Summary:
All articles in House section
CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 4635, DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001
(House of Representatives - October 18, 2000)
Text of this article available as:
TXT
PDF
[Pages H10083-
H10224]
CONFERENCE REPORT ON
H.R. 4635, DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
ACT, 2001
Mr. WALSH submitted the following conference report and statement on
the bill (
H.R. 4635) making appropriations for the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes:
Conference Report (H. Rept. 106-988)
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the
two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (
H.R.
4635) ``making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and
offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and
for other purposes'', having met, after full and free
conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to
their respective Houses as follows:
That the House recede from its disagreement to the
amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an
amendment, as follows:
In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said
amendment, insert:
Section 1. (a) The provisions of the following bills of the
106th Congress are hereby enacted into law:
(1)
H.R. 5482, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
(2)
H.R. 5483, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
(b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the United
States Statutes at Large pursuant to section 112 of title 1,
United States Code, the Archivist of the United States shall
include after the date of approval at the end appendixes
setting forth the texts of the bills referred to in
subsection (a) of this section.
; And the Senate agree to the same.
James T. Walsh,
Tom DeLay,
Dave Hobson,
Joe Knollenberg,
Rodney Frelinghuysen,
Anne M. Northup,
John E. Sununu,
Virgil Goode, Jr.,
Bill Young,
Alan B. Mollohan,
Marcy Kaptur,
Carrie P. Meek,
David E. Price,
Bud Cramer,
Dave Obey,
Managers on the Part of the House.
Christopher S. Bond,
Conrad Burns,
Richard C. Shelby,
Larry E. Craig,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Ted Stevens,
Pete V. Domenici,
Barbara A. Mikulski,
Patrick Leahy,
Frank R. Lautenberg,
Tom Harkin,
Robert C. Byrd,
Harry Reid,
Daniel K. Inouye,
Managers on the Part of the Senate.
JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE
The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the
conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the
amendment of the Senate to the bill (
H.R. 4635) making
appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent
agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other
purposes, submit the following joint statement to the House
and the Senate in explanation of the effect of the action
agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the
accompanying report.
This conference agreement includes more than the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act,
2001. The conference agreement has been expanded to include
the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2001, as
well as the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2001. Both of these Acts have been enacted into law by
reference in this conference report; however, a copy of the
referenced legislation has been included in this statement
for convenience.
DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
The conference agreement would enact the provisions of
H.R.
5482 as introduced on October 18, 2000. The text of that bill
follows:
A BILL Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and
offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for
sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions,
corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Veterans Benefits Administration
Compensation and Pensions
(including transfers of funds)
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on behalf of
veterans and a pilot program for disability examinations as
authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters 11, 13, 18, 51,
53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to or on behalf of veterans
as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and
61; 92 Stat. 2508); and burial benefits, emergency and other
officers' retirement pay, adjusted-service credits and
certificates, payment of premiums due on commercial life
insurance policies guaranteed under the provisions of Article
IV of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as
amended, and for other benefits as authorized by law (38
U.S.C. 107, 1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53, 55,
and 61; 50 U.S.C. App. 540-548; 43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat.
735; 76 Stat. 1198), $22,766,276,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $17,419,000 of
the amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to ``General
operating expenses'' and ``Medical care'' for necessary
expenses in implementing those provisions authorized in the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in the
Veterans' Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters 51, 53,
and 55), the funding source for which is specifically
provided as the ``Compensation and pensions'' appropriation:
Provided further, That such sums as may be earned on an
actual qualifying patient basis, shall be reimbursed to
``Medical facilities revolving fund'' to augment the funding
of individual medical facilities for nursing home care
provided to pensioners as authorized.
Readjustment Benefits
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation benefits
to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C.
chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53, 55, and 61,
$1,634,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That expenses for rehabilitation program services and
assistance which the Secretary is authorized to provide under
section 3104(a) of title 38, United States Code, other than
under subsection (a)(1), (2), (5) and (11) of that section,
shall be charged to the account: Provided further, That funds
shall be available to pay any court order, court award or any
compromise settlement arising from litigation involving the
vocational training program authorized by section 18 of
Public Law 98-77, as amended.
Veterans Insurance and Indemnities
For military and naval insurance, national service life
insurance, servicemen's indemnities, service-disabled
veterans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 Stat.
487, $19,850,000, to remain available until expended.
Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the program, as authorized by
38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Provided, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That during fiscal year
2001, within the resources available, not to exceed $300,000
in gross obligations for direct loans are authorized for
specially adapted housing loans.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $162,000,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses''.
Education Loan Fund Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 3698, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans not to exceed $3,400.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the direct loan program, $220,000, which may be
transferred to and
[[Page
H10084]]
merged with the appropriation for ``General operating
expenses''.
Vocational Rehabilitation Loans Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of direct loans, $52,000, as authorized by 38
U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: Provided, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal
amount of direct loans not to exceed $2,726,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the direct loan program, $432,000, which may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses''.
Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct loan
program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter V, as
amended, $532,000, which may be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
guaranteed transitional housing loans for homeless veterans program
account
(including transfer of funds)
Not to exceed $750,000 of the amounts appropriated by this
Act for ``General operating expenses'' and ``Medical care''
may be expended for the administrative expenses to carry out
the guaranteed loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter
37, subchapter VI.
Veterans Health Administration
Medical Care
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of
hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities; for
furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and outpatient
care and treatment to beneficiaries of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, including care and treatment in facilities
not under the jurisdiction of the department; and furnishing
recreational facilities, supplies, and equipment; funeral,
burial, and other expenses incidental thereto for
beneficiaries receiving care in the department;
administrative expenses in support of planning, design,
project management, real property acquisition and
disposition, construction and renovation of any facility
under the jurisdiction or for the use of the department;
oversight, engineering and architectural activities not
charged to project cost; repairing, altering, improving or
providing facilities in the several hospitals and homes under
the jurisdiction of the department, not otherwise provided
for, either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees
and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances therefor,
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; aid to State homes as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative and legal
expenses of the department for collecting and recovering
amounts owed the department as authorized under 38 U.S.C.
chapter 17, and the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act, 42
U.S.C. 2651 et seq., $20,281,587,000, plus reimbursements:
Provided, That of the funds made available under this
heading, $900,000,000 is for the equipment and land and
structures object classifications only, which amount shall
not become available for obligation until August 1, 2001, and
shall remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided
further, That of the funds made available under this heading,
not to exceed $500,000,000 shall be available until September
30, 2002: Provided further, That of the funds made available
under this heading, not to exceed $28,134,000 may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses'': Provided further, That the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall conduct by contract a
program of recovery audits for the fee basis and other
medical services contracts with respect to payments for
hospital care; and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302(b),
amounts collected, by setoff or otherwise, as the result of
such audits shall be available, without fiscal year
limitation, for the purposes for which funds are appropriated
under this heading and the purposes of paying a contractor a
percent of the amount collected as a result of an audit
carried out by the contractor: Provided further, That all
amounts so collected under the preceding proviso with respect
to a designated health care region (as that term is defined
in 38 U.S.C. 1729A(d)(2)) shall be allocated, net of payments
to the contractor, to that region.
In addition, in conformance with Public Law 105-33
establishing the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care
Collections Fund, such sums as may be deposited to such Fund
pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1729A may be transferred to this
account, to remain available until expended for the purposes
of this account.
None of the foregoing funds may be transferred to the
Department of Justice for the purposes of supporting tobacco
litigation.
Medical and Prosthetic Research
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of medical
and prosthetic research and development as authorized by 38
U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available until September 30,
2002, $351,000,000, plus reimbursements.
Medical Administration and Miscellaneous Operating Expenses
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law;
administrative expenses in support of capital policy
activities, $62,000,000 plus reimbursements: Provided, That
technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities
Management Field Service, including project management and
real property administration (including leases, site
acquisition and disposal activities directly supporting
projects), shall be provided to Department of Veterans
Affairs components only on a reimbursable basis, and such
amounts will remain available until September 30, 2001.
