Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 - (Sec. 4) Makes the following appropriations for FY2010.

Division A: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Transportation (DOT), including: (1) the Office of the Secretary; (2) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (3) the Federal Highway Administration; (4) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (5) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); (6) the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA); (7) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (8) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (9) the Maritime Administration; (10) the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration; (11) the Research and Innovative Technology Administration; (12) the Office of Inspector General; and (13) the Surface Transportation Board.

(Sec. 102) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds to establish or implement a program under which essential air service (EAS) communities are required to assume subsidy costs commonly referred to as the EAS local participation program.

(Sec. 103) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary in this title) to engage in activities with states to consider proposals for the reduction of motorcycle fatalities.

(Sec. 105) Authorizes funds provided in this Act to the Office of the Secretary for the Transportation Planning, Research and Development program to be used for the development, coordination, and analysis of data collection procedures and national performance measures.

(Sec. 110) Prohibits the use of funds to compensate more than 600 technical staff-years under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY2010.

(Sec. 111) Prohibits the use of funds to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide to the FAA without cost building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation, or weather reporting. Exempts from this prohibition any negotiations between the agency and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on "below-market" rates for these items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control facilities.

(Sec. 112) Authorizes the FAA Administrator to reimburse amounts made available to credit a certain account to carry out the essential air service program from fees credited to the FAA.

Makes inapplicable to FY2010 certain requirements for the use of fee proceeds for funding for small community air service, especially rural air safety improvement and rural airport projects.

(Sec. 113) Requires that amounts collected for safety-related training and operational services to foreign aviation authorities be credited to the appropriation current at the time of collection, to be merged with and available for the same purposes of such appropriation.

(Sec. 114) Extends through FY2010, and allows the extension until December 31, 2010, of: (1) any aircraft insurance policy; and (2) the waiver of air carrier liability for third party claims arising out of acts of terrorism.

(Sec. 115) Bars the use of funds to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.

(Sec. 116) Prohibits the availability of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant funds to a sponsor of a commercial service airport that fails to agree to a request from the Secretary for cost-free space in a non-revenue producing, public use area of the airport to carry out a public service air passenger rights and consumer outreach campaign.

(Sec. 117) Prohibits the availability of funds for paying premium pay (pay for Sunday and holiday work) to a FAA employee unless such employee actually performed work during the time corresponding to such pay.

(Sec. 118) Prohibits the obligation of funds for a FAA employee to purchase a store gift card or gift certificate through use of a government-issued credit card.

(Sec. 119) Requires the Secretary to apportion to sponsors of airports that received scheduled or unscheduled air service from large certified air carriers, and had more than 10,000 passenger boardings in the preceding calendar year, an amount equal to the minimum apportionment for primary and cargo airports for a fiscal year.

(Sec. 120) Prohibits for FY2010 distribution from the obligation limitation for federal-aid highways amounts authorized for specified administrative expenses and programs. Prescribes a formula for determining certain distributions of the obligation limitation. Specifies exceptions from the limitation, as well as its applicability to transportation research programs. Requires redistribution of certain authorized funds. Authorizes the obligation for any other listed project in the same state of obligation authority distributed for specified projects listed in the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU).

(Sec. 121) Allows crediting to the federal-aid highways account of funds received by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products, in order to reimburse the Bureau for necessary expenses incurred.

(Sec. 122) Makes certain appropriations to the Secretary through FY2012 for apportionment to states for the restoration, repair, construction, and other projects eligible under the surface transportation program. Sets the federal share of project costs at 80%.

(Sec. 123) Requires the Secretary to make an informal public notice and comment opportunity before waiving any Buy America requirement for federal-aid highway projects.

(Sec. 124) Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the use of funds to approve or authorize the imposition of a toll on any segment of a federal highway in the state of Texas that: (1) is not tolled; (2) is constructed with federal assistance; and (3) is in actual operation.

(Sec. 125) Deems revisions to certain explanatory statements referenced in Division K of Public Law 110-161 and Division I of Public Law 111-8 with respect to: (1) specified surface transportation project priorities in Maryland and Indiana; and (2) certain Transportation, Community and System Preservation Program transportation improvement projects in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois.

Deems revisions to explanatory statements in such public laws with respect to: (1) a certain federal lands improvement project in Virginia; (2) certain Interstate Maintenance Discretionary improvement projects in Missouri and West Virginia; (3) Howard County, Iowa, in the Wapsi Great Western Line Trail improvement project; and (4) Highway 169 construction in Humboldt and Webster Counties, Iowa.

(Sec. 126) Amends SAFETEA-LU to revise the item descriptions of specified high priority project authorizations in Rhode Island, Florida, Kansas, and Nevada.

(Sec. 128) Makes an improvement project authorization for the Brentwood Boulevard/SR 4 Improvements, Brentwood, California, available for the John Muir Parkway Project, Brentwood, California.

(Sec. 130) Eliminates the improvement project authorization for the City of Tuscaloosa Downtown Revitalization Project-Greensboro Avenue, Alabama.

