H. R. 1105—192 
building standards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health 
and safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with respect 
to organizational and financial management capabilities: Provided 
further, That if the Secretary declines a grant application, the 
Secretary shall follow the requirements contained in 25 U.S.C. 
2504(f): Provided further, That any disputes between the Secretary 
and any grantee concerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes 
provision in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided further, That in order 
to ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Secretary 
may assume control of a project and all funds related to the project, 
if, within eighteen months of the date of enactment of this Act, 
any grantee receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any 
prior Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of 
the project and commenced construction: Provided further, That 
this appropriation may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special 
Trustee for American Indians appropriation for the appropriate 
share of construction costs for space expansion needed in agency 
offices to meet trust reform implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS 
PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses for 
implementation of Indian land and water claim settlements pursu-
ant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 108–447, 109–379, 
and 109–479, and for implementation of other land and water 
rights settlements, $21,627,000, to remain available until expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $8,186,000, of which 
$1,600,000 is for administrative expenses, as authorized by the 
Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amended: Provided, That of the 
amounts provided herein for administrative expenses, $500,000 is 
for the modernization of a management and accounting system: 
Provided further, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available 
to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaran-
teed, not to exceed $85,200,517. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the operation 
of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative 
agreements, compacts and grants, either directly or in cooperation 
with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
may contract for services in support of the management, operation, 
and maintenance of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation 
Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
Revolving Fund for Loans Liquidating Account, Indian Loan Guar-
anty and Insurance Fund Liquidating Account, Indian Guaranteed 
Loan Financing Account, Indian Direct Loan Financing Account, 
and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program account) shall be avail-
able for expenses of exhibits.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office oversight and 
Executive Direction and Administrative Services (except executive 
direction and administrative services funding for Tribal Priority 
Allocations, regional offices, and facilities operations and mainte-
nance) shall be available for contracts, grants, compacts, or coopera-
tive agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the provi-
sions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal Self-Govern-
ance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made available 
by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this action shall not 
diminish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to that tribe, 
or the government-to-government relationship between the United 
States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appro-
priations. 
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 schools 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 in fiscal 
year 2003 or 2004 a grantee 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 grantee using the 
section 5(f) distribution formula.