available for the payment of interest in accordance with
30 U.S.C. 1721 (b) and (d): Provided further, That not
to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses
related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup
activities: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, $15,000 under this head shall be
available for refunds of overpayments in connection with
certain Indian leases in which the Director of the Minerals
Management Service concurred with the claimed refund
due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes,
or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous payments.
OIL SPILL RESEARCH
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
$6,440,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND
ENFORCEMENT
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
1977, Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the pur-
chase of not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for
replacement only; $94,272,000, and notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, an additional amount shall be credited to
this account, to remain available until expended, from per-
formance bond forfeitures in fiscal year 1997: Provided,
That the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to regula-
tions, may utilize directly or through grants to States,
moneys collected in fiscal year 1997 for civil penalties as-
sessed under section 518 of the Surface Mining Control
and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim
lands adversely affected by coal mining practices after Au-
gust 3, 1977, to remain available until expended: Provided
further, That appropriations for the Office of Surface Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the
travel and per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel
attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and En-
forcement sponsored training.
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977,
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase
of not more than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, $175,887,000, to be derived from receipts of
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain
available until expended; of which $4,000,000 shall be for
supplemental grants to States for the reclamation of aban-
doned sites with acid mine rock drainage from coal mines
through the Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative: Pro-
vided, That grants to minimum program States will be
$1,500,000 per State in fiscal year 1997: Provided further,
That of the funds herein provided up to $18,000,000 may
be used for the emergency program authorized by section
410 of Public Law 95–87, as amended, of which no more
than 25 per centum shall be used for emergency reclama-
tion projects in any one State and funds for federally-ad-
ministered emergency reclamation projects under this pro-
viso shall not exceed $11,000,000: Provided further, That
prior year unobligated funds appropriated for the emer-
gency reclamation program shall not be subject to the 25
per centum limitation per State and may be used without
fiscal year limitation for emergency projects: Provided fur-
ther, That pursuant to Public Law 97–365, the Depart-
ment of the Interior is authorized to use up to 20 per
centum from the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to
the United States Government to pay for contracts to col-
lect these debts: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able to States under title IV of Public Law 95–87 may
be used, at their discretion, for any required non-Federal
share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov-
ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re-
lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such
projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-
ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For operation of Indian programs by direct expendi-
ture, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and
grants including expenses necessary to provide education
and welfare services for Indians, either directly or in co-
operation with States and other organizations, including
payment of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses
of Indians in boarding homes, or institutions, or schools;
grants and other assistance to needy Indians; maintenance
of law and order; management, development, improve-
ment, and protection of resources and appurtenant facili-
ties under the jurisdiction of the Bureau, including pay-
ment of irrigation assessments and charges; acquisition of
water rights; advances for Indian industrial and business
enterprises; operation of Indian arts and crafts shops and
museums; development of Indian arts and crafts, as au-
thorized by law; for the general administration of the Bu-
reau, including such expenses in field offices; maintaining
of Indian reservation roads as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101;
and construction, repair, and improvement of Indian hous-
ing, $1,381,623,000, of which not to exceed $90,829,000
shall be for payments to tribes and tribal organizations
for contract support costs associated with ongoing con-
tracts or grants or compacts entered into with the Bureau
prior to fiscal year 1997, as authorized by the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and up to
$5,000,000 shall be for the Indian Self-Determination
Fund, which shall be available for the transitional cost of
initial or expanded tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or
cooperative agreements with the Bureau under such Act;
and of which not to exceed $339,709,000 for school oper-
ations costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education
programs shall become available on July 1, 1997, and
shall remain available until September 30, 1998; and of
which not to exceed $55,838,000 for higher education
scholarships, adult vocational training, and assistance to
public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall remain
available until September 30, 1998; and of which not to
exceed $55,603,000 shall remain available until expended
for housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney
fees, litigation support, self-governance grants, the Indian
Self-Determination Fund, and the Navajo-Hopi Settle-
ment Program: Provided, That tribes and tribal contrac-
tors may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet in-
direct costs of ongoing contracts, grants or compact agree-
ments: Provided further, That funds made available to
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts or grants
obligated during fiscal year 1997, as authorized by the In-
dian Self-Determination Act of 1975, or grants authorized
by the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C.
2001 and 2008A) shall remain available until expended
by the contractor or grantee: Provided further, That to
provide funding uniformity within a Self-Governance Com-
pact, any funds provided in this Act with availability for
more than one year may be reprogrammed to one year
availability but shall remain available within the Compact
until expended: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, Indian tribal governments may,
by appropriate changes in eligibility criteria or by other
means, change eligibility for general assistance or change
the amount of general assistance payments for individuals
within the service area of such tribe who are otherwise
deemed eligible for general assistance payments so long
as such changes are applied in a consistent manner to in-
dividuals similarly situated: Provided further, That any
savings realized by such changes shall be available for use
in meeting other priorities of the tribes: Provided further,
That any net increase in costs to the Federal Government
which result solely from tribally increased payment levels
for general assistance shall be met exclusively from funds
available to the tribe from within its tribal priority alloca-
tion: Provided further, That any forestry funds allocated
to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30,
1997, may be transferred during fiscal year 1998 to an
Indian forest land assistance account established for the
benefit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust fund account:
Provided further, That any such unobligated balances not
so transferred shall expire on September 30, 1998: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no funds available to the Bureau, other than the
amounts provided herein for assistance to public schools
under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to support
the operation of any elementary or secondary school in the
State of Alaska in fiscal year 1997: Provided further, That
funds made available in this or any other Act for expendi-
ture through September 30, 1998 for schools funded by
the Bureau shall be available only to the schools in the
Bureau school system as of September 1, 1995: Provided
further, That no funds available to the Bureau shall be
used to support expanded grades for any school beyond
the grade structure in place at each school in the Bureau
school system as of October 1, 1995: Provided further,
That in fiscal year 1997 and thereafter, notwithstanding
the provisions of 25 U.S.C. 2012(h)(1) (A) and (B), upon
the recommendation of either (i) a local school board and
school supervisor for an education position in a Bureau
of Indian Affairs operated school, or (ii) an Agency school