any general savings due to a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance.

Section 607 provides language specifying the formula under which Legal Services Corporation funding will be allocated to basic field programs and the conditions under which the funding can be spent. The section includes a proviso restricting any abortion litigation that has been carried in previous appropriations acts. This section was not included by the House.

Section 608 restores bill language contained in the Fiscal Year 1993 Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Act that states congressional intent that equipment and services procured with funds in this bill should be from American sources. The Committee has not changed this general provision as proposed in section 606 of the House bill.

COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7, RULE XVI OF THE
STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

Rule XVI, paragraph 7 requires that every report on a general appropriation bill filed by the Committee must identify items of appropriation not made to carry out the provisions of an existing law, a treaty stipulation, or an act or resolution previously passed by the Senate during that session.

The following appropriations have not been authorized either in whole or in part and fall under this rule:

Title I: Department of Justice (portions of the Office of Justice Programs, Immigration and Naturalization Service salaries and expenses and land border inspection fund, Federal Bureau of Investigation salaries and expenses, general administration salaries and expenses, Office of Inspector General, weed and seed fund, United States Parole Commission salaries and expenses, legal activities salaries and expenses, Antitrust Division salaries and expenses, United States Attorneys salaries and expenses, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission salaries and expenses, fees and expenses of witnesses, Community Relations Service salaries and expenses, Radiation Exposure Commission administrative expenses, interagency law enforcement organized crime drug enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration salaries and expenses, Federal Prison System salaries and expenses, National Institute of Corrections, buildings and facilities, and Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated limitation on administrative expenses); Commission on Civil Rights; Federal Communications Commission; Federal Trade Commission; and Securities and Exchange Commission offsetting collections, investment advisor fee, and special fund;

Title II: Department of Commerce (National Institute of Standards and Technology scientific and technical research and services, industrial technology services, and construction of research facilities, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration operations, research, and facilities (portions) and construction, aircraft procurement and modernization, fishing vessels obligations guarantee, International Trade Administration operations and administration (portions), Export Administration operations and administration, Minority Business Development Agency, Patent and Trademark Of

fice salaries and expenses, Technology Administration salaries and expenses, National Technical Information Administration programs, and Economic Development Administration development assistance programs, defense economic adjustment community assistance, and administrative expenses);

Title IV: Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration (operating-differential subsidies, operations and training, Ready Reserve Force maintenance, operations and fleet addition); Competitiveness Policy Council; Marine Mammal Commission; Office of the United States Trade Representative; Legal Services Corporation; and

Title V: Department of State (salaries and expenses, registration fees, Office of the Inspector General, representation allowances, protection of foreign missions and officials, acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad, emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service, payments to the American Institute in Taiwan, contributions to international organizations, contributions for international peacekeeping, international conferences and contingencies, International Boundary and Water Commission salaries and expenses and construction, American sections of international commissions, international fisheries commissions, United States bilateral science and technology agreements, and payment to the Asia Foundation); Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Board for International Broadcasting; International Trade Commission; and United States Information Agency (salaries and expenses, Office of the Inspector General, education and cultural exchange programs, Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship program trust fund, Israeli Arab scholarship program, radio construction, broadcasting to Cuba, East-West Center, and National Endowment for Democracy).

COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(C), RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, the accompanying bill was ordered reported from the Committee, subject to amendment and subject to the subcommittee allocation, by recorded vote of 26-0.

COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 12, RULE XXVI OF THE STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

Paragraph 12 of rule XXVI requires that Committee reports on a bill or joint resolution repealing or amending any statute or part of any statute include "(a) the text of the statute or part thereof which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a comparative print of that part of the bill or joint resolution making the amendment and of the statute or part thereof proposed to be amended, showing by stricken-through type and italics, parallel columns, or other appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions which would be made by the bill or joint resolution if enacted in the form recommended by the committee."

In compliance with this rule, the following changes in existing law proposed to be made by the bill are shown as follows: existing law to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets; new matter is

printed in italic; and existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman.

1. In connection with section 109

TITLE 28, UNITED STATES CODE

§ 524. Availability of appropriations

(a) Appropriations for the Department of Justice are available for payment of—

(1) notarial fees, including such additional stenographic services as are required in connection therewith in the taking of depositions, and compensation and expenses of witnesses and informants, all at the rates authorized or approved by the Attorney General or the Assistant Attorney General for Administration; and

(2) when ordered by the court, actual expenses of meals and lodging for marshals, deputy marshals, or criers when acting as bailiffs in attendance on juries. (b) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, a claim of not more than $500 for expenses related to litigation that is beyond the control of the Department may be paid out of appropriations currently available to the Department for expenses related to litigation when the Comptroller General settles the payment.

