Amendment increases funding for a variety of VA and HUD programs, offset through additional transfers from FHA and further reductions in HUD and FEMA; strikes the provision that raises the percentage of income used to calculate contribution requirements and assistance payments for section 8 rental assistance up from 30 to 32 percent; strikes language requiring tenants of Federally-assisted housing to pay for utility costs in addition to the minimum $50 rent; adds language making most of the appropriations related to enforcing the Clean Water Act contingent upon the enactment of reauthorizing legislation, inserts language allowing the Secretary of HUD to waive certain terms and conditions on project rental assistance for special needs housing; and makes a variety of other technical and administrative changes.