Departmental Administration
General Operating Expenses
For necessary operating expenses of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including
uniforms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for
official reception and representation expenses; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General
Services Administration for security guard services, and the
Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail,
$1,050,000,000: Provided, That expenses for services and
assistance authorized under 38 U.S.C. 3104(a) (1), (2), (5)
and (11) that the Secretary determines are necessary to
enable entitled veterans (1) to the maximum extent feasible,
to become employable and to obtain and maintain suitable
employment; or (2) to achieve maximum independence in daily
living, shall be charged to this account: Provided further,
That of the funds made available under this heading, not to
exceed $45,000,000 shall be available until September 30,
2002: Provided further, That funds under this heading shall
be available to administer the Service Members Occupational
Conversion and Training Act.
national cemetery administration
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of
the National Cemetery Administration, not otherwise provided
for, including uniforms or allowances therefor; cemeterial
expenses as authorized by law; purchase of two passenger
motor vehicles for use in cemeterial operations; and hire of
passenger motor vehicles, $109,889,000: Provided, That travel
expenses shall not exceed $1,125,000: Provided further, That
of the amount made available under this heading, not to
exceed $125,000 may be transferred to and merged with the
appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
office of inspector general
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General
in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as
amended, $46,464,000: Provided, That of the amount made
available under this heading, not to exceed $28,000 may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses''.
Construction, Major Projects
For constructing, altering, extending and improving any of
the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the purposes
set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106,
8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, United States Code,
including planning, architectural and engineering services,
maintenance or guarantee period services costs associated
with equipment guarantees provided under the project,
services of claims analysts, offsite utility and storm
drainage system construction costs, and site acquisition,
where the estimated cost of a project is $4,000,000 or more
or where funds for a project were made available in a
previous major project appropriation, $66,040,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That except for advance
planning of projects (including market-based assessments of
health care needs which may or may not lead to capital
investments) funded through the advance planning fund and the
design of projects funded through the design fund, none of
these funds shall be used for any project which has not been
considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary
process: Provided further, That funds provided in this
appropriation for fiscal year 2001, for each approved project
shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of a construction
documents contract by September 30, 2001; and (2) by the
awarding of a construction contract by September 30, 2002:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall promptly report in
writing to the Committees on Appropriations any approved
major construction project in which obligations are not
incurred within the time limitations established above:
Provided further, That no funds from any other account except
the ``Parking revolving fund'', may be obligated for
constructing, altering, extending, or improving a project
which was approved in the budget process and funded in this
account until one year after substantial completion and
beneficial occupancy by the Department of Veterans Affairs of
the project or any part thereof with respect to that part
only.
Construction, Minor Projects
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of
the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, including planning,
architectural and engineering services, maintenance or
guarantee period services costs associated with equipment
guarantees provided under the project, services of claims
analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system
construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103,
8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 8162 of title 38, United
States Code, where the estimated cost of a project is less
than $4,000,000, $162,000,000, to remain available until
expended, along with unobligated balances of previous
``Construction, minor projects'' appropriations which are
hereby made available for any project where the estimated
cost is less than $4,000,000: Provided, That funds in this
account shall be available for: (1) repairs to any of the
nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the department which are necessary because of loss
[[Page
H10085]]
or damage caused by any natural disaster or catastrophe; and
(2) temporary measures necessary to prevent or to minimize
further loss by such causes.
Parking Revolving Fund
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38 U.S.C.
8109, income from fees collected, to remain available until
expended, which shall be available for all authorized
expenses except operations and maintenance costs, which will
be funded from ``Medical care''.
Grants for Construction of State Extended Care Facilities
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct State
nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to remodel,
modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care to
veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131-8137, $100,000,000,
to remain available until expended.
Grants for the Construction of State Veterans Cemeteries
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding, or
improving State veterans cemeteries as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended.
Administrative Provisions
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2001 for
``Compensation and pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and
``Veterans insurance and indemnities'' may be transferred to
any other of the mentioned appropriations.
Sec. 102. Appropriations available to the Department of
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for salaries and
expenses shall be available for services authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109.
Sec. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the Department
of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations for
``Construction, major projects'', ``Construction, minor
projects'', and the ``Parking revolving fund'') shall be
available for the purchase of any site for or toward the
construction of any new hospital or home.
Sec. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the Department
of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hospitalization or
examination of any persons (except beneficiaries entitled
under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, and
persons receiving such treatment under 5 U.S.C. 7901-7904 or
42 U.S.C. 5141-5204), unless reimbursement of cost is made to
the ``Medical care'' account at such rates as may be fixed by
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Sec. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for ``Compensation and
pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and ``Veterans
insurance and indemnities'' shall be available for payment of
prior year accrued obligations required to be recorded by law
against the corresponding prior year accounts within the last
quarter of fiscal year 2000.
Sec. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the
Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 shall be
available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X of
the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law 100-86,
except that if such obligations are from trust fund accounts
they shall be payable from ``Compensation and pensions''.
Sec. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
during fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall, from the National Service Life Insurance Fund (38
U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans' Special Life Insurance Fund (38
U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Government Life Insurance
Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reimburse the ``General operating
expenses'' account for the cost of administration of the
insurance programs financed through those accounts: Provided,
That reimbursement shall be made only from the surplus
earnings accumulated in an insurance program in fiscal year
2001, that are available for dividends in that program after
claims have been paid and actuarially determined reserves
have been set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of
administration of an insurance program exceeds the amount of
surplus earnings accumulated in that program, reimbursement
shall be made only to the extent of such surplus earnings:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall determine the cost
of administration for fiscal year 2001, which is properly
allocable to the provision of each insurance program and to
the provision of any total disability income insurance
included in such insurance program.
Sec. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
collections authorized by the Veterans Millennium Health Care
and Benefits Act (Public Law 106-117) and credited to the
appropriate Department of Veterans Affairs accounts in fiscal
year 2001, shall not be available for obligation or
expenditure unless appropriation language making such funds
available is enacted.
Sec. 109. In accordance with section 1557 of title 31,
United States Code, the following obligated balance shall be
exempt from subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such title and
shall remain available for expenditure until September 30,
2003: funds obligated by the Department of Veterans Affairs
for a contract with the Institute for Clinical Research to
study the application of artificial neural networks to the
diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through the
Cooperative DoD/VA Medical Research program from funds made
available to the Department of Veterans Affairs by the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law
103-335) under the heading ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Defense-Wide''.
Sec. 110. As HR LINK$ will not be part of the Franchise
Fund in fiscal year 2001, funds budgeted in customer accounts
to purchase HR LINK$ services from the Franchise Fund shall
be transferred to the General Administration portion of the
``General operating expenses'' appropriation in the following
amounts: $78,000 from the ``Office of Inspector General'',
$358,000 from the ``National cemetery administration'',
$1,106,000 from ``Medical care'', $84,000 from ``Medical
administration and miscellaneous operating expenses'', and
$38,000 shall be reprogrammed within the ``General operating
expenses'' appropriation from the Veterans Benefits
Administration to General Administration for the same
purpose.
Sec. 111. Not to exceed $1,600,000 from the ``Medical
care'' appropriation shall be transferred to the ``General
operating expenses'' appropriation to fund personnel services
costs of employees providing legal services and
administrative support for the Office of General Counsel.
Sec. 112. Not to exceed $1,200,000 may be transferred from
the ``Medical care'' appropriation to the ``General operating
expenses'' appropriation to fund contracts and services in
support of the Veterans Benefits Administration's Benefits
Delivery Center, Systems Development Center, and Finance
Center, located at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Hines, Illinois.
Sec. 113. Not to exceed $4,500,000 from the ``Construction,
minor projects'' appropriation and not to exceed $2,000,000
from the ``Medical care'' appropriation may be transferred to
and merged with the Parking Revolving Fund for surface
parking lot projects.
Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in
this Act for ``Medical care'' appropriations of the
Department of Veterans Affairs may be obligated for the
realignment of the health care delivery system in Veterans
Integrated Service Network 12 (VISN 12) until 60 days after
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs certifies that the
Department has: (1) consulted with veterans organizations,
medical school affiliates, employee representatives, State
veterans and health associations, and other interested
parties with respect to the realignment plan to be
implemented; and (2) made available to the Congress and the
public information from the consultations regarding possible
impacts on the accessibility of veterans health care services
to affected veterans.
TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Public and Indian Housing
Housing Certificate Fund
(including transfers of funds)
For activities and assistance to prevent the involuntary
displacement of low-income families, the elderly and the
disabled because of the loss of affordable housing stock,
expiration of subsidy contracts (other than contracts for
which amounts are provided under another heading in this Act)
or expiration of use restrictions, or other changes in
housing assistance arrangements, and for other purposes,
$13,940,907,000 and amounts that are recaptured in this
account to remain available until expended: Provided, That of
the total amount provided under this heading,
$13,430,000,000, of which $9,230,000,000 shall be available
on October 1, 2000 and $4,200,000,000 shall be available on
October 1, 2001, shall be for assistance under the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (``the Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C.
