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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 
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
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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 
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.
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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 
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
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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. 
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
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(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-
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)—
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(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 
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.’’;
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(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-
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)—
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(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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004’’.
Union Calendar No. 100
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2691
[Report No. 108–195] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2004, and for other pur-
poses. 
JULY 10, 2003
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
the State of the Union and ordered to be printed