Conferees on the Transportation-Treasury bill modified language that both the House and Senate had passed aimed at overturning certain changes the administration ordered two years ago in the procedures for deciding if federal jobs should be turned over to contractors, Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76. The final version requires that for functions involving 10 or more employees, the in-house side must be allowed to reorganize itself first into a “most efficient organization.” In addition, contracts could be granted only if the contractor would save at least $10 million or 10 percent. The language does not apply to parts of the Transportation Security Administration or to the Defense Department—which does most of the government’s contracting out—but similar language is in an appropriations bill (HR-2863) for DoD that is pending in a House-Senate conference. The measure also requires that Circular A-76 provide procedures for bringing work already under contract back in-house and states that nothing in the circular should prevent agencies from doing so.