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$159,928,000 is for construction and repair of forest roads
and trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 16
U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: Provided,
That funds becoming available in fiscal year 1994 under
the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be trans-
ferred to the General Fund of the Treasury of the United
States: Provided further, That not to exceed $60,000,000,
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, $56,700,000 $51,050,000,
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation
Fund, to remain available until expended and $300,000
which shall be derived from funds appropriated under this
head in Public Law 101–512 for acquisition of land and
interests therein at and near the Old Chief Joseph
Gravesite and which shall be available for all activities
under this heading.
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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, $1,212,000, 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),
$96,000, 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 182 passenger motor vehicles of which 20 will be
used primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which
164 shall be for replacement only, of which acquisition of
122 passenger motor vehicles shall be from excess sources,
and hire of such vehicles; operation and maintenance of
aircraft, the purchase of not to exceed two for replacement
only, and acquisition of 28 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) services pursuant to the second
sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7
U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $100,000 for employment
under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (c) purchase, erection, and alter-
ation of buildings and other public improvements (7
U.S.C. 2250); (d) acquisition of land, waters, and inter-
ests therein, pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7
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U.S.C. 428a); (e) for expenses pursuant 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 Forest Service Firefight-
ing appropriation and may be used for forest firefighting
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.
The appropriation structure for the Forest Service
may not be altered without advanced approval of the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
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Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Office of International Co-
operation and Development in connection with forest and
rangeland research, technical information, and assistance
in foreign countries, and shall be available to support for-
estry and related natural resource activities outside the
United States and its territories and possessions, includ-
ing technical assistance, education and training, and co-
operation with United States and international organiza-
tions.
All funds received for timber salvage sales may be
credited to the Forest Service Permanent Appropriations
to be expended for timber salvage sales from any national
forest, and for timber sales preparation to replace sales lost
to fire or other causes, and sales preparation to replace sales
inventory on the shelf for any national forest to a level suffi-
cient to maintain new sales availability equal to a rolling
five-year average of the total sales offerings, and for design,
engineering, and supervision of construction of roads lost
to fire or other causes associated with the timber sales pro-
grams described above: Provided, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, moneys received from the timber sal-
vage sales program shall be considered as money received
for purposes of computing and distributing 25 per centum
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payments to local governments under 16 U.S.C. 500, as
amended.
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 102–116.
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
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