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in agency offices to meet trust reform implementation: Provided 
further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$10,000,000 shall be derived from the Indian Irrigation Fund estab-
lished by section 3211 of the WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 
130 Stat. 1749): Provided further, That for funds appropriated under 
this heading, the date specified in section 3216 of Public Law 
114–322 shall be applied as substituting ‘‘September 30, 2028’’ 
for ‘‘September 30, 2021’’. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS 
PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses for 
implementation of Indian land and water claim settlements pursu-
ant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 111–11, 111–291, 
and 114–322, and for implementation of other land and water 
rights settlements, $50,057,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the Secretary shall make payments in such amounts 
as necessary to satisfy the total authorized amount for the Navajo 
Nation Water Rights Trust Fund. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, $10,779,000, 
of which $1,455,000 is for administrative expenses, as authorized 
by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: 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 these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to 
exceed $174,616,164. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the operation 
of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative 
agreements, compacts, and grants, either directly or in cooperation 
with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs may contract for services in support of the manage-
ment, operation, and maintenance of the Power Division of the 
San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office oversight and 
Executive Direction and Administrative Services (except executive 
direction and administrative services funding for Tribal Priority 
Allocations, regional offices, and facilities operations and mainte-
nance) shall be available for contracts, grants, compacts, or coopera-
tive agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the provi-
sions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal Self-Govern-
ance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made available 
by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this action shall not 
diminish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to that tribe, 
or the government-to-government relationship between the United 
States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appro-
priations.
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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, or more than one grade to expand 
the elementary grade structure for Bureau-funded schools with 
a K-2 grade structure on October 1, 1996. 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 Amend-
ments 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 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for management of the Department 
of the Interior and for grants and cooperative agreements, as 
authorized by law, $124,673,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2020; 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 compensation payments 
and unemployment compensation payments associated with the 
orderly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines; and of which 
$9,000,000 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 $9,704,000 for Indian land, 
mineral, and resource valuation activities shall remain available 
until expended: Provided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, 
and resource valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred 
to and merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau 
of Indian Education ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account and 
the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians ‘‘Federal 
Trust Programs’’ account: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2019, 
as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available until expended by 
the contractor or grantee: Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, $400,000 shall be made avail-
able to the commission established by section 3(a) of the Alyce 
Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children 
Act (Public Law 114–244; 130 Stat. 981). 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2019, up to $400,000 of the payments authorized 
by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, may be retained 
for administrative expenses of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Pro-
gram: Provided, That the amounts provided under this Act specifi-
cally for the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only 
amounts available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of 
title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the event 
the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for payments pursuant 
to this chapter are insufficient to make the full payments authorized
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by that chapter to all units of local government, then the payment 
to each local government shall be made proportionally: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may make adjustments to payment 
to individual units of local government to correct for prior overpay-
ments or underpayments: Provided further, That no payment shall 
be made pursuant to that chapter to otherwise eligible units of 
local government if the computed amount of the payment is less 
than $100. 
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, $100,688,000, 
of which: (1) $91,240,000 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, 2020, 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, $3,413,000, 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