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Union Calendar No. 84
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1977
[Report No. 104–173]
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 30, 1995
Mr. REGULA, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1996, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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
fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
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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 $570,017,000, to remain
available until expended, of which not more than $599,999
shall be available to the Needles Resources Area for the
management of the East Mojave National Scenic Area, as
defined by the Bureau of Land Management prior to Octo-
ber 1, 1994, in the California Desert District of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, and of which $4,000,000 shall
be derived from the special receipt account established by
section 4 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act
of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)): 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 contractors; and
in addition, $27,650,000 for Mining Law Administration
program operations, to remain available until expended,
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to be reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau of Land
Management 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 $570,017,000: Provided
further, That in addition to funds otherwise available, and
to remain available until expended, not to exceed
$5,000,000 from annual mining claim fees shall be cred-
ited to this account for the costs of administering the min-
ing claim fee program, and $2,000,000 from communica-
tion site rental fees established by the Bureau.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses for fire use and management,
fire preparedness, emergency presuppression, suppression
operations, emergency rehabilitation, and renovation or
construction of fire facilities in the Department of the In-
terior, $235,924,000, to remain available until expended,
of which not to exceed $5,025,000, shall be available for
the renovation or construction of fire facilities: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons
hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished sub-
sistence and lodging without cost from funds available
from this appropriation: Provided further, 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
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the Fire Protection and Emergency Department of the In-
terior Firefighting Fund may be transferred or merged
with this appropriation.
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
For expenses necessary for use by the Department
of the Interior and any of its component offices and bu-
reaus for the remedial action, including associated activi-
ties, of hazardous waste substances, pollutants, or con-
taminants pursuant 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 expended: 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 re-
sponse activities conducted by the Department pursuant
to sections 107 or 113(f) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 9607 or 9613(f)), shall be credited
to this account and shall be available without further ap-
propriation and shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided 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 of the Interior and which shall be cred-
ited to this account.
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CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS
For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and
construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads,
trails, and appurtenant facilities, $2,515,000, 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. 6901–07),
$111,409,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall be
available for administrative expenses.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of sections 205, 206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579
including administrative expenses and acquisition of lands
or waters, or interests therein, $8,500,000 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
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein including existing connecting roads on or
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adjacent to such grant lands; $91,387,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That 25 per centum
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 provisions of the second paragraph of subsection (b)
of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).
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 per cen-
tum 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 re-
ceipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the De-
partment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than
$9,113,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for admin-
istrative expenses.
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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 sections 209(b), 304(a), 304(b),
305(a), and 504(g) of the Act approved October 21, 1976
(43 U.S.C. 1701), and sections 101 and 203 of Public
Law 93–153, to be immediately available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con-
trary of section 305(a) of the Act of October 21, 1976
(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 or subsequent appropriations
Acts by the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate
any public lands administered through the Bureau of
Land Management which have been damaged by the ac-
tion of a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any
unauthorized person, without regard to whether all mon-
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eys collected from each such forfeiture, compromise, or
settlement are used on the exact lands damage to which
led to the forfeiture, compromise, or settlement: Provided
further, That such moneys are in excess of amounts need-
ed to repair damage to the exact land for which collected.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended
under existing law, 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.
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 of Land Management; miscellaneous and
emergency expenses of enforcement activities authorized
or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted for sole-
ly on his certificate, not to exceed $10,000: Provided, That
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notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Bureau may, under
cooperative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements
authorized by law, procure printing services from coopera-
tors 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 co-
operator is capable of meeting accepted quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For expenses necessary for scientific and economic
studies, conservation, management, investigations, protec-
tion, and utilization of fishery and wildlife resources, ex-
cept whales, seals, and sea lions, and for the performance
of other authorized functions related to such resources; for
the general administration of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service; and for maintenance of the herd of long-
horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge;
and 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 author-
ized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended by Public
Law 93–408, $498,035,000, to remain available for obli-
gation until September 30, 1997, of which $11,557,000
shall be for operation and maintenance of fishery mitiga-
tion facilities constructed by the Corps of Engineers under
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the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan, authorized by
the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 (90 Stat.
2921), to compensate for loss of fishery resources from
water development projects on the Lower Snake River:
Provided, That unobligated and unexpended balances in
the Resource Management account at the end of fiscal
year 1995, shall be merged with and made a part of the
fiscal year 1996 Resource Management appropriation, and
shall remain available for obligation until September 30,
1997.
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; $26,355,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
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
the Act of July 27, 1990 (Public Law 101–337);
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$6,019,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That sums provided by any party in fiscal year 1996 and
thereafter 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 such sums or properties shall be
utilized for the restoration of injured resources, and to
conduct new damage assessment activities.
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–4–11), including administra-
tive expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or in-
terest therein, in accordance with statutory authority ap-
plicable to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
$14,100,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund, 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 by Public Law 100–478, $8,085,000
for grants to States, to be derived from the Cooperative
Endangered Species Conservation Fund, and to remain
available until expended.
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NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $10,779,000.
REWARDS AND OPERATIONS
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the African Elephant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.
