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(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this
section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this
Act.
SEC. 1206. ALASKA EXEMPTION FROM DYEING REQUIRE-
MENTS.
(a) EXCEPTION TO DYEING REQUIREMENTS FOR EX-
EMPT DIESEL FUEL AND KEROSENE.—Paragraph (1) of
section 4082(c) (relating to exception to dyeing require-
ments) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(1) removed, entered, or sold in the State of
Alaska for ultimate sale or use in such State, and’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this
section applies with respect to fuel removed, entered, or sold
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 1207. EXTENSION OF EXPENSING OF ENVIRONMENTAL
REMEDIATION COSTS.
(a) EXTENSION OF TERMINATION DATE.—Subsection
(h) of section 198 is amended by striking ‘‘December 31,
2000’’ and inserting ‘‘June 30, 2004’’.
(b) 
EXPANSION
OF
QUALIFIED
CONTAMINATED
SITE.—Section 198(c) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(c) QUALIFIED CONTAMINATED SITE.—For purposes
of this section—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘qualified contami-
nated site’ means any area—
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renovation of existing schools or the construction of
new schools.
(6) An estimate of the cost of needed improve-
ments, and a recommended source of funding within
the Department of Defense.
SEC. 127. The first proviso under the heading ‘‘MILI-
TARY CONSTRUCTION TRANSFER FUND’’ in chapter
6 of title II of the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appro-
priations Act (Public Law 106–31) is amended by inserting
‘‘and to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security
Investment Program as provided in section 2806 of title
10, United States Code’’ after ‘‘to military construction ac-
counts’’.
SEC. 128. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no funds appropriated or otherwise made available by
this Act may be used to carry out conveyance of land at
the former Fort Sheridan, Illinois, unless such conveyance
is consistent with a regional agreement among the commu-
nities and jurisdictions in the vicinity of Fort Sheridan
and in accordance with section 2862 of the 1996 Defense
Authorization Act (division B of Public Law 104–106; 110
Stat. 573).
(b) The land referred to in paragraph (a) is a parcel
of real property, including any improvements thereon, lo-
cated at the former Fort Sheridan, Illinois, consisting of
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approximately 14 acres, and known as the northern Army
Reserve enclave area, that is covered by the authority in
section 2862 of the 1996 Defense Authorization Act and has
not been conveyed pursuant to that authority as to the date
of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 129. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no funds appropriated or otherwise made available by
this Act or any other Act may be obligated or expended for
any purpose relating to the construction at Bluegrass Army
Depot, Kentucky, of any facility employing a specific tech-
nology for the demilitarization of assembled chemical muni-
tions until the date on which the Secretary of Defense sub-
mits to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and
House of Representatives a report on the results of the com-
pleted demonstration of the six alternatives to baseline in-
cineration for the destruction of chemical agents and muni-
tions as identified by the Program Evaluation Team of the
Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment program.
(b) In order to provide funding for the completion of
the demonstration of alternatives referred to in subsection
(a), the Secretary shall utilize the authority in section 8127
of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999
(Public Law 105–262; 112 Stat. 2333) in accordance with
the provisions of that section.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Construction
Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 13, 1999.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate July 14, 1999.
Attest:
GARY SISCO,
Secretary.
II
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2465
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 14, 1999
Received
AN ACT
Making appropriations for military construction, family hous-
ing, and base realignment and closure for the Depart-
ment of Defense for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2000, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
military construction, family housing, and base realign-
ment and closure functions administered by the Depart-
ment of Defense, for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2000, and for other purposes, namely:
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equip-
ment of temporary or permanent public works, military
installations, facilities, and real property for the Army as
currently authorized by law, including personnel in the
Army Corps of Engineers and other personal services nec-
essary for the purposes of this appropriation, and for con-
struction and operation of facilities in support of the func-
tions of the Commander in Chief, $1,223,405,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2004: Provided, That
of this amount, not to exceed $87,205,000 shall be avail-
able for study, planning, design, architect and engineer
services, and host nation support, as authorized by law,
unless the Secretary of Defense determines that additional
obligations are necessary for such purposes and notifies
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress of his determination and the reasons therefor.
