IB 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2691
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2003
Ordered to be printed with the amendment of the Senate 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause 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, 2004, 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, 2004, 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 necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 
potential of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 
(16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $834,088,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $1,000,000 is for high priority 
projects, to be carried out by the Youth Conservation 
Corps; $2,222,000 is for assessment of the mineral poten-
tial of public lands in Alaska pursuant to section 1010 
of Public Law 96–487; (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of which 
not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be derived from the special 
receipt account established by the Land and Water Con-
servation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)); 
and $3,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2004 sub-
ject to a match by at least an equal amount by the Na-
tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cost-shared 
projects supporting conservation of Bureau lands; and
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such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as a lump 
sum grant without regard to when expenses are incurred; 
in addition, $32,696,000 is for Mining Law Administra-
tion program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering the mining claim fee program; to remain available 
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from annual 
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation 
estimated
at
not
more
than
$834,088,000,
and 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from com-
munication site rental fees established by the Bureau for 
the cost of administering communication site activities: 
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 or its contrac-
tors. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency 
rehabilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire as-
sistance by the Department of the Interior, $698,725,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$12,374,000 shall be for the renovation or construction 
of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are also avail-
able for repayment of advances to other appropriation ac-
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counts from which funds were previously transferred for 
such purposes: Provided further, That persons hired pur-
suant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and 
lodging without cost from funds available from this appro-
priation:
Provided
further,
That
notwithstanding
U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the 
Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered 
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United 
States property, may be credited to the appropriation from 
which funds were expended to provide that protection, and 
are available without fiscal year limitation: Provided fur-
ther, That using the amounts designated under this title 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, 
for hazardous fuels reduction activities, and for training 
and monitoring associated with such hazardous fuels re-
duction activities, on Federal land, or on adjacent non-
Federal land for activities that benefit resources on Fed-
eral land: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Govern-
ment and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutu-
ally agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, 
That in entering into such grants or cooperative agree-
ments, the Secretary may consider the enhancement of 
local and small business employment opportunities for
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rural communities, and that in entering into procurement 
contracts under this heading on a best value basis, the 
Secretary may take into account the ability of an entity 
to enhance local and small business employment opportu-
nities in rural communities, and that the Secretary may 
award
procurement
contracts,
grants,
or
cooperative 
agreements under this heading to entities that include 
local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps or re-
lated partnerships, or small or disadvantaged businesses: 
Provided further, That funds appropriated under this head 
may be used to reimburse the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service 
for the costs of carrying out their responsibilities under 
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.) to consult and conference, as required by section 7 
of such Act in connection with wildland fire management 
activities: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-
rior may use wildland fire appropriations to enter into 
non-competitive sole source leases of real property with 
local governments, at or below fair market value, to con-
struct capitalized improvements for fire facilities on such 
leased properties, including but not limited to fire guard 
stations, retardant stations, and other initial attack and 
fire support facilities, and to make advance payments for 
any such lease or for construction activity associated with
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the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the 
transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire manage-
ment, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $12,000,000, 
between the Departments when such transfers would fa-
cilitate and expedite jointly funded wildland fire manage-
ment programs and projects: Provided further, That funds 
provided for wildfire suppression shall be available for sup-
port of Federal emergency response actions. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 
the remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.), $9,978,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: 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 response activi-
ties conducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 
or 113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to this account, 
to be available until expended without further appropria-
tion: Provided further, That such sums recovered from or 
paid by any party are not limited to monetary payments
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and may include stocks, bonds or other personal or real 
property, which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise 
disposed of by the Secretary and which shall be credited 
to this account. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, 
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $10,976,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including admin-
istrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interests therein, $14,000,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able 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; $106,672,000 to remain
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available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent 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 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, implementing and monitoring sal-
vage 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 106–393) derived from 
treatments 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 $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 her 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: Provided further, 
That section 28 of title 30, United States Code, is amend-
ed: (1) in section 28f(a), by striking ‘‘for years 2002 
through 2003’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘for years 
2004 through 2008’’; and (2) in section 28g, by striking 
‘‘and before September 30, 2003’’ and inserting in lieu 
thereof ‘‘and before September 30, 2008’’.
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UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 
and economic studies, 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 
and reimbursable agreements with public and private enti-
ties, $959,901,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2005, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, 
That not less than $2,000,000 shall be provided to local 
governments in southern California for planning associ-
ated with the Natural Communities Conservation Plan-
ning (NCCP) program and shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That $2,000,000 is for high pri-
ority projects, which shall be carried out by the Youth 
Conservation Corps: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$12,286,000 shall be used for implementing subsections 
(a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Spe-
cies Act, as amended, for species that are indigenous to 
the United States (except for processing petitions, devel-
oping and issuing proposed and final regulations, and tak-
ing any other steps to implement actions described in sub-
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section (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii)), of which 
not to exceed $8,900,000 shall be used for any activity 
regarding the designation of critical habitat, pursuant to 
subsection (a)(3), excluding litigation support, for species 
already listed pursuant to subsection (a)(1) as of the date 
of enactment this Act: Provided further, 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 information, re-
wards, or evidence concerning violations of laws adminis-
tered by the Service, and miscellaneous and emergency ex-
penses of enforcement activity, authorized or approved by 
the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on her certifi-
cate: Provided further, That of the amount provided for 
environmental contaminants, up to $1,000,000 may re-
main available until expended for contaminant sample 
analyses. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-
servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti-
lization of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisi-
tion of lands and interests therein; $52,718,000, to remain 
available until expended.
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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, 
$23,058,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund, and to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated for specific 
land acquisition projects can be used to pay for any ad-
ministrative overhead, planning or other management 
costs. 
LANDOWNER INCENTIVE PROGRAM 
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 private conservation efforts to be carried 
out on private lands, $40,000,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That the amount provided 
herein is for a Landowner Incentive Program established 
by the Secretary that provides matching, competitively 
awarded grants to States, the District of Columbia, 
Tribes, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Is-
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lands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American 
Samoa, to establish or supplement existing landowner in-
centive programs that provide technical and financial as-
sistance, including habitat protection and restoration, to 
private landowners for the protection and management of 
habitat to benefit federally listed, proposed, candidate, or 
other at-risk species on private lands. 
STEWARDSHIP GRANTS 
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 private conservation efforts to be carried 
out on private lands, $10,000,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That the amount provided 
herein is for a Stewardship Grants Program established 
by the Secretary to provide grants and other assistance 
to individuals and groups engaged in private conservation 
efforts that benefit federally listed, proposed, candidate, 
or other at-risk species. 
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION 
FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531–1543), 
as amended, $86,614,000, of which $36,614,000 is to be
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derived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Con-
servation Fund and $50,000,000 is to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $14,414,000. 
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, $24,560,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 
For financial assistance for projects to promote the 
conservation of neotropical migratory birds in accordance 
with the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, 
Public Law 106–247 (16 U.S.C. 6101–6109), $5,000,000, 
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), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conserva-
tion Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301–5306), and the Great
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Ape
Conservation
Act
of
2000
(16
U.S.C.
6301), 
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 
States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, 
American Samoa, and federally recognized Indian tribes 
under the provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 
and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, for the devel-
opment and implementation of programs for the benefit 
of wildlife and their habitat, including species that are not 
hunted or fished, $75,000,000 to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the amount pro-
vided herein, $6,000,000 is for a competitive grant pro-
gram for Indian tribes not subject to the remaining provi-
sions of this appropriation: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall, after deducting said $6,000,000 and adminis-
trative expenses, apportion the amount provided herein in 
the following manner: (A) to the District of Columbia and 
to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal 
to not more than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (B) 
to Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Is-
lands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, each a sum equal to not more than one-fourth
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of 1 percent thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall apportion the remaining amount in the following 
manner: (A) one-third of which is based on the ratio to 
which the land area of such State bears to the total land 
area of all such States; and (B) two-thirds of which is 
based on the ratio to which the population of such State 
bears to the total population of all such States: Provided 
further, That the amounts apportioned under this para-
graph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall 
be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the 
amount available for apportionment under this paragraph 
for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount: 
Provided further, That the Federal share of planning 
grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of 
such projects and the Federal share of implementation 
grants shall not exceed 50 percent of the total costs of 
such projects: Provided further, That the non-Federal 
share of such projects may not be derived from Federal 
grant programs: Provided further, That no State, territory, 
or other jurisdiction shall receive a grant unless it has de-
veloped, or committed to develop by October 1, 2005, a 
comprehensive wildlife conservation plan, consistent with 
criteria established by the Secretary of the Interior, that 
considers the broad range of the State, territory, or other 
jurisdiction’s wildlife and associated habitats, with appro-
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priate priority placed on those species with the greatest 
conservation need and taking into consideration the rel-
ative level of funding available for the conservation of 
those species: Provided further, That any amount appor-
tioned in 2004 to any State, territory, or other jurisdiction 
that remains unobligated as of September 30, 2005, shall 
be reapportioned, together with funds appropriated in 
2006, in the manner provided herein: Provided further, 
That balances from amounts previously appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘State Wildlife Grants’’ shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with this appropriation and shall re-
main available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations and funds available to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for pur-
chase of not to exceed 157 passenger motor vehicles, of 
which 142 are for replacement only (including 33 for po-
lice-type use); repair of damage to public roads within and 
adjacent to reservation areas caused by operations of the 
Service; options for the purchase of land at not to exceed 
$1 for each option; facilities incident to such public rec-
reational uses on conservation areas as are consistent with 
their primary purpose; and the maintenance and improve-
ment of aquaria, buildings, and other facilities under the 
jurisdiction of the Service and to which the United States
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has title, and which are used pursuant to law in connection 
with management, and investigation of fish and wildlife 
resources: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, 
the Service may, under cooperative cost sharing and part-
nership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing 
services from cooperators in connection with jointly pro-
duced publications for which the cooperators share at least 
one-half the cost of printing either in cash or services and 
the Service determines the cooperator is capable of meet-
ing accepted quality standards: Provided further, That the 
Service may accept donated aircraft as replacements for 
existing aircraft: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior 
may not spend any of the funds appropriated in this Act 
for the purchase of lands or interests in lands to be used 
in the establishment of any new unit of the National Wild-
life Refuge System unless the purchase is approved in ad-
vance by the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions in compliance with the reprogramming procedures 
contained in the House Report accompanying this Act. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-
tered by the National Park Service (including special road
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maintenance service to trucking permittees on a reimburs-
able basis), and for the general administration of the Na-
tional
Park
Service,
$1,636,882,000
(reduced
by 
$6,000,000) of which $10,887,000 is for planning and 
interagency coordination in support of Everglades restora-
tion and shall remain available until expended; of which 
$98,480,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2005, is for maintenance, repair or rehabilitation projects 
for constructed assets, operation of the National Park 
Service automated facility management software system, 
and comprehensive facility condition assessments; and of 
which $2,000,000 is for the Youth Conservation Corps for 
high priority projects: Provided, That the only funds in 
this account which may be made available to support 
United States Park Police are those funds approved for 
emergency law and order incidents pursuant to established 
National Park Service procedures, those funds needed to 
maintain and repair United States Park Police adminis-
trative facilities, and those funds necessary to reimburse 
the United States Park Police account for the unbudgeted 
overtime and travel costs associated with special events for 
an amount not to exceed $10,000 per event subject to the 
review and concurrence of the Washington headquarters 
office.
