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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2466
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 23 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 22), 1999
Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate numbered
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2000, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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Ω1æThat the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES
For expenses necessary for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral
potential of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487
(16
U.S.C.
3150(a)),
$632,068,000
(reduced
by
$1,000,000), to remain available until expended, of which
$2,147,000 shall be available for assessment of the min-
eral potential of public lands in Alaska pursuant to section
1010 of Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of
which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be derived from the
special receipt account established by the Land and Water
Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–
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6a(i)); and of which $2,500,000 shall be available in fiscal
year 2000 subject to a match by at least an equal amount
by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to such
Foundation for cost-shared projects supporting conserva-
tion of Bureau lands and such funds shall be advanced
to the Foundation as a lump sum grant without regard
to when expenses are incurred; in addition, $33,529,000
for Mining Law Administration program operations, in-
cluding the cost of administering the mining claim fee pro-
gram; to remain available until expended, to be reduced
by amounts collected by the Bureau and credited to this
appropriation from annual mining claim fees so as to re-
sult in a final appropriation estimated at not more than
$632,068,000 (reduced by $1,000,000), and $2,000,000,
to remain available until expended, from communication
site rental fees established by the Bureau for the cost of
administering communication site activities, and of which
$2,500,000, to remain available until expended, for coal-
bed methane Applications for Permits to Drill in the Pow-
der River Basin: Provided, That unless there is a written
agreement in place between the coal mining operator and
a gas producer, the funds available herein shall not be
used to process or approve coalbed methane Applications
for Permits to Drill for well sites that are located within
an area, which as of the date of the coalbed methane Ap-
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plication for Permit to Drill, are covered by: (1) a coal
lease, (2) a coal mining permit, or (3) an application for
a coal mining lease: Provided further, That appropriations
herein made shall not be available for the destruction of
healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros in the care of
the Bureau or its contractors.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, sup-
pression operations, emergency rehabilitation and haz-
ardous fuels reduction by the Department of the Interior,
$292,399,000, to remain available until expended, of
which not to exceed $9,300,000 shall be for the renovation
or construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds
are also available for repayment of advances to other ap-
propriation accounts from which funds were previously
transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That un-
obligated balances of amounts previously appropriated to
the ‘‘Fire Protection’’ and ‘‘Emergency Department of the
Interior Firefighting Fund’’ may be transferred and
merged with this appropriation: Provided further, That
persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be fur-
nished subsistence and lodging without cost from funds
available from this appropriation: Provided further, That
notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bu-
reau or office of the Department of the Interior for fire
protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq.,
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Protection of United States Property, may be credited to
the appropriation from which funds were expended to pro-
vide that protection, and are available without fiscal year
limitation.
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for
the remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C.
9601 et seq.), $10,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302,
sums recovered from or paid by a party in advance of or
as reimbursement for remedial action or response activi-
ties conducted by the Department pursuant to section 107
or 113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to this account
to be available until expended without further appropria-
tion: Provided further, That such sums recovered from or
paid by any party are not limited to monetary payments
and may include stocks, bonds or other personal or real
property, which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise
disposed of by the Secretary and which shall be credited
to this account.
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CONSTRUCTION
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities,
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $11,100,000, to
remain available until expended.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907),
$125,000,000 (increased by $20,000,000), of which not
to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to oth-
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed
amount of the payment is less than $100.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205,
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including admin-
istrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or
interests therein, $15,000,000, to be derived from the
Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available
until expended.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For expenses necessary for management, protection,
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and
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on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein including existing connecting roads on or
adjacent to such grant lands, $99,225,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the
aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant
lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and
California land-grant fund and shall be transferred to the
General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the sec-
ond paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of
August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law
102–381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem
Health and Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose
of planning, preparing, and monitoring salvage timber
sales and forest ecosystem health and recovery activities
such as release from competing vegetation and density
control treatments. The Federal share of receipts (defined
as the portion of salvage timber receipts not paid to the
counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–
1 et seq., and Public Law 103–66) derived from treat-
ments funded by this account shall be deposited into the
Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund.
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RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701),
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under
sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C.
315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improve-
ments from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from
Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of
the
Interior
pursuant
to
law,
but
not
less
than
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for
administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related
to processing application documents and other authoriza-
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources,
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-
nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations,
and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts
as may be collected under Public Law 94–579, as amend-
ed, and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to
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the contrary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43
U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be
received pursuant to that section, whether as a result of
forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate
for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43
U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended
under the authority of this Act by the Secretary to im-
prove, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands adminis-
tered through the Bureau of Land Management which
have been damaged by the action of a resource developer,
purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, without
regard to whether all moneys collected from each such ac-
tion are used on the exact lands damaged which led to
the action: Provided further, That any such moneys that
are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the
exact land for which funds were collected may be used to
repair other damaged public lands.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of the
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and such
amounts as may be advanced for administrative costs, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain
available until expended.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management
shall be available for purchase, erection, and dismantle-
ment of temporary structures, and alteration and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to
which the United States has title; up to $100,000 for pay-
ments, at the discretion of the Secretary, for information
or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by
the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of en-
forcement activities authorized or approved by the Sec-
retary and to be accounted for solely on his certificate,
not to exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 44
U.S.C. 501, the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-shar-
ing and partnership arrangements authorized by law, pro-
cure printing services from cooperators in connection with
jointly produced publications for which the cooperators
share the cost of printing either in cash or in services,
and the Bureau determines the cooperator is capable of
meeting accepted quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, for scientific and economic studies, con-
servation, management, investigations, protection, and
utilization of fishery and wildlife resources, except whales,
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seals, and sea lions, maintenance of the herd of long-
horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge,
general administration, and for the performance of other
authorized functions related to such resources by direct
expenditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements
and reimbursable agreements with public and private enti-
ties, $710,700,000, to remain available until September
30, 2001, except as otherwise provided herein, of which
$11,701,000 shall remain available until expended for op-
eration and maintenance of fishery mitigation facilities
constructed by the Corps of Engineers under the Lower
Snake River Compensation Plan, authorized by the Water
Resources Development Act of 1976, to compensate for
loss of fishery resources from water development projects
on the Lower Snake River, and of which not less than
$2,000,000 shall be provided to local governments in
southern California for planning associated with the Nat-
ural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) pro-
gram and shall remain available until expended: Provided,
That not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects
which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation
Corps as authorized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as
amended: Provided further, That not to exceed $6,532,000
shall be used for implementing subsections (a), (b), (c),
and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species Act, as
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amended, for species that are indigenous to the United
States (except for processing petitions, developing and
issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking any
other steps to implement actions described in subsections
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii): Provided further,
That of the amount available for law enforcement, up to
$400,000 to remain available until expended, may at the
discretion of the Secretary, be used for payment for infor-
mation, rewards, or evidence concerning violations of laws
administered by the Service, and miscellaneous and emer-
gency expenses of enforcement activity, authorized or ap-
proved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on
his certificate: Provided further, That of the amount pro-
vided for environmental contaminants, up to $1,000,000
may remain available until expended for contaminant sam-
ple analyses: Provided further, That hereafter, all fines col-
lected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for violations
of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1362–
1407) and implementing regulations shall be available to
the Secretary, without further appropriation, to be used
for the expenses of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in
administering activities for the protection and recovery of
manatees, polar bears, sea otters, and walruses, and shall
remain available until expended: Provided further, That,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal year
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1999 and thereafter, sums provided by private entities for
activities pursuant to reimbursable agreements shall be
credited to the ‘‘Resource Management’’ account and shall
remain available until expended: Provided further, That,
heretofore and hereafter, in carrying out work under reim-
bursable agreements with any State, local, or tribal gov-
ernment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may, without
regard to 31 U.S.C. 1341 and notwithstanding any other
provision of law or regulation, record obligations against
accounts receivable from such entities, and shall credit
amounts received from such entities to this appropriation,
such credit to occur within 90 days of the date of the origi-
nal request by the Service for payment.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction and acquisition of buildings and
other facilities required in the conservation, management,
investigation, protection, and utilization of fishery and
wildlife resources, and the acquisition of lands and inter-
ests therein, $43,933,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable
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to
the
United
States
Fish
and
Wildlife
Service,
$42,000,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund and to remain available until expended.
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION
FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531–
1543), as amended, $15,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $10,779,000.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public
Law 101–233, as amended, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND APPRECIATION FUND
For necessary expenses of the Wildlife Conservation
and Appreciation Fund, $800,000, to remain available
until expended.
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201–4203, 4211–
4213, 4221–4225, 4241–4245, and 1538), the Asian Ele-
phant Conservation Act of 1997 (Public Law 105–96, 16
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U.S.C. 4261–4266), and the Rhinoceros and Tiger Con-
servation
Act
of
1994
(16
U.S.C.
5301–5306),
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That funds made available under this Act, Public Law
105–277, and Public Law 105–83 for rhinoceros, tiger,
and Asian elephant conservation programs are exempt
from any sanctions imposed against any country under
section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.
2799aa–1).
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations and funds available to the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for pur-
chase of not to exceed 70 passenger motor vehicles, of
which 61 are for replacement only (including 36 for police-
type use); repair of damage to public roads within and
adjacent to reservation areas caused by operations of the
Service; options for the purchase of land at not to exceed
$1 for each option; facilities incident to such public rec-
reational uses on conservation areas as are consistent with
their primary purpose; and the maintenance and improve-
ment of aquaria, buildings, and other facilities under the
jurisdiction of the Service and to which the United States
has title, and which are used pursuant to law in connection
with management and investigation of fish and wildlife re-
sources: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501,
the Service may, under cooperative cost sharing and part-
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nership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing
services from cooperators in connection with jointly pro-
duced publications for which the cooperators share at least
one-half the cost of printing either in cash or services and
the Service determines the cooperator is capable of meet-
ing accepted quality standards: Provided further, That the
Service may accept donated aircraft as replacements for
existing aircraft: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior
may not spend any of the funds appropriated in this Act
for the purchase of lands or interests in lands to be used
in the establishment of any new unit of the National Wild-
life Refuge System unless the purchase is approved in ad-
vance by the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions in compliance with the reprogramming procedures
contained in Senate Report 105–56.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-
tered by the National Park Service (including special road
maintenance service to trucking permittees on a reimburs-
able basis), and for the general administration of the Na-
tional Park Service, including not less than $1,000,000
for high priority projects within the scope of the approved
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budget which shall be carried out by the Youth Conserva-
tion
Corps
as
authorized
by
U.S.C.
1706,
$1,387,307,000, of which $8,800,000 is for research,
planning and interagency coordination in support of land
acquisition for Everglades restoration shall remain avail-
able
until
expended,
and
of
which
not
to
exceed
$8,000,000, to remain available until expended, is to be
derived from the special fee account established pursuant
to title V, section 5201 of Public Law 100–203.
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-
view, international park affairs, statutory or contractual
aid for other activities, and grant administration, not oth-
erwise
provided
for,
$45,449,000
(increased
by
$4,000,000): Provided, That no more than $100,000 may
be used for overhead and program administrative expenses
for the heritage partnership program.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470),
and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–333), $46,712,000, to be
derived from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain
available until September 30, 2001, of which $11,722,000,
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pursuant to section 507 of Public Law 104–333 shall re-
main available until expended: Provided, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, effective October 1,
1999 and thereafter the National Park Service may re-
cover and expend all fee revenues derived from providing
necessary review services associated with historic preserva-
tion tax certification, and such funds shall remain avail-
able until expended.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, improvements, repair or replace-
ment of physical facilities, including the modifications au-
thorized by section 104 of the Everglades National Park
Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, $169,856,000 to
remain available until expended: Provided, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, hereafter all franchise
fees collected from Statue of Liberty National Monument
concessioners shall be covered into a special account estab-
lished in the Treasury of the United States and shall be
immediately available for expenditure by the Secretary for
the purposes of stabilizing, rehabilitating and adaptively
reusing deteriorated portions of Ellis Island grounds and
buildings: Provided further, That, beginning in fiscal year
2001, expenditure of such fees is contingent upon a dollar-
for-dollar, non-Federal cost share: Provided further, That
the National Park Service will make available 37 percent,
not to exceed $1,850,000, of the total cost of upgrading
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the Mariposa County, California municipal solid waste dis-
posal system: Provided further, That Mariposa County will
provide assurance that future use fees paid by the Na-
tional Park Service will be reflective of the capital con-
tribution made by the National Park Service.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
(RESCISSION)
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2000
by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded.
