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No funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be transferred
to the Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture
without the approval of the Chief of the Forest Service.
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to
conduct a program of not less than $2,000,000 for high priority
projects within the scope of the approved budget which shall be
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by
the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended by Public Law 93–408.
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $1,500 is available
to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and represen-
tation expenses.
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 101–
593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $2,250,000
may be advanced in a lump sum as Federal financial assistance
to the National Forest Foundation, without regard to when the
Foundation incurs expenses, for administrative expenses or projects
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related to Forest
Service programs: Provided, That of the Federal funds made avail-
able to the Foundation, no more than $400,000 shall be available
for administrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial assistance,
private contributions to match on at least one-for-one basis funds
made available by the Forest Service: Provided further, That the
Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient
for a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained
the non-Federal matching funds: Provided further, That hereafter,
the National Forest Foundation may hold Federal funds made avail-
able but not immediately disbursed and may use any interest
or other investment income earned (before, on, or after the date
of the enactment of this Act) on Federal funds to carry out the
purposes of Public Law 101–593: Provided further, That such invest-
ments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the
United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal
and interest by the United States.
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, $2,650,000
of the funds available to the Forest Service shall be available
for matching funds to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3701–3709, and may be advanced in
a lump sum as Federal financial assistance, without regard to
when expenses are incurred, for projects on or benefitting National
Forest System lands or related to Forest Service programs: Pro-
vided, That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period
of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to match on
at least one-for-one basis funds advanced by the Forest Service:
Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds
to a non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate that
the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching funds.
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available
for interactions with and providing technical assistance to rural
communities for sustainable rural development purposes.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 80 percent of the
funds appropriated to the Forest Service in the ‘‘National Forest
System’’ and ‘‘Capital Improvement and Maintenance’’ accounts and
planned to be allocated to activities under the ‘‘Jobs in the Woods’’
program for projects on National Forest land in the State of Wash-
ington may be granted directly to the Washington State Department
of Fish and Wildlife for accomplishment of planned projects. Twenty
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percent of said funds shall be retained by the Forest Service for
planning 
and 
administering 
projects. 
Project 
selection 
and
prioritization shall be accomplished by the Forest Service with
such consultation with the State of Washington as the Forest
Service deems appropriate.
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available
for payments to counties within the Columbia River Gorge National
Scenic Area, pursuant to sections 14(c)(1) and (2), and section
16(a)(2) of Public Law 99–663.
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to enter into grants,
contracts, and cooperative agreements as appropriate with the Pin-
chot Institute for Conservation, as well as with public and other
private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals, to pro-
vide for the development, administration, maintenance, or restora-
tion of land, facilities, or Forest Service programs, at the Grey
Towers National Historic Landmark: Provided, That, subject to
such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture may
prescribe, any such public or private agency, organization, institu-
tion, or individual may solicit, accept, and administer private gifts
of money and real or personal property for the benefit of, or in
connection with, the activities and services at the Grey Towers
National Historic Landmark: Provided further, That such gifts may
be accepted notwithstanding the fact that a donor conducts business
with the Department of Agriculture in any capacity.
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available,
as determined by the Secretary, for payments to Del Norte County,
California, pursuant to sections 13(e) and 14 of the Smith River
National Recreation Area Act (Public Law 101–612).
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations
or funds available to the Forest Service not to exceed $500,000
may be used to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC),
Department of Agriculture, for travel and related expenses incurred
as a result of OGC assistance or participation requested by the
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management reviews,
land purchase negotiations and similar non-litigation related mat-
ters. Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service and
the Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums
previously transferred and the requested funding transfers.
No employee of the Department of Agriculture may be detailed
or assigned from an agency or office funded by this Act to any
other agency or office of the department for more than 30 days
unless the individual’s employing agency or office is fully
reimbursed by the receiving agency or office for the salary and
expenses of the employee for the period of assignment.
