Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 - Division A: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations, 2003 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 2003 for the following Department of Agriculture (Department) programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) executive operations; (3) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (4) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (6) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (7) hazardous materials management; (8) departmental administration; (9) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (10) Office of Communications; (11) Office of the Inspector General; (12) Office of the General Counsel; (13) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (14) Economic Research Service; (15) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (16) Agricultural Research Service; (17) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (18) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (19) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (20) Agricultural Marketing Service; (21) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (22) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (23) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (24) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (25) Farm Service Agency; (26) Risk Management Agency; (27) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (28) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.
Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Title III: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) rural development salaries and expenses; (3) Rural Housing Service; (4) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (5) Rural Utilities Service.
Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service.
Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Public Law 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and title II grants; and (3) Commodity Credit Corporation export loans program account.
Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration- Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration.
Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
(Sec. 713) Authorizes cooperative agreements among the marketing services of the Agricultural Marketing Service, the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and the food safety activities of the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
(Sec. 716) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel.
(Sec. 721) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems, with an exception for administration of grants and obligations made before November 28, 2001.
(Sec. 722) Prohibits FDA fund use to reduce the FDA District Office in Detroit, Michigan, below specified staffing levels. Stipulates that such provision shall not apply to FDA field laboratory facilities in Detroit, except that such personnel shall be assigned to Detroit-vicinity facilities.
(Sec. 724) Prohibits fund use to relocate a State Rural Development office unless cost and operation effective.
(Sec. 725) Obligates specified amounts of agricultural commodities to assist foreign countries mitigate the effects of HIV and AIDS.
(Sec. 726) Makes additional appropriations for Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships.
(Sec. 727) Provides that any balances available to carry out Title III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, and any recoveries and reimbursements that become available, may be used to carry out Title II of such Act.
(Sec. 728) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase obligated funding for the national sheep industry improvement center revolving fund.
(Sec. 729) Makes the following cities eligible for the rural community advancement program: (1) Coachella, California; (2) Dunkirk, New York; (3) Starkville, Mississippi; (4) Shawnee, Oklahoma; and (5) Berlin, New Hampshire.
(Sec. 730) Considers the following cities as meeting the requirements of a rural area under the rural housing provisions of the Housing Act of 1949: (1) Hollister, Salinas, and Watsonville, California; (2) Caldwell, Idaho; (3) Casa Grande, Arizona; (4) Aberdeen, South Dakota; and (5) Vicksburg, Mississippi.
(Sec.731) Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide specified watershed and flood prevention assistance to the DuPage County, Illinois, Waynewood drainage improvement project.
(Sec. 732) Makes any current Rural Utilities Service borrower within 100 miles of New York City eligible for certain assistance related to the terrorist events of September 11, 2001.
(Sec. 733) Prohibits funds made available under this Act from being transferred to any Federal entity unless authorized by an appropriations Act.
(Sec. 734) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to close or relocate the FDA Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in Saint Louis, Missouri, outside the city or county limits.
(Sec. 735) Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act with respect to the definition of "institution" for purposes of child care food program eligibility for private organizations providing nonresidential child care outside of school hours.
(Sec. 736) Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance from specified funds for projects in: (1) the Embarras River Basin, Lake County Watersheds, and DuPage County, Illinois; and (2) the Upper Tygart Valley Watershed, West Virginia.
(Sec. 737) Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 20 percent of competitive research funds under this Act for a competitive grants program similar to the initiative for future agriculture and food systems.
(Sec. 739) Authorizes the Department to use any unobligated salaries and expense funds to reimburse the Office of General Counsel for representing its agencies and offices in employee complaints before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other employment dispute agencies. (Sec. 740) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to carry out Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)-funded rehabilitation of certain dams.
(Sec. 741) Prohibits fund use to carry out the rural strategic investment program under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
(Sec. 742) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to carry out the rural firefighters and emergency personnel grant program.
(Sec. 743) Limits the amount of funds available to carry out the bioenergy program.
(Sec. 744) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the watershed and flood prevention operations program for: (1) the Kuhn Bayou (Point Remove) project, Arkansas; and (2) the Matanushka River erosion project, Alaska.
(Sec. 745) Amends the Food for Progress Act of 1985 to provide for the use of private voluntary organizations and other private entities to carry out the program of commodity assistance to developing countries and emerging democracies that are seeking to develop free market institutions. (Sec. 746) Rescinds specified cooperative State research, education, and extension service, buildings and facilities appropriation funds under P.L.104-180.
(Sec. 747) Limits funds made available in FY 2003 or preceding fiscal years under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to reimburse CCC for the release of certain commodities under the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act.
