United States Customs Service

United States Customs Service salaries and expenses For necessary expenses of the United States Customs Service, including purchase of up to 1,000 motor vehicles of which 960 are for replacement only, including 990 for police-type use and commercial operations; hire of motor vehicles; not to exceed $20,000 for official reception and representation expenses; funds for additional positions for the San Francisco, California, the Baltimore, Maryland, and Port Huron, Michigan Customs Districts, and awards of compensation to informers, as authorized by any Act enforced by the United States Customs Service; $1,266,305,000, of which such sums as become available in the Customs User Fee Account, except sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that Account; of the total, not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for payment for rental space in connection with preclearance operations, not to exceed $4,000,000, to remain available until expended, for research, and not to exceed $3,500,000, to remain available until expended, for renovation and expansion of the Canine Enforcement Training Center: Provided, That uniforms may be purchased without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That none of the funds made available by this Act shall be available for administrative expenses to pay any employee overtime pay in an amount in excess of $25,000: Provided further, That the Commissioner or the Commissioner’s designee may waive this limitation in individual cases in order to prevent excessive costs or to meet emergency requirements of the Service: Provided further, That the United States Customs Service shall hire and maintain an average of not less than 17,411 full-time equivalent positions in fiscal year 1992, of 105 STAT. 838which a minimum level of 960 full-time equivalent positions shall be allocated to air interdiction activities of the United States Customs Service, and of which a minimum level of 10,480 full-time equivalent positions shall be allocated to commercial operations activities: Provided further, That no funds appropriated by this Act may be used to reduce to single eight hour shifts at airports and that all current services as provided by the Customs Service shall continue through September 30, 1992: Provided further, That not less than $500,000 shall be expended for additional part-time and temporary positions in the Honolulu Customs District.