(Sec. 135) Subjects funds appropriated or limited in this Act to certain safety examination and other requirements of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 and the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 relating to Mexico-domiciled motor carriers involved in cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico, including an annual report on the subject by the Secretary of Transportation to the congressional appropriations committees.

(Sec. 140) Makes certain additional funds available to NHTSA to pay for: (1) travel and related expenses for state management reviews; and (2) core competency development training and related expenses for highway safety staff.

(Sec. 141) States that the limitations set in this Act on obligations for NHTSA programs shall not apply to such obligations for which obligation authority was made available for multiple years in previous public laws, but only to the extent that they have not lapsed or been used.

(Sec. 142) Rescinds specified amounts of unobligated balances in prior appropriations Acts for: (1) transportation operations and research; and (2) highway traffic safety grants.

(Sec. 151) Authorizes the Secretary to purchase promotional items of nominal value for use in public outreach activities to carry out solutions to the railroad grade crossing problem and measures to protect pedestrians in densely populated areas along railroad rights-of-way.

(Sec. 152) Declares that funds provided in this Act for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) shall immediately cease to be available to the Corporation in the event that the Corporation contracts to have services provided at or from any location outside the United States. Defines any such service as one that was, as of July 1, 2006, performed by a full-time or part-time Amtrak employee whose base of employment is located within the United States.

(Sec. 153) Authorizes the Secretary to receive and expend cash, or receive and utilize spare parts and similar items, from non-U.S. Government sources to repair damages to or replace U.S. Government-owned automated track inspection cars and equipment as a result of third party liability for such damages. Requires any amounts so collected to be credited directly to the FRA Safety and Operations account, and remain available until expended for the repair, operation and maintenance of automated track inspection cars and equipment in connection with the automated track inspection program.

(Sec. 154) Requires the FRA Administrator to report quarterly to the congressional appropriations committees on efforts at improving the on-time performance of Amtrak intercity rail service operating on non-Amtrak owned property.

(Sec. 155) Deems revisions to certain explanatory statements referenced in Division K of Public Law 110-161 and Division I of Public Law 111-8 with respect to: (1) a specified railroad research and development project in California; and (2) a certain rail line relocation and improvement program project in New York.

(Sec. 157) Declares that certain funds provided by the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 for Lincoln Avenue Grade Separation, Port of Tacoma, Washington, shall be made available for this project as described in that Act.

(Sec. 158) Authorizes the Administrator of FRA, in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), to provide technical and financial assistance to IDOT and local and county officials to study the feasibility of 10th Street (or other alternatives) in Springfield, Illinois, as a route for consolidated freight rail operations and/or combined freight and passenger rail operations within such city.

(Sec. 159) Directs Amtrak to report to Congress: (1) a comprehensive, system-wide, security evaluation of Amtrak; and (2) proposed guidance and procedures necessary for Amtrak to implement a new checked firearms program.

(Sec. 160) States that the limitations on obligations for the programs of the FTA shall not apply to any grant or other authority previously made available for obligation.

(Sec. 161) Declares that funds appropriated by this Act for specified FTA capital investment grants and bus and bus facilities projects which are not obligated by September 30, 2012, and other recoveries, shall be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for which they were originally provided.

(Sec. 162) Authorizes certain transfers of any public transportation funds appropriated before October 1, 2009, that remain available for expenditure.

(Sec. 163) Authorizes the use of unobligated FTA capital investment grants funds for new fixed guideway systems projects.

(Sec. 164) Requires each FTA bus acquisition or rehabilitation grant to be funded during FY2010 for 90% of the net capital cost of a biodiesel bus or a factory-installed or retrofitted hybrid electric propulsion system and any related equipment.

(Sec. 165) Requires unobligated funds or recoveries under capital investment grants for new fixed guideway capital projects that are available to the Secretary of Transportation for reallocation to be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for which they were originally provided.

(Sec. 166) Deems revisions to certain explanatory statements referenced in Division K of Public Law 110-161 and Division I of Public Law 111-8 with respect to: (1) a specified bus and bus facilities improvement project in Florida; and (2) a certain FTA formula and bus grant alternative analysis with respect to New Jersey.

Makes unexpended funds under the Department of Transportation Appropriations Acts for Fiscal Years 2004, 2005, and 2008 for the Phoenix/Regional Heavy Maintenance Facility, Phoenix Dial-a-Ride facility, and the Phoenix Regional Heavy Bus Maintenance Facility in Arizona available to the East Baseline Park-and-Ride Facility in Phoenix, Arizona.

(Sec. 167) Authorizes the use of FTA funds made available for Alaska or Hawaii ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities to construct new vessels and facilities, or to improve existing ones, including both passenger and vehicle-related elements, and for repair facilities. Earmarks a certain amount of funds for use by the City and County of Honolulu to operate a passenger ferry boat service demonstration project to test the viability of different intra-island ferry boat routes and technologies.

