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‘‘(2) make such deposit with, or payment to, the
Federal agency as is required to meet the obligation
of the State under the agreement for the work under-
taken or to be undertaken by the Federal agency.
‘‘(b) REIMBURSEMENT.—On execution of a project
agreement with a State described in subsection (a), the Sec-
retary may reimburse the State, using any available funds,
for the estimated Federal share under this title of the obliga-
tion of the State deposited or paid under subsection
(a)(2).’’; and
(2) in the last sentence, by striking ‘‘Any sums’’
and inserting the following:
‘‘(c) RECOVERY
AND CREDITING
OF FUNDS.—Any
sums’’.
(c) ALLOCATIONS.—Section 202 of title 23, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a) On Octo-
ber 1’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Such allocation’’
and inserting the following:
‘‘(a) ALLOCATION BASED ON NEED.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On October 1 of each fiscal
year, the Secretary shall allocate sums authorized to
be appropriated for the fiscal year for forest develop-
ment roads and trails according to the relative needs
of the various national forests and grasslands.
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‘‘(2) PLANNING.—The allocation under para-
graph (1)’’;
(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION FOR PUBLIC LANDS HIGHWAYS.—
‘‘(1) PUBLIC LANDS HIGHWAYS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—On October 1 of each
fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate 331⁄3 per-
cent of the sums authorized to be appropriated
for that fiscal year for public lands highways
among those States having unappropriated or
unreserved public lands, or nontaxable Indian
lands or other Federal reservations, on the basis
of need in the States, respectively, as determined
by the Secretary, on application of the State
transportation departments of the respective
States.
‘‘(B) PREFERENCE.—In making the alloca-
tion under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall
give preference to those projects that are signifi-
cantly impacted by Federal land and resource
management activities that are proposed by a
State that contains at least 3 percent of the total
public land in the United States.
‘‘(2) FOREST HIGHWAYS.—
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—On October 1 of each
fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate 662⁄3 per-
cent of the funds authorized to be appropriated
for public lands highways for forest highways in
accordance with section 134 of the Federal-Aid
Highway Act of 1987 (23 U.S.C. 202 note; 101
Stat. 173).
‘‘(B) PUBLIC ACCESS TO AND WITHIN NA-
TIONAL FOREST SYSTEM.—In making the alloca-
tion under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall
give equal consideration to projects that provide
access to and within the National Forest System,
as identified by the Secretary of Agriculture
through—
‘‘(i) renewable resource and land use
planning; and
‘‘(ii) assessments of the impact of that
planning on transportation facilities.’’;
(3) in subsection (c)—
(A) by striking ‘‘(c) On’’ and inserting the
following:
‘‘(c) PARK ROADS AND PARKWAYS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) PRIORITY.—
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‘‘(A) DEFINITION OF QUALIFYING NATIONAL
PARK.—In this paragraph, the term ‘‘qualifying
national park’’ means a National Park that is
used more than 1,000,000 recreational visitor
days per year, based on an average of the 3 most
recent years of available data from the National
Park Service.
‘‘(B) 
PRIORITY.—Notwithstanding 
any
other provision of law, with respect to funds au-
thorized for park roads and parkways, the Sec-
retary shall give priority in the allocation of
funds to projects for highways that—
‘‘(i) are located in, or provide access
to, a qualifying National Park; and
‘‘(ii) were initially constructed before
1940.
‘‘(C) PRIORITY CONFLICTS.—If there is a
conflict between projects described in subpara-
graph (B), the Secretary shall give highest pri-
ority to projects that—
‘‘(i) are in, or that provide access to,
parks that are adjacent to a National Park
of a foreign country; or
‘‘(ii) are located in more than 1
State;’’;
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(4) in subsection (d)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-
ing ‘‘1999’’ and inserting ‘‘2005’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘1999’’ and inserting
‘‘2005’’;
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-
ing ‘‘2000’’ and inserting ‘‘2005’’;
(ii) in subparagraphs (A), (B), and
(D), by striking ‘‘2000’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘2005’’;
(iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking
‘‘1999’’ each place it appears and inserting
‘‘2005’’; and
(iv) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(E) TRANSFERRED FUNDS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30
days after the date on which funds are
made available to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior under this paragraph, the funds shall
be distributed to, and available for imme-
diate use by, the eligible Indian tribes, in
accordance with the formula for distribution