4201–4203, 4211–4213, 4221–4225, 4241–4245, and
1538), $600,000, to remain available until expended.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public
Law 101–233, $4,500,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
LAHONTAN VALLEY AND PYRAMID LAKE FISH AND
WILDLIFE FUND
For carrying out section 206(f) of Public Law 101–
618, such sums as have previously been credited or may
be credited hereafter to the Lahontan Valley and Pyramid
Lake Fish and Wildlife Fund, to be available until ex-
pended without further appropriation.
RHINOCEROS AND TIGER CONSERVATION FUND
For deposit to the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conserva-
tion Fund, $200,000, to remain available until expended,
to be available to carry out the provisions of the Rhinoc-
eros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (P.L. 103–391).
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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND APPRECIATION FUND
For deposit to the Wildlife Conservation and Appre-
ciation Fund, $998,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to be available for carrying out the Partnerships
for Wildlife Act only to the extent such funds are matched
as provided in section 7105 of said Act.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations and funds available to the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for pur-
chase of not to exceed 113 passenger motor vehicles, of
which 59 are for police-type use and 88 are for replace-
ment only; not to exceed $400,000 for payment, at the
discretion of the Secretary, for information, rewards, or
evidence concerning violations of laws administered by the
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and miscellane-
ous and emergency expenses of enforcement activities, au-
thorized or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted
for solely on his certificate; repair of damage to public
roads within and adjacent to reservation areas caused by
operations of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service;
options 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 pri-
mary purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of
aquaria, buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdic-
tion of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and
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to which the United States has title, and which are utilized
pursuant to law in connection with management and in-
vestigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, That
the United States Fish and Wildlife Service may accept
donated aircraft as replacements for existing aircraft: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the
Service may, under cooperative cost sharing and partner-
ship 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 not-
withstanding 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 reprogramming
procedures contained in House Report 103–551: Provided
further, That none of the funds made available in this Act
may be used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to im-
pede or delay the issuance of a wetlands permit by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the City of Lake Jack-
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son, Texas, for the development of a public golf course
west of Buffalo Camp Bayou between the Brazos River
and Highway 332: Provided further, That section 201 of
the Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986 (16
U.S.C. 3911) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(B), by striking ‘‘distrib-
uted’’ and inserting ‘‘used’’; and
(2) in subsection (c)—
(A) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), and
(iii) of subparagraph (A) as paragraphs (1),
(2), and (3), respectively;
(B) by striking ‘‘shall be distributed as fol-
lows:’’ and all that follows through ‘‘such
amount—’’ and inserting ‘‘shall be used by the
Secretary—’’; and
(C) by striking subparagraph (B).
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 to exceed $1,593,000
for the Volunteers-in-Parks program, and not less than
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$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 the Act of Au-
gust 13, 1970, as amended by Public Law 93–408,
$1,088,249,000, without regard to the Act of August 24,
1912, as amended (16 U.S.C. 451), of which not to exceed
$72,000,000, 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, and of
which not more than $1 shall be available for activies of
the National Park Service at the Mojave National Pre-
serve.
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, environ-
mental compliance and review, international park affairs,
statutory or contractual aid for other activities, and grant
administration, not otherwise provided for, $35,725,000:
Provided, That $248,000 of the funds provided herein are
for the William O. Douglas Outdoor Education Center,
subject to authorization.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions
of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 915),
as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), $37,934,000, to be derived
from the Historic Preservation Fund, established by sec-
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tion 108 of that Act, as amended, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 1997.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, improvements, repair or replace-
ment of physical facilities, $114,868,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$6,000,000 shall be paid to the Army Corps of Engineers
for modifications authorized by section 104 of the Ever-
glades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of
1989.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
(RESCISSION)
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 1996
by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded.
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE
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–4–11), including administra-
tive expenses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or
interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority
applicable to the National Park Service, $14,300,000, to
be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund,
to remain available until expended, of which $4,800,000
is provided for Federal assistance to the State of Florida
pursuant to Public Law 103–219, and of which
$1,500,000 is to administer the State assistance program.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be
available for the purchase of not to exceed 518 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 323 shall be for replacement only,
including not to exceed 411 for police-type use, 12 buses,
and 5 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.