(Sec. 168) Requires the Secretary, in determining the local share of costs of the Woodward Corridor, Detroit, Michigan, for the rating process for New Starts projects, to consider any portion of the corridor advanced entirely with non-federal funds.
(Sec. 169) Requires the Secretary to provide Congress: (1) recommendations on how to strengthen DOT's role in regulating the safety of transit agencies operating heavy rail on fixed guideways; and (2) a plan for their implementation.

(Sec. 170) Prohibits the Secretary from reallocating funding made available for certain bus and bus-related facilities projects in Connecticut.

(Sec. 172) Prohibits the use of funds provided or limited under this Act to enforce federal charter bus service regulations against any transit agency that during FY2008 was both initially granted a 60-day period to comply with such regulations, and then subsequently granted an exception from them.

(Sec. 176) Requires fees charged a Midshipman for tuition, room, or board for attendance at the United States Merchant Marine Academy to be credited to the Maritime Administration's Operations and Training appropriation. Authorizes refunds to Midshipmen of any fees in excess of actual expenses.

(Sec. 182) Prohibits the availability of the funds in this Act for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political and presidential appointees in the DOT. Prohibits any assignment on temporary detail outside the DOT of any of such appointees.

(Sec. 183) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to implement establishment in the DOT of a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee.

(Sec. 184) Prohibits any recipient of funds made available in this Act from disseminating personal information obtained by a state department of motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record, except as permitted under specified federal criminal law.

Prohibits the Secretary, however, from withholding funds provided in this Act for any grantee if a state fails to comply with this prohibition.

(Sec. 187) Authorizes the Secretary to allow the issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the DOT to redeem or repurchase it upon the payment to the Department of an amount the Secretary determines.

(Sec. 188) Requires the Secretary to notify the congressional appropriations committees at least three full business days before announcing any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1 million or more from certain grant programs, including the federal highway emergency relief program, the FAA airport improvement program, any FRA grant, or any FTA program other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs.

(Sec. 190) Specifies the use of recovered funds that represent improper payments by the DOT to a third party contractor under a financial assistance award.

(Sec. 192) Prohibits the use of funds by the Surface Transportation Board to charge or collect any filing fee for rate complaints filed with the Board in an amount in excess of that authorized for district court civil suit filing fees under the federal judicial code.

(Sec. 193) Authorizes the DOT's Working Capital fund to provide advanced payments to vendors to carry out the federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit program for federal employees.

(Sec. 194) Extends to all portions of the Interstate Highway System in the state of Maine, for one year after enactment of this Act, the application of Maine vehicle weight limit laws and regulations in effect on October 1, 1995, in lieu of federal vehicle weight limits. Declares that, at the end of such period, application of state vehicle weight limits shall revert from all portions of the Interstate Highway System to only those portions of the Maine Turnpike to which such weight limits currently apply.

Establishes a pilot program to extend to Interstate Routes 89, 91, and 93 in the state of Vermont, for one year after enactment of this Act, the application of Vermont vehicle weight limit laws and regulations in lieu of federal vehicle weight limits. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the effects of the pilot program on highway safety, bridge and road durability, commerce, truck volumes, and energy use within the state.

(Sec. 195) Directs the Secretary to initiate an independent and comprehensive study and analysis of the Missouri River Projects to supplement a specified study already authorized. Requires DOT to develop, in the supplemental study, a comprehensive understanding of the full value of river flow support to users in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

(Sec. 196) Requires certain funds for the Las Vegas, Nevada Monorail Project, the North Las Vegas Intermodal Transit Hub, and the CATRAIL RTC Rail Project, Nevada, as well as unexpended funds in the FTA grant numbers NV-03-0024 and NV-03-0027, to be made available until expended to the regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada for bus and bus-related projects and bus rapid transit projects.

Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) administration, operations, and management; (2) the Office of Public and Indian Housing; (3) the Office of Community Planning and Development; (4) the Office of Housing and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); (5) the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae); (6) Office of Policy Development and Research; (7) Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity; (8) the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control; and (9) the Office of Inspector General.

(Sec. 201) Requires rescission of 50% of the amounts of budget authority (or in lieu thereof remittance to the Treasury of 50% of the associated cash amounts) that are recaptured from certain state-, local-government, or local housing agency-financed projects under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988. Requires such recaptured budget authority or funds, as well as any budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury, to be used by state housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (Secretary in this title) for which settlement occurred after January 1, 1992.

Authorizes the Secretary, all the same, to award up to 15% of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to refinance their projects at a lower interest rate.

(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds during FY2010 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by one or more persons, including the filing or maintaining of a non-frivolous legal action, that is engaged in solely to achieve or prevent action by a government official or entity, or a court of competent jurisdiction.

(Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to make a grant under certain authority of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act for any state that: (1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year; but (2) is not otherwise eligible for an FY2010 allocation because the areas in the state outside of qualifying metropolitan statistical areas do not have the number of cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) otherwise required.

