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fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may
provide for the travel and per diem expenses of State and
tribal personnel attending Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement sponsored training: Provided
further, That beginning in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter,
cost-based fees for the products of the Mine Map Reposi-
tory shall be established (and revised as needed) in Fed-
eral Register Notices, and shall be collected and credited
to this account, to be available until expended for the costs
of administering this program.
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977,
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase
of not more than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, $185,416,000, to be derived from receipts of
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain
available until expended; of which up to $7,000,000, to
be derived from the cumulative balance of interest earned
to date on the Fund, shall be for supplemental grants to
States for the reclamation of abandoned sites with acid
mine rock drainage from coal mines, and for associated
activities, through the Appalachian Clean Streams Initia-
tive: Provided, That grants to minimum program States
will be $1,500,000 per State in fiscal year 1999: Provided
further, That of the funds herein provided up to
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$18,000,000 may be used for the emergency program au-
thorized by section 410 of Public Law 95–87, as amended,
of which no more than 25 percent shall be used for emer-
gency reclamation projects in any one State and funds for
federally administered emergency reclamation projects
under this proviso shall not exceed $11,000,000: Provided
further, That prior year unobligated funds appropriated
for the emergency reclamation program shall not be sub-
ject to the 25 percent limitation per State and may be
used without fiscal year limitation for emergency projects:
Provided further, That pursuant to Public Law 97–365,
the Department of the Interior is authorized to use up
to 20 percent from the recovery of the delinquent debt
owed to the United States Government to pay for con-
tracts to collect these debts: Provided further, That funds
made available to States under title IV of Public Law 95–
87 may be used, at their discretion, for any required non-
Federal share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal
Government for the purpose of environmental restoration
related to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such
projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-
ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act:
Provided further, That the State of Maryland may set
aside the greater of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total
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of the grants made available to the State under title IV
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
1977, as amended (30 U.S.C. 1231 et seq.), if the amount
set aside is deposited in an acid mine drainage abatement
and treatment fund established under a State law, pursu-
ant to which law the amount (together with all interest
earned on the amount) is expended by the State to under-
take acid mine drainage abatement and treatment
projects, except that before any amounts greater than 10
percent of its title IV grants are deposited in an acid mine
drainage abatement and treatment fund, the State of
Maryland must first complete all Surface Mining Control
and Reclamation Act priority one projects: Provided fur-
ther, That hereafter, donations received to support
projects under the Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative
and under the Western Mine Lands Restoration Partner-
ships Initiative, pursuant to 30 U.S.C. 1231, shall be cred-
ited to this account and remain available until expended
without further appropriation for projects sponsored
under these initiatives, directly through agreements with
other Federal agencies, or through grants to States, and
funding to local governments, or tax exempt private enti-
ties.
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BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.),
as amended, $1,558,425,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2000 except as otherwise provided herein,
of which not to exceed $96,028,000 shall be for welfare
assistance payments and notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed
$114,881,000 shall be available for payments to tribes and
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated
with ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements entered into with the Bureau prior to or
during fiscal year 1999, as authorized by such Act, except
that tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal
priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of ongoing
contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding agree-
ments and for unmet welfare assistance costs, and of
which not to exceed $383,451,000 for school operations
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costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education pro-
grams shall become available on July 1, 1999, and shall
remain available until September 30, 2000; and of which
not to exceed $52,256,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for housing improvement, road maintenance, at-
torney fees, litigation support, self-governance grants, the
Indian Self-Determination Fund, land records improve-
ment, the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, including
but not limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of
1975, as amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed
$42,160,000 within and only from such amounts made
available for school operations shall be available to tribes
and tribal organizations for administrative cost grants as-
sociated with the operation of Bureau-funded schools: Pro-
vided further, That hereafter funds made available to
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, compact
agreements, or grants, as authorized by the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975 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 hereafter to
provide funding uniformity within a Self-Governance Com-
pact, any funds provided in this Act with availability for
more than two years may be reprogrammed to two year
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availability but shall remain available within the Compact
until expended: Provided further, That hereafter notwith-
standing any other provision of law, Indian tribal govern-
ments may, by appropriate changes in eligibility criteria
or by other means, change eligibility for general assistance
or change the amount of general assistance payments 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 consistent manner
to individuals similarly situated and, that any savings real-
ized by such changes shall be available for use in meeting
other priorities of the tribes and, that any net increase
in costs to the Federal Government which result solely
from tribally increased payment levels for general assist-
