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 97 STAT. 216 PUBLIC LAW 98-44 —JULY 12, 1983 July 12. 1983 [S. 925] Atlantic Salmon Convention Act of 1982, amend- m ent. 96 Stat. 1952. 16 USC 3602. 96 Stat. 1953. 16 USC 3606. 96 Stat. 1652. 16 USC 742c. 96 Stat. 1652. 16 USC 742f. 96 Stat. 2492. Public Law 98-44 98th Congress An Act To make certain technical corrections in the Atlantic Salmon Convention Act of 1982. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I—MARINE FISHERIES PROGRAMS SEC. 101. That section 10 of the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975 (16 U.S.C. 971h) is amended by striking out "and 1983" and inserting in lieu thereof "1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986". SEC. 102. The Atlantic Salmon Convention Act of 1982 (16 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) is amended— (1) by inserting "not" immediately after "shall" in the second sentence of section 303(c); and (2) by amending subsection (c) of section 307 to read as follows: "(c) Any vessel used, and any fish (or the fair market value thereof) taken or retained in any manner, in connection with or as the result of the commission of an act which is unlawful under subsection (a) of this section shall be subject to civil forfeiture under section 310 of the Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 1860) to the same extent as if such vessel was used in, or such fish was taken or retained in connection with or as the result of, the commission of an act prohibited by section 307 of the Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 1857).". SEC. 103. (a) The Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.) is amended— (1) by striking out "September 30, 1983" each place it appears in section 4(c) and inserting in lieu thereof "September 30, 1984"; and (2) by striking out "1982 and 1983." in section 7(c)(6) and inserting in lieu thereof "1982, 1983, and 1984.". (b) Section 221 of the American Fisheries Promotion Act (16 U.S.C. 742c note) is amended— (1) by striking out "September 30, 1982" in subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof "September 30, 1984"; (2) by amending subsection (b)— (A) by striking out "fiscal year 1982," in subparagraph (2)(A) and inserting in lieu thereof "each of fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984,", and (B) by striking out "1981 and 1982" in subparagraph (2)(C) and inserting in lieu thereof "1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984"; and (3) by striking out "fiscal year 1981 or 1982, or both," in subsection (c)(1) and inserting in lieu thereof "any of fiscal years 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984,". SEC. 104. Section 1(c)(2) of the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 757a(c)(2)) is amended: (1) by striking out "shall be 90 percent" and inserting in lieu thereof "shall be up to 90 percent"; and (2) by striking out "resources," and inserting in lieu thereof

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-44—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 217 "resources, prepared by an interstate commission,"; and by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'interstate commission' means— "(A) the commission established by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact (as consented to and approved by Public Law 80-77), approved May 4, 1942 (56 Stat. 267); "(B) the commission established by the Pacific Marine Fisher- ies Compact (as consented to and approved by Public Law 80-232), approved July 24, 1947 (16 Stat. 419); and "(C) the commission established by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Compact (as consented to and approved by Public Law 81-66), approved May 19, 1949 (63 Stat. 70).^ '. SEC. 105. Section 2 of the Fishery Conservation Zone Transition Act (16 U.S.C. 1823 note) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) Notwithstanding such section 203— "(1) the governing international fishery agreement referred to in subsection (a)(5), as extended until July 1, 1984, pursuant to the Diplomatic Notes referred to in the message to the Congress from the President of the United States dated May 3, 1983, is hereby approved by the Congress as a governing international fishery agreement for the purposes of such Act of 1976; "(2) the governing international fishery agreement referred to in subsection (a)(6), as extended until July 1, 1984, pursuant to the Diplomatic Notes referred to in the message to the Congress from the President of the United States dated May 3, 1983, is hereby approved by the Congress as a governing international fishery agreement for the purposes of such Act of 1976; and "(3) the governing international fishery agreement referred to in subsection (a)(4), as contained in the message to the House of Representatives and the Senate from the President of the United States dated May 3, 1983, is hereby approved by the Congress as a governing international fishery agreement for the purposes of such Act of 1976. Each such governing international fisheiy agreement shall enter into force and effect with respect to the United States on July 1, 1983 " TITLE II—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SEC. 201. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (46 U.S.C. 883), or any other provision of law to the contrary, the Secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is operating shall cause the vessel Norden (official number 584767) to be documented as a vessel of the United States, upon compliance with the usual requirements, with the privilege of engaging m the coastwise trade so long as such vessel is owned by a citizen of the United States. SEC. 202. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a corpora- tion which, as of March 1, 1983, is a citizen of the United States within the meaning of section 2 of the Shipping Act of 1916, as amended (46 U.S.C. 802), shall continue to be deemed a citizen of the United States within the meaning of said section and shall continue to be deemed an owner whose vessels are eligible for documentation under section 104 of the Vessel Documentation Act (46 U.S.C. 65b) notwithstanding the election and service of a resident alien as its president or chief executive officer: Provided, That such resident "Interstate commission.' 61 Stat. 419. 96 Stat. 148. 16 USC 1823. Vessel documen- tation. 96 Stat. 1954, 1956.

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 97 STAT. 218 PUBLIC LAW 98-44—JULY 12, 1983 alien has, pursuant to the provisions of section 334(f) of the Immi- gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1445(f)), filed with the Immi- gration and Naturalization Service of the United States Department of Justice, prior to July 1, 1983, an application to file declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States. (b) Any rights conferred by subsection (a) shall expire unless such resident alien has become a naturalized citizen by March 1, 1987. Approved July 12, 1983. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 925: SENATE REPORT No. 98-78 (Comm. on (Commerce, Science, and Transportation). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 129 (1983): June 29, considered and passed Senate and House.

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 219 Public Law 98-45 98th Congress An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, 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 Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commis- sions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOUSING PROGRAMS July 12, 1983 [H.R. 3133] Department of Housing and Urban Development- Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1984. ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING The amount of contracts for annual contributions, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by section 5 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and heretofore approved in appropriation Acts, is increased by $636,336,000: Provided, That the budget authority obligated under such contracts shall be increased above amounts heretofore provided in appropriation Acts by $9,912,928,000: Provided further. That of the budget authority provided herein, $389,550,000 shall be for assistance in financing the development or acquisition cost of public housing for Indian fami- lies, $1,550,000,000 shall be for the modernization of existing public housing projects pursuant to section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 14371), of which $35,000,000 shall 42 USC 1437/. be for the modernization of 1,000 vacant uninhabitable public hous- ing units, pursuant to section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, other than section 14(f) of such Act, and, $1,500,000,000 shall be deferred and shall not become available until January 1, 1984: Provided further. That the first $1,926,400,000 of budget authority recaptured and becoming available for obligation in fiscal year 1984 shall only be made available for assistance to projects developed for the elderly or handicapped under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701q): Provided further. That any balances of authorities made available prior to the enactment of this Act which are or become available for obligation in fiscal year 1984, shall be added to and merged with the authority approved herein, and such merged amounts shall be made subject only to terms and conditions of law applicable to authorizations becoming available in fiscal year 1984: Provided further. That none of the merged amounts available for obligation in 1984 shall be subject to the provisions of section 5(c)(2) and (3) and the fourth

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 97 STAT. 220 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 sentence of section 5(c)(l) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c), and section 213(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1439). RENT SUPPLEMENT (RESCISSION) The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum pa}nnents that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into under section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s) is reduced in fiscal year 1984 by not more than $93,326,000 in uncommitted balances of authorizations provided for this purpose in appropriation Acts. RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE (RESCISSION) The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into under section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-l) is reduced in fiscal year 1984 by not more than $13,320,000 in uncom- mitted balances of authorizations provided for this purpose in appro- priation Acts. HOUSING PAYMENTS For the payment of annual contributions, not otherwise provided for, in accordance with section 5 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437c); for payments authorized by title IV of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1749 et seq.); for rent supplement payments authorized by section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701s); and for payments as authorized by sections 235 and 236 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1715z, 1715z-l), $10,697,000,000. HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY OR HANDICAPPED FUND In 1984, $666,400,000 of direct loan obligations may be made under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701q), utilizing the resources of the fund authorized by subsection (a)(4) of such section, in accordance with paragraph (C) of such subsection: Provided, That such commitments shall be available only to quali- fied nonprofit sponsors for the purpose of providing 100 per centum loans for the development of housing for the elderly or handicapped, with any cash equity or other financial commitments imposed as a condition of loan approval to be returned to the sponsor if sustaining occupancy is achieved in a reasonable period of time: Provided further, That the full amount shall be available for permanent financing (including construction financing) for housing projects for the elderly or handicapped: Provided further. That the Secretary may borrow from the Secretary of the Treasury in such amounts as are necessary to provide the loans authorized herein: Provided further. That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the receipts and disbursements of the aforesaid fund shall be included in the totals of the Budget of the United States Government.