(Sec. 748) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance to: (1) the Dry Creek/Neff's Grove project, Utah; and (2) the Jefferson River Watershed, Montana.
(Sec. 749) Authorizes the Secretary to make direct payments to the Denali Commission to address solid waste disposal problems which threaten to contaminate rural drinking water supplies.
(Sec. 750) Rescinds specified FY 2003 funds for the experimental rural clean water program.
(Sec. 751) Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to make loans and grants to expand Alaska's dairy industry and related milk processing and packaging facilities; and (2) FY 2003 through 2007 appropriations. (Sec. 752) Authorizes the Secretary to waive the farmland protection program matching fund requirement with respect to the farm formerly operated by American Airlines pilot John Ogonowski. Limits program funds to such land's appraised fair market value.
(Sec. 753) Authorizes the Secretary to permit Department employees to carry and use firearms for personal protection in remote locations in the performance of their official duties.
(Sec. 754) Limits the availability of FY 2003 funds for the export enhancement program.
(Sec. 755) Makes Carolina, Puerto Rico, eligible for Rural Utilities Service grants and loans.
(Sec. 756) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to carry out a review of the Agricultural Research Service, as provided for by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.
(Sec. 757) States that the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration shall not be required to establish obligations and outlays for purchases of interest bearing investments outside of the Treasury under specified circumstances.
(Sec. 758) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified food stamp funds for commodity processing, storage, transporting, and distribution.
(Sec. 759) Limits wetlands reserve program enrollment acreage for 2003.
(Sec. 760) Limits funds for the environmental quality incentives program.
(Sec. 761) Directs the Secretary, with lender consent, to structure the annual fee payment schedule with respect to rural electrification and telephone bond and loan guarantees, so as not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the term of the loan, in order to ensure fund availability to pay related subsidy costs. (Sec. 762) Appropriates additional funds (to be available through FY 2004) for emergency relief activities.
(Sec. 763) Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include crambe and sesame seeds within the definition of "other oilseeds."
Itemizes such oilseeds and applies the same marketing assistance loan rate and the same loan deficiency payment rate to each of them. Directs the Secretary to establish a single county loan rate for each "other oilseed."
Sets forth: (1) quality-based loan and loan repayment rates for dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas; and (2) a marketing assistance loan repayment rate for confectionary and other sunflower seeds.
(Sec. 764) Directs the Secretary to make a grant from FY 2003 Federal Crop Insurance Act funds to the Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship at the University of Vermont for value-added projects that contribute to agricultural diversification.
(Sec. 765) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 with respect to tobacco farm marketing quotas and related implementing regulations.
(Sec. 766) Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, with respect to the rural housing insurance fund program account, to permit remaining demonstration program funds to be used within the State in which the program is carried out for rural dwelling improvement grants and loans, beginning in FY 2003.
(Sec. 767) Considers, as of October 1, 2003, acreage planted to, or prevented from being planted to, popcorn to be corn acreage for base and payment acres and payment yield determinations (for direct and counter-cyclical payment purposes).
(Sec. 768) Rescinds specified amounts for the mutual and self-help housing program.
(Sec. 769) Exempts specified amounts under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC) from a certain across-the-board rescission under this Act.
(Sec. 770) Prohibits funds from being used, during the 180-day period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, to: (1) amend a licensing agreement for a grain warehouse (excluding rice) under the United States Warehouse Act; or (2) issue a new license for a grain warehouse (excluding rice) unless the warehouse does not hold a Federal or State operating license, and the new licensing agreement conforms to specified requirements in effect on January 1, 2003.
(Sec. 771) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to require that a farm satisfy certain animal production practices under the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 in order to be certified as an organic farm (with respect to livestock) unless a certain report prepared by the Secretary confirms the commercial availability of organically produced feed, at not more than twice the cost of conventionally produced feed, to meet current market demands.
Division B: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations, 2003 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 - Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for FY 2003 for: (1) general administration, including for a Joint Automated Booking System, an automated biometric identification system, conversion to narrowband communications, counterterrorism activities, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, and expenses of the Federal Detention Trustee and the Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including for antitrust activities, office automation, the Offices of U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service (including amounts for vehicles and courthouse security equipment), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) interagency law enforcement with respect to organized crime drug trafficking; (5) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (6) the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force; (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration; (8) the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); (9) the Federal prison system; and (10) Office of Justice programs, including for domestic preparedness and State and local law enforcement assistance (including for a prescription drug monitoring program, prison rape prevention and prosecution programs, and terrorism prevention and response training for law enforcement and other responders), the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, community oriented policing services, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers' benefits.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for abortions, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion.