1437): Provided further, That the foregoing amounts shall
shall be for use in connection with expiring or terminating
section 8 subsidy contracts, for amendments to section 8
subsidy contracts, for enhanced vouchers (including
amendments and renewals) under any provision of law
authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (47 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), contract
administrators, and contracts entered into pursuant to
section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance
Act: Provided further, That amounts available under the first
proviso under this heading shall be available for section 8
rental assistance under the Act: (1) for the relocation and
replacement of housing units that are demolished or disposed
of pursuant to section 24 of the United States Housing Act of
1937 or to other authority for the revitalization of severely
distressed public housing, as set forth in the Appropriations
Acts for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies for fiscal years
1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997, and in the Omnibus Consolidated
Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996; (2) for the
conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under section
8; (3) for funds to carry out the family unification program;
(4) for the relocation of witnesses in connection with
efforts to combat crime in public and assisted housing
pursuant to a request from a law enforcement or prosecution
agency; (5) for tenant protection assistance, including
replacement and relocation assistance; and (6) for the 1-year
renewal of section 8 contracts for units in a project that is
subject to an approved plan of action under the Emergency Low
Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income
Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990:
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, $11,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working
Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of
information technology systems: Provided further, That of the
total amount provided under this heading, $40,000,000 shall
be made available to nonelderly disabled families affected
by the designation of a public housing development under
section 7 of the Act, the establishment of preferences in
accordance with section 651 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 1361l), or the
restriction of occupancy to elderly families in accordance
with section 658 of such Act, and to the extent the
Secretary determines that such amount is not needed to
fund applications for such affected families, to other
nonelderly disabled families: Provided further, That of
the total amount provided under this heading,
[[Page
H10086]]
$452,907,000 shall be made available for incremental
vouchers under section 8 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 on a fair share basis and administered by public
housing agencies:
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, up to $7,000,000 shall be made available for
the completion of the Jobs Plus Demonstration: Provided
further, That amounts available under this heading may be
made available for administrative fees and other expenses to
cover the cost of administering rental assistance programs
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937:
Provided further, That the fee otherwise authorized under
section 8(q) of such Act shall be determined in accordance
with section 8(q), as in effect immediately before the
enactment of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act
of 1998: Provided further, That $1,833,000,000 is rescinded
from unobligated balances remaining from funds appropriated
to the Department of Housing and Urban Development under this
heading or the heading ``Annual Contributions for Assisted
Housing'' or any other heading for fiscal year 2000 and prior
years: Provided further, That any such balances governed by
reallocation provisions under the statute authorizing the
program for which the funds were originally appropriated
shall not be available for this rescission: Provided further,
That the Secretary shall have until September 30, 2001, to
meet the rescission in the proviso preceding the immediately
preceding proviso: Provided further, That any obligated
balances of contract authority that have been terminated
shall be canceled.
public housing capital fund
(including transfer of funds)
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to carry out
capital and management activities for public housing
agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437),
$3,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which
up to $50,000,000 shall be for carrying out activities under
section 9(h) of such Act, for lease adjustments to section 23
projects and $43,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working
Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of
information technology systems: Provided, That no funds may
be used under this heading for the purposes specified in
section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937:
Provided further, That of the total amount, up to $75,000,000
shall be available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to make grants to public housing agencies
for emergency capital needs resulting from emergencies and
natural disasters in fiscal year 2001.
public housing operating fund
For payments to public housing agencies for the operation
and management of public housing, as authorized by section
9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1437g), $3,242,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That no funds may be used under this
heading for the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937.
Drug Elimination Grants for Low-Income Housing
(including transfers of funds)
For grants to public housing agencies and Indian tribes and
their tribally designated housing entities for use in
eliminating crime in public housing projects authorized by 42
U.S.C. 11901-11908, for grants for federally assisted low-
income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11909, and for drug
information clearinghouse services authorized by 42 U.S.C.
11921-11925, $310,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, up to $3,000,000 shall be solely for technical
assistance, technical assistance grants, training, and
program assessment for or on behalf of public housing
agencies, resident organizations, and Indian tribes and their
tribally designated housing entities (including up to
$150,000 for the cost of necessary travel for participants in
such training) for oversight, training and improved
management of this program, $2,000,000 shall be available to
the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for the operating and
start-up costs of clubs located in or near, and primarily
serving residents of, public housing and housing assisted
under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996, and $10,000,000 shall be used in
connection with efforts to combat violent crime in public and
assisted housing under the Operation Safe Home Program
administered by the Inspector General of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That of the
amount under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be provided to
the Office of Inspector General for Operation Safe Home:
Provided further, That of the amount under this heading,
$20,000,000 shall be available for the New Approach Anti-Drug
program which will provide competitive grants to entities
managing or operating public housing developments, federally
assisted multifamily housing developments, or other
multifamily housing developments for low-income families
supported by non-Federal governmental entities or similar
housing developments supported by nonprofit private sources
in order to provide or augment security (including personnel
costs), to assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of
drug-related criminal activity in and around such
developments, and to provide assistance for the development
of capital improvements at such developments directly
relating to the security of such developments: Provided
further, That grants for the New Approach Anti-Drug program
shall be made on a competitive basis as specified in section
102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform
Act of 1989.
Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing (Hope VI)
For grants to public housing agencies for demolition, site
revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based
assistance grants to projects as authorized by section 24 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937, $575,000,000 to remain
available until expended, of which the Secretary may use up
to $10,000,000 for technical assistance and contract
expertise, to be provided directly or indirectly by grants,
contracts or cooperative agreements, including training and
cost of necessary travel for participants in such training,
by or to officials and employees of the department and of
public housing agencies and to residents: Provided, That none
of such funds shall be used directly or indirectly by
granting competitive advantage in awards to settle litigation
or pay judgments, unless expressly permitted herein.
Native American Housing Block Grants
(including transfers of funds)
For the Native American Housing Block Grants program, as
authorized under title I of the Native American Housing
Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA)
(Public Law 104-330), $650,000,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $6,000,000 shall be to support the
inspection of Indian housing units, contract expertise,
training, and technical assistance in the training,
oversight, and management of Indian housing and tenant-based
assistance, including up to $300,000 for related travel:
Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading,
$6,000,000 shall be made available for the cost of guaranteed
notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of
NAHASDA: Provided further, That such costs, including the
costs of modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize the total principal amount of any
notes and other obligations, any part of which is to be
guaranteed, not to exceed $54,600,000: Provided further, That
for administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan
program, up to $150,000 from amounts in the first proviso,
which shall be transferred to and merged with the
appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses'', to be used only
for the administrative costs of these guarantees: Provided
further, That of the amount provided in this heading,
$2,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund
for developing and maintaining information technology
systems.
indian housing loan guarantee fund program account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section
184 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (106
Stat. 3739), $6,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That such costs, including the costs of modifying
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided
further, That these funds are available to subsidize total
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to
exceed $71,956,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the
guaranteed loan program, up to $200,000 from amounts in the
first paragraph, which shall be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses'', to be
used only for the administrative costs of these guarantees.
Community Planning and Development
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons with
AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity
Act (42 U.S.C. 12901), $258,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew
all expiring contracts that were funded under section
854(c)(3) of such Act that meet all program requirements
before awarding funds for new contracts and activities
authorized under this section: Provided further, That the
Secretary may use up to 1 percent of the funds under this
heading for training, oversight, and technical assistance
activities.
rural housing and economic development
For the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development in
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, $25,000,000
to remain available until expended, which amount shall be
awarded by June 1, 2001, to Indian tribes, State housing
finance agencies, State community and/or economic development
agencies, local rural nonprofits and community development
corporations to support innovative housing and economic
development activities in rural areas: Provided, That all
grants shall be awarded on a competitive basis as specified
in section 102 of the HUD Reform Act.