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UNITED STATES PARK POLICE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs of 
the United States Park Police, $78,859,000. 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-
view, international park affairs, statutory or contractual 
aid for other activities, and grant administration, not oth-
erwise provided for, $54,924,000: Provided, That none of 
the funds in this or previous Acts for the Rivers, Trails 
and Conservation Assistance Program may be used for co-
operative agreements or any other form of cash grant. 
URBAN PARK AND RECREATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 
(16 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $305,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic 
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), 
and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management 
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–333), $71,000,000, to be 
derived from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain 
available until September 30, 2005: Provided, That of the
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total amount provided, $30,000,000 shall be for Save 
America’s Treasures for priority preservation projects, of 
nationally significant sites, structures, and artifacts: Pro-
vided further, That any individual Save America’s Treas-
ures grant shall be matched by non-Federal funds: Pro-
vided further, That individual projects shall only be eligible 
for one grant, and all projects to be funded shall be ap-
proved by the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations and the Secretary of the Interior in consultation 
with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Human-
ities prior to the commitment of grant funds: Provided fur-
ther, That Save America’s Treasures funds allocated for 
Federal projects shall be available by transfer to appro-
priate accounts of individual agencies, after approval of 
such projects by the Secretary of the Interior, in consulta-
tion with the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Hu-
manities. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair or replace-
ment of physical facilities, including the modifications au-
thorized by section 104 of the Everglades National Park 
Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, $303,199,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That none of 
the funds in this or any other Act, may be used to pay
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the salaries and expenses of more than 160 Full Time 
Equivalent personnel working for the National Park Serv-
ice’s Denver Service Center funded under the construction 
program management and operations activity: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided in this or any 
other Act may be used to pre-design, plan, or construct 
any new facility (including visitor centers, curatorial facili-
ties, administrative buildings), for which appropriations 
have not been specifically provided if the net construction 
cost of such facility is in excess of $5,000,000, without 
prior approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations: Provided further, That this restriction ap-
plies to all funds available to the National Park Service, 
including partnership and fee demonstration projects: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated in this Act and in 
any prior Acts for the purpose of implementing the Modi-
fied Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park Project 
shall be available for expenditure unless the Secretary of 
the Interior, the Secretary of the Army, the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Attorney 
General file a joint report by September 30, 2003, and 
each year thereafter until December 31, 2006, to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the 
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 
the House Committee on Resources and the Senate Com-
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mittee on Environment and Public Works, indicating that 
the water entering A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife 
Refuge and Everglades National Park does not meet all 
applicable State water quality standards and numeric cri-
teria
adopted
for
phosphorus
throughout
A.R.M. 
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and Everglades Na-
tional Park, as well as water quality requirements set 
forth in the Consent Decree entered in United States v. 
South Florida Water Management District, and that the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations respond 
in writing disapproving the further expenditure of funds. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2004 
by 16 U.S.C. 4601–10a is rescinded. 
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
460l–4 through 11), including administrative expenses, 
and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest therein, 
in accordance with the statutory authority applicable to 
the National Park Service, $131,154,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to re-
main available until expended, of which $97,500,000 is for
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the State assistance program including $2,500,000 to ad-
minister this program: Provided, That none of the funds 
provided for the State assistance program may be used 
to establish a contingency fund: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
of the Interior, using prior year unobligated funds made 
available under any Act enacted before the date of enact-
ment of this Act for land acquisition assistance to the 
State of Florida for the acquisition of lands or water, or 
interests therein, within the Everglades watershed, shall 
transfer $5,000,000 to the United States Fish and Wild-
life Service ‘‘Resource Management’’ account for the pur-
pose of funding water quality monitoring and eradication 
of invasive exotic plants at A.R.M. Loxahatchee National 
Wildlife Refuge, as well as recovery actions for any listed 
species in the South Florida ecosystem, and may transfer 
such sums as may be determined necessary by the Sec-
retary of the Interior to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
‘‘Construction, General’’ account for the purpose of modi-
fying the construction of Storm Water Treatment Area 1 
East to include additional water quality improvement 
measures, such as additional compartmentalization, im-
proved flow control, vegetation management, and other ad-
ditional technologies based upon the recommendations of 
the Secretary of the Interior and the South Florida Water
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Management District, to maximize the treatment effective-
ness of Storm Water Treatment Area 1 East so that water 
delivered by Storm Water Treatment Area 1 East to 
A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge achieves 
State water quality standards, including the numeric cri-
terion for phosphorus, and that the cost sharing provisions 
of section 528 of the Water Resources Development Act 
of 1996 (110 Stat. 3769) shall apply to any funds pro-
vided by the Secretary of the Interior to the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers for this purpose: Provided further, 
That, subsequent to the transfer of the $5,000,000 to the 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the transfer of funds, 
if any, to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out 
water quality improvement measures for Storm Water 
Treatment Area 1 East, if any funds remain to be ex-
pended after the requirements of these provisions have 
been met, then the Secretary of the Interior may transfer, 
as appropriate, and use the remaining funds for Ever-
glades restoration activities benefiting the lands and re-
sources managed by the Department of the Interior in 
South Florida, subject to the approval by the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations of a reprogramming 
request by the Secretary detailing how the remaining 
funds will be expended for this purpose.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be 
available for the purchase of not to exceed 249 passenger 
motor vehicles, of which 202 shall be for replacement only, 
including not to exceed 193 for police-type use, 10 buses, 
and 8 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 3 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. 
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the 
National Park Service for activities taken in direct re-
sponse to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention.
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The National Park Service may distribute to oper-
ating units based on the safety record of each unit the 
costs of programs designed to improve workplace and em-
ployee safety, and to encourage employees receiving work-
ers’ compensation benefits pursuant to chapter 81 of title 
5, United States Code, to return to appropriate positions 
for which they are medically able. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 
and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-
ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); and publish and dis-
seminate data relative to the foregoing activities; and to 
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; 
$935,660,000, of which $64,536,000 shall be available
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only for cooperation with States or municipalities for 
water resources investigations; and of which $15,227,000 
shall remain available until expended for conducting in-
quiries into the economic conditions affecting mining and 
materials processing industries; and of which $8,000,000 
shall remain available until expended for satellite oper-
ations; and of which $24,190,000 shall be available until 
September 30, 2005, for the operation and maintenance 
of facilities and deferred maintenance; and of which 
$173,349,000 shall be available until September 30, 2005, 
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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ices Administration for security guard services; con-
tracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and for 
the making of geophysical or other specialized surveys 
when it is administratively determined that such proce-
dures are in the public interest; construction and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities; 
acquisition of lands for gauging stations and observation 
wells; expenses of the United States National Committee 
on Geology; and payment of compensation and expenses 
of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly appointed to 
represent the United States in the negotiation and admin-
istration of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities 
funded by appropriations herein made may be accom-
plished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of the 
Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 
(31 U.S.C. 6301–6308), the U.S. Geological Survey is au-
thorized to continue existing, and hereafter, to enter into 
new cooperative agreements directed towards a particular 
cooperator, in support of joint research and data collection 
activities with Federal, State, and academic partners 
funded by appropriations herein, including those that pro-
vide for space in cooperator facilities.
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MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and 
collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing 
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; and 
for matching grants or cooperative agreements; including 
the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehi-
cles
for
replacement
only,
$164,216,000,
of
which 
$80,396,000, shall be available for royalty management 
activities; and an amount not to exceed $100,230,000, to 
be credited to this appropriation and to remain available 
until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from 
increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate 
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf ad-
ministrative activities performed by the Minerals Manage-
ment Service (MMS) over and above the rates in effect 
on September 30, 1993, and from additional fees for 
Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities estab-
lished after September 30, 1993: Provided, That to the 
extent $100,230,000 in additions to receipts are not real-
ized from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount 
needed to reach $100,230,000 shall be credited to this ap-
propriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for
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Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 
1993: Provided further, That $3,000,000 for computer ac-
quisitions shall remain available until September 30, 
2005: Provided further, That funds appropriated under 
this Act shall be available for the payment of interest in 
accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1721(b) and (d): Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for rea-
sonable expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and 
marine cleanup activities: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $15,000 under this 
heading shall be available for refunds of overpayments in 
connection with certain Indian leases in which the Direc-
tor of MMS concurred with the claimed refund due, to 
pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or tribes, or to cor-
rect prior unrecoverable erroneous payments: Provided 
further, That MMS may under the royalty-in-kind pilot 
program, or under its authority to transfer oil to the Stra-
tegic Petroleum Reserve, use a portion of the revenues 
from royalty-in-kind sales, without regard to fiscal year 
limitation, to pay for transportation to wholesale market 
centers or upstream pooling points, and to process or oth-
erwise dispose of royalty production taken in kind, and 
to recover MMS transportation costs, salaries, and other 
administrative costs directly related to filling the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve: Provided further, That MMS shall
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analyze and document the expected return in advance of 
any royalty-in-kind sales to assure to the maximum extent 
practicable that royalty income under the pilot program 
is equal to or greater than royalty income recognized 
under a comparable royalty-in-value program. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title 
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$7,105,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 
ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977, Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the pur-
chase of not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for 
replacement only; $106,424,000: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use 
directly or through grants to States, moneys collected in 
fiscal year 2004 for civil penalties assessed under section 
518 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim lands adversely af-
fected by coal mining practices after August 3, 1977, to
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remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
appropriations for the Office of Surface Mining Reclama-
tion and Enforcement may provide for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase 
of not more than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, $194,469,000, to be derived from receipts of 
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain 
available until expended; of which up to $10,000,000, to 
be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, 
shall be for supplemental grants to States for the reclama-
tion of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from 
coal mines, and for associated activities, through the Ap-
palachian Clean Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants 
to minimum program States will be $1,500,000 per State 
in fiscal year 2004: Provided further, That of the funds 
herein provided up to $18,000,000 may be used for the 
emergency program authorized by section 410 of Public 
Law 95–87, as amended, of which no more than 25 per-
cent shall be used for emergency reclamation projects in
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any one State and funds for federally administered emer-
gency reclamation projects under this proviso shall not ex-
ceed $11,000,000: Provided further, That prior year unob-
ligated funds appropriated for the emergency reclamation 
program shall not be subject to the 25 percent limitation 
per State and may be used without fiscal year limitation 
for emergency projects: Provided further, That pursuant 
to Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is 
authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of 
the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government 
to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided fur-
ther, That funds made available under title IV of Public 
Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal 
share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov-
ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re-
lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage 
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such 
projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-
ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25
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U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally 
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 
as amended, $1,902,106,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2005 except as otherwise provided herein, 
of which not to exceed $85,925,000 shall be for welfare 
assistance payments and notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed 
$135,315,000 shall be available for payments to tribes and 
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated 
with ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements entered into with the Bureau prior to or 
during fiscal year 2004, as authorized by such Act, except 
that tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal 
priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of ongoing 
contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding agree-
ments and for unmet welfare assistance costs; and of 
which not to exceed $458,524,000 for school operations 
costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education pro-
grams shall become available on July 1, 2004, and shall 
remain available until September 30, 2005; and of which 
not to exceed $55,374,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for housing improvement, road maintenance, at-
torney fees, litigation support, the Indian Self-Determina-
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tion Fund, land records improvement, and the Navajo-
Hopi
Settlement
Program:
Provided,
That
notwith-
standing any other provision of law, including but not lim-
ited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as 
amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed $49,297,000 
within and only from such amounts made available for 
school operations shall be available to tribes and tribal or-
ganizations for administrative cost grants associated with 
ongoing grants entered into with the Bureau prior to or 
during fiscal year 2003 for the operation of Bureau-fund-
ed schools, and up to $3,000,000 within and only from 
such amounts made available for school operations shall 
be available for the transitional costs of initial administra-
tive cost grants to tribes and tribal organizations that 
enter into grants for the operation on or after July 1, 
2004 of Bureau-operated schools: Provided further, That 
any forestry funds allocated to a tribe which remain unob-
ligated as of September 30, 2005, may be transferred dur-
ing fiscal year 2006 to an Indian forest land assistance 
account established for the benefit of such tribe within the 
tribe’s trust fund account: Provided further, That any such 
unobligated balances not so transferred shall expire on 
September 30, 2006.
