Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1982

(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Appropriations with an amendment, S. Rept. 97-192)

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1982 - Title I: Treasury Department - Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1982. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to the Department of the Treasury for: (1) salaries and expenses of the Office of the Secretary; (2) international affairs functions; (3) salaries and expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (4) salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Government Financial Operations; (5) salaries and expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; (6) salaries and expenses of the United States Customs Service (prohibits the use of such funds to close any Air Interdiction base or support facility in Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas); (7) salaries, expenses, expansion and improvements of the Bureau of the Mint; (8) administration of the public debt by the Bureau of the Public Debt; (9) salaries and expenses, taxpayer service and returns processing, examinations and appeals, investigations and collection, and payment where energy credit exceeds liability for tax by the Internal Revenue Service; and (10) salaries and expenses of the United States Secret Service (makes specified funds appropriated for the costs of construction and installation of a White HOuse complex security system available until expended).

Makes appropriations to the Treasury Department as set forth in this Act available for: (1) uniforms or allowances, including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning; (2) purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign countries; (3) entering into contracts with the Department of State for the furnishing of health and medical services to employees and their dependents serving in foreign countries; and (4) the employment of temporary experts and consultants.

Prohibits funds appropriated under this Act from being used in connection with the collection of any underpayment of any tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 unless the conduct of the officer and employees of the Internal Revenue Service in connection with such collection complies with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated under this Act to disqualify, or to issue an unfavorable advance determination letter, with respect to any plan which has vesting requirements or provides for nonforfeitable rights to benefits equal to or more stringent than 4/40.

Prohibits any of the funds made available to the Department of the Treasury by this Act from being used to implement changes shortening the time granted, or altering the mode of payment permitted, for payment of excise taxes by law or regulations in effect on January 1, 1981.

Title II: U.S. Postal Service - Postal Service Appropriation Act, 1982 - Makes appropriations to the U.S. Postal Service for the payment to the Postal Service Fund. Prohibits the use of funds provided in this Act to: (1) consolidate or close small rural and other small post offices; (2) curtail six-day delivery or any other existing postal service; or (3) mandate the implementation of nine-digit ZIP code.

Title III: Executive Office of the President - Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1982 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to the Executive Office of the President for: (1) compensation of the President; (2) salaries and expenses of the Office of Administration; (3) salaries and expenses of the White House Office; (4) operating expenses of the Executive Residence at the White House; (5) operating expenses of the Official Residence of the Vice President; (6) salaries and expenses of the Special Assistance to the President; (7) salaries and expenses of the Council of Economic Advisers; (8) salaries and expenses of the National Security Council; (9) salaries and expenses of the Office of Management and Budget; (10) salaries and expenses of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; (11) salaries and expenses of the Office of Policy Development; and (12) unanticipated needs.

Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1982 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the salaries and expenses of: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (3) the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay; (4) the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; and (5) the Federal Election Commission.

Limits the availability of revenue from the General Services Administration's Federal Buildings Fund for the construction of specified projects as authorized by law and for repairs and alterations of specified prospectus projects.

Authorizes appropriations to the General Services Administration for fiscal year 1982 for the: (1) Federal Supply Service for operating expenses; (2) Transportation and Public Utilities Service for operating expenses; (3) National Archives and Records Service for operating expenses; (4) Automated Data and Telecommunications Service for operating expenses; (5) Federal Property Resources Service (including transfer of funds) for operating expenses; (6) National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund; (7) general management and administration salaries and expenses; (8) Office of Inspector General; and (9) allowances and office staff for former Presidents.

Directs that the appropriate appropriation or fund available to the General Services Administration be credited with: (1) the cost of operation, protection, maintenance upkeep, repair, and improvement, included as part of rentals received from Government corporations; and (2) appropriations or funds available to other agencies and transferred to the General Services Administration.

Makes funds available to the General Services Administration available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles.

Prohibits the use of any of the funds available under this Act or under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 from being obligated or expended for the procurement of any or all the automatic data processing system, data communications network, or related software and services for the joint General Services Administration-Department of Agriculture MCS project 97-72.