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poem tag
Hello I am Polish Wikisource administrator. If you want to correct poem tag in this project please append following CSS code to the MediaWiki:Common.css page: div.poem p{	margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: 0em; } For testing in your own css please add following code to User:Tarmstro99/monobook.css: div.poem p{margin-top:0em !important; margin-bottom:0em !important;} Checking is easy: aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa Sp5uhe (talk) 20:14, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Why would we want to impose the margin style from Poem? If someone wishes to override the tag, either as a user, or as a coder, if they explicitly code in an override then they probably should be able to do so. billinghurst (talk) 00:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Look at proofreading issues. Sp5uhe (talk) 20:11, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Legal sources regarding typing Public Domain texts
Hi, could you refer me to any clear legal documentation (laws, court decisions) that clearly state what has become commonplace, namely that typing digital text for a public domain document does not give the typist/proofreader any copyright, even if he has invested money in getting the typing done.

I am asking the question regarding texts in a different language Wikisource. My assumption is that U.S. law governs Wikimedia projects.

Thanks, Dovi (talk) 11:53, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I’m not aware of anyone ever being sued for retyping a public-domain text (or for copying someone else’s retyping of it), but the argument would go something like this. Copyright protection in the United States requires expressive originality. Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service, 499 U.S. 340 (1991); (“Copyright protection subsists … in original works of authorship”). Where a later author incorporates an earlier work in their own creation, they receive no rights in the underlying work; rather their copyright extends only to the aspects in which their work differs from the underlying work—that is, to the original aspects of their work.  (“The copyright in a … derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material.”) A copy of an underlying work that is in the public domain lacks such originality, at least where the later author has sought merely to duplicate the public-domain original and not to add their own new original expression. , 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999); see also Meshwerks, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., 528 F.3d 1258 (10th Cir. 2008) (no copyright where later contributor added no original expression but sought only to reproduce prior works as precisely as possible); cf. Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, 191 F. 2d 99, 104–05 (2d Cir. 1951) (copy that exhibited “substantial departures” from underlying public-domain work could be copyrighted). So, if you retype a public-domain text and attempt to reproduce it as closely as possible, your work does not give rise to a new copyright because the element of expressive originality is absent.

 * You might also be interested in reading the policy statement at w:Wikipedia:Public domain. There’s a lot of helpful guidance on that page and I suspect (although I have no personal knowledge of this) that it generally reflects WMF’s views, which would have relevance for all WMF wikis. Tarmstro99 (talk) 15:43, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much. I'm specifically interested in cases where someone else's retyping of public domain texts (for which they paid cash or invested significant effort) has been copied. The claim would be that since they have invested money (or time) in getting the text accurately typed and proofread, and the accurate digital text would otherwise be unavailable save for their investment, that they have a right to monetary compensation for that investment. "Lifting" of such digital texts can be proven through occasional typos, etc., such that the second user cannot claim he typed it himself.

 * I recall reading about a case (I hope I remember this accurately) where a database of legal texts was being sold for a high price to firms. Someone decided to take the laws and court decisions themselves from that database and post them on the internet (without posting any of the creative additions found in that database, only the public domain texts). From what I recall the person who did this was sued and prevailed in the U.S. court, while the database owners lost. Do you recall a case like this?

 * I was recently informed of a case that in principle seems to be identical but took place overseas, in Israel. There, according to what was reported to me, the court decided that the investment of money or time did indeed entitle the owner of the database to compensation, despite the texts which were copied being in the public domain.

 * I would at least like to get some clear sources in U.S. law for this. If you could refer me to someone who knows overseas law (e.g. Europe) that would also be great.

 * (You need not notify me at my user page. I'll see your reply here at my watchlist). Thanks, Dovi (talk) 23:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

General Revision of the Copyright Law (House Report No. 94-1733)

 * originally titled - Page:Copyright_Law_Revision_(Senate_Report_No._94-473).djvu/31

This is the one remaining page to be validated.

If you could look over it and confirm? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:05, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Looks like User:Billinghurst beat me to the punch! Very nice work, thanks a million—happy to cross something off my ever-growing to-do list for a change.  :-) Tarmstro99 (talk) 01:51, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Pardon... Can somebody please help set up the Conference Report, (H.Rept. No. 94-1733) now that the leading repts are done??

 * I think I can do the clean-up of corrupted text & junk just fine, but I can never seem to get the layout to mirror existing/similar works to maintain some sort of uniformity across all versions, etc. Looks Good btw!!! George Orwell III (talk) 02:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Sure. I will schedule a bot job tomorrow to extract the text layer from the djvu and begin proofing. Tarmstro99 (talk) 03:03, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the help - UPDATED Conference Rept. No. 1733 is now done, what next? George Orwell III (talk) 05:01, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

SideNotes Question.
If there's no way to stop the sidenotes from appearing when transclusion to/as an author's subpage, is there any way to move them to outside of my fake margins at least? George Orwell III (talk) 05:08, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Passing width parameters to sidenotes begin should do the trick. Tarmstro99 (talk) 18:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

File:Dictionary of National Biography volume 09.djvu
I left my 2 cents about the deletion of the larger version of File:Dictionary of National Biography volume 09.djvu. I just thought I would let you know. :) --Mattwj2002 (talk) 10:40, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Your experiment...
Tarmstro99, what do you think of linking a variant of your to the side parameter in USStatHeader? My attempts at User:CharlesSpencer/pension_template could do with some kind of dynamic switch to force sidenotes to the correct side... Unless I can somehow pass the USStatHeader side value to my pension template on a page-by-page basis? CharlesSpencer (talk) 17:07, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * That’s not a bad idea. Have you seen my more recent USStatChapHead template? It automatically uses LR sidenote or right sidenote to create sidenotes depending on the value of the  parameter (recognized values are   or  ). Maybe I could do something similar with USStatHeader, and the same technique might work with your pension template. Tarmstro99 (talk) 00:37, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * →Pardon, about USStatHeader,... is it possible to expand the parameter to accept multiple chapters listed on the same page to match the interlinking function as the singular a-chapter-per-page does currently?
 * My solution in cases like this has been to create a redirect (see, for example, the header of this page), which isn’t elegant, but gets the job done.
 * Also, in later Volumes with multiple Chapters on a single page, the header portion reflects this plurality by using . instead of . Is there any way to add this differentiation to your template for those instances? George Orwell III (talk) 01:11, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I have noticed that some of the later volumes use “.” instead of “.” to introduce a range of multiple chapters. It should be possible to extend USStatHeader to accept a yes-or-no flag that will adjust this behavior correctly. Tarmstro99 (talk) 09:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Do see my really rough force sidenote which I started for use in another work to stop the saw-edge look. It probably needs to be beautified, and made to work on left and right, it was in my earlier learning phase. We can (should!) probably munge them together— billinghurst  sDrewth  03:17, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * On 3rd thoughts, I also need a similar namespace-based switch to insert an additional horizontal bar in front of first Chapters of a page once transcluded (as between Chapters 27 & 28 here...) ... The pension template is currently designed to assume a horizontal unless topchap is set to Y, because that's how they display on each printed page! billinghurst, despite this being Tarmstro's talk page, looking at your IrishBio template, I still don't see how I can make the parameter from USStatHeader (page)global so that my pension template can see it...? CharlesSpencer (talk) 18:09, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Have a look at, for example, Page:Harvard Law Review Volume 1.djvu/56 and Page:Harvard Law Review Volume 1.djvu/108. On both those pages, there is a horizontal rule above the first paragraph that is printed only outside the  namespace. Tarmstro99 (talk) 19:17, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fantastic! Thanks... now incorporated into the pension template. CharlesSpencer (talk) 07:31, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Gents, does this do the trick? Seems to here.CharlesSpencer (talk) 17:07, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

