[House Document 107-30]
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107th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 107-30
REQUESTS TO USE PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED CONTINGENT EMERGENCY FUNDS
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COMMUNICATION
from
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
transmitting
REQUESTS TO MAKE AVAILABLE PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED CONTINGENT EMERGENCY
FUNDS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE, THE INTERIOR, AND THE
TREASURY, AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY AND THE
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH, PURSUANT TO SECTION 251(b)(2)(A) OF THE BALANCED
BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT OF 1985, AS AMENDED
January 30, 2001.--Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and
ordered to be printed
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
89-012 WASHINGTON : 2001
The White House,
Washington, January 19, 2001.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Sir: In accordance with provisions of P.L. 106-387, P.L.
106-291, P.L. 106-377, and P.L. 106-554, I hereby request and
make available each of the emergency appropriations listed in
the enclosed letter from the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget. I designate these funds as emergency
requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
These resources will support a variety of emergency
activities of critical importance to our Nation.
Sincerely,
William J. Clinton.
Enclosure.
[Estimate No. 2, 107th Cong., 1st Sess.]
Executive Office of the President,
Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC, January 19, 2001.
The President,
The White House.
Submitted for your consideration are requests to make
available previously appropriated contingent emergency funds
for the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), the Interior (DOI),
and the Treasury, as well as the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA), and the Legislative Branch. All of the emergency
funding provided was made contingent upon your submission of a
budget request to the Congress that includes designation of the
amount requested as an emergency requirement. Your approval of
these requests would make available $4.8 billion for a variety
of purposes, described below.
P.L. 106-387, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2001, provided a total of $4.2 billion in contingent emergency
funding for agricultural disaster assistance and assistance to
low-income citizens. To date, you have designated and made
available $1.4 billion of that amount. The funds requested in
this transmittal would make available the remaining $2.8
billion, and will support the Nation's farmers, ranchers, rural
communities, and low-income populations, through support for
land conservation efforts, crop and animal loss reimbursements,
livestock disease control programs, loan forgiveness, and
nutrition assistance. In addition, P.L. 106-554, the
consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001, provided $0.05 billion
in contingent emergency funding for USDA. Specifically, this
emergency funding will support reimbursement for livestock
losses due to bovine tuberculosis, increased funding for the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and expansion of
Federal meals programs for children upon your designation of
the entire $0.05 billion provided for these purposes as
emergency requirements.
P.L. 106-291, the Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, provided a total of $1.6
billion in contingent emergency funding. To date, you have made
available $0.01 billion of this amount. This transmittal
includes requests for an additional $1.3 billion to be made
available to USDA and DOI to address wildland fire management.
These funds will be used to continue fire suppression
operations, rehabilitate lands destroyed by wildfires, reduce
the presence of hazardous fuels in sensitive areas, and assist
rural firefighting efforts.
P.L. 106-377, the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2001, provided $1.3 billion in contingent
emergency funding to support the disaster relief operations of
FEMA, none of which has been released to date. Since you
recently declared disaster areas in Oklahoma and Arkansas due
to the severe damage caused by winter storms there, FEMA has
been working with State and local authorities to clear snow and
ice and assist residents of the affected areas. This request
would make available $0.6 billion for this and other disaster
relief activities.
P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001,
also provided contingent emergency funding for the Legislative
Branch and the Department of the Treasury. Specifically, $0.02
billion in emergency funding was provided to support security
enhancements at the Capitol building, improvements to House
office buildings, and counter-terrorism efforts associated with
national special security events. This request would make
available the entire $0.02 billion for these purposes.
Resource requirements for the Department of the Treasury's
counter-terrorism efforts noted above have been estimated using
the best available information to date. Actual expenditures
incurred for the Inauguration, the State of the Union and the
2002 Winter Olympics may differ from the original level sought
from the Counter-Terrorism Fund. the Department of the Treasury
will work with OMB to monitor this Fund to ensure that law
enforcement bureaus are reimbursed for actual expenses and that
any excess amounts are held in reserve to meet unforeseen needs
related to counter-terrorist activities. Future transmittals to
the Congress seeking release of funds from the Counter-
Terrorism Fund will provide further details on actual fund
expenditures.
I recommend that you designate the above requests totaling
$4.8 billion, which are detailed in the enclosure to this
letter, as emergency requirements in accordance with section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, as amended. No further congressional
action will be required.
This transmittal also contains a revision to the amount of
emergency funding that you made available on December 4, 2000,
for USDA's Forest Service, State and Private Forestry account.
This revision is listed in the enclosure to this letter.
I have carefully reviewed these proposals and am satisfied
that they are necessary at this time. Therefore, I join the
heads of the affected Departments and agencies in recommending
that you make the requested funds available by signing the
enclosed letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Sincerely,
Jacob J. Lew, Director.
Enclosure.
