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private gifts of money and real or personal property for
the benefit of, or in connection with, the activities and
services at the Grey Towers National Historic Landmark:
Provided further, That such gifts may be accepted notwith-
standing the fact that a donor conducts business with the
Department of Agriculture in any capacity.
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be
available, as determined by the Secretary, for payments
to Del Norte County, California, pursuant to sections
13(e) and 14 of the Smith River National Recreation Area
Act (Public Law 101–612).
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations or funds available to the Forest Service not
to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Office
of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri-
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management
reviews, land purchase negotiations and similar non-litiga-
tion related matters. Future budget justifications for both
the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture
should clearly display the sums previously transferred and
the requested funding transfers.
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest
Service may be used for necessary expenses in the event
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of law enforcement emergencies as necessary to protect
natural resources and public or employee safety: Provided,
That such amounts shall not exceed $750,000.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
(DEFERRAL)
Of the funds made available under this heading for
obligation in prior years, $50,000,000 shall not be avail-
able until October 1, 2003: Provided, That funds made
available in previous appropriations Acts shall be available
for any ongoing project regardless of the separate request
for proposal under which the project was selected.
FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy
research and development activities, under the authority
of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public
Law 95–91), including the acquisition of interest, includ-
ing defeasible and equitable interests in any real property
or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition or expan-
sion, and for conducting inquiries, technological investiga-
tions and research concerning the extraction, processing,
use, and disposal of mineral substances without objection-
able social and environmental costs (30 U.S.C. 3, 1602,
and 1603), $664,205,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which $11,000,000 is for construction, renova-
tion, furnishing, and demolition or removal of buildings
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at National Energy Technology Laboratory facilities in
Morgantown, West Virginia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
and for acquisition of lands, and interests therein, in prox-
imity to the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and
of which $150,000,000 are to be made available, after co-
ordination with the private sector, for a request for pro-
posals for a Clean Coal Power Initiative providing for com-
petitively-awarded demonstrations of commercial scale
technologies to reduce the barriers to continued and ex-
panded coal use: Provided, That no project may be se-
lected for which sufficient funding is not available to pro-
vide for the total project: Provided further, That funds
shall be expended in accordance with the provisions gov-
erning the use of funds contained under the heading
‘‘Clean Coal Technology’’ in prior appropriations: Pro-
vided further, That the Department may include provisions
for repayment of Government contributions to individual
projects in an amount up to the Government contribution
to the project on terms and conditions that are acceptable
to the Department, including repayments from sale and
licensing of technologies from both domestic and foreign
transactions: Provided further, That such repayments shall
be retained by the Department for future coal-related re-
search, development and demonstration projects: Provided
further, That any technology selected under this program
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shall be considered a Clean Coal Technology, and any
project selected under this program shall be considered a
Clean Coal Technology Project, for the purposes of 42
U.S.C. 7651n, and Chapters 51, 52, and 60 of title 40
of the Code of Federal Regulations: Provided further, That
no part of the sum herein made available shall be used
for the field testing of nuclear explosives in the recovery
of oil and gas: Provided further, That up to 4 percent of
program direction funds available to the National Energy
Technology Laboratory may be used to support Depart-
ment of Energy activities not included in this account.
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES
For expenses necessary to carry out naval petroleum
and oil shale reserve activities, $20,831,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, unobligated 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 pay-
ments 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,
2003 for payment to the State of California for the State
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Teachers’ Retirement Fund from the Elk Hills School
Lands Fund.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy con-
servation 
activities, 
$984,653,000 
(reduced 
by
$3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000), to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That $300,000,000 shall be
for use in energy conservation grant 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 allo-
cated to the eligible programs as follows: $250,000,000
for weatherization assistance grants and $50,000,000 for
State energy conservation grants.
ECONOMIC REGULATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities
of the Office of Hearings and Appeals, $1,487,000, to re-
main available until expended.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Re-
serve 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.), $175,856,000, to remain available until expended.