EMPOWERMENT ZONES/ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES
For grants in connection with a second round of empowerment
zones and enterprise communities, $90,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That $75,000,000 shall be
available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
for ``Urban Empowerment Zones'', as authorized in the
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, including $5,000,000 for each
empowerment zone for use in conjunction with economic
development activities consistent with the strategic plan of
each empowerment zone: Provided further, That $15,000,000
shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture for grants
for designated empowerment zones in rural areas and for
grants for designated rural enterprise communities.
community development fund
(including transfers of funds)
For assistance to units of State and local government, and
to other entities, for economic and community development
activities, and for other purposes, $5,057,550,000: Provided,
That of the amount provided, $4,409,000,000 is for carrying
[[Page
H10087]]
out the community development block grant program under title
I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as
amended (the ``Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301), to remain
available until September 30, 2003: Provided further, That
$71,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes
notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000
shall be available as a grant to the Housing Assistance
Council, $2,600,000 shall be available as a grant to the
National American Indian Housing Council, $10,000,000 shall
be available as a grant to the National Housing Development
Corporation, for operating expenses not to exceed $2,000,000
and for a program of affordable housing acquisition and
rehabilitation, and $45,500,000 shall be for grants pursuant
to section 107 of the Act of which $3,000,000 shall be made
available to support Alaska Native serving institutions and
native Hawaiian serving institutions, as defined under the
Higher Education Act, as amended, and of which $3,000,000
shall be made available to tribal colleges and universities
to build, expand, renovate, and equip their facilities:
Provided further, That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant
made with funds appropriated herein (other than a grant made
available in this paragraph to the Housing Assistance Council
or the National American Indian Housing Council, or a grant
using funds under section 107(b)(3) of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974, as amended) shall be
expended for ``Planning and Management Development'' and
``Administration'' as defined in regulations promulgated by
the department: Provided further, That $15,000,000 shall be
transferred to the Working Capital Fund for the development
and maintenance of information technology systems: Provided
further, That $20,000,000 shall be for grants pursuant to the
Self Help Housing Opportunity Program.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$28,450,000 shall be made available for capacity building, of
which $25,000,000 shall be made available for ``Capacity
Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing'',
for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for activities as
authorized by section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993
(Public Law 103-120), as in effect immediately before June
12, 1997, of which not less than $5,000,000 of the funding
shall be used in rural areas, including tribal areas, and of
which $3,450,000 shall be made available for capacity
building activities administered by Habitat for Humanity
International.
Of the amount made available under this heading, the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use up to
$55,000,000 for supportive services for public housing
residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and for residents of housing
assisted under the Native American Housing Assistance and
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) and for grants for
service coordinators and congregate services for the elderly
and disabled residents of public and assisted housing and
housing assisted under NAHASDA.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$44,000,000 shall be available for neighborhood initiatives
that are utilized to improve the conditions of distressed and
blighted areas and neighborhoods, to stimulate investment,
economic diversification, and community revitalization in
areas with population outmigration or a stagnating or
declining economic base, or to determine whether housing
benefits can be integrated more effectively with welfare
reform initiatives: Provided, That any unobligated balances
of amounts set aside for neighborhood initiatives in fiscal
years 1998, 1999, and 2000 may be utilized for any of the
foregoing purposes: Provided further, That these grants shall
be provided in accord with the terms and conditions specified
in the statement of managers accompanying this conference
report.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $60,000,000 shall
be available for YouthBuild program activities authorized
by subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such
activities shall be an eligible activity with respect to
any funds made available under this heading: Provided,
That local YouthBuild programs that demonstrate an ability
to leverage private and nonprofit funding shall be given a
priority for YouthBuild funding: Provided further, That no
more than ten percent of any grant award may be used for
administrative costs: Provided further, That not less than
$10,000,000 shall be available for grants to establish
YouthBuild programs in underserved and rural areas:
Provided further, That of the amount provided under this
paragraph, $4,000,000 shall be set aside and made
available for a grant to Youthbuild USA for capacity
building for community development and affordable housing
activities as specified in section 4 of the HUD
Demonstration Act of 1993, as amended.
Of the amounts made available under this heading,
$2,000,000 shall be available to the Utah Housing Finance
Agency for the temporary use of relocatable housing during
the 2002 Winter Olympic Games provided such housing is
targeted to the housing needs of low-income families after
the Games.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$292,000,000 shall be available for grants for the Economic
Development Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of targeted
economic investments in accordance with the terms and
conditions specified in the statement of managers
accompanying this conference report.
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $29,000,000, as
authorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, including
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available to
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be
guaranteed, not to exceed $1,261,000,000, notwithstanding any
aggregate limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in
section 108(k) of the Housing and Community Development Act
of 1974: Provided further, That in addition, for
administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan
program, $1,000,000, which shall be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses''.
Brownfields Redevelopment
For Economic Development Grants, as authorized by section
108(q) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974,
as amended, for Brownfields redevelopment projects,
$25,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall
make these grants available on a competitive basis as
specified in section 102 of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.
home investment partnerships program
(including transfer of funds)
For the HOME investment partnerships program, as authorized
under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable
Housing Act, as amended, $1,800,000,000 to remain available
until expended: Provided, That up to $20,000,000 of these
funds shall be available for Housing Counseling under section
106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968:
Provided further, That $17,000,000 shall be transferred to
the Working Capital Fund for the development and maintenance
of information technology systems.
homeless assistance grants
(including transfer of funds)
For the emergency shelter grants program (as authorized
under subtitle B of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney
Homeless Assistance Act, as amended); the supportive housing
program (as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of such
Act); the section 8 moderate rehabilitation single room
occupancy program (as authorized under the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended) to assist homeless
individuals pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and the shelter plus care
program (as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of such
Act), $1,025,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That not less than 30 percent of these funds shall
be used for permanent housing, and all funding for services
must be matched by 25 percent in funding by each grantee:
Provided further, That all awards of assistance under this
heading shall be required to coordinate and integrate
homeless programs with other mainstream health, social
services, and employment programs for which homeless
populations may be eligible, including Medicaid, State
Children's Health Insurance Program, Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families, Food Stamps, and services funding through the
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Block Grant, Workforce
Investment Act, and the Welfare-to-Work grant program:
Provided further, That up to 1.5 percent of the funds
appropriated under this heading is transferred to the Working
Capital Fund to be used for technical assistance for
management information systems and to develop an automated,
client-level Annual Performance Report System: Provided
further, That $500,000 shall be made available to the
Interagency Council on the Homeless for administrative needs.
SHELTER PLUS CARE Renewals
For the renewal on an annual basis of contracts expiring
during fiscal years 2001 and 2002 under the Shelter Plus Care
program, as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of the
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended,
$100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That each Shelter Plus Care project with an expiring contract
shall be eligible for renewal only if the project is
determined to be needed under the applicable continuum of
care and meets appropriate program requirements and financial
standards, as determined by the Secretary.
Housing Programs
housing for special populations
(including transfer of funds)
For assistance for the purchase, construction, acquisition,
or development of additional public and subsidized housing
units for low income families not otherwise provided for,
$996,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That $779,000,000 shall be for capital advances, including
amendments to capital advance contracts, for housing for the
elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of
1959, as amended, and for project rental assistance, and
amendments to contracts for project rental assistance, for
the elderly under such section 202(c)(2), and for
supportive services associated with the housing, of which
amount $50,000,000 shall be for service coordinators and
the continuation of existing congregate service grants for
residents of assisted housing projects and of which amount
$50,000,000 shall be for grants under section 202b of the
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q-2) for conversion of
eligible projects under such section to assisted living or
related use: Provided further, That of the amount under
this heading, $217,000,000 shall be for capital advances,
including amendments to capital advance contracts, for
supportive housing for persons with disabilities, as
authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act, for project rental
assistance, for amendments to contracts for project rental
assistance, and supportive services associated with the
housing for persons with disabilities as authorized by
section 811 of such Act: Provided further, That
$1,000,000, to be divided evenly between the
appropriations for the section 202 and section 811
programs, shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund
for the
[[Page
H10088]]
development and maintenance of information technology
systems: Provided further, That the Secretary may
designate up to 25 percent of the amounts earmarked under
this paragraph for section 811 of such Act for tenant-
based assistance, as authorized under that section,
including such authority as may be waived under the next
proviso, which assistance is 5 years in duration: Provided
further, That the Secretary may waive any provision of
such section 202 and such section 811 (including the
provisions governing the terms and conditions of project
rental assistance and tenant-based assistance) that the
Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the
objectives of these programs, or that otherwise impedes
the ability to develop, operate, or administer projects
assisted under these programs, and may make provision for
alternative conditions or terms where appropriate.
Flexible Subsidy Fund
(transfer of funds)
From the Rental Housing Assistance Fund, all uncommitted
balances of excess rental charges as of September 30, 2000,
and any collections made during fiscal year 2001, shall be
transferred to the Flexible Subsidy Fund, as authorized by
section 236(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended.
Federal Housing Administration
fha--mutual mortgage insurance program account
(including transfers of funds)
During fiscal year 2001, commitments to guarantee loans to
carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the National
Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a
Major Actions:
All articles in House section
CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 4635, DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2001
(House of Representatives - October 18, 2000)
Text of this article available as:
TXT
PDF
[Pages H10083-
H10224]
CONFERENCE REPORT ON
H.R. 4635, DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
ACT, 2001
Mr. WALSH submitted the following conference report and statement on
the bill (
H.R. 4635) making appropriations for the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes:
Conference Report (H. Rept. 106-988)
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the
two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (
H.R.