(Sec. 105) Makes funds available to establish and publicize an extraordinary rewards program.
(Sec. 107) Provides for the continuation during FY 2003 of provisions directing the Attorney General to provide for the granting of posthumous citizenship for certain non-citizens who died as the result of injuries incurred in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
(Sec. 108) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to require the Attorney General to charge and collect a three dollar entry fee on commercial vessel passengers, with an exception for designated ports of entry passengers arriving by ferry or by Great Lakes and connecting waterways when operating on a regular schedule.
(Sec. 109) Requires the Director of the FBI to appoint a standing advisory panel to study the research, development, and application of existing and emerging science and technology advances.
(Sec. 111) Establishes a DOJ law enforcement training facility located on a portion of the former Charleston Naval Base, South Carolina, as a permanent training facility.
(Sec. 112) Directs the Attorney General to provide to the Appropriations Committees by March 1, 2003, all National Security Entry Exit Registration System documents and materials: (1) used in the creation of the System; (2) assessing the effectiveness of the System as a tool to enhance national security; (3) used to determine the scope of the System, including countries selected for the program and the gender, age, and immigration status of those required to register; (4) regarding future plans to expand the System; (5) explaining whether DOJ consulted with other Federal agencies in developing the System; (6) concerning policy directives or guidance issued to officials about implementing the System; (7) explaining why certain INS District Offices detained persons with pending status-adjustment applications; and (8) explaining how information gathered during interviews of registrants will be stored, used, or transmitted to other Federal, State, or local agencies.
Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY 2003 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including designation of a National Marine Fisheries Service Regional Office for the Pacific Area and an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations and implementation of the 1999 Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement; (17) the Fishermen's Contingency Fund; (18) the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund; (19) the fisheries finance program account; and (20) departmental management, including for the Office of Inspector General.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
(Sec. 201) Allows the use, during the current fiscal year, of advanced payments not otherwise authorized only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest.
(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to support hurricane reconnaissance aircraft and activities that are under the control of the U.S. Air Force or Air Force Reserve.
(Sec. 204) Requires the Secretary to notify the Appropriations Committees at least 15 days in advance of the acquisition or disposal of any capital asset not specifically provided for in this or any other Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Act.
(Sec. 206) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) award contracts for hydrographic, geodetic, and photogrammetric surveying and mapping services; and (2) use the Commerce franchise fund for expenses and equipment necessary for the maintenance and operation of such administrative services as the Secretary determines may be performed more advantageously as central services.
(Sec. 208) Appropriates specified amounts of funds available to National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction of Research Facilities: (1) to fund a cooperative agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina; (2) to the Thayer School of Engineering for the nanocrystalline materials and biomass research initiative; (3) to the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection at the Institute for Security Technology Studies; (4) for the Institute for Politics; and (5) to the Franklin Pierce Manse.
(Sec. 209) Provides funds to develop an Alaska seafood marketing program.
(Sec. 210) Establishes the United States Travel and Tourism Promotion Advisory Board.
(Sec. 211) Sets forth provisions regarding the eligibility of two foreign-built cruise ships to engage in service between and among the islands of Hawaii.
(Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary to implement a fishing capacity reduction program for the West Coast groundfish fishery.
(Sec. 214) Authorizes NOAA to enter into a lease arrangement to relocate the National Weather Service Forecasting Office in League City, Texas, to a Galveston County facility in exchange for the use by that County of the existing Forecasting Office.
Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes FY 2003 appropriations for: (1) the Supreme Court, including an amount for care of the building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including for defender services, fees of jurors and commissioners and court security; (5) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; (7) judicial retirement funds; and (8) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.
(Sec. 303) Allows up to $11,000 of salaries and expenses provided in this title to be used for official representation expenses of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2003 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs, including for grants to the participating organizations in the War Against Trafficking Alliance for activities and services related to an international conference on sex trafficking, and for appointment of an advisory panel regarding U.S. relations with Sub-Saharan Africa; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (14) the Asia Foundation; (15) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (16) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (17) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Hawaii; and (18) the National Endowment for Democracy.
Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for FY 2003 for international broadcasting operations (including broadcasting to Cuba) and capital improvements.
Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.
(Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.
(Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary of State, for purposes of registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem, to record the place of birth as Israel.
(Sec. 406) Directs the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to establish a Senior Policy Operating Group, chaired by the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of the Department of State.
Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates FY 2003 funds for the Department of Transportation for: (1) a U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the United States; (2) United States Maritime Administration operations and training activities and for capital improvements at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; (3) disposal of obsolete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; and (4) Maritime Administration guaranteed loans.
