Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992
PL 102-154 (H.R.2686), enacted 11/13/1991

105 STAT. 990 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
Public Law 102-154 
102d Congress 
An Act 
Nov. 13, 1991 
[H.R. 2686] 
Department of 
the Interior and 
Related 
Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 1992. 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and 
for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For expenses necessary for protection, use, improvement, develop-
ment, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, 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 Bureau of Land Management, including the 
general administration of the Bureau of Land Management, 
$538,940,000 of which the following amounts shall remain available 
until expended: not to exceed $1,400,000 to be derived from the 
special receipt account established by section 4 of the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601-
6a(i)), and $23,500,000 for the Automated Land and Mineral Record 
System Project: 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 of Land Management or 
its contractors. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds in 
this or any other Act shall be available before October 1, 1992, to 
accept or process applications for patent for any oil shale mining 
claim located pursuant to the general mining laws or to issue a 
patent for any such oil shale mining claim, unless the holder of a 
valid oil shale mining claim has received first half final certificate 
for patent by date of enactment of this Act. 
FIREFIGHTING 
For necessary expenses for fire management, emergency re-
habilitation, firefighting, fire presuppression, and other related 
emergency actions by the Department of the Interior, $122,010,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That such funds also 
are to be available for repayment of advances to other appropriation 
accounts from which funds were previously transferred for such 
purposes. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 991 
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FIREFIGHTING FUND 
43 USC 1474a. 
For the purpose of establishing an "Emergency Department of the 
Interior Fireflghting Fund" in the Treasury of the United States to 
be available only for emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppres-
sion activities of the Department of the Interior, $100,869,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That all funds available 
under this head are hereby designated by Congress to be "emer-
gency requirements" pursuant to section 25103)(2)(D) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided fur-
ther, That hereafter, beginning in fiscal year 1993, and in each year 
thereafter, only amounts for emergency rehabilitation and wildfire 
suppression activities that are in excess of the average of such costs 
for the previous ten years shall be considered "emergency require-
ments" pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and such amounts shall 
hereafter be so designated. 
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS 
For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and construction of 
buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails, and appurtenant facili-
ties, $14,318,000, to remain available until expended. 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20, 1976 
(31 U.S.C. 6901-07), $105,000,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 
shall be available for administrative expenses. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 205, 
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94-579 including administrative ex-
penses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, 
$25,322,000 to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund, to remain available until expended. 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, and develop-
ment of resources and for construction, operation, 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 and California land-grant counties of 
Oregon, and on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or 
interests therein including existing connecting roads on or adjacent 
to such grant lands; $90,274,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That 25 per centum of the aggregate of all receipts during 
the current fiscal year from the revested Oregon 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 provisions of 
the second paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 
28,1937 (50 Stat. 876). 
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RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and in-
terests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant to 
section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 
(43 U.S.C. 1701), notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 
per centum 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 trans-
ferred to the Department of the Interior pursuant to law, but not 
less than $10,687,000, 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 facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and 
for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
collected under sections 20903), 304(a), 304(b), 305(a), and 504(g) of the 
Act approved October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and sections 101 and 
203 of Public Law 93-153, to be immediately available until ex-
43 use 1735 pended: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con-
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trary of section 305(a) of the Act of October 21, 1976 (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 
settlement, 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 or subsequent appropriations 
Acts by the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public 
lands administered through the Bureau oif Land Management which 
have been damaged by the action of a resource developer, purchaser, 
permittee, or any unauthorized person, without regard to whether 
all moneys collected from each such forfeiture, compromise, or 
settlement are used on the exact lands damage to which led to the 
forfeiture, compromise, or settlement: Provided further. That such 
moneys are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the 
exact land for which collected. 
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under existing 
law, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as may be contrib-
uted 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, surveys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain available 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 
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105 STAT. 993 
$25,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary, for informa-
tion or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by the 
Bureau of Land Management; miscellaneous and emergency ex-
penses of enforcement activities authorized or approved by the 
Secretary and to be accounted for solely on his certificate, not to 
exceed $10,000: Provided, That appropriations herein made for 
Bureau of Land Management expenditures in connection with the 
revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay 
Wagon Road grant lands (other than expenditures made under the 
appropriation "Oregon and California grant lands") shall be re-
imbursed to the General Fund of the Treasury from the 25 per 
centum referred to in subsection (c), title II, of the Act approved 
August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876), of the special fund designated the 
"Oregon and California land grant fund" and section 4 of the Act 
approved May 24, 1939 (53 Stat. 754), of the special fund designated 
the "Coos Bay Wagon Road grant fund": Provided further, That 
appropriations herein made may be expended for surveys of Federal 
lands and on a reimbursable bsisis for surveys of Federal lands and 
for protection of lands for the State of Alsiska: Provided 
further. 
That an appeal of any reductions in grazing allotments on public 
rangelands must be taken within thirty days after receipt of a final 
grazing allotment decision. Reductions of up to 10 per centum in 
grazing allotments shall become effective when so designated by the 
Secretary of the Interior. Upon appeal any proposed reduction in 
excess of 10 per centum shall be suspended pending final action on 
the appeal, which shall be completed within two years after the 
appeal is filed: Provided further. That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 
501, the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and partner-
ship arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services 
from cooperators in connection with jointly-produced 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. 
Public lands. 
43 u s e 1752 
note. 
Contracts. 
Printing. 
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for scientific and economic studies, con-
servation, management, investigations, protection, and utilization of 
sport fishery and wildlife resources, except whales, seals, and sea 
lions, and for the performance of other authorized functions related 
to such resources; for the general administration of the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service; and for maintenance of the herd of 
long-horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge; and 
not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects within the scope of 
the approved budget which shall be carried out by Youth Conserva-
tion Corps as if authorized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as 
amended by Public Law 93-408, $518,437,000 of which $10,806,000 
shall be for operation and maintenance of fishery mitigation facili-
ties constructed by the Corps of Engineers under the Lower Snake 
River Compensation Plan, authorized by the Water Resources Devel-
opment Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2921), to compensate for loss of fishery 
resources from water development projects on the Lower Snake 
River, and which shall remain available until expended; and of 
which $1,000,000 shall be for contaminant sample analysis, and 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That none of the 
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funds in this Act may be expended to reintroduce wolves in Yellow-
stone National Park and Central Idaho. 
CONSTRUCTION AND ANADROMOUS FISH 
For construction and acquisition of buildings and other facilities 
required in the conservation, management, investigation, protec-
tion, and utilization of sport fishery and wildlife resources, and the 
acquisition of lands and interests therein; $114,895,000 to remain 
available until expended, of which $400,000 shall be available for 
expenses to carry out the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 757a-757g) and of which $13,000,000 for Walnut Creek NWR, 
lA shall be made available on September 30, 1992: Provided, That 
hereinafter notwithstanding any other provision of law, procure-
ments for the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, the National 
Education and Training Center, and the replacement laboratory for 
the National Fisheries Research Center—Seattle, Washington, may 
be issued which include the full scope of the facility: Provided 
further. That the solicitation and contract shall contain the clause 
"availability of funds" found at 48 CFR 52.323.18. 
43 u s e 1474b. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessments and restoration 
activities by the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out 
the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, 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), and the Act 
of July 27, 1990 (Public Law 101-337); $4,370,000 to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, in fiscal year 1991 and thereafter, sums provided by any 
party, including sums provided in advance or as a reimbursement 
for natural resource damage assessments, may be credited to this 
appropriation and shall remain available until expended. 
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. 
4601-4-11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of 
land or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory 
authority applicable to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
$100,117,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund, to remain available until expended. 
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531-1543), as amended by 
Public Law 100-478, $6,705,000 for Grants to States, to remain 
available until expended. 
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 17, 1978 
(16 U.S.C. 715s), $12,000,000. 
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105 STAT. 995 
REWARDS AND OPERATIONS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the African 
Elephant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201-4203, 4211-4213, 4221-
4225, 4241-4245, and 1538), $1,201,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the North 
American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public Law 101-233, in fiscal 
year 1992 and thereafter, amounts above $1,000,000 received under 
section 6 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 707) as 
penalties or fines or from forfeitures of property or collateral, but 
not to exceed $12,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
43 u s e 1474c. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations and funds available to the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service shall be available for purchase of not to exceed 145 
passenger motor vehicles, of which 129 are for replacement only 
(including 43 for police-type use); not to exceed $400,000 for pay-
ment, at the discretion of the Secretary, for information, rewards, or 
evidence concerning violations of laws administered by the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, and miscellaneous and emergency 
expenses of enforcement activities, authorized or approved by the 
Secretary and to be accounted for solely on his certificate; repair of 
damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation areas 
caused by operations of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; 
options 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 mainte-
nance and improvement of aquaria, buildings, and other facilities 
under the jurisdiction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
and to which the United States has title, and which are utilized 
pursuant to law in connection with management and investigation 
of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, That the United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service may accept donated aircraft as replacements 
for existing aircraft: Provided further, That hereafter the Tinicum 
National Environmental Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
shall be known as the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at 
Tinicum. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal Grant and Coopera-
tive Agreements Act of 1977 (31 U.S.C. 6301-6308), the Fish and 
Wildlife Service is hereafter authorized to negotiate and enter into 
cooperative arrangements and grants with public and private agen-
cies, organizations, institutions, and individuals to implement on a 
public-private cost sharing basis, the North American Wetlands 
Conservation Act and the North American Waterfowl Management 
Plan: Provided, That the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 
may continue to draw down Federal funds when matching require-
ments have been met: Provided further, That interest earned by the 
Foundation and its subgrantees on funds drawn down to date but 
not immediately disbursed shall be used to fund direct projects and 
programs as approved by the Foundation's Board of Directors. 
Federal 
buildings and 
facilities. 
Pennsylvania. 
16 u s e 668dd 
note. 
Contracts. 
Grants. 
31 u s e 6305 
note. 
note. 
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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 maintenance service to truck-
ing permittees on a reimbursable basis), and for the general 
administration of the National Park Service, including not to exceed 
$566,000 for the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commis-
sion, and not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects within 
the scope of the approved budget which shall be carried out by 
Youth Conservation Corps as if authorized by the Act of August 13, 
1970, as amended by Public Law 93-408, $965,665,000 without regard 
to the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended (16 U.S.C. 451), of which 
not to exceed $59,500,000 to remain available until expended is to be 
derived from the special fee account established pursuant to title V, 
16 use 20b note, 
section 5201, of Public Law 100-203: Provided, That the National 
Park Service shall not enter into future concessionaire contracts, 
including renewals, that do not include a termination for cause 
clause that provides for possible extinguishment of possessory in-
terests excluding depreciated book value of concessionaire invest-
ments without compensation: Provided further, That of the funds 
provided herein, $700,000 is available for the National Institute for 
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460ff-3 
the Conservation of Cultural Property: Provided further, That here-
after appropriations for maintenance and improvement of roads 
within the boundary of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation 
Area shall be available for such purposes without regard to whether 
title to such road rights-of-way is in the United States: Provided 
further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, hereafter 
the National Park Service may make road improvements for the 
purpose of public safety on Route 25 in New River Gorge National 
River between the towns of Glen Jean and Thurmond: Provided 
further. That none of the funds appropriated to the National Park 
Service in this Act may be used to construct horse stables or any 
other facilities for the housing of horses at the Manassas National 
Battlefield Park: Provided further. That of the funds provided 
herein, $65,000 is available for a cooperative agreement with the 
Susan LaFlesche Picotte Center: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated in this Act may be used to implement any 
increase in Government housing rental rates in excess of ten per 
centum more than the rental rates which were in effect on Septem-
ber 1, 1991, for such housing: Provided further. That of the funds 
provided under this heading, not to exceed $500,000 shall be made 
available to the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be used as part of 
the non-Federal share of a cost-shared feasibility study of flood 
protection for the downtown area which contains a significant 
amount of National Park Service property and improvements: 
Provided further. That the aforementioned sum and any sums 
hereinafter provided in subsequent Acts for said project are to be 
considered non-Federal monies for the purpose of title I of Public 
Law 99-662. 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation programs, natural 
programs, cultural 
programs, environmental 
compliance 
and 
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105 STAT. 997 
review, and grant administration, not otherwise provided for, 
$23,090,000: Provided, That no funds appropriated under this head 
for the Calumet Historic District may be obligated until funds 
provided for the Calumet Historic District under construction plan-
ning are specifically authorized. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the 
Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 915), as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 470), $35,931,000 to be derived from the Historic Preserva-
tion Fund, established by section 108 of that Act, as amended, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1993: Provided, 
That the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands is a State eligible for 
Historic Preservation Fund matching grant assistance as authorized 
under 16 U.S.C. 470w(2): Provided further, That pursuant to section 
105(1) of the Compact of Free Association, Public Law 99-239, the 
Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall 
Islands shall also be considered States for purposes of this appro-
priation. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair or replacement of physical 
facilities, without regard to the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 451), $275,801,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That not to exceed $8,440,000 shall be paid to the Army 
Corps of Engineers for modifications authorized by section 104 of the 
Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989: 
Provided further, That none of the funds under this head may be 
expended for the Calumet Historic District unless specifically 
authorized: Provided further. That of the funds provided under this 
heading, $1,400,000 shall be available for site acquisition and site 
preparation for the Lincoln Center in Springfield, Illinois: Provided 
further, That up to $376,000 of the funds provided under this head, 
to be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund, established by 
the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 915), as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 470), shall be available until expended for emergency 
stabilization of the Kennicott, Alaska copper mine, such funds to be 
transferred to the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this heading, 
$2,000,000 shall be available for a grant to restore the Chicago 
Public Library, Central Building as if authorized by the Historic 
Sites Act of 1935 (16 U.S.C. 462(e)): Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $1,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for renovation of Tad Gormley Stadium: Provided further. That 
of the funds provided under this heading, up to $100,000 shall be 
available to assist the Town of Provincetown, Massachusetts with 
planning and construction of a solid waste transfer station on town-
owned land provided that the Town and the National Park Service 
enter into an agreement for shared use of the facility for its lifetime 
at a rate based on actual operating costs and percentages of total 
contribution of solid waste by the National Park Service: Provided 
further. That of the funds provided under this heading, $3,650,000 
shall be available for construction of a Gateway Park associated 
with the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor: 
Provided further. That until March 1, 1992, none of the funds 
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appropriated under this head may be expended for the Steamtown 
National Historic Site unless specifically authorized. 
