would be more cost effective in saving energy.
SEC. 731. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall—
(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates the following Audits.
factors in the country or region being audited, as applicable—
(A) veterinary control and oversight;
(B) disease history and vaccination practices;
(C) livestock demographics and traceability;
(D) epidemiological separation from potential sources
of infection;
(E) surveillance practices;
(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and
(G) emergency preparedness and response; and
(2) promptly make publicly available the final reports of Public
any audits or reviews conducted pursuant to subsection (1). information.
Reports.
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with Applicability.
United States obligations under its international trade agreements.
SEC. 732. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used to implement section 3.7(f) of the Farm Credit Act of
1971 in a manner inconsistent with section 343(a)(13) of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act.
SEC. 733. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used to carry out any activities or incur any expense related
to the issuance of licenses under section 3 of the Animal Welfare
Act (7 U.S.C. 2133), or the renewal of such licenses, to class B
dealers who sell dogs and cats for use in research, experiments,
teaching, or testing.
SEC. 734. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for this fiscal Iron and steel
year for the rural water, waste water, waste disposal, and solid products.
waste management programs authorized by sections 306, 306A,
306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project
for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public
water or wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel products
used in the project are produced in the United States.
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ means Definition.
the following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined
or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other munic-
ipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and
restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced precast concrete,
and construction materials.
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(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or category
of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in this section
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referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee of the Secretary
finds that—
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent with the
public interest;
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United
States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities or of
a satisfactory quality; or
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the
United States will increase the cost of the overall project by
more than 25 percent.
Public (c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request for
information. a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the designee shall
Records.
Time period. make available to the public on an informal basis a copy of the
request and information available to the Secretary or the designee
concerning the request, and shall allow for informal public input
on the request for at least 15 days prior to making a finding
Web posting. based on the request. The Secretary or the designee shall make
the request and accompanying information available by electronic
means, including on the official public Internet Web site of the
Department.
Applicability. (d) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with
United States obligations under international agreements.
(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of the funds
appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water
and Waste Disposal Program Account’’ for carrying out the provi-
sions described in subsection (a)(1) for management and oversight
of the requirements of this section.
(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a project
for which the engineering plans and specifications include use of
iron and steel products otherwise prohibited by such subsection
if the plans and specifications have received required approvals
from State agencies prior to the date of enactment of this Act.
Definitions. (g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United States’’
and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several States, the District
of Columbia, and each Federally recognized Indian tribe.
Lobbying. SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may
be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional
action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before
Congress, other than to communicate to Members of Congress as
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913.
SEC. 736. Of the total amounts made available by this Act
for direct loans and grants in section 730 and in the following
headings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insurance Fund
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mutual and Self-Help
Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Assist-
ance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Community Facilities
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural
Business Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—
Rural Economic Development Loans Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural
Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Cooperative Development
Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Electrification
and Telecommunications Loans Program Account’’; and ‘‘Rural Utili-
ties Service—Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Pro-
gram’’, to the maximum extent feasible, at least 10 percent of
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the funds shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty
counties under this section, including, notwithstanding any other
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provision regarding population limits, any county seat of such a
persistent poverty county that has a population that does not exceed
the authorized population limit by more than 10 percent: Provided,
That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty Definition.
counties’’ means any county that has had 20 percent or more
of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as meas-
ured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, and 2007–2011
American Community Survey 5-year average, or any territory or
possession of the United States: Provided further, That with respect Applicability.
to specific activities for which program levels have been made
available by this Act that are not supported by budget authority,
the requirements of this section shall be applied to such program
level.
SEC. 737. In addition to any other funds made available in
this Act or any other Act, there is appropriated $12,000,000 to
carry out section 18(g)(8) of the Richard B. Russell National School
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(g)), to remain available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding section 18(g)(3)(C) of the Richard
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769 (g)(3)(c)),
the total grant amount provided to a farm to school grant recipient
in fiscal year 2021 shall not exceed $500,000.
SEC. 738. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, for the cost of loans and grants
that is consistent with section 4206 of the Agricultural Act of
2014, for necessary expenses of the Secretary to support projects
that provide access to healthy food in underserved areas, to create
and preserve quality jobs, and to revitalize low-income communities.
SEC. 739. For an additional amount for ‘‘Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service—Salaries and Expenses’’, $8,500,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2022, for one-time control
and management and associated activities directly related to the
multiple-agency response to citrus greening.
SEC. 740. None of the funds made available by this Act may Human embryos.
be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowledge receipt of
a submission for an exemption for investigational use of a drug
or biological product under section 505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which
a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include
a heritable genetic modification. Any such submission shall be
deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, and the exemp-
tion may not go into effect.
SEC. 741. None of the funds made available by this or any Regulations.
other Act may be used to enforce the final rule promulgated by
the Food and Drug Administration entitled ‘‘Standards for the
Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human
Consumption,’’ and published on November 27, 2015, with respect
to the regulation of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine
grapes, hops, pulse crops, or almonds.
SEC. 742. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, for a pilot program for the
National Institute of Food and Agriculture to provide grants to
nonprofit organizations for programs and services to establish and
enhance farming and ranching opportunities for military veterans.
SEC. 743. For school years 2020–2021 and 2021–2022, none School breakfast.
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of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement
or enforce the matter following the first comma in the second
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sentence of footnote (c) of section 220.8(c) of title 7, Code of Federal
Regulations, with respect to the substitution of vegetables for fruits
under the school breakfast program established under section 4
of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773).
SEC. 744. None of the funds made available by this Act or
any other Act may be used—
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Agricultural
Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G of the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946, or section 10114 of the Agriculture
Improvement Act of 2018; or
Hemp and hemp (2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, sale, or use
seeds. of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is grown or cultivated
in accordance with subsection section 7606 of the Agricultural
Act of 2014 or Subtitle G of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946, within or outside the State in which the hemp is
grown or cultivated.
Deadline. SEC. 745. Out of amounts appropriated to the Food and Drug
Fish and fishing. Administration under title VI, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs,
shall, not later than September 30, 2021, and following the review
required under Executive Order No. 12866 (5 U.S.C. 601 note;
relating to regulatory planning and review), issue advice revising
the advice provided in the notice of availability entitled ‘‘Advice
About Eating Fish, From the Environmental Protection Agency
and Food and Drug Administration; Revised Fish Advice; Avail-
ability’’ (82 Fed. Reg. 6571 (January 19, 2017)), in a manner that
is consistent with nutrition science recognized by the Food and
Drug Administration on the net effects of seafood consumption.
SEC. 746. There is hereby appropriated $2,500,000, to remain
available until expended, for grants under section 12502 of Public
Law 115–334.
SEC. 747. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000 to carry
out section 1621 of Public Law 110–246.
SEC. 748. There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, to carry out section 4003(b)
of Public Law 115–334 relating to demonstration projects for Tribal
Organizations.
Contracts. SEC. 749. In addition to amounts otherwise made available
Determination. by this Act and notwithstanding the last sentence of 16 U.S.C.
1310, there is appropriated $4,000,000, to remain available until
expended, to implement non-renewable agreements on eligible
lands, including flooded agricultural lands, as determined by the
Secretary, under the Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311).
SEC. 750. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural Economic
Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 15, 2021, an amount
of funds made available in title III under the headings of Rural
Housing Insurance Fund Program Account, Mutual and Self-Help
Housing Grants, Rural Housing Assistance Grants, Rural Commu-
nity Facilities Program Account, Rural Business Program Account,
Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account, and Rural Water
and Waste Disposal Program Account, equal to the amount obli-
gated in REAP Zones with respect to funds provided under such
headings in the most recent fiscal year any such funds were obli-
gated under such headings for REAP Zones.
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SEC. 751. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 to carry
out section 3307 of Public Law 115–334.
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SEC. 752. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive the matching Waiver authority.
funds requirement under Section 412(g) of the Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (7 U.S.C.
7632(g)).
SEC. 753. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain Determinations.
available until expended, for a pilot program for the Secretary
to provide grants to qualified non-profit organizations and public
housing authorities to provide technical assistance, including finan-
cial and legal services, to RHS multi-family housing borrowers
to facilitate the acquisition of RHS multi-family housing properties
in areas where the Secretary determines a risk of loss of affordable
housing, by non-profit housing organizations and public housing
authorities as authorized by law that commit to keep such prop-
erties in the RHS multi-family housing program for a period of
time as determined by the Secretary.
SEC. 754. There is hereby appropriated $7,000,000 to carry
out section 222 of Subtitle A of the Department of Agriculture
Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6923) as amended by section
12302 of Public Law 115–334.
SEC. 755. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, to carry out section 4208 of
Public Law 115–334.
SEC. 756. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to carry
out section 12301 of Public Law 115–334.
SEC. 757. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to carry
out section 1450 of the National Agricultural Research, Extension,
and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222e) as amended
by section 7120 of Public Law 115–334.
SEC. 758. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 to carry
out section 1671 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade
Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5924) as amended by section 7208 of Public
Law 115–334.
SEC. 759. In response to an eligible community where the Water.
drinking water supplies are inadequate due to a natural disaster, Determination.
Time period.
as determined by the Secretary, including drought or severe
weather, the Secretary may provide potable water through the
Emergency Community Water Assistance Grant Program for an
additional period of time not to exceed 120 days beyond the estab-
lished period provided under the Program in order to protect public
health.
SEC. 760. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to remain
available until September 30, 2022, to carry out section 4206 of
Public Law 115–334.
SEC. 761. Funds made available under title II of the Food Determination.
for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be used to provide
assistance to recipient nations if adequate monitoring and controls,
as determined by the Administrator, are in place to ensure that
emergency food aid is received by the intended beneficiaries in
areas affected by food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized
or inappropriate purposes.
SEC. 762. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, ARS Compliance
facilities as described in the ‘‘Memorandum of Understanding inspection.
Between the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the U.S. Department of
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Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Concerning Lab-
oratory Animal Welfare’’ (16–6100–0103–MU Revision 16–1) shall
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be inspected by APHIS for compliance with the Animal Welfare
Act and its regulations and standards.
SEC. 763. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to remain
available until expended, to carry out section 2103 of Public Law
Priority. 115–334: Provided, That the Secretary shall prioritize the wetland
compliance needs of areas with significant numbers of individual
wetlands, wetland acres, and conservation compliance requests.
Poultry products. SEC. 764. None of the funds made available by this Act may
China. be used to procure raw or processed poultry products imported
into the United States from the People’s Republic of China for
use in the school lunch program under the Richard B. Russell
National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child
and Adult Care Food Program under section 17 of such Act (42
U.S.C. 1766), the Summer Food Service Program for Children under
section 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school breakfast
program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771
et seq.).
SEC. 765. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, for an addi-
tional amount for ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services—
Food and Drug Administration—Salaries and Expenses’’ to remain
available until expended and in addition to amounts otherwise
made available for such purposes, for the development of research,
education, and outreach partnerships with academic institutions
to study and promote seafood safety.
SEC. 766. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, for the National Institute of
Food and Agriculture to issue a competitive grant to support the
establishment of an Agriculture Business Innovation Center at
a historically black college or university to serve as a technical
assistance hub to enhance agriculture-based business development
opportunities.
Requirement. SEC. 767. For school year 2021–2022, only a school food
School lunches. authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit school food
service account as of December 31, 2020, shall be required to
establish a price for paid lunches in accordance with section 12(p)
of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C.
1760(p)).
SEC. 768. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 to remain
available until September 30, 2022, to carry out section 6424 of
Public Law 115–334.
SEC. 769. In addition to any funds made available in this
Act or any other Act, there is hereby appropriated $10,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2022, for grants from
the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to the 1890 Institu-
tions to support the Centers of Excellence.
SEC. 770. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for the Secretary of Agriculture to carry
out a pilot program that assists rural hospitals to improve long-
term operations and financial health by providing technical assist-
ance through analysis of current hospital management practices.
SEC. 771. In addition to amounts otherwise made available
by this or any other Act, there is hereby appropriated $5,000,000,
to remain available until expended, to the Secretary for a pilot
program to provide grants to a regional consortium to fund technical
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assistance and construction of regional wastewater systems for
historically impoverished communities that have had difficulty in
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installing traditional wastewater treatment systems due to soil
conditions.
SEC. 772. The Secretary of Agriculture shall— Deadlines.
(1) within 180 days of enactment of this Act publish a Notice.
Regulations.
notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register seeking Federal Register,
public comments on the effects of lifting the stay issued on publications.
July 31, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 46255) with consideration given Public comments.
to changes in industry and the implementation of certain
rulemakings since the publication of the stay;
(2) take public comments on the notice for not more than
60 days; and
(3) not later than 180 days after the end of the comment
period, publish in the Federal Register the date upon which
the stay is lifted if such action is justified based on the com-
ments received.
SEC. 773. There is hereby appropriated $6,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, to carry out section 23 of
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1793), of which
$2,000,000 shall be for grants under such section to the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and American
Samoa.
SEC. 774. Any funds made available by this or any other Act Grants.
that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 1668(g)(2) of the
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C.
5921(g)(2)), as amended, shall be available for grants for bio-
technology risk assessment research: Provided, That the Secretary
may transfer such funds among appropriations of the Department
of Agriculture for purposes of making such grants.
SEC. 775. (a) There is hereby appropriated $531,000,000, to
remain available until expended, for an additional amount for sec-
tion 779 of Public Law 115–141.
(b) Section 313(b) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, Applicability.
as amended (7 U.S.C. 940c(b)), shall be applied for fiscal year
2021 and each fiscal year thereafter until the specified funding
has been expended as if the following were inserted after the
final period in subsection (b)(2): ‘‘In addition, the Secretary shall
use $425,000,000 of funds available in this subaccount in fiscal
year 2019 for an additional amount for the same purpose and
under the same terms and conditions as funds appropriated by
section 779 of Public Law 115–141, shall use $255,000,000 of funds
available in this subaccount in fiscal year 2020 for an additional
amount for the same purpose and under the same terms and
conditions as funds appropriated by section 779 of Public Law
115–141, and shall use $104,000,000 of funds available in this
subaccount in fiscal year 2021 for an additional amount for the
same purpose and under the same terms and conditions as funds
appropriated by section 779 of Public Law 115–141.’’: Provided,
That any use of such funds shall be treated as a reprogramming
of funds under section 716 of this Act.
(c) Section 787(b) of division B of Public Law 116–94 shall
no longer apply.
SEC. 776. There is hereby appropriated $500,000 to carry out
section 224 of Subtitle A of the Department of Agriculture Reorga-
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nization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6924) as amended by section 12504
of Public Law 115–334.
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SEC. 777. There is hereby appropriated $400,000 to carry out
section 1672(g)(4)(B) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925(g)(4(B)) as amended by section
7209 of Public Law 115–334.
Genetic SEC. 778. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
engineering. acceptable market name of any engineered animal approved prior
to the effective date of the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure
Standard (February 19, 2019) shall include the words ‘‘genetically
engineered’’ prior to the existing acceptable market name.
SEC. 779. For an additional amount for ‘‘National Institute
of Food and Agriculture—Research and Education Activities’’,
$500,000, to develop a public-private cooperative framework based
on open data standards for neutral data repository solutions to
preserve and share the big data generated by technological advance-
ments in the agriculture industry and for the preservation and
curation of data in collaboration with land-grant universities.
SEC. 780. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
available to the Department of Agriculture may be used to move
any staff office or any agency from the mission area in which
it was located on August 1, 2018, to any other mission area or
office within the Department in the absence of the enactment of
specific legislation affirming such move.
SEC. 781. There is hereby appropriated $10,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for the Secretary of Agriculture to carry
out a pilot program to provide financial assistance for rural commu-
nities to further develop renewable energy.
SEC. 782. Section 7605(b) of the Agriculture Improvement Act
of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 5940 note; Public Law 115–334) is amended
by striking ‘‘September 30, 2021’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2022’’.
SEC. 783. Section 9(i)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of
2008 (7 U.S.C. 2018(i)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘December 31,
2020’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2021’’.
132 Stat. 399. SEC. 784. Section 779 of Public Law 115–141 is amended by
striking ‘‘expansion efforts made’’ and inserting ‘‘service in a service
area’’ in the fourth proviso, and by inserting ‘‘, unless such service
area is not provided sufficient access to broadband at the minimum
service threshold’’ after ‘‘Rural Utilities Service’’ in the fourth pro-
viso.
SEC. 785. In addition to amounts otherwise provided, there
is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to remain available until
expended, to carry out activities authorized under subsections (a)(2)
and (e)(2) of Section 21 of the Richard B. Russell National School
Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769b–1(a)(2) and (e)(2)).
SEC. 786. The Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Nat-
ural Resources Conservation Service, may use funds appropriated
under this Act for the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations
Program and the Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out
pursuant to the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act
(16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency Watershed Protec-
tion Program carried out pursuant to section 403 of the Agricultural
Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) to provide technical services
for such programs pursuant to section 1252(a)(1) of the Food Secu-
rity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding subsection
(c) of such section.
Determinations. SEC. 787. (a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services,
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Regulations. acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (Commis-
Exports and sioner), shall develop and, if it determines feasible, implement
imports.
Shrimp.
21 USC 2105
note.
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a number of options for regulating the export of shrimp to the
United States from other countries, including the three largest
exporting countries by volume to the United States over the last
three calendar years, such as sampling of products prior to export
to the United States, increasing foreign inspections of export facili-
ties, increased seafood importer inspections, foreign surveillance
inspections at overseas manufacturing sites, enhanced import
screening, higher rates of examination and sampling, use of third-
party audits, and formal seafood arrangements with foreign com-
petent authorities.
(b) The Commissioner shall especially give priority consider- Priority.
ation to the following with the funds appropriated— Compliance.
(1) that appropriate controls are applied to shrimp feed
and production ponds, processing plants, and facilities through-
out the chain of distribution to determine compliance with
seafood safety requirements;
(2) dedicate its inspectional effort to determine compliance
with seafood arrangements, once established, from any dedi-
cated funds;
(3) provide an annual report to the Committee before the Reports.
end of fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023 with the reporting
requirement goal being to provide the Committee information
related to FDA’s oversight of the safety of shrimp products
imported into the United States.
SEC. 788. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000 to carry
out the duties of the working group established under section 770
of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law
116–6; 133 Stat. 89).
SEC. 789. None of the funds made available by this or any Dairy and dairy
other act may be used to restrict the offering of low-fat (1% fat) products.
flavored milk in the National School Lunch Program or School
Breakfast Program, as long as such milk is not inconsistent with
the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans published under
section 301 of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related
Research Act of 1990.
SEC. 790. The Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administra- Plan.
tion shall develop a plan within 180 days of enactment that would Deadline.
allow the Agency to identify, detain and refuse all FDA regulated Determination.
Compliance.
products originating from foreign establishments that did not allow
FDA investigators immediate physical access to the registered
establishment and its records to determine a registered establish-
ment’s ongoing compliance with FDA laws and regulations. Any
foreign establishment that meets these criteria may be placed on
import alert. This import alert would be specific for this foreign
establishment, focusing on detaining all products from this
establishment.
SEC. 791. In administering the pilot program established by Determinations.
section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Secretary of Agriculture may, for
purposes of determining entities eligible to receive assistance, con-
sider those communities which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’:
Provided, That not more than 10 percent of the funds made avail-
able by section 775 may be used for this purpose.
SEC. 792. There is hereby appropriated $45,861,000 for the
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Goodfellow Federal facility, to remain available until expended,
of which $20,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged with
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the appropriation for ‘‘Office of the Chief Information Officer’’,
$16,046,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the appropria-
tion for ‘‘Food Safety and Inspection Service’’, and of which
$9,815,000 shall be transferred to and merged with the appropria-
tion for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’.