Appropriates FY 2003 funds for salaries and specified expenses, with restrictions in certain cases, for: (1) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad for salaries and expenses; (2) the Commission on Civil Rights; (3) the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; (4) the Commission on Ocean Policy; (5) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) the Federal Communications Commission; (9) the Federal Maritime Commission; (10) the Federal Trade Commission; (11) the Legal Services Corporation; (12) the Marine Mammal Commission; (13) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (14) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (15) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; and (16) the State Justice Institute.
Title VI: General Provisions - (Sec. 601) Prohibits the use of appropriations for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress.
(Sec. 603) Limits expenditures for any consulting service through procurement contract to contracts where expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, with exceptions.
(Sec. 605) Prohibits funds provided under this Act, funds provided under previous appropriations laws to the agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or for expenditure in FY 2003, or funds provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available to such agencies from being available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that creates new programs, eliminates a program, project, or activity, increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted, relocates an office or employees, reorganizes offices, programs, or activities, or contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees, unless the appropriations committees of both Houses of Congress are notified in advance.
Prohibits, without such advance notification, the availability of funds provided under this Act or previous appropriations laws or derived from the collection of fees for activities, programs, and projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 or ten percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by ten percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity or numbers of personnel as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress.
(Sec. 606) Bans the use of funds in this Act for the construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization of vessels for the NOAA in shipyards outside the United States.
(Sec. 607) Expresses the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.
Makes ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds in this Act, pursuant to current debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures, any person determined to have intentionally affixed a fraudulent "Made in America" label to any product sold or shipped to the United States.
(Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which such funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any respect from certain proposed guidelines.
(Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission that will involve U.S. armed forces under the command or operational control of a foreign national if the President's military advisors have not recommended such involvement in the national security interests and the President has not made such recommendation to Congress.
(Sec. 612) Requires any costs incurred by a department or agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act to be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such department or agency, with reprogramming in specified circumstances.
(Sec. 613) Limits to only 90 percent of the amount to be awarded under the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant the amount of any such grant to an entity that does not provide health insurance benefits to a public safety officer who retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered directly and proximately in the line of duty while responding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit that are the same or better than the benefits such officer received while on duty.
(Sec. 614) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type.
(Sec. 616) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with the implementation of the national instant criminal background check system for firearms; and (2) any system to implement such background check system that does not require and result in the destruction of any identifying information submitted by or on behalf of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm.
(Sec. 617) Provides that amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $600 million shall not be available for obligation until the following fiscal year, except for certain emergency appropriations.
(Sec. 618) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to DOJ to discriminate against, or to denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of, students who participate in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those funds or their parents or legal guardians.
(Sec. 619) Bans the availability of funds under this Act for the purpose of granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents of countries that the Attorney General has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents under INA. Requires the Attorney General to notify the Secretary of State whenever a foreign country denies or unreasonably delays accepting an alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or resident of that country after the Attorney General asks whether the Government will accept the alien under INA.
(Sec. 620) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to DOJ to transport a maximum or high security prisoner to a place other than a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure.
(Sec. 621) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by Federal prisons to purchase audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes.
(Sec. 623) Makes funds available for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and the SBA to implement telecommuting programs. Directs each Department or agency to designate a Telework Coordinator.
Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds specified prior year appropriation amounts from: (1) the Working Capital Fund; (2) DOJ for the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (3) INS; (4) the Department of Commerce for NOAA (coastal impact assistance) and for the Emergency Oil and Gas Guaranteed Loan Program Account; (5) the Federal Communications Commission; and (6) the Small Business Administration for salaries and expenses and for the Business Loans Program Account.
Division C: District of Columbia Appropriations, 2003 - District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2003 - Title I: Federal Funds - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY 2003 (with limitations in certain cases) for: (1) District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) emergency planning and security costs; (3) hospital bioterrorism preparedness; (4) District of Columbia Courts; (5) Defender Services; (6) the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (including transfer of funds); (7) the District of Columbia Department of Transportation; (8) the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia; (9) waterfront improvements; (10) asbestos remediation; (11) the fire and emergency medical services department; (12) special education; (13) the family literacy program; (14) the District of Columbia water and sewer authority; (15) the Anacostia waterfront initiative; (16) capital development; and (17) public charter school facilities.
