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or employee safety: Provided, That such amounts shall not exceed
$500,000.
From any unobligated balances available at the start of fiscal
year 2000, the amount of $5,000,000 shall be allocated to the
Alaska Region, in addition to the funds appropriated to sell timber
in the Alaska Region under this Act, for expenses directly related
to preparing sufficient additional timber for sale in the Alaska
Region to establish a 3-year timber supply.
The Forest Service is authorized through the Forest Service
existing budget to reimburse Harry Frey, $143,406 (1997 dollars)
because his home was destroyed by arson on June 21, 1990 in
retaliation for his work with the Forest Service.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
(DEFERRAL)
Of the funds made available under this heading for obligation
in prior years, $156,000,000 shall not be available until October
1, 2000: Provided, That funds made available in previous appropria-
tions Acts shall be available for any ongoing project regardless
of the separate request for proposal under which the project was
selected.
FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy research
and development activities, under the authority of the Department
of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95–91), including the
acquisition of interest, including defeasible and equitable interests
in any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition
or expansion, and for conducting inquiries, technological investiga-
tions and research concerning the extraction, processing, use, and
disposal of mineral substances without objectionable social and
environmental costs (30 U.S.C. 3, 1602, and 1603), performed under
the minerals and materials science programs at the Albany
Research Center in Oregon, $410,025,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $24,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from
unobligated balances in the Biomass Energy Development account:
Provided, That no part of the sum herein made available shall
be used for the field testing of nuclear explosives in the recovery
of oil and gas.
ALTERNATIVE FUELS PRODUCTION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Moneys received as investment income on the principal amount
in the Great Plains Project Trust at the Norwest Bank of North
Dakota, in such sums as are earned as of October 1, 1999, shall
be deposited in this account and immediately transferred to the
general fund of the Treasury. Moneys received as revenue sharing
from operation of the Great Plains Gasification Plant and settlement
payments shall be immediately transferred to the general fund
of the Treasury.
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NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES
The requirements of 10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) shall not apply
to fiscal year 2000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, unobligated funds remaining from prior years
shall be available for all naval petroleum and oil shale reserve
activities.
ELK HILLS SCHOOL LANDS FUND
For necessary expenses in fulfilling the second installment pay-
ment under the Settlement Agreement entered into by the United
States and the State of California on October 11, 1996, as authorized
by section 3415 of Public Law 104–106, $36,000,000, to become
available on October 1, 2000, for payment to the State of California
for the State Teachers’ Retirement Fund from the Elk Hills School
Lands Fund.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation
activities, $689,242,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $25,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from unobligated
balances in the Biomass Energy Development account: Provided,
That $167,000,000 shall be for use in energy conservation programs
as defined in section 3008(3) of Public Law 99–509 (15 U.S.C.
4507): Provided further, That notwithstanding section 3003(d)(2)
of Public Law 99–509, such sums shall be allocated to the eligible
programs as follows: $134,000,000 for weatherization assistance
grants and $33,000,000 for State energy conservation grants: Pro-
vided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
in fiscal year 2001 and thereafter sums appropriated for weatheriza-
tion assistance grants shall be contingent on a cost share of 25
percent by each participating State or other qualified participant.
ECONOMIC REGULATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the
Office of Hearings and Appeals, $2,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility
development and operations and program management activities
pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.), $159,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Energy hereafter
may transfer to the SPR Petroleum Account such funds as may
be necessary to carry out drawdown and sale operations of the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve initiated under section 161 of the
Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6241) from any
funds available to the Department of Energy under this or any
other Act: Provided further, That all funds transferred pursuant
to this authority must be replenished as promptly as possible from
oil sale receipts pursuant to the drawdown and sale.
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ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the
Energy Information Administration, $72,644,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Appropriations under this Act for the current fiscal year shall
be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance,
and operation of aircraft; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms;
and reimbursement to the General Services Administration for secu-
rity guard services.
From appropriations under this Act, transfers of sums may
be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance
of work for which the appropriation is made.
None of the funds made available to the Department of Energy
under this Act shall be used to implement or finance authorized
price support or loan guarantee programs unless specific provision
is made for such programs in an appropriations Act.
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equip-
ment, and other contributions from public and private sources and
to prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal,
State, private or foreign: Provided, That revenues and other moneys
received by or for the account of the Department of Energy or
otherwise generated by sale of products in connection with projects
of the department appropriated under this Act may be retained
by the Secretary of Energy, to be available until expended, and
used only for plant construction, operation, costs, and payments
to cost-sharing entities as provided in appropriate cost-sharing con-
tracts or agreements: Provided further, That the remainder of reve-
nues after the making of such payments shall be covered into
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any
contract, agreement, or provision thereof entered into by the Sec-
retary pursuant to this authority shall not be executed prior to
the expiration of 30 calendar days (not including any day in which
either House of Congress is not in session because of adjournment
of more than three calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President
of the Senate of a full comprehensive report on such project,
including the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of
the proposed project.
No funds provided in this Act may be expended by the Depart-
ment of Energy to prepare, issue, or process procurement documents
for programs or projects for which appropriations have not been
made.
In addition to other authorities set forth in this Act, the Sec-
retary may accept fees and contributions from public and private
sources, to be deposited in a contributed funds account, and pros-
ecute projects using such fees and contributions in cooperation
with other Federal, State or private agencies or concerns.
The Secretary of Energy in cooperation with the Administrator
of General Services Administration shall convey to the City of
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, for no consideration, the approximately
15.644 acres of land comprising the former site of the National
Institute of Petroleum Energy Research (including all improvements
on the land) described as follows: All of Block 1, Keeler’s Second
Addition, all of Block 2, Keeler’s Fourth Addition, all of Blocks
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9 and 10, Mountain View Addition, all in the City of Bartlesville,
Washington County, Oklahoma.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954
(68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination Act, the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health
Service 
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Health 
Service,
$2,053,967,000, together with payments received during the fiscal
year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made available to
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements,
or any other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C.
450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant
or contract award and thereafter shall remain available to the
tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Provided
further, That $12,000,000 shall remain available until expended,
for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: Provided fur-
ther, That $395,290,000 for contract medical care shall remain
available for obligation until September 30, 2001: Provided further,
That of the funds provided, up to $17,000,000 shall be used to
carry out the loan repayment program under section 108 of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Provided further, That funds
provided in this Act may be used for 1-year contracts and grants
which are to be performed in two fiscal years, so long as the
total obligation is recorded in the year for which the funds are
appropriated: Provided further, That the amounts collected by the
Secretary of Health and Human Services under the authority of
title IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall remain
available until expended for the purpose of achieving compliance
with the applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII
and XIX of the Social Security Act (exclusive of planning, design,
or construction of new facilities): Provided further, That funding
contained herein, and in any earlier appropriations Acts for scholar-
ship programs under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
(25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2001: Provided further, That amounts received by tribes
and tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care
Improvement Act shall be reported and accounted for and available
to the receiving tribes and tribal organizations until expended:
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of the amounts provided herein, not to exceed $203,781,000 shall
be for payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract
or grant support costs associated with contracts, grants, self-govern-
ance compacts or annual funding agreements between the Indian
Health Service and a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior to or
during fiscal year 2000: Provided further, That funds available
for the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund may be used, as
needed, to carry out activities typically funded under the Indian
Health Facilities account.