(unindent) I like it! I would like to see this become the replacement for USStatHeader. For backwards compatibility with the (several hundred) pages that already use USStatHeader, however, the default behavior should be to output “” (rather than “”) preceding the chapter number even if the user fails to specify a value for the  parameter. That is to say, if ( ≡   or   is undefined), the corresponding output should be “”  Does that make sense? Tarmstro99 (talk) 17:37, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry - my lazy coding! I would agree that backwards compatibility is a sine qua non, so I'll modify it to behave correctly. CharlesSpencer (talk) 12:29, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * How's that? CharlesSpencer (talk) 08:48, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Impressive work, and a nice bit of programming. My hat is off to you, sir. I’ve added your code to USStatHeader. Tarmstro99 (talk)
 * I'll second that. Nice work. George Orwell III (talk) 20:55, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

USStat33 pensions template
Gents, (and any other fans of a truly obscure template!), I have now made the sidenotes in the USStat33 pension template side aware, including in the proviso optional parameter. Looking at this vs. Chapter 14. here, it seems to work. Three questions occur to me:

CharlesSpencer (talk) 14:59, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * under what circumstances would it be appropriate to move it to the Template namespace?
 * what do we call it - a quick look at USStat32 Part 2 shows almost identical language used there, so anything referencing USStat33 doesn't work, but I have no idea when its use began/was discontinued
 * is there no way of putting strings longer than single words into the OCR engine's dictionary? Surely the statistical likelihood of getting "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of" egregiously wrong is vanishingly close to zero. Likewise (without, I confess, knowing any of the detail of how OCR engines work!), simply because of its length and letter variety, surely a string like that could be recognised in the presence of more graphical noise on the page than is the case with a shorter string. If the initial OCR could do this, we would have thousands of pages almost self proof-reading, requiring minimal final human interaction?
 * Go ahead and move your template into the Template: namespace! It seems to be working perfectly fine. Maybe variations used in successive volumes could be called something like USStatPension1, USStatPension2, etc., with suitable explanatory info ’ed on the template page to identify the particular volume(s) to which the template pertains?
 * I don’t have much experience with OCR software. Some time back I tried using an actual scanned page of the Statutes at Large to “train” Tesseract, but the results were worse than its baseline performance with no “training,” so I gave up on it. A possible alternative, however: my employer recently deployed Acrobat Pro 9, which has a very good built-in OCR engine for PDFs. I re-OCR’ed most of Index:United States Statutes at Large Volume 1.djvu with Acrobat Pro, and replaced the existing text (except for pages already proofed) with the new OCR. Proofreading has definitely gone faster since that time; the Adobe output is noticeably closer to the original sources. If you like, I can do the same with Volume 33 (being careful not to clobber any pages that have already progressed to Proofread or Validated status). Tarmstro99 (talk) 17:45, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * If that is agreeable to Charles, I'd like to inject the point that the currently scanned PDF originally cut off large swaths of sidenotes before it was .DJvu'd and are currently missing. I had to take a peek at Constitution.org's PDF copy or the Google Book scanned version (linked on Pt I and II's discussion pages) to supplement the missing text. It might make life easier to use one of those PDF's instead.
 * Also, I'm not an OCR expert either but I believe the "problem" with the over corruption is due to the main content (consisting of three columns across one "row"; left-sidenotes, center paragraphs and right-sidenotes) bracketed by the PDF's hidden header and/or footer info which spans all three columns. It's this 3 column-spanned row at the top or bottom of a PDF page that leads the djvu conversion to believe there is one single column throughout the page, causing the sidenotes to be inserted into the adjacent sentences within the center paragraphs. Rotating the page 90 degrees would flip the spanned hidden header and/or footer rows into columns and I'm told the conversion, if the scan to PDF was of high enough quality, would only corrupt these trouble making texts and the rest the stuff we want remains fairly intact, save the difference in font size, spacing, etc. Rotating the work back 90 degrees leaves the finished page with the 3 columns we are trying to build anyway. Its all hearsay mind you, because I've only seen a finished product, but the logic does sound about right to me. Unfortunately, all that is far above my paygrade. George Orwell III (talk) 19:11, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Tarmstro99, redoing the OCR on the rest of 33 would be fantastic. Thank you very much for the offer. George is quite right about the sidenotes - the Resolutions in 33 appear to be rather lacking for some reason! What George says about OCR also sounds logical - I certainly had no fun at all trying to proofread 2-column bilingual treaties, one of which was in English and Greek with both columnar texts all run together! I don't know if Acrobat Pro 9 can be made aware of columns in some way? And is now up, running, and (I hope) reasonably well documented! CharlesSpencer (talk) 21:32, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Well after double checking the PDF for Vol. 33 at Constitution.org, it appears using that scanned copy would leave out much of Part II so that's not an option. Checking the Google Book scanned versions for Part I and Part II looks far more promising. Their layout and online OCR conversion to plain text seems to mirror the existing page numbering tables already in use on the Vol. 33 project here, but my lack of knowledge on Adobe & djvu's prevents me from saying for sure that downloading and substituting Google's PDFs to replace the existing sidenote lacking one(s) would make for a better base of content to work from or not. Nor can I say if it's more work than it is worth. George Orwell III (talk) 22:08, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Charles, I took the liberty of breaking your template out into the standard Template Documentation subpage generally agreed upon to be the proper way to explain the ins & outs of any template. Doing so streamlines the amount of data and subsequent overhead being transcluded everytime time the template is put to use. The only caveat here is that both the Template and its Documentation subpage probably could be tweaked even further so you might want to bring it to the attention to one of the template guru's for a look-see and review as well. George Orwell III (talk) 22:39, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Very helpful! I don't know any template gurus, I'm afraid - can you recommend anyone, please? Thanks CharlesSpencer (talk) 23:17, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Being mostly a U.S. legislation & similar works wonk for the most part, I'm not all that sure which one of the many experts around here is best to consult with to be honest with you. Carl Lindberg has been  extremely helpful  in developing over the months with me - he'd be my first choice. I'm sure Tarmstro99 knows somebody as well. Billingshurst, the admin, is at least always approachable, though his time constraints may draw his attention elsewhere. If I remember right, you started a section somewhere on Scriptorium(?) related to repeating paragraphs or something - it might be worth updating that section by reaching out for comments, tips & suggestions there... as well showcasing the progress made so far. George Orwell III (talk) 23:43, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Bot flags
I am contacting everyone who operates an active bot on en.WS. When granting bot-flags I am heavily reliant on the consensus of people like you to ensure that prospective bots approriate and should be flagged. I am not at all competant to evaluate bots independantly and this leads to people waiting a rather long time to find out if their bots will be santioned. Could you please help me out and take the time to examine one of the two current requests at the Scriptorium?  Thank you.--Birgitte SB  20:25, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

WikifyCite Tool
I made this tool to turn citations into links. It's a work in progress, but if you ever add judicial decisions or texts with many legal citations, it may save you some time. Cheers, stephen (talk) 22:35, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Neat, thanks! A couple of very brief thoughts as you continue to develop this very useful tool: (1) as you know, the earliest volumes of the U.S. Reports were frequently cited by the name of the individual Reporter who compiled that volume. So your script might also want to look for citations of the form (for instance) “26 U.S. (1 Pet.) xxx” or even simply “1 Pet. xxx”. (2) it took a while for Bluebook cite form to become standardized, and it’s quite common in the older cases to see (for example) the Atlantic Reporter cited as “Atl. Rep.” or “Atl.” instead of simply “A.” The other regional reporters, too, often have three or four different corresponding citations. It would be very helpful if the tool could accommodate some of these alternatives as well. Great stuff! Tarmstro99 (talk) 15:05, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Federal Reporter Scans
Thought you may be interested in this--TIFF and txt files for 281 volumes of the Federal Reporter. I'm not too familiar with the process of getting these documents to djvu. Once they are in djvu, is that a sort of job that TarmstroBot could handle? stephen (talk) 01:55, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I’ve seen the stuff from public.resource.org before. I am a fan of Carl Malamud’s work and got to meet him a few weeks ago at one of his law.gov workshops. Luckily for me, it looks like all his scans have been uploaded to, which has better OCR software than I do, and I have been downloading their djvus to post here. (Here’s 1 F. and 2 F.). Creating the table of contents for those volumes is a time-consuming process, unfortunately. Tarmstro99 (talk) 02:09, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Help w/some troubleshooting
In an attempt to fix the typo in Section 2 on Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 1.djvu/466, I am confronted with the closing "noinclude" tag for the header going missing and thus pretty much having all the content forced into the footer (which, of course deletes just about everything if I were to save the page at that point).

