services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations and re-
gional offices) shall be available for contracts, grants, com-
pacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any federally-recognized tribe returns 
appropriations made available by this Act to the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs, this action shall not diminish the Fed-
eral Government’s trust responsibility to that tribe, or the 
government-to-government 
relationship 
between 
the 
United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to ac-
cess future appropriations. 
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-
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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 
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 school’s 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 25 U.S.C. 2007(d), and imple-
menting regulations, the funds reserved from the Indian 
Student Equalization Program to meet emergencies and 
unforeseen contingencies affecting education programs ap-
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propriated herein and in Public Law 109–54 may be used 
for costs associated with significant student enrollment in-
creases at Bureau-funded schools during the relevant 
school year. 
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 Depart-
ment of the Interior, $136,413,000, of which $35,262,000 
for activities related to the Financial and Business Man-
agement System shall remain available until expended, 
and of which not to exceed $15,000 may be for official 
reception and representation expenses, and of which up 
to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensation 
payments and unemployment compensation payments as-
sociated with the orderly closure of the United States Bu-
reau of Mines. 
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INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
$78,292,000, of which: (1) $69,816,000 shall be available 
until expended for technical assistance, including mainte-
nance assistance, disaster assistance, insular management 
controls, coral reef initiative activities, and brown tree 
snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in 
American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-
thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-
ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev-
enues, for construction and support of governmental func-
tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands as 
authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, 
as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of 
the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Pub-
lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $8,476,000 shall 
be available until September 30, 2009 for salaries and ex-
penses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all 
financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of 
all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by 
such governments, may be audited by the Government Ac-
countability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with 
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chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur-
ther, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant 
funding shall be provided according to those terms of the 
Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future 
United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mar-
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funds shall be made available for a grant 
to the Pacific Basin Development Council: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funding shall be made available for a grant 
to the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, That the 
funds for the program of operations and maintenance im-
provement are appropriated to institutionalize routine op-
erations and maintenance improvement of capital infra-
structure with territorial participation and cost sharing to 
be determined by the Secretary based on the grantee’s 
commitment to timely maintenance of its capital assets: 
Provided further, That any appropriation for disaster as-
sistance under this heading in this Act or previous appro-
priations Acts may be used as non-Federal matching 
funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants provided 
pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
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