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SEC. 305. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal
servants to any officer or employee of such department
or agency except as otherwise provided by law.
SEC. 306. No assessments may be levied against any
program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by
this Act unless advance notice of such assessments and
the basis therefor are presented to the Committees on Ap-
propriations and are approved by such Committees.
SEC. 307. (a) COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN
ACT.—None of the funds made available in this Act may
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in
expending the funds the entity will comply with sections
2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–
10c; popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
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pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 308. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classi-
fied as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which
are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land
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Management lands in a manner different than such sales
were conducted in fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 309. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be obligated or expended by the National Park
Service to enter into or implement a concession contract
which permits or requires the removal of the underground
lunchroom at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
SEC. 310. Where the actual costs of construction
projects under self-determination contracts, compacts, or
grants, pursuant to Public Laws 93–638, 103–413, or
100–297, are less than the estimated costs thereof, use
of the resulting excess funds shall be determined by the
appropriate Secretary after consultation with the tribes.
SEC. 311. Notwithstanding Public Law 103–413,
quarterly payments of funds to tribes and tribal organiza-
tions under annual funding agreements pursuant to sec-
tion 108 of Public Law 93–638, as amended, may be made
on the first business day following the first day of a fiscal
quarter.
SEC. 312. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for the
AmeriCorps program, unless the relevant agencies of the
Department of the Interior and/or Agriculture follow ap-
propriate reprogramming guidelines: Provided, That if no
funds are provided for the AmeriCorps program by the
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VA–HUD and Independent Agencies fiscal year 1997 ap-
propriations bill, then none of the funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by this Act may be used for the
AmeriCorps programs.
SEC. 313. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used (1) to demolish the bridge between Jersey
City, New Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent pe-
destrian use of such bridge, when it is made known to
the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend
such funds that such pedestrian use is consistent with gen-
erally accepted safety standards.
SEC. 314. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obli-
gated or expended to accept or process applications for
a patent for any mining or mill site claim located under
the general mining laws.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply
if the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the
claim concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with
the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994, and (2)
all requirements established under sections 2325 and 2326
of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein
or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333
of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for
placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised Statutes
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(30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case may be,
were fully complied with by the applicant by that date.
(c) PROCESSING SCHEDULE.—For those applications
for patents pursuant to subsection (b) which were filed
with the Secretary of the Interior, prior to September 30,
1994, the Secretary of the Interior shall—
(1) Within three months of the enactment of
this Act, file with the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations and the Committee on Resources
of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources of the United
States Senate a plan which details how the Depart-
ment of the Interior will make a final determination
as to whether or not an applicant is entitled to a
patent under the general mining laws on at least 90
percent of such applications within five years of the
enactment of this Act and file reports annually
thereafter with the same committees detailing ac-
tions taken by the Department of the Interior to
carry out such plan; and
(2) Take such actions as may be necessary to
carry out such plan.
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner,
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified
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try councils, and the basic purposes of the Act), and any
of the statutory or regulatory requirements of sections 8–
10 of the Wagner-Peyser Act (except for requirements re-
lating to the provision of services to unemployment insur-
ance claimants and veterans, and to universal access to
basic labor exchange services without cost to job seekers),
only for funds available for expenditure in program year
1997, pursuant to a request submitted by a State which
identifies the statutory or regulatory requirements that
are requested to be waived and the goals which the State
or local service delivery areas intend to achieve, describes
the actions that the State or local service delivery areas
have undertaken to remove State or local statutory or
regulatory barriers, describes the goals of the waiver and
the expected programmatic outcomes if the request is
granted, describes the individuals impacted by the waiver,
and describes the process used to monitor the progress
in implementing a waiver, and for which notice and an
opportunity to comment on such request has been pro-
vided to the organizations identified in section 105(a)(1)
of the Job Training Partnership Act, if and only to the
extent that the Secretary determines that such require-
ments impede the ability of the State to implement a
plan to improve the workforce development system and
the State has executed a Memorandum of Understanding