URBAN PARK AND RECREATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Urban 
Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 (title 10 of Public Law 
95-625) $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
4601-4-11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of 
land or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory 
authority applicable to the National Park Service, $106,570,000 to be 
derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain 
available until expended, of which $23,500,000 is for the State 
assistance program including $3,500,000 to administer the State 
assistance program: Provided, That of the amounts previously 
appropriated to the Secretary's contingency fund for grants to 
States $14,000 shall be available in 1992 for administrative expenses 
of the State grant program. 
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Act, funds in this 
Act for National Park Service Land Acquisition may be used for 
acquisition of property by condemnation at Santa Monica Moun-
tains National Recreational Area under the condition that zoning 
permits or variances for such property shall not have changed since 
those in place on September 19,1991. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
16 use 460/-l0a 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 1992 by 16 U.S.C. 
note. 
4601-lOa is rescinded. 
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 
For expenses necessary for operating and maintaining the 
nonperforming arts functions of the John F. Kennedy Center for the 
Performing Arts, $22,945,000, of which $16,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended. 
ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR 
COMMISSION 
For operation of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Herit-
age Corridor Commission, $250,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available 
for the purchase of not to exceed 465 passenger motor vehicles, of 
which 322 shall be for replacement only, including not to exceed 355 
for police-type use, 11 buses, and 5 ambulances; to provide, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, at a cost not exceeding $100,000, 
transportation for children in nearby communities to and from any 
unit of the National Park System used in connection with organized 
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105 STAT. 999 
recreation and interpretive programs of the National Park Service; 
options for the purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each option; 
and for the procurement and delivery of medical services within the 
jurisdiction of units of the National Park System: Provided, That 
any funds available to the National Park Service may be used, with 
the approval of the Secretary, to maintain law and order in emer-
gency and other unforeseen law enforcement situations and conduct 
emergency search and rescue operations in the National Park 
System: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 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 the National Park Service may use heli-
copters and motorized equipment at Death Valley National Monu-
ment for removal of feral burros and horses: Provided further. That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the National Park 
Service may recover all costs of providing necessary services associ-
ated with special use permits, such reimbursements to be credited to 
the appropriation current at that time: Provided further. That none Reports, 
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 implemented 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 
three calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the 
Senate of a full and comprehensive report on the development of the 
southern end of Ellis Island, including the facts and circumstances 
relied upon in support of the proposed project: Provided 
further, 
That Federal funds available to the National Park Service may be 
used for improvements to the National Park Service rail excursion 
line between milepost 132.7 and 120.55 located in Northeastern 
Pennsylvania: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior, 
acting through the Director of the National Park Service, may enter 
into a cooperative agreement with the William O. Douglas Outdoor 
Classroom under which the Secretary may expend Federal funds on 
non-Federal property for environmental education purposes. 
Notwithstanding any Master Plan, Development Concept Plan or 
policy of the Olympic National Park, nor any Federal regulation, to 
the contrary, the Superintendent of the Olympic National Park, 
located in the State of Washington, is authorized and directed to 
issue a ten-year, special use permit for the continued operation of 
Kamp Kiwanis by the Hoquiam Kiwanis Club and the Hoquiam 
Y.M.C.A., and for reconstruction of the main lodge at Kamp 
Kiwanis, at the location described below within the boundary of the 
Olympic National Park: 
A plot of land in Section 13, Township 23 N., Range 10 W., 
W.M. described as follows: 
Beginning at an iron pipe which is on the section line and 
south 860 feet from the south Vie corner of Sections 14 and 13 in 
Township 23 north. Range 10 W., W.M.; thence north 131/2 
degrees east 572 feet to an iron pipe; thence south 55 degrees 
east 319 feet to an iron pipe; thence south 16 degrees west 458 
feet to an iron pipe; thence north 75 y2 degrees west 277 feet to 
point of beginning, containing 3.43 acres, more or less; also a 
right-of-way for a pipeline from Higley Creek to the above area 
Washington. 
National parks, 
monuments, 
memorials. 
105 STAT. 1000 
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about 2,000 feet along the section line between Sections 13 and 
14, T. 23 N., Range 10 W., W.M. 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the Geological Survey to perform 
surveys, investigations, and research covering topography, geology, 
hydrology, and the mineral and water resources of the United 
States, its Territories and possessions, and other areas as authorized 
by law (43 U.S.C. 31, 1332 and 1340); classify lands as to their 
mineral and water resources; give engineering supervision to power 
permittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licensees; 
administer the minerals exploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); and 
publish and disseminate data relative to the foregoing activities; 
$590,054,000, of which $62,058,000 shall be available only for co-
operation with States or municipalities for water resources inves-
43 use 50. 
tigations: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used 
to pay more than one-half the cost of any topographic mapping or 
water resources investigations carried on in cooperation with any 
State or municipality. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The amount appropriated for the Geological Survey shall be 
available for purchase of not to exceed 26 passenger motor vehicles, 
for replacement only; reimbursement to the General Services 
Administration for security guard services; contracting for the fur-
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geophysical or 
other specialized surveys when it is administratively determined 
that such procedures are in the public interest; construction and 
maintenance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities; ac-
quisition of lands for gauging stations and observation wells; ex-
penses of the United States National Committee on Geology; and 
payment of compensation and expenses of persons on the rolls of the 
Geological Survey appointed, as authorized by law, to represent the 
United States in the negotiation and administration of interstate 
compacts: Provided, That activities funded by appropriations herein 
made may be accomplished through the use of contracts, grants, or 
cooperative agreements as defined in Public Law 95-224: Provided 
Nomenclature. 
further, That the Geological Survey (43 U.S.C. 31(a)) shall hereafter 
43 use 31 note, be designated the United States Geological Survey. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
LEASING AND ROYALTY MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and environmental 
studies, regulation of industry operations, and collection of royalties, 
as authorized by law; for enforcing laws and regulations applicable 
to oil, gas, and other minerals 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; $207,070,000, of which not less than 
$66,584,000 shall be available for royalty management activities: 
Provided, That $1,500,000 for computer acquisitions shall remain 
available until September 30, 1993: Provided further. That funds 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1001 
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 reasonable 
expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 
activities: Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, $10,000 under this head shall be available for refunds of 
overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases in which the 
Director of the Minerals Management Service concurred with the 
claimed refund due: Provided further. That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, $68,200,000 shall be deducted from Federal 
onshore mineral leasing receipts prior to the division and distribu-
tion of such receipts between the States and the Treasury and shall 
be credited to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury: Provide<jl 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal 
year 1992 and each year thereafter, the Secretary of the Interior or 
his designee is authorized to— 
(a) enter into a cooperative agreement or agreements with 
any State or Indian tribe to share royalty management informa-
tion, to carry out inspection, auditing, investigation or enforce-
ment (not including the collection of royalties, civil penalties, or 
other payments) activities in cooperation with the Secretary, 
except that the Secretary shall not enter into such cooperative 
agreement with a State with respect to any such activities on 
Indian lands except with the permission of the Indian tribe 
involved; and 
Ot)) upon written request of any State, to delegate to the State 
all or part of the authorities and responsibilities of the 
Secretary under the authorizing leasing statutes, leases, and 
regulations promulgated pursuant thereto to conduct audits, 
investigations, and inspections, except that the Secretary shall 
not undertake such a delegation with respect to any Indian 
lands except with permission of the Indian tribe involved, 
with respect to any lease authorizing exploration for or development 
of coal, any other solid mineral, or geothermal steam on any Federal 
lands or Indian lands within the State or with respect to any lease 
or portion of a lease subject to section 8(g) of the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act of 1953, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)), on the same 
terms and conditions as those authorized for oil and gas leases under 
sections 202, 203, 205, and 206 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 
Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1732, 1733, 1735, and 1736) and 
the regulations duly promulgated with respect thereto: Provided 
further. That section 204 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 
Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1734) shall apply to leases 
authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid 
mineral, or geothermal steam on any Federal lands, or to any lease 
or portion of a lease subject to section 8(g) of the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act of 1953, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)): Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall compensate any State or Indian 
tribe for those costs which are necessary to carry out activities 
conducted pursuant to such cooperative agreement or delegation. 
BUREAU OF MINES 
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Inter-
governmental 
relations. 
Indians. 
Contracts. 
MINES AND MINERALS 
For expenses necessary for conducting inquiries, technological 
investigations, and research concerning the extraction, processing. 
105 STAT. 1002 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
43 u s e 1473a. 
use, and disposal of mineral substances without objectionable social 
and environmental costs; to foster and encourage private enterprise 
in the development of mineral resources and the prevention of waste 
in the mining, minerals, metal, and mineral reclamation industries; 
to inquire into the economic conditions affecting those industries; to 
promote health and safety in mines and the mineral industry 
through research; and for other related purposes as authorized by 
law, $176,690,000, of which $101,682,000 shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That none of the funds in this or any other Act 
may be used for the closure or consolidation of any research centers 
or the sale of any of the helium facilities currently in operation. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, 
other contributions and, heretofore and hereafter, fees to be depos-
ited in the contributed funds account from public and private 
sources, and to prosecute projects using such contributions and fees 
in cooperation with other Federal, State or private agencies: Pro-
vided, That the Bureau of Mines is authorized, during the current 
fiscal year, to sell directly or through any Government agency, 
including corporations, any metal or mineral product that may be 
manufactured in pilot plants operated by the Bureau of Mines, and 
the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as 
miscellaneous receipts. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT 
30 u s e 1211 
note. 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, as 
amended, including the purchase of not to exceed 15 passenger 
motor vehicles, of which 11 shall be for replacement only; 
$111,100,000 and notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, an additional 
amount, to remain available until expended, from performance bond 
forfeitures in fiscal year 1992: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to 
regulations, may utilize directly or through grants to States, moneys 
collected in fiscal year 1992 pursuant to the assessment of civil 
penalties 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 notwithstanding 
any other provisions of law, appropriations for the Office 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 Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored train-
ing: Provided further. That notwithstanding the requirements of 
section 705 of Public Law 95-87 (30 U.S.C. 1295) appropriations 
herein shall be available to fund the full costs to the States to 
implement the Applicant Violator System in compliance with the 
January 24, 1990 Settlement Agreement between Save Our Cum-
berland Mountains, Inc. and Manuel Lujan, Jr., Secretary, United 
States Department of the Interior, et al. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1003 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of title IV of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public 
Law 95-87, as amended, including the purchase of not more than 22 
passenger motor vehicles, of which 16 shall be for replacement only, 
$190,200,000 to be derived from receipts of the Abandoned Mine 
Reclamation Fund and to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That of the funds herein provided up to $22,000,000 may be 
used for the emergency program authorized by section 410 of Public 
Law 95-87, as amended, of which no more than 20 per centum shall 
be used for emergency reclamation projects in any one State and 
funds for Federally-administered emergency reclamation projects 
under this proviso shall not exceed $15,000,000: Provided 
further. 
That 23 full-time equivalent positions are to be maintained in the 
Anthracite Reclamation Program at the Wilkes-Barre Field Office: 
Provided further, That pursuant to Public Law 97-365, the Depart-
ment of the Interior is authorized to utilize up to 20 per centum 
from the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to the United States 
Government to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided 
further. That of the funds made available to the States to contract 
for reclamation projects authorized in section 406(a) of Public Law 
95-87, administrative expenses may not exceed 15 per centum: 
Provided further. That the Secretary of the Interior may deny 50 per 
centum of an Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund grant, available 
to a State pursuant to title IV of Public Law 95-87, in accordance 
with the procedures set forth in section 5210^) of the Act, when the 
Secretary determines that a State is systematically failing to admin-
ister adequately the enforcement provisions of the approved State 
regulatory program. Funds will be denied until such time as the 
State and Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
have agreed upon an explicit plan of action for correcting the 
enforcement deficiency. A State may enter into such agreement 
without admission of culpability. If a State enters into such agree-
ment, the Secretary shall take no action pursuant to section 5210t)) 
of the Act £is long as the State is complying with the terms of the 
agreement. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
For operation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, and grants including expenses necessary to 
provide education and welfare services for Indians, either directly or 
in cooperation with States and other organizations, including pay-
ment of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses of Indians in 
boarding homes, or institutions, or schools; grants and other assist-
ance to needy Indians; maintenance of law and order; management, 
development, improvement, and protection of resources and appur-
tenant facilities under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, including payment of irrigation assessments and charges; 
acquisition of water rights; advances for Indian industrial and busi-
ness enterprises; operation of Indian arts and crafts shops and 
museums; development of Indian arts and crafts, as authorized by 
law; for the general administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
including such expenses in field offices, $1,236,078,000, including 
$248,152,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools 
105 STAT. 1004 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
Claims. 
Government 
organization. 
and other education programs which shall become available for 
obligation on July 1, 1992, and shall remain available for obligation 
until June 30, 1993, and of which, funds obligated as grants to 
schools pursuant to Public Law 100-297 shall be made on July 1 and 
December 1 in lieu of the payments authorized to be made on 
October 1 and January 1 of each calendar year, and of which not to 
exceed $75,912,000 for higher education scholarships, adult voca-
tional training, and assistance to public schools under the Act of 
April 16, 1934 (48 Stat. 596), as amended (25 U.S.C. 452 et seq.), shall 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1993; and the 
funds made available to tribes and tribal organizations through 
contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 1992 as authorized 
by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), or grants authorized by the Indian Education 
Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2001 and 2008A) shall remain 
available until expended by the contractor or grantee; and of which 
$2,021,000 for litigation support shall remain available until ex-
pended, $5,000,000 for self-governance tribal compacts shall be made 
available on completion and submission of such compacts to the 
Congress, and shall remain available until expended; and of which 
$1,139,000 for expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
section 19(a) of Public Law 93-531 (25 U.S.C. 640d-18(a)), shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That none of the funds 
appropriated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be expended as 
matching funds for programs funded under section 103(b)(2) of the 
Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act: Provided further, That 
$200,000 of the funds made available in this Act shall be available 
for cyclical maintenance of tribally owned fish hatcheries and re-
lated facilities: Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act 
shall be used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to transfer funds 
under a contract with any third party for the management of tribal 
or individual Indian trust funds until the funds held in trust for all 
such tribes or individuals have been audited and reconciled to the 
earliest possible date, the results of such reconciliation have been 
certified by an independent party as the most complete reconcili-
ation of such funds possible, and the affected tribe or individual has 
been provided with an accounting of such funds: Provided further. 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the statute of 
limitations shall not commence to run on any claim concerning 
losses to or mismanagement of trust funds, until the affected tribe 
or individual Indian has been furnished with the accounting of such 
funds from which the beneficiary can determine whether there has 
been a loss: Provided further. That $300,000 of the amounts provided 
for education program management shall be available for a grant to 
the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, That until such time as 
legislation is enacted to the contrary, none of the funds appropriated 
in this or any other Act for the benefit of Indians residing within the 
jurisdictional service area of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma 
shall be expended by other than the Cherokee Nation, nor shall any 
funds be used to take land into trust within the boundaries of the 
original Cherokee territory in Oklahoma without the consent of the 
Cherokee Nation: Provided further. That the Task Force on Bureau 
of Indian Affairs Reorganization shall continue activities under its 
charter as adopted and amended on April 17, 1991: Provided further, 
That any reorganization proposal shall not be implemented until 
the Task Force has reviewed it and recommended its implementa-
tion to the Secretary and such proposal has been submitted to and 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1005 
approved by the Committees on Appropriations, except that the 
Bureau may submit a reorganization proposal related only to 
management improvements, along with Task Force comments or 
recommendations to the Committees on Appropriations for review 
and disposition by the Committees: Provided further. That to pro-
vide funding uniformity within a Self-Governance Compact, any 
funds provided in this Act with availability for more than one year 
may be reprogrammed to one year availability but shall remain 
available within the Compact until expended: Provided 
further. 
That within available funds $100,000 is available to lease space in a 
facility to be constructed by the Nez Perce Tribe in Lapwai, Idaho: 
Provided further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs will incorporate 
General Services Administration Market Survey findings into the 
final lease agreement: Provided further. That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, $150,000 shall be provided to the Blackfeet 
Tribe for a model trust department pilot program. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
For construction, major repair, and improvement of irrigation and 
power systems, buildings, utilities, and other facilities, including 
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisition of 
lands and interests in lands; preparation of lands for farming; 
maintenance of Indian reservation roads £is defined in section 101 of 
title 23, United States Code; and construction, repair, and improve-
ment of Indian housing, $213,163,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the funds previously provided under 
this head for construction contract support, $7,000,000 is hereby 
rescinded: Provided further. That $1,000,000 of the funds made 
available in this Act shall be available for rehabilitation of tribally 
owned fish hatcheries and related facilities: Provided further, That 
such amounts as may be available for the construction of the Navajo 
Indian Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 
Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per centum of 
contract 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 of Indian Affairs: Pro-
vided further. That none of the funds available to the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs in this or any other Act shall be used to transfer, 
through agreement, memorandum of understanding, demonstration 
project or other method, the Safety of Dams program of the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs to the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided 
further. 
That nothing herein shall prevent the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 
tribes from using, on a case-by-case basis, the technical expertise of 
the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided further. That none of the funds 
provided for the Safety of Dams program are available for transfer 
pursuant to sections 101 and 102 of this Act. 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and individuals 
pursuant to Public Laws 98-500, 99-264, 100-580, 101-618, 101-602, 
101-628, 101-486, and 100-585, including funds for necessary 
administrative expenses, $87,617,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That income earned on funds appropriated by 25 USC 1773d 
Public Law 101-121, October 23, 1989, 103 Stat. 701, 715 for the note. 
105 STAT. 1006 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
purposes of section 6(b) of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians Settlement 
Act of 1989, Public Law 101-41, June 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 83, may be 
utilized by the Permanent Trust Fund Board of Trustees to secure 
necessary and appropriate financial, auditing, accounting, insurance 
and other administrative services to fulfill the Board of Trustees' 
fiduciary and administrative responsibilities: Provided further, That 
no more than 5 per centum of the income in any year may be 
utilized for such purposes: Provided further, That of the funds 
included for Public Law 101-602, $5,000,000 shall be made available 
on September 30,1992; of the funds included for Public Law 101-628, 
$23,000,000 shall be made available on September 30, 1992; and of 
the funds included for Public Law 101-618, $12,500,000 shall be 
made available on September 30,1992. 
NAVAJO REHABILITATION TRUST FUND 
For Navajo tribal rehabilitation and improvement activities in 
accordance with the provisions of section 32(d) of Public Law 93-531, 
as amended (25 U.S.C. 640d-30), including necessary administrative 
expenses, $4,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF INDIAN ENTERPRISES 
For payment of management and technical assistance requests 
associated with loans and grants approved under the Indian Financ-
ing Act of 1974, as amended, $1,000,000. 
INDIAN DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost, as defined in section 13201 of the Budget Enforce-
ment Act of 1990, including the cost of modifying loans, of expert 
assistance loans authorized by the Act of November 4, 1963, as 
amended, and the cost of direct loans authorized by the Indian 
Financing Act of 1974, as amended, $3,039,000: Provided, That these 
funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal 
amount of direct loans not to exceed $15,735,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
direct loan program, $1,020,000, which may be transferred to and 
merged with the appropriations for Operation of Indian Programs to 
cover the common overhead expenses associated with implementing 
the Credit Reform Act of 1990. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost, as defined in section 13201 of the Budget Enforce-
ment Act of 1990, including the cost of modifying loans, of guaran-
teed loans authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as 
amended, $8,512,000: Provided, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal any part of which is to be guaranteed 
not to exceed $56,432,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the 
guaranteed loan program, $1,020,000, which may be transferred to 
and merged with the appropriations for Operation of Indian Pro-
grams to cover the common overhead expenses associated with 
J 
implementing the Credit Reform Act of 1990. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1007 
MISCELLANEOUS PERMANENT APPROPRIATIONS 
48 USC 50e note. 
Beginning October 1, 1991, and thereafter, amounts collected by 
the Secretary in connection with the Alaska Resupply Program 
(Public Law 77-457) shall be deposited into a special fund to be 
established in the Treasury, to be available to carry out the provi-
sions of the Alaska Resupply Program, such amounts to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That unobligated balances of 
amounts collected in fiscal year 1991 and credited to the Operation 
of Indian Programs account as offsetting collections, shall be trans-
ferred and credited to this account. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee and insurance 
fund, the Technical Assistance of Indian Enterprises account, the 
Indian Direct Loan Program account, and the Indian Guaranteed 
Loan Program account) shall be available for expenses of exhibits, 
and purchase of not to exceed 188 passenger carrying motor ve-
hicles, of which not to exceed 147 shall be for replacement only. 
TERRITORIAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 
ADMINISTRATION OF TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for the administration of territories under 
the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $93,477,000, of 
which (1) $89,447,000 shall be available until expended for technical 
assistance, including maintenance assistance, drug interdiction and 
abuse prevention, and brown tree snake control and research; late 
charges and payments of the annual interest rate differential re-
quired by the Federal Financing Bank, under terms of the second 
refinancing of an existing loan to the Guam Power Authority, as 
authorized by law (Public Law 98-454; 98 Stat. 1732); 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 construc-
tion and support of governmental functions; grants to the Govern-
ment of the Virgin Islands as authorized by law; grants to the 
Government of Guam, as authorized by law; grants to the Govern-
ment of the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Public 
Law 94-241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $4,030,000 shall be available for 
salaries and expenses of the Office of Territorial and International 
Affairs: Provided, That the territorial and local governments herein 48 USC I40lf, 
provided for are authorized to make purchases through the General 1423/, 1665. 
