In the Senate of the United States,
September 23 (legislative day, September 22), 1999.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 2466) entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations for
the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other pur-
poses.’’, do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
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 fis-
cal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes,
namely:
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, classifica-
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tion, acquisition of easements and other interests in lands,
and performance of other functions, including maintenance
of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management of
lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, including the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential
of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C.
3150(a)), $634,321,000, to remain available until expended,
of which $2,147,000 shall be available for assessment of the
mineral potential of public lands in Alaska pursuant to sec-
tion 1010 of Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of
which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be derived from the
special receipt account established by the Land and Water
Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–
6a(i)); and of which $1,500,000 shall be available in fiscal
year 2000 subject to a match by at least an equal amount
by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to such
Foundation for cost-shared projects supporting conservation
of Bureau lands; in addition, $33,529,000 for Mining Law
Administration program operations, including the cost of
administering the mining claim fee program; to remain
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected
by the Bureau and credited to this appropriation from an-
nual mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropria-
tion estimated at not more than $634,321,000, and
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$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from com-
munication site rental fees established by the Bureau for
the cost of administering communication site activities:
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 or its contrac-
tors.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppres-
sion operations, emergency rehabilitation and hazardous
fuels reduction by the Department of the Interior,
$283,805,000, to remain available until expended, of which
not to exceed $5,025,000 shall be for the renovation or con-
struction of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are
also available for repayment of advances to other appro-
priation accounts from which funds were previously trans-
ferred for such purposes: Provided further, That unobligated
balances of amounts previously appropriated to the ‘‘Fire
Protection’’ and ‘‘Emergency Department of the Interior
Firefighting Fund’’ may be transferred and merged with
this appropriation: Provided further, That persons hired
pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence
and lodging without cost from funds available from this ap-
propriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42
U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the
Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered pur-
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suant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., Protection of United States
Property, may be credited to the appropriation from which
funds were expended to provide that protection, and are
available without fiscal year limitation.
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior and any of its component offices and bureaus for the
remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601
et seq.), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, sums re-
covered from or paid by a party in advance of or as reim-
bursement for remedial action or response activities con-
ducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 or 113(f)
of such Act, shall be credited to this account to be available
until expended without further appropriation: Provided
further, That such sums recovered from or paid by any
party are not limited to monetary payments and may in-
clude stocks, bonds or other personal or real property, which
may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise disposed of by the
Secretary and which shall be credited to this account.
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CONSTRUCTION
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities,
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $12,418,000, to re-
main available until expended.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October
20, 
1976, 
as 
amended 
(31 
U.S.C. 
6901–6907),
$135,000,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall be
available for administrative expenses: Provided, That no
payment shall be made to otherwise eligible units of local
government if the computed amount of the payment is less
than $100.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206,
and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administra-
tive expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests
therein, $17,400,000, to be derived from the Land and
Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until ex-
pended.
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
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon
and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adja-
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cent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests
therein including existing connecting roads on or adjacent
to such grant lands; $99,225,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Or-
egon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made
a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant
fund and shall be transferred to the General Fund in the
Treasury in accordance with the second paragraph of sub-
section (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat.
876).
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law
102–381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem
Health and Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of
planning, preparing, and monitoring salvage timber sales
and forest ecosystem health and recovery activities such as
release from competing vegetation and density control treat-
ments. The Federal share of receipts (defined as the portion
of salvage timber receipts not paid to the counties under
43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–1 et seq., and Public
Law 103–66) derived from treatments funded by this ac-
count shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health
and Recovery Fund.
