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placement home is provided for such household: Provided 
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than 
one new or replacement home: Provided further, That the 
Office shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who 
have selected and received an approved homesite on the 
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off 
the Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant 
to 25 U.S.C. 640d–10. 
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 
CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author-
ized by title XV of Public Law 99–498, as amended (20 
U.S.C. 56 part A), $5,250,000. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields 
of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and 
documentation of the National Collections; presentation of 
public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, 
dissemination, and exchange of information and publica-
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease
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(for terms not to exceed 30 years), and protection of build-
ings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 
for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; up to five 
replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, repair, 
and cleaning of uniforms for employees, $489,748,000, of 
which not to exceed $46,903,000 for the instrumentation 
program, collections acquisition, exhibition reinstallation, 
the National Museum of the American Indian, and the re-
patriation of skeletal remains program shall remain avail-
able until expended; and of which $828,000 for fellowships 
and scholarly awards shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2005; and including such funds as may be nec-
essary to support American overseas research centers and 
a total of $125,000 for the Council of American Overseas 
Research Centers: Provided, That funds appropriated 
herein are available for advance payments to independent 
contractors performing research services or participating 
in official Smithsonian presentations: Provided further, 
That the Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal ap-
propriations designated in this Act for lease or rent pay-
ments for long term and swing space, as rent payable to 
the Smithsonian Institution, and such rent payments may 
be deposited into the general trust funds of the Institution 
to the extent that federally supported activities are housed 
in the 900 H Street, N.W. building in the District of Co-
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lumbia: Provided further, That this use of Federal appro-
priations shall not be construed as debt service, a Federal 
guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or an obligation of, 
the Federal Government: Provided further, That no appro-
priated funds may be used to service debt which is in-
curred to finance the costs of acquiring the 900 H Street 
building or of planning, designing, and constructing im-
provements to such building. 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized 
by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 
and
for
construction,
including
necessary
personnel, 
$93,970,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 is for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and repair or res-
toration of facilities of the Smithsonian Institution may 
be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on 
the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price: Pro-
vided further, That balances from amounts previously ap-
propriated under the headings ‘‘Repair, Restoration and 
Alteration of Facilities’’ and ‘‘Construction’’ shall be
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transferred to and merged with this appropriation and 
shall remain until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, SMITHSONIAN 
INSTITUTION 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to make any changes to the existing Smithsonian 
science programs including closure of facilities, relocation 
of staff or redirection of functions and programs without 
approval from the Board of Regents of recommendations 
received from the Science Commission. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to initiate the design for any proposed expansion of 
current space or new facility without consultation with the 
House and Senate Appropriations Committees. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used for the Holt House located at the National Zoological 
Park in Washington, D.C., unless identified as repairs to 
minimize water damage, monitor structure movement, or 
provide interim structural support. 
None of the funds available to the Smithsonian may 
be reprogrammed without the advance written approval of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in 
accordance with the procedures contained in the House 
report accompanying this Act.
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The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution may es-
tablish a voluntary separation incentive program substan-
tially similar to the program established under section 
1313(a) of the ‘‘Homeland Security Act of 2002’’ (Public 
Law 107–296, 116 Stat. 2135) for individuals serving in 
civil service positions in the Smithsonian Institution. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art 
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as 
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), 
as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 
(Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in ad-
vance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for 
membership in library, museum, and art associations or 
societies whose publications or services are available to 
members only, or to members at a price lower than to the 
general public; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms 
for guards, and uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other 
employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); 
purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting 
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alter-
ation, improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches,
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and grounds; and purchase of services for restoration and 
repair of works of art for the National Gallery of Art by 
contracts made, without advertising, with individuals, 
firms, or organizations at such rates or prices and under 
such terms and conditions as the Gallery may deem prop-
er, $88,849,000, of which not to exceed $3,026,000 for 
the special exhibition program shall remain available until 
expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and 
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 
otherwise, as authorized, $11,600,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair 
or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art 
may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded 
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 
ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-
nance and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts, $16,560,000.
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CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-
tion of the existing features of the building and site of 
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$16,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 
SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,604,000. 
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 
HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
as amended, $117,480,000 (increased by $10,000,000), 
shall be available to the National Endowment for the Arts 
for the support of projects and productions in the arts 
through assistance to organizations and individuals pursu-
ant to sections 5(c) and 5(g) of the Act, including 
$17,000,000 (increased by $10,000,000) for support of 
arts education and public outreach activities through the
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Challenge America program, for program support, and for 
administering the functions of the Act, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That funds previously appro-
priated to the National Endowment for the Arts ‘‘Match-
ing Grants’’ account and ‘‘Challenge America’’ account 
may be transferred to and merged with this account. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
as amended, $120,878,000 (increased by $5,000,000), 
shall be available to the National Endowment for the Hu-
manities for support of activities in the humanities, pursu-
ant to section 7(c) of the Act, and for administering the 
functions of the Act, to remain available until expended. 
MATCHING GRANTS 
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the 
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act 
of 1965, as amended, $16,122,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $10,436,000 shall be available 
to the National Endowment for the Humanities for the 
purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That this appropria-
tion shall be available for obligation only in such amounts 
as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, 
and devises of money, and other property accepted by the
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chairman or by grantees of the Endowment under the pro-
visions of subsections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during 
the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal 
amounts have not previously been appropriated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used 
to process any grant or contract documents which do not 
include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none 
of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on 
the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re-
ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 
That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as 
necessary for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants up to 
$10,000, if in the aggregate this amount does not exceed 
5 percent of the sums appropriated for grant making pur-
poses per year: Provided further, That such small grant 
actions are taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed 
and direct delegation of authority from the National Coun-
cil on the Arts to the Chairperson.
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COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing 
a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $1,422,000: 
Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge 
fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such 
fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col-
lection, to remain available until expended without further 
appropriation. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956(a)), as amended, $7,000,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
None of the funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act, except funds appropriated to the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, shall be available to study the alteration 
or transfer of the National Capital Arts and Cultural Af-
fairs program. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665, as amended), 
$4,100,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be 
available for compensation of level V of the Executive 
Schedule or higher positions.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the Na-
tional Capital Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i), 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$7,730,000: Provided, That for fiscal year 2004 and there-
after, all appointed members of the Commission will be 
compensated at a rate not to exceed the daily equivalent 
of the annual rate of pay for positions at level IV of the 
Executive Schedule for each day such member is engaged 
in the actual performance of duties. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301–
2310), $39,997,000, of which $1,900,000 for the muse-
um’s repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 
for the museum’s exhibitions program shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Om-
nibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, 
$20,700,000 shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to 
remain available until expended.
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TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 
of public record and available for public inspection, except 
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 
promote public support or opposition to any legislative 
proposal on which congressional action is not complete. 
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 304. None of the funds provided in this Act to 
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended 
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal 
servants to any officer or employee of such department 
or agency except as otherwise provided by law. 
SEC. 305. No assessments, charges, or billings may 
be levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, 
or project funded by this Act unless advance notice of such 
assessments, charges, or billings and the basis therefor are
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presented to the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations and are approved by such Committees. 
SEC. 306. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classi-
fied as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which 
are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land 
Management lands in a manner different than such sales 
were conducted in fiscal year 2002. 
SEC. 307. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or 
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill 
site claim located under the general mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (a) 
shall not apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines 
that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent application was 
filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; 
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, 
and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 
37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case 
may be, were fully complied with by the applicant by that 
date.
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(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2004, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
a report on actions taken by the Department under the 
plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208). 
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process 
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, 
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of 
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified 
third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of 
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land 
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose 
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the 
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors. 
SEC. 308. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts appropriated to or earmarked in committee 
reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian 
Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 104–
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134, 104–208, 105–83, 105–277, 106–113, 106–291, 
107–63, and 108–7 for payments to tribes and tribal orga-
nizations for contract support costs associated with self-
determination or self-governance contracts, grants, com-
pacts, or annual funding agreements with the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service as funded by 
such Acts, are the total amounts available for fiscal years 
1994 through 2003 for such purposes, except that, for the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organizations 
may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect 
costs of ongoing contracts, grants, self-governance com-
pacts or annual funding agreements. 
SEC. 309. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts—
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant 
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-
dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-
ship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures 
to ensure that no funding provided through a grant, 
except a grant made to a State or local arts agency, 
or regional group, may be used to make a grant to 
any other organization or individual to conduct ac-
tivity independent of the direct grant recipient.
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Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments 
made in exchange for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the 
contents of the season, including identified programs 
and/or projects. 
SEC. 310. The National Endowment for the Arts and 
the National Endowment for the Humanities are author-
ized to solicit, accept, receive, and invest in the name of 
the United States, gifts, bequests, or devises of money and 
other property or services and to use such in furtherance 
of the functions of the National Endowment for the Arts 
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any 
proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after ac-
ceptance by the National Endowment for the Arts or the 
National Endowment for the Humanities, shall be paid by 
the donor or the representative of the donor to the Chair-
man. The Chairman shall enter the proceeds in a special 
interest-bearing account to the credit of the appropriate 
endowment for the purposes specified in each case. 
SEC. 311. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-
priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National 
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given
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to providing services or awarding financial assistance for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve 
underserved populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means 
a population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview 
of arts and humanities programs due to factors such 
as a high incidence of income below the poverty line 
or to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) (applicable to a family of 
the size involved. 
