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CONSTRUCTION
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails,
and appurtenant facilities, $11,425,000, to remain available until
expended.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20,
1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907), $135,000,000, of which
not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to otherwise
eligible units of local government if the computed amount of the
payment is less than $100.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, and
318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administrative expenses
and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, $15,500,000,
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to
remain available until expended.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For expenses necessary for management, protection, and
development of resources and for construction, operation, and
maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and other improvements
on the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands, on
other Federal lands in the Oregon and California land-grant coun-
ties of Oregon, and on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of
lands or interests therein including existing connecting roads on
or adjacent to such grant lands; $99,225,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Oregon
and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made a charge against
the Oregon and California land-grant fund and shall be transferred
to the general fund in the Treasury in accordance with the second
paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 28,
1937 (50 Stat. 876).
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 102–
381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem Health and
Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of planning, preparing,
and monitoring salvage timber sales and forest ecosystem health
and recovery activities such as release from competing vegetation
and density control treatments. The Federal share of receipts
(defined as the portion of salvage timber receipts not paid to the
counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–1 et seq.,
and Public Law 103–66) derived from treatments funded by this
account shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health and
Recovery Fund.
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RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and
interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant
to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwithstanding any other Act, sums
equal to 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior fiscal
year under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C.
315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improvements
from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior pursuant
to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available
for administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related to proc-
essing application documents and other authorizations for use and
disposal of public lands and resources, for costs of providing copies
of official public land documents, for monitoring construction, oper-
ation, and termination of facilities in conjunction with use
authorizations, and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such
amounts as may be collected under Public Law 94–579, as amended,
and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section
305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that
have been or will be received pursuant to that section, whether
as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appro-
priate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C.
1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under the
authority of this Act by the Secretary to improve, protect, or
rehabilitate any public lands administered through the Bureau
of Land Management which have been damaged by the action
of a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized
person, without regard to whether all moneys collected from each
such action are used on the exact lands damaged which led to
the action: Provided further, That any such moneys that are in
excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land
for which funds were collected may be used to repair other damaged
public lands.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under
existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as may
be contributed under section 307 of the Act of October 21, 1976
(43 U.S.C. 1701), and such amounts as may be advanced for
administrative costs, surveys, appraisals, and costs of making
conveyances of omitted lands under section 211(b) of that Act,
to remain available until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management shall be
available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary
structures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary buildings
and appurtenant facilities to which the United States has title;
up to $100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary,
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for information or evidence concerning violations of laws adminis-
tered by the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of
enforcement activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and
to be accounted for solely on his certificate, not to exceed $10,000:
Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Bureau may,
under cooperative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements
authorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators in
connection with jointly produced publications for which the coopera-
tors share the cost of printing either in cash or in services, and
the Bureau determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted
quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, for scientific and economic studies, conservation, manage-
ment, investigations, protection, and utilization of fishery and wild-
life resources, except whales, seals, and sea lions, maintenance
of the herd of long-horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife
Refuge, general administration, and for the performance of other
authorized functions related to such resources by direct expenditure,
contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable agree-
ments with public and private entities, $716,046,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2001, except as otherwise provided
herein, of which $11,701,000 shall remain available until expended
for operation and maintenance of fishery mitigation facilities con-
structed by the Corps of Engineers under the Lower Snake River
Compensation Plan, authorized by the Water Resources Develop-
ment Act of 1976, to compensate for loss of fishery resources from
water development projects on the Lower Snake River, and of
which not less than $2,000,000 shall be provided to local govern-
ments in southern California for planning associated with the Nat-
ural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) program and
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That not less
than $1,000,000 for high priority projects which shall be carried
out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by the Act
of August 13, 1970, as amended: Provided further, That not to
exceed $6,232,000 shall be used for implementing subsections (a),
(b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species Act, as
amended, for species that are indigenous to the United States
(except for processing petitions, developing and issuing proposed
and final regulations, and taking any other steps to implement
actions described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii):
Provided further, That of the amount available for law enforcement,
up to $400,000 to remain available until expended, may at the
discretion of the Secretary, be used for payment for information,
rewards, or evidence concerning violations of laws administered
by the Service, and miscellaneous and emergency expenses of
enforcement activity, authorized or approved by the Secretary and
to be accounted for solely on his certificate: Provided further, That
of the amount provided for environmental contaminants, up to
$1,000,000 may remain available until expended for contaminant
sample analyses: Provided further, That hereafter, all fines collected
by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for violations of
the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1362–1407) and
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implementing regulations shall be available to the Secretary, with-
out further appropriation, to be used for the expenses of the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service in administering activities for
the protection and recovery of manatees, polar bears, sea otters,
and walruses, and shall remain available until expended: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal
year 1999 and thereafter, sums provided by private entities for
activities pursuant to reimbursable agreements shall be credited
to the ‘‘Resource Management’’ account and shall remain available
until expended: Provided further, That, heretofore and hereafter,
in carrying out work under reimbursable agreements with any
State, local, or tribal government, the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service may, without regard to 31 U.S.C. 1341 and notwith-
standing any other provision of law or regulation, record obligations
against accounts receivable from such entities, and shall credit
amounts received from such entities to this appropriation, such
credit to occur within 90 days of the date of the original request
by the Service for payment: Provided further, That all funds received
by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from responsible
parties, heretofore and hereafter, for site-specific damages to
National Wildlife Refuge System lands resulting from the exercise
of privately-owned oil and gas rights associated with such lands
in the States of Louisiana and Texas (other than damages recover-
able under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensa-
tion and Liability Act (26 U.S.C. 4611 et seq.), the Oil Pollution
Act (33 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.), or section 311 of the Clean Water
Act (33 U.S.C. 1321 et seq.)), shall be available to the Secretary,
without further appropriation and until expended to: (1) complete
damage assessments of the impacted site by the Secretary; (2)
mitigate or restore the damaged resources; and (3) monitor and
study the recovery of such damaged resources.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction and acquisition of buildings and other facilities
required in the conservation, management, investigation, protection,
and utilization of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisition
of lands and interests therein; $54,583,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, a single procurement for the construction of facilities at
the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge may be issued which
includes the full scope of the project: Provided further, That the
solicitation and the contract shall contain the clauses ‘‘availability
of funds’’ found at 48 CFR 52.232.18.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through
11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of land
or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority
applicable to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
$50,513,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation
Fund and to remain available until expended.