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(g) BOSTON HARBOR ISLANDS ADVISORY COUN-
CIL.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary, acting
through the Director of the National Park Service,
shall establish an advisory committee to be known as
the Boston Harbor Islands Advisory Council. The
purpose of the Advisory Council shall be to represent
various groups with interests in the recreation area
and make recommendations to the Boston Harbor
Islands Partnership on issues related to the develop-
ment and implementation of the integrated resource
management plan developed under subsection (f).
The Advisory Council is encouraged to establish
committees relating to specific recreation area man-
agement issues, including (but not limited to) edu-
cation, tourism, transportation, natural resources,
cultural and historic resources, and revenue raising
activities. Participation on any such committee shall
not be limited to members of the Advisory Council.
(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The Advisory Council shall
consist of not fewer than 15 individuals, to be ap-
pointed by the Secretary, acting through the Direc-
tor of the National Park Service. The Secretary
shall appoint no fewer than three individuals to rep-
resent each of the following categories of entities:
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municipalities; educational and cultural institutions;
environmental organizations; business and commer-
cial entities, including those related to transpor-
tation, tourism and the maritime industry; and Bos-
ton Harbor-related advocacy organizations; and or-
ganizations representing Native American interests.
(3) PROCEDURES.—Each meeting of the Advi-
sory Council and its committees shall be open to the
public.
(4) FACA.—The provisions of section 14 of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.),
are hereby waived with respect to the Advisory
Council.
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to
carry out this section, provided that no funds may
be appropriated for land acquisition.
(2) MATCHING
REQUIREMENT.—Amounts ap-
propriated in any fiscal year to carry out this section
may only be expended on a matching basis in a ra-
tion of at least three non-Federal dollars to every
Federal dollar. The non-Federal share of the match
may be in the form of cash, services, or in-kind con-
tributions, fairly valued.
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SEC. 1034. NATCHEZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK.
Section 3 of the Act of October 8, 1988, entitled ‘‘An
Act to create a national park at Natchez, Mississippi’’ (16
U.S.C. 410oo et seq.), is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ after
‘‘SEC. 3.’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(b) BUILDING FOR JOINT USE BY THE SECRETARY
AND THE CITY OF NATCHEZ.—
‘‘(1) 
CONTRIBUTION
TOWARD
CONSTRUC-
TION.—The Secretary shall enter into an agreement
with the city of Natchez under which the Secretary
agrees to pay not to exceed $3,000,000 toward the
planning and construction by the city of Natchez of
a structure to be partially used by the Secretary as
an administrative headquarters, administrative site,
and visitors’ center for Natchez National Historical
Park.
‘‘(2) USE FOR SATISFACTION OF MATCHING RE-
QUIREMENTS.—The amount of payment under para-
graph (1) may be available for matching Federal
grants authorized under other law notwithstanding
any limitations in any such law.
‘‘(3) AGREEMENT.—Prior to the execution of
an agreement under paragraph (1), and subject to
the appropriation of necessary funds in advance, the
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Secretary shall enter into a contract, lease, coopera-
tive agreement, or other appropriate form of agree-
ment with the city of Natchez providing for the use
and occupancy of a portion of the structure con-
structed under paragraph (1) (including appropriate
use of the land on which it is situated), at no cost
to the Secretary (except maintenance, utility, and
other operational costs), for a period of 50 years,
with an option for renewal by the Secretary for an
additional 50 years.
‘‘(4) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There is authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000
to carry out this subsection.’’.
SEC. 1035. SUBSTITUTION OF TIMBER FOR CANCELED TIM-
BER SALE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the provisions of
the Act of July 31, 1947 (30 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), and
the requirements of section 5402.0–6 of title 43, Code of
Federal Regulations, the Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Bureau of Land Management, is authorized
to substitute, without competition, a contract for timber
identified for harvest located on public lands administered
by the Bureau of Land Management in the State of Cali-
fornia of comparable value for the following terminated
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timber contract: Elkhorn Ridge Timber Sale, Contract No.
