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States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appro-
priations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau of Indian Education, 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. 
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Education shall 
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dormitory 
beyond the grade structure in place or approved by the Secretary 
of the Interior at each school in the Bureau of Indian Education 
school system as of October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary 
of the Interior may waive this prohibition to support expansion 
of up to one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 
waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission of the 
Bureau of Indian Education. Appropriations made available in this 
or any prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available, 
in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, only to the schools 
in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996, and to 
any school or school program that was reinstated in fiscal year 
2012. Funds made available under this Act may not be used to 
establish a charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term 
is defined in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 
(25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is in existence 
on the date of the enactment of this Act and that has operated 
at a Bureau-funded school before September 1, 1999, may continue 
to operate during that period, but only if the charter school pays 
to the Bureau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including buses 
and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept separate and 
apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does not assume any 
obligation for charter school programs of the State in which the 
school is located if the charter school loses such funding. Employees 
of Bureau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school 
and performing functions related to the charter school’s operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as Federal 
employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States 
Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section 
113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106–113, if in fiscal 
year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indirect and administrative 
costs pursuant to a distribution formula based on section 5(f) of 
Public Law 101–301, the Secretary shall continue to distribute 
indirect and administrative cost funds to such grantee using the 
section 5(f) distribution formula. 
Funds available under this Act may not be used to establish 
satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school system as of 
September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary may waive this 
prohibition in order for an Indian tribe to provide language and 
cultural immersion educational programs for non-public schools 
located within the jurisdictional area of the tribal government which 
exclusively serve tribal members, do not include grades beyond 
those currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, provide 
an educational environment with educator presence and academic 
facilities comparable to the Bureau-funded school, comply with all 
applicable Tribal, Federal, or State health and safety standards,
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and the Americans with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the bene-
fits of establishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-
ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or other impacts 
to students such as those caused by busing students extended 
distances: Provided, That no funds available under this Act may 
be used to fund operations, maintenance, rehabilitation, construc-
tion or other facilities-related costs for such assets that are not 
owned by the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite 
school’’ means a school location physically separated from the 
existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that forms 
part of the existing school in all other respects. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses for management of the Department 
of the Interior, including the collection and disbursement of royal-
ties, fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, and for grants and 
cooperative agreements, as authorized by law, $721,769,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2017; of which not to exceed 
$15,000 may be for official reception and representation expenses; 
and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers com-
pensation payments and unemployment compensation payments 
associated with the orderly closure of the United States Bureau 
of Mines; and of which $12,618,000 for the Office of Valuation 
Services is to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund and shall remain available until expended; and of which 
$38,300,000 shall remain available until expended for the purpose 
of mineral revenue management activities: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $15,000 under this heading 
shall be available for refunds of overpayments in connection with 
certain Indian leases in which the Secretary concurred with the 
claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or 
tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous payments. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2016, up to $400,000 of the payments authorized 
by the Act of October 20, 1976 (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907) may be 
retained for administrative expenses of the Payments in Lieu of 
Taxes Program: Provided, That no payment shall be made pursuant 
to that Act to otherwise eligible units of local government if the 
computed amount of the payment is less than $100: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may reduce the payment authorized by 
31 U.S.C. 6901–6907 for an individual county by the amount nec-
essary to correct prior year overpayments to that county: Provided 
further, That the amount needed to correct a prior year under-
payment to an individual county shall be paid from any reductions 
for overpayments to other counties and the amount necessary to 
cover any remaining underpayment is hereby appropriated and 
shall be paid to individual counties: Provided further, That of the 
total amount made available by this title for ‘‘Office of the Sec-
retary—Departmental Operations’’, $452,000,000 shall be available 
to the Secretary of the Interior for an additional amount for fiscal
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year 2016 for payments in lieu of taxes under chapter 69 of title 
31, United States Code. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and other jurisdictions 
identified in section 104(e) of Public Law 108–188, $86,976,000, 
of which: (1) $77,528,000 shall remain available until expended 
for territorial assistance, including general technical assistance, 
maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef initiative 
activities, and brown tree snake control and research; grants to 
the judiciary in American Samoa for compensation and expenses, 
as authorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government 
of American Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for 
construction and support of governmental functions; grants to the 
Government of the Virgin Islands as authorized by law; grants 
to the Government of Guam, as authorized by law; and grants 
to the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized 
by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $9,448,000 shall 
be available until September 30, 2017, for salaries and expenses 
of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial trans-
actions of the territorial and local governments herein provided 
for, including such transactions of all agencies or instrumentalities 
established or used by such governments, may be audited by the 
Government Accountability Office, at its discretion, in accordance 
with chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, 
That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be 
provided according to those terms of the Agreement of the Special 
Representatives on Future United States Financial Assistance for 
the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: 
Provided further, That the funds for the program of operations 
and maintenance improvement are appropriated to institutionalize 
routine operations and maintenance improvement of capital infra-
structure with territorial participation and cost sharing to be deter-
mined by the Secretary based on the grantee’s commitment to 
timely maintenance of its capital assets: Provided further, That 
any appropriation for disaster assistance under this heading in 
this Act or previous appropriations Acts may be used as non- 
Federal matching funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants 
provided pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $3,318,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, as provided for in sections 221(a)(2) and 233 
of the Compact of Free Association for the Republic of Palau; 
and section 221(a)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association for the 
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Fed-
erated States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99–658 
and Public Law 108–188.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Secretary may 
transfer discretionary funds or mandatory funds provided under 
section 104(e) of Public Law 108–188 and Public Law 104–134, 
that are allocated for Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for 
the subsidy cost of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed 
three percent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the 
cost of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the 
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act for construction and repair 
projects in Guam, and such funds shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan 
guarantees may be made without regard to the population of the 
area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on the types 
of eligible entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and 
section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act: Provided further, That any funds transferred to the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall be in addition to funds otherwise made available 
to make or guarantee loans under such authorities. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$65,800,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$50,047,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by direct 
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and 
grants, $139,029,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $22,120,000 from this or any other Act, may be 
available for historical accounting: Provided, That funds for trust 
management improvements and litigation support may, as needed, 
be transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
and Bureau of Indian Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ 
account; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; 
and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’ account: 
Provided further, That funds made available through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2016, as authorized by the 
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.),