E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 107th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

Vol. 147 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2001 No. 155 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was last day’s proceedings and announces Mr. INHOFE, Mr. HATCH, Mr. ROBERTS, called to order by the Speaker pro tem- to the House his approval thereof. Mr. DEWINE, Mr. THOMPSON, and Mr. pore (Mr. CULBERSON). Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- LUGAR; and f nal stands approved. Committee on Armed Services: Mr. REED, and Mr. WARNER; to be the con- DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER f ferees on the part of the Senate. PRO TEMPORE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The message also announced that the The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Senate agrees to the report of the com- fore the House the following commu- Chair will lead the House in the Pledge mittee of conference on the disagreeing nication from the Speaker: of Allegiance. votes of the two Houses on the amend- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The SPEAKER pro tempore led the ment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. Washington, DC, November 9, 2001. 2620) ‘‘An Act making appropriations I hereby appoint the Honorable JOHN Pledge of Allegiance as follows: for the Departments of Veterans Af- ABNEY CULBERSON to act as Speaker pro tem- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the pore on this day. United States of America, and to the Repub- fairs and Housing and Urban Develop- DENNIS HASTERT, lic for which it stands, one nation under God, ment, and for sundry independent Speaker of the House of Representatives. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. agencies, boards, commissions, cor- f f porations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for PRAYER MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE other purposes.’’ The Reverend David Nuss, Catholic A message from the Senate by Mr. The message also announced that the Diocese of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, offered Monahan, one of its clerks, announced Senate has passed a concurrent resolu- the following prayer: that the Senate has passed with an tion of the following title in which the Almighty and ever-living God, we do amendment in which the concurrence concurrence of the House is requested. well always and everywhere to give of the house is requested, a bill of the S. Con. Res. 81. Concurrent resolution ex- You thanks. House of the following title: pressing the sense of Congress to welcome In a former time You chose a people the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari and ascribed a destiny to them. The H.R. 2883. An Act to authorize appropria- tions for fiscal year 2002 for intelligence and Vajpayee, on the occasion of his visit to the light of freedom they carried then, United States, and to affirm that India is a burns brightly now, dispelling the intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Man- valued friend and partner and an important darkness and the shadow of death. agement Account, and the Central Intel- ally in the campaign against international Your goodness, O God, has come to ligence Agency Retirement and Disability terrorism. pass in every American generation. It system, and for other purposes. happened to our ancestors, who came f The message also announced that the to this land as if out of the desert into Senate insists upon its amendment to a place of promise. It happens to us the bill (H.R. 2883) ‘‘An Act to author- APPOINTMENT AS MEMBER TO still as you guide our Nation into the ize appropriations for fiscal year 2002 UNITED STATES-CHINA SECU- way of peace. RITY REVIEW COMMISSION Lord God, lavish Your blessings for intelligence and intelligence-re- today upon all the Members of this lated activities of the United States The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without venerable Chamber. Protect and inspire Government, the Community Manage- objection, and pursuant to section our elected Representatives, and all ment Account, and the Central Intel- 1238(b) of the Floyd D. Spence National who labor with them and for them so ligence Agency Retirement and Dis- Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal that they may work together for jus- ability System, and for other pur- Year 2001 (Public Law 106–398), the tice and bring forth peace. poses,’’ requests a conference with the Chair announces the Speaker’s ap- We trust in You, all-powerful God, House on the disagreeing votes of the pointment of the following member on who is and who was until the end of the two Houses thereon, and appoints from the part of the House to the United ages. Amen. the— States-China Security Review Commis- Select Committee on Intelligence: sion to fill the existing vacancy there- f Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. ROCKE- on: THE JOURNAL FELLER, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. Larry M. Wortzel, Alexandria, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. DURBIN, Mr. BAYH, Mr. EDWARDS, Virginia. Chair has examined the Journal of the Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. KYL, There was no objection.

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VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.000 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER TO NA- the funds made available by this Act may be and for the operation, maintenance, improve- TIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICA- used to enforce section 793(d) of Public Law 104– ment, and repair of Agriculture buildings, TIONS AND RECORDS COMMIS- 127. $187,647,000, to remain available until expended: SION EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer a share of that agency’s appropriation CHIEF ECONOMIST The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without made available by this Act to this appropriation, For necessary expenses of the Chief Econo- or may transfer a share of this appropriation to objection, and pursuant to 44 United mist, including economic analysis, risk assess- that agency’s appropriation to cover the costs of States Code, section 2501, the Chair an- ment, cost-benefit analysis, energy and new new or replacement space for such agency, but nounces the Speaker’s appointment of uses, and the functions of the World Agricul- such transfers shall not exceed 5 percent of the the following Member of the House to tural Outlook Board, as authorized by the Agri- funds made available for space rental and re- cultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622g), the National Historical Publications lated costs to or from this account. and Records Commission: and including employment pursuant to the sec- HAZARDOUS MATERIALS MANAGEMENT Mr. BLUNT of Missouri. ond sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) There was no objection. Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not to ex- ceed $5,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. For necessary expenses of the Department of f 3109, $7,704,000. Agriculture, to comply with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED NATIONAL APPEALS DIVISION For necessary expenses of the National Ap- Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq., and the Re- Mr. Trandahl, Clerk of the House, re- peals Division, including employment pursuant source Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 ported and found truly enrolled a bill to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the U.S.C. 6901 et seq., $15,665,000, to remain avail- Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), of which not able until expended: Provided, That appropria- of the House of the following title, tions and funds available herein to the Depart- which was thereupon signed by the to exceed $25,000 is for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $12,869,000. ment for Hazardous Materials Management may Speaker: be transferred to any agency of the Department OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS H.R. 768. An act to amend the Improving for its use in meeting all requirements pursuant For necessary expenses of the Office of Budget America’s Schools Act of 1994 to extend the to the above Acts on Federal and non-Federal and Program Analysis, including employment favorable treatment of need-based edu- lands. pursuant to the second sentence of section cational aid under the antitrust laws, and for 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION other purposes. of which not to exceed $5,000 is for employment (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) f under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $7,041,000. For Departmental Administration, $37,079,000, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER to provide for necessary expenses for manage- CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2330 ment support services to offices of the Depart- For necessary expenses of the Office of the ment and for general administration and dis- Mr. BONILLA submitted the fol- Chief Information Officer, including employ- lowing conference report and state- aster management of the Department, repairs ment pursuant to the second sentence of section and alterations, and other miscellaneous sup- ment on the bill (H.R. 2330) ‘‘making 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), plies and expenses not otherwise provided for appropriations for Agriculture, Rural of which not to exceed $10,000 is for employment and necessary for the practical and efficient Development, Food and Drug Adminis- under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $10,029,000. work of the Department, including employment tration, and Related Agencies pro- COMMON COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT pursuant to the second sentence of section grams for the fiscal year ending Sep- For necessary expenses to acquire a Common 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), tember 30, 2002, and for other pur- Computing Environment for the Natural Re- of which not to exceed $10,000 is for employment poses’’: sources Conservation Service, the Farm and under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That this appro- Foreign Agricultural Service and Rural Devel- priation shall be reimbursed from applicable ap- CONFERENCE REPORT (H. REPT. 107–275) opment mission areas for information tech- propriations in this Act for travel expenses inci- The committee of conference on the dis- nology, systems, and services, $59,369,000, to re- dent to the holding of hearings as required by 5 agreeing votes of the two Houses on the main available until expended, for the capital U.S.C. 551–558. amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. asset acquisition of shared information tech- OUTREACH FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED 2330) ‘‘making appropriations for Agri- nology systems, including services as authorized FARMERS culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug by 7 U.S.C. 6915–16 and 40 U.S.C. 1421–28: Pro- For grants and contracts pursuant to section Administration, and Related Agencies pro- vided, That obligation of these funds shall be 2501 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and grams for the fiscal year ending September consistent with the Department of Agriculture Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 2279), $3,243,000, to 30, 2002, and for other purposes’’, having met, Service Center Modernization Plan of the coun- remain available until expended. ty-based agencies, and shall be with the concur- after full and free conference, have agreed to OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR rence of the Department’s Chief Information Of- recommend and do recommend to their re- CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS ficer. spective Houses as follows: (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) That the House recede from its disagree- OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- ment to the amendment of the Senate, and For necessary expenses of the Office of the fice of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional agree to the same with an amendment, as Chief Financial Officer, including employment Relations to carry out the programs funded by follows: pursuant to the second sentence of section this Act, including programs involving intergov- In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), ernmental affairs and liaison within the execu- by said amendment, insert: of which not to exceed $10,000 is for employment tive branch, $3,718,000: Provided, That these That the following sums are appropriated, out under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $5,384,000: Provided, That funds may be transferred to agencies of the De- of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- the Chief Financial Officer shall actively mar- partment of Agriculture funded by this Act to propriated, for Agriculture, Rural Development, ket and expand cross-servicing activities of the maintain personnel at the agency level: Pro- Food and Drug Administration, and Related National Finance Center. vided further, That no other funds appropriated Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR to the Department by this Act shall be available September 30, 2002, and for other purposes, ADMINISTRATION to the Department for support of activities of namely: For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- congressional relations. TITLE I fice of the Assistant Secretary for Administra- OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS tion to carry out the programs funded by this For necessary expenses to carry out services PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND MARKETING Act, $647,000. relating to the coordination of programs involv- OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES AND ing public affairs, for the dissemination of agri- For necessary expenses of the Office of the RENTAL PAYMENTS cultural information, and the coordination of Secretary of Agriculture, and not to exceed (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) information, work, and programs authorized by $75,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, For payment of space rental and related costs Congress in the Department, $8,894,000, includ- $2,992,000: Provided, That not to exceed $11,000 pursuant to Public Law 92–313, including au- ing employment pursuant to the second sentence of this amount shall be available for official re- thorities pursuant to the 1984 delegation of au- of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 ception and representation expenses, not other- thority from the Administrator of General Serv- U.S.C. 2225), of which not to exceed $10,000 shall wise provided for, as determined by the Sec- ices to the Department of Agriculture under 40 be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, retary: Provided further, That none of the funds U.S.C. 486, for programs and activities of the and not to exceed $2,000,000 may be used for appropriated or otherwise made available by Department which are included in this Act, and farmers’ bulletins. this Act may be used to pay the salaries and ex- for alterations and other actions needed for the OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL penses of personnel of the Department of Agri- Department and its agencies to consolidate For necessary expenses of the Office of the In- culture to carry out section 793(c)(1)(C) of Pub- unneeded space into configurations suitable for spector General, including employment pursu- lic Law 104–127: Provided further, That none of release to the Administrator of General Services, ant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\K09NO7.003 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7963 the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and the $1,200,000, and except for 10 buildings to be con- higher education multicultural scholars program Inspector General Act of 1978, $70,839,000, in- structed or improved at a cost not to exceed (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(5)), $998,000, to remain avail- cluding such sums as may be necessary for con- $750,000 each, and the cost of altering any one able until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for an edu- tracting and other arrangements with public building during the fiscal year shall not exceed cation grants program for Hispanic-serving In- agencies and private persons pursuant to sec- 10 percent of the current replacement value of stitutions (7 U.S.C. 3241), $3,492,000; for non- tion 6(a)(9) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, the building or $375,000, whichever is greater: competitive grants for the purpose of carrying including not to exceed $50,000 for employment Provided further, That the limitations on alter- out all provisions of 7 U.S.C. 3242 (Section 759 of under 5 U.S.C. 3109; and including not to exceed ations contained in this Act shall not apply to Public Law 106–78) to individual eligible institu- $125,000 for certain confidential operational ex- modernization or replacement of existing facili- tions or consortia of eligible institutions in Alas- penses, including the payment of informants, to ties at Beltsville, Maryland: Provided further, ka and in Hawaii, with funds awarded equally be expended under the direction of the Inspector That appropriations hereunder shall be avail- to each of the States of Alaska and Hawaii, General pursuant to Public Law 95–452 and sec- able for granting easements at the Beltsville Ag- $2,997,000; for a secondary agriculture education tion 1337 of Public Law 97–98. ricultural Research Center, including an ease- program and 2-year post-secondary education (7 OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL ment to the University of Maryland to construct U.S.C. 3152(h)), $1,000,000; for aquaculture For necessary expenses of the Office of the the Transgenic Animal Facility which upon grants (7 U.S.C. 3322), $3,996,000; for sustainable General Counsel, $32,627,000. completion shall be accepted by the Secretary as agriculture research and education (7 U.S.C. a gift: Provided further, That the foregoing limi- 5811), $12,500,000; for a program of capacity OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR tations shall not apply to replacement of build- building grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(4)) to colleges RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS ings needed to carry out the Act of April 24, 1948 eligible to receive funds under the Act of August For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- (21 U.S.C. 113a): Provided further, That funds 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321–326 and 328), including fice of the Under Secretary for Research, Edu- may be received from any State, other political Tuskegee University, $9,479,000, to remain avail- cation and Economics to administer the laws en- subdivision, organization, or individual for the able until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b); for pay- acted by the Congress for the Economic Re- purpose of establishing or operating any re- ments to the 1994 Institutions pursuant to sec- search Service, the National Agricultural Statis- search facility or research project of the Agri- tion 534(a)(1) of Public Law 103–382, $1,549,000; tics Service, the Agricultural Research Service, cultural Research Service, as authorized by law. and for necessary expenses of Research and and the Cooperative State Research, Education, None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph Education Activities, of which not to exceed and Extension Service, $573,000. shall be available to carry out research related $100,000 shall be for employment under 5 U.S.C. ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE to the production, processing or marketing of to- 3109, $21,676,000. For necessary expenses of the Economic Re- bacco or tobacco products. None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph In fiscal year 2002, the agency is authorized to search Service in conducting economic research shall be available to carry out research related charge fees, commensurate with the fair market and analysis, as authorized by the Agricultural to the production, processing or marketing of to- value, for any permit, easement, lease, or other Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627) and bacco or tobacco products: Provided, That this special use authorization for the occupancy or other laws, $67,200,000: Provided, That this ap- paragraph shall not apply to research on the use of land and facilities (including land and propriation shall be available for employment medical, biotechnological, food, and industrial facilities at the Beltsville Agricultural Research pursuant to the second sentence of section uses of tobacco. Center) issued by the agency, as authorized by 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225). NATIVE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS ENDOWMENT law, and such fees shall be credited to this ac- FUND NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE count, and shall remain available until ex- For the Native American Institutions Endow- For necessary expenses of the National Agri- pended for authorized purposes. ment Fund authorized by Public Law 103–382 (7 cultural Statistics Service in conducting statis- BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES U.S.C. 301 note), $7,100,000. tical reporting and service work, including crop For acquisition of land, construction, repair, EXTENSION ACTIVITIES and livestock estimates, statistical coordination improvement, extension, alteration, and pur- For payments to States, the District of Colum- and improvements, marketing surveys, and the chase of fixed equipment or facilities as nec- bia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Mi- Census of Agriculture, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. essary to carry out the agricultural research cronesia, Northern Marianas, and American 1621–1627, Public Law 105–113, and other laws, programs of the Department of Agriculture, Samoa, $439,473,000, as follows: payments for co- $113,786,000, of which up to $25,350,000 shall be where not otherwise provided, $118,987,000, to operative extension work under the Smith-Lever available until expended for the Census of Agri- remain available until expended (7 U.S.C. Act, to be distributed under sections 3(b) and culture: Provided, That this appropriation shall 2209b): Provided, That funds may be received 3(c) of said Act, and under section 208(c) of be available for employment pursuant to the sec- from any State, other political subdivision, or- Public Law 93–471, for retirement and employ- ond sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic ganization, or individual for the purpose of es- ees’ compensation costs for extension agents and Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed tablishing any research facility of the Agricul- for costs of penalty mail for cooperative exten- $40,000 shall be available for employment under tural Research Service, as authorized by law. sion agents and State extension directors, 5 U.S.C. 3109. COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND $275,940,000, of which $3,600,000 may be used to AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE EXTENSION SERVICE carry out Public Law 107–19; payments for ex- SALARIES AND EXPENSES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES tension work at the 1994 Institutions under the For necessary expenses to enable the Agricul- For payments to agricultural experiment sta- Smith-Lever Act (7 U.S.C. 343(b)(3)), $3,273,000; tural Research Service to perform agricultural tions, for cooperative forestry and other re- payments for the nutrition and family education research and demonstration relating to produc- search, for facilities, and for other expenses, program for low-income areas under section 3(d) tion, utilization, marketing, and distribution $542,062,000, as follows: to carry out the provi- of the Act, $58,566,000; payments for the pest (not otherwise provided for); home economics or sions of the Hatch Act (7 U.S.C. 361a–i), management program under section 3(d) of the nutrition and consumer use including the acqui- $180,148,000; for grants for cooperative forestry Act, $10,759,000; payments for the farm safety sition, preservation, and dissemination of agri- research (16 U.S.C. 582a–a7), $21,884,000; for program under section 3(d) of the Act, cultural information; and for acquisition of payments to the 1890 land-grant colleges, in- $5,250,000; payments to upgrade research, exten- lands by donation, exchange, or purchase at a cluding Tuskegee University (7 U.S.C. 3222), sion, and teaching facilities at the 1890 land- nominal cost not to exceed $100, and for land ex- $34,604,000, of which $1,507,496 shall be made grant colleges, including Tuskegee University, changes where the lands exchanged shall be of available only for the purpose of ensuring that as authorized by section 1447 of Public Law 95– equal value or shall be equalized by a payment each institution shall receive no less than 113 (7 U.S.C. 3222b), $13,500,000, to remain avail- of money to the grantor which shall not exceed $1,000,000; for special grants for agricultural re- able until expended; payments for the rural de- 25 percent of the total value of the land or inter- search (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $97,008,000; for special velopment centers under section 3(d) of the Act, ests transferred out of Federal ownership, grants for agricultural research on improved $953,000; payments for youth-at-risk programs $979,464,000: Provided, That appropriations pest control (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)), $15,206,000; for under section 3(d) of the Act, $8,481,000; for hereunder shall be available for temporary em- competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. 450i(b)), youth farm safety education and certification ployment pursuant to the second sentence of $120,452,000; for the support of animal health extension grants, to be awarded competitively section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 and disease programs (7 U.S.C. 3195), $5,098,000; under section 3(d) of the Act, $499,000; payments U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $115,000 shall be for supplemental and alternative crops and for carrying out the provisions of the Renewable available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: products (7 U.S.C. 3319d), $924,000; for grants Resources Extension Act of 1978, $4,093,000; pay- Provided further, That appropriations here- for research pursuant to the Critical Agricul- ments for Indian reservation agents under sec- under shall be available for the operation and tural Materials Act of 1984 (7 U.S.C. 178) and tion 3(d) of the Act, $1,996,000; payments for maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not section 1472 of the Food and Agriculture Act of sustainable agriculture programs under section to exceed one for replacement only: Provided 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3318), $720,000, to remain avail- 3(d) of the Act, $4,750,000; payments for rural further, That appropriations hereunder shall be able until expended; for the 1994 research pro- health and safety education as authorized by available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 for the con- gram (7 U.S.C. 301 note), $998,000, to remain section 2390 of Public Law 101–624 (7 U.S.C. 2661 struction, alteration, and repair of buildings available until expended; for higher education note, 2662), $2,622,000; payments for cooperative and improvements, but unless otherwise pro- graduate fellowship grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(6)), extension work by the colleges receiving the ben- vided, the cost of constructing any one building $2,993,000, to remain available until expended (7 efits of the second Morrill Act (7 U.S.C. 321–326 shall not exceed $375,000, except for headhouses U.S.C. 2209b); for higher education challenge and 328) and Tuskegee University, $31,181,000, or greenhouses which shall each be limited to grants (7 U.S.C. 3152(b)(1)), $4,340,000; for a of which $1,724,884 shall be made available only

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.003 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 for the purpose of ensuring that each institution this country, the Secretary may transfer from penses, except for: (1) transfers to the Depart- shall receive no less than $1,000,000; and for other appropriations or funds available to the ment of Commerce as authorized by the Fish Federal administration and coordination includ- agencies or corporations of the Department such and Wildlife Act of August 8, 1956; (2) transfers ing administration of the Smith-Lever Act, and sums as may be deemed necessary, to be avail- otherwise provided in this Act; and (3) not more the Act of September 29, 1977 (7 U.S.C. 341–349), able only in such emergencies for the arrest and than $13,995,000 for formulation and administra- and section 1361(c) of the Act of October 3, 1980 eradication of contagious or infectious disease tion of marketing agreements and orders pursu- (7 U.S.C. 301 note), and to coordinate and pro- or pests of animals, poultry, or plants, and for ant to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement vide program leadership for the extension work expenses in accordance with the Act of Feb- Act of 1937 and the Agricultural Act of 1961. of the Department and the several States and ruary 28, 1947, and section 102 of the Act of Sep- PAYMENTS TO STATES AND POSSESSIONS insular possessions, $17,610,000: Provided, That tember 21, 1944, and any unexpended balances For payments to departments of agriculture, funds hereby appropriated pursuant to section of funds transferred for such emergency pur- bureaus and departments of markets, and simi- 3(c) of the Act of June 26, 1953, and section 506 poses in the preceding fiscal year shall be lar agencies for marketing activities under sec- of the Act of June 23, 1972, shall not be paid to merged with such transferred amounts: Provided tion 204(b) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of any State, the District of Columbia, Puerto further, That appropriations hereunder shall be 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1623(b)), $1,347,000. Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, Micronesia, available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS Northern Marianas, and American Samoa prior repair and alteration of leased buildings and im- ADMINISTRATION to availability of an equal sum from non-Fed- provements, but unless otherwise provided the eral sources for expenditure during the current cost of altering any one building during the fis- SALARIES AND EXPENSES fiscal year. cal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the cur- For necessary expenses to carry out the provi- INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES rent replacement value of the building. sions of the United States Grain Standards Act, for the administration of the Packers and Stock- For the integrated research, education, and In fiscal year 2002, the agency is authorized to yards Act, for certifying procedures used to pro- extension competitive grants programs, includ- collect fees to cover the total costs of providing tect purchasers of farm products, and the stand- ing necessary administrative expenses, as au- technical assistance, goods, or services requested ardization activities related to grain under the thorized under section 406 of the Agricultural by States, other political subdivisions, domestic Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, including Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act and international organizations, foreign govern- field employment pursuant to the second sen- of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7626), $42,853,000, as follows: ments, or individuals, provided that such fees tence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 payments for the water quality program, are structured such that any entity’s liability (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 for em- $12,971,000; payments for the food safety pro- for such fees is reasonably based on the tech- ployment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, $33,117,000: Pro- gram, $14,967,000; payments for the national ag- nical assistance, goods, or services provided to vided, That this appropriation shall be available riculture pesticide impact assessment program, the entity by the agency, and such fees shall be pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for the alter- $4,531,000; payments for the Food Quality Pro- credited to this account, to remain available ation and repair of buildings and improvements, tection Act risk mitigation program for major until expended, without further appropriation, but the cost of altering any one building during food crop systems, $4,889,000; payments for the for providing such assistance, goods, or services. the fiscal year shall not exceed 10 percent of the crops affected by Food Quality Protection Act Of the total amount available under this current replacement value of the building. implementation, $1,497,000; payments for the heading in fiscal year 2002, $84,813,000 shall be methyl bromide transition program, $2,498,000; derived from user fees deposited in the Agricul- LIMITATION ON INSPECTION AND WEIGHING and payments for the organic transition pro- tural Quarantine Inspection User Fee Account. SERVICES EXPENSES gram, $1,500,000. BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES Not to exceed $42,463,000 (from fees collected) shall be obligated during the current fiscal year OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR For plans, construction, repair, preventive for inspection and weighing services: Provided, MARKETING AND REGULATORY PROGRAMS maintenance, environmental support, improve- ment, extension, alteration, and purchase of That if grain export activities require additional For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- fixed equipment or facilities, as authorized by 7 supervision and oversight, or other uncontrol- fice of the Under Secretary for Marketing and U.S.C. 2250, and acquisition of land as author- lable factors occur, this limitation may be ex- Regulatory Programs to administer programs ized by 7 U.S.C. 428a, $7,189,000, to remain ceeded by up to 10 percent with notification to under the laws enacted by the Congress for the available until expended. the Committees on Appropriations of both Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the Houses of Congress. Agricultural Marketing Service; and the Grain AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administra- MARKETING SERVICES SAFETY tion; $654,000. For necessary expenses to carry out services For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE related to consumer protection, agricultural fice of the Under Secretary for Food Safety to SALARIES AND EXPENSES marketing and distribution, transportation, and regulatory programs, as authorized by law, and administer the laws enacted by the Congress for (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) for administration and coordination of pay- the Food Safety and Inspection Service, For expenses, not otherwise provided for, in- ments to States, including field employment pur- $476,000. cluding those pursuant to the Act of February suant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE 28, 1947 (21 U.S.C. 114b–c), necessary to prevent, the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225) and not For necessary expenses to carry out services control, and eradicate pests and plant and ani- to exceed $90,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. authorized by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, mal diseases; to carry out inspection, quar- 3109, $71,430,000, including funds for the whole- the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the antine, and regulatory activities; to discharge sale market development program for the design Egg Products Inspection Act, including not to the authorities of the Secretary of Agriculture and development of wholesale and farmer mar- exceed $50,000 for representation allowances and under the Acts of March 2, 1931 (46 Stat. 1468) ket facilities for the major metropolitan areas of for expenses pursuant to section 8 of the Act ap- and December 22, 1987 (101 Stat. 1329–1331) (7 the country: Provided, That this appropriation proved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), U.S.C. 426–426c); and to protect the environ- shall be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. $715,642,000, of which no less than $608,730,000 ment, as authorized by law, $620,490,000, of 2250) for the alteration and repair of buildings shall be available for Federal food inspection; which $4,096,000 shall be available for the con- and improvements, but the cost of altering any and in addition, $1,000,000 may be credited to trol of outbreaks of insects, plant diseases, ani- one building during the fiscal year shall not ex- this account from fees collected for the cost of mal diseases and for control of pest animals and ceed 10 percent of the current replacement value laboratory accreditation as authorized by sec- birds to the extent necessary to meet emergency of the building. tion 1017 of Public Law 102–237: Provided, That conditions; of which $77,355,000 shall be used for Fees may be collected for the cost of standard- this appropriation shall be available for field the boll weevil eradication program for cost ization activities, as established by regulation employment pursuant to the second sentence of share purposes or for debt retirement for active pursuant to law (31 U.S.C. 9701). section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 eradication zones: Provided, That no funds LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $75,000 shall be shall be used to formulate or administer a bru- available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: cellosis eradication program for the current fis- Not to exceed $60,596,000 (from fees collected) Provided further, That this appropriation shall cal year that does not require minimum match- shall be obligated during the current fiscal year be available pursuant to law (7 U.S.C. 2250) for ing by the States of at least 40 percent: Provided for administrative expenses: Provided, That if the alteration and repair of buildings and im- further, That this appropriation shall be avail- crop size is understated and/or other uncontrol- provements, but the cost of altering any one able for field employment pursuant to the sec- lable events occur, the agency may exceed this building during the fiscal year shall not exceed ond sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic limitation by up to 10 percent with notification 10 percent of the current replacement value of Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed to the Committees on Appropriations of both the building. $40,000 shall be available for employment under Houses of Congress. 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That this ap- FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FARM propriation shall be available for the operation AND SUPPLY (SECTION 32) AND FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICES and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- of not to exceed four, of which two shall be for Funds available under section 32 of the Act of fice of the Under Secretary for Farm and For- replacement only: Provided further, That, in ad- August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), shall be used eign Agricultural Services to administer the laws dition, in emergencies which threaten any seg- only for commodity program expenses as author- enacted by Congress for the Farm Service Agen- ment of the agricultural production industry of ized therein, and other related operating ex- cy, the Foreign Agricultural Service, the Risk

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Management Agency, and the Commodity Credit RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY under shall be available pursuant to 7 U.S.C. Corporation, $606,000. For administrative and operating expenses, as 2250 for construction and improvement of build- FARM SERVICE AGENCY authorized by the Federal Agriculture Improve- ings and public improvements at plant materials SALARIES AND EXPENSES ment and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 6933), centers, except that the cost of alterations and $74,752,000: Provided, That not to exceed $700 improvements to other buildings and other pub- (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) lic improvements shall not exceed $250,000: Pro- For necessary expenses for carrying out the shall be available for official reception and rep- resentation expenses, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. vided further, That when buildings or other administration and implementation of programs structures are erected on non-Federal land, that administered by the Farm Service Agency, 1506(i). CORPORATIONS the right to use such land is obtained as pro- $939,030,000: Provided, That the Secretary is au- vided in 7 U.S.C. 2250a: Provided further, That thorized to use the services, facilities, and au- The following corporations and agencies are this appropriation shall be available for tech- thorities (but not the funds) of the Commodity hereby authorized to make expenditures, within nical assistance and related expenses to carry Credit Corporation to make program payments the limits of funds and borrowing authority out programs authorized by section 202(c) of for all programs administered by the Agency: available to each such corporation or agency title II of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Provided further, That other funds made avail- and in accord with law, and to make contracts Control Act of 1974 (43 U.S.C. 1592(c)): Provided able to the Agency for authorized activities may and commitments without regard to fiscal year further, That this appropriation shall be avail- be advanced to and merged with this account: limitations as provided by section 104 of the able for employment pursuant to the second sen- Provided further, That these funds shall be Government Corporation Control Act as may be tence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 available for employment pursuant to the sec- necessary in carrying out the programs set forth (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 shall ond sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic in the budget for the current fiscal year for such be available for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed corporation or agency, except as hereinafter Provided further, That qualified local engineers $1,000,000 shall be available for employment provided. may be temporarily employed at per diem rates under 5 U.S.C. 3109. FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION FUND to perform the technical planning work of the STATE MEDIATION GRANTS For payments as authorized by section 516 of Service (16 U.S.C. 590e–2). For grants pursuant to section 502(b) of the the Federal Crop Insurance Act, such sums as WATERSHED SURVEYS AND PLANNING Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (7 U.S.C. 5101– may be necessary, to remain available until ex- For necessary expenses to conduct research, 5106), $3,493,000. pended (7 U.S.C. 2209b). investigation, and surveys of watersheds of riv- DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND ers and other waterways, and for small water- (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) REIMBURSEMENT FOR NET REALIZED LOSSES shed investigations and planning, in accordance For necessary expenses involved in making in- with the Watershed Protection and Flood Pre- For fiscal year 2002, such sums as may be nec- demnity payments to dairy farmers and manu- vention Act approved August 4, 1954 (16 U.S.C. essary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Cor- facturers of dairy products under a dairy in- 1001–1009), $10,960,000: Provided, That this ap- poration for net realized losses sustained, but demnity program, $100,000, to remain available propriation shall be available for employment not previously reimbursed, pursuant to section 2 until expended: Provided, That such program is pursuant to the second sentence of section of the Act of August 17, 1961 (15 U.S.C. 713a–11). carried out by the Secretary in the same manner 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), as the dairy indemnity program described in the OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR HAZARDOUS and not to exceed $110,000 shall be available for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug WASTE MANAGEMENT employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. Administration, and Related Agencies Appro- (LIMITATION ON EXPENSES) WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS priations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–387; 114 For fiscal year 2002, the Commodity Credit For necessary expenses to carry out preventive Stat. 1549A–12). Corporation shall not expend more than measures, including but not limited to research, AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND $5,000,000 for site investigation and cleanup ex- engineering operations, methods of cultivation, PROGRAM ACCOUNT penses, and operations and maintenance ex- the growing of vegetation, rehabilitation of ex- penses to comply with the requirement of section (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) isting works and changes in use of land, in ac- 107(g) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re- For gross obligations for the principal amount cordance with the Watershed Protection and sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 of direct and guaranteed loans as authorized by Flood Prevention Act approved August 4, 1954 U.S.C. 9607(g), and section 6001 of the Resource 7 U.S.C. 1928–1929, to be available from funds in (16 U.S.C. 1001–1005 and 1007–1009), the provi- Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6961. the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, as fol- sions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 590a– lows: farm ownership loans, $1,146,996,000, of TITLE II f), and in accordance with the provisions of which $1,000,000,000 shall be for guaranteed CONSERVATION PROGRAMS laws relating to the activities of the Department, $106,590,000, to remain available until expended loans and $146,996,000 shall be for direct loans; OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL (7 U.S.C. 2209b) (of which up to $15,000,000 may operating loans, $2,616,729,000, of which RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT $1,500,000,000 shall be for unsubsidized guaran- be available for the watersheds authorized For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- under the Flood Control Act approved June 22, teed loans, $505,531,000 shall be for subsidized fice of the Under Secretary for Natural Re- guaranteed loans and $611,198,000 shall be for 1936 (33 U.S.C. 701 and 16 U.S.C. 1006a)): Pro- sources and Environment to administer the laws vided, That not to exceed $45,514,000 of this ap- direct loans; Indian tribe land acquisition loans enacted by the Congress for the Forest Service as authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, $2,000,000; for propriation shall be available for technical as- and the Natural Resources Conservation Serv- sistance: Provided further, That this appropria- emergency insured loans, $25,000,000 to meet the ice, $730,000. needs resulting from natural disasters; and for tion shall be available for employment pursuant NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE boll weevil eradication program loans as author- to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the ized by 7 U.S.C. 1989, $100,000,000. CONSERVATION OPERATIONS Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, For necessary expenses for carrying out the exceed $200,000 shall be available for employ- including the cost of modifying loans as defined provisions of the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. ment under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 590a–f), including preparation of conservation That not to exceed $1,000,000 of this appropria- of 1974, as follows: farm ownership loans, plans and establishment of measures to conserve tion is available to carry out the purposes of the $8,366,000, of which $4,500,000 shall be for guar- soil and water (including farm irrigation and Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Public Law 93– anteed loans; operating loans, $175,780,000, of land drainage and such special measures for soil 205), including cooperative efforts as con- which $52,650,000 shall be for unsubsidized and water management as may be necessary to templated by that Act to relocate endangered or guaranteed loans and $68,550,000 shall be for prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs and threatened species to other suitable habitats as subsidized guaranteed loans; Indian tribe land to control agricultural related pollutants); oper- may be necessary to expedite project construc- acquisition loans as authorized by 25 U.S.C. 488, ation of conservation plant materials centers; tion. $118,400; and for emergency insured loans, classification and mapping of soil; dissemination WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM $3,362,500 to meet the needs resulting from nat- of information; acquisition of lands, water, and For necessary expenses to carry out rehabili- ural disasters. interests therein for use in the plant materials tation of structural measures, in accordance In addition, for administrative expenses nec- program by donation, exchange, or purchase at with section 14 of the Watershed Protection and essary to carry out the direct and guaranteed a nominal cost not to exceed $100 pursuant to Flood Prevention Act approved August 4, 1954 loan programs, $280,595,000, of which the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 428a); pur- (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), as amended by section $272,595,000 shall be transferred to and merged chase and erection or alteration or improvement 313 of Public Law 106–472, November 9, 2000 (16 with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Service Agen- of permanent and temporary buildings; and op- U.S.C. 1012), and in accordance with the provi- cy, Salaries and Expenses’’. eration and maintenance of aircraft, sions of laws relating to the activities of the De- Funds appropriated by this Act to the Agri- $779,000,000, to remain available until expended partment, $10,000,000, to remain available until cultural Credit Insurance Program Account for (7 U.S.C. 2209b), of which not less than expended. farm ownership and operating direct loans and $8,515,000 is for snow survey and water fore- RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT guaranteed loans may be transferred among casting, and not less than $9,849,000 is for oper- For necessary expenses in planning and car- these programs: Provided, That the Committees ation and establishment of the plant materials rying out projects for resource conservation and on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress centers, and of which not less than $21,500,000 development and for sound land use pursuant to are notified at least 15 days in advance of any shall be for the grazing lands conservation ini- the provisions of section 32(e) of title III of the transfer. tiative: Provided, That appropriations here- Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C.

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1010–1011; 76 Stat. 607); the Act of April 27, 1935 $2,000,000 shall be for grants to Mississippi Delta RURAL HOUSING SERVICE (16 U.S.C. 590a–f); and the Agriculture and Region counties: Provided further, That of the RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM Food Act of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3451–3461), amount appropriated for rural utilities pro- ACCOUNT $48,048,000, to remain available until expended grams, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be for (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That this appropria- water and waste disposal systems to benefit the For gross obligations for the principal amount tion shall be available for employment pursuant Colonias along the United States/Mexico border, of direct and guaranteed loans as authorized by to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the including grants pursuant to section 306C of title V of the Housing Act of 1949, to be avail- Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to such Act; not to exceed $24,000,000 shall be for able from funds in the rural housing insurance exceed $50,000 shall be available for employment water and waste disposal systems for rural and fund, as follows: $4,217,816,000 for loans to sec- under 5 U.S.C. 3109. native villages in Alaska pursuant to section tion 502 borrowers, as determined by the Sec- FORESTRY INCENTIVES PROGRAM 306D of such Act, with up to one percent avail- retary, of which $1,079,848,000 shall be for direct For necessary expenses, not otherwise pro- able to administer the program and up to one loans, and of which $3,137,968,000 shall be for vided for, to carry out the program of forestry percent available to improve interagency coordi- unsubsidized guaranteed loans; $32,324,000 for incentives, as authorized by the Cooperative nation may be transferred to and merged with section 504 housing repair loans; $114,068,000 for Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2101), the appropriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Sal- section 515 rental housing; $99,770,000 for sec- including technical assistance and related ex- aries and Expenses’’; not to exceed $17,465,000, tion 538 guaranteed multi-family housing loans; penses, $6,811,000, to remain available until ex- shall be for technical assistance grants for rural $5,090,000 for section 524 site loans; $11,778,000 pended, as authorized by that Act. water and waste systems pursuant to section for credit sales of acquired property, of which TITLE III 306(a)(14) of such Act , of which $5,250,000 shall up to $1,778,000 may be for multi-family credit RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS be for Rural Community Assistance Programs; sales; and $5,000,000 for section 523 self-help OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RURAL and not to exceed $11,000,000 shall be for con- housing land development loans. DEVELOPMENT tracting with qualified national organizations For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, for a circuit rider program to provide technical including the cost of modifying loans, as defined For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act fice of the Under Secretary for Rural Develop- assistance for rural water systems: Provided fur- ther, That of the total amount appropriated, not of 1974, as follows: section 502 loans, $182,274,000 ment to administer programs under the laws en- of which $142,108,000 shall be for direct loans, acted by the Congress for the Rural Housing to exceed $37,624,000 shall be available through June 30, 2002, for authorized empowerment and of which $40,166,000 shall be for unsub- Service, the Rural Business-Cooperative Service, sidized guaranteed loans; section 504 housing and the Rural Utilities Service of the Depart- zones and enterprise communities and commu- nities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture repair loans, $10,386,000; section 515 rental hous- ment of Agriculture, $623,000. ing, $48,274,000; section 538 multi-family housing RURAL COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones; of which $1,163,000 shall be for the rural commu- guaranteed loans, $3,921,000; section 524 site (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) loans, $28,000; multi-family credit sales of ac- nity programs described in section 381E(d)(1) of For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, quired property, $750,000; and section 523 self- such Act, of which $27,431,000 shall be for the and grants, as authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1926, help housing land development loans, $254,000: rural utilities programs described in section 1926a, 1926c, 1926d, and 1932, except for sections Provided, That of the total amount appro- 381E(d)(2) of such Act, and of which $9,030,000 381E–H, 381N, and 381O of the Consolidated priated in this paragraph, $11,656,000 shall be shall be for the rural business and cooperative Farm and Rural Development Act, $806,557,000, available through June 30, 2002, for authorized to remain available until expended, of which development programs described in section empowerment zones and enterprise communities $83,545,000 shall be for rural community pro- 381E(d)(3) of such Act: Provided further, That and communities designated by the Secretary of grams described in section 381E(d)(1) of such of the amount appropriated for rural community Agriculture as Rural Economic Area Partner- Act; of which $646,512,000 shall be for the rural programs, not to exceed $25,000,000 shall be to ship Zones. utilities programs described in sections provide grants for facilities in rural communities In addition, for administrative expenses nec- 381E(d)(2), 306C(a)(2), and 306D of such Act; with extreme unemployment and severe eco- essary to carry out the direct and guaranteed and of which $76,500,000 shall be for the rural nomic depression (P.L. 106–387), with five per- loan programs, $422,241,000, which shall be business and cooperative development programs cent for administration and capacity building in transferred to and merged with the appropria- described in sections 381E(d)(3) and 310B(f) of the State rural development offices: Provided tion for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Ex- such Act: Provided, That of the total amount further, That of the amount appropriated penses’’. appropriated in this account, $24,000,000 shall $30,000,000 shall be to provide grants in rural Of the amounts made available under this be for loans and grants to benefit Federally Rec- communities with extremely high energy costs: heading in chapter 1 of title II of Public Law ognized Native American Tribes, including Provided further, That any prior year balances 106–246 (114 Stat. 540) for gross obligations for grants for drinking water and waste disposal for high cost energy grants authorized by sec- principal amount of direct loans authorized by systems pursuant to section 306C of such Act, of tion 19 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 title V of the Housing Act of 1949 for section 515 which $4,000,000 shall be available for commu- U.S.C. 901(19)) shall be transferred to and rental housing, the Secretary of Agriculture nity facilities grants to tribal colleges, as au- merged with the ‘‘Rural Utilities Service, High may use up to $5,986,197 for rental assistance thorized by section 306(a)(19) of the Consoli- Energy Costs Grants’’ account: Provided fur- agreements described in the item relating to dated Farm and Rural Development Act, and of ther, That of the funds appropriated by this Act ‘‘Rental Assistance Program’’ in such chapter: which $250,000 shall be available for a grant to to the Rural Community Advancement Program Provided, That such amount is designated by a qualified national organization to provide for guaranteed business and industry loans, the Congress as an emergency requirement pur- technical assistance for rural transportation in funds may be transferred to direct business and suant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced order to promote economic development: Pro- industry loans as deemed necessary by the Sec- Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985, as vided further, That of the amount appropriated retary and with prior approval of the Commit- amended. for rural community programs, $6,000,000 shall tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con- In making available for occupancy dwelling be available for a Rural Community Develop- gress. units in housing that is provided with funds ment Initiative: Provided further, That such made available under the heading referred to in funds shall be used solely to develop the capac- RURAL DEVELOPMENT SALARIES AND EXPENSES the preceding paragraph, the Secretary of Agri- ity and ability of private, nonprofit community- (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) culture may give preference to prospective ten- based housing and community development or- ants who are residing in temporary housing pro- ganizations, low-income rural communities, and For necessary expenses for carrying out the vided by the Federal Emergency Management Federally Recognized Native American Tribes to administration and implementation of programs Agency as a result of an emergency. undertake projects to improve housing, commu- in the Rural Development mission area, includ- RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM nity facilities, community and economic devel- ing activities with institutions concerning the For rental assistance agreements entered into opment projects in rural areas: Provided fur- development and operation of agricultural co- or renewed pursuant to the authority under sec- ther, That such funds shall be made available to operatives; and for cooperative agreements; tion 521(a)(2) or agreements entered into in lieu qualified private, nonprofit and public inter- $133,722,000: Provided, That this appropriation of debt forgiveness or payments for eligible mediary organizations proposing to carry out a shall be available for employment pursuant to households as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) program of financial and technical assistance: the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Or- of the Housing Act of 1949, $701,004,000; and, in Provided further, That such intermediary orga- ganic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to ex- addition, such sums as may be necessary, as au- nizations shall provide matching funds from ceed $1,000,000 may be used for employment thorized by section 521(c) of the Act, to liquidate other sources, including Federal funds for re- under 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That not debt incurred prior to fiscal year 1992 to carry lated activities, in an amount not less than more than $10,000 may be expended to provide out the rental assistance program under section funds provided: Provided further, That of the modest nonmonetary awards to non-USDA em- 521(a)(2) of the Act: Provided, That of this amount appropriated for the rural business and ployees: Provided further, That any balances amount, not more than $5,900,000 shall be avail- cooperative development programs, not to exceed available from prior years for the Rural Utilities able for debt forgiveness or payments for eligible $500,000 shall be made available for a grant to a Service, Rural Housing Service, and the Rural households as authorized by section 502(c)(5)(D) qualified national organization to provide tech- Business-Cooperative Service salaries and ex- of the Act, and not to exceed $10,000 per project nical assistance for rural transportation in penses accounts shall be transferred to and for advances to nonprofit organizations or pub- order to promote economic development; and merged with this appropriation. lic agencies to cover direct costs (other than

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.011 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7967 purchase price) incurred in purchasing projects dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 to remain available until expended, to be avail- pursuant to section 502(c)(5)(C) of the Act: Pro- U.S.C. 1932), $7,750,000, of which $2,500,000 shall able for loans and grants for telemedicine and vided further, That agreements entered into or be available for cooperative agreements for the distance learning services in rural areas: Pro- renewed during fiscal year 2002 shall be funded appropriate technology transfer for rural areas vided, That $22,500,000 may be available for the for a 5-year period, although the life of any program: Provided, That not to exceed $1,497,000 continuation of a pilot project for a loan and such agreement may be extended to fully utilize of the total amount appropriated shall be made grant program to finance broadband trans- amounts obligated. available to cooperatives or associations of co- mission and local dial-up Internet service in MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS operatives whose primary focus is to provide as- areas that meet the definition of ‘‘rural area’’ For grants and contracts pursuant to section sistance to small, minority producers and whose used for the Distance Learning and Telemedi- 523(b)(1)(A) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 governing board and/or membership is comprised cine Program authorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa: U.S.C. 1490c), $35,000,000, to remain available of at least 75 percent minority. Provided further, That the cost of direct loans until expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b): Provided, That RURAL EMPOWERMENT ZONES AND ENTERPRISE shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres- of the total amount appropriated, $1,000,000 COMMUNITIES GRANTS sional Budget Act of 1974. shall be available through June 30, 2002, for au- For grants in connection with a second round LOCAL TELEVISION LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM thorized empowerment zones and enterprise of empowerment zones and enterprise commu- ACCOUNT communities and communities designated by the nities, $14,967,000, to remain available until ex- (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) Secretary of Agriculture as Rural Economic pended, for designated rural empowerment For gross obligations for the principal amount Area Partnership Zones. zones and rural enterprise communities, as au- of guaranteed loans, as authorized by Title X of RURAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS thorized by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and Public Law 106–553 for the purpose of facili- For grants and contracts for very low-income the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Sup- tating access to signals of local television sta- housing repair, supervisory and technical assist- plemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law tions for households located in nonserved areas ance, compensation for construction defects, 105–277). and underserved areas, $258,065,000. and rural housing preservation made by the RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE For the cost of guaranteed loans, including Rural Housing Service, as authorized by 42 RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND the cost of modifying loans as defined in section U.S.C. 1474, 1479(c), 1490e, and 1490m, TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, $20,000,000. $38,914,000, to remain available until expended: (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) In addition, for administrative expenses nec- Provided, That of the total amount appro- Insured loans pursuant to the authority of essary to carry out the guaranteed loan pro- priated, $1,200,000 shall be available through section 305 of the Rural Electrification Act of gram, $2,000,000, which shall be transferred to June 30, 2002, for authorized empowerment 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935) shall be made as follows: 5 and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Rural zones and enterprise communities and commu- percent rural electrification loans, $121,107,000; Development, Salaries and Expenses’’. nities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture municipal rate rural electric loans, $500,000,000; as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones. loans made pursuant to section 306 of that Act, TITLE IV FARM LABOR PROGRAM ACCOUNT rural electric, $2,700,000,000; Treasury rate di- DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS For the cost of direct loans, grants, and con- rect electric loans, $750,000,000; 5 percent rural OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD, tracts, as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 1484 and 1486, telecommunications loans, $74,827,000; cost of NUTRITION AND CONSUMER SERVICES $31,431,000, to remain available until expended, money rural telecommunications loans, For necessary salaries and expenses of the Of- for direct farm labor housing loans and domestic $300,000,000; and loans made pursuant to section farm labor housing grants and contracts. fice of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition 306 of that Act, rural telecommunications loans, and Consumer Services to administer the laws RURAL BUSINESS—COOPERATIVE SERVICE $120,000,000. enacted by the Congress for the Food and Nutri- RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND PROGRAM For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the tion Service, $587,000. ACCOUNT Congressional Budget Act of 1974, including the cost of modifying loans, of direct and guaran- FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) teed loans authorized by the Rural Electrifica- CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS For the principal amount of direct loans, as tion Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935 and 936), as fol- (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) authorized by the Rural Development Loan lows: cost of rural electric loans, $3,689,000, and For necessary expenses to carry out the Na- Fund (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), $38,171,000. the cost of telecommunication loans, $2,036,000: tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), For the cost of direct loans, $16,494,000, as au- Provided, That notwithstanding section except section 21, and the Child Nutrition Act of thorized by the Rural Development Loan Fund 305(d)(2) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.), except sections 17 (42 U.S.C. 9812(a)), of which $1,724,000 shall be borrower interest rates may exceed 7 percent per and 21; $10,087,246,000, to remain available for Federally Recognized Native American year. through September 30, 2003, of which Tribes and of which $3,449,000 shall be for Mis- In addition, for administrative expenses nec- $4,914,788,000 is hereby appropriated and sissippi Delta Region counties (as defined by essary to carry out the direct and guaranteed $5,172,458,000 shall be derived by transfer from Public Law 100–460): Provided, That such costs, loan programs, $36,000,000, which shall be trans- funds available under section 32 of the Act of including the cost of modifying such loans, shall ferred to and merged with the appropriation for August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c): Provided, That be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’. none of the funds made available under this Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That of RURAL TELEPHONE BANK PROGRAM ACCOUNT heading shall be used for studies and evalua- the total amount appropriated, $2,730,000 shall tions: Provided further, That of the funds made be available through June 30, 2002, for the cost (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) available under this heading, $500,000 shall be of direct loans for authorized empowerment The Rural Telephone Bank is hereby author- for a School Breakfast Program startup grant zones and enterprise communities and commu- ized to make such expenditures, within the lim- pilot program for the State of Wisconsin: Pro- nities designated by the Secretary of Agriculture its of funds available to such corporation in ac- vided further, That up to $4,507,000 shall be as Rural Economic Area Partnership Zones. cord with law, and to make such contracts and available for independent verification of school In addition, for administrative expenses to commitments without regard to fiscal year limi- food service claims. carry out the direct loan programs, $3,733,000 tations as provided by section 104 of the Govern- shall be transferred to and merged with the ap- ment Corporation Control Act, as may be nec- SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR propriation for ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries essary in carrying out its authorized programs. WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) and Expenses’’. During fiscal year 2002 and within the resources For necessary expenses to carry out the spe- and authority available, gross obligations for RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOANS PROGRAM cial supplemental nutrition program as author- the principal amount of direct loans shall be ACCOUNT ized by section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of $174,615,000. 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786), $4,348,000,000, to remain (INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the available through September 30, 2003: Provided, For the principal amount of direct loans, as Congressional Budget Act of 1974, including the That none of the funds made available under authorized under section 313 of the Rural Elec- cost of modifying loans, of direct loans author- this heading shall be used for studies and eval- trification Act, for the purpose of promoting ized by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 uations: Provided further, That of the total rural economic development and job creation U.S.C. 935), $3,737,000. amount available, the Secretary shall obligate projects, $14,966,000. In addition, for administrative expenses, in- $10,000,000 for the farmers’ market nutrition For the cost of direct loans, including the cost cluding audits, necessary to carry out the loan program within 45 days of the enactment of this of modifying loans as defined in section 502 of programs, $3,082,000, which shall be transferred Act, and up to an additional $15,000,000 for the the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, $3,616,000. to and merged with the appropriation for farmers’ market nutrition program upon a deter- Of the funds derived from interest on the ‘‘Rural Development, Salaries and Expenses’’. mination by the Secretary that funds are avail- cushion of credit payments in fiscal year 2002, DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE PROGRAM able to meet caseload requirements: Provided as authorized by section 313 of the Rural Elec- For the principal amount of direct distance further, That notwithstanding section trification Act of 1936, $3,616,000 shall not be ob- learning and telemedicine loans, $300,000,000; 17(h)(10)(A) of such Act, $10,000,000 shall be ligated and $3,616,000 are rescinded. and for the principal amount of broadband tele- available for the purposes specified in section RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS communication loans, $80,000,000. 17(h)(10)(B), and up to an additional $4,000,000 For rural cooperative development grants au- For the cost of direct loans and grants, as au- shall be available for the purposes specified in thorized under section 310B(e) of the Consoli- thorized by 7 U.S.C. 950aaa et seq., $49,441,000, section 17(h)(10)(B) upon a determination by the

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Secretary that funds are available to meet case- FOOD PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION freight differential may be used interchangeably load requirements: Provided further, That none For necessary administrative expenses of the between the two accounts with prior notice to of the funds in this Act shall be available to pay domestic food programs funded under this Act, the Committees on Appropriations of both administrative expenses of WIC clinics except $127,546,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be avail- Houses of Congress. those that have an announced policy of prohib- able only for simplifying procedures, reducing PUBLIC LAW 480 TITLE II GRANTS iting smoking within the space used to carry out overhead costs, tightening regulations, improv- For expenses during the current fiscal year, the program: Provided further, That none of the ing food stamp benefit delivery, and assisting in not otherwise recoverable, and unrecovered funds provided in this account shall be avail- the prevention, identification, and prosecution prior years’ costs, including interest thereon, able for the purchase of infant formula except of fraud and other violations of law and of under the Agricultural Trade Development and in accordance with the cost containment and which not less than $6,500,000 shall be available Assistance Act of 1954, $850,000,000, to remain competitive bidding requirements specified in to improve integrity in the Food Stamp and available until expended, for commodities sup- section 17 of such Act: Provided further, That Child Nutrition programs: Provided, That this plied in connection with dispositions abroad none of the funds provided shall be available for appropriation shall be available for employment under title II of said Act. activities that are not fully reimbursed by other pursuant to the second sentence of section COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT LOANS Federal Government departments or agencies 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), PROGRAM ACCOUNT unless authorized by section 17 of such Act. and not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) FOOD STAMP PROGRAM employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109. For administrative expenses to carry out the For necessary expenses to carry out the Food TITLE V Commodity Credit Corporation’s export guar- Stamp Act (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), $22,991,986,000, FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND RELATED antee program, GSM 102 and GSM 103, of which $2,000,000,000 shall be placed in reserve PROGRAMS $4,014,000; to cover common overhead expenses for use only in such amounts and at such times as permitted by section 11 of the Commodity FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE as may become necessary to carry out program Credit Corporation Charter Act and in con- operations: Provided, That of the funds made SALARIES AND EXPENSES formity with the Federal Credit Reform Act of available under this heading and not already (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 1990, of which $3,224,000 may be transferred to appropriated to the Food Distribution Program For necessary expenses of the Foreign Agri- and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Foreign on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) established cultural Service, including carrying out title VI Agricultural Service, Salaries and Expenses’’, under section 4(b) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 of the Agricultural Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1761– and of which $790,000 may be transferred to and (7 U.S.C. 2013(b)), not to exceed $3,000,000 shall 1768), market development activities abroad, and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Serv- be used to purchase bison meat for the FDPIR for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and in- ice Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’. from producer-owned cooperative organizations: tegrate activities of the Department in connec- TITLE VI Provided further, That none of the funds made tion with foreign agricultural work, including RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG available under this heading shall be used for not to exceed $158,000 for representation allow- ADMINISTRATION studies and evaluations: Provided further, That ances and for expenses pursuant to section 8 of DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN funds provided herein shall be expended in ac- the Act approved August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1766), SERVICES cordance with section 16 of the Food Stamp Act: $121,813,000: Provided, That the Service may uti- Provided further, That this appropriation shall lize advances of funds, or reimburse this appro- FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION be subject to any work registration or workfare priation for expenditures made on behalf of Fed- SALARIES AND EXPENSES requirements as may be required by law: Pro- eral agencies, public and private organizations For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug vided further, That of funds that may be re- and institutions under agreements executed pur- Administration, including hire and purchase of served by the Secretary for allocation to State suant to the agricultural food production assist- passenger motor vehicles; for payment of space agencies under section 16(h)(1) of such Act to ance programs (7 U.S.C. 1737) and the foreign rental and related costs pursuant to Public Law carry out Employment and Training programs, assistance programs of the United States Agency 92–313 for programs and activities of the Food not more than $145,000,000 made available in for International Development: Provided fur- and Drug Administration which are included in previous years may be obligated in fiscal year ther, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act; for rental of special purpose space in 2002: Provided further, That funds made avail- this account may be used to pay the salaries the District of Columbia or elsewhere; and for able for Employment and Training under this and expenses of personnel to disburse funds to miscellaneous and emergency expenses of en- heading shall remain available until expended, any rice trade association under the market ac- forcement activities, authorized and approved as authorized by section 16(h)(1) of the Food cess program or the foreign market development by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely Stamp Act: Provided further, That funds pro- program at any time when the applicable inter- on the Secretary’s certificate, not to exceed vided under this heading may be used to pro- national activity agreement for such program is $25,000; $1,345,386,000, of which not to exceed cure food coupons necessary for program oper- not in effect. $161,716,000 to be derived from prescription drug ations in this or subsequent fiscal years until None of the funds in the foregoing paragraph user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379(h), includ- electronic benefit transfer implementation is shall be available to promote the sale or export ing any such fees assessed prior to the current complete. of tobacco or tobacco products. fiscal year but credited during the current year, COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PUBLIC LAW 480 TITLE I PROGRAM ACCOUNT in accordance with section 736(g)(4), shall be credited to this appropriation and remain avail- (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) (INCLUDING RESCISSION) able until expended: Provided, That fees derived For the cost, as defined in section 502 of the For necessary expenses to carry out the com- from applications received during fiscal year Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of agreements modity supplemental food program as author- 2002 shall be subject to the fiscal year 2002 limi- under the Agricultural Trade Development and ized by section 4(a) of the Agriculture and Con- tation: Provided further, That none of these Assistance Act of 1954, and the Food for sumer Protection Act of 1973 (7 U.S.C. 612c note) funds shall be used to develop, establish, or op- Progress Act of 1985, including the cost of modi- and the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983, erate any program of user fees authorized by 31 fying credit arrangements under said Acts, $152,813,000, to remain available through Sep- U.S.C. 9701: Provided further, That of the total $126,409,000, to remain available until expended. tember 30, 2003: Provided, That none of these amount appropriated: (1) $312,049,000 shall be In addition, for administrative expenses to funds shall be available to reimburse the Com- for the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nu- carry out the credit program of title I, Public modity Credit Corporation for commodities do- trition and related field activities in the Office Law 83–480, and the Food for Progress Act of nated to the program: Provided further, That of of Regulatory Affairs; (2) $352,647,000 shall be 1985, to the extent funds appropriated for Public the total amount available, the Secretary shall for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Re- Law 83–480 are utilized, $2,005,000, of which provide $10,000,000 for senior farmers’ market search and related field activities in the Office $1,033,000 may be transferred to and merged activities: Provided further, That notwith- of Regulatory Affairs, of which no less than with the appropriation for ‘‘Foreign Agricul- standing section 5(a)(2) of the Agriculture and $13,207,000 shall be available for grants and con- tural Service, Salaries and Expenses’’, and of Consumer Protection Act of 1973 (Public Law tracts awarded under section 5 of the Orphan which $972,000 may be transferred to and 93–86; 7 U.S.C. 612c note), $20,820,000 of this Drug Act (21 U.S.C. 360ee); (3) $155,875,000 shall merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Farm Serv- amount shall be available for administrative ex- be for the Center for Biologics Evaluation and ice Agency, Salaries and Expenses’’. penses of the commodity supplemental food pro- Research and for related field activities in the gram: Provided further, That $3,300,000 of unob- PUBLIC LAW 480 TITLE I OCEAN FREIGHT Office of Regulatory Affairs; (4) $82,967,000 shall ligated balances available at the beginning of DIFFERENTIAL GRANTS be for the Center for Veterinary Medicine and fiscal year 2002 are hereby rescinded. (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) for related field activities in the Office of Regu- FOOD DONATIONS PROGRAMS For ocean freight differential costs for the latory Affairs; (5) $179,521,000 shall be for the For necessary expenses to carry out section shipment of agricultural commodities under title Center for Devices and Radiological Health and 4(a) of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection I of the Agricultural Trade Development and for related field activities in the Office of Regu- Act of 1973; special assistance for the nuclear Assistance Act of 1954 and under the Food for latory Affairs; (6) $37,082,000 shall be for the affected islands as authorized by section Progress Act of 1985, $20,277,000, to remain National Center for Toxicological Research; (7) 103(h)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association available until expended: Provided, That funds $29,798,000 shall be for Rent and Related activi- Act of 1985; and section 311 of the Older Ameri- made available for the cost of agreements under ties, other than the amounts paid to the General cans Act of 1965, $150,749,000, to remain avail- title I of the Agricultural Trade Development Services Administration, of which $4,000,000 for able through September 30, 2003. and Assistance Act of 1954 and for title I ocean costs related to occupancy of new facilities at

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.016 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7969 White Oak, Maryland, shall remain available vided further, That none of the funds trans- tion and Telecommunications Loans program until September 30, 2003; (8) $105,116,000 shall be ferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to account; the Local Television Loan Guarantee for payments to the General Services Adminis- this section shall be available for obligation program; the Rural Housing Insurance Fund tration for rent and related costs; and (9) without the prior approval of the Committees on program account; and the Rural Economic De- $90,331,000 shall be for other activities, including Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. velopment Loans program account. the Office of the Commissioner; the Office of SEC. 705. New obligational authority provided SEC. 713. Notwithstanding chapter 63 of title Management and Systems; the Office of the Sen- for the following appropriation items in this Act 31, United States Code, marketing services of the ior Associate Commissioner; the Office of Inter- shall remain available until expended: Animal Agricultural Marketing Service; the Grain In- national and Constituent Relations; the Office and Plant Health Inspection Service, the contin- spection, Packers and Stockyards Administra- of Policy, Legislation, and Planning; and cen- gency fund to meet emergency conditions, fruit tion; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection tral services for these offices: Provided further, fly program, emerging plant pests, integrated Service; and the food safety activities of the That funds may be transferred from one speci- systems acquisition project, boll weevil program, Food Safety and Inspection Service may use co- fied activity to another with the prior approval up to 25 percent of the screwworm program, and operative agreements to reflect a relationship be- of the Committees on Appropriations of both up to $2,000,000 for costs associated with collo- tween the Agricultural Marketing Service; the Houses of Congress. cating regional offices; Food Safety and Inspec- Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Ad- In addition, mammography user fees author- tion Service, field automation and information ministration; the Animal and Plant Health In- ized by 42 U.S.C. 263(b) may be credited to this management project; Cooperative State Re- spection Service; or the Food Safety and Inspec- account, to remain available until expended. search, Education, and Extension Service, funds tion Service and a state or cooperator to carry In addition, export certification user fees au- for competitive research grants (7 U.S.C. out agricultural marketing programs, to carry thorized by 21 U.S.C. 381 may be credited to this 450i(b)), funds for the Research, Education and out programs to protect the nation’s animal and account, to remain available until expended. Economics Information System (REEIS), and plant resources, or to carry out educational pro- BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES funds for the Native American Institutions En- grams or special studies to improve the safety of For plans, construction, repair, improvement, dowment Fund; Farm Service Agency, salaries the nation’s food supply. extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed and expenses funds made available to county SEC. 714. None of the funds in this Act may be equipment or facilities of or used by the Food committees; Foreign Agricultural Service, mid- used to retire more than 5 percent of the Class and Drug Administration, where not otherwise dle-income country training program and up to A stock of the Rural Telephone Bank or to provided, $34,281,000, to remain available until $2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricultural Service maintain any account or subaccount within the expended (7 U.S.C. 2209b). appropriation solely for the purpose of offset- accounting records of the Rural Telephone INDEPENDENT AGENCIES ting fluctuations in international currency ex- Bank the creation of which has not specifically change rates, subject to documentation by the been authorized by statute: Provided, That not- COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Foreign Agricultural Service. withstanding any other provision of law, none For necessary expenses to carry out the provi- SEC. 706. No part of any appropriation con- of the funds appropriated or otherwise made sions of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. tained in this Act shall remain available for ob- available in this Act may be used to transfer to 1 et seq.), including the purchase and hire of ligation beyond the current fiscal year unless the Treasury or to the Federal Financing Bank passenger motor vehicles; the rental of space (to expressly so provided herein. any unobligated balance of the Rural Telephone include multiple year leases) in the District of SEC. 707. Not to exceed $50,000 of the appro- Bank telephone liquidating account which is in Columbia and elsewhere; and not to exceed priations available to the Department of Agri- excess of current requirements and such balance $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109, culture in this Act shall be available to provide shall receive interest as set forth for financial $70,700,000, including not to exceed $2,000 for of- appropriate orientation and language training accounts in section 505(c) of the Federal Credit ficial reception and representation expenses. pursuant to section 606C of the Act of August Reform Act of 1990. FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1766b). SEC. 715. Of the funds made available by this LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES SEC. 708. No funds appropriated by this Act Act, not more than $1,800,000 shall be used to Not to exceed $36,700,000 (from assessments may be used to pay negotiated indirect cost cover necessary expenses of activities related to collected from farm credit institutions and from rates on cooperative agreements or similar ar- all advisory committees, panels, commissions, the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation) rangements between the United States Depart- and task forces of the Department of Agri- shall be obligated during the current fiscal year ment of Agriculture and nonprofit institutions culture, except for panels used to comply with for administrative expenses as authorized under in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of negotiated rule makings and panels used to 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this limitation the agreement when the purpose of such cooper- evaluate competitively awarded grants. shall not apply to expenses associated with re- ative arrangements is to carry out programs of SEC. 716. None of the funds appropriated by ceiverships. mutual interest between the two parties. This this Act may be used to carry out section 410 of does not preclude appropriate payment of indi- the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS rect costs on grants and contracts with such in- 679a) or section 30 of the Poultry Products In- SEC. 701. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by stitutions when such indirect costs are computed spection Act (21 U.S.C. 471). law, appropriations and authorizations made on a similar basis for all agencies for which ap- SEC. 717. No employee of the Department of for the Department of Agriculture for fiscal year propriations are provided in this Act. Agriculture may be detailed or assigned from an 2002 under this Act shall be available for the SEC. 709. None of the funds in this Act shall agency or office funded by this Act to any other purchase, in addition to those specifically pro- be available to restrict the authority of the Com- agency or office of the Department for more vided for, of not to exceed 379 passenger motor modity Credit Corporation to lease space for its than 30 days unless the individual’s employing vehicles, of which 378 shall be for replacement own use or to lease space on behalf of other agency or office is fully reimbursed by the re- only, and for the hire of such vehicles. agencies of the Department of Agriculture when ceiving agency or office for the salary and ex- SEC. 702. Funds in this Act available to the such space will be jointly occupied. penses of the employee for the period of assign- Department of Agriculture shall be available for SEC. 710. None of the funds in this Act shall ment. uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized be available to pay indirect costs charged SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). against competitive agricultural research, edu- otherwise made available to the Department of SEC. 703. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appro- cation, or extension grant awards issued by the Agriculture shall be used to transmit or other- priations of the Department of Agriculture in Cooperative State Research, Education, and Ex- wise make available to any non-Department of this Act for research and service work author- tension Service that exceed 19 percent of total Agriculture employee questions or responses to ized by sections 1 and 10 of the Act of June 29, Federal funds provided under each award: Pro- questions that are a result of information re- 1935 (7 U.S.C. 427, 427i; commonly known as the vided, That notwithstanding section 1462 of the quested for the appropriations hearing process. Bankhead-Jones Act), subtitle A of title II and National Agricultural Research, Extension, and SEC. 719. None of the funds made available to section 302 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3310), the Department of Agriculture by this Act may U.S.C. 1621 et seq.), and chapter 63 of title 31, funds provided by this Act for grants awarded be used to acquire new information technology United States Code, shall be available for con- competitively by the Cooperative State Research, systems or significant upgrades, as determined tracting in accordance with such Acts and Education, and Extension Service shall be avail- by the Office of the Chief Information Officer, chapter. able to pay full allowable indirect costs for each without the approval of the Chief Information SEC. 704. The Secretary of Agriculture may grant awarded under section 9 of the Small Officer and the concurrence of the Executive In- transfer unobligated balances of funds appro- Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638). formation Technology Investment Review priated by this Act or other available unobli- SEC. 711. Notwithstanding any other provision Board: Provided, That notwithstanding any gated balances of the Department of Agriculture of this Act, all loan levels provided in this Act other provision of law, none of the funds appro- to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition shall be considered estimates, not limitations. priated or otherwise made available by this Act of plant and capital equipment necessary for the SEC. 712. Appropriations to the Department of may be transferred to the Office of the Chief In- delivery of financial, administrative, and infor- Agriculture for the cost of direct and guaran- formation Officer without the prior approval of mation technology services of primary benefit to teed loans made available in fiscal year 2002 the Committees on Appropriations of both the agencies of the Department of Agriculture: shall remain available until expended to cover Houses of Congress. Provided, That none of the funds made avail- obligations made in fiscal year 2002 for the fol- SEC. 720. (a) None of the funds provided by able by this Act or any other Act shall be trans- lowing accounts: the Rural Development Loan this Act, or provided by previous Appropriations ferred to the Working Capital Fund without the Fund program account; the Rural Telephone Acts to the agencies funded by this Act that re- prior approval of the agency administrator: Pro- Bank program account; the Rural Electrifica- main available for obligation or expenditure in

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fiscal year 2002, or provided from any accounts Food and Drug Administration and other lab- SEC. 733. Notwithstanding any other provision in the Treasury of the United States derived by oratory facilities associated with the State of of law, the City of Cabot, Arkansas, the City of the collection of fees available to the agencies Michigan. Berlin, New Hampshire, and the City of funded by this Act, shall be available for obliga- SEC. 725. None of the funds appropriated by Coachella, California, shall be eligible for loans tion or expenditure through a reprogramming of this Act or any other Act shall be used to pay and grants provided through the Rural Commu- funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) the salaries and expenses of personnel who pre- nity Advancement Program. eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) in- pare or submit appropriations language as part SEC. 734. Notwithstanding any other provision creases funds or personnel by any means for of the President’s Budget submission to the Con- of law, the Secretary shall consider the City of any project or activity for which funds have gress of the United States for programs under Casa Grande, Arizona, as meeting the require- been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Sub- ments of a rural area in section 520 of the Hous- or employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs, committees on Agriculture, Rural Development, ing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1490). or activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes Food and Drug Administration, and Related SEC. 735. Of the funds made available under any functions or activities presently performed Agencies that assumes revenues or reflects a re- section 27(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 by Federal employees; unless the Committees on duction from the previous year due to user fees U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), the Secretary may use up to Appropriations of both Houses of Congress are proposals that have not been enacted into law $5,000,000 for administrative costs associated notified 15 days in advance of such reprogram- prior to the submission of the Budget unless with the distribution of commodities. ming of funds. such Budget submission identifies which addi- SEC. 736. Notwithstanding any other provision (b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or tional spending reductions should occur in the of law, the Secretary may transfer up to provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the event the user fees proposals are not enacted $13,000,000 in funds provided for the Environ- agencies funded by this Act that remain avail- prior to the date of the convening of a committee mental Quality Incentives Program authorized able for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year of conference for the fiscal year 2003 appropria- by Chapter 4, Subtitle D, Title XII of the Food 2002, or provided from any accounts in the tions Act. Security Act of 1985, for technical assistance to Treasury of the United States derived by the SEC. 726. None of the funds made available by implement the Conservation Reserve Program collection of fees available to the agencies fund- this Act or any other Act may be used to close authorized by subchapter B, Chapter 1, Title ed by this Act, shall be available for obligation or relocate a state Rural Development office un- XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, with funds or expenditure for activities, programs, or less or until cost effectiveness and enhancement to remain available until expended. projects through a reprogramming of funds in of program delivery have been determined. SEC. 737. Notwithstanding any other provision excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is SEC. 727. Of any shipments of commodities of law, the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, shall be eligible for grants and loans administered by the less, that: (1) augments existing programs, made pursuant to section 416(b) of the Agricul- rural development mission area of the Depart- projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent tural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431(b)), the Sec- ment of Agriculture relating to an application funding for any existing program, project, or ac- retary of Agriculture shall, to the extent prac- submitted to the Department by a farmer-owned tivity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent as ticable, direct that tonnage equal in value to not cooperative, a majority of whose members reside approved by Congress; or (3) results from any more than $25,000,000 shall be made available to in a rural area, as determined by the Secretary, general savings from a reduction in personnel foreign countries to assist in mitigating the ef- and for the purchase and operation of a facility which would result in a change in existing pro- fects of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome on com- beneficial to the purpose of the cooperative. grams, activities, or projects as approved by munities, including the provision of— SEC. 738. Notwithstanding any other provision Congress; unless the Committees on Appropria- (1) agricultural commodities to— of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall con- tions of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 (A) individuals with Human Immuno- sider the City of Hollister, California, as meeting days in advance of such reprogramming of deficiency Virus or Acquired Immune Deficiency the requirements of a rural area for the pur- funds. Syndrome in the communities, and poses of housing programs in the rural develop- (c) The Secretary of Agriculture shall notify (B) households in the communities, particu- ment mission areas of the Department of Agri- the Committees on Appropriations of both larly individuals caring for orphaned children; culture. Houses of Congress before implementing a pro- and SEC. 739. None of the funds appropriated or gram or activity not carried out during the pre- (2) agricultural commodities monetized to pro- otherwise made available by this Act may be vious fiscal year unless the program or activity vide other assistance (including assistance used to maintain, modify, or implement any as- is funded by this Act or specifically funded by under microcredit and microenterprise pro- sessment against agricultural producers as part any other Act. grams) to create or restore sustainable liveli- of a commodity promotion, research, and con- SEC. 721. With the exception of funds needed hoods among individuals in the communities, sumer information order, known as a check-off to administer and conduct oversight of grants particularly individuals caring for orphaned program, that has not been approved by the af- awarded and obligations incurred prior to en- children. fected producers in accordance with the statu- actment of this Act, none of the funds appro- SEC. 728. In addition to amounts otherwise ap- tory requirements applicable to the order. priated or otherwise made available by this or propriated or made available by this Act, SEC. 740. None of the funds made available to any other Act may be used to pay the salaries $2,496,000 is appropriated for the purpose of pro- the Food and Drug Administration by this Act and expenses of personnel to carry out section viding Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger shall be used to close or relocate, or to plan to 793 of Public Law 104–127, the Fund for Rural Fellowships through the Congressional Hunger close or relocate, the Food and Drug Adminis- America (7 U.S.C. 2204f). Center. tration Division of Drug Analysis (recently re- SEC. 722. With the exception of funds needed SEC. 729. Hereafter, refunds or rebates re- named the Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis) to administer and conduct oversight of grants ceived on an on-going basis from a credit card in St. Louis, Missouri, except that funds could awarded and obligations incurred prior to en- services provider under the Department of Agri- be used to plan a possible relocation of this Di- actment of this Act, none of the funds appro- culture’s charge card programs may be deposited vision within the city limits of St. Louis, Mis- priated or otherwise made available by this or to and retained without fiscal year limitation in souri. any other Act may be used to pay the salaries the Department’s Working Capital Fund estab- SEC. 741. MARKET LOSS ASSISTANCE FOR APPLE and expenses of personnel to carry out the pro- lished under 7 U.S.C. 2235 and used to fund PRODUCERS (a) ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE.—The visions of section 401 of Public Law 105–185, the management initiatives of general benefit to the Secretary of Agriculture shall use $75,000,000 of Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Sys- Department of Agriculture bureaus and offices funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to tems (7 U.S.C. 7621). as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture or make payments as soon as possible after the SEC. 723. None of the funds appropriated or the Secretary’s designee. date of the enactment of this Act to apple pro- otherwise made available by this Act shall be SEC. 730. Notwithstanding section 412 of the ducers to provide relief for the loss of markets used to pay the salaries and expenses of per- Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance for their 2000 crop. sonnel to carry out a conservation farm option Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1736f) any balances avail- (b) PAYMENT BASIS.—The amount of the pay- program, as authorized by section 1240M of the able to carry out title III of such Act as of the ment to a producer under subsection (a) shall be Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3839bb). date of enactment of this Act, and any recov- made on a per pound basis equal to each quali- SEC. 724. None of the funds made available to eries and reimbursements that become available fying producer’s 2000 production of apples, ex- the Food and Drug Administration by this Act to carry out title III of such Act, may be used cept that the Secretary shall not make payments shall be used to reduce the Detroit, Michigan, to carry out title II of such Act. for that amount of a particular farm’s apple Food and Drug Administration District Office SEC. 731. Section 375(e)(6)(B) of the Consoli- production that is in excess of 20,000,000 below the operating and full-time equivalent dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 pounds. staffing level of July 31, 1999; or to change the U.S.C. 2008j(e)(6)(B)) is amended by striking (c) DUPLICATIVE PAYMENTS.—A producer shall Detroit District Office to a station, residence ‘‘$25,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$26,000,000’’. be ineligible for payments under this section post or similarly modified office; or to reassign SEC. 732. None of the funds appropriated or with respect to a market loss for apples to the residence posts assigned to the Detroit District made available by this Act shall be used to issue extent of that amount that the producer re- Office: Provided, That this section shall not a proposed rule for which the comment period ceived as compensation or assistance for the apply to Food and Drug Administration field would close prior to September 30, 2002, final, or same loss under any other Federal program, laboratory facilities or operations currently lo- interim final rule pursuant to notice and com- other than under the Federal Crop Insurance cated in Detroit, Michigan, except that field lab- ment rulemaking in relation to any change or Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). oratory personnel shall be assigned to locations modification of the definition of ‘‘animal’’ in ex- (d) OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Sec- in the general vicinity of Detroit, Michigan, isting regulations pursuant to the Animal Wel- retary shall not establish any terms or condi- pursuant to cooperative agreements between the fare Act. tions for producer eligibility, such as limits

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based upon gross income, other than those spec- purpose of making the fiscal year 2001 payments SEC. 753. Hereafter, any provision of any Act ified in this section. under section 102 of such Act to eligible States of Congress relating to colleges and universities (e) APPLICABILITY.—This section applies only and eligible counties, the full payment amount eligible to receive funds under the Act of August with respect to the 2000 crop of apples and pro- for each eligible State and eligible county shall 30, 1890, including Tuskegee University, shall ducers of that crop. be deemed to be equal to the full payment apply to West Virginia State College at Insti- SEC. 742. No funds appropriated or otherwise amount calculated for that eligible State or eli- tute, West Virginia: Provided, That the Sec- made available under this Act shall be made gible county in the Forest Service document en- retary may waive the matching funds’ require- available to any person or entity that has been titled ‘‘P.L. 106–393, Secure Rural Schools and ment under section 1449 of the National Agricul- convicted of violating the Act of March 3, 1933 Community Self-Determination Act’’ and dated tural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c; popularly known as the July 31, 2001, subject to the adjustment required Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222d) for fiscal year 2002 ‘‘Buy American Act’’). by section 101(b) of such Act. for West Virginia State College if the Secretary SEC. 743. Section 17(a)(2)(B) of the Richard B. (b) REVISION OF TABLE.—For the purpose of determines the State of West Virginia will be un- Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. making payments under section 102 of such Act likely to satisfy the matching requirement. 1766(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘2001’’ and to eligible States and eligible counties for fiscal SEC. 754. Notwithstanding any other provision inserting ‘‘2002’’. years 2002 through 2006, as required by section of law, the Secretary, acting through the Nat- SEC. 744. Notwithstanding any other provision 101(a)(1) of such Act, the Secretary of Agri- ural Resources Conservation Service, shall pro- of law, the Natural Resources Conservation culture shall revise the table referred to in sub- vide financial and technical assistance relating Service shall provide financial and technical as- section (a) to accurately reflect, to the maximum to the Tanana River bordering the Big Delta sistance in the amount of $150,000 to the Mal- extent practicable, each eligible State’s and eli- State Historical Park. lard Pointe project in Madison County, Mis- gible county’s historic share of the 25-percent SEC. 755. None of the funds appropriated or sissippi. payments and safety net payments made for the otherwise made available by this Act to the SEC. 745. Notwithstanding any other provision fiscal years of the eligibility period. Food and Drug Administration shall be used to of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, in co- (c) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Not later than allow admission of fish or fish products labeled operation with the State of Illinois, develop and March 1, 2002, the Secretary of Agriculture shall wholly or in part as ‘‘catfish’’ unless the prod- implement a pilot project utilizing conservation submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural ucts are taxonomically from the family programs of the Department of Agriculture for Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Ictaluridae. EC. 756. The Secretary of Agriculture is au- soil, water, wetlands, and wildlife habitat en- Agriculture of the House of Representatives a S thorized to accept any unused funds transferred hancement in the Illinois River Basin: Provided, report containing the revisions made to the table to the Alaska Railroad Corporation for ava- That no funds shall be made available to carry referred to in subsection (a), as required by sub- lanche control and retransfer up to $499,000 of out this section unless they are expressly pro- section (b). such funds as a direct lump sum payment to the vided for a program in this Act or any other Act (d) ADDITIONAL ELIGIBLE COUNTY ELEC- City of Valdez to construct an avalanche con- for obligation in fiscal year 2002: Provided fur- TION.—Notwithstanding section 102(b)(2) of such ther, That any conservation reserve program en- Act, if the revision pursuant to subsection (b) of trol wall to protect a public school. SEC. 757. The Secretary of Agriculture may rollments made pursuant to this section shall be the table referred to in subsection (a) results in use not more than $5,000,000 of funds of the subject to section 734 of this Act. a reduced full payment amount for an eligible SEC. 746. Notwithstanding any other provision Commodity Credit Corporation to pay claims of county that elected under section 102(b) of such crop damage, upon consultation with the Sec- of law, the Natural Resources Conservation Act to receive the full payment amount, the eli- Service shall provide $250,000 for a wetlands res- retary of the Interior, that resulted from the Bu- gible county shall have a 90-day period, begin- reau of Land Management’s use of herbicides toration and water conservation project in the ning on the date the revised table is first avail- vicinity of Jamestown, Rhode Island. during the 2001 calendar year in the State of able to the public, during which to reconsider Idaho: Provided, That if the amount provided in SEC. 747. Notwithstanding any other provision and change its election. The eligible county of law, $3,000,000 shall be made available from this section is not sufficient to pay all approved shall notify the Secretary of Agriculture of any claims the Secretary of Agriculture shall reduce funds under the rural business and cooperative change in its election before the end of such pe- development programs of the Rural Community all approved claims on a pro rata basis related riod. If an eligible county elects under this sub- to the degree of loss in production: Provided fur- Advancement Program for a grant for an inte- section to receive the 25-percent payment in grated ethanol plant, feedlot, and animal waste ther, That nothing in this section shall be con- place of the full payment amount, the election strued to constitute an admission of liability by digestion unit, to the extent matching funds shall be effective for one year. from the Department of Energy are provided if the United States arising from the use by the (e) TREATMENT OF CERTAIN MINERAL LEASING Bureau of Land Management of the herbicide a commitment for such matching funds is made RECEIPTS.—(1) An eligible county that elects Oust: Provided further, That the issuance of prior to July 1, 2002: Provided, That such funds under section 102(b) of such Act to receive its regulations promulgated pursuant to this sec- shall be released to the project after the farmer- share of an eligible State’s full payment amount tion shall be made without regard to: (1) the no- owned cooperative equity is in place, and a for- shall continue to receive its share of any pay- tice and comment provisions of section 553 of mally executed commitment from a qualified ments made to that State from a lease for min- title 5, United States Code; (2) the Statement of lender based upon receipt of necessary permits, eral resources issued by the Secretary of the In- Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture effective contract, and other appropriate documentation terior under the last paragraph under the head- July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), relating to no- has been secured by the project. ing ‘‘FOREST SERVICE.’’ in the Act of March 4, tices of proposed rulemaking and public partici- SEC. 748. Hereafter, notwithstanding any 1917 (Chapter 179; 16 U.S.C. 520). pation in rulemaking; and (3) chapter 35 of title other provision of law, the Administrator of the (2) Section 6(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act for 44, United States Code (commonly known as the Rural Utilities Service shall use the authorities Acquired Lands (30 U.S.C. 355(b)) is amended by ‘‘Paperwork Reduction Act’’): Provided further, provided in the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 inserting after the first sentence the following That in carrying out this section, the Secretary to finance the acquisition of existing generation, new sentence: ‘‘The preceding sentence shall shall use the authority provided under section transmission and distribution systems and facili- also apply to any payment to a State derived 808 of title 5, United States Code. ties serving high cost, predominantly rural areas from a lease for mineral resources issued by the SEC. 758. PILOT PROGRAM FOR ENROLLMENT by entities capable of and dedicated to providing Secretary of the Interior under the last para- OF WETLAND AND BUFFER ACREAGE IN CON- or improving service in such areas in an effi- graph under the heading ‘FOREST SERVICE.’ in SERVATION RESERVE. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section cient and cost effective manner. the Act of March 4, 1917 (Chapter 179; 16 U.S.C. 1231(h)(4)(B) of the Food Security Act of 1985 SEC. 749. Notwithstanding subsection (f) of 520).’’. (16 U.S.C. 3831(h)(4)(B)) is amended by inserting section 156 of the Agricultural Market Transi- (f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘(which may include emerging vegetation in tion Act (7 U.S.C. 7272(f)), any assessment im- ‘‘eligible State’’, ‘‘eligible county’’, ‘‘eligibility water)’’ after ‘‘vegetative cover’’. posed under that subsection for marketings of period’’, ‘‘full payment amount’’, ‘‘25-percent (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section raw cane sugar or beet sugar for the 2002 fiscal payment’’, and ‘‘safety net payments’’ have the 1232(a)(4) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 year shall not be required to be remitted to the meanings given such terms in section 3 of such U.S.C. 3832(a)(4)) is amended by inserting Commodity Credit Corporation before September Act, and the term ‘‘such Act’’ means the Secure ‘‘(which may include emerging vegetation in 2, 2002. Rural Schools and Community Self-Determina- water)’’ after ‘‘vegetative cover’’. SEC. 750. Notwithstanding any other provision tion Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–393; 16 U.S.C. SEC. 759. SPECIALITY CROPS. (a) GRADING OF of law, the Secretary of Agriculture, acting 500 note). TOBACCO.— through the Natural Resources Conservation SEC. 752. ALASKA PERMANENT FUND. Section (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 31, Service, shall provide financial assistance from 501(b) of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1471) 2002, the Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in available funds from the Emergency Watershed is amended in paragraph (5)— this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall conduct Protection Program in Arkansas, in an amount (1) by striking ‘‘(5)’’ and inserting ‘‘(5)(A)’’; referenda among producers of each kind of to- not to exceed $400,000 for completion of the cur- and bacco that is eligible for price support under the rent construction phase of the Kuhn Bayou (2) by adding at the end the following: Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) to (Point Remove) Project. ‘‘(B) For purposes of this title, for fiscal years determine whether such producers favor the SEC. 751. (a) TEMPORARY USE OF EXISTING 2002 and 2003, the term ‘income’ does not in- mandatory grading of that kind of tobacco by PAYMENTS TO STATES TABLE.—Notwithstanding clude dividends received from the Alaska Perma- the Secretary. section 101(a)(1) of the Secure Rural Schools nent Fund by a person who was under the age (2) MANDATORY GRADING.— and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 of 18 years when that person qualified for the (A) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary determines (Public Law 106–393; 16 U.S.C. 500 note), for the dividend.’’. that mandatory grading is favored by a

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(B), the term for repayment of a loan made to a formal rulemaking based on a recommendation (B) FEES.—To the maximum extent prac- horse breeder under this subsection shall be de- and supporting economic analysis submitted by ticable, the Secretary shall establish, collect, termined by the Secretary based on the ability of the Cranberry Marketing Committee. Such rec- and use fees for the grading of tobacco required the horse breeder to repay the loan. ommendation and analysis shall be submitted by under this subsection in the same manner as (B) MAXIMUM TERM.—The term of a loan the Committee no later than March 1 of each user fees for the grading of tobacco sold at auc- made to a horse breeder under this subsection year.’’. tion authorized under the Tobacco Inspection shall not exceed 20 years. SEC. 766. Section 11(f) of the Richard B. Rus- Act (7 U.S.C. 511 et seq.). (6) INTEREST RATE.—The interest rate for a sell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. (3) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—A determination by the loan made to a horse breeder under this sub- 1759a(f)) is amended by— Secretary under this subsection shall not be sub- section shall be the interest rate for emergency (1) in paragraph (1)(E), by striking ‘‘2001’’ ject to judicial review. loans prescribed under section 324(b)(1) of the and inserting ‘‘2003’’; and (b) QUOTA REDUCTION FOR CONSERVATION RE- Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (2) in paragraph (2)— SERVE ACREAGE.— (7 U.S.C. 1964(b)(1)). (A) by striking subparagraph (A) and insert- (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1236 of the Food Se- (7) SECURITY.—A loan to a horse breeder ing the following: curity Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3836) is amended— under this subsection shall be made on the secu- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall submit (A) by striking subsection (a); rity required for emergency loans under section to the Committee on Education and the Work- (B) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and 324(d) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural De- force of the House of Representatives and the (d) as subsections (a), (b), and (c), respectively; velopment Act (7 U.S.C. 1964(d)). Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For- (C) in subsection (b) (as so redesignated), by (8) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to obtain a estry of the Senate— striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub- loan under this subsection, a horse breeder shall ‘‘(i) not later than January 1, 2003, an interim section (a)’’; and submit an application for the loan to the Sec- report on the activities of the State agencies re- (D) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated), by retary not later than September 30, 2002. ceiving grants under this subsection; and striking ‘‘subsection (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub- (9) FUNDING.—The Secretary shall carry out ‘‘(ii) not later than January 1, 2004, a final re- section (b)’’. this subsection using funds made available to port on the activities of the State agencies re- make emergency loans under subtitle C of the (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section ceiving grants under this subsection.’’; and 1232(a)(5) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘report’’ U.S.C. 3832(a)(5)) is amended by striking ‘‘sec- (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.). and inserting ‘‘reports’’. (10) TERMINATION.—The authority provided tion 1236(d)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 1236(c)’’. SEC. 767. Notwithstanding any other provision by this subsection to make a loan terminates ef- (3) APPLICATION.—The amendments made by of law, the City of Mt. Vernon, Washington, this subsection shall apply beginning with the fective September 30, 2003. shall be eligible for grants and loans adminis- SEC. 760. During fiscal year 2002, subsection 2002 crop. tered by the Rural Housing Service of the (a)(2) of section 508 of the Federal Crop Insur- (c) HORSE BREEDER LOANS.— United States Department of Agriculture for a ance Act (7 U.S.C. 1508) shall be applied as (1) DEFINITION OF HORSE BREEDER.—In this period not to exceed one year from the date of though the term ‘‘and potatoes’’ read as follows: subsection, the term ‘‘horse breeder’’ means a enactment of this Act. ‘‘, potatoes, and sweet potatoes’’. person that, as of the date of enactment of this SEC. 768. Notwithstanding any other provision SEC. 761. CITRUS CANKER ERADICATION. (a) IN Act, derives more than 70 percent of the income of law, the Natural Resources Conservation GENERAL.—Section 810 of the Agriculture, Rural of the person from the business of breeding, Development, Food and Drug Administration, Service shall provide financial and technical as- boarding, raising, training, or selling horses, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 sistance to DuPage County, Illinois, from funds during the shorter of— (114 Stat. 1549A–52) is amended— available for the Watershed and Flood Preven- (A) the 5-year period ending on January 1, (1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘The’’ and in- tion Operations program, not to exceed 2001; or serting ‘‘Subject to subsection (e), the’’; and $1,400,000. (B) the period the person has been engaged in (2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘2001’’ and SEC. 769. Notwithstanding any other provision such business. inserting ‘‘2002’’. of law, from funds previously appropriated for (2) LOAN AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments in Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations of shall make loans to eligible horse breeders to as- subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on the Natural Resource and Conservation Service, sist the horse breeders for losses suffered as a re- September 30, 2001. the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide tech- sult of mare reproductive loss syndrome. SEC. 762. Section 306(a)(20) of the Consoli- nical and financial assistance, but not to exceed (3) ELIGIBILITY.—A horse breeder shall be eli- dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 $1,000,000, in connection with a lake level sta- gible for a loan under this subsection if the Sec- U.S.C. 1926(a)(20)) is amended by adding at the bilization project carried out as part of local ef- retary determines that, as a result of mare re- end the following new subparagraph: forts to restore and repair watersheds damaged productive loss syndrome— ‘‘(E) RURAL BROADBAND.—Notwithstanding by the 2001 tornado and storms in Burnett and (A) during the period beginning January 1 subparagraph (C), the Secretary may make Washburn Counties, Wisconsin: Provided, That and ending October 1 of any of calendar years grants to state agencies for use by regulatory the Secretary shall waive the cost share require- 2000, 2001, or 2002— commissions in states with rural communities ment of the local sponsors of such efforts in (i) 30 percent or more of the mares owned by without local dial-up Internet access or Burnett and Washburn Counties, Wisconsin. the horse breeder failed to conceive, miscarried, broadband service to establish a competitively, SEC. 770. Nothwithstanding any other provi- aborted, or otherwise failed to produce a live technologically neutral grant program to tele- sion of law, from the funds appropriated to the healthy foal; or communications carriers or cable operators that Rural Utilities Service by this Act, any current (ii) 30 percent or more of the mares boarded on establish common carrier facilities and services Rural Utilities Service borrower within 100 miles a farm owned, operated, or leased by the horse which, in the commission’s determination, will of New York City shall be eligible for additional breeder failed to conceive, miscarried, aborted, result in the long-term availability to such com- financing, refinancing, collateral flexibility, and or otherwise failed to produce a live healthy munities of affordable broadband services which deferrals on an expedited basis without regard foal; are used for the provision of high speed Internet to population limitations for any financially (B) the horse breeder is unable to meet the fi- access.’’. feasible telecommunications, energy or water nancial obligations, or pay the ordinary and SEC. 763. In accordance with the Farmland project that assists endeavors related to the re- necessary expenses, of the horse breeder in- Protection Program, a total of $720,000 shall be habilitation, prevention, relocation, site prepa- curred in connection with breeding, boarding, made available to purchase conservation ease- ration, or relief efforts resulting from the ter- raising, training, or selling horses; and ments or other interests in land, not to exceed rorist events of September 11, 2001. (C) the horse breeder is not able to obtain suf- 235 acres, in Adair, Green, and Taylor Counties, SEC. 771. Section 17(r)(5) of the Richard B. ficient credit elsewhere, in accordance with sub- Kentucky: Provided, That $490,000 of this Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. title C of the Consolidated Farm and Rural De- amount shall be from funds made available to 1766(r)(5)) is amended— velopment Act (7 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.). the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Pro- (1) by striking ‘‘six’’ and inserting ‘‘seven’’; (4) AMOUNT.— gram for the State of Kentucky. (2) by striking ‘‘four’’ and inserting ‘‘five’’; (A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subparagraph SEC. 764. Notwithstanding any other provision and (B), the amount of a loan made to a horse of law, the City of Caldwell, Idaho, shall be eli- (3) by inserting ‘‘Illinois,’’ after the first in- breeder under this subsection shall be deter- gible for grants and loans administered by the stance of ‘‘States shall be’’. mined by the Secretary on the basis of the Rural Housing Service of the United States De- SEC. 772. (a) EXTENSION.—Section 141 of the amount of losses suffered by the horse breeder, partment of Agriculture for a period not to ex- Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 U.S.C. and the financial needs of the horse breeder, as ceed one year from the date of enactment of this 7251) is amended— a result of mare reproductive loss syndrome. Act. (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the (B) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.—The amount of a SEC. 765. Section 8c(1) of the Agricultural following new paragraph: loan made to a horse breeder under this sub- Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 is amended by ‘‘(5) During the period beginning on January section shall not exceed the maximum amount of adding the following provision at the end of the 1, 2002, and ending on May 31, 2002, $9.90.’’; an emergency loan under section 324(a) of the penultimate sentence: and

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(2) in subsection (h), by striking ‘‘December (3) 331⁄3 percent of the payments to eligible MAURICE D. HINCHEY, 31, 2001’’ both places it appears and inserting persons that are growers described in subsection SAM FARR, ‘‘May 31, 2002’’. (a)(1)(C). ALLEN BOYD, (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 142 of (f) STANDARDS.—In carrying out this section, DAVID R. OBEY, the Agricultural Market Transition Act (7 the Secretary shall use, to the maximum extent Managers on the Part of the House. U.S.C. 7252) is repealed. practicable, the same standards for payments HERB KOHL, SEC. 773. The Secretary shall transfer to the that were used for making payments under sec- TOM HARKIN, Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op, refined tion 204(b) of the Agricultural Risk Protection BYRON L. DORGAN, sugar, acquired by the Commodity Credit Cor- Act of 2000 (7 U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 106– DIANNE FEINSTEIN, poration, in the amount of 10,000 tons to com- 224). RICHARD J. DURBIN, pensate sugar producers in Minnesota for losses (g) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—A determination by the TIM JOHNSON, incurred beyond those that may be compensated Secretary under this section shall not be subject ROBERT C. BYRD, under existing programs administered by the to judicial review. THAD COCHRAN, Secretary: Provided, That this amount of sugar (h) REGULATIONS.—As soon as practicable ARLEN SPECTER, shall be provided in installments starting on the after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec- CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, day that is 30 days after the date of enactment retary and the Commodity Credit Corporation, MITCH MCCONNELL, of this Act and on the first day of each of the as appropriate, shall promulgate such regula- CONRAD BURNS, following 7 months after that day. tions as are necessary to implement this section. LARRY CRAIG, SEC. 774. (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: The promulgation of the regulations and admin- TED STEVENS, (1) The term ‘‘eligible person’’ means a person istration of this section shall be made without Managers on the Part of the Senate. that— regard to— (A) owns a farm for which, irrespective of (1) the notice and comment provisions of sec- JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF temporary transfers or undermarketings, a basic tion 553 of title 5, United States Code; THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE quota or allotment for eligible tobacco is estab- (2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of The managers on the part of the House and lished for the 2001 crop year under part I of sub- Agriculture effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. Senate at the conference on the disagreeing title B of title III of the Agricultural Adjustment 13804), relating to notices of proposed rule- votes of the two Houses on the amendment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.); making and public participation in rulemaking; of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 2330) making (B) controls the farm from which, under the and appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Devel- quota or allotment for the relevant period, eligi- (3) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code opment, Food and Drug Administration, and ble tobacco is marketed, could have been mar- (commonly known as the ‘‘Paperwork Reduction Related Agencies programs for the fiscal keted, or can be marketed, taking into account Act’’). year ending September 30, 2002, and for other temporary transfers; or (i) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGENCY RULE- purposes, submit the following joint state- (C) grows, could have grown, or can grow eli- MAKING.—In carrying out subsection (h), the ment to the House and Senate in explanation gible tobacco that is marketed, could have been Secretary shall use the authority provided of the effect of the action agreed upon by the marketed, or can be marketed under the quota under section 808 of title 5, United States Code. managers and recommended in the accom- or allotment for the 2001 crop year, taking into SEC. 775. The Competitive, Special, and Facili- panying conference report. account temporary transfers. ties Research Grant Act (7 U.S.C. 450i) is CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTIVES (2) The term ‘‘eligible tobacco’’ means each of amended: The statement of the managers remains si- the following kinds of tobacco: (1) in subsection (b)(3) by adding at the end lent on provisions that were in both the (A) Fire-cured tobacco, comprising types 22 the following: House and Senate bills that remain un- and 23. ‘‘(G) Grants may be awarded to improve re- changed by this conference agreement, ex- (B) Dark air-cured tobacco, comprising types search capabilities in States (as defined in the cept as noted in this statement of the man- 35 and 36. National Agricultural Research, Extension, and agers. (C) Virginia sun-cured tobacco, comprising Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended) in The conferees agree that executive branch type 37. which institutions have been less successful in wishes cannot substitute for Congress’ own (b) PAYMENTS.—Not later than March 31, receiving funding under this subsection, based statements as to the best evidence of con- 2002, the Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in on a three-year rolling average of funding lev- gressional intentions—that is, the official re- this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall use funds els.’’; and ports of the Congress. The conferees further of the Commodity Credit Corporation to make (2) in subsections (b)(10)(C) by striking ‘‘and point out that funds in this Act must be used payments under this section. (F) of paragraph (3) for awarding grants in’’ for the purposes for which appropriated, as (c) POUNDAGE PAYMENT QUANTITIES.—For the and inserting ‘‘, (F), and (G) of paragraph (3) required by section 1301 of title 31 of the purposes of this section, in the case of each kind for’’. United States Code, which provides: ‘‘Appro- of eligible tobacco, individual tobacco quotas SEC. 776. None of the funds made available in priations shall be applied only to the objects and allotments shall be converted to poundage this Act may be used to pay the salaries of per- for which the appropriations were made ex- payment quantities by multiplying— sonnel of the Department of Agriculture who cept as otherwise provided by law.’’ (1) the number of acres that may, irrespective carry out the programs authorized by section The House and Senate report language of temporary transfers or undermarketings, be 524(a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 that is not changed by the conference is ap- devoted, without penalty, to the production of U.S.C. 1524) in excess of a total of $4,000,000 for proved by the committee of conference. The the kind of tobacco under the allotment under all such programs for fiscal year 2002. statement of the managers, while repeating part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agricul- SEC. 777. Section 501 of the Agricultural Trade some report language for emphasis, does not tural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1311 et Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 intend to negate the language referred to seq.) for the 2001 crop year; by U.S.C. 1737) is amended— above unless expressly provided herein. (2)(A) in the case of fire-cured tobacco (types (1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘JOHN In cases in which the House or the Senate 22 and 23), 2,601 pounds per acre; OGONOWSKI’’ before ‘‘FARMER-TO-FARMER have directed the submission of a report, (B) in the case of dark air-cured tobacco PROGRAM’’; and such report is to be submitted to both the (types 35 and 36), 2,337 pounds per acre; and (2) by adding at the end the following new House and Senate Committees on Appropria- (C) in the case of Virginia sun-cured tobacco subsection: tions. (type 37), 1,512 pounds per acre. ‘‘(d) DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM.—The pro- The conferees encourage the consideration (d) AVAILABLE PAYMENT AMOUNTS.—In the gram of farmer-to-farmer assistance authorized of grant and loan applications for various en- case of each kind of eligible tobacco, the avail- by this section shall be known and designated tities. The conferees expect the Department able payment amount for pounds of a payment as the ‘John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Pro- only to approve those applications judged quantity under subsection (c) shall be equal to gram’.’’. meritorious when subjected to the estab- 10 cents per pound. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, lished review process. (e) DIVISION OF PAYMENTS AMONG ELIGIBLE Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra- TITLE I—AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS PERSONS.—Payments available with respect to a tion, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, pound of payment quantity, as determined PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND MARKETING 2002’’. under subsection (d), shall be made available to OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY And the Senate agree to the same. eligible persons in accordance with this sub- The conference agreement provides section. In the case of payments made available HENRY BONILLA, $2,992,000 for the Office of the Secretary as in a State under this section for each kind of eli- JAMES T. WALSH, proposed by the Senate instead of $3,015,000 gible tobacco, the Secretary shall distribute (as JACK KINGSTON, as proposed by the House. determined by the Secretary)— TOM LATHAM, The conferees strongly support the exten- (1) 331⁄3 percent of the payments to eligible JO ANN EMERSON, sion of the Global Food for Education Initia- persons that are owners described in subsection VIRGIL H. GOODE, Jr., tive program for fiscal year 2002. While both (a)(1)(A); RAY LAHOOD, the House and Senate Committee reports (2) 331⁄3 percent of the payments to eligible C.W. BILL YOUNG, demonstrated strong support for the pro- persons that are controllers described in sub- MARCY KAPTUR, gram, the Department has still not an- section (a)(1)(B); and ROSA L. DELAURO, nounced its intentions for fiscal year 2002.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.029 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 The conferees urge the Secretary in the benefit of the program. The conferees direct The conference agreement provides strongest possible terms to use available au- the Department to continue to work towards $31,438,000 for buildings operations as pro- thorities to continue the Global Food for developing a pilot project for school food posed by the House, and $25,943,000 for the Education Initiative for fiscal year 2002. safety inspections in Ohio, and to keep the Strategic Space Plan as proposed by the Sen- The Secretary shall report to the Commit- Committees advised of any action on this ate. tees on Appropriations no later than March matter. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 1, 2002 on USDA’s plans for the National Fi- The conferees are aware that certain states The conference agreement provides nance Center. have meat and poultry inspection standards $37,079,000 for Departmental Administration The conferees have recommended that are as stringent as Federal standards, as proposed by the Senate instead of $40,000,000 under ‘‘Agricultural Research and that those states would like to be able to $37,398,000 as proposed by the House. Service, Buildings and Facilities’’ to incre- ship state-inspected meat interstate. The mentally fund a long-term project for con- conferees encourage the Department to con- OUTREACH FOR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED solidation and replacement of laboratory fa- sider developing a limited pilot project that FARMERS cilities in Ames, IA. In addition, the Presi- would allow for such shipment, involving the The conference agreement provides dent has proposed $14,081,000 for the Animal state of Ohio. The conferees direct the De- $3,243,000 for Outreach for Socially Disadvan- and Plant Health Inspection Service for relo- partment to provide a report to the Commit- taged Farmers instead of $2,993,000 as pro- cation of facilities in Ames, IA, and this pro- tees on Appropriations before the fiscal year posed by the House and $3,493,000 as proposed posal will be considered in subsequent appro- 2003 appropriations hearings regarding the by the Senate. priations action related to emergency ex- feasibility of such a pilot project, including OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR penses to respond to the September 11, 2001, the legal requirements and a proposed de- CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS terrorist attacks on the United States. The sign. conferees are concerned about the manage- The conference agreement provides EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS ment of this very substantial effort involv- $3,718,000 for the Office of the Assistant Sec- ing two agencies of the Department and, CHIEF ECONOMIST retary for Congressional Relations as pro- therefore, direct the Office of the Secretary The conference agreement provides posed by the House instead of $3,684,000 as to submit a report to the Committees on Ap- $7,704,000 for the Chief Economist as pro- proposed by the Senate. propriations by March 1, 2002, that will in- posed by the House instead of $7,648,000 as The conference agreement allows funds to clude current estimates of full costs and the proposed by the Senate. be transferred to the agencies, but does not proposed construction schedule for this NATIONAL APPEALS DIVISION prescribe the amount of funds to be trans- ferred. The conferees direct the Department, project as well as the Department’s manage- The conference agreement provides within 30 days of enactment, to notify the ment plan for coordinating the efforts of $12,869,000 for the National Appeals Division Committees on the allocation of these funds, ARS and APHIS in the performance of this as proposed by the House instead of including an explanation for any agency-by- long range construction program. $12,766,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees are seriously concerned that agency distribution of these funds. OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS domestic lamb prices have fallen by 50 per- OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS cent or more since June 2001, causing sheep The conference agreement provides $7,041,000 for the Office of Budget and Pro- The conference agreement provides producers to incur unprecedented losses $8,894,000 for the Office of Communications which are unexplained by historic pricing gram Analysis as proposed by the House in- stead of $6,978,000 as proposed by the Senate. as proposed by the Senate instead of patterns. The conferees direct the Secretary $8,975,000 as proposed by the House. to conduct a study of lamb prices in the U.S. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL including comparison of live lamb prices to The conference agreement provides carcass and boxed lamb prices for 2001, deter- $10,029,000 for the Office of the Chief Informa- The conference agreement provides mination of the spreads between these cat- tion Officer instead of $10,325,000 as proposed $70,839,000 for the Office of the Inspector Gen- egories, and documentation of what market by the House and $10,261,000 as proposed by eral as proposed by the Senate instead of factors are affecting and establishing live the Senate. $71,429,000 as proposed by the House. lamb and carcass prices since January. A re- COMMON COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL port on this study shall be submitted to the The conferees do not agree that within the The conference agreement provides Committees on Appropriations and Agri- amount appropriated for common computing $32,627,000 for the Office of the General Coun- culture by February 1, 2002, and this report environment, $4,500,000 is for data storage in- sel as proposed by the Senate instead of should also include the degree and influence, frastructure hardware and software, and of $32,937,000 as proposed by the House. if any, that imports, concentration, and which $1,500,000 is for the same data storage OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR mandatory price reporting have had on the technology for the combined administrative RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS lamb market this year as compared to the management system (CAMS) as proposed by past five years. The conference agreement provides $573,000 The conferees strongly encourage the Sec- the House. The conferees do not direct the for the Office of the Under Secretary for Re- retary, in direct consultation with the wheat use of a specific amount within the $4,500,000 search, Education and Economics as pro- industry, to review the need for regulating available for data storage infrastructure, but posed by the Senate instead of $578,000 as Karnal bunt as a pest. The conferees are also note that it should be used for coordination proposed by the House. with CAMS as proposed by the Senate. concerned with the financial impacts in- ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER curred by producers and handlers as a result The conference agreement provides of Karnal bunt and direct the Secretary to The conference agreement provides $67,200,000 for the Economic Research Service continue compensation activities with all af- $5,384,000 for the Office of the Chief Financial as proposed by the Senate instead of fected entities. Officer as proposed by the House instead of $67,620,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees are concerned with the se- $5,335,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees provide $9,195,000 for food vere drought conditions along the U.S./Mex- OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR program studies and evaluations under ERS, ico border in the area of the Rio Grande wa- ADMINISTRATION as proposed by the House, instead of tershed and Mexico’s continuing failure to The conference agreement provides $647,000 $9,168,000 as proposed by the Senate. meet its water obligations to the area as de- for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for The conferees direct that funding provided lineated in the 1944 water treaty. The con- Administration as proposed by the Senate for food program studies and evaluations ferees are concerned with Mexico’s lack of instead of $652,000 as proposed by the House. work must be used in accordance with the progress in implementing a repayment plan statutes governing Federal nutrition assist- for its water deficit under this treaty, and AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES AND RENTAL PAYMENTS ance programs. These statutes, Section 17 of the resulting negative effect on U.S. agricul- the Food Stamp Act of 1977, Section 6 of the The conference agreement provides tural production. The conferees direct the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch $187,647,000 for agriculture buildings and fa- Secretary to provide a report to the Commit- Act, and Section 17 of the Child Nutrition cilities and rental payments instead of tees on Appropriations of the House and Sen- Act of 1966, authorize the use of funds to $177,647,000 as proposed by the House and ate by March 1, 2002, detailing the value of evaluate and improve the effectiveness of $187,581,000 as proposed by the Senate. the annual loss of U.S. agricultural produc- Federal nutrition assistance programs. tion resulting from this deficit and the De- The conferees expect that in the event an partment’s authorities and plans to assist agency within the Department should re- NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE agricultural interests in the Rio Grande wa- quire modification of space needs, any trans- The conference agreement provides tershed with the financial ramifications of fers of funds for such modification should $113,786,000 for the National Agricultural Mexico’s water debt. occur only between the agency requiring the Statistics Service as proposed by the Senate Ohio School Food Service Authorities con- modification and this account. The conferees instead of $114,546,000 as proposed by the tinue to work with other State agencies and also note that such transfers shall not ex- House. Within that amount, the conferees the Department to develop an inspection sys- ceed 5 percent of the funds made available make available $25,350,000 for the Census of tem that ensures safety while maximizing for space rental and related costs to or from Agriculture as proposed by the Senate in- the number of eligible children receiving the this account. stead of $25,456,000 as proposed by the House.

