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provision of law, $15,000 under this head shall be avail-
able for refunds of overpayments in connection with cer-
tain Indian leases in which the Director of the Minerals
Management Service concurred with the claimed refund
due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes,
or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous payments.
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,
$6,440,000, 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; $94,172,000, and notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, an additional amount shall be credited to
this account, to remain available until expended, from per-
formance bond forfeitures in fiscal year 1997: Provided,
That the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to regula-
tions, may utilize directly or through grants to States,
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moneys collected in fiscal year 1997 for civil penalties as-
sessed under section 518 of the Surface Mining Control
and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim
lands adversely affected by coal mining practices after Au-
gust 3, 1977, to remain available until expended: Provided
further, That appropriations for the Office of Surface Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the
travel and per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel
attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and En-
forcement 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, $177,085,000, to be derived from receipts of
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain
available until expended; of which up to $4,000,000 shall
be for supplemental grants to States for the reclamation
of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from coal
mines through the Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative:
Provided, That grants to minimum program States will
be $1,500,000 per State in fiscal year 1997: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds herein provided up to $18,000,000
may be used for the emergency program authorized by sec-
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tion 410 of Public Law 95–87, as amended, of which no
more than 25 per centum shall be used for emergency rec-
lamation projects in any one State and funds for federally-
administered emergency reclamation projects under this
proviso shall not exceed $11,000,000: Provided further,
That prior year unobligated funds appropriated for the
emergency reclamation program shall not be subject to the
25 per centum limitation per State and may be used with-
out fiscal year limitation for emergency projects: Provided
further, That pursuant to Public Law 97–365, the Depart-
ment of the Interior is authorized to use up to 20 per
centum from the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to
the United States Government to pay for contracts to col-
lect these debts: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able to States under title IV of Public Law 95–87 may
be used, at their discretion, 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:
Provided further, That the State of Maryland may set
aside the greater of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total
of the grants made available to the State under title IV
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of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
1977, as amended (30 U.S.C. 1231 et seq.), if the amount
set aside is deposited in an acid mine drainage abatement
and treatment fund established under a State law, pursu-
ant to which law the amount (together with all interest
earned on the amount) is expended by the State to under-
take acid mine drainage abatement and treatment
projects, except that before any amounts greater than 10
percent of its title IV grants are deposited in an acid mine
drainage abatement and treatment fund, the State of
Maryland must first complete all Surface Mining Control
and Reclamation Act priority one projects.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For operation of Indian programs by direct expendi-
ture, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and
grants including expenses necessary to provide education
and welfare services for Indians, either directly or in co-
operation with States and other organizations, including
payment of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses
of Indians in boarding homes, or institutions, or schools;
grants and other assistance to needy Indians; maintenance
of law and order; management, development, improve-
ment, and protection of resources and appurtenant facili-
ties under the jurisdiction of the Bureau, including pay-
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ment of irrigation assessments and charges; acquisition of
water rights; advances for Indian industrial and business
enterprises; operation of Indian arts and crafts shops and
museums; development of Indian arts and crafts, as au-
thorized by law; for the general administration of the Bu-
reau, including such expenses in field offices; maintaining
of Indian reservation roads as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101;
and construction, repair, and improvement of Indian hous-
ing, $1,436,902,000, of which not to exceed $86,520,000
shall be for welfare assistance payments and not to exceed
$90,829,000 shall be for payments to tribes and tribal or-
ganizations for contract support costs associated with on-
going contracts or grants or compacts entered into with
the Bureau prior to fiscal year 1997, as authorized by the
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and
up to $5,000,000 shall be for the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Fund, which shall be available for the transitional
cost of initial or expanded tribal contracts, grants, com-
pacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau under
such Act; and of which not to exceed $365,124,000 for
school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and
other education programs shall become available on July
1, 1997, and shall remain available until September 30,
1998; and of which not to exceed $53,805,000 for higher
education scholarships, adult vocational training, and as-
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sistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq.,
shall remain available until September 30, 1998; and of
which not to exceed $54,973,000 shall remain available
until expended for housing improvement, road mainte-
nance, attorney fees, litigation support, self-governance
grants, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, and the Nav-
ajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That tribes and
tribal contractors may use their tribal priority allocations
for unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants or
compact agreements and for unmet welfare assistance
costs: Provided further, That funds made available to
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts or grants
obligated during fiscal year 1997, as authorized by the In-
dian Self-Determination Act of 1975, or grants authorized
by the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C.
2001 and 2008A) shall remain available until expended
by the contractor or grantee: Provided further, That to
provide funding uniformity within a Self-Governance Com-
pact, any funds provided in this Act with availability for
more than one year may be reprogrammed to one year
availability but shall remain available within the Compact
until expended: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, Indian tribal governments may,
by appropriate changes in eligibility criteria or by other
means, change eligibility for general assistance or change