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 123STA T .68 3 PUBLIC LA W 111 – 8 —M A R .11, 2 0 0 9fromthe r a te sin effe c ton S e p tem b er 30,2 00 8 ,e x cept to the extent d etermined b y the O ffice of P ersonne lM ana g ement to be consistent w ith the p u rpose of this section .( e )T his section shall apply with respect to pay for ser v ice performed after September 30, 2008. (f) F or the purpose of administering any provision of law (including any rule or regulation that provides premium pay, retire - ment, life insurance, or any other employee benefit) that re q uires any deduction or contribution, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic pay payable after the application of this section shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. (g) N othing in this section shall be considered to permit or require the payment to any employee covered by this section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable were this section not in effect. (h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for excep- tions to the limitations imposed by this section if the Office deter- mines that such exceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employees. S EC . 71 1. D uring the period in which the head of any depart- ment or agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the Federal G overnment appointed by the President of the U nited States, holds office, no funds may be obligated or expended in excess of $5 ,000 to furnish or redecorate the office of such depart- ment head, agency head, officer, or employee, or to purchase fur- niture or ma k e improvements for any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing or redecoration is transmitted to the C ommittees on A ppropriations of the H ouse of R epresentatives and the Senate. For the purposes of this section, the term ‘ ‘office ’ ’ shall include the entire suite of offices assigned to the individual, as well as any other space used primarily by the individual or the use of which is directly controlled by the individual. SEC. 712. Notwithstanding section 13 46 of title 31, United States Code, or section 708 of this Act, funds made available for the current fiscal year by this or any other Act shall be available for the interagency funding of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by E xecutive Order No. 12472 (April 3, 1 9 84). SEC. 713. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a position of a confidential or policy- determining character excepted from the competitive service pursu- ant to section 3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certifi- cation to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the employee to the W hite House. (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal employees or members of the armed forces detailed to or from — (1) the Central I ntelligence Agency (2) the National Security Agency; (3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; (4) the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; Defin i t i o n .N otifi ca tion. Ap p l ica b ilit y .