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable
to the National Park Service, $102,000,000 (increased by
$30,000,000), to be derived from the Land and Water
Conservation Fund, to remain available until expended, of
which $500,000 is to administer the State assistance pro-
gram, and of which $42,400,000 for Federal land acquisi-
tion for the Everglades National Park, Big Cypress Na-
tional Preserve, Biscayne National Park, and State grants
for land acquisition in the State of Florida are contingent
upon the following: (1) a signed, binding agreement be-
tween all principal Federal and non-Federal partners in-
volved in the South Florida Restoration Initiative which
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provides specific volume, timing, location and duration of
flow specifications and water quality measurements which
will guarantee adequate and appropriate guaranteed water
supply to the natural areas in southern Florida including
all National Parks, Preserves, Wildlife Refuge lands, and
other natural areas to ensure a restored ecosystem; (2)
the submission of detailed legislative language to the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, which
accomplishes this goal; and (3) submission of a complete
prioritized non-Federal land acquisition project list: Pro-
vided, That from the funds made available for land acqui-
sition at Everglades National Park and Big Cypress Na-
tional Preserve, after the requirements under this heading
have been met, the Secretary may provide Federal assist-
ance to the State of Florida for the acquisition of lands
or waters, or interests therein, within the Everglades wa-
tershed (consisting of lands and waters within the bound-
aries of the South Florida Water Management District,
Florida Bay and the Florida Keys) under terms and condi-
tions deemed necessary by the Secretary, to improve and
restore the hydrological function of the Everglades water-
shed: Provided further, That funds provided under this
heading to the State of Florida are contingent upon new
matching non-Federal funds by the State and shall be sub-
ject to an agreement that the lands to be acquired will
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be managed in perpetuity for the restoration of the Ever-
glades: Provided further, That lands shall not be acquired
for more than the approved appraised value (as addressed
in section 301(3) of Public Law 91–646) except for con-
demnations, declarations of taking, and lands with ap-
praised value of $50,000 or less.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be
available for the purchase of not to exceed 384 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 298 shall be for replacement only,
including not to exceed 312 for police-type use, 12 buses,
and 6 ambulances: Provided, That none of the funds ap-
propriated to the National Park Service may be used to
process any grant or contract documents which do not in-
clude the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That
none of the funds appropriated to the National Park Serv-
ice may be used to implement an agreement for the rede-
velopment of the southern end of Ellis Island until such
agreement has been submitted to the Congress and shall
not be implemented prior to the expiration of 30 calendar
days (not including any day in which either House of Con-
gress is not in session because of adjournment of more
than three calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
President of the Senate of a full and comprehensive report
on the development of the southern end of Ellis Island,
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including the facts and circumstances relied upon in sup-
port of the proposed project.
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the
National Park Service for activities taken in direct re-
sponse to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention.
The National Park Service may distribute to oper-
ating units based on the safety record of each unit the
costs of programs designed to improve workplace and em-
ployee safety, and to encourage employees receiving work-
ers’ compensation benefits pursuant to chapter 81 of title
5, United States Code, to return to appropriate positions
for which they are medically able.
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology,
and the mineral and water resources of the United States,
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-
ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); and publish and dis-
seminate data relative to the foregoing activities; and to
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conduct inquiries into the economic conditions affecting
mining and materials processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3,
21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes
as authorized by law and to publish and disseminate data,
$820,444,000, of which $60,856,000 shall be available
only for cooperation with States or municipalities for
water resources investigations; and of which $16,400,000
shall remain available until expended for conducting in-
quiries into the economic conditions affecting mining and
materials
processing
industries;
and
of
which
$137,674,000 shall be available until September 30, 2001
for the biological research activity and the operation of
the Cooperative Research Units: Provided, That none of
these funds provided for the biological research activity
shall be used to conduct new surveys on private property,
unless specifically authorized in writing by the property
owner: Provided further, That no part of this appropria-
tion shall be used to pay more than one-half the cost of
topographic mapping or water resources data collection
and investigations carried on in cooperation with States
and municipalities.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amount appropriated for the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall be available for the purchase of not
to exceed 53 passenger motor vehicles, of which 48 are
for replacement only; reimbursement to the General Serv-
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ices Administration for security guard services; con-
tracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and for
the making of geophysical or other specialized surveys
when it is administratively determined that such proce-
dures are in the public interest; construction and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities;
acquisition of lands for gauging stations and observation
wells; expenses of the United States National Committee
on Geology; and payment of compensation and expenses
of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly appointed to
represent the United States in the negotiation and admin-
istration of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities
funded by appropriations herein made may be accom-
plished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Pro-
vided further, That the United States Geological Survey
may hereafter contract directly with individuals or indi-
rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without
regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent
services of students or recent graduates, who shall be con-
sidered employees for the purposes of chapters 57 and 81
of title 5, United States Code, relating to compensation
for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28,
United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not
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be considered to be Federal employees for any other pur-
poses.
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and
collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; and
for matching grants or cooperative agreements; including
the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehi-
cles
for
replacement
only,
$110,082,000
of
which
$84,569,000 shall be available for royalty management ac-
tivities; and an amount not to exceed $124,000,000, to
be credited to this appropriation and to remain available
until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from
increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf ad-
ministrative activities performed by the Minerals Manage-
ment Service over and above the rates in effect on Sep-
tember 30, 1993, and from additional fees for Outer Con-
tinental Shelf administrative activities established after
September 30, 1993: Provided, That to the extent
$124,000,000 in additions to receipts are not realized
from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount
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needed to reach $124,000,000 shall be credited to this ap-
propriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for
Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5,
1993: Provided further, That $3,000,000 for computer ac-
quisitions shall remain available until September 30,
2001: Provided further, That funds appropriated under
this Act shall be available for the payment of interest in
accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1721(b) and (d): Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for rea-
sonable expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and
marine cleanup activities: Provided further, 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 Direc-
tor of the Minerals Management Service concurred with
the claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian
allottees or Tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erro-
neous payments.
OIL SPILL RESEARCH
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
$6,118,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.
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OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND
ENFORCEMENT
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
1977, Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the pur-
chase of not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for
replacement only, $95,693,000: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use
directly or through grants to States, moneys collected in
fiscal year 2000 for civil penalties assessed under section
518 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim lands adversely af-
fected by coal mining practices after August 3, 1977, to
remain available until expended: Provided further, That
appropriations for the Office of Surface Mining Reclama-
tion and Enforcement may provide for the travel and per
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
sponsored training.
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977,
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase
of not more than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, $196,458,000, to be derived from receipts of
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the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain
available until expended; of which up to $8,000,000, to
be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of the Fund,
shall be for supplemental grants to States for the reclama-
tion of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from
coal mines, and for associated activities, through the Ap-
palachian Clean Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants
to minimum program States will be $1,500,000 per State
in fiscal year 2000: Provided further, That of the funds
herein provided up to $18,000,000 may be used for the
emergency program authorized by section 410 of Public
Law 95–87, as amended, of which no more than 25 per-
cent shall be used for emergency reclamation projects in
any one State and funds for federally administered emer-
gency reclamation projects under this proviso shall not ex-
ceed $11,000,000: Provided further, That prior year unob-
ligated funds appropriated for the emergency reclamation
program shall not be subject to the 25 percent limitation
per State and may be used without fiscal year limitation
for emergency projects: Provided further, That pursuant
to Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is
authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of
the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government
to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided fur-
ther, That funds made available to States under title IV
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of Public Law 95–87 may be used, at their discretion, for
any required non-Federal share of the cost of projects
funded by the Federal Government for the purpose of en-
vironmental restoration related to treatment or abatement
of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines: Provided
further, That such projects must be consistent with the
purposes and priorities of the Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act: Provided further, That, in addition to
the amount granted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
under sections 402(g)(1) and 402(g)(5) of the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act (Act), an additional
$300,000 will be specifically used for the purpose of con-
ducting a demonstration project in accordance with sec-
tion 401(c)(6) of the Act to determine the efficacy of im-
proving water quality by removing metals from eligible wa-
ters polluted by acid mine drainage: Provided further, That
the State of Maryland may set aside the greater of
$1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total of the grants made
available to the State under title IV of the Surface Mining
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, as amended (30
U.S.C. 1231 et seq.), if the amount set aside is deposited
in an acid mine drainage abatement and treatment fund
established under a State law, pursuant to which law the
amount (together with all interest earned on the amount)
is expended by the State to undertake acid mine drainage
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abatement and treatment projects, except that before any
amounts greater than 10 percent of its title IV grants are
deposited in an acid mine drainage abatement and treat-
ment fund, the State of Maryland must first complete all
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act priority one
projects.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.),
as amended, $1,631,050,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2001 except as otherwise provided herein,
of which not to exceed $93,684,000 shall be for welfare
assistance payments and notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed
$115,229,000 shall be available for payments to tribes and
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated
with ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements entered into with the Bureau prior to or
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during fiscal year 2000, as authorized by such Act, except
that tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal
priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of ongoing
contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding agree-
ments and for unmet welfare assistance costs; and up to
$5,000,000 shall be for the Indian Self-Determination
Fund, which shall be available for the transitional cost of
initial or expanded tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or
cooperative agreements with the Bureau under such Act;
and of which not to exceed $400,010,000 for school oper-
ations costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education
programs shall become available on July 1, 2000, and
shall remain available until September 30, 2001; and of
which not to exceed $58,586,000 shall remain available
until expended for housing improvement, road mainte-
nance, attorney fees, litigation support, self-governance
grants, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, land records
improvement, the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
including but not limited to the Indian Self-Determination
Act of 1975, as amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, not to ex-
ceed $42,160,000 within and only from such amounts
made available for school operations shall be available to
tribes and tribal organizations for administrative cost
grants associated with the operation of Bureau-funded
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schools: Provided further, That any forestry funds allo-
cated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September
30, 2001, may be transferred during fiscal year 2002 to
an Indian forest land assistance account established for
the benefit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust fund ac-
count: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30,
2002.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities,
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-
suant to Public Law 87–483, $126,023,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of
Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may
be used to cover the road program management costs of
the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds provided for
the Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13
shall be made available on a nonreimbursable basis: Pro-
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vided further, That for fiscal year 2000, in implementing
new construction or facilities improvement and repair
project grants in excess of $100,000 that are provided to
tribally controlled grant schools under Public Law 100–
297, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use
the Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost
Principles for Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR
part 12 as the regulatory requirements: Provided further,
That such grants shall not be subject to section 12.61 of
43 CFR; the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and
determine a schedule of payments for the work to be per-
formed: Provided further, That in considering applications,
the Secretary shall consider whether the Indian tribe or
tribal organization would be deficient in assuring that the
construction projects conform to applicable building stand-
ards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health and
safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(a), with
respect to organizational and financial management capa-
bilities: Provided further, That if the Secretary declines an
application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2505(f): Provided further, That
any disputes between the Secretary and any grantee con-
cerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes provision
in 25 U.S.C. 2508(e): Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, collections from the
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settlement between the United States and the Puyallup
Tribe concerning the Chief Leschi school are to be imme-
diately made available for school construction in fiscal
year 2000, and thereafter.
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and in-
dividuals
and
for
necessary
administrative
expenses,
$25,901,000, to remain available until expended; of which
$25,030,000 shall be available for implementation of en-
acted Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant
to Public Laws 101–618 and 102–575, and for implemen-
tation of other enacted water rights settlements; and of
which $871,000 shall be available pursuant to Public
Laws 99–264 and 100–580.
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $4,500,000, as au-
thorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amend-
ed: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modi-
fying 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 principal,
any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
$59,682,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the guaranteed loan programs, $508,000.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts,
cooperative agreements, compacts and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions.
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guar-
antee and insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed
Loan Program account) shall be available for expenses of
exhibits, and purchase of not to exceed 229 passenger
motor vehicles, of which not to exceed 187 shall be for
replacement only.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office
operations or pooled overhead general administration (ex-
cept facilities operations and maintenance) shall be avail-
able for tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the
Tribal Self-Governance 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 for
distribution to other tribes, this action shall not diminish
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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 ac-
cess future appropriations.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
available to the Bureau, 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.
Appropriations made available in this or any other
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dor-
mitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bu-
reau school system as of October 1, 1995.
DEPARTMENT OFFICES
INSULAR AFFAIRS
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior,
$66,320,000 (reduced by $4,000,000), of which: (1)
$62,326,000 (reduced by $4,000,000) shall be available
until expended for technical assistance, including mainte-
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nance assistance, disaster assistance, insular management
controls, and brown tree snake control and research;
grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for compensa-
tion 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 Govern-
ment 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 Is-
lands as authorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 Stat.
272); and (2) $3,994,000 shall be available for salaries
and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided,
That all financial transactions of the territorial and local
governments herein provided for, including such trans-
actions of all agencies or instrumentalities established or
used by such governments, may be audited by the General
Accounting Office, at its discretion, in accordance with
chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur-
ther, 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 Mar-
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided
further, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
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ance, sufficient funding shall be made available for a grant
to the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, That the
funds for the program of operations and maintenance im-
provement are appropriated to institutionalize routine op-
erations and maintenance improvement of capital infra-
structure in American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands,
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the
Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands,
and the Federated States of Micronesia through assess-
ments of long-range operations maintenance needs, im-
proved capability of local operations and maintenance in-
stitutions and agencies (including management and voca-
tional education training), and project-specific mainte-
nance (with territorial participation and cost sharing to
be determined by the Secretary based on the individual
territory’s commitment to timely maintenance of its cap-
ital assets): Provided further, That any appropriation for
disaster assistance under this heading in this Act or pre-
vious 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 economic assistance and necessary expenses for
the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of
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the Marshall Islands as provided for in sections 122, 221,
223, 232, and 233 of the Compact of Free Association,
and for economic assistance and necessary expenses for
the Republic of Palau as provided for in sections 122, 221,
223, 232, and 233 of the Compact of Free Association,
$20,545,000, to remain available until expended, as au-
thorized by Public Law 99–239 and Public Law 99–658.
