30 USC 801. 40 USC 490. retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers the Public Health Service; grants to States for public assistance; activities under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety A of 1969, as amended; and activities funded from the fiscal year 1975 appropriation to th Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration for "special benefits". (g) Applicable appropriations made by this joint resolution shal not be available for paying to the Administrator of the General Serv ices Administration in excess of 90 per centum of the standard leve 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. 102. Appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available from July 1, 1975, and shall remain available until (a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) enactment of the applicable appropriation Act by both Houses without any provision for such project or activity, or (c) sine die adjournment of the first session of the Ninety-fourth Congress, whichever first occurs. SEC. 103. Appropriations and funds made available or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution may be used without regard to the time limitations for submission and approval of apportionments set forth in 31 U.S.C. 665 (d) (2), but nothing herein shall be construed to waive any other provision of law governing the apportionment of funds. SEC. 104. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for any project or activity during the period for which funds or authority for such project or activity are available under this joint resolution. SEC. 105. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted into law. SEC. 106. No appropriation or fund made available or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be used to initiate or resume any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during the fiscal year 1975. SEC. 107. Any appropriation for the fiscal year 1976 required to be apportioned pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 665, may be apportioned on a basis indicating the need (to the extent any such increases cannot be absorbed within available appropriations) for a supplemental or deficiency estimate of appropriation to the extent necessary to permit payment of such pay increases as may be granted pursuant to law to civilian officers and employees and to active and retired military personnel. Each such appropriation shall otherwise be subject to the requirements of 31 U.S.C. 665. SEC. 108. All obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations and authority provided in this joint resolution are hereby ratified and confirmed if otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this joint resolution. SEC. 109. None of the funds herein made available shall be obligated Southeast Asia, or expended to finance directly or indirectly any assistance to North assistance, proVietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos, nor shall any funds hibition of herein made available be channeled through or administered by inter- funds. national organizations, United Nations organizations, multilateral organizations, voluntary agencies, or any other comparable organizations or agencies in order to finance any assistance to North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos. SEC. 110. Any provision of law which requires unexpended funds to return to the general fund of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year shall not be held to affect the status of any lawsuit or right of action involving the right to those funds. SEC. 111. Unobligated balances as of June 30, 1975, of funds heretofore made available under the authority of Chapter X of Part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, are hereby continued available for the same general purposes for which appropriated. Approved June 27, 1975. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-289 (Comm. on Appropriations). June 17, considered and passed House, June 19, considered and passed Senate, amended, 89 STAT. 231 t III. Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1976, Public Law 94-165 |