December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26457 bomber and the other assailants It has been made clear that terrorist leged report (Rept. No. 107–344) on the equipped with grenades and guns that groups operating in Pakistan have resolution (H. Res. 319) waiving a re- attacked the Indian parliament. links to Osama bin Laden and the al quirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII India has conducted intense inves- Qaeda terrorist networks. And I believe with respect to consideration of certain tigations since the attack and has ob- that efforts to eliminate these terrorist resolutions reported from the Com- tained evidence that two Pakistani groups is also in the best interest of mittee on Rules, which was referred to based militant groups, I am not sure I the United States. the House Calendar and ordered to be can pronounce them, Mr. Speaker, but Again, Mr. Speaker, I make these printed. I will try, Jaish-e-Mohammed and comments not because what I think is f Lashkar-e-Taiba are responsible for the going to hurt Pakistan but by what I attack. think is going to help Pakistan. In the ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEASURE TO Indian evidence also makes it clear same way that General Musharraf has BE CONSIDERED UNDER SUSPEN- that these groups received directives come to the conclusion or came to the SION OF THE RULES ON from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intel- conclusion after September 11 that aid- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2001 ligence or ISI. Mr. Speaker, this comes ing the United States in the war Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, pursu- as no surprise to anyone who has been against the Taliban and against al ant to the notice requirements of following these two groups’ history of Qaeda would ultimately be helpful to House Resolution 314, I now set the fol- cross-border terrorism in Kashmir, and Pakistan because of the terrorist ac- lowing measure to be considered under I have confidence that India’s evidence tivities that take place within Paki- suspension of the rules on Wednesday, is both strong and accurate against the stan, I think the same thing is true of December 19, 2001: S. 1202. two terrorist groups. these groups that operate and get sup- f I have criticized and denounced the port from Pakistan and attack India. actions of these groups many times on In the long run, all of these terrorist CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 3061 the floor of the House. The most recent groups have to be eradicated and Paki- Mr. REGULA submitted the fol- incident I have found to be appalling stan must deal with the situation and lowing conference report and state- was the suicide car bomb attack on the try to suppress the terrorism, not only ment on the bill (H.R. 3061) ‘‘making Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly when it is geared towards the United appropriations for the Departments of on October 1. Jaish-e-Mohammed came States or Afghanistan, but also when it Labor, Health and Human Services, forward and took credit for that crime is geared towards Kashmir and India. and Education, and related agencies for which they later revoke, and I have en- f couraged President Bush to add this the fiscal year ending September 30, group to the list of terrorist organiza- RECESS 2002, and for other purposes’’: tions whose financial assets would be The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. CONFERENCE REPORT (H. REPT. 107–342) frozen. Although this group has been KENNEDY of Minnesota). Pursuant to The committee of conference on the dis- placed on the list, Pakistan continues clause 12 of rule I, the Chair declares agreeing votes of the two Houses on the to allow them to operate with no finan- the House in recess subject to the call amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. cial restrictions. of the Chair. 3061) ‘‘making appropriations for the Depart- Mr. Speaker, I understand that Gen- Accordingly (at 9 o’clock and 45 min- ments of Labor, Health and Human Services, eral Musharraf, the President of Paki- utes p.m.), the House stood in recess and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for stan, has been willing to help the U.S. subject to the call of the Chair. other purposes’’, having met, after full and in the global fight against terrorism, f free conference, have agreed to recommend however, it is clear that Pakistan has b 0825 and do recommend to their respective Houses deep-rooted and intricate ties to the as follows: Taliban, al Qaeda and, most impor- AFTER RECESS That the House recede from its disagree- tantly, the terrorist groups operating The recess having expired, the House ment to the amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an amendment, as in Kashmir and now in New Delhi. was called to order by the Speaker pro India has requested that General follows: tempore (Mr. DIAZ-BALART) at 8 o’clock In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted Musharraf eliminate the terrorist ca- and 25 minutes a.m., legislative day of by said amendment, insert: pabilities of both Jaish-e-Mohammed Tuesday, December 18, 2001. That the following sums are appropriated, out and Lashkar-e-Taiba. This would con- f of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- sist of Pakistan shutting down these propriated, for the Departments of Labor, groups operations, discontinuing moral REPORT ON RESOLUTION WAIVING Health and Human Services, and Education, and logistical support, arresting the REQUIREMENT OF CLAUSE 6(a) and related agencies for the fiscal year ending leaders, and once and for all freezing OF RULE XIII WITH RESPECT TO September 30, 2002, and for other purposes, their financial assets. CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN namely: I believe that India has every right to RESOLUTIONS TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR make these requests and I have re- Mr. REYNOLDS, from the Com- EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION quested today in a letter to President mittee on Rules, submitted a privi- TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES Bush that the U.S. make the same de- leged report (Rept. No. 107–343) on the For necessary expenses of the Workforce In- mand of General Musharraf, to put an resolution (H. Res. 318) waiving a re- vestment Act, including the purchase and hire end to Pakistan’s support and toler- quirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, ance of these terrorist groups. with respect to consideration of certain alteration, and repair of buildings and other fa- Mr. Speaker, the attack on the cilities, and the purchase of real property for resolutions reported from the Com- training centers as authorized by the Workforce world’s largest democracy and the In- mittee on Rules, which was referred to Investment Act; the Women in Apprenticeship dian people must be answered with pu- the House Calendar and ordered to be and Nontraditional Occupations Act; and the nitive action. The U.S. administration printed. National Skill Standards Act of 1994; must push General Musharraf harder to f $3,167,282,000 plus reimbursements, of which arrest the leaders of Jaish-e-Moham- $1,779,342,000 is available for obligation for the med and Lashkar-e-Taiba. In addition, REPORT ON RESOLUTION WAIVING period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003; of he must follow through and shut down REQUIREMENT OF CLAUSE 6(a) which $1,353,065,000 is available for obligation all terrorist camps operating in Paki- OF RULE XIII WITH RESPECT TO for the period April 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, including $1,127,965,000 to carry out chap- stan and all jihadi schools that indoc- CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS ter 4 of the Workforce Investment Act and trinate terrorism from children. Not $225,100,000 to carry out section 169 of such Act; only is this in the interest of India, it Mr. REYNOLDS, from the Com- and of which $3,500,000 is available for obliga- would equally benefit Pakistan as well. mittee on Rules, submitted a privi- tion October 1, 2001 until expended for carrying

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out the National Skills Standards Act of 1994; available in the allocation for necessary admin- PENSION AND WELFARE BENEFITS and of which $30,375,000 is available for the pe- istrative expenses for carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501– ADMINISTRATION riod July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2005 for nec- 8523, shall be available for obligation by the SALARIES AND EXPENSES essary expenses of construction, rehabilitation, States through December 31, 2002, except that For necessary expenses for the Pension and and acquisition of Job Corps centers: Provided, funds used for automation acquisitions shall be Welfare Benefits Administration, $109,866,000. That $9,098,000 shall be for carrying out section available for obligation by the States through 172 of the Workforce Investment Act: Provided September 30, 2004; and of which $163,452,000, PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION further, That, notwithstanding any other provi- together with not to exceed $773,283,000 of the PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND sion of law or related regulation, $80,770,000 amount which may be expended from said trust The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is shall be for carrying out section 167 of the fund, shall be available for obligation for the authorized to make such expenditures, includ- Workforce Investment Act, including $74,965,000 period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, to ing financial assistance authorized by section for formula grants, $4,786,000 for migrant and fund activities under the Act of June 6, 1933, as 104 of Public Law 96–364, within limits of funds seasonal housing, and $1,019,000 for other dis- amended, including the cost of penalty mail au- and borrowing authority available to such Cor- cretionary purposes: Provided further, That thorized under 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E) made poration, and in accord with law, and to make funding provided herein under section 166 of the available to States in lieu of allotments for such such contracts and commitments without regard Workforce Investment Act shall include purpose: Provided, That to the extent that the to fiscal year limitations as provided by section $1,711,000 for use under section 166(j)(1) of the Average Weekly Insured Unemployment (AWIU) 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, Act: Provided further, That funds provided to for fiscal year 2002 is projected by the Depart- as amended (31 U.S.C. 9104), as may be nec- carry out section 171(d) of the Workforce Invest- ment of Labor to exceed 2,622,000, an additional essary in carrying out the program through Sep- ment Act may be used for demonstration projects $28,600,000 shall be available for obligation for tember 30, 2002, for such Corporation: Provided, that provide assistance to new entrants in the every 100,000 increase in the AWIU level (in- That not to exceed $11,690,000 shall be available workforce and incumbent workers: Provided fur- cluding a pro rata amount for any increment for administrative expenses of the Corporation: ther, That funding provided to carry out less than 100,000) from the Employment Security Provided further, That expenses of such Cor- projects under section 171 of the Workforce In- Administration Account of the Unemployment poration in connection with the termination of vestment Act that are identified in the Con- Trust Fund: Provided further, That funds ap- pension plans, for the acquisition, protection or ference Agreement, shall not be subject to the propriated in this Act which are used to estab- management, and investment of trust assets, requirements of section 171(b)(2)(B) of such Act, lish a national one-stop career center system, or and for benefits administration services shall be the requirements of section 171(c)(4)(D) of such which are used to support the national activities considered as non-administrative expenses for Act, or the joint funding requirements of sec- of the Federal-State unemployment insurance the purposes hereof, and excluded from the tions 171(b)(2)(A) and 171(c)(4)(A) of such Act: programs, may be obligated in contracts, grants above limitation. Provided further, That no funds from any other or agreements with non-State entities: Provided EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION appropriation shall be used to provide meal further, That funds appropriated under this Act SALARIES AND EXPENSES services at or for Job Corps centers. for activities authorized under the Wagner- For necessary expenses for the Employment For necessary expenses of the Workforce In- Peyser Act, as amended, and title III of the So- Standards Administration, including reimburse- vestment Act, including the purchase and hire cial Security Act, may be used by the States to ment to State, Federal, and local agencies and of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, fund integrated Employment Service and Unem- their employees for inspection services rendered, alteration, and repair of buildings and other fa- ployment Insurance automation efforts, not- $369,220,000, together with $1,981,000 which may cilities, and the purchase of real property for withstanding cost allocation principles pre- be expended from the Special Fund in accord- training centers as authorized by the Workforce scribed under Office of Management and Budget ance with sections 39(c), 44(d) and 44(j) of the Investment Act; $2,463,000,000 plus reimburse- Circular A–87: Provided further, That notwith- Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation ments, of which $2,363,000,000 is available for standing any other provisions of law, the por- Act: Provided, That $2,000,000 shall be for the obligation for the period October 1, 2002 through tion of the funds received by the State of Mis- development of an alternative system for the June 30, 2003, and of which $100,000,000 is avail- sissippi in the settlement of litigation with a electronic submission of reports required to be able for the period October 1, 2002 through June contractor relating to the acquisition of an filed under the Labor-Management Reporting 30, 2005, for necessary expenses of construction, automated system for benefit payments under and Disclosure Act of 1959, as amended, and for rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps cen- the unemployment compensation program that a computer database of the information for each ters. is attributable to the expenditure of Federal submission by whatever means, that is indexed COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER grant funds awarded to the State shall be trans- and easily searchable by the public via the AMERICANS ferred to the account under this heading and Internet: Provided further, That the Secretary To carry out title V of the Older Americans shall be made available by the Department of of Labor is authorized to accept, retain, and Act of 1965, as amended, $445,100,000. Labor to the State of Mississippi for obligation spend, until expended, in the name of the De- FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND by the State through fiscal year 2004 to carry partment of Labor, all sums of money ordered to ALLOWANCES out automation and related activities under the be paid to the Secretary of Labor, in accordance For payments during the current fiscal year of unemployment compensation program. trade adjustment benefit payments and allow- with the terms of the Consent Judgment in Civil ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND ances under part I; and for training, allowances Action No. 91–0027 of the United States District AND OTHER FUNDS for job search and relocation, and related State Court for the District of the Northern Mariana administrative expenses under part II, sub- For repayable advances to the Unemployment Islands (May 21, 1992): Provided further, That chapters B and D, chapter 2, title II of the Trust Fund as authorized by sections 905(d) and the Secretary of Labor is authorized to establish Trade Act of 1974, as amended, $415,650,000, to- 1203 of the Social Security Act, as amended, and and, in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3302, collect gether with such amounts as may be necessary to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as au- and deposit in the Treasury fees for processing to be charged to the subsequent appropriation thorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal applications and issuing certificates under sec- for payments for any period subsequent to Sep- Revenue Code of 1954, as amended; and for non- tions 11(d) and 14 of the Fair Labor Standards tember 15 of the current year. repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Act of 1938, as amended (29 U.S.C. 211(d) and 214) and for processing applications and issuing STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, registrations under title I of the Migrant and EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OPERATIONS United States Code, and to the ‘‘Federal unem- Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 For authorized administrative expenses, ployment benefits and allowances’’ account, to U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). $163,452,000, together with not to exceed remain available until September 30, 2003, $3,237,886,000 (including not to exceed $1,228,000 $464,000,000. SPECIAL BENEFITS which may be used for amortization payments to In addition, for making repayable advances to (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) States which had independent retirement plans the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund in the For the payment of compensation, benefits, in their State employment service agencies prior current fiscal year after September 15, 2002, for and expenses (except administrative expenses) to 1980), which may be expended from the Em- costs incurred by the Black Lung Disability accruing during the current or any prior fiscal ployment Security Administration Account in Trust Fund in the current fiscal year, such sums year authorized by title 5, chapter 81 of the the Unemployment Trust Fund including the as may be necessary. United States Code; continuation of benefits as cost of administering section 51 of the Internal provided for under the heading ‘‘Civilian War Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, section 7(d) PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION Benefits’’ in the Federal Security Agency Ap- of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, the For expenses of administering employment propriation Act, 1947; the Employees’ Compensa- Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the Immigration and training programs, $113,356,000, including tion Commission Appropriation Act, 1944; sec- Act of 1990, and the Immigration and Nation- $5,934,000 to administer welfare-to-work grants, tions 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 ality Act, as amended, and of which the sums together with not to exceed $48,507,000, which (50 U.S.C. App. 2012); and 50 percent of the ad- available in the allocation for activities author- may be expended from the Employment Security ditional compensation and benefits required by ized by title III of the Social Security Act, as Administration Account in the Unemployment section 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor amended (42 U.S.C. 502–504), and the sums Trust Fund. Workers’ Compensation Act, as amended,

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26459 $121,000,000 together with such amounts as may tion, such amounts as may be necessary may be Provided further, That the foregoing proviso be necessary to be charged to the subsequent charged to the subsequent year appropriation shall not apply to any person who is engaged in year appropriation for the payment of com- for the payment of compensation, interest, or a farming operation which does not maintain a pensation and other benefits for any period sub- other benefits for any period subsequent to Au- temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer sequent to August 15 of the current year: Pro- gust 15 of the current year. employees. vided, That amounts appropriated may be used OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION under section 8104 of title 5, United States Code, ADMINISTRATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES by the Secretary of Labor to reimburse an em- SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety ployer, who is not the employer at the time of For necessary expenses for the Occupational and Health Administration, $254,768,000, includ- injury, for portions of the salary of a reem- Safety and Health Administration, $443,651,000, ing purchase and bestowal of certificates and ployed, disabled beneficiary: Provided further, including not to exceed $89,747,000 which shall trophies in connection with mine rescue and That balances of reimbursements unobligated on be the maximum amount available for grants to first-aid work, and the hire of passenger motor September 30, 2001, shall remain available until States under section 23(g) of the Occupational vehicles; including up to $1,000,000 for mine res- expended for the payment of compensation, ben- Safety and Health Act, which grants shall be no cue and recovery activities, which shall be efits, and expenses: Provided further, That in less than 50 percent of the costs of State occupa- available only to the extent that fiscal year 2002 addition there shall be transferred to this appro- tional safety and health programs required to be obligations for these activities exceed $1,000,000; priation from the Postal Service and from any incurred under plans approved by the Secretary in addition, not to exceed $750,000 may be col- other corporation or instrumentality required under section 18 of the Occupational Safety and lected by the National Mine Health and Safety under section 8147(c) of title 5, United States Health Act of 1970; and, in addition, notwith- Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale Code, to pay an amount for its fair share of the standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Occupational Safe- of training materials, otherwise authorized by cost of administration, such sums as the Sec- ty and Health Administration may retain up to law to be collected, to be available for mine safe- retary determines to be the cost of administra- $750,000 per fiscal year of training institute ty and health education and training activities, tion for employees of such fair share entities course tuition fees, otherwise authorized by law notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; and, in addi- through September 30, 2002: Provided further, to be collected, and may utilize such sums for tion, the Mine Safety and Health Administra- That of those funds transferred to this account occupational safety and health training and tion may retain up to $1,000,000 from fees col- from the fair share entities to pay the cost of ad- education grants: Provided, That, notwith- lected for the approval and certification of ministration of the Federal Employees’ Com- standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary of Labor equipment, materials, and explosives for use in pensation Act, $36,696,000 shall be made avail- is authorized, during the fiscal year ending Sep- mines, and may utilize such sums for such ac- able to the Secretary as follows: (1) for the oper- tember 30, 2002, to collect and retain fees for tivities; the Secretary is authorized to accept ation of and enhancement to the automated services provided to Nationally Recognized Test- lands, buildings, equipment, and other contribu- data processing systems, including document im- ing Laboratories, and may utilize such sums, in tions from public and private sources and to aging and conversion to a paperless office, accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, prosecute projects in cooperation with other $24,522,000; (2) for medical bill review and peri- to administer national and international labora- agencies, Federal, State, or private; the Mine odic roll management, $11,474,000; (3) for com- tory recognition programs that ensure the safety Safety and Health Administration is authorized munications redesign, $700,000; and (4) the re- of equipment and products used by workers in to promote health and safety education and maining funds shall be paid into the Treasury the workplace: Provided further, That none of training in the mining community through coop- as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, the funds appropriated under this paragraph erative programs with States, industry, and That the Secretary may require that any person shall be obligated or expended to prescribe, safety associations; and any funds available to filing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits issue, administer, or enforce any standard, rule, the department may be used, with the approval under chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, regulation, or order under the Occupational of the Secretary, to provide for the costs of mine or 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq., provide as part of such Safety and Health Act of 1970 which is applica- rescue and survival operations in the event of a notice and claim, such identifying information ble to any person who is engaged in a farming major disaster. (including Social Security account number) as operation which does not maintain a temporary BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS such regulations may prescribe. labor camp and employs 10 or fewer employees: SALARIES AND EXPENSES ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS Provided further, That no funds appropriated COMPENSATION FUND under this paragraph shall be obligated or ex- For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including advances or reim- (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) pended to administer or enforce any standard, bursements to State, Federal, and local agencies For necessary expenses to administer the En- rule, regulation, or order under the Occupa- and their employees for services rendered, ergy Employees Occupational Illness Compensa- tional Safety and Health Act of 1970 with re- $397,142,000, together with not to exceed tion Act, $136,000,000, to remain available until spect to any employer of 10 or fewer employees $69,132,000, which may be expended from the expended: Provided, That the Secretary of who is included within a category having an oc- Employment Security Administration Account in Labor is authorized to transfer to any Executive cupational injury lost workday case rate, at the the Unemployment Trust Fund; and $10,280,000 agency with authority under the Energy Em- most precise Standard Industrial Classification which shall be available for obligation for the ployees Occupational Illness Compensation Act, Code for which such data are published, less period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, for including within the Department of Labor, such than the national average rate as such rates are Occupational Employment Statistics. sums as may be necessary in fiscal year 2002 to most recently published by the Secretary, acting carry out those authorities: Provided further, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in ac- OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY That the Secretary may require that any person cordance with section 24 of that Act (29 U.S.C. SALARIES AND EXPENSES filing a claim for benefits under the Act provide 673), except— For necessary expenses for the Office of Dis- as part of such claim, such identifying informa- (1) to provide, as authorized by such Act, con- ability Employment Policy to provide leadership, tion (including Social Security account number) sultation, technical assistance, educational and develop policy and initiatives, and award grants as may be prescribed. training services, and to conduct surveys and furthering the objective of eliminating barriers BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND studies; to the training and employment of people with (2) to conduct an inspection or investigation (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) disabilities, $38,158,000, of which $2,640,000 shall in response to an employee complaint, to issue a be for the President’s Task Force on the Em- For payments from the Black Lung Disability citation for violations found during such inspec- ployment of Adults with Disabilities. Trust Fund, $1,036,115,000, of which $981,283,000 tion, and to assess a penalty for violations DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT shall be available until September 30, 2003, for which are not corrected within a reasonable payment of all benefits as authorized by section abatement period and for any willful violations SALARIES AND EXPENSES 9501(d)(1), (2), (4), and (7) of the Internal Rev- found; For necessary expenses for Departmental enue Code of 1954, as amended, and interest on (3) to take any action authorized by such Act Management, including the hire of three sedans, advances as authorized by section 9501(c)(2) of with respect to imminent dangers; and including the management or operation, that Act, and of which $31,558,000 shall be (4) to take any action authorized by such Act through contracts, grants or other arrangements available for transfer to Employment Standards with respect to health hazards; of Departmental activities conducted by or Administration, Salaries and Expenses, (5) to take any action authorized by such Act through the Bureau of International Labor Af- $22,590,000 for transfer to Departmental Man- with respect to a report of an employment acci- fairs, including bilateral and multilateral tech- agement, Salaries and Expenses, $328,000 for dent which is fatal to one or more employees or nical assistance and other international labor transfer to Departmental Management, Office of which results in hospitalization of two or more activities, of which the funds designated to Inspector General, and $356,000 for payment employees, and to take any action pursuant to carry out bilateral assistance under the inter- into miscellaneous receipts for the expenses of such investigation authorized by such Act; and national child labor initiative shall be available the Department of Treasury, for expenses of op- (6) to take any action authorized by such Act for obligation through September 30, 2003, and eration and administration of the Black Lung with respect to complaints of discrimination $50,000,000, for the acquisition of Departmental Benefits program as authorized by section against employees for exercising rights under information technology, architecture, infra- 9501(d)(5) of that Act: Provided, That, in addi- such Act: structure, equipment, software and related

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 26460 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 needs which will be allocated by the Depart- TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND be for the Washington Health Foundation for a ment’s Chief Information Officer in accordance HUMAN SERVICES comprehensive demonstration project on improv- with the Department’s capital investment man- HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ing nurse retention, and $1,100,000 shall be for agement process to assure a sound investment ADMINISTRATION the Iowa Department of Public Health to create strategy; $378,778,000; together with not to ex- HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES a Center for Health Care Workforce Shortage: ceed $310,000, which may be expended from the For carrying out titles II, III, VII, VIII, X, Provided further, That, notwithstanding section Employment Security Administration Account in XII, XIX, and XXVI of the Public Health Serv- 502(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to ex- the Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided, That ice Act, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal Mine ceed $115,236,000 is available for carrying out no funds made available by this Act may be Health and Safety Act, title V and sections special projects of regional and national signifi- used by the Solicitor of Labor to participate in 1128E and 1820 of the Social Security Act, the cance pursuant to section 501(a)(2) of such Act, a review in any United States court of appeals Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, of which $50,000 is for the Center for Great Ex- of any decision made by the Benefits Review as amended, the Native Hawaiian Health Care pectations, Somerville, New Jersey to provide Board under section 21 of the Longshore and Act of 1988, as amended, the Cardiac Arrest Sur- prenatal health care, education and counseling Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. vival Act of 2000, and the Poison Control Center for pregnant teens, $565,000 is for the Mil- 921) where such participation is precluded by Enhancement and Awareness Act, waukee Health Department for a pilot program the decision of the United States Supreme Court $6,081,237,000, of which $311,978,000 shall be providing health care services to at-risk children in Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation available for construction and renovation of in day care, and $4,000,000 is for the Columbia Programs v. Newport News Shipbuilding, 115 S. health care and other facilities, and of which Hospital for Women Medical Center in Wash- Ct. 1278 (1995), notwithstanding any provisions $40,000,000 from general revenues, notwith- ington, D.C., to support community outreach to the contrary contained in Rule 15 of the Fed- standing section 1820(j) of the Social Security programs for women: Provided further, That eral Rules of Appellate Procedure: Provided fur- Act, shall be available for carrying out the $10,000,000 is available for special projects of re- ther, That no funds made available by this Act Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants pro- gional and national significance under section may be used by the Secretary of Labor to review gram under section 1820 of such Act: Provided, 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act, which shall a decision under the Longshore and Harbor That of the funds made available under this not be counted toward compliance with the allo- Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901 et heading, $250,000 shall be available until ex- cation required in section 502(a)(1) of such Act, seq.) that has been appealed and that has been pended for facilities renovations at the Gillis W. and which shall be used only for making com- pending before the Benefits Review Board for Long Hansen’s Disease Center: Provided fur- petitive grants to provide abstinence education more than 12 months: Provided further, That ther, That in addition to fees authorized by sec- (as defined in section 510(b)(2) of such Act) to any such decision pending a review by the Ben- tion 427(b) of the Health Care Quality Improve- adolescents and for evaluations (including lon- efits Review Board for more than 1 year shall be ment Act of 1986, fees shall be collected for the gitudinal evaluations) of activities under the considered affirmed by the Benefits Review full disclosure of information under the Act suf- grants and for Federal costs of administering Board on the 1-year anniversary of the filing of ficient to recover the full costs of operating the the grants: Provided further, That grants under the appeal, and shall be considered the final National Practitioner Data Bank, and shall re- the immediately preceding proviso shall be made order of the Board for purposes of obtaining a main available until expended to carry out that only to public and private entities which agree review in the United States courts of appeals: Act: Provided further, That fees collected for the that, with respect to an adolescent to whom the Provided further, That these provisions shall full disclosure of information under the ‘‘Health entities provide abstinence education under not be applicable to the review or appeal of any Care Fraud and Abuse Data Collection Pro- such grant, the entities will not provide to that decision issued under the Black Lung Benefits gram’’, authorized by section 1128E(d)(2) of the adolescent any other education regarding sexual Act (30 U.S.C. 901 et seq.). Social Security Act, shall be sufficient to recover conduct, except that, in the case of an entity ex- the full costs of operating the program, and pressly required by law to provide health infor- VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING shall remain available until expended to carry mation or services the adolescent shall not be Not to exceed $186,903,000 may be derived from out that Act: Provided further, That no more precluded from seeking health information or the Employment Security Administration Ac- than $15,000,000 is available for carrying out the services from the entity in a different setting count in the Unemployment Trust Fund to carry provisions of Public Law 104–73: Provided fur- than the setting in which the abstinence edu- out the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4100–4110A, 4212, ther, That of the funds made available under cation was provided: Provided further, That the 4214, and 4321–4327, and Public Law 103–353, this heading, $265,085,000 shall be for the pro- funds expended for such evaluations may not and which shall be available for obligation by gram under title X of the Public Health Service exceed 3.5 percent of such amount. the States through December 31, 2002. To carry Act to provide for voluntary family planning HEALTH EDUCATION ASSISTANCE LOANS PROGRAM out the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assist- projects: Provided further, That amounts pro- Such sums as may be necessary to carry out ance Act and section 168 of the Workforce In- vided to said projects under such title shall not the purpose of the program, as authorized by vestment Act of 1998, $25,800,000, of which be expended for abortions, that all pregnancy title VII of the Public Health Service Act, as $7,550,000 shall be available for obligation for counseling shall be nondirective, and that such amended. For administrative expenses to carry the period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003. amounts shall not be expended for any activity out the guaranteed loan program, including sec- OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL (including the publication or distribution of lit- tion 709 of the Public Health Service Act, erature) that in any way tends to promote pub- $3,792,000. For salaries and expenses of the Office of In- lic support or opposition to any legislative pro- VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM TRUST spector General in carrying out the provisions of posal or candidate for public office: Provided the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, FUND further, That $639,000,000 shall be for State For payments from the Vaccine Injury Com- $52,182,000, together with not to exceed AIDS Drug Assistance Programs authorized by $4,951,000, which may be expended from the Em- pensation Program Trust Fund, such sums as section 2616 of the Public Health Service Act: may be necessary for claims associated with vac- ployment Security Administration Account in Provided further, That of the amount provided the Unemployment Trust Fund. cine-related injury or death with respect to vac- under this heading, $80,000 shall be for the cines administered after September 30, 1988, pur- GENERAL PROVISIONS Wausau Health Foundation in Wausau, Wis- suant to subtitle 2 of title XXI of the Public consin, for a survey and analysis of local health Health Service Act, to remain available until ex- SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated in professionals’ career paths to better understand this title for the Job Corps shall be used to pay pended: Provided, That for necessary adminis- entry into and exit from health professions, trative expenses, not to exceed $2,992,000 shall the compensation of an individual, either as di- $100,000 shall be for the University of San Diego rect costs or any proration as an indirect cost, be available from the Trust Fund to the Sec- Institute for the Advancement of Health Policy retary of Health and Human Services. at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. to assess through teaching, research and deliv- CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND (TRANSFER OF FUNDS) ery of services the impact of public policy on families from vulnerable populations, $200,000 PREVENTION SEC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre- shall be for the Luna County, New Mexico and DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget the Columbus Volunteer Fire Department to pro- To carry out titles II, III, VII, XI, XV, XVII, and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as vide emergency medical services to immigrants, XIX, and XXVI of the Public Health Service amended) which are appropriated for the cur- $350,000 shall be for the Clinical Pharmacy Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, 203, 301, and rent fiscal year for the Department of Labor in Training Program at the University of Hawaii 501 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act this Act may be transferred between appropria- at Hilo, $475,000 shall be for the American Fed- of 1977, sections 20, 21, and 22 of the Occupa- tions, but no such appropriation shall be in- eration of Negro Affairs, $500,000 shall be for the tional Safety and Health Act of 1970, title IV of creased by more than 3 percent by any such University of Washington Center for Health the Immigration and Nationality Act, and sec- transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations Workforce Studies in Seattle, Washington, for a tion 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Committees of both Houses of Congress are noti- demonstration project to collect and analyze Act of 1980; including insurance of official fied at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. health workforce data, $800,000 shall be for the motor vehicles in foreign countries; and hire, This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of University of Iowa for the training of Certified maintenance, and operation of aircraft, Labor Appropriations Act, 2002’’. Registered Nurse Anesthetists, $1,000,000 shall $4,293,151,000, of which $250,000,000 shall remain

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available until expended for equipment and con- NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE struction and renovation of facilities, and of For carrying out section 301 and title IV of For carrying out section 301 and title IV of which $143,763,000 for international HIV/AIDS the Public Health Service Act with respect to eye the Public Health Service Act with respect to shall remain available until September 30, 2003, diseases and visual disorders, $581,366,000. health information communications, and in addition, such sums as may be derived NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH $277,658,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be avail- from authorized user fees, which shall be cred- SCIENCES able until expended for improvement of informa- ited to this account: Provided, That in addition For carrying out sections 301 and 311 and title tion systems: Provided, That in fiscal year 2002, to amounts provided herein, up to $23,286,000 IV of the Public Health Service Act with respect the Library may enter into personal services shall be available from amounts available under to environmental health sciences, $566,639,000. contracts for the provision of services in facili- section 241 of the Public Health Service Act to NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING ties owned, operated, or constructed under the carry out the National Center for Health Statis- For carrying out section 301 and title IV of jurisdiction of the National Institutes of Health. tics surveys: Provided further, That none of the the Public Health Service Act with respect to OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR funds made available for injury prevention and aging, $893,443,000. (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) control at the Centers for Disease Control and For carrying out the responsibilities of the Of- Prevention may be used to advocate or promote NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND fice of the Director, National Institutes of gun control: Provided further, That the Director MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES Health, $235,540,000, of which $53,540,000 shall may redirect the total amount made available For carrying out section 301 and title IV of be for the Office of AIDS Research: Provided, under authority of Public Law 101–502, section the Public Health Service Act with respect to ar- That funding shall be available for the purchase 3, dated November 3, 1990, to activities the Di- thritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases, of not to exceed 29 passenger motor vehicles for rector may so designate: Provided further, That $448,865,000. replacement only: Provided further, That the the Congress is to be notified promptly of any NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER Director may direct up to 1 percent of the total such transfer: Provided further, That not to ex- COMMUNICATION DISORDERS amount made available in this or any other Act ceed $10,000,000 may be available for making For carrying out section 301 and title IV of to all National Institutes of Health appropria- grants under section 1509 of the Public Health the Public Health Service Act with respect to tions to activities the Director may so designate: Service Act to not more than 15 States: Provided deafness and other communication disorders, Provided further, That no such appropriation further, That notwithstanding any other provi- $342,072,000. shall be decreased by more than 1 percent by sion of law, a single contract or related con- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH any such transfers and that the Congress is tracts for development and construction of fa- For carrying out section 301 and title IV of promptly notified of the transfer: Provided fur- cilities may be employed which collectively in- the Public Health Service Act with respect to ther, That the National Institutes of Health is clude the full scope of the project: Provided fur- nursing research, $120,451,000. authorized to collect third party payments for ther, That the solicitation and contract shall NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND the cost of clinical services that are incurred in contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ found ALCOHOLISM National Institutes of Health research facilities at 48 CFR 52.232–18. For carrying out section 301 and title IV of and that such payments shall be credited to the NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH the Public Health Service Act with respect to al- National Institutes of Health Management NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE cohol abuse and alcoholism, $384,238,000. Fund: Provided further, That all funds credited For carrying out section 301 and title IV of NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE to the National Institutes of Health Manage- the Public Health Service Act with respect to For carrying out section 301 and title IV of ment Fund shall remain available for 1 fiscal cancer, $4,190,405,000. the Public Health Service Act with respect to year after the fiscal year in which they are de- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE drug abuse, $888,105,000. posited. For carrying out section 301 and title IV of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES the Public Health Service Act with respect to For carrying out section 301 and title IV of (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) cardiovascular, lung, and blood diseases, and the Public Health Service Act with respect to For the study of, construction of, and acquisi- blood and blood products, $2,576,125,000. mental health, $1,248,626,000. tion of equipment for, facilities of or used by the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE National Institutes of Health, including the ac- CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH For carrying out section 301 and title IV of quisition of real property, $309,600,000, to re- For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health Service Act with respect to main available until expended, of which the Public Health Service Act with respect to human genome research, $429,515,000. $26,000,000 shall be for the John Edward Porter dental disease, $343,327,000. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING Neuroscience Research Center: Provided, That AND BIOENGINEERING notwithstanding any other provision of law, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE single contracts or related contracts, which col- AND KIDNEY DISEASES For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health Service Act with respect to lectively include the full scope of the project, For carrying out section 301 and title IV of biomedical imaging and bioengineering research, may be employed for the development and con- the Public Health Service Act with respect to di- $111,984,000. struction of the first and second phases of the abetes and digestive and kidney disease, John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research $1,466,833,000. NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES For carrying out section 301 and title IV of Center: Provided further, That the solicitations NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL the Public Health Service Act with respect to re- and contracts shall contain the clause ‘‘avail- DISORDERS AND STROKE search resources and general research support ability of funds’’ found at 48 CFR 52.232–18: For carrying out section 301 and title IV of grants, $1,011,594,000: Provided, That none of Provided further, That the Director may trans- the Public Health Service Act with respect to these funds shall be used to pay recipients of fer up to $75,000,000 to International Assistance neurological disorders and stroke, $1,328,188,000. the general research support grants program Programs, ‘‘Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND any amount for indirect expenses in connection Malaria, and Tuberculosis’’, to remain available INFECTIOUS DISEASES with such grants: Provided further, That until expended. (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) $110,000,000 shall be for extramural facilities SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH For carrying out section 301 and title IV of construction grants, of which $5,000,000 shall be SERVICES ADMINISTRATION the Public Health Service Act with respect to al- for beginning construction of facilities for a SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES lergy and infectious diseases, $2,372,278,000: Chimp Sanctuary system as authorized in Pub- For carrying out titles V and XIX of the Pub- Provided, That the Director may transfer up to lic Law 106–551. lic Health Service Act with respect to substance $25,000,000 to International Assistance Pro- NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND abuse and mental health services, the Protection grams, ‘‘Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Ma- ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act laria, and Tuberculosis’’, to remain available For carrying out section 301 and title IV of of 1986, and section 301 of the Public Health until expended. the Public Health Service Act with respect to Service Act with respect to program manage- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL complementary and alternative medicine, ment, $3,138,279,000, of which $28,721,000 shall SCIENCES $104,644,000. be available for the projects and in the amounts For carrying out section 301 and title IV of NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND specified in the statement of the managers on the Public Health Service Act with respect to HEALTH DISPARITIES the conference report accompanying this Act. general medical sciences, $1,725,263,000. For carrying out section 301 and title IV of AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND the Public Health Service Act with respect to mi- QUALITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT nority health and health disparities research, HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY For carrying out section 301 and title IV of $157,812,000. For carrying out titles III and IX of the Pub- the Public Health Service Act with respect to JOHN E. FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER lic Health Service Act, and part A of title XI of child health and human development, For carrying out the activities at the John E. the Social Security Act, $2,600,000; in addition, $1,113,605,000. Fogarty International Center, $56,940,000. amounts received from Freedom of Information

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 26462 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Act fees, reimbursable and interagency agree- tiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from For making payments to each State for car- ments, and the sale of data shall be credited to asthma in high prevalence areas: Provided fur- rying out the program of Aid to Families with this appropriation and shall remain available ther, That $250,000 of the amount available for Dependent Children under title IV–A of the So- until expended: Provided, That the amount research, demonstration, and evaluation activi- cial Security Act before the effective date of the made available pursuant to section 926(b) of the ties shall be awarded to the Illinois Primary program of Temporary Assistance to Needy Public Health Service Act shall not exceed Health Care Association to implement the Families (TANF) with respect to such State, $296,145,000. Shared Integrated Management Information such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES System providing centralized case management, the sum of the amounts available to a State with reimbursement and administrative support serv- respect to expenditures under such title IV–A in GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID ices: Provided further, That $500,000 of the fiscal year 1997 under this appropriation and For carrying out, except as otherwise pro- amount available for research, demonstration, under such title IV–A as amended by the Per- vided, titles XI and XIX of the Social Security and evaluation activities shall be awarded to sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, $106,821,882,000, to remain available until Project Access in Muskegon, Michigan to offer Reconciliation Act of 1996 shall not exceed the expended. affordable insurance to uninsured workers, pri- limitations under section 116(b) of such Act. For making, after May 31, 2002, payments to marily in small business, and low-income indi- For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal States under title XIX of the Social Security Act viduals: Provided further, That $590,000 of the year, payments to States or other non-Federal for the last quarter of fiscal year 2002 for unan- amount available for research, demonstration, entities under titles I, IV–D, X, XI, XIV, and ticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal and evaluation activities shall be awarded to XVI of the Social Security Act and the Act of year, such sums as may be necessary. Santa Clara County, California, for the out- July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), for the last 3 For making payments to States or in the case reach and application assistance aspects of its months of the current fiscal year for unantici- of section 1928 on behalf of States under title Children’s Health Initiative, to demonstrate pated costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, XIX of the Social Security Act for the first quar- means of expanding enrollment of eligible chil- such sums as may be necessary. ter of fiscal year 2003, $46,601,937,000, to remain dren in Medicaid, SCHIP and other available LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE available until expended. health care programs: Provided further, That For making payments under title XXVI of the Payment under title XIX may be made for any $800,000 of the amount available for research, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, quarter with respect to a State plan or plan demonstration, and evaluation activities shall $1,700,000,000. amendment in effect during such quarter, if sub- be awarded to the Fishing Partnership Health For making payments under title XXVI of the mitted in or prior to such quarter and approved Plan, based in Boston, Massachusetts, for a Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, in that or any subsequent quarter. demonstration project on the efficacy of using a $300,000,000: Provided, That these funds are for PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS community-based health benefit program to pro- the unanticipated home energy assistance needs For payment to the Federal Hospital Insur- vide health care coverage for lower-income inde- of one or more States, as authorized by section ance and the Federal Supplementary Medical pendently employed workers and their families: 2604(e) of the Act: Provided further, That these Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under sec- Provided further, That $800,000 of the amount funds are hereby designated by Congress to be tion 1844 of the Social Security Act, sections available for research, demonstration, and eval- emergency requirements pursuant to section 103(c) and 111(d) of the Social Security Amend- uation activities shall be awarded to the Mind- 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer- ments of 1965, section 278(d) of Public Law 97– Body Institute of Boston, Massachusetts to con- gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided fur- 248, and for administrative expenses incurred tinue and expand a demonstration project: Pro- ther, That these funds shall be made available pursuant to section 201(g) of the Social Security vided further, That $900,000 of the amount only after submission to Congress of an official Act, $81,979,200,000. available for research, demonstration, and eval- budget request by the President that includes PROGRAM MANAGEMENT uation activities shall be awarded to the Chil- designation of the entire amount of the request For carrying out, except as otherwise pro- dren’s Hospice International demonstration pro- as an emergency requirement as defined in the vided, titles XI, XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the So- gram to provide a continuum of care for chil- Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con- cial Security Act, titles XIII and XXVII of the dren with life-threatening conditions and their trol Act of 1985. Public Health Service Act, and the Clinical Lab- families: Provided further, That $1,500,000 of the REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE oratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, not amount available for research, demonstration, For making payments for refugee and entrant to exceed $2,440,798,000, to be transferred from and evaluation activities shall be awarded to assistance activities authorized by title IV of the the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal the Iowa Department of Public Health for the Immigration and Nationality Act and section Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, continuation of a prescription drug cooperative 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social Se- demonstration: Provided further, That $2,000,000 1980 (Public Law 96–422), $450,203,000: Provided, curity Act; together with all funds collected in of the amount available for research, dem- That funds appropriated pursuant to section accordance with section 353 of the Public Health onstration, and evaluation activities shall be 414(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act Service Act and section 1857(e)(2) of the Social awarded to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in for fiscal year 2002 shall be available for the Security Act, and such sums as may be collected Los Angeles for a demonstration of residential costs of assistance provided and other activities from authorized user fees and the sale of data, and outpatient treatment facilities: Provided through September 30, 2004: Provided further, which shall remain available until expended, further, That the Secretary of Health and That up to $10,000,000 is available to carry out and together with administrative fees collected Human Services is directed to collect fees in fis- the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. ∂ relative to Medicare overpayment recovery ac- cal year 2002 from Medicare Choice organiza- For carrying out section 5 of the Torture Vic- tivities, which shall remain available until ex- tions pursuant to section 1857(e)(2) of the Social tims Relief Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–320), pended: Provided, That all funds derived in ac- Security Act and from eligible organizations $10,000,000. cordance with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations with risk-sharing contracts under section 1876 of PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND established under title XIII of the Public Health that Act pursuant to section 1876(k)(4)(D) of DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT Service Act shall be credited to and available for that Act. For carrying out sections 658A through 658R carrying out the purposes of this appropriation: HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION LOAN AND of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of Provided further, That $18,200,000 appropriated LOAN GUARANTEE FUND 1981 (The Child Care and Development Block under this heading for the managed care system For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of Grant Act of 1990), $2,099,994,000 shall be used redesign shall remain available until expended: section 1308 of the Public Health Service Act, to supplement, not supplant state general rev- Provided further, That $100,000 of the amount any amounts received by the Secretary in con- enue funds for child care assistance for low-in- available for research, demonstration, and eval- nection with loans and loan guarantees under come families: Provided, That $19,120,000 shall uation activities shall be awarded to the Re- title XIII of the Public Health Service Act, to be be available for child care resource and referral gional Nursing Centers Consortium in Philadel- available without fiscal year limitation for the and school-aged child care activities, of which phia to initiate a demonstration project to payment of outstanding obligations. During fis- $1,000,000 shall be for the Child Care Aware toll evaluate 15 nurse-managed health centers in cal year 2002, no commitments for direct loans or free hotline: Provided further, That, in addition urban and rural areas across Pennsylvania: loan guarantees shall be made. to the amounts required to be reserved by the Provided further, That $200,000 of the amount ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES States under section 658G, $272,672,000 shall be available for research, demonstration, and eval- PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR CHILD SUPPORT reserved by the States for activities authorized uation activities shall be awarded to the Ma- ENFORCEMENT AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS under section 658G, of which $100,000,000 shall donna Rehabilitation Center in Lincoln, Ne- For making payments to States or other non- be for activities that improve the quality of in- braska to create a new standard of rehabilita- Federal entities under titles I, IV–D, X, XI, fant and toddler care: Provided further, That tion practice and program design for children XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the $10,000,000 shall be for use by the Secretary for and adults with disabilities: Provided further, Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), child care research, demonstration, and evalua- That $250,000 of the amount available for re- $2,447,800,000, to remain available until ex- tion activities. search, demonstration, and evaluation activities pended; and for such purposes for the first SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT shall be awarded to the Cook County, Illinois quarter of fiscal year 2003, $1,100,000,000, to re- For making grants to States pursuant to sec- Bureau of Health for the Asthma Champion Ini- main available until expended. tion 2002 of the Social Security Act,

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26463 $1,700,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding grant for purposes and uses consistent with the curity Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust subparagraph (B) of section 404(d)(2) of such original grant: Provided further, That funds ap- Fund and the Supplemental Medical Insurance Act, the applicable percent specified under such propriated for section 680(a)(2) of the Commu- Trust Fund. subparagraph for a State to carry out State pro- nity Services Block Grant Act, as amended, POLICY RESEARCH grams pursuant to title XX of such Act shall be shall be available for financing construction For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise 10 percent. and rehabilitation and loans or investments in provided, research studies under section 1110 of CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS private business enterprises owned by commu- the Social Security Act and title III of the Pub- (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) nity development corporations. lic Health Service Act, $2,500,000: Provided, For carrying out, except as otherwise pro- Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under That in addition to amounts provided herein, vided, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, section 429A(e), part B of title IV of the Social funds from amounts available under section 241 the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Security Act shall be reduced by $6,000,000. of the Public Health Service Act may be used to Bill of Rights Act, the Head Start Act, the Child Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under carry out national health or human services re- Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, sections section 413(h)(1) of the Social Security Act shall search and evaluation activities: Provided fur- 310 and 316 of the Family Violence Prevention be reduced by $15,000,000. ther, That the expenditure of any funds avail- and Services Act, as amended, the Native Amer- PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES able under section 241 of the Public Health Serv- ican Programs Act of 1974, title II of Public Law For carrying out subpart 2 of part B of title ice Act are subject to the requirements of section 95–266 (adoption opportunities), the Adoption IV of the Social Security Act, $305,000,000. In 205 of this Act. and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105– addition, for such purposes, $70,000,000 to carry RETIREMENT PAY AND MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR 89), sections 1201 and 1211 of the Children’s out such subpart. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Health Act of 2000, the Abandoned Infants As- PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND For retirement pay and medical benefits of sistance Act of 1988, the Early Learning Oppor- ADOPTION ASSISTANCE Public Health Service Commissioned Officers as tunities Act, part B(1) of title IV and sections For making payments to States or other non- authorized by law, for payments under the Re- 413, 429A, 1110, and 1115 of the Social Security Federal entities under title IV–E of the Social tired Serviceman’s Family Protection Plan and Act, and sections 40155, 40211, and 40241 of Pub- Security Act, $4,885,600,000. Survivor Benefit Plan, for medical care of de- lic Law 103–322; for making payments under the For making payments to States or other non- pendents and retired personnel under the De- Community Services Block Grant Act, section Federal entities under title IV–E of the Social pendents’ Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55), 473A of the Social Security Act, and title IV of Security Act, for the first quarter of fiscal year and for payments pursuant to section 229(b) of Public Law 105–285, and for necessary adminis- 2003, $1,754,000,000. the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)), such trative expenses to carry out said Acts and titles ADMINISTRATION ON AGING amounts as may be required during the current I, IV, X, XI, XIV, XVI, and XX of the Social fiscal year. Security Act, the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. AGING SERVICES PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY ch. 9), the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise FUND of 1981, title IV of the Immigration and Nation- provided, the Older Americans Act of 1965, as ality Act, section 501 of the Refugee Education amended, and section 398 of the Public Health For expenses necessary to support activities Assistance Act of 1980, section 5 of the Torture Service Act, $1,199,814,000, of which $5,000,000 related to countering potential biological, dis- Victims Relief Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–320), shall be available for activities regarding medi- ease and chemical threats to civilian popu- sections 40155, 40211, and 40241 of Public Law cation management, screening, and education to lations, $242,949,000: Provided, That this 103–322, sections 310 and 316 of the Family Vio- prevent incorrect medication and adverse drug amount is distributed as follows: Centers for lence Prevention and Services Act, as amended, reactions. Disease Control and Prevention, $181,919,000, of which $52,000,000 shall remain available until and section 126 and titles IV and V of Public OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Law 100–485, $8,429,183,000, of which $43,000,000, expended for the National Pharmaceutical GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT to remain available until September 30, 2003, Stockpile; and Office of Emergency Prepared- For necessary expenses, not otherwise pro- shall be for grants to States for adoption incen- ness, $61,030,000. vided, for general departmental management, tive payments, as authorized by section 473A of GENERAL PROVISIONS including hire of six sedans, and for carrying title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 670– SEC. 201. Funds appropriated in this title shall out titles III, XVII, and XX of the Public 679) and may be made for adoptions completed be available for not to exceed $37,000 for official Health Service Act, and the United States-Mex- in fiscal years 2000 and 2001; of which reception and representation expenses when ico Border Health Commission Act, $341,703,000, $738,821,000 shall be for making payments under specifically approved by the Secretary. together with $5,851,000, to be transferred and the Community Services Block Grant Act; and of SEC. 202. The Secretary shall make available expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of which $6,537,906,000 shall be for making pay- through assignment not more than 60 employees the Social Security Act from the Hospital Insur- ments under the Head Start Act, of which of the Public Health Service to assist in child ance Trust Fund and the Supplemental Medical $1,400,000,000 shall become available October 1, survival activities and to work in AIDS pro- Insurance Trust Fund: Provided, That of the 2002 and remain available through September 30, grams through and with funds provided by the funds made available under this heading for 2003: Provided, That to the extent Community Agency for International Development, the carrying out title XX of the Public Health Serv- Services Block Grant funds are distributed as United Nations International Children’s Emer- ice Act, $11,885,000 shall be for activities speci- grant funds by a State to an eligible entity as gency Fund or the World Health Organization. fied under section 2003(b)(2), of which provided under the Act, and have not been ex- SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated $10,157,000 shall be for prevention service dem- pended by such entity, they shall remain with under this Act may be used to implement section onstration grants under section 510(b)(2) of title such entity for carryover into the next fiscal 399L(b) of the Public Health Service Act or sec- V of the Social Security Act, as amended, with- year for expenditure by such entity consistent tion 1503 of the National Institutes of Health out application of the limitation of section with program purposes: Provided further, That Revitalization Act of 1993, Public Law 103–43. 2010(c) of said title XX: Provided further, That all eligible entities currently in good standing in SEC. 204. None of the funds appropriated in of this amount, $50,000,000 is for minority AIDS the Community Services Block Grant program this Act for the National Institutes of Health, prevention and treatment activities; and shall receive an increase in funding propor- the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qual- $21,998,000 shall be for an Information Tech- tionate to the increase provided in this Act for ity, and the Substance Abuse and Mental nology Security and Innovation Fund for De- the Community Services Block Grant: Provided Health Services Administration shall be used to partment-wide activities involving cybersecurity, further, That $88,133,000 shall be for activities pay the salary of an individual, through a information technology security, and related in- authorized by the Runaway and Homeless grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate novation projects. Youth Act, notwithstanding the allocation re- in excess of Executive Level I. quirements of section 388(a) of such Act, of OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL SEC. 205. None of the funds appropriated in which $39,739,900 is for the transitional living For expenses necessary for the Office of In- this Act may be expended pursuant to section program: Provided further, That $30,000,000 is spector General in carrying out the provisions of 241 of the Public Health Service Act, except for for a compassion capital fund to provide grants the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for to charitable organizations to emulate model so- $35,786,000: Provided, That, of such amount, other taps and assessments made by any office cial service programs and to encourage research necessary sums are available for providing pro- located in the Department of Health and Human on the best practices of social service organiza- tective services to the Secretary and inves- Services, prior to the Secretary’s preparation tions: Provided further, That the Secretary shall tigating non-payment of child support cases for and submission of a report to the Committee on establish procedures regarding the disposition of which non-payment is a Federal offense under Appropriations of the Senate and of the House intangible property which permits grant funds, 18 U.S.C. section 228. detailing the planned uses of such funds. or intangible assets acquired with funds author- OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS SEC. 206. Notwithstanding section 241(a) of ized under section 680 of the Community Serv- For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil the Public Health Service Act, such portion as ices Block Grant Act, as amended, to become the Rights, $28,691,000, together with not to exceed the Secretary shall determine, but not more than sole property of such grantees after a period of $3,314,000, to be transferred and expended as 1.25 percent, of any amounts appropriated for not more than 12 years after the end of the authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Se- programs authorized under said Act shall be

