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SCIENCE, STATE, JUSTICE, COMMERCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, FISCAL YEAR 2007

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22, 2006.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. W

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, from the Committee on Appropriations,submittedthefollowing

R E P O R T

together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS

[To accompany H.R. 5672]

The Committee on Appropriations submits the following report inexplanation of the accompanying bill making appropriations forScience, the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce, and re-lated agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007.

INDEX TO BILL AND REPORT

Page Number Bill Report

Title I—Department of Justice.................................................................2 9Title II—Department of Commerce and Related Agencies.....................34 66Office of the United States Trade Representative...........................34 66International Trade Commission.......................................................35 69Department of Commerce...................................................................35 69Title III—Science........................................................................................54 93Office of Science and Technology Policy............................................54 93National Aeronautics and Space Administration.............................55 94National Science Foundation.............................................................58 100Title IV—Department of State and Related Agency...............................61 104Department of State...........................................................................61 104Broadcasting Board of Governors......................................................73 127Title V—Related Agencies.........................................................................80 131 Antitrust Modernization Commission...............................................80 131Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad....80 131Commission on Civil Rights...............................................................80 132Commission on International Religious Freedom............................81 132

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Page Number Bill Report

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.......................81 133Congressional-Executive Commission on the People

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s Republic of China................................................................................................82 133Equal Employment Opportunity Commission..................................82 134Federal Communications Commission..............................................83 134Federal Trade Commission................................................................84 136HELP Commission..............................................................................86 136Legal Services Corporation................................................................86 136Marine Mammal Commission............................................................87 137Securities and Exchange Commission...............................................87 137Small Business Administration.........................................................89 138State Justice Institute........................................................................93 141United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission 93 142United States Institute of Peace........................................................94 142Title VI

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General Provisions....................................................................94 142Title VII

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Rescissions................................................................................108 147

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UMMARY OF

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STIMATES AND

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ECOMMENDATIONS

The Committee recommends a total of $59,839,000,000 in discre-tionary budget authority for the departments and agencies fundedin this bill. The recommendation is $136,893,000 above the requestand $2,631,000,000 above the amount enacted for the current fiscalyear. The Committee also recommends $354,000,000 for mandatoryprograms funded within this bill.The following table provides a comparison of the new budget au-thority recommended in the accompanying bill with the amountsappropriated for fiscal year 2006, and the budget request for fiscalyear 2007.

[In millions of dollars]FY 2006Enacted in-cludingsupplementalsFY 2007requestRecommenda-tionCompared withFY 2006enactedFY 2007request

Discretionary*.......................................................57,208 59,702 59,839 +2,631 +137Mandatory..............................................................361 354 354

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7 ....................Total.............................................................57,569 60,056 60,193 +2,624 +137

*$1 billion of the increase in discretionary budget authority in the request and in the recommendation is the result of a $1 billion reduc-tion in Security and Exchange Commission offsetting collections.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BILLMajor initiatives and highlights contained in the recommenda-tion follow:

TITLE I.—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

[In millions of dollars]

FY 2006Enacted in-cludingsupplementalsFY 2007requestRecommenda-tionCompared withFY 2006enactedFY 2007request

Discretionary..........................................................21,397 21,094 22,116 +719 +1,022

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$22.1 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Justice, $724 million above the fiscal year 2006 level and $1.0 bil-lion above the President

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s request;

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$1.7 billion for the United States Attorneys;

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$826 million for United States Marshals Service;

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$6.0 billion for the Federal Bureau of Investigation;

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$1.8 billion for the Drug Enforcement Administration; and

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$2.6 billion to assist State and local law enforcement to fightcrime, which is $1.1 billion above the request including: the Ed-ward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants program ($368million), the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program ($405 mil-lion), juvenile justice and accountability programs ($281 million),law enforcement technologies and interoperable communications($100 million), the DNA backlog elimination program ($176 mil-lion), meth enforcement ($99 million), and violence against womenprevention and prosecution programs ($390 million).

TITLE II.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND RELATED AGENCIES

[In millions of dollars]

FY 2006Enacted in-cludingsupplementalsFY 2007requestRecommenda-tionCompared withFY 2006enactedFY 2007request

Discretionary .......................................................... 6,583 6,288 5,964

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619

¥

324

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$1.77 billion for the Patent and Trademark Office;

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$533.5 million for the international trade agencies;

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$3.4 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-istration, including $882.3 million for the National Weather Serv-ice; and

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$627 million for the National Institute of Standards and Tech-nology, including full funding for the American CompetitivenessInitiative and $92 million for Manufacturing Extension PartnershipProgram.

TITLE III.

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SCIENCE

[In millions of dollars]

FY 2006Enacted in-cludingsupplementalsFY 2007requestRecommenda-tionCompared withFY 2006 en-actedFY 2007 re-quest

Discretionary .......................................................... 22,183 22,818 22,734 +551

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83

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$16.7 billion for the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-tration; and

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$6.0 billion for the National Science Foundation, including fullfunding for the American Competitiveness Initiative.

TITLE IV.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCY

[In millions of dollars]

FY 2006 En-acted includ-ingsupplementalsFY 2007 Re-questRecommenda-tionCompared withFY 2006 en-actedFY 2007 re-quest

Discretionary .......................................................... 9,433 10,049 9,658 +225

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391

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A 2.2 percent increase over fiscal year 2006 for the basic oper-ations of the Department, including supplemental appropriations;

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Additional new positions to respond to high priority diplomaticrequirements, including new positions for the Office of the Coordi-nator for Reconstruction and Stabilization; and new positions for