PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-510 OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95- 454), the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 101- 12), Public Law 103-424, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Remployment Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-353), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $8,720,000. UNITED STATES TAX COURT SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $32,765,000: Provided, 26 USC 7443 That travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written i^ote. certificate of the judge. This title may be cited as the "Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999". TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS THIS ACT SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. SEC. 502. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 503. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the salary of any Government employee where funding an activity or paying a salary to a Government employee would result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930. SEC. 504. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be available in fiscal year 1999 for the purpose of transferring control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center located at Gljnico, Georgia, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Department of the Treasury. SEC. 505. No psirt of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to pay the saleiry for any person filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service, and has within 90 days after his release from such service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of
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