Long story short, I suspect its the continued use of (deprecated since January, 2010) at the top of page content's first paragraph rather than using  after the last paragraph of the page before the one in question. If you have the time, could you apply the method to Chapter 6 (pp 464 thru 467) to see if my problem is indeed caused by 's presence or not. TIA. George Orwell III (talk) 23:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Nevermind - I just realized you were hiding the repeating Section 1 side note at the top of each page that followed and that is what is causing the "noinclude" tag to blank the content for me when I try to edit one of those pages. You should still check out the deprecated status and move to using anyway & don't forget to fix the Further typo in Section 2. See you in the trenches... George Orwell III (talk) 23:57, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed! Thanks for spotting. Tarmstro99 (talk) 00:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

US Reports
Hi Tarmstro; I see that you uploaded the first three volumes of the US Reports a few months ago. I'd like to see some cases transferred over to page scans, such as Slaughter-house (volume 83), United States v. Miller (307), Roe v. Wade (410) and Kelo v. New London (545). Is there a good source for these scans that you prefer? I've looked around and haven't found anything that looks like a complete set of these volumes in pdf or djvu. Thanks. —Spangineerwp (háblame) 18:41, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

 * There are several more scanned volumes now online at commons:Category:United States Reports. I suspect that the (www.archive.org) would have most of the remaining volumes that haven't been uploaded to Commons yet;  would be my second pick. I'd love to get a complete collection of scans uploaded to Commons! Creating the corresponding   pages here is fairly labor-intensive, unfortunately, but with enough people interested in Supreme Court opinions (and some famous cases, like the ones you mentioned, online to help draw attention), it's eminently doable. Tarmstro99 (talk) 18:29, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing me to commons; I hadn't noticed those. Volume 208 has a case in it that interests me (Muller v. Oregon), so maybe I'll start there. I looked at archive.org and made a list of all the volumes available there; unfortunately there are quite a few holes (most notably the almost complete lack of volumes between 200 and 450).  Volume 83 at least is there, so Slaughter-house is available.  Another thing is that I see now that the SCOTUS website has volumes up to 549.  I tried my PDF to DJVU converter but I don't think it can handle files this size.  If you are able to do your magic to volume 545, I'll start working on the index page and Kelo.  No rush though; there's always plenty to work on... —Spangineerwp (háblame) 01:55, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I uploaded 545 U.S. to Commons after converting it to DjVu format, so you are all set to take a crack at Kelo. I will also try to add the other volumes that are currently available from the Supreme Court’s web site, most likely later this week some time. Tarmstro99 (talk) 15:51, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Two out of four opinions of Kelo are done.  FYI, I created a list of US Reports that I could find on commons and archive.org; it's at User:Spangineer/US_Reports. —Spangineerwp (háblame) 01:23, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Great! Now that the scanned Volume 545 is here, I’ll have to add migrating over MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. to my list of to-dos. Great job tracking down the issues of the U.S. Reports that have previously been scanned; although, as you probably know, many of the earliest volumes weren’t called “U.S. Reports” at the time of their original publication, and you may be able to find a few more by searching for the name of the individual Reporter who prepared each volume. (For instance, 19 U.S. = 6 Wheat.; 23 U.S. = 10 Wheat.; 27 U.S. = 2 Pet.). Tarmstro99 (talk) 01:37, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Template quirk?
Hi again,

I've been following the recent nonsense with the sidenote changes and noticed a possible "bug" - well at least for me - when it comes to USStat works w/the chapter header. For some reason applying the in the default justified position, the date floats above the roman numeral instead of in the sidnote field upon transclusion. When you align it centered, this problem doesn't happen. First off - are you seeing this too or is it just me? (the easiest place to see this is in the 2nd example of the template's documentation) George Orwell III (talk) 21:22, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm, actually, I am not seeing that behavior, although I did just wrap the examples in the documentation in some extra  tags, which may affect the way they are rendered in your browser.  I am still running into trouble with the fact that pages of the Statutes at Large appear to render differently in Chrome than they do in Firefox when transcluded into the main namespace (not a problem that used to happen before all the recent mucking around with the sidenotes templates). I have been running a bot script lately to try to update the main-namespace pages to use the new formatting that seems most nearly to approximate the behavior of the sidenotes templates, but it has been somewhat slow going. (The good Statutes at Large news, I guess, is that I have a complete version of Volume 45, Part 1 nearly ready to upload; over 2,000 pages. I would have more time to deal with proofing and adding new content if the underlying templates and scripting didn’t keep changing from “working” to “broken” without warning.) Tarmstro99 (talk) 15:15, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

 * Actually I'm no longer seeing the quirk I first mentioned - most likely because the second example is no longer pointing to the left sidenote even though side=left. Can't really say that this has been solved, sorry.
 * As far as rendering goes, before all this tinkering with highlighting pages, dynamic layouts and CSS based sidenotes, your Statutes at Large was the standard I looked to whenever I came across a dilema. Right now, much of what I looked at looks like like somebody named Corky who wears a bicycle helmet to the bathroom edited it. Basically, stuff is all over the place in IE 6 & IE 7 (fairly certain IE 8 would be worse). It's not just you - much of work other folks have done now renders like abstract art when it use to look just fine.
 * Good luck with that bot work but if may offer you some advice - I'd wait little longer before going any further. I'm near certain more changes are coming and you may be doing 2x the work uneccessarily.
 * FYI -- I went through some of the volumes a week or two ago adding basic page layouts. One of them (I think it was 22 - I'll double check that when I get home) had a lot of duplicate pages. George Orwell III (talk) 19:40, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Is this any better, do you think? It's a bit of extra effort to duplicate "by hand" the layout that sidenotes begin/sidenotes end used to supply as a matter of course, but perhaps that effort can itself become a new template, or applied across multiple pages by a bot. Tarmstro99 (talk) 16:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * A hair too close IMHO to the main content body as it renders here (the old padding is missed), though the side margins & sidenote font used seem like the way to go for sure. George Orwell III (talk) 16:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I added another ½em of whitespace between the body text and the sidenote. Tarmstro99 (talk) 20:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * No noticeable difference. (refreshed cache 2x, both ways too). 21:20, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll check into Volume 22; thanks for highlighting the possible trouble spot. Tarmstro99 (talk) 16:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah its volume 22 - I noticed it toward the end (Procs & index) - don't know if it is throughout the rest. George Orwell III (talk) 16:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