CA–050–TS–88–01.
(b) DISCLAIMER.—Nothing in this section shall be
construed as changing any law or policy of the Federal
Government beyond the timber sale substitution specified
in this section.
SEC. 1036. RURAL ELECTRIC AND TELEPHONE FACILITIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 504(g) of the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1764(g)) is amended by striking ‘‘financed pursuant to the
Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended,’’ in the
last sentence and inserting ‘‘eligible for financing pursu-
ant to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended,
determined without regard to any application requirement
under that Act,’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to rights-of-way
leases held on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 1037. FEDERAL BOROUGH RECOGNITION.
(a) Section 6901(2) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(2)(A) ‘unit of general local government’
means—
‘‘(i) a county (or parish), township, bor-
ough, or city where the city is independent of
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any other unit of general local government,
that—
‘‘(I) is within the class or classes of
such political subdivision in a State that
the Secretary of the Interior, in his discre-
tion, determines to be the principal pro-
vider or providers of governmental services
within the State; and
‘‘(II) is a unit of general government,
as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior on the basis of the same principles as
were used by the Secretary of Commerce
on January 1, 1983, for general statistical
purposes;
‘‘(ii) any area in Alaska that is within the
boundaries of a census area used by the Sec-
retary of Commerce in the decennial census,
but that is not included within the boundary of
a governmental entity described under clause
(i);
‘‘(iii) the District of Columbia;
‘‘(iv) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;
‘‘(v) Guam; and
‘‘(vi) the Virgin Islands.
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‘‘(B) the term ‘governmental services’ includes,
but is not limited to, those services that relate to
public safety, the environment, housing, social serv-
ices, transportation, and governmental administra-
tion.’’.
(b) PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES.—Section 6902(a)
of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall make a payment for each fiscal
year to each unit of general local government in which en-
titlement land is located as set forth in this chapter. A
unit of general local government may use the payment for
any governmental purpose.
‘‘(2) For each unit of general local government de-
scribed in section 6901(2)(A)(ii), the Secretary of the In-
terior shall make a payment for each fiscal year to the
State of Alaska for entitlement land located within such
unit as set forth in this chapter. The State of Alaska shall
distribute such payment to home rule cities and general
law cities (as such cities are defined by the State) located
within the boundaries of the unit of general local govern-
ment for which the payment was received. Such cities may
use monies received under this paragraph for any govern-
mental purpose.’’.
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SEC. 1038. ALTERNATIVE PROCESSING.
The Secretary of Agriculture shall not terminate or
otherwise interfere with the purchaser’s operations under
Forest Service Timber Contract A10fs–1042 for failure to
operate a pulp mill and such failure shall not prejudice
any other contract dispute currently under appeal or in
litigation.
SEC. 1039. VILLAGE LAND NEGOTIATION.
(a) NEGOTIATIONS.—The Secretary of the Interior
shall negotiate with the Alaska Native Village Corpora-
tions of Tyonek Native Corporation, Ninilchik Native As-
sociation Inc., Knikatnu Inc., Seldovia Native Association
Inc., Chikaloon Moose Creek Native Association, Inc. and
the Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Cook Inlet Re-
gion, Inc. (CIRI) for the purpose of finalizing conveyance
to the affected village corporation of the high priority
lands or, in the case of CIRI, subsurface estate underlying
lands described in ‘‘Appendix C’’ of the Deficiency Agree-
ment dated August 31, 1976, pursuant to Public Law 94–
456 or such alternative lands or other consideration as
the village corporation, CIRI and the Secretary may agree
upon.
(b) REPORT TO COMMITTEES.—The Secretary shall
report to the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources of the United States Senate and the Committee
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on Resources of the United States House of Representa-
tives by March 1, 1997, the result of those negotiations.