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made available for the evaluation (directly, or (B) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘October 1, SEC. 218. Section 582 of the Public Health by grants or contracts) of the implementation 2001’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Octo- Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290hh–1(f)) is amended by and effectiveness of such programs. ber 1, 2002’’; and adding at the end the following: (TRANSFER OF FUNDS) (2) in section 599E (8 U.S.C. 1255 note) in sub- ‘‘(g) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited SEC. 207. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre- section (b)(2), by striking ‘‘September 30, 2001’’ as the ‘Donald J. Cohen National Child Trau- tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2002’’. matic Stress Initiative’.’’. and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as SEC. 214. (a) Except as provided by subsection This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of amended) which are appropriated for the cur- (e) none of the funds appropriated by this Act Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, rent fiscal year for the Department of Health may be used to withhold substance abuse fund- 2002’’. and Human Services in this Act may be trans- ing from a State pursuant to section 1926 of the TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x–26) if ferred between appropriations, but no such ap- EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED propriation shall be increased by more than 3 such State certifies to the Secretary of Health and Human Services by May 1, 2002 that the For carrying out title I of the Elementary and percent by any such transfer: Provided, That an Secondary Education Act of 1965 (‘‘ESEA’’) and appropriation may be increased by up to an ad- State will commit additional State funds, in ac- cordance with subsection (b), to ensure compli- section 418A of the Higher Education Act of ditional 2 percent subject to approval by the 1965, $12,346,900,000, of which $4,777,199,000 House and Senate Committees on Appropria- ance with State laws prohibiting the sale of to- bacco products to individuals under 18 years of shall become available on July 1, 2002, and shall tions: Provided further, That the Appropria- remain available through September 30, 2003, tions Committees of both Houses of Congress are age. (b) The amount of funds to be committed by a and of which $7,383,301,000 shall become avail- notified at least 15 days in advance of any State under subsection (a) shall be equal to 1 able on October 1, 2002, and shall remain avail- transfer. percent of such State’s substance abuse block able through September 30, 2003, for academic SEC. 208. The Director of the National Insti- year 2002–2003: Provided, That $235,000,000 shall tutes of Health, jointly with the Director of the grant allocation for each percentage point by which the State misses the retailer compliance be available for comprehensive school reform Office of AIDS Research, may transfer up to 3 grants under part F of the ESEA: Provided fur- percent among institutes, centers, and divisions rate goal established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 1926 of such ther, That $15,000,000 of the amount appro- from the total amounts identified by these two priated for title I, part B, subpart 1 shall become Directors as funding for research pertaining to Act. (c) The State is to maintain State expenditures available October 1, 2001, and shall remain the human immunodeficiency virus: Provided, in fiscal year 2002 for tobacco prevention pro- available through September 30, 2003, for eval- That the Congress is promptly notified of the grams and for compliance activities at a level uation and technical assistance: Provided fur- transfer. that is not less than the level of such expendi- ther, That the funds provided for title I, part B, SEC. 209. Of the amounts made available in tures maintained by the State for fiscal year subpart 2 shall become available October 1, 2001, this Act for the National Institutes of Health, 2001, and adding to that level the additional and shall remain available through September the amount for research related to the human funds for tobacco compliance activities required 30, 2003: Provided further, That $7,172,971,000 immunodeficiency virus, as jointly determined under subsection (a). The State is to submit a shall be available for basic grants under section by the Director of the National Institutes of report to the Secretary on all fiscal year 2001 1124: Provided further, That up to $3,500,000 of Health and the Director of the Office of AIDS State expenditures and all fiscal year 2002 obli- these funds shall be available to the Secretary of Research, shall be made available to the ‘‘Office gations for tobacco prevention and compliance Education on October 1, 2001, to obtain updated of AIDS Research’’ account. The Director of the activities by program activity by July 31, 2002. educational-agency-level census poverty data Office of AIDS Research shall transfer from (d) The Secretary shall exercise discretion in from the Bureau of the Census: Provided fur- such account amounts necessary to carry out enforcing the timing of the State obligation of ther, That $1,365,031,000 shall be available for section 2353(d)(3) of the Public Health Service the additional funds required by the certifi- concentration grants under section 1124A: Pro- Act. cation described in subsection (a) as late as July vided further, That $1,018,499,000 shall be avail- SEC. 210. None of the funds appropriated in 31, 2002. able for targeted grants under section 1125: Pro- this Act may be made available to any entity (e) None of the funds appropriated by this Act vided further, That $793,499,000 shall be avail- under title X of the Public Health Service Act may be used to withhold substance abuse fund- able for education finance incentive grants unless the applicant for the award certifies to ing pursuant to section 1926 from a territory under section 1125A. the Secretary that it encourages family partici- that receives less than $1,000,000. pation in the decision of minors to seek family IMPACT AID SEC. 215. In order for the Centers for Disease For carrying out programs of financial assist- planning services and that it provides coun- Control and Prevention to carry out inter- seling to minors on how to resist attempts to co- ance to federally affected schools authorized by national health activities, including HIV/AIDS title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Edu- erce minors into engaging in sexual activities. and other infectious disease, chronic and envi- SEC. 211. None of the funds appropriated by cation Act of 1965, $1,143,500,000, of which ronmental disease, and other health activities $982,500,000 shall be for basic support payments this Act (including funds appropriated to any abroad during fiscal year 2002, the Secretary of trust fund) may be used to carry out the under section 8003(b), $50,000,000 shall be for Health and Human Services is authorized to— payments for children with disabilities under Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary de- (1) utilize the authorities contained in sub- section 8003(d), $48,000,000 shall be for construc- nies participation in such program to an other- section 2(c) of the State Department Basic Au- tion under section 8007 and shall remain avail- wise eligible entity (including a Provider Spon- thorities Act of 1956, as amended, and able through September 30, 2003, $55,000,000 sored Organization) because the entity informs (2) utilize the authorities contained in 22 shall be for Federal property payments under the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, U.S.C. sections 291 and 292 and directly or section 8002, and $8,000,000, to remain available provide coverage of, or provide referrals for through contract or cooperative agreement to until expended, shall be for facilities mainte- abortions: Provided, That the Secretary shall lease, alter or renovate facilities in foreign nance under section 8008: Provided, That make appropriate prospective adjustments to the countries, to carry out programs supported by $3,000,000 of the funds for section 8007 shall be capitation payment to such an entity (based on this appropriation notwithstanding PHS Act available for the local educational agencies and an actuarially sound estimate of the expected section 307. costs of providing the service to such entity’s en- In exercising the authority set forth in (1) and in the amounts specified in the statement of the rollees): Provided further, That nothing in this (2), the Secretary of Health and Human Services managers on the conference report accom- section shall be construed to change the Medi- shall consult with the Department of State to panying this Act. care program’s coverage for such services and a assure that planned activities are within the SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS Medicare+Choice organization described in this legal strictures of the State Department Basic For carrying out school improvement activities section shall be responsible for informing enroll- Authorities Act of 1956, as amended, and other authorized by titles II, IV, V, VI, and parts B ees where to obtain information about all Medi- applicable parts of U.S.C. Title 22. and C of title VII of the Elementary and Sec- care covered services. SEC. 216. The Division of Federal Occupa- ondary Education Act of 1965; part B of title II SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision tional Health may utilize personal services con- of the Higher Education Act; the McKinney- of law, no provider of services under title X of tracting to employ professional management/ad- Vento Homeless Assistance Act; and the Civil the Public Health Service Act shall be exempt ministrative and occupational health profes- Rights Act of 1964, $7,827,473,000, of which from any State law requiring notification or the sionals. $1,717,609,000 shall become available October 1, reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sex- SEC. 217. Notwithstanding any other provision 2001, and shall remain available through Sep- ual abuse, rape, or incest. of law relating to vacancies in offices for which tember 30, 2003, of which $2,801,597,000 shall be- SEC. 213. The Foreign Operations, Export Fi- appointments must be made by the President, come available on July 1, 2002, and remain nancing, and Related Programs Appropriations including any time limitation on serving in an available through September 30, 2003, and of Act, 1990 (Public Law 101–167) is amended— acting capacity, the Acting Director of the Na- which $1,765,000,000 shall become available on (1) in section 599D (8 U.S.C. 1157 note)— tional Institutes of Health as of January 12, October 1, 2002, and shall remain available (A) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ‘‘1997, 2000, may serve in that position until a new Di- through September 30, 2003, for academic year 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘1997, rector of the National Institutes of Health is 2002–2003: Provided, That $75,000,000 for con- 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002’’; and confirmed by the Senate. tinuing and new grants to demonstrate effective

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26465 approaches to comprehensive school reform shall the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 for fiscal for integrated English literacy and civics edu- be allocated and expended in the same manner year 2001, the Secretary of Education shall cation, notwithstanding section 211 of the Adult as the funds provided under the Fund for the award under such section an additional 1-year Education and Family Literacy Act, 65 percent Improvement of Education for this purpose were extension of the grant to such State for fiscal shall be allocated to States based on a State’s allocated and expended in fiscal year 2001: Pro- year 2002 in an amount equal to the amount the absolute need as determined by calculating each vided further, That $142,189,000 shall be avail- State received under such section for fiscal year State’s share of a 10-year average of the Immi- able to support the activities authorized under 2001: Provided further, That each State shall be gration and Naturalization Service data for im- subpart 4 of part D of title V of the ESEA, of provided $50,000 for activities under section 102 migrants admitted for legal permanent residence which up to 5 percent shall become available on of the AT Act: Provided further, That for the 10 most recent years, and 35 percent allo- October 1, 2001, for evaluation, technical assist- $36,552,000 shall be used to support grants for cated to States that experienced growth as meas- ance, school networking, peer review of applica- up to 3 years to States under title III of the AT ured by the average of the 3 most recent years tions, and program outreach activities and of Act, of which the Federal share shall not exceed for which Immigration and Naturalization Serv- which not less than 95 percent shall become 75 percent in the first year, 50 percent in the ice data for immigrants admitted for legal per- available on July 1, 2002, and remain available second year, and 25 percent in the third year, manent residence are available, except that no through September 30, 2003, for grants to local and that the requirements in section 301(c)(2) State shall be allocated an amount less than educational agencies: Provided further, That and section 302 of that Act shall not apply to $60,000: Provided further, That of the amounts funds made available to local educational agen- such grants: Provided further, That $3,746,000 of made available for the Adult Education and cies under this subpart shall be used only for the funds for section 303 of the Rehabilitation Family Literacy Act, $9,500,000 shall be for na- activities related to establishing smaller learning Act of 1973 shall be available for the projects tional leadership activities under section 243 communities in high schools: Provided further, and in the amounts specified in the statement of and $6,560,000 shall be for the National Institute That of the amount made available for subpart the managers on the conference report accom- for Literacy under section 242: Provided further, 3, part C, of title II of the ESEA, $2,000,000 shall panying this Act. That $22,000,000 shall be for Youth Offender be used by the Center for Civic Education to im- SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH Grants, of which $5,000,000 shall be used in ac- plement a comprehensive program to improve DISABILITIES cordance with section 601 of Public Law 102–73 public knowledge, understanding, and support as that section was in effect prior to the enact- AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND of the Congress and the state legislatures: Pro- ment of Public Law 105–220. For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as vided further, That $269,906,000 of the funds for amended (20 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), $14,000,000. STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE subpart 1, part D of title V of the ESEA shall be available for the projects and in the amounts NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF For carrying out subparts 1, 3 and 4 of part A, specified in the statement of the managers on For the National Technical Institute for the section 428K, part C and part E of title IV of the the conference report accompanying this Act. Deaf under titles I and II of the Education of Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), INDIAN EDUCATION $12,285,500,000, which shall remain available $55,376,000, of which $5,376,000 shall be for con- through September 30, 2003. For expenses necessary to carry out, to the ex- struction and shall remain available until ex- tent not otherwise provided, title VII, part A of pended: Provided, That from the total amount The maximum Pell Grant for which a student the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of available, the Institute may at its discretion use shall be eligible during award year 2002–2003 1965, $120,368,000. funds for the endowment program as authorized shall be $4,000. BILINGUAL AND IMMIGRANT EDUCATION under section 207. FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOAN PROGRAM For carrying out title III, part A of the ESEA, GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ACCOUNT $665,000,000, of which $415,000,000 shall become For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary For Federal administrative expenses to carry available on July 1, 2002, and shall remain School, the Model Secondary School for the available through September 30, 2003. out guaranteed student loans authorized by title Deaf, and the partial support of Gallaudet Uni- IV, part B, of the Higher Education Act of 1965, SPECIAL EDUCATION versity under titles I and II of the Education of as amended, $49,636,000. For carrying out the Individuals with Disabil- the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), ities Education Act, $8,672,804,000, of which $96,938,000: Provided, That from the total HIGHER EDUCATION $3,315,233,000 shall become available for obliga- amount available, the University may at its dis- For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise tion on July 1, 2002, and shall remain available cretion use funds for the endowment program as provided, section 121 and titles II, III, IV, V, VI, through September 30, 2003, and of which authorized under section 207. and VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as $5,072,000,000 shall become available on October VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION amended, section 1543 of the Higher Education 1, 2002, and shall remain available through Sep- For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise Amendments of 1992, title VIII of the Higher tember 30, 2003, for academic year 2002–2003: provided, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Education Amendments of 1998, and the Mutual Provided, That $9,500,000 shall be for Recording Applied Technology Education Act, the Adult Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, for the Blind and Dyslexic to support the devel- Education and Family Literacy Act, and title $2,031,048,000, of which $5,000,000 for interest opment, production, and circulation of recorded VIII–D of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as subsidies authorized by section 121 of the Higher educational materials: Provided further, That amended, and Public Law 102–73, $1,934,060,000, Education Act of 1965, shall remain available $1,500,000 shall be for the recipient of funds pro- of which $1,136,560,000 shall become available on until expended: Provided, That $10,000,000, to vided by Public Law 105–78 under section July 1, 2002 and shall remain available through remain available through September 30, 2003, 687(b)(2)(G) of the Act to provide information on September 30, 2003 and of which $791,000,000 shall be available to fund fellowships for aca- diagnosis, intervention, and teaching strategies shall become available on October 1, 2002 and demic year 2003–2004 under part A, subpart 1 of for children with disabilities: Provided further, shall remain available through September 30, title VII of said Act, under the terms and condi- That the amount for section 611(c) of the Act 2003: Provided, That of the amounts made avail- tions of part A, subpart 1: Provided further, shall be equal to the amount available for that able for the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Ap- That $1,000,000 is for data collection and eval- section under Public Law 106–554, increased by plied Technology Education Act, $6,500,000 shall uation activities for programs under the Higher the amount of inflation as specified in section be for tribally controlled postsecondary voca- Education Act of 1965, including such activities 611(f)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act: Provided further, tional and technical institutions under section needed to comply with the Government Perform- That $8,380,000 of the funds for section 672 of 117: Provided further, That notwithstanding ance and Results Act of 1993: Provided further, the Act shall be available for the projects and in any other provision of law or any regulation, That $17,500,000 shall be available for tribally the amounts specified in the statement of the the Secretary of Education shall not require the controlled colleges and universities under sec- managers on the conference report accom- use of a restricted indirect cost rate for grants tion 316 of the Higher Education Act of 1965: panying this Act. issued pursuant to section 117 of the Carl D. Provided further, That notwithstanding any REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology other provision of law, funds made available in RESEARCH Education Act: Provided further, That this Act to carry out title VI of the Higher Edu- For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise $9,500,000 shall be for carrying out section 118 of cation Act of 1965, as amended, and section provided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the As- such Act: Provided further, That of the amounts 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational and Cul- sistive Technology Act of 1998, and the Helen made available for the Carl D. Perkins Voca- tural Exchange Act of 1961 may be used to sup- Keller National Center Act, $2,945,813,000, of tional and Applied Technology Education Act, port visits and study in foreign countries by in- which $56,552,000 shall remain available $5,000,000 shall be for demonstration activities dividuals who are participating in advanced through September 30, 2003: Provided, That the authorized by section 207: Provided further, foreign language training and international funds provided for title I of the Assistive Tech- That of the amount provided for Adult Edu- studies in areas that are vital to United States nology Act of 1998 (‘‘the AT Act’’) shall be allo- cation State Grants, $70,000,000 shall be made national security and who plan to apply their cated notwithstanding section 105(b)(1) of the available for integrated English literacy and language skills and knowledge of these coun- AT Act: Provided further, That in the case of a civics education services to immigrants and tries in the fields of government, the professions, State that was in the third year of a 3-year ex- other limited English proficient populations: or international development: Provided further, tension grant made pursuant to section 101(f) of Provided further, That of the amount reserved That up to one percent of the funds referred to

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 26466 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 in the preceding proviso may be used for pro- the student’s home, except for a student requir- (2) initially began participating in both such gram evaluation, national outreach, and infor- ing special education, to the school offering programs during or after 1989, but not later mation dissemination activities: Provided fur- such special education, in order to comply with than 1999; ther, That $149,722,000 of the funds for part B of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the (3) has a current enrollment of not less than title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 purpose of this section an indirect requirement 2,000 students; shall be available for the projects and in the of transportation of students includes the trans- (4) provides educational programs for which amounts specified in the statement of the man- portation of students to carry out a plan involv- the institution awards baccalaureate and grad- agers on the conference report accompanying ing the reorganization of the grade structure of uate degrees; this Act. schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering (5) has experienced an actual enrollment in- HOWARD UNIVERSITY of schools, or any combination of grade restruc- crease of 75 percent or more since the institution For partial support of Howard University (20 turing, pairing or clustering. The prohibition began participating in such programs; and (6) charged, for academic year 2000–2001, in- U.S.C. 121 et seq.), $237,474,000, of which not described in this section does not include the es- State tuition and fees for a full-time under- less than $3,600,000 shall be for a matching en- tablishment of magnet schools. graduate student that were less than such tui- dowment grant pursuant to the Howard Univer- SEC. 303. No funds appropriated under this tion and fees charged by the institution for aca- sity Endowment Act (Public Law 98–480) and Act may be used to prevent the implementation demic year 1998–1999. shall remain available until expended. of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. (c) An institution of higher education that re- COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES ceives a reallocation under subsection (a) may (TRANSFER OF FUNDS) LOANS PROGRAM use that reallocation for Federal Supplemental For Federal administrative expenses author- SEC. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre- Educational Opportunity Grants or Federal ized under section 121 of the Higher Education tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget Work Study awards. Act of 1965, $762,000 to carry out activities re- and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as (d)(1) A reallocation made under subsection lated to existing facility loans entered into amended) which are appropriated for the De- (a) to an institution described in subsection (b) under the Higher Education Act of 1965. partment of Education in this Act may be trans- shall be determined by calculating the difference HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ferred between appropriations, but no such ap- between— CAPITAL FINANCING PROGRAM ACCOUNT propriation shall be increased by more than 3 (A) the amount (commonly referred to as the The total amount of bonds insured pursuant percent by any such transfer: Provided, That ‘‘base guarantee’’) that the institution received to section 344 of title III, part D of the Higher the Appropriations Committees of both Houses under section 413D(a) or 442(a) of that Act, as Education Act of 1965 shall not exceed of Congress are notified at least 15 days in ad- the case may be; and $357,000,000, and the cost, as defined in section vance of any transfer. (B) the amount that the institution would re- 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of SEC. 305. (a) Section 1543(a) of the Higher ceive pursuant to section 413D(a)(2)(B)(ii) or such bonds shall not exceed zero. Education Amendments of 1992 (20 U.S.C. 1070 442(a)(2)(B)(ii) of that Act, as the case may be, For administrative expenses to carry out the note) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and if the institution were beginning its program Historically Black College and University Cap- inserting the following: participation in the 2002–2003 academic year. ital Financing Program entered into pursuant to ‘‘(2) AWARD DETERMINATION.—The amount of (2) If the amounts available for reallocation title III, part D of the Higher Education Act of the financial assistance provided to an athlete under subsection (a) are insufficient to fully 1965, as amended, $208,000. described in paragraph (1) shall be determined fund the amounts determined under paragraph in accordance with criteria, and in amounts, EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND (1) of this subsection to each institution de- specified in the application of the center under ASSESSMENT scribed in subsection (b), then the amount to be subsection (c). Such assistance shall not exceed For carrying out activities authorized by the reallocated to each such institution shall be rat- the athlete’s cost of attendance as determined Educational Research, Development, Dissemina- ably reduced. under section 472 of the Higher Education Act tion, and Improvement Act of 1994, including (e) The Secretary may use such data as he de- of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll). part E; the National Education Statistics Act of termines appropriate in order to carry out this ‘‘(3) INFORMATION ON DISTRIBUTION OF ASSIST- 1994, including sections 411 and 412; section 4 of section. ANCE.—Each center providing such assistance SEC. 307. If this Act is enacted before H.R. 1, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; and title shall annually report to the Secretary such in- the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, is enacted, VI, part A of the Elementary and Secondary formation as the Secretary may reasonably re- then references to the Elementary and Sec- Education Act, $443,870,000: Provided, That quire on the distribution of such assistance ondary Education Act of 1965 or to any other $58,000,000 of the amount available for the na- among athletes and institutions of higher edu- Acts that would be amended by H.R. 1 shall be tional education research institutes shall be al- cation. The Secretary shall compile such reports read to be references to those Acts as they would located notwithstanding section 912(m)(1)(B–F) and submit them to the Committees on Edu- be amended by H.R. 1 (including amendments and subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section cation and the Workforce and Appropriations of made by H. Con. Res. 289, as passed by the 931(c)(2) of Public Law 103–227. the House of Representatives and the Commit- House and the Senate). DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT tees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION and Appropriations of the Senate.’’. Education Appropriations Act, 2002’’. For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES provided, the Department of Education Organi- shall apply with respect to any funds appro- ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME priated pursuant to section 1543(d) of the Higher zation Act, including rental of conference rooms For expenses necessary for the Armed Forces Education Amendments of 1992, including funds in the District of Columbia and hire of two pas- Retirement Home to operate and maintain the appropriated pursuant to that section in fiscal senger motor vehicles, $424,212,000. United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home and years 2000 and 2001, that are available for fi- OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS the United States Naval Home, to be paid from nancial assistance under section 1543 on or after For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil funds available in the Armed Forces Retirement the date of enactment of this Act. Rights, as authorized by section 203 of the De- Home Trust Fund, $71,440,000, of which SEC. 306. (a) Notwithstanding sections 413D, partment of Education Organization Act, $9,812,000 shall remain available until expended 442, and 488 of the Higher Education Act of $79,934,000. for construction and renovation of the physical 1965, the Secretary of Education may reallocate, OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL plants at the United States Soldiers’ and Air- from funds made available under the heading For expenses necessary for the Office of the men’s Home and the United States Naval Home: ‘‘Student Financial Assistance’’ to carry out Inspector General, as authorized by section 212 Provided, That, notwithstanding any other pro- part C of title IV of that Act, excess allocations of the Department of Education Organization vision of law, a single contract or related con- for fiscal year 2002 in an amount not to exceed Act, $38,720,000. tracts for development and construction, to in- $1,000,000 in the aggregate to institutions of clude construction of a long-term care facility at GENERAL PROVISIONS higher education described in subsection (b) for the United States Naval Home, may be employed SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act the purposes described in subsection (c). The re- which collectively include the full scope of the may be used for the transportation of students allocation to each such institution shall be made project: Provided further, That the solicitation or teachers (or for the purchase of equipment for in accordance with subsection (d). Such excess and contract shall contain the clause ‘‘avail- such transportation) in order to overcome racial allocations shall remain available for obligation ability of funds’’ found at 48 CFR 52.232–18 and imbalance in any school or school system, or for until March 31, 2004. the transportation of students or teachers (or (b) An institution of higher education may re- 252.232–7007, Limitation of Government Obliga- for the purchase of equipment for such trans- ceive a reallocation under subsection (a) if the tions. portation) in order to carry out a plan of racial institution— CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY desegregation of any school or school system. (1) is, on the date of enactment of this Act, SERVICE SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this participating in the Federal Supplemental Edu- DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, Act shall be used to require, directly or indi- cational Opportunity Grant and Federal Work OPERATING EXPENSES rectly, the transportation of any student to a Study programs under subpart 3 of part A, and For expenses necessary for the Corporation school other than the school which is nearest part C of title IV of that Act, respectively; for National and Community Service to carry

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26467 out the provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Presidential Commission, $250,000 shall be den, Cleveland, Ohio, $500,000 shall be awarded Service Act of 1973, as amended, $328,895,000: awarded to American Village Project in to Crawford Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, $42,000 Provided, That none of the funds made avail- Montevallo, Alabama, $20,000 shall be awarded shall be awarded to Farmer’s Castle Museum in able to the Corporation for National and Com- to Evergreen-Conecuh Public Library, Alabama, Belpre, $500,000 shall be awarded to MAPS Air munity Service in this Act for activities author- $50,000 shall be awarded to Gordo Public Li- Museum, Canton Ohio, $44,000 shall be awarded ized by part E of title II of the Domestic Volun- brary, Pickens County Commission, Alabama, to McKinley Museum, Canton, Ohio, $50,000 teer Service Act of 1973 shall be used to provide $300,000 shall be awarded to Mobile Museum of shall be awarded to University of Oregon Mu- stipends or other monetary incentives to volun- Art, Mobile, Alabama, $1,500,000 shall be award- seum of Natural History in Eugene, Oregon, teers or volunteer leaders whose incomes exceed ed to National Museum for Women in the Arts, $150,000 shall be awarded to Academy of Nat- 125 percent of the national poverty level. $300,000 shall be awarded to Tuskegee Human ural Sciences in Philadelphia County, $100,000 CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING and Civil Rights Multicultural Center, $50,000 shall be awarded to Beaver Area Memorial Li- For payment to the Corporation for Public shall be awarded to Heard Museum, Phoenix, brary, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, $300,000 Broadcasting, as authorized by the Communica- Arizona, $800,000 shall be awarded to Children’s shall be awarded to Delaware Valley Historical tions Act of 1934, an amount which shall be Museum of Los Angeles, California, $150,000 Aircraft Association, $100,000 shall be awarded available within limitations specified by that shall be awarded to Chinese American Museum, to Discovery Square, Inc. in Erie, Pennsylvania, Act, for the fiscal year 2004, $380,000,000: Pro- Los Angeles, California, $750,000 shall be $200,000 shall be awarded to Everhart Museum vided, That no funds made available to the Cor- awarded to Natural History Museum of Los An- in Scranton, Pennsylvania, $300,000 shall be poration for Public Broadcasting by this Act geles County, California, $290,000 Santa Bar- awarded to National Liberty Museum in Phila- shall be used to pay for receptions, parties, or bara Maritime Museum, $25,000 Santa Maria delphia, Pennsylvania, $126,000 shall be award- similar forms of entertainment for Government Valley Discovery Museum, California, $1,000,000 ed to Northland Public Library Authority, Pitts- officials or employees: Provided further, That shall be awarded to The Fine Arts Museums of burgh, Pennsylvania, $235,000 shall be awarded none of the funds contained in this paragraph San Francisco, $150,000 shall be awarded to to Penn Hills Public Library in Pittsburgh, shall be available or used to aid or support any Bethel Public Library, Connecticut, $500,000 Pennsylvania, $250,000 shall be awarded to program or activity from which any person is shall be awarded to Mattatuck Museum in Wa- Philadelphia Zoo, $100,000 shall be awarded to excluded, or is denied benefits, or is discrimi- terbury, Connecticut, $250,000 shall be awarded Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, $700,000 shall be nated against, on the basis of race, color, na- to Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Geor- awarded to Please Touch Museum at the Chil- tional origin, religion, or sex: Provided further, gia, $700,000 shall be awarded to Bishops Mu- dren’s Museum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, That in addition to the amounts provided above, seum in Honolulu, Hawaii, $500,000 shall be $50,000 shall be awarded to Wayne Art Center in $25,000,000, for costs related to digital program awarded to Grout Museum in Waterloo, Iowa, Wayne, Pennsylvania, $50,000 shall be awarded production, development, and distribution, asso- $61,000 shall be awarded to Iowa State Histor- to Bamberg County Library in Bamberg, South ciated with the transition of public broadcasting ical Society, $389,000 shall be awarded to The Carolina, $50,000 shall be awarded to Clarendon to digital broadcasting, to be awarded as deter- National Audobon Society’s ARK Museum in County Library in Manning, South Carolina, mined by the Corporation in consultation with Dubuque, Iowa, $750,000 shall be awarded to $500,000 shall be awarded to Marion Wright public radio and television licensees or permit- University of Idaho Performance and Education Edelman Public Library, Bennettsville, South tees, or their designated representatives. Facility, $50,000 shall be awarded to Adler Plan- Carolina, $600,000 shall be awarded to The Chil- etarium and Astronomy Museum, $100,000 shall dren’s Discovery House, Murfreesboro, Ten- FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE be awarded to Johnson County Museum of His- nessee, $150,000 shall be awarded to The Inter- SALARIES AND EXPENSES tory, Franklin, Indiana, $125,000 shall be national Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, For expenses necessary for the Federal Medi- awarded to Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Mas- Tennessee, $500,000 shall be awarded to El ation and Conciliation Service to carry out the sachusetts, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Progreso Library, Uvalde, Texas, $500,000 shall functions vested in it by the Labor Management Shakespeare Rose Theater, $150,000 shall be be awarded to Vietnam Archive Center, Texas Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171–180, 182–183), awarded to Springfield-Greene County Library, Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, $800,000 shall including hire of passenger motor vehicles; for Springfield, Missouri, $1,160,000 shall be award- be awarded to Children’s Museum of Virginia, expenses necessary for the Labor-Management ed to Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, Portsmouth, Virginia, $325,000 shall be awarded Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a); and for $850,000 shall be awarded to University of Mis- to Virginia Living Museum, $100,000 shall be expenses necessary for the Service to carry out sissippi Foundation, Oxford, Mississippi, awarded to Burlington City Arts in Burlington, the functions vested in it by the Civil Service $350,000 shall be awarded to University of Mis- Vermont, $125,000 shall be awarded to Lake Reform Act, Public Law 95–454 (5 U.S.C. ch. 71), sissippi, Oxford, Mississippi, $132,000 shall be Champlain Science Center in Burlington, $39,982,000, including $1,500,000, to remain awarded to Lois Morgan Edward Memorial Li- Vermont, $175,000 shall be awarded to Vermont available through September 30, 2003, for activi- brary, Nashville, North Carolina, $100,000 shall Historical Society in Montpelier, Vermont, ties authorized by the Labor-Management Co- be awarded to Rocky Mount Children’s Mu- $100,000 shall be awarded to Beaver Creek Re- operation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a): Provided, seum, $100,000 shall be awarded to Confluence serve Education Center, Fall Creek, Wisconsin, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, fees Visitor Center in Williston, North Dakota and $500,000 shall be awarded to The Kenosha Civil charged, up to full-cost recovery, for special the North Dakota State Historical Society, War Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, $75,000 training activities and other conflict resolution $100,000 shall be awarded to Fort Mandan Visi- shall be awarded to Village of Hawkins, Wis- services and technical assistance, including tor’s Center, $100,000 shall be awarded to consin, and $500,000 shall be awarded to Weis those provided to foreign governments and inter- Mandan-on-a-Slant Museum, $1,000,000 shall be Earth Science Museum in Menasha, Wisconsin. national organizations, and for arbitration serv- awarded to Franklin Pierce College, $160,000 MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION ices shall be credited to and merged with this ac- shall be awarded to Monmouth University, West count, and shall remain available until ex- Long Branch, New Jersey, $100,000 shall be SALARIES AND EXPENSES pended: Provided further, That fees for arbitra- awarded to Princeton Public Library, Mercer For expenses necessary to carry out section tion services shall be available only for edu- County, New Jersey, $125,000 shall be awarded 1805 of the Social Security Act, $8,250,000, to be cation, training, and professional development to Albany Institute for History and Art, transferred to this appropriation from the Fed- of the agency workforce: Provided further, That $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Brooklyn Histor- eral Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supple- the Director of the Service is authorized to ac- ical Society, New York, $22,500 shall be awarded mentary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. cept and use on behalf of the United States gifts to Buffalo and Erie County Library System, NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND of services and real, personal, or other property Buffalo, New York, $250,000 shall be awarded to INFORMATION SCIENCE in the aid of any projects or functions within Center for Jewish History, New York, New York, SALARIES AND EXPENSES the Director’s jurisdiction. $150,000 shall be awarded to Children’s Museum For necessary expenses for the National Com- FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW of Manhattan, New York, $105,000 shall be mission on Libraries and Information Science, COMMISSION awarded to Four County Library System, Ves- established by the Act of July 20, 1970 (Public SALARIES AND EXPENSES tal, New York, $500,000 shall be awarded to Hunter College, New York, $200,000 shall be Law 91–345, as amended), $1,000,000. For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine awarded to Long Island Maritime Museum in NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY Safety and Health Review Commission (30 West Sayville, New York, $750,000 shall be U.S.C. 801 et seq.), $6,939,000. SALARIES AND EXPENSES awarded to Lower East Side Tenement Museum, INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES For expenses necessary for the National Coun- New York, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to New cil on Disability as authorized by title IV of the OFFICE OF LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS AND York Hall of Science, $22,500 shall be awarded Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, ADMINISTRATION to NIOGA Library System of Niagara and Orle- $2,830,000. For carrying out subtitle B of the Museum ans County, New York, $100,000 shall be award- and Library Services Act, $197,602,000: Provided, ed to The Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen, Inc., NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL That of the amount provided, $2,000,000 shall be Woodstock, New York, $100,000 shall be awarded For expenses necessary for costs associated awarded to the National Museum of African to Clark County Historical Museum, $40,000 with the termination of the National Education American History and Culture Plan for Action shall be awarded to Cleveland Botanical Gar- Goals Panel, $400,000.

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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD to carry out any such transfer; used to provide Security Administration pursuant to section SALARIES AND EXPENSES any office space, equipment, office supplies, 7131 of title 5, United States Code, and for facili- For expenses necessary for the National Labor communications facilities or services, mainte- ties or support services for labor organizations Relations Board to carry out the functions vest- nance services, or administrative services for the pursuant to policies, regulations, or procedures ed in it by the Labor-Management Relations Office; used to pay any salary, benefit, or referred to in section 7135(b) of such title shall Act, 1947, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141–167), and award for any personnel of the Office; used to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, with other laws, $226,438,000: Provided, That no part pay any other operating expense of the Office; interest, from amounts in the general fund not of this appropriation shall be available to orga- or used to reimburse the Office for any service otherwise appropriated, as soon as possible after nize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers provided, or expense incurred, by the Office. such expenditures are made. or used in connection with investigations, hear- SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION From funds provided under the first para- graph, not less than $200,000,000 shall be avail- ings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS able for conducting continuing disability re- units composed of agricultural laborers as re- For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Sur- ferred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 views. vivors Insurance and the Federal Disability In- In addition to funding already available (29 U.S.C. 152), and as amended by the Labor- surance trust funds, as provided under sections under this heading, and subject to the same Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended, 201(m), 217(g), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the So- terms and conditions, $433,000,000, to remain and as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June cial Security Act, $434,400,000. available until September 30, 2003, for con- 25, 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203), and including in said SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS tinuing disability reviews as authorized by sec- definition employees engaged in the mainte- For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine tion 103 of Public Law 104–121 and section 10203 nance and operation of ditches, canals, res- Safety and Health Act of 1977, $332,840,000, to of Public Law 105–33. The term ‘‘continuing dis- ervoirs, and waterways when maintained or op- remain available until expended. ability reviews’’ means reviews and redetermina- erated on a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal tions as defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the 95 percent of the water stored or supplied there- year, benefit payments to individuals under title Social Security Act, as amended. by is used for farming purposes. IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of In addition, $100,000,000 to be derived from NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 1977, for costs incurred in the current fiscal administration fees in excess of $5.00 per supple- SALARIES AND EXPENSES year, such amounts as may be necessary. mentary payment collected pursuant to section For expenses necessary to carry out the provi- For making benefit payments under title IV of 1616(d) of the Social Security Act or section sions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93–66, which shall re- U.S.C. 151–188), including emergency boards ap- for the first quarter of fiscal year 2003, main available until expended. To the extent pointed by the President, $10,635,000. $108,000,000, to remain available until expended. that the amounts collected pursuant to such sec- SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM tion 1616(d) or 212(b)(3) in fiscal year 2002 ex- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW ceed $100,000,000, the amounts shall be available COMMISSION For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the So- cial Security Act, section 401 of Public Law 92– in fiscal year 2003 only to the extent provided in SALARIES AND EXPENSES 603, section 212 of Public Law 93–66, as amend- advance in appropriations Acts. For expenses necessary for the Occupational ed, and section 405 of Public Law 95–216, includ- From funds previously appropriated for this Safety and Health Review Commission (29 ing payment to the Social Security trust funds purpose, any unobligated balances at the end of U.S.C. 661), $8,964,000. for administrative expenses incurred pursuant fiscal year 2001 shall be available to continue RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, Federal-State partnerships which will evaluate DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT $21,277,412,000, to remain available until ex- means to promote Medicare buy-in programs targeted to elderly and disabled individuals For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments pended: Provided, That any portion of the under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Secu- Account, authorized under section 15(d) of the funds provided to a State in the current fiscal rity Act. Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, $146,000,000, year and not obligated by the State during that which shall include amounts becoming available year shall be returned to the Treasury. OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL in fiscal year 2002 pursuant to section In addition, $200,000,000, to remain available (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–76; and in addi- until September 30, 2003, for payment to the So- For expenses necessary for the Office of In- tion, an amount, not to exceed 2 percent of the cial Security trust funds for administrative ex- spector General in carrying out the provisions of amount provided herein, shall be available pro- penses for continuing disability reviews as au- the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, portional to the amount by which the product of thorized by section 103 of Public Law 104–121 $19,000,000, together with not to exceed recipients and the average benefit received ex- and section 10203 of Public Law 105–33. The $56,000,000, to be transferred and expended as ceeds $146,000,000: Provided, That the total term ‘‘continuing disability reviews’’ means re- authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Se- amount provided herein shall be credited in 12 views and redeterminations as defined under curity Act from the Federal Old-Age and Sur- approximately equal amounts on the first day of section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act, vivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal each month in the fiscal year. as amended. Disability Insurance Trust Fund. For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 per- year, benefit payments to individuals under title cent of the total provided in this appropriation RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS XVI of the Social Security Act, for unantici- For payment to the accounts established in may be transferred from the ‘‘Limitation on Ad- pated costs incurred for the current fiscal year, ministrative Expenses’’, Social Security Admin- the Treasury for the payment of benefits under such sums as may be necessary. the Railroad Retirement Act for interest earned istration, to be merged with this account, to be For making benefit payments under title XVI available for the time and purposes for which on unnegotiated checks, $150,000, to remain of the Social Security Act for the first quarter of available through September 30, 2003, which this account is available: Provided, That notice fiscal year 2003, $10,790,000,000, to remain avail- of such transfers shall be transmitted promptly shall be the maximum amount available for pay- able until expended. ment pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98– to the Committees on Appropriations of the LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 76. House and Senate. For necessary expenses, including the hire of UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION two passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed For necessary expenses for the Railroad Re- $35,000 for official reception and representation OPERATING EXPENSES tirement Board for administration of the Rail- expenses, not more than $7,035,000,000 may be For necessary expenses of the United States road Retirement Act and the Railroad Unem- expended, as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of Institute of Peace as authorized in the United ployment Insurance Act, $97,700,000, to be de- the Social Security Act, from any one or all of States Institute of Peace Act, $15,104,000. rived in such amounts as determined by the the trust funds referred to therein: Provided, TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS Board from the railroad retirement accounts That not less than $1,800,000 shall be for the So- SEC. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and and from moneys credited to the railroad unem- cial Security Advisory Board: Provided further, Human Services, and Education are authorized ployment insurance administration fund. That unobligated balances at the end of fiscal to transfer unexpended balances of prior appro- LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR year 2002 not needed for fiscal year 2002 shall priations to accounts corresponding to current GENERAL remain available until expended to invest in the appropriations provided in this Act: Provided, For expenses necessary for the Office of In- Social Security Administration information That such transferred balances are used for the spector General for audit, investigatory and re- technology and telecommunications hardware same purpose, and for the same periods of time, view activities, as authorized by the Inspector and software infrastructure, including related for which they were originally appropriated. General Act of 1978, as amended, not more than equipment and non-payroll administrative ex- SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation con- $6,261,000, to be derived from the railroad retire- penses associated solely with this information tained in this Act shall remain available for ob- ment accounts and railroad unemployment in- technology and telecommunications infrastruc- ligation beyond the current fiscal year unless surance account: Provided, That none of the ture: Provided further, That reimbursement to expressly so provided herein. funds made available in any other paragraph of the trust funds under this heading for expendi- SEC. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation this Act may be transferred to the Office; used tures for official time for employees of the Social contained in this Act shall be used, other than

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00074 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26469 for normal and recognized executive-legislative which funds are appropriated under this Act, cept in an individual’s capacity as an employer relationships, for publicity or propaganda pur- shall be expended for health benefits coverage or a health care provider), until legislation is poses, for the preparation, distribution, or use of that includes coverage of abortion. enacted specifically approving the standard. any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, (c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means SEC. 514. (a) Section 10 of the Native Hawai- television, or video presentation designed to sup- the package of services covered by a managed ian Health Care Improvement Act (42 U.S.C. port or defeat legislation pending before the care provider or organization pursuant to a con- 11709) is amended— Congress or any State legislature, except in tract or other arrangement. (1) in subsection (a) in the matter preceding presentation to the Congress or any State legis- SEC. 509. (a) The limitations established in the paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Kamehameha lature itself. preceding section shall not apply to an abor- School/Bishop Estate’’ and inserting ‘‘Papa Ola (b) No part of any appropriation contained in tion— Lokahi’’; and this Act shall be used to pay the salary or ex- (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of (2) in subsection (b)(1)(C), by striking ‘‘Kame- penses of any grant or contract recipient, or rape or incest; or hameha School/Bishop Estate’’ and inserting agent acting for such recipient, related to any (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a ‘‘Papa Ola Lokahi’’. activity designed to influence legislation or ap- physical disorder, physical injury, or physical (b) Section 338K(a) of the Public Health Serv- propriations pending before the Congress or any illness, including a life-endangering physical ice Act (42 U.S.C. 254s(a)) is amended by strik- State legislature. condition caused by or arising from the preg- ing ‘‘Kamehameha School/Bishop Estate’’ and SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Edu- nancy itself, that would, as certified by a physi- inserting ‘‘Papa Ola Lokahi’’. cation are authorized to make available not to cian, place the woman in danger of death unless SEC. 515. (a) In this section the term ‘‘quali- exceed $23,000 and $15,000, respectively, from an abortion is performed. fied magistrate judge’’ means any person who— funds available for salaries and expenses under (b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be (1) retired as a magistrate judge before Novem- titles I and III, respectively, for official recep- construed as prohibiting the expenditure by a ber 15, 1988; and tion and representation expenses; the Director State, locality, entity, or private person of State, (2) on the date of filing an election under sub- of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Serv- local, or private funds (other than a State’s or section (b)— ice is authorized to make available for official locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching (A) is serving as a recalled magistrate judge reception and representation expenses not to ex- funds). on a full-time basis under section 636(h) of title ceed $2,500 from the funds available for ‘‘Sala- (c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be 28, United States Code; and ries and expenses, Federal Mediation and Con- construed as restricting the ability of any man- (B) has completed at least 5 years of full-time ciliation Service’’; and the Chairman of the Na- aged care provider from offering abortion cov- recall service. tional Mediation Board is authorized to make erage or the ability of a State or locality to con- (b) The Director of the Administrative Office available for official reception and representa- tract separately with such a provider for such of the United States Courts may accept the elec- tion expenses not to exceed $2,500 from funds coverage with State funds (other than a State’s tion of a qualified magistrate judge to— available for ‘‘Salaries and expenses, National or locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching (1) receive an annuity under section 377 of Mediation Board’’. funds). title 28, United States Code; and SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision SEC. 510. (a) None of the funds made available (2) come within the purview of section 376 of of this Act, no funds appropriated under this in this Act may be used for— such title. Act shall be used to carry out any program of (1) the creation of a human embryo or em- (c) Full-time recall service performed by a distributing sterile needles or syringes for the bryos for research purposes; or qualified magistrate judge shall be credited for hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. (2) research in which a human embryo or em- service in calculating an annuity elected under SEC. 506. (a) It is the sense of the Congress bryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly this section. that, to the greatest extent practicable, all subjected to risk of injury or death greater than (d) The Director of the Administrative Office equipment and products purchased with funds that allowed for research on fetuses in utero of the United States Courts may promulgate reg- made available in this Act should be American- under 45 CFR 46.208(a)(2) and section 498(b) of ulations to carry out this section. made. the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. SEC. 516. Amounts made available under this (b) In providing financial assistance to, or en- 289g(b)). Act for the administrative and related expenses tering into any contract with, any entity using (b) For purposes of this section, the term for departmental management for the Depart- funds made available in this Act, the head of ‘‘human embryo or embryos’’ includes any orga- ment of Labor, the Department of Health and each Federal agency, to the greatest extent nism, not protected as a human subject under 45 Human Services, and the Department of Edu- practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this cation, shall be reduced on a pro rata basis by describing the statement made in subsection (a) Act, that is derived by fertilization, par- $25,000,000: Provided, That this provision shall by the Congress. thenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from not apply to the Food and Drug Administration (c) If it has been finally determined by a court one or more human gametes or human diploid and the Indian Health Service: Provided fur- or Federal agency that any person intentionally cells. ther, That not later than 15 days after the en- affixed a label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ in- SEC. 511. (a) None of the funds made available actment of this Act, the Director of the Office of scription, or any inscription with the same in this Act may be used for any activity that Management and Budget shall report to the meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to promotes the legalization of any drug or other House and Senate Committees on Appropria- the United States that is not made in the United substance included in schedule I of the sched- tions the accounts subject to the pro rata reduc- States, the person shall be ineligible to receive ules of controlled substances established by sec- tions and the amount to be reduced in each ac- any contract or subcontract made with funds tion 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 count. made available in this Act, pursuant to the de- U.S.C. 812). TITLE VI—EXTENSION OF MARK-TO-MAR- barment, suspension, and ineligibility proce- (b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not KET PROGRAM FOR MULTIFAMILY AS- dures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of apply when there is significant medical evidence SISTED HOUSING title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CON- SEC. 507. When issuing statements, press re- drug or other substance or that federally spon- TENTS. leases, requests for proposals, bid solicitations sored clinical trials are being conducted to de- (a) SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited as and other documents describing projects or pro- termine therapeutic advantage. the ‘‘Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2001’’. grams funded in whole or in part with Federal SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con- money, all grantees receiving Federal funds in- this Act may be obligated or expended to enter tents for this title is as follows: cluded in this Act, including but not limited to into or renew a contract with an entity if— TITLE VI—EXTENSION OF MARK-TO-MAR- State and local governments and recipients of (1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with KET PROGRAM FOR MULTIFAMILY AS- Federal research grants, shall clearly state: (1) the United States and is subject to the require- SISTED HOUSING the percentage of the total costs of the program ment in section 4212(d) of title 38, United States or project which will be financed with Federal Code, regarding submission of an annual report Sec. 601. Short title and table of contents. money; (2) the dollar amount of Federal funds to the Secretary of Labor concerning employ- Sec. 602. Purposes. Sec. 603. Effective date. for the project or program; and (3) percentage ment of certain veterans; and and dollar amount of the total costs of the (2) such entity has not submitted a report as Subtitle A—Multifamily Housing Mortgage and project or program that will be financed by non- required by that section for the most recent year Assistance Restructuring and Section 8 Con- governmental sources. for which such requirement was applicable to tract Renewal SEC. 508. (a) None of the funds appropriated such entity. Sec. 611. Definitions. under this Act, and none of the funds in any SEC. 513. None of the funds made available in Sec. 612. Mark-to-market program amendments. trust fund to which funds are appropriated this Act may be used to promulgate or adopt Sec. 613. Consistency of rent levels under en- under this Act, shall be expended for any abor- any final standard under section 1173(b) of the hanced voucher assistance and tion. Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d–2(b)) pro- rent restructurings. (b) None of the funds appropriated under this viding for, or providing for the assignment of, a Sec. 614. Eligible inclusions for renewal rents of Act, and none of the funds in any trust fund to unique health identifier for an individual (ex- partially assisted buildings.