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CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-
suant to Public Law 87–483, $345,154,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 
Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may 
be used to cover the road program management costs of 
the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds provided for 
the Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 
shall be made available on a nonreimbursable basis: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2004, in implementing 
new construction or facilities improvement and repair 
project grants in excess of $100,000 that are provided to 
tribally controlled grant schools under Public Law 100–
297, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use 
the Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost 
Principles for Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR
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part 12 as the regulatory requirements: Provided further, 
That such grants shall not be subject to section 12.61 of 
43 CFR; the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and 
determine a schedule of payments for the work to be per-
formed: Provided further, That in considering applications, 
the Secretary shall consider whether the Indian tribe or 
tribal organization would be deficient in assuring that the 
construction projects conform to applicable building stand-
ards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health and 
safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(a), with 
respect to organizational and financial management capa-
bilities: Provided further, That if the Secretary declines an 
application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements 
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2505(f): Provided further, That 
any disputes between the Secretary and any grantee con-
cerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes provision 
in 25 U.S.C. 2508(e). 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and in-
dividuals
and
for
necessary
administrative
expenses, 
$60,551,000, to remain available until expended; of which 
$31,610,000 shall be available for implementation of en-
acted Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant
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to Public Laws 101–618, 107–331, and 102–575, and for 
implementation of other enacted water rights settlements; 
and of which $18,817,000 shall be available pursuant to 
Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 106–425, and 106–554; 
and of which $9,968,000 shall be available for payment 
to the Quinault Indian Nation pursuant to the terms of 
the North Boundary Settlement Agreement dated July 14, 
2000, providing for the acquisition of perpetual conserva-
tion easements from the Nation: Provided, That of the 
payment to the Quinault Indian Nation, $4,968,000 shall 
be derived from amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Land Acquisi-
tion’’ in Public Law 108–7. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed and insured loans, 
$5,797,000, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act 
of 1974, as amended: 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: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
not to exceed $94,568,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the guaranteed and insured loan programs, $700,000.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, compacts and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs may contract for services in support of the man-
agement, operation, and maintenance of the Power Divi-
sion of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guar-
antee and insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed 
Loan Program account) shall be available for expenses of 
exhibits, and purchase of not to exceed 229 passenger 
motor vehicles, of which not to exceed 187 shall be for 
replacement only. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
operations, or pooled overhead general administration (ex-
cept facilities operations and maintenance) shall be avail-
able for tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the
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Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–
413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 
distribution to other tribes, this action shall not diminish 
the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to that 
tribe, or the government-to-government relationship be-
tween the United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s abil-
ity to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided 
herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 
452 et seq., shall be available to support the operation of 
any elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other 
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall 
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dor-
mitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bu-
reau school system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made 
available under this Act may not be used to establish a 
charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term 
is defined in section 1146 of the Education Amendments
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of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)), except that a charter school 
that is in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school be-
fore September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during 
that period, but only if the charter school pays to the Bu-
reau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including 
buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau 
does not assume any obligation for charter school pro-
grams of the State in which the school is located if the 
charter school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-
funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school and 
performing functions related to the charter school’s oper-
ation and employees of a charter school shall not be treat-
ed as Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of 
title 28, United States Code. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
$74,343,000, of which: (1) $68,022,000 shall be available 
until expended for technical assistance, including mainte-
nance assistance, disaster assistance, insular management
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controls, coral reef initiative activities, and brown tree 
snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in 
American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-
thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-
ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev-
enues, for construction and support of governmental func-
tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands as 
authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, 
as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of 
the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Pub-
lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $6,321,000 shall 
be available for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insu-
lar Affairs: Provided, That all financial transactions of the 
territorial and local governments herein provided for, in-
cluding such transactions of all agencies or instrumental-
ities established or used by such governments, may be au-
dited by the General Accounting Office, at its discretion, 
in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United States 
Code: Provided further, That Northern Mariana Islands 
Covenant grant funding shall be provided according to 
those terms of the Agreement of the Special Representa-
tives on Future United States Financial Assistance for the 
Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public Law 104–
134: Provided further, That of the amounts provided for 
technical assistance, sufficient funds shall be made avail-
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able for a grant to the Pacific Basin Development Council: 
Provided further, That of the amounts provided for tech-
nical assistance, sufficient funding shall be made available 
for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, 
That the funds for the program of operations and mainte-
nance improvement are appropriated to institutionalize 
routine operations and maintenance improvement of cap-
ital infrastructure with territorial participation and cost 
sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on the 
grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its capital 
assets: Provided further, That any appropriation for dis-
aster assistance under this heading in this Act or previous 
appropriations Acts may be used as non-Federal matching 
funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants provided 
pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For economic assistance and necessary expenses for 
the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of 
the Marshall Islands as provided for in sections 221(a)(3), 
221(b), 223, and 233 of the Compact of Free Association, 
and for economic assistance and necessary expenses for 
the
Republic
of
Palau
as
provided
for
in
sections 
221(a)(2), 221(b), and 233 of the Compact of Free Asso-
ciation, $16,354,000, to remain available until expended,
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as authorized by Public Law 99–239 and Public Law 99–
658. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment
of
the
Interior,
$79,027,000
(reduced
by 
$3,000,000), of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses, and of 
which up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers com-
pensation payments and unemployment compensation pay-
ments associated with the orderly closure of the United 
States Bureau of Mines: Provided, That none of the funds 
in this or previous appropriations Acts may be used to 
establish any additional reserves in the Working Capital 
account other than the two authorized reserves without 
prior approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
From
unobligated
balances
under
this
heading, 
$20,000,000 are hereby cancelled. 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907), 
$225,000,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall be 
available for administrative expenses: Provided, That no
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payment shall be made to otherwise eligible units of local 
government if the computed amount of the payment is less 
than $100. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$50,374,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $39,049,000, of which $3,812,000 shall be for 
procurement by contract of independent auditing services 
to audit the consolidated Department of the Interior an-
nual financial statement and the annual financial state-
ment of the Department of the Interior bureaus and of-
fices funded in this Act. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
For operation of trust programs for Indians by direct 
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, 
and grants, $219,641,000, of which $75,000,000 shall be 
available for historical accounting, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That funds for trust manage-
ment improvements and litigation support may, as needed, 
be transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian
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Affairs, ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account; the Of-
fice of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and 
the Departmental Management, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ 
account: Provided further, That funds made available to 
Tribes and Tribal organizations through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2004, as authorized by 
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 
et seq.), shall remain available until expended by the con-
tractor or grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the statute of limitations shall 
not commence to run on any claim, including any claim 
in litigation pending on the date of the enactment of this 
Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement of trust 
funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian has 
been furnished with an accounting of such funds from 
which the beneficiary can determine whether there has 
been a loss: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required 
to provide a quarterly statement of performance for any 
Indian trust account that has not had activity for at least 
18 months and has a balance of $1.00 or less: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-
drawn upon the express written request of the account
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holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 is 
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-
main available in this account for this purpose. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian 
lands and expenses associated with redetermining and re-
distributing escheated interests in allotted lands, and for 
necessary expenses to carry out the Indian Land Consoli-
dation Act of 1983, as amended, by direct expenditure or 
cooperative agreement, $20,980,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and 
restoration activities by the Department of the Interior 
necessary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380)
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(33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and Public Law 101–337, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 19jj et seq.), $5,633,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 air-
craft, 10 of which shall be for replacement and which may 
be obtained by donation, purchase or through available ex-
cess surplus property: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, existing aircraft being replaced may 
be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value used to 
offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft: Pro-
vided further, That no programs funded with appropriated 
funds in the ‘‘Departmental Management’’, ‘‘Office of the 
Solicitor’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ may be aug-
mented through the Working Capital Fund or the Consoli-
dated Working Fund. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
INTERIOR 
SEC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 
or office), with the approval of the Secretary, for the emer-
gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, 
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoid-
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able causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made avail-
able under this authority until funds specifically made 
available to the Department of the Interior for emer-
gencies shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That 
all funds used pursuant to this section are hereby des-
ignated by Congress to be ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be re-
plenished by a supplemental appropriation which must be 
requested as promptly as possible. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expendi-
ture or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, 
in addition to the amounts included in the budget pro-
grams of the several agencies, for the suppression or emer-
gency prevention of wildland fires on or threatening lands 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; 
for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
tential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subse-
quent to actual oil spills; for response and natural resource 
damage assessment activities related to actual oil spills; 
for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or 
potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to
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the authority in section 1773(b) of Public Law 99–198 
(99 Stat. 1658); for emergency reclamation projects under 
section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall transfer, from 
any no year funds available to the Office of Surface Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be 
necessary to permit assumption of regulatory authority in 
the event a primacy State is not carrying out the regu-
latory provisions of the Surface Mining Act: Provided, 
That appropriations made in this title for wildland fire 
operations shall be available for the payment of obligations 
incurred during the preceding fiscal year, and for reim-
bursement to other Federal agencies for destruction of ve-
hicles, aircraft, or other equipment in connection with 
their use for wildland fire operations, such reimbursement 
to be credited to appropriations currently available at the 
time of receipt thereof: Provided further, That for wildland 
fire operations, no funds shall be made available under 
this authority until the Secretary determines that funds 
appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire operations’’ shall be ex-
hausted within 30 days: Provided further, That all funds 
used pursuant to this section are hereby designated by 
Congress to be ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be replen-
ished by a supplemental appropriation which must be re-
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quested as promptly as possible: Provided further, That 
such replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on 
a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency funds 
were transferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made in this title shall be 
available for operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and 
similar facilities, wherever consolidation of activities will 
contribute to efficiency or economy, and said appropria-
tions shall be reimbursed for services rendered to any 
other activity in the same manner as authorized by sec-
tions 1535 and 1536 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided, That reimbursements for costs and supplies, mate-
rials, equipment, and for services rendered may be cred-
ited to the appropriation current at the time such reim-
bursements are received. 
