[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2107 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2107

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
 the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven


                                 An Act


 
  Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related 
 agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 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 fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, 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, acquisition 
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)), $583,270,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $2,043,000 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 $3,000,000 shall be derived from the special receipt account 
established by the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)); and of which $1,500,000 shall be available in 
fiscal year 1998 subject to a match by at least an equal amount by the 
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to such Foundation for challenge 
cost share projects supporting fish and wildlife conservation affecting 
Bureau lands; in addition, $27,650,000 for Mining Law Administration 
program operations, 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 appropriation 
estimated at not more than $583,270,000; and in addition, not to exceed 
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended, from annual mining 
claim fees; which shall be credited to this account for the costs of 
administering the mining claim fee program, and $2,000,000 from 
communication site rental fees established by the Bureau for the cost 
of administering communication site activities: Provided, That 
appropriations herein made shall not be available for the destruction 
of healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros in the care of the Bureau 
or its contractors.


                         wildland fire management

    For necessary expenses for fire use and management, fire 
preparedness, suppression operations, and emergency rehabilitation by 
the Department of the Interior, $280,103,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $6,950,000 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 persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be 
furnished subsistence and lodging without cost from funds available 
from this appropriation.


                     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.), 
$12,000,000, 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 payments 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.


                               construction

    For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, 
trails, and appurtenant facilities, $3,254,000, 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), $120,000,000, of which not to exceed 
$400,000 shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided, That 
no payment shall be made to otherwise eligible units of local 
government if the computed amount of the payment is less than $100.


                             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, $11,200,000, 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 counties of Oregon, and on adjacent rights-
of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests therein including 
existing connecting roads on or adjacent to such grant lands; 
$101,406,000, 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

                    (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 derived from treatments funded by this 
account shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health and 
Recovery Fund.


                            range improvements

    For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and 
interests therein, and improvement of Federal 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 $9,113,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall 
be available for administrative expenses.


                service charges, deposits, and forfeitures

    For administrative expenses and other costs related to processing 
application documents and other authorizations for use and disposal of 
public lands and resources, for costs of providing copies of official 
public land documents, for monitoring construction, operation, and 
termination of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and 
for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
collected under Public Law 94-579, as amended, and Public Law 93-153, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
provision to the contrary of section 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 appropriate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of 
that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended 
under the authority of this Act by the Secretary to improve, protect, 
or rehabilitate any public lands administered through the Bureau of 
Land 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, for information or 
evidence concerning violations of laws administered 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 cooperators share the cost of printing 
either in cash or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator 
is capable of meeting accepted quality standards.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service


                           resource management

    For expenses necessary for scientific and economic studies, 
conservation, management, investigations, protection, and utilization 
of fishery and wildlife resources, except whales, seals, and sea lions, 
and for the performance of other authorized functions related to such 
resources; for the general administration of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service; for maintenance of the herd of long-horned cattle on 
the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge; and not less than $1,000,000 for 
high priority projects within the scope of the approved budget which 
shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by 
the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended, $594,842,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 1999, of which $11,612,000 shall remain 
available until expended for operation and maintenance of fishery 
mitigation facilities constructed by the Corps of Engineers under the 
Lower Snake River Compensation Plan, authorized by the Water Resources 
Development Act of 1976, to compensate for loss of fishery resources 
from water development projects on the Lower Snake River, and 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) program and shall remain 
available until expended, and of which not to exceed $5,190,000 shall 
be used for implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 
4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended: Provided, That the 
proviso under this heading in Public Law 104-208 is amended by striking 
the words ``Education and'' and inserting in lieu thereof 
``Conservation'', by striking the word ``direct'' and inserting in lieu 
thereof the word ``full'', and by inserting before the period ``, to 
remain available until expended''.


                               construction

    For construction and acquisition of buildings and other facilities 
required in the conservation, management, investigation, protection, 
and utilization of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 
of lands and interests therein; $45,006,000, to remain available until 
expended.


                 natural resource 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 
(Public Law 101-380), and Public Law 101-337; $4,228,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That under this heading in Public 
Law 104-134, strike ``in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter'' in the 
proviso and insert ``heretofore and hereafter'', and before the phrase 
``or properties shall be utilized'' in such proviso, insert ``, to 
remain available until expended,'': Provided further, That the first 
proviso under this heading in Public Law 103-138 is amended by 
inserting after ``account'' the following: ``, including transfers to 
Federal trustees and payments to non-Federal trustees,''.


                             land acquisition

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 through 11), including 
administrative 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, $62,632,000, to remain 
available until expended.


             cooperative endangered species conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531-1543), as amended, 
$14,000,000, for grants to States, to be derived from the Cooperative 
Endangered Species Conservation Fund, and 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), $10,779,000.


                          rewards and operations

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the African 
Elephant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201-4203, 4211-4213, 4221-4225, 
4241-4245, and 1538), $1,000,000, to remain available until expended.


                north american wetlands conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the North 
American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public Law 101-233, as amended, 
$11,700,000, to remain available until expended.


                  rhinoceros and tiger conservation fund

    For deposit to the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund, 
$400,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out the 
Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-391).


               wildlife conservation and appreciation fund

    For deposit to the Wildlife Conservation and Appreciation Fund, 
$800,000, to remain available until expended.


                        administrative provisions

    Appropriations and funds available to the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service shall be available for purchase of not to exceed 108 
passenger motor vehicles, of which 92 are for replacement only 
(including 57 for police-type use); not to exceed $400,000 for payment, 
at the discretion of the Secretary, for information, rewards, or 
evidence concerning violations of laws administered by the Service, and 
miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement activities, 
authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely 
on his certificate; repair of damage to public roads within and 
adjacent to reservation areas caused by operations of the Service; 
options for the purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each option; 
facilities incident to such public recreational uses on conservation 
areas as are consistent with their primary purpose; and the 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 utilized 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 services from cooperators in connection with jointly produced 
publications for which the cooperators share at least one-half the cost 
of printing either in cash or services and the Service 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 further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior may not spend any of 
the funds appropriated in this Act for the purchase of lands or 
interests in lands to be used in the establishment of any new unit of 
the National Wildlife Refuge System unless the purchase is approved in 
advance by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in 
compliance with the reprogramming procedures contained in the report 
accompanying this bill: Provided further, That the Secretary may sell 
land and interests in land, other than surface water rights, acquired 
in conformance with subsections 206(a) and 207(c) of Public Law 101-
816, the receipts of which shall be deposited to the Lahontan Valley 
and Pyramid Lake Fish and Wildlife Fund and used exclusively for the 
purposes of such subsections, without regard to the limitation on the 
distribution of benefits in subsection 206(f)(2) of such law.

                         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 administration 
of the National Park Service, including not to exceed $1,593,000 for 
the Volunteers-in-Parks program, and not less than $1,000,000 for high 
priority projects within the scope of the approved budget which shall 
be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by 16 
U.S.C. 1706, $1,233,664,000, of which $12,800,000 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 $72,000,000, 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.


                   national recreation and preservation

    For expenses necessary to carry out recreation programs, natural 
programs, cultural programs, heritage partnership programs, 
environmental compliance and review, international park affairs, 
statutory or contractual aid for other activities, and grant 
administration, not otherwise provided for, $44,259,000, of which 
$4,500,000 is for grants to Heritage areas in accordance with section 
606 of title VI, division I and titles I-VI and VIII-IX, division II of 
Public Law 104-333 and is to remain available until September 30, 1999.


                        historic preservation fund

    For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic Preservation 
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), $40,812,000, 
to be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain available 
until September 30, 1999, of which $4,200,000 pursuant to section 507 
of Public Law 104-333 shall remain available until expended.


                               construction

    For construction, improvements, repair or replacement of physical 
facilities, including the modifications authorized by section 104 of 
the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, 
$214,901,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
$500,000 for the Rutherford B. Hayes Home; $600,000 for the Sotterly 
Plantation House; $500,000 for the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, New 
York; $500,000 for the Penn Center, South Carolina; and $1,000,000 for 
the Vietnam Veterans Museum in Chicago, Illinois shall be derived from 
the Historic Preservation Fund pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 470a: Provided 
further, That $3,000,000 for the Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico, 
is subject to authorization: Provided further, That none of the funds 
provided in this Act may be used to relocate the Brooks River Lodge in 
Katmai National Park and Preserve from its current physical location.


                     land and water conservation fund

                               (rescission)

    The contract authority provided for fiscal year 1998 by 16 U.S.C. 
460l-10a is rescinded.


                  land acquisition and state assistance

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 through 11), including 
administrative expenses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable to 
the National Park Service, $143,290,000, to be derived from the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until expended, of 
which $1,000,000 is to administer the State assistance program: 
Provided, That any funds made available for the purpose of acquisition 
of the Elwha and Glines dams shall be used solely for acquisition, and 
shall not be expended until the full purchase amount has been 
appropriated by the Congress: Provided further, That from the funds 
made available for land acquisition at Everglades National Park and Big 
Cypress National Preserve, the Secretary may provide for 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) 
under terms and conditions deemed necessary by the Secretary, to 
improve and restore the hydrological function of the Everglades 
watershed: Provided further, That the Secretary may provide such funds 
to the State of Florida for acquisitions within Stormwater Treatment 
Area 1-E, including reimbursement for lands or waters, or interests 
therein, within Stormwater Treatment Area 1-E acquired by the State of 
Florida prior to the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
funds provided under this heading to the State of Florida shall be 
subject to an agreement that such lands will be managed in perpetuity 
for the restoration of the Everglades.


                        administrative provisions

    Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available for 
the purchase of not to exceed 396 passenger motor vehicles, of which 
302 shall be for replacement only, including not to exceed 315 for 
police-type use, 13 buses, and 6 ambulances: Provided, That none of the 
funds appropriated to the National Park Service may be used to process 
any grant or contract documents which do not include the text of 18 
U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated to 
the National Park Service may be used to implement an agreement for the 
redevelopment of the southern end of Ellis Island until such agreement 
has been submitted to the Congress and shall not be implemented prior 
to the expiration of 30 calendar days (not including any day in which 
either House of Congress is not in session because of adjournment of 
more than three calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate 
of a full and comprehensive report on the development of the southern 
end of Ellis Island, including the facts and circumstances relied upon 
in support of the proposed project.
    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 encourage 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 topography, 
geology, hydrology, 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(1)) and related 
purposes as authorized by law and to publish and disseminate data; 
$759,160,000 of which $66,231,000 shall be available only for 
cooperation with States or municipalities for water resources 
investigations; 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 
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended for development of a 
mineral and geologic database; and of which $145,159,000 shall be 
available until September 30, 1999 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 of this appropriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the 
cost of topographic mapping or water resources data collection and 
investigations carried on in cooperation with States and 
municipalities.


                        administrative provisions

    The amount appropriated for the United States Geological Survey 
shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed 53 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 appropriations herein made may be accomplished through the 
use of contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements as defined in 31 
U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Provided further, That the United States 
Geological Survey may contract directly with individuals or indirectly 
with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without regard to section 
41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent services of science 
students or recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for the 
purposes of chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to 
compensation for work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United 
States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not be considered to be 
Federal employees for any other purposes.

                      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 operating contracts; and for matching grants or cooperative 
agreements; including the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only; $137,521,000, of which not less 
than $68,574,000 shall be available for royalty management activities; 
and an amount not to exceed $65,000,000, 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 
administrative 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 $3,000,000 for 
computer acquisitions shall remain available until September 30, 1999: 
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 overpayments in connection with certain Indian 
leases in which the Director of the Minerals Management Service 
concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian 
allottees or tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous 
payments.


                            oil spill research

    For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 1016, title 
IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title VIII, section 8201 of 
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $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 Surface 
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; $94,937,000, and notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, an additional amount shall be credited to this account, to 
remain available until expended, from performance bond forfeitures in 
fiscal year 1998: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, 
pursuant to regulations, may utilize directly or through grants to 
States, moneys collected in fiscal year 1998 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 Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for 
the travel and per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel 
attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored 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, $177,624,000, to be derived from receipts of the 
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain available until expended; 
of which up to $5,000,000 shall be for supplemental grants to States 
for the reclamation of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage 
from coal mines through the Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative: 
Provided, That grants to minimum program States will be $1,500,000 per 
State in fiscal year 1998: 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 limitation per State and may be used without fiscal year 
limitation 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 delinquent debt owed to the 
United States Government to pay for contracts to collect these debts: 
Provided further, That funds made available to States under title IV of 
Public Law 95-87 may be used, at their discretion, for any required 
non-Federal share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal 
Government for the purpose of environmental restoration related to 
treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines: 
Provided further, That such projects must be consistent with the 
purposes and priorities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act: Provided further, That the State of Maryland may set aside the 
greater of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total of the grants made 
available to the State under title IV of the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977, as amended (30 U.S.C. 1231 et seq.), if the 
amount set aside is deposited in an acid mine drainage abatement and 
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 operation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants including expenses 
necessary to provide education and welfare services for Indians, either 
directly or in cooperation with States and other organizations, 
including payment of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses of 
Indians in boarding homes, or institutions, or schools; grants and 
other assistance to needy Indians; maintenance of law and order; 
management, development, improvement, and protection of resources and 
appurtenant facilities under the jurisdiction of the Bureau, including 
payment of irrigation assessments and charges; acquisition of water 
rights; advances for Indian industrial and business enterprises; 
operation of Indian arts and crafts shops and museums; development of 
Indian arts and crafts, as authorized by law; for the general 
administration of the Bureau, including such expenses in field offices; 
maintaining of Indian reservation roads as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101; 
and construction, repair, and improvement of Indian housing, 
$1,528,588,000, to remain available until September 30, 1999 except as 
otherwise provided herein, of which not to exceed $93,825,000 shall be 
for welfare assistance payments and not to exceed $105,829,000 shall be 
for payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract support 
costs associated with ongoing contracts or grants or compacts entered 
into with the Bureau prior to fiscal year 1998, as authorized by the 
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, 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 $374,290,000 for school 
operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education programs 
shall become available on July 1, 1998, and shall remain available 
until September 30, 1999; and of which not to exceed $55,949,000 shall 
remain available until expended for housing improvement, road 
maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, self-governance grants, 
the Indian Self-Determination Fund, land records improvements and the 
Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That tribes and tribal 
contractors may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet 
indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants or compact agreements and 
for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided further, That funds made 
available to tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, compact 
agreements, or grants obligated during fiscal years 1998 and 1999, as 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, or grants 
authorized by the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2001 
and 2008A) shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 
grantee: Provided further, That to provide funding uniformity within a 
Self-Governance Compact, any funds provided in this Act with 
availability for more than two years may be reprogrammed to two year 
availability but shall remain available within the Compact until 
expended: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, Indian tribal governments may, by appropriate changes in 
eligibility criteria or by other means, change eligibility for general 
assistance or change the amount of general assistance payments for 
individuals within the service area of such tribe who are otherwise 
deemed eligible for general assistance payments so long as such changes 
are applied in a consistent manner to individuals similarly situated: 
Provided further, That any savings realized by such changes shall be 
available for use in meeting other priorities of the tribes: Provided 
further, That any net increase in costs to the Federal Government which 
result solely from tribally increased payment levels for general 
assistance shall be met exclusively from funds available to the tribe 
from within its tribal priority allocation: Provided further, That any 
forestry funds allocated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of 
September 30, 1998, may be transferred during fiscal year 1999 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, 1999: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no funds available to the Bureau, other than the 
amounts provided herein for assistance to public schools under 25 
U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to support the operation of any 
elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska in fiscal year 
1998: Provided further, That funds made available in this or any other 
Act for expenditure through September 30, 1999 for schools funded by 
the Bureau shall be available only to the schools in the Bureau school 
system as of September 1, 1996: Provided further, That 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: Provided further, That beginning in 
fiscal year 1998 and thereafter and notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 
2012(h)(1)(B), when the rates of basic compensation for teachers and 
counselors at Bureau-operated schools are established at the rates of 
basic compensation applicable to comparable positions in overseas 
schools under the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and 
Personnel Practices Act, such rates shall become effective with the 
start of the next academic year following the issuance of the 
Department of Defense salary schedule and shall not be effected 
retroactively: Provided further, That the Cibecue Community School may 
use prior year school operations funds for the construction of a new 
high school facility which is in compliance with 25 U.S.C. 2005(a) 
provided that any additional construction costs for replacement of such 
facilities begun with prior year funds shall be completed exclusively 
with non-Federal funds: Provided further, That tribes may use tribal 
priority allocations funds for the replacement and repair of school 
facilities which are in compliance with 25 U.S.C. 2005(a), so long as 
such replacement or repair is approved by the Secretary and completed 
with non-Federal tribal and/or tribal priority allocations funds.