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RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands
and interests therein, and improvement of Federal range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwith-
standing any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 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 receipts from Bankhead-
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior
pursuant to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$600,000 shall be available for administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related to
processing application documents and other authorizations
for use and disposal of public lands and resources, for costs
of providing copies of official public land documents, for
monitoring construction, operation, and termination of fa-
cilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for re-
habilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be
collected under Public Law 94–579, as amended, and Public
Law 93–153, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of sec-
tion 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any
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moneys that have been or will be received pursuant to that
section, whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or set-
tlement, if not appropriate for refund pursuant to section
305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available
and may be expended under the authority of this Act by
the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public
lands administered through the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment which have been damaged by the action of a resource
developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized per-
son, without regard to whether all moneys collected from
each such action are used on the exact lands damaged which
led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys
that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to
the exact land for which funds were collected may be used
to repair other damaged public lands.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of the
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and such
amounts as may be advanced for administrative costs, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain avail-
able until expended.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management
shall be available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement
of temporary structures, and alteration and maintenance
of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which
the United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments,
at the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evi-
dence concerning violations of laws administered by the Bu-
reau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement
activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to
be accounted for solely on his certificate, not to exceed
$10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501,
the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and part-
nership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing
services from cooperators in connection with jointly pro-
duced publications for which the cooperators share the cost
of printing either in cash or in services, and the Bureau
determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted
quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, for scientific and economic studies, con-
servation, management, investigations, protection, and uti-
lization of fishery and wildlife resources, except whales,
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seals, and sea lions, maintenance of the herd of long-horned
cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, general
administration, and for the performance of other authorized
functions related to such resources by direct expenditure,
contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable
agreements with public and private entities, $684,569,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2001, except as oth-
erwise provided herein, of which $400,000 shall be available
for grants under the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restora-
tion Program, and of which $300,000 shall be available for
spartina grass research being conducted by the University
of Washington, and of which $500,000 of the amount avail-
able for consultation shall be available for development of
a voluntary-enrollment habitat conservation plan for cold
water fish in cooperation with the States of Idaho and Mon-
tana (of which $250,000 shall be made available to each
of the States of Idaho and Montana), and of which $150,000
shall be available to Michigan State University toward cre-
ation of a community development database, and of which
$11,701,000 shall remain available until expended for oper-
ation and maintenance of fishery mitigation facilities con-
structed by the Corps of Engineers under the Lower Snake
River Compensation Plan, authorized by the Water Re-
sources Development Act of 1976, to compensate for loss of
fishery resources from water development projects on the
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Lower Snake River, and of which not less than $400,000
shall be available to the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service for use in reviewing applications from the State of
Colorado under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536), and in assisting the State of Colo-
rado by providing resources to develop and administer com-
ponents of State habitat conservation plans relating to the
Preble’s meadow jumping mouse: Provided, That not less
than $1,000,000 for high priority projects which shall be
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized
by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $5,932,000 shall be used for imple-
menting subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the
Endangered Species Act, as amended, for species that are
indigenous to the United States (except for processing peti-
tions, developing and issuing proposed and final regula-
tions, and taking any other steps to implement actions de-
scribed 
in 
subsections 
(c)(2)(A), 
(c)(2)(B)(i), 
or
(c)(2)(B)(ii)): Provided further, That of the amount avail-
able for law enforcement, up to $400,000 to remain avail-
able until expended, may at the discretion of the Secretary,
be used for payment for information, rewards, or evidence
concerning violations of laws administered by the Service,
and miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement
activity, authorized or approved by the Secretary and to
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be accounted for solely on his certificate: Provided further,
That of the amount provided for environmental contami-
nants, up to $1,000,000 may remain available until ex-
pended for contaminant sample analyses: Provided further,
That all fines collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice for violations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16
U.S.C. 1362–1407) and implementing regulations shall be
available to the Secretary, without further appropriation,
to be used for the expenses of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service in administering activities for the protection and
recovery of manatees, polar bears, sea otters, and walruses,
and shall remain available until expended: Provided fur-
ther, That, heretofore and hereafter, in carrying out work
under reimbursable agreements with any state, local, or
tribal government, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may,
without regard to 31 U.S.C. 1341 and notwithstanding any
other provision of law or regulation, record obligations
against accounts receivable from such entities, and shall
credit amounts received from such entities to this appro-
priation, such credit to occur within 90 days of the date
of the original request by the Service for payment: Provided
further, That all funds received by the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service from responsible parties, heretofore
and through fiscal year 2000, for site-specific damages to
National Wildlife Refuge System lands resulting from the
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exercise of privately-owned oil and gas rights associated
with such lands in the States of Louisiana and Texas (other
than damages recoverable under the Comprehensive Envi-
ronmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (26
U.S.C. 4611 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act (33 U.S.C. 1301
et seq.), or section 311 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.
1321 et seq.)), shall be available to the Secretary, without
further appropriation and until expended to (1) complete
damage assessments of the impacted site by the Secretary;
(2) mitigate or restore the damaged resources; and (3) mon-
itor and study the recovery of such damaged resources.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction and acquisition of buildings and
other facilities required in the conservation, management,
investigation, protection, and utilization of fishery and
wildlife resources, and the acquisition of lands and interests
therein; $40,434,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
a single procurement for the construction of facilities at the
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge may be issued
which includes the full scope of the project: Provided further,
That the solicitation and the contract shall contain the
clauses ‘‘availability of funds’’ found at 48 C.F.R.