Emergency Appropriations: Amounts Previously Appropriated Made
Available by the President
Department of Agriculture
Farm Service Agency: Salaries and Expenses.............. $50,000,000
Commodity Credit Corporation Fund:
Conservation reserve program and wetlands
reserve program............................... 35,000,000
Payments for livestock losses................... 490,000,000
Crop losses on 2000 crop: such sums as may be
necessary, estimated at....................... 1,400,000,000
Quality losses on 2000 crop: such sums as may be
necessary, estimated at....................... 500,000,000
Payments to apple and potato producers for
market losses................................. 100,000,000
Payments to apple producers for market losses... 38,000,000
Payments for losses due to invasive species:
such sums as may be necessary, estimated at... 45,000,000
Burley tobacco loan forgiveness: such sums as
may be necessary, estimated at................ 100,000,000
Food and Nutrition Service, Food Stamp Program:
Housing deduction: such sums as may be necessary,
estimated at...................................... 24,000,000
Vehicle deduction: such sums as may be necessary,
estimated at...................................... 36,000,000
P.L. 106-387, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2001, included $4.2 billion in emergency funding contingent
upon the President submitting a budget request to the Congress
and designating the amount requested as an emergency
requirement. The amounts listed above have been so designated
by the President. In addition, on December 18, 2000, the
President designated and made available $1.4 billion of the
total emergency funding provided. The funds made available
today will provide support for land conservation efforts, crop
and animal loss reimbursements, livestock disease control
programs, loan forgiveness, and nutrition assistance.
Forest Service:
Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title II
of P.L. 106-291).................................. 276,000,000
Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title IV
of P.L. 106-291).................................. 619,274,000
P.L. 106-291, the Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, included emergency funding
contingent upon the President submitting a budget request to
the Congress and designating the amount requested as an
emergency requirement. The amounts listed above have been so
designated by the President. These funds will be used to
continue fire suppression operations, rehabilitate lands
destroyed by wildfires, reduce the presence of hazardous fuels
in sensitive areas, and assist rural firefighting efforts.
Office of the General Counsel: Office of the General
Counsel............................................. $500,000
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Bovine
tuberculosis claims: such sums as may be necessary,
estimated at........................................ 6,300,000
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration:
Salaries and Expenses............................... 200,000
Farm Service Agency, Commodity Credit Corporation Fund:
Environmental quality improvement program........... 26,000,000
Food and Nutrition Service, Child Nutrition Programs:
Child and adult care food program, eligibility of
private organizations: such sums as may be
necessary, estimated at........................... 10,800,000
Summer food service program, pilot projects: such
sums as may be necessary, estimated at............ 6,200,000
P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001,
included emergency funding contingent upon the President
submitting a budget request to the Congress and designating the
amount requested as an emergency requirement. The amounts
listed above have been so designated by the President. These
funds will support reimbursement for livestock losses due to
bovine tuberculosis, increased funding for the Environmental
Quality Incentives Program, and expansion of Federal meals
programs for children.
Forest Service: State, Private, and International
Forestry............................................ $12,500,000
Pursuant to P.L. 106-291, on December 4, 2000, the
President designated and made available emergency funding for
the activity listed above. This transmittal revised that
designation to correct a technical error.
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management:
Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title I of
P.L. 106-291)..................................... $100,000,000
Wildland Fire Management (appropriated in Title IV
of P.L. 106-291).................................. 353,740,000
P.L. 106-291, the Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, included emergency funding
contingent upon the President submitting a budget request to
the Congress and designating the amount requested as an
emergency requirement. The amounts listed above had been so
designated by the President. These funds will be used to
continue fire suppression operations, rehabilitate lands
destroyed by wildfires, reduce the presence of hazardous fuels
in sensitive areas, and assist rural firefighting efforts.
Department of the Treasury
Departmental Offices: Counter-Terrorism Fund: such sums
as may be necessary, up to.......................... $11,522,000
P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001,
provided funding for the Treasury Counter-Terrorism Fund,
contingent upon the President submitting a budget request to
the Congress and designating the amount requested as an
emergency requirement. The amount listed above has been so
designated by the President. A total of up to $11.5 million
will be used by the Department of the Treasury to support
counter-terrorism efforts associated with national special
security events. Customs Service requirements for the
Inauguration and State of the Union Address are currently
estimated at a total cost of up to $1.4 million, or up to
$700,000 for each event. In addition, up to $10.1 million will
be made available to the Treasury Department's law enforcement
bureaus to offset the cost of providing counter-terrorism
support for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Disaster Relief......................................... $600,000,000
P.L. 106-377, the Department of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2001, included $1.3 billion in emergency
funding contingent upon the President submitting a budget
request to the Congress and designating the amount requested as
an emergency requirement. The amount listed above has been so
designated by the President. These funds will support winter
storm disaster relief in the States of Oklahoma and Arkansas as
well as other disaster relief activities.
Legislative Branch
Architect of the Capitol: House Office Buildings........ $9,000,000
Joint Items, Capitol Police Board: Security enhancements 2,102,000
P.L. 106-554, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001,
included emergency funding contingent upon the President
submitting a budget request to the Congress and designating the
amount requested as an emergency requirement. The amounts
listed above have been so designated by the President. These
funds will support security enhancements at the Capitol
building and improvements to House office buildings.