                               construction

    For construction, major repair, and improvement of irrigation and 
power systems, buildings, utilities, and other facilities, including 
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisition of 
lands, and interests in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, 
and for construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant 
to Public Law 87-483, $125,051,000, 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 1998, 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 subject to section 12.61 of 43 
CFR; the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and determine a 
schedule of payments for the work to be 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 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 payments to Indian tribes and individuals and for 
necessary administrative expenses, $43,352,000, to remain available 
until expended; of which $42,000,000 shall be available for 
implementation of enacted Indian land and water claim settlements 
pursuant to Public Laws 101-618, 102-374, and 102-575, and for 
implementation of other enacted water rights settlements, including not 
to exceed $8,000,000, which shall be for the Federal share of the 
Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Claims Settlement, as authorized 
by section 5(a) of Public Law 103-116; and of which $1,352,000 shall be 
available pursuant to Public Laws 99-264, 100-383, 103-402, and 100-
580: Provided, That the Secretary is directed to sell land and 
interests in land, other than surface water rights, acquired in 
conformance with section 2 of the Truckee River Water Quality 
Settlement Agreement, the receipts of which shall be deposited to the 
Lahontan Valley and Pyramid Lake Fish and Wildlife Fund, and be 
available for the purposes of section 2 of such agreement, without 
regard to the limitation on the distribution of benefits in the second 
sentence of paragraph 206(f)(2) of Public Law 101-618.


                  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 $34,615,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan programs, $500,000.


                        administrative provisions

    Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee and insurance fund, 
the Technical Assistance of Indian Enterprises account, the Indian 
Direct Loan Program account, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program 
account) shall be available for expenses of exhibits, and purchase of 
not to exceed 229 passenger motor vehicles, of which not to exceed 187 
shall be for replacement only.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office operations or pooled 
overhead general administration 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).

                          Departmental Offices

                            Insular Affairs


                        Assistance to Territories

    For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $67,514,000, of which: 
(1) $63,665,000 shall be available until expended for technical 
assistance, including maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, 
insular management controls, 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 Law 94-
241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $3,849,000 shall be available for salaries 
and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all 
financial transactions of the territorial and local governments herein 
provided for, including such transactions of all agencies or 
instrumentalities established or utilized 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 99-396, or any 
subsequent legislation related to Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands grant funding: 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 the 
funds for the program of operations and maintenance improvement are 
appropriated to institutionalize routine operations and maintenance 
improvement of capital 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 participation 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 Federated 
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 necessary expenses 
for the Republic of Palau as provided for in sections 122, 221, 223, 
232, and 233 of the Compact of Free Association, $20,545,000, to remain 
available until expended, as authorized by Public Law 99-239 and Public 
Law 99-658.

                        Departmental Management


                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses for management of the Department of the 
Interior, $58,286,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses, and of which up to 
$1,200,000 shall be available for workers compensation payments and 
unemployment compensation payments associated with the orderly closure 
of the United States Bureau of Mines.

                        Office of the Solicitor


                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, $35,443,000.

                      Office of Inspector General


                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$24,500,000.

                   National Indian Gaming Commission


                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Indian Gaming Commission, 
pursuant to Public Law 100-497, $1,000,000.

             Office of Special Trustee for American Indians


                          federal trust programs

    For operation of trust programs for Indians by direct expenditure, 
contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, $33,907,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That funds for trust 
management improvements may be transferred to the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs: Provided further, That funds made available to tribes and 
tribal organizations through contracts or grants obligated during 
fiscal year 1998, 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 enactment of this Act, concerning losses to or 
mismanagement of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual 
Indian has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from which 
the beneficiary can determine whether there has been a loss.

                       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: Provided further, That no programs 
funded with appropriated funds in the ``Departmental Management'', 
``Office of the Solicitor'', and ``Office of Inspector General'' may be 
augmented through the Working Capital Fund or the Consolidated Working 
Fund.

             GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

    Sec. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer (within each bureau or office), with the 
approval of the Secretary, for the emergency reconstruction, 
replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other 
facilities 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 available 
to the Department of the Interior for emergencies shall have been 
exhausted: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to this 
section are hereby designated by Congress to be ``emergency 
requirements'' pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation which must be 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 forest or range fires on or 
threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the 
Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands under 
its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or actual 
earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; 
for contingency planning subsequent to actual oilspills; response and 
natural resource damage assessment activities related to actual 
oilspills; for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or 
potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to the authority in section 
1773(b) of Public Law 99-198 (99 Stat. 1658); for emergency reclamation 
projects under section 410 of Public Law 95-87; and shall transfer, 
from any no year funds available to the Office of Surface Mining 
Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary to permit 
assumption of regulatory authority in the event a primacy State is not 
carrying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining Act: 
Provided, That appropriations made in this title for fire suppression 
purposes shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred 
during the preceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to other 
Federal agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or other 
equipment in connection with their use for fire suppression purposes, 
such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations currently available 
at the time of receipt thereof: Provided further, That for emergency 
rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activities, no funds shall be 
made available under this authority until funds appropriated to 
``Wildland Fire Management'' shall have been exhausted: Provided 
further, That all funds used pursuant to this section are hereby 
designated by Congress to be ``emergency requirements'' pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, and must be replenished by a supplemental 
appropriation which must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided 
further, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a 
pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency funds were transferred.
    Sec. 103. Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, 
wherever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or 
economy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services 
rendered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized by 
sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31, 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; payment for telephone 
service in private residences in the field, when authorized under 
regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when 
authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies or 
associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to 
members lower than to subscribers who are not members.
    Sec. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of the 
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. Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
obligation in connection with contracts issued for services or rentals 
for periods not in excess of twelve months beginning at any time during 
the fiscal year.
    Sec. 107. In fiscal year 1998 and thereafter, for those years in 
which the recreation fee demonstration program authorized in Public Law 
104-134 is in effect, the fee collection support authority provided in 
16 U.S.C. 460l-6(i)(1)(B) applies only to parks not included in the fee 
demonstration program, and that the amount retained under this 
authority to cover fee collection costs will not exceed those costs at 
the non-demonstration parks, or 15 percent of all fees collected at 
non-demonstration parks in a fiscal year whichever is less. Fee 
collection costs for parks included in the fee demonstration program 
will be covered by the fees retained at those parks.
    Sec. 108. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore leasing and 
related activities placed under restriction in the President's 
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. 109. 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. 110. 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 lands located outside Sale 181, as 
identified in the final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas 
Leasing Program, 1997-2002.
    Sec. 111. 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. 112. 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 
    obligations or securities that are guaranteed or insured by the 
    United 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. 113. (a) Employees of Helium Operations, Bureau of Land 
Management, entitled to severance pay under 5 U.S.C. 5595, may apply 
for, and the Secretary of the Interior may pay, the total amount of the 
severance pay to the employee in a lump sum. Employees paid severance 
pay in a lump sum and subsequently reemployed by the Federal Government 
shall be subject to the repayment provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5595(i)(2) and 
(3), except that any repayment shall be made to the Helium Fund.
    (b) Helium Operations employees who elect to continue health 
benefits after separation shall be liable for not more than the 
required employee contribution under 5 U.S.C. 8905a(d)(1)(A). The 
Helium Fund shall pay for 18 months the remaining portion of required 
contributions.
    (c) The Secretary of the Interior may provide for training to 
assist Helium Operations employees in the transition to other Federal 
or private sector jobs during the facility shut-down and disposition 
process and for up to 12 months following separation from Federal 
employment, including retraining and relocation incentives on the same 
terms and conditions as authorized for employees of the Department of 
Defense in section 348 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 1995.
    (d) For purposes of the annual leave restoration provisions of 5 
U.S.C. 6304(d)(1)(B), the cessation of helium production and sales, and 
other related Helium Program activities shall be deemed to create an 
exigency of public business under, and annual leave that is lost during 
leave years 1997 through 2001 because of, 5 U.S.C. 6304 (regardless of 
whether such leave was scheduled in advance) shall be restored to the 
employee and shall be credited and available in accordance with 5 
U.S.C. 6304(d)(2). Annual leave so restored and remaining unused upon 
the transfer of a Helium Program employee to a position of the 
executive branch outside of the Helium Program shall be liquidated by 
payment to the employee of a lump sum from the Helium Fund for such 
leave.
    (e) Benefits under this section shall be paid from the Helium Fund 
in accordance with section 4(c)(4) of the Helium Privatization Act of 
1996. Funds may be made available to Helium Program employees who are 
or will be separated before October 1, 2002 because of the cessation of 
helium production and sales and other related activities. Retraining 
benefits, including retraining and relocation incentives, may be paid 
for retraining commencing on or before September 30, 2002.
    Sec. 114. None of the funds in this or previous appropriations Acts 
may be used to establish a new regional office in the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service without the advance approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 115. (a) Conveyance Requirement.--Within 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
convey to the State of West Virginia without reimbursement, all right, 
title, and interest of the United States in and to the property 
described in subsection (b), for sole use by the Wildlife Resources 
Section of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, as part of 
the State of West Virginia fish culture program.
    (b) Property Described.--The property referred to in subsection (a) 
is the property known as the Bowden National Fish Hatchery, located on 
old United States Route 33, Randolph County, West Virginia, consisting 
of 44 acres (more or less), and all improvements and related personal 
property under the control of the Secretary that is located on that 
property, including buildings, structures, equipment, and all 
easements, leases, and water rights relating to that property.
    (c) Use and Reversionary Interest.--The property conveyed to the 
State of West Virginia pursuant to this section shall be used and 
operated solely by the Wildlife Resources Section of the West Virginia 
Division of Natural Resources for the purposes of fishery resources 
management and fisheries-related activities, and if it is used for any 
other purposes or by any other party other than the use authorized 
under subsection (a), all right, title, and interest in and to all 
property conveyed under this section shall revert to the United States. 
The State of West Virginia shall ensure that the property reverting to 
the United States is in substantially the same or better condition as 
at the time of transfer.
    Sec. 116. Section 115 of Public Law 103-332 is amended by inserting 
after the word ``title'' the following: ``or provided from other 
Federal agencies through reimbursable or other agreements pursuant to 
the Economy Act''.
    Sec. 117. The third proviso under the heading ``Compact of Free 
Association'' of Public Law 100-446 is amended by striking 
``$2,000,000'' and inserting ``$2,500,000'' and by adding at the end of 
the proviso the following: ``and commencing on October 1, 1998 and 
every year thereafter, this dollar amount shall be changed to reflect 
any fluctuation occurring during the previous twelve (12) months in the 
Consumer Price Index, as determined by the Secretary of Labor''.
    Sec. 118. Any funds made available in this Act or any other Act for 
tribal priority allocations (hereafter in this section ``TPA'') in 
excess of the funds expended for TPA in fiscal year 1997 (adjusted for 
fixed costs, internal transfers pursuant to other law, and proposed 
increases to formula-driven programs not included in tribes' TPA base) 
shall only be available for distribution--
        (1) to each tribe to the extent necessary to provide that tribe 
    the minimum level of funding recommended by the Joint-Tribal/BIA/
    DOI Task Force on Reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
    Report of 1994 (hereafter ``the 1994 Report'') not to exceed 
    $160,000 per tribe; and
        (2) to the extent funds remain, such funds will be allocated 
    according to the recommendations of a task force comprised of 2 
    designated Federal officials and 2 tribal representatives from each 
    BIA area. These representatives shall be selected by the Secretary 
    after considering a list of names of tribal leaders nominated and 
    elected by the tribes in each area. The list of nominees shall be 
    provided to the Secretary by October 31, 1997. If the tribes in an 
    area fail to submit a list of nominees to the Secretary by October 
    31, 1997, the Secretary shall select representatives after 
    consulting with the BIA. In determining the allocation of remaining 
    funds, the Task Force shall consider the recommendations and 
    principles contained in the 1994 Report. If the Task Force cannot 
    agree on a distribution by January 31, 1998, the Secretary shall 
    distribute the remaining funds based on the recommendations of a 
    majority of Task Force members no later than February 28, 1998. If 
    a majority recommendation cannot be reached, the Secretary in 
    exercising his discretion shall distribute the remaining funds 
    considering the recommendations of the Task Force members.
    Sec. 119. Section 116 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act for Fiscal 
Year 1997 (Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-201) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``Miners Hospital Grant'' each place it appears 
    and inserting in lieu thereof ``Miners Hospital Grants'';
        (2) by striking ``(February 20, 1929, 45 Stat. 1252)'' each 
    place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof ``(July 16, 1894, 28 
    Stat. 110 and February 20, 1929, 45 Stat. 1252)''; and
        (3) by striking ``(July 26, 1894, 28 Stat. 110)'' each place it 
    appears and inserting in lieu thereof ``(July 16, 1894, 28 Stat. 
    110)''.
    Sec. 120. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 90 days after 
enactment of this section there is hereby vested in the United States 
all right, title and interest in and to, and the right of immediate 
possession of, all patented mining claims and valid unpatented mining 
claims (including any unpatented claim whose validity is in dispute, so 
long as such validity is later established in accordance with 
applicable agency procedures) in the area known as the Kantishna Mining 
District within Denali National Park and Preserve, for which all 
current owners (or the bankruptcy trustee as provided hereafter) of 
each such claim (for unpatented claims, ownership as identified in 
recordations under the mining laws and regulations) consent to such 
vesting in writing to the Secretary of the Interior within said 90-day 
period: Provided, That in the case of a mining claim in the Kantishna 
Mining District that is involved in a bankruptcy proceeding, where the 
bankruptcy trustee is a holder of an interest in such mining claim, 
such consent may only be provided and will be deemed timely for 
purposes of this section if the trustee applies within said 90-day 
period to the bankruptcy court or any other appropriate court for 
authority to sell the entire mining claim and to consent to the vesting 
of title to such claim in the United States pursuant to this section, 
and that in such event title in the entire mining claim shall vest in 
the United States 10 days after entry of an unstayed, final order or 
judgment approving the trustee's application: Provided further, That 
the United States shall pay just compensation to the aforesaid owners 
of any valid claims to which title has vested in the United States 
pursuant to this section, determined as of the date of taking: Provided 
further, That payment shall be in the amount of a negotiated settlement 
of the value of such claim or the valuation of such claim awarded by 
judgment, and such payment, including any deposits in the registry of 
the court, shall be made solely from the permanent judgment 
appropriation established pursuant to section 1304 of title 31, United 
States Code, and shall include accrued interest on the amount of the 
agreed settlement value or the final judgment from the date of taking 
to the date of payment, calculated in accordance with section 258a of 
title 40, United States Code: Provided further, That the United States 
or a claim owner or bankruptcy trustee may initiate proceedings after 
said 90-day period, but no later than six years after the date of 
enactment of this section, seeking a determination of just compensation 
in the District Court for the District of Alaska pursuant to the 
Declaration of Taking Act, sections 258a-e of title 40, United States 
Code (except where inconsistent with this section), and joining all 
owners of the claim: Provided further, That when any such suit is 
instituted by the United States or the owner or bankruptcy trustee, the 
United States shall deposit as soon as possible in the registry of the 
court the estimated just compensation, in accordance with the 
procedures generally described in section 258a of title 40, United 
States Code, not otherwise inconsistent with this section: Provided 
further, That in establishing any estimate for deposit in the court 
registry (other than an estimate based on an agency approved appraisal 
made prior to the date of enactment of this Act) the Secretary of the 
Interior shall permit the claim owner to present information to the 
Secretary on the value of the claim, including potential mineral value, 
and the Secretary shall consider such information and permit the claim 
owner to have a reasonable and sufficient opportunity to comment on 
such estimate: Provided further, That the estimated just compensation 
deposited in the court registry shall be paid forthwith to the 
aforesaid owners upon application to the court: Provided further, That 
any payment from the court registry to the aforesaid owners shall be 
deducted from any negotiated settlement or award by judgment: Provided 
further, That the United States may not request the court to withhold 
any payment from the court registry for environmental remediation with 
respect to such claim: Provided further, That the Secretary shall not 
allow any unauthorized use of claims acquired pursuant to this section 
after the date title vests in the United States pursuant to this 
section, and the Secretary shall permit the orderly termination of all 
operations on the lands and the removal of equipment, facilities, and 
personal property by claim owners or bankruptcy trustee (as 
appropriate).
    Sec. 121. Section 1034 of Public Law 104-333 (110 Stat. 4093, 4240) 
is amended by striking ``at any time within 12 months of enactment of 
this Act'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``on or before October 1, 
1998'' and by inserting at the end of the section the following new 
sentence: ``If such litigation is commenced, at the court trial, any 
party may introduce any relevant evidence bearing on the interpretation 
of the 1976 agreement.''.
    Sec. 122. (a) Kodiak Land Valuation.--Notwithstanding the Refuge 
Revenue Sharing Act (16 U.S.C. 715s) or any regulations implementing 
such Act, the fair market value for the initial computation of the 
payment to Kodiak Island Borough pursuant to such Act shall be based on 
the purchase price of the parcels acquired from Akhiok-Kaguyak, 
Incorporated, Koniag, Incorporated, and the Old Harbor Native 
Corporation for addition to the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
    (b) Reappraisals.--The fair market value of the parcels described 
in subsection (a) shall be reappraised by the Alaska Region of the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service under the Refuge Revenue 
Sharing Act (16 U.S.C. 715s). Any such reappraisals shall be made in 
accordance with such Act and any other applicable law and regulation, 
and shall be effective for any payments made in fiscal year 1999.
    (c) Effective Date.--The fair market value computation required 
under subsection (a) shall be effective as of the date of the 
acquisition of the parcels described is such subsection.
    Sec. 123. Assessment of Fees. (a) Commission Funding.--Section 
18(a) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2717(a)) is 
amended--
        (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``class II gaming activity'' 
    and inserting ``gaming operation that conducts a class II or class 
    III gaming activity''; and
        (2) in paragraph (2)--
            (A) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ``no less than 0.5 
        percent nor'' and inserting ``no'';
            (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``$1,500,000'' and 
        inserting ``$8,000,000''; and
            (C) nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall apply 
        to self-regulated tribes such as the Mississippi Band of 
        Choctaw.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 19 of the Indian 
Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2718) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``such sums as may be 
    necessary'' and inserting ``for fiscal year 1998, and for each 
    fiscal year thereafter, an amount equal to the amount of funds 
    derived from the assessments authorized by section 18(a) for the 
    fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year involved,''; and
        (2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Notwithstanding section 18, there are authorized to be 
appropriated to fund the operation of the Commission, $2,000,000 for 
fiscal year 1998, and $2,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter. The 
amounts authorized to be appropriated in the preceding sentence shall 
be in addition to the amounts authorized to be appropriated under 
subsection (a).''.
    Sec. 124. (a) Priority of Bonds.--Section 3 of Public Law 94-392 
(90 Stat. 1193, 1195) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``priority for payment'' and inserting ``a 
    parity lien with every other issue of bonds or other obligations 
    issued for payment''; and
        (2) by striking ``in the order of the date of issue''.
    (b) Application.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to obligations issued on or after the date of enactment of this 
section.
    (c) Short Term Borrowing.--Section 1 of Public Law 94-392 (90 Stat. 
1193) is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end:
    ``(d) The legislature of the Government of the Virgin Islands may 
cause to be issued notes in anticipation of the collection of the taxes 
and revenues for the current fiscal year. Such notes shall mature and 
be paid within one year from the date they are issued. No extension of 
such notes shall be valid and no additional notes shall be issued under 
this section until all notes issued during a preceding year shall have 
been paid.''.
    Sec. 125. (a) In this section--
        (1) the term ``Huron Cemetery'' means the lands that form the 
    cemetery that is popularly known as the Huron Cemetery, 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 \1/4\ 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 corner 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. 126. Arkansas Post National Memorial.--(a) The boundaries of 
the Arkansas Post National Memorial are revised to include the 
approximately 360 acres of land generally depicted on the map entitled 
``Arkansas Post National Memorial, Osotouy Unit, Arkansas County, 
Arkansas'' and dated June 1993. Such map shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in appropriate offices of the National Park 
Service of the Department of the Interior.
    (b) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire the 
lands and interests therein described in subsection (a) by donation, 
purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange: Provided, 
That such lands or interests therein may only be acquired with the 
consent of the owner thereof.
    Sec. 127. For the sole purpose of accessing park or other 
authorized visitor services or facilities at, or originating from, the 
public dock area at Bartlett Cove, the National Park Service shall 
initiate a competitive process by which the National Park Service shall 
allow one entry per day for a passenger ferry into Bartlett Cove from 
Juneau: Provided, That any passenger ferry allowed entry pursuant to 
this Act shall be subject to speed, distance from coast lines, and 
other limitations imposed necessary to protect park resources: Provided 
further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as constituting 
approval for entry into the waters of Glacier Bay National Park and 
Preserve beyond the immediate Bartlett Cove area as defined by a line 
extending northeastward from Point Carolus to the west to the 
southernmost point of Lester Island, absent required permits.
    Sec. 128. Title I of Public Law 96-514 (94 Stat. 2957) is amended 
under the heading ``Exploration of National Petroleum Reserve in 
Alaska'' by striking ``(8) each lease shall be issued'' through the end 
of the first paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
``(8) each lease shall be issued for an initial period of ten years, 
and shall be extended for so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced 
from the lease in paying quantities, or as drilling or reworking 
operations, as approved by the Secretary, are conducted thereon; (9) 
for purposes of conservation of the natural resources of any oil or gas 
pool, field, or like area, or any part thereof, lessees thereof and 
their representatives are authorized to unite with each other, or 
jointly or separately with others, in collectively adopting and 
operating under a unit agreement for such pool, field, or like area, or 
any part thereof (whether or not any other part of said oil or gas 
pool, field, or like area is already subject to any cooperative or unit 
plan of development or operation), whenever determined by the Secretary 
to be necessary or advisable in the public interest. Drilling, 
production, and well reworking operations performed in accordance with 
a unit agreement shall be deemed to be performed for the benefit of all 
leases that are subject in whole or in part to such unit agreement. 
When separate tracts cannot be independently developed and operated in 
conformity with an established well spacing or development program, any 
lease, or a portion thereof, may be pooled with other lands, whether or 
not owned by the United States, under a communitization or drilling 
agreement providing for an apportionment of production or royalties 
among the separate tracts of land comprising the drilling or spacing 
unit when determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be in the 
public interest, and operations or production pursuant to such an 
agreement shall be deemed to be operations or production as to each 
such lease committed thereto; (10) to encourage the greatest ultimate 
recovery of oil or gas or in the interest of conservation the Secretary 
is authorized to waive, suspend, or reduce the rental, or minimum 
royalty, or reduce the royalty on an entire leasehold, including on any 
lease operated pursuant to a unit agreement, whenever in his judgment 
the leases cannot be successfully operated under the terms provided 
therein. The Secretary is authorized to direct or assent to the 
suspension of operations and production on any lease or unit. In the 
event the Secretary, in the interest of conservation, shall direct or 
assent to the suspension of operations and production on any lease or 
unit, any payment of acreage rental or minimum royalty prescribed by 
such lease or unit likewise shall be suspended during the period of 
suspension of operations and production, and the term of such lease 
shall be extended by adding any such suspension period thereto; and 
(11) all receipts from sales, rentals, bonuses, and royalties on leases 
issued pursuant to this section shall be paid into the Treasury of the 
United States: Provided, That 50 percent thereof shall be paid by the 
Secretary of the Treasury semiannually, as soon thereafter as 
practicable after March 30 and September 30 each year, to the State of 
Alaska for: (A) planning; (B) construction, maintenance, and operation 
of essential public facilities; and (C) other necessary provisions of 
public service: Provided further, That in the allocation of such funds, 
the State shall give priority to use by subdivisions of the State most 
directly or severely impacted by development of oil and gas leased 
under this Act.''.
    Sec. 129. Limitations on Certain Indian Gaming Operations. (a) 
Definitions.--For purposes of this section, the following definitions 
shall apply:
        (1) Class iii gaming.--The term ``class III gaming'' has the 
    meaning provided that term in section 4(8) of the Indian Gaming 
    Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2703(8)).
        (2) Indian tribe.--The term ``Indian tribe'' has the meaning 
    provided that term in section 4(e) of the Indian Self-Determination 
    and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450(e)).
        (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
    the Department of the Interior.
        (4) Tribal-state compact.--The term ``Tribal-State compact'' 
    means a Tribal-State compact referred to in section 11(d) of the 
    Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2710(d)).
    (b) Class III Gaming Compacts.--
        (1) In general.--
            (A) Prohibition.--During fiscal year 1998, the Secretary 
        may not expend any funds made available under this Act to 
        review or approve any initial Tribal-State compact for class 
        III gaming entered into on or after the date of enactment of 
        this Act. This provision shall not apply to any Tribal-State 
        compact which has been approved by a State in accordance with 
        State law and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
            (B) Rule of construction.--Nothing in this paragraph may be 
        construed to prohibit the review or approval by the Secretary 
        of a renewal or revision of, or amendment to a Tribal-State 
        compact that is not covered under subparagraph (A).
        (2) Tribal-state compacts.--During fiscal year 1998, 
    notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Tribal-State compact 
    for class III gaming shall be considered to have been approved by 
    the Secretary by reason of the failure of the Secretary to approve 
    or disapprove that compact. This provision shall not apply to any 
    Tribal-State compact which has been approved by a State in 
    accordance with State law and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
    Sec. 130. Sense of the Senate Concerning Indian Gaming.--It is the 
sense of the Senate that the United States Department of Justice should 
vigorously enforce the provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 
requiring an approved Tribal-State gaming compact prior to the 
initiation of class III gaming on Indian lands.
    Sec. 131. No funds provided in this or any other Act may be 
expended for the promulgation of a proposed or final rule to amend or 
replace the National Indian Gaming Commission's definition regulations 
located at 25 CFR 502.7 and 502.8.
    Sec. 132. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, hereafter the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service may disburse to local entities 
impact funding pursuant to Refuge Revenue Sharing that is associated 
with Federal real property transferred to the United States Geological 
Survey from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
    Sec. 133. Conveyance of Land to Lander County, Nevada. (a) 
Conveyance.--Not later than the date that is 120 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through 
the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, shall convey to Lander 
County, Nevada, without consideration, all right, title, and interest 
of the United States, subject to all valid existing rights and to the 
rights-of-way described in subsection (b), in the property described as 
T. 32 N., R. 45 E., sec. 18, lots 3, 4, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 
21, Mount Diablo Meridian.
    (b) Rights-of-way.--The property conveyed under subsection (a) 
shall be subject to--
        (1) the right-of-way for Interstate 80;
        (2) the 33-foot wide right-of-way for access to the Indian 
    cemetery included under Public Law 90-71 (81 Stat. 173); and
        (3) the following rights-of-way granted by the Secretary of the 
    Interior:
            NEV-010937 (powerline).
            NEV-066891 (powerline).
            NEV-35345 (powerline).
            N-7636 (powerline).
            N-56088 (powerline).
            N-57541 (fiber optic cable).
            N-55974 (powerline).
    (c) Requirement.--The property described in this section shall be 
used for public purposes and should the property be sold or used for 
other than public purposes, the property shall revert to the United 
States.
    Sec. 134. Conveyance of Certain Bureau of Land Management Lands in 
Clark County, Nevada. (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
        (1) certain landowners who own property adjacent to land 
    managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the North Decatur 
    Boulevard area of Las Vegas, Nevada, bordering on North Las Vegas, 
    have been adversely affected by certain erroneous private land 
    surveys that the landowners believed were accurate;
        (2) the landowners have occupied or improved their property in 
    good faith reliance on the erroneous surveys of the properties;
        (3) the landowners believed that their entitlement to occupancy 
    was finally adjudicated by a Judgment and Decree entered by the 
    Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada on October 26, 1989;
        (4) errors in the private surveys were discovered in connection 
    with a dependent resurvey and section subdivision conducted by the 
    Bureau of Land Management in 1990, which established accurate 
    boundaries between certain federally owned properties and private 
    properties; and
        (5) the Secretary has authority to sell, and it is appropriate 
    that the Secretary should sell, based on an appraisal of the fair 
    market value as of December 1, 1982, the properties described in 
    section 2(b) to the adversely affected landowners.
    (b) Conveyance of Properties.--
        (1) Purchase offers.--
            (A) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf 
        of the owners of real property located adjacent to the 
        properties described in paragraph (2), may submit to the 
        Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the 
        Bureau of Land Management (referred to in this Act as the 
        ``Secretary''), a written offer to purchase the properties.
            (B) Information to accompany offer.--An offer under 
        subparagraph (A) shall be accompanied by--
                (i) a description of each property offered to be 
            purchased;
                (ii) information relating to the claims of ownership of 
            the property based on an erroneous land survey; and
                (iii) such other information as the Secretary may 
            require.
        (2) Description of properties.--The properties described in 
    this paragraph, containing 37.36 acres, more or less, are--
            (A) Government lots 22, 23, 26, and 27 in sec. 18, T. 19 
        S., R. 61 E., Mount Diablo Meridian;
            (B) Government lots 20, 21, and 24 in sec. 19, T. 19 S., R. 
        61 E., Mount Diablo Meridian; and
            (C) Those lands encroached upon in Government lot 1 in sec. 
        24, T. 19 S., R. 60 E., Mount Diablo Meridian, containing 
        approximately 8 acres.
        (3) Conveyance.--
            (A) In general.--Subject to the condition stated in 
        subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall convey subject to valid 
        existing rights to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, all right, 
        title, and interest of the United States in and to the 
        properties offered to be purchased under paragraph (1) on 
        payment by the city of the fair market value of the properties, 
        based on an appraisal of the fair market value as of December 
        1, 1982, approved by the Secretary.
            (B) Condition.--Properties shall be conveyed under 
        subparagraph (A) subject to the condition that the city convey 
        the properties to the landowners who were adversely affected by 
        reliance on erroneous surveys as described in subsection (a).
    Sec. 135. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is directed to accept full title to 
approximately 84 acres of land located in Prince Georges County, 
Maryland, adjacent to Oxon Cove Park, and bordered generally by the 
Potomac River, Interstate 295 and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, and in 
exchange therefor shall convey to the Corrections Corporation of 
America all of the interest of the United States in approximately 42 
acres of land located in Oxon Cove Park in the District of Columbia, 
and bordered generally by Oxon Cove, Interstate 295 and the District of 
Columbia Impound Lot.
    (b) The Secretary shall not acquire any lands under this section if 
the Secretary determines that the lands or any portion thereof have 
become contaminated with hazardous substances (as defined in the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(42 U.S.C. 9601)).
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United States 
shall have no responsibility or liability with respect to any hazardous 
wastes or other substances placed on any of the lands covered by this 
section after their transfer to any party, but nothing in this section 
shall be construed as either diminishing or increasing any 
responsibility or liability of the United States based on the condition 
of such lands on the date of their transfer to the ownership of another 
party: Provided, That the Corrections Corporation of America shall 
indemnify the United States for liabilities arising under the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(42 U.S.C. 9601) and the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.).
    (d) The properties so exchanged shall be equal in fair market value 
or if they are not approximately equal, the Corrections Corporation of 
America shall equalize the values by the payment of cash to the 
Secretary and any such payments shall be deposited to credit of 
``Miscellaneous Trust Funds, National Park Service'' and shall be 
available without further appropriation until expended for the 
acquisition of land within the National Park System. No equalization 
shall be required if the value of the property received by the 
Secretary is more than that transferred by the Secretary.
    (e) Costs of conducting necessary land surveys, preparing the legal 
descriptions of the lands to be conveyed, appraisals, deeds, other 
necessary documents, and administrative costs shall be borne by the 
Corporation. The required appraisals shall be conducted in accordance 
with 43 CFR 2201.3-1, 2201.3-3, and 2201.3-4.
    (f) Following any exchange authorized by this provision, the 
boundaries of the Park System of the Nation's Capital are hereby 
amended to reflect the property added to and deleted from that System.
    Sec. 136. The National Park Service shall, within 30 days of 
enactment of this Act, begin negotiations with the University of Alaska 
Fairbanks, School of Mineral Engineering, to determine the compensation 
that shall be paid by the National Park Service, within funds 
appropriated to the National Park Service in this Act, or within 
unobligated balances of funds appropriated in prior appropriations 
Acts, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Mineral 
Engineering, for facilities, equipment, and interests owned by the 
University that were destroyed by the Federal Government at the 
Stampede Mine Site within the boundaries of Denali National Park and 
Preserve: Provided, That if the National Park Service and the 
University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Mineral Engineering, fail to 
reach a negotiated settlement within 90 days of commencing 
negotiations, then the National Park Service shall submit a formal 
request to the Director of the Office of Hearings and Appeals, 
Department of the Interior, for the purpose of entering into third-
party mediation to be conducted in accordance with the Department of 
the Interior's final policy applicable to alternative dispute 
resolution: Provided further, That any payment made by the National 
Park Service to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Mineral 
Engineering, shall fully satisfy the claims of the University of Alaska 
Fairbanks, School of Mineral Engineering; and that the University of 
Alaska Fairbanks, School of Mineral Engineering, shall convey to the 
Secretary of the Interior all property rights in such facilities, 
equipment and interests: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
Army shall provide, at no cost, two six-by-six vehicles, in excellent 
operating condition, or equivalent equipment to the University of 
Alaska Fairbanks, School of Mineral Engineering, and shall construct a 
bridge across the Bull River to the Golden Zone Mine Site to allow 
ingress and egress for the activities conducted by the School of 
Mineral Engineering.