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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE California: ties instead of $507,452,000 as proposed by the Western Human Nutri- SALARIES AND EXPENSES House and $542,842,000 as proposed by the tion Research Center, Senate. The conference agreement provides Davis ...... 5,000,000 The following table reflects the conference $979,464,000 for Agricultural Research Serv- Western Regional Re- agreement: ice, Salaries and Expenses, instead of search Center, Albany 3,800,000 $971,365,000 as proposed by the House and District of Columbia: U.S. Research and education activities $999,438,000 as proposed by the Senate. National Arboretum ...... 4,600,000 [In thousands of dollars] The conference agreement continues the Hawaii, Hilo: Pacific Basin Conference fiscal year 2001 level of funding for all re- Agriculture Research agreement search projects proposed to be terminated in Center ...... 3,000,000 Research Activities: the President’s budget and for salaries and Idaho, Aberdeen: Advanced Payments under the Hatch Act $180,148 administrative expenses of the Agricultural Genetics Laboratory ...... 500,000 Cooperative Forestry Research Illinois, Peoria: National Research Service. With respect to additional (McIntire-Stennis) ...... 21,884 funding for various research activities, as Center for Agricultural Payments to 1890 Colleges and specified in either the House or Senate re- Utilization Research ...... 6,500,000 Tuskegee University ...... 34,604 ports accompanying the fiscal year 2002 ap- Iowa, Ames: National Ani- propriations bill, the conference agreement mal Disease Center ...... 40,000,000 Kansas, Manhattan: Grain Special Research Grants (P.L. 89– provides eighty percent of the increase pro- Marketing and Produc- 106): vided. Where increased funding is provided tion Research Center ...... 3,000,000 Advanced genetic technologies by both the House and Senate for the same Maine, Orono/Franklin: (KY) ...... 600 research activity, the conference agreement Northeast Marine Cold Advanced spatial technologies provides funding at eighty percent of the Water Marine Aqua- (MS) ...... 978 higher level. culture Center ...... 3,000,000 Aegilops cylindricum (jointed The conferees expect that research objec- Maryland: goatgrass) (WA) ...... 367 tives related to woody genomics and breed- National Agricultural Li- Agricultural diversification ing for the Southeast will be coordinated brary ...... 1,800,000 (HI) ...... 128 with the priorities of the Floriculture and Beltsville Agricultural Agricultural diversity/Red Nursery Research Initiative as well as asso- Research Center ...... 3,000,000 River Corridor (MN, ND) ...... 400 ciated industry input. Further, the conferees Minnesota, St. Paul: Cereal Agriculture-based industrial lu- expect that close cooperation will be estab- Disease Laboratory ...... 300,000 bricants (IA) ...... 0 lished and maintained among the nursery Mississippi: Agriculture water usage (GA) ... 293 and floral industry, the Agricultural Re- Horticultural Laboratory Agroecology (MD) ...... 400 search Service, the University of Tennessee, for the Gulf Coast, Air quality (TX) ...... 640 and the Tennessee State University/ARS Poplarville ...... 800,000 Alliance for food protection Nursery Crop Research Station in National Biological Con- (GA, NE) ...... 293 McMinnville to avoid duplication of effort. trol Laboratory, Stone- Alternative crops for arid lands Increased funding provided by the con- ville ...... 8,400,000 (TX) ...... 100 ference agreement for residue management New Mexico, Las Cruces: Alternative nutrient manage- in sugarcane is to be carried out at the Jornado Experimental ment (VT) ...... 186 Houma, LA, worksite. Range Management Re- Alternative salmon products search Laboratory ...... 475,000 Funding provided by the conference agree- (AK) ...... 631 New York: Plum Island Alternative uses for tobacco ment for biobased products and bioenergy in Animal Disease Center ... 3,762,000 New Orleans, LA, may be used for Nicholls (MD) ...... 360 Oklahoma, Woodward: Animal science food safety con- State University to develop methods of using Southern Plains Range agricultural byproducts to decrease elec- sortium (AR, IA, KS) ...... 1,598 Research Station ...... 1,500,000 Apple fire blight (MI, NY) ...... 489 tricity costs. Pennsylvania, Philadel- Aquaculture (AR) ...... 232 Increased funding provided by the con- phia: Eastern Regional Aquaculture (FL) ...... 490 ference agreement for Formosan subterra- Research Center ...... 5,000,000 Aquaculture (ID, WA) ...... 600 nean termite research is available to expand South Carolina, Charles- Aquaculture (LA) ...... 322 the test area to a larger portion of the ton: U.S. Vegetable Lab- Aquaculture (MS) ...... 579 French Quarter of New Orleans, LA, and for oratory ...... 4,500,000 detection and eradication research using di- South Dakota, Brookings: Aquaculture (NC) ...... 293 rected energy technologies. Northern Grain Insects Aquaculture (VA) ...... 100 Aquaculture product and mar- The conference agreement includes an in- Research Laboratory ...... 850,000 keting development (WV) ...... 733 crease above the fiscal year 2001 level for Utah, Logan: Poisonous Armillaria root rot (MI) ...... 160 Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Re- Plant Research Labora- Asparagus technology and pro- search at the U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural tory ...... 5,600,000 duction (WA) ...... 260 Research Center in Hawaii. The conferees di- West Virginia, Leetown: Babcock Institute (WI) ...... 588 rect the ARS to redirect existing funds allo- National Center for Cool Beef technology transfer (MO) .. 294 cated to the University of Hawaii related to and Cold Water Aqua- Biomass-based energy research Non-Toxic Control of Tephritid and Other In- culture ...... 2,200,000 (OK, MS) ...... 960 sects and Environmental Effects of Tephritid Wisconsin, Madison: Cereal Biotechnology (NC) ...... 306 Fruit Fly Control and Eradication in order Crops Research Labora- Blocking anhydrous meth- to make additional funds available in con- tory ...... 3,000,000 amphetamine production (IA) 242 junction with the Center and the University Total ...... 118,987,000 Bovine tuberculosis (MI) ...... 318 of Hawaii at Hilo and the University of Ha- Brucellosis vaccine (MT) ...... 485 waii at Manoa. The conference agreement includes a direc- tion to the ARS to conduct and provide to Center for rural studies (VT) .... 240 The conferees direct the Agricultural Re- Chesapeake Bay agroecology the Committees a feasibility study by March search Service to submit a feasibility study (MD) ...... 280 1, 2002, on the establishment of a Center for to the Committees on Appropriations by Citrus canker (FL) ...... 490 Renewable Resources at Morgantown, West March 1, 2002, on facility needs at the Wood- Citrus tristeza ...... 725 Virginia, instead of Jackson’s Mill, West Vir- ward, OK, location, including the need for a Competitiveness of agriculture ginia, as proposed by the Senate. conference center, and its plans to meet products (WA) ...... 665 those requirements. The conferees are aware of facility needs associated with the Human Nutrition Center Cool season legume research BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and that an (ID, WA) ...... 321 The conference agreement provides opportunity now exists for the acquisition of Cotton fiber quality (GA) ...... 400 $118,987,000 for the Agricultural Research realty in the vicinity of the Center. The con- Cranberry/blueberry (MA) ...... 172 Cranberry/blueberry disease Service, Buildings and Facilities, instead of ferees direct the agency to proceed with ac- and breeding (NJ) ...... 216 $78,862,000 as proposed by the House and quisition of this property from within avail- Crop diversification (MO, ND) .. 800 $99,625,000 as proposed by the Senate. able funds of the Center. Crop genomics (MS) ...... 640 The following table reflects the conference COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, agreement: Crop integration and produc- AND EXTENSION SERVICE tion (SD) ...... 200 Arizona, Maricopa: U.S. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Dairy and meat goat research Arid Land Agricultural The conference agreement provides (TX) ...... 63 Research Center ...... $8,400,000 $542,062,000 for research and education activi- Dairy farm profitability (PA) ... 294

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.036 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7976 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Conference Conference Conference agreement agreement agreement Delta rural revitalization (MS) 201 Meadowfoam (OR) ...... 293 Sustainable agriculture sys- Designing foods for health (TX) 690 Michigan biotechnology consor- tems (NE) ...... 59 Diaprepes/root weevil (FL) ...... 400 tium ...... 481 Sustainable beef supply (MT) ... 1,000 Drought mitigation (NE) ...... 196 Midwest Advanced Food Manu- Sustainable engineered mate- Ecosystems (AL) ...... 489 facturing Alliance ...... 452 rials from renewable re- Efficient irrigation (NM, TX) ... 1,176 Midwest agricultural products sources (VA) ...... 400 Environmental biotechnology (IA) ...... 632 Sustainable pest management (RI) ...... 400 Midwest poultry consortium for dryland wheat (MT) ...... 452 Environmental horticulture (IA) ...... 400 Swine and other animal waste (FL) ...... 400 Milk safety (PA) ...... 600 management (NC) ...... 489 Environmental research (NY) ... 391 Minor use animal drugs (IR–4) .. 588 Synthetic gene technology (OH) 168 Environmental risk factors/can- Molluscan shellfish (OR) ...... 391 Technological development of cer (NY) ...... 222 Montana Sheep Institute ...... 400 renewable resources (MO) ...... 294 Environmentally-safe products Multi-commodity research (OR) 356 Tillage, silviculture, waste (VT) ...... 240 Multi-cropping strategies for management (LA) ...... 400 Exotic pest diseases (CA) ...... 1,600 aquaculture (HI) ...... 124 Tomato wilt virus (GA) ...... 244 Expanded wheat pasture (OK) ... 286 National beef cattle genetic Tri-state joint peanut research Farm injuries and illnesses evaluation consortium (NY) .. 343 (AL) ...... 600 (NC) ...... 278 National biological impact as- Tropical aquaculture (FL) ...... 194 Feed barley for rangeland cat- sessment program ...... 248 Tropical and subtropical re- tle (MT) ...... 833 Nematode resistance genetic search/T STAR ...... 8,000 Feedstock conversion (SD) ...... 560 engineering (NM) ...... 147 Value-added product develop- Fish and shellfish technologies Nevada arid rangelands initia- ment from agricultural re- (VA) ...... 465 tive (NV) ...... 400 sources (MT) ...... 324 Floriculture (HI) ...... 400 New crop opportunities (AK) .... 485 Value-added products (IL) ...... 120 Food and Agriculture Policy New crop opportunities (KY) .... 735 Viticulture consortium (NY, Research Institute (IA, MO) .. 1,000 Non-food uses of agricultural CA, PA) ...... 1,600 Food irradiation (IA) ...... 245 products (NE) ...... 64 Water conservation (KS) ...... 79 Food Marketing Policy Center Nursery, greenhouse, turf spe- Water use efficiency and water (CT) ...... 484 cialties (AL) ...... 320 quality enhancements (GA) ... 480 Food processing center (NE) ..... 42 Oil resources from desert plants Weed control (ND) ...... 426 Food quality (AK) ...... 342 (NM) ...... 196 Wetland plants (LA) ...... 587 Food safety (AL) ...... 608 Organic waste utilization (NM) 100 Wheat genetic research (KS) .... 255 Food safety (OK) ...... 400 Oyster post harvest treatment Wheat sawfly research (MT) ..... 505 Food safety research consor- (FL) ...... 400 Wood utilization (AK, ID, ME, tium (NY) ...... 800 Ozone air quality (CA) ...... 400 MI, MN, MS, NC, OR, TN) ...... 5,670 Food safety risk assessment Pasture and forage research Wool research (TX, MT, WY) .... 294 (ND) ...... 800 (UT) ...... 244 Food security (WA) ...... 400 Peach tree short life (SC) ...... 175 Subtotal, Special Grants ...... 97,008 Food Systems Research Group Pest control alternatives (SC) .. 280 (WI) ...... 490 Phytophthora root rot (NM) ..... 135 Improved pest control: Forages for advancing livestock Phytoremediation plant re- Emerging pests/critical issues .. 200 production (KY) ...... 367 search (OH) ...... 280 Expert IPM decision support Forestry (AR) ...... 512 Pierce’s disease (CA) ...... 1,960 system ...... 177 Generic commodity pro- Plant, drought, and disease re- Integrated pest management .... 2,725 motions, research and evalua- sistance gene cataloging (NM) 244 IR–4 minor crop pest manage- tion (NY) ...... 194 Potato research ...... 1,568 ment ...... 10,485 Global change/ultraviolet radi- Precision agriculture (KY) ...... 733 Pest management alternatives 1,619 ation ...... 1,402 Preharvest food safety (KS) ...... 208 Grain sorghum (KS) ...... 104 Preservation and processing re- Subtotal, Improved pest con- Grass seed cropping systems for search (OK) ...... 221 trol ...... 15,206 sustainable agriculture (ID, Protein utilization (IA) ...... 186 OR, WA) ...... 414 Rangeland ecosystems (NM) ..... 320 National Research Initiative Hoop barns (IA) ...... 200 Red snapper research (AL) ...... 960 (NRI) competitive grants ...... 120,452 Human nutrition (IA) ...... 463 Regional barley gene mapping Human nutrition (LA) ...... 800 project ...... 760 Animal health and disease (sec. Human nutrition (NY) ...... 609 Regionalized implications of 1433) ...... 5,098 Hydroponic tomato production farm programs (MO, TX) ...... 287 Alternative crops: (OH) ...... 100 Ruminant nutrition consortium Canola ...... 693 Illinois-Missouri Alliance for (MT, ND, SD, WY) ...... 400 Hesperaloe and other natural Biotechnology ...... 1,214 Rural Development Centers products from desert plants ... 231 Improved dairy management (PA, IA, ND, MS, OR, LA) ...... 560 Critical Agricultural Materials practices (PA) ...... 389 Rural Policies Research Insti- Act ...... 720 Improved early detection of tute (NE, IA, MO) ...... 1,040 1994 Institutions research pro- crop diseases (NC) ...... 194 Russian wheat aphid (CO) ...... 320 gram ...... 998 Improved fruit practices (MI) ... 239 Satsuma orange research (AL) 800 Institution challenge grants ...... 4,340 Increasing shelf life of agricul- Seafood and aquaculture har- Graduate fellowships grants ...... 2,993 tural commodities (ID) ...... 640 vesting, processing, and mar- Multicultural scholars program .. 998 Infectious disease research (CO) 640 keting (MS) ...... 298 Hispanic education partnership Institute for Food Science & Seafood harvesting, processing, grants ...... 3,492 Engineering (AR) ...... 1,222 and marketing (AK) ...... 1,142 Capacity building grants (1890 in- Integrated production systems Seafood safety (MA) ...... 400 stitutions) ...... 9,479 (OK) ...... 176 Small fruit research (OR, WA, Payments to the 1994 Institutions 1,549 Intelligent quality sensor for ID) ...... 392 Alaska Native-serving and Native food safety (ND) ...... 360 Soil and environmental quality Hawaiian-serving Institutions International arid lands consor- (DE) ...... 120 education grants ...... 2,997 tium ...... 484 Southwest consortium for plant Secondary agriculture education 1,000 Iowa Biotechnology Consor- genetics and water resources 392 Sustainable agriculture research tium ...... 1,530 Soybean cyst nematode (MO) ... 686 and education/SARE ...... 12,500 Livestock and Dairy Policy Soybean research (IL) ...... 800 Aquaculture centers (sec. 1475) .... 3,996 (NY, TX) ...... 558 STEEP—water quality in the Livestock genome sequencing Pacific Northwest ...... 588 Federal Administration: (IL) ...... 400 Sustainable agriculture (CA) .... 400 Agriculture-based industrial lu- Lowbush blueberry research Sustainable agriculture (MI) .... 435 bricants (IA) ...... 360 (ME) ...... 254 Sustainable agriculture and Agriculture development in the Maple research (VT) ...... 120 natural resources (PA) ...... 123 American Pacific ...... 552

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.038 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7977 Conference vidual eligible institutions or consortia of Conference agreement institutions in Alaska and Hawaii instead of agreement Agriculture waste utilization $2,993,000 for such purposes as proposed by Potato pest management (WI) .. 396 (WV) ...... 600 the House and $3,000,000 as proposed by the Range improvement (NM) ...... 240 Agriculture water policy (GA) .. 600 Senate. Rural development (AK) ...... 637 Alternative fuels characteriza- It is the intent of the conferees that the Rural development (NM) ...... 363 tion laboratory (ND) ...... 294 funds provided for wood utilization research Rural rehabilitation (GA) ...... 240 Animal waste management be distributed to existing centers on a basis Urban horticulture (WI) ...... 200 (OK) ...... 320 proportionate to each center’s share of the Wood biomass as an alternative Aquaculture (OH) ...... 400 fiscal year 2001 total program funding. farm product (NY) ...... 193 Biotechnology (MS) ...... 680 The conference agreement includes General administration and pay 5,227 Botanical research (UT) ...... 640 $1,199,000 for the Geographic Information Center for Agricultural and System Program. The conferees expect that Total, Federal Administra- Rural Development (IA) ...... 600 the amount provided shall be made available tion ...... 17,610 Center for Innovative Food for program activities of entities in the same Technology (OH) ...... 765 areas as the fiscal year 2001 level on a pro- Total, Extension Activities ... 439,473 Center for North America Stud- portional basis and that program manage- ies (TX) ...... 200 ment costs will be kept at a minimum and The conference agreement includes lan- Cotton research (TX) ...... 880 any remaining funds will be distributed to guage which permits $3,600,000 of the amount Data Information System ...... 2,078 the sites. available under Smith-Lever 3(b) and 3(c) to Feed efficiency (WV) ...... 160 EXTENSION ACTIVITIES provide funding for the National 4–H Pro- Fruit and vegetable market gram Centennial Initiative as proposed by analysis (AZ, MO) ...... 340 The conference agreement provides $439,473,000 for extension activities instead of the Senate. Geographic information system 1,199 The conference agreement does not include Germplasm development in for- $436,029,000 as proposed by the House and $433,546,000 as proposed by the Senate. bill language which provides funds for pay- age grasses (OH) ...... 100 ments to land-grant colleges of which Livestock marketing informa- The following table reflects the conference agreement: $998,000 shall be made available to West Vir- tion center (CO) ...... 196 ginia State College in Institute, West Vir- Mariculture (NC) ...... 360 Extension activities ginia, as proposed by the House. Mississippi Valley State Uni- [In thousands of dollars] The conference agreement includes bill versity ...... 633 language which provides funds for payments National Center for Peanut Conference agreement to land-grant colleges of which $1,724,884 Competitiveness (GA) ...... 391 shall be made available only for the purpose Office of Extramural Programs 439 Smith-Lever sections 3(b) and 3(c) $275,940 Smith-Lever section 3(d): of ensuring that each institution shall re- Pay costs and FERS ...... 1,386 Farm safety ...... 5,250 ceive no less than $1,000,000 as proposed by Peer Panels ...... 342 Food and nutrition education ... 58,566 the Senate. PM–10 air quality study (WA) ... 426 Indian reservation agents ...... 1,996 The conference agreement provides Precision agriculture/Tennessee Pest management ...... 10,759 $5,250,000 for farm safety, of which $4,050,000 valley research and extension Rural development centers ...... 953 is for the AgrAbility project. center (AL) ...... 480 Sustainable agriculture ...... 4,750 INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES Produce pricing (AZ) ...... 76 Youth at risk ...... 8,481 Salmon quality standards (AK) 120 Youth farm safety education The conference agreement provides Shrimp aquaculture (AZ, HI, and certification ...... 499 $42,853,000 for integrated activities instead of LA, MA, MS, SC, TX) ...... 4,214 Renewable Resources Extension $43,355,000 as proposed by the House and Sustainable agriculture devel- Act ...... 4,093 $42,350,000 as proposed by the Senate. opment (OH) ...... 490 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee Uni- The following table reflects the conference Urban silviculture (NY) ...... 232 versity ...... 31,181 agreement: Water pollutants (WV) ...... 206 1890 facilities grants ...... 13,500 Integrated activities Water quality (IL) ...... 341 Rural health and safety edu- Water quality (ND) ...... 417 cation ...... 2,622 [In thousands of dollars] Wetland plants (WV) ...... 160 Extension services at the 1994 in- Conference stitutions ...... 3,273 agreement Subtotal, Federal Adminis- Integrated Research, Education tration ...... 21,676 Subtotal ...... 421,863 and Extension Competitive Grants Program: Total, Research and Edu- Federal Administration: Water Quality ...... $12,971 cation Activities ...... 542,062 Ag in the classroom ...... 600 Food Safety ...... 14,967 Agricultural telecommuni- Pesticide Impact Assessment ... 4,531 The conference agreement does not include cations (NY) ...... 339 Crops at Risk from FQPA Im- bill language which provides funds for pay- Avian conservation (PA) ...... 320 plementation ...... 1,497 ments to land-grant colleges of which Beef producers improvement FQPA Risk Mitigation Program $998,000 shall be made available to West Vir- (AR) ...... 193 ginia State College in Institute, West Vir- for Major Food Crop Systems 4,889 Botanical garden initiative (IL) 232 Methyl Bromide Transition ginia, as proposed by the House. Conservation technology trans- The conference agreement includes bill Program ...... 2,498 fer (WI) ...... 490 Organic Transition Program .... 1,500 language which provides funds for payments Dairy education (IA) ...... 232 to land-grant colleges of which $1,507,496 Delta Teachers Academy ...... 0 Total, Integrated Activities .. 42,853 shall be made available only for the purpose Diabetes detection, prevention of ensuring that each institution shall re- (WA) ...... 906 OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR ceive no less than $1,000,000 as proposed by Efficient irrigation (NM, TX) ... 1,960 MARKETING AND REGULATORY PROGRAMS the Senate. Extension specialist (MS) ...... 100 The conference agreement provides $654,000 The conference agreement does not include Family farm beef industry net- for the Office of the Under Secretary for bill language regarding a grant for Okla- work (OH) ...... 1,372 Marketing and Regulatory Programs as pro- homa State University and its industrial Food Animal Residue Avoid- posed by the Senate instead of $660,000 as partners to develop chemical and biological ance Database/FARAD ...... 800 proposed by the House. sensors as proposed by the Senate. Food product development (AK) 280 ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION The conference agreement does not include Health education leadership SERVICE bill language regarding the Environmental (KY) ...... 800 Biotechnology initiative at the University of Income enhancement dem- SALARIES AND EXPENSES Rhode Island as proposed by the Senate. onstration (OH) ...... 241 The conference agreement provides The conference agreement does not include Integrated cow/calf manage- $620,490,000, of which $84,813,000 is derived bill language regarding grants for authorized ment (IA) ...... 294 from agricultural quarantine inspection user competitive research programs related to en- Iowa vitality center ...... 280 fees, for the Animal and Plant Health Inspec- hancement of the nitrogen-fixing ability and National Center for Agriculture tion Service (APHIS) instead of $587,386,000 efficiency of plants as proposed by the Safety (IA) ...... 196 as proposed by the House and $602,754,000 as House. Pilot technology transfer (WI) 160 proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes bill Pilot technology transfer (OK, The following table reflects the conference language which provides $2,997,000 to indi- MS) ...... 319 agreement:

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.038 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7978 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the inequity in the distribution of funds for Imported fire ant.—The conference agree- [In thousands of dollars] fruit fly trapping in California and Florida ment includes $2,868,000, of which $45,000 is by increasing the California program by for New Mexico, for imported fire ants in- Conference $4,000,000 as proposed by the Senate instead stead of $2,118,000 as proposed by the House agreement of $2,000,000 as proposed by the House. and $3,618,000 as proposed by the Senate. Pest and Disease Exclusion: Animal health monitoring and surveillance.— Noxious weeds.—The conference agreement Agricultural quarantine inspec- The conference agreement provides an in- includes an increase of $125,000 in association tion ...... $47,254 crease of $2,429,000 for the animal health with the Nez-Perce Bio-Control Center in- User fees ...... 84,813 monitoring and surveillance (AHM&S) pro- stead of $250,000 as proposed by the Senate. gram instead of $1,229,000 as proposed by the Subtotal, AQI ...... 132,067 Pink bollworm.—The conference agreement Senate. provides an increase of $250,000 over fiscal The conference agreement includes an ad- year 2001 for pink bollworm activities in- Cattle ticks ...... 6,232 ditional $300,000 for the National Poultry Im- stead of $455,000 as proposed by the Senate. Foot-and-mouth disease ...... 3,839 provement Plan instead of $750,000 as pro- Tuberculosis.—The conference agreement Fruit fly exclusion and detec- posed by the House and the fiscal year 2001 provides an increase of $3,231,000 for tuber- tion ...... 36,818 level of funding as proposed by the Senate. culosis eradication activities instead of Import-export ...... 8,132 The conference agreement includes a $6,463,000 as proposed by the Senate. Screwworm ...... 30,557 $750,000 increase for a cooperative agreement Wildlife services operations.—The conference Trade issues resolution man- with the Wisconsin Livestock Identification agreement provides an increase of $300,000 for agement ...... 11,367 Consortium for a pilot project instead of predator control activities in Montana, Wyo- Tropical bont tick ...... 415 $1,000,000 as proposed by the House and ming, and Idaho instead of $500,000 proposed $500,000 as proposed by the Senate. Total, Pest and Disease Ex- by the House and Senate. The conference agreement includes $100,000 The conference agreement provides $300,000 clusion ...... 229,427 to develop a bio-security demonstration and above the fiscal year 2001 funding level for outreach program in cooperation with the the South Dakota Department of Game and Plant and Animal Health Moni- Vermont Department of Agriculture and the Fish instead of $500,000 as proposed by the toring: University of Vermont College of Agri- Senate. Animal health monitoring and culture instead of $200,000 as proposed by the The conference agreement provides $125,000 surveillance ...... 70,931 Senate. for a cost sharing beaver control program in Animal and plant health regu- The conference agreement includes an in- Louisiana instead of $250,000 as proposed by crease of $750,000 to implement a program for latory enforcement ...... 8,101 the Senate. Emergency management sys- chronic wasting disease under the AHM&S The conference agreement provides tem ...... 4,044 line item instead of $1,000,000 for a new line $8,250,000 for a rabies control program in- Pest detection ...... 6,844 item as proposed by the Senate. stead of $16,500,000 as proposed by the House Animal and plant health regulatory and en- and $4,600,000 as proposed by the Senate. The forcement.—The conference agreement in- Total, Plant and Animal conferees expect the agency to direct funds cludes an increase of $1,852,000 for the animal Health Monitoring ...... 89,920 to Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, New York, and plant health regulatory and enforcement program as proposed by the Senate instead Vermont, Wyoming, and other states. Pest and Disease Management: The conference agreement continues sup- Aquaculture ...... 1,130 of $1,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees direct the agency to include port for blackbird control activities in North Biological control ...... 8,759 animal welfare violations and related en- Dakota, South Dakota, and Louisiana and, Boll Weevil ...... 77,355 forcement responses in the agency’s annual in addition, provides an increase of $240,000 Brucellosis ...... 9,800 report to Congress. for completion of an environmental impact Chronic wasting disease ...... Emergency Management System.—The con- statement necessary for a baiting program Emerg. plant pests ...... 43,130 ference agreement provides an increase of scheduled to begin in March of 2002. Golden nematode ...... 810 $1,000,000 for the Emergency Management Animal welfare.—The conference agreement Gypsy moth ...... 4,559 System instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by includes an increase of $2,400,000 for animal Imported fire ant ...... 2,868 the House. welfare as proposed by the House instead of Johne’s disease ...... 3,000 Boll weevil.—The conference agreement $1,627,000 as proposed by the Senate, and di- Noxious weeds ...... 1,255 provides $77,355,000 for boll weevil instead of rects APHIS to hire an additional 14 inspec- Pink bollworm ...... 1,866 $33,931,000 as proposed by the House and tors and support staff so that the overall Pseudorabies ...... 4,151 $79,157,000 as proposed by the Senate. number of inspections can increase, and Scrapie ...... 3,119 Brucellosis.—The conference agreement in- those facilities that are in non-compliance Tuberculosis ...... 8,694 cludes the fiscal year 2001 level of funding for may be re-inspected more frequently. The Wildlife services operations ...... 49,071 the Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucel- conferees encourage the Secretary to use any Witchweed ...... 1,520 losis Committee as proposed by the Senate additional funds made available during fiscal instead of $600,000 as proposed by the House. year 2001 for these activities to increase pro- Total, Pest and Disease Man- Emerging plant pests.—The conference gram effectiveness as quickly as possible, agement ...... 221,087 agreement includes $43,130,000 for the emerg- and remind the Secretary of Agriculture of ing plant pests program instead of $48,515,000 the request for information on this subject Animal Care: as proposed by the House and $28,557,000 as in Senate Report 107–33. Animal welfare ...... 15,167 proposed by the Senate. Within this total, Integrated systems acquisition project.—The Horse protection ...... 415 the conferees expect that $3,618,000 be pro- conference agreement provides an increase of vided for the base program. In addition to $750,000 for the integrated systems acquisi- Total, Animal Care ...... 15,582 funds made available from the Commodity tion project instead of $1,000,000 as proposed Credit Corporation, the conferees direct that by the House. Scientific and Technical Serv- of this appropriation, no less than $8,500,000 Veterinary biologics.—The conference agree- ices: be provided for activities regarding the ment provides an increase of $1,036,000 for Biotechnology and environ- glassy-winged sharpshooter; and no less than the Center for Veterinary Biologics instead mental protection ...... 10,516 $31,030,000 be provided to combat emergency of $1,186,000 as proposed by the Senate. Integrated systems acquisition outbreaks of citrus canker in Florida, the Wildlife services methods development.—The project ...... 1,748 Asian long-horned beetle in New York and Il- conference agreement provides an increase of Plant methods ...... 5,118 linois (of which no less than $1,500,000 shall $1,500,000 for wildlife services methods devel- Veterinary biologics ...... 11,763 be for activities in the area of Chicago, Illi- opment, of which $1,000,000 is to address in- Veterinary diagnostics ...... 18,278 nois), plum pox virus, and Mormon crickets frastructure deficiencies at NWRC, and Wildlife services methods devel- and grasshoppers, of which $500,000 shall be $500,000 is for non-lethal predator control opment ...... 12,955 for Utah. methods of which $50,000 is for work at the The conferees direct the Secretary of Agri- Monell Center in Pennsylvania. Total, Scientific and Tech- culture to continue to use the authority pro- Avocados.—The conferees do not include nical Services ...... 60,378 vided in this bill to transfer funds from the House language directing the agency to re- Commodity Credit Corporation for the arrest port to the Congress prior to publishing any Contingency fund ...... 4,096 and eradication of animal and plant pests rules expanding the approved areas or Pay parity ...... and diseases that threaten American agri- lengthening time periods for importation of culture. Mexican avocados. Those rules are in the Total, Salaries and Expenses 620,490 Golden nematode.—The conference agree- process of being promulgated. The conferees ment provides an increase of $200,000 for direct APHIS to report to the Committees on Fruit fly exclusion and detection.—The con- golden nematode instead of $400,000 as pro- Appropriations on the status of Mexican avo- ference agreement includes funds to address posed by the House. cado imports, including any problems in pest

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.041 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7979 surveys, and oversight by APHIS personnel, tion Service instead of $720,652,000 as pro- The conference agreement includes bill including the diversion of Mexican avocados posed by the House and $715,747,000 as pro- language that breaks out the direct loan and to other than approved destinations. posed by the Senate. subsidy amounts as proposed by the House. The conferees have been made aware of re- The conference agreement includes The conference agreement provides ports regarding captive polar bears recently $608,730,000 for federal food inspection. $280,595,000 for administrative expenses of imported in the United States and request The conference agreement provides an in- which $272,595,000 shall be transferred to the APHIS to report back to the Committees on crease of $100,000 over the fiscal year 2002 Farm Service Agency for this purpose as pro- Appropriations by January 1, 2002 on this budget request for activities related to the posed by the Senate instead of $282,769,000 for matter. Codex Alimentarius. administrative expenses of which $274,769,000 The conferees are concerned about the The conference agreement includes the fol- shall be transferred as proposed by the spread of West Nile Virus in Illinois and ex- lowing amounts, which fully fund food in- House. pect APHIS to work with the State of Illi- spection activities at the requested level. The conference agreement includes bill nois and the University of Illinois on cooper- language providing that the Committees on ative ways to conduct research, monitor, and Food safety and inspection service, funding by Appropriations are to be notified at least 15 respond to the outbreak, including using activity days in advance of any transfer of funds as contingency funds for these efforts. ($000) proposed by the House instead of language The conferees encourage APHIS, in order requiring prior approval as proposed by the Conference to strengthen protections of U.S. meat and Senate. poultry supply, to expedite the development FSIS activity agreement RISK MANAGEMENT AGENCY of its automated database system to track Federal Food Inspection ...... $608,730 imported meat and animal product ship- Import-Export Inspection ...... 12,127 The conference agreement provides ments and its Automated Manifest System, Laboratory Services ...... 36,548 $74,752,000 for the Risk Management Agency designed to automatically target shipments FAIM ...... 8,005 (RMA) instead of $75,142,000 as proposed by for hold. Grants ...... 42,517 the House and $73,752,000 as proposed by the Special Assistance to States ...... 5,220 Senate. BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES Codex ...... 2,495 The conference agreement provides CORPORATIONS $7,189,000 for Animal and Plant Health In- 715,642 COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION FUND spection Service Buildings and Facilities as OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR proposed by the House instead of $5,189,000 as Food Safety Inspection: HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT proposed by the Senate. Federal ...... 638,513 (LIMITATION ON EXPENSES) AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE State ...... 47,418 The conference agreement includes the ac- MARKETING SERVICES International ...... 15,344 count heading ‘‘(Limitation on Expenses)’’ as The conference agreement provides FAIM ...... 11,872 proposed by the Senate. The House had no $71,430,000 for the Agricultural Marketing Codex ...... 2,495 such heading. Service as proposed by the Senate instead of TITLE II—CONSERVATION PROGRAMS $71,774,000 as proposed by the House. The 715,642 total amount includes $5,980,000 for the Live- OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FARM OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR stock Mandatory Price Reporting Program AND FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICES NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT as proposed by the Senate instead of The conference agreement provides $606,000 The conference agreement provides $730,000 $5,900,000 as proposed by the House. for the Office of the Under Secretary for for the Office of the Under Secretary for Nat- The conferees expect the Microbiological Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services as ural Resources and Environment as proposed Data Program to produce national, con- proposed by the Senate instead of $611,000 as by the Senate instead of $736,000 as proposed sistent, and statistically reliable data that proposed by the House. by the House. may be used for research and risk analysis FARM SERVICE AGENCY NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION purposes by federal agencies such as USDA, SERVICE FDA, and CDC, state health departments, re- SALARIES AND EXPENSES CONSERVATION OPERATIONS searchers, and other stakeholders. The Agri- The conference agreement provides cultural Marketing Service is encouraged to $939,030,000 for the Farm Service Agency as The conference agreement provides contract for the data collection with organi- proposed by the Senate instead of $945,993,000 $779,000,000 for Conservation Operations in- zations that have demonstrated research and as proposed by the House. stead of $782,762,000 as proposed by the House and instead of $807,454,000 as proposed by the technical competence, and that are not STATE MEDIATION GRANTS barred by statute from administering a Senate, of which not less than $8,515,000 is for The conference agreement provides blinded microbiological survey program for snow survey and water forecasting as pro- $3,493,000 for State Mediation Grants instead fruits and vegetables. In order to ensure that posed by the Senate instead of $7,137,000 as of $2,993,000 as proposed by the House and the data collected will be useful, and to proposed by the House; not less than $3,993,000 as proposed by the Senate. avoid duplication of effort, the conferees ex- $9,849,000 is for operation and establishment pect AMS to hold a public meeting, within 60 DAIRY INDEMNITY PROGRAM of plant materials centers as proposed by the days of enactment, to present a detailed data The conference agreement provides $100,000 Senate instead of $9,349,000 as proposed by collection proposal and seek input from all for the Dairy Indemnity Program as pro- the House; and, not less than $21,500,000 for interested parties. posed by both the House and the Senate, and the grazing lands conservation initiative in- stead of $20,000,000 as proposed by the House FUNDS FOR STRENGTHENING MARKETS, INCOME, includes bill language that provides by ref- and $23,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. AND SUPPLY erence the guidelines for making indemnity payments as proposed by the House. The conference agreement does not provide (SECTION 32) $30,500,000 for conservation reserve program AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSURANCE FUND The conference agreement provides (CRP) technical assistance as proposed by PROGRAM ACCOUNT $13,995,000 for Funds for Strengthening Mar- the House; nor do the conferees include kets, Income and Supply as proposed by the The following table reflects the conference House language directing the Secretary to House instead of $13,874,000 as proposed by agreement: spend up to $8,500,000 from CCC Section 11 for the Senate. Farm Ownership Loans: CRP technical assistance. The conference GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS, AND Direct ...... ($146,996,000) agreement includes a provision that allows STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION Subsidy ...... 3,866,000 the Secretary to transfer up to $13,000,000 SALARIES AND EXPENSES Guaranteed ...... (1,000,000,000) from the environmental quality incentives The conference agreement provides Subsidy ...... 4,500,000 program for CRP technical assistance in- $33,117,000 for the Grain Inspection, Packers Farm Operating Loans: stead of $26,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. and Stockyards Administration as proposed Direct ...... (611,198,000) The conferees note that the CCC Section 11 by the House instead of $34,000,000 as pro- Subsidy ...... 54,580,000 cap was recently revised upwards from posed by the Senate. Unsubsidized guaranteed (1,500,000,000) $36,208,700 to $56,102,700. The conferees Subsidy ...... 52,650,000 strongly encourage the Secretary, in addi- OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD Subsidized guaranteed .... (505,531,000) tion to the funds available for transfer from SAFETY Subsidy ...... 68,550,000 the environmental quality incentives pro- The conference agreement provides $476,000 Indian Tribe Land Acquisi- gram, to use CCC Section 11 funds to ensure for the Office of the Under Secretary for tion Loans ...... (2,000,000) that CRP technical assistance is fully funded Food Safety as proposed by the Senate in- Subsidy ...... 118,400 in fiscal year 2002. stead of $481,000 as proposed by the House. Emergency Disaster Loans (25,000,000) In addition to the items in the House and FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE Subsidy ...... 3,362,500 Senate reports that are not changed by the The conference agreement provides Boll Weevil Eradication conference agreement, funding is included $715,642,000 for the Food Safety and Inspec- Loans ...... (100,000,000) for the following items: $300,000 for the Sand

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.043 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7980 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Mountain Water Quality Project (AL); The conference agreement does not include TITLE III—RURAL DEVELOPMENT $150,000 for the Central Alabama/Birmingham $1,250,000 for the Seward/Resurrection River PROGRAMS Water Quality Initiative; $200,000 for the Gulf North Forest Acres (AK) as proposed by the OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR RURAL Coast Water Quality/conservation initiative Senate, or $1,500,000 for field telecommuni- DEVELOPMENT (AL); Juneau and Glennallen Offices (AK) cations pilot program (NM) as proposed by The conference agreement provides $623,000 $250,000; $500,000 to staff each Soil and Water the House. for the Office of the Under Secretary for Conservation District (AK); $375,000 for the Rural Development as proposed by the Sen- Little Red River Irrigation Project (AR); WATERSHED SURVEYS AND PLANNING ate instead of $628,000 as proposed by the $125,000 for the Walnut Bayou Irrigation The conference agreement provides Project (AR); $150,000 for the Upper Petit $10,960,000 for Watershed Surveys and Plan- House. The conferees expect the Department to Jean Watershed Project (AR); $375,000 for ag- ning as proposed by the Senate instead give consideration to the following requests riculture enhancement/open space (CA); $11,030,000 as proposed by the House. Manatee Agriculture Reuse System (FL) for assistance from rural development pro- WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION $500,000; Georgia Agricultural Water Con- grams: community facilities grant for the OPERATIONS servation Initiative $500,000; Little Wood transfer of the Audubon Sugar Institute at River Irrigation District Delivery System The conference agreement provides the Louisiana State University Agricultural (ID) $500,000; conversion to sprinkler irriga- $106,590,000 for Watershed and Flood Preven- Center; funding for the International Agri- tion (ID) $500,000; Hungry Canyon/Loess Hills tion Operations instead of $111,143,000 as pro- Center, Inc. in Tulare, California; assistance Erosion Control (IA) $800,000; $200,000 for posed by the House and $100,413,000 as pro- from the distance learning and telemedicine CEMSA with Iowa Soybean Association; Soil posed by the Senate. The conference agree- program to the Commonwealth of Kentucky erosion control/soil survey (KY) $1,700,000; ment includes $15,000,000 for watersheds au- for the Kentucky Telehealth Network, to ex- Golden Meadows PMC (LA) $344,000; thorized under the Flood Control Act of 1936 pand telemedicine services in rural Ken- Barataria-Terrebone National Estuary Pro- as proposed by the Senate instead of tucky; funding for a feasibility study of the gram (LA) $125,000; Lyon Canyon Creek $10,000,000 as proposed by the House. Public Market project in Springfield, MA; Drainage Improvement-Taylorsville (MS) The conferees provide funds for continuing assistance from community facilities loan $400,000; Cattle and nutrient management work in connection with the Hickory Creek, and grant programs to build a Regional (MS) $475,000; Chickasaway River-Quitman Marthasville, West Fork of Big Creek, East Health Center by the Community Medical Planning and Design (MS) $75,000; Choctaw Fork of Grand River, McKenzie Creek, Upper Centers of Fresno, CA; assistance from the County Feasibility Study for surface im- Locust Creek, Troublesome Creek, and East rural business opportunity grant program for poundment (MS) $75,000; Mill Creek Water- Yellow Creek, Missouri. the Appalachian Information Technology Partnership (WV); assistance for the Women shed channel modification—Magee (MS) The conferees provide funds for the fol- in Technology Project, Hawaii and Wis- $900,000; Jamie Whitten PMC (MS) $275,000; lowing projects in Mississippi: to finish the consin; assistance to deal with the deterio- Wildlife Management Institute (MS) installation of the remaining channel work rating situation that exists within the $5,609,000, an increase of $900,000; Lake Tahoe on Coonewah Creek, Lee County; for flood Pascoag Utility District, RI, due to contami- Basin Soil Conservation Project (CA/NV) control in the Pearl River Basin, Dry Creek nation of the District’s groundwater; assist- $350,000; Westchester County SWCD (NY) watershed, Marion County; for installation ance to the City of Nanticoke, PA for a $325,000; $200,000 for the refinement, integra- of grade stabilization structures in the Downtown Redevelopment Initiative; assist- tion, and implementation of computer tools Skuna River; to provide bank stabilization to improve nutrient management planning ance for the development of sewer service in structures in the Strayhorn Creek Water- on dairy farms (NY); $130,000 for a coopera- Kinsman Township, OH; assistance for a shed; and for the study, planning and design tive agreement with Pace University (NY); wastewater treatment upgrade in of flood water retarding structures in the Red River Flood Prevention/Environmental Columbiana, OH; a guaranteed business and Pellaphalia Creek Watershed, Carthage. Research Center (ND) $700,000; Oregon Gar- industry loan for Fayette, AL; Montana den, Silverton (OR) $325,000; Advanced Wet- WATERSHED REHABILITATION Rural Business Accelerator, MT; and assist- land Plant Research-Hillsboro (OR) $125,000; PROGRAM ance for extension of water lines in Lake study to characterize land use change- The conference agreement includes a new Milton and Craig Beach, OH. Clemson University (SC) $550,000; GIS based account for the Watershed Rehabilitation The conferees note the important work model (SC) $600,000; field office telecommuni- Program and provides $10,000,000 as proposed provided through the National Rural Devel- cations pilot program (TX) $3,000,000; and by the Senate. The House had a similar pro- opment Partnership, and its associated State Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil and Ero- vision under Watershed Flood Prevention Rural Development Councils, and encourage sion Sediment $1,250,000. Operations. The conferees expect that prior- the Department to continue support for The conferees provide $100,000 for the Weed ities under this program be given only to these efforts from within available funds. It Now initiative in the southern Taconic those structures which pose the highest risk RURAL COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT Mountains of Massachusetts, New York and to life and property. PROGRAM Connecticut. The conferees provide $3,000,000, the same RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND The conference agreement provides amount as fiscal year 2001, for matching DEVELOPMENT $806,557,000 for the Rural Community Ad- funds to the National Fish and Wildlife vancement Program (RCAP) instead of The conference agreement provides $767,465,000 as proposed by the House and Foundation. This Federal financial assist- $48,048,000 for Resource Conservation and De- ance shall be advanced without regard to $1,004,125,000 as proposed by the Senate. velopment as proposed by the Senate instead The conference agreement does not include when expenses are incurred for projects on or of $48,361,000 as proposed by the House. benefiting the mission of the Natural Re- Senate language that specifies program lev- The conference agreement includes funds sources Conservation Service. els within the total made available under the The conferees continue funding for the to maintain funding for the eight councils RCAP for assistance to Federally Recognized Texas plant materials centers at not less that were funded out of the Fund for Rural Native American Tribes. The conferees are than the fiscal year 2001 funding levels. America in fiscal year 2001. The conferees aware of housing, utility, business oppor- The conference agreement provides $250,000 provide $1,125,000 for pay cost as proposed by tunity, and educational infrastructure needs as proposed by the Senate instead of $150,000 the Senate instead of $1,438,000 as proposed and direct the Department to allocate pro- as proposed by the House, for a cooperative by the House. The conference agreement in- gram benefits in a manner that best serves agreement with the Wisconsin State Depart- cludes $1,000,000 to bring the per council allo- the requirements of this population, but ex- ment of Agriculture to expand the Wisconsin cation closer to the $161,000 level rec- pect that up to $4,000,000 shall be available grazing lands initiative to augment the fund- ommended by USDA, and $3,000,000 to fund for community facilities grants to tribal col- ing that this initiative is receiving through the maximum number of pending applica- leges. the environmental quality incentives pro- tions for new councils that the $3,000,000 will The conference agreement adopts Senate gram. allow. language providing $24,000,000 for rural and The conference agreement provides FORESTRY INCENTIVES PROGRAM native villages in Alaska. $5,000,000, the same as fiscal year 2001, for the The conference agreement adopts Senate continued implementation and acceleration The conference agreement provides language providing for up to one percent of of pilot projects for innovative technology $6,811,000 for the Forestry Incentives Pro- funds provided for water and waste disposal systems resulting in a 75 percent reduction gram instead of $7,811,000 as proposed by the systems in Alaska for program administra- in nutrients of wastewater discharged by Senate. tion and up to one percent to improve inter- animal feeding operations to be managed by The conferees note authorization under the agency coordination instead of one percent Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. The Forestry Incentives Program for removal as proposed by the House. Secretary is directed to release these funds and site preparation for replanting on pri- The conference agreement provides after submitting a report to the Committees vate lands which may serve to reduce the po- $17,465,000 for technical assistance grants for on Appropriations that a satisfactory coop- tential of wildfires and directs the agency, rural water and waste systems. erative agreement between the NRCS and where appropriate, to provide resources for The conferees provide bill language that of Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. has that purpose, utilizing flexibility regarding the funds provided for technical assistance been consummated. minimum productivity requirements. for rural water and waste systems, $5,250,000

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.045 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7981 be designated for Rural Community Assist- The conference agreement adopts Senate to salaries and expenses instead of $3,761,000 ance Programs. language providing for a transfer of as proposed by the House. The conference agreement adopts language $422,241,000 to salaries and expenses instead RURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS setting aside $11,000,000 for the circuit rider of $422,910,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement provides program and expects that this will provide The conference agreement adopts House $7,750,000 for Rural Cooperative Development sufficient funds for a third circuit rider in language that allows up to $5,986,197 to be Grants instead of $7,500,000 as proposed by approximately 15 states, including Mis- transferred from the section 515 rental hous- the House and $8,000,000 as proposed by the sissippi. ing program to the rental assistance pro- Senate. The conference agreement adopts Senate gram for emergency designations. The conference agreement adopts House language setting aside $25,000,000 for facili- The conferees are aware of the storm dam- language providing $2,500,000 for the appro- ties in rural communities with extreme un- age that occurred in Oklahoma on October 9, priate technology transfer for rural areas employment and severe economic depression. 2001, and urge the Secretary to give high pri- program instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by The conference agreement adopts Senate ority to section 502 loan and grant applica- the Senate. language setting aside $30,000,000 for grants tions for housing reparations. The conference agreement adopts Senate in rural communities with extremely high- The following table indicates loan and sub- language providing not to exceed $1,497,000 energy costs. sidy levels provided in the conference agree- for cooperatives or associations of coopera- The conference agreement adopts Senate ment: language allowing funds provided for guaran- tives, whose primary focus is to provide as- teed business and industry loans to be trans- Rural Housing Insurance sistance to small, minority producers and ferred for direct business and industry loans Fund Program Account: whose governing board and/or membership is as deemed necessary by the Secretary. Loan authorizations: comprised of at least 75 percent minority. The conferees are aware that raw sewage is Single family (sec. 502) ($1,079,848,000) RURAL EMPOWERMENT ZONES AND ENTERPRISE spilling into the Talkeetna River, Alaska, Unsubsidized guaran- COMMUNITIES GRANTS teed ...... (3,137,968,000) and threatens to contaminate the City of The conference agreement adopts Senate Talkeetna’s drinking water supply because Rental housing (sec. 515) ...... (114,068,000) language that makes funds available for the sewer system has failed. Within the grants authorized by the Omnibus Consoli- funds provided for water and waste disposal Multi-family housing guarantees (sec. 538) (99,770,000) dated and Emergency Supplemental Appro- systems for rural and native villages in Alas- priations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105–277). ka, the managers expect adequate funds to Housing repair (sec. RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE be made available to make emergency and 504) ...... (32,324,000) permanent repairs to bring the system into Credit sales of acquired RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELECOMMUNI- compliance with applicable federal and state property ...... (11,778,000) CATIONS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT clean water requirements. Site loans (sec. 524) ...... (5,090,000) The conference agreement provides a total The following table indicates the distribu- Self-help housing land subsidy of $2,036,000 for activities under the tion of funding for the RCAP: development fund ..... (5,000,000) Rural Electrification and Telecommuni- cations Loans Program Account. The con- Community Facilities ...... $83,545,000 Total, Loan author- ference agreement provides for an estimated Business-Cooperative De- izations ...... (4,485,846,000) velopment ...... 76,500,000 loan program level of $4,565,934,000 as pro- Water and Waste ...... 646,512,000 posed by the Senate instead of $4,610,292,000 Loan subsidies: as proposed by the House. Total ...... 806,557,000 Single family (sec. 502) 142,108,000 The conference agreement adopts Senate Unsubsidized guaran- language providing for a transfer of teed ...... 40,166,000 Federally Recognized Na- $36,000,000 to salaries and expenses instead of Rental housing (sec. tive American Tribes ...... 24,000,000 $36,322,000 as proposed by the House. Included Rural Community Develop- 515) ...... 48,274,000 in this amount is an increase of $400,000 for Multi-family housing ment Initiative ...... 6,000,000 additional administrative expenses due to Technical Assistance for guarantees (sec. 538) 3,921,000 the recommended loan levels in the electric Rural Transportation ..... 500,000 Housing repair (sec. treasury rate and FFB accounts. Mississippi Delta ...... 2,000,000 504) ...... 10,386,000 The following table indicates loan and sub- Colonias ...... 20,000,000 Credit sales of acquired sidy levels provided in the conference agree- Alaska Villages ...... 24,000,000 property ...... 750,000 ment: Technical Assistance ...... 17,465,000 Site loans (sec. 524) ...... 28,000 Circuit Rider ...... 11,000,000 Self-help housing land Rural Electrification and EZ/EC and REAP ...... 37,624,000 development fund ..... 254,000 Telecommunications Economic impact initia- Loans Program Ac- tive grants...... 25,000,000 Total, Loan subsidies 245,887,000 count: High energy costs grants.. 30,000,000 Loan authorizations: Electric: RURAL DEVELOPMENT SALARIES AND EXPENSES RHIF administration ex- penses (transfer to RD) ... 422,241,000 Direct, 5 percent ...... ($121,107,000) The conference agreement provides Direct, Muni ...... (500,000,000) RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM $133,722,000 for Rural Development Salaries Direct, FFB ...... (2,600,000,000) and Expenses as proposed by the Senate in- The conference agreement provides Direct, Treasury rate (750,000,000) stead of $134,733,000 as proposed by the $701,004,000 for the Rental Assistance Pro- Guaranteed ...... (100,000,000) House. gram instead of $693,504,000 as proposed by The conferees have provided $200,000, with- the House and $708,504,000 as proposed by the Subtotal ...... (4,071,107,000) in available funds, for the Alaska State of- Senate. fice to maintain existing field offices, to es- MUTUAL AND SELF-HELP HOUSING GRANTS Telecommunications: tablish an Assistant State Director position The conference agreement provides Direct, 5 percent ...... (74,827,000) and new field offices to be collocated to the $35,000,000 for Mutual and Self-Help Housing Direct, Treasury rate (300,000,000) maximum extent possible with the Natural Grants as proposed by the Senate and Direct, FFB ...... (120,000,000) Resources Conservation Service. A staffing $33,925,000 as proposed by the House. plan for the Alaska State office should be Subtotal ...... (494,827,000) submitted by the Rural Development Agency FARM LABOR PROGRAM ACCOUNT to the Committees on Appropriations no The conference agreement provides Total, loan author- later than December 15, 2001. $31,431,000 for the Farm Labor Program Ac- izations ...... (4,565,934,000) RURAL HOUSING SERVICE count as proposed by the House instead of $28,431,000 as proposed by the Senate. RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM Loan subsidies: The conference agreement provides ACCOUNT Electric: $13,464,000 for loan subsidies and $17,967,000 Direct, 5 percent ...... 3,609,000 The conference agreement provides a total for grants, of which $15,000,000 is for farm Direct, Muni ...... (1) subsidy of $245,887,000 for activities under the labor housing grants and $2,967,000 is for Direct, FFB ...... (1) Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Ac- grants for migrant and seasonal farm- Direct, Treasury rate (1) count instead of $243,887,000 as proposed by workers. the House and $247,887,000 as proposed by the Guaranteed ...... 80,000 RURAL BUSINESS—COOPERATIVE SERVICE Senate. The conference agreement provides for an estimated loan program level of RURAL DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND PROGRAM Subtotal ...... 3,689,000 $4,485,846,000 instead of $4,470,648,000 as pro- ACCOUNT posed by the House and $4,501,044,000 as pro- The conference agreement adopts Senate Telecommunications: posed by the Senate. language providing for a transfer of $3,733,000 Direct, 5 percent ...... 1,736,000

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.046 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7982 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Direct, Treasury rate 300,000 The conference agreement includes Total obligational authority—Continued Direct, FFB ...... (1) $10,000,000 under the Commodity Assistance School meals initiative/ Program to carry out the Senior Farmers Team nutrition ...... 9,991,000 Subtotal ...... 2,036,000 Market Program in fiscal year 2002. While Coordinated review effort 4,507,000 this action indicates strong support on the Food safety education .... 1,998,000 Total, loan sub- part of the conferees for this program, it School breakfast pilot sidies ...... 5,725,000 does not replace expectations that the Sec- project ...... 500,000 RETLP administrative ex- retary will consider these funds supple- penses (transfer to RD) ... 36,000,000 mental to resources of the Commodity Credit Total ...... 10,087,246,000 Total, Rural Electrifica- Corporation, as provided by the Department The conference agreement does not include tion and Telecommuni- in fiscal year 2001. In addition, the conferees language relating to study of the effect of cations Loans Program fully expect the Secretary to work with the rising food and labor costs on school-based Account ...... 41,725,000 appropriate authorization committees to es- child nutrition programs as proposed by the 1 Negative subsidy rates for fiscal year 2002 are cal- tablish this program under law. Senate under this account. The conferees re- culated for these programs. The conferees recognize that childhood quest such information under the account of RURAL TELEPHONE BANK PROGRAM ACCOUNT obesity and adult diseases in children, such the Office of the Under Secretary for Food, The conference agreement provides as type II diabetes of which poor nutrition is Nutrition and Consumer Services. The conferees recommend that the Sec- $3,737,000 for the Rural Telephone Bank Pro- the major contributing factor, have become retary continue the pilot program with the gram Account as proposed by the Senate in- a serious problem. In response, the conferees believe that nutrition education is crucial to Alisal Union School District in Salinas, Cali- stead of $2,584,000 as proposed by the House. fornia to combine the administration of the The conference agreement adopts Senate the health and well-being of our nation’s summer food service program and the school language providing for a transfer of $3,082,000 children, and the Department should have a significant nutrition education program in lunch program. to salaries and expenses instead of $3,107,000 The conferees are encouraged that the as proposed by the House. our schools, including through in-school edu- cational networks and school menus. There- Food and Nutrition Service has made DISTANCE LEARNING AND TELEMEDICINE progress on assisting schools with enforcing fore, the conferees urge the Secretary to put PROGRAM the Buy American provisions of the Richard an increased emphasis on nutrition edu- B. Russell National School Lunch Act. The The conference agreement provides cation and training. conferees are concerned, however, that guid- $49,441,000 for the Distance Learning and The conferees are concerned about the nu- ance material being drafted by the agency Telemedicine Program instead of $26,941,000 tritional status and obesity levels of our na- conflicts with guidance provided on other as proposed by the House and $51,941,000 as tion’s children and are aware of recent stud- proposed by the Senate. procurement issues. Accordingly, FNS is di- ies that indicate a nutritionally adequate rected to ensure that all guidance documents The conference agreement includes lan- diet, which includes increased amounts of guage setting aside $22,500,000 to finance and other material on this topic follow the quality, fresh produce, is integral to better agency’s current procurement principles and broadband transmission and local dial-up health and educational preparedness. In service in rural areas, of which at least not distinguish between the sources of funds order to improve efficiencies and increase used to conduct a procurement. $12,500,000 is to be made available for grants levels of fresh produce available to children, SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM to carry out this program. the conferees expect the Department to ana- The conference agreement provides for an FOR WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDREN (WIC) lyze the current levels of fresh produce in its estimated loan program level of $300,000,000 nutrition programs, including the school The conference agreement provides for distance learning and telemedicine loans lunch program, review its method of trans- $4,348,000,000 for the Special Supplemental and $80,000,000 for broadband telecommuni- Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and portation and efficiency of distribution uti- cation loans. Children (WIC) instead of $4,137,086,000 as lizing Defense facilities, and undertake out- proposed by the House and $4,247,086,000 as LOCAL TELEVISION LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM reach efforts to increase produce purchases ACCOUNT proposed by the Senate. under sections 4 and 11 of the National The conference agreement provides that The conference agreement provides School Lunch Act and report back to the the Secretary shall obligate $10,000,000 for $20,000,000 for the Local Television Loan Committees on Appropriations no later than the farmers’ market nutrition program with- Guarantee Program instead of $25,000,000 as 120 days after enactment of this Act. in 45 days of enactment of this Act, and that proposed by the Senate. The House bill pro- FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE the Secretary may obligate up to an addi- vided no funds for this account. The con- CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS tional $15,000,000 for this program from funds ference agreement provides for an estimated not needed to meet caseload requirements. loan program level of $258,065,000 instead of The conference agreement provides The conference agreement provides that $322,580,000 as proposed by the Senate. $10,087,246,000 for Child Nutrition Programs $10,000,000 shall be available for infrastruc- The conference agreement adopts Senate as proposed by the Senate instead of ture, and that up to an additional $4,000,000 language providing for a transfer of $2,000,000 $10,088,746,000 as proposed by the House. shall be available for this purpose from funds to salaries and expenses. Included in this amount is an appropriated not needed to meet caseload requirements. TITLE IV—DOMESTIC FOOD PROGRAMS amount of $4,914,788,000 and a transfer from The House had proposed $10,000,000 for infra- section 32 of $5,172,458,000. The transfer OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD, structure and the Senate had proposed amount from section 32 was changed due to NUTRITION AND CONSUMER SERVICES $14,000,000. The conferees encourage the De- updated information available from the De- partment to continue funding for WIC Elec- The conference agreement provides $587,000 partment. Included in the appropriated tronic Benefit Transfer at the current level for the Office of the Under Secretary for amount is $500,000 for a school breakfast of $6,000,000 from within infrastructure fund- Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services as pilot project in Wisconsin, as proposed by ing. proposed by the Senate instead of $592,000 as the Senate. The House had no similar provi- The conference agreement does not include proposed by the House. sion. a provision relating to senior farmers mar- The conferees direct the Department to The conference agreement does not include ket nutrition activities, as proposed by the provide $100,000 to the State of New York for $2,000,000 for a National School Lunch Pro- House. The Senate had no similar provision. a pilot program to provide wireless equip- gram integrity study as proposed by the The conference agreement does not include ment and services capable of supporting House. This study is funded under the Food a provision that allows fiscal year 2001 WIC Food Stamp Electronic Benefit Transfer Program Administration account, as pro- carryover funds in excess of $110,000,000 to be transactions in farmers’ markets authorized posed by the Senate. transferred to the Rural Community Ad- by the Department and operating in the The conference agreement provides the fol- vancement Program as proposed by the Sen- State of New York. The conference agree- lowing for Child Nutrition programs: ate. ment does not include language relating to The conferees agree to the WIC infant for- the use of WIC Electronic Benefit Transfer Total obligational authority mula study as proposed by the Senate. The funds for state initiatives to implement pilot Child Nutrition Programs: conferees direct that this study be conducted programs relating to wireless purchases at School lunch program .... $5,759,232,000 by the GAO instead of the Secretary of Agri- farmers’ markets. School breakfast pro- culture. The conferees are concerned about the ef- gram ...... 1,579,752,000 In view of the potential increase in WIC fect of rising food and labor costs on school Child and adult care food participation levels, the conferees direct the meal programs, and request a report to the program ...... 1,878,179,000 Department to notify the Committees on Ap- Committees on Appropriations on USDA Summer food service pro- propriations on funds obligated to support plans to address this subject by June 30, 2002, gram ...... 325,341,000 the WIC farmers’ market and infrastructure instead of by January 31, 2002 as proposed by Special milk program ..... 15,940,000 programs and to provide a justification for the House. The response should address all State administrative ex- those levels of funding. requirements as proposed by the House under penses ...... 129,929,000 FOOD STAMP PROGRAM this account and by the Senate as proposed Commodity procurement The conference agreement provides in the Child Nutrition Program account. and support ...... 381,877,000 $22,991,986,000 for the food stamp program as

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.048 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7983 proposed by the Senate instead of necessary for the proper administration of Public Law 480 $21,991,986,000 as proposed by the House. In- the nutrition assistance programs by the Title 1—Program account: cluded in this amount is a reserve of Agency, additional recurring studies, evalua- Loan authorization, di- $2,000,000,000 as proposed by the Senate in- tions, and program information collections rect ...... ($154,664,000) stead of a reserve of $1,000,000,000 as proposed may be undertaken with the amount appro- Loan subsidies ...... 126,409,000 by the House. priated herein. Ocean freight differential 20,277,000 The conference agreement includes a Sen- The conferees direct that food program Title II—Commodities for ate provision limiting obligations of reserved studies and evaluations work must be done disposition abroad: funds for Employment and Training pro- in accordance with the statutes governing Program level ...... (850,000,000) grams made available in previous fiscal Federal nutrition assistance programs. Appropriation ...... 850,000,000 years to $145,000,000. These statutes, Section 17 of the Food Stamp Salaries and expenses: The conference agreement includes a Sen- Act of 1977, Section 6 of the Richard B. Rus- Foreign Agricultural ate provision allowing for purchase of bison sell National School Lunch Act, and Section Service (transfer to meat, in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000, 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, author- FAS) ...... 1,033,000 for the Food Distribution Program on Indian ize the use of funds to evaluate and improve Farm Service Agency Reservations (FDPIR). the effectiveness of Federal nutrition assist- (transfer to FSA) ...... 972,000 COMMODITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ance programs. Subtotal ...... 2,005,000 The conference agreement provides The conferees request a report on all integ- $152,813,000 for the Commodity Assistance rity studies underway or anticipated for Total, Public Law 480: Program, as proposed by the House, instead start in fiscal year 2002. This report should include a description of the study purpose, Program level ...... (1,004,664,000) of $139,991,000 as proposed by the Senate. In- Appropriation ...... 998,691,000 cluded in that amount is $50,000,000 for ad- duration, cost, and note whether the study is ministration of TEFAP, and $102,813,000 for being conducted by FNS staff or by a con- PUBLIC LAW 480 TITLE I OCEAN FREIGHT the Commodity Supplemental Food Pro- tractor. The conferees request that this re- DIFFERENTIAL GRANTS gram. port be submitted to the Committees on Ap- The conference agreement includes new The conference agreement provides that propriations by February 1, 2002. bill language that provides for the use of $20,820,000 of this appropriation shall be TITLE V—FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND funds to be used for the shipment of com- available for administrative expenses of the RELATED PROGRAMS modities under the Agricultural Trade De- Commodity Supplemental Food Program, in- velopment and Assistance Act of 1954 and FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE stead of $21,820,000 as proposed by the House. under the Food for Progress Act of 1985, and The Senate had no similar provision. SALARIES AND EXPENSES that funds may be used interchangeably be- The conference agreement provides The conference agreement provides tween the Title I program account and ocean $10,000,000 for funding of senior farmers’ mar- $121,813,000 for the Foreign Agricultural freight differential account with prior notice ket activities. The House proposed funding Service instead of $122,631,000 as proposed by to the Committees on Appropriations. for that purpose of up to $15,000,000 from the House and instead of $121,563,000 as pro- TITLE VI—RELATED AGENCIES AND funds not needed to maintain caseload. The posed by the Senate. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION Senate included language that encouraged The conference agreement contains a pro- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN funding for this purpose through the Com- vision prohibiting the disbursal of funds to SERVICES modity Credit Corporation. any rice trade association when the applica- FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION The conference agreement rescinds ble international agreement for such activ- $3,300,000 of unobligated balances available ity is not in effect as proposed by the House. SALARIES AND EXPENSES at the beginning of fiscal year 2002, instead The conferees are concerned with the cur- The conference agreement provides total of $5,300,000 as proposed by the Senate. The rent international terrorism crisis and its ef- appropriations, including Prescription Drug House had no similar provision. fect on commodity assistance programs in User Fee Act collections, of $1,345,386,000 for The conference agreement provides Southwest Asia and North Africa. Accord- the salaries and expenses of the Food and $5,000,000 in additional funding to support ingly, the conferees encourage the Foreign Drug Administration, as proposed by the the participation of five new states in the Agricultural Service to prioritize its activi- Senate, instead of $1,345,289,000 as proposed Commodity Supplemental Food Program ties with the goal of assisting those coun- by the House, and provides specific amounts (CSFP). These states, Missouri, Wisconsin, tries, including Egypt and Jordan, and other by FDA activity as reflected in the following North Dakota, South Dakota, and Pennsyl- nations that are actively engaged and assist- table. vania, have CSFP-approved plans and await ing the U.S. Government in its efforts to funding. The conferees expect that funding Budget author- Prescription combat terrorism. Program ity drug user fees Total to support the state of Washington, which The conferees are concerned with the re- joined the program in late fiscal year 2001, be cent discovery of BSE in Japan as Japan ac- Foods ...... 312,049,000 0 312,049,000 continued. Human Drugs ...... 246,459,000 106,188,000 352,647,000 counts for almost $2 billion, approximately Biologics ...... 120,531,000 35,344,000 155,875,000 FOOD DONATIONS PROGRAM 50%, of U.S. beef exports. Even though U.S. Animal Drugs and beef remains BSE-free, there is rising con- Feeds ...... 82,967,000 0 82,967,000 The conference agreement provides Medical Devices ..... 179,521,000 0 179,521,000 $150,749,000 for the Food Donations Program cern that the discovery of BSE in Japan is NCTR ...... 37,082,000 0 37,082,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of resulting in reduced consumption of beef, Rent and Rent-re- and subsequently impacting sales of U.S. lated activities ... 29,798,000 0 29,798,000 $160,749,000 as proposed by the House. In- Other Activities ...... 76,387,000 13,944,000 90,331,000 cluded in this amount is $149,668,000 for the beef to Japan. The conferees strongly en- Rental Payments to Elderly Feeding Program, as proposed by the courage the Secretary to use the Foreign GSA ...... 98,876,000 6,240,000 105,116,000 House, instead of $149,670,000 as proposed by Market Development program to assist the Net Appropriation ... 1,183,670,000 161,716,000 1,345,386,000 the Senate. For the needy family program, U.S. beef industry in promoting U.S. beef to The conference agreement provides the full the conference agreement provides $1,081,000, Japanese consumers. budget authority increases from the fiscal instead of $1,079,000 as proposed by the Sen- PUBLIC LAW 480 TITLE I AND TITLE II year 2001 levels requested in the President’s ate. PROGRAM AND GRANT ACCOUNTS fiscal year 2002 budget for the following ac- FOOD PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION The conference agreement provides tivities: $15,000,000 for BSE prevention and The conference agreement provides $126,409,000 for the Title I Program Account enforcement; $10,000,000 for adverse event $127,546,000 for Food Program Administration instead of $122,600,000 as proposed by the monitoring and reporting; $10,000,000 for as proposed by the Senate instead of House and $130,218,000 as proposed by the human subject protection; $9,400,000 for food $126,656,000 as proposed by the House. In- Senate. This funding will provide a loan au- safety activities; and $10,297,000 for inspec- cluded in this amount is not less than thorization level of $154,664,000 instead of tions and import monitoring. $6,500,000 to improve integrity in the Food $150,000,000 as proposed by the House and The conference agreement provides an in- Stamp Program and Child Nutrition Pro- $159,327,000 as proposed by the Senate. crease of $45,200,000 over the fiscal year 2001 gram as proposed by the Senate instead of The conference agreement provides level to fund pay cost increases as proposed not less than $4,500,000 as proposed by the $850,000,000 for Public Law 480 title II as pro- by the House instead of $40,000,000 as pro- House. The House had proposed funding of posed by the Senate instead of $835,159,000 as posed by the Senate. $2,000,000 for integrity studies under the proposed by the House. For other increases requested in the Presi- Child Nutrition Program account; the con- The conference agreement provides $972,000 dent’s fiscal year 2002 budget, the conferees ference agreement provides that funding for a transfer to FSA salaries and expenses provide: $4,000,000 for the move of the Center under the FPA account. as proposed by the Senate instead of $980,000 for Drug Evaluation and Research to White The conference agreement includes as proposed by the House. Oak, Maryland; and $3,100,000 for financial $3,000,000 for research, evaluation, and as- The following table reflects the conference management system priorities. The con- sessment activities and $1,800,000 to improve agreement for Public Law 480 program ac- ferees direct that the priority use of the fi- FNS information technology. As deemed counts: nancial management system funds will be to

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.050 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 support streamlining and centralizing FDA’s programs, as proposed by the Senate. The processed without pooling. The conferees existing financial management systems, House had no similar provision. urge the agency to continue to encourage rather than beginning investment in a new The conferees include program specifica- medical and technological innovation, and to financial system. tions and allow funds to be transferred from employ a balanced, science-based process to The conference agreement provides in- one specified activity to another with prior evaluate applications for waivers, with the creases for the generic drugs program and approval of the Committees on Appropria- ultimate goal of ensuring patient safety. The generic drug education, as proposed by both tions, as proposed by the Senate. The House conferees direct FDA to provide the Commit- the House and the Senate. The conferees di- had no similar provision. tees on Appropriations with quarterly re- rect an increase of $2,500,000 above the fiscal The conferees request a report to the Com- ports on the status of such waivers. year 2001 level for the generic drug program. mittees on Appropriations from FDA on The conferees are aware that FDA has This amount includes a $250,000 increase for FDA’s plans to promulgate regulations to never issued Current Good Manufacturing generic drug education activities, for a total prevent cross-contamination of foods by Practice (CGMP) regulations for medical ox- of $400,000 in fiscal year 2002 funding for that undeclared allergens. The report is due ygen and other medical gases despite the purpose. March 1, 2002, instead of December 31, 2001, as fact that the agency intended to do so in The conference agreement provides an in- proposed by the House. 1978. The conferees are concerned that FDA’s crease of $3,000,000 for activities related to The conferees direct the Secretary of interpretation of CGMP requirements per- antibiotic drugs. The conference agreement Health and Human Services to submit a re- taining to the validation of Air Separation does not include a proviso that $5,000,000 may port to the Committees on Appropriations on Units (ASUs) would benefit from more exten- be for activities carried out with respect to the administration of the National Anti- sive comment from, and interaction with, antibiotic drugs, as proposed by the House. microbial Resistance Monitoring System the regulated industry. Therefore, the con- The Senate had no similar provision. (NARMS) by May 1, 2002, instead of March 1, ferees strongly encourage FDA to develop The conference agreement does not include 2002, as proposed by the House. This report draft guidance on medical gas CGMPs that a proviso that $250,000 may be for activities should include a breakout of all FDA funds addresses ASU validation requirements and carried out with regard to food labeling, as allocated to NARMS, other funding sources, to report to the Committees on Appropria- proposed by the House. The Senate had no overhead costs, and the activities of the tions regarding the status of these guidelines similar provision. NARMS program, including interagency within six months of the enactment of this In addition, the conference agreement pro- agreements and interactions with non-gov- Act. The guidance development process vides increases from the fiscal year 2001 lev- ernmental institutions. should be fully consistent with the agency’s els of $1,500,000 for dietary supplement ad- The conferees expect that FDA will con- good guidance practices and should allow for verse event monitoring, instead of $2,000,000 tinue its work with the Interstate Shellfish extensive industry input and interaction. In as proposed by the Senate; $1,000,000 to con- Sanitary Commission (ISSC) to promote edu- addition, FDA would be expected to address tinue work carried out by the FDA in col- cational and research activities related to and respond to each significant comment re- laboration with the National Center for Nat- shellfish safety in general, and Vibrio ceived as it would in a rulemaking process. ural Products Research to identify and ana- vulnificus in particular. The conference The conferees note that the Food and Drug lyze botanical ingredients in dietary supple- agreement directs the use of $250,000 for this Administration has received a petition re- ments, as proposed by the Senate; $500,000 for effort from within sums provided for food questing the promulgation of a new standard a gene tracking system, as proposed by the safety, the same amount proposed by the of identity for yogurt. The conferees agree Senate; $500,000 for dietary supplement ac- House and instead of $200,000 as proposed by that the petition should be given full consid- tivities relating to enforcement purposes, in- the Senate. In addition, the conferees direct eration and request the agency to submit a stead of $1,000,000 as proposed by the Senate; that the FDA continue to devote not less status report on this matter by June 1, 2002. and $1,000,000 for the orphan product grant than $200,000 to its efforts in working with The conferees strongly encourage FDA to program, instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by the ISSC on assuring the safety and quality make the availability of safe, effective ani- the Senate. The $1,000,000 increase for the or- of shellfish and development of shellfish reg- mal drugs a priority for the agency. FDA phan product grant program includes $850,000 ulations, as proposed by the House. should focus on reviewing animal drug appli- The conference agreement includes a re- for orphan product grants and $150,000 for ad- cations in a timely, efficient manner with quirement for a report on shellfish safety ministrative expenses. The House had no high quality standards. The conferees urge goals, due to the Committees on Appropria- similar proposals. the agency to take action to meet statutory tions by December 1, 2002, instead of by The conferees continue the fiscal year 2001 time frames for animal drug application re- March 1, 2002 as proposed by the Senate. level of funding for FDA to continue its con- view and to report on its performance to the The conferees direct that at least $2,100,000 tract with New Mexico State University’s Committees on Appropriations prior to the of the funds appropriated for FDA activities Physical Science Laboratory to conduct fiscal year 2003 appropriations hearings. be used in support of Codex Alimentarius ac- method evaluation of rapid testing methods Consistent with its continuing interest in of fresh fruits and vegetables for microbial tivities, as proposed by the Senate. The conferees provide $1,000,000, from with- the appropriate labeling of irradiated food contamination. products, the conferees direct the FDA to re- The conference agreement provides an in- in the funds for food safety, to analyze risks port to the Committees on Appropriations by crease of $500,000 for the Office of Women’s associated with biotech foods used for ani- February 1, 2002, on the outcome of recent Health, instead of $700,000 as proposed by the mal feeds, as proposed by the Senate. focus groups regarding the labeling of irradi- House. The Senate language did not provide The conferees are aware that a small but ated food products and to report on how the an increase. The conferees are concerned growing percentage of the population is al- results will be integrated into future rule- that the FDA has paid insufficient attention lergic to latex. While many individuals sen- making decisions. to gender-based research. The conferees di- sitized to latex may never experience symp- The conferees are familiar with concerns rect that the agency develop an agency-wide toms, severe reactions may be lethal. The that have been expressed regarding the im- database focused on women’s health activi- FDA states in the 1999 Food Code—Annex 3 pact of regulations promulgated by the Food ties to include demographic data on clinical that there have been reports of individuals and Drug Administration (21 CFR Sec. 203.39) trials. The conferees require a report to the experiencing an allergic reaction from eating on free health care clinics. The conferees en- Committees by June 3, 2002, which should in- food prepared by food handlers wearing latex courage the agency to continue its review of clude an update on the current pilot program gloves. Given this, the conferees direct the the regulations’ impacts and direct the agen- and a capability assessment of the agency’s FDA to report back within nine months of cy to include a status report on this matter ability to review clinical trial databases, co- the enactment of this Act on the incidence of when it submits its budget request for the ordinate data collection, and identify areas latex allergies related to food handling, next fiscal year. in which gaps exist. FDA’s monitoring of the situation, and agen- The conference agreement does not include cy plans to eliminate exposure to latex from INDEPENDENT AGENCIES a provision that an additional $2,950,000 is food handling if data warrants such a deci- COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION available for drug reimportation activities, sion. The conferees also encourage FDA to The conference agreement provides after certain requirements are met, as pro- consider adding latex to its priority list of $70,700,000 for the Commodity Futures Trad- posed by the House. The Senate had no simi- food allergens. ing Commission as proposed by the House in- The conferees are aware that FDA has pro- lar provision. stead of $70,400,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes lan- posed rules that include a prohibition on guage relating to the credit of user fees, as pooling tissue from multiple donors, but TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS proposed by the Senate. The House included allow a waiver under certain circumstances. House and Senate Section 707.—The con- similar language. According to the FDA, these rules are de- ference agreement (Section 707) does not in- The conference agreement provides that signed to ‘‘prevent the introduction, trans- clude the phrase ‘‘commonly known as the fees derived from applications received dur- mission, and spread of communicable dis- Agricultural Act of 1954’’ as proposed by the ing fiscal year 2002 shall be subject to the fis- eases.’’ The conferees believe that FDA Senate. cal year 2002 limitation as proposed by the should only consider granting waivers from House and Senate Section 712.—The con- Senate. The House had no similar provision. the pooling prohibition if it can be dem- ference agreement includes language (Sec- The conference agreement directs that no onstrated that the products are as safe, pure, tion 712) that allows the Local Television funds be used to develop or establish user fee and potent as tissue products that have been Loan Guarantee program to remain available

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.052 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7985 until expended to cover obligations made in House Section 737 and Senate Section 753) making West Virginia State College eli- fiscal year 2002 as proposed by the Senate 724.—The conference agreement includes lan- gible to receive funds under the Act of Au- and technical corrections as proposed by the guage (Section 740) that prohibits the use of gust 30, 1890 as proposed by the Senate. House. funds to close or relocate certain FDA offices House Section 746.—The conference agree- House Section 714.—The conference agree- in St. Louis, Missouri. ment does not include language that in- ment does not include a provision allowing Senate Section 737.—The conference agree- creases the salaries and expenses of the Food the Natural Resources Conservation Service ment includes language (Section 745) direct- and Drug Administration. to enter into cooperative agreements as pro- ing the Secretary to develop and implement Senate Section 746.—The conference agree- posed by the House. This provision was made a pilot project in the Illinois basin as pro- ment includes language (Section 754) making permanent in P.L. 106–387. posed by the Senate. financial and technical assistance relating to House Section 723 and Senate Section House Section 738 and Senate Section the Tanana River as proposed by the Senate. 722.—The conference agreement includes lan- 725.—The conference agreement includes lan- House Section 747.—The conference agree- guage (Section 722) regarding limitations on guage (Section 724) prohibiting the use of ment does not include language regarding the Initiative for Future Agriculture and funds to reduce staff levels at certain FDA the responsibilities of the Food and Drug Ad- Food Systems as proposed by the House. offices in Detroit, Michigan, below the July ministration with respect to section 505(j) of House Section 725 and Senate Section 31, 1999, levels as proposed by the Senate in- the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or 726.—The conference agreement (Section 725) stead of July 31, 2000, levels as proposed by section 314.53(b) of title 21, Code of Federal includes ‘‘Food and Drug Administration’’ in the House. Regulations. However, the conferees are con- the title of the Appropriations Sub- Senate Section 738.—The conference agree- cerned that the U.S. patent law allows phar- committee as proposed by the House. ment (Section 746) provides $250,000 for a maceutical manufacturing companies to ob- House Section 727 and Senate Section wetlands restoration and water conservation tain additional patents for drugs approved by 729.—The conference agreement (Section 728) project. the Food and Drug Administration and sub- provides $2,496,000 for hunger fellowships in- House Section 739.—The conference agree- mitted for listing in the Approved Drug stead of $4,000,000 as proposed by the House ment (Section 741) provides $75,000,000 for Products with Therapeutic Equivalence and $1,996,000 as proposed by the Senate. market loss payments for apple producers. Evaluations, or Orange Book, for changes to House Section 728 and Senate Section Senate Section 739.—The conference agree- their products that, on the merits, may not 730.—The conference agreement includes per- ment (Section 747) provides $3,000,000 of the justify the resulting high pharmaceutical manent language (Section 729) allowing the Rural Community Advancement Program for costs to consumers. The conferees note that U.S. patent law is deposit of credit card refunds and rebates in a grant for an integrated ethanol plant, feed- not within the Appropriations this Commit- the Working Capital Fund as proposed by the lot, and animal waste digestion unit as pro- tees’ jurisdiction. In addition, the FDA has House. posed by the Senate. Senate Section 740.—The conference agree- House Section 730.—The conference agree- little expertise or responsibility in the field ment provides permanent language (Section of patent determinations. The conferees also ment includes language (Section 731) regard- 748) instructing the Administrator of the note that the Federal Trade Commission ing authorization for the National Sheep In- Rural Utilities Service to use the authorities (FTC) is doing a study on pharmaceutical in- dustry Improvement Center as proposed by of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to fi- dustry practices relating to the Hatch-Wax- the House. man Act. The conferees do believe that addi- House Section 731.—The conference agree- nance the acquisition of electricity in pre- tional information on this subject would be ment includes language (Section 732) regard- dominantly rural areas as proposed by the helpful to those with oversight responsibil- ing limitations on issuing a proposed rule Senate. House Section 741.—The conferees do not ities in this area, and request the Secretary modifying the Animal Welfare Act. include a House provision prohibiting the use of Health and Human Services to instruct House Section 732.—The conference agree- of funds to eliminate two river navigator po- the Food and Drug Administration to work ment (Section 733) makes Cabot, AR, sitions. The conference agreement, however, with the FTC and provide a report on this Coachella, CA, and Berlin, NH, eligible for does include $204,000 under the Natural Re- subject to the Committees on Appropriations Rural Community Advancement Program sources Conservation Service, Conservation of the House and Senate within 8 months grants and loans. after completion of the FTC report. The re- House Section 733.—The conference agree- Operations account, fully funding those posi- port should provide information on FDA’s ment (Section 734) makes Casa Grande, AZ tions. Senate Section 741.—The conference agree- evaluation of the FTC findings. as meeting the requirements of a rural area ment does not include language (Section 749) In addition, the conferees direct the Sec- in section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 as regarding marketing of raw cane sugar or retary to report to the Committees by March proposed by the House. beet sugar as proposed by the Senate. 1, 2002, on the best methods to collect and Senate Section 732.—The conference agree- House Section 742.—The conference agree- disseminate information on the nature of ment includes language (Section 735) that ment does not include language that de- patent extensions that have been granted on provides authority for the Secretary to use creases by $6,000,000 the amount that can be products appearing in the Orange Book, the up to $5,000,000 of funds made available under spent pursuant to section 524(a) of the Fed- effect those extensions would have on costs section 27(a) of the Food Stamp Act for ad- eral Crop Insurance Act and increases the to consumers and a societal cost/benefit ministrative costs for the distribution of amount for the Watershed and Flood Preven- analysis in regard to such extensions. commodities as proposed by the Senate. tion Operations account. Senate Section 747.—The conference agree- Senate Section 733.—The conference agree- Senate Section 742.—The conference agree- ment includes language (Section 755) prohib- ment includes language (Section 736) that al- ment (Section 750) provides not to exceed iting the use of funds to the Food and Drug lows the Secretary to transfer up to $400,000 from available Emergency Watershed Administration to allow the admission of $13,000,000 for technical assistance to imple- Protection Program funds in Arkansas to fish or fish products labeled as ‘‘catfish’’ un- ment the Conservation Reserve Program in- complete the current construction phase of less they are from the family Ictaluridae as stead of $26,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. the Kuhn Bayou Project as proposed by the proposed by the Senate. House Section 734 and Senate Section Senate. Senate Section 748.—The conference agree- 734.—The conference agreement (Section 737) House Section 743.—The conference agree- ment includes language (Section 756) that makes the City of St. Joseph, MO, eligible ment does not include language prohibiting authorizes the Secretary to accept any un- for grants and loans administered by the the use of funds to enforce section 801(g) of used funds that were transferred to the Alas- rural development mission area as proposed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. ka Railroad Corporation and retransfer such by the Senate. Senate Section 743.—The conference agree- funds as a direct lump sum payment to the House Section 735.—The conference agree- ment includes language (Section 751) regard- City of Valdez as proposed by the Senate. ment (Section 738) makes Hollister, CA as ing Secure Rural Schools and Community Senate Section 749.—The conference agree- meeting the requirements of a rural area for Self-Determination Act of 2000. ment includes language (Section 757) pro- grants and loans administered by the Rural House Section 744.—The conference agree- viding not more than $5,000,000 of funds of Housing Service as proposed by the House. ment includes language (Section 742) prohib- the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay Senate Section 735.—The conference agree- iting the use of funds from being available to claims of crop damage that resulted from the ment includes language (Section 743) that any person or entity that has been convicted Bureau of Land Management’s use of herbi- extends the eligibility of private organiza- of violating the Buy American Act as pro- cides during the 2001 calendar year. tions to participate in the Child and Adult posed by the House. Senate Section 750.—The conference agree- Care Food Program as proposed by the Sen- Senate Section 744.—The conference agree- ment includes language (Section 758) regard- ate. ment includes language (Section 752) that ing a pilot program for enrollment of wet- House Section 736.—The conference agree- amends the Housing Act of 1949. land and buffer acreage in conservation re- ment includes language (Section 739) regard- House Section 745.—The conference agree- serve as proposed by the Senate. ing prohibition of funds for check-off pro- ment does not include language that reduces Senate Section 751.—The conference agree- gram as proposed by the House. the Agriculture Buildings and Facilities and ment includes language (Section 759) regard- Senate Section 736.—The conference agree- Rental Payments account and increases the ing tobacco and horses. ment (Section 744) provides $150,000 for the Elderly Feeding Program. Senate Section 752.—The conference agree- Mallard Pointe project in Madison County, Senate Section 745.—The conference agree- ment includes language (Section 760) making MS as proposed by the Senate. ment includes permanent language (Section sweet potatoes eligible for crop insurance.