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and 
Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this 
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv-
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-
tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public 
knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of 
the arts.
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(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965—
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds 
to any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by 
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 5 of such Act; and 
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 
grants to improve and support community-based 
music performance and education. 
SEC. 312. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be expended or obligated to complete and 
issue the 5-year program under the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act. 
SEC. 313. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to support Government-wide administrative functions un-
less such functions are justified in the budget process and
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funding is approved by the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
SEC. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds in this Act may be used for GSA 
Telecommunication Centers. 
SEC. 315. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for fiscal year 2004 the Secretaries of Agriculture and 
the Interior are authorized to limit competition for water-
shed restoration project contracts as part of the ‘‘Jobs in 
the Woods’’ Program established in Region 10 of the For-
est Service to individuals and entities in historically tim-
ber-dependent areas in the States of Washington, Oregon, 
northern California, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska that 
have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Fed-
eral lands. The Secretaries shall consider the benefits to 
the local economy in evaluating bids and designing pro-
curements which create economic opportunities for local 
contractors. 
SEC. 316. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2003 
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the 14th para-
graph 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 regard 
to the State in which the amounts were derived, to repair 
or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National For-
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est System lands or to carry out and administer projects 
to improve forest health conditions, which may include the 
repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and trails on 
National Forest System lands in the wildland-community 
interface where there is an abnormally high risk of fire. 
The projects shall emphasize reducing risks to human 
safety and public health and property and enhancing eco-
logical functions, long-term forest productivity, and bio-
logical integrity. The projects may be completed in a sub-
sequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended under 
this section to replace funds which would otherwise appro-
priately be expended from the timber salvage sale fund. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any 
project from any environmental law. 
SEC. 317. Other than in emergency situations, none 
of the funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone 
answering machines during core business hours unless 
such answering machines include an option that enables 
callers to reach promptly an individual on-duty with the 
agency being contacted. 
SEC. 318. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be adver-
tised if the indicated rate is deficit when appraised using 
a residual value approach that assigns domestic Alaska 
values for western redcedar. Program accomplishments 
shall be based on volume sold. Should Region 10 sell, in
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fiscal year 2004, the annual average portion of the decadal 
allowable sale quantity called for in the current Tongass 
Land Management Plan in sales which are not deficit 
when appraised using a residual value approach that as-
signs domestic Alaska values for western redcedar, all of 
the western redcedar timber from those sales which is sur-
plus to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska, shall 
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 
48 United States at prevailing domestic prices. Should Re-
gion 10 sell, in fiscal year 2003, less than the annual aver-
age portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called 
for in the Tongass Land Management Plan in sales which 
are not deficit when appraised using a residual value ap-
proach that assigns domestic Alaska values for western 
redcedar, the volume of western redcedar timber available 
to domestic processors at prevailing domestic prices in the 
contiguous 48 United States shall be that volume: (i) 
which is surplus to the needs of domestic processors in 
Alaska, and (ii) is that percent of the surplus western 
redcedar volume determined by calculating the ratio of the 
total timber volume which has been sold on the Tongass 
to the annual average portion of the decadal allowable sale 
quantity called for in the current Tongass Land Manage-
ment Plan. The percentage shall be calculated by Region 
10 on a rolling basis as each sale is sold (for purposes
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of this amendment, a ‘‘rolling basis’’ shall mean that the 
determination of how much western redcedar is eligible for 
sale to various markets shall be made at the time each 
sale is awarded). Western redcedar shall be deemed ‘‘sur-
plus to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska’’ when 
the timber sale holder has presented to the Forest Service 
documentation of the inability to sell western redcedar logs 
from a given sale to domestic Alaska processors at a price 
equal to or greater than the log selling value stated in 
the contract. All additional western redcedar volume not 
sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United States domestic 
processors may be exported to foreign markets at the elec-
tion of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may 
be sold at prevailing export prices at the election of the 
timber sale holder. 
SEC. 319. A project undertaken by the Forest Service 
under the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program as au-
thorized by section 315 of the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 
1996, as amended, shall not result in—
(1) displacement of the holder of an authoriza-
tion to provide commercial recreation services on 
Federal lands. Prior to initiating any project, the 
Secretary
shall
consult
with
potentially
affected 
holders to determine what impacts the project may
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have on the holders. Any modifications to the au-
thorization shall be made within the terms and con-
ditions of the authorization and authorities of the 
impacted agency; 
(2) the return of a commercial recreation serv-
ice to the Secretary for operation when such services 
have been provided in the past by a private sector 
provider, except when—
(A) the private sector provider fails to 
bid on such opportunities; 
(B) the private sector provider termi-
nates its relationship with the agency; or 
(C) the agency revokes the permit for 
non-compliance with the terms and conditions 
of the authorization. 
In such cases, the agency may use the Recreation Fee 
Demonstration Program to provide for operations until a 
subsequent operator can be found through the offering of 
a new prospectus. 
SEC. 320. Prior to October 1, 2004, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation 
of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more than 15 years have 
passed without revision of the plan for a unit of the Na-
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tional Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the 
Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 
1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, That if the Sec-
retary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith, within 
the funding available, to revise a plan for a unit of the 
National Forest System, this section shall be void with re-
spect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may 
order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 321. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monu-
ment established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 
U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 
20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under 
the Presidential proclamation establishing such monu-
ment. 
SEC. 322. EXTENSION OF FOREST SERVICE CONVEY-
ANCES PILOT PROGRAM.—Section 329 of the Department 
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2002 (16 U.S.C. 580d note; Public Law 107–63) is 
amended—
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(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘20’’ and in-
serting ‘‘30’’; 
(2) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘3’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘8’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘2006’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2007’’. 
SEC. 323. Employees of the foundations established 
by Acts of Congress to solicit private sector funds on be-
half of Federal land management agencies shall, in fiscal 
year 2004 and thereafter, qualify for General Service Ad-
ministration contract airfares. 
SEC. 324. In entering into agreements with foreign 
countries pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior are authorized to enter into 
reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished 
under said agreements to provide fire management serv-
ices are considered, for purposes of tort liability, employ-
ees of the country receiving said services when the individ-
uals are engaged in fire management activities: Provided, 
That the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the 
Interior shall not enter into any agreement under this pro-
vision unless the foreign country (either directly or 
through its fire organization) agrees to assume any and 
all liability for the acts or omissions of American fire-
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fighters engaged in firefighting in a foreign country: Pro-
vided further, That when an agreement is reached for fur-
nishing fire fighting services, the only remedies for acts 
or omissions committed while fighting fires shall be those 
provided under the laws of the host country, and those 
remedies shall be the exclusive remedies for any claim aris-
ing out of fighting fires in a foreign country: Provided fur-
ther, That neither the sending country nor any legal orga-
nization associated with the firefighter shall be subject to 
any legal action whatsoever pertaining to or arising out 
of the firefighter’s role in fire suppression. 
SEC. 325. A grazing permit or lease issued by the 
Secretary of the Interior or a grazing permit issued by 
the Secretary of Agriculture where National Forest Sys-
tem lands are involved that expires, is transferred, or 
waived during fiscal year 2004 shall be renewed under sec-
tion 402 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1752), section 19 of the 
Granger-Thye Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 580l), title III 
of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1010 
et seq.), or, if applicable, section 510 of the California 
Desert Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 410aaa–50). The terms 
and conditions contained in the expired, transferred, or 
waived permit or lease shall continue in effect under the 
renewed permit or lease until such time as the Secretary
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of the Interior or Secretary of Agriculture as appropriate 
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 modi-
fied, 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 statutory authority of the Sec-
retary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture: Pro-
vided, That where National Forest System lands are in-
volved and the Secretary of Agriculture has renewed an 
expired or waived grazing permit prior to or during fiscal 
year 2004, the terms and conditions of the renewed graz-
ing permit shall remain in effect until such time as the 
Secretary of Agriculture completes processing of the re-
newed permit in compliance with all applicable laws and 
regulations or until the expiration of the renewed permit, 
whichever comes first. Upon completion of the processing, 
the permit may be canceled, suspended or modified, in 
whole or in part, to meet the requirements of applicable 
laws and regulations. Nothing in this section shall be 
deemed to alter the Secretary of Agriculture’s statutory 
authority. 
SEC. 326. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or regulation, to promote the more efficient use of the 
health care funding allocation for fiscal year 2004, the
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Eagle Butte Service Unit of the Indian Health Service, 
at the request of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, may 
pay base salary rates to health professionals up to the 
highest grade and step available to a physician, phar-
macist, or other health professional and may pay a recruit-
ment or retention bonus of up to 25 percent above the 
base pay rate. 
SEC. 327. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 328. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS DRILLING 
IN
THE
FINGER
LAKES
NATIONAL
FOREST,
NEW 
YORK.—None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
prepare or issue a permit or lease for oil or gas drilling 
in the Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, during 
fiscal year 2004. 
