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(b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT RE-
GARDING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
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this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 308. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classi-
fied as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which
are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land
Management lands in a manner different than such sales
were conducted in fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 309. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be obligated or expended by the National Park
Service to enter into or implement a concession contract
which permits or requires the removal of the underground
lunchroom at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
SEC. 310. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for the
AmeriCorps program, unless the relevant agencies of the
Department of the Interior and/or Agriculture follow ap-
propriate reprogramming guidelines: Provided, That if no
funds are provided for the AmeriCorps program by the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1999, then none of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for the
AmeriCorps programs.
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SEC. 311. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent
pedestrian use of such bridge, when it is made known to
the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend
such funds that such pedestrian use is consistent with gen-
erally accepted safety standards.
SEC. 312. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill
site claim located under the general mining laws.
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (a)
shall not apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines
that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent application was
filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994;
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30)
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331,
and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and
37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case
may be, were fully complied with by the applicant by that
date.
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(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 1999, the Secretary
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Commit-
tee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a re-
port on actions taken by the Department under the plan
submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Department
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1997 (Public Law 104–208).
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner,
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified
third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land
Management in the retention of third-party contractors.
SEC. 313. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for the pur-
poses of acquiring lands in the counties of Gallia, Law-
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rence, Monroe, or Washington, Ohio, for the Wayne Na-
tional Forest.
SEC. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, amounts appropriated to or earmarked in committee
reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian
Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 104–
134, 104–208, and 105–83 for payments to tribes and
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated
with self-determination or self-governance contracts,
grants, compacts or annual funding agreements with the
Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service as
funded by such Acts, are the total amounts available for
fiscal years 1994 through 1998 for such purposes, except
that, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal
organizations may use their tribal priority allocations for
unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants, self-gov-
ernance compacts or annual funding agreements.
SEC. 315. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, for fiscal year 1999 the Secretaries of Agriculture and
the Interior are authorized to limit competition for water-
shed restoration project contracts as part of the ‘‘Jobs in
the Woods’’ component of the President’s Forest Plan for
the Pacific Northwest to individuals and entities in histori-
cally timber-dependent areas in the States of Washington,
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Oregon, and northern California that have been affected
by reduced timber harvesting on Federal lands.
SEC. 316. None of the funds collected under the Rec-
reational Fee Demonstration program may be used to
plan, design, or construct a visitor center or any other per-
manent structure without prior approval of the House and
the Senate Committees on Appropriations if the estimated
total cost of the facility exceeds $500,000.
SEC. 317. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be used to require any person to vacate real prop-
erty where a term is expiring under a use and occupancy
reservation in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
until such time as the National Park Service indicates to
the appropriate congressional committees and the holders
of these reservations that it has sufficient funds to remove
the residence on that property within 90 days of that resi-
dence being vacated. The National Park Service will pro-
vide at least 90 days notice to the holders of expired res-
ervations to allow them time to leave the residence. The
National Park Service will charge fair market value rental
rates while any occupancy continues beyond an expired
reservation. Reservation holders who stay beyond the expi-
ration date will also be required to pay for appraisals to
determine current fair market value rental rates, any re-
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habilitation needed to ensure suitability for occupancy, ap-
propriate insurance, and all continuing utility costs.
SEC. 318. (a) None of the funds made available in
this Act or any other Act providing appropriations for the
Department of the Interior, the Forest Service or the
Smithsonian Institution may be used to submit nomina-
tions for the designation of Biosphere Reserves pursuant
to the Man and Biosphere program administered by the
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Or-
ganization.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be repealed
upon enactment of subsequent legislation specifically au-
thorizing United States participation in the Man and Bio-
sphere program.
SEC. 319. None of the funds made available in this
or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to des-
ignate, or to post any sign designating, any portion of Ca-
naveral National Seashore in Brevard County, Florida, as
a clothing-optional area or as an area in which public nu-
dity is permitted, if such designation would be contrary
to county ordinance.
SEC. 320. Of the funds available to the National En-
dowment for the Arts:
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-
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dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-
ship.