need bot run on indexes
Not sure where else to turn... I need that bot to run on some indexes (about 400 pages each) and was hoping you could set that up again when you have the free time and is convenient for you. The indexes are: Thanks in advance - no worries if you can't. George Orwell III (talk) 16:11, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Index:Title 3 CFR 2000 Compilation.djvu (don't kow if it mattters but I created a bunch of pages in this one already}.
 * Index:Title 3 CFR 2002 Compilation.djvu
 * Index:Title 3 CFR 2005 Compilation.djvu
 * Index:Title 3 CFR 2006 Compilation.djvu
 * Index:Title 3 CFR 2007 Compilation.djvu
 * Should not be a problem; give me a few minutes to set it up. I’ll make sure not to clobber the pages you’ve already done. Tarmstro99 (talk) 17:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅Let me know if you need anything further. There were a few odd instances of characters failing to convert correctly to UTF-8; you’ll notice them when proofreading as three-digit octal codes where some other character ought to be. Tarmstro99 (talk) 00:24, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Many, many thanks for that. I'm not too worried about the coming proofreading & validation - all those Proclamations and Executive Orders were created in the mainspace around 2006 so all I'm really doing is making what WS already has fully compliant.
 * As far as anything else goes; I'll touchback if need be - but now that you've reminded me, I've been meaning to approach you on where exactly I can start pitching in and help with at least validating some of your various efforts (I just wasn't sure if you had a system or something you were following to be honest). Let me know what I can do in my frequent free time of late to help out. George Orwell III (talk) 01:42, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I’ve been a bit scattershot in my contributions lately, but there are plenty of pages in Index:Harvard Law Review Volume 1.djvu and Index:United States Statutes at Large Volume 1.djvu (pace the recent template/layout issues) that I think would make for a fairly easy validation. Tarmstro99 (talk) 10:53, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Question re proclamations in USSaL
I'd like to put transclude pages from Statutes at Large for Jackson's Nullification Proclamation, starting with Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 11.djvu/815. Any recommendations for formatting / templates? I know there are templates like USStatHeader and USStatChapHead but I'm not sure they will work for a proclamation. Also, is there a convention for section names for proclamations? —Spangineer (háblame) 20:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Ever wonder why a Proclamation issued in 1832 (should be found in USSaL vol. 5 or so) is only "first" published in 1859 (Volume 11)? See footnote 11 Stat. 751 {or pg 795 in the djvu). FWIW... I've started to cross-check these early USSaL published Proclamations with the current numbered system HERE to eventually roll out (actually reorganize) Proclamations much like the Executive Order collection has been progressing so far.
 * The problem I've been avoiding with Proclamations in general is that while the USSaL content basically mirrors the original written or submitted verions, the layout/formatting/etc. never seem to match -- & sidenotes aren't penned by Presidents in their original issuances either.
 * It appears there was a consistent format/layout practiced when it came Proclamations even before "official" outlines or guidelines for Presidential documents started making the rounds sometime around 1875 or so (we haven't found the exact EO/Proc that first laid out these parameters basically because nobody has come up with Executive Order 3577 yet to work backwards from like Executive Order 5220 did for us). The current parameters are in the CFR and haven't changed much since EO 5220. George Orwell III (talk) 06:58, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * All excellent observations. There are a couple of related issues here that I think it’s wise to distinguish, namely: (1) should our collection of Presidential documents be linked to page scans of some authoritative source, and (2) is the Statutes of Large the best such source for us to use. Personally, my answers to those questions are (1) absolutely yes, and (2) perhaps.  I will have to leave it to those more knowledgeable about Executive Branch reference sources to determine what the best source for proclamations is.  For these 19th-century works, the Statutes at Large may be the best source available, since neither the  nor the Public Papers existed yet. Tarmstro99 (talk) 14:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Maybe I came off too critical or something before. By all means, "we" should use the scanned USSaL volumes' content to the fullest extent possible. If we can source all the early Proclamations to Stat. pages - all the better. The issue is how to list, create, present and catagorize them on WS so that in the end WS supersedes the few other resources out there that dabbles in this subject matter. Unfortunately, the volumes do not have any real rhyme or reason when it comes to Proclamations other than a numbered listing of an Appendix that does not always jibe with what later indicies show.
 * The bigger problem is the fact that thousands of "Procs" & "Orders" where issued over our first 100 years and only the significant or effecting ones made it to the USSaL, others only got published if at all by the agency or department mentioned and the rest never made it pass the agency head's desks before disappearing into first the Secretary of State/State Dept. archives then the National Archives forever. The relevant ones over time recieved a number designation but the rest simply use the date issued for a title; sometimes the subject matter followed.
 * At the end of it all & IMHO, in order to properly attribute any Proclamation to a President it should first try reflect the content that actually recieved the Great Seal of the US by his hand, followed by the "message" sent to and hopefully recorded by Congress whenever possible (i.e. the era's Congressional Series/Set/Record/Journal) and only then call upon the USSaL with its added sidenotes and formatting quirks for final hosting. Since the first 2 are rare, I'd had envisioned the transcribed content to display like Proclamation 758 but with USSaL sidenotes displaying outside the artificial "page" borders somehow. If we could stick using the numbered designations first and then create as many redirected titles as needed afterwards, it would make managing the collection a whole lot easier (not to mention more aligned with the official archives of today). George Orwell III (talk) 16:32, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I created USStatCols start and USStatCols end to try to preserve a tolerably accurate display style for the sidenotes. You can see them in action at, for instance, United States Statutes at Large/Volume 12/37th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 81.  They rely on USStatSidenote to mark the sidenotes in the underlying pages to be transcluded, but pages that have been marked the “old” way (with left sidenote and right sidenote) can easily be converted to use USStatSidenote with a bot script.  Let me know if you need me to set up something like that on the page ranges you are going to be using! Tarmstro99 (talk) 01:23, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the tardy response, I'm trying to parse all this. First, it seems to me that we should be consistent with naming within the USSaL and put this version of the Nullification Proclamation at United States Statutes at Large/Appendix/Proclamation 26. Second, I'll try to use the new templates, but I think the main issue is that there's no proclamation header, so the sidenote that corresponds with the title Proclamation 26 isn't underlined the way the others are. Third, I believe that some early proclamations may be in Niles' Register; that may be a better source. I'll need to confirm that. —Spangineer (háblame) 19:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Please forgive any snarky-ness that may follow - I'm only trying to walk this through as completely as possible for the benefit of everyone...
 * Making Public Laws, Resolutions and the like as subpages to the USSaL volume is fine - mainly because even if Chapters are still being used, the corresponding citations most commonly used for those type of publications (i.e. 11 Stat. 789, Ch. 123), will always vary in some way from one volume to the next so that each published whatever is unique from the same designation from prior & latter volumes. Simply put...
 * 11 Stat. 789, Ch. 123,
 * 14 Stat. 348, Ch. 123,
 * 33 Stat. 789, Ch. 17
 * ... are all similar citations to the unfamilar reader but nevertheless are unique because the numbers represent changes from one publication to the next and fortunately the mainspace subpage path(s) match enough so that navigating to them are made easier for both the reader as well as search engine (Chapter 123 in volume 11 is not easily confused with Chapter 123 of volume 14 and page 789 in volume 33 is not easily confused with page 789 in volume 11 in the above).
 * When we move away from those types of docs to Proclamations the problem becomes the lack of of any uniform citation or reference list for volumes 1 to ~30 that at the same time easily mimics a unique USSaL mainspace-volume-subpage path (Proclamation 26 in Volume 11 IS easily confused with Proclamation 26 in Volume 14 and with Proclamation 26 in Volume 33). Also consider;
 * Lincoln didn't title his proclamation the Emancipation Proclamation - historians did.
 * Jackson didn't title his proclamation Respecting the Nullification of.... or 26 - the publication did.
 * The same truth applies to anything titled along the lines of Proclamation of MM DD, YYYY - the State Department followed by the Office of Federal Register added those titles in their record-keeping.
 * The only truely unique designation method and/or practice started around 1907, developed some in the 1920's, then was finally made a regulatory requirement in the mid-thirties is the contiguous numbered series. This is the designation system still in official use today. This why I think it is best to have any of the above forms of designation be redirects pointing to the actual content using the numbered series first and formost in the naming. Please remember, I'm focusing a framework for the 8500+ published Proclamations out there as a whole collection; not just history's 2 dozen or so Presidential "greatest hits". George Orwell III (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 221 PAYMENTS FOR OPERATION OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING PROJECTS For payments to public housing agencies for operating subsidies for low-income housing projects as authorized by section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $1,362,200,000. HOUSING COUNSEUNG ASSISTANCE For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided for, for providing counseling and advice to tenants and homeown- ers—both current and prospective—with respect to property mainte- nance, financial management, and such other matters as may be appropriate to assist them in improving their housing conditions and meeting the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership, including provisions for training and for support of voluntary agen- cies and services as authorized by section 106(a)(l)(iii) and section 106(a)(2) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, $3,500,000. 12 USC 1701X. TROUBLED PROJECTS OPERATING SUBSIDY For assistance payments to owners of eligible multifamily housing projects insured, or formerly insured, under the National Housing Act, as amended, in the program of operating subsidies for troubled multifamily housing projects under the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978, all unobligated balances of excess rental charges and any collections after September 30, 1983, to remain available until September 30, 1985: Provided, That assist- ance payments to an owner of a multifamily housing project assisted, but not insured, under the National Housing Act may be made if the project owner and the mortgagee have provided or agreed to provide assistance to the project in a manner as deter- mined by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 12 USC 1701. 42 USC 5301 note. FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION FUND For payment to cover losses, not otherwise provided for, sustained by the Special Risk Insurance Fund and General Insurance Fund as authorized by the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3(b) and 1735c(f)), $252,974,000, to remain available until expended. During 1984, within the resources available, gross obligations for direct loans are authorized in such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the National Housing Act, as amended. During 1984, additional commitments to guarantee loans to carry out the purposes of the National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed $50,900,000,000 of loan principal. During fiscal year 1984, gross obligations for direct loans of not to exceed $56,390,000 are authorized for payments under section 230(a) of the National Housing Act, as amended, from the insurance fund chargeable for benefits on the mortgage covering the property to which the payments made relate, and payments in connection with such obligations are hereby approved. Any fee charged in accordance with a contract by a contractor to recover indebtedness owed to the United States may be payable from the amount collected by such contractor, up to such amount as 12 USC 1715u.