SEC. 793. Of the unobligated balances from prior year appro-
priations made available under the heading ‘‘Distance Learning,
Telemedicine, and Broadband Program’’ for the cost of broadband
loans, as authorized by section 601 of the Rural Electrification
Act, $12,000,000 are hereby rescinded.
SEC. 794. Funds made available in the Consolidated Appropria-
tions Act, 2016 (Public Law 114–113) for the ‘‘Rural Community
Facilities Program Account’’ under section 306 of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act, 7 U.S.C. 1926, for the principal
amount of direct loans to eligible approved re-lenders are to remain
available through fiscal year 2026 for the liquidation of valid obliga-
tions incurred in fiscal year 2016.
SEC. 795. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel—
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the Federal Meat
Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603);
(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the Federal
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C.
1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of title 9, Code
of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation).
Review. SEC. 796. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment
Reports. of this Act, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and
Analyses. Medicine shall complete a review and provide a report to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
and the Congress, on the most recent edition of the dietary guide-
lines for Americans that includes the following:
(1) A comparative analysis of the scientific methodologies,
review protocols, and evaluation processes used to develop the
most recently issued guidelines as compared to recommenda-
tions included in the National Academy of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine September 2017 report entitled
‘‘Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guide-
lines for Americans’’.
(2) A comparative analysis of the scientific studies used
to develop such guidelines to determine the dietary needs of
Americans with diet-related metabolic diseases as compared
to the most current and rigorous scientific studies on diet
and diet-related metabolic diseases available.
(3) An analysis of how full implementation of the rec-
ommendations described in paragraph (1) would have affected
the most recently issued guidelines.
Cogongrass. SEC. 797. (a) There is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, to
remain available until expended, for a pilot program for the Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service to provide grants to State
departments of agriculture and forestry commissions in states
identified in the final environmental assessment published in the
Federal Register on September 23, 2020 (85 Fed. Reg. 59735),
to combat and treat cogongrass through established cogongrass
control programs.
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(b) Any remaining unobligated balances of funds made available
for field crop and rangeland ecosystem pests under the heading
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‘‘Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service—Salaries and
Expenses’’, in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public
Law 116–6) and the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
(Public Law 116–94), and specifically provided as funds for APHIS
to partner with states in the control and eradication of the
cogongrass weed in the conference report accompanying Public Law
116–6 and in the explanatory statement described in section 4
in the matter preceding division A of Public Law 116–94, are
hereby permanently rescinded, and an amount of additional new
budget authority equivalent to the amount rescinded is hereby
appropriated, to remain available until expended in addition to
other funds as may be available for such purposes, for the same
purposes and under the same conditions as the funds made avail-
able under subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Not to exceed 2 percent of the funds provided under this
section shall be available for necessary costs of grant administra-
tion.
SEC. 798. For an additional amount for ‘‘National Institute Panel.
of Food and Agriculture—Research and Education Activities’’, Evaluation.
$300,000, for the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and
Economics to convene a blue-ribbon panel for the purpose of evalu-
ating the overall structure of research and education through the
public and land-grant universities, including 1890 Institutions, to
define a new architecture that can better integrate, coordinate,
and assess economic impact of the collective work of these institu-
tions.
SEC. 799. For an additional amount for ‘‘National Institute Grants.
of Food and Agriculture—Research and Education Activities’’,
$4,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022, for a
competitive grant to an institution in the land-grant university
system to establish a Farm of the Future testbed and demonstration
site.
SEC. 799A. There is hereby appropriated $22,000,000, to remain
available until expended, to carry out section 12513 of Public Law
115–334: Provided, That of the amounts made available,
$20,000,000 shall be for established dairy business innovation initia-
tives and the Secretary shall take measures to ensure an equal
distribution of funds between the three regional innovation initia-
tives.
SEC. 799B. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act shall be available for the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture to propose, finalize or implement any regulation
that would promulgate new user fees pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9701
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 799C. (a) Any remaining unobligated balances of funds Grants.
made available under the heading ‘‘Department of Agriculture—
Agricultural Programs—Processing, Research and Marketing—
Office of the Secretary’’ in subsections (b) and (d) of section 791
of division B of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
Public Law 116–94 for block grants to eligible states and territories
pursuant to the first proviso under the heading ‘‘Department of
Agriculture—Agricultural Programs—Processing, Research and
Marketing—Office of the Secretary’’ in the Additional Supplemental
Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019 Public Law 116–
20, as amended by subsection (c) of section 791 of division B
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Public Law 116–94, may be made available for any of the other
purposes and under the same authorities and conditions for those
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purposes as the funds made available under such heading in such
Act, and for the purposes specified and under the same authorities
and conditions as in the first, second, third, and fourth provisos
of subsection (b) of section 791 of division B of Public Law 116–
Effective date. 94: Provided, That this section shall not be effective before the
award of the block grants that were announced prior to the date
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That any block grant
amounts that were announced prior to the date of enactment of
this Act and are subsequently awarded shall not be returned to
the Farm Service Agency until the date specified in the grant
agreement.
(b) Of the remaining unobligated balances of funds made avail-
able under the heading ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Agricultural
Programs—Processing, Research and Marketing—Office of the Sec-
retary’’ in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
(Public Law 116–136), $1,000,000,000 shall be made available for
the same purposes and under the same authorities and conditions
as the funds made available under the heading ‘‘Department of
Agriculture—Agricultural Programs—Processing, Research and
Marketing—Office of the Secretary’’ in the Additional Supplemental
Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–
20), as of December 19, 2019, and for the purposes specified and
under the same authorities and conditions as in the first, second,
third, and fourth provisos of subsection (b) of section 791 of division
B of Public Law 116–94.
(c) The amounts repurposed pursuant to this section that were
previously designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to that section of
that Act.
SEC. 799D. For necessary expenses for salary and related costs
associated with Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection Services
activities pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 136a(6), and in addition to any
other funds made available for this purpose, there is appropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
$635,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022, to
offset the loss resulting from the coronavirus pandemic of quar-
antine and inspection fees collected pursuant to sections 2508 and
2509 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of
1990 (21 U.S.C. 136, 136a): Provided, That amounts made available
in this section shall be treated as funds collected by fees authorized
under sections 2508 and 2509 of the Food, Agriculture, Conserva-
tion, and Trade Act of 1990 (21 U.S.C. 136, 136a) for purposes
of section 421(f) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
231(f)): Provided further, That such amount is designated by the
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985.
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural Develop-
ment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2021’’.
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DIVISION B—COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND Commerce,
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021 Justice, Science,
and Related
Agencies
TITLE I Appropriations
Act, 2021.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Department of
Commerce
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION Appropriations
Act, 2021.
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses for international trade activities of
the Department of Commerce provided for by law, to carry out
activities associated with facilitating, attracting, and retaining busi-
ness investment in the United States, and for engaging in trade
promotional activities abroad, including expenses of grants and
cooperative agreements for the purpose of promoting exports of
United States firms, without regard to sections 3702 and 3703
of title 44, United States Code; full medical coverage for dependent
members of immediate families of employees stationed overseas
and employees temporarily posted overseas; travel and transpor-
tation of employees of the International Trade Administration
between two points abroad, without regard to section 40118 of
title 49, United States Code; employment of citizens of the United
States and aliens by contract for services; rental of space abroad
for periods not exceeding 10 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 section
2672 of title 28, United States Code, when such claims arise in
foreign countries; not to exceed $294,300 for official representation
expenses abroad; purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official
use abroad, not to exceed $45,000 per vehicle; obtaining insurance
on official motor vehicles; and rental of tie lines, $541,000,000,
of which $70,000,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2022: Provided, That $11,000,000 is to be derived from fees to
be retained and used by the International Trade Administration,
notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That, of amounts provided under this heading, not
less than $16,400,000 shall be for China antidumping and counter-
vailing duty enforcement and compliance activities: Provided fur-
ther, That the provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) Applicability.
and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Assessments.
Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply
in carrying out these activities; and that for the purpose of this
Act, contributions under the provisions of the Mutual Educational
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 shall include payment for assess-
ments for services provided as part of these activities.
BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses for export administration and national
security activities of the Department of Commerce, including costs
associated with the performance of export administration field
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activities both domestically and abroad; full medical coverage for
dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed
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overseas; employment of citizens of the United States and aliens
by contract for services abroad; payment of tort claims, in the
manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672 of title
28, United States Code, when such claims arise in foreign countries;
not to exceed $13,500 for official representation expenses abroad;
awards of compensation to informers under the Export Control
Reform Act of 2018 (subtitle B of title XVII of the John S. McCain
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019; Public
Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 2208; 50 U.S.C. 4801 et seq.), and as
authorized by section 1(b) of the Act of June 15, 1917 (40 Stat.
223; 22 U.S.C. 401(b)); and purchase of passenger motor vehicles
for official use and motor vehicles for law enforcement use with
special requirement vehicles eligible for purchase without regard
to any price limitation otherwise established by law, $133,000,000,
Applicability. 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: Provided further, That payments and contributions col-
lected and accepted for materials or services provided as part of
such activities may be retained for use in covering the cost of
such activities, and for providing information to the public with
respect to the export administration and national security activities
of the Department of Commerce and other export control programs
of the United States and other governments.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
For grants for economic development assistance as provided
by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, for
trade adjustment assistance, and for grants authorized by sections
27 and 28 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act
of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722 and 3723), as amended, $305,500,000
to remain available until expended, of which $38,000,000 shall
be for grants under such section 27 and $2,000,000 shall be for
grants under such section 28: Provided, That any deviation from
the amounts designated for specific activities in the explanatory
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division
A of this consolidated Act), or any use of deobligated balances
of funds provided under this heading in previous years, shall be
subject to the procedures set forth in section 505 of this Act.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of administering the economic develop-
ment assistance programs as provided for by law, $40,500,000:
Provided, That funds provided under this heading may be used
to monitor projects approved pursuant to title I of the Public Works
Employment Act of 1976; title II of the Trade Act of 1974; sections
27 and 28 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act
of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722 and 3723), as amended; and the Community
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Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977.
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MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses of the Department of Commerce in
fostering, promoting, and developing minority business enterprises,
including expenses of grants, contracts, and other agreements with
public or private organizations, $48,000,000, of which not more
than $16,000,000 shall be available for overhead expenses, including
salaries and expenses, rent, utilities, and information technology
services.
ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of economic
and statistical analysis programs of the Department of Commerce,
$111,855,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022.
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
CURRENT SURVEYS AND PROGRAMS
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, analyzing, pre-
paring, and publishing statistics, provided for by law, $288,403,000:
Provided, That, from amounts provided herein, funds may be used
for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities.
PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, analyzing, pre-
paring, and publishing statistics for periodic censuses and programs
provided for by law, $818,241,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022: Provided, That, from amounts provided herein,
funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and marketing activi-
ties: Provided further, That within the amounts appropriated,
$3,556,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’
account for activities associated with carrying out investigations
and audits related to the Bureau of the Census.
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION
ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA),
$45,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of Fees.
Commerce shall charge Federal agencies for costs incurred in spec-
trum management, analysis, operations, and related services, and
such fees shall be retained and used as offsetting collections for
costs of such spectrum services, to remain available until expended:
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Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized
to retain and use as offsetting collections all funds transferred,
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or previously transferred, from other Government agencies for all
costs incurred in telecommunications research, engineering, and
related activities by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
of NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions under this para-
graph, and such funds received from other Government agencies
shall remain available until expended.
PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING AND
CONSTRUCTION
For the administration of prior-year grants, recoveries and
unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated are available
for the administration of all open grants until their expiration.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the United States Patent and Trade-
mark Office (USPTO) provided for by law, including defense of
suits instituted against the Under Secretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, $3,695,295,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the sum herein
appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced as offsetting
collections of fees and surcharges assessed and collected by the
USPTO under any law are received during fiscal year 2021, so
as to result in a fiscal year 2021 appropriation from the general
fund estimated at $0: Provided further, That during fiscal year
2021, should the total amount of such offsetting collections be
less than $3,695,295,000, this amount shall be reduced accordingly:
Provided further, That any amount received in excess of
$3,695,295,000 in fiscal year 2021 and deposited in the Patent
and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund shall remain available until
Spending plan. expended: Provided further, That the Director of USPTO shall
submit a spending plan to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate for any amounts
made available by the preceding proviso and such spending plan
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided
further, That any amounts reprogrammed in accordance with the
preceding proviso shall be transferred to the United States Patent
and Trademark Office ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account: Provided
further, That the budget of the President submitted for fiscal year
2022 under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, shall
include within amounts provided under this heading for necessary
expenses of the USPTO any increases that are expected to result
from an increase promulgated through rule or regulation in offset-
ting collections of fees and surcharges assessed and collected by
the USPTO under any law in either fiscal year 2021 or fiscal
year 2022: Provided further, That from amounts provided herein,
not to exceed $13,500 shall be made available in fiscal year 2021
for official reception and representation expenses: Provided further,
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That in fiscal year 2021 from the amounts made available for
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ for the USPTO, the amounts necessary
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to pay (1) the difference between the percentage of basic pay contrib-
uted by the USPTO and employees under section 8334(a) of title
5, United States Code, and the normal cost percentage (as defined
by section 8331(17) of that title) as provided by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management (OPM) for USPTO’s specific use, of basic pay,
of employees subject to subchapter III of chapter 83 of that title,
and (2) the present value of the otherwise unfunded accruing costs,
as determined by OPM for USPTO’s specific use of post-retirement
life insurance and post-retirement health benefits coverage for all
USPTO employees who are enrolled in Federal Employees Health
Benefits (FEHB) and Federal Employees Group Life Insurance
(FEGLI), shall be transferred to the Civil Service Retirement and
Disability Fund, the FEGLI Fund, and the Employees FEHB Fund,
as appropriate, and shall be available for the authorized purposes
of those accounts: Provided further, That any differences between
the present value factors published in OPM’s yearly 300 series
benefit letters and the factors that OPM provides for USPTO’s
specific use shall be recognized as an imputed cost on USPTO’s
financial statements, where applicable: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, all fees and surcharges
assessed and collected by USPTO are available for USPTO only
pursuant to section 42(c) of title 35, United States Code, as amended
by section 22 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Public
Law 112–29): Provided further, That within the amounts appro-
priated, $2,000,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector
General’’ account for activities associated with carrying out inves-
tigations and audits related to the USPTO.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), $788,000,000, to remain available until
expended, of which not to exceed $9,000,000 may be transferred
to the ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’: Provided, That not to exceed $5,000
shall be for official reception and representation expenses: Provided
further, That NIST may provide local transportation for summer
undergraduate research fellowship program participants.
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
For necessary expenses for industrial technology services,
$166,500,000, to remain available until expended, of which
$150,000,000 shall be for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension
Partnership, and of which $16,500,000 shall be for the Manufac-
turing USA Program (formerly known as the National Network
for Manufacturing Innovation).
CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES
For construction of new research facilities, including architec-
tural and engineering design, and for renovation and maintenance
of existing facilities, not otherwise provided for the National
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Institute of Standards and Technology, as authorized by sections
13 through 15 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Act (15 U.S.C. 278c–278e), $80,000,000, to remain available until
Budget expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce shall include
estimates. in the budget justification materials for fiscal year 2022 that the
15 USC 1513b
note.
Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of
Commerce budget (as submitted with the budget of the President
under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code) an estimate
for each National Institute of Standards and Technology construc-
tion project having a total multi-year program cost of more than
$5,000,000, and simultaneously the budget justification materials
shall include an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each
such project for each of the 5 subsequent fiscal years.
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including
maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft and vessels; pilot pro-
grams for State-led fisheries management, notwithstanding any
other provision of law; grants, contracts, or other payments to
nonprofit organizations for the purposes of conducting activities
pursuant to cooperative agreements; and relocation of facilities,
$3,840,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022: Pro-
vided, That fees and donations received by the National Ocean
Service for the management of national marine sanctuaries may
be retained and used for the salaries and expenses associated
with those activities, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31,
United States Code: Provided further, That in addition,
$246,171,000 shall be derived by transfer from the fund entitled
‘‘Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining
to American Fisheries’’, which shall only be used for fishery activi-
ties related to the Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program; Fisheries
Data Collections, Surveys, and Assessments; Fisheries Management
Programs and Services; and Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants:
Provided further, That not to exceed $66,389,000 shall be for pay-
ment to the ‘‘Department of Commerce Working Capital Fund’’:
Provided further, That of the $4,103,971,000 provided for in direct
obligations under this heading, $3,840,300,000 is appropriated from
the general fund, $246,171,000 is provided by transfer, and
$17,500,000 is derived from recoveries of prior year obligations:
Provided further, That any deviation from the amounts designated
for specific activities in the explanatory statement described in
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated
Act), or any use of deobligated balances of funds provided under
this heading in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures
set forth in section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That in
addition, for necessary retired pay expenses under the Retired
Serviceman’s Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plan, and
for payments for the medical care of retired personnel and their
dependents under the Dependents’ Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C.
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ch. 55), such sums as may be necessary.
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PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For procurement, acquisition and construction of capital assets,
including alteration and modification costs, of the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, $1,532,558,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2023, except that funds provided for
acquisition and construction of vessels and aircraft, and construction
of facilities shall remain available until expended: Provided, That
of the $1,545,558,000 provided for in direct obligations under this
heading, $1,532,558,000 is appropriated from the general fund and
$13,000,000 is provided from recoveries of prior year obligations:
Provided further, That any deviation from the amounts designated
for specific activities in the explanatory statement described in
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated
Act), or any use of deobligated balances of funds provided under
this heading in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures
set forth in section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That the Budget
Secretary of Commerce shall include in budget justification mate- estimates.
15 USC 1513a
rials for fiscal year 2022 that the Secretary submits to Congress note.
in support of the Department of Commerce budget (as submitted
with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title
31, United States Code) an estimate for each National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration procurement, acquisition or
construction project having a total of more than $5,000,000 and
simultaneously the budget justification shall include an estimate
of the budgetary requirements for each such project for each of
the 5 subsequent fiscal years: Provided further, That, within the
amounts appropriated, $2,000,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office
of Inspector General’’ account for activities associated with carrying
out investigations and audits related to satellite procurement,
acquisition and construction.
PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY
For necessary expenses associated with the restoration of
Pacific salmon populations, $65,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2022: Provided, That, of the funds provided herein, Grants.
the Secretary of Commerce may issue grants to the States of Wash- State listing.
ington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and to the Native
Americans.
federally recognized Tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast Guidelines.
(including Alaska), for projects necessary for conservation of salmon
and steelhead populations that are listed as threatened or endan-
gered, or that are identified by a State as at-risk to be so listed,
for maintaining populations necessary for exercise of Tribal treaty
fishing rights or native subsistence fishing, or for conservation
of Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat, based on guidelines
to be developed by the Secretary of Commerce: Provided further,
That all funds shall be allocated based on scientific and other
merit principles and shall not be available for marketing activities:
Provided further, That funds disbursed to States shall be subject
to a matching requirement of funds or documented in-kind contribu-
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tions of at least 33 percent of the Federal funds.
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FISHERMEN’S CONTINGENCY FUND
For carrying out the provisions of title IV of Public Law 95–
372, not to exceed $349,000, to be derived from receipts collected
pursuant to that Act, to remain available until expended.
FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,
during fiscal year 2021, obligations of direct loans may not exceed
$24,000,000 for Individual Fishing Quota loans and not to exceed
$100,000,000 for traditional direct loans as authorized by the Mer-
chant Marine Act of 1936.
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the management of the Department
of Commerce provided for by law, including not to exceed $4,500
for official reception and representation, $73,000,000: Provided,
Time period. That no employee of the Department of Commerce may be detailed
Reimbursement. or assigned from a bureau or office funded by this Act or any
other Act to offices within the Office of the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of Commerce for more than 90 days in a fiscal year unless
the individual’s employing bureau or office is fully reimbursed for
the salary and expenses of the employee for the entire period
of assignment using funds provided under this heading. Provided
further, That amounts made available to the Department of Com-
merce in this or any prior Act may not be transferred pursuant
to section 508 of this or any prior Act to the account funded
under this heading, except in the case of extraordinary cir-
cumstances that threaten life or property.
RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION
For necessary expenses for the renovation and modernization
of the Herbert C. Hoover Building, $1,123,000.
NONRECURRING EXPENSES FUND
For necessary expenses for a business application system mod-
ernization, $20,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
Notification. 2023: Provided, That any unobligated balances of expired discre-
Deadline. tionary funds transferred to the Department of Commerce Non-
recurring Expenses Fund, as authorized by section 111 of title
I of division B of Public Law 116ƒ93, may be obligated only after
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of the
planned use of funds.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978
(5 U.S.C. App.), $34,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 6413 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act
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of 2012 (Public Law 112–96), an additional $2,000,000, to remain
available until expended, shall be derived from the Public Safety
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Trust Fund for activities associated with carrying out investigations
and audits related to the First Responder Network Authority
(FirstNet).
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropria- Certification.
tions and funds made available to the Department of Commerce
by this Act 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 the Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
3324, may be used for advanced payments not otherwise authorized
only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary
of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest.
SEC. 102. During the current fiscal year, appropriations made
available to the Department of Commerce by this Act for salaries
and expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles
as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized
by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902).
SEC. 103. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce
in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but
no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent
by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to
this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under
section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth
in that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce Notification.
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations at least 15 days Deadline.
in advance of the acquisition or disposal of any capital asset
(including land, structures, and equipment) not specifically provided
for in this Act or any other law appropriating funds for the Depart-
ment of Commerce.
SEC. 104. The requirements set forth by section 105 of the Incorporation by
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations reference.
Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as amended by section 105 of Applicability.
33 USC 878a
title I of division B of Public Law 113–6, are hereby adopted note.
by reference and made applicable with respect to fiscal year 2021:
Provided, That the life cycle cost for the Joint Polar Satellite System
is $11,322,125,000, the life cycle cost of the Polar Follow On Pro-
gram is $6,837,900,000, the life cycle cost for the Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series Program is
$11,700,100,000, and the life cycle cost for the Space Weather
Follow On Program is $692,800,000.
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary of Commerce may furnish services (including but not
limited to utilities, telecommunications, and security services) nec-
essary to support the operation, maintenance, and improvement
of space that persons, firms, or organizations are authorized, pursu-
ant to the Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976 or other
authority, to use or occupy in the Herbert C. Hoover Building,
Washington, DC, or other buildings, the maintenance, operation,
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and protection of which has been delegated to the Secretary from
the Administrator of General Services pursuant to the Federal
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Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 on a reimbursable
Reimbursement. or non-reimbursable basis. Amounts received as reimbursement
for services provided under this section or the authority under
which the use or occupancy of the space is authorized, up to
$200,000, shall be credited to the appropriation or fund which
initially bears the costs of such services.
Child SEC. 106. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent
pornography. a grant recipient from deterring child pornography, copyright
infringement, or any other unlawful activity over its networks.
Reimbursement. SEC. 107. The Administrator of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration is authorized to use, with their consent,
with reimbursement and subject to the limits of available appropria-
tions, the land, services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of
any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States,
or of any State, local government, Indian Tribal government, Terri-
tory, or possession, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of
any foreign government or international organization, for purposes
related to carrying out the responsibilities of any statute adminis-
tered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
SEC. 108. The National Technical Information Service shall
not charge any customer for a copy of any report or document
generated by the Legislative Branch unless the Service has provided
information to the customer on how an electronic copy of such
report or document may be accessed and downloaded for free online.
Records. Should a customer still require the Service to provide a printed
Fee. or digital copy of the report or document, the charge shall be
limited to recovering the Service’s cost of processing, reproducing,
and delivering such report or document.
Grants. SEC. 109. To carry out the responsibilities of the National
Contracts. Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Adminis-
trator of NOAA is authorized to: (1) enter into grants and coopera-
tive agreements with; (2) use on a non-reimbursable basis land,
services, equipment, personnel, and facilities provided by; and (3)
receive and expend funds made available on a consensual basis
from: a Federal agency, State or subdivision thereof, local govern-
ment, Tribal government, Territory, or possession or any subdivi-
sions thereof: Provided, That funds received for permitting and
related regulatory activities pursuant to this section shall be depos-
ited under the heading ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration—Operations, Research, and Facilities’’ and shall
remain available until September 30, 2022, for such purposes: Pro-
vided further, That all funds within this section and their cor-
responding uses are subject to section 505 of this Act.
SEC. 110. Amounts provided by this Act or by any prior appro-
priations Act that remain available for obligation, for necessary
expenses of the programs of the Economics and Statistics Adminis-
tration of the Department of Commerce, including amounts provided
for programs of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau
of the Census, shall be available for expenses of cooperative agree-
ments with appropriate entities, including any Federal, State, or
local governmental unit, or institution of higher education, to aid
and promote statistical, research, and methodology activities which
further the purposes for which such amounts have been made
available.
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SEC. 111. Amounts provided by this Act for the Hollings Manu-
facturing Extension Partnership under the heading ‘‘National
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Institute of Standards and Technology—Industrial Technology Serv-
ices’’ shall not be subject to cost share requirements under 15
U.S.C. 278k(e)(2): Provided, That the authority made available
pursuant to this section shall be elective for any Manufacturing
Extension Partnership Center that also receives funding from a
State that is conditioned upon the application of a Federal cost
sharing requirement.
SEC. 112. The Secretary of Commerce, or the designee of the Waiver authority.
Secretary, may waive the matching requirements under sections
306 and 306A, and the cost sharing requirements under section
315, of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1455,
1455a, and 1461) as necessary for amounts made available under
this Act under the heading ‘‘Operations, Research, and Facilities’’
under the heading ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion’’.
SEC. 113. Of unobligated balances of amounts provided to the
Bureau of the Census under this or any prior appropriations Act,
up to $208,000,000 may be transferred to the Bureau of the Census
Working Capital Fund for information and business technology
system modernization and facilities infrastructure improvements
necessary for the operations of the Bureau: Provided, That the
amounts previously provided by the Congress for the 2020 Census
remain available only for the period of time as provided when
initially enacted: Provided further, That this transfer authority
is in addition to any other transfer authority in this Act: Provided
further, That no amounts may be transferred that were previously
designated by the Congress for the 2020 Census pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(G) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That such amounts Notification.
may be obligated only after the Committees on Appropriations Deadline.
of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at
least 15 days in advance of the planned use of funds.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Commerce Appro-
priations Act, 2021’’.
TITLE II Department of
Justice
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Appropriations
Act, 2021.
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the administration of the Depart-
ment of Justice, $119,000,000, of which not to exceed $4,000,000
for security and construction of Department of Justice facilities
shall remain available until expended.
JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for information sharing technology,
including planning, development, deployment and departmental
direction, $34,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Attorney General may transfer up to $40,000,000
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to this account, from funds available to the Department of Justice
for information technology, to remain available until expended,
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for enterprise-wide information technology initiatives: Provided fur-
ther, That the transfer authority in the preceding proviso is in
addition to any other transfer authority contained in this Act:
Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the first proviso
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary for the administration of immigration-
related activities of the Executive Office for Immigration Review,
$734,000,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be derived by transfer
from the Executive Office for Immigration Review fees deposited
in the ‘‘Immigration Examinations Fee’’ account, and of which not
less than $22,500,000 shall be available for services and activities
provided by the Legal Orientation Program: Provided, That not
to exceed $35,000,000 of the total amount made available under
this heading shall remain available until expended.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General,
$110,565,000, including not to exceed $10,000 to meet unforeseen
emergencies of a confidential character: Provided, That not to exceed
$4,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2022.
UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Parole Commission
Term extension. as authorized, $13,539,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, upon the expiration of a term of office
of a Commissioner, the Commissioner may continue to act until
a successor has been appointed.
LEGAL ACTIVITIES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the Depart-
ment of Justice, not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed
$20,000 for expenses of collecting evidence, to be expended under
the direction of, and to be accounted for solely under the certificate
of, the Attorney General; the administration of pardon and clemency
petitions; and rent of private or Government-owned space in the
District of Columbia, $960,000,000, of which not to exceed
$20,000,000 for litigation support contracts shall remain available
until expended: Provided, That of the amount provided for
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INTERPOL Washington dues payments, not to exceed $685,000
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That of
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the total amount appropriated, not to exceed $9,000 shall be avail-
able to INTERPOL Washington for official reception and representa-
tion expenses: Provided further, That of the total amount appro-
priated, not to exceed $9,000 shall be available to the Criminal
Division for official reception and representation expenses: Provided
further, That notwithstanding section 205 of this Act, upon a deter- Determination.
mination by the Attorney General that emergent circumstances
require additional funding for litigation activities of the Civil Divi-
sion, the Attorney General may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Salaries
and Expenses, General Legal Activities’’ from available appropria-
tions for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice,
as may be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided
further, That any transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso shall
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act and
shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further,
That of the amount appropriated, such sums as may be necessary Reimbursement.
shall be available to the Civil Rights Division for salaries and
expenses associated with the election monitoring program under
section 8 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10305) and
to reimburse the Office of Personnel Management for such salaries
and expenses: Provided further, That of the amounts provided under
this heading for the election monitoring program, $3,390,000 shall
remain available until expended: Provided further, That of the
amount appropriated, not less than $195,754,000 shall be available
for the Criminal Division, including related expenses for the Mutual
Legal Assistance Treaty Program.
In addition, for expenses of the Department of Justice associ-
ated with processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine
Injury Act of 1986, not to exceed $17,000,000, to be appropriated
from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund and to remain
available until expended.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION
For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust and
kindred laws, $184,524,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, fees
collected for premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-
Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regard-
less of the year of collection (and estimated to be $150,000,000
in fiscal year 2021), shall be retained and used for necessary
expenses in this appropriation, and shall remain available until
expended: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from
the general fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collections
are received during fiscal year 2021, so as to result in a final
fiscal year 2021 appropriation from the general fund estimated
at $34,524,000.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS
For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United States
Attorneys, including inter-governmental and cooperative agree-
ments, $2,342,177,000: Provided, That of the total amount appro-
priated, not to exceed $7,200 shall be available for official reception
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and representation expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed
$25,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided further,
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Human That each United States Attorney shall establish or participate
trafficking. in a task force on human trafficking.
UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND
For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee Program,
as authorized, $232,361,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, deposits
to the United States Trustee System Fund and amounts herein
appropriated shall be available in such amounts as may be nec-
essary to pay refunds due depositors: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, fees deposited into the
Fund pursuant to section 589a(b) of title 28, United States Code
(as limited by section 1004(b) of the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act
of 2017 (division B of Public Law 115–72)), shall be retained and
used for necessary expenses in this appropriation and shall remain
available until expended: Provided further, That to the extent that
fees deposited into the Fund in fiscal year 2021, net of amounts
necessary to pay refunds due depositors, exceed $232,361,000, those
excess amounts shall be available in future fiscal years only to
the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts: Provided
further, That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund
shall be reduced (1) as such fees are received during fiscal year
2021, net of amounts necessary to pay refunds due depositors,
(estimated at $318,000,000) and (2) to the extent that any remaining
general fund appropriations can be derived from amounts deposited
in the Fund in previous fiscal years that are not otherwise appro-
priated, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2021 appropriation
from the general fund estimated at $0.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of the Foreign
Claims Settlement Commission, including services as authorized
by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, $2,366,000.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES
For fees and expenses of witnesses, for expenses of contracts
for the procurement and supervision of expert witnesses, for private
counsel expenses, including advances, and for expenses of foreign
counsel, $270,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which
not to exceed $16,000,000 is for construction of buildings for pro-
tected witness safesites; not to exceed $3,000,000 is for the purchase
and maintenance of armored and other vehicles for witness security
caravans; and not to exceed $25,000,000 is for the purchase,
installation, maintenance, and upgrade of secure telecommuni-
cations equipment and a secure automated information network
to store and retrieve the identities and locations of protected wit-
nesses: Provided, That amounts made available under this heading
may not be transferred pursuant to section 205 of this Act.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
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For necessary expenses of the Community Relations Service,
Determination. $18,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding section 205 of this
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Act, upon a determination by the Attorney General that emergent
circumstances require additional funding for conflict resolution and
violence prevention activities of the Community Relations Service,
the Attorney General may transfer such amounts to the Community
Relations Service, from available appropriations for the current
fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as may be necessary
to respond to such circumstances: Provided further, That any
transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be treated as
a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act and shall not be
available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with
the procedures set forth in that section.
ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND
For expenses authorized by subparagraphs (B), (F), and (G)
of section 524(c)(1) of title 28, United States Code, $20,514,000,
to be derived from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture
Fund.
UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Marshals Service,
$1,496,000,000, of which not to exceed $6,000 shall be available
for official reception and representation expenses, and not to exceed
$25,000,000 shall remain available until expended.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction in space that is controlled, occupied, or utilized
by the United States Marshals Service for prisoner holding and
related support, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended.
FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION
For necessary expenses related to United States prisoners in
the custody of the United States Marshals Service as authorized
by section 4013 of title 18, United States Code, $2,046,609,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$20,000,000 shall be considered ‘‘funds appropriated for State and
local law enforcement assistance’’ pursuant to section 4013(b) of
title 18, United States Code: Provided further, That the United
States Marshals Service shall be responsible for managing the
Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System.
NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of the
National Security Division, $117,451,000, of which not to exceed
$5,000,000 for information technology systems shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding section 205 Determination.
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of this Act, upon a determination by the Attorney General that
emergent circumstances require additional funding for the activities
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of the National Security Division, the Attorney General may
transfer such amounts to this heading from available appropriations
for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as may
be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided further,
That any transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be treated
as a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act and shall not
be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance
with the procedures set forth in that section.
INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT
INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT
For necessary expenses for the identification, investigation, and
prosecution of individuals associated with the most significant drug
trafficking organizations, transnational organized crime, and money
laundering organizations not otherwise provided for, to include
inter-governmental agreements with State and local law enforce-
ment agencies engaged in the investigation and prosecution of
individuals involved in transnational organized crime and drug
trafficking, $550,458,000, of which $50,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That any amounts obligated from
appropriations under this heading may be used under authorities
available to the organizations reimbursed from this appropriation.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
for detection, investigation, and prosecution of crimes against the
United States, $9,748,686,000, of which not to exceed $216,900,000
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$284,000 shall be available for official reception and representation
expenses.
CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses, to include the cost of equipment, fur-
niture, and information technology requirements, related to
construction or acquisition of buildings, facilities, and sites by pur-
chase, or as otherwise authorized by law; conversion, modification,
and extension of federally owned buildings; preliminary planning
and design of projects; and operation and maintenance of secure
work environment facilities and secure networking capabilities;
$566,100,000, to remain available until expended.
DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion, including not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emer-
gencies of a confidential character pursuant to section 530C of
title 28, United States Code; and expenses for conducting drug
education and training programs, including travel and related
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expenses for participants in such programs and the distribution
of items of token value that promote the goals of such programs,
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$2,336,263,000, of which not to exceed $75,000,000 shall remain
available until expended and not to exceed $90,000 shall be avail-
able for official reception and representation expenses: Provided,
That, notwithstanding section 3672 of Public Law 106–310, up Reimbursement.
to $10,000,000 may be used to reimburse States, units of local
government, Indian Tribal Governments, other public entities, and
multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia thereof for expenses
incurred to clean up and safely dispose of substances associated
with clandestine methamphetamine laboratories, conversion and
extraction operations, tableting operations, or laboratories and proc-
essing operations for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances
which may present a danger to public health or the environment.
CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses, to include the cost of preliminary plan-
ning and design, equipment, furniture, and information technology
requirements, related to the construction or acquisition of buildings,
facilities, and sites by purchase, or as otherwise authorized by
law, for the addition of a laboratory and warehouse to meet the
demand of testing drugs, including fentanyl, $50,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire-
arms and Explosives, for training of State and local law enforcement
agencies with or without reimbursement, including training in
connection with the training and acquisition of canines for explo-
sives and fire accelerants detection; and for provision of laboratory
assistance to State and local law enforcement agencies, with or
without reimbursement, $1,483,887,000, of which not to exceed
$36,000 shall be for official reception and representation expenses,
not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the payment of
attorneys’ fees as provided by section 924(d)(2) of title 18, United
States Code, and not to exceed $25,000,000 shall remain available
until expended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated
herein shall be available to investigate or act upon applications
for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under section 925(c)
of title 18, United States Code: Provided further, That such funds
shall be available to investigate and act upon applications filed
by corporations for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under
section 925(c) of title 18, United States Code: Provided further,
That no funds made available by this or any other Act may be
used to transfer the functions, missions, or activities of the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to other agencies
or Departments.
FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
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For necessary expenses of the Federal Prison System for the
administration, operation, and maintenance of Federal penal and
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correctional institutions, and for the provision of technical assist-
ance and advice on corrections related issues to foreign govern-
ments, $7,708,375,000, of which not less than $409,483,000 shall
be for the programs and activities authorized by the First Step
42 USC 250a. Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391): Provided, That the Attorney
General may transfer to the Department of Health and Human
Services such amounts as may be necessary for direct expenditures
by that Department for medical relief for inmates of Federal penal
Contracts. and correctional institutions: Provided further, That the Director
Determination. of the Federal Prison System, where necessary, may enter into
contracts with a fiscal agent or fiscal intermediary claims processor
to determine the amounts payable to persons who, on behalf of
the Federal Prison System, furnish health services to individuals
committed to the custody of the Federal Prison System: Provided
further, That not to exceed $5,400 shall be available for official
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That not
to exceed $50,000,000 shall remain available until expended for
necessary operations: Provided further, That, of the amounts pro-
vided for contract confinement, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall
remain available until expended to make payments in advance
for grants, contracts and reimbursable agreements, and other
Donations. expenses: Provided further, That the Director of the Federal Prison
System may accept donated property and services relating to the
operation of the prison card program from a not-for-profit entity
which has operated such program in the past, notwithstanding
the fact that such not-for-profit entity furnishes services under
contracts to the Federal Prison System relating to the operation
of pre-release services, halfway houses, or other custodial facilities.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For planning, acquisition of sites, and construction of new facili-
ties; purchase and acquisition of facilities and remodeling, and
equipping of such facilities for penal and correctional use, including
all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force account;
and constructing, remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings
and facilities at existing penal and correctional institutions,
including all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or
force account, $127,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Prison labor. Provided, That labor of United States prisoners may be used for
work performed under this appropriation.
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
Contracts. The Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, is hereby author-
ized to make such expenditures within the limits of funds and
borrowing authority available, and in accord with the law, and
to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal
year limitations as provided by section 9104 of title 31, United
States Code, as may be necessary in carrying out the program
set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such corpora-
tion.
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL PRISON
INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
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Not to exceed $2,700,000 of the funds of the Federal Prison
Industries, Incorporated, shall be available for its administrative
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expenses, and for services as authorized by section 3109 of title
5, United States Code, to be computed on an accrual basis to
be determined in accordance with the corporation’s current pre-
scribed accounting system, and such amounts shall be exclusive
of depreciation, payment of claims, and expenditures which such
accounting system requires to be capitalized or charged to cost
of commodities acquired or produced, including selling and shipping
expenses, and expenses in connection with acquisition, construction,
operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of
facilities and other property belonging to the corporation or in
which it has an interest.
