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relationship between the United States and that tribe, or that
tribe’s ability to access future appropriations.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available
to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided herein for assist-
ance 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 September 1, 1996. No funds
available to the Bureau shall be used to support expanded grades
for any school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in
the Bureau school system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made
available under this Act may not be used to establish a charter
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined in section
1146 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)),
except that a charter school that is in existence on the date of
the enactment of this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-
funded school before September 1, 1999, may continue to operate
during that period, but only if the charter school pays to the
Bureau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for
the use of the real and personal property (including buses and
vans), the funds of the charter school are kept separate and apart
from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does not assume any obligation
for charter school programs of the State in which the school is
located if the charter school loses such funding. Employees of
Bureau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school
and performing functions related to the charter school’s operation
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as Federal
employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States
Code.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section
113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106–113, if a tribe
or tribal organization in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 received indirect
and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution formula based
on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the Secretary shall continue
to distribute indirect and administrative cost funds to such tribe
or tribal organization using the section 5(f) distribution formula.
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
INSULAR AFFAIRS
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $76,255,000, of which:
(1) $69,682,000 shall be available until expended for technical
assistance, including maintenance assistance, disaster assistance,
insular management controls, coral reef initiative activities, and
brown tree snake control and research; grants to the judiciary
in American Samoa for compensation 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 Government of
the Virgin Islands as authorized by law; grants to the Government
of Guam, as authorized by law; and grants to the Government
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of the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Public
Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $6,563,000 shall be available
for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided,
That all financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of all agen-
cies or instrumentalities established or used by such governments,
may be audited by the Government Accountability 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 United States
Financial Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved
by Public Law 104–134: Provided further, That of the amounts
provided for technical assistance, sufficient funds shall be made
available for a grant to the Pacific Basin Development Council:
Provided 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 improvement are appro-
priated to institutionalize routine operations and maintenance
improvement of capital infrastructure with territorial participation
and cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on the
grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its capital assets:
Provided further, That any appropriation for disaster assistance
under this heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts
may be used as non-Federal matching funds for the purpose of
hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section 404 of the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 5170c).
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION
For grants and necessary expenses, $5,499,000, as provided
for in sections 221(a)(2), 221(b), and 233 of the Compact of Free
Association for the Republic of Palau as authorized by Public Law
99–658; Public Law 108–188; and section 221(a)(2) of the Compacts
of Free Association and their related agreements between the
Government of the United States and the Government of the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Government of the United
States of the Federated States of Micronesia, respectively, as
amended.
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for management of the Department
of the Interior, $90,855,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 may
be for official reception and representation expenses, of which up
to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensation payments
and unemployment compensation payments associated with the
orderly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines, and of which
$14,250,000 shall remain available until expended for a depart-
mental financial and business management system: Provided, That
of the funds provided for a departmental financial and business
management system, $13,500,000 shall be derived by transfer from