This account supports the acquisition, construction, improvement, equipment, furnishing and related costs for maintenance and support of Secret Service facilities, including the Secret Service Headquarters Building and the Rowley Training Center.

RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,457,000 for Acquisition, Construction, Improvement and Related Expenses, a decrease of $5,464,330 below the fiscal year 2001 enacted level and an increase of $105,000 above the President's request. The increase above the President's request is for non-pay inflation.

GENERAL PROVISIONS--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Section 110. The Committee continues the provision that requires the Secretary of the Treasury to comply with certain reprogramming guidelines when obligating or expending funds for law enforcement activities.

Section 111. The Committee continues the provision that allows the Department of the Treasury to purchase uniforms, insurance, and motor vehicles without regard to the general purchase price limitation, and enter into contracts with the State Department for health and medical services for Treasury employees in overseas locations.

Section 112. The Committee continues the provision that requires expenditures of funds so as not to diminish efforts under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act.

Section 113. The Committee continues the provision that authorizes transfers, up to 2 percent, between law enforcement appropriations under certain circumstances.

Section 114. The Committee continues the provision that authorizes transfers, up to 2 percent, between Departmental Offices, Office of the Inspector General, Financial Management Service, and the Bureau of the Public Debt appropriations under certain circumstances.

Section 115. The Committee continues the provision that authorizes transfer, up to 2 percent, between the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration under certain circumstances.

Section 116. The Committee continues the provision that provides that no funds may be obligated for the purchase of law enforcement vehicles until the Secretary of the Treasury certifies that the purchase is consistent with Departmental vehicle management principles.

Section 117. The Committee continues the provision that prohibits the Department of the Treasury from undertaking a redesign of the $1 Federal Reserve note.

Section 118. The Committee continues the provision that provides for transfers from and reimbursements to the Salaries and Expenses appropriation of the Financial Management Service for the purposes of debt collection.

Section 119. The Committee includes a new provision that authorizes intelligence and intelligence-based activities of the Department of Treasury.

Section 120. The Committee includes a new provision that extends the pilot project for designated critical occupations for one additional year.

Section 121. The Committee includes a new provision that requires authorization for the construction and operation of a museum by the United States Mint.

TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE

PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND

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Appropriation, fiscal year 2001 to date $95,888,000 

Budget estimate, fiscal year 2002       143,712,000 

Recommended in the bill                 143,712,000 

Bill compared with:                                 

  Appropriation, fiscal year 2001       +47,824,000 

  Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2002                 

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MISSION

Funds provided to the Postal Service in the Payment to the Postal Service Fund include the costs of revenue forgone on free and reduce-rate mail for the blind and overseas voters; reconciliation adjustments for amounts appropriated for free and reduced rate mail and the actual amounts required; and partial reimbursement for losses which the Postal Service incurred as a result of insufficient appropriations in fiscal years 1991 through 1993 and the additional revenues it would have received between 1993 and 1998 in the absence of certain rate phasing provisions of the Revenue Forgone Act of 1993.

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