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures
to ensure that no funding provided through a grant,
except a grant made to a State or local arts agency,
or regional group, may be used to make a grant to
any other organization or individual to conduct ac-
tivity independent of the direct grant recipient.
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments
made in exchange for goods and services.
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support
to a group, unless the application is specific to the
contents of the season, including identified programs
and/or projects.
SEC. 321. The National Endowment for the Arts and
the National Endowment for the Humanities are author-
ized to solicit, accept, receive, and invest in the name of
the United States, gifts, bequests, or devises of money and
other property or services and to use such in furtherance
of the functions of the National Endowment for the Arts
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any
proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after ac-
ceptance by the National Endowment for the Arts or the
National Endowment for the Humanities, shall be paid by
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the donor or the representative of the donor to the Chair-
man. The Chairman shall enter the proceeds in a special
interest-bearing account to the credit of the appropriate
Endowment for the purposes specified in each case.
SEC. 322. (a) WATERSHED RESTORATION AND EN-
HANCEMENT AGREEMENTS.—For fiscal years 1999 and
2000, appropriations for the Forest Service may be used
by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose of entering
into cooperative agreements with willing State and local
governments, private and nonprofit entities and land-
owners for protection, restoration and enhancement of fish
and wildlife habitat, and other resources on public or pri-
vate land or both that benefit these resources within the
watershed.
(b) DIRECT
AND INDIRECT WATERSHED AGREE-
MENTS.—The Secretary of Agriculture may enter into a
watershed restoration and enhancement agreement—
(1) directly with a willing private landowner; or
(2) indirectly through an agreement with a
State, local or tribal government or other public en-
tity, educational institution, or private nonprofit or-
ganization.
(c) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—In order for the Sec-
retary to enter into a watershed restoration and enhance-
ment agreement—
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(1) the agreement shall—
(A) include such terms and conditions mu-
tually agreed to by the Secretary and the land-
owner;
(B) improve the viability of and otherwise
benefit the fish, wildlife, and other resources on
national forests lands within the watershed;
(C) authorize the provision of technical as-
sistance by the Secretary in the planning of
management activities that will further the pur-
poses of the agreement;
(D) provide for the sharing of costs of im-
plementing the agreement among the Federal
Government, the landowner(s), and other enti-
ties, as mutually agreed on by the affected in-
terests; and
(E) ensure that any expenditure by the
Secretary pursuant to the agreement is deter-
mined by the Secretary to be in the public in-
terest; and
(2) the Secretary may require such other terms
and conditions as are necessary to protect the public
investment on non-Federal lands, provided such
terms and conditions are mutually agreed to by the
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Secretary and other landowners, State and local gov-
ernments or both.
SEC. 323. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-
priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve
underserved populations.
(b) In this section:
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means
a population of individuals who have historically
been outside the purview of arts and humanities pro-
grams due to factors such as a high incidence of in-
come below the poverty line or to geographic isola-
tion.
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty
line (as defined by the Office of Management and
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) applicable to a family of
the size involved.
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and
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Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv-
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-
tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public
knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of
the arts.
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965—
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or
are able to tour several States;
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds
to any single State, excluding grants made under the
authority of paragraph (1);
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 5 of such Act; and
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of
grants to improve and support community-based
music performance and education.
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SEC. 324. None of the funds in this Act may be used
for planning, design or construction of improvements to
Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House without
the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations.
SEC. 325. None of the funds in this or any other Act
may be used to relocate the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars from the Smithsonian Institution to
the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
SEC. 326. The Auditors West Building (Annex 3) lo-
cated at Raoul Wallenberg Place and Independence Ave-
nue Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia is here-
by named the ‘‘Sidney R. Yates Building’’ and shall be
referred to in any law, regulation, document, or record of
the United States as the ‘‘Sidney R. Yates Building’’.
SEC. 327. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, not later than December 11, 1998,
the Secretary of Agriculture shall grant Chugach Alaska
Corporation an irrevocable and perpetual 250-foot-wide
easement for the construction, use, and maintenance of
public roads and related facilities necessary for access to
and economic development of the land interests in the Car-
bon Mountain and Katalla vicinity that were conveyed to
Chugach Alaska Corporation pursuant to the Alaska Na-
tive Claims Settlement Act. The centerline of the easement
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is depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Carbon Mountain Access
Easement’’ and dated November 4, 1997. Nothing in this
section waives any legal environmental requirement with
respect to the actual road construction.
