115TH CONGRESS " 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 COMMITTEE PRINT of the COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on H.R. 1625 / Public Law 115–141 [Legislative Text and Explanatory Statement] Book 2 of 2 Divisions G–L U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 29–457 WASHINGTON : 2018 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey, Chairman HAROLD ROGERS, Kentucky 1 NITA M. LOWEY, New York ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio KAY GRANGER, Texas PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, Idaho JOSE´ E. SERRANO, New York JOHN ABNEY CULBERSON, Texas ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut JOHN R. CARTER, Texas DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina KEN CALVERT, California LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, California TOM COLE, Oklahoma SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR., Georgia MARIO DIAZ-BALART, Florida BARBARA LEE, California CHARLES W. DENT, Pennsylvania BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota TOM GRAVES, Georgia TIM RYAN, Ohio KEVIN YODER, Kansas C. A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland STEVE WOMACK, Arkansas DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Florida JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska HENRY CUELLAR, Texas THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida CHELLIE PINGREE, Maine CHARLES J. FLEISCHMANN, Tennessee MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER, Washington DEREK KILMER, Washington DAVID P. JOYCE, Ohio MATT CARTWRIGHT, Pennsylvania DAVID G. VALADAO, California GRACE MENG, New York ANDY HARRIS, Maryland MARK POCAN, Wisconsin MARTHA ROBY, Alabama KATHERINE M. CLARK, Massachusetts MARK E. AMODEI, Nevada PETE AGUILAR, California CHRIS STEWART, Utah DAVID YOUNG, Iowa EVAN H. JENKINS, West Virginia STEVEN M. PALAZZO, Mississippi DAN NEWHOUSE, Washington JOHN R. MOOLENAAR, Michigan SCOTT TAYLOR, Virginia ————— 1 Chairman Emeritus NANCY FOX, Clerk and Staff Director (II) C O N T E N T S DIVISION G—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 Page Title I—Department of the Interior ....................................................................... 1055 Title II—Environmental Protection Agency .......................................................... 1082 Title III—Related Agencies ..................................................................................... 1091 Title IV—General Provisions .................................................................................. 1107 DIVISION G—Explanatory Statement .................................................................. 1117 DIVISION H—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 Title I—Department of Labor ................................................................................. 1261 Title II—Department of Health and Human Services .......................................... 1280 Title III—Department of Education ....................................................................... 1307 Title IV—Related Agencies ..................................................................................... 1321 Title V—General Provisions ................................................................................... 1329 DIVISION H—Explanatory Statement .................................................................. 1337 DIVISION I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 Title I—Legislative Branch ..................................................................................... 1455 Title II—General Provisions ................................................................................... 1481 DIVISION I—Explanatory Statement ................................................................... 1483 DIVISION J—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 Title I—Department of Defense .............................................................................. 1511 Title II—Department of Veterans Affairs .............................................................. 1520 Title III—Related Agencies ..................................................................................... 1545 Title IV—Overseas Contingency Operations ......................................................... 1547 Title V—General Provisions ................................................................................... 1548 DIVISION J—Explanatory Statement ................................................................... 1551 DIVISION K—DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 Title I—Department of State and Related Agency ............................................... 1617 Title II—United States Agency for International Development .......................... 1626 Title III—Bilateral Economic Assistance ............................................................... 1627 Title IV—International Security Assistance ......................................................... 1636 Title V—Multilateral Assistance ............................................................................ 1639 Title VI—Export and Investment Assistance ........................................................ 1640 Title VII—General Provisions ................................................................................. 1643 Title VIII—Overseas Contingency Operations / Global War on Terrorism ......... 1754 DIVISION K—Explanatory Statement .................................................................. 1761 (III) IV DIVISION L—TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 Page Title I—Department of Transportation .................................................................. 1835 Title II—Department of Housing and Urban Development ................................. 1870 Title III—Related Agencies ..................................................................................... 1905 Title IV—General Provisions—This Act ................................................................ 1907 DIVISION L—Explanatory Statement .................................................................. 1913 V CLERK’S NOTE This committee print provides a compilation of the enacted text and applicable explanatory material for the Consolidated Appro- priations Act, 2018 (H.R. 1625, P.L. 115–141). This Act consists of 12 divisions related to Appropriations mat- ters (divisions A through L). The Act also includes 10 additional di- visions unrelated to appropriations matters (divisions M through V). This compilation includes only the divisions related to Appro- priations matters. It also includes the front section of the Act, which contains provisions applicable to the entire Act. Divisions A through L are the products of negotiations between the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on final fiscal year 2018 appropriations for all 12 annual appropriations bills. The legislative text resulting from these negotiations was sub- mitted by Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen of the House Com- mittee on Appropriations as a House amendment to the Senate amendment to an unrelated bill pending in the House, H.R. 1625. The House agreed to the measure on March 22, 2018, and the Sen- ate agreed to the measure on March 23, 2018.1 The President signed the legislation on March 23, 2018, and it became Public Law 115–141. Because an ‘‘amendments-between-the-Houses’’ process was used instead of a conference committee, there is no conference report and no ‘‘joint Explanatory Statement of the managers’’ for H.R. 1625. An Explanatory Statement relating to the House amendment of H.R. 1625 was filed by Chairman Frelinghuysen in the Congres- sional Record of March 22, 2018.2 Section 4 of the Act provides that this Explanatory Statement ‘‘shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions A through L of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.’’ For the convenience of users, the legislative text of each appro- priations division is paired with the applicable section of the Ex- planatory Statement. 1 The House agreed to the amendment by a vote of 256–167 (Roll Call No. 127). The Senate agreed to the amendment by a vote of 65-32 (Record Vote No. 63). 2 The Explanatory Statement appears on pages H2045–H2901 in Books II and III of the March 22, 2018, Congressional Record. [House Appropriations Committee Print] Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (H.R. 1625; P.L. 115–141) DIVISION G—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2018 (1053) DIVISION G—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVI- RONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIA- TIONS ACT, 2018 TITLE I DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES For necessary expenses for protection, use, improvement, devel- opment, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, acquisition of easements and other interests in lands, and performance of other functions, including maintenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management of lands and their resources under the jurisdic- tion of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general ad- ministration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential of public lands pursuant to section 1010(a) of Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,183,043,000, to remain available until ex- pended, including all such amounts as are collected from permit processing fees, as authorized but made subject to future appro- priation by section 35(d)(3)(A)(i) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191), except that amounts from permit processing fees may