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Senate Section 753.—The conference agree- Section 775.—The conference agreement in- CONFERENCE REPORT (H. REPT. 107–278) ment does not include a provision that re- cludes language that amends the Competi- The committee of conference on the dis- quires the Secretary of Agriculture to sub- tive, Special, and Facilities Research Grant agreeing votes of the two Houses on the mit a reprogramming request to address tor- Act. amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. nado damage at the Beltsville Agricultural Section 776.—The conference agreement in- 2500) ‘‘making appropriations for the Depart- Research Center. The conferees expect the cludes language that limits the program au- ments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Secretary to assess the funding requirements thorized by section 524(a) of the Federal Crop Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal for repair and/or replacement of damaged or Insurance Act to a total of $4,000,000 in fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other destroyed facilities, and to take appropriate year 2002. purposes’’, having met, after full and free action to assure that facilities needs are Section 777.—The conference agreement conference, have agreed to recommend and met. amends language that amends section 501 of do recommend to their respective Houses as Senate Section 754.—The conference agree- the Agricultural Trade Development and As- follows: ment includes language (Section 761) that sistance Act of 1954. That the House recede from its disagree- extends the date for citrus canker eradi- CONFERENCE TOTAL—WITH ment to the amendment of the Senate, and cation payments as proposed by the Senate. COMPARISONS agree to the same with an amendment, as Senate Section 755.—The conference agree- The total new budget (obligational) au- follows: ment does not include language regarding thority for the fiscal year 2002 recommended In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome. The con- by the Committee on Conference, with com- by said amendment, insert: ferees encourage the Secretary to use the parisons to the fiscal year 2001 amount, the That the following sums are appropriated, out APHIS contingency fund to combat Mare Re- 2002 budget estimates, and the House and of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- productive Loss Syndrome in Kentucky. Senate bills for 2002 follow: Senate Section 756.—The conference agree- propriated, for the fiscal year ending September ment includes language (Section 762) that al- [In thousands of dollars] 30, 2002, and for other purposes, namely: lows the Secretary to make grants to state New budget (obligational) TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE agencies for use by regulatory commissions authority, fiscal year GENERAL ADMINISTRATION in states with rural communities without 2001 ...... $76,659,577 Budget estimates of new SALARIES AND EXPENSES local dial-up Internet access or broadband For expenses necessary for the administration service to establish a competitively, techno- (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2002 ...... 73,976,108 of the Department of Justice, $91,668,000, of logically neutral grant program. which not to exceed $3,317,000 is for the Facili- Senate Section 757.—The conference agree- House bill, fiscal year 2002 74,359,843 ties Program 2000, to remain available until ex- ment includes language (Section 763) regard- Senate bill, fiscal year 2002 75,797,465 pended: Provided, That not to exceed 43 perma- ing the Farmland Protection Program as Conference agreement, fis- nent positions and 44 full-time equivalent proposed by the Senate. cal year 2002 ...... 75,794,443 Conference agreement workyears and $8,451,000 shall be expended for Senate Section 758.—The conference agree- compared with: the Department Leadership Program exclusive ment (Section 764) makes the City of New budget of augmentation that occurred in these offices Caldwell, ID, eligible for grants and loans ad- (obligational) author- in fiscal year 2001: Provided further, That not to ministered by the Rural Housing Service as ity, fiscal year 2001 ...... ¥865,134 exceed 41 permanent positions and 48 full-time proposed by the Senate. Budget estimates of new Senate Section 759.—The conference agree- equivalent workyears and $4,997,000 shall be ex- (obligational) author- ment includes language (Section 765) that pended for the Offices of Legislative Affairs and ity, fiscal year 2002 ...... +1,818,335 amends the Agriculture Marketing Agree- Public Affairs: Provided further, That the latter House bill, fiscal year two aforementioned offices may utilize non-re- ment Act of 1937 as proposed by the Senate. 2002 ...... +1,434,600 Senate Section 760.—The conference agree- imbursable details of career employees within Senate bill, fiscal year the caps described in the preceding proviso: Pro- ment includes language (Section 766) that 2002 ...... ¥3,022 amends the Richard B. Russell National vided further, That the Attorney General is au- School Lunch Act as proposed by the Senate. HENRY BONILLA, thorized to transfer, under such terms and con- Senate Section 761.—The conference agree- JAMES T. WALSH, ditions as the Attorney General shall specify, ment does not include language regarding JACK KINGSTON, forfeited real or personal property of limited or West Nile Virus. The conferees encourage the TOM LATHAM, marginal value, as such value is determined by Secretary to use the APHIS contingency JO ANN EMERSON, guidelines established by the Attorney General, fund to combat West Nile Virus in Illinois. VIRGIL H. GOODE, Jr., to a State or local government agency, or its Senate Section 762.—The conference agree- RAY LAHOOD, designated contractor or transferee, for use to ment (Section 767) makes the City of Mt. C.W. BILL YOUNG, support drug abuse treatment, drug and crime Vernon, WA, eligible for grants and loans ad- MARCY KAPTUR, prevention and education, housing, job skills, ministered by the Rural Housing Service as ROSA L. DELAURO, and other community-based public health and proposed by the Senate. MAURICE D. HINCHEY, safety programs: Provided further, That any Section 768.—The conference agreement SAM FARR, transfer under the preceding proviso shall not provides that Watershed and Flood Preven- ALLEN BOYD, create or confer any private right of action in tion Operation funds shall be available for DAVID R. OBEY, any person against the United States, and shall technical and financial assistance to imple- Managers on the Part of the House. be treated as a reprogramming under section 605 ment the Ferry Creek Mainstream Water- of this Act. HERB KOHL, shed Plan in DuPage County, Illinois. JOINT AUTOMATED BOOKING SYSTEM TOM HARKIN, Section 769.—The conference agreement For expenses necessary for the nationwide de- provides that Watershed and Flood Preven- BYRON L. DORGAN, DIANNE FEINSTEIN, ployment of a Joint Automated Booking System tion Operation funds shall be available for including automated capability to transmit fin- technical and financial assistance for a lake RICHARD J. DURBIN, TIM JOHNSON, gerprint and image data, $1,000,000, to remain level stabilization project in Burnett and available until expended. Washburn Counties, Wisconsin. ROBERT C. BYRD, NARROWBAND COMMUNICATIONS Section 770.—The conference agreement in- THAD COCHRAN, cludes language that makes any current ARLEN SPECTER, For the costs of conversion to narrowband Rural Utilities Service borrower within 100 CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, communications, including the cost for oper- miles of New York City eligible for addi- MITCH MCCONNELL, ation and maintenance of Land Mobile Radio tional financing, refinancing, collateral CONRAD BURNS, legacy systems, $94,615,000, to remain available flexibility, and deferrals for telecommuni- LARRY CRAIG, until expended. cations, energy or water projects. TED STEVENS, COUNTERTERRORISM FUND Section 771.—The conference agreement in- Managers on the Part of the Senate. For necessary expenses, as determined by the cludes language that amends section 17(r)(5) f Attorney General, $4,989,000, to remain available of the Richard B. Russell National School until expended, to reimburse any Department of Lunch Act. CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2500 Justice organization for: (1) the costs incurred Section 772.—The conference agreement in- Mr. WOLF submitted the following in reestablishing the operational capability of cludes language that amends section 141 of conference report and statement on the an office or facility which has been damaged or the Agricultural Market Transition Act. bill (H.R. 2500) ‘‘making appropriations destroyed as a result of any domestic or inter- Section 773.—The conference agreement in- for the Departments of Commerce, Jus- national terrorist incident; and (2) the costs of cludes language that authorizes the Sec- providing support to counter, investigate or retary to transfer refined sugar to the tice, and State, the Judiciary, and re- prosecute domestic or international terrorism, Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-op. lated agencies for the fiscal year end- including payment of rewards in connection Section 774.—The conference agreement in- ing September 30, 2002, and for other with these activities: Provided, That any Fed- cludes language regarding tobacco. purposes’’: eral agency may be reimbursed for the costs of

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.056 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7987 detaining in foreign countries individuals ac- cine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, not to ex- 28 U.S.C. 589a(b) shall be retained and used for cused of acts of terrorism that violate the laws ceed $4,028,000, to be appropriated from the Vac- necessary expenses in this appropriation and re- of the United States: Provided further, That cine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. main available until expended: Provided fur- funds provided under this paragraph shall be LEGAL ACTIVITIES OFFICE AUTOMATION ther, That the sum herein appropriated from the available only after the Attorney General noti- For necessary office-automation expenses of Fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collec- fies the Committees on Appropriations of the organizations funded under the headings ‘‘Sala- tions are received during fiscal year 2002, so as House of Representatives and the Senate in ac- ries and Expenses’’, General Legal Activities, to result in a final fiscal year 2002 appropriation cordance with section 605 of this Act. and ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’, General Adminis- from the Fund estimated at $0. ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS tration, and of the United States Attorneys, the SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS For expenses necessary for the administration United States Marshals Service, the Antitrust SETTLEMENT COMMISSION of pardon and clemency petitions and immigra- Division, the United States Trustee Program, For expenses necessary to carry out the activi- tion-related activities, $173,647,000. the Executive Office for Immigration Review, ties of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commis- DETENTION TRUSTEE and the Community Relations Service, sion, including services as authorized by 5 For necessary expenses of the Federal Deten- $15,765,000, to remain available until expended. U.S.C. 3109, $1,136,000. tion Trustee who shall exercise all power and SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES functions authorized by law relating to the de- For expenses necessary for the enforcement of tention of Federal prisoners in non-Federal in- MARSHALS SERVICE antitrust and kindred laws, $130,791,000: Pro- stitutions or otherwise in the custody of the For necessary expenses of the United States vided, That, notwithstanding any other provi- United States Marshals Service; and the deten- Marshals Service, including the acquisition, sion of law, not to exceed $130,791,000 of offset- tion of aliens in the custody of the Immigration lease, maintenance, and operation of vehicles, ting collections derived from fees collected for and Naturalization Service, $1,000,000: Provided, and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles premerger notification filings under the Hart- That the Trustee shall be responsible for over- for police-type use, without regard to the gen- Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of seeing construction of detention facilities or for eral purchase price limitation for the current 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless of the year of housing related to such detention; the manage- fiscal year, $619,429,000; of which not to exceed collection, shall be retained and used for nec- ment of funds appropriated to the Department $6,000 shall be available for official reception essary expenses in this appropriation, and shall for the exercise of any detention functions; and and representation expenses; and of which not remain available until expended: Provided fur- the direction of the United States Marshals to exceed $4,000,000 for development, implemen- ther, That the sum herein appropriated from the Service and Immigration and Naturalization tation, maintenance and support, and training general fund shall be reduced as such offsetting Service with respect to the exercise of detention for an automated prisoner information system collections are received during fiscal year 2002, policy setting and operations for the Depart- shall remain available until expended: Provided, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2002 appro- ment. That, in addition to reimbursable full-time priation from the general fund estimated at not equivalent workyears available to the United OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL more than $0. For necessary expenses of the Office of In- States Marshals Service, not to exceed 4,128 po- SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES spector General in carrying out the provisions of sitions and 3,993 full-time equivalent workyears ATTORNEYS the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, shall be supported from the funds appropriated $50,735,000; including not to exceed $10,000 to For necessary expenses of the Offices of the in this Act for the United States Marshals Serv- meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential United States Attorneys, including inter-govern- ice. character, to be expended under the direction mental and cooperative agreements, In addition, for the costs of courthouse secu- of, and to be accounted for solely under the cer- $1,353,968,000; of which not to exceed $2,500,000 rity equipment, including furnishings, reloca- tificate of, the Attorney General; and for the ac- shall be available until September 30, 2003, for: tions, and telephone systems and cabling, quisition, lease, maintenance, and operation of (1) training personnel in debt collection; (2) lo- $14,267,000, to remain available until expended. cating debtors and their property; (3) paying the motor vehicles, without regard to the general CONSTRUCTION net costs of selling property; and (4) tracking purchase price limitation for the current fiscal For planning, constructing, renovating, year. debts owed to the United States Government: Provided, That of the total amount appro- equipping, and maintaining United States Mar- UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION priated, not to exceed $8,000 shall be available shals Service prisoner-holding space in United SALARIES AND EXPENSES for official reception and representation ex- States courthouses and Federal buildings, in- For necessary expenses of the United States penses: Provided further, That not to exceed cluding the renovation and expansion of pris- Parole Commission as authorized by law, $10,000,000 of those funds available for auto- oner movement areas, elevators, and sallyports, $9,876,000. mated litigation support contracts shall remain $15,000,000 to remain available until expended. LEGAL ACTIVITIES available until expended: Provided further, FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL That not to exceed $2,500,000 for the operation For expenses, related to United States pris- ACTIVITIES of the National Advocacy Center shall remain oners in the custody of the United States Mar- For expenses necessary for the legal activities available until expended: Provided further, shals Service, but not including expenses other- of the Department of Justice, not otherwise pro- That, in addition to reimbursable full-time wise provided for in appropriations available to vided for, including not to exceed $20,000 for ex- equivalent workyears available to the Offices of the Attorney General, $706,182,000, to remain penses of collecting evidence, to be expended the United States Attorneys, not to exceed 9,571 available until expended. positions and 9,776 full-time equivalent under the direction of, and to be accounted for FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES solely under the certificate of, the Attorney workyears shall be supported from the funds ap- For expenses, mileage, compensation, and per General; and rent of private or Government- propriated in this Act for the United States At- diems of witnesses, for expenses of contracts for owned space in the District of Columbia, torneys: Provided further, That, notwith- the procurement and supervision of expert wit- $549,176,000; of which not to exceed $10,000,000 standing any other provision of law, the Attor- nesses, for private counsel expenses, and for per for litigation support contracts shall remain ney General shall transfer to the Department of diems in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by available until expended: Provided, That of the Justice Working Capital Fund, unobligated, all law, including advances, $156,145,000, to remain total amount appropriated, not to exceed $1,000 unexpended funds appropriated by the first available until expended; of which not to exceed shall be available to the United States National heading of chapter 2 of title II of division B of $6,000,000 may be made available for planning, Central Bureau, INTERPOL, for official recep- Public Law 106–246 and by section 202 of divi- construction, renovations, maintenance, remod- tion and representation expenses: Provided fur- sion A of appendix H.R. 5666 of Public Law 106– eling, and repair of buildings, and the purchase ther, That notwithstanding any other provision 554: Provided further, That the fourth proviso of equipment incident thereto, for protected wit- of law, upon a determination by the Attorney under the heading ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, ness safesites; of which not to exceed $1,000,000 General that emergent circumstances require ad- United States Attorneys’’ in title I of H.R. 3421 may be made available for the purchase and ditional funding for litigation activities of the of the 106th Congress, as enacted by section maintenance of armored vehicles for transpor- Civil Division, the Attorney General may trans- 1000(a)(1) of Public Law 106–113 shall apply to tation of protected witnesses; and of which not fer such amounts to ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, amounts made available under this heading for to exceed $5,000,000 may be made available for General Legal Activities’’ from available appro- fiscal year 2002. the purchase, installation, and maintenance of priations for the current fiscal year for the De- UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND secure telecommunications equipment and a se- partment of Justice, as may be necessary to re- For necessary expenses of the United States cure automated information network to store spond to such circumstances: Provided further, Trustee Program, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. and retrieve the identities and locations of pro- That any transfer pursuant to the previous pro- 589a(a), $147,000,000, to remain available until tected witnesses. viso shall be treated as a reprogramming under expended and to be derived from the United section 605 of this Act and shall not be available States Trustee System Fund: Provided, That, SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS for obligation or expenditure except in compli- notwithstanding any other provision of law, de- SERVICE ance with the procedures set forth in that sec- posits to the Fund shall be available in such For necessary expenses of the Community Re- tion. amounts as may be necessary to pay refunds lations Service, $9,269,000 and, in addition, up In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of due depositors: Provided further, That, notwith- to $1,000,000 of funds made available to the De- the Department of Justice associated with proc- standing any other provision of law, partment of Justice in this Act may be trans- essing cases under the National Childhood Vac- $147,000,000 of offsetting collections pursuant to ferred by the Attorney General to this account:

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.063 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7988 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Provided, That notwithstanding any other pro- Air Med Services for costs incurred during the Federal detainees held in the joint Immigration vision of law, upon a determination by the At- December 1999 prison riot in St. Martin Parish and Naturalization Service and United States torney General that emergent circumstances re- Correctional Center, St. Martin Parish, Lou- Marshals Service Buffalo Detention Facility, quire additional funding for conflict prevention isiana: Provided further, That, in addition to $2,739,695,000; of which not to exceed $5,000,000 and resolution activities of the Community Rela- reimbursable full-time equivalent workyears is for payments or advances arising out of con- tions Service, the Attorney General may transfer available to the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tractual or reimbursable agreements with State such amounts to the Community Relations Serv- tion, not to exceed 24,935 positions and 24,488 and local law enforcement agencies while en- ice, from available appropriations for the cur- full-time equivalent workyears shall be sup- gaged in cooperative activities related to immi- rent fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as ported from the funds appropriated in this Act gration; of which not to exceed $5,000,000 is to may be necessary to respond to such cir- for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. fund or reimburse other Federal agencies for the cumstances: Provided further, That any transfer CONSTRUCTION costs associated with the care, maintenance, pursuant to the previous proviso shall be treated For necessary expenses to construct or acquire and repatriation of smuggled illegal aliens: Pro- as a reprogramming under section 605 of this buildings and sites by purchase, or as otherwise vided, That none of the funds available to the Act and shall not be available for obligation or authorized by law (including equipment for Immigration and Naturalization Service shall be expenditure except in compliance with the pro- such buildings); conversion and extension of available to pay any employee overtime pay in cedures set forth in that section. federally-owned buildings; and preliminary an amount in excess of $30,000 during the cal- ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND planning and design of projects; $33,791,000, to endar year beginning January 1, 2002, except that the INS Commissioner may exceed this cap For expenses authorized by 28 U.S.C. remain available until expended. as necessary for national security purposes and 524(c)(1)(A)(ii), (B), (F), and (G), as amended, DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION in cases of immigration emergencies: Provided $22,949,000, to be derived from the Department of SALARIES AND EXPENSES further, That uniforms may be purchased with- Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund. For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforce- out regard to the general purchase price limita- ment Administration, including not to exceed RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION tion for the current fiscal year: Provided fur- $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a con- ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES ther, That, in addition to reimbursable full-time fidential character, to be expended under the di- For necessary administrative expenses in ac- equivalent workyears available to the Immigra- rection of, and to be accounted for solely under cordance with the Radiation Exposure Com- tion and Naturalization Service, not to exceed the certificate of, the Attorney General; ex- pensation Act, $1,996,000. 20,759 positions and 20,096 full-time equivalent penses for conducting drug education and train- workyears shall be supported from the funds ap- INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT ing programs, including travel and related ex- propriated under this heading in this Act for the penses for participants in such programs and INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT Immigration and Naturalization Service: Pro- the distribution of items of token value that pro- For necessary expenses for the detection, in- vided further, That none of the funds provided mote the goals of such programs; purchase of vestigation, and prosecution of individuals in- in this or any other Act shall be used for the not to exceed 1,477 passenger motor vehicles, of volved in organized crime drug trafficking not continued operation of the San Clemente and which 1,354 will be for replacement only, for po- otherwise provided for, to include inter-govern- Temecula checkpoints unless the checkpoints lice-type use without regard to the general pur- mental agreements with State and local law en- are open and traffic is being checked on a con- chase price limitation for the current fiscal year; forcement agencies engaged in the investigation tinuous 24-hour basis. and prosecution of individuals involved in orga- and acquisition, lease, maintenance, and oper- CITIZENSHIP AND BENEFITS, IMMIGRATION nized crime drug trafficking, $338,577,000, of ation of aircraft, $1,481,783,000; of which SUPPORT AND PROGRAM DIRECTION which $50,000,000 shall remain available until $33,000,000 for permanent change of station expended: Provided, That any amounts obli- shall remain available until September 30, 2003; For all programs of the Immigration and Nat- gated from appropriations under this heading of which not to exceed $1,800,000 for research uralization Service not included under the head- may be used under authorities available to the shall remain available until expended, and of ing ‘‘Enforcement and Border Affairs’’, organizations reimbursed from this appropria- which not to exceed $4,000,000 for purchase of $631,745,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 for tion: Provided further, That any unobligated evidence and payments for information, not to research shall remain available until expended: balances remaining available at the end of the exceed $10,000,000 for contracting for automated Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be fiscal year shall revert to the Attorney General data processing and telecommunications equip- available for official reception and representa- for reallocation among participating organiza- ment, and not to exceed $2,000,000 for laboratory tion expenses: Provided further, That the Attor- tions in succeeding fiscal years, subject to the equipment, $4,000,000 for technical equipment, ney General may transfer any funds appro- reprogramming procedures set forth in section and $2,000,000 for aircraft replacement retrofit priated under this heading and the heading 605 of this Act. and parts, shall remain available until Sep- ‘‘Enforcement and Border Affairs’’ between said tember 30, 2003; of which not to exceed $50,000 appropriations notwithstanding any percentage FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION shall be available for official reception and rep- transfer limitations imposed under this appro- SALARIES AND EXPENSES resentation expenses: Provided, That, in addi- priations Act and may direct such fees as are For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau tion to reimbursable full-time equivalent collected by the Immigration and Naturalization of Investigation for detection, investigation, and workyears available to the Drug Enforcement Service to the activities funded under this head- prosecution of crimes against the United States; Administration, not to exceed 7,654 positions ing and the heading ‘‘Enforcement and Border including purchase for police-type use of not to and 7,515 full-time equivalent workyears shall Affairs’’ for performance of the functions for exceed 1,354 passenger motor vehicles, of which be supported from the funds appropriated in which the fees legally may be expended: Pro- 1,190 will be for replacement only, without re- this Act for the Drug Enforcement Administra- vided further, That not to exceed 40 permanent gard to the general purchase price limitation for tion. positions and 40 full-time equivalent workyears the current fiscal year, and hire of passenger and $4,300,000 shall be expended for the Offices IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE motor vehicles; acquisition, lease, maintenance, of Legislative Affairs and Public Affairs: Pro- and operation of aircraft; and not to exceed SALARIES AND EXPENSES vided further, That unencumbered positions in $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a con- For expenses necessary for the administration the aforementioned offices after the date of en- fidential character, to be expended under the di- and enforcement of the laws relating to immi- actment of this Act shall be filled only by per- rection of, and to be accounted for solely under gration, naturalization, and alien registration, sonnel details, temporary transfers of personnel the certificate of, the Attorney General, as follows: on either a reimbursable or non-reimbursable $3,491,073,000; of which not to exceed $50,000,000 ENFORCEMENT AND BORDER AFFAIRS basis, or any other formal or informal transfer for automated data processing and telecommuni- For salaries and expenses for the Border Pa- or reimbursement of personnel or funds on ei- cations and technical investigative equipment trol program, the detention and deportation pro- ther a temporary or long-term basis up to 10 and not to exceed $1,000,000 for undercover op- gram, the intelligence program, the investiga- full-time equivalent workyears: Provided fur- erations shall remain available until September tions program, and the inspections program, in- ther, That the number of positions filled 30, 2003; of which not less than $459,243,000 cluding not to exceed $50,000 to meet unforeseen through non-career appointment at the Immi- shall be for counterterrorism investigations, for- emergencies of a confidential character, to be gration and Naturalization Service, for which eign counterintelligence, and other activities re- expended under the direction of, and to be ac- funding is provided in this Act or is otherwise lated to our national security; of which not to counted for solely under the certificate of, the made available to the Immigration and Natu- exceed $10,000,000 is authorized to be made Attorney General; purchase for police-type use ralization Service, shall not exceed six perma- available for making advances for expenses aris- (not to exceed 3,165 passenger motor vehicles, of nent positions and six full-time equivalent ing out of contractual or reimbursable agree- which 2,211 are for replacement only), without workyears: Provided further, That none of the ments with State and local law enforcement regard to the general purchase price limitation funds available to the Immigration and Natu- agencies while engaged in cooperative activities for the current fiscal year, and hire of passenger ralization Service shall be used to pay any em- related to violent crime, terrorism, organized motor vehicles; acquisition, lease, maintenance ployee overtime pay in an amount in excess of crime, and drug investigations: Provided, That and operation of aircraft; research related to im- $30,000 during the calendar year beginning Jan- not to exceed $45,000 shall be available for offi- migration enforcement; for protecting and main- uary 1, 2002, except that the INS Commissioner cial reception and representation expenses: Pro- taining the integrity of the borders of the United may exceed this cap as necessary for national vided further, That of the amount made avail- States including, without limitation, equipping, security purposes and in cases of immigration able under this heading, $53,000 shall be avail- maintaining, and making improvements to the emergencies: Provided further, That funds may able only to reimburse Acadian Ambulance & infrastructure; and for the care and housing of be used, without limitation, for equipping,

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.066 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7989 maintaining, and making improvements to the propriated to ‘‘Buildings and Facilities’’ in this ing cooperation between community residents infrastructure and the purchase of vehicles for or any other Act may be transferred to ‘‘Salaries and law enforcement personnel in order to con- police-type use within the limits of the Enforce- and Expenses’’, Federal Prison System, upon trol, detect, or investigate crime or the prosecu- ment and Border Affairs appropriation: Pro- notification by the Attorney General to the tion of criminals: Provided, That no funds pro- vided further, That, in addition to reimbursable Committees on Appropriations of the House of vided under this heading may be used as match- full-time equivalent workyears available to the Representatives and the Senate in compliance ing funds for any other Federal grant program, Immigration and Naturalization Service, not to with provisions set forth in section 605 of this of which: exceed 3,100 positions and 3,500 full-time equiva- Act. (A) $70,000,000 shall be for Boys and Girls lent workyears shall be supported from the FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED Clubs in public housing facilities and other funds appropriated under this heading in this The Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, areas in cooperation with State and local law Act for the Immigration and Naturalization is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, enforcement: Provided, That funds may also be Service. within the limits of funds and borrowing au- used to defray the costs of indemnification in- CONSTRUCTION thority available, and in accord with the law, surance for law enforcement officers, For planning, construction, renovation, and to make such contracts and commitments, (B) $19,956,000 shall be available for grants, equipping, and maintenance of buildings and without regard to fiscal year limitations as pro- contracts, and other assistance to carry out sec- facilities necessary for the administration and vided by section 9104 of title 31, United States tion 102(c) of H.R. 728; enforcement of the laws relating to immigration, Code, as may be necessary in carrying out the (2) $565,000,000 for the State Criminal Alien naturalization, and alien registration, not oth- program set forth in the budget for the current Assistance Program, as authorized by section erwise provided for, $128,454,000, to remain fiscal year for such corporation, including pur- 242(j) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, available until expended: Provided, That no chase (not to exceed five for replacement only) as amended; funds shall be available for the site acquisition, and hire of passenger motor vehicles. (3) $20,000,000 for the Cooperative Agreement design, or construction of any Border Patrol LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, Program; checkpoint in the Tucson sector. FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED (4) $48,162,000 for assistance to Indian tribes, FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM Not to exceed $3,429,000 of the funds of the of which: SALARIES AND EXPENSES corporation shall be available for its administra- (A) $35,191,000 shall be available for grants For expenses necessary for the administration, tive expenses, and for services as authorized by under section 20109(a)(2) of subtitle A of title II operation, and maintenance of Federal penal 5 U.S.C. 3109, to be computed on an accrual of the 1994 Act; and correctional institutions, including pur- basis to be determined in accordance with the (B) $7,982,000 shall be available for the Tribal chase (not to exceed 685, of which 610 are for re- corporation’s current prescribed accounting sys- Courts Initiative; and placement only) and hire of law enforcement tem, and such amounts shall be exclusive of de- (C) $4,989,000 shall be available for demonstra- and passenger motor vehicles, and for the provi- preciation, payment of claims, and expenditures tion grants on alcohol and crime in Indian sion of technical assistance and advice on cor- which the said accounting system requires to be Country; rections related issues to foreign governments, capitalized or charged to cost of commodities ac- (5) $594,489,000 for programs authorized by $3,808,600,000: Provided, That the Attorney Gen- quired or produced, including selling and ship- part E of title I of the 1968 Act, notwithstanding eral may transfer to the Health Resources and ping expenses, and expenses in connection with the provisions of section 511 of said Act, of Services Administration such amounts as may be acquisition, construction, operation, mainte- which $94,489,000 shall be for discretionary necessary for direct expenditures by that Ad- nance, improvement, protection, or disposition grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial State ministration for medical relief for inmates of of facilities and other property belonging to the and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Pro- Federal penal and correctional institutions: Pro- corporation or in which it has an interest. grams; vided further, That the Director of the Federal OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS (6) $11,975,000 for the Court Appointed Special Prison System (FPS), where necessary, may JUSTICE ASSISTANCE Advocate Program, as authorized by section 218 enter into contracts with a fiscal agent/fiscal of the 1990 Act; intermediary claims processor to determine the For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, (7) $2,296,000 for Child Abuse Training Pro- amounts payable to persons who, on behalf of and other assistance authorized by title I of the grams for Judicial Personnel and Practitioners, FPS, furnish health services to individuals com- Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of as authorized by section 224 of the 1990 Act; mitted to the custody of FPS: Provided further, 1968, as amended (‘‘the 1968 Act’’), and the (8) $998,000 for grants for televised testimony, That not to exceed $6,000 shall be available for Missing Children’s Assistance Act, as amended, as authorized by section 1001(a)(7) of the 1968 official reception and representation expenses: including salaries and expenses in connection Act; Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000,000 therewith, and with the Victims of Crime Act of shall remain available for necessary operations 1984, as amended, $185,514,000, to remain avail- (9) $184,737,000 for Grants to Combat Violence until September 30, 2003: Provided further, That, able until expended, as authorized by section Against Women, to States, units of local govern- of the amounts provided for Contract Confine- 1001 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and ment, as authorized by section 1001(a)(18) of the ment, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall remain Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended by Public 1968 Act, of which: available until expended to make payments in Law 102–534 (106 Stat. 3524). (A) $1,000,000 shall be for the Bureau of Jus- advance for grants, contracts and reimbursable In addition, for grants, cooperative agree- tice Statistics for grants, contracts, and other agreements, and other expenses authorized by ments, and other assistance authorized by sec- assistance for a domestic violence Federal case section 501(c) of the Refugee Education Assist- tions 819 and 821 of the Antiterrorism and Effec- processing study; ance Act of 1980, as amended, for the care and tive Death Penalty Act of 1996 and for other (B) $5,200,000 shall be for the National Insti- security in the United States of Cuban and Hai- counterterrorism programs, $251,494,000, to re- tute of Justice for grants, contracts, and other tian entrants: Provided further, That the Direc- main available until expended. assistance for research and evaluation of vio- tor of the Federal Prison System may accept do- STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE lence against women; nated property and services relating to the oper- For assistance authorized by the Violent (C) $10,000,000 shall be for the Office of Juve- ation of the prison card program from a not-for- Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the profit entity which has operated such program (Public Law 103–322), as amended (‘‘the 1994 Safe Start Program, to be administered as au- in the past notwithstanding the fact that such Act’’); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe thorized by part C of the Juvenile Justice and not-for-profit entity furnishes services under Streets Act of 1968, as amended (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); Delinquency Act of 1974, as amended; and contracts to the Federal Prison System relating the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, as (D) $200,000 for the Attorney General to con- to the operation of pre-release services, halfway amended (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); and the Victims of duct a study and prepare a report to be sub- houses or other custodial facilities. Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 mitted to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Jus- BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES (Public Law 106–386); $2,403,354,000 (including tice and State Appropriations of the Senate and For planning, acquisition of sites and con- amounts for administrative costs, which shall be House of Representatives Appropriations Com- struction of new facilities; purchase and acqui- transferred to and merged with the ‘‘Justice As- mittee on the response of local law enforcement sition of facilities and remodeling, and equip- sistance’’ account), to remain available until ex- agencies to emergency calls involving domestic ping of such facilities for penal and correctional pended as follows: violence; use, including all necessary expenses incident (1) $400,000,000 for Local Law Enforcement (10) $64,925,000 for Grants to Encourage Arrest thereto, by contract or force account; and con- Block Grants, pursuant to H.R. 728 as passed by Policies to States, units of local government, structing, remodeling, and equipping necessary the House of Representatives on February 14, and Indian tribal governments, as authorized by buildings and facilities at existing penal and 1995, except that for purposes of this Act and section 1001(a)(19) of the 1968 Act; correctional institutions, including all necessary retroactive to October 1, 2000, Guam shall be (11) $39,945,000 for Rural Domestic Violence expenses incident thereto, by contract or force considered as one ‘‘State’’ for all purposes and Child Abuse Enforcement Assistance account, $813,552,000, to remain available until under H.R. 728, notwithstanding any provision Grants, as authorized by section 40295 of the expended, of which not to exceed $14,000,000 of section 108(3) thereof, the Commonwealth of 1994 Act; shall be available to construct areas for inmate Puerto Rico shall be considered a ‘‘unit of local (12) $4,989,000 for training programs to assist work programs: Provided, That labor of United government’’ as well as a ‘‘State’’, for the pur- probation and parole officers who work with re- States prisoners may be used for work performed poses set forth in paragraphs (A), (B), (D), (F), leased sex offenders, as authorized by section under this appropriation: Provided further, and (I) of section 101(a)(2) of H.R. 728, and for 40152(c) of the 1994 Act, and for local dem- That not to exceed 10 percent of the funds ap- establishing crime prevention programs involv- onstration projects;

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.068 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7990 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 (13) $3,000,000 for grants to States and units of and agencies of local government engaged in the (3) for prosecution assistance, $99,780,000 as local government to improve the process for en- investigation and prosecution of violent crimes follows: $49,780,000 for a national program to re- tering data regarding stalking and domestic vio- and drug offenses in ‘‘Weed and Seed’’ des- duce gun violence, and $50,000,000 for the lence into local, State, and national crime infor- ignated communities, and for either reimburse- Southwest Border Prosecutor Initiative to reim- mation databases, as authorized by section 40602 ments or transfers to appropriation accounts of burse State, county, parish, tribal, or municipal of the 1994 Act; the Department of Justice and other Federal governments only for Federal costs associated (14) $10,000,000 for grants to reduce Violent agencies which shall be specified by the Attor- with the prosecution of criminal cases declined Crimes Against Women on Campus, as author- ney General to execute the ‘‘Weed and Seed’’ by local U.S. Attorneys offices; ized by section 1108(a) of Public Law 106–386; program strategy: Provided, That funds des- (4) for grants, training, technical assistance, (15) $40,000,000 for Legal Assistance for Vic- ignated by Congress through language for other and other expenses to support community crime tims, as authorized by section 1201 of Public Department of Justice appropriation accounts prevention efforts, $70,202,000 as follows: Law 106–386; for ‘‘Weed and Seed’’ program activities shall be $14,967,000 for Project Sentry; $14,934,000 for an (16) $5,000,000 for enhancing protection for managed and executed by the Attorney General offender re-entry program; $23,338,000 for the older and disabled women from domestic vio- through the Executive Office for Weed and Safe Schools Initiative; and $16,963,000 for a po- lence and sexual assault as authorized by sec- Seed: Provided further, That the Attorney Gen- lice integrity program; and tion 40801 of the 1994 Act; eral may direct the use of other Department of (5) not to exceed $32,812,000 for program man- (17) $15,000,000 for the Safe Havens for Chil- Justice funds and personnel in support of agement and administration. dren Pilot Program as authorized by section ‘‘Weed and Seed’’ program activities only after JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS the Attorney General notifies the Committees on 1301 of Public Law 106–386; For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, Appropriations of the House of Representatives (18) $200,000 for the study of standards and and other assistance authorized by the Juvenile and the Senate in accordance with section 605 of processes for forensic exams of domestic vio- Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, this Act. lence, as authorized by section 1405 of Public as amended (‘‘the Act’’), including salaries and Law 106–386; COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES expenses in connection therewith to be trans- For activities authorized by the Violent Crime (19) $7,500,000 for Education and Training to ferred to and merged with the appropriations for Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Pub- end violence against and abuse of women with Justice Assistance, $286,403,000, to remain avail- lic Law 103–322 (‘‘the 1994 Act’’) (including ad- disabilities, as authorized by section 1402 of able until expended, as authorized by section ministrative costs), $1,050,440,000, to remain Public Law 106–386; 299 of part I of title II and section 506 of title V available until expended: Provided, That prior (20) $10,000,000 for victim services programs for of the Act, as amended by Public Law 102–586, year balances available in this program shall be victims of trafficking, as authorized by section of which: (1) notwithstanding any other provi- used for the direct hiring of law enforcement of- 107(b)(2) of Public Law 106–386; sion of law, $6,832,000 shall be available for ex- (21) $70,000,000 for grants for residential sub- ficers through the Universal Hiring Program: Provided further, That section 1703 (b) and (c) penses authorized by part A of title II of the stance abuse treatment for State prisoners, as Act, $88,804,000 shall be available for expenses authorized by section 1001(a)(17) of the 1968 Act: of the 1968 Act shall not apply to non-hiring grants made pursuant to part Q of title I thereof authorized by part B of title II of the Act, and Provided, That States that have in-prison drug $58,513,000 shall be available for expenses au- treatment programs, in compliance with Federal (42 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.): Provided further, That all prior year balances derived from the thorized by part C of title II of the Act: Pro- requirements, may use their residential sub- vided, That $26,442,000 of the amounts provided stance abuse grant funds for treatment, both Violent Crime Trust Fund for Community Ori- ented Policing Services may be transferred into for part B of title II of the Act, as amended, is during incarceration and after release; for the purpose of providing additional formula (22) $898,000 for the Missing Alzheimer’s Dis- this appropriation: Provided further, That the officer redeployment demonstration described in grants under part B to States that provide as- ease Patient Alert Program, as authorized by surances to the Administrator that the State has section 240001(c) of the 1994 Act; Section 1701(b)(1)(C) shall not apply to equip- ment, technology, support system or overtime in effect (or will have in effect no later than 1 (23) $50,000,000 for Drug Courts, as authorized grants made pursuant to part Q of title I thereof year after date of application) policies and pro- by title V of the 1994 Act; (42 U.S.C. 3796 dd et seq.). grams that ensure that juveniles are subject to (24) $1,497,000 for Law Enforcement Family Of the amounts provided: accountability-based sanctions for every act for Support Programs, as authorized by section (1) for Public Safety and Community Policing which they are adjudicated delinquent; (2) 1001(a)(21) of the 1968 Act; Grants pursuant to title I of the 1994 Act, $11,974,000 shall be available for expenses au- (25) $1,995,000 for public awareness programs $496,014,000 as follows: $330,000,000 for the hir- thorized by sections 281 and 282 of part D of addressing marketing scams aimed at senior citi- ing of law enforcement officers, including up to title II of the Act for prevention and treatment zens, as authorized by section 250005(3) of the $180,000,000 for school resource officers; programs relating to juvenile gangs; (3) 1994 Act; $20,662,000 for training and technical assistance; $9,978,000 shall be available for expenses author- (26) $249,450,000 for Juvenile Accountability $25,444,000 for the matching grant program for ized by section 285 of part E of title II of the Incentive Block Grants, of which $38,000,000 Law Enforcement Armor Vests pursuant to sec- Act; (4) $15,965,000 shall be available for ex- shall be available for grants, contracts, and tion 2501 of part Y of the Omnibus Crime Con- penses authorized by part G of title II of the Act other assistance under the Project ChildSafe trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended for juvenile mentoring programs; and (5) Initiative, except that such funds shall be sub- (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); $35,000,000 to improve tribal $94,337,000 shall be available for expenses au- ject to the same terms and conditions as set law enforcement including equipment and train- thorized by title V of the Act for incentive forth in the provisions under this heading for ing; $70,473,000 for policing initiatives to combat grants for local delinquency prevention pro- this program in Public Law 105–119, but all ref- methamphetamine production and trafficking grams; of which $12,472,000 shall be for delin- erences in such provisions to 1998 shall be and to enhance policing initiatives in ‘‘drug hot quency prevention, control, and system improve- deemed to refer instead to 2002, and Guam shall spots’’; and $14,435,000 for Police Corps edu- ment programs for tribal youth; of which be considered a ‘‘State’’ for the purposes of title cation, training, and service under sections $14,513,000 shall be available for the Safe III of H.R. 3, as passed by the House of Rep- 200101–200113 of the 1994 Act; Schools Initiative including $5,033,000 for resentatives on May 8, 1997; and (2) for crime technology, $351,632,000 as fol- grants, contracts, and other assistance under (27) $1,298,000 for Motor Vehicle Theft Preven- lows: $154,345,000 for a law enforcement tech- the Project Sentry Initiative; and of which tion Programs, as authorized by section nology program; $35,000,000 for grants to up- $25,000,000 shall be available for grants of 220002(h) of the 1994 Act: Provided, That funds grade criminal records, as authorized under the $360,000 to each State and $6,640,000 shall be made available in fiscal year 2002 under subpart Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998 (42 available for discretionary grants to States, for 1 of part E of title I of the 1968 Act may be obli- U.S.C. 14601); $40,000,000 for DNA analysis and programs and activities to enforce State laws gated for programs to assist States in the litiga- backlog reduction of which $35,000,000 shall be prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages to mi- tion processing of death penalty Federal habeas used as authorized by the DNA Analysis Back- nors or the purchase or consumption of alco- corpus petitions and for drug testing initiatives: log Elimination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–546) holic beverages by minors, prevention and re- Provided further, That, if a unit of local govern- and of which $5,000,000 shall be available for duction of consumption of alcoholic beverages ment uses any of the funds made available Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences Improvement by minors, and for technical assistance and under this title to increase the number of law Grants under part BB of title I of the Omnibus training: Provided further, That of amounts enforcement officers, the unit of local govern- Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 made available under the Juvenile Justice Pro- ment will achieve a net gain in the number of U.S.C. 3797j et seq.); $35,000,000 for State and grams of the Office of Justice Programs to carry law enforcement officers who perform non- local DNA laboratories as authorized by section out part B (relating to Federal Assistance for administrative public safety service. 1001(a)(22) of the 1968 Act, and improvements to State and Local Programs), subpart II of part C WEED AND SEED PROGRAM FUND forensic laboratory general forensic science ca- (relating to Special Emphasis Prevention and For necessary expenses, including salaries pacity and capabilities; and $87,287,000 for Treatment Programs), part D (relating to Gang- and related expenses of the Executive Office for grants, contracts and other assistance to States Free Schools and Communities and Community- Weed and Seed, to implement ‘‘Weed and Seed’’ under section 102(b) of the Crime Identification Based Gang Intervention), part E (relating to program activities, $58,925,000, to remain avail- Technology Act of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 14601), of State Challenge Activities), and part G (relating able until expended, for inter-governmental which $17,000,000 is for the National Institute of to Mentoring) of title II of the Juvenile Justice agreements, including grants, cooperative agree- Justice for grants, contracts, and other agree- and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and to ments, and contracts, with State and local law ments to develop school safety technologies and carry out the At-Risk Children’s Program under enforcement agencies, non-profit organizations, training; 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VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.070 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7991 each such amount may be used for research, erwise specifically provided, shall be increased the World Trade Center in New York, New evaluation, and statistics activities designed to by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: York, and the subsequent destruction that re- benefit the programs or activities authorized Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this sulted. under the appropriate part or title, and not section shall be treated as a reprogramming of (C) The hijacking of American Airlines Flight more than 2 percent of each such amount may funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not 77 on such date, the crash of that aircraft into be used for training and technical assistance ac- be available for obligation except in compliance the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the tivities designed to benefit the programs or ac- with the procedures set forth in that section. subsequent destruction that resulted. tivities authorized under that part or title. SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision (D) The hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 In addition, for grants, contracts, cooperative of law, $1,000,000 shall be available for technical on such date, and the crash of that aircraft in agreements, and other assistance, $10,976,000 to assistance from the funds appropriated for part Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania. remain available until expended, for developing, G of title II of the Juvenile Justice and Delin- (2) Any person who died as a result of an in- testing, and demonstrating programs designed to quency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended. jury incurred while assisting in the emergency reduce drug use among juveniles. SEC. 109. Section 286 of the Immigration and response to an event described in paragraph (1) In addition, for grants, contracts, cooperative Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356), as amended, is (such as military personnel, law enforcement of- agreements, and other assistance authorized by further amended as follows: ficers, firefighters, emergency management per- the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990, as (1) by striking in subsection (d) ‘‘$6’’, and in- sonnel, search and rescue personnel, medical amended, $8,481,000, to remain available until serting ‘‘$7’’; personnel, engineers and other personnel pro- expended, as authorized by section 214B of the (2) by amending subsection (e)(1), by replacing viding technical assistance, and volunteers) Act. ‘‘No’’ with ‘‘Except as provided in paragraph shall be considered to have died as a result of an PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS BENEFITS (3), no’’; and injury incurred in such event. To remain available until expended, for pay- (3) by adding a new paragraph (e)(3) as fol- (d)(1) Unless otherwise provided by this sec- ments authorized by part L of title I of the Om- lows: tion, no person may be granted posthumous citi- nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ‘‘(3) The Attorney General is authorized to zenship under this section who would not other- (42 U.S.C. 3796), as amended, such sums as are charge and collect $3 per individual for the im- wise have been eligible for naturalization on the necessary, as authorized by section 6093 of Pub- migration inspection or pre-inspection of each date of the person’s death. Unless otherwise lic Law 100–690 (102 Stat. 4339–4340); and commercial vessel passenger whose journey provided by this section, any provision of law $4,500,000, to remain available until expended originated in the United States or in any place that specifically bars or prohibits a person from for payments as authorized by section 1201(b) of set forth in paragraph (1): Provided, That this being naturalized as a citizen of the United said Act. authorization shall not apply to immigration in- States shall be applied to the granting of post- spection at designated ports of entry of pas- humous citizenship under this section. GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE sengers arriving by the following vessels, when (2) Notwithstanding section 312 of the Immi- SEC. 101. In addition to amounts otherwise operating on a regular schedule: Great Lakes gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1423), or made available in this title for official reception international ferries, or Great Lakes Vessels on any similar provision of law requiring that a and representation expenses, a total of not to the Great Lakes and connecting waterways.’’. person demonstrate an understanding of the exceed $45,000 from funds appropriated to the SEC. 110. Section 286(q)(1)(A) of the Immigra- English language or a knowledge and under- Department of Justice in this title shall be avail- tion and Nationality Act of 1953, as amended, is standing of the fundamentals of the history, able to the Attorney General for official recep- further amended by striking ‘‘6’’ and inserting and of the principles and form of government, of tion and representation expenses in accordance ‘‘96’’. the United States in order to be naturalized, no with distributions, procedures, and regulations SEC. 111. (a) Section 1402(d)(3) of the Victims such demonstration shall be required for the established by the Attorney General. of Crime Act of 1984, is amended by striking the granting of posthumous citizenship under this SEC. 102. Authorities contained in the Depart- period at the end and inserting ‘‘, and for a Vic- section. ment of Justice Appropriation Authorization tim Notification System.’’. (3) No oath of renunciation or allegiance shall Act, Fiscal Year 1980 (Public Law 96–132; 93 (b) Section 1402(c) of the Victims of Crime Act be required for the granting of posthumous citi- Stat. 1040 (1979)), as amended, shall remain in of 1984 is amended to read as it did on October zenship under this section. effect until the effective date of a subsequent 25, 2001. (4) To the maximum extent practicable, the in- Department of Justice Appropriation Authoriza- SEC. 112. Section 6 of the Hmong Veterans’ vestigation and examination described in section tion Act. Naturalization Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–207; 335 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 SEC. 103. None of the funds appropriated by 8 U.S.C. 1423 note) (as amended by Public Law U.S.C. 1446) shall be conducted with respect to this title shall be available to pay for an abor- 106–415) is amended by striking ‘‘18 months’’ an application described in subsection (b)(3) in tion, except where the life of the mother would each place such term appears and inserting ‘‘36 the same manner as they otherwise would have be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, months’’. been conducted if the subject of the application or in the case of rape: Provided, That should SEC. 113. No provision of section 614 of Public had not died. this prohibition be declared unconstitutional by Law 107–56 shall incorporate the organization (e) A request for the granting of posthumous a court of competent jurisdiction, this section that administers Title I of the Violent Crime citizenship to a person described in subsection shall be null and void. Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Pub- (b) may be filed on behalf of the person only by SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated lic Law 103–322) (Community Oriented Policing the next of kin (as defined by the Attorney Gen- under this title shall be used to require any per- Services), its programs and functions, into the eral) or another representative (as defined by son to perform, or facilitate in any way the per- Office of Justice Programs, for fiscal year 2002 the Attorney General), and must be filed not formance of, any abortion. and thereafter. later than 2 years after the later of— SEC. 105. Nothing in the preceding section SEC. 114. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of (1) the date of the enactment of this section; shall remove the obligation of the Director of the title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act or Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services nec- (8 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.), the Attorney General (2) the date of the person’s death. essary for a female inmate to receive such serv- shall provide, in accordance with this section, (f) If the Attorney General approves such a ice outside the Federal facility: Provided, That for the granting of posthumous citizenship, as of request to grant a person posthumous citizen- nothing in this section in any way diminishes September 10, 2001, to a person described in sub- ship, the Attorney General shall send to the in- the effect of section 104 intended to address the section (b), if the Attorney General approves an dividual who filed the request a suitable docu- philosophical beliefs of individual employees of application for such citizenship filed under sub- ment which states that the United States con- the Bureau of Prisons. section (e). siders the person to have been a citizen of the SEC. 106. Notwithstanding any other provision (b) A person referred to in subsection (a) is a United States as of September 10, 2001. of law, not to exceed $10,000,000 of the funds person who— (g) Nothing in this section shall be construed made available in this Act may be used to estab- (1) while an alien or a noncitizen national of as providing for any benefits under the Immi- lish and publicize a program under which pub- the United States, died as a result of an injury gration and Nationality Act for any spouse, son, licly advertised, extraordinary rewards may be incurred in one or more of the events described daughter, or other relative of a person granted paid, which shall not be subject to spending lim- in subsection (c); posthumous citizenship under this section. itations contained in sections 3059 and 3072 of (2) was not culpable for any of such events; (h)(1) Notwithstanding section 341 of the Im- title 18, United States Code: Provided, That any and migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1452), reward of $100,000 or more, up to a maximum of (3) on September 11, 2001, had pending an ap- the Attorney General shall provide, in accord- $2,000,000, may not be made without the per- plication for naturalization filed with the Attor- ance with this subsection, for the furnishing of sonal approval of the President or the Attorney ney General by the person. a certificate of citizenship to a person described General and such approval may not be dele- (c)(1) The events described in this subsection in paragraph (4), if the Attorney General ap- gated: Provided further, That rewards made are the following: proves under paragraph (3) an application for pursuant to section 501 of Public Law 107–56 (A) The hijacking of American Airlines Flight such certificate described in paragraph (2). shall not be subject to this section. 11 on September 11, 2001, the crash of that air- (2) An application described in this paragraph SEC. 107. Not to exceed 5 percent of any ap- craft into the World Trade Center in New York, is an application for a certificate of citizenship propriation made available for the current fiscal New York, and the subsequent destruction that that was— year for the Department of Justice in this Act resulted. (A) filed with the Attorney General under may be transferred between such appropria- (B) The hijacking of United Airlines Flight such section 341 by a person who subsequently tions, but no such appropriation, except as oth- 175 on such date, the crash of that aircraft into died as a result of an injury incurred in one or

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.072 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H7992 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 more of the events described in section 114(c) to any place outside the United States, to file aliens by contract for services; rental of space and who was not culpable for any of such with the immigration officers before departure abroad for periods not exceeding 10 years, and events; and from such port a list or manifest of all such per- expenses of alteration, repair, or improvement; (B) pending on September 11, 2001. sons transported. The Attorney General is au- purchase or construction of temporary demount- (3) The Attorney General shall consider an thorized to extend, by regulation, the require- able exhibition structures for use abroad; pay- application described in paragraph (2) pursuant ments of this subsection to any public or private ment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in to the standards under such section 341 and carrier transporting persons by land from the the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such shall approve the application if the applicant United States. Such list or manifest shall be pre- claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed would have been eligible to receive a certificate pared and delivered at such time, be in such $327,000 for official representation expenses of citizenship on September 11, 2001, if the appli- form, and shall contain such information as the abroad; purchase of passenger motor vehicles for cant had not died, except that the requirements Attorney General shall prescribe by regulation official use abroad, not to exceed $30,000 per ve- of such section relating to the oath of allegiance as being necessary for the identification of the hicle; obtaining insurance on official motor ve- and presence within the United States shall not persons transported and for the enforcement of hicles; and rental of tie lines, $347,547,000, to re- apply. the immigration laws. The Attorney General main available until expended, of which (4) A request for a certificate of citizenship may require in such regulations that the list or $3,000,000 is to be derived from fees to be re- under this subsection may be filed only by the manifest be delivered electronically prior to tained and used by the International Trade Ad- next of kin (as defined by the Attorney General) boarding the vessel, aircraft, train or bus at the ministration, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: or another representative (as defined by the At- place of departure, or at such other time reason- Provided, That $67,669,000 shall be for Trade torney General) of the applicant described in ably in advance of the departure of the vessel, Development, $27,741,000 shall be for Market Ac- paragraph (2), and must be filed not later than aircraft, train or bus from the United States as cess and Compliance, $43,346,000 shall be for the 2 years after the later of— the Attorney General may direct. No master or Import Administration, $195,791,000 shall be for (A) the date of the enactment of this section; commanding officer of any such vessel or air- the United States and Foreign Commercial Serv- or craft, or operator of any private or public car- ice, and $13,000,000 shall be for Executive Direc- (B) the date of the applicant’s death. rier, shall be granted clearance papers until he tion and Administration: Provided further, That (i)(1) Notwithstanding section 322 of the Immi- or the authorized agent has complied with the the provisions of the first sentence of section gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1433), the requirements of this subsection, except that in 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual Attorney General shall provide, in accordance the case of vessels, aircraft, trains or buses Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 with this subsection, for the furnishing of a cer- which the Attorney General determines are (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in tificate of citizenship to a parent described in making regular trips to the United States, the carrying out these activities without regard to paragraph (2), if, upon the request of the par- Attorney General may, when expedient, arrange section 5412 of the Omnibus Trade and Competi- ent, the Attorney General approves under para- for the delivery of lists of outgoing persons at a tiveness Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4912); and that graph (3) an application for naturalization de- later date.’’. for the purpose of this Act, contributions under scribed in paragraph (2). (c) Section 231(d) of the Immigration and Na- the provisions of the Mutual Educational and (2) An application described in this paragraph tionality Act is amended by— Cultural Exchange Act shall include payment is an application for naturalization that was— (1) In the heading, striking ‘‘Shipments or for assessments for services provided as part of (A) filed with the Attorney General under Aircraft’’ and inserting in lieu thereof, ‘‘Ship- these activities. such section 322 by a parent of a child who sub- ments, Aircraft or Carriers’’; EXPORT ADMINISTRATION sequently died as a result of an injury incurred (2) In the first sentence, inserting ‘‘, any pub- in one or more of the events described in section lic or private carrier,’’ after ‘‘or aircraft,’’; and OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 114(c) and who was not culpable for any of such (3) In the second sentence, striking ‘‘vessel or For necessary expenses for export administra- events; and aircraft’’ and inserting in lieu thereof, ‘‘vessel, tion and national security activities of the De- (B) pending on September 11, 2001. aircraft, train or bus’’. partment of Commerce, including costs associ- (3) The Attorney General shall consider an This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of ated with the performance of export administra- application described in paragraph (2) pursuant Justice Appropriations Act, 2002’’. tion field activities both domestically and to the standards under such section 322 and abroad; full medical coverage for dependent TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE shall approve the application if the child would members of immediate families of employees sta- AND RELATED AGENCIES have been eligible to receive a certificate of citi- tioned overseas; employment of Americans and zenship on September 11, 2001, if the child had TRADE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT aliens by contract for services abroad; payment not died, except that the requirements of such RELATED AGENCIES of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the section relating to the oath of allegiance shall OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such not apply. REPRESENTATIVE claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed SEC. 115. (a) Section 231(a) of the Immigration SALARIES AND EXPENSES $15,000 for official representation expenses and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1221(a), is amend- abroad; awards of compensation to informers For necessary expenses of the Office of the ed to read— under the Export Administration Act of 1979, United States Trade Representative, including ‘‘(a) ARRIVAL MANIFEST; FORM AND CON- and as authorized by 22 U.S.C. 401(b); purchase the hire of passenger motor vehicles and the em- TENTS.—With respect to the arrival of any per- of passenger motor vehicles for official use and ployment of experts and consultants as author- son by water or by air at any port within the motor vehicles for law enforcement use with spe- ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $30,097,000, of which United States from any place outside the United cial requirement vehicles eligible for purchase $1,000,000 shall remain available until expended: States, it shall be the duty of the master or com- without regard to any price limitation otherwise Provided, That not to exceed $98,000 shall be manding officer, or authorized agent, owner, or established by law, $68,893,000, to remain avail- available for official reception and representa- consignee, of the vessel or aircraft transporting able until expended, of which $7,250,000 shall be tion expenses. such person to deliver to the Service at the port for inspections and other activities related to of arrival a list or manifest of the persons trans- INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION national security: Provided, That the provisions ported on such vessel or aircraft. The Attorney SALARIES AND EXPENSES of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of General is authorized to extend, by regulation, For necessary expenses of the International section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and the requirements of this subsection to any public Trade Commission, including hire of passenger Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) or private carrier transporting persons by land motor vehicles, and services as authorized by 5 and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these to the United States. Such list or manifest shall U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,500 for official activities: Provided further, That payments and be prepared and delivered at such time, be in reception and representation expenses, contributions collected and accepted for mate- such form, and shall contain such information $51,440,000, to remain available until expended. rials or services provided as part of such activi- as the Attorney General shall prescribe by regu- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ties may be retained for use in covering the cost lation as being necessary for the identification of such activities, and for providing information INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION of the persons transported and for the enforce- to the public with respect to the export adminis- ment of the immigration laws. The Attorney OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION tration and national security activities of the General may require in such regulations that For necessary expenses for international trade Department of Commerce and other export con- the list or manifest be delivered electronically activities of the Department of Commerce pro- trol programs of the United States and other prior to boarding the vessel, aircraft, train or vided for by law, and for engaging in trade pro- governments. motional activities abroad, including expenses of bus at the place of departure, or at such other ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION time reasonably in advance of the arrival of the grants and cooperative agreements for the pur- vessel, aircraft, train or bus in the United States pose of promoting exports of United States firms, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS as the Attorney General may direct.’’. without regard to 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 3703; full For grants for economic development assist- (b) Section 231(b) of the Immigration and Na- medical coverage for dependent members of im- ance as provided by the Public Works and Eco- tionality Act is amended to read— mediate families of employees stationed overseas nomic Development Act of 1965, as amended, ‘‘(b) DEPARTURE MANIFEST; FORM AND CON- and employees temporarily posted overseas; and for trade adjustment assistance, TENTS.—It shall be the duty of the master or travel and transportation of employees of the $335,000,000, to remain available until expended. commanding officer or authorized agent of every United States and Foreign Commercial Service SALARIES AND EXPENSES vessel or aircraft taking passengers on board at between two points abroad, without regard to 49 For necessary expenses of administering the any port of the United States, who are destined U.S.C. 1517; employment of Americans and economic development assistance programs as

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.074 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7993 provided for by law, $30,557,000: Provided, That any Federal entity without reimbursement as re- That an additional amount not to exceed these funds may be used to monitor projects ap- quired by NTIA for such spectrum management $282,300,000 from fees collected in prior fiscal proved pursuant to title I of the Public Works costs, and Federal entities withholding payment years shall be available for obligation in fiscal Employment Act of 1976, as amended, title II of of such cost shall not use spectrum: Provided year 2002, to remain available until expended: the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, and the further, That the Secretary of Commerce is au- Provided further, That from amounts provided Community Emergency Drought Relief Act of thorized to retain and use as offsetting collec- herein, not to exceed $1,000 shall be made avail- 1977. tions all funds transferred, or previously trans- able in fiscal year 2002 for official reception and MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ferred, from other Government agencies for all representation expenses. costs incurred in telecommunications research, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT engineering, and related activities by the Insti- TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION For necessary expenses of the Department of tute for Telecommunication Sciences of NTIA, in Commerce in fostering, promoting, and devel- furtherance of its assigned functions under this SALARIES AND EXPENSES oping minority business enterprise, including ex- paragraph, and such funds received from other For necessary expenses for the Under Sec- penses of grants, contracts, and other agree- Government agencies shall remain available retary for Technology/Office of Technology Pol- ments with public or private organizations, until expended. icy, $8,238,000. $28,381,000. PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND ECONOMIC AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS For grants authorized by section 392 of the SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SALARIES AND EXPENSES Communications Act of 1934, as amended, SERVICES For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, $43,466,000, to remain available until expended For necessary expenses of the National Insti- of economic and statistical analysis programs of as authorized by section 391 of the Act, as tute of Standards and Technology, $321,111,000, the Department of Commerce, $62,515,000, to re- amended: Provided, That not to exceed to remain available until expended, of which main available until September 30, 2003. $2,358,000 shall be available for program admin- not to exceed $282,000 may be transferred to the istration as authorized by section 391 of the Act: BUREAU OF THE CENSUS ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’. Provided further, That, notwithstanding the INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES SALARIES AND EXPENSES provisions of section 391 of the Act, the prior For expenses necessary for collecting, com- year unobligated balances may be made avail- For necessary expenses of the Manufacturing piling, analyzing, preparing, and publishing able for grants for projects for which applica- Extension Partnership of the National Institute statistics, provided for by law, $169,424,000. tions have been submitted and approved during of Standards and Technology, $106,522,000, to PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS any fiscal year. remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to enter For necessary expenses related to the 2000 de- INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS into agreements with one or more nonprofit or- cennial census, $85,238,000, to remain available For grants authorized by section 392 of the ganizations for the purpose of carrying out col- until expended: Provided, That, of the total Communications Act of 1934, as amended, lective research and development initiatives per- amount available related to the 2000 decennial $15,503,000, to remain available until expended taining to 15 U.S.C. 278k paragraph (a), and is census ($85,238,000 in new appropriations and as authorized by section 391 of the Act, as authorized to seek and accept contributions $54,000,000 in deobligated balances from prior amended: Provided, That not to exceed from public and private sources to support these years), $8,606,000 is for Program Development $3,097,000 shall be available for program admin- efforts as necessary. and Management; $68,330,000 is for Data Con- istration and other support activities as author- In addition, for necessary expenses of the Ad- tent and Products; $9,455,000 is for Field Data ized by section 391: Provided further, That, of vanced Technology Program of the National In- Collection and Support Systems; $24,462,000 is the funds appropriated herein, not to exceed 5 stitute of Standards and Technology, for Automated Data Processing and Tele- percent may be available for telecommunications $184,500,000, to remain available until expended, communications Support; $22,844,000 is for Test- research activities for projects related directly to of which not to exceed $60,700,000 shall be avail- ing and Evaluation; $3,105,000 is for activities the development of a national information in- able for the award of new grants. related to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and frastructure: Provided further, That, notwith- Pacific Areas; and $2,436,000 is for Marketing, standing the requirements of sections 392(a) and CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES Communications and Partnership activities. 392(c) of the Act, these funds may be used for For construction of new research facilities, in- In addition, for expenses related to planning, the planning and construction of telecommuni- cluding architectural and engineering design, testing, and implementing the 2010 decennial cations networks for the provision of edu- and for renovation of existing facilities, not oth- census, $65,000,000. cational, cultural, health care, public informa- erwise provided for the National Institute of In addition, for expenses to collect and pub- tion, public safety, or other social services: Pro- Standards and Technology, as authorized by 15 lish statistics for other periodic censuses and vided further, That, notwithstanding any other U.S.C. 278c–278e, $62,393,000, to remain available programs provided for by law, $171,138,000, to provision of law, no entity that receives tele- until expended. remain available until expended: Provided, That communications services at preferential rates NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC regarding engineering and design of a facility at under section 254(h) of the Act (47 U.S.C. ADMINISTRATION the Suitland Federal Center, quarterly reports 254(h)) or receives assistance under the regional OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES regarding the expenditure of funds and project information sharing systems grant program of (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) planning, design and cost decisions shall be pro- the Department of Justice under part M of title For necessary expenses of activities author- vided by the Bureau, in cooperation with the I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets ized by law for the National Oceanic and At- General Services Administration, to the Commit- Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796h) may use funds mospheric Administration, including mainte- tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the under a grant under this heading to cover any nance, operation, and hire of aircraft; grants, House of Representatives: Provided further, costs of the entity that would otherwise be cov- contracts, or other payments to nonprofit orga- That none of the funds provided in this Act or ered by such preferential rates or such assist- nizations for the purposes of conducting activi- any other Act under the heading ‘‘Bureau of ance, as the case may be. ties pursuant to cooperative agreements; and re- the Census, Periodic Censuses and Programs’’ UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE location of facilities as authorized by 33 U.S.C. shall be used to fund the construction and ten- SALARIES AND EXPENSES 883i, $2,253,697,000, to remain available until ex- ant build-out costs of a facility at the Suitland For necessary expenses of the United States pended: Provided, That fees and donations re- Federal Center. Patent and Trademark Office provided for by ceived by the National Ocean Service for the NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND law, including defense of suits instituted management of the national marine sanctuaries INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION against the Under Secretary of Commerce for In- may be retained and used for the salaries and SALARIES AND EXPENSES tellectual Property and Director of the United expenses associated with those activities, not- For necessary expenses, as provided for by States Patent and Trademark Office, withstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided further, law, of the National Telecommunications and $843,701,000, to remain available until expended, That, in addition, $68,000,000 shall be derived by Information Administration (NTIA), $14,054,000, which amount shall be derived from offsetting transfer from the fund entitled ‘‘Promote and to remain available until expended: Provided, collections assessed and collected pursuant to 15 Develop Fishery Products and Research Per- That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1535(d), the U.S.C. 1113 and 35 U.S.C. 41 and 376, and shall taining to American Fisheries’’: Provided fur- Secretary of Commerce shall charge Federal be retained and used for necessary expenses in ther, That grants to States pursuant to sections agencies for costs incurred in spectrum manage- this appropriation: Provided, That the sum 306 and 306A of the Coastal Zone Management ment, analysis, and operations, and related herein appropriated from the general fund shall Act of 1972, as amended, shall not exceed services and such fees shall be retained and be reduced as such offsetting collections are re- $2,000,000: Provided further, That, of the used as offsetting collections for costs of such ceived during fiscal year 2002, so as to result in $2,341,697,000 provided for in direct obligations spectrum services, to remain available until ex- a fiscal year 2002 appropriation from the general under this heading (of which $2,253,697,000 is pended: Provided further, That hereafter, not- fund estimated at $0: Provided further, That appropriated from the General Fund, $71,000,000 withstanding any other provision of law, NTIA during fiscal year 2002, should the total amount is provided by transfer, and $17,000,000 is de- shall not authorize spectrum use or provide any of offsetting fee collections be less than rived from deobligations from prior years), spectrum functions pursuant to the National $843,701,000, the total amounts available to the $413,911,000 shall be for the National Ocean Telecommunications and Information Adminis- United States Patent and Trademark Office Service, $579,196,000 shall be for the National tration Organization Act, 47 U.S.C. 902–903, to shall be reduced accordingly: Provided further, Marine Fisheries Service, $356,062,000 shall be

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for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, ignated representatives based on demonstrated GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF $672,355,000 shall be for the National Weather need and ability to successfully leverage funds, COMMERCE Service, $139,627,000 shall be for the National and shall give priority to lands which can be ef- SEC. 201. During the current fiscal year, appli- Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information fectively managed and protected and which cable appropriations and funds made available Service, and $180,546,000 shall be for Program have significant ecological value: Provided fur- to the Department of Commerce by this Act shall Support: Provided further, That, hereafter, ther, That grants funded under this program be available for the activities specified in the habitat conservation activities under this head- shall require a 100 percent match from other Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the ing shall be considered to be within the ‘‘Coast- sources: Provided further, That none of the extent and in the manner prescribed by the Act, al Assistance sub-category’’ in section funds provided in this Act or any other Act and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may be 250(c)(4)(K) of the Balanced Budget and Emer- under the heading ‘‘National Oceanic and At- used for advanced payments not otherwise au- gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: mospheric Administration, Procurement, Acqui- thorized only upon the certification of officials Provided further, That, of the amount provided sition and Construction’’ shall be used to fund designated by the Secretary of Commerce that under this heading, $223,273,000 shall be for the the General Services Administration’s standard such payments are in the public interest. construction and tenant build-out costs of a fa- conservation activities defined in section SEC. 202. During the current fiscal year, ap- 250(c)(4)(K) of the Balanced Budget and Emer- cility at the Suitland Federal Center. propriations made available to the Department gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY of Commerce by this Act for salaries and ex- Provided further, That no general administra- For necessary expenses associated with the penses shall be available for hire of passenger tive charge shall be applied against an assigned restoration of Pacific salmon populations and motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 activity included in this Act and, further, that the implementation of the 1999 Pacific Salmon and 1344; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. any direct administrative expenses applied Treaty Agreement between the United States 3109; and uniforms or allowances therefore, as against an assigned activity shall be limited to and Canada, $110,000,000: Provided, That this authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). amount shall be for the conservation activities 5 percent of the funds provided for that assigned SEC. 203. None of the funds made available by defined in section 250(c)(4)(E) of the Balanced activity so that total National Oceanic and At- this Act may be used to support the hurricane Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of mospheric Administration administrative ex- reconnaissance aircraft and activities that are 1985, as amended. penses shall not exceed $265,025,000: Provided under the control of the United States Air Force further, That any use of deobligated balances of In addition, for implementation of the 1999 Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement, $47,419,000, of or the United States Air Force Reserve. funds provided under this heading in previous SEC. 204. Not to exceed 5 percent of any ap- years shall be subject to the procedures set forth which $20,000,000 shall be deposited in the Northern Boundary and Transboundary Rivers propriation made available for the current fiscal in section 605 of this Act: Provided further, That year for the Department of Commerce in this Act of the amounts provided, $3,000,000 shall be de- Restoration and Enhancement Fund, of which $20,000,000 shall be deposited in the Southern may be transferred between such appropria- rived by transfer from the fund entitled ‘‘Coast- tions, but no such appropriation shall be in- al Zone Management’’: Provided further, That Boundary Restoration and Enhancement Fund, of which $5,419,000 shall be for a final direct creased by more than 10 percent by any such the Secretary may proceed as he deems nec- transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant essary to have the National Oceanic and Atmos- payment to the State of Washington for obliga- tions under the 1999 Pacific Salmon Treaty to this section shall be treated as a reprogram- pheric Administration occupy and operate its re- ming of funds under section 605 of this Act and search facilities which are located at Lafayette, Agreement, and of which $2,000,000 is for the Pacific Salmon Commission: Provided, That this shall not be available for obligation or expendi- Louisiana: Provided further, That the R/V ture except in compliance with the procedures FAIRWEATHER shall be homeported in Ketch- amount shall be for the conservation activities defined in section 250(c)(4)(E) of the Balanced set forth in that section. ikan, Alaska. SEC. 205. Any costs incurred by a department In addition, for necessary retired pay ex- Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. or agency funded under this title resulting from penses under the Retired Serviceman’s Family personnel actions taken in response to funding COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT FUND Protection and Survivor Benefits Plan, and for reductions included in this title or from actions Of amounts collected pursuant to section 308 payments for medical care of retired personnel taken for the care and protection of loan collat- of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 and their dependents under the Dependents eral or grant property shall be absorbed within U.S.C. 1456a), not to exceed $3,000,000 shall be Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55), such sums the total budgetary resources available to such transferred to the ‘‘Operations, Research, and as may be necessary. department or agency: Provided, That the au- Facilities’’ account to offset the costs of imple- PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION thority to transfer funds between appropriations menting such Act. (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) accounts as may be necessary to carry out this FISHERMEN’S CONTINGENCY FUND For procurement, acquisition and construction section is provided in addition to authorities in- For carrying out the provisions of title IV of of capital assets, including alteration and modi- cluded elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, Public Law 95–372, not to exceed $952,000, to be fication costs, of the National Oceanic and At- That use of funds to carry out this section shall derived from receipts collected pursuant to that mospheric Administration, $836,552,000, to re- be treated as a reprogramming of funds under Act, to remain available until expended. main available until expended: Provided, That section 605 of this Act and shall not be available unexpended balances of amounts previously FOREIGN FISHING OBSERVER FUND for obligation or expenditure except in compli- made available in the ‘‘Operations, Research, For expenses necessary to carry out the provi- ance with the procedures set forth in that sec- and Facilities’’ account for activities funded sions of the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of tion. 1975, as amended (Public Law 96–339), the Mag- under this heading may be transferred to and SEC. 206. The Secretary of Commerce may merged with this account, to remain available nuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Man- award contracts for hydrographic, geodetic, and until expended for the purposes for which the agement Act of 1976, as amended (Public Law photogrammetric surveying and mapping serv- funds were originally appropriated: Provided 100–627), and the American Fisheries Promotion ices in accordance with title IX of the Federal further, That of the amounts provided for the Act (Public Law 96–561), to be derived from the Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 National Polar-orbiting Operational Environ- fees imposed under the foreign fishery observer (40 U.S.C. 541 et seq.). program authorized by these Acts, not to exceed mental Satellite System, funds shall only be SEC. 207. The Secretary of Commerce may use made available on a dollar for dollar matching $191,000, to remain available until expended. the Commerce franchise fund for expenses and basis with funds provided for the same purpose FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT equipment necessary for the maintenance and by the Department of Defense: Provided further, For the cost of direct loans, $287,000, as au- operation of such administrative services as the That of the amount provided under this heading thorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as Secretary determines may be performed more ad- for expenses necessary to carry out conservation amended: Provided, That such costs, including vantageously as central services, pursuant to activities defined in section 250(c)(4)(E) of the the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de- section 403 of Public Law 103–356: Provided, Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con- fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget That any inventories, equipment, and other as- trol Act of 1985, as amended, including funds for Act of 1974: Provided further, That none of the sets pertaining to the services to be provided by the Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation funds made available under this heading may be such fund, either on hand or on order, less the Program, $58,487,000 to remain available until used for direct loans for any new fishing vessel related liabilities or unpaid obligations, and any expended: Provided further, That the Secretary that will increase the harvesting capacity in appropriations made for the purpose of pro- shall establish a Coastal and Estuarine Land any United States fishery. viding capital shall be used to capitalize such Conservation Program, for the purpose of pro- DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT fund: Provided further, That such fund shall be tecting important coastal and estuarine areas SALARIES AND EXPENSES paid in advance from funds available to the De- that have significant conservation, recreation, For expenses necessary for the departmental partment and other Federal agencies for which ecological, historical, or aesthetic values, or that management of the Department of Commerce such centralized services are performed, at rates are threatened by conversion from their natural provided for by law, including not to exceed which will return in full all expenses of oper- or recreational state to other uses: Provided fur- $5,000 for official entertainment, $37,652,000. ation, including accrued leave, depreciation of ther, That by September 30, 2002, the Secretary OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL fund plant and equipment, amortization of shall issue guidelines for this program delin- For necessary expenses of the Office of In- automated data processing (ADP) software and eating the criteria for grant awards: Provided spector General in carrying out the provisions of systems (either acquired or donated), and an further, That the Secretary shall distribute the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (5 amount necessary to maintain a reasonable op- these funds in consultation with the States’ U.S.C. App. 1–11, as amended by Public Law erating reserve, as determined by the Secretary: Coastal Zone Managers’ or Governors’ des- 100–504), $20,176,000. Provided further, That such fund shall provide

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Appendix Rule 71A(h)), $48,131,000, to re- of this Act: Provided further, That no later than main available until expended: Provided, That 30 days after the end of each fiscal year, cellaneous expenses, to be expended as the Chief Justice may approve, $39,988,000. the compensation of land commissioners shall amounts in excess of this reserve limitation shall not exceed the daily equivalent of the highest be deposited as miscellaneous receipts in the CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS rate payable under section 5332 of title 5, United Treasury: Provided further, That such franchise For such expenditures as may be necessary to States Code. enable the Architect of the Capitol to carry out fund pilot program shall terminate pursuant to COURT SECURITY the duties imposed upon the Architect by the section 403(f) of Public Law 103–356. For necessary expenses, not otherwise pro- Act approved May 7, 1934 (40 U.S.C. 13a–13b), SEC. 208. Notwithstanding any other provision vided for, incident to providing protective guard $37,530,000, which shall remain available until of law, of the amounts made available elsewhere services for United States courthouses and the expended. in this title to the ‘‘National Institute of Stand- procurement, installation, and maintenance of ards and Technology, Construction of Research UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE security equipment for United States court- Facilities’’, $8,000,000 is appropriated to fund a FEDERAL CIRCUIT houses and other facilities housing Federal cooperative agreement with the Medical Univer- SALARIES AND EXPENSES court operations, including building ingress- sity of South Carolina, $6,000,000 is appro- For salaries of the chief judge, judges, and egress control, inspection of mail and packages, priated to the Thayer School of Engineering for other officers and employees, and for necessary directed security patrols, and other similar ac- the nanocrystalline materials and biomass re- expenses of the court, as authorized by law, tivities as authorized by section 1010 of the Judi- search initiative, $3,000,000 is appropriated to $19,287,000. cial Improvement and Access to Justice Act the Institute for Information Infrastructure Pro- UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL (Public Law 100–702), $220,677,000, of which not tection at the Institute for Security Technology TRADE to exceed $10,000,000 shall remain available until Studies, $3,350,000 is appropriated for the Insti- expended for security systems or contract costs tute for Politics, $650,000 is appropriated to the SALARIES AND EXPENSES for court security officers, to be expended di- Mount Washington Technology Village, For salaries of the chief judge and eight rectly or transferred to the United States Mar- $6,500,000 is appropriated for a critical infra- judges, salaries of the officers and employees of shals Service, which shall be responsible for ad- structure project at the George Mason Univer- the court, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. ministering the Judicial Facility Security Pro- sity School of Law, $3,700,000 is appropriated 3109, and necessary expenses of the court, as au- gram consistent with standards or guidelines for the Conservation Institute of the Bronx Zoo, thorized by law, $13,064,000. agreed to by the Director of the Administrative $2,000,000 is appropriated for the Adolescent COURTS OF APPEALS, DISTRICT COURTS, AND Office of the United States Courts and the At- Mental Health Residential Treatment program OTHER JUDICIAL SERVICES torney General. at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, $1,300,000 is SALARIES AND EXPENSES ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES appropriated for the Puerto Rican Historical, For the salaries of circuit and district judges COURTS Cultural and Activities Center, $5,000,000 is ap- (including judges of the territorial courts of the SALARIES AND EXPENSES propriated for the National Infrastructure Insti- United States), justices and judges retired from tute, and $2,000,000 is appropriated for the Uni- For necessary expenses of the Administrative office or from regular active service, judges of Office of the United States Courts as authorized versity of South Carolina School of Public the United States Court of Federal Claims, Health. by law, including travel as authorized by 31 bankruptcy judges, magistrate judges, and all U.S.C. 1345, hire of a passenger motor vehicle as SEC. 209. (a) The Secretary of Commerce shall other officers and employees of the Federal Ju- authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b), advertising and present with the fiscal year 2003 budget request diciary not otherwise specifically provided for, rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, a detailed description of all projects, programs, and necessary expenses of the courts, as author- $61,664,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 is au- and activities to be funded from the ‘‘Working ized by law, $3,591,116,000 (including the pur- thorized for official reception and representa- Capital Fund’’ and the ‘‘Advances and Reim- chase of firearms and ammunition); of which tion expenses. bursements’’ account. not to exceed $27,817,000 shall remain available FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER (b) The ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’ and ‘‘Ad- until expended for space alteration projects and vances and Reimbursements’’ account shall be for furniture and furnishings related to new SALARIES AND EXPENSES subject to section 605 of this Act begining in fis- space alteration and construction projects. For necessary expenses of the Federal Judicial cal year 2003. In addition, for expenses of the United States Center, as authorized by Public Law 90–219, Court of Federal Claims associated with proc- $19,735,000; of which $1,800,000 shall remain SEC. 210. (a) Notwithstanding section 102 of available through September 30, 2003, to provide the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as essing cases under the National Childhood Vac- cine Injury Act of 1986, not to exceed $2,692,000, education and training to Federal court per- amended, or section 9 of the Endangered Species sonnel; and of which not to exceed $1,000 is au- Act of 1973, the Anchorage Sister Cities Commis- to be appropriated from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. thorized for official reception and representa- sion of Anchorage, Alaska, may export, on a tion expenses. one-time basis, to the Town of Whitby, in the DEFENDER SERVICES JUDICIAL RETIREMENT FUNDS care of the Scarborough Borough Council, For the operation of Federal Public Defender Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, two and Community Defender organizations; the PAYMENT TO JUDICIARY TRUST FUNDS bowhead whale jawbones taken as part of a compensation and reimbursement of expenses of For payment to the Judicial Officers’ Retire- legal subsistence hunt by Native Alaskans and attorneys appointed to represent persons under ment Fund, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 377(o), identified in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Criminal Justice Act of 1964, as amended; $26,700,000; to the Judicial Survivors’ Annuities Convention on International Trade of Endan- the compensation and reimbursement of ex- Fund, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 376(c), gered Species, permit 01US037393/9. penses of persons furnishing investigative, ex- $8,400,000; and to the United States Court of Federal Claims Judges’ Retirement Fund, as au- (b) The Anchorage Sister Cities Commission pert and other services under the Criminal Jus- thorized by 28 U.S.C. 178(l), $1,900,000. shall notify the National Marine Fisheries Serv- tice Act of 1964 (18 U.S.C. 3006A(e)); the com- ice Office of Enforcement 15 days prior to ship- pensation (in accordance with Criminal Justice UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION Act maximums) and reimbursement of expenses ment to ensure compliance with all applicable SALARIES AND EXPENSES of attorneys appointed to assist the court in export requirements. For the salaries and expenses necessary to criminal cases where the defendant has waived carry out the provisions of chapter 58 of title 28, SEC. 211. Section 213(a) of Title II of Division representation by counsel; the compensation United States Code, $11,575,000, of which not to C of Public Law 105–277 is amended by striking and reimbursement of travel expenses of guard- exceed $1,000 is authorized for official reception the second sentence and inserting in lieu there- ians ad litem acting on behalf of financially eli- and representation expenses. of: ‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated gible minor or incompetent offenders in connec- $6,700,000 per year to carry out the provisions of tion with transfers from the United States to GENERAL PROVISIONS—THE JUDICIARY this Act through fiscal year 2004.’’. foreign countries with which the United States SEC. 301. Appropriations and authorizations This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of has a treaty for the execution of penal sen- made in this title which are available for sala- Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations tences; the compensation of attorneys appointed ries and expenses shall be available for services Act, 2002’’. to represent jurors in civil actions for the protec- as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.