                       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, $187,944,000, to remain available until expended.


                        state and private forestry

    For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing technical 
and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, and 
others, and for forest health management, cooperative forestry, and 
education and land conservation activities, $161,237,000, to remain 
available until expended, as authorized by law: Provided, That of funds 
available under this heading for Pacific Northwest Assistance in this 
or prior appropriations Acts, $800,000 shall be provided to the World 
Forestry Center for purposes of continuing scientific research and 
other authorized efforts regarding the land exchange efforts in the 
Umpqua River Basin region: Provided further, That activities conducted 
pursuant to funds provided herein for the Alaska Spruce Bark Beetle 
task force shall be exempt from the requirements of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act.


                          national forest system

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utilization 
of the National Forest System, for forest planning, inventory, and 
monitoring, and for administrative expenses associated with the 
management of funds provided under the headings ``Forest and Rangeland 
Research'', ``State and Private Forestry'', ``National Forest System'', 
``Wildland Fire Management'', ``Reconstruction and Construction'', and 
``Land Acquisition'', $1,348,377,000, to remain available until 
expended, which shall include 50 percent of all moneys received during 
prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accordance with section 4 
of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)): Provided, That up to $10,000,000 of 
the funds provided herein for road maintenance shall be available for 
the planned obliteration of roads which are no longer needed: Provided 
further, That funds may be used to construct or reconstruct facilities 
of the Forest Service: Provided further, That no more than $250,000 
shall be used on any single project, exclusive of planning and design 
costs: Provided further, That any such project must be approved by the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in compliance with the 
reprogramming procedures contained in House Report 105-163: Provided 
further, That the Forest Service shall report annually to Congress the 
amount obligated for each project, and the total dollars obligated 
during the year.


                         wildland fire management

    For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression activities on 
National Forest System lands, for emergency fire suppression on or 
adjacent to such lands or other lands under fire protection agreement, 
and for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands, $584,707,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such funds are available for repayment of advances from other 
appropriations accounts previously transferred for such purposes.


                     reconstruction and construction

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $166,045,000 to remain available until expended for 
construction, reconstruction and acquisition of buildings and other 
facilities, and for construction, reconstruction and repair of forest 
roads and trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532-
538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205.

                            land acquisition

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 
through 11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of 
land or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory 
authority applicable to the Forest Service, $52,976,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until 
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 sixteen 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 established 
pursuant to the above Act.


           midewin national tallgrass prairie restoration fund

    All funds collected for admission, occupancy, and use of the 
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, and the salvage value proceeds from 
sale of any facilities and improvements pursuant to sections 2915(d) 
and (e) of Public Law 104-106, are hereby appropriated and made 
available until expended for the necessary expenses of restoring and 
administering the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in accordance with 
section 2915(f) of the Act.


                administrative provisions, forest service

    Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to exceed 159 passenger 
motor vehicles of which 22 will be used primarily for law enforcement 
purposes and of which 156 shall be for replacement; acquisition of 25 
passenger motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire of such 
vehicles; operation and maintenance of aircraft, the purchase of not to 
exceed two for replacement only, and acquisition of 20 aircraft from 
excess sources notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing 
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in 
value used to offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft; 
(2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration 
of buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) 
acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein, pursuant to 7 
U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the 
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 change the boundaries of any region, to abolish any 
region, to move or close any regional office for research, State and 
private forestry, or National Forest System administration of the 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture without the consent of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be 
advanced to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation and may be used 
for forest firefighting and the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over 
or damaged lands or waters under its jurisdiction.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
assistance to or through the Agency for International Development and 
the Foreign Agricultural Service in connection with forest and 
rangeland research, technical information, and assistance in foreign 
countries, and shall be available to support forestry and related 
natural resource activities outside the United States and its 
territories and possessions, including technical assistance, education 
and training, and cooperation with United States and international 
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 the report accompanying this 
bill.
    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 procedures 
contained in the report accompanying this bill.
    No funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be transferred to 
the Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture without the 
approval of the Chief of the Forest Service.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations or 
funds available to the Forest Service may be used to disseminate 
program information to private and public individuals and organizations 
through the use of nonmonetary items of nominal value and to provide 
nonmonetary awards of nominal value and to incur necessary expenses for 
the nonmonetary recognition of private individuals and organizations 
that make contributions to Forest Service programs.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, money collected, in 
advance or otherwise, by the Forest Service under authority of section 
101 of Public Law 93-153 (30 U.S.C. 185(1)) as reimbursement of 
administrative and other costs incurred in processing pipeline right-
of-way or permit applications and for costs incurred in monitoring the 
construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of any pipeline 
and related facilities, may be used to reimburse the applicable 
appropriation to which such costs were originally charged.
    Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to conduct 
a program of not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects within 
the scope of the approved budget which shall be carried out by the 
Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by the Act of August 13, 1970, 
as amended by Public Law 93-408.
    None of the funds available in this Act shall be used for timber 
sale preparation using clearcutting in hardwood stands in excess of 25 
percent of the fiscal year 1989 harvested volume in the Wayne National 
Forest, Ohio: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to 
hardwood stands damaged by natural disaster: Provided further, That 
landscape architects shall be used to maintain a visually pleasing 
forest.
    Any money collected from the States for fire suppression assistance 
rendered by the Forest Service on non-Federal lands not in the vicinity 
of National Forest System lands shall be used to reimburse the 
applicable appropriation and shall remain available until expended as 
the Secretary may direct in conducting activities authorized by 16 
U.S.C. 2101 note, 2101-2110, 1606, and 2111.
    Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $1,500 is available 
to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and 
representation expenses.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Forest Service is 
authorized to employ or otherwise contract with persons at regular 
rates of pay, as determined by the Service, to perform work occasioned 
by emergencies such as fires, storms, floods, earthquakes or any other 
unavoidable cause without regard to Sundays, Federal holidays, and the 
regular workweek.
    To the greatest extent possible, and in accordance with the Final 
Amendment to the Shawnee National Forest Plan, none of the funds 
available in this Act shall be used for preparation of timber sales 
using clearcutting or other forms of even-aged management in hardwood 
stands in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois.
    Pursuant 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 available to the Foundation, 
no more than $750,000 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 recipient of Federal financial assistance for a project at 
the same rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 
funds: Provided further, That hereafter, the National Forest Foundation 
may hold Federal funds made available but not immediately disbursed and 
may use any interest or other investment income earned (before, on, or 
after the date of enactment of this Act) on Federal funds to carry out 
the purposes of Public Law 101-593: Provided further, That such 
investments 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, up to $2,000,000 
of the funds available to the Forest Service shall be available for 
matching funds, 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: Provided, 
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 recipient of 
Federal financial assistance for a project at the same rate that the 
recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching funds.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
interactions with and providing technical 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 ``Reconstruction and Construction'' 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 Washington may be 
granted directly to the Washington State Department of Fish and 
Wildlife for accomplishment of planned projects. Twenty percent of said 
funds shall be retained by the Forest Service for planning and 
administering projects. Project 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.
    Any funds available to the Forest Service may be used for 
retrofitting the Commanding Officer's Building (S-2), to accommodate 
the relocation of the Forest Supervisor's Office for the San Bernardino 
National Forest: Provided, That funds for the move must come from funds 
otherwise available to Region 5: Provided further, That any funds to be 
provided for such purposes shall only be available upon approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to enter into grants, 
contracts, and cooperative agreements as appropriate with the Pinchot 
Institute for Conservation, as well as with public and other private 
agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals, to provide for 
the development, administration, maintenance, or restoration 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, institution, 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 payments to Del Norte County, 
California, pursuant to sections 13(e) and 14 of the Smith River 
National Recreation Area Act (Public Law 101-612).
    For purposes of the Southeast Alaska Economic Disaster Fund as set 
forth in section 101(c) of Public Law 104-134, the direct grants 
provided in subsection (c) shall be considered direct payments for 
purposes of all applicable law except that these direct grants may not 
be used for lobbying activities.
    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.
    No funds appropriated under this or any other Act for the purpose 
of operations conducted at the Forest Service Region 10 headquarters, 
including those funds identified for centralized field costs for 
employees of this office, shall be obligated or expended in excess of 
$17,500,000 from the total funds appropriated for Region 10, without 60 
days prior notice to Congress. Funds appropriated by this Act to 
implement the Revised Tongass National Forest Land Management Plan, 
shall be spent and obligated at the Forest Supervisor and Ranger 
District levels, with the exception of specific management and 
oversight expenses, provided such expenses are included in the funding 
ceiling of $17,500,000.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


                          clean coal technology

                               (rescission)

    Of the funds made available under this heading for obligation in 
fiscal year 1997 or prior years, $101,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, 
That funds made available in previous appropriations Acts shall be 
available for any ongoing project regardless of the separate request 
for proposal under which the project was selected.

                 fossil energy research and development

    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 investigations 
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, 
$362,403,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 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.


                       alternative fuels production

                      (including transfer of funds)

    Moneys received as investment income on the principal amount in the 
Great Plains Project Trust at the Norwest Bank of North Dakota, in such 
sums as are earned as of October 1, 1997, shall be deposited in this 
account and immediately transferred to the general fund of the 
Treasury. Moneys received as revenue sharing from operation of the 
Great Plains Gasification Plant shall be immediately transferred to the 
general fund of the Treasury.


                  naval petroleum and oil shale reserves

    For necessary expenses in carrying out naval petroleum and oil 
shale reserve activities, $107,000,000, and such sums as are necessary 
to operate Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 between May 16, 1998 and 
September 30, 1998, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, revenues received from use 
and operation of Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 in excess of 
$163,000,000 shall be used to offset the costs of operating Naval 
Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 between May 16, 1998 and September 30, 
1998: Provided further, That revenues retained pursuant to the first 
proviso under this heading in Public Law 102-381 (106 Stat. 1404) shall 
be immediately transferred to the general fund of the Treasury: 
Provided further, That the requirements of 10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) 
shall not apply to fiscal year 1998.


