Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001
PL 106-291 (H.R.4578), enacted 10/11/2000

114 STAT. 922 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
Public Law 106-291 
106th Congress 
Oct. 11, 2000 
[H.R. 4578] 
Department of 
the Interior and 
Related Agencies 
Appropriations 
Act, 2001. 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, 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, 2001, 
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, 
development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, acquisi-
tion of easements and other interests in lands, 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, and assessment of mineral 
potential of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96-487 (16 U.S.C. 
3150(a)), $709,733,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$3,898,000 shall be available for assessment of the mineral potential 
of public lands in Alaska pursuant to section 1010 of Public Law 
96-487 (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of which not to exceed $1,000,000 
shall be derived from the special receipt account established by 
the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 4601-6a(i)); and of which $3,000,000 shall be available in 
fiscal year 2001 subject to a match by at least £in equal amount 
by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to such Foundation 
for cost-shared projects supporting conservation of Bureau lands 
and such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as a lump 
sum grant without regard to when expenses are incurred; in addi-
tion, $34,328,000 for Mining Law Administration program oper-
ations, including the cost of administering the mining claim fee 
program; to remain available until expended, to be reduced by 
amounts collected by the Bureau and credited to this appropriation 
from annual mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropria-
tion estimated at not more than $709,733,000, and $2,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, from communication site rental 
fees established by the Bureau for the cost of administering commu-
nication site activities: Provided, That appropriations herein made 
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114 STAT. 923 
shall not be available for the destruction of healthy, unadopted, 
wild horses and burros in the care of the Bureau or its contractors. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppression oper-
ations, research, emergency rehabilitation and hazardous fuels 
reduction by the Department of the Interior, $425,513,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which not to exceed $30,000,000 
shall be for the renovation or construction of fire facilities: Provided, 
That such funds are also available for repayment of advances to 
other appropriation accounts from which funds were previously 
transferred for such purposes: Provided further. That unobligated 
balances of amounts previously appropriated to the "Fire Protection" 
and "Emergency Department of the Interior Firefighting Fund" 
may be transferred and merged with this appropriation: Provided 
further. That persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be 
furnished subsistence and lodging without cost from funds available 
from this appropriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the Depart-
ment of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 
U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United States property, may 
be credited to the appropriation fi*om which funds were expended 
to provide that protection, and are available without fiscal year 
limitation. 
For an additional amount for "Wildland Fire Management", 
$200,000,000, to remain available until expended, for emergency 
rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activities: Provided, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided 
further, That this amount shall be available only to the extent 
that an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that 
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an 
emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by 
the President to the Congress. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior and 
any of its component offices and bureaus for the remedial action, 
including associated activities, of hazardous waste substances, 
pollutants, or contaminants pursuant to the 
Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $10,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, 
sums recovered from or paid by a party in advance of or as 
reimbursement for remedial action or response activities conducted 
by the Department pursuant to section 107 or 113(f) of such Act, 
shall be credited to this account to be available until expended 
without further appropriation: Provided further, That such sums 
recovered from or paid by any party are not limited to monetary 
pajTnents and may include stocks, bonds or other personal or real 
property, which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise disposed 
of by the Secretary and which shall be credited to this account. 
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CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails, 
and appurtenant facilities, $16,860,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20, 
1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901-6907), $150,000,000, of which 
not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That no pa)anent shall be made to otherwise 
eligible units of local government if the computed amount of the 
payment is less than $100. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, and 
318(d) of Public Law 94-579, including administrative expenses 
and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, $31,100,000, 
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 
development 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 coun-
ties 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; $104,267,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That 25 percent 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 second 
paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 
1937 (50 Stat. 876). 
FOREST 
ECOSYSTEMS 
HEALTH 
AND 
RECOVERY 
FUND 
(REVOLVING 
FUND, 
SPECIAL 
ACCOUNT) 
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 102-
381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem Health and 
Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of planning, preparing, 
and monitoring salvage timber sales and forest ecosystem health 
and recovery activities such as release from competing vegetation 
and density control treatments. The Federal share of receipts 
(defined as the portion of salvage timber receipts not paid to the 
counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181-1 et seq., 
and Public Law 103-66) derived from treatments funded by this 
account shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health and 
Recovery Fund. 
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114 STAT. 925 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and 
interests 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 percent of all moneys received during the prior fiscal 
year under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 
315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improvements 
from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior pursuant 
to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain availaole 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 proc-
essing 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, oper-
ation, and termination of facilities in conjunction with use 
authorizations, and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such 
amounts as may be collected under Public Law 94-579, as amended, 
and Public Law 93-153, to remain available until expended: Pro- 43 USC 1735 
vided, That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section note. 
305(a) of Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that 
have been or will be received pursuant to that section, whether 
as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appro-
priate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 
1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under the 
authority of this Act by the Secretary to improve, protect, or 
rehabilitate any public lands administered through the Bureau 
of Land 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 action are used on the exact lands damaged which led to 
the action: Provided further, That any such moneys that are in 
excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land 
for which funds were collected may be used to repair other damaged 
public lands. 
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under 
existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as may 
be contributed under section 307 of the Act of October 21, 1976 
(43 U.S.C. 1701), and such amounts as may be advanced for 
administrative costs, surveys, appraisals, and costs of making 
conveyances of omitted 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 $100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary, 
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for information or evidence concerning violations of laws adminis-
tered by the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses 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 notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Bureau may, 
under cooperative cost-sharing and partnership 
arrangements 
authorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators in 
connection with jointly produced publications for which the coopera-
tors share the cost of printing either in cash or in services, and 
the Bureau determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted 
quality standards. 
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, for scientific and economic studies, conservation, manage-
ment, investigations, protection, and utilization of fishery and wild-
life resources, except whales, seals, and sea lions, maintenance 
of the herd of long-horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife 
Refuge, general administration, and for the performance of other 
authorized functions related to such resources by direct expenditure, 
contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable agree-
ments with public and private entities, $776,595,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2002, except as otherwise provided 
herein, of which not less than $2,000,000 shall be provided to 
local governments in southern California for planning associated 
with the Natural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) pro-
gram and shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 
not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects which shall 
be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized 
by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended: Provided 
further. 
That not to exceed $6,355,000 shall be used for implementing sub-
sections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species 
Act, as amended, for species that are indigenous to the United 
States (except for processing petitions, developing and issuing pro-
posed and final regulations, and taking any other steps to imple-
ment actions described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 
(c)(2)(B)(ii)): Provided further. That of the amount available for 
law enforcement, up to $400,000 to remain available until expended, 
may at the discretion of the Secretary, be used for payment for 
information, rewards, or evidence concerning violations of laws 
administered by the Service, and miscellaneous and emergency 
expenses of enforcement activity, authorized or approved by the 
Secretary and to be accounted for solely on his certificate: Provided 
further, That of the amount provided for environmental contami-
nants, up to $1,000,000 may remain available until expended for 
contaminant sample analyses. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or removal of 
buildings and other facilities required in the conservation, manage-
ment, investigation, protection, and utilization of fishery and wild-
life resources, and the acquisition of lands and interests therein; 
$63,015,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That, 
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114 STAT. 927 
notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation, funds appro-
priated in Public Law 106-113 for exhibits at the J.N. Ding Darling 
National Wildlife Refuge Education Center in Florida shall be trans-
ferred immediately to the Ding Darling Wildlife Society for the 
purpose of constructing the exhibits. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land gmd Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601-4 through 
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, 
$62,800,000, 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, 
$26,925,000, to be derived from the Cooperative Endangered Species 
Conservation Fund, 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), $11,439,000. 
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the North 
American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public Law 101-233, as 
amended, $20,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND APPRECIATION FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Wildlife Conservation and Appre-
ciation Fund, $797,000, to remain available until expended. 
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Elephant Con-
servation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201-4203, 4211-4213, 4221-4225, 4241-
4245, and 1538), the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 
(Public Law 105-96; 16 U.S.C. 4261-4266), and the Rhinoceros 
and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301-5306), 
$2,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
funds made available under this Act and Public Law 105-277 
for rhinoceros, tiger, and Asian elephant conservation programs 
are exempt from any sanctions imposed against any country under 
section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2799aa-
1). 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations and funds available to the United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service shall be available for purchase of not to exceed 
79 passenger motor vehicles, of which 72 are for replacement only 
(including 41 for police-type use); repair of damage to public roads 
within and adjacent to reservation areas caused by operations of 
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the Service; options for the purchase of land at not to exceed 
$1 for each option; facihties incident to such pubhc recreational 
uses on conservation areas as are consistent with their primary 
purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, 
buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Service 
and to which the United States has title, and which are used 
pursuant to law in connection with management and investigation 
of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 
U.S.C. 501, the Service may, under cooperative cost sharing and 
partnership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing serv-
ices from cooperators in connection with jointly produced publica-
tions for which the cooperators share at least one-half the cost 
of printing either in cash or services and the Service determines 
the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: 
Provided further, That the Service may accept donated aircraft 
as replacements for existing aircraft: Provided farther, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the 
Interior may not spend any of the fiinds appropriated in this Act 
for the purchase of lands or interests in lands to be used in the 
establishment of any new unit of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System unless the purchase is approved in advance by the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations in compliance with the 
reprogramming procedures contained in Senate Report 105-56. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, operation, and 
maintenance of areas and facilities administered by the National 
Park Service (including special road maintenance service to trucking 
permittees on a reimbursable basis), and for the general administra-
tion of the National Park Service, including not less than $2,000,000 
for high priority projects within the scope of the approved budget 
which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as 
authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1706, $1,389,144,000, of which $9,227,000 
for research, planning and interagency coordination in support of 
land acquisition for Everglades restoration shall remain available 
until expended, and of which not to exceed $7,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, is to be derived from the special fee 
account established pursuant to title V, section 5201 of Public 
Law 100-203: Provided, That the only funds in this account which 
may be made available to support United States Park Police oper-
ations are those needed to continue services at the same level 
as was provided in fiscal year 2000 at the Statue of Liberty and 
Gateway National Recreation Area, and those funds approved for 
emergency law and order incidents pursuant to established National 
Park Service procedures and those funds needed to maintain and 
repair United States Park Police administrative facilities. 
UNITED STATES PARK POLICE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs of the United 
States Park Police, $78,048,000, of which $1,607,000 for security 
enhancements in the Washington, DC area shall remain available 
until expended. 
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114 STAT. 929 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation programs, nat-
ural programs, cultural programs, heritage partnership programs, 
environmental compliance and review, international park affairs, 
statutory or contractual aid for other activities, and grant adminis-
tration, not otherwise provided for, $58,359,000: Provided, That 
$1,595,000 appropriated in Public Law 105-277 for the acquisition 
of interests in Ferry Farm, George Washington's Boyhood Home, 
shall be transferred to this account and shall be available until 
expended for a cooperative agreement for management of George 
Washington's Boyhood Home, Ferry Farm, as authorized in Public 
Law 105-355. 
URBAN 
PARK 
AND 
RECREATION 
FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Urban 
Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2501 et 
seq.), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in canying out the Historic Preserva-
tion Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), and the Omnibus 
Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (Public Law 
104-333), $79,347,000, to be derived from the Historic Preservation 
Fund, to remain available until September 30, 2002, of which 
$7,177,000 pursuant to section 507 of Public Law 104-333 shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That of the total amount 
provided, $35,000,000 shall be for Save America's Treasures for 
priority preservation projects, including preservation of intellectual 
and cultural artifacts, preservation of historic structures and sites, 
and buildings to house cultural and historic resources and to provide 
educational opportunities: Provided further, That any individual 
Save America's Treasures grant shall be matched by non-Federal 
funds: Provided further, That individual projects shall only be 
eligible for one grant, and all projects to be funded shall be approved 
by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations prior to 
the commitment of grant funds: Provided further, That Save Amer-
ica's Treasures funds allocated for Federal projects shall be available 
by transfer to appropriate accounts of individual agencies, after 
approval of such projects by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided 
further. That none of the funds provided for Save America's Treas-
ures may be used for administrative expenses, and staffing for 
the program shall be available from the existing staffing levels 
in the National Park Service. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair or replacement of phys-
ical facilities, including the modifications authorized by section 
104 of the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion 
Act of 1989, $242,174,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That $650,000 for Lake Champlain National Historic 
Landmarks, $300,000 for the Kendall County Courthouse, and 
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$365,000 for the U.S. Grant Boyhood Home National Historic Land-
mark shall be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund pursuant 
to 16 U.S.C. 470a. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
16 use 460Z-10a 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2001 by 16 
note. 
U.S.C, 4601-lOa is rescinded. 
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Con-
servation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601-4 through 11), 
including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of lands or 
waters, or interest therein, in accordance with the statutory 
authority applicable to the National Park Service, $110,540,000, 
to be derived fi'om the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to 
remain available until expended, of which $40,500,000 is for the 
State assistance program including $1,500,000 to administer the 
State assistance program, and of which $12,000,000 may be for 
State grants for land acquisition in the State of Florida: Provided, 
That the Secretary may provide Federal assistance to the State 
of Florida for the acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, 
within the Everglades watershed (consisting of lands and waters 
within the boundaries of the South Florida Water Management 
District, Florida Bay and the Florida Keys, including the areas 
known as the Frog Pond, the Rocky Glades and the Eight and 
One-Half Square Mile Area) under terms and conditions deemed 
necessary by the Secretary to improve and restore the hydrological 
function of the Everglades watershed: Provided further, That funds 
provided under this heading for assistance to the State of Florida 
to acquire lands within the Everglades watershed are contingent 
upon new matching non-Federal fiinds by the State and shall be 
subject to £ui agreement that the lands to be acquired will be 
m£inaged in perpetuity for the restoration of the Everglades: Pro-
vided further, That none of the fiinds provided for the State Assist-
ance program may be used to establish a contingency fund: Provided 
further. That not to exceed $50,000,000 derived from unexpended 
balances previously appropriated in Public Laws 106-113 and 103-
211 for land acquisition assistance to the State of Florida shall 
be available until expended for project modifications authorized 
by section 104 of the Everglades National Park Protection and 
Expansion Act. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available 
for the purchase of not to exceed 340 passenger motor vehicles, 
of which 273 shall be for replacement only, including not to exceed 
319 for police-type use, 12 buses, and 9 ambulances: Provided, 
That none of the funds appropriated to the National Park Service 
may be used to process any grant or contract documents which 
Reports. 
do not include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated to the National Park Service may 
be used to implement an agreement for the redevelopment of the 
southern end of Ellis Island until such agreement has been sub-
mitted to the Congress and shall not be implemented prior to 
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114 STAT. 931 
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 cir-
cumstances relied upon in support of the proposed project. 
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the National 
Park Service for activities taken in direct response to the United 
Nations Biodiversity Convention. 
The National Park Service may distribute to operating units 
based on the safety record of each unit the costs of programs 
designed to improve workplace and employee safety, and to encour-
age employees receiving workers' compensation benefits pursuant 
to chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to return to appropriate 
positions for which they are medically able. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geological Survey 
to perform surveys, investigations, and research covering topog-
raphy, geology, hydrology, biology, and the mineral and water 
resources of the United States, its territories and possessions, and 
other areas as authorized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify 
lands as to their mineral and water resources; give engineering 
supervision to power 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; and to conduct inquiries into the economic 
conditions affecting mining and materials processing industries (30 
U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(l)) and related purposes 
as authorized by law and to publish and disseminate data; 
$862,046,000, of which $62,879,000 shall be available only for 
cooperation with States or municipalities for water resources inves-
tigations; and of which $16,400,000 shall remain available until 
expended for conducting inquiries into the economic conditions 
affecting mining and materials processing industries; and of which 
$1,525,000 shall remain available until expended for ongoing 
development of a mineral and geologic data base; and of which 
$32,822,000 shall be available until September 30, 2002 for the 
operation and maintenance of facilities and deferred maintenance; 
and of which $157,923,000 shall be available until September 30, 
2002 for the biological research activity and the operation of the 
Cooperative Research Units: Provided, That none of these funds 
provided for the biological research activity shall be used to conduct 
new surveys on private property, unless specifically authorized in 
writing by the property owner: Provided further, That no part 43USC50. 
of this appropriation shall be used to pay more than one-half 
the cost of topographic mapping or water resources data collection 
and investigations carried on in cooperation with States and munici-
palities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The amount appropriated for the United States Geological 
Survey shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed 53 
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passenger motor vehicles, of which 48 are for replacement only; 
reimbursement to the General Services Administration for security 
guard services; contracting for the furnishing 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; acquisition of lands for gauging 
stations and observation wells; expenses of the United States 
National Committee on Geology; and payment of compensation 
and expenses of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly appointed 
to represent the United States in the negotiation and administration 
of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities funded by appro-
priations herein made may be accomplished through the use of 
contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 
6302 et seq. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and 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 oper-
ating contracts; and for matching grants or cooperative agreements; 
including the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only, $133,410,000, of which $86,257,000, 
shall be available for royalty management activities; and an amount 
not to exceed $107,410,000, to be credited to this appropriation 
and to remain available until expended, from additions to receipts 
resulting from increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from 
rate increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf adminis-
trative activities performed by the Minerals Management Service 
over and above the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, and 
from additional fees for Outer Continental Shelf administrative 
activities established after September 30, 1993: Provided, 
That 
to the extent $107,410,000 in additions to receipts are not realized 
from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount needed to 
reach $107,410,000 shall be credited to this appropriation from 
receipts resulting from rental rates for Outer Continental Shelf 
leases in effect before August 5, 1993: Provided further. 
That 
$3,000,000 for computer acquisitions shall remain available until 
September 30, 2002: Provided further. That funds appropriated 
under this Act shall be available for the payment of interest in 
accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1721(b) and (d): Provided further. That 
not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses 
related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: 
Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds of overpay-
ments in connection with certain Indian leases in which the Director 
of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) concurred with the 
claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or 
tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous payments: Pro-
vided further. That MMS may under the royalty-in-kind pilot pro-
gram use a portion of the revenues from royalty-in-kind sales, 
without regard to fiscal year limitation, to pay for transportation 
to wholesale market centers or upstream pooling points, and to 
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114 STAT. 933 
process or otherwise dispose of royalty production taken in kind: 
Provided further, 
That MMS shall analyze and document the 
expected return in advance of any royalty-in-kind sales to assure 
to the maximum extent practicable that royalty income under the 
pilot program is equal to or greater than royalty income recognized 
under a comparable royalty-in-value program. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 1016, title 
rV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title VIII, section 8201 
of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $6,118,000, which shall be derived 
from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to remain available until 
expended. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 
95-87, as amended, including the purchase of not to exceed 10 
passenger motor vehicles, for replacement only; $100,801,000: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, 
may use directly or through grants to States, moneys collected 
in fiscal year 2001 for civil penalties assessed under section 518 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 
U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim lands adversely affected by coal mining 
practices after August 3, 1977, to remain available until expended: 
Provided further. That appropriations for the Office of Surface 
30 USC1211 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the travel note. 
and per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored 
training. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, 
as amended, including the purchase of not more than 10 passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only, $202,438,000, to be derived 
from receipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to 
remain available until expended; of which up to $10,000,000, to 
be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, shall 
be for supplemental grants to States for the reclamation of aban-
doned sites with acid mine rock drainage from coal mines, and 
for associated activities, through the Appalachian Clean Streams 
Initiative: Provided, That grants to minimum program States will 
be $1,600,000 per State in fiscal year 2001: Provided further. That 
of the funds herein provided up to $18,000,000 may be used for 
the emergency program authorized by section 410 of Public Law 
95-87, as amended, of which no more than 25 percent 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 $11,000,000: Provided 
further. 
That prior year unobligated funds appropriated for the emergency 
reclamation program shall not be subject to the 25 percent limita-
tion per State and may be used without fiscal year limitation 
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for emergency projects: Provided further. That pursuant to Public 
Law 97-365, the Department of the Interior is authorized to use 
up to 20 percent from the recovery of the deUnquent debt owed 
to the United States Government to pay for contracts to collect 
these debts: Provided further, That funds made available under 
title IV of Public Law 95-87 may be used for any required non-
Federal share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Govern-
ment for the purpose of environmental restoration related to treat-
ment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines: 
Provided further, That such projects must be consistent with the 
purposes and priorities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclama-
tion Act: Provided further. That the State of Maryland may set 
aside the greater of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total of the 
grants made available to the State under title IV of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, as amended (30 
U.S.C. 1231 et seq.), if the amount set aside is deposited in an 
acid mine drainage abatement and treatment fund established 
under a State law, pursuant to which law the amount (together 
with all interest earned on the amount) is expended by the State 
to undertake acid mine drainage abatement and treatment projects, 
except that before any amounts greater than 10 percent of its 
title IV grants are deposited in an acid mine drainage abatement 
and treatment fund, the State of Maryland must first complete 
all Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act priority one 
projects. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian programs, 
as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of November 2, 
1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the 
Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001-2019), and the 
Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 
as amended, $1,741,212,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2002 except as otherwise provided herein, of which not to 
exceed $93,225,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but not lim-
ited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, 
not to exceed $125,485,000 shall be available for payments to tribes 
and tribal organizations for contract support costs associated with 
ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
entered into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2001, 
as authorized by such Act, except that tribes and tribal organiza-
tions may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect 
costs of ongoing contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding 
agreements and for unmet welfare assistance costs; and up to 
$5,000,000 shall be for the Indian Self-Determination Fund which 
shall be available for the transitional cost of initial or expanded 
tribal contracts, grants, compacts or cooperative agreements with 
the Bureau under such Act; and of which not to exceed $423,056,000 
for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and other edu-
cation programs shall become available on July 1, 2001, and shall 
remain available imtil September 30, 2002; and of which not to 
exceed $60,194,000 shall remain available until expended for 
housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, litigation 
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114 STAT. 935 
support, self-governance grants, the Indian Self-Determination 
Fund, land records improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement 
Program; and of which not to exceed $108,000 shall be for payment 
to the United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota Development Corpora-
tion for the purpose of providing emplo5anent assistance to Indian 
clients of the Corporation, including employment counseling, follow-
up services, housing services, community services, day care services, 
and subsistence to help Indian clients become fully employed mem-
bers of society: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-Determination 
Act of 1975, as amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed 
$43,160,000 within and only from such amounts made available 
for school operations shall be available to tribes and tribal organiza-
tions for administrative cost grants associated with the operation 
of Bureau-funded schools: Provided further. That any forestry funds 
allocated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 
30, 2002, may be transferred during fiscal year 2003 to an Indian 
forest land assistance account established for the benefit of such 
tribe within the tribe's trust fund account: Provided further, That 
any such unobligated balances not so transferred shall expire on 
September 30, 2003. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, and other facili-
ties, including architectural and engineering services by contract; 
acquisition of lands, and interests in lands; and preparation of 
lands for farming, and for construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project pursuant to PubHc Law 87-483, $357,404,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may 
be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation 
Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided 
further. That not to exceed 6 percent 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: Provided further, That any funds provided for the 
Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 shall be made 
available on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further. That for 
fiscal year 2001, in implementing new construction or facilities 
improvement and repair project grants in excess of $100,000 that 
are provided to tribally controlled grant schools under Public Law 
100-297, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use the 
Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for 
Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the regulatory 
requirements: Provided further, That such grants shall not be sub-
ject to section 12.61 of 43 CFR; the Secretary and the grantee 
shall negotiate and determine a schedule of pa5anents for the work 
to be performed: Provided further. That in considering applications, 
the Secretary shall consider whether the Indian tribe or tribal 
organization would be deficient in assuring that the construction 
projects conform to applicable building standards and codes and 
Federal, tribal, or State health and safety standards as required 
by 25 U.S.C. 2005(a), with respect to organizational and financial 
management capabilities: Provided further. That if the Secretary 
declines an application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements 
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2505(f): Provided further, That any disputes 
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between the Secretary and any grantee concerning a grant shall 
be subject to the disputes provision in 25 U.S.C. 2508(e). 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS 
PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For miscellaneous pa3mients to Indian tribes and individuals 
and for necessary administrative expenses, $37,526,000, to remain 
available until expended; of which $25,225,000 shall be available 
for implementation of enacted Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 101-618 and 102-575, and for 
implementation of other enacted water rights settlements; of which 
$8,000,000 shall be available for Tribal compact administration, 
economic development and future water supplies facilities under 
Public Law 106-163; of which $2,127,000 shall be available pursu-
ant to PubUc Laws 99-264, 100-383, 100-580 and 103-402; and 
of which $2,000,000 shall be available for the consent decree entered 
by the U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan in United 
States V. Michigan, Case No. 2:73 CV 26. 
INDIAN 
GUARANTEED 
LOAN 
PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $4,500,000, as authorized 
by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amended: Provided, That 
such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: 
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 
$59,682,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan programs, $488,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the operation 
of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative 
agreements, compacts and grants, either directly or in cooperation 
with States and other organizations. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee and insurance 
fund, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program account) shall 
be available for expenses of exhibits, and purchase of not to exceed 
229 passenger motor vehicles, of which not to exceed 187 shall 
be for replacement only. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office operations, pooled 
overhead general administration (except facilities operations and 
maintenance), or provided to implement the recommendations of 
the National Academy of Public Administration's August 1999 
report shall be available for tribal contracts, grants, compacts, 
or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under 
the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal 
Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made available 
by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for distribution to 
other tribes, this action shall not diminish the Federal Government's 
trust responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-government 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
114 STAT. 937 
relationship between the United States and that tribe, or that 
tribe's abiHty to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided herein for assist-
ance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available 
to support the operation of any elementary or secondary school 
in the State of Alaska. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other Act for 
schools funded by the Bureau shall be available only to the schools 
in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996. No funds 
available to the Bureau shall be used to support expanded grades 
for any school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in 
the Bureau school system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made 
available under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined in section 
1146 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)), 
except that a charter school that is in existence on the date of 
the enactment of this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-
funded school before September 1, 1999, may continue to operate 
during that period, but only if the charter school pays to the 
Bureau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for 
the use of the real and personal property (including buses and 
vans), the funds of the charter school are kept separate and apart 
from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does not assume any obligation 
for charter school programs of the State in which the school is 
located if the charter school loses such funding. Employees of 
Bureau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school 
and performing functions related to the charter school's operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as Federal 
employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States 
Code (commonly known as the "Federal Tort Claims Act"). Not 
later than June 15, 2001, the Secretary of the Interior shall evaluate 
the effectiveness of Bureau-funded schools sharing facilities with 
charter schools in the manner described in the preceding sentence 
and prepare and submit a report on the finding of that evaluation 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the 
House. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $75,471,000, of which: 
(1) $71,076,000 shall be available until expended for technical 
assistance, including maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, 
insular management controls, coral reef initiative activities, and 
brown tree snake control and research; grants to the judiciary 
in American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as authorized 
by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American 
Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construction and 
support of governmental functions; grants to the Government of 
the Virgin Islands as authorized by law; grants to the Government 
of Guam, as authorized by law; and grants to the Government 
of the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Public 
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48 u s e 1469b. 
Grants. 
Close Up 
Foundation. 
