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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1977
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 10, 1995
Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate numbered
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1996, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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
fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
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, classi-
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fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general
administration 
of 
the 
Bureau 
Ω1æ$570,017,000
$565,936,000, to remain available until expendedΩ2æ,–of
which not more than $599,999 shall be available to the
Needles Resources Area for the management of the East
Mojave National Scenic Area, as defined by the Bureau
of Land Management prior to October 1, 1994, in the
California Desert District of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, and of which $4,000,000 shall be derived from the
special receipt account established by section 4 of the
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)): Provided, That appro-
priations herein made shall not be available for the de-
struction of healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros
in the care of the Bureau or its contractors; and in addi-
tion, $27,650,000 for Mining Law Administration pro-
gram operations, to remain available until expended, to
be reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau of Land
Management and credited to this appropriation from an-
nual mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropria-
tion estimated at not more than Ω3æ$570,017,000
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$563,936,000: Provided further, That in addition to funds
otherwise available, and to remain available until ex-
pended, not to exceed $5,000,000 from annual mining
claim fees shall be credited to this account for the costs
of administering the mining claim fee program, and
$2,000,000 from communication site rental fees estab-
lished by the Bureau.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses for fire use and management,
fire preparedness, emergency presuppression, suppression
operations, emergency rehabilitation, and renovation or
construction of fire facilities in the Department of the In-
terior, Ω4æ$235,924,000 $240,159,000, to remain available
until expended, of which not to exceed $5,025,000, shall
be available for the renovation or construction of fire fa-
cilities: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469
may be furnished subsistence and lodging without cost
from funds available from this appropriation: Provided
further, That such funds are also available for repayment
of advances to other appropriation accounts from which
funds were previously transferred for such purposes: Pro-
vided further, That unobligated balances of amounts pre-
viously appropriated to the Fire Protection and Emer-
gency Department of the Interior Firefighting Fund may
be transferred or merged with this appropriation.
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and of which $11,557,000 shall be Ω10æavailable until ex-
pended for operation and maintenance of fishery mitiga-
tion facilities constructed by the Corps of Engineers under
the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan, authorized by
the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 (90 Stat.
2921), to compensate for loss of fishery resources from
water development projects on the Lower Snake River:
Provided, That unobligated and unexpended balances in
the Resource Management account at the end of fiscal
year 1995, shall be merged with and made a part of the
fiscal year 1996 Resource Management appropriation, and
shall remain available for obligation until September 30,
1997Ω11æ: Provided further, That no monies appropriated
under this Act or any other law shall be used to implement
subsections (a), (b), (c), (e), (g), or (i) of section 4 of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, (16 U.S.C. 1533) until
such time as legislation reauthorizing the Act is enacted or
until the end of fiscal year 1996, whichever is earlier, except
that monies appropriated under this Act may be used to
delist or reclassify species pursuant to subsections
4(a)(2)(B), 4(c)(2)(B)(i), and 4(c)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction and acquisition of buildings and
other facilities required in the conservation, management,
investigation, protection, and utilization of fishery and
wildlife resources, and the acquisition of lands and inter-
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final action on all such applications within two
years of the enactment of this Act and file re-
ports annually thereafter with the same commit-
tees detailing actions taken by the Department of
the Interior to carry out such plan; and
(B) Take such actions as may be necessary
to carry out such plan.
(2) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—Upon the request
of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the Interior
shall allow the applicant to fund the retention by the
Bureau of Land Management of a qualified third-
party contractor to conduct a mineral examination of
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent
application. All such third-party mineral examina-
tions shall be conducted in accordance with standard
procedures and criteria followed by the Bureau of
Land Management, and the retention and compensa-
tion of such third-party contractors shall be conducted
in accordance with procedures employed by the Bu-
reau of Land Management in the retention of third-
party contractors for the preparation of environ-
mental analyses under the National Environmental
Policy Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 4321–4370d) to the maxi-
mum extent practicable.