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, and the
mineral and water resources of the United States, its Ter-
ritories and possessions, and other areas as authorized by
law (43 U.S.C. 31, 1332 and 1340); classify lands as to
their mineral and water resources; give engineering super-
vision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission licensees; administer the minerals exploration
program (30 U.S.C. 641); and publish and disseminate
data relative to the foregoing activities; $686,944,000, of
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which $62,130,000 shall be available for cooperation with
States or municipalities for water resources investigations,
and of which $112,888,000 for resource research and the
operations of Cooperative Research Units shall remain
available until September 30, 1997: Provided, That no
part of this appropriation shall be used to pay more than
one-half the cost of any topographic mapping or water re-
sources investigations carried on in cooperation with any
State or municipality: Provided further, That funds avail-
able herein for resource research may be used for the pur-
chase of not to exceed 61 passenger motor vehicles, of
which 55 are for replacement only: Provided further, That
none of the funds available under this head for resource
research shall be used to conduct new surveys on private
property: Provided further, That none of the funds pro-
vided herein for resource research may be used to admin-
ister a volunteer program: Provided further, That no later
than April 1, 1996, the Director of the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall issue agency guidelines for resource
research that ensure that scientific and technical peer re-
view is utilized as fully as possible in selection of projects
for funding and ensure the validity and reliability of re-
search and data collection on Federal lands: Provided fur-
ther, That no funds available for resource research may
be used for any activity that was not authorized prior to
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the establishment of the National Biological Survey: Pro-
vided further, That once every five years the National
Academy of Sciences shall review and report on the re-
source research activities of the Survey: Provided further,
That if specific authorizing legislation is enacted during
or before the start of fiscal year 1996, the resource re-
search component of the Survey should comply with the
provisions of that legislation: Provided further, That unob-
ligated and unexpended balances in the National Biologi-
cal Survey, Research, inventories and surveys account at
the end of fiscal year 1995, shall be merged with and made
a part of the United States Geological Survey, Surveys,
investigations, and research account and shall remain
available for obligation until September 30, 1996.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amount appropriated for the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall be available for purchase of not to ex-
ceed 22 passenger motor vehicles, for replacement only;
reimbursement to the General Services Administration for
security guard services; contracting for the furnishing of
topographic maps and for the making of geophysical or
other specialized surveys when it is administratively deter-
mined that such procedures are in the public interest; con-
struction and maintenance of necessary buildings and ap-
purtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging sta-
tions and observation wells; expenses of the United States
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National Committee on Geology; and payment of com-
pensation and expenses of persons on the rolls of the Unit-
ed States Geological Survey appointed, as authorized by
law, to represent the United States in the negotiation and
administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That ac-
tivities funded by appropriations herein made may be ac-
complished through the use of contracts, grants, or coop-
erative agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302, et seq.
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; $186,556,000, of which not less
than $70,105,000 shall be available for royalty manage-
ment activities; and an amount not to exceed $12,400,000
for the Technical Information Management System of
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Activity, to be cred-
ited to this appropriation and to remain available until ex-
pended, from additions to receipts resulting from increases
to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate increases
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to fee collections for OCS administrative activities per-
formed by the Minerals Management Service over and
above the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, and from
additional fees for OCS administrative activities estab-
lished after September 30, 1993: Provided, That begin-
ning in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter, fees for royalty
rate relief applications shall be established (and revised
as needed) in Notices to Lessees, and shall be credited
to this account in the program areas performing the func-
tion, and remain available until expended for the costs of
administering the royalty rate relief authorized by 43
U.S.C. 1337(a)(3): Provided further, That $1,500,000 for
computer acquisitions shall remain available until Septem-
ber 30, 1997: Provided further, That funds appropriated
under this Act shall be available for the payment of inter-
est in accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1721 (b) and (d): Pro-
vided 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 head shall be available for refunds of overpay-
ments in connection with certain Indian leases in which
the Director of the Minerals Management Service con-
curred with the claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed
to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to correct prior unrecover-
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able erroneous payments: Provided further, That beginning
in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter, the Secretary shall take
appropriate action to collect unpaid and underpaid royal-
ties and late payment interest owed by Federal and Indian
mineral lessees and other royalty payors on amounts re-
ceived in settlement or other resolution of disputes under,
and for partial or complete termination of, sales agree-
ments for minerals from Federal and Indian leases.
OIL SPILL RESEARCH
For necessary expenses to carry out the purposes of
title I, section 1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title
VII, and title VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act
of 1990, $6,440,000, which shall be derived from the Oil
Spill Liability Trust Fund, to remain available until ex-
pended.
BUREAU OF MINES
MINES AND MINERALS
For expenses necessary for the orderly closure of the
Bureau of Mines, $87,000,000.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings,
equipment, other contributions, and fees from public and
private sources, and to prosecute projects using such con-
tributions and fees in cooperation with other Federal,
State or private agencies: Provided, That the Bureau of
Mines is authorized, during the current fiscal year, to sell
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directly or through any Government agency, including cor-
porations, any metal or mineral products that may be
manufactured in pilot plants operated by the Bureau of
Mines, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec-
retary is authorized to convey, without reimbursement,
title and all interest of the United States in property and
facilities of the United States Bureau of Mines in Juneau,
Alaska to the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska; in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to The University of Alabama; in
Rolla, Missouri, to the University of Missouri-Rolla; and
in other localities to such university or government entities
as the Secretary deems appropriate.
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 15 passenger motor vehicles for re-
placement only; $92,751,000, and notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, an additional amount shall be credited to
this account, to remain available until expended, from per-
formance bond forfeitures in fiscal year 1996: Provided,
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That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec-
retary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may utilize
directly or through grants to States, moneys collected in
fiscal year 1996 pursuant to the assessment of civil pen-
alties under section 518 of the Surface Mining Control
and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim
lands adversely affected by coal mining practices after Au-
gust 3, 1977, to remain available until expended: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
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 the provisions
of 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 22 passenger motor vehicles
for replacement only, $176,327,000, to be derived from
receipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and
to remain available until expended, of which $5,000,000
shall be used for supplemental grants to States for the
reclamation of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drain-
age from coal mines through the Appalachian Clean
Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants to minimum
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program States will be $1,500,000 per State in fiscal year
1996: Provided further, That of the funds herein provided
up to $18,000,000 may be used for the emergency pro-
gram authorized by section 410 of Public Law 95–87, as
amended, of which no more than 25 per centum shall be
used for emergency reclamation projects in any one State
and funds for Federally-administered emergency reclama-
tion projects under this proviso shall not exceed
$11,000,000: Provided further, That donations credited to
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, pursuant to sec-
tion 401(b)(3) of Public Law 95–87, are hereby appro-
priated and shall be available until expended to support
projects under the Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative,
directly, through agreements with other Federal agencies,
as otherwise authorized, or through grants to States or
local governments, or tax-exempt private entities: Provided
further, That prior year unobligated funds appropriated
for the emergency reclamation program shall not be sub-
ject to the 25 per centum 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
utilize up to 20 per centum from the recovery of the delin-
quent debt owed to the United States Government to pay
for contracts to collect these debts.