Prescribes a formula for the allocation of such grants to Jersey City and Paterson, New Jersey.

(Sec. 204) Requires any grant, cooperative agreement, or other assistance made pursuant to this title to be made on a competitive basis and in accordance with the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.

(Sec. 205) Makes certain funds available, without regard to limitations on administrative expenses, for: (1) legal services on a contract or fee basis; and (2) payment for services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Ginnie Mae, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), the Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks, Federal Home Loan banks, and any bank insured under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act.

(Sec. 207) Authorizes any HUD corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act to make expenditures, contracts, and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in their FY2010 budgets. Limits the use of collections of these corporations and agencies for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments to the extent expressly provided for in this Act, except for their mortgage insurance or guaranty operations, or where loans or mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial interest of the U.S. Government

(Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to the congressional appropriations committees regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured, and excess funds in each program and activity within HUD jurisdiction, along with additional, updated budget information upon request.

(Sec. 209) Requires the Secretary to: (1) adjust the funds allocated for FY2010 under the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act to Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey Metropolitan Division; and (2) allocate a portion to the state of New Jersey according to a specified formula.

Directs the Secretary to allocate to Wake County, North Carolina, certain funds that otherwise would be allocated for FY2010 under such Act to Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) adjust FY2010 allocations under such Act, upon the written request of a grant applicant for a formula allocation on behalf of a metropolitan statistical area; and (2) designate the state or states in which the metropolitan statistical area is located as the eligible grantee(s) of the allocation.

(Sec. 210) Requires the President's formal budget request for FY2011 and HUD's congressional budget justifications to use the identical account and subaccount structure provided under this Act.

(Sec. 211) Declares that a public housing agency (PHA) (or other entity) that administers federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, California, or the states of Alaska, Iowa, or Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident of public housing or a recipient of section 8 rental assistance (under the United States Housing Act of 1937) on the agency or entity board of directors (or similar governing board), as otherwise required by such Act.

Requires each such PHA (or other entity) that chooses not to include such individuals on its agency or entity board of directors (or similar governing board) to establish an advisory board, which shall meet at least quarterly, consisting of at least six residents of public housing or section 8 rental assistance recipients to provide advice and comment on related issues.

(Sec. 212) Authorizes the Secretary for FY2010-FY2011, subject to specified conditions, to authorize the transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt and statutorily required low-income and very low-income use restrictions, associated with one or more multifamily housing project to another multifamily housing project or projects.

(Sec. 213) Requires that the funds made available for Native American Housing Block Grants in title III of this Act be allocated to the same recipients that received funds in FY2005.

(Sec. 214) Prohibits the use of funds provided under this title for an audit of Ginnie Mae that applies certain requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990.

(Sec. 215) Prohibits any section 8 rental assistance to any individual who: (1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of higher education; (2) is under age 24; (3) is not a veteran; (4) is unmarried; (5) does not have a dependent child; (6) is not a person with disabilities, and was not receiving section 8 assistance as of November 30, 2005; and (7) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive such assistance.

Declares that, for section 8 rental assistance eligibility purposes, any financial assistance (in excess of amounts received for tuition) that an individual receives under the Higher Education Act of 1965, from private sources, or an institution of higher education shall be considered income to that individual, except for a person over age 23 with dependent children.

(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Secretary through FY2010 to insure, and enter into commitments to insure, home equity conversion mortgages (HECMs) for elderly homeowners.

(Sec. 217) Requires the Secretary during FY2010, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that is owned or held by HUD, to maintain any section 8 rental assistance payments attached to any dwelling units in the property. Authorizes the Secretary, however, to the extent that such a multifamily property is not feasible for continued section 8 payments, based on consideration of the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property and environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, to contract, in consultation with the property tenants, for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties, or provide other rental assistance.

Requires the Secretary also to take steps to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect before foreclosure, subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of tenants for imminent major threats to health and safety.

(Sec. 218) States that, during FY2010, a family residing in an assisted living facility in any county of Michigan with a section 8 rental assistance demonstration program for such facilities, and on behalf of which a PHA provides such assistance, may be required, when the family initially receives the assistance, to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40% of the family's monthly adjusted income by any percentage or amount the Secretary determines appropriate.

(Sec. 219) Requires the Secretary to report quarterly to congressional appropriations committees on HUD's use of all sole source contracts.

(Sec. 220) Authorizes any recipient after December 26, 2000, of a grant for conversion of elderly housing to assisted living facilities, at its option, to: (1) establish a single-asset nonprofit entity to own the project; and (2) lend the grant funds to such entity, which may be a for-profit limited partnership the sole general partner of which is a private nonprofit organization meeting specified requirements, or a corporation wholly owned and controlled by such a private nonprofit organization.

(Sec. 221) Authorizes the use of Community Development Loan Guarantee funds to guarantee, or make commitments to guarantee, notes or other obligations issued by any state on behalf of its non-entitlement communities.