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equip-
ment of temporary or permanent public works, naval in-
stallations, facilities, and real property for the Navy as
currently authorized by law, including personnel in the
Naval Facilities Engineering Command and other per-
sonal services necessary for the purposes of this appropria-
tion, $968,862,000, to remain available until September
30, 2004: Provided, That of this amount, not to exceed
$65,010,000 shall be available for study, planning, design,
architect and engineer services, as authorized by law, un-
less the Secretary of Defense determines that additional
obligations are necessary for such purposes and notifies
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress of his determination and the reasons therefor.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equip-
ment of temporary or permanent public works, military
installations, facilities, and real property for the Air Force
as currently authorized by law, $752,367,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2004: Provided, That of this
amount, not to exceed $32,104,000 shall be available for
study, planning, design, architect and engineer services,
as authorized by law, unless the Secretary of Defense de-
termines that additional obligations are necessary for such
their practices with respect to data management for both
researchers and institutional review boards, as well as cur-
rent and proposed protection of health information in rela-
tion to the legitimate needs of law enforcement. The Coun-
cil shall prepare and submit to Congress a report con-
cerning the results of such study.
SEC. 404. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as provided in sub-
section (b), this Act shall take effect on the date that is
12 months after the date on which regulations are promul-
gated as required under subsection (c).
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The provisions of this Act shall
only apply to protected health information collected and
disclosed 12 months after the date on which regulations
are promulgated as required under subsection (c).
(c) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 12 months after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall, in
consultation with the National Committee on Vital and
Health Statistics, promulgate regulations implementing
this Act.
(d) EXCEPTION.—If, not later than 18 months after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary has not
promulgated the regulations required under subsection (c),
the effective date for purposes of subsections (a) and (b)
shall be the date that is 30 months after the date of enact-
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to properly characterize any income, gain, ex-
pense, or loss arising from a transaction—
‘‘(i) which is a hedging transaction but
which was not identified as such in accord-
ance with subsection (a)(7), or
‘‘(ii) which was so identified but is not
a hedging transaction.
‘‘(3) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall pre-
scribe such regulations as are appropriate to carry
out the purposes of paragraph (6) and (7) of sub-
section (a) in the case of transactions involving re-
lated parties.’’.
(b) MANAGEMENT OF RISK.—
(1) Section 475(c)(3) is amended by striking ‘‘re-
duces’’ and inserting ‘‘manages’’.
(2) Section 871(h)(4)(C)(iv) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘to reduce’’ and inserting ‘‘to manage’’.
(3) Clauses (i) and (ii) of section 988(d)(2)(A)
are each amended by striking ‘‘to reduce’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘to manage’’.
(4) Paragraph (2) of section 1256(e) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(2) DEFINITION OF HEDGING TRANSACTION.—
For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘hedging
transaction’ means any hedging transaction (as de-
conduct inquiries into the economic conditions affecting
mining and materials processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3,
21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes
as authorized by law and to publish and disseminate data,
$820,444,000, of which $60,856,000 shall be available
only for cooperation with States or municipalities for
water resources investigations; and of which $16,400,000
shall remain available until expended for conducting in-
quiries into the economic conditions affecting mining and
materials 
processing 
industries; 
and 
of 
which
$137,674,000 shall be available until September 30, 2001
for the biological research activity and the operation of
the Cooperative Research Units: Provided, That none of
these funds provided for the biological research activity
shall be used to conduct new surveys on private property,
unless specifically authorized in writing by the property
owner: Provided further, That no part of this appropria-
tion shall be used to pay more than one-half the cost of
topographic mapping or water resources data collection
and investigations carried on in cooperation with States
and municipalities.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amount appropriated for the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall be available for the purchase of not
to exceed 53 passenger motor vehicles, of which 48 are
for replacement only; reimbursement to the General Serv-
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would (but for section 106(b)) be includible in the
taxpayer’s gross income for such taxable year.’’.
