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 112 STAT. 2508 PUBLIC LAW 105-276—OCT. 21, 1998 Contracts. Public information. Records. SEC, 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to any department or agency may be expended for the transportation of any officer or employee of such department or agency between their domicile and their place of employment, with the exception of any officer or employee authorized such trsuisportation under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or 5 U.S.C. 7905. SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients that do not sh£u*e in the cost of conducting research resulting from proposals not specifically solicited by the Government: Provided, That the extent of cost shewing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of interest of the grantee or contractor and the Government in the research. SEC. 408. None of the fluids in this Act may be used, directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimbursement for payment of the salary of a consultant (whether retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at more than the dgdly equivedent of the rate paid for level IV of the Executive Schedule, luiless specifically authorized by law. SEC. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federed parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings. Nothing herein affects the authority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section 7 of the Consimier Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.). SEC. 410. Except as otherwise provided under existing law, or under an existing Executive Order issued pursuant to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for contracts for any consulting service shall be limited to contracts which are: (1) a matter of public record suid avedlable for public inspection; and (2) thereafter included in a publicly avedlable list of all contracts entered into within twenty-four months prior to the date on which the list is made available to the public and of all contracts on which performance has not been completed by such date. The list required by the preceding sentence shall be updated quarterly and sheJl include a narrative description of the work to be performed under each such contract. SEC. 411. Except as otherwise provided by law, no part of any appropriation contedned in this Act shall be obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), for a contract for services unless such executive agency: (1) has awarded and entered into such contract in full compliance with such Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder; and (2) requires any report prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, evaluations, studies, analyses and meuiuals, and any report prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to such contract, to contain information concerning: (A) the contract pursuant to which the report was prepared; and (B) the contractoi* who prepared the report pursuant to such contract. SEC. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section 406, none of the funds provided in this Act to any department or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, chauSfeiu-, or other personal servsuits to 2Uiy officer or employee of such department or agency.

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