SEC. 104. Appropriations made to the Department 
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the 
Secretary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for tele-
phone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and 
the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, 
for library membership in societies or associations which
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issue publications to members only or at a price to mem-
bers lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of the Interior for salaries and expenses shall be 
available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as author-
ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902 and D.C. Code 4–204). 
SEC. 106. Annual appropriations made in this title 
shall be available for obligation in connection with con-
tracts issued for services or rentals for periods not in ex-
cess of 12 months beginning at any time during the fiscal 
year. 
SEC. 107. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct 
of offshore preleasing, leasing and related activities placed 
under restriction in the President’s moratorium statement 
of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, central, and 
southern California; the North Atlantic; Washington and 
Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 de-
grees north latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude. 
SEC. 108. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct 
of offshore oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing, and re-
lated activities, on lands within the North Aleutian Basin 
planning area.
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SEC. 109. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct off-
shore oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing and related 
activities in the eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area for 
any lands located outside Sale 181, as identified in the 
final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing 
Program, 1997–2002. 
SEC. 110. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct oil 
and natural gas preleasing, leasing and related activities 
in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 111. Advance payments made under this title 
to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal consortia 
pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or the Tribally 
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) 
may be invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organization, 
or consortium before such funds are expended for the pur-
poses of the grant, compact, or annual funding agreement 
so long as such funds are—
(1) invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organiza-
tion, or consortium only in obligations of the United 
States, or in obligations or securities that are guar-
anteed or insured by the United States, or mutual 
(or other) funds registered with the Securities and
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Exchange Commission and which only invest in obli-
gations of the United States or securities that are 
guaranteed or insured by the United States; or 
(2) deposited only into accounts that are in-
sured by an agency or instrumentality of the United 
States, or are fully collateralized to ensure protec-
tion of the funds, even in the event of a bank failure. 
SEC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provisions of 
law, the National Park Service shall not develop or imple-
ment a reduced entrance fee program to accommodate 
non-local travel through a unit. The Secretary may provide 
for and regulate local non-recreational passage through 
units of the National Park System, allowing each unit to 
develop guidelines and permits for such activity appro-
priate to that unit. 
SEC. 113. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special 
Trustee for American Indians and any available unobli-
gated balances from prior appropriations Acts made under 
the same headings, shall be available for expenditure or 
transfer for Indian trust management and reform activi-
ties. 
SEC. 114. A grazing permit or lease that expires (or 
is transferred) during fiscal year 2004 shall be renewed 
under section 402 of the Federal Land Policy and Man-
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agement Act of 1976, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1752) or, 
if applicable, section 510 of the California Desert Protec-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 410aaa–50). The terms and condi-
tions contained in the expiring permit or lease shall con-
tinue in effect under the new permit or lease until such 
time as the Secretary of the Interior completes processing 
of such permit or lease in compliance with all applicable 
laws and regulations, at which time such permit or lease 
may be canceled, suspended or modified, in whole or in 
part, to meet the requirements of such applicable laws and 
regulations. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to 
alter the Secretary’s statutory authority: Provided, That 
any Federal lands included within the boundary of Lake 
Roosevelt National Recreation Area, as designated by the 
Secretary of the Interior on April 5, 1990 (Lake Roosevelt 
Cooperative Management Agreement), that were utilized 
as of March 31, 1997, for grazing purposes pursuant to 
a permit issued by the National Park Service, the person 
or persons so utilizing such lands as of March 31, 1997, 
shall be entitled to renew said permit under such terms 
and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, for the life-
time of the permittee or 20 years, whichever is less. 
SEC. 115. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for the purpose of reducing the backlog of Indian pro-
bate cases in the Department of the Interior, the hearing
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requirements of chapter 10 of title 25, United States 
Code, are deemed satisfied by a proceeding conducted by 
an Indian probate judge, appointed by the Secretary with-
out regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, 
governing the appointments in the competitive service, for 
such period of time as the Secretary determines necessary: 
Provided, That the basic pay of an Indian probate judge 
so appointed may be fixed by the Secretary without regard 
to the provisions of chapter 51, and subchapter III of 
chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, governing the 
classification and pay of General Schedule employees, ex-
cept that no such Indian probate judge may be paid at 
a level which exceeds the maximum rate payable for the 
highest grade of the General Schedule, including locality 
pay. 
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis-
tribute any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including 
tribal base funds, to alleviate tribal funding inequities by 
transferring funds to address identified, unmet needs, 
dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate 
distribution methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduc-
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 
percent in fiscal year 2004. Under circumstances of dual 
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-
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tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 
apply. 
SEC. 117. Funds appropriated for the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs for postsecondary schools for fiscal year 2004 
shall be allocated among the schools proportionate to the 
unmet need of the schools as determined by the Postsec-
ondary Funding Formula adopted by the Office of Indian 
Education Programs. 
SEC. 118. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall take 
such action as may be necessary to ensure that the lands 
comprising the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas 
(as described in section 123 of Public Law 106–291) are 
used only in accordance with this section. 
(b) The lands of the Huron Cemetery shall be used 
only: (1) for religious and cultural uses that are compat-
ible with the use of the lands as a cemetery; and (2) as 
a burial ground. 
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under 
the authority provided by Public Law 104–134, as amend-
ed by Public Law 104–208, the Secretary may accept and 
retain land and other forms of reimbursement: Provided, 
That the Secretary may retain and use any such reim-
bursement until expended and without further appropria-
tion: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge
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System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all ac-
tivities authorized by Public Law 100–696; 16 U.S.C. 
460zz. 
SEC. 120. Notwithstanding other provisions of law, 
the National Park Service may authorize, through cooper-
ative agreement, the Golden Gate National Parks Associa-
tion to provide fee-based education, interpretive and vis-
itor service functions within the Crissy Field and Fort 
Point areas of the Presidio. 
SEC. 121. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302(b), sums 
received by the Bureau of Land Management for the sale 
of seeds or seedlings including those collected in fiscal year 
2003, may be credited to the appropriation from which 
funds were expended to acquire or grow the seeds or seed-
lings and are available without fiscal year limitation. 
SEC. 122. WHITE RIVER OIL SHALE MINE, UTAH. 
SALE.—Subject to the terms and conditions of section 126 
of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Act, 2002, the Administrator of General Services shall sell 
all right, title, and interest of the United States in and 
to the improvements and equipment of the White River 
Oil Shale Mine. 
SEC. 123. The Secretary of the Interior may use or 
contract for the use of helicopters or motor vehicles on 
the Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Refuges for the
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purpose of capturing and transporting horses and burros. 
The provisions of subsection (a) of the Act of September 
8, 1959 (18 U.S.C. 47(a)) shall not be applicable to such 
use. Such use shall be in accordance with humane proce-
dures prescribed by the Secretary. 
SEC. 124. Funds provided in this Act for Federal 
land acquisition by the National Park Service for Shen-
andoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, and 
Ice Age National Scenic Trail may be used for a grant 
to a State, a local government, or any other governmental 
land management entity for the acquisition of lands with-
out regard to any restriction on the use of Federal land 
acquisition funds provided through the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund Act of 1965 as amended. 
SEC. 125. 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. 126. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent 
pedestrian use of such bridge, when such pedestrian use 
is consistent with generally accepted safety standards.
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SEC. 127. None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to des-
ignate, or to post any sign designating, any portion of Ca-
naveral National Seashore in Brevard County, Florida, as 
a clothing-optional area or as an area in which public nu-
dity is permitted, if such designation would be contrary 
to county ordinance. 
SEC. 128. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
can be used to compensate the Special Master and the 
Special Master-Monitor, and all variations thereto, ap-
pointed by the United States District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia in the Cobell v. Norton litigation at an 
annual rate that exceeds 200 percent of the highest Senior 
Executive Service rate of pay for the Washington-Balti-
more locality pay area. 
SEC. 129. The Secretary of the Interior may use dis-
cretionary funds to pay private attorneys fees and costs 
for employees and former employees of the Department 
of the Interior reasonably incurred in connection with 
Cobell v. Norton to the extent that such fees and costs 
are not paid by the Department of Justice or by private 
insurance. In no case shall the Secretary make payments 
under this section that would result in payment of hourly 
fees in excess of the highest hourly rate approved by the
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District Court for the District of Columbia for counsel in 
Cobell v. Norton. 
SEC. 130. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect 
threatened and endangered species of salmon, implement 
a system of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended 
for harvest, that are released from Federally operated or 
Federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to 
fish releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. 
Marked fish must have a visible mark that can be readily 
identified by commercial and recreational fishers. 
SEC. 131. Such sums as may be necessary from ‘‘De-
partmental Management, Salaries and Expenses’’, may be 
transferred to ‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Resource Management’’ for operational needs at the Mid-
way Atoll National Wildlife Refuge airport. 