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 97 STAT. 222 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 may be owed such contractor, in accordance with section 13(b) of the 96 Stat. 1757. Debt Collection Act of 1982 (Public Law 97-365). NONPROFIT SPONSOR ASSISTANCE During 1984, within the resources and authority available, gross obligations for the principal amounts of direct loans shall not exceed $2,632,000. GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION PAYMENT OF PARTICIPATION SALES INSUFFICIENCIES For the payment of such insufficiences as may be required by the Government National Mortgage Association, as trustee, on account of outstanding beneficial interests or participations in assets of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (including the Government National Mortgage Association) authorized by the Inde- pendent Offices and Department of Housing and Urban Develop- 81 Stat. 341. ment Appropriation Act, 1968, to be issued pursuant to section 302(c) of the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1717), $1,997,000. GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES During 1984, new commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended 12 USC 1721. (12 U.S.C. 1721g), shall not exceed $68,250,000,000 of loan principal. SOLAR ENERGY AND ENERGY CONSERVATION BANK ASSISTANCE FOR SOLAR AND CONSERVATION IMPROVEMENTS For financial assistance and other expenses, not otherwise pro- vided for, to carry out the provisions of the Solar Ener^ and Energy Conservation Bank Act of 1980 (12 U.S.C. 3601), $25,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985. COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS For grants to States and units of general local government and for related expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying out a community development grant program as authorized by title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301), $3,468,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1986: Provided, That not to exceed 20 per centum of any grant made with funds appropriated herein shall be expended for 'Tlanning and Management Development" and "Administra- tion" as defined in regulations promulgated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That any unit of general local government which was classified as a metropolitan city in fiscal year 1983 pursuant to section 102(a)(4) of the Housing 96 Stat. 1231. and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, shall con- 42 USC 5302. tinue to be classified as a metropolitan city for purposes of the allocation of funds provided herein for fiscal year 1984.

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 223 During 1984, total commitments to guarantee loans, as authorized by section 108 of the aforementioned Act, shall not exceed 42 USC 5308. $225,000,000 of contingent liability for loan principal. URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACTION GRANTS For grants to carry out urban development action grant programs authorized in section 119 of the Housing and Community Develop- ment Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301), pursuant to section 42 USC 5318. 103 of that Act, $440,000,000, to remain available until Septem- ber 30, 1987. REHABIUTATION LOAN FUND During 1984, collections, unexpended balances of prior appropri- ations (including any recoveries of prior reservations) and any other amounts in the revolving fund established pursuant to section 312 of the Housing Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1452b), after Septem- ber 30, 1983, are available for commitments for loans and operating costs and the capitalization of delinquent interest on delinquent or defaulted loans. URBAN HOMESTEADING For reimbursement to the Federal Housing Administration Fund for losses incurred under the urban homesteading program (12 U.S.C. 1706e), and for reimbursement to the Administrator of Veter- ans Affairs and the Secretary of Agriculture for properties conveyed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, for use in connection with an urban home- steading program approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to section 810 of the Housing and Commu- nity Development Act of 1974, as amended, $12,000,000, to remain 12 USC I706e. available until expended. NEW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NEW COMMUNITIES FUND (TRANSFER OF FUNDS) The Secretary shall transfer all assets and liabilities of the fund 12 USC established pursuant to section 717 of the Housing and Urban i'70ig-5a. Development Act of 1970, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4518), to the Revolving fund (liquidating programs) established pursuant to title II of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1955, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701g-5). PoucY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z-l et seq.), including carrying out the functions of the Secretary under section l(a)(l)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968, $19,000,000, to 5 USC app. remain available until September 30, 1985: Provided, That

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 97 STAT. 224 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 $4,000,000 of the foregoing amount is to be made available solely for a study of the costs of bringing the existing public housing stock into conformance with property and energy conservation standards established by the Secretary. FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FAIR HOUSING ASSISTANCE For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 42 USC 3601. for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended, $4,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) For necessary administrative and nonadministrative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representation expenses, $572,064,000, of which $271,114,000 shall be provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration. TITLE II INDEPENDENT AGENCIES AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Ameri- can Battle Monuments Commission, including the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign countries; purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of national cemeteries and monuments outside of the United States and its territories and possessions; rent of office and garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and insur- ance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by 36 USC 121b. law of such countries; $10,462,000: Provided, That where station allowance has been authorized by the Department of the Army for officers of the Army serving the Army at certain foreign stations, the same allowance shall be authorized for officers of the Armed Forces assigned to the Commission while serving at the same foreign stations, and this appropriation is hereby made available for the 36 USC 122. payment of such allowance: Provided further, That when traveling on business of the Commission, officers of the Armed Forces serving as members or as Secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed for expenses as provided for civilian members of the Commission: 36 USC 122a. Provided further. That the Commission shall reimburse other Gov- ernment agencies, including the Armed Forces, for salary, pay, and allowances of personnel assigned to it.

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 225 CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product Safety Commis- sion, includii^ hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as author- ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18, and not to exceed $500 for ofRcial reception and representation expenses, $35,000,000: Provided, That funds provided by this appropriation for laboratories shall be available only for the acquisition or conversion of existing laboratories. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for maintensmce, operation, and improvement of Arlington National Cemetery and Midlers' Home National Cemetery, including the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only, $8,203,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That reimbursement shall be made to the applicable military appropriation for the pay and allowances of any military personnel peitorming services primarily for the purposes of this appropriation. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18; purchase of reprints; library memberships in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members; and not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representation expenses; $574,900,000: Provided, That none of these funds may be expended for purposes of Resource Conservation and Recovery Panels estab- lished under section 2003 of the Resource Conservation and Recov- ery Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6913). RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT For research and development activities, $142,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985. ABATEMENT, CONTROL, AND COMPLIANCE For abatement, control, and compliance activities, $393,900,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985: Provided, That none of these funds may be expended for purposes of Resource Conservation and Recovery Psinels established under section 2003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6913), or for 11-194O-85~ 9:QL3