52.232.18.
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LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $56,444,000,
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund
and to remain available until expended, of which not to
exceed $1,000,000 shall be available to the Boyer Chute Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge for land acquisition.
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531–1543),
as amended, $21,480,000, to be derived from the Coopera-
tive Endangered Species Conservation Fund, and to remain
available until expended.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October
17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $10,000,000.
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201–4203, 4211–4213,
4221–4225, 4241–4245, and 1538), the Asian Elephant
Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261–4266), and the
Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C.
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5301–5306), $2,400,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That funds made available under this
Act, Public Law 105–277, and Public Law 105–83 for rhi-
noceros, tiger, and Asian elephant conservation programs
are exempt from any sanctions imposed against any coun-
try under section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (22
U.S.C. 2799aa–1).
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of
the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public
Law 101–233, as amended, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND APPRECIATION FUND
For necessary expenses of the Wildlife Conservation
and Appreciation Fund, $800,000, to remain available
until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations and funds available to the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for pur-
chase of not to exceed 70 passenger motor vehicles, of which
61 are for replacement only (including 36 for police-type
use); repair of damage to public roads within and adjacent
to reservation areas caused by operations of the Service; op-
tions for the purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each
option; facilities incident to such public recreational uses
on conservation areas as are consistent with their primary
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purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria,
buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the
Service and to which the United States has title, and which
are used pursuant to law in connection with management
and investigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided,
That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may,
under cooperative cost sharing and partnership arrange-
ments authorized by law, procure printing services from co-
operators in connection with jointly produced publications
for which the cooperators share at least one-half the cost
of printing either in cash or services and the Service deter-
mines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality
standards: Provided further, That the Service may accept
donated aircraft as replacements for existing aircraft: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of the Interior may not spend any of
the funds appropriated in this Act for the purchase of lands
or interests in lands to be used in the establishment of any
new unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System unless the
purchase is approved in advance by the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations in compliance with the re-
programming procedures contained in Senate Report 105–
56.
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
For expenses necessary for the management, operation,
and maintenance of areas and facilities administered by
the National Park Service (including special road mainte-
nance service to trucking permittees on a reimbursable
basis), and for the general administration of the National
Park Service, including not less than $1,000,000 for high
priority projects within the scope of the approved budget
which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps
as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1706, $1,355,176,000, of which
$8,800,000 is for research, planning and interagency co-
ordination in support of land acquisition for Everglades
restoration shall remain available until expended, and of
which not to exceed $8,000,000, to remain available until
expended, is to be derived from the special fee account estab-
lished pursuant to title V, section 5201 of Public Law 100–
203.
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage part-
nership programs, environmental compliance and review,
international park affairs, statutory or contractual aid for
other activities, and grant administration, not otherwise
provided for, $51,451,000, of which not less than $1,500,000
shall be available to carry out the Urban Park and Recre-
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ation Recovery Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.): Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
National Park Service may hereafter recover all fees derived
from providing necessary review services associated with
historic preservation tax certification, and such funds shall
be available until expended without further appropriation
for the costs of such review services.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), and
the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of
1996 (Public Law 104–333), $42,412,000, to be derived
from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain available
until September 30, 2001, of which $8,422,000 pursuant to
section 507 of Public Law 104–333 shall remain available
until expended.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, improvements, repair or replacement
of physical facilities, including the modifications authorized
by section 104 of the Everglades National Park Protection
and Expansion Act of 1989, $223,153,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $1,100,000 shall be for re-
alignment of the Denali National Park entrance road, of
which not less than $3,500,000 shall be available for modi-
fications to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, and
of which $90,000 shall be available for planning and devel-
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opment of interpretive sites for the quadricentennial com-
memoration of the Saint Croix Island International His-
toric Site, Maine, including possible interpretive sites in
Calais, Maine, and of which not less than $1,000,000 shall
be available, subject to an Act of authorization, to conduct
a feasibility study on the preservation of certain Civil War
battlefields along the Vicksburg Campaign Trail, and of
which $500,000 shall be available for the Wilson’s Creek Na-
tional Battlefield: Provided, That $5,000,000 for the Wheel-
ing National Heritage Area and $1,000,000 for Montpelier
shall be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund pursu-
ant to 16 U.S.C. 470a: Provided further, That $1,000,000
shall be made available for Isle Royale National Park to
address visitor facility and infrastructure deterioration:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, a single procurement for the construction of visitor
facilities at Brooks Camp at Katmai National Park and
Preserve may be issued which includes the full scope of the
project: Provided further, That the solicitation and the con-
tract shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ found
at 48 CFR 52.232.18.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
(RESCISSION)
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2000
by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded.