SEC. 132. No funds appropriated for the Department 
of the Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or 
to reduce the water level of the lake below the range of 
water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon 
Dam. 
SEC. 133. Section 122 of division F of Public Law 
108–7 is amended as follows: 
(1) Paragraph 122(a)(4) is amended to read—
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‘‘(4)
TRIBALLY
CONTROLLED
SCHOOL.—The 
term ‘tribally controlled school’ means a school that 
currently receives a grant under the Tribally Con-
trolled Schools Act of 1988, as amended (25 U.S.C. 
2501 et seq.) or is determined by the Secretary to 
meet the eligibility criteria of section 5205 of the 
Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988, as amended 
(25 U.S.C. 2504).’’. 
(2) Paragraph 122(b)(1) is amended by strik-
ing the second sentence and inserting: ‘‘The Sec-
retary shall ensure that applications for funding to 
replace schools currently receiving funding for facil-
ity operation and maintenance from the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs receive the highest priority for grants 
under this section. Among such applications, the 
Secretary shall give priority to applications of Indian 
tribes that agree to fund all future facility operation 
and maintenance costs of the tribally controlled 
school funded under the demonstration program 
from other than Federal funds.’’. 
(3) Subsection (c) is amended by inserting after 
‘‘EFFECT OF GRANT.—’’ the following: ‘‘(1) Except 
as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection,’’ 
and is further amended by adding the following new 
paragraph:
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‘‘(2) A tribe receiving a grant for construction 
of a tribally controlled school under this section shall 
not be eligible to receive funding from the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs for that school for education oper-
ations or facility operation and maintenance if the 
school that was not at the time of the grant: (i) a 
school receiving funding for education operations or 
facility operation and maintenance under the Trib-
ally Controlled Schools Act or the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act or (ii) a 
school operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.’’. 
SEC. 134. The Secretary of the Interior shall within 
180 days of the enactment of this Act submit to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations a report that 
describes the condition and adequacy of educational facili-
ties available to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, 
the availability of lands necessary for the construction of 
any necessary new or replacement education facilities, and 
the impacts that construction of such facilities might have 
on natural, cultural, and other resources present within 
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue 
Ridge Parkway. The report shall specifically address the 
resource implications of the land exchange described in 
H.R. 1409, ‘‘The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Land 
Exchange Act of 2002’’ as introduced in the 108th Con-
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gress. The Secretary shall consult with the Eastern Band 
of Cherokee Indians in preparing the report. 
LAND EXCHANGE, WORLD WAR I NATIONAL MEMORIAL, 
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE 
SEC. 135. (a) EXCHANGE REQUIRED.—In exchange 
for the private property described in subsection (b), the 
Secretary of the Interior shall convey to the Veterans 
Home of California-Barstow, Veterans of Foreign Wars 
Post #385E (in this section referred to as the ‘‘recipi-
ent’’), all right, title, and interest of the United States 
in and to a parcel of real property consisting of approxi-
mately one acre in the Mojave National Preserve and des-
ignated (by section 8137 of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2002 (Public Law 101–117; 115 Stat. 
2278)) as a national memorial commemorating United 
States participation in World War I and honoring the 
American veterans of that war. Notwithstanding the con-
veyance of the property under this subsection, the Sec-
retary shall continue to carry out the responsibilities of 
the Secretary under such section 8137. 
(b) CONSIDERATION.—As consideration for the prop-
erty to be conveyed by the Secretary under subsection (a), 
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sandoz of Mountain Pass, California, 
have agreed to convey to the Secretary a parcel of real 
property consisting of approximately five acres, identified 
as parcel APN 569–051–44, and located in the west 1⁄2
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of the northeast 1⁄4 of the northwest 1⁄4 of the northwest 
1⁄4 of section 11, township 14 north, range 15 east, San 
Bernardino base and meridian. 
(c) EQUAL VALUE EXCHANGE; APPRAISAL.—The 
values of the properties to be exchanged under this section 
shall be equal or equalized as provided in subsection (d). 
The value of the properties shall be determined through 
an appraisal performed by a qualified appraiser in con-
formance with the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Fed-
eral Land Acquisitions (Department of Justice, December 
2000). 
(d) CASH EQUALIZATION.—Any difference in the 
value of the properties to be exchanged under this section 
shall be equalized through the making of a cash equali-
zation payment. The Secretary shall deposit any cash 
equalization payment received by the Secretary under this 
subsection in the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
(e) REVERSIONARY CLAUSE.—The conveyance under 
subsection (a) shall be subject to the condition that the 
recipient maintain the conveyed property as a memorial 
commemorating United States participation in World War 
I and honoring the American veterans of that war. If the 
Secretary determines that the conveyed property is no 
longer being maintained as a war memorial, the property 
shall revert to the ownership of the United States.
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(f) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT; ADMINISTRATION OF 
ACQUIRED LAND.—The boundaries of the Mojave Na-
tional Preserve shall be adjusted to reflect the land ex-
change required by this section. The property acquired by 
the Secretary under this section shall become part of the 
Mojave National Preserve and be administered in accord-
ance with the laws, rules, and regulations generally appli-
cable to the Mojave National Preserve. 
BLUE RIDGE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA 
SEC. 136. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be 
cited as the ‘‘Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Act of 
2003’’. 
(b) FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.—
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that: 
(A) The Blue Ridge Mountains and the ex-
tensive cultural and natural resources of the 
Blue Ridge Mountains have played a significant 
role in the history of the United States and the 
State of North Carolina. 
(B) Archaeological evidence indicates that 
the Blue Ridge Mountains have been inhabited 
by humans since the last retreat of the glaciers, 
with the Native Americans living in the area at 
the time of European discovery being primarily 
of Cherokee descent.
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(C) The Blue Ridge Mountains of western 
North Carolina, including the Great Smoky 
Mountains, played a unique and significant role 
in the establishment and development of the 
culture of the United States through several 
distinct legacies, including—
(i) the craft heritage that—
(I) was first influenced by the 
Cherokee Indians; 
(II) was the origin of the tradi-
tional
craft
movement
starting
in 
1900
and
the
contemporary
craft 
movement starting in the 1940’s; and 
(III) is carried out by over 4,000 
craftspeople in the Blue Ridge Moun-
tains of western North Carolina, the 
third largest concentration of such 
people in the United States; 
(ii) a musical heritage comprised of 
distinctive instrumental and vocal tradi-
tions that—
(I)
includes
stringband
music, 
bluegrass, ballad singing, blues, and 
sacred music;
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(II) has received national rec-
ognition; and 
(III) has made the region one of 
the richest repositories of traditional 
music
and
folklife
in
the
United 
States; 
(iii) the Cherokee heritage—
(I)
dating
back
thousands
of 
years; and 
(II) offering—
(aa)
nationally
significant 
cultural traditions practiced by 
the Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; 
(bb)
authentic
tradition 
bearers; 
(cc) historic sites; and 
(dd)
historically
important 
collections of Cherokee artifacts; 
and 
(iv) the agricultural heritage estab-
lished by the Cherokee Indians, including 
medicinal and ceremonial food crops, com-
bined with the historic European patterns 
of raising livestock, culminating in the
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largest number of specialty crop farms in 
North Carolina. 
(D) The artifacts and structures associated 
with those legacies are unusually well-preserved. 
(E) The Blue Ridge Mountains are recog-
nized as having one of the richest collections of 
historical resources in North America. 
(F) The history and cultural heritage of 
the Blue Ridge Mountains are shared with the 
States of Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. 
(G) there are significant cultural, eco-
nomic, and educational benefits in celebrating 
and promoting this mutual heritage. 
(H) according to the 2002 reports entitled 
‘‘The Blue Ridge Heritage and Cultural Part-
nership’’ and ‘‘Western North Carolina Na-
tional Heritage Area Feasibility Study and 
Plan’’, the Blue Ridge Mountains contain nu-
merous resources that are of outstanding im-
portance to the history of the United States. 
(I) it is in the interest of the United States 
to preserve and interpret the cultural and his-
torical resources of the Blue Ridge Mountains 
for the education and benefit of present and fu-
ture generations.
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(2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is 
to foster a close working relationship with, and to 
assist, all levels of government, the private sector, 
and local communities in the State in managing, 
preserving, protecting, and interpreting the cultural, 
historical, and natural resources of the Heritage 
Area while continuing to develop economic opportu-
nities. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—
(1) In this section: 
(A) HERITAGE AREA.—The term ‘‘Herit-
age Area’’ means the Blue Ridge National Her-
itage Area established by subsection (d). 
(B)
MANAGEMENT
ENTITY.—The
term 
‘‘management entity’’ means the management 
entity for the Heritage Area designated by sub-
section (d)(3). 
(C)
MANAGEMENT
PLAN.—The
term 
‘‘management plan’’ means the management 
plan for the Heritage Area approved under sub-
section (e). 
(D) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ 
means the Secretary of the Interior. 
(E) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the 
State of North Carolina.
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(d) BLUE RIDGE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established the 
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in the State. 
(2) BOUNDARIES.—The Heritage Area shall 
consist of the counties of Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, 
Buncombe,
Burke,
Caldwell,
Cherokee,
Clay, 
Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, 
Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, 
Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin, and 
Yancey in the State. 
(3) MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—As a condition of the 
receipt of funds made available under sub-
section (i), the Blue Ridge National Heritage 
Area Partnership shall be the management enti-
ty for the Heritage Area. 
(B) BOARD OF DIRECTORS.—
(i) COMPOSITION.—The management 
entity shall be governed by a board of di-
rectors
composed
of
nine
members,
of 
whom—
(I) two members shall be ap-
pointed by AdvantageWest;
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(II) two members shall be ap-
pointed by HandMade In America, 
Inc.; 
(III) one member shall be ap-
pointed by the Education Research 
Consortium of Western North Caro-
lina; 
(IV) one member shall be ap-
pointed by the Eastern Band of the 
Cherokee Indians; and 
(V) three members shall be ap-
pointed by the Governor of North 
Carolina and shall— 
(aa) reside in geographically 
diverse regions of the Heritage 
Area; 
(bb) be a representative of 
State or local governments or the 
private sector; and 
(cc) have knowledge of tour-
ism, economic and community de-
velopment, regional planning, his-
toric
preservation,
cultural
or 
natural
resources
development, 
regional planning, conservation,
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recreational services, education, 
or museum services. 
(e) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after 
the date of enactment of this section, the manage-
ment entity shall submit to the Secretary for ap-
proval a management plan for the Heritage Area. 