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES
OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION
PROGRAMS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assist-
ance for the prevention and prosecution of violence against women,
as authorized by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law
103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990
(Public Law 101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Prosecutorial Remedies
and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act
of 2003 (Public Law 108–21); the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention Act of 1974 (34 U.S.C. 11101 et seq.) (‘‘the 1974 Act’’);
the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
(Public Law 106–386) (‘‘the 2000 Act’’); the Violence Against Women
and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public
Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Violence Against Women
Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’);
the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–
22) (‘‘the 2015 Act’’); and the Abolish Human Trafficking Act (Public
Law 115–392); and for related victims services, $513,500,000, to
remain available until expended, of which $435,000,000 shall be
derived by transfer from amounts available for obligation in this
Act from the Fund established by section 1402 of chapter XIV
of title II of Public Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101), notwithstanding
section 1402(d) of such Act of 1984, and merged with the amounts
otherwise made available under this heading: Provided, That except
as otherwise provided by law, not to exceed 5 percent of funds
made available under this heading may be used for expenses related
to evaluation, training, and technical assistance: Provided further,
That any balances remaining available from prior year appropria-
tions under this heading for tracking violence against Indian
women, as authorized by section 905 of the 2005 Act, shall also
be available to enhance the ability of Tribal Government entities
to access, enter information into, and obtain information from,
Federal criminal information databases, as authorized by section
534 of title 28, United States Code: Provided further, That some
or all of such balances may be transferred, at the discretion of
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the Attorney General, to ‘‘General Administration, Justice Informa-
tion Sharing Technology’’ for the Tribal Access Program for national
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crime information in furtherance of this purpose: Provided further,
That the authority to transfer funds under the previous proviso
shall be in addition to any other transfer authority contained in
this Act: Provided further, That of the amount provided—
(1) $215,000,000 is for grants to combat violence against
women, as authorized by part T of the 1968 Act;
(2) $40,000,000 is for transitional housing assistance grants
for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or
sexual assault as authorized by section 40299 of the 1994
Act;
(3) $2,500,000 is for the National Institute of Justice and
the Bureau of Justice Statistics for research, evaluation, and
statistics of violence against women and related issues
addressed by grant programs of the Office on Violence Against
Women, which shall be transferred to ‘‘Research, Evaluation
and Statistics’’ for administration by the Office of Justice Pro-
grams;
(4) $12,000,000 is for a grant program to provide services
to advocate for and respond to youth victims of domestic
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; assist-
ance to children and youth exposed to such violence; programs
to engage men and youth in preventing such violence; and
assistance to middle and high school students through edu-
cation and other services related to such violence: Provided,
That unobligated balances available for the programs author-
ized by sections 41201, 41204, 41303, and 41305 of the 1994
Act, prior to its amendment by the 2013 Act, shall be available
for this program: Provided further, That 10 percent of the
total amount available for this grant program shall be available
for grants under the program authorized by section 2015 of
Applicability. the 1968 Act: Provided further, That the definitions and grant
conditions in section 40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to
this program;
(5) $53,000,000 is for grants to encourage arrest policies
as authorized by part U of the 1968 Act, of which $4,000,000
is for a homicide reduction initiative;
(6) $41,000,000 is for sexual assault victims assistance,
as authorized by section 41601 of the 1994 Act;
(7) $45,000,000 is for rural domestic violence and child
abuse enforcement assistance grants, as authorized by section
40295 of the 1994 Act;
(8) $20,000,000 is for grants to reduce violent crimes
against women on campus, as authorized by section 304 of
the 2005 Act;
(9) $47,000,000 is for legal assistance for victims, as author-
ized by section 1201 of the 2000 Act;
(10) $5,500,000 is for enhanced training and services to
end violence against and abuse of women in later life, as
authorized by section 40801 of the 1994 Act;
(11) $18,000,000 is for grants to support families in the
justice system, as authorized by section 1301 of the 2000 Act:
Provided, That unobligated balances available for the programs
authorized by section 1301 of the 2000 Act and section 41002
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of the 1994 Act, prior to their amendment by the 2013 Act,
shall be available for this program;
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(12) $6,500,000 is for education and training to end violence
against and abuse of women with disabilities, as authorized
by section 1402 of the 2000 Act;
(13) $1,000,000 is for the National Resource Center on
Workplace Responses to assist victims of domestic violence,
as authorized by section 41501 of the 1994 Act;
(14) $1,000,000 is for analysis and research on violence
against Indian women, including as authorized by section 904
of the 2005 Act: Provided, That such funds may be transferred
to ‘‘Research, Evaluation and Statistics’’ for administration by
the Office of Justice Programs;
(15) $500,000 is for a national clearinghouse that provides
training and technical assistance on issues relating to sexual
assault of American Indian and Alaska Native women;
(16) $4,000,000 is for grants to assist Tribal Governments
in exercising special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction,
as authorized by section 904 of the 2013 Act: Provided, That
the grant conditions in section 40002(b) of the 1994 Act shall
apply to this program; and
(17) $1,500,000 is for the purposes authorized under the
2015 Act.
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assist-
ance authorized by title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the
1994 Act’’); the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
of 1974 (‘‘the 1974 Act’’); the Missing Children’s Assistance Act
(34 U.S.C. 11291 et seq.); the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other
Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (Public
Law 108–21) (‘‘the PROTECT Act’’); the Justice for All Act of
2004 (Public Law 108–405); the Violence Against Women and
Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law
109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990
(Public Law 101–647); the Second Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law
110–199); the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–473);
the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public
Law 109–248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the PROTECT Our Children
Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–401); subtitle C of title II of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) (‘‘the 2002
Act’’); the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–
79) (‘‘PREA’’); the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007
(Public Law 110–180); the Violence Against Women Reauthorization
Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Comprehensive
Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198); the
First Step Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391); and other programs,
$82,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which—
(1) $45,000,000 is for criminal justice statistics programs,
and other activities, as authorized by part C of title I of the
1968 Act, of which $3,000,000 is for a data collection on law
enforcement suicide; and
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(2) $37,000,000 is for research, development, and evaluation
programs, and other activities as authorized by part B of title
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I of the 1968 Act and subtitle C of title II of the 2002 Act,
and for activities authorized by or consistent with the First
Step Act of 2018, of which $6,000,000 is for research targeted
toward developing a better understanding of the domestic
radicalization phenomenon, and advancing evidence-based
strategies for effective intervention and prevention; $1,000,000
is for research to study the root causes of school violence
to include the impact and effectiveness of grants made under
the STOP School Violence Act; $1,500,000 is for a national
study to identify improvements for law enforcement officials
who respond to and investigate child pornography crimes;
$4,000,000 is for the research, design, and testing of a scalable
national model to reduce incarceration rates for minor probation
and parole violations; and not less than $2,000,000 is for
research, testing, and evaluation of the use of counter-
unmanned aircraft systems in support of law enforcement oper-
ations.
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assist-
ance authorized by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90–351)
(‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–
405); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–
647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthor-
ization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–164); the Violence Against
Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005
(Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Adam Walsh Child
Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–248) (‘‘the Adam
Walsh Act’’); the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection
Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386); the NICS Improvement Amend-
ments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–180); subtitle C of title II
of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) (‘‘the
2002 Act’’); the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law
108–79); the Second Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–199);
the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Prop-
erty Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–403); the Victims of Crime Act
of 1984 (Public Law 98–473); the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment
and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008
(Public Law 110–416); the Violence Against Women Reauthorization
Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Comprehensive
Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198) (‘‘CARA’’);
the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–
324); Kevin and Avonte’s Law (division Q of Public Law 115–
141) (‘‘Kevin and Avonte’s Law’’); the Keep Young Athletes Safe
Act of 2018 (title III of division S of Public Law 115–141) (‘‘the
Keep Young Athletes Safe Act’’); the STOP School Violence Act
of 2018 (title V of division S of Public Law 115–141) (‘‘the STOP
School Violence Act’’); the Fix NICS Act of 2018 (title VI of division
S of Public Law 115–141); the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant
Program Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–185); the SUP-
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PORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public Law 115–271);
the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–
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391); the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes
Prevention Act (Public Law 111–84); the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018
(Public Law 115–401); and other programs, $1,914,000,000, to
remain available until expended as follows—
(1) $484,000,000 for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice
Assistance Grant program as authorized by subpart 1 of part
E of title I of the 1968 Act (except that section 1001(c), and
the special rules for Puerto Rico under section 505(g), of title
I of the 1968 Act shall not apply for purposes of this Act),
of which, notwithstanding such subpart 1—
(A) $13,000,000 is for an Officer Robert Wilson III
memorial initiative on Preventing Violence Against Law
Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Surviv-
ability (VALOR);
(B) $8,000,000 is for an initiative to support evidence-
based policing;
(C) $8,000,000 is for an initiative to enhance prosecu-
torial decision-making;
(D) $2,400,000 is for the operation, maintenance, and
expansion of the National Missing and Unidentified Per-
sons System;
(E) $7,500,000 is for a grant program for State and
local law enforcement to provide officer training on
responding to individuals with mental illness or disabilities;
(F) $2,000,000 is for a student loan repayment assist-
ance program pursuant to section 952 of Public Law 110–
315;
(G) $15,500,000 is for prison rape prevention and
prosecution grants to States and units of local government,
and other programs, as authorized by the Prison Rape
Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–79);
(H) $3,000,000 is for a grant program authorized by
Kevin and Avonte’s Law;
(I) $4,000,000 is for the establishment of a national
center on forensics at an accredited university of higher
education with affiliate medical and law schools, in partner-
ship with a co-located full-service State department of
forensic science with a medical examiner function;
(J) $20,000,000 is for grants authorized under the
Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Authorization Act of
2018 (Public Law 115–185);
(K) $7,000,000 is for the Capital Litigation Improve-
ment Grant Program, as authorized by section 426 of Public
Law 108–405, and for grants for wrongful conviction review;
(L) $14,000,000 is for community-based violence
prevention initiatives;
(M) $3,000,000 is for a national center for restorative
justice;
(N) $1,000,000 is for the purposes of the Ashanti Alert
Network as authorized under the Ashanti Alert Act of
2018 (Public Law 115–401);
(O) $3,500,000 is for a grant program to replicate
family-based alternative sentencing pilot programs;
(P) $1,000,000 is for a grant program to support child
advocacy training in post-secondary education;
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(Q) $7,000,000 is for a rural violent crime initiative,
including assistance for law enforcement;
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(R) $2,000,000 is for grants to States and units of
local government to deploy managed access systems to
combat contraband cell phone use in prison; and
(S) $2,000,000 is for grants for development of child-
friendly family visitation spaces in correctional facilities;
(2) $244,000,000 for the State Criminal Alien Assistance
Program, as authorized by section 241(i)(5) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(i)(5)): Provided, That no
jurisdiction shall request compensation for any cost greater
than the actual cost for Federal immigration and other
detainees housed in State and local detention facilities;
(3) $85,000,000 for victim services programs for victims
of trafficking, as authorized by section 107(b)(2) of Public Law
106–386, for programs authorized under Public Law 109–164,
or programs authorized under Public Law 113–4;
(4) $12,000,000 for economic, high technology, white collar,
and Internet crime prevention grants, including as authorized
by section 401 of Public Law 110–403, of which $2,500,000
is for competitive grants that help State and local law enforce-
ment tackle intellectual property thefts, and $2,000,000 is for
grants to develop databases on Internet of Things device
capabilities and to build and execute training modules for law
enforcement;
(5) $20,000,000 for sex offender management assistance,
as authorized by the Adam Walsh Act, and related activities;
(6) $30,000,000 for the Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Part-
nership Grant Program, as authorized by section 2501 of title
I of the 1968 Act: Provided, That $1,500,000 is transferred
directly to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s
Office of Law Enforcement Standards for research, testing,
and evaluation programs;
(7) $1,000,000 for the National Sex Offender Public
Website;
(8) $85,000,000 for grants to States to upgrade criminal
and mental health records for the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System, of which no less than $25,000,000
shall be for grants made under the authorities of the NICS
Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–180)
and Fix NICS Act of 2018;
(9) $33,000,000 for Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences
Improvement Grants under part BB of title I of the 1968
Act;
(10) $141,000,000 for DNA-related and forensic programs
and activities, of which—
(A) $110,000,000 is for the purposes authorized under
section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act
of 2000 (Public Law 106–546) (the Debbie Smith DNA
Backlog Grant Program): Provided, That up to 4 percent
of funds made available under this paragraph may be
used for the purposes described in the DNA Training and
Education for Law Enforcement, Correctional Personnel,
and Court Officers program (Public Law 108–405, section
303);
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(B) $19,000,000 for other local, State, and Federal
forensic activities;
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(C) $8,000,000 is for the purposes described in the
Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing Grant Pro-
gram (Public Law 108–405, section 412); and
(D) $4,000,000 is for Sexual Assault Forensic Exam
Program grants, including as authorized by section 304
of Public Law 108–405;
(11) $48,000,000 for a grant program for community-based
sexual assault response reform;
(12) $12,500,000 for the court-appointed special advocate
program, as authorized by section 217 of the 1990 Act;
(13) $46,000,000 for assistance to Indian Tribes;
(14) $100,000,000 for offender reentry programs and
research, as authorized by the Second Chance Act of 2007
(Public Law 110–199) and by the Second Chance Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391), without regard to the
time limitations specified at section 6(1) of such Act, of which
not to exceed $6,000,000 is for a program to improve State,
local, and Tribal probation or parole supervision efforts and
strategies; $5,000,000 is for Children of Incarcerated Parents
Demonstrations to enhance and maintain parental and family
relationships for incarcerated parents as a reentry or recidivism
reduction strategy; and $4,500,000 is for additional replication
sites employing the Project HOPE Opportunity Probation with
Enforcement model implementing swift and certain sanctions
in probation, of which no less than $500,000 shall be used
for a project that provides training, technical assistance, and
best practices: Provided, That up to $7,500,000 of funds made
available in this paragraph may be used for performance-based
awards for Pay for Success projects, of which up to $5,000,000
shall be for Pay for Success programs implementing the Perma-
nent Supportive Housing Model;
(15) $394,000,000 for comprehensive opioid abuse reduction
activities, including as authorized by CARA, and for the fol-
lowing programs, which shall address opioid, stimulant, and
substance abuse reduction consistent with underlying program
authorities—
(A) $83,000,000 for Drug Courts, as authorized by sec-
tion 1001(a)(25)(A) of title I of the 1968 Act;
(B) $35,000,000 for mental health courts and adult
and juvenile collaboration program grants, as authorized
by parts V and HH of title I of the 1968 Act, and the
Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction
Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law
110–416);
(C) $34,000,000 for grants for Residential Substance
Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners, as authorized by
part S of title I of the 1968 Act;
(D) $25,000,000 for a veterans treatment courts pro-
gram;
(E) $32,000,000 for a program to monitor prescription
drugs and scheduled listed chemical products; and
(F) $185,000,000 for a comprehensive opioid, stimulant,
and substance abuse program;
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(16) $2,500,000 for a competitive grant program authorized
by the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act;
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(17) $79,000,000 for grants to be administered by the
Bureau of Justice Assistance for purposes authorized under
the STOP School Violence Act;
(18) $2,000,000 for grants to State and local law enforce-
ment agencies for the expenses associated with the investiga-
tion and prosecution of criminal offenses, involving civil rights,
authorized by the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes
Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–325);
(19) $5,000,000 for grants to State, local, and Tribal law
enforcement agencies to conduct educational outreach and
training on hate crimes and to investigate and prosecute hate
crimes, as authorized by section 4704 of the Matthew Shepard
and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law
111–84); and
(20) $90,000,000 for initiatives to improve police-community
relations, of which $35,000,000 is for a competitive matching
grant program for purchases of body-worn cameras for State,
local, and Tribal law enforcement; $33,000,000 is for a justice
reinvestment initiative, for activities related to criminal justice
reform and recidivism reduction; and $22,000,000 is for an
Edward Byrne Memorial criminal justice innovation program:
Provided, That, if a unit of local government uses any of the
funds made available under this heading to increase the number
of law enforcement officers, the unit of local government will achieve
a net gain in the number of law enforcement officers who perform
non-administrative public sector safety service.
JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assist-
ance authorized by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Act of 1974 (‘‘the 1974 Act’’); the Omnibus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violence Against
Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005
(Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Missing Children’s
Assistance Act (34 U.S.C. 11291 et seq.); the Prosecutorial Remedies
and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act
of 2003 (Public Law 108–21); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of
1990 (Public Law 101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Adam Walsh
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–248)
(‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008
(Public Law 110–401); the Violence Against Women Reauthorization
Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Justice for
All Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–324); the Missing
Children’s Assistance Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–267); the Juve-
nile Justice Reform Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–385); and other
juvenile justice programs, $346,000,000, to remain available until
expended as follows—
(1) $67,000,000 for programs authorized by section 221
of the 1974 Act, and for training and technical assistance
to assist small, nonprofit organizations with the Federal grants
process: Provided, That of the amounts provided under this
paragraph, $500,000 shall be for a competitive demonstration
grant program to support emergency planning among State,
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local, and Tribal juvenile justice residential facilities;
(2) $100,000,000 for youth mentoring grants;
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(3) $49,000,000 for delinquency prevention, of which, pursu-
ant to sections 261 and 262 of the 1974 Act—
(A) $2,000,000 shall be for grants to prevent trafficking
of girls;
(B) $10,000,000 shall be for the Tribal Youth Program;
(C) $500,000 shall be for an Internet site providing
information and resources on children of incarcerated par-
ents;
(D) $3,000,000 shall be for competitive grants focusing
on girls in the juvenile justice system;
(E) $10,000,000 shall be for an opioid-affected youth
initiative; and
(F) $8,000,000 shall be for an initiative relating to
children exposed to violence;
(4) $30,000,000 for programs authorized by the Victims
of Child Abuse Act of 1990;
(5) $94,000,000 for missing and exploited children pro-
grams, including as authorized by sections 404(b) and 405(a)
of the 1974 Act (except that section 102(b)(4)(B) of the PRO-
TECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–401) shall
not apply for purposes of this Act);
(6) $3,500,000 for child abuse training programs for judicial
personnel and practitioners, as authorized by section 222 of
the 1990 Act; and
(7) $2,500,000 for a program to improve juvenile indigent
defense:
Provided, That not more than 10 percent of each amount may
be used for research, evaluation, and statistics activities designed
to benefit the programs or activities authorized: Provided further,
That not more than 2 percent of the amounts designated under
paragraphs (1) through (3) and (6) may be used for training and
technical assistance: Provided further, That the two preceding pro-
visos shall not apply to grants and projects administered pursuant
to sections 261 and 262 of the 1974 Act and to missing and exploited
children programs.
PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BENEFITS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For payments and expenses authorized under section 1001(a)(4)
of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968, such sums as are necessary (including amounts for adminis-
trative costs), to remain available until expended; and $24,800,000
for payments authorized by section 1201(b) of such Act and for
educational assistance authorized by section 1218 of such Act, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding Determination.
section 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the Attorney
General that emergent circumstances require additional funding
for such disability and education payments, the Attorney General
may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Public Safety Officer Benefits’’ from
available appropriations for the Department of Justice as may
be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided further,
That any transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be treated
as a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act and shall not
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be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance
with the procedures set forth in that section.