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SEC. 302. Not to exceed 5 percent of any ap- under the preceding proviso shall be deposited of which not to exceed $25,000 may be used for propriation made available for the current fiscal in fiscal years 2002 and 2003 as an offsetting col- domestic and overseas representation as author- year for the Judiciary in this Act may be trans- lection to appropriations made under this head- ized: Provided, That none of the funds appro- ferred between such appropriations, but no such ing to recover costs as set forth under section priated in this paragraph shall be available for appropriation, except ‘‘Courts of Appeals, Dis- 140(a)(2) of that Act and shall remain available acquisition of furniture, furnishings, or genera- trict Courts, and Other Judicial Services, De- until expended: Provided further, That, of the tors for other departments and agencies. fender Services’’ and ‘‘Courts of Appeals, Dis- amount made available under this heading, In addition, for the costs of worldwide secu- trict Courts, and Other Judicial Services, Fees of $1,800,000 shall be available for a grant to con- rity upgrades, acquisition, and construction as Jurors and Commissioners’’, shall be increased duct an international conference on combating authorized, $815,960,000, to remain available by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: sex trafficking: Provided further, That no funds until expended. Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this may be obligated or expended for processing li- EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR section shall be treated as a reprogramming of censes for the export of satellites of United SERVICE funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not States origin (including commercial satellites For expenses necessary to enable the Sec- be available for obligation or expenditure except and satellite components) to the People’s Repub- retary of State to meet unforeseen emergencies in compliance with the procedures set forth in lic of China unless, at least 15 days in advance, arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, that section. the Committees on Appropriations of the House $6,500,000, to remain available until expended as SEC. 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of Representatives and the Senate are notified authorized, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 of law, the salaries and expenses appropriation of such proposed action. may be transferred to and merged with the Re- for district courts, courts of appeals, and other In addition, not to exceed $1,343,000 shall be patriation Loans Program Account, subject to judicial services shall be available for official re- derived from fees collected from other executive the same terms and conditions. ception and representation expenses of the Judi- agencies for lease or use of facilities located at cial Conference of the United States: Provided, the International Center in accordance with REPATRIATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT That such available funds shall not exceed section 4 of the International Center Act, as For the cost of direct loans, $612,000, as au- $11,000 and shall be administered by the Direc- amended; in addition, as authorized by section thorized: Provided, That such costs, including tor of the Administrative Office of the United 5 of such Act, $490,000, to be derived from the re- the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de- States Courts in the capacity as Secretary of the serve authorized by that section, to be used for fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Judicial Conference. the purposes set out in that section; in addition, Act of 1974. In addition, for administrative ex- SEC. 304. Of the unexpended balances trans- as authorized by section 810 of the United States penses necessary to carry out the direct loan ferred to the Commission on Structural Alter- Information and Educational Exchange Act, not program, $607,000, which may be transferred to natives in Federal Appellate Courts, $400,000 to exceed $6,000,000, to remain available until and merged with the Diplomatic and Consular shall be transferred to, and merged with, funds expended, may be credited to this appropriation Programs account under Administration of For- in the ‘‘Federal Judicial Center, Salaries and from fees or other payments received from eign Affairs. Expenses’’ appropriations account to be avail- English teaching, library, motion pictures, and PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN able only for distance learning. publication programs and from fees from edu- For necessary expenses to carry out the Tai- SEC. 305. Pursuant to section 140 of Public cational advising and counseling and exchange wan Relations Act, Public Law 96–8, $17,044,000. Law 97–92, justices and judges of the United visitor programs; and, in addition, not to exceed States are authorized during fiscal year 2002, to PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT $15,000, which shall be derived from reimburse- AND DISABILITY FUND receive a salary adjustment in accordance with ments, surcharges, and fees for use of Blair For payment to the Foreign Service Retire- 28 U.S.C. 461: Provided, That $8,625,000 is ap- House facilities. ment and Disability Fund, as authorized by propriated for salary adjustments pursuant to In addition, for the costs of worldwide secu- law, $135,629,000. this section and such funds shall be transferred rity upgrades, $487,735,000, to remain available to and merged with appropriations in title III of until expended. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND this Act. CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND CONFERENCES This title may be cited as the ‘‘Judiciary Ap- For necessary expenses of the Capital Invest- CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL propriations Act, 2002’’. ment Fund, $203,000,000, to remain available ORGANIZATIONS TITLE IV—DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND until expended, as authorized: Provided, That For expenses, not otherwise provided for, nec- RELATED AGENCY section 135(e) of Public Law 103–236 shall not essary to meet annual obligations of membership DEPARTMENT OF STATE apply to funds available under this heading. in international multilateral organizations, pur- ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL suant to treaties ratified pursuant to the advice DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS For necessary expenses of the Office of In- and consent of the Senate, conventions or spe- For necessary expenses of the Department of spector General, $29,000,000, notwithstanding cific Acts of Congress, $850,000,000: Provided, State and the Foreign Service not otherwise pro- section 209(a)(1) of the Foreign Service Act of That any payment of arrearages under this title vided for, including employment, without regard 1980, as amended (Public Law 96–465), as it re- shall be directed toward special activities that to civil service and classification laws, of per- lates to post inspections. are mutually agreed upon by the United States sons on a temporary basis (not to exceed EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE and the respective international organization: $700,000 of this appropriation), as authorized by PROGRAMS Provided further, That none of the funds appro- section 801 of the United States Information and For expenses of educational and cultural ex- priated in this paragraph shall be available for Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended; change programs, as authorized, $237,000,000, to a United States contribution to an international representation to certain international organi- remain available until expended: Provided, That organization for the United States share of in- zations in which the United States participates not to exceed $2,000,000, to remain available terest costs made known to the United States pursuant to treaties ratified pursuant to the ad- until expended, may be credited to this appro- Government by such organization for loans in- vice and consent of the Senate or specific Acts priation from fees or other payments received curred on or after October 1, 1984, through ex- of Congress; arms control, nonproliferation and from or in connection with English teaching, ternal borrowings: Provided further, That, of disarmament activities as authorized; acquisi- educational advising and counseling programs, the funds appropriated in this paragraph, tion by exchange or purchase of passenger and exchange visitor programs as authorized. $100,000,000 may be made available only pursu- motor vehicles as authorized by law; and for ex- ant to a certification by the Secretary of State REPRESENTATION ALLOWANCES penses of general administration, $3,142,277,000: that the United Nations has taken no action in For representation allowances as authorized, Provided, That, of the amount made available calendar year 2001 prior to the date of enact- $6,485,000. under this heading, not to exceed $4,000,000 may ment of this Act to increase funding for any be transferred to, and merged with, funds in the PROTECTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND OFFICIALS United Nations program without identifying an ‘‘Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular For expenses, not otherwise provided, to en- offsetting decrease elsewhere in the United Na- Service’’ appropriations account, to be available able the Secretary of State to provide for ex- tions budget and cause the United Nations to only for emergency evacuations and terrorism traordinary protective services, as authorized, exceed the budget for the biennium 2000–2001 of rewards: Provided further, That, of the amount $9,400,000, to remain available until September $2,535,700,000: Provided further, That if the Sec- made available under this heading, $270,259,000 30, 2003. retary of State is unable to make the aforemen- shall be available only for public diplomacy EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND tioned certification, the $100,000,000 is to be ap- international information programs: Provided MAINTENANCE plied to paying the current year assessment for further, That of the amount made available For necessary expenses for carrying out the other international organizations for which the under this heading, $694,190,000 shall be avail- Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926, as amend- assessment has not been paid in full or to pay- able only for information resource management: ed (22 U.S.C. 292–300), preserving, maintaining, ing the assessment due in the next fiscal year Provided further, That notwithstanding section repairing, and planning for buildings that are for such organizations, subject to the re- 140(a)(5), and the second sentence of section owned or directly leased by the Department of programming procedures contained in section 140(a)(3), of the Foreign Relations Authoriza- State, renovating, in addition to funds other- 605 of this Act: Provided further, That funds ap- tion Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995, fees may be wise available, the Harry S Truman Building, propriated under this paragraph may be obli- collected during fiscal years 2002 and 2003, and carrying out the Diplomatic Security Con- gated and expended to pay the full United under the authority of section 140(a)(1) of that struction Program as authorized, $458,000,000, to States assessment to the civil budget of the Act: Provided further, That all fees collected remain available until expended as authorized, North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL EISENHOWER EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM $25,900,000, to remain available until expended, PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES TRUST FUND as authorized. For necessary expenses to pay assessed and For necessary expenses of Eisenhower Ex- GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF STATE other expenses of international peacekeeping ac- change Fellowships, Incorporated, as author- AND RELATED AGENCY tivities directed to the maintenance or restora- ized by sections 4 and 5 of the Eisenhower Ex- SEC. 401. Funds appropriated under this title tion of international peace and security, change Fellowship Act of 1990 (20 U.S.C. 5204– shall be available, except as otherwise provided, $844,139,000, of which 15 percent shall remain 5205), all interest and earnings accruing to the for allowances and differentials as authorized available until September 30, 2003: Provided, Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program by subchapter 59 of title 5, United States Code; That none of the funds made available under Trust Fund on or before September 30, 2002, to for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and this Act shall be obligated or expended for any remain available until expended: Provided, That for hire of passenger transportation pursuant to new or expanded United Nations peacekeeping none of the funds appropriated herein shall be 31 U.S.C. 1343(b). mission unless, at least 15 days in advance of used to pay any salary or other compensation, SEC. 402. Not to exceed 5 percent of any ap- voting for the new or expanded mission in the or to enter into any contract providing for the propriation made available for the current fiscal United Nations Security Council (or in an emer- payment thereof, in excess of the rate author- year for the Department of State in this Act may gency as far in advance as is practicable): (1) ized by 5 U.S.C. 5376; or for purposes which are be transferred between such appropriations, but the Committees on Appropriations of the House not in accordance with OMB Circulars A–110 no such appropriation, except as otherwise spe- of Representatives and the Senate and other ap- (Uniform Administrative Requirements) and A– cifically provided, shall be increased by more propriate committees of the Congress are noti- 122 (Cost Principles for Non-profit Organiza- than 10 percent by any such transfers: Pro- fied of the estimated cost and length of the mis- tions), including the restrictions on compensa- vided, That not to exceed 5 percent of any ap- sion, the vital national interest that will be tion for personal services. propriation made available for the current fiscal served, and the planned exit strategy; and (2) a ISRAELI ARAB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM year for the Broadcasting Board of Governors in reprogramming of funds pursuant to section 605 For necessary expenses of the Israeli Arab this Act may be transferred between such appro- of this Act is submitted, and the procedures Scholarship Program as authorized by section priations, but no such appropriation, except as therein followed, setting forth the source of 214 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, otherwise specifically provided, shall be in- funds that will be used to pay for the cost of the Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2452), all creased by more than 10 percent by any such new or expanded mission: Provided further, interest and earnings accruing to the Israeli transfers: Provided further, That any transfer That funds shall be available for peacekeeping Arab Scholarship Fund on or before September pursuant to this section shall be treated as a re- expenses only upon a certification by the Sec- 30, 2002, to remain available until expended. programming of funds under section 605 of this retary of State to the appropriate committees of Act and shall not be available for obligation or EAST-WEST CENTER the Congress that American manufacturers and expenditure except in compliance with the pro- To enable the Secretary of State to provide for suppliers are being given opportunities to pro- cedures set forth in that section. carrying out the provisions of the Center for vide equipment, services, and material for SEC. 403. None of the funds made available in Cultural and Technical Interchange Between United Nations peacekeeping activities equal to this Act may be used by the Department of State East and West Act of 1960, by grant to the Cen- those being given to foreign manufacturers and or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to pro- ter for Cultural and Technical Interchange Be- suppliers: Provided further, That none of the vide equipment, technical support, consulting tween East and West in the State of Hawaii, funds made available under this heading are services, or any other form of assistance to the $14,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds available to pay the United States share of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. appropriated herein shall be used to pay any cost of court monitoring that is part of any SEC. 404. Hereafter, none of the funds appro- salary, or enter into any contract providing for United Nations peacekeeping mission. priated or otherwise made available for the the payment thereof, in excess of the rate au- United Nations may be used by the United Na- INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS thorized by 5 U.S.C. 5376. For necessary expenses, not otherwise pro- tions for the promulgation or enforcement of NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY vided for, to meet obligations of the United any treaty, resolution, or regulation authorizing States arising under treaties, or specific Acts of For grants made by the Department of State the United Nations, or any of its specialized Congress, as follows: to the National Endowment for Democracy as agencies or affiliated organizations, to tax any authorized by the National Endowment for De- aspect of the Internet or international currency INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER mocracy Act, $33,500,000, to remain available transactions. COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO until expended. SEC. 405. Funds appropriated by this Act for For necessary expenses for the United States RELATED AGENCY the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Section of the International Boundary and Department of State may be obligated and ex- Water Commission, United States and Mexico, BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS pended notwithstanding section 313 of the For- and to comply with laws applicable to the INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS eign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years United States Section, including not to exceed For expenses necessary to enable the Broad- 1994 and 1995, and section 15 of the State De- $6,000 for representation; as follows: casting Board of Governors, as authorized, to partment Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as SALARIES AND EXPENSES carry out international communication activi- amended. SEC. 406. The Mutual Educational and Cul- For salaries and expenses, not otherwise pro- ties, $428,234,000, of which not to exceed $16,000 tural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2451 et vided for, $24,705,000. may be used for official receptions within the United States as authorized, not to exceed seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol- CONSTRUCTION $35,000 may be used for representation abroad as lowing new section: For detailed plan preparation and construc- authorized, and not to exceed $39,000 may be ‘‘SEC. 114. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TRANSFERRED tion of authorized projects, $5,450,000, to remain used for official reception and representation TO THE BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL available until expended, as authorized. expenses of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS. AMERICAN SECTIONS, INTERNATIONAL and in addition, notwithstanding any other pro- ‘‘Of each amount transferred to the Bureau of COMMISSIONS vision of law, not to exceed $2,000,000 in receipts Educational and Cultural Affairs out of appro- For necessary expenses, not otherwise pro- from advertising and revenue from business ven- priations other than appropriations under the vided, for the International Joint Commission tures, not to exceed $500,000 in receipts from co- heading ‘Educational and Cultural Exchange and the International Boundary Commission, operating international organizations, and not Programs’ for support of an educational or cul- United States and Canada, as authorized by to exceed $1,000,000 in receipts from privatiza- tural exchange program, notwithstanding any treaties between the United States and Canada tion efforts of the Voice of America and the other provision of law, not more than 7.5 per- or Great Britain, and for the Border Environ- International Broadcasting Bureau, to remain cent shall be made available to cover adminis- ment Cooperation Commission as authorized by available until expended for carrying out au- trative expenses incurred in connection with Public Law 103–182, $9,911,000, of which not to thorized purposes. support of the program. Amounts made avail- able to cover administrative expenses shall be exceed $9,000 shall be available for representa- BROADCASTING TO CUBA tion expenses incurred by the International credited to the appropriations under the head- For necessary expenses to enable the Broad- Joint Commission. ing ‘Educational and Cultural Exchange Pro- casting Board of Governors to carry out broad- grams’ and shall remain available until ex- INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSIONS casting to Cuba, including the purchase, rent, pended.’’. For necessary expenses for international fish- construction, and improvement of facilities for eries commissions, not otherwise provided for, as SEC. 407. (a) Section 1334 of the Foreign Af- radio and television transmission and reception, fairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (as authorized by law, $20,480,000: Provided, That and purchase and installation of necessary the United States’ share of such expenses may enacted in division G of the Omnibus Consoli- equipment for radio and television transmission dated and Emergency Supplemental Appropria- be advanced to the respective commissions pur- and reception, $24,872,000, to remain available suant to 31 U.S.C. 3324. tions Act, 1999; Public Law 105–277 and amend- until expended. ed by section 404(a) of the Admiral James W. OTHER BROADCASTING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Au- PAYMENT TO THE ASIA FOUNDATION For the purchase, rent, construction, and im- thorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001) is For a grant to the Asia Foundation, as au- provement of facilities for radio transmission amended by striking ‘‘October 1, 2001’’ and in- thorized by the Asia Foundation Act (22 U.S.C. and reception, and purchase and installation of serting ‘‘October 1, 2005’’. 4402), as amended, $9,250,000, to remain avail- necessary equipment for radio and television (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) able until expended, as authorized. transmission and reception as authorized, shall take effect as if included in the enactment

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of the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Dono- OPERATIONS AND TRAINING COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN van Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal For necessary expenses of operations and EUROPE Years 2000 and 2001. training activities authorized by law, SALARIES AND EXPENSES (c) The provisions of law repealed by section $89,054,000, of which $13,000,000 shall remain For necessary expenses of the Commission on 404(c) of the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg available until expended for capital improve- Security and Cooperation in Europe, as author- Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, ments at the United States Merchant Marine ized by Public Law 94–304, $1,499,000, to remain Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 (section 404(c) of di- Academy. available until expended as authorized by sec- vision A of H.R. 3427, as enacted into law by MARITIME GUARANTEED LOAN (TITLE XI) PROGRAM tion 3 of Public Law 99–7. section 1000(a)(7) of Public Law 106–113; appen- ACCOUNT CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON THE dix G; 113 Stat. 1501A–446) are hereby reenacted PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA into law. For the cost of guaranteed loans, as author- (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of ized by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, SALARIES AND EXPENSES law, any period of discontinuity of the United $33,000,000, to remain available until expended: For necessary expenses of the Congressional- States Advisory Commission on Public Diplo- Provided, That such costs, including the cost of Executive Commission on the People’s Republic macy shall not affect the appointment or terms modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec- of China, as authorized, $1,000,000, to remain of service of members of the commission. tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, available until expended. SEC. 408. (a) Section 303 of the Departments of as amended. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, In addition, for administrative expenses to SALARIES AND EXPENSES and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988 carry out the guaranteed loan program, not to For necessary expenses of the Equal Employ- (as enacted into law by section 101(a) of Public exceed $3,978,000, which shall be transferred to ment Opportunity Commission as authorized by Law 100–202) is amended in the first sentence by and merged with the appropriation for Oper- title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as striking ‘‘$440,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$620,000’’. ations and Training. amended (29 U.S.C. 206(d) and 621–634), the (b)(1) Section 2(2) of the joint resolution enti- ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—MARITIME Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the tled ‘‘Joint resolution to authorize participation ADMINISTRATION Civil Rights Act of 1991, including services as by the United States in parliamentary con- Notwithstanding any other provision of this authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger ferences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Act, the Maritime Administration is authorized motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. tion’’, approved July 11, 1956 (22 U.S.C. 1928b) is to furnish utilities and services and make nec- 1343(b); non-monetary awards to private citi- amended— essary repairs in connection with any lease, zens; and not to exceed $30,000,000 for payments (A) by striking ‘‘$100,000’’ and inserting contract, or occupancy involving Government to State and local enforcement agencies for serv- ‘‘$200,000’’; and property under control of the Maritime Adminis- ices to the Commission pursuant to title VII of (B) by striking ‘‘$50,000’’ each of the two tration, and payments received therefore shall the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, sec- places it appears and inserting ‘‘$100,000’’. be credited to the appropriation charged with tions 6 and 14 of the Age Discrimination in Em- (2) Section 2 of the joint resolution entitled the cost thereof: Provided, That rental payments ployment Act, the Americans with Disabilities ‘‘Joint resolution to authorize participation by under any such lease, contract, or occupancy Act of 1990, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the United States in parliamentary conferences for items other than such utilities, services, or $310,406,000: Provided, That the Commission is with Mexico’’, approved April 9, 1960 (22 U.S.C. repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as authorized to make available for official recep- 276i) is amended— miscellaneous receipts. tion and representation expenses not to exceed (A) by striking ‘‘$80,000’’ and inserting No obligations shall be incurred during the $2,500 from available funds. ‘‘$120,000’’; and current fiscal year from the construction fund (B) by striking ‘‘$40,000’’ each of the two FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION established by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, places it appears and inserting ‘‘$60,000’’. SALARIES AND EXPENSES or otherwise, in excess of the appropriations and (3) Section 2 of the joint resolution entitled For necessary expenses of the Federal Commu- limitations contained in this Act or in any prior ‘‘Joint resolution to authorize participation by nications Commission, as authorized by law, in- Appropriations Act. the United States in parliamentary conferences cluding uniforms and allowances therefor, as with Canada’’, approved June 11, 1959 (22 COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; not to exceed U.S.C. 276e) is amended— AMERICA’S HERITAGE ABROAD $600,000 for land and structure; not to exceed (A) by striking ‘‘$70,000’’ and inserting SALARIES AND EXPENSES $500,000 for improvement and care of grounds and repair to buildings; not to exceed $4,000 for ‘‘$150,000’’; and For expenses for the Commission for the Pres- (B) by striking ‘‘$35,000’’ each of the two official reception and representation expenses; ervation of America’s Heritage Abroad, $489,000, places it appears and inserting ‘‘$75,000’’. purchase (not to exceed 16) and hire of motor as authorized by section 1303 of Public Law 99– (4) Section 109(b) of the Department of State vehicles; special counsel fees; and services as 83. Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $245,071,000, of (22 U.S.C. 276 note) is amended by striking COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS which not to exceed $300,000 shall remain avail- ‘‘$50,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$100,000’’. SALARIES AND EXPENSES able until September 30, 2003, for research and (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of For necessary expenses of the Commission on policy studies: Provided, That $218,757,000 of law, whenever either the House of Representa- Civil Rights, including hire of passenger motor offsetting collections shall be assessed and col- tives or the Senate does not appoint its allot- vehicles, $9,096,000: Provided, That not to ex- lected pursuant to section 9 of title I of the Com- ment of members as part of the American delega- ceed $50,000 may be used to employ consultants: munications Act of 1934, as amended, and shall tion or group to a conference or assembly of the Provided further, That none of the funds appro- be retained and used for necessary expenses in British-American Interparliamentary Group, the priated in this paragraph shall be used to em- this appropriation, and shall remain available Conference on Security and Cooperation in Eu- ploy in excess of four full-time individuals until expended: Provided further, That the sum rope (CSCE), the Mexico-United States Inter- under Schedule C of the Excepted Service exclu- herein appropriated shall be reduced as such parliamentary Group, the North Atlantic Assem- sive of one special assistant for each Commis- offsetting collections are received during fiscal bly, or any similar interparliamentary group of sioner: Provided further, That none of the funds year 2002 so as to result in a final fiscal year which the United States is a member or partici- appropriated in this paragraph shall be used to 2002 appropriation estimated at $26,314,000: Pro- pates and so notifies the other body of Congress, reimburse Commissioners for more than 75 vided further, That any offsetting collections re- the other body may make appointments to com- billable days, with the exception of the chair- ceived in excess of $218,757,000 in fiscal year plete the membership of the American delega- person, who is permitted 125 billable days. 2002 shall remain available until expended, but tion. Any appointment pursuant to this section shall not be available for obligation until Octo- shall be for the period of such conference or as- COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS ber 1, 2002. FREEDOM sembly and the body of Congress making such FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION an appointment shall be responsible for the ex- SALARIES AND EXPENSES SALARIES AND EXPENSES penses of any member so appointed. Any such For necessary expenses for the United States For necessary expenses of the Federal Mari- appointment shall be made in the same manner Commission on International Religious Freedom, time Commission as authorized by section 201(d) in which other appointments to the delegation as authorized by title II of the International Re- of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended by such body of Congress are made. ligious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 105– (46 U.S.C. App. 1111), including services as au- This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of 292), $3,000,000, to remain available until ex- thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, pended. motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 2002’’. COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY 1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefor, as TITLE V—RELATED AGENCIES SALARIES AND EXPENSES authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $16,458,000: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION For the necessary expenses of the Commission Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 shall be MARITIME ADMINISTRATION on Ocean Policy, pursuant to Public Law 106– available for official reception and representa- tion expenses. MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM 256, $3,000,000, to remain available until ex- For necessary expenses to maintain and pre- pended: Provided, That the Commission shall FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION serve a U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the na- present to the Congress within 18 months of ap- SALARIES AND EXPENSES tional security needs of the United States, pointment its recommendations for a national For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade $98,700,000, to remain available until expended. ocean policy. Commission, including uniforms or allowances

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therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; Columbia and elsewhere, and not to exceed BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of $3,000 for official reception and representation For the cost of direct loans, $1,860,000, to be passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,000 expenses, $109,500,000 from fees collected in fis- available until expended; and for the cost of for official reception and representation ex- cal year 2002 to remain available until ex- guaranteed loans, $78,000,000, as authorized by penses, $155,982,000: Provided, That not to ex- pended, and from fees collected in previous fis- 15 U.S.C. 631 note, of which $45,000,000 shall re- ceed $300,000 shall be available for use to con- cal years, $328,400,000, to remain available until main available until September 30, 2003: Pro- tract with a person or persons for collection expended; of which not to exceed $10,000 may be vided, That such costs, including the cost of services in accordance with the terms of 31 used toward funding a permanent secretariat modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec- U.S.C. 3718, as amended: Provided further, for the International Organization of Securities tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, That, notwithstanding any other provision of Commissions; and of which not to exceed as amended: Provided further, That during fis- law, not to exceed $155,982,000 of offsetting col- $100,000 shall be available for expenses for con- cal year 2002 commitments to guarantee loans lections derived from fees collected for premerger sultations and meetings hosted by the Commis- under section 503 of the Small Business Invest- notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino sion with foreign governmental and other regu- ment Act of 1958, as amended, shall not exceed Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. latory officials, members of their delegations, $4,500,000,000, as provided under section 18a), regardless of the year of collection, shall appropriate representatives and staff to ex- 20(h)(1)(B)(ii) of the Small Business Act: Pro- be retained and used for necessary expenses in change views concerning developments relating vided further, That during fiscal year 2002 com- this appropriation, and shall remain available to securities matters, development and imple- mitments for general business loans authorized until expended: Provided further, That the sum mentation of cooperation agreements concerning under section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, as herein appropriated from the general fund shall securities matters and provision of technical as- amended, shall not exceed $10,000,000,000 with- be reduced as such offsetting collections are re- sistance for the development of foreign securities out prior notification of the Committees on Ap- ceived during fiscal year 2002, so as to result in markets, such expenses to include necessary lo- propriations of the House of Representatives a final fiscal year 2002 appropriation from the gistic and administrative expenses and the ex- and Senate in accordance with section 605 of general fund estimated at not more than $0, to penses of Commission staff and foreign invitees this Act: Provided further, That during fiscal remain available until expended: Provided fur- in attendance at such consultations and meet- year 2002 commitments to guarantee loans for ther, That none of the funds made available to ings including: (1) such incidental expenses as debentures and participating securities under the Federal Trade Commission shall be available meals taken in the course of such attendance; section 303(b) of the Small Business Investment for obligation for expenses authorized by section (2) any travel and transportation to or from Act of 1958, as amended, shall not exceed the 151 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora- such meetings; and (3) any other related lodging levels established by section 20(h)(1)(C) of the tion Improvement Act of 1991 (Public Law 102– or subsistence: Provided, That fees and charges Small Business Act. 242; 105 Stat. 2282–2285). authorized by sections 6(b)(4) of the Securities In addition, for administrative expenses to LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77f(b)(4)) and 31(d) of the carry out the direct and guaranteed loan pro- Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION grams, $129,000,000, which may be transferred to 78ee(d)) shall be credited to this account as off- and merged with the appropriations for Salaries For payment to the Legal Services Corpora- setting collections: Provided further, That in the and Expenses. tion to carry out the purposes of the Legal Serv- event that H.R. 1088, the Investor and Capital ices Corporation Act of 1974, as amended, DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT Markets Fee Relief Act, or other legislation to For the cost of direct loans authorized by sec- $329,300,000, of which $310,000,000 is for basic amend section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 field programs and required independent audits; tion 7(b) of the Small Business Act, as amended, (15 U.S.C. 77f(b)), and sections 13(e), 14(g), and $87,360,000, to remain available until expended: $2,500,000 is for the Office of Inspector General, 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 of which such amounts as may be necessary Provided, That such costs, including the cost of U.S.C. 78m(e), 78n(g) and 78ee), is enacted into modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec- may be used to conduct additional audits of re- law prior to the date on which a regular appro- cipients; $12,400,000 is for management and ad- tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, priation to the Commission for fiscal year 2003 is as amended. ministration; and $4,400,000 is for client self-help enacted, the fees, charges, and assessments au- and information technology. In addition, for administrative expenses to thorized by such sections, as amended, shall be carry out the direct loan program, $122,354,000, ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—LEGAL SERVICES deposited and credited to this account as offset- CORPORATION which may be transferred to and merged with ting collections: Provided further, That fees col- appropriations for Salaries and Expenses, of None of the funds appropriated in this Act to lected as authorized by section 31 of the Securi- which $500,000 is for the Office of Inspector the Legal Services Corporation shall be ex- ties Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78ee) for General of the Small Business Administration pended for any purpose prohibited or limited by, sales transacted on, and with respect to securi- for audits and reviews of disaster loans and the or contrary to any of the provisions of, sections ties registered solely on, an exchange that is ini- disaster loan program and shall be transferred 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, and 506 of Public Law tially granted registration as a national securi- to and merged with appropriations for the Of- 105–119, and all funds appropriated in this Act ties exchange after February 24, 2000 shall be fice of Inspector General; of which $112,000,000 to the Legal Services Corporation shall be sub- credited to this account as offsetting collections: is for direct administrative expenses of loan ject to the same terms and conditions set forth Provided further, That for purposes of collec- making and servicing to carry out the direct in such sections, except that all references in tions under section 31, a security shall not be loan program; and of which $9,854,000 is for in- sections 502 and 503 to 1997 and 1998 shall be deemed registered on a national securities ex- direct administrative expenses: Provided, That deemed to refer instead to 2001 and 2002, respec- change solely because that national securities any amount in excess of $9,854,000 to be trans- tively. exchange continues or extends unlisted trading ferred to and merged with appropriations for Section 504(a)(16) of Public Law 104–134 is privileges to that security. Salaries and Expenses for indirect administra- hereafter amended by striking ‘‘if such relief tive expenses shall be treated as a reprogram- does not involve’’ and all that follows through SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ming of funds under section 605 of this Act and ‘‘representation’’. SALARIES AND EXPENSES shall not be available for obligation or expendi- MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION For necessary expenses, not otherwise pro- ture except in compliance with the procedures SALARIES AND EXPENSES vided for, of the Small Business Administration set forth in that section. For necessary expenses of the Marine Mam- as authorized by Public Law 105–135, including ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS mal Commission as authorized by title II of Pub- hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized ADMINISTRATION lic Law 92–522, as amended, $1,957,000. by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344, and not to exceed Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation NATIONAL VETERANS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT $3,500 for official reception and representation made available for the current fiscal year for CORPORATION expenses, $308,476,000: Provided, That the Ad- the Small Business Administration in this Act ministrator is authorized to charge fees to cover For necessary expenses of the National Vet- may be transferred between such appropria- the cost of publications developed by the Small erans Business Development Corporation as au- tions, but no such appropriation shall be in- Business Administration, and certain loan serv- thorized under section 33(a) of the Small Busi- creased by more than 10 percent by any such icing activities: Provided further, That, notwith- ness Act, as amended, $4,000,000. transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, revenues received from to this paragraph shall be treated as a re- PACIFIC CHARTER COMMISSION all such activities shall be credited to this ac- programming of funds under section 605 of this SALARIES AND EXPENSES count, to be available for carrying out these Act and shall not be available for obligation or For necessary expenses for the Pacific Charter purposes without further appropriations: Pro- expenditure except in compliance with the pro- Commission, as authorized by the Pacific Char- vided further, That $88,000,000 shall be available cedures set forth in that section. to fund grants for performance in fiscal year ter Commission Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–570), STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE $1,500,000, to remain available until expended. 2002 or fiscal year 2003 as authorized by section 21 of the Small Business Act, as amended. SALARIES AND EXPENSES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION For necessary expenses of the State Justice In- SALARIES AND EXPENSES OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL stitute, as authorized by the State Justice Insti- For necessary expenses for the Securities and For necessary expenses of the Office of In- tute Authorization Act of 1992 (Public Law 102– Exchange Commission, including services as au- spector General in carrying out the provisions of 572; 106 Stat. 4515–4516), $3,000,000: Provided, thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, the rental of space (to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (5 That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for include multiple year leases) in the District of U.S.C. App.), $11,464,000. official reception and representation expenses.

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UNITED STATES-CANADA ALASKA RAIL (b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing fi- tion described in subsection (a), by June 30, COMMISSION nancial assistance to, or entering into any con- 2002, then effective on such date subsections (c) SALARIES AND EXPENSES tract with, any entity using funds made avail- through (f) shall take effect. For necessary expenses of the ‘‘United States- able in this Act, the head of each Federal agen- (c)(1) Section 504 of title 28, United States Canada Alaska Rail Commission’’, as author- cy, to the greatest extent practicable, shall pro- Code, is amended by inserting after ‘‘General’’ ized by Title III of Public Law 106–520, vide to such entity a notice describing the state- the following: ‘‘and a Deputy Attorney General $2,000,000, to remain available until expended. ment made in subsection (a) by the Congress. for Combating Domestic Terrorism’’. (2) the Section heading for section 504 of title TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS (c) PROHIBITION OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN 28, United States Code, is amended by striking SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation con- AMERICA.—If it has been finally determined by ‘‘Attorney’’ and inserting ‘‘Attorneys’’. tained in this Act shall be used for publicity or a court or Federal agency that any person in- (d) The Deputy Attorney General for Com- propaganda purposes not authorized by the tentionally affixed a label bearing a ‘‘Made in bating Domestic Terrorism (appointed under sec- Congress. America’’ inscription, or any inscription with tion 504 of title 28, United States Code, as SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation con- amended by subsection (c)) shall— tained in this Act shall remain available for ob- the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in (1) serve as the principal adviser to the Attor- ligation beyond the current fiscal year unless ney General for combating terrorism, expressly so provided herein. the United States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made counterterrorism, and antiterrorism policy; SEC. 603. The expenditure of any appropria- (2) have responsibility for coordinating all tion under this Act for any consulting service with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility functions within the Department of Justice re- through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 lating to combating domestic terrorism includ- U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. ing— where such expenditures are a matter of public (A) policies, plans, and oversight, as they re- SEC. 608. None of the funds made available in record and available for public inspection, ex- late to combating terrorism, counterterrorism, this Act may be used to implement, administer, cept where otherwise provided under existing and antiterrorism activities; law, or under existing Executive order issued or enforce any guidelines of the Equal Employ- (B) State and local preparedness for terrorist pursuant to existing law. ment Opportunity Commission covering harass- events; SEC. 604. If any provision of this Act or the ment based on religion, when it is made known (C) security classifications and clearances application of such provision to any person or to the Federal entity or official to which such within the Department of Justice; circumstances shall be held invalid, the remain- funds are made available that such guidelines (D) contingency operations within the Depart- der of the Act and the application of each provi- do not differ in any respect from the proposed ment of Justice; and sion to persons or circumstances other than guidelines published by the Commission on Oc- (E) critical infrastructure. those as to which it is held invalid shall not be tober 1, 1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 51266). (3) coordinate— affected thereby. SEC. 609. None of the funds made available by (A) all inter-agency interface between the De- SEC. 605. (a) None of the funds provided under this Act may be used for any United Nations partment of Justice and other departments, this Act, or provided under previous appropria- undertaking when it is made known to the Fed- agencies, and entities of the United States, in- tions Acts to the agencies funded by this Act eral official having authority to obligate or ex- cluding State and local organizations, engaged that remain available for obligation or expendi- pend such funds: (1) that the United Nations in combating terrorism, counterterrorism, and ture in fiscal year 2002, or provided from any ac- undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) that antiterrorism activities; and counts in the Treasury of the United States de- such undertaking will involve United States (B) the implementation of the national strat- rived by the collection of fees available to the Armed Forces under the command or oper- egy for combating terrorism by State and local agencies funded by this Act, shall be available ational control of a foreign national; and (3) entities with responsibilities for combating do- for obligation or expenditure through a re- that the President’s military advisors have not mestic terrorism; and programming of funds which: (1) creates new submitted to the President a recommendation (4) recommend changes in the organization programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or that such involvement is in the national secu- and management of the Department of Justice activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any rity interests of the United States and the Presi- and State and local entities engaged in com- means for any project or activity for which dent has not submitted to the Congress such a bating domestic terrorism to the Attorney Gen- funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relo- recommendation. eral. cates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes of- SEC. 610. (a) None of the funds appropriated (e) There is appropriated, out of any money in fices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or otherwise made available by this Act shall be the Treasury of the United States not otherwise or privatizes any functions or activities pres- expended for any purpose for which appropria- appropriated, for necessary expenses of the Of- ently performed by Federal employees; unless tions are prohibited by section 609 of the De- fice of the Deputy Attorney General for Com- the Appropriations Committees of both Houses partments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the bating Domestic Terrorism of the Department of of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Justice, $1,000,000, to remain available until ex- such reprogramming of funds. Act, 1999. pended. (b) None of the funds provided under this Act, (b) The requirements in subparagraphs (A) (f) Effective September 30, 2002, there is trans- or provided under previous appropriations Acts and (B) of section 609 of that Act shall continue ferred to the Deputy Attorney General for Com- to the agencies funded by this Act that remain to apply during fiscal year 2002. bating Domestic Terrorism all authorities, liabil- available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal SEC. 611. Hereafter, none of the funds appro- ities, funding, personnel, equipment, and real year 2002, or provided from any accounts in the priated or otherwise made available to the Bu- property employed or used by, or associated Treasury of the United States derived by the reau of Prisons shall be used to provide the fol- with, the Office of Domestic Preparedness, the collection of fees available to the agencies fund- lowing amenities or personal comforts in the National Domestic Preparedness Office, the Ex- ed by this Act, shall be available for obligation Federal prison system— ecutive Office of National Security, and such or expenditure for activities, programs, or (1) in-cell television viewing except for pris- appropriate components of the Office of Intel- projects through a reprogramming of funds in oners who are segregated from the general pris- ligence Policy and Review as relate to com- excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is on population for their own safety; bating terrorism, counterterrorism, and less, that: (1) augments existing programs, (2) the viewing of R, X, and NC–17 rated mov- antiterrorism activities. projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent ies, through whatever medium presented; SEC. 613. Any costs incurred by a department funding for any existing program, project, or ac- (3) any instruction (live or through broad- or agency funded under this Act resulting from tivity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent as casts) or training equipment for boxing, wres- personnel actions taken in response to funding approved by Congress; or (3) results from any tling, judo, karate, or other martial art, or any reductions included in this Act shall be absorbed general savings from a reduction in personnel bodybuilding or weightlifting equipment of any within the total budgetary resources available to which would result in a change in existing pro- sort; such department or agency: Provided, That the grams, activities, or projects as approved by (4) possession of in-cell coffee pots, hot plates authority to transfer funds between appropria- Congress; unless the Appropriations Committees or heating elements; or tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days (5) the use or possession of any electric or this section is provided in addition to authori- in advance of such reprogramming of funds. electronic musical instrument. ties included elsewhere in this Act: Provided SEC. 606. None of the funds made available in SEC. 612. (a) The President shall submit as further, That use of funds to carry out this sec- this Act may be used for the construction, repair part of the fiscal year 2003 budget to Congress a tion shall be treated as a reprogramming of (other than emergency repair), overhaul, con- proposal to restructure the Department of Jus- funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not version, or modernization of vessels for the Na- tice to include a coordinator of Department of be available for obligation or expenditure except tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Justice activities relating to combating domestic in compliance with the procedures set forth in in shipyards located outside of the United terrorism, including State and local grant pro- that section. States. grams subject to the authority of the Attorney SEC. 614. Hereafter, none of the funds appro- SEC. 607. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE General, and who will serve as the Department priated or otherwise made available to the Fed- EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of of Justice representative at interagency meetings eral Bureau of Prisons may be used to distribute the Congress that, to the greatest extent prac- on combating terrorism below the Cabinet level. or make available any commercially published ticable, all equipment and products purchased (b) If the President does not submit a proposal information or material to a prisoner when it is with funds made available in this Act should be as described in subsection (a), or if Congress made known to the Federal official having au- American-made. fails to enact legislation establishing a new posi- thority to obligate or expend such funds that

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.090 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8001 such information or material is sexually explicit other than to a prison or other facility certified for a grant to the New York Small Business De- or features nudity. by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appro- velopment Center to establish veterans business SEC. 615. Of the funds appropriated in this priately secure for housing such a prisoner. outreach programs; $1,000,000 shall be for a Act under the heading ‘‘Office of Justice Pro- SEC. 623. The requirements of section 312(a)(3) grant to the University of West Florida for a grams—State and Local Law Enforcement As- of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation virtual business accelerator program; $1,000,000 sistance’’, not more than 90 percent of the and Management Act shall not apply to funds shall be for a grant to Hamilton County, Ten- amount to be awarded to an entity under the made available by section 2201 of Public Law nessee, to establish a high-tech small business Local Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be 106–246. incubator; $500,000 shall be available for a grant made available to such an entity when it is SEC. 624. (a) Section 203(i) of the Act entitled to the Oklahoma Department of Career and made known to the Federal official having au- ‘‘An Act to approve a governing international Technology Education for a technology-based thority to obligate or expend such funds that agreement between the United States and the program for vocational training for economic the entity that employs a public safety officer Republic of Poland, and for other purposes’’, and job development; $200,000 shall be available (as such term is defined in section 1204 of title approved November 13, 1998, is amended by for a grant to Rural Enterprises, Inc., in Dur- I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets striking ‘‘2001’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’. ant, Oklahoma, to continue support for a re- Act of 1968) does not provide such a public safe- (b) Section 203 of such Act, as amended by source center for rural businesses; $100,000 shall ty officer who retires or is separated from service subsection (a), is further amended by adding at be available for a grant to Oklahoma State Uni- due to injury suffered as the direct and proxi- the end the following: versity for a center for international trade de- mate result of a personal injury sustained in the ‘‘(j) Not later than December 31, 2001, and velopment; $300,000 shall be for a grant to the line of duty while responding to an emergency every 2 years thereafter, the Pacific State Ma- University of Montana to establish an economic situation or a hot pursuit (as such terms are de- rine Fisheries Commission shall submit to the development resource center; $1,000,000 shall be fined by State law) with the same or better level Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- for a grant to George Mason University to con- of health insurance benefits at the time of re- tation of the Senate and the Committee on Re- duct an information technology business devel- tirement or separation as they received while on sources of the House of Representatives a report opment program; $1,500,000 shall be for a grant duty. on the health and management of the Dunge- to Shenandoah University to develop a histor- SEC. 616. None of the funds provided by this ness Crab fishery located off the coasts of the ical and tourism development facility; $1,000,000 Act shall be available to promote the sale or ex- States of Washington, Oregon, and California.’’. shall be for a grant to the Software Productivity port of tobacco or tobacco products, or to seek SEC. 625. Section 140 of Public Law 97–92 (28 Consortium to develop a facility to support dem- the reduction or removal by any foreign country U.S.C. 461 note; 95 Stat. 1200) is amended by onstration programs on information technology of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or to- adding at the end the following: ‘‘This section and telework; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to bacco products, except for restrictions which are shall apply to fiscal year 1981 and each fiscal the Southern Kentucky Tourism Development not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco year thereafter.’’. Association for continuation of a regional tour- products of the same type. SEC. 626. (a) The President shall submit, by ism promotion initiative; $1,500,000 shall be for a SEC. 617. (a) None of the funds appropriated not later than the time of submission of the grant to the Southern Kentucky Economic De- or otherwise made available by this Act shall be Budget of the United States Government for Fis- velopment Corporation for regional infrastruc- expended for any purpose for which appropria- cal Year 2003, a legislative proposal to establish ture and economic development initiatives; tions are prohibited by section 616 of the De- a comprehensive program to ensure fair, equi- $450,000 shall be for a grant to Southern Ken- partments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the table, and prompt compensation for all United tucky Rehabilitation Industries for financial as- Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations States victims of international terrorism (or rel- sistance and small business development; Act, 1999, as amended. atives of deceased United States victims of inter- $350,000 shall be available for a grant to the (b) Subsection (a)(1) of section 616 of that Act, national terrorism) that occurred or occurs on or Catskill Mountain Foundation to develop facili- as amended, is further amended by striking after November 1, 1979. ties and small business assistance programs; ‘‘Claudy Myrthil,’’. (b) The legislative proposal shall include, $500,000 shall be for a grant to the East Los An- (c) The requirements in subsections (b) and (c) among other things, which types of events geles Community Union to redevelop small busi- of section 616 of that Act shall continue to apply should be covered; which categories of individ- ness assistance facilities; $300,000 shall be for a during fiscal year 2002. uals should be covered by a compensation pro- grant to the Rockford, Illinois, Health Council SEC. 618. None of the funds appropriated pur- gram; the means by which United States victims for a pilot program on small business health suant to this Act or any other provision of law of prior or future acts of international terrorism, care insurance issues; $2,000,000 shall be for a may be used for: (1) the implementation of any including those with hostage claims against for- grant for the Illinois Coalition for a national tax or fee in connection with the implementa- eign states, will be covered; the establishment of demonstration project providing one-stop assist- tion of 18 U.S.C. 922(t); and (2) any system to a Special Master to administer the program; the ance for technology startup businesses; implement 18 U.S.C. 922(t) that does not require categories of injuries for which there should be $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to James Madison and result in the destruction of any identifying compensation; the process by which any collat- University for library programs and facilities to information submitted by or on behalf of any eral source of compensation to a victim (or a rel- assist small businesses; $300,000 shall be for a person who has been determined not to be pro- ative of a deceased victim) for an act of inter- grant to Lewis and Clark College in Lewiston, hibited from owning a firearm. national terrorism shall be offset from any com- Idaho, to develop a virtual business incubator; SEC. 619. Notwithstanding any other provision pensation that may be paid to that victim (or $300,000 shall be for a grant to the City of of law, amounts deposited or available in the that relative) under the program established by Chesapeake, Virginia, to develop a community Fund established under 42 U.S.C. 10601 in any this section; and identifiable sources of funds and microenterprise development facility; fiscal year in excess of $550,000,000 shall not be including assets of any state sponsor of ter- $700,000 shall be for a grant to Social Compact available for obligation until the following fiscal rorism to make payments under the program. for the ‘‘Realizing the Dream’’ initiative; year, with the exception of emergency appro- (c) Amend 28 U.S.C. Section 1605(a)(7)(A) by $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to Soundview priations made available by Public Law 107–38 inserting at the end, before the semicolon, the Community in Action for a technology access and transferred to the Fund. following: ‘‘or the act is related to Case Number and business improvement project; $500,000 shall SEC. 620. None of the funds made available to 1:00CV03110(ESG) in the United States District be for a grant to the Urban Justice Center in the Department of Justice in this Act may be Court for the District of Columbia’’. New York City for a community development used to discriminate against or denigrate the re- SEC. 627. No funds appropriated by this Act project; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to the ligious or moral beliefs of students who partici- may be used by Federal prisons to purchase Bronx Child Study Center at the Bronx-Leb- pate in programs for which financial assistance cable television services, to rent or purchase vid- anon Hospital Center; $2,000,000 shall be for a is provided from those funds, or of the parents eocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other grant to the Los Angeles Conservancy for re- or legal guardians of such students. audiovisual or electronic equipment used pri- building and revitalization; $2,000,000 shall be to SEC. 621. None of the funds appropriated or marily for recreational purposes. The preceding the Rhode Island School of Design for the mod- otherwise made available to the Department of sentence does not preclude the renting, mainte- ernization of a building to establish a small State and the Department of Justice shall be nance, or purchase of audiovisual or electronic business incubator; $500,000 shall be for a grant available for the purpose of granting either im- equipment for inmate training, religious, or edu- to Johnstown Area Regional Industries for a migrant or nonimmigrant visas, or both, con- cational programs. High Technology Initiative and a Wireless/Dig- sistent with the Secretary’s determination under SEC. 628. Clause (ii) of section 621(5)(A) of the ital Technology Program; $400,000 shall be for a section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nation- Communications Satellite Act of 1962 (47 U.S.C. grant to Purdue University for the purposes of ality Act, to citizens, subjects, nationals, or resi- 763(5)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘on or about constructing the Purdue Regional Technology dents of countries that the Attorney General has October 1, 2000,’’ and all that follows through Center in Lake County, Indiana; $500,000 shall determined deny or unreasonably delay accept- the end and inserting ‘‘not later than December be for a grant to the NTTC at Wheeling Jesuit ing the return of citizens, subjects, nationals, or 31, 2002, except that the Commission may extend University to continue the outreach program to residents under that section. this deadline to not later than June 30, 2003. assist small business development; $400,000 shall SEC. 622. None of the funds made available to SEC. 629. For an additional amount for ‘‘Small be for a grant to the Infotonics Center of Excel- the Department of Justice in this Act may be Business Administration, Salaries and Ex- lence in Rochester, New York, for photonics in- used for the purpose of transporting an indi- penses’’, $30,000,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be cubation and business development; $1,100,000 vidual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction available for a grant to Green Thumb, Inc., to shall be for a grant to the MountainMade Foun- for crime under State or Federal law and is clas- expand activities serving small businesses and dation to fulfill its charter purposes and to con- sified as a maximum or high security prisoner, older entrepreneurs; $500,000 shall be available tinue the initiative developed by the NTTC for

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.092 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 promotion, business and sites development, and This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of containers are secured with locks that meet education of artists and craftspeople; $500,000 Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, or exceed Federal specifications. The con- shall be for a grant to the West Virginia High and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, ferees expect the Department to report to Technology Consortium Foundation to develop 2002’’. the Committees no later than March 1, 2002, a small business commercialization grant pro- And the Senate agree to the same. identifying the number of Department-con- gram; $400,000 shall be for a grant to the Na- trolled containers that are not in compliance FRANK R. WOLF, tional Corrections and Law Enforcement Train- with the Federal specification. HAROLD ROGERS, ing and Technology Center, Inc., to work in The conferees are concerned that the De- JIM KOLBE, conjunction with the Office of Law Enforcement partment of Justice has not adequately fo- CHARLES H. TAYLOR, Technology Commercialization and the cused its attention on the growing problem RALPH REGULA, Moundsville Economic Development Council for of methamphetamine production and traf- TOM LATHAM, continued operations of the National Correc- ficking and the strain this crime is placing DAN MILLER, tions and Law Enforcement Training and Tech- on State and local law enforcement re- DAVID VITTER, nology Center, and for infrastructure improve- sources. The Department of Justice is di- BILL YOUNG, ments associated with this initiative; $500,000 rected to undertake a review of its current JOSE E. SERRANO, efforts in assisting States and local commu- shall be for a grant to the Chippewa Falls In- ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, nities with this growing problem and to pre- dustrial Development Corporation in Chippewa LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, pare a report that (1) defines the scope of the Falls, Wisconsin, for a business development as- ROBERT E. CRAMER, Jr., methamphetamine problem nationwide; (2) sistance program; $400,000 shall be for a grant to PATRICK J. KENNEDY, identifies the regions of the country most the National Center for e-Commerce at Poly- DAVID OBEY, adversely affected by methamphetamine pro- technic University in Brooklyn, New York; Managers on the Part of the House. duction and trafficking; (3) identifies the $150,000 shall be for a grant to Portage County, needs of State and local law enforcement in Wisconsin, for the establishment of a revolving ERNEST HOLLINGS, addressing this issue; and (4) defines the De- loan fund; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to the DANIEL K. INOUYE, partment’s role in providing training, inves- Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone to de- BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, tigative, and clean-up assistance to States velop a community accessible recreational area PATRICK J. LEAHY, and localities. This plan shall be provided to and economic development site along the Hud- HERB KOHL, the Committee by February 15, 2002. son River between 125th and 135th Streets; PATTY MURRAY, The conference agreement includes bill $150,000 is for a grant to the Long Island Bay JACK REED, language, as proposed by the House, speci- Shore Aquarium to develop a facility; $500,000 is ROBERT C. BYRD, fying the amount of funding provided for the for a grant to Yonkers, New York, for the JUDD GREGG, Department Leadership Program and the Of- Nepperhan Valley Technology Center; and TED STEVENS, fices of Legislative and Public Affairs. $500,000 shall be for a grant for Greenpoint PETE V. DOMENICI, JOINT AUTOMATED BOOKING SYSTEM Manufacturing and Design Center to acquire MITCH MCCONNELL, The conference agreement includes a total certain properties to develop a small business in- KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, of $15,957,000 for the Joint Automated Book- cubator facility: Provided, That Section 633 of BEN NIGHTHORSE ing System (JABS) program as proposed by Public Law 106–553 is amended with respect to a CAMPBELL, the House, instead of $22,500,000 as proposed grant of $1,000,000 for the City of Oak Ridge, THAD COCHRAN, by the Senate. This includes $1,000,000 in di- Tennessee, by inserting the words ‘‘through a Managers on the Part of the Senate. rect appropriations and a transfer of subaward to the Oak Ridge Associated Univer- JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF $14,957,000 from the Working Capital Fund. sity for renovation and expansion of a facility THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE The JABS program office may transfer both owned by the Oak Ridge Associated University’’ The managers on the part of the House and prior year unobligated and current year after ‘‘to support technology and economic de- the Senate at the conference on the dis- JABS funds between components as nec- velopment initiatives’’. agreeing votes of the two Houses on the essary to accelerate the deployment of the SEC. 630. None of the funds appropriated or amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. system nationwide without recourse to a re- otherwise made available by this Act shall be 2500) making appropriations for the Depart- programming. The JABS program office is available for cooperation with, or assistance or ments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the directed to report to the Committees on Ap- other support to, the International Criminal Judiciary and Related Agencies for the fiscal propriations as necessary regarding the sta- Court or the Preparatory Commission. This sub- tus of program deployment. year ending September 30, 2002, and for other section shall not be construed to apply to any purposes, submit the following joint state- NARROWBAND COMMUNICATIONS other entity outside the Rome treaty. ment to the House and the Senate in expla- The conference agreement includes a total TITLE VII—RESCISSIONS nation of the effect of the action agreed upon of $104,615,000 for narrowband communica- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE by the managers and recommended in the ac- tions conversion activities as proposed by LEGAL ACTIVITIES companying conference report. The legisla- the House, instead of $204,549,000 as proposed by the Senate. This includes $94,615,000 in di- ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND tive intent in the House and Senate versions in H.R. 2500 is set forth in the accompanying rect appropriations and a $10,000,000 transfer (RESCISSION) House report (H. Rept. 107–139 and the ac- from the Working Capital Fund. The con- Of the unobligated balances available under companying Senate report (S. 107–42). ferees note that there is $105,000,000 in prior this heading, $40,000,000 are rescinded. Senate amendment: The Senate deleted year carryover in this account. The con- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE the entire House bill after the enacting ference agreement provides funding nec- DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT clause and inserted the Senate bill. The con- essary to continue implementation of the ference agreement includes a revised bill. Department of Justice Wireless Network and EMERGENCY OIL AND GAS GUARANTEED LOAN for operations and maintenance of legacy PROGRAM ACCOUNT TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE systems. The conference agreement does not (RESCISSION) GENERAL ADMINISTRATION include language from the Senate report re- Of the unobligated balances available under SALARIES AND EXPENSES garding transfers from the Judiciary or the this heading from prior year appropriations, The conference agreement includes State Department, or availability of funds $5,200,000 are rescinded. for this account. Instead, the Wireless Man- $91,668,000 for General Administration as pro- agement Office is directed to submit, as part RELATED AGENCIES posed by the House, instead $93,433,000 as pro- of the fiscal year 2003 President’s budget sub- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION posed by the Senate. mission, a program plan based on the final The conference agreement adopts by ref- MARITIME ADMINISTRATION list of system requirements and a breakout, erence the House report language regarding SHIP CONSTRUCTION by fiscal year and activity, of the total pro- the planned integration of the Immigration gram cost based on the program plan. (RESCISSION) and Naturalization Service (INS) IDENT sys- Of the unobligated balances available under tem and the Federal Bureau of Investigation COUNTERTERRORISM FUND this heading, $4,400,000 are rescinded. (FBI) IAFIS system. The conference agreement includes SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION The conference agreement adopts by ref- $4,989,000 for the Counterterrorism Fund as SALARIES AND EXPENSES erence the Senate report language regarding proposed by the House. The Senate did not fund this program. When combined with (RESCISSION) a study for the establishment of an Inter- national Law Enforcement Training Acad- $41,077,000 in prior year carryover, this will Of the unobligated balances available under make a total of $46,066,000 available in the this heading, $50,000,000 are rescinded. emy in Mexico. The conferees continue to be concerned Fund for fiscal year 2002 to cover unantici- SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION about the security of classified information pated, extraordinary expenses as a result of BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT at the Department. The conferees under- a terrorist threat or incident. (RESCISSION) stand that Federal requirements for storage PORT SECURITY Of the unobligated balances available under of classified information mandate that the The conference agreement does not include this heading, $5,500,000 are rescinded. General Services Administration approved $39,950,000 for Port Security as proposed by

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.094 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8003 the Senate. The House did not address this tion Act of 2000 and to investigate and pros- property enforcement. The direction in- matter. ecute abuses in facilities for individuals who cluded in both the House and Senate reports The conferees believe that the Maritime are mentally ill and developmentally dis- regarding the submission of a report on Administration (MARAD) is better suited to abled, nursing homes, juvenile correctional copyright enforcement is adopted by ref- administer a port security program. The con- facilities, and adult jails and prisons. erence. ferees support any actions taken by MARAD The conference agreement adopts by ref- The conference agreement does not include to work with local ports to improve security. erence the Senate report language and fund- language in the Senate bill and report re- ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS ing levels for the Criminal Division’s Child garding gun surveillance technology and The conference agreement includes Exploitation and Obscenity section, Com- state and local training on child pornog- $173,647,000 for Administrative Review and puter Crime and Intellectual Property sec- raphy investigations. Instead, both projects Appeals, instead of $178,751,000 as proposed by tion, and Office of Enforcement Operations, were funded under the Office of Justice Pro- the House and $45,813,000 as proposed by the and the Civil Division’s All Other Torts sec- grams. The conference agreement includes Senate. tion. $6,500,000 under the Office of Justice Pro- The conference agreement includes Within the Environment and Natural Re- grams, Justice Assistance, to assist State $12,940,000 for inflationary costs and other sources Division’s base, the conference and local law enforcement agencies to ac- adjustments to base. The conferees direct agreement adopts by reference the Senate quire the necessary knowledge, equipment, that the Executive Office of Immigration Re- report language on the prosecution of drug and personnel resources to prevent, inter- view fully fund contract court interpreter labs in Federal parklands and poaching on dict, or investigate child sexual exploitation. services as necessary. The conferees adopt by Federal lands. UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND The Department is directed to notify the reference the House reporting requirement The conference agreement provides Committees of its fiscal year 2002 spending regarding the detention of criminal aliens, $147,000,000 for the United States Trustees, to plan incorporating the above initiatives no but direct that the Immigration and Natu- be funded entirely from offsetting collec- later than January 15, 2002. The plan will not ralization Service prepare this report and tions, instead of $145,937,000 as proposed by be subject to Committee approval unless it submit it to the Committees on Appropria- the House and $154,044,000 as proposed by the alters or fails to incorporate any of the tions by December 28, 2001. Senate. aforementioned items. DETENTION TRUSTEE The conference agreement adopts by ref- THE NATIONAL CHILDHOOD VACCINE INJURY ACT The conference agreement includes erence the House report language regarding The conference agreement includes a reim- $1,000,000 for the Federal Detention Trustee, funding various automation projects through bursement of $4,028,000 for fiscal year 2002 instead of $1,721,000 as proposed by the the Working Capital Fund, and the Senate from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust House, and $88,884,000 as proposed by the Sen- report language on the National Advocacy Fund to the Department of Justice, as pro- ate. The conferees note that once again the Center. posed by the House and Senate. Department has failed to centralize funding SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS for the Department’s detention needs under LEGAL ACTIVITIES OFFICE AUTOMATION SETTLEMENT COMMISSION the Detention Trustee account as required The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes by the fiscal year 2001 conference report. The $15,765,000 for Legal Activities Office Auto- $1,136,000 for the Foreign Claims Settlement Attorney General is directed, as part of the mation, instead of $34,600,000 as proposed by Commission as proposed by the House, in- fiscal year 2003 budget submission, to include the Senate. The House provided $18,835,000 stead of $1,130,000 as proposed by the Senate. for Legal Activities Office Automation either a funding proposal to fully centralize SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES through the ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, General all detention funding under the Detention MARSHALS SERVICE Trustee, or a plan for the orderly shutdown Legal Activities’’ appropriation. The con- of this office. ference agreement adopts the Senate lan- The conference agreement includes $619,429,000 for the U.S. Marshals Service OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL guage creating this new account structure. The conferees expect the Department to (USMS) salaries and expenses account, in- The conference agreement includes provide an additional $18,835,000 for Legal stead of $622,646,000 as proposed by the House $50,735,000 for the Office of Inspector General Activities Office Automation from the Work- and $644,746,000 as proposed by the Senate. as proposed by the House, instead of ing Capital Fund. The conference agreement adopts by ref- $46,006,000 as proposed by the Senate. erence Senate language and funding levels SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION The conference agreement adopts by ref- for the Warrant Information Network and erence the House report language regarding The conference agreement provides other networks and on-line services, includ- the provision of $5,000,000 to expand the In- $130,791,000 for the Antitrust Division as pro- ing the transfer from the Justice Detainee spector General’s authorities in inves- posed by the Senate, instead of $141,366,000 as Information System, recurring costs of the tigating allegations of employee misconduct proposed by the House. This amount will be Electronic Surveillance Unit, and the trans- within the FBI and the Drug Enforcement offset with Hart-Scott-Rodino fee collec- fer of funds from Human Resources to the Administration (DEA). tions, regardless of the year of collection, re- Central Courthouse Management Group for UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION sulting in no direct appropriations. The con- safety and health programs. The conference ference agreement adopts the Senate bill SALARIES AND EXPENSES agreement does not adopt Senate language language structure. The conference agreement includes regarding increases to the base, except those SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES $9,876,000 for the United States Parole Com- specifically addressed below, or the transfer mission, instead of $10,915,000 as proposed by ATTORNEYS of Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation the House and $8,836,000 as proposed by the The conference agreement includes System funding from this account to the De- Senate. $1,353,968,000 for the United States Attorneys tention Trustee. The conference agreement The conferees are aware that the Parole as proposed by the House, instead of includes $500,000 for Special Operations Commission is scheduled to be phased out in $1,260,353,000 as proposed by the Senate. Group training, equipment, and facilities November 2002. The conferees are also aware The conference agreement includes maintenance and $583,000 for permanent that a substantial parole caseload, the ma- $9,000,000 for Project Sentry. This will estab- changes of station. The latter two items jority of which is District of Columbia pris- lish new Federal-State partnerships that will should be treated as permanent increases to oners, will exist well into the future. As part support and expand Project Safe Neighbor- the base. The conference agreement does not of the fiscal year 2003 budget submission, the hood, particularly focusing on school safety, include Senate language or funding levels Attorney General is directed to propose ei- and identifying and prosecuting juveniles referencing courthouse security personnel, ther an extension of the existing Commission who violate State and Federal firearms laws terrorism or radios, or House language and or the transfer of the residual caseload to a and adults who illegally furnish firearms to funding levels regarding District of Colum- Federal or District of Columbia agency. In them. bia revitalization. The conference agreement the event the latter is proposed, the budget The conference agreement adopts by ref- includes language providing not to exceed submission should include a plan for the or- erence the House report language regarding 4,128 positions and 3,993 full time equivalents derly shutdown of the Parole Commission. habeas corpus overload, and adopts Senate for the Marshals Service as proposed by the report language regarding fundamental re- House. The Senate did not include a similar EGAL ACTIVITIES L form of United States Attorneys operations, provision. SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL gun prosecutions in Colorado, and the Na- Overseas Assignments.—The conferees are ACTIVITIES tional Advocacy Center, including the dis- aware that the U.S. Marshals Service has es- The conference agreement includes tance learning facility. In addition, the con- tablished a number of foreign offices in U.S. $549,176,000 for General Legal Activities, in- ference agreement provides such sums as embassies without Congressional approval, stead of $568,011,000 as proposed by the House may be necessary for court technology and using extended temporary duty assignments and $527,543,000 as proposed by the Senate. computer and telecommunications coordina- to circumvent the relocation report process. The conference agreement adopts by ref- tors. Therefore, the conferees direct the Justice erence the House report language and fund- The conference agreement directs the Management Division to report by November ing levels for the Civil Rights Division to en- United States Attorneys to provide a total of 30, 2001, to the Committees on Appropria- force the Victims of Trafficking and Protec- $10,000,000 for cybercrime and intellectual tions regarding the locations and purposes of

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.097 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 all Marshals overseas assignments of greater Greenville, MS ...... 645 Senate. This is an increase of $110,094,000, or than 30 days for the previous five years. The Gulfport, MS ...... 540 18 percent, over the fiscal year 2001 appro- Department is directed to terminate all Mar- Hattiesburg, MS ...... 590 priation. The Department should notify the shals overseas operations that should have Oxford, MS ...... 1,095 Committees on Appropriations by the end of been included in the relocation report. Fi- Newark, NJ ...... 300 the second quarter regarding the status of nally, none of the funds appropriated or oth- Columbus, OH ...... 300 obligations in this account. Muskogee, OK ...... 920 erwise made available by this Act may be FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES used for Marshals overseas temporary duty Aiken, SC ...... 220 assignments of greater than 30 days without Florence, SC ...... 321 The conference agreement includes the approval of the Committees on Appro- Spartanburg, SC ...... 555 $156,145,000 for Fees and Expenses of Wit- priations. Columbia, TN ...... 195 nesses as proposed by the Senate, instead of Financial Management.—The conferees are Amarillo, TX ...... 450 $148,494,000 as proposed by the House. concerned that, even with a reformed budget Houston, TX ...... 1,063 SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY execution process, a small budget shortfall Laredo, TX ...... 700 RELATIONS SERVICE in the Marshals Service at the beginning of Waco, TX ...... 423 The conference agreement includes the year was left unaddressed until well into Cheyenne, WY ...... 800 $9,269,000 for the Community Relations Serv- the fourth quarter, despite sharp prompting ice, as proposed by both the House and Sen- Subtotal, Detainee Facilities 13,069 from the Committees on Appropriations. ate. Minor Repair ...... 375 Therefore, the conferees direct the Marshals The conference agreement includes a pro- Service to submit, through the Justice Man- Engineering Services ...... 643 Security Survey ...... 180 vision allowing the Attorney General to agement Division, within 30 days of the date transfer up to $1,000,000 to this program, as of enactment of this Act, an overall agency proposed by the House and Senate. The At- spending plan for the full amount appro- Total, USMS Security Equip- ment ...... 14,267 torney General is expected to notify the priated for fiscal year 2002. Committees if this transfer authority is ex- Special Assignments.—The conferees are CONSTRUCTION ercised. In addition, a provision is included concerned that special assignment funds, The conference agreement includes allowing the Attorney General to transfer provided for contingencies, are being used to $15,000,000 for the USMS construction ac- additional resources, subject to reprogram- subsidize base activities. This misuse of count, instead of $6,628,000 as proposed by the ming requirements, upon a determination emergency funding threatens to undermine House and $25,812,000 as proposed by the Sen- that emergent circumstances warrant addi- the budget execution process. Therefore, the ate. The conference agreement includes the tional funding, as proposed by the House. conferees direct that management of all op- following distribution of funds: erations associated with the New York City ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND and East Africa bombing trials, including USMS Construction The conference agreement provides protective details, be returned to the South- [In thousands of dollars] $22,949,000 for the Assets Forfeiture Fund as ern District of New York, that all costs asso- Detainee Facilities: proposed by Senate, instead of $21,949,000 as ciated with these operations be budgeted out Construction: proposed by the House. of base funds, and that a multi-agency secu- Hot Springs, AR ...... $1,328 RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION rity review of these operations be under- Prescott, AZ ...... 550 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES taken immediately. This review shall be pro- Grand Junction, CO ...... 450 vided to the Committees on Appropriations Davenport, IA ...... 856 The conference agreement includes when completed. In addition, the conferees Sioux City, IA ...... 100 $1,996,000 for administrative expenses for the direct that, within two weeks of the date of Moscow, ID ...... 200 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, as enactment of this Act, the Marshals shall Rock Island, IL ...... 1,250 proposed by the House and Senate. identify to the Committees on Appropria- Rockford, IL ...... 24 PAYMENT TO THE RADIATION EXPOSURE tions the total amount available for special Springfield, IL ...... 85 COMPENSATION TRUST FUND Bay City, MI ...... 685 assignments in fiscal year 2002. Thereafter, The conference agreement does not include Flint, MI ...... 248 obligations of special assignment funds shall funding to make payment to the Radiation Natchez, MS ...... 1,000 require the notification of the Committees Exposure Compensation Trust Fund, instead Billings, MT ...... 850 on Appropriations. of $10,776,000 as proposed by the House and Fugitive Apprehensions.—The conference Raleigh, NC ...... 2,446 Senate. agreement provides increases of $3,150,000 for Sante Fe, NM ...... 500 The conferees believe that the Federal gov- Electronic Surveillance Unit personnel and New York, NY (40 Foley) ...... 250 ernment must meet its obligations to per- equipment and $5,825,000 for the establish- Columbus, OH ...... 1,000 sons, and their families, who were exposed to ment of dedicated fugitive task forces on Dayton, OH ...... 150 radiation and who now suffer from related both coasts as proposed by the Senate. Muskogee, OK ...... 280 diseases. The conferees note that the com- Courthouse Security Staffing and Prisoner Sioux Falls, SD ...... 680 pensation payments are based on claimants Transportation.—The total amount of funding Cheyenne, WY ...... 200 meeting eligibility criteria and therefore provided also includes increases of $3,625,000 should be scored or treated as mandatory for courthouse security personnel for exist- Subtotal, Construction ...... 13,132 payments under the Budget Act. Such pay- ing and new courthouses, and $1,451,000 for Planning, Design & Relocation: ments were assumed in the fiscal year 2002 prisoner transportation. El Dorado, AR ...... 100 congressional budget resolution to be scored Courthouse Security Equipment.—The con- Fayetteville, AR ...... 100 as mandatory with enactment of appropriate ference agreement includes a new appropria- El Centro, CA ...... 32 legislation starting in fiscal year 2002. Sup- tion for the USMS, ‘‘courthouse security Ocala, FL ...... 475 plemental appropriations were provided for equipment,’’ as proposed by the Senate. The Billings, MT ...... 200 fiscal year 2001 with the understanding and House did not include a similar provision. Wilmington, NC ...... 125 expectation that future funding for this pur- The conference agreement includes Columbia, SC ...... 46 pose would be mandatory and that further $14,267,000 for these activities, instead of Casper, WY ...... 100 discretionary appropriations would not be $5,769,000 as proposed by the House under Subtotal, Planning, Design necessary. USMS salaries and expenses and $18,145,000 & Relocation ...... 1,178 as proposed by the Senate. Funding for INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT Security Specialists/Construction courthouse security equipment is provided as Engineers ...... 690 INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT follows: The conference agreement provides USMS courthouse security equipment Subtotal, Construction ...... $15,000 $338,577,000 for Interagency Crime and Drug [In thousands of dollars] JUSTICE PRISONER AND ALIEN TRANSPORTATION Enforcement, instead of $340,189,000 as pro- Detainee Facilities ...... $13,069 SYSTEM FUND posed by the House and $336,966,000 as pro- posed by the Senate. Of the amounts pro- Fort Smith, AR ...... 200 The conference agreement does not include vided, $500,000 shall be made available to Denver, CO ...... 1,090 funding for the USMS Justice Prisoner and equip the Federal gun range replacing the Washington, DC...... 75 Alien Transportation System account, as closed range at Rocky Flats, Colorado, for Jacksonville, FL ...... 1,065 proposed by the House, instead of $53,050,000 use by Federal, state and local law enforce- Dublin, GA ...... 432 as proposed by the Senate. Moscow, ID ...... 50 ment. The conferees adopt by reference the Bowling Green, KY ...... 330 FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION Senate language regarding the Immigration Bay City, MI ...... 175 The conference agreement provides and Naturalization Service 25 percent match- Detroit, MI ...... 450 $706,182,000 for Federal Prisoner Detention, ing requirement. The distribution of the Cape Girardeau, MO ...... 75 instead of $724,682,000 as proposed by the total available funding, which reflects a per- East St. Louis, MO ...... 10 House and $687,682,000 as proposed by the manent reprogramming of $450,000 from the

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.100 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8005 Tax Division to the Criminal Division, is as include language or funding levels in the ministration (DEA) Salaries and Expenses follows: Senate report regarding regional computer account, instead of $1,476,083,000 as proposed forensic labs, regional mitchondrial DNA by the House and $1,489,779,000 as proposed by Reimbursements by agency labs, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Pro- the Senate. [In thousands of dollars] gram, or end strength. The conference agree- Budget and Financial Management.—The Drug Enforcement Administra- ment also adopts by reference the House and conference agreement adopts by reference tion ...... $111,422 Senate report language regarding the Jew- the language included in the Senate report Federal Bureau of Investigation .. 115,444 elry and Gem program. regarding budget and financial management. Immigration and Naturalization Trafficking in Persons.—The conferees expect The conference agreement includes bill lan- Service ...... 15,987 the FBI to continue its support of the Southeast guage, as proposed by the House, providing Marshals Service ...... 2,049 European Cooperative Initiative with regard to not to exceed 7,654 positions and 7,515 full U.S. Attorneys ...... 89,623 its efforts to combat trafficking in women and time equivalents for DEA from funds pro- Criminal Division ...... 1,328 children. vided in this Act. The Senate did not include Tax Division ...... 964 Trilogy.—The conference agreement in- a similar provision. The conference agree- Administrative Office ...... 1,760 cludes a total of $142,390,000 for Trilogy, of ment also includes bill language, as proposed Total ...... 338,577 which $74,730,000 is base funding, $29,565,000 is by the Senate, to provide two year funding derived from a Working Capital Fund trans- authority for costs associated with perma- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION fer, and $38,095,000 is provided in new direct nent change of station. The House bill did SALARIES AND EXPENSES appropriations. not include a similar provision. The conference agreement includes a total Quantico Laboratory.—The conference The following table represents funding pro- of $3,491,073,000 in new budget authority for agreement provides a total of $36,602,000 for vided under this account: the Salaries and Expenses account of the laboratory activation, including a transfer of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as pro- $24,837,000 from the Working Capital Fund DEA SALARIES AND EXPENSES posed by the House, instead of $3,425,041,000 for laboratory equipment and $11,765,000 for [In thousands of dollars] as proposed by the Senate. Of this amount, moving costs, fit out, and operations and not less than $459,243,000 shall be used for maintenance. If prior year recoveries or Activity Positions FTE Amount counterterrorism investigations, foreign other funds become available, the FBI should Enforcement: counterintelligence, and other activities re- seek a reprogramming to initiate decommis- Domestic Enforcement .... 2,091 2,042 $435,183 lated to national security, instead of sioning and renovation of former lab space in Foreign Cooperative In- $448,467,000 as proposed by the House and the J. Edgar Hoover Building. vestigations ...... 633 600 193,275 Drug and Chemical Di- $485,278,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement directs the FBI version ...... 165 166 18,961 The conference agreement includes an in- to fully reimburse private ambulance pro- State and Local Task crease of $122,119,000 for inflationary in- viders for their costs in support of Hostage Forces ...... 1,699 1,696 244,385 creases and other adjustments to base to Rescue Team operations in St. Martin Par- Subtotal ...... 4,804 4,504 891,804 support the FBI’s current staffing and oper- ish, Louisiana, in December 1999, as proposed ating level as reflected in the budget request. by the Senate. The House did not include a Investigative Support: The conference agreement does not adopt the Intelligence ...... 952 967 120,237 similar provision. Laboratory Services ...... 452 415 60,674 new budget structure proposed by the Sen- The conference agreement includes lan- Training ...... 99 98 24,754 ate. guage limiting the FBI to not exceed 24,935 Research, Engineering The conference agreement also includes and Technical Oper- positions and 24,488 full time equivalents, as ations ...... 582 565 121,270 programmatic increases of $140,472,000. The proposed by the House. The Senate did not Automated Data Proc- FBI is reminded that changes in this dis- include a similar provision. The conference essing ...... 125 0 159,044 tribution are subject to the reprogramming agreement also includes a provision that pro- Subtotal ...... 2,210 2,045 $485,979 requirements in section 605 of this Act. vides for up to 1,354 passenger motor vehi- cles, of which 1,190 will be for replacement Management and Administra- FBI Salaries and Expenses only, as proposed by the Senate, instead of tion ...... 850 841 104,000 [In thousands of dollars] 1,236 and 1,142, respectively, as proposed by TOTAL, DEA ...... 7,654 7,515 1,481,783 the House. Activity Positions FTE Amount CONSTRUCTION DEA is reminded that any deviation from Criminal, Security and Other The conference agreement includes the above distribution is subject to the re- Investigations: programming requirements of section 605 of Organized Criminal Ac- $33,791,000 for construction for the FBI, in- tivities ...... 3,778 3,787 $467,246 stead of $1,250,000 as requested and proposed this Act. White Collar Crime ...... 4,164 4,068 501,066 by the House and $44,074,000 as proposed by The conference agreement provides a net Other Field Programs ...... 10,362 10,130 1,442,277 the Senate. This includes funding for an increase of $68,213,000 for base adjustments as Subtotal ...... 18,304 17,985 2,410,589 annex at the Engineering Research Facility follows: increases totaling $73,532,000 for pay that will support consolidation of various and other inflationary costs to maintain cur- Law Enforcement Support: high technology programs on the FBI Acad- rent operations, offset by a $5,319,000 reduc- Training, Recruitment, and Applicants ...... 1,014 985 124,383 emy campus in Quantico, Virginia. tion for GSA rent decreases. In addition, the Forensic Services ...... 730 697 156,853 Hazardous Devices School.—The conferees conference agreement includes program in- Information, Manage- recognize the FBI’s mission to prevent and creases totaling $53,260,000 as follows: ment, Automation & Telecommunications ... 553 554 213,603 detect terrorist activities and understand Special Operations Division.—The conference Technical Field Support & the importance preparedness plays in achiev- agreement includes increases totaling Services ...... 263 244 164,510 ing this mission, particularly as it relates to $14,006,000 for drug enforcement investiga- Criminal Justice Services 2,010 2,021 210,354 Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). An es- tions of the Special Operations Division, in- Subtotal ...... 4,570 4,501 869,703 sential element of an effective U.S. response cluding $8,223,000 for domestic enforcement, to WMD incidents rests with first respond- $242,000 for intelligence, $164,000 for manage- Program Direction: Manage- ment and administration and drug and chem- ment and Administration .... 2,061 2,002 210,781 ers, including public safety bomb squads. All Total, Direct Appro- state and local bomb technicians are trained ical conversion, and $5,377,000 for research, priations ...... 24,935 24,488 $3,491,073 and certified at the Hazardous Devices engineering, and technical operations. School (HDS) at the Redstone Arsenal in FIREBIRD Implementation.—The conference The conference agreement adopts by ref- Huntsville, Alabama, which is operated agreement includes an increase of $19,400,000 erence House language and funding levels for jointly by the FBI and the U.S. Army. The for FIREBIRD implementation, including in- counterintelligence, the 2002 Winter Olym- conferees approve of the transfer of $9,000,000 creases of $2,500,000 for deployment, $1,900,000 pics, the Incident Response Readiness Pro- in no year funds from the Department of De- for network security, and $15,000,000 for tech- gram, and a comprehensive information fense to the FBI for the construction of prac- nology renewal. DEA is directed to continue technology report, and the Senate language tical training villages for the HDS. These to provide quarterly FIREBIRD status and and funding levels regarding technically- villages will be used for realistic training ex- obligation reports to the Committees on Ap- trained agent and electronic technician ercises. Further, the conferees support the propriations. training, Computer Analysis Response Team transfer from DOD of an additional Forensic Support.—The conference agree- training, Evidence Response Team supplies, $14,000,000 in no year funds to be used by the ment includes an increase of $13,104,000, as interception capabilities, counter-encryption FBI for the construction of a classroom provided by both the House and Senate, to equipment, white-collar crime computer building at the HDS. support additional chemists and purchase equipment, forensic research, the forensic laboratory equipment. The conference agree- DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION audio/video program, regional mitochondrial ment adopts by reference House language re- DNA lab oversight, the National Instant SALARIES AND EXPENSES garding distribution of this funding. Background Check System, and drug juris- The conference agreement includes In addition, $6,750,000 is provided to pro- diction. The conference agreement does not $1,481,783,000 for the Drug Enforcement Ad- cure one twin engine medium lift helicopter

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.102 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 to meet enforcement needs in Hawaii, and in the House bill, but provides the INS Com- for 348 new land border ports-of-entry inspec- one single engine light aircraft helicopter for missioner the flexibility to exceed the cap as tors as proposed by the Senate. The House drug enforcement activities elsewhere. The necessary for national security purposes and did not include a similar provision. The INS conferees adopt by reference House and Sen- in cases of immigration emergencies. The is expected to assign these new inspectors to ate language regarding the Caribbean Initia- Senate bill limited overtime to $1,153 per em- the highest priority locations, paying par- tive, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, ployee per pay period. The INS is directed to ticular attention to the Northern Border. heroin, OxyContin, MDMA, submit to the Committees on Appropriations Border Patrol Agents.—The conference methamphetamines, and Special Investiga- quarterly reports on overtime expenditures agreement includes an increase of $66,352,000 tive Units. by employee, activity and district. It is ex- to hire 570 additional border patrol agents, In addition, the conference agreement in- pected that funding provided in this act for as proposed by the House, instead of cludes a total of $20,000,000 under the Com- 570 additional Border Patrol agents, 348 addi- $75,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Senate munity Oriented Policing Services Meth- tional land border inspectors, new airport language regarding assignment of border pa- amphetamine/Drug ‘‘Hot Spots’’ program for and seaport inspectors funded by the fee in- trol agents is adopted by reference. In addi- DEA to assist State and local law enforce- creases, as well as additional agents and in- tion, an increase of $2,076,000 is provided for ment agencies with the costs associated with spectors that may be funded in other Appro- new border patrol vehicles, instead of the methamphetamine clean up. priations Acts during this fiscal year, will funding level referenced by the Senate. The Drug Diversion Control Fee Account.—The reduce the need for overtime beyond $30,000 House did not include a similar provision. conference agreement includes total funding per employee for the calendar year. The conferees understand that the INS spent of $86,021,000 for DEA’s Drug Diversion Con- The conference agreement includes a pro- about $100,000,000 to acquire 2,762 replace- trol Program for fiscal year 2002, of which vision limiting the number of non-career ment and enhancement vehicles in fiscal $67,000,000 is from new diversion fee collec- personnel appointments at the INS to six po- year 2001 using base funds, enhancement tions and $19,021,000 is from prior year collec- sitions, instead of a limit of four positions as funds, and recoveries. tions. The conference agreement assumes proposed by the House and no limit as pro- Detention and Removals.—The conference that the level of balances in the Fee Account posed by the Senate. This level represents an agreement also includes increases of is sufficient to fully support diversion con- increase of 50 percent above the current ceil- $20,823,000 for consolidated bed space expan- trol programs in fiscal year 2002. ing for non-career appointments at INS. The sion needs, instead of $39,388,000 as proposed conferees expect the Commissioner to use by the House and no funding as proposed by IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE this increased authority to hire qualified the Senate. This amount includes an in- SALARIES AND EXPENSES personnel with management and information crease of $10,154,000 for additional detention The conference agreement includes technology expertise who can contribute to staff, support staff and removal costs; an in- $3,371,440,000 for the salaries and expenses of the goal of fundamental INS reform. The crease of $1,873,000 for detainee transpor- the Immigration and Naturalization Service conferees will consider a request for addi- tation vehicles; and an increase of $8,796,000 (INS) as proposed by the House, instead of tional non-career hiring authority or other for Joint Prisoner and Alien Transportation $3,176,037,000 as proposed by the Senate. In personnel authority options above this ceil- System (JPATS) requirements to support ad- addition to the amounts appropriated, the ing during the fiscal year 2003 budget proc- ditional domestic and repatriation move- conference agreement assumes that ess. The conferees expect that a detailed pro- ments. The conference agreement does not $2,142,926,000 will be available from offsetting posal outlining both the need for such addi- include the proposed transfer of funds from fee collections, instead of $2,140,610,000 as tional authorities and how they relate to INS to the JPATS Fund for this activity, proposed by the House and $2,058,723,000 as proposed INS restructuring and management which was recommended by the Senate. In proposed by the Senate. Thus, including re- reforms, to be coordinated with the Depart- addition, the conference agreement also in- sources provided under the Construction ac- ment of Justice, the Office of Personnel cludes an increase of $8,672,000 as proposed by count, the conference agreement provides a Management, and the Office of Management the House for detainee medical costs. The total operating level of $5,642,820,000 for the and Budget, will accompany the INS fiscal Senate did not include a similar provision. INS, instead of $5,640,504,000 as proposed by year 2003 budget submission. Interior Enforcement.—The conference the House and $5,506,299,000 as proposed by The conference agreement also modifies agreement also includes funding as nec- the Senate. This funding level is an increase language from the House bill to provide that essary to support an additional Quick Re- of $841,332,000, or 18 percent, over fiscal year when positions become vacant in the Offices sponse Team (QRT) for New Jersey, if mer- 2001. of Legislative Affairs and Public Affairs, at ited. The INS is directed to consult with the INS Organization and Management.—Con- least ten of these positions be filled with Committees on Appropriations regarding the sistent with the concept of separating immi- detailees, transfers, or other non-permanent status of its interior enforcement effort. The gration enforcement from services, the con- staff, with the goal of rotating staff who conference agreement does not adopt Senate ference agreement continues to use, as in the have experience in INS field operations language regarding QRTs. last three fiscal years, two accounts, as re- through these offices. The Senate bill in- Border Patrol Equipment and Technology.— quested by the President and proposed in the cluded a different version of this provision. The conference agreement adopts by ref- House bill: Enforcement and Border Affairs, Base adjustments.—The conference agree- erence the Senate report language and fund- and Citizenship and Benefits, Immigration ment provides a total increase of $80,110,000 ing levels regarding the Integrated Surveil- Support and Program Direction. INS en- and 429 full time equivalents for inflationary lance Intelligence System systems engineer- forcement funds are provided in the Enforce- cost increases and adjustments to base for ing, and the House language regarding bor- ment and Border Affairs account. All immi- INS salaries and expenses. The conference der patrol equipment. gration-related benefits and naturalization, agreement does not include transfers to the IDENT/IAFIS.—The conference agreement support, and program resources are provided Exams Fees account or the Breached Bond/ provides a transfer of $9,000,000 from the in the Citizenship and Benefits, Immigration Detention account as proposed by the Sen- Working Capital Fund to the Department of Support and Program Direction account. ate. Justice General Administration account to Neither account includes revenues generated ENFORCEMENT AND BORDER AFFAIRS provide for the continued integration of the in various fee accounts to fund program ac- The conference agreement provides INS and FBI fingerprint identification sys- tivities for both enforcement and services $2,739,695,000 for this account, instead of tems. This amount reflects a current esti- functions, which are in addition to the ap- $2,738,517,000 as proposed by the House. The mate of the funding need as provided to the propriated funds and are discussed below. Senate did not provide separate funding for Committees on Appropriations by the De- Funds for INS construction projects con- this account. This amount includes an in- partment of Justice. tinue to be provided in the INS construction crease of $74,911,000 and 417 full time equiva- In addition, the conferees adopt by ref- account. lents for pay and inflationary adjustments erence House language regarding enforce- The conference agreement includes bill for Border Patrol, Investigations, Detention ment of section 212 of the Immigration and language which provides authority for the and Deportation, and Intelligence, as re- Nationality Act. The Senate did not include Attorney General to transfer funds from one quested. None of these amounts include off- a similar provision. Further, the INS is di- account to another in order to ensure that setting fees, which are used to fund both en- rected to ensure that it does not allow any funds are properly aligned. Such transfers forcement and services functions. The INS is aliens to enter the United States who have may occur notwithstanding any transfer lim- directed to notify the Committees on Appro- been involved in the illegal harvesting of itations imposed under this Act, but such priations regarding the assignment of all human organs. The conference agreement adopts by ref- transfers are still subject to the reprogram- new border patrol agents and inspectors pro- erence House language regarding the Tucson ming requirements under Section 605 of this vided for in this Act as well as any other Ap- Sector. The conference agreement does not Act. It is expected that any request for propriations Acts that may be enacted dur- include language on basic training costs as transfer of funds will remain within the ac- ing fiscal year 2002. tivities under those headings. Border Control and Management.—The con- proposed by the Senate. The House did not A cap on overtime of $30,000 per employee ference agreement includes increases of address this matter. per calendar year has been in place the last $123,331,000 for border control and manage- CITIZENSHIP AND BENEFITS, IMMIGRATION several years in order to help the INS main- ment, as follows: SUPPORT AND PROGRAM DIRECTION tain control over its budget. The conference Land Border Inspectors.—The conference The conference agreement provides agreement maintains this limit as provided agreement includes an increase of $25,408,000 $631,745,000 for this account, instead of

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.103 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8007 $632,923,000 as proposed by the House. The fee collections, instead of $2,140,610,000 as immigration benefits, including collections Senate did not provide separate funding for proposed by the House and $2,058,723,000 as from the premium-processing fee, and are in this account. This amount includes an in- proposed by the Senate, to support activities addition to $80,000,000 in new and continued crease of $5,199,000 and 12 full time equiva- related to the legal admission of persons into direct appropriations provided under the lents for pay and inflationary adjustments the United States. These activities are fund- Citizenship and Benefits, Immigration Sup- for the activities of Citizenship and Benefits, ed entirely by fees paid by persons who are port, and Program Direction account to Immigration Support, and Management and either traveling internationally or who are eliminate the backlog in applications. The Administration, as requested. None of these applying for immigration benefits. The fol- conference agreement reflects INS’ revised amounts include offsetting fees, which are lowing levels are recommended: revenue estimates for collections from exist- used to fund both enforcement and services Immigration Inspections User Fees.—The con- ing fees, which is $118,783,000 higher than the functions. ference agreement includes $591,866,000 of amount assumed in the budget request and Immigration Services.—The conference spending from offsetting collections in this $407,020,000 above the amount available in agreement includes an increase of $45,000,000, account, the same amount requested and fiscal year 2001. The conference agreement as requested and proposed by the House, to proposed by the House, instead of $656,648,000 does not adopt the transfer of $127,834,000 support naturalization and other benefits as proposed by the Senate. This amount rep- from Examinations Fees funding to the Ex- processing backlog reduction activities. The resents a $97,482,000 increase over fiscal year ecutive Office of Immigration Review or the Senate did not include a similar provision. 2001 spending, including $20,991,000 for adjust- transfer of $147,602,000 in activities from the This amount, when combined with $35,000,000 ments to base, the full amount requested. Salaries and Expenses account to the Exami- in base funding and $20,000,000 in fees, will The amount also assumes an increase from nations Fees account, which were proposed provide $100,000,000 toward reaching a uni- $6 to $7 for the current airline passenger im- by the Senate. The conference agreement versal six-month processing standard for all migration inspection user fee, and $3 for a adopts by reference House report language immigration applications and petitions. The new immigration inspection cruise ship pas- regarding the telephone customer service conference agreement does not include Sen- senger fee. The conferees adopt by reference center and the indexing and conversion of ate language that transferred $67,000,000 to Senate language directing that not less than INS microfilm images. the Immigration Service and Infrastructure nine percent of fee collections in this ac- Within the Examinations Fees account, Account. The House did not address this count should be used for technology infra- the conference agreement provides $18,979,000 matter. structure improvements. The House did not for adjustments to base as requested. In addition, an increase of $1,000,000 is pro- address this matter. Land Border Inspections Fees.—The con- The expected increase in fee collections vided for legal orientation programs, instead ference agreement includes $4,490,000 in will fund the following safety, service and of $2,800,000 as proposed by the Senate, and spending from the Land Border Inspection technology improvements at airports: an increase of $3,000,000 is provided for alter- Fund, instead of $2,944,000 as proposed by the $19,927,000, 459 positions and 230 full time natives to detention, instead of $7,300,000 as House and $1,714,000 as proposed by the Sen- equivalents to increase primary inspectors proposed by the Senate. The House did not ate. This amount reflects revised estimates at new and existing airport terminals, as include similar provisions. of collections. The revenues generated in well as at high growth terminals; and Further, the conferees adopt by reference this account are from Dedicated Commuter $4,510,000, 60 positions and 30 full time Senate direction to provide $5,500,000 to the Lanes in Blaine and Port Roberts, Wash- equivalents for additional Immigration In- Eastern Adjudication Service Center to proc- ington; Detroit Tunnel and Ambassador spectors to expand INS/U.S. Customs Service ess immigration self-petitions and U visas Bridge, Michigan; and Otay Mesa, California, passenger analysis units at airports to ana- under the Violence Against Women Act, and as well as from Automated Permit Ports lyze traveler information in advance of plane T visas under the Victims of Trafficking and that provide pre-screened local border resi- arrivals in order to identify inadmissible Violence Protection Act, and agree that of dents with border crossing privileges by aliens, including criminal aliens, drug traf- this amount, $500,000 shall be for the Eastern means of automated inspections. The con- fickers, and terrorists. This funding level Adjudication Center as directed by the Sen- ference agreement adopts the Senate provi- will also enable the INS to invest at least ate. The House did not contain a similar pro- sion, which provides that the Attorney Gen- $14,370,000 in its automated entry/exit system vision. eral may expand from 6 to 96 the number of that tracks alien arrivals and departures at The Committees continue to be concerned ports of entry qualifying to participate in a airports. This funding level will also fund at about the problems of backlogs in applica- fee pilot. The House did not address this least $6,425,000 for upgrades to the National tion processing and casework, and defi- matter. Automated Inspection Lookout System ciencies in other services. In the fiscal year Immigration Breached Bond/Detention (NAILS), and for additional Live Scan De- 2001 conference report, the INS was directed Fund.—The conference agreement includes vices that can send electronic fingerprint to conduct a complete review of staffing and $120,763,000 in spending from the Breached submissions to the FBI’s Integrated Auto- resource needs to improve benefits and serv- Bond/Detention Fund as proposed by the mated Fingerprint Identification System ices in all current INS offices, as well as the Senate, instead of $139,935,000 as proposed by (IAFIS). The funding level will also provide need for additional offices, particularly in the House. The conference agreement does an additional $6,512,000 for additional Deten- rural areas. The Committees have yet to re- not assume the reinstatement of section tion Enforcement Officers, Deportation Offi- ceive this review. Therefore, the INS is di- 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality cers, and docket clerks, and 200 additional rected to allocate additional staffing and up- Act, which was proposed by the Senate. The detention beds. grade offices as necessary for the following conference agreement provides a $40,000,000 In addition, this level will fund the fol- areas: Roanoke, Virginia; Omaha, Nebraska; increase, as requested, to fund 1,407 addi- lowing safety, service and technology im- Nashville, Tennessee, as described in the tional detention beds, and $1,483,000 to fund provements at seaports: $4,153,000, 54 posi- Senate report; Patterson, New Jersey; the vehicles to transport detainees. The agree- tions and 27 full time equivalents for new im- Bronx, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada, as de- ment does not include the base transfer to migration inspectors at newly activated sea- scribed in the Senate report; and the other the Breached Bond/Detention Fund account, port terminals and current understaffed ter- locations mentioned in the fiscal year 2001 as proposed in the Senate report. minals; $2,273,000, 20 positions and 10 full conference report. Immigration Enforcement Fines.—The con- time equivalents for joint INS/U.S. Customs In addition to identical provisions included ference agreement includes $22,664,000 in units to analyze traveler information in ad- by both the House and Senate, the con- spending from Immigration Enforcement vance of ship arrivals; and $5,545,000 for the ference agreement includes the following fines, instead of $12,994,000 as proposed by the automated entry/exit system and upgrades provisions: (1) a limit of 3,165 passenger House and $5,510,000 as proposed by the Sen- to the NAILS system. The INS is directed to motor vehicles, of which 2,211 are for replace- ate. This level reflects the current estimate ensure that it allocates funding for base ac- ment only, as proposed by the House, instead of revenues available in this account for fis- tivities, e.g. salaries and expenses, before it of the Senate proposed limit; (2) a prohibi- cal year 2002. undertakes any enhancement activities. The tion on the use of funds to operate the San H–1B Fees.—The conference agreement in- INS shall report to the Committees on Ap- Clemente and Temecula traffic checkpoints cludes $26,272,000 in spending from the H–1B propriations as necessary should fee reve- unless certain conditions are met, as pro- Fee account, instead of $16,000,000 proposed nues decline more than five percent from Oc- posed in the House bill; (3) a provision, as by both the House and the Senate. This level tober projections. Further, should additional proposed by the House, to make available reflects the current estimate of revenues fees become available, the INS may submit a $5,000 for official reception and representa- available in this account for fiscal year 2002. reprogramming in accordance with section tion expenses; and (4) a provision, as pro- 605 of this Act. CONSTRUCTION posed by the House, to permit the INS to Immigration Examinations Fees.—The con- The conference agreement includes equip, maintain, and make infrastructure ference agreement includes a total of $128,454,000 for construction for INS as pro- improvements and purchase vehicles for po- $1,376,871,000 to support the adjudication of posed by the House, instead of $205,015,000 as lice type use within the Enforcement and applications for immigration benefits, the proposed by the Senate. This amount fully Border Affairs account. amount requested and proposed by the funds the Administration’s request as pro- OFFSETTING FEE COLLECTIONS House, instead of $1,258,088,000 as proposed by posed in the budget submission. This funding The conference agreement assumes the Senate. These funds are derived from off- level does not include the Senate proposal to $2,142,926,000 will be available from offsetting setting collections from persons applying for transfer funding from the Bureau of Prisons

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.105 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 buildings and facilities account to the INS Mid-Atlantic FCI ...... 91,047 Austin, Texas. This evaluation is scheduled construction account, the Senate proposal to INS Long-Term Detainee Capac- to be completed by August 1, 2002. In the allow the INS to purchase construction vehi- ity: next phase of evaluations, NIJ is expected to cles, or the Senate proposal to comply with USP Western ...... 11,500 consider installing the SECURES gunshot Occupational Safety and Health Administra- FCI Butner, NC Medium ...... 11,500 detection system in Richmond, Virginia; San tion programs. USP Terre Haute, IN ...... 130,000 Bernardino, California; and Phoenix, Ari- The conference agreement includes lan- zona. guage, as proposed by the House and carried Subtotal, Projects with Prior Office of Victims of Crime.—The conference in prior Appropriations Acts, prohibiting Funding ...... 630,047 agreement adopts by reference the Senate funds from being used for site acquisition, report language regarding the Victim Assist- design, or construction of a checkpoint in Facilities with no prior funding: ance to Indian Country and Children’s Jus- the Tucson Sector. The Senate did not in- Female Facility in N. Florida .. 5,000 tice Act programs. clude a similar provision. Female Facility in N. Central Missing Children.—The conference agree- ment includes $22,997,000 for the Missing FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM Region ...... 5,000 Children Program. Of this amount, $11,450,000 SALARIES AND EXPENSES Male Facility for FCI S. Cen- tral Region ...... 5,000 is provided for the National Center for Miss- The conference agreement includes Male Facility for USP NE/N ing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), includ- $3,808,600,000 for the salaries and expenses of Mid Atlantic ...... 5,000 ing $2,245,000 for the CyberTipline and the the Federal Prison System, instead of Exploited Child Unit, and $2,700,000 for the $3,830,971,000 as proposed by the House and Subtotal, New Sentenced Ca- Jimmy Ryce Law Enforcement Training $3,786,228,000 as proposed by the Senate. This pacity ...... 20,000 Center. The conferees recommend that the funding level is an increase of $308,428,000 NCMEC consult with I-Safe America to pro- above the fiscal year 2001 amount. The con- vide nationwide Internet Safety Training in Total, New Construction Pro- ferees note that the Bureau of Prisons sub- grades K–12. mitted a reprogramming on September 27, gram Increases ...... 650,047 Within the amounts provided, $6,500,000 is 2001, for $37,963,000 to meet increased utility FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED provided for the Internet Crimes Against costs incurred during fiscal year 2001. (LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES) Children Task Force to form new units to in- Activation of New Prisons.—The conference The conference agreement includes a limi- vestigate and prevent child sexual exploi- agreement includes an increase of $72,752,000 tation on administrative expenses of tation, which are based on the protocols for to activate a new medium security facility $3,429,000 for Federal Prison Industries, In- conducting investigations involving the in Petersburg, Virginia and a high security corporated as proposed by both the House Internet and online service providers that facility in Lee County, Virginia. and the Senate. have been established by the Department of Equipment Funding.—The conference agree- Justice and the NCMEC. ment also includes an increase of $9,100,000 OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS Management and Administration.—The con- for equipment funding the United States JUSTICE ASSISTANCE ference agreement provides $37,795,000 for the Prison in Canaan, Pennsylvania, and the The conference agreement includes management and administration of the Of- Federal Corrections Institute in Glenville, $437,008,000 for Justice Assistance, instead of fice of Justice Programs (OJP), instead of West Virginia. $408,371,000 as proposed by the House and $43,491,000 as proposed by the House and Contract Confinement.—The conference $574,538,000 as proposed by the Senate. The $42,797,000 as proposed by the Senate. Fund- agreement includes an increase of $47,443,000 distribution of funding is as follows: ing is also provided from the ‘‘Juvenile Jus- to fund an additional 1,500 contract beds to tice’’ and ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce- accommodate the increasing number of JUSTICE ASSISTANCE ment Assistance’’ accounts for the adminis- criminal aliens and to support 1,499 general [Dollars in thousands] tration of grants under these activities. If contract inmates beds, including 85 juvenile additional management and administration beds. Amount funds are required, a request for reprogram- The conference agreement provides that of ming or transfer of funds, pursuant to Sec- the funding provided, $11,554,000 is for activa- National Institute of Justice ...... $54,879 tion 605 of this Act, should be submitted. Bureau of Justice Statistics ...... 32,335 tion of the Atwater, California facility, and Missing Children ...... 22,997 OJP shall submit to the Committees, by Jan- $13,323,000 is for the activation of the facility Regional Information Sharing System ...... 28,278 uary 15, 2002, a spending plan for all manage- at Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference adopts White Collar Crime Information Center ...... 9,230 ment and administration resources. This Management and Administration ...... 37,795 by reference House language regarding drug Counterterrorism Programs ...... 251,494 plan should reflect all sources of funding, in- treatment programs and establishment of cluding those derived from program ac- faith-based and other pilots, and Senate lan- Total ...... 437,008 counts. Beginning with the fiscal year 2003 guage regarding a pilot internship at the budget submission, OJP shall identify all prison at Yazoo City, Mississippi, $1,000,000 National Institute of Justice (NIJ).—The con- management and administration resources for a sexual misconduct study, and a feasi- ference agreement provides $54,879,000 for in its budget submission, including those de- bility study for Yazoo City, Mississippi. The NIJ. Within the total amount provided to rived from program accounts. conference agreement does not include bill NIJ, the following initiatives should be fund- Counterterrorism Program.—The conference language proposed by the Senate designating ed at least at the current levels: agreement includes $251,494,000 for the specific amounts for activation of specific ∑ National Law Enforcement and Correc- counterterrorism program, instead of prisons. The House bill did not include such tions Technology Center system, including $220,494,000 as proposed by the House and language. $1,500,000 for the Less than Lethal Tech- $373,800,000 as proposed by the Senate. nology for Law Enforcement Program, BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES The conferees recognize the selfless acts of $2,800,000 for the Office of Law Enforcement our Nation’s first responders following the The conference agreement includes Technology Commercialization, Inc., and September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the $813,552,000 for construction, modernization, $1,500,000 for the Center for Rural Law En- United States. They are truly our first line maintenance, and repair of prison and deten- forcement Technology and Training; of defense. The dedication, professionalism, tion facilities housing Federal prisoners, as ∑ Computerized identification systems; and heroism of the men and women who provided by the House, instead of $899,797,000 ∑ Facial Recognition; serve as police officers, fire fighters, emer- as provided by the Senate. The conference ∑ DNA Technology Research and Develop- gency medical personnel, and emergency agreement does not include the proposed ment; and managers, reflect the true spirit of this great transfer from BOP to the INS for construc- ∑ High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas. Nation. The conferees extend their sincere tion of detainee facilities as provided in the The conference agreement provides $450,000 gratitude on behalf of the nation to the fire Senate bill. The conference agreement does for Non-Toxic Drug Detection and Identifica- companies, State and local police depart- not include bill language designating specific tion Aerosol Technology; $1,500,000 for the ments, and rescue squads who responded amounts for partial site and planning for a ‘‘Breaking the Cycle’’ Program in Jackson- without hesitation to the emergencies in specific prison, as proposed by the Senate. ville, Florida and Lane County, Oregon; and New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. In The conference agreement provides that of $3,000,000 for a prison health research project their efforts to rescue those in danger, some the $650,047,000 provided for increases as out- at the University of Connecticut. of these brave men and women made the ul- lined below, $5,000,000 shall be for partial site The Office of Justice Programs is expected timate sacrifice. The conferees also note and planning of the USP Northeast/Mid-At- to review a proposal for a grant to the Kitsap that untold numbers of volunteers from lantic facility, to be located in Berlin, New County Medical Examiner’s Office that will States across the Nation also worked shoul- Hampshire: assist in the development of a new death in- der to shoulder in the rescue efforts, and [in thousands of dollars] vestigation module for the FBI ViCAP sys- their contributions in the face of this trag- Facilities with prior funding: tem and provide a grant, if warranted. edy cannot be praised enough. Western/USP California ...... $147,000 The conferees understand that NIJ is cur- The events of September 11 underscore how Southeast/USP Coleman, FL .... 133,000 rently evaluating the operational utility of important it is that this country’s first re- Southeast/FCI South Carolina .. 106,000 the SECURES gunshot detection system in sponders have the proper equipment and

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.107 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8009 training in the event of another terrorist STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ∑ $300,000 for the Women’s Center, Vienna, act. The conferees recommend the following [Dollars in thousands] VA; distribution of funding for counterterrorism ∑ $250,000 for the DuPage County, IL Fire equipment grants, training, and research and Amount Investigation Task Force for arson inves- development programs: tigations; Local Law Enforcement Block Grant ...... $400,000 (Boys and Girls Club) ...... (70,000) ∑ $1,000,000 for the Julian Dixon Courtroom COUNTERTERRORISM PROGRAM (National Institute of Justice) ...... (19,956) and Advocacy Center at the Southwestern State Criminal Alien Assistance Program ...... 565,000 University School of Law in Los Angeles, [Dollars in thousands] Cooperative Agreement Program ...... 20,000 Indian Assistance ...... 48,162 CA; Amount (Tribal Prison Construction Program) ...... (35,191) ∑ $1,000,000 for the Night Lights Program (Indian Tribal Courts Program) ...... (7,982) (Alcohol and Substance Abuse) ...... (4,989) expansion in San Bernardino, CA; Equipment Grants: ∑ State & Other Equipment Grant Program ...... $112,740 Byrne Grants: $2,000,000 for the San Joaquin Valley, CA State & Local Bomb Technician Equipment Program ..... 10,000 Discretionary Grants ...... 94,489 Rural Agricultural Crime Prevention Pro- Formula Grants ...... 500,000 gram; Subtotal, Equipment Grants ...... 122,740 Total, Byrne Grants ...... 594,489 ∑ $3,942,000 for the Center for Court Innova- Violence Against Women Grants ...... 390,565 tion in New York State, including $1,000,000 Training and Technical Assistance: Victims of Trafficking Grants ...... 10,000 Integrated Training & Technical Assistance Program ..... 35,485 State Prison Drug Treatment ...... 70,000 for Onondaga County and surrounding areas; Fort McClellan/Center for Domestic Preparedness ...... 18,716 Drug Courts ...... 50,000 ∑ $3,000,000 for the Law Enforcement Inno- National Domestic Preparedness Consortium ...... 13,969 Juvenile Crime Block Grant ...... 249,450 Virtual Medical Campus ...... 2,000 (Project ChildSafe) ...... (38,000) vation Center (LEIC), TN; Website Pilot Program ...... 2,000 Other Crime Control Programs: ∑ $300,000 for the Chattanooga Endeavors Missing Alzheimer’s Patients ...... 898 Program; Subtotal, General Training and Assistance ...... 72,170 Law Enforcement Family Support ...... 1,497 ∑ Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention ...... 1,298 $15,000 for the New Mexico Technology to Exercise, Evaluation, & Improved Response: Senior Citizens Vs. Marketing Scams ...... 1,995 Recover Abducted Kids (TRAK); Situational Exercises ...... 3,991 ∑ $3,000,000 for the National Fatherhood Total, State and Local Assistance ...... 2,403,354 Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Improved Response Plans ...... 2,600 Initiative; TOPOFF II ...... 2,993 ∑ Local Law Enforcement Block Grant.—The $3,000,000 for the National Center for Jus- Subtotal, Exercise, Evaluation, & Improved Response 9,584 conference agreement includes $400,000,000 tice and the Rule of Law at the University of for the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Mississippi School of Law to sponsor re- Research and Development Program: search and produce judicial education semi- Research and Development program ...... 18,000 program as proposed by the Senate, instead Dartmouth Institute ...... 18,000 of $521,849,000 as proposed by the House. nars and training for judges, court personnel, Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute ...... 4,000 Within the amount provided, the conference prosecutors, police agencies, and attorneys; New York Center on Catastrophe Preparedness and Re- ∑ $300,000 for the National Association of sponse ...... 7,000 agreement includes $70,000,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The conferees Town Watch’s National Night Out crime pre- Subtotal, Research and Development Program ...... 47,000 expect the Boys and Girls Clubs of America vention program; to use a portion of these funds to carry out ∑ $750,000 for a prevent underage drinking Total, Counterterrorism Programs ...... 251,494 the Kids2000 Act (Public Law 106–313; 114 demonstration program; Stat. 1260). ∑ $500,000 for BiasHELP of Long Island; The conferees continue the direction re- Cooperative Agreement Program.—The con- ∑ $50,000 for the City of San Luis Obispo, garding the distribution of general equip- ference agreement includes $20,000,000 for the CA, for a gang prevention project; ment grants only in accordance with State- Cooperative Agreement Program, instead of ∑ $75,000 for the NYPD criminal justice co- wide plans. The conferees understand that $35,000,000 as proposed by the House and Sen- ordination project; these plans are currently being submitted to ate. Currently, there is over $20,000,000 of un- ∑ $1,100,000 for the National Training and OJP. obligated balances available for this pro- Information Center (NTIC); gram. The conferees are concerned over the ∑ $1,000,000 for I-SAFE, for teaching chil- The conferees are not convinced that suffi- very high level of funding carried forward in dren online safety; cient attention is being given to potential the Cooperative Agreement Program. This ∑ $500,000 for Community Security Initia- chemical and biological threats nationally. program is intended to provide guaranteed tives (CSI) of the Local Initiatives Support Within available resources of the research State and local bed space for Federal detain- Corporation; and development program, OJP should con- ees in USMS and INS custody. The conferees ∑ $600,000 for Atlanta, GA, for a com- duct a study, in conjunction with George direct that the USMS, in consultation with prehensive homicide reduction initiative; Mason University, to determine the feasi- INS, provide an implementation plan for ∑ $1,000,000 for Excelsior College in NY for bility for the establishment of a national these resources no later than January 15, a distance education degree program in center for biodefense, which would include 2002. The plan should include steps that criminal justice; the research, development, and production of USMS and INS intend to take to ensure that ∑ $200,000 for Men Against Destruction, De- vaccines to combat biological terrorism. funding is obligated and this bed space is fending Against Drugs and Social Disorder The conference agreement includes available. (MAD DADS) of Miami-Dade, FL; $7,000,000 to support counterterrorism activi- Tribal Prison Construction.—The conference ∑ $2,235,000 for the Washington Metropoli- ties of the Center on Catastrophe Prepared- agreement includes $35,191,000 for the prison tan Area Drug Enforcement Task Force ness and Response at New York University construction program as proposed by both (MATF); (NYU). NYU proposes to bring the expertise the House and Senate. The conferees expect ∑ $500,000 for the Northwestern MA Dis- of its departments of biomedical science, en- OJP to examine each of the following pro- trict Attorney’s Office special prosecution vironmental health, medicine, public health, posals, provide grants if warranted, and sub- program, for crimes against seniors and the dentistry, and nursing, among others, to mit a report on its intentions for each pro- disabled; bear on counterterrorism studies. The con- posal: a NANA 28 bed jail for Kotzebue, Alas- ∑ $500,000 for the expansion of law enforce- ferees urge OJP to work with the Center to ka; construction of a detention facility with- ment counseling programs at the On-Site assure that there is a sufficient focus on in the Spirit Lake Nation; construction of a Academy in Gardner, MA; ∑ chemical and biological threats. detention facility for the Lower Brule Sioux $350,000 for Turtle Mountain Community Tribe; construction of a detention facility College’s ‘‘Project Peacemaker’’; The conferees are aware of the Joint Vul- for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; ∑ $1,000,000 for the Doe Fund’s Ready Will- nerability Assessment Tool that provides the and expansion of an adult detention facility ing and Able Program; Department of Defense with an for the Gila River Indian reservation. ∑ $1,000,000 for the TELACU family-based antiterrorism vulnerability assessment, risk Edward Byrne Grants to States.—The con- gang violence prevention program; management, and planning tool. OJP is di- ference agreement includes $594,489,000 for ∑ $20,000 for the Thin Blue Line of Michi- rected to evaluate whether this program will the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local gan for assistance to law enforcement fami- be beneficial to State and local first respond- Law Enforcement Assistance Program, of lies in crisis; ers and emergency planners, and fund its de- which $94,489,000 is for discretionary grants ∑ $400,000 for the National Indian Justice velopment if warranted. and $500,000,000 is for formula grants under Center; this program. Within the amounts provided ∑ $100,000 for the Rock Island Juvenile STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT for discretionary grants, OJP is expected to Court; ASSISTANCE review the following proposals, provide ∑ $1,000,000 for the National Corrections The conference agreement includes grants if warranted, and report to the Com- and Law Enforcement Training and Tech- $2,403,354,000 for the State and Local Law En- mittees on its intentions. In addition, up to nology Center in Moundsville, WV; forcement Assistance Program, instead of 10 percent of the funds provided for each pro- ∑ $1,000,000 for the National White Collar $2,519,575,000 as proposed by the House and gram shall be made available for an inde- Crime Center; $2,094,990,000 as proposed by the Senate. The pendent evaluation of that program. ∑ $1,000,000 for Kent State University’s In- conference agreement provides for the fol- ∑ $5,000,000 for the National Crime Preven- stitute for the Study and Prevention of Vio- lowing programs: tion Council’s McGruff campaign; lence;