                           energy conservation

    For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation 
activities, $611,723,000, to remain available until expended, 
including, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the excess 
amount for fiscal year 1998 determined under the provisions of section 
3003(d) of Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 4502): Provided, That 
$155,095,000 shall be for use in energy conservation programs as 
defined in section 3008(3) of Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 4507) and 
shall not be available until excess amounts are determined under the 
provisions of section 3003(d) of Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 4502): 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 3003(d)(2) of Public Law 
99-509 such sums shall be allocated to the eligible programs as 
follows: $124,845,000 for weatherization assistance grants and 
$30,250,000 for State energy conservation grants.


                           economic regulation

    For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the Office 
of Hearings and Appeals, $2,725,000, 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.), $207,500,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $207,500,000 shall be repaid from the ``SPR Operating Fund'' 
from amounts made available from the sale of oil from the Reserve: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 161 of the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act of 1975, the Secretary shall draw down and sell in 
fiscal year 1998, $207,500,000 worth of oil from the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve: Provided further, That the proceeds from the sale 
shall be deposited into the ``SPR Operating Fund'', and shall, upon 
receipt, be transferred to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve account for 
operations of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.


                          spr petroleum account

     Notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 6240(d), the United States share of 
crude oil in Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 (Elk Hills) may be sold 
or otherwise disposed of to other than the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: 
Provided, That outlays in fiscal year 1998 resulting from the use of 
funds in this account shall not exceed $5,000,000.


                    energy information administration

    For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the Energy 
Information Administration, $66,800,000, to remain available 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 security guard 
services.
    From appropriations under this Act, transfers of sums may be made 
to other agencies of the Government for the performance of work for 
which the appropriation is made.
    None of the funds made available to the Department of Energy under 
this Act shall be used to implement or finance authorized price support 
or loan guarantee programs unless specific provision is made for such 
programs in an appropriations Act.
    The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, 
and other contributions from public and private sources and to 
prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, 
private or foreign: Provided, That revenues and other moneys received 
by or for the account of the Department of Energy or otherwise 
generated by sale of products in connection with projects of the 
Department appropriated under this Act may be retained by the Secretary 
of Energy, to be available until expended, and used only for plant 
construction, operation, costs, and payments to cost-sharing entities 
as provided in appropriate cost-sharing contracts or agreements: 
Provided further, That the remainder of revenues after the making of 
such payments shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts: Provided further, That any contract, agreement, or provision 
thereof entered into by the Secretary pursuant to this authority shall 
not be executed prior to the expiration of 30 calendar days (not 
including any day in which either House of Congress is not in session 
because of adjournment of more than three calendar days to a day 
certain) from the receipt by the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the President of the Senate of a full comprehensive 
report on such project, including the facts and circumstances relied 
upon in support of the proposed project.
    No funds provided in this Act may be expended by the Department 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 
Secretary may accept fees and contributions from public and private 
sources, to be deposited in a contributed funds account, and prosecute 
projects using such fees and contributions in cooperation with other 
Federal, State or private agencies or concerns.
    The Secretary is authorized to accept funds from other Federal 
agencies in return for assisting agencies in achieving energy 
efficiency in Federal facilities and operations by the use of privately 
financed, energy saving performance contracts and other private 
financing mechanisms. The funds may be provided after agencies begin to 
realize energy cost savings; may be retained by the Secretary until 
expended; and may be used only for the purpose of assisting Federal 
agencies in achieving greater efficiency, water conservation, and use 
of renewable energy by means of privately financed mechanisms, 
including energy savings performance contracts. Any such privately 
financed contracts shall meet the provisions of the Energy Policy Act 
of 1992, Public Law 102-486 (42 U.S.C. 8287).

                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, $1,841,074,000, 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 $12,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended, for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: 
Provided further, That $361,375,000 for contract medical care shall 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1999: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, not less than $11,889,000 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 of the funds provided, $7,500,000 
shall remain available until expended, for the Indian Self-
Determination Fund, which shall be available for the transitional costs 
of initial or expanded tribal contracts, compacts, grants or 
cooperative agreements with the Indian Health Service under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act: Provided further, That 
funding contained herein, and in any earlier appropriations Acts for 
scholarship programs under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 
U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 
1999: 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 
not to exceed $168,702,000 shall be for payments to tribes and tribal 
organizations for contract support costs associated with ongoing 
contracts or grants or compacts entered into with the Indian Health 
Service prior to fiscal year 1998, as authorized by the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended.


                         indian health facilities

    For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, and equipment 
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 community 
sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of the 
Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-Determination 
Act, and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and for expenses 
necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to environmental health and facilities 
support activities of the Indian Health Service, $257,538,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, funds appropriated for the planning, design, 
construction or renovation of health facilities for the benefit of an 
Indian tribe or tribes may be used to purchase land for sites to 
construct, improve, or enlarge health or related facilities.


             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 equipment; 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 authorized 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 
Improvement 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 further, That 
notwithstanding any other law or regulation, funds transferred 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 93-638, as amended: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service in this 
Act, except those used for administrative and program direction 
purposes, shall not be subject to limitations directed at curtailing 
Federal travel and transportation: 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 authorized 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 organization 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 transferred by the Indian 
Health Service to tribes or tribal organizations, the Indian Health 
Service is authorized to provide goods and services to those entities, 
on a reimbursable basis, including payment 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 further, 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 assistance: 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 Public 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 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 Public Law 
99-498, as amended (20 U.S.C. 56 part A), $4,250,000.

                        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 performances; 
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 5 replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, 
repair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees; $333,408,000, of which 
not to exceed $32,718,000 for the instrumentation program, collections 
acquisition, Museum Support Center equipment and move, exhibition 
reinstallation, the National Museum of the American Indian, the 
repatriation of skeletal remains program, research equipment, 
information management, 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 participating in official 
Smithsonian presentations.


         construction and improvements, national zoological park

    For necessary expenses of planning, construction, remodeling, and 
equipping of buildings and facilities at the National Zoological Park, 
by contract or otherwise, $3,850,000, to remain available until 
expended.


                   repair and restoration of buildings

    For necessary expenses of repair and restoration of buildings owned 
or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution, by contract or otherwise, 
as authorized by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 
623), including not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, $32,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That contracts awarded for environmental systems, protection systems, 
and exterior repair or restoration of buildings 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, $33,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, a single procurement for the construction of the 
National Museum of the American Indian may be issued which includes the 
full scope of the project: Provided further, That the solicitation and 
the contract shall contain the clause ``availability of funds'' found 
at 48 CFR 52.232.18.

                        National Gallery of Art


                          salaries and expenses

    For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery of Art, the 
protection and care of the works of art therein, and administrative 
expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 
(50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 
(Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when authorized by the 
treasurer of the Gallery for membership in library, museum, and art 
associations or societies whose publications or services are available 
to members only, or to members at a price lower than to the general 
public; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as authorized by 
law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); purchase or rental of devices and services 
for protecting buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, 
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 may deem 
proper, $55,837,000, 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, $6,192,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for 
environmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair or 
renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art may be 
negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on the basis of 
contractor qualifications as well as price.

             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, $11,375,000.


                               construction

    For necessary expenses for capital repair and rehabilitation of the 
existing features of the building and site of the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts, $9,000,000, 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, 
$5,840,000.

           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, $81,240,000 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 section 5(c) of the Act, and 
for administering the functions of the Act, to remain available until 
expended.


                             matching grants

    To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 
$16,760,000, to remain available until expended, to the National 
Endowment for the Arts: Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for obligation only in such amounts as may be equal to the 
total amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises of money, and other 
property accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the Endowment under 
the provisions of section 10(a)(2), subsections 11(a)(2)(A) and 
11(a)(3)(A) during the current and preceding fiscal years for which 
equal amounts have not previously been appropriated.

                 National Endowment for the Humanities


                        grants and administration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, $96,800,000, 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, 
$13,900,000, to remain available until expended, of which $8,000,000 
shall be available to the National Endowment for the Humanities for the 
purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for obligation only in such amounts as may be equal to the 
total amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises of money, and other 
property accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the Endowment under 
the provisions of subsections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during the 
current and preceding fiscal years for which equal amounts have not 
previously been appropriated.

                Institute of Museum and Library Services


                        Office of Museum Services

                        grants and administration

    For carrying out subtitle C of the Museum and Library Services Act 
of 1996, $23,280,000, 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.

                        Commission of Fine Arts


                          salaries and expenses

    For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commission of 
Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $907,000.

               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 (Public Law 89-665, as amended), $2,745,000: Provided, 
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, $5,740,000: Provided, That all appointed 
members will be compensated at a rate not to exceed the rate for level 
IV of the Executive Schedule: Provided further, That beginning in 
fiscal year 1998 and thereafter, the Commission is authorized to charge 
fees to cover the full costs of Geographic Information System products 
and services supplied by the Commission, and such fees shall be 
credited to this account as an offsetting collection, to remain 
available until expended.

                United States Holocaust Memorial Council


                        holocaust memorial council

    For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Council, as authorized by 
Public Law 96-388 (36 U.S.C. 1401), as amended, $31,707,000 of which 
$1,575,000 for the museum's repair and rehabilitation program and 
$1,264,000 for the museum's exhibitions program shall remain available 
until expended.