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior, $62,864,000, of which not to ex-
ceed $8,500 may be for official reception and representa-
tion expenses and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be
available for workers compensation payments and unem-
ployment compensation payments associated with the or-
derly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines.
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor,
$36,784,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General, $26,086,000.
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OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS
For operation of trust programs for Indians by direct
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts,
and grants, $90,025,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That funds for trust management im-
provements may be transferred, as needed, to the Bureau
of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account
and to the Departmental Management ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’ account: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able to Tribes and Tribal organizations through contracts
or grants obligated during fiscal year 2000, as authorized
by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C.
450 et seq.), shall remain available until expended by the
contractor or grantee: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the statute of limita-
tions shall not commence to run on any claim, including
any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement
of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian
has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from
which the beneficiary can determine whether there has
been a loss: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required
to provide a quarterly statement of performance for any
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Indian trust account that has not had activity for at least
18 months and has a balance of $1.00 or less: Provided
further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-
drawn upon the express written request of the account
holder.
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION PILOT
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION
For implementation of a pilot program for consolida-
tion of fractional interests in Indian lands by direct ex-
penditure or cooperative agreement, $5,000,000 to remain
available until expended, of which not to exceed $500,000
shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided,
That the Secretary may enter into a cooperative agree-
ment, which shall not be subject to Public Law 93–638,
as amended, with a tribe having jurisdiction over the pilot
reservation to implement the program to acquire fractional
interests on behalf of such tribe: Provided further, That
the Secretary may develop a reservation-wide system for
establishing the fair market value of various types of lands
and improvements to govern the amounts offered for ac-
quisition of fractional interests: Provided further, That ac-
quisitions shall be limited to one or more pilot reservations
as determined by the Secretary: Provided further, That
funds shall be available for acquisition of fractional inter-
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est in trust or restricted lands with the consent of its own-
ers and at fair market value, and the Secretary shall hold
in trust for such tribe all interests acquired pursuant to
this pilot program: Provided further, That all proceeds
from any lease, resource sale contract, right-of-way or
other transaction derived from the fractional interest shall
be credited to this appropriation, and remain available
until expended, until the purchase price paid by the Sec-
retary under this appropriation has been recovered from
such proceeds: Provided further, That once the purchase
price has been recovered, all subsequent proceeds shall be
managed by the Secretary for the benefit of the applicable
tribe or paid directly to the tribe.
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND
RESTORATION
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND
To conduct natural resource damage assessment ac-
tivities by the Department of the Interior necessary to
carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.),
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380), and
Public Law 101–337, $5,400,000, to remain available
until expended.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 air-
craft, 10 of which shall be for replacement and which may
be obtained by donation, purchase or through available ex-
cess surplus property: Provided, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, existing aircraft being replaced may
be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value used to
offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft: Pro-
vided further, That no programs funded with appropriated
funds in the ‘‘Departmental Management’’, ‘‘Office of the
Solicitor’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ may be aug-
mented through the Working Capital Fund or the Consoli-
dated Working Fund.
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
SEC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau
or office), with the approval of the Secretary, for the emer-
gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft,
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoid-
able causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made avail-
able under this authority until funds specifically made
available to the Department of the Interior for emer-
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gencies shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That
all funds used pursuant to this section are hereby des-
ignated by Congress to be ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be re-
plenished by a supplemental appropriation which must be
requested as promptly as possible.
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expendi-
ture or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title,
in addition to the amounts included in the budget pro-
grams of the several agencies, for the suppression or emer-
gency prevention of forest or range fires on or threatening
lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Inte-
rior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
tential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subse-
quent to actual oil spills; for response and natural resource
damage assessment activities related to actual oil spills;
for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or
potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to
the authority in section 1773(b) of Public Law 99–198
(99 Stat. 1658); for emergency reclamation projects under
section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall transfer, from
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any no year funds available to the Office of Surface Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be
necessary to permit assumption of regulatory authority in
the event a primacy State is not carrying out the regu-
latory provisions of the Surface Mining Act: Provided,
That appropriations made in this title for fire suppression
purposes shall be available for the payment of obligations
incurred during the preceding fiscal year, and for reim-
bursement to other Federal agencies for destruction of ve-
hicles, aircraft, or other equipment in connection with
their use for fire suppression purposes, such reimburse-
ment to be credited to appropriations currently available
at the time of receipt thereof: Provided further, That for
emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activi-
ties, no funds shall be made available under this authority
until funds appropriated to ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’
shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That all funds
used pursuant to this section are hereby designated by
Congress to be ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be replen-
ished by a supplemental appropriation which must be re-
quested as promptly as possible: Provided further, That
such replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on
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a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency funds
were transferred.
SEC. 103. Appropriations made in this title shall be
available for operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and
similar facilities, wherever consolidation of activities will
contribute to efficiency or economy, and said appropria-
tions shall be reimbursed for services rendered to any
other activity in the same manner as authorized by sec-
tions 1535 and 1536 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided, That reimbursements for costs and supplies, mate-
rials, equipment, and for services rendered may be cred-
ited to the appropriation current at the time such reim-
bursements are received.
SEC. 104. Appropriations made to the Department
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the
Secretary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; hire,
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for tele-
phone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and
the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary,
for library membership in societies or associations which
issue publications to members only or at a price to mem-
bers lower than to subscribers who are not members.
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SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of the Interior for salaries and expenses shall be
available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as author-
ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902 and D.C. Code 4–204).
SEC. 106. Appropriations made in this title shall be
available for obligation in connection with contracts issued
for services or rentals for periods not in excess of twelve
months beginning at any time during the fiscal year.
SEC. 107. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of offshore oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing and re-
lated activities placed under restriction in the President’s
moratorium statement of June 12, 1998, which includes
the areas of: northern, central, and southern California;
the North Atlantic; Washington and Oregon; the eastern
Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north latitude and east
of 86 degrees west longitude and any lands located outside
Sale 181, as identified in the final Outer Continental Shelf
5–year Oil and Gas Leasing Program, 1997–2002; the
North Aleutian Basin planning area; and the Mid-Atlantic
and South Atlantic planning areas.
SEC. 108. Advance payments made under this title
to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal consortia
pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or the Tribally
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Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.)
may be invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organization,
or consortium before such funds are expended for the pur-
poses of the grant, compact, or annual funding agreement
so long as such funds are—
(1) invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organiza-
tion, or consortium only in obligations of the United
States, or in obligations or securities that are guar-
anteed or insured by the United States, or mutual
(or other) funds registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and which only invest in obli-
gations of the United States or securities that are
guaranteed or insured by the United States; or
(2) deposited only into accounts that are in-
sured by an agency or instrumentality of the United
States, or are fully collateralized to ensure protec-
tion of the funds, even in the event of a bank failure.
SEC. 109. (a) Employees of Helium Operations, Bu-
reau of Land Management, entitled to severance pay
under 5 U.S.C. 5595, may apply for, and the Secretary
of the Interior may pay, the total amount of the severance
pay to the employee in a lump sum. Employees paid sever-
ance pay in a lump sum and subsequently reemployed by
the Federal Government shall be subject to the repayment
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provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5595(i)(2) and (3), except that any
repayment shall be made to the Helium Fund.
(b) Helium Operations employees who elect to con-
tinue health benefits after separation shall be liable for
not more than the required employee contribution under
5 U.S.C. 8905a(d)(1)(A). The Helium Fund shall pay for
18 months the remaining portion of required contribu-
tions.
(c) The Secretary of the Interior may provide for
training to assist Helium Operations employees in the
transition to other Federal or private sector jobs during
the facility shut-down and disposition process and for up
to 12 months following separation from Federal employ-
ment, including retraining and relocation incentives on the
same terms and conditions as authorized for employees of
the Department of Defense in section 348 of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995.
(d) For purposes of the annual leave restoration pro-
visions of 5 U.S.C. 6304(d)(1)(B), the cessation of helium
production and sales, and other related Helium Program
activities shall be deemed to create an exigency of public
business under, and annual leave that is lost during leave
years 1997 through 2001 because of 5 U.S.C. 6304 (re-
gardless of whether such leave was scheduled in advance)
shall be restored to the employee and shall be credited and
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available in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 6304(d)(2). Annual
leave so restored and remaining unused upon the transfer
of a Helium Program employee to a position of the execu-
tive branch outside of the Helium Program shall be liq-
uidated by payment to the employee of a lump sum from
the Helium Fund for such leave.
(e) Benefits under this section shall be paid from the
Helium Fund in accordance with section 4(c)(4) of the
Helium Privatization Act of 1996. Funds may be made
available to Helium Program employees who are or will
be separated before October 1, 2002 because of the ces-
sation of helium production and sales and other related
activities. Retraining benefits, including retraining and re-
location incentives, may be paid for retraining com-
mencing on or before September 30, 2002.
(f) This section shall remain in effect through fiscal
year 2002.
SEC. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1975, as amended, hereafter funds avail-
able to the Department of the Interior for Indian self-de-
termination or self-governance contract or grant support
costs may be expended only for costs directly attributable
to contracts, grants and compacts pursuant to the Indian
Self-Determination Act and hereafter funds appropriated
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in this title shall not be available for any contract support
costs or indirect costs associated with any contract, grant,
cooperative agreement, self-governance compact or fund-
ing agreement entered into between an Indian tribe or
tribal organization and any entity other than an agency
of the Department of the Interior.
SEC. 111. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, the National Park Service shall not develop or imple-
ment a reduced entrance fee program to accommodate
non-local travel through a unit. The Secretary may provide
for and regulate local non-recreational passage through
units of the National Park System, allowing each unit to
develop guidelines and permits for such activity appro-
priate to that unit.
SEC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, the Secretary is
authorized to permit persons, firms or organizations en-
gaged in commercial, cultural, educational, or recreational
activities (as defined in section 612a of title 40, United
States Code) not currently occupying such space to use
courtyards, auditoriums, meeting rooms, and other space
of the main and south Interior building complex, Wash-
ington, D.C., the maintenance, operation, and protection
of which has been delegated to the Secretary from the Ad-
ministrator of General Services pursuant to the Federal
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Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, and to
assess reasonable charges therefore, subject to such proce-
dures as the Secretary deems appropriate for such uses.
Charges may be for the space, utilities, maintenance, re-
pair, and other services. Charges for such space and serv-
ices may be at rates equivalent to the prevailing commer-
cial rate for comparable space and services devoted to a
similar purpose in the vicinity of the main and south Inte-
rior building complex, Washington, D.C. for which charges
are being assessed. The Secretary may without further ap-
propriation hold, administer, and use such proceeds within
the Departmental Management Working Capital Fund to
offset the operation of the buildings under his jurisdiction,
whether delegated or otherwise, and for related purposes,
until expended.
SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Steel Industry American Heritage Area, author-
ized as part of Public Law 104–333, is hereby renamed
the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.
SEC. 114. Refunds or rebates received on an ongoing
basis from a credit card services provider under the De-
partment of the Interior’s charge card programs may be
deposited to and retained without fiscal year limitation in
the Departmental Working Capital Fund established
under 43 U.S.C. 1467 and used to fund management ini-
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tiatives of general benefit to the Department of the Inte-
rior’s bureaus and offices as determined by the Secretary
or his designee.
SEC. 115. Appropriations made in this title under the
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special
Trustee for American Indians and any available unobli-
gated balances from prior appropriations Acts made under
the same headings, shall be available for expenditure or
transfer for Indian trust management activities pursuant
to the Trust Management Improvement Project High
Level Implementation Plan.
SEC. 116. All properties administered by the National
Park Service at Fort Baker, Golden Gate National Recre-
ation Area, and leases, concessions, permits and other
agreements associated with those properties, hereafter
shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments,
except sales tax, by the State of California and its political
subdivisions, including the County of Marin and the City
of Sausalito. Such areas of Fort Baker shall remain under
exclusive Federal jurisdiction.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to negotiate and
enter into agreements and leases, without regard to sec-
tion 321 of chapter 314 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (40
U.S.C. 303b), with any person, firm, association, organi-
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zation, corporation, or governmental entity for all or part
of the property within Fort Baker administered by the
Secretary as part of Golden Gate National Recreation
Area. The proceeds of the agreements or leases shall be
retained by the Secretary and such proceeds shall be avail-
able, without future appropriation, for the preservation,
restoration, operation, maintenance and interpretation
and related expenses incurred with respect to Fort Baker
properties.