(b) SUBMISSION OF SURVEY; RELINQUISHMENT OF
UNNEEDED PORTION OF EASEMENT.—Not later than 90
days after completion of construction of roads and related
facilities on the easement granted pursuant to subsection
(a), Chugach Alaska Corporation shall submit to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture an as-built survey of such roads and
related facilities and relinquish to the United States those
portions of the easement Chugach Alaska Corporation
deems not necessary for future use.
(c) Construction and Maintenance.—Construction
and maintenance of any roads pursuant to subsection (a)
shall be in accordance with the best management practices
of the Forest Service as promulgated in the Forest Service
Handbook.
SEC. 328. Section 101(c) of Public Law 104–134, as
amended, is further amended as follows: Under the head-
ing ‘‘Title III—General Provisions’’ amend section 315(f)
(16 U.S.C. 460l–6a note) by striking ‘‘September 30,
1999’’ after the words ‘‘and end on’’ and inserting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2001’’ and striking ‘‘September 30, 2002’’
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after the words ‘‘remain available through’’ and inserting
‘‘September 30, 2004’’.
SEC. 329. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, none of the funds in this Act may be used to enter
into any new or expanded self-determination contract or
grant or self-governance compact pursuant to the Indian
Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, for any ac-
tivities not previously covered by such contracts, compacts
or grants. Nothing in this section precludes the continu-
ation of those specific activities for which self-determina-
tion and self-governance contracts, compacts and grants
currently exist or the renewal of contracts, compacts and
grants for those activities.
SEC. 330. (a) PROHIBITION ON TIMBER PURCHASER
ROAD CREDITS.—In financing any forest development
road pursuant to section 4 of Public Law 88–657 (16
U.S.C. 535, commonly known as the National Forest
Roads and Trails Act), the Secretary of Agriculture may
not provide for amortization of road costs in any contract
with, or otherwise provide effective credit for road con-
struction to, any purchaser of national forest timber or
other forest products.
(b) CONSTRUCTION
OF ROADS
BY TIMBER PUR-
CHASERS.—Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture makes
a determination that a forest development road referred
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to in subsection (a) shall be constructed or paid for, in
whole or in part, by a purchaser of national forest timber
or other forest products, the Secretary shall include notice
of the determination in the notice of sale of the timber
or other forest products. The notice of sale shall contain,
or announce the availability of, sufficient information re-
lated to the road described in the notice to permit a pro-
spective bidder on the sale to calculate the likely cost that
would be incurred by the bidder to construct or finance
the construction of the road so that the bidder may reflect
such cost in the bid.
(c) SPECIAL ELECTION BY SMALL BUSINESS CON-
CERNS.—(1) A notice of sale referred to in subsection (b)
shall give a purchaser of national forest timber or other
forest products that qualifies as a ‘‘small business con-
cern’’ under the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et
seq.), and regulations issued thereunder, the option to
elect that the Secretary of Agriculture build the road de-
scribed in the notice. The Secretary shall provide the small
business concern with an estimate of the cost that would
be incurred by the Secretary to construct the road on be-
half of the small business concern. The notice of sale shall
also include the date on which the road described in the
notice will be completed by the Secretary if the election
is made.
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(2) If the election referred to in paragraph (1) is
made, the purchaser of the national forest timber or other
forest products shall pay to the Secretary of Agriculture,
in addition to the price paid for the timber or other forest
products, an amount equal to the estimated cost of the
road which otherwise would be paid by the purchaser as
provided in the notice of sale. Pending receipt of such
amount, the Secretary may use receipts from the sale of
national forest timber or other forest products to accom-
plish the requested road construction.
(d) POST CONSTRUCTION HARVESTING.—In each
sale of national forest timber or other forest products re-
ferred to in this section, the Secretary of Agriculture is
encouraged to authorize harvest of the timber or other for-
est products in a unit included in the sale as soon as road
work for that unit is completed and the road work is ap-
proved by the Secretary.