                     TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Sec. 301. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such 
expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public 
inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or 
under 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 any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 305. None of the funds provided in this Act to any department 
or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, 
chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or employee of 
such department or agency except as otherwise provided by law.
    Sec. 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. (a) Compliance With Buy American Act.--None of the funds 
made available in this Act may be expended by an entity unless the 
entity agrees that in expending the funds the entity will comply with 
sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c; 
popularly known as the ``Buy American Act'').
     (b) Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
         (1) Purchase of american-made equipment and products.--In the 
    case of any equipment or product that may be authorized to be 
    purchased with financial assistance provided using funds made 
    available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that 
    entities receiving the assistance should, in expending the 
    assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products.
         (2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing 
    financial assistance using funds made available in this Act, the 
    head of each Federal agency shall provide to each recipient of the 
    assistance a notice describing the statement made in paragraph (1) 
    by the Congress.
     (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling 
Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined by a 
court or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label 
bearing a ``Made in America'' inscription, or any inscription with the 
same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States 
that is not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible 
to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available 
in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility 
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code 
of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 308. 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 1995.
    Sec. 309. 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. 310. Beginning in fiscal year 1998 and thereafter, where the 
actual costs of construction projects under self-determination 
contracts, compacts, or grants, pursuant to Public Laws 93-638, 103-
413, or 100-297, are less than the estimated costs thereof, use of the 
resulting excess funds shall be determined by the appropriate Secretary 
after consultation with the tribes.
    Sec. 311. Notwithstanding Public Law 103-413, quarterly payments of 
funds to tribes and tribal organizations under annual funding 
agreements pursuant to section 108 of Public Law 93-638, as amended, 
beginning in fiscal year 1998 and therafter, may be made on the first 
business day following the first day of a fiscal quarter.
    Sec. 312. 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, 1998, then none of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for the AmeriCorps 
programs.
    Sec. 313. 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 authority to obligate or 
expend such funds that such pedestrian use is consistent with generally 
accepted safety standards.
    Sec. 314. (a) Limitation of Funds.--None of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or 
expended to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining 
or mill site claim located under the general mining laws.
     (b) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply 
if the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the claim 
concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with the Secretary on or 
before September 30, 1994; and (2) all requirements established under 
sections 2325 and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the 
Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and 
section 2337 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site 
claims, as the case may be, were fully complied with by the applicant 
by that date.
    (c) Report.--On September 30, 1998, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall file with the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives 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 
fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of 
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of the mining claims 
or mill sites contained in a patent application 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. 315. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used for the purposes of acquiring lands 
in the counties of Gallia, Lawrence, Monroe, or Washington, Ohio, for 
the Wayne National Forest.
    Sec. 316. Subsistence Hunting and Fishing in Alaska. (a) Moratorium 
on Federal Management.--None of the funds made available to the 
Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture by this or 
any other Act hereafter enacted may be used prior to December 1, 1998 
to issue or implement final regulations, rules, or policies pursuant to 
title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to 
assert jurisdiction, management, or control over the navigable waters 
transferred to the State of Alaska pursuant to the Submerged Lands Act 
of 1953 or the Alaska Statehood Act of 1959.
    (b) Amendments to Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
Act.--
        (1) Amendment of anilca.--Except as otherwise expressly 
    provided, whenever in this subsection an amendment or repeal is 
    expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or 
    other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a 
    section or other provision of the Alaska National Interest Lands 
    Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.).
        (2) Definitions.--Section 102(2) (16 U.S.C. 3102(2)) is amended 
    to read as follows:
        ``(2) The term `Federal land' means lands the title to which is 
    in the United States after December 2, 1980. `Federal land' does 
    not include lands the title to which is in the State, an Alaska 
    Native corporation, or other private ownership.''.
        (3) Findings.--Section 801 (16 U.S.C. 3111) is amended--
            (A) by inserting ``(a)'' immediately before ``The Congress 
        finds and declares''; and
            (B) by inserting at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) The Congress finds and declares further that--
        ``(1) subsequent to the enactment of this Act in 1980, the 
    subsistence law of the State of Alaska (AS 16.05) accomplished the 
    goals of Congress and requirements of this Act in providing 
    subsistence use opportunities for rural residents of Alaska, both 
    Alaska Native and non-Alaska Native;
        ``(2) the Alaska subsistence law was challenged in Alaska 
    courts, and the rural preference requirement in the law was found 
    in 1989 by the Alaska Supreme Court in McDowell v. State of Alaska 
    (785 P.2d 1, 1989) to violate the Alaska Constitution;
        ``(3) since that time, repeated attempts to restore the 
    validity of the State law through an amendment to the Alaska 
    Constitution have failed, and the people of Alaska have not been 
    given the opportunity to vote on such an amendment;
        ``(4) in accordance with title VIII of this Act, the Secretary 
    of the Interior is required to manage fish and wildlife for 
    subsistence uses on all public lands in Alaska because of the 
    failure of State law to provide a rural preference;
        ``(5) the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined in 1995 in 
    State of Alaska v. Babbitt (73 F.3d 698) that the subsistence 
    priority required on public lands under section 804 of this Act 
    applies to navigable waters in which the United States has reserved 
    water rights as identified by the Secretary of the Interior;
        ``(6) management of fish and wildlife resources by State 
    governments has proven successful in all 50 States, including 
    Alaska, and the State of Alaska should have the opportunity to 
    continue to manage such resources on all lands, including public 
    lands, in Alaska in accordance with this Act, as amended; and
        ``(7) it is necessary to amend portions of this Act to restore 
    the original intent of Congress to protect and provide for the 
    continued opportunity for subsistence uses on public lands for 
    Alaska Native and non-Alaska Native rural residents through the 
    management of the State of Alaska.''.
        (4) Title viii definitions.--Section 803 (16 U.S.C. 3113) is 
    amended--
            (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (1);
            (B) by striking the period and inserting a semicolon at the 
        end of paragraph (2); and
            (C) by inserting at the end the following new paragraphs:
        ``(3) `customary and traditional uses' means the noncommercial, 
    long-term, and consistent taking of, use of, or reliance upon fish 
    and wildlife in a specific area and the patterns and practices of 
    taking or use of that fish and wildlife that have been established 
    over a reasonable period of time, taking into consideration the 
    availability of the fish and wildlife;
        ``(4) `customary trade' means, except for money sales of furs 
    and furbearers, the limited noncommercial exchange for money of 
    fish and wildlife or their parts in minimal quantities; and
        ``(5) `rural Alaska resident' means a resident of a rural 
    community or area. A `rural community or area' means a community or 
    area substantially dependent on fish and wildlife for nutritional 
    and other subsistence uses.''.
        (5) Preference for subsistence uses.--Section 804 (16 U.S.C. 
    3114) is amended--
            (A) by inserting ``(a)'' immediately before the first 
        sentence; and
            (B) by inserting at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) The priority granted by this section is for a reasonable 
opportunity to take fish and wildlife. For the purposes of this 
subsection, the term `reasonable opportunity' means an opportunity, 
consistent with customary and traditional uses (as defined in section 
803(3)), to participate in a subsistence hunt or fishery with a 
reasonable expectation of success, and does not mean a guarantee that 
fish and wildlife will be taken.''.
        (6) Local and regional participation.--Section 805 (16 U.S.C. 
    3115) is amended--
            (A) in subsection (a) by striking ``one year after the date 
        of enactment of this Act,''; and
            (B) by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
    ``(d)(1) Upon certification by the Secretary that the State has 
enacted and implemented laws of general applicability which are 
consistent with, and which provide for the definition, preference, and 
participation specified in sections 803, 804, and 805, the Secretary 
shall not implement subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section, and 
the State may immediately assume management for the taking of fish and 
wildlife on the public lands for subsistence uses pursuant to this 
title. Upon assumption of such management by the State, the Secretary 
shall not implement subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section 
unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines that such laws have 
been repealed, modified, or implemented in a way that is inconsistent 
with, or does not provide for, the definition, preference, and 
participation specified in sections 803, 804, and 805, or that the 
State has failed to cure any such inconsistency after such 
determination. The State laws shall otherwise supercede such sections 
insofar as such sections govern State responsibility pursuant to this 
title for the taking of fish and wildlife on the public lands for 
subsistence uses. The Secretary may bring a judicial action to enforce 
this subsection.
    ``(2)(A) Laws establishing a system of local advisory committees 
and regional advisory councils consistent with section 805 shall 
provide that the State rulemaking authority shall consider the advice 
and recommendations of the regional councils concerning the taking of 
fish and wildlife populations on public lands within their respective 
regions for subsistence uses. The regional councils may present 
recommendations, and the evidence upon which such recommendations are 
based, to the State rulemaking authority during the course of the 
administrative proceedings of such authority. The State rulemaking 
authority may choose not to follow any recommendation which it 
determines is not supported by substantial evidence presented during 
the course of its administrative proceedings, violates recognized 
principles of fish and wildlife conservation or would be detrimental to 
the satisfaction of rural subsistence needs. If a recommendation is not 
adopted by the State rulemaking authority, such authority shall set 
forth the factual basis and the reasons for its decision.
    ``(B) The members of each regional advisory council established 
under this subsection shall be appointed by the Governor of Alaska. 
Each council shall have ten members, four of whom shall be selected 
from nominees who reside in the region submitted by tribal councils in 
the region, and six of whom shall be selected from nominees submitted 
by local governments and local advisory committees. Three of these six 
shall be subsistence users who reside in the subsistence resource 
region and three shall be sport or commercial users who may be 
residents of any subsistence resource region. Regional council members 
shall have staggered terms of three years in length, with no limit on 
the number of terms a member may serve. A quorum shall be a majority of 
the members of the council.''.
        (7) Judicial enforcement.--Section 807 (16 U.S.C. 3117) is 
    amended by inserting the following as subsection (b):
    ``(b) State agency actions may be declared invalid by the court 
only if they are arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion, or 
otherwise not in accordance with law. When reviewing any action within 
the specialized knowledge of a State agency, the court shall give the 
decision of the State agency the same deference it would give the same 
decision of a comparable Federal agency.''.
        (8) Regulations.--Section 814 (16 U.S.C. 3124) is amended--
            (A) by inserting ``, and the State at any time the State 
        has complied with section 805(d)'' after ``Secretary''; and
            (B) by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
        ``During any time that the State has complied with section 
        805(d), the Secretary shall not make or enforce regulations 
        implementing section 805(a), (b), or (c).''.
        (9) Limitations, savings clauses.--Section 815 (16 U.S.C. 3125) 
    is amended--
            (A) by striking ``or'' at the end of paragraph (3);
            (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (4) and 
        inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and ``or''; and
            (C) by inserting at the end the following new paragraph:
      ``(5) prohibiting the Secretary or the State from entering into 
co-management agreements with Alaska Native organizations or other 
local or regional entities when such organization or entity is managing 
fish and wildlife on public lands in Alaska for subsistence uses.''.
    (c) Savings Clause.--No provision of this section, amendment made 
by this section, or exercise of authority pursuant to this section may 
be construed to validate, invalidate, or in any way affect--
        (1) any assertion that an Alaska Native organization (including 
    a federally recognized tribe, traditional Alaska Native council, or 
    Alaska Native council organized pursuant to the Act of June 18, 
    1934 (25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.), as amended) has or does not have 
    governmental authority over lands (including management of, or 
    regulation of the taking of, fish and wildlife) or persons within 
    the boundaries of the State of Alaska;
        (2) any assertion that Indian country, as defined in section 
    1151 of title 18, United States Code, exists or does not exist 
    within the boundaries of the State of Alaska;
        (3) any assertion that the Alaska National Interest Lands 
    Conservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) is or is not 
    Indian law; or
        (4) the authority of the Secretary of the Interior under 
    section 1314(c) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
    Act (16 U.S.C. 3202(c)).
    (d) Effective Date.--Unless and until laws are adopted in the State 
of Alaska which provide for the definition, preference, and 
participation specified in sections 803, 804, and 805 of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), the 
amendments made by subsection (b) of this section shall be effective 
only for the purposes of determining whether the State's laws provide 
for such definition, preference, and participation. The Secretary shall 
certify before December 1, 1998 if such laws have been adopted in the 
State of Alaska. Subsection (b) shall be repealed on such date if such 
laws have not been adopted.
    Sec. 317. Section 909(b)(2) of division II, title IX of Public Law 
104-333 is amended by striking the following: ``For technical 
assistance pursuant to section 908, not more than $50,000 annually.''.
    Sec. 318. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be expended or obligated to fund the activities of the western director 
and special assistant to the Secretary within the Office of the 
Secretary of Agriculture that exceeds the funding provided for these 
activities from this Act during fiscal year 1997.
    Sec. 319. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal 
year 1998 the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior are 
authorized 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 to individuals and 
entities in historically timber-dependent areas in the States of 
Washington, Oregon, and northern California that have been affected by 
reduced timber harvesting on Federal lands.
    Sec. 320. (a) Section 101(c) of Public Law 104-134 is amended as 
follows: Under the heading ``TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS'' amend 
section 315(c)(1) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) and inserting:
        ``(A) Eighty percent to a special account in the Treasury for 
    use without further appropriation, by the agency which administers 
    the site, to remain available for expenditure in accordance with 
    paragraph (2)(A).
        ``(B) Twenty percent to a special account in the Treasury for 
    use without further appropriation, by the agency which administers 
    the site, to remain available for expenditure in accordance with 
    paragraph (2)(B).''.
    (b) Subparagraph (C) of section 315(c)(1) is amended by inserting 
``and the National Park Service'' after ``the Fish and Wildlife 
Service''.
    Sec. 321. None of the funds collected under the Recreational Fee 
Demonstration program may be used to plan, design, or construct a 
visitor center or any other permanent structure without prior approval 
of the House and the Senate Committees on Appropriations if the 
estimated total cost of the facility exceeds $500,000.
    Sec. 322. Section 303(d)(1) of Public Law 96-451 (16 U.S.C. 
1606a(d)(1)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon the 
following: ``and other forest stand improvement activities to enhance 
forest health and reduce hazardous fuel loads of forest stands in the 
National Forest System''.
    Sec. 323. (a) Prior to the completion of any decision document or 
the making of any decision related to the final Environmental Impact 
Statements (hereinafter ``final EISs'') associated with the Interior 
Columbia Basin Ecosystem Project (hereinafter the ``Project''), the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall 
prepare and submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives a report that shall include:
        (1) a detailed description of any and all land and resource 
    management planning and policy or project decisions to be made, by 
    type and by the level of official responsible, and the procedures 
    for such decisions to be undertaken, by the Forest Service, Bureau 
    of Land Management, and Fish and Wildlife Service pursuant to the 
    National Forest Management Act, Federal Land Policy and Management 
    Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act and 
    any other applicable law in order to authorize and implement 
    actions affecting the environment on Federal lands within the 
    jurisdiction of either Secretary in the Project area that are 
    consistent with the final EISs;
        (2) a detailed estimation of the time and cost (for all 
    participating Federal agencies) to accomplish each decision 
    described in paragraph (1), from the date of initiation of 
    preparations for, to the date of publication or announcement of, 
    the decision, including a detailed statement of the source of funds 
    for each such decision and any reprogramming in fiscal year 1998;
        (3) estimated production of goods and services from each unit 
    of the Federal lands for the first 5 years during the course of the 
    decision making described in paragraph (1) beginning with the date 
    of publication of the applicable final EIS; and
        (4) if the requirements described in paragraphs (1) through (3) 
    cannot be accomplished within the appropriations provided in this 
    Act, adjusted only for inflation, in subsequent fiscal years and 
    without any reprogramming of such appropriations, provide a 
    detailed description of the decision making process that will be 
    used to establish priorities in accordance with such 
    appropriations.
    (b) Using all research information available from the area 
encompassed by the Project, the Secretaries, to the extent practicable, 
shall analyze the economic and social conditions, and culture and 
customs, of the communities at the sub-basin level within the Project 
area and the impacts the alternatives in the draft EISs will have on 
those communities. This analysis shall be published on a schedule that 
will allow a reasonable period of time for public comment thereon prior 
to the close of the comment periods on the draft EISs. The analysis, 
together with the response of the Secretaries to the public comment, 
shall be incorporated in the final EISs and, subject to subsection (a), 
subsequent decisions related thereto.
    (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering or 
affecting in any manner any provision of applicable land or resource 
management plans, PACFISH, INFISH, Eastside screens, and other policies 
adopted by the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act to protect wildlife, watershed, riparian, 
and other resources of the Federal lands.
    Sec. 324. Notwithstanding section 904(b) of Public Law 104-333, 
hereafter, the Heritage Area established under section 904 of title IX 
of division II of Public Law 104-333 shall include any portion of a 
city, town, or village within an area specified in section 904(b)(2) of 
that Act only to the extent that the government of the city, town, or 
village, in a resolution of the governing board or council, agrees to 
be included and submits the resolution to the Secretary of the Interior 
and the management entities for the Heritage Area and to the extent 
such resolution is not subsequently revoked in the same manner.
    Sec. 325. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
except as provided in this section, the Aleutian/Pribilof Islands 
Association, Inc., Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation, Chugachmiut, 
Copper River Native Association, Kodiak Area Native Area Association, 
Maniilaq Association, Metlakatla Indian Community, Arctic Slope Native 
Association, Ltd., Norton Sound Health Corporation, Southcentral 
Foundation, Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, Tanana Chiefs 
Conference, Inc., and Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (hereinafter 
``regional health entities''), without further resolutions from the 
Regional Corporations, Village Corporations, Indian Reorganization Act 
Councils, tribes and/or villages which they represent are authorized to 
form a consortium (hereinafter ``the Consortium'') to enter into 
contracts, compacts, or funding agreements under Public Law 93-638 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, to provide all statewide health 
services provided by the Indian Health Service of the Department of 
Health and Human Services through the Alaska Native Medical Center and 
the Alaska Area Office. Each specified ``regional health entity'' shall 
maintain that status for purposes of participating in the Consortium 
only so long as it operates a regional health program for the Indian 
Health Service under Public Law 93-638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as 
amended.
    (b) The Consortium shall be governed by a 15-member Board of 
Directors, which shall be composed of one representative of each 
regional health entity listed in subsection (a) above, and two 
additional persons who shall represent Indian tribes, as defined in 25 
U.S.C. 450b(e), and sub-regional tribal organizations which operate 
health programs not affiliated with the regional health entities listed 
above and Indian tribes not receiving health services from any tribal, 
regional or sub-regional health provider. Each member of the Board of 
Directors shall be entitled to cast one vote. Decisions of the Board of 
Directors shall be made by consensus whenever possible, and by majority 
vote in the event that no consensus can be reached. The Board of 
Directors shall establish at its first meeting its rules of procedure, 
which shall be published and made available to all members.
    (c) The statewide health services (including any programs, 
functions, services and activities provided as part of such services) 
of the Alaska Native Medical Center and the Alaska Area Office may only 
be provided by the Consortium. Statewide health services for purposes 
of this section shall consist of all programs, functions, services, and 
activities provided by or through the Alaska Native Medical Center and 
the Alaska Area Office, not under contract or other funding agreement 
with any other tribe or tribal organization as of October 1, 1997, 
except as provided in subsection (d) below. All statewide health 
services provided by the Consortium under this section shall be 
provided pursuant to contracts or funding agreements entered into by 
the Consortium under Public Law 93-638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as 
amended, and for such purpose the Consortium shall be deemed to have 
mature contract status as defined in section 4(h) of the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(h)).
    (d) Cook Inlet Region, Inc., through Southcentral Foundation (or 
any successor health care entity designated by Cook Inlet Region, Inc.) 
pursuant to Public Law 93-638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, is 
hereby authorized to enter into contracts or funding agreements under 
such Public Law for all services provided at or through the Alaska 
Native Primary Care Center or other satellite clinics in Anchorage or 
the Matanuska-Susitna Valley without submission of any further 
authorizing resolutions from any other Alaska Native Region, village 
corporation, Indian Reorganization Act council, or tribe, no matter 
where located. Services provided under this paragraph shall, at a 
minimum, maintain the level of statewide and Anchorage Service Unit 
services provided at the Alaska Native Primary Care Center as of 
October 1, 1997, including necessary related services performed at the 
Alaska Native Medical Center. In addition, Cook Inlet Region, Inc., 
through Southcentral Foundation, or any lawfully designated health care 
entity of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., shall contract or enter into a 
funding agreement under Public Law 93-638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as 
amended, for all primary care services provided by the Alaska Native 
Medical Center, including, but not limited to, family medicine, primary 
care internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, physical 
therapy, psychiatry, emergency services, public health nursing, health 
education, optometry, dentistry, audiology, social services, pharmacy, 
radiology, laboratory and biomedical, and the administrative support 
for these programs, functions, services and activities. Cook Inlet 
Region, Inc., through Southcentral Foundation, or any lawfully 
designated health care entity of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., may provide 
additional health care services at the Alaska Native Medical Center if 
such use and services are provided pursuant to an agreement with the 
Consortium. All services covered by this subsection shall be provided 
on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to residency within the 
Municipality of Anchorage.
    Sec. 326. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after 
September 30, 1997 the Indian Health Service may not disburse funds for 
the provision of health care services pursuant to Public Law 93-638 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), with any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native 
village corporation that is located within the area served by an Alaska 
Native regional health entity.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the 
disbursal of funds to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native 
village corporation under any contract or compact entered into prior to 
August 27, 1997, or to prohibit the renewal of any such agreement.
    (c) The General Accounting Office shall conduct a study of the 
impact of contracting and compacting by the Indian Health Service under 
Public Law 93-638 with Alaska Native villages and Alaska Native village 
corporations for the provision of health care services by Alaska Native 
regional corporation health care entities. The General Accounting 
Office shall submit the results of that study to the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives by June 1, 1998.
    (d) Section 1004 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996 
(Public Law 104-324; 110 Stat. 3956) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a) by striking ``for use as a health or 
    social services facility'' and inserting ``for sale or use other 
    than for a facility for the provision of health programs funded by 
    the Indian Health Service (not including any such programs operated 
    by Ketchikan Indian Corporation prior to 1993)''; and
        (2) by striking subsection (c).
    Sec. 327. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to require any person to vacate real property where a term is expiring 
under a use and occupancy reservation in Sleeping Bear Dunes National 
Lakeshore until such time as the National Park Service (NPS) indicates 
to the appropriate congressional committees and the holders of these 
reservations that it has sufficient funds to remove the residence on 
that property within 90 days of that residence being vacated. The NPS 
will provide at least 90 days notice to the holders of expired 
reservations to allow them time to leave the residence. The NPS will 
charge fair market value rental rates while any occupancy continues 
beyond an expired reservation. Reservation holders who stay beyond the 
expiration date will also be required to pay for appraisals to 
determine current fair market value rental rates, any rehabilitation 
needed to ensure suitability for occupancy, appropriate insurance, and 
all continuing utility costs.
    Sec. 327A. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act or any 
other Act providing appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
the Forest Service or the Smithsonian Institution may be used to submit 
nominations for the designation of Biosphere Reserves pursuant to the 
Man and Biosphere program administered by the United Nations 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
    (b) The provisions of this section shall be repealed upon enactment 
of subsequent legislation specifically authorizing United States 
participation in the Man and Biosphere program.
    Sec. 328. None of the funds made available in this or any other Act 
for any fiscal year may be used to designate, or to post any sign 
designating, any portion of Canaveral National Seashore 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. 329. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment for the 
Arts:
        (1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an individual 
    if such grant is awarded to such individual for a literature 
    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. 330. 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 Endowment 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 Endowment for the Humanities, shall be 
paid by the donor or the representative 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. 331. In fiscal years 1998 through 2002, the Secretaries of the 
Interior and Agriculture may make reciprocal delegations of their 
respective authorities, duties and responsibilities in support of joint 
pilot programs to promote customer service and efficiency in the 
management of public lands and national forests: Provided, That nothing 
herein shall alter, expand or limit the existing applicability of any 
public law or regulation to lands administered by the Bureau of Land 
Management or the Forest Service.
    Sec. 332. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be expended or obligated to fund new revisions of national forest land 
management plans until new final or interim final rules for forest land 
management planning are published in the Federal Register. Those 
national forests which are currently in a revision process, having 
formally published a Notice of Intent to revise prior to October 1, 
1997, or having been court-ordered to revise, are exempt from this 
section and may utilize funds in this Act and proceed to complete the 
forest plan revision in accordance with current forest planning 
regulations.
    Sec. 333. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be expended or obligated to complete and issue the five-year program 
under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act.
    Sec. 334. (a) Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements.--
For fiscal year 1998, appropriations for the Forest Service may be used 
by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose of entering into 
cooperative agreements with willing State and local governments, 
private and nonprofit entities and landowners for protection, 
restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat, and other 
resources on public or private land or both that benefit these 
resources within the watershed.
    (b) Direct and Indirect Watershed Agreements.--The Secretary of 
Agriculture may enter into a watershed restoration and enhancement 
agreement--
        (1) directly with a willing private landowner; or
        (2) indirectly through an agreement with a State, local or 
    tribal government or other public entity, educational institution, 
    or private nonprofit organization.
    (c) Terms and Conditions.--In order for the Secretary to enter into 
a watershed restoration and enhancement agreement--
        (1) the agreement shall--
            (A) include such terms and conditions mutually agreed to by 
        the Secretary and the landowner;
            (B) improve the viability of and otherwise benefit the 
        fish, wildlife, and other resources on national forests lands 
        within the watershed;
            (C) authorize the provision of technical assistance by the 
        Secretary in the planning of management activities that will 
        further the purposes of the agreement;
            (D) provide for the sharing of costs of implementing the 
        agreement among the Federal Government, the landowner(s), and 
        other entities, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
        interests; and
            (E) ensure that any expenditure by the Secretary pursuant 
        to the agreement is determined by the Secretary to be in the 
        public interest; and
        (2) the Secretary may require such other terms and conditions 
    as are necessary to protect the public investment on non-Federal 
    lands, provided such terms and conditions are mutually agreed to by 
    the Secretary and other landowners, State and local governments or 
    both.
    Sec. 335. The joint resolution entitled ``Joint Resolution to 
establish a commission to formulate plans for a memorial to Franklin 
Delano Roosevelt'', approved August 11, 1955 (69 Stat. 694), is 
amended--
        (1) in the first section by inserting before the last sentence 
    the following: ``The Commission shall submit a final report to the 
    President and Congress prior to termination.'';
        (2) by redesignating section 4 as section 5; and
        (3) by inserting after section 3 the following:


                     ``termination of the commission

    ``Sec. 4. (a) In General.--The Commission shall terminate on the 
earlier of--
        ``(1) December 31, 1997; or
        ``(2) the date that the Commission reports to the President and 
    the Congress that the Commission's work is complete.
    ``(b) Commission Funds.--
        ``(1) Designation.--Before the termination of the Commission, 
    the Commission shall designate a nonprofit organization to collect, 
    manage, and expend Commission funds after its termination.
        ``(2) Transfer of funds.--Before termination the Commission 
    shall transfer all Commission funds to the entity designated under 
    paragraph (1).
        ``(3) Amounts collected after termination.--The entity 
    designated under paragraph (1) shall have the right to collect any 
    amounts accruing to the Commission after the Commission's 
    termination, including amounts--
            ``(A) given to the Commission as a gift or bequest; or
            ``(B) raised from the sale of coins issued under the United 
        States Commemorative Coin Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 4005; 31 
        U.S.C. 5112 note).
        ``(4) Uses of funds.--The Commission may specify uses for any 
    funds made available under this section to the entity designated 
    under paragraph (1), including--
            ``(A) to provide for the support, maintenance, and repair 
        of the Memorial; and
            ``(B) to interpret and educate the public about the 
        Memorial.
        ``(5) Negotiation and contract.--The Commission may negotiate 
    and contract with a nonprofit organization before designating the 
    organization under paragraph (1).''.
    Sec. 336. To facilitate priority land exchanges through which the 
United States will receive land within the White Salmon Wild and Scenic 
River boundaries and within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic 
Area, the Secretary of Agriculture may, until September 30, 2000, 
accept title to such lands deemed appropriate by the Secretary within 
the States of Oregon and Washington, regardless of the State in which 
the transferred lands are located, following existing exchange 
authorities.
    Sec. 337. The boundary of the Wenatchee National Forest in Chelan 
County, Washington, is hereby adjusted to exclude section 1 of Township 
23 North, Range 19 East, Willamette Meridian.
    Sec. 338. None of the funds provided in this Act can be used for 
any activities associated with the Center of Excellence for Sustainable 
Development unless a budget request has been submitted and approved by 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate.
    Sec. 339. (a) No funds provided in this or any other Act may be 
expended to develop a rulemaking proposal to amend or replace the 
Bureau of Land Management regulations found at 43 CFR 3809 or to 
prepare a draft environmental impact statement on such proposal, until 
the Secretary of the Interior certifies to the Committees on Energy and 
Natural Resources and Appropriations of the Senate and the Committees 
on Resources and Appropriations of the House of Representatives that 
the Department of the Interior has consulted with the Governor, or his/
her representative, from each State that contains public lands open to 
location under the General Mining Laws.
    (b) The Secretary shall not publish proposed regulations to amend 
or replace the Bureau of Land Management regulations found at 43 CFR 
3809 prior to November 15, 1998, and shall not finalize such 
regulations prior to 90 days after such publication.
    Sec. 340. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and 
directed to negotiate with Skamania County for the exchange of lands or 
interests in lands constituting the Wind River Nursery Site within the 
Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington.
    (b) In return for the Nursery Site properties, Skamania County is 
authorized and directed to negotiate with the Forest Service the 
conveyance of approximately 120 acres of high biodiversity, special 
management lands located near Table Mountain within the Columbia River 
Gorge National Scenic Area, title to which must be acceptable to the 
Secretary of Agriculture.
    (c) Before this exchange can occur, it must be of equal value and 
the Secretary and the Skamania County Board of Commissioners must agree 
on the exact parcels of land to be included in the exchange. An 
agreement signed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Skamania 
County Board of Commissioners describing the properties involved and a 
certification that the exchange is of equal value must be completed no 
later than September 30, 1999.
    (d) During this two-year negotiating period, the Wind River Nursery 
property shall not be conveyed to another party. The Forest Service 
shall maintain the site in a tenantable condition.
    (e) Except as provided herein, the exchange shall be for equal 
value in accordance with land exchange authorities applicable to the 
National Forest System.
    (f) The Secretary is directed to equalize values by not only cash 
and exchange of lands, easements, reservations, and other interests in 
lands, but also by full value credit for such services as Skamania 
County provides to the Gifford Pinchot and Columbia River Gorge 
National Scenic Area and as the Secretary and Skamania County deem 
appropriate. The Secretary may accept services in lieu of cash when the 
Secretary can discern cash value for the services and when the 
Secretary determines such services would provide direct benefits to 
lands and resources and users of such lands and resources under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary.
    (g) Any cash equalization which Skamania County elects to make may 
be made up to 50 percent of the fair market value of the Federal 
property, and such cash equalization may be made in installments over a 
period not to exceed 25 years. Payments received as partial 
consideration shall be deposited into the fund in the Treasury 
established under the Act of December 4, 1967, commonly known as the 
Sisk Act, and shall be available for expenditure as provided in the Act 
except that the Secretary may not use those funds to purchase lands 
within Skamania County.
    (h) In defining the Federal estate to be conveyed, the Secretary 
may require such additional terms and conditions as deemed necessary in 
connection with assuring equal value and public interest considerations 
in this exchange including, but not limited to, continued research use 
of the Wind River Experimental Forest and protection of natural, 
cultural, and historic resources, existing administrative sites, and a 
scenic corridor for the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail.
    (i) This authorization is predicated on Skamania County's Board of 
Commissioners commitment to give foremost consideration to preservation 
of the overall integrity of the site and conservation of the 
educational and research potential of the site, including providing for 
access to and assurance of the continued administration and operation 
of forestry research on the adjacent Thornton Munger Research Natural 
Area.
    (j) The Secretary is further directed to cooperate with Skamania 
County to address applicable Federal and State environmental laws.
    (k) Notwithstanding the processes involved with the National 
Environmental Policy Act and the State Environmental Policy Act, should 
the Secretary of Agriculture and the Skamania County Board of 
Commissioners fail to reach an agreement on an equal value exchange 
defined under the terms of this legislation by September 30, 1999, the 
Wind River Nursery Site shall remain under Forest Service ownership and 
be maintained by the Forest Service in a tenantable condition.
    Sec. 341. The National Wildlife Refuge in Jasper and Marion 
Counties, Iowa, authorized in Public Law 101-302 shall be referred to 
in any law, regulation, document or record of the United States in 
which such project is referred to, as the Neal Smith National Wildlife 
Refuge.
    Sec. 342. None of the funds in this or any other Act shall be 
expended by the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service or any 
other Federal agency, for the introduction of the grizzly bear 
population in the Selway-Bitteroot area of Idaho and adjacent Montana, 
or for consultations under section 7(b)(2) of the Endangered Species 
Act for Federal actions affecting grizzly bear within the Selway-
Bitteroot area of Idaho, except that, funds may be used by the 
Department of the Interior or the Forest Service, or any other Federal 
agency for the purposes of receiving public comment on the draft 
Environmental Impact Statement dated July 1997 and issuing a Record of 
Decision, and for conducting a habitat-based population viability 
analysis.
    Sec. 343. The Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter phase in, 
over a 3-year period in equal annual installments, that portion of the 
fee increase for a recreation residence special use permit holder which 
is more than 100 percent of the previous year's fee: Provided, That no 
recreation residence fee may be increased any sooner than one year from 
the time the permittee has been notified by the Forest Service of the 
results of an appraisal which has been conducted for the purpose of 
establishing such fees: Provided further, That no increases in 
recreation residence fees on the Sawtooth National Forest will be 
implemented prior to January 1, 1999.
    Sec. 344. It is the sense of the Senate that--
        (1) preserving Civil War battlefields should be an integral 
    part of preserving our Nation's history; and
        (2) Congress should give special priority to the preservation 
    of Civil War battlefields by making funds available for the 
    purchase of threatened and endangered Civil War battlefield sites.
    Sec. 345. It is the sense of the Senate that, inasmuch as there is 
disagreement as to what extent, if any, Federal funding for the arts is 
appropriate, and what modifications to the mechanism for such funding 
may be necessary; and further, inasmuch as there is a role for the 
private sector to supplement the Federal, State, and local partnership 
in support of the arts, hearings should be conducted and legislation 
addressing these issues should be brought before the full Senate for 
debate and passage during this Congress.
    Sec. 346. (a) In providing services or awarding financial 
assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 
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:
        (1) The term ``underserved population'' means a population of 
    individuals 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))) applicable 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); and
        (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.
    (e) Section 6(b) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the 
Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 955(b)) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(b) Appointment and Composition of Council.--(1) The Council 
shall be composed of members as follows:
        ``(A) The Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, 
    who shall be the chairperson of the Council.
        ``(B) Members of Congress appointed for a 2-year term beginning 
    on January 1 of each odd-numbered year as follows:
            ``(i) Two Members of the House of Representatives appointed 
        by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
            ``(ii) One Member of the House of Representatives appointed 
        by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
            ``(iii) One Senator appointed by the Majority Leader of the 
        Senate.
            ``(iv) One Senator appointed by the Minority Leader of the 
        Senate.
    Members of the Council appointed under this subparagraph shall 
    serve ex officio and shall be nonvoting members of the Council.
        ``(C) 14 members appointed by the President, by and with the 
    advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be selected--
            ``(i) from among private citizens of the United States 
        who--
                ``(I) are widely recognized for their broad knowledge 
            of, or expertise in, or for their profound interest in the 
            arts; and
                ``(II) have established records of distinguished 
            service, or achieved eminence, in the arts;
            ``(ii) so as to include practicing artists, civic cultural 
        leaders, members of the museum profession, and others who are 
        professionally engaged in the arts; and
            ``(iii) so as collectively to provide an appropriate 
        distribution of membership among major art fields and 
        interested citizens groups.