(Sec. 222) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to extend through FY2010 the authorization of appropriations for demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance project grants to PHAs.

(Sec. 223) Authorizes PHAs that own and operate 400 or fewer public housing units to elect to be exempt from any asset management requirement imposed by the Secretary in connection with the operating fund rule.

Prohibits exemption from such rule, however, for an agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula.

(Sec. 224) Prohibits the Secretary, with respect to the use of funds for the operation, capital improvement, and management of public housing authorized by the United States Housing Act of 1937, from imposing any asset management requirement or guideline that restricts or limits in any way the use of capital funds for central office costs.

Prohibits a PHA, however, from using capital funds authorized for eligible operation and management activities with operating funds in excess of specified permitted amounts.

(Sec. 225) Prohibits designation of a HUD official or employee as an allotment holder unless he or she has: (1) implemented an adequate system of funds control; and (2) received training in funds control procedures and directives.

(Sec. 226) Requires the Secretary to report quarterly to congressional appropriations committees on the status of all section 8 project-based housing, including the number of all project-based units by region as well as an analysis of all federally subsidized housing being refinanced under the Mark-to-Market program.

(Sec. 227) Requires: (1) payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation from individual program office personnel benefits and compensation funding; and (2) the annual budget submission for such funding to include the payment as a separate line item request.

(Sec. 228) Requires the Secretary for FY2010 and thereafter to notify the public through the Federal Register and other appropriate means of the issuance of a notice of the availability of assistance or notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary fund that is to be awarded competitively.

Authorizes the Secretary for such period to make the NOFA available only on the Internet at the appropriate government website(s) or through other electronic media.

(Sec. 229) Revises requirements for prepayment of a loan providing HUD assistance for supportive housing for the elderly under the Housing Act of 1959 (as in effect before the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act).

Allows prepayment of such a loan to involve refinancing if it results in: (1) a lower interest rate on the project's loan principal and in reductions in debt service related to such loan; or (2) in the case of certain HUD assisted projects providing supportive housing for the elderly, a transaction in which the project owner will address the physical needs of the project.

Sets forth other requirements governing such transaction, including authorizing the project owner to charge tenants rent sufficient to meet debt service payments and operating cost requirements approved by the Secretary.

(Sec. 230) Prohibits the availability to any homeless group of designated surplus federal property unless the group is a member in good standing under any of HUD's homeless assistance programs or is in good standing with any other program receiving federal or state funds.

Allows an exception to this requirement for an entity not involved with federal homeless programs if it meets specified financial, track record, and property management requirements.

Permits the Secretary to rely on the entity's prior demonstrated fundraising ability or commitments for in-kind donations of goods and services.

(Sec. 231) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to 5% of funds appropriated for any account under this title for Personnel Compensation and Benefits to any other account for such purposes, subject to approval by the congressional appropriations committees. Prohibits an appropriation for any such account from being increased or reduced by more than 10% by all such transfers.

(Sec. 232) Authorizes the Secretary to increase the number of Moving-to-Work agencies authorized under title II of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 by adding to the program three PHAs that: (1) are High Performing Agencies under the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS); and (2) administer no more than 5,000 aggregate housing vouchers and public housing units.

(Sec. 233) Requires the Secretary, during FY2010, to consider, but not be limited to, industry standard appraisal practices in determining the market value of any multifamily real property or loan for any noncompetitive sale to a state or local government.

(Sec. 234) Considers the HUD-administered Disaster Housing Assistance Programs as a HUD program under the McKinney Act for income verifications and matching purposes.

(Sec. 235) Requires the Secretary to prepare a report, and post it on HUD's website, regarding the number of HUD-owned homes and the budget impact of acquiring, maintaining, and selling them.

(Sec 236) Amends chapter 10 of title I of division B of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 to prohibit amounts under "Community Development Fund" for disaster relief from being used by a state or locality as a matching requirement, share, or contribution for any other federal program.

Title III: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the Access Board; (2) the Federal Maritime Commission; (3) the Office of Inspector General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); (4) the National Transportation Safety Board; (5) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (6) the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Title IV: General Provisions (This Act) - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.

(Sec. 401) Requires any sums necessary for FY2010 pay raises for programs funded in this Act to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this or previous appropriations Acts.

(Sec. 402) Prohibits the use of funds for the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, nonfederal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.

(Sec. 407) Requires all federal agencies and departments funded by this Act to report by July 30, 2010, to the congressional appropriations committees on all sole source contracts.

(Sec. 409) Prohibits the use of funds to support any federal, state, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use.

(Sec. 410) Prohibits the transfer of funds to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.

(Sec. 411) Prohibits payment of the salary from any appropriation under this Act for any person filling a position (other than temporary) formerly held by an employee who has: (1) left to enter the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) satisfactorily completed his or her period of active military or naval service; (3) within 90 days after release from such service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for up to one year, applied for restoration to his former position; and (4) been certified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position, but not been restored to it.

(Sec. 412) Prohibits the expenditure of funds in contravention of the Buy American Act.