(e) CONSTRUCTION STANDARD.—For any forest de-
velopment road that is to be constructed or paid for by
a purchaser of national forest timber or other forest prod-
ucts, the Secretary of Agriculture may not require the pur-
chaser to design, construct, or maintain the road (or pay
for the design, construction, or maintenance of the road)
to a standard higher than the standard, consistent with
applicable environmental laws and regulations, that is suf-
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ficient for the harvesting and removal of the timber or
other forest products, unless the Secretary bears that part
of the cost necessary to meet the higher standard.
(f) TREATMENT OF ROAD VALUE.—For any forest
development road that is constructed or paid for by a pur-
chaser of national forest timber or other forest products,
the appraised value of the road construction shall be con-
sidered to be money received for purposes of the payments
required to be made under the sixth paragraph under the
heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ in the Act of May 23,
1908 (35 Stat. 260, 16 U.S.C. 500), and section 13 of
the Act of March 1, 1911 (35 Stat. 963; commonly known
as the Weeks Act; 16 U.S.C. 500). To the extent that the
appraised value of road construction determined under
this subsection reflects funds contributed by the Secretary
of Agriculture to build the road to a higher standard pur-
suant to subsection (e), the Secretary shall modify the ap-
praisal of the road construction to exclude the effect of
the Federal funds.
(g) EFFECTIVE DATE.—(1) This section and the re-
quirements of this section shall take effect (and apply
thereafter) upon the earlier of—
(A) March 1, 1999; and
(B) the date that is the later of—
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(i) the effective date of regulations issued
by the Secretary of Agriculture to implement
this section; and
(ii) the date on which a new standard tim-
ber sale contract, which is designed to imple-
ment this section and has been published for
public comment, is approved by the Secretary.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), any sale of na-
tional forest timber or other forest products for which no-
tice of sale is provided before the effective date of this
section, and any effective purchaser road credit earned
pursuant to a contract resulting from such a notice of sale
or otherwise earned before that effective date, shall con-
tinue to be subject to section 4 of Public Law 88–657 and
section 14(i) of the National Forest Management Act of
1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a(i)), and rules issued thereunder,
as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment
of this Act.
SEC. 331. Section 6(b)(1)(B)(iii) of the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 955(b)(1)(B)(iii)) is amended by striking
‘‘One’’ and inserting ‘‘Two’’.
SEC. 332. (a) CONDITIONAL EFFECTIVE DATE.—
This section shall take effect only if the Energy and Water
Development Appropriations Act, 1999, does not appro-
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priate at least $6,000,000 in new funds for the manage-
ment by the Tennessee Valley Authority of the Land Be-
tween the Lakes National Recreation Area in the States
of Kentucky and Tennessee.
(b) TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION, LAND BETWEEN
THE LAKES NATIONAL RECREATION AREA.—The Ten-
nessee Valley Authority shall transfer, without reimburse-
ment, the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation
Area to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of
Agriculture.
(c) MANAGEMENT.—Upon the transfer of jurisdiction
under subsection (b), the Land Between the Lakes Na-
tional Recreation Area, hereinafter Recreation Area, is es-
tablished as a unit of the National Forest System, and
the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of
the Forest Service, shall administer the Recreation Area
in accordance with this section and (except as provided
in subsection (d)) the laws, rules, and regulations pertain-
ing to the National Forest System. Except as provided in
subsection (d), land within the Recreation Area shall have
the status of land acquired under the Act of March 1,
1911 (commonly known as the Weeks Act; 16 U.S.C. 515
et seq.). The Secretary shall manage the Recreation Area
for multiple use as a unit of the National Forest System,
in conjunction with the original mission statement of the
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Recreation Area emphasizing outdoor recreation, environ-
mental education, fish and wildlife conservation, and re-
gional development. The Secretary shall conduct an inven-
tory of all cemeteries located in the Recreation Area and
ensure public access to such cemeteries for purposes of
burials, visitation and maintenance.