Services Administration: Provided further. That all financial trans- 48 USC 1469b. 
actions of the territorial and local governments herein provided for, 
including such transactions of all agencies or instrumentalities 
established or utilized by such governments, shall be audited by the 
General Accounting Office, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, 
United States (Dode: Provided further. That Northern Mariana Is-
lands Covenant grant funding shall be provided according to those 
terms of the Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future 
United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mariana Is-
lands approved by Public Law 99-396, except that should the Sec-
retary of the Interior believe that the performance standards of such 
agreement are not being met, operations funds may be withheld, but 
105 STAT. 1008 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
only by Act of Congress as required by Public Law 99-396: Provided 
further. That $1,025,000 of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance shall be available for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: 
Provided further. That the funds for the program of operations and 
maintenance improvement are appropriated to institutionalize rou-
tine operations and maintenance of capital infrastructure in Amer-
ican Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of 
the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia 
through assessments of long-range operations and maintenance 
needs, improved capability of local operations and maintenance 
institutions and agencies (including management and vocational 
education training), and project-specific maintenance (with terri-
torial participation and cost sharing to be determined by the Sec-
retary based on the individual territory's commitment to timely 
maintenance of its capital assets). 
TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 
For expenses necessary for the Department of the Interior in 
administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands pursuant 
to the Trusteeship Agreement approved by joint resolution of July 
18, 1947 (61 Stat. 397), and the Act of June 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 330), as 
amended (90 Stat. 299; 91 Stat. 1159; 92 Stat. 495), and grants to the 
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in addition to local revenues, 
for support of governmental functions; $24,451,000 to remain avail-
able until expended including $17,651,000 for operations of the 
48 use 1683. 
Government of Palau: Provided, That all financial transactions of 
the Trust Territory, including such transactions of all agencies or 
instrumentalities established or utilized by such Trust Territory, 
shall be audited by the General Accounting Office in accordance 
with chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided 
further, 
48 use 1682. 
That the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands is 
authorized to make purchases through the General Services 
Administration: Provided further, That all Government operations 
funds appropriated and obligated for the Republic of Palau under 
this account for fiscal year 1992, shall be credited as an offset 
against fiscal year 1992 payments made pursuant to the legislation 
approving the Palau Compact of Free Association (Public Law 
99-658), if such Compact is implemented before October 1, 1992: 
Provided further. That not less than $300,000 of the grants to the 
Republic of Palau, for support of governmental functions, shall be 
dedicated to the College of Micronesia in accordance with the agree-
ment between the Micronesian entities. 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For economic assistance and necessary expenses for the Federated 
States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands as 
provided for in sections 122, 221, 223, 232, and 233 of the Compacts of 
Free Association, $25,010,000, to remain available until expended, as 
Effective date. 
authorized by Public Law 99-239: Provided, That the effective date 
of the Palau Compact for purposes of economic assistance pursuant 
to the Palau Compact of Free Association, Public Law 99-658, shall 
be the effective date of the Palau Compact as determined pursuant 
to section 101 of Public Law 101-219: Provided fuHher, That the 
102 Stat. 1798. 
language in the third proviso under this head in Public Law 100-446 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1009 
is amended by striking the word "Ejit" and inserting the word 
"Majuro": Provided further. That $2,000,000 shall be available on an 
ex gratia basis for the relocation and resettlement of the people of 
Rongelap on Rongelap Atoll: Provided further, That such funds shall 
remain available for deposit into a Rongelap Resettlement Trust 
Fund to be used by the people of Rongelap under the terms and 
conditions as set forth in a trust agreement or amendment thereto 
approved by the Rongelap Local Government Council subject only to 
the disapproval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided 
further, 
That the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and 
the Rongelap Local Government Council shall provide for the cre-
ation of the Rongelap Resettlement Trust Fund to assist in the 
resettlement of Rongelap Atoll by the people of Rongelap, and the 
employment of the manager of the Rongelap fund established pursu-
ant to the section 177 Agreement (pursuant to section 177 of Public 
Law 99-239) as trustee and manager of the Rongelap Resettlement 
Trust Fund, or, should the manager of the Rongelap fund not be 
acceptable to the people of Rongelap, another United States invest-
ment manager with substantial experience in the administration of 
trusts and with funds under management in excess of $250,000,000, 
subject only to the disapproval of the Secretary of the Interior: 
Provided further. That such funds shall be available only for costs 
directly associated with the resettlement of Rongelap by the people 
of Rongelap and for projects on Mejatto: Provided further. That the 
Secretary may approve expenditures of up to $500,000 in fiscal year 
1992 for projects on Mejatto benefitting the people of Rongelap 
presently residing on the island of Mejatto: Provided further, That 
after fiscal year 1992, such projects on Mejatto benefitting the 
people of Rongelap may be funded only from the interest and 
earnings generated by the trust fund corpus: Provided further, That 
such fund and the earnings and distribution therefrom shall not be 
subject to any form of Federal, State or local taxation: Provided 
further. That the Governments of the United States and the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands shall not be liable in any cause of 
action in law or equity from the administration and distribution of 
the trust funds. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the 
Interior, $64,445,000, of which not to exceed $7,500 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses. 
^ 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, $31,525,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$24,044,000. 
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Construction Management, 
$2,243,000. 
NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Indian Gaming Commis-
sion, pursuant to Public Law 100-497, $2,190,000. 
OILSPILL EMERGENCY FUND 
For necessary expenses for contingency planning, response, natu-
ral resource damage assessment and restoration activities related to 
any discharge of oil in waters of the United States upon a deter-
mination by the Secretary of the Interior that such funds are 
necessary for the protection or restoration of natural resources 
under his jurisdiction; $3,900,000, which shall remain available until 
expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available re-
sources within the Working Capital Fund, 11 aircraft, 7 of which 
shall be for replacement and which may be obtained by donation, 
purchase or through available excess surplus property: Provided, 
That no programs funded with appropriated funds in the "Office of 
the Secretary", "Office of the Solicitor", and "Office of Inspector 
General" may be augmented through the Working Capital Fund or 
the Consolidated Working 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 emergency reconstruction, 
replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facili-
ties or equipment damaged 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 avail-
able to the Department of the Interior for emergencies shall have 
been exhausted: Provided further. That all funds used pursuant to 
this section are hereby designated by Congress to be "emergency 
requirements" pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and must be 
replenished by a supplemental appropriation which must be re-
quested as promptly as possible. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expenditure 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 forest or range fires on or 
threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the 
Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or 
actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable 
causes; for contingency planning subsequent to actual oilspills; re-
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sponse and natural resource damage gissessment activities related to 
actual oilspills; for the prevention, 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 fire suppression purposes shall be available for the 
payment of obligations incurred during the preceding fiscal year, 
and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for destruction of 
vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in connection with their use 
for fire suppression purposes, such reimbursement to be credited to 
appropriations currently available at the time of receipt thereof: 
Provided further. That for emergency rehabilitation and wildfire 
suppression activities, no funds shall be made available under this 
authority until funds appropriated to the "Emergency Department 
of the Interior Firefighting Fund" shall have been exhausted: Pro-
vided further. That all funds used pursuant to this section are 
hereby designated by Congress to be "emergency requirements" 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation which must be requested as promptly £is 
possible: Provided further. That such replenishment funds shall be 
used to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which emer-
gency funds were transferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, wher-
ever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or econ-
omy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services 
rendered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized by 
sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31, U.S.C: Provided, That reimburse-
ments for costs and supplies, materials, equipment, and for services 
rendered may be credited to the appropriation 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 Secretary, in total amount not to 
exceed $500,000; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for tele-
phone service in private residences in the field, when authorized 
under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of 
dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in 
societies or associations which issue publications to members only or 
at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not 
members. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of the In-
terior 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. Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
obligation in connection with contracts issued by the General Serv-
ices Administration for services or rentals for periods not in excess 
of twelve months beginning at any time during the fiscal year. 
105 STAT. 1012 
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43 use 1473b. 
43 u s e 1473c. 
102 Stat. 4002. 
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, in fiscal 
year 1992 and thereafter, appropriations in this title shall be avail-
able to provide insurance on official motor vehicles, aircraft, and 
boats operated by the Department of the Interior in Canada and 
Mexico. 
SEC. 108. No funds provided in this title may be used to detail any 
employee to an organization unless such detail is in accordance with 
Office of Personnel Management regulations. 
SEC. 109. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore leasing and 
related activities placed under restriction in the President's morato-
rium statement of June 26, 1990, 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. 110. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior for the conduct of leasing, or the ap-
proval or permitting of any drilling or other exploration activity, on 
lands within the North Aleutian Basin planning area. 
SEC. 111. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior for the conduct of preleasing and leasing 
activities in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for Outer Continental Shelf 
Lease Sale 137 or for Sale 151 in the February 1991 draft proposal 
for the Outer Continental Shelf Natural Gas and Oil Resource 
Management Comprehensive Program, 1992-1997. 
SEC. 112. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior for the conduct of preleasing and leasing 
activities in the Atlantic for Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 145 
in the February 1991 draft proposal for the Outer Continental Shelf 
Natural Gas and Oil Resource Management Comprehensive Pro-
gram, 1992-1997. 
SEC. 113. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used for the implementation or financing of agreements or arrange-
ments with entities for the management of all lands, waters, and 
interests therein on Matagorda Island, Texas, which were purchased 
by the Department of the Interior with federally appropriated 
amounts from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
SEC. 114. The provision of section 113 shall not apply if the 
transfer of management or control is ratified by law. 
SEC. 115. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 1992 and thereafter, any appropriations or funds available to 
the Department of the Interior in this Act may be used to provide 
nonmonetary awards of nominal value to private individuals and 
organizations that make contributions to Department of the Interior 
programs. 
SEC. 116. Appropriations under this title in fiscal year 1992 and 
thereafter, may be made available for paying costs incidental to the 
utilization of services contributed by individuals who serve without 
compensation as volunteers in aid of work for units of the Depart-
ment of the Interior. 
SEC. 117. Section 105 of Public Law 100-675 is hereby amended by 
adding the following new subsection: 
"(c) AUTHORITY TO DISBURSE INTEREST INCOME FROM THE SAN LUIS 
REY TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT FUND.—Until the final settlement agree-
ment is completed, the Secretary is authorized and directed, pursu-
ant to such terms and conditions deemed appropriate by the 
Secretary, to disburse to the San Luis Rey Indian Water Authority, 
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105 STAT. 1013 
hereinafter referred to as the 'Authority', funds from the interest 
income which has accrued to the San Luis Rey Tribal Development 
Fund, hereinafter referred to as the 'Fund'. The funds shall be used 
only to assist the Authority in its professional development to 
administer the San Luis Rey Indian Water Settlement, and in the 
Authority's participation and facilitation of the final water rights 
settlement agreement of the five mission bands, subject to the terms \ 
of the Memorandum of Understanding Between the Band and the 
Department dated August 17,1991.". 
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding section 7(b) of Public Law 99-647, the 16 USC 461 note. 
Secretary may approve the extension of the Blackstone Commission 
on or before November 10, 1991, to accomplish the purposes of that 
subsection. 
SEC. 119. None of the funds appropriated in the Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act, 1992 (Public Law 102-104) shall be 
used to implement the proposed rule for the Army Corps of Engi-
neers amending regulations on "ability to pay" (33 CFR Part 241), 
published in the Federal Register, vol. 56, No. 114, on Thursday, 
June 13,1991. 
SEC. 120. (a) The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, 
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 (H.R. 
2608), is amended as follows: 
(1) The third paragraph in title I (under the headings "Justice 
Assistance" and "Office of Justice Programs" within amounts 
for the Department of Justice) is amended by striking out the Ante, p. 783. 
period at the end and inserting in lieu thereof ": Provided, That 
of the $76,000,000 appropriated herein, $4,000,000 shall be de-
rived from deobligated funds previously awarded under part B 
and subparts I and II of part C of title II of said Act.". 
(2) The paragraph in title I under the heading "Salaries and 
Expenses" under 
the heading 
"Federal 
Communications 
Commission" is amended by striking out "For total obligations" Ante, p. 797. 
and inserting in lieu thereof "For necessary expenses". 
(3) The paragraph in title IV under the heading "Payment to 
the Legal Services Corporation" under the heading "Legal Serv-
ices Corporation" is amended by inserting ", coordinated Ante, p. 813. 
through the national Legal Services Corporation office," in the 
proviso after "such Institutes", 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if Effective date, 
included in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, and 
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992, on 
the date of the enactment of such Act. 
TITLE II—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest research as authorized by law, 
$182,812,000 to remain available until September 30,1993. 
