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formed on a force account, contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, protection, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to said Association or in which it has an interest, cost of salaries, wages, travel, and other expenses of persons employed outside of the continental United States, and all administrative expenses reimbursable from other Government agencies and from the Federal National Mortgage Association: Provided, That the distribution of administrative expenses to the accounts of the Association shall be made in accordance with generally recognized accounting principles and practices.

FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK BOARD

LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND NONADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES,
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK BOARD

Not to exceed a total of $9,250,000 shall be available for administra-
tive expenses of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which may
procure services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and contracts for such
services with one organization may be renewed annually, and uni-
forms or allowances therefor in accordance with law (5 U.S.C. 5901-
5902), and said amount shall be derived from funds available to the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, including those in the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board revolving fund and receipts of the Board for the
current fiscal year and prior fiscal years, and the Board may utilize
and may
make payment for services and facilities of the Federal
home loan banks, the Federal Reserve banks, the Federal Savings and
Loan Insurance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Cor-
poration, and other agencies of the Government (including payment
for office space): Provided, That all necessary expenses in connection
with the conservatorship or liquidation of institutions insured by the
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, liquidation or
handling of assets of or derived from such insured institutions, pay-
ment of insurance, and action for or toward the avoidance, termina-
tion, or minimizing of losses in the case of such insured institutions, or
activities relating to section 5A(f) or 6(i) of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Act, section 5(d) of the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, or
section 406(c), 407, or 408 of the National Housing Act and all neces-
sary expenses (including services performed on a contract or fee basis,
but not including other personal services) in connection with the
handling, including the purchase, sale, and exchange, of securities on
behalf of Federal home loan banks, and the sale, issuance, and retire-
ment of or payment of interest on, debentures or bonds, under the
Federal Home Loan Bank Act, as amended, shall be considered as
nonadministraive expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further,
That members and alternates of the Federal Savings and Loan Advi-
sory Council shall be entitled to reimbursement from the Board as
approved by the Board for transportation expenses incurred in attend-
ance at meetings of or concerned with the work of such Council and
may be paid not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence: Pro-
vided further, That expenses of any functions of supervision (except
of Federal home loan banks) vested in or exercisable by the Board
shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses: Provided further,
That not to exceed $1,000 shall be available for official reception and
representation expenses: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any
other provisions of this Act, except for the limitation in amount here-
inbefore specified, the administrative expenses and other obligations
of the Board shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with

$9,250,000 (corporate funds)

the provisions of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of July 22, 1932, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1421-1449): Provided further, That the nonadministrative expenses (except those included in the first proviso hereof) for the supervision and examination of Federal and State chartered institutions (other than special examinations determined by the Board to be necessary) shall not exceed $18,100,000.

LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN

INSURANCE CORPORATION

Not to exceed $740,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, which shall be on an accrual basis and shall be exclusive of interest paid, depreciation, properly capitalized expenditures, expenses in connection with liquidation of insured institutions or activities relating to section 406 (c), 407, or 408 of the National Housing Act, liquidation or handling of assets of or derived from insured institutions, payment of insurance, and action for or toward the avoidance, termination, or minimizing of losses in the case of insured institutions, legal fees and expenses and payments for expenses of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board determined by said Board to be properly allocable to said Corporation, and said Corporation may utilize and may make payments for services and facilities of the Federal home loan banks, the Federal Reserve banks, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and other agencies of the Government: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, except for the limitation in amount hereinbefore specified, the administrative expenses and other obligations of said Corporation shall be incurred, allowed, and paid in accordance with title IV of the Act of June 27, 1934, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1724–1730b). [Total, title III, Corporations, limitations on corporate funds to be expended, $226,771,000.]

TITLE IV

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I and II of this Act are expendable for travel expenses of employees and no specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts set forth there for in the budget estimates submitted for the appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service System; to travel performed directly in connection with care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Veterans Administration; or to payments to interagency motor pools where separately set forth in the budget schedules. SEC. 402. Appropriations and funds available for the administrative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Selective Service System shall be available in the current fiscal year for purchase of uniforms, or allowances thereof, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.

SEC. 403. Funds made available for the Department of Housing and Urban Development under title III of this Act shall be available, without regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Association or Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal home loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1831).

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SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for
payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients that do not share
in the cost of conducting research resulting from proposals for projects
not specifically solicited by the Government: Provided, That the extent
of cost sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of interest
of the grantee or contractor and the Government in the research.
SEC. 405. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, not to
exceed $425,000 of the amount herein made available for the Federal
Communications Commission may be used for land and structures.
SEC. 406. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless
expressly so provided herein.

This Act may be cited as the "Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Space, Science, Veterans, and Certain Other Independ-
ent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1974"."

Approved October 26, 1973.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 93-296 (Committee on Appropriations) and Nos. 93-411 and 93-569 (Committee of Conference).

SENATE REPORT No. 93-272 (Committee on Appropriations).

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 119 (1973):

June 22, August 1, October 11, considered and passed House.

June 30, September 7, October 13, considered and passed Senate.

Grand total:

Appropriations
By transfer---

Limitation on obligations.

Limitation on corporate funds to be expended...
Total, new budget (obligationa) authority,
Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment; Space, Science, Veterans, and Certain
Other Independent Agencies Appropriation
Act, 1974.

$19,056,500,000

(6,000,000) (500,000,000) (226,771,000)

NOTE-In addition to the new budget (obligational) authority for fiscal year 1974 contained in the foregoing annual appropriation act, the following additional amounts are available for the Department of Housing and Urban Development for such fiscal year:

Permanent appropriations (p. 1059).

Authority to spend debt receipts (in other than appropria

tion acts)

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$1, 034, 801, 000

$19,056,500,000

250, 000, 000

1,284,801,000

$39, 860, 000

3, 002, 100, 000
569, 600, 000
4,690,000
34, 027, 000
47, 500, 000

12, 265, 807, 000

Grand total, Department of Housing and Urban Development -

15,963,584,000

4.377.717,000

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATION ACT, 1974

Public Law 93-120

93rd Congress, H.R. 8917

October 4, 1973

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES

For expenses necessary for protection, use, improvement, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, and performance of other functions, as authorized by law, in the management of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, $83,932,000.

[For an additional amount of $8,450,000 for 1974 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 278.]

CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

For acquisition, construction and maintenance of buildings, appurtenant facilities, and other improvements, and maintenance of access roads, $6,300,000, to remain available until expended.

[For an additional amount of $500,000 for 1974 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 278.]

PUBLIC LANDS DEVELOPMENT ROADS AND TRAILS

(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORITY)

For liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority contained in title 23, United States Code, section 203, $4,000,000, to remain available until expended.

$83,932,000

6,300,000

4,000,000 (liquidation of contract authority)

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