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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery of Art,
the protection and care of the works of art therein, and administra-
tive expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March
24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of
April 13, 1939 (Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress),
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in
advance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for mem-
bership in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose
publications or services are available to members only, or to mem-
bers at a price lower than to the general public; purchase, repair,
and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uniforms, or allowances
therefor, for other employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–
5902); purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration,
improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds;
and purchase of services for restoration and repair of works of
art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without
advertising, with individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates
or prices and under such terms and conditions as the Gallery
may deem proper, $61,538,000, of which not to exceed $3,026,000
for the special exhibition program shall remain available until
expended.
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and renovation
of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occupied by the
National Gallery of Art, by contract or otherwise, as authorized,
$6,311,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
contracts awarded for environmental systems, protection systems,
and exterior repair or renovation of buildings of the National Gal-
lery of Art may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance and
security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
$14,000,000.
CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses for capital repair and rehabilitation
of the existing features of the building and site of the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, $20,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356) including
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hire of passenger vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, $6,790,000.
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation
on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended,
$85,000,000 shall be available to the National Endowment for the
Arts for the support of projects and productions in the arts through
assistance to organizations and individuals pursuant to sections
5(c) and 5(g) of the Act, for program support, and for administering
the functions of the Act, to remain available until expended.
MATCHING GRANTS
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as
amended, $13,000,000, to remain available until expended, to the
National Endowment for the Arts: Provided, That this appropriation
shall be available for obligation only in such amounts as may
be equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises of
money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by grantees
of the Endowment under the provisions of section 10(a)(2), sub-
sections 11(a)(2)(A) and 11(a)(3)(A) during the current and preceding
fiscal years for which equal amounts have not previously been
appropriated.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation
on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended,
$101,000,000, shall be available to the National Endowment for
the Humanities for support of activities in the humanities, pursuant
to section 7(c) of the Act, and for administering the functions
of the Act, to remain available until expended.
MATCHING GRANTS
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as
amended, $14,700,000, to remain available until expended, of which
$10,700,000 shall be available to the National Endowment for the
Humanities for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That this
appropriation shall be available for obligation only in such amounts
as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises
of money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by
grantees of the Endowment under the provisions of subsections
11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal
years for which equal amounts have not previously been appro-
priated.
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INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
OFFICE OF MUSEUM SERVICES
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For carrying out subtitle C of the Museum and Library Services
Act of 1996, as amended, $24,400,000, to remain available until
expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
None of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation
on the Arts and the Humanities may be used to process any grant
or contract documents which do not include the text of 18 U.S.C.
1913: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated to the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That funds
from nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for official
reception and representation expenses.
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commis-
sion of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $1,005,000: Provided, That the
Commission is authorized to charge fees to cover the full costs
of its publications, and such fees shall be credited to this account
as an offsetting collection, to remain available until expended with-
out further appropriation.
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99–190
(20 U.S.C. 956(a)), as amended, $7,000,000.
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation (Public Law 89–665, as amended), $3,000,000: Pro-
vided, That none of these funds shall be available for compensation
of level V of the Executive Schedule or higher positions.
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the National Capital
Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i), including services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $6,312,000: Provided, That all
appointed members will be compensated at a rate not to exceed
the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule.
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UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Council, as authorized
by Public Law 96–388 (36 U.S.C. 1401), as amended, $33,286,000,
of which $1,575,000 for the museum’s repair and rehabilitation
program and $1,264,000 for the museum’s exhibitions program shall
remain available until expended.
PRESIDIO TRUST
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omnibus
Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, $24,400,000
shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to remain available until
expended, of which up to $1,040,000 may be for the cost of guaran-
teed loans, as authorized by section 104(d) of the Act: Provided,
That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall
be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not
to exceed $200,000,000. The Trust is authorized to issue obligations
to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 104(d)(3)
of the Act, in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. The expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where
such expenditures are a matter of public record and available
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under
existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant
to existing law.
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation under this Act shall
be available to the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of
Agriculture for the leasing of oil and natural gas by noncompetitive
bidding on publicly owned lands within the boundaries of the
Shawnee National Forest, Illinois: Provided, That nothing herein
is intended to inhibit or otherwise affect the sale, lease, or right
to access to minerals owned by private individuals.
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall be available for any activity or the publication or distribution
of literature that in any way tends to promote public support
or opposition to any legislative proposal on which congressional
action is not complete.
SEC. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year
unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 305. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal
cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or
employee of such department or agency except as otherwise provided
by law.
SEC. 306. No assessments may be levied against any program,
budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act unless
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advance notice of such assessments and the basis therefor are
presented to the Committees on Appropriations and are approved
by such committees.
SEC. 307. (a) COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN ACT.—None
of the funds made available in this Act may be expended by an
entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the funds the
entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March
3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c; popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American
Act’’).
(b) SENSE
OF
THE
CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT
REGARDING
NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND PROD-
UCTS.—In the case of any equipment or product that may
be authorized to be purchased with financial assistance pro-
vided using funds made available in this Act, it is the sense
of the Congress that entities receiving the assistance should,
in expending 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 agency 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 inten-
tionally affixed a label bearing 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 contract or
subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant
to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures described
in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
(d) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—The provisions of this section are
applicable in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter.