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Sec. 615. Eligibility of restructuring projects for U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by adding at the ‘‘(2) ADDITION OF SIGNIFICANT FEATURES.— miscellaneous housing insurance. end the following new paragraph: ‘‘(A) AUTHORITY.—An approved mortgage re- Sec. 616. Technical corrections. ‘‘(19) OFFICE.—The term ‘Office’ means the structuring and rental assistance sufficiency Subtitle B—Office of Multifamily Housing Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Re- plan may require the improvement of the project Assistance Restructuring structuring established under section 571.’’. by the addition of significant features that are Sec. 621. Reauthorization of Office and exten- SEC. 612. MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM AMEND- not necessary for rehabilitation to the standard MENTS. sion of program. provided under paragraph (1), such as air con- (a) FUNDING FOR TENANT AND NONPROFIT Sec. 622. Appointment of Director. ditioning, an elevator, and additional commu- PARTICIPATION.—Section 514(f)(3)(A) of the Mul- Sec. 623. Vacancy in position of Director. nity space. The Secretary shall establish guide- tifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Afford- Sec. 624. Oversight by Federal Housing Commis- lines regarding the inclusion of requirements re- ability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is sioner. garding such additional significant features amended— Sec. 625. Limitation on subsequent employment. under such plans. (1) by striking ‘‘Secretary may provide not ‘‘(B) FUNDING.—Significant features added Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Housing Program more than $10,000,000 annually in funding’’ and Amendments pursuant to an approved mortgage restructuring inserting ‘‘Secretary shall make available not and rental assistance sufficiency plan may be Sec. 631. Extension of CDBG public services cap more than $10,000,000 annually in funding, paid from the funding sources specified in the exception. which amount shall be in addition to any first sentence of paragraph (1)(A). Sec. 632. Use of section 8 enhanced vouchers for amounts made available under this subpara- ‘‘(C) LIMITATION ON OWNER CONTRIBUTION.— prepayments. graph and carried over from previous years,’’; An owner of a project may not be required to Sec. 633. Prepayment and refinancing of loans and contribute from non-project resources, toward for section 202 supportive hous- (2) by striking ‘‘entities), and for tenant serv- the cost of any additional significant features ing. ices,’’ and inserting ‘‘entities), for tenant serv- required pursuant to this paragraph, more than Sec. 634. Technical correction. ices, and for tenant groups, nonprofit organiza- tions, and public entities described in section 25 percent of the amount of any assistance re- SEC. 602. PURPOSES. ceived for the inclusion of such features. The purposes of this title are— 517(a)(5),’’. (b) EXCEPTION RENTS.—Section 514(g)(2)(A) of ‘‘(D) APPLICABILITY.—This paragraph shall (1) to continue the progress of the Multifamily apply to all eligible multifamily housing Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is projects, except projects for which the Secretary of 1997 (referred to in this section as ‘‘that and the project owner executed a mortgage re- Act’’); amended by striking ‘‘restructured mortgages in any fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘portfolio re- structuring and rental assistance sufficiency (2) to ensure that properties that undergo plan on or before the date of the enactment of mortgage restructurings pursuant to that Act structuring agreements’’. (c) NOTICE TO DISPLACED TENANTS.—Section the Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2001.’’; are rehabilitated to a standard that allows the 516(d) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Re- and properties to meet their long-term affordability form and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. (3) by inserting after paragraph (6) of sub- requirements; 1437f note) is amended by striking ‘‘Subject to’’ section (b) the following: (3) to ensure that, for properties that undergo and inserting the following: mortgage restructurings pursuant to that Act, ‘‘(c) REHABILITATION NEEDS AND ADDITION OF ‘‘(1) NOTICE TO CERTAIN RESIDENTS.—The Of- reserves are set at adequate levels to allow the SIGNIFICANT FEATURES.—’’. fice shall notify any tenant that is residing in a properties to meet their long-term affordability (f) LOOK-BACK PROJECTS.—Section 512(2) of project or receiving assistance under section 8 of requirements; the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. (4) to ensure that properties that undergo Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is 1437f) at the time of rejection under this section, mortgage restructurings pursuant to that Act amended by adding after the period at the end of such rejection, except that the Office may are operated efficiently, and that operating ex- of the last sentence the following: ‘‘Notwith- delegate the responsibility to provide notice penses are sufficient to ensure the long-term fi- standing any other provision of this title, the under this paragraph to the participating ad- nancial and physical integrity of the properties; Secretary may treat a project as an eligible mul- ministrative entity. (5) to ensure that properties that undergo rent tifamily housing project for purposes of this title ‘‘(2) ASSISTANCE AND MOVING EXPENSES.—Sub- restructurings have adequate resources to main- if (I) the project is assisted pursuant to a con- ject to’’. tract for project-based assistance under section 8 tain the properties in good condition; (d) RESTRUCTURING PLANS FOR TRANSFERS OF of the United States Housing Act of 1937 re- (6) to ensure that the Office of Multifamily PREPAYMENT PROJECTS.—The Multifamily As- newed under section 524 of this Act, (II) the Housing Assistance Restructuring of the Depart- sisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of owner consents to such treatment, and (III) the ment of Housing and Urban Development con- 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended— project met the requirements of the first sentence tinues to focus on the portfolio of properties eli- (1) in section 524(e), by adding at the end the of this paragraph for eligibility as an eligible gible for restructuring under that Act; following new paragraph: multifamily housing project before the initial re- (7) to ensure that the Department of Housing ‘‘(3) MORTGAGE RESTRUCTURING AND RENTAL newal of the contract under section 524.’’. and Urban Development carefully tracks the ASSISTANCE SUFFICIENCY PLANS.—Notwith- condition of those properties on an ongoing standing paragraph (1), the owner of the project (g) SECOND MORTGAGES.—Section 517(a) of the basis; may request, and the Secretary may consider, Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Af- (8) to ensure that tenant groups, nonprofit or- mortgage restructuring and rental assistance fordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is ganizations, and public entities continue to sufficiency plans to facilitate sales or transfers amended— have the resources for building the capacity of of properties under this subtitle, subject to an (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘no more tenant organizations in furtherance of the pur- approved plan of action under the Emergency than the’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘not poses of subtitle A of that Act; and Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 more than the greater of— (9) to encourage the Office of Multifamily (12 U.S.C. 1715l note) or the Low-Income Hous- ‘‘(i) the full or partial payment of claim made Housing Assistance Restructuring to continue to ing Preservation and Resident Homeownership under this subtitle; or provide participating administrative entities, in- Act of 1990 (12 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.), which plans ‘‘(ii) the’’; and cluding public participating administrative enti- shall result in a sale or transfer of those prop- (2) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘of the sec- ties, with the flexibility to respond to specific erties.’’; and ond mortgage, assign the second mortgage to the problems that individual cases may present, (2) in the last sentence of section 512(2), by in- acquiring organization or agency,’’ after while ensuring consistent outcomes around the serting ‘‘, but does include a project described in ‘‘terms’’. country. section 524(e)(3)’’ after ‘‘section 524(e)’’. (h) EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRUCTURING.—Sec- SEC. 603. EFFECTIVE DATE. (e) ADDITION OF SIGNIFICANT FEATURES.—Sec- tion 514(h)(2) of the Multifamily Assisted Hous- tion 517 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Re- Except as provided in sections 616(a)(2), ing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 form and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 633(b), and 634(b), this title and the amendments U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by inserting be- made by this title shall take effect or are deemed 1437f note) is amended— (1) by striking subsection (c) (except that the fore the semicolon the following: ‘‘, or refi- to have taken effect, as appropriate, on the ear- nanced pursuant to section 811 of the American lier of— striking of such subsection may not be construed to have any effect on the provisions of law Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act (1) the date of the enactment of this title; or of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note)’’. (2) September 30, 2001. amended by such subsection, as such subsection was in effect before the date of the enactment of SEC. 613. CONSISTENCY OF RENT LEVELS UNDER Subtitle A—Multifamily Housing Mortgage this Act); ENHANCED VOUCHER ASSISTANCE and Assistance Restructuring and Section 8 (2) in subsection (b)— AND RENT RESTRUCTURINGS. Contract Renewal (A) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘(7)’’ and in- Subtitle A of the Multifamily Assisted Housing SEC. 611. DEFINITIONS. serting ‘‘(1)’’; and Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. Section 512 of the Multifamily Assisted Hous- (B) by adding at the end the following new 1437f note) is amended by adding at the end the ing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 paragraph: following new section:

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00076 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 6333 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26471 ‘‘SEC. 525. CONSISTENCY OF RENT LEVELS section 531(c) of Public Law 106–74 (113 Stat. amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting UNDER ENHANCED VOUCHER AS- 1116) were made to ‘‘Section 514(h)(1)’’ instead the following new subsection: SISTANCE AND RENT of ‘‘Section 514(h)’’. ‘‘(b) VACANCY.—A vacancy in the position of RESTRUCTURINGS. (2) RETROACTIVE EFFECT.—The amendment Director shall be filled by appointment in the ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall exam- made by paragraph (1) of this subsection is manner provided under subsection (a). The ine the standards and procedures for deter- deemed to have taken effect on the date of the President shall make such an appointment not mining and establishing the rent standards de- enactment of Public Law 106–74 (113 Stat. 1109). later than 60 days after such position first be- scribed under subsection (b). Pursuant to such (b) OTHER.—The Multifamily Assisted Hous- comes vacant.’’. examination, the Secretary shall establish proce- ing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by dures and guidelines that are designed to ensure U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended— subsection (a) shall apply to any vacancy in the that the amounts determined by the various rent (1) in section 511(a)(12), by striking ‘‘this Act’’ position of Director of the Office of Multifamily standards for the same dwelling units are rea- and inserting ‘‘this title’’; Housing Assistance Restructuring of the Depart- sonably consistent and reflect rents for com- (2) in section 513, by striking ‘‘this Act’’ each ment of Housing and Urban Development which parable unassisted units in the same area as place such term appears in subsections (a)(2)(I) occurs or exists after the date of the enactment such dwelling units. and (b)(3) and inserting ‘‘this title’’; of this Act. ‘‘(b) RENT STANDARDS.—The rent standards (3) in section 514(f)(3)(B), by inserting ‘‘Hous- described in this subsection are as follows: SEC. 624. OVERSIGHT BY FEDERAL HOUSING ing’’ after ‘‘Multifamily’’; COMMISSIONER. ‘‘(1) ENHANCED VOUCHERS.—The payment (4) in section 515(c)(1)(B), by inserting ‘‘or’’ standard for enhanced voucher assistance under (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 578 of the Multi- after the semicolon; section 8(t) of the United States Housing Act of family Assisted Housing Reform and Afford- (5) in section 517(b)— 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)). ability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is (A) in each of paragraphs (1) through (6), by ‘‘(2) MARK-TO-MARKET.—The rents derived amended to read as follows: capitalizing the first letter of the first word that from comparable properties, for purposes of sec- ‘‘SEC. 578. OVERSIGHT BY FEDERAL HOUSING follows the paragraph heading; tion 514(g) of this Act. COMMISSIONER. (B) in each of paragraphs (1) through (5), by ‘‘(3) CONTRACT RENEWAL.—The comparable ‘‘All authority and responsibilities assigned market rents for the market area, for purposes striking the semicolon at the end and inserting under this subtitle to the Secretary shall be car- of section 524(a)(4) of this Act.’’. a period; and ried out through the Assistant Secretary of the (C) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘; and’’ at SEC. 614. ELIGIBLE INCLUSIONS FOR RENEWAL Department of Housing and Urban Development RENTS OF PARTIALLY ASSISTED the end and inserting a period; who is the Federal Housing Commissioner.’’. BUILDINGS. (6) in section 520(b), by striking ‘‘Banking (b) REPORT.—The second sentence of section Section 524(a)(4)(C) of the Multifamily As- and’’; and 573(b) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Re- sisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of (7) in section 573(d)(2), by striking ‘‘Banking form and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by adding and’’. 1437f note) is amended by striking ‘‘Secretary’’ after the period at the end the following: ‘‘Not- Subtitle B—Office of Multifamily Housing and inserting ‘‘Assistant Secretary of the De- withstanding any other provision of law, the Assistance Restructuring partment of Housing and Urban Development Secretary shall include in such budget-based SEC. 621. REAUTHORIZATION OF OFFICE AND EX- who is the Federal Housing Commissioner’’. cost increases costs relating to the project as a TENSION OF PROGRAM. SEC. 625. LIMITATION ON SUBSEQUENT EMPLOY- whole (including costs incurred with respect to Section 579 of the Multifamily Assisted Hous- MENT. units not covered by the contract for assist- ing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 Section 576 of the Multifamily Assisted Hous- ance), but only (I) if inclusion of such costs is U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended— ing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 requested by the owner or purchaser of the (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by striking ‘‘2- project, (II) if inclusion of such costs will permit following new subsection: year period’’ and inserting ‘‘1-year period’’. capital repairs to the project or acquisition of ‘‘(a) REPEALS.— Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Housing Program the project by a nonprofit organization, and ‘‘(1) MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM.—Subtitle A Amendments (III) to the extent that inclusion of such costs (except for section 524) is repealed effective Oc- (or a portion thereof) complies with the require- SEC. 631. EXTENSION OF CDBG PUBLIC SERVICES tober 1, 2006. CAP EXCEPTION. ment under clause (ii).’’. ‘‘(2) OMHAR.—Subtitle D (except for this sec- Section 105(a)(8) of the Housing and Commu- SEC. 615. ELIGIBILITY OF RESTRUCTURING tion) is repealed effective October 1, 2004.’’; nity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. PROJECTS FOR MISCELLANEOUS (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘October 1, HOUSING INSURANCE. 5305(a)(8)) is amended by striking ‘‘through 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2006’’; 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘through 2003’’. Section 223(a)(7) of the National Housing Act (3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘upon Sep- (12 U.S.C. 1715n(a)(7)) is amended— SEC. 632. USE OF SECTION 8 ENHANCED VOUCH- tember 30, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘at the end of ERS FOR PREPAYMENTS. (1) by striking ‘‘under this Act: Provided, September 30, 2004’’; and Section 8(t)(2) of the United States Housing That the principal’’ and inserting the following: (4) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)(2)) is amended by ‘‘under this Act, or an existing mortgage held by following new subsection: inserting after ‘‘insurance contract for the mort- the Secretary that is subject to a mortgage re- ‘‘(d) TRANSFER OF AUTHORITY.—Effective gage for such housing project’’ the following: structuring and rental assistance sufficiency upon the repeal of subtitle D under subsection ‘‘(including any such mortgage prepayment dur- plan pursuant to the Multifamily Assisted Hous- (a)(2) of this section, all authority and respon- ing fiscal year 1996 or a fiscal year thereafter or ing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 sibilities to administer the program under sub- any insurance contract voluntary termination U.S.C. 1437f note), provided that— title A are transferred to the Secretary.’’. ‘‘(A) the principal’’; during fiscal year 1996 or a fiscal year there- SEC. 622. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR. (2) by striking ‘‘except that (A)’’ and inserting after)’’. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 572 of the Multi- ‘‘except that (i)’’; SEC. 633. PREPAYMENT AND REFINANCING OF (3) by striking ‘‘(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘(ii)’’; family Assisted Housing Reform and Afford- LOANS FOR SECTION 202 SUP- (4) by striking ‘‘(C)’’ and inserting ‘‘(iii)’’; ability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is PORTIVE HOUSING. (5) by striking ‘‘(D)’’ and inserting ‘‘(iv)’’; amended by striking subsection (a) and insert- (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 811 of the American (6) by striking ‘‘: Provided further, That a ing the following new subsection: Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act mortgage’’ and inserting the following ‘‘; and ‘‘(a) APPOINTMENT.—The Office shall be of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note) is amended by ‘‘(B) a mortgage’’; under the management of a Director, who shall striking subsection (e). (7) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end; and be appointed by the President from among indi- (b) EFFECTIVENESS UPON DATE OF ENACT- (8) by adding at the end the following new viduals who are citizens of the United States MENT.—The amendment made by subsection (a) subparagraph: and have a demonstrated understanding of fi- of this section shall take effect upon the date of ‘‘(C) a mortgage that is subject to a mortgage nancing and mortgage restructuring for afford- the enactment of this Act and the provisions of restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency able multifamily housing.’’. section 811 of the American Homeownership and plan pursuant to the Multifamily Assisted Hous- (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. ing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 subsection (a) shall apply to the first Director of 1701q note), as amended by subsection (a) of this U.S.C. 1437f note) and is refinanced under this the Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance section, shall apply as so amended upon such paragraph may have a term of not more than 30 Restructuring of the Department of Housing date of enactment, notwithstanding— years; or’’. and Urban Development appointed after the (1) any authority of the Secretary of Housing SEC. 616. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. date of the enactment of this Act, and any such and Urban Development to issue regulations to (a) EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRUCTURING.— Director appointed thereafter. implement or carry out the amendments made by (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 514(h) of the Multi- SEC. 623. VACANCY IN POSITION OF DIRECTOR. subsection (a) of this section or the provisions of family Assisted Housing Reform and Afford- (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 572 of the Multi- section 811 of the American Homeownership and ability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is family Assisted Housing Reform and Afford- Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. amended to read as if the amendment made by ability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is 1701q note); or

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(2) any failure of the Secretary of Housing TED STEVENS, The conferees intend that 80 percent of the and Urban Development to issue any such regu- KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, funds provided will be used for State formula lations authorized. MIKE DEWINE, grants and 20 percent for National Emer- SEC. 634. TECHNICAL CORRECTION. Managers on the Part of the Senate. gency Grants as authorized under the Work- (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 101(a) of Public Law JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF force Investment Act of 1998 and provided in 100–77 (42 U.S.C. 11301 note) is amended to read THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE the House bill. The conferees have been informed that the as if the amendment made by section 1 of Public The managers on the part of the House and Department plans to cut dislocated worker Law 106–400 (114 Stat. 1675) were made to ‘‘Sec- Senate at the conference on the disagreeing funding in program year 2001 for community- tion 101’’ instead of ‘‘Section 1’’. votes of the two Houses on the amendment based organizations and, therefore, strongly (b) RETROACTIVE EFFECT.—The amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3061) making urge the Administration to continue, at made by subsection (a) of this section is deemed appropriations for the Departments of Labor, least at current services levels, job training to have taken effect immediately after the enact- Health and Human Services, and Education, activities for these organizations. ment of Public Law 106–400 (114 Stat. 1675). and Related Agencies for the fiscal year end- The conference agreement includes TITLE VII—MENTAL HEALTH PARITY ing September 30, 2002, and for other pur- $57,000,000 for Native Americans instead of SEC. 701. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS poses, submit the following joint statement $55,000,000 as proposed by the House and (a) ERISA.—Section 712(f) of the Employee of the House and Senate in explanation of $57,800,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 the effect of the action agreed upon by the $80,770,000 for activities authorized under U.S.C. 1185a(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘Sep- managers and recommended in the accom- Section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act, tember 30, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, panying conference report. In implementing this agreement, the De- reflected in two separate line items on the 2002’’. partments and agencies should comply with table accompanying the conference agree- (b) PHSA.—Section 2705(f) of the Public the language and instructions set forth in ment: ‘‘Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers’’ Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-5(f)) is House Report 107–229 and Senate Report 107– and ‘‘National Activities/Other’’. Under the amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2001’’ and 84. Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers line inserting ‘‘December 31, 2002’’. In the case where the language and in- item, the conference agreement provides (c) INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986.—Section structions in either report specifically ad- $79,751,000. The agreement includes bill lan- 9812(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is dress the allocation of funds, the Depart- guage directing that $4,786,000 of this amount amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2001’’ and ments and agencies are to follow the funding be used for migrant and seasonal farmworker inserting ‘‘December 31, 2002’’. levels specified in the Congressional budget housing grants. The conferees agree that the SEC. 702. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT. justifications accompanying the fiscal year remaining amount should be used for State Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget 2002 budget or the underlying authorizing service area grants, including funding grant- Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint statute and should give full consideration to ees in those States impacted by formula explanatory statement of the committee of con- all items, including items allocating specific changes at their comparable 1998 levels. ference accompanying Conference Report 105– funding included in the House and Senate re- Within the National Activities/Other line 217, the provisions of this title that would have ports. With respect to the provisions in the item, the conference agreement includes been estimated by the Office of Management House and Senate reports that specifically $1,019,000 to be used for Section 167 training, and Budget as changing direct spending or re- allocate funds, each has been reviewed and technical assistance and related activities, ceipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget those that are jointly concurred in have been including funds for migrant rest center ac- and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 were included in this joint statement. tivities. The agreement anticipates that the it included in an Act other than an appropria- The conferees specifically endorse the pro- Department will continue valuable technical tions Act shall be treated as direct spending or visions of the House Report 105–205 directing assistance services provided by the Associa- receipts legislation, as appropriate, under sec- ‘‘. . . the Departments of Labor, Health and tion of Farmworker Opportunity Programs. tion 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Human Services, and Education, and the So- The conference agreement includes Deficit Control Act of 1985, and by the Chair- cial Security Administration and the Rail- $1,459,200,000 for Job Corps. Within the total, men of the House and Senate Budget Commit- road Retirement Board to submit operating $1,328,825,000 is provided for continuing oper- tees, as appropriate, under the Congressional plans with respect to discretionary appro- ations of the program and $130,375,000 is for Budget Act. priations to the House and Senate Commit- renovation and construction of Job Corps centers. The additional $10,000,000 above the This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of tees on Appropriations. These plans, which request in construction and renovation is for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Edu- are to be submitted within 30 days of the the first year costs for a minimum of two cation, and Related Agencies Appropriations final passage of the bill, must be signed by new Job Corps centers. The Secretary is Act, 2002’’. the respective Departmental Secretaries, the urged to initiate the process of selecting and And the Senate agree to the same. Social Security Commissioner and the Chair- designing these new centers in the 2002 fiscal man of the Railroad Retirement Board.’’ RALPH REGULA, year and to include additional required fund- The Departments of Labor, Health and C.W. BILL YOUNG, ing in subsequent budget requests, beginning Human Services, and Education, and Related ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., with fiscal year 2003. DAN MILLER, Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 incor- The conference agreement includes a cita- ROGER F. WICKER, porates the following agreements of the tion to the Women in Apprenticeship and ANNE M. NORTHUP, managers: Nontraditional Occupations Act as proposed RANDY ‘‘DUKE’’ TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR by the House. The Senate bill did not cite CUNNINGHAM, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING this Act. KAY GRANGER, ADMINISTRATION The conference agreement provides that OHN ETERSON funds for the National Skill Standards Board J E. P , TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES DON SHERWOOD, shall become available October 1, 2001 as pro- The conference agreement includes $5, DAVID OBEY, posed by the Senate. The House bill did not 630,282,000 for training and employment serv- STENY HOYER, contain this provision. ices instead of $5,583,147,000 as proposed by NANCY PELOSI, The conferees urge the Secretary to target the House and $5,533,281,000 as proposed by NITA LOWEY, funds to fill vacancies in caring for our na- the Senate. Of the amount appropriated, ROSA DELAURO, tion’s elderly and disabled with those work- $2,463,000,000 is an advance appropriation for JESSE JACKSON, Jr, ers recently unemployed. Training for long- fiscal year 2003, as proposed by the Senate. PATRICK J. KENNEDY, term care workers should be a high priority The conference agreement includes Managers on the Part of the House. for the use of Workforce Investment Act $1,127,965,000 for Youth Training, which is the funds both at the federal level and in the TOM HARKIN, Senate level. Funding for the Youth Oppor- States. ERNEST HOLLINGS, tunity Grants, $225,100,000, provided within The conferees urge the Department of DANIEL INOUYE, the total for this activity in the House bill, Labor, in cooperation with the Health Re- HARRY REID, is provided separately in the conference sources and Services Administration, to as- HERB KOHL, agreement as proposed by the Senate. These sess the shortage of frontline caregivers in PATTY MURRAY, grants are aimed at increasing the long-term long-term care settings (certified nurse aids, MARY LANDRIEU, employment of youth who live in empower- licensed practical nurses) and make com- ROBERT C. BYRD, ment zones, enterprise communities, and prehensive recommendations to address the ARLEN SPECTER, other high-poverty areas. increasing demand of an aging baby-boomer THAD COCHRAN, The conference agreement includes generation, and report findings and rec- JUDD GREGG, $1,549,000,000 for the Dislocated Worker pro- ommendations to the House and Senate Ap- LARRY E. CRAIG, gram, which is the same as the Senate level. propriations Committees by June 2002.

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.002 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26473 With respect to the projects listed below Maui Economic Development Kennebec Valley Technical Col- for pilots and demonstrations, the conferees Board for the Rural Computer lege to develop a Precision Ma- encourage the Department to ensure that Utilization Training Program .. 1,000,000 chining Technology Program to these projects are coordinated with local Remote Rural Hawaii Job Train- address the critical workforce Workforce Investment Boards. The conferees ing Project ...... 5,000,000 shortage in Maine’s metal prod- also encourage the Department to ensure Samoan/Asian Pacific Job Train- ucts industry ...... 400,000 that project performance is adequately docu- ing—Hawaii ...... 3,500,000 United Technologies Center to mented and evaluated. The conference agree- Training & Education Opportuni- develop a Photonics Training ment includes the following amounts for the ties at the University of Hawaii Pilot Project, to regional tech- following projects and activities: at Maui ...... 5,000,000 nical high school students in Iowa Policy Project for a study the field of photonics ...... 400,000 Bristol Bay Native Association on temporary and contingent Focus: HOPE in Detroit, MI to vocational job training pro- workers ...... 500,000 provide training programs to gram ...... $500,000 The Joblinks program ...... 1,000,000 women and minorities through Recruitment and retention of University of Northern Iowa’s their Information Tech Center 500,000 Alaska Natives in nursing at Program for Integrating Immi- Michigan Technology Commer- University of Alaska in Anchor- grants and Refugees into the cialization, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, age ...... 500,000 for planning activities ...... 350,000 Center for Textile Training and Workforce ...... 250,000 Harvey Community Center, Har- Mott Community College, Flint, Apparel Technology at Central MI to develop simulation cur- Alabama Community College ... 750,000 vey, IL, for a demonstration project to provide job training riculum in virtual machining ... 1,000,000 Arkansas Enterprise Group’s Minnesota Assistance Council for for low income individuals/fam- Good Faith Fund to focus on Veterans to support their work- ilies ...... 200,000 employment training and ca- force readiness program for Lakeside Community Committee, reer path development for low- homeless veterans ...... 500,000 income residents of the Delta Chicago, IL, for a job training Northeast Higher Education Dis- Region in Arkansas ...... 150,000 program targeting the hard trict (NHED) in Minnesota to University of Arkansas Medical core unemployed ...... 440,000 design a Rural Telework Center Sciences BioVentures Incubator Opportunity, Inc. in Highland which will provide workforce for equipment needed for Park, IL to implement a model programs and employment op- wetlabs used in training ...... 200,000 job training program to inte- portunities in IT jobs ...... 1,000,000 California State Polytechnic Uni- grate workers with disabilities Southeast Missouri State Univer- versity, Pomona, CA, to de- into a manufacturing work- sity, Cape Girardeau, MO, for velop technology training pro- place ...... 125,000 economic and workforce devel- grams ...... 250,000 Policy Research Action Group in opment ...... 900,000 City of Compton to support the Chicago to train inner-city resi- Alcorn Biotechnology Center, Compton Youth Succeed Initia- dents for careers in the auto- Lorman, MS for entrepre- tive ...... 250,000 motive industry ...... 125,000 neurial training ...... 150,000 Greater Sacramento Urban Safer Foundation, Chicago, IL to Mississippi Delta Community League, Sacramento, CA, for continue the Workplace Accli- College Business Services Cen- job training activities ...... 270,000 mation Program for Ex-Offend- ter ...... 300,000 Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, ers ...... 400,000 Mississippi State Board for Com- CA, for the Brentwood Outreach Labor Institute for Training, In- munity and Junior Colleges for Center to develop model pro- dianapolis, IN, to expand and an automotive workforce train- gram to serve low-income mi- improve services to newly dis- ing program in Madison Coun- norities ...... 440,000 located and incumbent workers 152,000 ty, MS ...... 5,000,000 Pride Industries, Roseville, CA, Career Resources, Inc., Louis- Mississippi State University to create long-term jobs for ville, KY, to establish a work- Nursery Assistance ...... 800,000 Mississippi State University, persons with disabilities and force computer training pro- Center for Advanced Vehicular other barriers to employment .. 1,000,000 gram ...... 100,000 Sacramento Housing and Rede- Career Vision Inc., Louisville, Systems, Mississippi State, MS, velopment Agency for the Sac- KY, to establish a distance for automotive engineering ramento Pre-Apprenticeship learning pilot program for com- training ...... 200,000 Mississippi Valley Biometric Construction Job Training Pro- puter-based employment skills Technology, Itta Bena, MS ...... 150,000 gram ...... 800,000 for youths and adults with dis- abilities ...... 100,000 Minot State University, Minot, Urban League of Metropolitan ND, for the Minot Job Corps Denver, CO, for Project Connect Center for Women and Families, Louisville, KY, to expand tech- Fellowship Training Program .. 385,000 Technical Training Program .... 100,000 Traill County Technology Center nology training and profes- Asnuntuck Community College, at Mayville State University to sional education for women af- Enfield, CT, to develop skills retain graduates in business in fected by domestic violence ...... 700,000 sets for the manufacturing sec- Traill County, ND ...... 175,000 Clifty Heights Community Devel- tor ...... 500,000 New Hampshire Motor Transport opment Organization, Inc, Hispanic Center of Greater Dan- Association to recruit, train, Science Hill, KY, for program bury, Danbury, CT, to provide and retrain truck drivers in development, operation and career services to minority pop- Concord, NH ...... 375,000 ulations ...... $150,000 equipment ...... 200,000 Youth Opportunities in Retailing, National Student Partnerships Custom Quality Services, Louis- Inc., to work in cooperation continuation project for expan- ville, KY, for training for their with schools and community sion to 10 new sites ...... 550,000 disabled employees ...... 30,000 organizations to teach sales and Waterbury Adult Education New Vision Enterprises, Louis- service skills to develop a fu- Technical Center to provide oc- ville, KY, for an employment ture workforce ...... 200,000 cupational training to workers program for people with disabil- City of Las Vegas for worker ini- at small firms...... 400,000 ities ...... 100,000 tiatives in response to post-ter- Jobs for America’s Grads (JAG) University of Louisville Center rorist attack layoffs ...... 1,750,000 program $1,000,000 ...... 1,000,000 for Supply Chain Workforce De- NevadaWorks to create a job Florida Agency for Workforce In- velopment ...... 800,000 skills training program to help novation, Tallahassee, FL, for a Louisiana National Guard for the residents meet the employment pilot program to recruit and Louisiana Job Challenge Pro- needs of new businesses in the train health care workers ...... 2,000,000 gram to fund a trade/skill area ...... 250,000 American Indian Science and En- training program for at-risk Reno/Sparks Chamber of Com- gineering Society for the Rural teenagers ...... 200,000 merce—Workforce Learning Computer Utilization Training Military Educational Training Academy Summit ...... 150,000 Program ...... 500,000 Enhancement Fund, Carville, Audrey Cohen College, New York Bishops Museum ...... 800,000 LA, for a job challenge program City, for Welfare to Careers High Tech Training—Maui, HI .... 500,000 for at risk youth ...... 500,000 Program ...... 475,000

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The conferees did not pro- riculum program ...... 100,000 VT, for the Vermont Tele- vide these funds contingent upon enactment National Student Partnerships communications Application of authorizing legislation as proposed by the for the opening of drop-in cen- Center (VTAC) to understand, House. The Senate bill did not include this ters at Temple University, es- plan and leverage the opportu- provision. tablishing staffed centers at the nities of advanced technology .. 250,000 STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND University of Pennsylvania and Cyberskills Vermont Workforce EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OPERATIONS the University of Pittsburgh, Development Initiative in Bur- and 18 current sites ...... 150,000 lington, VT, to provide commu- The conference agreement provides Northwest Pennsylvania Indus- nity-based job training pro- $3,401,338,000 for State Unemployment Insur- trial Resources Center, Inc., grams for low and medium in- ance and Employment Service Operations in- Erie, PA, for development and come residents ...... 200,000 stead of $3,400,338,000 as proposed by the distribution of Foundation Lake Champlain Life-Long House and $3,430,338,000 as proposed by the Skills Curriculum for Wood/ Learning Fund in Burlington, Senate. Forest Industry ...... 100,000 VT, to plan development of a The conferees include $50,680,000 instead of Nueva Esperanza for the adminis- fully integrated academic and the $49,680,000 proposed by the House and tration of the Nueva Esparanza technical curriculum for sec- $51,680,000 proposed by the Senate for em- Telework Center in Philadel- ondary and adult technical edu- ployment service national activities. phia...... 200,000 cation ...... 50,000 The conferees include $120,000,000 for One- Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Vermont Department of Employ- Stop/America’s Labor Market Information Corporation to provide support ment and Training in Montpe- system as proposed by the House, instead of services in the community for lier to develop a Registered Ap- $148,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. workers seeking technology prenticeship Program designed The conferees include a provision directing training in Philadelphia...... 100,000 to provide opportunities to a that funds recovered in the settlement of Olde Kensington Redevelopment wider range of individuals who litigation between the State of Mississippi Corporation in Philadelphia for are not bound for college but and a contractor relating to the acquisition the establishment of the North require instruction in new oc- of an automated system for benefit pay- Philadelphia Senior Develop- cupational areas ...... 200,000 ments be transferred from the Treasury to ment Project—to maximize sen- Vermont Technical College in the State of Mississippi. iors’ self-sufficiency and inde- Randolph Center to work in PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION pendent community residence collaboration with the Vermont through technology training. ... 100,000 State College System to de- The conference agreement appropriates Pennsylvania Association of Indi- velop a Vermont Workforce and $161,863,000 for Program Administration, the viduals with Disabilities to de- Training Initiative which will same as the House level. The detailed table velop programs to help disabled be a regional system for tech- at the end of this joint statement reflects individuals to move into the nological and skills develop- the activity distribution agreed to by the workforce ...... 500,000 ment ...... 300,000 conferees. Three Rivers Workforce Invest- Seattle King County Workforce The conferees also include funding, as list- ment Board to train workforce Development Council, Seattle, ed in the Senate report, for management and in technology occupations in WA, for the purpose of retrain- oversight of pilot and demonstration Alleghany County ...... 200,000 ing displaced Boeing employees 800,000 projects.

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PENSION AND WELFARE BENEFITS BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS core labor standards. The conference agree- ADMINISTRATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES ment also includes $10,000,000 for global workplace-based HIV–AIDS education and SALARIES AND EXPENSES The conference agreement includes prevention programs. The conferees agree The conference agreement appropriates $476,554,000 for the Bureau of Labor Statistics that the Secretary may transfer up to 5 per- $109,866,000 for the Pension and Welfare Bene- rather than $477,108,000 as provided by the cent of ILAB funding, exempting child labor fits Administration, salaries and expenses, as House and $476,000,000 as proposed by the protection and monitoring amounts, for proposed by the House instead of $112,418,000 Senate. The detailed table at the end of this other unspecified ILAB activities. The con- as proposed by the Senate. Within the total, joint statement reflects the activity dis- ferees also agree that no funds shall be $85,525,000 is provided for enforcement and tribution agreed to by the conferees. transferred from amounts included for child compliance, $20,205,000 is provided for policy, OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY regulation, and public service, and $4,136,000 labor protection and monitoring activities. The conferees also include funding for the is included for program oversight. SALARIES AND EXPENSES following activity: EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION The conference agreement includes $38,158,000 for the Office of Disability Em- —$300,000 to the University of Iowa for SALARIES AND EXPENSES ployment Policy instead of $33,053,000 as pro- work on child labor. The conference agreement appropriates posed by the House and $43,263,000 as pro- Within the total amount provided for $371,201,000 for the Employment Standards posed by the Senate. Within the total, ILAB, the conferees expect the Department Administration, salaries and expenses, in- $2,640,000 is specifically for the President’s to work with the U.S. Department of State ´ stead of the $369,631,000 as proposed by the Task Force on Employment of Adults with to post additional labor attaches overseas. House and $377,145,000 as proposed by the Disabilities, the same as in the House bill. The conferees expect the Department to sub- Senate. Within the total, $156,092,000 is pro- The conference agreement includes mit a plan detailing the countries with vided for enforcement of wage and hour $1,000,000, as provided by the Senate, for which the U.S. has bilateral or regional standards, $30,632,000 is provided for the of- three pilot programs for Federal employ- trade and investment agreements and to fice of labor-management standards, ment for individuals with significant disabil- which it would propose to send labor ´ $77,914,000 for federal contractor EEO stand- ities from home-based workstations. The attaches, as well as the entire cost attendant ards enforcement, $91,356,000 for federal pro- conferees intend that Federal agencies in- to such overseas assignments. The conferees grams for worker compensation, and clude in these pilots all appropriate posi- also strongly encourage the Secretary to $13,226,000 for program direction and support. tions, whether the work is performed in- continue the Labor Exchange Program with The Senate conferees do not concur with house, contracted, or outsourced in the types the State Department through which em- the House report language regarding Davis- of jobs which can be performed from home, ployees throughout the Labor Department Bacon wage determination process reforms. such as customer service/call contact cen- have the opportunity to serve as labor ´ The conferees request the Department of ters, and claims, loan or financial trans- attaches abroad in countries that ILAB and Labor to submit a report not later than June action processing operations. State determine to have significant prob- 30, 2002, outlining specific changes, which are lems with respect to child labor and other DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT proposed to modernize the Davis-Bacon wage core labor standards. The conferees expect determination process under the re- SALARIES AND EXPENSES the Department to submit a draft of the engineering approach. The conference agreement includes plan, developed in collaboration with the De- ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS $379,088,000 for Departmental Management, partment of State, to the Committees on Ap- COMPENSATION FUND salaries and expenses, instead of $383,878,000 propriations no later than March 31, 2002. The conferees urge ILAB to submit a re- The conference agreement includes as proposed by the House and $361,834,000 as proposed by the Senate. The detailed table at port by September 1, 2002 to the Committees $136,000,000 for the administrative expenses on Appropriations on the nature and scope of related to the processing of claims for the the end of this joint statement reflects the activity distribution agreed to by the con- technical assistance funds already appro- Energy Employees Occupational Illness priated in prior fiscal years. Similar lan- Compensation Act, the same as both the ferees. Within the total provided for this account, guage was included in the Senate report. In House and Senate. addition, the conferees urge ILAB to report The conferees are aware that a significant the conference agreement appropriates by June 30, 2002 on the study that was under- number of possible beneficiaries reside in $50,000,000 for the Department-wide informa- taken by the Department with regard to reg- West Texas near the Pantex facility. The tion technology crosscut. ular reporting of working conditions in the conferees encourage the Secretary to estab- The conference agreement includes production of apparel imported into the U.S. lish a full-time resource center in West $148,282,000 for the Bureau of International The Senate report contained similar lan- Texas in order to provide sufficient services Labor Affairs (ILAB), instead of $147,982,000 as provided in both the House and Senate guage. to those who may qualify for benefits under The conferees note that the Department the law. bills. The conference agreement also in- cludes language authorizing the expenditure had a significant lapse in full-time equiva- BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND of funds for bilateral and multilateral tech- lent usage at the end of fiscal year 2001, par- The conference agreement includes a defi- nical assistance and other international ticularly in the worker protection programs. nite annual appropriation of $1,035,759,000 for labor activities, and general grant authority The conferees recognize that this was partly black lung benefit payments and interest for the agency. Within the total provided, due to the transition from the previous Ad- payments on advances made to the Trust $82,000,000 is to assist developing countries ministration to the current one, as well as to Fund as proposed by the House instead of an with the elimination of child labor. Of this some uncertainty regarding the final 2001 indefinite permanent appropriation as pro- amount, $45,000,000 is for the International budget level. It is the conferees’ intention posed by the Senate. Labor Organization’s International Pro- that the Department should make every ef- OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH gramme for the Elimination of Child Labor. fort to ensure that the programs are appro- ADMINISTRATION In addition, $37,000,000 is provided for bilat- priately staffed to perform their mandated responsibilities and meet performance goals. SALARIES AND EXPENSES eral assistance, made available through Sep- tember 30, 2003, to improve access to basic The conferees are pleased to note, from the The conference agreement includes data most recently available, that the De- $443,651,000 for the Occupational Safety and education in international areas with a high rate of abusive and exploitative child labor. partment has been able to achieve wholly, in Health Administration instead of $435,307,000 part, or exceed over 90 percent of its per- as proposed by the House and $450,262,000 as The conference agreement further includes $20,000,000 for multilateral technical assist- formance objectives. The conference agree- proposed by the Senate. The detailed table at ment directs the Department to prepare a re- the end of this joint statement reflects the ance and $17,000,000 for bilateral technical as- sistance. These funds help developing coun- port detailing its hiring plans for fiscal year activity distribution agreed to by the con- 2002 and to submit the report no later than ferees. tries implement core labor standards, strengthen the capacities of Ministries of January 15, 2002. MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION Labor to enforce national labor laws, and The conferees are aware of the important SALARIES AND EXPENSES protect internationally-recognized worker work the Department is doing to encourage The conference agreement includes rights. The conference agreement further in- small businesses to develop alcohol and drug- $254,768,000 for the Mine Safety and Health cludes $5,000,000 for ILAB to build its own free workplace programs. Therefore, the con- Administration instead of $251,725,000 as pro- permanent capacity to monitor and report ferees recommend continuation of the Work- posed by the House and $256,093,000 as pro- regularly and in-depth to the Congress on ing Partners Program within the Depart- posed by the Senate. The detailed table at the extent to which foreign countries with ment’s Office of Policy. the end of this joint statement reflects the trade and investment agreements with the VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING activity distribution agreed to by the con- United States respect internationally-recog- The conferees appropriate $212,703,000 for ferees. nized worker rights and effectively promote veterans employment and training, instead

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26476 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 of the $211,703,000 as proposed by the House Health Center, San Diego, California; Sharp dren’s Memorial Hospital, Children’s Memo- and $213,703,000 as proposed by the Senate. Coronado Hospital, Coronado, California; rial Institute for Education and Research, Within the funds provided, $18,250,000 is in- Placer County Children’s Emergency Shel- Chicago, Illinois; Loretto Hospital, Chicago, cluded for the homeless veterans program ter, Auburn, California; Psychiatric Emer- Illinois; Prentice Women’s Hospital, North- and $7,550,000 is included for the veterans gency Services Center, San Mateo County, western Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illi- workforce investment programs. California Health Center; Hartnell College, nois; Edward Health Services Women’s & GENERAL PROVISIONS Regional Health Occupations Resource Cen- Children’s Pavilion, Naperville, Illinois; La ter, Salinas, California; The Children’s Hos- Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; DISLOCATED WORKER ASSISTANCE TO AIRPORT pital of Los Angeles; University of Southern Community Health Care, Inc., Rock Island, CAREER CENTERS California Keck School of Medicine; Paradise Illinois; Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, The conferees delete without prejudice a Valley Hospital, Complementary Medicine Illinois; Access Community Health Center, Sense of the Senate provision regarding ap- Center, National City, California; Grossmont Chicago, Illinois; Marklund Children’s Home, propriations to enable airport career centers College, El Cajon, California; Riverside-San West Chicago, Illinois; Rush-Copley Medical in New York and New Jersey to provide dis- Bernardino South Clinic, Temecula, Cali- Center, Aurora, Illinois; Valley West Com- located worker employment and training as- fornia; La Clinica de la Raza, Oakland, Cali- munity Hospital, Sandwich, Illinois; sistance to workers in the airline and related fornia; Loma Linda University Medical Cen- Marklund Children’s Home, Bloomingdale, industries who have been dislocated as a re- ter, Trauma/Emergency Medical Services Illinois; Chicago Family Health Center, Chi- sult of the September 11, 2001 attack. The Center, Loma Linda, California; Los Angeles cago, Illinois; The Clinic in Altgeld, Chicago, House bill contains no similar provision. Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California; Touro Illinois; Condell Medical Center, VOCATIONAL REHABILITATIVE SERVICES University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Libertyville, Illinois; Lake County Health The conferees delete without prejudice a Mare Island, California; San Francisco Com- Department and Community Health Center, Sense of the Senate provision regarding as- munity Clinic Consortium, San Francisco, Waukegan, Illinois; Edward Hospital, sistance to individuals with disabilities from California; Community Medical Centers, Naperville, Illinois; Northwestern University New York and New Jersey who require voca- Fresno, California; AltaMed Health Services Center for Genomics and Molecular Medi- tional rehabilitative services as a result of Corporation, Los Angeles, California; Pedi- cine, Evanston, Illinois; Women’s Health September 11. The House bill contains no atric and Family Medical Center, Los Ange- Center at Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illi- nois; Southern Illinois University School of similar provision. les, California; East Los Angeles Health Task Force, Los Angeles, California; Alli- Medicine, Springfield, Illinois; Riverside TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Medical Center, Kankakee, Illinois; Union HUMAN SERVICES ance Medical Center, Healdsburg, California; Center Point, Inc., San Rafael, California; Hospital, Midwest Center for Rural Health, HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES Colorado State University Bioenvironmental Terre Haute, Indiana; Indiana University ADMINISTRATION Hazards Level-3 Facility; University of Midwest Proton Radiation Institute, HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES Northern Colorado Low-Incidence Disabil- Bloomingdale, Indiana; Indiana Genomics The conference agreement includes ities Center; The Rocky Mountain Regional Initiative, Indiana University School of Med- icine; Bethany Medical Center, Kansas City, $6,081,237,000 for health resources and serv- Trauma Center at Denver Health; National Kansas; Kansas University Imaging Facili- ices instead of $5,691,480,000 as proposed by Jewish Medical and Research Center, Den- ties; Harrison Memorial Hospital Dialysis the House and $5,501,343,000 as proposed by ver, Colorado; Boys Village Youth and Fam- Center, Cynthiana, Kentucky; Jane Todd the Senate. ily Services, Milford, Connecticut; John D. Crawford Hospital, Greensburg, Kentucky; The conference agreement includes bill Thompson Hospice Institute for Education, St. Catharine’s College, St. Catharine, Ken- language identifying $311,978,000 for the con- Training and Research, Branford, Con- tucky; University of Louisville Cardiac As- struction and renovation of health care and necticut; Southern Connecticut State Uni- sist Device Center; James Taylor Memorial other facilities instead of $10,000,000 as pro- versity, School of Nursing, New Haven, Con- Nursing Home, Louisville, Kentucky; Park posed by the Senate. The House bill con- necticut; Jefferson Senior Citizens Center, DuValle Community Health Center, Louis- tained no similar provision. These funds are Monticello, Florida; Northwest Florida Com- ville, Kentucky; Kentucky Communities to be used for the following projects: Prince munity Hospital; Camillus House, Inc., Economic Opportunity Council, Inc., Appa- George’s Hospital Center, Cheverly, Mary- Miami, Florida; Ambulatory Care Center at lachian Regional Wellness Center, land; Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc., Wash- Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida; Barbourville, Kentucky; Martin County ington, D.C.; ARCH (Adolescent Residential Economic Opportunity Family Health Cen- Community Center, Inc., Health and Center for Help) Facility, Anchorage, Alas- ter, Miami, Florida; Florida Association of Wellness Resource Center, Inez, Kentucky; ka; Southcentral Foundation’s Pathways Community Health Centers; University of University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Home Residential Substance Abuse Treat- Florida College of Dentistry; University of Lexington, Kentucky; Lake Charles Memo- ment Facility, Anchorage, Alaska; Baptist Miami School of Medicine, Batchelor Chil- rial Hospital, Lake Charles, Louisiana; Al- Health Foundation, Inc., Birmingham, Ala- dren’s Health Center; Columbia County Sen- lied Health Sciences Building at the Univer- bama; Pickens County Medical Center, ior Services, Lake City Florida; Enrichment sity of Louisiana, Monroe; East Jefferson Carrollton, Alabama; Thomas Hospital, Center, Brooksville, Florida; Bridges of Community Health Center, Jefferson Parish, Fairhope, Alabama; University of South Ala- America, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida; Com- Louisiana; Innis, Louisiana Community bama Gulf Coast Cancer Center and Research munity Health Centers of Pinellas, Inc., Health Center; Louisiana Memorial Hospital, Institute; University of Alabama School of Johnnie Ruth Clark Health Center, St. Pe- Lake Charles, Louisiana; Louisiana State Medicine, Huntsville Primary Care Center; tersburg, Florida; University of South Flor- University Pennington Biomedical Center; Cooper Green Hospital in Alabama; Hospice ida Health Sciences Center and College of Louisiana State University Health Science of West Alabama; University of Alabama, Medicine, Tampa, Florida; Paul D. Coverdell Center, Shreveport, Louisiana; Louisiana Birmingham, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Building at the Institute of Biomedical and State University Health Sciences Center, Research Institute; Arkansas Children’s Hos- Health Sciences at the University of Geor- New Orleans, Louisiana; Manet Community pital; Children’s Health Fund in Arkansas; gia; Marcus Institute, Atlanta, Georgia; Health Center, Massachusetts; Jaharis Fam- Advance Care Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkan- West End Medical Centers, Atlanta, Georgia; ily Center on Biomedical Research and Nu- sas; College of Nursing, University of Arkan- J.P. Carr Human Services Complex in trition; Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories sas for Medical Sciences; Community Rockdale County, Georgia; Oakhurst Medical at the University of Massachusetts; North- Healthcare of Douglas, Douglas, Arizona; Centers, Decatur and Stone Mountain, Geor- eastern University Bouve College of Health Copper Queen Community Hospital, Bisbee, gia; Maui Community Health Center; Sciences; Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Arizona; Sierra Vista Health Center, Sierra Molokai General Hospital; Community Center, Brockton, Massachusetts; J. Joseph Vista, Arizona; University of Arizona, Tuc- Health Care Inc., Davenport, Iowa; Des Moakley Medical Services Building, Boston son, Arizona; Cochise County Department of Moines University Osteopathic Medical Cen- Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Health, Arizona; Pima County Department ter; Grandview Health Center, Des Moines, Brandeis University National Center for Be- of Health, Arizona; Santa Cruz County De- Iowa; Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines, havioral Genomics, Waltham, Massachu- partment of Health, Arizona; Yuma County Iowa; Neumann College, Aston, Pennsyl- setts; City of Malden, Massachusetts, Urgent Department of Health, Arizona; Maricopa In- vania; Palmer Chiropractic College, Dav- Care Clinic and Family Health Center at tegrated Health System, Maricopa Medical enport, Iowa; Peoples Community Health Malden Hospital; University of Massachu- Center, Phoenix, Arizona; University of Clinic, Waterloo, Iowa; Primary Health Care setts Memorial Medical Center, University Southern California Alfred E. Mann Institute Inc., Des Moines, Iowa; River Hills Commu- Campus, Worcester, Massachusetts; Lowell and Biomedical Engineering Center; Cali- nity Health Center, Ottumwa, Iowa; Community Health Center, Lowell, Massa- fornia School of Professional Psychology, Siouxland Community Health Center, Sioux chusetts; Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Joint Center for Innovation in Behavioral Health, City, Iowa; South East Iowa Community Venture between the University of Massa- San Diego; Children’s Regional Emergency Health Centers, Burlington, Iowa; University chusetts and Baystate Medical Center; Hol- Care Center at Children’s Hospital and of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Chil- yoke Hospital, Holyoke, Massachusetts;

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26477 Jackson Laboratory in Maine; Saginaw Co- Hospital, Teaneck, New Jersey; Cooper Hos- Education Center, Columbus, Ohio; Red Cen- operative Hospitals, Saginaw, Michigan; De- pital, Camden New Jersey; Kessler Rehabili- ter, Massillon, Ohio; Stark State College of troit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan; tation Research Institute in West Orange, Technology, Canton, Ohio; Walsh University Community Health and Social Services, De- New Jersey; First Choice Community Clinic, Bioinformatics Laboratory, Medical Sciences troit, Michigan; Samaritan Center, Detroit, Albuquerque, New Mexico; New Mexico State Building, North Canton, Ohio; Malone Col- Michigan; Madonna University, Livonia, University, College of Health and Social lege Health and Wellness Center, Canton, Michigan; Charlevoix Area Hospital in Tra- Services, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Univer- Ohio; Mercy Hospital, Scranton, Pennsyl- verse City, Michigan; Marquette General sity of Nevada, Reno Biotechnology and vania; NorthEast Ohio Neighborhood Health Health System; Wayne State University and Genomics Center; Huntsman Cancer Insti- Services, Cleveland, Ohio; Family and Chil- the University of Detroit Mercy; Ele’s Place tute, Salt Lake City, Utah; University Med- dren’s Services, Tulsa, Oklahoma; St An- Healing Center, Lansing, Michigan; Hillsdale ical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, thony Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Community Health Center, Hillsdale, Michi- Las Vegas, Nevada; University of Nevada, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; gan; American Lung Association of Min- Las Vegas Cancer Institute; North Shore Virginia Garcia Collaborative Health Center nesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; Model Cities Long Island Jewish Health System, Hillside in Hillsboro, Oregon; Volunteers in Medicine Health Center, St. Paul, Minnesota; North Hospital; Little Falls Hospital and Residen- Clinic, Eugene, Oregon; Community Out- End Health Center, St. Paul, Minnesota; tial Health Care Facility, Little Falls, New reach, Corvallis, Oregon; Salud Medical Cen- West Side Community Health Services Den- York; University of Buffalo Bioinformatics ter, Woodburn, Oregon; Delaware Valley tal Clinic, St. Paul, Minnesota; Fairview Center; New York University School of Medi- Community Health, Inc., Maria de los Santos University Medical Center, Minneapolis, cine; The National Center for Community Health Center, Philadelphia, Minnesota; West Side Community Health Muskuloskeletal Research at the Hospital Pennsylvania; Lake Erie College of Osteo- Services Minneapolis Clinic, St. Paul, Min- for Special Surgery, New York, New York; pathic Medicine, Erie, Pennsylvania; United nesota; Ozark Tri-County Health Care Con- Dominican College Center for Health Cerebral Palsy of Southwestern Pennsyl- sortium Inc., Anderson, Missouri; University Sciences, Orangeburg, New York; Village of vania, Washington, Pennsylvania; Brookville of Missouri Center for Molecular and Cel- Kiryas Joel, Maternal and Infant Health Hospital, Brookville, Pennsylvania; Bucktail lular Bioengineering Research, Kansas City; Care Convalescence Center, Monroe, New Medical Center, Renova, Pennsylvania; Cross Trails Medical Center, Bollinger Coun- York; Ellenville Regional Hospital, Charles Cole Memorial Hospital, ty, Missouri; Douglas County Public Health Ellenville, New York; Kingston Hospital, Coudersport, Pennsylvania; Clarion Hospital, Services Group; Northeast Missouri Health Kingston, New York; Putnam Hospital, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Jersey Shore Hos- Council, Kirksville, Missouri; Samuel U. Camel, New York; Nassau University Med- pital, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania; Kane Rodgers Community Health Center, Kansas ical Center, East Meadow, New York; Open Community Hospital, Kane, Pennsylvania; City, Missouri; Christian Hospital, St. Louis, Door Family Medical Center, Edison School Punxsutawney Area Hospital, Punx- Missouri; Logan College of Chiropractic, Clinic, Port Chester, New York; Mount Sinai sutawney, Pennsylvania; Soldier and Sailors Chesterfield, Missouri; Operation Break- Hospital, New York, New York; Lewis Coun- Memorial Hospital, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; through, Kansas City, Missouri; University ty General Hospital, Lowville, New York; Al- Warren General Hospital, Warren, Pennsyl- of Missouri-Kansas City Institute for Bio- bany Medical Center, Albany, New York; Jo- vania; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic medical Research; Family Care Health Cen- seph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, New Medicine Clinical Learning and Assessment ters, St. Louis, Missouri; Kansas City Area York, New York; New York University Center; Endless Mountains Health Systems, Life Sciences Institute, Kansas City, Mis- Downtown Hospital, New York, New York; Montrose, Pennsylvania; Memorial Hospital souri; Center for Delta Health, Stoneville, State University of New York Downstate Inc., Towanda, Pennsylvania; Moses Taylor Mississippi; Guyton Building, University of Medical Center, Advanced Biotechnology In- Health Care System, Scranton, Pennsyl- Mississippi Medical Center; Mississippi State cubator, Brooklyn, New York; Children’s vania; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic School of Agriculture/Agromedicine; Mis- Hospital, Buffalo, New York; North General Medicine’s Sullivan County Medical Clinic, sissippi State University Social Science Re- Hospital, New York, New York; University of LaPorte, Pennsylvania; Fulton County Med- search Center; Neshoba County General Hos- Rochester Medical Center, Children’s Hos- ical Center, McConnellsberg, Pennsylvania; pital, Philadelphia, Mississippi; Health and pital at Strong Clinical Genetics Center; Co- Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Wellness Center at Jackson State Univer- lumbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson, New Philadelphia; Carnegie Mellon University; sity, Jackson, Mississippi; Gilmore Hospital, York; Glens Falls Hospital, Glens Falls, New Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Crozer- Amory, Mississippi; McLaughlin Animal Fa- York; Mary McClellan Hospital, Inc., Cam- Keystone Health System, Philadelphia, cility and Research Laboratories, Great bridge, New York; Kings County Hospital Pennsylvania; Fox Chase Cancer Center and Falls, Montana; University of Montana Na- Center, Brooklyn, New York; Department of Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown Uni- tional Center for Health Care Informatics; Emergency Medicine, State University of versity; Inner Harmony Wellness Center, Greene County Health Care, Inc., North New York Upstate Medical University, Syra- Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania; Kidspeace Carolina; Northeast Medical Center and the cuse, New York; Hospice of Finger Lakes, National Outpatient Health Center; Magee- Carrabus College of Health Sciences, Con- Auburn, New York; National Kidney Founda- Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; cord, North Carolina; Ruth and Billy tion of Central New York; State University Sacred Heart Hospital, Allentown, Pennsyl- Graham Children’s Center, Asheville, North of New York Upstate Medical University; St. vania; Shamokin Area Community Hospital, Carolina; Durham County Hospital Corpora- Joseph Community Center, Lorain, Ohio; Coal Township, Pennsylvania; Susquehanna tion, Durham, North Carolina; McDowell Akron Children’s Hospital; Cincinnati’s Chil- School for the Blind and Vision Impaired; Hospital, McDowell County, North Carolina; dren’s Hospitals; Columbus Children’s Hos- Temple University Health System, Episcopal Education and Research Consortium of West- pital; Huron Hospital Emergency Depart- Hospital campus; University of Pennsyl- ern North Carolina, Inc., Asheville, North ment; Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Ohio; Rain- vania, Comprehensive Cancer Treatment and Carolina; University of North Carolina Bio- bow Babies’ and Children’s Hospital, Cleve- Research Center; Wills Eye Hospital, Na- medical Research and Teaching Facility; land, Ohio; Stella Maris Detoxification Cen- tional Center for Clinical Research, Philadel- University of North Dakota School of Medi- ter, Cleveland, Ohio; Hopeland Health Cen- phia, Pennsylvania; Wistar Institute; Chil- cine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ter, Grandview Hospital and Medical Center, dren’s Health Fund; Caribbean Primate Re- North Dakota; Ai Ki Ruti Substance Abuse Dayton, Ohio; Hospice and Health Services of search Center, University of Puerto Rico; Treatment Center in Winnebago, Nebraska; Fairfield County, Lancaster, Ohio; Mary Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, East Boys Town National Research Hospital Na- Rutan Hospital, Bellefontaine, Ohio; Re- Providence, Rhode Island; Thundermist tional Learning and Technology Center for gional Outpatient Cancer Center, Spring- Health Associates, Woonsocket, Rhode Is- Childhood Deafness and Vision Disorders, field, Ohio; Tecumseh YMCA Health and land; Cancer Prevention Research Center, Omaha, Nebraska; Nebraska Health Systems, Wellness Center, New Carlisle, Ohio; Univer- University of Rhode Island, Kingston; New- Omaha, Nebraska; University of Nebraska sity Hospitals of Cleveland, Department of port Hospital, Newport, Rhode Island; Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; Univer- Psychiatry, Center of Excellence for the Care Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, sity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey of Adolescents and Adults with Bipolar Ill- Rhode Island; Williamsburg Regional Hos- Cancer Institute, New Brunswick, New Jer- ness and Other Severe Mental Disorders, pital, Kingstree, South Carolina; Medical sey; Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, Cleveland, Ohio; Barnesville Hospital, University of South Carolina Oncology Cen- New Jersey; Child Health Institute of New Barnesville, Ohio; Beallsville E-Squad, ter, Charleston, South Carolina; Voorhees Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Leon G. Beallsville, Ohio; Belmont Community Hos- College, Center of Excellence in Rural and Smith Infectious Disease Institute, Saint pital, Bellaire, Ohio; University of Findlay, Minority Health; University of South Caro- Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, New Jer- Findlay, Ohio; University of Cincinnati Med- lina School of Public Health, Columbia, sey; Englewood Hospital and Medical Center ical Center, Medical Sciences Building; Joel South Carolina; Community Memorial Hos- Advanced Breast Care Center, Englewood, Pomerene Hospital, Millersburg, Ohio; Knox pital, Redfield, South Dakota; Crow Creek New Jersey; Hackensack University Medical Community Hospital, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Ohio Sioux Tribe, Fort Thompson, South Dakota; Center, Hackensack, New Jersey; Holy Name State University Biomedical Research and Ellen Stephen Hospice, Kyle, South Dakota;