SEC. 329. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for the planning, design, or construction 
of improvements to Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the 
White House without the advance approval of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 330. In awarding a Federal Contract with funds 
made available by this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture
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and the Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Secretaries’’) may, 
in evaluating bids and proposals, give consideration to 
local contractors who are from, and who provide employ-
ment and training for, dislocated and displaced workers 
in an economically disadvantaged rural community, in-
cluding those historically timber-dependent areas that 
have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Fed-
eral lands and other forest-dependent rural communities 
isolated from significant alternative employment opportu-
nities: Provided, That the Secretaries may award grants 
or cooperative agreements to local non-profit entities, 
Youth Conservation Corps or related partnerships with 
State, local or non-profit youth groups, or small or dis-
advantaged business if the contract, grant, or cooperative 
agreement is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, water-
shed or water quality monitoring or restoration, wildlife 
or fish population monitoring, or habitat restoration or 
management: Provided further, That the terms ‘‘rural 
community’’ and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall have 
the same meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101–
624: Provided further, That the Secretaries shall develop 
guidance to implement this section: Provided further, That 
nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving the 
Secretaries of any duty under applicable procurement 
laws, except as provided in this section.
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SEC. 331. No funds appropriated in this Act for the 
acquisition of lands or interests in lands may be expended 
for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in 
condemnation without the approval of the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That this 
provision shall not apply to funds appropriated to imple-
ment the Everglades National Park Protection and Ex-
pansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for federal 
assistance to the State of Florida to acquire lands for Ev-
erglades restoration purposes. 
SEC. 332. Section 315(f) of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 
(as contained in section 101(c) of Public Law 104–134; 
110 Stat. 1321–200; 16 U.S.C. 460l–6a note), is amend-
ed—
(1) by striking ‘‘2004’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’; 
and 
(2) by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’. 
SEC. 333. Subsection (c) of section 551 of the Land 
Between the Lakes Protection Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 
460lll–61) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
may expend amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available to carry out this title in a manner consistent with 
the authorities exercised by the Tennessee Valley Author-
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ity before the transfer of the Recreation Area to the ad-
ministrative jurisdiction of the Secretary, including camp-
ground management and visitor services, paid advertise-
ment, and procurement of food and supplies for resale 
purposes.’’. 
SEC. 334. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, as 
enacted into law by section 1000(a)(3) of Public Law 106–
113 (113 Stat. 1501A–204; 16 U.S.C. 528 note), is 
amended—
(1) in subsection (b)—
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘not 
less than the fair market value’’ and inserting 
‘‘fees under subsection (c)’’; and 
(B) by striking the second sentence and in-
serting the following: ‘‘The Secretary shall es-
tablish appraisal methods and bidding proce-
dures to determine the fair market value of for-
est botanical products harvested under the pilot 
program.’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (1) 
and inserting the following new paragraph (1): 
‘‘(1) IMPOSITION AND COLLECTION.—Under the 
pilot program, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
charge and collect from a person who harvests forest
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botanical products on National Forest System lands 
a fee in an amount established by the Secretary to 
recover at least a portion of the fair market value 
of the harvested forest botanical products and a por-
tion of the costs incurred by the Department of Ag-
riculture associated with granting, modifying, or 
monitoring the authorization for harvest of the for-
est botanical products, including the costs of any en-
vironmental or other analysis.’’; 
(3) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘charges 
and fees under subsections (b) and’’ and inserting 
‘‘a fee under subsection’’; 
(4) in subsection (f)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘sub-
sections (b) and’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘in ex-
cess of the amounts collected for forest botan-
ical products during fiscal year 1999’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘charges 
and fees collected at that unit under the pilot 
program
to
pay
for’’
and
all
that
follows 
through the period at the end and inserting 
‘‘fees collected at that unit under subsection (c) 
to pay for the costs of conducting inventories of 
forest botanical products, determining sustain-
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able levels of harvest, monitoring and assessing 
the impacts of harvest levels and methods, con-
ducting restoration activities, including any nec-
essary vegetation, and covering costs of the De-
partment of Agriculture described in subsection 
(c)(1).’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘sub-
sections (b) and’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection’’; 
(5) in subsection (g)—
(A) by striking ‘‘charges and fees under 
subsections (b) and’’ and inserting ‘‘fees under 
subsection’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘subsections (b) and’’ the 
second place it appears and inserting ‘‘sub-
section’’; and 
(6) in subsection (h), by striking paragraph (1) 
and inserting the following new paragraph (1): 
‘‘(1) COLLECTION OF FEES.—The Secretary of 
Agriculture may collect fees under the authority of 
subsection (c) until September 30, 2009.’’. 
SEC. 335. None of the funds in this Act can be used 
to initiate any new competitive sourcing studies. 
SEC. 336. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the implementation of a competitive 
sourcing study at the Midwest Archaeological Center in
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Lincoln, Nebraska, or the Southeast Archaeological Cen-
ter in Florida. 
SEC. 337. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement amendments to Bureau of 
Land Management regulations on Recordable Disclaimers 
of Interest in Land (subpart 1864 of part 1860 of title 
43, Code of Federal Regulations) as adopted on January 
6, 2003, with regard to any lands within a designated Na-
tional Monument, Wilderness Study Area, National Park 
System unit, National Wildlife Refuge System unit, or 
lands within the National Wilderness Preservation Sys-
tem. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004’’.
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 fis-
cal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
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, classifica-
tion, acquisition of easements and other interests in lands,
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and performance of other functions, including maintenance 
of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management of 
lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, including the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential 
of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 
3150(a)), $847,091,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $1,000,000 is for high priority projects, to be car-
ried out by the Youth Conservation Corps; $2,484,000 is 
for assessment of the mineral potential 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 Conservation Act of 1965, as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)); and of which $3,000,000 shall be 
available in fiscal year 2004 subject to a match by at least 
an equal amount by the National Fish and Wildlife Foun-
dation for cost-shared projects supporting conservation of 
Bureau lands; and 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 Min-
ing Law Administration program operations, including the 
cost of administering the mining claim fee program; to re-
main available until expended, to be reduced by amounts 
collected by the Bureau and credited to this appropriation
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from annual mining claim fees so as to result in a final 
appropriation estimated at not more than $847,091,000; 
and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from 
communication 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. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppres-
sion operations, fire science and research, emergency reha-
bilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire assist-
ance 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 available 
for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such pur-
poses: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 
U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging with-
out cost from funds available from this appropriation: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums 
received by a bureau or office of the Department of the Inte-
rior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 
et seq., protection of United States property, may be cred-
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ited to the appropriation from which funds were expended 
to provide that protection, and are available without fiscal 
year limitation: Provided further, 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 ac-
tivities, and for training and monitoring associated with 
such hazardous fuels reduction activities, on Federal land, 
or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities that benefit 
resources on Federal land: Provided further, That notwith-
standing requirements of the Competition in Contracting 
Act, the Secretary, for purposes of hazardous fuels reduction 
activities, may obtain maximum practicable competition 
among: (A) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities; 
(B) Youth Conservation Corps crews or related partnerships 
with state, local, or non-profit youth groups; (C) small or 
micro-businesses; or (D) other entities that will hire or 
train locally a significant percentage, defined as 50 percent 
or more, of the project workforce to complete such contracts: 
Provided further, That in implementing this section, the 
Secretary shall develop written guidance to field units to 
ensure accountability and consistent application of the au-
thorities provided herein: Provided further, That funds ap-
propriated under this head may be used to reimburse the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National
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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 re-
quired by section 7 of such Act in connection with wildland 
fire management activities: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior may use wildland fire appropriations 
to enter into non-competitive sole source leases of real prop-
erty with local governments, at or below fair market value, 
to construct 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 the lease. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior 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, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), $9,978,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, sums re-
covered from or paid by a party in advance of or as reim-
bursement for remedial action or response activities con-
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ducted 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 appropriation: Provided 
further, That such sums recovered from or paid by any 
party are not limited to monetary payments and may in-
clude 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, $12,476,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, 
and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administra-
tive expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests 
therein, $25,600,000, to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund and to remain available until 
expended. 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon
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and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adja-
cent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests 
therein, including existing connecting roads on or adjacent 
to such grant lands; $106,672,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all 
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Or-
egon 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 second paragraph of sub-
section (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 salvage 
timber sales and forest ecosystem health and recovery activi-
ties, 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
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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 range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwith-
standing 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 improvements 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: Provided, 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 authorizations 
for use and disposal of public lands and resources, for costs 
of providing copies of official public land documents, for 
monitoring construction, operation, and termination of fa-
cilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for re-
habilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
collected under Public Law 94–579, as amended, and Public
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Law 93–153, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of sec-
tion 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any 
moneys that have been or will be received pursuant to that 
section, whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or set-
tlement, 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 improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public 
lands administered through the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment which have been damaged by the action of a resource 
developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized per-
son, without regard to whether all moneys collected from 
each such action 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-
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ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management 
shall be available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement 
of temporary structures, and alteration and maintenance 
of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which 
the United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, 
at the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evi-
dence concerning violations of laws administered by the Bu-
reau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement 
activities authorized or approved by the Secretary 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-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 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 amended: (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’’
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and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘and before September 30, 
2008’’. 