SEC. 118. Where any Federal lands included in the
boundary of Lake Roosevelt National Recreational Area
for grazing purposes, pursuant to a permit issued by the
National Park Service, the person or persons so utilizing
such lands shall be entitled to renew said permit. The Na-
tional Park Service is further directed to manage the Lake
Roosevelt National Recreational Area subject to grazing
use in a manner that will protect the recreational, natural
(including water quality) and cultural resources of the
Lake Roosevelt National Recreational Area.
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, grazing permits which expire during fiscal year 2000
shall be renewed for the balance of fiscal year 2000 on
the same terms and conditions as contained in the expiring
permits, or until the Bureau of Land Management com-
pletes processing these permits in compliance with all ap-
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plicable laws, whichever comes first. Upon completion of
processing by the Bureau, the terms and conditions of ex-
isting grazing permits may be modified, if necessary, and
reissued for a term not to exceed 10 years. Nothing in
this language shall be deemed to affect the Bureau’s au-
thority to otherwise modify or terminate grazing permits.
SEC. 120. For the purpose of reducing the Indian
probate backlog in the Department of the Interior, the
Secretary may, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, including the provisions of title 5, U.S.C. pertaining
to competition in the appointment process and actions cov-
ered by section 7521 of title 5, appoint administrative law
judges for such periods of time as the Secretary considers
to be necessary.
SEC. 121. (a) LOAN TO BE GRANTED.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law or of this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Interior (hereinafter the ‘‘Secretary’’), in
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall
make available to the government of American Samoa
(hereinafter ‘‘ASG’’), the benefits of a loan in the amount
of $18,600,000 bearing interest at a rate equal to the
United States Treasury cost of borrowing for obligations
of similar duration. Repayment of the loan shall be se-
cured and accomplished pursuant to this section with
funds, as they become due and payable to ASG from the
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Escrow Account established under the terms and condi-
tions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (and
the subsequent Enforcing Consent Decree) (hereinafter
collectively referred to as ‘‘the Agreement’’) entered into
by the parties November 23, 1998, and judgment granted
by the High Court of American Samoa on January 5,
1999 (Civil Action 119–98, American Samoa Government
v. Philip Morris Tobacco Co., et. al.).
(b) CONDITIONS REGARDING LOAN PROCEEDS.—Ex-
cept as provided under subsection (e), no proceeds of the
loan described in this section shall become available until
ASG—
(1) has enacted legislation, or has taken such
other or additional official action as the Secretary
may deem satisfactory to secure and ensure repay-
ment of the loan, irrevocably transferring and as-
signing for payment to the Department of the Inte-
rior (or to the Department of the Treasury, upon
agreement between the Secretaries of such Depart-
ments) all amounts due and payable to ASG under
the terms and conditions of the Agreement for a pe-
riod of 26 years with the first payment beginning in
2000, such repayment to be further secured by a
pledge of the full faith and credit of ASG;
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(2) has entered into an agreement or memo-
randum of understanding described in subsection (c)
with the Secretary identifying with specificity the
manner in which approximately $14,300,000 of the
loan proceeds will be used to pay debts of ASG in-
curred prior to April 15, 1999; and
(3) has provided to the Secretary an initial plan
of fiscal and managerial reform as described in sub-
section (d) designed to bring the ASG’s annual oper-
ating expenses into balance with projected revenues
for the years 2003 and beyond, and identifying the
manner in which approximately $4,300,000 of the
loan proceeds will be utilized to facilitate implemen-
tation of the plan.
(c) PROCEDURE AND PRIORITIES FOR DEBT PAY-
MENTS.—
(1) In structuring the agreement or memo-
randum of understanding identified in subsection
(b)(2), the ASG and the Secretary shall include pro-
visions, which create priorities for the payment of
creditors in the following order—
(A) debts incurred for services, supplies,
facilities, equipment and materials directly con-
nected with the provision of health, safety and
welfare functions for the benefit of the general
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population of American Samoa (including, but
not limited to, health care, fire and police pro-
tection, educational programs grades K–12, and
utility services for facilities belonging to or uti-
lized by ASG and its agencies), wherein the
creditor agrees to compromise and settle the ex-
isting debt for a payment not exceeding 75 per-
cent of the amount owed, shall be given the
highest priority for payment from the loan pro-
ceeds under this section;
(B) debts not exceeding a total amount of
$200,000 owed to a single provider and in-
curred for any legitimate governmental purpose
for the benefit of the general population of
American Samoa, wherein the creditor agrees to
compromise and settle the existing debt for a
payment
not
exceeding
percent
of
the
amount owed, shall be given the second highest
priority for payment from the loan proceeds
under this section;
(C) debts exceeding a total amount of
$200,000 owed to a single provider and in-
curred for any legitimate governmental purpose
for the benefit of the general population of
American Samoa, wherein the creditor agrees to
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compromise and settle the existing debt for a
payment
not
exceeding
percent
of
the
amount owed, shall be given the third highest
priority for payment from the loan proceeds
under this section;
(D) other debts regardless of total amount
owed or purpose for which incurred, wherein
the creditor agrees to compromise and settle the
existing debt for a payment not exceeding 60
percent of the amount owed, shall be given the
fourth highest priority for payment from the
loan proceeds under this section;
(E) debts described in subparagraphs (A),
(B), (C), and (D) of this paragraph, wherein
the creditor declines to compromise and settle
the debt for the percentage of the amount owed
as specified under the applicable subparagraph,
shall be given the lowest priority for payment
from the loan proceeds under this section.
(2)
The
agreement
described
in
subsection
(b)(2) shall also generally provide a framework
whereby the Governor of American Samoa shall,
from time to time, be required to give 10 business
days notice to the Secretary that ASG will make
payment in accordance with this section to specified
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creditors and the amount which will be paid to each
of such creditors. Upon issuance of payments in ac-
cordance with the notice, the Governor shall imme-
diately confirm such payments to the Secretary, and
the Secretary shall within three business days fol-
lowing receipt of such confirmation transfer from
the loan proceeds an amount sufficient to reimburse
ASG for the payments made to creditors.
(3) The agreement may contain such other pro-
visions as are mutually agreeable, and which are cal-
culated to simplify and expedite the payment of ex-
isting debt under this section and ensure the great-
est level of compromise and settlement with creditors
in order to maximize the retirement of ASG debt.
(d) FISCAL AND MANAGERIAL REFORM PROGRAM.—
(1) The initial plan of fiscal and managerial re-
form, designed to bring ASG’s annual operating ex-
penses into balance with projected revenues for the
years 2003 and beyond as required under subsection
(b)(3), should identify specific measures which will
be implemented by ASG to accomplish such goal, the
anticipated reduction in government operating ex-
pense which will be achieved by each measure, and
should include a timetable for attainment of each re-
form measure identified therein.
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(2) The initial plan should also identify with
specificity
the
manner
in
which
approximately
$4,300,000 of the loan proceeds will be utilized to
assist in meeting the reform plan’s targets within
the timetable specified through the use of incentives
for
early
retirement,
severance
pay
packages,
outsourcing services, or any other expenditures for
program elements reasonably calculated to result in
reduced future operating expenses for ASG on a
long term basis.
(3) Upon receipt of the initial plan, the Sec-
retary shall consult with the Governor of American
Samoa,
and
shall
make
any
recommendations
deemed reasonable and prudent to ensure the goals
of reform are achieved. The reform plan shall con-
tain objective criteria that can be documented by a
competent third party, mutually agreeable to the
Governor and the Secretary. The plan shall include
specific targets for reducing the amounts of ASG
local revenues expended on government payroll and
overhead (including contracts for consulting serv-
ices), and may include provisions which allow modest
increases in support of the LBJ Hospital Authority
reasonably calculated to assist the Authority imple-
ment reforms which will lead to an independent
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audit indicating annual expenditures at or below an-
nual Authority receipts.
(4) The Secretary shall enter into an agreement
with the Governor similar to that specified in sub-
section (c)(2) of this section, enabling ASG to make
payments as contemplated in the reform plan and
then to receive reimbursement from the Secretary
out of the portion of loan proceeds allocated for the
implementation of fiscal reforms.
(5) Within 60 days following receipt of the ini-
tial plan, the Secretary shall approve an interim
final plan reasonably calculated to make substantial
progress toward overall reform. The Secretary shall
provide copies of the plan, and any subsequent modi-
fications, to the House Committee on Resources, the
House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee
on the Department of the Interior and Related
Agencies, the Senate Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural Resources, and the Senate Committee on Ap-
propriations Subcommittee on the Department of
the Interior and Related Agencies.
(6) From time to time as deemed necessary, the
Secretary shall consult further with the Governor of
American Samoa, and shall approve such mutually
agreeable modifications to the interim final plan as
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circumstances warrant in order to achieve the overall
goals of ASG fiscal and managerial reforms.
(e) RELEASE OF LOAN PROCEEDS.—From the total
proceeds of the loan described in this section, the Sec-
retary shall make available—
(1) upon compliance by ASG with paragraphs
(b)(1) and (b)(2) of this section and in accordance
with subsection (c), approximately $14,300,000 in
reimbursements as requested from time to time by
the Governor for payments to creditors;
(2) upon compliance by ASG with paragraphs
(b)(1) and (b)(3) of this section and in accordance
with subsection (d), approximately $4,300,000 in re-
imbursements as requested from time to time by the
Governor for payments associated with implementa-
tion of the interim final reform plan; and
(3) notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of
this subsection, at any time the Secretary and the
Governor mutually determine that the amount nec-
essary to fund payments under paragraph (2) will
total less than $4,300,000 then the Secretary may
approve the amount of any unused portion of such
sum for additional payments against ASG debt
under paragraph (1).
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(f) EXCEPTION.— Proceeds from the loan under this
section shall be used solely for the purposes of debt pay-
ments and reform plan implementation as specified herein,
except that the Secretary may provide an amount equal
to not more than 2 percent of the total loan proceeds for
the purpose of retaining the services of an individual or
business entity to provide direct assistance and manage-
ment expertise in carrying out the purposes of this section.
Such individual or business entity shall be mutually agree-
able to the Governor and the Secretary, may not be a cur-
rent or former employee of, or contractor for, and may
not be a creditor of ASG. Notwithstanding the preceding
2 sentences, the Governor and the Secretary may agree
to also retain the services of any semi-autonomous agency
of ASG which has established a record of sound manage-
ment and fiscal responsibility, as evidenced by audited fi-
nancial reports for at least 3 of the past 5 years, to coordi-
nate with and assist any individual or entity retained
under this subsection.
(g) CONSTRUCTION.—The provisions of this section
are expressly applicable only to the utilization of proceeds
from the loan described in this section, and nothing herein
shall be construed to relieve ASG from any lawful debt
or obligation except to the extent a creditor shall volun-
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tarily enter into an arms length agreement to compromise
and settle outstanding amounts under subsection (c).
(h) TERMINATION.—The payment of debt and the
payments associated with implementation of the interim
final reform plan shall be completed not later than Octo-
ber 1, 2003. On such date, any unused loan proceeds to-
taling $1,000,000 or less shall be transferred by the Sec-
retary directly to ASG. If the amount of unused loan pro-
ceeds exceeds $1,000,000, then such amount shall be cred-
ited to the total of loan repayments specified in paragraph
(b)(1). With approval of the Secretary, ASG may des-
ignate additional payments from time to time from funds
available from any source, without regard to the original
purpose of such funds.
TITLE II—RELATED AGENCIES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $204,373,000, to remain
available until expended.
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health man-
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agement, cooperative forestry, and education and land
conservation activities, $181,464,000, to remain available
until expended, as authorized by law.
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System,
and for administrative expenses associated with the man-
agement of funds provided under the headings ‘‘Forest
and Rangeland Research’’, ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’,
‘‘National Forest System’’, ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’,
‘‘Reconstruction and Maintenance’’, and ‘‘Land Acquisi-
tion’’, $1,254,434,000, to remain available until expended,
which shall include 50 percent of all moneys received dur-
ing prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in
accordance with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–
6a(i)): Provided, That unobligated balances available at
the start of fiscal year 2000 shall be displayed by extended
budget line item and region in the fiscal year 2001 budget
justification.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency
fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other
lands under fire protection agreement, and for emergency
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rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System
lands and water, $561,354,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That such funds are available for re-
payment of advances from other accounts previously
transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That not
less than 50 percent of any unobligated balances remain-
ing (exclusive of amounts for hazardous fuels reduction)
at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall be transferred, as re-
payment for past advances that have not been repaid, to
the fund established pursuant to section 3 of Public Law
71–319 (16 U.S.C. 576 et seq.): Provided further, That
notwithstanding
any
other
provision
of
law,
up
to
$4,000,000 of funds appropriated under this appropria-
tion may be used for Fire Science Research in support
of the Joint Fire Science Program: Provided further, That
all authorities for the use of funds, including the use of
contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, available to
execute the Forest Service and Rangeland Research ap-
propriation, are also available in the utilization of these
funds for Fire Science Research.
RECONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not
otherwise provided for, $396,602,000, to remain available
until expended for construction, reconstruction, mainte-
nance and acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and
for construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance
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of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as author-
ized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205:
Provided, That up to $15,000,000 of the funds provided
herein for road maintenance shall be available for the de-
commissioning of roads, including unauthorized roads not
part of the transportation system, which are no longer
needed: Provided further, That no funds shall be expended
to decommission any system road until notice and an op-
portunity for public comment has been provided: Provided
further, That any unobligated balances of amounts pre-
viously appropriated to the Forest Service ‘‘Reconstruc-
tion and Construction’’ account as well as any unobligated
balances remaining in the ‘‘National Forest System’’ ac-
count for the facility maintenance and trail maintenance
extended budget line items at the end of fiscal year 1999
may be transferred to and merged with this ‘‘Reconstruc-
tion and Maintenance’’ account.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965,
as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including ad-
ministrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or wa-
ters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory au-
thority applicable to the Forest Service, $1,000,000, to be
derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That subject
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to valid existing rights, all Federally owned lands and in-
terests in lands within the New World Mining District
comprising approximately 26,223 acres, more or less,
which are described in a Federal Register notice dated Au-
gust 19, 1997 (62 Fed. Reg. 44136–44137), are hereby
withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, and dis-
posal under the public land laws, and from location, entry
and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition
under all mineral and geothermal leasing laws.
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL
ACTS
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests,
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-
geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National
Forests, California, as authorized by law, $1,069,000, to
be derived from forest receipts.
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived
from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov-
ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-
thorities pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until ex-
pended.
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RANGE BETTERMENT FUND
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the six-
teen Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of
Public Law 94–579, as amended, to remain available until
expended, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be avail-
able for administrative expenses associated with on-the-
ground range rehabilitation, protection, and improve-
ments.
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND
RANGELAND RESEARCH
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b),
$92,000, to remain available until expended, to be derived
from the fund established pursuant to the above Act.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to
exceed 110 passenger motor vehicles of which 15 will be
used primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which
109 shall be for replacement; acquisition of 25 passenger
motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire of such vehi-
cles; operation and maintenance of aircraft, the purchase
of not to exceed three for replacement only, and acquisi-
tion of sufficient aircraft from excess sources to maintain
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the operable fleet at 213 aircraft for use in Forest Service
wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs;
notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the
replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C.
2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under
5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration of
buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250);
(4) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein, pur-
suant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the
Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.
558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uniforms as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for debt col-
lection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c).
None of the funds made available under this Act shall
be obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move
or close any regional office for National Forest System
administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agri-
culture, or to implement any reorganization or other type
of organizational restructuring of the Forest Service with-
out the advance consent of the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations.
Any appropriations or funds available to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may be transferred to the Wildland
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Fire Management appropriation for forest firefighting,
emergency rehabilitation of burned-over or damaged lands
or waters under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due
to severe burning conditions if and only if all previously
appropriated emergency contingent funds under this head-
ing have been released by the President and apportioned.
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice in connection with forest and rangeland research, tech-
nical information, and assistance in foreign countries, and
shall be available to support forestry and related natural
resource activities outside the United States and its terri-
tories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-
cation and training, and cooperation with United States
and international organizations.
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-
ice under this Act shall be subject to transfer under the
provisions of section 702(b) of the Department of Agri-
culture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or 7 U.S.C.
147b unless the proposed transfer is approved in advance
by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
in compliance with the reprogramming procedures con-
tained in House Report 105–163.
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None of the funds available to the Forest Service may
be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in ac-
cordance with the procedures contained in House Report
105–163.
No funds appropriated or otherwise available to the
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital
Fund of the Department of Agriculture without the ad-
vance approval of the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations.
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be avail-
able to conduct a program of not less than $1,000,000
for high priority projects within the scope of the approved
budget which shall be carried out by the Youth Conserva-
tion 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 representation expenses.
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service,
up to $1,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum as Fed-
eral financial assistance to the National Forest Founda-
tion, without regard to when the Foundation incurs ex-
penses, for administrative expenses or projects on or bene-
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fitting National Forest System lands or related to Forest
Service programs: Provided, That of the Federal funds
made available to the Foundation, no more than $200,000
shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided
further, That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of
the period of Federal financial assistance, private con-
tributions 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 For-
est Foundation may hold Federal funds made available
but not immediately disbursed and may use any interest
or other investment income earned (before, on, or after
the date of enactment of this Act) on Federal funds to
carry out the purposes of Public Law 101–593: Provided
further, That such investments may be made only in inter-
est-bearing obligations of the United States or in obliga-
tions 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.
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3701–3709, and may be advanced in a lump sum as Fed-
eral financial assistance, without regard to when expenses
are incurred, for projects on or benefitting National For-
est System lands or related to Forest Service programs:
Provided, That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end
of the period of Federal financial assistance, private con-
tributions to match on at least one-for-one basis funds ad-
vanced 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 as-
sistance to rural communities for sustainable rural devel-
opment purposes.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 80 per-
cent of the funds appropriated to the Forest Service in
the ‘‘National Forest System’’ and ‘‘Reconstruction and
Construction’’ accounts and planned to be allocated to ac-
tivities 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 percent of said funds shall be
retained by the Forest Service for planning and admin-
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istering projects. Project selection and prioritization shall
be accomplished by the Forest Service with such consulta-
tion 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 ap-
propriate with the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, as
well as with public and other private agencies, organiza-
tions, institutions, and individuals, to provide for the de-
velopment, administration, maintenance, or restoration of
land, facilities, or Forest Service programs, at the Grey
Towers National Historic Landmark: Provided, That, sub-
ject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agri-
culture may prescribe, any such public or private agency,
organization, institution, 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 ac-
tivities and services at the Grey Towers National Historic
Landmark: Provided further, That such gifts may be ac-
cepted notwithstanding the fact that a donor conducts
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business with the Department of Agriculture in any capac-
ity.
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).
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 Depart-
ment for more than 30 days unless the individual’s em-
ploying agency or office is fully reimbursed by the receiv-
ing agency or office for the salary and expenses of the
employee for the period of assignment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations 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 Agri-
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management
reviews, land purchase negotiations and similar non-litiga-
tion related matters. Future budget justifications for both
the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture
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should clearly display the sums previously transferred and
the requested funding transfers.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
(DEFERRAL)
Of the funds made available under this heading for
obligation in prior years, $256,000,000 shall not be avail-
able until October 1, 2000: Provided, That funds made
available in previous appropriations Acts shall be available
for any ongoing project regardless of the separate request
for proposal under which the project was selected.
FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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, includ-
ing defeasible and equitable interests in any real property
or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition or expan-
sion, and for conducting inquiries, technological investiga-
tions and research concerning the extraction, processing,
use, and disposal of mineral substances without objection-
able 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 Or-
egon, $359,292,000 (reduced by $29,000,000) (reduced
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by $50,000,000), to remain available until expended, of
which $24,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from unob-
ligated balances in the Biomass Energy Development ac-
count: Provided, That no part of the sum herein made
available shall be used for the field testing of nuclear ex-
plosives in the recovery of oil and gas.
ALTERNATIVE FUELS PRODUCTION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Moneys received as investment income on the prin-
cipal amount in the Great Plains Project Trust at the
Norwest Bank of North Dakota, in such sums as are
earned as of October 1, 1999, shall be deposited in this
account and immediately transferred to the general fund
of the Treasury. Moneys received as revenue sharing from
operation of the Great Plains Gasification Plant and set-
tlement payments shall be immediately transferred to the
general fund of the Treasury.
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES
The requirements of 10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) shall
not apply to fiscal year 2000: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, unobligated funds re-
maining from prior years shall be available for all naval
petroleum and oil shale reserve activities.
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ELK HILLS SCHOOL, LANDS FUND
For necessary expenses in fulfilling the second install-
ment payment under the Settlement Agreement entered
into by the United States and the State of California on
October 11, 1996, as authorized by section 3415 of Public
Law 104–106, $36,000,000 for payment to the State of
California for the State Teachers’ Retirement Fund from
the Elk Hills School Lands Fund.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy con-
servation
activities,
$718,822,000
(increased
by
$13,000,000), to remain available until expended, of which
$25,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from unobligated
balances in the Biomass Energy Development account:
Provided, That $153,000,000 (increased by $13,000,000)
shall be for use in energy conservation programs as de-
fined in section 3008(3) of Public Law 99–509 (15 U.S.C.
4507): Provided further, That notwithstanding section
3003(d)(2) of Public Law 99–509, such sums shall be allo-
cated to the eligible programs as follows: $120,000,000
(increased by $13,000,000), contingent on a cost share of
25 percent by each participating State or other qualified
participant, for weatherization assistance grants and
$33,000,000 for State energy conservation grants.
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ECONOMIC REGULATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities
of the Office of Hearings and Appeals, $2,000,000, to re-
main available until expended.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Re-
serve facility development and operations and program
management activities pursuant to the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act of 1975, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6201
et seq.), $159,000,000 (reduced by $13,000,000), to re-
main available until expended.
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities
of the Energy Information Administration, $72,644,000,
to remain available until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Appropriations under this Act for the current fiscal
year shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles;
hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase, re-
pair, and cleaning of uniforms; and reimbursement to the
General Services Administration for security guard serv-
ices.
From appropriations under this Act, transfers of
sums may be made to other agencies of the Government
for the performance of work for which the appropriation
is made.
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None of the funds made available to the Department
of Energy under this Act shall be used to implement or
finance authorized price support or loan guarantee pro-
grams unless specific provision is made for such programs
in an appropriations Act.
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, build-
ings, equipment, and other contributions from public and
private sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation
with other agencies, Federal, State, private or foreign:
Provided, That revenues and other moneys received by or
for the account of the Department of Energy or otherwise
generated by sale of products in connection with projects
of the Department appropriated under this Act may be
retained by the Secretary of Energy, to be available until
expended, and used only for plant construction, operation,
costs, and payments to cost-sharing entities as provided
in appropriate cost-sharing contracts or agreements: Pro-
vided further, That the remainder of revenues after the
making of such payments shall be covered into the Treas-
ury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any
contract, agreement, or provision thereof entered into by
the Secretary pursuant to this authority shall not be exe-
cuted prior to the expiration of 30 calendar days (not in-
cluding any day in which either House of Congress is not
in session because of adjournment of more than three cal-
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endar days to a day certain) from the receipt by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Presi-
dent of the Senate of a full comprehensive report on such
project, including the facts and circumstances relied upon
in support of the proposed project.
No funds provided in this Act may be expended by
the Department of Energy to prepare, issue, or process
procurement documents for programs or projects for
which appropriations have not been made.
In addition to other authorities set forth in this Act,
the Secretary may accept fees and contributions from pub-
lic and private sources, to be deposited in a contributed
funds account, and prosecute projects using such fees and
contributions in cooperation with other Federal, State or
private agencies or concerns.
The Secretary of Energy hereafter may transfer to
the SPR Petroleum Account such funds as may be nec-
essary to carry out draw down and sale operations of the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve initiated under section 161
of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C.
6241) from any funds available to the Department of En-
ergy under this or previous appropriations Acts. All funds
transferred pursuant to this authority must be replenished
as promptly as possible from oil sale receipts pursuant to
the draw down and sale.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and
titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act with re-
spect to the Indian Health Service, $2,085,407,000, to-
gether with payments received during the fiscal year pur-
suant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made avail-
able to tribes and tribal organizations through contracts,
grant agreements, or any other agreements or compacts
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450), shall be
deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant or contract
award and thereafter shall remain available to the tribe
or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Pro-
vided further, That $12,000,000 shall remain available
until expended, for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emer-
gency Fund: Provided further, That $395,290,000 for con-
tract medical care shall remain available for obligation
until September 30, 2001: Provided further, That of the
funds provided, up to $17,000,000 shall be used to carry
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out the loan repayment program under section 108 of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Provided further,
That funds provided in this Act may be used for 1-year
contracts and grants which are to be performed in two
fiscal years, so long as the total obligation is recorded in
the year for which the funds are appropriated: Provided
further, That the amounts collected by the Secretary of
Health and Human Services under the authority of title
IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall re-
main available until expended for the purpose of achieving
compliance with the applicable conditions and require-
ments of titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act
(exclusive of planning, design, or construction of new fa-
cilities): Provided further, That funding contained herein,
and in any earlier appropriations Acts for scholarship pro-
grams under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
(25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available for obligation
until September 30, 2001: Provided further, That amounts
received by tribes and tribal organizations under title IV
of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall be re-
ported and accounted for and available to the receiving
tribes and tribal organizations until expended: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of
the
amounts
provided
herein,
not
to
exceed
$238,781,000 shall be for payments to tribes and tribal
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organizations for contract or grant support costs for fiscal
year 2000 associated with contracts, grants, self-govern-
ance compacts or annual funding agreements between the
Indian Health Service and a tribe or tribal organization
pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975,
as amended, of which $5,000,000 is for new and expanded
contracts, grants, self-goverance compacts or annual fund-
ing agreements.