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00083 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26478 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc., Porcupine, conferees concur with language contained in ation to a proposal by the Sickle Cell Dis- South Carolina; St. Bernard’s Hospital, the Senate report that not less than ease Association of America. It is also in- Milbank, South Dakota; University of South $7,000,000 be provided for Native Hawaiian tended that $4,000,000 of the SPRANS amount Dakota, School of Medicine; Children’s Hos- health care activities. will be used for Columbia Hospital for pital at Vanderbilt University Medical Cen- The conferees urge HRSA to give full and Women Medical Center in Washington, D.C., ter, Nashville, Tennessee; East Tennessee fair consideration to proposals to support ex- to support community outreach programs State University, Quillen College of Medi- panded services to reach priority populations for women, $565,000 will be used for the Mil- cine, Johnson City, Tennessee; Tennessee in under-served communities in Kane, Mar- waukee Health Department for a pilot pro- Tech, School of Nursing, Chattanooga, Ten- ion, Saline, and Will, Illinois counties on the gram providing health care services to at- nessee; University of Texas M.D. Anderson southwest side of Chicago and in the AAPI risk children in day care, and $50,000 will be Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Institute for community on the north side of Chicago. used for the Center for Great Expectations, Research and Rehabilitation, Houston, The conferees urge HRSA to give full and Somerville, New Jersey to provide prenatal Texas; Val Verde Regional Medical Center, fair consideration to proposals to support ex- health care, education, and counseling for Del Rio, Texas; Memorial Hermann The panded services to reach priority populations pregnant teens. Woodlands Hospital, The Woodlands, Texas; in under-served communities in Greene, Funding for the continuation of the trau- Fort Bend Hospital, Missouri City, Texas; Howell, Washington, Benton, Sullivan, matic brain injury State demonstration Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Cook Chil- Vernon, and Ozark counties, Missouri. projects is provided as a separate line item dren’s Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas; The conference agreement includes in the table as proposed by the Senate. The University of North Texas Health Science $46,511,000 for the national health service House provided funding for this purpose Center; Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Pedi- corps, field placements instead of $42,511,000 within the SPRANS amount. atric Clinic, McAllen, Texas; Baylor College as proposed by the House and $49,511,000 as The conference agreement includes of Medicine and Texas A&M University, Mi- proposed by the Senate. $10,000,000 for abstinence education as pro- chael E. DeBakey Institute; University of The conference agreement includes posed by the House instead of $15,000 as pro- Texas, Southwestern Comprehensive Stroke $107,000,000 for national health service corps, posed by the Senate. This additional funding Center; Houston County Hospital, Crockett, recruitment instead of $100,000,000 as pro- brings the total discretionary amount avail- Texas; University of Texas Health Science posed by the House and $104,916,000 as pro- able for abstinence education in fiscal year Center, Texas Diabetes Institute, San Anto- posed by the Senate. Within the total pro- 2002 to $40,000,000. nio; Eastern Virginia Medical School, Nor- vided, $8,000,000 is for State offices of rural The conference agreement includes folk, Virginia; Massey Cancer Center, Vir- health. $99,000,000 for healthy start instead of ginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, The conference agreement includes $102,000,000 as proposed by the House and Virginia; Medical Clinic, Haysi, Virginia; $662,768,000 for health professions instead of $89,996,000 as proposed by the Senate. The Northwest Community Services, Front $669,992,000 as proposed by the House and conferees urge HRSA to give preference to Royal, Virginia; Our Health, Inc., Win- $596,369,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within current and former grantees with expiring or chester, Virginia; Rutland Regional Medical the total provided, $285,000,000 is for chil- recently expired project periods, including Center, Rutland, Vermont; Spectrum Youth dren’s hospitals graduate medical education. grantees that did not receive renewed fund- and Family Services, Burlington, Vermont; The conferees provide $2,000,000 to estab- ing but whose grant applications were ap- Vermont Department of Health, Division of lish a graduate psychology education pro- proved but not funded during fiscal year 2001. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, Primary gram. These funds are to be used consistent The conference agreement includes Care Facility; University of Vermont College with language contained in the House report. $51,928,000 for rural health outreach grants of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care; The conferees provide $8,000,000 to expand instead of $51,863,000 as proposed by the Northeast Washington County Community graduate medical education curriculum in House and $52,921,000 as proposed by the Sen- Health Center, Plainfield, Vermont; Univer- geriatrics. These funds are to be used con- ate. sity of Washington, Life Sciences Facility, sistent with language contained in the House The conferees continue to be concerned Seattle, Washington; Lourdes Health Net- report. about the health care needs of those in the work, Pasco, Washington; Puget Sound In convening the panel to examine the edu- Mississippi River Delta region. The conferees Blood Center, Seattle, Washington; Memo- cation and training requirements for all concur with the budget request and provide rial Hospital of Iowa County, Dodgeville, nursing occupations, as directed in the Sen- $6,800,000 to continue HRSA’s ongoing initia- Wisconsin; Northcentral Technical College, ate report, the Secretaries of the Depart- tive which is providing funding and technical Wausau, Wisconsin; Chippewa Valley Tech- ment of Health and Human Services and the assistance to help underserved rural commu- nical College Health Education Center, Eau Department of Labor shall also collaborate nities identify and better address their Claire, Wisconsin; Marquette University with the American Association of Commu- health care needs and to help small rural School of Dentistry in Milwaukee, Wis- nity Colleges, the American Organization of hospitals improve their financial and oper- consin; Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wis- Nurse Executives, and the National League ational performance. The conferees rec- consin; Marshall University Biotechnology for Nursing, and ensure that a representative ommend that HRSA consult with the Delta Science Center; University of Charleston, spectrum of views on relevant issues is con- Regional Authority (DRA), given DRA’s on- Riggleman Hall; West Virginia School of Os- sidered. going relationship with communities in the teopathic Medicine, Ambulatory Care Facil- The conferees note the value of the Native Delta. The conferees include the following ity; and Friends-R-Fun, Summersville, West Hawaiian Center of Excellence in Nursing in amounts for the following projects and ac- Virginia. addressing the nursing shortage in Hawaii. tivities in fiscal year 2002: The conferees urge HRSA to give full and The conference agreement includes —$75,000 is for Ellen Stephen Hospice in fair consideration to a proposal from Yeshiva $17,841,000 for Hansen’s disease services in- Kyle, South Dakota to provide end-of-life University, Einstein Medical College. stead of $17,491,000 as proposed by the House care for Native Americans on the Pine Ridge The conference agreement includes bill and $18,391,000 as proposed by the Senate. Indian Reservation; language to limit the amount available for Within the total provided, $350,000 is for the —$100,000 is for the Mississippi Disease Federal tort claims within community Diabetes Lower Extremity Amputation Pre- State Management program at the Univer- health centers funding to not more than vention program at the University of South sity of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, $15,000,000 as proposed by the House instead Alabama. which focuses on providing information and of $5,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes medications to the underserved, particularly The conference agreement includes bill $731,615,000 for the maternal and child health those with diabetes and asthma; language identifying $265,085,000 for family block grant instead of $740,000,000 as pro- —$100,000 is for the Northwest Health Cen- planning instead of $264,170,000 as proposed posed by the House and $719,087,000 as pro- ter in Pascoag, Rhode Island to support by the House and $266,000,000 as proposed by posed by the Senate. health care services for low-income individ- the Senate. The conference agreement includes bill uals; The conference agreement does not include language designating $115,236,000 of the funds —$100,000 is for the People of Color AIDS bill language to provide $30,000,000 for absti- provided for the block grant for special Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico for nence education in fiscal year 2003 as pro- projects of regional and national significance education, prevention, and HIV testing serv- posed by the Senate. The House bill con- (SPRANS) instead of $116,145,000 as proposed ices in northern New Mexico; tained no similar provision. The conferees by the House. The Senate bill did not ear- —$200,000 is for the Louisiana Public agree with the President’s request to fund mark funds for this purpose. It is intended Health Institute, Center for Community Ca- this program on a current year basis. that $4,000,000 of the SPRANS amount will be pacity Enhancement to promote community The conference agreement includes used to enhance the sickle cell newborn partnerships in order to address health im- $1,343,723,000 for community health centers screening program and its locally based out- provement priorities; as proposed by the Senate instead of reach and counseling efforts. The conferees —$200,000 is for Health Centers of Northern $1,318,559,000 as proposed by the House. The urge HRSA to give full and fair consider- New Mexico in Espanola, San Miguel and

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00084 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26479 Truchas, New Mexico to improve service de- Dakota to support the Northern Plains —$100,000 is for the University of Pitts- livery and access to care for low-income fam- Healthy Start project; burgh School of Nursing, Nurse Anesthesia ilies in Northern New Mexico; —$1,000,000 is for the Center for Acadiana Program and LaRoche College for the Nurse —$200,000 is for the Geisinger Health Sys- Genetics and Hereditary Health Care at Lou- Anesthesia Rural and Elderly Expansion tems Rural Stroke Care Partnership in isiana State University Medical Center to project; Danville, Pennsylvania; continue and expand the development of the —$200,000 is for the Primary Care Associa- —$200,000 is for the Eastside Neighborhood center; tion of Hawaii; Center, Inc. in Pierre, South Dakota for the —$1,200,000 is for Creighton University’s —$200,000 is for Logan College of Chiro- Frontier School Health Initiative to provide Accelerated Nursing Program in Omaha, Ne- practic in Chesterfield, Missouri for a dis- health care services to children in rural braska; and tance learning project; areas who do not receive regular health care —$1,250,000 is for the Montana Comprehen- —$200,000 is for Clarion University and the services; sive Health Association in Helena, Montana Primary Care Council of Pennsylvania’s —$215,000 is for Jefferson Memorial Hos- to develop a demonstration program to bring State System of Higher Education; pital in Crystal City, Missouri for its rural insurance coverage to high-risk individuals. —$250,000 is for Molokai General Hospital health outreach activities; The conference agreement includes to use the latest technology advances to pro- —$250,000 is for the St. Nicholas Free Clinic $16,810,000 for rural health research instead vide health care in rural areas; in Paducah, Kentucky to establish health of $12,099,000 as proposed by the House and —$250,000 is for Greene Memorial Hospital education and wellness promotion programs $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. in Xenia, Ohio for a Medical Safety Mod- for the working-poor of Ballard, Calloway, The conferees include the following ernization project; Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hiuskman, Living- amounts for the following projects and ac- —$250,000 is for the Pennsylvania School of ston, McCracken, and Marshall Counties; tivities in fiscal year 2002: Optometry in Philadelphia to establish a —$250,000 is for the Buncombe County Med- —$200,000 is for the University of Pitts- network of urban community-based satellite ical Society in North Carolina for Project burgh at Bradford, Center for Rural Health centers to provide access to inner city, un- Access; Practices; derserved persons who need vision care; —$300,000 is for the Western Kentucky Uni- —$250,000 is for the Healthcare Association —$250,000 is for the Pennsylvania Associa- versity Healthy Farm Families Initiative; of New York State for a Center for Health tion of Home Health Agencies to conduct a —$300,000 is for the Carolina’s Health Care Care Workforce Innovations multi-facility examination of telehomecare Systems; —$300,000 is for Bassett Healthcare to de- and concurrent development and analysis of —$300,000 is for the University of Nebraska velop and initiate a comprehensive cardio- the Telenursing role as a solution to the Medical Center, 500 mile medical center; vascular research initiative to demonstrate nursing shortage, working with Penn State —$330,000 is for Mercy Housing health care the effectiveness of an integrated cardiac University Health Policy and Administra- technical support, to provide health care in care program in rural New York; tion; —$360,000 is for the University of South Da- —$300,000 is for the University of Virginia coordination with affordable housing to low kota to establish a cooperative academic for telemedicine projects in southwest Vir- income families, seniors, and individuals Rural Primary Care and Health Service Re- ginia; with disabilities; search Center to help define the status of —$350,000 is for Fairview Ridges Hospital —$370,000 is for the Clackamas County, Or- health care delivery in South Dakota; for a demonstration to reduce maternal and egon, Public Health Division, for rural out- —$400,000 is for the Texas Tech University neonatal morbidity using technology and reach activities; Health Sciences Center at El Paso and the communications methodologies; —$400,000 is for the Red Cliff Band of Lake University of Texas at El Paso for joint re- —$400,000 is for Deaconess Billings Clinic Superior in Bayfield, Wisconsin for dental search and education on the health problems Northwest Area Center for Studies on Aging services; of migrant workers; in Billings, Montana to address healthcare —$425,000 is for the Southern University —$400,000 is for the University of Vermont, problems associated with rural aging, and Nurse Managed Family Health Center in School of Nursing in Burlington, Vermont to expand access to specialty health care via Baton Rouge for a health clinic on campus create a nursing center of excellence that telemedicine; and a mobile health clinic; will assist policy formulation regarding the —$400,000 is for the Rocky Mountain Tech- —$500,000 is for the State of Alaska: ‘‘A severe shortage of nurses, especially in rural nology Foundation in Billings, Montana Counselor in Every Village’’ program to areas; through Rocky Mountain College and Dea- train behavioral health counselors and pro- —$1,400,000 is for Avera McKennan Hospital coness Billings College to provide telemedi- vide their services in Alaskan villages; and in Sioux Falls, South Dakota to develop and cine links to rural areas; Alaska Native Health Board to expand the apply computerized radiography within mul- —$400,000 is for the University of Vermont Alaska Community Health Aide program in tiple rural and tertiary level medical care College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen rural Alaska and to update training mate- settings; Health Care to support its use of two-way rials; —$1,500,000 is for the University of North interactive video telemedicine systems to re- —$500,000 is for the Western Kentucky Uni- Dakota School of Medicine to support its duce disparities in the clinical care and med- versity Emergency Medical Services Acad- rural health program in preventative medi- ical education of trauma; emy; cine and behavioral sciences; and —$440,000 is for the Telehealth Resource —$500,000 is for the Western Kentucky Uni- —$2,000,000 is for the Raleigh County Com- Center at the University of Texas Medical versity Mobile Health Screening program; mission in Beckley, West Virginia for an Branch in Galveston, Texas for a telehealth —$500,000 is for the Louisiana State Uni- Educational Mall to serve as a coordinating initiative; versity Health Science Center in New Orle- and research location for rural health initia- —$450,000 is for St. Vincent Hospital in Bil- ans to reduce diabetes-related foot amputa- tives, especially in preventative medicine. lings, Montana to establish a regional video tions in a high-risk population; The conference agreement includes telecommunications network for healthcare —$500,000 is for the Penn State Hershey $39,197,000 for telehealth instead of $27,609,000 providers; Medical Center to expand access to as proposed by the House and $5,609,000 as —$500,000 is for Central Michigan Univer- healthcare in rural areas of central Pennsyl- proposed by the Senate. sity in Mt. Pleasant for the rural telehealth vania; The conferees include the following and community education network to im- —$500,000 is for the Huntsman Cancer Insti- amounts for the following projects and ac- prove access and quality of health care to tute to develop a pilot project involving mo- tivities in fiscal year 2002: migrants and underserved in rural popu- bile clinics equipped with Positron Emission —$45,000 is for the Oregon Community lations; Tomography to educate Native Americans on Health Information Network for technology —$500,000 is for the Alaska Telemedicine cancer risk, early detection, prevention and upgrades; Advisory Council for an Alaska telemedicine treatment; —$75,000 is for the University of South Ala- project; —$550,000 is for the Center for Sustainable bama for the Southwest Alabama Network —$500,000 is for Memorial Medical Center Health Outreach at the University of South- for Education and Telemedicine; in Springfield, Illinois for an automated clin- ern Mississippi; —$100,000 is for the Oklahoma State De- ical information system; —$800,000 is for the Tennessee Hospital partment of Health, Oklahoma City for plan- —$500,000 is for the University of Montana, Education Research Foundation in Nash- ning and development of a rural telemedi- ImProving Health Among Rural Montanans ville, Tennessee for the Center for Health cine system; project for expansion of existing capabilities Workforce Planning; —$100,000 is for the Coalition for of the campus-based Drug Information Serv- —$500,000 is for the Cooperative Education Ultrasound Education and Training to de- ice; Service Agency #11 in Turtle Lake, Wis- velop a comprehensive multi-institution —$500,000 is for the New Mexico-Hawaii consin for dental services; model distance learning network for the Telehealth Outreach for Unified Community —$1,000,000 is for the Aberdeen Area Tribal training of ultrasound technologists and Health (TOUCH) project in remote and rural Chairman’s Health Board in Aberdeen, South medical sonographers; areas;

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00085 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26480 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 —$500,000 is for the Penn State Cancer In- tion services for medical staff and adminis- awards to eligible States based on needs stitute at Hershey Medical Center to develop trators; and identified by the States, rather than a for- a digital informatics and communications —$2,900,000 is for West Virginia University mula based solely on living AIDS cases. The system to provide a virtual work environ- to provide medical care to rural commu- conferees also encourage HRSA to consider ment offering patient services across central nities through the Mountaineer Doctor Tele- capped program enrollment and client wait- and northeastern Pennsylvania; vision (MDTV) program. ing lists, in conjunction with the eligibility, —$550,000 is for the North Idaho Rural The conference agreement includes formulary, and medical criteria as among Telehealth program to help provide for the $20,000,000 for authorized health-related ac- the ADAP access restrictions that may qual- logical extension of more complete tele- tivities of the Denali Commission as pro- ify a State or territory for these grant health services to additional, high-priority posed by the Senate. The House bill con- awards. The conferees also urge HRSA to participants and rural areas; tained no similar provision. provide supplemental awards to States with —$600,000 is for the Institute for Urban The conference agreement includes an ADAP eligibility limit in excess of 200 Family Health in New York, New York for $18,993,000 for emergency medical services for percent of the Federal poverty level when an information technology initiative; children instead of $19,000,000 as proposed by those States meet any of the statutorily de- —$600,000 is for North Dakota State Uni- the House and $18,986,000 as proposed by the fined criteria. versity College of Pharmacy to conduct a Senate. The conference agreement includes pilot study testing the safety, cost-effective- The conference agreement includes $40,000,000 for rural hospital flexibility ness and access to health care provided by $21,210,000 for poison control instead of grants instead of $35,000,000 as proposed by new telepharmacy technology in rural com- $16,421,000 as proposed by the House and the House and $25,000,000 as proposed by the munities; $24,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Senate. Within the total provided, $15,000,000 —$750,000 is for Susquehanna Health Sys- The conference agreement includes is for a rural hospital performance improve- tems in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for an $7,500,000 for traumatic brain injury instead ment program. These funds would be used for Electronic Medical Information and Physi- of $10,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The the small rural hospital prospective payment cian Access project; House bill provided $5,000,000 for this purpose systems grant program as created in section —$750,000 is for the Morehouse School of within the maternal and child health block 409 of the Balanced Budget Relief Act of 1999 Medicine to develop networking capability grant SPRANS funding. Within the total and authorized in section 1820(g)(3) of the So- at the National Center of Primary Care; provided, $1,500,000 is for protection and ad- cial Security Act. These funds would also be —$800,000 is for the Fairview Lakes Re- vocacy services. These funds are to be used used to help rural hospitals comply with pro- gional Medical Center in Wyoming, Min- consistent with language contained in the visions of the Health Insurance Portability nesota for its telemedicine program; Senate report. and Accountability Act of 1996 and to reduce —$800,000 is for the University of South Da- The conference agreement includes medical errors and support quality improve- kota in Vermillion to implement a distance $6,000,000 for black lung clinics as proposed ment. The funds would be geared toward learning project to train entry-level nursing by the House instead of $7,000,000 as proposed small rural hospitals that are essential ac- home workers to become nurses; by the Senate. cess points for Medicare and Medicaid bene- —$850,000 is for the New York Presbyterian The conference agreement includes ficiaries. Hospital telehealth initiative; $3,500,000 for trauma care instead of $3,000,000 The conference agreement includes —$900,000 is for South Dakota State Uni- as proposed by the House and $4,000,000 as $4,000,000 for the Radiation Exposure Com- versity to develop and evaluate on-line proposed by the Senate. pensation Act instead of $5,000,000 as pro- health tracking to help manage chronic con- The conference agreement includes posed by the Senate. The House bill con- ditions in tribal communities; $10,240,000 for nursing loan repayment for tained no similar provision. —$982,000 is for the Maricopa County, Ari- shortage area service instead of $2,279,000 as The conference agreement includes zona Correctional Health Telemedicine Ini- proposed by the House and $15,000,000 as pro- $120,041,000 for the community access pro- tiative; posed by the Senate. gram as proposed by the House instead of —$1,000,000 is for Baycare Health Systems The conference agreement includes a total $15,041,000 as proposed by the Senate. These in Clearwater, Florida for a Medical Infor- of $1,910,806,000 for Ryan White programs in- funds are to be used consistent with lan- mation Systems Initiative; stead of $1,919,609,000 as proposed by the guage contained in the House report. —$1,000,000 is for Case Western Reserve House and $1,883,000,000 as proposed by the The conference agreement includes University in Cleveland, Ohio for a Senate. Included in this amount is $149,154,000 for program management instead Netwellness Internet health program; $619,585,000 for emergency assistance, of $147,049,000 as proposed by the House and —$1,000,000 is for Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton $977,485,000 for comprehensive care, $135,991,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of the Comprehensive Health Services for Phase II $193,939,000 for early intervention, $70,998,000 increase provided, $2,500,000 is for informa- of a telemedicine system to link its patients for women, infants, children, and youth, tion technology. with the research capabilities of the Amer- $13,500,000 for dental services, and $35,299,000 The conferees are concerned by the re- ican Health Foundation; for education and training centers. cently announced plan to abolish the Office —$1,100,000 is for Northeastern Ohio Uni- The conference agreement includes bill for the Advancement of Telehealth and reas- versities College of Medicine in Rootstown, language identifying $639,000,000 for the Ryan sign these functions to the HIV/AIDS Bu- Ohio for implementation of the Medical Edu- White Title II State AIDS drug assistance reau. The conferees have provided sufficient cation Network Teaching Ohio Region III; programs instead of $649,000,000 as proposed funds to continue the operations of this Of- —$1,500,000 is for the Idaho State Univer- by the House and $610,000,000 as proposed by fice as a component of the Office of the Ad- sity Telehealth Integrated Care Center to the Senate. ministrator. The conferees include the following improve the quality and quantity of access Within the total provided, $123,200,000 is for amounts for the following projects and ac- to healthcare for people living in Idaho’s the Minority HIV/AIDS initiative. These tivities in fiscal year 2002: rural and frontier areas by providing con- funds are to be used consistent with lan- —$80,000 is for the Wausau Health Founda- sultation and diagnosis over long distance; guage contained in the House report. tion in Wausau, Wisconsin for a survey and —$1,500,000 is for the Northeast Ohio The conferees concur with House report analysis of local health professionals’ career Health Outreach Network in Massillon, Ohio language under title IV regarding the dis- paths to better understand entry into and for a patient safety pilot program; tribution of title IV funds. exit from health professions; —$1,721,000 is for the University of Nevada, The conferees are concerned about the in- —$100,000 is for the University of San Diego Las Vegas for its e-Health program to im- creasing incidence of HIV/AIDS infection in Institute for the Advancement of Health Pol- prove access to specialized and high quality rural regions of the United States, and are icy to assess through teaching, research and health care in rural Nevada; aware that HIV/AIDS disproportionately im- delivery of services the impact of public pol- —$1,940,000 is for the University of Pitts- pacts minority communities in underserved icy on families from vulnerable populations; burgh Medical Center for support of the de- rural areas, particularly in the Southeast. —$200,000 is for Luna County, New Mexico velopment and deployment of its state of the Therefore, States should utilize funds pro- and the Columbus Volunteer Fire Depart- art health care information technology sys- vided under the Minority HIV/AIDS Initia- ment to provide emergency medical services tem; tive to fund outreach strategies that assist to immigrants; —$2,000,000 is for the University of South in linking underserved minority populations —$350,000 is for the Clinical Pharmacy Dakota School of Medicine; with State ADAPs, primary care, and other Training program at the University of Ha- —$2,085,000 is for the Education and Re- HIV/AIDS treatment services. waii at Hilo; search Consortium of Western North Caro- The conferees are concerned about the for- —$475,000 is to support the efforts of the lina, Inc., Western North Carolina Health mula-based distribution of discretionary sup- American Federation of Negro Affairs Edu- Care Regional Center to provide computer plemental ADAP grant awards to States cation and Research Fund of Philadelphia; hardware/software acquisition, upgrade and with demonstrated need. The conferees en- —$500,000 is for the University of Wash- installation as well as training and consulta- courage HRSA to distribute these grant ington Center for Health Workforce Studies

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26481 in Seattle, Washington for a demonstration lance and epidemiological efforts of The conferees concur with the Senate re- project to collect and analyze health work- Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy in port language encouraging CDC to continue force data; the United States. public and professional awareness activities —$800,000 is for the University of Iowa for Within the total provided, $2,800,000 is for a with respect to pulmonary hypertension. the training of Certified Registered Nurse Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Initiative With the additional funding provided for Anesthetists; to help train health professionals and sen- oral health, the conferees understand that —$1,000,000 is for the Washington Health sitize health care systems and institutions priority will be given to completing the Foundation for a comprehensive demonstra- to the special needs of individuals with men- funding of cooperative agreements to tion project on improving nurse retention; tal retardation; expand systems to make strengthen State oral disease prevention pro- and them accessible for special needs individuals; grams. These programs may include projects —$1,100,000 is for the Iowa Department of help identify the nature and scope of health that will include dental sealant programs for Public Health to create a Center for Health challenges and health access barriers to per- children and community fluoridation Care Workforce Shortage. sons with mental retardation; and create and projects. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND test models for athlete health promotion at The conferees include the following PREVENTION the local level. amounts for the following projects and ac- DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING Within the total provided, $2,500,000 above tivities in fiscal year 2002: the budget request is to expand autism and The conference agreement includes Within the total for breast and cervical developmental disability surveillance activi- $4,293,151,000 for disease control, research, cancer, $50,000 is for SHAREing & CAREing, ties in additional States and $1,250,000 above and training instead of $4,077,060,000 as pro- Inc., Astoria, New York for an outreach, edu- the budget request is to establish an atten- posed by the House and $4,418,910,000 as pro- cation and breast cancer screening program; tion deficit/hyperactivity disorder resource posed by the Senate. $150,000 is for a breast cancer demonstration The conference agreement includes bill center. project at the Healthcare Association of New The conferees support CDC’s prevention ac- language to earmark $250,000,000 for equip- York State; and $250,000 is for the Swope tivities for folic acid and urge the agency to ment, construction, and renovation of facili- Parkway Health Center Breast and Cervical expand efforts to enhance State and local ac- ties as proposed by the Senate instead of Cancers Demonstration and Outreach project tivities to educate women about this effec- $175,000,000 as proposed by the House. Within in Kansas City, Missouri. tive prevention strategy. the total provided, $6,000,000 is for data stor- Within the total for comprehensive cancer The conferees include the following age infrastructure hardware and software up- control, $250,000 is for the Rhode Island Can- amounts for the following projects and ac- grades to provide for the remote mirroring of cer Council in Pawtucket, Rhode Island for tivities in fiscal year 2002: information between CDC data centers, and public education and professional outreach; —$100,000 for the Birth Defects Monitoring provide heterogeneous connectivity to exist- $440,000 is for the University of Texas M.D. and Prevention Center at the University of ing systems used at CDC, to ensure protec- Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas South Alabama; tion, recovery, and availability of critical for a comprehensive cancer control program —$150,000 for the California Teratogen In- to address minority and medically under- data resources. formation Center at the University of Cali- The conference agreement includes bill served populations; and $500,000 is for the St. fornia, San Diego; language to allow the Centers for Disease Mary’s Medical Center Comprehensive Can- —$300,000 for the Children and Adults with Control and Prevention (CDC) to enter into a cer Care Center in Long Beach, California. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder single contract or related contracts for the Within the total provided for prostate can- (CHADD); and full scope of development and construction cer, $290,000 is for the M.D. Anderson Cancer —$750,000 for the University of Louisville Center in Houston, Texas for satellite pros- of facilities as proposed by the Senate. The Craniofacial Birth Defects Research Center. House bill contained no similar provision. tate cancer testing centers to carry out pro- The conference agreement includes grams of prevention, education and testing The conference agreement includes bill $747,823,000 for chronic disease prevention language to earmark $143,763,000 for inter- related to prostate cancer. and health promotion instead of $722,495,000 Within the total provided for community national HIV/AIDS instead of $137,527,000 as as proposed by the House and $701,654,000 as proposed by the House and $154,527,000 as pro- health promotion, $2,800,000 is to develop a proposed by the Senate. Programs within model project to test the efficacy of glau- posed by the Senate. this account are funded at the following lev- The conference agreement does not include coma screening using mobile units. The con- els: bill language to earmark funds for the Na- ferees further suggest the program establish tional Pharmaceutical Stockpile within Arthritis ...... $13,896,000 protocols to conduct outreach, identify staff- CDC. The agreement includes bill language Breast and Cervical Cancer 192,598,000 ing needs, provide patient education regard- for this purpose within the Public Health Cancer Prevention and ing glaucoma management, address other and Social Services Emergency Fund. Control ...... 76,662,000 eye conditions, and make appropriate refer- The conference agreement includes a total Cancer Registries ...... (40,000,000) rals to eye care professionals. of $126,978,000 for the National Center for Colorectal Cancer ...... (12,000,000) Within the total provided for community Health Statistics as proposed by both the Other Cancers ...... (4,357,000) health promotion, $1,200,000 is for the Mind- House and the Senate. The agreement also Ovarian Cancer ...... (4,596,000) Body Medical Institute in Boston, Massachu- includes bill language designating $23,286,000 Prostate Cancer ...... (14,062,000) setts to continue practice-based assessments, of the total to be available to the Center Skin Cancer ...... (1,647,000) identification, and study of promising and from the Public Health Service Act evalua- Community Health Pro- heavily used mind/body practices. tion set-aside as proposed by the House. The motion ...... 15,243,000 Within the total provided for community Senate bill contained no similar provision. Diabetes ...... 61,754,000 health promotion, $225,000 is for the Roger The conferees urge CDC to review the Epilepsy ...... 6,527,000 Williams Medical Center Healthlink in Prov- Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Sur- Heart Disease and Stroke .. 37,384,000 idence, Rhode Island for a disease prevention vey to explore the feasibility of establishing Iron Overload ...... 477,000 initiative for senior retirees; $250,000 is for a uniform State and national reporting sys- National Campaign to Valley Children’s Hospital in California for a tem of pregnancy related complications for Change Children’s Health mobile asthma care program to reduce the women, to provide technical assistance to Behaviors ...... 68,400,000 incidence of asthma in the region and reduce Nutrition/Physical Activ- States in examining pregnancy related the related costs of hospital-based treat- ity ...... 27,505,000 health data, to track interventions and pat- ment; $300,000 is for Pikeville College, School Oral Health ...... 10,839,000 terns of care received, and to conduct re- of Osteopathic Medicine to conduct epide- Prevention Centers ...... 26,182,000 search into the causes of and interventions miological studies in the Appalachian Re- Safe Motherhood/Infant for pregnancy complications, especially for gion of Southeastern Kentucky; $500,000 is Health ...... 50,790,000 complications relating to disparities in for Community Health Centers in Hawaii for School Health ...... 58,495,000 a childhood rural asthma project; $500,000 is mother and infant outcomes for different ra- Tobacco ...... 101,071,000 cial and ethnic populations. for the State of Alaska for a program to re- The conference agreement includes Within the total provided, $68,400,000 is for duce high anemia rates of children in the $90,078,000 for birth defects, developmental the National Campaign to Change Children’s Yukon Delta and the Bristol Bay region; and disabilities, disability and health instead of Health Behaviors. These funds are to be used $1,000,000 is for the University of Texas, Dal- $80,280,000 as proposed by the House and consistent with language contained in the las for the Southwestern Medical Center, Na- $88,748,000 as proposed by the Senate. House report. The conferees do not provide tional Multiple Sclerosis Training Center. Within the total provided, $12,000,000 is for funds to continue the Health Resources and Within the total for diabetes prevention, fetal alcohol syndrome, $3,000,000 is to sup- Services Administration and the National $100,000 is a diabetes care program at the port the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foun- Institute of Child Health and Human Devel- Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero in Los dation, and $2,000,000 is to expand surveil- opment activities. Angeles, California; $250,000 is for a diabetes

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The conferees also urge CDC the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement school-age population in Connecticut; to more aggressively undertake the imple- of Science and Technology in Oklahoma —$300,000 is for the Sustainable Resource mentation of the National Hepatitis C Pre- City, Oklahoma; $440,000 is for the University Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota to focus on vention Strategy with greater emphasis on of Arizona in Tucson for a Border Health Ini- lead poisoning remediation and education; communication of information about hepa- tiative; $500,000 is for the Texas Tech Univer- —$300,000 is for Citizens Against Toxic Ex- titis C to health care professionals, and edu- sity Center for Diabetes Prevention and Con- posure in Pensacola, Florida to locate and cate the general public and groups at in- trol; and $1,600,000 is for the Standing Rock screen individuals for health problems asso- creased risk for infection. Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne Sioux Tribe for ciated with local toxic pollution and to as- Within the total provided, $4,000,000 above the Dakota Plains Diabetes Center. sist those who have been exposed to these en- the budget request is to continue planned ac- Within the total provided for heart disease vironmental toxins; tivities and expand efforts to control the and stroke, $4,500,000 is for the Paul Cover- —$350,000 is for the Community Lead Edu- West Nile virus. dell National Acute Stroke Registry. cation and Reduction Corps (CLEARCorps) Within the total provided, $2,200,000 is to Within the total for heart disease and in St. Louis, Missouri to fight childhood lead establish a comprehensive thalassemia-based stroke, $130,000 is for the Wausau Health poisoning; blood safety and surveillance program. Foundation in Wausau, Wisconsin, for a —$440,000 is for the San Antonio Metropoli- Within the total provided, $1,500,000 is for school-based program to increase awareness tan Health District to expand an assessment the establishment of a national autopsy net- of cardiovascular disease and the importance of human exposure to environmental con- work for prion disease surveillance. These of prevention and to document prevalence of taminants near Kelly Air Force Base, Texas; funds are to be used consistent with lan- cardiovascular disease in youth; $200,000 is —$700,000 is for the University of Montana guage contained in the House report. The for a Cardiac Outreach program at at Missoula, Center for Environmental conferees urge CDC to give full and fair con- HealthReach NY in Flushing, New York; and Health Sciences to support research on the sideration to a proposal from the National $440,000 is for the Stroke Belt Research and impact of environmental factors in causing Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Intervention Network at the University of or exacerbating human diseases; and at Case Western Reserve University. Alabama, Birmingham. —$850,000 is for the University of West The conferees encourage CDC to consider Within the total provided for nutrition and Florida for an environmental health study in funding the Pediatric Prevention Network physical activity, $5,000,000 is for efforts to Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. (PPN) and its efforts to improve infection eliminate micronutrient malnutrition and The conference agreement includes control for children. The PPN works to de- $475,000 is for a study by the Institute of $80,303,000 for epidemic services and response crease health-care acquired infections in Medicine on childhood obesity as described as proposed by the House instead of hospitalized children, with special emphasis in the Senate report. $85,303,000 as proposed by the Senate. on blood stream infections and the trans- Within the total for nutrition and physical The conference agreement includes mission of resistant organisms. activity, $125,000 is for the Village of Park $1,135,532,000 for HIV/AIDS, STD and TB pre- It is estimated that 30 million people re- Forest, Illinois Health Department, for pre- vention instead of $1,148,452,000 as proposed side in, or are adjacent to, areas considered ventive health education and screening by the House and $1,121,612,000 as proposed by endemic for the soil organism that causes projects in fields such as nutrition, chronic the Senate. Included in this amount is Valley Fever. The conferees encourage CDC illness, food safety, health screening, and hy- $835,293,000 for HIV/AIDS activities, of which to support ongoing efforts in the develop- giene, and nutrition education for school $143,763,000 is for global HIV/AIDS activities; ment of a vaccine, including appropriate epi- children; $200,000 is for the Great South Bay $167,450,000 for STD activities; and demiological and surveillance activities. YMCA in Bay Shore, New York, for its Fit $132,789,000 for TB activities. The conferees support the implementation Kids education and health promotion pro- Within the total provided for HIV/AIDS, of the demonstration project developed gram; $500,000 is for the State of Alaska De- $96,000,000 is for the Minority HIV/AIDS ini- through the enhancing the monitoring of partment of Health and Social Services for tiative. These funds are to be used consistent pharmaceutical services and patient safety an Obesity Prevention and Control program; with language contained in the House report. through connectivity project. and $2,000,000 is for West Virginia University The conferees are concerned about the in- The conferees include the following to establish the Center on Obesity. creasing incidence of HIV/AIDS infection in amounts for the following projects and ac- Within the total for prevention centers, rural regions of the United States, and are tivities in fiscal year 2002: $250,000 is for the Kansas City Area Life aware that HIV/AIDS disproportionately im- —$200,000 for the Border Health Institute in Sciences Institute to support infectious dis- pacts minority communities in underserved El Paso, Texas for research related to infec- ease, cancer and cardiovascular disease, and rural areas, particularly in the Southeast. tious diseases and other public health prob- prevention research at the Kansas City Therefore, CDC should develop strategies lems affecting the U.S.-Mexico border re- Proteomics Consortium. with States to implement interventions tar- gion; Within the total for safe motherhood, geted to these communities. —$440,000 for the Children’s Medical Center $2,650,000 is for the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Within the total provided for tuberculosis, of Dallas, Center for Infectious Diseases, Ad- Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies in $500,000 is for the State of Alaska for a tuber- vanced Diagnostics, and Emerging Patho- Tampa, Florida, of which $1,500,000 is for culosis control and prevention program. gens for efforts to improve the early detec- training paraprofessionals in the health-care The conference agreement includes tion, prevention and control of meningitis, field. $627,895,000 for childhood immunization in- sepsis, pneumonia and myocarditis and for Within the total for school health, $225,000 stead of $599,645,000 as proposed by the House research on the immune responses of at-risk is for the School of Optometry at the Univer- and $637,145,000 as proposed by the Senate. populations; sity of Missouri, St. Louis for a program of Included in this amount is $223,527,000 for —$500,000 is for the University of Idaho, mobile vision screenings for school children. The conference agreement includes vaccine purchase, $200,697,000 for operation/ Post Falls for biomedical sensor electronics $153,753,000 for environmental health instead infrastructure activities, $107,400,000 for development; and of $146,683,000 as proposed by the House and global polio eradication activities, $26,388,000 —$500,000 for the State of Utah Health De- $171,863,000 as proposed by the Senate. for measles eradication activities, and partment to assist local health authorities Within the total provided, $37,149,000 is for $69,883,000 for prevention activities. In addi- in ensuring the safety of food and to protect the environmental health laboratory, tion, the Vaccines for Children (VFC) pro- against communicable disease outbreaks $33,201,000 is for environmental health activi- gram funded through the Medicaid program during the 2002 Winter Olympic and ties, $35,193,000 is for asthma, and $42,140,000 is expected to provide $795,553,000 in vaccine Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City. is for lead poisoning. purchases and distribution support in fiscal The conference agreement includes Within the total provided, $2,200,000 is to year 2002, for a total program level of $149,767,000 for injury control instead of expand the physician education and public $1,423,448,000. $143,655,000 as proposed by the House and awareness program for primary immune defi- The conference agreement includes $146,655,000 as proposed by the Senate. ciency disease. $344,858,000 for infectious diseases instead of Within the total provided, $2,000,000 above The conferees have included funds for a $343,018,000 as proposed by the House and the budget request is to expand current ac- CDC assessment, in conjunction with the $331,518,000 as proposed by the Senate. tivities to better understand the scope of Iowa Department of Public Health, on the ef- Within the total provided, $4,000,000 above child abuse and neglect and its consequences. fect of environmental factors on rural the budget request is for a prevention pro- These activities could include examining health. gram to control and reduce the incidents of child fatality review systems, supporting The conferees include the following hepatitis C. This funding is to develop State- States in their collection of surveillance amounts for the following projects and ac- based programs and demonstrations to learn data, improving data collection on the inci- tivities in fiscal year 2002: the most feasible approach to integrating dence of child maltreatment through the de- —$130,000 is for Environment and Human hepatitis C and B screening, counseling, and velopment of consensus definitions, and sup- Health, Inc. in North Haven, Connecticut to referral programs into existing HIV and STD porting the implementation and evaluation

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26483 of interventions aimed at the prevention of The conferees urge CDC to give full and —$1,000,000 is for the University of Iowa for child maltreatment. fair consideration to a proposal from the the planning of a Hygienic Lab; Within the total provided, $1,500,000 above CNA Corporation. —$1,000,000 is for the Center for Civilian the budget request is for the National Vio- The conferees include the following Biodefense Strategies at Johns Hopkins Uni- lent Death Reporting System to gather in- amounts for the following projects and ac- versity to improve the nation’s medical and formation on the circumstances of violent tivities in fiscal year 2002: public health preparedness and response to deaths and develop effective methods of pre- —$60,000 is for the Lawrence-Douglas Coun- bioterrorism; vention and intervention. ty Health Department in Lawrence, Kansas —$1,000,000 is for the University of Texas Within the total provided, $125,000 is for for assessment, training and equipment re- Medical Branch, National Rapid Response the trauma information and exchange pro- lated to public health information systems Bioterrorism Defense Center; gram. infrastructure; —$1,200,000 is for the Oral Vaccine Institute The conferees have included funds for the —$150,000 is for the Interstitial Cystitis in Las Vegas, Nevada for the development of continuation of the Iowa Injury Control Cen- (IC) Association CURE program in Rockville, innovative oral vaccine delivery alter- ter. Maryland for activities to broaden the un- natives; The conferees include the following derstanding of IC; —$1,500,000 is for the University of Louis- amounts for the following projects and ac- —$350,000 is for the New England Medical ville Center for the Deterrence of Biowarfare tivities in fiscal year 2002: Center to develop predictive instrument re- and Bioterrorism; and —$37,000 for the Save A Life Foundation, search in technology to reduce medical er- —$2,000,000 is for West Virginia University Inc. in Schiller Park, Illinois to expand the rors; for continued development of the virtual training of its basic life supporting first aid —$400,000 is for the University of Vermont medical campus. program; College of Medicine to support the Vermont —$100,000 for the Westchester County, New Oxford Network and its efforts to improve NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH York, Department of Emergency Services to the quality of health care available to chil- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE develop and implement a training program dren born prematurely through the reduc- The conference agreement includes in pediatric trauma for pre-hospital pro- tion of medical errors; $4,190,405,000 for the National Cancer Insti- viders; and —$400,000 is for the Northeast Regional tute instead of $4,146,291,000 as proposed by —$450,000 for the National SAFE KIDS Cancer Institute Cancer Epidemiology Re- the House and $4,258,516,000 as proposed by Campaign, Washington DC for its SAFE search Program in Northeastern Pennsyl- the Senate. KIDS AT HOME project to improve child vania; The conferees urge NCI to continue sup- health through outreach to public housing —$500,000 is for the Institute for Clinical porting cancer genomics projects with the and other at-risk communities. Evaluation for the reduction of medical er- goal of identifying potential cancer thera- The conference agreement includes rors through the development and dem- pies. $276,460,000 for occupational safety and onstration of virtual reality medical tech- health instead of $270,135,000 as proposed by nology simulation training for training NATIONAL HEART, LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE the House and $276,135,000 as proposed by the health care workers in medical procedures; The conference agreement includes Senate. —$500,000 is for the University of Louisville $2,576,125,000 for the National Heart, Lung Within the total provided, $2,000,000 is for and Kosair Children’s Hospital Sleep Medi- and Blood Institute instead of $2,547,675,000 the Education and Research Centers to ex- cine Center; as proposed by the House and $2,618,966,000 as pand research activities in support of imple- —$500,000 is for the National Emergency proposed by the Senate. mentation of NORA and $2,000,000 is to de- Response and Rescue Training Center’s Inte- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND velop an intramural and extramural preven- grated Health and Medical Weapons of Mass CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH tion research program that will target all as- Destruction Training Program in College pects of workplace violence and to coordi- Station, Texas; The conference agreement includes nate its efforts with the Departments of Jus- —$650,000 is for the University of Georgia $343,327,000 for the National Institute of Den- tice and Labor. to establish a Center for Leadership in Edu- tal and Craniofacial Research instead of The conferees have provided sufficient cation and Applied Research in Mass De- $339,268,000 as proposed by the House and funds for NIOSH to carry out research and struction Defense to train health profes- $348,767,000 as proposed by the Senate. related activities aimed at protecting work- sionals to respond to chemical and biological NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND ers who respond to public health needs in the attacks; DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES event of a terrorist incident. —$700,000 is for the Kirkwood Community The conference agreement includes The conferees are aware of the research on College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the Na- $1,466,833,000 for the National Institute of Di- construction worker safety and health being tional Mass Fatalities Institute; abetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in- done by the Center to Protect Worker —$800,000 is to continue the development of stead of $1,446,705,000 as proposed by the Rights. the Delaware Electronic Reporting Systems House and $1,501,476,000 as proposed by the The conferees include the following (DEERS) to track diseases; Senate. amounts for the following projects and ac- —$900,000 is for the Center for the Study of tivities in fiscal year 2002: Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections at the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL —$125,000 for the University of Buffalo, Di- St. Louis University School of Public DISORDERS AND STROKE vision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medi- Health; The conference agreement includes cine for a joint educational program with —$1,000,000 is for Westchester County, New $1,328,188,000 for the National Institute of Millard Fillmore Hospital’s Sleep Disorder York to conduct readiness assessments of all Neurological Disorders and Stroke instead of Center in Buffalo, New York and Mount St. response systems, including emergency re- $1,306,321,000 as proposed by the House and Mary’s Hospital Sleep Disorder Center in sponse and management systems, hospitals, $1,352,055,000 as proposed by the Senate. Lewiston, New York to increase knowledge the county health department, equipment The conferees understand that over two of sleep disorders; and needs and communications systems, in the million Americans suffer from epilepsy, with —$200,000 is for the Occupational and Envi- development of a comprehensive bioter- one million suffering from uncontrolled sei- ronmental Health Center of Rhode Island for rorism response plan; zures. The conferees are interested in the ac- research, tracking and investigation of em- —$1,000,000 is for the University of Ken- celeration of epilepsy research and encour- ployment-related disease. tucky Center for Improving Medication-Re- age NINDS to take steps to jumpstart prom- The conference agreement includes lated Outcomes; ising epilepsy research areas. In particular, $148,520,000 for public health improvement in- —$1,000,000 is for the Delta Health and Pre- the conferees urge NINDS to establish an an- stead of $149,910,000 as proposed by the House vention Research Initiative at Delta State nual lectureship in the epilepsy research and $114,910,000 as proposed by the Senate. University; field to provide the intellectual stimulation Within the total provided, $17,500,000 is for —$1,000,000 is for the Public Health Service to prompt new findings in both the NINDS development and implementation of a na- Noble Training Center for the development intramural program and the extramural tionwide environmental health tracking net- of a comprehensive bioterrorism curriculum community. The conferees request that work and capacity development in environ- and the conduct of on-site training for NINDS consider naming the lectureship in mental health at State and local health De- health care professionals to be done in con- memory of Judith Hoyer. Mrs. Hoyer had partments. junction with appropriate Federal agencies, epilepsy; she spent her life helping families Within the total provided, $2,500,000 above Auburn University and the University of dealing with the condition and promoting re- the budget request is for prevention re- Alabama at Birmingham; search into a cure and a better quality of life search. These funds are to be used consistent —$1,000,000 is for Iowa State University for for those with epilepsy. Such a lectureship with language contained in the Senate re- the creation of a Center for Food Security would continue her legacy of stimulating im- port. and Public Health; portant epilepsy research.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND cause of this disease and develop a better un- should generally reside in NIBIB in accord- INFECTIOUS DISEASES derstanding of the characterization of ance with the intent of Congress in creating The conference agreement includes pathophysiological events leading to the the new Institute. The Director of the NIH $2,372,278,000 for the National Institute of Al- chronic phase of the disease. shall submit a report on the findings of the lergy and Infectious Diseases instead of NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER task force to the House and Senate Appro- $2,337,204,000 as proposed by the House and COMMUNICATION DISORDERS priations Committees by March 31, 2002. While the conferees are pleased that $2,375,836,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes progress has been achieved in implementing The conference agreement includes bill $342,072,000 for the National Institute on the legislation that created NIBIB, they language to give the Director discretion to Deafness and Other Communication Dis- have been concerned that the amount of re- transfer up to $25,000,000 to International As- orders instead of $334,161,000 as proposed by search grants proposed by the NIH for trans- sistance Programs, Global Fund to Fight the House and $349,983,000 as proposed by the fer to the new Institute falls short of pre- HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis as pro- Senate. posed by the House. The Senate bill included The conferees continue to support the ex- vious assessments of NIH support for basic a general provision to transfer this amount pansion of NIDCD’s research on the efficacy biomedical imaging and bioengineering as to the Global Fund. of new hearing screening technologies expressed in NIH statements to the Congress. Creation of the joint NIH-extramural task NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL through all available mechanisms, as appro- force should help to ensure that all parties SCIENCES priate, including clinical studies on screen- have confidence in the process. The conference agreement includes ing methodologies and studies on the effi- $1,725,263,000 for the National Institute of cacy of intervention and follow-up, and re- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES General Medical Sciences instead of lated research. The conference agreement includes $1,706,968,000 as proposed by the House and NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH $1,011,594,000 for the National Center for Re- $1,753,465,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes search Resources instead of $966,541,000 as proposed by the House and $1,014,044,000 as NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND $120,451,000 for the National Institute of proposed by the Senate. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Nursing Research instead of $116,773,000 as The conference agreement includes bill The conference agreement includes proposed by the House and $125,659,000 as pro- posed by the Senate. language to earmark $110,000,000 for extra- $1,113,605,000 for the National Institute of mural facilities construction grants instead Child Health and Human Development in- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND of $97,000,000 as proposed by the House and stead of $1,088,208,000 as proposed by the ALCOHOLISM $125,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House and $1,123,692,000 as proposed by the The conference agreement includes agreement also includes bill language to ear- Senate. $384,238,000 for the National Institute on Al- mark $5,000,000 of these funds to begin con- The conferees note the achievements of the cohol Abuse and Alcoholism instead of struction of facilities for a Chimp Sanctuary NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth $379,026,000 as proposed by the House and as proposed by the House. The Senate bill Development and urge its continuation, in- $390,761,000 as proposed by the Senate. contained no similar provision. cluding its program of data collection and NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE Within the total provided, $160,000,000 is for dissemination of findings. The conference agreement includes the Institutional Development Awards pro- The conferees are pleased to hear that over $888,105,000 for the National Institute on gram and $271,580,000 is for the General Clin- the past year, NICHD has begun to plan a Drug Abuse instead of $900,389,000 as pro- ical Research Centers. major initiative on stillbirth. In March, the posed by the House and $902,000,000 as pro- NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND Institute convened scientific and medical ex- posed by the Senate. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE perts from around the country to explore the available information about the incidence of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH The conference agreement includes stillbirth, its varying causes, and the oppor- The conference agreement includes $104,644,000 for the National Center for Com- tunities for research. The conferees urge $1,248,626,000 for the National Institute of plementary and Alternative Medicine in- NICHD to build upon this knowledge by plan- Mental Health instead of $1,228,780,000 as pro- stead of $99,288,000 as proposed by the House ning for a prospective investigation of the posed by the House and $1,279,383,000 as pro- and $110,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. scope and causes of stillbirth nationally and posed by the Senate. NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND internationally. The conferees also encour- NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE HEALTH DISPARITIES age NICHD to work with professional organi- The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes zations on this issue to assess current knowl- $429,515,000 for the National Human Genome $157,812,000 for the National Center on Minor- edge and develop research opportunities in Research Institute instead of $423,454,000 as ity Health and Health Disparities instead of the management of stillbirth. proposed by the House and $440,448,000 as pro- $157,204,000 as proposed by the House and NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE posed by the Senate. $158,421,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees concur with language con- The conference agreement includes NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING tained in the House report regarding the $581,366,000 for the National Eye Institute in- AND BIOENGINEERING newly established National Center for Minor- stead of $566,725,000 as proposed by the House The conference agreement includes and $614,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. ity Health and Health Disparities. The con- $111,984,000 for the National Institute of Bio- ferees encourage the Center to move forward NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL medical Imaging and Bioengineering instead in implementing the Research Endowment HEALTH SCIENCES of $39,896,000 as proposed by the House and and Centers of Excellence programs as ongo- The conference agreement includes $140,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. ing initiatives. $566,639,000 for the National Institute of En- The conferees commend NIH for agreeing JOHN E. FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER vironmental Health Sciences instead of to establish a task force comprising both $557,435,000 as proposed by the House and NIH staff and representatives of the extra- The conference agreement includes $585,946,000 as proposed by the Senate. mural research community to review all cur- $56,940,000 for the John E. Fogarty Inter- national Center instead of $56,021,000 as pro- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING rent imaging and bioengineering grants and identify those that are appropriate for trans- posed by the House and $57,874,000 as pro- The conference agreement includes fer to the newly-established National Insti- posed by the Senate. $893,443,000 for the National Institute on tute of Biomedical Imaging and Bio- Aging instead of $873,186,000 as proposed by NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE engineering (NIBIB). Toward that end, the the House and $909,174,000 as proposed by the The conference agreement includes conferees support the agreement to create a Senate. $277,658,000 for the National Library of Medi- nine-member task force that includes rep- cine instead of $273,610,000 as proposed by the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND resentatives of NIH (three members), the ex- House and $281,584,000 as proposed by the MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES tramural imaging community (three mem- Senate. The conference agreement includes bers), and the bioengineering community $448,865,000 for the National Institute of Ar- (three members), with representatives of the OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR thritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Dis- outside groups to be appointed by the appro- (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) eases instead of $440,144,000 as proposed by priate professional organizations in those The conference agreement includes the House and $460,202,000 as proposed by the fields. The conferees direct the task force to $235,540,000 for the Office of the Director in- Senate. establish criteria to be applied consistently stead of $232,098,000 as proposed by the House Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome is a multi- to all grants under consideration. The con- and $236,408,000 as proposed by the Senate. systemic disorder that was first recognized ferees urge that these criteria ensure that The agreement includes a designation in bill in 1989. The conferees encourage NIAMS to research projects with applications to mul- language of $53,540,000 for the operations of enhance research efforts to identify the tiple disease processes or organ systems the Office of AIDS Research.