105 STAT. 1014 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with, and providing tech-
nical and financial assistance to States, Territories, possessions, and 
others; and for forest pest management activities, $184,107,000, to 
remain available until expended, as authorized by law: Provided, 
That a grant of $550,000 shall be available to Berkeley County, 
South Carolina: Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall be available 
for necessary expenses of the Forest Legacy Program, as authorized 
by section 1217 of Public Law 101-624, the Food, Agriculture, Con-
servation and Trade Act of 1990: Provided further, That the Forest 
Service shall not, under authority provided by this section, enter 
into any commitment to fund the purchase of interests in lands, the 
purchase of which would exceed the level of appropriations provided 
by this section. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise pro-
vided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utilization 
of the National Forest System, and for administrative expenses 
associated with the management of funds provided under the heads 
"Forest Research", "State and Private Forestry", "National Forest 
System", "Construction", "Forest Service Fireflghting", and "Land 
Acquisition", $1,359,662,000 to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 1993, including $26,968,000 for wilderness manage-
ment, and including 65 per centum of all monies received during the 
prior fiscal year 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. 4601-6a(i)): Provided, That unobligated and 
unexpended balances in the National Forest System account at the 
end of fiscal year 1991, shall be merged with and made a part of the 
fiscal year 1992 National Forest System appropriation, and shall 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1993: Provided 
further. That timber volume authorized or scheduled for sale during 
fiscal year 1991, but which remains unsold at the end of fiscal year 
1991 shall be offered for sale during fiscal year 1992 in addition to 
the fiscal year 1992 timber sale volume to the extent possible: 
Provided further, That within available funds, up to $238,000 shall 
be available for a cooperative agreement with Alabama A&M 
University: Provided further. That up to $5,000,000 of the funds 
provided herein for road maintenance shall be available for the 
planned obliteration of roads which are no longer needed. 
FOREST SERVICE FIREFIGHTING 
For necessary expenses for fireflghting on or adjacent to National 
Forest System lands or other lands under fire protection agreement, 
and for forest fire management and presuppression, and emergency 
operations on, and the emergency rehabilitation of. National Forest 
System lands, $189,803,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That such funds are also to be available for repayment of 
advances to other appropriation accounts from which funds were 
previously transferred for such purposes. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1015 
EMERGENCY FOREST SERVICE FIREFIGHTING FUND 
For the purpose of establishing an "Emergency Forest Service 
Firefighting Fund" in the Treasury of the United States to be 
available only for emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppression 
activities of the Forest Service, $112,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That all funds available under this head 
are hereby designated by Congress to be "emergency requirements" 
pursuant to section 251(bX2XD) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further. That hereafter, 16 USC 556e. 
beginning in fiscal year 1993, and in each year thereafter, only 
amounts for emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppression 
activities that are in excess of the average of such costs for the 
previous ten years shall be considered "emergency requirements" 
pursuant to section 25103X2XD) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and such amounts shall hereafter 
be so designated. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise pro-
vided for, for construction, $275,178,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $82,089,000 is for construction and acquisition of 
buildings and other facilities; and $193,089,000 is for construction 
and repair 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: Provided, 
That funds becoming available in fiscal year 1992 under the Act of 
March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to the General 
Fund of the Treasury of the United States: Provided further. That 
not to exceed $113,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
may be obligated for the construction of forest roads by timber 
purchasers. 
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. 
4601-4-11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of 
land or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory 
authority applicable to the Forest Service, $89,433,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the Forest Service shall make a 
grant of $633,000 to the City of Missoula, Montana, from funds 
appropriated by Public Law 101-512 for direct acquisition of prop-
erty known as Rattlesnake Greenway and currently under option to 
the City of Missoula, Montana: Provided further. That no funds shall 
be available to purchase Special Improvement District permits and 
any remaining funds shall be available to acquire additional prop-
erties for recreation and open space in the same vicinity. 
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, California, as authorized by law, 
$1,148,000, to be derived from forest receipts. 
105 STAT. 1016 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, to be derived from funds deposited by 
State, county, or municipal governments, public school districts, or 
other public school authorities 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, protection, and 
improvement, 50 per centum of all moneys received during the prior 
fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on lands in Na-
tional Forests in the sixteen Western States, pursuant to section 
4010t>)(l) of Public Law 94-579, as amended, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed 6 per centum shall be 
available for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND 
RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $97,000 to remain 
available until expended, to be derived from the fund established 
pursuant to the above Act. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for: (a) purchase of not to exceed 207 passenger 
motor vehicles of which 17 will be used primarily for law enforce-
ment purposes and of which 176 shall be for replacement only, of 
which acquisition of 137 passenger motor vehicles shall be from 
excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; operation and maintenance 
of aircraft, the purchase of not to exceed two for replacement only, 
and acquisition of 68 aircraft from excess sources; notwithstanding 
other provisions of law, existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, 
with proceeds derived or trade-in value used to offset the purchase 
price for the replacement aircraft; (b) services pursuant to the 
second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 
2225), and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 
3109; (c) purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other 
public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (d) acquisition of land, waters, 
and interests therein, pursuant to the Act of August 3,1956 (7 U.S.C. 
428a); (e) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the National 
Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, 558a note); and (f) for debt 
collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
None of the funds made available under this Act shall be obli-
gated or expended to change the boundaries of any region, to abolish 
any region, to move or close any regional office for research, State 
and private forestry, or National Forest System administration of 
the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, without the consent 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in the United 
States Senate and the Committee on Agriculture in the United 
States House of Representatives. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may 
be advanced to the Forest Service Firefighting appropriation and 
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105 STAT. 1017 
may be used for forest firefighting and the emergency rehabilitation 
of burned-over lands under its jurisdiction: Provided, That no funds 
shall be made available under this authority until funds appro-
priated to the "Emergency Forest Service Firefighting Fund" shall 
have been exhausted. 
The appropriation structure for the Forest Service may not be 
altered without advance approval of the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations 
or funds available to the Forest Service may be used to reimburse 
employees for the cost of State licenses and certification fees pursu-
ant to their Forest Service position and that are necessary to comply 
with State laws, regulations, and requirements. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
assistance to or through the Agency for International Development 
and the Office of International Cooperation and Development in 
connection with forest and rangeland research, technical informa-
tion, 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 international organizations. 
All funds received for timber salvage sales may be credited to the 
Forest Service Permanent Appropriations to be expended for timbej 
salvage sales from any national forest, and for timber sales prepara-' 
tion to replace sales lost to fire or other causes, and sales prepara-
tion to replace sales inventory on the shelf for any national forest to 
a level sufficient to maintain new sales availability equal to a rolling 
five-year average of the total sales offerings, and for design, 
engineering, and supervision of construction of roads lost to fire or 
other causes associated with the timber sales programs described 
above: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
moneys received from the timber salvage sales program in fiscal 
year 1992 shall be considered as money received for purposes of 
computing and distributing 25 per centum payments to local govern-
ments under 16 U.S.C. 500, as amended. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service under this 
Act shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of section 702(b) 
of the Department of Agriculture Organic 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 and Senate Committees on Appropriations in compli-
ance with the reprogramming procedures contained in House 
Report 102-116. 
No funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be transferred 
to the Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture 
without the approval of the Chief of the Forest Service. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations 
or funds available to the Forest Service may be used to disseminate 
program information to private and public individuals and organiza-
tions through the use of nonmonetary items of nominal value and to 
provide nonmonetary awards of nominal value and to incur nec-
essary expenses for the nonmonetary recognition of private individ-
uals and organizations that make contributions to Forest Service 
programs. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, money collected, in 
advance or otherwise, by the Forest Service under authority of 
section 101 of Public Law 93-153 (30 U.S.C. 185(1)) as reimbursement 
105 STAT. 1018 
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of administrative and other costs incurred in processing pipeline 
right-of-way or permit applications and for costs incurred in mon-
itoring the construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of 
any pipeline and related facilities, may be used to reimburse the 
applicable appropriation to which such costs were originally 
charged. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to conduct 
a program of not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects 
within the scope of the approved budget which shall be carried out 
by the Youth Conservation Corps as if authorized by the Act of 
August 13,1970, as amended by Public Law 93-408. 
31 use 6305 
Notwithstanding the provisions of the Federal Grant and Coopera-
note. 
tive Agreements Act of 1977 (31 U.S.C. 6301-6308), the Forest Serv-
ice is authorized hereafter to negotiate and enter into cooperative 
arrangements with public and private agencies, organizations, 
institutions, and individuals to print educational materials and to 
continue the Challenge Cost-Share Program. 
None of the funds available in this Act shall be used for timber 
sale preparation using clearcutting in hardwood stands in excess of 
25 percent of the fiscal year 1989 harvested volume in the Wayne 
National Forest, Ohio: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply 
to hardwood stands damaged by natural disaster: Provided further. 
Landscaping. 
That landscape architects shall be used to maintain a visually 
pleasing forest. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act 
shall be expended for the purpose of issuing a special use authoriza-
tion permitting land use and occupancy and surface disturbing 
activities for any project to be constructed on Lewis Fork Creek in 
Madera County, California, at the site above, and adjacent to, 
Corlieu Falls bordering the Lewis Fork Creek National Recreation 
Trail until the studies required in Public Law 100-202 have been 
submitted to the Congress: Provided, That any special use authoriza-
tion shall not be executed prior to the expiration of thirty calendar 
days (not including any day in which either House of Congress is not 
in session because of adjournment of more than three calendar days 
to a day certain) from the receipt of the required studies by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the 
Senate. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act 
shall be expended for the purpose of administering a special use 
authorization permitting land use and occupancy and surface 
disturbing activities for any project to be constructed on Rock Creek, 
Madera County, California, until a study has been completed and 
submitted to the Congress by the Forest Service in consultation with 
the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the United States Army 
Corps of Engineers, the California State Water Resources Control 
Board, the California Department of Fish and Game and other 
interested public parties regarding the project's potential cumu-
lative impacts on the environment, together with a finding that 
there will be no substantial adverse impact on the environment. 
Findings from the study must be presented at no less than three 
public meetings. 
Any money collected from the States for fire suppression assist-
ance rendered by the Forest Service on non-Federal lands not in the 
vicinity of National Forest System lands shall be used to reimburse 
the applicable appropriation and shall remain available until ex-
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105 STAT. 1019 
Labor. 
pended as the Secretary may direct in conducting activities au-
thorized by 16 U.S.C. 2101 (note), 2101-2110,1606, and 2111. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $1,500 is available to 
the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and representa-
tion expenses. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Forest Service is Disaster 
authorized to employ or otherwise contract with persons at regular f^^^"*^®' 
rates of pay, as determined by the Service, to perform work occa-
sioned by emergencies such as fires, storms, floods, earthquakes or 
any other unavoidable cause without regard to Sundays, Federal 
holidays, and the regular workweek. 
As a pilot effort, for the purpose of achieving ecologically defen-
sible management practices, the Kaibab and Dixie National Forests 
are authorized to apply the value or a reasonable portion of the 
value of timber removed under a stewardship end result contract as 
an offset against the cost of stewardship services received including, 
but not limited to, site preparation, replanting, silviculture pro-
grams, recreation, wildlife habitat enhancement, and other mul-
tiple-use enhancements on selected projects. Timber removed shall 
count toward meeting the Congressional expectations for the annual 
timber harvest. 
The Forest Service shall conduct a below-cost timber sales study 
on the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois, in fiscal year 1992. 
The Forest Service shall work with the purchasers of sales already 
under contract on the Shawnee National Forest to achieve mutually 
acceptable modifications to said contracts so that the harvest of 
timber under such contracts may occur consistent with the expected 
management prescriptions and/or practices envisioned in the Draft 
Amendment to the Forest Plan for the Shawnee National Forest 
issued in 1991. 
To the greatest extent possible, and pending final approval of the 
Draft Amendment to the Shawnee National Forest Plan, none of the 
funds available in this Act shall be used for preparation of timber 
sales using clearcutting or other forms of even aged management in 
hardwood stands in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. 
Contracts. 
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY 
The first paragraph under this head in Public Law 101-512 is 
amended by striking the phrase "$150,000,000 on October 1, 1991, 
$225,000,000 on October 1, 1992" and inserting "$100,000,000 on 
October 1,1991, $275,000,000 on October 1,1992". 