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 ex-
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and re-
imbursable agreements with public and private entities, 
$942,244,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2005, of which $1,000,000 may be available for the Wildlife 
Enhancement and Economic Development Program in 
Starkville, Mississippi: Provided, That $2,000,000 is for 
high priority 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 sub-
sections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered 
Species 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-
section (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii)), of which not
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to exceed $8,900,000 shall be used for any activity regard-
ing the designation of critical habitat, pursuant to sub-
section (a)(3), excluding litigation support, for species al-
ready listed pursuant to subsection (a)(1) as of the date 
of enactment of 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, rewards, 
or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by 
the Service, and miscellaneous and emergency expenses of 
enforcement activity, authorized or approved by the Sec-
retary and to be accounted for solely on her certificate: Pro-
vided further, That of the amount provided for environ-
mental contaminants, up to $1,000,000 may remain avail-
able 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 utili-
zation of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 
of lands and interests therein; $53,285,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
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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, $64,689,000, 
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 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 administrative over-
head, 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, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the amount provided herein is for 
a Landowner Incentive Program established by the Sec-
retary that provides matching, competitively awarded 
grants to States, the District of Columbia, Tribes, Puerto 
Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern 
Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, to establish or sup-
plement existing landowner incentive programs that pro-
vide technical and financial assistance, including habitat 
protection and restoration, to private landowners for the
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protection and management of habitat to benefit federally 
listed, proposed, candidate or other at-risk species on pri-
vate 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, to remain available 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 de-
rived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Conserva-
tion Fund and $50,000,000 is to be derived from the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until 
expended.
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NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 
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, $42,982,000, 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), $3,000,000, 
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 Elephant 
Conservation Act of 1997 (Public Law 105–96; 16 U.S.C. 
4261–4266), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 
1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301–5306), and the Great Ape Conserva-
tion Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301), $6,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.
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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 development 
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 available until ex-
pended: Provided, That of the amount provided herein, 
$5,000,000 is for a competitive grant program for Indian 
tribes not subject to the remaining provisions of this appro-
priation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, after 
deducting said $5,000,000 and administrative expenses, ap-
portion the amount provided herein in the following man-
ner: (A) to the District of Columbia and to the Common-
wealth 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 Islands, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each a sum equal 
to not more than one-fourth of 1 percent thereof: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall apportion the remaining 
amount in the following manner: (A) one-third of which
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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 
paragraph 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 fur-
ther, That no State, territory, or other jurisdiction shall re-
ceive a grant unless it has developed, or committed to de-
velop by October 1, 2005, a comprehensive wildlife conserva-
tion plan, consistent with criteria established by the Sec-
retary of the Interior, that considers the broad range of the 
State, territory, or other jurisdiction’s wildlife and associ-
ated habitats, with appropriate priority placed on those 
species with the greatest conservation need and taking into 
consideration the relative level of funding available for the 
conservation of those species: Provided further, That any
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amount apportioned in 2004 to any State, territory, or 
other jurisdiction that remains unobligated as of September 
30, 2005, shall be reapportioned, together with funds appro-
priated in 2006, in the manner provided herein: Provided 
further, That balances from amounts previously appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘State Wildlife Grants’’ shall be 
transferred to and merged with this appropriation and 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That up to 10 percent of the funds received by any State 
under this heading may be used for wildlife conservation 
education and outreach efforts that contribute significantly 
to the conservation of wildlife species or wildlife habitat. 
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 police-type 
use); repair of damage to public roads within and adjacent 
to reservation areas caused by operations of the Service; op-
tions for the purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each 
option; facilities incident to such public recreational uses 
on conservation areas as are consistent with their primary 
purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, 
buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the 
Service and to which the United States has title, and which
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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 partnership arrange-
ments authorized by law, procure printing services from co-
operators in connection with jointly produced publications 
for which the cooperators share at least one-half the cost 
of printing either in cash or services and the Service deter-
mines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality 
standards: Provided further, That the Service may accept 
donated aircraft as replacements for existing aircraft: Pro-
vided 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 Wildlife Refuge System unless the 
purchase is approved in advance by the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations in compliance with the re-
programming procedures contained in Senate Report 105–
56. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, operation, 
and maintenance of areas and facilities administered by 
the National Park Service (including special road mainte-
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nance service to trucking permittees on a reimbursable 
basis), and for the general administration of the National 
Park Service, $1,636,299,000, of which, in accordance with 
the cooperative agreement entered into between the National 
Park Service and the Oklahoma City National Memorial 
Trust and numbered 1443CA125002001, $600,000 may be 
available for activities of the National Park Service at the 
Oklahoma City National Memorial and $1,600,000 may be 
available to the Oklahoma City National Memorial Trust, 
of which $10,887,000 is for planning and interagency co-
ordination in support of Everglades restoration and shall 
remain available until expended; of which $96,480,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2005, is for mainte-
nance, repair or rehabilitation projects for constructed as-
sets, operation of the National Park Service automated fa-
cility management software system, and comprehensive fa-
cility condition assessments; and of which $2,000,000 is for 
the Youth Conservation Corps for high priority projects: 
Provided further, That the only funds in this account which 
may be made available to support United States Park Po-
lice 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 administrative facilities, and 
those funds necessary to reimburse the United States Park
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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. 
UNITED STATES PARK POLICE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs of 
the United States Park Police, $78,349,000. 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage part-
nership programs, environmental compliance and review, 
international park affairs, statutory or contractual aid for 
other activities, and grant administration, not otherwise 
provided for, $60,154,000, of which $175,000 may be avail-
able for activities to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase 
at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve 
in the State of Louisiana. 
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
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the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 
1996 (Public Law 104–333), $75,750,000, to be derived 
from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain available 
until September 30, 2005: Provided, That, of the amount 
provided herein, $500,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, is for a grant for the perpetual care and mainte-
nance of National Trust Historic Sites, as authorized under 
16 U.S.C. 470a(e)(2), to be made available in full upon 
signing of a grant agreement: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, these funds shall 
be available for investment with the proceeds to be used for 
the same purpose as set out herein: Provided further, That 
of the total amount provided, $32,000,000 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: Provided 
further, That individual projects shall only be eligible for 
one grant, and all projects to be funded shall be approved 
by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
and the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the 
President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities prior 
to the commitment of grant funds: Provided further, That 
Save America’s Treasures funds allocated for Federal
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projects, following approval, shall be available by transfer 
to appropriate accounts of individual agencies. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair or replacement 
of physical facilities, including the modifications authorized 
by section 104 of the Everglades National Park Protection 
and Expansion Act of 1989, $342,131,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $300,000 for the L.Q.C. 
Lamar House National Historic Landmark and $375,000 
for the Sun Watch National Historic Landmark shall be 
derived from the Historic Preservation Fund pursuant to 
16 U.S.C. 470a and of which $600,000 shall be available 
for the planning and design of the Mesa Verde Cultural 
Center in the State of Colorado, and of which $50,000 shall 
be available for the construction of a statue of Harry S Tru-
man in Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, and of 
which $4,289,000 shall be available for the construction of 
a security fence for the Jefferson National Expansion Me-
morial in the State of Missouri: Provided, That none of the 
funds in this or any other Act, may be used to pay the 
salaries and expenses of more than 160 Full Time Equiva-
lent personnel working for the National Park Service’s Den-
ver 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
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may be used to pre-design, plan, or construct any new facil-
ity (including visitor centers, curatorial facilities, adminis-
trative buildings), for which appropriations have not been 
specifically provided if the net construction cost of such fa-
cility is in excess of $5,000,000, without prior approval of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds provided in this or 
any other Act may be used for planning, design, or con-
struction of any underground security screening or visitor 
contact facility at the Washington Monument until such fa-
cility has been approved in writing by the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
this restriction applies to all funds available to the National 
Park Service, including partnership and fee demonstration 
projects. 
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 
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
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National Park Service, $158,473,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $104,000,000 is for the State 
assistance program including not to exceed $4,000,000 for 
the administration of this program: Provided, That none 
of the funds provided for the State assistance program may 
be used to establish a contingency fund. 
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 appro-
priated to the National Park Service may be used to process 
any grant or contract documents which do not include the 
text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated to the National Park Service may be 
used to implement an agreement for the redevelopment of 
the southern end of Ellis Island until such agreement has 
been submitted to the Congress and shall not be imple-
mented 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 cal-
endar days to a day certain) from the receipt by the Speak-
er of the House of Representatives and the President of the
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Senate of a full and comprehensive report on the develop-
ment of the southern end of Ellis Island, including the facts 
and circumstances relied upon in support of the proposed 
project: Provided further, That the National Park Service 
may make a grant of not to exceed $70,000 for the construc-
tion of a memorial in Cadillac, Michigan in honor of Kris 
Eggle. 
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the Na-
tional Park Service for activities taken in direct response 
to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention. 
The National Park Service may distribute to operating 
units based on the safety record of each unit the costs of 
programs designed to improve workplace and employee safe-
ty, and to encourage employees receiving workers’ com-
pensation benefits pursuant to chapter 81 of title 5, United 
States Code, to return to appropriate positions for which 
they are medically able. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2004, with respect to the administration of the Na-
tional Park Service park pass program by the National 
Park Foundation, the Secretary may obligate to the Foun-
dation administrative funds expected to be received in that 
fiscal year before the revenues are collected, so long as total 
obligations in the administrative account do not exceed
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total revenue collected and deposited in that account by the 
end of the fiscal year. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geological 
Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and research cov-
ering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, and the min-
eral and water resources of the United States, its territories 
and possessions, and other areas as authorized by 43 U.S.C. 