(e) REDUCTION
OF
PERMITTED
DEDUCTIBLES
UNDER HIGH DEDUCTIBLE HEALTH PLANS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (A) of section
220(c)(2) (defining high deductible health plan) is
amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘$1,500’’ in clause (i) and
inserting ‘‘$1,000’’, and
(B) by striking ‘‘$3,000’’ in clause (ii) and
inserting ‘‘$2,000’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (g)
of section 220 is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(g) COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In the case of any taxable
year beginning in a calendar year after 1998, each
dollar amount in subsection (c)(2) shall be increased
by an amount equal to—
‘‘(A) such dollar amount, multiplied by
‘‘(B) the cost-of-living adjustment deter-
mined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar
year in which such taxable year begins by sub-
stituting ‘calendar year 1997’ for ‘calendar year
1992’ in subparagraph (B) thereof.
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in section 301(3) of Public Law 91–646) except for con-
demnations, declarations of taking, and lands with ap-
praised value of $50,000 or less.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be
available for the purchase of not to exceed 384 passenger
motor vehicles, of which 298 shall be for replacement only,
including not to exceed 312 for police-type use, 12 buses,
and 6 ambulances: Provided, That none of the funds ap-
propriated to the National Park Service may be used to
process any grant or contract documents which do not in-
clude the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That
none of the funds appropriated to the National Park Serv-
ice may be used to implement an agreement for the rede-
velopment of the southern end of Ellis Island until such
agreement has been submitted to the Congress and shall
not be implemented prior to the expiration of 30 calendar
days (not including any day in which either House of Con-
gress is not in session because of adjournment of more
than three 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 and comprehensive report
on the development of the southern end of Ellis Island,
including the facts and circumstances relied upon in sup-
port of the proposed project.
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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 sec-
ond 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 treat-
ments funded by this account shall be deposited into the
Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund.
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),
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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 improve-
ments 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: Pro-
vided, 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 processing application documents and other authoriza-
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources,
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-
nation 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 amend-
ed, and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, 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 appropriate
for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43
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U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended
under the authority of this Act by the Secretary to im-
prove, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands adminis-
tered 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 ac-
tion 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, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted 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 dismantle-
ment of temporary structures, and alteration and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to
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which the United States has title; up to $100,000 for pay-
ments, at the discretion of the Secretary, for information
or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by
the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of en-
forcement activities authorized or approved by the Sec-
retary 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-shar-
ing and partnership arrangements authorized by law, pro-
cure printing services from cooperators in connection with
jointly produced publications for which the cooperators
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, con-
servation, management, investigations, protection, and
utilization of fishery and wildlife 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
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and reimbursable agreements with public and private enti-
ties, $710,700,000, to remain available until September
30, 2001, except as otherwise provided herein, of which
$11,701,000 shall remain available until expended for op-
eration and maintenance of fishery mitigation facilities
constructed by the Corps of Engineers under the Lower
Snake River Compensation Plan, authorized by the Water
Resources Development 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 governments in
southern California for planning associated with the Nat-
ural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) pro-
gram 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 $6,532,000
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 subsections
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii): Provided further,
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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 infor-
mation, rewards, or evidence concerning violations of laws
administered by the Service, and miscellaneous and emer-
gency expenses of enforcement activity, authorized or ap-
proved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on
his certificate: Provided further, That of the amount pro-
vided for environmental contaminants, up to $1,000,000
may remain available until expended for contaminant sam-
ple analyses: Provided further, That hereafter, all fines col-
lected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for violations
of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1362–
1407) and implementing regulations shall be available to
the Secretary, without further appropriation, to be used
for the expenses of the U.S. 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 reim-
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bursable agreements with any State, local, or tribal gov-
ernment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may, without
regard to 31 U.S.C. 1341 and notwithstanding 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 origi-
nal request by the Service for payment.
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 inter-
ests therein, $43,933,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
$42,000,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund and to remain available until expended.
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COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION
FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531–
1543), as amended, $15,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $10,779,000.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public
Law 101–233, as amended, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND APPRECIATION FUND
For necessary expenses of the Wildlife Conservation
and Appreciation Fund, $800,000, to remain available
until expended.
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201–4203, 4211–
4213, 4221–4225, 4241–4245, and 1538), the Asian Ele-
phant Conservation Act of 1997 (Public Law 105–96, 16
U.S.C. 4261–4266), and the Rhinoceros and Tiger Con-
servation 
Act 
of 
1994 
(16 
U.S.C. 
5301–5306),
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,