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BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For operation of Indian programs by direct expendi-
ture, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and
grants including expenses necessary to provide education
and welfare services for Indians, either directly or in co-
operation with States and other organizations, including
payment of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses
of Indians in boarding homes, or institutions, or schools;
grants and other assistance to needy Indians; maintenance
of law and order; management, development, improve-
ment, and protection of resources and appurtenant facili-
ties under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
including payment of irrigation assessments and charges;
acquisition of water rights; advances for Indian industrial
and business enterprises; operation of Indian arts and
crafts shops and museums; development of Indian arts
and crafts, as authorized by law; for the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including such
expenses in field offices; maintaining of Indian reservation
roads as defined in section 101 of title 23, United States
Code; and construction, repair, and improvement of Indian
housing, $1,508,777,000, of which not to exceed
$106,126,000 shall be for payments to tribes and tribal
organizations for contract support costs associated with
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ongoing contracts or grants or compacts entered into with
the Bureau of Indian Affairs prior to fiscal year 1996,
as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of
1975, as amended, and $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 Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs under the provisions of the Indian
Self-Determination Act; and of which not to exceed
$330,711,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-fund-
ed schools and other education programs shall become
available for obligation on July 1, 1996, and shall remain
available for obligation until September 30, 1997; and of
which not to exceed $67,138,000 for higher education
scholarships, adult vocational training, and assistance to
public schools under the Johnson O’Malley Act shall re-
main available for obligation until September 30, 1997;
and of which not to exceed $74,814,000 shall remain
available until expended for trust funds management,
housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees,
litigation support, self-governance grants, the Indian Self-
Determination Fund, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement
Program: Provided, That tribes and tribal contractors may
use their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect costs
of ongoing contracts, grants or compact agreements: Pro-
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vided further, That funds made available to tribes and
tribal organizations through contracts or grants obligated
during fiscal year 1996, as authorized by the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C. 450
et seq.), or grants authorized by the Indian Education
Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2001 and 2008A) shall
remain available until expended by the contractor or
grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the statute of limitations shall not com-
mence to run on any claim, including any claim in litiga-
tion pending on the date of this Act, concerning losses to
or mismanagement of trust funds, until the affected tribe
or individual Indian has been furnished with the account-
ing of such funds from which the beneficiary can deter-
mine whether there has been a loss: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the reconcili-
ation report to be submitted pursuant to Public Law 103–
412 shall be submitted by November 30, 1997: Provided
further, That to provide funding uniformity within a Self-
Governance Compact, any funds provided in this Act with
availability for more than one year may be reprogrammed
to one year availability but shall remain available within
the Compact until expended: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, Indian tribal gov-
ernments may, by appropriate changes in eligibility cri-
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teria or by other means, change eligibility for general as-
sistance or change the amount of general assistance pay-
ments for individuals within the service area of such tribe
who are otherwise deemed eligible for general assistance
payments so long as such changes are applied in a consist-
ent manner to individuals similarly situated: Provided fur-
ther, That any savings realized by such changes shall be
available for use in meeting other priorities of the tribes:
Provided further, That any net increase in costs to the
Federal Government which result solely from tribally in-
creased payment levels for general assistance shall be met
exclusively from funds available to the tribe from within
its tribal priority allocation: Provided further, That any
forestry funds allocated to a tribe which remain unobli-
gated as of September 30, 1996, may be transferred dur-
ing fiscal year 1997 to an Indian forest land assistance
account established for the benefit of such tribe within the
tribe’s trust fund account: Provided further, That any such
unobligated balances not so transferred shall expire on
September 30, 1997: Provided further, That notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, no funds available to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, other than the amounts pro-
vided herein for assistance to public schools under the Act
of April 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 596), as amended (25 U.S.C.
452 et seq.), shall be available to support the operation
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of any elementary or secondary school in the State of Alas-
ka in fiscal year 1996: Provided further, That funds made
available in this or any other Act for expenditure through
September 30, 1997 for schools funded by the Bureau of
Indian Affairs shall be available only to the schools which
are in the Bureau of Indian Affairs school system as of
September 1, 1995: Provided further, That no funds avail-
able to the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be used to sup-
port expanded grades for any school beyond the grade
structure in place at each school in the Bureau of Indian
Affairs school system as of October 1, 1995: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding the provisions of 25 U.S.C.
