H.R. 4635 (rh) Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for othe...

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with respect to that part only.

                      construction, minor projects

    For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of the 
facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, including planning, architectural and engineering 
services, maintenance or guarantee period services costs associated 
with equipment guarantees provided under the project, services of 
claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system construction 
costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the purposes set forth in 
sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 
8162 of title 38, United States Code, where the estimated cost of a 
project is less than $4,000,000, $100,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, along with unobligated balances of previous 
``Construction, minor projects'' appropriations which are hereby made 
available for any project where the estimated cost is less than 
$4,000,000: Provided, That funds in this account shall be available 
for: (1) repairs to any of the nonmedical facilities under the 
jurisdiction or for the use of the department which are necessary 
because of loss or damage caused by any natural disaster or 
catastrophe; and (2) temporary measures necessary to prevent or to 
minimize further loss by such causes.

                         parking revolving fund

    For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8109, 
income from fees collected, to remain available until expended, which 
shall be available for all authorized expenses.

       grants for construction of state extended care facilities

    For grants to assist States to acquire or construct State nursing 
home and domiciliary facilities and to remodel, modify or alter 
existing hospital, nursing home and domiciliary facilities in State 
homes, for furnishing care to veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131-
8137, $60,000,000 (increased by $30,000,000), to remain available until 
expended.

        grants for the construction of state veterans cemeteries

    For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding, or improving 
State veterans cemeteries as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, 
to remain available until expended.

                       Administrative Provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Sec. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2001 for ``Compensation 
and pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and ``Veterans insurance and 
indemnities'' may be transferred to any other of the mentioned 
appropriations.
    Sec. 102. Appropriations available to the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for salaries and expenses shall be 
available for services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
    Sec. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the Department of 
Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations for ``Construction, major 
projects'', ``Construction, minor projects'', and the ``Parking 
revolving fund'') shall be available for the purchase of any site for 
or toward the construction of any new hospital or home.
    Sec. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the Department of 
Veterans Affairs shall be available for hospitalization or examination 
of any persons (except beneficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing 
such benefits to veterans, and persons receiving such treatment under 5 
U.S.C. 7901-7904 or 42 U.S.C. 5141-5204), unless reimbursement of cost 
is made to the ``Medical care'' account at such rates as may be fixed 
by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
    Sec. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of Veterans 
Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for ``Compensation and pensions'', 
``Readjustment benefits'', and ``Veterans insurance and indemnities'' 
shall be available for payment of prior year accrued obligations 
required to be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year 
accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 2000.
    Sec. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the Department of 
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 shall be available to pay prior 
year obligations of corresponding prior year appropriations accounts 
resulting from title X of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public 
Law 100-86, except that if such obligations are from trust fund 
accounts they shall be payable from ``Compensation and pensions''.
    Sec. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during fiscal 
year 2001, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall, from the National 
Service Life Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans' Special 
Life Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Government 
Life Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reimburse the ``General operating 