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LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable
to the National Park Service, $87,725,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain
available until expended, of which $500,000 is to admin-
ister the State assistance program, and in addition
$20,000,000 shall be available to provide financial assist-
ance to States and shall be derived from the Land and
Water Conservation Fund, and of which not less than
$2,000,000 shall be used to acquire the Weir Farm National
Historic Site in Connecticut, and of which not less than
$3,000,000 shall be available for the Fredericksburg and
Spotsylvania National Military Park, and of which not less
than $1,700,000 shall be available for the acquisition of
properties in Keweenaw National Historical Park, Michi-
gan, and of which $200,000 shall be available for the acqui-
sition of lands at Fort Sumter National Monument.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be
available for the purchase of not to exceed 384 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 298 shall be for replacement only,
including not to exceed 312 for police-type use, 12 buses,
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and 6 ambulances: Provided, That none of the funds appro-
priated to the National Park Service may be used to process
any grant or contract documents which do not include the
text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That none of the
funds appropriated to the National Park Service may be
used to implement an agreement for the redevelopment of
the southern end of Ellis Island until such agreement has
been submitted to the Congress and shall not be imple-
mented 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
of the Senate of a full and comprehensive report on the de-
velopment of the southern end of Ellis Island, including the
facts and circumstances relied upon in support of the pro-
posed project.
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the Na-
tional Park Service for activities taken in direct response
to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention.
The National Park Service may distribute to operating
units based on the safety record of each unit the costs of
programs designed to improve workplace and employee safe-
ty, and to encourage employees receiving workers’ com-
pensation benefits pursuant to chapter 81 of title 5, United
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States Code, to return to appropriate positions for which
they are medically able.
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH
For expenses necessary for the United States Geological
Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and research cov-
ering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, and the min-
eral and water resources of the United States, its territories
and possessions, and other areas as authorized by 43 U.S.C.
31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as to their mineral and
water resources; give engineering supervision to power per-
mittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licens-
ees; administer the minerals exploration program (30
U.S.C. 641); and publish and disseminate data relative to
the foregoing activities; and to conduct inquiries into the
economic conditions affecting mining and materials proc-
essing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C.
98g(1)) and related purposes as authorized by law and to
publish and disseminate data; $813,093,000, of which
$72,314,000 shall be available only for cooperation with
States or municipalities for water resources investigations;
and of which $16,400,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for conducting inquiries into the economic condi-
tions affecting mining and materials processing industries;
and of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until ex-
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pended for ongoing development of a mineral and geologic
data base; and of which $160,248,000 shall be available
until September 30, 2001 for the biological research activity
and the operation of the Cooperative Research Units: Pro-
vided, That of the funds available for the biological research
activity, $1,000,000 shall be made available by grant to the
University of Alaska for conduct of, directly or through sub-
grants, basic marine research activities in the North Pacific
Ocean pursuant to a plan approved by the Department of
Commerce, the Department of the Interior, and the State
of Alaska: Provided further, That none of these funds pro-
vided for the biological research activity shall be used to
conduct new surveys on private property, unless specifically
authorized in writing by the property owner: Provided fur-
ther, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to
pay more than one-half the cost of topographic mapping
or water resources data collection and investigations carried
on in cooperation with States and municipalities.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amount appropriated for the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall be available for the purchase of not to
exceed 53 passenger motor vehicles, of which 48 are for re-
placement only; reimbursement to the General Services Ad-
ministration for security guard services; contracting for the
furnishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-
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members only or at a price to members lower than to sub-
scribers who are not members.
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Department
of the Interior for salaries and expenses shall be available
for uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law
(5 U.S.C. 5901–5902 and D.C. Code 4–204).
SEC. 106. Appropriations made in this title shall be
available for obligation in connection with contracts issued
for services or rentals for periods not in excess of twelve
months beginning at any time during the fiscal year.
SEC. 107. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of offshore leasing and related activities placed under re-
striction in the President’s moratorium statement of June
26, 1990, in the areas of northern, central, and southern
California; the North Atlantic; Washington and Oregon;
and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north
latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude.
SEC. 108. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct
of offshore oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing, and re-
lated activities, on lands within the North Aleutian Basin
planning area.
SEC. 109. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct offshore