2011(h)(1)(B) and (c), upon the recommendation of a
local school board for a Bureau of Indian Affairs operated
school, the Secretary shall establish rates of basic com-
pensation or annual salary rates for the positions of teach-
ers and counselors (including dormitory and homeliving
counselors) at the school at a level not less than that for
comparable positions in public school districts in the same
geographic area.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, major repair, and improvement 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, $98,033,000,
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to remain available until expended: Provided, That such
amounts as may be available for the construction of the
Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and for other water re-
source development activities related to the Southern Ari-
zona Water Rights Settlement Act may be transferred to
the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided further, That not to
exceed 6 per centum 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 of Indian Affairs: 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
non-reimbursable basis: Provided further, That for the fis-
cal year ending September 30, 1996, 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 Ad-
ministrative 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 deter-
mine a schedule of payments for the work to be performed:
Provided further, That in considering applications, the
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Secretary shall consider whether the Indian tribe or tribal
organization would be deficient in assuring that the con-
struction 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).
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,
$67,145,000, to remain available until expended; of which
$65,100,000 shall be available for implementation of en-
acted Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant
to Public Laws 87–483, 97–293, 101–618, 102–374, 102–
441, 102–575, and 103–116, and for implementation of
other enacted water rights settlements, including not to
exceed $8,000,000, which shall be for the Federal share
of the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Claims
Settlement, as authorized by section 5(a) of Public Law
103–116; and of which $1,045,000 shall be available pur-
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suant to Public Laws 98–500, 99–264, and 100–580; and
of which $1,000,000 shall be available (1) to liquidate obli-
gations owed tribal and individual Indian payees of any
checks canceled pursuant to section 1003 of the Competi-
tive Equality Banking Act of 1987 (Public Law 100–86
(101 Stat. 659)), 31 U.S.C. 3334(b), (2) to restore to In-
dividual Indian Monies trust funds, Indian Irrigation Sys-
tems, and Indian Power Systems accounts amounts in-
vested in credit unions or defaulted savings and loan asso-
ciations and which were not Federally insured, and (3)
to reimburse Indian trust fund account holders for losses
to their respective accounts where the claim for said
loss(es) has been reduced to a judgment or settlement
agreement approved by the Department of Justice.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall
be available for expenses of exhibits, and purchase of not
to exceed 275 passenger carrying motor vehicles, of which
not to exceed 215 shall be for replacement only.
TERRITORIAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior,
$69,232,000, of which (1) $65,705,000 shall be available
until expended for technical assistance, including mainte-
nance assistance, disaster assistance, insular management
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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) $3,527,000 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
utilized by such governments, may be audited by the Gen-
eral Accounting Office, at its discretion, in accordance
with chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided
further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant
funding shall be provided according to those terms of the
Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future Unit-
ed States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mariana
Islands approved by Public Law 99–396, or any subse-
quent legislation related to Commonwealth of the North-
ern Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding: Provided
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further, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
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 of capital infrastructure in
American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of
Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Fed-
erated States of Micronesia through assessments of long-
range operations and maintenance needs, improved capa-
bility of local operations and maintenance institutions and
agencies (including management and vocational education
training), and project-specific maintenance (with terri-
torial participation and cost sharing to be determined by
the Secretary based on the individual territory’s commit-
ment to timely maintenance of its capital assets): Provided
further, That any appropriation for disaster assistance
under this head in this Act or previous appropriations Acts
may be used as non-Federal matching funds for the pur-
pose of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to sec-
tion 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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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General, $23,939,000.
NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the National Indian Gam-
ing Commission, pursuant to Public Law 100–497,
$1,000,000.
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 ‘‘Office of the Secretary’’, ‘‘Office of the So-
licitor’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ may be aug-
mented through the Working Capital Fund or the Consoli-
dated Working Fund.
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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-
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)(D) 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
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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 oilspills; response and natural resource
damage assessment activities related to actual oilspills; for
the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or po-
tential 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
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-
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ties, no funds shall be made available under this authority
until funds appropriated to the ‘‘Emergency Department
of the Interior Firefighting Fund’’ shall have been ex-
hausted: 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)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 and must be replenished by
a supplemental appropriation which must be requested as
promptly as possible: Provided further, That such replen-
ishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata
basis, accounts from which emergency funds were trans-
ferred.
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, U.S.C.: Provided, That
reimbursements for costs and supplies, materials, equip-
ment, and for services rendered may be credited to the
appropriation current at the time such reimbursements
are received.
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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.
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. Appropriations made in this title from the
Land and Water Conservation Fund for acquisition of
lands and waters, or interests therein, shall be available
for transfer, with the approval of the Secretary, between
the following accounts: Bureau of Land Management,
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Land acquisition, United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
Land acquisition, and National Park Service, Land acqui-
sition and State assistance. Use of such funds are subject
to the reprogramming guidelines of the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 108. Amounts appropriated in this Act for the
Presidio which are not obligated as of the date on which
the Presidio Trust is established by an Act of Congress
shall be transferred to and available only for the Presidio
Trust.
SEC. 109. Section 6003 of Public Law 101–380 is
hereby repealed.
SEC. 110. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be obligated or ex-
pended by the Secretary of the Interior for developing,
promulgating, and thereafter implementing a rule con-
cerning rights-of-way under section 2477 of the Revised
Statutes.
