LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

Federal Funds

General and special funds:

PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to carry out the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974, as amended, [$283,000,000] $340,000,000, of which [$274,400,000] $318,070,000 is for basic field programs and required independent audits; [$1,500,000 is for the Office of Inspector General, of which such amounts as may be necessary may be used to conduct additional audits of recipients; and $7,100,000 is for management and administration] $12,000,000 is for technology initiatives; and $9,930,000 is for Management and Administration and the Office of the Inspector General. (Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997.)

Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

(2) section 504 of Public Law 104-134 (110 Stat. 1321-53 et seq.), and all funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall be subject to the same terms and conditions set forth in such section, except that

(A) subsection (c) of such section 504 shall not apply;

(B) paragraph (3) of section 508(b) of Public Law 104-134 (110 Stat. 1321-58) shall apply with respect to the requirements of subsection (a)(13) of such section 504, except that all references in such section 508(b) to the date of enactment shall be deemed to refer to April 26, 1996; and

(C) subsection (a)(11) of such section 504 shall not be construed to prohibit a recipient from using funds derived from a source other than the Corporation to provide related legal assistance to

(i) an alien who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty in the United States by a spouse or a parent, or by a member of the spouse's or parent's family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced to such battery or cruelty; or

(ii) an alien whose child has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty in the United States by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active participation of the alien in the battery or extreme cruelty), or by a member of the spouse's or parent's family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced to such battery or cruelty, and the alien did not actively participate in such battery or cruelty.

(b) DEFINITIONS.-For purposes of subsection (a)(2)(C):

(1) The term "battered or subjected to extreme cruelty" has the meaning given such term under regulations issued pursuant to subtitle G of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-322; 108 Stat. 1953).

(2) The term "related legal assistance" means legal assistance directly related to the prevention of, or obtaining of relief from, the battery or cruelty described in such subsection.

SEC. 503. (a) CONTINUATION OF AUDIT REQUIREMENTS.-The requirements of section 509 of Public Law 104-134 (110 Stat. 132158 et seq.), other than subsection (1) of such section, shall apply during fiscal year [1997] 1998.

(b) REQUIREMENT OF ANNUAL AUDIT.-An annual audit of each person or entity receiving financial assistance from the Legal Services Corporation under this Act shall be conducted during fiscal year [1997] 1998 in accordance with the requirements referred to in subsection (a). (Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997.)

MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION

Federal Funds

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION-LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

SEC. 501. (a) CONTINUATION OF COMPETITIVE SELECTION PROCESS.None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services Corporation may be used to provide financial assistance to any person or entity except through a competitive selection process conducted in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Corporation in accordance with the criteria set forth in subsections (c), (d), and (e) of section 503 of Public Law 104-134 (110 Stat. 1321-52 et seq.). (b) INAPPLICABILITY OF NONCOMPETITIVE PROCEDURES.-For purposes of the funding provided in this Act, rights under sections 1007(a)(9) and 1011 of the Legal Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996f(a)(9) and 42 U.S.C. 2996j) shall not apply.

SEC. 502. (a) CONTINUATION OF REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS.-None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall be expended for any purpose prohibited or limited by, or contrary to any of the provisions of—

(1) sections 501, 502, 505, 506, and 507 of Public Law 104134 (110 Stat. 1321-51 et seq.), and all funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall be subject to the same terms and conditions as set forth in such sections, except that all references in such sections to 1995 and 1996 shall be deemed to refer instead to 1997 and 1998, respectively; and

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Commission as authorized by title II of Public Law 92-522, as amended, [$1,189,000] $1,240,000. (Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997.) Program and Financing (in millions of dollars)

ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS, ADVANCE

I. An advance appropriation is one made to become available one fiscal year or more beyond the fiscal year for which the appropriation act is passed. Advance appropriations in fiscal year 1998 appropriations acts will become available for programs in 1999 or beyond. Since these appropriations are not available until after fiscal year 1998, the amounts will not be included in fiscal year 1998 budget totals, but will be reflected in the budget totals for the fiscal year for which they are requested.

The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)(17)) requires inclusion in the budget of "information on estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted for grants, contracts, and other payments under each program for which there is an authorization of appropriations for that following fiscal year when the appropriations are authorized to be included in an appropriation law for the fiscal year before the fiscal year in which the appropriation is to be available for obligation." In fulfillment of this requirement, the table below lists those accounts authorized to receive, in fiscal year 1998, advance appropriations for fiscal year 1999 and beyond and cites the authorizing statute. The listing is in two parts: Part A shows the amounts of advance appropriations included in the 1998 budget. Part B is a listing of accounts for which advance appropriations are authorized but not requested in the 1998 budget.

Department of Commerce:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, capital assets acquisition: $724 million for 1999; $551 million for 2000; $480 million for 2001; $375 million for 2002; $202 million for 2003; $185 million for 2004; $180 million for 2005; $180 million for 2006; $180 million for 2007; $143 million for 2008; $143 million for 2009; $143 million for 2010.