Title II: District of Columbia Funds Operating Expenses - Appropriates specified sums out of the District's general fund (and other funds, in some cases) for the current fiscal year for: (1) operating expenses (with limitations); (2) governmental direction and support; (3) economic development and regulation; (4) public safety and justice; (5) the public education system (including transfer of funds); (6) human support services (including transfer of funds); (7) public works; (8) the budget reserve; (9) the Emergency and Contingency Reserve Funds; (10) repayment of certain loans and interest; (11) repayment of General Fund Recovery Debt; (12) payment of interest on short-term borrowing; (13) certificates of participation; (14) settlements and judgments; (15) the John A. Wilson Building; (16) workforce investments; (17) for certain non-departmental agency costs; (15) emergency planning and security costs; (16) the Water and Sewer Authority; (17) the Washington Aqueduct; (18) the Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund; (19) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (20) the Sports and Entertainment Commission; (21) the District of Columbia Retirement Board; (22) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund; (23) the National Capital Revitalization Corporation; and (24) capital outlay (including rescissions).
Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth authorizations as well as limitations and prohibitions on the uses of appropriations under this Act, and directives to the Mayor, the Council, and the Board of Education identical with or similar to those in the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001.
(Sec. 107) Allows the District of Columbia to use local funds provided in this Act to carry out lobbying activities on any matter other than: (1) the promotion or support of any boycott; or (2) statehood or voting representation in Congress for the District. States that nothing in this Act may be construed to prohibit any elected official from advocating with respect to these issues.
(Sec. 112) Requires the Mayor to submit to the D.C. Council and the Committees on Appropriations the new FY 2003 revenue estimates as of the end of the first quarter, to be used in the budget request for FY 2004.
(Sec. 117) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in cases of rape or incest.
(Sec. 118) Bars the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce: (1) the District of Columbia Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (also known as the District Domestic Partner Act); or (2) any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples for purposes of extending them benefits on the same basis as such benefits are extended to legally married couples.
(Sec. 123) Prohibits the use of Federal funds contained in this Act: (1) by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any other District government officer or entity to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District; (2) for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug (requiring individuals or entities who do so to account for all funds used for such program separately from any funds contained in this Act); or (3) to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative.
(Sec. 126) Provides that the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the District on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect.
(Sec. 127) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions.
(Sec. 128) Requires the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to assign interest on a voucher submitted by a court-appointed attorney for payment if the voucher is not paid within 45 days of its submission.
(Sec. 131) Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to docket numbers 93-030-(PA) and 93-031-(PA). (The Commission ordered the Boy Scouts of America to reinstate two gay troop leaders and pay them $50,000 each, as well as all attorney's fees and court costs.)
(Sec. 132) Prohibits funds made available in this Act from being transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the U.S. Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.
(Sec. 134) Requires all funds from the Crime Victims Compensation Fund that are designated for outreach activities pursuant to the Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Act of 1996, to be deposited into the Crime Victims Assistance Fund for purposes of outreach activities, and to remain available until expended.
(Sec. 135) Directs the District of Columbia Courts to transfer to the general treasury of the District all fines levied and collected by the Courts in cases charging Driving Under The Influence and Driving While Impaired. Requires the transferred funds to remain available until expended and to be used by the Office of the Corporation Counsel for enforcement and prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws in accordance with the District of Columbia Traffic Control Act.
(Sec. 136) Amends the District of Columbia Code to specify requirements for the reprogramming of amounts in the D.C. annual budget after its adoption for any fiscal year that is not a control year.
(Sec. 137) Provides that, from the local funds appropriated under this Act, any agency of the District government may transfer to the Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (OLRCB) such amounts as may be necessary to pay for representation by OLRCB in third-party cases, grievances, and dispute resolution, pursuant to an intra-District agreement with OLRCB. Requires these amounts to be available for use by OLRCB to reimburse the cost of providing the representation.
(Sec. 138) Amends the District of Columbia code to allow non-judicial District of Columbia court employees to participate in the Federal long-term care insurance program.
(Sec. 139) Transfers to the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency for child abuse services $560,000 of any amount appropriated as a Federal payment to the District of Columbia Courts in the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2002 that remains available through FY 2003.
(Sec. 140) Requires the Comptroller General to submit to the congressional appropriations committees a detailed analysis of the national effort to establish adequate charter school facilities, including a comparison to the efforts in the District of Columbia.
(Sec. 141) Requires the Mayor and the Chairman of the DC Council to conduct an assessment of all buildings currently held in surplus and those that might be made available within one year of the date of enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 142) Requires the Mayor to establish and fulfill specified performance measures in administering funds provided under the heading "Federal Payment for Incentives for Adoption of Children" in Public Law 106-113.
