the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2013, as author-
ized by such Act, except that tribes and tribal organiza-
tions may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet 
contract support costs of ongoing contracts, grants, or 
compacts, or annual funding agreements and for unmet 
welfare assistance costs; of which not to exceed 
$605,810,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-fund-
ed schools and other education programs shall become 
available on July 1, 2013, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2014; and of which not to exceed 
$51,474,000 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 Settle-
ment Program: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, including but not limited to 
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 and 25 U.S.C. 
2008, not to exceed $61,244,000 within and only from 
such amounts made available for school operations shall 
be available for administrative cost grants associated with 
ongoing grants entered into with the Bureau prior to or 
during fiscal year 2012 for the operation of Bureau-fund-
ed schools, and up to $500,000 within and only from such 
amounts made available for administrative cost grants 
shall be available for the transitional costs of initial ad-
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ministrative cost grants to grantees that assume operation 
on or after July 1, 2012, of Bureau-funded schools: Pro-
vided further, That any forestry funds allocated to a tribe 
which remain unobligated as of September 30, 2014, may 
be transferred during fiscal year 2015 to an Indian forest 
land assistance account established for the benefit of the 
holder of the funds within the holder’s trust fund account: 
Provided further, That any such unobligated balances not 
so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2015: Pro-
vided further, That, in order to enhance the safety of Bu-
reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur-
chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for 
personnel. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-
suant to Public Law 87–483, $117,110,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 
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Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may 
be used to cover the road program management costs of 
the Bureau: Provided 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: Pro-
vided further, That, in implementing new construction or 
facilities improvement and repair project grants in excess 
of $100,000 that are provided to grant schools under Pub-
lic Law 100–297, the Secretary of the Interior shall use 
the Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost 
Principles for Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR 
part 12 as the regulatory requirements: 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 payments for the work to be per-
formed: Provided further, That in considering grant appli-
cations, the Secretary shall consider whether such grantee 
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(b), with respect 
to organizational and financial management capabilities: 
Provided further, That if the Secretary declines a grant 
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application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements 
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2504(f): Provided further, That 
any disputes between the Secretary and any grantee con-
cerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes provision 
in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided further, That in order to 
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-
retary may assume control of a project and all funds re-
lated to the project, if, within 18 months of the date of 
enactment of this Act, any grantee receiving funds appro-
priated in this Act or in any prior Act, has not completed 
the planning and design phase of the project and com-
menced construction: Provided further, That this appro-
priation may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special 
Trustee for American Indians appropriation for the appro-
priate share of construction costs for space expansion 
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-
tion. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101– 
618, 108–447, and 111–11, and for implementation of 
other land and water rights settlements, $36,293,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
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INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$10,000,000, of which $1,227,459 is for administrative 
expenses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 
1974: 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 or insured, 
not to exceed $157,957,648. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may in fiscal year 2013 
and thereafter carry out the operation of Indian programs 
by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts, and grants, either directly or in cooperation 
with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs may contract for services in support of the man-
agement, operation, and maintenance of the Power Divi-
sion of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except executive direction and administrative 
services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional 
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offices, and facilities operations and maintenance) shall be 
available for 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). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this 
action shall not diminish the Federal Government’s trust 
responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-govern-
ment relationship between the United States and that 
tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appropria-
tions. 
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. 
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. Appropriations made avail-
able in this or any prior Act for schools funded by the 
Bureau shall be available, in accordance with the BIE 
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funding formula, only to the schools in the Bureau school 
system as of September 1, 1996 and to any school or 
school program that was re-instated in fiscal year 2012. 
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 1141 of the Education 
Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a 
charter school that is in existence on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-fund-
ed school before September 1, 1999, may continue to oper-
ate during that period, but only if the charter school pays 
to the Bureau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the 
Bureau for the use of the real and personal property (in-
cluding buses and vans), the funds of the charter 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 operation and employees of a charter school shall 
not be treated as Federal employees for purposes of chap-
ter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
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113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 
distribution formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior, including the collection and dis-
bursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral revenue 
proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agreements, as 
authorized by law, $247,777,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2014; of which not to exceed $15,000 may 
be for official reception and representation expenses; and 
of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers 
compensation payments and unemployment compensation 
payments associated with the orderly closure of the United 
States Bureau of Mines; and of which $38,300,000 shall 
remain available until expended for the purpose of mineral 
revenue management activities: Provided, 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 Sec-
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retary 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, notwithstanding the provisions of section 35(b) of 
the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), the Secretary 
shall deduct 2 percent from the amount payable to each 
State in fiscal year 2013 and deposit the amount deducted 
to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury: Provided fur-
ther, That section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting ‘‘2013’’: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2013, up to $400,000 
of the payments authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, 
United States Code, may be retained for administrative 
expenses of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Pro-
vided further, That no payment shall be made pursuant 
to such chapter to otherwise eligible units of general local 
government if the computed amount of the payment is less 
than $100: Provided further, That a payment made to a 
unit of general local government for fiscal year 2013 pur-
suant to such chapter may be reduced by the Secretary 
to correct overpayments, and shall be increased by the 
Secretary to correct underpayments, to such unit of gen-
eral local government for the previous fiscal year. 
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INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior 
and other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Pub-
lic Law 108–188, $79,946,000, of which: (1) $70,684,000 
shall remain available until expended for territorial assist-
ance, including general technical assistance, maintenance 
assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef initiative activi-
ties, and brown tree snake control and research; grants 
to the judiciary in American Samoa for compensation and 
expenses, as authorized 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 Govern-
ment of Guam, as authorized by law; and grants to the 
Government of the Northern Mariana Islands as author-
ized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) 
$9,262,000 shall be available until September 30, 2014, 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: 
Provided, That all financial transactions of the territorial 
and local governments herein provided for, including such 
transactions of all agencies or instrumentalities estab-
lished or used by such governments, may be audited by 
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