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                                                       Calendar No. 169
106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1282

                          [Report No. 106-87]

 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, 2000, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 1999

   Mr. Campbell, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the 
    following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the 
                                calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
 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, 2000, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal 
Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent 
Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other 
purposes, namely:

                  TITLE I--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 $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, $133,168,000.

        Department-Wide Systems and Capital Investments Programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For development and acquisition of automatic data processing 
equipment, software, and services for the Department of the Treasury, 
$35,561,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That these 
funds shall be transferred to accounts and in amounts as necessary to 
satisfy the requirements of the Department's offices, bureaus, and 
other organizations: Provided further, That this transfer authority 
shall be in addition to any other transfer authority provided in this 
Act: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated shall be 
used to support or supplement the Internal Revenue Service 
appropriations for Information Systems.

                      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, not to exceed $2,000,000 for official travel expenses; 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 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, $30,483,000.

                Inspector General for Tax Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, including purchase (not to exceed 150 for replacement only for 
police-type use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 
1343(b)); and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as 
may be determined by the Inspector General for Tax Administration; not 
to exceed $6,000,000 for official travel expenses; not to exceed 
$500,000 for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be 
allocated and expended under the direction of the Inspector General for 
Tax Administration, $111,340,000.

           Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration

    For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
Building and Annex, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                  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; and for assistance to Federal law enforcement 
agencies, with or without reimbursement, $27,681,000: Provided, That 
funds appropriated in this account may be used to procure personal 
services contracts.

                    Violent Crime Reduction Programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For activities authorized by Public Law 103-322, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be derived from the Violent Crime 
Reduction Trust Fund, as follows:
            (1) As authorized by section 190001(e), $181,000,000; of 
        which $17,847,000 shall be available to the Bureau of Alcohol, 
        Tobacco and Firearms, including $3,000,000 for administering 
        the Gang Resistance Education and Training program, $1,608,000 
        for an explosives repository clearinghouse, $12,600,000 for the 
        integrated violence reduction strategy, and $639,000 for 
        building security; of which $21,950,000 shall be available to 
        the United States Secret Service, including $5,854,000 for the 
        protective program, $2,014,000 for the protective research 
        program, $5,886,000 for the workspace program, $5,000,000 for 
        counterfeiting investigations, and $3,196,000 for forensic and 
        related support of investigations of missing and exploited 
        children, of which $1,196,000 shall be available as a grant for 
        activities related to the investigations of exploited children 
        and shall remain available until expended; of which $52,774,000 
        shall be available for the United States Customs Service, 
        including $4,300,000 for conducting pre-hiring polygraph 
        examinations, $2,000,000 for technology for the detection of 
        undeclared outbound currency, $9,000,000 for non-intrusive 
        mobile personal inspection technology, $4,952,000 for land 
        border automation equipment, $8,000,000 for agent and inspector 
        relocation: Provided, That $3,000,000 shall not be available 
        for obligation until September 30, 2000, $5,735,000 for 
        laboratory modernization, $2,400,000 for cybersmuggling, 
        $5,430,000 for Hardline/Gateway equipment, $2,500,000 for the 
        training program, $3,640,000 to maintain fiscal year 1998 
        equipment, and $4,817,000 for investigative counter-narcotics 
        and money laundering operations; of which $28,366,000 shall be 
        available for Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement; of which 
        $1,863,000 shall be available for the Financial Crimes 
        Enforcement Network, including $600,000 for GATEWAY, $300,000 
        to expand data mining technology, $500,000 to continue the 
        magnitude of money laundering study, $200,000 to enhance 
        electronic filing of SARS and other BSA databases, and $263,000 
        for technical advances for GATEWAY; of which $9,200,000 shall 
        be available to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for 
        construction of two firearms ranges at the Artesia Center: 
        Provided, That these funds shall not be available for 
        obligation until September 30, 2000; and of which $49,000,000 
        shall be available to the Office of National Drug Control 
        Policy Special Forfeiture Fund to support a national media 
        campaign, as authorized in the Drug-Free Media Campaign Act of 
        1998: Provided further, That these funds shall not be available 
        for obligation until September 30, 2000;
            (2) As authorized by section 32401, $13,000,000 to the 
        Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for disbursement 
        through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to local 
        governments for Gang Resistance Education and Training: 
        Provided, That notwithstanding sections 32401 and 310001, such 
        funds shall be allocated to State and local law enforcement and 
        prevention organizations.

                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 52 for police-type use, without regard to the 
general purchase price limitation) 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 of and participating in 
firearms matches and presentation of awards; for public awareness and 
enhancing community support of law enforcement training; not to exceed 
$9,500 for official reception and representation expenses; room and 
board for student interns; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$80,114,000, of which up to $16,511,000 for materials and support costs 
of Federal law enforcement basic training shall remain available until 
September 30, 2002: Provided, That 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, at 
the discretion of the Director, for the following: training United 
States Postal Service law enforcement personnel and Postal police 
officers; 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, except that reimbursement may be waived by the Secretary 
for law enforcement training activities in foreign countries undertaken 
pursuant to section 801 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death 
Penalty Act of 1996, Public Law 104-32; training of private sector 
security officials on a space-available basis with reimbursement of 
actual costs to this appropriation; and travel expenses of non-Federal 
personnel to attend course development meetings and training sponsored 
by the Center: Provided further, That the Center is authorized to 
obligate funds in anticipation of reimbursements from agencies 
receiving training sponsored by 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 training for the Gang 
Resistance Education and Training program to Federal and non-Federal 
personnel at any facility in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco and Firearms: Provided further, That the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center is authorized to provide short-term medical 
services for students undergoing training at the Center.

     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, 
$21,611,000, to remain available until expended.

                      Financial Management Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
$200,054,000, of which not to exceed $10,635,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2002, for information systems modernization 
initiatives; and of which not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses.

                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 812 vehicles for police-
type use, of which 650 shall be for replacement only, and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; 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 $15,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 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 explosives and fire accelerants detection; 
and provision of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies, 
with or without reimbursement, $569,225,000, of which $38,200,000 may 
be used for the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative; 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 joint law enforcement 
operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and for the 
payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equipment, 
supplies, and other similar costs of State and local law enforcement 
personnel, including sworn officers and support personnel, 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 transfer the functions, missions, or activities of 
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to other agencies or 
Departments in fiscal year 2000: 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 

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