SEC. 111. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of offshore leasing and related activities placed under re-
striction in the President’s moratorium statement of June
26, 1990, in the areas of Northern, Central, and Southern
California; the North Atlantic; Washington and Oregon;
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and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north
latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude.
SEC. 112. No funds provided in this title may be
expended by the Department of the Interior for the con-
duct of leasing, or the approval or permitting of any drill-
ing or other exploration activity, on lands within the North
Aleutian Basin planning area.
SEC. 113. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of preleasing and leasing activities in the Eastern Gulf of
Mexico for Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 151 in the
Outer Continental Shelf Natural Gas and Oil Resource
Management Comprehensive Program, 1992–1997.
SEC. 114. No funds provided in this title may be
expended by the Department of the Interior for the con-
duct of preleasing and leasing activities in the Atlantic for
Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 164 in the Outer Con-
tinental Shelf Natural Gas and Oil Resource Management
Comprehensive Program, 1992–1997.
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TITLE II—RELATED AGENCIES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
FOREST RESEARCH
For necessary expenses of forest research as author-
ized by law, $182,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 1997.
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 pest manage-
ment activities, cooperative forestry and education and
land conservation activities, $129,551,000, 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,
for ecosystem planning, inventory, and monitoring, and for
administrative expenses associated with the management
of funds provided under the heads ‘‘Forest Research’’,
‘‘State and Private Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’,
‘‘Construction’’, ‘‘Fire Protection and Emergency Sup-
pression’’, and ‘‘Land Acquisition’’, $1,276,688,000, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1997,
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and including 65 per centum of all monies received during
the prior fiscal year 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 and unexpended bal-
ances in the National Forest System account at the end
of fiscal year 1995, shall be merged with and made a part
of the fiscal year 1996 National Forest System appropria-
tion, and shall remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 1997: Provided further, That up to $5,000,000
of the funds provided herein for road maintenance shall
be available for the planned obliteration of roads which
are no longer needed.
FIRE PROTECTION AND EMERGENCY SUPPRESSION
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency
fire suppression on or adjacent to National Forest System
lands or other lands under fire protection agreement, and
for emergency rehabilitation of burned over National For-
est System lands, $385,485,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That unexpended balances of
amounts previously appropriated under any other head-
ings for Forest Service fire activities may be transferred
to and merged with this appropriation: Provided further,
That such funds are available for repayment of advances
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from other appropriations accounts previously transferred
for such purposes.
CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not
otherwise provided for, $120,000,000, to remain available
until expended, for construction and acquisition of build-
ings and other facilities, and for construction and repair
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 funds becoming available in fiscal year
1996 under the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501)
shall be transferred to the General Fund of the Treasury
of the United States: Provided further, That not to exceed
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended, may be
obligated for the construction of forest roads by timber
purchasers.
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–4–11), including administra-
tive expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or in-
terest therein, in accordance with statutory authority ap-
plicable to the Forest Service, $14,600,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain
available until expended.
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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, to be derived from funds de-
posited by State, county, or municipal governments, public
school districts, or other public school authorities pursuant
to the Act of December 4, 1967, as amended (16 U.S.C.
484a), to remain available until expended.
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-
tection, and improvement, 50 per centum of all moneys
received during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing
domestic 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 per centum shall be
available for administrative expenses associated with on-
the-ground range rehabilitation, protection, and improve-
ments.
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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: (a) purchase of not to
exceed 183 passenger motor vehicles of which 32 will be
used primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which
151 shall be for replacement; acquisition of 22 passenger
motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire of such vehi-
cles; operation and maintenance of aircraft, the purchase
of not to exceed two for replacement only, and acquisition
of 20 aircraft from excess sources; 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; (b) serv-
ices pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of
the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to ex-
ceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (c)
purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other
public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (d) acquisition of
land, waters, and interests therein, pursuant to the Act
of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 428a); (e) for expenses pur-
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suant to the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of
1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, 558a note); and (f) for debt
collection 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 change the boundaries of any
region, to abolish any region, to move or close any regional
office for research, State and private forestry, or National
Forest System administration of the Forest Service, De-
partment of Agriculture, without the consent of the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in the
United States Senate and the Committee on Agriculture
in the United States House of Representatives.
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest
Service may be advanced to the Fire and Emergency Sup-
pression appropriation and may be used for forest fire-
fighting and the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over
lands under its jurisdiction: Provided, That no funds shall
be made available under this authority until funds appro-
priated to the ‘‘Emergency Forest Service Firefighting
Fund’’ shall have been exhausted.
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-
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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 103–551.
No funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be
transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture without the approval of the Chief of
the Forest Service.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations or funds available to the Forest Service may
be used to disseminate program information to private and
public individuals and organizations through the use of
nonmonetary items of nominal value and to provide
nonmonetary awards of nominal value and to incur nec-
essary expenses for the nonmonetary recognition of private
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individuals and organizations that make contributions to
Forest Service programs.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, money
collected, in advance or otherwise, by the Forest Service
under authority of section 101 of Public Law 93–153 (30
U.S.C. 185(1)) as reimbursement of administrative and
other costs incurred in processing pipeline right-of-way or
permit applications and for costs incurred in monitoring
the construction, operation, maintenance, and termination
of any pipeline and related facilities, may be used to reim-
burse the applicable appropriation to which such costs
were originally charged.