SEC. 308. None of the funds in this Act may be used to plan,
prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified 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 1999.
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 otherwise 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 appropriate 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 otherwise made available
by this Act may be used for the AmeriCorps programs.
SEC. 311. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jersey City, New
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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 generally accepted safety standards.
SEC. 312. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the funds appro-
priated 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 Sec-
retary 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.
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2000, the Secretary of the
Interior shall file with the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations and the Committee on Resources of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
of the Senate a report 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 examina-
tion of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent applica-
tion 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. 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, 105–83, and 105–277 for
payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract support
costs associated with self-determination or self-governance con-
tracts, 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 1999 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-governance compacts or annual funding agreements.
SEC. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal
year 2000 the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior are author-
ized to limit competition for watershed restoration project contracts
as part of the ‘‘Jobs in the Woods’’ component of the President’s
Forest Plan for the Pacific Northwest or the Jobs in the Woods
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Program established in Region 10 of the Forest Service to individ-
uals and entities in historically timber-dependent areas in the
States of Washington, Oregon, northern California and Alaska that
have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Federal lands.
SEC. 315. None of the funds collected under the Recreational
Fee Demonstration program may be used to plan, design, or con-
struct a visitor center or any other permanent structure without
prior approval of the House and the Senate Committees on Appro-
priations if the estimated total cost of the facility exceeds $500,000.
SEC. 316. (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 nominations for the designation of Biosphere
Reserves pursuant to the Man and Biosphere program administered
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be repealed upon the
enactment of subsequent legislation specifically authorizing United
States participation in the Man and Biosphere program.
SEC. 317. None of the funds made available in this or any
other Act for any fiscal year may be used to designate, or to
post any sign designating, any portion of Canaveral National Sea-
shore in Brevard County, Florida, as a clothing-optional area or
as an area in which public nudity is permitted, if such designation
would be contrary to county ordinance.
SEC. 318. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment
for the Arts—
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an indi-
vidual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a lit-
erature fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or American
Jazz Masters Fellowship.
(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 activity 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. 319. The National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities are authorized 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 Endow-
ment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Any proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after acceptance
by the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities, shall be paid by the donor or the rep-
resentative of the donor to the Chairman. 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. 320. (a) In providing services or awarding financial assist-
ance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Human-
ities Act of 1965 from funds appropriated under this Act, the
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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, including urban minorities, who have historically
been outside the purview of arts and humanities programs
due to factors such as a high incidence of income below the
poverty line or to geographic isolation.
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty line (as
defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and revised
annually in accordance with section 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 assistance
under the National Foundation on the Arts and 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 services or awarding financial assistance for
projects, productions, 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 Humanities Act
of 1965—
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant category for
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that are of
national impact or availability or are able to tour several States;
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants exceeding 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 Congress annually
and by State, on grants awarded by the Chairperson in each
grant category under section 5 of such Act; and
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of grants to
improve and support community-based music performance and
education.
SEC. 321. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall be expended or obligated to fund new revisions of national
forest land management plans until new final or interim final
rules for forest land management planning are published in the
Federal Register. Those national forests which are currently in
a revision process, having formally published a Notice of Intent
to revise prior to October 1, 1997; those national forests having
been court-ordered to revise; those national forests where plans
reach the 15 year legally mandated date to revise before or during
calendar year 2000; national forests within the Interior Columbia
Basin Ecosystem study area; and the White Mountain National
Forest are exempt from this section and may use funds in this
Act and proceed to complete the forest plan revision in accordance
with current forest planning regulations.
SEC. 322. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall be expended or obligated to complete and issue the 5-year
program under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources
Planning Act.
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SEC. 323. None of the funds in this Act may be used to support
Government-wide administrative functions unless such functions
are justified in the budget process and funding is approved by
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 324. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none
of the funds in this Act may be used for GSA Telecommunication
Centers or the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
SEC. 325. 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. 326. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none
of the funds provided in this Act to the Indian Health Service
or Bureau of Indian Affairs 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 activities not previously covered by such con-
tracts, compacts or grants. Nothing in this section precludes the
continuation of those specific activities for which self-determination
and self-governance contracts, compacts and grants currently exist
or the renewal of contracts, compacts and grants for those activities;
implementation of section 325 of Public Law 105–83 (111 Stat.
1597); or compliance with 25 U.S.C. 2005.
SEC. 327. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 1999 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 regard 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 empha-
size reducing risks to human safety and public health and property
and enhancing ecological functions, long-term forest productivity,
and biological integrity. The Secretary shall commence the projects
during fiscal year 2000, but the projects may be completed in
a subsequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended under this
section to replace funds which would otherwise appropriately be
expended from the timber salvage sale fund. Nothing in this section
shall be construed to exempt any project from any environmental
law.
SEC. 328. 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.
SEC. 329. None of the funds provided in this or previous appro-
priations Acts for the agencies funded by this Act or provided
from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this
Act, shall be transferred to or used to support the Council on
Environmental Quality or other offices in the Executive Office of
the President for purposes related to the American Heritage Rivers
program.
SEC. 330. Other than in emergency situations, none of the
funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone answering
machines during core business hours unless such answering