Law 94-241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $4,395,000 shall be available 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, 
That all financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of all agen-
cies or instrumentalities established or used by such governments, 
may be audited by the General Accounting Office, at its discretion, 
in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: 
Provided further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant 
funding shall be provided according to those terms of the Agreement 
of the Special Representatives on Future United States Financial 
Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public 
Law 104-134: Provided further. That of the amounts provided for 
technical assistance, not to exceed $300,000 may be made available 
for transfer to the Disaster Assistance Direct Loan Program Account 
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the purpose 
of covering the cost of forgiving a portion of the obligation of 
the Government of the Virgin Islands to pay interest which has 
accrued on Community Disaster Loan 841 during fiscal year 2000, 
as required by section 504 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, as amended (2 U.S.C. 661c): Provided further. That of the 
amounts provided for technical assistance, sufficient funding shall 
be made available for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: Provided 
further. That of the amounts provided for technical assistance, 
the amount of $700,000 shall be made available to the Prior Service 
Benefits Trust Fund for its program of benefit pajonents to individ-
uals: Provided further. That none of this amount shall be used 
for administrative expenses of the Prior Service Benefits Trust 
Fund: Provided further. That the funds for the program of oper-
ations and maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu-
tionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement of cap-
ital infrastructure in American 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 
maintenance needs, improved capability of local operations and 
maintenance institutions and agencies (including management and 
vocational education training), and project-specific maintenance 
(with territorial pEirticipation and cost sharing to be determined 
by the Secretary based on the individual territory's commitment 
to timely maintenance of its capital assets): Provided further. That 
any appropriation for disaster assistance under this heading in 
this Act or previous appropriations Acts may be used as non-
Federal matching funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants 
provided pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T, Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For economic assistance and necessary expenses for the Fed-
erated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands 
as provided for in sections 122, 221, 223, 232, and 233 of the 
Compact of Free Association, and for economic assistance and nec-
essary expenses for the Republic of Palau as provided for in sections 
122, 221, 223, 232, and 233 of the Compact of Free Association, 
$20,745,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized by 
Public Law 99-239 and Public Law 99-658. 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
114 STAT. 939 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the Department 
of the Interior, $64,319,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 may 
be for official reception and representation expenses, of which up 
to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensation pa5anents 
and unemployment compensation payments associated with the 
orderly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines, and of which 
$300,000 shall be for a grant to Alaska Pacific University for 
the development of an ANILCA training curriculum. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses 
of the 
Office 
of the 
Solicitor, 
$40,196,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$27,846,000. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
For operation of trust programs for Indians by direct expendi-
ture, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, 
$82,628,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
funds for trust management improvements may be transferred, 
as needed, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs "Operation of Indian 
Programs" account and to the Departmental Management "Salaries 
and Expenses" account: Provided further, That funds made available 
to Tribes and Tribal organizations through contracts or grants 
obligated during fiscal year 2001, as authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), shall remain 
available until expended by the contractor or grantee: Provided 
further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
statute of limitations shall not commence to run on any claim, 
including any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement of trust 
funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian has been fur-
nished with an accounting of such funds from which the beneficiary 
can determine whether there has been a loss: Provided further, 
25USC4011 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary note. 
shall not be required to provide a quarterly statement of perform-
ance for any Indian trust account that has not had activity for 
at least 18 months and has a balance of $1.00 or less: Provided 
further. That the Secretary shall issue an annual account statement 
25 USC 4011 
and maintain a record of any such accounts and shall permit note, 
the balance in each such account to be withdrawn upon the express ^'^o™^. 
written request of the account holder. 
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INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For implementation of a program for consolidation of fractional 
interests in Indian lands and expenses associated with redeter-
mining and redistributing escheated interests in allotted lands by 
direct expenditure or cooperative agreement, $9,000,000, to remain 
available until expended and which may be transferred to the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Departmental Management, of which 
not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That the Secretary may enter into a cooperative 
agreement, which shall not be subject to Public Law 93-638, as 
amended, with a tribe having jurisdiction over the reservation to 
implement the program to acquire fractional interests on behalf 
of such tribe: Provided further, That the Secretary may develop 
a reservation-wide system for establishing the fair market value 
of various types of lands and improvements to govern the amounts 
offered for acquisition of fractional interests: Provided further. That 
acquisitions shall be limited to one or more reservations as deter-
mined by the Secretary: Provided further, That funds shall be 
available for acquisition of fractional interests in trust or restricted 
lands with the consent of its owners and at fair market value, 
and the Secretary shall hold in trust for such tribe all interests 
acquired pursuant to this program: Provided further. That all pro-
ceeds from any lease, resource sale contract, right-of-way or other 
transaction derived from the fractional interests shall be credited 
to this appropriation, and remain available until expended, until 
the purchase price paid by the Secretary under this appropriation 
has been recovered from such proceeds: Provided further, 
That 
once the purchase price has been recovered, all subsequent proceeds 
shall be managed by the Secretary for the benefit of the applicable 
tribe or paid directly to the tribe. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION 
NATURAL R E S O U R C E DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment activities by 
the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.). Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the 
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Pubhc Law 101-380) (33 U.S.C. 2701 
et seq.), and Public Law 101-337, as amended (16 U.S.C. 19jj 
et seq.), $5,403,000, to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available 
resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 aircraft, 10 of which 
shall be for replacement and which may be obtained by donation, 
purchase or through available excess surplus property: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision 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: Pro-
vided further, That no programs funded with appropriated funds 
in the "Departmental Management", "Office of the Solicitor", and 
"Office of Inspector General" may be augmented through the 
Working Capital Fund or the Consolidated Working Fund. 
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114 STAT. 941 
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)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be 
replenished by a supplemental appropriation which must be 
requested 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 wildland 
fires on or threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment 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 oil spills; for response and natural resource damage assess-
ment activities related to actual oil spills; 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 Reclama-
tion and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary to permit 
assumption of regulatory authority in the event a primacy State 
is not carrying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining 
Act: Provided, That appropriations made in this title for wildland 
fire operations shall be available for the pa3mient 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 wildland fire 
operations, such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations 
currently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided further. 
That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall be made available 
under this authority until the Secretary determines that funds 
appropriated for "wildland fire operations" shall be exhausted 
within thirty days: 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)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be 
replenished by a supplemental appropriation which must be 
requested as promptly as possible: Provided further. That such 
replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata 
basis, accounts fi'om which emergency funds were transferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made in this title shall be available 
for operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, 
wherever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or 
114 STAT. 942 
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economy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services 
rendered to £m.y other activity in the same manner as authorized 
by sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31, United States Code: Provided, 
That reimbursements for costs and supplies, materials, 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; pa5mient 
for telephone service in private residences in the field, when author-
ized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the pa3anent 
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 
Interior for salaries and expenses shall be available for uniforms 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902 
and D.C. Code 4-204). 
SEC. 106. Annual appropriations made in this title shall be 
available for obligation in connection with contracts issued for serv-
ices or rentals for periods not in excess of 12 months beginning 
at any time during the fiscal year. 
SEC. 107. No funds provided in this title may be expended 
by the Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore leasing 
£ind related activities placed under restriction in the President's 
moratorium 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. 108. No funds provided in this title may be expended 
by the Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore oil 
and natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities, on lands 
within the North Aleutian Basin planning area. 
SEC. 109. No funds provided in this title may be expended 
by the Department of the Interior to conduct offshore oil and natural 
gas preleasing, leasing and related activities in the eastern Gulf 
of Mexico planning area for any lauids located outside Sale 181, 
as identified in the final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and 
Gas Leasing Program, 1997-2002. 
SEC. 110. No funds provided in this title may be expended 
by the Department of the Interior to conduct oil and natural gas 
preleasing, leasing and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic and 
South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 111. Advance payments made under this title to Indian 
tribes, tribal organizations, and tribal consortia pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
450 et seq.) or the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 
U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) may be invested by the Indian tribe, tribal 
organization, or consortium before such funds are expended for 
the purposes of the grant, compact, or annual funding agreement 
so long as such funds are— 
(1) invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organization, or 
consortium only in obligations of the United States, or in obliga-
tions or securities that are guaranteed or insured by the United 
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States, or mutual (or other) funds registered with the Securities 
and Exchange Commission and which only invest in obligations 
of the United States or securities that are guaranteed or insured 
by the United States; or 
(2) deposited only into accounts that are insured by an 
agency or instrumentality of the United States, or are fully 
collateralized to ensure protection of the funds, even in the 
event of a bank failure. 
SEC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the 
National Park Service shall not develop or implement a reduced 
entrance fee program to accommodate non-local travel through a 
unit. The Secretary may provide for and regulate local non-rec-
reational passage through units of the National Park System, 
allowing each unit to develop guidelines and permits for such 
activity appropriate to that unit. 
SEC. 113. Refunds or rebates received on an on-going basis 43 USC 1467a. 
from a credit card services provider under the Department of the 
Interior's charge card programs, hereafter may be deposited to 
and retained without fiscal year limitation in the Departmental 
Working Capital Fund established under 43 U.S.C. 1467 and used 
to fund management initiatives of general benefit to the Department 
of the Interior's bureaus and offices as determined by the Secretary 
or his designee. 
SEC. 114. Appropriations made in this Act under the headings 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special Trustee for American 
Indians and any available unobligated balances from prior appro-
priations Acts made under the same headings, shall be available 
for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management activities 
pursuant to the Trust Management Improvement Project High Level 
Implementation Plan. 
SEC. 115. Notwithstanding any provision of law, hereafter the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to negotiate and enter into 
agreements and leases, without regard to section 321 of chapter 
314 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (40 U.S.C. 303b), with any person, 
firm, association, organization, corporation, or governmental entity 
for all or part of the property within Fort Baker administered 
by the Secretary as part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. 
The proceeds of the agreements or leases shall be retained by 
the Secretary and such proceeds shall be available, without future 
appropriation, for the preservation, restoration, operation, mainte-
nance and interpretation and related expenses incurred with respect 
to Fort Baker properties. 
SEC. 116. A grazing permit or lease that expires (or is trans-
ferred) during fiscal year 2001 shall be renewed under section 
402 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 
as amended (43 U.S.C. 1752) or if applicable, section 510 of the 
California Desert Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 410aaa-50). The terms 
and conditions contained in the expiring permit or lease shall 
continue in effect under the new permit or lease until such time 
as the Secretary of the Interior completes processing of such permit 
or lease in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, 
at which time such permit or lease may be canceled, suspended 
or modified, in whole or in part, to meet the requirements of 
such applicable laws and regulations. Nothing in this section shall 
be deemed to alter the Secretary's statutory authority. 
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 
purpose of reducing the backlog of Indian probate cases in the 
16 USC 460bb-3 
note. 
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Department of the Interior, the hearing requirements of chapter 
10 of title 25, United States Code, are deemed satisfied by a pro-
ceeding conducted by an Indian probate judge, appointed by the 
Secretary without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States 
Code, governing the appointments in the competitive service, for 
such period of time as the Secretary determines necessary: Provided, 
That the basic pay of an Indian probate judge so appointed may 
be fixed by the Secretary without regard to the provisions of chapter 
51, and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States 
Code, governing the classification and pay of General Schedule 
employees, except that no such Indian probate judge may be paid 
at a level which exceeds the maximum rate payable for the highest 
grade of the General Schedule, including locality pay. 
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute any Tribal 
Priority Allocation funds, including tribal base funds, to alleviate 
tribal funding inequities by transferring funds to address identified, 
unmet needs, dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inac-
curate distribution methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction 
in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in 
fiscal year 2001. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, overlap-
ping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodologies, the 
10 percent limitation does not apply. 
SEC. 119. None of the funds in this Act may be used to establish 
a new National Wildlife Refuge in the KankaJtee River basin that 
is inconsistent with the United States Army Corps of Engineers' 
efforts to control flooding and siltation in that area. Written certifi-
cation of consistency shall be submitted to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations prior to refuge establishment. 
Virginia. 
S E C 120. The Great Marsh Trail at the Mason Neck National 
Recreation and 
Wildlife Refuge in Virginia is hereby named for Joseph V. Gartlan, 
areaT*^""^^ 
Jr. and shall hereafter be referred to in any law, document, or 
16 use 668dd 
records of the United States as the "Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr. Great 
note. 
Marsh Trail". 
SEC. 121. Funds appropriated for the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
for postsecondary schools for fiscal year 2001 shall be allocated 
among the schools proportionate to the unmet need of the schools 
as determined by the Postsecondary Funding Formula adopted by 
the Office of Indian Education Programs. 
SEC. 122. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with 
respect to amounts made available for tribal priority allocations 
in Alaska, such amounts shall only be provided to tribes the mem-
bership of which on June 1, 2000 is composed of at least 25 individ-
uals who are Natives (as such term is defined in section 3(b) 
of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) who reside in the 
area generally known as the village for such tribe. 
(b) Amounts that would have been made available for tribal 
priority allocations in Alaska but for the limitation contained in 
subsection (a) shall be provided to the respective Alaska Native 
regional nonprofit corporation (as listed in section 103(a)(2) of Public 
Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 2159) for the respective region in which 
a tribe subject to subsection (a) is located, notwithstanding any 
resolution authorized under federal law to the contrary. 
SEC. 123. (a) In this section— 
(1) the term "Huron Cemetery" means the lands that form 
the cemetery that is popularly known as the Huron Cemetery, 
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located in Kansas City, Kansas, as described in subsection 
(b)(3); and 
(2) the term "Secretary means the Secretary of the 
Interior. 
(b)(1) The Secretary shall take such action as may be necessary 
to ensure that the lands comprising the Huron Cemetery (as 
described in paragraph (3)) are used only in accordance with this 
subsection. 
(2) The lands of the Huron Cemetery shall be used only— 
(A) for religious and cultural uses that are compatible 
with the use of the lands as a cemetery; and 
(B) as a burial ground. 
(3) The description of the lands of the Huron Cemetery is 
as follows: 
The tract of land in the NW quarter of sec. 10, T. 11 S., 
R. 25 E., of the sixth principal meridian, in Wyandotte County, 
Kansas (as surveyed and marked on the ground on August 15, 
1888, by William Millor, Civil Engineer and Surveyor), described 
as follows: 
"Commencing on the Northwest comer of the Northwest 
Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 10; 
"Thence South 28 poles to the 'true point of beginning'; 
"Thence South 71 degrees East 10 poles and 18 links; 
"Thence South 18 degrees and 30 minutes West 28 poles; 
"Thence West 11 and one-half poles; 
"Thence North 19 degrees 15 minutes East 31 poles and 
15 feet to the 'true point of beginning*, containing 2 acres 
or more.". 
SEC. 124. None of the Funds provided in this Act shall be 
available to the Bureau of Indisin Affairs or the Department of 
the Interior to transfer land into trust status for the Shoalwater 
Bay Indi£in Tribe in Clark County, Washington, unless and until 
the tribe and the county reach a legally enforceable agreement 
that addresses the financial impact of new development on the 
county, school district, fire district, and other local governments 
and the impact on zoning and development. 
SEC. 125. None of the funds provided in this Act may be 
used by the Department of the Interior to implement the provisions 
of Principle 3(C)ii and Appendix section 3(B)(4) in Secretarial Order 
3206, entitled "American Indian Tribal Rights, Federal-Tribal Trust 
Responsibilities, and the Endangered Species Act". 
SEC. 126. No funds appropriated for the Department of the 
Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used to study or 
implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or to reduce the water 
level of the lake below the range of water levels required for 
the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam. 
SEC. 127. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in con-
veying the Twin Cities Research Center under the authority pro-
vided by Public Law 104-134, as amended by Public Law 104-
208, the Secretary may accept and retain land and other forms 
of reimbursement: Provided, That the Secretary may retain and 
use any such reimbursement until expended and without further 
appropriation: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all activities 
authorized by Public Law 100-696; 16 U.S.C. 460zz. 
SEC. 128. Section 112 of Public Law 103-138 (107 Stat. 1399) 
is amended by striking "permit LP-GLBA005-93" and inserting 
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16 u s e 431 note. 
16 u s e 431 note. 
Deadline. 
Effective date. 
Harvey R. 
Redmond. 
"permit LP-GLBA005-93 and in connection with a corporate reorga-
nization plan, the entity that, after the corporate reorganization, 
holds entry permit CP-GLBA004-00 each". 
SEC. 129. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall designate Anchorage, Alaska, as 
a port of entry for the purpose of section 9(f)(1) of the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1538(f)(1)). 
SEC. 130. (a) The first section of PubHc Law 92-501 (86 Stat. 
904) is amended by inserting after the first sentence "The park 
shall also include the land as generally depicted on the map entitled 
'subdivision of a portion of U.S. Survey 407, Tract B, dated May 
12,2000'". 
(b) Section 3 of Public Law 92-501 is amended to read as 
follows: "There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as 
are necessary to carry out the terms of this Act.". 
SEC. 131. (a) All proceeds, including bonuses, rents, and royal-
ties, of Oil and Gas Lease sale 991, held by the Bureau of Land 
Management on May 5, 1999, or subsequent lease sales in the 
National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska (hereafter "proceeds") attrib-
utable to the area subject to withdrawal for Kuukpik Corporation's 
selection under section 22(j)(2) of the Alaska Native Claims Settle-
ment Act, Pubhc Law 92-203 (85 Stat. 688), shall be deposited 
into a separate fund of the Treasury (hereafter "fund"). 
(b) Within 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer from the General 
Fund to the fund an amount determined by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, to 
be equal to the amount of interest income that would have been 
credited in the fund between May 5, 1999 and the date of enactment 
of this Act. For the purposes of this subsection (b), the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall calculate the interest income using a yield 
for a 52-week Treasury bill issued on or about May 5, 1999. 
(c) On the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall request the Secretary of the Treasury to invest 
such portion of the fund as is not, in the Secretary of the Interior's 
judgment, required to meet current pa5anent requirements from 
the fund as determined under subsection (d). Such investments 
shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury in public debt 
securities with maturities suitable to the needs of the fund, as 
determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and bearing interest 
at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking 
into consideration current market yields on outstanding marketable 
obligations of the United States of comparable maturity. 
(d) Hereafter, amounts in the fund shall be available to the 
Secretary of the Interior, without fiscal year limitation, and the 
Secretary of the Interior shall pay to Arctic Slope Regional Corpora-
tion and the State of Alaska the amount of their entitlement when 
determined in accordance with applicable law, together with 
interest, as calculated by the Secretary of the Interior, from the 
date of receipt of the proceeds by the United States to the date 
of payment on the proportionate share of the fund distributed. 
Any remainder shall revert to the General Fund of the Treasury. 
SEC. 132. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall convey to Harvey R. Redmond of 
Girdwood, Alaska, at no cost, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to United States Survey No. 12192, Alaska, 
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114 STAT. 947 
consisting of 49.96 acres located in the vicinity of T. 9N., R., 3E., 
Seward Meridian, Alaska. 
SEC. 133. CLARIFICATION OF TERMS OF CONVEYANCE TO NYE 
COUNTY, NEVADA. Section 132(b)(3) of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (113 Stat. 
1535, 1501A-165), is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph 
(C); and 
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: 
"(B) LEASE.—Notwithstanding any provision of the Act 
of June 14, 1926 (commonly known as the 'Recreation 
and Pubhc Purposes Act') (43 U.S.C. 869 et seq.), the 
county may enter into a long-term lease of any of the 
parcels described in paragraph (2) with a 
nonprofit 
organization under which the nonprofit organization would 
own and operate the Nevada Science and Technology 
Center for public, non-commercial purposes.". 
SEC. 134. 
MISSISSIPPI RIVER ISLAND NO. 228, 
IOWA, LAND 
EXCHANGE, (a) 
IDENTIFICATION 
OF LAND TO BE RECEIVED IN 
EXCHANGE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director 
of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (referred to in this 
section as the "Secretary"), shall provide Dubuque Barge & Fleeting 
Services, Inc. (referred to in this section as "Dubuque"), a notice 
that identifies parcels of land or interests in land— 
(1) that are of a value that is approximately equal to 
the value of a parcel comprising a 150-foot wide strip of land 
on the west side of the northern half of Mississippi River 
Island No. 228, as determined through an appraisal conducted 
in conformity with the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal 
Land Acquisition; and 
(2) that the Secretary would consider acceptable in 
exchange for all right, title, and interest of the United States 
in and to that parcel. 
(b) LAND FOR WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE.—Land or interests 
in land that the Secretary may consider acceptable for the purposes 
of subsection (a) include land or interests in land that would be 
suitable for inclusion in the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and 
Fish Refuge. 
(c) EXCHANGE.—Not later than 180 days after Dubuque offers 
land or interests in land identified in the notice under subsection 
(a), the Secretary shall convey all right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to the parcel described in subsection (a) 
in exchange for the land or interests in land offered by Dubuque, 
and shall permanently discontinue barge fleeting at the Mississippi 
River island. Tract JO-4, Parcel A, in the W/2 SE/4, Section 30, 
T.29N., R.2W., Jo Daviess County, Illinois, located between miles 
#578 and #579, commonly known as Pearl Island. 
SEC. 135. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate makes the following 
findings— 
(1) in 1990, pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination 
and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA), 25 U.S.C. 450 et 
seq., a class action lawsuit was filed by Indian tribal contractors 
and tribal consortia against the United States, the Secretary 
of the Interior and others seeking money damages, injunctive 
relief, and declaratory relief for alleged violations of the 
Deadline. 
Deadline. 
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ISDEAA (Ramah Navajo Chapter v. Lujan, 112 F.3d 1455 (10th 
Cir. 1997)); 
(2) the parties negotiated a partial settlement of the claim 
totaling $76,200,000, plus applicable interest, which was 
approved by the court on May 14, 1999; 
(3) the partial settlement was paid by the United States 
in September 1999, in the amount of $82,000,000; 
(4) the Judgment Fund was established to pay for legal 
judgments awarded to plaintiffs who have filed suit against 
the United States; 
(5) the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 requires that the 
Judgment Fund be reimbursed by the responsible agency fol-
lowing the payment of an award from the Fund; and 
(6) the shortfall in contract support payments found by 
the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Ramah resulted 
primarily from the non-payment or underpa3anent of indirect 
costs by agencies other than the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
and the Indian Health Service. 
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Senate that— 
(1) repayment of the Judgment Fund for the partial settle-
ment in Ramah from the accounts of the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and Indian Health Service would significantly reduce 
funds appropriated to benefit tribes and individual Native 
Americans; and 
(2) the Secretary of the Interior should work with the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget to secure 
funding for repayment of the judgment in RamaJi within the 
budgets of the agencies that did not pay indirect costs to plain-
tiffs during the period 1988 to 1993 or paid indirect costs 
at less than rates provided under the Indian Self-Determination 
Act during such period. 
16 use 754d. 
SEC. 136. In fiscal year 2001 and thereafter and notwith-
stEinding any other provision of law, the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service shall establish and implement a fee schedule to 
permit a return to the Service for forensic laboratory services pro-
vided to non-Department of the Interior entities. Fees shall be 
collected as determined appropriate by the Director of the Fish 
and Wildlife Service and shall be credited to this appropriation 
and be available for expenditure without further appropriation until 
expended. 
SEC. 137. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT TO EXCLUDE PRIVATE LAND 
AND ACCESS ROAD, ARGUS RANGE WILDERNESS, CALIFORNIA DESERT 
CONSERVATION AREA, (a) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.—The boundary 
of the Argus Range Wilderness in the California Desert Conserva-
tion Area, as designated by section 102(a)(1) of the California Desert 
Protection Act of 1994 (Pubhc Law 103-433; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note) 
is adjusted 
to exclude from the area encompassed by the 
wilderness— 
(1) a parcel of private property located in the southwest 
quarter of the northeast quarter of section 35, township 21 
south, range 42 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Inyo County, 
California; and 
(2) the roadway described in subsection (b) that is used 
to access the private property. 
(b) DESCRIPTION OF ROADWAY.—The roadway referred to in 
subsection (a) means— 
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114 STAT. 949 
(1) the main stem of the road running east and west 
through sections 35 and 36, township 21 south, range 42 east, 
and section 31, township 21 south, range 43 east, Mount Diablo 
meridian, to the point where the main stem first divides into 
two branches to provide access to the parcel of private property 
described in subsection (a) from the east and the north; and 
(2) each of the two branches of that road, as described 
in paragraph (1). 
(c) LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF EXCLUDED AREA.—The exact acreage 
and legal description of the area to be excluded from the wilderness 
area pursuant to subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey 
satisfactory to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne 
by the Secretary. In connection with the main stem of the roadway 
described in subsection (b)(1), the Secretary shall exclude, at a 
minimum, all lands within 30 feet of the center line of the roadway. 
SEC. 138. (a) Pursuant to the provisions of section 4(a)(3) of i6USC668dd 
the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act (16 U.S.C. note. 
668dd(a)(3)), the Secretary of the Interior is directed to remove 
from the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge all right, title and 
interest of the United States in and to the following described 
properties: 
Lots 1 and 2 of Block 144, in Othello Land Company's 
First Addition to Othello according to the recorded plat thereof, 
together with all lands presently or formerly occupied by public 
thoroughfares or rights of way abutting or adjoining the above 
described land, in the County of Adams, State of Washington, 
T.16N., R.29E.,W.M. 
and to transfer said property without compensation to the City 
of Othello, Washington. 
(b) The property conveyed under this section shall be used 
for public housing or other public purpose, and all right, title 
and interest in and to such property shall revert to the United 
States if it is used for any other purpose. 
(c) The City of Othello shall hold the United States harmless, 
and shall indemnify the United States, for all claims, costs, dam-
ages, and judgements arising out of any act or omission relating 
to the property conveyed under this section. 
SEC. 139. Section 412(b) of the National Parks Omnibus 
Management Act of 1998, as amended (16 U.S.C. 5961) is amended 
by striking "2000" and inserting "2001". 
SEC. 140. Notwithstanding other provisions of law, the National 
Park Service may authorize, through cooperative agreement, the 
Golden Gate National Parks Association to provide fee-based edu-
cation, interpretive and visitor service functions within the Crissy 
Field and Fort Point areas of the Presidio. 
SEC. 141. The building housing the visitors center within the 
i6USC459f-5 
boundaries of the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on "ote. 
Assateague Island, Virginia, shall be known and designated as 
the "Herbert H. Bateman Educational and Administrative Center" 
and shall hereafter be referred to in any law, map, regulation, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States as the "Her-
bert H. Bateman Educational and Administrative Center". 
SEC. 142. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302(b), sums received 
by the Bureau of Land Management for the sale of seeds or seed-
lings including those collected in fiscal year 2000, may be credited 
to the appropriation from which funds were expended to acquire 
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or grow the seeds or seedlings and are available without fiscal 
year limitation. 
SEC. 143. Pubhc Law 105-83 (111 Stat. 1556) is amended 
as follows: Under the heading "Operation of Indian Programs" 
in the Bureau of Indian Affairs strike "non-Federal" in the last 
proviso and insert in lieu thereof "non-Department of the Interior". 
SEC. 144. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
subject to subsections (b) and (c), all conveyances to the city of 
Valley City, a municipal corporation of Barnes County, North 
Dakota, of lands described in subsection (b), heretofore or hereafter 
made directly by The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway 
Company or its successors, are hereby validated to the extent that 
the conveyances would be legal and valid if all right, title, and 
interest of the United States, except minerals, were held by The 
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company. 
(b) LANDS DESCRIBED.—The lands referred to in subsection 
(a) are the land that formed part of the railroad right-of-way granted 
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, a predecessor to The 
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, by an Act 
of Congress on July 2, 1864, specifically a 400-foot wide right-
of-way, being 200 feet wide on each side of the centerline of the 
rail track as originally located £ind constructed between milepost 
69.05 and milepost 61.10 within Barnes County, North Dakota, 
as shown and described on the map entitled "City of Valley City— 
Railroad Parcels" dated September 1, 2000. Such map shall be 
placed on file and available for inspection in the offices of the 
Director of the Bureau of Land Management. 
(c) ACCESS AND MINERAL RIGHTS.— 
(1) PRESERVATION OF RIGHTS OF ACCESS.—Nothing in this 
section shall impair any rights of access in favor of the public 
or any owner of adjacent lands over, under, or across the 
lands described in section 2. 
(2) MINERALS.—The United States reserves any federally 
owned mineral rights in the lands described in subsection (b), 
except that the United States disclaims any and all right of 
surface entry to the mineral estate of such lands. 
First Ladies 
SEC. 145. (a) SHORT TiTLE.—This section may be cited as the 
National Historic "First Ladies National Historic Site Act of 2000". 
i?TTQr^*Afi?°^f' 
(b) FIRST LADIES NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE.— 
lb ubc 4bi note. 
^^ FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
(A) Throughout the history of the United States, First 
Ladies have had an important impact on our Nation's 
history. 
(B) Little attention has been paid to the role of First 
Ladies and their impact on our Nation's history. 
(C) Establishment of the First Ladies National Historic 
Site will provide unique opportunities for education and 
study into the impact of First Ladies on our history. 
(2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are the fol-
lowing: 
(A) To preserve and interpret the role and history 
of First Ladies for the benefit, inspiration, and education 
of the people of the United States. 
(B) To interpret the impact of First Ladies on the 
history of the United States. 
(C) To provide to school children and scholars access 
to information about the contributions of First Ladies 
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114 STAT. 951 
through both a physical educational facility and an elec-
tronic virtual library. 
(D) To establish the First Ladies National Historic 
Site in Canton, Ohio, the home of First Lady Ida Saxton 
McKinley. 
(E) To create a public-private partnership between the 
National Park Service and the National First Ladies 
Library. 
