H. R. 4602
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four
An Act
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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, 1995,
and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES
For expenses necessary for protection, use, improvement, devel-
opment, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, and perform-
ance of other functions, including maintenance of facilities, as
authorized by law, in the management of lands and their resources
under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, including
the general administration of the Bureau of Land Management,
$598,449,000, to remain available until expended, including
$1,462,000 to 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 appropria-
tions herein made shall not be available for the destruction of
healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros in the care of the
Bureau of Land Management or its contractors; and in addition,
$21,650,000 for Mining Law Administration program operations,
to remain available until expended, to be reduced by amounts
collected by the Bureau of Land Management and credited to this
appropriation from annual mining claim fees so as to result in
a final appropriation estimated at not more than $598,449,000:
Provided further, That in addition to funds otherwise available,
not to exceed $5,000,000 from annual mining claim fees shall be
credited to this account for the costs of administering the mining
claim fee program, and shall remain available until expended.
FIRE PROTECTION
For necessary expenses for fire use and management, and fire
preparedness by the Department of the Interior, $114,968,000, to
remain available until expended.
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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FIREFIGHTING FUND
For emergency rehabilitation, severity presuppression, and
wildfire operations of the Department of the Interior, $121,176,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That such funds
also are available for repayment of advances to other appropriation
accounts from which funds were previously transferred for such
purposes: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be
furnished subsistence and lodging without cost from funds available
from this appropriation: Provided further, That only amounts for
emergency rehabilitation and wildfire operations that are in excess
of the average of such costs for the previous ten years shall be
considered 
‘‘emergency 
requirements’’ 
pursuant 
to 
section
251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985.
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
For expenses necessary for use by the Department of the
Interior and any of its component offices and bureaus for the
remedial action, including associated activities, of hazardous waste
substances, pollutants, or contaminants pursuant to the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $13,435,000, 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 response activities con-
ducted by the Department pursuant to sections 107 or 113(f) of
the Comprehensive Environmental 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
appropriation and shall remain available until expended: Provided
further, That such sums recovered from or paid by any party are
not limited to monetary payments and may include stocks, bonds
or other personal or real property, which may be retained, liq-
uidated, or otherwise disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior
and which shall be credited to this account.
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS
For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and construction
of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails, and appurtenant
facilities, $12,091,000, to remain available until expended.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20,
1976 (31 U.S.C. 6901–07), $104,108,000, 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,
$14,785,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation
Fund, to remain available until expended.
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OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For expenses necessary for management, protection, and devel-
opment of resources and for construction, operation, and mainte-
nance of access roads, reforestation, and other improvements on
the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands, on other
Federal lands in the Oregon and California land-grant counties
of Oregon, and on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands
or interests therein including existing connecting roads on or adja-
cent to such grant lands; $97,550,000, 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 provi-
sions 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 centum of all moneys received during the prior
fiscal year under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act
(43 U.S.C. 315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range
improvements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from
Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior
pursuant to law, but not less than $10,350,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be
available for administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related to process-
ing application documents and other authorizations for use and
disposal of public lands and resources, for costs of providing copies
of official public land documents, for monitoring construction, oper-
ation, and termination 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 notwithstand-
ing any provision to the contrary 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
action of a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any
unauthorized person, without regard to whether all moneys collected
from each such forfeiture, compromise, or settlement are used on
the exact lands damage to which led to the forfeiture, compromise,
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or settlement: Provided further, That such moneys are in excess
of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land for which
collected.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under exist-
ing 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 administra-
tive costs, surveys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances
of omitted 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 dismantlement of temporary
structures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary buildings
and appurtenant facilities to which the United States has title;
up to $100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary,
for information or evidence concerning violations of laws adminis-
tered by the Bureau of Land Management; miscellaneous and emer-
gency expenses of enforcement activities authorized or approved
by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on his certificate,
not to exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C.
501, the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and partner-
ship arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services
from cooperators in connection with jointly-produced publications
for which the cooperators share the cost of printing either in cash
or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator is capable
of meeting accepted quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For expenses necessary for scientific and economic studies,
conservation, management, investigations, protection, and utiliza-
tion of fishery and wildlife resources, except 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 authorized by the Act
of August 13, 1970, as amended by Public Law 93–408,
$513,815,000, of which $11,732,000 shall be for operation and
maintenance of fishery mitigation facilities constructed by the Corps
of Engineers under the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan,
authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 (90
Stat. 2921), to compensate for loss of fishery resources from water
development projects on the Lower Snake River, and which shall
remain available until expended; and of which $3,000,000 shall
be provided to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for endan-
gered species activities: Provided, That the amount provided to
the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation shall be matched by
at least an equal amount by the National Fish and Wildlife Founda-
tion: Provided further, That sums may be made available to the