4635) ``making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and
offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and
for other purposes'', having met, after full and free
conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to
their respective Houses as follows:
That the House recede from its disagreement to the
amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an
amendment, as follows:
In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said
amendment, insert:
Section 1. (a) The provisions of the following bills of the
106th Congress are hereby enacted into law:
(1)
H.R. 5482, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
(2)
H.R. 5483, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
(b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the United
States Statutes at Large pursuant to section 112 of title 1,
United States Code, the Archivist of the United States shall
include after the date of approval at the end appendixes
setting forth the texts of the bills referred to in
subsection (a) of this section.
; And the Senate agree to the same.
James T. Walsh,
Tom DeLay,
Dave Hobson,
Joe Knollenberg,
Rodney Frelinghuysen,
Anne M. Northup,
John E. Sununu,
Virgil Goode, Jr.,
Bill Young,
Alan B. Mollohan,
Marcy Kaptur,
Carrie P. Meek,
David E. Price,
Bud Cramer,
Dave Obey,
Managers on the Part of the House.
Christopher S. Bond,
Conrad Burns,
Richard C. Shelby,
Larry E. Craig,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Ted Stevens,
Pete V. Domenici,
Barbara A. Mikulski,
Patrick Leahy,
Frank R. Lautenberg,
Tom Harkin,
Robert C. Byrd,
Harry Reid,
Daniel K. Inouye,
Managers on the Part of the Senate.
JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE
The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the
conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the
amendment of the Senate to the bill (
H.R. 4635) making
appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent
agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other
purposes, submit the following joint statement to the House
and the Senate in explanation of the effect of the action
agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the
accompanying report.
This conference agreement includes more than the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act,
2001. The conference agreement has been expanded to include
the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2001, as
well as the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2001. Both of these Acts have been enacted into law by
reference in this conference report; however, a copy of the
referenced legislation has been included in this statement
for convenience.
DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
The conference agreement would enact the provisions of
H.R.
5482 as introduced on October 18, 2000. The text of that bill
follows:
A BILL Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and
offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for
sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions,
corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Veterans Benefits Administration
Compensation and Pensions
(including transfers of funds)
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on behalf of
veterans and a pilot program for disability examinations as
authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters 11, 13, 18, 51,
53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to or on behalf of veterans
as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and
61; 92 Stat. 2508); and burial benefits, emergency and other
officers' retirement pay, adjusted-service credits and
certificates, payment of premiums due on commercial life
insurance policies guaranteed under the provisions of Article
IV of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as
amended, and for other benefits as authorized by law (38
U.S.C. 107, 1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53, 55,
and 61; 50 U.S.C. App. 540-548; 43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat.
735; 76 Stat. 1198), $22,766,276,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $17,419,000 of
the amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to ``General
operating expenses'' and ``Medical care'' for necessary
expenses in implementing those provisions authorized in the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in the
Veterans' Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters 51, 53,
and 55), the funding source for which is specifically
provided as the ``Compensation and pensions'' appropriation:
Provided further, That such sums as may be earned on an
actual qualifying patient basis, shall be reimbursed to
``Medical facilities revolving fund'' to augment the funding
of individual medical facilities for nursing home care
provided to pensioners as authorized.
Readjustment Benefits
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation benefits
to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C.
chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53, 55, and 61,
$1,634,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That expenses for rehabilitation program services and
assistance which the Secretary is authorized to provide under
section 3104(a) of title 38, United States Code, other than
under subsection (a)(1), (2), (5) and (11) of that section,
shall be charged to the account: Provided further, That funds
shall be available to pay any court order, court award or any
compromise settlement arising from litigation involving the
vocational training program authorized by section 18 of
Public Law 98-77, as amended.
Veterans Insurance and Indemnities
For military and naval insurance, national service life
insurance, servicemen's indemnities, service-disabled
veterans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 Stat.
487, $19,850,000, to remain available until expended.
Veterans Housing Benefit Program Fund Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such sums as
may be necessary to carry out the program, as authorized by
38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Provided, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That during fiscal year
2001, within the resources available, not to exceed $300,000
in gross obligations for direct loans are authorized for
specially adapted housing loans.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the
direct and guaranteed loan programs, $162,000,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses''.
Education Loan Fund Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 3698, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans not to exceed $3,400.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the direct loan program, $220,000, which may be
transferred to and
[[Page
H10084]]
merged with the appropriation for ``General operating
expenses''.
Vocational Rehabilitation Loans Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of direct loans, $52,000, as authorized by 38
U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: Provided, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal
amount of direct loans not to exceed $2,726,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry
out the direct loan program, $432,000, which may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses''.
Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account
(including transfer of funds)
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct loan
program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter V, as
amended, $532,000, which may be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
guaranteed transitional housing loans for homeless veterans program
account
(including transfer of funds)
Not to exceed $750,000 of the amounts appropriated by this
Act for ``General operating expenses'' and ``Medical care''
may be expended for the administrative expenses to carry out
the guaranteed loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter
37, subchapter VI.
Veterans Health Administration
Medical Care
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of
hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities; for
furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and outpatient
care and treatment to beneficiaries of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, including care and treatment in facilities
not under the jurisdiction of the department; and furnishing
recreational facilities, supplies, and equipment; funeral,
burial, and other expenses incidental thereto for
beneficiaries receiving care in the department;
administrative expenses in support of planning, design,
project management, real property acquisition and
disposition, construction and renovation of any facility
under the jurisdiction or for the use of the department;
oversight, engineering and architectural activities not
charged to project cost; repairing, altering, improving or
providing facilities in the several hospitals and homes under
the jurisdiction of the department, not otherwise provided
for, either by contract or by the hire of temporary employees
and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances therefor,
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; aid to State homes as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative and legal
expenses of the department for collecting and recovering
amounts owed the department as authorized under 38 U.S.C.
chapter 17, and the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act, 42
U.S.C. 2651 et seq., $20,281,587,000, plus reimbursements:
Provided, That of the funds made available under this
heading, $900,000,000 is for the equipment and land and
structures object classifications only, which amount shall
not become available for obligation until August 1, 2001, and
shall remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided
further, That of the funds made available under this heading,
not to exceed $500,000,000 shall be available until September
30, 2002: Provided further, That of the funds made available
under this heading, not to exceed $28,134,000 may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses'': Provided further, That the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall conduct by contract a
program of recovery audits for the fee basis and other
medical services contracts with respect to payments for
hospital care; and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302(b),
amounts collected, by setoff or otherwise, as the result of
such audits shall be available, without fiscal year
limitation, for the purposes for which funds are appropriated
under this heading and the purposes of paying a contractor a
percent of the amount collected as a result of an audit
carried out by the contractor: Provided further, That all
amounts so collected under the preceding proviso with respect
to a designated health care region (as that term is defined
in 38 U.S.C. 1729A(d)(2)) shall be allocated, net of payments
to the contractor, to that region.
In addition, in conformance with Public Law 105-33
establishing the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care
Collections Fund, such sums as may be deposited to such Fund
pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1729A may be transferred to this
account, to remain available until expended for the purposes
of this account.
None of the foregoing funds may be transferred to the
Department of Justice for the purposes of supporting tobacco
litigation.
Medical and Prosthetic Research
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of medical
and prosthetic research and development as authorized by 38
U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available until September 30,
2002, $351,000,000, plus reimbursements.
Medical Administration and Miscellaneous Operating Expenses
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law;
administrative expenses in support of capital policy
activities, $62,000,000 plus reimbursements: Provided, That
technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities
Management Field Service, including project management and
real property administration (including leases, site
acquisition and disposal activities directly supporting
projects), shall be provided to Department of Veterans
Affairs components only on a reimbursable basis, and such
amounts will remain available until September 30, 2001.