(c) STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.—
(1) If the Secretary is unable to reach an agree-
ment with the affected corporation on conveyance of
the lands described in paragraph (1) or alternative
consideration by March 1, 1997, the affected cor-
poration or corporations may commence litigation at
any time within 12 months of enactment of this Act
in Federal District Court for Alaska to challenge
any determination by the Department of the Interior
that the Native Corporations will not receive convey-
ance of lands described in ‘‘Appendix C’’ of the Defi-
ciency Agreement.
(2) If such litigation is commenced, trial de
novo to the Federal District Court for Alaska shall
be held and the Deficiency Agreement shall be con-
strued as an agreement for the benefit of Alaska
Natives as Native Americans consistent with the
Federal trust responsibilities.
SEC. 1040. UNRECOGNIZED COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHEAST
ALASKA.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ADDITIONAL NATIVE COR-
PORATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA.—(1) Section 14(h) of
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C.
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1613(h)), hereinafter in this section referred to as the
‘‘Act’’) is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(12)(A) The Native residents of each of the
Native Villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg
and Wrangell, Alaska, may organize as an Urban
Corporation.
‘‘(B) The Native residents of the Native Village
of Tenakee, Alaska, may organize as a Group Cor-
poration.
‘‘(C) Nothing in this paragraph shall affect ex-
isting entitlement to land of any Native Corporation
pursuant to this Act or any other provision of law.’’.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Act,
nothing in this section shall create any entitlement to Fed-
eral lands for an urban or group corporation organized
pursuant to paragraph (1) without further Act of Con-
gress.
(b) DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS.—Section 7 of the Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act is amended by adding at
the end of subsection (j) the following new sentence: ‘‘Na-
tive members of the communities of Haines, Ketchikan,
Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell who are shareholders
of Sealaska Corporation and who become shareholders in
an Urban or Group Corporation for such a community
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shall continue to be eligible to receive distributions under
this subsection as at-large shareholders of Sealaska Cor-
poration.’’.
(c) PLANNING GRANTS.—The Native Corporation for
the communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg,
Tenakee, and Wrangell are authorized to receive grants
in the amount of $250,000 to each such corporation, to
be used only for planning, development, and other pur-
poses for which Native Corporations are organized under
this section.
(d) CONSIDERATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS.—(1) In
developing the Tongass Land Management Plan, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall, after consultation with the
Southeast Alaska Landless Coalition, Sealaska Corpora-
tion, the Urban Corporations for the Native communities
of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, and Wrangell, and the
Group Corporation for the Native Community of Tenakee
(hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘‘Southeast Native
Corporations’’), take into account the establishment of ad-
ditional Native Corporations under section 14(h)(12) of
the Act, as amended by this section.
(2) In meeting the requirements set forth in para-
graph (1), the Secretary shall fully consider and analyze
all recommendations by the Southeast Native Corpora-
tions.
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(3) Within 9 months following the enactment of this
section, the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress
setting forth an analysis of the impact that establishment
of the Native Corporations under section 14(h)(12) of the
Act, as amended by this section, will have on the Tongass
Land Management Plan.
(4) The Tongass Land Management Plan shall incor-
porate all appropriate recommendations from the South-
east Native Corporations.
(e) MISCELLANEOUS PROVISION.—No provision of
this section shall affect the ratio for determination of dis-
tribution of revenues among the Regional Corporations
under section 7(i) of the Act and the 1982 section 7(i)
Settlement Agreement among the Regional Corporations
or among Village Corporations under section 7(j) of the
Act.
SEC. 1041. CONVEYANCE TO GROSS BROTHERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture
shall—
(1) survey certain real property located in
Tongass National Forest and described in subsection
(b); and
(2) convey all right, title, and interest of the
United States, subject to valid existing rights, in and
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to the property, to Danial J. Gross, Sr., and Doug-
las K. Gross of Wrangell Alaska.