(Sec. 143) Establishes within the District of Columbia: (1) an Office of Public Charter School Financing and Support under the authority of the Department of Banking and Financial Institutions to administer the credit enhancement fund for public charter schools under the Student Loan Marketing Association Reorganization Act of 1996; and (2) a Direct Loan Fund for Charter School Improvement.
(Sec. 144) Prohibits the availability of funds contained in this Act to pay: (1) in excess of $4,000 any fees of an attorney who represents a party in an action or an attorney who defends any action, including an administrative proceeding, brought against the District of Columbia Public Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; or (2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia determines to have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer, or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, or other special education service providers.
(Sec. 145) Directs the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia to require attorneys in special education cases brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) in the District of Columbia to certify in writing that the attorney or representative rendered any and all services for which he or she receives an award, including any received under a settlement agreement or as part of an administrative proceeding, under the IDEA from the District of Columbia, with certain conditions.
(Sec. 146) Amends the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 to: (1) redesignate the New Charter School Fund as the Charter School Fund; and (2) provide that $5 million from such Fund shall be deposited into the credit enhancement revolving fund established pursuant to the Student Loan Marketing Association Reorganization Act of 1996.
Division D: Energy and Water Development Appropriations, 2003 - Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2003 - Title I: Department of Defense-Civil - Makes FY 2003 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions relating to rivers and harbors, flood control, and shore protection; (2) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee; (3) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program; (4) flood control and coastal emergencies; (5) formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (6) general expenses of the Office of Chief of Engineers.
(Sec. 101) Limits to specified credits and reimbursements per project any agreements proposed for execution by either the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the United States Army Corps of Engineers after enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 102) Bars funds from being used: (1) by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to support activities related to the Chicago Harbor Visitors Center, including reconnaissance and feasibility studies, planning, engineering and design; or (2) to implement any activity related to closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland.
(Sec. 104) Increases the authorization of appropriations for environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in rural Nevada.
(Sec. 105) Increases funds for St. Paul Island Harbor, St. Paul, Alaska, and for Abiquiu Dam, New Mexico.
(Sec. 107) Modifies the flood control project for Las Vegas Wash and Tributaries (Flamingo and Tropicana Washes), Nevada, to include channel crossings necessary for highways and roads as shown on a certain Clark County Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element.
(Sec. 108) Modifies the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway bridge replacement project at Great Bridge, Chesapeake, Virginia, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct it at a specified estimated cost.
(Sec. 109) Prohibits appropriations from being used to study or implement any plans for privatizing, divesting or transferring any Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress.
(Sec. 110) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to construct, at specified cost, the flood control projects for: (1) Terminus Dam, Kaweah River, California; (2) Little Calumet River Basin (Cady Marsh Ditch), Indiana.
(Sec. 112) Declares that the non-Federal interest shall receive credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the feasibility study for work integral to the study performed before the date that the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, enters into the feasibility cost-sharing agreement with the non-Federal sponsor for the Indiana Harbor Environmental Dredging, Indiana, feasibility study.
(Sec. 113) Instructs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) provide credit to the Brownsville Navigation District for work performed before the completion of the Environmental Impact Study to restore the wetlands at Bahia Grande, Lower Laguna Madre, and Vadia Ancha if the Secretary determines such work integral to the project; (2) implement the project for inland navigation, Chickamauga Lock and Dam, Tennessee, including construction of a 110-foot by 600-foot replacement lock at specified total cost; (3) conduct a study for a flood damage reduction project for the James River, Greene County, Missouri.
(Sec. 116) Increases funding for the Amite River and Tributaries, Louisiana.
(Sec. 117) Bars the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from supporting activities related to the proposed Ridge Landfill in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
(Sec. 118) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to increase the total project cost for the navigation project at Brunswick Harbor, Georgia.
(Sec. 119) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, subject to certain conditions, to credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the Savannah Harbor Expansion, Georgia, project, an amount equal to the Federal share of the costs incurred by the non-Federal interests subsequent to project authorization.
(Sec. 120) Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the aquatic ecosystem restoration project for Rose Bay, Volusia County, Florida, the costs incurred by the Florida Department of Transportation in constructing that portion of the U.S. Highway 1 bridge that the Secretary determines is required for the proper functioning of the project; and (2) modify the shoreline management plan for Lake Cumberland, Kentucky, to allow for construction of a privately owned moorage facility at Woodson Bend Peninsula on the South Fork of the Cumberland River at Lake Cumberland.
(Sec. 122) States that the non-Federal sponsor shall receive credit in an amount not to exceed $10 million toward its share of the cost of the Des Moines Recreational River and Greenbelt, Iowa, projects for work performed by the sponsor, subject to specified conditions.