Departmental Administration
General Operating Expenses
For necessary operating expenses of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including
uniforms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for
official reception and representation expenses; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General
Services Administration for security guard services, and the
Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail,
$1,050,000,000: Provided, That expenses for services and
assistance authorized under 38 U.S.C. 3104(a) (1), (2), (5)
and (11) that the Secretary determines are necessary to
enable entitled veterans (1) to the maximum extent feasible,
to become employable and to obtain and maintain suitable
employment; or (2) to achieve maximum independence in daily
living, shall be charged to this account: Provided further,
That of the funds made available under this heading, not to
exceed $45,000,000 shall be available until September 30,
2002: Provided further, That funds under this heading shall
be available to administer the Service Members Occupational
Conversion and Training Act.
national cemetery administration
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of
the National Cemetery Administration, not otherwise provided
for, including uniforms or allowances therefor; cemeterial
expenses as authorized by law; purchase of two passenger
motor vehicles for use in cemeterial operations; and hire of
passenger motor vehicles, $109,889,000: Provided, That travel
expenses shall not exceed $1,125,000: Provided further, That
of the amount made available under this heading, not to
exceed $125,000 may be transferred to and merged with the
appropriation for ``General operating expenses''.
office of inspector general
(including transfer of funds)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General
in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as
amended, $46,464,000: Provided, That of the amount made
available under this heading, not to exceed $28,000 may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
``General operating expenses''.
Construction, Major Projects
For constructing, altering, extending and improving any of
the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the purposes
set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106,
8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, United States Code,
including planning, architectural and engineering services,
maintenance or guarantee period services costs associated
with equipment guarantees provided under the project,
services of claims analysts, offsite utility and storm
drainage system construction costs, and site acquisition,
where the estimated cost of a project is $4,000,000 or more
or where funds for a project were made available in a
previous major project appropriation, $66,040,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That except for advance
planning of projects (including market-based assessments of
health care needs which may or may not lead to capital
investments) funded through the advance planning fund and the
design of projects funded through the design fund, none of
these funds shall be used for any project which has not been
considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary
process: Provided further, That funds provided in this
appropriation for fiscal year 2001, for each approved project
shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of a construction
documents contract by September 30, 2001; and (2) by the
awarding of a construction contract by September 30, 2002:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall promptly report in
writing to the Committees on Appropriations any approved
major construction project in which obligations are not
incurred within the time limitations established above:
Provided further, That no funds from any other account except
the ``Parking revolving fund'', may be obligated for
constructing, altering, extending, or improving a project
which was approved in the budget process and funded in this
account until one year after substantial completion and
beneficial occupancy by the Department of Veterans Affairs of
the project or any part thereof with respect to that part
only.
Construction, Minor Projects
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of
the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, including planning,
architectural and engineering services, maintenance or
guarantee period services costs associated with equipment
guarantees provided under the project, services of claims
analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system
construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103,
8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 8162 of title 38, United
States Code, where the estimated cost of a project is less
than $4,000,000, $162,000,000, to remain available until
expended, along with unobligated balances of previous
``Construction, minor projects'' appropriations which are
hereby made available for any project where the estimated
cost is less than $4,000,000: Provided, That funds in this
account shall be available for: (1) repairs to any of the
nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the department which are necessary because of loss
[[Page
H10085]]
or damage caused by any natural disaster or catastrophe; and
(2) temporary measures necessary to prevent or to minimize
further loss by such causes.
Parking Revolving Fund
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38 U.S.C.
8109, income from fees collected, to remain available until
expended, which shall be available for all authorized
expenses except operations and maintenance costs, which will
be funded from ``Medical care''.
Grants for Construction of State Extended Care Facilities
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct State
nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to remodel,
modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care to
veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131-8137, $100,000,000,
to remain available until expended.
Grants for the Construction of State Veterans Cemeteries
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding, or
improving State veterans cemeteries as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended.
Administrative Provisions
(including transfer of funds)
Sec. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2001 for
``Compensation and pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and
``Veterans insurance and indemnities'' may be transferred to
any other of the mentioned appropriations.
Sec. 102. Appropriations available to the Department of
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for salaries and
expenses shall be available for services authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109.
Sec. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the Department
of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations for
``Construction, major projects'', ``Construction, minor
projects'', and the ``Parking revolving fund'') shall be
available for the purchase of any site for or toward the
construction of any new hospital or home.
Sec. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the Department
of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hospitalization or
examination of any persons (except beneficiaries entitled
under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, and
persons receiving such treatment under 5 U.S.C. 7901-7904 or
42 U.S.C. 5141-5204), unless reimbursement of cost is made to
the ``Medical care'' account at such rates as may be fixed by
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Sec. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for ``Compensation and
pensions'', ``Readjustment benefits'', and ``Veterans
insurance and indemnities'' shall be available for payment of
prior year accrued obligations required to be recorded by law
against the corresponding prior year accounts within the last
quarter of fiscal year 2000.
Sec. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the
Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 shall be
available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X of
the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law 100-86,
except that if such obligations are from trust fund accounts
they shall be payable from ``Compensation and pensions''.
Sec. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
during fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall, from the National Service Life Insurance Fund (38
U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans' Special Life Insurance Fund (38
U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Government Life Insurance
Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reimburse the ``General operating
expenses'' account for the cost of administration of the
insurance programs financed through those accounts: Provided,
That reimbursement shall be made only from the surplus
earnings accumulated in an insurance program in fiscal year
2001, that are available for dividends in that program after
claims have been paid and actuarially determined reserves
have been set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of
administration of an insurance program exceeds the amount of
surplus earnings accumulated in that program, reimbursement
shall be made only to the extent of such surplus earnings:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall determine the cost
of administration for fiscal year 2001, which is properly
allocable to the provision of each insurance program and to
the provision of any total disability income insurance
included in such insurance program.
Sec. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
collections authorized by the Veterans Millennium Health Care
and Benefits Act (Public Law 106-117) and credited to the
appropriate Department of Veterans Affairs accounts in fiscal
year 2001, shall not be available for obligation or
expenditure unless appropriation language making such funds
available is enacted.
Sec. 109. In accordance with section 1557 of title 31,
United States Code, the following obligated balance shall be
exempt from subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such title and
shall remain available for expenditure until September 30,
2003: funds obligated by the Department of Veterans Affairs
for a contract with the Institute for Clinical Research to
study the application of artificial neural networks to the
diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through the
Cooperative DoD/VA Medical Research program from funds made
available to the Department of Veterans Affairs by the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law
103-335) under the heading ``Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Defense-Wide''.
Sec. 110. As HR LINK$ will not be part of the Franchise
Fund in fiscal year 2001, funds budgeted in customer accounts
to purchase HR LINK$ services from the Franchise Fund shall
be transferred to the General Administration portion of the
``General operating expenses'' appropriation in the following
amounts: $78,000 from the ``Office of Inspector General'',
$358,000 from the ``National cemetery administration'',
$1,106,000 from ``Medical care'', $84,000 from ``Medical
administration and miscellaneous operating expenses'', and
$38,000 shall be reprogrammed within the ``General operating
expenses'' appropriation from the Veterans Benefits
Administration to General Administration for the same
purpose.
Sec. 111. Not to exceed $1,600,000 from the ``Medical
care'' appropriation shall be transferred to the ``General
operating expenses'' appropriation to fund personnel services
costs of employees providing legal services and
administrative support for the Office of General Counsel.
Sec. 112. Not to exceed $1,200,000 may be transferred from
the ``Medical care'' appropriation to the ``General operating
expenses'' appropriation to fund contracts and services in
support of the Veterans Benefits Administration's Benefits
Delivery Center, Systems Development Center, and Finance
Center, located at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Hines, Illinois.
Sec. 113. Not to exceed $4,500,000 from the ``Construction,
minor projects'' appropriation and not to exceed $2,000,000
from the ``Medical care'' appropriation may be transferred to
and merged with the Parking Revolving Fund for surface
parking lot projects.
Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in
this Act for ``Medical care'' appropriations of the
Department of Veterans Affairs may be obligated for the
realignment of the health care delivery system in Veterans
Integrated Service Network 12 (VISN 12) until 60 days after
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs certifies that the
Department has: (1) consulted with veterans organizations,
medical school affiliates, employee representatives, State
veterans and health associations, and other interested
parties with respect to the realignment plan to be
implemented; and (2) made available to the Congress and the
public information from the consultations regarding possible
impacts on the accessibility of veterans health care services
to affected veterans.
TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Public and Indian Housing
Housing Certificate Fund
(including transfers of funds)
For activities and assistance to prevent the involuntary
displacement of low-income families, the elderly and the
disabled because of the loss of affordable housing stock,
expiration of subsidy contracts (other than contracts for
which amounts are provided under another heading in this Act)
or expiration of use restrictions, or other changes in
housing assistance arrangements, and for other purposes,
$13,940,907,000 and amounts that are recaptured in this
account to remain available until expended: Provided, That of
the total amount provided under this heading,
$13,430,000,000, of which $9,230,000,000 shall be available
on October 1, 2000 and $4,200,000,000 shall be available on
October 1, 2001, shall be for assistance under the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (``the Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C.