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.109 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 ∑ $2,000,000 for the Harold Rogers Prescrip- ∑ $350,000 for the Southwest Arkansas Do- Department to work with the State of Alas- tion Drug Monitoring Program; mestic Violence Center for domestic violence ka, the Alaska Native community, and non- ∑ $6,000,000 for the Police Athletic League; prevention activities to fund programmatic profit organizations involved in prevention ∑ $100,000 for the Will County, IL Juvenile and equipment costs; and treatment of domestic violence to de- Drug Court; ∑ $500,000 for the Southwest Texas State velop a Statewide plan to combat domestic ∑ $350,000 for the National Association of University Law Enforcement Training Cen- violence. Court Management; ter for equipment and program support; Substance Abuse Treatment for State Pris- ∑ $1,000,000 for Mothers Against Drunk ∑ $250,000 for the Oklahoma Bureau of Nar- oners.—The conference agreement includes Driving (MADD); cotics for the necessary equipment to estab- $70,000,000 for grants to States and units of ∑ $4,000,000 for Mental Health Courts; lish a Mobile Command Post; local government for development and im- ∑ $1,500,000 for the Newport News, VA, ∑ $500,000 for the Arizona Criminal Justice plementation of residential substance abuse Achievable Dream Program; Commission; treatment programs within State correc- ∑ $750,000 for the Chicago Project for Vio- ∑ $350,000 to the Iowa Department of Pub- tional facilities and certain local correc- lence Prevention; lic Health to institute a pilot program to re- tional and detention facilities. The con- ∑ $662,000 for the Virginia Community Po- habilitate nonviolent drug offenders; ference agreement adopts by reference the licing Institute; ∑ $350,000 for the Ninth West Judicial Dis- House report language regarding expanding ∑ $1,000,000 for Roger Williams University trict in Arkansas for video conference equip- the use of these grants to provide treatment in Bristol, RI, for a law enforcement profes- ment for remote witness testimony; for released State prisoners. ∑ $200,000 for the Cranston, Rhode Island sional training program with the Justice Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Police Department’s Community Police Di- System Research and Training Institute; Grant.—The conference agreement includes vision for community policing initiatives; ∑ $1,750,000 for Kristen’s Act; $249,450,000 for the Juvenile Accountability ∑ $900,000 for Ridge House Treatment Fa- ∑ $900,000 for the Beyond Missing Program Incentive Block Grant program as proposed cility in Reno, Nevada to house low inten- to be coordinated with Office of Justice Pro- by the House and Senate. Within this sity, non-sex offender, non-violent convicts; grams and the National Center for Missing amount, $38,000,000 is available for Project ∑ $110,000 for a Statewide DARE coordi- and Exploited Children; ChildSafe, an initiative that will ensure gun nator in Alaska; ∑ $4,500,000 for the Executive Office of U.S. safety locks are available for every handgun ∑ $300,000 for the National Center for Rural Attorneys to support the National District in America. An additional $12,000,000 is in- Law Enforcement in Little Rock, Arkansas; Attorneys Association’s participation in cluded for gun safety locks under Juvenile ∑ $750,000 for the Alaska Native Justice legal education training at the National Ad- Justice, for a total funding level of Center Restorative Justice programs; vocacy Center; $50,000,000. ∑ $500,000 for Santee-Lynches Cops Dem- ∑ $1,100,000 for rural alcohol interdiction, The conferees support the use of gun safety onstration Project to reduce violent crime, investigations, and prosecutions in the State locks and encourage the distribution of safe- drug trafficking, and substance abuse; of Alaska; ty locks to handgun owners. However, the ∑ $2,000,000 for continued support for the ∑ $250,000 for the Partners for Downtown conferees are concerned with reports that expansion of Search Group, Inc. and the Na- Progress program in Alaska; some of these safety locks have failed or do tional Technical Assistance and Training ∑ $1,000,000 for Jefferson County, Alabama not work on certain handguns. The conferees Program to assist States, such as West Vir- for an emergency system; understand that the Department of Justice ginia, to accelerate the automation of fin- ∑ $100,000 for the Native American Commu- is reviewing the availability of national gerprint identification processes; nity Board in Lake Andes, South Dakota for standards for gun safety locks, and that pri- ∑ $2,750,000 for the Drug Abuse Resistance programming and equipment related to the vate industry groups have also sought the Education (DARE AMERICA) program. The Domestic Violence Shelter and Community promulgation of such standards. The Depart- Conferees are concerned that DARE pro- Prevention Program; ment of Justice is directed to work with var- grams effectiveness has been called into ∑ $150,000 for the Wakpa Sica Reconcili- ious Federal agencies, private industry question and encourages DARE to continue ation Place in Fort Pierre, South Dakota; groups, and other interested parties in the the restructuring effort currently underway ∑ $230,000 for the MUSC Innovative Alter- development of national standards for gun and to report to the Committees on its natives for Women program; safety locks. Funds recommended for Project progress; ∑ $1,000,000 for the South Carolina U.S. At- ChildSafe may be used to offset the cost of ∑ $150,000 for the Indianapolis Comprehen- torney’s Office in Charleston for software, this effort. Until such national standards are sive Domestic Violence Response Program; personnel, and equipment related to a gun- established, or interim standards identified, ∑ $200,000 for the Baker County, Oregon fire detection system; no funds shall be obligated for the purchase Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; ∑ $500,000 for Kansas City, Missouri, for the and distribution of gun safety locks and only ∑ $250,000 for Alfred University’s Coordi- continuation of the Community Security Ini- locks that meet these standards should be nating County Services for Families and tiative; and purchased and distributed. Youth; ∑ $500,000 for STEP II, for the Washoe ∑ $1,400,000 to the Springfield, Missouri Po- County Rehabilitation Program. The conferees direct the Department of lice and Fire Training Center; Violence Against Women Act.—The Justice to submit a report by January 15, ∑ $3,000,000 for the Clearwater, Idaho EDA conference agreement includes 2002 that: (1) reports the status of the devel- for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Bi- $390,565,000 to support grants under the opment of interim and national standards for State Public Safety Project; Violence Against Women Act, as pro- handgun safety locks; (2) provides cost esti- ∑ $350,000 for the Albuquerque, NM DWI mates for gun safety locks based on the new posed by both the House and Senate. national standards; and (3) describes how Resource Center to fund drunk driving The conference agreement provides awareness and prevention programs; funding for gun safety locks will be distrib- ∑ $750,000 to the Nevada National Judicial funding under this account as follows: uted to the States. College; Senior Citizens Against Marketing Scams.— ∑ $1,500,000 for the Tools for Tolerance Pro- VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT PROGRAMS The conference agreement includes $1,995,000 gram; [Dollars in thousands] for programs to assist law enforcement in ∑ $400,000 for the University of Northern preventing and stopping marketing scams Amount Iowa for the Domestic Violence Services for against the elderly. The conference agree- Women project; General Grants ...... $184,737 ment adopts by reference the Senate report ∑ $4,000,000 for the Eisenhower Foundation (National Institute of Justice) ...... (5,200) language requesting OJP to conduct some (Safe Start Program) ...... (10,000) for the Youth Safe Haven program; (Domestic Violence Federal Case Processing Study) ...... (1,000) program sessions at the National Advocacy ∑ $500,000 for the Littleton Area Learning (Domestic Violence Emergency Calls Study) ...... (200) Center and to coordinate efforts with the Center; Victims of Child Abuse: Federal Trade Commission. ∑ $200,000 for Boyle-Mercer County for a CASA (Special Advocates) ...... 11,975 Training for Judicial Personnel ...... 2,296 WEED AND SEED PROGRAM FUND Court Appointed Special Advocate; Grants for Televised Testimony ...... 998 ∑ $250,000 for the Regional Prevention Cen- Grants to Encourage Arrests Policies ...... 64,925 The conference agreement includes Rural Domestic Violence Assistance Grants ...... 39,945 ter in Maysville, Kentucky; Training Programs ...... 4,989 $58,925,000 for the Weed and Seed program, as ∑ $1,500,000 to the New Hampshire Depart- Stalking Database ...... 3,000 proposed by both the House and Senate. ment of Safety for Operation Streetsweeper; Violence on College Campuses ...... 10,000 ∑ Civil Legal Assistance ...... 40,000 COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES $400,000 for the Carroll County District Elder Abuse Grant Program ...... 5,000 Court’s Alternate Sentencing Program in Safe Haven Project ...... 15,000 The conference agreement includes New Hampshire; Domestic Violence Forensic Exams Study ...... 200 $1,050,440,000 for the Community Oriented ∑ $1,500,000 for the Center for Task Force Education and Training for Disabled Female Victims ...... 7,500 Policing Services (COPS), instead of Training; Total ...... 390,565 $1,013,498,000 as proposed by the House and ∑ $1,000,000 for the University of Nebraska, $1,049,659,000 as proposed by the Senate. The Department of Criminal Justice, for a police The conference agreement adopts by ref- conference agreement provides funding professionalism initiative; erence Senate report language directing the under this account as follows:

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.111 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8011 COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control, to ∑ $1,250,000 for the Midwest Methamphet- [Dollars in thousands] assist their methamphetamine clean up op- amine Initiative; and erations; ∑ $1,100,000 for the Missouri Methamphet- Amount ∑ $1,500,000 for the Western Kentucky amine Initiative. Methamphetamine Initiative, in collabora- Law Enforcement Technology Program.—The Public Safety and Community Policing: COPS Hiring Program ...... $330,000 tion with Daviess County; conference agreement includes $154,345,000 (School Resource Officers) ...... (180,000) ∑ $500,000 for the Virginia State Police, to for continued development of technologies Training and Technical Assistance ...... 20,662 assist their efforts in combating meth- Tribal Law Enforcement ...... 35,000 and automated systems to assist State and Police Corps ...... 14,435 amphetamine; local law enforcement agencies in inves- Methamphetamine Enforcement & Clean-up ...... 70,473 ∑ $500,000 for the Indiana State Police, to tigating, responding to and preventing Bulletproof Vests ...... 25,444 assist their efforts in combating meth- crime. Subtotal, Public Safety and Community ...... 496,014 amphetamine; Within the amount provided, the COPS of- ∑ $580,000 for the Marion County, OR, fice should examine each of the following Crime-Fighting Technologies: methamphetamine project; proposals, provide grants if warranted, and Law Enforcement Technology Program ...... 154,345 ∑ $300,000 for the Marathon and Douglas Crime Identification Technology Act ...... 87,287 submit a report to the Committees on its in- Counties, WI, methamphetamine initiatives; (Safe Schools Technology) ...... (17,000) tentions for each proposal: National Criminal History Improvement ...... 35,000 ∑ $1,000,000 for the City of Phoenix, AZ, for ∑ $8,000 for the Walker County Jail, AL, for Crime Laboratory Improvement Program ...... 35,000 methamphetamine laboratory cleanup; DNA Backlog Elimination ...... 40,000 police radio system upgrades; ∑ $200,000 for the Minot State University, ∑ $10,000 for the Powell Police Department, Subtotal, Crime-Fighting Technologies ...... 351,632 ND, rural methamphetamine project; AL, for police equipment upgrades and tech- ∑ $405,000 for the Jackson County, MS, Prosecution Assistance: nology enhancements; Sheriff’s office methamphetamine initiative; Southwest Border Prosecutors ...... 50,000 ∑ $60,000 for the Blountsville Police De- Gun Violence Reduction Program ...... 49,780 ∑ $500,000 for the Riley County, KS Police partment, AL, for an integrated automated Department to assist in methamphetamine Subtotal, Prosecution Assistance ...... 99,780 fingerprint information system; clean-up operations; ∑ $3,815,000 for the Simulated Prison Envi- Community Crime Prevention: ∑ $803,000 for the Wichita Police Depart- Police Integrity ...... 16,963 ment clandestine methamphetamine lab ronment Crisis Aversion Tools (SPECAT); ∑ Offender Reentry ...... 14,934 equipment package; $400,000 for Mooresville, NC, for a Silent School Safety Initiatives ...... 23,338 Dispatch and Automatic Vehicle Locator Project Sentry ...... 14,967 ∑ $500,000 for the Louisiana Methamphet- amine Task Force; System; ∑ Subtotal, Community Crime Prevention ...... 70,202 ∑ $461,000 for the Oklahoma City Police De- $50,000 for Springfield, MO, for security equipment for the Southside District Police Management and Administration ...... 32,812 partment for a Methamphetamine/Drug Hot Spots Initiative; Station; ∑ Total, Community Policing Services ...... 1,050,440 ∑ $4,000,000 for the Washington State Meth- $400,000 for the Springfield, MO Police amphetamine Programs, participants in this Department, for in-car video cameras; ∑ COPS Hiring Program.—The conference program will include Benton County, Chelan $3,000,000 for the Alabama law enforce- agreement includes $330,000,000 for the COPS County, City of Spokane, Clark County, ment SmartCOP technology initiative; hiring program, with up to $180,000,000 avail- Cowlitz County, Ferry County, Grant Coun- ∑ $1,000,000 for the City of Escondido, CA, able for the hiring of school resource offi- ty, Grays Harbor County, King County, for communications technology upgrades; cers. The conferees understand that approxi- Kitsap County, Lewis County, Mason Coun- ∑ $1,000,000 for Placer County, CA, for pub- mately $55,000,000 is available in recoveries. ty, Pend Oreille County, Pierce County, lic safety communications upgrades; Language has been included making these Pierce County Alliance, Snohomish County, ∑ $1,000,000 for Citrus Heights, CA, for tech- recoveries available for the direct hiring of Spokane County, Stevens County, Thurston nological improvements to centralize the po- law enforcement officers through the COPS County, and Yakima County; lice force; Hiring Program. ∑ $3,000,000 for California Department of ∑ $300,000 for the City of Sierra Madre, CA, The conference agreement includes lan- Justice, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, for law enforcement equipment for the guage that allows technology grants to be for the California Methamphetamine Strat- Emergency Operations Center; made from fiscal year 2002 direct appropria- egy (CALMS); ∑ $900,000 for the Arcadia Police Depart- tions under the COPS Hiring Program not ∑ $619,000 for the Mississippi Bureau of ment, CA, for the conversion to narrowband subject to redeployment tracking require- Narcotics to combat methamphetamine and radios; ments. However, the conferees expect that to train officers on the proper recognition, ∑ $200,000 for the Northeast Wisconsin requests for technology funds will still dem- collection, removal, and destruction of Technical College Tactical Training Facil- onstrate the time savings expected from im- methamphetamine; ity, Green Bay, WI, for equipment; plementing these technology grants. ∑ $750,000 for the Methamphetamine ∑ $500,000 for the Cache County, UT Sher- Police Corps.—The conference agreement Awareness and Prevention Project of South iff’s Department, for law enforcement train- includes $14,435,000 for the Police Corps Pro- Dakota to expand prevention efforts to in- ing simulators; gram. The conferees understand that the Po- clude Native American reservations; ∑ $100,000 for the Aliquippa Police Depart- lice Corps program has sufficient unobli- ∑ $500,000 for the Illinois State Police to ment, PA, for police equipment, training, gated balances available to allow the pro- combat methamphetamine and to train offi- and computer resources; gram to maintain its activities in fiscal year cers in those types of investigations; ∑ $800,000 for the Joint Venture 9–1–1 Com- 2002 at the prior year level. ∑ $1,000,000 for the Iowa Methamphetamine munications Center (Tri-Com), IL, for law Methamphetamine Enforcement and Clean- Initiative; enforcement communications equipment re- Up.—The conference agreement includes ∑ $200,000 for the Iowa Tanks-A-Lock placement; $70,473,000 for State and local law enforce- Project; ∑ $781,000 for the Long Beach Police De- ment programs to combat methamphet- ∑ $655,000 for the Arkansas Methamphet- partment, CA, for imaging technology; amine production and distribution, to target amine/Drug Hot Spots Initiative, of which ∑ $3,000,000 for the video teleconferencing drug ‘‘hot spots,’’ and to remove and dispose $155,000 shall be used to retain three chem- grant program, through INS, to provide local of hazardous materials at clandestine meth- ists at the Arkansas Crime Lab; sheriff’s offices the ability to identify or ar- amphetamine labs. ∑ Within the amount provided, the conferees $250,000 for the Wisconsin Ecstasy Aware- raign apprehended aliens; ∑ have included $20,000,000 to be reimbursed to ness Program; $735,000 for the Redlands, CA East Valley ∑ the DEA for assistance to State and local $1,000,000 for the Wisconsin Methamphet- Community Justice Center, to study and law enforcement for proper removal and dis- amine Law Enforcement Initiative; identify new technologies; ∑ ∑ posal of hazardous materials at clandestine $500,000 for the Arizona Methamphet- $750,000 for Inyo County, CA, for public methamphetamine labs. amine Initiative for personnel, training, and safety radio communications; Within the amounts provided, the Depart- equipment; ∑ $625,000 for the Arlington County, VA Po- ment is expected to review, in consultation ∑ $400,000 for the Vermont State Multi-Ju- lice Department and the New Jersey State with DEA, the following proposals, provide risdictional Drug Task Force; Police, for Racial Profiling Self-Assessment grants if warranted, and report to the Com- ∑ $150,000 for methamphetamine training Software; mittees on its intentions: for rural law enforcement officers in Arkan- ∑ $45,000 for the Jeffersontown Police De- ∑ $2,100,000 for the Sioux City, IA Regional sas; partment, KY, for in-car video systems; Methamphetamine Training Center, to pro- ∑ $500,000 for the Kansas Bureau of Inves- ∑ $75,000 for the Jefferson County, KY Do- vide training to officers from eight states in tigation to combat methamphetamines; mestic Violence Unit, for the purchase of over 80 classes; ∑ $2,000,000 for the Montana Methamphet- cameras to be used during investigations; ∑ $1,000,000 for the Methamphetamine Task amine Initiative; ∑ $750,000 for the Louisville, KY Division of Force in East Tennessee, to fight the spread ∑ $500,000 for the Flathead Valley, Mon- Police, for in-car video systems; of meth labs in this region; tana Methamphetamine Initiative; ∑ $1,000,000 for the Sacramento, CA Sher- ∑ $1,000,000 for the Oklahoma State Bureau ∑ $750,000 for the Central Utah Meth- iff’s Department, for law enforcement tech- of Investigations and Oklahoma Bureau of amphetamine Program; nology systems;

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.113 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 ∑ $7,500,000 for the Regional Law Enforce- ∑ $250,000 for the Marlboro Police Depart- ∑ $750,000 for the Citrus County, FL, Emer- ment Technology Program in KY; ment in Monmouth County, NJ, for video gency Operations and Communications Cen- ∑ $1,000,000 for Sedgwick County, KS Sher- cameras in patrol cars; ter, for law enforcement technology en- iff’s Department, for an integrated records ∑ $150,000 for Marion County, OR, for mo- hancements; management system; bile probation computers and radio equip- ∑ $90,000 for the San Juan County Criminal ∑ $800,000 for Jefferson County, AL, for law ment; Justice Training Authority/City of Farm- enforcement communication equipment up- ∑ $625,000 for the East Hazel Crest, IL ington, NM, for an automated fingerprint grades; SSMMA/Regional Law Enforcement Tech- identification system; ∑ $250,000 for Washington Parish, LA Sher- nology Support Center, for technological en- ∑ $3,000,000 for Project Hoosier SAFE-T, for iff’s Office, for law enforcement technology hancements; communications systems upgrade; and automated systems; ∑ $750,000 for the City of Pawtucket, RI Po- ∑ $45,000 for the Griffith, IN Police Depart- ∑ $250,000 for Tangipahoa Parish, LA Sher- lice Department, for technology upgrades, ment, for in-car video cameras; iff’s Office, for law enforcement technology including a digital radio system; ∑ $50,000 for the Northwest IN Police De- and automated systems; ∑ $750,000 for the Town of Portsmouth, RI partment, for an automated fingerprint iden- ∑ $125,000 for the City of Harahan, LA Po- Police Department, for technology upgrades tification system; ∑ lice Department, for law enforcement tech- including computing and communications $500,000 for the City of Inglewood, CA Po- nology and automated systems; systems; lice Department, for digital records manage- ∑ $250,000 for the City of Kenner, LA Police ∑ $750,000 for the Galveston County, TX ment and equipment; ∑ $500,000 for the City of Gardena, CA, for Department, for law enforcement technology Sheriff’s Office, for the Southeast Texas Re- technology equipment for patrol cars; and automated systems; gion Law Enforcement Technology Project, ∑ $1,400,000 for Columbia County, OR, for ∑ $125,000 for the City of Gretna, LA Police including data equipment and computers; law enforcement communications; Department, for law enforcement technology ∑ $87,000 for the Palos Park Police Depart- ∑ $1,000,000 for Los Angeles County, CA, for and automated systems; ment, for law enforcement equipment and law enforcement communications upgrade; ∑ $500,000 for St. Tammany Parish, LA new technology; ∑ $250,000 for Washington State Depart- Sheriff’s Office, for automated systems to as- ∑ $33,000 for the Southwest Major Case ment of Corrections sex offender monitoring sist investigations; Unit, IL, for video surveillance and related ∑ equipment upgrades; $500,000 for Orleans Parish, LA Police De- technology; ∑ $175,000 for the Washington County, NY ∑ partment, for law enforcement technology $75,000 for the Village of Larchmont, NY Board of Supervisors, for a mobile command and automated systems; Police Department, for closed-circuit sur- and communications center; ∑ $3,000,000 for the Law Enforcement On- veillance equipment; ∑ $60,000 for the City of Thibodaux, LA, for ∑ line (LEO) Program; $20,000 for the Town of Mamaroneck, NY, in-car video cameras and computers; ∑ $1,500,000 for the Chattanooga, TN Police for police communications equipment; ∑ $100,000 for the New Orleans Metropoli- ∑ Department, for law enforcement tech- $85,000 for the Village of Mamaroneck, tan Crime Commission; nology; NY Police Department, for an automated ∑ $1,549,000 for the San Bernardino County, ∑ $1,500,000 for the Oklahoma Department fingerprinting system; CA Probation Department, for a case man- of Public Safety, for in-car video cameras for ∑ $100,000 for the City of New Fairfield, CT agement system; the Highway Patrol; Police Department, for technology improve- ∑ $90,000 for Douglas, WI, for drug interdic- ∑ $35,000 for Allen County, KY, for the law ments including laptop computers for patrol tion software system; enforcement component of an emergency cars; ∑ $500,000 for the Borough of Shrewsbury, systems upgrade; ∑ $210,000 for the Saint Paul, MN Police NJ Police Department, for technology up- ∑ $165,000 for Page County, VA, for law en- Department, for police radios; grades; forcement equipment to consolidate 911 serv- ∑ $500,000 for North Attleboro, MA, for ∑ $1,500,000 for the Orange County, CA ices; technology upgrades at the new police facil- Strategic Integrated Justice System, for the ∑ $1,000,000 for the Virginia State Police, ity; electronic linking of law enforcement com- for in-car video cameras; ∑ $1,000,000 for the facial recognition and munities; ∑ $2,000,000 for the Center for Criminal Jus- data capture system demonstration for 5 ∑ $2,000,000 for the Illinois State Police, for tice Technology; counties in Massachusetts; the implementation of an integrated records ∑ $3,500,000 for Pinellas County, FL, law ∑ $750,000 for Jersey City, NJ, for radio sys- management system; enforcement agencies, for facial recognition tem upgrades and fixed radio network equip- ∑ $1,000,000 for the Louisiana State Police, technology; ment; for the Information and Management Sys- ∑ $1,000,000 for the City of Mayaguez, PR, ∑ $250,000 for Union City, NJ, for CAD and tems within the Emergency Operations Cen- for municipal police technology improve- RMS systems; ter; ments; ∑ $500,000 for the Solano County, CA Re- ∑ $1,000,000 for the Washington, DC Metro- ∑ $1,500,000 for the City of Madison, WI, for gional Law Enforcement Training Center, for politan Council of Government and Police laptop computers and video monitoring units technology infrastructure; Chiefs’ Pawn database; in patrol cars; ∑ $225,000 for the Holyoke, MA Police De- ∑ $300,000 for Del Mar College in Corpus ∑ $500,000 for the Las Vegas, NV Metropoli- partment, for equipment; Christi, TX, for the Network of Medicolegal tan Police Department’s Interagency Cyber ∑ $1,500,000 for the City of San Francisco, Investigative Systems (NOMIS); Crime Task Force, for technology improve- CA, for a geographic information crime map- ∑ $500,000 for Orange County, CA District ments; ping system; Attorney’s Task Force aimed at Catching ∑ $750,000 for the City of Tallahassee, FL, ∑ $300,000 for Wake County, NC, for law en- Killers, Rapists and Sexual Offenders for a joint law enforcement communications forcement communications; (TracKERS); upgrade; ∑ $500,000 for the City of South Bend, IN, ∑ $5,000,000 to the National Center for Miss- ∑ $1,850,000 for the City of Baltimore, MD, for video and audio recording systems in ing and Exploited Children to continue the for law enforcement technology upgrades in- squad cars; program created in fiscal year 2000 that pro- cluding laptop computers, cameras and wire- ∑ $1,801,000 for the Minneapolis, MN Police vides targeted technology to police depart- tap equipment; Department, for an automated resources sys- ments for the specific purpose of child vic- ∑ $300,000 for the Indianapolis, IN Police tem; timization prevention and response. The Department, for technology enhancements ∑ $500,000 for the Santa Ana, CA Police De- technology available to our law enforcement including in-car cameras; partment Crime Analysis Unit, for equip- officials to help them find missing children ∑ $1,235,000 for the Territory of the Virgin ment purchases; is not at the level it needs to be. Most police Islands, for technology equipment and up- ∑ $900,000 for the City of Norfolk, VA Po- departments across the United States do not grades; lice Department, including $400,000 for a have personal computers, modems, and scan- ∑ $750,000 for Lane County/Springfield/Eu- computer aided dispatch system and $500,000 ners. The departments that do rarely have gene, OR, for law enforcement area informa- for video cameras; them in areas focusing on crimes against tion records system (AIRS); ∑ $750,000 for Ventura County, CA, for an children; ∑ $750,000 for the City of Austin, TX, for Integrated Justice Information System; ∑ $150,000 for Criminal Intelligence Unit in police mobile data computers; ∑ $40,000 for White County, AR, for tech- Iberia Parish, Louisiana; ∑ $750,000 for the City of Fresno, CA Police nology upgrades at the county jail; ∑ Up to $3,000,000 for the acquisition or Department, for a law enforcement commu- ∑ $750,000 for the City of Abilene, TX, for lease and installation of dashboard mounted nications system; purchase of emergency response and public cameras for State and local law enforcement ∑ $100,000 for the NYPD 47th Police Pre- safety communications equipment for law on patrol. One camera may be used in each cinct, for equipping a mobile command cen- enforcement; vehicle, which is used primarily for patrols. ter; ∑ $750,000 for the Charlevoix-Cheboygan- These cameras are only to be used by State ∑ $300,000 for East Palo Alto, CA Police De- Emmett, MI Central Dispatch Authority, for and local law enforcement on patrol; partment, for communications and computer computer aided dispatch/records manage- ∑ $4,000,000 for the Utah Communications equipment; ment software; Agency Network (UCAN) for enhancements

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.115 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8013 and upgrades of security and communica- ∑ $750,000 for a grant to the Vermont De- local law enforcement to help the justice tions infrastructure to assist with law en- partment of Public Safety for mobile com- community make better use of technologies; forcement needs arising from the 2002 Winter munications technology upgrades to respond ∑ $1,000,000 for the Washington Association Olympics. Of the $4,000,000 appropriated for to and prevent acts of terrorism; of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC), for UCAN $1,440,000 is for Salt Lake County, ∑ $2,200,000 for a grant to the Omaha Police the statewide jail booking, reporting, and Utah, $640,000 is for Salt Lake City, Utah, Department and the Douglas County Sher- victim notification system; and $740,000 is for the City of Ogden, Utah; iff’s Office to fund technology for improved ∑ $3,500,000 for WEBCHECK, the Ohio back- ∑ $1,000,000 for the Montana Highway Pa- communications capabilities; ground check system, for its integration into trol for computer upgrades; ∑ $1,500,000 for a grant to Clark County, the FBI fingerprint system; ∑ $90,000 for the Billings, Montana Police Nevada to upgrade and replace the 911 and ∑ $6,500,000 for the Virginia Department of Department for a firearms training system; Emergency Response System in Clark Coun- Criminal Justice Services, for the Integrated ∑ $250,000 for a grant to Portland, Oregon ty; Criminal Justice Information System; Police Department for its Squad Car Unit ∑ $500,000 for a grant to the Overland Park ∑ $1,700,000 for Buncombe County, NC, for Identification (SQUID) program; Police Department in Kansas for technology conversion of the City-County Bureau of ∑ $125,000 for technology equipment to cre- enhancements; Identification criminal arrest records into ate a traffic enforcement unit in the Muncie, ∑ $139,000 for a grant to the Beaver and an accessible electronic format; Indiana Police Department; Butler County Regional Police Network for ∑ $5,000,000 for the Squad Car Unit Identi- ∑ $250,000 for the Cache Valley, Utah communications technology enhancements; fication (SQUID) program, for remote finger- Multi-jurisdictional 800 Megahertz Project; ∑ $750,000 for a grant to Pennsylvania’s Al- print identification programs in Ontario and ∑ $500,000 for the Louisiana Interstate 10 legheny County Regional Police Network for Rialto, CA; Redlands, CA; and Minneapolis, Technology Support Project; communications technology enhancements; MN; ∑ $500,000 for teleconferencing equipment ∑ $125,000 for a grant for the Green Bay Po- ∑ $1,000,000 for the Las Vegas, NV Metro- for the Montana Supreme Court; lice GangNet Program; politan Police Department, for the Metro ∑ $400,000 for a criminal justice records ∑ $320,000 for a grant to the Nashua Police Automated Identification Network (MAIN) management system for the Missoula, Mon- Department for technology and equipment System; tana Sheriff’s Department; for training exercises; ∑ ∑ $310,000 to fund technology enhance- $3,052,000 for the Great Cities Univer- ∑ $550,000 for a grant to Henderson City— sities Coalition, for criminal justice data ments for the Douglas County, Colorado County Police Departments for Mobile Data Sheriff’s Office; gathering and analysis; Terminals; ∑ ∑ $700,000 for the City of Colorado Springs $500,000 for the San Diego, CA Police De- ∑ $1,000,000 for a grant to the Maine State partment, for the Criminal Records Manage- for its CMS and PASS systems; Police Communications Systems for tech- ∑ $4,000,000 for the Missouri State Highway ment System (CRMS); nology enhancements to improve its commu- ∑ $2,000,000 for the Wayne Area Justice In- Patrol Integration Technology Program; nications infrastructure; ∑ $6,000,000 for the Harrison County Public formation System (WAJIS), MI; ∑ $1,000,000 for a grant to the Wasilla Re- ∑ $1,679,000 for Hennepin County, MN, for Safety Automated Systems project; gional Dispatch Center in Alaska for tech- ∑ $500,000 for Simpson County, Mis- an integrated criminal database system; nology and communications upgrades; sissippi’s public safety automated tech- ∑ $3,000,000 for the Mecklenburg County, ∑ $2,000,000 for a grant to the Alaska De- nologies system; NC, Criminal Justice Information System partment of Public Safety for technology ∑ $725,000 for the City of Jackson Mis- (CJIS); and communications upgrades; sissippi’s public safety automated tech- ∑ $250,000 for the Miami-Dade County Juve- ∑ $37,000 for a grant to the Napoleon, Ohio nologies system; nile Assessment Center Demonstration Police Department for technology upgrades; ∑ $1,000,000 for the Jersey City Police De- Project; ∑ $4,000,000 for the Consolidated Advanced partment’s Crime Identification System to ∑ $500,000 for the Mecklenburg, NC Sher- Technologies for Law Enforcement to im- upgrade communications systems; iff’s Office, for a sex offender registration prove communications between police cruis- ∑ $400,000 for the Berkeley Township Police unit; ers; ∑ $500,000 for King County, WA for DNA Department in New Jersey to upgrade com- ∑ munications technology; $4,500,000 for the South Carolina Coastal testing; ∑ $4,100,000 for the Southwest Border Anti- Plain Police Initiative; ∑ $4,000,000 to the State Police of New ∑ Drug Information System of which $500,000 is $500,000 for a grant to the Boston School Hampshire, for a VHF trunked digital radio to go to the State of Idaho; Safety Initiative to purchase equipment and system; ∑ $375,000 to fund the Bonner Sheriff’s De- technology to reduce school violence; ∑ $2,500,000 for the Juvenile Justice Infor- ∑ partment’s Emergency Communications $750,000 for a grant to the Fresno Police mation System in Missouri; Center; Department for technology upgrades; ∑ $1,057,000 for the University of Southern ∑ ∑ $2,800,000 to fund Minnesota’s Criminal $130,000 for Red River, New Mexico to im- Mississippi to fund crime identification tech- Justice Enterprise Architecture; prove 911 capabilities; nology training; ∑ ∑ $750,000 for the Ohio Computer Crime $400,000 for a grant to fund the St. Louis ∑ $762,000 for a grant to the State of Alaska Unit to upgrade technology; Regional Justice Information Service; to complete the final phase of the criminal ∑ $600,000 to the National Center for Vic- ∑ $1,000,000 for the New Jersey State Police justice management information system re- tims of Crime INFOLINK Program; Law Enforcement Training Center; placement; ∑ $500,000 for a grant to Mountain Village ∑ $1,000,000 for the Arkansas State Police ∑ $600,000 for a grant to the State of Alaska to equip a new communications center to im- for in-car cameras; for the training of Village Public Safety Offi- prove emergency dispatch services to the re- ∑ $1,000,000 for Jefferson County, KY, mo- cers and small village police officers, and ac- gion; bile data terminals; quisition of emergency response equipment ∑ $750,000 for a grant to Montrose Police ∑ $250,000 for the South Carolina U.S. At- for rural communities; Department for the purchase of a trunked torney’s Office in Charleston for technology ∑ $2,000,000 for a grant to the Alaska De- communications system; enhancements related to a gunfire detection partment of Public Safety for the public ∑ $1,000,000 to fund the Criminal Justice In- system; safety information network to integrate formation System (CJIS), an on-going ∑ $185,000 for the Cumberland Plateau Area Federal, State, and local criminal records project within the State of North Carolina; Drug Task Force for a law enforcement in- along with social service and other records. ∑ $250,000 for the Macon County, Illinois formation sharing initiative; The Committee expects the system design to Sheriff’s Department for law enforcement ∑ $800,000 for the National Sheriff’s Asso- include the capability to provide background technologies and to modernize equipment; ciation for multi-state ISS; and checks on potential child care workers for ∑ $1,000,000 for communications upgrades ∑ $500,000 for Berlin, New Hampshire for child care providers and families with the for Portsmouth, New Hampshire Police De- technology upgrades. permission of the job applicant. The State partment; Crime Identification Technology Act.—The should consult with the National Instant ∑ $185,000 to fund computer and technology conference agreement includes $87,287,000 to Background Check System for technical ex- upgrades for the Charleston, South Carolina be used and distributed pursuant to the pertise; Sheriff’s Department; Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998, ∑ $900,000 for Critical Incidence Response ∑ $150,000 for Emergency 911 System En- Public Law 105–251. Technologies in South Carolina; hancements for the Hawaii County Police Within the overall amounts recommended, ∑ $3,200,000 to fund the Criminal Justice and Fire Department; the OJP should examine each of the fol- Communications Upgrade in South Carolina; ∑ $350,000 for a grant to the Colchester and lowing proposals, provide grants if war- ∑ $200,000 for a grant to the Xenia Police South Burlington Police Departments to ranted, and submit a report to the Commit- Department to investigate child sexual ex- fund computer upgrades; tees on its intentions for each proposal: ploitation on the Internet; ∑ $250,000 for a grant to the New Bedford ∑ $4,000,000 for the Cyber Science Labora- ∑ $200,000 for a grant to Indiana University/ Police Department for communication up- tory, for the acquisition and development of Purdue University at Indianapolis to expand grades to improve the efficiency and effec- new and advanced investigative, analysis, the use and deployment of imaging systems tiveness of local police efforts; and forensic tools for Federal, State and to State and local law enforcement agencies;

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.118 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 ∑ $300,000 for a grant to the Fifth Judicial Project Sentry.—The conference agreement ∑ $250,000 for the Boy Scouts Learning for Circuit of South Dakota to establish a co- includes $14,967,000 for Project Sentry. This Life Program. ordinated juvenile arrest tracking system; program will create a new Federal and State JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS ∑ $6,500,000 for a grant to the State of partnership establishing safe schools task The conference agreement includes South Dakota for the development of a forces across the country that will prosecute $305,860,000 for Juvenile Justice programs, in- statewide communications system; and supervise juveniles who violate Federal stead of $297,940,000 as proposed by the House ∑ $3,000,000 for the South Carolina State and State firearms laws and adults who ille- and $333,407,000 as proposed by the Senate. Law Enforcement Secure Communications gally furnish firearms to them. An addi- The conference agreement provides for the Upgrade; tional $5,033,000 is provided for this initiative following programs: ∑ $3,000,000 for a grant to Milwaukee, Wis- through the Juvenile Justice programs, for a consin, for communications infrastructure total funding level of $20,000,000. JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS equipment; Safe Schools Initiative.—The conference [In thousands of dollars] ∑ $850,000 for a grant to the South Carolina agreement includes $23,338,000 for programs State Law Enforcement Division for a High aimed at preventing violence in public Amount Technology Crime Investigative Unit. schools, and to support the assignment of of- Crime Laboratory Improvement Program.— Management/Administration ...... 6,832 ficers to work in collaboration with schools State Formula Grants ...... 88,804 The conference agreement includes and community-based organizations to ad- Discretionary Grants ...... 58,513 $35,000,000 for the crime laboratory improve- dress crime and disorder problems, gangs, Youth Gangs ...... 11,974 ment program. State Challenge Activities ...... 9,978 and drug activities. Juvenile Mentoring ...... 15,965 Within the overall amounts recommended, Incentive Grants to Prevent Juvenile Crime ...... 94,337 the OJP should examine each of the fol- Within the amount provided, the COPS of- (Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws) ...... (25,000) lowing proposals, provide grants if war- fice should examine each of the following (Indian Youth Grants Program) ...... (12,472) proposals, provide grants if warranted, and (Safe Schools Initiative) ...... (14,513) ranted, and submit a report to the Commit- (Project HomeSafe) ...... (12,000) tees on its intentions for each proposal: submit a report to the Committees on its in- ∑ $8,500,000 for the National Forensic Sys- tentions for each proposal: Subtotal, Juvenile Prevention Programs ...... 286,403 ∑ $1,000,000 for Miami-Dade County, FL Drug Prevention Program ...... 10,976 tems Technology Center; Victims of Child Abuse Act Programs ...... 8,481 ∑ $2,000,000 for the University of Con- Public Schools, for technology equipment for necticut for DNA research; school policing activities; Total ...... 305,860 ∑ $2,000,000 for the University of New ∑ $495,000 for the Home Run Program; Haven, CT, for DNA research; ∑ $1,000,000 for the University of Montana, Discretionary Grants for National Programs ∑ $3,000,000 for the Iowa State University Pathways to Discovery Project, a commu- and Special Emphasis Programs.—The con- Midwest Forensics Science Center; nity based after-school program for at-risk ference agreement includes $58,513,000 for ∑ $1,000,000 for the Central Gulf Coast Re- youth; this discretionary grant program. Within the gional Computer Forensics Laboratory; ∑ $500,000 for the Family, Career and Com- amounts provided, OJP is expected to review ∑ $1,000,000 for the Mississippi Crime Lab munity Leaders of America (FCCLA) ‘‘Stop the following proposals, provide grants if warranted, and report to the Committees on to upgrade the lab’s capability to analyze the Violence’’ program; its intentions. In addition, up to 10 percent DNA in a forensic laboratory; ∑ $750,000 for the New Mexico State Univer- of the funds provided for each program shall ∑ $750,000 to the Northeastern Illinois Pub- sity for the After School Services Pilot Pro- be made available for an independent evalua- lic Safety Training Academy for crime lab gram for at-risk youth; tion of that program. enhancements; ∑ $500,000 for the Loudoun County, VA ∑ $750,000 for the University of South Ala- ∑ $1,000,000 for the National Forensic School Probation Program; bama for youth violence prevention research; Science Institute; ∑ $350,000 for the Jacksonville, FL collabo- ∑ $500,000 for the ARISE Foundation for at- ∑ $1,000,000 for upgrades to the Iowa Foren- rative partnership for the Truancy Interdic- risk youth; sic Laboratory; tion Program; ∑ $1,000,000 for the Youth Crime Watch of ∑ $500,000 for the National Academy for Fo- ∑ $600,000 for the South Carolina Law En- America; rensic Computing in Central Piedmont, forcement Truancy Initiative; ∑ $1,250,000 for the Teens, Crime and Com- North Carolina; ∑ $500,000 for Para Los Ninos collaborative munity program; ∑ $60,000 to address the DNA backlog in the program with the LA County Probation De- ∑ $3,000,000 for the National Council of Ju- Arkansas Crime Laboratory; partment; venile and Family Courts, which provides ∑ $1,000,000 for a grant to the Alabama De- ∑ $5,000,000 for the Secure Our Schools Act; continuing legal education in family and ju- partment of Forensic Sciences; ∑ $75,000 for DuPage County, IL Safe venile law; ∑ $250,000 for a grant to Virginia’s Elec- School Initiative; ∑ $300,000 for Prevent Child Abuse America tronic Fingerprint Archive System; ∑ $150,000 for the Port Chester, NY Public for the programs of the National Family ∑ $4,000,000 to the West Virginia University Schools at-risk youth program; Support Roundtable; Forensic Identification Program; ∑ $205,000 for King County, WA, for the ∑ ∑ $300,000 for the Detroit, MI Rescue Mis- $1,750,000 for the South Carolina Law En- School Resource Officers Program; sion Ministries to support the at risk youth forcement Division’s Laboratory Improve- ∑ $1,701,000 for North Eastern Massachu- program; ment Program; setts Law Enforcement Council for the ∑ $1,900,000 for law related education for ∑ $777,000 for the South Carolina Law En- School Threat Assessment and Response continued support; forcement Division’s Computer Evidence Re- System (STARS); ∑ $500,000 for Wichita State University for covery Facility (CERF); and ∑ $3,000,000 for training by the National a juvenile justice program; ∑ $800,000 for the Ohio Computer Forensic Center for Missing and Exploited Children ∑ $3,425,000 for the Hamilton Fish National Lab. for law enforcement officers selected to be Institute on School and Community Vio- DNA Backlog Elimination.—The conference part of the Safe Schools Initiative; lence; agreement includes $40,000,000 to reduce the ∑ $500,000 for the New Mexico School Secu- ∑ $250,000 for the Westside Gang Preven- DNA sample backlog. Within this amount, rity Technology and Resource Center; tion Demonstration Program in Syracuse, $5,000,000 is available for Paul Coverdell ∑ $300,000 for the Secure School Program in NY; Forensics Sciences Improvement grants. New Mexico; ∑ $1,000,000 for anti-gambling public service Southwest Border Prosecutions.—The con- ∑ $250,000 to fund Project Success in ference agreement includes $50,000,000 to pro- media campaign grants to be provided to in- Danville, Illinois; vide assistance to State and local prosecu- school educational networks; ∑ $100,000 for the Watch D.O.G.S. Across ∑ tors located along the southwest border, in- $200,000 for Pinellas County, FL, for the America in Springdale, Arkansas to enhance cluding the integration and automation of ABOUT FACE program; school safety; ∑ $300,000 for the Oregon Museum of court management systems. This program ∑ will provide financial assistance to Texas, $1,000,000 for the School Violence Re- Science and Industry for the Science for At- New Mexico, Arizona, and California for the source Center in Little Rock, Arkansas; Risk youth program; ∑ ∑ State and local costs associated with the $500,000 for the Alaska Community in $350,000 for Greater Philadelphia, PA, handling and processing of drug and alien Schools Mentoring program; and Camden, NJ, for The Rock School at- ∑ cases referred from Federal arrests. $2,750,000 for the Partnership for High risk youth program; Gun Violence Reduction Program.—The con- Risk Youth to improve opportunities for dis- ∑ $300,000 for the Roxbury Family, MA, ference agreement includes $49,780,000 for a advantaged communities and to study social YMCA for enhanced at-risk youth programs; new program that will encourage States to policies and public programs; ∑ $500,000 for the West End House in increase the prosecution of gun criminals. ∑ $100,000 for the Na Keika Law Center in Allston-Brighton, MA; This program encompasses a broad range of Hawaii; ∑ $400,000 for Bronx, NY Neighborhood En- gun violence strategies, including hiring and ∑ $762,000 for the Northeastern South Da- hancement Training and Services (NETS), training of local prosecutors and imple- kota Children and Family Initiative in Aber- Inc. for the center for at-risk youth; menting public awareness campaigns to ad- deen, South Dakota; ∑ $2,000,000 for the Wayne County, MI Juve- vertise tough sentences for gun crimes and ∑ $1,000,000 for South Dakota Internet nile Justice Program for prevention activi- foster community support. Child Safety Project; and ties and services;

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.120 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8015 ∑ $700,000 for the Clackamas County, OR, ∑ $750,000 for Utah State University Youth $5,000,000 for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of for juvenile detention programs; and Families With Promise Program; America program. ∑ $750,000 for the Good Knight Child Em- ∑ $200,000 for a teen program in Kuhio At-Risk Children’s Program (Title V).—The powerment Network’s Million Knight Cam- Park, Hawaii; conference agreement includes $94,337,000 for paign for youth violence prevention; ∑ $130,000 for a grant to the South Dakota At-Risk Children’s Program. ∑ $1,300,000 for the Suffolk University Law Unified Judicial System to better serve Chil- Safe Schools Initiative.—The conference School Juvenile Justice Center; dren in Need of Supervision [CHINS]; agreement includes $14,513,000 within Title V ∑ $100,000 for the Wausau, WI alternative ∑ $150,000 for a grant to the Vermont Coali- grants for the Safe Schools initiative. Within juvenile offender program; tion of Teen Centers; this amount $5,033,000 is provided for Project ∑ $250,000 for Project Juvenile Assistance ∑ $500,000 for a grant to Western Kentucky Sentry. This program will create a new Fed- Diversion Effort (JADE) in Los Angeles for a University to develop a Juvenile Delin- eral and State partnership establishing safe juvenile delinquency prevention program; quency Prevention Project aimed at students schools task forces across the country that ∑ $2,000,000 for the L.A.’s BEST youth pro- who have been removed from school; will prosecute and supervise juveniles who gram; ∑ $500,000 for a grant to establish and en- violate Federal and State firearms laws and ∑ $90,000 for the Glendale, CA, YMCA for hance after-school programs in Fairbanks, adults who illegally furnish firearms to ‘‘Your House’’ shelter and case management Alaska for at-risk youth through LOVE So- them. An additional $14,967,000 is provided program for at-risk youth; cial Services; for this initiative through the COPS pro- ∑ $1,000,000 for the West Farms Center to ∑ $1,000,000 for a grant to the State of Alas- gram, for a total funding level of $20,000,000. Within the amounts provided for the safe assist at-risk youth; ka for a child abuse investigation program; schools initiative, OJP is expected to review ∑ $1,000,000 for the Greater Heights Pro- ∑ $500,000 for a grant to the Center for Safe the following proposals, provide grants if gram, to provide mentoring to high-risk Urban Communities at the University of warranted, and report to the Committees on youth; Louisville for studies on ways to prevent its intentions. In addition, up to 10 percent ∑ $750,000 for the Bronx Youth Conserva- youth violence; of the funds provided for each program shall tion Corps ‘‘Save a Generation’’ work and ∑ $1,097,000 for a grant to the City of Balti- be made available for an independent evalua- study program; more, Maryland to assist in operating and tion of that program. ∑ $275,000 for the Sports Foundation, Inc. expanding the Police Athletic Leagues Pro- ∑ $1,500,000 for the ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ Foun- (SFI), for a focused mentoring program; gram; dation for at-risk youth; ∑ $300,000 for the ‘‘No Workshops... No ∑ $500,000 for a grant to the Johnson Coun- ∑ $1,000,000 for the YMCA Second Chance Jump Shots’’ project to provide case man- ty Family Resource Center in Kansas; School for at-risk youth; agement, counseling and mandatory work- ∑ $500,000 for a grant to Elwin Project in ∑ $417,000 for Phoenix, AZ to expand Oper- shops for at-risk youth in three cities; Pennsylvania to reduce placement in institu- ation Quality Time; ∑ $250,000 for a three year grant for Oper- tions and recidivism of mentally ill youth; ∑ $1,300,000 for the Promoting Responsible ation Blue Ridge Thunder for their contin- ∑ $400,000 for a grant to the Martin Luther Behavior and Preventing Violence Program ued work in educating their community to King, Jr. Center for Non-Violence to work in Montana; recognize and deter child pornography and in with at-risk youth; ∑ $1,000,000 for the Safe Schools Initiative their investigation and resolution of local ∑ $250,000 for a grant to Macon, Georgia for in Macon, Georgia; pornography cases. Funding is contingent an At-Risk Youth Program to help solve the ∑ $200,000 for the Youth Watch Initiative in upon Operation Blue Ridge Thunder main- underlying problems of at-risk youth and Jackson, Mississippi; taining and promoting the national inves- first time offenders; ∑ $2,554,000 for the Safe School Education tigative standards established by the Task ∑ $800,000 for a grant to Bergen County, and Community Awareness Program; and Force Board of Directors and OJP, that have New Jersey, to expand its Police Athletic ∑ $1,500,000 for the Youth Advocates Pro- served to underwrite the success of these ef- League after-school programs; gram. forts; ∑ $100,000 for a grant to fund Deschutes Tribal Youth Program.—The conference ∑ $3,000,000 for Parents Anonymous; County, Oregon’s Juvenile Justice Partner- agreement includes $12,472,000 within the ∑ $2,000,000 for Fuller Theological Semi- ship Program; Title V grants for programs to reduce, con- nary, for a youth violence and gambling ∑ $1,000,000 for a grant to fund South Dako- trol, and prevent crime both by and against study; ta’s Rural At-Risk Youth Outreach program; tribal and Native youth. This program also ∑ $150,000 for the Rapid Response Program ∑ $2,000,000 to expand and replicate the Be- funds prevention initiatives focusing on al- in Washington and Hancock Counties, ME; yond Bars program; cohol and drugs, including the Alaska Fed- ∑ $1,500,000 for Girls and Boys Town, USA; ∑ $300,000 for the Low Country Children’s eration of Natives to develop an underage ∑ $450,000 for Shelby County, AL Juvenile Center in South Carolina; drinking prevention program in rural Alaska Justice; ∑ $1,650,000 to expand the Milwaukee Safe that includes assessment and education and ∑ $300,000 for Prince William County, VA and Sound Program to other Milwaukee neighborhoods and other communities in focuses on the children of alcoholics. Juvenile Justice Systems; Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws.—The ∑ $412,000 for Utah State University, Youth Wisconsin; ∑ $540,000 for a grant for the Milwaukee conference agreement includes $25,000,000 and Families Promise Program; within the Title V grants for programs to as- ∑ $2,000,000 for the Strengthening Abuse Summer Stars Program; ∑ $75,000 for a grant to fund the Adolescent sist States in enforcing underage drinking and Neglect Courts Act; laws, as proposed by the Senate. Within the ∑ Behavior Control Program in Rhode Island; $1,000,000 for a youth violence prevention amounts provided for underage drinking, initiative of the Houston Independent School ∑ $204,000 for a grant to the Children’s Ad- vocacy Center at the Crow Creek Sioux In- $2,000,000 shall be provided for a grant to District; fund the Alaska Illegal Drug and Alcohol Use ∑ $125,000 for programs for at-risk youth at dian Reservation in Fort Thompson, South Dakota for the Children’s Safe Place pro- Initiative. the Tilles Center, Long Island University; Victims of Child Abuse Act.—The conference ∑ gram; $300,000 for a youth crime prevention ini- agreement includes $8,481,000 for the various tiative at the Institute for International ∑ $300,000 for the From Darkness to Light Program in South Carolina; programs authorized under the Victims of Sport; Child Abuse Act. The conference agreement ∑ $250,000 for the Jefferson County Youth ∑ $1,000,000 for the Mental Health Screen- ing and Treatment Facility; adopts by reference the House allocation for Service System; this program. ∑ $725,000 for a grant to Iowa Big Brothers ∑ $400,000 for the Center for Corrections PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS BENEFITS and Big Sisters Rural Youth Mentoring Pro- Education at Indiana University of Pennsyl- gram; vania; The conference agreement includes ∑ $400,000 for the New Mexico Police Ath- ∑ $100,000 for Aid of Children of relocated $37,724,000 for Public Safety Officers Benefits, letic League; witnesses in Pennsylvania; instead of $35,619,000 as proposed by the ∑ $250,000 to fund the Youth Development ∑ $175,000 for the Hazard, KY Buckhorn House and Senate. This includes $33,224,000 Program in Chicago; Wilderness Program; for the death benefits program and $4,500,000 ∑ $800,000 to the Las Vegas Family Devel- ∑ $150,000 for a grant to fund Project Safe for the disability benefits program. The addi- opment Foundation; in Crow Creek, South Dakota; and tional amount reflects the increase of dis- ∑ $1,500,000 to fund the University of New ∑ A grant, if warranted, to the Alaska ability payments from $100,000 to $250,000. Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Re- Mentoring Demonstration Project for a GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF search Center; statewide at-risk youth mentoring program JUSTICE ∑ $390,000 for the Juvenile Fire Setters involving schools and non-profit entities, in- The conference agreement includes the fol- Program; cluding Boys and Girls Clubs and Big Broth- lowing general provisions for the Depart- ∑ $300,000 for the Chicota Youth Camp in ers-Big Sisters. ment of Justice: Louisiana; Juvenile Mentoring Program (Part G).—The Section 101. The conference agreement in- ∑ $250,000 for a grant to the At-Risk Early conference agreement includes $15,965,000 for cludes section 101, as proposed by the House Intention Program in the 16th Judicial Dis- the juvenile mentoring program. Within the and the Senate, regarding reception and rep- trict, Louisiana; amounts provided, OJP is directed to provide resentation expenses.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.122 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8016 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Sec. 102. The conference agreement in- gration and Nationality Act of 1952, to make Administration, as proposed in the House cludes section 102, as proposed by the House, mandatory the provision of passenger mani- bill, instead of $42,859,000 as proposed in the which continues certain authorities for the fests to the Attorney General from commer- Senate bill. Department of Justice contained in the fis- cial aircraft and vessels entering and depart- U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service (US & cal year 1980 Department of Justice Appro- ing the United States. FCS).—The conference agreement includes priations Authorization Act, until enact- TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE $195,791,000 for the programs of the US & ment of subsequent authorization legisla- AND RELATED AGENCIES FCS, instead of $196,791,000 as proposed in the tion. The Senate did not include a similar House bill, and $193,824,000 as proposed in the TRADE AND INFRASTRUCTURE provision. Senate bill. The agreement includes by ref- Sec. 103. The conference agreement in- DEVELOPMENT erence language regarding the Rural Export cludes section 103, as proposed by the House, RELATED AGENCIES Initiative, the Global Diversity Initiative, which prohibits the use of funds to perform OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE and base resources, as proposed in the House abortions in the Federal Prison System. The REPRESENTATIVE report. In addition, Senate report language Senate did not include a similar provision. SALARIES AND EXPENSES regarding the Appalachian-Turkish Trade Sec. 104. The conference agreement in- Project is adopted by reference. cludes section 104, as proposed by the House, The conference agreement includes Executive Direction and Administration.— which prohibits the use of funds to require $30,097,000 for the salaries and expenses of House report language regarding trade mis- any person to perform, or facilitate the per- the Office of the United States Trade Rep- sions, buying power maintenance, and trade formance of, an abortion. The Senate did not resentative (USTR), the same amount pro- show revenues is adopted by reference. posed in both the House and Senate bills. include a similar provision. EXPORT ADMINISTRATION Sec. 105. The conference agreement in- INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION cludes section 105, as proposed by the House, SALARIES AND EXPENSES The conference agreement includes which states that nothing in the previous The conference agreement includes $68,893,000 for the Bureau of Export Adminis- section removes the obligation of the Direc- $51,440,000 for the salaries and expenses of tration (BXA) as proposed in both the House tor of the Bureau of Prisons to provide es- the International Trade Commission (ITC), and Senate bills. House and Senate report cort services to female inmates who seek to the same amount proposed in both the House language regarding allocation of funds is obtain abortions outside a Federal facility. and Senate bills. adopted by reference. In addition, the con- The Senate did not include a similar provi- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ferees direct the Critical Infrastructure As- sion. surance Office (CIAO) to prepare a report de- Sec. 106. The conference agreement in- INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION tailing the continuing requirements of this cludes section 106, modified from provisions OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION interim program, and to submit the report to in both the House and Senate bills, which al- The conference agreement includes the Committees on Appropriations by Feb- lows the Department of Justice to spend up $347,547,000 in new budgetary resources for ruary 14, 2002. to $10,000,000 for rewards for information re- the operations and administration of the garding acts of terrorism or espionage ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION International Trade Administration (ITA) against the United States, in addition to re- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE for fiscal year 2002, of which $3,000,000 is de- wards made subject to section 501 of Public PROGRAMS rived from fee collections. The House bill Law 107–56. The conference agreement includes proposed $347,654,000, of which $3,000,000 is de- Sec. 107. The conference agreement in- $335,000,000 for Economic Development Ad- rived from fee collections. The Senate bill cludes section 107, as proposed by both the ministration (EDA) grant programs as pro- proposed $347,090,000, of which $3,000,000 is de- House and the Senate, which continues the posed in the House bill, instead of $341,000,000 rived from fee collections. current limitations on transfers among De- as proposed in the Senate bill. The con- The following table reflects the distribu- partment of Justice accounts. ference agreement does not include funding tion of funds by activity included in the con- Sec. 108. The conference agreement in- under this heading for one specific project as ference agreement: cludes section 108, as proposed by both the proposed in the Senate bill. House and Senate, which provides that Trade Development ...... $67,669,000 Of the amounts provided, $250,000,000 is for $1,000,000 shall be available for technical as- Market Access and Compli- Public Works and Economic Development, sistance from funds appropriated for part G ance ...... 27,741,000 $40,900,000 is for Economic Adjustment As- of title II of the Juvenile Justice and Delin- Import Administration ...... 43,346,000 sistance, $24,000,000 is for Planning, $9,100,000 quency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended. U.S. & F.C.S...... 195,791,000 is for Technical Assistance, including Uni- Sec. 109. The conference agreement in- Executive Direction and versity Centers, $10,500,000 is for Trade Ad- cludes section 109, as proposed by the House, Administration ...... 13,000,000 justment Assistance, and $500,000 is for Re- which increases the current airline passenger Fee Collections ...... (3,000,000) search. EDA is expected to allocate the fund- immigration inspection fee from $6 to $7, and Total, ITA Direct Ap- ing as directed in the House report. The au- establishes a new $3 cruise ship passenger propriation ...... 344,547,000 thorized, traditional programs provide sup- immigration inspection fee, instead of a port for all communities facing economic modified fee increase proposed by the Sen- Trade Development (TD).—The conference hardship. Within the funding for Economic ate. agreement provides $67,669,000 for this activ- Adjustment Assistance, EDA is expected to Sec. 110. The conference agreement in- ity, instead of $66,919,000 as proposed in the continue funding for assistance to the timber cludes section 110, as proposed by the Senate, House bill and $66,820,000 as proposed in the and coal industries, as in the current year. which further amends the Immigration and Senate bill. Of the amounts provided, In addition, EDA is expected to provide re- Nationality Act of 1953, to provide that the $52,919,000 is for the TD base program, sources for communities affected by eco- Attorney General is authorized to increase $10,000,000 is for the National Textile Consor- nomic downturns due to United States-Cana- from 6 to 96 the number of land border ports tium, $3,000,000 is for the Textile/Clothing dian trade-related issues, New England fish- of entry pilot projects. The House did not in- Technology Corporation, and $250,000 is for eries impacted by regulations, and commu- clude a similar provision. the export database. Existing members of nities impacted by NAFTA, as directed in Sec. 111. The conference agreement in- the National Textile Consortium should re- the Senate report. cludes section 111, which provides for a vic- ceive funding at the fiscal year 2001 level and The conference agreement makes funding tim notification system under the Crime the remaining $250,000 is available for Cor- under this account available until expended, Victims Fund as proposed by the Senate. The nell University and UC Davis. Further, the as proposed in the both the House bill and House did not include a similar provision. conference agreement includes $500,000 for the Senate bill. continuation of the international global Sec.112. The conference agreement includes SALARIES AND EXPENSES competitiveness initiative, and $500,000 for section 112, which amends Section 6 of the The conference agreement includes travel industry statistics, as proposed by the Hmong Veterans’ Naturalization Act of 2000 $30,557,000 for salaries and expenses of the House report. In addition, $500,000 is for the to extend the applicability of that Act from EDA, the same amount as proposed in both international trade center, as proposed by 18 months to 36 months to certain former the House and Senate bills. This funding will the Senate report. spouses of deceased Hmong veterans. The allow EDA to continue its current level of Market Access and Compliance (MAC).—The House did not include a similar provision. administrative and oversight operations. The Sec. 113. The conference agreement in- conference agreement includes a total of EDA is directed to aggressively pursue all cludes section 113, which amends P.L. 107–56, $27,741,000 for this activity, as proposed in opportunities for reimbursement, regarding a provision related to the Office of both the House and Senate bills. Of the deobligations, and use of non-appropriated Justice Programs. amounts provided, $20,941,000 is for the base resources to achieve efficient and effective Sec. 114. The conference agreement in- program, $500,000 is for the strike force control of EDA programs. cludes section 114, which provides for post- teams initiative and $6,300,000 is for the humous citizenship for certain people killed trade enforcement and compliance initiative, MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. as provided in the current year. MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Sec. 115. The conference agreement in- Import Administration.—The conference The conference agreement includes cludes section 115, which amends the Immi- agreement includes $43,346,000 for the Import $28,381,000 for the programs of the Minority

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.125 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8017 Business Development Agency (MBDA), as works listed above is subject to the require- ture Grant program as proposed in both the proposed in both the House and Senate bills. ments of section 605 of this Act, as is alloca- House and Senate bills. Senate report lan- House report language regarding the Entre- tion of any additional unobligated balances guage regarding the overlap of funding under preneurial Technology Apprenticeship Pro- not allocated in this conference agreement. this heading with funding for the Depart- gram is adopted by reference. Should the operational needs of the decen- ment of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, ECONOMIC AND INFORMATION nial census necessitate the transfer of funds with respect to law enforcement communica- INFRASTRUCTURE between these frameworks, the Bureau may tion and information networks is adopted by transfer such funds as necessary subject to reference. House report language regarding ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS the standard transfer and reprogramming telecommunications research is adopted by SALARIES AND EXPENSES procedures set forth in section 605 of this reference. The conference agreement includes Act. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK $62,515,000 for salaries and expenses of the ac- 2010 Decennial Census.—The following rep- OFFICE tivities funded under the Economic and Sta- resents the distribution of total funds pro- SALARIES AND EXPENSES tistical Analysis account, as proposed in vided for preparation of the 2010 Census: both the House and Senate bills. Funding is The conference agreement provides a total included to continue updating and improving Re-engineered Design funding level of $1,126,001,000 for the United statistical measurements of the U.S. econ- Process ...... $21,000,000 States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), omy, international transactions, and the ef- Long-Form Transitional instead of $1,129,001,000 as proposed in the fects of e-business. Database Evaluation ...... 29,000,000 House bill and $1,139,001,000 as proposed in MAF/TIGER Re-engineer- the Senate bill. Of the amount provided in BUREAU OF THE CENSUS ing ...... 15,000,000 the conference agreement, $843,701,000 is to SALARIES AND EXPENSES be derived from fiscal year 2002 offsetting fee The conference agreement includes Total, 2010 Decennial Cen- collections, and $282,300,000 is to be derived $169,424,000 for the Salaries and Expenses of sus ...... 65,000,000 from carryover of prior year fee collections. the Bureau of the Census for fiscal year 2002, The conference agreement includes frame- This amount represents an increase of as proposed in the House bill, instead of works for funding for the 2010 decennial cen- $88,993,000 above the fiscal year 2001 oper- $168,561,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. sus, as included in the House bill. The Bu- ating level for the PTO. The PTO has experi- The distribution of funding is as follows: reau is directed to provide quarterly reports enced significant growth in recent years due on the obligation of funds against each Current Economic Statis- to increased application filings for patents, framework. Reallocation of resources among and funding is provided to address these in- tics ...... $111,653,000 the frameworks listed above is subject to the Current Demographic Sta- creased filings. Due to the decrease in the requirements of section 605 of this Act, as is filing of trademark applications, the con- tistics ...... 53,544,000 the allocation of any additional unobligated Survey Development and ference agreement has not fully funded the balances not allocated in this conference Data Surveys ...... 4,227,000 budget request. agreement. The conference agreement includes House Total ...... 169,424,000 Other Periodic Programs.—The conference report language regarding PTO’s partnership agreement includes a total of $171,138,000 for with the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame, The conference agreement adopts Senate other periodic censuses and programs, as Inventure Place, and the International Intel- report language requiring a report on reim- proposed in the House bill, instead of lectual Property Institute. In addition, bursements to be submitted with the fiscal $171,291,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. House and Senate report language regarding year 2003 budget request. The following table represents the distribu- PTO’s 5–year plan and fiscal year 2003 budget PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS tion of funds provided for non-decennial peri- structure is adopted by reference. Senate re- The conference agreement provides a total odic censuses and related programs: port language under the Commerce ‘‘Depart- spending level of $375,376,000 for periodic cen- Economic Statistics Pro- mental Management’’ account regarding suses and programs, of which $321,376,000 is grams ...... $57,703,000 global intellectual property counterfeiting provided as a direct appropriation and Economic Censuses ...... 51,958,000 and privacy is adopted by reference under $54,000,000 is from prior year unobligated bal- Census of Governments .. 5,745,000 this heading. ances. The House bill proposed $350,376,000 as Demographic Statistics SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY a direct appropriation and $25,000,000 from Programs ...... 113,435,000 TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION prior year unobligated balances. The Senate Intercensal Demographic SALARIES AND EXPENSES bill proposed $348,529,000 as a direct appro- Estimates ...... 6,048,000 priation and $27,000,000 from prior year unob- Continuous Measurement 27,131,000 The conference agreement includes ligated balances. Demographic Survey $8,238,000 for the Technology Administration 2000 Decennial Census.—The conference Sample Redesign ...... 12,583,000 as proposed in the Senate bill, instead of agreement includes a total of $139,238,000 for Electronic Information $8,094,000 as proposed in the House bill. The completion of the 2000 decennial census, of Collection (CASIC) ...... 6,254,000 conference agreement continues direction as which $85,238,000 is provided as a direct ap- Geographic Support ...... 37,624,000 it has since fiscal year 1998 regarding the use propriation, and $54,000,000 is derived from Data Processing Systems 23,795,000 of Technology Administration and Depart- prior year funding, instead of a direct appro- ment of Commerce resources to support for- priation of $111,738,000 as proposed in the Total ...... 171,138,000 eign policy initiatives and programs. House bill, and a direct appropriation of NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND $112,238,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION TECHNOLOGY The following represents the distribution of SALARIES AND EXPENSES SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND total funds provided for the 2000 Census in SERVICES fiscal year 2002: The conference agreement includes $14,054,000 for the salaries and expenses of The conference agreement includes Program Development and the National Telecommunications and Infor- $321,111,000 for the internal (core) research Management ...... $8,606,000 mation Administration (NTIA), as proposed account of the National Institute of Stand- Data Content and Products 68,330,000 in the Senate bill, instead of $13,048,000 as ards and Technology (NIST), instead of Field Data Collection and proposed in the House bill. The conference $348,589,000 as proposed in the House bill and Support Systems ...... 9,455,000 agreement includes a House provision re- $343,296,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. Automated Data Process garding authorization of spectrum functions. The conference agreement does not include a and Telecommunications The Senate bill did not include a similar pro- redirection of $20,617,000 from the Industrial Support ...... 24,462,000 vision. The conference agreement includes Technology Services account to the Sci- Testing and Evaluation ..... 22,844,000 House report language regarding reimburse- entific and Technical Research and Services Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands ments. account as proposed in the budget. The con- and Pacific Areas ...... 3,105,000 ference agreement provides funds for the PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, Marketing, Communica- core research programs of NIST as follows: tions and Partnerships ... 2,436,000 PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION Electronics and Electrical Prior year balances ...... ¥54,000,000 The conference agreement includes $43,466,000 for the Public Telecommuni- Engineering ...... $41,286,000 Total, 2000 Decennial cations Facilities, Planning and Construc- Manufacturing Engineer- Census ...... 85,238,000 tion (PTFP) program as proposed in both the ing ...... 20,428,000 Senate and House bills. House and Senate re- Chemical Science and The conference agreement continues direc- port language is adopted by reference. Technology ...... 35,712,000 tion from prior years for the Bureau to con- Physics ...... 33,054,000 tinue to provide monthly reports on the obli- INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS Material Sciences and En- gation of funds against each framework. Re- The conference agreement includes gineering ...... 56,532,000 allocation of resources among the frame- $15,503,000 for NTIA’s Information Infrastruc- Building and Fire Research 19,982,000

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.127 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Computer Science and Ap- against the revised budget format is adopted Address Survey Backlog/Con- plied Mathematics ...... 49,478,000 by reference. tracts ...... 22,450 Technology Assistance ...... 17,679,000 OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES Increase for Gulf of Mexico Baldrige Quality Awards ... 5,205,000 and Lake Ponchartrain ...... 4,535 (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) Research Support ...... 41,755,000 The conference agreement includes Subtotal, Mapping & Chart- Total ...... 321,111,000 $2,253,697,000 for the Operations, Research, ing ...... 74,748 and Facilities account of the National Oce- Funding for the Building and Fire Program anic and Atmospheric Administration, of Geodesy: is provided at the request level, and the re- which $223,273,000 is within the category of mainder of funding is to continue the dis- Base ...... 20,612 conservation. The House bill proposed National Spatial Reference aster research program on effects of wind- $2,200,298,000, of which $304,000,000 was under System ...... 250 storms on protective structures and other the conservation category, instead of Height Modernization technologies begun in fiscal year 1998. $2,276,305,000, of which $33,650,000 was under Study—NGS Implementa- Funding for the research support program the conservation category, as proposed in tion ...... 250 includes $2,400,000 for the telecommuting the Senate bill. Height Modernization demonstration project, as proposed in the In addition to the new budget authority Study—NC ...... 1,000 House bill. provided, the conference agreement allows a Height Modernization House report language regarding the place- transfer of $68,000,000 from balances in the Study—CA Spatial Ref- ment of NIST personnel overseas is adopted account entitled ‘‘Promote and Develop erence ...... 1,000 by reference. Fishery Products and Research Related to Geodetic Survey—LA ...... 1,000 INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES American Fisheries’’, as proposed in both the Geodetic Survey—WI ...... 500 The conference agreement includes House and Senate bills. In addition, the con- Geodetic Survey—SC ...... 500 $291,022,000 for the NIST external research ference agreement assumes prior year account, instead of $119,514,000 as proposed in deobligations totaling $17,000,000, and a Subtotal, Geodesy ...... 25,112 the House bill, and $309,337,000 as proposed in transfer of $3,000,000 from the Coastal Zone the Senate bill. Management Fund to the ORF account. Tide and Current Data: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Pro- The conference agreement includes lan- Base ...... 13,250 gram.—The conference agreement includes guage proposed in the House bill designating PORTS ...... 4,000 Great Lakes NWLON ...... 2,045 $106,522,000 for the Manufacturing Extension the amounts provided under this account for Coastal Storms ...... 1,000 Partnership Program (MEP) as proposed in the six NOAA line offices. The Senate bill the House bill, instead of $105,137,000 as pro- contained no similar provision. The con- Subtotal, Tide & Current posed in the Senate bill. The conference ference agreement does not include two pro- Data ...... 20,295 agreement includes Senate bill language re- visions regarding Executive Direction pro- posed by the Senate. The House contained no garding agreements with non-profit organi- Total, Navigation Services 120,155 zations. This language is intended to in- such provisions. crease the program’s ability to leverage re- The conference agreement includes lan- Ocean Resources Conservation & sources and not to increase the outyear costs guage proposed in the House bill making the use of deobligated balances subject to stand- Management: of the program. Estuarine and Coastal Advanced Technology Program.—The con- ard reprogramming procedures. The Senate Asssessment—Ocean Assess- ference agreement includes $184,500,000 for bill proposed a similar provision. In addition, ment Program: the conference agreement includes language the Advanced Technology Program (ATP), Base ...... 13,721 instead of $12,992,000 as proposed in the modified from the House and Senate bills Coastal Observation Tech- House bill and $204,200,000 as proposed in the limiting administrative charges assessed on nology System ...... 500 Senate bill. The amount of carryover funding assigned activities. In addition, the con- Alliance Technologies ...... 2,000 available from fiscal year 2001 is $33,100,000, ference agreement does not include a provi- Center for Integrated Marine providing total available funding for ATP of sion, as proposed in the Senate bill regarding Technologies ...... 2,000 $217,600,000 for fiscal year 2002. creation of a Business Management Fund. Wave Current Information The conference agreement includes bill The House bill did not contain a similar pro- System ...... 1,000 language, modified from the Senate lan- vision. As part of the Committees’ efforts to Sea Grant Program—NH ...... 2,000 guage, designating $60,700,000 for new ATP plan to continue to improve the NOAA budg- Coastal Storms ...... 750 awards. et structure, the conferees direct NOAA to Beaufort/Oxford ...... 3,917 CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES identify services that could be better man- Pfiesteria and HAB Rapid Re- aged if centralized. This information is to be sponse ...... 3,925 The conference agreement provides provided to the Committees on Appropria- South Florida Ecosystem ...... 900 $62,393,000 for construction, renovation and tions by February 14, 2002. Coastal Services Center ...... 18,000 maintenance of NIST facilities, instead of The conference agreement does not include Pacific Coastal Services Cen- $20,893,000 as proposed in the House bill and Senate bill language provisions designating ter ...... 1,750 $43,893,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. amounts for four specific programs or Coastal Change Analysis ...... 2,000 Of the amount provided, $41,500,000 is for projects. The House bill did not contain simi- Coral Reef Program ...... 14,000 grants and cooperative agreements as ref- lar provisions. Harmful Algal Blooms ...... 5,000 erenced in Section 208 of this Act; and The conference agreement includes a pro- Harmful Algal Blooms Re- $20,893,000 is for safety, capacity, mainte- vision, as proposed in the Senate bill, per- search ...... 600 nance, and repair projects at NIST. mitting the Secretary to assess the necessity CICEET—NH ...... 6,550 NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC for NOAA to occupy a certain facility in National Coral Reef Insti- ADMINISTRATION Louisiana. The conference agreement does tute—Hawaii ...... 1,000 The conference agreement provides a total not include additional funding for this pur- National Coral Reef Insti- funding level of $3,256,098,000 in appropria- pose, and directs that should permission to tute—Florida ...... 500 National Coral Reef Insti- tions for all programs of the National Oce- occupy this facility be granted, costs would tute—Puerto Rico DNER .... 500 anic and Atmospheric Administration be incurred from National Ocean Service National Fish and Wildlife (NOAA), instead of $3,092,728,000 as proposed base resources. Foundation ...... 1,500 The following table reflects the distribu- in the House bill and $3,363,285,000 as pro- JASON Foundation ...... 2,500 tion of the funds provided in this conference posed in the Senate bill. Of these amounts, Narragansett Explore the Bay agreement. the conference agreement includes Program ...... 2,000 $2,253,697,000 in the Operations, Research, National Ocean Service National Ocean Science Edu- and Facilities (ORF) account, $836,552,000 in [Fiscal Year 2002 Conference] cation Program ...... 1,500 the Procurement, Acquisition and Construc- Navigation Services: May River Ecosystem ...... 100 tion (PAC) account, and $158,849,000 in other Mapping & Charting: New Bedford Oceanarium Re- NOAA accounts. Base ...... 37,183 search Program ...... 3,000 Both the House and Senate bills display Electronic Navigational Lake Pontchartrain—LA ...... 1,350 funding for the National Oceanic and Atmos- Charts ...... 3,350 CREST ...... 450 pheric Administration in the new revised Electronic Navigational CI-CORE ...... 1,750 budget format. The conference agreement Charts—AK ...... 900 adopts Senate report language regarding the Shoreline Mapping ...... 2,000 Subtotal, Ocean Assessment fiscal year 2003 budget structure. House re- Coastal Storms ...... 1,000 Program ...... 94,763 port language directing NOAA to provide to Joint Hydrographic Center .... 2,580 the Committees on Appropriations on a Joint Hydrographic Center— Response and Restoration: quarterly basis the status of obligations Bathymetric study ...... 750 Base ...... 2,078

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.129 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8019 Estuarine and Coastal Assess- Alaska Groundfish Moni- Great South Bay Hard Clams 250 ment ...... 2,670 toring—Base ...... 2,087 GULFFIN Data Collection Ef- Estuary Restoration Program 1,200 Alaska Groundfish Moni- fort ...... 3,500 Damage Assessment Program 5,200 toring—Bering Sea Fisher- Gulf of Maine Groundfish Oil Pollution Act of 1990 ...... 1,000 men ...... 150 Survey ...... 567 Coastal Protection and Res- Alaska—Bering Sea Pollock Gulf of Mexico Consortium .... 2,750 toration ...... 1,000 Research ...... 945 Gulf and South Atlantic Fish- Spill Response and Restora- Alaska Groundfish Moni- eries ...... 400 tion Program ...... 2,000 toring—Crab Research ...... 850 Hawaii Stock Management Aquatic Resources Environ- Alaska Groundfish Moni- Plan—Oceanic Institute ..... 500 mental Initiative ...... 8,500 toring—Gulf of Alaska Oil Skimmer—NH ...... 225 Coastal Communities ...... 175 Hawaii Fisheries Develop- Regional Restoration pro- Alaska Groundfish Moni- ment Program—Oceanic In- gram—LA ...... 1,000 toring—NMFS Field Fish- stitute ...... 750 Coastal Remediation Tech- ery Monitoring ...... 300 Highly Migratory Shark Fish- nology ...... 750 Alaska Groundfish Moni- ery Research Program ...... 1,500 Lafourche Parish, LA ...... 2,000 toring—NMFS Rockfish Re- Highly Migratory Species Re- Palmyra Atoll Bioremedi- search ...... 350 search—Pacific ...... 750 ation ...... 750 Alaska Groundfish Moni- Information Analysis & Dis- toring—Rockfish Research/ semination ...... 21,890 Subtotal, Response and Res- Crab ...... 238 Joint Institute for Marine toration ...... 28,373 Alaska Groundfish Moni- and Atmospheric Research toring—State of AK Crab, (JIMAR) ...... 2,475 Ocean and Coastal Research: Scallop License Limitation 1,000 Lobster Sampling ...... 150 Base ...... 6,000 Alaska Groundfish Moni- MARFIN—Base ...... 2,500 Fish Forensics/Enforcement .. 1,300 toring—Winter Pollock Sur- MARFIN—NE Activities ...... 250 MEHRL ...... 1,500 vey ...... 1,000 MARFIN—Red Snapper ...... 750 Murrell’s Inlet special area ... 300 Alaska Groundfish Surveys— Pfiesteria/Toxins Research .... 1,000 Base ...... 661 MarMap ...... 850 Alaska Groundfish Surveys— NE Cooperative Research ...... 3,750 Subtotal, Ocean and Coast- Calibration Studies ...... 240 NEC Cooperative Marine Edu- al Research ...... 10,100 Alaska—Chinook Salmon Re- cation and Research ...... 200 search at Auke Bay ...... 300 Northeast Consortium Coop- Subtotal, Estuarine and Alaska—Impact on Ocean Cli- erative Research ...... 5,000 Coastal Assessment ...... 133,236 mate Shifts-Steller Sea New England Stock Depletion 1,000 Lion ...... 6,000 NMFS Facilities Maintenance 4,000 Coastal Ocean Program: Alaska Magnuson—Stevens Observers—Fishery Observ- Base ...... 12,890 Act Implementation ...... 4,350 ers—National Standards ..... 750 ECOHAB ...... 4,200 Alaska—Predator/Prey Rela- Observers/Training—Atlantic Hypoxia ...... 1,085 tionships—Stellar Sea Lion 2,000 Coast Observers ...... 3,350 South Florida Ecosystems ..... 1,200 Alaska—Steller Sea Lion/Pol- Observers/Training—East Long-Term Estuary Assess- lock Research—N. Pacific Coast Observers ...... 350 Council ...... 2,000 ment Consortium ...... 1,200 Observers/Training—Hawaii Mississippi River/Gulf of Mex- American Fisheries Act— Longline Observer Program 3,000 ico Nutrient Watershed ...... 1,000 Base ...... 3,525 Atlantic Herring and Mack- Observers/Training—North Subtotal, Coastal Ocean erel ...... 200 Pacific Marine Resources Program ...... 21,575 Bluefin Tuna Tagging—New Observers ...... 1,875 England Aquarium ...... 850 Observers/Training—North Total, Ocean Resources Bluefish/Striped Bass—Base .. 700 Pacific Observer Program ... 650 Conservation & Assessment 154,811 Bluefish/Striped Bass—Rut- Observers/Training—West gers ...... 827 Coast Observers ...... 4,075 Ocean and Coastal Management: Charleston Bump Billfish PACFIN Catch Effort Data .... 3,000 Coastal Management: Tagging ...... 150 Recreational Fishery Harvest CZM grants ...... 68,963 Computer Hardware and Soft- Monitoring (RECFIN) ...... 3,450 Program Administration ...... 6,382 ware ...... 3,492 Recreational Fishery Harvest National Estuarine Research Cooperative Research—Na- Monitoring (RECFIN)—SC .. 250 Reserve System ...... 16,400 tional Cooperative Research 2,750 Red Snapper Monitoring and Nonpoint Pollution Imple- Cooperative Research—SE Research ...... 5,000 mentation Grants ...... 10,000 Cooperative Research ...... 3,000 Reduce Fishing Impacts on Marine Protected Areas ...... 3,000 Driftnet Act Implementa- Essential Fish Habitat ...... 500 tion—Base ...... 1,800 SEAMAP ...... 1,400 Driftnet Act Implementa- Subtotal, Coastal Manage- Shrimp Pathogens ...... 299 ment ...... 104,745 tion—Pacific Rim Fisheries 150 Driftnet Act Implementa- South Carolina Taxonomic tion—Science Observer Rus- Center ...... 350 Marine Sanctuary Program: West Coast Groundfish ...... 5,220 Base ...... 33,500 sian EEZ ...... 250 Northwest Straits Citizens Driftnet Act Implementa- Subtotal, Science and Tech- Advisory Commission ...... 700 tion—State Participation AK/WA ...... 200 nology ...... 230,491 Subtotal, Marine Sanctuary Expand Stock Assessments— Program ...... 34,200 Improve Data Collection .... 2,000 Conservation and Management: Fish Statistics—Atlantic Base ...... 7,775 Coastal Cooperative Statis- Total, Ocean and Coastal Alasaka Near Shore Fisheries 998 tics Program ...... 2,000 Management ...... 138,945 Alaska—Bering Sea Crab ...... 1,000 Fish Statistics—Base ...... 13,900 Fish Statistics—National Ec- Alaska—Yukon River Chi- Total, National Ocean Serv- onomics and Social nook Salmon-Base ...... 1,000 ice ...... 413,911 Sciences Research ...... 2,500 Alaska—Yukon River Drain- Fish Statistics—National age Fisheries Association ... 499 National Marine Fisheries Service Fisheries Information Sys- Alaska—Magnuson Stevens Fisheries Research and Manage- tem ...... 2,575 Implementation ...... 2,050 ment Services: Fish Statistics—National American Fisheries Act— Science and Technology: Standard 8 ...... 1,000 Base ...... 2,174 Base ...... 65,040 Fisheries Development Pro- American Fisheries Act—N. AKFIN ...... 3,200 gram—Product Quality and Pacific Council ...... 499 Alaska Fisheries Develop- Safety/Seafood Inspection .. 8,685 American Fisheries Act— ment Foundation ...... 750 Fisheries Oceanography ...... 1,000 State of Alaska ...... 499

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.131 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8020 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 Anadromous grants ...... 2,100 Endangered Species Act— Chesapeake Bay Multi-Spe- Anadromous Fish Commis- Steller Sea Lions ...... 850 cies Management ...... 500 sion—North Pacific/Alaska 750 Habitat Conservation ...... 6,358 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Re- Cooper River Corridor Man- Hawaiian Monk Seals ...... 825 search ...... 2,000 agement–SC ...... 150 Hawaiian Sea Turtles ...... 300 Chesapeake Bay Studies ...... 2,750 Columbia River—Hatcheries Hawaiian Sea Turtle Re- Chesapeake Bay Environ- Operations ...... 11,457 search-Data Collection ...... 3,000 mental Education Program 1,200 Columbia River Hatcheries— Marine Mammal Protection .. 2,640 Coral Reefs ...... 11,000 Monitoring, Evaluation and Marine Mammal Protection— Habitat Conservation ...... 2,860 Reform ...... 1,700 AK Harbor Seal Research ... 900 Fisheries Management Pro- Marine Mammal Protection— Magnuson-Stevens Implemen- grams ...... 31,255 Base ...... 4,435 tation ...... 850 Halibut/Sablefish ...... 1,200 Marine Mammal Strandings .. 4,000 Mobile Bay Oyster Recovery 1,000 HI Community Development 500 Marine Mammal Protection— Wetland Herbivory Control ... 1,000 Interjurisdictional Fisheries Erysipelas Research ...... 150 Grants ...... 2,590 Protected Species Manage- Subtotal, Sustainable Habi- International Fisheries Com- ment—Base ...... 4,275 tat Management ...... 26,460 missions ...... 400 Protected Species Manage- Interstate Fish Commis- ment—Bottlenose Dolphin Fisheries Habitat Restoration: 12,400 sions—3 Commissions ...... 750 Research ...... 2,000 Connecticut River Partner- Interstate Fish Commis- Rancho Nuevo Sea Turtles .... 350 ship ...... 300 sions—Atlantic Cooperative Fisheries Habitat Restora- Management ...... 7,250 Subtotal, Science and Tech- tion—Bronx River Restora- Management of George’s nology ...... 109,146 Bank ...... 478 tion ...... 1,500 National Environmental Pol- Fisheries Habitat Restora- Conservation and Management tion—Pinellas County Envi- icy Act ...... 5,000 Services: National Environmental Pol- ronmental Foundation ...... 1,500 Base ...... 4,985 icy Act—Hawaiian Sea Tur- Fisheries Habitat Alaska—Chinook Salmon tles ...... 3,000 Resotration—LA DNR ...... 1,385 Management ...... 150 Oregon Groundfish Outreach Marsh Restoration—NH ...... 1,000 Alaska—Cook Inlet Beluga .... 150 Program ...... 1,000 Alaska Steller Sea Lion Re- Subtotal, Fisheries Habitat Oregon Groundfish Disaster covery—State Work ...... 2,495 Restoration ...... 18,085 Assistance ...... 1,500 Atlantic Salmon Recovery Oregon Groundfish Coopera- Plan ...... 450 Subtotal, Habitat Conserva- tive Research ...... 2,000 Endangered Species Act—At- tion ...... 44,545 Pacific Salmon Treaty—Base 5,612 Pacific Salmon Treaty—Chi- lantic Salmon ...... 500 nook Salmon Agreement .... 1,844 Endangered Species Act—Pa- Enforcement and Surveillance: Refine Essential Fish Habitat cific Salmon Recovery ...... 20,500 Enforcement Designations ...... 1,000 Endangered Species Act— Driftnet Act Implementation/ Regional Councils ...... 14,150 Right Whale Activities ...... 2,100 Base ...... 1,375 Subtotal, Conservation and Endangered Species Act— Enforcement and Surveil- Management ...... 112,180 Right Whale Cooperative lance—Base ...... 20,420 State Plans ...... 1,500 Enforcement and Surveil- Marine Mammal Strandings— Total, Fisheries Research lance—Cooperative Agree- Charleston Health and Risk and Management Services .. 342,671 ments with States ...... 2,500 Assessment ...... 800 Enforcement and Surveil- Native Marine Mammals—AK Protected Resources Research lance—Vessel Monitoring Eskimo Whaling Commis- and Management Services: System ...... 2,000 Science and Technology: sion ...... 400 Native Marine Mammals— Base ...... 12,037 Subtotal, Enforcement ...... 26,295 Alaska Steller Sea Lion Re- Aleut Pacific Marine Re- covery Plan—AK Sea Life sources Observers ...... 125 Center ...... 5,000 Native Marine Mammals— Cooperative Enforcement Pro- Alaska Steller Sea Lion Re- Beluga Whale Committee ... 225 grams: covery Plan—Base ...... 16,800 Native Marine Mammals— Enforcement and Surveil- Alaska Steller Sea Lion Re- Bristol Bay Native Associa- lance—Cooperative Agree- covery Plan—N. Pacific tion ...... 50 ments with/States ...... 14,775 University MMC ...... 3,500 Native Marine Mammals— NH Fish & Game Enforcement Alaska Steller Sea Lion Re- Alaska Native Harbor Seal Vessel ...... 250 covery Plan—University of Commission ...... 150 AK Gulf Apex Predator ...... 1,000 Protected Species Manage- Subtotal, Cooperative En- Alaska Steller Sea Lion Re- ment—Base ...... 3,234 forcement Programs ...... 15,025 covery Plan—Alaska Fish- Protected Species Manage- eries Foundation ...... 500 ment—California Sea Lions 750 Protected Species Manage- Subtotal, Enforcement and Antarctic Research ...... 1,550 Surveillance ...... 41,320 Atlantic Salmon Research ..... 710 ment—NFWF Species Man- Columbia River—Endangered agement ...... 1,000 Species Studies ...... 299 Protected Species Manage- Total, National Marine Dolphin Encirclement ...... 3,300 ment—State of Maine Fisheries Service ...... 579,196 Dolphin/Yellowfin Tuna Re- Salmon Recovery ...... 1,500 Oceanic & Atomspheric Research search ...... 250 Southeastern Sea Turtles ...... 300 Climate Research: Endangered Species Act—At- State of Maine Recovery Plan 150 Laboratories & Joint Insti- lantic Salmon ...... 1,717 Subtotal, Conservation and tutes: Endangered Species Act—Ma- Management Services ...... 41,514 rine Mammals ...... 3,500 Aeronomy Laboratory (Colo- Endangered Species Act— Subtotal, Protected Re- rado) ...... 8,111 Other Species ...... 2,700 sources Research and man- Atlantic Oceanographic and Endangered Species Act— agement Services ...... 150,660 Meterological Laboratory Right Whale Activities ...... 2,250 (Florida) ...... 5,691 Endangered Species Act— Habitat Conservation: Air Resources Laboratory Right Whale Activities NE Sustainable Habitat Manage- (CO, ID, NC, NV, TN) ...... 3,447 Consortium ...... 1,000 ment: Climate Diagnostic Center Endangered Species Act—Pa- Base ...... 1,500 (Colorado) ...... 2,555 cific Salmon Recovery ...... 17,450 Blue Crab Advanced Research Climate Monitoring and Diag- Endangered Species Act—Sea Consortium ...... 1,500 nostic Laboratory (Colo- Turtles ...... 4,500 Charleston Bump ...... 300 rado) ...... 5,952