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement,
and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities,
including quarters for personnel; preparation of plans,
specifications, and drawings; acquisition of sites, purchase
and erection of modular buildings, and purchases of trail-
ers; and for provision of domestic and community sanita-
tion facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of
the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian
Self-Determination Act, and the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act, and for expenses necessary to carry out
such Acts and titles II and III of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act with respect to environmental health and facilities
support
activities
of
the
Indian
Health
Service,
$312,478,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
funds appropriated for the planning, design, construction
or renovation of health facilities for the benefit of an In-
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dian tribe or tribes may be used to purchase land for sites
to construct, improve, or enlarge health or related facili-
ties.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Appropriations in this Act to the Indian Health Serv-
ice shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109 but at rates not to exceed the per diem rate equiva-
lent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level positions
under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehicles and
aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase of re-
prints; purchase, renovation and erection of modular
buildings and renovation of existing facilities; payments
for telephone service in private residences in the field,
when authorized under regulations approved by the Sec-
retary; and for uniforms or allowances therefore as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and for expenses of at-
tendance at meetings which are concerned with the func-
tions or activities for which the appropriation is made or
which will contribute to improved conduct, supervision, or
management of those functions or activities: Provided,
That in accordance with the provisions of the Indian
Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients may
be extended health care at all tribally administered or In-
dian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and the
proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal
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Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall
be credited to the account of the facility providing the
service and shall be available without fiscal year limitation:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other law or
regulation, funds transferred from the Department of
Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health
Service shall be administered under Public Law 86–121
(the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act) and Public Law 93–
638, as amended: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except
those used for administrative and program direction pur-
poses, shall not be subject to limitations directed at cur-
tailing Federal travel and transportation: Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds
previously or herein made available to a tribe or tribal or-
ganization through a contract, grant, or agreement au-
thorized by title I or title III of the Indian Self-Determina-
tion and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C.
450), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-deter-
mination contract under title I, or a self-governance agree-
ment under title III of such Act and thereafter shall re-
main available to the tribe or tribal organization without
fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That none of the
funds made available to the Indian Health Service in this
Act shall be used to implement the final rule published
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in the Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by the
Department of Health and Human Services, relating to
the eligibility for the health care services of the Indian
Health Service until the Indian Health Service has sub-
mitted a budget request reflecting the increased costs as-
sociated with the proposed final rule, and such request has
been included in an appropriations Act and enacted into
law: Provided further, That funds made available in this
Act are to be apportioned to the Indian Health Service
as appropriated in this Act, and accounted for in the ap-
propriation structure set forth in this Act: Provided fur-
ther, That with respect to functions transferred by the In-
dian Health Service to tribes or tribal organizations, the
Indian Health Service is authorized to provide goods and
services to those entities, on a reimbursable basis, includ-
ing payment in advance with subsequent adjustment, and
the reimbursements received therefrom, along with the
funds received from those entities pursuant to the Indian
Self-Determination Act, may be credited to the same or
subsequent appropriation account which provided the
funding, said amounts to remain available until expended:
Provided further, That reimbursements for training, tech-
nical assistance, or services provided by the Indian Health
Service will contain total costs, including direct, adminis-
trative, and overhead associated with the provision of
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goods, services, or technical assistance: Provided further,
That the appropriation structure for the Indian Health
Service may not be altered without advance approval of
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93–
531, $13,400,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appro-
priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals
and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti-
tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in-
cluded in the preceding categories: Provided further, That
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may
be used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Reloca-
tion to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as
of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the
lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or re-
placement home is provided for such household: Provided
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than
one new or replacement home: Provided further, That the
Office shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who
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have selected and received an approved homesite on the
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off
the Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 640d–10.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields
of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and
documentation of the National Collections; presentation of
public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation,
dissemination, and exchange of information and publica-
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease
(for terms not to exceed 30 years), and protection of build-
ings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000
for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; up to 5 re-
placement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, repair, and
cleaning of uniforms for employees, $371,501,000, of
which not to exceed $48,471,000 for the instrumentation
program, collections acquisition, Museum Support Center
equipment and move, exhibition reinstallation, the Na-
tional Museum of the American Indian, the repatriation
of skeletal remains program, research equipment, informa-
tion management, and Latino programming shall remain
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available until expended, and including such funds as may
be necessary to support American overseas research cen-
ters and a total of $125,000 for the Council of American
Overseas Research Centers: Provided, That funds appro-
priated herein are available for advance payments to inde-
pendent contractors performing research services or par-
ticipating in official Smithsonian presentations: Provided
further, That the Smithsonian Institution may expend
Federal appropriations designated in this Act for lease or
rent payments for long term and swing space, as rent pay-
able to the Smithsonian Institution, and such rent pay-
ments may be deposited into the general trust funds of
the Institution to the extent that federally supported ac-
tivities are housed in the 900 H Street, N.W. building in
the District of Columbia: Provided further, That this use
of Federal appropriations shall not be construed as debt
service, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or
an obligation of, the Federal Government: Provided fur-
ther, That no appropriated funds may be used to service
debt which is incurred to finance the costs of acquiring
the 900 H Street building or of planning, designing, and
constructing improvements to such building.
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND ALTERATION OF FACILITIES
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and al-
teration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithsonian
Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized by sec-
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tion 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), in-
cluding not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $47,900,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for environ-
mental systems, protection systems, and repair or restora-
tion of facilities of the Smithsonian Institution may be ne-
gotiated with selected contractors and awarded on the
basis of contractor qualifications as well as price: Provided
further, That funds previously appropriated to the ‘‘Con-
struction and Improvements, National Zoological Park’’
account and the ‘‘Repair and Restoration of Buildings’’
account may be transferred to and merged with this ‘‘Re-
pair, Restoration, and Alteration of Facilities’’ account.
CONSTRUCTION
For
necessary
expenses
for
construction,
$19,000,000, to remain available until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be
used to initiate the design of any expansion of current
space or new facility without consultation with the House
and Senate Appropriations Committees.
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be
used to prepare a historic structures report, or for any
other purpose, involving the Holt House located at the Na-
tional Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.
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The Smithsonian Institution shall not use Federal
funds in excess of the amount specified in Public Law
101–185 for the construction of the National Museum of
the American Indian.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51),
as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939
(Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in ad-
vance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for
membership in library, museum, and art associations or
societies whose publications or services are available to
members only, or to members at a price lower than to the
general public; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms
for guards, and uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other
employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902);
purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alter-
ation, improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches,
and grounds; and purchase of services for restoration and
repair of works of art for the National Gallery of Art by
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contracts made, without advertising, with individuals,
firms, or organizations at such rates or prices and under
such terms and conditions as the Gallery may deem prop-
er, $61,538,000, of which not to exceed $3,026,000 for
the special exhibition program shall remain available until
expended.
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or
otherwise, as authorized, $6,311,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair
or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art
may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING
ARTS
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-
nance and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts, $12,441,000.
CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses for capital repair and reha-
bilitation of the existing features of the building and site
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of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
$20,000,000, to remain available until expended.
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR
SCHOLARS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat.
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $7,040,000.
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE
HUMANITIES
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses to carry out the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,
as amended, $83,500,000 shall be available to the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts for the support of projects
and productions in the arts through assistance to organi-
zations and individuals pursuant to sections 5(c) and 5(g)
of the Act, for program support, and for administering
the functions of the Act, to remain available until ex-
pended.
MATCHING GRANTS
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act
of 1965, as amended, $14,500,000, to remain available
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until expended, to the National Endowment for the Arts:
Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for ob-
ligation only in such amounts as may be equal to the total
amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises of money, and
other property accepted by the chairman or by grantees
of
the
Endowment
under
the
provisions
of
section
10(a)(2), subsections 11(a)(2)(A) and 11(a)(3)(A) during
the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal
amounts have not previously been appropriated.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses to carry out the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,
as amended, $96,800,000, shall be available to the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities for support of ac-
tivities in the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the
Act, and for administering the functions of the Act, to
remain available until expended.
MATCHING GRANTS
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act
of 1965, as amended, $13,900,000, to remain available
until expended, of which $9,900,000 shall be available to
the National Endowment for the Humanities for the pur-
poses of section 7(h): Provided, That this appropriation
shall be available for obligation only in such amounts as
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may be equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, and
devises of money, and other property accepted by the
chairman or by grantees of the Endowment under the pro-
visions of subsections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during
the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal
amounts have not previously been appropriated.
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
OFFICE OF MUSEUM SERVICES
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For carrying out subtitle C of the Museum and Li-
brary Services Act of 1996, as amended, $24,400,000, to
remain available until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
None of the funds appropriated to the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used
to process any grant or contract documents which do not
include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none
of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on
the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re-
ception and representation expenses: Provided further,
That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as
necessary for official reception and representation ex-
penses.
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COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing
a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $935,000:
Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge
fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such
fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col-
lection, to remain available until expended without further
appropriation.
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956(a)), as amended, $7,000,000.
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665, as amended),
$3,000,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be
available for compensation of level V of the Executive
Schedule or higher positions.
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the Na-
tional Capital Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i),
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$6,312,000: Provided, That hereafter all appointed mem-
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bers of the Commission will be compensated at the daily
equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for positions
at level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315
of title 5, United States Code, for each day such member
is engaged in the actual performance of duties.
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Council, as
authorized by Public Law 96–388 (36 U.S.C. 1401), as
amended, $33,286,000, of which $1,575,000 for the muse-
um’s repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000
for the museum’s exhibitions program shall remain avail-
able until expended.
PRESIDIO TRUST
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Om-
nibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996,
$24,400,000 shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to
remain
available
until
expended,
of
which
up
to
$1,040,000 may be for the cost of guaranteed loans, as
authorized by section 104(d) of the Act: 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 principal, any part of
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which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $200,000,000.
The Trust is authorized to issue obligations to the Sec-
retary of the Treasury pursuant to section 104(d)(3) of
the Act, in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. The expenditure of any appropriation
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter
of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to
promote public support or opposition to any legislative
proposal on which congressional action is not complete.
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 304. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal
servants to any officer or employee of such department
or agency except as otherwise provided by law.
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SEC. 305. No assessments may be levied against any
program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by
this Act unless advance notice of such assessments and
the basis therefor are presented to the Committees on Ap-
propriations and are approved by such Committees.
SEC. 306. (a) COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN
ACT.—None of the funds made available in this Act may
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in
expending the funds the entity will comply with sections
2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–
10c; popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
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a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The provisions of this sec-
tion are applicable in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter.
SEC. 307. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classi-
fied as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which
are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land
Management lands in a manner different than such sales
were conducted in fiscal year 1999.
SEC. 308. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be obligated or expended by the National Park
Service to enter into or implement a concession contract
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which permits or requires the removal of the underground
lunchroom at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
SEC. 309. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for the
AmeriCorps program, unless the relevant agencies of the
Department of the Interior and/or Agriculture follow ap-
propriate reprogramming guidelines: Provided, That if no
funds are provided for the AmeriCorps program by the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, 2000, then none of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for the
AmeriCorps programs.
SEC. 310. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent
pedestrian use of such bridge, when it is made known to
the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend
such funds that such pedestrian use is consistent with gen-
erally accepted safety standards.
SEC. 311. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill
site claim located under the general mining laws.
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(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (a)
shall not apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines
that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent application was
filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994;
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30)
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331,
and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and
37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case
may be, were fully complied with by the applicant by that
date.
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2000, the Secretary
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate
a report on actions taken by the Department under the
plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208).
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner,
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified
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third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land
Management in the retention of third-party contractors.
SEC. 312. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, amounts appropriated to or earmarked in committee
reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian
Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 104–
134, 104–208, 105–83, and 105–277 for payments to
tribes and tribal organizations for contract support costs
associated with self-determination or self-governance con-
tracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health
Service as funded by such Acts, are the total amounts
available for fiscal years 1994 through 1999 for such pur-
poses, except that, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes
and tribal organizations may use their tribal priority allo-
cations for unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts,
grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding agree-
ments.
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SEC. 313. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, for fiscal year 2000 the Secretaries of Agriculture and
the Interior are authorized to limit competition for water-
shed restoration project contracts as part of the ‘‘Jobs in
the Woods’’ component of the President’s Forest Plan for
the Pacific Northwest to individuals and entities in histori-
cally timber-dependent areas in the States of Washington,
Oregon, and northern California that have been affected
by reduced timber harvesting on Federal lands.
SEC. 314. None of the funds collected under the Rec-
reational Fee Demonstration program may be used to
plan, design, or construct a visitor center or any other per-
manent structure without prior approval of the House and
the Senate Committees on Appropriations if the estimated
total cost of the facility exceeds $500,000.