1437): Provided further, That the foregoing amounts shall
shall be for use in connection with expiring or terminating
section 8 subsidy contracts, for amendments to section 8
subsidy contracts, for enhanced vouchers (including
amendments and renewals) under any provision of law
authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (47 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), contract
administrators, and contracts entered into pursuant to
section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance
Act: Provided further, That amounts available under the first
proviso under this heading shall be available for section 8
rental assistance under the Act: (1) for the relocation and
replacement of housing units that are demolished or disposed
of pursuant to section 24 of the United States Housing Act of
1937 or to other authority for the revitalization of severely
distressed public housing, as set forth in the Appropriations
Acts for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies for fiscal years
1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997, and in the Omnibus Consolidated
Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996; (2) for the
conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under section
8; (3) for funds to carry out the family unification program;
(4) for the relocation of witnesses in connection with
efforts to combat crime in public and assisted housing
pursuant to a request from a law enforcement or prosecution
agency; (5) for tenant protection assistance, including
replacement and relocation assistance; and (6) for the 1-year
renewal of section 8 contracts for units in a project that is
subject to an approved plan of action under the Emergency Low
Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income
Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990:
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, $11,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working
Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of
information technology systems: Provided further, That of the
total amount provided under this heading, $40,000,000 shall
be made available to nonelderly disabled families affected
by the designation of a public housing development under
section 7 of the Act, the establishment of preferences in
accordance with section 651 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 1361l), or the
restriction of occupancy to elderly families in accordance
with section 658 of such Act, and to the extent the
Secretary determines that such amount is not needed to
fund applications for such affected families, to other
nonelderly disabled families: Provided further, That of
the total amount provided under this heading,
[[Page
H10086]]
$452,907,000 shall be made available for incremental
vouchers under section 8 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 on a fair share basis and administered by public
housing agencies:
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, up to $7,000,000 shall be made available for
the completion of the Jobs Plus Demonstration: Provided
further, That amounts available under this heading may be
made available for administrative fees and other expenses to
cover the cost of administering rental assistance programs
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937:
Provided further, That the fee otherwise authorized under
section 8(q) of such Act shall be determined in accordance
with section 8(q), as in effect immediately before the
enactment of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act
of 1998: Provided further, That $1,833,000,000 is rescinded
from unobligated balances remaining from funds appropriated
to the Department of Housing and Urban Development under this
heading or the heading ``Annual Contributions for Assisted
Housing'' or any other heading for fiscal year 2000 and prior
years: Provided further, That any such balances governed by
reallocation provisions under the statute authorizing the
program for which the funds were originally appropriated
shall not be available for this rescission: Provided further,
That the Secretary shall have until September 30, 2001, to
meet the rescission in the proviso preceding the immediately
preceding proviso: Provided further, That any obligated
balances of contract authority that have been terminated
shall be canceled.
public housing capital fund
(including transfer of funds)
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to carry out
capital and management activities for public housing
agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437),
$3,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which
up to $50,000,000 shall be for carrying out activities under
section 9(h) of such Act, for lease adjustments to section 23
projects and $43,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working
Capital Fund for the development and maintenance of
information technology systems: Provided, That no funds may
be used under this heading for the purposes specified in
section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937:
Provided further, That of the total amount, up to $75,000,000
shall be available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to make grants to public housing agencies
for emergency capital needs resulting from emergencies and
natural disasters in fiscal year 2001.
public housing operating fund
For payments to public housing agencies for the operation
and management of public housing, as authorized by section
9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1437g), $3,242,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That no funds may be used under this
heading for the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937.
Drug Elimination Grants for Low-Income Housing
(including transfers of funds)
For grants to public housing agencies and Indian tribes and
their tribally designated housing entities for use in
eliminating crime in public housing projects authorized by 42
U.S.C. 11901-11908, for grants for federally assisted low-
income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11909, and for drug
information clearinghouse services authorized by 42 U.S.C.
11921-11925, $310,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, up to $3,000,000 shall be solely for technical
assistance, technical assistance grants, training, and
program assessment for or on behalf of public housing
agencies, resident organizations, and Indian tribes and their
tribally designated housing entities (including up to
$150,000 for the cost of necessary travel for participants in
such training) for oversight, training and improved
management of this program, $2,000,000 shall be available to
the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for the operating and
start-up costs of clubs located in or near, and primarily
serving residents of, public housing and housing assisted
under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996, and $10,000,000 shall be used in
connection with efforts to combat violent crime in public and
assisted housing under the Operation Safe Home Program
administered by the Inspector General of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That of the
amount under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be provided to
the Office of Inspector General for Operation Safe Home:
Provided further, That of the amount under this heading,
$20,000,000 shall be available for the New Approach Anti-Drug
program which will provide competitive grants to entities
managing or operating public housing developments, federally
assisted multifamily housing developments, or other
multifamily housing developments for low-income families
supported by non-Federal governmental entities or similar
housing developments supported by nonprofit private sources
in order to provide or augment security (including personnel
costs), to assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of
drug-related criminal activity in and around such
developments, and to provide assistance for the development
of capital improvements at such developments directly
relating to the security of such developments: Provided
further, That grants for the New Approach Anti-Drug program
shall be made on a competitive basis as specified in section
102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform
Act of 1989.
Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing (Hope VI)
For grants to public housing agencies for demolition, site
revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based
assistance grants to projects as authorized by section 24 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937, $575,000,000 to remain
available until expended, of which the Secretary may use up
to $10,000,000 for technical assistance and contract
expertise, to be provided directly or indirectly by grants,
contracts or cooperative agreements, including training and
cost of necessary travel for participants in such training,
by or to officials and employees of the department and of
public housing agencies and to residents: Provided, That none
of such funds shall be used directly or indirectly by
granting competitive advantage in awards to settle litigation
or pay judgments, unless expressly permitted herein.
Native American Housing Block Grants
(including transfers of funds)
For the Native American Housing Block Grants program, as
authorized under title I of the Native American Housing
Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA)
(Public Law 104-330), $650,000,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $6,000,000 shall be to support the
inspection of Indian housing units, contract expertise,
training, and technical assistance in the training,
oversight, and management of Indian housing and tenant-based
assistance, including up to $300,000 for related travel:
Provided, That of the amount provided under this heading,
$6,000,000 shall be made available for the cost of guaranteed
notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of
NAHASDA: Provided further, That such costs, including the
costs of modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize the total principal amount of any
notes and other obligations, any part of which is to be
guaranteed, not to exceed $54,600,000: Provided further, That
for administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan
program, up to $150,000 from amounts in the first proviso,
which shall be transferred to and merged with the
appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses'', to be used only
for the administrative costs of these guarantees: Provided
further, That of the amount provided in this heading,
$2,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund
for developing and maintaining information technology
systems.
indian housing loan guarantee fund program account
(including transfer of funds)
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section
184 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (106
Stat. 3739), $6,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That such costs, including the costs of modifying
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided
further, That these funds are available to subsidize total
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to
exceed $71,956,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the
guaranteed loan program, up to $200,000 from amounts in the
first paragraph, which shall be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses'', to be
used only for the administrative costs of these guarantees.
Community Planning and Development
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons with
AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity
Act (42 U.S.C. 12901), $258,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew
all expiring contracts that were funded under section
854(c)(3) of such Act that meet all program requirements
before awarding funds for new contracts and activities
authorized under this section: Provided further, That the
Secretary may use up to 1 percent of the funds under this
heading for training, oversight, and technical assistance
activities.
rural housing and economic development
For the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development in
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, $25,000,000
to remain available until expended, which amount shall be
awarded by June 1, 2001, to Indian tribes, State housing
finance agencies, State community and/or economic development
agencies, local rural nonprofits and community development
corporations to support innovative housing and economic
development activities in rural areas: Provided, That all
grants shall be awarded on a competitive basis as specified
in section 102 of the HUD Reform Act.
