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prior to October 1, 1997; those national forests having
been court-ordered to revise; those national forests where
plans reach the 15 year legally mandated date to revise
before or during calendar year 2000; national forests with-
in the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem study area; and
the White Mountain National Forest are exempt from this
section and may use funds in this Act and proceed to com-
plete the forest plan revision in accordance with current
forest planning regulations.
SEC. 320. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-
priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve
underserved populations.
(b) In this section:
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means
a population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview
of arts and humanities programs due to factors such
as a high incidence of income below the poverty line
or to geographic isolation.
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(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty
line (as defined by the Office of Management and
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) applicable to a family of
the size involved.
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and
Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv-
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-
tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public
knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of
the arts.
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965—
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or
are able to tour several States;
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds
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to any single State, excluding grants made under the
authority of paragraph (1);
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 5 of such Act; and
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of
grants to improve and support community-based
music performance and education.
SEC. 321. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to support government-wide administrative functions un-
less such functions are justified in the budget process and
funding is approved by the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations.
SEC. 322. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, none of the funds in this Act may be used for the
National Telecommunications and Information Adminis-
tration (Spectrum), GSA Telecommunication Centers, or
the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
SEC. 323. None of the funds in this Act may be used
for planning, design or construction of improvements to
Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House without
the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations.
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SEC. 324. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 1999
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the fourteenth
paragraph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of
the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501),
shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without re-
gard to the State in which the amounts were derived, to
repair or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National
Forest System lands or to carry out and administer
projects to improve forest health conditions, which may
include the repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and
trails on National Forest System lands in the wildland-
community interface where there is an abnormally high
risk of fire. The projects shall emphasize reducing risks
to human safety and public health and property and en-
hancing ecological functions, long-term forest productivity,
and biological integrity. The Secretary shall commence the
projects during fiscal year 2000, but the projects may be
completed in a subsequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be
expended under this section to replace funds which would
otherwise appropriately be expended from the timber sal-
vage sale fund. Nothing in this section shall be construed
to exempt any project from any environmental law.
SEC. 325. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to establish a national wildlife refuge in
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the Kankakee River watershed in northwestern Indiana
and northeastern Illinois.
SEC. 326. None of the funds provided in this or pre-
vious Appropriations Acts or provided from any accounts
in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collec-
tion of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act,
shall be transferred to or used to support the Council on
Environmental Quality or other offices in the Executive
Office of the President, or be expended for any head-
quarters or departmental office functions of the agencies,
bureaus and departments covered by this Act, for purposes
related to the American Heritage Rivers program.
SEC. 327. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to operate telephone answering machines during core busi-
ness hours except in emergency situations.
SEC. 328. (a) ENHANCING FOREST SERVICE ADMIN-
ISTRATION OF RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND LAND USES.—Dur-
ing fiscal year 2000 and each fiscal year thereafter, the
Secretary of Agriculture shall deposit into a special ac-
count established in the Treasury all administrative fees
collected by the Secretary pursuant to section 28(l) of the
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185(l)), section 504(g)
of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
(43 U.S.C. 1764(g)), and any other law that grants the
Secretary the authority to authorize the use and occu-
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pancy of National Forest System lands, improvements,
and resources, as described in section 251.53 of title 36,
Code of Federal Regulations.
(b) USE OF RETAINED AMOUNTS.—Amounts depos-
ited pursuant to subsection (a) shall be available, without
further appropriation, for expenditure by the Secretary of
Agriculture to cover costs incurred by the Forest Service
for the processing of applications for special use authoriza-
tions and for inspection and monitoring activities under-
taken in connection with such special use authorizations.
Amounts in the special account shall remain available for
such purposes until expended.
(c) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—In the budget jus-
tification documents submitted by the Secretary of Agri-
culture in support of the President’s budget for a fiscal
year under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code,
the Secretary shall include a description of the purposes
for which amounts were expended from the special account
during the preceding fiscal year, including the amounts
expended for each purpose, and a description of the pur-
poses for which amounts are proposed to be expended
from the special account during the next fiscal year, in-
cluding the amounts proposed to be expended for each
purpose.
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(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect
October 1, 2000 and remain in effect through September
30, 2005.
SEC. 329. The Secretary of Agriculture and the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall:
(1) prepare the report required of them by sec-
tion 323(a) of the Fiscal Year 1998 Interior and Re-
lated Agencies Appropriations Act (Public Law 105–
83; 111 Stat. 1543, 1596–7);
(2) distribute the report and make such report
available for public comment for a minimum of 120
days; and
(3) include detailed responses to the public
comment in any final environmental impact state-
ment associated with the Interior Columbia Basin
Ecosystem Management Project.
SEC. 330. Hereafter, and notwithstanding any other
provision of law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any
location in a building or on property that is part of the
National Park System, the Smithsonian Institution, the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, or the Na-
tional Gallery of Art, if the woman and her child are other-
wise permitted to be present at the location.
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SEC. 331. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol
which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II,
section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and
which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25
of the Protocol.
SEC. 332. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to directly
construct timber access roads in the National Forest Sys-
tem.
SEC. 333. Each amount of budget authority for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, provided in this
Act for payments not required by law, is hereby reduced
by 0.48 percent: Provided, That such reductions shall be
applied ratably to each account, program, activity, and
project provided for in this Act.
SEC. 334. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to process applications for approval of pat-
ents, plans of operations, or amendments to plans of oper-
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ations in contravention of the opinion dated November 7,
1997, by the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.
SEC. 335. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to authorize, permit, administer, or pro-
mote the use of any jawed leghold trap or neck snare in
any unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System except
for research, subsistence, conservation, or facilities protec-
tion.
SEC. 336. No funds made available under this Act
may be used to implement alternative B, C, or D identified
in the Final Management Plan and Environmental Impact
Statement for Gettysburg National Military Park dated
June 1999.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 15 (legis-
lative day, July 14), 1999.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.