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 97 STAT. 226 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 support to State, regional, local and interstate agencies in accord- 42 USC 6941. ance with subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 42 USC 6948, other than section 4008(a)(2) or 4009. ^^'*^- None of the funds provided in this Act may be obligated or 42 USC 7401 expended to impose sanctions under the Clean Air Act with respect ^°^^- to any area for failure to attain any national ambient air quality standard established under section 109 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 7409) by the applicable dates set forth in section 172(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 7502(a)). BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment for facilities of, or use by, the Environ- mental Protection Agency, $2,600,000, to remain available until expended. PAYMENT TO THE HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESPONSE TRUST FUND For payment to the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund as authorized by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com- pensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $44,000,000. HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESPONSE TRUST FUND For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive Environ- 42 USC 9601 mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, includ- "«t«- ing sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), $410,000,000, to be derived from the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund, to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $64,000,000 shall be available for administrative expenses. Funds appropriated under this account may be allocated to other Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of Public Law 96- 42 USC 9611. 510: Provided further, That for performance of specific activities in accordance with section 104(i) of Public Law 96-510, the Comprehen- sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 42 USC 9604. 1980, $5,000,000 shall be made available to the Department of Health and Human Services on October 1, 1983, to be derived by transfer from the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. CONSTRUCTION GRANTS For necessary expenses to carry out title II of the Federal Water 33 USC 1281. Pollution Control Act, as amended, other than sections 201(m)(1)- 33 USC 1281, (3), 201(n)(2), 206, 208, and 209, $2,400,000,000, to remain available 1286, 1288, 1289. until expended, and for projects under section 201(n)(2), subject to the approval of the Committees on Appropriations, $30,000,000, to remain available until expended. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUAUTY For necessary expenses of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality, in carrying out their functions under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 227 (Public Law 91-190), the Environmental Quality Improvement Act 42 USC 4321 of 1970 (Public Law 91-224), and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1977, J^te.^^ ^^^^ including not to exceed $500 for official reception and representa- ^ote, 5 USC app. tion expenses, and hire of pgissenger motor vehicles, $700,000. OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $1,500 for official recep- tion and representation expenses, and rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, $1,950,000. FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including hire of passenger motor vehicles; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS-18; expenses of attendance of cooperat- ing officials and individuals at meetings concerned with the work of emergency preparedness; transportation in connection with the con- tinuity of government program to the same extent and in the same manner as permitted the Secretary of a Military Department under 10 U.S.C. 2632; and not to exceed $500 for official reception and representation expenses, $121,110,000. STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out activities under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2251 et seq.), the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 42 USC 400i (42 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of "°*^ 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), $169,176,000: Provided, That of this amount $4,778,000 for expenses under section 1362 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4103, 4127), shall be available until September 30, 1985. EMERGENCY PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Urban Property Protection and Reinsurance Act of 1968, as amended, and the National Insurance Development Act of 12 USC I70i 1975 (12 U.S.C. 1749bbb et seq.), the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (42 "ote. U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.), the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2251 et seq.),

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 97 STAT. 228 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), section 103 of the National Security Act (50 U.S.C. 404), and 5 USC app. Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, $146,308,000. NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND For repayment under notes issued by the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 15(e) of the Federal Flood Insurance Act of 1956, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2414(e)), $37,521,000. In fiscal year 1984, not to exceed (1) $36,141,000 for operating expenses, (2) $74,095,000 for agents' commissions and taxes, and (3) $6,907,000 for interest on Treasury borrowings shall be available from the National Flood Insurance Fund without the approval of the Committees on Appropriations. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER For necessary expenses of the Consumer Information Center, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,349,000, to be deposited into the Consumer Information (Center Fund: Provided, That the revenues and collections deposited into the fund shall be available for necessary expenses, other than administrative expenses, of Consumer Information Center activities in the aggre- gate amount of $6,500,000. Administrative expenses of the Con- sumer Information (Center in fiscal year 1984 shall not exceed $1,449,000. Revenues and collections accruing to this fund during fiscal year 1984 in excess of $7,949,000 shall remain in the fund and shall not be available for expenditure except as authorized in appro- priation Acts. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS For necessary expenses of the Office of Consumer Affairs, includ- ing services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $2,011,000. NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including research, development, operations, services, minor construction, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and modification of real and personal property; purchase, hire, maintenance, and operation of other than administrative aircraft, necessary for the conduct and support of aeronautical and space research and development activi- ties of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; includ- ing not to exceed (1) $427,400,000 for space transportation capability development; (2) $14,000,000 for a space station; (3) $165,600,000 for space telescope development; (4) $17,000,000 for Numerical Aerody- namic Simulation; without the approval of the Committees on Ap- propriations; $2,011,900,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985.

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 229 SPACE FUGHT, CONTROL AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for; in support of space flight, spacecraft control and communications activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including oper- ations, production, services, minor construction, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, and modification of real and personal prop- erty; tracking and data relay satellite services as authorized by law; purchase, hire, maintenance and operation of other than adminis- trative aircraft; and including not to exceed (1) $1,500,000,000 for space shuttle production and capability development; (2) $1,570,600,000 for space transportation operations; (3) $50,000,000 for expendable launch vehicles; and (4) not more nor less than $44,000,000 shall be obligated for space communications operations and maintenance and support associated with the tracking and data relay satellite system, excluding amounts to be obligated for award fees earned on the contract; without the approval of the Committees on Appropriations; $3,791,600,000, to remain available until Septem- ber 30, 1985: Provided, That up to 5 per centum of the amount appropriated for "Research and Development" or "Space Flight, Control and Data Communications" may be transferred between such accounts with the approval of the Committees on Appropriations. CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES For construction, repair, rehabilitation and modification of facili- ties, minor construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, and for facility planning and design not otherwise pro- vided, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for the acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law, $135,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 1986: Provided, That, notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds appropriated under this heading by this appropriation Act, when any activity has bfeen initiated by the incurrence of obligations therefor, the amount available for such activity shall remain availa- ble until expended, except that this provision shall not apply to the amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization for repair, rehabilitation and modification of facilities, minor construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, and facility plan- ning and design: Provided further. That no amount appropriated pursuant to this or any other Act may be used for the lease or construction of a new contractor-funded facility for exclusive use in support of a contract or contracts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under which the Administration would be required to substantially amortize through payment or reim- bursement such contractor investment, unless an appropriation Act specifies the lease or contract pursuant to which such facilities are to be constructed or leased or such facility is otherwise identified in such Act: Provided further. That the Administrator may authorize such facility lease or construction, with the approval of the Commit- tees on Appropriations if he determines that deferral of such action until the enactment of the next appropriation Act would be incon- sistent with the interest of the Nation in aeronautical and space activities.

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 97 STAT. 230 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 RESEARCH AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT For necessary expenses of research in government laboratories, management of programs and other activities of the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration, not otherwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); awards; lease, hire, maintenance and operation of administrative aircraft; purchase (not to exceed twenty-seven for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and mainte- nance and repair of real and personal property, and not in excess of $75,000 per project for construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, repairs, and rehabilitation and modification of facilities; $1,238,500,000: Provided, That contracts may be entered into under this appropriation for maintenance and operation of facilities, and for other services, to be provided during the next fiscal year: Provided further, That not to exceed $35,000 of the foregoing amount shall be available for scientific consultations or extraordi- nary expense, to be expended upon the approval or authority of the Administrator and his determination shall be final and conclusive. NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY The amount which may be borrowed, from the public or any other source except the Secretary of the Treasury, by the Central Liquid- ity Facility as authorized by the National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility Act (12 U.S.C. 1795), shall not exceed $600,000,000: Provided, That administrative expenses of the Central Liquidity Facility in fiscal year 1984 shall not exceed $850,000. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES For necessary expenses in carrying out the purposes of the Na- tional Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861- 1875), title IX of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 1876-1879), and the Act to establish a National Medal of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880-1881); services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and operation of aircraft and purchase of flight services for research support; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and representation expenses; not to exceed $65,000,000 for program development and manage- ment in fiscal year 1984; uniforms or allowances therefor, as author- ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia; and reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services, $1,140,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985: Provided, That receipts for scientific support services and materials furnished by the National Research Centers and other National Science Foundation supported research facilities may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further, That to the extent that the amount appropriated is less than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for included program activities, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, speci- fied in the authorizing Act for those program activities or their subactivities shall be reduced proportionally.

