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ALTERNATIVE FUELS PRODUCTION
(RESCISSION)
Of the unobligated balances under this heading, $1,000,000
are rescinded.
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES
For expenses necessary to carry out engineering studies to
determine the cost of development, the predicted rate and quantity
of petroleum recovery, the methodology, and the equipment speci-
fications for development of Shannon Formation at Naval Petroleum
Reserve Numbered 3 (NPR–3), utilizing a below-the-reservoir
production method, $1,600,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the requirements of 10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) shall
not apply to fiscal year 2001 and any fiscal year thereafter: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, unobli-
gated funds remaining from prior years shall be available for all
naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities.
ELK HILLS SCHOOL LANDS FUND
For necessary expenses in fulfilling installment payments under
the Settlement Agreement entered into by the United States and
the State of California on October 11, 1996, as authorized by section
3415 of Public Law 104–106, $36,000,000, to become available on
October 1, 2001 for payment to the State of California for the
State Teachers’ Retirement Fund from the Elk Hills School Lands
Fund.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation
activities, $816,940,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $2,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from unobligated
balances in the Biomass Energy Development account: Provided,
That $191,000,000 shall be for use in energy conservation programs
as defined in section 3008(3) of Public Law 99–509 (15 U.S.C.
4507): Provided further, That notwithstanding section 3003(d)(2)
of Public Law 99–509, such sums shall be allocated to the eligible
programs as follows: $153,000,000 for weatherization assistance
grants and $38,000,000 for State energy conservation grants: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary of Energy may waive up to fifty percent of the
cost-sharing requirement for weatherization assistance provided for
by Public Law 106–113 for a State which he finds to be experiencing
fiscal hardship or major changes in energy markets or suppliers
or other temporary limitations on its ability to provide matching
funds, provided that the State is demonstrably engaged in con-
tinuing activities to secure non-federal resources and that such
waiver is limited to one fiscal year and that no state may be
granted such waiver more than twice: Provided further, That, here-
after, Indian tribal direct grantees of weatherization assistance
shall not be required to provide matching funds.
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ECONOMIC REGULATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the
Office of Hearings and Appeals, $2,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Reserve 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.), $165,000,000, to remain available
until expended, of which $4,000,000 shall be derived by transfer
of unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated under
the heading ‘‘SPR Petroleum Account’’, and of which $8,000,000
shall be available for maintenance of a Northeast Home Heating
Oil Reserve.
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the
Energy Information Administration, $75,675,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
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, repair, and cleaning of uniforms;
and reimbursement to the General Services Administration for secu-
rity guard services.
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 programs unless specific provision
is made for such programs in an appropriations Act.
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equip-
ment, 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 con-
tracts or agreements: Provided further, That the remainder of reve-
nues after the making of such payments shall be covered into
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any
contract, agreement, or provision thereof entered into by the Sec-
retary pursuant to this authority shall not be executed prior to
the expiration of 30 calendar days (not including any day in which
either House of Congress is not in session because of adjournment
of more than three calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President
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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 Depart-
ment of Energy to prepare, issue, or process procurement documents
for programs or projects for which appropriations have not been
made.
In addition to other authorities set forth in this Act, the Sec-
retary may accept fees and contributions from public and private
sources, to be deposited in a contributed funds account, and pros-
ecute projects using such fees and contributions in cooperation
with other Federal, State or private agencies or concerns.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
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
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$2,240,658,000, together with payments received during the fiscal
year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made available to
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements,
or any other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C.
450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant
or contract award and thereafter shall remain available to the
tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Provided
further, That $15,000,000 shall remain available until expended,
for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: Provided fur-
ther, That $431,756,000 for contract medical care shall remain
available for obligation until September 30, 2002: Provided further,
That of the funds provided, up to $22,000,000 shall be used to
carry out the loan repayment program under section 108 of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act: 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 Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall remain
available until expended 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, design,
or construction of new facilities): Provided further, That funding
contained herein, and in any earlier appropriations Acts for scholar-
ship programs under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
(25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2002: Provided further, That amounts received by tribes
and tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care
Improvement Act shall be reported and accounted for and available
to the receiving tribes and tribal organizations until expended:
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of the amounts provided herein, not to exceed $248,781,000 shall
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be for payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract
or grant support costs associated with contracts, grants, self-govern-
ance compacts or annual funding agreements between the Indian
Health Service and a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior to or
during fiscal year 2001, of which not to exceed $10,000,000 may
be used for such costs associated with new and expanded contracts,
grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding agreements:
Provided further, That funds available for the Indian Health Care
Improvement Fund may be used, as needed, to carry out activities
typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities account.
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, and equip-
ment of health and related auxiliary facilities, including quarters
for personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings;
acquisition of sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings,
and purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and commu-
nity sanitation 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 Improvement Act,
and for expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II
and III of the Public Health Service Act with respect to environ-
mental health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health
Service, $363,904,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-
priated 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, improve, or enlarge health
or related facilities: Provided further, That from the funds appro-
priated herein, $5,000,000 shall be designated by the Indian Health
Service as a contribution to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corpora-
tion (YKHC) to start a priority project for the acquisition of land,
planning, design and construction of 79 staff quarters at Bethel,
Alaska, subject to a negotiated project agreement between the
YKHC and the Indian Health Service: Provided further, That this
project shall not be subject to the construction provisions of the
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and shall
be removed from the Indian Health Service priority list upon
completion: Provided further, That the Federal Government shall
not be liable for any property damages or other construction claims
that may arise from YKHC undertaking this project: Provided fur-
ther, That the land shall be owned or leased by the YKHC and
title to quarters shall remain vested with the YKHC: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any provision of law governing Fed-
eral construction, $2,240,000 of the funds provided herein shall
be provided to the Hopi Tribe to reduce the debt incurred by
the Tribe in providing staff quarters to meet the housing needs
associated with the new Hopi Health Center: Provided further,
That $5,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the pur-
pose of funding joint venture health care facility projects authorized
under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, as amended: Pro-
vided further, That priority, by rank order, shall be given to tribes
with outpatient projects on the existing Indian Health Services
priority list that have Service-approved planning documents, and
can demonstrate by March 1, 2001, the financial capability nec-
essary to provide an appropriate facility: Provided further, That