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course of the decision making described in paragraph (1) begin-
ning with the date of publication of the applicable final EIS;
and
(4) if the requirements described in paragraphs (1) through
(3) cannot be accomplished within the appropriations provided
in this Act, adjusted only for inflation, in subsequent fiscal
years and without any reprogramming of such appropriations,
provide a detailed description of the decision making process
that will be used to establish priorities in accordance with
such appropriations.
(b) Using all research information available from the area
encompassed by the Project, the Secretaries, to the extent prac-
ticable, shall analyze the economic and social conditions, and culture
and customs, of the communities at the sub-basin level within
the Project area and the impacts the alternatives in the draft
EISs will have on those communities. This analysis shall be pub-
lished on a schedule that will allow a reasonable period of time
for public comment thereon prior to the close of the comment
periods on the draft EISs. The analysis, together with the response
of the Secretaries to the public comment, shall be incorporated
in the final EISs and, subject to subsection (a), subsequent decisions
related thereto.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering or
affecting in any manner any provision of applicable land or resource
management plans, PACFISH, INFISH, Eastside screens, and other
policies adopted by the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Manage-
ment prior to the date of enactment of this Act to protect wildlife,
watershed, riparian, and other resources of the Federal lands.
SEC. 324. Notwithstanding section 904(b) of Public Law 104–
333, hereafter, the Heritage Area established under section 904
of title IX of division II of Public Law 104–333 shall include any
portion of a city, town, or village within an area specified in section
904(b)(2) of that Act only to the extent that the government of
the city, town, or village, in a resolution of the governing board
or council, agrees to be included and submits the resolution to
the Secretary of the Interior and the management entities for
the Heritage Area and to the extent such resolution is not subse-
quently revoked in the same manner.
SEC. 325. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and
except as provided in this section, the Aleutian/Pribilof Islands
Association, 
Inc., 
Bristol 
Bay 
Area 
Health 
Corporation,
Chugachmiut, Copper River Native Association, Kodiak Area Native
Area Association, Maniilaq Association, Metlakatla Indian Commu-
nity, Arctic Slope Native Association, Ltd., Norton Sound Health
Corporation, Southcentral Foundation, Southeast Alaska Regional
Health Consortium, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., and Yukon-
Kuskokwim Health Corporation (hereinafter ‘‘regional health enti-
ties’’), without further resolutions from the Regional Corporations,
Village Corporations, Indian Reorganization Act Councils, tribes
and/or villages which they represent are authorized to form a
consortium (hereinafter ‘‘the Consortium’’) to enter into contracts,
compacts, or funding agreements under Public Law 93–638 (25
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, to provide all statewide health
services provided by the Indian Health Service of the Department
of Health and Human Services through the Alaska Native Medical
Center and the Alaska Area Office. Each specified ‘‘regional health
entity’’ shall maintain that status for purposes of participating
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in the Consortium only so long as it operates a regional health
program for the Indian Health Service under Public Law 93–638
(25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended.
(b) The Consortium shall be governed by a 15-member Board
of Directors, which shall be composed of one representative of
each regional health entity listed in subsection (a) above, and two
additional persons who shall represent Indian tribes, as defined
in 25 U.S.C. 450b(e), and sub-regional tribal organizations which
operate health programs not affiliated with the regional health
entities listed above and Indian tribes not receiving health services
from any tribal, regional or sub-regional health provider. Each
member of the Board of Directors shall be entitled to cast one
vote. Decisions of the Board of Directors shall be made by consensus
whenever possible, and by majority vote in the event that no consen-
sus can be reached. The Board of Directors shall establish at its
first meeting its rules of procedure, which shall be published and
made available to all members.
(c) The statewide health services (including any programs, func-
tions, services and activities provided as part of such services)
of the Alaska Native Medical Center and the Alaska Area Office
may only be provided by the Consortium. Statewide health services
for purposes of this section shall consist of all programs, functions,
services, and activities provided by or through the Alaska Native
Medical Center and the Alaska Area Office, not under contract
or other funding agreement with any other tribe or tribal organiza-
tion as of October 1, 1997, except as provided in subsection (d)
below. All statewide health services provided by the Consortium
under this section shall be provided pursuant to contracts or funding
agreements entered into by the Consortium under Public Law 93–
638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, and for such purpose
the Consortium shall be deemed to have mature contract status
as defined in section 4(h) of the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(h)).