EMPOWERMENT ZONES/ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES
For grants in connection with a second round of empowerment
zones and enterprise communities, $90,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That $75,000,000 shall be
available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
for ``Urban Empowerment Zones'', as authorized in the
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, including $5,000,000 for each
empowerment zone for use in conjunction with economic
development activities consistent with the strategic plan of
each empowerment zone: Provided further, That $15,000,000
shall be available to the Secretary of Agriculture for grants
for designated empowerment zones in rural areas and for
grants for designated rural enterprise communities.
community development fund
(including transfers of funds)
For assistance to units of State and local government, and
to other entities, for economic and community development
activities, and for other purposes, $5,057,550,000: Provided,
That of the amount provided, $4,409,000,000 is for carrying
[[Page
H10087]]
out the community development block grant program under title
I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as
amended (the ``Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301), to remain
available until September 30, 2003: Provided further, That
$71,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes
notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000
shall be available as a grant to the Housing Assistance
Council, $2,600,000 shall be available as a grant to the
National American Indian Housing Council, $10,000,000 shall
be available as a grant to the National Housing Development
Corporation, for operating expenses not to exceed $2,000,000
and for a program of affordable housing acquisition and
rehabilitation, and $45,500,000 shall be for grants pursuant
to section 107 of the Act of which $3,000,000 shall be made
available to support Alaska Native serving institutions and
native Hawaiian serving institutions, as defined under the
Higher Education Act, as amended, and of which $3,000,000
shall be made available to tribal colleges and universities
to build, expand, renovate, and equip their facilities:
Provided further, That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant
made with funds appropriated herein (other than a grant made
available in this paragraph to the Housing Assistance Council
or the National American Indian Housing Council, or a grant
using funds under section 107(b)(3) of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974, as amended) shall be
expended for ``Planning and Management Development'' and
``Administration'' as defined in regulations promulgated by
the department: Provided further, That $15,000,000 shall be
transferred to the Working Capital Fund for the development
and maintenance of information technology systems: Provided
further, That $20,000,000 shall be for grants pursuant to the
Self Help Housing Opportunity Program.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$28,450,000 shall be made available for capacity building, of
which $25,000,000 shall be made available for ``Capacity
Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing'',
for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for activities as
authorized by section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993
(Public Law 103-120), as in effect immediately before June
12, 1997, of which not less than $5,000,000 of the funding
shall be used in rural areas, including tribal areas, and of
which $3,450,000 shall be made available for capacity
building activities administered by Habitat for Humanity
International.
Of the amount made available under this heading, the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use up to
$55,000,000 for supportive services for public housing
residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and for residents of housing
assisted under the Native American Housing Assistance and
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) and for grants for
service coordinators and congregate services for the elderly
and disabled residents of public and assisted housing and
housing assisted under NAHASDA.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$44,000,000 shall be available for neighborhood initiatives
that are utilized to improve the conditions of distressed and
blighted areas and neighborhoods, to stimulate investment,
economic diversification, and community revitalization in
areas with population outmigration or a stagnating or
declining economic base, or to determine whether housing
benefits can be integrated more effectively with welfare
reform initiatives: Provided, That any unobligated balances
of amounts set aside for neighborhood initiatives in fiscal
years 1998, 1999, and 2000 may be utilized for any of the
foregoing purposes: Provided further, That these grants shall
be provided in accord with the terms and conditions specified
in the statement of managers accompanying this conference
report.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $60,000,000 shall
be available for YouthBuild program activities authorized
by subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such
activities shall be an eligible activity with respect to
any funds made available under this heading: Provided,
That local YouthBuild programs that demonstrate an ability
to leverage private and nonprofit funding shall be given a
priority for YouthBuild funding: Provided further, That no
more than ten percent of any grant award may be used for
administrative costs: Provided further, That not less than
$10,000,000 shall be available for grants to establish
YouthBuild programs in underserved and rural areas:
Provided further, That of the amount provided under this
paragraph, $4,000,000 shall be set aside and made
available for a grant to Youthbuild USA for capacity
building for community development and affordable housing
activities as specified in section 4 of the HUD
Demonstration Act of 1993, as amended.
Of the amounts made available under this heading,
$2,000,000 shall be available to the Utah Housing Finance
Agency for the temporary use of relocatable housing during
the 2002 Winter Olympic Games provided such housing is
targeted to the housing needs of low-income families after
the Games.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$292,000,000 shall be available for grants for the Economic
Development Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of targeted
economic investments in accordance with the terms and
conditions specified in the statement of managers
accompanying this conference report.
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $29,000,000, as
authorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, including
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available to
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be
guaranteed, not to exceed $1,261,000,000, notwithstanding any
aggregate limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in
section 108(k) of the Housing and Community Development Act
of 1974: Provided further, That in addition, for
administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan
program, $1,000,000, which shall be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for ``Salaries and expenses''.
Brownfields Redevelopment
For Economic Development Grants, as authorized by section
108(q) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974,
as amended, for Brownfields redevelopment projects,
$25,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall
make these grants available on a competitive basis as
specified in section 102 of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.
home investment partnerships program
(including transfer of funds)
For the HOME investment partnerships program, as authorized
under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable
Housing Act, as amended, $1,800,000,000 to remain available
until expended: Provided, That up to $20,000,000 of these
funds shall be available for Housing Counseling under section
106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968:
Provided further, That $17,000,000 shall be transferred to
the Working Capital Fund for the development and maintenance
of information technology systems.
homeless assistance grants
(including transfer of funds)
For the emergency shelter grants program (as authorized
under subtitle B of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney
Homeless Assistance Act, as amended); the supportive housing
program (as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of such
Act); the section 8 moderate rehabilitation single room
occupancy program (as authorized under the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended) to assist homeless
individuals pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and the shelter plus care
program (as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of such
Act), $1,025,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That not less than 30 percent of these funds shall
be used for permanent housing, and all funding for services
must be matched by 25 percent in funding by each grantee:
Provided further, That all awards of assistance under this
heading shall be required to coordinate and integrate
homeless programs with other mainstream health, social
services, and employment programs for which homeless
populations may be eligible, including Medicaid, State
Children's Health Insurance Program, Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families, Food Stamps, and services funding through the
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Block Grant, Workforce
Investment Act, and the Welfare-to-Work grant program:
Provided further, That up to 1.5 percent of the funds
appropriated under this heading is transferred to the Working
Capital Fund to be used for technical assistance for
management information systems and to develop an automated,
client-level Annual Performance Report System: Provided
further, That $500,000 shall be made available to the
Interagency Council on the Homeless for administrative needs.
SHELTER PLUS CARE Renewals
For the renewal on an annual basis of contracts expiring
during fiscal years 2001 and 2002 under the Shelter Plus Care
program, as authorized under subtitle F of title IV of the
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended,
$100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That each Shelter Plus Care project with an expiring contract
shall be eligible for renewal only if the project is
determined to be needed under the applicable continuum of
care and meets appropriate program requirements and financial
standards, as determined by the Secretary.
Housing Programs
housing for special populations
(including transfer of funds)
For assistance for the purchase, construction, acquisition,
or development of additional public and subsidized housing
units for low income families not otherwise provided for,
$996,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That $779,000,000 shall be for capital advances, including
amendments to capital advance contracts, for housing for the
elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of
1959, as amended, and for project rental assistance, and
amendments to contracts for project rental assistance, for
the elderly under such section 202(c)(2), and for
supportive services associated with the housing, of which
amount $50,000,000 shall be for service coordinators and
the continuation of existing congregate service grants for
residents of assisted housing projects and of which amount
$50,000,000 shall be for grants under section 202b of the
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q-2) for conversion of
eligible projects under such section to assisted living or
related use: Provided further, That of the amount under
this heading, $217,000,000 shall be for capital advances,
including amendments to capital advance contracts, for
supportive housing for persons with disabilities, as
authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act, for project rental
assistance, for amendments to contracts for project rental
assistance, and supportive services associated with the
housing for persons with disabilities as authorized by
section 811 of such Act: Provided further, That
$1,000,000, to be divided evenly between the
appropriations for the section 202 and section 811
programs, shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund
for the
[[Page
H10088]]
development and maintenance of information technology
systems: Provided further, That the Secretary may
designate up to 25 percent of the amounts earmarked under
this paragraph for section 811 of such Act for tenant-
based assistance, as authorized under that section,
including such authority as may be waived under the next
proviso, which assistance is 5 years in duration: Provided
further, That the Secretary may waive any provision of
such section 202 and such section 811 (including the
provisions governing the terms and conditions of project
rental assistance and tenant-based assistance) that the
Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the
objectives of these programs, or that otherwise impedes
the ability to develop, operate, or administer projects
assisted under these programs, and may make provision for
alternative conditions or terms where appropriate.
Flexible Subsidy Fund
(transfer of funds)
From the Rental Housing Assistance Fund, all uncommitted
balances of excess rental charges as of September 30, 2000,
and any collections made during fiscal year 2001, shall be
transferred to the Flexible Subsidy Fund, as authorized by
section 236(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended.
Federal Housing Administration
fha--mutual mortgage insurance program account
(including transfers of funds)
During fiscal year 2001, commitments to guarantee loans to
carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the National
Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a loan principal of
$160,00