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00090 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26485 Within the total provided, $10,341,000 is for transfer up to $75,000,000 to International As- Within the total provided, $2,500,000 is for the Office of Rare Diseases and $17,000,000 is sistance Programs, Global Fund to Fight mental health providers serving public safe- for the Office of Dietary Supplements. HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis as pro- ty workers affected by disasters of national The conferees are agreed that NIH should posed by the House. The Senate bill included significance. continue to allocate funds for biomedical re- a general provision to transfer $70,000,000 to The conferees include the following search on the basis of scientific opportunity, the Global Fund. amounts for the following projects and ac- taking into consideration the many other SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH tivities in fiscal year 2002: factors identified by NIH as being relevant to SERVICES ADMINISTRATION —$46,000 for Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital funding decisions, such as the infectious na- Association, Hot Springs, Arkansas for a ture of a disease, the number of cases and SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH school-based student/family psychotherapy deaths associated with a disease, the costs of SERVICES program; disease treatment, and/or other costs associ- The conference agreement includes —$50,000 is for the Wisconsin Primary ated with a disease. The conferees also ex- $3,138,279,000 for substance abuse and mental Healthcare Association in Madison, Wis- pect NIH to carefully consider the language health services instead of $3,131,558,000 as consin to provide mental health services to in the House and Senate reports and give it proposed by the House and $3,088,456,000 as farm families affected by economic problems appropriate weight when determining fund- proposed by the Senate. related to agriculture; ing allocations across disease areas. Regard- The conference agreement does not include —$100,000 is for American Trauma Soci- ing the cases in which the House or Senate bill language as proposed by the Senate to ety’s 2nd Trauma Program; reports reference funding levels for a specific earmark funds to carry out subtitle C of title —$150,000 is for the Weingart Center in Los disease, the conferees are agreed that these XXXVI of the Children’s Health Act of 2000. Angeles, California to develop and expand are intended only to express relative priority The House bill contained no similar provi- mental health support and long-term case and are not funding earmarks. sion. The conferees provide funding for this management within transitional housing and The conferees concur with language con- purpose within the Center for Substance clinical programs; tained in the Senate report regarding the pe- Abuse Prevention. —$160,000 is for the Hispanic Counseling diatric research initiative. The conference agreement does not include Center in Hempstead, New York for mental The conferees recognize the significance of bill language to earmark funds for mental health, alcoholism, and substance abuse child abuse and neglect as a serious public health providers serving public safety work- treatment services; health problem. The conferees commend the ers affected by disasters of national signifi- —$172,000 is for Family Communications efforts of NIH, under the leadership of NIMH, cance. The House bill contained no similar Inc. in Pittsburgh for an antiviolence pro- for convening a working group of organiza- provision. The conferees provide funding for gram entitled the National Preschool Anger tions and relevant Federal agencies to facili- this purpose within the Center for Mental Management Project; tate collaborative and cooperative efforts on Health Services. —$200,000 is for the Bert Nash Community child abuse and neglect research. The con- Center for Mental Health Services Mental Health Center in Lawrence, Kansas to provide mental health services in schools ferees encourage NIH to continue to address The conference agreement includes and other settings to prevent juvenile crime this public health problem and request that $433,000,000 for the mental health block grant and substance abuse among high-risk youth; the Director of NIH be prepared to report on instead of $440,000,000 as proposed by the the progress of this research at the fiscal —$200,000 is for the Concord-Assabet Fam- House and $420,000,000 as proposed by the ily Services Center for a model transitional year 2003 appropriations hearing. Senate. The conferees are concerned about the im- living program for troubled youth; The conference agreement includes —$250,000 is for the further development, pact of Tropical Storm Allison on the re- $96,694,000 for children’s mental health in- search programs and institutions located in testing, and implementation of the comput- stead of $97,694,000 as proposed by the House Houston, Texas, in particular Baylor College erization of the Texas Medication Algorithm and $91,694,000 as proposed by the Senate. Project (T–MAP) in Tarrent County, Texas; of Medicine and the University of Texas at The conference agreement includes Houston Health Sciences Center. The con- —$250,000 is for the Texas Department of $32,500,000 for protection and advocacy in- Mental Health and Retardation for further ferees recognize the efforts of NIH to extend stead of $33,000,000 as proposed by the House application deadlines and provide adminis- development of Texas Medication Algorithm and $32,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Project (T–MAP) trative supplements to affected grantees. The conference agreement includes The conferees strongly encourage NIH to —$350,000 is for Casa Myrna Vazquez in $230,067,000 for programs of regional and na- Boston to support domestic violence services continue this practice and, to the extent tional significance instead of $223,499,000 as practicable, provide one-year extensions for and related services; proposed by the House and $208,599,000 as pro- —$350,000 is for Emma Pendleton Bradley those investigators who need them. posed by the Senate. The conferees recognize the association be- Hospital in East Providence, Rhode Island Within the total provided, $95,000,000 is for tween religion and positive health outcomes. for a school-based adolescent mental health continuation and expansion of youth vio- This may be the result of the emphasis of initiative; lence prevention programs. some religions on healthy behaviors. For ex- —$400,000 is for the Corporation for Sup- Within the total provided, $20,000,000 is portive Housing, New York, New York to ad- ample, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter provided under section 582 of the Public Day Saints, also known as the Mormon reli- vise and assist supportive housing organiza- Health Service Act to support grants to local tions in providing mental health and sub- gion, encourages members to adopt health- mental health providers for the purposes of promoting behaviors and proscribes behav- stance abuse services; developing knowledge of best practices and —$490,000 is for Pacific Clinics in Arcadia, iors associated with poor health outcomes, providing mental health services to children such as smoking or substance abuse. The California to support a school-based mental and youth suffering from post-traumatic health demonstration program for Latina conferees encourage NIH to examine further stress disorder as a result of having wit- the association between religion and health adolescents; nessed or experienced a traumatic event. —$500,000 is for the Life Quest Community outcomes and how some religious organiza- Within the total provided, $7,000,000 is for Mental Health Center for its program for tions effectively promote healthy behaviors the Minority HIV/AIDS initiative. These treatment of co-occurring disorders among among their members. funds are to be used consistent with lan- The conferees continue to be very inter- the population of Mat-Su Valley; guage contained in the House report. —$500,000 is for the University of Alabama ested in matching the increased needs of re- Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is to in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for the Geriatric searchers, particularly NIH grantees, as well provide mental health outreach and treat- Mental Health Research Center; as intramural and university-based research- ment to the elderly. —$650,000 is for the University of Con- ers, who rely upon human tissues and organs Within the total provided, $4,000,000 is for necticut for an urban health initiative, joint- to study human diseases and to search for grants to develop and implement programs ly with Yale University, to improve mental cures. The conferees are aware that NIH is in to divert individuals with a mental health health services to underserved, high-risk the process of encouraging the Institutes and illness from the criminal justice system to urban residents; Centers to expand support for NDRI and urge community-based services and for related —$700,000 is for the Providence Center for NIH to submit a written progress report to training and technical assistance as author- Counseling and Psychiatric Services in Prov- the House and Senate Committees on Appro- ized by section 520G of the Public Health idence, Rhode Island for an early interven- priations no later than February 1, 2002. Service Act. tion preschool and parent training program; BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES Within the total provided, $3,000,000 is to —$800,000 is for the Mentally Ill Offender The conference agreement includes establish a National Suicide Prevention Re- Crime Reduction demonstration in Ventura $309,600,000 for buildings and facilities in- source Center to provide technical assistance County, California; stead of $311,600,000 as proposed by the House in developing, implementing, and evaluating —$800,000 is for the Yale University, Child and $306,600,000 as proposed by the Senate. effective suicide prevention programs. These Study Center to support collaborative pro- The conference agreement includes bill funds are to be used consistent with lan- grams aimed at addressing the needs of chil- language to give the Director discretion to guage contained in the Senate report. dren exposed to violence and based on the

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00091 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26486 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Child Development-Community Policing pro- —$200,000 is for the Vermont Department of development of a pilot project to examine gram model; Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse the optimal ways of distributing ‘‘QED,’’ a —$850,000 is for the Iowa State University Programs for long-term residential treat- new saliva alcohol test; extension for the training of rural mental ment services for adolescents with signifi- —$100,000 is for the Syracuse University for health providers; and cant substance abuse problems in Bradford, the Twelve Point for Substance Abuse Pre- —$1,000,000 is for the Ch’eghutsen com- Vermont; vention program; prehensive mental health services program —$200,000 is for Lutheran Social Services in —$100,000 is for the Rock Island County for children in Interior Alaska. Appleton, Wisconsin to expand alcohol abuse Council on Addictions in East Moline, Illi- Center for Substance Abuse Treatment prevention programs for older adults in nois for its Healthy Youth Prevention Pro- The conference agreement includes northern Wisconsin; gram; $291,572,000 for programs of regional and na- —$250,000 is for the Pennington County De- —$150,000 is for the Palm Beach County tional significance instead of $305,122,000 as tention Center in South Dakota for mental Community Services Department for the proposed by the House and $276,122,000 as pro- health and substance abuse treatment serv- Free to Grow Program that provides drug posed by the Senate. ices; prevention services to families of pre- Within the total provided, $57,000,000 is for —$400,000 is for the WestCare Foundation, schoolers; the Minority HIV/AIDS initiative. These Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada to demonstrate —$150,000 is for the State University of funds are to be used consistent with lan- and evaluate the Batterers Intervention New York Upstate Medical University for guage contained in the House report. Demonstration project; the Developmental Exposure Alcohol Re- Within the total provided, $9,000,000 above —$500,000 is for the Cook Inlet Tribal Coun- search Center; last year’s level is for grants to develop and cil to treat women and children with sub- —$250,000 is for the Northwestern Commu- expand mental health and substance abuse stance abuse problems in Kenai; nity Services Board in Front Royal, Virginia treatment services for homeless individuals —$500,000 is for the Vermont Department of for a Warren County Drug Initiative; as authorized by section 506 of the Public Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse —$300,000 is for the Orleans Parish, SE Health Service Act. The intent of this sec- Programs to establish pilot projects in Rut- Louisiana Drug Prevention Education pro- tion was to permit grants to be made to land and Burlington that will develop pre- gram for student drug testing assessment, projects which provide either mental health vention and treatment strategies for com- counseling, treatment, drug education, out- services, substance abuse services, or serv- bating substance abuse problems in urban reach services and program evaluation; ices in both fields. This allows communities and rural settings; —$400,000 is for the Institute for Research, greater flexibility to provide the services —$500,000 is for the United Community Education, and Training in Addictions in they believe to be the most urgent. While the Center/Centro de la Comunidad to establish a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at St. Francis resources have been included within the Cen- demonstration project integrating substance Health System to facilitate the coordination ter for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), abuse treatment programs into domestic vio- of approaches to research, treatment and the conferees believe that the most effective lence intervention and outreach programs health policy development; outcomes will be achieved in addressing the geared toward Hispanic women; —$500,000 is for Coalition for Safe and Drug —$750,000 is for the Cook Inlet Tribal Coun- multiple needs of homeless individuals if Free St. Petersburg, Inc. in St. Petersburg, cil’s Ernie Turner Center to provide out- CSAT and the Center for Mental Health Florida for a demonstration project; patient substance abuse treatment; Services work cooperatively. The conferees —$600,000 is for Chrysalis House, Inc. in —$750,000 is for the Fairbanks Native Asso- further intend that these funds could be used Fayette County, Kentucky for substance ciation’s Lifegivers program; in conjunction with permanent supportive abuse prevention programs; —$750,000 is for the Southcentral Founda- housing programs for homeless people in sup- —$750,000 is for the Anchorage Department tion’s Pathways Home Residential Treat- port of the Secretary’s initiative to reduce of Health for drug and alcohol prevention ment Center for Adolescent Substance Abus- chronic homelessness. programs to reach 50 percent of Alaska’s ers; Within the total provided, $10,000,000 is to population; —$800,000 is for Diversion Alternatives, Inc. expand support of clinically based treatment —$800,000 is for Fenway Community Health in Ft. Worth, Texas for a comprehensive out- and related services for adult, juvenile, and in Boston, Massachusetts to expand its HIV patient substance abuse treatment program; family drug courts and individuals returning prevention, mental health, and substance —$1,000,000 is for the San Francisco Depart- to the community who are on probation, pa- abuse programs; ment of Public Health, for its model sub- role, or unsupervised release. —$1,200,000 is for the Ohio Prevention in stance abuse treatment on demand initia- Within the total provided, $3,000,000 is for Education Resource Center in Cincinnati, tive; and the Addiction and Technology Transfer Cen- Ohio for the Bridgebuilders project; and —$2,500,000 is for the City of Baltimore, ter program. These funds are to be used con- —$1,250,000 is for Community Health Cen- Maryland to expand its drug treatment serv- sistent with language contained in the House ters in the Big Island of Hawaii for a youth ices. report. anti-drug program. The conferees urge SAMHSA to give full Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Program Management and fair consideration to a proposal by the The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes National Center on Addiction and Substance $198,140,000 for programs of regional and na- $91,451,000 for program management instead Abuse at Columbia University. tional significance instead of $187,215,000 as of $80,173,000 as proposed by the House and The conferees include the following proposed by the House and $199,013,000 as pro- $96,173,000 as proposed by the Senate. amounts for the following projects and ac- posed by the Senate. Within the total provided, $3,278,000 is to tivities in fiscal year 2002: Within the total provided, $38,100,000 is for continue testing the effectiveness of Commu- —$50,000 is for Recovery House in Walling- the Minority HIV/AIDS initiative. These nity Assessment and Intervention Centers in ford, Vermont to develop a day treatment funds are to be used consistent with lan- providing integrated mental health and sub- program for substance abuse counseling and guage contained in the House report. stance abuse services to troubled and at-risk other support services for pregnant women Within the total provided, $12,500,000 is to children and youth, and their families in and women with dependent children; expand efforts to identify, disseminate, and four Florida communities. Building upon —$100,000 is for Haymarket West in implement effective fetal alcohol syndrome successful juvenile programs, this effort re- Schaumburg, Illinois to expand its com- prevention and treatment programs. sponds directly to nationwide concerns about prehensive substance abuse treatment and Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is to youth violence, substance abuse, declining related services; carry out the Ecstasy Anti-Proliferation Act levels of service availability and the inabil- —$100,000 is for Treatment Alternatives for of 2000. ity of certain communities to respond to the Safe Communities in Chicago, Illinois for a Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is for needs of their youth in a coordinated man- substance abuse treatment program; grants to public and nonprofit entities to ner. —$100,000 is for ThedaCare Behavioral carry out school-based and community-based AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND Health in Menasha, Wisconsin to establish programs concerning the dangers of meth- QUALITY pilot models for expanded regional substance amphetamine abuse and addiction. abuse prevention and treatment services for The conferees urge SAMHSA to give full HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY youth and families; and fair consideration to a proposal by the The conference agreement includes —$200,000 is for the Dimock Community National Center on Addiction and Substance $2,600,000 in appropriated funds instead of Health Center to support inpatient detoxi- Abuse at Columbia University. $168,435,000 as proposed by the House and fication and behavioral health programs; The conferees include the following $291,245,000 as proposed by the Senate. —$200,000 is for the Vinland Center in amounts for the following projects and ac- The conference agreement designates Loretto, Minnesota to offer specialized resi- tivities in fiscal year 2002: $296,145,000 to be available to the agency dential treatment programs for adults with —$75,000 is for the Start S.M.A.R.T. Foun- under the Public Health Service Act one per- cognitive and functional impairments; dation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the cent evaluation set-aside instead of

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00092 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26487 $137,810,000 as proposed by the House. The tients shall also include those who have un- their LIHEAP allocations as the program Senate bill contained no similar provision. dergone coronary bypass surgery or served one million households more than it Within the total provided, $55,000,000 is to angioplasty and do not have reduced blood had in the previous year. The conferees are determine ways to reduce medical errors. flow to the heart, and/or angina; concerned that the combination of cir- CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID —$900,000 is for the Children’s Hospice cumstances, according to objective data SERVICES International demonstration program to pro- sources, has left many low income house- vide a continuum of care for children with holds with utility debts at levels consider- PROGRAM MANAGEMENT life-threatening conditions and their fami- ably higher than the previous year, while ap- The conference agreement includes lies; plications for this coming heating season are $2,440,798,000 for program management in- —$1,500,000 is for the Iowa Department of coming in at rates significantly higher than stead of $2,361,158,000 as proposed by the Public Health for the continuation of a pre- last year. Therefore, the conferees encourage House and $2,464,658,000 as proposed by the scription drug cooperative demonstration; the Administration to release funds to re- Senate. An additional appropriation of and duce the energy burden on low income house- $700,000,000 has been provided for the Medi- —$2,000,000 is for the AIDS Healthcare holds throughout the nation. The conferees care Integrity Program through the Health Foundation in Los Angeles for a demonstra- recognize that the contingency fund was au- Insurance Portability and Accountability tion of residential and outpatient treatment thorized to meet the additional home energy Act of 1996. facilities. assistance needs of one or more States aris- Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation Medicare Contractors ing from a natural disaster or other emer- gency, which includes a significant increase The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes in the cost of home energy, a significant in- $118,201,000 for research, demonstration, and $1,534,500,000 for Medicare contractors in- crease in home energy disconnections or a evaluation instead of $55,311,000 as proposed stead of $1,522,000,000 as proposed by the significant increase in unemployment, lay- by the House and $125,311,000 as proposed by House and $1,547,000,000 as proposed by the offs, or the number of households applying the Senate. Senate. for unemployment benefits. The conferees Within the total provided, $40,000,000 is for Within the total provided, $52,000,000 is for understand that the latest Department of Real Choice Systems Change Grants to the Medicare+Choice information campaign Labor employment data indicate the unem- States. These funds are to be used consistent and $12,500,000 is to support grants for State ployment rate has risen almost one full per- with language contained in the Senate re- Health Insurance Counseling and Assistance centage point in the last two months, while port. programs. Within the total provided, $15,000,000 is to payroll employment has fallen by almost State Survey and Certification continue the Nursing Home Transition Ini- 800,000. tiative. The conference agreement includes REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE The conferees do not concur with the Sen- $256,397,000 for State survey and certification The conference agreement appropriates ate report language regarding the extension instead of $252,147,000 as proposed by the $460,203,000, instead of $460,224,000 as proposed of Disease State Management Programs to House and $260,647,000 as proposed by the by the House and $445,224,000 proposed by the Medicare demonstration projects. Senate. Senate. Within this amount, for Social Serv- The conferees have included sufficient Federal Administration ices, the agreement provides $158,600,000 in- funds to continue a Medicare demonstration The conference agreement includes stead of $156,621,000 as proposed by the House project to test the effectiveness of using life- $531,700,000 for Federal administration as and $143,621,000 as proposed by the Senate. style changes to treat heart disease. proposed by both the House and the Senate. The conferees specify that funds for sec- The agreement includes bill language for The conferees understand that CMS is de- tion 414 of the Immigration and Nationality the following projects and activities for fis- veloping a comprehensive regulation estab- Act shall be available for three fiscal years, cal year 2002: lishing a new fee schedule for ambulance as proposed by the House. —$100,000 is for the Regional Nursing Cen- payments as required by the Balanced Budg- The conference agreement includes ters Consortium in Philadelphia to initiate a et Act of 1997. The conferees believe it is $15,000,000 that is to be used under social demonstration project to evaluate 15 nurse- equally important to implement condition services to increase educational support to managed health centers in urban and rural codes and urge CMS to do so simultaneously schools with a significant proportion of ref- areas across Pennsylvania; with the new fee schedule. ugee children, consistent with language con- —$200,000 is for the Madonna Rehabilita- The conferees are aware of underpayment tained in the House report. tion Center in Lincoln, Nebraska to create a to certain hospitals that treat newborns The agreement also includes $19,000,000 for new standard of rehabilitation practice and with life threatening respiratory diseases increased support to communities with large program design for children and adults with and encourage CMS to implement a method- concentrations of refugees whose cultural disabilities; ology to reimburse hospitals for inhaled ni- differences make assimilation especially dif- —$250,000 is for the Cook County, Illinois tric oxide treatment for neonatal hypoxic ficult justifying a more intense level and Bureau of Health for the Asthma Champion respiratory failure. longer duration of Federal assistance, con- Initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality The conferees strongly concur with Senate sistent with language contained in the House from asthma in high prevalence areas; report language regarding the Medicaid report. —$250,000 is for the Illinois Primary Health upper payment limit agreement that was in- CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT Care Association to implement the Shared cluded in the Omnibus Consolidated and The conference agreement includes Integrated Management Information System Emergency Supplemental Appropriations $2,099,994,000 for the Child Care and Develop- providing centralized case management, re- Act for Fiscal Year 2001. ment Block Grant, instead of $2,199,987,000 as imbursement and administrative support ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES proposed by the House and $2,000,000,000 as services; proposed by the Senate. Within the funds —$500,000 is for Project Access in Mus- LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE provided for child care resources and refer- kegon, Michigan to offer affordable insur- The conference agreement specifies that rals, the agreement also includes $1,000,000 ance to uninsured workers, primarily in the contingency funds are for the unantici- for the Child-Care Aware toll-free hotline op- small business, and low-income individuals; pated home energy assistance needs of one or erated by the National Association of Child —$590,000 is for Santa Clara County, Cali- more States, consistent with language con- Care Resource and Referral Agencies. fornia for the outreach and application as- tained in the House bill. The Senate bill did SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT sistance aspects of its Children’s Health Ini- not include such a provision. The conference agreement provides that tiative, to demonstrate means of expanding The conference agreement specifies that States may transfer up to 10 percent of enrollment of eligible children in Medicaid, the contingency funds shall be made avail- TANF funds to SSBG as proposed by the SCHIP and other available health care pro- able only after submission to the Congress of House. The Senate proposed a transfer grams; an official budget request as proposed by the amount of 5.7 percent. —$800,000 is for the Fishing Partnership Senate, instead of a formal budget request as Health Plan, based in Boston, Massachusetts proposed by the House. CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS for a demonstration project on the efficacy The conferees note that the amount pro- (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) of using a community-based health benefit vided by the Congress in the Supplemental The conference agreement includes program to provide health care coverage for Appropriations Act of 2001 was $150,000,000 $8,429,183,000 for children and families serv- lower-income independently employed work- more than requested by the Administration ices programs instead of $8,275,442,000 as pro- ers and their families; because of serious concerns about low-in- posed by the House and $8,592,496,000 as pro- —$800,000 is to continue a demonstration come households which had experienced sig- posed by the Senate. In addition, the agree- project being conducted at the Mind-Body nificant increases in their home heating ment rescinds $21,000,000 from permanent ap- Institute of Boston, Massachusetts, and ex- costs during the harsh winter of the past propriations as proposed by both the House pand the demonstration so that eligible pa- year. In addition, many States exhausted and the Senate.

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26488 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Head Start Child Advocacy Center of the emulated and expanded by other entities. The conference agreement includes Ozarks, Inc., Monett, MO, for The conferees expect funds made available $6,537,906,000 for Head Start instead of equipment ...... 50,000 through this program to supplement and not $6,475,812,000 as proposed by the House and Cornerstone Advocacy Service in supplant private resources and encourage the $6,600,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The Bloomington, MN, to provide Secretary to require private resources to agreement includes an advance appropria- prevention and education serv- match grant funding provided to public/pri- tion of $1,400,000,000 for Head Start for fiscal ices to children and adults who vate partnerships. year 2003 as proposed by both the House and are survivors of domestic vio- Social Services and Income Maintenance Re- the Senate. lence ...... 300,000 search Runaway Youth Family and Children’s Services for a child abuse prevention The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes $31,250,000 for social services and income $88,133,000 for runaway youth instead of program ...... 400,000 Family social service provider in maintenance research instead of $27,000,000 $105,133,000 as proposed by the Senate and as proposed by the House and $27,426,000 as $71,133,000 as proposed by the House. Within Yellowstone County, MT, to de- liver early intervention serv- proposed by the Senate. The conferees con- the funds provided, $39,739,900 is available for tinue to support the agency’s efforts to as- the transitional living program (TLP). The ices to at-risk families includ- ing the provision of family so- sist States in meeting the complex informa- conference agreement includes these addi- tion and systems reporting requirements of tional resources to meet the needs of young cial services ...... 400,000 Farm Resource Center, Mound TANF and have provided $1,000,000 to con- people in need of services. tinue this initiative. The State Information The Administration proposed $33,000,000 for City, IL, for mental health and Technology Consortium is coordinating this a separate transitional living program de- substance abuse outreach to effort. Given the success of this effort, the signed to serve pregnant and parenting farm families ...... 600,000 conferees believe that there can be better co- youth. The conferees are aware of the need Healthy Families/Better Begin- ordination of child support enforcement ac- for and share the Administration’s interest nings home visiting program tivities. The flow of information between in funding residential services for young for State of AK and regional Federal and State agencies and the court mothers and their children who are unable to Native non-profit organizations 2,000,000 system continues to be a critical factor in live with their own families because of Little Flower Children Services the success of the Child Support Enforce- abuse, neglect, or other circumstances. The facility, Wading, NY, for a com- ment program. While some States have suc- conferees also recognize the need for and prehensive child abuse preven- value of expanding transitional living oppor- tion and remediation program .. 800,000 ceeded in implementing seamless, cost-effec- tunities for all homeless youth. Therefore, Missouri Bootheel Healthy Start tive processes for information-sharing the conferees seek to preserve the flexibility to implement community-based among their human service agencies and the afforded in current law to respond to the education interventions ...... 500,000 courts, others have not. The conferees have needs of the young people who are most at- Ohel Family Services in Brook- included $2,000,000 to expand this ongoing risk and in greatest need of transitional liv- lyn, NY, to provide intensive initiative so that the State Information ing opportunities in their communities by treatment, crisis intervention, Technology Consortium can identify and providing additional resources to consoli- in-home support and rehabilita- widely disseminate methods for improving dated runaway and homeless youth act pro- tion services to abused and ne- the flow of information between agencies and grams. glected children in foster care .. 275,000 the court system. The conferees also provide It is the conferees’ expectation that cur- Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana to sufficient funding for the following: train teachers in the Greater rent and future TLP grantees will continue Metropolitan Family Services for New Orleans area on how to to provide transitional living opportunities a demonstration project en- recognize and report child and supports to pregnant and parenting couraging more involved fa- abuse cases among their stu- homeless youth, as is their current practice. thers ...... $400,000 To further ensure that pregnant and par- dents ...... 200,000 Montana Child Care Financing enting homeless youth are able to access Project SafePlace in Louisville to Demonstration ...... 200,000 transitional living opportunities and sup- conduct a demonstration National Center for Appropriate ports in their communities, the conferees en- project serving at-risk youth in Technology in Butte, MT ...... 150,000 courage the Secretary, acting through the Kentucky ...... 150,000 network of federally-funded runaway and Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery, University of Georgia to evaluate homeless youth training and technical as- Kennewick, WA, for child abuse the feasibility of creating a sistance providers, to offer guidance to prevention ...... 200,000 commission to carry out a com- grantees and others on the programmatic University of Notre Dame to de- prehensive program of eco- modifications required to address the unique velop model intervention effort nomic and human resource de- needs of pregnant and parenting youth and to help prevent child neglect velopment in the Southern on the various sources of funding available and abuse ...... 220,000 Black Belt ...... 250,000 for residential services to this population. University of Louisville Research The conference agreement includes Child abuse Foundation, Inc., for a National $7,498,000 for child welfare training, instead Center on Child Welfare Train- The conference agreement includes of $6,998,000 as proposed by the House and ing Evaluation ...... 250,000 $22,013,000 for child abuse state grants, in- $7,998,000 as proposed by the Senate. stead of $23,000,000 as proposed by the House Community Services Adoption Awareness and $21,026,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes The agreement also includes $26,178,000 for The conference agreement includes $33,417,000 for community based resource cen- child abuse discretionary programs instead $12,906,000 for adoption awareness as pro- ters, instead of $34,000,000 as proposed by the of $19,978,000 as proposed by the House and posed by the Senate instead of $9,906,000 as House and $32,834,000 as proposed by the Sen- $33,717,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within proposed by the House. The conference ate. the funds provided for child abuse prevention agreement includes $3,000,000 above the budg- For Developmental Disabilities, the con- programs, the agreement includes the fol- et request to implement the Special Needs ference agreement includes $35,000,000 for lowing items: Awareness Campaign in fiscal year 2002. protection and advocacy services as proposed Compassion Capital Fund Agape of Central Alabama, Inc., by the Senate instead of $34,000,000 as pro- Montgomery, AL, for their The conference agreement includes posed by the House. It also includes work with the children in need $45,000 $30,000,000 for the compassion capital fund as $11,734,000 for special projects as proposed by Alameda County Social Services proposed by the House instead of $89,000,000 the Senate instead of $10,734,000 as proposed Agency for the Alternative Re- as proposed by the Senate. This new program by the House. For university affiliated pro- sponse System ...... 440,000 is part of the Administration’s Faith Based grams, the agreement includes $24,000,000 as Alaska Native Health Board and Initiative. Funds available for this program proposed by the Senate instead of $21,800,000 the State of Alaska to develop will be used for grants to public/private part- as proposed by the House. and implement statewide child nerships that help small faith-based and The conference agreement includes abuse prevention and treatment community-based organizations replicate or $45,946,000 for Native Americans, instead of plan for Alaska Native children expand model social services programs. The $44,396,000 as proposed by the House and and parents ...... 450,000 conferees also intend that funding be used to $45,996,000 as proposed by the Senate. The Center for Women and Families, support and promote rigorous evaluations on conferees recommend that the Administra- Louisville, KY, for child abuse the ‘‘best practices’’ among charitable orga- tion on Native Americans increase support prevention ...... 300,000 nizations so that successful models can be for Native Hawaiian educational programs

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26489 which enhance their ability to participate ef- ventive health services as proposed by the DuPage County Human Services fectively in the governmental process. With- House instead of $22,000,000 as proposed by Department, Wheaton, IL, in the total the conferees provide funding for the Senate. The conferees intend that ‘‘Elder Abuse and Neglect Pro- the following: $5,000,000 be made available from preventive gram’’ ...... 100,000 health services for activities regarding medi- Florida Atlantic University, Boca Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. .... $350,000 cation management, screening, and edu- Kawerak, Inc...... 150,000 Raton, FL, for Anne and Louis Tanana Chiefs Conference in inte- cation to prevent incorrect medication and Green Alzheimer’s Care and Re- rior Alaska ...... 250,000 adverse drug reactions. search Center ...... 1,000,000 The conference agreement also includes Florida International University, The conference agreement includes $17,681,000 for ombusdsman/elder abuse pre- Miami, FL, National Policy and $650,000,000 for the community services block vention activities, instead of $14,181,000 as Research Center on Nutrition grant instead of $620,000,000 as proposed by proposed by the House and $18,181,000 as pro- and Aging ‘‘Nutrition 2030 pro- the House and $675,000,000 as proposed by the posed by the Senate. The agreement also in- gram’’ ...... 500,000 Senate. The conference agreement includes cludes $141,500,000 for family caregivers, in- Garrett County Area Agency on bill language stipulating that all local enti- stead of $137,000,000 as proposed by the House Aging to increase access to nu- ties that are in good standing in the commu- and $146,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. trition services for rural sen- nity services block grant program shall re- Within the funds provided for family care- iors ...... 25,000 ceive an increase in funding for the next pro- givers, the agreement includes $5,500,000 for Guadelupe Community Center, gram year that is proportionate to the over- Native American caregivers. The Senate bill Los Angeles, CA, for a dem- all increase in the appropriation provided for provided $6,000,000 for this purpose. onstration project on delivery the block grant. The conference agreement The conference agreement includes of outreach services to the el- also includes bill language proposed by the $390,000,000 for congregate meals, instead of derly, including non-English Senate that clarifies that the community $396,000,000 as proposed by the House and speaking seniors ...... 440,000 economic development grant funds may be $384,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The Hmong Mutual Assistance Asso- used to finance construction and rehabilita- conference agreement includes $176,500,000 ciation in La Crosse, WI, to pro- tion. for home delivered meals, instead of vide employment, social, eco- The conference agreement also includes $176,000,000 as proposed by the House and nomic and educational assist- $32,517,000 for economic development, instead $177,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The ance to elder Hmong refugees ... 127,000 of $30,034,000 as proposed by the House and agreement also includes $25,729,000 for grants Institute for Music and $35,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The to Indians instead of $25,457,000 as proposed Neurologic Function, Bronx, conferees also set aside $5,500,000 within the by the House and $26,000,000 as proposed by NY, for research involving the community economic development program the Senate. use of music to assist individ- The agreement includes $38,280,000 for for the job creation demonstration author- uals suffering from stroke, de- aging research and demonstrations instead ized under the Family Support Act. The con- mentia, Alzheimer’s ...... 500,000 of $19,100,000 as proposed by the House and ference agreement also includes $7,000,000 for INTEGRIS health system in $36,574,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the rural community facilities program de- Oklahoma for technology cen- the funds, the conferees have included suffi- scribed in the House and Senate reports, as ters that seniors could utilize cient funding for an osteoporosis prevention proposed by the Senate, instead of $5,321,000 for health education and com- education program aimed at post-meno- as proposed by the House. munity interaction ...... 100,000 pausal women. The conferees also include For National Youth Sports, the agreement Iowa Department of Elder Affairs the following amounts under aging research includes $17,000,000 as proposed by the House Seamless System to integrate and training: instead of $16,000,000 as proposed by the Sen- senior programs. In admin- ate. For the community food program, the Adult Day Care of Winchester, istering this award, the AoA agreement includes $7,314,000 as proposed by Winchester, VA, to provide and CMS should provide the the Senate instead of $6,000,000 as proposed adult day care for individuals technical assistance and related by the House. with Alzheimer’s disease ...... $150,000 support necessary to develop The conference agreement also includes Allegheny County Homestead and implement program $124,459,000 for Battered Women’s Shelters Apartments LIFE Center ...... 300,000 changes ...... 1,500,000 instead of $126,918,000 as proposed by the Alzheimer’s Family Day Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, House and $122,000,000 as proposed by the Falls Church, VA, to provide for the universal kitchen design Senate. For the Early Learning Fund, the adult day care for individuals project to develop technologies agreement includes $25,000,000 as proposed by with Alzheimer’s disease ...... 250,000 for independent living for indi- the Senate. The House bill did not include Area Agency on Aging of South- viduals with disabilities ...... 200,000 funding for this program. The agreement east Arkansas, Inc., for dem- Jewish Association on Aging, also includes $1,500,000 for the Faith Based onstration project for non-Med- Pittsburgh, for a demonstration Center instead of $3,000,000 as proposed by icaid eligible elderly ...... 500,000 project on Naturally Occurring Area Agency on Aging of South- the House. The Senate bill did not include Retirement Communities ...... 200,000 west Arkansas for family care- funding for this program. Jewish Family and Children’s PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES giving research project ...... 231,000 Champlain Senior Center in Bur- Service of Greater Philadelphia The conference agreement appropriates lington, VT, to support its ef- for a demonstration project on funds for promoting safe and stable families forts to help low-income seniors Naturally Occurring Retire- under subpart 2 of part B of title IV of the remain independent and active ment Communities ...... 200,000 Social Security Act, as proposed by the for as long as possible through Jewish Federation of St. Louis to House. The Senate proposed providing funds the use of technology ...... 100,000 establish a Naturally Occurring under section 430 of the Social Security Act. Civic Ventures for Experience Retirement Communities PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND Corps initiative for older adults (NORCs) demonstration project ADOPTION ASSISTANCE to mentor young people ...... 800,000 providing supportive services to seniors...... 1,280,000 The conference agreement includes Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Mecklenburg County, NC, Nutri- $6,621,500,000 as proposed by the House in- Groups in Madison, WI, to pro- tion 2000 program to help pro- stead of $6,621,100,000 as proposed by the Sen- vide assistance and education vide nutritional care for home- ate. to the legal community and the public about elder financial bound frail senior citizens ...... 1,000,000 ADMINISTRATION ON AGING abuse ...... 136,000 National Center for Seniors’ AGING SERVICES PROGRAMS Comprehensive Housing Assist- Housing Research to enable the The conference agreement includes ance, Inc., Baltimore, MD, for elderly to live independently .... 475,000 $1,199,814,000 for aging services programs in- demonstration project on Natu- Naturally Occurring Retirement stead of $1,144,832,000 as proposed by the rally Occurring Retirement Communities, Cleveland, OH, House and $1,209,756,000 as proposed by the Communities to the Baltimore for a demonstration program ... 1,000,000 Senate. Jewish Naturally Occurring Re- Oregon Health Sciences Univer- The conference agreement includes tirement Community ...... 1,000,000 sity for Healthy Aging Project 450,000 $357,000,000 for supportive centers, instead of Council of Senior Centers and Rebuilding Together with Christ- $327,075,000 as proposed by the House and Services of NYC for ACCESS to mas in April to rehabilitate the $366,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. The BENE*FITS Demonstration homes of the low income elder- agreement also includes $21,123,000 for pre- Project ...... 75,000 ly ...... 500,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26490 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Senior Community Centers of velopment and implementation. The review The conferees note that it has been seven San Diego for the Health Pro- and recommendations of the NAS/IOM shall years since enactment of the Dietary Supple- motion/Harm Reduction Dem- be reported to the Committees on Appropria- ment Health and Education Act and the De- onstration Project ...... 90,000 tions of the Congress, the Secretary of partment has yet to promulgate good manu- Senior Specialists Agency on Health and Human Services, the Secretary of facturing practices regulations as called for Aging of West Central Arkansas Education, and the U.S. Attorney General no under the Act. These regulations are crucial for research on services to the later than nine months after the date of en- for consumer protection. The conferees aging ...... 455,000 actment of this Act. strongly urge the Secretary to publish these Social Research into Alzheimer’s The conferees have heard concerns from regulations within 15 days of enactment of disease care options, best prac- state and local health departments and com- this Act. tices and other Alzheimer’s re- munity-based organizations about the lack The conference agreement includes $500,000 search priorities as specified in of availability of rapid HIV tests to identify to augment the resources of the Office of the House Report ...... 3,685,000 individuals with HIV disease. Rapid HIV General Counsel for enforcement of viola- SPRY Foundation to develop tests are needed for increasing the number of tions of DSHEA’s labeling and content re- web-based resources and train- HIV-infected individuals who know they are quirements as recommended by the Senate. ing programs to help seniors ac- infected; for screening pregnant women in The House had no similar provision. cess high-quality information labor to prevent transmission to their in- The conferees understand the White House and caregiver support services 367,000 fants; for screening potential recipients of Commission on Complementary and Alter- Texas Tech Institute University smallpox or other live-virus vaccines against native Medicine will release its final report Health Sciences Center, Lub- potential agents of bioterrorism; and for early in 2002. The conferees urge the Sec- bock, TX, for the Institute for emergency screening of blood transfusions in retary to form a coordinating unit to review Healthy Aging ...... 1,000,000 the event of large-scale terrorist attack. The the Commission’s report and implement The Motion Picture and Tele- conferees strongly encourage the Secretary ways to better coordinate the Department’s vision Fund, in partnership to expedite approval and make available many CAM-related activities. Within the total, the agreement includes with the University of Southern simple, rapid HIV diagnostic tests for use by funds above the request for the Department’s California’s Andrus School of a variety of health and community-based Information Collection Review and Analysis Gerontology, for the Eden Al- personnel. System as proposed by the House. ternative demonstration The conferees concur with language in the project that seeks to improve The conference agreement includes House report regarding the coordination of $1,000,000 to launch a public awareness cam- quality of care and life for sen- men’s health activities. iors residing in nursing homes paign to inform Americans about the exist- The conferees concur with language in the ence of spare embryos and options for cou- and assisted living facilities ..... 100,000 Senate report regarding the ongoing re- Tri-County Community Action ples to adopt an embryo or embryos in order search supported by the Office of Dietary to bear children, as proposed by the Senate. Program, Berlin, NH, for dem- Supplements (ODS) at the National Insti- onstration project ...... 50,000 The House had no similar provision. The con- tutes of Health concerning ephedra and the ferees further direct that the Secretary pre- Wayne County, MI, demonstra- corresponding language relating to FDA tion project to enhance services pare and submit a report to the Committees rulemaking. The conferees urge the Sec- on Appropriations by April 1, 2002, outlining to the elderly, including demen- retary to work with FDA and ODS to resolve tia patients, and to serve ethnic the Department’s plans and timeline to this rulemaking matter expeditiously so launch this campaign. groups ...... 800,000 that the millions of Americans who use these Westchester County Department The conferees encourage the Secretary, in weight loss products can continue to do so of Senior Programs and Serv- conjunction with the CDC and relevant NIH responsibly. Several states, such as Ohio in ices for a Senior Outreach to institutes, to work with interested members 1997 and Nebraska as recently as 2001, have Senior program ...... 20,000 of the physician community to provide na- already taken action to put in place clear tionwide access to a physician-only multi- OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY and science-based regulatory parameters in media internet site. The conferees are aware GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT an effort to preserve consumer access and of such sites with webcast experience, media The conference agreement includes safeguard public health by precluding the response capability, and original content de- $347,554,000 for general departmental man- sale of ephedrine products marketed as veloped by nationally recognized medical agement instead of $338,887,000 as proposed street drug alternatives. The conferees urge faculty. Access to this web-based technology, by the House and $422,212,000 as proposed by the Secretary to work with industry and to which should function in conjunction with the Senate. In addition, the agreement pro- take an active role in this regulatory process Federal health agencies’ information sys- vides $21,552,000 in program evaluation funds and to ensure that any interim actions as tems, will allow the nation’s primary care as proposed by the House. The Senate did not well as the final rule establish appropriate providers to receive important Federal provide for evaluation funds in this account. rules based on science. The conferees also health news and alerts as well as up to date Within the total provided, $4,000,000 is for urge industry to share with the Department information on treatment protocols for bio- the United States-Mexico Border Health all data from clinical studies with ephedra. logical threats. Commission as proposed by the Senate. The The conferees are concerned about the The conferees are aware of a proposal to House did not specify an amount for the growing shortages of qualified healthcare develop a Prescription Drug Surveillance Commission. workers, particularly in underserved rural System using independent, real-time phar- The conference agreement includes $500,000 and urban areas. The problem is at once an maceutical transaction data. The conferees for the National Academy of Sciences and In- educational issue, a labor issue, and a encourage the Secretary to consider this pro- stitute of Medicine (NAS/IOM) to develop a healthcare issue. The conferees urge the Sec- posal. cost-effective strategy for reducing and pre- retary, in consultation with the Secretary of It has come to the conferees’ attention venting underage drinking. The House had Labor and the Secretary of Education, to that a number of experts believe that more included funds for a similar purpose within convene a high level task force to develop needs to be done in the area of tissue engi- the appropriation for the Substance Abuse both immediate and longer-term solutions to neering, including the development of a na- and Mental Health Services Administration, these shortages. The conferees expect the tional strategy. The conferees urge the Sec- while the Senate bill included funds for this Secretary to be prepared to discuss this issue retary to consider developing such a national purpose in this account. and the status of the task force during the strategy, one that includes collaborative re- To help develop a cost-effective strategy fiscal year 2003 budget hearings. search and entrepreneurship. The conferees for reducing and preventing underage drink- The conferees are aware that patients who further urge the Secretary to consider using ing, the NAS/IOM shall review existing Fed- suffer terminal illnesses face severe and ex- the scientific expertise at the National Insti- eral, State and non-governmental programs, cruciating pain. For such patients, palliative tute of Biomedical Imaging and Bio- including media-based programs, designed to care is essential. The conferees are con- engineering to execute the strategy and en- change the attitudes and health behaviors of cerned that, although palliative care is well- courage consideration of the establishment youth. Based on its review, the NAS/IOM established in many other countries, most of of a Center for Tissue Engineering and Re- shall produce a strategy designed to prevent the American public and many health care generative Medicine through the Institute’s and reduce underage drinking including: an professionals still know little about it. The extramural research program. outline and implementation strategy, mes- conferees urge the Secretary to work with The agreement provides $28,931,000 for the sage points that will be effective in changing organizations like the American Medical As- adolescent family life program instead of the attitudes and health behaviors of youth sociation and the American Board of Hospice $27,862,000 as proposed by the House and concerning underage drinking, target audi- and Palliative Medicine, to disseminate ap- $30,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The ence identification, goals and objectives of propriate information to health care profes- agreement includes bill language ear- the campaign, and the estimated costs of de- sionals and the public. marking $11,885,000 under the adolescent

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The conference agreement includes to human services transpor- ity health providers ...... 200,000 funds above the request to expand efforts in tation providers on ADA re- Within the Office of Minority providing care services. quirements ...... $1,000,000 Health for the County of San The agreement provides $49,584,000 for mi- For the ARCH National Resource Diego to provide treatment to nority health, instead of $43,084,000 as pro- Center on Respite and Crisis TB patients along the Mexican posed by the House and the Senate. The con- Services in Chapel Hill, North border with California ...... 200,000 ferees urge the Secretary, where appropriate, Carolina, to expand training, Within the Office of Women’s to incorporate the out-year costs of fiscal technical assistance, evaluation Health for the Adelphi Breast year 2002 program initiatives in the oper- and networking expertise in Cancer Hotline and Support ating divisions as recommended by the respite care ...... 200,000 Program for counseling services House. and to address psycho-social Within the Office of Minority The conferees concur with the House rec- issues associated with breast Health for Access Community ommendation regarding the importance of cancer ...... 50,000 Health Network in Maywood/ OMH partnerships with minority health pro- Chicago Heights IL to expand OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL fessions institutions. Specifically, the con- its women’s health programs .... 100,000 The conference agreement includes ferees urge the Office to continue its success- $35,786,000 for the Office of Inspector General ful cooperative agreement with Meharry Within the Office of Minority as proposed by the House and Senate. The Medical College. In addition, the conferees Health for Padres Contra El conferees do not include language proposed urge the OMH to give priority consideration Cancer in Los Angeles to ex- by the House to limit the amount of funds to partnering with the Morehouse School of pand patient education pro- available to the Inspector General in fiscal Medicine. In addition, the conferees urge the grams and family support serv- year 2002 under the Health Insurance Port- Office to retain Central State University as ices for Latino children with ability and Accountability Act of 1996 the managing institution for the Family cancer ...... 200,000 (HIPAA) to not more than $130,000,000. The Community Violence Prevention program. Within the Office of Minority Senate bill contained no similar provision. Also, the conferees encourage the Office of Health for Sisters Network, Inc. The conference agreement deletes lan- Minority Health to work with Morehouse in Houston, Texas, for an edu- guage proposed by the Senate authorizing College of Atlanta, Georgia and a consortium cational and outreach program the use of funds for the hire of vehicles for of historically black colleges and univer- on breast cancer targeted to Af- investigations. The House bill had no similar sities to undertake the planning and design rican-American women ...... 150,000 provision. In addition, the agreement deletes phase of the National Minority Male Project. Within the Office of Minority language proposed by the Senate perma- The conferees also urge that during the im- Health for the Baltimore City nently authorizing the use of funds to pro- plementation phase of the project, the Office Health Department to provide vide protective services to the Secretary and reach out and involve as many interested mi- HIV/AIDS testing, counseling, to investigate non-payment of child support nority institutions as possible. and prevention programs for cases for which non-payment is a federal of- The agreement provides $26,819,000 for the high-risk persons ...... 500,000 fense. Like the House bill, the agreement in- office of women’s health instead of $26,769,000 cludes language providing this authority for as proposed by the House and $27,396,000 as Within the Office of Minority one year. proposed by the Senate. The conferees urge Health for the San Francisco The conferees request the Inspector Gen- the Secretary, where appropriate, to incor- Department of Public Health, eral to conduct an audit of all federal porate the out-year costs of fiscal year 2002 to expand and support San amounts and activities allocated for AIDS program initiatives in the operating divi- Francisco General Hospital’s prevention programs in the Act and to report sions as recommended by the House. capacity to provide HIV care its findings to the Congress. The agreement includes $1,000,000 to com- and related services with an mission a Surgeon General’s report on emphasis on providing care for POLICY RESEARCH osteoporosis and related bone diseases, de- women and minorities ...... 650,000 The conference agreement includes tailing the burden bone disease places on so- Within the Office of Minority $2,500,000 for policy research as proposed by ciety and highlighting preventive measures Health for the Cleveland Clinic the House, instead of $20,500,000 as proposed to improve and maintain bone health Foundation, Cleveland, OH, for by the Senate. The agreement also includes throughout life as proposed by the Senate. the development of community- language proposed by the House providing The House included no similar provision. based programs and support of authority to the Secretary to utilize evalua- The agreement does not include $68,700,000 public education and outreach tion funds available under section 241 of the for bioterrorism within this account as pro- activities on sarcoidosis and Public Health Service Act. The conferees un- posed by the Senate. Instead, funds for bio- minority health ...... 2,000,000 derstand that this authority, along with the terrorism preparedness and response are pro- Within the Office of Minority $2,500,000 in appropriated funds, will yield a vided within the Public Health and Social Health for the AIDS Founda- program level of at least $20,500,000 in fiscal Services Emergency Fund as proposed by the tion of Chicago, Illinois, for year 2002. House. projects related to HIV/AIDS The conference agreement also includes Within the total provided, $50,000,000 is for prevention and treatment in language proposed by the House requiring minority HIV/AIDS Initiative as proposed by minority and disadvantaged the Secretary to comply with section 205 of the House and Senate. The conferees concur communities ...... 500,000 this Act before utilizing section 241 funds to with the House report regarding the purposes support Policy Research activities. The Sen- and uses of these funds. The agreement de- Within the Office of Minority ate bill contained no similar provision. In letes bill language included by the House re- Health for the Thomas Jeffer- addition, the conferees are aware that the quiring the Secretary to submit an operating son University Hospital in national poverty center grant expired on plan prior to the obligation of these funds, Philadelphia, to create a Chi- June 30, 2001, and expect the Secretary to because the conferees expect this informa- nese language and culture Pri- hold a national competition to award a new tion to be included in the general operating mary Health Care Center where five-year grant or grants. This agreement in- plan to be submitted by the Department. The members of the community can cludes sufficient funds to continue to sup- Senate had no similar provision. gain access to desperately need- port one or more national poverty research The agreement includes $21,998,000 for the ed linguistically competent and centers on a competitive basis. IT Security and Innovation Fund, instead of culturally sensitive health care Within the funds available, $7,125,000 is to $25,000,000 as proposed by the House and services ...... 1,500,000 continue to study the outcomes of welfare $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the Office of Minority reform and to assess the impacts of policy The conferees include the amounts for the Health for the Glaucoma Cau- changes on the low-income population. The following projects and activities in fiscal cus Foundation to provide glau- conferees recommend that this effort include year 2002 listed below. The conferees direct coma screening and outreach the collection and use of state-specific sur- that none of these project funds be trans- activities ...... 500,000 veys, state and federal administration data,