expenses'' account for the cost of administration of the insurance 
programs financed through those accounts: Provided, That reimbursement 
shall be made only from the surplus earnings accumulated in an 
insurance program in fiscal year 2001, that are available for dividends 
in that program after claims have been paid and actuarially determined 
reserves have been set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of 
administration of an insurance program exceeds the amount of surplus 
earnings accumulated in that program, reimbursement shall be made only 
to the extent of such surplus earnings: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall determine the cost of administration for fiscal year 
2001, which is properly allocable to the provision of each insurance 
program and to the provision of any total disability income insurance 
included in such insurance program.
    Sec. 108. (a) Notwithstanding sections 1710B(e)(2) and 1729B(b) of 
title 38 United States Code, and any other provision of law, any amount 
received or collected by the Department of Veterans Affairs during 
fiscal year 2001 under any of the following provisions of law shall be 
deposited in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Fund, to 
be available in accordance with section 1829A(c) of title 38 United 
States Code:
            (1) Section 1710B of title 38 United States Code.
            (2) Section 1722A(b) of title 38 United States Code.
            (3) Section 8165(a) of title 38 United States Code.
            (4) Section 113 of the Veterans Millennium Health Care and 
        Benefits Act (Public Law 106-117; of title 38 United States 
        Code.
    (b) Provisions of law referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
treated as provisions of law referred to in subsection (b) of section 
1729A of of title 38 United States Code, for purposes of subsections 
(d), (e), and (f) of that section during fiscal year 2001.
    Sec. 109. In accordance with section 1557 of title 31, United 
States Code, the following obligated balance shall be exempt from 
subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such title and shall remain available 
for expenditure until September 30, 2003: funds obligated by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs for a contract with the Institute for 
Clinical Research to study the application of artificial neural 
networks to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through the 
Cooperative DoD/VA Medical Research program from funds made available 
to the Department of Veterans Affairs by the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-335) under the heading 
``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide''.
    Sec. 110. As HR LINK$ will not be part of the Franchise Fund in 
fiscal year 2001, funds budgeted in customer accounts to purchase HR 
LINK$ services from the Franchise Fund shall be transferred to the 
General Administration portion of the ``General operating expenses'' 
appropriation in the following amounts: $78,000 from the ``Office of 
Inspector General'', $358,000 from the ``National cemetery 
administration'', $1,106,000 from ``Medical care'', $84,000 from 
``Medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses'', and 
$38,000 shall be reprogrammed within the ``General operating expenses'' 
appropriation from the Veterans Benefits Administration to General 
Administration for the same purpose.
    Sec. 111. Not to exceed $1,600,000 from the ``Medical care'' 
appropriation shall be transferred to the ``General operating 
expenses'' appropriation to fund personnel services costs of employees 
providing legal services and administrative support for the Office of 
General Counsel.
    Sec. 112. Section 9305 of Public Law 105-33, The Balanced Budget 
Act of 1997, is repealed.
    Sec. 113. None of the funds in this Act may be used to procure 
information technology systems, engage in new initiatives, or implement 
a policy affecting total procurement costs over $2,000,000 in non-
medical resources and $4,000,000 in medical resources without the 
approval of the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Investment 
Board.
    Sec. 114. Not later than March 30, 2001, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and House of Representatives a report on the program of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs for the establishment and operation at Department 
medical centers of Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical 
Centers (MIRECCs). The report shall include the following:
            (1) Identification of the allocation by the Secretary, from 
        funds appropriated for the Department in this Act and for prior 
        fiscal years, of funds for such Centers, including the number 
        of Centers for which funds were provided and the locations of 
        those Centers.
            (2) A description of the research activities carried out by 
        those Centers with respect to major mental illnesses affecting 
        veterans.

         TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                       Public and Indian Housing

                     housing certificate fund (hcf)

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For activities and assistance to prevent the involuntary 
displacement of low-income families, the elderly and the disabled 
because of the loss of affordable housing stock, expiration of subsidy 
contracts (other than contracts for which amounts are provided under 
another heading in this Act) or expiration of use restrictions, or 
other changes in housing assistance arrangements, and for other 
purposes, $13,275,388,459 and amounts that are recaptured in this 
account and recaptured under the appropriation for ``Annual 
contributions for assisted housing'', to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the total amount provided under this 
heading, $9,075,388,459 and the aforementioned recaptures shall be 
available on October 1, 2000, and $4,200,000,000 shall be available on 
October 1, 2001, shall be for assistance under the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (``the Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 1437): Provided 
further, That of the total amount available for use in connection with 
expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy contracts, up to $37,000,000 
shall be available for assistance under subtitle F of title IV of the 
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act for use in connection with 
the renewal of contracts, which contracts may be renewed 
noncompetitively and for 1-year terms, in addition to amounts otherwise 
available for such renewals: Provided further, That the foregoing 
amounts be for use in connection with expiring or terminating section 8 
subsidy contracts, for amendments to section 8 subsidy contracts, for 
enhanced vouchers (including amendments and renewals) under any 
provision of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the 
Act (47 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), and contracts entered into pursuant to 
section 441 and, for terms of 1 year, section 473 of the Stewart B. 
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act: Provided further, That amounts 
available under the first proviso under this heading shall be available 
for section 8 rental assistance under the Act: (1) pursuant to section 
24 of the Act or to other authority for the revitalization of severely 
distressed public housing, as set forth in the Appropriations Acts for 
the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, 
and Independent Agencies for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997, 
and in the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 
1996; (2) for the conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under 
section 8; (3) for funds to carry out the family unification program; 
(4) for the relocation of witnesses in connection with efforts to 
combat crime in public and assisted housing pursuant to a request from 
a law enforcement or prosecution agency; (5) for tenant protection 
assistance, including replacement and relocation assistance; (6) for 
renewal of assistance under the shelter plus care program; and (7) for 
the renewal of section 8 contracts for units in a project that is 
subject to an approved plan of action under the Emergency Low Income 
Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preservation 
and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990: Provided further, That of the 
total amount provided under this heading, up to $25,000,000 shall be 
made available to nonelderly disabled families affected by the 
designation of a public housing development under section 7 of such 
Act, the establishment of preferences in accordance with section 651 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 1361l), or 
the restriction of occupancy to elderly families in accordance with 
section 658 of such Act, and to the extent the Secretary determines 
that such amount is not needed to fund applications for such affected 
families, to other nonelderly disabled families: Provided further: That 
up to $192,000,000 from amounts available under this heading shall be 
made available for administrative fees and other expenses to cover the 
cost of administering rental assistance programs under section 8 of the 
Act: Provided further, That the fee otherwise authorized under section 
8(q) of such Act shall be determined in accordance with section 8(q), 
as in effect immediately before the enactment of the Quality Housing 
and Work Responsibility Act of 1998: Provided further, That of the 
total amount provided under this heading up to $66,000,000 shall be 
available for very low income families living in properties constructed 
under the low-income housing tax credit program as authorized, as long 
as the vouchers are awarded within 4 months after the rule implementing 
this program is finalized: Provided further, That of the total amount 
provided under this heading, up to $60,000,000 shall be made available 
for incremental vouchers under section 8 of the Act on a fair share 
basis to those PHAs that have a 97 percent occupancy rate: Provided 
further, That any funds appropriated in the immediately preceding 
proviso that are not awarded by February 1, 2001, shall be transferred 
to and merged with the appropriation for the ``Public housing capital 
fund'': Provided further, That the Secretary shall use up to $660,000 
of the amount provided under this heading for monitoring public housing 
agencies that increase payment standards under the authority under 
section 8(o)(1)(E)(i) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f(o)(1)(E)(i) and for conducting detailed evaluations of the 
effects of using assistance as authorized under section 8(o)(1)(E): 
Provided further, That $11,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working 
Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of information 
technology systems: Provided further, That amounts provided under this 
heading shall be available for use for particular activities described 
in any proviso under this heading only to the extent that amounts 
provided under this heading remain available after amounts have been 
made available for the activities under all other preceding provisos 
under this heading in the full amounts provided in such provisos; 
except that for purposes of this proviso, the first, second, and third 
provisos under this heading shall be considered to be a single proviso: 
Provided further, That of the balances remaining in the HCF account, 
$275,388,459 shall be rescinded on or about September 30, 2001: 
Provided further, That any obligated balances of contract authority 
that have been terminated shall be canceled.

                      public housing capital fund

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to carry out capital 
and management activities for public housing agencies, as authorized 
under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 1437), $2,800,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which up to $50,000,000 shall be for carrying out activities under 
section 9(h) of such Act, for lease adjustments to section 23 projects 
and $43,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund for 
the development and maintenance of information technology systems: 
Provided, That no funds may be used under this heading for the purposes 
specified in section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937: 
Provided further, That of the total amount, up to $75,000,000 shall be 
available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make 
grants to public housing agencies for emergency capital needs resulting 
from emergencies and natural disasters in fiscal year 2001.

                     public housing operating fund

    For payments to public housing agencies for the operation and 
management of public housing, as authorized by section 9(e) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), 
$3,138,000,000 (increased by $1,000,000), to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That no funds may be used under this heading for 
the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937.

                      drug elimination grants for

                           low-income housing

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