31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as to their mineral and 
water resources; give engineering supervision to power per-
mittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licens-
ees; administer the minerals exploration program (30 
U.S.C. 641); and publish and disseminate data relative to 
the foregoing activities; and to conduct inquiries into the 
economic conditions affecting mining and materials proc-
essing 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; $928,864,000, of which 
$64,630,000 shall be available only for cooperation with 
States or municipalities for water resources investigations; 
and of which $15,499,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for conducting inquiries into the economic condi-
tions affecting mining and materials processing industries; 
and of which $250,000 may be available to improve seismic
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monitoring and hazard assessment in the Jackson Hole-Yel-
lowstone area of Wyoming; and of which $8,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for satellite operations; 
and of which $23,230,000 shall be available until September 
30, 2005, for the operation and maintenance of facilities 
and deferred maintenance; of which $169,580,000 shall be 
available until September 30, 2005, for the biological re-
search activity and the operation of the Cooperative Re-
search 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 author-
ized in writing by the property owner: Provided further, 
That no part of this appropriation 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 re-
placement only; reimbursement to the General Services Ad-
ministration for security guard services; contracting for the 
furnishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-
tively determined that such procedures are in the public in-
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terest; construction and maintenance 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 compensa-
tion and expenses of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly 
appointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 
activities funded by appropriations herein made may be ac-
complished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq. 
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 vehicles 
for replacement only, $166,016,000, 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 collec-
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tions for Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities 
performed by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) 
over and above the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, 
and from additional fees for Outer Continental Shelf ad-
ministrative activities established after September 30, 1993: 
Provided, That to the extent $100,230,000 in additions to 
receipts are not realized from the sources of receipts stated 
above, the amount needed to reach $100,230,000 shall be 
credited to this appropriation from receipts resulting from 
rental rates for Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect be-
fore August 5, 1993: Provided further, That $3,000,000 for 
computer acquisitions shall remain available until Sep-
tember 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 
further, 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 Director 
of MMS concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay 
amounts owed to Indian allottees or tribes, or to correct 
prior unrecoverable erroneous payments: Provided further, 
That MMS may under the royalty-in-kind pilot program,
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or under its authority to transfer oil to the Strategic Petro-
leum 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 up-
stream pooling points, and to process or otherwise 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 Re-
serve: Provided further, That MMS shall analyze and docu-
ment the expected return in advance of any royalty-in-kind 
sales to assure to the maximum extent practicable that roy-
alty income under the pilot program is equal to or greater 
than royalty income recognized under a comparable roy-
alty-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 Liabil-
ity 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,
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Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase of 
not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for replacement 
only; $106,424,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the In-
terior, 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 affected by coal mining 
practices after August 3, 1977, to remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That appropriations for the Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may 
provide for the travel and per diem expenses of State and 
tribal personnel attending Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement sponsored training. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Sur-
face 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 replacement only, 
$190,893,000, to be derived from receipts of the Abandoned 
Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain available until ex-
pended; of which up to $10,000,000, to be derived from the 
Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, shall be for supple-
mental grants to States for the reclamation of abandoned 
sites with acid mine rock drainage from coal mines, and
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for associated activities, through the Appalachian Clean 
Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants to minimum pro-
gram States will be $1,500,000 per State in fiscal year 
2004: 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 further, That funds made avail-
able 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 Government for the purpose of environ-
mental restoration related to treatment or abatement of acid 
mine drainage from abandoned mines: Provided further, 
That such projects must be consistent with the purposes and 
priorities 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 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 treat-
ment fund established under a State law, pursuant to which 
law the amount (together with all interest earned on the 
amount) is expended by the State to undertake acid mine 
drainage abatement and treatment projects, except that be-
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fore 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 com-
plete all Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act pri-
ority one projects. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian pro-
grams, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of 
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 
450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amendments 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, 
$1,912,178,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2005 except as otherwise provided herein, of which not to 
exceed $87,925,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments 
and notwithstanding any other provision 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 funding agreements entered 
into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2004, 
as authorized by such Act, except that tribes and tribal or-
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ganizations may use their tribal priority allocations for 
unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants, or com-
pacts, or annual funding agreements 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 programs shall become available on July 
1, 2004, and shall remain available until September 30, 
2005; and of which not to exceed $55,766,000 shall remain 
available until expended for housing improvement, road 
maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, the Indian 
Self-Determination Fund, land records improvement, and 
the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, including but not 
limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as 
amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed $46,182,000 
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-funded 
schools, and up to $3,000,000 within and only from such 
amounts made available for school operations shall be avail-
able for the transitional costs of initial administrative cost 
grants to tribes and tribal organizations that enter into 
grants for the operation on or after July 1, 2004 of Bureau-
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operated schools: Provided further, That any forestry funds 
allocated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of Sep-
tember 30, 2005, may be transferred during fiscal year 2006 
to an Indian forest land assistance account established for 
the benefit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust fund ac-
count: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2006: 
Provided further, That $48,115,000 shall be for operating 
grants for Tribally Controlled Community Colleges, and 
$34,710,000 shall be for Information Resources Technology. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in 
lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for con-
struction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant 
to Public Law 87–483, $351,154,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclama-
tion: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 percent of con-
tract authority available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may be used to cover 
the road program management costs of the Bureau: Pro-
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vided 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: Provided further, 
That for fiscal year 2004, in implementing new construc-
tion 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 Pro-
grams contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the regulatory re-
quirements: 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 pay-
ments for the work to be performed: 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 standards 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 fi-
nancial management capabilities: 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
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and any grantee concerning 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 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and indi-
viduals 
and 
for 
necessary 
administrative 
expenses, 
$50,583,000, to remain available until expended; of which 
$31,766,000 shall be available for implementation of en-
acted Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant 
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. 
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: Provided fur-
ther, 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 manage-
ment, operation, and maintenance of the Power Division 
of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee 
and insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Pro-
gram 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 
Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–413).
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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 between the 
United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability 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 September 
1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall be used to 
support expanded grades for any school or dormitory be-
yond the grade structure in place or approved by the Sec-
retary of the Interior at each school in the Bureau 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 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
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at a Bureau-funded school before September 1, 1999, may 
continue to operate during that period, but only if the char-
ter school pays to the Bureau 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 char-
ter school are kept separate and apart from Bureau funds, 
and the Bureau does not assume any obligation for charter 
school programs of the State in which the school is located 
if the charter school loses such funding. Employees of Bu-
reau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school 
and performing functions related to the charter school’s op-
eration 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, 
$71,343,000, of which: (1) $65,022,000 shall be available 
until expended for technical assistance, including mainte-
nance assistance, disaster assistance, insular management 
controls, coral reef initiative activities, and brown tree 
snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in Amer-
ican Samoa for compensation and expenses, as authorized
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by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of 
American Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for 
construction and support of governmental functions; 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 (Public Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 
272); and (2) $6,321,000 shall be available for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all 
financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of 
all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by such 
governments, may be audited by the General Accounting Of-
fice, 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 
Representatives on Future United States Financial Assist-
ance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public 
Law 104–134: Provided further, That of the amounts pro-
vided for technical assistance, sufficient funding shall be 
made available for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: 
Provided further, That the funds for the program of oper-
ations and maintenance improvement are appropriated to 
institutionalize routine operations and maintenance im-
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provement of capital infrastructure with territorial partici-
pation 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 appropria-
tion for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act 
or previous appropriations Acts may be used as non-Fed-
eral 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 grants and necessary expenses, $6,125,000, as pro-
vided for in sections 221(a)(2), 221(b), and 233 of the Com-
pact of Free Association for the Republic of Palau, section 
103(h)(2) of the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985, 
and section 221(a)(2) of the Amended Compacts of Free As-
sociation for the Federated States of Micronesia and the Re-
public of the Marshall Islands, to remain available until 
expended. 
For grants and necessary expenses as provided for in 
sections 211, 212, 213, and 218 of the Amended Compact 
of Free Association for the Republic of the Marshall Islands 
and as provided for in sections 211, 212, and 217 of the 
Amended Compact of Free Association for the Federated 
States of Micronesia, all sums that are or may be required
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in this and subsequent years are appropriated, to remain 
available until expended, and shall be drawn from the 
Treasury, to become available for obligation only upon en-
actment of proposed legislation to approve the amended 
Compacts of Free Association as identified in the Presi-
dent’s fiscal year 2004 budget. 
For grants and necessary expenses, $15,000,000, for 
impact of the Compacts on certain U.S. areas in this and 
subsequent years are appropriated, to remain available 
until expended, and shall be drawn from the Treasury, to 
become available for obligation only upon enactment of pro-
posed legislation to approve the amended Compacts of Free 
Association as identified in the President’s fiscal year 2004 
budget: Provided, That for purposes of assistance as pro-
vided pursuant to this appropriation, the effective dates of 
the amended Compacts of Free Association shall be October 
1, 2003. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, $78,433,000, of which not to exceed 
$8,500 may be for official reception and representation ex-
penses, and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available 
for workers compensation payments and unemployment 
compensation payments associated with the orderly closure
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of the United States Bureau of Mines: Provided, That of 
this amount, sufficient funds may be available for the Sec-
retary of the Interior, not later than 60 days after the last 
day of the fiscal year, to submit to Congress a report on 
the amount of acquisitions made by the Department of the 
Interior during such fiscal year of articles, materials, or 
supplies that were manufactured outside the United States. 
