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DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 
20, 
1976, 
as 
amended 
(31 
U.S.C. 
6901–6907), 
$232,528,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall be 
available for administrative expenses: Provided, That no 
payment shall be made to otherwise eligible units of local 
government if the computed amount of the payment is less 
than $100. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior and any of its component offices and bureaus for the 
remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), $9,954,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That hereafter, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, 
sums recovered from or paid by a party in advance of or 
as reimbursement for remedial action or response activities 
conducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 or 
113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to this account, to be 
available until expended without further appropriation: 
Provided further, That hereafter such sums recovered from 
or paid by any party are not limited to monetary payments
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and may include stocks, bonds or other personal or real 
property, which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise 
disposed of by the Secretary and which shall be credited 
to this account. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and 
restoration activities by the Department of the Interior nec-
essary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive En-
vironmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the 
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and Pub-
lic Law 101–337, as amended (16 U.S.C. 19jj et seq.), 
$6,300,000, to remain available until expended. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the acquisition of a departmental financial and 
business management system, $40,727,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That none of the funds in 
this Act or previous appropriations Acts may be used to 
establish reserves in the Working Capital Fund account 
other than for accrued annual leave and depreciation of 
equipment without prior approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 air-
craft, 10 of which shall be for replacement and which may 
be obtained by donation, purchase or through available ex-
cess surplus property: Provided, That existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade- 
in value used to offset the purchase price for the replacement 
aircraft. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 
or office), with the approval of the Secretary, for the emer-
gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, 
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable 
causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made available 
under this authority until funds specifically made available 
to the Department of the Interior for emergencies shall have 
been exhausted: Provided further, That all funds used pur-
suant to this section must be replenished by a supplemental 
appropriation which must be requested as promptly as pos-
sible.
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SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expendi-
ture or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, 
in addition to the amounts included in the budget programs 
of the several agencies, for the suppression or emergency 
prevention of wildland fires on or threatening lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; for the 
emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands under its ju-
risdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or ac-
tual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other un-
avoidable causes; for contingency planning subsequent to 
actual oil spills; for response and natural resource damage 
assessment activities related to actual oil spills; for the pre-
vention, suppression, and control of actual or potential 
grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to the authority 
in section 1773(b) of Public Law 99–198 (99 Stat. 1658); 
for emergency reclamation projects under section 410 of 
Public Law 95–87; and shall transfer, from any no year 
funds available to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary to permit 
assumption of regulatory authority in the event a primacy 
State is not carrying out the regulatory provisions of the 
Surface Mining Act: Provided, That appropriations made 
in this title for wildland fire operations shall be available 
for the payment of obligations incurred during the pre-
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ceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to other Federal 
agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equip-
ment in connection with their use for wildland fire oper-
ations, such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations 
currently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided 
further, That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall 
be made available under this authority until the Secretary 
determines that funds appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire oper-
ations’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided further, 
That all funds used pursuant to this section must be replen-
ished by a supplemental appropriation which must be re-
quested as promptly as possible: Provided further, That such 
replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro 
rata basis, accounts from which emergency funds were 
transferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department of 
the Interior in this title shall be available for services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the Sec-
retary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase 
and replacement of motor vehicles, including specially 
equipped law enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and 
operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; pur-
chase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private 
residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 
approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when