Department of Defense-Military:

All accounts (P.L. 99-145 sec. 1405): $257,161 million for 1999.

Clean coal technology (42 U.S.C. 5901 et seq., 13362): $183 million for 1999.

Defense asset acquisition (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.): $1,067 million for 1999.

Defense environmental management privatization (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.): $800 million for 1999.

Defense environmental restoration and waste management (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.): $4,647 million for 1999. Defense nuclear waste disposal (P.L. 97-425): $190 million for 1999.

General science and research activities (42 U.S.C. 5901 et seq.): $65 million for 1999; $70 million for 2000; $70 million for 2001; $70 million for 2002; $65 million for 2003; $54 million for 2004.

FUNDING, AND FORWARD FUNDING

Other defense activities (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.): $1,604 million for 1999.

Weapons activities (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.): $3,497 million for 1999.

Department of Health and Human Services:

Payments to States for the child care and development block

grant (42 U.S.C. 9858): $1,000 million for 1999.

Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C., sec. 1396): $27,801 million for 1999.

Indian Health Facilities (Indian Self-Determination Act, Indian Health Care Improvement Act, Title II and III of Public Health Service Act): $39 million for 1999; $31 million for 2000.

Low income home energy assistance (P.L. 97-35): $1,000 million for 1999.

National Institutes of Health (Sec. 301, 311, Title IV, and part D of Title XXIII of the Public Health Service Act): $90 million for 1999; $40 million for 2000.

Payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance
(P.L. 96-272): $1,158 million for 1999.
Department of the Interior:

Everglades restoration fund (16 U.S.C. 410): $100 million
for 1999; $100 million for 2000; $100 million for 2001.
National Park Service construction (16 U.S.C. 1, 461-467,
410): $48 million for 1999; $35 million for 2000; $20 million
for 2001; $31 million for 2002; $26 million for 2003.
Water and related resources: $11 million for 1999; $9 million
for 2000; $1 million for 2002.

Department of the Treasury:

Information technology investments (5 U.S.C., sec. 3109): $500 million for 1999.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:

Human space flight: $2,109 million for 1999; $1,915 million

for 2000; $1,597 million for 2001; $1,147 million for 2002. Mission support: $120 million for 1999; $58 million for 2000; $70 million for 2001; $98 million for 2002; $53 million for 2003.

Science, aeronautics and technology: $505 million for 1999; $254 million for 2000; $150 million for 2001; $26 million for 2002.

Social Security Administration:

Special benefits for disabled coal miners (30 U.S.C., sec. 921): $160 million for 1999.

Supplemental security income program (42 U.S.C., sec. 1381): $8,680 million for 1999.

Central Intelligence Agency:

Payment to the retirement and disability system fund: $210 million for 1999.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting:

Public broadcasting fund: $250 million for 1999; $325 million for 2000.

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board:

171-720 97-38

Salaries and expenses (42 U.S.C. 2286, et seq.): $18 million for 1999.

Federal Emergency Management Agency:

Emergency management planning and assistance (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq., 15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq., 50 U.S.C. 404 405, Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978): $16 million for 1999. Salaries and expenses (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq., 15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq., 50 U.S.C. 404-405, Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978): $26 million for 1999.

B. Accounts authorized to receive advance appropriations but for which none are requested in the 1998 budget:

Department of Health and Human Services:

ACF service programs (P.L. 101-501, sec. 657, P.L. 89-73 as amended, sec. 209, P.L. 96-272).

Department of Justice:

Working capital fund (28 U.S.C. 527 note).

1 These statutes erroneously refer to "advance funding". Since these statutes describe and clearly intend to provide advance appropriations, the affected accounts are listed here.

II. Advance funding is budget authority that is to be charged to the appropriation in the succeeding year but which authorizes obligations to be incurred in the last quarter of the fiscal year if necessary to meet higher than anticipated benefit payments in excess of the specific amount appropriated for the year. When such budget authority is used, an adjustment is made to increase the budget authority for the fiscal year in which it is used and to reduce the budget authority of the succeeding fiscal year. Essentially, this is a device for avoiding supplemental requests late in the fiscal year for certain programs, should the appropriations for the current year prove to be low. The table below lists those

III. Forward funding is budget authority that is made available for obligation beginning in the last quarter of the fiscal year for the financing of ongoing grant programs during the next succeeding fiscal year. The budget authority for such programs is included in the budget totals for the year in which it is appropriated. This device is often used for education programs, so that grants can be made on a school year basis. The language providing forward funding for education programs will specify that amounts appropriated, in most but not all cases, will not be available until some time into the year of the appropriation (e.g., July 1, 1998) and in most cases will specify that such amounts will remain available until the end of the succeeding fiscal year. In other cases (e.g., Federal Pell grants), the funds become available on October 1st but are not normally obligated until July 1st or later and are available for obligation for an additional year. The table below lists those accounts for which forward funding exists or is requested in whole or in part in the 1998 budget.

Department of Education:

Education for the disadvantaged.

School improvement programs.
Education reform.

Special education.

Vocational and adult education.

Indian education.