Notwithstanding the issuance date for the fifth general request 
for proposals under this head in Public Law 101-512, such request 
for proposals shall be issued not later than July 6, 1992, and 
notwithstanding the proviso under this head in Public Law 101-512 
regarding the time interval for selection of proposals resulting from 
such solicitation, project proposals resulting from the fifth general 
request for proposals shall be selected not later than ten months 
after the issuance date of the fifth general request for proposals: 
Provided, That hereafter the fifth general request for proposals 
shall be subject to all provisos contained under this head in previous 
appropriations Acts unless amended by this Act. 
Notwithstanding the provisos under this head in previous appro-
priations Acts, projects selected pursuant to the fifth general re-
104 Stat. 1944. 
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note. 
105 STAT. 1020 
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quest for proposals shall advance significantly the efficiency and 
environmental performance of coal-using technologies and be ap-
plicable to either new or existing facilities: Provided, That budget 
periods may be used in lieu of design, construction, and operating 
phases for cost-sharing calculations: Provided further. That the 
Secretary shall not finance more than 50 per centum of the total 
costs of any budget period: Provided further, That project specific 
development activities for process performance definition, compo-
nent design verification, materials selection, and evaluation of alter-
native designs may be funded on a cost-shared basis up to a limit of 
10 per centum of the Government's share of project cost: Provided 
further, That development activities eligible for cost-sharing may 
include limited modifications to existing facilities for project related 
testing but do not include construction of new facilities. 
With regard to funds made available under this head in this and 
previous appropriations Acts, unobligated balances excess to the 
needs of the procurement for which they originally were made 
available may be applied to other procurements for use on projects 
for which cooperative agreements are in place, within the limita-
tions and proportions of Government financing increases currently 
Privacy. 
allowed by law: Provided, That hereafter, the Department of 
Energy, for a period of up to five years after completion of the 
operations phase of a cooperative agreement may provide appro-
priate protections, including exemptions from subchapter II of chap-
ter 5 of title 5, United States Code, against the dissemination of 
information that results from demonstration activities conducted 
under the Clean Coal Technology Program and that would be a 
trade secret or commercial or financial information that is privi-
leged or confidential if the information had been obtained from and 
first produced by a non-Federal party participating in a Clean Coal 
Technology project: Provided further. That hereafter, in addition to 
the full-time permanent Federal employees specified in section 303 
of Public Law 97-257, as amended, no less than 90 full-time Federal 
employees shall be assigned to the Assistant Secretary for Fossil 
Energy for carrying out the programs under this head using funds 
available under this head in this and any other appropriations Act 
and of which not less than 35 shall be for PETC and not less than 30 
Reports. 
shall be for METC: Provided further. That hereafter reports on 
projects selected by the Secretary of Energy pursuant to authority 
granted under this heading which are received by the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives and the President of the Senate less than 
30 legislative days prior to the end of each session of Congress shall 
be deemed to have met the criteria in the third proviso of the fourth 
paragraph under the heading "Administrative provisions, Depart-
ment of Energy" in the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as contained in Public Law 99-
190, upon expiration of 30 calendar days from receipt of the report 
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of 
the Senate or at the end of the session, whichever occurs later. 
FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy research and 
development activities, under the authority of the Department of 
Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), including the acquisi-
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1021 
tion of interest, including defeasible and equitable interests in any 
real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition or 
expansion, $458,104,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $338,000 is for the functions of the Office of the Federal 
Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System estab-
lished pursuant to the authority of Public Law 94-586 (90 Stat. 
2908-2909) and of which $3,100,000 is available for the fuels pro-
gram: Provided, That none of the funds made available under this 
head may be managed by any individual who is not subject to the 
"employment floor" provisions in Public Law 97-257 as amended or, 
in the alternate, who is not the Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil 
Energy: Provided further. That no part of the sum herein made 
available shall be used for the field testing of nuclear explosives in 
the recovery of oil and gas: Provided further. That the funds pro-
vided under this head in fiscal year 1991 for the purchase of 
supercomputer time needed for Fossil Energy programmatic pur-
pose shall be provided as a grant to the University of Nevada-Las 
Vegas: Provided further. That disbursements pursuant to such a 
grant shall be made only upon the actual use of such supercomputer 
time upon request by Fossil Energy and receipt by Fossil Energy of 
the products therefrom. 
Of the funds provided herein, $2,000,000 shall be available for a 
grant for the National Research Center for Coal and Energy, and 
$1,500,000 shall be for a grant to be matched on an equal basis from 
other sources for the University of North Dakota Energy and 
Environmental Research Center. 
Of the funds herein provided, $40,800,000 is for implementation of 
the June 1984 multiyear, cost-shared magnetohydrodynamics pro-
gram targeted on proof-of-concept testing: Provided, That 35 per 
centum private sector cash or in-kind contributions shall be re-
quired for obligations in fiscal year 1992, and for each subsequent 
fiscal year's obligations private sector contributions shall increase 
by 5 per centum over the life of the proof-of-concept plan: Provided 
further. That existing facilities, equipment, and supplies, or pre-
viously expended research or development funds are not cost-shar-
ing for the purposes of this appropriation, except as amortized, 
depreciated, or expended in normal business practice: Provided 
further. That cost-sharing shall not be required for the costs of 
constructing or operating Government-owned facilities or for the 
costs of Government organizations, National Laboratories, or 
universities and such costs shall not be used in calculating the 
required percentage for private sector contributions: Provided fur-
ther. That private sector contribution percentages need not be met 
on each contract but must be met in total for each fiscal year. 
Funds in the amount of $8,000,000 provided under this head in 
Public Law 101-512 to initiate a ten-year industry/government 
cooperative agreement to design, construct, and operate a proof-of-
concept oil shale facility employing modified in-situ retorting and 
surface processing of mined shale and waste at Federal Prototype 
Oil Shale Lease Tract Cb near Meeker, Colorado, are rescinded. 
ALTERNATIVE FUELS PRODUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Monies received as investment income on the principal amount in 
the Great Plains Project Trust at the Norwest Bank of North 
105 STAT. 1022 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
Dakota, in such sums as are earned as of October 1, 1991, shall be 
deposited in this account and immediately transferred to the Gen-
eral Fund of the Treasury. Monies received as revenue sharing from 
the operation of the Great Plains Gasification Plant shall be imme-
diately transferred to the General Fund of the Treasury: Provided, 
That the Department of Energy shall not agree to modifications to 
the Great Plains Project Trust Agreement, dated October 31, 1988, 
that are not consistent with the following criteria: (1) for the pur-
pose of financing a sulfur control technology project using Govern-
ment contributions from the Trust, the cost of such project shall not 
include costs of plant downtime or outages; (2) upon modification of 
the Trust Agreement the Department shall immediately transfer 
$20,000,000 from the Reserve Account to the Environmental Ac-
count, both established pursuant to section 20)) of the Trust Agree-
ment, and shall provide a loan from the Reserve Account for 40 per 
centum of the remaining project costs after the disbursement of 
funds from the Environmental Account in an amount not to exceed 
$30,000,000 and at the rate of interest specified in sections 1 and 7(b) 
of the Trust Agreement; (3) no disbursements for construction shall 
be made from either the Reserve Account or from funds which have 
been transferred to the Environmental Account from the Reserve 
Account prior to receipt by Dakota Gasification Company of an 
amended Permit to Construct from the North Dakota State Depart-
ment of Health; (4) the Government contribution from the Reserve 
Account shall be disbursed on a concurrent and proportional basis 
with the contribution from the Dakota Gasification Company; (5) 
repayment of any loan shall be from revenues not already due the 
Government as part of the Asset Purchase Agreement, dated Octo-
ber 7, 1988, and at least in proportion to the Government contribu-
tion to the costs of the project net of the disbursement from the 
Environmental Account, for any increased revenues or profits re-
Reports, 
alized as a result of the sulfur control project; and (6) such contribu-
tions from the Reserve Account, including funds to be transferred to 
the Environmental Account, shall be made available contingent 
upon a finding by the Secretary, in the form of a report to Congress 
submitted not later than March 1, 1992, that such planned project 
modifications are cost effective and are expected to meet such 
environmental emissions requirements as may exist. 
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out naval petroleum and oil 
shale reserve activities, $235,300,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
revenues received from use and operation of Naval Petroleum Re-
serves Numbered 1, 2, and 3 and the Naval Oil Shale Reserves and 
estimated to total $523,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 shall be retained 
and used for the specific purpose of offsetting costs incurred by the 
Department in carrying out naval petroleum and oil shale reserve 
activities: Provided further. That the sum herein appropriated shall 
be reduced as such revenues are received so as to result in a final 
fiscal year 1992 appropriation estimated at not more than $0. 
ENERGY CONSERVATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation activi-
ties, $543,166,000, to remain available until expended, including. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1023 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the excess amount for 
fiscal year 1992 determined under the provisions of section 3003(d) of 
Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 4502): Provided, That $243,433,000 
shall be for use in energy conservation programs as defined in 
section 3008(3) of Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 4507) and shall not be 
available until excess amounts are determined under the provisions 
of section 3003(d) of Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 4502): Provided 
further, That notwithstanding section 3003(d)(2) of Public Law 99-
509 such sums shall be allocated to the eligible programs in the 
same proportion for each program as in fiscal year 1991: Provided 
further. That of the sums for weatherization assistance for low-
income persons, $3,000,000 shall be for the incentive program au-
thorized by section 415d of the Energy Conservation and Production 
Act, as amended by Public Law 101-440: Provided further. That 
$2,000,000 of the amount under this heading shall be for metal 
casting research consistent with the provisions of Public Law 101-
425: Provided further. That $1,500,000 of the amount provided under 
this head shall be available for a grant to the National Center for 
Alternate Transportation Fuels: Provided further. That $3,000,000 of 
the amount provided under this head, and such amounts as may be 
provided hereafter in appropriations Acts, shall be available to 
continue a contract funded in Public Law 101-512 for the develop-
ment of an Integrated Management Information System for the 
steel industry, and the Government's share of the cost of such 
project shall not exceed 50 per centum using the same criteria for 
acceptance of contributions as for steel and aluminum research 
below: Provided further. That $17,968,000 of the amount provided 
under this heading shall be available for continuing research and 
development efforts begun under title II of the Interior and Related 
Agencies portion of the joint resolution entitled "Joint Resolution 
making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1986, 
and for other purposes", approved December 19, 1985 (Public Law 
99-190), and implementation of steel and aluminum research au-
thorized by Public Law 100-680: Provided further. That existing 
facilities, equipment, and supplies, or previously expended research 
or development funds are not accepted as contributions for the 
purposes of this appropriation, except as amortized, depreciated, or 
expensed in normal business practice: Provided further. That the 
total Federal expenditure under this proviso shall be repaid up to 
one and one-half times from the proceeds of the commercial sale, 
lease, manufacture, or use of technologies developed under this 
proviso, at a rate of one-fourth of all net proceeds: Provided further. 
That up to $27,000,000 of the amount provided under this head is for 
electric and hybrid vehicle battery research to be conducted on a 
cooperative basis with non-Federal entities, such amounts to be 
available only as matched on an equal basis by such entities: 
Provided further. That section 303 of Public Law 97-257 is further 96 Stat. 873. 
amended by changing the number for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Conservation and Renewables from "352" to "397". 
ECONOMIC REGULATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the Eco-
nomic Regulatory Administration and the Office of Hearings and 
Appeals, $14,771,000, to remain available until expended. 
105 STAT. 1024 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 
For necessary expenses in carrying out emergency preparedness 
activities, $8,300,000, to remain available until expended. 
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility 
development and operations and program management activities 
pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.), $185,858,000, to remain available 
until expended, including $122,685,000 to be derived by transfer 
from funds deposited in the "SPR petroleum account" as a result of 
the test sale of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve begun on September 
26, 1990, as authorized under 42 U.S.C. 6241(g)(1): Provided, That the 
provisions of 42 U.S.C. 6241(g)(6)(B) shall not apply to the use of 
these funds: Provided further. That appropriations herein made 
shall not be available for leasing of facilities for the storage of crude 
oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve unless the quantity of oil 
stored in or deliverable to Government-owned storage facilities by 
virtue of contractual obligations is equal to 700,000,000 barrels. 