(3) ESTABLISHMENT OF FIRST LADIES NATIONAL HISTORIC 
SITE.— 
(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is estabhshed in Canton, 
Ohio, the First Ladies National Historic Site. 
(B) DESCRIPTION.—The historic site shall consist o
f
— 
(i) the land gmd improvements comprising the 
National Park Service property located at 331 Market 
Avenue South in Canton, Ohio, known as the Ida 
Saxton McKinley House; and 
(ii) if acquired under subsection (b)(4). National 
Park Service property located at 205 Market Avenue 
South in Canton, Ohio, known as the City National 
Bank Building. 
(4) ACQUISITION OF CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.—The 
Secretary may acquire by donation, for inclusion in the historic 
site, the property located at 205 Market Avenue South in 
Canton, Ohio, known as the City National Bank Building. 
(5) ADMINISTRATION OF THE HISTORIC SITE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall administer the 
historic site in accordance with this section and the provi-
sions of law generally applicable to units of the National 
Park System, including the Act entitled "An Act to establish 
a National Park Service, and for other purposes", approved 
August 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), and the Act of 
August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666, chapter 593; 16 U.S.C. 
461 et seq.). 
(B) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.— 
(i) To further the purposes of this section, the 
Secretary may enter into a cooperative agreement with 
the National First Ladies Library (a nonprofit corpora-
tion established under the laws of the District of 
Columbia) under which the National First Ladies 
Library may operate and maintain the site. 
(ii) To further the purposes of this section, the 
Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with 
other public and private organizations. 
(C) ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary may provide to the 
National First Ladies Library— 
(i) technical assistance for the preservation of his-
toric structures of, the maintenance of the cultural 
landscape of, and local preservation planning for, the 
historic site; and 
(ii) subject to the availability of appropriations, 
financial assistance for the operation and maintenance 
of the historic site. 
(D) ADMISSION FEES.—The Secretary may authorize 
the National First Ladies Library to— 
(i) charge fees for admission to the historic site; 
and 
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(ii) retain and use for the historic site amounts 
paid as such fees. 
(E) MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY.—The Secretary 
may-
authorize the National First Ladies Library— 
(i) to manage any property within the historic 
site; 
(ii) to lease to other public or private entities any 
property managed under subparagraph (i) by the 
National First Ladies Library; and 
(iii) to retain and use for the historic site amounts 
received luider such leases. 
(6) GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN.— 
Deadline. 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the last day of the 
third full fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall, in consultation with the 
officials described in paragraph (B), prepare a general 
management plan for the historic site. 
(B) CONSULTATION.—In preparing the general manage-
ment plan, the Secretary shall consult with an appropriate 
official of— 
(i) the National First Ladies Library; and 
(ii) appropriate political subdivisions of the State 
of Ohio that have jurisdiction over the area where 
the historic site is located. 
(C) 
SUBMISSION OF PLAN TO CONGRESS.—Upon 
the 
completion of the general management plan, the Secretary 
shall submit a copy of the plan to the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee 
on Resources of the House of Representatives. 
(7) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(A) HISTORIC SITE.—The term '^historic site" means 
the First Ladies National Historic Site established by sub-
section (b)(3). 
(B) SECRETARY.—The term "Secretary" means the Sec-
retary of the Interior. 
SEC. 
146. 
(a) 
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD ESTABLISHMENT OF 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN INTERPRETIVE CENTER.— 
(1) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—Subject to subsections (a)(2) and 
(a)(3), the Secretary of the Interior shall make grants to con-
tribute funds for the establishment in Springfield, Illinois, of 
an interpretive center to preserve and make available to the 
public materials related to the life of President Abraham Lin-
coln and to provide interpretive and educational services which 
communicate the meaning of the life of Abraham Lincoln. 
(2) PLAN AND DESIGN.— 
Deadline. 
(A) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 18 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the entity selected by 
the Secretary of the Interior to receive grants under sub-
section (a)(1) shall submit to the Secretary a plan and 
design for the interpretive center, including a description 
of the following: 
(i) The design of the facility and site. 
(ii) The method of acquisition. 
(iii) The estimated cost of acquisition, construction, 
operation, and maintenance. 
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114 STAT. 953 
(iv) The manner and extent to which non-Federal 
entities will participate in the acquisition, construction, 
operation, and maintenance of the center. 
(B) CONSULTATION AND COOPERATION.—The plan and 
design for the interpretive center shall be prepared in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Governor of Illinois and in cooperation with such other 
public, municipal, and private entities as the Secretary 
considers appropriate. 
(3) CONDITIONS ON GRANT.— 
(A) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—A grant under sub-
section (a)(1) may not be made iintil such time as the 
entity selected to receive the grant certifies to the Secretary 
of the Interior that funds have been contributed by the 
State of Illinois or raised from non-Federal sources for 
use to establish the interpretive center in an amount equal 
to at least double the amount of that grant. 
(B) RELATION TO OTHER LINCOLN-RELATED SITES AND 
MUSEUMS.—The Secretary of the Interior shall further 
condition the grant under subsection (a)(1) on the agree-
ment of the grant recipient to operate the resulting 
interpretive center in cooperation with other Federal and 
non-Federal historic sites, parks, and museums that rep-
resent significant locations or events in the life of Abraham 
Lincoln. Cooperative efforts to promote and interpret the 
life of Abraham Lincoln may include the use of cooperative 
agreements, cross references, cross promotion, and shared 
exhibits. 
(4) PROHIBITION ON CONTRIBUTION OF OPERATING FUNDS.— 
Grant amounts may not be used for the maintenance or oper-
ation of the interpretive center. 
(5) NON-FEDERAL OPERATION.—The Secretary of the Interior 
shall have no involvement in the actual operation of the 
interpretive center, except at the request of the non-Federal 
entity responsible for the operation of the center. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior a total of 
$50,000,000 to make grants under subsection (a)(1). Amounts so 
appropriated shall remain available for expenditure through fiscal 
year 2006. 
SEC. 147. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the Palace of the 
"Palace of the Governors Annex Act". 
Governors Annex 
(b) 
CONSTRUCTION OF PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS ANNEX, 
^'^*-
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO.— 
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(A) the United States has a rich legacy of Hispanic 
influence in politics, government, economic development, 
and cultural expression; 
(B) the Palace of the Governors— 
(i) has been the center of administrative and cul-
tural activity over a vast region of the Southwest since 
its construction as New Mexico's second capitol in 
Santa Fe by Governor Pedro de Peralta in 1610; 
(ii) is the oldest continuously occupied public 
building in the continental United States, having been 
occupied for 390 years; and 
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(iii) has been designated as a National Historic 
Landmark; 
(C) since its creation, the Museum of New Mexico 
has worked to protect and promote Southwestern, Hispanic, 
and Native American arts and crafts; 
(D) the Palace of the Governors houses the history 
division of the Museum of New Mexico; 
(E) the Museum has an extensive, priceless, and 
irreplaceable collection o
f
— 
(i) Spanish Colonial paintings (including the 
Segesser Hide Paintings, paintings on buffalo hide 
dating back to 1706); 
(ii) pre-Columbian Art; and 
(iii) historic artifacts, including— 
(I) helmets and armor worn by the Don Juan 
de Oiiate expedition conquistadors who established 
the first capital in the territory that is now the 
United States, San Juan de los Caballeros, in July 
1598; 
(II) the Vara Stick used to measure land 
grants and other real property boundaries in Dona 
Ana County, New Mexico; 
(III) the Columbus, New Mexico Railway Sta-
tion clock that was shot, stopping the pendulum, 
fi-eezing for all history the moment when Pancho 
Villa's raid began; 
(IV) the field desk of Brigadier General Ste-
phen Watts Kearny, who was posted to New 
Mexico during the Mexican War and whose Army 
of the West traveled the Santa Fe trail to occupy 
the territories of New Mexico and California; and 
(V) more than 800,000 other historic photo-
graphs, guns, costumes, maps, books, and handi-
crafts; 
(F) the Palace of the Governors and its contents are 
included in the Mary C. Skaggs Centennial Collection of 
America's Treasures; 
(G) the Palace of the Governors and the Segesser Hide 
paintings have been declared national treasures by the 
National Trust for Historic Preservation; and 
(H) time is of the essence in the construction of an 
annex to the Palace of the Governors for the exhibition 
and storing of the collection described in paragraph (E), 
because— 
(i) the existing facilities for exhibiting and storing 
the collection are so inadequate and unsuitable that 
existence of the collection is endangered and its 
preservation is in jeopardy; and 
(ii) 2010 marks the 400th anniversary of the 
continuous occupation and use of the Palace of the 
Governors and is an appropriate date for ensuring 
the continued viability of the collection. 
(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(A) ANNEX.—The term "Annex" means the annex for 
the Palace of the Governors of the Museum of New Mexico, 
to be constructed behind the Palace of the Governors 
building at 110 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 
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114 STAT. 955 
(B) OFFICE.—The term "Office" means the State Office 
of Cultural Affairs. 
(C) SECRETARY.—The term "Secretary" means the Sec-
retary of the Interior. 
(D) STATE.—The term "State" means the State of New 
Mexico. 
(3) GRANT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of appro-
priations, the Secretary shall make a grant to the Office 
to pay 50 percent of the costs of the final design, construc-
tion, management, inspection, furnishing, and equipping 
of the Annex. 
(B) REQUIREMENTS.—Subject to the availability of 
appropriations, to receive a grant under this paragraph 
(A), the Office shall— 
(i) submit to the Secretary a copy of the architec-
tural iDlueprints for the Annex; and 
(ii) enter into a memorandum of understanding 
with the Secretary under subsection ((b)(4). 
(4) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.—At the request of 
the Office, the Secretary shall enter into a memorandum of 
understanding with the Office that— 
(A) requires that the Office award the contract for 
construction of the Annex after a competitive bidding 
process and in accordance with the New Mexico Procure-
ment Code; and 
(B) specifies a date for completion of the Annex. 
(5) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—The non-Federal share of the 
costs of the final design, construction, management, inspection, 
furnishing, and equipping of the Annex— 
(A) may be in cash or in kind fairly evaluated, including 
land, art and artifact collections, plant, equipment, or serv-
ices; and 
(B) shall include any contribution received by the State 
(including contributions from the New Mexico Foundation 
and other endowment funds) for, and any expenditure made 
by the State for, the Palace of the Governors or the Annex, 
including— 
(i) design; 
(ii) l£ind acquisition (including the land at 110 
Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico); 
(iii) acquisitions for and renovation of the library; 
(iv) conservation of the Palace of the Governors; 
(v) construction, management, inspection, 
fur-
nishing, and equipping of the Annex; and 
(vi) donations of art collections and artifacts to 
the Museum of New Mexico on or after the date of 
enactment of this section. 
(6) USE OF FUNDS.—The funds received under a grant 
awarded under subsection (b)(3) shall be used only for the 
final design, construction, management, inspection, furnishing 
and equipment of the Annex. 
(7) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (B), subject 
to the availability of appropriations, there is authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section 
$15,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
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16 u s e 461 note. 
16 u s e 461 note. 
16 u s e 461 note. 
16 u s e 460ff 
note. 
16 u s e 460ff 
note. 
16 u s e 460fr. 
National 
Underground 
Railroad 
Freedom Center 
Act 
16 u s e 461 note. 
16 u s e 469/-2 
note. 
(B) CONDITION.—Paragraph (A) authorizes sums to be 
appropriated on the condition that— 
(i) after the date of enactment of this section and 
before January 1, 2010, the State appropriate at least 
$8,000,000 to pay the costs of the final design, construc-
tion, management, inspection, furnishing, and equip-
ping of the Annex; and 
(ii) other non-Federal sources provide sufficient 
funds to pay the remainder of the 50 percent non-
Federal share of those costs. 
SEC. 148. (a) Section 104 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish 
in the Department of the Interior the Southwestern Pennsylvania 
Heritage Preservation Commission, and for other purposes", 
approved November 19, 1988 (Public Law 100-698) is amended— 
(1) in the flush material at the end of subsection (a), 
by striking "10 years" and inserting "20 years"; and 
(2) in subsection (e), by striking "10 years" and inserting 
"20 years". 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 105 of 
the 
Act entitled "An Act to establish in the Department of the Interior 
the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission, 
and for other purposes", approved November 19, 1988 (Public Law 
100-698) is amended by inserting "for each of fiscal years 2001 
through 2010" after "$3,000,000". 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—^The amendment made by section 1 shall 
be deemed to have taken effect on November 18,1998. 
SEC. 149. 
REDESIGNATION OF CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL 
RECREATION AREA AS CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, 
(a) 
REDESIGNATION.—The Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area 
is redesignated as Cuyahoga Valley National Park. 
(b) REFERENCES.—^Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Cuya-
hoga Valley National Recreation Area is deemed to be a reference 
to Cuyahoga Valley National Park. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—The Act entitled "An Act to 
provide for the establishment of the Cuyahoga Valley National 
Recreation Area" (PubHc Law 93-555; 16 U.S.C. 460fF et seq.), 
approved December 27, 1974, is amended— 
(1) in section 1 by striking "National Recreation Area" 
and inserting "National Park"; and 
(2) by striking "recreation area" each place it appears and 
inserting "park". 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section 5 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 
460ff-4) is repealed, and section 6 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 460ff-
5) is redesignated as section 5. 
Sec. 150. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
"National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Act", 
(b) FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.— 
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(A) the National Underground Railroad 
Freedom 
Center (hereinafter "Freedom Center") is a nonprofit 
organization incorporated under the laws of the State of 
Ohio in 1995; 
(B) the objectives of the Freedom Center are to inter-
pret the history of the Underground Railroad through 
development of a national cultural institution in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, that will house an interpretive center, including 
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114 STAT. 957 
museum, educational, and research facilities, all dedicated 
to communicating to the public the importance of the quest 
for human freedom which provided the foundation for the 
historic and inspiring story of the Underground Railroad; 
(C) the city of Cincinnati has granted exclusive develop-
ment rights for a prime riverfront location to the Freedom 
Center; 
(D) the Freedom Center will be a national center linked 
through state-of-the-art technology to Underground Rail-
road sites and facilities throughout the United States and 
to a constituency that reaches across the United States, 
Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and beyond; and 
(E) the Freedom Center has reached an agreement 
with the National Park Service to pursue a range of histor-
ical and educational cooperative activities related to the 
Underground 
Railroad, including but not limited 
to 
assisting the National Park Service in the implementation 
of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom 
Act. 
(2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are— 
(A) to promote preservation and public awareness of 
the history of the Underground Railroad; 
(B) to assist the Freedom Center in the development 
of its programs and facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio; and 
(C) to assist the National Park Service in the 
implementation of the National Underground Railroad Net-
work to Freedom Act (112 Stat. 679; 16 U.S.C. 4691 and 
following). 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) SECRETARY.—The term "Secretary" means the Secretary 
of the Interior. 
(2) PROJECT BUDGET.—The term "project budget" means 
the total amount of funds expended by the Freedom Center 
on construction of its facility, development of its programs 
and exhibits, research, collection of informative and educational 
activities related to the history of the Underground Railroad, 
and any administrative activities necessary to the operation 
of the Freedom Center, prior to the opening of the Freedom 
Center facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
(3) FEDERAL SHARE.—The term "Federal share" means an 
amount not to exceed 20 percent of the project budget and 
shall include all amounts received from the Federal Govern-
ment under this legislation and any other Federal programs. 
(4) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—The term "non-Federal share" 
means all amounts obtained by the Freedom Center for the 
implementation of its facilities and programs from any source 
other than the Federal Government, and shall not be less 
th£in 80 percent of the project budget. 
(5) 
THE 
FREEDOM 
CENTER 
FACILITY.—The term 
"the 
Freedom Center facility" means the facility, including the 
building and surrounding site, which will house the museum 
and research institute to be constructed and developed in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, on the site described in subsection (d)(3). 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) 
PROGRAM 
AUTHORIZED.—From 
sums 
appropriated 
pursuant to the authority of subsection (d)(4) in any fiscal 
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year, the Secretary is authorized and directed to provide finan-
cial assistance to the Freedom Center, in order to pay the 
Federal share of the cost of authorized activities described 
in subsection (e). 
(2) EXPENDITURE ON NON-FEDERAL PROPERTY.—The Sec-
retary is authorized to expend appropriated funds under sub-
section (d)(1) of this section to assist in the construction of 
the Freedom Center facility and the development of programs 
and exhibits for that facility which will be funded primarily 
through private and non-Federal funds, on property owned 
by the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, and the State 
of Ohio. 
(3) DESCRIPTION OF THE FREEDOM CENTER FACILITY SITE.— 
The facility referred to in subsections (d)(1) and (d)(2) will 
be located on a site described as follows: a 2-block area south 
of new South Second, west of Walnut Street, north of relocated 
Theodore M. Berry Way, and east of Vine Street in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 
(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are author-
ized to be appropriated $16,000,000 for the 4 fiscal year period 
beginning October 1, 1999. Funds not to exceed that total 
amount may be appropriated in 1 or more of such fiscal years. 
Funds shall not be disbursed until the Freedom Center has 
commitments for a minimum of 50 percent of the non-Federal 
share. 
(5) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, funds appropriated to carry out the provisions 
of this section shall remain available for obligation and expendi-
ture until the end of the fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year 
for which the funds were appropriated. 
(6) OTHER PROVISIONS.—^Any grant made under this section 
shall provide that— 
(A) no change or alteration may be made in the 
Freedom Center facility except with the agreement of the 
property owner and the Secretary; 
(B) the Secretary shall have the right of access at 
reasonable times to the public portions of the Freedom 
Center facility for interpretive and other purposes; and 
(C) conversion, use, or disposal of the Freedom Center 
facility for purposes contrary to the purposes of this section, 
as determined by the Secretary, shall result in a right 
of the United States to compensation equal to the greater 
of— 
(i) all Federal funds made available to the grantee 
under this section; or 
(ii) the proportion of the increased value of the 
Freedom Center facility attributable to such funds, 
as determined at the time of such conversion, use, 
or disposal, 
(e) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Freedom Center may engage in any 
activity related to its objectives addressed in subsection (b)(1), 
including, but not limited to, construction of the Freedom 
Center facility, development of programs and exhibits related 
to the history of the Underground Railroad, research, collection 
of information and artifacts and educational activities related 
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114 STAT. 959 
to the history of the Underground Railroad, and any adminis-
trative activities necessary to the operation of the Freedom 
Center. 
(2) PRIORITIES.—The Freedom Center shall give priority 
to— 
(A) construction of the Freedom Center facility; 
(B) development of programs and exhibits to be pre-
sented in or from the Freedom Center facility; and 
(C) providing assistance to the National Park Service 
in the implementation of the National Underground Rail-
road Network to Freedom Act (16 U.S.C. 4691). 
(f) APPLICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Freedom Center shall submit an 
application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, 
and containing or accompanied by such information as the 
Secretary may reasonably require. Each application shall— 
(A) describe the activities for which assistance is 
sought; 
(B) provide assurances that the non-Federal share of 
the cost of activities of the Freedom Center shall be paid 
from non-Federal sources, together with an accounting of 
costs expended by the Freedom Center to date, a budget 
of costs to be incurred prior to the opening of the Freedom 
Center facility, an accounting of funds raised to date, both 
Federal and non-Federal, and a projection of funds to be 
raised through the completion of the Freedom Center 
facility, 
(2) APPROVAL.—The Secretary shall approve the application 
submitted pursuant to subsection (f)(1) unless such application 
fails to comply with the provisions of this section. 
(g) REPORTS.—The Freedom Center shall submit an annual Deadline. 
report to the appropriate committees of the Congress not later 
than January 31, 2000, and each succeeding year thereafter for 
any fiscal year in which Federal funds are expended pursuant 
to this section. The report shall— 
(1) include a financial statement addressing the Freedom 
Center's costs incurred to date and projected costs, and funds 
raised to date and projected fundraising goals; 
(2) include a comprehensive and detailed description of 
the Freedom Center's activities for the preceding and suc-
ceeding fiscal years; and 
(3) include a description of the activities taken to assure 
compliance with this section. 
(h) AMENDMENT TO THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 
NETWORK TO FREEDOM ACT OF 1998.—The National Underground 
Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 679; 16 U.S.C. 
4691 and following) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
"SEC. 4. PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC SITES OR STRUCTURES. 
"(a) 
AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.—The Secretary of 
the 
Interior may make grants in accordance with this section for the 
preservation and restoration of historic buildings or structures asso-
ciated with the Underground Railroad, and for related research 
and documentation to sites, programs, or facilities that have been 
included in the national network. 
"(b) GRANT CONDITIONS.—Any grant made under this section 
shall provide that— 
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"(1) no change or alteration may be made in property 
for which the grant is used except with the agreement of 
the property owner and the Secretary; 
"(2) the Secretary shall have the right of access at reason-
able times to the public portions of such property for interpre-
tive and other purposes; and 
"(3) conversion, use, or disposal of such property for pur-
poses contrary to the purposes of this Act, as determined by 
the Secretary, shall result in a right of the United States 
to compensation equal to all Federal funds made available 
to the grantee under this Act. 
"(c) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary may obligate 
funds made available for a grant under this section only if the 
grantee agrees to match, from funds derived from non-Federal 
sources, the amount of the grant with an amount that is equal 
to or greater than the grant. The Secretary may waive the require-
ment of the preceding sentence with respect to a grant if the 
Secretary determines that an extreme emergency exists or that 
such a waiver is in the public interest to assure the preservation 
of historically significant resources. 
"(d) FUNDING.—There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary for purposes of this section $2,500,000 for fiscal year 
2001 and each subsequent fiscal year. Amounts authorized but 
not appropriated in a fiscal year shall be available for appropriation 
in subsequent fiscal years.". 
SEC. 151. PRIORITY ABANDONED MINE AND ACID MINE REMEDI-
ATION. For expenses necessary to reclaim abandoned coal mine 
sites and for acid mine drainage remediation caused by past coal 
mining practices in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania and other 
purposes consistent with title IV of the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, as amended, 
to be granted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in addition 
to the amount granted under sections 402(g)(1) and 402(g)(5) of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, $12,600,000, to 
be derived from funds pursuant to section 402(g)(2) of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of these funds, $600,000 will be specifi-
cally used to continue a demonstration project funded in Public 
Law 106-113, in accordance with section 401(c)(6) of the Act to 
determine the efficacy of improving water quality by removing 
metals from eligible waters polluted by acid mine drainage. 
SEC. 152. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from 
the unobligated balances derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund appropriated in fiscal year 2000 for acquisition 
of land at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (Black River), 
$850,000, together with other sums as may become available, is 
for the Nisqually Indian Tribe to acquire the fee title to the Kenneth 
W. Braget farm under the terms and conditions of the existing 
Purchase and Sale Agreement. The Nisqually Indian Tribe shall 
enter into a 25 year cooperative agreement/renewable lease with 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to manage those Isinds within 
the approved refuge boundary as part of the Nisqually National 
Wildlife Refuge. Such lands within the approved refuge boundary 
shall be managed in perpetuity for refuge purposes. 
SEC. 153. TRIBAL SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION DEMONSTRATION PRO-
GRAM, (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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114 STAT. 961 
(1) CONSTRUCTION.—The term "construction", with respect 
to a tribally controlled school, includes the construction or 
renovation of that school. 
(2) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term "Indian tribe" has the meaning 
given that term in section 4(e) of the Indian Self-Determination 
and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term "secretary" means the Secretary 
of the Interior. 
(4) TRIBALLY CONTROLLED SCHOOL.—The term "tribally con-
trolled school" has the meaning given that term in section 
5212 of the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 
2511). 
(5) DEPARTMENT.—The term "Department" means the 
Department of the Interior. 
(6) DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.—The term "demonstration 
program" means the Tribal School Construction Demonstration 
Program. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry out a demonstration 
program to provide grants to Indian tribes for the construction 
of tribally controlled schools. 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the availability of appropria-
tions, in canying out the demonstration program under sub-
section (b), the Secretary shall award a grant to each Indian 
tribe that submits an application that is approved by the Sec-
retary under paragraph (2). The Secretary shall ensure that 
an eligible Indian tribe currently on the Department's priority 
list for constructing of replacement educational 
facilities 
receives the highest priority for a grant under this section. 
(2) GRANT APPLICATIONS.—An application for a grant under 
the section shall— 
(A) include a proposal for the construction of a tribally 
controlled school of the Indian tribe that submits the 
application; and 
(B) be in such form as the Secretary determines appro-
priate. 
(3) GRANT AGREEMENT.—As a condition to receiving a grant 
under this section, the Indian tribe shall enter into an agree-
ment with the Secretary that specifies— 
(A) the costs of construction under the grant; 
(B) that the Indian tribe shall be required to contribute 
towards the cost of the construction a tribal share equal 
to 50 percent of the costs; and 
(C) any other term or condition that the Secretary 
determines to be appropriate. 
(4) ELIGIBILITY.—Grants awarded under the demonstration 
program shall only be for construction on replacement tribally 
controlled schools. 
(c) EFFECT OF GRANT.—A grant received under this section 
shall be in addition to any other funds received by an Indian 
tribe under any other provision of law. The receipt of a grant 
under this section shall not affect the eligibility of an Indian tribe 
receiving funding, or the amount of funding received by the Indian 
tribe, under the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 
2501 et seq.) or the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assist-
ance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.). 
SEC. 154. WHITE RIVER OIL SHALE MINE, UTAH, (a) SALE.— 
The Administrator of General Services (referred to in this section 
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as the "Administrator") shall sell all right, title, and interest of 
the United States in and to the improvements and equipment 
described in subsection (b) that are situated on the land described 
in subsection (c) (referred to in this section as the "Mine"). 
(b) 
DESCRIPTION OF IMPROVEMENTS AND EQUIPMENT.— 
The 
improvements and equipment referred to in subsection (a) are the 
following improvements and equipment associated with the Mine: 
(1) Mine Service Building. 
(2) Sewage Treatment Building. 
(3) Electrical Switchgear Building. 
(4) Water Treatment Building/Plant. 
(5) Ventilation/Fan Building. 
(6) Water Storage Tanks. 
(7) Mine Hoist Cage and Headframe. 
(8) Miscellaneous Mine-related equipment. 
(c) DESCRIPTION OF LAND.—The land referred to in subsection 
(a) is the land located in Uintah County, Utah, known as the 
"White River Oil Shale Mine" and described as follows: 
(1) T. 10 S., R 24 E., Salt Lake Meridian, sections 12 
through 14, 19 through 30, 33, and 34. 
(2) T. 10 S., R. 25 E., Salt Lake Meridian, sections 18 
and 19. 
(d) USE OF PROCEEDS.—The proceeds of the sale under sub-
section (a)— 
(1) shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury 
of the United States; and 
(2) shall be available until expended, without further Act 
of appropriation— 
(A) first, to reimburse the Administrator for the direct 
costs of the sale; and 
(B) second, to reimburse the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment Utah State Office for the costs of closing and rehabili-
tating the Mine. 
(e) MINE CLOSURE AND REHABILITATION.—The closing and 
rehabilitation of the Mine (including closing of the mine shafts, 
site grading, and surface revegetation) shall be conducted in accord-
ance with— 
(1) the regulatory requirements of the State of Utah, the 
Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Occupational 
Safety gmd Health Administration; and 
(2) other applicable law. 
SEC. 155. BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY, (a) The Blue Ridge Parkway 
headquarters building located at 199 Hemphill Knob in Asheville, 
North Carolina, shall be known and designated as the "Gary E. 
Everhardt Headquarters Building". 
(b) Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, 
or other record of the United States to the headquarters building 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference 
to the "Gary E. Everhardt Headquarters Building". 
SEC. 156. None of the funds in this Act or any other Act 
shall be used, by the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate final 
rules to revise 43 C.F.R. subpart 3809, except that the Secretary, 
following the public comment period required by section 3002 of 
Public Law 106-31, may issue final rules to amend 43 C.F.R. 
subpart 3809 which are not inconsistent with the recommendations 
contained in the National Research Council report 
entitled 
"Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands" so long as these regulations 
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are also not inconsistent with existing statutory authorities. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed to expand the existing 
statutory authority of the Secretary. 
SEC. 157. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the Wheeling 
"Wheeling National Heritage Area Act of 2000". 
