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Union Calendar No. 305
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4602
[Report No. 103–551]
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 17, 1994
Mr. YATES, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill;
which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1995, 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, 1995, 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, classi-
fication, and performance of other functions, including
maintenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the
management of lands and their resources under the juris-
diction of the Bureau of Land Management, including the
general administration of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, $596,349,000, to remain available until expended,
including $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)): Provided, That appropriations herein made
shall not be available for the destruction of healthy,
unadopted, wild horses and burros in the care of the Bu-
reau of Land Management or its contractors; and in addi-
tion, $21,650,000 for Mining Law Administration pro-
gram operations, to remain available until expended, to
be reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau of Land
Management and credited to this appropriation from an-
nual mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropria-
tion estimated at not more than $596,349,000: Provided
further, That in addition to funds otherwise available, not
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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 expended.
FIRE PROTECTION
For necessary expenses for fire use and management,
and fire preparedness by the Department of the Interior,
$114,968,000, to remain available until expended.
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FIREFIGHTING FUND
For 
emergency 
rehabilitation, 
severity
presuppression, and wildfire operations of the Department
of the Interior, $121,176,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That such funds also are available for
repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts
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 operations that are in excess 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 Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
For expenses necessary for use by the Department
of the Interior and any of its component offices and bu-
reaus for the remedial action, including associated activi-
ties, of hazardous waste substances, pollutants, or con-
taminants pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $13,435,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, sums recovered from or paid by a party in
advance of or as reimbursement for remedial action or re-
sponse activities conducted by the Department pursuant
to sections 107 or 113(f) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 9607 or 9613(f)), shall be credited
to this account and shall be available without further ap-
propriation and shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That such sums recovered from or paid by
any party are not limited to monetary payments and may
include stocks, bonds or other personal or real property,
which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise disposed
of by the Secretary of the Interior and which shall be cred-
ited to this account.
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS
For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and
construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads,
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trails, and appurtenant facilities, $3,836,000, to remain
available 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, $17,060,000, 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, 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; $100,860,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That 25 per centum
of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal
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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 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
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 per cen-
tum 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 re-
ceipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the De-
partment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than
$10,350,000, 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-
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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 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 con-
trary 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, compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate
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 or subsequent appropriations
Acts by the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate
any public lands administered through the Bureau of
Land Management which have been damaged by the ac-
tion of a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any
unauthorized person, without regard to whether all mon-
eys collected from each such forfeiture, compromise, or
settlement are used on the exact lands damage to which
led to the forfeiture, compromise, or settlement: Provided
further, That such moneys are in excess of amounts need-
ed to repair damage to the exact land for which collected.
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MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended
under existing law, 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
which the United States has title; up to $250,000 for pay-
ments, at the discretion of the Secretary, for information
or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by
the Bureau of Land Management; miscellaneous and
emergency expenses of enforcement activities authorized
or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted for sole-
ly 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 coopera-
tors in connection with jointly-produced publications for
which the cooperators share the cost of printing either in
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cash or in services, and the Bureau determines the co-
operator is capable of meeting accepted quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For expenses necessary for scientific and economic
studies, conservation, management, investigations, protec-
tion, and utilization of fishery and wildlife resources, ex-
cept whales, seals, and sea lions, and for the performance
of other authorized functions related to such resources; for
the general administration of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service; and for maintenance of the herd of long-
horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge;
and not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects
within the scope of the approved budget which shall be
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as author-
ized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended by Public
Law 93–408, $514,650,000, of which $11,732,000 shall
be for operation and maintenance of fishery mitigation fa-
cilities constructed by the Corps of Engineers under the
Lower Snake River Compensation Plan, authorized by the
Water Resources Development Act of 1976 (90 Stat.
2921), to compensate for loss of fishery resources from
water development projects on the Lower Snake River,
and which shall remain available until expended; and of
which $3,000,000 shall be provided to the National Fish
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and Wildlife Foundation for endangered species activities:
Provided, That the amount provided to the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation shall be matched by at least an
equal amount by the National Fish and Wildlife Founda-
tion: Provided further, That sums may be made available
to the States of Washington, Oregon, and California to
conduct monitoring activities related to the President’s
Forest Plan.
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; $25,264,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND
To conduct natural resource damage assessment ac-
tivities by the Department of the Interior necessary to
carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq.), Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.),
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380), and
the Act of July 27, 1990 (Public Law 101–337);
$6,700,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, any