H. R. 2520—12
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of title
IV of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977,
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase of not more
than 
passenger 
motor 
vehicles 
for 
replacement 
only,
$190,107,000 to be derived from receipts of the Abandoned Mine
Reclamation Fund and to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That of the funds herein provided up to $20,000,000 may
be used for the emergency program authorized by section 410 of
Public Law 95–87, as amended, of which no more than 25 per
centum shall be used for emergency reclamation projects in any
one State and funds for Federally-administered emergency reclama-
tion projects under this proviso shall not exceed $12,000,000: Pro-
vided further, That pursuant to Public Law 97–365, the Department
of the Interior is authorized to utilize up to 20 per centum from
the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to the United States
Government to pay for contracts to collect these debts.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For operation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, con-
tracts, cooperative agreements, and grants including expenses nec-
essary to provide education and welfare services for Indians, either
directly or in cooperation with States and other organizations,
including payment of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses
of Indians in boarding homes, or institutions, or schools; grants
and other assistance to needy Indians; maintenance of law and
order; management, development, improvement, and protection of
resources and appurtenant facilities under the jurisdiction of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, including payment of irrigation assess-
ments and charges; acquisition of water rights; advances for Indian
industrial and business enterprises; operation of Indian arts and
crafts shops and museums; development of Indian arts and crafts,
as authorized by law; for the general administration of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, including such expenses in field offices; maintain-
ing of Indian reservation roads as defined in section 101 of title
23, United States Code; and construction, repair, and improvement
of Indian housing, $1,490,805,000, including $316,111,000 for school
operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education pro-
grams which shall become available for obligation on July 1, 1994,
and shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1995,
and $49,226,000 for housing and road maintenance programs, to
remain available until expended, and of which, payments of funds
obligated as grants to schools pursuant to Public Law 100–297
shall be made on July 1 and December 1 in lieu of the payments
authorized to be made on October 1 and January 1 of each calendar
year, and of which not to exceed $74,764,000 for higher education
scholarships, adult vocational training, and assistance to public
schools under the Act of April 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 596), as amended
(25 U.S.C. 452 et seq.), shall remain available for obligation until
September 30, 1995; and the funds made available to tribes and
tribal organizations through contracts or grants obligated during
fiscal year 1994 as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination
Act of 1975 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), or grants author-
ized by the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C.
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2001 and 2008A) shall remain available until expended by the
contractor or grantee; and of which $1,983,000 for litigation support
shall remain available until expended, $4,934,000 for self-govern-
ance tribal compacts shall be made available on completion and
submission of such compacts to the Congress, and shall remain
available until expended; and of which $1,179,000 for expenses
necessary to carry out the provisions of section 19(a) of Public
Law 93–531 (25 U.S.C. 640d–18(a)), shall remain available until
expended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be expended as matching funds
for programs funded under section 103(b)(2) of the Carl D. Perkins
Vocational Education Act: Provided further, That of the amount
appropriated under this head in Public Law 102–381, any unobli-
gated balance as of September 30, 1993 related to the Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act shall remain available until expended
and may be obligated under a grant to the Alaska Native Founda-
tion for education, training, and technical assistance to Alaskan
village corporations for reconveyance requirements: Provided fur-
ther, That $199,000 of the funds made available in this Act shall
be available for cyclical maintenance of tribally owned fish hatch-
eries and related facilities: Provided further, That not to exceed
$91,223,000 of the funds in this Act shall be available for payments
to tribes and tribal organizations for indirect costs associated with
contracts or grants or compacts authorized by the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, for fiscal year 1994 and
previous years: Provided further, That for the purpose of Indian
Reservation road construction, all public Indian reservation roads
(as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101), identified in the 1990 Bureau of
Indian Affairs Juneau Area Transportation Study (and in any subse-
quent update of such Transportation Study) shall be included as
BIA system adjusted miles in the Bureau of Indian Affairs highway
trust fund formula for distribution for fiscal year 1994: Provided
further, That this provision shall expire upon implementation by
the Secretary of the Interior of a relative needs based highway
trust fund allocation formula pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 202(d): Provided
further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be used by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs to transfer funds under a contract with
any third party for the management of tribal or individual Indian
trust funds until the funds held in trust for all such tribes or
individuals have been audited and reconciled to the earliest possible
date, the results of such reconciliation have been certified by an
independent party as the most complete reconciliation of such funds
possible, and the affected tribe or individual has been provided
with an accounting of such funds: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the statute of limitations
shall not commence to run on any claim, including any claim
in litigation pending on the date of this Act, concerning losses
to or mismanagement of trust funds, until the affected tribe or
individual Indian has been furnished with the accounting of such
funds from which the beneficiary can determine whether there
has been a loss: Provided further, That $297,000 of the amounts
provided for education program management shall be available