Such report shall separately indicate the dollar value of any 
articles, materials, or supplies purchased by the Depart-
ment of the Interior that were manufactured outside the 
United States, an itemized list of all waivers under the Buy 
American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.) that were granted 
with respect to such articles, materials, or supplies, and a 
summary of total procurement funds spent on goods manu-
factured in the United States versus funds spent on goods 
manufactured outside of the United States. The Secretary 
of the Interior shall make the report publicly available by 
posting the report on an Internet website. 
Of the unobligated balances in the Special Foreign 
Currency account, $1,400,000 are hereby canceled. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the acquisition of a departmental financial and 
business management system, $11,700,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That from unobligated bal-
ances under this heading, $11,700,000 are hereby canceled.
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PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 
20, 
1976, 
as 
amended 
(31 
U.S.C. 
6901–6907), 
$230,000,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall be 
available for administrative expenses: Provided, That no 
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, 
$50,179,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, $37,474,000, of which $3,812,000 shall be for procure-
ment by contract of independent auditing services to audit 
the consolidated Department of the Interior annual finan-
cial statement and the annual financial statement of the 
Department of the Interior bureaus and offices 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,
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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 management 
improvements and litigation support may, as needed, be 
transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account; the Office of the 
Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the De-
partmental 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 contractor or grant-
ee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion 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 ac-
counting of such funds from which the beneficiary can de-
termine whether there has been a loss: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec-
retary 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
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$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 withdrawn upon the express written re-
quest of the account holder: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $50,000 is available for the Secretary to make pay-
ments to correct administrative errors of either disburse-
ments from or deposits to Individual Indian Money or 
Tribal accounts after September 30, 2002: Provided further, 
That erroneous payments that are recovered shall be cred-
ited to and remain available in this account for this pur-
pose. 
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 Consolida-
tion Act of 1983, as amended, by direct expenditure or coop-
erative agreement, $22,980,000, 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 nec-
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essary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive En-
vironmental 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) (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 existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-
in value used to offset the purchase price for the replacement 
aircraft: Provided further, That no programs funded with 
appropriated funds in the ‘‘Departmental Management’’, 
‘‘Office of the Solicitor’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ 
may be augmented through the Working Capital 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-
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gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, 
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable 
causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made available 
under this authority until funds specifically made available 
to the Department of the Interior for emergencies shall have 
been exhausted: Provided further, That all funds used pur-
suant to this section are hereby designated by Congress to 
be ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pursuant to section 502 of H. 
Con. Res. 95, the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2004, and must be replenished by a supple-
mental 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 programs 
of the several agencies, for the suppression or emergency 
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 ju-
risdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or ac-
tual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other un-
avoidable causes; for contingency planning subsequent to 
actual oil spills; for response and natural resource damage 
assessment activities related to actual oil spills; for the pre-
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vention, suppression, and control of actual or potential 
grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to 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 Mining 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 regulatory 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 pre-
ceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to other Federal 
agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equip-
ment in connection with their use for wildland fire oper-
ations, 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 oper-
ations’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided further, 
That all funds used pursuant to this section are hereby des-
ignated by Congress to be ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pursu-
ant to section 502 of H. Con. Res. 95, the concurrent resolu-
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tion on the budget for fiscal year 2004, and must be replen-
ished by a supplemental appropriation which must be re-
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 sections 1535 
and 1536 of title 31, United States Code: Provided, That 
reimbursements for costs and supplies, materials, equip-
ment, and for services rendered may be credited to the ap-
propriation current at the time such reimbursements 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 Sec-
retary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; hire, main-
tenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for telephone service 
in private residences in the field, when authorized under 
regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of
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dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library member-
ship in societies or associations which issue publications to 
members only or at a price to members lower than to sub-
scribers who are not members. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Department 
of the Interior for salaries and expenses shall be available 
for uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 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 excess 
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 degrees 
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 to conduct offshore 
oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing and related activi-
ties in the eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area for any 
lands located outside Sale 181, as identified in the final
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Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Pro-
gram, 1997–2002. 
SEC. 109. 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. 110. 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 appropriate to that 
unit. 
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 Con-
trolled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) may 
be invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organization, or con-
sortium before such funds are expended for the purposes 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
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States, or in obligations or securities that are guaran-
teed or insured by the United States, or mutual (or 
other) funds registered with the Securities and Ex-
change Commission and which only invest in obliga-
tions of the United States or securities that are guar-
anteed or insured by the United States; or 
(2) deposited only into accounts that are insured 
by an agency or instrumentality of the United States, 
or are fully collateralized to ensure protection of the 
funds, even in the event of a bank failure. 
SEC. 112. 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 activities. 
SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for the purpose of reducing the backlog of Indian probate 
cases in the Department of the Interior, the hearing require-
ments 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 without 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,
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That the basic pay of an Indian probate judge so appointed 
may be fixed by the Secretary without regard to the provi-
sions of chapter 51, and subchapter III of chapter 53 of 
title 5, United States Code, governing the classification and 
pay of General Schedule employees, except that no such In-
dian probate judge may be paid at a level which exceeds 
the maximum rate payable for the highest grade of the Gen-
eral Schedule, including locality pay. 
SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute 
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 meth-
odologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction in Tribal Pri-
ority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal 
year 2004. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, over-
lapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodolo-
gies, the 10 percent limitation does not apply. 
SEC. 115. 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.
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SEC. 116. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall here-
after 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 compatible 
with the use of the lands as a cemetery; and (2) as a burial 
ground. 
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under the au-
thority provided by Public Law 104–134, as amended 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 reimbursement 
until expended and without further appropriation: (1) for 
the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge System within 
the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all activities authorized 
by Public Law 100–696; 16 U.S.C. 460zz. 
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding other provisions of law, the 
National Park Service may authorize, through cooperative 
agreement, the Golden Gate National Parks Association to 
provide fee-based education, interpretive and visitor service 
functions within the Crissy Field and Fort Point areas of 
the Presidio.
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SEC. 119. 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. 120. Subject to the terms and conditions of sec-
tion 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. 121. 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 purpose 
of capturing and transporting horses and burros. The provi-
sions 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 procedures prescribed 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 122. Of the funds made available under the head-
ing ‘‘Bureau of Land Management, Land Acquisition’’ in 
title I of the Department of the Interior and Related Agen-
cies Appropriation Act, 2002 (115 Stat. 420), the Secretary 
of the Interior shall grant $500,000 to the City of St.
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George, Utah, for the purchase of the land as provided in 
the Virgin River Dinosaur Footprint Preserve Act (116 
Stat. 2896), with any surplus funds available after the pur-
chase to be available for the purpose of the preservation of 
the land and the paleontological resources on the land. 
SEC. 123. Funds provided in this Act for Federal land 
acquisition by the National Park Service for the Ice Age 
National Scenic Trail may be used for a grant to a State, 
a local government, or any other governmental land man-
agement entity for the acquisition of lands without 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. 124. 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. 125. The Secretary of the Interior may use discre-
tionary 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 sec-
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tion that would result in payment of hourly fees in excess 
of the highest hourly rate approved by the District Court 
for the District of Columbia for counsel in Cobell v. Norton. 
SEC. 126. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect threat-
ened 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 fi-
nanced 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 com-
mercial and recreational fishers. 
SEC. 127. Section 134 of Public Law 107–63 (115 
Stat. 442–443) is amended by striking the proviso thereto 
and inserting the following: ‘‘Provided, That nothing in this 
section affects the decision of the United States Court of 
Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Sac and Fox Nation v. Nor-
ton, 240 F.3d 1250 (2001): Provided further, That nothing 
in this section permits the conduct of gaming under the In-
dian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) on 
land described in section 123 of Public Law 106–291 (114 
Stat. 944–945), or land that is contiguous to that land, re-
gardless of whether the land or contiguous land has been 
taken into trust by the Secretary of the Interior.’’.
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SEC. 128. 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. 129. Notwithstanding the limitation in subpara-
graph (2)(B) of section 18(a) of the Indian Gaming Regu-
latory Act (25 U.S.C. 2717(a)), the total amount of all fees 
imposed by the National Indian Gaming Commission for 
fiscal year 2005 shall not exceed $12,000,000. 
SEC. 130. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to fund Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units in the State 
of Alaska. 
SEC. 131. The State of Utah’s contribution require-
ment pursuant to Public Law 105–363 shall be deemed to 
have been satisfied and within thirty days of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall transfer to the 
State of Utah all right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to the Wilcox Ranch lands acquired under 
section 2(b) of Public Law 105–363, for management by 
the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for wildlife habitat 
and public access. 
SEC. 132. Upon enactment of this Act, the Congaree 
Swamp National Monument shall be designated the Con-
garee National Park.
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SEC. 133. The Secretary shall have no more than one 
hundred and eighty days from October 1, 2003, to prepare 
and submit to the Congress, in a manner otherwise con-
sistent with the Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Dis-
tribution Act (25 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.), plans for the use 
and distribution of the Mescalero Apache Tribe’s Judgment 
Funds from Docket 92–403L, the Pueblo of Isleta’s Judg-
ment Funds from Docket 98–166L, and the Assiniboine and 
Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation’s Judgment 
Funds in Docket No. 773–87–L of the United States Court 
of Federal Claims; each plan shall become effective upon 
the expiration of a sixty day period beginning on the day 
each plan is submitted to the Congress. 