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.131 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8021 Environmental Technology Hawaii—3–D Ceilometer in HI 500 Aquaculture Education Pro- Laboratory (Colorado) ...... 243 Space-Based Wind Profile gram—Cedar Point, MS ...... 1,000 Forecast Systems Laboratory Lidar Technology ...... 1,000 Pacific Tropical Ornamental (Colorado) ...... 156 Air Quality Forecasting Pilot Fish ...... 450 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program ...... 3,000 High Resolution Temperature Aquaculture Management Laboratory (New Jersey) .... 14,229 Plan—RICRMC ...... 1,500 Pacific Marine Environ- Forecasting Pilot Program 3,000 SE Atlantic Marine Moni- mental Laboratory (Wash- Subtotal, U.S. Weather Re- toring & Pred. Center (UNC) 998 ington) ...... 8,523 Space Environmental Center search Program ...... 10,250 Tsunami Hazard Mitigation ...... (Colorado) ...... 236 (incl. TWEAK) ...... 3,300 Other Partnership Programs: Subtotal, Laboratories & New England Air Quality ...... 1,000 Subtotal, Other Partnership Joint Institutions ...... 49,143 Programs ...... 25,667 Subtotal, Other Partnership Climate & Global Change Pro- Programs ...... 1,000 gram: Total, Ocean, Coastal, & Climate and Global Change STORM ...... 349 Great Lakes Research ...... 137,632 (Base) ...... 69,625 Variability beyond ENSO ...... 1,000 Total, Weather & Air Qual- Climate Forcing Agents ...... 1,000 High Performance Computing & Acclerating Climate Models— ity Research ...... 55,462 Communications (HPCC) ...... 12,800 IRI ...... 2,100 Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Total, OAR ...... 356,062 Subtotal, Climate & Global Research: Change Program ...... 73,725 Laboratories & Joint Insti- tutes: National Weather Service Atlantic Oceanographic and Climate Observations & Serv- Local Warnings and Forecasts: ices: Meterological Laboratory Local Warnings and Forecasts Climate Reference Network ... 3,000 (Florida) ...... 2,720 Climate Data & Info and AOML Coral Reef Watch ...... 499 Base ...... 483,178 CLASS in PAC ...... 1,000 Environmental Technology Alaska Data Buoys ...... 1,700 Baseline Ovservatories ...... 2,500 Laboratory (Colorado) ...... 445 New England Data Buoys ...... 750 Ocean Observations/Ocean Great Lakes Environmental Sustain Cooperative Observer Systems ...... 3,500 Research Laboratory ARGO Floats ...... 7,950 Network ...... 1,890 Regional Assessments, Edu- (Michigan) ...... 8,232 Mt. Washington Observatory .... 500 cation and Outreach ...... 1,750 Pacific Marine Environ- Susquehanna River Basin Flood Climate Change Assessments 650 mental Laboratory (Wash- System ...... 1,310 Weather-Climate Connection 900 ington) ...... 7,389 Carbon Cycle ...... 2,300 N.C. Floodplain Mapping Pilot 4,000 Subtotal, Laboratories & Aviation Forecasts ...... 35,596 Subtotal, Climate Observa- Joint Institutes ...... 19,285 tions & Services ...... 23,500 Subtotal, Local Warnings and National Sea Grant College Forecasts ...... 528,924 Other Partnership Programs: Central California Ozone Program: Study ...... 250 National Sea Grant College Advanced Hydrological Pre- AIRMAP ...... 3,000 Program Base ...... 56,410 diction Service ...... 1,500 Aquatic Nuisance Species/ International Pacific Re- WFO Maintenance ...... 4,390 search Center ...... 500 Zebra Mussel Research ...... 3,000 Gulf of Mexico Oyster Initia- Weather Radio Transmitters: Subtotal, Other Partnership tive ...... 1,000 Weather Radio Transmitters Programs ...... 3,750 Oyster Disease Research ...... 2,000 Base ...... 2,320 NOAA Weather Radio Trans- Total, Climate Research ..... 150,168 Subtotal, National Sea mitters—ME ...... 300 Grant College Program ...... 62,410 NOAA Weather Radio Trans- Weather & Air Quality Research: mitters—NH ...... 230 Laboratories & Joint Insti- National Undersea Research NOAA Weather Radio Trans- tutes: Program (NURP) Aeronomy Laboratory (Colo- National Undersea Research mitters—SD ...... 350 rado) ...... 2,054 Program (NURP) Base ...... 13,770 NOAA Weather Radio Trans- Atlantic Oceanographic and National Institute for Under- mitters—WY ...... 374 Meterological Laboratory sea Science and Technology 2,500 NOAA Weather Radio Trans- (Florida) ...... 3,921 mitters—Big Horn, WY ...... 76 Air Resources Laboratory Subtotal, National Under- NOAA Weather Radio Trans- (CO, ID, NC, NV, TN) ...... 2,077 sea Research Program ...... 16,270 Climate Monitoring and Diag- mitters—WI ...... 450 nostic Laboratory (Colo- North Dakota Ag Weather Net- Ocean Exploration ...... 14,000 rado) ...... 166 work ...... 270 Environmental Technology Laboratory (Colorado) ...... 6,864 Other Partnership Programs: Subtotal, Weather Radio Arctic Research ...... 1,650 Forecast Systems Laboratory Transmitters ...... 4,370 (Colorado) ...... 10,646 Aquatic Ecosystems ...... 4,300 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Carolina Coastal Ocean Ob- Laboratory (New Jersey) .... 3,077 serving and Prediction Sys- Central Forecast Guidance ...... 41,925 National Severe Storms Lab- tem ...... 2,800 Systems Operation & Mainte- oratory (Oklahoma) ...... 7,552 Gulf of Maine Council ...... 500 nance (O&M): Lake Champlain Research Pacific Marine Environ- NEXRAD ...... 39,996 Consortium ...... 250 mental Laboratory (Wash- WSR–88D ...... 3,100 ington) ...... 264 NISA/Ballast Water Dem- Space Environmental Center onstrations ...... 2,250 ASOS ...... 7,650 (Colorado) ...... 7,242 NISA/Prevent & Control ASOS–AK Aviation ...... 4,000 Invasive Species ...... 800 AWIPS ...... 36,500 Subtotal, Laboratories & NH Milfoil ...... 275 Joint Institutes ...... 43,863 NOAA Marine Aquaculture Total, Systems Operation & Program ...... 2,594 Maintenance ...... 91,246 U.S. Weather Research Pro- Cooperative Institute for New gram: England Mariculture & U.S. Weather Research Pro- Fisheries ...... 3,000 Total, National Weather gram Base (USWRP) ...... 2,750 Service ...... 672,355

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0655 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.131 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8022 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 National Environmental Satellite, Data and Columbia River Facilities ..... 3,365 changes to the regulations under the Endan- Information Service gered Species Act, as proposed by the Sen- Total, NOAA Maintenance, Environmental Satellite Observ- ate. The conference agreement includes di- Repairs and Safety ...... 11,090 ing Systems: rection to NMFS to complete the consult- ative process consistent with the deadlines Satellite Command and Control 30,461 Environmental Compliance ...... 2,000 and the documentation requirements of sub- section (a)(2) of section 7 of the Endangered Product Processing and Dis- Project Planning and Execu- Species Act. In addition, funding provided for Pacific Is- tribution ...... 21,000 tion: lands Area Office (PIAO) operations are in- Pribilof Island Cleanup ...... 6,000 tended to enhance and not supplant funds for Product Development, Readi- existing operations and programs, including, ness & Application: Total, Project Planning and Execution ...... 6,000 among others, the fishery observer program, Product Development, Readi- and other support. ness & Application ...... 19,518 Fisheries Research and Management/Science Coral Reef Monitoring ...... 750 Total, Facilities ...... 19,090 and Technology.—The conference agreement Global Wind Demonstration .. 3,000 provides $230,491,000 for fisheries science and Total, Program Support ..... 180,546 technology. Of the amounts provided for fishery observ- Subtotal, Product Develop- The following narrative provides addi- ers, $750,000 is provided to ensure that na- ment, Readiness & Applica- tional information related to certain items tional standards are incorporated for all ob- tion ...... 23,268 included in the preceding table. server programs. The conferees direct NMFS NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE to provide the Committees on Appropria- Commercial Remote Sensing The conference agreement includes tions with progress reports on the incorpora- Licensing & Enforcement ...... 450 $413,911,000 under this account for the activi- tion of observer data and state fisheries data ties of the National Ocean Service, instead of into the National Fisheries Information Sys- Total, Environmental Sat- $375,609,000 as recommended in the House bill tem. ellite Observing Systems ...... 75,179 and $388,840,000 as proposed in the Senate re- NOAA is directed to continue working with port. the Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center to Mapping and Charting.—The conference improve the understanding of fish genetics NOAA’s Data Centers & Informa- agreement provides $74,748,000 for NOAA’s and evolution. tion Services: mapping and charting programs, reflecting NMFS is directed to continue collaborative Archive, Access & Assessment: continued commitment to the navigation research with the Center for Shark Research Archive, Access & Assessment 26,750 safety programs of the NOS and concerns and other qualified institutions to provide Climate Database Moderniza- about the ability of the NOS to continue to the information necessary for effective man- tion ...... 15,850 meet its mission requirements over the long agement of the highly migratory shark fish- GOES Data Archive Project .. 2,000 term. Within the total funding provided ery and conservation of shark fishery re- under Mapping and Charting, the conference sources. In addition, of the funding provided for Highly Migratory Species research, Subtotal, Archive, Access & agreement includes House report language $150,000 is for the Pacific Fisheries Council. Assessment ...... 44,600 urging NOAA to enter into a long-term lease or charter. The conference agreement includes direc- National Coastal Ocean Data Estuarine and Coastal Assessment.—Senate tion to NMFS to fully implement coopera- Development & Management report language regarding the Oxford labora- tive research programs. The conferees urge Center ...... 4,513 tory is adopted by reference. Of the amounts NOAA to leverage State, Federal and local Regional Climate Centers ...... 3,000 provided for Aquatic Resources Environ- resources to attain the best fisheries science Environmental Data Systems mental Initiative, $500,000 is for Bluegrass available. Modernization ...... 12,335 Pride, Inc. Conservation and Management.—The con- Coastal Ocean Program (COP).—The man- ference agreement includes Senate report Total, NOAA’s Data Centers agers of COP are expected to follow the di- language regarding the North Atlantic Right & Information Services ...... 64,448 rection included in the Senate report con- whales and Hawaiian Sea turtles by ref- cerning research on small high-salinity estu- erence. In addition, of the amounts provided for Total, NESDIS ...... 139,627 aries. Of the amounts provided, $1,200,000 is for the land use-coastal ecosystem study. Protected Species-Bottlenose Dolphin, Program Support Coastal Zone Management.—The conference $750,000 is to continue a program initiated in Corporate Services: agreement includes $75,345,000 for this activ- the prior year, and the remainder is for a new program in Mississippi. Within the fund- Under Secretary and Associate ity, of which $68,963,000 is for grants under ing provided for Marine Mammal Protection/ Offices Base ...... 21,823 sections 306, 306A, and 309 of the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), and $6,382,000 Alaska Harbor Seals, funding is to be allo- Policy Formulation and Direc- cated according to direction in the Senate tion Base ...... 35,000 is for program administration. In response to NOAA’s report assessing the Coastal Zone report. Minority Serving Institutions .. 15,000 Management program, the conference agree- Funding for bluefish/striped bass has been ment includes direction to NOAA to begin provided as follows: $450,000 for the NMFS Total, Corporate Services ...... 71,823 designing and implementing performance base research program, $827,000 for the Coop- measures to validate the continuation of the erative Marine Education and Research Pro- gram in New Jersey, and $250,000 for other Office of Marine and Aviation Op- Coastal Zone Management program. Due to fiscal constraints, it is difficult to justify a existing bluefish/striped bass research. erations (OMAO): .—The con- currently unauthorized appropriation of this Interstate Fish Commissions Aviation Operations: ference agreement includes $8,000,000 for this magnitude without some type of measure- Aircraft Services ...... 14,684 activity, of which $750,000 is to be equally di- ment of performance. The conference agree- vided among the three commissions, and ment directs NOAA to provide quarterly re- Subtotal, Aviation Oper- $7,250,000 is for implementation of the Atlan- ports to the Committees on Appropriations ations ...... 14,684 tic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative Manage- on progress in meeting these goals. ment Act. Marine Sanctuary Program.—The conferees Habitat Conservation.—Within the amounts Marine Operations: expect the Northwest Straits Commission to provided for the Chesapeake Bay, $1,200,000 is seek incorporation into the Marine Sanc- Marine Services ...... 63,829 for the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Edu- tuary Program. Fleet Planning and Mainte- cation Program; of this amount, $400,000 is Marine Protected Areas.—The conference nance ...... 11,120 for a grant to a consortium to further the agreement includes Senate report language educational goals of the Chesapeake 2000 on this subject. Total, Marine Operations ... 74,949 Agreement, and $800,000 is for the NOAA NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE Chesapeake Bay Office to conduct an envi- Total, OMAO ...... 89,633 The conference agreement includes a total ronmental educational program in the of $579,196,000 for the National Marine Fish- Chesapeake Bay watershed. In addition, eries Service (NMFS), instead of $542,121,000 $2,000,000 is for oyster bed restoration, in- Facilities: as proposed in the House bill and $546,165,000 cluding $1,000,000 each for the Maryland Oys- NOAA Maintenance, Repairs as proposed in the Senate report. ter Recovery Partnership and the Virginia and Safety ...... 3,225 The conference agreement does not include Oyster Reef Heritage Foundation. In addi- Boulder Facilities Operations 4,500 bill language under this heading regarding tion, $1,500,000 is for the Blue Crab Advanced

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Research Consortium to be administered by PROGRAM SUPPORT PAC FY02 Conf. the University of Maryland Biotechnology The conference agreement provides Stellwagen Bank National Ma- Institute. $180,546,000 for NOAA program support, in- rine Sanctuary ...... 500 Other.—In addition, within the funds avail- stead of $176,112,000 as proposed by the Subtotal, Marine Sanctuary able for the Saltonstall-Kennedy grants pro- House, and $150,725,000 as proposed by the Construction ...... 14,750 gram, NMFS is directed to continue ongoing Senate. Senate report language regarding efforts related to Vibrio vulnificus. the P–3 and the R/V Ron Brown is adopted by OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH reference. The Rude, Ferrel, and McArthur are Other NOS Facilities: Kachemak Bay Service Facility 800 The conference agreement includes a total to be retired when the Swath, YTT, and T- Kasitsna Bay Laboratory ...... 5,500 of $356,062,000 for Oceanic and Atmospheric AGOS (Hawaii) respectively come on-line. MEHRL ...... 14,000 Research activities, instead of $317,483,000 as The conference agreement includes direction Beaufort Laboratory ...... 5,000 recommended by the House and $365,430,000 to the Office of Marine and Aviation Oper- Coastal Service Center ...... 4,000 as recommended by the Senate. ations to provide detailed quarterly reports Climate Observations and Services.—Senate to the Committees on Appropriations on its Subtotal, Other NOS ...... 29,300 report language regarding ARGO floats is operations. adopted by reference. Of the amounts provided for Pribilof Island U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP).— Cleanup, $2,000,000 is for assistance author- Subtotal, NOS Construction .. 87,787 The conferees direct NOAA to collaborate ized under Section 206(b) of the Fur Seal Act with the AIRMAP program to establish an of 1966 (16 USC 11669b), and $4,000,000 is to NMFS Construction: air quality forecasting pilot program and a carry out Section 3 of Public Law 104–91 (16 Juneau Fisheries Laboratory ... 21,100 high-resolution temperature forecasting USC 1165 note). Aquatic Resources ...... 5,000 pilot program in the northeastern United The conference agreement includes funding NY Botanical Gardens ...... 4,034 States. for NOAA’s portion of Commerce Adminis- Honolulu lab ...... 3,000 Climate and Global Change.—Of the trative Management System (CAMS) imple- Kodiak Pier ...... 2,000 amounts provided, $750,000 is to be allocated mentation based on detailed information Ketchikan Facilities ...... 1,500 as directed in the House report. provided by NOAA. The conferees direct Santa Cruz Laboratory ...... 550 STORM.—The conference agreement in- NOAA to fully implement CAMS by October Subtotal, NMFS Construction 37,184 cludes $349,000 for the final payment to the 10, 2002. Science Center for Teaching, Outreach and PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION Research on Meteorology for the collection OAR: and analysis of weather data in the Midwest. (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) CLASS ...... 3,600 National Sea Grant program.—The con- The conference agreement includes a total Research Supercomputing ...... 7,750 ference agreement includes $3,000,000 for the of $836,552,000 in direct appropriations for the Stone Laboratory ...... 350 fisheries extension program. This funding is NOAA Procurement, Acquisition and Con- Norman Consolidation Project 8,000 intended to enhance and not supplant funds struction account, and assumes $3,200,000 in for the existing extension program. deobligations from this account. Of the Total, OAR ...... 19,700 National Undersea Research Program amounts provided, $58,487,000 is within the (NURP).—Of the amounts provided, $6,885,000 conservation category. The following dis- NWS: is for research conducted through the east tribution reflects the fiscal year 2002 funding ASOS ...... 5,125 coast NURP centers and $6,885,000 is for the provided for activities within this account: AWIPS ...... 16,264 west coast NURP centers, including the Ha- NEXRAD ...... 8,260 PAC FY02 Conf. NWS WFO—Huntsville ...... 3,000 waiian and Pacific center and the west coast NOS Construction and Acquisi- and polar region center. The Committee ex- NWSTG Backup—CIP ...... 7,460 tion: Coastal and Estuarine Radiosonde Network Replace- pects level funding will be available for Land Conservation Program: Aquarius, ALVIN, and program administra- ment ...... 4,989 Bronx River, NY ...... 1,500 Weather and Climate Super- tion. East River, South Bronx, NY .... 1,000 computing ...... 15,000 National Invasive Species Act/Ballast Water Lake Superior, City of Supe- WFO Construction ...... 10,630 Demonstrations.—Funding is included for the rior, WI ...... 800 Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes ballast Elkhorn Slough, CA ...... 500 Total, NWS ...... 70,728 water demonstrations, of which $2,000,000 is Hackensack, NJ ...... 1,200 to be split according to the prior year alloca- Kitsap County, WA ...... 500 tion, and an additional $250,000 is for a new Village Point, AL ...... 500 NESDIS: technology system. Widewater Peninsula, VA ...... 225 Geostationary Systems ...... 262,474 Great Lakes Risk Assessment.—The conferees Taskinas Creek, VA ...... 275 Polar Orbiting Systems ...... 295,902 encourage OAR to review a proposal from Hempstead Harbor, NY ...... 350 Continuity of Critical Facilities 3,550 the University of Notre Dame to conduct a Lake Ontario, NY ...... 350 Great Lakes risk assessment and provide Detroit River—Wyandott/ Total, NESDIS ...... 561,926 funding, if warranted. Chrysler, MI ...... 1,000 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NY/NJ Partnership ...... 1,500 Program Support: CAMS ...... 17,127 The conference agreement includes a total Warwick, RI ...... 350 of $672,355,000 for the National Weather Serv- Worcester City, MD ...... 350 OMAO/Fleet Replacement: ice (NWS), instead of $659,349,000 as proposed Orange County, CA ...... 350 ADVENTUROUS Refurbish- in the House bill, and $668,620,000 as proposed Stamford Mill, CT ...... 350 ment ...... 4,200 San Pablo Bay, CA ...... 350 in the Senate report. ALBATROSS IV Repair ...... 3,000 Local Warnings and Forecasts.—The con- Manchester by the sea— FAIRWEATHER Refurbishment 10,500 ference agreement includes language in the Gloucester, MA ...... 350 GORDON GUNTER ...... 1,500 Camp Salmen, LA ...... 225 Senate report regarding Williston, North Da- Naval Surplus Vessels for Deer Island, MS ...... 3,800 kota, and Erie, Pennsylvania. The National Coastal Research (YTT) ...... 3,500 Small Waterplane Area Twin Weather Service (NWS) is directed to ensure Subtotal, CECP ...... 15,825 that the Federal Aviation Administration Hull Vessel (NH) ...... 5,000 (FAA) is implementing the agreement be- T–AGOS Vessel Conversion NERRS Acquisition/Construc- tween the NWS and FAA to fully address the (HI—coral reef) ...... 6,000 tion: requirements for these areas in fiscal year Fishery Research Vessel Re- ACE Basin ...... 13,500 2002. The NWS is directed to report to the placement ...... 5,400 Great Bay Partnership ...... 6,000 Hydrographic Equipment Up- Committees on Appropriations on the Base Program ...... 8,412 progress of implementing this agreement by grades ...... 6,200 February 14, 2002. Subtotal, National Estuarine Subtotal, OMAO ...... 45,300 In addition, funding for the WSR–88D is in- Research Reserve ...... 27,912 cluded as directed in the House report. Total, Program Support ...... 62,427 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA Marine Sanctuaries Construction: AND INFORMATION SERVICE Florida Keys National Marine Total, Procurement, Acquisi- The conference agreement includes Sanctuary ...... 6,500 tion, and Construction ...... 839,752 $139,627,000 for NOAA’s satellite and data Humpback Whale National Ma- management programs. In addition, the con- rine Sanctuary ...... 1,500 Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation ference agreement includes $561,926,000 under National Monitor Sanctuary ..... 5,000 Program.—The conference agreement in- the NOAA PAC account for satellite systems Monterey Bay National Marine cludes $15,825,000 for a new coastal and estua- acquisition and related activities. Sanctuary ...... 1,250 rine land conservation program, similar to a

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program proposed in the Senate bill. The $40,000,000 is for the Treaty, and $2,000,000 is OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL House bill did not include a similar provi- for the Pacific Salmon Commission. The conference agreement includes sion. This program is intended to protect Of the amounts provided for the Pacific $20,176,000 for the Commerce Department In- those coastal and estuarine areas with sig- Salmon Recovery Fund, $34,000,000 is for the spector General, instead of $21,176,000 as pro- nificant conservation, recreation, ecological, State of Washington, $27,000,000 is for the posed in both the House and Senate bills. historical or aesthetic values, or those that State of Alaska, $17,000,000 is for the State of The Inspector General is reminded that of- are threatened by conversion from their nat- Oregon, $17,000,000 is for the State of Cali- fice closings, staff reductions, or reorganiza- ural state to other uses. Federal funding fornia, $11,000,000 is for the Pacific Coastal tions are subject to the reprogramming pro- must be matched by at least the same tribes, and $4,000,000 is for the Columbia cedures outlined in section 605 of this Act. amount by other non-Federal sources. The River tribes. GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF Department of Commerce, including NOAA, Of the amounts provided for the state of COMMERCE is directed to promulgate regulations that Alaska, funding is allocated in accordance The conference agreement includes the fol- are in accordance with the Coastal Zone with the Senate report; $250,000 is for the lowing general provisions for the Depart- Management Act. Bill language is included United Fishermen of Alaska, and $500,000 is ment of Commerce: creating this new program. for the Klawock Lake habitat project. Sec. 201.—The conference agreement in- National Estuarine Research Reserve System Of the amounts provided to the State of cludes section 201, included in both the (NERRS).—A total of $27,912,000 is provided Washington, $1,000,000 is for mass marking, House and Senate bills, regarding certifi- for NERRS acquisition and construction, of and $4,000,000 is for the Washington State De- cations of advanced payments. which $19,500,000 is not dependent upon re- partment of Natural Resources and other Sec. 202.—The conference agreement in- ceipt of local, state, or private matching State and Federal agencies for purposes of cludes section 202, identical in the House and funds. implementing the State of Washington’s Senate bills, allowing funds to be used for Marine Sanctuaries Construction.—The con- Forest and Fish Report. The monies shall be hire of passenger motor vehicles. ference agreement includes $5,000,000 for the spent in accordance with the terms and con- Sec. 203.—The conference agreement in- Mariners Museum for the planning, design, ditions of the Report and consistent with the cludes section 203, identical in the House and engineering and construction of the USS requirements of the Endangered Species Act Senate bills, prohibiting reimbursement to Monitor center. and Clean Water Act. the Air Force for hurricane reconnaissance Other NOS Facilities.—The conference Of the amounts provided for Oregon, fund- planes. agreement provides $800,000 for the final Fed- ing is allocated in accordance with the Sen- Sec. 204.—The conference agreement in- eral share of the Kachemak Bay service fa- ate report. cludes section 204, identical in the House and cility. Should an authorization including the Senate bills, providing authority to transfer MEHRL.— The conference agreement pro- State of Idaho under this program be enacted funds between accounts. The language pro- vides $14,000,000 for the MEHRL for the during fiscal year 2002, the conferees would vides that no account may be decreased by proteomics initiative, including the purchase entertain a reprogramming request for these more than 5 percent or increased by more of an 800 Mhz nuclear magnetic resonance funds. than 10 percent. The language also makes (NMR) spectroscopy instrument, construc- Of the amounts provided for the Pacific the transfers subject to the Committee’s tion of necessary housing for this equipment, Salmon Commission, funding is provided to standard reprogramming procedures. and associated costs. The conferees under- implement salmon research, conservation, Sec. 205.—The conference agreement in- stand that the Medical University of South and harvest provisions of the 1999 Pacific cludes section 205, identical in the House and Carolina will provide the necessary expertise Salmon Treaty. Senate bills, providing that any costs in- to cooperatively manage the instrument Of the amounts provided for the Treaty, curred by the Department in response to with NOAA. The conferees commend the con- $20,000,000 is for the Northern Transboundary funding reductions to the Department shall sortium as an exemplar of Federal, State and Fund and $20,000,000 is for the Southern not be subject to the reprogramming limita- academic partners working collaboratively Transboundary Fund. No funding is provided tions of this Act. through the joint partner process to share under the Department of State for this pur- Sec. 206.—The conference agreement in- facilities, equipment and research. pose. cludes section 206, identical in the House and Systems Acquisition.—Of the funding pro- The conference agreement does not include Senate bills, allowing the Secretary to award vided for Polar Orbiting Spacecraft and language proposed in the House bill making contracts for certain mapping and charting Launching, $157,400,000 is for Polar Conver- funding under this heading subject to express activities in accordance with the Federal gence. The National Polar-orbiting Oper- authorization. The Senate bill did not in- Property and Administrative Services Act. ational Environmental Satellite System clude a similar provision. Sec. 207.—The conference agreement in- (NPOESS) is a Presidentially—directed pro- None of the $110,000,000 is for commercial cludes section 207, as proposed in both the gram between Department of Defense (DOD), fishing license or vessel buybacks. House and Senate bills, allowing the Depart- Air Force, Department of Commerce (DOC), COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT FUND ment of Commerce Franchise Fund to retain National Oceanic Atmospheric Administra- a portion of its earnings from services pro- The conference agreement includes an ap- vided. tion (NOAA) and National Aeronautics and propriation of $3,000,000 as proposed in both Space Administration (NASA). The program Sec. 208.—The conference agreement in- the Senate and House bills. This amount is cludes section 208, modified from a provision was established based on a 50/50 cost sharing reflected under the National Ocean Service agreement between DOD and DOC, while in the Senate bill, providing $41,500,000 with- within the Operations, Research, and Facili- in the ‘‘National Institute of Standards and NASA would provide ‘‘in kind’’ services, in- ties account. cluding a satellite and launch vehicle. The Technology, Construction of Research Fa- program is required to meet jointly estab- FISHERMEN’S CONTINGENCY FUND cilities’’ account for construction of specific lished technical and schedule requirements. The conference agreement includes $952,000 projects. Bill language is included to maintain the es- for the Fishermen’s Contingency Fund, iden- Sec. 209.—The conference agreement in- tablished cost sharing arrangement. House tical to the amounts proposed in both the cludes section 209, modified from a provision report language regarding NWS is adopted by House and Senate bills. in the Senate bill, to clarify requirements for the Department of Commerce Working reference. FOREIGN FISHING OBSERVER FUND Capital Fund and the Advances and Reim- In addition, a total of $262,474,000 is for the The conference agreement includes $191,000 Geostationary Spacecraft and Launching. bursement Account. for the expenses related to the Foreign Fish- Sec. 210.—The conference agreement in- The conference agreement does not include ing Observer Fund, as proposed in both the cludes section 210, identical to a provision in funding for the GOES–R series in fiscal year Senate and House bills. the Senate bill, to allow the City of Anchor- 2002 due to scheduling changes. FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT age, Alaska to export, on a one-time basis, Construction.—The conference agreement two whale jaw bones acquired in a legal sub- includes $8,000,000 for above-standard costs of The conference agreement provides $287,000 sistence hunt by Native Alaskans, to its sis- a building in Norman, Oklahoma to house in subsidy amounts for the Fisheries Finance ter city of Whitby of the United Kingdom. portions of the National Weather Service. Program Account, identical to amounts pro- Sec. 211.—The conference agreement in- The conference agreement does not include posed in both the House and Senate bills. cludes a new section 211 that amends section funding requested for the Suitland, Maryland DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 213 of Public Law 105–277, the American Fish- facility, as funding is not required in fiscal SALARIES AND EXPENSES eries Act. This change would delete a sunset year 2002. The conference agreement includes provision and instead authorize an annual PACIFIC SALMON COASTAL RECOVERY $37,652,000 for the departmental management appropriation, making permanent the prohi- The conference agreement includes of the Commerce Department, instead of bition on direct pollock fishing by non- $157,419,000 for this account within the con- $35,843,000 as proposed in the House bill, and American Fisheries Act (AFA) catcher/proc- servation category, of which $110,000,000 is $42,062,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. The essors, even though this sector has some pre- for the Pacific Salmon Recovery Fund, Commerce Department is directed to con- AFA pollock history. The conferees under- $5,419,000 is for the final direct payment to tinue to submit quarterly reports for imple- stand that North Pacific groundfish fisher- the State of Washington as part of the 1999 mentation of the Commerce Administrative men and processors have agreed to work to- Pacific Salmon Treaty compromise, Management System (CAMS). gether on a proposal for consideration by the

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.135 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8025 North Pacific Fishery Management Council the Courts of Appeals, District Courts and Federal Judicial Center as provided in the for non-AFA catcher/processsors to maxi- Other Judicial Services, instead of House bill, instead of $19,742,000 as provided mize utilization of their historic pollock $3,631,940,000 as provided in the House bill in the Senate bill. Section 304 provides an catch. The conferees request that the appro- and $3,559,012,000 as provided in the Senate additional $400,000 available by transfer to priate Committees be notified immediately bill. The agreement does not include Senate the Center, to be used for distance learning. should the Secretary determine that the bill language related to court operations in The conference report adopts, by reference, AFA statute precludes the Council from de- Wyoming. House and Senate report language. veloping a regulation implementing the The conference agreement adopts, by ref- JUDICIAL RETIREMENT FUNDS aforementioned agreement. The substitution erence, House report language with respect of a September 30, 2004 reauthorization date to non-appropriated funds and workload. PAYMENT TO JUDIDICARY TRUST FUNDS for the original December 31, 2004 sunset date The conference agreement adopts, by ref- The conference agreement includes is intended to ensure a full Congressional re- erence, Senate report language requesting a $37,000,000 for payment to various judicial re- view of the AFA within six years of its pas- study for the Committees on Appropriations tirement funds, as provided in both the sage, as originally planned. This will also by no later than February 1, 2002, on whether House and Senate bills. The conference allow consideration of AFA issues during the changes in the jury system may be nec- agreement adopts, by reference, the House reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens essary, to be prepared by the Administrative and Senate report language. Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Office of the U.S. Courts. UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION Further, the conferees expect that any fur- ther authorization changes to the AFA will VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION TRUST FUND SALARIES AND EXPENSES be addressed through the authorization com- The conference agreement provides The conference agreement includes mittee process. $2,692,000 from the Vaccine Injury Compensa- $11,575,000 for the U.S. Sentencing Commis- TITLE III—THE JUDICIARY tion Trust Fund as provided in both the sion, as provided in the House bill, instead of House and Senate bills. The conference re- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES $11,327,000 as provided in the Senate bill. The port adopts, by reference, the language from conference adopts, by reference, House and SALARIES AND EXPENSES both the House and Senate reports. Senate report language. The conference agreement includes DEFENDER SERVICES $39,988,000 for the salaries and expenses of GENERAL PROVISIONS—THE JUDICIARY the Supreme Court as provided in the Senate The conference agreement includes Section 301.—The conference agreement in- bill, instead of $42,066,000 as provided in the $500,671,000 for the Federal Judiciary’s De- cludes a provision included in both the House House bill. fender Services account as provided in the and Senate bills allowing appropriations to The conferees recall that the late Julian House bill, instead of $463,756,000 as provided be used for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. Dixon, a member of the House Committee, in the Senate bill. The agreement includes 3109. worked tirelessly to remind the Supreme House bill language related to training and Section 302.—The conference agreement in- Court of the importance of fair hiring prac- administrative expenses. It does not include cludes a provision included in both the House tices in the selection of law clerks. The Senate bill language limiting the funding for and Senate bills related to the transfer of Court has responded by providing informa- Federal Defender Organizations. funds. The conference report adopts, by reference, tion regarding its practices. The Court is di- Section 303.—The conference agreement in- the House report language. The conferees ex- rected to continue to provide information cludes a provision included in both the House pect the Judiciary to implement the panel and make efforts to expand its pool of appli- and Senate bills allowing up to $11,000 of sal- attorney pay increase to $90 per hour in- and cants in a manner to ensure fairness in hir- aries and expenses provided in this title to be out-of-court, by no later than May 1, 2002. ing. used for official representation expenses of The conference agreement does not adopt The conference agreement does not include the Judicial Conference of the United States. language in the Senate report regarding the Senate report language regarding the feasi- Section 304.—The conference agreement in- containment of mandatory costs and addi- bility of establishing ‘‘firewalls’’ within Fed- cludes a provision as provided in Section 305 tional personnel. eral Defender Organizations. of the Senate bill, which directs a transfer of CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS FEES OF JURORS AND COMMISSIONERS $400,000 to the ‘‘Federal Judicial Center, Sal- The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes aries and Expenses’’ account to be used only $37,530,000 for the Supreme Court ‘‘Care of $48,131,000 for Fees of Jurors and Commis- for distance learning. House language in Sec- the Building and Grounds’’ account, instead sioners, as proposed in the House bill, in- tion 304 would have transferred $400,000 to of $70,000,000 as provided in the House bill stead of $50,131,000 as provided in the Senate the ‘‘Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and and $7,530,000 in the Senate bill. The entire bill. other Judicial Services, Salaries and Ex- amount shall remain available until ex- COURT SECURITY penses’’. pended. Section 305.—The conference agreement The conference agreement adopts, by ref- The conference agreement includes adopts a provision in the Senate bill author- erence, language in the House report related $220,677,000 for the Federal Judiciary’s Court izing a cost of living salary adjustment for to the security and renovation needs of the Security Account, instead of $224,433,000 as Justices and judges and appropriates Supreme Court. provided in the House bill and $209,762,000 as The conference agreement does not include provided in the Senate bill. $8,625,000 for this purpose. language in the Senate report regarding The conference report adopts House bill Senate Section 304.—The conference agree- building renovations. and report language. The language clarifies ment does not include a provision making permanent Section 140 of Public Law 97–92 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE the responsibilities of the Court Security relating to judges pay, but addresses the FEDERAL CIRCUIT Program. The conferees expect the courts will submit a report pursuant to section 605 matter in Title VI, Section 625 of this report. SALARIES AND EXPENSES of this bill should new facilities be needed to TITLE IV—DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND The conference agreement includes carry out the program or should court secu- RELATED AGENCY $19,287,000 for the United States Court of Ap- rity be expanded at buildings housing court peals for the Federal Circuit as provided in DEPARTMENT OF STATE personnel that are leased, operated, or owned the House bill, instead of $19,372,000 as pro- DMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS by the General Services Administration or A vided in the Senate bill. DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS The conference agreement adopts, by ref- by private interests. erence, the House report language regarding The conference agreement does not include The conference agreement includes a total funding priorities. Senate bill and report language regarding ra- of $3,630,012,000 for Diplomatic and Consular dios. Programs, instead of $3,645,735,000 as in- UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED cluded in the House bill and $3,471,168,000 as TRADE STATES COURTS included in the Senate bill. The conference SALARIES AND EXPENSES SALARIES AND EXPENSES agreement includes $3,142,277,000 for State The conference agreement includes Department activities under this account, The conference agreement includes $13,064,000 for the U.S. Court of International and an additional $487,735,000 to remain $61,664,000 for the Administrative Office of Trade, instead of $13,073,000 as provided in available until expended for worldwide secu- the United States Courts, instead of the House bill and $13,054,000 as provided in rity upgrades. $60,029,000 as provided in the House bill and the Senate bill. The conference agreement provides $58,212,000 as provided in the Senate bill. The conference report adopts, by reference, $361,360,000 in requested program increases to language in the House and Senate reports re- The conference agreement adopts, by ref- erence, House report language. It does not improve diplomatic readiness and the secu- garding the Court and the request for an ar- rity of Department operations, as follows: chitectural analysis of the Court’s facilities. include Senate report language regarding captioning initiatives. Diplomatic Readiness.—The conference COURTS OF APPEALS, DISTRICT COURTS, AND agreement includes a program increase of OTHER JUDICIAL SERVICES FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER $106,895,000, the full amount requested, for SALARIES AND EXPENSES SALARIES AND EXPENSES increased staffing. The conferees expect this The conference agreement provides The conference agreement includes amount to support the hiring of 360 new em- $3,591,116,000 for the salaries and expenses of $19,735,000 for salaries and expenses of the ployees in fiscal year 2002. In addition, the

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.137 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8026 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 conference agreement includes $18,500,000 for nating $6,000,000 for transfer to the Depart- conduct an international conference on com- human resources enhancements, including ment of Justice for conversion of State De- bating sex trafficking. The conferees expect $3,000,000 for recruitment modernization, partment radio systems to narrowband. The the Department’s newly-established Office to $10,000,000 for service needs incentives, House bill did not include a similar provi- Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons $2,000,000 for a student loan repayment pro- sion. to oversee this conference as a public/private gram, $1,000,000 for a spousal employment The conference agreement does not include partnership, working closely with the War program, and $2,500,000 for civil service mo- language earmarking $9,000,000 for the East- Against Trafficking Alliance, a consortium bility and mid-level training programs. West Center, as proposed in the Senate bill. of non-governmental organizations, includ- Secure Operations.—The conference agree- The House bill did not contain a similar pro- ing Shared Hope International, the Inter- ment includes program increases of vision. Funding for the East-West Center is national Justice Mission, and the Salvation $79,412,000 to improve information and tele- addressed under a separate heading in this Army. In addition, the conferees encourage phone security, upgrade the Department’s title. the Department to assist other international technical and domestic security efforts, and The conference agreement does not include cooperative efforts to fight trafficking in hire an additional 186 diplomatic security an earmark of $5,000,000 under this account, persons, including providing up to $200,000 employees, including 86 special agents. as proposed in the Senate bill, for a payment for an upcoming conference on human rights Information Technology Investments.—The to the State of Hawaii for security costs in- challenges associated with trafficking, spon- conference agreement includes a program in- curred as host of the May, 2001 Asian Devel- sored by the Globalization Research Center crease of $102,746,000 for information tech- opment Bank Meeting. The House bill did of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. nology operations and maintenance, rep- not include a provision on this matter. The conferees direct the Department to al- resenting a shift of all such costs from the The conference agreement includes a pro- locate $5,000,000 for overseas continuing lan- Capital Investment Fund, which will allow vision, not in the House bill or the Senate guage education for employees and depend- the full amount in that account to be avail- bill, to allow the Department to collect and ents as described in the Senate report. able for technology investments. deposit Machine Readable Visa fees as offset- The conferees direct the Department to re- Overseas Infrastructure.—The conference ting collections to this account in fiscal port to the Committees on Appropriations on agreement includes program increases of years 2002 and 2003 to recover costs. The con- the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ programs to $53,807,000 for improvements to the overseas ference agreement does not include provi- assist Americans who have been the victims diplomatic support platform provided by the sions to limit the use of Machine Readable of violent crimes while traveling or studying Department. This amount includes $18,650,000 Visa fees in fiscal year 2002 and to make ex- overseas. The report shall evaluate the cur- for the replacement of obsolete equipment, cess collections available in the subsequent rent services provided by the Office of Over- $5,000,000 for the replacement of unreliable fiscal year, as carried in both the House and seas Citizens Affairs and the adequacy of re- motor vehicles, $10,000,000 to improve critical Senate bills. sources available to it for this purpose. This operations and maintenance services, The conference agreement does not include report shall consider whether and what data language proposed in the Senate bill regard- $5,300,000 to improve competitiveness of com- should be collected on individual incidents ing the extension of Federal allowances and pensation packages offered to foreign na- and made available to victims. The report benefits to an American employee of the tional employees, and $14,857,000 to support shall also consider whether a database con- World Intellectual Property Organization. the consolidation of worldwide financial taining information about grants available The House bill did not include a provision on functions. to assist victims with the high costs associ- this matter. The conferees expect the De- Further guidance on these and other pro- ated with the prosecution of a perpetrator in partment to make every effort within exist- grams and activities of the Department are foreign countries—particularly remote or ju- ing laws and regulations to ensure that this offered below. dicially unsophisticated foreign countries— and similar positions with international or- The conference agreement includes lan- is merited. Finally, the report shall deter- ganizations carry with them appropriate al- guage designating $270,259,000 for public di- mine how best to make this information plomacy international information programs lowances and benefits as befit their status. In addition, the conferees are concerned by available to victims. The conferees expect as proposed in the House bill. The Senate bill General Accounting Office findings that the that Internet technology will be utilized to did not contain a similar provision. This United Nations (U.N.) and affiliated organi- accomplish this. amount represents the full requested funding zations continue to fall short of targets for Within the amount provided under this level for these program activities. Within the number of American employees. The con- heading, the conferees direct the Department the amount provided, the conferees expect ferees strongly encourage the Department to to make $500,000 available to the Northern that the top priority in resource allocation increase resources to recruit qualified Amer- Forum to support efforts to improve inter- will be programs related to the effort to icans for positions in the U.N. system, and to national communication, cooperation and combat terrorism. A strong and sustained work to remove pay and benefits disincen- opportunities for economic growth in north- public diplomacy campaign that successfully tives to such employment. The conferees di- ern regions of countries including the United communicates objective facts and official rect the Department to report to the Com- States, Canada, China, Finland, Sweden, messages and policies to target audiences mittees on Appropriations no later than Japan, and Russia. This funding is provided abroad will be critical to the success of this March 15, 2002 on what actions can be taken with the expectation of matching funding effort. The conferees expect the Department to address these pay, allowances, and bene- from other contributions. The conferees continue to be concerned to draw upon the best minds available, inside fits concerns. and outside the Federal government, to de- The conference agreement does not include about the security of classified information velop and convey these messages and poli- language carried in last year’s Act allowing at the Department. The conferees under- cies. certain advances for services related to the stand that Federal requirements for storage The conference agreement includes lan- Panama Canal Commission to be credited to of classified information mandate that con- guage designating $694,190,000 for informa- this account and to remain available until tainers approved by the General Services Ad- tion resource management as proposed in the expended, as proposed in the Senate bill. The ministration are secured with locks that Senate bill. The House bill did not contain a conferees understand that such amounts meet or exceed Federal specifications. The similar provision. This amount represents were credited to this account during fiscal conferees expect the Department to report to the full requested funding level for these ac- year 2001 and remain available until ex- the Committees no later than March 1, 2002, tivities. The conferees note that this amount pended, and that this provision is no longer identifying the number of Department-con- includes funding for the Diplomatic Tele- necessary. trolled containers that are not in compliance communications Service—Program Office The conference agreement does not include with the Federal specification. (DTS–PO), formerly included under the Cap- language proposed in the Senate bill desig- The conferees understand that a commu- ital Investment Fund. In recognition of con- nating a total of $45,419,000 for the imple- nity of democracies conference is planned for tinuing management challenges regarding mentation of the 1999 Pacific Salmon Treaty October, 2002, in Seoul. The conferees en- DTS–PO, the conferees direct the Depart- Agreement. The conference agreement ad- courage the Department to participate in ment to submit a fiscal year 2002 DTS–PO dresses funding for this treaty under Title II this conference and to further develop the spending plan to the Committees through of this Act, as proposed in the House bill. idea of a coalition of nations that could the regular reprogramming process before The conference agreement includes lan- serve to consolidate and expand democracy, December 15, 2001. guage making $1,343,000 available from fees and to deepen collaboration among nations The conference agreement does not include collected from other executive agencies for to enhance security and prosperity and pur- language proposed in the Senate bill desig- lease or use of facilities at the International sue common interests. The conferees encour- nating $7,800,000 for language, security, lead- Center, as proposed in the House bill. The age the Department to work with non-gov- ership, management and professional train- Senate bill proposed making $1,252,000 avail- ernmental organizations with similar aims ing. The House bill did not include a similar able for such purposes. such as the Council for a Community of De- provision. The conferees expect that, within The conference agreement includes a cita- mocracies. the funding available under this account, the tion of authorization legislation carried in The conference agreement includes, by ref- Department will allocate a similar total to previous years. The Senate bill proposed the erence, language in the House report on re- such training programs. deletion of this citation. programming of exchange rate savings; re- The conference agreement does not include The conference agreement includes new form and restructuring, including the filling language proposed in the Senate bill desig- language designating $1,800,000 for a grant to of the Deputy Secretary for Management and

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.139 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8027 Resources position; carrying out the rec- funds by program or activity under this ac- conferees agree that funding under this head- ommendations of the Overseas Presence Ad- count: ing shall be allocated in recognition of sig- visory Panel; implementation of visa laws; nificant amounts available for similar pro- Amount the diversity visa program; Sudan; Egypt; grams via transfer from other funding (in thousands) Lebanon; overseas schools; the Office of De- sources. Accordingly, the Department shall Academic Programs: fense Trade Controls; and the negotiation of not earmark a percentage allocation of funds Fulbright Programs ...... $118,000 provided under this heading to exchanges for extradition treaties. Foreign Study Grants for U.S. The conference agreement includes, by ref- that geographic region. Instead, resources Undergraduates ...... 1,500 under this heading shall be allocated to en- erence, language in the Senate report on the Educational Advising and Stu- sure that the total funding available from all Arctic Council, the Bering Straits Commis- dent Services ...... 3,500 sion, the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural English Language Programs ..... 3,000 sources for exchange programs does not in- Preservation, international conservation of Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow- clude geographical inequalities that do not sea turtles, biotechnology, and international ships ...... 6,000 correspond with worldwide policy priorities. trade activities. Edmund S. Muskie Fellowships 250 The conferees direct the Department to sub- The conferees direct the Department to American Overseas Research mit a report to the Committees by January provide $1,500,000 to continue its educational Centers ...... 2,320 15, 2002, displaying the allocation of total fis- partnership with Hostos Community College South Pacific Exchanges ...... 500 cal year 2002 funding from all sources, and and Columbia University in New York. This Tibet Exchanges ...... 500 total funding under this heading, by geo- model program will support the Depart- East Timor Exchanges ...... 500 graphical region. The report should also in- ment’s ongoing efforts to increase minority Disability Exchange Clearing- clude a similar display of fiscal year 2001 ac- hiring and diversity by facilitating the prep- house ...... 500 tual funding allocations. aration of non-traditional and minority stu- The conference agreement includes $250,000 dents for careers in the Foreign Service and Subtotal, Academic Programs 136,570 for the Muskie Fellowships for graduate stu- the Department. The conferees also note dent exchanges with states of the former So- viet Union. The conferees expect that ap- that the Department has identified addi- Professional and Cultural Pro- proximately $20,000,000 will be made avail- tional continuing base funding of at least grams: able from other sources in fiscal year 2002 for $2,000,000 to improve efforts to recruit mem- International Visitor Program 49,000 such exchanges. Within the total amounts bers of minority groups for careers in the Citizen Exchange Program ...... 16,000 made available for such exchanges the con- Foreign Service and international affairs. Congress Bundestag Youth Ex- ferees urge the Department to place the The conference agreement includes resources change ...... 2,908 highest priority on students conducting re- to continue these efforts, including an addi- Mike Mansfield Fellowship Pro- search or undertaking language training re- tional $1,000,000 for an ongoing partnership gram ...... 2,200 lated to the Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, with Howard University. Youth Science Leadership In- Within the amount provided under this ac- Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. stitute of the Americas ...... 100 The conferees agree that the Department, count, and including any savings the Depart- Irish Institute ...... 250 in cooperation with other relevant Federal ment identifies, the Department will have Atlantic Corridor ...... 250 agencies, should give higher priority to the ability to propose that funds be used for Interparliamentary Exchanges international education and should coordi- purposes not specifically funded by the con- with Asia ...... 150 ference agreement through the normal re- nate efforts to promote exchange programs programming process. Subtotal, Professional and and U.S. higher education abroad. The conference agreement includes, by ref- CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND Cultural Exchanges ...... 70,858 erence, language in the House report on the The conference agreement includes Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Pro- $203,000,000 for the Capital Investment Fund North/South Center ...... 1,000 gram, the Working Group on International as proposed in the House bill, instead of Exchanges and Training, and increased com- $210,000,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. Exchanges Support ...... 28,572 petition in grant programs. The conference This amount, when combined with estimated agreement also includes language in the Sen- expedited passport fees of $63,000,000, will re- Total, Appropriation ...... 237,000 ate report on overseas educational advising. sult in a total availability of $266,000,000 for The conferees are aware of the economic priority new technology investments. Costs Deviations from this distribution of funds and cultural exchange program, as well as associated with information technology op- will be subject to the normal reprogramming the proposed ‘‘sister state’’ relationship erations and maintenance, formerly sup- procedures under section 605 of this Act. In being developed between the City of Lake ported by amounts under this heading, are addition, the conferees understand that at Charles, Louisiana and the Tver Region of instead included under the Diplomatic and least $2,200,000 from carryover and recovered Russia. The conferees support these efforts Consular Programs account. balances will be available for obligation in and encourage the Department to consider The conferees agree that, from the total fiscal year 2002. Of this additional amount, supporting the program. the conferees agree to the following alloca- available funding under this heading, REPRESENTATION ALLOWANCES $106,600,000 shall be for the replacement of tions: $250,000 for the Irish Institute, $250,000 The conference agreement includes computer and communications equipment for the Atlantic Corridor, $300,000 for the Cit- $6,485,000 for Representation Allowances as that posts use for classified operations, and izen Exchanges Program, $200,000 for the proposed in the House bill, instead of $109,631,000 shall be for the expansion of North/South Center, $300,000 for exchanges $9,000,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. desktop Internet access to all Department related to workforce development in Africa employees worldwide. The conference agree- as described in both the House and Senate PROTECTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND ment includes, by reference, language in the reports, $400,000 for exchanges to build link- OFFICIALS House report regarding the submission of a ages between American and foreign musi- The conference agreement includes performance plan and report for these two cians and musical institutions as described $9,400,000 for Protection of Foreign Missions major initiatives. in the House report, and $500,000 for one-time and Officials as proposed in the House bill, The conference agreement also includes, seed funding for five new exchange activities instead of $10,000,000 as proposed in the Sen- by reference, language in the House report as listed in the Senate chart. Should addi- ate bill. The direction included in the House on efforts to establish a common informa- tional carryover and recovered balances be- and Senate reports regarding the review of tion technology platform at overseas posts. come available, the conferees encourage the reimbursement claims is adopted by ref- erence. OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL Department to consider a proposal for fund- ing from International Partners in Edu- EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND The conference agreement includes cation. The conferees remind the Depart- MAINTENANCE $29,000,000 for the Office of Inspector General, ment that the use of additional carryover be- instead of $29,264,000 as proposed in the The conference agreement includes yond that distributed above is subject to the House bill and $28,427,000 as proposed in the $1,273,960,000 for this account, instead of reprogramming requirements described in Senate bill. The conference agreement in- $1,285,960,000 as proposed in the House bill section 605 of this Act. cludes, by reference, the guidance included and $1,066,951,000 as proposed in the Senate The conference agreement includes lan- in the House report. bill. guage that limits spending from fee collec- Worldwide Security Upgrades.—The con- EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE tions to $2,000,000 as proposed in the House ference agreement includes $815,960,000 for PROGRAMS bill, instead of $800,000 as proposed in the the costs of worldwide security upgrades, in- The conference agreement includes Senate bill. The conference agreement also cluding $136,680,000 for continuation of the $237,000,000 for Educational and Cultural Ex- includes language authorizing the crediting perimeter security program and $665,000,000 change Programs as proposed in the House of fees from exchange visitor programs to for capital security projects. bill, instead of $242,000,000 as proposed in the this account as proposed in the House bill. The conferees agree that the amount for Senate bill. The following chart displays the With respect to exchanges with the suc- capital security projects does not include re- conference agreement on the distribution of cessor states of the former Soviet Union, the quirements associated with the construction

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.141 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8028 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 of U.S. Agency for International Develop- September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the to improve internal controls and to prevent ment facilities. Instead, the conferees direct United States. and detect fraud. the Department to allocate the entire REPATRIATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT The conference agreement also adopts, by amount provided for capital security con- reference, language in the House report con- The conference agreement includes a total struction to projects at posts that are deter- cerning withdrawal from certain organiza- appropriation of $1,219,000 for the Repatri- mined by the Department to be most in need tions, international organizations reform, ation Loans Program account as provided in of secure replacement facilities. and the Pan American Health Organization both the House and Senate bills. The conferees understand that the Depart- (PAHO), and directs the Department to pro- ment recently realized significant savings as PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN vide PAHO with its full United States assess- a result of re-evaluating the budget plans for TAIWAN ment level for fiscal year 2002. a number of ongoing and planned capital se- The conference agreement includes CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL curity projects. The conferees expect that $17,044,000 for the Payment to the American PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES the resulting savings will allow the Depart- Institute in Taiwan account, as provided in The conference agreement provides ment to accomplish results under this pro- both the House and Senate bills. The con- $844,139,000 for Contributions for Inter- gram that significantly exceed the level of ference agreement includes, by reference, national Peacekeeping Activities as pro- activity described in the budget request. The language in the House bill regarding the sub- posed in the House bill, instead of $773,182,000 conferees commend the Department, and en- mission of a spending plan that includes all as proposed in the Senate bill. The con- courage the achievement of additional effi- funding sources. ference agreement does not include a rescis- ciencies that will reduce the cost and in- PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE sion of $126,600,000 from this account as pro- posed in title VII of the Senate bill. crease the pace of standing up new, secure RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND replacement embassy and consular facilities. The conference agreement provides that of The conferees direct the Department to The conference agreement includes the total funding provided under this head- submit a spending plan for worldwide secu- $135,629,000 for the Payment to the Foreign ing fifteen percent shall remain available rity upgrades within sixty days of the date of Service Retirement and Disability Fund ac- until September 30, 2003, as proposed in the enactment of this Act through the normal count, as provided in both the House and Senate bill. The House bill had no provision reprogramming process. In proposing such a Senate bills. on the matter. The conferees expect that be- spending plan, the Department shall include INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND fore any excess funding is carried over into an assessment of need, and such funding as is CONFERENCES fiscal year 2003 in this account, the Depart- ment shall transfer the maximum allowable appropriate, for security upgrades related to CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL amount to the Contributions to Inter- existing housing, schools, and Marine quar- ORGANIZATIONS national Organizations account to prepay ters. The conference agreement includes Other Capital Programs.—The conference the fiscal year 2003 assessment for the U.N. $850,000,000 for Contributions to Inter- regular budget. agreement includes $15,000,000 to be allocated national Organizations to pay the costs as- The conference agreement includes lan- for capital projects that are not based pri- sessed to the United States for membership guage regarding equal opportunities for marily on security vulnerability. The con- in international organizations as proposed in American suppliers and a prohibition on ferees agree that this amount shall not be the House bill, instead of $1,091,348,000 as pro- funding for court monitoring as proposed in for a specific project designated in the De- posed in the Senate bill. the House bill. The Senate bill did not in- partment’s budget request. The conferees are The conference agreement includes lan- clude provisions on these matters. aware of other non-security capital funding guage requiring that $100,000,000 may be The conferees acknowledge the progress needs, including projects that correspond made available to the U.N. only pursuant to made by the UNAMSIL mission in Sierra with proposed post openings, that may be a certification that it has taken no action Leone, but remain concerned about the sin- priorities for funding under this activity. during calendar year 2001 prior to the enact- cerity of the former combatant groups’ com- The conferees expect the Department to in- ment of this Act to cause it to exceed the mitments to peace and a democratic process. clude an allocation of this funding in the adopted budget for the biennium 2000–2001, as The Committees intend to closely monitor spending plan described in the previous para- proposed in the House bill. The Senate bill the activities of this mission, and to hold the graph. did not include a provision on this matter. Department and the U.N. accountable for The conference agreement includes, by ref- The amount provided by the conference achieving the goals of the current concept of erence, language in the House report on im- agreement is expected to be sufficient to operation. The conference agreement includes, by ref- mediate notification of security risks, ad- fully pay assessments to international orga- erence, language in the House report on the ministrative costs, responding to the rec- nizations. The conference agreement antici- MINURSO mission in Western Sahara, U.N. ommendations of the Overseas Presence Ad- pates that the Department has prepaid peacekeeping reform, and the U.N.’s Office of visory Panel, and assets management. $15,200,000 of the fiscal year 2002 assessment Internal Oversight Services. The Department is directed to submit, and for the U.N. regular budget, using excess fis- receive approval for, a financial plan for the cal year 2001 funds. In addition, the Depart- INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS funding provided under this account, wheth- ment’s recalculation of its fiscal year 2001 re- INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER er from direct appropriations or proceeds of quest for this account has resulted in a low- COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO sales, prior to the obligation or expenditure ering of the request by an additional SALARIES AND EXPENSES of funds for capital and rehabilitation $2,400,000, resulting primarily from exchange The conference agreement includes projects. The overall spending plan shall in- rate fluctuations. The conference agreement $24,705,000 for Salaries and Expenses of the clude project-level detail, and shall be pro- does not include requested funding for Orga- International Boundary and Water Commis- vided to the Committees on Appropriations nization for Economic Cooperation and De- sion (IBWC) as proposed in the House bill, in- not later than 60 days after the date of en- velopment headquarters renovation, and an- stead of $7,452,000 as proposed in the Senate actment of this Act. Any deviation from the ticipates additional savings related to re- bill. The conference agreement includes plan after approval shall be treated as a re- quested activities that are terminating or $17,199,000 under this heading for operations programming in the case of an addition have yet to be established. and maintenance. These activities were greater than $500,000, or as a notification in In recognition of the importance of the funded last year under the ‘‘Construction’’ the case of a deletion, a project cost overrun work of the International Civil Aviation Or- account. The conference report does not in- exceeding 25 percent, or a project schedule ganization (ICAO), the conference agreement clude language in the House report con- delay exceeding 6 months. Notification re- includes full funding for the United States cerning a certain flood warning system. quirements also extend to the re-baselining assessment to ICAO. This amount will in- CONSTRUCTION of a given project’s cost estimate, schedule, clude support for new and expanded pro- or scope of work. The conference agreement includes grams in safety and security. $5,450,000 for the Construction account of the EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND The conference agreement also includes IBWC, instead of $5,520,000 as proposed in the CONSULAR SERVICE full funding for the United States assessment House bill and $24,154,000 as proposed in the The conference agreement includes to the International Atomic Energy Agency Senate bill. The conferees urge the IBWC to $6,500,000 for Emergencies in the Diplomatic (IAEA). The conferees recognize the impor- continue cooperative efforts to seek effec- and Consular Service account, instead of tance of the role played by the IAEA in ef- tive, timely and cost-efficient ways to in- $10,000,000 as provided in the House bill and forts to enact stronger global measures to crease the capacity to process excess sewage $5,465,000 as provided in the Senate bill. The protect nuclear material and facilities flows from Mexico. The conferees note that conferees understand that an additional against potential acts of terrorism. the IBWC and the Department have not yet $3,500,000 is available from prior year bal- The conference agreement includes, by ref- entered into the dialogue on this matter ances, resulting in a total fiscal year 2002 erence, language in the House report on with the Republic of Mexico that is described availability of $10,000,000 under this account. international war crimes tribunals. The con- in title VIII of Public Law 106–457. The con- In addition, the conferees understand that at ferees urge the Department to work with the ferees direct the IBWC to report to the Com- least $20,750,000 for terrorism rewards and U.N. and the tribunals to establish full-time mittees on or before March 1, 2002, on pro- publicity was made available under this ac- U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services po- posed short-term and longer-term measures count in Public Law 107–38 to respond to the sitions at each of the international tribunals to advance a resolution of this issue.

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AMERICAN SECTIONS, INTERNATIONAL ing for broadcasting to Cuba is included Training that supports accurate and respon- COMMISSIONS under a separate account, as proposed in the sible broadcasting is not included among the The conference agreement includes Senate bill. types of assistance prohibited. The conferees $9,911,000 for the U.S. share of expenses of the The conference agreement includes full re- agree that neither the Department of State, International Boundary Commission; the quested funding for an initiative to improve nor the BBG, shall provide any assistance to International Joint Commission, United and enhance Voice of America (VOA) Arabic the PBC that could support restrictions of States and Canada; and the Border Environ- broadcasting to the Middle East, as described press freedoms or the broadcasting of inac- ment Cooperation Commission, instead of in the House report. Combined with funding curate, inflammatory messages. $10,311,000 as proposed in the House bill and provided under Public Law 107–38, the Sec. 404.—The conference agreement in- $6,879,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. The amount provided under this heading will en- cludes section 404, as proposed in the Senate conference level includes funding for second able the Broadcasting Board of Governors bill, prohibiting the use of funds made avail- year costs of a five-year study of the water (BBG) to fully implement this initiative, in- able in this Act by the United Nations for ac- regulation plan governing Lake Ontario and cluding broadcasting to Sudan. The BBG tivities authorizing the United Nations or the St. Lawrence River. shall report to the Committees on Appro- any of its specialized agencies or affiliated priations by March 1, 2002, on proposed per- organizations to tax any aspect of the Inter- INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSIONS formance goals and measures for this new ac- net. The conference agreement includes tivity. Sec. 405.—The conference agreement in- $20,480,000 for the U.S. share of the expenses The conferees expect that the VOA will not cludes section 405, not included in either the of the International Fisheries Commissions air interviews with any official from nations House or Senate bills, waiving provisions of and related activities, instead of $19,780,000 that sponsor terrorism or any representative existing legislation that require authoriza- as proposed in the House bill and $20,780,000 or member of terrorist organizations, or oth- tions to be in place for the State Department as proposed in the Senate bill. The con- erwise afford such individuals opportunities and the BBG prior to the expenditure of any ference agreement includes the funding dis- to air inaccurate, propagandistic, or inflam- appropriated funds. tribution requested in the President’s budg- matory messages. The conferees direct the Sec. 406.—The conference agreement in- et, plus an additional $700,000 for the Great BBG to work closely with the Department of cludes section 406, not included in either the Lakes Fisheries Commission, including State and the National Security Council and House or Senate bills, regarding administra- $250,000 for treating Lake Champlain with to report to the Committees on Appropria- tive costs of international educational and lampricide and lampricide alternatives. The tions by December 15, 2001 on the procedures cultural exchange programs. Sec. 407.—The conference agreement in- conferees expect that future funding require- established to ensure this responsibility is cludes section 407, not included in either the ments under this account for the Inter- upheld. American Tropical Tuna Commission will be The conference agreement includes, by ref- House or Senate bills, regarding the Advi- less than the $2,300,000 provided for fiscal erence, language in the House report on re- sory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Sec. 408.—The conference agreement in- year 2002. The conference agreement includes programming of savings, and language serv- cludes section 408, not included in either the the full requested funding for the Inter- ice review and research. The conference House or Senate bills, regarding inter- American Sea Turtle Convention Commis- agreement also includes, by reference, lan- parliamentary groups. sion. guage in the Senate report on Radio Free TITLE V—RELATED AGENCIES OTHER Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasting in Avar, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PAYMENT TO THE ASIA FOUNDATION Chechen and Circassian. The conferees expect the BBG to maintain MARITIME ADMINISTRATION The conference agreement includes funding for VOA broadcasting to Africa at $9,250,000 for the Payment to the Asia Foun- MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM least at fiscal year 2001 levels. Should addi- dation account as proposed in the House bill, The conference agreement includes tional resources become available during fis- instead of $8,000,000 as provided in the Senate $98,700,000 for the Maritime Security Pro- cal year 2002, the conferees encourage the bill. gram as proposed in both the House and Sen- BBG to propose additional funding for VOA ate bills. EISENHOWER EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM broadcasting to Africa through the re- OPERATIONS AND TRAINING TRUST FUND programming process. The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes lan- BROADCASTING TO CUBA guage as provided in both the House and Sen- $89,054,000 for the Maritime Administration The conference agreement includes ate bills allowing all interest and earnings (MARAD) Operations and Training account $24,872,000, to remain available until ex- accruing to the Trust Fund in fiscal year as proposed in both the House and Senate pended, for Broadcasting to Cuba under a 2002 to be used for necessary expenses of Ei- bills. The conference agreement includes lan- separate account as proposed in the Senate senhower Exchange Fellowships. guage designating $13,000,000 of this amount bill, instead of the same amount within the to remain available until expended for cap- ISRAELI ARAB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM total for International Broadcasting Oper- ital improvements at the U.S. Merchant Ma- The conference agreement includes lan- ations as proposed in the House bill. rine Academy. Within the total amount pro- guage as provided in both the House and Sen- BROADCASTING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS vided, $47,822,000 is for the operation and ate bills allowing all interest and earnings The conference agreement includes maintenance of the U.S. Merchant Marine accruing to the Scholarship Fund in fiscal $25,900,000 for the Broadcasting Capital Im- Academy, including the $13,000,000 for capital year 2002 to be used for necessary expenses of provements account as proposed in the improvements. The Committee directs the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program. House bill, instead of $16,900,000 as proposed MARAD to submit, no later than November EAST-WEST CENTER in the Senate bill. 30, 2001, and prior to the expenditure of fiscal The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes, by ref- year 2002 funds, a spending plan for this ini- $14,000,000 for operations of the East-West erence, language in the House report on the tiative, subject to the reprogramming re- Center as proposed in the Senate bill, instead allocation of funds to support Arabic broad- quirements under section 605 of this Act. The of $9,400,000 as proposed in the House bill. casting to the Middle East and to defeat jam- Committee reminds MARAD that deviations The conference agreement does not include ming of VOA and Radio Free Asia broad- from approved spending plans are also sub- an additional earmark from the Department casting to China, Tibet, Vietnam and North ject to section 605 reprogramming require- of State’s Diplomatic and Consular Pro- Korea. ments. The conference agreement includes grams account as proposed in the Senate GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF STATE $7,457,000 for the State Maritime Academies. bill. AND RELATED AGENCY Within the amount for State Maritime Acad- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY Section 401.—The conference agreement in- emies, $1,200,000 is for student incentive pay- The conference agreement includes cludes section 401, as proposed in the House ments, $1,200,000 is for scholarship payments, $33,500,000 for the National Endowment for bill, permitting use of funds for allowances, and $5,057,000 is for schoolship maintenance Democracy as proposed in the House bill, in- differentials, and transportation. The Senate and repair. stead of $31,000,000 as proposed in the Senate bill included a similar provision with a The conference agreement also includes, bill. minor technical difference. by reference, language in the House report RELATED AGENCY Sec. 402.—The conference agreement in- on the State Maritime Academies ‘‘level cludes section 402, as provided in both the funding initiative’’, and on operating pro- BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS House and Senate bills, dealing with transfer grams and general administration budget INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS authority. and full-time equivalent staffing levels. The The conference agreement includes Sec. 403.—The conference agreement in- conference agreement also includes, by ref- $428,234,000 for International Broadcasting cludes section 403, as provided in both the erence, language in the Senate report on a Operations, instead of $453,106,000 as pro- House and Senate bills, prohibiting the use review of foreign-owned hopper dredge ves- posed in the House bill and $414,752,000 as of funds by the Department of State or the sels. The conferees agree that MARAD shall proposed in the Senate bill. Rather than Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to submit a report to the Committees by Feb- funding broadcasting to Cuba under this ac- provide certain types of assistance to the ruary 3, 2002, on findings that result from the count, as proposed in the House bill, all fund- Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC). aforementioned review.

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The conference agreement does not include icy, instead of $2,500,000 as proposed in the FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION funding in a separate account for disposal of Senate bill. The House bill did not include SALARIES AND EXPENSES obsolete ships from the National Defense Re- funding for this Commission. The conference agreement includes serve Fleet as proposed in the House bill. COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN $155,982,000 for the Federal Trade Commis- However, the conferees expect MARAD to EUROPE sion (FTC) as proposed by the House, instead continue to explore possible alternatives, SALARIES AND EXPENSES of $156,270,000 as proposed by the Senate. work with other Federal agencies, and de- This amount will be offset with Hart-Scott- velop plans to reduce the inventory of obso- The conference agreement includes Rodino fee collections, regardless of the year lete vessels on a cost recovery basis. MARAD $1,499,000 for the Commission on Security of collection, resulting in no direct appro- shall report to the Committees on such and Cooperation in Europe as proposed in the priations. The conference agreement adopts plans. House bill, instead of $1,432,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. the Senate bill language structure. MARITIME GUARANTEED LOAN (TITLE XI) The conferees believe that the FTC should CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON PROGRAM ACCOUNT continue to expand its efforts in child pro- THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA The conference agreement provides tection and expect the Commission to en- $33,000,000 in subsidy appropriations for the SALARIES AND EXPENSES gage in the three initiatives described in the Maritime Guaranteed Loan Program instead The conference agreement includes Senate report in fiscal year 2002: consumer of $30,000,000 as proposed in the House bill $1,000,000 for the Congressional-Executive research and workshops, an underage shop- and $100,000,000 as proposed in the Senate Commission on the People’s Republic of per-retail compliance survey, and marketing bill. The conference agreement does not in- China, instead of $500,000 as proposed in both and data collection. In addition, the con- clude language, as proposed in the House the House and Senate bills. ferees expect the FTC to continue its efforts bill, placing a limitation on loan levels. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY with monitoring the Children’s Online Pri- However, the conferees agree that during fis- COMMISSION vacy Protection Act. cal year 2002 commitments to subsidize Title SALARIES AND EXPENSES The conferees are concerned about children XI loans shall not exceed $1,000,000,000 absent gambling through the Internet. The FTC is The conference agreement includes a prior reprogramming notification under directed to monitor online gambling sites to $310,406,000 for the salaries and expenses of section 605 of this Act. The conferees adopt, determine if these sites are being marketed the Equal Employment Opportunity Com- by reference, language in the Senate report to children and if proper procedures are in mission, as proposed in both the House and concerning the Adminstration’s budget re- place to prevent participation in gambling Senate bills. quest, and language in the House report re- activities by persons too young to gamble. Within the total amount, the conference garding quarterly reporting requirements. The FTC should prepare materials to educate agreement includes $30,000,000 for payments MARAD has indicated to the Committees parents about online gambling and its avail- to State and local Fair Employment Prac- that approximately $7,000,000 in prior year ability to children, and keep the Committees tices Agencies (FEPAs) for specific services funding remains available in this account, on Appropriations apprised of its efforts in to the Commission as proposed in the House which may be used as additional subsidy this area. budget authority in fiscal year 2002. bill, instead of $33,000,000 as proposed in the LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION The conference agreement includes an ad- Senate bill. The conference agreement in- ditional $3,978,000 for administrative ex- cludes, by reference, language in the House PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES penses associated with the Maritime Guaran- report regarding the reduction of the back- CORPORATION teed Loan Program as proposed in both the log of private sector charges, alternative dis- The conference agreement includes House and Senate bills. The amount for ad- pute resolution, contract mediation, and uti- $329,300,000 for the payment to the Legal ministrative expenses may be transferred to lizing the experience the FEPAs have in me- Services Corporation, as proposed by the and merged with amounts under the MARAD diation as the Commission continues its al- House and Senate. ternative dispute resolution programs. Operations and Training account. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—LEGAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—MARITIME FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CORPORATION ADMINISTRATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES The conference agreement includes lan- The conference agreement includes provi- The conference agreement includes a total guage to continue the terms and conditions sions, as proposed in both the House and Sen- of $245,071,000 for the salaries and expenses of included under this section in previous Ap- ate bills, involving Government property the Federal Communications Commission propriations Acts. The conference agreement controlled by MARAD, the accounting for (FCC), instead of $238,597,000 as provided in includes House language regarding a legal certain funds received by MARAD, and a pro- the House bill, and $252,545,000 as proposed in correction to the provisions. hibition on obligations from the MARAD the Senate bill. Of the amounts provided, MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION construction fund. $218,757,000 is to be derived from offsetting SALARIES AND EXPENSES COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF fee collections, as provided in both the House AMERICA’S HERITAGE ABROAD and Senate bills, resulting in a net direct ap- The conference agreement includes $1,957,000 for the salaries and expenses of the SALARIES AND EXPENSES propriation of $26,314,000. Marine Mammal Commission, as proposed in The conference agreement provides $489,000 The conference agreement does not include the Senate bill, instead of $1,732,000 as pro- for the Commission for the Preservation of Senate report language regarding excellence posed in the House bill. Senate report lan- America’s Heritage Abroad, as proposed in in engineering. The conferees recommend guage regarding a workshop is included by both the Senate and House bills. The con- that the Commission pursue a modified ap- reference. ference agreement includes by reference Sen- proach to an ‘‘Excellence in Engineering’’ ef- ate report language regarding surveys. The fort. The purpose of this effort would be to NATIONAL VETERANS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT conferees commend the Commission for sup- reestablish the engineering preeminence of CORPORATION porting the Ukrainian Heritage Project out- the Commission, which must be more fluent The conference agreement includes lined in its 2001 Annual Report and for its in technology than the entities it regulates. $4,000,000 for the Corporation, as proposed in commitment to assist the Ukrainian Mu- The conferees recommend that the Commis- both the House and Senate bills. sion establish a means by which colleges and seum-Archives with the implementation of PACIFIC CHARTER COMMISSION the pilot project. universities may submit proposals to ad- vance cooperative efforts towards excellence SALARIES AND EXPENSES COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS in engineering. Before any actions are taken The conference agreement includes SALARIES AND EXPENSES in this regard, the Commission shall submit $1,500,000 for the Pacific Charter Commis- The conference agreement includes a report to the Committees on Appropria- sion, instead of $2,500,000 as proposed in the $9,096,000 for the salaries and expenses of the tions under the provisions of Section 605 of House bill. The Senate bill did not include Commission on Civil Rights as proposed in this Act. funding for the Commission. both the House and Senate bills. The conferees reiterate concerns about the SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS declining standards of broadcast television SALARIES AND EXPENSES FREEDOM and the impact of this decline on America’s The conference agreement includes SALARIES AND EXPENSES children. The conferees expect the FCC to $437,900,000 for the Securities and Exchange The conference agreement includes continue in its efforts to address these con- Commission (SEC) as proposed in the House $3,000,000 for the Commission on Inter- cerns. bill, instead of $514,047,000 as proposed in the national Religious Freedom as proposed in FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION Senate bill. The conference agreement ap- the House bill. The Senate bill did not in- SALARIES AND EXPENSES propriates $109,500,000 from fees collected in clude funding for this Commission. The conference agreement includes previous fiscal years, and $328,400,000 from COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY $16,458,000 for the salaries and expenses of the fees to be collected in fiscal year 2002. SALARIES AND EXPENSES Federal Maritime Commission, instead of The conference agreement includes lan- The conference agreement includes $15,466,000 as proposed in the House bill and guage to allow certain offsetting collections $3,000,000 for the Commission on Ocean Pol- $17,450,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. to continue to be credited to this account, as

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.147 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8031 proposed in the Senate bill. The conference the spending would bring about meaningful sidy appropriations for the 7(a) general busi- agreement also includes new language re- and more immediate efficiencies to the oper- ness guaranteed loan program, instead of garding fiscal year 2003 offsetting collec- ation of the SBA. $87,000,000 as proposed in the House bill and tions. Non-Credit Programs.—The conference $93,500,000 as proposed in the Senate bill. Any offsetting fee collections in fiscal year agreement includes the following amounts When combined with an estimated $22,000,000 2002 in excess of $328,400,000 will remain for non-credit programs. No funding shall be in available carryover balances and recov- available for the Securities and Exchange allocated for programs not listed: eries, this amount will subsidize an esti- Commission in future years through the reg- Small Business Develop- mated fiscal year 2002 program level of up to ular appropriations process. ment Centers ...... $88,000,000 $9,435,000,000, assuming a subsidy rate of The conference agreement includes, by ref- 7(j) Technical Assistance ... 3,600,000 1.07%. In addition, the conference agreement erence, language in the Senate report on Microloan Technical As- includes a provision, as proposed in both the Internet fraud and the Office of Economic sistance ...... 17,500,000 House and Senate bills, requiring the SBA to Analysis, and language in the House report SCORE ...... 5,000,000 notify the Committees in accordance with commending recent SEC actions to increase Business Information Cen- section 605 of this Act prior to providing a enforcement of disclosure rules. ters ...... 500,000 total program level greater than SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Women’s Business Centers 12,000,000 $10,000,000,000. SALARIES AND EXPENSES Survey of Women-Owned The conference agreement includes re- Businesses ...... 694,000 quired language placing program level limi- The conference agreement provides an ap- National Women’s Business tations on the 504 CDC and the SBIC pro- propriation of $308,476,000 for the Small Busi- Council ...... 750,000 grams instead of similar language in both ness Administration (SBA) Salaries and Ex- US Export Assistance Cen- the House and Senate reports. penses account, instead of $310,581,000 as pro- ters ...... 3,100,000 The conferees are concerned that the Ad- posed in the House bill and $333,233,000 as Advocacy Research ...... 1,100,000 ministration’s prevailing subsidy rate model proposed in the Senate bill. SBIR Federal and State uses assumptions that do not reflect recent Operating Expenses.—The conference agree- Partnerships ...... 3,000,000 program performance of either the 7(a) pro- ment provides a total of $161,482,000 for SBIR Technical Assistance 500,000 gram or the 504 program, resulting in the SBA’s regular operating expenses under this Drug-free Workplace possibility that borrowers and lenders pay account. In addition, a total of $138,854,000 Grants ...... 3,000,000 higher than necessary fees to participate in may be transferred to and merged with this PRIME ...... 5,000,000 the programs. The conferees direct the SBA account for indirect operating costs from the Veterans Outreach ...... 750,000 to work with OMB to develop a new method- Business Loans and Disaster Loans program BusinessLINC ...... 2,000,000 ology that more accurately calculates the accounts. The conferees also agree that the Regulatory Fairness default rates for these programs while efforts SBA will have an additional $3,000,000 in fee Boards ...... 500,000 are underway to shift to a full econometric receipts available for operating expenses. analysis model, and to submit a progress re- This will result in a total availability of Total ...... 146,994,000 port to the Committees by January 15, 2002. $303,336,000 for the operating expenses of the Small Business Development Centers The conferees further expect that the results SBA, an increase of $6,800,000 above the com- (SBDCs).—Of the amounts provided for of this new methodology will be reflected in parable fiscal year 2001 amount. SBDCs, the conference agreement includes Relationship with Budget Office.—The con- a reduced appropriations requirement for the $2,000,000 to continue the SBDC Defense tran- 7(a) program in the SBA’s fiscal year 2003 ferees expect that Committee inquiries and sition program, and $1,000,000 to continue the requests for information and assistance will budget request. Environmental Compliance Project, as di- In addition, the conference agreement in- continue to be coordinated primarily rected in the House report. In addition, the cludes $129,000,000 for administrative ex- through SBA’s Office of the Chief Financial conference agreement includes language, as penses to carry out the direct and guaran- Officer, as is consistent with Committee re- proposed in the Senate bill, making funds for teed loan programs as proposed in both the lationships with the various departments the SBDC program available for two years. House and Senate bills, and makes such and agencies covered under this Act. The The conference agreement does not include funds available to be transferred to and workload generated in the budget process is language proposed in the Senate bill ear- merged with appropriations for Salaries and large and growing, and therefore, a positive, marking funds for a certain grant program. Expenses. responsive relationship, such as the one that The conference agreement adopts language DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT exists between the Committees and the Of- included in the House report directing the fice of the Chief Financial Officer, is abso- SBA to fully fund LowDoc Processing Cen- The conference agreement includes a total lutely essential to the appropriations proc- ters, to continue activities assisting small of $209,714,000 for this account, of which ess. businesses to adapt to a paperless procure- $87,360,000 is for the subsidy costs for disaster Systems Modernization.—The conference ment environment, and to improve the credi- loans and $122,354,000 is for administrative agreement does not include any new funding bility of budget requests. The conference expenses associated with the disaster loans for systems modernization and workforce agreement also adopts language in the Sen- program. The House bill proposed $84,510,000 transformation. Systems modernization ex- ate report regarding the submission of a plan for loans and $120,354,000 for administrative penditures during fiscal year 2002 from funds for the collocation of SBA assistance cen- expenses. The Senate bill provided $79,510,000 provided in previous fiscal years shall be sub- ters. for loans and $125,354,000 for administrative ject to the submission of project spending expenses. OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL plans through the reprogramming process in For disaster loans, the conference agree- accordance with section 605 of this Act. In The conference agreement provides ment assumes that the $87,360,000 subsidy ap- early 2001, the SBA revised the scope of the $11,464,000 for the SBA Office of Inspector propriation, when combined with $30,000,000 loan monitoring system (LMS) project to General, instead of $11,927,000 as proposed in in carryover balances and recoveries, will focus it on lender oversight and risk manage- the House bill and $11,000,000 as proposed in provide a total disaster loan program level of ment. The conferees direct the SBA to de- the Senate bill. The conference agreement $800,000,000. velop a project plan that will provide a basis does not include language in the Senate re- The conference agreement includes lan- for future funding and oversight of project port on OIG activities. guage, as proposed in both the House and activities. The project plan should include: a An additional $500,000 has been provided Senate bills, designating amounts for direct statement of the objectives and scope of the under the administrative expenses of the and indirect administrative expenses, and al- revised LMS project; the relationship of each Disaster Loans program account to be made lowing appropriations for indirect adminis- business process to mission objectives and available to the Office of Inspector General trative costs to be transferred to and merged performance goals; project management or- for work associated with oversight of the with appropriations for Salaries and Ex- ganization information; and a schedule of Disaster Loans program. penses under certain conditions. The con- major project activities, each with a descrip- BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT ference agreement includes $112,000,000 for di- tion of accountable officials, resource re- The conference agreement includes rect administrative expenses, and $9,854,000 quirements, deliverables, costs to comple- $208,860,000 under the SBA Business Loans for indirect administrative expenses. The tion, and target completion dates. The program account, instead of $217,500,000 as amount provided for direct administrative project plan should be updated quarterly and proposed in the House bill and $224,360,000 as expenses, when combined with an estimated made available to the Committees. proposed in the Senate-reported amendment. $3,000,000 in carryover balances, will provide The conferees remain skeptical that the The conference agreement includes a total of $115,000,000 for this activity. SBA can productively use all the funding ob- $1,860,000 for the costs of direct loans as pro- The conference agreement includes a pro- ligated to FEDSIM for the loan monitoring posed in the Senate bill, instead of $1,500,000 vision that any amount in excess of $9,854,000 system in fiscal year 2002. As an alternative, as proposed in the House bill. This amount to be transferred to Salaries and Expenses the conferees expect the SBA to use part of will support an estimated fiscal year 2002 from the Disaster Loans Program account the available systems modernization funding program level of over $27,000,000. for indirect administrative expenses shall be to implement phase II of the joint account- 7(a) General Business Loans.—The con- treated as a reprogramming of funds under ing and administrative system project where ference agreement provides $78,000,000 in sub- section 605 of this Act. In addition, any such

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.148 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8032 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 reprogramming shall be accompanied by a Sec. 608.—The conference agreement in- ices provided to all U.S. citizens, including report from the Administrator on the antici- cludes section 608, as proposed in the House the processing of applications to establish pated effect of the proposed transfer on the bill, which prohibits funds in the bill from foreign trade zones. The Senate bill did not ability of the SBA to cover the full annual being used to implement, administer, or en- contain a provision on this matter. requirements for direct administrative costs force any guidelines of the Equal Employ- Sec. 617.—The conference agreement in- of disaster loan-making and -servicing. ment Opportunity Commission similar to cludes section 617, as proposed in the House Of the amounts provided for administra- proposed guidelines covering harassment bill, which extends the prohibition in last tive expenses under this heading, $500,000 is based on religion published by the EEOC in year’s bill on use of funds to issue a visa to to be transferred to and merged with the Of- October, 1993. The Senate bill included a any alien involved in extrajudicial and polit- fice of Inspector General account for over- similar provision as section 609 with a minor ical killings in Haiti. The provision also re- sight and audit activities related to the Dis- technical difference. moves the name ‘‘Claudy Myrthil’’ from the aster Loans program. Sec. 609.—The conference agreement in- list of victims, and extends the exemption ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS cludes section 609, as proposed in the House and reporting requirements from last year’s ADMINISTRATION bill, prohibiting the use of funds for any provision. The Senate bill included a similar The conference agreement includes a pro- United Nations peacekeeping mission that provision on this matter, but did not remove vision providing SBA with the authority to involves U.S. Armed Forces under the com- the name ‘‘Claudy Myrthil’’ from the list of transfer funds between appropriations ac- mand or operational control of a foreign na- victims. Sec. 618.—The conference agreement in- counts as proposed in both the House and tional unless the President certifies that the cludes section 618, identical in both bills but Senate bills. involvement is in the national security in- terest. The Senate bill included a similar proposed as section 616 in the Senate bill, STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE provision as section 610 with a minor tech- which prohibits a user fee from being SALARIES AND EXPENSES nical difference. charged for background checks conducted The conference agreement provides Sec. 610.—The conference agreement in- pursuant to the Brady Handgun Control Act $3,000,000 for the State Justice Institute, in- cludes section 610, identical to the House bill of 1993, and prohibits implementation of a stead of $6,835,000 as proposed by the House and section 611 in the Senate bill, that pro- background check system which does not re- and $6,225,000 as proposed by the Senate. hibits use of funds to expand the U.S. diplo- quire or result in destruction of certain in- These funds are available for fiscal year 2002 matic presence in Vietnam beyond the level formation. only. The conferees do not recommend con- in effect on July 11, 1995, unless the Presi- Sec. 619.—The conference agreement in- tinued Federal support for the Institute be- dent makes a certification that several con- cludes section 619, modified from language yond fiscal year 2002. The termination of ditions have been met regarding Vietnam’s proposed in the House bill and as section 617 funding for this program does not nec- cooperation with the United States on POW/ in the Senate bill, which delays obligation of essarily mean the dissolution of the Insti- MIA issues. any receipts deposited or available in the tute. The conferees encourage the Institute Sec. 611.—The conference agreement in- Crime Victims Fund in excess of $550,000,000 to solicit private donations and resources cludes section 611, proposed as section 612 in until the following fiscal year. The conferees from State and local agencies. the Senate bill, which permanently prohibits have taken this action to protect against UNITED STATES—CANADA ALASKA RAIL the use of funds appropriated or otherwise wide fluctuations in receipts into the Fund, COMMISSION made available to provide certain amenities and to ensure that a stable level of funding for Federal prisoners. The House bill in- will remain available for these programs in SALARIES AND EXPENSES cluded a similar provision as section 611, but future years. The conference agreement The conference agreement includes did not propose to make the prohibition per- waives this limitation with regard to funding $2,000,000 for a new commission to explore manent or apply the prohibition to non-ap- made available by Public Law 107–38. the feasibility of connecting continental propriated funds. Sec. 620.—The conference agreement in- railway systems to the Alaska railway, in- Sec. 612.—The conference agreement in- cludes section 620, as proposed in the House stead of $4,000,000 as proposed in the Senate cludes section 612, modified from language bill, which prohibits the use of Department bill. The House bill did not include funding proposed as section 604 in the Senate bill, re- of Justice funds for programs which dis- for this commission. garding a restructuring of the Department of criminate against, denigrate, or otherwise TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS Justice to combat terrorism. The House bill undermine the religious beliefs of students The conference agreement includes the fol- did not include a provision on this matter. participating in such programs. The Senate lowing general provisions: Sec. 613.—The conference agreement in- bill did not contain a provision on this mat- Sec. 601.—The conference agreement in- cludes section 613, identical in both the ter. cludes section 601, identical in both the House and Senate bills, which requires agen- Sec. 621.—The conference agreement in- House and Senate bills, regarding the use of cies and departments funded in this Act to cludes section 621, modified from language appropriations for publicity or propaganda absorb any necessary costs related to proposed in the House bill and section 618 in purposes. downsizing or consolidations within the the Senate bill, which prohibits the use of Sec. 602.—The conference agreement in- amounts provided to the agency or depart- funds appropriated or otherwise made avail- cludes section 602, identical in both the ment. able to the Departments of State and Justice House and Senate bills, regarding the avail- Sec. 614.—The conference agreement in- to process visas for citizens of countries that ability of appropriations for obligation be- cludes section 614, modified from similar lan- the Attorney General has determined deny yond the current fiscal year. guage proposed in both the House and Senate or delay accepting the return of deported Sec. 603.—The conference agreement in- bills, which permanently prohibits funds ap- citizens. cludes section 603, identical in both the propriated or otherwise made available to Sec. 622.—The conference agreement in- House and Senate bills, regarding the use of the Federal Bureau of Prisons from being cludes section 622, identical in both bills but funds for consulting services. used to make available any commercially proposed as section 619 in the Senate bill, Sec. 604.—The conference agreement in- published information or material that is which prohibits the use of Department of cludes section 604, as proposed in the House sexually explicit or features nudity to a pris- Justice funds to transport a maximum or bill, providing that should any provision of oner. high security prisoner to any facility other the Act be held to be invalid, the remainder Sec. 615.—The conference agreement in- than a facility certified by the Bureau of of the Act would not be affected. The Senate cludes section 615, as proposed in the House Prisons as appropriately secure to house bill did not include this provision, which has bill, which limits funding under the Local such a prisoner. been carried in previous years. Law Enforcement Block Grant to 90 percent Sec. 623.—The conference agreement in- Sec. 605.—The conference agreement in- to an entity that does not provide public cludes section 623, proposed in the Senate cludes section 605, identical in both the safety officers injured in the line of duty, bill as section 621, waiving a subsection of House and Senate bills, establishing the pol- and as a result separated or retired from the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation icy by which funding available to the agen- their jobs, with health insurance benefits and Management Act as it pertains to funds cies funded under this Act may be repro- equal to the insurance they received while made available pursuant to that section in grammed for other purposes. on duty. The Senate bill did not include a the fiscal year 2000 Supplemental Appropria- Sec. 606.—The conference agreement in- similar provision. tions Act. The House bill did not contain a cludes section 606, identical to the House bill Sec. 616.—The conference agreement in- provision on this matter. and section 607 in the Senate bill, regarding cludes section 616, as proposed in the House Sec. 624.—The conference agreement in- the construction, repair or modification of bill, which prohibits funds provided in this cludes section 624, proposed in the Senate National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- Act from being used to promote the sale or bill as section 622, that amends existing law tration vessels in overseas shipyards. export of tobacco or tobacco products, or to to extend the authority of the States of Sec. 607.—The conference agreement in- seek the reduction or removal of foreign re- Washington, Oregon, and California to adopt cludes section 607, as proposed in the House strictions on the marketing of tobacco prod- and enforce State laws and regulations gov- bill, regarding the purchase of American- ucts, provided such restrictions are applied erning fishing and processing in the exclu- made products. The Senate bill did not in- equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of sive economic zone adjacent to that State in clude this provision, which has been carried the same type. This provision is not intended any Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) fishery in previous years. to impact routine international trade serv- for which there is no fishery management

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.150 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8033 plan in effect under of the Magnuson-Stevens The conference agreement does not include (In thousands of dollars) Fishery Conservation and Management Act. language proposed in both the House and New budget (obligational) The provision extends the sunset of this au- Senate bills regarding civil actions against authority, fiscal year thority to September 30, 2006. The provision Japanese corporations for compensation in 2001 ...... $39,691,832 also requires a biennial report on the health which the plaintiff alleges that, as an Amer- Budget estimates of new of the fishery from the Pacific State Marine ican prisoner of war during World War II, he (obligational) authority, Fisheries Commission. The House bill did not or she was used as slave or forced labor. The fiscal year 2002 ...... 40,807,220 include a provision on this matter. conferees understand that the Administra- House bill, fiscal year 2002 41,456,015 Sec. 625.—The conference agreement in- tion strongly opposes this language, and is Senate bill, fiscal year 2002 41,528,131 cludes section 625, proposed in the Senate concerned that the inclusion of such lan- Conference agreement, fis- bill as section 608, which makes permanent a guage in the Act would be detrimental to the cal year 2002 ...... 41,635,178 provision that prohibits the use of funds to ongoing effort to enlist multilateral support Conference agreement increase the salary of a Federal judge or Jus- for the campaign against terrorism. The con- compared with: tice of the Supreme Court, except as may be ferees strongly agree that the extraordinary New budget specifically authorized by Act of Congress. suffering and injury of our former prisoners (obligational) author- The House bill did not include a provision on of war deserve further recognition, and ac- ity, fiscal year 2001 ...... +1,943,346 this matter. knowledge the need for such additional con- Budget estimates of new Sec. 626.—The conference agreement in- sideration. cludes section 626, modified from language (obligational) author- The conference agreement includes, by ref- ity, fiscal year 2002 ...... +827,958 proposed as section 629 in the Senate bill, ad- erence, language in the House Report under dressing the issue of compensation for vic- House bill, fiscal year the heading ‘‘Full Compliance with Telework 2002 ...... +179,163 tims of international terrorism. This provi- Directive’’. The conferees expect the Judici- sion requires the Administration to fulfill its Senate bill, fiscal year ary, and all departments and agencies funded 2002 ...... +107,047 commitment to the Congress to develop a under this Act, to be in full compliance with comprehensive federal response under which the timetable established in Public Law 106– FRANK R. WOLF, individualized awards of compensation would 346 for the implementation of telework poli- HAROLD ROGERS, be made available to a U.S. national who is cies. JIM KOLBE, physically injured or killed as a result of an CHARLES H. TAYLOR, TITLE VII—RESCISSIONS act of international terrorism or to the rel- RALPH REGULA, atives of deceased United States victims of DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TOM LATHAM, terrorism. Objections from all quarters have LEGAL ACTIVITIES DAN MILLER, been repeatedly raised against the current ad ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND DAVID VITTER, hoc approach to compensation for victims of (RESCISSION) BILL YOUNG, international terrorism. Objections and con- JOSE E. SERRANO, The conference agreement includes a re- cerns, however, will no longer suffice. It is ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, scission of $40,000,000 from unobligated bal- imperative that the Secretary of State, in LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, ances under this heading. No rescission was coordination with the Departments of Jus- ROBERT E. CRAMER, JR., proposed under this account in the House or tice and Treasury and other relevant agen- PATRICK J. KENNEDY, the Senate bills. cies, develop a legislative proposal that will DAVID OBEY, provide fair and prompt compensation to all DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Managers on the Part of the House. U.S. victims of international terrorism. A DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT compensation system already is in place for ERNEST HOLLINGS, EMERGENCY OIL AND GAS GUARANTEED LOAN DANIEL K. INOUYE, the victims of the September 11 terrorist at- PROGRAM ACCOUNT tacks; a similar system should be available BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, to victims of international terrorism. Any (RESCISSION) PATRICK J. LEAHY, legislative proposal shall provide for com- The conference agreement includes a re- HERB KOHL, pensation for U.S. victims of prior acts of scission of $5,200,000 from unobligated bal- PATTY MURRAY, international terrorism, including those ances under this heading, instead of JACK REED, with hostage claims against foreign states. $115,000,000 as proposed in the House bill. The ROBERT C. BYRD, Subsection (c) quashes the State Depart- Senate bill did not include a rescission from JUDD GREGG, ment’s motion to vacate the judgment ob- this account. TED STEVENS, PETE V. DOMENICI, tained by plaintiffs in Case Number RELATED AGENCIES MITCH MCCONNELL, 1:00CV03110(ESG) in the United States Dis- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION trict Court for the District of Columbia. Con- KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, MARITIME ADMINISTRATION sistent with current law, subsection (c) does BEN NIGHTHORSE not require the United States Government to SHIP CONSTRUCTION CAMPBELL, THAD COCHRAN, make any payments to satisfy the judgment. (RESCISSION) Managers on the Part of the Senate. The House bill did not contain a provision on The conference agreement includes a re- this matter. scission of $4,400,000 from unobligated bal- f Sec. 627.—The conference agreement in- ances under this heading. No rescission was ADJOURNMENT cludes section 627, proposed as section 628 in proposed under this account in the House or the Senate bill, prohibiting the use of funds Senate bills. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without by Federal prisons for cable television serv- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION objection, the House stands adjourned ices, videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other audiovisual or electronic equipment SALARIES AND EXPENSES until 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November used primarily for recreational purposes. The (RESCISSION) 13, 2001, for morning hour debates. House bill did not include a provision on this The conference agreement includes a re- There was no objection. matter. scission of $50,000,000 from unobligated bal- Accordingly (at 10 o’clock and 5 min- Sec. 628.—The conference agreement in- ances under this heading. No rescission was utes a.m.), under its previous order, the cludes section 628, modified from language proposed under this account in the House or House adjourned until Tuesday, No- proposed as section 630 in the Senate bill, Senate bills. vember 13, 2001, at 12:30 p.m., for morn- amending the Communications Satellite Act. The House bill did not contain a provi- SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ing hour debates. sion on this matter. BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT f Sec. 629.—The conference agreement in- (RESCISSION) cludes section 629, not included in the House EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, The conference agreement includes a re- ETC. or Senate bills, providing additional scission of $5,500,000 from unobligated bal- amounts for the Small Business Administra- ances under this heading. No rescission was Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive tion, Salaries and Expenses account for a proposed under this account in the House or communications were taken from the number of small business initiatives. Senate bills. Sec. 630.—The conference agreement in- Speaker’s table and referred as follows: cludes section 630, proposed in the Senate CONFERENCE TOTAL—WITH COMPARISONS 4560. A letter from the Principal Deputy bill as section 624, prohibiting the use of The total new budget (obligational) au- Associate Administrator, Environmental funds for cooperation with, or assistance or thority for the fiscal year 2002 recommended Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- other support to, the International Criminal by the Committee of Conference, with com- cy’s final rule—Hazardous Waste Manage- Court or the Preparatory Commission. The parisons to the fiscal year 2001 amount, the ment System; Identification and Listing of House bill does not include a provision on 2002 budget estimates, and the House and Hazardous Waste: Inorganic Chemical Manu- this matter. Senate bills for 2002 follow: facturing Wastes; Land Disposal Restrictions

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 03:50 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00073 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO7.152 pfrm01 PsN: H09PT1 H8034 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 9, 2001 for Newly Identified Wastes; and CERCLA ing appropriations for Agriculture, Rural De- occurred on September 11, 2001, and for other Hazardous Substance Designation and Re- velopment, Food and Drug Administration, purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- portable Quantities [SWH–FRL–7099–2] (RIN: and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal ary, and in addition to the Committee on 2050–AE49) received November 6, 2001, pursu- year ending September 30, 2002, and for other Transportation and Infrastructure, for a pe- ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee purposes (Rept. 107–275). Ordered to be print- riod to be subsequently determined by the on Energy and Commerce. ed. Speaker, in each case for consideration of 4561. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Mr. TAUZIN: Committee on Energy and such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, Commerce. H.R. 2985. A bill to amend the tion of the committee concerned. transmitting the texts of the International Federal Trade Commission Act to increase By Mr. REGULA (for himself, Mr. Labor Organization Convention No. 183 and civil penalties for violations involving cer- HOEKSTRA, and Mr. CUNNINGHAM): Recommendation No. 191 concerning the Re- tain proscribed acts or practices that exploit H.R. 3273. A bill to amend the Higher Edu- vision of the Maternity Protection Conven- popular reaction to an emergency or major cation Act of 1965 to provide student loan tion, pursuant to Art. 19 of the Constitution disaster declared by the President, and to borrowers with a choice of lender for loan of the International Labor Organization; to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to consolidation; to the Committee on Edu- the Committee on International Relations. seek civil penalties for such violations in ac- cation and the Workforce. 4562. A letter from the Chairman, Council tions brought under section 13 of that Act By Mr. SANDERS: of the District of Columbia, transmitting a (Rept. 107–276). Referred to the Committee of H.R. 3274. A bill to provide assistance to copy of D.C. ACT 14–164, ‘‘Securities Tem- the Whole House on the State of the Union. those individuals most affected by high en- porary Amendment Act of 2001’’ received No- Mr. TAUZIN: Committee on Energy and ergy prices and to promote and accelerate vember 9, 2001, pursuant to D.C. Code section Commerce. H.R. 2887. A bill to amend the energy conservation investments in the 1–233(c)(1); to the Committee on Government Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to im- United States; to the Committee on Ways Reform. prove the safety and efficacy of pharma- and Means, and in addition to the Commit- 4563. A letter from the Assistant Secretary ceuticals for children; with an amendment tees on Energy and Commerce, and Edu- for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, (Rept. 107–277). Referred to the Committee of cation and the Workforce, for a period to be transmitting the Department’s final rule— the Whole House on the State of the Union. subsequently determined by the Speaker, in Documentation of Immigrants Under the Im- Mr. WOLF: Committee of Conference. Con- each case for consideration of such provi- migration and Nationality Act, as Amend- ference report on H.R. 2500. A bill making ap- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the ed—Issuance of New or Replacement Visas— propriations for the Departments of Com- committee concerned. received November 5, 2001, pursuant to 5 merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and By Mr. SMITH of Texas: U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on the related agencies for the fiscal year ending H.R. 3275. A bill to implement the Inter- Judiciary. September 30, 2002, and for other purposes national Convention for the Suppression of 4564. A letter from the Comptroller, De- (Rept. 107–278). Ordered to be printed. Terrorist Bombings to strengthen criminal partment of Defense, transmitting a copy of f laws relating to attacks on places of public the FY 2001 Transfer Status Report; jointly use, to implement the International Conven- to the Committees on Armed Services and TIME LIMITATION OF REFERRED tion of the Suppression of the Financing of Appropriations. BILL Terrorism, to combat terrorism and defend 4565. A letter from the Assistant Secretary the Nation against terrorist acts, and for for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XII the other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- transmitting a copy of Presidential Deter- following action was taken by the diciary. mination No. 2002–02 concerning Pakistan, Speaker: By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska (for himself pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2364(a)(1); jointly to the H.R. 981. Referral to the Committee on and Mr. OBERSTAR): Committees on International Relations and Rules and Government Reform extended for H.R. 3276. A bill to authorize appropria- Appropriations. a period ending not later than November 14, tions for hazardous material transportation 4566. A letter from the Assistant Secretary 2001. safety, and for other purposes; to the Com- for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, H.R. 2269. Referral to the Committee on mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- transmitting a Waiver and Certification of Ways and Means extended for a period ending ture, and in addition to the Committee on Statutory Provisions Regarding the Pal- not later than November 13, 2001. Government Reform, for a period to be sub- estine Liberation Organization; jointly to sequently determined by the Speaker, in the Committees on International Relations f each case for consideration of such provi- and Appropriations. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. f Under clause 2 of rule XII, public REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON bills and resolutions were introduced f PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS and severally referred, as follows: ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of By Mr. NADLER (for himself and Mr. Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors committees were delivered to the Clerk HINCHEY): H.R. 3272. A bill to establish the Office of were added to public bills and resolu- for printing and reference to the proper World Trade Center Attack Claims to pay tions as follows: calendar, as follows: claims for injury to businesses and property H.R. 2035: Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. BONILLA; Committee of Conference. suffered as a result of the attack on the H.R. 2349: Ms. BROWN of Florida. Conference report on H.R. 2330. A bill mak- World Trade Center in New York City that H.R. 3210: Mr. LEACH and Ms. HART.