SEC. 315. (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 nomina-
tions for the designation of Biosphere Reserves pursuant
to the Man and Biosphere program administered by the
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Or-
ganization.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be repealed
upon enactment of subsequent legislation specifically au-
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thorizing United States participation in the Man and Bio-
sphere program.
SEC. 316. None of the funds made available in this
or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to des-
ignate, or to post any sign designating, any portion of Ca-
naveral National Seashore in Brevard County, Florida, as
a clothing-optional area or as an area in which public nu-
dity is permitted, if such designation would be contrary
to county ordinance.
SEC. 317. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts—
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-
dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-
ship.
(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 ac-
tivity independent of the direct grant recipient.
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments
made in exchange for goods and services.
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(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. 318. The National Endowment for the Arts and
the National Endowment for the Humanities are author-
ized 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 Endowment for the Arts
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any
proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after ac-
ceptance by the National Endowment for the Arts or the
National Endowment for the Humanities, shall be paid by
the donor or the representative of the donor to the Chair-
man. 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. 319. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be expended or obligated to fund new revi-
sions 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 na-
tional forests which are currently in a revision process,
having formally published a Notice of Intent to revise
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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’’.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fis-
cal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes,
namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES
For expenses necessary for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classifica-
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tion, acquisition of easements and other interests in lands,
and performance of other functions, including maintenance
of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management of
lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, including the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential
of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C.
3150(a)), $634,321,000, to remain available until expended,
of which $2,147,000 shall be available for assessment of the
mineral potential of public lands in Alaska pursuant to sec-
tion 1010 of Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of
which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be derived from the
special receipt account established by the Land and Water
Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–
6a(i)); and of which $1,500,000 shall be available in fiscal
year 2000 subject to a match by at least an equal amount
by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to such
Foundation for cost-shared projects supporting conservation
of Bureau lands; in addition, $33,529,000 for Mining Law
Administration program operations, including the cost of
administering the mining claim fee program; to remain
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected
by the Bureau and credited to this appropriation from an-
nual mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropria-
tion estimated at not more than $634,321,000, and
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$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from com-
munication site rental fees established by the Bureau for
the cost of administering communication site activities:
Provided, That appropriations herein made shall not be
available for the destruction of healthy, unadopted, wild
horses and burros in the care of the Bureau or its contrac-
tors.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppres-
sion operations, emergency rehabilitation and hazardous
fuels reduction by the Department of the Interior,
$283,805,000, to remain available until expended, of which
not to exceed $5,025,000 shall be for the renovation or con-
struction of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are
also available for repayment of advances to other appro-
priation accounts from which funds were previously trans-
ferred for such purposes: Provided further, That unobligated
balances of amounts previously appropriated to the ‘‘Fire
Protection’’ and ‘‘Emergency Department of the Interior
Firefighting Fund’’ may be transferred and merged with
this appropriation: Provided further, That persons hired
pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence
and lodging without cost from funds available from this ap-
propriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42
U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the
Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered pur-
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suant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., Protection of United States
Property, may be credited to the appropriation from which
funds were expended to provide that protection, and are
available without fiscal year limitation.
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior and any of its component offices and bureaus for the
remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601
et seq.), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, sums re-
covered from or paid by a party in advance of or as reim-
bursement for remedial action or response activities con-
ducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 or 113(f)
of such Act, shall be credited to this account to be available
until expended without further appropriation: Provided
further, That such sums recovered from or paid by any
party are not limited to monetary payments and may in-
clude stocks, bonds or other personal or real property, which
may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise disposed of by the
Secretary and which shall be credited to this account.
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CONSTRUCTION
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities,
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $12,418,000, to re-
main available until expended.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October
20, 
1976, 
as 
amended 
(31 
U.S.C. 
6901–6907),
$135,000,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall be
available for administrative expenses: Provided, That no
payment shall be made to otherwise eligible units of local
government if the computed amount of the payment is less
than $100.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206,
and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administra-
tive expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests
therein, $17,400,000, to be derived from the Land and
Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until ex-
pended.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For expenses necessary for management, protection,
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon
and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adja-
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cent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests
therein including existing connecting roads on or adjacent
to such grant lands; $99,225,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Or-
egon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made
a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant
fund and shall be transferred to the General Fund in the
Treasury in accordance with the second paragraph of sub-
section (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat.
876).
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law
102–381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem
Health and Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of
planning, preparing, and monitoring salvage timber sales
and forest ecosystem health and recovery activities such as
release from competing vegetation and density control treat-
ments. The Federal share of receipts (defined as the portion
of salvage timber receipts not paid to the counties under
43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–1 et seq., and Public
Law 103–66) derived from treatments funded by this ac-
count shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health
and Recovery Fund.
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RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands
and interests therein, and improvement of Federal range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwith-
standing any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent of all
moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sections
3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315 et seq.)
and the amount designated for range improvements from
grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior
pursuant to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$600,000 shall be available for administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related to
processing application documents and other authorizations
for use and disposal of public lands and resources, for costs
of providing copies of official public land documents, for
monitoring construction, operation, and termination of fa-
cilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for re-
habilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be
collected under Public Law 94–579, as amended, and Public
Law 93–153, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of sec-
tion 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any
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moneys that have been or will be received pursuant to that
section, whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or set-
tlement, if not appropriate for refund pursuant to section
305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available
and may be expended under the authority of this Act by
the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public
lands administered through the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment which have been damaged by the action of a resource
developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized per-
son, without regard to whether all moneys collected from
each such action are used on the exact lands damaged which
led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys
that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to
the exact land for which funds were collected may be used
to repair other damaged public lands.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of the
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and such
amounts as may be advanced for administrative costs, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain avail-
able until expended.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management
shall be available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement
of temporary structures, and alteration and maintenance
of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which
the United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments,
at the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evi-
dence concerning violations of laws administered by the Bu-
reau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement
activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to
be accounted for solely on his certificate, not to exceed
$10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501,
the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and part-
nership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing
services from cooperators in connection with jointly pro-
duced publications for which the cooperators share the cost
of printing either in cash or in services, and the Bureau
determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted
quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, for scientific and economic studies, con-
servation, management, investigations, protection, and uti-
lization of fishery and wildlife resources, except whales,
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seals, and sea lions, maintenance of the herd of long-horned
cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, general
administration, and for the performance of other authorized
functions related to such resources by direct expenditure,
contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable
agreements with public and private entities, $684,569,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2001, except as oth-
erwise provided herein, of which $400,000 shall be available
for grants under the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restora-
tion Program, and of which $300,000 shall be available for
spartina grass research being conducted by the University
of Washington, and of which $500,000 of the amount avail-
able for consultation shall be available for development of
a voluntary-enrollment habitat conservation plan for cold
water fish in cooperation with the States of Idaho and Mon-
tana (of which $250,000 shall be made available to each
of the States of Idaho and Montana), and of which $150,000
shall be available to Michigan State University toward cre-
ation of a community development database, and of which
$11,701,000 shall remain available until expended for oper-
ation and maintenance of fishery mitigation facilities con-
structed by the Corps of Engineers under the Lower Snake
River Compensation Plan, authorized by the Water Re-
sources Development Act of 1976, to compensate for loss of
fishery resources from water development projects on the
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Lower Snake River, and of which not less than $400,000
shall be available to the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service for use in reviewing applications from the State of
Colorado under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536), and in assisting the State of Colo-
rado by providing resources to develop and administer com-
ponents of State habitat conservation plans relating to the
Preble’s meadow jumping mouse: Provided, That not less
than $1,000,000 for high priority projects which shall be
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized
by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $5,932,000 shall be used for imple-
menting subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the
Endangered Species Act, as amended, for species that are
indigenous to the United States (except for processing peti-
tions, developing and issuing proposed and final regula-
tions, and taking any other steps to implement actions de-
scribed 
in 
subsections 
(c)(2)(A), 
(c)(2)(B)(i), 
or
(c)(2)(B)(ii)): Provided further, That of the amount avail-
able for law enforcement, up to $400,000 to remain avail-
able until expended, may at the discretion of the Secretary,
be used for payment for information, rewards, or evidence
concerning violations of laws administered by the Service,
and miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement
activity, authorized or approved by the Secretary and to
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be accounted for solely on his certificate: Provided further,
That of the amount provided for environmental contami-
nants, up to $1,000,000 may remain available until ex-
pended for contaminant sample analyses: Provided further,
That all fines collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice for violations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16
U.S.C. 1362–1407) and implementing regulations shall be
available to the Secretary, without further appropriation,
to be used for the expenses of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service in administering activities for the protection and
recovery of manatees, polar bears, sea otters, and walruses,
and shall remain available until expended: Provided fur-
ther, That, heretofore and hereafter, in carrying out work
under reimbursable agreements with any state, local, or
tribal government, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may,
without regard to 31 U.S.C. 1341 and notwithstanding any
other provision of law or regulation, record obligations
against accounts receivable from such entities, and shall
credit amounts received from such entities to this appro-
priation, such credit to occur within 90 days of the date
of the original request by the Service for payment: Provided
further, That all funds received by the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service from responsible parties, heretofore
and through fiscal year 2000, for site-specific damages to
National Wildlife Refuge System lands resulting from the
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exercise of privately-owned oil and gas rights associated
with such lands in the States of Louisiana and Texas (other
than damages recoverable under the Comprehensive Envi-
ronmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (26
U.S.C. 4611 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act (33 U.S.C. 1301
et seq.), or section 311 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.
1321 et seq.)), shall be available to the Secretary, without
further appropriation and until expended to (1) complete
damage assessments of the impacted site by the Secretary;
(2) mitigate or restore the damaged resources; and (3) mon-
itor and study the recovery of such damaged resources.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction and acquisition of buildings and
other facilities required in the conservation, management,
investigation, protection, and utilization of fishery and
wildlife resources, and the acquisition of lands and interests
therein; $40,434,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
a single procurement for the construction of facilities at the
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge may be issued
which includes the full scope of the project: Provided further,
That the solicitation and the contract shall contain the
clauses ‘‘availability of funds’’ found at 48 C.F.R.
52.232.18.
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LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $56,444,000,
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund
and to remain available until expended, of which not to
exceed $1,000,000 shall be available to the Boyer Chute Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge for land acquisition.
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531–1543),
as amended, $21,480,000, to be derived from the Coopera-
tive Endangered Species Conservation Fund, and to remain
available until expended.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October
17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $10,000,000.
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201–4203, 4211–4213,
4221–4225, 4241–4245, and 1538), the Asian Elephant
Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261–4266), and the
Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C.
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5301–5306), $2,400,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That funds made available under this
Act, Public Law 105–277, and Public Law 105–83 for rhi-
noceros, tiger, and Asian elephant conservation programs
are exempt from any sanctions imposed against any coun-
try under section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (22
U.S.C. 2799aa–1).
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of
the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public
Law 101–233, as amended, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND APPRECIATION FUND
For necessary expenses of the Wildlife Conservation
and Appreciation Fund, $800,000, to remain available
until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations and funds available to the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for pur-
chase of not to exceed 70 passenger motor vehicles, of which
61 are for replacement only (including 36 for police-type
use); repair of damage to public roads within and adjacent
to reservation areas caused by operations of the Service; op-
tions for the purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each
option; facilities incident to such public recreational uses
on conservation areas as are consistent with their primary
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purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria,
buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the
Service and to which the United States has title, and which
are used pursuant to law in connection with management
and investigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided,
That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may,
under cooperative cost sharing and partnership arrange-
ments authorized by law, procure printing services from co-
operators in connection with jointly produced publications
for which the cooperators share at least one-half the cost
of printing either in cash or services and the Service deter-
mines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality
standards: Provided further, That the Service may accept
donated aircraft as replacements for existing aircraft: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of the Interior may not spend any of
the funds appropriated in this Act for the purchase of lands
or interests in lands to be used in the establishment of any
new unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System unless the
purchase is approved in advance by the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations in compliance with the re-
programming procedures contained in Senate Report 105–
56.
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
For expenses necessary for the management, operation,
and maintenance of areas and facilities administered by
the National Park Service (including special road mainte-
nance service to trucking permittees on a reimbursable
basis), and for the general administration of the National
Park Service, including not less than $1,000,000 for high
priority projects within the scope of the approved budget
which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps
as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1706, $1,355,176,000, of which
$8,800,000 is for research, planning and interagency co-
ordination in support of land acquisition for Everglades
restoration shall remain available until expended, and of
which not to exceed $8,000,000, to remain available until
expended, is to be derived from the special fee account estab-
lished pursuant to title V, section 5201 of Public Law 100–
203.