SEC. 134. Notwithstanding any implementation of the 
Department of the Interior’s trust reorganization plan 
within fiscal years 2003 or 2004, funds appropriated for 
fiscal year 2004 shall be available to the tribes within the 
California Tribal Trust Reform Consortium and to the Salt 
River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, the Confed-
erated Salish-Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation 
and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation 
and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Regional offices that serve 
them, on the same basis as funds were distributed in fiscal 
year 2003. The Demonstration Project shall operate sepa-
rate and apart from the Department of the Interior’s trust
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reform reorganization, and the Department shall not im-
pose its trust management infrastructure upon or alter the 
existing trust resource management systems of the Cali-
fornia Trust Reform Consortium and any other partici-
pating tribe having a self-governance compact and oper-
ating in accordance with the Tribal Self-Governance Pro-
gram set forth in 25 U.S.C. Sections 458aa–458hh. 
SEC. 135. Not later than December 31 of each year, 
the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress a re-
port on the competitive sourcing activities on the list re-
quired under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act 
of 1998 (Public Law 105-270; 31 U.S.C. 501 note) that were 
performed for the Department of the Interior during the 
previous fiscal year by Federal Government sources. The re-
port shall include—
(1) the total number of competitions completed; 
(2) the total number of competitions announced, 
together with a list of the activities covered by such 
competitions; 
(3) the total number of full-time equivalent Fed-
eral employees studied under completed competitions; 
(4) the total number of full-time equivalent Fed-
eral employees being studied under competitions an-
nounced, but not completed;
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(5) the incremental cost directly attributable to 
conducting the competitions identified under para-
graphs (1) and (2), including costs attributable to 
paying outside consultants and contractors; 
(6) an estimate of the total anticipated savings, 
or a quantifiable description of improvements in serv-
ice or performance, derived from completed competi-
tions; 
(7) actual savings, or a quantifiable description 
of improvements in service or performance, derived 
from the implementation of competitions completed 
after May 29, 2003; 
(8) the total projected number of full time equiv-
alent Federal employees covered by competitions 
scheduled to be announced in the fiscal year covered 
by the next report required under this section; and 
(9) a general description of how the competitive 
sourcing decisionmaking processes of the Department 
of the Interior are aligned with the strategic workforce 
plan of that department. 
SEC. 136. (a) PAYMENT TO THE HARRIET TUBMAN 
HOME, AUBURN, NEW YORK, AUTHORIZED.—(1) The Sec-
retary of the Interior may, using amounts appropriated or 
otherwise made available by this title, make a payment to
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the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, New York, in the 
amount of $11,750. 
(2) The amount specified in paragraph (1) is the 
amount of widow’s pension that Harriet Tubman should 
have received from January 1899 to March 1913 under var-
ious laws authorizing pension for the death of her husband, 
Nelson Davis, a deceased veteran of the Civil War, but did 
not receive, adjusted for inflation since March 1913. 
(b) USE OF AMOUNTS.—The Harriet Tubman Home 
shall use amounts paid under subsection (a) for the pur-
poses of—
(1) preserving and maintaining the Harriet 
Tubman Home; and 
(2) honoring the memory of Harriet Tubman. 
SEC. 137. Nonrenewable grazing permits authorized in 
the Jarbidge Field Office, Bureau of Land Management 
within the past seven years shall be renewed under section 
402 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1752) and under section 3 
of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934, as amended (43 U.S.C. 
315b). The terms and conditions contained in the most re-
cently expired nonrenewable grazing permit shall continue 
in effect under the renewed permit. Upon completion of any 
required analysis or documentation, the permit may be can-
celed, suspended or modified, in whole or in part, to meet
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the requirements of applicable laws and regulations. Noth-
ing in this section shall be deemed to extend the nonrenew-
able permits beyond the standard one-year term. 
SEC. 138. INTERIM COMPENSATION PAYMENTS. Sec-
tion 2303(b) of Public Law 106–246 (114 Stat. 549) is 
amended by inserting before the period at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, unless the amount of the interim compensation 
exceeds the amount of the final compensation’’. 
SEC. 139. APPLICATIONS FOR WAIVERS OF MAINTE-
NANCE FEES. Section 10101f(d)(3) of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 28f(d)(3)) is amend-
ed by inserting after ‘‘reason’’ the following: ‘‘(including, 
with respect to any application filed on or after January 
1, 1999, the filing of the application after the statutory 
deadline)’’. 
SEC. 140. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this or any other Act, hereafter enacted, 
may be used to permit the use of the National Mall for a 
special event, unless the permit expressly prohibits the erec-
tion, placement, or use of structures and signs bearing com-
mercial advertising. The Secretary may allow for recogni-
tion of sponsors of special events: Provided, That the size 
and form of the recognition shall be consistent with the spe-
cial nature and sanctity of the Mall and any lettering or 
design identifying the sponsor shall be no larger than one-
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third the size of the lettering or design identifying the spe-
cial event. In approving special events, the Secretary shall 
ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that public use 
of, and access to the Mall is not restricted. For purposes 
of this section, the term ‘‘special event’’ shall have the mean-
ing given to it by section 7.96(g)(1)(ii) of title 36, Code 
of Federal Regulations. 
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, $266,180,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
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 manage-
ment, including treatments of pests, pathogens, and 
invasive or noxious plants, and for restoring and rehabili-
tating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, coopera-
tive forestry, and education and land conservation activi-
ties and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $295,349,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $84,716,000 is to be derived from the Land and
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Water Conservation Fund: Provided, That each forest leg-
acy 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: Provided further, 
That up to $2,000,000 may be used by the Secretary solely 
for: (1) rapid response to new introductions of non-native 
or invasive pests or pathogens in which no previous federal 
funding has been identified to address, or (2) for a limited 
number of instances in which any pest populations increase 
at over 150 percent of levels monitored for that species in 
the immediately preceding fiscal year and failure to sup-
press those popultions would lead to a 10-percent increase 
of annual forest or stand mortality over ambient mortality 
levels. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, for management, protection, improve-
ment, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
$1,370,731,000, to remain available until expended, which 
shall include 50 percent of all moneys received during prior 
fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accordance 
with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)), of which
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$200,000 may be for necessary expenses related to a land 
exchange between the State of Montana and the Lolo Na-
tional Forest: Provided, That unobligated balances avail-
able at the start of fiscal year 2004 shall be displayed by 
budget line item in the fiscal year 2005 budget justification: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may authorize the ex-
penditure or transfer of such sums as necessary to the De-
partment of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for 
removal, preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses 
and burros, and for the performance of cadastral surveys 
to designate the boundaries of such lands from National 
Forest System lands: Provided further, That of the funds 
provided under this heading for Forest Products, $5,000,000 
shall be allocated to the Alaska Region, in addition to its 
normal allocation for the purposes of preparing additional 
timber for sale, to establish a 3-year timber supply and such 
funds may be transferred to other appropriations accounts 
as necessary to maximize accomplishment: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds provided under this heading, 
$3,150,000 is for expenses required to implement title I of 
Public Law 106–248, to be segregated in a separate fund 
established by the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided fur-
ther, That within funds available for the purpose of imple-
menting the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, notwith-
standing the limitations of section 107(e)(2) of the Valles
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Caldera Preservation Act (Public Law 106–248), for fiscal 
year 2004, the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Valles 
Caldera Trust may receive, upon request, compensation for 
each day (including travel time) that the Chair is engaged 
in the performance of the functions of the Board, except that 
compensation shall not exceed the daily equivalent of the 
annual rate in effect for members of the Senior Executive 
Service at the ES–1 level, and shall be in addition to any 
reimbursement for travel, subsistence and other necessary 
expenses incurred by the Chair in the performance of the 
Chair’s duties. 
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 reduction 
on or adjacent to such lands, and for emergency rehabilita-
tion of burned-over National Forest System lands and 
water, $1,543,072,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That such funds including unobligated balances 
under this head, are available for repayment of advances 
from other appropriations accounts previously transferred
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for such purposes: Provided further, That such funds may 
be available to reimburse State and other cooperating enti-
ties for services provided in response to wildfire and other 
emergencies or disasters: Provided further, That not less 
than 50 percent of any unobligated balances remaining (ex-
clusive of amounts for hazardous fuels reduction) at the end 
of fiscal year 2003 shall be transferred, as repayment for 
past advances that have not been repaid, to the fund estab-
lished pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 71–319 (16 
U.S.C. 576 et seq.): Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, $8,000,000 of funds appro-
priated under this appropriation shall be used for Fire 
Science Research in support of the Joint Fire Science Pro-
gram: Provided further, That all authorities for the use of 
funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and coopera-
tive agreements, available to execute the Forest and Range-
land Research appropriation, are also available in the utili-
zation of these funds for Fire Science Research: Provided 
further, That funds provided shall be available for emer-
gency rehabilitation and restoration, hazardous fuels reduc-
tion activities in the urban-wildland interface, support to 
Federal emergency response, and wildfire suppression ac-
tivities of the Forest Service: Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, $231,392,000 is for hazardous fuels reduc-
tion activities, $21,427,000 is for research activities and to
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make competitive research grants pursuant to the Forest 
and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $47,752,000 is for State 
fire assistance, $8,240,000 is for volunteer fire assistance, 
and $11,934,000 is for forest health activities on State, pri-
vate, and Federal lands: 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-
ance, volunteer fire assistance, forest health management, 
forest and rangeland research, vegetation and watershed 
management, heritage site rehabilitation, 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 Committees on Appropriations in compliance with 
reprogramming procedures contained in House Report No. 