(d) FEES AND OTHER CHARGES.—The Secretary of
Agriculture may charge reasonable fees for admission to
and the use of designated sites in the Recreation Area or
for activities in the Recreation Area. No general entrance
fees shall be charged within the Recreation Area. Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, all amounts received
from charges, user fees, and natural resource utilization,
including timber and agricultural receipts, arising from
the Recreation Area shall be deposited in a special fund
in the Treasury to be known as the ‘‘Land Between the
Lakes Management Fund’’, which shall be available to the
Secretary, without subsequent appropriation, for the man-
agement of the Recreation Area, including the payment
of salaries and expenses.
(e) PAYMENTS.—Federal lands within the Recreation
Area shall be subject to the provisions for payments in
lieu of taxes under chapter 69 of title 31, United States
Code. Notwithstanding the transfer of jurisdiction, the
Tennessee Valley Authority shall continue to be respon-
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sible for payments under section 13 of the Tennessee Val-
ley Authority Act of 1933 (16 U.S.C. 831l).
(f) TRANSITION.—(1) The transfer of jurisdiction
under subsection (b) should be effected in an efficient and
cost-effective manner to minimize the disruption of the
personal lives of the Tennessee Valley Authority and For-
est Service employees affected by the transfer. Not later
than 30 days after the date on which this section takes
effect, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Tennessee Val-
ley Authority shall enter into a memorandum of agreement
to provide procedures for the orderly withdrawal or trans-
fer of officers and employees of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority, the transfer of property, fixtures, and facilities,
the interagency transfer of officers and employees, the
transfer of records, and such other transfer issues as the
Tennessee Valley Authority and the Secretary consider to
be appropriate. The agreement shall provide for a transi-
tion team consisting of Tennessee Valley Authority and
Forest Service employees.
(2) In order to provide for a cost-effective transfer
of the law enforcement responsibilities between the Forest
Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority, the law en-
forcement authorities designated under section 4A of the
Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (16 U.S.C. 831c–
3) are hereby granted to special agents and law enforce-
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ment officers of the Forest Service. The law enforcement
authorities designated under the eleventh undesignated
paragraph under the heading ‘‘SURVEYING THE PUBLIC
LANDS’’ of the Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 35; 16
U.S.C. 551), the first paragraph of that portion des-
ignated ‘‘GENERAL EXPENSES, FOREST SERVICE’’ of the
Act of March 3, 1905 (33 U.S.C. 873; 16 U.S.C. 559),
the National Forest System Drug Control Act of 1986 (16
U.S.C. 559b–559g) are hereby granted to law enforcement
agents of the Tennessee Valley Authority, within the
boundaries of the Recreation Area, for a period of 1 year
from the date on which this section takes effect.
(3) Unless terminated for cause, all permanent Ten-
nessee Valley Authority employees at the Recreation Area
shall be guaranteed employment by the Tennessee Valley
Authority for a minimum of five months following the date
on which this section takes effect. The Tennessee Valley
Authority shall provide affected employees of the Ten-
nessee Valley Authority at the Recreation Area with a sev-
erance/compensation package based on established prac-
tices of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Funding for the
activities prescribed for the Tennessee Valley Authority in
this section is to be derived only from one or more of the
following sources: nonpower fund balances and collections;
investment returns of the nonpower program; applied pro-
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grammatic savings in the power and nonpower programs;
savings from the suspension of bonuses and awards; sav-
ings from reductions in memberships and contributions;
increases in collections resulting from nonpower activities,
including user fees; or increases in charges to private and
public utilities both investor and cooperatively owned, as
well as to direct load customers. Such funds are available
to fund the activities under this paragraph, notwithstand-
ing section 11, 14, 15, 29, or other provisions of the Ten-
nessee Valley Authority Act, as amended, or provisions of
the TVA power bond covenants. The savings from, and
revenue adjustments to, the TVA budget in fiscal year
1999 and thereafter shall be sufficient to fund the afore-
mentioned activities such that the net spending authority
and resulting outlays for these activities shall not exceed
$0 in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter. Within 30 days of
enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the TVA shall sub-
mit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions an itemized list of the amounts of the proposed re-
duction and increased receipts to be made pursuant to this
section in fiscal year 1999. By November 1, 2000, the
Chairman of the TVA shall submit to the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations an itemized list of the
amounts of the reductions and increased receipts made
pursuant to this paragraph for fiscal year 1999.