National 
(b) FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.— 
Act"of IOOCT^^ 
(1) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— 
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(A) the area in an around Wheeling, West Virginia, 
possesses important historical, cultural, and natural 
resources, representing major heritage themes of transpor-
tation, commerce and industry, and Victorian culture in 
the United States; 
(B) the City of Wheeling has played an important 
part in the settlement of this country by serving as— 
(i) the western terminus of the National Road of 
the early 1800's; 
(ii) the "Crossroads of America" throughout the 
nineteenth century; 
(iii) one of the few major inland ports in the nine-
teenth century; and 
(iv) the site for the establishment of the Restored 
State of Virginia, and later the State of West Virginia, 
during the Civil War and as the first capital of the 
new State of West Virginia; 
(C) the City of Wheeling has also played an importamt 
role in the industrial and commercial heritage of the United 
States, through the development and maintenance of many 
industries crucial to the Nation's expansion, including iron 
and steel, textile manufacturing, boat building, glass manu-
facturing, and stogie and chewing tobacco manufacturing 
facilities, many of which are industries that continue to 
play an important role in the national economy; 
(D) the city of Wheeling has retained its national herit-
age themes with the designations of the old custom house 
(now Independence Hall) and the historic suspension bridge 
as National Historic Landmarks; with five historic districts; 
and many individual properties in the Wheeling area listed 
or eligible for nomination to the National Register of His-
toric Places; 
(E) the heritage themes and number and diversity 
of Wheeling's remaining resources should be appropriately 
retained, enhanced, and interpreted for the education, ben-
efit, and inspiration of the people of the United States; 
and 
(F) in 1992 a comprehensive plan for the development 
and administration of the Wheeling National Heritage Area 
was completed for the National Park Service, the City 
of Wheeling, and the Wheeling National Task Force, 
including— 
(i) an inventory of the national and cultural 
resources in the City of Wheeling; 
(ii) criteria for preserving and interpreting signifi-
cant natural and historic resources; 
(iii) a strategy for the conservation, preservation, 
and reuse of the historical and cultural resources in 
the City of Wheeling and the surrounding region; and 
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(iv) an implementation agenda by which the State 
of West Virginia and local governments can coordinate 
their resources as well as a complete description of 
the management entity responsible for implementing 
the comprehensive plan. 
(2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are— 
(A) to recognize the special importance of the history 
and development of the Wheeling area in the cultural herit-
age of the Nation; 
(B) to provide a framework to assist the City of 
Wheeling and other public and private entities and individ-
uals in the appropriate preservation, enhancement, and 
interpretation of significant resources in the Wheeling area 
emblematic of Wheeling's contributions to the Nation's cul-
tural heritage; 
(C) to allow for limited Federal, State and local capital 
contributions for planning and infrastructure investments 
to complete the Wheeling National Heritage Area, in part-
nership with the State of West Virginia, the City of 
Wheeling, and other appropriate public and private enti-
ties; and 
(D) to provide for an economically self-sustaining 
National Heritage Area not dependent on Federal financial 
assistance beyond the initial years necessary to establish 
the heritage area. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— 
(1) the term "city" means the City of Wheeling; 
(2) the term "heritage area" means the Wheeling National 
Heritage Area established in subsection (d); 
(3) the term "plan" means the "Plan for the Wheeling 
National Heritage Area" dated August, 1992; 
(4) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the 
Interior; and 
(5) the term "State" means the State of West Virginia. 
(d) WHEELING NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—In furtherance of the purposes of this 
section, there is established in the State of West Virginia the 
Wheeling National Heritage Area, as generally depicted on 
the map entitled "Boundary Map, Wheeling National Heritage 
Area, Wheeling, West Virginia" and dated March, 1994. The 
map shall be on file and available for public inspection in 
the appropriate offices of the National Park Service. 
(2) MANAGEMENT ENTITY.— 
(A) The management entity for the heritage area shall 
be the Wheeling National Heritage Corporation, a non-
profit corporation chartered in the State of West Virginia. 
(B) To the extent consistent with this section, the 
management entity shall manage the heritage area in 
accordance with the plan. 
(e) DUTIES OF THE MANAGEMENT ENTITY.— 
(1) MISSION.— 
(A) The primary mission of the management entity 
shall be— 
(i) to implement and coordinate the recommenda-
tions contained in the plan; 
(ii) ensure integrated operation of the heritage 
area; and 
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(iii) conserve and interpret the historic and cul-
tural resources of the heritage area. 
(B) The management entity shall also direct and coordi-
nate the diverse conservation, development, programming, 
educational, and interpretive activities within the heritage 
area. 
(2) RECOGNITION OF PLAN.—The management entity shall 
work with the State of West Virginia and local governments 
to ensure that the plan is formally adopted by the City and 
recognized by the State. 
(3) IMPLEMENTATION.—To the extent practicable, 
the 
management entity shall— 
(A) implement the recommendations contained in the 
plan in a timely manner pursuant to the schedule identified 
in the plan; 
(B) coordinate its activities with the City, the State, 
and the Secretary; 
(C) ensure the conservation and interpretation of the 
heritage area's historical, cultural, and natural resources, 
including— 
(i) assisting the City and the State in the preserva-
tion of sites, buildings, and objects within the heritage 
area which are listed or eligible for listing on the 
National Register of Historic Places; 
(ii) assisting the City, the State, or a nonprofit 
organization in the restoration of any historic building 
in the heritage area; 
(iii) increasing public awareness of and apprecia-
tion for the natural, cultural, and historic resources 
of the heritage area; 
(iv) assisting the State or City in designing, estab-
lishing, and maintaining 
appropriate 
interpretive 
facilities and exhibits in the heritage area; 
(v) assisting in the enhancement of public aware-
ness and appreciation for the historical, archaeological, 
and geologic resources and sites in the heritage area; 
and 
(vi) encouraging the City and other local govern-
ments to adopt land use policies consistent with the 
goals of the plan, £ind to take actions to implement 
those policies; 
(D) encourage intergovernmental cooperation in the 
achievement of these objectives; 
(E) develop recommendations for design standards 
within the heritage area; and 
(F) seek to create public-private partnerships to finance 
projects and initiatives within the heritage area. 
(4) AUTHORITIES.—The management entity may, for the 
purposes of implementing the plan, use Federal funds made 
available by this section to— 
(A) make grants to the State, City, or other appropriate 
public or private organizations, entities, or persons; 
(B) enter into cooperative agreements with, or provide 
technical assistance to Federal agencies, the State, City 
or other appropriate public or private organizations, enti-
ties, or persons; 
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(C) hire and compensate such staff as the management 
entity deems necessary; 
(D) obtain money from any source under any program 
or law requiring the recipient of such money to make 
a contribution in order to receive such money; 
(E) spend funds on promotion and marketing consistent 
with the resources and associated values of the heritage 
area in order to promote increased visitation; and 
(F) contract for goods and services. 
(5) ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY.— 
(A) Except as provided in paragraph (B), the manage-
ment entity may not acquire any real property or interest 
therein within the heritage area, other than the leasing 
of facilities. 
(B)(i) Subject to subparagraph (ii), the management 
entity may acquire real property, or an interest therein, 
within the heritage area by gift or devise, or by purchase 
from a willing seller with money which was donated, 
bequeathed, appropriated, or otherwise made available to 
the management entity on the condition that such money 
be used to purchase real property, or interest therein, 
within the heritage area. 
(ii) Any real property or interest therein acquired by 
the management entity pursuant to this paragraph shall 
be conveyed in perpetuity by the management entity to 
an appropriate public or private entity, as determined by 
the management entity. Any such conveyance shall be 
made as soon as practicable after acquisition, without 
consideration, and on the condition that the real property 
or interest therein so conveyed shall be used for public 
purposes. 
(6) REVISION OF PLAN.—Within 18 months after the date 
of enactment, the management entity shall submit to the Sec-
retary a revised plan. Such revision shall include, but not 
be limited to— 
(A) a review of the implementation agenda for the 
heritage area; 
(B) projected capital costs; and 
(C) plans for partnership initiatives and expansion of 
community support. 
(f) DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.— 
(1) INTERPRETIVE SUPPORT.—The Secretary may, upon 
request of the management entity, provide appropriate interpre-
tive, plaiming, educational, staffing, exhibits, and other mate-
rial or support for the heritage area, consistent with the plan 
and as appropriate to the resources and associated values of 
the heritage area. 
(2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary may upon 
request of the management entity and consistent with the 
plan, provide technical assistance to the management entity. 
(3) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AND GRANTS.—The Secretary 
may, in consultation with the management entity and con-
sistent with the management plan, make grants to, and enter 
into cooperative agreements with the management entity, the 
State, City, non-profit organization or any person. 
(3) PLAN AMENDMENTS.—No amendments to the plan may 
be made unless approved by the Secretary. The Secretary shall 
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114 STAT. 967 
consult with the management entity in reviewing any proposed 
amendments. 
(g) DUTIES OF OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Any Federal depart-
ment, agency, or other entity conducting or supporting activities 
directly affecting the heritage area shall— 
(1) consult with the Secretary and the management entity 
with respect to such activities. 
(2) cooperate with the Secretary and the management 
entity in carrying out their duties under this Act, and to the 
extent practicable, coordinate such activities directly with the 
duties of the Secretary and the management entity. 
(3) to the extent practicable, conduct or support such activi-
ties in a manner which the management entity determines 
will not have an adverse effect on the heritage area. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out this section $10,000,000, except that not more 
than $1,000,000 may be appropriated to carry out this section 
for any fiscal year. 
(2) MATCHING FUNDS.—Federal funding provided under this 
section shall be matched at least 25 percent by other funds 
or in-kind services. 
(i) SUNSET.—^The Secretary may not make any grant or provide 
any assistance under this section after September 30, 2015. 
TITLE II—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $229,616,000, to remain available 
until 
expended. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing tech-
nical and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, 
£ind others, and for forest health management, cooperative forestry, 
and education and land conservation activities and conducting an 
international program as authorized, $238,455,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, as authorized by law: Provided, That none 
of the funds made available by this Act shall be used for the 
urban resources partnership program. 
For an additional amount to cover necessary expenses for emer-
gency pest management and forest health activities on Federal, 
State and private lands, $12,500,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That these funds shall 
be available only to the extent that an official budget request 
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire 
amount as an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, 
is transmitted by the President to the Congress. 
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NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utiKza-
tion of the National Forest System, $1,280,693,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall include 50 percent of all moneys 
received during prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accord-
ance with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 4601-6a(i)), of which 
not less than an additional $500,000 shall be available for use 
for law enforcement purposes in the national forest that, during 
calendar year 2000, had both the greatest number of methamphet-
amine dumps and the greatest number of methamphetamine labora-
tory law enforcement actions in the National Forest System, and 
of which not less than an additional $500,000 shall be available 
for law enforcement purposes on the Pisgah and Nantahala National 
Forests, and of which for the purpose of implementing the Valles 
Caldera Preservation Act, $990,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be available to the Secretary for the management 
of the Valles Caldera National Preserve: Provided, 
That any 
remaining balances available for implementing the Valles Caldera 
Preservation Act be provided to the Valles Caldera Trust upon 
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its assumption of the management of the Preserve: Provided further, 
note. 
That notwithstanding the limitations of 107(e)(2) of the Valles 
Caldera Preservation Act (Public Law 106-248), for fiscal years 
2001 and 2002, the members of the Board of Trustees of the Valles 
Caldera Trust may receive, upon request, compensation for each 
day (including travel time) that they are engaged in the performance 
of the functions of the Board. Compensation shall not exceed the 
daily equivalent of the annual rate in effect for members of the 
Senior Executive Service at the ES-1 level, and shall be in addition 
to any reimbursement for travel, subsistence and other necessary 
expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. 
Members of the Board who are officers or employees of the United 
States shall not receive any additional compensation by reason 
of service on the Board: Provided further, That unobligated balances 
available at the start of fiscal year 2001 shall be displayed by 
extended budget line item in the fiscal year 2002 budget justifica-
tion: Provided further, That of the amount available for vegetation 
and watershed management, the Secretary may authorize the 
expenditure or transfer of such sums as necessary to the Depart-
ment of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management for removal, 
preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros fi'om 
National Forest System lands: Provided further, That $5,000,000 
shall be allocated to the Alaska Region, in addition to its normal 
allocation for the purposes of preparing additional timber for sale, 
to establish a 3-year timber supply and such funds may be trans-
ferred to other appropriations accounts as necessary to maximize 
accomplishment: Provided further, That of the funds provided for 
Forest Products, $700,000 shall be provided to the State of Alaska 
for monitoring activities at Forest Service log transfer facilities, 
in the form of an advance, direct lump sum payment. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary ejmenses for forest fire presuppression activities 
on National Forest System lands, for emergency fire suppression 
on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under fire protection 
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114 STAT. 969 
agreement, and for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over 
National Forest System lands and water, $839,129,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such funds are available 
for repayment of advances from other appropriations accounts pre-
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further. That not 
less than 50 percent of any unobligated balances remaining (exclu-
sive of amounts for hazardous fuels reduction) at the end of fiscal 
year 2000 shall be transferred, as repayment for post advances 
that have not been repaid, to the fund established pursuant to 
section 3 of Public Law 71-319 (16 U.S.C. 576 et seq.): Provided 
farther. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, up to 
$8,600,000 of funds appropriated under this appropriation may 
be used for Fire Science Research in support of the Joint Fire 
Science Program: Provided further. That all authorities for the 
use of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and cooperative 
agreements, available to execute the Forest Service and Rangeland 
Research appropriation, are also available in the utilization of these 
funds for Fire Science Research. 
For an additional amount to cover necessary expenses for emer-
gency rehabilitation, presuppression due to emergencies, and wild-
fire suppression activities of the Forest Service, $426,000,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount 
is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further. That these 
funds shall be available only to the extent an official budget request 
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire 
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined 
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $468,568,000, to remain available until expended for 
construction, 
reconstruction, 
maintenance 
and 
acquisition 
of 
buildings and other facilities, and for construction, reconstruction, 
repair and maintenance of forest roads and trails by the Forest 
Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532-538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 
and 205: Provided, That up to $15,000,000 of the fiinds provided 
herein for road maintenance shall be available for the decommis-
sioning of roads, including unauthorized roads not part of the 
transportation system, which are no longer needed: Provided fur-
ther, That no funds shall be expended to decommission any system 
road until notice and an opportunity for public comment has been 
provided on each decommissioning project: Provided further, That 
any unobligated balances of amounts previously appropriated to 
the Forest Service "Construction", "Reconstruction and Construc-
tion", or "Reconstruction and Maintenance" accounts as well as 
any unobligated balances remaining in the "National Forest 
System" account for the facility maintenance and trail maintenance 
extended budget line items may be transferred to and merged 
with the "Capital Improvement and Maintenance" account. 
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. 
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4601-4 through 11), including administrative expenses, and for 
acquisition of land or waters, or interest therein, in accordance 
with 
statutory 
authority 
applicable 
to the 
Forest 
Service, 
$102,205,000 to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund, to remain available imtil expended. 
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, 
$1,069,000, to be derived from forest receipts. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from funds 
deposited by State, county, or municipal 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 expended. 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, and 
improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior 
fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on lands in 
National Forests in the 16 Western States, pursuant to section 
401(b)(1) of Public Law 94-579, as amended, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed 6 percent 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), $92,000, to 
remain available until expended, to be derived from the fund estab-
lished pursuant to the above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage federal 
lands in Alaska for subsistence uses imder title VIII of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (Public Law 96-487), 
$5,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
SOUTHEAST ALASKA ECONOMIC DISASTER FUND 
For purposes of the Southeast Alaska Economic Disaster Fund 
as set forth in section 101(c) of Public Law 104—314, the direct 
grants provided from the Fund shall be considered direct pa3mients 
for purposes of all applicable law except that these direct grants 
may not be used for lobb)ang activities: Provided, That a total 
of $5,000,000 is hereby appropriated and shall be deposited into 
the Southeast Alaska Economic Disaster Fund established pursuant 
to Public Law 104-134, as amended, without further appropriation 
or fiscal year limitation. The Secretary of Agriculture shall dis-
tribute these funds to the City of Craig in fiscal year 2001. 
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114 STAT. 971 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to exceed 132 passenger 
motor vehicles of which 13 will be used primarily for law enforce-
ment purposes and of which 129 shall be for replacement; acquisi-
tion of 25 passenger motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire 
of such vehicles; operation and maintenance of aircraft, the purchase 
of not to exceed six for replacement only, and acquisition of sufficient 
aircraft from excess sources to maintain the operable fleet at 192 
aircraft for use in Forest Service wildland fire programs and other 
Forest Service programs; 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 replace-
ment aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2225, and not 
to exceed $100,000 for employment imder 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) pur-
chase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public 
improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of land, waters, and 
interests therein, including the Oscoda-Wurtsmith land exchange 
in Michigan, pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursuant 
to the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 
558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uniforms as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and (7) for debt collection contracts in 
accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
None of the funds made available under this Act shall be 
obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move or close any 
regional office for National Forest System administration of the 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture without the consent of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service 
may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation 
for forest firefighting, emergency rehabilitation of burned-over or 
damaged lands or waters under its jurisdiction, and fire prepared-
ness due to severe burning conditions if and only if all previously 
appropriated emergency contingent funds under the heading 
"Wildland Fire Management" have been released by the President 
and apportioned. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for assistance to or through the Agency for International Develop-
ment and the Foreign Agricultural Service in connection with forest 
and rangeland research, technical information, and assistance in 
foreign countries, and shall be available to support forestry and 
related natural resource activities outside the United States £ind 
its territories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-
cation and training, and cooperation with United States and inter-
national organizations. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service under 
this Act shall be subject to transfer under the 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 compliance with the reprogramming procedures 
contained in House Report No. 105-163. 
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may be 
reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the proce-
dures contained in House Report No. 105-163. 
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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. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to 
conduct a program of not less than $2,000,000 for high priority 
projects within the scope of the approved budget which shall be 
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by 
the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended by Pubhc Law 93-408. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $1,500 is available 
to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and represen-
tation expenses. 
I^lrsuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 101-
593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $2,250,000 
may be advanced in a lump sum as Federal financial assistance 
to the National Forest Foundation, without regard to when the 
Foundation incurs expenses, for administrative expenses or projects 
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related to Forest 
Service programs: Provided, That of the Federal funds made avail-
able to the Foundation, no more than $400,000 shall be available 
for administrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial assistance, 
private contributions to match on at least one-for-one basis funds 
made available by the Forest Service: Provided further. That the 
Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient 
for a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 
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the non-Federal matching fimds: Provided further. That hereafter, 
the National Forest Foundation may hold Federal funds made avail-
able but not immediately disbursed and may use any interest 
or other investment income earned (before, on, or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act) on Federal funds to carry out the 
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purposes of Public Law 101-593: Provided further. That such invest-
ments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the 
United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal 
and interest by the United States. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98-244, $2,650,000 
of the funds available to the Forest Service shall be available 
for matching funds to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 
as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3701-3709, and may be advanced in 
a lump sum as Federal financial assistance, without regard to 
when expenses are incurred, for projects on or benefitting National 
Forest System lands or related to Forest Service programs: Pro-
vided, That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period 
of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to match on 
at least one-for-one basis funds advanced by the Forest Service: 
Provided further. That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds 
to a non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate that 
the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching fiinds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for interactions with and providing technical assistance to rural 
communities for sustainable rural development purposes. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 80 percent of the 
funds appropriated to the Forest Service in the "National Forest 
System" and "Capital Improvement and Maintenance" accounts and 
planned to be allocated to activities under the "Jobs in the Woods" 
program for projects on National Forest land in the State of Wash-
ington may be granted directly to the Washington State Department 
of Fish and Wildlife for accomplishment of planned projects. Twenty 
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114 STAT. 973 
percent of said funds shall be retained by the Forest Service for 
planning 
and 
administering 
projects. 
Project 
selection 
and 
prioritization shall be accomplished by the Forest Service with 
such consultation with the State of Washington as the Forest 
Service deems appropriate. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for payments to counties within the Columbia River Gorge National 
Scenic Area, pursuant to sections 14(c)(1) and (2), and section 
16(a)(2) of Public Law 99-663. 
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to enter into grants, 
contracts, and cooperative agreements as appropriate with the Pin-
chot Institute for Conservation, as well as with public and other 
private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals, to pro-
vide for the development, administration, maintenance, or restora-
tion of land, facilities, or Forest Service programs, at the Grey 
Towers National Historic Landmark: Provided, That, subject to 
such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture may 
prescribe, any such public or private agency, organization, institu-
tion, or individual may solicit, accept, and administer private gifts 
of money and real or personal property for the benefit of, or in 
connection with, the activities and services at the Grey Towers 
National Historic Landmark: Provided further, That such gifts may 
be accepted notwithstanding the fact that a donor conducts business 
with the Department of Agriculture in any capacity. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available, 
as determined by the Secretary, for pa3nnents to Del Norte County, 
California, pursuant to sections 13(e) and 14 of the Smith River 
National Recreation Area Act (Public Law 101-612). 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations 
or funds available to the Forest Service not to exceed $500,000 
may be used to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), 
Department of Agriculture, for travel and related expenses incurred 
as a result of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management reviews, 
land purchase negotiations and similar non-litigation related mat-
ters. Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service and 
the Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums 
previously transferred and the requested funding transfers. 
No employee of the Department of Agriculture may be detailed 
or assigned from an agency or office funded by this Act to any 
other agency or office of the department for more than 30 days 
unless the individual's employing agency or office is 
fully 
reimbursed by the receiving agency or office for the salary and 
expenses of the employee for the period of assignment. 
The Forest Service shall fund indirect expenses, that is 
expenses not directly related to specific programs or to the accom-
plishment of specific work on-the-ground, from any funds available 
to the Forest Service: Provided, That the Forest Service shall imple- 16 USC 579d. 
ment and adhere to the definitions of indirect expenditures estab-
lished pursuant to Public Law 105-277 on a nationwide basis 
without flexibility for modification by any organizational level 
except the Washington Office, and when changed by the Washington 
Office, such changes in definition shall be reported in budget 
requests submitted by the Forest Service: Provided further. That 
the Forest Service shall provide in all future budget justifications, 
planned indirect expenditures in accordance with the definitions, 
summarized and displayed to the Regional, Station, Area, and 
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detached unit office level. The justification shall display the esti-
mated source and amount of indirect expenditures, by expanded 
budget line item, of funds in the agency's annual budget justifica-
tion. The display shall include appropriated funds and the Knutson-
Vandenberg, Brush Disposal, Cooperative Work-Other, and Salvage 
Sale funds. Changes between estimated and actual indirect expendi-
tures shall be reported in subsequent budget justifications: Pro-
vided, That during fiscal year 2001 the Secretary shall limit total 
annual indirect obligations from the Brush Disposal, Knutson-
Vandenberg, Reforestation, Salvage Sale, and Roads and Trails 
funds to 20 percent of the total obligations from each fund. Obliga-
tions in excess of 20 percent which would otherwise be charged 
to the above funds may be charged to appropriated funds available 
to the Forest Service subject to notification of the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House and Senate. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service 
may be used for necessary expenses in the event of law enforcement 
emergencies as necessary to protect natural resources and public 
or employee safety: Provided, That such amounts shall not exceed 
$750,000. 
Section 551 of the Land Between the Lakes Protection Act 
of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 460111-61) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
"(c) TRANSITION.—Until September 30, 2002, the Secretary of 
Agriculture may expend amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available to carry out this title in a manner consistent with the 
authorities exercised by the Tennessee Valley Authority, before 
the transfer of the Recreation Area to the administrative jurisdiction 
of the Secretary, regarding procurement of property, services, sup-
plies, and equipment.". 
Joyce Liverca. 
The Secretary of Agriculture shall pay $4,449 from available 
funds to Joyce Liverca as reimbursement for various expenses 
incurred as a Federal employee in connection with certain high 
priority duties performed for the Forest Service. 
The Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the sale of excess 
buildings, facilities, and other properties owned by the Forest 
Service and located on the Green Mountain National Forest, the 
revenues of which shall be retained by the Forest Service and 
available to the Secretary without further appropriation and until 
expended for maintenance and rehabilitation activities on the Green 
Mountain National Forest. 
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY 
(DEFERRAL) 
Of the funds made available under this heading for obligation 
in prior years, $67,000,000 shall not be available until October 
1, 2001: Provided, That funds made available in previous appropria-
tions Acts shall be available for any ongoing project regardless 
of the separate request for proposal under which the project was 
selected. 
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114 STAT. 975 
FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
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 
acquisition of interest, including defeasible and equitable interests 
in any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition 
or expansion, and for conducting inquiries, technological investiga-
tions and research concerning the extraction, processing, use, and 
disposal of mineral substances without objectionable social and 
environmental costs (30 U.S.C. 3, 1602, and 1603), performed under 
the minerals and materials science programs at the Albany 
Research Center in Oregon $540,653,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $12,000,000 for oil technology research shall 
be derived by transfer from funds appropriated in prior years under 
the heading "Strategic Petroleum Reserve, SPR Petroleum Account" 
and of which $95,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from funds 
appropriated in prior years under the heading "Clean Coal Tech-
nology", such funds to be available for a general request for pro-
posals for the commercial scale demonstration of technologies to 
assure the reliability of the Nation's energy supply from existing 
and new electric generating facilities for which the Department 
of Energy upon review may provide financial assistance awards: 
Provided, That the request for proposals shall be issued no later Deadlines. 
than one hundred and twenty days following enactment of this 
Act, proposals shall be submitted no later than ninety days after 
the issuance of the request for proposals, and the Department 
of Energy shall make project selections no later than one hundred 
and sixty days after the receipt of proposals: Provided 
further, 
That no funds are to be obligated for selected proposals prior 
to September 30, 2001: Provided further. That funds provided shall 
be expended only in accordance with the provisions governing the 
use of funds contained under the heading under which they were 
originally appropriated: Provided further, That provisions for repay-
ment of government contributions to individual projects shall be 
identical to those included in the Program Opportunity Notice 
(SoHcitation Number DE-PS01-89FE 61825), issued by the Depart-
ment of Energy on May 1, 1989, except that repayments from 
sale or licensing of technologies shall be from both domestic and 
foreign transactions: Provided further, That such repayments shall 
be deposited in this account to be retained for future projects: 
Provided further. That any project approved under this program 
shall be considered a Clean Coal Technology Demonstration Project, 
for the purposes of Chapters 51, 52, and 60 of title 40 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations: 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 up to 4 percent of program direction funds available to the 
National Energy Technology Laboratory may be used to support 
Department of Energy activities not included in this account. 
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I ALTERNATIVE FUELS PRODUCTION 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances under this heading, $1,000,000 
are rescinded. 
NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES 
For expenses necessary to carry out engineering studies to 
determine the cost of development, the predicted rate and quantity 
of petroleum recovery, the methodology, and the equipment speci-
fications for development of Shannon Formation at Naval Petroleum 
Reserve Numbered 3 (NPR-3), utilizing a below-the-reservoir 
production method, $1,600,000, to remain available until expended: 
10 use 4730 
Provided, That the requirements of 10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) shall 
note. 
not apply to fiscal year 2001 and any fiscal year thereafter: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, unobli-
gated funds remaining from prior years shall be available for all 
naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities. 
ELK HILLS SCHOOL LANDS FUND 
For necessary expenses in fulfilling installment payments under 
the Settlement Agreement entered into by the United States and 
the State of California on October 11, 1996, as authorized by section 
3415 of Public Law 104-106, $36,000,000, to become available on 
October 1, 2001 for payment to the State of California for the 
State Teachers' Retirement Fund from the Elk Hills School Lands 
Fund. 
ENERGY CONSERVATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation 
activities, $816,940,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $2,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from unobligated 
balances in the Biomass Energy Development account: Provided, 
That $191,000,000 shall be for use in energy conservation programs 
as defined in section 3008(3) of Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 
4507): Provided further, That notwithstanding section 3003(d)(2) 
of Public Law 99-509, such sums shall be allocated to the eligible 
programs as follows: $153,000,000 for weatherization assistance 
grants and $38,000,000 for State energy conservation grants: Pro-
vided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Energy may waive up to fifty percent of the 
cost-sharing requirement for weatherization assistance provided for 
by Public Law 106-113 for a State which he finds to be experiencing 
fiscal hardship or major changes in energy markets or suppliers 
or other temporary limitations on its ability to provide matching 
funds, provided that the State is demonstrably engaged in con-
tinuing activities to secure non-federal resources and that such 
waiver is limited to one fiscal year and that no state may be 
42 use 6863 
granted such waiver more than twice: Provided further, That, here-
°ote- 
after, Indian tribal direct grantees of weatherization assistance 
shall not be required to provide matching funds. 
