borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, GOVERNMENT NATIONAL Not to exceed $1,240,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, which shall be on an accrual basis, and shall be exclusive of interest paid, expenses (including expenses for fiscal agency services performed on a contract or fee basis) in connection with the issuance and servicing of securities, depreciation, properly capitalized expenditures, fees for servicing mortgages, expenses (including services performed 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 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. For the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, not to exceed $350,000 shall be available for administrative expenses. * TITLE IV GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. Where appropriations in title I and II of this Act are expendable for travel expenses of employees and no specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expeditures for such travel expenses may not exceed ten per centum above the amounts set forth therefor 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: Provided further, That the limitation may be increased by the Secretary when necessary to allow for travel performed by employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a result of increased Federal Housing Administration inspection and appraisal workload. 81-793 - 77 - 8 1 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 therefor, 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, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, 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). 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. No part of any appropriation, funds, or other authority contained in this Act shall be available for paying to the Administrator of the General Services Administration in excess of 90 per centum of the standard level user charge established pursuant to section 210 (j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, for space and services. 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, except as provided in Section 204 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1975 (P.L. 93–554). SEC. 407. No part of the funds appropriated under this Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to administer or promulgate, directly or indirectly, any program to tax, limit or otherwise regulate parking that is not specifically required pursuant to subsequent legislation. SEC. 408. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be used to deny or fail to act upon, on the basis of noise contours set forth in an Air Installation Compatible Use Zone Map, an otherwise acceptable application for Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance in connection with construction in an area zoned for residential use in Merced County, California. SEC. 409. No funds appropriated by this Act may be expended(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or employee of the United States unless (A) such certification is accompanied by, or is part of, a voucher or abstract which describes the payee or payees and the items or services for which such expenditure is being made, or (B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to such certification, and without such a voucher or abstract, is specifically authorized by law; and (2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by the General Accounting Office or is specifically exempt by law from such an audit. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1976". Approved October 17, 1975. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS [Public Law 94-144 [H.R. 6692]; Dec. 9, 1975] AN ACT To authorize appropriations for the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there are authorized to be appropriated for the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, such sums as may be necessary to conduct programs and activities for which funding was authorized on June 30, 1976: Provided, That this Act shall not affect any other law authorizing appropriations for the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976. Approved December 9, 1975. EXCERPTS FROM SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1976 [Public Law 94-157, 89 Stat. 826] AN ACT Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the period ending September 30, 1976, 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 to supply supplemental appropriations (this Act may be cited as the "Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1976") for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the period ending September 30, 1976, and for other purposes, namely: * CHAPTER II DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN HOUSING PROGRAMS FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION FUND For payment to cover actual losses sustained by the Special Risk Insurance Fund, $100,000,000; and for payment to cover actual losses under the General Insurance Fund from mortgages insured under section 221 (d) (3) with below-market interest rates, $42,500,000; to remain available until expended, as authorized by the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3; 12 U.S.C. 17151). * TITLE II GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 201. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein, except as provided in section 204 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1975 (Public Law 93–554). SEC. 202. No part of any appropriation, funds, or other authority contained in this Act shall be available for paying to the Administrator of the General Services Administration in excess of 90 per centum of the standard level user charge established pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, for space and services. SEC. 203. No part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976 to make food stamps available to any household, to the extent that the entitlement otherwise available to such household is attributable to an individual who: (i) has reached his eighteenth birthday; (ii) is enrolled in an institution of higher education; and (iii) is properly claimed as a dependent child for Federal income tax purposes by a taxpayer who is not a member of an eligible household. SEC. 205. (a) It is the sense of Congress that the President, through the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall take immediate steps to restrain the inflationary impact of Federal expenditures and to conserve the use of energy by ordering a reduction of Federal travel expenditures not to exceed 10 percent. (b) These steps shall include such provisions as are necessary to insure that such reductions are allocated so as not to disrupt the provision of vital governmental services or the organized troop movement of military personnel. (c) The President is requested to submit to Congress, within 30 days of adoption of this section by the Senate and the House of Representatives a report outlining his actions. Approved December 18, 1975. EXCERPTS FROM SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION ACT, 1976 [Public Law 94-303, 90 Stat. 597] AN ACT Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the period ending September 30, 1976, 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 to supply supplemental appropriations (this Act may be cited as the "Second Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1976") for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the period ending September 30, 1976, and for other purposes, namely: The limitation on the aggregate loans that may be made through September 30, 1976, under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, is hereby increased by $375,000,000. MOBILE HOME STANDARDS PROGRAM For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry out the National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401-5426), to remain available until September 30, 1976, $1,000,000. FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION FUND For reimbursement to the Federal Housing Administration Fund for losses incurred under the urban homesteading demonstration, $5,000,000, as authorized by Section 810 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 1706e), to remain available until September 30, 1977. * * * TITLE II-INCREASED PAY COSTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1976 For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1976, for increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant to law, as follows: * DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) HOUSING PROGRAMS "Salaries and expenses, Housing programs", $5,819,000, of which $4,853,000 shall be provided by transfer from the various funds of the Federal Housing Administration; "Limitation on administrative expenses, Government National Mortgage Association" (increase of $33,000 in the limitation on adminstrative expenses); |