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(g) ADVISORY BOARD.—Within 90 days after the
date on which this section takes effect, the Secretary of
Agriculture shall establish a 17-member citizen advisory
board to advise the Secretary on environmental education
in the Recreation Area and means of promoting public
participation for the land and resource management plan
for the Recreation Area.
SEC. 333. (a) Any appropriations contained in this
Act or any other Act for the operation or implementation
of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management
Project (hereinafter ‘‘Project’’) shall be obligated or ex-
pended only as provided in this section.
(b) Within 120 days of the date of enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the
Interior shall—
(1) prepare and submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Senate the report required by section 323(a) of
the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1998 (111 Stat. 1543, 1596–7),
including any additional information necessary to
correspond with the requirements of this section;
(2) distribute for advisory purposes to each na-
tional forest and each resource area or other rel-
evant planning unit of the Bureau of Land Manage-
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ment within the region encompassed by the Project
(hereinafter ‘‘Project forest’’) all relevant scientific
findings of the Project and the report required by
paragraph (1); and
(3) conduct and complete the orderly closing of
the offices of the Project.
(c)(1)(A) Within 90 days after the completion of the
requirements of subsection (b), each Forest Service Super-
visor of, or Bureau of Land Management official with ju-
risdiction over, a Project forest shall review the resource
management plan or other land use plan for the Project
forest (hereinafter ‘‘plan’’), and, as they may relate to the
specific resources and conditions existing on the Project
forest as of the date of enactment of this Act, the scientific
information and report provided pursuant to subsection
(b)(2) and any policies made applicable to the Project for-
est prior to the date of enactment of this Act, and deter-
mine whether an amendment to or revision of the plan
is warranted.
(B) If the determination is made pursuant to sub-
paragraph (A) that a plan amendment or revision is war-
ranted, preparation of the amendment or revision shall be
completed within 12 months or 18 months, respectively,
of the date of the determination.
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(2) To the maximum extent practicable, any plan
amendment or revision prepared pursuant to paragraph
(1)(B) shall provide for management standards appro-
priate to the specific conditions of individual sites and
avoid the imposition of general standards applicable to
multiple sites.
SEC. 334. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 1998
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the fourteenth
paragraph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of
the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501),
shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without re-
gard to the State in which the amounts were derived, to
repair or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National
Forest System lands or to carry out and administer
projects to improve forest health conditions, which may
include the repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and
trails on National Forest System lands in the wildland-
community interface where there is an abnormally high
risk of fire. The projects shall emphasize reducing risks
to human safety and public health and property and en-
hancing ecological functions, long-term forest productivity,
and biological integrity. The Secretary shall commence the
projects during fiscal year 1999, but the projects may be
completed in a subsequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be
expended under this section to replace funds which would
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otherwise appropriately be expended from the timber sal-
vage sale fund. Nothing in this section shall be construed
to exempt any project from any environmental law.
SEC. 335. Section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indem-
nity Act (20 U.S.C. 974) is amended—
(1) 
in 
subsection 
(b) 
by 
striking
‘‘$3,000,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$5,000,000,000’’;
(2) 
in 
subsection 
(c) 
by 
striking
‘‘$300,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$500,000,000’’;
(3) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subsection
(d)(4);
(4) 
in 
subsection 
(d)(5) 
by 
striking
‘‘$200,000,000 or more’’ and inserting ‘‘not less
than $200,000,000 but less than $300,000,000’’ and
by striking the final period and inserting a semi-
colon; and
(5) by inserting the following two new sub-
sections after subsection (d)(5):
‘‘(6) not less than $300,000,000 but less than
$400,000,000, then coverage under this chapter
shall extend only to loss or damage in excess of the
first $300,000 of loss or damage to items covered;
or
‘‘(7) $400,000,000 or more, then coverage
under this chapter shall extend only to loss or dam-
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age in excess of the first $400,000 of loss or damage
to items covered.’’.
TULARE CONVEYANCE
SEC. 336. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsections
(c) and (d), all conveyances to the Redevelopment Agency
of the City of Tulare, California, of lands described in sub-
section (b), heretofore or hereafter, made directly by the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, or its succes-
sors, are hereby validated to the extent that the convey-
ances would be legal or valid if all right, title, and interest
of the United States, except minerals, were held by the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company.