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COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control and
Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322); the Omnibus
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the
Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Amer-
ican Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–37);
the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (Public
Law 115–113) (‘‘the LEMHW Act’’); the SUPPORT for Patients
and Communities Act (Public Law 115–271); and the Supporting
and Treating Officers In Crisis Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-32)
(‘‘the STOIC Act’’), $386,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That any balances made available through
prior year deobligations shall only be available in accordance with
section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That of the amount pro-
vided under this heading—
(1) $237,000,000 is for grants under section 1701 of title
I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381) for the hiring and rehiring
of additional career law enforcement officers under part Q
of such title notwithstanding subsection (i) of such section:
Provided, That, notwithstanding section 1704(c) of such title
(34 U.S.C. 10384(c)), funding for hiring or rehiring a career
law enforcement officer may not exceed $125,000 unless the
Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
grants a waiver from this limitation: Provided further, That
within the amounts appropriated under this paragraph,
$29,500,000 is for improving Tribal law enforcement, including
hiring, equipment, training, anti-methamphetamine activities,
and anti-opioid activities: Provided further, That of the amounts
appropriated under this paragraph $40,000,000 is for regional
information sharing activities, as authorized by part M of title
I of the 1968 Act, which shall be transferred to and merged
with ‘‘Research, Evaluation, and Statistics’’ for administration
by the Office of Justice Programs: Provided further, That within
the amounts appropriated under this paragraph, no less than
$3,000,000 is to support the Tribal Access Program: Provided
further, That within the amounts appropriated under this para-
graph, $8,000,000 is for training, peer mentoring, mental health
program activities, and other support services as authorized
under the LEMHW Act and STOIC Act;
(2) $11,000,000 is for activities authorized by the POLICE
Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–199);
(3) $15,000,000 is for competitive grants to State law
enforcement agencies in States with high seizures of precursor
chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and labora-
tory dump seizures: Provided, That funds appropriated under
this paragraph shall be utilized for investigative purposes to
locate or investigate illicit activities, including precursor diver-
sion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers;
(4) $35,000,000 is for competitive grants to statewide law
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enforcement agencies in States with high rates of primary
treatment admissions for heroin and other opioids: Provided,
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That these funds shall be utilized for investigative purposes
to locate or investigate illicit activities, including activities
related to the distribution of heroin or unlawful distribution
of prescription opioids, or unlawful heroin and prescription
opioid traffickers through statewide collaboration;
(5) $53,000,000 is for competitive grants to be administered
by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office for pur-
poses authorized under the STOP School Violence Act (title
V of division S of Public Law 115–141); and
(6) $35,000,000 is for community policing development
activities in furtherance of section 1701 of title I of the 1968
Act (34 U.S.C. 10381).
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 201. In addition to amounts otherwise made available
in this title for official reception and representation expenses, a
total of not to exceed $50,000 from funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Justice in this title shall be available to the Attorney
General for official reception and representation expenses.
SEC. 202. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall Abortion.
be available to pay for an abortion, except where the life of the
mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term,
or in the case of rape or incest: Provided, That should this prohibi-
tion be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdic-
tion, this section shall be null and void.
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this title shall Abortion.
be used to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any
way the performance of, any abortion.
SEC. 204. Nothing in the preceding section shall remove the Abortion.
obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort
services necessary for a female inmate to receive such service out-
side the Federal facility: Provided, That nothing in this section
in any way diminishes the effect of section 203 intended to address
the philosophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau
of Prisons.
SEC. 205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice
in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but
no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided,
shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers:
Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated
as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and
shall not be available for obligation except in compliance with
the procedures set forth in that section.
SEC. 206. None of the funds made available under this title Prisons and
may be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the United prisoners.
States Marshals Service for the purpose of transporting an indi-
vidual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under
State or Federal law and is classified as a maximum or high
security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified
by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for
housing such a prisoner.
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SEC. 207. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may Prisons and
be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable television services, prisoners.
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or to rent or purchase audiovisual or electronic media or equipment
used primarily for recreational purposes.
(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude the rental, maintenance,
or purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or equipment for
inmate training, religious, or educational programs.
Certification. SEC. 208. None of the funds made available under this title
shall be obligated or expended for any new or enhanced information
technology program having total estimated development costs in
excess of $100,000,000, unless the Deputy Attorney General and
the investment review board certify to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate that
the information technology program has appropriate program
management controls and contractor oversight mechanisms in place,
and that the program is compatible with the enterprise architecture
of the Department of Justice.
Applicability. SEC. 209. The notification thresholds and procedures set forth
in section 505 of this Act shall apply to deviations from the amounts
designated for specific activities in this Act and in the explanatory
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division
A of this consolidated Act), and to any use of deobligated balances
of funds provided under this title in previous years.
SEC. 210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may
be used to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, or approve
a public-private competition under the Office of Management and
Budget Circular A–76 or any successor administrative regulation,
directive, or policy for work performed by employees of the Bureau
of Prisons or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated.
SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
shall be available for the salary, benefits, or expenses of any United
States Attorney assigned dual or additional responsibilities by the
Attorney General or his designee that exempt that United States
Attorney from the residency requirements of section 545 of title
28, United States Code.
SEC. 212. At the discretion of the Attorney General, and in
addition to any amounts that otherwise may be available (or author-
ized to be made available) by law, with respect to funds appropriated
by this title under the headings ‘‘Research, Evaluation and Statis-
tics’’, ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, and ‘‘Juvenile
Justice Programs’’—
(1) up to 2 percent of funds made available to the Office
of Justice Programs for grant or reimbursement programs may
be used by such Office to provide training and technical assist-
ance; and
(2) up to 2 percent of funds made available for grant
or reimbursement programs under such headings, except for
amounts appropriated specifically for research, evaluation, or
statistical programs administered by the National Institute
of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with funds provided to the National
Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, to
be used by them for research, evaluation, or statistical purposes,
without regard to the authorizations for such grant or
reimbursement programs.
Determination. SEC. 213. Upon request by a grantee for whom the Attorney
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Waiver authority. General has determined there is a fiscal hardship, the Attorney
General may, with respect to funds appropriated in this or any
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other Act making appropriations for fiscal years 2018 through 2021
for the following programs, waive the following requirements:
(1) For the adult and juvenile offender State and local
reentry demonstration projects under part FF of title I of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C.
10631 et seq.), the requirements under section 2976(g)(1) of
such part (34 U.S.C. 10631(g)(1)).
(2) For grants to protect inmates and safeguard commu-
nities as authorized by section 6 of the Prison Rape Elimination
Act of 2003 (34 U.S.C. 30305(c)(3)), the requirements of section
6(c)(3) of such Act.
SEC. 214. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, section
20109(a) of subtitle A of title II of the Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12109(a)) shall not
apply to amounts made available by this or any other Act.
SEC. 215. None of the funds made available under this Act, Firearms.
other than for the national instant criminal background check
system established under section 103 of the Brady Handgun
Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901), may be used by a
Federal law enforcement officer to facilitate the transfer of an
operable firearm to an individual if the Federal law enforcement
officer knows or suspects that the individual is an agent of a
drug cartel, unless law enforcement personnel of the United States
continuously monitor or control the firearm at all times.
SEC. 216. (a) None of the income retained in the Department
of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title I of Public Law
102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) shall be available
for obligation during fiscal year 2021, except up to $12,000,000
may be obligated for implementation of a unified Department of
Justice financial management system.
(b) Not to exceed $30,000,000 of the unobligated balances trans-
ferred to the capital account of the Department of Justice Working
Capital Fund pursuant to title I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat.
784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) shall be available for obligation in fiscal
year 2021, and any use, obligation, transfer, or allocation of such
funds shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section
505 of this Act.
(c) Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the excess unobligated balances
available under section 524(c)(8)(E) of title 28, United States Code,
shall be available for obligation during fiscal year 2021, and any
use, obligation, transfer or allocation of such funds shall be treated
as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act.
SEC. 217. Discretionary funds that are made available in this
Act for the Office of Justice Programs may be used to participate
in Performance Partnership Pilots authorized under such authori-
ties as have been enacted for Performance Partnership Pilots in
appropriations acts in prior fiscal years and the current fiscal
year.
SEC. 218. Section 1930(a)(6)(B) of title 28, United States Code, Applicability.
shall be applied for this fiscal year and next fiscal year by sub- 28 USC 1930
stituting ‘‘ $300,000,000’’ for ‘‘ $200,000,000’’. note.
SEC. 219. Section 527 of title 28, United States Code, is
amended in the third sentence by inserting ‘‘: (1)’’ before ‘‘the
Department’’ and by inserting ‘‘; and (2) federally recognized tribes
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for supplies, materials, and services related to access to Federal
law enforcement databases;’’ after ‘‘and services’’.
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SEC. 220. Section 1825 of title 28, United States Code, is
amended:
(a) in subsections (a) and (b) by striking ‘‘United States marshal
for the district’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Attorney Gen-
eral’’; and
(b) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘United States marshal’’ and
inserting ‘‘Attorney General’’.
SEC. 221. Section 151 of the Foreign Relations Authorization
Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 101–246; 5 U.S.C.
5928 note), is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ after ‘‘Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘, the’’; and
(2) by inserting ‘‘, or the United States Marshals Service’’
after ‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation’’.
SEC. 222. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for an additional amount for ‘‘Department
of Justice—General Administration’’, for expenses associated with
the development and operation of a database concerning substan-
tiated instances of excessive use of force related to law enforcement
matters and officer misconduct, as described by, and subject to
the requirements of, section 3 of Executive Order 13929 (June
16, 2020), as such Executive Order was in effect on the date of
the enactment of this Act: Provided, That the Attorney General
may transfer the funds provided in this section to other appropria-
tions accounts in the Department of Justice to use for expenses
associated with the development and operation of such database:
Provided further, That the transfer authority in the preceding pro-
viso is in addition to any other transfer authority contained in
this Act: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the first
proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure
except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Justice Appropria-
tions Act, 2021’’.
Science TITLE III
Appropriations
Act, 2021. SCIENCE
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42
U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, not
to exceed $2,250 for official reception and representation expenses,
and rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia,
$5,544,000.
NATIONAL SPACE COUNCIL
For necessary expenses of the National Space Council, in car-
rying out the purposes of title V of Public Law 100–685 and Execu-
tive Order No. 13803, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, not
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to exceed $2,250 for official reception and representation expenses,
$1,965,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision
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of law, the National Space Council may accept personnel support
from Federal agencies, departments, and offices, and such Federal
agencies, departments, and offices may detail staff without
reimbursement to the National Space Council for purposes provided
herein.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
SCIENCE
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of science research and development activities,
including research, development, operations, support, and services;
maintenance and repair, facility planning and design; space flight,
spacecraft control, and communications activities; program manage-
ment; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United
States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor
vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation
of mission and administrative aircraft, $7,301,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022: Provided, That, $2,000,000,000
shall be for Earth Science; $2,700,000,000 shall be for Planetary
Science; $1,356,200,000 shall be for Astrophysics; $414,700,000 shall
be for the James Webb Space Telescope; $751,000,000 shall be
for Heliophysics, and $79,100,000 shall be for Biological and Phys-
ical Science: Provided further, That the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration shall use the Space Launch System (SLS)
for the Europa Clipper mission if the SLS is available and if
torsional loading analysis has confirmed Clipper’s appropriateness
for SLS: Provided further, That, if the conditions in the preceding Competition.
proviso cannot be met, the Administrator shall conduct a full and
open competition, that is not limited to the launch vehicles listed
in the NLS-II contract of the Launch Services Program as of the
date of the enactment of this Act, to select a commercial launch
vehicle for Europa Clipper.
AERONAUTICS
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of aeronautics research and development activi-
ties, including research, development, operations, support, and serv-
ices; maintenance and repair, facility planning and design; space
flight, spacecraft control, and communications activities; program
management; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or
allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of
title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, mainte-
nance, and operation of mission and administrative aircraft,
$828,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022.
SPACE TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of space technology research and development
activities, including research, development, operations, support, and
services; maintenance and repair, facility planning and design;
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space flight, spacecraft control, and communications activities; pro-
gram management; personnel and related costs, including uniforms
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or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902
of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, mainte-
nance, and operation of mission and administrative aircraft,
$1,100,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022: Pro-
vided, That $227,000,000 shall be for RESTORE–L/SPace Infra-
structure DExterous Robot: Provided further, That $110,000,000
shall be for the development, production, and demonstration of
a nuclear thermal propulsion system, of which $80,000,000 shall
be for the design of a flight demonstration system: Provided further,
Deadline. That, not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act,
Plan. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall provide
a plan for the design of a flight demonstration.
EXPLORATION
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of exploration research and development activi-
ties, including research, development, operations, support, and serv-
ices; maintenance and repair, facility planning and design; space
flight, spacecraft control, and communications activities; program
management; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or
allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of
title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, mainte-
nance, and operation of mission and administrative aircraft,
$6,555,400,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022: Pro-
vided, That not less than $1,406,700,000 shall be for the Orion
Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle: Provided further, That not less than
$2,585,900,000 shall be for the Space Launch System (SLS) launch
vehicle, which shall have a lift capability not less than 130 metric
tons and which shall have core elements and an Exploration Upper
Stage developed simultaneously to be used to the maximum extent
practicable, including for Earth to Moon missions and Moon
landings: Provided further, That of the amounts provided for SLS,
not less than $400,000,000 shall be for SLS Block 1B development
including the Exploration Upper Stage and associated systems
including related facilitization, to support an SLS Block 1B mission
available to launch in 2025 in addition to the planned Block 1
missions for Artemis 1 through Artemis 3: Provided further, That
$590,000,000 shall be for Exploration Ground Systems and associ-
ated Block 1B activities, including $74,000,000 for a second mobile
Budget profile. launch platform: Provided further, That the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration shall provide to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate,
concurrent with the annual budget submission, a 5-year budget
profile for an integrated system that includes the SLS, the Orion
Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and associated ground systems that
will ensure a crewed launch as early as possible, as well as a
system-based funding profile for a sustained launch cadence that
contemplates the use of an SLS Block 1B cargo variant and associ-
ated ground systems: Provided further, That $1,972,800,000 shall
be for exploration research and development.
SPACE OPERATIONS
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For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of space operations research and development
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activities, including research, development, operations, support and
services; space flight, spacecraft control, and communications activi-
ties, including operations, production, and services; maintenance
and repair, facility planning and design; program management;
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United
States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor
vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation
of mission and administrative aircraft, $3,988,200,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS
ENGAGEMENT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of aerospace and aeronautical education
research and development activities, including research, develop-
ment, operations, support, and services; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor,
as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States
Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor
vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation
of mission and administrative aircraft, $127,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, of which $26,000,000 shall
be for the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
and $51,000,000 shall be for the National Space Grant College
and Fellowship Program.
SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of science, aeronautics, space technology, explo-
ration, space operations and education research and development
activities, including research, development, operations, support, and
services; maintenance and repair, facility planning and design;
space flight, spacecraft control, and communications activities; pro-
gram management; personnel and related costs, including uniforms
or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902
of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire
of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $63,000 for official recep-
tion and representation expenses; and purchase, lease, charter,
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative aircraft,
$2,936,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022: Pro-
vided, That if available balances in the ‘‘Science, Space, and Tech-
nology Education Trust Fund’’ are not sufficient to provide for
the grant disbursements required under the third and fourth pro-
visos under such heading in the Department of Housing and Urban
Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989
(Public Law 100–404) as amended by the Departments of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–327) up to
$1,000,000 shall be available from amounts made available under
this heading to make such grant disbursements.
CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND RESTORATION
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For necessary expenses for construction of facilities including
repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modification of facilities,
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construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities,
facility planning and design, and restoration, and acquisition or
condemnation of real property, as authorized by law, and environ-
mental compliance and restoration, $390,278,000, to remain avail-
Contracts. able until September 30, 2026: Provided, That proceeds from leases
Time period. deposited into this account shall be available for a period of 5
51 USC 20145 years to the extent and in amounts as provided in annual appropria-
note.
tions Acts: Provided further, That such proceeds referred to in
the preceding proviso shall be available for obligation for fiscal
year 2021 in an amount not to exceed $18,700,000: Provided further,
Deadline. That each annual budget request shall include an annual estimate
Estimate. of gross receipts and collections and proposed use of all funds
Proposal. collected pursuant to section 20145 of title 51, United States Code.
51 USC 30103
note.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, $44,200,000, of
which $500,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2022.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
51 USC 20144 Funds for any announced prize otherwise authorized shall
note. remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until a prize is
claimed or the offer is withdrawn.
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available
for the current fiscal year for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration in this Act may be transferred between such appro-
priations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically
provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such
transfers. Any funds transferred to ‘‘Construction and Environ-
mental Compliance and Restoration’’ for construction activities shall
not increase that account by more than 20 percent. Balances so
transferred shall be merged with and available for the same pur-
poses and the same time period as the appropriations to which
transferred. Any transfer pursuant to this provision shall be treated
as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and
shall not be available for obligation except in compliance with
the procedures set forth in that section.
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation provided for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration under previous
appropriations Acts that remains available for obligation or expendi-
ture in fiscal year 2021 may be transferred between such appropria-
tions, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically
provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such
transfers. Any transfer pursuant to this provision shall retain its
original availability and shall be treated as a reprogramming of
funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available
for obligation except in compliance with the procedures set forth
in that section.
Spending plan. The spending plan required by this Act shall be provided by
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the theme,
program, project, and activity level. The spending plan, as well
as any subsequent change of an amount established in that
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spending plan that meets the notification requirements of section
505 of this Act, shall be treated as a reprogramming under section
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505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expendi-
ture except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that
section.
Not more than 40 percent of the amounts made available in Plan.
this Act for the Gateway; Advanced Cislunar and Surface Capabili-
ties; Commercial LEO Development; Human Landing System; and
Lunar Discovery and Exploration, excluding the Lunar Reconnais-
sance Orbiter, may be obligated until the Administrator submits
a multi-year plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate that identifies estimated
dates, by fiscal year, for Space Launch System flights to build
the Gateway; the commencement of partnerships with commercial
entities for additional LEO missions to land humans and rovers
on the Moon; and conducting additional scientific activities on the
Moon. The multi-year plan shall include key milestones to be met
by fiscal year to achieve goals for each of the lunar programs
described in the previous sentence and funding required by fiscal
year to achieve such milestones, as well as funding provided in
fiscal year 2021 and previous years.
Of the amounts provided for Exploration Systems Development,
$25,000,000 shall be transferred to Construction and Environmental
Compliance and Restoration (CECR) for Exploration Construction
of Facilities consistent with direction provided in the explanatory
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division
A of this consolidated Act). The authority provided by this para-
graph is in addition to the authority provided by the second para-
graph under this heading.
Not more than 20 percent or $50,000,000, whichever is less,
of the amounts made available in the current-year CECR appropria-
tion may be applied to CECR projects funded under previous years’
CECR appropriation Acts. Use of current-year funds under this
provision shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under
section 505 of this act and shall not be available for obligation
except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), and Public Law
86–209 (42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.); services as authorized by section
3109 of title 5, United States Code; maintenance and operation
of aircraft and purchase of flight services for research support;
acquisition of aircraft; and authorized travel; $6,909,769,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2022, of which not to exceed
$544,000,000 shall remain available until expended for polar
research and operations support, and for reimbursement to other
Federal agencies for operational and science support and logistical
and other related activities for the United States Antarctic program:
Provided, That receipts for scientific support services and materials
furnished by the National Research Centers and other National
Science Foundation supported research facilities may be credited
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to this appropriation.
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MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construction,
commissioning, and upgrading of major research equipment, facili-
ties, and other such capital assets pursuant to the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), including author-
ized travel, $241,000,000, to remain available until expended.
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
For necessary expenses in carrying out science, mathematics,
and engineering education and human resources programs and
activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950
(42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), including services as authorized by section
3109 of title 5, United States Code, authorized travel, and rental
of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, $968,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2022.
AGENCY OPERATIONS AND AWARD MANAGEMENT
For agency operations and award management necessary in
carrying out the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C.
1861 et seq.); services authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United
States Code; hire of passenger motor vehicles; uniforms or allow-
ances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title
5, United States Code; rental of conference rooms in the District
of Columbia; and reimbursement of the Department of Homeland
Security for security guard services; $345,640,000: Provided, That
not to exceed $8,280 is for official reception and representation
expenses: Provided further, That contracts may be entered into
under this heading in fiscal year 2021 for maintenance and oper-
ation of facilities and for other services to be provided during
the next fiscal year.
