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Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training: 
Provided further, That, in fiscal year 2014, up to $40,000 collected 
by the Office of Surface Mining from permit fees pursuant to section 
507 of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257) shall be credited to 
this account as discretionary offsetting collections, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein appro-
priated shall be reduced as collections are received during the 
fiscal year so as to result in a final fiscal year 2014 appropriation 
estimated at not more than $122,713,000: Provided further, That, 
in subsequent fiscal years, all amounts collected by the Office 
of Surface Mining from permit fees pursuant to section 507 of 
Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257) shall be credited to this account 
as discretionary offsetting collections, to remain available until 
expended. 
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, 
$27,399,000, to be derived from receipts of the Abandoned Mine 
Reclamation Fund and to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, 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 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 amounts pro-
vided under this heading may be used for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Office of 
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
With funds available for the Technical Innovation and Profes-
sional Services program in this or any other Act with respect 
to any fiscal year, the Secretary may transfer title for computer 
hardware, software and other technical equipment to State and 
tribal regulatory and reclamation programs. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS AND BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
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-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), the Education 
Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally Con-
trolled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $2,378,763,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2015 except as otherwise 
provided herein; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for official
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reception and representation expenses; of which not to exceed 
$74,809,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments: Provided, 
That in cases of designated Federal disasters, the Secretary may 
exceed such cap, from the amounts provided herein, to provide 
for disaster relief to Indian communities affected by the disaster: 
Provided further, That federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal 
organizations of federally recognized Indian tribes may use their 
tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $591,234,000 for school operations 
costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education programs shall 
become available on July 1, 2014, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2015: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$41,900,000 shall remain available until expended for housing 
improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, 
land records improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Pro-
gram: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-Determination 
Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450f et seq.) and section 1128 of the Edu-
cation Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed 
$48,253,000 within and only from such amounts made available 
for school operations shall be available for administrative cost 
grants associated with ongoing grants entered into with the Bureau 
prior to or during fiscal year 2013 for the operation of Bureau- 
funded schools, and up to $500,000 within and only from such 
amounts made available for administrative cost grants shall be 
available for the transitional costs of initial administrative cost 
grants to grantees that assume operation on or after July 1, 2013, 
of Bureau-funded schools: Provided further, That any forestry funds 
allocated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 
30, 2015, may be transferred during fiscal year 2016 to an Indian 
forest land assistance account established for the benefit of the 
holder of the funds within the holder’s trust fund account: Provided 
further, That any such unobligated balances not so transferred 
shall expire on September 30, 2016: Provided further, That in 
order to enhance the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau 
may use funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles 
of clothing for personnel. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, and other facili-
ties, including architectural and engineering services by contract; 
acquisition of lands, and interests in lands; and preparation of 
lands for farming, and for construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project pursuant to Public Law 87–483, $110,124,000, 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 percent of contract 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: 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: Provided further, That for
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fiscal year 2014, in implementing new construction or facilities 
improvement and repair project grants in excess of $100,000 that 
are provided to grant schools under Public Law 100–297, the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall use the Administrative and Audit 
Requirements and Cost Principles for Assistance Programs con-
tained 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 performed: 
Provided further, That in considering grant applications, the Sec-
retary shall consider whether such grantee 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(b), with respect 
to organizational and financial management capabilities: Provided 
further, That if the Secretary declines a grant application, the 
Secretary shall follow the requirements contained in 25 U.S.C. 
2504(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. 2507(e): Provided further, That in order 
to ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Secretary 
may assume control of a project and all funds related to the project, 
if, within 18 months of the date of enactment of this Act, any 
grantee receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any prior 
Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of the project 
and commenced construction: Provided further, That this appropria-
tion may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee 
for American Indians appropriation for the appropriate share of 
construction costs for space expansion needed in agency offices 
to meet trust reform implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS 
PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses for 
implementation of Indian land and water claim settlements pursu-
ant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 111–11, and 111– 
291, and for implementation of other land and water rights settle-
ments, $35,655,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That notwithstanding section 10807(b)(3) and section 10807(c)(3) 
of Public Law 111–11, the Secretary is authorized to make payments 
in fiscal year 2014 in such an amount as to satisfy the total 
authorized amount for Duck Valley Indian Irrigation Project 
Development Fund and Maintenance Funds. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, $6,731,000, 
of which $981,000 is for administrative expenses, as authorized 
by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided 
further, That these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to 
exceed $99,761,658.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the operation 
of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative 
agreements, compacts, and grants, either directly or in cooperation 
with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
may contract for services in support of the management, operation, 
and maintenance of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation 
Project. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office oversight and 
Executive Direction and Administrative Services (except executive 
direction and administrative services funding for Tribal Priority 
Allocations, regional offices, and facilities operations and mainte-
nance) shall be available for contracts, grants, compacts, or coopera-
tive agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the provi-
sions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal Self-Govern-
ance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made available 
by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this action shall not 
diminish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to that tribe, 
or the government-to-government relationship between the United 
States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appro-
priations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than the amounts provided 
herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et 
seq., shall be available to support the operation of any elementary 
or secondary school in the State of Alaska. 
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Education shall 
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dormitory 
beyond the grade structure in place or approved by the Secretary 
of the Interior at each school in the Bureau of Indian Education 
school system as of October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary 
of the Interior may wave this prohibition to support expansion 
of up to one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 
waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission of the 
Bureau of Indian Education. Appropriations made available in this 
or any prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available, 
in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, only to the schools 
in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996 and to any 
school or school program that was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. 
Funds made available under this Act may not be used to establish 
a charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined 
in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 
2021)), except that a charter school that is in existence on the 
date of the enactment of this Act and that has operated at a 
Bureau-funded school before September 1, 1999, may continue to 
operate during that period, but only if the charter school pays 
to the Bureau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including buses 
and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept separate and 
apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does not assume any 
obligation for charter school programs of the State in which the 
school is located if the charter school loses such funding. Employees 
of Bureau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school