Student financial assistance.

Education, research, statistics, and improvement. Department of the Interior:

Operation of Indian programs.

In the training and employment area, forward funding provides appropriations for a program year that starts on July 1st of the fiscal year of the appropriation. Financing extends through June 30th of the following fiscal year. Program years are authorized for training programs under the Job Training Partnership Act, grants and activities under the School-toWork Opportunities Act, operation of the State Employment Service under section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, and senior citizen employment programs under Title V of the Older Americans Act. The table below lists accounts for which forward funding is requested in the 1998 budget.

Department of Labor:

Training and employment services.

Community service employment for older Americans.

State unemployment insurance and employment service operations.

This chapter contains descriptions of and data on the Government-sponsored enterprises listed below. These enterprises were established and chartered by the Federal Government. They are not included in the Federal budget because they are classified as being private. However, because of their relationship to the Government, detailed statements of financial operations and condition are presented, to the extent such information is available, on a basis that is as consistent as practicable with the basis for the budget data of Government agencies. These statements are not reviewed by the President; they are presented as submitted by the enterprises.

-The Student Loan Marketing Association is a for-profit financial corporation chartered by Congress in 1972 under the Higher Education Act (HEA) to help increase the availability of student loans. Sallie Mae carries out secondary market and other functions.

-The College Construction Loan Insurance Association is organized as a private, for-profit insurance corporation to guarantee and insure bonds and loans made for construction and renovation of college and university facilities. The Corporation was established by, but was not chartered by, the Federal Government. -The Federal National Mortgage Association provides supplementary assistance to the secondary market for home mortgages. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation provides a secondary market for mortgage lenders. Both are supervised by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for their roles in helping to finance low- and moderate-income housing; both are regulated for financial safety and soundness by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.

-The Banks for Cooperatives, Agricultural Credit Bank, and Farm Credit Banks provide financial assistance to agriculture. They are supervised by the Farm Credit Administration.

-The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, provides a secondary mortgage market for agricultural real estate and certain rural housing loans as well as for farm and business loans guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

-The Federal Home Loan Banks assist thrift institutions, banks, insurance companies, and credit unions in providing financing for housing and community development and are supervised by the Federal Housing Finance Board.

-The Financing Corporation functions as a financing vehicle for the FSLIC Resolution Fund. It operates under the supervision and control of the Federal Housing Finance Board.

-The Resolution Funding Corporation provides financing for the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and is subject to the general oversight and direction of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is not a Government-sponsored enterprise, but its transactions also are not included in the budget because of its unique status in the conduct of monetary policy. The Board provides data on its administrative budget on a calendar year

The Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), a shareholder-owned corporation, was created by the Education Amendments of 1972 to expand funds available for student loans by providing liquidity to lenders engaged in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), formerly the guaranteed student loan program (GSLP).

Sallie Mae provides liquidity through direct purchase of insured student loans from eligible lenders and through warehousing advances, which are loans to lenders secured by insured student loans, Government or agency securities, or other acceptable collateral. In capital shortage areas, Sallie Mae is authorized, at the request of Federal officials, to make insured loans directly to students. Sallie Mae is authorized to advance funds to State agencies that will provide loans to students. Sallie Mae is also authorized to provide a secondary market for noninsured loans; to serve as a guarantee agency in support of loan availability at the request of the Secretary of Education; to purchase and underwrite student loan revenue bonds; to provide certain additional services as determined by its board of directors to be supportive of the credit needs of students generally; and to provide financing for academic facilities and equipment.

Sallie Mae is authorized by the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 to provide a secondary market for federally insured loans to graduate health professions students.

Operations.-The forecast data with respect to operations are based on certain general economic and specific FFELP loan volume assumptions and should not be relied upon as an official forecast of the corporation's future business.

ANNUAL LOAN ACTIVITY

are appointed by the President, who also names the chairman from among the 21 members.

Restructuring.-On September 30, 1996, the President signed legislation that authorizes Sallie Mae to restructure as a fully private, state chartered corporation. The legislation calls for Sallie Mae's shareholders to vote on restructuring within 18 months of enactment of this authorizing legislation. Under the restructuring, currently outstanding Sallie Mae debt will retain the characteristics of government sponsored enterprise (GSE) debt, as will debt issued by the GSE subsidiary of the new private company during a wind down period that ends in 2008. New business activities conducted outside of the GSE will not be financed by GSE debt.

If the shareholders vote not to authorize the restructuring, Sallie Mae is required to submit a plan by July 1, 2007, for winding up its GSE activities by July 1, 2013, on which day Sallie Mae would cease to exist.

Statement of Operations (in millions of dollars)

[In millions of dollars]

Guaranteed student loans:

faulted guaranteed loans receiv

Stafford (formerly "regular"):

able:

2207

3999

1999

2202

2206

2999 Total liabilities NET POSITION: 3200 Invested capital Total net position

Identification code 99-1500-0-3-502

11.1

Personnel compensation: Full-time permanent

12.1

Civilian personnel benefits

21.0

Travel and transportation of persons

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