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Union Calendar No. 90
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2520
[Report No. 103–158]
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 24, 1993
Mr. YATES, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill;
which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1994, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES
For expenses necessary for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-
fication, and performance of other functions, including
maintenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the
management of lands and their resources under the juris-
diction of the Bureau of Land Management, including the
general administration of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, $595,040,000, of which the following amounts shall
remain available until expended: $1,462,000 to be derived
from the special receipt account established by section 4
of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965,
as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)), and $69,418,000 for
the Automated Land and Mineral Record System Project:
Provided, That appropriations herein made shall not be
available for the destruction of healthy, unadopted, wild
horses and burros in the care of the Bureau of Land Man-
agement or its contractors; and in addition, $15,300,000
for Mining Law Administration program operations to re-
main available through September 30, 1994, to be reduced
by amounts collected by the Bureau of Land Management
and credited to this appropriation from annual mining
claim fees so as to result in a final fiscal year 1994 appro-
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priation estimated at not more than $595,040,000: Pro-
vided further, That in addition to funds otherwise avail-
able, not to exceed $5,000,000 from annual mining claim
fees shall be credited to this account for the costs of ad-
ministering the mining claim fee program, and shall re-
main available until expended.
FIRE PROTECTION
For necessary expenses for fire management, emer-
gency rehabilitation, fire presuppression and prepared-
ness, and other related emergency actions by the Depart-
ment of the Interior, $117,143,000, to remain available
until expended.
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FIREFIGHTING FUND
For 
emergency 
rehabilitation, 
severity 
presup-
pression, and wildfire suppression activities of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, $116,674,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That such funds also are avail-
able for repayment of advances to other appropriation ac-
counts from which funds were previously transferred for
such purposes: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, persons hired pursuant to 43
U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging
without cost from funds available from this appropriation:
Provided further, That only amounts for emergency reha-
bilitation and wildfire suppression activities that are in ex-
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cess of the average of such costs for the previous ten years
shall be considered ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS
For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and
construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads,
trails, and appurtenant facilities, $7,167,000, to remain
available until expended.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976 (31 U.S.C. 6901–07), $104,108,000, of
which not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for admin-
istrative expenses.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of sections 205, 206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579
including administrative expenses and acquisition of lands
or waters, or interests therein, $14,877,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain
available until expended.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For expenses necessary for management, protection,
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California
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Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein including existing connecting roads on or
adjacent to such grant lands; $83,052,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That 25 per centum
of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal
year from the revested Oregon and California Railroad
grant lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon
and California landgrant fund and shall be transferred to
the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the
provisions of the second paragraph of subsection (b) of
title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701),
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 per cen-
tum of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year
under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43
U.S.C. 315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range
improvements from grazing fees and mineral leasing re-
ceipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the De-
partment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than
$10,025,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-