(Sec. 413) Prohibits the availability of funds to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act.

(Sec. 414) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of specified federal regulations.

(Sec. 415) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to purchase a light bulb for an office building unless it has, to the extent practicable, an Energy Star or Federal Energy Management Program designation.

(Sec. 416) Directs a federal agency that is required to submit a report to the congressional committees on appropriations to post it on the agency's website, unless such posting compromises national security or the report contains proprietary information.

(Sec. 417) Bars the use of funds under this Act to prohibit or restrict the establishment or effectiveness of an occupancy preference for veterans in supportive housing for the elderly that: (1) is provided HUD assistance; and (2) is or would be located on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) property, or is subject to an enhanced use lease with the VA.

(Sec. 418) Prohibits the provision of any funds made available under this Act or prior Acts to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries.

(Sec. 419) Requires specific earmarked projects contained in the report of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives accompanying this Act (H. Rept. 111-218), that are intended for for-profit entities, to be awarded under a full and open competition.

Division B: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for FY2010 for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, for science-related programs, and related agencies.

Title I: Department of Commerce - Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY2010 for: (1) the International Trade Administration; (2) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (3) the Economic Development Administration; (4) the Minority Business Development Agency; (5) economic and statistical analysis programs; (6) the Bureau of the Census; (7) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, including for grants for public telecommunications facilities, planning, and construction; (8) the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); (9) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including amounts for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the Technology Innovation Program, and the construction of new research facilities; (10) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for operations, research, and procurement and for acquisition and construction of capital assets; (11) restoration of Pacific salmon populations (12) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (13) the fisheries finance program account; and (14) departmental management, including for the Office of Inspector General and for the renovation and modernization of the Herbert C. Hoover Building.

(Sec. 105) Adopts provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 requiring notification to Congress on the GOES-R satellite development program of NOAA.

(Sec. 108) Amends the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to extend through 2010 the authority of the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Board to guarantee any loan to a qualified steel company.

Title II: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for FY2010 for: (1) general administration, including for the National Drug Intelligence Center, information sharing technology, the Integrated Wireless Network supporting federal law enforcement communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Office of Inspector General; (2) the United States Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including for reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the United States Attorneys, the United States Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) the United States Marshals Service, including for courthouse security equipment and construction of prisoner holding areas; (5) the National Security Division; (6) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (7) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (8) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (9) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF); (10) the federal prison system, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); (11) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; and (12) the Office of Justice Programs, including for state and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, juvenile justice programs, public safety officers benefits, and community-oriented policing services.

(Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) pay for an abortion, 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. 204) Reaffirms the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services for female inmates to receive abortions outside a federal facility.

(Sec. 206) Authorizes the Attorney General to extend, through FY2011, the Personnel Management Demonstration Project without limitation on the number of employees or positions covered.

(Sec. 207) Extends certain authorities for FBI and DEA undercover investigative operations to ATF.

(Sec. 208) Prohibits: (1) funding to transport a maximum or high security prisoner other than to a prison or facility certified by the Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure; (2) federal prisons from purchasing cable television services or equipment for use primarily for recreational purposes (allows such services or equipment for inmate training, or for religious or educational programs); (3) the obligation or expenditure of funds for Sentinel or any other major new or enhanced information technology program with estimated development costs over $100 million without certification to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that appropriate management and oversight mechanisms are in place and that such programs are compatible with DOJ enterprise architecture; (4) the use of funds for public-private competitions under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 for work performed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated; (5) funding for U.S. attorneys who are assigned dual or additional responsibilities by the Attorney General that exempt such attorneys from applicable residency requirements; and (6) funding for future phases of the FBI's Sentinel program until the Attorney General certifies to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that existing phases of such program have been substantially completed under a specified performance measurement baseline.

(Sec. 219) Allows the FBI to pay cash awards to employees who maintain proficiency in foreign languages critical to its mission.

Title III: Science - Science Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for FY2010 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for science, aeronautics, exploration, space operations, aerospace and aeronautical education research and development activities, construction, and the Office of Inspector General; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research, equipment and facilities construction, science and engineering education and human resources programs, the Office of the National Science Board, and the Office of Inspector General.

Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2010 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights; (2) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (3) the International Trade Commission; (4) the Legal Services Corporation; (5) the Marine Mammal Commission; (6) the Office of the United States Trade Representative; and (7) the State Justice Institute.

Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Sets forth requirements, restrictions, and limitations on the use of funds appropriated by this Act.

(Sec. 506) Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion.

(Sec. 507) Renders any person who mislabels a product sold in or shipped to the United States as "Made in America" ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract funded by this Act.

(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the removal of restrictions on marketing of such products.

(Sec. 511) Prohibits funding for the implementation of: (1) any user fee for background checks under the Brady Handgun Control Act of 1993; and (2) any background check system that does not require and result in the destruction of information submitted by an individual certified as eligible to possess or receive a firearm.

