PUBLIC LAW 103-333—SEPT. 30, 1994 108 STAT. 2573 SEC. 507. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made. (b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT. —In providing financial assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any entity using funds made available in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress. SEC. 508. When issuing statements, press releases, requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents describing projects or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal funds, including but not limited to State and local governments and recipients of Federal research grants, shall clearly state (1) the percentage of the total costs of the program or project which will be financed with Federal money, (2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the project or program, and (3) percentage and dollar amount of the total costs of the project or program that will be financed by nongovernmental sources. SEC. 509. None of the funds appropriated under this Act shall Abortion, be expended for any abortion except when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which funds are appropriated under this Act that such procedure is necessary to save the life of the mother or that the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest. SEC. 510. No funds appropriated herein shall be used to implement any regulation promulgated under section 481(b)(6) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, prior to July 1, 1995. SEC. 511. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act may be obligated in violation of existing Federal law or regulation already prohibiting such benefit or assistance. None of the funds appropriated under this Act may be used by any Federal official, or any State or local official, to induce undocumented immigrants to apply for Federal benefits for which such officials know or should know such undocumented immigrants are not eligible. In no case, however, shall Federal, State, or local officials be penalized for efforts to ensure that eligible persons are not excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination by any program receiving funds under this Act, on the grounds of race, color, or national origin-based traits, including language. Each State agency and each other entity administering a program under which verification of immigration status is required by section 121 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 shall participate in the system for the verification of such status established by the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service pursuant to section 121(c) of that Act, unless an alternative system is available and employed for such purposes which is found to meet the criteria for waiver under section 121(c)(4). SEC. 512. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, monthly 30 USC 922 note, benefit rates during fiscal year 1995 and thereafter under part B or part C of the Black Lung Benefits Act shall continue to be based on the benefit rates in effect in September, 1994 and be paid in accordance with the Act, until exceeded by the benefit rate specified in section 412(a)(1) of the Act.
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