(2) CONSIDERATION OF OTHER PLANS AND AC-
TIONS.—In developing the management plan, the 
management entity shall—
(A) for the purpose of presenting a unified 
preservation and interpretation plan, take into 
consideration Federal, State, and local plans; 
and 
(B) provide for the participation of resi-
dents, public agencies, and private organiza-
tions in the Heritage Area. 
(3) CONTENTS.—The management plan shall—
(A) present comprehensive recommenda-
tions and strategies for the conservation, fund-
ing, management, and development of the Her-
itage Area; 
(B) identify existing and potential sources 
of Federal and non-Federal funding for the
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conservation, management, and development of 
the Heritage Area; and 
(C) include—
(i) an inventory of the cultural, histor-
ical, natural, and recreational resources of 
the Heritage Area, including a list of prop-
erty that—
(I) relates to the purposes of the 
Heritage Area; and 
(II)
should
be
conserved,
re-
stored, managed, developed, or main-
tained because of the significance of 
the property; 
(ii) a program of strategies and ac-
tions for the implementation of the man-
agement plan that identifies the roles of 
agencies and organizations that are in-
volved in the implementation of the man-
agement plan; 
(iii) an interpretive and educational 
plan for the Heritage Area; 
(iv) a recommendation of policies for 
resource management and protection that 
develop
intergovernmental
cooperative 
agreements to manage and protect the cul-
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tural, historical, natural, and recreational 
resources of the Heritage Area; and 
(v) an analysis of ways in which Fed-
eral, State, and local programs may best 
be coordinated to promote the purposes of 
this section. 
(4) EFFECT
OF
FAILURE
TO
SUBMIT.—If a 
management plan is not submitted to the Secretary 
by the date described in paragraph (1), the Sec-
retary shall not provide any additional funding 
under this section until a management plan is sub-
mitted to the Secretary. 
(5) APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF MANAGE-
MENT PLAN.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after receiving the management plan submitted 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall ap-
prove or disapprove the management plan. 
(B) CRITERIA.—In determining whether to 
approve the management plan, the Secretary 
shall consider whether the management plan—
(i) has strong local support from land-
owners, business interests, nonprofit orga-
nizations, and governments in the Heritage 
Area; and
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(ii) has a high potential for effective 
partnership mechanisms. 
(C) ACTION FOLLOWING DISAPPROVAL.—If 
the Secretary disapproves a management plan 
under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall—
(i) advise the management entity in 
writing of the reasons for the disapproval; 
(ii) make recommendations for revi-
sions to the management plan; and 
(iii) allow the management entity to 
submit to the Secretary revisions to the 
management plan. 
(D) DEADLINE FOR APPROVAL OF REVI-
SION.—Not later than 60 days after the date on 
which a revision is submitted under subpara-
graph (C)(iii), the Secretary shall approve or 
disapprove the proposed revision. 
(6) AMENDMENT OF APPROVED MANAGEMENT 
PLAN.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—After approval by the 
Secretary of a management plan, the manage-
ment entity shall periodically—
(i) review the management plan; and 
(ii) submit to the Secretary, for review 
and approval, the recommendation of the
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management entity for any amendments to 
the management plan. 
(B)
USE
OF
FUNDS.—No
funds
made 
available under subsection (i) shall be used to 
implement any amendment proposed by the 
management entity under subparagraph (A) 
until the Secretary approves the amendment. 
(f) AUTHORITIES AND DUTIES OF THE MANAGE-
MENT ENTITY.—
(1) AUTHORITIES.—For the purposes of devel-
oping and implementing the management plan, the 
management entity may use funds made available 
under subsection (i) to—
(A) make grants to, and enter into cooper-
ative agreements with, the State (including a 
political subdivision), nonprofit organizations, 
or persons; 
(B) hire and compensate staff; and 
(C) enter into contracts for goods and 
services. 
(2) DUTIES.—In addition to developing the 
management plan, the management entity shall—
(A) develop and implement the manage-
ment plan while considering the interests of di-
verse units of government, businesses, private
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property owners, and nonprofit groups in the 
Heritage Area; 
(B) conduct public meetings in the Herit-
age Area at least semiannually on the develop-
ment and implementation of the management 
plan; 
(C) give priority to the implementation of 
actions, goals, and strategies in the manage-
ment plan, including providing assistance to 
units of government, nonprofit organizations, 
and persons in—
(i) carrying out the programs that 
protect resources in the Heritage Area; 
(ii) encouraging economic viability in 
the Heritage Area in accordance with the 
goals of the management plan; 
(iii) establishing and maintaining in-
terpretive exhibits in the Heritage Area; 
(iv) developing recreational and edu-
cational
opportunities
in
the
Heritage 
Area; and 
(v) increasing public awareness of and 
appreciation for the cultural, historical, 
and
natural
resources
of
the
Heritage 
Area; and
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(D) for any fiscal year for which Federal 
funds are received under subsection (i)—
(i) submit to the Secretary a report 
that describes, for the fiscal year—
(I) the accomplishments of the 
management entity; 
(II) the expenses and income of 
the management entity; and 
(III) each entity to which a grant 
was made; 
(ii) make available for audit by Con-
gress, the Secretary, and appropriate units 
of government, all records relating to the 
expenditure of funds and any matching 
funds; and 
(iii) require, for all agreements au-
thorizing expenditure of Federal funds by 
any entity, that the receiving entity make 
available for audit all records relating to 
the expenditure of funds. 
(3) PROHIBITION
ON
THE
ACQUISITION
OF 
REAL PROPERTY.—The management entity shall not 
use Federal funds received under subsection (i) to 
acquire real property or an interest in real property. 
(g) TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may provide 
to the management entity technical assistance and, 
subject to the availability of appropriations, financial 
assistance, for use in developing and implementing 
the management plan. 
(2) PRIORITY FOR ASSISTANCE.—In providing 
assistance under subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
give priority to actions that facilitate—
(A) the preservation of the significant cul-
tural, historical, natural, and recreational re-
sources of the Heritage Area; and 
(B) the provision of educational, interpre-
tive, and recreational opportunities that are 
consistent with the resources of the Heritage 
Area. 
(h) LAND USE REGULATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this section—
(A) grants any power of zoning or land use 
to the management entity; or 
(B) modifies, enlarges, or diminishes any 
authority of the Federal Government or any 
State or local government to regulate any use 
of land under any law (including regulations). 
(2) PRIVATE PROPERTY.—Nothing in this sec-
tion—
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(A) abridges the rights of any person with 
respect to private property; 
(B) affects the authority of the State or 
local government with respect to private prop-
erty; or 
(C) imposes any additional burden on any 
property owner. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000, 
of which not more than $1,000,000 shall be made 
available for any fiscal year. 
(2) NON-FEDERAL
SHARE.—The non-Federal 
share of the cost of any activities carried out using 
Federal funds made available under subsection (a) 
shall be not less than 50 percent. 
(j) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority of 
the Secretary to provide assistance under this section ter-
minates on the date that is 15 years after the date of en-
actment of this section. 
SEC. 137. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
may be used by the Department of the Interior to support 
the Klamath Fishery Management Council.
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TITLE II—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $267,230,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $49,428,000 is for the forest inventory and analysis 
program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health man-
agement, including treatments of pests, pathogens, and 
invasive or noxious plants and for restoring and rehabili-
tating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, cooper-
ative forestry, and education and land conservation activi-
ties and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $290,758,000, to remain available until expended, as 
authorized by law: Provided, That none of the funds pro-
vided under this heading for the acquisition of lands or 
interests in lands shall be available until the Forest Serv-
ice notifies the House Committee on Appropriations and 
the Senate Committee on Appropriations, in writing, of 
specific contractual and grant details including the non-
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Federal cost share of each project, related to the acquisi-
tion of lands or interests in lands to be undertaken with 
such funds: Provided further, That each forest legacy 
grant shall be for a specific project or set of specific tasks: 
Provided further, That grants for acquisition of lands or 
conservation easements shall require that the State dem-
onstrates that 25 percent of the total value of the project 
is comprised of a non-Federal cost share. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
$1,400,792,000 (reduced by $6,000,000), to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall include 50 percent of all 
moneys received during prior fiscal years as fees collected 
under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 
1965, as amended, in accordance with section 4 of the Act 
(16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)): Provided, That unobligated bal-
ances available at the start of fiscal year 2004 shall be 
displayed by budget line item in the fiscal year 2005 budg-
et justification: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
authorize the expenditure or transfer of such sums as nec-
essary to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land 
Management, for removal, preparation, and adoption of 
excess wild horses and burros from National Forest Sys-
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tem lands and for the performance of cadastral surveys 
to designate the boundaries of such lands. 
For an additional amount to reimburse the Judgment 
Fund as required by 41 U.S.C. 612(c) for judgment liabil-
ities previously incurred, $188,405,000. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other 
lands under fire protection agreement, hazardous fuels re-
duction on or adjacent to such lands, and for emergency 
rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands and water, $1,624,632,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds including unobli-
gated balances under this head, are available for repay-
ment of advances from other appropriations accounts pre-
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
That not less than 50 percent of any unobligated balances 
remaining (exclusive of amounts for hazardous fuels re-
duction) at the end of fiscal year 2003 shall be trans-
ferred, as repayment for past advances that have not been 
repaid, to the fund established pursuant to section 3 of 
Public Law 71–319 (16 U.S.C. 576 et seq.): Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$8,000,000 of funds appropriated under this appropria-
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tion shall be used for Fire Science Research in support 
of the Joint Fire Science Program: Provided further, That 
all authorities for the use of funds, including the use of 
contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, available to 
execute the Forest and Rangeland Research appropria-
tion, are also available in the utilization of funds for Fire 
Science Research: Provided further, That funds provided 
shall be available for emergency rehabilitation and restora-
tion, hazardous fuels reduction activities in the urban-
wildland interface, support to Federal emergency re-
sponse, and wildfire suppression activities of the Forest 
Service: Provided further, That of the funds provided, 
$246,392,000 is for hazardous fuels reduction activities, 
$40,000,000
is
for
rehabilitation
and
restoration, 
$22,000,000 is for research activities and to make com-
petitive research grants pursuant to the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, as amend-
ed (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $51,000,000 is for State fire 
assistance, $8,240,000 is for volunteer fire assistance, 
$25,000,000 is for forest health activities on State, pri-
vate, and Federal lands, and $6,000,000 is for economic 
action programs: Provided further, That amounts in this 
paragraph may be transferred to the ‘‘State and Private 
Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’, and ‘‘Forest and 
Rangeland Research’’ accounts to fund State fire assist-
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ance, volunteer fire assistance, forest health management, 
economic action programs, forest and rangeland research, 
vegetation and watershed management, heritage site reha-
bilitation, and wildlife and fish habitat management and 
restoration: Provided further, That transfers of any 
amounts in excess of those authorized in this paragraph, 
shall require approval of the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations in compliance with reprogramming 
procedures contained in the House report accompanying 
this Act: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Govern-
ment and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutu-
ally agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, 
That in addition to funds provided for State Fire Assist-
ance programs, and subject to all authorities available to 
the Forest Service under the State and Private Forestry 
Appropriations, up to $15,000,000 may be used on adja-
cent non-Federal lands for the purpose of protecting com-
munities when hazard reduction activities are planned on 
national forest lands that have the potential to place such 
communities at risk: Provided further, That included in 
funding for hazardous fuel reduction is $5,000,000 for im-
plementing the Community Forest Restoration Act, Public 
Law 106–393, title VI, and any portion of such funds 
shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in accord-
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ance with authorities available to the Forest Service under 
the State and Private Forestry Appropriation: Provided 
further, That in using the funds provided in this Act for 
hazardous fuels reduction activities, the Secretary of Agri-
culture may conduct fuel reduction treatments on Federal 
lands using all contracting and hiring authorities available 
to the Secretary applicable to hazardous fuel reduction ac-
tivities under the wildland fire management accounts: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding Federal Government 
procurement and contracting laws, the Secretaries may 
conduct fuel reduction treatments, rehabilitation and res-
toration, and other activities authorized under this head-
ing on and adjacent to Federal lands using grants and 
cooperative agreements: Provided further, That notwith-
standing Federal Government procurement and con-
tracting laws, in order to provide employment and training 
opportunities to people in rural communities, the Secre-
taries may award contracts, including contracts for moni-
toring activities, to local private, non-profit, or cooperative 
entities; Youth Conservation Corps crews or related part-
nerships, with State, local and non-profit youth groups; 
small or micro-businesses; or other entities that will hire 
or train a significant percentage of local people to com-
plete such contracts: Provided further, That the authorities 
described above relating to contracts, grants, and coopera-
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tive agreements are available until all funds provided in 
this title for hazardous fuels reduction activities in the 
urban wildland interface are obligated: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture may authorize the transfer of funds appro-
priated for wildland fire management, in an aggregate 
amount not to exceed $12,000,000, between the Depart-
ments when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
jointly funded wildland fire management programs and 
projects. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $560,473,000, to remain available 
until expended for construction, reconstruction, mainte-
nance and acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and 
for construction, reconstruction, repair, decommissioning, 
and maintenance of forest roads and trails by the Forest 
Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 
U.S.C. 101 and 205: Provided, That up to $15,000,000 
of the funds provided herein for road maintenance shall 
be available for the decommissioning of roads, including 
unauthorized roads not part of the transportation system, 
which are no longer needed: Provided further, That no 
funds shall be expended to decommission any system road
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until notice and an opportunity for public comment has 
been provided on each decommissioning project. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including ad-
ministrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or wa-
ters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory au-
thority applicable to the Forest Service, $29,288,000, to 
be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
and to remain available until expended. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, 
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-
geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National 
Forests, California, as authorized by law, $1,069,000, to 
be derived from forest receipts. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived 
from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov-
ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-
thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de-
posited by non-federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and
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Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until 
expended. 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 
Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public 
Law 94–579, as amended, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$92,000, to remain available until expended, to be derived 
from the fund established pursuant to the above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 
SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to man-
age federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title 
VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
Act (Public Law 96–487), $5,535,000, to remain available 
until expended.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to 
exceed 124 passenger motor vehicles of which 21 will be 
used primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which 
124 shall be for replacement; acquisition of 25 passenger 
motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire of such vehi-
cles; operation and maintenance of aircraft, the purchase 
of not to exceed seven for replacement only, and acquisi-
tion of sufficient aircraft from excess sources to maintain 
the operable fleet at 195 aircraft for use in Forest Service 
wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs; 
notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or 
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 
5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration of 
buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); 
(4) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pur-
suant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the 
Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 
558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uniforms as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for debt col-
lection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c).
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None of the funds made available under this Act shall 
be obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move 
or close any regional office for National Forest System 
administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agri-
culture without the consent of the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions if and only if all previously appro-
priated emergency contingent funds under the heading 
‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ have been released by the 
President and apportioned and all funds under the head-
ing ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ are obligated. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice in connection with forest and rangeland research, tech-
nical information, and assistance in foreign countries, and 
shall be available to support forestry and related natural 
resource activities outside the United States and its terri-
tories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-
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cation and training, and cooperation with United States 
and international organizations. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-
ice under this Act shall be subject to transfer under the 
provisions of section 702(b) of the Department of Agri-
culture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or 7 U.S.C. 
147b unless the proposed transfer is approved in advance 
by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
in compliance with the reprogramming procedures con-
tained in the House report accompanying this Act. 
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may 
be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in ac-
cordance with the procedures contained in the House re-
port accompanying this Act. 
No funds available to the Forest Service shall be 
transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture that exceed the total amount trans-
ferred during fiscal year 2000 for such purposes without 
the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be avail-
able to conduct a program of not less than $2,000,000 
for high priority projects within the scope of the approved
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budget which shall be carried out by the Youth Conserva-
tion Corps. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $2,500 
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 
reception and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public 
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 
$3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the Na-
tional Forest Foundation to aid conservation partnership 
projects in support of the Forest Service mission, without 
regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for ad-
ministrative expenses or projects on or benefitting Na-
tional Forest System lands or related to Forest Service 
programs: Provided, That of the Federal funds made 
available to the Foundation, no more than $300,000 shall 
be available for administrative expenses: Provided further, 
That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period 
of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to 
match on at least one-for-one basis funds made available 
by the Forest Service: Provided further, That the Founda-
tion may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient 
for a project at the same rate that the recipient has ob-
tained the non-Federal matching funds: Provided further, 
That authorized investments of Federal funds held by the 
Foundation may be made only in interest-bearing obliga-
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tions of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as 
to both principal and interest by the United States. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 
$2,650,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service 
shall be available for matching funds to the National Fish 
and Wildlife Foundation, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 
3701–3709, and may be advanced in a lump sum to aid 
conservation partnership projects in support of the Forest 
Service mission, without regard to when expenses are in-
curred, for projects on or benefitting National Forest Sys-
tem lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 
That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period 
of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to 
match on at least one-for-one basis funds advanced by the 
Forest Service: Provided further, That the Foundation 
may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient for 
a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 
the non-Federal matching funds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities for sustainable rural devel-
opment purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to sections
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14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99–
663. 
Not later than 60 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit 
to Congress, and make available to interested persons, a 
report containing the results of a management review of 
outfitter and guiding operations in the John Muir, Ansel 
Adams, and Dinkey Lakes Wilderness Areas of the Inyo 
and Sierra National Forests, California. The report shall 
include information regarding: (1) how the Secretary in-
tends to minimize adverse impacts on the historic access 
rights of special use permittees in these three wilderness 
areas; and (2) how the Secretary intends to ensure timely 
compliance with the requirements of the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations or funds available to the Forest Service not 
to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Office 
of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri-
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management 
reviews, land purchase negotiations and similar non-litiga-
tion related matters. Future budget justifications for both 
the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture
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should clearly display the sums previously transferred and 
the requested funding transfers. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be used for necessary expenses in the event 
of law enforcement emergencies as necessary to protect 
natural resources and public or employee safety: Provided, 
That such amounts shall not exceed $1,000,000. 
The Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the sale 
of excess buildings, facilities, and other properties owned 
by the Forest Service and located on the Green Mountain 
National Forest, the revenues of which shall be retained 
by the Forest Service and available to the Secretary with-
out further appropriation and until expended for mainte-
nance and rehabilitation activities on the Green Mountain 
National Forest. 
The Secretary of Agriculture may transfer or reim-
burse funds available to the Forest Service, not to exceed 
$15,000,000, to the Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-
retary of Commerce to expedite conferencing and consulta-
tions as required under section 7 of the Endangered Spe-
cies Act, 16 U.S.C. 1536. The amount of the transfer or 
reimbursement shall be as mutually agreed by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior or 
Secretary of Commerce, as applicable, or their designees.
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The amount shall in no case exceed the actual costs of 
consultation and conferencing. 
Beginning on June 30, 2001 and concluding on De-
cember 31, 2004, an eligible individual who is employed 
in any project funded under Title V of the Older American 
Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered 
by the Forest Service shall be considered to be a Federal 
employee for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United 
States Code. 
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY 
(DEFERRAL) 
Of the funds made available under this heading for 
obligation in prior years, $86,000,000 shall not be avail-
able until October 1, 2004: Provided, That funds made 
available in previous appropriations Acts shall be available 
for any ongoing project regardless of the separate request 
for proposal under which the project was selected. 
FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy 
research and development activities, under the authority 
of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public 
Law 95–91), including the acquisition of interest, includ-
ing defeasible and equitable interests in any real property 
or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition or expan-
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sion, and for conducting inquiries, technological investiga-
tions and research concerning the extraction, processing, 
use, and disposal of mineral substances without objection-
able social and environmental costs (30 U.S.C. 3, 1602, 
and 1603), $609,290,000 to remain available until ex-
pended, of which $2,000,000 is to continue a multi-year 
project for construction, renovation, furnishing, and demo-
lition or removal of buildings at National Energy Tech-
nology Laboratory facilities in Morgantown, West Virginia 
and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and of which $130,000,000 
are to be made available, after coordination with the pri-
vate sector, for a request for proposals for a Clean Coal 
Power Initiative providing for competitively-awarded re-
search, development, and demonstration projects to reduce 
the barriers to continued and expanded coal use: Provided, 
That no project may be selected for which sufficient fund-
ing is not available to provide for the total project: Pro-
vided further, That funds shall be expended in accordance 
with the provisions governing the use of funds contained 
under the heading ‘‘Clean Coal Technology’’ in 42 U.S.C. 
5903d: Provided further, That the Department may in-
clude provisions for repayment of Government contribu-
tions to individual projects in an amount up to the Govern-
ment contribution to the project on terms and conditions 
that are acceptable to the Department including repay-
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ments from sale and licensing of technologies from both 
domestic and foreign transactions: Provided further, That 
such repayments shall be retained by the Department for 
future coal-related research, development and demonstra-
tion projects: Provided further, That any technology se-
lected under this program shall be considered a Clean Coal 
Technology, and any project selected under this program 
shall be considered a Clean Coal Technology Project, for 
the purposes of 42 U.S.C. 7651n, and Chapters 51, 52, 
and 60 of title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations: 
Provided further, That no part of the sum herein made 
available shall be used for the field testing of nuclear ex-
plosives in the recovery of oil and gas: Provided further, 
That up to 4 percent of program direction funds available 
to the National Energy Technology Laboratory may be 
used to support Department of Energy activities not in-
cluded in this account. 
