Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/1218

 96 STAT. 1176

PUBLIC LAW 97-272—SEPT. 30, 1982

Appropriations available to the Veterans Administration for 1983, for salaries and expenses shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. No part of the appropriations in this Act for the Veterans Administration (except the appropriations for "Construction, major projects" and "Construction, minor projects") shall be available for the purchase of any site for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home. No part of the foregoing appropriations shall be available for hospitalization or examination of any persons except beneficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, unless reimbursement of cost is made to the appropriation at such rates as may be fixed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Not to exceed $35,000,000 of the foregoing appropriations shall be available for medical automatic data processing services as set forth in the budget justifications without the approval of the Committees on Appropriations. TITLE III CORPORATIONS Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board which 31 USC 841 note, are subject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, Ante, p. 877. are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations 31 USC 849. as provided by section 104 of the Act as may be necessary in Ante, p. 877. carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for 1983 for such corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance provided for in this or prior appropriation Acts), except that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United States Government. FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK BOARD LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND NONADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK BOARD

Not to exceed a total of $65,040,000 shall be available for expenses of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which amount shall include nonadministrative expenses for the examination and supervision of Federal and State-chartered institutions in an amount not to exceed $40,680,000, including $500,000 which shall be available only for purposes of training State examiners, and administrative expenses in an amount not to exceed $24,360,000, and said total amount shall be available for procurement of services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and contracts for such services with one organization may be renewed annually, and uniforms or allowances therefor in accord-

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