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Recreation Area emphasizing outdoor recreation, environ-
mental education, fish and wildlife conservation, and re-
gional development. The Secretary shall conduct an inven-
tory of all cemeteries located in the Recreation Area and
ensure public access to such cemeteries for purposes of
burials, visitation and maintenance.
(d) FEES AND OTHER CHARGES.—The Secretary of
Agriculture may charge reasonable fees for admission to
and the use of designated sites in the Recreation Area or
for activities in the Recreation Area. No general entrance
fees shall be charged within the Recreation Area. Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, all amounts received
from charges, user fees, and natural resource utilization,
including timber and agricultural receipts, arising from
the Recreation Area shall be deposited in a special fund
in the Treasury to be known as the ‘‘Land Between the
Lakes Management Fund’’, which shall be available to the
Secretary, without subsequent appropriation, for the man-
agement of the Recreation Area, including the payment
of salaries and expenses.
(e) PAYMENTS.—Federal lands within the Recreation
Area shall be subject to the provisions for payments in
lieu of taxes under chapter 69 of title 31, United States
Code. Notwithstanding the transfer of jurisdiction, the
Tennessee Valley Authority shall continue to be respon-
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sible for payments under section 13 of the Tennessee Val-
ley Authority Act of 1933 (16 U.S.C. 831l).
(f) TRANSITION.—(1) The transfer of jurisdiction
under subsection (b) should be effected in an efficient and
cost-effective manner to minimize the disruption of the
personal lives of the Tennessee Valley Authority and For-
est Service employees affected by the transfer. Not later
than 30 days after the date on which this section takes
effect, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Tennessee Val-
ley Authority shall enter into a memorandum of agreement
to provide procedures for the orderly withdrawal or trans-
fer of officers and employees of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority, the transfer of property, fixtures, and facilities,
the interagency transfer of officers and employees, the
transfer of records, and such other transfer issues as the
Tennessee Valley Authority and the Secretary consider to
be appropriate. The agreement shall provide for a transi-
tion team consisting of Tennessee Valley Authority and
Forest Service employees.
(2) In order to provide for a cost-effective transfer
of the law enforcement responsibilities between the Forest
Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority, the law en-
forcement authorities designated under section 4A of the
Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (16 U.S.C. 831c–
3) are hereby granted to special agents and law enforce-
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ment officers of the Forest Service. The law enforcement
authorities designated under the 11th undesignated para-
graph under the heading ‘‘SURVEYING
THE
PUBLIC
LANDS’’ of the Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 35; 16
U.S.C. 551), the first paragraph of that portion des-
ignated ‘‘GENERAL EXPENSES, FOREST SERVICE’’ of the
Act of March 3, 1905 (33 U.S.C. 873; 16 U.S.C. 559),
the National Forest System Drug Control Act of 1986 (16
U.S.C. 559b–559g) are hereby granted to law enforcement
agents of the Tennessee Valley Authority, within the
boundaries of the Recreation Area, for a period of one year
from the date on which this section takes effect.
(3) Unless terminated for cause, all permanent Ten-
nessee Valley Authority employees at the Recreation Area
shall be guaranteed employment by the Tennessee Valley
Authority for a minimum of five months following the date
on which this section takes effect. The Tennessee Valley
Authority shall provide affected employees of the Ten-
nessee Valley Authority at the Recreation Area with a sev-
erance/compensation package based on established prac-
tices of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Funding for the
activities prescribed for the Tennessee Valley Authority in
this section is to be derived only from one or more of the
following sources: nonpower fund balances and collections;
investment returns of the nonpower program; applied pro-
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grammatic savings in the power and nonpower programs;
savings from the suspension of bonuses and awards; sav-
ings from reductions in memberships and contributions;
increases in collections resulting from nonpower activities,
including user fees; or increases in charges to private and
public utilities both investor and cooperatively owned, as
well as to direct load customers. Such funds are available
to fund the activities under this paragraph, notwithstand-
ing sections 11, 14, 15, 29, or other provisions of the Ten-
nessee Valley Authority Act, as amended, or provisions of
the TVA power bond covenants. The savings from, and
revenue adjustments to, the TVA budget in fiscal year
1999 and thereafter shall be sufficient to fund the afore-
mentioned activities such that the net spending authority
and resulting outlays for these activities shall not exceed
$0 in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter. Within 30 days of
enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the TVA shall sub-
mit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions an itemized list of the amounts of the proposed re-
duction and increased receipts to be made pursuant to this
section in fiscal year 1999. By November 1, 2000, the
Chairman of the TVA shall submit to the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations an itemized list of the
amounts of the reductions and increased receipts made
pursuant to this paragraph for fiscal year 1999.
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(g) ADVISORY BOARD.—Within 90 days after the
date on which this section takes effect, the Secretary of
Agriculture shall establish a 17-member citizen advisory
board to advise the Secretary on environmental education
in the Recreation Area and means of promoting public
participation for the land and resource management plan
for the Recreation Area.
SEC. 333. (a) Any appropriations contained in this
Act or any other Act for the operation or implementation
of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management
Project (hereinafter ‘‘Project’’) shall be obligated or ex-
pended only as provided in this section.
