The manager of the House side will move to withdraw and concur with the Senate amendment deferring $100,000 of the proposed D 2-225 relating to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, "Periodic Censuses and programs", disapprove, effectively. The conferees hereby direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to prepare a report on the current status of the regulations by August 23, 1982. A Civilian Review Board(sJ) to review appeals made by alternative service workers on their assignments or reassignments.
The managers on the Senate side will decide to agree with the House amendment to the Senate amendment. The $150,000 provided is for program development and training costs of the civilian review boards. The managers from the side of the House will present a motion to withdraw and agree with the amendment of the Senate that transfer to the medical and prosthetic research appropriation for agent orange studies.
The House and Senate Reports on the Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1982, deal with the subject of grants to the Republic of the Philippines. Acceptance of a decision by the Secretary and the transfer of funds under this provision shall constitute a full release and waiver of all claims of the beneficiary against the United States with respect to the unobligated balance of IMPL accounts as of the end of the working day. in September or earlier, if a Secretarial decision regarding ownership and appropriate fund transfers has been completed, funds remaining in such escrow accounts because they have not been transferred to trust accounts may be spent, subject to approval by the Secretary, for any purpose. . 25 U.S.C. 13) and requested by the respective tribal governing bodies at the locations where such accounts are maintained.
The unobligated balances of such escrow accounts as of the close of business on September 30, 1987, shall be deposited in miscellaneous receipts of the Treas-. The managers agree that the coal mining research and development activity should be transferred from the Department of E11 Energy to the Department of the Interior. The managers further agree to language to comply with actions taken in Public Law 97-100 to consolidate leasing functions in the Department of the Interior.
Funds made available for obligation under this item in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1982 (Public Law 97-100) for. further design of solvent-refined coal. SRC-1) demonstration facility (Project No. 78-2-d is hereby postponed pending the enactment of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1983. The remaining funds will be used to implement the SRC-I job - basic activities of the type , set out in ICRC-DOE letter number 1629 entitled Technical Scope.
Managers from Ser1at will agree to change the House to change the Senate. House leaders will offer a motion to withdraw and agree to a Senate amendment requiring Puerto Rico to use poverty data collected by the Census Bureau in the 1975 Income and Education Survey if. It is intended to ensure that additional funds, if the 1970 Census data are used in the distribution of Title I regular appropriations for the 1982-1983 school year, would be allocated only to those districts that would have made a profit if the 1980 Census data had been used as the basis for the allocation of funds.
House leaders will offer a motion to withdraw and consider the Senate amendment appropriating $200,000 under Section 7 of Public Law 81-87 4 for the Waubay School District in South Dakota.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
To address this problem in the appropriations bills for 1983 and beyond, the conferees request the Secretary of Education to develop and present a clear, long-range plan to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. The House leaders will make a motion to r · c d · and join the Senate amendment, which would transfer the funds from the appropriation "Construe ion, Metropoli-. Conference participants understand that the Navy is now restructuring the Seafire program and is currently developing a new Request for Proposal for a semi-active laser-guided projectile.
Managers from the Senate side will agree to change the House of Representatives to change the Senate. Administrators have been reluctant to include text in Section 303 of the bill that requires the department to maintain employment at levels set for certain programs. Actions by the Department that disregard the guidance contained in the previous report, letters from the Speaker and minority members of the House and Senate of the Department of the Interior and Subcommittees on Related Agency Appropriations, and the intentions of the House as expressed in passage of H.R.
6863 on July 29, 1982, have left managers no alternative to the recommended language appearing in section 303. If the Department determines that a lower than specified employment level would be appropriate for a particular program, a message of specifically in accordance with the provisions of The Closure Control Act of 1974 will be transmitted to Congress, supplemented by a detailed analysis in support of the recommendation.
The language also prohibits the withholding of funds necessary to maintain specified employment levels unless Congress has approved a special message or, in the event of a reprieve. Within the 450 employees assigned to the Economic Regulatory Administration, the Managers agree that no less than 160 will be auditors. With respect to the Fossil Energy Program, the Department of Energy has indicated to the Office of Management and Budget the need for an allocation of 93 additional full-time equivalent positions on a temporary basis for the operation of the energy technology centers. in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Grand Forks, North Dakota;.
This allocation would allow the continued federal operation of the Grand Forks and Laramie centers until January 1, 1983, and the Bartlesville Center until May 1. The managers understand that the Department of Energy assumes that the operation of these centers can be transferred to non-federal entities before the dates listed. Because a specific allocation of federal positions in the legislation could interfere with the orderly transfer of these facilities to private operators, such an allocation is not included in the language of section 303.
Managers reserve the right to assess the merits of any conversion of these three centers into a state-owned, operator-run arrangement. The department is tasked with maintaining current federal employment levels in Bartlesville, Grand Forks and.