SPR PETROLEUM ACCOUNT 
For the acquisition and transportation of petroleum and for other 
necessary expenses as authorized under 42 U.S.C. 6247, $15,100,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
42 U.S.C. 6240(d) the United States share of crude oil in Naval 
Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 (Elk Hills) may be sold or otherwise 
disposed of to other than the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Provided 
further. That no funds available in fiscal year 1992 in this, or any 
previous or subsequent appropriations Act, or made available in this 
account pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6247(b) as a result of any test 
drawdown or drawdown and distribution of the Reserve under the 
provisions of 42 U.S.C. 6241 may be used in fiscal year 1992 for 
leasing, exchanging, or otherwise acquiring except by direct pur-
chase crude oil from a foreign government, a foreign State-owned oil 
company, or an agent of either: Provided further. That the Secretary 
of Energy may negotiate contracts pursuant to the provisions of part 
C, title I of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6211 
et seq.), as contained in section 6 of Public Law 101-383: Provided 
further. That restrictions on leasing, exchanging, or otherwise 
acquiring except by direct purchase crude oil from a foreign govern-
ment, a foreign State-owned oil company, or an agent of either 
104 Stat. 1948. 
which are contained under this head in Public Law 101-512 are 
hereby repealed: Provided further. That the running of the 12 month 
period described in section 161(g)(6)(B) of the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act of 1975, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6241(g)(6)(B)), shall 
be suspended during fiscal year 1992: Provided further. That outlays 
in fiscal year 1992 resulting from the use of funds in this account 
other than those deposited as a result of a test sale or drawdown of 
the Reserve shall not exceed $137,000,000. 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1025 
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the 
Energy Information Administration, $77,233,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
Appropriations under this Act for the current fiscal year shall be 
available for hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, 
and operation of aircraft; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uni-
forms; and reimbursement to the General Services Administration 
for security guard services. 
From appropriations under this Act, transfers of sums may be 
made to other agencies of the Government for the performance of 
work for which the appropriation is made. 
None of the funds made available to the Department of Energy 
under this Act shall be used to implement or finance authorized 
price support or loan guarantee programs unless specific provision is 
made for such programs in an appropriations Act. 
The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, 
and other contributions from public and private sources and to 
prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies. Federal, 
State, private, or foreign: Provided, That revenues and other moneys 
received by or for the account of the Department of Energy or 
otherwise generated by sale of products in connection with projects 
of the Department appropriated under this Act may be retained by 
the Secretary of Energy, to be available until expended, and used 
only for plant construction, operation, costs, and payments to cost-
sharing entities as provided in appropriate cost-sharing contracts or 
agreements: Provided further. That the remainder of revenues after 
the making of such payments shall be covered into the Treasury as 
miscellaneous receipts: Provided further. That any contract, agree- Reports, 
ment, or provision thereof entered into by the Secretary pursuant to 
this authority shall not be executed 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 
three calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the 
Senate of a full comprehensive report on such project, including the 
facts and circumstances relied upon in support of the proposed 
project. 
The Secretary of Energy may transfer to the Emergency 
Preparedness appropriation such funds as are necessary to meet any 
unforeseen emergency needs from any funds available to the 
Department of Energy from this Act. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Energy may enter into a contract, agreement, or arrangement, 
including, but not limited to, a Management and Operating Contract 
as defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (17.601), with a 
profit-making or non-profit entity to conduct activities at the 
Department 
of 
Energy's 
research 
facilities 
at 
Bartlesville, 
Oklahoma. 
105 STAT. 1026 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954 (68 
Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination Act, the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act, and titles III and XXVI and section 208 of 
the Public Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health 
Service, including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; 
purchase of reprints; purchase and erection of portable buildings; 
payments for telephone service in private residences in the field, 
when authorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; 
$1,449,871,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be available on September 
30, 1992 and shall remain available until expended for the Morris K. 
Udall Scholarship Foundation subject to the passage of authorizing 
legislation, together with payments received during the fiscal year 
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 300aaa-2 for services furnished by the Indian 
Health Service: Provided, That notwithstanding any other law or 
regulation, funds transferred from the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development to the Indian Health Service shall be adminis-
tered under Public Law 86-121 (the Indian Sanitation Facilities 
Act): Provided further, That funds made available to tribes and 
tribal organizations through grants and contracts authorized by the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistemce Act of 1975 (88 
Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C. 450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time 
of the grant or contract award and thereafter shall remain available 
to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: 
Provided further. That $12,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended, for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: 
Provided further, That $301,311,000 for contract medical care shall 
remain available for expenditure until September 30, 1993: Provided 
further. That of the funds provided, not less than $5,990,000 shall be 
used to carry out a loan repayment program under which Federal, 
State, and commercial-type educational loans for physicians and 
other health professionals will be repaid at a rate not to exceed 
$35,000 per year of obligated service in return for full-time clinical 
service: Provided further. That funds provided in this Act may be 
used for one-year contracts and grants which are to be performed in 
two fiscal years, so long as the total obligation is recorded in the 
year for which the funds are appropriated: Provided further. That 
the amounts collected by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services under the authority of title IV of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act shall be available for two fiscal years after the 
fiscal year in which they were collected, for the purpose of achieving 
compliance with the applicable conditions and requirements of titles 
XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act (exclusive of planning, 
design, or construction of new facilities): Provided further. That of 
the funds provided, $2,500,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended, for the IndiEin Self-Determination Fund, which shall be 
available for the transitional costs of initial or expanded tribal 
contracts, grants or cooperative agreements with the Indian Health 
Service under the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act: 
Provided further. That funding contained herein, and in any earlier 
appropriations Acts for scholarship programs under the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain avail-
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1027 
able for expenditure until September 30, 1993: Provided further, 
Reports. 
That amounts received by tribes and tribal organizations under title 
IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and Public Law 100-
713 shall be reported and accounted for and available to the receiv-
ing tribes and tribal organizations until expended. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACIUTIES 
For construction, major repair, improvement, and equipment of 
health and related auxiliary facilities, including quarters for person-
nel; preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of 
sites, purchase and erection of portable buildings, and purchases of 
trailers; and for provision of domestic and community sanitation 
facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of the Act of August 
5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act and the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act, $277,852,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, funds appropriated for the planning, design, 
construction or renovation of health facilities for the benefit of an 
Indian tribe or tribes may be used to purchase land for sites to 
construct, improve, or enlarge health or related facilities: Provided 
further. That the Secretary of Health and Human Services may 
accept ownership of the buildings offered at no cost by the Standing 
Rock Sioux Tribe for use solely as the Aberdeen Area's Youth 
Regional Treatment Center, and may use funds appropriated to the 
Indian Health Service to renovate the buildings for that purpose. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
Appropriations in this Act to the Indian Health Service shall be 
available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates not 
to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable 
for senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, and for uniforms or 
allowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902), and 
for expenses of attendance at meetings which are concerned with 
the functions or activities for which the appropriation is made or 
which will contribute to improved conduct, supervision, or manage-
ment of those functions or activities: Provided, That no later than 30 Reports, 
days after the end of each quarter of the fiscal year, the Indian Contracts. 
Health Service is to report to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the United States House of Representatives and the United States 
Senate on any proposed adjustments to existing leases involving 
additional space or proposed additional leases for permanent struc-
tures to be used in the delivery of Indian health care services: 
Provided further. That in accordance with the provisions of the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients may be 
extended health care at all tribally administered or Indian Health 
Services facilities, subject to charges, and the proceeds along with 
funds recovered under the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act (42 
U.S.C. 2651-53) shall be credited to the account of the facility 
providing the service and shall be available without fiscal year 
limitation: Provided further. That funds appropriated to the Indian 
Health Service in this Act, except those used for administrative and 
program direction purposes, shall not be subject to limitations di-
rected at curtailing Federal travel and transportation: Provided 
further. That with the exception of Indian Health Service units 25 USC 1681. 
which currently have a billing policy, the Indian Health Service 
105 STAT. 1028 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
shall not initiate any further action to bill Indians in order to collect 
from third-party payers nor to charge those Indians who may have 
the economic means to pay unless and until such time as Congress 
has agreed upon a specific policy to do so and has directed the 
Indian Health Service to implement such a policy: Provided further. 
That personnel ceilings may not be imposed on the Indian Health 
Service nor may any action be taken to reduce the full-time equiva-
lent level of the Indian Health Service by the elimination of tem-
porary employees by reduction in force, hiring freeze or any other 
means without the review and approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available to the Indian Health Service in this Act shall be used to 
implement the final rule published in the Federal Register on 
September 16, 1987, by the Department of Health and Human 
Services, relating to eligibility for the health care services of the 
Indian Health Service until the Indian Health Service has submit-
ted a budget request reflecting the increased costs associated with 
the proposed final rule, and such request has been included in an 
appropriations Act and enacted into law: Provided further. That 
funds made available in this Act are to be apportioned to the Indian 
Health Service as appropriated in this Act, and accounted for in the 
appropriation structure set forth in this Act: Provided further. That 
the appropriation structure for the Indian Health Service may not 
be altered without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations. 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 
INDIAN EDUCATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out, to the extent not otherwise 
provided, the Indian Education Act of 1988, $77,547,000, of which 
$57,692,000 shall be for subpart 1 and $16,596,000 shall be for 
subparts 2 and 3: Provided, That $1,570,000 available pursuant to 
section 5323 of the Act shall remain available for obligation until 
September 30,1993. 
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian 
Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93-531, $26,172,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That funds provided in 
this or any other appropriations Act are to be used to relocate 
eligible individuals and groups including evictees from District 6, 
Hopi-partitioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not included in the 
preceding categories: Provided further. That none of the funds 
contained in this or any other Act may be used to evict any single 
Navajo or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, was phys-
ically domiciled on the lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a 
new or replacement home is provided for such household: Provided 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
105 STAT. 1029 
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than one new 
or replacement home: Provided further, That the Office shall re-
locate any certified eligible relocatees who have selected and re-
ceived 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 authorized by Public Law 
99-498, as amended (20 U.S.C. 56, part A), $6,612,000, of which not to 
exceed $350,000 for Federal matching contributions, to remain avail-
able until expended, shall be paid to the Institute endowment fund: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
annual budget proposal and justification for the Institute shall be 
submitted to the Congress concurrently with the submission of the 
President's Budget to the Congress: Provided further. That the 
Institute shall act as its own certifying officer. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, as au-
thorized by law, including research in the fields of art, science, and 
history; development, preservation, and documentation of the Na-
tional Collections; presentation of public exhibits and performances; 
collection, preparation, dissemination, and exchange of information 
and publications; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease (for terms 
not to exceed thirty years), and protection of buildings, facilities, 
and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; up to 5 replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, 
rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees; $283,961,000, 
of which not to exceed $25,839,000 for the instrumentation program, 
collections acquisition. Museum Support Center equipment and 
move, exhibition reinstallation, the National Museum of the Amer-
ican Indian, and the repatriation of skeletal remains program shall 
remain available until expended and, including such funds as may 
be necessary 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: Pro-
vided further. That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be 
made available for acquisition of land at the Smithsonian Environ-
mental Research Center before the date of the enactment of an Act 
authorizing the use of funds for that purpose. 
105 STAT. 1030 
PUBLIC LAW 102-154—NOV. 13, 1991 
MUSEUM PROGRAMS AND RELATED RESEARCH 
(SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 
Funds previously appropriated in this account for the American 
Institute of Indian Studies Forward Funded Reserve may be in-
vested in India by the United States Embassy in India in interest 
bearing accounts with the interest to be used along with other funds 
in the account to support the ongoing programs of the American 
Institute of Indian Studies. 
CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENTS, NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
For necessary expenses of planning, construction, remodeling, and 
equipping of buildings and facilities at the National Zoological Park, 
by contract or otherwise, $8,000,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF BUILDINGS 
For necessary expenses of repair and restoration of buildings 
owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution, by contract or 
otherwise, as authorized by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 
(63 Stat. 623), including not to exceed $10,000 for services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $24,710,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for environmental sys-
tems, protection systems, and exterior repair or restoration of build-
ings of the Smithsonian Institution may be negotiated with selected 
contractors and awarded on the basis of contractor qualifications as 
well as price. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for construction, $19,400,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That none of the funds appro-
priated herein shall be made available for construction of the East 
Court Building project, National Museum of Natural History before 
the date of the enactment of an Act authorizing the use of funds for 
that purpose. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery 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 serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when 
authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in li-
brary, 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, alteration, improvement, and repair of 
buildings, approaches, and grounds; purchase of one passenger 
motor vehicle for replacement only; and purchase of services for 
restoration and repair of works of art for the National Gallery of 
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105 STAT. 1031 
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 proper, $49,192,000, of which 
not to exceed $3,120,000 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 $3,600,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That contracts awarded 
for environmental 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. 