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114 STAT. 977 
ECONOMIC REGULATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the 
Office of Hearings and Appeals, $2,000,000, 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.), $165,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $4,000,000 shall be derived by transfer 
of unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated under 
the heading "SPR Petroleum Account", and of which $8,000,000 
shall be available for maintenance of a Northeast Home Heating 
Oil Reserve. 
ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the 
Energy Information Administration, $75,675,000, 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 uniforms; 
and reimbursement to the General Services Administration for secu-
rity 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, equip-
ment, and other contributions fi'om 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 pa5anents 
to cost-sharing entities as provided in appropriate cost-sharing con-
tracts or agreements: Provided further, That the remainder of reve-
nues after the making of such payments shall be covered into 
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any 
contract, agreement, or provision thereof entered into by the Sec-
retary 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 
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of the Senate of a full comprehensive report on such project, 
including the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of 
the proposed project. 
No funds provided in this Act may be expended by the Depart-
ment of Energy to prepare, issue, or process procurement documents 
for programs or projects for which appropriations have not been 
made. 
In addition to other authorities set forth in this Act, the Sec-
retary may accept fees and contributions from public and private 
sources, to be deposited in a contributed funds accoimt, and pros-
ecute projects using such fees and contributions in cooperation 
with other Federal, State or private agencies or concerns. 
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 II and III of the Public Health 
Service 
Act 
with 
respect 
to 
the 
Indian 
Health 
Service, 
$2,240,658,000, together with payments received during the fiscal 
year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the 
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made available to 
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements, 
or any other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (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 $15,000,000 shall remain available until expended, 
for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: Provided fur-
ther, That $431,756,000 for contract medical care shall remain 
available for obligation until September 30, 2002: Provided further. 
That of the funds provided, up to $22,000,000 shall be used to 
carry out the loan repayment program under section 108 of the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act: 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 remain 
available until expended 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 funding 
contained herein, and in any earlier appropriations Acts for scholar-
ship programs under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act 
(25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 2002: Provided further, That amounts received by tribes 
and tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act shall be reported and accounted for and available 
to the receiving tribes and tribal organizations until expended: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
of the amounts provided herein, not to exceed $248,781,000 shall 
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114 STAT. 979 
be for payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract 
or grant support costs associated with contracts, grants, self-govern-
ance compacts or annual funding agreements between the Indian 
Health Service and a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior to or 
during fiscal year 2001, of which not to exceed $10,000,000 may 
be used for such costs associated with new and expanded contracts, 
grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding agreements: 
Provided further. That funds available for the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Fund may be used, as needed, to carry out activities 
typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities account. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, and equip-
ment of health and related auxiliary facilities, including quarters 
for personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings; 
acquisition of sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings, 
and purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and commu-
nity 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, 
and for expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II 
and III of the Public Health Service Act with respect to environ-
mental health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health 
Service, $363,904,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-
priated 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 from the funds appro-
priated herein, $5,000,000 shall be designated by the Indian Health 
Service as a contribution to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corpora-
tion (YKHC) to start a priority project for the acquisition of land, 
planning, design and construction of 79 staff quarters at Bethel, 
Alaska, subject to a negotiated project agreement between the 
YKHC and the Indian Health Service: Provided further. That this 
project shall not be subject to the construction provisions of the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and shall 
be removed from the Indian Health Service priority list upon 
completion: Provided further. That the Federal Government shall 
not be liable for any property damages or other construction claims 
that may arise from YKHC undertaking this project: Provided fur-
ther, That the land shall be owned or leased by the YKHC and 
title to quarters shall remain vested with the YKHC: Provided 
further. That notwithstanding any provision of law governing Fed-
eral construction, $2,240,000 of the funds provided herein shall 
be provided to the Hopi Tribe to reduce the debt incurred by 
the Tribe in providing staff quarters to meet the housing needs 
associated with the new Hopi Health Center: Provided 
further. 
That $5,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the pur-
pose of funding joint venture health care facility projects authorized 
under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, as amended: Pro-
vided further. That priority, by rank order, shall be given to tribes 
with outpatient projects on the existing Indian Health Services 
priority list that have Service-approved planning documents, and 
can demonstrate by March 1, 2001, the financial capability nec-
essary to provide an appropriate facility: Provided further. That 
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joint venture funds unallocated after March 1, 2001, shall be made 
available for joint venture projects on a competitive basis giving 
priority to tribes that currently have no existing Federally-owned 
health care facility, have planning documents meeting Indian 
Health Service requirements prepared for approval by the Service 
and can demonstrate the financial capability needed to provide 
an appropriate facility: Provided further. That the Indian Health 
Service shall request additional staffing, operation and maintenance 
funds for these facilities in future budget requests: Provided 
further, 
That not to exceed $500,000 shall be used by the Indian Health 
Service to purchase TRANSAM equipment from the Department 
of Defense for distribution to the Indian Health Service and tribal 
facilities: Provided further. That not to exceed $500,000 shall be 
used by the Indian Health Service to obtain ambulances for the 
Indian Health Service and tribal facilities in conjunction with an 
existing interagency agreement between the Indian Health Service 
and the General Services Administration: Provided further. That 
not to exceed $500,000 shall be placed in a Demolition Fund, 
available until expended, to be used by the Indian Health Service 
for demolition of Federal buildings: Provided further. That notwith-
standing the provisions of title III, section 306, of the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act (Public Law 94-437, as amended), construc-
tion contracts authorized under title I of the Indian Self-Determina-
tion and Education Assistance Act of 1975, as amended, may be 
used rather than greuits to fund small ambulatory facility construc-
tion projects: Provided further. That if a contract is used, the 
IHS is authorized to improve municipal, private, or tribal lands, 
and that at no time, during construction or after completion of 
the project will the Federal Government have any rights or title 
to any real or personal property acquired as a part of the contract. 
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; hire 
of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equip-
ment; purchase of reprints; purchase, renovation and erection of 
modular buildings and renovation of existing facilities; payments 
for telephone service in private residences in the field, when author-
ized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and for uniforms 
or allowances therefore as authorized by 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 
management of those functions or activities: Provided, That in 
accordance with the provisions of the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment Act, non-Indian patients may be extended health care at 
all tribally administered or Indian Health Service facilities, subject 
to charges, and the proceeds along with funds recovered under 
the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651-2653) shall 
be credited to the account of the facility providing the service 
and shall be available without fiscal year limitation: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding any other law or regulation, funds trans-
ferred from the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
to the Indian Health Service shall be administered under Public 
Law 86-121 (the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act) and Public Law 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
114 STAT. 981 
93-638, as amended: Provided farther. 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 directed at curtailing Federal travel and transpor-
tation: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, funds previously or herein made available to a tribe or 
tribal organization through a contract, grant, or agreement author-
ized by title I or title III of the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450), may be 
deobligated and reobligated to a self-determination contract under 
title I, or a self-governance agreement under title III of such Act 
and thereafter shall remain available to the tribe or tribal organiza-
tion without fiscal year limitation: 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 the eligibility for the health 
care services of the Indian Health Service until the Indian Health 
Service has submitted 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 with respect to functions trans-
ferred by the Indian Health Service to tribes or tribal organizations, 
the Indian Health Service is authorized to provide goods and serv-
ices to those entities, on a reimbursable basis, including pajmient 
in advance with subsequent adjustment, and the reimbursements 
received therefrom, along with the funds received from those entities 
pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited 
to the same or subsequent appropriation account which provided 
the funding, said amounts to remain available until expended: 
Provided ^rther. 
That reimbursements for training, technical 
assistance, or services provided by the Indian Health Service will 
contain total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead 
associated with the provision of goods, services, or technical assist-
ance: Provided further. That the appropriation structure for the 
Indian Health Service may not be altered without advance approval 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
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 PubHc Law 93-531, $15,000,000, 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 by the Office 
of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any single Navajo 
or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, was physically 
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domiciled on the lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a 
new or replacement home is provided for such household: Provided 
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than one 
new or replacement home: Provided further, That the Office shall 
relocate any certified eligible relocatees who have selected and 
received an approved homesite on the Navajo reservation or selected 
a replacement residence off the Navajo reservation or on the land 
acquired pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 640d-10. 
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND 
ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska 
Native Culture and Arts Development, as authorized by title XV 
of PubHc Law 99-498, as amended (20 U.S.C. 56 part A), $4,125,000. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, as 
authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, science, 
and history; development, preservation, and documentation of the 
National Collections; presentation of public exhibits and perform-
ances; collection, preparation, dissemination, and exchange of 
information and publications; conduct of education, training, and 
museum assistance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, 
lease (for terms not to exceed 30 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 five replacement passenger 
vehicles; purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for 
employees, $387,755,000, of which not to exceed $47,088,000 for 
the instrumentation program, collections acquisition, Museum Sup-
port Center equipment and move, exhibition reinstallation, the 
National Museum of the American Indian, the repatriation of skel-
etal remains program, research equipment, information manage-
ment, and Latino programming 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 partici-
pating in official Smithsonian presentations: Provided further. That 
the Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropriations 
designated in this Act for lease or rent payments for long term 
and swing space, as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, 
and such rent payments may be deposited into the general trust 
funds of the Institution to the extent that federally supported 
activities are housed in the 900 H Street, N.W. building in the 
District of Columbia: Provided further, That this use of Federal 
appropriations shall not be construed as debt service, a Federal 
guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or an obligation of, the Federal 
Government: Provided further. That no appropriated funds may 
be used to service debt which is incurred to finance the costs 
of acquiring the 900 H Street building or of planning, designing, 
and constructing improvements to such building. 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
114 STAT. 983 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND ALTERATION OF FACILITIES 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and alteration 
of facilities 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 authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $57,600,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which $7,600,000 is provided for repair, 
rehabilitation and alteration of facilities at the National Zoological 
Park: Provided, That contracts awarded for environmental systems, 
protection systems, and repair or restoration of facilities 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, $9,500,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be used 
to initiate the design for any proposed expansion of current space 
or new facility without consultation with the House and Senate 
Appropriations Committees. 
The Smithsonian Institution shall not use Federal funds in 
excess of the amount specified in Public Law 101-185 for the 
construction of the National Museum of the American Indian. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be used 
for the Holt House located at the National Zoological Park in 
Washington, D.C., unless identified as repairs to minimize water 
damage, monitor structure movement, or provide interim structural 
support. 
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 administra-
tive expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March 
24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of 
April 13, 1939 (Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; pa5anent in 
advance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for mem-
bership in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose 
publications or services are available to members only, or to mem-
bers 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; 
and purchase of services for restoration and repair of works of 
art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without 
advertising, with individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates 
or prices and under such terms and conditions as the Gallery 
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may deem proper, $64,781,000, of which not to exceed $3,026,000 
for the special exhibition program shall remain available until 
expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and renovation 
of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occupied by the 
National Gallery of Art, by contract or otherwise, as authorized, 
$10,871,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
contracts awarded for environmental systems, protection systems, 
and exterior repair or renovation of buildings of the National Gal-
lery of Art may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded 
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 
JOHN F . KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance and 
security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$14,000,000. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restoration of 
the existing features of the building and site of the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts, $20,000,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
WooDROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the 
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356) including 
hire of passenger vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $7,310,000. 
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation 
on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 
$98,000,000 shall be available to the National Endowment for the 
Arts for the support of projects and productions in the arts through 
assistance to organizations and individuals pursuant to sections 
5(c) and 5(g) of the Act, for program support, and for administering 
the functions of the Act, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That funds previously appropriated to the National Endow-
ment for the Arts "Matching Grants" account may be transferred 
to and merged with this account. 
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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, 
$104,604,000, 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, to remain available until expended. 
MATCHING GRANTS 
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as 
amended, $15,656,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$11,656,000 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 imder 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 appro-
priated. 
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES 
OFFICE OF MUSEUM SERVICES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out subtitle C of the Museum and Library Services 
Act of 1996, as amended, $24,907,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
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: Provided further, That funds 
from nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for official 
reception and representation expenses. 
CHALLENGE AMERICA ARTS FUND 
CHALLENGE AMERICA GRANTS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 89-209, 
as amended, $7,000,000 for support for arts education and public 
outreach activities to be administered by the National Endowment 
for the Arts, to remain available until expended. 
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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), $1,078,000: Provided, That the 
Commission is authorized to charge fees to cover the full costs 
of its publications, and such fees shall be credited to this account 
as an offsetting collection, to remain available until expended with-
out further appropriation. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99-190 
(20 U.S.C. 956(a)), as amended, $7,000,000. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation (Pubhc Law 89-665, as amended), $3,189,000: Pro-
vided, That none of these funds shall be available for compensation 
of level V of the Executive Schedule 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 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $6,500,000: Provided, 
That all 
appointed members of the Commission will be compensated at 
a rate not to exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of 
pay for positions at level IV of the Executive Schedule for each 
day such member is engaged in the actual performance of duties. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Council, as authorized 
by Public Law 96-388 (36 U.S.C. 1401), as amended, $34,439,000, 
of which $1,900,000 for the museum's repair and rehabilitation 
program and $1,264,000 for the museum's exhibitions program shall 
remain available until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omnibus 
Parks and PubHc Lands Management Act of 1996, $23,400,000 
shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to remain available until 
expended. The Trust is authorized to issue obligations to the Sec-
retary of the Treasury pursuant to section 104(d)(3) of the Act, 
in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000. 
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114 STAT. 987 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Contracts. 
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu- Public 
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where information. 
such expenditures are a matter of public record and available 
for public inspection, 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 
Agriculture for the leasing of oil and natural gas by noncompetitive 
bidding on publicly owned lands within the boundaries of the 
Shawnee National Forest, Illinois: Provided, That nothing herein 
is intended 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 £iny 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 
employee of such department or agency except as otherwise provided 
by law. 
SEC. 306. No assessments may be levied against any program, 
budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act unless 
advance notice of such assessments and the basis therefor are 
presented to the Committees on Appropriations and are approved 
by such committees. 
SEC. 307. 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 in a manner 
different than such sales were conducted in fiscal year 2000. 
SEC. 308. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be obligated or expended by the National Park Service to enter 
into or implement a concession contract which permits or requires 
the removal of the underground lunchroom at the Carlsbad Caverns 
National Park. 
SEC. 309. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used for the AmeriCorps program, 
unless the relevant agencies of the Department of the Interior 
and/or Agriculture follow appropriate reprogramming guidelines: 
Provided, That if no funds are provided for the AmeriCorps program 
by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, 
then none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
by this Act may be used for the AmeriCorps programs. 
SEC. 310. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jersey City, New 
Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent pedestrian use of such 
bridge, when it is made known to the Federal official having 
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authority to obligate or expend such funds that such pedestrian 
use is consistent with generally accepted safety standards. 
SEC. 311. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the funds appro-
E
riated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall 
e obligated or expended to accept or process applications for a 
patent for any mining or mill site claim located under the general 
mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (a) shall not 
apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the 
claim concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with the Sec-
retary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all requirements 
established under sections 2325 and 2326 of the Revised Statutes 
(30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 
2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, 
and 37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised Statutes 
(30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case may be, were 
fully complied with by the applicant by that date. 
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2001, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall file with the House £m.d Senate Committees on Appro-
priations and the Committee on Resources of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
of the Senate a report on actions taken by the Department under 
the plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Department 
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 
(Public Law 104-208). 
(d) 
MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process patent 
applications in a timely and responsible manner, upon the request 
of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow 
the applicant to fimd a qualified third-party contractor to be selected 
by the Bureau of Lemd Management to conduct a mineral examina-
tion of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent applica-
tion as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Management 
shall have the sole responsibility to choose and pay the third-
party contractor in accordance with the standard procedures 
employed by the Bureau of Land Management in the retention 
of third-party contractors. 
SEC. 312. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts 
appropriated to or earmarked in committee reports for the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service by Public Laws 
103-138, 103-332, 104-134, 104-208, 105-83, 105-277, and 106-
113 for payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract 
support costs associated with self-determination or self-governance 
contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fiinding agreements with 
the Bureau of Indian Affgiirs or the Indian HeeJth Service as funded 
by such Acts, are the total amounts available for fiscal years 1994 
through 2000 for such purposes, except that, for the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal 
priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts, 
grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding agreements. 
SEC. 313. Notwithstanding £iny other provision of law, for fiscal 
year 2001 the Secretaries of Agrictilture and the Interior are author-
ized to limit competition for watershed restoration project contracts 
as part of the "Jobs in the Woods" component of the President's 
Forest Plan for the Pacific Northwest or the Jobs in the Woods 
Program established in Region 10 of the Forest Service to individ-
uals and entities in historically timber-dependent areas in the 
States of Washington, Oregon, northern California and Alaska that 
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114 STAT. 989 
have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Federal lands. 
The Secretaries shall consider the benefits to the local economy 
in evaluating bids and designing procurements which create eco-
nomic opportunities for local contractors. 
SEC. 314. None of the funds collected under the Recreational 
Fee Demonstration program may be used to plan, design, or con-
struct a visitor center or any other permanent structure without 
prior approval of the House and the Senate Committees on Appro-
priations if the estimated total cost of the facility exceeds $500,000. 
SEC. 315. All interests created under leases, concessions, per- i6USC460bb 
mits and other agreements associated with the properties adminis- note. 
tered by the Presidio Trust, hereafter shall be exempt from all 
taxes and special assessments of every kind by the State of Cali-
fornia and its political subdivisions. 
SEC. 316. None of the funds made available in this or any l6USC459j-4 
other Act for any fiscal year may be used to designate, or to note. 
post any sign designating, any portion of Canaveral National Sea-
shore in Brevard County, Florida, as a clothing-optional area or 
as an area in which public nudity is permitted, if such designation 
would be contrary to county ordinance. 
SEC. 317. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment 
for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an indi-
vidual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a lit-
erature fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or American 
Jazz Masters Fellowship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to ensure 
that no funding provided through a grant, except a grant made 
to a State or local arts agency, or regional group, may be 
used to make a grant to any other organization or individual 
to conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments made in 
exchange for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support to a group, 
unless the application is specific to the contents of the season, 
including identified programs and/or projects. 
SEC. 318. The National Endowment for the Arts and the 
National Endowment for the Humanities are authorized to solicit, 
accept, receive, and invest in the name of the United States, gifts, 
bequests, or devises of money and other property or services and 
to use such in furtherance of the functions of the National Endow-
ment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
Any proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after acceptance 
by the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities, shall be paid by the donor or the rep-
resentative of the donor to the Chairman. The Chairman shall 
enter the proceeds in a special interest-bearing account to the 
credit of the appropriate endowment for the purposes specified 
in each case. 
SEC. 319. (a) In providing services or awarding financial assist-
ance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Human-
ities Act of 1965 from funds appropriated under this Act, the 
Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts shall ensure 
that priority is given to providing services or awarding financial 
assistance for projects, productions, workshops, or programs that 
serve underserved populations. 
(b) In this section: 
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(1) The term "underserved population" means a population 
of individuals, including urban minorities, who have historically 
been outside the purview of arts and humanities programs 
due to factors such as a high incidence of income below the 
poverty line or to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term "poverty line" means the poverty line (as 
defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and revised 
annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the Community 
Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) appHcable to 
a family of the size involved. 
(c) In providing services and awarding financial assistance 
under the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act 
of 1965 with funds appropriated by this Act, the Chairperson of 
the National Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority 
is given to providing services or awarding financial assistance for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that will encourage 
public knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of 
the arts. 
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out section 
5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act 
of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant category for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that are of 
national impact or availability or are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants exceeding 15 
percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to any single State, 
excluding grants made under the authority of paragraph (1); 
Reports. 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Congress annually 
and by State, on grants awarded by the Chairperson in each 
grant category under section 5 of such Act; and 
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of grants to 
improve and support community-based music performance and 
education. 
16 u s e 500 note. 
S E C . 320. ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON FOREST COUNTIES PAY-
MENTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The term "Advisory Committee" 
means the Forest Counties Pajnnents Committee established 
by this section. 
(2) COMMITTEES OF JURISDICTION.—The term "committees 
of jurisdiction" means the Committee on Agriculture, the Com-
mittee on Resources, and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agri-
culture, Nutrition, and Forestry, the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources, and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the Senate. 
(3) ELIGIBLE COUNTY.—The term "eligible county" means 
a county that, for one or more of the fiscal years 1986 through 
1999, received— 
(A) a pa3anent under title II of the Act of August 
28, 1937 (chapter 876; 50 Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. 1181f), 
or the Act of May 24, 1939 (chapter 144; 53 Stat. 753; 
43 U.S.C. 1181f-l et seq.); or 
(B) a portion of an eligible State's payment, as 
described in paragraph (4). 
(4) ELIGIBLE STATE.—The term "ehgible State" means a 
State that, for one or more of the fiscal years 1986 through 
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1999, received a payment under the sixth paragraph under 
the heading of "FOREST SERVICE" in the Act of May 23, 
1908 (35 Stat. 260; 16 U.S.C. 500), or section 13 of the Act 
of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 963; 16 U.S.C. 500). 
(5) FEDERAL LANDS.—The term "Federal lands" means the 
following: 
(A) Lands within the National Forest System, as 
defined in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
1609(a)), exclusive of the National Grasslands and land 
utilization projects designated as National Grasslands 
administered pursuant to the Act of July 22, 1937 (7 U.S.C. 
1010-1012). 
(B) Such portions of the Oregon and California Railroad 
grant lands revested in the United States by the Act of 
June 9, 1916 (chapter 137; 39 Stat. 218), and the Coos 
Bay Wagon Road grant lands reconveyed to the United 
States by the Act of February 26, 1919 (chapter 47; 40 
Stat. 1179), as are or may hereafter come under the juris-
diction of the Secretary of the Interior, which have here-
tofore or may hereafter be classified as timberlands, and 
power-site lands valuable for timber, that shall be man-
aged, except as provided in the former section 3 of the 
Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 875; 43 U.S.C. 1181c), 
for permanent forest production. 
(6) SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY.—The term "sustainable for-
estry" means the practice of meeting the forest resource needs 
and values of the present without compromising the similar 
capability of future generations. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT REQUIRED.—There is hereby established 
Forest Counties 
an advisory committee, to be known as the Forest Counties Payments 
Payments Committee, to develop recommendations, consistent Committee. 
with sustainable forestry, regarding methods to ensure that 
States and counties in which Federal lands are situated receive 
adequate Federal pa3anents to be used for the benefit of public 
education and other public purposes. 
(2) MEMBERS.—The Advisory Committee shall be composed 
of the following members: 
(A) The Chief of the Forest Service, or a designee 
of the Chief who has significant expertise in sustainable 
forestry. 
(B) The Director of the Bureau of Land Management, 
or a designee of the Director who has significant expertise 
in sustainable forestry. 
(C) The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, or the Director's designee. 
(D) Two members who are elected members of the 
governing branches of eligible counties; one such member 
to be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate 
(in consultation with the chairmen and ranking members 
of the committees of jurisdiction of the Senate) and one 
such member to be appointed by the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives (in consultation with the chairmen and 
ranking members of the committees of jurisdiction of the 
House of Representatives) within 60 days of the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
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(E) Two members who are elected members of school 
boards for, superintendents from, or teachers employed 
by, school districts in eligible counties; one such member 
to be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate 
(in consultation with the chairmen and ranking members 
of the committees of jurisdiction of the Senate) and one 
such member to be appointed by the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives (in consultation with the chairmen and 
ranking members of the committees of jurisdiction of the 
House of Representatives) within 60 days of the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
(3) GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION.—In making appoint-
ments under subparagraphs (D) and (E) of paragraph (2), the 
President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speedier of the 
House of Representatives shall seek to ensure that the Advisory 
Committee members are selected from geographically diverse 
locations. 
(4) ORGANIZATION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 
(A) CHAIRPERSON.—The Chairperson of the Advisory 
Committee shall be selected from among the members 
appointed pursuant to subparagraphs (D) and (E) of para-
graph (2). 
(B) VACANCIES.—Any vacsmcy in the membership of 
the Advisory Committee shall be filled in the same manner 
as required by paragraph (2). A vacancy shall not impair 
the authority of the remaining members to perform the 
functions of the Advisory Committee under this section. 
(C) COMPENSATION.—The members of the Advisory 
Committee who are not officers or employees of the United 
States, while attending meetings or other events held by 
the Advisory Committee or at which the members serve 
as representatives of the Advisory Committee or while 
otherwise serving at the request of the Chairperson of 
the Advisory Committee, shall each be entitled to receive 
compensation at a rate not in excess of the maximum 
rate of pay for grade GS-15, as provided in the General 
Schedule, including traveltime, and while away from their 
homes or regular places of business, shall each be 
reimbursed for travel expenses, including per diem in lieu 
of subsistence as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, 
United States Code, for persons in Government service 
employed intermittently. 
(5) STAFF AND RULES.— 
(A) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.—The Advisory Committee 
shall have an Executive Director, who shall be appointed 
by the Advisory Committee and serve at the pleasure of 
the Advisory Committee. The Executive Director shall 
report to the Advisory Committee and assume such duties 
as the Advisory Committee may assign. The Executive 
Director shall be paid at a rate not in excess of the max-
imum rate of pay for grade GS-15, as provided in the 
General Schedule. 
(B) OTHER STAFF.—In addition to authority to appoint 
personnel subject to the provisions of title 5, United States 
Code, governing appointments to the competitive service, 
and to pay such personnel in accordance with the provisions 
of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such 
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114 STAT. 993 
title relating to classification and General Schedule pay 
rates, the Advisory Committee shall have authority to enter 
into contracts with private or public organizations which 
may furnish the Advisory Committee with such administra-
tive and technical personnel as may be necessary to carry 
out the functions of the Advisory Committee under this 
section. To the extent practicable, such administrative and 
technical personnel, and other necessary support services, 
shall be provided for the Advisory Committee by the Chief 
of the Forest Service and the Director of the Bureau of 
Land Management. 
(C) COMMITTEE RULES.—The Advisory Committee may 
establish such procedural and administrative rules as are 
necessary for the performance of its functions under this 
section. 
(6) FEDERAL AGENCY COOPERATION.—The heads of the 
departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive 
branch of the Federal Government shall cooperate with the 
Advisory Committee in the performance of its functions under 
this section and should furnish, as practicable, to the Advisory 
Committee information which the Advisory Committee deems 
necessary to carry out such functions, 
(c) FUNCTIONS OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE.— 
(1) DEVELOPMENT OF RECOMMENDATIONS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Advisory Committee 
shall 
develop recommendations for policy or legislative initiatives 
(or both) regarding alternatives for, or substitutes to, the 
payments required to be made to eligible States and eligible 
counties under the provisions of law referred to in para-
graphs (3) and (4) of subsection (a) in order to provide 
a long-term method to generate annual pa3nnents to eligible 
States and eligible counties. 
(B) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Not later than 18 Deadline, 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Advisory Committee shall submit to the committees of 
jurisdiction a final report containing the recommendations 
developed under this subsection. The Advisory Committee 
shall submit semiannual progress reports on its activities 
and expenditures to the committees of jurisdiction until 
the final report has been submitted. 
(2) GUIDANCE FOR COMMITTEE.—In developing the rec-
ommendations required by paragraph (1), the Advisory Com-
mittee shall— 
(A) evaluate the method by which payments are made 
to eligible States and eligible counties under the provisions 
of law referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection 
(a), and related laws, and the use of such payments; 
(B) consider the impact on eligible States and eligible 
counties of revenues derived from the historic multiple 
use of the Federal lands; 
(C) evaluate the economic, environmental, and social 
benefits which accrue to counties containing Federal lands, 
including recreation, natural resources industries, and the 
value of environmental services that result from Federal 
lands; and 
(D) evaluate the expenditures by counties on activities 
on Federal lands which are Federal responsibilities. 
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(3) MONITORING AND RELATED REPORTING ACTIVITIES.—The 
Advisory Committee shall monitor the payments made to 
eligible States and eligible counties under the provisions of 
law referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection (a), 
and related laws, and submit to the committees of jurisdiction 
an annual report describing the amounts and sources of such 
pajnnents and containing such comments as the Advisory Com-
mittee may have regarding such payments. 