(Sec. 123) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to construct the flood damage reduction project, Turkey Creek Basin, Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, in accordance with recommendations in a final report of the Chief of Engineers, subject to specified conditions.
(Sec. 124) Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) design and construct at full Federal expense all the components of the Long Lake, Indiana, environmental restoration project that are located on specified Federal land; and (2) seek reimbursement from the Secretary of the Interior of an amount equal to the costs of the project allocated to benefits to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore after project completion.
(Sec. 125) Extends authorization of appropriations for 2003 and 2004 for the Missouri and Middle Mississippi Rivers Enhancement Project.
(Sec. 126) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to include the State of Idaho in a Federal environmental assistance program that authorizes appropriations to non-Federal interests in certain rural areas.
(Sec. 127) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to permit a Federal environmental assistance program for southern and eastern Kentucky to include environmental restoration purposes. Redefines southern and eastern Kentucky to include Bath and Rowan. Increases authorization of appropriations for southern and eastern Kentucky.
(Sec. 128) States that with respect to the pre-construction engineering and design for the environmental dredging project at Ashtabula River, Ohio, the non-Federal interest shall receive credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the pre-construction engineering and design work performed in-kind after the date of execution of the design agreement.
(Sec. 129) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to include Allegheny, Greene, and Washington Counties within the ambit of the South Central Pennsylvania Environmental Restoration Infrastructure and Resource Protection Development Pilot Program.
(Sec. 130) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to provide immediate corrective maintenance to the project at Herring Creek-Tall Timbers, Maryland, at full Federal expense.
Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY 2003 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project Completion Account; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for water and related resources; (3) Central Valley Project Restoration Fund; and (4) general administrative expenses.
(Sec. 201) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with designated Indian entities in order to increase opportunities for Indian tribes to develop, manage, and protect their water resources.
(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the "Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan" and the "SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan" as described in a specified report.
(Sec. 203) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2001, to: (1) include within the definition of "Sly Park Unit" all real and personal property rights and interests associated with conduits and canals, and all associated water rights; and (2) instruct such Secretary to transfer to the District by no later than June 30, 2003, all Federal right, title, and interest in the Sly Park Unit.
(Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects, New Mexico, unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with specified statutory purchase requirements.
(Sec. 206) States that Drought Emergency Assistance funds under this title shall be made available primarily for leasing water for specified drought-related purposes from willing lessors, and administered under State water priority allocation.
(Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide exclusively for the Pyramid, Summit, and Walker Lakes, Nevada, certain statutory water and financial assistance originally earmarked for desert terminal lakes.
(Sec. 208) Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) to increase to ten percent in FY 2003 the use of the private sector in performing planning, engineering, and design work for Bureau projects, and in each subsequent year until the level of work is at least 40 percent for the planning, engineering, and design work conducted by the Bureau.
(Sec. 209) Directs the Bureau to undertake activities related to the development of the North Central Montana Rural Water Supply system.
(Sec. 210) Amends the Water Desalination Act of 1996 to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 2004.
(Sec. 211) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to participate in a certain North Las Vegas Water Reuse Project to reclaim and reuse water in the service area of the North Las Vegas Utility Division Service Area of the City of North Las Vegas, and County of Clark, Nevada.
(Sec. 212) Prohibits funds made available under this or prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act from being used for the settlement agreement of Sumner Peck Ranch, Inc. v. Bureau of Reclamation.
(Sec. 213) Amends the Salton Sea Reclamation Act of 1998 to increase authorization of appropriations for certain river reclamation and water treatment actions.
(Sec. 214) Authorizes appropriations for an options feasibility study regarding additional water storage in the Yakima River Basin, Washington.
(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in implementing CALFED-related activities, to undertake feasibility studies for Sites Reservoir, Los Vaqueros Reservoir Enlargement, and Upper San Joaquin storage projects.
Title III: Department of Energy - Makes FY 2003 appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for: (1) energy supply programs; (2) non-defense environmental management; (3) uranium facilities maintenance and remediation; (4) general DOE science activities; (5) nuclear waste disposal; (6) DOE administration and its Office of the Inspector General; (7) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (8) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (9) naval reactors activities; (10) Office of the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (11) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (12) defense facilities closure projects; (13) defense environmental management privatization projects; (14) defense nuclear waste disposal; (15) geographical power marketing administrations (including hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams); and (16) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to award a management and operating contract of over $100 million in annual funding at a current or former management and operating contract site or facility, unless it is awarded using competitive procedures, or the Secretary of Energy grants a waiver on a case-by-case basis.