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and data administratively linking the Na- EXTENSION OF CERTAIN ADJUDICATION ment to assist and fairly compensate hos- tional Database of New Hires, other child PROVISIONS pitals and other health providers that re- support enforcement data, TANF and Med- The conference agreement includes a pro- spond to emergency public health threats. icaid records together. These studies should vision proposed by the Senate to extend the SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING LEAD focus on assessing the well-being of the low refugee status for persecuted religious POISONING SCREENING AND MEDICAID income population, developing and reporting groups. The House bill contained no similar The conferees delete without prejudice a reliable and comparable state-by-state meas- provision. Sense of the Senate provision regarding lead ures of family hardship and well-being, the CDC INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY poisoning screenings and treatments under utilization of other support programs and the Medicaid program. The House bill con- the impact of child support enforcement ef- The conference agreement includes a modi- tained no similar provision. The conferees forts. These studies should continue to meas- fied provision to provide authority to sup- encourage CMS to work with medical pro- ure outcomes for a broad population of cur- port CDC carrying out international HIV/ viders to ensure that all eligible children re- rent, former and potential welfare recipi- AIDS and other infectious and chronic dis- ceive a lead poison screening and appropriate ents, as well as other special populations af- ease activities abroad. treatment as required by the Medicaid pro- fected by state TANF policies. The conferees DIVISION OF FEDERAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH gram. further expect these studies to analyze how The conference agreement includes a pro- the earnings of custodial and non-custodial vision to allow the Division of Federal Occu- SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING LEAD parents who are, or have had children who pational Health to use personal services con- POISONING SCREENING AND SCHIP are, current or former welfare recipients tracting to employ professional manage- The conferees delete without prejudice a have changed over time and whether the pat- ment/administrative and occupational Sense of the Senate provision regarding lead tern is significantly different among states. health professionals as a general provision as poisoning screenings and treatments under The conferees request a report on these top- proposed by the House. The Senate bill con- the SCHIP program. The House bill con- ics to be submitted to House and Senate Ap- tained a similar provision within the Health tained no similar provision. The conferees propriations Committees by May 1, 2002. Resources and Services Administration. encourage the Department to consider ex- PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES NIH OBLIGATIONS panding SCHIP to allow funds to be used for lead poison screenings. EMERGENCY FUND The conference agreement does not include The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by the House to limit SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING CHILDHOOD $242,949,000 for the Public Health and Social NIH obligations. The Senate bill contained LEAD SCREENING Services Emergency Fund instead of no similar provision. The conferees delete without prejudice a $300,619,000 as proposed by the House. The NIH ACTING DIRECTOR Sense of the Senate provision regarding the Senate provided $181,919,000 within the Cen- establishment of a bonus program for im- The conference agreement includes a pro- ters for Disease Control and Prevention and provement of childhood lead screening rates. vision proposed by the Senate to allow the $68,700,000 within General Departmental The House bill contained no similar provi- NIH Acting Director to remain in that posi- Management for these activities. sion. The conferees encourage the Depart- tion until a new Director of NIH is confirmed The amount provided includes $181,919,000 ment to consider establishing such a pro- by the Senate. The House bill contained no for the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- gram. vention for the following bioterrorism and similar provision. RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT related activities: GLOBAL HIV/AIDS TRANSFER FUND —$2,000,000 to continue to discover, de- The conference agreement does not include The conference agreement does not include velop, and transition anti-infective agents to a provision proposed by the Senate to trans- a provision proposed by the Senate to ear- combat emerging diseases; fer funds from the National Institute of Al- mark funds for cancer prevention and screen- —$18,040,000 for the third year of a collabo- lergy and Infectious Diseases and NIH Build- ing programs under section 471C of the Pub- rative research program on the anthrax vac- ings and Facilities to International Assist- lic Health Service Act. The House bill con- cine; ance Programs, ‘‘Global Fund to Fight HIV/ tained no similar provision. The agreement —$34,000,000 for a national health alert net- AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis’’ as a gen- addresses this issue within the Health Re- work; and eral provision. The agreement provides for sources and Services Administration. —$127,879,000 for all other activities. this transfer within the individual accounts TANF RESCISSION The remaining $61,030,000 is for the Office as proposed by the House. The conference agreement does not include of Emergency Preparedness for bioterrorism- a provision proposed by the Senate to re- related activities. ENFORCEMENT OF LABELING PROVISIONS OF THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT HEALTH AND EDU- scind $200,000,000 of TANF funds. The House GENERAL PROVISIONS CATION ACT OF 1994 bill contained no similar provision. NIH AND SAMHSA SALARY CAP The conference agreement does not include SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING POST- The conference agreement includes a modi- a provision proposed by the Senate to ear- ABORTION DEPRESSION AND PSYCHOSIS fied provision limiting the use of the Na- mark funds for the Office of the General The conferees delete without prejudice a tional Institutes of Health, the Agency for Counsel to provide legal support for enforce- Sense of the Senate provision regarding re- Healthcare Research and Quality, and the ment of the labeling provisions of the Die- search on, and services for, individuals with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services tary Supplement Health and Education Act post-abortion depression and psychosis. The Administration funds to pay the salary of an of 1994. The House bill contained no similar House bill contained no similar provision. individual, through a grant or other extra- provision. The agreement addresses this CHILDREN’S TRAUMATIC STRESS PROGRAM mural mechanism, at a rate in excess of issue under General Departmental Manage- Level I of the Executive Schedule. ment. The conference agreement includes a pro- EVALUATION TAP vision proposed by the Senate to rename sec- SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING GOOD tion 582 of the Public Health Service Act. The conference agreement includes a pro- MANUFACTURING PRACTICES vision to allow for not more than a 1.25 per- The House bill contained no similar provi- The conferees delete without prejudice a cent evaluation tap pursuant to section 241 sion. Sense of the Senate provision regarding good of the Public Health Service Act. The House TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION manufacturing practices. The House bill con- bill contained a provision to allow for a one tained no similar provision. EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED percent evaluation tap and the Senate bill FEDERAL USE OF AIDS PREVENTION FUNDS The conference agreement includes contained a provision to allow for an evalua- $12,346,900,000 for Education for the Dis- The conference agreement does not include tion tap of not more than two percent. advantaged instead of $12,571,400,000 as pro- a provision proposed by the Senate to re- TRANSFER AUTHORITY posed by the House and $11,926,400,000 as pro- quire the Inspector General to audit all Fed- The conference agreement includes modi- posed by the Senate. The agreement includes eral amounts allocated to AIDS Prevention fied language to provide general transfer au- advance funding for this account of programs. The House bill contained no simi- thority for the Department of Health and $7,383,301,000 instead of $6,758,300,000 as pro- lar provision. Human Services. The language limits the posed by the House and $6,953,300,000 as pro- amount an appropriation can be increased by SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING HOSPITAL posed by the Senate. a transfer to not more than three percent as REIMBURSEMENT For Grants to Local Educational Agencies proposed by the Senate instead of ten per- The conferees delete without prejudice a (LEAs) the agreement provides $10,350,000,000 cent as proposed by the House. The language Sense of the Senate provision regarding re- instead of $10,500,000,000 as proposed by the also allows an appropriation to be increased imbursement of certain hospitals testing and House and $10,200,000,000 as proposed by the by an additional two percent subject to ap- treating individuals for exposure to anthrax. Senate. The conference agreement includes proval by the House and Senate Committees The House bill contained no similar provi- $7,172,971,000 for basic grants and on Appropriations. sion. The conferees encourage the Depart- $1,365,031,000 for concentration grants. The

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00098 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26493 agreement also includes $1,018,499,000 for tar- stead of $35,000,000 as proposed by both the in programs that: (1) improve and upgrade geted grants, and $793,499,000 for education House and the Senate. the status and stature of mathematics and finance incentive grants. Both targeted and Sufficient funding is provided within the science teaching by encouraging institutions education finance incentive grants are au- account for construction for the following: of higher education to assume greater re- thorized distributions of the title I formula Killeen Independent School Dis- sponsibility for improving mathematics and that have not previously been funded. For trict, Texas, for capital im- science teacher education; (2) focus on edu- targeted grants, funds are distributed based provements ...... $2,000,000 cation of mathematics and science teachers on a weighted count of the number of poor Ronan School District in Ronan, as a career-long process; (3) bring mathe- children within the state. Distribution for Montana to facilitate the con- matics and science teachers together with education finance incentive grants is based struction of a new middle scientists, mathematicians, and engineers to on the total number of poor children within school ...... 1,000,000 improve their teaching skills; and (4) develop the State multiplied by the per pupil expend- more rigorous mathematics and science cur- SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS iture, a state effort factor and a state equity ricula that are aligned with State and local factor. There is a within-state allocation for The conference agreement includes academic achievement standards expected education finance incentive grants which is $7,827,473,000 for School Improvement Pro- for postsecondary study in engineering, based on variations of the targeted grant for- grams instead of $7,673,584,000 as proposed by mathematics, and science. mula with the greatest targeting on high the House and $8,751,514,000 as proposed by The conferees note that, although this is a poverty school districts in the states where the Senate. The agreement provides separate program designed specifically for the equity factor is lowest. Concentration $6,062,423,000 in fiscal year 2002 and the development of high quality math and grants, targeted grants, and incentive grants $1,765,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 funding for science professional development opportuni- are all provided on an advance-funded basis. this account. ties, in no way do the conferees intend to The House bill proposed $8,037,000,000 for Improving teacher quality discourage the Secretary and States from basic grants, $1,684,000,000 for concentration The conference agreement includes using other federal funding for math and grants, and $779,000,000 for targeted grants. $2,850,000,000 for state grants for improving science instructional improvement pro- The Senate bill proposed $7,172,690,000 for teacher quality, instead of $3,175,000,000 as grams. The conferees strongly urge the Sec- basic grants, $1,365,031,000 for concentration proposed by the House and $3,039,834,000 as retary and States to utilize funding provided grants, $1,000,000,000 for targeted grants, and proposed by the Senate. Of this amount, by the Teacher Quality Grant program, as $662,279,000 for education finance incentive $1,150,000,000 is provided as a fiscal year 2003 well as other programs funded by the federal grants. advance as proposed by the Senate instead of government, to strengthen math and science The conference agreement also provides $1,345,000,000 as proposed by the House. education programs across the Nation. $3,500,000 for updated census poverty data Grants for Improving Teacher Quality con- The conference agreement includes from the Bureau of the Census, as proposed solidates and streamlines the Eisenhower $88,000,000 for activities designed to recruit by the Senate. The House bill contained no Professional Development program and the and train new teachers. The House bill pro- similar provision. Class Size Reduction program to allow great- posed $50,000,000 for Troops to Teachers and The conference agreement includes er flexibility for local school districts. The Transition to Teaching programs, while the $250,000,000 for the Even Start program in- purpose of this part is to provide grants to Senate proposed $95,000,000 for these activi- stead of $260,000,000 as proposed by the House States, school districts, State agencies for ties as well as for a variety of other national and $200,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. higher education, and eligible partnerships teacher improvement activities. The conference agreement also includes to: (1) increase student academic achieve- The conference agreement includes $12,500,000 for Literacy through School Li- ment through such strategies as improving $53,000,000 for the Troops-to-Teachers and braries instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by teacher and principal quality and increasing Transition-to-Teaching programs authorized the Senate. The House bill did not provide the number of highly qualified teachers in under part C of title II of the Elementary funding for this program. This program is de- the classroom and highly qualified principals and Secondary Education Act, as amended. signed to improve literacy skills and aca- and assistant principals in schools; (2) hold Of this amount, $18,000,000 is available to the demic achievement of students by providing districts and schools accountable for im- Secretary to transfer to the Department of students with increased access to up-to-date provements in student academic achieve- Defense for Troops-to-Teachers and not less school library materials, a well-equipped, ment; and (3) hold districts and schools ac- than $35,000,000 shall be available for Transi- technologically advanced school library countable so that all teachers teaching core tion-to-Teaching. The conference agreement media center, and well-trained, profes- academic subjects in public elementary increases by 6 times the amount made avail- sionally certified school library media spe- schools and secondary schools are highly able for Troops-to-Teachers compared to last cialists. qualified. year. The conferees are aware of the tremen- The conference agreement includes The conferees understand that the Eisen- dous interest in the Transition-to-Teaching $396,000,000 for the migrant education pro- hower Professional Development program, initiative that is aimed at recruiting and gram instead of $410,000,000 as proposed by which has been consolidated into a larger supporting mid-career professionals and tal- the House and $405,000,000 as proposed by the State Teacher Quality Improvement Grant ented, recent college graduates to become Senate. The agreement also includes program under the reauthorization of the El- teachers. In FY 2001, 172 applications re- $48,000,000 for neglected and delinquent ementary and Secondary School Act, was questing over $220,000,000 in federal funds youth instead of $46,000,000 as proposed by funded at $485,000,000 in fiscal year 2001. The were submitted—seven times more than the the House and $50,000,000 as proposed by the Eisenhower program required that a min- $31,000,000 available for awards. As a result, Senate. imum of $250,000,000 be dedicated to math The conference agreement includes many grantees received awards substantially and science professional development activi- less than requested and other applicants $235,000,000 for grants to local educational ties; however, the conferees understand that agencies for comprehensive school reform, were not funded at all. The conferees intend as much as $375,000,000 was actually expended that the Department use a portion of the ad- compared to $310,000,000 as proposed by the on math and science in fiscal year 2001. The House. The Senate bill did not include funds ditional resources for Transition-to-Teach- conferees believe that providing high-quality ing to make supplemental awards to current for this activity. The conference agreement math and science instruction is of critical permits up to 3 percent of these funds to be national grantees to enable them to accel- importance to our Nation’s future competi- erate multi-state teacher recruitment ef- used for quality improvement initiatives, as tiveness, and agree that math and science authorized. forts. professional development opportunities The conference agreement also includes The conference agreement also includes should be expanded. The conferees therefore $10,000,000 for dropout prevention programs, $10,000,000 for the National Board for Profes- strongly urge the Secretary and the States sional Teaching Standards, as proposed by instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by the Sen- to continue to fund math and science activi- ate. The House bill did not provide funding the House and the Senate and $15,000,000 for ties within the Teacher Quality Grant pro- the early childhood educator professional de- for this program. gram at a comparable level in fiscal year The conference agreement includes velopment grants program, as proposed by 2002. $1,500,000 for the Close Up Foundation as pro- the Senate. The agreement also includes The conference agreement also includes $10,000,000 for principal recruitment. The posed by the House instead of $2,500,000 as $12,500,000 for math and science partnerships, proposed by the Senate. House bill did not include funding for these instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by the Sen- activities. IMPACT AID ate. Math and science partnerships are in- The conference agreement includes tended to improve the performance of stu- National writing project $1,143,500,000 for the Impact Aid programs in- dents in the areas of mathematics and The agreement also includes $14,000,000 for stead of $1,130,500,000 as proposed by both the science by encouraging States, institutions the National Writing Project instead of House and the Senate. Within this amount, of higher education, districts, elementary $12,000,000 as proposed by the House and $48,000,000 is provided for construction in- schools, and secondary schools to participate $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00099 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26494 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Civic education The agreement also includes $22,000,000 for and how well the school is educating their For Cooperative Education Exchanges, for- Ready to Learn Television, instead of child. States may select and design assess- merly the International Education Exchange $16,000,000 as proposed by the House and ments of their choosing. However, State as- program, the conference agreement includes $24,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. sessments must be aligned with State aca- $11,500,000, instead of $12,000,000 as proposed Safe and Drug Free Schools demic standards, allow student achievement to be comparable from year to year, be of ob- by the Senate. The House bill did not fund The conference agreement includes jective knowledge, be based on measurable, this program. Within the total, $4,300,000 is $644,250,000 for the Safe and Drug Free verifiable and widely accepted professional included for the Center for Civic Education Schools and Communities Act as proposed by assessment standards, and not evaluate or and $4,300,000 is for the National Council on both the House and the Senate. assess personal or family beliefs and atti- Economic Education for economics edu- Included within this amount is $472,017,000 tudes. States will have until the 2005–2006 cation to continue the work these organiza- for state grants instead of $527,250,000 as pro- school year to develop and implement these tions are doing in Central and Eastern Eu- posed by the House and $444,250,000 as pro- assessments. rope and the newly independent states of the posed by the Senate. former Soviet Union, as well as to expand The conferees understand that funding pro- The agreement also includes $172,233,000 for vided above the trigger set in the author- significantly the economic education and national programs instead of $117,000,000 as civic education programs already underway izing law for state assessments will be used proposed by the House and $150,000,000 as pro- for enhanced assessment instruments. in Russia. Also included is $2,900,000 for com- posed by the Senate. Within this amount, petitive grants in economics and civics and/ the conferees include $100,000,000 to support Public school choice or government education. the Safe Schools/Healthy Students initia- The conference agreement includes For Civic Education, the conference agree- tive. $25,000,000 to support voluntary public school ment includes $15,500,000 instead of $12,000,000 Of the amount provided for Safe and Drug choice programs, instead of $50,000,000 as pro- as proposed by the House and $15,000,000 as Free Schools National programs, the con- posed by the Senate. The House bill did not proposed by the Senate. The conferees sup- ferees also agree that up to $1,000,000 is avail- provide funding for this program. port allocating $1,500,000 of the total amount able to the Secretary of Education, in con- Magnet schools for a continuation of the violence prevention sultation with the Secretary of Health and The conferees concur with language in the demonstration program, and $500,000 of the Human Services, to develop and disseminate House report directing the Secretary, when total amount for the Native American civic recommendations and models to assist com- allocating magnet schools assistance funds, education initiative. Further, the conferees munities in implementing emergency re- to give priority for funding to the highest- intend that $2,000,000 be allocated for a coop- sponse, evacuation and parental notification quality applications remaining from the pre- erative project among the Center for Civic plans for schools and other community fa- vious year’s competition before funding ap- Education, the Center on Congress at Indi- cilities where children gather, and coordi- plications approved in a new competition. ana University, and the Trust for Represent- nating these plans with local law enforce- The conferees also note that no funds are in- ative Democracy at the National Conference ment, public safety, health and mental cluded for a new competition in innovative of State Legislatures to implement a com- health agencies. Further, the conferees agree programs, since this program is no longer prehensive program to improve public that $9,000,000 is available for grants to en- authorized. knowledge, understanding, and support of able local educational agencies to improve Education for Homeless Children and Youth American democratic institutions. and strengthen emergency response and cri- The conference agreement includes Teaching of traditional American history sis management plans, including training $50,000,000 for Education for Homeless Chil- The conference agreement includes school personnel, students and parents in dren and Youth as proposed by the House in- $100,000,000 for the teaching of traditional emergency response procedures and coordi- stead of $36,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. American history, as proposed by the Senate nating with local law enforcement, public Education of Native Hawaiians in the LIFE fund. The House bill did not pro- safety, health and mental health agencies. The conference agreement includes pose separate funding for this program. The conferees intend that these funds shall $30,500,000 for the Education of Native Ha- Innovative education program strategies be available only to local educational agen- waiians instead of $33,000,000 as proposed by For innovative education program strate- cies that demonstrate a significant need for the Senate and $28,000,000 as proposed by the gies, the education block grant, the con- emergency preparedness improvements and a House. The conferees urge the Department to ference agreement includes $385,000,000 as lack of fiscal capacity to implement these provide $1,000,000 for construction and co-lo- proposed by the House instead of $410,000,000 improvements. The conferees have provided cation, $7,000,000 for curriculum develop- as proposed by the Senate. extended availability of funding for these ment, $2,100,000 for community-based learn- School renovation two activities through September 30, 2003. ing centers, $3,500,000 for higher education, Within the funds for national programs, The conference agreement does not include $1,250,000 for gifted and talented, $3,100,000 the agreement also provides $37,500,000 to for special education, $500,000 for Native Ha- funding for grants to local educational agen- fund coordinators. The conferees understand cies for emergency school renovation and re- waiian education councils; and $12,050,000 for that in the reauthorization of the Elemen- family-based education centers. pair activities. The House bill provided no tary and Secondary Education Act, this pro- Alaska Native Educational Equity funding for this activity. The Senate bill gram has been expanded to serve schools at provided $925,000,000 for this purpose. all education levels. The conference agreement includes Education technology $24,000,000 for the Alaska Native Educational Mentoring, community service, and alcohol Equity program instead of $33,000,000 as pro- The conference agreement includes abuse reduction programs $700,500,000 for education technology state posed by the Senate and $15,000,000 as pro- The conference agreement includes grants, instead of $1,000,000,000 as proposed posed by the House. $17,500,000 for mentoring programs, instead by the House and $712,146,000 as proposed by Rural education of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House and the Senate. The reauthorization of the Ele- The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The mentary and Secondary Education Act con- $162,500,000 for rural education programs, in- agreement also includes $50,000,000 for grants solidates several technology programs (in- stead of $200,000,000 as proposed by the House for community service for expelled or sus- cluding the Technology Literacy Challenge and $125,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. pended students and $25,000,000 for grants to Fund and Local Innovation Challenge This program is intended to address the reduce alcohol abuse as proposed by the Sen- Grants) into a State-based technology grant unique needs of rural school districts that ate. The House bill did not propose separate program that sends more money to schools. frequently: (1) lack the personnel and re- funding for these programs. In doing so, it will facilitate comprehensive sources needed to compete effectively for and integrated education technology strate- State assessments federal competitive grants; and (2) receive gies that target the specific needs of indi- The conference agreement includes formula grant allocations in amounts too vidual schools. Uses of funds include: (1) pro- $387,000,000 for assessments instead of small to be effective in meeting their in- moting innovative State and local initia- $400,000,000 as proposed by the House and tended purposes. The program consists of tives using technology to increase academic $352,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The two parts: achievement; (2) increasing access to tech- new assessment provisions in H.R. 1 require Subpart 1—Small, Rural School Achieve- nology, especially for high-need schools; and States to implement annual reading and ment Program—Under subpart 1, a school (3) improving and expanding teacher profes- math assessments for grades 3–8, to hold district is able to combine funds under var- sional development in technology. states and local school districts that use fed- ious formula grant programs to carry out The conference agreement also includes eral funds accountable for improving student local activities intended to improve the aca- $62,500,000 for teacher training in technology, academic achievement. Annual reading and demic achievement of elementary and sec- instead of $125,000,000 as proposed by the Sen- math assessments are intended to provide ondary school students and the quality of in- ate. The House bill did not include separate parents with the information they need to struction provided to these students. In addi- funding for this activity. know how well their child is doing in school, tion, grants under this subpart would be