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 231 UNITED STATES ANTARCTIC PROGRAM ACTIVITIES For necessary expenses in carrying out the research and oper- ational siipport for the U.S. Antarctic Program pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875); maintenance and operation of aircraft and purchase of flight services for research and operations support; maintenance and operation of research ships and charter or lease of ships for research and operations support; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation ex- penses; $102,100,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That receipts for support services and materials provided to individ- uals for non-Federal activities may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further. That no funds in this account shall be used for the purchase of aircraft. SCIENCE EDUCATION ACTIVITIES For necessary expenses in carrying out science education pro- grams and activities pursuant to the purposes of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875), including award of graduate fellowships, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, $75,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985: Provided, That to the extent that the amount of this appropriation is less than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for included program activities, all amounts, including floors and ceil- ings, specified in the authorizing Act for those program activities or their subactivities shall be reduced proportionally: Provided further. That no less than $34,000,000 shall be made available for merit based instructional materials development, evaluation and demon- stration activities: Provided further. That up to $5,000,000 may be transferred from funds provided under this head to and merged with funds made available under "Research and related activities" for the purpose of conducting research on teaching and learning. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES OVERSEAS (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For pa3mients in foreign currencies which the Treasury Depart- ment determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States, for scientific activities, as authorized by law, $2,900,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available in addition to other appropriations to the National Science Foundation, for payments in the foregoing currencies. NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $15,512,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available under this heading shall be used for the capital costs of a demonstration program with mutual housing associations.

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 97 STAT. 232 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective Service System, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 4101-4118) for civilian employees; and not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation expenses; $24,500,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year, the Presi- dent may exempt this appropriation from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 96 Stat. 923. 1341, whenever he deems such action to be necessary in the interest of national defense: Provided further, That none of the funds appro- priated by this Act may be expended for or in connection with the induction of any person into the Armed Forces of the United States. DEPARTMENT OP THE TREASURY PAYMENTS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL ASSISTANCE TRUST FUND For payments to the State and Local Government Fiscal Assist- ance Trust Fund, $4,566,700,000. OFFICE OF REVENUE SHARING, SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the Office of Revenue Sharing, includ- ing hire of passenger motor vehicles, $7,278,000. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, and allow- ances, including burial awards, plot allowances, burial flags, head- stones and grave markers, emergency and other officers' retirement pay, adjusted-service credits and certificates, and other benefits as authorized by law; and for payment of premiums due on commercial life insurance policies guaranteed under the provisions of article IV 50 USC app. 540. of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, $13,842,000,000, to remain available until expended. READJUSTMENT BENEFITS For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 21, 31, 38 USC 801 et 34-36, 39, 51, 53, 55, and 61), $1,371,000,000, to remain available fl^^'i \??n^?^^' until expended. 1651-1770 eiseg., •^ 1901 et seq., 3001 et seq., 3101 et VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES seq., 3201 et seq., 3501 et seq. YoT military and naval insurance, national service life insurance, servicemen's indemnities, and service-disabled veterans insurance, 38 USC 701 et as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 Stat. 487), $7,400,000, to remain available until expended.
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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 233 MEDICAL CARE 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 Veterans Administration, including care and treatment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the Veterans Administration, and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies and equipment; funeral, burial and other expenses incidental thereto for beneficiaries receiving care in Veterans Administration facilities; repairing, altering, improving or providing facilities in the several hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans Adminis- tration, 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 law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); aid to State homes as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 641); and not to exceed $2,000,000 to fund cost comparison studies as referred to in 38 U.S.C. 5010(a)(5); $8,070,726,000, plus reimbursements. MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of medical and prosthetic research and development, as authorized by law, to remain available until September 30, 1985, $162,325,000, plus reimbursements. MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENSES For necessary expenses in the administration of the mediced, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction and supply, research, employee education and training activities, as authorized by law, $66,552,000, plus reimbursements. GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES For necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Administration, not otherwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances there- fore, as authorized by law; not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representation expenses; cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; purchase of five passenger motor vehicles, for use in cemeterial operations, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and reimburse- ment of the General Services Administration for security guard services, and the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail, $712,088,000. CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS For constructing, altering, extending and improving any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Veterans Administration, or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 1004, 1006, 5002, 5003, 5006, 5008, 5009, and 5010 of title 38, United States Code, including planning, architectural and engineering services, and site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is $2,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were made available in a previous major project appropriation, $345,692,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That, except for advance plan- ning of projects funded through the advance planning fund, none of these funds shall be used for any project which has not been

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 97 STAT. 234 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 Report to Committees on Appropriations and Comptroller General. Review. 2 USC 686. considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary process: Provided further. That $15,000,000 of the advance planning funds provided in this Act for medical projects shall only be available for the advance planning of those projects proposed in fiscal year 1983 and prior years: Provided further. That funds provided in the appro- priation "Construction, Major Projects" for fiscal year 1984, for each approved project shall be obligated (1) by the awarding of a working drawings contract by September 30, 1984 and (2) by the awarding of a construction contract by September 30, 1985: Provided further. That the Administrator shall promptly report in writing to the Comptroller General and to the Committees on Appropriations any approved major construction project in which obligations are not incurred within the time limitations established above; and the Comptroller General shall review the report in accordance with the procedures established by section 1015 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (title X of Public Law 93-344): Provided further. That no funds from any other account 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 final acceptance of the project by the Veterans Administration. CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Veterans Administration, including planning, architectural and engineering services, and site acquistion, or for any of the purposes set forth in sections 1004, 1006, 5002, 5006, 5008, 5009, and 5010 of title 38, United States Code, where the estimated cost of a project is less than $2,000,000, $185,378,000, 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 $2,000,000: Provided, That not more than $45,338,000 shall be available for expenses of the Office of Construction. GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE FACILITIES For grants to assist the several States to 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 law (38 U.S.C. 5031-5037), $18,000,000, to remain available until Septem- ber 30, 1986. GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS CEMETERIES For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding or improving State veterans' cemeteries as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 1008), $3,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1986. GRANTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES For payment to the Republic of the Philippines of grants, as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 632), for assisting in the replacement and upgrading of equipment and in rehabilitating the physical plant

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 PUBLIC LAW 98-45—JULY 12, 1983 97 STAT. 235 and facilities of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, $500,000, to remain available until September 30, 1985. LOAN GUARA>fTY REVOLVING FUND During 1984, the Loan guaranty revolving fund shall be available for expenses for property acquisitions, payment of participation sales insufficiencies, and other loan guaranty and insurance oper- ations, as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapter 37, except adminis- 38 USC I80i et trative expenses, as authorized by section 1824 of such title): ^ooii<i^c ^R1A Provided, That the unobligated balances, including retained earn- "^^ ^^^ ^^^ ings of the Direct loan revolving fund, shall be available, during 1984, for transfer to the Loan guaranty revolving fund in such amounts as may be necessary to provide for the timely payment of obligations of such fund, and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs shall not be required to pay interest on amounts so transferred after the time of such transfer. During 1984, within the resources available, gross obligations for direct loans and total commitments to guarantee loans are author- ized in such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the "Loan guaranty revolving fund". DIRECT LOAN REVOLVING FUND During 1984, within the resources available, not to exceed $1,000,000 in gross obligations for direct loans for specially adapted housing loans (38 U.S.C. chapter 37). 38 USC 1801 et seq. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation for 1984 for "Compensation and pensions", "Readjustment benefits", and "Vet- erans insurance and indemnities" may be transferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations, but not to exceed 10 per centum of the appropriations so augmented. Appropriations available to the Veterans Administration for 1984 for salaries and expenses shall be available for services as author- ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. No part of the appropriations in this Act for the Veterans Admin- istration (except the appropriations for "Construction, major proj- ects" and "Construction, minor projects") shall be available for the purchase of any site for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home. No part of the foregoing appropriations shall be available for hospitalization or examination of any persons except beneficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, unless reimbursement of cost is made to the appropriation at such rates as may be fixed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. TITLE III CORPORATIONS Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board which are subject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within 96 Stat. 1041. 31 USC 9101 et seq.

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