(c)(1) There is established in the United States Treasury a special fund to be known as the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the "Fund") which shall be available to the Attorney General without fiscal year limitation for the following law enforcement purposes

(A) the payment, at the discretion of the Attorney General, of any expenses necessary to seize, detain, inventory, safeguard, maintain, advertise, sell, or dispose of property under seizure, detention, or forfeited pursuant to any law enforced or administered by the Department of Justice, or of any other necessary expense incident to the seizure, detention, forfeiture, or disposal of such property including

(i) payments for

(I) contract services;

(II) the employment of outside contractors to operate and manage properties or provide other specialized services necessary to dispose of such properties in an effort to maximize the return from such properties; and

(III) reimbursement of any Federal, State, or local agency for any expenditures made to perform the functions described in this clause;

(ii) payments to reimburse any Federal agency participating in the Fund for investigative costs leading to seizures;

(iii) payments for contracting for the services of experts and consultants needed by the Department of Justice to assist in carrying out duties related to asset seizure and forfeiture; and

(iv) Payments made pursuant to guidelines promulgated by the Attorney General if such payments are necessary and directly related to seizure and forfeiture program expenses for

(I) the purchase or lease of automated data processing systems (not less than a majority of which use will be related to such program); (II) training;

(III) printing;

(IV) the storage, protection, and destruction of controlled substances; and

(V) contracting for services directly related to the identification of forfeitable assets, and the processing of and accounting for forfeit

ures;

(B) the payment of awards for information or assistance directly relating to violations of the criminal drug laws of the United States or of sections 1956 and 1957 of title 18, sections 5313 and 5324 of title 31, and section 60501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;

(C) at the discretion of the Attorney General, the payment of awards for information or assistance leading to a civil or criminal forfeiture involving any Federal agency participating in the Fund;

(D) the compromise and payment of valid liens and mortgages against property that has been forfeited pursuant to any law enforced or administered by the Department of Justice, subject to the discretion of the Attorney General to determine the validity of any such lien or mortgage and the amount of payment to be made, and the employment of attorneys and other personnel skilled in State real estate law as necessary;

(E) disbursements authorized in connection with remission or mitigation procedures relating to property forfeited under any law enforced or administered by the Department of Justice;

(FX(i) for equipping for law enforcement functions of any Government-owned or leased vessel, vehicle, or aircraft available for official use by any Federal agency participating in the Fund;

(ii) for equipping any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft available for official use by a State or local law enforcement agency to enable the vessel, vehicle, or aircraft to assist law enforcement functions if the vessel, vehicle, or aircraft will be used in a joint law enforcement operation with a Federal agency participating in the Fund; and

(iii) payments for other equipment directly related to seizure or forfeiture, including laboratory equipment, protective equipment, communications equipment, and the operation and maintenance costs of such equipment;

(G) for purchase of evidence of any violation of the Controlled Substances Act, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, chapter 96 of title 18, or sections 1956 and 1957 of title 18;

(H) payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equipment, and other similar costs of State or local law enforcement officers that are incurred in a joint law enforcement operation with a Federal law enforcement agency participating in the Fund;

(I) after all reimbursements and program-related expenses have been met at the end of fiscal year 1989, the Attorney General may transfer deposits from the Fund to the building and facilities account of the Federal prison system for the construction of correctional institutions.

Amounts for paying the expenses authorized by subparagraphs (A)(ii), (B), (C), (F), and (G) shall be specified in appropriations Acts and may be used under authorities available to the organization receiving the funds. Amounts for other authorized expenditures and payments from the Fund, including equitable sharing payments, are not required to be specified in appropriations acts. The Attorney General may exempt the procurement of contract services under subparagraph (A) under the fund from the section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U.S.C. 5), title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 251 and following), and other provisions of law as may be necessary to maintain the security and confidentiality of related criminal investigations. . . .

(9)(A) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as necessary for the purposes described in subparagraphs (A)(iv), (B), (C), (F), (G), and (H) of paragraph (1).

(B) Subject to subparagraph (C), in each of fiscal years 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993, the Attorney General may transfer from the Fund not more than $150,000,000 to the Special Forfeiture Fund established by section 6073 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. Such transfers shall be made at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year involved and on a quarterly pro rata basis.

(C) Transfers under subparagraph (B) may be made only from excess unobligated amounts and only to the extent that, as determined by the Attorney General, such transfers will not impair the future availability of amounts for the purposes under paragraph (1). Further, transfers under subsection (B) may be made only to the extent that the sum of the transfers for the current fiscal year and the unobligated balance at the beginning of the current fiscal