Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 111 Part 2.djvu/397

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PUBLIC LAW 105-78—NOV. 13, 1997 111 STAT. 1477 Act, as amended) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least fiftieen days in advance of any transfer. SEC. 103. Funds shall be available for carrying out title IV- B of the Job Training Partnership Act, notwithstanding section 427(c) of that Act, if a Job Corps center fails to meet nation£d performance standards established by the Secretary. SEC. 104. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to promulgate or issue any proposed or final standard regarding ergonomic protection before September 30, 1998: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from issuing voluntsiry guidelines on ergonomic protection or from developing a proposed standard regarding ergonomic protection: Provided further. That no funds made available in this Act may be used by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to enforce voluntary ergonomics guidelines through section 5 (the general duty clause) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 654). SEC. 105. Section 13(b)(12) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 213(b)(12)) is amended by striking "water for agricultural purposes" and inserting in lieu thereof "water, at least 90 percent of which was ultimately delivered for agricultural purposes during the preceding calendar year". This title may be cited as the "Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1998". TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES For carrying out titles II, III, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, and XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal Mine Hesdth and Safety Act, title V of the Social Security Act, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended, and the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, as amended, $3,618,137,000, of which $225,000 shall remain available until expended for interest subsidies on loan guarantees made prior to fiscal year 1981 under part B of title VII of the Public Health Service Act and of which $28,000,000 shall be available for the construction and renovation of health care and other facilities: Provided, That the Division of Federal Occupational Health may utilize personal services contracting to employ professional management/administrative and occupational health professionals: Provided further. That of the funds made available under this heading, $2,500,000 shall be available until expended for facilities renovations at the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center: Provided further. That in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b) of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be collected for the full disclosure of information under the Act sufficient to recover the full costs of operating the National Practitioner Data Bank, and shall remain available until expended to carry Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1998. Fees.