The Forest Service shall fund indirect expenses, that is
expenses not directly related to specific programs or to the accom-
plishment of specific work on-the-ground, from any funds available
to the Forest Service: Provided, That the Forest Service shall imple-
ment and adhere to the definitions of indirect expenditures estab-
lished pursuant to Public Law 105–277 on a nationwide basis
without flexibility for modification by any organizational level
except the Washington Office, and when changed by the Washington
Office, such changes in definition shall be reported in budget
requests submitted by the Forest Service: Provided further, That
the Forest Service shall provide in all future budget justifications,
planned indirect expenditures in accordance with the definitions,
summarized and displayed to the Regional, Station, Area, and
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detached unit office level. The justification shall display the esti-
mated source and amount of indirect expenditures, by expanded
budget line item, of funds in the agency’s annual budget justifica-
tion. The display shall include appropriated funds and the Knutson-
Vandenberg, Brush Disposal, Cooperative Work-Other, and Salvage
Sale funds. Changes between estimated and actual indirect expendi-
tures shall be reported in subsequent budget justifications: Pro-
vided, That during fiscal year 2001 the Secretary shall limit total
annual indirect obligations from the Brush Disposal, Knutson-
Vandenberg, Reforestation, Salvage Sale, and Roads and Trails
funds to 20 percent of the total obligations from each fund. Obliga-
tions in excess of 20 percent which would otherwise be charged
to the above funds may be charged to appropriated funds available
to the Forest Service subject to notification of the Committees
on Appropriations of the House and Senate.
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service
may be used for necessary expenses in the event of law enforcement
emergencies as necessary to protect natural resources and public
or employee safety: Provided, That such amounts shall not exceed
$750,000.
Section 551 of the Land Between the Lakes Protection Act
of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 460lll–61) is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
‘‘(c) TRANSITION.—Until September 30, 2002, the Secretary of
Agriculture may expend amounts appropriated or otherwise made
available to carry out this title in a manner consistent with the
authorities exercised by the Tennessee Valley Authority, before
the transfer of the Recreation Area to the administrative jurisdiction
of the Secretary, regarding procurement of property, services, sup-
plies, and equipment.’’.
The Secretary of Agriculture shall pay $4,449 from available
funds to Joyce Liverca as reimbursement for various expenses
incurred as a Federal employee in connection with certain high
priority duties performed for the Forest Service.
The Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the sale of excess
buildings, facilities, and other properties owned by the Forest
Service and located on the Green Mountain National Forest, the
revenues of which shall be retained by the Forest Service and
available to the Secretary without further appropriation and until
expended for maintenance and rehabilitation activities on the Green
Mountain National Forest.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
(DEFERRAL)
Of the funds made available under this heading for obligation
in prior years, $67,000,000 shall not be available until October
1, 2001: 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.
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FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS 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 $540,653,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $12,000,000 for oil technology research shall
be derived by transfer from funds appropriated in prior years under
the heading ‘‘Strategic Petroleum Reserve, SPR Petroleum Account’’
and of which $95,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from funds
appropriated in prior years under the heading ‘‘Clean Coal Tech-
nology’’, such funds to be available for a general request for pro-
posals for the commercial scale demonstration of technologies to
assure the reliability of the Nation’s energy supply from existing
and new electric generating facilities for which the Department
of Energy upon review may provide financial assistance awards:
Provided, That the request for proposals shall be issued no later
than one hundred and twenty days following enactment of this
Act, proposals shall be submitted no later than ninety days after
the issuance of the request for proposals, and the Department
of Energy shall make project selections no later than one hundred
and sixty days after the receipt of proposals: Provided further,
That no funds are to be obligated for selected proposals prior
to September 30, 2001: Provided further, That funds provided shall
be expended only in accordance with the provisions governing the
use of funds contained under the heading under which they were
originally appropriated: Provided further, That provisions for repay-
ment of government contributions to individual projects shall be
identical to those included in the Program Opportunity Notice
(Solicitation Number DE–PS01–89FE 61825), issued by the Depart-
ment of Energy on May 1, 1989, except that repayments from
sale or licensing of technologies shall be from both domestic and
foreign transactions: Provided further, That such repayments shall
be deposited in this account to be retained for future projects:
Provided further, That any project approved under this program
shall be considered a Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Project,
for the purposes of Chapters 51, 52, and 60 of title 40 of the
Code of Federal Regulations: Provided further, 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: Provided further,
That up to 4 percent of program direction funds available to the
National Energy Technology Laboratory may be used to support
Department of Energy activities not included in this account.