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tinue in effect until suspended by regulations pre-
scribed by the Administrator of the General Services
Administration.
(2) EXISTING RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND OBLIGA-
TIONS NOT AFFECTED.—Subsection (a) shall not be
construed as affecting the validity of any right, duty,
or obligation of the United States or any other per-
son arising under or pursuant to any contract, loan,
or other instrument or agreement which was in ef-
fect on the day before the date of the transfers
under subsection (a).
(3) CONTINUATION
OF
SUITS.—No action or
other proceeding commenced by or against the Cor-
poration in connection with administration of the
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act
of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 871–885) and the Federal Tri-
angle Development Act (40 U.S.C. 1101–1109) shall
abate by reason of enactment and implementation of
this Act, except that the General Services Adminis-
tration shall be substituted for the Corporation as a
party to any such action or proceeding.
(g) Section 3(b) of the Pennsylvania Avenue Develop-
ment Corporation Act of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 872(b)) is
amended as follows:
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‘‘(b) The Corporation shall be dissolved on April 1,
1996. Upon dissolution, assets, obligations, and indebted-
ness of the Corporation shall be transferred in accordance
with the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1996.’’.
SEC. 314. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b),
no part of any appropriation contained in this Act or any
other Act shall be obligated or expended for the operation
or implementation of the Interior Columbia River Basin
Ecoregion Assessment Project (hereinafter ‘‘Project’’).
(b) From the funds appropriated to the Forest Serv-
ice and the Bureau of Land Management, $600,000 is
made available to publish by January 1, 1996, for peer
review and public comment, the scientific information col-
lected, and analysis undertaken, by the Project prior to
the date of enactment of this Act concerning forest health
conditions and forest management needs related to those
conditions.
(c)(1) From the funds appropriated to the Forest
Service, the Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall—
(A) review the land and resource management
plan (hereinafter ‘‘plan’’) for each national forest
within the area encompassed by the Project and any
policy which is applicable to such plan (whether or
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not such policy is final or draft, or has been added
to such plan by amendment), which is or is intended
to be of limited duration, and which the Project was
tasked to address; and
(B) determine whether such policy modified to
meet the specific conditions of such national forest,
or another policy which serves the purpose of such
policy, should be adopted for such national forest.
(2) If the Secretary makes a decision that such a
modified or alternative policy should be adopted for such
national forest, the Secretary shall prepare and adopt for
the plan for such national forest an amendment which
contains such policy, which is directed solely to and affects
only such plan, and which addresses the specific conditions
of the national forest and the relationship of such policy
to such conditions.
(3) To the maximum extent practicable, any amend-
ment prepared pursuant to paragraph (2) shall establish
procedures to develop site-specific standards in lieu of im-
posing general standards applicable to multiple sites. Any
amendment which would result in any change in land allo-
cations within the plan or reduce the likelihood of achieve-
ment of the goals and objectives of the plan (prior to any
previous amendment incorporating in the plan any policy
referred to in paragraph (1)(A)) shall be deemed a signifi-
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cant plan amendment pursuant to section 6(f)(4) of the
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(4)).
(4) Any amendment prepared pursuant to paragraph
(2) which adopts a modified or alternative policy to sub-
stitute for a policy referred to in paragraph (1)(A) which
has undergone consultation pursuant to section 7 of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 shall not again be subject
to the consultation provisions of such section 7. No further
consultation shall be undertaken on any policy referred to
in paragraph (1)(A).
(5) Any amendment prepared pursuant to paragraph
(2) shall be adopted on or before March 31, 1996: Pro-
vided, That any amendment deemed a significant amend-
ment pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be adopted on or
before June 30, 1996.
(6) No policy referred to in paragraph (1)(A) shall
be effective on or after April 1, 1996.
SEC. 315. (a) The Secretary of the Interior (acting
through the Bureau of Land Management, the National
Park Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service) and the Secretary of Agriculture (acting through
the Forest Service) shall each implement a fee program
to demonstrate the feasibility of user-generated cost recov-
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ery for the operation and maintenance of recreation sites
and habitat enhancement projects on Federal lands.
