Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms salaries and expenses For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed six hundred and fifty vehicles for police-type use for replacement only and hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; and services of expert witnesses at such rates as may be determined by the Director; for payment of per diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees where an assignment to the National Response Team during the investigation of a bombing or arson incident requires an employee to work 16 hours or more per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of duty: Provided, That notwithstanding the provision of 31 U.S.C. sec. 1342, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is authorized to accept, receive, hold, and administer gifts of services and personal property for hosting the General Assembly of the International Office of Vine and Wine (OIV) in the United States in 1993. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is authorized to use otherwise available funds from the appropriations to the Bureau for fiscal years 1992 and 1993, as necessary, to pay the expenses of hosting, including reception, representation, and transportation expenses. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ authority shall continue until all expenses for the General Assembly meeting have been paid or otherwise satisfied: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 for official reception and representation expenses; for training of State and local law enforcement agencies with or without reimbursement; provision of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies, with or without reimbursement; $336,040,000, of which $19,000,000 shall be available solely for the enforcement of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act during fiscal year 1992, and, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the payment of attorneys’ fees as provided by 18 U.S.C. 924(d)(2); of which $650,000 shall be available solely for improvement of information retrieval systems at the National Firearms Tracing Center; and of which $1,000,000 shall be available for the equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or aircraft available for official use by a State or local law enforcement agency if the conveyance will be used in drug-related joint law enforcement operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and for the payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equipment, and other similar costs of State 105 STAT. 837and local law enforcement officers that are incurred in joint operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Provided, That no funds appropriated herein shall be available for administrative expenses in connection with consolidating or centralizing within the Department of the Treasury the records of receipts and disposition of firearms maintained by Federal firearms licensees or for issuing or carrying out any provisions of the proposed rules of the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, on Firearms Regulations, as published in the Federal Register, volume 43, number 55, of March 21, 1978: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be available for explosive identification or detection tagging research, development, or implementation: Provided further, That not to exceed $300,000 shall be available for research and development of an explosive identification and detection device: Provided further, That this provision shall not preclude ATF from assisting the International Civil Aviation Organization in the development of a detection agent for explosives or from enforcing any legislation implementing the Convention on the Marking of Plastic and Sheet Explosives for the Purpose of Detection: Provided further, That funds made available under this Act shall be used to achieve a minimum level of 4,109 full-time equivalent positions for fiscal year 1992, of which no fewer than 1,127 full-time equivalent positions shall be allocated for the Armed Career Criminal Apprehension Program.