ance 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 unobligated as of September 30, 2000, may be
transferred during fiscal year 2001 to an Indian forest
land assistance account established for the benefit of such
tribe within the tribe’s trust fund account: Provided fur-
ther, That any such unobligated balances not so trans-
ferred shall expire on September 30, 2001: Provided fur-
ther, That hereafter tribes may use tribal priority alloca-
tions funds for the replacement and repair of school facili-
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ties in compliance with 25 U.S.C. 2005(a), so long as such
replacement or repair is approved by the Secretary and
completed with non-Federal tribal and/or tribal priority al-
location funds.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities,
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-
suant to Public Law 87–483, $121,695,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of
Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may
be used to cover the road program management costs of
the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds provided for
the Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13
shall be made available on a nonreimbursable basis: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 1999, 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–
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297, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use
the Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost
Principles for Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR
part 12 as the regulatory requirements: Provided further,
That such grants shall not be subject to section 12.61 of
43 CFR; the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and
determine a schedule of payments for the work to be per-
formed: Provided further, That in considering applications,
the Secretary shall consider whether the Indian tribe or
tribal organization would be deficient in assuring that the
construction projects conform to applicable building stand-
ards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health and
safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(a), with
respect to organizational and financial management capa-
bilities: Provided further, That if the Secretary declines an
application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2505(f): Provided further, That
any disputes between the Secretary and any grantee con-
cerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes provision
in 25 U.S.C. 2508(e): Provided further, That funds appro-
priated in Public Law 105–18, making emergency supple-
mental appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
for the repair of irrigation projects damaged in the severe
winter conditions and ensuing flooding, are available on
a nonreimbursable basis.
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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,
$28,396,000, to remain available until expended; of which
$27,530,000 shall be available for implementation of en-
acted Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant
to Public Laws 101–618 and 102–575, and for implemen-
tation of other enacted water rights settlements; and of
which $866,000 shall be available pursuant to Public
Laws 99–264, and 100–580: Provided, That in fiscal year
1999 and thereafter, the Secretary is directed to sell land
and interests in land, other than surface water rights, ac-
quired in conformance with section 2 of the Truckee River
Water Quality Settlement Agreement, the receipts of
which shall be deposited to the Lahontan Valley and Pyra-
mid Lake Fish and Wildlife Fund, and be available for
the purposes of section 2 of such agreement, without re-
gard to the limitation on the distribution of benefits in
the second sentence of paragraph 206(f)(2) of Public Law
101–618.
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $4,501,000, as au-
thorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amend-
ed: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modi-
fying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
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Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal,
any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
$34,615,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the guaranteed loan programs, $500,000.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts,
cooperative agreements, compacts and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions.
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guaran-
tee and insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan
Program account) shall be available for expenses of exhib-
its, and purchase of not to exceed 229 passenger motor
vehicles, of which not to exceed 187 shall be for replace-
ment only.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office
operations or pooled overhead general administration (ex-
cept facilities operations and maintenance) shall be avail-
able for tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the
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Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–
413).
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided
herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C.
452 et seq., shall be available to support the operation of
any elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska.
Appropriations made available in this or any other
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dor-
mitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bu-
reau school system as of October 1, 1995.
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made
available by the Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for
distribution to other tribes, this action will not diminish
the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to that
tribe, or the government-to-government relationship be-
tween the United States and that tribe, or the tribe’s right
to future appropriations.
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DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
INSULAR AFFAIRS
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior,
$66,175,000 (reduced by $2,000,000), of which: (1)
$62,326,000 shall be available until expended for technical
assistance, including maintenance assistance, disaster as-
sistance, insular management controls, and brown tree
snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in
American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-
thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-
ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev-
enues, for construction and support of governmental func-
tions; grants to the Government 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 Islands as authorized by law (Pub-
lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $3,849,000 shall
be available for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insu-
lar Affairs: Provided, That all financial transactions of the
territorial and local governments herein provided for, in-
cluding such transactions of all agencies or instrumental-
ities established or used by such governments, may be au-
dited by the General Accounting Office, at its discretion,