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$2,000,000 shall be made available for transfer to the Disaster
Assistance Direct Loan Financing Account of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency for the purpose of covering the cost of forgiving
the repayment obligation of the Government of the Virgin Islands
on Community Disaster Loan 841, as required by section 504 of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended (2 U.S.C. 661c):
Provided further, 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 improvement are appro-
priated to institutionalize routine operations and maintenance
improvement of capital infrastructure (with territorial participation
and cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on the
grantees commitment to timely maintenance of its capital assets):
Provided further, That any appropriation for disaster assistance
under this heading in this Act or previous appropriations 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).
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION
For economic assistance and necessary expenses for the Fed-
erated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands
as provided for in sections 122, 221, 223, 232, and 233 of the
Compact of Free Association, and for economic assistance and nec-
essary expenses for the Republic of Palau as provided for in sections
122, 221, 223, 232, and 233 of the Compact of Free Association,
$23,245,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized by
Public Law 99–239 and Public Law 99–658.
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for management of the Department
of the Interior, $67,741,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 may
be for official reception and representation expenses, and of which
up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensation pay-
ments and unemployment compensation payments associated with
the orderly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines.
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor,
$45,000,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General,
$34,302,000, of which $3,812,000 shall be for procurement by con-
tract of independent auditing services to audit the consolidated
Department of the Interior annual financial statement and the
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annual financial statement of the Department of the Interior
bureaus and offices funded in this Act.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS
For operation of trust programs for Indians by direct expendi-
ture, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants,
$99,224,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
funds for trust management improvements may be transferred,
as needed, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of Indian
Programs’’ account and to the Departmental Management ‘‘Salaries
and Expenses’’ account: Provided further, That funds made available
to Tribes and Tribal organizations through contracts or grants
obligated during fiscal year 2002, as authorized by the Indian
Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), shall remain
available until expended by the contractor or grantee: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
statute of limitations shall not commence to run on any claim,
including any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement of trust
funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian has been fur-
nished with an accounting of such funds from which the beneficiary
can determine whether there has been a loss: Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary
shall not be required to provide a quarterly statement of perform-
ance for any Indian trust account that has not had activity for
at least 18 months and has a balance of $1.00 or less: Provided
further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account statement
and maintain a record of any such accounts and shall permit
the balance in each such account to be withdrawn upon the express
written request of the account holder.
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands and
expenses 
associated 
with 
redetermining 
and 
redistributing
escheated interests in allotted lands, and for necessary expenses
to carry out the Indian Land Consolidation Act of 1983, as amended,
by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement, $10,980,000, to
remain available until expended and which may be transferred
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Departmental Management.
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND
To conduct natural resource damage assessment activities by
the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the provisions
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380) (33 U.S.C. 2701
et seq.), and Public Law 101–337, as amended (16 U.S.C. 19jj
et seq.), $5,497,000, to remain available until expended.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available
resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 aircraft, 10 of which
shall be for replacement and which may be obtained by donation,
purchase or through available excess surplus property: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, existing aircraft
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft: Pro-
vided further, That no programs funded with appropriated funds
in the ‘‘Departmental Management’’, ‘‘Office of the Solicitor’’, and
‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ may be augmented through the
Working Capital Fund or the Consolidated Working Fund.
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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 emergency reconstruction,
replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facili-
ties or equipment damaged 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 avail-
able to the Department of the Interior for emergencies shall have
been exhausted: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant
to this section are hereby designated by Congress to be ‘‘emergency
requirements’’ pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be
replenished by a supplemental appropriation which must be
requested as promptly as possible.
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expenditure 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 Depart-
ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-
over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related
to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subsequent to
actual oil spills; for response and natural resource damage assess-
ment activities related to actual oil spills; for the prevention,
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 Reclama-
tion 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 preceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement
to other Federal agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or
other equipment in connection with their use for wildland fire
operations, 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
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under this authority until the Secretary determines that funds
appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire operations’’ shall be exhausted
within 30 days: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant
to this section are hereby designated by Congress to be ‘‘emergency
requirements’’ pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be
replenished by a supplemental appropriation which must be
requested 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 in this title shall be available
for operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities,
wherever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or
economy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services
rendered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized
by sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31, United States Code: Provided,
That reimbursements for costs and supplies, materials, equipment,
and for services rendered may be credited to the appropriation
current at the time such reimbursements are received.
SEC. 104. 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 Secretary, in total amount
not to exceed $500,000; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft;
hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment
for telephone service in private residences in the field, when author-
ized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment
of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership
in societies or associations which issue publications to members
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who
are not members.
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of the
Interior for salaries and expenses shall be available for uniforms
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902
and D.C. Code 4–204).
SEC. 106. Annual appropriations made in this title shall be
available for obligation in connection with contracts issued for serv-
ices or rentals for periods not in excess of 12 months beginning
at any time during the fiscal year.
SEC. 107. No funds provided in this title may be expended
by the Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore
preleasing, leasing and related activities placed under restriction
in the President’s moratorium statement of June 12, 1998, in the
areas of northern, central, and southern California; the North
Atlantic; Washington and Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico
south of 26 degrees north latitude and east of 86 degrees west
longitude.
SEC. 108. No funds provided in this title may be expended
by the Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore oil
and natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities, on lands
within the North Aleutian Basin planning area.
SEC. 109. No funds provided in this title may be expended
by the Department of the Interior to conduct offshore oil and natural
gas preleasing, leasing and related activities in the eastern Gulf
of Mexico planning area for any lands located outside Sale 181,
as identified in the final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and
Gas Leasing Program, 1997–2002.