Calendar No. 166
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2520
[Report No. 103–114]
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Department of the
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1994, and for other pur-
poses.
JULY 20 (legislative day, June 30), 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on
Appropriations
JULY 28 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Reported with amendments
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Calendar No. 166
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2520
[Report No. 103–114]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 20 (legislative day, June 30), 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations
JULY 28 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Reported by Mr. BYRD, with amendments
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1994, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES
For expenses necessary for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classifica-
tion, and performance of other functions, including mainte-
nance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management
of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the
Bureau of Land Management, including the general admin-
istration of the Bureau of Land Management, $604,415,000,
of which the following amounts shall remain available until
expended: not to exceed $1,462,000 to be derived from the
special receipt account established by section 4 of the Land
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)), and $69,418,000 for the Automated
Land and Mineral Record System Project: Provided, That
appropriations herein made shall not be available for the
destruction of healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros
in the care of the Bureau of Land Management or its con-
tractors; and in addition, $15,300,000 for Mining Law Ad-
ministration program operations to remain available
through September 30, 1994, to be reduced by amounts col-
lected by the Bureau of Land Management and credited to
this appropriation from annual mining claim fees so as
to result in a final fiscal year 1994 appropriation estimated
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at not more than $604,415,000: Provided further, That in
addition to funds otherwise available, not to exceed
$5,000,000 from annual mining claim fees shall be credited
to this account for the costs of administering the mining
claim fee program, and shall remain available until ex-
pended.
FIRE PROTECTION
For necessary expenses for fire management, emer-
gency rehabilitation, fire presuppression and prepared-
ness, and other related emergency actions by the Depart-
ment of the Interior, $117,143,000, to remain available
until expended.
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FIREFIGHTING FUND
For 
emergency 
rehabilitation, 
severity 
presup-
pression, and wildfire suppression activities of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, $116,674,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That such funds also are avail-
able for repayment of advances to other appropriation ac-
counts from which funds were previously transferred for
such purposes: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, persons hired pursuant to 43
U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging
without cost from funds available from this appropriation:
Provided further, That only amounts for emergency reha-
bilitation and wildfire suppression activities that are in ex-
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cess of the average of such costs for the previous ten years
shall be considered ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS
For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and
construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails,
and appurtenant facilities, $10,817,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976 (31 U.S.C. 6901–07), $104,108,000, of
which not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for admin-
istrative expenses.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of sections 205, 206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579
including administrative expenses and acquisition of lands
or waters, or interests therein, $14,877,000 $8,177,000,
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation
Fund, to remain available until expended; and, in addi-
tion, for activities authorized under Public Law 102–259
to be carried out by the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and
Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation,
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For expenses necessary for management, protection,
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein including existing connecting roads on or
adjacent to such grant lands; $83,052,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That 25 per centum
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 landgrant fund and shall be transferred to
the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the
provisions of the second paragraph of subsection (b) of
title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands
and interests therein, and improvement of Federal range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwith-
standing any other Act, sums equal to 50 per centum of
all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sec-
tions 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315
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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 $10,025,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That not to ex-
ceed $600,000 shall be available for administrative ex-
penses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related to
processing 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, operation, and termination of fa-
cilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for re-
habilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be
collected under sections 209(b), 304(a), 304(b), 305(a), and
504(g) of the Act approved October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1701), and sections 101 and 203 of Public Law 93–153,
to be immediately available until expended: Provided, That
notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section
305(a) of the Act of October 21, 1976 (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, com-
promise, or settlement, if not appropriate for refund pursu-
ant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall
be available and may be expended under the authority of
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available for obligation until September 30, 1995; and the
funds made available to tribes and tribal organizations
through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year
1994 as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act
of 1975 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), or grants
authorized by the Indian Education Amendments of 1988
(25 U.S.C. 2001 and 2008A) shall remain available until
expended by the contractor or grantee; and of which
$1,983,000 $2,483,000 for litigation support shall remain
available until expended, $4,934,000 for self-governance
tribal compacts shall be made available on completion and
submission of such compacts to the Congress, and shall
remain available until expended; and of which $1,179,000
for expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of sec-
tion 19(a) of Public Law 93–531 (25 U.S.C. 640d–18(a)),
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That none
of the funds appropriated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs
shall be expended as matching funds for programs funded
under section 103(b)(2) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational
Education Act: Provided further, That of the amount ap-
propriated under this head in Public Law 102–381,
$250,000 for activities related to the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That $199,000 of the funds made available
in this Act shall be available for cyclical maintenance of