(b) LANDS DESCRIBED.—The lands referred to in
subsection (a) are the parcels shown on the map entitled
‘‘Tulare Redevelopment Agency-Railroad Parcels Pro-
posed to be Acquired’’, dated May 29, 1997, that formed
part of a railroad right-of-way granted to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, or its successors, agents, or as-
signs, by the Federal Government (including the right-of-
way approved by an Act of Congress on July 27, 1866).
The map referred to in this subsection shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the offices of the Director
of the Bureau of Land Management.
(c) PRESERVATION OF EXISTING RIGHTS OF AC-
CESS.—Nothing in this section shall impair any existing
rights of access in favor of the public or any owner of
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adjacent lands over, under or across the lands which are
referred to in subsection (a).
(d) MINERALS.—The United States disclaims any
and all right of surface entry to the mineral estate of lands
described in subsection (b).
SEC. 337. The final set of maps entitled ‘‘Coastal
Barrier Resources System’’, dated ‘‘October 24, 1990, re-
vised November 12, 1996’’, and relating to the following
units of the Coastal Barrier Resources System: P04A,
P05/P05P; P05A/P05AP, FL–06P; P10/P10P; P11;
P11AP; P11A; P18/P18P; P25/P25P; and P32/P32P
(which set of maps were created by the Department of
the Interior to comply with section 220 of Public Law
104–333, 110 Stat. 4115, and notice of which was pub-
lished in the Federal Register on May 28, 1997) shall have
the force and effect of law and replace and substitute for
any other inconsistent Coastal Barrier Resource System
map in the possession of the Department of the Interior.
This provision is effective immediately upon enactment of
this Act and the Secretary of the Interior or his designee
shall immediately make this ministerial substitution.
SEC. 338. Section 405(c)(2) of the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act (42 U.S.C. 1645(c)(2)) is amended
by striking ‘‘September 30, 1998’’ and inserting ‘‘Septem-
ber 30, 2000’’.
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SEC. 339. Section 3003 of the Petroleum Overcharge
Distribution and Restitution Act of 1986 (15 U.S.C.
4502) is amended by adding after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing new subsection:
‘‘(e) Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section are
repealed, and any rights that may have arisen are extin-
guished, on the date of the enactment of the Department
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1999. After that date, the amount available for direct res-
titution to current and future refined petroleum product
claimants under this Act is reduced by the amounts speci-
fied in title II of that Act as being derived from amounts
held in escrow under section 3002(d). The Secretary shall
assure that the amount remaining in escrow to satisfy re-
fined petroleum product claims for direct restitution is al-
located equitably among the claimants.’’.
SEC. 340. Section 123(a)(2)(C) of the Department
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1998 (111 Stat. 1566), is amended by striking ‘‘self-regu-
lated tribes such as’’.
SEC. 341. (a) MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL MANAGE-
MENT.—None of the funds made available to the Depart-
ment of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture by
this or any other Act hereafter enacted may be used prior
to October 1, 2000, to issue or implement final regula-
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tions, rules, or policies pursuant to title VIII of the Alaska
National Interest Lands Conservation Act to assert juris-
diction, management, or control over the navigable waters
transferred to the State of Alaska pursuant to the Sub-
merged Lands Act of 1953 or the Alaska Statehood Act
of 1959.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1997 ANILCA AMEND-
MENTS.—Section 316(d) of Public Law 105–83 is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘December 1, 1998’’ and inserting ‘‘Octo-
ber 1, 2000’’.
(c) REPEAL.—Subsections (a) and (b) shall be re-
pealed on December 1, 1998, unless on or before that date
an amendment to the constitution of the State of Alaska
has been adopted which the Secretary of the Interior has
determined would enable Alaska statutes to be enacted
which provide the priority required in section 804 of the
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16
U.S.C. 3114) in the taking on public lands of fish and
wildlife.
SEC. 342. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to establish a national wildlife refuge in
the Kankakee River watershed in northwestern Indiana
and northeastern Illinois.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 23, 1998.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.