105–163: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Government 
and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually 
agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, That 
in addition to funds provided for State Fire Assistance pro-
grams, and subject to all authorities available to the Forest 
Service under the State and Private Forestry Appropria-
tions, up to $15,000,000 may be used on adjacent non-Fed-
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eral lands for the purpose of protecting communities 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 haz-
ardous fuel reduction is $5,000,000 for implementing 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 accordance 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 Agriculture may conduct fuel re-
duction treatments on Federal lands using all contracting 
and hiring authorities available to the Secretary applicable 
to hazardous fuel reduction activities under the wildland 
fire management accounts: Provided further, That notwith-
standing Federal Government procurement and contracting 
laws, the Secretaries may conduct fuel reduction treatments, 
rehabilitation and restoration, and other activities author-
ized under this heading on and adjacent to Federal lands 
using grants and cooperative agreements: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding Federal Government procurement 
and contracting laws, in order to provide employment and 
training opportunities to people in rural communities, the 
Secretaries may award contracts, including contracts for
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monitoring activities, to local private, non-profit, or cooper-
ative entities; Youth Conservation Corps crews or related 
partnerships, 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 complete 
such contracts: Provided further, That the authorities de-
scribed above relating to contracts, grants, and cooperative 
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 appropriated for 
wildland fire management, in an aggregate amount not to 
exceed $12,000,000, between the Departments 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 other-
wise provided for, $532,406,000, to remain available until 
expended for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and 
acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and for con-
struction, reconstruction, repair 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, of which 
$500,000 may be for improvements at Fernwood Park on
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the Wasatch-Cache National Forest: Provided, That up to 
$15,000,000 of the funds provided herein for road mainte-
nance 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 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 admin-
istrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, 
or interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority 
applicable to the Forest Service, $76,440,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to re-
main available until expended, of which $5,400,000 shall 
be available for the Beaver Brook Watershed in the State 
of Colorado: Provided, That notwithstanding any limita-
tions of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act (16 
U.S.C. 460l–9), the Secretary of Agriculture is henceforth 
authorized to utilize any funds appropriated from the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund to acquire Mental Health 
Trust lands in Alaska and, upon Federal acquisition, the
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boundaries of the Tongass National Forest shall be deemed 
modified to include such lands. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries 
of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; 
the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San 
Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National Forests, Cali-
fornia, 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 govern-
ments, public school districts, or other public school authori-
ties, and for authorized expenditures from funds deposited 
by non-federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and Ex-
change Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until ex-
pended. 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protec-
tion, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received 
during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic 
livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 Western 
States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public Law 94–
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579, as amended, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses associated with on-the-ground range reha-
bilitation, 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 manage 
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, of which not to exceed $100,000 per annum may 
be used to reimburse the Office of General Counsel, Depart-
ment of Agriculture, for salaries and related expenses in-
curred in providing legal services in relation to subsistence 
management. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to ex-
ceed 124 passenger motor vehicles of which 21 will be used 
primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which 124
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shall be for replacement; acquisition of 25 passenger motor 
vehicles from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; oper-
ation and maintenance of aircraft to maintain the operable 
fleet at 195 aircraft for use in Forest Service wildland fire 
programs and other Forest Service programs; notwith-
standing other provisions of law, existing aircraft being re-
placed may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value 
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement air-
craft; (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 pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the Na-
tional 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 collection contracts in accord-
ance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
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 admin-
istration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture 
without the consent of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations.
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Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency reha-
bilitation 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 appropriated emer-
gency contingent funds under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire 
Management’’ have been released by the President and ap-
portioned and all wildfire suppression funds under the 
heading ‘‘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 Service 
in connection with forest and rangeland research, technical 
information, and assistance in foreign countries, and shall 
be available to support forestry and related natural resource 
activities outside the United States and its territories and 
possessions, including technical assistance, education and 
training, and cooperation with United States and inter-
national organizations. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service 
under this Act shall be subject to transfer under the provi-
sions of section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Or-
ganic 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
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and Senate Committees on Appropriations in compliance 
with the reprogramming procedures contained in House Re-
port No. 105–163. 
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 House Report 
No. 105–163. 
No funds available to the Forest Service shall be trans-
ferred to the Working Capital Fund of the Department of 
Agriculture that exceed the total amount transferred during 
fiscal year 2000 for such purposes without the advance ap-
proval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available 
to conduct a program of not less than $2,000,000 for high 
priority projects within the scope of the approved budget 
which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $2,500 is 
available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official recep-
tion and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 
101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, up 
to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum as Federal 
financial assistance to the National Forest Foundation,
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without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for 
administrative expenses or projects on or benefitting Na-
tional Forest System lands or related to Forest Service pro-
grams: Provided, That of the Federal funds made available 
to the Foundation, no more than $400,000 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 Foundation may trans-
fer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient for a project 
at the same rate that the recipient has obtained the non-
Federal matching funds: Provided further, That authorized 
investments of Federal funds held by the Foundation may 
be made only in interest-bearing obligations 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, without regard 
to when expenses are incurred, for projects on or benefitting 
National Forest System lands or related to Forest Service 
programs: Provided, That the Foundation shall obtain pri-
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vate 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 Fed-
eral or 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 develop-
ment purposes. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 80 per-
cent of the funds appropriated to the Forest Service in the 
‘‘National Forest System’’ and ‘‘Capital Improvement and 
Maintenance’’ accounts and planned to be allocated to ac-
tivities under the ‘‘Jobs in the Woods’’ program for projects 
on National Forest land in the State of Washington may 
be granted directly to the Washington State Department of 
Fish and Wildlife for accomplishment of planned projects. 
Twenty percent of said funds shall be retained by the Forest 
Service for planning and administering projects. Project se-
lection and prioritization shall be accomplished by the For-
est Service with such consultation with the State of Wash-
ington as the Forest Service deems appropriate. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia
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River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to sections 
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99–
663. 
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 Agriculture, for 
travel and related expenses incurred as a result of OGC as-
sistance or participation requested by the Forest Service at 
meetings, training sessions, management reviews, land pur-
chase negotiations and similar non-litigation related mat-
ters. Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service 
and the Department of Agriculture 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. 
From funds available to the Forest Service in this Act 
for payment of costs in accordance with subsection 413(d) 
of Title IV, Public Law 108–7, $3,000,000 shall be trans-
ferred by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of
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the Treasury to make reimbursement payments as provided 
in such subsection. 
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 without 
further appropriation and until expended for maintenance 
and rehabilitation activities on the Green Mountain Na-
tional 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 Species 
Act, 16 U.S.C. 1536. The amount of the transfer or reim-
bursement shall be as mutually agreed by the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary 
of Commerce, as applicable, or their designees. 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
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the Forest Service shall be considered to be a Federal em-
ployee for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States 
Code. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be 
used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 
502(c) of the Older American Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 
3056(c)(2)). 
None of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be used by the Forest Service to initiate or con-
tinue competitive sourcing studies until such time as the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations have been 
given a detailed competitive sourcing proposal (including 
the number of positions to be studied, the amount of funding 
needed, and the accounts and activities from which the 
funding will be reprogrammed), and have approved in writ-
ing such proposal. 
The Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the sale 
of excess buildings, facilities, and other properties owned 
by the Forest Service and located on the Wasatch-Cache Na-
tional Forest, the revenues of which may be retained by the 
Forest Service and available to the Secretary without fur-
ther appropriation and until expended for acquisition and 
construction of administrative sites on the Wasatch-Cache 
National Forest.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY 
(DEFERRAL) 
Of the funds made available under this heading for 
obligation in prior years, $97,000,000 shall not be available 
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 pro-
posal under which the project was selected: Provided fur-
ther, That within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary is directed to provide the House Committee on Ap-
propriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations 
with a plan detailing the proposed expenditure of un-obli-
gated or de-obligated funds from terminated Clean Coal 
Technology projects in support of the FutureGen project: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, within fiscal year 2004 up to $9,000,000 of the funds 
made available under this heading for obligation in prior 
years, of funds not obligated or committed to existing Clean 
Coal Technology projects, and funds committed or obligated 
to a project that is or may be terminated, may be used for 
the development of technologies and research facilities that 
support the production of electricity and hydrogen from 
coal including sequestration of associated carbon dioxide: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may enter into a lease
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able sale quantity called for in the current Tongass Land 
Management Plan in sales which are not deficit when ap-
praised using a residual value approach that assigns do-
mestic Alaska values for western redcedar, all of the western 
redcedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the 
needs of domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made avail-
able to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 United 
States at prevailing domestic prices. Should Region 10 sell, 
in fiscal year 2003, less than the annual average portion 
of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the 
Tongass Land Management Plan in sales which are not def-
icit when appraised using a residual value approach that 
assigns domestic Alaska values for western redcedar, the vol-
ume of western redcedar timber available to domestic proc-
essors at prevailing domestic prices in the contiguous 48 
United States shall be that volume: (i) which is surplus to 
the needs of domestic processors in Alaska, and (ii) is that 
percent of the surplus western redcedar volume determined 
by calculating the ratio of the total timber volume which 
has been sold on the Tongass to the annual average portion 
of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the cur-
rent Tongass Land Management Plan. The percentage shall 
be calculated by Region 10 on a rolling basis as each sale 
is sold (for purposes of this amendment, a ‘‘rolling basis’’ 
shall mean that the determination of how much western