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD
For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, author-
ized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia, and the employment of experts
and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code)
involved in carrying out section 4 of the National Science Founda-
tion Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86–209 (42
U.S.C. 1880 et seq.), $4,500,000: Provided, That not to exceed
$2,500 shall be available for official reception and representation
expenses.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General as
authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, $17,850,000, of
which $400,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2022.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available
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for the current fiscal year for the National Science Foundation
in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but
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no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent
by any such transfers. Any transfer pursuant to this paragraph
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation except in
compliance with the procedures set forth in that section.
The Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) shall Notification.
notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent- Deadline.
atives and the Senate at least 30 days in advance of any planned
divestment through transfer, decommissioning, termination, or
deconstruction of any NSF-owned facilities or any NSF capital
assets (including land, structures, and equipment) valued greater
than $2,500,000.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Science Appropriations Act,
2021’’.
TITLE IV
RELATED AGENCIES
COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Commission on Civil Rights,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles, $12,500,000: Provided,
That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph may be
used to employ any individuals under Schedule C of subpart C
of part 213 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations exclusive
of one special assistant for each Commissioner: Provided further,
That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be
used to reimburse Commissioners for more than 75 billable days,
with the exception of the chairperson, who is permitted 125 billable
days: Provided further, That the Chair may accept and use any Donations.
gift or donation to carry out the work of the Commission: Provided
further, That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph
shall be used for any activity or expense that is not explicitly
authorized by section 3 of the Civil Rights Commission Act of
1983 (42 U.S.C. 1975a): Provided further, That notwithstanding
the preceding proviso, $500,000 shall be used to separately fund
the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission as authorized by title VII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the
Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990, section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Civil Rights
Act of 1991, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
of 2008 (Public Law 110–233), the ADA Amendments Act of 2008
(Public Law 110–325), and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of
2009 (Public Law 111–2), including services as authorized by section
3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of passenger motor vehicles
as authorized by section 1343(b) of title 31, United States Code;
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nonmonetary awards to private citizens; and up to $31,500,000
for payments to State and local enforcement agencies for authorized
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services to the Commission, $404,490,000: Provided, That the
Commission is authorized to make available for official reception
and representation expenses not to exceed $2,250 from available
Workforce funds: Provided further, That the Commission may take no action
proposals. to implement any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or reorga-
Notification. nization until such time as the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate have been notified
of such proposals, in accordance with the reprogramming require-
Donations. ments of section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That the Chair
may accept and use any gift or donation to carry out the work
of the Commission.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the International Trade Commission,
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as author-
ized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and not to
exceed $2,250 for official reception and representation expenses,
$103,000,000, to remain available until expended.
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to carry out
the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974,
$465,000,000, of which $425,500,000 is for basic field programs
and required independent audits; $5,500,000 is for the Office of
Inspector General, of which such amounts as may be necessary
may be used to conduct additional audits of recipients; $23,000,000
is for management and grants oversight; $4,250,000 is for client
self-help and information technology; $4,750,000 is for a Pro Bono
Innovation Fund; and $2,000,000 is for loan repayment assistance:
Provided, That the Legal Services Corporation may continue to
provide locality pay to officers and employees at a rate no greater
than that provided by the Federal Government to Washington,
DC-based employees as authorized by section 5304 of title 5, United
States Code, notwithstanding section 1005(d) of the Legal Services
Applicability. Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996d(d)): Provided further, That the
authorities provided in section 205 of this Act shall be applicable
to the Legal Services Corporation: Provided further, That, for the
purposes of section 505 of this Act, the Legal Services Corporation
shall be considered an agency of the United States Government.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services
Corporation shall be expended for any purpose prohibited or limited
by, or contrary to any of the provisions of, sections 501, 502,
503, 504, 505, and 506 of Public Law 105–119, and all funds
appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall
be subject to the same terms and conditions set forth in such
sections, except that all references in sections 502 and 503 to
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1997 and 1998 shall be deemed to refer instead to 2020 and 2021,
respectively.
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MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Commission
as authorized by title II of the Marine Mammal Protection Act
of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), $3,769,000.
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of the United States Trade
Representative, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and
the employment of experts and consultants as authorized by section
3109 of title 5, United States Code, $55,000,000, of which $1,000,000
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That of the total
amount made available under this heading, not to exceed $124,000
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses.
TRADE ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For activities of the United States Trade Representative author-
ized by section 611 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4405), including transfers, $15,000,000,
to be derived from the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund: Provided,
That any transfer pursuant to subsection (d)(1) of such section
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this
Act.
STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, as author-
ized by the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10701
et seq.) $7,000,000, of which $500,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2022: Provided, That not to exceed $2,250 shall
be available for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-
vided further, That, for the purposes of section 505 of this Act,
the State Justice Institute shall be considered an agency of the
United States Government.
TITLE V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act Propaganda.
shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized
by the Congress.
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
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shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year
unless expressly so provided herein.
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Contracts. SEC. 503. The expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 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. 504. If any provision of this Act or the application of
such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid,
the remainder of the Act and the application of each provision
to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is
held invalid shall not be affected thereby.
Notifications. SEC. 505. None of the funds provided under this Act, or provided
Deadline. under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this
Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal
year 2021, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the
United States derived by the collection of fees available to the
agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or
expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates
or initiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) eliminates a
program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by
any means for any project or activity for which funds have been
denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorga-
nizes or renames offices, programs, or activities; (6) contracts out
or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by
Federal employees; (7) augments existing programs, projects, or
activities in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less,
or reduces by 10 percent funding for any program, project, or
activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent; or (8) results
from any general savings, including savings from a reduction in
personnel, which would result in a change in existing programs,
projects, or activities as approved by Congress; unless the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 days
in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
SEC. 506. (a) If it has been finally determined by a court
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label
bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with
the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United
States that is not made in the United States, the person shall
be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with
funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment,
suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400
through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
(b)(1) To the extent practicable, with respect to authorized
purchases of promotional items, funds made available by this Act
shall be used to purchase items that are manufactured, produced,
or assembled in the United States, its territories or possessions.
Definition. (2) The term ‘‘promotional items’’ has the meaning given the
term in OMB Circular A–87, Attachment B, Item (1)(f)(3).
Reports. SEC. 507. (a) The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the
National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration shall provide to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate a quarterly
report on the status of balances of appropriations at the account
level. For unobligated, uncommitted balances and unobligated, com-
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mitted balances the quarterly reports shall separately identify the
amounts attributable to each source year of appropriation from
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which the balances were derived. For balances that are obligated,
but unexpended, the quarterly reports shall separately identify
amounts by the year of obligation.
(b) The report described in subsection (a) shall be submitted
within 30 days of the end of each quarter.
(c) If a department or agency is unable to fulfill any aspect
of a reporting requirement described in subsection (a) due to a
limitation of a current accounting system, the department or agency
shall fulfill such aspect to the maximum extent practicable under
such accounting system and shall identify and describe in each
quarterly report the extent to which such aspect is not fulfilled.
SEC. 508. Any costs incurred by a department or agency funded
under this Act resulting from, or to prevent, personnel actions
taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act shall
be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such
department or agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer Transfer
funds between appropriations accounts as may be necessary to authority.
carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities included
elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry
out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds
under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth
in that section: Provided further, That for the Department of Com- Applicability.
merce, this section shall also apply to actions taken for the care Loans.
and protection of loan collateral or grant property. Grants.
SEC. 509. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be Tobacco and
available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco prod- tobacco products.
ucts, or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country
of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products,
except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco
or tobacco products of the same type.
SEC. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts 34 USC 20101
deposited or available in the Fund established by section 1402 note.
of chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101)
in any fiscal year in excess of $2,015,000,000 shall not be available
for obligation until the following fiscal year: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 1402(d) of such Act, of the amounts available
from the Fund for obligation: (1) $10,000,000 shall be transferred
to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General and remain
available until expended for oversight and auditing purposes associ-
ated with this section; and (2) 5 percent shall be available to
the Office for Victims of Crime for grants, consistent with the
requirements of the Victims of Crime Act, to Indian Tribes to
improve services for victims of crime.
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available to the Department Discrimination.
of Justice in this Act may be used to discriminate against or
denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate
in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those
funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such students.
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of
the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made
by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appro-
priations Act.
SEC. 513. (a) The Inspectors General of the Department of Audits.
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Commerce, the Department of Justice, the National Aeronautics Reports.
and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and
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the Legal Services Corporation shall conduct audits, pursuant to
the Inspector General Act (5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts
for which funds are appropriated by this Act, and shall submit
reports to Congress on the progress of such audits, which may
include preliminary findings and a description of areas of particular
interest, within 180 days after initiating such an audit and every
180 days thereafter until any such audit is completed.
Deadline. (b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit described
Public in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is completed, the Sec-
information.
Web posting. retary, Attorney General, Administrator, Director, or President,
as appropriate, shall make the results of the audit available to
the public on the Internet website maintained by the Department,
Administration, Foundation, or Corporation, respectively. The
results shall be made available in redacted form to exclude—
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of title 5, United
States Code; and
(2) sensitive personal information for any individual, the
public access to which could be used to commit identity theft
or for other inappropriate or unlawful purposes.
Certification. (c) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded by amounts
appropriated by this Act shall submit a statement to the Secretary
of Commerce, the Attorney General, the Administrator, Director,
or President, as appropriate, certifying that no funds derived from
the grant or contract will be made available through a subcontract
or in any other manner to another person who has a financial
interest in the person awarded the grant or contract.
Effective date. (d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of this section
Consultation. shall take effect 30 days after the date on which the Director
Determination.
Applicability. of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with
the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, determines that
a uniform set of rules and requirements, substantially similar to
the requirements in such subsections, consistently apply under
the executive branch ethics program to all Federal departments,
agencies, and entities.
Reviews. SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
Science and made available under this Act may be used by the Departments
technology. of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, or the National Science Foundation to acquire a
high-impact or moderate-impact information system, as defined for
security categorization in the National Institute of Standards and
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard
Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Categorization of Federal
Information and Information Systems’’ unless the agency has—
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the information
systems against criteria developed by NIST and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to inform acquisition decisions
for high-impact and moderate-impact information systems
within the Federal Government;
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the presumptive
awardee against available and relevant threat information pro-
vided by the FBI and other appropriate agencies; and
Consultation. (3) in consultation with the FBI or other appropriate Fed-
Assessment. eral entity, conducted an assessment of any risk of cyber-
Cyber threats. espionage or sabotage associated with the acquisition of such
China.
Iran. system, including any risk associated with such system being
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North Korea. produced, manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities
Russia. identified by the United States Government as posing a cyber
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threat, including but not limited to, those that may be owned,
directed, or subsidized by the People’s Republic of China, the
Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea, or the Russian Federation.
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available Consultations.
under this Act may be used to acquire a high-impact or moderate-
impact information system reviewed and assessed under subsection
(a) unless the head of the assessing entity described in subsection
(a) has—
(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the FBI, and Mitigation
supply chain risk management experts, a mitigation strategy strategy.
for any identified risks;
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and the FBI, Determination.
that the acquisition of such system is in the national interest
of the United States; and
(3) reported that determination to the Committees on Reports.
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
and the agency Inspector General.
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available in this Act shall Torture.
be used in any way whatsoever to support or justify the use of
torture by any official or contract employee of the United States
Government.
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to include in any new bilateral or multilateral trade agree-
ment the text of—
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United States–Singa-
pore Free Trade Agreement;
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United States–Aus-
tralia Free Trade Agreement; or
(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United States–Morocco
Free Trade Agreement.
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this Act may National security
be used to authorize or issue a national security letter in contraven- letter.
tion of any of the following laws authorizing the Federal Bureau
of Investigation to issue national security letters: The Right to
Financial Privacy Act of 1978; The Electronic Communications Pri-
vacy Act of 1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National
Security Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM Act
of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts.
SEC. 518. If at any time during any quarter, the program Notifications.
manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the Departments
of Commerce or Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, or the National Science Foundation totaling more
than $75,000,000 has reasonable cause to believe that the total
program cost has increased by 10 percent or more, the program
manager shall immediately inform the respective Secretary,
Administrator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Deadline.
Director shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appro- Determination.
priations within 30 days in writing of such increase, and shall Cost estimates.
include in such notice: the date on which such determination was
made; a statement of the reasons for such increases; the action
taken and proposed to be taken to control future cost growth of
the project; changes made in the performance or schedule milestones
and the degree to which such changes have contributed to the
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increase in total program costs or procurement costs; new estimates
of the total project or procurement costs; and a statement validating
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that the project’s management structure is adequate to control
total project or procurement costs.
SEC. 519. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available
by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence or intelligence
related activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the
Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094) during fiscal year 2021 until the enactment
of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021.
Contracts. SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
Grants. available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract in
Certification.
Taxes.
an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess
Time periods. of such amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies
in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that,
to the best of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee
has filed all Federal tax returns required during the three years
preceding the certification, has not been convicted of a criminal
offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has not,
more than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any unpaid
Federal tax assessment for which the liability remains unsatisfied,
unless the assessment is the subject of an installment agreement
or offer in compromise that has been approved by the Internal
Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assessment is the
subject of a non-frivolous administrative or judicial proceeding.
(RESCISSIONS)
Deadlines. SEC. 521. (a) Of the unobligated balances from prior year appro-
priations available to the Department of Commerce, the following
funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not later than September
30, 2021, from the following accounts in the specified amounts—
(1) ‘‘Economic Development Administration, Economic
Development Assistance Programs’’, $10,000,000; and
(2) ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Fisheries Enforcement Asset Forfeiture Fund’’, $5,000,000.
(b) Of the unobligated balances available to the Department
of Justice, the following funds are hereby permanently rescinded,
not later than September 30, 2021, from the following accounts
in the specified amounts—
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $188,000,000;
(2) ‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries and
Expenses’’, $80,000,000 including from, but not limited to, fees
collected to defray expenses for the automation of fingerprint
identification and criminal justice information services and
associated costs;
(3) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office
of Justice Programs’’, $127,000,000; and
(4) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services’’, $15,000,000.
Reports. (c) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall submit
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate a report no later than September 1, 2021,
specifying the amount of each rescission made pursuant to sub-
sections (a) and (b).
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(d) The amounts rescinded in subsections (a) and (b) shall
not be from amounts that were designated by the Congress as
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an emergency or disaster relief requirement pursuant to the concur-
rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this Act may Airline travel.
be used to purchase first class or premium airline travel in con-
travention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41
of the Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available in this Act may Conference
be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than attendees.
50 employees from a Federal department or agency, who are sta-
tioned in the United States, at any single conference occurring
outside the United States unless—
(1) such conference is a law enforcement training or oper-
ational conference for law enforcement personnel and the
majority of Federal employees in attendance are law enforce-
ment personnel stationed outside the United States; or
(2) such conference is a scientific conference and the depart- Determination.
ment or agency head determines that such attendance is in Notification.
Deadline.
the national interest and notifies the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate within
at least 15 days of that determination and the basis for that
determination.
SEC. 524. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget Grants.
shall instruct any department, agency, or instrumentality of the Performance
plan.
United States receiving funds appropriated under this Act to track Reports.
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts and include in
its annual performance plan and performance and accountability
reports the following:
(1) Details on future action the department, agency, or
instrumentality will take to resolve undisbursed balances in
expired grant accounts.
(2) The method that the department, agency, or instrumen-
tality uses to track undisbursed balances in expired grant
accounts.
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in expired grant
accounts that may be returned to the Treasury of the United
States.
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on the total Time period.
number of expired grant accounts with undisbursed balances
(on the first day of each fiscal year) for the department, agency,
or instrumentality and the total finances that have not been
obligated to a specific project remaining in the accounts.
SEC. 525. To the extent practicable, funds made available in Light bulbs.
this Act should be used to purchase light bulbs that are ‘‘Energy
Star’’ qualified or have the ‘‘Federal Energy Management Program’’
designation.
SEC. 526. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act China.
may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), or
the National Space Council (NSC) to develop, design, plan, promul-
gate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, or
contract of any kind to participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilat-
erally in any way with China or any Chinese-owned company unless
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such activities are specifically authorized by a law enacted after
the date of enactment of this Act.
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(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may be
used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors at facilities
belonging to or utilized by NASA.
Consultation. (c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and (b) shall
Certification. not apply to activities which NASA, OSTP, or NSC, after consulta-
tion with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have certified—
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology,
data, or other information with national security or economic
security implications to China or a Chinese-owned company;
and
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with officials who
have been determined by the United States to have direct
involvement with violations of human rights.
Deadline. (d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall be sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, and the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, no later than 30 days prior to the activity in question and
shall include a description of the purpose of the activity, its agenda,
its major participants, and its location and timing.
Pornography. SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless
such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging
of pornography.
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds nec-
essary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local law enforcement
agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations,
prosecution, adjudication, or other law enforcement- or victim assist-
ance-related activity.
Spending plans. SEC. 528. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the
Deadline. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National
Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil Rights, the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, the International Trade
Commission, the Legal Services Corporation, the Marine Mammal
Commission, the Offices of Science and Technology Policy and the
United States Trade Representative, the National Space Council,
and the State Justice Institute shall submit spending plans, signed
by the respective department or agency head, to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
Contracts. SEC. 529. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by
this Act may be used to pay award or incentive fees for contractor
performance that has been judged to be below satisfactory perform-
ance or for performance that does not meet the basic requirements
of a contract.
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used in contravention of section 7606 (‘‘Legitimacy of Industrial
Hemp Research’’) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–
79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration.
State listing. SEC. 531. None of the funds made available under this Act
Territories. to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any
Medical of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California,
marijuana.
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachu-
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setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
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North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wis-
consin, and Wyoming, or with respect to the District of Columbia,
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United
States Virgin Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of
them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use,
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.
SEC. 532. The Department of Commerce, the National Aero- Reports.
nautics and Space Administration, and the National Science China.
Foundation shall provide a quarterly report to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
on any official travel to China by any employee of such Department
or agency, including the purpose of such travel.
SEC. 533. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be Termination
available for obligation for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) date.
after December 31, 2021, if the individual identified under sub- Determination.
section (c)(2)(E) of section 30104 of title 51, United States Code,
as responsible for JWST determines that the formulation and
development costs (with development cost as defined under section
30104 of title 51, United States Code) are likely to exceed
$8,802,700,000, unless the program is modified so that the costs
do not exceed $8,802,700,000.
SEC. 534. Of the amounts made available by this Act, not
less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, respectively,
for Public Works grants authorized by the Public Works and Eco-
nomic Development Act of 1965 and grants authorized by section
27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980
(15 U.S.C. 3722) shall be allocated for assistance in persistent
poverty counties: Provided, That for purposes of this section, the Definition.
term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that has had
20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the
past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses
and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates,
or any Territory or possession of the United States.
SEC. 535. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made Khalid Sheikh
available in this or any other Act may be used to transfer, release, Mohammed.
or assist in the transfer or release to or within the United States, Detainees.
Cuba.
its territories, or possessions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any
other detainee who—
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member of the
Armed Forces of the United States; and
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the United
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Depart-
ment of Defense.
SEC. 536. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise Detainees.
made available in this or any other Act may be used to construct, Cuba.
acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories,
or possessions to house any individual described in subsection (c)
for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the custody or
under the effective control of the Department of Defense.
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to any
modification of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guanta-
namo Bay, Cuba.