(4) TESTIMONY.—^The Advisory Committee shall make itself 
available for testimony or comments on the reports required 
to be submitted by the Advisory Committee and on any legisla-
tion or regulations to implement any recommendations made 
in such reports in any congressional hearings or any rulemaking 
or other administrative decision process. 
(d) FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT REQUIREMENTS.—The 
provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) 
shall apply to the Advisory Committee. 
(e) TERMINATION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The Advisory Com-
mittee shall terminate three years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
if) FUNDING SOURCE.—At the request of the Executive Director 
of the Advisory Committee, the Secretary of Agriculture shall pro-
vide funds from any account available to the Secretary, not to 
exceed $200,000 in fiscal year 2001, for the work of the Advisory 
Committee necessary to meet the requirements of this section. 
SEC. 321. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be expended or obligated to complete and issue the 5-year 
program under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
Planning Act. 
SEC. 322. None of the funds in this Act may be used to support 
Government-wide administrative functions unless such functions 
are justified in the budget process £ind funding is approved by 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 323. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds in this Act may be used for GSA Telecommunication 
Centers or the President's Council on Sustainable Development. 
SEC. 324. None of the funds in this Act may be used for 
planning, design or construction of improvements to Pennsylvania 
Avenue in front of the White House without the advance approval 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 325. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2000 in the 
roads and trails fond provided for in the fourteenth paragraph 
under the heading "FOREST SERVICE" of the Act of March 4, 
1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501), shall be used by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, without regard to the State in which the amounts 
were derived, to repair or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails 
on National Forest System lands or to carry out and administer 
projects to improve forest health conditions, which may include 
the repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and trails on National 
Forest System lands in the wildland-community interface where 
there is an abnormally high risk of fire. The projects shall empha-
size reducing risks to human safety and public health and property 
and enhancing ecological functions, long-term forest productivity, 
and biological integrity. The Secretary shall commence the projects 
during fiscal year 2001, but the projects may be completed in 
a subsequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended under this 
section to replace funds which would otherwise appropriately be 
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expended from the timber salvage sale fund. Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to exempt any project from any environmental 
law. 
SEC. 326. None of the funds provided in this or previous appro-
priations Acts for the agencies funded by this Act or provided 
from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be transferred to and used to fund personnel, training, 
or other administrative activities of the Council on Environmental 
Quality or other offices in the Executive Office of the President 
for purposes related to the American Heritage Rivers program. 
SEC. 327. Other than in emergency situations, none of the 
funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone answering 
machines during core business hours unless such answering 
machines include an option that enables callers to reach promptly 
an individual on-duty with the agency being contacted. 
SEC. 328. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be advertised 
if the indicated rate is deficit when appraised under the transaction 
evidence appraisal system using domestic Alaska values for western 
red cedar: Provided, That sales which are deficit when appraised 
under the transaction evidence appraisal system using domestic 
Alaska values for western red cedar may be advertised upon receipt 
of a written request by a prospective, informed bidder, who has 
the opportunity to review the Forest Service's cruise and harvest 
cost estimate for that timber. Program accomplishments shall be 
based on volume sold. Should Region 10 sell, in fiscal year 2001, 
the annual average portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity 
called for in the current Tongass Land Management Plan in sales 
which are not deficit when appraised under the transaction evidence 
appraisal system using domestic Alaska values for western red 
cedar, all of the western red cedar timber from those sales which 
is surplus to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska, shall 
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 
United States at prevailing domestic prices. Should Region 10 sell, 
in fiscal year 2001, less than the annual average portion of the 
decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the current Tongass 
Land Management Plan in sales which are not deficit when 
appraised under the transaction evidence appraisal system using 
domestic Alaska values for western red cedar, the volume of western 
red cedar timber available to domestic processors at prevailing 
domestic prices in the contiguous 48 United States shall be that 
volume: (i) which is surplus to the needs of domestic processors 
in Alaska; and (ii) is that percent of the surplus western red 
cedar volume determined by calculating the ratio of the total timber 
volume which has been sold on the Tongass to the annual average 
portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the 
current Tongass Land Management Plan. The percentage shall 
be calculated by Region 10 on a rolling basis as each sale is 
sold (for purposes of this amendment, a "rolling basis" shall mean 
that the determination of how much western red cedar is eligible 
for sale to various markets shall be made at the time each sale 
is awarded). Western red cedar shall be deemed "surplus to the 
needs of domestic processors in Alaska" when the timber sale holder 
has presented to the Forest Service documentation of the inability 
to sell western red cedar logs from a given sale to domestic Alaska 
processors at price equal to or greater than the log selling value 
stated in the contract. All additional western red cedar volume 
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not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United States domestic proc-
essors may be exported to foreign markets at the election of the 
timber sale holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing 
export prices at the election of the timber sale holder. 
SEC. 329. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders 
for the purpose of implementation, or in preparation for 
implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on 
December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference of 
the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-
mate Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for 
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II, section 
2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and which has 
not entered into force pursuant to article 25 of the Protocol. 
43 use 1701 
SEC. 330. In fiscal years 2001 through 2005, the Secretaries 
note. 
of the Interior and Agriculture may pilot test agency-wide joint 
permitting and leasing programs, subject to annual review of Con-
gress, and promulgate special rules as needed to test the feasibility 
of issuing unified permits, applications, and leases. The Secretaries 
of the Interior and Agriculture may make reciprocal delegations 
of their respective authorities, duties and responsibilities in support 
of the "Service First" initiative agency-wide to promote customer 
service and efficiency. Nothing herein shall alter, expand or limit 
the applicability of any public law or regulation to lands adminis-
tered by the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service. 
SEC. 331. FEDERAL AND STATE COOPERATIVE WATERSHED RES-
TORATION AND PROTECTION IN COLORADO, (a) USE OF COLORADO 
STATE FOREST SERVICE.—Until September 30, 2004, the Secretary 
of Agriculture, via cooperative agreement or contract (including 
sole source contract) as appropriate, may permit the Colorado State 
Forest Service to perform watershed restoration and protection 
services on National Forest System lands in the State of Colorado 
when similar and complementary watershed restoration and protec-
tion services are being performed by the State Forest Service on 
adjacent State or private lands. The tj^es of services that may 
be extended to National Forest System lands include treatment 
of insect infected trees, reduction of hazardous fuels, and other 
activities to restore or improve watersheds or fish and wildlife 
habitat across ownership boundaries. 
(b) STATE AS AGENT.—Except as provided in subsection (c), 
a cooperative agreement or contract under subsection (a) may 
authorize the State Forester of Colorado to serve as the agent 
for the Forest Service in providing all services necessary to facilitate 
the performance of watershed restoration and protection services 
under subsection (a). The services to be performed by the Colorado 
State Forest Service may be conducted with subcontracts utilizing 
State contract procedures. Subsections (d) and (g) of section 14 
of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 472a) 
shall not apply to services performed under a cooperative agreement 
or contract under subsection (a). 
(c) RETENTION OF N E P A RESPONSIBILITIES.—^With respect to 
any watershed restoration and protection services on National 
Forest System lands proposed for performance by the Colorado 
State Forest Service under subsection (a), any decision required 
to be made under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) may not be delegated to the State Forester 
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114 STAT. 997 
of Colorado or any other officer or employee of the Colorado State 
Forest Service. 
SEC. 332. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made Reports. 
available by this Act may be used to issue a record of decision 
implementing the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management 
Project until the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior submit 
to Congress a report evaluating, for the area to be covered by 
the project, both the effect of the year 2000 wildfires and the 
President's initiative for managing the impact of wildfires on 
communities and the environment. 
SEC. 333. The Forest Service, in consultation with the Depart-
ment of Labor, shall review Forest Service campground concessions 
policy to determine if modifications can be made to Forest Service 
contracts for campgrounds so that such concessions fall within 
the regulatory exemption of 29 CFR 4.122(b). The Forest Service 
shall offer in fiscal year 2001 such concession prospectuses under 
the regulatory exemption, except that, any prospectus that does 
not meet the requirements of the regulatory exemption shall be 
offered as a service contract in accordance with the requirements 
of41U.S.C. 351-358. 
SEC. 334. A project undertaken by the Forest Service under 
l6USC460/-6a 
the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program as authorized by section note. 
315 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act for Fiscal Year 1996, as amended, shall not result 
in— 
(1) displacement of the holder of an authorization to provide 
commercial recreation services on Federal lands. Prior to initi-
ating any project, the Secretary shall consult with potentially 
affected holders to determine what impacts the project may 
have on the holders. Any modifications to the authorization 
shall be made within the terms and conditions of the authoriza-
tion and authorities of the impacted agency. 
(2) the return of a commercial recreation service to the 
Secretary for operation when such services have been provided 
in the past by a private sector provider, except when— 
(A) the private sector provider fails to bid on such 
opportunities; 
(B) the private sector provider terminates its relation-
ship with the agency; or 
(C) the agency revokes the permit for non-compliance 
with the terms and conditions of the authorization. 
In such cases, the agency may use the Recreation Fee Demonstra-
tion Program to provide for operations until a subsequent operator 
can be found through the offering of a new prospectus. 
SEC. 335. Section 801 of the National Energy Conservation 
Pohcy Act (42 U.S.C. 8287(a)(2)(D)(iii)) is amended by striking 
"$750,000" and inserting "$10,000,000". 
SEC. 336. In section 315(f) of title III of section 101(c) of 
Pubhc Law 104-134 (16 U.S.C. 4601-6a note), as amended, strike 
"September 30, 2001" and insert "September 30, 2002", and strike 
"September 30, 2004" and insert "September 30, 2005". 
SEC. 337. None of the funds in this Act may be used bj' 
the Secretary of the Interior to issue a prospecting permit for 
hardrock mineral exploration on Mark Twain National Forest land 
in the Current River/Jack's Fork River—Eleven Point Watershed 
(not including Mark Twain National Forest land in Townships 
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3IN and 32N, Range 2 and Range 3 West, on which mining activi-
ties are taking place as of the date of the enactment of this Act): 
Provided, That none of the funds in this Act may be used by 
the Secretary of the Interior to segregate or withdraw land in 
the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri under section 204 of 
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
1714). 
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SEC. 338. The authority to enter into stewardship and end 
note. 
result contracts provided to the Forest Service in accordance with 
section 347 of title III of section 101(e) of division A of Public 
Law 105-825 is hereby expanded to authorize the Forest Service 
to enter into an additional 28 contracts subject to the same terms 
and conditions as provided in that section: Provided, That of the 
additional contracts authorized by this section at least 9 shall 
be allocated to Region 1 and at least 3 to Region 6. 
SEC. 339. Any regulations or policies promulgated or adopted 
by the Departments of Agriculture or the Interior regarding recovery 
of costs for processing authorizations to occupy and use Federal 
lands under their control shall adhere to and incorporate the fol-
lowing principle arising from Office of Management and Budget 
Circular, A-25; no charge should be made for a service when the 
identification of the specific beneficiary is obscure, and the service 
can be considered primarily as benefiting broadly the general public. 
SEC. 340. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agri-
culture to implement a final rule for estimating fair market value 
land use rental fees for fiberoptic communications rights-of-way 
on Federal lands that amends or replaces the linear right-of-way 
rental fee schedule pubUshed on July 8, 1987 (43 CFR 2803.1-
2(c)(l)(I)). In determining rental fees for fiberoptic rights-of-way, 
the Secretaries shall use the rates contained in the linear right-
of-way rental fee schedules in place on May 1, 2000. 
SEC. 341. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal 
year 2001, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to limit com-
petition for fire and fuel treatment and watershed restoration con-
tracts in the Giant Sequoia National Monument and the Sequoia 
National Forest. Preference for employment shall be given to dis-
located and displaced workers in Tulare, Kern and Fresno Counties, 
California, for work associated with the establishment of the Giant 
Sequoia National Monument. 
SEC. 344. From funds previously appropriated under the 
heading "DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH 
AND DEVELOPMENT", $4,000,000 is available for computational serv-
ices at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. 
SEC. 345. BACKCOUNTRY LANDING STRIP ACCESS, (a) IN GEN-
ERAL.—Funds made available by this Act shall not be used to 
permanently close aircraft landing strips, officially recognized by 
State or Federal aviation officials, without public notice, consulta-
tion with cognizant State and Federal aviation officials and the 
consent of the Federal Aviation Administration. 
(b) AIRCRAFT LANDING STRIPS.—An aircraft landing strip 
referred to in subsection (a) is a landing strip on Federal land 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary 
of Agriculture that is commonly known, and is consistently used 
for aircraft landing and departure activities. 
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(c) PERMANENT CLOSURE.—For the purposes of subsection (a), 
an aircraft landing strip shall be considered to be closed perma-
nently if the intended duration of the closure is more than 180 
days in any calendar year. 
SEC. 346. COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE NATIONAL SCENIC AREA. 
(a) LAND ACQUISITION.—Section 9 of the Columbia River Gorge 
National Scenic Area Act (16 U.S.C. 544g) is amended: 
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (g); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following: 
"(e) APPRAISALS.— 
"(1) DEFINITION OF LANDOWNER.—In this subsection, the 
term 'landowner' means the owner of legal or equitable title 
as of September 1, 2000. 
"(2) APPRAISAL STANDARDS.—Except as provided in para-
graph (3), land acquired or conveyed by purchase or exchange 
under this section shall be appraised in conformity with the 
Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions. 
"(3) SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS.— 
"(A) BEFORE APRIL i, 2001.—Land within a special 
management area for which the landowner, before April 
1, 2001, makes a written bona fide offer to convey to 
the Secretary for fair market value shall be appraised— 
"(i) without regard to the effect of any zoning or 
land use restriction made in response to this Act; but 
"(ii) subject to any other current zoning or land 
use restriction imposed by the State or locality in which 
the land is located on the date of the offer. 
"(B) ON OR AFTER APRIL 1, 2001.—Land within a special 
management area for which the landowner, on or after 
April 1, 2001, makes a written bona fide offer to convey 
to the Secretary for fair market value shall be appraised 
subject to— 
"(i) any zoning or land use restriction made in 
response to this Act; and 
"(ii) any other current zoning or land use restric-
tion that applies to the land on the date of the offer. 
"(f) AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN LAND EXCHANGES.— 
"(1) IN GENERAL.—To facilitate priority land exchanges 
through which land within the boundaries of the White Salmon 
Wild and Scenic River or within the scenic area is conveyed 
to the United States, the Secretary may accept title to such 
land as the Secretary determines to be appropriate within 
the States, regardless of the State in which the land conveyed 
by the Secretary in exchange is located, in accordance with 
land exchange authorities available to the Secretary under 
applicable law. 
"(2) SPECIAL RULE FOR LAND CERTAIN EXCHANGES.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law— 
"(A) any exchange described in paragraph (1) for which 
an agreement to initiate has been executed as of September 
30, 2000, shall continue; and 
"(B) any timber stumpage proceeds collected under the 
exchange shall be retained by the Forest Service to com-
plete the exchange.", 
(b) ADMINISTRATION OF SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS.—Section 
8(0) of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (16 
U.S.C. 544f) is amended— 
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publication. 
(1) by striking "Any ordinance" and inserting the following: 
"(1) IN GENERAL.—Any ordinance"; 
(2) in the first sentence, by striking "the Uniform Appraisal 
Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions (Interagency Land 
Acquisition Conference, 1973)." and inserting "section 9(e)."; 
and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
"(2) APPLICABILITY.—This subsection shall not apply to any 
land offered to the Secretary for acquisition after March 31, 
2001.". 
(c) PUBLICATION OF NOTICE.— 
(1) Not later than November 1, 2000, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall provide notice of the provisions contained 
in the amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) through— 
(A) publication of a notice in the Federal Register 
and in newspapers of general circulation in the counties 
in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area; and 
(B) posting of a notice in each facility of the United 
States Postal Service located in those counties. 
(2) If the counties wherein special management areas are 
located provide the Forest Service administrator of the 
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area lists of the names 
and addresses of landowners within the special management 
areas as of September 1, 2000, the Forest Service shall send 
to such names and addresses by certified first class mail notice 
of the provisions contained in the amendments made by sub-
sections (a) and (b); 
(A) The mailing shall occur within twenty working 
days of the receipt of the list; and 
(B) The mailing shall constitute constructive notice 
to landowners, and proof of receipt by the addressee shall 
not be required. 
(d) DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS.—Section 
4(b)(2) of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (16 
U.S.C. 544b(b)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking "in this section" and 
inserting "by paragraph (1)"; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
"(3) MODIFICATION OF BOUNDARIES.—The boundaries of the 
special management areas are modified as depicted on a map 
dated September 20, 2000, which shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest 
Service in Washington, District of Columbia, and copies shall 
be available in the office of the Commission, £ind the head-
quarters of the scenic area.". 
(e) PAYMENTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.—Section 14(c)(3) of 
the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (16 U.S.C. 
5441(c)(3)) is amended— 
(1) by striking "(3) No pa5nment" and inserting the following: 
"(3) LIMITATION.— 
"(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subparagraph 
(B), no payment"; 
(2) by striking "fifth" and inserting "eighth"; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
"(B) CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN PAYMENTS.—For any 
land or interest in land for which the Secretary is making 
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a pajonent in fiscal year 2000, such payment shall be 
continued for a total of eight fiscal years.". 
SEC. 347. (a) EXCHANGE REQUIRED.—In exchange for the 
non-
Federal lands and the additional consideration described in sub-
section (b), the Secretary of Agriculture shall convey to Kern 
County, California, all right, title, and interest of the United States 
in and to four parcels of land under the jurisdiction of the Forest 
Service in Kern County, as follows: 
(1) Approximately 70 acres known as Camp Owen as 
depicted on the map entitled "Camp Owen", dated June 15, 
2000. 
(2) Approximately 4 acres known as Wofford Heights Park 
as depicted on the map entitled "Wofford Heights Park", dated 
June 15, 2000. 
(3) Approximately 4 acres known as the French Gulch 
maintenance yard as depicted on the map entitled "French 
Gulch Maintenance Yard", dated June 15, 2000. 
(4) Approximately 14 acres known as the Kemville Fish 
Hatchery as depicted on the map entitled "Kemville Fish 
Hatchery", dated June 15, 2000. 
(b) CONSIDERATION.— 
(1) CONVEYANCE OF NON-FEDERAL LANDS.—AS consideration 
for the conveyance of the Federal lands referred to in subsection 
(a), Kern Coimty shall convey to the Secretary a parcel of 
land for fair market value consisting of approximately 52 acres 
as depicted on the map entitled "Greenhorn Mountain Park", 
located in Kern County, California, dated June 18, 2000. 
(2) REPLACEMENT FACILITY.—As additional consideration 
for the conveyance of the storage facility located at the mainte-
nance yard referred to in subsection (a)(3), Kern County shall 
provide a replacement storage facility of comparable size and 
condition, as acceptable to the Secretary, at the Greenhorn 
Ranger District Lake Isabella Maintenance Yard property. 
(3) CASH EQUALIZATION PAYMENT.—AS additional consider-
ation for the conveyance of the Federal lands referred to in 
subsection (a), Kern County shall tender a cash equalization 
pajonent specified by the Secretary. The cash equalization pay-
ment shall be based upon an appraisal performed at the option 
of the Forest Service pursuant to section 206(b) of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716(b)). 
(c) CONDITIONS ON ACCEPTANCE.—Title to the non-Federal lands 
to be conveyed under this section must be acceptable to the Sec-
retary, and the conveyance shall be subject to valid existing rights 
of record. The non-Federal lands shall conform with the title 
approval standards applicable to Federal land acquisitions. 
(d) TIME FOR CONVEYANCE.—Subject to subsection (c), the Sec-
retary shall complete the conveyance of the Federal lands under 
subsection (a) within 3 months after Kern County tenders to the 
Secretary the consideration required by subsection (b). 
(e) STATUS OF ACQUIRED LANDS.—Upon approval and accept-
ance of title by the Secretary, the non-Federal lands conveyed 
to the United States under this section shall become part of Sequoia 
National Forest, and the boundaries of the national forest shall 
be adjusted to include the acquired lands. The Secretary shall 
manage the acquired lands for recreational purposes in accordance 
with the laws and regulations pertaining to the National Forest 
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System. For purposes of section 7 of the Land and Water Conserva-
tion Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 4601-9), the bo\indaries of the 
national forest, as adjusted pursuant to this section, shall be consid-
ered to be the boundaries of the national forest as of January 
1,1965. 
(f) RELATIONSHIP TO ENVIRONMENTAL LL\BILITY.—In connection 
with the conveyances under this section, the Secretary may require 
such additional terms and conditions related to environmental 
liability as the Secretary considers appropriate to protect the 
interests of the United States. 
(g) LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.—The exact acreage and legal descrip-
tion of the real property to be exchanged under this section shall 
be determined by a survey or surveys satisfactory to the Secretary. 
The costs of any such survey, as well as other administrative 
costs incurred to execute the land exchange (other than costs 
incurred by Kern County to comply with subsection (h)), shall 
be divided equally between the Secretary and Kern County. 
(h) TREATMENT OF EXISTING UTILITY LINES AT CAMP OWEN.— 
Upon receipt of the Federal lands described in subsection (a)(1), 
Kern County shall grant an easement, and record the easement 
in the appropriate office, for permitted or licensed uses of those 
lands that are unrecorded as of the date of the conveyance. 
(i) APPLICABLE LAW.—Except as otherwise provided in this 
section, any exchange of National Forest System land under this 
section shall be subject to the laws (including regulations) applicable 
to the conveyance and acquisition of land for the National Forest 
System. 
Deadline. 
SEC. 348. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than March 1, 2001, 
the Secretary shall cause to be established an advisory group to 
provide continuing expert advice and counsel to the Director of 
the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) with respect 
to the research and development activities NETL conducts and 
manages. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—^The advisory group shall be composed 
of— 
(A) a balanced group o
f
— 
(i) representatives of academia; 
(ii) representatives of industry; 
(iii) representatives of non-governmental organiza-
tions; and 
(iv) representatives of energy regulatory agencies; 
(B) a representative of the DOE's Office of Fossil 
Energy; 
(C) a representative of the DOE's Office of Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy; 
(D) a representative of the DOE's Office of Science; 
and 
(E) others, as appropriate. 
(c) DUTIES.—The advisory group shall provide advice, informa-
tion, and recommendations to the Director— 
(1) on management and strategic issues affecting the lab-
oratory; and 
(2) on the scientific and technical direction of the labora-
tory's R&D program; 
(d) COMPENSATION; SUPPORT; PROCEDURES.— 
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(1) COMPENSATION AND TRAVEL.—Members of the advisory 
group who are not officers or employees of the United States, 
while attending conferences or meetings of the group or other-
wise engaged in its business, or while serving away from their 
homes or regular places of business, may be allowed travel 
expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as author-
ized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons 
in the Government service employed intermittently. 
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT.—The NETL shall furnish to 
the advisory group clerical and administrative support. 
(3) PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out its 
functions, the advisory group shall comply with the procedures 
and requirements that apply to similar groups providing advice 
and counsel to entities operating other Department of Energy 
laboratories rather than the procedures and requirements that 
apply to such a group providing advice directly to a Federal 
entity. 
SEC. 349. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Umpqua 
Land Exchange Project (ULEP) and previous Congressional appro-
priations therefor, there is hereby appropriated the sum of 
$4,300,000 to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund. Such amount shall be available to the Foundation for Vol-
untary Land Exchanges ("Foundation") working in conjunction with 
the Secretary of the Interior, and with the U.S. Bureau of Land 
Management as the lead Federal agency, to complete a Final Land 
Ownership Adjustment Plan ("Plan") for the area ("Basin"), com-
prising approximately 675,000 acres, as generally depicted on a 
map entitled "Coast Range-Umpqua River Basin," dated August 
2000. No more than 15 percent of this appropriation shall be used 
by the agency for defraying administrative overhead. 
(b) In preparing the Plan, the Secretary shall identify, no 
later than March 31, 2001, those lands or interests in land with 
willing sellers which merit emergency purchase by the United 
States due to critical environmental values or possibility of 
imminent development. For lands or interests in land so identified, 
the Secretary and the Foundation shall arrange with landowners 
to complete appraisals and purchase clearances required by law 
so that the Secretary may thereafter consummate purchases as 
soon as funds therefor are appropriated by the Congress. 
(c) Pursuant to the funding and direction of subsection (a), 
the Secretary shall, in cooperation with the Foundation, no later 
than December 31, 2002, complete the Plan utilizing the Multi-
Resource Land Allocation Model ("Model") developed for the ULEP. 
The Plan shall identify: (1) non-Federal Lands or interests in land 
in the Basin which, with the concurrence of willing non-Federal 
landowners, are recommended for acquisition or exchange by the 
United States; (2) Federal lands or interests in land in the Basin 
recommended for disposal into non-Federal ownership in exchange 
for the acquired lands of equal value; and (3) specific land exchanges 
or purchases to implement the Plan. In addition, no later than Deadline. 
December 31, 2002, the Secretary, in cooperation with the Founda-
tion, shall complete a draft Habitat Conservation Plan ("HCP") 
covering the lands to be disposed of by the United States and 
consistent with the Plan, a comprehensive Final Environmental 
Impact Statement 
covering the Plan, and a 
comprehensive 
Biological Opinion analyzing the net impacts of the Plan at Plan 
scale over time in 5 year increments, taking into consideration 
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of 2000. 
all expected benefits to be achieved by the Plan and HOP, and 
any consistency determinations or amendments to any applicable 
Federal land management plans. The HOP shall cover all species 
analyzed in the Model (including species under the jurisdiction 
of the Secretary of Commerce). 
(d) No later than March 31, 2002, the Secretary and the 
Foundation shall submit to the Committee on Resources of the 
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the United States Senate, and the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations, a joint report summarizing the Plan 
and the land exchanges or purchases identified to implement the 
Plan, and outlining: (1) any Fiscal Year 2003 funding needed for 
land purchases; (2) any recommendations for actions to expedite 
or facilitate the specific land exchanges or purchases identified 
to implement the Plan, or the HCP; and (3) an action Plan for 
making the Model publicly available for additional land exchanges 
or other purposes upon completion of the exchanges. 
(e) No later than June 15, 2003: (1) the Secretary with the 
Foundation and the financial participation and commitment of 
willing private landowners shall complete appraisals and other 
land purchase or exchange clearances required by law, including 
those pertaining to cultural and historic resources and hazardous 
materials; and (2) the Secretary shall consummate with willing 
non-Federal landowners the specific land exchanges previously 
identified in subsection (c) to implement the Plan, and together 
with the Secretary of Commerce, shall issue the HCP. 
SEC. 350. Notwithstanding section 351 of section 101(e) of divi-
sion A, Public Law 105-277, the Indian Health Service is authorized 
to provide additional contract health service fimds to Ketchikan 
Indian Corporation's recurring budget for hospital-related services 
for patients of Ketchikan Indian Corporation and the Organized 
Village of Saxman. 
SEC. 351. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
"Boise Laboratory Replacement Act of 2000". 
(b) Fi>fDiNGS AND P U R P O S E . — 
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(A) the existing facilities of the Rocky Mountain 
Research Station Boise laboratory are outdated and no 
longer serve as a modem research facility; 
(B) the Boise laboratory site is in the heart of a Boise 
city redevelopment zone, and the existing laboratory facili-
ties detract from community improvement efforts; 
(C) it is desirable to colocate the Boise laboratory with 
1 of the State institutions of higher learning in the Boise 
metropolitan area— 
(i) to facilitate communications and sharing of 
research data between the agency and the Idaho sci-
entific community; 
(ii) to facilitate development and maintenance of 
the Boise laboratory as a modem, high quality research 
facility; and 
(iii) to reduce costs, better use assets, and better 
serve the public; and 
(D) it is desirable to make the Boise laboratory site 
available for inclusion in a planned facility that is being 
developed on adjacent property by the University of Idaho 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
114 STAT. 1005 
or the University of Idaho Foundation, a not-for-profit cor-
poration acting on behalf of the University of Idaho, as 
a multiagency research and education facihty to serve var-
ious agencies and educational institutions of the United 
States and the State. 
