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National Energy Technology Laboratory may be used to support
Department of Energy activities not included in this account.
ALTERNATIVE FUELS PRODUCTION
(RESCISSION)
Of the unobligated balances under this heading, $2,000,000
are rescinded.
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES
For expenses necessary to carry out naval petroleum and oil
shale reserve activities, $17,371,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, unobligated funds remaining from prior years shall be available
for all naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities.
ELK HILLS SCHOOL LANDS FUND
For necessary expenses in fulfilling installment payments under
the Settlement Agreement entered into by the United States and
the State of California on October 11, 1996, as authorized by section
3415 of Public Law 104–106, $36,000,000, to become available on
October 1, 2002 for payment to the State of California for the
State Teachers’ Retirement Fund from the Elk Hills School Lands
Fund.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation
activities, $912,805,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That $275,000,000 shall be for use in energy conservation
grant programs as defined in section 3008(3) of Public Law 99–
509 (15 U.S.C. 4507): Provided further, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 3003(d)(2) of Public Law 99–509, such sums shall be allocated
to the eligible programs as follows: $230,000,000 for weatherization
assistance grants and $45,000,000 for State energy conservation
grants: Provided further, That 50 percent of the funds provided
for the Energy Efficiency Science Initiative for fiscal year 2002
and thereafter shall be made available to the Fossil Energy
Research and Development account.
ECONOMIC REGULATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the
Office of Hearings and Appeals, $1,996,000, to remain available
until expended.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility
development and operations and program management activities
pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.), $179,009,000, to remain available
until expended, of which not to exceed $8,000,000 shall be available
for maintenance of a Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
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ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the
Energy Information Administration, $78,499,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Appropriations under this Act for the current fiscal year shall
be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance,
and operation of aircraft; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms;
and reimbursement to the General Services Administration for secu-
rity guard services.
From appropriations under this Act, transfers of sums may
be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance
of work for which the appropriation is made.
None of the funds made available to the Department of Energy
under this Act shall be used to implement or finance authorized
price support or loan guarantee programs unless specific provision
is made for such programs in an appropriations Act.
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equip-
ment, and other contributions from public and private sources and
to prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal,
State, private or foreign: Provided, That revenues and other moneys
received by or for the account of the Department of Energy or
otherwise generated by sale of products in connection with projects
of the Department appropriated under this Act may be retained
by the Secretary of Energy, to be available until expended, and
used only for plant construction, operation, costs, and payments
to cost-sharing entities as provided in appropriate cost-sharing con-
tracts or agreements: Provided further, That the remainder of reve-
nues after the making of such payments shall be covered into
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any
contract, agreement, or provision thereof entered into by the Sec-
retary pursuant to this authority shall not be executed prior to
the expiration of 30 calendar days (not including any day in which
either House of Congress is not in session because of adjournment
of more than 3 calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President
of the Senate of a full comprehensive report on such project,
including the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of
the proposed project.
No funds provided in this Act may be expended by the Depart-
ment of Energy to prepare, issue, or process procurement documents
for programs or projects for which appropriations have not been
made.
In addition to other authorities set forth in this Act, the Sec-
retary may accept fees and contributions from public and private
sources, to be deposited in a contributed funds account, and pros-
ecute projects using such fees and contributions in cooperation
with other Federal, State or private agencies or concerns.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954
(68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination Act, the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health
Service 
Act 
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the 
Indian 
Health 
Service,
$2,389,614,000, together with payments received during the fiscal
year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made available to
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements,
or any other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C.
450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant
or contract award and thereafter shall remain available to the
tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Provided
further, That $15,000,000 shall remain available until expended,
for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: Provided fur-
ther, That $445,776,000 for contract medical care shall remain
available for obligation until September 30, 2003: Provided further,
That of the funds provided, up to $22,000,000 shall be used to
carry out the loan repayment program under section 108 of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Provided further, That funds
provided in this Act may be used for 1-year contracts and grants
which are to be performed in 2 fiscal years, so long as the total
obligation is recorded in the year for which the funds are appro-
priated: Provided further, That the amounts collected by the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services under the authority of title
IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall remain avail-
able until expended for the purpose of achieving compliance with
the applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX
of the Social Security Act (exclusive of planning, design, or construc-
tion of new facilities): Provided further, That funding contained
herein, and in any earlier appropriations Acts for scholarship pro-
grams under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C.
1613) shall remain available for obligation until September 30,
2003: Provided further, That amounts received by tribes and tribal
organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act shall be reported and accounted for and available to the
receiving tribes and tribal organizations until expended: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the
amounts provided herein, not to exceed $268,234,000 shall be for
payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract or grant
support costs associated with contracts, grants, self-governance com-
pacts or annual funding agreements between the Indian Health
Service and a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the Indian
Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior to or during
fiscal year 2002, of which not to exceed $20,000,000 may be used
for contract support costs associated with new or expanded self-
determination contracts, grants, self-governance compacts or annual
funding agreements: Provided further, That funds available for
the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund may be used, as needed,
to carry out activities typically funded under the Indian Health
Facilities account.
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INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, and equip-
ment of health and related auxiliary facilities, including quarters
for personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings;
acquisition of sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings,
and purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and commu-
nity sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7
of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-
Determination Act, and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act,
and for expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II
and III of the Public Health Service Act with respect to environ-
mental health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health
Service, $369,487,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-
priated for the planning, design, construction or renovation of health
facilities for the benefit of an Indian tribe or tribes may be used
to purchase land for sites to construct, improve, or enlarge health
or related facilities: Provided further, That from the funds appro-
priated herein, $5,000,000 shall be designated by the Indian Health
Service as a contribution to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corpora-
tion (YKHC) to continue a priority project for the acquisition of
land, planning, design and construction of 79 staff quarters in
the Bethel service area, pursuant to the negotiated project agree-
ment between the YKHC and the Indian Health Service: Provided
further, That this project shall not be subject to the construction
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assist-
ance Act and shall be removed from the Indian Health Service
priority list upon completion: Provided further, That the Federal
Government shall not be liable for any property damages or other
construction claims that may arise from YKHC undertaking this
project: Provided further, That the land shall be owned or leased
by the YKHC and title to quarters shall remain vested with the
YKHC: Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall remain available
until expended for the purpose of funding up to two joint venture
health care facility projects authorized under the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act, as amended: Provided further, That priority,
by rank order, shall be given to tribes with outpatient projects
on the existing Indian Health Services priority list that have
Service-approved planning documents, and can demonstrate by
March 1, 2002, the financial capability necessary to provide an
appropriate facility: Provided further, That joint venture funds
unallocated after March 1, 2002, shall be made available for joint
venture projects on a competitive basis giving priority to tribes
that currently have no existing Federally-owned health care facility,
have planning documents meeting Indian Health Service require-
ments prepared for approval by the Service and can demonstrate
the financial capability needed to provide an appropriate facility:
Provided further, That the Indian Health Service shall request
additional staffing, operation and maintenance funds for these facili-
ties in future budget requests: Provided further, That not to exceed
$500,000 shall be used by the Indian Health Service to purchase
TRANSAM equipment from the Department of Defense for distribu-
tion to the Indian Health Service and tribal facilities: Provided
further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be used by the Indian
Health Service to obtain ambulances for the Indian Health Service
and tribal facilities in conjunction with an existing interagency