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any individual
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who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United States Naval Station,
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who—
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(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a member
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and
(2) is—
(A) in the custody or under the effective control of
the Department of Defense; or
(B) otherwise under detention at United States Naval
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Exports and SEC. 537. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or
imports. treaty, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available
Canada. under this Act or any other Act may be expended or obligated
Firearms.
by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States
to pay administrative expenses or to compensate an officer or
employee of the United States in connection with requiring an
export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, acces-
sories or attachments for firearms listed in Category I, section
121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (International Traf-
ficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), part 121, as it existed on
April 1, 2005) with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale
in any transaction, provided that the conditions of subsection (b)
of this section are met by the exporting party for such articles.
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an export license—
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any Shipper’s
Export Declaration or notification letter required by law, or
from being otherwise eligible under the laws of the United
States to possess, ship, transport, or export the articles enumer-
ated in subsection (a); and
(2) does not permit the export without a license of—
(A) fully automatic firearms and components and parts
for such firearms, other than for end use by the Federal
Government, or a Provincial or Municipal Government of
Canada;
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or complete
breech mechanisms for any firearm listed in Category I,
other than for end use by the Federal Government, or
a Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; or
(C) articles for export from Canada to another foreign
destination.
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Directors of
Customs and postmasters shall permit the permanent or temporary
export without a license of any unclassified articles specified in
subsection (a) to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the
United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from
Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada
for a Canadian citizen.
President. (d) The President may require export licenses under this section
Determination. on a temporary basis if the President determines, upon publication
Federal Register, first in the Federal Register, that the Government of Canada has
publication.
implemented or maintained inadequate import controls for the arti-
cles specified in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion
of such articles has and continues to take place for use in inter-
national terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another
Termination. nation. The President shall terminate the requirements of a license
when reasons for the temporary requirements have ceased.
Firearms. SEC. 538. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
Ammunition. department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States
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receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any other Act shall
obligate or expend in any way such funds to pay administrative
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expenses or the compensation of any officer or employee of the
United States to deny any application submitted pursuant to 22
U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR section
478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United States origin ‘‘curios
or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition.
SEC. 539. None of the funds made available by this Act may Exports and
be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, imports.
or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any model Firearms.
of shotgun if—
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to the pro-
posed importation are met; and
(2) no application for the importation of such model of
shotgun, in the same configuration, had been denied by the
Attorney General prior to January 1, 2011, on the basis that
the shotgun was not particularly suitable for or readily adapt-
able to sporting purposes.
SEC. 540. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be obligated or expended to implement the Arms Trade Treaty
until the Senate approves a resolution of ratification for the Treaty.
SEC. 541. For an additional amount for ‘‘United States Marshals
Service, Federal Prisoner Detention’’, $125,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
coronavirus, domestically or internationally, including for necessary
expenses related to United States prisoners in the custody of the
United States Marshals Service, to be used only as authorized
by section 4013 of title 18, United States Code: Provided, That
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 542. For an additional amount for ‘‘Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Salaries and Expenses’’, $179,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and
respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, including
the impact of coronavirus on the work of the Department of Justice,
to make necessary improvements to the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System, and to offset the loss resulting from
the coronavirus pandemic of fees collected pursuant to section 41104
of title 34, United States Code: Provided, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 543. For an additional amount for ‘‘Federal Prison System,
Salaries and Expenses’’, $300,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2022, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
coronavirus, domestically or internationally, including the impact
of coronavirus on the work of the Department of Justice: Provided,
That such amount is designated by the Congress as being for
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Justice, Science,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021’’.
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134 STAT. 1286 PUBLIC LAW 116–260—DEC. 27, 2020
Department of DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Defense APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021
Appropriations
Act, 2021.
TITLE I
MILITARY PERSONNEL
MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY
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 sta-
tions, for members of the Army on active duty (except members
of reserve components provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation
cadets; for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and
for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense
Military Retirement Fund, $44,861,853,000.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY
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 sta-
tions, for members of the Navy on active duty (except members
of the Reserve provided for elsewhere), midshipmen, and aviation
cadets; for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and
for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense
Military Retirement Fund, $33,764,579,000.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS
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 sta-
tions, for members of the Marine Corps on active duty (except
members of the Reserve provided for elsewhere); and for payments
pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amended (42
U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense Military Retire-
ment Fund, $14,557,436,000.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE
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 sta-
tions, for members of the Air Force on active duty (except members
of reserve components provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation
cadets; for members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and
for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as
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amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense
Military Retirement Fund, $32,784,171,000.
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RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel,
and related expenses for personnel of the Army Reserve on active
duty under sections 10211, 10302, and 7038 of title 10, United
States Code, or while serving on active duty under section 12301(d)
of title 10, United States Code, in connection with performing
duty specified in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code,
or while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills
or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section
16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the
Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $5,037,119,000.
RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel,
and related expenses for personnel of the Navy Reserve on active
duty under section 10211 of title 10, United States Code, or while
serving on active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section
12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve
training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and expenses
authorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and
for payments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement
Fund, $2,200,600,000.
RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel,
and related expenses for personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve
on active duty under section 10211 of title 10, United States Code,
or while serving on active duty under section 12301(d) of title
10, United States Code, in connection with performing duty specified
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
going reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent
duty, and for members of the Marine Corps platoon leaders class,
and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States
Code; and for payments to the Department of Defense Military
Retirement Fund, $843,564,000.
RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel,
and related expenses for personnel of the Air Force Reserve on
active duty under sections 10211, 10305, and 8038 of title 10,
United States Code, or while serving on active duty under section
12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in connection with per-
forming duty specified in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States
Code, or while undergoing reserve training, or while performing
drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized
by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments
to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund,
$2,193,493,000.
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY
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For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel,
and related expenses for personnel of the Army National Guard
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while on duty under sections 10211, 10302, or 12402 of title 10
or section 708 of title 32, United States Code, or while serving
on duty under section 12301(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of
title 32, United States Code, in connection with performing duty
specified in section 12310(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 16131 of
title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the Department
of Defense Military Retirement Fund, $8,663,999,000.
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel,
and related expenses for personnel of the Air National Guard on
duty under sections 10211, 10305, or 12402 of title 10 or section
708 of title 32, United States Code, or while serving on duty
under section 12301(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32,
United States Code, in connection with performing duty specified
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
going training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty or
other duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 10,
United States Code; and for payments to the Department of Defense
Military Retirement Fund, $4,530,091,000.
TITLE II
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
operation and maintenance of the Army, as authorized by law,
$38,418,982,000: Provided, That not to exceed $12,478,000 may
be used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended
upon the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Army, and
payments may be made upon his certificate of necessity for confiden-
tial military purposes.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
operation and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine Corps,
as authorized by law, $47,632,527,000: Provided, That not to exceed
$15,055,000 may be used for emergencies and extraordinary
expenses, to be expended upon the approval or authority of the
Secretary of the Navy, and payments may be made upon his certifi-
cate of necessity for confidential military purposes.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, as authorized
by law, $7,286,184,000.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE
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For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as authorized by law,
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$33,528,409,000: Provided, That not to exceed $7,699,000 may be
used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended
upon the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Air Force,
and payments may be made upon his certificate of necessity for
confidential military purposes.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SPACE FORCE
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
operation and maintenance of the Space Force, as authorized by
law, $2,492,114,000.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
operation and maintenance of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments), as author-
ized by law, $39,048,990,000: Provided, That not more than
$3,000,000 may be used for the Combatant Commander Initiative
Fund authorized under section 166a of title 10, United States
Code: Provided further, That not to exceed $36,000,000 may be
used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended
upon the approval or authority of the Secretary of Defense, and
payments may be made upon his certificate of necessity for confiden-
tial military purposes: Provided further, That of the funds provided
under this heading, not less than $48,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for the Procurement Technical Assistance Cooperative Agree-
ment Program, of which not less than $4,500,000 shall be available
for centers defined in 10 U.S.C. 2411(1)(D): Provided further, That
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by
this Act may be used to plan or implement the consolidation of
a budget or appropriations liaison office of the Office of the Sec-
retary of Defense, the office of the Secretary of a military depart-
ment, or the service headquarters of one of the Armed Forces
into a legislative affairs or legislative liaison office: Provided further,
That $18,000,000, to remain available until expended, is available
only for expenses relating to certain classified activities, and may
be transferred as necessary by the Secretary of Defense to operation
and maintenance appropriations or research, development, test and
evaluation appropriations, to be merged with and to be available
for the same time period as the appropriations to which transferred:
Provided further, That any ceiling on the investment item unit
cost of items that may be purchased with operation and mainte-
nance funds shall not apply to the funds described in the preceding
proviso: Provided further, That of the funds provided under this
heading, $656,140,000, of which $434,630,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2022, shall be available for International Secu-
rity Cooperation Programs and other programs to provide support
and assistance to foreign security forces or other groups or individ-
uals to conduct, support or facilitate counterterrorism, crisis
response, or building partner capacity programs: Provided further,
That the Secretary of Defense shall, not less than 15 days prior Deadline.
to obligating funds made available in this section for International Notification.
Security Cooperation Programs, notify the congressional defense
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committees in writing of the details of any such obligation: Provided
further, That the Secretary of Defense shall provide quarterly Reports.
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reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on the use and status of funds made
available in this paragraph: Provided further, That the transfer
authority provided under this heading is in addition to any other
transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE
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 equip-
ment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation;
care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and
equipment; and communications, $2,887,898,000.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY RESERVE
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 equip-
ment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation;
care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and
equipment; and communications, $1,115,150,000.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS RESERVE
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, $283,494,000.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE RESERVE
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 transpor-
tation; care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, sup-
plies, and equipment; and communications, $3,268,461,000.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
For expenses of training, organizing, and administering the
Army National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment
and related expenses in non-Federal hospitals; maintenance, oper-
ation, 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 Bureau regulations when specifi-
cally authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; supplying
and equipping the Army National Guard as authorized by law;
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and expenses of repair, modification, maintenance, and issue of
supplies and equipment (including aircraft), $7,350,837,000.
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR NATIONAL GUARD
For expenses of training, organizing, and administering the
Air National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment and
related expenses in non-Federal hospitals; maintenance, operation,
and repairs to structures and facilities; transportation of things,
hire of passenger motor vehicles; supplying and equipping the Air
National Guard, as authorized by law; expenses for repair, modifica-
tion, maintenance, and issue of supplies and equipment, including
those 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 per-
sonnel on active Federal duty, for Air National Guard commanders
while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard Bureau
regulations when specifically authorized by the Chief, National
Guard Bureau, $6,785,853,000.
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES
For salaries and expenses necessary for the United States
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, $15,211,000, of which not
to exceed $5,000 may be used for official representation purposes.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the Department of the Army, $264,285,000, to remain Determinations.
available until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the
Army shall, upon determining that such funds are required for
environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous
waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris of the Department
of the Army, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made
available by this appropriation to other appropriations made avail-
able to the Department of the Army, to be merged with and to
be available for the same purposes and for the same time period
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That
upon a determination that all or part of the funds transferred
from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation:
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided under this
heading is in addition to any other transfer authority provided
elsewhere in this Act.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the Department of the Navy, $421,250,000, to remain avail- Determinations.
able until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy
shall, upon determining that such funds are required for environ-
mental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous waste,
removal of unsafe buildings and debris of the Department of the
Navy, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available
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by this appropriation to other appropriations made available to
the Department of the Navy, to be merged with and to be available
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for the same purposes and for the same time period as the appro-
priations to which transferred: Provided further, That upon a deter-
mination that all or part of the funds transferred from this appro-
priation are not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such
amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: Provided
further, That the transfer authority provided under this heading
is in addition to any other transfer authority provided elsewhere
in this Act.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Determinations. For the Department of the Air Force, $509,250,000, to remain
available until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the
Air Force shall, upon determining that such funds are required
for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous
waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris of the Department
of the Air Force, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made
available by this appropriation to other appropriations made avail-
able to the Department of the Air Force, to be merged with and
to be available for the same purposes and for the same time period
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That
upon a determination that all or part of the funds transferred
from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation:
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided under this
heading is in addition to any other transfer authority provided
elsewhere in this Act.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE-WIDE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Determinations. For the Department of Defense, $19,952,000, to remain avail-
able until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense
shall, upon determining that such funds are required for environ-
mental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous waste,
removal of unsafe buildings and debris of the Department of
Defense, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available
by this appropriation to other appropriations made available to
the Department of Defense, to be merged with and to be available
for the same purposes and for the same time period as the appro-
priations to which transferred: Provided further, That upon a deter-
mination that all or part of the funds transferred from this appro-
priation are not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such
amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: Provided
further, That the transfer authority provided under this heading
is in addition to any other transfer authority provided elsewhere
in this Act.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, FORMERLY USED DEFENSE SITES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Determinations. For the Department of the Army, $288,750,000, to remain
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available until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the
Army shall, upon determining that such funds are required for
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environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous
waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris at sites formerly
used by the Department of Defense, transfer the funds made avail-
able by this appropriation to other appropriations made available
to the Department of the Army, to be merged with and to be
available for the same purposes and for the same time period
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That
upon a determination that all or part of the funds transferred
from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation:
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided under this
heading is in addition to any other transfer authority provided
elsewhere in this Act.
OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID
For expenses relating to the Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster,
and Civic Aid programs of the Department of Defense (consisting
of the programs provided under sections 401, 402, 404, 407, 2557,
and 2561 of title 10, United States Code), $147,500,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022: Provided, That such amounts
shall not be subject to the limitation in section 407(c)(3) of title
10, United States Code.
COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT
For assistance, including assistance provided by contract or
by grants, under programs and activities of the Department of
Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program authorized under
the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Act,
$360,190,000, to remain available until September 30, 2023.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
ACCOUNT
For the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Develop-
ment Account, $88,181,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2021: Provided, That no other amounts may be
otherwise credited or transferred to the Account, or deposited into
the Account, in fiscal year 2021 pursuant to section 1705(d) of
title 10, United States Code.
TITLE III
PROCUREMENT
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and
modernization of aircraft, equipment, including ordnance, ground
handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; special-
ized equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private
plants, including the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and
procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, and
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machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other
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expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, $3,457,342,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and
modernization of missiles, equipment, including ordnance, ground
handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; special-
ized equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private
plants, including the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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, $3,220,541,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES,
ARMY
For construction, procurement, production, and modification
of weapons and tracked combat vehicles, equipment, including ord-
nance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized equipment
and training devices; expansion of public and private plants,
including the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes,
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and
construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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, $3,611,887,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY
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 by section 2854 of title 10, United
States Code, and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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, $2,790,140,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY
For construction, procurement, production, and modification
of vehicles, including tactical, support, and non-tracked combat
vehicles; the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement
only; communications and electronic equipment; other support
equipment; spare parts, ordnance, and accessories therefor; special-
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ized equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private
plants, including the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing
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purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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, $8,603,112,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY
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; and
procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, and
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway,
$19,480,280,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2023.
WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY
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; and
procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, and
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway,
$4,477,773,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2023.
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS
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 by section 2854 of title 10, United
States Code, and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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, $792,023,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY
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
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and installation thereof in public and private plants; reserve plant
and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway;
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procurement of critical, long lead time components and designs
for vessels to be constructed or converted in the future; and expan-
sion 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 follows:
Columbia Class Submarine, $2,869,024,000;
Columbia Class Submarine (AP), $1,253,175,000;
Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–80), $958,933,000;
Carrier Replacement Program (CVN–81), $1,606,432,000;
Virginia Class Submarine, $4,603,213,000;
Virginia Class Submarine (AP), $2,173,187,000;
CVN Refueling Overhauls, $1,531,153,000;
CVN Refueling Overhauls (AP), $17,384,000;
DDG–1000 Program, $78,205,000;
DDG–51 Destroyer, $3,219,843,000;
DDG–51 Destroyer (AP), $159,297,000;
FFG–Frigate, $1,053,123,000;
LPD Flight II, $1,125,801,000;
LPD 32 (AP), $1,000,000;
LPD 33 (AP), $1,000,000;
Expeditionary Sea Base (AP), $73,000,000;
LHA Replacement, $500,000,000;
Expeditionary Fast Transport, $260,000,000;
TAO Fleet Oiler, $20,000,000;
Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship, $157,790,000;
LCU 1700, $87,395,000;
Service Craft, $244,147,000;
LCAC SLEP, $56,461,000;
Auxiliary Vessels, $60,000,000;
For outfitting, post delivery, conversions, and first destina-
tion transportation, $752,005,000; and
Completion of Prior Year Shipbuilding Programs,
$407,312,000.
In all: $23,268,880,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2025: Provided, That additional obligations may
be incurred after September 30, 2025, for engineering services,
tests, evaluations, and other such budgeted work that must be
performed in the final stage of ship construction: Provided further,
Vessels. That none of the funds provided under this heading for the construc-
tion or conversion of any naval vessel to be constructed in shipyards
in the United States shall be expended in foreign facilities for
the construction of major components of such vessel: Provided fur-
Vessels. ther, That none of the funds provided under this heading shall
be used for the construction of any naval vessel in foreign shipyards:
Provided further, That funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able by this Act for Columbia Class Submarine (AP) may be avail-
able for the purposes authorized by subsections (f), (g), (h) or (i)
of section 2218a of title 10, United States Code, only in accordance
with the provisions of the applicable subsection.
OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY
For procurement, production, and modernization of support
equipment and materials not otherwise provided for, Navy ordnance
(except ordnance for new aircraft, new ships, and ships authorized
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for conversion); the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for
replacement only; expansion of public and private plants, including
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the land necessary therefor, and such lands and interests therein,
may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to
approval of title; and procurement and installation of equipment,
appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve
plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway,
$10,512,209,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2023: Provided, That such funds are also available for the
maintenance, repair, and modernization of Pacific Fleet ships under
a pilot program established for such purposes.
PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, and
modification of missiles, armament, 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; vehicles for the Marine Corps, including the purchase
of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; 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,
$2,648,375,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2023.
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
For construction, procurement, and modification of aircraft and
equipment, including armor and armament, specialized ground han-
dling 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, for
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may
be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval
of title; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equip-
ment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing pur-
poses including rents and transportation of things, $19,212,753,000,
to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
For construction, procurement, and modification of missiles,
rockets, and related equipment, including spare parts and acces-
sories therefor; ground handling equipment, and training devices;
expansion of public and private plants, Government-owned equip-
ment 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 approval of title; reserve plant and Government
and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses nec-
essary for the foregoing purposes including rents and transportation
of things, $2,142,181,000, to remain available for obligation until
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September 30, 2023.
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PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE
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 by section 2854 of title 10, United
States Code, and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired,
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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, $550,844,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023.
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
For procurement and modification of equipment (including
ground guidance and electronic control equipment, and ground elec-
tronic and communication equipment), and supplies, materials, and
spare parts therefor, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of
passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; lease of passenger
motor vehicles; and expansion of public and private plants, Govern-
ment-owned 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 approval of title;
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment
layaway, $23,441,648,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2023.
PROCUREMENT, SPACE FORCE
For construction, procurement, and modification of spacecraft,
rockets, and related equipment, including spare parts and acces-
sories therefor; ground handling equipment, and training devices;
expansion of public and private plants, Government-owned equip-
ment 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 approval of title; reserve plant and Government
and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses nec-
essary for the foregoing purposes including rents and transportation
of things, $2,310,994,000, to remain available for obligation until
September 30, 2023.
PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE
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 passenger motor vehicles 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
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therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior
to approval of title; reserve plant and Government and contractor-
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owned equipment layaway, $5,837,347,000, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 2023.
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES
For activities by the Department of Defense pursuant to sec-
tions 108, 301, 302, and 303 of the Defense Production Act of
1950 (50 U.S.C. 4518, 4531, 4532, and 4533), $174,639,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That no less than
$60,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall be
obligated and expended by the Secretary of Defense in behalf of
the Department of Defense as if delegated the necessary authorities
conferred by the Defense Production Act of 1950.