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Vol. 147 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2001 No. 155 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was The assistant legislative clerk read ENERGY NEEDS AND called to order by the Honorable the following letter: COMMITMENTS BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, a Senator from U.S. SENATE, Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, I the State of Arkansas. PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, have applauded the actions of my col- Washington, DC, November 9, 2001. league, Senator MURKOWSKI, as our sen- PRAYER To the Senate: ior Republican on the Energy Com- Under the provisions of Rule I, paragraph The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I mittee. Because of my involvement in Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: hereby appoint the Honorable BLANCHE L. other matters, particularly appropria- Almighty God, in the quiet of this LINCOLN, a Senator from the State of Arkan- tions, it has not been possible for me to magnificent moment of conversation sas, to perform the duties of the Chair. be here to join him as much as I would with You, we dedicate this day. We ROBERT C. BYRD, like to do so. want to live it to Your glory, alert to President pro tempore. I consider the opening of the coastal the dangers of this time but without Mrs. LINCOLN thereupon assumed plain of the Arctic National Wildlife anxiety, prepared but not perplexed. the chair as Acting President pro tem- Refuge area for environmentally sound We praise You that it is Your desire to pore. oil and gas development to be the issue give Your presence and blessing to f of highest national security we will those who ask You. You give strength vote on this year. The President of the and power to Your people when we seek RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING United States shares that view. I be- You above anything else. You guide the MAJORITY LEADER lieve many in this body do. humble and teach them Your way. Help The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Last week President Bush said: It is us to humble ourselves as we begin this pore. The Senator from Nevada. in ‘‘our national interest to get [an en- day so that no self-serving agenda or Mr. REID. Madam President, there ergy bill] to [his] desk.’’ I am para- self-aggrandizing attitude will block will be no rollcall votes today, as was phrasing that. I believe the vast major- Your blessings to this Senate and to announced last evening by the major- ity of Americans share the President’s our Nation through us. Speak to us so ity leader. This morning the Senate view. Just last night while speaking in that we may speak with both the tenor will be in a period of morning business Atlanta, President Bush called upon of Your truth and the tone of Your with Senators allowed to speak for up Congress to send an energy bill to his grace. to 10 minutes each. As under the direc- desk again ‘‘to reduce our dependence We say with the Psalmist: tion of the majority leader, next week on foreign oil.’’ God be merciful to us and bless us and is going to be an extremely busy week. When the President said that, there cause Your face to shine upon us, that We are going to work on the economic was such a unanimous outpouring of Your way may be known on Earth and stimulus package, and there are a num- support from the people in the audi- Your salvation among the nations. You ber of other pieces of legislation we are ence. It was probably the loudest reac- are our Lord and Saviour. going to do our very best to complete tion to his whole speech. I believe that is correct. It is a na- Amen. prior to Thanksgiving. tional concept and there is national f f support for that goal. Today we still do PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME not have a commitment to bring up The Honorable BLANCHE L. LINCOLN and complete action on this energy The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: bill. This morning I rise to again high- pore. Under the previous order, the light some of the implications of fail- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the leadership time is reserved. United States of America, and to the Repub- ure to act now. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, f The stability of some of the nations indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. principally responsible for supplying MORNING BUSINESS f oil to the United States can no longer The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- be taken for granted. In 1979, when the APPOINTMENT OF ACTING pore. Under the previous order, there instability of the Middle East was of PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE will now be a period for the transaction paramount concern, we took action to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The of morning business with Senators per- protect Israel. As our major ally in the clerk will please read a communication mitted to speak therein for up to 10 Middle East, we should proceed with to the Senate from the President pro minutes each. energy legislation not only to protect tempore (Mr. BYRD). The Senator from Alaska. our own interests but to ensure that we

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VerDate 06-NOV-2001 23:16 Nov 09, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO6.000 pfrm01 PsN: S09PT1 S11638 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 can continue to support Israel as we million barrels a day through that The House-passed energy bill, H.R. 4, have agreed to do. pipeline because we don’t have the pro- contains authorization for oil produc- In 1979, our Government entered into duction necessary to fill the pipeline. tion in the Coastal Plain of ANWR. a bilateral agreement with Israel to en- Today, our pipeline is half full as the That Coastal Plain, as designated by sure that Israel would have access to production at Prudhoe Bay declines. As the Jackson amendment in the 1980 the oil it needs to meet its daily re- it declines, we send more American act, is 1.5 million acres, and it is esti- quirements. Everyone in the Senate money to Saddam Hussein to buy his mated to contain a minimum of 5.7 bil- should be familiar with that agree- oil. lion barrels of oil, with a very good ment. We understood then that some We must consider the implications of possibility, I am told, of recovering up Middle Eastern countries had the our Government having just recalled to 16 billion barrels of oil—enough to power to hold Israel hostage by deny- our Ambassador to Venezuela as we fill the Alaska pipeline for another ing access to oil. consider the stability of our oil sup- three decades and beyond. Let me read from a relevant portion plies. For those who missed it, let me Madam President, people forget when of the agreement we signed with Israel quote from a November 6 story in the I stood here on the floor and urged ap- to protect its supply of oil: Wall Street Journal discussing Ven- proval of the Alaska oil pipeline, the If the oil Israel needs to meet all its nor- ezuela: estimate for production from Prudhoe mal requirements for domestic consumption Relations have deteriorated steadily since Bay was 1 billion barrels. This year, we is unavailable for purchase . . . the United the September 11 terrorist attacks on the have produced the thirteen-billionth States Government will promptly make oil United States. President Chavez and his min- barrel of oil from Prudhoe Bay. These available for purchase by Israel to meet all isters have made what U.S. officials have de- scribed as ‘‘contradictory’’ and ambiguous estimates are always on the very con- of the aforementioned normal requirements servative side. of Israel. statements. In the most recent incident, Mr. Chavez last week criticized U.S. bombing The House energy bill limits oil pro- Our Government renewed that agree- raids in Afghanistan during a televised duction to just 2,000 acres of the 1.5 ment in 1994 to ensure that Israel is speech.... Venezuela is especially impor- million-acre area. Remember, the mil- protected through 2004. When we fi- tant because it is one of the top three sup- lion and a half acres was set aside for pliers of oil to the United States market. . . nally take up the comprehensive en- oil and gas exploration. Now, if the oil ergy bill, we should include an amend- Madam President, this is the same in ANWR could replace our imports ment to extend that agreement with President Chavez who was the first from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, or Ven- our Middle Eastern ally, Israel. head of state to break the multilateral ezuela—and that is possible—it could The point is, Israel produces less sanctions on Iraq by visiting Saddam produce enough oil to replace at least Hussein after the gulf war. No wonder than 500 barrels of oil per day. It con- one of our three largest suppliers. Can President Bush has recalled our Am- sumes nearly 300,000 barrels of oil a anyone really doubt that this is an bassador for consultations. Keep in day. Regardless of what happens in the issue involving our national security? mind that nearly 1.6 million barrels of Middle East, Israel needs guaranteed Madam President, as we approach oil per day come to the United States access to oil just to maintain its econ- Veterans Day, I am proud to stand here omy. And regardless of what happens from Venezuela, and they are subject to the control of President Chavez. as a World War II veteran and applaud in the Middle East, we have to be able the veterans groups of our country. to produce and provide to Israel at When we talk of potentially unstable sources of crude oil, we cannot ignore They understand the vulnerabilities of those 300,000 barrels of oil per day in our country. They understand the im- accordance with that agreement. Iraq. My colleague, Senator MUR- KOWSKI, has continued to remind the portance of reducing our reliance on My understanding is that Alaska’s the Middle East and increasing our do- oil is the oil that would fulfill that Senate that the United States now im- ports 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day mestic production. agreement because it is the same qual- from Saddam Hussein. As I said last I want to quote from two recent let- ity of oil that Israel’s refineries run week, by the end of the year, we will ters. This is an October 26 letter from and could be run in those refineries have imported 230 million barrels of oil the National Commander of AMVETS: without change. from Iraq. Over 40 million barrels of Our current reliance on foreign oil leaves Given our current dependence on for- that oil went to California to replace the United States vulnerable to the whim of eign oil, and 57 percent of our oil is im- oil that California used to get from individual oil-exporting countries, many ex- ported, Middle Eastern supplies of oil Alaska. At $20 per barrel, Americans isting in the unpredictable and highly dan- are unstable as far as we are concerned. will send over $5 billion to Saddam gerous Persian Gulf. . . .Passage of H.R. 4 We have to have a way to fulfill the would greatly assist in our ability to secure Hussein’s terrorism machine by this a more dependable and diversified domestic commitment we have made to Israel, Christmas—$5 billion, and hundreds of our primary ally in that part of the supply of energy. thousands of jobs that we don’t have And I would note that since the Per- world. now because we don’t have permission sian Gulf war our security has become Our own vulnerability to protect un- to increase production to continue fill- more threatened with our dependence stable oil supplies is a national secu- ing the Alaska pipeline daily. rity issue for us. Think what it is for This year, we have thousands of on foreign sources of oil growing from Israel. American troops stationed in the Mid- 35 percent of domestic supply to nearly I am deeply disturbed about our con- dle East and around Afghanistan. They 60 percent. AMVETS firmly believes we tinued reliance upon Saddam Hussein’s risk their lives to protect our interests cannot wait for the next crisis before oil. We are using more than 700,000 bar- and our security. I believe we must do we act. rels of oil per day in this country im- something about our growing depend- I ask unanimous consent that letter ported from Iraq. From press reports, ence on these potentially unreliable be printed in the RECORD following my we know that one of Osama bin Laden’s supplies of oil. We must begin to ex- statement. goals is to overthrow the House of plore for oil in our own country, and we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Saud and to gain access to the vast oil know where the largest potential sup- objection, it is so ordered. reserves in Saudi Arabia. ply of oil is. It is in the Coastal Plain (See Exhibit 1.) How secure would those supplies be if of Alaska. We just need the oppor- Mr. STEVENS. In an October 25 let- that unfortunate event should take tunity to go get it. ter, the National Commander of the place? Today Saudi Arabia is the larg- The Energy Information Agency re- American Legion said: est single supplier of oil to the United leased a new report last week detailing War and international terrorism have States. We import over 1.8 million bar- all of the proven reserves in the United again brought into sharp focus the heavy re- rels a day from Saudi Arabia. States. That report says in the entire liance of the U.S. on imported oil. During At the height of the Persian Gulf times of crisis, such reliance threatens our State of Texas there are now 5.27 bil- national security and economic well-being. War, 2.1 million barrels a day were sent lion barrels of proven reserves. Texans It is important that we develop domestic through the Alaska oil pipeline. In the don’t like me to remind them, but that sources of oil, contained within our public time of need, then we had oil to State is less than half the size of Alas- lands—such as the supplies within the Arctic produce. Today, we send just over 1 ka. National Wildlife Refuge.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 23:16 Nov 09, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.004 pfrm01 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11639 I ask unanimous consent that letter volity, ‘‘Survivor’’ silliness and general self- Sen. John Kerry vows a filibuster if anyone and additional letters be printed in the indulgence had given way to an era of seri- dares legislate Arctic drilling. RECORD after these remarks. ousness. Well, not quite. Here we are, for the Imagine where we would be if those railing The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without second time in a decade, risking American against Arctic drilling today had prevailed 30 objection, it is so ordered. lives in a war against an enemy fueled and years ago and stopped Prudhoe Bay. The mil- fed by oil money. Here we are again decrying lion barrels a day we now get from Alaska (See Exhibit 2.) our dependence on oil from a particularly would be coming from Saudi Arabia. We Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, ac- unstable, unfriendly part of the world. Here would be even more in their debt and under tion is required now to protect our na- we are in desperate need of both energy con- their thumb. A concerned citizenry is yearn- tional security. The advice of these servation and new energy production. And ing to do something significant for the war veterans groups representing the voices here we see (in the Oct. 30 Post) that we may effort on the home front. But this is not of all men and women who have fought be prevented from drilling in the single most World War II. We do not need rubber. We do for our freedom should be followed. promising area on this continent because of not need war bonds. We do not need Rosie Their advice to increase our economic a . . . polar bear treaty: ‘‘New Species Enters riveting. We desperately do need energy security by opening the Coastal Plain Debate on Arctic Oil; Polar Bear Agreement independence. And that is a home-front bat- Cited by Drilling Foes.’’ tle: conservation—and a willingness to dis- of ANWR needs to be adhered to. Now, I like polar bears as much as the next The advice of organized labor, which turb a few acres of snow in a vast wilderness guy. I like pandas and caribou and all the as remote as Afghanistan. wants to see us create hundreds of furry cuddlies on God’s good earth. But I also There’s a war on, senators. Lets get seri- thousands of jobs by opening this like people, particularly Americans, and par- ous. ticularly American soldiers. And I do not Coastal Plain of ANWR, is also compel- EXHIBIT 1 like seeing them shot and killed in wars that ling. AMVETS, Israel needs even greater assurance would be both more avoidable and more win- nable were we not so disastrously dependent Lanham, MD, October 26, 2001. that we can fulfil our obligations to Hon. TOM DASCHLE, meet her energy needs. In short, re- on energy supplies from a nasty part of the world with nasty people who use our oil Majority Leader, The U.S. Senate, The Capitol, sponding to these requests and to the money for nasty purposes. Washington, DC. President of the United States to pro- At a time when Washington should be DEAR SENATOR DASCHLE: On behalf of mote our national security by passing working on a crash program of conservation AMVETS, I am writing to encourage you to the comprehensive energy bill, H.R. 4, and new drilling, a six-year-old report from bring H.R. 4, the Securing America’s Future containing authorization to proceed to the Fish and Wildlife Service is leaked in the Energy Act of 2001, before the full Senate for use 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres of hope that a 28-year-old polar bear treaty consideration at the earliest possible mo- ment prior to the close of the 1st Session of ANWR, should be our No. 1 goal before might derail drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Outrage! ‘‘This is a clas- the 107th Congress. we leave for the holiday. As you know, our current reliance on for- Passing a comprehensive energy bill sic Bush administration strategy of running roughshod over international agreements,’’ eign oil leaves the United States vulnerable that contains environmentally sound charged Kieran Suckling, executive director to the whim of individual oil-exporting coun- provisions by producing the largest sin- of the Center for Biological Diversity and tries, many existing in the unpredictable and gle potential oilfield on the North leaker of the report. The Interior Depart- highly dangerous Persian Gulf. And it can- American Continent is a goal of most ment stoutly maintains that the polar bear not be overstated that energy supplies touch Americans. If we act now, our men and agreement does not prohibit oil exploration. nearly every aspect of our lives from our Alaska’s Sen. Frank Murkowski points out economy to our national security. women serving overseas will know that Passage of H.R. 4 would greatly assist in we stand behind them. that the 25,000 or so Arctic polar bears that he represents seem to be quite happily our ability to secure a more dependable and Passing this bill before we go home diversified domestic supply of energy. And, I for the holiday will tell families from lolling around the existing oil drilling in Alaska. would note that since the Persian Gulf War New England to Minnesota that the I too have little doubt that the polar bears our security has become more threatened fuel oil they burn in the future, after will do fine, just as the caribou have thrived with our dependence on foreign sources of oil our Arctic Plain begins to produce, is around the Prudhoe Bay field. But the whole growing from 35 percent of domestic supply American oil, not oil from Saddam debate is surreal. We are at war, are we not? to nearly 60 percent. Hussein, from Iraq, or from any of Americans are fighting. In Washington and AMVETS firmly believes that we cannot these unstable sources. New York, nearly 5,000 have already been wait for the next crisis before we act. H.R. 4, as approved by the House, is a critical part In short, I believe we must act before killed. Fifteen of the 19 murderers were Saudi. Their leader is Saudi. Most of their of an overall policy America requires to pro- we go home for this holiday so we will mote dependable, affordable, and environ- know we have acted to protect the se- money is Saudi. And that same Saudi money funds the madrassas, the fundamentalist re- mentally sound production and distribution curity of our Nation, our total national ligious schools where poor Pakistani, Afghan of energy for the future. We urge your expe- security. A filibuster against a na- and Arab children are inducted into the dited approval of this legislation. tional security issue involving energy world of radical Islam and war against the Dedicated to service, has never taken place in this Chamber. American infidel. And yet we bow and scrape JOSEPH W. LIPOWSKI, It did not take place when the oil pipe- to the Saudis. We beg and borrow. We tol- National Commander. line was built, and there was severe, erate their deflecting onto America the pop- EXHIBIT 2 even worse, opposition at that time ular hatred that would otherwise be directed THE AMERICAN LEGION, than there is now. That pipeline passed at their own corruption. Why? Because we need their oil. Washington, DC, October 25, 2001. by one vote, the vote of the Vice Presi- The war on terrorism will be fought in Hon. TOM DASCHLE, dent of the United States. many places. Alaska is one. We have known Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, The Capitol, The opponents at that time knew since 1973 that we need to reduce our depend- Washington, DC. they could filibuster, but they did not ence on Persian Gulf oil. But we have never DEAR SENATOR DASCHLE: We write today because it was a matter of national se- been serious. It was assumed that Sept. 11 out of a sense of urgency concerning our na- curity. I call upon the Senate to recog- would make us serious. Instead, we are en- tional security, as it relates to our need for nize the tradition of this body and not gaged in exegeses on polar bear mating hab- energy independence. The development of America’s domestic energy resources is vital filibuster a national security issue as its and a ridiculous debate that pits con- servation vs. drilling. Why one and not the to our national security. We respectfully we raise H.R. 4 next week. other is beyond me. Of course we need con- urge you to adopt the provisions contained I ask unanimous consent that an ar- servation. I have been an advocate of a dol- in H.R. 4, the ‘‘Securing America’s Future ticle by the eminent Charles lar-a-gallon gasoline tax for 20 years. What- Energy Act of 2001.’’ Krauthammer from today’s Wash- ever it takes: auto efficiency standards, War and international terrorism have ington Post be printed in the RECORD. higher taxes, incentives for new fuels. again brought into sharp focus the heavy re- There being no objection, the mate- But why stop there? We need more oil still. liance of the United States on imported oil. rial was ordered to be printed in the Every additional barrel that substitutes do- During times of crises, such reliance threat- RECORD, as follows: mestic oil for foreign oil is a victory. Drill- ens our national security and economic well ing in the Arctic will involve less than 1 per- being. The import of more than 50 percent of [From the Washington Post, Nov. 9, 2001] cent of the Arctic Refuge. It might produce our petroleum from the Persian Gulf further WAR AND THE POLAR BEAR an additional million barrels a day. The sea compounds our foreign trade balance at a (By Charles Krauthammer) of natural gas beneath could be the largest time when our energy demands continue So you thought that Sept. 11 changed ev- in North America. And yet the Luddites unabated. It is important that we develop erything, that the era of game-show fri- stand firm, as if Sept. 11 never happened. domestic sources of oil, contained within our

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 23:16 Nov 09, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.006 pfrm01 PsN: S09PT1 S11640 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 public lands—such as the supplies within the American Legion National Commander velopment of America’s domestic energy re- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Richard J. Santos wrote in his letter to sources is a vital national security priority. Working for a comprehensive energy policy Daschle: ‘‘War and international terrorism The horrific events of September 11, 2001, and achieving responsible energy independ- have again brought into sharp focus the constitute a threat to our people, our econ- ence are critical national security and eco- heavy reliance of the United States on im- omy, and our nation’s security. With U.S. nomic goals. H.R. 4, as passed by the House ported oil. During times of crises, such reli- troops actively engaged in combat overseas, of Representatives, is a major step forward ance threatens our national security and we firmly believe that America can and will to achieving these imperative goals. We economic well being....It is important win this prolonged war against terrorism, strongly urge your support. that we develop domestic sources of oil, con- using all its resources to defend our nation Sincerely, tained within our public lands—such as the and the cause of freedom around the world. RICHARD J. SANTOS, supplies within the Arctic National Wildlife Because of these beliefs, we applaud the National Commander. Refuge.’’ House of Representatives for its bipartisan Robert E. Wallace, executive director of work in addressing our energy vulnerability VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS the Veterans of Foreign Wars, wrote by passing H.R. 4, the ‘‘Securing America’s OF THE UNITED STATES, Daschle: ‘‘By passing H.R. 4, the Senate will Future Energy Act of 2001’’ or the ‘Safe Act Washington, DC, October 29, 2001. be supporting our troops serving in combat of 2001.’’ It is imperative that the Senate Hon. TOM DASCHLE, on Operation Enduring Freedom, the Amer- pass the House version of H.R. 4 so that our Majority Leader U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. ican people and our national security with a nation can move forward in establishing our DEAR SENATOR DASCHLE: The 2.7 million comprehensive energy legislation that is des- energy security, as well as our defense of members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of perately needed to diversify the energy sup- freedom at home and abroad. It is essential the United States and its Ladies Auxiliary ply for our country and chart a course for for us to develop all domestic energy re- supports H.R. 4, the ‘‘Securing America’s Fu- the future.’’ sources including the supplies within the J. Eldon Yates, chairman and founder of ture Energy Act of 2001’’ or SAFE Act of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 2001. We applaud the House of Representa- the Vietnam Veterans Institute wrote By passing H.R. 4, the comprehensive en- Daschle: ‘‘The development of America’s do- tives for its bipartisan work in addressing ergy legislation, the Senate will be sup- mestic energy resources is vital to our na- our energy vulnerability by passing H.R. 4. porting our troops in the field, all Ameri- tional security. We respectfully urge you to We believe the Senate should consider and cans, their families, and our nation. We, as immediately pass H.R. 4, the comprehensive vote on H.R. 4 so that our nation has an en- Veterans, stand united and respectfully re- energy legislation....Following the hor- ergy plan for the future and can move for- quest that the Senate vote on and pass H.R. rific events of September 11, 2001, failure to ward quickly with a comprehensive plan to 4. pass this bill would pose a threat to our peo- develop our domestic energy resources. J. ELDON YATES, ple, our economy, and our national security, Keeping in mind the horrific events of Sep- Chairman and Founder, Vietnam Veterans that we all wore the uniform to maintain.’’ tember 11 and mindful of the threats we are Institute. facing, we strongly believe that the develop- Also attending the news conference was JOSEPH SATRIANO, ment of America’s domestic energy re- Roger Thomas, 81, of Frederick, MD, who was a Navy radioman at Kaneohe Bay near National First Vice Commander, Catholic War sources is a vital national security priority. Veterans of the United States of America. We need to take steps to reverse our growing Pearl Harbor when Japanese warplanes dependence on Middle East oil as quickly as dropped bombs around him on December 7, 1941. Thomas was uninjured and went on to VIETNAM VETERANS INSTITUTE, possible. By passing H.R. 4, the Senate will October 30, 2001. be supporting our troops serving in combat fly combat missions in World War II. ‘‘The terrorist attacks of September 11 were worse Hon. TOM DASCHLE, on Operation Enduring Freedom, the Amer- Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, the Capitol, ican people, and our national security with a than the attack on Pearl Harbor, because un- armed civilians were murdered and many Washington, DC. comprehensive energy legislation that is des- DEAR SENATOR DASCHLE: We write today perately needed to diversify the energy sup- more died,’’ Thomas said. ‘‘In World War II, America could produce all the oil we needed out of a sense of urgency concerning our na- ply for our country and chart a course for tional security as it relates to our energy the future. to fight back and defeat our enemies in bat- tle, but today we’re in a dangerous situation supply. The development of America’s do- The VFW strongly urges the Senate to con- mestic energy resources is vital to our na- sider and vote on H.R. 4 as passed in the because we rely on other countries to pro- vide our oil.’’ tional security. We respectfully urge you to House in this session of Congress. immediately pass H.R. 4, the comprehensive Sincerely, Today’s military uses far more fuel than in past wars. For example, the 582,000 U.S. mili- energy legislation. ROBERT E. WALLACE, tary personnel in the Persian Gulf War in We are pleased the House of Representa- Executive Director. 1991 consumed more oil on a daily basis than tives, acting with bipartisan support, ad- the 2 million men of the Allied armies that dressed our energy vulnerability by passing VIETNAM VETERANS INSTITUTE, liberated Europe in World War II. H.R. 4, the ‘Securing America’s Future En- October 30, 2001. The United States gets about 55 percent of ergy Act of 2001’ or the ‘SAFE Act of 2001.’ It MAJOR VETERANS GROUPS ASK SENATE TO its oil from foreign nations—up steadily over is imperative the Senate do the same. Fol- QUICKLY PASS ENERGY BILL TO STRENGTH- the years from almost nothing during WWII, lowing the horrific events of September 11, EN AMERICA FOR WAR ON TERRORISM to 36 percent in 1973 and 46 percent as re- 2001, failure to pass this bill would pose a WASHINGTON.—Major veterans groups— cently as 1991. America sends about $100 bil- threat to our people, our economy, and our with a combined membership of nearly 5 mil- lion a year to foreign nations to pay for im- national security, that we all wore the uni- lion—today called on the Senate to quickly ported oil. form to maintain. pass an energy bill that includes a provision Experts believe ANWR may contain the All Americans, as well as our military allowing more oil drilling in Alaska to largest supply of oil ever found in American troops, need this legislation enacted into strengthen America’s national security and history—an estimated 16 billion barrels of re- law. If we intend to rebuild our economy and economy for the war on terrorism. coverable oil, which could be turned into 742 continue the campaign against international The American Legion, the Veterans of For- billion gallons of gasoline. That’s the equiva- terrorism and those who attack us, we must eign Wars, AMVETS, the Vietnam Veterans lent of total U.S. gasoline consumption for develop domestic sources of oil contained Institute and the Catholic War Veterans nearly six years. within our public lands—such as the supplies urged senators to accelerate development of According to an analysis by Wharton Econ- within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. domestic energy resources, including the ometrics Forecasting Associates, develop- We must be able to rely to the fullest extent supplies within the Arctic National Wildlife ment of oil reserves in the coastal plain of possible on our own resources to provide for Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, as an urgent mat- ANWR could create as many as 736,000 jobs in the maintenance of our economy at home ter of national security. the United States—most of them outside and our prolonged war effort abroad. In letters to Senate Majority Leader Tom Alaska—and pump billions of dollars into the By passing H.R. 4, the comprehensive en- Daschle (D–SD), veterans groups asked U.S. economy. ergy legislation now, the Senate will be sup- Daschle to allow the energy bill passed by ANWR covers 19.6 million acres, but the porting our troops in the field and all work- the House—H.R. 4—to come to a straight ma- energy legislation before the Senate would ing Americans, including those displaced by jority vote in the Senate promptly, without open up only 1.5 million acres to exploration. this heartless act of aggression. We, as Vet- a Democratic filibuster that would take 60 Just a tiny fraction of that—about 2,000 erans, stand united and cannot overstate the votes to break. Daschle opposes the bill’s acres of surface land—would experience oil importance of this legislation, and respect- provision allowing oil drilling in part of drilling activity if oil were found. fully request you lead the Senate by voting ANWR. on and passing H.R. 4 so our nation can move Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. STATEMENT OF OUR NATION’S VETERANS forward in defense of freedom around the Principi and Senators Frank Murkowski (R– GROUPS world. AK), Larry Craig (R–ID), Rick Santorum (R– ‘‘OUR DOMESTIC ENERGY SECURITY IS OUR We know that when the chips are down, PA) and George Voinovich (R–OH)—who all NATIONAL SECURITY’’ America can and will stand and fight, using support the energy legislation—joined the We, the undersigned, representing our na- all its resources and all its might to defend veterans groups at a news conference today. tion’s veterans, strongly believe that the de- our nation and the cause of freedom around

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:06 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO6.005 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11641 the world. Join us in this cause. Pass the CONFLICT DIAMONDS ACT We in the United States import 65 per- comprehensive energy bill and help us re- Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, yes- cent of all the diamonds in the world. build America! terday I had a press conference with If we put strong standards in place and With the support of our members, our allies who have joined us in this J. ELDON YATES, two of my colleagues, Senator DEWINE Chairman and Founder, of Ohio and Congressman TONY HALL of war against terrorism also pass similar Vietnam Veterans Institute. Ohio as well. We are cosponsors of leg- standards, we can starve off a source of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- islation which deals with a phe- money, a source of terrorism that is pore. The Senator from Illinois. nomenon that has become increasingly clearly becoming rampant, even as we important in this discussion. speak. f It is not enough we search out Osama Diamonds have always been a symbol bin Laden and his lieutenants in their of enduring love. Unfortunately, today THE RIGHT MEDICINE caves in Afghanistan and stop those they have become the currency of ter- cells of terrorist activity around the rorism. I know the House Ways and Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, world. We have to find a way to starve Means Committee had a hearing on President Bush’s speech to the Amer- them of the assets and resources they this bill last week. I am happy the Sen- ican people last night was exactly the need to succeed. The President made it ate passed this bill earlier this year, right medicine. America is truly con- clear this week that this has to be an and we are going to have to address it cerned over terrorism and bioterrorism immediate response by the United again. and what it means to our country. States. So as part of antiterrorism, we I call on all my colleagues, Demo- I listened carefully to the President’s have created new authority to deal crats and Republicans, to consider this speech in Atlanta, GA. I thought he with money laundering—money laun- a matter of great urgency and join us struck the right tone. As concerned as dering and transfers of money that in a bipartisan fashion. Senator FEIN- we are—and we should be concerned— have been used to finance the terrorist GOLD, Senator DEWINE, I, Congressman we take heart in the fact that this network. TONY HALL, and Congressman FRANK country has been strengthened by this A little over a week ago, though, we WOLF, in a true bipartisan fashion, crisis and this challenge. We have come came to learn that there was another have tried to move this important together in what has been called the source for the terrorist operation. That issue forward. ‘‘re-United States of America.’’ source is diamonds. It appears that in I close on this issue by giving special Many people understand patriotism west Africa in particular, and in Sierra credit to Congressman TONY HALL, who from a different perspective than they Leone, where terrorist organizations has been a leader on this for years—not did just a few weeks ago. We stand in have taken control of the production of for months but for years. It is his good awe, in respect, and in admiration of diamonds, they are not only using work that has brought us to this point. many heroes in America. The President these diamonds to promote their ter- I am happy to be an ally of TONY HALL acknowledged them last night—the rorism in west Africa, but they are ex- in any cause, but when it comes to a firefighters in New York City and changing these diamonds in inter- cause of this importance, I hope my across America, the people who are in national commerce among terrorist colleagues will take a close look at law enforcement, medical rescue groups. this legislation. teams, teachers, postal workers, and of In Sierra Leone and other countries, f course the men and women in uniform we have seen absolutely barbaric con- who daily put their lives on the line for duct by these terrorists in west Africa. AMERICA’S ECONOMY America. It is appropriate that we re- We have seen people who have been Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, as member them as we try to wrestle with killed and mutilated, hundreds if not part of the challenge facing America our personal concerns about safety and thousands of people who faced amputa- today, we have to consider the state of security since September 11. tions of their hands, arms, legs, and America’s economy, and it is a sad I thought the President struck just feet as terrorist payback for their lack state of affairs. After almost 10 years the right chord in calling on America of loyalty to the terrorist cause. of unparalleled prosperity in the his- to bring out the very best in our Na- How do these terrorists keep moving tory of the United States, during the tion. along? They are mining diamonds past year we have seen terrible things which eventually find their way into Within the last several weeks, Con- occur—a massive growth in some of the most comfortable, demo- gress has been called on by the Presi- unemployment. The number of people dent many times to provide him with cratic, and peaceful parts of this world. We have introduced legislation, the who have been laid off across America the authority and the resources to deal Conflict Diamonds Act, which will re- is now reaching, unfortunately, his- with this crisis. Without exception, quire a certification of the country of toric levels. Last month saw the big- Congress has responded in a strong bi- origin for diamonds so we can starve gest 1-month increase in unemploy- partisan manner in an effort to make 1 out the diamonds that are coming out ment in 21 years. Nearly 7 ⁄2 million certain the President and certainly the of west Africa and other places where Americans are now out of work, and armed services have all they need to they are supporting terrorism. the economists have warned us that a 1 execute this war effectively. This is so important. It was impor- or 2 million more may be losing their This week, the Senate considered the tant before September 11. It is more jobs over the next 12 months. Small intelligence authorization bill which important now because we have come and large businesses have faced this. gives additional resources to the intel- to learn that Osama bin Laden gath- A friend of mine who deals with ligence community. This is an impor- ered these diamonds before September bankruptcies has told me we will be tant component of our effective defense 11 as his way of bankrolling his ter- shocked as we hear the names of the of America and defense of our values. rorist operation. Diamonds do not major corporations and businesses As a member of the Senate Intelligence leave a paper trail. A person with a which are going to go bankrupt in the Committee, I know full well that one of handful of diamonds worth many thou- near future. It is a fact of life this the most heartening events that has sands of dollars can stick them in his downturn in the economy is touching occurred since September 11 is the fact pocket or in a purse or in a packet and us in virtually every area of American that countries around the world are move through any metal detector, any life. now cooperating with the United security device undetected. That is a This is a time of year when many States in fighting terrorism. Some of reality. American businesses hope to show those countries, which have been our We have joined in a bipartisan fash- their greatest profit and success. This closest allies for years, frankly, did not ion with the jewelry industry and with retail season around the holidays take this subject as seriously as they the diamond industry to promote the means so much to companies across should have. Now they do. As they co- conflict diamonds bill to stop this il- America. Unfortunately, the sales are operate with us, we have an oppor- licit terrorist trade in diamonds. slow and the indication is clear that tunity to reach out and try to stop the The United States plays such a crit- the American people are holding back. spread of terrorism across the world. ical role when it comes to this issue. It is an understandable impulse on

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:06 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO6.010 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11642 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 their part, understandable because said people in lower and middle-income Leading economists in the country they are not certain of their own sta- groups will spend their money and do it have repeatedly told us what needs to bility in their job or their small busi- more quickly, and they are more likely be done. We can jump-start our slug- ness. They are uncertain about the fu- to spend it than those in higher income gish economy, we are told, by pro- ture of our economy and, of course, the categories. viding immediate tax relief and eco- war which we are waging has led people The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- nomic assistance targeted to those who to have a certain personal austerity, a pore. The Senator’s time has expired. are most likely to invest and spend. little less flamboyance when it comes Mr. DURBIN. I ask unanimous con- These economists have also warned us to their lifestyle. It is understandable. sent for an additional 10 minutes. that if we abandon fiscal discipline, It reflects the spirit of sacrifice. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- long-term interest rates will rise. It is So what we need to do in Congress is pore. Is there objection? time for us to heed their sensible ad- to consider what it will take to turn Mr. MURKOWSKI. Madam President. vice. this around. How can we breathe life The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- The Democratic and Republican lead- back into this economy and get it mov- pore. The Senator from Alaska. ers of the Budget Committee in both ing forward? They have called it an Mr. MURKOWSKI. Did I hear the the House and the Senate have laid out economic stimulus package or an eco- Senator request an additional 10 min- very useful principles for an effective nomic recovery package. Whatever the utes? stimulus package. They all agree the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- description, it is clear to me Congress legislation ought to be immediate, it pore. That is correct. should do something and do it imme- should be temporary, and it should be Mr. MURKOWSKI. I was seeking rec- focused on individuals and businesses diately. ognition and was going to recognize my Several weeks ago, I called together most likely to spend the stimulus dol- colleague from Missouri who has to business and labor leaders in my home lars. I believe if we abide by these bi- catch an airplane. She needed 5 min- State of Illinois, in the city of Chicago. partisan principles, we can craft a utes. I stepped aside for her. I obvi- Some of the largest corporations were stimulus package that would give a ously want to accommodate Members represented, as well as small businesses boost to the American economy, and and do not intend to object, but what is and labor unions, and I said to them: we can do that without jeopardizing the order of morning business? Is it 10 Tell me what the problem is as you see our long-term fiscal health. minutes? Using these guidelines, we can craft a it; what do you think the solution The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- package that will garner support from should be. pore. It is a 10-minute limitation. both parties and one that President They came amazingly to a consensus. Mr. DURBIN. In response to the Sen- Seated around this table were Demo- Bush can sign quickly. Our goal is to ator from Alaska, I gave the same ac- get the Nation back to work again and crats and Republicans and Independ- commodation to his colleague who just back to growing again. By getting cash ents, people in labor, people in busi- left, who asked for additional time to into the hands of businesses, we can ness. They said: It is our impression we speak, but I do not want to keep any- create new jobs and new investments in have too much production in America one from catching their plane. plants and equipment. and not enough consumption. There Mr. MURKOWSKI. My concern was A number of promising ideas have are too many cars and refrigerators to accommodate the Senator from Mis- been suggested that would provide this and washers and dryers waiting for souri. needed cash infusion into businesses. It buyers. So we need to give the Amer- Mr. DURBIN. I want to accommodate has been proposed that businesses ican people the resources and the con- my colleague from Missouri, too. I could accelerate the rate at which they fidence to take money, go to the store, yield 5 minutes to her and then ask for depreciate new assets. Doing this and make an important purchase. They an additional 10 minutes. would help businesses of all sizes de- said that consumer confidence is crit- Mr. MURKOWSKI. I have no objec- crease their costs this year and free up ical to any kind of economic stimulus; tion. investment capital. focus on the consumers. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- For example, let me tell my col- Secondly, they said to do it in a pore. Without objection, it is so or- leagues about a company in my home- hurry because if there is going to be an dered. town of Rolla, MO. It is called Brewer impact on this economy, do not wait. The Senator from Missouri. Science, Inc. It is a successful and Congress has a tendency to identify f growing company that employs 235 peo- problems and then spend months, if not ple. It produces the chemicals used in years, waiting to respond. Well, when REVITALIZING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY the manufacture of integrated circuits. it comes to the economy, we cannot af- The proposed increase in allowable de- ford to do that. Mrs. CARNAHAN. Madam President, ductions would enable this small busi- The third thing they said is, do not I thank my colleague from Alaska and ness to expand faster. Additional cash do anything today that you will regret my colleague from Illinois for their in this business could be spent on addi- tomorrow. Make this a temporary fix kindness this morning. tional research and development, and so when it is all over, we will not have I add my voice to those who believe that is the kind of investment and ex- a problem we have to cope with for we must act quickly to revitalize the pansion that will get our economy years to come. American economy. Even before the back on track. This is the advice of a diverse group terrorist attacks, our economy was Increasing business investments ad- of people who came together in Chi- slowing down. New reports now indi- dress only part of the problem. While cago. It is exactly the same advice cate the unemployment rate is rising, the economy goes through its natural which we have been given on Capitol that consumer confidence is low, and business cycle, many Americans are Hill. Economist after economist has that businesses are postponing invest- facing immediate unemployment. Cre- come into this building and told us, ments. The convergence of these im- ating new jobs for these workers is cru- these are the three things: Help the portant indicators spells trouble for us cial, but it will take some time. In the consumers move forward, do it quickly, in the months ahead. That is why Con- meanwhile, we must help these fami- and do not do anything that will jeop- gress must act now. lies in crisis. Last Friday, the Labor ardize the economy in the long run. The American people expect us to Department released some alarming So how do we achieve that? Well, it is find solutions. All across America, the figures. Seven hundred thousand Amer- very clear to me if we want to move fires of patriotism are burning brightly icans lost their jobs in October. The the economy forward and help con- while in the Congress we smolder in in- unemployment rate surged to 5.4 per- sumers, we ought to focus on those in- decision. In fact, we in this Congress cent this month. There are now a total dividuals in our economy who are most can learn from the unity and patriot- of 7.7 million Americans out of work. likely, with additional resources, to ism of the American people. They want These are staggering numbers. Fami- spend them. us to work together across party lines lies all across America are hurting. My basic course in economics, which to do the urgent business of this Na- Shortly after September 11, I encour- I took many years ago at Georgetown, tion. aged my colleagues to act quickly on

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 23:16 Nov 09, 2001 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.030 pfrm01 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11643 behalf of the workers in the airline in- again, what a difference in approach we We have quite a contrast between the dustry who lost their jobs abruptly. To have between the two political parties. Republican approach of getting this my great regret, they did not act. On the House side, the Republicans economy moving forward and the At that time, many in this body came up with a stimulus package Democratic approach. The Republican claimed it was appropriate to wait. which I am afraid doesn’t meet the test approach embodies tax cuts for the They said we ought to deal with assist- of encouraging consumer spending, wealthy and profitable corporations ance to the unemployed when we con- doing it in a timely fashion, and not and nothing for homeland security. I sider broader legislation to stimulate damaging the economy. Instead, what hope I get a moment to get to this the economic recovery. Now almost 8 the House Republican package came up issue. million Americans are worrying about with was, sadly, a great deal of tax re- When it comes to tax cuts for the how they will pay the rent or their lief for the biggest corporations in wealthy, by speeding up the rate cuts, mortgage. Millions of American par- America. This is profiteering in the the Republican plan would give a new ents have lost their health care insur- name of patriotism. $16,000-a-year tax break to the wealthi- ance, and they are worrying what they Consider for a minute that these cor- est 1 percent of Americans. Those are will do if a child gets sick. Millions of porations would receive rebate checks people making over $1 million a year, families are wondering how they will for 15 years’ worth of Federal income receiving $16,000 from the Republican put food on their Thanksgiving table tax under the stimulus plan supported tax stimulus. What a stimulus that is: this year. It would be unconscionable by the House of Representatives. IBM For citizens making $1 million a year, to tell these people to wait any longer. would receive $1.4 billion from the So- we want to give you $16,000 more. That Extended unemployment benefits and cial Security trust fund; Ford, $1 bil- is not going to put money back into help with health care coverage must be lion; General Motors, $833 million. The the economy, not nearly as much as included in a stimulus package. list goes on and on. Billions and bil- helping the economy by giving the By extending unemployment com- lions of dollars in corporate relief from money to the average working family, pensation, we will be putting dollars the House Republican stimulus plan the middle-income family across Amer- into the hands of people who need the and precious little or nothing for the ica. money immediately for their basic workers across America. When we give every millionaire a needs. The money will be spent quick- We know what will get this economy check from the Treasury for $16,000, ly, which in turn provides the needed moving again. Give some money to the that is money being thrown away that remedy for an ailing economy. We have people who are having a tough time— could be used to deal with economic an opportunity to do the right thing at having just lost their jobs—to keep stimulus. That $16,000 goes right out of the right time and for the right rea- their families together, and they will the Social Security trust fund. Payroll sons. We must act quickly and in a bi- spend it. Of course they will. Give the taxes paid by average workers into the partisan fashion. We cannot afford to people who just lost their jobs help in Social Security trust fund are being wait until more people are laid off or paying for health insurance, and they spent to give a $16,000-a-year check to more businesses fail. We must not will use that help because they are as the wealthiest people in America—and leave our families to struggle without frightened as anyone that family mem- to do it for 4 years under the Repub- help or without hope. bers or their children will not be pro- lican plan. If we have the will, we can forge a tected with health insurance. Those The Republican plan, in addition, just and reasonable compromise that are the pillars of the Senate Demo- with the accelerated tax cuts, costs $27 will ease the pain of this recession. cratic plan for stimulus: That we help billion in 2002—next year—and in- When Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel those who have just been laid off, who creases to $121 billion over 10 years. Re- was asked what was the most impor- are facing a difficult time. member the advice we receive from We also provide tax rebates for 45 tant commandment, he replied: Thou people: Don’t do anything that will million low-income taxpayers who re- shall not sit by idly. That response hurt us in the long term. They are ceived no rebate earlier this year. Peo- points up the importance of acting going to basically eat up any surplus ple pay payroll taxes, pay into the So- when we have a chance to influence an we have in the future to give tax cuts cial Security trust fund. This time outcome. During this time of crisis, let to the wealthiest people in this coun- around, we believe they should receive it not be said of the U.S. Congress that try. That makes no sense at all. we sat idly by. Let us act with courage, some tax assistance. and let us act now. We have business tax cuts, as well— f The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- a 10-percent bonus appreciation. I HOMELAND SECURITY pore. The Senator from Illinois. heard from businesses across Illinois: Mr. DURBIN. I have a limited Mr. DURBIN. I congratulate my col- Give us some help in depreciating some amount of time and will now reflect on league from Missouri. She said in just of the things we purchase and we will the issue of homeland security. There a few moments exactly what we need purchase more. That can move the are two ways to move the economy for- to hear as we consider this economic economy forward. It is a sensible plan. ward: Tax cuts and spending. The fast- stimulus package. We want to extend unemployment er way, the more effective and imme- I believe she has put a finger on it: benefits an additional 13 weeks in all 50 We are being called on, across America, States. This is not a radical sugges- diate way, is through spending because to rally behind our flag, our President, tion. This is the course followed by as we spend on important projects and and our cause, that we should make President Bush’s father. In the teeth of the money is spent, people are em- certain when it comes to the economic a recession, he said: We have to stand ployed to do things important for stimulus package, we also keep in by the people who have lost their jobs. America. mind that all America is involved. It is In America we have 7.5 million Ameri- Senator BYRD of West Virginia and the working families in America pay- cans who are out of work. We ought to others have offered as part of the stim- ing the payroll taxes into the Social stand by them and any laid off in the ulus package a $20 billion package Security trust fund who are funding all near future. We need to expand cov- dealing with homeland security. Where we are doing. The money we are spend- erage to the people who do not receive would that money go? For example, it ing to defend America against ter- unemployment insurance today. would go to law enforcement. In my rorism, the money we are spending to We also know when it comes to this State of Illinois, my Republican Gov- rebuild New York, the money we are health insurance, unless we help people ernor has asked me to help come up spending to help the airline industry, buy health insurance once they have with $20 million so we can have a state- the money we are spending for an eco- lost a job, they will have none; they wide communications network to deal nomic stimulus all comes out of the are not likely to do so. Just do the with any emergencies, any crisis, any Social Security trust fund, and all of math. The average unemployment act of terrorism. This is money well that money comes from the payroll check is $230 a week; the average pay- spent. I want to give the Governor that workers across America. ment for private health insurance when money, but unless Senator BYRD’s When we talk about invigorating this you have lost your job is $588 a month. package moves forward, it is not likely economy and getting it moving forward It just does not work. that will happen.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:19 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.016 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11644 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 The same thing on bioterrorism: We as we look at the difference in the posi- tiate action. There is one issue before want to see money going into public tions of both parties, we come to the this body, and it is either going to be health departments, State and local, to conclusion that for those who happen on the stimulus bill or perhaps we can help them fight the war against bioter- to have the circumstances that allow make an arrangement with the Demo- rorism. We need them. We have real- them to have accumulated capital, it is cratic leadership to take it up, debate ized that with the anthrax crisis. in our interests to encourage them to it, vote up or down, and address the Look at the contrast: What the ad- invest in inventories, expenditures, and issues as they should be—and that is ministration has called for to help pub- so forth, so this economy can move. It the issue of an energy bill. lic health departments on bioterrorism doesn’t move necessarily simply by One of the issues in that bill is the is $300 million a year to go to State and government spending. These should be contentious issue of ANWR. Should it local public health agencies. That determined to be true stimulus mat- be opened? Should it not? We have seen amount is nothing. Remember, as well, ters. the position of our President on numer- the Republicans, in their stimulus plan I would like to reflect, as a member ous occasions who says it is an integral coming from the House, want to give of the Finance Committee, on how we part of the Nation’s energy policy to $1.4 billion to one corporation—IBM. got into this situation relative to put- reduce our dependence on imported oil. To give four or five times as much as ting a bill together, under the Finance The American Legion, Veterans of For- might be spent to fight the war against Committee leadership of the two lead- eign Wars, AMVETS, Vietnam Vet- bioterrorism is clearly a loss of our pri- ers, Senator BAUCUS and Senator erans, the Catholic War Veterans, what ority. GRASSLEY, who had worked together do they say? I could go on and on. They We also need to put money into secu- extraordinarily well on the tax pack- have implored the Democratic leader rity for Amtrak, for our airports, for age. It was a bipartisan package, so un- to put this on the calendar, to take it our highways, for critical infrastruc- like what came out of the Finance up, vote on it. Their particular view of ture across America. The money called Committee yesterday. It seemed as if this issue is they don’t believe we for by Senator BYRD would go for that the Republican participation in the should send any more men and women purpose. I think that is money well process had been virtually eliminated to fight a war on foreign shores. spent and invested in the infrastruc- by the Democratic majority and the I am reminded of the comments of a ture of this country. Democratic majority leader. In the former Member, Mark Hatfield, who People expect us to respond to this manner in which he dictated the terms was a pacifist. He said: I would vote for crisis with not only tax cuts that will and conditions, there would be vir- opening ANWR any day rather than truly move the economy forward but tually no input from the Republicans send another man or woman to fight a also with a spending package that in that package. war on foreign shores over oil. makes America safer. It doesn’t make As a consequence, I do admire the I think that says a lot for American America safer to give a $16,000 check to chairman, Senator BAUCUS, for insist- veterans. Make no mistake about it; we a millionaire out of the Social Security ing that the process at least go through fought a war over oil in the Persian trust fund. It might make America the committee because, unlike what Gulf. Today we are buying oil from our safer if we take that money and invest happened in the Energy Committee enemy, whom we basically conquered it in law enforcement, in protecting where the Democratic leader simply in that war, Saddam Hussein. We are critical infrastructure such as water pulled the energy bill and there was no importing over a million barrels a day. supplies, nuclear power plants, and the committee process; there was no input Yet at the same time we are enforcing highways, and infrastructure across from the authorization committee, so a no-fly zone over that country. We are America. the committee basically shut down, putting at stake the lives of American Those are the differences, and they and the Democratic leader took it upon men and women. As we take the oil are critical differences. himself to work up an energy bill that from Iraq, put it in our planes, and en- I also make note of the fact that the we have yet to see. What we are seeing force the no-fly zone, we bomb him. editorial response to the Republican here is an extraordinary dictate of The consequence of that is he takes our stimulus package so far has been uni- power from the Democratic leader who money, develops a missile capability, formly negative. As a matter of fact, says: We are going to do it my way. We maybe a biological capability, and Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill re- are not going to go through the process aims it at our ally, Israel. Maybe that ferred to the House-Republican-backed associated with the authorizing com- is an oversimplification of foreign pol- stimulus package as just so much show mittees. icy, but it is not too far off. business. We don’t need show business As a consequence, what happened Organized labor is totally aboard. on Capitol Hill; we need to get down to yesterday in the Finance Committee For the International Brotherhood of serious business. That serious business was a partisan vote. We are going to Teamsters, maritime unions, seafarers involves responding to our economic start in with that package on Tuesday. unions, operating engineers, plumbers, crisis and doing it in a timely fashion If we are going to get anywhere, we are pipefitters, carpenters and joiners, this and a fair manner. going to start in accommodating each is a jobs issue. Where can you find a I salute the Senate Finance Com- other’s points of view, working towards stimulus that will generate roughly mittee for moving forward a package a bipartisan solution. Clearly, this 250,000 jobs—these are U.S. jobs, these yesterday, on a partisan rollcall, I am country, and the President, wants to are union jobs in this country—other sorry to report, but one that we will have this issue resolved. It should be than this particular issue of opening up consider next week. I hope the Repub- resolved. But it has to be a true stim- that sliver of ANWR? licans will work with us quickly pass a ulus. The interesting thing is we are cre- bipartisan package. The sooner we can What I am doing is drawing a little ating jobs. We are also generating rev- respond to this economy and its needs, bit of a parallel to the power politics of enue to the Federal Government be- the better it will be. what is occurring here. We saw ini- cause those lease sales are estimated to I yield the floor. tially on the energy bill, as I have indi- generate about $3.6 billion from the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- cated, where the authorizing commit- private sector. pore. The Senator from Alaska. tee’s jurisdiction was basically elimi- What we have here is an opportunity, f nated and the chairman of the com- an extraordinary opportunity to recog- mittee saw fit to simply leave the obli- nize the realities associated with what DEVELOPING ANWR gation up to the Democratic leader- this stimulus would do to the economy. Mr. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, ship. That almost occurred in the Fi- There is not one other thing any Mem- I listened carefully to my colleague nance Committee but not quite. ber can identify that will not cost the from Illinois. I think what we are going As we look at the stimulus, I want to taxpayer one red cent and that will em- to see next week is almost class war- reflect one more time on what true ploy more people in this country, gen- fare on the issue of the stimulus. stimulus is. True stimulus is the cre- erate more jobs. What is a stimulus? Stimulus is what ation of jobs, the creation of jobs by From where do these jobs come? We really stimulates the economy. I think urging the private sector to invest, ini- will have to build another 19 or 20 U.S.-

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.019 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11645 flagged vessels, tankers, to move the Times, in 1987, 1988, and 1989, supported economy recover from the recession oil because we have to move it in a opening this area. I will read a little that we are in currently. U.S.-flagged vessel. They are going to bit from the New York Times, April 23. I say to my friend and colleague from be built in U.S. yards with U.S. work- It says: Alaska that he will not be surprised ers. We don’t make steel or pipes or The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has that I respectfully disagree with most valves in Alaska. They are built all the most promising untapped source of oil. of what he just said about drilling for over the United States. This is real It further states: oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Ref- stimulus. This area could be opened up safely, and we uge. But I have the feeling that either The Hispanic community, the Latin- could avoid any disaster associated with the next week or sometime soon we will American Management Association dangers. have the opportunity to debate these and Latino coalition, the United Further, in 1988, they say: matters at length. I look forward to a States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, good, constructive debate. The potential is enormous. The environ- all support this. We even have the sen- mental risks are modest. f iors organizations and of course the In March of 1989, they say: A SENSIBLE ECONOMIC STRATEGY American businesses, manufacturers, and so forth. Alaska’s oil is too valuable to leave in the Mr. LIEBERMAN. Madam President, What is this all about? This is an ground. I do want to go back to the fiscal stim- issue that America’s extreme environ- That is where they were then. Of ulus and put it in the context of where mental community has latched onto course, they are in a different position we are now. over a period of time, generated a lot of now. They say now that we shouldn’t America is a nation at war. It is a revenues and a lot of membership, and open it. war that challenges our values and our they are going to hang onto this issue The Washington Post, April 23, 1987: security as fundamentally as the great because they recognize the value of it. Preservation of wilderness in Alaska is im- wars we fought in the last century Some Members, obviously, are look- portant. Much of Alaska is already protected against Nazism and communism. So a ing to the political support from these under the strictest of preservation. That war of this kind naturally affects most issues. I think we have to stand up for part of the Arctic coast is one of the everything else we do in ways that we bleakest, most remote places on this con- may not yet see in America. That in- what is right for America. tinent. There is hardly any other place We see a remark made by a spokes- where drilling would have less impact on the cludes the ways we in Congress conduct man for the Democratic leader: surrounding wildlife. our business. Everyone knows we will not get a drop of In April 1989, they said: It is a time to put national interests oil out of Alaska for a decade, and it won’t If less is produced here at home, more will ahead of narrow partisan or ideological last more than a few days. have to come from other countries. The ef- agendas. But when there are important That is a statement made by a person fect will be to move oil spills to other shores. disagreements, we cannot sweep them who obviously has no knowledge of re- As a policy to protect the global environ- under the rug. After all, democracy, in ality. The reality is, if it ranges be- ment, that is not very helpful. The lessons of all its fractious glory, is one of the tween the estimates of 5.6 billion and conventional wisdom seem to be drawn . . . most fundamental values that unites 16 billion barrels, it would be as much that this country should produce less and us. It is a value that we are fighting to as we import currently from Saudi turn to greater imports is exactly wrong. defend in the current war against ter- Arabia over 30 years and as much as we How quickly we change with no ex- rorism. The moment we stop practicing are now importing from Iraq for 50 planation. It is just the influence of democracy is the moment we start giv- years. That is reality. America’s environmental community ing in to the terrorists. How can we frame this in any sense? on these newspapers. But that is a It is in that spirit that I wish to Let’s look at Prudhoe Bay. Every- turnaround. speak today—not negatively, but con- body is somewhat familiar with that. My colleague this morning entered structively, and not divisively, but I That came on line 27 years ago. The ar- an excerpt from the Washington Post hope in a spirit of what I take to be the guments today against opening up by Charles Krauthammer entitled national interest. ANWR are basically the same that ex- ‘‘War and the Polar Bear.’’ It is very I want to speak in disagreement with isted 30 years ago when we were talk- interesting. I advise all people to read the fiscal stimulus plan passed by the ing about opening Prudhoe Bay. We it. House of Representatives, which is built an 800-mile pipeline along the But I will again reflect on reality. really a House Republican plan passed length of Alaska. Is it going to be a Thirty years ago in this Chamber we almost entirely on partisan grounds. fence? Are the animals going to be able were arguing the issue of opening This plan has apparently now been en- to cross it? Is it a hot pipeline over per- Prudhoe Bay. It passed by one vote. dorsed and supported by the President mafrost. Will it melt? Will it withstand The Vice President broke the tie. of the United States. earthquakes? It is one of the construc- The same issues prevail today. Now, The fact that our economy was weak- tion wonders of the world. in a time of war, when do we face up to ening before September 11th is clear, Prudhoe Bay was supposed to provide reality and address the opportunities particularly in the information tech- 10 billion barrels. It has now produced to open this area and reduce our de- nology, telecom, and high-tech sectors. 13 billion barrels. It is still producing pendence on imported oil and stimu- But after September 11, unfortunately, 17 percent of the total crude oil pro- late our economy? It is not a few days’ the terrorists helped to push the Amer- duced in this country today. Those are supply. It is the largest potential oil ican economy from weakening into re- the realities. field that we could possibly find in cession. That has challenged all of us I am very disappointed that some North America. It can flow within 18 to regain the kind of psychological, let people who have never been up there months of opening as a consequence of alone economic, confidence that will speak with such eloquence and knowl- the process simply of moving the per- once again create growth. edge. They do not know what our Na- mitting. We all know this. Unemployment has risen now to 5.4 tive people want. Our Native people Let’s get on with the stimulus at percent. That is a statistic which ex- want a lifestyle that provides better hand and recognize the greatest single presses itself in hundreds of thousands job opportunities and better health stimulus that we can identify. That is of our fellow Americans being out of care. The people in my State of Alaska simply opening up ANWR. work. Demand in the business sector within that 1,002 area of ANWR own I thank the Chair. and the personal consumption sector is 59,000 acres. It is their own private The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. just not where it was or where we want land. They can’t even get access to CLINTON). The Senator from Con- it to be. drill for gas on their own land. This is necticut. We must always recognize that the an injustice. Mr. LIEBERMAN. Madam President, American economy is the strongest in There is a rather interesting dichot- I thank the Chair. I have come to the the world and that we have the most omy here because we are all concerned floor to speak this morning about the vibrant, productive private sector in about public opinion. The New York various ideas proposed to help our the world—both those who invest and

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.021 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11646 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 manage it and those who work in it. In the House and Senate Budget Commit- the agreed-upon, bipartisan standards: fact, it is from that private sector that tees—Democrats and Republicans A grant of rebates to those working the recovery to this recession will ulti- alike—released basic principles that Americans who did not receive them mately come. they thought should guide any eco- this summer, and accelerated deprecia- It is also important for us to ac- nomic stimulus proposal. They agreed tion for companies, businesses that buy knowledge that we in government have that the package—and I quote— and place in service new equipment in some options by which we can facili- ‘‘Should be based on the recognition the coming year. Those are both good tate and encourage the private sector that long-term fiscal discipline is es- ideas. They are the beginning of the to do what it does best in helping to sential to sustained economic growth. basis of an agreement. And they are create economic growth. Measures to stimulate the economy both contained in the Senate Finance It is important as we put together a should be limited in time so that as the Committee’s package that was re- fiscal stimulus package to remember, economy recovers, the budget regains a ported out yesterday. ironically enough, the Hippocratic oath surplus that is at least equal to the This is not the time for serving old, that every doctor knows very well. It surplus in Social Security. Any short- stale, narrow party and ideological is, ‘‘First, do no harm.’’ I say respect- term economic stimulus should not re- agendas. It is the time for unity, for fully that the stimulus package passed sult in higher long-term interest leadership, for discipline, and for bipar- by the House of Representatives, re- rates.’’ tisanship. flected in part in the Republican pro- The Republican proposals simply do I think the Senate Finance Com- posals that are surfacing here in the not meet that test. Given the spending mittee has reported a bill that meets Senate, does not pass the test of the demands of prosecuting the war on ter- those standards. It is focused. It is dis- Hippocratic oath. rorism, of upgrading our homeland de- ciplined. It is short term. It is a real They will harm our economy by not fense, of rebuilding the City of New stimulus. It will cost $75 billion over 10 only being unfair but by bringing us York, President Bush initially said he years. It contains no permanent further into long-term debt—building, supported enacting a stimulus package changes in law. It has minimal nega- unfortunately, on the precedent set of between $60 and $75 billion which tive out-year impact on our budget. when we passed President Bush’s tax would be balanced—half and half—be- And, unlike the House Republican cut earlier in the year. That tax cut tween spending and tax incentives. bill, it includes reasonable and effec- plan made the most glowing assump- The President asked for a finely tive assistance to those who are unem- tions about the future of the economy, tuned performance vehicle. Instead, the ployed or are about to lose their health and then spent the revenue that was House has given him a broken-down ja- care benefits. In fact, half of the cost of predicted based on those assumptions. lopy. The House Ways and Means Com- the bill goes to temporarily extending That was not fiscal responsibility. And, mittee reported a $212 billion plan that and expanding unemployment insur- of course, now the multi-trillion dollar meets few, if any, of the bipartisan ance and a subsidy for COBRA health estimates of surplus on which that tax principles of the Budget chairs and insurance premiums. That gives bal- cut was based have evaporated, have ranking members issued on October 4. ance to the proposal. It gives heart to been altered. At the heart of the House Republican the proposal. And it will help to stimu- The Republican proposals for fiscal package is a large corporate tax cut, late the economy because every addi- stimulus, particularly by accelerating retroactive to 1986—before my young- tional dollar that goes to an unem- some of the President’s tax cuts that est child, my 13-year-old daughter—was ployed worker will surely be spent. were adopted, not only do nothing to born. It totals about $25 billion in cost. Over the last couple of weeks, I have increase demand by individuals which And $6.3 billion of that ends up in the been talking to workers who are unem- will stimulate the economy and create bank accounts of just 14 large compa- ployed and those who fear they will growth and jobs, but they increase nies. soon be unemployed. America’s long-term debt. That means Madam President, I am all for tax Madam President, I ask unanimous increasing long-term interest rates. cuts, as I know you are, including tax consent for two additional minutes. And that means inhibiting the flow of cuts for business. But if our goal is to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without capital, money that is the underpin- jump-start the economy now, these big objection, it is so ordered. ning of growth in the private sector of tax breaks to a select group of our Mr. LIEBERMAN. I thank the Chair. our economy. largest companies simply make no Madam President, I find that the So I say, respectfully, the Republican sense. In the first place, they will not greatest fear of those who are cur- proposals for fiscal stimulus do harm. get their refunds until next year. Even rently unemployed or who fear that Our economy needs help, not harm. then, there is no guarantee they will they will, in this recession, be unem- Frankly, I believe we would be better spend the money, which is what we ployed, is: How in the Good Lord’s off passing no stimulus than passing need to spur economic growth. There is name am I going to be able to continue the package that was adopted by the no guarantee they will invest in ac- health insurance for my family? House of Representatives, because I quiring new equipment and funding the I spoke to one couple last weekend really believe it will hurt our economy, kind of research and development that who said their health insurance pre- not help it. will support economic growth. We are miums are $600 to $700 a month. How Our economy is ready and waiting for just going to have to cross our fingers can they afford to pay those premiums a quick, significant, temporary shot in and hope they use it in the right way, through COBRA to keep their insur- the arm. But if the Federal Govern- and don’t use it to pay off their debts ance going? ment makes the wrong choices, we will or buy back stock. It’s the wrong strat- The Senate bill, in an act of not only effectively be shooting ourselves in the egy. humaneness but an expression of clas- foot. The same is true, as I said briefly sic American values, said why would In the current economic climate, we earlier, of the House Republicans’ plan we not want to help working families need to discard the stale, knee-jerk de- to accelerate the reduction in income who, through no fault of their own, bates of the past and come together tax rates adopted earlier this year. have been laid off, to at least cover the now to craft a commonsense solution That is not going to prime the pump; it cost of health insurance for their fami- that again puts the national interest is simply going to pump up the in- lies? The Senate finance bill will do ahead of narrow partisan or ideological comes of those who need it least. It is that up to the tune of 75 percent. interests, and ahead of the paying of not likely to spur new investments or This is a good, balanced program. It old political debts. We need to act to job growth, but, instead, to reward past is the medicine our economy needs to produce economic growth and to pro- success—which is not what our econ- help it grow. I hope we will not find the tect jobs. omy needs now. It is not the quick ac- debate on the stimulus to be rigid, to I want to speak, for a moment, about tion we need, but a slow road to budget be unthinking, to be unyielding. I a very significant event that occurred deficits and higher interest rates. think we need to be open-minded be- just over a month ago, on October 4. There are only two provisions in the cause the threat to our economy is real The chairmen and ranking members of House fiscal stimulus bill that meet and profound.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.024 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11647 The American people not only need been dramatically affected, perhaps hatched a plot that murdered thou- help, but they will not tolerate a par- more so than others. They have had sands of Americans in cold blood. Ter- tisan debate that ultimately produces postal workers die as a result of terror- rorism has visited our land in a manner sound and fury but nothing to help ists who used the system as a delivery that we never thought before possible. them hold their jobs or help their fami- mechanism for terror and death from Now this Nation is one in its deter- lies. the anthrax spores sent through the mination to find and bring to justice I thank the Chair and yield the floor. mail. those who committed these acts of ter- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- I told the Postmaster General that ror. ator from Nevada. this country expresses its sorrow for It is a different time. There is a pre- f what has happened to the Postal Serv- September 11 and a post-September 11. ice workers. These are wonderful peo- We have a President who has spoken to UNANIMOUS CONSENT ple. the American people about putting the AGREEMENT—S.J. RES. 28 I mentioned one of the stories about men and women in America’s uniform Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask the two Postal Service workers who in harm’s way to try to find the terror- unanimous consent that at 10:30 a.m. died which described both of them in ists and bring them to justice, to root Tuesday, November 13, the Senate pro- quite remarkable terms. One of them out the terrorist cells formed around ceed to consideration of Calendar No. had worked 15 years on the night shift the world who would commit acts of 219, S.J. Res. 28; that the statutory and had never, in 15 years, used 1 day of these types. This country supports our time limitation be reduced to 2 hours, sick leave. One should not judge some- President and the men and women in with the time equally divided and con- one by whether or not they use sick uniform who are risking their lives to trolled between the chairman and leave. The point is, this person’s neigh- do that. ranking member of the Budget Com- bors talked about what a wonderful I toured Ground Zero in New York mittee or their designees; that upon human being this person was. about a week after the tragedy. I saw the use or yielding back of time, the The U.S. Postal Service is populated on the highest twisted metal beam yet joint resolution be laid aside, and the with men and women who do their job, standing where an iron worker had vote on final passage of the joint reso- as we say, in rain, sleet, and snow; re- climbed and attached an American flag lution occur immediately following the grettably now with anthrax, which has to that highest metal beam. As we vote on confirmation of the Executive taken the lives of a couple of them. came upon that tragic site, that is Calendar No. 511, with no intervening I told the Postmaster General yester- what we saw, carnage, destruction, but action or debate. day about a town meeting I had in also an American flag gently blowing The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Glenburn, ND, a small town with hun- in the breeze that morning. objection, it is so ordered. dreds of people. At my town meeting, a Two days later, I was in North Da- fellow stood up and said: There is a lot kota driving between Bismarck and f of criticism about things and good gov- Dickinson, ND, on interstate 94, a UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREE- ernment. I want to give you one piece patch where you couldn’t see a struc- MENT—EXECUTIVE CALENDAR of good news about the U.S. Post Of- ture of any kind anywhere, just rolling fice. prairies. Someone had taken a flag pole Mr. REID. Madam President, as in I asked: What is that? with a flag on it and attached to it a executive session, I ask unanimous He said: I got a letter out at my farm fence post there in the middle of the consent that the previously scheduled that was addressed ‘‘Grandpa, prairie where you could see nothing debate and vote on Executive Calendar Glenburn, ND.’’ It was from my grand- that was made by human hand except No. 511, Edith Brown Clement, be son. from this fence post—a single Amer- changed to reflect that the debate time I asked: How on earth could that ican flag also blowing in the gentle occur at 4:45 p.m. and the vote on con- have been? How would you have gotten morning breeze in North Dakota. firmation occur at 5 p.m., with all a letter addressed ‘‘Grandpa, Glenburn, The connection between the flag and other provisions of the previous order ND’’? the Trade Center and the flag in North remaining in effect, with the above oc- He said: You can ask the postmaster Dakota was a connection of unity of curring without further intervening ac- over there. spirit and one Nation doing what it tion or debate. So I asked the postmaster: How needs to do to protect itself and to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without would that have happened? bring to justice those who committed objection, it is so ordered. He said: We got the letter that said these terrorists acts. Mr. REID. Madam President, on ‘‘Grandpa, Glenburn, ND.’’ We looked Our Nation was having some dif- Tuesday, as a result of this unanimous at the postmark and it was Silver ficulty even prior to September 11 with consent agreement, there will be no Spring, MD. We knew the only person an economy that was very week. Our votes until 5 o’clock. There will be a around here that had relatives in Sil- economy had softened a great deal and number of matters, as indicated in the ver Spring was Frank, so we sent it out people were beginning to lose jobs. Our unanimous consent request, taken up. to Frank’s farm. Sure enough, it got to economy was losing steam and That is the beginning of the time also the right grandpa. strength. September 11 cut a hole right for the debate on the stimulus package. I told the Postmaster General that through the belly of this country’s We are going to be very busy Tuesday, story. So many others like it describe economy. but the first vote will not occur until 5 quite a remarkable system that has The news since that time has been o’clock. worked for a long while and one that more layoffs. Hundreds and hundreds of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- we must preserve and keep and nurture thousands of Americans have lost their ator from North Dakota. and protect during these difficult jobs. They, too, in many ways are vic- f times. tims of terrorist attacks. I rise to talk about all of the chal- What do we do about the soft econ- ECONOMIC STIMULUS lenges, not just to the U.S. Postal omy in the aftermath of these terrorist Mr. DORGAN. Madam President, I Service but to our country. We face attacks? We are unified as a Nation in rise to talk a bit about the economic several challenges now. One is the chal- going after the terrorists and trying to recovery plan. lenge dealing with national security. prevent terrorist action from occurring I begin by saying that yesterday, I One is a challenge dealing with eco- again. Are we unified with respect to chaired a hearing dealing with the U.S. nomic security. And another is the how we come together as a nation to Postal Service. My colleague, Senator challenge dealing with energy security. try to provide a boost to the American BYRD from West Virginia, attended the Some of my colleagues spoke about economy? hearing and asked the Postmaster Gen- that earlier. The answer to that is, no, not so uni- eral a series of questions. As with a lot National security doesn’t need much fied these days. We have a lot of dif- of areas in our country since Sep- more description. Most of us under- ferent ideas about how you promote tember 11, the U.S. Postal Service has stand that some sick, twisted minds economic growth and how you help the

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.026 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11648 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 American people during an economic biggest and most powerful economic the House bill, to get hundreds of mil- downturn. interests among us. lions of dollars in tax cuts retro- This is the political system. I don’t Mr. BYRD. Will the Senator yield? actively, last Friday it was announced regret the fact that there is debate Mr. DORGAN. Yes. that 415,000 people lost their jobs in Oc- about these things. With respect to na- Mr. BYRD. The Senator spoke of tober. What about those folks? When tional security issues, this country has ‘‘larding up.’’ Would he say that is a you talk about stimulating the econ- unity. On some of the other issues, we cholesterol-laden piece of pork? omy, what about giving the people who have debate. I don’t regret that. It Mr. DORGAN. I hadn’t thought about lost their jobs some assistance? How strengthens us. There is an old saying that. about a helping hand to somebody who when everyone in the room is thinking Mr. BYRD. When I was a young man, got a pink slip or a notice that said: By the same thing, no one is thinking which was quite a while ago, I worked the way, you do a good job and I am about much. I don’t shrink from de- in a meat shop in a coal mining camp. glad you are here. It is just that our bate. We should not shrink from de- All of the ladies who came to the store, company is shrinking. We don’t have as bate. When in debate we get the best of including my mother and my wife’s much business. So guess what, we don’t what everyone has to offer, democracy mother, bought lard. Those coal min- have room for you. Tell your family to- is served. ers, before they went into the bowels of night when you go home and sit at the Groucho Marx once said: Politics is the earth and did that back-breaking supper table that you have lost your the art of looking for trouble; finding work, ate sausage and bacon fried in a job. Tell them it is not your fault, that it everywhere, diagnosing it incor- deep skillet with lard. We never heard you worked hard, we appreciated you, rectly, and then applying the wrong of the word ‘‘cholesterol’’ in those but you can’t go to work on Monday remedies. days. That is a new word in my lexicon, because you no longer have a job. Groucho Marx was a humorist. Poli- coming along probably about in the What about those people? For exam- tics takes a lot of humor and should middle of my life. So I was interested ple, in New York, when that act of ter- over many years. But politics is the when the Senator used the words rorism struck the World Trade Center, process by which we make judgments ‘‘larding up.’’ Was he talking about a it is true that the people who were and decisions about the country. That spending measure or was he talking climbing those stairs, even as the is politics; that is the best of the Amer- about pork? What did the Senator have buildings were collapsing, were people ican people. It is what served this reference to? I missed that. Would he making $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year, country well for a long time. So as we say that again? willing to risk their lives in public talk now together in this country Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I was service—firefighters, law enforcement about how we apply some remedies and actually using that term to describe folks, and others. There are a lot of folks around this country of ours who develop policies that strengthen Amer- something done on a tax bill in the don’t have a lot, don’t make a lot, and ica’s economy, we have ideas coming other body. I described it as ‘‘larding don’t ask for a lot. They don’t have a from all sides. Let me describe some of up.’’ It is plugging the arteries of this million dollars. They are not going to them. Some of them are wonderful, system by putting in place certain pro- get $1.4 billion in tax refunds. They are challenging, interesting; some of them visions. I will give you an example. not on this list with K-Mart, American are nutty—but that is the way the Mr. BYRD. Would that be choles- Airlines, and Enron. They are the folks process works. terol? who, last month, had to tell their fami- We have, for example, one piece of Mr. DORGAN. Yes. When I talk about lies they were no longer employed. And legislation that was developed by the larding up, the Senator from West Vir- if the families asked why, is it a part of other body, and it was described as ginia is talking about how people al- a soft economy or part of terrorist something that is a stimulus package ways refer to spending bills as pork, acts? The answer is: Yes, it is. and is going to help the country. I will but never refer to tax bills as pork. In What do we do about that? Do we in give you a couple of examples: They fact, there is more lard and larding up the U.S. Congress have a concern about put in a $21 billion tax piece that bene- of tax bills than almost anything else. those folks, or is it just about the fits many of the largest corporations in The retroactive repeal of the cor- upper income and the big economic be- the country for the purpose of porate alternative minimum tax in the hemoths who really have clout? Is incentivizing them to move and keep House tax bill does as I said it would— there anybody within 100 yards of this needed investment capital overseas. it provides the biggest tax benefits to building today, Friday, who is here be- How would I classify that? Nutty. the biggest, most powerful corpora- cause they are lobbying on behalf of Does anybody think that is going to tions in the country. somebody who lost their job last strengthen our country, strengthen our Here is what the chief economist month? No one. It is just the folks who economy, by saying to big companies: from Merrill Lynch said about it be- have a lot of money, a lot of assets and What we would like you to do, by the cause, remember now, the only reason a lot at stake. They are here and they way, is keep investing overseas. We we are going through this exercise is to are trying to get more than their would like you to move capital over- try to determine how we help the share. seas because we think that is just American economy. Bruce Steinberg, I will tell you, they succeeded in the great. chief economist, said: U.S. House. So we are trying to write a Well, that is not the way to strength- The silliest idea is the retroactive AMT stimulus package, something that pro- en our economy, the way to provide a payments. If you want to stimulate spending vides economic recovery. lift and boost and helium to the Amer- in the future, you don’t give out tax breaks We have a couple of thoughts in ican economy. But that is exactly what for things that already happened. mind. One is there is no quicker or came out of this package from the U.S. It is as simple as that. more effective way, and there is no House of Representatives. There are so Mr. BYRD. That is the epitome of way, in my judgment, that provides many other items in that bill that it’s pork, isn’t it? It drips with lard. more justice to this system as well almost hard to start when you describe Mr. DORGAN. The Senator describes than to help people who are out of things you think are kind of off base. it in a way that makes it visual. But it work. They are going to spend that Another provision would retro- is a slow turn on a medium-hot spit—or money instantly. When we extend un- actively repeal the corporate alter- ‘‘pit,’’ I guess it would be in West Vir- employment benefits, that money goes native minimum tax. That means that ginia. Let me continue. right back into the economy. All IBM, for example, would get a $1.4 bil- Will Rogers said something I want to economists tell you: Step one, help lion tax cut. General Motors would get put up on a chart. those who lost jobs because that is a $833 million tax cut. Will Rogers said this a long time ago: stimulative, helps the economy. It is It seems to me that is kind of larding The unemployed here ain’t eating regular, not only just and the right thing to do, up a piece of legislation that is sup- but we will get round to them soon as we get it is the most effective thing to provide posed to be designed to help our coun- everybody else fixed up OK. some lift to this economy. try recover. Instead, it becomes a car- Now, while IBM, General Electric, So we are going to have a debate rier for the favored old tax cuts for the and others are prepared, according to about that because some don’t want to

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.029 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11649 do much for these folks. That is wrong- have to do that and support our Presi- meant to them to lose their job. It was headed, in my judgment. We have a re- dent doing that—and increase security just gripping. It just breaks one’s heart sponsibility to the country to reach at home. Part of our economic recov- to see someone who struggled all their out and tell them they are not alone; ery package is investment in security life, found a good job and worked for 8 we want to help them and we want to at home. Senator BYRD has a homeland years or 10 years or 15 years and had a help this economy. security proposal that is stimulative. good record and was making it on their Obviously, what we want in the end It is not only stimulative and gives lift own, only to learn a pink slip has come is for the economy to get back on its to the economy because it invests in that says this economy has shrunk and feet and for those folks who have lost this country and our security, but it is you are out of a job. jobs to become employed once again. also the right thing and the necessary It requires us to understand this is That is what we want. There is no so- thing to do. not about numbers, this is about peo- cial program much better than a good When we can marry the right and ple. It is about our future. That is why job. There is nothing like a good job necessary things to do with actions we must get this right. that pays well and has security. What that will give lift to our country’s I am pleased with the work the Fi- we are trying to do is put together a economy, that is exactly the course nance Committee, Senator BAUCUS, recovery package that recognizes what people expect us to take. Senator DASCHLE, all of us have done is just, what is right, and what will be We need to prosecute the war, in- together to try to get the right solu- effective in providing lift to this coun- crease security at home, and give busi- tion in place for this country’s future. try’s economy. nesses and individuals the extra incen- We are going to have a debate about Extending unemployment benefits, tives they need to make those key pur- this next week. Let us not shrink from paying for 75 percent of the COBRA chases and key investments, not 6 it. Let us not think that debate injures benefits—all of that provides lift to months from now, not over a year from this country or hurts this country. It this economy and is the right thing to now, but now. Now. This needs to be strengthens this country. do. temporary. It needs to have a signifi- At the end of the debate, I hope we In addition, coming from the Finance cant, compelling urge to it to give the can convince everyone there is a right Committee, we have put in place some American people confidence about the way and a wrong way. The wrong way tax provisions we think will provide a future that we are doing the right leads to economic trouble, and the lift to this economy. We had a tax cut thing. right way leads to hope, confidence, for people in this country earlier this If we err as a Congress, I want us to and economic expansion. That rides on year. Not everybody got a tax cut. err on the side of doing something, our making the right decision on be- More than 70,000 North Dakotans did even doing too much. I do not want to half of the American people. not get a tax cut. They did not get a err on the side of doing nothing be- Mr. President, I yield the floor. tax cut because it was based on per- cause there are too many families out The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- centage of income taxes paid. of work. Our economy is perilously ator from West Virginia. Everybody who works pays payroll close to a very deep recession, and it Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- taxes. In fact, that is a proportional could be a lengthy recession. We have a imous consent that I may be recog- tax. Everybody pays the same rate; it responsibility to blend good fiscal pol- nized at the completion of the remarks does not matter how much you make. icy in the Congress with monetary pol- by the distinguished junior Senator Yet those folks did not get a tax cut. icy at the Federal Reserve Board to say from New York and that I may be rec- So we propose a tax rebate for those to the American people: We are going ognized for as much time as I may con- people. That also will be spent imme- to put in place the right plans to give sume. diately and provide lift to the econ- you hope for the future. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without omy. Winston Churchill gave many stir- objection, it is so ordered. We have a whole series of items we ring speeches in the Second World War The Senator from New York. have proposed that we think represent to fire up the interest and urgency of f the first step in the right direction to his countrymen to the cause of the STIMULATING THE ECONOMY provide lift to this country’s economy. war. At one point, he challenged his Let me make the most important countrymen to imagine a thousand Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I point about all of this. The only way years in the future and what they thank my distinguished colleague, the our economy is going to experience a would say about that current genera- chairman of the Appropriations Com- recovery is if the American people are tion’s efforts. He asked that they do mittee and a great leader of this body confident about the future. We do not things now that would allow people in and our country, for that courtesy. I have a ship of state in which there is the future to look back and say that thank my colleague from North Da- an engine room with dials, knobs, this was their finest hour, even in the kota for very thoughtful and thought- gauges, and levers and we have some face of substantial challenge. provoking remarks. I join those re- people in there fiddling with the dials, That is what we, it seems to me, need marks, and I ask that as we do move knobs, gauges, and levers and get it to do now in confronting terrorism, in toward this debate on how we stimu- just right with tax cuts and move the the challenge to provide economic se- late our economy and how we take care ship along. curity. We must fight as hard as we can of our people, we put it in a broader That is not how the system works. possibly fight for the right policies now context. What propels this economy is people’s that give this country and economy a I sometimes worry that talk about confidence in the future. If people are chance to do well so all American fami- economic stimulus, talk about Tax confident about tomorrow, next month, lies can, again, do well and will not Code provisions, talk about a lot of the next year, they will do things that rep- have to worry about next week or next issues that come before the Finance resent that confidence. They will take month having to tell their family they Committee and then come before the a trip. They will buy a car. They will lost their job. Senate may not be communicating di- buy a house. They will make life deci- This is about hope. It is about oppor- rectly and effectively with the public sions that express their view about the tunity. It is about expanding this coun- who need to follow this debate closely future. try’s economy. The New York Times because what we will be or will not be Confidence means expansion. If they last week had the headline: ‘‘Attacks deciding over the course of the next are not confident, they will not take Hit Low Paid Jobs the Hardest.’’ I had several weeks will have profound ef- the trip, they will defer the purchase of a hearing 2 weeks ago, and the head of fects on our daily lives, on our quality the car, they will defer the purchase of the hotel and restaurant union testi- of life, on our national security at the house, and our economy will con- fied. He had a dozen of his members be- home and abroad, and on the future of tract. hind him. Each one stood up and told our economic growth and opportuni- There is nothing more important me their name, told me where they ties. than instilling confidence. Our job is worked, when they got fired, how long The Finance Committee came out to, one, prosecute the war abroad. We they had worked there, and what it with a package that should deserve the

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.034 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11650 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 support of Senators on both sides of attacked on September 11. We are at get consumer confidence, citizen con- the aisle. I am well aware there is a war. We have men and women from fidence up? How do we get people back very different point of view on behalf of Fort Drum in northern New York over into the normal give and take of their my colleagues on the other side, so we in central Asia. We have Special lives? are going to have a debate. I agree with Forces. We have carriers. We have peo- When I first joined the Senate last my colleague from North Dakota; it is ple who wear the uniform of our coun- January, and all through the spring an important debate. But we cannot try who are in full-time service defend- and summer, I could not walk through look at what is being proposed today ing us because this is an act of self-de- these halls. They were crowded with without recognizing several very im- fense, attempting to uproot and de- people, especially school groups. I used portant factors. stroy the terrorist networks. We have to be so thrilled to think I was honored First, we are now moving into defi- many from the National Guard and the to serve in a body of the greatest de- cits. We thought we had deficits tamed. Reserves called to duty, disrupting mocracy in the history of the world We thought the struggle, sacrifice— their lives. We know we are at war. that was open, where people could economic, personal, political, and pub- If we go back and look at history, we come, like those who are here today lic—of the last 8 years meant that we know when we are at war we have to but in far smaller numbers than they were on strong fiscal footing, that we think differently about our priorities ever have been. did have a policy for economic growth than when we are not at war. So what Now, of course, we can walk through that would demonstrate fiscal responsi- are those priorities? First, to do every- the halls and not see anybody. I do not bility, pay down the debt, free up in- thing we possibly can to support the have young people coming up to me vestment capital, and keep this great President, to support our military and saying, oh, Senator, what are you engine of economic prosperity going. leadership, in waging this war success- doing today? Or, I am from New York. We did not repeal the law of business fully and victoriously. I do not think Or, how are you? cycles, so understandably there will be there is one dissenting voice in this They are not here. Why? Because ups and downs, but we moved the eco- body to that proposition. schools do not want children to travel. We also know this is a war that has nomic plain to a higher level and had a Parents understandably are concerned. been brought home tragically to us, consensus in the country that the We have not done what we should do to that those on the front lines are not smart fiscal policy was the responsible take care of airline security. That is just our men and women in uniform, one; that trying to continue to pay still being debated. So we have to in- they are also our firefighters, our po- down our debt in order to relieve the spire confidence. lice officers, our emergency responders, How do we inspire confidence? I burdens not only from future genera- our doctors and our nurses, our postal think there really are several ways we tions but from ourselves, not to crowd workers, men and women who got up should address it. Some of it does go di- out investment capital so that busi- on September 11 and in the weeks since rectly to the points the Senator from nesses could come into the market and to do their job as part of the great North Dakota was making. We have to have long-term interest rates at an af- American mosaic where people, have a balance. We have to have a bal- fordable level, meant we knew the di- through their individual efforts, create ance between what we believe will rection in which the economy should this extraordinary democracy we so work for business and what we believe go. treasure. we should do for workers and citizens Now it will not surprise anyone in We know we have to do more to pro- who themselves deserve both help and this Chamber that I ascribe to the Clin- tect ourselves at home. That is why motivation to go on with their lives, to ton-Rubin economic policies. I happen the President has named Governor be productive. to think they make sense. I believe in Ridge the Director of Homeland Secu- I think the Finance Committee has a global economy, fiscal responsibility, rity. So we have to take a very close struck the right balance. Spending investment policies. Making it possible look at what it is we need, both for our money on unemployment insurance is for people to pursue their own futures men and women in uniform and on the not only the right thing to do—a lot of by creating economic opportunities homeland front to protect ourselves. people are out of work not because goes hand in hand with keeping deficits We did not have to think about that they were sloughing off on the job, not down, in fact keeping surpluses grow- when this big old tax cut was voted on because they did not show up on time, ing and giving us a chance to know we last spring. Maybe people should have, but because we were attacked—we owe are going to have for the foreseeable but nobody really stopped and said, an obligation to these people. I think future strong economic times. well, we cannot take all this revenue unemployment insurance will enable That is not the philosophy of the away because Heaven knows we might people to get back on their feet, and if other side, and I respect their right to have anthrax attacks that will cause there is any dollar that will be spent hold that contrary philosophy. So we the Postal Service and the Federal immediately to stimulate the econ- stand here now in November, having Government and local communities omy, it is a dollar in unemployment in- passed a very large tax cut in the across our country to spend literally surance. There is not an economist in spring which undermines our long-term millions and billions of dollars to pro- the world who disagrees with that, un- economic future, which demonstrates tect themselves and us. We did not less they are blinded by some ideolog- clearly we are going to have some very imagine that, but now we not only ical prejudice. That is what they all hard choices to make even had Sep- imagine it, we have lived with it. That tell us. tember 11 never occurred because we raises a whole new set of responsibil- Health care is increasingly a prob- had already seen that we were going ities that we ignore at our peril. lematic issue. My colleagues know I into deficits, that we were taking from So part of what we have to figure out have had a few things to say about that the Medicare and Social Security sur- how to do is provide enough resources in the past, and I am still very con- plus dollars that hard-working people to protect us, to wage the war on both cerned about it. I am especially con- believed would be there for Medicare fronts that we are waging, and to cre- cerned because I see the price of health and Social Security, and as a result we ate economic opportunities by getting care going back up. I see employers now are facing much more difficult our economy moving again. pushing down on employees and mak- choices which, had we been more fis- I have listened very closely to what ing it more difficult for people to af- cally responsible, we could have avoid- my colleagues have said, and I have ford health care. We are going to have ed. consulted with people in the business to address that issue. That is water under the bridge. There world, people who run big companies, What we are worried about right now is nothing we can do about it. A major- people who are economists, some of are all of those people who have lost ity of our colleagues in both Houses whom sit in ivory towers, others of their health care because it came voted for a U-turn away from fiscal re- whom actually get out and talk to peo- through employment they no longer sponsibility. So here we are. ple on the street about what is hap- have. They cannot afford the COBRA What do we do now? Again, I do not pening. extension. They need help. think we can look at this stimulus de- The real core of our challenge is, how We also are stimulating the economy bate in some kind of vacuum. We were do we inspire confidence? How do we in the Finance Committee package by