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES 
For expenses necessary to carry out naval petroleum 
and oil shale reserve activities, $20,500,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, unobligated funds remaining 
from prior years shall be available for all naval petroleum 
and oil shale reserve activities.
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ELK HILLS SCHOOL LANDS FUND 
For necessary expenses in fulfilling installment pay-
ments under the Settlement Agreement entered into by 
the United States and the State of California on October 
11, 1996, as authorized by section 3415 of Public Law 
104–106, $36,000,000, to become available on October 1, 
2004 for payment to the State of California for the State 
Teachers’ Retirement Fund from the Elk Hills School 
Lands Fund. 
ENERGY CONSERVATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy con-
servation
activities,
$879,487,000
(increased
by 
$15,000,000, reduced by $15,000,000), to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That $270,000,000 (in-
creased by $15,000,000) shall be for use in energy con-
servation grant programs as defined in section 3008(3) 
of Public Law 99–509 (15 U.S.C. 4507): Provided further, 
That notwithstanding section 3003(d)(2) of Public Law 
99–509, such sums shall be allocated to the eligible pro-
grams
as
follows:
$225,000,000
(increased
by 
$15,000,000) for weatherization assistance grants and 
$45,000,000 for State energy program grants. 
ECONOMIC REGULATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities 
of the Office of Hearings and Appeals, $1,047,000, to re-
main available until expended.
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STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE 
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Re-
serve facility development and operations and program 
management activities pursuant to the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act of 1975, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6201 
et seq.), $175,081,000, to remain available until expended. 
NORTHEAST HOME HEATING OIL RESERVE 
For necessary expenses for Northeast Home Heating 
Oil Reserve storage, operations, and management activi-
ties pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act 
of 2000, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities 
of the Energy Information Administration, $82,111,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
Appropriations under this Act for the current fiscal 
year shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase, re-
pair, and cleaning of uniforms; and reimbursement to the 
General Services Administration for security guard serv-
ices. 
From appropriations under this Act, transfers of 
sums may be made to other agencies of the Government
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for the performance of work for which the appropriation 
is made. 
None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Energy under this Act shall be used to implement or 
finance authorized price support or loan guarantee pro-
grams unless specific provision is made for such programs 
in an appropriations Act. 
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, build-
ings, equipment, and other contributions from public and 
private sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation 
with other agencies, Federal, State, private or foreign: 
Provided, That revenues and other moneys received by or 
for the account of the Department of Energy or otherwise 
generated by sale of products in connection with projects 
of the Department appropriated under this Act may be 
retained by the Secretary of Energy, to be available until 
expended, and used only for plant construction, operation, 
costs, and payments to cost-sharing entities as provided 
in appropriate cost-sharing contracts or agreements: Pro-
vided further, That the remainder of revenues after the 
making of such payments shall be covered into the Treas-
ury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any 
contract, agreement, or provision thereof entered into by 
the Secretary pursuant to this authority shall not be exe-
cuted prior to the expiration of 30 calendar days (not in-
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cluding any day in which either House of Congress is not 
in session because of adjournment of more than 3 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 comprehensive report on such project, in-
cluding the facts and circumstances relied upon in support 
of the proposed project. 
No funds provided in this Act may be expended by 
the Department of Energy to prepare, issue, or process 
procurement documents for programs or projects for 
which appropriations have not been made. 
In addition to other authorities set forth in this Act, 
the Secretary may accept fees and contributions from pub-
lic and private sources, to be deposited in a contributed 
funds account, and prosecute projects using such fees and 
contributions in cooperation with other Federal, State or 
private agencies or concerns. 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and 
titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act with re-
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spect to the Indian Health Service, $2,556,082,000, to-
gether with payments received during the fiscal year pur-
suant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the 
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made avail-
able to tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, 
grant agreements, or any other agreements or compacts 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450), shall be 
deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant or contract 
award and thereafter shall remain available to the tribe 
or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Pro-
vided further, That $18,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended, for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emer-
gency Fund: Provided further, That $460,046,000 for con-
tract medical care shall remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 2005: Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, up to $27,000,000 to remain available 
until expended, shall be used to carry out the loan repay-
ment program under section 108 of the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided in this Act may be used for 1-year contracts and 
grants which are to be performed in 2 fiscal years, so long 
as the total obligation is recorded in the year for which 
the funds are appropriated: Provided further, That the 
amounts collected by the Secretary of Health and Human
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Services under the authority of title IV of the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act shall remain available until 
expended for the purpose of achieving compliance with the 
applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and 
XIX of the Social Security Act (exclusive of planning, de-
sign, or construction of new facilities): Provided further, 
That funding contained herein, and in any earlier appro-
priations Acts for scholarship programs under the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That 
amounts received by tribes and tribal organizations under 
title IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall 
be reported and accounted for and available to the receiv-
ing tribes and tribal organizations until expended: Pro-
vided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, of the amounts provided herein, not to exceed 
$270,734,000 shall be for payments to tribes and tribal 
organizations for contract or grant support costs associ-
ated with contracts, grants, self-governance compacts or 
annual funding agreements between the Indian Health 
Service and a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior 
to or during fiscal year 2004, of which not to exceed 
$2,500,000 may be used for contract support costs associ-
ated with new or expanded self-determination contracts,
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grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding agree-
ments: Provided further, That funds available for the In-
dian Health Care Improvement Fund may be used, as 
needed, to carry out activities typically funded under the 
Indian Health Facilities account. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, 
and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities, 
including quarters for personnel; preparation of plans, 
specifications, and drawings; acquisition of sites, purchase 
and erection of modular buildings, and purchases of trail-
ers; and for provision of domestic and community sanita-
tion facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of 
the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian 
Self-Determination Act, and the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act, and for expenses necessary to carry out 
such Acts and titles II and III of the Public Health Serv-
ice Act with respect to environmental health and facilities 
support
activities
of
the
Indian
Health
Service, 
$392,560,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds appropriated for the planning, design, construction 
or renovation of health facilities for the benefit of an In-
dian tribe or tribes may be used to purchase land for sites 
to construct, improve, or enlarge health or related facili-
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ties: Provided further, That from the funds appropriated 
herein, $5,000,000 shall be designated by the Indian 
Health Service as a contribution to the Yukon-Kuskokwim 
Health Corporation (YKHC) to complete a priority project 
for the acquisition of land, planning, design and construc-
tion of 79 staff quarters in the Bethel service area, pursu-
ant to the negotiated project agreement between the 
YKHC and the Indian Health Service: Provided further, 
That this project shall not be subject to the construction 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act and shall be removed from the In-
dian Health Service priority list upon completion: Provided 
further, That the Federal Government shall not be liable 
for any property damages or other construction claims 
that may arise from YKHC undertaking this project: Pro-
vided further, That the land shall be owned or leased by 
the YKHC and title to quarters shall remain vested with 
the YKHC: Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 
shall be used by the Indian Health Service to purchase 
TRANSAM equipment from the Department of Defense 
for distribution to the Indian Health Service and tribal 
facilities: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated to the Indian Health Service may be used for sani-
tation facilities construction for new homes funded with 
grants by the housing programs of the United States De-
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partment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided 
further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be used by the 
Indian Health Service to obtain ambulances for the Indian 
Health Service and tribal facilities in conjunction with an 
existing interagency agreement between the Indian Health 
Service and the General Services Administration: Provided 
further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be placed in 
a Demolition Fund, available until expended, to be used 
by the Indian Health Service for demolition of Federal 
buildings. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
Appropriations in this Act to the Indian Health Serv-
ice shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109 but at rates not to exceed the per diem rate equiva-
lent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level positions 
under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehicles and 
aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase of re-
prints; purchase, renovation and erection of modular 
buildings and renovation of existing facilities; payments 
for telephone service in private residences in the field, 
when authorized under regulations approved by the Sec-
retary; and for uniforms or allowances therefor as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and for expenses of attend-
ance at meetings which are concerned with the functions 
or activities for which the appropriation is made or which
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will contribute to improved conduct, supervision, or man-
agement of those functions or activities. 
In accordance with the provisions of the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients may 
be extended health care at all tribally administered or In-
dian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and the 
proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal 
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall 
be credited to the account of the facility providing the 
service and shall be available without fiscal year limitation. 
Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, funds trans-
ferred from the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment to the Indian Health Service shall be administered 
under Public Law 86–121 (the Indian Sanitation Facili-
ties Act) and Public Law 93–638, as amended. 
Funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service in 
this Act, except those used for administrative and program 
direction purposes, shall not be subject to limitations di-
rected at curtailing Federal travel and transportation. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
previously or herein made available to a tribe or tribal or-
ganization through a contract, grant, or agreement au-
thorized by title I or title III of the Indian Self-Determina-
tion and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 
450), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-deter-
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mination contract under title I, or a self-governance agree-
ment under title III of such Act and thereafter shall re-
main available to the tribe or tribal organization without 
fiscal year limitation. 
None of the funds made available to the Indian 
Health Service in this Act shall be used to implement the 
final rule published in the Federal Register on September 
16, 1987, by the Department of Health and Human Serv-
ices, relating to the eligibility for the health care services 
of the Indian Health Service until the Indian Health Serv-
ice has submitted a budget request reflecting the increased 
costs associated with the proposed final rule, and such re-
quest has been included in an appropriations Act and en-
acted into law. 
With respect to functions transferred by the Indian 
Health Service to tribes or tribal organizations, the Indian 
Health Service is authorized to provide goods and services 
to those entities, on a reimbursable basis, including pay-
ment in advance with subsequent adjustment. The reim-
bursements received therefrom, along with the funds re-
ceived from those entities pursuant to the Indian Self-De-
termination Act, may be credited to the same or subse-
quent appropriation account which provided the funding. 
Such amounts shall remain available until expended.
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Reimbursements for training, technical assistance, or 
services provided by the Indian Health Service will contain 
total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead 
associated with the provision of goods, services, or tech-
nical assistance. 
The appropriation structure for the Indian Health 
Service may not be altered without advance approval of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93–
531, $13,532,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appro-
priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals 
and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti-
tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in-
cluded in the preceding categories: Provided further, That 
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may 
be used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Reloca-
tion to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as 
of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the 
lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or re-