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage part-
nership programs, environmental compliance and review,
international park affairs, statutory or contractual aid for
other activities, and grant administration, not otherwise
provided for, $51,451,000, of which not less than $1,500,000
shall be available to carry out the Urban Park and Recre-
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ation Recovery Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.): Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
National Park Service may hereafter recover all fees derived
from providing necessary review services associated with
historic preservation tax certification, and such funds shall
be available until expended without further appropriation
for the costs of such review services.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), and
the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of
1996 (Public Law 104–333), $42,412,000, to be derived
from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain available
until September 30, 2001, of which $8,422,000 pursuant to
section 507 of Public Law 104–333 shall remain available
until expended.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, improvements, repair or replacement
of physical facilities, including the modifications authorized
by section 104 of the Everglades National Park Protection
and Expansion Act of 1989, $223,153,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $1,100,000 shall be for re-
alignment of the Denali National Park entrance road, of
which not less than $3,500,000 shall be available for modi-
fications to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, and
of which $90,000 shall be available for planning and devel-
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opment of interpretive sites for the quadricentennial com-
memoration of the Saint Croix Island International His-
toric Site, Maine, including possible interpretive sites in
Calais, Maine, and of which not less than $1,000,000 shall
be available, subject to an Act of authorization, to conduct
a feasibility study on the preservation of certain Civil War
battlefields along the Vicksburg Campaign Trail, and of
which $500,000 shall be available for the Wilson’s Creek Na-
tional Battlefield: Provided, That $5,000,000 for the Wheel-
ing National Heritage Area and $1,000,000 for Montpelier
shall be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund pursu-
ant to 16 U.S.C. 470a: Provided further, That $1,000,000
shall be made available for Isle Royale National Park to
address visitor facility and infrastructure deterioration:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, a single procurement for the construction of visitor
facilities at Brooks Camp at Katmai National Park and
Preserve may be issued which includes the full scope of the
project: Provided further, That the solicitation and the con-
tract shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ found
at 48 CFR 52.232.18.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
(RESCISSION)
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2000
by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded.
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LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable
to the National Park Service, $87,725,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain
available until expended, of which $500,000 is to admin-
ister the State assistance program, and in addition
$20,000,000 shall be available to provide financial assist-
ance to States and shall be derived from the Land and
Water Conservation Fund, and of which not less than
$2,000,000 shall be used to acquire the Weir Farm National
Historic Site in Connecticut, and of which not less than
$3,000,000 shall be available for the Fredericksburg and
Spotsylvania National Military Park, and of which not less
than $1,700,000 shall be available for the acquisition of
properties in Keweenaw National Historical Park, Michi-
gan, and of which $200,000 shall be available for the acqui-
sition of lands at Fort Sumter National Monument.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be
available for the purchase of not to exceed 384 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 298 shall be for replacement only,
including not to exceed 312 for police-type use, 12 buses,
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and 6 ambulances: Provided, That none of the funds appro-
priated to the National Park Service may be used to process
any grant or contract documents which do not include the
text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated to the National Park Service may be
used to implement an agreement for the redevelopment of
the southern end of Ellis Island until such agreement has
been submitted to the Congress and shall not be imple-
mented prior to the expiration of 30 calendar days (not
including any day in which either House of Congress is
not in session because of adjournment of more than three
calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President
of the Senate of a full and comprehensive report on the de-
velopment of the southern end of Ellis Island, including the
facts and circumstances relied upon in support of the pro-
posed project.
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the Na-
tional Park Service for activities taken in direct response
to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention.
The National Park Service may distribute to operating
units based on the safety record of each unit the costs of
programs designed to improve workplace and employee safe-
ty, and to encourage employees receiving workers’ com-
pensation benefits pursuant to chapter 81 of title 5, United
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States Code, to return to appropriate positions for which
they are medically able.
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH
For expenses necessary for the United States Geological
Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and research cov-
ering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, and the min-
eral and water resources of the United States, its territories
and possessions, and other areas as authorized by 43 U.S.C.
31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as to their mineral and
water resources; give engineering supervision to power per-
mittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licens-
ees; administer the minerals exploration program (30
U.S.C. 641); and publish and disseminate data relative to
the foregoing activities; and to conduct inquiries into the
economic conditions affecting mining and materials proc-
essing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C.
98g(1)) and related purposes as authorized by law and to
publish and disseminate data; $813,093,000, of which
$72,314,000 shall be available only for cooperation with
States or municipalities for water resources investigations;
and of which $16,400,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for conducting inquiries into the economic condi-
tions affecting mining and materials processing industries;
and of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until ex-
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pended for ongoing development of a mineral and geologic
data base; and of which $160,248,000 shall be available
until September 30, 2001 for the biological research activity
and the operation of the Cooperative Research Units: Pro-
vided, That of the funds available for the biological research
activity, $1,000,000 shall be made available by grant to the
University of Alaska for conduct of, directly or through sub-
grants, basic marine research activities in the North Pacific
Ocean pursuant to a plan approved by the Department of
Commerce, the Department of the Interior, and the State
of Alaska: Provided further, That none of these funds pro-
vided for the biological research activity shall be used to
conduct new surveys on private property, unless specifically
authorized in writing by the property owner: Provided fur-
ther, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to
pay more than one-half the cost of topographic mapping
or water resources data collection and investigations carried
on in cooperation with States and municipalities.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amount appropriated for the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall be available for the purchase of not to
exceed 53 passenger motor vehicles, of which 48 are for re-
placement only; reimbursement to the General Services Ad-
ministration for security guard services; contracting for the
furnishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-
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tively determined that such procedures are in the public in-
terest; construction and maintenance of necessary buildings
and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging
stations and observation wells; expenses of the United States
National Committee on Geology; and payment of compensa-
tion and expenses of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly
appointed to represent the United States in the negotiation
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That
activities funded by appropriations herein made may be ac-
complished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Pro-
vided further, That the United States Geological Survey
may contract directly with individuals or indirectly with
institutions or nonprofit organizations, without regard to
41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent services of
students or recent graduates, who shall be considered em-
ployees for the purposes of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5,
United States Code, relating to compensation for travel and
work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States
Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not be considered
to be Federal employees for any other purposes.
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and
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collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; and
for matching grants or cooperative agreements; including
the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehicles
for replacement only; $110,682,000, of which $84,569,000
shall be available for royalty management activities; and
an amount not to exceed $124,000,000, to be credited to this
appropriation and to remain available until expended,
from additions to receipts resulting from increases to rates
in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate increases to fee collec-
tions for Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities
performed by the Minerals Management Service over and
above the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, and from
additional fees for Outer Continental Shelf administrative
activities established after September 30, 1993: Provided,
That $3,000,000 for computer acquisitions shall remain
available until September 30, 2001: Provided further, That
funds appropriated under this Act shall be available for the
payment of interest in accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1721(b)
and (d): Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall
be available for reasonable expenses related to promoting
volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds
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of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases
in which the Director of the Minerals Management Service
concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay amounts
owed to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to correct prior unre-
coverable erroneous payments: Provided further, That not
to exceed $198,000 shall be available to carry out the re-
quirements of section 215(b)(2) of the Water Resources De-
velopment Act of 1999.
OIL SPILL RESEARCH
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
$6,118,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liabil-
ity Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND
ENFORCEMENT
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977,
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase of
not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for replacement
only; $95,891,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, pursuant to regulations, may use directly or through
grants to States, moneys collected in fiscal year 2000 for
civil penalties assessed under section 518 of the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C.
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1268), to reclaim lands adversely affected by coal mining
practices after August 3, 1977, to remain available until
expended: Provided further, That appropriations for the Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may
provide for the travel and per diem expenses of State and
tribal personnel attending Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement sponsored training.
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public
Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase of not more
than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only,
$185,658,000, to be derived from receipts of the Abandoned
Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain available until ex-
pended; of which up to $7,000,000, to be derived from the
Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, shall be for supple-
mental grants to States for the reclamation of abandoned
sites with acid mine rock drainage from coal mines, and
for associated activities, through the Appalachian Clean
Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants to minimum pro-
gram States will be $1,500,000 per State in fiscal year
2000: Provided further, That of the funds herein provided
up to $18,000,000 may be used for the emergency program
authorized by section 410 of Public Law 95–87, as amend-
ed, of which no more than 25 percent shall be used for emer-
gency reclamation projects in any one State and funds for
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federally administered emergency reclamation projects
under this proviso shall not exceed $11,000,000: Provided
further, That prior year unobligated funds appropriated for
the emergency reclamation program shall not be subject to
the 25 percent limitation per State and may be used with-
out fiscal year limitation for emergency projects: Provided
further, That pursuant to Public Law 97–365, the Depart-
ment of the Interior is authorized to use up to 20 percent
from the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to the United
States Government to pay for contracts to collect these debts:
Provided further, That funds made available under title IV
of Public Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-
Federal share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal
Government for the purpose of environmental restoration
related to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such projects
must be consistent with the purposes and priorities of the
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: Provided
further, That the State of Maryland may set aside the great-
er of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total of the grants
made available to the State under title IV of the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, as amended
(30 U.S.C. 1231 et seq.), if the amount set aside is deposited
in an acid mine drainage abatement and treatment fund
established under a State law, pursuant to which law the
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amount (together with all interest earned on the amount)
is expended by the State to undertake acid mine drainage
abatement and treatment projects, except that before any
amounts greater than 10 percent of its title IV grants are
deposited in an acid mine drainage abatement and treat-
ment fund, the State of Maryland must first complete all
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act priority one
projects.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian pro-
grams, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C.
450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amendments of
1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally Controlled
Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), as amended,
$1,633,296,000, to remain available until September 30,
2001 except as otherwise provided herein, of which not to
exceed $93,684,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments
and notwithstanding any other provision of law, including
but not limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of
1975, as amended, not to exceed $115,229,000 shall be
available for payments to tribes and tribal organizations
for contract support costs associated with ongoing contracts,
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grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements entered
into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2000,
as authorized by such Act, except that tribes and tribal or-
ganizations may use their tribal priority allocations for
unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants, or com-
pacts, or annual funding agreements and for unmet welfare
assistance costs; and of which not to exceed $402,010,000
for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and
other education programs shall become available on July
1, 2000, and shall remain available until September 30,
2001; and of which not to exceed $51,991,000 shall remain
available until expended for housing improvement, road
maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, self-govern-
ance grants, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, land
records improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Pro-
gram: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1975, as amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008,
not to exceed $44,160,000 within and only from such
amounts made available for school operations shall be avail-
able to tribes and tribal organizations for administrative
cost grants associated with the operation of Bureau-funded
schools: Provided further, That any forestry funds allocated
to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30,
2001, may be transferred during fiscal year 2002 to an In-
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dian forest land assistance account established for the ben-
efit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust fund account: Pro-
vided further, That any such unobligated balances not so
transferred shall expire on September 30, 2002: Provided
further, That from amounts appropriated under this head-
ing $5,422,000 shall be made available to the Southwestern
Indian Polytechnic Institute and that from amounts appro-
priated under this heading $8,611,000 shall be made avail-
able to Haskell Indian Nations University.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities,
and other facilities, including architectural and engineering
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in
lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for con-
struction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant
to Public Law 87–483, $146,884,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclama-
tion: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 percent of con-
tract authority available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs
from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may be used to cover
the road program management costs of the Bureau: Pro-
vided further, That any funds provided for the Safety of
Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 shall be made
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available on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further,
That for fiscal year 2000, in implementing new construc-
tion or facilities improvement and repair project grants in
excess of $100,000 that are provided to tribally controlled
grant schools under Public Law 100–297, as amended, the
Secretary of the Interior shall use the Administrative and
Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for Assistance Pro-
grams contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the regulatory re-
quirements: Provided further, That such grants shall not
be subject to section 12.61 of 43 CFR; the Secretary and
the grantee shall negotiate and determine a schedule of pay-
ments for the work to be performed: Provided further, That
in considering applications, the Secretary shall consider
whether the Indian tribe or tribal organization would be
deficient in assuring that the construction projects conform
to applicable building standards and codes and Federal,
tribal, or State health and safety standards as required by
25 U.S.C. 2005(a), with respect to organizational and fi-
nancial management capabilities: Provided further, That if
the Secretary declines an application, the Secretary shall
follow the requirements contained in 25 U.S.C. 2505(f):
Provided further, That any disputes between the Secretary
and any grantee concerning a grant shall be subject to the
disputes provision in 25 U.S.C. 2508(e): Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, collec-
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tions from the settlements between the United States and
the Puyallup tribe concerning Chief Leschi school are made
available for school construction in fiscal year 2000 and
hereafter: Provided further, That in return for a quit claim
deed to a school building on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe
Indian Reservation, the Secretary shall pay to U.K. Devel-
opment, LLC the amount of $375,000 from the funds made
available under this heading.
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and indi-
viduals 
and 
for 
necessary 
administrative 
expenses,
$27,131,000, to remain available until expended; of which
$25,260,000 shall be available for implementation of en-
acted Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant
to Public Laws 101–618 and 102–575, and for implementa-
tion of other enacted water rights settlements; and of which
$1,871,000 shall be available pursuant to Public Laws 99–
264, 100–383, 103–402 and 100–580.
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $4,500,000, as au-
thorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amended:
Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these