(2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to authorize 
the Secretary— 
(A) to sell or exchange the land and improvements 
currently occupied by the Boise laboratory site; and 
(B) to acquire land, facilities, or interests in land and 
facilities, including condominium interests, to colocate the 
Rocky Mountain Research Station Boise laboratory with 
1 of the State institutions of higher learning in the Boise 
metropolitan area, using— 
(i) funds derived from sale or exchange of the 
existing Boise laboratory site; and 
(ii) to the extent the funds received are insufficient 
to carry out the acquisition of replacement research 
facilities, funds subsequently made available by appro-
priation for the acquisition, construction, or improve-
ment of the Rocky Mountain Research Station Boise 
laboratory. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) BOISE LABORATORY SITE.—The term "Boise laboratory 
site" means the approximately 3.26 acres of land and all 
improvements in section 10, T. 3 N., R. 2 E., Boise Meridian, 
as depicted on that Plat of Park View Addition to Boise, Ada 
County, Idaho, labeled "Boise Lab Site-May 22, 2000", located 
at 316 East Myrtle Street, Boise, Idaho. 
(2) 
CONDOMINIUM 
INTEREST.—The term "condominium 
interest" means an estate in land consisting of (in accordance 
with law of the State)— 
(A) an undivided interest in common of a portion of 
a parcel of real property; and 
(B) a separate fee simple interest in another portion 
of the parcel. 
(3) FAIR MARKET VALUE.—The term "fair market value" 
means the cash value of land on a specific date, as determined 
by an appraisal acceptable to the Secretary and prepared in 
accordance with the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal 
Land Acquisitions. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term "Secretary" means the Secretary 
of Agriculture. 
(5) STATE.—The term "State" means the State of Idaho. 
(d) SALE OR EXCHANGE OF BOISE LABORATORY SITE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may, under such terms 
and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe and subject 
to valid existing rights, sell or exchange any or all right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to the Boise laboratory 
site. 
(2) RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—After a determination of fair market 
value of the Boise laboratory site is approved by the Sec-
retary, the University of Idaho or the University of Idaho 
Foundation, a not-for-profit organization acting on behalf 
of the University of Idaho, shall be allowed 210 days from 
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the effective date of value to exercise a right of first refusal 
to purchase the Boise laboratory site at fair market value. 
(B) COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT.—If the University of 
Idaho or the University of Idaho Foundation exercises the 
right of first refusal under paragraph (A), to accomplish 
the purpose described in section (b)(2)(B), the Secretary 
shall, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperate with 
the University of Idaho in the development of a multiagency 
research and education facility on the Boise laboratory 
site and adjacent property. 
(3) SOLICITATION OF OFFERS.—If the right of first refusal 
described in subsection (d)(2) is not exercised, the Secretary 
may solicit offers for purchase through sale or competitive 
exchange of any and all right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to the Boise laboratory site. 
(4) CONSIDERATION.—Consideration for sale or exchange 
of land under this subsection— 
(A) shall be at least equal to the fair market value 
of the Boise laboratory site; and 
(B) may include land, existing improvements, or 
improvements to be constructed to the specifications of 
the Secretary, including condominium interests, and cash, 
notwithstanding section 206(b) of Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716(b)). 
(5) REJECTION OF OFFERS.—The Secretary may reject any 
offer made under this subsection if the Secretary determines 
that the offer is not adequate or not in the public interest, 
(e) DISPOSITION OF FUNDS.— 
(1) DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS.—The Secretary shall deposit 
the proceeds of a sale or exchange under subsection (d) in 
the fund estabhshed under Public Law 90-171 (16 U.S.C. 484a) 
(commonly known as the "Sisk Act"). 
(2) USE OF PROCEEDS.—Funds deposited under subsection 
(a) shall be available to the Secretary, without further Act 
of appropriation, for— 
(A) the acquisition of or interest in land, or the acquisi-
tion of or construction of facilities, including condominium 
interests— 
(i) to colocate the Boise laboratory with 1 of the 
State institutions of higher learning in the Boise metro-
politan area; and 
(ii) to replace other functions of the Boise labora-
tory; and 
(B) to the extent the funds are not necessary to carry 
out paragraph (A), the acquisition of other lemd or interests 
in land in the State. 
TITLE IV—WILDLAND FIRE EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses for fire suppression operations, burned 
areas rehabilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire assist-
ance by the Department of the Interior, $353,740,000 to remain 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
114 STAT. 1007 
available until expended, of which $21,829,000 is for hazardous 
fuels reduction, $120,300,000 is for removal of hazardous fuels 
to alleviate immediate emergency threats to urban wildland inter-
face areas as defined by the Secretary of Interior, $116,611,000 
is for wildfire suppression, $85,000,000 is for burned 
areas 
rehabilitation, and $10,000,000 is for rural fire assistance: Provided, 
That using the amounts designated under this title of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Interior may enter into procurement contracts, 
grants, or cooperative agreements, for hazardous fuels reduction 
activities, and for training and monitoring associated with such 
hazardous fuels reduction activities, on Federal land, or on adjacent 
non-Federal land for activities that benefit resources on Federal 
land: Provided further, That the costs of implementing any coopera-
tive agreement between the Federal government and any non-
Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
parties: Provided further, That in entering into such grants or 
cooperative agreements, the Secretary may consider the enhance-
ment of local and small businei^s emplo3Tnent opportunities for 
rural communities, and that in entering into procurement contracts 
under this section on a best value basis, the Secretary may take 
into account the ability of an entity to enhance local and small 
business emplo3anent opportunities in rural communities, and that 
the Secretary may award procurement contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements under this section to entities that include local 
non-profit entities. Youth Conservation Corps or related partner-
ships, or small or disadvantaged businesses: Provided further. That 
funds in this account are also available for repayment of advances 
to other appropriation accounts from which funds were previously 
transferred for such purposes: Provided further. That unobligated 
balances of amounts previously appropriated to the "Fire Protection" 
and "Emergency Department of the Interior Firefighting Fund" 
may be transferred and merged with this appropriation: Provided 
further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be 
furnished subsistence and lodging without cost from funds available 
from this appropriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the Depart-
ment of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 
U.S.C. 1856 et seq.. Protection of United States Property, may 
be credited to the appropriation fi"om which funds were expended 
to provide that protection, and are available without fiscal year 
limitation: Provided further. That the entire amount appropriated 
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That 
this amount shall be made available only to the extent that an 
official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes 
designation of the entire amount as an emergency requirement 
as defined by such Act, is transmitted by the President to the 
Congress. 
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RELATED AGENY 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For an additional amount to cover necessary expenses for emer-
gency rehabilitation, hazard reduction activities in the urban-
wildland interface, support to federal emergency response, repajdng 
firefighting funds borrowed from programs, and wildfire suppression 
activities of the Forest Service, $619,274,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $179,000,000 is for wildfire suppression, 
$120,000,000 is for removal of hazardous fuels to alleviate imme-
diate emergency threats to urban wildland interface areas as 
defined by the Secretary of Agriculture, $142,000,000 is for emer-
gency rehabilitation, $44,000,000 is for capital improvement and 
maintenance of fire facilities, $16,000,000 is for research activities 
and to make competitive research grants pursuant to the Forest 
and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $50,494,000 is for state fire assistance, 
$8,280,000 is for volunteer fire assistance, $12,000,000 is for forest 
health activities on state, private, and federal lands, $12,500,000 
is for economic action programs, and $35,000,000 is for assistance 
to non-federal entities most affected by fire using all existing 
authorities under the State and Private Forestry appropriation; 
and of which $320,274,000 may be transferred to the "State and 
Private Forestry^', "National Forest System", "Forest and Rangeland 
Research", and "Capital Improvement and Maintenance" accounts 
to fund state fire assistance, volunteer fire assistance, and forest 
health management, vegetation and watershed management, herit-
age site rehabilitation, wildlife and fish habitat management, trails 
and facilities maintenance and restoration: Provided, That transfers 
of any amounts in excess of those authorized in this title, shall 
require approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions in compliance with reprogramming procedures contained in 
House Report No. 105-163: Provided further, That the costs of 
implementing any cooperative agreement between the Federal 
government and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually 
agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, That in entering 
into such grants or cooperative agreements, the Secretary may 
consider the enhancement of local and small business employment 
opportunities for rural communities, and that in entering into 
procurement contracts under this section on a best value basis, 
the Secretary may take into account the ability of an entity to 
enhance local and small business emplo3mfient opportunities in rural 
communities, and that the Secretary may award procurement con-
tracts, grants, or cooperative agreements under this section to enti-
ties that include local non-profit entities. Youth Conservation Corps 
or related partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth groups, 
or small or disadvantaged businesses: Provided further, That the 
entire amount appropriated is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That this amount shall be made avail-
able only to the extent that an official budget request for a specific 
dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount as 
PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
114 STAT. 1009 
an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress: Provided further, That: 
(1) In expending the funds provided with respect to this 
title for hazardous fuels reduction, the Secretary of the Interior 
and the Secretary of Agriculture may conduct fuel reduction 
treatments on Federal lands using all contracting and hiring 
authorities available to the Secretaries applicable to hazardous 
fuel reduction activities under the wildland fire management 
accounts. Notwithstanding Federal government procurement 
and contracting laws, the Secretaries may conduct fuel reduc-
tion treatments on Federal lands using grants and cooperative 
agreements. Notwithstanding Federal government procurement 
and contracting laws, in order to provide employment and 
training opportunities to people in rural communities, the Sec-
retaries may award contracts, including contracts for moni-
toring activities, to— 
(A) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities; 
(B) Youth Conservation Corps crews or related partner-
ships, with State, local and non-profit youth groups; 
(C) small or micro-businesses; or 
(D) other entities that will hire or train a significant 
percentage of local people to complete such contracts. The 
authorities described above relating to contracts, grants, 
and cooperative agreements are available until all funds 
provided in this title for hazardous fuels reduction activities 
in the urban wildland interface are obligated. 
(2) Within 60 days after enactment, the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior shall, after consulta-
tion with State and local fire-fighting agencies, jointly publish 
in the Federal Register a list of all urban wildland interface 
communities, as defined by the Secretaries, within the vicinity 
of Federal lands that are at high risk from wildfire, as defined 
by the Secretaries. This list shall include: 
(A) an identification of communities around which haz-
ardous fuel reduction treatments are ongoing; and 
(B) an identification of communities around which the 
Secretaries are preparing to begin treatments in fiscal year 
2001. 
(3) Prior to May 1, 2001, the Secretary of Agriculture 
and the Secretary of the Interior shall jointly publish in the 
Federal Register a list of all urban wildland interface commu-
nities, as defined by the Secretaries, within the vicinity of 
Federal lands and at high risk from wildfire that are included 
in the list published pursuant to paragraph (2) but that are 
not included in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2), 
along with an identification of reasons, including but not limited 
to lack of available funds, why there are no treatments ongoing 
or being prepared for these communities. 
(4) Within 30 days after enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall publish in the Federal Register 
the Forest Service's Cohesive Strategy for Protecting People 
and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems. The 
documentation required by section 102(2)(C) of the National 
Environmental Policy Act accompan3dng the proposed regula-
tions revising the National Forest System transportation policy; 
proposed roadless area protection regulation; and proposed 
Federal Register, 
publication. 
Federal Register, 
publication. 
Federal Register, 
publication. 
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Interior Columbia Basin Project; and the Sierra Nevada Frame-
work/Sierra Nevada Forest Plan shall contain an analysis and 
explanation of any differences between the Cohesive Strategy 
and the policies and rule-making listed in this paragraph. 
Nothing in this title is intended or should require a delay 
in the rule-makings listed in this paragraph. 
(5)(A) Funds provided to the Secretary of Agriculture by 
this title and to the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary 
of Commerce, and the Council on Environmental Quality by 
this Act and any other applicable act appropriating funds for 
fiscal year 2001 shall be used as necessary to establish and 
implement the expedited procedures set forth in this paragraph 
for decisions to conduct hazardous fuel reduction treatments 
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2), and any post-burn treat-
ments within the perimeters of areas burned by wildfire, on 
federal lands. 
(B) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the 
Interior, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Chairman of 
the Council on Environmental Quality shall use such funds 
specified in subparagraph (A) as necessary to evaluate the 
need for revised or expedited environmental compliance proce-
dures including expedited procedures for the preparation of 
documentation required by section 102(2) of the National 
Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)) for treatment 
Reports. 
decisions referred to in subparagraph (A). The Secretary of 
Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, the Chairman of 
the Council on Environmental Quality shall report to the rel-
evant congressional committee of jurisdiction within 60 days 
of enactment of this Act to apprise the Congress of the decision 
to develop any expedited procedures or adopt or recommend 
any other measures. Each Secretary may employ any expedited 
procedures developed pursuant to this subsection for a treat-
ment decision when the Secretary determines the procedures 
to be appropriate for the decision. These procedures shall ensure 
that the period of preparation for environmental documentation 
be expedited to the maximum extent practicable. Each Sec-
retary and the Council shall effect any modifications to existing 
regulations and guidance as may be necessary to provide for 
the expedited procedures within 180 days of the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
(C) With the funds specified in subparagraph (A), the Sec-
retary, as defined in section 3(15) of the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1532(15)), may accord priority as appro-
priate to consultation or conferencing under section 7 of such 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1536) concerning any treatment decision referred 
to in subparagraph (A) for which consultation or conferencing 
is required. 
(D) With the funds specified in subparagraph (A), adminis-
trative review of any treatment decision referred to in subpara-
graph (A) shall be conducted as expeditiously as possible but 
under no circumstances shall exceed any statutory deadline 
applicable to such review. 
(E) No provision in this title shall be construed to override 
any existing environmental law. 
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114 STAT. 1011 
TITLE V—EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For an additional amount for "Management of Lands and 
Resources", $17,172,000 to remain available until expended, of 
which $15,687,000 shall be used to address restoration needs caused 
by wildland fires and $1,485,000 shall be used for the treatment 
of grasshopper and Mormon Cricket infestations on lands managed 
by the Bureau of Land Management: Provided, That the entire 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For 
an 
additional 
amount 
for 
"Resource 
Management", 
$1,500,000, to remain available until expended, for support of the 
preparation and implementation of plans, programs, or agreements, 
identified by the State of Idaho, that address habitat for fi*eshwater 
aquatic species on non-federal lands in the State voluntarily 
enrolled in such plans, programs, or agreements, of which $200,000 
shall be made available to the Boise, Idaho field office to participate 
in the preparation and implementation of the plans, programs, 
or agreements, of which $300,000 shall be made available to the 
State of Idaho for preparation of the plans, programs, or agree-
ments, including data collection and other activities associated with 
such preparation, and of which $1,000,000 shall be made available 
to the State of Idaho to fiind habitat enhancement, maintenance, 
or restoration projects consistent with such plans, programs, or 
agreements: Provided, That the entire amount made available under 
this paragraph is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement under section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
For an additional amount for salmon restoration and conserva-
tion efforts in the State of Maine, $5,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, which amount shall be made available to the 
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to carry out a competitively 
awarded grant program for State, local, or other organizations 
in Maine to fiind on-the-ground projects to further Atlantic salmon 
conservation or restoration efforts in coordination with the State 
of Maine and the Maine Atlantic Salmon Conservation Plan, 
including projects to: (1) assist in land acquisition and conservation 
easements to benefit Atlantic salmon; (2) develop irrigation and 
water use management measures to minimize any adverse effects 
on salmon habitat; and (3) develop and phase in enhanced aqua-
culture cages to minimize escape of Atlantic salmon: Provided, 
That, of the amounts appropriated under this paragraph, $2,000,000 
shall be made available to the Atlantic Salmon Commission for 
salmon restoration and conservation activities, including installing 
and upgrading weirs and fish collection facilities, conducting risk 
assessments, fish marking, and salmon genetics studies and testing, 
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PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 
and developing and phasing in enhanced aquaculture cages to mini-
mize escape of Atlantic salmon, and $500,000 shall be made avail-
able to the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of 
Atlantic salmon: Provided further. That amounts made available 
under this paragraph shall be provided to the National Fish and 
Wildlife Foundation not later than 15 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That the entire amount made 
available under this paragraph is designated by Congress as an 
emergency requirement under section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For £in additional amount for "Construction", $8,500,000, to 
remain available until expended, to repair or replace buildings, 
equipment, roads, bridges, and water control structures damaged 
by natural disasters and conduct critical habitat restoration directly 
necessitated by natural disasters: Provided, That the entire amount 
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
CONSTRUCTION 
For an additional amount for "Construction", $5,300,000, to 
remain available until expended, to repair or replace visitor facili-
ties, equipment, roads and trails, and cultural sites and artifacts 
at national park units damaged by natural disasters: Provided, 
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For an additional amount for "Surveys, Investigations, and 
Research", $2,700,000, to remain available until expended, to repair 
or replace stream monitoring equipment and associated facilities 
damaged by natural disasters: Provided, That the entire amount 
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OP INDL\N PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for "Operation of Indian Programs", 
$1,200,000, to remain available until expended, for repair of the 
portions of the Yakama Nation's Signal Peak Road that have the 
most severe damage: Provided, That the entire amount is designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended. 
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114 STAT. 1013 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL 
TRUST 
PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for "Federal Trust Programs" for 
unanticipated trust reform projects and costs related to the ongoing 
Cobell litigation, $27,600,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, 
That funds provided herein for trust management 
improvements and litigation support may, as needed, be transferred 
to or merged with the "Operations of Indian Programs" account 
in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the "Salaries and Expenses" account 
in the Office of the Solicitor, the "Salaries and Expenses" account 
in Departmental Management, the "Royalty and Offshore Minerals 
Management" account in the Minerals Management Service, and 
the "Management of Lands and Resources" account in the Bureau 
of Land Management: Provided further. That the entire amount 
provided under this heading is designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended. 
RELATED AGENCY 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For an additional amount for the Forest Service, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $9,294,000 for the Alaska 
Railroad for— 
(1) safety related track repair, damage, and control costs 
from avalanches, hurricane force winds, and severe winter 
storms; and 
(2) oil spill clean-up, recovery, and remediation arising 
out of the related train derailments, 
during the period of winter blizzards beginning December 21, 1999 
for which the President declared a disaster on February 17, 2000 
pursuant to the Stafford Act, as amended, (FEMA DR-1316-AK) 
as a direct lump sum payment and an additional $2,000,000 for 
an avalanche prevention program in the Chugach National Forest, 
Kenai National Park, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and nearby 
public lands to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For £in additional amount for emergency expenses resulting 
from damage from windstorms, $7,249,000 to become available upon 
enactment of this Act, and to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the 
extent that the President submits to Congress an official budget 
request for a specific dollar amount that includes designation of 
the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
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Cabin User Fee 
TITLE VI—USER FEES UNDER FOREST SYSTEM 
Fairness Act of 
RECREATION RESIDENCE PROGRAM 
2000. 
16 use 6201 
SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the "Cabin User Fee Fairness Act 
of 2000". 
16 use 6201. 
SEC. 602. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) cabins located on forest land have provided a unique 
recreation experience to a large number of cabin owners, their 
families, and guests each year since Congress authorized the 
recreation residence program in 1915; and 
(2) the fact that current appraisal procedures have, in 
certain circumstances, been inconsistently applied in deter-
mining fair market values for residential lots demonstrates 
that problems exist in accurately reflecting market values. 
16 use 6202. 
SEC. 603. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this title are— 
(1) to ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that 
the National Forest System recreation residence program is 
managed to preserve the opportunity for individual and fsimily-
oriented recreation; and 
(2) to develop and implement a more consistent procedure 
for determining cabin user fees, taking into consideration the 
limitations of an authorization and other relevant market fac-
tors. 
16 use 6203. 
SEC. 604. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) AGENCY.—^The term "agency" means the Forest Service. 
(2) AUTHORIZATION.—^The term "authorization" means a 
special use permit for the use and occupancy of National Forest 
, 
System land by a cabin owner under the authority of the 
program. 
(3) BASE CABIN USER FEE.—The term "base cabin user 
fee" means the fee for an authorization that results from the 
appraisal of a lot as determined in accordance with sections 
606 and 607. 
(4) CABIN.—^The term "cabin" means a privately built and 
owned recreation residence that is authorized for use and occu-
pancy on National Forest System land. 
(5) CABIN OWNER.—^The term "cabin owner" means— 
(A) a person authorized by the agency to use and 
to occupy a cabin on National Forest System land; and 
(B) an heir or assign of such a person. 
(6) CABIN USER FEE.—The term "cabin user fee" means 
a special use fee paid annually by a cabin owner to the Sec-
retary in accordance with this title. 
(7) CARETAKER CABIN.—^The term "caretaker cabin" means 
a caretaker residence occupied in limited cases in which care-
taker services are necessary to maintain the security of a 
tract. 
(8) CURRENT CABIN USER FEE.—The term "current cabin 
user fee" means the most recent cabin user fee that results 
from an annual adjustment to the base cabin user fee in accord-
ance with section 608. 
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114 STAT. 1015 
(9) LOT.—The term "lot" means a parcel of land in the 
National Forest System— 
(A) on which a cabin owner is authorized to build, 
use, occupy, and maintain a cabin and related improve-
ments; and 
(B) that is considered to be in its natural, native state 
at the time at which a use of the lot described in subpara-
graph (A) is first permitted by the Secretary. 
(10) NATURAL, NATIVE STATE.—The term "natural, native 
state" means the condition of a lot or site, free of any improve-
ments, at the time at which the lot or site is first authorized 
for recreation residence use by the agency. 
(11) PROGRAM.—The term "program" means the recreation 
residence program established under the authority of the last 
paragraph under the heading "FOREST SERVICE" in the Act 
of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1101, chapter 144; 16 U.S.C. 497). 
(12) SECRETARY.—The term "Secretary" means the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest 
Service. 
(13) TRACT.—The term "tract" means an established loca-
tion within a National Forest containing 1 or more cabins 
authorized in accordance with the program. 
(14) TRACT ASSOCIATION.—The term "tract association" 
means a cabin owner association in which all cabin owners 
within a tract are eligible for membership. 
(15) TYPICAL LOT.—The term "typical lot" means a cabin 
lot, or a group of cabin lots, in a tract that is selected for 
use in an appraisal as being representative of, and that has 
similar value characteristics as, other lots or groups of lots 
within the tract. 
SEC. 605. ADMINISTRATION OF RECREATION RESIDENCE PROGRAM. 
16 USC 6204. 
The Secretary shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, 
that the basis and procedure for calculating cabin user fees results 
in a fee for an authorization that reflects, in accordance with 
this title— 
(1) the market value of a lot; and 
(2) regional and local economic influences. 
SEC. 606. APPRAISALS. 
16 USC 6205. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS FOR CONDUCTING APPRAISALS.—In imple-
menting and conducting an appraisal process for determining cabin 
user fees, the Secretary shall— 
(1) complete an inventory of improvements that were paid 
for by— 
(A) the agency; 
(B) third parties; or 
(C) cabin owners (or predecessors of cabin owners), 
during the completion of which the Secretary shall presume 
that a cabin owner, or a predecessor of the owner, has paid 
for the capital costs of any utility, access, or facility serving 
the lot being appraised, unless the Forest Service produces 
evidence that the agency or a third party has paid for the 
capital costs; 
(2) establish an appraisal process to determine the market 
value of the fee simple estate of a typical lot or lots considered 
to be in a natural, native state, subject to subsection (b)(4)(A); 
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(3) enter into a contract with an appropriate professional 
appraisal organization to manage the development of specific 
appraisal guidelines in accordance with subsection (b), subject 
to public comment and congressional review; 
(4) require that an appraisal be performed by a State-
certified general real estate appraiser, selected by the Secretary 
and licensed to practice in the State in which the lot is located; 
(5) provide the appraiser with appraisal guidelines devel-
oped in accordance with this title; 
(6) notwithstanding any other provision of law, require 
the appraiser to coordinate the appraisal closely with affected 
parties by seeking information, cooperation, and advice from 
cabin owners and tract associations; 
(7) require that the appraiser perform the appraisal in 
compliance with— 
(A) the most current edition of the Uniform Standards 
of Professional Appraisal Practice in effect on the date 
of the appraisal; 
(B) the most current edition of the Uniform Appraisal 
Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions that is in effect 
on the date of the appraisal; and 
(C) the specific appraisal guidelines developed in 
accordance with this title; 
(8) require that the appraisal report— 
(A) be a full narrative report, in compliance with the 
reporting standards of the Uniform Standards of Profes-
sional Appraisal Practice; and 
(B) comply with the reporting guidelines established 
by the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land 
Acquisitions; and 
(9) before accepting any appraisal, conduct a review of 
the appraisal to ensure that the guidelines made available 
to the appraiser have been followed and that the appraised 
values are properly supported. 
(b) SPECIFIC APPRAISAL GUIDELINES.—In the development of 
specific appraisal guidelines in accordance with subsection (a)(3), 
the instructions to an appraiser shall require, at a minimum, the 
following: 
(1) APPRAISAL OF A TYPICAL LOT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In conducting an appraisal under 
this section, the appraiser— 
(i) shall not appraise each individual lot; 
(ii) shall appraise a typical lot or lots, selected 
by the cabin owners and the agency in a manner 
consistent with the policy of the program; and 
(iii) shall be provided, and give appropriate consid-
eration to, any information contained in the inventory 
of improvements relating to the lot being appraised. 
(B) ESTIMATE OF MARKET VALUE OF TYPICAL LOT.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—The appraiser shall estimate the 
market value of a typical lot in accordance with this 
title. 
(ii) EQUIVALENCE TO LEGALLY SUBDIVIDED LOT.— 
In selecting a comparable sale under this title, the 
appraiser shall recognize that the t3T)ical lot will not 
usually be equivalent to a legally subdivided lot. 
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114 STAT. 1017 
(2) EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN SALES OF LAND.—In conducting 
an appraisal under this title, the appraiser— 
(A) shall not select sales of comparable land that are 
sales of land within developed urban areas; and 
(B) should not, in most circumstances, select a sale 
of comparable land that includes land that is encumbered 
by a conservation or recreational easement that is held 
by a government or institution, except land that is limited 
to use as a site for 1 home. 
(3) ADJUSTMENTS FOR TYPICAL VALUE INFLUENCES.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—^The appraiser shall consider, and 
adjust as appropriate, the price of sales of comparable 
land for all typical value influences described in subpara-
graph (B). 
(B) VALUE INFLUENCES.—The typical value influences 
referred to in subparagraph (A) include— 
(i) differences in the locations of the parcels; 
(ii) accessibility, including limitations on access 
attributable to— 
(I) weather; 
(II) the condition of roads or trails; 
(III) restrictions imposed by the agency; or 
(IV) other factors; 
(iii) the presence of marketable timber; 
(iv) limitations on, or the absence of, services such 
as law enforcement, fire control, road maintenance, 
or snow plowing; 
(v) the condition and regulatory compliance of any 
site improvements; and 
(vi) any other typical value influences described 
in standard appraisal literature. 
(4) ADJUSTMENTS TO SALES OF COMPARABLE PARCELS.— 
(A) UTILITIES, ACCESS, OR FACILITIES.— 
(i) AGENCY.—Utilities, access, or facilities serving 
a lot that are provided by the agency shall be included 
as features of the lot being appraised. 
(ii) CABIN OWNERS.—Utilities, access, or facilities 
serving a lot that are provided by the cabin owner 
(or a predecessor of the cabin owner) shall not be 
included as a feature of the lot being appraised. 
(iii) THIRD PARTIES.—Utilities, access, or facilities 
serving a lot that are provided by a third party shall 
not be included as a feature of the lot being appraised 
unless, in accordance with subsection (a)(1), the agency 
determines that the capital costs have not been or 
are not being paid by the cabin owner (or a predecessor 
of the cabin owner). 
/ 
(iv) 
WITHDRAWAL 
OF 
UTILITY 
OR ACCESS 
BY 
' 
AGENCY.—If, during the term of an authorization, the 
agency or an act of God creates a substantial and 
materially adverse change in— 
(I) the provision or maintenance of any utility 
or access; or 
(II) a qualitative feature of the lot or imme-
diate surroundings. 
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the cabin owner shall have the right to request, and, 
at the discretion of the Secretary, obtain a new deter-
mination of the base cabin user fee at the expense 
of the agency. 
(B) ADJUSTMENT FOR EXCLUSION.—In a case in which 
any comparable sale includes utilities, access, or facilities 
that are to be excluded in the appraisal of the subject 
lot, the price of the comparable sale shall be adjusted, 
as appropriate. 
(C) ADJUSTMENT PROCESS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—The appraiser shall consider and 
adjust, as appropriate, the price of each sale of a com-
parable parcel for all nonnatural features referred to 
in subparagraph (A)(ii) that— 
(I)(aa) are present at, or add value to, the 
comparable parcel; but 
(bb) are not present at the lot being appraised; 
or 
(II) are not included in the appraisal as 
described in subparagraph (A), 
(ii) ADJUSTMENTS .— 
(I) IN GENERAL.—In a case in which the price 
of a parcel sold is to be adjusted in accordance 
with subparagraph (B), the adjustment may be 
based on an analysis of market or cost information 
or both. 