(Sec. 513) Prohibits the use of DOJ funds to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate in DOJ programs or of the parents or legal guardians of such students.

(Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) issue patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism; (2) support or justify the use of torture; (3) require licenses for exporting certain firearms to Canada; (4) deny certain import applications regarding curios or relics, firearms, parts, or ammunition; (5) include in any new bilateral or multilateral trade agreement certain language of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, or the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement; (6) authorize a national security letter in contravention of statutes authorizing the FBI to issue such letters; (7) purchase first class or premium airline travel in contravention of federal regulations; and (8) pay for the attendance of more than 50 federal employees at any single conference outside the United States.

(Sec. 526) Requires departments, agencies, and commissions funded under this Act to establish and maintain on their Internet websites direct links to their Offices of Inspector General and a mechanism for anonymously reporting waste, fraud, and abuse.

(Sec. 529) Rescinds certain unobligated fund available to DOJ from prior appropriations.

(Sec. 532) Prohibits the use of funds under this or any prior Act to release any individual who was detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, as of June 24, 2009, into the United States or its territories in order to detain or prosecute such individual until 45 days after the President submits a plan to Congress, in classified form, for the proposed disposition of such individuals. Prohibits the transfer or release of such detained individuals to their country of nationality or last habitual residence unless the President submits certain information to Congress, in classified form, at least 15 days prior to such transfer or release.

(Sec. 534) Prohibits funds made available under this Act from being distributed to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries.

(Sec. 535) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct and report to Congress on an audit of federal funds received by ACORN or any subsidiary or affiliate.

(Sec. 537) Requires the Director of OMB to instruct federal entities receiving funds under this Act to track undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts and include information about such balances in their annual performance plans and reports.

Division C: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2010 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2010 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of the Treasury for: (1) departmental offices; (2) department-wide systems and capital investments programs; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; (5) the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP); (6) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (7) the Financial Management Service; (8) the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; (9) the U.S. Mint for the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund; (10) the Bureau of the Public Debt; (11) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account; and (12) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Sets forth certain transfers of funds, including a certain rescission of funds from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.

(Sec. 102) Requires the IRS to maintain a training program for IRS employees in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations.

(Sec. 104) Makes funds for the IRS under any Act available for improved facilities and increased staffing to provide sufficient and effective 1-800 help line service for taxpayers.

(Sec. 105) Makes specified funds available only for tax enforcement.

(Sec. 106) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into, renew, extend, administer, implement, enforce, or provide oversight of any qualified tax collection contract.

(Sec. 111) Bars the use of funds to the Department of the Treasury or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.

(Sec. 113) Extends from 11 to 12 years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project for employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

(Sec. 115) Prohibits the use of funds to merge the U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without the approval of specified congressional committees.

(Sec. 116) Deems any funds appropriated by this Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress for purposes of the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2010, until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2010.

(Sec. 117) Requires up to $5,000 to be made available from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Industrial Revolving Fund for necessary official reception and representation expenses.

Title II: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Executive Office of the President Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for FY2010 for compensation of the President and designated White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisers; (2) the National Security Council (NSC); (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); (5) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; (6) the Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center (CTAC); (7) various other specified federal drug control programs; (8) the Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation; and (9) special assistance to the President and the official residence of the Vice President.

Sets forth certain transfers of funds.

(Sec. 202) Requires the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to report to the congressional appropriations committees, before the initial obligation of more than 20% of funds appropriated for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (except CTAC), a detailed narrative and financial plan on the proposed uses of all such funds by program, project, and activity.

(Sec. 203) Allows the transfer between appropriated programs of up to 2% of any appropriations in this Act made available to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, upon the advance approval of the congressional appropriations committees.

(Sec. 204) Allows the reprogramming within a program, project, or activity of up to $1 million of appropriations available to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, upon the advance approval of the congressional appropriations committees.

Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations to the Judiciary for FY2010 for: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court; (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 defender services; (5) fees of jurors and commissioners; (6) court security; (7) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (8) the Federal Judicial Center; (9) judicial retirement funds; and (10) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Sets forth certain transfers of funds.

(Sec. 305) Provides for the mandatory or discretionary delegation, in certain circumstances, of the duties and powers of the Administrator of General Services to an appropriate federal agency only (currently, an appropriate executive agency).

(Sec. 306) Requires the U.S. Marshals Service to provide, for a pilot program, specified security services (except investigations) for courthouses which federal law authorizes the DHS to provide.

(Sec. 307) Amends the Judicial Improvement Act of 1990 to prohibit the filling of: (1) the first vacancy in the office of district judge in the district of Kansas occurring 19 (currently, 18) years or more after the confirmation date of the judge named to fill the temporary judgeship; (2) the first vacancy in such office in the northern district of Ohio occurring 19 (currently, 18) years or more after such confirmation date; and (3) the first vacancy in such office in the district of Hawaii occurring 16 (currently, 15) years or more after such confirmation date. (In effect lengthens to 19 and 16 years, as appropriate, the period of the respective temporary judgeship in such districts.)

