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 PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996 110 STAT. 3009-322 Counseling for the Elderly Program, and of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be for official reception and representation expenses. TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for determining and establishing tax liabilities; tax and enforcement litigation; technical rulings; examining employee plans and exempt organizations; investigation and enforcement activities; securing unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid accounts; statistics of income and compliance research; the purchase (for police-type use, not to exceed 850), and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner $4,104,211,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 1999, for research. INFORMATION SYSTEMS For necessary expenses for data processing and telecommunications support for Internal Revenue Service activities, including tax systems modernization and operational information systems; the hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner, $1,323,075,000, of which no less than $130,075,000 shall be available for Tax Systems Modernization (TSM) development and deployment which shall be available until September 30, 1999, and of which no less than $206,200,000 shall be available for TSM Operational Systems: Provided, That none of the funds made available for TSM Operational Systems shall be available after July 31, 1997, unless the Department of the Treasury has prepared a Request for Proposal which could be used as a base for a solicitation of a contract with an alternative or new Prime Contractor to manage, integrate, test and implement the TSM program: Provided further, That all activities associated with the development of a request for proposal, contract solicitation, and contract award for private sector assistance on TSM (both operational systems and development and deployment systems), beyond private sector assistance which is currently under contract, shall be conducted by the Department of the Treasury's Modernization Management Board: Provided further, That if the Internal Revenue Service determines that it is unable to meet deadlines established herein, the Secretary of the Treasury shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House and the Senate of the delay Provided further. That the Internal Revenue Service shall submit, by February 1, 1997, a timetable for implementing, by October 1, 1997, recommendations made by the General Accounting Office in its July 1995 report, entitled: "Tax Systems Modernization: Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected If Modernization Is To Succeed": Provided further. That the Internal Revenue Service shall submit, by December 1, 1996, a schedule to transfer, not later than July 31, 1997, a majority of Tax Systems Modernization development, deployment, management, integration, and testing, from the Internal Revenue Service to the private sector.

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