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   Division B of the conference agreement makes further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2008. No comparable provisions

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   In particular, division B amends the first fiscal year 2008 continuing resolution (Public Law 110-92) to extend its general expiration date to December 14, 2007 and to add additional provisions as follows. (In the following discussion, the section numbers cited refer to sections of Public Law 110-92 as they would be added by the conference agreement.)

   New section 151 of the continuing resolution (as added by the conference agreement) extends authority through the general termination date of the continuing resolution for the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (which is funded through producer assessments) to expend funds for foreign market development.

   Section 152 provides an operating rate under the continuing resolution of $1,025,398,000 for the Census Bureau's Periodic Censuses and Programs account, in order to accommodate contracts and activities needed to be undertaken now to stay on schedule for 2010 decennial census and the economic censuses.

   Section 153 provides an emergency designation for funds available under the first continuing resolution for the Department of Defense and that are not subsumed into the regular fiscal year 2008 Defense Appropriations Act.

   Section 154 appropriates funds for the traditional payment to the heirs of the late Representative Jo Ann Davis.

   Section 155 provides operating rates under the continuing resolution equal to the President's fiscal year 2008 budget request for accounts within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

   Section 156 extends, through the general termination date of the continuing resolution, a provision of law limiting liability of air carriers for claims arising out of acts of terrorism. This provision was last extended by the fiscal year 2007 full-year continuing resolution and expired on September 30. It has been proposed to be extended in the House-passed and Senate Committee-reported FAA authorization bills. '

   Section 157 makes a $500,000,000 emergency appropriation to the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management for emergency wildland fire suppression, wildfire risk reduction, reconstruction, and recovery activities in response to the catastrophic wildfire season of 2007. The conferees have included funds to repay other program funds borrowed during fiscal year 2007 to fund emergency wildfire suppression activities, provide additional suppression resources to offset the cost of fighting the devastating Southern California wildfires, and fund critical hazardous fuels and rehabilitation activities. The conferees direct the agencies and their partners to allocate hazardous fuels and mitigation funding to areas that face the greatest risk from wildfires as a result of population densities and excessive fuel loads. Funding has also been provided for urgently needed fire risk reduction projects on State and private lands using all authorities, available to the Forest Service. Rehabilitation funds shall be allocated to areas that face the greatest emergency stabilization and watershed protection needs based on values at risk.

   Section 158 makes a $2,900,000,000 emergency appropriation to the Federal Emergency Management Agency: disaster relief fund, to provide the additional amounts estimated by the Department of Homeland Security to be needed for continued and anticipated disaster response and relief efforts for fiscal year 2008.

   Section 159 makes a $3,000,000,000 emergency appropriation to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Development Fund solely to alleviate a shortfall in the ``Road Home'' program to assist people whose homes were damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. These amounts would be used exclusively to fund eligible claims, for the homeowners' program in Louisiana that were submitted by the program deadline but not covered by current program funding.

   Compliance with Rule XXI, CI. 9 (House) and with Rule XLIV (Senate)

   The following statement is submitted in compliance with clause 9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives and rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, which require publication of a list of congressionally directed spending items (Senate), congressional earmarks (House), limited tax benefits, and limited tariff benefits included in the conference report, or in the joint statement of managers accompanying the conference report, including the name of each Senator, House Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to the Committee of jurisdiction for each item so identified. Neither the conference report nor the statement of managers for this division contains any congressionally directed spending items (as defined in the Senate rule) congressional earmarks (as defined in the House rule), limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in the applicable House and Senate rules.

   The following statement is submitted in compliance with House Resolution 491, which requires a listing of congressional earmarks in the conference report or joint statement of managers that were not committed to the committee of conference by either House, not in a report on a bill committed to conference, and not in a Senate committee report on a companion measure. Neither the conference report nor the statement of managers for this division contains any congressionally directed spending items (as defined in the Senate rule) or congressional earmarks (as defined in the House rule).