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.
None of the funds available in this Act shall be used
for timber sale preparation using clearcutting in hardwood
stands in excess of 25 percent of the fiscal year 1989 har-
vested volume in the Wayne National Forest, Ohio: Pro-
vided, That this limitation shall not apply to hardwood
stands damaged by natural disaster: Provided further,
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That landscape architects shall be used to maintain a vis-
ually pleasing forest.
Any money collected from the States for fire suppres-
sion assistance rendered by the Forest Service on non-
Federal lands not in the vicinity of National Forest Sys-
tem lands shall be used to reimburse the applicable appro-
priation and shall remain available until expended as the
Secretary may direct in conducting activities authorized
by 16 U.S.C. 2101 (note), 2101–2110, 1606, and 2111.
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.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the For-
est Service is authorized to employ or otherwise contract
with persons at regular rates of pay, as determined by the
Service, to perform work occasioned by emergencies such
as fires, storms, floods, earthquakes or any other unavoid-
able cause without regard to Sundays, Federal holidays,
and the regular workweek.
To the greatest extent possible, and in accordance
with the Final Amendment to the Shawnee National For-
est Plan, none of the funds available in this Act shall be
used for preparation of timber sales using clearcutting or
other forms of even aged management in hardwood stands
in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois.
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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.
Not withstanding any other provision of law, eighty
percent of the funds appropriated to the Forest Service
in the National Forest System and Construction accounts
and planned to be allocated to activities under the ‘‘Jobs
in the Woods’’ program for projects on National Forest
land in the State of Washington 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 administering projects. Project selection and
prioritization shall be accomplished by the Forest Service
with such consultation with the State of Washington as
the Forest Service deems appropriate.
None of the funds available in this Act shall be used
for any activity that directly or indirectly causes harm to
songbirds within the boundaries of the Shawnee National
Forest.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy
research and development activities, under the authority
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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, $384,504,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That no part of the sum herein made available
shall be used for the field testing of nuclear explosives in
the recovery of oil and gas.
ALTERNATIVE FUELS PRODUCTION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Monies 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, 1995, shall be deposited in this
account and immediately transferred to the General Fund
of the Treasury. Monies received as revenue sharing from
the operation of the Great Plains Gasification Plant shall
be immediately transferred to the General Fund of the
Treasury.
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES
For necessary expenses in carrying out naval petro-
leum and oil shale reserve activities, $151,028,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That the require-
ments of 10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) shall not apply to fiscal
year 1996.
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STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
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.), $287,000,000, to remain available until expended,
of which $187,000,000 shall be derived by transfer of un-
obligated balances from the ‘‘SPR petroleum account’’ and
$100,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the ‘‘SPR
Decommissioning Fund’’: Provided, That notwithstanding
section 161 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act,
the Secretary shall draw down and sell up to seven million
barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Pro-
vided further, That the proceeds from the sale shall be de-
posited into a special account in the Treasury, to be estab-
lished and known as the ‘‘SPR Decommissioning Fund’’,
and shall be available for the purpose of removal of oil
from and decommissioning of the Weeks Island site and
for other purposes related to the operations of the Strate-
gic Petroleum Reserve: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $100,000,000 in pro-
ceeds from the sale shall be included in the budget baseline
required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985 and shall be counted as an offset to
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discretionary budget authority and outlays for the pur-
poses of section 251(a)(7) of that Act.
SPR PETROLEUM ACCOUNT
Notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 6240(d) the United
States share of crude oil in Naval Petroleum Reserve
Numbered 1 (Elk Hills) may be sold or otherwise disposed
of to other than the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Pro-
vided, That outlays in fiscal year 1996 resulting from the
use of funds in this account shall not exceed $5,000,000.
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities
of the Energy Information Administration, $79,766,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That not-
withstanding Section 4(d) of the Service Contract Act of
1965 (41 U.S.C. 353(d)) or any other provision of law,
funds appropriated under this heading hereafter may be
used to enter into a contract for end use consumption sur-
veys for a term not to exceed eight years: Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, hereafter
the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey shall be
conducted on a triennial basis.
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-
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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.
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
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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-
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.
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, $1,725,792,000 to-
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gether with payments received during the fiscal year pur-
suant to 42 U.S.C. 300aaa–2 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 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C.
450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time of the
grant or contract award and thereafter shall remain avail-
able to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year
limitation: Provided further, That $12,000,000 shall re-
main available until expended, for the Indian Catastrophic
Health 
Emergency 
Fund: 
Provided 
further, 
That
$351,258,000 for contract medical care shall remain avail-
able for obligation until September 30, 1997: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds provided, not less than
$11,306,000 shall be used to carry out the loan repayment
program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act, as amended: Provided further, That funds
provided in this Act may be used for one-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 In-
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dian Health Care Improvement Act shall be available for
two fiscal years after the fiscal year in which they were
collected, for the purpose of achieving compliance with the
applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and
XIX of the Social Security Act (exclusive of planning, de-
sign, or construction of new facilities): Provided further,
That of the funds provided, $7,500,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended, for the Indian Self-Determination
Fund, which shall be available for the transitional costs
of initial or expanded tribal contracts, grants or coopera-
tive agreements with the Indian Health Service under the
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act: Provided
further, That funding contained herein, and in any earlier
appropriations Acts for scholarship programs under the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613)
shall remain available for obligation until September 30,
1997: Provided further, That amounts received by tribes
and tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian
Health Care Improvement Act, as amended, shall be re-
ported and accounted for and available to the receiving
tribes and tribal organizations until expended.
