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  TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  1996

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Public Law 104-52
104th Congress

                                 An Act


 
  Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States 
   Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and 
       for other purposes. <<NOTE: Nov. 19, 1995 -  [H.R. 2020]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Treasury, Postal 
Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1996.>>  That the 
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department, the United States 
Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and 
for other purposes, namely:

   TITLE I <<NOTE: Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1996.>> --
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices including 
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and improvements of, and 
purchase of commercial insurance policies for, real properties leased or 
owned overseas, when necessary for the performance of official business; 
not to exceed $2,900,000 for official travel expenses; not to exceed 
$2,950,000 to remain available until expended for information technology 
modernization requirements; not to exceed $150,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses; not to exceed $258,000 for 
unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated and 
expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to be 
accounted for solely on his certificate; $105,929,000, of which up to 
$500,000 shall be available to reimburse the District of Columbia 
Metropolitan Police Department for personnel costs incurred by the 
Metropolitan Police Department between May 19, 1995 and September 30, 
1995 as a result of the closing to vehicular traffic of Pennsylvania 
Avenue Northwest and other streets in the vicinity of the White House: 
Provided, That section 640 of title VI of the Treasury, Postal Service 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-329, 108 
Stat. 2432), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
sentence: ``This section shall not apply to any claim where the employee 
has received any compensation for overtime hours worked during the 
period covered by the claim under any other provision of law, including, 
but not limited to, 5 U.S.C. 5545(c), or to any claim for compensation

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for time spent commuting between the employee's residence and duty 
station.''.

           treasury buildings and annex repair and restoration

      For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
Building and Annex, and the Secret Service Headquarters Building, 
$21,491,000, to remain available until expended.

                       Office of Inspector General

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,000,000 for 
official travel expenses; not to exceed $100,000 for unforeseen 
emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended under 
the direction of the Inspector General of the Treasury; $29,319,000.

                        treasury forfeiture fund

    For necessary expenses of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, as 
authorized by Public Law 102-393, not to exceed $10,000,000, to be 
derived from deposits in the Fund.

                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel expenses of non-
Federal law enforcement personnel to attend meetings concerned with 
financial intelligence activities, law enforcement, and financial 
regulation; not to exceed $14,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; $22,198,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement 
Network may procure up to $500,000 in specialized, unique or novel 
automatic data processing equipment, ancillary equipment, software, 
services, and related resources from commercial vendors without regard 
to otherwise applicable procurement laws and regulations and without 
full and open competition, utilizing procedures best suited under the 
circumstances of the procurement to efficiently fulfill the agency's 
requirements: Provided further, That funds appropriated in this account 
may be used to procure personal services contracts.

                 Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Center, as a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, including 
materials and support costs of Federal law enforcement basic training; 
purchase (not to exceed fifty-two for police-type use) and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; for expenses for student athletic and related 
activities; uniforms without regard to the general purchase price 
limitation for the current fiscal year; the conducting

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of and participating in firearms matches and presentation of awards; for 
public awareness and enhancing community support of law enforcement 
training; not to exceed $7,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses; room and board for student interns; and services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That <<NOTE: Gifts and property. 42 USC 3771 
note.>>  the Center is authorized to accept and use gifts of property, 
both real and personal, and to accept services, for authorized purposes, 
including funding of a gift of intrinsic value which shall be awarded 
annually by the Director of the Center to the outstanding student who 
graduated from a basic training program at the Center during the 
previous fiscal year, which shall be funded only by gifts received 
through the Center's gift authority: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, students attending training 
at any Federal Law Enforcement Training Center site shall reside in on-
Center or Center-provided housing, insofar as available and in 
accordance with Center policy: Provided further, That funds appropriated 
in this account shall be available for training United States Postal 
Service law enforcement personnel and Postal police officers, at the 
discretion of the Director; State and local government law enforcement 
training on a space-available basis; training of foreign law enforcement 
officials on a space-available basis with reimbursement of actual costs 
to this appropriation; training of private sector security officials on 
a space-available basis with reimbursement of actual costs to this 
appropriation; travel expenses of non-Federal personnel to attend State 
and local course development meetings at the Center: Provided further, 
That the Center is authorized to obligate funds in anticipation of 
reimbursements from agencies receiving training at the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center, except that total obligations at the end of 
the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources available at 
the end of the fiscal year: Provided further, That the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center is authorized to provide short term medical 
services for students undergoing training at the Center; $36,070,000, of 
which $8,666,000 for materials and support costs of Federal law 
enforcement basic training shall remain available until September 30, 
1998.

      acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses

    For expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, for 
acquisition of necessary additional real property and facilities, and 
for ongoing maintenance, facility improvements, and related expenses, 
$9,663,000, to remain available until expended.