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 00:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.037 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11651 trying to do in a targeted way what we cided to close a call center after losing Capitol. If they can’t, then bring it have been advised will work in busi- so much business. In Buffalo, with the onto the Senate Floor. ness, not these big, irresponsible give- loss of tax revenues—because 15 per- Come one, come all, aways in which the House engaged. I do cent of all the State’s tax revenues This rock shall fly not understand how with a straight came from Ground Zero; those are From its firm base face they can put a provision into their gone—we are looking at laying off up As soon as I! package which pays people back for to 500 teachers in Buffalo, which is at Yes, come one, come all. Hear me taxes they paid all the way back to 1985 the opposite end of the State. down there at the other end of the ave- without a promise that it is going to The package coming out of the Fi- nue, the White House: Bring on your create a new job, without a promise nance Committee will help enor- TPA. Yes, ‘‘tactic to prevent amend- that it will be invested in a new plant mously. I am particularly grateful for ments.’’ and equipment right now. the tax incentives that will help us re- Come one, come all, As Senator DORGAN rightly pointed build Lower Manhattan, will help us This rock shall fly out, they actually give an incentive to recover some of that lost office space From its firm base businesses to move American jobs over- to get back into the business of being As soon as I! seas. What on Earth are they thinking the global financial capital of the en- Those words from, I believe it was about? That is just unbelievable to me. tire world. It will take a long time. Scott’s ‘‘Lady of the Lake,’’ are very So I think the Finance Committee, New York will need a lot of help. This apropos here. This tactic to prevent with their vote last night, really is a very welcome start. Congress from fulfilling its constitu- struck the right balance. I hope we go The tax credits for employers to keep tional obligations to debate and, if nec- forward with that. their offices in Manhattan will help tip essary, to amend trade bills. I also hope we recognize the addi- the balance in favor of doing just that. The administration hoists its flag on the flagpole of trade promotion author- tional program that Senator BYRD and Tax-exempt bonding authority for con- ity. This is my flag, the Constitution of Senator REID have advocated is essen- struction will give an extra boost to re- tial. We have not made the commit- building, and reinvesting insurance the United States! I hold it in my hand. ment of resources. proceeds will enable people to make Those who would defy the Constitution will find the battle lines formed here. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- that decision. We are still working on I oppose this surrender of our con- sent for an additional 5 minutes. something to keep residents downtown, stitutional authority. That is what the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. CAR- which is a very big challenge, and to White House would have us do. I oppose PER). Without objection, it is so or- provide additional relief for advance this surrender. ‘‘We’ve just begun to dered. refunding for the port authority and Mrs. CLINTON. We have not made fight.’’ The authority to ‘‘regulate the metropolitan transportation au- commerce with foreign nations’’ is the commitment of resources we need thority and for their infrastructure to our public health system, to our granted exclusively to Congress in Ar- projects. ticle I, section 8, of the Constitution. fight against bioterrorism, to the kind We lost our subway lines. We lost the of security we need in our powerplants, Congress, the House, and Senate of the PATH Train from New Jersey. We will United States—not the President—has our chemical plants. I think we have a have a lot of work ahead. I thank and lot more to do. I commend Senator this authority under the Constitution commend the Finance Committee, par- and has this responsibility under the BYRD for his leadership. ticularly the chairman, Senator BAU- Finally, a special word of apprecia- Constitution. CUS, for a job well done. So let us not be persuaded by admin- tion to the Finance Committee for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under istration attempts to promote fast their recognition and support of New the previous order, the Senator from track as an antidote to the events of York. We know this was an attack on West Virginia is recognized for such September 11, 2001. There are those America. The epicenter of the attack time as he may consume. who attempt to promote the idea that, was on New York City. It was New f under the rubric of a stimulus bill, York City firefighters who went up Members in the House and the Senate those towers when people were coming FAST-TRACK LEGISLATION would add language that would pro- down. It is the firefighters and the po- Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I am deep- mote their pet ideas, their pet projects. ly concerned about the administra- lice officers and the emergency re- Well, under the rubric of ‘‘stimulus,’’ sponders who have been going to count- tion’s top trade legislation priority: the administration is attempting to less funerals. It is the people who Fast track, known in administration promote its own pet project—TPA. worked in those buildings who have circles as ‘‘trade promotion author- Trade promotion authority? Fast scrambled to try to make sense of their ity.’’ track. Let us not be persuaded by these lives, to restart their jobs, and many of How crass. How crass. ‘‘Trade pro- furtive attempts. them are no longer employed. The esti- motion authority.’’ To denominate fast U.S. Trade Representative Robert mate is about 100,000 have been dis- track as ‘‘trade promotion authority’’ Zoellick has stated that fast track is located. is the acme of crassitude. Hear me necessary because ‘‘we need to The ripple effect through the city down there at the other end of the ave- strengthen the U.S. and global econo- and the State has been even greater. nue: The acme of crassitude! To de- mies as they reel from the shocks of Because of those 100,000 who directly nominate fast-track legislation as September 11.’’ lost their jobs in lower Manhattan, trade promotion authority, or by its Who is Robert Zoellick? Was he many of them work for companies that acronym, TPA, is the acme of elected by the people of any State? Did bought from smaller companies, that crassitude. One might better interpret he stand before the bar of judgment of did work with banks and law firms and the acronym TPA as standing for ‘‘tac- the electorate? Is that how he became advertising agencies that had catering tic to prevent amendments’’; TPA, Trade Representative? No! Yet he, U.S. and restaurant business to give out. ‘‘Tactic to Prevent Amendments.’’ Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, They no longer do that. We are now Hear me! Colleagues on the other side has stated that fast track is necessary looking at a loss of about 250,000 indi- of the Capitol Building, where the ad- because ‘‘we need to strengthen the viduals in New York alone by the end ministration has put on its big push for U.S. and global economies as they reel of this year. the acme of crassitude: Fast track au- from the shocks of September 11.’’ I do We have seen unemployment go up thority, calling it trade promotion au- not understand Mr. Zoellick’s logic. around the Nation, but it has gone up thority. But it is a tactic to prevent Now is the time for the President and even more in New York City. We are amendments. That is what fast track the Congress to stand by the Constitu- not sure the end has been reached. We is, a tactic to preclude Congress from tion; stand by the Constitution and know this has had a ripple effect fulfilling its constitutional obligations work together. through the entire State, not just to debate and, if necessary, to amend. Now is the time for Congress to re- through the city. In Syracuse we lost I hope they can stop this oafish piece spond to the September 11 terrorist as- 400 employees of USAir when they de- of legislation on the other side of the sault upon the American way of life.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:49 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.040 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11652 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 This is not the time for us to short-cir- those patent medicines, that snake oil. Constitution. That is what we are cuit our deliberative processes. Let us This is snake oil that Mr. Zoellick is doing. debate. Let us debate the trade meas- peddling—snake oil! It will curl your I am not saying we ought to debate ures. What are you afraid of, Mr. hair. If you don’t have any hair, it will every little duty on every little tooth- Zoellick? Moreover, the Ambassador grow hair for you: Snake oil! brush that comes into this country, or cannot support his attempt to link fast The United States can, and should, every little paper clip or every fiddle track to global economic recovery. lead in opening up world trade by offer- bow or every violin string. I am not With or without fast track, it is going ing other countries arrangements that saying we ought to debate the duties to take years, not months, for the are mutually advantageous, not by un- on toothpicks if they come from China President to negotiate a new world dermining a key provision of the Con- or wherever. But I am saying, the trade agreement. stitution. elected representatives of the people I question whether, in the current Senators might well consider the im- ought not even to be asked to give up international climate, we should even pact of normal debate and amendment the cherished right to debate and desire to have a new global trade rules on the basic leverage available to amend trade legislation when the peo- round. As the United States forges a U.S. trade negotiators. Normal rules ple’s interests are involved. coalition to fight terrorism, those should be a matter of enhanced lever- We need not abandon the Constitu- countries that have been attacking the age for U.S. negotiators in terms of in- tion in order to achieve these objec- framework of fair trade for the past cluding provisions that are of strong tives. We Senators need carefully to several years have absolutely no incen- appeal to Congress, the people’s elected consider and analyze the claims that tive to agree to mutually beneficial representatives in the legislative we hear about the benefits of fast trade proposals. Rather, they will at- branch, the people’s elected representa- track. tempt—as they have in the past—to tives who take an oath when they There may be one amendment or two use cooperation on security issues as a stand before that Presiding Officer and amendments or three that go to policy bargaining chip—a bargaining chip to put their hand on the Holy Bible. They when we deal with trade matters. I am extract trade concessions from the take an oath to support and defend the not saying, as I have already indicated, United States. Constitution of the United States that we ought to take a microscope Just look at the so-called Harbinson against all enemies, foreign and domes- and go over a trade bill and get our- text being considered at this very mo- tic. selves involved in the teeny-weeny, ment in Doha, Qatar. Is there any ques- Let’s remember that oath. itsy-bitsy little pieces here or there. The threat that an agreement might tion that our trading partners are ask- But I am saying that there may be be amended by Congress to include a ing that our trade laws be substan- major policy amendments that we may provision gives all parties to a negotia- tially weakened? Is there any question wish to debate or on which we may tion an incentive to conclude realistic that the administration is indicating a want to vote. and politically viable agreements. If I willingness to put those laws on the ne- Now, I have a letter dated June 28, were a negotiator, I would like to have 1993, from then-United States Trade gotiating table? If we allow our trade the leverage of being able to say, ‘‘if we laws to be gutted—gutted, what will Representative Kantor, urging support don’t include this provision in the for what he called ‘‘the fast track nego- happen to essential U.S. industries? agreement, Congress may include it What will happen to the steel industry? tiating authority needed to complete anyway.’’ the Uruguay Round.’’ He wrote: ‘‘As What will happen to other essential Congress may include it anyway. the world’s leading exporter and the U.S. industries that are being picked Fast-track Trade Promotional Author- world’s most open economy, the U.S. apart by predatory foreign trade prac- ity—TPA—fast track eliminates this stands to benefit greatly by reducing tices? form of leverage. In any event, it is indisputable that When you go to negotiate over the barriers and opening markets around Congress and the President can work purchase of an automobile, are you bet- the world for manufactured goods, ag- together, under the Constitution, to ter off going in on your own with your ricultural products and services.’’ How conclude and implement international own free will? You can take it, you can accurate was this prognostication? If, trade agreements. Immediately after leave it, or you can go somewhere else. as the former Ambassador suggested, the September 11 terrorist attack, Con- It is common knowledge that you can the last round of multilateral trade gress passed the U.S.-Jordan trade strike a better deal if you are able to agreements was focused on reducing agreement, one in a long series of trade suggest to the seller that there is foreign trade barriers—not opening up agreements concluded and imple- someone back home who may amend or the floodgates to imports—shouldn’t mented by the United States since fast modify any agreement that you might our overall balance of trade have im- track lapsed in 1994. reach. proved in the 1990s? Bring it on. Trade promotion author- The Administration, I think, has it The facts belie the fast-track sales ity—ha, ha, ha—trade promotion au- exactly backwards: instead of concen- pitch. That is what it is—a fast-track thority! Of all the gimmicks that I trating its energies on accumulating as sales pitch. In the year 2000, the United have heard in my 84 years of life on much leverage as possible vis-a-vis our States ran a trade deficit on the cur- this Earth, that one takes the cake. It trading partners, it is marshaling those rent account of $435 billion. That is is plain old fast track! energies to convince Congress to re- nearly nine times the trade deficit in The constitutional system works and duce its leverage on behalf of hard- 1992. How much longer can this go on? the administration has not made the working American families and their Even more disturbingly, it equals 4.5 case for tinkering with it. communities. This can only hamper percent of America’s total national President Bush claims to need this our efforts to maintain, and enhance, output. On a percentage basis, that is extra-constitutional negotiating au- U.S. leverage abroad. the worst trade performance in U.S. thority in order to exercise leadership The Administration is implicitly say- history! in opening up world trade. On June 21, ing: ‘‘If you are for shortchanging the How long can the United States con- 2001, he sent many of his highest rank- legislative process, you are for opening tinue to run these deficits? Have the ing trade officials, including Secretary up world trade and combating ter- laws of international economics been of Commerce Evans—for whom I have a rorism.’’ That makes no sense to me. I repealed? Is the so-called ‘‘New Econ- great deal of respect—and Ambassador am for free trade that is fair to all par- omy’’ a land flowing with milk and Zoellick, to the Senate Finance Com- ties. What is wrong with that? And I honey, in which we no longer need a mittee to testify on the supposed need am certainly for rooting out terrorism real economy, that is, an economy that for fast track. Ambassador Zoellick and enacting measures to ensure our produces goods and services, and em- maintained that fast track is needed in national security. We need not, how- ploys workers? Have we entered the order for the administration ‘‘to re- ever, abandon the Constitution in order Promised Land of perspiration-free ec- assert America’s leadership in trade.’’ to achieve these objectives! onomics? I am afraid not. Even our for- I remember very well the old-fash- I didn’t take an oath up here before eign trading partners cannot be san- ioned vaudeville shows where they sold this Presiding Officer to abandon the guine as the United States, historically

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:49 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.049 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11653 the engine of growth for the entire about it, and, if necessary, let’s amend about the people’s lives. ‘‘I come to world, is left without the means to it. U.S. trade negotiators need congres- bury Caesar, not to praise him.’’ play that role. sional input in the negotiating process. Mr. President, I come to bury fast- America is becoming ever more de- Remember the ad? ‘‘Do it here. Do it track authority, not to praise it! Now pendent on foreign suppliers of basic now.’’ The same with trade negotia- is the time to reject fast track and to manufactured products, even in areas— tions. U.S. trade negotiators need con- embrace republican self-government as such as steel—where our producers are gressional input. Enhanced legislative it has been bequeathed to us by the the most technologically sophisticated participation will help them in their Framers of the Constitution, by those and efficient in the world. Has anyone efforts to reinforce the framework of who debated the Constitution, by those stopped to consider the impact on our fair trade. Is it only fair trade when who ratified it in the State conven- national defense of this foreign depend- the United States continues to run up tions. ence? Has anyone attempted to deter- huge deficits in the billions of dollars We must be steadfast in our loyalty mine how our international position or in the hundreds of billions of dol- to the Constitution. Forget about po- will be affected as we become more sus- lars? It will give the results of trade litical party. Think of the Constitution ceptible to economic blackmail? Has negotiations greater legitimacy and in- and think of the people who send us anyone taken full account of how un- crease public understanding of the here. We are not to be yeasayers or fair international trade has helped to costs and benefits of globalization. The naysayers. We are here to debate and restrict income growth at home, par- Constitution—ah, there is the Rock of to amend and to render our considered ticularly in the case of middle class Gibraltar, the Constitution—the Con- judgment on behalf of the people who families? Many such families now need stitution requires that we make this send us here, who pay our salaries, and two incomes—both parents out in the effort, and the American people expect who can bring us back home when the workplace—to maintain the kind of it. day of judgment comes. lifestyle that single-earner families Mr. President, toward the end of his We must be steadfast in our loyalty could expect a generation ago. life, in a letter to Henry Lee, Thomas to that Constitution. Here it is in my We hear a lot about the projected Jefferson brilliantly analyzed the fun- hand, the Constitution. There is my economic benefits of fast track. Of damental issue upon which the debate course, this administration does not trade promotion authority! See it? over fast track turns. This is what he There is my trade promotion author- dare call it fast track. No, it is ‘‘trade said: promotion authority’’—‘‘trade pro- ity, my TPA, the Constitution of the Men by their constitutions are naturally United States! motion authority.’’ That is an attempt divided into two parties: Those who fear and to hoodwink those who would fall for We must be steadfast in our loyalty distrust the people, and wish to draw all to the Constitution, that exquisitely it: fast track! powers from them into the hands of the high- We hear a lot about the projected er classes, and, Those who identify them- balanced instrument of the people, by economic benefits of trade promotion selves with the people.... In every country the people, and for the people. We must authority, fast track. Yet, as a recent these two parties exist; and in every one stand together and resist the tempta- study by the Economic Policy Institute where they are free to think, speak, and tion to once again ignore the clear dic- pointed out, the forecast model most write, they will declare themselves. tates of our most fundamental law. frequently cited by fast track advo- Mr. President, from 1974 to 1994, Con- f gress was, unfortunately, asleep at the cates relies on unrealistic assumptions. IN THE COMPANY OF HEROES For example, the model assumes that wheel as the one-sided trade jalopy—I there is no unemployment here or any- wonder if our little pages here have Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, the nights where else in the world and that there ever heard that word, ‘‘jalopy’’?—as are growing chilly, though the days re- are no national labor or environmental the one-sided trade jalopy rumbled main warm and dry—dry for too long, standards. Moreover, the model as- down the fast track. The people’s really, over in McLean. The brilliant sumes that denying elected officials branch of Government—ha, ha, ha— crimson maple and bright yellow pop- the authority to set the rules of the let’s let that other branch of Govern- lar leaves have nearly disappeared, re- marketplace has no costs either in ment down the avenue become aware placed by the more somber late au- terms of the functioning of the global again that there is the people’s branch, tumn tones of deep bronze oak and rich economy or the achievement of domes- that does not bend before any Presi- golden hickory leaves falling in swirl- tic economic and social objectives. dent, that isn’t elected by any Presi- ing waves across the road to join the These assumptions tell us more about dent, that isn’t sent here by any Presi- drifts of leaves awaiting the rake. the prejudices of a global trade elite dent, that cannot be fired by any Presi- The more subdued coloring is in than they do about the economic cir- dent—let them hear it from Capitol keeping with the holiday that ap- cumstances in which we find ourselves. Hill. Bring on your trade promotion proaches this Sunday. For, despite any Let us have a trade policy for the authority. You will get your fight right attempts to mask the nature of this new millennium. Let us demand that here. holiday behind sales and pre-Christmas trade negotiations become a two-way The people’s branch of the Govern- hype, Veterans Day remains true to its street, both in form and in substance. ment—the Congress—allowed itself, I purpose. It was the old Armistice Day Let us make it clear to our trading am ashamed to say, to be shunted aside when I was a boy—Armistice Day, No- partners that we will not be duped by in the process of formulating and im- vember 11. those who would grant America the plementing U.S. trade policy. Let us To say Veterans Day is to hear the mantle of ‘‘leadership’’—the mantle of resolve to seize the day, to restore the haunting echo of taps being played on ‘‘leadership’’—only in exchange for uni- constitutional balance—bring it on; a lone trumpet on a West Virginia hill lateral concessions. All countries stand there isn’t enough time left in this far away—I can hear its tones being to benefit from expanded international year, if we did nothing else, to pass it wafted by the autumn air to this Cap- trade, and all countries should bear the in this body—and to make inter- ital City—and the sharp report of a 21- costs of constructing the framework of national trade agreements reflect the gun salute ricocheting across a field of that trade. American workers should interests of hard-working Americans. sad white crosses. Out of the corner of no longer be left holding the bag in There is not enough time left in the one’s eye is glimpsed the silent rank international trade negotiations. The year to pass ‘‘fast track’’ here, unless I and file of heroes who came home, steel workers have been left holding am very, very badly and sadly mis- some whole and some not, but all re- the bag all too long, the textile work- taken. made by the shared experience of war- ers have been left holding the bag all Now is the time to move past the fare. too long in international trade. The failed trade paradigm of recent admin- On Veterans Day, we travel in the automobile workers have been left istrations, both Republican and Demo- company of heroes. Veterans Days, Ar- holding the bag all too long in inter- cratic. Now is the time to restore the mistice Day. My mother died on the national trade negotiations. people’s faith that they can have an eve of Armistice Day 1918; my mother, U.S. trade negotiators need congres- impact on the policies that shape their whom I never saw, as far as my recol- sional input. Let’s debate it. Let’s talk lives. Mr. Zoellick, we are talking lection is concerned—the 11th hour of

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.054 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11654 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 the 11th day of the 11th month, the day struggle, year in and year out, ‘‘rejoicing in The senior assistant bill clerk pro- on which the guns fell silent at the end hope, patient in tribulation,’’—a struggle ceeded to call the roll. of the war to end all wars, World War against the common enemies of man: tyr- Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- I. anny, poverty, disease, and war itself. imous consent that the order for the Today it honors the veterans from all To President Kennedy’s list of the quorum call be rescinded. wars, and, sadly, there have been far common enemies of man, we can now The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without too many of those: World War II, the add terror. objection, it is so ordered. cold war, the Korean war, the Vietnam Though we may hope for a quick and Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, before pro- conflict, the Persian Gulf war, and conclusive end to this new struggle, we ceeding, I wish to express on behalf of must be prepared for the long haul, for none-too-peaceful peacekeeping mis- the majority leader and myself our pro- a ‘‘long twilight struggle, year in and sions around the globe. America has in found gratitude to the Presiding Offi- year out . . .’’ and for eternal vigi- the last century been embroiled in cer for his patience and for his equa- lance. We have but to look to our own some form of conflict far more often nimity and for his good humor always, than she has known peace. history to know that we can muster the will, we can muster the determina- for the work he has done on behalf of No conflict is ever truly finished. In his country today, sitting in the Chair addition to the troops we leave buried tion, we can muster the perseverance to achieve our goal and to preserve the for longer than he should. in foreign soil, a living guarantor re- f mains behind to protect each fragile liberty that this Nation has held dear and precious truce. United States through long centuries. A NEW COMMITMENT TO In the wake of September 11, Ameri- forces remain in Europe, in Korea, a AMERICA’S VETERANS cans have rallied by proudly flying legacy of this war or that war. United American flags on their homes, on Mrs. CARNAHAN. Mr. President, in States troops stand at the frontier be- their mailboxes, on their cars, yes, and the past few weeks, I have often tween the two Koreas. They were there on their lapels. On November 11, those thought of that scene in one of Shake- when I looked with binoculars at the flags fly in remembrance not only of speare’s plays where two friends meet, Communists just across the dividing those who so recently lost their lives in but one does not recognize the other. line in Korea 46 years ago this month. New York, Washington, and Pennsyl- One explains: ‘‘Grief hath changed me They have been there since the 1950s. vania, but also for all those men and since you saw me last.’’ Yes, grief has More United States troops remain in women who have struggled or died to changed the face of America. We are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, vigilant defend our freedom, our liberty, our tear stained by tragedy, but we are tri- against further aggression from Iraq. Nation through the years. I am proud umphant in spirit. In these last months, the United States to salute them all, to remember them It has been nearly 60 years since we has been thrust unwillingly but all, to honor them all. No amount of experienced such a lethal and cowardly unhesitatingly into a conflict of a new bloodshed and no amount of fear can attack on our Nation. Though I was a and more ambiguous kind, the war turn this great Nation from the ideals young child at the time, I still remem- against terrorism. Already this conflict that were forged in war in 1776, 1777, ber the shock and sadness of Pearl Har- has added new names to the honor roll 1778, 1779, 1780, and 1781, and defended bor. But I also recall the spirit of unity of heroes whom we honor on Veterans ever since. Our flag—there it is stand- and partiotism that swelled up within Day. Already active-duty Reserve and ing beside the presiding officer’s chair, us following that attack. National Guard troops have responded in all of its grandeur, in all of its state- At a time when half of our Navy lay to this latest call to arms. Much rides ly magnificence, in all of its quiet at the bottom of the ocean, President on their shoulders, beyond an under- beauty. It still flies! Roosevelt spoke of our ‘‘inevitable tri- standable thirst to avenge the sense- Mr. President, I close with one of my umph.’’ He placed his confidence in less slaughter of innocent men and favorite poems, by Henry Holcomb what he called ‘‘the unbounding deter- women, leaving innocent widows and Bennett, entitled ‘‘The Flag Goes By.’’ mination of the American people.’’ orphans behind. This war on terrorism It eloquently puts words to the mes- We all pulled together in the years must succeed. sage being sent by the many, many that followed. We conquered fascism The New Testament’s—‘‘testament’’ flags now bedecking our Nation. and communism, we rescued democ- meaning covenant—admonition to turn Hats off! racy, and we built a better world. the other cheek does not work here. Along the street there comes America’s veterans led the way. The New Covenant’s admonition to A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, Today, our President has called us to turn the other cheek does not work A flash of color beneath the sky: a similar resolve. And we will answer here, but rather we must hew to the Hats off! The flag is passing by! that call again. We must start by mak- Old Testament’s—Old Covenant’s— ing a new commitment to all those who harsh warning regarding an eye for an Blue and crimson and white it shines, Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. serve today, and to every one of Amer- eye. This attack must be answered or Hats off! ica’s veterans. the scope and scale of terror attacks The colors before us fly; I have proposed legislation that worldwide will be forever increased. But more than the flag is passing by: would extend Tri-Care benefits to our That universal understanding is re- Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great, citizens soldiers for up to four months flected in the broad consensus sup- Fought to make and to save the State; after they return from active duty. It porting the current U.S. military ac- Weary marches and sinking ships; has passed the Senate, and I am work- tion and in the concerted efforts to cut Cheers of victory on dying lips: ing to make sure it becomes part of the off funding for terrorists. So this year, Days of plenty and years of peace; Defense bill. as we honor the veterans of past wars, March of a strong land’s swift increase; I also support a bill to provide Tri- it is appropriate to salute those who Equal justice, right and law, Care for life to every American vet- are still in uniform and to give them Stately honor and reverend awe; eran, because I think we owe them that our support. Sign of a nation great and strong much. In 1961, a veteran of World War II To ward her people from foreign wrong: I believe we should extend the Mont- gave his Inaugural Address, his first Pride and glory and honor,—all gomery G.I. bill, and allow veterans to Live in the colors to stand or fall. speech as the new President of the transfer half of their education benefits United States. He said, in part: Hats off! to their family. Along the street there comes Since this country was founded, each gen- A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; I also support the President’s efforts eration of Americans has been summoned to And loyal hearts are beating high: to improve the Veterans’ Administra- give testimony to its national loyalty. The Hats off! tion’s response to benefit claims. It is graves of young Americans who answered the The flag is passing by! shameful that someone who risked call to service surround the globe. Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to Mr. President, I yield the floor and their life for our country should have bear arms, though arms we need—not as a suggest the absence of a quorum. to wait for months, even years, to get call to battle, though embattled we are—but The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the benefits they deserve, the benefits a call to bear the burden of a long twilight clerk will call the roll. they have earned.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:54 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.059 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11655 There might be those who say we ter. In the past five years, I’ve worked Kumamoto, Japan. After the outbreak can’t afford to care for our Nation’s in Congress to double funding for the of war in Korea on June 25, 1950, Leon veterans, that the price is too high. National Institutes of Health (NIH). was committed to combat in Korea. But I say, if we don’t stand by those This investment is intended to support During the first two weeks of combat, who fought for us, we are unworthy of the kind of groundbreaking research more than forty percent of the men their sacrifice. being conducted at the Research Cen- fighting were killed, wounded, pris- So on the Veteran’s Day 2001, a day ter. In fact, as a member of the Senate oners of war, or missing in action. of remembrance and commitment, we HELP Committee and the Senate On July 12, 1950, Leon and his men salute the fighting men and women of Labor, H.H.S. and Education Appro- were captured as prisoners of war and our Nation, active duty, reserves, and priations Subcommittee, I often point it was later learned that Leon had been veterans. to the lifesaving research and care the killed by the enemy. He was in charge We look to them in our time of na- center provides as an example of why of several soldiers who were harassed tional need. They have never let us this investment in NIH is so important. by the enemy. Leon demanded that down. We pledge our support in the de- Dr. Hartwell is not just a talented they stop and for making this state- fense of freedom. We declare to them, scientist. He is a real champion for ment, he was killed. According to a re- we declare to each other, we will not cancer patients and their families. Dur- port received, ‘‘Lt. Jacques’ complete allow the American dream to be dimin- ing consideration of a Patients’ Bill of disregard for his personal safety and ished by fear, or our eyes dimmed by Rights, Dr. Hartwell often spoke out on valor in response to enemy aggression tears. behalf of cancer patients and explained were in the finest tradition of military From the ashes of terrorism, we will the importance of access to clinical service and reflected great credit upon build a new tower to freedom that will trials, which is sometimes the only himself, the 21st Infantry Regiment cast its light around the world. With hope for patients. Thanks to the advo- and the United States Army.’’ God’s help, we will prove again what cacy of cancer researchers like Dr. Thanks to the generous efforts of the poet Carl Sandburg once said: ‘‘We Hartwell, the final legislation included Colonel Phil Day US Army (Ret), Leon are Americans. Nothing like us ever this protection for patients. has been honored with ten award med- Dr. Hartwell was born on October 30, was.’’ als including: Bronze Star Medal with 1939 in Los Angeles, California. He ‘‘v’’ device, United Nations Service f earned his Bachelor of Science in 1961 Medal, Presidential Unit Citation and VA–HUD APPROPRIATIONS from the California Institute of Tech- the combat infantryman badge. nology and his Ph.D in 1964 from the WATER PROJECTS As the son of a World War II Naval Massachusetts Institute of Technology. aviator who was killed in a war related Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, the From 1965–68, he served as Associate incident and a veteran of the Vietnam conference report includes funding for Professor at the University of Cali- war, I empathize with the Jacques fam- water projects in the Ketchikan Bor- fornia. In 1968, he joined the faculty of ily. Leon is an American hero whose ough. While the project will be located the University of Washington and be- selfless dedication to his State and in the borough, technically the funds came a professor of genetics in 1973. In country has benefitted his fellow citi- would be administered by the city of 1997, he became President and Director zens with the blessings of freedom and Ketchikan. Does the distinguished of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Re- liberty. It is truly an honor and a privi- ranking member share my view that search Center. In 1987, he became a lege to represent his family in the EPA should issue the grant to the city member of the U.S. National Academy United States Senate. of Ketchikan which has agreed to ad- of Sciences. He has received numerous minister the funds? honors including: the General Motors f Mr. BOND. I agree that EPA should Sloan Award (1991), Gairdner Founda- RECOGNIZING THE HEROES OF make the funds available to the city of tion International Award (1992), Genet- THE ALEUTIANS CAMPAIGN Ketchikan, not the borough govern- ics Society of America Medal (1994) and Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I ment. the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Re- rise today to share a story about a re- f search Award (1998). markable group of veterans that fought Dr. Hartwell will be presented with for our freedom over 50 years ago. Dur- NOBEL PRIZE TO DR. LEE the award on December 10, 2001, which ing October 4–7, 2001, a small band of HARTWELL is the 100th anniversary of the death of World War II veterans and their fami- Alfred Nobel, after whom the award is Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I rise lies gathered in Anchorage for what named. The Nobel Committee has rec- today to share with the Senate and the was probably their last reunion. They ognized what we in the Northwest have American people the remarkable work shared the common experience of hav- known for a long time; namely that be- of Dr. Lee Hartwell, a respected sci- ing fought an air war in one of the entist in Washington State. Dr. cause of Dr. Hartwell’s hard work and dedication, the world is a better place. most difficult theaters of operations Hartwell was recently awarded the during World War II, the Aleutian Is- Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking re- It is an honor and a distinct pleasure to join with the Nobel Committee in lands. search in cell division and cancer. For those of you who have not had formally recognizing Dr. Lee I’m especially proud that Dr. Hartwell’s many accomplishments. the opportunity to visit the Aleutians, Hartwell conducted much of his re- let me tell you what you are missing. search at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer f Some of the harshest and most unbear- Research Center in Seattle, where he KOREAN WAR VETERAN 1ST LT. able weather exists in this region of my serves as president and director. LEON J. JACQUES, JR. State. Some call the Aleutians the On October 8, 2001, the Nobel Assem- Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. birth place of the winds. It is my honor bly announced that Dr. Hartwell, along President, I rise today to pay tribute to recognize these fine men who fought with Paul Nurse and Timothy Hunt, to the late 1st Lt. Leon J. Jacques, Jr., to protect our nation. has won the 2001 Nobel Prize in physi- of Milford, NH, for his heroic services These courageous individuals are also ology or medicine. The award honors to the United States of America during the founders of today’s Eleventh Air Dr. Hartwell’s more than 30 years of the Korean war. Force. Appropriately, those who spent pioneering work in yeast genetics. Dr. Leon was a graduate of Saint Anselm their youth defending Alaska elected Hartwell’s research into cell division College and the United States Military ‘‘Back to Our Roots,’’ as their reunion has helped scientists throughout the Academy at West Point who also at- theme. world to better understand cancer and tended the Ground General School at The men and women of the Eleventh has laid the foundation for future can- Fort Riley, KS and the United States Air Force served their Nation well, cer treatments. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, helping drive the Japanese from the Dr. Hartwell leads one of the finest GA. western Aleutian Islands of Attu and research teams in the world at the He was assigned to the 21st Infantry Kiska during the Aleutian Campaign. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cen- Regiment, 24th Infantry Division in It was the only campaign fought on the

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO6.015 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11656 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 North American continent during the men and women who have served in our Once again, our troops are engaged in war. It was also the first time since the Nation’s armed forces. This Sunday, conflict overseas. And once again, they War of 1812 that a foreign military November 11, 2001, our country takes a will prevail. force had occupied North American moment to recognize the men and It is my sincere honor to thank all soil. women who have made our country a veterans who have served in our armed Later, the men of the Eleventh Air free Nation for over 225 years. forces. Force flew some of the war’s longest Veterans Day is a day that is as di- f verse and as rich in history as the missions against Japanese installa- ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS tions in the northern Kurile Islands many battles that were fought defend- from bases on Attu and Shemya Is- ing our freedom. November 11, 1918 is lands. During the Aleutian Campaign, the date most remembered as the 11th TRIBUTE TO EDWARD A. LAURIE hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. the veterans of the Eleventh Air Force ∑ Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. This day began with the laying down of flew 297 missions and dropped 3,662 tons President, I rise today to pay tribute arms and blowing of whistles. Im- of bombs on Japanese installations on to Edward Laurie of Enfield, NH, an ex- promptu parades were held and shops Attu and Kiska. One hundred and four- emplary public official who dedicated closed for the day to honor veterans. 83 teen men were killed; another forty- himself to serving the people of New years ago November 11 became known two were reported missing in action Hampshire for more than 26 years. As as ‘‘Armistice Day.’’ and another forty-six died as a result of chief of police for the city of Lebanon accidents. For 16 peaceful years following World War I, the United States along with since 1991, he has brought to the office Following the end of the campaign, the professional skills and knowledge the Eleventh Air Force was reduced in other countries such as Canada, Aus- tralia and Britain celebrated this day. of law enforcement which has bene- strength from a high of 16,526 in August fitted the citizens of Lebanon and the 1943 to a low of 6,849 by the war’s end. A moment of silence at the allotted hour of 11AM was held to remember the entire State. The two bomber squadrons that re- Edward began his career as a patrol mained along with Navy air units flew sacrifices that men and women made in order to ensure that freedom reigns. officer in 1975, and was promoted bombing and reconnaissance missions through the ranks of the Lebanon Po- against Japanese targets in the north- Sadly, as we all know, war is a part our lives. Around every corner adver- lice Department serving positions in- ern Kurile Islands. The military used sity and evil exists. However, Ameri- cluding: police sergeant from 1984–1985, the highly classified operation, code cans being steadfast and always deter- police lieutenant from 1985–1986, police named Wedlock, which also involved mined to live life peacefully continued captain from 1987–1991 and police chief submarine patrols and shore bombard- to observe a day of remembrance and from 1991–2001. ment, to divert Japanese attention appreciation on November 11. He was an active member of the law north and mislead them about U.S. In 1938 Congress passed a bill that enforcement who participated in pro- strategy in the Pacific. November 11 ‘‘shall be dedicated to the grams including: chairman of the New It succeeded in its objective. The cause of world peace and. . .hereafter Hampshire Regional Drug Task Force, Japanese increased their garrison in celebrated and known as Armistice executive board member of the New the northern Kuriles from 8,000 in 1943, Day.’’ But shortly thereafter World Hampshire Attorney General’s Drug to 41,000 in 1944. They maintained 400 War II broke out. Over Sixteen mil- Task Force, president of the New aircraft there in anticipation that lion—I repeat, over sixteen million— Hampshire Police Association, asso- America was planning to invade Japan Americans took part in World War II. ciate of the FBI National Academy, by a northern route. Veterans Day was officially recognized and member of the New England and During this time, Eleventh Air Force in 1954 when the late President Eisen- Grafton County Chiefs of Police Asso- bombers flew 276 missions, losing 74 hower signed a bill that proclaimed No- ciations. crew members killed in action and 11 vember 11 as Veterans Day. Edward was active in the Lebanon taken prisoners of war, of which 3 died We also pay tribute to those soldiers community and provided dedicated in captivity. Another 179 were interned who made the ultimate sacrifice. In service to area charities including the in the Soviet Union—where they land- 1921 an American soldier, whose name New Hampshire Special Olympics and ed after experiencing difficulties re- was ‘‘known but to God,’’ was buried at Lebanon Lions and Kiwanis Clubs. turning to their home bases. They were Arlington National Cemetery. This sol- Throughout his career, Edwards has among the 291 young American air- dier became the personification of dig- served the city of Lebanon and the crews who temporarily wound up in So- nity and reverence for America’s vet- State of New Hampshire with dedica- viet hands as the result of the air war erans. In 1958, two more unidentified tion and pride. The people of Lebanon in the Pacific. fallen American soldiers from World owe a debt of gratitude to Edward for Unlike other World War II theaters of War II and Korea were interred next to the contributions which he has made operations, the Aleutians has not been their comrade of World War I. These making the city and the State a safer properly recognized. The men and brave soldiers, and all those who have and more pleasant environment in women who served on those wind swept died on the battle field who have never which to live. and hauntingly beautiful islands have returned home for a proper burial, are It is an honor and a privilege to rep- not been forgotten. Alaskans are grate- guarded day and night by men and resent Edward Laurie in the United ful for what they did to defend our free- women in the armed services. States Senate. I wish him and his fam- dom and land. Their efforts, and those Today America is facing a new kind ily Godspeed in his retirement and in who served elsewhere in the territory, of war, one that does not quickly as- all of their future endeavors.∑ contributed immeasurably to the similate with previous conflicts our f growth and development of my State. soldiers have faced, a war that is being VETERANS DAY, 2001 They helped provide the foundation fought by men and women who, as that ultimately led to the achievement thousands before them, have answered ∑ Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, of statehood. the call to duty to protect and defend as we again approach Veterans Day, it Those who fought for our Nation’s our freedom. is vital that we pause, more so than on values during a difficult time in the Our military is engaged in conflict any Veterans Day in recent memory, Aleutians and the North Pacific The- overseas with a vile and inhumane to give tribute to the more than 48 mil- ater are truly heros. It is my honor to enemy, an enemy that lives in shad- lion heroic veterans who have served in say thank you and recognize them on ows, strikes at innocent civilians, and our military since the start of the Re- this Veterans Day. finds victory in terror. It is a new kind public and who have fought so that the f of war. But one thing remains the freedom and safety of this great Nation same. Our armed forces carry on the would not be compromised. We owe our VETERANS DAY, 2001 fight for freedom. veterans our heartfelt gratitude for an- Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, it On September 11, our world changed. swering the call and serving us all in is my privilege to rise and thank the Once again, we are a nation at war. the United States Armed Forces.

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.031 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11657 Today, as it should be, military serv- the commitment and sacrifices that in- MISSOURI STATE SENATOR PAULA ice is being held in high esteem. The dividuals make to serve in the mili- CARTER events of September 11 have renewed tary. In keeping with that belief, the ∑ America’s sense of gratitude toward Committee has endorsed legislation Mrs. CARNAHAN. Mr. President, the men and women of the Armed under which the basic rate of the MGIB today I rise to honor the memory of a Forces for the great sacrifices they benefit will be raised over the next 3 fearless leader and influential figure in make everyday on behalf of our Nation. years. In addition, accelerated pay- Missouri politics, State Senator Paula America has been steadfast in its com- ments of MGIB benefits will be author- J. Carter. mitment to the world to be a beacon ized to accommodate the compressed A native of Saint Louis, Senator for freedom. Our military personnel schedule of courses that leads to em- Carter got involved in politics in the have honored our commitment to the ployment in a high technology indus- ’60s. Her rise from Democratic precinct world, time after time, in every part of try. We should make every effort to ac- worker to an influential figure in the the globe. commodate the educational needs of Missouri General Assembly clearly At present, the members of our our veterans, and this change is an im- demonstrates the fact that one person Armed Forces are fighting the terrorist portant step in doing so. can make a tremendous difference in regime responsible for the deaths of Additionally, the Committee en- the lives of all. dorsed legislation under which the thousands of Americans on September During her tenure in the Missouri 11th. We will win this fight. And once maximum amount for the popular VA home loan guaranty will be increased. House and Senate, she was a fierce de- again, our men and women in uniform fender and protector of peoples’ rights. will honor our commitment to the It will now be within the reach of vet- erans to buy homes in major metro- To her it never mattered who her foes world. What strikes me with enormous were. At a time when many accepted poignancy is the age of those who have politan areas where home prices have skyrocketed. Many years have passed inequity and injustice as the way it al- answered the call to duty throughout ways was, she saw them as challenges our history. In this war, as in those of since a VA home loan guaranty in- crease, and high housing costs in cer- to be overcome. When other politicians our past, we send our young to honor asked, ‘‘Can we win?’’ Senator Carter our commitments abroad and to pro- tain areas had put homeownership be- yond the reach of our veterans who live asked ‘‘Should we fight?’’ More often tect our great Nation. They are the than not, the answer was a rousing best of the best. Their motto might in those areas. This increase will add value to the existing benefit. ‘‘Yes!’’ Her efforts on behalf of women well be, in the words of Alexander and minorities will never be forgotten. Pope, ‘‘Act well your part, therein all Today, and everyday, we should honor lies.’’ honor those who have worn the uni- In addition to her legislative and As we observe Veterans Day, let us forms of our Nation. All those who civic successes, Senator Carter was remember that we owe our veterans served deserve our appreciation, our re- proud of her role as a mother and our gratitude and appreciation year spect, and our compassion. They are in- grandmother. Wardell, Gregory, Keena, ∑ round, and not merely on the day set deed, the best of the best. and Willie Christopher will attempt to aside for the commemoration of their f carry on their mother’s tradition, each service and sacrifice. It would be truly TRIBUTE TO JESSICA CATANESE in their own way, as will, also, her seven grandchildren. disgraceful if veterans were made to ∑ Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire, Mr. feel forgotten except for this one day President, I rise today to pay tribute Though there are still causes to per year. Indeed, our gratitude should to Jessica Catanese, of Groton, MA for champion and battle to fight, this tire- be as steadfast as the great monuments being honored as the 2001 recipient of less advocate has been called to rest. that Americans have built in com- the Veteran’s Affairs Hands and Heart May we all find inspiration in her deeds memoration of the very service and Award. The award is an annual rec- and renew our commitment to public sacrifices our veterans made. There ognition given to one employee in each service, a calling worthy of our lives.∑ should be no ambivalence in our atti- VA medical facility whose ‘‘sustained, tude toward those who serve in the compassionate, direct patient care is f United States Armed Forces. exceptional.’’ I am proud to represent the State of Jessica is a recreation therapist for LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT West Virginia in the Senate. West Vir- the Manchester VA Medical Center OF 2001 ginia has one of the highest veteran Nursing Home who provides emotional populations per capita of any State. support, help and guidance to patients ∑ Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. President, The deep patriotism and loyalty to our above and beyond the call of duty. I I rise today to speak about hate crimes country of the people of my State of comment Jessica for the caring and legislation I introduced with Senator West Virginia fills me with gratitude, professional expertise she provides to KENNEDY in March of this year. The and inspires me in my role as Chair- VA hospital patients. Local Law Enforcement Act of 2001 man of the Senate Committee on Vet- Staff and volunteers from the Man- would add new categories to current erans’ Affairs. In that position, I am chester VA facility were included in hate crimes legislation sending a sig- fortunate to represent not only the the nomination process and all agreed nal that violence of any kind is unac- veterans of West Virginia, but veterans that Jessica is an outstanding asset to ceptable in our society. all over our country. the nursing home who consistently I would like to describe a terrible As Chairman, I have fought very hard demonstrates courteous, friendly, and crime that occurred September 6, 1996 for improvements in benefits and serv- respectful care for the patients. in Washington, D.C. The assailant, Mi- ices to veterans. We have made signifi- Jessica has served the veterans of the chael J. Monts, 29, was charged with cant strides this year in fulfilling the Manchester VA Medical Center Nursing simple assault and assault with a dead- pledge of Abraham Lincoln, ‘‘to care Home with dedication and concern. As ly weapon for allegedly attacking a gay for him who shall have borne the bat- a veteran of the Vietnam war and sen- man in July 1996. Monts was ulti- tle, and for his widow and his orphans.’’ ior member of the Senate Armed Serv- A critical need for veterans is long- ices Committee, I applaud her achieve- mately convicted of assault with a term care. Our veteran population is ments and professionalism. The citi- deadly weapon in connection to that aging rapidly and it is our responsi- zens of New Hampshire own Jessica a crime. bility to care for them. I am dedicated debt of thanks for her exemplary serv- I believe that government’s first duty to this need, and in groundbreaking ices. is to defend its citizens, to defend them legislation, I was able to secure a sig- I wish Jessica continued success in against the harms that come out of nificant expansion in the eligibility for her professional endeavors at the Man- hate. The Local Law Enforcement En- and types of treatment that will soon chester VA Medical Center Nursing hancement Act of 2001 is now a symbol be available to veterans. Home. It is truly an honor and a privi- that can become substance. I believe It is my belief that the Montgomery lege to represent her in the United that by passing this legislation, we can GI Bill must be sufficient to recognize States.∑ change hearts and minds as well.∑

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.011 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11658 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY TRIBUTE TO BAE SYSTEMS REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION MOBILE HEALTH AND WELLNESS ∑ Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. OF IRAN EMERGENCY DECLARED UNIT President, I rise today to pay tribute ON NOVEMBER 14, 1979 IS TO ∑ Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. President, I to the Business Unit of BAE Systems CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND rise this morning to pay tribute to the of Nashua, NH, for being named as one NOVEMBER 14, 2001—MESSAGE Western Kentucky University, WKU, of five companies in the country to re- FROM THE PRESIDENT—PM 56 Mobile Health and Wellness Program. I ceive the Pro Patria Award. The award The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- worked vigorously to secure funding is given to companies which are sup- fore the Senate the following message for this important initiative which will portive of military reservists. from the President of the United provide needed health care services to The Information and Electronic War- States, together with an accompanying the families of rural Kentucky. I am fare Systems business unit received the report; which was referred to the Com- pleased to announce that the WKU Mo- award on October 11, 2001, at a cere- mittee on Banking, Housing, and bile Health and Wellness Unit will be mony at the Pentagon following a pres- Urban Affairs. dedicated this afternoon in a ceremony idential proclamation ceremony in the in Morgantown, KY. Rose Garden of the White House. To the Congress of the United States: America has led the world in devel- BAE was nominated for the Pro Section 202(d) of the National Emer- oping exciting medical advances and Patria Award by Pete Kilger, depart- gencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides innovations during the last decade. ment manager for BAE’s Systems En- for the automatic termination of a na- New diagnostic tools, like PET Scans gineering in the Information Domi- tional emergency unless, prior to the and MRI’s, allow physicians to detect nance Systems area and a member of anniversary date of its declaration, the serious diseases in their earliest stages the Naval Reserve. BAE was chosen for President publishes in the Federal Reg- and treat patients before they become the prestigious award because of its ister and transmits to the Congress a seriously ill. Advancements in pharma- outstanding support and understanding notice stating that the emergency is to ceuticals, biotechnology, and medical for employees in the military reserves. continue in effect beyond the anniver- devices also allow doctors to success- BAE does work for the U.S. military sary date. In accordance with this pro- fully cure illnesses that would have services and values the exemplary con- vision, I have sent the enclosed notice, been fatal just a few years ago. tributions of employee reservists and stating that the Iran emergency de- Unfortunately, many of the miracles the contributions they make to New clared by Executive Order 12170 on No- of modern medicine are not always Hampshire and the country. BAE is one vember 14, 1979, is to continue in effect available to the citizens of rural Ken- of the largest employers of reservists beyond November 14, 2001, to the Fed- tucky. For far too many rural Ken- in the state providing benefits includ- eral Register for publication. The most tuckians, economic and geographic ing paying reservists on military duty recent notice continuing this emer- barriers impede access to even the the difference between their military gency was published in the Federal Reg- most basic medical and dental and civilian pay. ister on November 13, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. screenings. As a result, these men, I commend BAE Systems for the 68061). women, and children frequently lag be- many contributions they have made to Our relations with Iran have not yet hind their peers in many accepted the defense industry. Their concern for returned to normal, and the process of measures of general health. company employees who are reservists implementing the January 19, 1981, Western Kentucky University recog- in the United States military is exem- agreements with Iran is still underway. nizes that limited access to health care plary. The people of New Hampshire For these reasons, I have determined services is a critical problem con- and the country owe a debt of grati- that it is necessary to continue the na- fronting the people of south-central tude to BAE Systems for the economic tional emergency declared on Novem- Kentucky. To address this problem, and defense benefits provided by their ber 14, 1979, with respect to Iran, be- WKU decided that if families living in hard work and dedication. yond November 14, 2001. rural communities are not able to trav- BAE will continue to provide exper- GEORGE W. BUSH. el to receive adequate care, then WKU tise which will be of benefit to the THE WHITE HOUSE, November 9, 2001. should bring health care services to military personnel in the country with f rural communities through a Mobile its involvement in the production of Health Clinic. the next generation fighter jets. BAE REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION When Dr. Gary Ransdell, President of Systems will have two teams working OF EMERGENCY REGARDING WKU, approached me with the idea for on electronic warfare systems for the WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUC- their mobile health program, I was im- F–35, also known as the Joint Strike TION DECLARED ON NOVEMBER mediately impressed by the potential Fighter. The contract won by BAE will 14, 1994 IS TO CONTINUE IN EF- of this vehicle to bring quality health eventually lead to the replacement of FECT BEYOND NOVEMBER 14, care to the citizens of rural Kentucky. fighter planes used by the U.S. Navy, 2001—MESSAGE FROM THE PRESI- Our shared vision is that such a clinic Air Force, and Marines and Britain’s DENT—PM 57 can provide basic health care services Royal Navy and Air Force. It is truly The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- such as physicals, well-child check-ups, an honor and a privilege to represent fore the Senate the following message PSA’s, mammographies, and basic den- BAE Systems and their employees in from the President of the United tal screenings. With that in mind, I the United States Senate.∑ States, together with an accompanying was proud to use my position on the f report; which was referred to the Com- Senate Appropriations Committee to mittee on Banking, Housing, and MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT secure $700,000 for this important ini- Urban Affairs. tiative in the Fiscal Year 2001 Labor, Messages from the President of the Health and Human Services, Education United States were communicated to To the Congress of the United States: Appropriations Bill. the Senate by Ms. Evans, one of his Section 202(d) of the National Emer- I believe that all Kentuckians, secretaries. gencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides whether they live in the smallest hol- for the automatic termination of a na- f lows or the biggest cities, should have tional emergency unless, prior to the access to basic health care services and EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED anniversary date of its declaration, the the most modern screening tech- As in executive session the Presiding President publishes in the Federal Reg- nologies. WKU’s Mobile Health and Officer laid before the Senate messages ister and transmits to the Congress a Wellness Program, which will be dedi- from the President of the United notice stating that the emergency is to cated today, is an important step in States submitting sundry nominations continue in effect beyond the anniver- that direction. I look forward to work- which were referred to the appropriate sary date. In accordance with this pro- ing with Western Kentucky University committees. vision, I have sent the enclosed notice on this and other successful programs (The nominations received today are to the Federal Register for publication. designed to improve the lives of Ken- printed at the end of the Senate pro- The notice states that the national tucky’s citizens.∑ ceedings.) emergency with respect to the unusual

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:33 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G09NO6.014 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11659 and extraordinary threat to the na- the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari a report relative to the Study on Impact of tional security, foreign policy, and Vajpayee, on the occasion of his visit to the Foreign Sourcing of Systems dated October economy of the United States posed by United States, and to affirm that India is a 2001; to the Committee on Armed Services. the proliferation of nuclear, biological, valued friend and partner and an important EC–4560. A communication from the Assist- ally in the campaign against international ant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, Depart- and chemical weapons (weapons of terrorism. ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the mass destruction) and the means of de- The message also announced that Arms Export Control Act, the report of a livering such weapons declared by Ex- certification of a proposed license for the ex- ecutive Order 12938 on November 14, pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 2501, the Speaker port of defense articles or services sold com- 1994, is to continue in effect beyond No- appoints the following Member of the mercially under a contract in the amount of vember 14, 2001. The most recent notice House of Representatives to the Na- $50,000,000 or more to the United Kingdom; to continuing this emergency was pub- tional Historical Publications and the Committee on Foreign Relations. lished in the Federal Register on Novem- Records Commission: Mr. BLUNT of EC–4561. A communication from the Assist- Missouri. ant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, Depart- ber 13, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 68063). ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the The proliferation of weapons of mass The message further announced that pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2761 and clause 10 Arms Export Control Act, the report of a destruction and the means of deliv- certification of a proposed technical assist- ering them continues to pose an un- of rule 1, the Speaker appoints the fol- ance agreement for the export of defense ar- usual and extraordinary threat to the lowing Members of the House of Rep- ticles or services sold commercially under a national security, foreign policy, and resentatives to the British-American contract in the amount of $50,000,000 or more economy of the United States. There- Interparliamentary Group in addition to France; to the Committee on Foreign Re- fore, I have determined that it is nec- to Mr. PETRI of Wisconsin, Chairman, lations. essary to continue the national emer- and Mr. GALLEGLY of California, Vice EC–4562. A communication from the Assist- Chairman, appointed on May 1, 2001: ant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, Depart- gency declared on November 14, 1994, ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the regarding weapons of mass destruction, Mr. BEREUTER of Nebraska, Mr. TAYLOR Arms Export Control Act, the report of a beyond November 14, 2001. of North Carolina, Mr. HORN of Cali- certification of a proposed license for the ex- GEORGE W. BUSH. fornia, Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin, Mr. port of defense articles or services sold com- THE WHITE HOUSE, November 9, 2001. BROWN of South Carolina, Mr. SPRATT mercially under a contract in the amount of f of South Carolina, Mr. PRICE of North $50,000,000 or more to Israel; to the Com- Carolina, Mr. POMEROY of North Da- mittee on Foreign Relations. PERIODIC REPORT ON THE NA- EC–4563. A communication from the Assist- kota, Mr. CLYBURN of South Carolina, TIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RE- ant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, Depart- and Mr. ALLEN of Maine. SPECT TO THE 1979 IRANIAN ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the The message also announced that Arms Export Control Act, the report of a EMERGENCY AND ASSETS pursuant to section 1238(b) of the Floyd BLOCKING FROM THE PERIOD certification of a proposed license for the ex- D. Spence National Defense Authoriza- port of defense articles or services sold com- BEGINNING MAY 2001 THROUGH tion Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public mercially under a contract in the amount of OCTOBER 2001—MESSAGE FROM Law 106–398), the Speaker appoints the $50,000,000 or more to Israel; to the Com- THE PRESIDENT—PM 58 following member on the part of the mittee on Foreign Relations. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- House of Representatives to the United EC–4564. A communication from the Assist- fore the Senate the following message ant Attorney General, Office of Legislative States-China Security Review Commis- Affairs, Department of Justice, transmit- from the President of the United sion to fill the existing vacancy there- ting, pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Re- States, together with an accompanying on: Mr. Larry M. Wortzel of Alexan- view of the Restrictions on Persons of report; which was referred to the Com- dria, Virginia. Italian Ancestry During World War II’’; to mittee on Banking, Housing, and the Committee on the Judiciary. Urban Affairs. f EC–4565. A communication from the Attor- ney General, transmitting, the Department To the Congress of the United States: EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS of Justice Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years As required by section 401(c) of the 2001-2006; to the Committee on the Judiciary. National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. The following communications were EC–4566. A communication from the Prin- 1641(c), and section 204(c) of the Inter- laid before the Senate, together with cipal Deputy Associate Administrator of the national Emergency Economic Powers accompanying papers, reports, and doc- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c), I transmit here- uments, which were referred as indi- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- with a 6-month periodic report on the cated: titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- mentation Plans; California State Imple- national emergency with respect to EC–4556. A communication from the Acting mentation Plan Revision; Interim Final De- Iran that was declared in Executive Director of the Office of Sustainable Fish- termination the State Has Corrected the De- Order 12170 of November 14, 1979. eries, National Marine Fisheries Service, De- ficiencies’’ (FRL7102-4) received on Novem- GEORGE W. BUSH. partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- ber 8, 2001; to the Committee on Environ- THE WHITE HOUSE, November 9, 2001. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ment and Public Works. ‘‘Fisheries Off West Coast States and in the f EC–4567. A communication from the Prin- Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish cipal Deputy Associate Administrator of the MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE Fishery; Trip Limit Adjustment’’ received on Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- November 8, 2001; to the Committee on Com- ENROLLED BILL SIGNED ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- merce, Science, and Transportation. At 10:41 a.m., a message from the titled ‘‘Clean Air Act Approval and Promul- EC–4557. A communication from the Acting gation of Air Quality Implementation Plan House of Representatives, delivered by Assistant General Counsel for Regulations, for Montana; Revisions to the Missoula City- Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, Office of the General Counsel, Office of Spe- County Air Pollution Control Program’’ announced that the Speaker has signed cial Education and Rehabilitative Services, (FRL7086-3) received on November 8, 2001; to the following enrolled bill: Department of Education, transmitting, pur- the Committee on Environment and Public H.R. 768. An act to amend the Improving suant to law, the report of a rule entitled Works. America’s Schools Act of 1994 to extend the ‘‘Rehabilitation Short-Term Training (Na- EC–4568. A communication from the Prin- favorable treatment of need-based edu- tional Rehabilitation Leadership Institute)’’ cipal Deputy Associate Administrator of the cational aid under the antitrust laws, and for (CFDA No. 84.246D) received on November 7, Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- other purposes. 2001; to the Committee on Health, Education, ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Labor, and Pensions. titled ‘‘Clean Air Act Final Approval of Op- At 11:03 a.m., a message from the EC–4558. A communication from the Dep- erating Permit Programs: Tennessee and House of Representatives, delivered by uty Secretary of Defense, transmitting, pur- Memphis-Shelby County’’ (FRL7103-2) re- Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, suant to law, a report relative to the United ceived on November 8, 2001; to the Com- announced that the House has agreed States Participation in and Support of Oper- mittee on Environment and Public Works. ation STABILISE; to the Committee on EC–4569. A communication from the Prin- to the following concurrent resolution, Armed Services. cipal Deputy Associate Administrator of the in which it requests the concurrence of EC–4559. A communication from the Dep- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- the Senate: uty Secretary of Defense, transmitting, pur- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- H. Con. Res. 264. Concurrent resolution ex- suant to the Floyd D. Spence National De- titled ‘‘Delegation of National Emission pressing the sense of Congress to welcome fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for

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Source Categories; State of Arizona; Arizona vention, treatment, and rehabilitation of S. 1249 Department of Environmental Quality’’ stroke. (Rept. No. 107–97). At the request of Mr. WELLSTONE, the (FRL7100-4) received on November 8, 2001; to By Mr. BAUCUS, from the Committee on name of the Senator from Massachu- the Committee on Environment and Public Finance, with an amendment in the nature setts (Mr. KENNEDY) was added as a co- Works. of a substitute and an amendment to the EC–4570. A communication from the Prin- title: sponsor of S. 1249, a bill to promote the cipal Deputy Associate Administrator of the H.R. 3090: A bill to provide tax incentives economic security and safety of vic- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- for economic recovery. tims of domestic and sexual violence, ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- f and for other purposes. titled ‘‘Request for Qualifications and Pre- S. 1274 liminary Proposals for Training and Out- INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND At the request of Mr. DORGAN, his reach Coordination Support to the Chesa- JOINT RESOLUTIONS peake Bay Program’’ received on November name was added as a cosponsor of S. 8, 2001; to the Committee on Environment The following bills and joint resolu- 1274, a bill to amend the Public Health and Public Works. tions were introduced, read the first Service Act to provide programs for EC–4571. A communication from the Prin- and second times by unanimous con- the prevention, treatment, and reha- cipal Deputy Associate Administrator of the sent, and referred as indicated: bilitation of stroke. Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- By Mr. KERRY: S. 1377 ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- S. 1670. A bill to amend the Small Business At the request of Mr. SANTORUM, his titled ‘‘Revisions to the California State Im- Investment Act of 1958 with respect to sub- plementation Plan, California State Imple- sidy fees; to the Committee on Small Busi- name was added as a cosponsor of S. mentation Plan Revisions; San Joaquin Val- ness and Entrepreneurship. 1377, a bill to require the Attorney ley Unified Air Pollution Control District, By Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Mr. General to establish an office in the and South Coast Air Quality Management GRASSLEY): Department of Justice to monitor acts District’’ (FRL7100-6) received on November S. 1671. A bill to amend the Trade Act of of inter-national terrorism alleged to 8, 2001; to the Committee on Environment 1974 to provide for duty-free treatment under have been committed by Palestinian and Public Works. the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) individuals or individuals acting on be- EC–4572. A communication from the Dis- for certain hand-knotted or hand-woven car- half of Palestinian organizations and trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, a pets and leather gloves; to the Committee on report entitled ‘‘Fiscal Year 2000 Annual Re- Finance. to carry out certain other related ac- port on Advisory Neighborhood Commis- By Mr. EDWARDS: tivities. sions’’; to the Committee on Governmental S. 1672. A bill to prevent terrorist hoaxes S. 1479 Affairs. and false reports; to the Committee on the At the request of Mr. BOND, the EC–4573. A communication from the Dis- Judiciary. names of the Senator from New York trict of Columbia Financial Responsibility By Mrs. LINCOLN (for herself, Mr. (Mr. SCHUMER), the Senator from New and Management Assistance Authority, HUTCHINSON, Mr. HELMS, Mr. MILLER, York (Mrs. CLINTON), and the Senator transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on Ms. LANDRIEU, and Mr. BREAUX): the suspension of operations on Sunday, Sep- S. 1673. A bill to provide for the continu- from Illinois (Mr. DURBIN) were added tember 30, 2001 at 12:00 PM; to the Com- ation of agricultural programs through fiscal as cosponsors of S. 1479, a bill to re- mittee on Governmental Affairs. year 2011; to the Committee on Agriculture, quire procedures that ensure the fair EC–4574. A communication from the Direc- Nutrition, and Forestry. and equitable resolution of labor inte- tor of the Office of Procurement and Assist- By Mr. SMITH of Oregon: gration issues in transactions for the ance Management, Department of Energy, S. 1674. A bill to amend the Agricultural combination of air carriers, and for transmitting, pursuant to the Federal Ac- Adjustment Act to authorize the Secretary other purposes. tivities Inventory Reform Act of 1988, a re- of Agriculture to issue marketing orders for port on the annual list of government activi- cranberries; to the Committee on Agri- S. 1522 ties not inherently governmental in nature; culture, Nutrition, and Forestry. At the request of Mr. CONRAD, the to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. f name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. EC–4575. A communication from the Assist- GRAHAM) was added as a cosponsor of S. ant Attorney General, Office of Legislative SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND 1522, a bill to support community-based Affairs, Department of Justice, transmit- SENATE RESOLUTIONS ting, pursuant to law, the Annual Report for group homes for young mothers and the Office of Justice Programs for Fiscal The following concurrent resolutions their children. Year 2000; to the Committee on the Judici- and Senate resolutions were read, and S. 1578 ary. referred (or acted upon), as indicated: At the request of Mr. DORGAN, the f By Mrs. BOXER (for herself and Mr. name of the Senator from Oklahoma AKAKA): (Mr. INHOFE) was added as a cosponsor PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS S. Res. 177. A resolution expressing the of S. 1578, a bill to preserve the contin- The following petitions and memo- sense of the Senate that United States Post- ued viability of the United States trav- rials were laid before the Senate and al Service employees should be commended for their outstanding service and dedication el industry. were referred or ordered to lie on the since the terrorist attacks of September 11, S. 1618 table as indicated: 2001; considered and agreed to. At the request of Mr. DEWINE, his POM–216. A resolution adopted by the f name was added as a cosponsor of S. Board of Supervisors of Yuma County, Ari- 1618, a bill to enhance the border secu- zona relative to September 11, 2001; to the ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS rity of the United States, and for other Committee on Foreign Relations. S. 980 POM–217. A resolution adopted by the purposes. County Commission of Baldwin County, Ala- At the request of Mr. FITZGERALD, S. 1643 bama relative to Supporting Defense Against the names of the Senator from Illinois At the request of Mrs. MURRAY, the Terrorists Attacks; to the Committee on (Mr. DURBIN), the Senator from Ohio names of the Senator from Maryland Foreign Relations. (Mr. DEWINE), and the Senator from (Ms. MIKULSKI) and the Senator from POM–218. A resolution adopted by the Missouri (Mrs. CARNAHAN) were added Missouri (Mrs. CARNAHAN) were added Council of Berkeley County, South Carolina as cosponsors of S. 980, a bill to provide as cosponsors of S. 1643, a bill to pro- relative to September 11, 2001; to the Com- for the improvement of the safety of mittee on Governmental Affairs. vide Federal reimbursement to State child restraints in passenger motor ve- and local governments for a limited f hicles, and for other purposes. sales , use and retailers’ occupation tax REPORTS OF COMMITTEES S. 990 holiday. The following reports of committees At the request of Mr. REID, his name f were submitted: was added as a cosponsor of S. 990, a bill to amend the Pittman-Robertson STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED By Mr. KENNEDY, from the Committee on BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Wildlife Restoration Act to improve without amendment. the provisions relating to wildlife con- By Mr. SMITH of Oregon: S. 1274: A bill to amend the Public Health servation and restoration programs, S. 1674. A bill to amend the Agricul- Service Act to provide programs for the pre- and for other purposes. tural Adjustment Act to authorize the

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO6.014 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S11661 Secretary of Agriculture to issue mar- real need: Current law prohibits ter- tion; which was considered and agreed keting orders for cranberries; to the rorist ‘‘threats,’’ but terrorism hoaxes to: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, may not always be viewed as threats S. RES. 177 and Forestry. because the people perpetrating the Whereas on September 11, 2001, the Nation Mr. SMITH of Oregon. Mr. President, hoaxes are not able and do not intend was victimized by a horrific terrorist attack, I ask unanimous consent that the text to carry out actual terrorist acts. Yet the likes of which have not been seen in of the bill be printed in the RECORD. these hoaxes must be punished. United States history; There being no objection, the bill was The legislation I propose builds on Whereas terrorist attacks continued on ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as proposals by other Senators on both United States soil after September 11, 2001, follows: sides of the aisle, including Senator in the form of anthrax-tainted letters; Whereas these anthrax-tainted letters have LEAHY, Senators BIDEN and HATCH, and S. 1674 led to the deaths of 4 individuals, including Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Senators SCHUMER and DEWINE. There 2 United States Postal Service employees; resentatives of the United States of America in are two things that distinguish the leg- Whereas numerous United States Postal Congress assembled, islation I propose, and I want to high- Service employees are currently taking anti- SECTION 1. MARKETING ORDERS FOR light those. biotics to protect them from potential an- CANEBERRIES. First, my proposal includes ‘‘find- thrax exposure; and (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8c of the Agricul- ings’’ about the need for this legisla- Whereas the United States Postal Service tural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c), reen- tion. In recent decisions holding that continues to deliver mail, on the order of ap- acted with amendments by the Agricultural Federal laws are not proper exercises of proximately 680,000,000 pieces per day, to en- Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is amend- sure that the daily operation of our citizens ed— Congress’s ‘‘commerce clause’’ power and therefore are not constitutional, and our companies may continue unaffected, (1) in subsection (2)(A), by inserting despite these dangers: Now, therefore, be it ‘‘caneberries (including raspberries, black- the Supreme Court has said that ‘‘find- Resolved, That the Senate— berries, and loganberries),’’ after ‘‘other than ings’’ about a real Federal need are im- (1) commends the men and women of the pears, olives, grapefruit, cherries,’’; and portant. Although I don’t agree with United States Postal Service for their out- (2) in subsection (6)(I), by striking ‘‘toma- those recent cases, I want to do every- standing service, hard work, and dedication toes,,’’ and inserting ‘‘tomatoes, caneberries thing I can to make sure this statute is during this time of national emergency; and (including raspberries, blackberries, and lo- upheld in the courts. The addition of (2) will continue to work with the United ganberries),’’. States Postal Service to ensure the safety (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 8e(a) findings is one way to do that while still enacting the ban we need. and well-being of postal workers as they of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. carry out their duties and responsibilities. 608e–l(a)), reenacted with amendments by the Second, my proposal establishes two Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of Federal hoax crimes, not just one. All f 1937, is amended in the first sentence by persons who perpetrate hoaxes are pun- EXECUTIVE SESSION striking ‘‘or eggplants’’ and inserting ‘‘egg- ishable by up to two years in prison. In plants, or caneberries (including raspberries, addition, persons who perpetrate hoax- blackberries, and loganberries)’’. es with intent to cause fear, in a man- EXECUTIVE CALENDAR ner reasonably likely to cause an emer- By Mr. EDWARDS: Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- S. 1672. A bill to prevent terrorist gency response, are punishable by up to imous consent that the Senate proceed hoaxes and false reports; to the Com- five years in prison. The line we are to executive session to consider the fol- mittee on the Judiciary. drawing is a line between people who lowing nominations: Calendar Order Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. President, I rise really and truly think they are ‘‘just Nos. 541 through 546; that the nomina- to introduce the Punishing Terrorist joking’’ and people who want to ter- tions be confirmed; that the motions to Hoaxes Act of 2001. rorize others. reconsider be laid upon the table; that In the days since September 11, all of Both kinds of hoaxes should be felony any statements relating to the nomina- crimes. And the person who wants to us have learned that anthrax hoaxes tions be printed in the RECORD; that inflict fear deserves a stiffer sentence are no joking matter. They are acts of the President be immediately notified than the person who does not. That is terror in the true sense of the word be- of the Senate’s action; and that the a line we regularly draw in the crimi- cause they inflict great fear and anx- Senate return to legislative session. nal law. We punish people with evil mo- iety on innocent people. In addition, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tives more than people who are reck- these hoaxes drain resources from po- objection, it is so ordered. less or stupid. Federal law makes that lice and emergency workers—resources The nominations considered and con- distinction in the Bomb Hoax Act, 18 desperately needed not only for the firmed are as follows: U.S.C. § 35, which sets up a lesser of- real war on terror, but for all of the or- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY fense requiring no criminal intent, and dinary emergencies that continue to Kimberly Terese Nelson, of Pennsylvania, a greater offense requiring that the arise every single day. to be an Assistant Administrator of the En- According to recent reports, there perpetrator act ‘‘maliciously.’’ vironmental Protection Agency. I ask the Congress to enact the Pun- have been some 160 anthrax and other DEPARTMENT OF STATE ishing Terrorist Hoaxes Act of 2001. terrorism hoaxes since September 11. Eric M. Javits, of New York, for the rank And whether we enact this legislation In Connecticut, one hoax triggered the of Ambassador during his tenure of service or one of my colleagues’ proposals, I evacuation of 800 government employ- as U.S. Representative to the Conference on ask the Congress to enact an anti-hoax Disarmament. ees for two days. Hoaxes in Virginia bill before we go out of session. We owe Sichan Siv, of Texas, to be Representative and Oregon have shut down post of- it to police officers, public health offi- of the United States of America on the Eco- fices. In my State of North Carolina, cials, and the American people. nomic and Social Council of the United Na- from Greensboro to Chapel Hill, hoaxes tions, with the rank of Ambassador. have targeted and terrified workers at f Sichan Siv, of Texas, to be an Alternate family planning medical clinics—work- SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS Representative of the United States of Amer- ers who already must live with death ica to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during this tenure of threats day in and day out. service as Representative of the United I have spoken with law enforcement SENATE RESOLUTION 177—EX- PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE States of America on the Economic and So- officials in North Carolina who believe cial Council of the United Nations. we need new Federal legislation spe- SENATE THAT UNITED STATES Richard S. Williamson, of Illinois, to be an cifically to fight hoaxes. At a hearing POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEES Alternate Representative of the United of the Judiciary Committee’s Sub- SHOULD BE COMMENDED FOR States of America to the Sessions of the committee on Technology, Terrorism, THEIR OUTSTANDING SERVICE General Assembly of the United Nations dur- and Government Information earlier AND DEDICATION SINCE THE ing his tenure of service as Alternate Rep- resentative of the United States of America this week, officials from the Bush Ad- TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEP- TEMBER 11, 2001 for Special Political Affairs in the United ministration requested that legisla- Nations. tion. In response to several questions Mrs. BOXER (for herself and Mr. Richard S. Williamson, of Illinois, to be Al- that I asked, they articulated the very AKAKA) submitted the following resolu- ternate Representative of the United States

VerDate 06-NOV-2001 01:00 Nov 10, 2001 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A09NO6.021 pfrm02 PsN: S09PT1 S11662 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE November 9, 2001 of America for Special Political Affairs in the preamble be agreed to, en bloc; ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, the United Nations, with the rank of Ambas- that the motion to reconsider be laid NOVEMBER 13, 2001 sador. upon the table; and that any state- Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, on behalf f ments and supporting documents relat- of the majority leader, I ask unani- ing to the resolution be printed in the LEGISLATIVE SESSION mous consent that when the Senate RECORD. completes its business today, it ad- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without journ until the hour of 10:30 a.m., Tues- the previous order, the Senate will now objection, it is so ordered. day November 13; that following the return to legislative session. The resolution (S. Res. 177) was prayer and the pledge, the Journal of agreed to. f proceedings be approved to date, the The preamble was agreed to. morning hour be deemed expired, the SENSE OF CONGRESS TO WEL- (The resolution, with its preamble, is time for the two leaders be reserved for COME THE PRIME MINISTER OF printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- their use later in the day, and that the INDIA mitted Resolutions.’’) Senate begin consideration of S.J. Res. Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- f 28; further, that the Senate recess from imous consent that the Senate proceed 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. for the weekly AUTHORIZATION FOR PRINTING to the immediate consideration of H. party conferences. Con. Res. 264 just received from the Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without House. imous consent that the Rules Com- objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mittee be discharged from consider- Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, on behalf clerk will report the concurrent resolu- ation of H. Con. Res. 130 and that the of the majority leader, I again remind tion by title. Senate then proceed to its consider- our colleagues that the next rollcall The assistant legislative clerk read ation. votes will occur at 5 p.m. on Tuesday as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without next. A concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 264) objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress to welcome f the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari by title. Vajpayee, on the occasion of his visit to the The assistant legislative clerk read United States, and to affirm that India is a as follows: ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10:30 A.M. valued friend and partner and important ally A concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 130) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2001 in the campaign against international ter- authorizing printing of the book entitled rorism. Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, if there is ‘‘Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in no further business to come before the There being no objection, the Senate Congress.’’ Senate, I ask unanimous consent that proceeded to consider the concurrent There being no objection, the Senate the Senate stand in adjournment under resolution. proceeded to consider the concurrent the previous order. Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- resolution. There being no objection, the Senate, imous consent that the concurrent res- Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- at 1:09 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, olution be agreed to; that the preamble imous consent that the concurrent res- November 13, 2001, at 10:30 a.m. be agreed to; that the motion to recon- olution be agreed to, with no inter- sider be laid upon the table; and that vening action or debate; that the mo- f any statements relating to the concur- tion to reconsider be laid upon the rent resolution be printed in the table; and that any statements relating RECORD. to the concurrent resolution be printed NOMINATIONS The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without in the RECORD. Executive nominations received by objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Senate November 9, 2001: The concurrent resolution (H. Con. objection, it is so ordered. CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING Res. 264) was agreed to. The concurrent resolution (H. Con. CHERYL FELDMAN HALPERN, OF NEW JERSEY, TO BE A The preamble was agreed to. Res. 130) was agreed to. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COR- PORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOR THE RE- f f MAINDER OF THE TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 31, 2004, VICE DIANE D. BLAIR. AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEE TO U.S. POSTAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY COMMENDATION REPORT MARGARET S.Y. CHU, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE DIRECTOR Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- OF THE OFFICE OF CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MAN- AGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, VICE IVAN ITKIN, imous consent that the Senate proceed imous consent that the Committee on RESIGNED. Finance have until 4 p.m. today to re- to the consideration of S. Res. 177, sub- UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL mitted earlier today by Senator BOXER. port the economic recovery stimulus DEVELOPMENT bill, notwithstanding the adjournment The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ADOLFO A. FRANCO, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE AN ASSISTANT clerk will report the resolution by of the Senate. ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, VICE MARK L. SCHNEI- title. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without DER. objection, it is so ordered. The assistant legislative clerk read OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION as follows: f COLLISTER JOHNSON, JR., OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEM- A resolution (S. Res. 177) expressing the AUTHORITY FOR RECORD TO BER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OVERSEAS sense of the Senate that United States Post- PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION FOR A TERM EX- REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 2 P.M. PIRING DECEMBER 17, 2001, VICE LOTTIE LEE al Service employees should be commended SHACKELFORD, TERM EXPIRED. for their outstanding service and dedication Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- COLLISTER JOHNSON, JR., OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEM- BER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OVERSEAS since the terrorist attacks on September 11, imous consent that the RECORD remain PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION FOR A TERM EX- 2001. open today until 2 p.m. for the submis- PIRING DECEMBER 17, 2004. (REAPPOINTMENT) There being no objection, the Senate sion of statements and the introduc- NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD proceeded to consider the resolution. tion of legislation. EDWARD J. FITZMAURICE, JR., OF TEXAS, TO BE A Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unan- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING JULY 1, 2004, VICE ERNEST W. imous consent that the resolution and objection, it is so ordered. DUBESTER, RESIGNED.

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WAIVING POINTS OF ORDER out NASA for its management failures. It also tinue to be deeply concerned that NASA’s ac- AGAINST CONFERENCE REPORT makes clear that we’re willing to work with the quisition strategy for the LANDSAT Data Con- ON H.R. 2620, DEPARTMENTS OF Administration to identify additional resources tinuity Mission (LDCM) places too much em- VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUS- to improve station capabilities, if we see the phasis on government satellite engineering ING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, right management reforms and performance and design during the formulation phase of the AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES improvements at NASA. program. I urge that the Director of the Office APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2002 Yesterday, the House Science Committee of Science and Technology Policy continue to heard testimony from Tom Young, the Chair- review this program to ensure that preference SPEECH OF man of the International Space Station (ISS) is given to technically and economically sound HON. SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT Management and Cost Evaluation (IMCE) commercial data buy proposals that will meet OF NEW YORK Task Force and Sean O’Keefe, the Deputy Di- our nation’s data continuity needs. I applaud rector of the Office of Management and Budg- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the conferees for including language in the et. The Task Force concluded that without sig- conference report that restates our expectation Thursday, November 8, 2001 nificant management and budget reforms, that NASA will pursue commercial data pur- Mr. BOEHLERT. Mr. Speaker, as Chairman NASA would not be able to complete the U.S. chase approaches to all Earth Science Pro- of the House Science Committee, I rise in Core Complete station within the budget that gram Announcements for Opportunity. strong support of the FY 2002 VA, HUD and was agreed upon earlier this year. Mr. Young Let me turn for a moment to the budget for Independent Agencies Appropriations Con- and Mr. O’Keefe recommended, and I concur, the Environmental Protection Agency, an ference Report. My good friends Chairman the NASA must be required to demonstrate to agency that Congress should elevate to cabi- WALSH, and Ranking Minority Member MOL- Congress that it can manage the U.S. Core net level status. I appreciate the efforts of LOHAN have put together a conference report Complete Station—both on time and on budg- Chairman WALSH and his colleagues in the that is very good for science, good for the et—before any decisions are made to expand House and Senate to provide a responsible space program, and good for the environment. the capabilities of the station. budget to help meet the nation’s environ- I thank them for their outstanding leadership. I also want to stress that the ISS was in- mental needs. On the whole, the conference Chairman WALSH shares my belief that tended to be a research platform that would report is good news for EPA. Clearly, many of basic research provides the foundation for permit scientists to carry out research that us would prefer to see higher funding levels economic growth and for the tremendous ad- could only be conducted in a space environ- for some of the agency’s programs, but the vances we have made in areas like biomedical ment. It is important that we not lose this conferees have done an admirable job of bal- research. The appropriation for the National focus upon science and that we closely exam- ancing competing needs and working within Science Foundation contained within this con- ine the research program that will be sup- difficult fiscal constraints. ference report reflects these beliefs. Chairman ported by the station. The Science Committee As Chairman of the Science Committee, I WALSH is to be commended for the more than has asked the National Academy of Science am particularly pleased the bill increases fund- 8 percent increase that he has provided for to review this research program and I look for- ing for the Science and Technology account the Foundation. ward to their findings. I concur with the con- from $640 million in the budget request to The bill also contains funding for the Na- ferees’ recommendation that this study be ex- $698 million. tional Mathematics and Science Partnerships panded to evaluate the research programs Admittedly much of this funding is for site- Program that was proposed by President Bush that could be conducted on the ISS with a specific or project-specific activities. Even so, and that is authorized by my bill—H.R. 1858— three- or a six-person crew. I think it is important to continue a trend of in- that was unanimously reported out of the I particularly appreciate the Committee’s creasing agency resources for basic and ap- Science Committee. This program will bring commitment to new space technology and its plied research, including drinking water re- colleges and universities and school districts effort to bridge the gap between NASA and search under the Safe Drinking Water Act. together to form partnerships to improve the the Air Force. By directing a modest amount Mr. Speaker, the recent experiences with ar- quality of elementary and secondary math and of funding to the Air Force Research Lab, the senic confirm the importance of science in science education. I look forward to working bill encourages NASA and the Air Force to making key regulatory decisions. I commend closely with Chairman WALSH and NSF to see pool their efforts on technologies that will ben- the Administration and the conferees in ad- that this program is properly implemented. efit both agencies and the American people. vancing the effort to replace the 50 parts per I want to particularly thank the conferees for Space based radar technology, for example, is billion standard with a more protective 10 including funding for the Noyce Scholarship vital to our national security, but also has im- parts per billion standard. I hope Congress will Program. Named for the co-founder of Intel, mense applications in Earth science. A devel- provide additional funding to research and de- this program provides scholarships to talented opment program that reduces the cost of syn- velop more cost-effective technologies to meet mathematics, science, and engineering stu- thetic aperture radar technology will benefit the SDWA standards as contemplated by Ad- dents in exchange for a commitment to teach both. ministrator Whitman. two years for each year of scholarship. I am Similarly, the bistatic radar technology de- As a member of the Transportation and In- passionately committed to attracting young veloped at the Rome Research Laboratory frastructure Committee and the Congressional people to the profession of teaching and look has immense potential for upgrading our na- Water Infrastructure Caucus, I am pleased the forward to welcoming the first class of Noyce tional launch range tracking capabilities at a conference report rejects the proposed cut to Scholars. low cost. By demonstrating this technology, the Clean Water SRF but I’m disappointed it I also want to commend the Committee for we may finally break the logjam that has un- doesn’t provide more than $1.35 billion for the providing funding for the Tech Talent Act that dermined our space launch competitiveness. program. I appreciate the constraints facing I introduced on October 15, of this year. This The conferees have also, at my request, ad- the conferees but would encourage the Appro- program will encourage colleges and univer- dressed a matter that is of great importance to priations Committee to find a way to fund sities to think more creatively about how they me—the LANDSAT Data Continuity Mis- some of the important water infrastructure and educate our future scientists, mathematicians sion.The Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of ecosystem restoration programs, such as the and engineers. 1992 (P.L. 102–555) directs the LANDSAT new sewer overflow control grants program The conferees are also to be commended Program to consider options, with preference and the reauthorized Clean Lakes program. I for a bill that protects and expands NASA’s given to a commercial solution, to maintain the hope there are opportunities down the road to scientific programs in Science, Aeronautics, continuity of LANDSAT data beyond target assistance for such efforts. and Technology while striking the right bal- LANDSAT 7. I would also continue to note my concern ance for the Space Station. This bill sends a While NASA’s Earth Science Program has with the Superfund program. The bill provides clear signal that Congress is not going to bail responded to several of my concerns, I con- $1.27 billion. The Appropriators are doing their

∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. E2052 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks November 9, 2001 best under the circumstances. Congress ministration’s bill to reauthorize the U.S. De- However, I have a number of concerns with needs to change the circumstances; com- partment of Transportation’s (DOT) hazardous the Administration’s proposal that I hope we prehensive reform and, at a minimum, a reau- materials program. Given the recent threats to will address during consideration of any haz- thorization of the Corporate Environmental In- our nation’s security, it is particularly important ardous materials legislation. This is not the come Tax (which expired on December 31, that we have in place a program that strength- time to compromise on the safety and security 1995) should be the next course of action. ens the Department of Transportation’s in- of hazardous materials transportation. Mr. Speaker, this is a good bill for science, spection and enforcement authority over haz- a good bill for the space program, and a good ardous materials movements. To address the The risks from serious hazmat releases to bill for the environment. It aptly illustrates the threats to the security and safety associated employees of hazmat transporters and the tremendous leadership provided by my good with the transportation of hazardous materials, public-at-large are simply too great to allow for friend from New York, Chairman WALSH, and DOT inspectors need clear authority to open legislation that offers anything but the highest I urge my colleagues to support it. and inspect packages they believe might con- level of protection. I look forward to working f tain hazardous materials and to issue emer- with the Chairman, the Committee on Trans- INTRODUCTION OF THE HAZ- gency orders to stop unsafe practices that portation and Infrastructure, and the Adminis- ARDOUS MATERIAL TRANSPOR- pose an immediate threat to life, property, and tration to craft a hazardous materials reauthor- the environment. TATION SAFETY REAUTHORIZA- ization bill that will best meet the needs of TION ACT OF 2001 The bill also addresses the problem of undeclared hazardous materials shipments by hazardous materials transporters, their work- mail. The bill authorizes the United States ers, and the American people. HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR Postal Service to collect fines and recover OF MINNESOTA damages for violations of hazardous materials IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES regulations. The proposal calls for substantial Friday, November 9, 2001 increases in penalties for those who would Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I join Chair- violate Federal hazardous materials laws and man YOUNG in introducing (by request) the Ad- regulations. Friday, November 9, 2001 Daily Digest Senate Nomination—Agreement: A unanimous-consent Chamber Action agreement was reached providing that the debate Routine Proceedings, pages S11637–S11663 time on the nomination of Edith Brown Clement, of Measures Introduced: Five bills and one resolution Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the were introduced, as follows: S. 1670–1674, and S. Fifth Circuit, be changed to begin at 4:45 p.m. on Res. 177. Page S11660 Tuesday, November 13, 2001, with the vote on con- firmation of the nomination to occur at 5 p.m. Measures Reported: S. 1274, to amend the Public Health Service Act Page S11647 to provide programs for the prevention, treatment, Messages from the President: Senate received the and rehabilitation of stroke. (S. Rept. No. 107–97) following messages from the President of the United H.R. 3090, to provide tax incentives for economic States: recovery, with an amendment in the nature of a sub- Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the stitute. Page S11660 continuation of Iran emergency declared on Novem- ber 14, 1979 is to continue in effect beyond Novem- Measures Passed: ber 14, 2001; to the Banking, Housing, and Urban Welcoming India’s Prime Minister: Senate Affairs. (PM–56) Page S11658 agreed to H. Con. Res. 264, expressing the sense of Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the Congress to welcome the Prime Minister of India, continuation of emergency regarding weapons of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on the occasion of his visit to mass destruction declared on November 14, 1994 is the United States, and to affirm that India is a val- to continue in effect beyond November 14, 2001; to ued friend and partner and an important ally in the the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM–57) campaign against international terrorism. Page S11662 Pages S11658–59 Commending Postal Employees: Senate agreed to Transmitting, pursuant to law, the periodic report S. Res. 177, expressing the sense of the Senate that on the national emergency with respect to the 1979 United States Postal Service employees should be Iranian emergency and assets blocking from the pe- commended for their outstanding service and dedica- riod beginning May 2001 through October 2001; to tion since the terrorist attacks of September 11, the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (PM–58) 2001. Page S11662 Page S11659 Book Printing Authorization: Committee on Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the fol- Rules and Administration was discharged from fur- lowing nominations: ther consideration of H. Con. Res. 130, authorizing Kimberly Terese Nelson, of Pennsylvania, to be an the printing of the book entitled, ‘‘Asian and Pacific Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Pro- Islander Americans in Congress’’, and the resolution tection Agency. was then agreed to. Page S11662 Eric M. Javits, of New York, for the rank of Am- Budget and Emergency Deficit—Agreement: A bassador during his tenure of service as U.S. Rep- unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached pro- resentative to the Conference on Disarmament. viding for consideration of S.J. Res. 28, suspending Sichan Siv, of Texas, to be Representative of the certain provisions of law pursuant to section United States of America on the Economic and So- 258(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency cial Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Deficit Control Act of 1985, at 10:30 a.m., on Tues- Ambassador. day, November 13, 2001, with a vote on final pas- Sichan Siv, of Texas, to be an Alternate Rep- sage of the resolution to occur following the vote on resentative of the United States of America to the confirmation of the nomination of Edith Brown Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Na- Clement. Page S11647 tions during his tenure of service as Representative D1125 D1126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST November 9, 2001 of the United States of America on the Economic Messages From the House: Page S11659 and Social Council of the United Nations. Executive Communications: Pages S11659–60 Richard S. Williamson, of Illinois, to be an Alter- nate Representative of the United States of America Petitions and Memorials: Page S11660 to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the Executive Reports of Committees: Page S11660 United Nations during his tenure of service as Alter- Additional Cosponsors: Page S11660 nate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations. Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: Richard S. Williamson, of Illinois, to be Alternate Pages S11660–61 Representative of the United States of America for Additional Statements: Pages S11656–58 Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with Adjournment: Senate met at 10 a.m., and ad- the rank of Ambassador. Page S11663 journed at 1:09 p.m., until 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- November 13, 2001. (For Senate’s program, see the lowing nominations: remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today’s Cheryl Feldman Halpern, of New Jersey, to be a Record on page S11662.) Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the remainder of the term expiring January 31, 2004. Committee Meetings Margaret S.Y. Chu, of New Mexico, to be Direc- tor of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Man- (Committees not listed did not meet) agement, Department of Energy. Adolfo A. Franco, of Virginia, to be an Assistant BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter- Committee on the Budget: On Thursday, November 8, national Development. committee ordered unfavorably reported S.J. Res. 28, Collister Johnson, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to sec- of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private In- tion 258(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emer- vestment Corporation for a term expiring December gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 17, 2001. Collister Johnson, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member ECONOMIC RECOVERY of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private In- Committee on Finance: On Thursday, November 8, vestment Corporation for a term expiring December committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 3090, to 17, 2004. (Reappointment) provide tax incentives for economic recovery, with an Edward J. Fitzmaurice, Jr., of Texas, to be a amendment in the nature of a substitute entitled Member of the National Mediation Board for a term ‘‘Economic Recovery and Assistance for American expiring July 1, 2004. Page S11662 Workers Act.’’ h House of Representatives aster declared by the President, and to authorize the Chamber Action Federal Trade Commission to seek civil penalties for Measures Introduced: 5 public bills, H.R. such violations in actions brought under section 13 3273–3276, were introduced. Page H8034 of that Act (H. Rept. 107–276); Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows: H.R. 2887, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Conference report on H.R. 2330, making appro- Cosmetic Act to improve the safety and efficacy of priations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food pharmaceuticals for children, amended (H. Rept. and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 107–277); and programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, Conference report on H.R. 2500, making appro- 2002 (H. Rept. 107–275); priations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, H.R. 2985, to amend the Federal Trade Commis- and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the sion Act to increase civil penalties for violations in- fiscal year ending September 30, 2002 (H. Rept. volving certain proscribed acts or practices that ex- 107–278). Page H8034 ploit popular reaction to an emergency or major dis- November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D1127 Speaker Pro Tempore: Read a letter from the vote on confirmation of the nomination to occur at Speaker wherein he appointed Representative 5 p.m.; followed by a vote on final passage of S.J. Culberson to act as Speaker pro tempore for today. Res. 28. Page H7961 During the balance of the week, Senate may con- Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the sider any other cleared legislative and executive busi- guest Chaplain, Rev. David Nuss, Catholic Diocese ness, including appropriation bills and conference re- of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. Page H7961 ports when available. United States-China Security Review Commis- Senate Committees sion: The Chair announced the Speaker’s appoint- (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) ment of Mr. Larry M. Wortzel of Alexandria, Vir- Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Novem- ginia to the United States-China Security Review ber 13, business meeting to resume consideration of S. Commission. Page H7961 1628, to strengthen the safety net for agricultural pro- National Historical Publications and Records ducers, to enhance resource conservation and rural devel- Commission: The Chair announced the Speaker’s opment, to provide for farm credit, agricultural research, appointment of Representative Blunt to the National nutrition, and related programs, to ensure consumers Historical Publications and Records Commission. abundant food and fiber, 8:30 a.m., SR–328A. Page H7962 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: No- vember 13, Subcommittee on Housing and Transpor- Senate messages: Messages received from the Senate tation, to hold hearings to examine state and local re- appear on page H7961. sponses to lead based poisoning, 2:30 p.m., SD–538. Referral: S. Con. Res. 81 was held at the desk. November 14, Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, to hold hearings to examine hawala—refer- Page H7961 ring a creditor to a third party to receive his/her money; Quorum Calls—Votes: No quorum calls or re- and underground terrorist financing mechanisms, 2:30 corded votes developed during the proceedings of the p.m., SD–538. House today. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: November 14, to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Kath- Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and ad- leen Burton Clarke, of Utah, to be Director of the Bureau journed at 10:05 p.m. of Land Management, Department of the Interior, 9:30 a.m., SD–366. Committee Meetings November 14, Subcommittee on Public Lands and For- ests, to hold oversight hearings to examine the investiga- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT—COMPUTER tive report of the Thirtymile Fire and the prevention of SECURITY future fire fatalities, 2:30 p.m., SD–366. Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Committee on Environment and Public Works: November Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and 14, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, to Intergovernmental Relations held a hearing on hold oversight hearings to examine national water supply ‘‘Computer Security in the Federal Government: issues, 9:30 a.m., SD–406. How do the Agencies Rate?’’ Testimony was heard November 14, Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, from Robert F. Dacy, Director, Information Security, Risk, and Waste Management, to hold hearings on S. 1602, to help protect the public against the threat of GAO; and Mark A. Forman, Associate Director, In- chemical attack, 2 p.m., SD–406. formation Technology and E-Government, OMB. November 15, Full Committee, to hold hearings to ex- f amine the effects of S. 556, to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from electric powerplants, on the en- CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD vironment and the economy, 9:30 a.m., SD–406. Week of November 12 through November 17, Committee on Foreign Relations: November 14, business 2001 meeting to consider pending calendar business, 10:30 a.m., SD–419. Senate Chamber November 14, Full Committee, to hold hearings to ex- On Monday, Senate will not be in session. amine the nominations of Gaddi H. Vasquez, of Cali- On Tuesday, at 10:30 a.m., Senate will consider fornia, to be Director, and Josephine K. Olsen, of Mary- land, to be Deputy Director, both of the Peace Corps, 4 S.J. Res. 28, suspending certain provisions of law p.m., SD–419. pursuant to section 258(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget November 15, Subcommittee on International Oper- and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Also, ations and Terrorism, with the Subcommittee on Near at 4:45 p.m., Senate will consider the nomination of Eastern and South Asian Affairs, to hold joint hearings Edith Brown Clement, of Louisiana, to be United to examine U.S. efforts to deliver aid to Afghanistan, 2 States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, with a p.m., SD–419. D1128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST November 9, 2001

November 15, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and November 15, full Committee, to consider the Buena South Asian Affairs, with the Subcommittee on Inter- Vista Watershed Proposal; followed by a hearing to re- national Operations and Terrorism, to hold joint hearings view the USDA Biosecurity Programs and Authorities, to examine U.S. efforts to deliver aid to Afghanistan, 2 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth. p.m., SD–419. Committee on Education and the Workforce, November 14, Committee on Governmental Affairs: November 13, Per- hearing on ‘‘Economic Recovery and Assistance to Work- manent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings ers-Minority Day,’’ 2 p.m., 2175 Rayburn. to examine how the Immigration and Naturalization November 14, Subcommittee on Workforce Protec- Service processes persons arrested for illegal entry into the tions, hearing on ‘‘‘Beck’ Rights 2001: Are Worker U.S. outside ports of entry, 9:30 a.m., SD–342. Rights Being Adequately Enforced?’’ 10 a.m., 2175 Ray- November 14, Full Committee, business meeting to burn. consider pending calendar business, 9:15 a.m., SD–342. Committee on Energy and Commerce. November 15, hear- November 14, Subcommittee on Oversight of Govern- ing on bioterrorism and proposals to combat terrorism, ment Management, Restructuring and the District of Co- 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn. lumbia, with the Committee on Governmental Affairs, to November 15, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, hold joint hearings to examine improvement processes and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ‘‘Cyber Secu- concerning airline security, 10:30 a.m., SD–342. rity: Private-Sector Efforts Addressing Cyber Threats,’’ 1 November 14, Full Committee, with the Sub- p.m., 2322 Rayburn. committee on Oversight of Government Management, November 15, Subcommittee on Health, hearing enti- Restructuring and the District of Columbia, to hold joint tled ‘‘Raising Health Awareness Through Examining Be- hearings to examine improvement processes concerning nign Brain Tumor Cancer, Alpha One, and Breast Im- airline security, 10:30 a.m., SD–342. plant Issues,’’ 2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn. November 14, Subcommittee on International Security, Committee on Government Reform, November 13, Sub- Proliferation and Federal Services, to hold hearings to ex- committee on Government Efficiency, Financial Manage- amine combating proliferation of weapons of mass de- ment and Intergovernmental Relations, the Subcommittee struction with non-proliferation programs and proposed on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Humans Resources, legislation entitled the Non-Proliferation Assistance Co- and the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Af- ordination Act, 2:30 p.m., SD–342. November 15, Full Committee, to hold oversight hear- fairs and International Relations, joint hearing on ‘‘Law ings to examine the Medicare payment policies for ambu- Enforcement: Are Federal, State and Local Agencies lance services of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Working Together Effectively?’’ 9:30 a.m., 2154 Ray- Services of the Department of Health and Human Serv- burn. ices, 9:15 a.m., SD–342. November 14, full Committee, hearing on ‘‘Com- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: No- prehensive Medical Care for Bioterrorism Exposure—Are vember 15, to hold hearings to examine the national im- We Making Evidence-Based Decisions? What are the Re- munization program and preparation for public health search Needs? 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn. challenges in the 21st century, 10 a.m., SR–325. November 15, Subcommittee on the District of Co- Select Committee on Intelligence: November 14, to hold lumbia, hearing on the ‘‘Emergency Preparedness in the closed hearings on intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., S–407, Nation’s Capital-Economic Impact of Terrorists Attacks,’’ Capitol. 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. Committee on the Judiciary: November 13, to hold hear- November 16, Subcommittee on Government Effi- ings to examine homeland defense issues, focusing on ciency, Financial Management, and Intergovernmental sharing information with local law enforcement, 10 a.m., Relations, hearing on ‘‘Does America Need A National SD–226. Identifier?’’ 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. November 14, Subcommittee on Technology, Ter- Committee on International Relations, November 14, hear- rorism, and Government Information, to hold hearings to ing on the Message is America: Rethinking U.S. Public examine new technologies for terrorism prevention, focus- Diplomacy, 10:15 a.m., 2172 Rayburn. ing on biometric identifiers, 10 a.m., SD–226. November 15, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Committee on Rules and Administration: November 15, to hearing on Northeast Asia after 9/11: Regional Trends hold hearings to examine the Capitol Police Board’s Cap- and Interests, 2:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn. itol Perimeter Security Plan and other matters involving Committee on the Judiciary, November 14, Subcommittee security for the Capitol complex, 9 a.m., SR–301. on Crime, hearing on the implementation legislation for the International Convention for the Suppression of Ter- House Chamber rorist Bombings and the International Convention for the To be announced. Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism; followed by markup of H.R. 3209, Anti-Hoax Terrorism Act of 2001, House Committees 10 a.m., 2237 Rayburn. Committee on Agriculture, November 14, Subcommittee November 15, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Re- and Intellectual Property, oversight hearing on the Oper- search, hearing to review the Buena Vista Watershed Pro- ations of Field Judicial Misconduct and Rescue Statutes, posal, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth. 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. November 9, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D1129

November 15, Subcommittee on Immigration and Committee on Small Business, November 14, to mark up Claims, hearing on H.R. 3231, Immigration Reform and H.R. 3230, American Small Business Emergency Relief Accountability Act of 2001, 2 p.m., 2237 Rayburn. and Recovery Act of 2001, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn. November 16, Subcommittee on the Constitution, November 15, hearing on a national sales tax holiday, hearing on H.J. Res. 14, proposing an amendment to the and its potential to serve as a stimulus for our nation’s Constitution of the United States regarding regulations small businesses, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn. on the amounts of expenditures of personal funds made Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, November by candidates for election for public office, 10 a.m., 2237 15, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Rayburn. hearing on the Future of the TMDL Program: How to Committee on Resources, November 13, Subcommittee on Make TMDLs Effective Tools for Improving Water Qual- National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands, hearing on ity, 9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn. the following bills: H.R. 2234, Tumacacori National His- Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, November 14, Sub- torical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2001; and H.R. committee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing to 2238, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire review the roles of the Departments of Veterans Affairs Fern Lakes and the surrounding watershed in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee for addition to Cumberland and Defense in educating the Nation’s medical students Gap National Historical Park, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth. and current health care professionals to diagnose and treat Committee on Rules, November 13, hearing on the Presi- casualties of weapons of mass destruction, 10 a.m., 334 dent’s ‘‘Freedom to Manage’’ Initiative, 4 p.m., H–313 Cannon. Capitol. Committee on Ways and Means, November 15, Sub- November 13, to consider the conference report to ac- committee on Human Resources, hearing on Teen Preg- company H.R. 2500, making appropriations for the De- nancy Prevention, 10:30 a.m., B–318 Rayburn. partments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, November 14, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September executive, hearing to review Intelligence Community 30, 2002, 5:30 p.m., H–313 Capitol. Analytic Activities, 2:30 p.m., H–405 Capitol. Committee on Science, November 14, hearing on H.R. November 15, Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy 3178, Water Infrastructure Security and Research Devel- and National Security, executive, hearing on Quadrennial opment Act, and the Development of Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Community Review, 1:30 p.m., H–405 Cap- Tools for Water Infrastructure, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. itol. November 15, to mark up H.R. 3178, Water Infra- November 15, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Home- structure Security and Research Development Act, 10 land Security, executive, hearing on FBI Information a.m., 2318 Rayburn. Sharing, 10 a.m., H–405 Capitol. D1130 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST November 9, 2001

Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, November 13 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 13

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Tuesday: Senate will consider S.J. Res. 28, Program for Tuesday: To be announced. suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to section 258(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Also, at 4:45 p.m., Senate will consider the nomination of Edith Brown Clement, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, with a vote on confirmation of the nomination to occur at 5 p.m.; fol- lowed by a vote on final passage of S.J. Res. 28 (listed above). (Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m., for their respective party conferences.)

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Boehlert, Sherwood L., N.Y., E2051 Oberstar, James L., Minn., E2052

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