Makes appropriations available to any department or agency during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses available for payment to the General Services Administration for charges for space and services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of buildings and facilities which constitute public improvements.

Limits the amount of personnel compensation made available in appropriations for operating expenses and salaries and expenses, during the current fiscal year, which may be transferred between such appropriations for mandatory program requirements.

Permits funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available for fiscal year 1982 for Federal Buildings Fund activities to be transferred with Congressional approval, between such activities only to the extent necessary for mandatory program requirements.

Permits funds made available by this or any other Act for the payment of rent to be available for the purpose of leasing space.

Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to: (1) the Office of Personnel Management for salaries and expenses (including transfer of trust funds); (2) the Government Payment for Annuitants, Employees Health Benefits; (3) the Payment to Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (4) the Merit Systems Protection Board for salaries and expenses (including transfer of funds); (5) the Office of the Special Council for salaries and expenses; (6) the Federal Labor Relations Authority for salaries and expenses; and (7) the United States Tax Court for salaries and expenses.

Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits, where appropriations in this Act are expendable for travel expenses of employees and no specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses from exceeding the amount set forth therefor in the budget estimates submitted for the appropriations.

Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from being available to: (1) pay the salary of any person filling a position formerly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces and has made application for restoration to his former position; (2) purchase or sell real estate or for the purpose of establishing new offices inside or outside the District of Columbia; (3) purchase any hand or measuring tool not produced in the United States or its possessions except to the extent that such tool cannot be procured from sources in the United States; (4) procure, or pay the salary of any person engaged in the procurement of, stainless steel flatware not produced in the United States or its possessions, except when such flatware cannot be procured when needed from such sources; (5) pay administrative expenses in connection with the transfer of any functions, personnel, facilities, equipment, or funds out of the United States Customs Service unless such transfers have been specifically authorized by Congress; or (6) pay administrative expenses for the purpose of transferring the border control activities of the United States Customs Service to any other agency of the Federal Government.

Limits the expenditures of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection.

Title VI: General Provisions - Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from being used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States which is not authorized by Congress.

Limits, unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year for the purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses and ambulances).

Prohibits, unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal year, any part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act from being used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States whose post of duty is in the continental United States unless such person is a citizen of the United States or meets other specified criteria.

Prohibits payment to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve the nomination of said person.

Makes funds available by this or any other Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act available for rent in the District of Columbia and for the service of temporary experts and consultants.

Permits foreign credits owed to or owned by the United States to be used by Federal agencies for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current fiscal year only when reimbursement therefor is made to the Treasury from applicable appropriations of the agency concerned.

Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency, from being used for publicity or propaganda purposes designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress.

Sets forth specified prohibitions concerning the use of funds appropriated in this Act for the payment of the salary of any officer or employee of the United States Postal Service.

Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act from being available for interagency financing of boards, commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups without prior and specific statutory approval.

Makes appropriations available to any department or agency during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses available for payment to the General Services Administration for charges for space and service and those expenses for renovation and alteration of buildings and facilities which constitute public improvements.

Makes funds available by this or any other Act to the General Services Administration and the Postal Service Fund available also for the employment of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied by the United States or the Postal Service.

Prohibits any funds from being available for any agency to pay the General Services Administration a higher rate per square foot for rental space and services than the rate per square foot established for the space and service by the General Services Administration for the current fiscal year and for which appropriations were granted.

Prohibits any of the funds available under this Act from being used to carry out any revenue ruling which rules that a taxpayer is not entitled to a charitable deduction for general purpose contributions which are used for educational purposes by a tax-exempt religious organization.

Prohibits the use of any of the funds available under this Act to carry out the proposed revenue procedure entitled "Proposed Revenue Procedure on Private Tax-Exempt Schools".

Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available by this Act to formulate or carry out any rule or policy which would cause the loss of tax-exempt status to private, religious, or church-operated schools, unless in effect prior to August 22, 1978.