Title IV: District of Columbia - District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY2010, including amounts for the federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia resident tuition support; (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District; (3) to District of Columbia Courts; (4) for defender services in District of Columbia Courts; (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia; (6) to the District of Columbia Public Defender Service; (7) to the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority; (8) to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; (9) to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure; (10) for the Judicial Nomination Commission; (11) to the Office of Chief Financial Officer of the District; (12) for school improvement; (13) for a consolidated laboratory facility; (14) for the D.C. National Guard; (15) for housing for the homeless; and (16) for youth services.

Requires certain funds appropriated for operating expenses to be subject to the provisions of, allocated, and expended as proposed under Title III of the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request Act at the rate set forth under "District of Columbia Funds Division of Expenses" of the Fiscal Year 2010 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District of Columbia on September 28, 2009.

Title V: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY2010 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation; (3) the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); (4) the Election Assistance Commission, election reform programs; (5) the Federal Communication Commission (FCC); (6) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), for its Office of Inspector General; (7) the Federal Election Commission (FEC); (8) the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA); (9) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (10) the General Services Administration (GSA); (11) government-wide policy and operating expenses; (12) the GSA Office of Inspector General; (13) the Electronic Government Fund; (14) allowances and office staff for former Presidents; (15) the Office of Citizen Services for the Federal Citizen Services Fund; (16) the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation; (17) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (18) Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation; (19) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (20) the National Archives and Records Administration, including the Office of Inspector General; (21) the National Historic Publications and Records Commission Grants Program; (22) the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA); (23) the Credit Union Community Development Revolving Loan Fund; (24) the Office of Government Ethics; (25) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), including the Office of Inspector General; (26) the government payment for annuitants, employee health benefits, employee life insurance, and the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (27) the Office of Special Counsel; (28) the Postal Regulatory Commission; (29) the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; (30) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (31) the Selective Service System; (32) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (33) the U.S. Postal Service, including the Office of Inspector General; and (34) the U.S. Tax Court.

Sets forth certain transfers of funds.

(Sec. 501) Amends the Universal Service Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act to extend through December 31, 2010, the prohibition on applying certain requirements relating to limitations on expending, obligating, or apportioning appropriations to the collection or receipt of federal universal (telecommunications) service contributions or their expenditure or obligation for universal service support programs.

(Sec. 502) Prohibits the use of funds by the FCC to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on universal service support payments.

(Sec. 515) Provides that, if specified congressional committees adopt a resolution granting lease authority pursuant to a specified GSA prospectus, then GSA shall ensure that the delineated area of procurement is identical to the delineated area included in the prospectus for all lease agreements. Requires GSA, if it determines that such area should not be identical to the one included in such prospectus, to provide an explanatory statement to each of such committees and the congressional appropriations committees before exercising such lease authority.

(Sec. 516) Authorizes GSA to provide for the use of its federal supply schedules by relief and disaster assistance organizations described in the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Limits such purchases to use in preparation for, response to, and recovery from hazards.

(Sec. 521) Requires all disaster loans issued in Alaska or North Dakota to be administered by SBA. Prohibits the sale of such loans during FY2010.

(Sec. 522) Requires funds made available under the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 for the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center to be available to the Illinois Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Title VI: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds under this Act.

(Sec. 606) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act by an entity unless it agrees that such expenditure will comply with the Buy American Act.

(Sec. 607) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act.

(Sec. 610) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for use by the Executive Office of the President to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) any official background investigation report on any individual, except when: (1) such individual has given his or her express written consent for such request within six months before the date of the request and during the same presidential administration; or (2) the request is required due to extraordinary circumstances involving national security.

(Sec. 611) Makes certain cost accounting standards promulgated under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act inapplicable to a federal employees health benefits program contract.

(Sec. 612) Authorizes OPM to accept and utilize (without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel expenses) funds made available to OPM pursuant to court approval for resolving litigation and implementing any settlement agreements regarding the nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program.

(Sec. 613) Prohibits the availability of funds appropriated by this Act to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the federal employees health benefits program (FEHBP) which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions, unless the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.

(Sec. 615) Makes the restriction on purchasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set forth in the Buy American Act inapplicable to the acquisition by the federal government of commercial information technology.

(Sec. 616) Prohibits an officer or employee of any regulatory agency or commission funded by this Act from accepting, on behalf of that agency, or the agency or commission from accepting, payment or reimbursement from a nonfederal entity for travel-related expenses to enable an officer or employee to attend and participate in any meeting or similar function relating to official duties, when the entity offering payment or reimbursement is subject to regulation by that agency or commission, or represents that person or entity, unless the person or entity is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization.

(Sec. 617) Grants the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board authority to obligate funds for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 merit scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in accredited accounting degree programs, in an aggregate amount not to exceed funds collected by the Board as of December 31, 2009, including accrued interest, as a result of the assessment of monetary penalties.

(Sec. 618) Rescinds specified funds from unobligated bal