(b) In carrying out the pilot program established pur-
suant to this section, the appropriate Secretary shall select
from areas under the jurisdiction of each of the four agen-
cies referred to in subsection (a) no fewer than 10, but
as many as 30, sites or projects for fee demonstration.
For each such demonstration, the Secretary, notwith-
standing any other provision of law—
(1) shall charge and collect fees for admission
to the area or for the use of outdoor recreation sites,
facilities, visitor centers, equipment, and services by
individuals and groups, or any combination thereof;
(2) shall establish fees under this section based
upon a variety of cost recovery and fair market valu-
ation methods to provide a broad basis for feasibility
testing;
(3) may contract with any public or private en-
tity to provide visitor services, including reservations
and information, and may accept services of volun-
teers to collect fees charged pursuant to paragraph
(1); and
(4) may encourage private investment and partner-
ships to enhance the delivery of quality customer services
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and resource enhancement, and provide appropriate rec-
ognition to such partners or investors.
(c)(1) Amounts collected at each fee demonstration
site in excess of 104 percent of that site’s total collections
during the previous fiscal year shall be distributed as fol-
lows:
(i) Eighty percent of the amounts collected at
the demonstration site shall be deposited in a special
account in the Treasury established for the adminis-
trative unit in which the project is located and shall
remain available for expenditure in accordance with
paragraph (3) for further activities of the site or
project.
(ii) Twenty percent of the amounts collected at
the demonstration site shall be deposited in a special
account in the Treasury for each agency and shall
remain available for expenditure in accordance with
paragraph (3) for use on an agencywide basis.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, ‘‘total collec-
tions’’ for each site shall be defined as gross collections
before any reduction for amounts attributable to collection
costs.
(3) Expenditures from the special funds shall be ac-
counted for separately.
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(4) In order to increase the quality of the visitor expe-
rience at public recreational areas and enhance the protec-
tion of resources, amounts available for expenditure under
paragraph (1) may only be used for the site or project
concerned, for backlogged repair and maintenance projects
(including projects relating to health and safety) and for
interpretation, signage, habitat or facility enhancement,
resource preservation, annual operation, maintenance, and
law enforcement relating to public use. The agencywide
accounts may be used for the same purposes set forth in
the preceding sentence, but for sites or projects selected
at the discretion of the respective agency head.
(d)(1) Amounts collected under this section shall not
be taken into account for the purposes of the Act of May
23, 1908 and the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U.S.C. 500),
the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501), the Act of
July 22, 1937 (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Act of August 8, 1937
and the Act of May 24, 1939 (43 U.S.C. 1181f et seq.),
the Act of June 14, 1926 (43 U.S.C. 869–4), chapter 69
of title 31, United States Code, section 401 of the Act
of June 15, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 715s), the Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l), and any
other provision of law relating to revenue allocation.
(2) Fees charged pursuant to this section shall be in
lieu of fees charged under any other provision of law.
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(e) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary
of Agriculture shall carry out this section without promul-
gating regulations.
(f) The authority to collect fees under this section
shall commence on October 1, 1995, and end on Septem-
ber 30, 1996. Funds in accounts established shall remain
available through September 30, 1997.
SEC. 316. The Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management may offer for sale salvageable timber in the
Pacific Northwest in fiscal year 1996: Provided, That for
public lands known to contain the Northern spotted owl,
such salvage sales may be offered as long as the offering
of such sale will not render the area unsuitable as habitat
for the Northern spotted owl: Provided further, That tim-
ber salvage activity in spotted owl habitat is to be done
in full compliance with all existing environmental and for-
est management laws.
SEC. 317. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official
to which the funds are made available that the program,
project, or activity is not in compliance with any applicable
Federal law relating to risk assessment, the protection of
private property rights, or unfunded mandates.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996’’.
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Union Calendar No. 84
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1977
[Report No. 104–173]
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of the
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1996, and for other pur-
poses.
JUNE 30, 1995
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed