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the disputes provision in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided fur-
ther, That in order to ensure timely completion of con-
struction projects, the Secretary may assume control of 
a project and all funds related to the project, if, within 
eighteen months of the date of enactment of this Act, any 
grantee receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any 
prior Act, has not completed the planning and design 
phase of the project and commenced construction: Pro-
vided further, That this appropriation may be reimbursed 
from the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indi-
ans appropriation for the appropriate share of construc-
tion costs for space expansion needed in agency offices to 
meet trust reform implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101– 
618, 108–447, 109–379, 109–479, 110–297, and 111–11, 
and for implementation of other land and water rights set-
tlements, $47,380,000, to remain available until expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$8,215,000, of which $1,629,000 is for administrative ex-
penses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 
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1974, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed 
or insured, not to exceed $93,807,956. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian 
lands and expenses associated with redetermining and re-
distributing escheated interests in allotted lands, and for 
necessary expenses to carry out the Indian Land Consoli-
dation Act (25 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), as amended, by direct 
expenditure or cooperative agreement, $3,000,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, compacts and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs may contract for services in support of the man-
agement, operation, and maintenance of the Power Divi-
sion of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
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Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the Revolving Fund for Loans Liquidating Account, 
Indian Loan Guaranty and Insurance Fund Liquidating 
Account, Indian Guaranteed Loan Financing Account, In-
dian Direct Loan Financing Account, and the Indian 
Guaranteed Loan Program Account) shall be available for 
expenses of exhibits. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except executive direction and administrative 
services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional 
offices, and facilities operations and maintenance) shall be 
available for contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the 
Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103– 
413). 
In the event any federally recognized tribe returns ap-
propriations made available by this Act to the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, this action shall not diminish the Federal 
Government’s trust responsibility to that tribe, or the gov-
ernment-to-government relationship between the United 
States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access fu-
ture appropriations. 
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided 
herein for assistance to public schools under 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. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other 
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall 
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dor-
mitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bu-
reau school system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made 
available under this Act may not be used to establish a 
charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term 
is defined in section 1146 of the Education Amendments 
of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)), except that a charter school 
that is in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school be-
fore September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during 
that period, but only if the charter school pays to the Bu-
reau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including 
buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau 
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does not assume any obligation for charter school pro-
grams of the State in which the school is located if the 
charter school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau- 
funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school and 
performing functions related to the charter schools oper-
ation and employees of a charter school shall not be treat-
ed as Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of 
title 28, United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 
distribution formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior, $118,836,000; of which 
$12,136,000 for consolidated appraisal services is to be 
derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 
shall remain available until expended; of which not to ex-
ceed $15,000 may be for official reception and representa-
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