In the Senate of the United States,
July 18, 2000.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 4578) entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations for
the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, 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, 2001, and for other purposes,
namely:
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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-
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)), $689,133,000, of which not to exceed $125,900,000
shall be for workforce and organizational support and
$16,586,000 shall be for Land and Resource Information
Systems, to remain available until expended, of which
$3,898,000 shall be available for assessment of the mineral
potential of public lands in Alaska pursuant to section 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 $2,500,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2001 sub-
ject to a match by at least an equal amount by the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to such Foundation for cost-
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shared projects supporting conservation of Bureau lands
and such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as a
lump sum grant without regard to when expenses are in-
curred; in addition, $34,328,000 for Mining Law Adminis-
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering 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 annual
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation
estimated at not more than $689,133,000, and $2,000,000,
to remain available until expended, from communication
site rental fees established by the Bureau for the cost of ad-
ministering 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 contractors.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppres-
sion operations, emergency rehabilitation and hazardous
fuels reduction by the Department of the Interior,
$292,679,000, to remain available until expended, of which
not to exceed $9,300,000 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