(b) DESCRIPTION.—The real property referred to in
subsection (a)—
(1) consists of approximately 160.8 acres;
(2) is located at Green Point on the Stikine
River in Alaska; and
(3) has the legal description T61S R84E S31,
NE1⁄4, NW1⁄4 and NW1⁄4, NE1⁄4, Copper River Me-
ridian.
SEC. 1042. REGULATION OF FISHING IN CERTAIN WATERS
OF ALASKA.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Local residents who are descend-
ants of Katmai residents who lived in the Naknek Lake
and River Drainage shall be permitted, subject to reason-
able regulations established by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, to continue their traditional fishery for red fish with-
in Katmai National Park (the national park and national
preserve redesignated, established, and expanded under
section 202(2) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Con-
servation Act (16 U.S.C. 410hh–1)).
(b) RED FISH DEFINED.—For the purposes of sub-
section (a), the term ‘‘red fish’’ means spawned-out sock-
eye salmon that has no significant commercial value.
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(c) TITLE.—No provision of this section shall be con-
strued to invalidate or validate or in any other way affect
any claim by the State of Alaska to title to any or all
submerged lands, nor shall any actions taken pursuant to
or in accordance with this Act operate under any provision
or principle of the law to bar the State of Alaska from
asserting at any time its claim of title to any or all of
the submerged lands.
(d) JURISDICTION.—Nothing in this section nor in
any actions taken pursuant to this section shall be con-
strued as expanding or diminishing Federal or State juris-
diction, responsibility, interests, or rights in management,
regulation, or control over waters of the State of Alaska
or submerged lands under any provision of Federal or
State law.
SEC. 1043. CREDIT FOR RECONVEYANCE.
Within 24 months after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Cape Fox Corporation may transfer all
or part of its right, title, and interest in and to the ap-
proximately 320-acre parcel that includes Beaver Falls
Hydroelectric power-house site to the United States. In
exchange for the transfer, the acreage entitlement of the
Cape Fox Corporation shall be credited in the amount of
the number of acres returned to the United States under
this section.
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SEC. 1044. RADIO SITE REPORT.
The Secretary of Agriculture (1) shall have a period
of 180 days from the date of enactment of this Act to
review management of Inspiration Point, San Bernadino
National Forest, make a determination whether the con-
tinued presence of the KATY–FM antenna on the site is
in the public interest, and report the determination with
the reasons therefor to the Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural Resources, United States Senate, and the Committee
on Resources, House of Representatives, and (2) shall
take no action within such period which causes or results
in, directly or indirectly, the removal of the antenna from
the site.
SEC. 1045. MANAGEMENT OF EXISTING DAMS AND WEIRS.
With respect to the Emigrant Wilderness in the
Stanislaus National Forest, California, as designated by
section 2(b) of Public Law 93–632 (88 Stat. 2154; 16
U.S.C. 1132 note), the Secretary of Agriculture shall re-
tain and maintain the 18 concrete dams and weirs that
were located within the boundaries of the Emigrant Wil-
derness on the date of the enactment of such Public Law,
January 3, 1975. If personnel of the Forest Service are
unavailable to perform the maintenance of the dams and
weirs, or to supplement the maintenance activities of For-
est Service personnel, the Secretary shall contract with
other persons to perform the maintenance at Government
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expense or permit other persons to perform the mainte-
nance at private expense.
SEC. 1046. UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA LAND NEGOTIATION.
(a) Subject to valid existing rights and the conditions
set forth in this legislation, the Secretary of the Interior
is authorized to convey to the University of Alaska, as a
grant and in fee simple, a basic Federal entitlement of
350,000 acres of Federal lands in Alaska.
(b) The University of Alaska may submit to the Sec-
retary a list of properties the university has selected to
receive under the conditions of this grant. The university
may submit selections that exceed the basic entitlement,
except that such selections shall not exceed 385,000 acres.