(II) COST INFORMATION.—If cost information 
is used as the basis of an adjustment under sub-
clause (I), the cost information shall be supported 
by direct market evidence. 
(iii) ANALYSIS OF COST INFORMATION.—An analysis 
of cost information under clause (ii)(I) should include 
allowances, as appropriate, if the allowances are con-
sistent with— 
(I) the Uniform Standards of Professional 
Appraisal Practice in effect on the date of the 
analysis; and 
(II) the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Fed-
eral Land Acquisition. 
(D) 
REAPPRAISAL FOR AND RECALCULATION OF BASE 
CABIN USER FEE.—Periodically, but not less often than once 
every 10 years, the Secretary shall recalculate the base 
cabin user fee (including conducting any reappraisal 
required to recalculate the base cabin user fee). 
16 use 6206. 
SEC. 607. CABIN USER FEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—^The Secretary shall establish the cabin user 
fee as the amoimt that is equal to 5 percent of the market value 
of the lot, as determined in accordance with section 606, reflecting 
an adjustment to the typical market rate of return due to restric-
tions imposed by the permit, including— 
(1) the limited term of the authorization; 
(2) the absence of significant property rights normally 
attached to fee simple ownership; and 
(3) the public right of access to, and use of, £iny open 
portion of the lot on which the cabin or other enclosed improve-
ments are not located. 
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114 STAT. 1019 
(b) FEE FOR CARETAKER CABIN.—The base cabin user fee for 
a lot on which a caretaker cabin is located shall not be greater 
than the base cabin user fee charged for the authorized use of 
a similar t3^ical lot in the tract. 
(c) ANNUAL CABIN USER FEE IN THE EVENT OF DETERMINATION 
NOT TO REISSUE AUTHORIZATION.—If the Secretary determines that 
an authorization should not be reissued at the end of a term, 
the Secretary shall— 
(1) establish as the new base cabin user fee for the 
remaining term of the authorization the amount charged as 
the cabin user fee in the year that was 10 years before the 
year in which the authorization expires; and 
(2) calculate the current cabin user fee for each of the 
remaining 9 years of the term of the authorization by 
multiplying— 
(A) Vio of the new base cabin user fee; by 
(B) the number of years remaining in the term of 
the authorization after the year for which the cabin user 
fee is being calculated. 
(d) ANNUAL CABIN USER FEE IN EVENT OF CHANGED CONDI-
TIONS.—If a review of a decision to convert a lot to an alternative 
public use indicates that the continuation of the authorization for 
use and occupancy of the cabin by the cabin owner is warranted, 
and the decision is subsequently reversed, the Secretary may 
require the cabin owner to pay any portion of annual cabin user 
fees that were forgone as a result of the expectation of termination 
of use and occupancy of the cabin by the cabin owner. 
(e) TERMINATION OF FEE OBLIGATION IN LOSS RESULTING FROM 
ACTS OF GOD OR CATASTROPHIC EVENTS.—On a determination by 
the agency that, because of an act of God or a catastrophic event, 
a lot cannot be safely occupied and the authorization for the lot 
should accordingly be terminated, the fee obligation of the cabin 
owner shall terminate effective on the date of the occurrence of 
the act or event. 
SEC. 608. ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT OF CABIN USER FEE. 
16 USC 6207. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall adjust the cabin user 
fee annually, using a rolling 5-year average of a published price 
index in accordance with subsection (b) or (c) that reports changes 
in rural or similar land values in the State, county, or market 
area in which the lot is located. 
(b) INITIAL INDEX.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For the period of 10 years beginning 
on the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary shall 
use changes in agricultural land prices in the appropriate State 
or comity, as reported in the Index of Agricultural Land Prices 
published by the Department of Agriculture, to determine the 
annual adjustment to the cabin user fee in accordance with 
subsections (a) and (d). 
(2) 
STATEWIDE 
CHANGES.—In determining the 
annual 
adjustment to the cabin user fee for an authorization located 
in a county in which agricultural land prices are influenced 
by the value influences described in section 606(b)(3), the Sec-
retary shall use average statewide changes in the State in 
which the lot is located. 
(c) NEW INDEX.— 
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Deadline. 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 10 years after the date 
of enactment of this title, the Secretary may select and use 
an index other than the method of adjustment of a cabin 
user fee described in subsection (b)(2) to adjust a cabin user 
fee if the Secretary determines that a different index better 
reflects change in the value of a lot over time. 
(2) SELECTION PROCESS.—Before selecting a new index, the 
Secretary shall— 
(A) solicit and consider comments from the public; and 
Deadline. 
(B) not later than 60 days before the date on which 
the Secretary makes a final index selection, submit any 
proposed selection of a new index to— 
(i) the Committee on Resources of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(ii) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry of the Senate, 
(d) LIMITATION.—In calculating an annual adjustment to the 
base cabin user fee as determineof by the initial index described 
in section (b), the Secretary shall— 
(1) limit £iny annual fee adjustment to an amount that 
is not more than 5 percent per year when the change in agricul-
tural land values exceeds 5 percent in any 1 year; and 
(2) apply the amount of any adjustment that exceeds 5 
percent to the annual fee pa3maent for the next year in which 
the change in the index factor is less than 5 percent. 
16 use 6208. 
SEC. 609. PAYMENT OF CABIN USER FEES. 
(a) DUE DATE FOR PAYMENT OF FEES.—A cabin user fee shall 
be prepaid annually by the cabin owner. 
(b) PAYMENT OF EQUAL OR LESSER FEE.—If, in accordance 
with section 607, the Secretary determines that the amount of 
a new base cabin user fee is equal to or less than the amount 
of the current base cabin user fee, the Secretary shall require 
payment of the new base cabin user fee by the cabin owner in 
accordemce with subsection (a). 
(c) PAYMENT OF GREATER FEE.—If, in accordance with section 
607, the Secretary determines that the amount of a new base 
cabin user fee is greater than the amount of the current base 
cabin user fee, the Secretary shall— 
(1) require full payment of the new base cabin user fee 
in the first year following completion of the fee determination 
procedure if the increase in the amount of the new base cabin 
user fee is not more them 100 percent of the current base 
cabin user fee; or 
(2) phase in the increase over the current base cabin user 
fee in approximately equal increments over 3 years if the 
increase in the amount of the new base cabin user fee is 
more than 100 percent of the current base cabin user fee. 
16 use 6209. 
SEC. 610. RIGHT OF SECOND APPRAISAL. 
(a) RIGHT OF SECOND APPRAISAL.—On receipt of notice fi-om 
the Secretary of the determination of a new base cabin user fee, 
the cabin owner— 
(1) not later than 60 days after the date on which the 
notice is received, may notify the Secretary of the intent of 
the cabin owner to obtain a second appraisal; and 
(2) may obtain, within 1 year following the date of receipt 
of the notice under this subsection, at the expense of the cabin 
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114 STAT. 1021 
owner, a second appraisal of the typical lot on which the initial 
appraisal was conducted. 
(b) CONDUCT OF SECOND APPRAISAL.—In conducting a second 
appraisal, the appraiser selected by the cabin owner shall— 
(1) have qualifications equivalent to the appraiser that 
conducted the initial appraisal in accordance with section 
606(a)(4); 
(2) use the appraisal guidelines used in the initial appraisal 
in accordance with section 606(a)(5); 
(3) consider all relevant factors in accordance with this 
title (including guidelines developed under section 606(a)(3)); 
and 
(4) notify the Secretary of any material differences of fact 
or opinion between the initial appraisal conducted by the agency 
and the second appraisal. 
(c) REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION OF BASE CABIN USER FEE.— 
A cabin owner shall submit to the Secretary any request for Deadline, 
reconsideration of the base cabin user fee, based on the results 
of the second appraisal, not later than 60 days after the receipt 
of the report for the second appraisal. 
(d) RECONSIDERATION OF BASE CABIN USER FEE.—On receipt 
of a request from the cabin owner under subsection (c) for 
reconsideration of a base cabin user fee, not later than 60 days 
after the date of receipt of the request, the Secretary shall— 
(1) review the initial appraisal of the agency; 
(2) review the results and commentary from the second 
appraisal; 
(3) determine a new base cabin user fee in an amount 
that is— 
(A) equal to the base cabin user fee determined by 
the initial or the second appraisal; or 
(B) within the range of values, if any, between the 
initial and second appraisals; and 
(4) notify the cabin owner of the amount of the new base 
cabin user fee. 
SEC. 611. RIGHT OF APPEAL AND JUDICIAL REVIEW. 
16 USC 6210. 
(a) RIGHT OF APPEAL.—Notwithstanding any action of a cabin 
owner to exercise rights in accordance with section 610, the Sec-
retary shall by regulation grant the cabin owner the right to an 
administrative appeal of the determination of a new base cabin 
user fee. 
(b) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—A cabin owner that is adversely affected 
by a jfinal decision of the Secretary under this title may bring 
a civil action in United States district court. 
SEC. 612. CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER LAW AND RIGHTS. 
16 USC 6211. 
(a) 
CONSISTENCY WITH RIGHTS OF THE UNITED 
STATES.— 
Nothing in this title limits or restricts any right, title, or interest 
of the United States in or to any land or resource. 
(b) SPECIAL RULE FOR ALASKA.—In determining a cabin user 
fee in the State of Alaska, the Secretary shall not establish or 
impose a cabin user fee or a condition affecting a cabin user fee 
that is inconsistent with 1303(d) of the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3193(d)). 
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16 use 6212. 
SEC. 613. REGULATIONS. 
Deadline. 
Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 
title, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to carry out this 
title. 
16 use 6213. 
SEC. 614. TRANSITION PROVISIONS. 
(a) ASSESSMENT OF ANNUAL FEES.—For the period of time 
determined under subsection (b), the Secretary shall charge each 
cabin owner an annual fee as follows: 
(1) LOTS NOT APPRAISED SINCE SEPTEMBER SO, 1995.—For 
a lot that has not been appraised since September 30, 1995, 
the annual fee shall be equal to the amount of the annual 
fee in effect on the date of enactment of this title, adjusted 
annually to reflect changes in the Implicit Price Deflator-Gross 
National Product Index. 
(2) LOTS APPRAISED ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 30, 1995.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subparagraph 
(B), for a lot that has been appraised on or after September 
30, 1995, the annual fee shall be equal to the amount 
of the fee in effect on the date of enactment of this title, 
adjusted annually to reflect changes in the Implicit Price 
Deflator-Gross National Product Index. 
(B) APPRAISALS RESULTING IN BASE FEE INCREASE.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in clause (ii), 
for a lot that has been appraised on or after September 
30, 1995, for which the appraisal resulted in an 
increase of the base fee by £in amount greater than 
$3,000, the £innual fee shall be equal to the sum of 
$3,000 plus the amount of the annual fee in effect 
on October 1, 1996, adjusted annually to reflect the 
percentage change in the Implicit Price Deflator-Gross 
National Product Index. 
(ii) FEES PAID AFTER REQUEST OF NEW APPRAISAL 
OR PEER REVIEW.—If— 
(I) the cabin owner of a lot described in clause 
(i) requests a new appraisal or peer review under 
subsection (c); and 
(II) the base cabin user fee established as a 
result of the appraisal or peer review is determined 
to be an amount that is 90 percent or more of 
the fee in effect for the lot as determined by an 
appraisal conducted on or after September 30, 
1995, 
the Secretary shall charge the cabin owner, in addition 
to the annual fee that would otherwise have been 
due under section 609, the difference between the base 
cabin user fee determined through the conduct of the 
new appraisal or peer review and the annual fee that 
would otherwise have been due under section 609, 
to be assessed retroactively for each year beginning 
with the year in which the previous appraisal was 
conducted, and to be paid in 3 equal annual install-
ments. 
(b) TERM.— 
(1) LOTS NOT APPRAISED SINCE SEPTEMBER 30, 1995.—For 
a lot that has not been appraised since September 30, 1995, 
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114 STAT. 1023 
the Secretary shall charge fees in accordance with subsection 
(a)(2)(A) until— 
(A) a base cabin user fee is determined in accordance 
with— 
(i) this title; or 
(ii) regulations and policies in effect on the date 
of enactment of this title; and 
(B) the right of the cabin owner to a second appraisal 
under section 610 is exhausted. 
(2) LOTS APPRAISED ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 3O, 1995.— 
For a lot that has been appraised on or after September 30, 
1995, the Secretary shall charge fees under subsection (a)(2) 
until— 
(A) the cabin owner requests a new appraisal or peer 
review, and a base cabin user fee is established, under 
subsection (c); or 
(B) in the absence of a request for a peer review 
or a new appraisal under subsection (c), the date that 
is 2 years after the date on which the Forest Service 
promulgates 
regulations 
and policies 
and 
develops 
appraisal guidelines under this title. 
(c) REQUEST FOR NEW APPRAISAL UNDER NEW LAW.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after the promulga-
tion o
J
F final regulations and policies and the development of 
appraisal guidelines in accordance with section 606(a)(5), cabin 
owners that are subject to appraisals completed after September 
30, 1995, but before the date of promulgation of final regula-
tions under section 613, may request, in accordance with para-
graph (2), that the Secretary— 
(A) conduct a new appraisal and determine a new 
base cabin user fee in accordance with this title; or 
(B) commission a peer review of the existing appraisals 
in accordance with paragraph (4). 
(2) APPRAISAL GROUPINGS BY TYPICAL LOT.—A request for 
a new appraisal or for a peer review of existing appraisals 
under paragraph (1) shall be made by a majority of the cabin 
owners in a group of cabins represented in the appraisal process 
by a typical lot. 
(3) CONDUCT OF NEW APPRAISAL.—On receipt of a request 
for an appraisal and fee determination in accordance with 
paragraph (2), the Secretary shall conduct the new appraisal 
and fee determination in accordance with this title. 
(4) PEER REVIEW OF EXISTING APPRAISALS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—On receipt of a request for peer 
review in accordance with paragraph (2), the Secretary 
shall obtain from an independent professional appraisal 
organization a review of the appraisal (including any report 
on the appraisal) that was used to establish the estimated 
fee simple value of the lots within the subject grouping. 
(B) 
INCONSISTENCY.—If peer review described in 
subparagraph (A) results in a determination that an 
appraisal or appraisal report includes provisions or proce-
dures that were implemented or conducted in a manner 
inconsistent with this title, the Secretary shall, as appro-
priate and in accordance with this title— 
(i) revise an existing base cabin user fee; or 
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(ii) subject to an agreement with the cabin owners, 
conduct a new appraisal and fee determination. 
(5) PAYMENT OF COSTS.—Cabin owners and the Secretary 
shall share, in equal proportion, the payment of all reasonable 
costs of any new appraisal or peer review. 
(d) 
ASSUMPTION OF NEW BASE CABIN USER FEE.—In 
the 
absence of a request under subsection (c) for a new appraisal 
and fee determination from a cabin owner whose cabin user fee 
was determined as a result of an appraisal conducted after Sep-
tember 30, 1995, but before the date of promulgation of final regula-
tions under section 613, the Secretary may consider the base cabin 
user fee resulting from the appraisal conducted between September 
30, 1995 and the date of promulgation of the final regulations 
under section 613 to be the base cabin user fee that complies 
with this section. 
TITLE VII—TREATMENT OF CERTAIN FUNDS FOR MINER 
BENEFITS 
SEC. 701. (a) REALLOCATION OF INTEREST.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, interest credited to the fund established 
by section 401 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1231) for fiscal years 1992 through 1995 
not transferred to the Combined Fund identified in section 402(h)(2) 
of such Act prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall be 
transferred to such Combined Fund— 
(1) in such amounts as estimated by the trustees of such 
Fund to offset the amount of any deficit in net assets in the 
Combined Fund through August 31, 2001; 
(2) in the amount of $2,200,000 for the purpose of the 
Combined Fund providing a refund of £iny premium (as 
described in section 9704(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1988), on a proportional basis, to those signatory operators 
or any related persons to such operators (as defined in section 
9701(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1988) who have been 
denied such refunds as the result of final judgments or settle-
ments if prior to the date of enactment of this Act such signa-
tory operator (or any related persons to such operator)— 
(A) had all of its beneficiary assignments made under 
section 9706 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 voided 
by the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration; 
(B) was subject to a final judgment or final settlement 
of litigation adverse to a claim by such operator that the 
assignment of beneficiaries under section 9706 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 was unconstitutional as 
applied to it; and 
(C) paid to the Combined Fund any premium amount 
that had not been refunded; and 
(3) in such amounts as necessary for the purpose of the 
Combined Fund providing a monthly refund of any premium 
(as described in section 9704(a) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986) paid by an assigned operator (as defined by section 
9701(c)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) commencing 
with the first monthly premium due date after the date of 
enactment of this Act and ending August 31, 2001, if according 
to the records of the Combined Fund such operator (or any 
related persons of such operator)— 
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114 STAT. 1025 
(A) was not a signatory to the 1981 or later National 
Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement or any "me too" agree-
ment related to such Coal Wage Agreement; 
(B) reported credit hours to the UMWA 1974 Pension 
Plan on fewer than ten classified mine workers in every 
month during its last year of operations under the National 
Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement of 1978 or any "me 
too" agreement related to such Coal Wage Agreement; 
(C) has had not more than 60 beneficiaries, including 
eligible dependents of retired miners, assigned to it under 
section 9706 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 not 
including beneficiary assignments relieved by the Social 
Security Administration; 
(D) was assessed premiums by the Combined Fund 
in October 1999, made pajnnents pursuant to that assess-
ment and has no delinquency as of September 30, 2000; 
and 
(E) is not directly engaged in the production or sale 
of coal and has no related person engaged in the production 
of coal as of September 30, 2000. 
(b) SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.—-If any provision of this title or 
the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held 
invalid, the remainder of the title and the application of such 
provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected 
thereby. 
TITLE VIII—LAND CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION AND 
INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT 
For activities authorized by law for the acquisition, conserva-
tion, and maintenance of Federal and non-Federal lands and 
resources, and for Pajnnents in Lieu of Taxes, in addition to the 
amounts provided under previous titles of this Act, $686,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which $179,000,000 is for 
the acquisition of lands or interests in lands; and of which 
$50,000,000 is for "National Park Service, Land Acquisition and 
State Assistance" for the state assistance program; and of which 
$20,000,000 is for "Forest Service, National Forest System" for 
inventory and monitoring activities and planning; and of which 
$78,000,000 is for "United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Cooperative Endangered Species Fimd"; and of which $20,000,000 
is for "United States Fish and Wildlife Service, North American 
Wetlands Conservation Fund"; and of which $20,000,000 is for 
"United States Geological Survey, Surveys, Investigations, and 
Research" for science and cooperative programs; and of which 
$30,000,000 is for "Forest Service, State and Private Forestry" 
for the Forest Legacy program; and of which $50,000,000 is for 
"United States Fish and Wildlife Service, State Wildlife Grants"; 
and of which $20,000,000 is for "National Park Service, Urban 
Park and Recreation Fund"; and of which $15,000,000 is for 
"National Park Service, Historic Preservation Fund" for grants to 
states and Indian tribes; and of which $4,000,000 is for "Forest 
Service, State and Private Forestry" for urban and community 
forestry programs; and of which $50,000,000 is for "Bureau of 
Land Management, Pa)anents in Lieu of Taxes"; and of which 
$150,000,000 is for "Federal Infirastructure Improvement" for the 
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deferred maintenance needs of the Federal land management agen-
cies: Provided, That of the funds provided under this heading for 
the acquisition of lands or interests in lands, $130,000,000 shall 
be available to the Department of the Interior and $49,000,000 
shall be available to the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 
Provided further, 
That none of the funds provided under this 
heading for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands shall 
be available until the House Committee on Appropriations and 
the Senate Committee on Appropriations provide to the Secretaries, 
in writing, a list of specific acquisitions to be undertaken with 
such funds: Provided further, That of the funds provided under 
this heading for "Federal Infrastructure Improvement" for the 
deferred maintenance needs of the Federal land management agen-
cies, $25,000,000 shall be for the Bureau of Land Management, 
$25,000,000 shall be for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
$50,000,000 shall be for the National Park Service and $50,000,000 
shall be for the Forest Service. 
SEC. 801. (a) CATEGORIES.—Section 251(c) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(c)) 
is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (6), by— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking "and" after the 
semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by inserting "and" after the 
semicolon; and 
(C) adding at the end the following: 
"(D) 
for 
the 
conservation 
spending 
category: 
$1,760,000,000, 
in 
new 
budget 
authority 
and 
$1,232,000,000 in outlays;"; 
(2) in paragraph (7), by— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking "and" after the 
semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and 
inserting "; and"; and 
(C) adding at the end the following: 
"(C) 
for 
the 
conservation 
spending 
category: 
$1,920,000,000, 
in 
new 
budget 
authority 
and 
$1,872,000,000 in outlays;"; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following: 
"(8) with respect to fiscal year 2004 for the conservation 
spending category: $2,080,000,000, in new budget authority 
and $2,032,000,000 in outlays; 
"(9) with respect to fiscal year 2005 for the conservation 
spending category: $2,240,000,000, in new budget authority 
and $2,192,000,000 in outlays; 
"(10) with respect to fiscal year 2006 for the conservation 
spending category: $2,400,000,000, in new budget authority 
and $2,352,000,000 in outlays; 
"(11) with respect to each fiscal year 2002 through 2006 
for the Federal and State Land and Water Conservation Fund 
sub-category 
of 
the 
conservation 
spending 
category: 
$540,000,000 in new budget authority and the outlays flowing 
therefrom; 
"(12) with respect to each fiscal year 2002 through 2006 
for the State and Other Conservation sub-category of the con-
servation spending category: $300,000,000 in new budget 
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom; 
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114 STAT. 1027 
"(13) with respect to each fiscal year 2002 through 2006 
for the Urban and Historic Preservation sub-category of the 
conservation spending category: $160,000,000 in new budget 
authority and the outlays flowing therefrom; 
"(14) with respect to each fiscal year 2002 through 2006 
for the Payments in Lieu of Taxes sub-category of the conserva-
tion spending category: $50,000,000 in new budget authority 
and the outlays flowing therefrom; 
"(15) with respect to each fiscal year 2002 through 2006 
for the Federal Deferred Maintenance sub-category of the con-
servation spending category: $150,000,000 in new budget 
authority Eind the outlays flowing therefrom; 
"(16) with respect to fiscal year 2002 for the Coastal Assist-
ance sub-category of the conservation spending category: 
$440,000,000 in new budget authority and the outlays flowing 
therefrom; with respect to fiscal year 2003 for the Coastal 
Assistance sub-category of the conservation spending category: 
$480,000,000 in new budget authority £m.d the outlays flowing 
therefrom; with respect to fiscal year 2004 for the Coastal 
Assistance sub-category of the conservation spending category: 
$520,000,000 in new budget authority and the outlays flowing 
therefrom; with respect to fiscal year 2005 for the Coastal 
Assistance sub-category of the conservation spending category: 
$560,000,000 in new budget authority and the outlays flowing 
therefi-om; and with respect to fiscal year 2006 for the Coastal 
Assistance sub-category of the conservation spending category: 
$600,000,000 in new budget authority and the outlays flowing 
therefrom;". 
(b) ADDITION TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—Section 
251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
"(H) CONSERVATION SPENDING.—(i) If a bill or resolu-
tion making appropriations for any fiscal year appropriates 
an amount for the conservation spending category that 
is less than the limit for the conservation spending category 
as specified in subsection (c), then the adjustment for new 
budget authority and outlays for the following fiscal year 
for that category shall be the amount of new budget 
authority and outlays that equals the difference between 
the amount appropriated and the amount of that category 
specified in subsection (c). 
"(ii) If a bill or resolution making appropriations for 
any fiscal year appropriates an amount for any conserva-
tion spending sub-category that is less than the limit for 
that conservation spending sub-category as specified in sub-
sections (c)(ll)-(c)(16), then the adjustment for new budget 
authority for the following fiscal year for that sub-category 
shall be the amount of new budget authority that equals 
the difference between the amount appropriated and the 
amount of that sub-category specified in subsection (c)(ll)-
(c)(16). 
"(iii) The total amount provided for any conservation 
activity within the conservation spending category may 
not exceed any authorized ceiling for that activity.". 
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(c) CATEGORIES DEFINED.—Section 250(c)(4) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
900(c)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
"(E) The term 'conservation spending category' means 
discretionary appropriations for conservation activities in 
the following budget accounts or portions thereof providing 
appropriations to preserve and protect lands, habitat, wild-
life, and other natural resources, to provide recreational 
opportunities, and for related purposes: 
"(i) 14-5033 Bureau of Land Management Land 
Acquisition. 
"(ii) 14-5020 Fish and WildUfe Service Land 
Acquisition. 
"(iii) 14-5035 National Park Service Land Acquisi-
tion and State Assistance. 
"(iv) 12-9923 Forest Service Land Acquisition, 
"(v) 14-5143 Fish and Wildlife Service Cooperative 
Endangered Species Conservation Fund. 
"(vi) 14-5241 Fish and WildHfe Service North 
American Wetlands Conservation Fund. 
"(vii) 14-1694 Fish and Wildlife Service State 
Wildlife Grants. 
"(viii) 14-0804 United States Geological Survey 
Surveys, Investigations, and Research, the State Plan-
ning 
Partnership 
programs: 
Community/Federal 
Information Partnership, Urban Dynamics, and Deci-
sion Support for Resource Management. 
"(ix) 12-1105 Forest Service State and Private For-
estry, the Forest Legacy Program, Urban and Commu-
nity Forestry, and Smart Growth Partnerships. 
"(x) 14-1031 National Park Service Urban Park 
and Recreation Recovery program. 
"(xi) 14-5140 National Park Service Historic 
Preservation Fund. 
"(xii) Youth Conservation Corps, 
"(xiii) 14-1114 Bureau of Land Management Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes. 
"(xiv) Federal Infi-astructure Improvement (as 
established in title VIII of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2001). 
"(xv) 13-1460 NCAA Procurement Acquisition and 
Construction, the National Marine Sanctuaries and the 
National Estuarine Research Reserve Systems. 
"(xvi) 13-1450 NCAA Operations, Research, and 
Facilities, the Coastal Zone Management Act programs, 
the National Marine Sanctuaries, the National Estua-
rine Research Reserve Systems, and Coral Restoration 
programs. 
"(xvii) 13-1451 NOAA Pacific Coastal Salmon 
Recovery. 
"(F) The term 'Federal and State Land and Water 
Conservation 
Fund 
sub-category' means 
discretionary 
appropriations for activities in the accounts described in 
(E)(i)-(E)(iv) or portions thereof. 
"(G) The term 'State and Other Conservation sub-cat-
egory' means discretionary appropriations for activities in 
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114 STAT. 1029 
the accounts described in (E)(v)-(E)(ix), with the exception 
of Urban and Community Forestry as described in (E)(ix), 
or portions thereof. 
"(H) The term 'Urban and Historic Preservation sub-
category' means discretionary appropriations for activities 
in the accounts described in (E)(ix)-(E)(xii), with the excep-
tion of Forest Legacy and Smart Growth Partnerships as 
described in (E)(ix), or portions thereof. 
"(I) The term Ta)Tnents in Lieu of Taxes sub-category* 
means discretionary appropriations for activities in the 
account described in (E)(xiii) or portions thereof. 
"(J) The term 'Federal Deferred Maintenance sub-cat-
egory' means discretionary appropriations for activities in 
the account described in (E)(xiv) or portions thereof. 
"(K) The term 'Coastal Assistance sub-category* means 
discretionary appropriations for activities in the accounts 
described in (E)(xv)-(E)(xvii) or portions thereof.". 
TITLE IX 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 
GIFTS TO T H E U N I T E D STATES FOR REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 
For deposit of an additional amount into the account established 
under section 3113(d) of title 31, United States Code, to reduce 
the public debt, $5,000,000,000. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001". 
Approved October 11, 2000. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4578: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 106-646 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 106-914 
(Comm. of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 106-312 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 146 (2000): 
June 13-15, considered and passed House. 
July 10, 12, 17, 18, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Oct. 3, House agreed to conference report. 
Oct. 3-5, Senate agreed to conference report. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 36 (2000): 
Oct. 11, Presidential statement and remarks.