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00100 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26495 awarded to eligible districts based on the House bill did not include separate funding White Plains School District, number of students in average daily attend- for this activity. New York, for after school and ance less the amount they received from con- For the Carol M. White Physical Education summer academic programs solidated formula grant programs. for Progress program, the conference agree- serving at-risk elementary stu- Subpart 2—Rural and Low-Income School ment includes $50,000,000 as proposed by the dents ...... 260,000 Program—If a district did not qualify for Senate. The House bill did not propose fund- ‘‘Project Promotion,’’ a project of funding under subpart 1, it would be eligible ing for this program. The agreement also in- the Southern Penobscot Re- for funding under subpart 2. Funds awarded cludes $32,475,000 for community based tech- gional Program for Children to districts or made available to schools nology centers instead of $64,950,000 as pro- with Exceptionalities under subpart 2 can be used to carry out posed by the Senate. The House bill did not (SPRPCE) and Eastern Maine local activities intended to improve the aca- propose funding for this program. Technical College for Para- demic achievement of elementary and sec- The conference agreement includes professional Educators to pur- ondary school students and the quality of in- $5,000,000 for a program to promote edu- sue a two-year college degree. .. 200,000 struction provided for these students. cational, cultural, apprenticeship and ex- 24 Challenge and Jumping Levels The conferees intend that the funds pro- change programs for Alaska Natives, Native to continue the empirical study vided for rural education programs be dis- Hawaiians, and their historical whaling and of the math program in Phila- tributed equally between subpart 1 and sub- trading partners in Massachusetts. delphia County ...... 50,000 part 2, as authorized. For Arts in Education, the conference Alabama School of Mathematics Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE) agreement includes $30,000,000 as proposed by and Science Foundation, Mo- The conference agreement includes both the House and the Senate. The con- bile, AL, for program develop- $832,889,000 for the Fund for the Improvement ferees provide that within this total, ment and equipment ...... 300,000 of Education. This program has consolidated $8,650,000 is for Very Special Arts, $6,000,000 Alaska Department of Education a number of programs that had previously is for the John F. Kennedy Center for the and Early Development for been funded as separate line items. Performing Arts, and $2,000,000 is to be used Alyeska Central School, to pre- Within the total for FIE, the conference to continue a youth violence prevention ini- pare students in small rural agreement includes $32,500,000 for the ele- tiative. The conferees agree that of the funds schools for the Alaska High mentary school counseling program, instead provided to Very Special Arts, $1,650,000 is School Qualifying exam of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House and for planning for the 2004 International Fes- through distance delivery of $35,000,000 as proposed by the Senate within tival. In addition, $2,000,000 is for model pro- core courses ...... 500,000 the Local Innovations for Education (LIFE) fessional development programs for music Alaska Department of Education fund. educators and $4,000,000 is for activities au- for a remedial summer tutoring The conference agreement includes thorized under subpart 2 of the Arts in Edu- program ...... 800,000 $25,000,000 for the partnership in character cation program. Alaska Department of Education education program under the Fund for the The conference agreement includes for its ‘‘Qualified Teachers for Improvement of Education. The House bill $40,000,000 for parental assistance and local Alaska’’ program...... 2,000,000 recommended $25,000,000 for this purpose as a family information centers instead of Alaska Geographic Alliance to separate program, while the Senate bill in- $45,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The work with the Library of Con- cluded funding for this purpose under the House bill did not propose funding for this gress to incorporate its ‘‘Meet- LIFE fund. The conferees encourage the Sec- program. The conference agreement also in- ing of the Frontiers’’ work into retary to consider funding projects that sen- cludes $3,000,000 for the Women’s Educational the Alaska school history and sitize students to the painful effects of bul- Equity Act as proposed by both the House geography curriculum...... 250,000 lying, ridicule and other forms of dis- and the Senate. Alaska Mentoring Demonstration Project, Big Brothers/Big Sis- respect—behaviors that frequently lie at the The conference agreement includes ters agencies in Anchorage, root of emotional and physical injury that $75,000,000 for continuing and new grants to Fairbanks and Juneau and children inflict upon one another. The con- local educational agencies for comprehensive other partners to extend the ferees are supportive of such projects that school reform. The House and Senate bills proven benefits of mentoring help teachers and students create a respect- did not include funds for this activity. The at-risk youth ...... 500,000 ful, compassionate and ridicule-free environ- bill includes language specifying that these Albuquerque Public Schools to ment that nurtures both the emotional/so- funds shall be allocated and expended in the expand child and family devel- cial and academic growth of students. same manner as in FY 2001 and provides the opment services in the South The conference agreement includes funds on a forward funding basis. The con- Valley area of Albuquerque ...... 200,000 $142,189,000 for small, safe and successful ference agreement includes funds to con- Alliance for the Arts, New York high schools, instead of $200,000,000 as pro- tinue all existing grants and contracts for City, for arts education pro- posed by the House and $100,000,000 as pro- comprehensive school reform capacity and grams ...... 600,000 posed by the Senate. The bill provides the dissemination activities, including the na- Alliance Neighborhood Center, funds on a forward funding basis. The con- tional clearinghouse for comprehensive Alliance, OH, for after-school ferees concur in the direction in House Re- school reform. port 107–229 concerning this activity. program ...... 250,000 The conferees have included additional For the Reading is Fundamental program, American Film Institute Screen funds in this line item for the Secretary to the conference agreement provides $24,000,000 Education Center and Initiative support programs and projects that address instead of $23,000,000 as proposed by the for arts education curriculum national priorities in K–12 education. The House and $25,000,000 as proposed by the Sen- development and teacher train- conferees note that projects to promote eco- ate. ing ...... 650,000 nomic education are authorized under this The conference agreement also includes Amer-I-can program to assist at- program and encourage the Secretary to uti- $11,250,000 for Javits Gifted and Talented risk youth with developing life lize funds to support these activities. Education, instead of $7,500,000 as proposed management skills , goals and by the House and $15,000,000 as proposed by Within the total for FIE, the following self-esteem necessary to ac- the Senate. The agreement includes amounts are provided: quire gainful employment ...... 1,000,000 $27,520,000 for Star Schools instead of American Airlines Travel Acad- American Theater Arts for $59,300,000 as proposed by the Senate in the emy, Fort Worth, Texas, for a Youth, Inc, Philadelphia, PA, LIFE fund. The House bill did not provide demonstration project to imple- for a Mississippi Arts in Edu- separate funding for this program. ment a school-to-work edu- cation program ...... 150,000 The agreement also includes $12,000,000 for cation curriculum focused on American Theater Arts For the Ready to Teach program, instead of careers in the travel and tour- Youth, Inc., for an Arts in Edu- $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The ism industry in up to 10 school cation Program ...... 25,000 House bill did not include separate funding districts in New Jersey serving American Theater Arts for for this activity. Funds may be used to de- predominantly low-income His- Youth, San Diego, CA, for edu- velop high-quality, curriculum-based digital panic students ...... $600,000 cational assistance in music content and a national telecommunications- North Syracuse Central School, and arts for students ...... 100,000 based program to improve the teaching of Cicero, New York for tech- American Theater Arts for core academic subjects. nology ...... 200,000 Youth, Spokane, WA, for edu- The agreement also provides $14,000,000 for University of South Florida, cational assistance in music foreign language assistance instead of Tampa, Florida, for a model and arts for students in Spo- $16,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The teacher preparation program .... 440,000 kane, WA ...... 50,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00101 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26496 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 AMISTAD America, Inc. to co- Board of Education, Guntersville Challenger Learning Center at ordinate with school districts City, AL, for technology en- SciTrek, Atlanta, GA to use a and schools to provide students hancements ...... 30,000 simulated mission control sta- free admission, tours and his- Board of Education, Haleyville tion and space laboratory to tory lessons on the schooner City, AL, for technology en- create a dynamic learning envi- Amistad vessel when it visits hancements ...... 30,000 ronment for students in the various ports in the United Board of Education, Jasper City, areas of science and technology 350,000 States ...... 810,000 AL, for technology enhance- Chambers County Board of Edu- Anchorage Community Theater ments ...... 30,000 cation, LaFayette, AL, for School after school program in Board of Education, Oneonta technology ...... 38,000 the performing arts for grades City, AL, for technology en- Champions of Caring programs K–12 ...... 50,000 hancements ...... 30,000 that encourage young people to Appalachian Center for Economic Board of Education, Russellville take an active role in their Networks, Athens, Ohio, to ex- City, AL, for technology en- communities...... 50,000 pand a computer entrepreneur- hancements ...... 30,000 CHAR High School-to-work voca- ship project ...... 1,200,000 Board of Education, Winfield tional training program ...... 100,000 Art Share Los Angeles, Cali- City, AL, for technology en- Charter School Development Cor- fornia, for equipment and pro- hancements ...... 30,000 poration in Las Vegas, Nevada grammatic support to expand Boys and Girls Club of El Dorado, to focus on technology and col- an technology instructional Arkansas, for after school pro- lege preparation ...... 1,500,000 program for at-risk youth ...... 150,000 grams for at-risk youth ...... 14,000 Chicago Children’s Choir, Illinois, Arts and Education in Concert, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater to support arts-integrated aca- Centreville, VA, for violence Washington, D.C., Silver demic curriculum development, prevention programs ...... 250,000 Spring, MD for after school pro- musical equipment, textbooks, Auburn City Board of Education, grams for at-risk youth ...... 825,000 and learning aids for the Choir Auburn, AL, for technology ...... 38,000 Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadel- Academy ...... 225,000 Audubon Institute of New Orle- phia to develop a school based Chicago Public Schools, Illinois, ans, LA to expand after-school mentoring program...... 75,000 for after school programs ...... 100,000 programs that offer safe, posi- Bridgeport Exempted Village Chicago State University for an tive alternatives for at-risk School District, Bridgeport, innovative project designed to students in kindergarten OH, for educational program- support teacher training and through 8th grade ...... 100,000 ming ...... 40,000 expand technology ...... 200,000 Augusta Public School District, Brooke High School, Wellsburg, Children’s Land Alliance Sup- Augusta, KS, for staff develop- WV, for educational program- porting Schools (CLASS) ...... 200,000 Children’s Literacy Initiative to ment in technology curriculum 250,000 ming ...... 40,000 supplement Head Start’s dis- Babyland Family Services, New- Brooklawn Youth Services, Lou- tance learning program as well ark, New Jersey for technology isville, KY, for comprehensive as a teacher education program 100,000 training and extended learning care treatment and education Chilton County Board of Edu- opportunities for students, par- for children with serious emo- cation, Clanton, AL, for tech- ents and teachers ...... 200,000 tional disabilities ...... 50,000 nology ...... 38,000 Baltimore City Public School Brown University’s Northeast Chippewa Falls Unified School System to help complete wiring and Islands Regional Edu- District, WI, for after school schools to the Internet ...... 1,500,000 cational Laboratory to support programs ...... 950,000 Bay County School District, the Knowledge Loom web site Choteau Elementary School in Florida, for technology equip- that provides enrichment re- Choteau, Montana for an e- ment, supplies, teacher train- sources for educators...... 100,000 learning pilot program ...... 500,000 ing, and student transportation Buckeye Local School District, Cincinnati Arts School, Inc., Cin- for a science education project Rayland, OH, for educational cinnati, OH, for development of in partnership with ZooWorld .. 26,000 programming ...... 40,000 the school’s academic and artis- Beaver Local School District, Bushnell Center for the Per- tic curricula ...... 1,000,000 Lisbon, OH, for educational forming Arts in Hartford, CT to City of Boston for after-school programming ...... 40,000 expand the arts-in-education programs ...... 200,000 Belmont-Harrison Vocational program ...... 440,000 City of Salt Lake, Utah, for the School District, St. Clairsville, Calhoun County Board of Edu- YouthCity Empowerment OH, for educational program- cation, Anniston, AL, for tech- project to establish after school ming ...... 40,000 nology ...... 38,000 centers ...... 1,200,000 Bibb County Board of Education, Camp Fire Boys and Girls—First Clark County School District, Centreville, AL, for technology 38,000 Texas Council, Ft. Worth, TX, Las Vegas, Nevada, to expand Bloom Township High School for an early childhood violence after school programs for drop District 206, Chicago Heights, reduction program ...... 700,000 out prevention ...... 440,000 Illinois, to establish a work- Canaan Community Development Clark County, NV School District study cooperative program ...... 450,000 Corporation, Louisville, KY, for a School-to-Work Program Blue Springs Youth Outreach after school tutoring, men- to provide students who do not Unit, Blue Springs, MO, for toring and enrichment pro- plan to attend college with in- educational training in com- grams for at-risk students ...... 60,000 struction in nursing and home bating Goth culture ...... 273,000 Centennial School District, health aid ...... 160,000 Board of Education, Albertville Bucks County, PA, for activi- Classika Theatre, Arlington, Vir- City, AL, for technology en- ties authorized by title V, part ginia, to expand the ARTsmarts hancements ...... 30,000 D, subpart 20 of ESEA ...... 500,000 and SS VETA arts education Board of Education, Arab City, Centennial School District, Circle initiatives in Arlington and Al- AL, for technology enhance- Pines, Minnesota, for an after exandria, Virginia schools ...... 500,000 ments ...... 30,000 school program ...... 293,000 Clay County Board of Education, Board of Education, Attalla City, Center for Community Trans- Ashland, AL, for technology ..... 38,000 AL, for technology enhance- formation, Chicago, IL, to sup- Cleburne County Board of Edu- ments ...... 30,000 port student fellowships and on- cation, Heflin, AL, for tech- Board of Education, Cullman going secular educational ac- nology ...... 38,000 City, AL, for technology en- tivities in community leader- Coffeyville Public School Dis- hancements ...... 30,000 ship transformation, including trict, Coffeyville, KS, for tech- Board of Education, Fort Payne curriculum development ...... 200,000 nology ...... 250,000 City, AL, for technology en- Central Florida Community Col- Columbia College in Chicago to hancements ...... 30,000 lege, Ocala, FL, for Education establish a mentoring program Board of Education, Gadsdene Training Consortium for teach- designed to improve minority City, AL, for technology en- er training, recruitment and re- student educational success and hancements ...... 30,000 tention ...... 800,000 retention ...... 200,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00102 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26497 Columbiana County Career Cen- East Los Angeles College, Mon- Federation of Independent Illi- ter, Lisbon, OH, for educational terey Park, California, for ‘‘AP- nois Colleges and University for programming ...... 40,000 PLES Project’’ to provide early telecommunications equipment Communities in Schools of East childhood curriculum develop- and for training programs nec- Texas, Inc., Marshall, Texas, ment, professional develop- essary to link educational in- for educational services to at- ment, parental instruction and stitutions to a high bandwidth risk students ...... 240,000 program dissemination ...... 230,000 network ...... 200,000 Communities in Schools of East Providence School District, Ferris State University, Big Rap- Northeast Texas, Inc., Mount Rhode Island, for music cur- ids, MI, for curriculum develop- Pleasant, Texas, for edu- riculum development, teacher ment and outreach ...... 500,000 cational services to at-risk stu- recruitment and equipment First Gethsemane Center for dents ...... 240,000 purchases ...... 400,000 Family Development, Louis- ville, KY, after school tutoring, Concord College Technology Cen- Eastern College for computers, mentoring and enrichment pro- ter to equip new teachers with printers, computer cables, tele- grams for at-risk students ...... 60,000 the technical skills essential communications equipment and Five Towns Community Center, for the utilization of informa- laboratory equipment for the Nassau County, New York for tion technologies in the class- Center for Information, Science after school programs ...... 500,000 room ...... 1,000,000 and Learning Resources in St Davids, Pennsylvania ...... 100,000 Florida 4–H Foundation Inc., Continuation and expansion of Gainesville, Florida, for per- the Iowa Communications Net- Edison Local School District, Hammondsville, OH, for edu- sonnel and other expenses to work statewide fiber optic dem- provide educational programs onstration ...... 3,000,000 cational programming ...... 40,000 Education Service District 117 in for youth participants ...... 100,000 Cooperative Educational Services Wenatchee, WA to equip a com- Florida Institute of Education, Agency #9, WI, for after school munity technology center to Jacksonville, FL, for Florida programs ...... 1,200,000 expand technology-based train- Network of Readiness Hubs ...... 500,000 Coosa County Board of Edu- ing ...... 250,000 Fort Lewis College Child Devel- cation, Rockford, AL, for tech- Educational Advancement Alli- opment Center to serve young nology ...... 38,000 ance of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- children and their families, stu- Council Bluffs Community vania, to establish computer dents, faculty and community Schools in Iowa for a dem- centers in high schools and edu- in the Four Corners Regions. .... 1,500,000 onstration on testing software 500,000 cation centers ...... 500,000 Foundation for the Improvement D.C. Everest School District, WI, Educational Service District 112, of Mathematics and Education for a history day project ...... 200,000 Vancouver, Washington, to im- in San Diego, CA to improve Dardanelle School District, plement the Help One Student math and science testing scores Dardanelle, Arkansas, to estab- to Succeed (HOSTS) reading through the advancement of lish a center to use technology program in elementary schools 167,000 curriculum and improvements to enhance English, academic Eisenhower Foundation for a in teacher/administrator edu- and parenting skills for His- demonstration of full-service cation ...... 150,000 panic students and adults ...... 50,000 schools in Iowa ...... 500,000 Freedom Theatre: to provide greater access to its training Daycare Literacy Project in El Dorado Public School District, program for talented African Salem, Oregon ...... 20,000 El Dorado, KS, for PROJECT Americans in Philadelphia ...... 25,000 CONNECT ...... 250,000 Depaul School, Louisville, KY, Fresno At-Risk Youth Services to Electronic Data Systems Project for technology needs ...... 45,000 address the problems of at-risk to create a database that would Detroit Science Center, Detroit, youths by coordinating the improve the acquisition, anal- Michigan, to develop science city’s efforts through an edu- ysis and sharing of student in- education programs and exhib- cation program coordinator, formation ...... 1,000,000 its to introduce students to working with targeted groups, Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation science, technology, and engi- and making peer counselors Sanctuary, Ellijay, GA, to pro- neering ...... 500,000 available to students...... 200,000 vide educational programs for Discovery Place, North Carolina, Fresno Unified School District, in at-risk youth ...... 500,000 for development of exhibits and partnership with the City of science education programs ...... 440,000 Ernie Pyle Middle School, Albu- Fresno, California, for after querque, NM, for a middle Do Something, Inc., New York, school programs for middle school initiative ...... 50,000 New York, to implement the schools in disadvantaged com- Eufaula Independent School Dis- ‘‘Community Coaches’’ leader- munities ...... 225,000 trict Number 1, Oklahoma, for ship and citizenship program at Friends of the Children in Port- instructional materials and up to 20 schools in the Chicago land, Oregon ...... 100,000 teacher-related expenses ...... 250,000 metropolitan area ...... 125,000 Friends of the Children, providing Everybody Wins! In New York, Dowling High School Project full-time, paid adult mentors to NY to promote children’s lit- Intercept—mentoring and tu- at-risk children, in Chester, eracy and love of learning toring program for low-income Pennsylvania ...... 50,000 through mentoring programs youth ...... 300,000 Futures for Children, Albu- with adults...... 1,000,000 Drop out prevention program in querque, New Mexico, to expand Fairfax County Public Schools, its educational services to Na- the Pendleton school district, Fairfax, VA, Bridging the Dig- Oregon ...... 125,000 tive American children...... 1,000,000 ital Divide ...... 150,000 Galena School district and other Drug Free Pennsylvania to imple- Fairfax County Public Schools, partners to assist Alaska Na- ment a demonstration project Fairfax, VA, for educator-to-ed- tive students attending board- in Dauphin County ...... 50,000 ucator training ...... 260,000 ing schools and colleges make Early Reading Success Institute Fairfax County Public Schools, the transition from rural vil- in Connecticut to broaden the Fairfax, VA, Institute for Stu- lage life to educational resi- training of professionals in best dent Achievement ...... 270,000 dence facility...... 250,000 practices in the delivery of Fairfax County Public Schools, Galena School District for alter- reading instruction ...... 800,000 Fairfax, VA, Pre-Delinquent native education programs...... 750,000 East Liverpool School District, and Delinquent Prevention Pro- Garfield Middle School, Albu- East Liverpool, OH, for edu- gram ...... 40,000 querque, NM, ‘‘Accelerated cational programming ...... 40,000 Faith Academy Child Develop- Reader Program’’ ...... 50,000 East Los Angeles Classic Theatre, ment Center, Hamlet, NC, for General George S. Patton School East Los Angeles, California for after school program ...... 100,000 District 133, Riverdale, Illinois, the ‘‘Beyond Borders: Literacy Father Maloney’s Boys’ Haven, for computer lab equipment and Through Performing Arts’’ lit- Louisville, Kentucky, for tech- professional development for eracy program ...... 50,000 nology ...... 20,000 school reform initiatives ...... 150,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00103 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.003 H18DE1 26498 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Georgia Project, Inc. in Dalton, Helen Keller Worldwide to expand Independent School District 834, GA to support the academic and the ChildSight Vision Screen- Minnesota, for an after school social needs of Hispanic chil- ing Program and provide eye- program ...... 227,000 dren and their families in glasses to additional children Indian Creek School District, northern Georgia ...... 650,000 whose educational performance Wintersville, OH, for edu- Girard Community Committee may be hindered because of cational programming ...... 40,000 Incorporated, Girard, OH, for poor vision ...... 1,000,000 Indiana University-Purdue Uni- educational programming ...... 700,000 Henry, Highlands, Glades and versity, Ft. Wayne, IN, to en- Glendale Unified School District Okeechobee county school dis- hance educational and cultural in La Crescenta, California, to tricts in Florida for technology programming through the de- expand after school programs upgrades ...... 500,000 velopment of ‘‘Teleplex’’ ...... 650,000 at Valley View Elementary Holy Redeemer Health System in Infinity Project at Southern School, Monte Vista Elemen- Philadelphia for after-school Methodist University ...... 500,000 tary School and Mountain Ave- programs for at-risk children. .. 250,000 Ingham County Intermediate nue Elementary School ...... 40,000 Illinois Challenger Learning Cen- School District, Mason, MI, for GlennOaks Therapeutic Day ter, Bloomington-Normal, IL, Technology Enhancements for School, Addison, IL, to upgrade for science and math programs 250,000 Capital Area Career Center ...... 200,000 technology and improve stu- Illinois Department of Education, Innovative Directions, an Edu- dent safety for children with Improving Reading Achieve- cational Alliance, Bronx Coun- emotional and behavioral prob- ment for Grades 7–12 program ty, New York, for after school lems ...... 200,000 for Peoria School District #150 50,000 and summer academic enrich- GRAMMY Foundation, Santa Illinois Department of Education, ment programs ...... 75,000 Monica, California, for music Improving Reading Achieve- Institute for International Sport education programs ...... 1,200,000 ment for Grades 7–12 program at the University of Rhode Is- Grand Valley State University for Springfield School District land to address issues of sports- Teacher Academy in Allendale, #186 ...... 50,000 manship between athletes and MI, to train a cadre of master Illinois Math and Science Acad- their parents, coaches and teachers who will develop cur- emy ‘‘21st Century Information teachers...... 100,000 riculum and will mentor pre- Fluency Program’’ ...... 900,000 Institute for Student Achieve- service and novice science and Illinois State Board of Education ment in Lake Success, NY to math teachers ...... 200,000 ‘‘Improving Reading Achieve- expand its intervention pro- Great Projects Film Company to ment for grades 7–12’’ for Kan- gram that provides academic produce ‘‘Educating America,’’ kakee District #111 and Cham- enrichment and counseling sup- a documentary T.V. series and paign District #4 ...... 200,000 port for students performing in multi-media project about chal- Illinois State Board of Education the lowest quartile in their lenges facing public schools ...... 50,000 for Downers Grove School Dis- middle or high schools...... 200,000 Greater Minneapolis Day Care trict #99 ‘‘Teacher Helping Institute for Student Achieve- Council, Minnesota, for a dem- Teachers’’ and Joliet Public ment, Manhasset, New York for onstration initiative to im- School District #86 ‘‘Helping educational programs for at- prove early learning and after Hands Lead to Success’’ men- risk students in the Mount school programs ...... 350,000 toring programs ...... 500,000 Vernon school district ...... 250,000 Green Bay Area School District Illinois State Board of Education International Music Products As- in Green Bay, Wisconsin to im- for Induction and Mentoring sociation, Carlsbad, CA, for plement a district-wide tech- Model Districts Program at school music programs ...... 100,000 nology plan ...... 750,000 Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Elgin, Illinois #46 ...... 150,000 Invent Iowa to encourage kids to Center, Mobile, AL, to staff and Illinois State Board of Education invent and hold fairs to display support science activities ...... 400,000 for the At Risk Student Pro- those inventions ...... 100,000 Hackensack Public School Dis- gram at Aurora Illinois East 131 Iowa Department of Education trict, Hackensack, New Jersey, School District ...... 200,000 for additional bilingual and to establish an after school pro- Illinois State Board of Education, English as a Second Language gram at Jackson Avenue ‘‘Illinois Virtual High School’’ 1,500,000 training in rapid growth areas School ...... 75,000 Illinois State Board of Education, of Iowa ...... 1,055,000 Hamcock County Schools, New for curriculum development, Iowa Online AP Academy to con- Cumberland, WV, for edu- materials, and professional de- tinue and expand the online ad- cational programming ...... 40,000 velopment activities to improve vanced placement demonstra- Hampshire Educational Collabo- math achievement in the mid- tion ...... 2,000,000 rative at Northampton, Massa- dle grades in Decatur School Iowa School Board Association chusetts for implementation of District 61 ...... 300,000 Lighthouse for School Reform internet-based professional de- Illinois State Board of Education, for the training of school board velopment for K–12 teachers Freeport School District #16 for members on education issues ... 500,000 and early child care providers .. 400,000 a Reading Improvement Isaac Stern Education Legacy in Hands Across Cultures Corpora- Achievement Pilot Program for New York, NY to integrate dis- tion, Espanola, New Mexico, for grades 7–12 ...... 250,000 tance learning and educational after school programs at the Illinois State Board of Education, technology with music edu- Espanola and Pojoaque Valley Rockford School District #205 cation programs...... 2,000,000 School Districts ...... 500,000 for a Reading Improvement Jacksonville City Board of Edu- Harrison Middle School, Albu- Achievement Pilot Program for cation, Jacksonville, AL, for querque, NM, for an after- grades 7–12 ...... 250,000 technology ...... 38,000 school program ...... 50,000 Illinois State Board of Education, James MacGregor Burns Acad- Hawthorne Elementary Junior to provide alternative learning emy of Leadership, College High School in Hawthorne, NV opportunities for at risk stu- Park, Maryland, for a National for the One-on-one Laptop Com- dents in the Mt. Vernon Town- Youth Leadership Institute for puter Program ...... 420,000 ship High School District #201, K–12 students ...... 250,000 Hazel Crest School District 152.5, Christopher Unit #99, and Jefferson County Joint Voca- Hazel Crest, Illinois, to imple- Grayville Community Unit tional School, Bloomingdale, ment a comprehensive profes- School District #1 ...... 400,000 OH, for educational program- sional development program for Illinois State Board of Education/ ming ...... 40,000 teachers and administrators to Boys and Girls Clubs of Amer- Jewish Family and Community improve student achievement .. 100,000 ica, Springfield, IL, for Commu- Service in Chicago, IL for its Healthy Foundation in Murrieta, nity Technology Centers ...... 300,000 therapeutic program ...... 100,000 CA to conduct a study of the Independence Public School Dis- Jobs for Youth of Boston, Massa- impact of vitamin intake and trict, Independence, KS, for chusetts for technical assist- the school performance of at- teacher training and cur- ance and training related to risk youth...... 500,000 riculum development ...... 250,000 standards based education ...... 500,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00104 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26499 Junior Achievement of Delaware Los Angeles County Office of MENC (Music Education and Valley, Inc. for a youth men- Education, Downey, California, Technology Advancement) to toring initiative ...... 150,000 for the Early Advantage Initia- establish and support standard Kennedy Krieger Institute in Bal- tive to provide preschool and music education and creativity, timore, MD, to complete the family learning activities, and instructional technology and school-to-work instructional training for parents, child care professional development for model for its Career and Tech- providers and community mem- approximately 4000 K–12 public nology High School ...... 440,000 bers ...... 440,000 schools...... 50,000 Kenosha Unified School District, Loudonville Golden Center, Meredith-Dunn School, Louis- Kenosha, WI, for after-school Loudonville, OH, to develop a ville, KY, technology infra- programs ...... 300,000 technology, training and youth structure for children with Kent State University, Kent, OH, mentoring program for seniors learning disabilities ...... 60,000 to develop a replicable model and youths ...... 130,000 Mid-American Regional Council for supporting GED graduates Louisiana Arts and Sciences Cen- in Kansas City, Missouri to es- in higher education ...... 500,000 ter, Baton Rouge, LA, for pro- tablish the Finance CIRCLE Kentucky Opera, Louisville, KY, fessional development ...... 300,000 demonstration initiative to im- for educational outreach pro- Louisiana Department of Edu- prove financing for early learn- grams ...... 50,000 cation to implement an early ing and after-school programs. 250,000 childhood development program Midland School District, Mid- Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, for for at risk children ...... 300,000 land, PA, for educational pro- technology and science im- Louisiana Department of Edu- gramming ...... 40,000 provements and upgrade ...... 1,000,000 cation to implement the Voy- Military Heritage Foundation, Kids Voting South Dakota in ager Universal Literacy System Carlisle, PA, Army Heritage Pierre, South Dakota, to ex- in Louisiana ...... 700,000 and Education Center to estab- pand the program in the state, Louisiana District Attorney’s Of- lish educational programs and primarily to the nine Indian fice, The Orleans Parish, Lou- materials ...... 150,000 Reservations...... 100,000 isiana for a School-Based Drug Millikin University to assist Kids Voting USA, Tempe, Arizona Awareness program ...... 100,000 inner-city and rural high school for a civics program to educate Louisiana Tech University, students prepare for college ..... 200,000 children about the importance Ruston, LA, ‘‘Project Catalyst’’ 400,000 Milton Eisenhower Foundation, of voting ...... 380,000 Louisiana Tech University, Washington, DC for a full-serv- La Crosse Medical Health Science Ruston, LA, ‘‘Project LIFE ice community school dem- Consortium in La Crosse, Wis- (Laboratory Investigations and onstration project in up to five consin to expand reading reme- Field Experience’’) ...... 400,000 locations ...... 450,000 diation services to literacy-im- Lyons Township High School Dis- Milwaukee Public Schools, Mil- paired adolescents ...... 375,000 trict 204, Illinois, for a Quality waukee, Wisconsin to expand Lake Metroparks, Concord, OH, Teacher Recruitment Model programs to recruit, prepare for equipment ...... 1,000,000 Program ...... 440,000 and retain a diverse, effective, Lawrence County School Dis- Macomb County Intermediate innovative teaching force ...... 350,000 trict, Mississippi, for a Parents School District, Michigan for Milwaukee Public Schools, Wis- as Teachers program ...... 400,000 the ‘‘Kids Klub’’ after school consin, for after school pro- Lawrence Public Schools, Law- program ...... 600,000 grams ...... 400,000 rence, Kansas, for after school Macon County Board of Edu- Milwaukee Public Schools, Wis- programs in the New York and cation, Tuskegee, AL, for tech- consin, for the Bradley School East Heights elementary nology ...... 38,000 for Technology and Trade High schools ...... 100,000 Madison County School District’s School for technology training Learning Collaborative Inc., Mil- School Needs Assessment in and curriculum implementation 200,000 ford, Connecticut, for the ‘‘Peb- Madison County, MS to conduct Mississippi Delta Education Ini- bles Project’’ to demonstrate an impact study of the sudden tiative for teacher recruitment, innovative technology to de- influx of a large number of new Delta University ...... 900,000 liver educational services to students in the school district. 500,000 Murray State University, Mur- children medically unable to Maine School Administrative ray, KY, Center for Teaching attend school ...... 870,000 District #58 in Kingfield, Excellence in Science and Lee County Board of Education, Maine, for Pathway Partners Mathematics ...... 800,000 Museum of Modern Art in New Opelika, AL, for technology ..... 38,000 rural education program, to York, NY to expand its distance Lee’s Summit Education Founda- help connect young people to learning program to give stu- tion in Missouri, for Parents as fundamental resources such as dents and teachers access to Teachers ...... 500,000 caring adults and safe places. ... 200,000 Maine School Administrative their collection ...... 220,000 Lewiston-Auburn College/Univer- District Number 64, East Cor- Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, sity of Southern Maine TEAMS inth, Maine, for the STAR tech- CT, to develop an Onboard and program to prepare teachers to nology teacher training project 100,000 Online Program ...... 350,000 meet the demands of Maine’s Malverne Afterschool Center, National Center for Youth Issues, 21st century elementary and Malverne, NY, to expand an Chattanooga, TN, to provide middle schools at Sherwood after school program ...... 100,000 Internet based resource in char- Heights Elementary School in Marshfield School District, WI, acter education ...... 1,000,000 Auburn and Lewiston Middle for computers, library books, New Mexico Department of Edu- School in Lewiston...... 50,000 and supplies for a new elemen- cation to provide on-line Lincoln Center, New York City, tary school ...... 75,000 courses aligned with state aca- for the Louis Armstrong Jazz Martins Ferry School District, demic standards and cur- Curriculum project to provide Martins Ferry, OH, for edu- riculum to students in rural arts education professional de- cational programming ...... 40,000 and remote areas ...... 200,000 velopment to teachers across Maryhurst Inc., Louisville, Ken- New York City Public Schools, the country ...... 250,000 tucky, for an educational pro- New York to expand the New Livingston Technical Academy, gram ...... 50,000 York City Teaching Fellows Howell, MI, for Technology En- Math, Science and Technology Program to attract and retain hancements ...... 150,000 Education Partnership K–12 certified teachers in New York Local Initiative Support Corpora- cluster pilot program in Albu- City Schools that need quali- tion Child Care Education ...... 400,000 querque public schools...... 1,250,000 fied teachers ...... 500,000 Long Island Works Coalition to Mehlville School District, St. New York Hall of Science, Corona provide school-to-career part- Louis, Missouri, to implement a Park, New York, to expand the nerships for students, and to new reading technology pro- Science Career Ladder and provide them with the skills gram ...... 75,000 After-School Science Club pro- necessary for successful em- Mellen School District, WI, for grams for middle school stu- ployment...... 100,000 after school programs ...... 340,000 dents ...... 300,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00105 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 26500 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 New Zion Community Develop- Onondaga Community College, Prince William County, VA, for ment Foundation, Louisville, Syracuse, NY, for technology assistance to Special Need Mid- KY, after school tutoring, men- and personnel ...... 500,000 dle School Students ...... 100,000 toring and enrichment pro- Opelika City Board of Education, Prince William County, VA, grams for at-risk students ...... 30,000 Opelika, AL, for technology ..... 38,000 Mathematics Intervention Pro- Newport Public Schools, New- Operation Get Ahead, Hempstead, gram ...... 90,000 port, Rhode Island, for early New York, for an Early Aware- Project Intercept to identify and childhood programs, specialized ness for College program for intercept youth who display teacher recruitment and profes- disadvantaged youth ...... 200,000 early-stage problems, imple- sional development ...... 750,000 Our Hope For Youth, Delaware, ment mentoring programs and Newton Public School District, for an anti-school violence edu- offer sensitivity training to Newton, KS, to help incor- cation media program on in- teachers, principals and parents 100,000 porate technology into the school educational networks .... 500,000 math curriculum ...... 250,000 Oxford City Board of Education, Project STARS (Strategies to Ac- Nicholls State University to Oxford, AL, for technology ...... 38,000 celerate Reading Success) in train faculty, reading special- Pacific Islands Center for Edu- Clark County, NV to provide ists and families in order to cational Development in Amer- literacy intervention for stu- identify the reading disabilities ican Samoa ...... 400,000 dents...... 900,000 of children and adults in the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Southern Gulf Coast region of Washington to develop a hands- Mahwah, NJ, for ‘‘Center for Louisiana ...... 500,000 on genetics exhibit to explain International Education and North Carolina Aquarium Society basic concepts of genetics and Entrepreneurship’’ ...... 800,000 for development of environ- the human genome project ...... 250,000 Randolph County Board of Edu- mental education exhibits and Paleontological Research Insti- cation, Wedowee, AL, for tech- distance learning programs for tute, Ithaca, New York, for the nology ...... 38,000 students ...... 440,000 development of earth science North Carolina Electronics and educational programs ...... 100,000 Reading Alabama, Inc. in Mont- Information Technologies Asso- PARENTS, Inc., Anchorage, Alas- gomery, Alabama ...... 150,000 ciation Education Foundation, ka, for creation of a full-work- Reading Evaluation and Assess- for a technology demonstration ing parent matching, men- ment Demonstration, Today project in rural and under- toring and home visit system to Foundation in Dallas, Texas ..... 200,000 served school districts ...... 250,000 support parents of children Reading Together USA Program North Carolina Museum of Art, with disabilities for the state of at the University of North Raleigh, North Carolina for arts Alaska ...... 500,000 Carolina at Greensboro for tu- and environmental education PARENTS, Inc., Anchorage, Alas- toring program expansion ...... 800,000 programs ...... 100,000 ka, for implementation and ex- ReadNet Foundation, New York, North Carolina Museum of Life pansion of their projects to NY, to fully implement web- and Science for development of train teachers, specialists and based simulation educational BioQuest exhibits ...... 150,000 parents in the use of technology program ...... 600,000 North Carolina State University, to assist students with disabil- Raleigh, North Carolina to ex- ities ...... 1,000,000 Red Bluff Joint Union High pand regional satellite centers Phenix City Board of Education, School District, Red Bluff, CA, to provide science and math Phenix City, AL, for technology 38,000 for technology ...... 180,000 education to rural schools Philadelphia Opera Sounds of Resource Area for Teachers, San through the Science House ...... 600,000 Learning ...... 100,000 Jose, California, to provide Northwest Museum of Arts and Piedmont City Board of Edu- classroom learning materials Culture, Spokane, WA, ‘‘Star cation, Piedmont, AL, for tech- and teacher training in use of Nations Program’’ ...... 450,000 nology ...... 38,000 interactive materials ...... 340,000 Northwood School District in Pima Community College, Ari- Rhode Island Department of Ele- Minong, Wisconsin to complete zona, for an Achieving a College mentary and Secondary Edu- their distance education project Education initiative to help cation Forces of Change Col- that enhances learning oppor- low-income and minority stu- laborative Exhibit ...... 200,000 tunities and provides useful dents attend college ...... 185,000 Rio Linda Union School District, Pinellas County Florida School skill development ...... 62,000 Rio Linda, CA, for technology .. 350,000 Nosotros, Hollywood, California District, St. Petersburg, FL, for to implement music education technology for Title I schools ... 3,587,000 Riverside Community College activities, including purchasing Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium ..... 200,000 District, Riverside, CA, for cur- instruments for low-income Plymouth Community Renewal riculum development and re- students, for the Mariachi Center, Louisville, KY, after lated costs for the Riverside Plaza after school program ...... 100,000 school tutoring, mentoring and School for the Arts ...... 500,000 Oakland Unified School District, enrichment programs for at- Robbie Valentine Stars Club Edu- California, for teacher profes- risk students ...... 40,000 cation Program, Louisville, KY, sional development ...... 440,000 Pomona Unified School District, after school tutoring, men- Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, Pomona, CA, for a Literacy toring and enrichment pro- to expand the Council’s inter- Technology Center ...... 1,000,000 grams for at-risk students ...... 50,000 national programming ...... 1,200,000 Port Chester-Rye Union Free Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Ohio Center of Science and Indus- School District, New York, for Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, for try, Columbus, OH, for the de- an after school program at curriculum development, edu- velopment of a statewide Thomas Edison Elementary cational materials, and out- science and math education School ...... 260,000 reach activities to expand the service program ...... 5,000,000 Potter Park Zoological Society, ‘‘Rockin’ the Schools’’ music Ohio Department of Education, Lansing, MI, Expanding Edu- education program to reach ad- Columbus, OH, ‘‘Troops to cational Programming ‘‘The ditional students ...... 200,000 Teachers Ohio Demonstration’’ 2,500,000 BIG Zoo Lesson’’ ...... 100,000 Rockford Public School District Oklahoma State Department of Prairie Lakes Education Coopera- #205, Rockford, IL, for a magnet Education, Oklahoma City, OK, tive in Madison, SD to advance schools program ...... 1,200,000 for a handheld computing ini- distance learning for Native tiative to be coordinated with Americans in BIA and tribal Rosa and Raymond Parks Insti- the University of Central Okla- schools...... 500,000 tute for Self Development in homa in Edmund, OK ...... 1,000,000 Prime Time Family Reading Detroit, Michigan to expand Olympic Park Institute to expand Time to continue its family lit- Pathways to Freedom and its scholarship fund to allow eracy programs in Louisiana .... 100,000 Learning Center programs ...... 200,000 more disadvantaged students to Prince William County, VA, Bi- Russell County Board of Edu- attend its environmental edu- lingual Literacy Extended Kin- cation, Phenix City, AL, for cation programs ...... 250,000 dergarten Program ...... 140,000 technology ...... 38,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00106 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26501 Rutgers University Law School South Cook Education Consor- Stark County Parks, Canton, OH, to support a scholarship fund, tium in Hazel Crest, IL, to sup- for an Electronic Gateway public interest activities, and port computer laboratory Project ...... 1,000,000 its work with the LEAP Acad- facilitators, equipment and State of Alaska for Right Start emy Charter School, including technology support for commu- extended-day kindergarten pro- the purchase of books and nity technology centers serving gram...... 1,000,000 equipment ...... 540,000 eight elementary school dis- State of Louisiana for ‘‘Louisiana Rutgers, The State University of tricts in South Cook County, Il- Online’’ ...... 1,000,000 Steps to Success of Louisiana to New Jersey, Rutgers, New Jer- linois ...... 400,000 expand its efforts to provide sey for the RUNet 2000 to ex- South Dakota Department of parents of children from birth pand its innovative voice-video- Education and Cultural Affairs to three years of age with the data communications system to for the Distance Education Al- information and support nec- bring the resources of the uni- liance to advance distance essary for their development .... 250,000 versity to more K–12 teachers learning for South Dakota Steubenville City Schools, Steu- and students ...... 2,000,000 Schools ...... 2,000,000 South Side School District, benville, OH, for educational San Diego Natural History Mu- Hookstown, PA, for educational programming ...... 40,000 seum, San Diego, CA, for a dis- programming ...... 40,000 Sylacauga City Board of Edu- tance learning project ...... 150,000 Southeast Associated Ministries, cation, Sylacauga, AL, for tech- San Diego Unified School District Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, for nology ...... 38,000 in CA, for ‘‘The Blueprint for an after school programs ...... 20,000 Synopsys Silicon Valley Science Student Success in a Stand- Southeast Missouri State Univer- and Technology Outreach ards-Based System’’ ...... 1,000,000 sity’s NASA Educator Resource Foundation, Mountain View, Center in Cape Girardeau, MO California, to support project- San Luis Obispo County Office of to make available to K–12 based science and math edu- Education, California, to de- schools, teachers and students a cation at elementary, middle velop, maintain and distribute wide variety of educational ma- and high schools in Santa Clara school violence emergency re- terials related to science, math- County, California ...... 100,000 sponse kits ...... 75,000 ematics and space-science edu- Talladega County Board of Edu- Santa Barbara High School Dis- cation ...... 170,000 cation, Talladega, AL, for tech- trict, California, to develop a Southeastern Environmental nology ...... 38,000 health careers academy at San Education Alliance (SEEL) to Tallapoosa County Board of Edu- Marcos High School ...... 50,000 improve science and math edu- cation, Dadeville, AL, for tech- School District of Bruce, WI, for cation at the elementary and nology ...... 38,000 after school programs ...... 400,000 middle school level ...... 200,000 Teaneck Public School District, Southern Local School District, Teaneck, New Jersey, to estab- School District of Palm Beach Salineville, OH, for educational lish ‘‘Project Lighthouse’’ after County, Florida, to provide programming ...... 40,000 school programs at Benjamin after school and evening supple- Southern Star Development Cor- Franklin and Thomas Jefferson mental bilingual language in- poration, Louisville, KY, after Middle Schools ...... 75,000 struction for immigrant stu- school tutoring, mentoring and TELACU Education Foundation dents and their parents ...... 600,000 enrichment programs for at- in Los Angeles to provide inter- School District of Rhinelander, risk students ...... 40,000 active computer literacy and WI, for after school programs ... 1,000,000 Southwest Texas State Univer- tutoring to economically dis- Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI, sity Center for School Improve- advantaged Latino students ..... 1,800,000 The Boston History Collaborative VistaTech Center for develop- ment ...... 250,000 to develop educational pro- ment and technological equip- Space Education Initiatives Inc., grams on the history of Boston 100,000 ment to provide extensive Green Bay, WI, for professional The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, connectivity to the Internet ..... 1,000,000 development programs and technology ...... 250,000 for teacher training initiatives Schurz Elementary School in Spelman College Teacher as and curriculum development .... 250,000 Schurz, NV for the One-on-one Leader Educational Initiative The Imaginarium in Anchorage Laptop Computer Program ...... 249,000 in Atlanta, GA to provide early to provide coursework, teach- Science and Math Teacher Acad- intervention and academic sup- ing materials and teacher emy University of North Texas port through the for at-risk, training in science and math to and Paul Quinn College ...... 200,000 disadvantaged children and benefit students in rural Alaska who do not have access to such Science Applications Inter- their families ...... 500,000 courses and teachers ...... 100,000 national Corporation, King of Springfield School District, for The Professional Partnership Prussia, PA, for HUBS Edu- the Schools Plus initiative to Laboratory School at Roger cation Program ...... 200,000 provide after school services for elementary school students ...... 440,000 Williams University in Bristol, ScienceSouth, Inc., Florence, St. Clair County Board of Edu- Rhode Island to provide an in- South Carolina, for science edu- cation, Ashville, AL, for tech- novative learning environment cation programming, a science nology ...... 38,000 for K–12 students in the Bristol- traveling exhibit, and outreach St. Clair County Educational Co- Warren Regional School Dis- activities ...... 500,000 operative Board of Control, trict ...... 850,000 Shake-A-Leg Miami to develop Belleville, Illinois, for the de- YMCAs of Sarasota, St. Peters- curriculum and provide equip- velopment of hands-on learning burg, and Clearwater for expan- ment for its educational pro- activities about the Mississippi sion of YMCA Character Devel- grams including its Marine River ...... 700,000 opment Schools which address Trade Sea School and marine St. Clair County Intermediate school behavior problems environmental education pro- School District, Michigan for through family partnerships, grams for students with and the ‘‘Kids Klub’’ after school counseling, case management, without disabilities from program ...... 400,000 parenting classes, and positive Miami- Dade County public St. Joseph’s Indian School of behavior modification interven- schools...... 150,000 Chamberlain, South Dakota, tion ...... 250,000 for after-school programs, edu- THINK Together, Santa Ana, Shawnee Gardens Tenants Asso- cational outreach, mentoring, California for after school pro- ciation, Louisville, KY, for equipment and educational ma- grams for low-income students after school programs ...... 35,000 terials ...... 800,000 in Orange County, CA ...... 440,000 Shiloh Baptist Church Commu- St. Stephens Family Life Center, Thirteenth Place Youth and nity Renewal Center, Louis- Louisville, KY, after school tu- Family Services in Gadsden, ville, KY, after school tutoring, toring, mentoring and enrich- AL, after-school program ...... 10,000 mentoring and enrichment pro- ment programs for at-risk stu- Three Rivers Connect in Pitts- grams for at-risk students ...... 50,000 dents ...... 75,000 burgh ...... 100,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00107 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 26502 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Tides Foundation to provide as- Urban League of Metropolitan Western Michigan University, sistance in supporting Denver, Colorado for an after Kalamazoo, MI, Joint Dem- McKelvey entrepreneurial col- school program for at-risk onstration Project for the lege scholarships to rural, low youth in Aurora and northeast ‘‘Study of Wireless Technology income Pennsylvania high Denver ...... 300,000 in Education’’ ...... 500,000 school graduates. Funds shall Utah Literacy Project to support Wheeling Jesuit University be used for screening of appli- the Utah Reading Excellence NASA Center for Educational cants, computers, books and Act in providing reading and Technologies to provide tech- other educational tools, and training materials to rural nology training to all elemen- outreach to inform students of schools ...... 600,000 tary and secondary West Vir- the scholarship program ...... 250,000 Utah State Office of Education to ginia math and science teachers 3,600,000 Toronto School District, To- help school districts test effec- Wheeling Park High School, ronto, OH, for educational pro- tiveness of administering year- Wheeling, WV, for educational gramming ...... 40,000 ly assessment using computers 700,000 programming ...... 40,000 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Trinity Family Life Center, Inc., Vermont Higher Education Coun- Schools, Winston-Salem, NC, Louisville, Kentucky, for an cil in Essex Junction to develop universal early learning pro- for ‘‘Winston Net’’ ...... 100,000 after school program ...... 10,000 Wisconsin Educational Partner- University of Akron, Akron, OH, grams to ensure that at least one certified teacher will be ship Initiative in Chippewa for the ‘‘Exercise in Hard Falls, Wisconsin for a profes- Choices’’ ...... 500,000 available in center-based child care programs ...... 200,000 sional development initiative ... 350,000 University of Akron, Ohio, for Wisconsin Rapids Area Public Village of Riverdale, Illinois, to curriculum development, teach- School District, WI, for after provide mentoring, conflict res- er training and technology en- school programs ...... 700,000 olution, and other intervention hancements for the K–12 Urban WNVT/KidzOnline, Falls Church, services for at-risk youth ...... 100,000 School Project ...... 200,000 VA, for online K–12 program- Vocational Technical Center, University of Alaska and Alaska ming ...... 800,000 New Cumberland, WV, for edu- Working in the Schools, Chicago Department of Education to es- cational programming ...... 40,000 tablish the Alaska Center for to expand tutoring and men- Walnut Street Theater: for its Excellence in Schools at the toring programs in the Chicago Educational and Outreach pro- University of Alaska ...... 500,000 public schools ...... 100,000 gram for area K–12 schools, WQED Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Arkansas Little which includes an apprentice- to provide math and science Rock to offer high school stu- ship program, an adopt a school education through its Learning dents a web-based math course program, and a summer camp .. 25,000 Center ...... 205,000 with the goal of reducing the Washington and Jefferson Col- Yell County Schools in Arkansas number of entering freshmen lege: To support professional to expand their bilingual pro- who need math remediation ..... 200,000 development and quality edu- grams to address needs of a University of Iowa for a dem- cation initiatives at the K–12 in growing Hispanic population .... 150,000 onstration in Iowa of a comput- the Southwest Region of Penn- YMCA of Metropolitan Chat- erized reading program ...... 500,000 sylvania ...... 200,000 tanooga, Chattanooga, TN, for University of Nebraska, Kearney, Washington Association of Career Community Action Program .... 300,000 Nebraska, for Minority Access and Technical Education to up- YMCA for a demonstration of to Higher Education Program date training technology to en- youth mentoring and after to help teachers to address the sure that it meets industry school activities in Iowa ...... 770,000 special need of minority popu- standards ...... 250,000 YMCA of Central Stark County, lations from grades K–12 ...... 900,000 Washington Virtual Classroom Canton, OH, to implement a University of New Mexico, Albu- Consortium to establish pilot project to work with mid- querque, NM, ‘‘Mathematics interconnectivity between rural dle school youth during after and Science Teacher Academy’’ schools to create expanded school hours ...... 200,000 for professional development .... 850,000 learning opportunities ...... 750,000 YMCA of Greater Seattle to ex- pand their teen development University of New Orleans Mil- Watertown Public Schools, Wa- activities ...... 500,000 lennium School Project to es- tertown, SD, to integrate tech- nology in the classroom by ex- YMCA of Metropolitan Mil- tablish a charter school district waukee, Wisconsin to expand and redesign teacher education panding wireless labs and com- puters ...... 220,000 its Teen Agenda to serve at-risk to support school restructuring 1,000,000 teenage youth ...... 1,000,000 University of Northern Iowa in Watts Learning Center, Los An- geles, California for instruc- YMCA of Seattle-King County- collaboration with the Water- Snohomish County to support loo Community Schools for the tional programming in reading and language arts ...... 285,000 women and families through an expansion of an early childhood at-risk youth center and other Wausau School District, WI, for development center ...... 600,000 family supports ...... 250,000 after school programs in middle University of Northern Iowa’s Na- Yosemite National Institutes, schools ...... 850,000 tional Center for Public and Sausalito, CA, to develop out- Wellington Public School Dis- Private School Foundations ..... 200,000 reach programs targeted to- trict, Wellington, KS, for teach- University of Southern Maine, ward minority, disadvantaged er training ...... 250,000 students ...... 500,000 Orono, Maine, for the Elec- Wellsville Local School District, tronic Learning Marketplace to Youth Alive, Inc., Louisville, KY, Wellsville, OH, for educational after school tutoring, men- expand K–12 professional devel- programming ...... 40,000 opment and improve edu- toring and enrichment pro- West Allis/West Milwaukee cational standards and assess- grams for at-risk students ...... 30,000 School District, Wisconsin, for ments statewide ...... 440,000 YWCA of Anchorage for after- after school centers serving school enrichment programs to University of Southern Mis- low-income elementary stu- benefit at-risk Anchorage sissippi Gifted Center ...... 100,000 dents ...... 200,000 schoolchildren and their moth- University of Wisconsin in Mil- West Ed Eisenhower Regional ers ...... 500,000 waukee, Wisconsin for the Consortium for Science and Zero to Five Foundation, Los An- Urban Educator Corps Partner- Mathematics, San Francisco, geles, California, to develop an ship initiative ...... 500,000 CA, for 24 Challenge and Jump- early childhood education and University of Wisconsin-Exten- ing Levels Math ...... 300,000 parenting project at the Los sion’s School Readiness Project Westchester Philharmonic, Angeles Elementary School ...... 340,000 to provide training and tech- Hartsdale, NY for the ‘‘Phil- Big Brothers/ Big Sisters national nical assistance to its partners harmonic Alive’’ after school program to double the number in preparing children for learn- music and arts education pilot children served in school-based ing in school ...... 200,000 project ...... 50,000 mentoring ...... 250,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00108 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26503 CAPE/PETE Net: to continue to Iowa School Construction Demonstration funding level provides nearly an additional develop its national demonstra- Project. The funds will be used to build and $1,200,000,000 to assist the States in meeting tion program for distance repair public schools in Iowa. the additional per pupil costs of services to learning with 105 Pennsylvania —$18,000,000 for Project GRAD-USA Inc., in special education students. universities and colleges ...... 550,000 Houston, Texas for continued support and The conference agreement includes Cheyney University: to create a expansion of the successful school reform $417,000,000 for Grants for Infants and Fami- pilot ‘‘Collaborative Center for program. lies instead of $430,000,000 as proposed by the Teacher Preparation’’ program —$9,000,000 for I CAN LEARN House and $383,567,000 as proposed by the by partnering with area school —$2,000,000 for Reach Out and Read. Senate. districts ...... 100,000 It has been brought to the conferees’ atten- The conference agreement includes College of Physicians of Philadel- tion that Tesoro High School Knowledge $51,700,000 for state program improvement phia: to expand its educational Center in Las Flores, California is estab- grants instead of $54,200,000 as proposed by outreach to all students in the lishing an electronic communications dem- the House and $49,200,000 as proposed by the Philadelphia School District onstration project to customize storage, re- Senate. The agreement includes $78,380,000 through a medical science mu- trieval and dissemination of information for research and innovation instead of seum-based experimental learn- throughout the school. The project will con- $70,000,000 as proposed by both the House and ing program ...... 50,000 sist of state-of-the-art computers, networked the Senate. Within the amounts provided for Communities In Schools of the within labs both inside and outside of the Special Education Research and Innovation, Lehigh Valley: to further de- school, with the capability to do on-line re- the conference agreement includes funding velop in-school and after school search, multi-media development, video for the following: programs for at-risk middle microfiche research and desktop presen- 2002 Paralympic Winter Games school and high school students 50,000 tation. The conferees strongly encourage the for the Salt Lake City Orga- Eisenhower Foundation: to rep- Department to consider funding this initia- nizing Committees or to a gov- licate the full community tive. ernment agency or a not-for- school program that empha- It has been brought to the conferees’ atten- profit organization, to support sizes the school as the central tion that the Freedoms Foundation in Valley venue operations, spectator point of the community ...... 100,000 Forge, Pennsylvania conducts educational services, broadcast support, and Indiana University of Pennsyl- programs for teachers and students in his- ceremonies ...... $850,000 vania: to establish a K–12 com- tory, constitutional rights, citizen’s respon- Best Buddies International, Inc., puter services center for area sibilities, core values and the private enter- in Miami, FL to enhance the school districts ...... 50,000 prise system. The conferees strongly encour- lives of people with mental re- Microsociety: to further develop age the Department to consider funding this tardation by providing opportu- and disseminate the MICRO- initiative. nities for one-to-one friendships SOCIETY whole school model Charter Schools Homestead and integrated employment ..... 500,000 of comprehensive school reform Center for Discovery Inter- The conference agreement does not include in Philadelphia ...... 200,000 national Family Institute, Sul- funding for Charter Schools Homestead fund. Pennsylvania Ballet: for ‘‘Accent livan County, NY, to develop a The Senate bill proposed $50,000,000 for this on Dance’’ program for elemen- program initiative directed to- program; the House bill did not include fund- tary and secondary school stu- ward acquisition, synthesis and ing for it. dents for in-school and after application of information school programs ...... 75,000 INDIAN EDUCATION about disabilities ...... 500,000 Philadelphia Orchestra: to allow The conference agreement includes Center for Literacy and Assess- the Orchestra to expand its 5 $120,368,000 for Indian Education instead of ment, University of Southern educational programs to reach $123,235,000 as proposed by the House and Mississippi ...... 850,000 broader and more diverse audi- $117,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within Easter Seals’ Delta Project ...... 100,000 ences ...... 175,000 the totals, $97,133,000 is provided for grants Fraser Child and Family Center, Pittsburgh Technology Council: to LEAs, instead of $100,000,000 as proposed Richfield, Minnesota, for re- provide computer training to by the House and $94,265,000 as proposed by search, technology, personnel teachers in school districts in the Senate. The agreement also includes development, and parent train- the 13 county area ...... 50,000 $3,235,000 for national activities as proposed ing to improve services to chil- Project 2000: to expand the exist- by the House instead of $2,735,000 as proposed dren with neurological, emo- ing program to the adjoining by the Senate. tional and behavioral disorders 200,000 Hebrew Academy for Special housing project in Washington, BILINGUAL AND IMMIGRANT EDUCATION DC ...... 125,000 Children, New York City for a The conference agreement includes SEPCHE in Philadelphia to de- demonstration project to en- $665,000,000 for Bilingual and Immigrant Edu- velop ‘‘global curriculum’’ to hance academic and social out- cation programs instead of $700,000,000 as challenge students to develop comes of developmentally dis- proposed by the House and $600,000,000 as pro- their knowledge of foreign lan- abled children and adults ...... 540,000 posed by the Senate. H.R. 1 consolidates the Iowa Parent Training Informa- guages and culture, recognize Bilingual Education Act with the Emergency tion Center for pilot on referral relationships between history Immigrant Education Program. Reform of and legal advice ...... 100,000 and current issues, and collabo- existing law will focus existing programs on Kennedy Krieger Institute, Balti- rate with peers on oral and teaching English to limited English pro- more, MD for computer tech- written presentations ...... 750,000 ficient children (LEP), including immigrant nology to expand distance The National Foundation for children and youth, and holding states ac- learning opportunities for dis- Teaching Entrepreneurship to countable for their LEP students attaining abled students and to provide expand the program to Phila- English. H.R. 1 eliminates the requirement professional development ...... 1,700,000 delphia ...... 50,000 that 75 percent of federal bilingual education Lady B. Ranch, Apple Valley, CA, —$20,000,000 is included for a grant to the funds are to be used for programs that use a for direct services related to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department child’s native language in instruction and the Therapeutic Horseback of Education to provide assistance to low- also requires that 95 percent of funds must Riding Program ...... 150,000 performing school districts that are slated go to the local level to teach LEP children. Norman Howard School, Roch- for potential takeover and/or on the Edu- ester, NY, for the Community SPECIAL EDUCATION cation Empowerment List as prescribed by Learning Resource Initiative Pennsylvania State Law. The initiative is in- The conference agreement includes for children with learning dis- tended to improve the management and op- $8,672,804,000 for Special Education instead of abilities ...... 400,000 erations of the school districts; assist with $8,860,076,000 as proposed by the House and Puget Sound Educational Service curriculum development; provide after- $8,439,643,000 as proposed by the Senate. The District, Burien, Washington school, summer and weekend programs; offer agreement provides $3,600,804,000 in fiscal for a pilot program to improve teacher and principal professional develop- year 2002 and $5,072,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 special education services and ment and promote the acquisition and effec- funding for this account. teacher training ...... 490,000 tive use of instructional technology and Included in these funds is $7,528,533,000 for Rainbows United, Wichita, KS, equipment. Grants to States part b instead of for research efforts and staff de- —$50,000,000 is included for a grant to the $7,714,685,000 as proposed by the House and velopment in special education Iowa Department of Education to expand the $7,339,685,000 as proposed by the Senate. This programs ...... 500,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00109 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 26504 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Spokane Guilds’ School and Neu- George Mason University, Fair- the Blind as proposed by the Senate instead romuscular Center, Spokane, fax, VA, Learning Disability of $13,000,000 as proposed by the House. WA, to evaluate the effective- Research and Training at NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ness of type of care provided at Krasnow Institute for continu- The conference agreement includes the center ...... 500,000 ation of learning disability re- $55,376,000 for the National Technical Insti- University of Kentucky Special search ...... 400,000 tute for the Deaf as proposed by the House Hot Springs Rehabilitation Cen- Education Instructional Tech- instead of $54,976,000 as proposed by the Sen- ter to expand their welding nology Initiative ...... 1,000,000 ate. training program so individuals The agreement also includes $36,210,000 for with disabilities gain the voca- GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY technology and media services as proposed tional skills needed to lead pro- The conference agreement includes by the Senate instead of $31,710,000 as pro- ductive and independent lives .. 160,000 $96,938,000 for Gallaudet University instead posed by the House. The agreement includes Lighthouse for the Blind to ex- of $95,600,000 as proposed by the House and $9,500,000 for Recording for the Blind and pand services that help deaf- $97,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Dyslexic for the purposes described in both blind clients with daily tasks, VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION the House and Senate reports. to purchase adaptive computer The conference agreement includes The agreement also includes $1,500,000 for equipment and to provide inter- $1,934,060,000 for Vocational and Adult Edu- Public Telecommunications Information and preter services ...... 500,000 cation instead of $2,006,060,000 as proposed by Training Dissemination as proposed by the Oakland Community College, the House and $1,818,060,000 as proposed by Senate. The House bill did not contain funds Michigan, for a sign language the Senate. The agreement provides for this activity. instruction interpreter training $1,143,060,000 in fiscal year 2002 and program, in conjunction with REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY $791,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 funding for this Deaf Community Advocacy RESEARCH account. Network, to serve deaf and The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes hard-of-hearing individuals ...... 100,000 $2,945,813,000 for Rehabilitation Services and Orange County Public Schools, $1,180,000,000 for Vocational Education basic Disability Research instead of $2,942,117,000 Maitland, FL, for the Virtual state grants instead of $1,250,000,000 as pro- as proposed by the House and $2,932,617,000 as Reality-Based Education & posed by the House and $1,100,000,000 as pro- proposed by the Senate. Training for the Deaf program 800,000 posed by the Senate. The conferees agree that, in reallocating Wisconsin Division of Vocational The conference agreement includes any FY 2002 funds that become available for Rehabilitation, Madison, Wis- $108,000,000 for Tech Prep, instead of reallocation to states under the reallotment consin, for the Tech Works $110,000,000 as proposed by the House and process authorized under section 110(b)(1) of project to train individuals $106,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. the Rehabilitation Act, the Department ac- with disabilities for high-skill The conference agreement includes cord priority to states that received a for- jobs in the information tech- $6,500,000 for Tribally Controlled Postsec- mula allocation providing less than a full nology sector ...... 500,000 ondary Vocational Institutions instead of cost-of-living adjustment in FY 2002 and to $7,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and the early implementation states under the The conference agreement includes $6,000,000 as proposed by the House. Ticket to Work and Self Sufficiency Pro- $15,200,000 for Protection and Advocacy of In- The conferees remain interested in the dis- gram that have experienced an increase in dividual Rights instead of $16,000,000 as pro- tribution of funds available under section 117 the number of eligible applicants as a result posed by the House and $14,000,000 as pro- Perkins Act, and request that the Depart- of the implementation of this program. posed by the Senate. ment report no later than August 1, 2002 on The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes how it is distributing funds as set out in the $62,500,000 for Independent Living Centers in- $11,897,000 for client assistance state grants law. The conferees further request that this stead of $63,000,000 as proposed by the House instead of $12,147,000 as proposed by the Sen- report include the per capita data used by and $60,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. ate and $11,647,000 as proposed by the House. the Department in distributing these funds. The agreement also includes $25,000,000 for The agreement also includes $21,238,000 for The conference agreement includes bill services for older blind individuals as pro- demonstration and training programs in- language allowing grantees under section 117 posed by the House instead of $20,000,000 as stead of $16,492,000 as proposed by both the of the Perkins Act to be exempt from indi- proposed by the Senate. rect cost rate requirements imposed by this House and the Senate. The conference agree- The conference agreement includes lan- ment includes $1,000,000 above the budget re- program. The conferees have included this guage which allows states in their third year bill language because they recognize that quest to support programs designed to im- of a three-year assistive technology exten- prove the quality of applied orthotic and there are certain circumstances in which sion grant to continue to receive an award in grantees might require additional flexibility prosthetic research and help meet the in- fiscal year 2002. This language is provided to creasing demand for provider services. With- not provided under current law or regula- allow time for the authorizing committees tion. However, the conferees remain com- in the amounts provided for vocational reha- to review the Assistive Technology program, bilitation demonstration and training pro- mitted to maximizing federal resources for as it now operates in the new policy land- direct educational services, as opposed to grams, the conference agreement includes scape that includes the Olmstead decision, funding for the following activities: paying for administrative and other indirect final section 508 guidelines, and the Ticket costs that do not increase access to high American Foundation for the to Work and Work Incentives Improvement quality vocational and technical post sec- Blind, for a National Literacy Act. This language was not included in ei- ondary education programs for students Center for the Visually Im- ther the House or Senate bills. However, the served through this program. Therefore, the paired in Atlanta, Georgia ...... $266,000 Senate bill included language providing min- conferees urge the Secretary to report to the Apple Patch Community Inc., imum grants of $500,000 for each state and Committees on Appropriations and Edu- Crestwood, KY, for vocational $150,000 for outlying areas. cation and the Workforce of the House and The conferees also have included bill lan- training for adults with mental the Committees on Appropriations and guage contained in the House bill to provide retardation ...... 45,000 Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of minimum grants of $50,000 to each state for Cabrillo College Stroke Center, the Senate on the indirect cost rates of activities relating to protection and advo- Santa Cruz, California, for a grantees participating in this program, in- cacy systems. The Senate bill included lan- demonstration project on class- cluding a justification for any grantee that guage providing minimum grants of $100,000 room-based approaches to long- has an indirect cost rate considerably great- for states and $50,000 for outlying areas for term rehabilitation ...... 200,000 er than those allowed under current law and this purpose. Cerebral Palsy Research Founda- regulation. The conferees recommend that the Depart- tion’s Rehabilitation Research The agreement also includes $9,500,000 to ment of Education reconsider whether there and Training Center and Wich- continue the occupational and employment might be any circumstances under which a ita State University to con- information program instead of $10,000,000 as placement in an extended employment set- tinue to help people with dis- proposed by the Senate. The House bill did ting should be considered an acceptable out- abilities obtain self-sufficient not include funding for this activity. come. employment ...... 500,000 The conference agreement includes Darden Rehabilitation Founda- SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH $5,000,000 for the tech-prep education dem- tion in Gadsden, AL, for voca- DISABILITIES onstration authorized under section 207 of tional evaluation, employment AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND the Perkins Act as proposed by the Senate. preparation services and job de- The conference agreement includes The House did not provide funding for this velopment ...... 275,000 $14,000,000 for American Printing House for activity. The agreement also includes

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00110 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26505 $22,000,000 for State Grants for Incarcerated Aid for Institutional Development Amistad Research Center at Youth as proposed by the Senate instead of The conference agreement includes Tulane University, New Orle- $17,000,000 as proposed by the House. $73,625,000 for strengthening institutions in- ans, Louisiana, for education The conference agreement includes stead of $73,000,000 as proposed by the House outreach and to develop an Af- $575,000,000 for adult education state grants and $74,250,000 as proposed by the Senate. rican American curatorship instead of $595,000,000 as proposed by the The agreement also includes $86,000,000 for program ...... 225,000 House and $540,000,000 as proposed by the Hispanic Serving Institutions instead of Arkansas State University Moun- Senate. $81,500,000 as proposed by the House and tain Home Hearing Healthcare STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE $77,750,000 as proposed by the Senate. Degree program to utilize dis- tance learning technology to The conference agreement includes The conference agreement includes develop and offer a new degree $12,285,500,000 for Student Financial Assist- $206,000,000 for Strengthening Historically program for hearing health care ance instead of $12,410,100,000 as proposed by Black Colleges and Universities instead of practitioners ...... 140,000 the House and $12,284,100,000 as proposed by $215,000,000 as proposed by the House and Assumption College in Worcester, the Senate. $197,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes Mass. for technology infra- The agreement provides a program level of $49,000,000 for Historically Black Graduate structure, training and support 200,000 $10,314,000,000 for Pell Grants as proposed by Institutions instead of $50,000,000 as proposed Auburn University at Mont- the Senate instead of $10,458,100,000 as pro- by the House and $48,000,000 as proposed by gomery for instructional tech- posed by the House. The conferees note that the Senate. nology lab equipment ...... 100,000 this is the largest increase in appropriations The conference agreement includes Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, in the Pell Grant program’s history, bringing $6,500,000 for Alaska and Native Hawaiian In- CA, for science center tech- the total number of students served to 4.3 stitutions instead of $7,000,000 as proposed by nology, equipment and per- million, the highest level in the program’s the Senate and $6,000,000 as proposed by the sonnel ...... 1,000,000 history. The Pell Grant program is of great House. Ball State University in Muncie, importance in a declining economy because The conference agreement includes IN, technology education it enables people to develop new job skills so $17,500,000 for Strengthening Tribal Colleges project ...... 600,000 they can become more marketable in highly instead of $18,000,000 as proposed by the Sen- Bay Mills Community College, competitive workplaces. The conferees ate and $17,000,000 as proposed by the House. Brimley Michigan for instruc- strongly support an increased maximum in The conference agreement provides that the tion equipment and technology the Pell Grant program and have accordingly additional funds for Strengthening Tribal infrastructure ...... 200,000 retained the maximum Pell Grant for aca- Colleges and Universities for fiscal year 2002 Ben Franklin Technology Part- demic year 2002–2003 at $4,000 as set in both shall only be for grants for renovation and ners of Southeastern Pennsyl- the House and Senate bills. construction of facilities, to help address ur- vania, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- The conferees are aware that the Depart- gently needed facilities repair and expan- vania, to develop an associates ment of Education is currently projecting a sion. degree program in funding shortfall of $716,000,000 in the Pell Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary nanotechnology at four commu- Grant program for academic year 2001–2002. Education nity colleges in southeastern This shortfall is the result of a larger-than- Pennsylvania and to establish expected increase in the number of inde- The conference agreement includes outreach programs in local high pendent students applying and qualifying for $180,922,000 for the Fund for the Improvement schools ...... 600,000 the Pell Grant program in a worsening econ- of Postsecondary Education instead of Beville State Community College omy and was exacerbated by the terrorist at- $52,400,000 as proposed by the House and in Sumiton, AL, for technology tacks on September 11, 2001. As such, the $51,200,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within upgrades ...... 500,000 shortfall was not anticipated in either the the amounts provided for the Fund for the Bloomsburg University: to pro- budget request or the House and Senate bills. Improvement of Postsecondary Education, vide computer wiring, com- The increase in funding provided in the con- the conference agreement includes funding puters and training for teachers ference report will retire this shortfall for for the following: in the 25 surrounding school academic year 2001–2002; however, the con- Los Angeles Trade-Technical Col- districts ...... 100,000 ferees are aware that the Pell Grant program lege, California to upgrade and Brookdale’s Community College will experience an additional shortfall in purchase equipment for auto- for design, acquisition and in- academic year 2002–2003 at the $4,000 max- motive and culinary training stallation of the technology imum award level and strongly recommend programs ...... $350,000 component of ‘‘New Jersey that the Administration propose a supple- Purchase College, NY to develop Coastal Communiversity’’ ...... 500,000 mental budget request to begin to retire this academic programs and imple- Buena Vista University, Storm shortfall in fiscal year 2002. ment a computerized academic Lake, IA, for equipment ...... 1,000,000 The conference agreement includes advising system ...... 500,000 Cal State, San Marcos, CA, Cen- $725,000,000 for Supplemental Educational Africa-America Institute for the ter for the Study of Books in Opportunity Grants as proposed by the African Workforce and Market Spanish ...... 300,000 House instead of $713,100,000 as proposed by Development Initiative which Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, the Senate. The agreement also includes will employ new information ‘‘Center of Excellence in Teach- $67,500,000 for Perkins Loan cancellations in- technologies to deliver edu- ing’’ to develop academic pro- stead of $60,000,000 as proposed by the House cation and training from Amer- grams and workshops and to and $75,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. ican universities to Africa ...... 500,000 purchase technology ...... 1,000,000 The agreement also includes $67,000,000 for AIB College of Business, Des California State University Mon- Leveraging Educational Assistance Partner- Moines, IA, to train court re- terey Bay, for student support ships (LEAP) instead of $55,000,000 as pro- porting students in captioning 800,000 services ...... 200,000 posed by the House and $70,000,000 as pro- Alabama A&M University Re- California State University, Mon- posed by the Senate. search Institute, Huntsville, terey Bay, California, for a co- The conferees support continuing funding Alabama, for continuation of operative project with Western for work colleges, authorized in section 448 research activities and oper- Michigan University for a study of the Higher Education Act of 1965. These ations ...... 400,000 of wireless technology in edu- funds help support comprehensive work-serv- Albany Technical College in Al- cation and industry ...... 75,000 ice-learning programs at seven work col- bany, GA to reach out to rural California State University, San leges, and cooperative efforts among the communities through the Inter- Bernardino, CA, for tele- work colleges to expose other institutions of active Distance Learning pro- communications and equipment 500,000 higher education to the work college con- gram and give citizens the op- California State University, cept. Of the funds provided, the conference portunity to improve their Stanislaus, California, for lab- agreement includes $4,000,000 to continue and basic and technical skills...... 500,000 oratories, curriculum develop- expand the work colleges program. Alfred State College of Tech- nology Court and Real-time Re- ment, faculty and scholarships HIGHER EDUCATION porting program, Alfred, NY, to for a pre-licensure nursing pro- The conference agreement includes train close-caption reporters .... 800,000 gram ...... 225,000 $2,031,048,000 for Higher Education instead of Alverno College, Wisconsin, for Cameron County Jr/Sr. High $1,908,151,000 as proposed by the House and technology equipment and up- School, Emporium, PA, for $1,826,223,000 as proposed by the Senate. grades ...... 500,000 technology infrastructure ...... 100,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00111 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 26506 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Canisius College, Buffalo, New Community College of Allegheny Florida Gulf Coast University, York, to enhance distance and the Orleans Technical In- Ft. Myers, FL, for curriculum learning programs ...... 210,000 stitute to train captioners ...... 200,000 development and planning ...... 1,000,000 Cardinal Stritch University in Contra Costa Community Col- Forsyth Technical Community Milwaukee, Wisconsin to ex- lege, California, for the Bridge College, Winston-Salem, NC, for pand programs that address to the Future pilot project to an Informational Technology workforce development needs in increase the enrollment of low- Education Center ...... 100,000 the teaching and nursing pro- income students ...... 400,000 Franklin Pierce College com- fessions ...... 800,000 Coudersport Area Jr/Sr. High puter upgrades ...... 1,000,000 Center for International Trade, School, Coudersport, PA, for Franklin Pierce College distance Oklahoma State University, technology infrastructure ...... 100,000 learning initiative ...... 100,000,000 Stillwater, OK, for educational Darton College, Albany, Georgia, Gadsden State Community Col- programs ...... 300,000 for personnel, curriculum devel- lege, Gadsen, AL, to recruit and Central College, Pella, Iowa, for opment, technology equipment train individuals in performing teacher training in technology and support for a rural tech- real-time captioning services ... 425,000 and for distance education pro- nology network ...... 440,000 Gateway Technical College, Ke- grams ...... 1,000,000 Daytona Beach Community Col- nosha, WI, for equipment ...... 500,000 Centre County AVTS, Pleasant lege, Daytona, FL, for high George J. Mitchell Scholarship Gap, PA, for technology infra- technology instructional equip- Research Institute in Portland, structure ...... 100,000 ment and technology infra- Maine to provide scholarships Chattanooga State Technical structure ...... 250,000 that allow students attending Community College, Chat- Delta State University’s Delta public high schools in Maine to tanooga, TN, to support real Education Initiative in Cleve- continue their education ...... 1,000,000 time captioning training ...... 700,000 land, MS, to improve birth Glendale Community College, City College of San Francisco, through 12th grade education in Glendale, California, for equip- California, for the National Ar- the impoverished Mississippi ment and technology upgrades ticulation and Transfer Net- Delta ...... 500,000 for the Cimmarusti Science work ...... 800,000 Dominican University of Cali- Center ...... 400,000 Clarion County Career Center, fornia to develop a center for Glenville State College, Glen- Shippenville, PA, for tech- science and technology to serve ville, West Virginia, for faculty, nology infrastructure ...... 100,000 as a national model for the edu- curriculum development and Clark State Community College, cation of female and minority equipment to establish a com- Springfield, OH, to train and re- scientists, nurse training and puter science program ...... 200,000 cruit students in closed-cap- Grambling State University to the use of technology in edu- tioning ...... 250,000 equip a Lifelong Learning and cation and outreach ...... 300,000 Clemson University College of Technology complex ...... 500,000 D’Youville College, Buffalo, New Health’s ‘‘Call Me MISTER’’ Green River Community College’s York, to enhance distance program, designed to recruit Communications Access learning programs ...... 210,000 minority males as teachers in Realtime Translation (CART) Early childhood leadership train- public schools ...... 500,000 Services Training to provide ing initiative at Oregon State Clemson University Extension curriculum, distance learning, University in Corvallis ...... 75,000 Service’s Digital Divide pro- scholarships and job placement East Stroudsburg University, gram, to partner with local in the area of closed captioning 250,000 East Stroudsburg, PA, for communities, agencies, and or- Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, science center equipment ...... 500,000 ganizations to make informa- for equipment ...... 250,000 tion accessible to those who Eastern College, St Davids, PA, Heidelburg College, Tiffin, OH, live in South Carolina’s least for telecommunications equip- for technology and equipment developed areas ...... 250,000 ment ...... 200,000 for science buildings ...... 1,500,000 Clemson University’s Strom Eastern Oregon University, Higher Education Learning Cen- Thurmond Institute, to address LaGrande, OR, for technology ter in Des Moines, Iowa for cur- the effect of increased funding equipment ...... 500,000 riculum development ...... 200,000 on education ...... 250,000 Eastern Washington University, Hillsborough Community College, Cleveland State University, Col- Cheney, WA, for purchase of Tampa, FL, ‘‘Teacher Develop- lege of Education, Cleveland, equipment ...... 1,000,000 ment Initiative’’ ...... 1,000,000 OH, for technology ...... 1,000,000 Edmonds Community College to Hofstra University, New York, for College of Charleston School of enhance programs related to technology enhancements ...... 200,000 Sciences and Mathematics for child care for students and Holyoke Community College for scientific and audio/visual staff, parent training courses technology education programs equipment and telecommuni- and training for early childhood at the College’s Business and cations systems ...... 500,000 educators, including the acqui- Technology Center ...... 350,000 College of Southern Maryland, in sition of equipment ...... 250,000 Hood River Integrated Tech- conjunction with the Technical Edward Waters College, Jackson- nology Center in Hood River, Career Institute in New York ville, Florida, to upgrade com- Oregon ...... 150,000 City, to implement a Women in puter technology and tele- Huntingdon College for Training Technology demonstration pro- communications ...... 225,000 Teachers in Technology in gram ...... 250,000 Elgin Community College, Elgin, Montgomery, Alabama ...... 200,000 Columbia River Estuary Research IL, for Integrated Systems Huntingdon College, Mont- Program at Oregon Graduate Technology Program ...... 250,000 gomery, AL, Super Sport Pro- Institute School of Science and Emerson College in Boston, Mass. gram for research and equip- Engineering certificate and de- for curriculum development in ment ...... 686,000 gree programs in Environ- the performing arts ...... 1,000,000 Illinois Community College mental Information Technology 50,000 Emmanuel College in Boston, MA Board ‘‘Illinois Community Col- Columbia University Teachers to improve academic programs lege Online initiative’’ to pur- College, New York City, NY to including technology improve- chase equipment to implement expand teacher professional de- ments ...... 850,000 statewide online degree model .. 1,000,000 velopment and mentoring in Encore Series Inc. in Philadel- Indian Hills College in Ottumwa, high need schools ...... 430,000 phia for Music Education and Iowa for technology upgrades Columbia University, New York, Community Outreach ...... 100,000 and equipment at the Bio- for a joint project with the Enterprise Center in West Phila- process Training Center ...... 800,000 Hostos Community College of delphia to provide resources for Indiana University of Pennsyl- the City University of New entrepreneurial education ...... 250,000 vania Center for Corrections York, New York, for a distance Florida Campus Compact, Talla- Education, Indiana, PA, for learning initiative to train mi- hassee, Florida, to enhance technology, curriculum devel- nority students in foreign pol- service learning on college opment, scholarships and out- icy disciplines ...... 100,000 campuses throughout Florida ... 400,000 reach activities ...... 600,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00112 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26507 Indiana University, Bloomington, LaGuardia Community College, Maryland Association of Commu- Indiana, to continue and ex- Long Island City, New York, for nity Colleges to reinforce com- pand Project TEAM to recruit technology-based teacher train- munity colleges’ ability to edu- talented minority students into ing initiatives ...... 600,000 cate and train the Information the field of teaching ...... 675,000 Lake Area Technical Institute in Technology workforce through- Information Technology Infra- Watertown, SD to integrate out Maryland ...... 1,250,000 structure, Alabama A&M in interactive learning in tech- Maryland Institute for Minority Normal, Alabama ...... 100,000 nical education programs Achievement and Urban Edu- Institute of American History through the use of technology .. 80,000 cation, University of Maryland, and Democracy, College of Wil- Lake Superior State University College Park, MD to develop, liam and Mary, Williamsburg, to develop and implement a evaluate, and implement prom- VA, for curriculum develop- new degree program to meet in- ising practices for improving ment ...... 500,000 dustry’s increasing demand for minority student achievement Iowa State University Center for skilled trades workers trained and urban education ...... 750,000 in new technologies ...... 200,000 Technology in Learning and Mathematics, Engineering and Lakeshore Technical College in Teaching and the Center for Ex- Science Achievement Program, Cleveland, Wisconsin to provide cellence in Science and Math University of California, Oak- training, distance learning, Education ...... 150,000 land, California to develop education and job placement Iowa Student Aid Commission to strategies to prepare and sup- services for court reporters and continue a program of loan for- port students for nursing ca- captioners ...... 500,000 giveness for teachers ...... 2,000,000 reers ...... 200,000 Landmark College in Putney, VT Ivy Tech State College, Indiana, to develop a model implementa- Midstate College in Peoria, IL, to to establish a machine tool tion system for improving ac- establish a real-time captioning training apprenticeship pro- cess to public school and col- training program ...... 100,000 gram at campuses in South lege classrooms through the use Minnesota State Colleges and Bend and East Chicago, Indiana 220,000 of assistive technology ...... 350,000 Universities for Emerging Cur- Ivy Tech State College-Northeast Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, riculum for the 21st Century Region, Ft. Wayne, IN, for NC, ‘‘Applied Mathematics Pro- Program ...... 1,000,000 equipment ...... 150,000 gram’’ ...... 650,000 Minnesota State Colleges and Jack C. Davis Observatory, West- Lehman College, New York City, Universities, St. Paul, MN for ern Nevada Community College New York for a distance learn- development of an e-monitoring to procure educational mate- ing initiative to connect pre- environment ...... 1,000,000 rials and technology related to service teachers with experi- Minority Math, Jackson State the observatory’s academic of- enced classroom teachers ...... 440,000 University ...... 550,000 ferings ...... 300,000 Lewis and Clark Community Col- Jackson State University, Jack- lege, Illinois for programmatic Minot State University to de- son, Mississippi, to establish an activities related to study of velop an Institute for Rural e-Center focused on electronic- aquatic and terrestrial eco- Human Services that will study based teaching and learning, re- systems at the Great Rivers Re- systems designed to meet the search and community out- search and Education Center .... 100,000 unique needs of persons with reach and services ...... 200,000 Lincoln University to purchase disabilities living in rural com- Jacksonville State University, laboratory and computer equip- munities ...... 250,000 Jacksonville, AL, for Little ment to provide a six-week Mohawk Valley Community Col- River Canyon Field School pro- summer workshop for teachers lege, Utica Campus, Utica, NY, gram development and tech- within the Philadelphia School for technology ...... 500,000 nology ...... 412,000 District ...... 100,000 Montana State University— Jefferson College, Hillsboro, Mis- Lorain County Community Col- Northern in Havre, MT to de- souri, for the Instructional Sup- lege, Elyria, Ohio for tech- velop curricula and educational port Center to provide tech- nology upgrades for distance materials related to rural de- nology training and distance learning programs and ad- velopment programs ...... 250,000 vanced placement programs ..... 480,000 learning programs in collabora- Montana State University-Boze- Los Angeles Community College tion with the Gateway Commu- man distance learning opportu- District, California, for the Vo- nity College Consortium ...... 450,000 nities for rural and remote pop- cational Instructor Recruit- Jefferson County-Dubois AVTS, ulations ...... 500,000 Reynoldsville, PA for tech- ment Initiative ...... 315,000 Montana State University-Boze- nology infrastructure ...... 100,000 Los Angeles Harbor College, Wil- man to launch a Coalition for Kean University, Union, NJ, mington, CA, for equipment, personnel and curriculum de- Establishing a National Teach- Global University Studies In- er Enhancement Network ...... 500,000 ternship Program ...... 800,000 velopment for the Television Network distance learning Montclair State University, New Kent State University, Kent, OH, project ...... 800,000 Jersey, for the Center for for Institute for Computational Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio Teacher Preparation and Science for the development of to upgrade laboratory equip- Learning Technology to expand interdisciplinary and outreach ment and programs at the Life teacher training programs ...... 750,000 activities in research and edu- Lab for Natural and Environ- cation ...... 1,200,000 Morris Brown College, Atlanta, mental Sciences ...... 200,000 Keystone Central AVTS, Lock GA, for computer and tech- Macon State College, Macon, GA, nology equipment ...... 2,000,000 Haven, PA, for technology in- for technology and faculty at Mount St. Clare College, Clinton, frastructure ...... 100,000 the Regional Center for Infor- IA, to create, test and imple- Keystone Central School District mation Technology and Work- ment a technology-based under- in Pennsylvania, in collabora- force Development ...... 400,000 graduate and graduate teacher tion with Lock Haven Univer- Madison Area Technical College training program ...... 1,000,000 sity, to continue a model alter- in Madison, Wisconsin to pro- native school ...... 750,000 vide training, distance learn- Mt Vernon Nazarene College, Mt. Keystone College, LaPlume, PA, ing, education and job place- Vernon, OH, equipment, tech- for technology upgrade ...... 150,000 ment services for court report- nology upgrades of the Natural Kishwaukee College, IL, for Com- ers and captioners ...... 500,000 Sciences and Social Sciences puter Technology Center to Madonna University, Livonia, facility ...... 500,000 purchase computers and equip- Michigan for technology ...... 175,000 Murray State University’s Tele- ment ...... 400,000 Maricopa Community College communications Training and La Roche College, Pacem In District, Phoenix, Arizona, for Learning Center to assist West- Terris Institute, Pittsburgh, the Hispanic Nursing Fellows ern Kentucky public schools in PA, for technology ...... 600,000 Program ...... 400,000 exploring new technologies ...... 300,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00113 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 26508 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 National Association of Student Oregon Institute of Technology, Shriver Peace Worker Program, Personnel Administrators, Klamath Falls, OR, for course Inc. to establish the Sargent Washington, D.C., for a minor- development and equipment ..... 300,000 Shriver Peace Center ...... 10,000,000 ity undergraduate fellows pro- Peirce College in Philadelphia, South Dakota State University in gram to increase minorities in Pennsylvania, for technology Brookings to enhance the pro- higher education ...... 250,000 enhancements, course develop- grams offered by the Poly- National Aviary Conservation ment, faculty training, and out- technic Center of Excellence in Education Technology Integra- reach activities to expand the College of Engineering ...... 640,000 tion in Pittsburgh ...... 250,000 Peirce Online ...... 400,000 South Florida Community Col- New Jersey Institute of Tech- Philadelphia University, Pennsyl- lege, Avon Park, FL, for equip- nology to provide technological vania, for technology equip- ment ...... 500,000 equipment for expansion of ment and upgrades ...... 600,000 South Suburban College, South their teacher training programs 350,000 Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse .... 250,000 Holland, Illinois, for personnel, Niagara University, Lewiston, Portland State University, Or- curriculum development, train- New York, to enhance distance egon to recruit, prepare and ing and administrative ex- learning programs ...... 210,000 support secondary school ad- penses to implement Project Nicholls State University, ministrators ...... 440,000 Higher Education aviation and Thibodaux, LA for their Inter- Portland State University, Port- aerospace educational initia- national Program to support land, Oregon, to support public tives ...... 250,000 staffing, curriculum develop- service programs at the Mark Southeast Missouri State Univer- ment and equipment acquisi- O. Hatfield School of Govern- sity in Cape Girardeau, MO to tion ...... 650,000 ment in the College of Urban utilize advanced communica- North Carolina Community Col- and Public Affairs ...... 250,000 lege System for information tion and computer technology Research and evaluation agenda to improve curricula and pro- technology upgrades ...... 250,000 for health care delivery in Alas- North Central State Community grams offered by its School of ka centered at the University Visual and Performing Arts ..... 900,000 College, Mansfield, OH, for of Alaska in Fairbanks ...... 750,000 equipment and professional de- Southeast Missouri State Univer- Rose State College, Midwest City, sity, Cape Girardeau, MO, River velopment ...... 100,000 OK, for a closed-captioning North Dakota State University Campus Initiative ...... 850,000 pilot program ...... 1,000,000 for the Tech-Based Industry Southern Illinois University, Salve Regina University, New- Traineeship Program designed Carbondale in Peoria, IL, to es- port RI to expand and update to enhance student postsec- tablish a real-time captioning its distance education efforts to ondary experiences while pro- training program ...... 25,000 serve a larger potential student viding innovative solutions to Southern Methodist University, market via web links and inter- small business needs ...... 350,000 Texas, for a program to in- active communication ...... 100,000 Northeastern State University, crease enrollment and gradua- Salve Regina University, New- Tahlequah, OK for rural edu- tion of engineering students ..... 800,000 port, Rhode Island, to develop cation programs at the Center Southern New England School of and expand a nursing education for Rural Development ...... 250,000 Law, North Dartmouth, Massa- and minority workforce train- Northern Essex Community Col- chusetts, to support faculty, ing program ...... 1,000,000 lege, Haverhill, Massachusetts, staff and student stipends for San Bernardino Community Col- for technology equipment for the establishment of an immi- lege District, San Bernardino, its Technology Training Center 600,000 gration law clinic ...... 100,000 CA, to support the expansion of Northern Illinois University for Southern New Hampshire Univer- the Lab for Structural Analysis distance telecourse broad- casting ...... 1,000,000 sity, to support expansion of a and Computer Modeling to pur- distance learning program ...... 625,000 chase equipment ...... 500,000 Santa Clarita Community College District, Santa Clarita, CA, for Southern University Center for Northern Illinois University for Community Development, the Nanoscale Science, Engi- equipment, personnel for the University Center ...... 800,000 Baton Rouge to coordinate the neering, and Technology Lab- university’s community out- oratory to purchase equipment 2,000,000 Science Education Technology initiative at University of Ala- reach efforts ...... 75,000 Northern Kentucky University Spelman College, Atlanta, Geor- for the Institute for Freedom bama ...... 440,000 Scott County LifeLong Learning gia, in partnership with the At- Studies to promote under- lanta Public Schools, for a standing of the Underground Center, Scottsburg, Indiana, for the purchase of industrial teacher training project to sup- Railroad ...... 920,000 port urban education ...... 267,000 Northern Potter Jr/Sr. High training equipment to support Spring Arbor University teaching School, Ulysses, PA, for tech- training programs that focus on consortium of higher education nology infrastructure ...... 100,000 the development of transferable institutions to develop vol- Northwestern Michigan College, technical skills ...... 808,000 untary standards to improve Traverse City, Michigan, for Seminole State College, Semi- teacher instruction of tech- programmatic activities, in- nole, OK, for technology and nology in the classroom ...... 125,000 cluding equipment, for the Life- academic programming ...... 200,000 long Learning Center on the Seneca Highlands AVTS, Port Al- St. John University, Oakdale, West Bay campus ...... 500,000 legany, PA, for technology in- New York for the Institute for Norwalk Community College, frastructure ...... 100,000 Minority Teacher Development Norwalk, CT, for technology Sheldon-Jackson College Center and Training to improve math and equipment ...... 500,000 for Life Long Learning for and science education in low- Oklahoma Regents for Higher teacher training to address the performing school districts and Education, Oklahoma City, OK, shortage of teachers in rural develop a ‘‘future teachers’’ for distance learning expansion 1,000,000 Alaska ...... 2,000,000 project in middle and high Oklahoma State University, Shelton State Community Col- schools ...... 800,000 Stillwater, OK, for technology lege Electronics and Tech- St. Louis Community College at in coordination with other nology Training in Tuscaloosa, Meramac (Kirkwood, MO) to state and local telecommuni- Alabama ...... 100,000 train real-time captioners to cations projects, including the Shenandoah University, Win- provide closed captioning to the Ponca City broadband project chester, VA, ‘‘Loudoun Higher deaf and hard-of-hearing ...... 200,000 and the Oklahoma Municipal Education Initiative’’ ...... 20,000 St. Mary Area Senior High League’s Telecommunications Shenandoah University, Win- School, St. Marys, PA, for tech- project ...... 350,000 chester, VA, for a teacher tech- nology infrastructure ...... 100,000 Oregon Health and Science Uni- nology initiative ...... 380,000 St. Norbert College in DePere, versity’s Institute for Excel- Shippensburg University: for Wisconsin to enhance and ex- lence in Nursing in Portland, computer wiring and computers pand a field-based teacher Oregon ...... 250,000 for the Performing Arts Center 200,000 training program ...... 400,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00114 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26509 St. Petersburg College, St. Pe- Trident Technical College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, tersburg, FL, for an EPI- Charleston, South Carolina, to Lincoln, NE, to expand software CENTER ...... 2,000,000 equip the information tech- education and training pro- St. Petersburg College, St. Pe- nology center, electro-mechan- grams, and curriculum develop- tersburg, FL, for equipment, ical skills laboratory, and the ment ...... 800,000 technology, curriculum devel- hospitality, tourism and cul- University of Oklahoma Health opment and educational pro- inary arts program ...... 400,000 Sciences Center, Oklahoma gram planning for students Union County College in Eliza- City, OK, for technology ...... 300,000 training in museum services .... 1,000,000 beth, NJ to expand their pro- University of Redlands, Redlands, St. Thomas University, Miami, gram that connects unem- CA, for technology ...... 1,000,000 FL, for computer and science ployed and underemployed University of Saint Francis, Fort laboratory equipment ...... 500,000 older youth and adults to the Wayne, Indiana, to upgrade in- formation technology equip- Stark State College of Tech- College’s lifelong learning, lit- ment and infrastructure cam- nology, North Canton, OH, Inte- eracy and occupational training pus-wide ...... 500,000 grated Systems Technology ..... 990,000 programs through the use of network technology ...... 250,000 University of South Alabama State University of New York University of Dubuque for the Preparatory Music Program in Empire State College for dis- Mobile, Alabama ...... 50,000 tance learning project ...... 250,000 creation of a teacher training program focused on environ- University of South Florida, Stetson University, Deland, FL, mental science ...... 800,000 Tampa, FL, for a for a scientific instrumenta- University of Alabama Science ‘‘Globalization Research Net- tion, technology and infrastruc- Education Technology Initia- work’’ ...... 2,000,000 ture project ...... 2,500,000 tive in Tuscaloosa, Alabama .... 200,000 University of Texas-Pan Amer- Stevens Institute of Technology, ican, Edinburg, TX, for tech- University of Alabama, Hunts- Hoboken, NJ, for the expansion nology ...... 1,732,000 ville, AL, for computer network and enhancement of ocean- University of Virginia, Char- and computer security upgrades 400,000 based science and mathematics lottesville, VA, for Govern- education project ...... 500,000 University of Alaska and State of mental Studies ‘‘Youth Leader- Alaska to create the Alaska Stillman College, Zelpha Wells ship Initiative’’ ...... 1,200,000 Digital Archives and Digital Li- Cultural Education Center ...... 50,000 University of Washington, Ta- brary ...... 500,000 Suffolk University, Boston, Mas- coma, Washington, for faculty, University of Arizona for training sachusetts, to establish and op- curriculum development and and curriculum development at erate the Moakley Archives and equipment acquisition to estab- the Program in Integrative the Moakley Institute ...... 750,000 lish a technology institute ...... 100,000 Medicine ...... 500,000 University of West Alabama Elec- Sun Area Career Training Center, University of California at Santa tronic Campus in Livingston, New Berlin, PA, for technology Barbara, California, for the Alabama ...... 100,000 infrastructure ...... 100,000 Walter H. Capps Center for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Surry Community College ‘‘Viti- Study of Religion and Public Claire for a collaborative effort culture Technology Program’’ Life for research, fellowships, to develop a curriculum for so- for tools, equipment, resource lecture series and community cial workers serving primarily materials, instructional staff, outreach ...... 500,000 rural, impoverished, and vul- lab supplies ...... 300,000 University of Charleston, in co- nerable adults ...... 213,000 Tarleton State University, operation with the Clay Center University of Wisconsin- Stephenville, Texas, for equip- for the Arts and Sciences, for Platteville, Wisconsin for the ment for the optical observ- technology equipment related Wisconsin Agricultural Stew- atory and for science education to arts and science education as ardship Initiative to develop programs ...... 500,000 well as outreach ...... 1,000,000 and disseminate environ- Technology Innovation Challenge University of Colorado at Boul- mentally-friendly practices and Grants for Tupelo Public der, Boulder, CO, for the policies for production agri- Schools ...... 1,000,000 ATLAS (Alliance for Tech- culture, and related distance Texas A&M University- nology, Learning and Society) learning programs ...... 380,000 Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, for Project for technology enhance- Upper Great Lakes Educational technology ...... 930,000 ment ...... 1,000,000 Technologies Inc., Marquette, The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute University of Hawaii at Manoa Michigan, for personnel, tech- for Social Change in Memphis, for the Globalization Network nology and support costs to de- TN, to pursue a broad academic program ...... 300,000 sign, coordinate and implement ‘‘Operation UP Link’’ ...... 300,000 agenda that emphasizes the University of Houston, Texas, for Urban College of Boston in Mas- continued importance of the the Great Cities’ Universities sachusetts to support higher Civil Rights Movement and en- Skills Enhancement Partner- education program serving low- courages academic research and ship Initiative to provide high income and minority students .. 1,000,000 community outreach ...... 835,000 skill and professional training Venango County AVTS, Oil City, The Education and Research Con- programs ...... 440,000 PA, for technology infrastruc- sortium of Western North Caro- University of Idaho Advanced ture ...... 100,000 lina, Inc., Asheville, NC, for Computing and Modeling Lab- Wallace Community College, technology ...... 40,000 oratory to provide independent Dothan AL, for new equipment 114,000 The Research Foundation of the technical expertise and applied Wallace Community College, State University of New York, research ...... 700,000 Selma, Alabama for biology and Buffalo, NY, for technology ...... 600,000 University of Louisville-Northern chemistry laboratory equip- The Technology Center at Moun- Kentucky University’s Urban ment and to incorporate tain State University in Beck- University Partnership for science technology into in- ley, WV, to provide tele- Math and Science Teaching ...... 1,500,000 struction ...... 70,000 communications equipment, in- University of Massachusetts Warren County AVTS, Warren, cluding wiring for interactive Schools for Marine Science and PA, for technology infrastruc- classrooms and tools to train Technology to improve marine ture ...... 100,000 students to create their own science research programs, in- Waukesha County Technical Col- electronic business opportuni- cluding technology upgrades lege in Waukesha, Wisconsin ties ...... 1,500,000 and equipment ...... 600,000 and Marquette University to Tougaloo College, Mississippi, for University of Michigan Gerald R. develop a joint curriculum and establishment of the Leader- Ford School of Public Policy, transfer program targeted to ship Institute to address socio- Ann Arbor, Michigan, for cur- underserved populations in the economic disparities within the riculum development and train- fields of nursing and engineer- Mississippi Delta ...... 440,000 ing ...... 2,000,000 ing ...... 700,000