(c) The Secretary shall not approve or convey, under
this grant—
(1) any Federal lands which, at the time of en-
actment of this Act, are included in a Conservation
System Unit as defined in the Alaska National In-
terests Lands Conservation Act or a National For-
est.
(2) any Federal lands validly selected but not
conveyed to the State of Alaska or the corporations
organized pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Set-
tlement Act.
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(d) Lands shall be conveyed to the university only to
the extent that the State of Alaska conveys, or has con-
veyed an equivalent amount of acreage to the university
subsequent to enactment of this Act.
TITLE 
XI—CALIFORNIA 
BAY
DELTA ENVIRONMENTAL EN-
HANCEMENT
SEC. 1101. PROGRAM FUNDING.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For each
of the fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000, there are author-
ized to be appropriated an additional $143,300,000 for
both—
(1) the initial Federal share of the cost of de-
veloping and implementing that portion of an eco-
system protection plan for the Bay-Delta, referred to
as ‘‘the Category III program’’ emanating out of the
document entitled ‘‘Principles for Agreement on
Bay-Delta Standards Between the State of Califor-
nia and the Federal Government’’, dated December
15, 1994, and
(2) the initial Federal share of the cost of de-
veloping and implementing the ecosystem restoration
elements of the long-term CALFED Bay-Delta Pro-
gram, pursuant to the cost sharing agreement re-
quired by section 78684.10 of California Senate Bill
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900, Chapter 135, Statutes of 1996, signed by the
Governor of California on July 11, 1996.
Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain
available until expended and shall be administered in ac-
cordance with procedures established by CALFED Bay-
Delta Program until Congress authorizes another entity
that is recommended by CALFED Bay-Delta Program to
carry out this section.
(b) TREATMENT OF FUNDS.—Funds authorized to be
appropriated pursuant to this section to those agencies
that are currently or subsequently become participants in
the CALFED Bay-Delta Program shall be in addition to
the baseline funding levels established pursuant to sub-
section (e), for currently authorized projects and programs
under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (title
XXXIV of of Public Law 102–575) and other currently
authorized Federal programs for the purpose of Bay-Delta
ecosystem protection and restoration.
(c) LONG-TERM SOLUTION.—Nothing in this section
shall be deemed to diminish the Federal interest in and
responsibility for working with the State of California
through the CALFED Bay-Delta Program in developing,
funding, and implementing a balanced, long-term solution
to the problems of ecosystem quality, water quality, water
supply and reliability, and system vulnerability affecting
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the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Watershed in California. Participation in such long term
solution shall only be undertaken pursuant to authoriza-
tion provided by law other than this section, and shall be
based on the equitable allocation of program costs among
beneficiary groups that the CALFED Bay-Delta programs
shall develop.
(d) ACTIVITIES.—To the extent not otherwise author-
ized, those agencies and departments that are currently
or subsequently become participants in the CALFED Bay-
Delta Program are hereby authorized to undertake the ac-
tivities and programs for which Federal cost sharing is
provided by this section. The United States shall imme-
diately initiate coordinated consultations and negotiations
with the State of California to expeditiously execute the
cost-sharing agreement required by section 78684.10 of
California Senate Bill 900, Chapter 135, Statutes of 1996,
signed by the Governor of California on July 11, 1996.
Such activities shall include, but not be limited to, plan-
ning, design, technical assistance, and construction for
ecosystem restoration programs and projects.
(e) BUDGET CROSSCUT.—The Office of Management
and Budget is directed to submit to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations, as part of the President’s
Fiscal Year 1998 Budget, an interagency budget crosscut
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that displays Federal spending for fiscal years 1993
through 1998 on ecosystem restoration and other purposes
in the Bay-Delta region, separately showing funding pro-
vided previously or requested under both pre-existing au-
thorities and new authorities granted by this section.
(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsections (a) through (d)
of this section shall take effect on the date of passage of
California State Proposition 204.
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