for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, That
the Task Force on Bureau of Indian Affairs Reorganization shall
continue activities under its charter as adopted and amended on
April 17, 1991: Provided further, That any reorganization proposal
shall not be implemented until the Task Force has reviewed it
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and recommended its implementation to the Secretary and such
proposal has been submitted to and approved by the Committees
on Appropriations, except that the Bureau may submit a reorganiza-
tion proposal related only to management improvements, along
with Task Force comments or recommendations to the Committees
on Appropriations for review and disposition by the Committees:
Provided further, That to provide funding uniformity within a Self-
Governance Compact, any funds provided in this Act with availabil-
ity for more than one year may be reprogrammed to one year
availability but shall remain available within the Compact until
expended: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, Indian tribal governments may, by appropriate changes
in eligibility criteria or by other means, change eligibility for general
assistance or change the amount of general assistance payments
for individuals within the service area of such tribe who are other-
wise deemed eligible for general assistance payments so long as
such changes are applied in a consistent manner to individuals
similarly situated: Provided further, That any savings realized by
such changes shall be available for use in meeting other priorities
of the tribes: Provided further, That any such change must be
part of a comprehensive tribal plan for reducing the long-term
need for general assistance payments: Provided further, That any
such tribal plan must incorporate, to the greatest extent feasible,
currently existing social service, educational training, and employ-
ment assistance resources prior to changing general assistance eligi-
bility or payment standards which would have the effect of increas-
ing the cost of general assistance: Provided further, That any net
increase in costs to the Federal government which result solely
from tribally increased payment levels and which are not part
of such a comprehensive tribal plan shall be met exclusively from
funds available to the tribe from within its tribal priority allocation:
Provided further, That any forestry funds allocated to a tribe which
remain unobligated as of September 30, 1994, may be transferred
during fiscal year 1995 to an Indian forest land assistance account
established for the benefit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust
fund account: Provided further, That any such unobligated balances
not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 1995: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, other than the amounts
provided herein for assistance to public schools under the Act of
April 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 596), as amended (25 U.S.C. 452 et seq.),
shall be available to support the operation of any elementary or
secondary school in the State of Alaska in fiscal year 1994: Provided
further, That the Bureau shall form a Joint Task Force with rep-
resentatives of Alaska Natives and Alaska schools to examine the
needs of the schools and formulate recommendations to address
those needs in fiscal year 1994: Provided further, That any funds
provided under this head or previously provided for tribally-con-
trolled community colleges which are distributed prior to September
30, 1994 which have been or are being invested or administered
in compliance with section 331 of the Higher Education Act shall
be deemed to be in compliance for current and future purposes
with title III of the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges Assist-
ance Act.
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H. R. 2520—15
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, major repair, and improvement of irrigation
and power systems, buildings, utilities, and other facilities, includ-
ing architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisition
of lands and interests in lands; and preparation of lands for farming,
$166,979,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
$1,500,000 of the funds made available in this Act shall be available
for rehabilitation of tribally owned fish hatcheries and related facili-
ties: Provided further, That such amounts as may be available
for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and
for other water resource development activities related to the Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Water Rights Settlement Act, Southern
Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act and Fort McDowell Indian
Community Water Rights Settlement Act may be transferred to
the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed
6 per centum of contract authority available to the Bureau of
Indian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may be used
to cover the road program management costs of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs: Provided further, That any funds provided for the
Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 shall be made
available on a non-reimbursable basis.
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS
PAYMENTS TO INDIANS
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and individuals
for implementation of enacted Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 87–483, 97–293, 100–512, 101–
486, 101–602, 101–618, 101–628, 102–441, 102–575, and for
implementation of other enacted water rights settlements, and for
necessary administrative expenses, $103,259,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the funds provided herein,
$1,260,000 shall be available pursuant to Public Laws 96–420,
98–500, 99–264, and 100–580; and $3,000,000 shall be available
(1) to liquidate obligations owed tribal and individual Indian payees
of any checks canceled pursuant to section 1003 of the Competitive
Equality Banking Act of 1987 (Public Law 100–86 (101 Stat. 659)),
31 U.S.C. 3334(b), and (2) to restore to Individual Indian Monies
trust funds amounts invested in credit unions or defaulted savings
and loan associations and which were not Federally insured, includ-
ing any interest on these amounts that may have been earned,
but was not because of the default.
NAVAJO REHABILITATION TRUST FUND
For Navajo tribal rehabilitation and improvement activities
in accordance with the provisions of section 32(d) of Public Law
93–531, as amended (25 U.S.C. 640d–30), including necessary
administrative expenses, $2,466,000, to remain available until
expended.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF INDIAN ENTERPRISES
For payment of management and technical assistance requests
associated with loans and grants approved under the Indian Financ-
ing Act of 1974, as amended, $1,970,000.
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