(b) Within 120 days of the date of enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the
Interior shall—
(1) prepare and submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and
the Senate the report required by section 323(a) of
the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 1998 (111 Stat. 1543, 1596–7),
including any additional information necessary to
correspond with the requirements of this section;
(2) distribute for advisory purposes to each na-
tional forest and each resource area or other rel-
evant planning unit of the Bureau of Land Manage-
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ment within the region encompassed by the Project
(hereinafter ‘‘Project forest’’) all relevant scientific
findings of the Project and the report required by
paragraph (1); and
(3) conduct and complete the orderly closing of
the offices of the Project.
(c)(1)(A) Within 90 days after the completion of the
requirements of subsection (b), each Forest Service Super-
visor of, or Bureau of Land Management official with ju-
risdiction over, a Project forest shall review the resource
management plan or other land use plan for the Project
forest (hereinafter ‘‘plan’’), and, as they may relate to the
specific resources and conditions existing on the Project
forest as of the date of enactment of this Act, the scientific
information and report provided pursuant to subsection
(b)(2) and any policies made applicable to the Project for-
est prior to the date of enactment of this Act, and deter-
mine whether an amendment to or revision of the plan
is warranted.
(B) If the determination is made pursuant to sub-
paragraph (A) that a plan amendment or revision is war-
ranted, preparation of the amendment or revision shall be
completed within 12 months or 18 months, respectively,
of the date of the determination.
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(2) To the maximum extent practicable, any plan
amendment or revision prepared pursuant to paragraph
(1)(B) shall provide for management standards appro-
priate to the specific conditions of individual sites and
avoid the imposition of general standards applicable to
multiple sites.
SEC. 334. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 1998
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the fourteenth
paragraph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of
the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501)
shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without re-
gard to the State in which the amounts were derived, to
carry out and administer projects on National Forest Sys-
tem lands to improve forest health conditions and repair
or reconstruct roads, bridges and trails, in particular
projects on National Forest System lands in the wildland-
urban interface and elsewhere where there is an abnor-
mally high risk of fire. The projects shall emphasize reduc-
ing risks to human safety and public health and property
and enhancing ecological functions, long-term forest pro-
ductivity, and biological integrity. The Secretary shall
commence the projects during fiscal year 1999, but the
projects may be completed in a subsequent fiscal year.
SEC. 335. Section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indem-
nity Act (20 U.S.C. 974) is amended as follows:
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In subsection (b) strike ‘‘$3,000,000,000’’ and
insert in lieu thereof ‘‘$5,000,000,000’’.
In subsection (c) strike ‘‘$300,000,000’’ and in-
sert in lieu thereof ‘‘$500,000,000’’.
In subsection (d)(4) strike the final ‘‘or’’.
In subsection (d)(5) strike ‘‘$200,000,000 or
more’’ and insert in lieu thereof ‘‘not less than
$200,000,000 but less than $300,000,000’’ and
strike the final period and insert in lieu thereof ‘‘;’’.
After subsection (d)(5) insert the following 2
new subsections:
‘‘(6) not less than $300,000,000 but less than
$400,000,000, then coverage under this chapter
shall extend only to loss or damage in excess of the
first $300,000 of loss or damage to items covered;
or
‘‘(7) $400,000,000 or more, then coverage
under this chapter shall extend only to loss or dam-
age in excess of the first $400,000 of loss or damage
to items covered.’’.
TULARE CONVEYANCE
SEC. 336. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsections
(c) and (d), all conveyances to the Redevelopment Agency
of the City of Tulare, California, of lands described in sub-
section (b), heretofore or hereafter, made directly by the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, or its succes-
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sors, are hereby validated to the extent that the convey-
ances would be legal or valid if all right, title, and interest
of the United States, except minerals, were held by the
Southern Pacific Transportation Company.
(b) LANDS DESCRIBED.—The lands referred to in
subsection (a) are the parcels shown on the map entitled
‘‘Tulare Redevelopment Agency-Railroad Parcels Pro-
posed to be Acquired’’, dated May 29, 1997, that formed
part of a railroad right-of-way granted to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, or its successors, agents, or as-
signs, by the Federal Government (including the right-of-
way approved by an Act of Congress on July 27, 1866).
The map referred to in this subsection shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the offices of the Director
of the Bureau of Land Management.
(c) PRESERVATION OF EXISTING RIGHTS OF AC-
CESS.—Nothing in this section shall impair any existing
rights of access in favor of the public or any owner of
adjacent lands over, under or across the lands which are
referred to in subsection (a).
(d) MINERALS.—The United States disclaims any
and all right of surface entry to the mineral estate of lands
described in subsection (b).
SEC. 337. The final set of maps entitled ‘‘Coastal
Barrier Resources System’’, dated ‘‘October 24, 1990, re-
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vised November 12, 1996’’, and relating to the following
units of the Coastal Barrier Resources System: P04A,
P05/P05P; P05A/P05AP, FL–06P; P10/P10P; P11;
P11AP; P11A; P18/P18P; P25/P25P; and P32/P32P
(which set of maps were created by the Department of
the Interior to comply with section 220 of Public Law
104–333, 110 Stat. 4115, and notice of which was pub-
lished in the Federal Register on May 28, 1997) shall have
the force and effect of law and replace and substitute for
any other inconsistent Coastal Barrier Resource System
map in the possession of the Department of the Interior.
This provision is effective immediately upon enactment of
this Act and the Secretary of the Interior or his designee
shall immediately make this ministerial substitution.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999’’.
Union Calendar No. 343
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4193
[Report No. 105–609]
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of the
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1999, and for other pur-
poses.
JULY 8, 1998
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed