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NORTHEAST HOME HEATING OIL RESERVE
For necessary expenses for Northeast Home Heating Oil
Reserve storage, operations, and management activities 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 avail-
able 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, repair, and cleaning of uniforms;
and reimbursement to the General Services Administration for secu-
rity guard services.
From appropriations under this Act, transfers of sums may
be made to other agencies of the Government 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 programs unless specific provision
is made for such programs in an appropriations Act.
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equip-
ment, 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 con-
tracts or agreements: Provided further, That the remainder of reve-
nues after the making of such payments shall be covered into
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any
contract, agreement, or provision thereof entered into by the Sec-
retary pursuant to this authority shall not be executed prior to
the expiration of 30 calendar days (not including 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,
including the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of
the proposed project.
No funds provided in this Act may be expended by the Depart-
ment 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 Sec-
retary may accept fees and contributions from public and private
sources, to be deposited in a contributed funds account, and pros-
ecute projects using such fees and contributions in cooperation
with other Federal, State or private agencies or concerns.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954
(68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination Act, the Indian Health
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health
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$2,561,932,000, together with payments received during the fiscal
year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made available to
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements,
or any other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian
Self-Determination and Education 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: Provided
further, That up to $18,000,000 shall remain available until
expended, for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund:
Provided further, That $467,046,000 for contract 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 Improve-
ment Act: Provided further, That funds provided in this Act may
be used for one-year contracts and grants which are to be performed
in two 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
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, design, or construction of new facilities):
Provided further, That funding contained herein, and in any earlier
appropriations Acts for scholarship programs under the Indian
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain avail-
able 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 receiving tribes and tribal organizations until
expended: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, of the amounts provided herein, not to exceed
$270,734,000 shall be for payments to tribes and tribal organiza-
tions for contract or grant support costs associated 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 associated with new or
expanded self-determination contracts, grants, self-governance com-
pacts or annual funding agreements: Provided further, That funds
available for the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund may be
used, as needed, to carry out activities typically funded under
the Indian Health Facilities account: Provided further, That of
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the amounts provided to the Indian Health Service, $15,000,000
is provided for alcohol control, enforcement, prevention, treatment,
sobriety and wellness, and education in Alaska to be distributed
as direct lump sum payments as follows: (a) $2,000,000 to the
State of Alaska for regional distribution to hire and equip additional
Village Public Safety Officers to engage primarily in bootlegging
prevention and enforcement activities; (b) $5,000,000 to the Alaska
Native Tribal Health Consortium, which shall be allocated for:
(1) substance abuse and behavioral health counselors through the
Counselor in Every Village program; and (2) comprehensive sub-
stance abuse training programs for counselors and others delivering
substance abuse services; (c) $6,000,000 to be divided as follows
among the following Alaska Native regional organizations to provide
substance abuse treatment and prevention programs: (1) $2,500,000
for Southcentral Foundation’s Pathway Home; (2) $1,500,000 for
Cook Inlet Tribal Council’s substance abuse prevention and treat-
ment programs; (3) $1,500,000 for Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Cor-
poration’s Tundra Swan Inhalant Abuse Center; and (4) $500,000
for the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium for its Deilee
Hitt program; and (d) $2,000,000 for the Alaska Federation of
Natives sobriety and wellness program for competitive merit-based
grants: Provided further, That none of the funds may be used
for tribal courts or tribal ordinance programs or any program that
is not directly related to alcohol control, enforcement, prevention,
treatment, or sobriety: Provided further, That no more than 10
percent may be used by any entity receiving funding for administra-
tive overhead including indirect costs: Provided further, That the
State of Alaska must maintain its existing level of effort and must
use these funds to enhance or expand existing efforts or initiate
new projects or programs and may not use such funds to supplant
existing programs.
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, and equip-
ment 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 trailers; and for provision of domestic and commu-
nity sanitation 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 Improvement Act,
and for expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II
and III of the Public Health Service Act with respect to environ-
mental health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health
Service, $396,232,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-
priated for the planning, design, construction or renovation of health
facilities for the benefit of an Indian tribe or tribes may be used
to purchase land for sites to construct, improve, or enlarge health
or related facilities: Provided further, That from the funds appro-
priated herein, $5,000,000 shall be designated by the Indian Health
Service as a contribution to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corpora-
tion (YKHC) to complete a priority project for the acquisition of
land, planning, design and construction of 79 staff quarters in
the Bethel service area, pursuant to the negotiated project agree-
ment between the YKHC and the Indian Health Service: Provided
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further, That this project shall not be subject to the construction
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assist-
ance Act and shall be removed from the Indian 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: Provided 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 equip-
ment from the Department of Defense for distribution to the Indian
Health Service and tribal facilities: Provided further, That none
of the funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service may be
used for sanitation facilities construction for new homes funded
with grants by the housing programs of the United States Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That
not to exceed $1,000,000 from this account and the ‘‘Indian Health
Services’’ account 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 Service shall
be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at
rates not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent 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 equip-
ment; purchase of reprints; purchase, renovation and erection of
modular buildings and renovation of existing facilities; payments
for telephone service in private residences in the field, when author-
ized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and for uniforms
or allowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and
for expenses of attendance at meetings which are concerned with
the functions or activities for which the appropriation is made
or which will contribute to improved conduct, supervision, or
management 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 Indian 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 transferred
from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the
Indian Health Service shall be administered under Public Law
86–121 (the Indian Sanitation Facilities 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 pur-
poses, shall not be subject to limitations directed at curtailing
Federal travel and transportation.