                      Financial Management Service

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
$184,300,000, of which not to exceed $14,277,000 shall remain available 
until expended for systems modernization initiatives. In addition, 
$90,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to 
reimburse the Service for administrative and personnel expenses for 
financial management of the Fund, as authorized by section 1012 of 
Public Law 101-380.

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                 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed six hundred and fifty 
vehicles for police-type use for replacement only and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; and services of expert witnesses at 
such rates as may be determined by the Director; for payment of per diem 
and/or subsistence allowances to employees where an assignment to the 
National Response Team during the investigation of a bombing or arson 
incident requires an employee to work 16 hours or more per day or to 
remain overnight at his or her post of duty; not to exceed $10,000 for 
official reception and representation expenses; for training of State 
and local law enforcement agencies with or without reimbursement; 
provision of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies, with or 
without reimbursement; $377,971,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 
shall be available for the payment of attorneys' fees as provided by 18 
U.S.C. 924(d)(2); and of which $1,000,000 shall be available for the 
equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or aircraft available for 
official use by a State or local law enforcement agency if the 
conveyance will be used in drug-related joint law enforcement operations 
with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and for the payment of 
overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equipment, and other similar 
costs of State and local law enforcement officers that are incurred in 
joint operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: 
Provided, That no funds made available by this or any other Act may be 
used to implement any reorganization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
and Firearms or transfer of the Bureau's functions, missions, or 
activities to other agencies or Departments in the fiscal year ending on 
September 30, 1996: Provided further, That no funds appropriated herein 
shall be available for salaries or administrative expenses in connection 
with consolidating or centralizing, within the Department of the 
Treasury, the records, or any portion thereof, of acquisition and 
disposition of firearms maintained by Federal firearms licensees: 
Provided further, That no funds appropriated herein shall be used to pay 
administrative expenses or the compensation of any officer or employee 
of the United States to implement an amendment or amendments to 27 CFR 
178.118 or to change the definition of ``Curios or relics'' in 27 CFR 
178.11 or remove any item from ATF Publication 5300.11 as it existed on 
January 1, 1994: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
herein shall be available to investigate or act upon applications for 
relief from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): 
Provided further, That such funds shall be available to investigate and 
act upon applications filed by corporations for relief from Federal 
firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. section 925(c).

                      United States Customs Service

                          salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the United States Customs Service, 
including purchase of up to 1,000 motor vehicles of which 960 are for 
replacement only, including 990 for police-type use and commercial 
operations; hire of motor vehicles; not to exceed $20,000

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for official reception and representation expenses; and awards of 
compensation to informers, as authorized by any Act enforced by the 
United States Customs Service; $1,387,153,000, of which such sums as 
become available in the Customs User Fee Account, except sums subject to 
section 13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 
1985, as amended (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that 
Account; of that total, not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for 
payment for rental space in connection with preclearance operations, and 
not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be available until expended for research: 
Provided, That uniforms may be purchased without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year: Provided further, 
That the Commissioner of the Customs Service designate a single 
individual to be port director of all United States Government 
activities at two ports of entry, one on the southern border and one on 
the northern border: Provided further, That $750,000 shall be available 
for additional part-time and temporary positions in the Honolulu Customs 
District.

                    harbor maintenance fee collection

    For administrative expenses related to the collection of the Harbor 
Maintenance Fee, pursuant to Public Law 103-182, $3,000,000, to be 
derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and to be transferred to 
and merged with the Customs ``Salaries and Expenses'' account for such 
purposes.

     operation and maintenance, air and marine interdiction programs

    For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft, and other related 
equipment of the Air and Marine Programs, including operational training 
and mission-related travel, and rental payments for facilities occupied 
by the air or marine interdiction or demand reduction programs, the 
operations of which include: the interdiction of narcotics and other 
goods; the provision of support to Customs and other Federal, State, and 
local agencies in the enforcement or administration of laws enforced by 
the Customs Service; and, at the discretion of the Commissioner of 
Customs, the provision of assistance to Federal, State, and local 
agencies in other law enforcement and emergency humanitarian efforts; 
$64,843,000 which shall remain available until expended; in addition, 
$19,733,000 shall be transferred from the Customs Air and Marine 
Interdiction Programs, Procurement Account to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That no aircraft or other related equipment, with 
the exception of aircraft which is one of a kind and has been identified 
as excess to Customs requirements, and aircraft which has been damaged 
beyond repair, shall be transferred to any other Federal agency, 
Department, or office outside of the Department of the Treasury, during 
fiscal year 1996, without the prior approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.

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                   customs services at small airports

                   (to be derived from fees collected)

    Such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $1,406,000, for 
expenses for the provision of Customs services at certain small airports 
or other facilities when authorized by law and designated by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, including expenditures for the salary and 
expenses of individuals employed to provide such services, to be derived 
from fees collected by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 

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