(d) Cook Inlet Region, Inc., through Southcentral Foundation
(or any successor health care entity designated by Cook Inlet
Region, Inc.) pursuant to Public Law 93–638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et
seq.), as amended, is hereby authorized to enter into contracts
or funding agreements under such Public Law for all services pro-
vided at or through the Alaska Native Primary Care Center or
other satellite clinics in Anchorage or the Matanuska-Susitna Valley
without submission of any further authorizing resolutions from
any other Alaska Native Region, village corporation, Indian Reorga-
nization Act council, or tribe, no matter where located. Services
provided under this paragraph shall, at a minimum, maintain the
level of statewide and Anchorage Service Unit services provided
at the Alaska Native Primary Care Center as of October 1, 1997,
including necessary related services performed at the Alaska Native
Medical Center. In addition, Cook Inlet Region, Inc., through
Southcentral Foundation, or any lawfully designated health care
entity of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., shall contract or enter into a
funding agreement under Public Law 93–638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et
seq.), as amended, for all primary care services provided by the
Alaska Native Medical Center, including, but not limited to, family
medicine, primary care internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and
gynecology, physical therapy, psychiatry, emergency services, public
health nursing, health education, optometry, dentistry, audiology,
social services, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory and biomedical, and
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the administrative support for these programs, functions, services
and activities. Cook Inlet Region, Inc., through Southcentral
Foundation, or any lawfully designated health care entity of Cook
Inlet Region, Inc., may provide additional health care services at
the Alaska Native Medical Center if such use and services are
provided pursuant to an agreement with the Consortium. All serv-
ices covered by this subsection shall be provided on a nondiscrim-
inatory basis without regard to residency within the Municipality
of Anchorage.
SEC. 326. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after
September 30, 1997 the Indian Health Service may not disburse
funds for the provision of health care services pursuant to Public
Law 93–638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), with any Alaska Native village
or Alaska Native village corporation that is located within the
area served by an Alaska Native regional health entity.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the
disbursal of funds to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native
village corporation under any contract or compact entered into
prior to August 27, 1997, or to prohibit the renewal of any such
agreement.
(c) The General Accounting Office shall conduct a study of
the impact of contracting and compacting by the Indian Health
Service under Public Law 93–638 with Alaska Native villages and
Alaska Native village corporations for the provision of health care
services by Alaska Native regional corporation health care entities.
The General Accounting Office shall submit the results of that
study to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives by
June 1, 1998.
(d) Section 1004 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996
(Public Law 104–324; 110 Stat. 3956) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘for use as a health or
social services facility’’ and inserting ‘‘for sale or use other
than for a facility for the provision of health programs funded
by the Indian Health Service (not including any such programs
operated by Ketchikan Indian Corporation prior to 1993)’’; and
(2) by striking subsection (c).
SEC. 327. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be used to require any person to vacate real property where a
term is expiring under a use and occupancy reservation in Sleeping
Bear Dunes National Lakeshore until such time as the National
Park Service (NPS) indicates to the appropriate congressional
committees and the holders of these reservations that it has suffi-
cient funds to remove the residence on that property within 90
days of that residence being vacated. The NPS will provide at
least 90 days notice to the holders of expired reservations to allow
them time to leave the residence. The NPS will charge fair market
value rental rates while any occupancy continues beyond an expired
reservation. Reservation holders who stay beyond the expiration
date will also be required to pay for appraisals to determine current
fair market value rental rates, any rehabilitation needed to ensure
suitability for occupancy, appropriate insurance, and all continuing
utility costs.
SEC. 327A. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
or any other Act providing appropriations for the Department of
the Interior, the Forest Service or the Smithsonian Institution
may be used to submit nominations for the designation of Biosphere
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Reserves pursuant to the Man and Biosphere program administered
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be repealed upon enact-
ment of subsequent legislation specifically authorizing United
States participation in the Man and Biosphere program.
SEC. 328. None of the funds made available in this or any
other Act for any fiscal year may be used to designate, or to
post any sign designating, any portion of Canaveral National Sea-
shore in Brevard County, Florida, as a clothing-optional area or
as an area in which public nudity is permitted, if such designation
would be contrary to county ordinance.
SEC. 329. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment
for the Arts:
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an individ-
ual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a literature
fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or American Jazz
Masters Fellowship.
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to ensure
that no funding provided through a grant, except a grant made
to a State or local arts agency, or regional group, may be
used to make a grant to any other organization or individual
to conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient.
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments made in
exchange for goods and services.
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support to a group,
unless the application is specific to the contents of the season,
including identified programs and/or projects.
SEC. 330. The National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities are authorized to solicit,
accept, receive, and invest in the name of the United States, gifts,
bequests, or devises of money and other property or services and
to use such in furtherance of the functions of the National Endow-
ment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Any proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after acceptance
by the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities, shall be paid by the donor or the rep-
resentative of the donor to the Chairman. The Chairman shall
enter the proceeds in a special interest-bearing account to the
credit of the appropriate Endowment for the purposes specified
in each case.
SEC. 331. In fiscal years 1998 through 2002, the Secretaries
of the Interior and Agriculture may make reciprocal delegations
of their respective authorities, duties and responsibilities in support
of joint pilot programs to promote customer service and efficiency
in the management of public lands and national forests: Provided,
That nothing herein shall alter, expand or limit the existing
applicability of any public law or regulation to lands administered
by the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service.
SEC. 332. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall be expended or obligated to fund new revisions of national
forest land management plans until new final or interim final
rules for forest land management planning are published in the
Federal Register. Those national forests which are currently in
a revision process, having formally published a Notice of Intent
to revise prior to October 1, 1997, or having been court-ordered
to revise, are exempt from this section and may utilize funds