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement,
and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities,
including quarters for personnel; preparation of plans,
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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
the Act of August 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-
Determination Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act
with respect to environmental health and facilities support
activities of the Indian Health Service, $236,975,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, funds appropriated
for the planning, design, construction or renovation of
health facilities for the benefit of an Indian tribe or tribes
may be used to purchase land for sites to construct, im-
prove, or enlarge health or related facilities.
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-
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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 therefor as author-
ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); and for expenses of
attendance 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
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–53) shall be
credited to the account of the facility providing the service
and shall be available without fiscal year limitation: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other law or regu-
lation, funds transferred from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development to the Indian Health Service
shall be administered under Public Law 86–121 (the In-
dian Sanitation Facilities Act) and Public Law 93–638,
as amended: Provided further, That funds appropriated to
the Indian Health Service in this Act, except those used
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for administrative and program direction purposes, shall
not be subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal
travel and transportation: Provided further, That the In-
dian Health Service shall neither bill nor charge those In-
dians who may have the economic means to pay unless
and until such time as Congress has agreed upon a specific
policy to do so and has directed the Indian Health Service
to implement such a policy: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, funds previously
or herein made available to a tribe or tribal organization
through a contract, grant or agreement authorized by
Title I of the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act of 1975 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C. 450),
may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-governance
funding agreement under Title III of the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 and
thereafter shall remain available to the tribe or tribal orga-
nization 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 in the Federal Register on September
16, 1987, by the Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices, relating to eligibility for the health care services of
the Indian Health Service until the Indian Health Service
has submitted a budget request reflecting the increased
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costs associated with the proposed final rule, and such re-
quest has been included in an appropriations Act and en-
acted into law: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able in this Act are to be apportioned to the Indian Health
Service as appropriated in this Act, and accounted for in
the appropriation structure set forth in this Act: Provided
further, That the appropriation structure for the Indian
Health Service may not be altered without advance ap-
proval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
INDIAN EDUCATION
For necessary expenses for the orderly closure of the
Office of Indian Education, $1,000,000.
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, $21,345,000, 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
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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
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.
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE
CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author-
ized by title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 U.S.C. 4401
et seq.), $5,500,000.
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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 thirty years), and protection of
buildings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed
$100,000 for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; up
to 5 replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, re-
pair, 
and 
cleaning 
of 
uniforms 
for 
employees;
$309,471,000, of which not to exceed $32,000,000 for the
instrumentation program, collections acquisition, Museum
Support 
Center 
equipment 
and 
move, 
exhibition
reinstallation, the National Museum of the American In-
dian, the repatriation of skeletal remains program, re-
search equipment, information management, and Latino
programming shall remain available until expended and,
including such funds as may be necessary to support
American overseas research centers and a total of
$125,000 for the Council of American Overseas Research
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Centers: Provided, That funds appropriated herein are
available for advance payments to independent contractors
performing research services or participating in official
Smithsonian presentations.
CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENTS, NATIONAL
ZOOLOGICAL PARK
For necessary expenses of planning, construction, re-
modeling, and equipping of buildings and facilities at the
National Zoological Park, by contract or otherwise,
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended.
REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF BUILDINGS
For necessary expenses of repair and restoration of
buildings owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, by contract or otherwise, as authorized by section
2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), including
not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, $24,954,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That contracts awarded for environ-
mental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair or
restoration of buildings of the Smithsonian Institution
may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.
CONSTRUCTION
For 
necessary 
expenses 
for 
construction,
$12,950,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
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vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
a single procurement for the construction of the National
Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resources Cen-
ter may be issued which includes the full scope of the
project: Provided further, That the solicitation and the
contract shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’
found at 48 CFR 52.232.18.
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-
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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
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, $51,315,000, 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 $5,500,000, 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, $9,800,000.
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CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses of capital repair and rehabili-
tation of the existing features of the building and site of
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
$8,983,000, 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, $6,152,000.
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 Humanities Act of 1965, as
amended, $82,259,000 shall be available to the National
Endowment for the Arts for the support of projects and
productions in the arts through assistance to groups and
individuals pursuant to section 5(c) of the Act, and for
administering the functions of the Act, to remain available
until September 30, 1997.
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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, $17,235,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1997, to the National Endowment for
the Arts, of which $7,500,000 shall be available for pur-
poses of section 5(p)(1): Provided, That this appropriation
shall be available for obligation 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, $82,469,000 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 September 30, 1997.
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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, $17,025,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1997, of which $9,180,000 shall be
available to the National Endowment for the Humanities
for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That this ap-
propriation shall be available for obligation only in such
amounts as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts,
bequests, and devises of money, and other property accept-
ed by the Chairman or by grantees of the Endowment
under the provisions 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 appro-
priated.
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM SERVICES
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For carrying out title II of the Arts, Humanities, and
Cultural Affairs Act of 1976, as amended, $21,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 1997.
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