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, 
$5,744,000. 
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 Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, $147,700,000 shall 
be available to the National Endowment for the Arts for the support 
of projects and productions in the arts through assistance to groups 
and individuals pursuant to section 5(c) of the Act, and for admin-
istering the functions of the Act: Provided, That none of the funds 
made available in this Act for the National Endowment for the Arts 
may be used to fund any application for a grant that is not submit-
ted to the Endowment pursuant to existing law as contained in 
section 5(d) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Human-
ities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 954(d)), for which terms are defined in 
section 3 of that Act (20 U.S.C. 952). 
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, $30,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 1993 
to the National Endowment for the Arts, of which $13,000,000 shall 
be available for purposes of section 5(1): Provided, That this appro-
priation 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 Chairman or by grantees 
of the Endowment under the provisions of section 10(a)(2), subsec-
tions 11(a)(2)(A) and ll(a)(3XA) during the current and preceding 
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fiscal years for which equal amounts have not previously been 
appropriated. 
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, $152,650,000 
shall be available to the National Endowment for the Humanities 
for support of activities in the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of 
the Act, and for administering the functions of the Act, of which 
$1,000,000 for the dissertation fellowship program and $5,700,000 for 
the Office of Preservation shall remain available until September 
30,1993. 
MATCHING GRANTS 
To carry out the provisions of section 10(aX2) of the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as 
amended, $25,550,000, to remain available until September 30, 1993, 
of which $12,550,000 shall be available to the National Endowment 
for the Humanities for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That 
this appropriation 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 Chairman or 
by grantees of the Endowment under the provisions 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. 
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM SERVICES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out title II of the Arts, Humanities, and Cultural 
Affairs Act of 1976, as amended, $27,344,000, including not to exceed 
$250,000 as authorized by 20 U.S.C. 965(b). 
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 
reception and representation expenses. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commis-
sion of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $722,000. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99-190 (99 
Stat. 1261; 20 U.S.C. 956a), as amended, $7,000,000. 
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105 STAT. 1033 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing an Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation, Public Law 89-665, as amended, 
$2,623,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be available for 
the compensation of Executive Level V or higher positions. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the National Capital 
Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71-71i), including services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $4,775,000. 
FRANKUN DELANO ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memo-
rial Commission, established by the Act of August 11, 1955 (69 Stat. 
694), as amended by Public Law 92-332 (86 Stat. 401), $33,000, to 
remain available until September 30,1993. 
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by section 17(a) of Public 
Law 92-578, as amended, $2,807,000, for operating and administra-
tive expenses of the Corporation. 
PUBUC DEVELOPMENT 
For public development activities and projects in accordance with 
the development plan as authorized by section 17(b) of Public Law 
92-578, as amended, $5,126,000, to remain available until expended. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Council, as authorized by 
Public Law 96-388, as amended, $11,005,000: Provided, That none of 
these funds shall be available for the compensation of Executive 
Level V or higher positions. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for Contracts, 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 j^'fo^^^gti 
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi- ^'^ °'^'"* *°"' 
tures are a matter of public record and available for public inspec-
tion, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under 
existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation under this Act shall be 
available to the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agri-
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Labor. 
42 u s e 1856a-l. 
Conservation. 
Environmental 
protection. 
culture for the leasing of oil and natural gas by noncompetitive 
bidding on publicly owned lands within the boundaries of the Shaw-
nee National Forest, Illinois: Provided, That nothing herein is in-
tended to inhibit or otherwise affect the sale, lease, or right to access 
to minerals owned by private individuals. 
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for any activity or the publication 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. 304. 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. 305. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal 
cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or em-
ployee of such department or agency except as otherwise provided 
by law. 
SEC. 306. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to 
evaluate, consider, process, or award oil, gas, or geothermal leases 
on Federal lands in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, 
State of Washington, within the hydrographic boundaries of the 
Cedar River municipal watershed upstream of river mile 21.6, the 
Green River municipal watershed upstream of river mile 61.0, the 
North Fork of the Tolt River proposed municipal watershed up-
stream of river mile 11.7, and the South Fork Tolt River municipal 
watershed upstream of river mile 8.4. 
SEC. 307. No assessments may be levied against any program, 
budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act unless 
such assessments and the basis therefor are presented to the 
Committees 
on 
Appropriations 
and 
are 
approved 
by 
such 
Committees. 
SEC. 308. Employment funded by this Act shall not be subject to 
any personnel ceiling or other personnel restriction for permanent 
or other than permanent employment except as provided by law. 
SEC. 309. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 1992 and thereafter, the Secretary of the Interior, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Energy, and the Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to enter into contracts 
with State and local governmental entities, including local fire 
districts, for procurement of services in the presuppression, detec-
tion, and suppression of fires on any units within their jurisdiction. 
SEC. 310. None of the funds provided by this Act to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service may be obligated or expended to 
plan for, conduct, or supervise deer hunting on the Loxahatchee 
National Wildlife Refuge. 
SEC. 311. None of the funds in this Act may be used to plan, 
prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant 
sequoia (sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National 
Forest System or Bureau of Land Management lands until an 
environmental assessment has been completed and the giant se-
quoia management implementation plan is approved. In any event, 
timber harvest within the identified groves will be done only to 
enhance and perpetuate giant sequoia. There will be no harvesting 
of giant sequoia specimen trees. Removal of hazard, insect, disease 
and fire killed giant sequoia other than specimen trees is permitted. 
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105 STAT. 1035 
SEC. 312. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1992 pay 
raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the 
levels appropriated in this Act. 
SEC. 313. None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act with respect to any fiscal year may be used by the Department 
of the Interior or the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture to 
make any reimbursements to any other Federal department for 
litigation costs associated with the Prince William Sound oilspill. 
SEC. 314. None of the funds provided in this Act may be expended 
by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management to in-
crease fees charged for communication site use of lands adminis-
tered by the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management by more 
than 15 per centum per user in fiscal year 1992 over the levels in 
effect on January 1,1989. 
SEC. 315. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to ensure that hardwood saw timber harvested from Federal lands 
east of the 100th meridian is marked in such a manner as to make it 
readily identifiable at all times before its manufacture. 
SEC. 316. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, payments to 
States pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 500 for National Forests affected by 
decisions relating to the Northern Spotted Owl from fiscal year 1992 
receipts shall not be less than 90 per centum of the average annual 
payments to States, based on receipts collected on those National 
Forests during the five-year baseline period of fiscal years 1986 
through 1990: Provided, That in no event shall these payments 
exceed the total amount of receipts collected from the affected 
National Forests during fiscal year 1992. 
SEC. 317. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the pay-
ment to be made by the United States Government pursuant to the 
provision of subsection (a) of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 
Stat. 876) to the Oregon and California land-grant counties in the 
State of Oregon from fiscal year 1992 receipts derived from the 
Oregon and California grant lands shall not be less than 90 per 
centum of the average annual payment made to those counties of 
their share of the Oregon and California land-grant receipts col-
lected during the five-year baseline period of fiscal years 1986 
through 1990: Provided, That in no event shall this payment exceed 
the total amount of receipts collected from the Oregon and Califor-
nia grant lands during fiscal year 1992. 
SEC. 318. With the exception of budget authority for "Miscellane-
ous payments to Indians", Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of 
the Interior; "Salaries and expenses". National Indian Gaming 
Commission, Department of the Interior; "Payment to the In-
stitute", Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture 
and Arts Development; "Salaries and expenses", Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars; "Salaries and expenses" and 
"National capital arts and cultural affairs". Commission on Fine 
Arts; "Salaries and expenses", Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation; "Salaries and expenses". National Capital Planning 
Commission; "Salaries and expenses", Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Memorial Commission; and "Salaries and expenses" and "Public 
development", Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, 
each amount of budget authority for the fiscal year ending Septem-
ber 30, 1992, provided in this Act, for payments not required by law 
is hereby reduced by 1.26 per centum: Provided, That such reduc-
tions shall be applied ratably to each account, program, activity, and 
project provided for in this Act. 
Conservation. 
Wildlife. 
Inter-
governmental 
relations. 
Oregon. 
California. 
Public lands. 
105 STAT. 1036 
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LAND TRANSFER AND CONVEYANCE, PEASE AIR FORCE BASE, NEW 
HAMPSHIRE 
16 u s e 668dd 
SEC. 319. (a) TRANSFER BY THE AiR FoRCE.—Notwithstanding a n y 
"°*®" 
other provision of law, the Secretary of the Air Force shall transfer 
to the Department of the Interior a parcel of real property located 
west of Mclntyre Road at the site of former Pease Air Force Base, 
Hazardous 
New Hampshire: Provided, That the Secretary of the Air Force shall 
substances. 
retain responsibility for any hazardous substances which may be 
found on the property so transferred. 
Qa) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.—Except as 
provided in subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior shall des-
ignate the parcel of land transferred under subsection (a) as an area 
in the National Wildlife Refuge System under the authority of 
section 4 of the Act of October 15,1966 (16 U.S.C. 688dd). 
(c) CONVEYANCE TO STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.— 
(1) CONVEYANCE.—Subject to paragraphs (2) through (5), the 
Secretary of the Interior shall convey to the State of New 
Hampshire, without consideration, all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to a parcel of real property consist-
ing of not more than 100 acres that is a part of the real property 
transferred to the Secretary under subsection (a) and that the 
Secretary determines to be suitable for use as a cemetery. 
(2) CONDITION OF CONVEYANCE.—The conveyance under para-
graph (1) shall be subject to the condition that the State of New 
Hampshire use the property conveyed under that paragraph 
only for the purpose of establishing and operating a State 
cemetery for veterans. 
(3) REVERSION.—If the Secretary determines at any time that 
the State of New Hampshire is not complying with the condi-
tion specified in paragraph (2), all right, title, and interest in 
and to the property conveyed pursuant to paragraph (1), includ-
ing any improvements thereon, shall revert to the United States 
and the United States shall have the right of immediate entry 
thereon. 
(4) DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.—The exact acreage and legal 
description of the parcel of real property to be conveyed under 
paragraph (1) shall be determined by a survey that is satisfac-
tory to the Secretary. 
(5) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Secretary may 
require any additional terms or conditions in connection with 
the conveyance under this subsection that the Secretary deter-
mines appropriate to protect the interests of the United States. 
(d) The purposes for which this national wildlife refuge is estab-
lished are— 
(1) to encourage the natural diversity of plant, fish, and 
wildlife species within the refuge, and to provide for their 
conservation and management; 
(2) to protect species listed as endangered or threatened, or 
identified as candidates for listing pursuant to the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); 
(3) to preserve and enhance the water quality of aquatic 
habitat within the refuge; and 
(4) to fulfill the international treaty obligations of the United 
States relating to fish and wildlife. 
SEC. 320. Amend section 12(d)(2) of Public Law 94-204 (The Act of 
43 use 1611 
January 2,1976) as follows: 
note. 
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105 STAT. 1037 
(a) In the second sentence of the first proviso, following the 
words "public purposes" insert a period. Following the period 
add the following: "An area encompassing approximately sixty-
two acres and depicted on the map entitled 'Native Heritage 
Park Proposal' and on file with the Secretary shall be 
managed". 
(b) At the end of this section, add a new proviso: ": Provided 
further, That to the extent necessary, any and all conveyance 
documents executed concerning the conveyance of the lands 
referred to in this proviso shall be deemed amended accordingly 
to conform to this proviso". 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992". 
Approved November 13, 1991. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2686: 
HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 102-116 (Comm. on Appropriations) and 102-256 
(Comm. of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 102-122 (Ck)mm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 137 (1991): 
June 24, 25, considered and passed House. 
Sept. 12, 13, 16-19, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 24, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in 
certain Senate amendments, in others with amendments; and disagreed to 
others. 
Oct. 30, 31, Senate agreed to conference report; receded and concurred 
in certain House amendments, in another with £m amendment. 
Nov. 1, House disagreed to Senate amendment. Senate receded and 
concurred in House amendment.