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affected by the disaster; of which, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed $219,560,000 shall 
be available for payments for contract support costs associated 
with ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agree-
ments entered into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 
2012, as authorized by such Act, except that tribes and tribal 
organizations may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet 
contract support costs of ongoing contracts, grants, or compacts, 
or annual funding agreements and for unmet welfare assistance 
costs; of which not to exceed $590,484,000 for school operations 
costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education programs shall 
become available on July 1, 2012, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2013; and of which not to exceed $48,049,000 shall 
remain available until expended for housing improvement, road 
maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, the Indian Self- 
Determination Fund, land records improvement, and the Navajo- 
Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 
Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, 
not to exceed $46,327,000 within and only from such amounts 
made available for school operations shall be available for adminis-
trative cost grants associated with ongoing grants entered into 
with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2011 for the operation 
of Bureau-funded schools, and up to $500,000 within and only 
from such amounts made available for administrative cost grants 
shall be available for the transitional costs of initial administrative 
cost grants to grantees that assume operation on or after July 
1, 2011, of Bureau-funded schools: Provided further, That any for-
estry funds allocated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of 
September 30, 2013, may be transferred during fiscal year 2014 
to an Indian forest land assistance account established for the 
benefit of the holder of the funds within the holder’s trust fund 
account: Provided further, That any such unobligated balances not 
so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2014: Provided further, 
That in order to enhance the safety of Bureau field employees, 
the Bureau may use funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying 
articles of clothing for personnel. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, and other facili-
ties, including architectural and engineering services by contract; 
acquisition of lands, and interests in lands; and preparation of 
lands for farming, and for construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project pursuant to Public Law 87–483, $123,828,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may 
be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation 
Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided 
further, That not to exceed 6 percent 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: Provided further, That any funds provided for the 
Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 shall be made
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available on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2012, in implementing new construction or facilities 
improvement and repair project grants in excess of $100,000 that 
are provided to grant schools under Public Law 100–297, as 
amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use the Administrative 
and Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for Assistance Pro-
grams contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the regulatory requirements: 
Provided further, That such grants shall not be subject to section 
12.61 of 43 CFR; the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate 
and determine a schedule of payments for the work to be performed: 
Provided further, That in considering grant applications, the Sec-
retary shall consider whether such grantee would be deficient in 
assuring that the construction projects conform to applicable 
building standards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health 
and safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with respect 
to organizational and financial management capabilities: Provided 
further, That if the Secretary declines a grant application, the 
Secretary shall follow the requirements contained in 25 U.S.C. 
2504(f): Provided further, That any disputes between the Secretary 
and any grantee concerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes 
provision in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided further, That in order 
to ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Secretary 
may assume control of a project and all funds related to the project, 
if, within 18 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: Provided further, That this appropria-
tion may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee 
for American Indians appropriation for the appropriate share of 
construction 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 settlements pursu-
ant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 108–447, and 111– 
11, and for implementation of other land and water rights settle-
ments, $32,855,000, to remain available until expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, $7,114,000, 
of which $964,000 is for administrative expenses, as authorized 
by the Indian Financing Act of 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: 
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, 
not to exceed $73,365,796. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the operation 
of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative 
agreements, compacts, and grants, either directly or in cooperation 
with States and other organizations.
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Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
may contract for services in support of the management, operation, 
and maintenance of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation 
Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
Revolving Fund for Loans Liquidating Account, Indian Loan Guar-
anty and Insurance Fund Liquidating Account, Indian Guaranteed 
Loan Financing Account, Indian Direct Loan Financing Account, 
and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program account) shall be avail-
able 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 mainte-
nance) shall be available for contracts, grants, compacts, or coopera-
tive agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the provi-
sions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal Self-Govern-
ance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations 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 government-to-government relationship between the United 
States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appro-
priations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided herein for assist-
ance 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 September 1, 1996. No funds 
available to the Bureau shall be used to support expanded grades 
for any school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in 
the Bureau school system as of October 1, 1995, except that any 
school or school program that was closed and removed from the 
Bureau school system between 1951 and 1972, and its respective 
tribe’s relationship with the Federal Government was terminated, 
shall be reinstated to the Bureau system and supported at a level 
based on its grade structure and average student enrollment for 
the 2009–2010, 2010–2011 and 2011–2012 school years. 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 
1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), 
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 before September 1, 1999, may continue to operate 
during that period, but only if the charter school pays to the 
Bureau 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 programs 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
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and performing functions related to the charter school’s operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated 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 indirect 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 administrative cost funds to such grantee using the 
section 5(f) distribution formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses for management of the Department 
of the Interior, including the collection and disbursement of royal-
ties, fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized by 
law, $262,317,000, to remain available until September 30, 2013; 
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 associated with the orderly closure of the 
United States Bureau of Mines; and of which $12,712,000 for the 
Office of Valuation Services is to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund and shall remain available until 
expended; and of which $38,300,000 shall remain available until 
expended for the purpose of mineral revenue management activities: 
Provided, That, for fiscal year 2012, up to $400,000 of the payments 
authorized by the Act of October 20, 1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
6901–6907) may be retained for administrative expenses of the 
Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided further, That no 
payment shall be made pursuant to that Act to otherwise eligible 
units of local government if the computed amount of the payment 
is less than $100: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, $15,000 under this heading shall be available 
for refunds of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases 
in which the Secretary concurred with the claimed refund due, 
to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or tribes, or to correct 
prior unrecoverable erroneous payments: Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding the provisions of section 35(b) of the Mineral 
Leasing Act, as amended (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), the Secretary shall 
deduct 2 percent from the amount payable to each State in fiscal 
year 2012 and deposit the amount deducted to miscellaneous 
receipts of the Treasury. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and other jurisdictions 
identified in section 104(e) of Public Law 108–188, $87,997,000, 
of which: (1) $78,517,000 shall remain available until expended 
for territorial assistance, including general technical assistance,