Prohibits delegation of such waiver authority.
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits; or (2) prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals for a program that has not been funded by Congress.
(Sec. 305) Permits the transfer of unexpended balances of prior appropriations provided for activities in this Act to appropriation accounts for such activities established by this title.
(Sec. 306) Prohibits the use of funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses.
(Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such facility.
(Sec. 308) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize: (1) the plant manager of a covered nuclear weapons production plant to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities in order to maintain and enhance plant engineering and manufacturing capabilities; and (2) the manager of the Nevada Operations Office to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities regarding capabilities necessary for operations and readiness of the Nevada Test Site.
(Sec. 310) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000 to repeal the requirement that funds under a covered contract must be expended in accordance with a Laboratory Funding Plan approved by the Secretary of Energy.
(Sec. 313) Deems funds appropriated by this or any other Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, to be specifically authorized by Congress under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY 2003 until enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2003.
(Sec. 312) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to dispose of transuranic waste containing concentrations of plutonium exceeding 20 percent by weight in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
(Sec. 313) Authorizes certain funds appropriated for the Kachemak Bay submarine cable project to be made available to reimburse the local sponsor for the Federal share of project costs assumed by such sponsor.
(Sec. 314) Instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, upon licensee request, to: (1) issue an order staying a specified hydroelectric license in the State of Alaska; (2) lift such stay, but not later than six years after the date that it receives written notice that construction of the Swan-Tyee transmission line is completed; (3) make the effective date of the license the date on which the stay is lifted; and (4) extend the time during which such licensee is required to commence project construction for not more than one two-year time period.
(Sec. 316) Prohibits the National Nuclear Security Administration from taking actions adversely affecting employment at the Nevada Operations Office for a period of at least 365 days, unless the Administrator receives a written waiver from certain congressional committees.
Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2003 appropriations to the: (1) Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) Delta Regional Authority; (4) Denali Commission; (5) Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its Office of the Inspector General; and (6) Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of Congress that all equipment and products bought with funds under this Act should be American-made. Requires each Federal agency to give notice of this policy to any entity to which it provides financial assistance or contracts. Bars contracts funded under this Act from being awarded to any person determined by a court or Federal agency to have falsely labeled products as made in America.
(Sec. 504) Amends Federal law to extend from 2003 to 2008 the authorization of appropriations for the Denali Commission.
(Sec. 505) Amends Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2002 to extend from 2003 through 2005 the proscription against oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes.
(Sec. 507) Sets a deadline for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to transmit a cross-cut budget to Congress displaying all Federal expenditures, actual and projected, related to the CALFED Bay-Delta Program for FY 1996 through 2004.
Division E: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations, 2003 - Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2003 - Title I: Export and Investment Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) direct loans, loan guarantees, tied-aid grants, insurance, and administrative expenses under Export-Import Bank programs; (2) Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) credit and insurance programs, including costs of direct and guaranteed loans and for administrative expenses; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency, including an amount for trade capacity building assistance.
Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2003 for: (1) expenses of the President in carrying out certain programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) for child survival and health programs (earmarking amounts for HIV/AIDS, polio, malaria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases), including family planning/reproductive health programs; (3) specified development assistance (earmarking amounts for trade capacity building, basic education (including amounts for programs to increase professional competence of national and regional education administrators), plant biotechnology research and development (R&D), the International Fertilizer Development Center, the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad program, and for drinking water supply projects and related activities); (4) international disaster assistance (including humanitarian and reconstruction assistance for Afghanistan, and such assistance to support transition to democracy and to long-term development of countries in crisis); (5) direct and guaranteed loans for micro and small enterprise development programs and urban programs; (6) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (7) operating expenses of AID and the AID Office of Inspector General; (8) the Capital Investment Fund (authorizing an amount for costs of construction of temporary, secure facilities for AID personnel in Afghanistan); (9) Economic Support Fund (ESF) assistance (earmarking amounts for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, legal reforms in the West Bank and Gaza, the direct cost of modifying direct loans and guarantees for Pakistan, Cyprus, Lebanon, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, implementation of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, international youth exchange program for secondary school students from countries with significant Muslim populations, the National Democratic Alliance of Sudan, and a contribution to the Special Court for Sierra Leone); (10) the U.S. contribution to the International Fund for Ireland; (11) assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (earmarking specified amounts for Kosovo and for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Baltic States, and Bulgaria); (12) assistance for the new Independent States of the former Soviet Union (subject to specified conditions, and earmarking amounts for the Southern Caucasus (especially the areas of Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabagh), the health and other assistance needs of victims of trafficking in persons, t