TITLE IV
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, ARMY
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research,
development, test and evaluation, including maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment,
$13,969,032,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2022.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, NAVY
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research,
development, test and evaluation, including maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment,
$20,078,829,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2022: Provided, That funds appropriated in this paragraph
which are available for the V–22 may be used to meet unique
operational requirements of the Special Operations Forces.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research,
development, test and evaluation, including maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment,
$36,357,443,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2022.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, SPACE FORCE
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research,
development, test and evaluation, including maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment,
$10,540,069,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE-WIDE
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
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by the Secretary of Defense, pursuant to law; maintenance,
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment,
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$25,932,671,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2022.
OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
independent activities of the Director, Operational Test and Evalua-
tion, in the direction and supervision of operational test and evalua-
tion, including initial operational test and evaluation which is con-
ducted prior to, and in support of, production decisions; joint oper-
ational testing and evaluation; and administrative expenses in
connection therewith, $257,120,000, to remain available for obliga-
tion until September 30, 2022.
TITLE V
REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS
For the Defense Working Capital Funds, $1,473,910,000.
TITLE VI
OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical and health
care programs of the Department of Defense as authorized by
law, $33,684,607,000; of which $30,747,659,000 shall be for oper-
ation and maintenance, of which not to exceed one percent shall
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2022, and of
which up to $16,008,365,000 may be available for contracts entered
into under the TRICARE program; of which $544,369,000, to remain
available for obligation until September 30, 2023, shall be for
procurement; and of which $2,392,579,000, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 2022, shall be for research, develop-
ment, test and evaluation: Provided, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, of the amount made available under this
heading for research, development, test and evaluation, not less
than $8,000,000 shall be available for HIV prevention educational
activities undertaken in connection with United States military
training, exercises, and humanitarian assistance activities con-
ducted primarily in African nations: Provided further, That of the
funds provided under this heading for research, development, test
and evaluation, not less than $1,489,000,000 shall be made available
to the United States Army Medical Research and Development
Command to carry out the congressionally directed medical research
Reports. programs: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees quarterly reports
on the current status of the deployment of the electronic health
Notice. record: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall provide
Deadline. notice to the congressional defense committees not later than 10
Time period. business days after delaying the proposed timeline of such deploy-
Reviews. ment if such delay is longer than 1 week: Provided further, That
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the Comptroller General of the United States shall perform quar-
terly performance reviews of such deployment.
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CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION, DEFENSE
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal chemical agents
and munitions in accordance with the provisions of section 1412
of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C.
1521), and for the destruction of other chemical warfare materials
that are not in the chemical weapon stockpile, $1,049,800,000,
of which $106,691,000 shall be for operation and maintenance,
of which no less than $51,009,000 shall be for the Chemical Stock-
pile Emergency Preparedness Program, consisting of $22,235,000
for activities on military installations and $28,774,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, to assist State and local govern-
ments; $616,000 shall be for procurement, to remain available until
September 30, 2023, of which not less than $616,000 shall be
for the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program to
assist State and local governments; and $942,493,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2022, shall be for research, develop-
ment, test and evaluation, of which $935,999,000 shall only be
for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program.
DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, for transfer to appropriations available to the
Department of Defense for military personnel of the reserve compo-
nents serving under the provisions of title 10 and title 32, United
States Code; for operation and maintenance; for procurement; and
for research, development, test and evaluation, $914,429,000, of
which $567,003,000 shall be for counter-narcotics support;
$127,704,000 shall be for the drug demand reduction program;
$194,211,000 shall be for the National Guard counter-drug program;
and $25,511,000 shall be for the National Guard counter-drug
schools program: Provided, That the funds appropriated under this
heading shall be available for obligation for the same time period
and for the same purpose as the appropriation to which transferred:
Provided further, That upon a determination that all or part of Determination.
the funds transferred from this appropriation are not necessary
for the purposes provided herein, such amounts may be transferred
back to this appropriation: Provided further, That the transfer
authority provided under this heading is in addition to any other
transfer authority contained elsewhere in this Act.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For expenses and activities of the Office of the Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act
of 1978, as amended, $375,439,000, of which $373,483,000 shall
be for operation and maintenance, of which not to exceed $700,000
is available for emergencies and extraordinary expenses to be
expended upon the approval or authority of the Inspector General,
and payments may be made upon the Inspector General’s certificate
of necessity for confidential military purposes; of which $858,000,
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to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2023, shall
be for procurement; and of which $1,098,000, to remain available
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until September 30, 2022, shall be for research, development, test
and evaluation.
TITLE VII
RELATED AGENCIES
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY
SYSTEM FUND
For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement
and Disability System Fund, to maintain the proper funding level
for continuing the operation of the Central Intelligence Agency
Retirement and Disability System, $514,000,000.
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT
For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Community Manage-
ment Account, $633,719,000.
TITLE VIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Propaganda. SEC. 8001. No part of any appropriation contained in this
Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not author-
ized by the Congress.
10 USC 1584 SEC. 8002. During the current fiscal year, provisions of law
note. 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: Provided, That salary
increases granted to direct and indirect hire foreign national
employees of the Department of Defense funded by this Act shall
not be at a rate in excess of the percentage increase authorized
by law for civilian employees of the Department of Defense whose
pay is computed under the provisions of section 5332 of title 5,
United States Code, or at a rate in excess of the percentage increase
provided by the appropriate host nation to its own employees,
whichever is higher: Provided further, That this section shall not
apply to Department of Defense foreign service national employees
serving at United States diplomatic missions whose pay is set
by the Department of State under the Foreign Service Act of 1980:
Turkey. Provided further, That the limitations of this provision shall not
apply to foreign national employees of the Department of Defense
in the Republic of Turkey.
SEC. 8003. No part of any appropriation contained in this
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal
year, unless expressly so provided herein.
Time period. SEC. 8004. No more than 20 percent of the appropriations
in this Act which are limited for obligation during the current
fiscal year shall be obligated during the last 2 months of the
fiscal year: Provided, That this section shall not apply to obligations
for support of active duty training of reserve components or summer
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camp training of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 8005. Upon determination by the Secretary of Defense Determination.
that such action is necessary in the national interest, the Secretary
may, with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget,
transfer not to exceed $4,000,000,000 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 subdivi-
sion 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 unfore-
seen military requirements, than those for which originally appro-
priated and in no case where the item for which funds are requested
has been denied by the Congress: Provided further, That the Sec- Notification.
retary of Defense shall notify the Congress promptly of all transfers
made pursuant to this authority or any other authority in this
Act: Provided further, That no part of the funds in this Act shall Reprogramming
be available to prepare or present a request to the Committees requests.
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
for 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 reprogram-
ming is requested has been denied by the Congress: Provided fur-
ther, That a request for multiple reprogrammings of funds using Reprogramming
authority provided in this section shall be made prior to June requests.
Deadline.
30, 2021: Provided further, That transfers among military personnel
appropriations shall not be taken into account for purposes of
the limitation on the amount of funds that may be transferred
under this section.
SEC. 8006. (a) With regard to the list of specific programs,
projects, and activities (and the dollar amounts and adjustments
to budget activities corresponding to such programs, projects, and
activities) contained in the tables titled Explanation of Project Level
Adjustments in the explanatory statement regarding this Act and
the tables contained in the classified annex accompanying this
Act, the obligation and expenditure of amounts appropriated or
otherwise made available in this Act for those programs, projects,
and activities for which the amounts appropriated exceed the
amounts requested are hereby required by law to be carried out
in the manner provided by such tables to the same extent as
if the tables were included in the text of this Act.
(b) Amounts specified in the referenced tables described in
subsection (a) shall not be treated as subdivisions of appropriations
for purposes of section 8005 of this Act: Provided, That section Applicability.
8005 shall apply when transfers of the amounts described in sub-
section (a) occur between appropriation accounts.
SEC. 8007. (a) Not later than 60 days after enactment of this Reports.
Act, the Department of Defense shall submit a report to the congres-
sional defense committees to establish the baseline for application
of reprogramming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 2021:
Provided, That the report shall include—
(1) a table for each appropriation with a separate column
to display the President’s budget request, adjustments made
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by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appro-
priate, and the fiscal year enacted level;
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(2) a delineation in the table for each appropriation both
by budget activity and program, project, and activity as detailed
in the Budget Appendix; and
(3) an identification of items of special congressional
interest.
Certification. (b) Notwithstanding section 8005 of this Act, none of the funds
provided in this Act shall be available for reprogramming or transfer
until the report identified in subsection (a) is submitted to the
congressional defense committees, unless the Secretary of Defense
certifies in writing to the congressional defense committees that
such reprogramming or transfer is necessary as an emergency
requirement: Provided, That this subsection shall not apply to trans-
fers from the following appropriations accounts:
(1) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Army’’;
(2) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Navy’’;
(3) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Air Force’’;
(4) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide’’;
(5) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense
Sites’’; and
(6) ‘‘Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Activities,
Defense’’.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 8008. 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: Provided further,
Determination. That transfers may be made between working capital funds and
Approval. the ‘‘Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense’’ appropriation and
Notification. the ‘‘Operation and Maintenance’’ appropriation accounts in such
amounts as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense, with
the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, except that
such transfers may not be made unless the Secretary of Defense
has notified the Congress of the proposed transfer: Provided further,
Notification. That 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 or increase the value
of war reserve material inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense
has notified the Congress prior to any such obligation.
Notification. SEC. 8009. Funds appropriated by this Act may not be used
Deadline. to initiate a special access program without prior notification 30
calendar days in advance to the congressional defense committees.
Contracts. SEC. 8010. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be
Notifications. available to initiate: (1) a multiyear contract that employs economic
Deadlines. order quantity procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in any one
10 USC 2306b
note. year of the contract or that includes an unfunded contingent liability
in excess of $20,000,000; or (2) a contract for advance procurement
leading to a multiyear contract that employs economic order
quantity procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in any one year,
unless the congressional defense committees have been notified
at least 30 days in advance of the proposed contract award: Pro-
vided, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act
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shall be available to initiate a multiyear contract for which the
economic order quantity advance procurement is not funded at
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least to the limits of the Government’s liability: Provided further,
That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
be available to initiate multiyear procurement contracts for any
systems or component thereof if the value of the multiyear contract
would exceed $500,000,000 unless specifically provided in this Act:
Provided further, That no multiyear procurement contract can be
terminated without 30-day prior notification to the congressional
defense committees: Provided further, That the execution of Analysis.
multiyear authority shall require the use of a present value analysis Determination.
to determine lowest cost compared to an annual procurement: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds provided in this Act may
be used for a multiyear contract executed after the date of the
enactment of this Act unless in the case of any such contract—
(1) the Secretary of Defense has submitted to Congress Budget request.
a budget request for full funding of units to be procured through
the contract and, in the case of a contract for procurement
of aircraft, that includes, for any aircraft unit to be procured
through the contract for which procurement funds are requested
in that budget request for production beyond advance procure-
ment activities in the fiscal year covered by the budget, full
funding of procurement of such unit in that fiscal year;
(2) cancellation provisions in the contract do not include
consideration of recurring manufacturing costs of the contractor
associated with the production of unfunded units to be delivered
under the contract;
(3) the contract provides that payments to the contractor
under the contract shall not be made in advance of incurred
costs on funded units; and
(4) the contract does not provide for a price adjustment
based on a failure to award a follow-on contract.
SEC. 8011. Within the funds appropriated for the operation Humanitarian
and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are hereby appro- assistance.
priated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, United States Code, Territories.
for humanitarian and civic assistance costs under chapter 20 of
title 10, United States Code. Such funds may also be obligated Reports.
for humanitarian and civic assistance costs incidental to authorized
operations and pursuant to authority granted in section 401 of
title 10, United States Code, and these obligations shall be reported
as required by section 401(d) of title 10, United States Code: Pro-
vided, That funds available for operation and maintenance shall
be available for providing humanitarian and similar assistance
by using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Territories of the Pacific
Islands and freely associated states of Micronesia, pursuant to
the Compact of Free Association as authorized by Public Law 99–
239: Provided further, That upon a determination by the Secretary Determination.
of the Army that such action is beneficial for graduate medical Hawaii.
education programs conducted at Army medical facilities located
in Hawaii, the Secretary of the Army may authorize the provision
of medical services at such facilities and transportation to such
facilities, on a nonreimbursable basis, for civilian patients from
American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia,
Palau, and Guam.
SEC. 8012. (a) During the current fiscal year, the civilian per-
sonnel of the Department of Defense may not be managed solely
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on the basis of any constraint or limitation in terms of man years,
end strength, full-time equivalent positions, or maximum number
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of employees, but are to be managed primarily on the basis of,
and in a manner consistent with—
(1) the total force management policies and procedures
established under section 129a of title 10, United States Code;
(2) the workload required to carry out the functions and
activities of the Department; and
(3) the funds made available to the Department for such
fiscal year.
Workforce (b) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used
reduction. to reduce the civilian workforce programmed full time equivalent
Analysis.
levels absent the appropriate analysis of the impacts of these reduc-
tions on workload, military force structure, lethality, readiness,
operational effectiveness, stress on the military force, and fully
burdened costs.
(c) A projection of the number of full-time equivalent positions
shall not be considered a constraint or limitation for purposes
of subsection (a) and reducing funding for under-execution of such
a projection shall not be considered managing based on a constraint
or limitation for purposes of such subsection.
Budget request. (d) The fiscal year 2022 budget request for the Department
Effective date. of Defense, and any justification material and other documentation
supporting such request, shall be prepared and submitted to Con-
gress as if subsections (a) and (b) were effective with respect to
such fiscal year.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to mili-
tary (civilian) technicians.
Lobbying. SEC. 8013. 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. 8014. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall
be available for the basic pay and allowances of any member of
the Army participating as a full-time student and receiving benefits
paid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from the Department
of Defense Education Benefits Fund when time spent as a full-
time student is credited toward completion of a service commitment:
Provided, That this section shall not apply to those members who
have reenlisted with this option prior to October 1, 1987: Provided
Applicability. further, That this section applies only to active components of
the Army.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 8015. (a) Funds appropriated in title III of this Act for
the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protégé Program may be
transferred to any other appropriation contained in this Act solely
for the purpose of implementing a Mentor-Protégé Program develop-
mental assistance agreement pursuant to section 831 of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public
Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note), as amended, under the
authority of this provision or any other transfer authority contained
in this Act.
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall include with the budget
justification documents in support of the budget for any fiscal
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year after fiscal year 2021 (as submitted to Congress pursuant
to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code) a description of
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each transfer under this section that occurred during the last fiscal
year before the fiscal year in which such budget is submitted.
SEC. 8016. None of the funds in this Act may be available Anchor and
for the purchase by the Department of Defense (and its departments mooring chain.
and agencies) of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain 4
inches in diameter and under unless the anchor and mooring chain
are manufactured in the United States from components which
are substantially manufactured in the United States: Provided,
That for the purpose of this section, the term ‘‘manufactured’’ shall Definition.
include cutting, heat treating, quality control, testing of chain and
welding (including the forging and shot blasting process): Provided
further, That for the purpose of this section substantially all of
the components of anchor and mooring chain shall be considered
to be produced or manufactured in the United States if the aggre-
gate cost of the components produced or manufactured in the United
States exceeds the aggregate cost of the components produced or
manufactured outside the United States: Provided further, That Waiver authority.
when adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet Depart- Certification.
ment of Defense requirements on a timely basis, the Secretary
of the Service responsible for the procurement may waive this
restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Senate that such an acquisition must be made in order to
acquire capability for national security purposes.
SEC. 8017. None of the funds available in this Act to the
Department of Defense, other than appropriations made for nec-
essary or routine refurbishments, upgrades or maintenance activi-
ties, shall be used to reduce or to prepare to reduce the number
of deployed and non-deployed strategic delivery vehicles and
launchers below the levels set forth in the report submitted to
Congress in accordance with section 1042 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.
SEC. 8018. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall Alcohol and
be used for the support of any nonappropriated funds activity alcoholic
beverages.
of the Department of Defense that procures malt beverages and
wine with nonappropriated funds for resale (including such alcoholic
beverages sold by the drink) on a military installation located
in the United States unless such malt beverages and wine are
procured within that State, or in the case of the District of
Columbia, within the District of Columbia, in which the military
installation is located: Provided, That, in a case in which the
military installation is located in more than one State, purchases
may be made in any State in which the installation is located:
Provided further, That such local procurement requirements for Applicability.
malt beverages and wine shall apply to all alcoholic beverages
only for military installations in States which are not contiguous
with another State: Provided further, That alcoholic beverages other
than wine and malt beverages, in contiguous States and the District
of Columbia shall be procured from the most competitive source,
price and other factors considered.
SEC. 8019. None of the funds available to the Department Arms and
of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dispose of M–1 Carbines, munitions.
M–1 Garand rifles, M–14 rifles, .22 caliber rifles, .30 caliber rifles, Certification.
or M–1911 pistols, or to demilitarize or destroy small arms ammuni-
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tion or ammunition components that are not otherwise prohibited
from commercial sale under Federal law, unless the small arms
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ammunition or ammunition components are certified by the Sec-
retary of the Army or designee as unserviceable or unsafe for
further use.
SEC. 8020. No more than $500,000 of the funds appropriated
or made available in this Act shall be used during a single fiscal
year for any single relocation of an organization, unit, activity
or function of the Department of Defense into or within the National
Waiver authority. Capital Region: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive
Certification. this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing
to the congressional defense committees that such a relocation
is required in the best interest of the Government.
Contracts. SEC. 8021. In addition to the funds provided else-where in
this Act, $25,000,000 is appropriated only for incentive payments
authorized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974
(25 U.S.C. 1544): Provided, That a prime contractor or a subcon-
tractor at any tier that makes a subcontract award to any subcon-
tractor or supplier as defined in section 1544 of title 25, United
States Code, or a small business owned and controlled by an indi-
vidual or individuals defined under section 4221(9) of title 25,
United States Code, shall be considered a contractor for the pur-
poses of being allowed additional compensation under section 504
of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544) whenever
the prime contract or subcontract amount is over $500,000 and
involves the expenditure of funds appropriated by an Act making
appropriations for the Department of Defense with respect to any
Applicability. fiscal year: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 1906
of title 41, United States Code, this section shall be applicable
to any Department of Defense acquisition of supplies or services,
including any contract and any subcontract at any tier for acquisi-
tion of commercial items produced or manufactured, in whole or
in part, by any subcontractor or supplier defined in section 1544
of title 25, United States Code, or a small business owned and
controlled by an individual or individuals defined under section
4221(9) of title 25, United States Code.
SEC. 8022. Funds appropriated by this Act for the Defense
Media Activity shall not be used for any national or international
political or psychological activities.
Kuwait. SEC. 8023. During the current fiscal year, the Department
of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of not to exceed
$350,000,000 for purposes specified in section 2350j(c) of title 10,
United States Code, in anticipation of receipt of contributions, only
from the Government of Kuwait, under that section: Provided,
That, upon receipt, such contributions from the Government of
Kuwait shall be credited to the appropriations or fund which
incurred such obligations.
Notifications. SEC. 8024. The Secretary of Defense shall notify the congres-
Deadlines. sional defense committees in writing not more than 30 days after
the receipt of any contribution of funds received from the govern-
ment of a foreign country for any purpose relating to the stationing
or operations of the United States Armed Forces: Provided, That
such notification shall include the amount of the contribution; the
purpose for which such contribution was made; and the authority
under which such contribution was accepted by the Secretary of
Defense: Provided further, That not fewer than 15 days prior to
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obligating such funds, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to
the congressional defense committees in writing a notification of
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