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00115 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0655 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 26510 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 Weber State University in Ogden, Military Heritage Foundation, tance learning initiatives to provide more Utah, to assist the Dumke Col- Carlisle, PA, for Military His- universal access to language training, sum- lege of Health Professions for tory Institute to provide joint mer language institutes abroad, one-on-one computer technology ...... 150,000 research and teaching opportu- language tutoring to accelerate student Wellsboro Area High School, nities in military and social progress to the highest levels of proficiency, Wellsboro, PA, for technology history ...... 175,000 engaging the language resources of local her- infrastructure ...... 100,000 Temple University for the Center itage communities where appropriate, and West Virginia High Technology for Research in Human Devel- increased collaboration with the Title VI Consortium Foundation, Fair- opment and Education for the language resource centers, the centers for mont, West Virginia, to support development of innovative mod- international business education and re- a collaborative effort with Fair- els to address teacher recruit- search, and the American overseas research mont State College and DSD ment, training and mentoring .. 500,000 centers with a focus on the least commonly Laboratories of West Virginia International Education taught languages and areas and underrep- to develop a computer security The conference agreement provides resented professional disciplines. The con- curriculum and to strengthen $98,500,000 for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays ference agreement includes $1,000,000 to es- an information assurance cen- International Education programs instead of tablish three new language resource centers, ter of excellence ...... 300,000 $93,000,000 as proposed by the House and each specializing in either Central Asia, the Western Governors University in $78,022,000 as proposed by the Senate. Middle East, or South Asia, to develop the Salt Lake City, UT to improve The conferees find that our national secu- resources needed to improve foreign lan- distance learning education rity, stability and economic vitality depend, guage teacher training for less commonly programs, including upgrades in part, on American experts who have so- taught languages, including research, cur- in technology ...... 1,800,000 phisticated language skills and cultural riculum and other instructional materials, Western Kentucky University knowledge about the various areas of the and language pedagogical strategies. The Technology Innovation Chal- world. An urgent need exists to enhance the conferees encourage the development of up- lenge Program ...... 500,000 nation’s in-depth knowledge of world areas to-date, interactive multi-media material Westminster College, Fulton, MO, and transnational issues, and fluency of U.S. specifically tailored for targeted language ‘‘Winston Churchill Center for citizens in languages relevant to under- instructional needs. Leadership Service’’ for com- standing societies where Islamic and/or Mus- Further, the conference agreement in- munications upgrades, recruit- lim culture, politics, religion, and economy cludes an increase of $4,975,000 for all other ment of staff and academic pro- are a significant factor. Title VI activities, including the develop- gram development and imple- Therefore, the conferees have included an ment of innovative techniques, including mentation ...... 800,000 increase of $20,478,000 for the Title VI/Ful- electronic technologies, to collect, organize, Widener University, Chester, PA, bright-Hays programs to increase the num- preserve and disseminate materials focused for technological infrastructure ber of international experts (including those on the least commonly taught languages, improvements to educational entering government service and various and for centers and programs focused on entities ...... 400,000 professional disciplines) with in-depth exper- international business, economic competi- Widener University, Center for tiveness and security issues, undergraduate Social Work Education, Harris- tise and high-level language proficiency in the targeted world areas of Central and education, and research. burg, PA, for curriculum devel- The conferees intend that $1,800,000 be used opment ...... 350,000 South Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and the Independent States of the former Soviet to expand Fulbright-Hays overseas programs William Tyndale College, Farm- in targeted world areas to increase opportu- ington Hills MI, to expand and Union. A portion of these funds is intended to enhance the capacity of U.S. higher edu- nities for scholars and faculty to enhance enhance its curriculum ...... 850,000 their language skills and cultural studies by Wilson College to expand and de- cation institutions to sustain these initia- conducting research and training abroad. velop the ‘‘Women with Chil- tives over time. The conference agreement includes bill lan- dren Program,’’ which assists The conferees intend that these additional guage allowing section 102(b)(6) funds to be single women with children in funds be used for priority initiatives within used to support individuals planning to apply earning a degree, becoming fi- existing Title VI/Fulbright-Hays mecha- their advanced language skills in fields out- nancially independent, and nisms, but with increased flexibility to ad- side of teaching, including government, pro- raising the children’s aspira- dress new challenges. Within the amount in- fessional fields, or international develop- tions for educational accom- cluded in the bill, $5,409,000 is provided to ment, and language permitting up to one plishment ...... 200,000 double the number of Title VI Foreign Lan- percent of the Title VI/Fulbright-Hays funds Wireless Computer Laboratory, guage and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships provided to the Department to be used for East Central Community Col- to students pursuing advanced training in program evaluation, national outreach, and lege, Ellisville, Mississippi ...... 50,000 Arabic, Azeri, Persian/Dari, Pashto, Tajik, Wisconsin Association of Inde- Uzbek, Urdu and other languages spoken in information dissemination activities. The conference agreement also provides pendent Colleges and Univer- the critical world regions of Central and $1,500,000 for the Institute of International sities for a collaboration South Asia, the Middle East, and Russia/ Public Policy. project to consolidate adminis- Eastern Europe. All current FLAS institu- trative operations and informa- tions are eligible to receive supplemental TRIO tion technology ...... 800,000 awards if they offer language training in The conference agreement includes World Learning, Brattleboro, VT these areas. The bill also includes $3,448,000 $802,500,000 for TRIO instead of $800,000,000 as for foreign language training to increase the amount of FLAS fellowships proposed by the House and $805,000,000 as pro- programs ...... 200,000 from $21,000 to $25,000 as a first step toward posed by the Senate. Army War College: to develop a making these awards more competitive and Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants to encourage more students to pursue ad- major educational center to The conference agreement also includes vanced language training, particularly in provide a joint research and $90,000,000 for Teacher Quality Enhancement areas important to national security. The teaching opportunities in mili- Grants, instead of $100,000,000 as proposed by conferees encourage the award of Title VI tary and social history ...... 25,000 the House and $54,000,000 as proposed by the Cabrini College: for equipment fellowships to talented students pursuing Senate. and programmatic funding for masters degrees who may be more likely to the new Center for Science, pursue government service, and the use of Demonstrations in Disability Education, and Technology, these fellowships for immersion foreign lan- The agreement also includes $7,000,000 for which will provide a model ele- guage training abroad. Demonstrations in Disability as proposed by mentary education classroom .. 200,000 Within the total amount in the bill, the Senate instead of $6,000,000 as proposed Keystone Virtual University: to $3,368,000 is provided for supplemental by the House. The conferees are aware that, establish a Pennsylvania Uni- awards to existing Title VI national resource although minorities comprise a significant versity ‘‘online’’ university ...... 250,000 centers (NRCs) specializing in Central and number of students with learning disabilities Lehigh University: for the Center South Asia, the Middle East, and Russia/ enrolled in postsecondary institutions, no for Promoting Healthy Devel- Eastern Europe and to establish four new Historically Black Colleges or Universities opment for Individuals with centers, with FLAS fellowships allocations, (HBCU) have been funded since the inception Disabilities for research to de- focused on these world regions from high of this demonstration program. The con- velop strategies that can im- quality, unfunded applications from the ferees note that subsection 762(c)(3) of the prove the healthy development most recent NRC and FLAS competitions. Higher Education Act requires the Secretary of individuals with disabilities 500,000 The conferees encourage the creation of dis- to consider a range of types of institutions of

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00116 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26511 higher education when making awards under sistance Centers, Regional Math and Science award determinations for the B.J. Stupak this program. Therefore, the conferees Education Consortia, the Math and Science Olympic Scholarship program. This language strongly urge the Secretary to comply with Clearinghouse, and Technology-based tech- was not included by either the House or the this requirement of the law by providing due nical assistance. Senate. consideration to qualified applications from DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL RENOVATION HBCUs, as well as Hispanic Serving Institu- The conference agreement includes The conference agreement does not include tions. $424,212,000 for Departmental program ad- language proposed by the Senate relating to Other higher education programs ministration as proposed by the Senate in- school renovation. stead of $427,212,000 as proposed by the The conference agreement includes STUDENT LOANS FOR FOREIGN SCHOOLS $2,000,000 for the Underground Railroad Edu- House. The conference agreement does not include cational and Cultural Program as proposed The conferees are very concerned that the language proposed by the Senate relating to by the Senate instead of $1,750,000 as pro- Department has made the decision in several student loans for students attending foreign posed by the House. The agreement also in- programs to provide the full grant amount of multiyear awards in the first year (front schools. cludes $1,000,000 for GPRA data and program The conferees are concerned about reports evaluations as proposed by the House instead loaded), rather than following the tradi- of students obtaining Federal Family Edu- of $1,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. tional practice of providing funding one year cation Loans by fraudulently claiming to at- The conference agreement also includes at a time. This practice was adopted for sev- tend foreign schools. Since 1995, at least 25 $4,000,000 for Thurgood Marshall Scholar- eral programs during fiscal year 2001 without individuals have been convicted of cashing ships instead of $5,000,000 as proposed by the prior notification to Congress and, in many student loan checks without ever attending House, and $1,000,000 for B.J. Stupak Olympic cases, represented a significant departure the foreign institution at which they Scholarships as proposed by the House. The from the proposed program implementation claimed to be students. Accordingly, the con- Senate bill did not provide funding for these outlined in the Department’s Justifications ferees direct the General Accounting Office activities. of Appropriation Estimates to the Congress. to examine and report on the extent of fraud, The conferees are concerned that fiscal The conferees believe that this practice waste, and abuse related to loans for stu- year 2001 funding for the Child Care Access should be limited and utilized only when jus- dents attending foreign schools, steps taken Means Parents in School program was not tified by programmatic considerations. by the Department of Education to curb such fully expended. The conferees provided addi- Moreover, the conferees have a strong inter- abuses, and possible additional steps, such as tional funds last year because of the under- est in receiving complete and accurate infor- mation from the Department about the pro- tighter disbursement controls, that may be standing that a lack of convenient and af- posed use of appropriations. Therefore, the needed to solve this problem. fordable childcare services is a significant conferees direct the Secretary to provide no- barrier preventing low-income parents from LEAP PROGRAM tification and justification to the Commit- pursuing postsecondary education. There- The conference agreement does not include tees on Appropriations of the House and Sen- fore, the conferees encourage the Depart- language proposed by the Senate relating to ate not later than 30 days prior to release of ment to work with colleges and universities the maintenance of effort requirement in the any grant opportunities or notices inviting and relevant organizations to heighten LEAP program. applications that propose front-loaded grant awareness and increase utilization of the fi- awards or that express funding priorities or COLLEGE WORK STUDY nancial assistance available through this competitive preferences for funding avail- The conference agreement includes lan- program. ability significantly different from what is guage that allows the Secretary to reallo- HOWARD UNIVERSITY proposed in Justifications of Appropriation cate funds under the College Work Study The conference agreement includes Estimates to the Congress, the House and program to certain institutions. Neither the $237,474,000 for Howard University instead of Senate Committee reports accompanying House nor the Senate bills contained this $242,474,000 as proposed by the House and Department of Education appropriations language. $232,474,000 as proposed by the Senate. bills or the Statement of the Managers ac- REFERENCES TO THE ELEMENTARY AND EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND companying Department of Education Ap- SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT propriations Acts. ASSESSMENT The conference agreement includes lan- The conferees note that the legislation re- The conference agreement includes guage clarifying that references made in this authorizing the Elementary and Secondary $443,870,000 for Education Research, Statis- Act to the Elementary and Secondary Edu- Education Act has adopted many of the Ad- tics and Assessment instead of $421,620,000 as cation Act are to be interpreted as referring ministration’s proposals to consolidate a proposed by the House and $389,567,000 as pro- to the Elementary and Secondary Education number of categorical programs into teacher posed by the Senate. Act of 1965 as it was amended by H.R. 1, the quality, technology, bilingual and innova- The conferees provide $121,817,000 for re- ‘‘No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.’’ Neither tive education state grants. The conferees search instead of $147,567,000 as proposed by the House nor the Senate bills contained this expect that as a result of this legislation, the the House and $120,567,000 as proposed by the language. Department will reassign personnel slots Senate. previously needed to administer categorical TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES The conferees provide $85,000,000 for statis- programs to new program priorities. The CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY tics as proposed by the House instead of conferees are concerned that the Inter- SERVICE $80,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes national Education and Graduate Programs DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, $67,500,000 for regional educational labs in- Service has been understaffed and has addi- OPERATING EXPENSES tional program responsibilities. stead of $70,000,000 as proposed by the House The conference agreement includes The conferees urge the Department to re- and $65,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. $328,895,000 for the Domestic Volunteer Serv- view the organizational structures within The conferees have provided this increase to ice programs instead of $324,450,000 as pro- the Department to (1) strengthen the staff address the increased demand for technical posed by the House and $321,276,000 as pro- and support systems as international edu- assistance in comprehensive school reform. posed by the Senate. cation programs and responsibilities grow; The conferees intend that regional edu- (2) increase outreach activities and informa- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) cational laboratory funds shall be obligated tion about funding opportunities; (3) provide The conference agreement includes and distributed on the same basis as the fis- greater national accessibility by government $85,287,000 for VISTA instead of $83,074,000 as cal year 2001 allocations not later than Janu- agencies, businesses, the media, and edu- proposed by the House and $86,500,000 as pro- ary 31, 2002. cation institutions to the expertise and posed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes knowledge these programs produce; and (4) $107,500,000 for the National Assessment for Volunteers in Homeland Security increase coordination among all inter- Educational Progress as proposed by the The conference agreement includes national education activities and programs House instead of $105,000,000 as proposed by $5,000,000 for Volunteers in Homeland Secu- within the Department. The conferees direct the Senate. Within this total, $2,500,000 is in- rity, a new activity authorized under Section the Department to submit a letter report to cluded for a trial urban assessment study as 122 of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act the House and Senate Committees on Appro- proposed by the House. The agreement also which was not included in either the House priations by February 1, 2002 describing steps includes $4,053,000 for the National Assess- or the Senate bills. These funds would be taken and planned to address these program ment Governing Board as proposed by the used to place senior and other volunteers in and management needs. House instead of $4,000,000 as proposed by the community activities that are targeted spe- Senate. GENERAL PROVISIONS cifically at contributing to homeland de- The conference agreement also includes B.J. STUPAK OLYMPIC SCHOLARSHIPS fense. Grants will be made to states and $58,000,000 to continue multi-year grants and The conference agreement includes an community organizations on a competitive contracts for Comprehensive Regional As- amendment which makes changes to the basis and will support public and nonprofit

VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00117 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 26512 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE December 18, 2001 agencies’ efforts in the areas of public safety, able public broadcasters to meet the statu- Museum of Aviation, Warner public health, and disaster relief and pre- tory deadline for digital conversion as pro- Robins, GA, to expand outreach paredness. posed by the Senate. The conference agree- and educational activities and Since September 11, hundreds of volunteers ment does not provide these funds contin- programs ...... 250,000 have been actively engaged in supporting re- gent upon authorization as proposed by the Bishops Museum in Honolulu, Ha- lief efforts. Building on this record, the Cor- House. waii ...... 700,000 poration will use these funds to place addi- FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION Grout Museum in Waterloo, Iowa tional volunteers in assignments targeted SERVICE for exhibits on the Sullivan specifically at mitigating the effects of the The conference agreement includes brothers ...... 500,000 attacks and in enhancing homeland security. $39,982,000 for the Federal Mediation and Iowa State Historical Society to National Senior Volunteer Corps Conciliation Service instead of $40,482,000 as catalogue and archive the his- The conference agreement includes proposed by the Senate and $39,482,000 as pro- tory of workers in Iowa ...... 61,000 $106,700,000 for the Foster Grandparent Pro- posed by the House. The National Audubon Society’s The conference agreement includes funds gram (FGP) instead of $109,468,000 as pro- ARK Museum in Dubuque, Iowa for FMCS to continue their work to prevent posed by the House and $102,868,000 as pro- for creation of exhibits and youth violence by teaching students medi- public education ...... 389,000 posed by the Senate. ation and conflict resolution techniques. The conferees have provided sufficient University of Idaho Performance funds to allow for a stipend increase of ten INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES and Education Facility to pre- cents per hour for participants in both the The conference agreement provides serve the history of jazz and Foster Grandparent and the Senior Com- $197,602,000 for the Institute of Museum and teach it to future generations .. 750,000 panion Programs. The conferees direct the Library Services instead of $168,078,000 as Adler Planetarium and Astron- Corporation to provide such a stipend in- proposed by the House and the Senate. With- omy Museum ...... 50,000 crease to these two programs. in the amount provided, the conference Johnson County Museum of His- One-third of the increases provided for the agreement specifies $2,941,000 for library tory, Franklin, IN, for per- FGP, SCP, and RSVP programs shall be used services to Native Americans and Native Ha- sonnel, supplies and equipment 100,000 to fund Programs of National Significance waiians as proposed by the Senate. The con- Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, expansion grants to allow existing FGP, ference agreement also specifies funding for Massachusetts, for equipment RSVP and SCP programs to expand the num- the following: for the Online Education Center ber of volunteers serving in areas of critical National Museum of African to provide distance learning need as identified by Congress in the Domes- American History and Culture programs ...... 125,000 tic Volunteer Service Act. Plan for Action Presidential Shakespeare Rose Theater to en- Sufficient funding has been included to Commission ...... $2,000,000 hance the educational and cul- provide a 2 percent increase for administra- American Village Project in tural programs in language, lit- tive costs realized by all current grantees in Montevallo, Alabama ...... 250,000 eracy and the arts for students the FGP and SCP programs, and a 4 percent Evergreen-Conecuh Public Li- and the general public ...... 1,000,000 increase for administrative costs realized by brary, Alabama ...... 20,000 Springfield-Greene County Li- all current grantees in the RSVP program. Gordo Public Library, Pickens brary, Springfield, MO, for edu- Funds remaining above these amounts County Commission, Alabama .. 50,000 cation and training ...... 150,000 Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, should be used to begin new FGP, RSVP and Webster University, St. Louis, AL, for systems and technology SCP programs in geographic areas currently Missouri, for technology en- upgrades ...... 300,000 unserved. The conferees expect these hancements for the Global Ac- National Museum for Women in projects to be awarded via a nationwide com- cess Library ...... 1,160,000 the Arts ...... 1,500,000 petition among potential community-based Tuskegee Human and Civil University of Mississippi Founda- sponsors. Rights Multicultural Center ..... 300,000 tion, Oxford, MS, for edu- The Corporation for National and Commu- Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, cational and preservation pro- nity Service shall comply with the directive to develop exhibits and edu- grams at Rowan Oak, the home that use of funding increases in the Foster cational programs about the William Faulkner ...... 850,000 Grandparent Program, Retired and Senior historic Phoenix Indian School University of Mississippi, Oxford, Volunteer Program and VISTA not be re- and the Native Americans who MS, for digitization of the Na- stricted to America Reads activities. The attended the school ...... 50,000 tional Library of the Account- conferees further direct that the Corporation Children’s Museum of Los Ange- ing Profession ...... 350,000 shall not stipulate a minimum or maximum les, California, for development Lois Morgan Edward Memorial amount for PNS grant augmentations. of exhibits and educational pro- Library, Nashville, NC, for fur- The conference agreement includes $400,000 grams ...... 800,000 niture, equipment, automation for senior demonstration activities as pro- Chinese American Museum, Los and materials ...... 132,000 posed by both the House and the Senate. Angeles, California to complete Rocky Mount Children’s Museum, These funds are to be used solely to carry and install the ‘‘Family and North Carolina ...... 100,000 out evaluations and to provide recruitment, Community’’ exhibit and for re- Confluence Visitor Center in training, and technical assistance to local lated educational outreach pro- Williston, ND and the North projects as described in the budget request. grams ...... 150,000 Dakota State Historical Soci- No new demonstration projects may be Natural History Museum of Los ety for Lewis and Clark exhib- begun with these funds. None of the in- Angeles County, California, for its ...... 100,000 creases provided for FGP, SCP, or RSVP in equipment and to develop ex- Fort Mandan Visitor’s Center for fiscal year 2002 may be used for demonstra- hibits and educational mate- exhibits and other interpreta- tion activities. The conferees further expect rials for the Julian C. Dixon In- tion related to the Lewis and that all future demonstration activities will stitute for Cultural Studies ...... 750,000 Clark Bicentennial Commemo- Santa Barbara Maritime Museum be funded through allocations made through ration ...... 100,000 for the installation of an envi- Part E of the Domestic Volunteer Service Mandan-on-a-Slant Museum to ronmental exhibit ...... 290,000 Act. replace exhibits that preserve Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 may Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, California, for the de- the Mandan Indian Heritage ..... 100,000 not be used to implement or support service Life Center library project at collaboration agreements or any other velopment of exhibits and edu- cational materials ...... 25,000 Franklin Pierce College, New changes in the administration and/or govern- Hampshire ...... 1,000,000 ance of national service programs prior to The Fine Arts Museums of San Monmouth University, West Long passage of a bill by the authorizing commit- Francisco to expand model arts Branch, NJ, for collections and tees of jurisdiction specifying such changes. education programs at the de Young Museum ...... 1,000,000 technology equipment for the CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING Bethel Public Library, Con- Guggenheim Memorial Library 160,000 The conference agreement provides necticut, for technology up- Princeton Public Library, Mercer $380,000,000 in funding for fiscal year 2004, in- grades and collections ...... 150,000 County, NJ, for library secu- stead of $365,000,000 as proposed by the House Mattatuck Museum in Water- rity, inventory and circulation and $395,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. bury, Connecticut to plan and system, and technology en- The conference agreement also includes develop a history of Waterbury hancements to support digital $25,000,000 for equipment and facilities to en- exhibit ...... 500,000 library initiatives ...... 100,000

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Albany Institute for History and Beaver Area Memorial Library, MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION Art for a two-part technology Beaver County, PA, for equip- The conference agreement includes project that will broaden public ment ...... 100,000 $8,250,000 for the medicare payment advisory access to its collections and im- Delaware Valley Historical Air- commission, instead of $8,000,000 as proposed prove services to its on-site and craft Association ...... 300,000 by the House, and $8,500,000 as proposed by off-site constituencies ...... 125,000 Discovery Square, Inc. in Erie, the Senate. Brooklyn Historical Society, NY, PA for exhibit development ...... 100,000 The conferees are concerned about the re- for structural repairs and envi- Everhart Museum in Scranton, ported impact of the Medicare Part B pay- ronmental upgrades to preserve PA ...... 200,000 ment reduction scheduled to take effect in National Liberty Museum in collections and for education 2002. The conferees urge MedPAC to study re- Philadelphia, PA ...... 300,000 programs and exhibits ...... 1,000,000 placing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) as Buffalo and Erie County Library Northland Public Library Au- thority, Pittsburgh, PA, for a factor in determining the update for Medi- System, Buffalo, NY, for tech- care Part B payments with a factor that nology equipment ...... 22,500 digitization ...... 126,000 Penn Hills Public Library in more fully accounts for the changes in the Center for Jewish History, New Pittsburgh, PA, to purchase li- unit costs of providing physicians’ services York, NY, to support edu- brary materials and upgrade and report back its findings and rec- cational and cultural programs technology ...... 235,000 ommendations to the Committees on Appro- and exhibits to facilitate the Philadelphia Zoo ...... 250,000 priations and authorizing committees not study of Jewish history ...... 250,000 Pittsburgh Children’s Museum: to later than March 1, 2002. Children’s Museum of Manhattan, develop educational exhibits NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND NY, to develop exhibits on the and programs for area K–12 INFORMATION SCIENCE Harlem Renaissance ...... 150,000 schools ...... 100,000 The conference agreement provides Four County Library System, Please Touch Museum at the $1,000,000 for the National Commission on Li- Vestal, NY, for technology en- Children’s Museum of Philadel- braries and Information Science as proposed hancements for a distance phia, PA, to provide hands-on by the House, instead of $1,495,000 as pro- learning initiative ...... 105,000 learning experiences for chil- posed by the Senate. Hunter College, NY, to identify, dren ...... 700,000 NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL preserve and archive research Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA 50,000 collections of the Center for Bamberg County Library in Bam- The conference agreement provides $400,000 Puerto Rican Studies, and de- berg, SC, for books and mate- for close-out costs associated with the termi- velop a website ...... 500,000 rials ...... 50,000 nation of the National Education Goals Long Island Maritime Museum in Clarendon County Library in Panel. The Senate provided $2,000,000 for on- West Sayville, NY for archival Manning, SC, for books and ma- going activities. The House did not propose and educational programs ...... 200,000 terials ...... 50,000 funding for this agency. The conferees note Lower East Side Tenement Mu- Marion Wright Edelman Public that this panel was not reauthorized in the seum, NY, for its collections Library, Bennettsville, SC, for recent reauthorization of the Elementary management program to make library collections and tech- and Secondary Education Act. collections available to the nology ...... 500,000 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD The Children’s Discovery House, public, and for the development The conference agreement provides Murfreesboro, TN, for the de- and implementation of edu- $226,438,000 for the National Labor Relations velopment of hands-on and cational programs ...... 750,000 Board as proposed by the Senate instead of interactive exhibits and edu- New York Hall of Science to de- $221,438,000 as proposed by the House. velop, expand, and display cational programs ...... 600,000 RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD science-related educational ma- The International Storytelling terials...... 1,000,000 Center in Jonesborough, TN ..... 150,000 LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR NIOGA Library System of Niag- El Progreso Library, Uvalde, TX, GENERAL ara and Orleans County, NY for for computers, equipment ...... 500,000 The conference agreement includes a limi- technology improvements ...... 22,500 Vietnam Archive Center, Texas tation on transfers from the railroad trust The Woodstock Guild of Crafts- Tech University, Lubbock, TX, funds of $6,261,000 for administrative ex- men, Inc., Woodstock, NY for for digitization ...... 500,000 penses of the Office of Inspector General in- the development and promotion Children’s Museum of Virginia, stead of $6,480,000 as proposed by the Senate of the Byrdcliffe Centennial Ex- Portsmouth, VA, for new pro- and $6,042,000 as proposed by the House. grams and exhibits, educational hibition ...... 100,000 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION training opportunities for chil- Clark County Historical Museum SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM for development, implementa- dren and teachers ...... 800,000 Virginia Living Museum ...... 325,000 The conference agreement includes tion, and enhancement of cul- Burlington City Arts in Bur- $21,277,412,000 for the Supplemental Security tural education exhibits, Ohio .. 100,000 lington, VT for the creation of Income Program as proposed by the Senate Cleveland Botanical Garden, exhibits, displays and program- instead of $21,270,412,000 as proposed by the Cleveland, OH, to develop edu- ming at the Firehouse Center House. Within the funds provided, the con- cational exhibits and materials 40,000 for the Visual Arts ...... 100,000 ference agreement includes $7,000,000 as pro- Crawford Museum, Cleveland, OH, Lake Champlain Science Center posed by the Senate for outreach efforts to for planning and educational in Burlington, VT for displays identify individuals who may be eligible for programming ...... 500,000 and education ...... 125,000 payment of the cost of Medicare cost sharing Farmer’s Castle Museum in Vermont Historical Society in under the Medicaid program. The House re- Belpre, to assist with technical Montpelier, VT, to expand dis- port contained no similar provision. components that will enhance plays, exhibits and program- UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE the visitors’ experience...... 42,000 ming ...... 175,000 MAPS Air Museum, Canton OH, Beaver Creek Reserve Education The conference agreement provides for equipment and education .... 500,000 Center, Fall Creek, WI, for en- $15,104,000 for the United States Institute of McKinley Museum, Canton, OH, vironmental and conservation Peace, instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by for technology improvement to education programs for elemen- the House and $15,207,000 as proposed by the the Ramsayer Research Library 44,000 tary and secondary students ..... 100,000 Senate. University of Oregon Museum of The Kenosha Civil War Museum TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS Natural History in Eugene, OR 50,000 in Kenosha, WI for exhibits and OFFICIAL EXPENSES Academy of Natural Sciences in programming related to the Philadelphia County for the The conference agreement includes lan- Civil War ...... 500,000 guage to provide an additional $3,000 from preservation of the Academy’s Village of Hawkins, WI, for li- funds made available to the Department of collection of more than 22 mil- brary technology programs, in- Labor in salaries and expenses accounts for lion natural sciences speci- cluding equipment ...... 75,000 mens, for the development and Weis Earth Science Museum in official receptions and representation ex- delivery of natural sciences Menasha, WI for educational penses. educational programming for exhibits, including interactive DISTRIBUTION OF STERILE NEEDLES children and the general public videos, simulated mine tunnels The conference agreement includes a pro- and for environmental research 150,000 and paleontological specimens 500,000 vision proposed by the House that prohibits

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the use of funds in this Act to carry out any SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING LOW-INCOME Human Services, and Education. The House program of distributing sterile needles or sy- HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE bill contained no similar provision. ringes for the hypodermic injection of any il- The conferees delete without prejudice a TITLE VII—MENTAL HEALTH PARITY legal drug. The Senate bill contained a simi- Sense of the Senate provision regarding Low- lar provision except that it would have al- Income Home Energy Assistance. The House The conference agreement modifies lan- lowed for such a program if the Secretary of bill contained no similar provision. guage proposed by the Senate amending the Health and Human Services determines that Public Health Service Act and the Employee NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT Retirement Income Security Act with re- these programs are effective in preventing ACT the spread of HIV and do not encourage the spect to equitable treatment in insurance The conference agreement includes a pro- use of illegal drugs. coverage of mental illnesses. The Senate vision proposed by the Senate to change the BUY AMERICAN ACT amendment had expanded the provisions in names of eligible organizations named in the the respective Acts concerning parity in The conference agreement deletes without Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement mental health parity in mental health cov- prejudice a provision proposed by the House Act. The House bill contained no similar pro- erage. The conference agreement instead ex- to prohibit any funds made available in this vision. tends for one year the previously expired Act to any person or entity that violates the GAO STUDY REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION OF mental health parity provisions in the Pub- Buy American Act. The Senate bill con- HIPAA REGULATIONS lic Health Service Act, the Employee Retire- tained no similar provision. The agreement The conference agreement does not include ment Income Security Act, and the Internal includes a Sense of the Congress provision a provision proposed by the Senate to re- Revenue Code of 1986. regarding this issue that was proposed in quire GAO to report on the State and local both the House and the Senate bills. The conferees recognize the devastating impacts of the administrative simplification impact of mental illnesses on Americans NIH LICENSE AGREEMENTS requirements of HIPAA. The House bill con- from every walk of life and widespread bipar- The conference agreement does not include tained no similar provision. tisan support of mental health parity legisla- a provision proposed by the House regarding ELECTION OF AN ANNUITY FOR QUALIFIED tion in both houses of Congress. The con- NIH license agreements. The Senate bill con- MAGISTRATE JUDGES ferees strongly urge the committees of juris- tained no similar provision. The conference agreement includes a pro- diction in the House and the Senate to con- CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF GRANT vision proposed by the Senate to provide for vene early hearings and undertake swift con- AWARDS an election of an annuity under section 377 of sideration of legislation to extend and im- The conference agreement does not include title 28, United States Code, for any qualified prove mental health parity protections dur- a provision proposed by the Senate to pro- magistrate judge. The House bill contained ing the second session of 107th Congress. hibit the Departments of Labor, Health and no similar provision. INFORMATION ON PASSENGERS AND Human Services, and Education from mak- INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS CARGO ing a grant award totaling more than $500,000 The conference agreement does not include The conference agreement does not include unless the House and Senate Committees on a provision proposed by the Senate to modify a provision proposed by the Senate to re- Appropriations are notified. The House bill language contained in H.R. 2217, the Interior quire advance electronic information for air contained no similar provision. Appropriations bill. The House bill contained cargo and passengers entering the United no similar provision. SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS ACT States. The House bill contained no similar The conference agreement does not include ACROSS-THE-BOARD ADMINISTRATIVE AND provision. a provision proposed by the Senate to estab- RELATED EXPENSES REDUCTION CONFERENCE AGREEMENT lish certain requirements related to mainte- The conference agreement includes a modi- nance of effort for State expenditures on fied provision proposed by the Senate to re- The following table displays the amounts public education. The House bill contained duce administrative and related expenses of agreed to for each program, project or activ- no similar provision. the Departments of Labor, Health and ity with appropriate comparisons:

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VerDate Aug 04 2004 08:15 Aug 04, 2005 Jkt 089102 PO 00000 Frm 00178 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR01\H18DE1.004 H18DE1 Insert offset folio 001/443 here EH18DE01.058 December 18, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE 26573 RALPH REGULA, ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED [Omitted from the Record of January 24, 2000] C.W. BILL YOUNG, EC04913 A letter from the Clerk, U.S. ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr., Mr. Trandahl, Clerk of the House, re- ported and found truly enrolled bills of House of Representatives, transmitting list DAN MILLER, of reports pursuant to clause 2, rule III of the ROGER F. WICKER, the House of the following titles, which Rules of the House of Representatives, pur- ANNE M. NORTHUP, were thereupon signed by the Speaker: suant to Rule III, clause 2, of the Rules of RANDY ‘‘DUKE’’ H.R. 483. An act regarding the use of the the House (H. Doc. No. 106–319); to the Com- CUNNINGHAM, trust land and resources of the Confederated mittee on House Administration and ordered KAY GRANGER, Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of to be printed. JOHN E. PETERSON, Oregon. [Omitted from the Record of January 3, 2001] DON SHERWOOD, H.R. 1291. An act to amend title 38, United EC04912 A letter from the Clerk, U.S. DAVID OBEY, States Code, to modify and improve authori- House of Representatives, transmitting list STENY HOYER, ties relating to education benefits, com- of reports pursuant to clause 2, rule III of the NANCY PELOSI pensation and pension benefits, housing ben- Rules of the House of Representatives, pur- NITA M. LOWEY, efits, burial benefits, and vocational reha- suant to Rule III, clause 2, of the Rules of ROSA DELAURO, bilitation benefits for veterans, to modify the House (H. Doc. No. 107–156); to the Com- JESSE JACKSON, Jr., certain authorities relating to the United mittee on House Administration and ordered PATRICK J. KENNEDY, States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, to be printed. Managers on the Part of the House. and for other purposes. [Submitted December 18, 2001] TOM HARKIN, H.R. 2559. An act to amend chapter 90 of 4894. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, ERNEST HOLLINGS, title 5, United States Code, relating to Fed- Department of Defense, transmitting the Fi- DANIEL INOUYE, eral long-term care insurance. nancial Addendum to FY 2000 DOD Chief In- HARRY REID, H.R. 2883. An act to authorize appropria- formation Officer Annual Information Assur- HERB KOHL, tions for fiscal year 2002 for intelligence and ance Report; to the Committee on Armed PATTY MURRAY, intelligence-related activities of the United Services. MARY LANDRIEU, States Government, the Community Man- 4895. A letter from the Assistant to the ROBERT C. BYRD, agement Account, and the Central Intel- Board, Board of Governors of the Federal Re- ARLEN SPECTER, ligence Agency Retirement and Disability serve System, transmitting the Board’s final THAD COCHRAN, System, and for other purposes. rule—Truth in Lending [Regulation Z; Dock- JUDD GREGG, H.R. 3323. An act to ensure that covered en- et No. R–1090] received December 17, 2001, LARRY E. CRAIG, tities comply with the standards for elec- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- TED STEVENS, tronic health care transactions and code sets mittee on Financial Services. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, adopted under part C of title XI of the Social 4896. A letter from the Legislative and Reg- MIKE DEWINE, Security Act, and for other purposes. Managers on the Part of the Senate. H.R. 3442. An act to establish the National ulatory Activities Division, Comptroller of Museum of African American History and the Currency, Board of Governors of the Fed- f Culture Plan for Action Presidential Com- eral Reserve System, transmitting the mission to develop a plan of action for the Board’s final rule—Risk-Based Capital Guidelines; Capital Adequacy Guidelines; LEAVE OF ABSENCE establishment and maintenance of the Na- tional Museum of African American History Capital Maintenance: Capital Treatment of By unanimous consent, leave of ab- and Culture in Washington, D.C., and for Recourse, Direct Credit Substitutes and Re- sence was granted to: other purposes. sidual Interests in Asset Securitizations Mr. BECERRA (at the request of Mr. f [Docket No. 2001–68] (RIN: 1550–AB11) re- ceived December 6, 2001, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. GEPHARDT) for today on account of BILLS PRESENTED TO THE 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial business in the district. PRESIDENT Services. Mr. LUTHER (at the request of Mr. 4897. A letter from the Vice President, Con- GEPHARDT) for today on account of Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House re- gressional and External Affairs, Export-Im- family matters. ports that on December 14, 2001 he pre- port Bank of the United States, transmitting Mr. ORTIZ (at the request of Mr. GEP- sented to the President of the United the annual report to Congress on the oper- HARDT) for today on account of busi- States, for his approval, the following ations of the Export-Import Bank of the ness in the district. bills. United States for Fiscal Year 2001, pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 635g(a); to the Committee on Fi- Mr. STARK (at the request of Mr. GEP- H.J. Res. 78. Making further continuing ap- propriations for the fiscal year 2002, and for nancial Services. HARDT) for today on account of medical 4898. A letter from the Director, Office of reasons. other purposes. H.R. 1230. To provide for the establishment Integrated Analysis and Forecasting Energy Information Administration, Department of f of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in the State of Michigan, and for Energy, transmitting a report entitled, other purposes. ‘‘Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED H.R. 1761. To designate the facility of the United States, 2000’’; to the Committee on By unanimous consent, permission to United States Postal Service located at 8588 Energy and Commerce. Richmond Highway in Alexandria, Virginia, 4899. A letter from the Principal Deputy address the House, following the legis- Associate Administrator, Environmental lative program and any special orders as the ‘‘Herb Harris Post Office Building’’. H.R. 2061. To amend the charter of South- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- heretofore entered, was granted to: eastern University of the District of Colum- cy’s final rule—NESHAP: Emergency Exten- (The following Members (at the re- bia. sion of the Compliance Date for Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Hazardous quest of Mr. MASCARA) to revise and ex- f tend their remarks and include extra- Waste Combustors [FRL–7114–6] (RIN: 2050– neous material:) ADJOURNMENT AE79) received December 3, 2001, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Mr. MASCARA, for 5 minutes, today. Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, I move Energy and Commerce. Mrs. CLAYTON, for 5 minutes, today. that the House do now adjourn. 4900. A letter from the Principal Deputy Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, for 5 min- The motion was agreed to; accord- Associate Administrator, Environmental utes, today. ingly (at 8 o’clock and 26 minutes Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, a.m.), the House adjourned until today, cy’s final rule—Indiana: Final Authorization for 5 minutes, today. Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 10 of State Hazardous Waste Management Pro- Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, for 5 min- a.m. gram Revision [FRL–7110–7] received Decem- ber 3, 2001, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); utes, today. f (The following Member (at the re- to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS 4901. A letter from the Principal Deputy quest of Mr. ROYCE) to revise and ex- Associate Administrator, Environmental tend his remarks and include extra- Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- neous material:) communications were taken from the cy’s final rule—Revocation of Significant Mr. TANCREDO, for 5 minutes, today. Speaker’s table and referred as follows: New Uses of Certain Chemical Substances

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