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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. 320. (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, including urban minori-
ties, 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 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.
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(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance 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 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
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(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 revi-
sions 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 na-
tional 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 2001; national forests with-
in 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 com-
plete 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.
SEC. 323. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to support Government-wide administrative functions un-
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less 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. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2000
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
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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 2001, 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 sal-
vage sale fund. Nothing in this section shall be construed
to exempt any project from any environmental law.
SEC. 327. None of the funds provided in this or pre-
vious appropriations 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 and used to fund personnel, training, or other adminis-
trative activities of the Council on Environmental Quality
or other offices in the Executive Office of the President
for purposes related to the American Heritage Rivers pro-
gram.
SEC. 328. 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 machines include an option that enables
callers to reach promptly an individual on-duty with the
agency being contacted.
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SEC. 329. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be adver-
tised if the indicated rate is deficit when appraised under
the transaction evidence appraisal system using domestic
Alaska values for western red cedar: Provided, That sales
which are deficit when appraised under the transaction
evidence appraisal system using domestic Alaska values
for western red cedar may be advertised upon receipt of
a written request by a prospective, informed bidder, who
has the opportunity to review the Forest Service’s cruise
and harvest cost estimate for that timber. Program accom-
plishments shall be based on volume sold. Should Region
10 sell, in fiscal year 2001, the annual average portion
of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the cur-
rent Tongass Land Management Plan in sales which are
not deficit when appraised under the transaction evidence
appraisal system using domestic Alaska values for western
red cedar, all of the western red cedar timber from those
sales which is surplus to the needs of domestic processors
in Alaska, shall be made available to domestic processors
in the contiguous 48 United States at prevailing domestic
prices. Should Region 10 sell, in fiscal year 2001, less
than the annual average portion of the decadal allowable
sale quantity called for in the current Tongass Land Man-
agement Plan in sales which are not deficit when ap-
praised under the transaction evidence appraisal system
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grants for those activities or compliance with 25 U.S.C.
2005.
SEC. 332. In fiscal years 2001 through 2005, the
Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture may pilot test
joint permitting and leasing programs, subject to annual
review of Congress, and promulgate special rules as need-
ed to test the feasibility of issuing unified permits, applica-
tions, and leases. The Secretaries of the Interior and Agri-
culture may make reciprocal delegations of their respective
authorities, duties and responsibilities in support of the
‘‘Service First’’ initiative to promote customer service and
efficiency. Nothing herein shall alter, expand or limit the
applicability of any public law or regulation to lands ad-
ministered by the Bureau of Land Management or the
Forest Service.
SEC. 333. FEDERAL AND STATE COOPERATIVE WA-
TERSHED RESTORATION AND PROTECTION IN COLORADO.
(a) USE OF COLORADO STATE FOREST SERVICE.—Until
September 30, 2004, the Secretary of Agriculture, via co-
operative agreement or contract (including sole source
contract) as appropriate, may permit the Colorado State
Forest Service to perform watershed restoration and pro-
tection services on National Forest System lands in the
State of Colorado when similar and complementary water-
shed restoration and protection services are being per-
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formed by the State Forest Service on adjacent State or
private lands. The types of services that may be extended
to National Forest System lands include treatment of in-
sect infected trees, reduction of hazardous fuels, and other
activities to restore or improve watersheds or fish and
wildlife habitat across ownership boundaries.
(b) STATE AS AGENT.—Except as provided in sub-
section (c), a cooperative agreement or contract under
subsection (a) may authorize the State Forester of Colo-
rado to serve as the agent for the Forest Service in pro-
viding all services necessary to facilitate the performance
of watershed restoration and protection services under
subsection (a). The services to be performed by the Colo-
rado State Forest Service may be conducted with sub-
contracts utilizing State contract procedures. Subsections
(d) and (g) of section 14 of the National Forest Manage-
ment Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a) shall not apply to
services performed under a cooperative agreement or con-
tract under subsection (a).
(c) RETENTION OF NEPA RESPONSIBILITIES.—With
respect to any watershed restoration and protection serv-
ices on National Forest System lands proposed for per-
formance by the Colorado State Forest Service under sub-
section (a), any decision required to be made under the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.
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4321 et seq.) may not be delegated to the State Forester
of Colorado or any other officer or employee of the Colo-
rado State Forest Service.
SEC. 334. None of the funds made available under
this Act may be used to issue a record of decision or any
policy implementing the Interior Columbia Basin Eco-
system Management Project not prepared pursuant to law
as set forth in chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 335. None of the funds provided in this Act,
for the agencies funded by this Act, shall be expended for
the purposes of design, planning or management of Fed-
eral Lands as National Monuments that are designated
as National Monuments under the 1906 Antiquities Act,
since 1999.
TITLE IV—FISCAL YEAR 2000 EMERGENCY
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For an additional amount in fiscal year 2000 for
‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’, $200,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for emergency rehabilitation and
wildfire suppression activities: Provided, That the entire
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
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anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended: Provided further, That this amount shall be
available only to the extent that an official budget request
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of
the entire amount as an emergency requirement as defined
by such Act, is transmitted by the President to the Con-
gress.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For an additional amount in fiscal year 2000 for
‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’, $150,000,000, to remain
available until expended, for emergency rehabilitation,
presuppression, and wildfire suppression: Provided, That
the entire amount is designated by Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended: Provided further, That this amount
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget
request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designa-
tion of the entire amount as an emergency requirement
as defined by such Act, is transmitted by the President
to the Congress.
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TITLE V—ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act to the Forest Service may
be used—
(1) to purchase a motor vehicle for the use of
Forest Service personnel that is painted in the base
color identified as Federal Standard 595, color chip
no. 14260, or painted in any other base color, except
the color white as made available by the manufac-
turer; or
(2) to paint any Forest Service motor vehicle in
any base color other than white.
SEC. 502. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used by the Bu-
reau of Land Management, the National Park Service, or
the Forest Service to conduct a prescribed burn of Federal
land for which the Federal agency has not implemented
all provisions of the memorandum containing the Federal
Wildland Fire Policy accepted and endorsed by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior in
December 1995.
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available in this
Act shall be used to implement section 123 of this Act
except for activities related to planning and management
of national monuments.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 16 (legis-
lative day, June 15), 2000.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.