In making such appointments, the President shall give due regard to 
equitable representation of women, minorities, and individuals with 
disabilities who are involved in the arts and shall make such 
appointments so as to represent equitably all geographical areas in the 
United States.
    ``(2) Transition to the new council composition.--
        ``(A) Notwithstanding subsection (b)(1)(B), members first 
    appointed pursuant to such subsection shall be appointed not later 
    than December 31, 1997. Notwithstanding such subsection, such 
    members shall be appointed to serve until December 31, 1998.
        ``(B) Members of the Council serving on the effective date of 
    this subsection may continue to serve on the Council until their 
    current terms expire and new members shall not be appointed under 
    subsection (b)(1)(C) until the number of Presidentially appointed 
    members is less than 14.''.
    (f) Section 6(c) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the 
Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 955(c)) is amended--
        (1) by inserting ``appointed under subsection (b)(1)(C)'' after 
    ``member'' each place it appears; and
        (2) in the second sentence by inserting ``appointed under 
    subsection (b)(1)(C)'' after ``members''.
    Sec. 347. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be advertised which, 
when using domestic Alaska western red cedar selling values and 
manufacturing costs, fails to provide at least 60 percent of normal 
profit and risk of the appraised timber, except at the written request 
by a prospective bidder. Program accomplishments shall be based on 
volume sold. Should Region 10 sell, in fiscal year 1998, the annual 
average portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in 
the current Tongass Land Management Plan which provides greater than 60 
percent of normal profit and risk at the time of the sale 
advertisement, 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 States at 
domestic rates. Should Region 10 sell, in fiscal year 1998, less than 
the annual average portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity 
called for in the current Tongass Land Management Plan meeting the 60 
percent of the normal profit and risk standard at the time of 
advertisement, the volume of western red cedar available to domestic 
processors at domestic rates in the contiguous 48 States shall be that 
volume: (1) which is surplus to the needs of domestic processors in 
Alaska; and (2) 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. All additional western red cedar volume not sold to 
Alaska or contiguous 48 States domestic processors may be exported and 
sold at export rates at the election of the timber sale holder. All 
Alaska yellow cedar may be sold at export rates at the election of the 
timber sale holder.
    Sec. 348. 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. 349. Implementation of New Guidelines on National Forests in 
Arizona and New Mexico.--(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available under this or any other Act may 
be used for the purposes of executing any adjustments to annual 
operating plans, allotment management plans, or terms and conditions of 
existing grazing permits on National Forests in Arizona and New Mexico, 
which are or may be deemed necessary to achieve compliance with 1996 
amendments to the applicable forest plans, until March 1, 1998, or such 
time as the Forest Service publishes a schedule for implementing 
proposed changes, whichever occurs first.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to preclude the 
expenditure of funds for the development of annual operating plans, 
allotment management plans, or in developing modifications to grazing 
permits in cooperation with the permittee.
    (c) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to change 
authority or preclude the expenditure of funds pursuant to section 504 
of the 1995 Rescissions Act (Public Law 104-19).
    Sec. 350. Payments for Entitlement Land.--Section 6901(2)(A)(i) of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``(other than in 
Alaska)'' after ``city'' the first place such term appears.
    Sec. 351. Strike section 103(c)(7) of Public Law 104-333 and insert 
the following:
        ``(7) Staff.--Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the 
    Trust is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation and duties 
    and terminate the services of an executive director and such other 
    officers and employees as it deems necessary without regard to the 
    provisions of title 5, United States Code, or other laws related to 
    the appointment, compensation or termination of Federal 
    employees.''.

        TITLE IV--ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT AND RESTORATION FUND

    Sec. 401. (a) Fund.--One half of the amounts awarded by the Supreme 
Court to the United States in the case of United States of America v. 
State of Alaska (117 S.Ct. 1888) shall be deposited in a fund in the 
Treasury of the United States to be known as the ``Environmental 
Improvement and Restoration Fund'' (referred to in this section as the 
``Fund'').
    (b) Investments.--
        (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest 
    amounts in the Fund in interest bearing obligations of the United 
    States.
        (2) Acquisition of obligations.--For the purpose of investments 
    under paragraph (1), obligations may be acquired--
            (A) on original issue at the issue price; or
            (B) by purchase of outstanding obligations at the market 
        price.
        (3) Sale of obligations.--Any obligations acquired by the Fund 
    may be sold by the Secretary of the Treasury at the market price.
        (4) Credits to fund.--The interest earned from investments of 
    the Fund shall be covered into and form a part of the Fund.
    (c) Transfer and Availability of Amounts Earned.--Each year, 
interest earned and covered into the Fund in the previous fiscal year 
shall be available for appropriation, to the extent provided in the 
subsequent appropriations Acts, as follows:
        (1) 80 percent of such amounts shall be made available to be 
    equally divided among the Directors of the National Park Service, 
    the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land 
    Management, and the Chief of the Forest Service for high priority 
    deferred maintenance and modernization of facilities that directly 
    enhance the experience of visitors, including natural, cultural, 
    recreational, and historic resources protection projects in 
    National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and the public lands 
    respectively as provided in subsection (d) and for payment to the 
    State of Louisiana and its lessees for oil and gas drainage in the 
    West Delta field. The Secretary shall submit with the annual budget 
    submission to Congress a list of high priority maintenance and 
    modernization projects for congressional consideration.
        (2) 20 percent of such amounts shall be made available to the 
    Secretary of Commerce for the purpose of carrying out marine 
    research activities in the North Pacific in accordance with 
    subsection (e).
    (d) Projects.--A project referred to in subsection (c)(1) shall be 
consistent with the laws governing the National Park System, the 
National Wildlife Refuge System, the public lands and Forest Service 
lands and management plan for such unit.
    (e) Marine Research Activities.--(1) Funds available under 
subsection (c)(2) shall be used by the Secretary of Commerce according 
to this subsection to provide grants to Federal, State, private or 
foreign organizations or individuals to conduct research activities on 
or relating to the fisheries or marine ecosystems in the north Pacific 
Ocean, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean (including any lesser related 
bodies of water).
    (2) Research priorities and grant requests shall be reviewed and 
recommended for Secretarial approval by a board to be known as the 
North Pacific Research Board (referred to in this subsection as the 
``Board''). The Board shall seek to avoid duplicating other research 
activities, and shall place a priority on cooperative research efforts 
designed to address pressing fishery management or marine ecosystem 
information needs.
    (3) The Board shall be comprised of the following representatives 
or their designees--
        (A) the Secretary of Commerce, who shall be a co-chair of the 
    Board;
        (B) the Secretary of State;
        (C) the Secretary of the Interior;
        (D) the Commandant of the Coast Guard;
        (E) the Director of the Office of Naval Research;
        (F) the Alaska Commissioner of Fish and Game, who shall also be 
    a co-chair of the Board;
        (G) the Chairman of the North Pacific Fishery Management 
    Council;
        (H) the Chairman of the Arctic Research Commission;
        (I) the Director of the Oil Spill Recovery Institute;
        (J) the Director of the Alaska SeaLife Center;
        (K) five members nominated by the Governor of Alaska and 
    appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, one of whom shall represent 
    fishing interests, one of whom shall represent Alaska Natives, one 
    of whom shall represent environmental interests, one of whom shall 
    represent academia, and one of whom shall represent oil and gas 
    interests;
        (L) three members nominated by the Governor of Washington and 
    appointed by the Secretary of Commerce; and
        (M) one member nominated by the Governor of Oregon and 
    appointed by the Secretary of Commerce.
The members of the Board shall be individuals knowledgeable by 
education, training, or experience regarding fisheries or marine 
ecosystems in the north Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, or Arctic Ocean. 
Three nominations shall be submitted for each member to be appointed 
under subparagraphs (K), (L), and (M). Board members appointed under 
subparagraphs (K), (L), and (M) shall serve for three-year terms, and 
may be reappointed.
    (4)(A) The Secretary of Commerce shall review and administer grants 
recommended by the Board. If the Secretary does not approve a grant 
recommended by the Board, the Secretary shall explain in writing the 
reasons for not approving such grant, and the amount recommended to be 
used for such grant shall be available only for other grants 
recommended by the Board.
    (B) Grant recommendations and other decisions of the Board shall be 
by majority vote, with each member having one vote. The Board shall 
establish written criteria for the submission of grant requests through 
a competitive process and for deciding upon the award of grants. Grants 
shall be recommended by the Board on the basis of merit in accordance 
with the priorities established by the Board. The Secretary shall 
provide the Board such administrative and technical support as is 
necessary for the effective functioning of the Board. The Board shall 
be considered an advisory panel established under section 302(g) of the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 
1801 et seq.) for the purposes of section 302(i)(1) of such Act, and 
the other procedural matters applicable to advisory panels under 
section 302(i) of such Act shall apply to the Board to the extent 
practicable. Members of the Board may be reimbursed for actual expenses 
incurred in performance of their duties for the Board. Not more than 5 
percent of the funds provided to the Secretary of Commerce under 
paragraph (1) may be used to provide support for the Board and 
administer grants under this subsection.
    (f) Sunset.--If amounts are not assumed by the concurrent budget 
resolution and appropriated from the Fund by December 15, 1998, the 
Fund shall terminate and the amounts in the Fund including the accrued 
interest shall be applied to reduce the Federal deficit.

  TITLE V--PRIORITY LAND ACQUISITIONS, LAND EXCHANGES, AND MAINTENANCE

    For priority land acquisitions, land exchange agreements, other 
activities consistent with the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 
1965, as amended, and critical maintenance to be conducted by the 
Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
the National Park Service and the Forest Service, $699,000,000, to be 
derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, to remain available until September 30, 2001, 
of which $167,000,000 is available to the Secretary of Agriculture and 
$532,000,000 is available to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, 
That of the funds made available to the Secretary of Agriculture, not 
to exceed $65,000,000 may be used to acquire interests to protect and 
preserve Yellowstone National Park, pursuant to the terms and 
conditions set forth in sections 502 and 504 of this title, and 
$12,000,000 may be used for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the 
Beartooth Highway pursuant to section 502 of this title: Provided 
further, That of the funds made available to the Secretary of the 
Interior, not to exceed $250,000,000 may be used to acquire interests 
to protect and preserve the Headwaters Forest, pursuant to the terms 
and conditions set forth in sections 501 and 504 of this title, and 
$10,000,000 may be used for a direct payment to Humboldt County, 
California pursuant to section 501 of this title: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, 
after consultation with the heads of the Bureau of Land Management, the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and 
the Forest Service, shall, in fiscal year 1998 and each of the 
succeeding three fiscal years, jointly submit to Congress a report 
listing the lands and interests in land that the Secretaries propose to 
acquire or exchange and the maintenance requirements they propose to 
address using funds provided under this heading for purposes other than 
the purposes of sections 501 and 502 of this title: Provided further, 
That none of the funds appropriated under this title for purposes other 
than the purposes of sections 501 and 502 of this title shall be 
available until the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate 
Committee on Appropriations approve, in writing, a list of projects to 
be undertaken with such funds: Provided further, That moneys provided 
in this title, when combined with moneys provided by other titles in 
this Act, shall, for the purposes of section 205(a) of H. Con. Res. 84 
(105th Congress), be considered to provide $700,000,000 in budget 
authority for fiscal year 1998 for Federal land acquisitions and to 
finalize priority land exchanges.
    Sec. 501. Headwaters Forest and Elk River Property Acquisition. (a) 
Authorization.--Subject to the terms and conditions of this section, up 
to $250,000,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund is authorized 
to be appropriated to acquire lands referenced in the Agreement of 
September 28, 1996, which consist of approximately 4,500 acres commonly 
referred to as the ``Headwaters Forest'', approximately 1,125 acres 
referred to as the ``Elk Head Forest'', and approximately 9,600 acres 
referred to as the ``Elk River Property'', which are located in 
Humboldt County, California. This section is the sole authorization for 
the acquisition of such property, which is the subject of the Agreement 
dated September 28, 1996 between the United States of America 
(hereinafter ``United States''), the State of California, MAXXAM, Inc., 
and the Pacific Lumber Company. Of the entire Elk River Property, the 
United States and the State of California are to retain approximately 
1,845 acres and transfer the remaining approximately 7,755 acres of Elk 
River Property to the Pacific Lumber Company. The property to be 
acquired and retained by the United States and the State of California 
is that property that is the subject of the Agreement of September 28, 
1996 as generally depicted on maps labeled as sheets 1 through 7 of 
Township 3 and 4 North, Ranges 1 East and 1 West, of the Humboldt 
Meridian, California, titled ``Dependent Resurvey and Tract Survey'', 
as approved by Lance J. Bishop, Chief Cadastral Surveyor--California, 
on August 29, 1997. Such maps shall be on file in the Office of the 
Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Bureau of Land Management, Sacramento, 
California. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make such 
typographical and other corrections to this description as are mutually 
agreed upon by the parties to the Agreement of September 28, 1996. The 
land retained by the United States and the State of California 
(approximately 7,470 acres) shall hereafter be the ``Headwaters 
Forest''. Any funds appropriated by the Federal Government to acquire 
lands or interests in lands that enlarge the Headwaters Forest by more 
than five acres per each acquisition shall be subject to specific 
authorization enacted subsequent to this Act, except that such funds 
may be used pursuant to existing authorities to acquire such lands up 
to five acres per each acquisition or interests in lands that may be 
necessary for roadways to provide access to the Headwaters Forest.
    (b) Effective Period of Authorization.--The authorization in 
subsection (a) expires March 1, 1999 and shall become effective only--
        (1) when the State of California provides a $130,000,000 
    contribution for the transaction;
        (2) when the State of California approves a Sustained Yield 
    Plan covering Pacific Lumber Company timber property;
        (3) when the Pacific Lumber Company dismisses the following 
    legal actions as evidenced by instruments in form and substance 
    satisfactory to each of the parties to such legal actions: Pacific 
    Lumber Co. v. United States, No. 96-257L (Fed. Cls.) and Salmon 
    Creek Corp. v. California Board of Forestry, No. 96-CS-1057 (Cal. 
    Super. Ct.);
        (4) when the incidental take permit under section 10(a) of the 
    Endangered Species Act (based upon a multispecies Habitat 
    Conservation Plan covering Pacific Lumber Company timber property, 
    including applicable portions of the Elk River Property) is issued 
    by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National 
    Marine Fisheries Service;
        (5) after an appraisal of all lands and interests therein to be 
    acquired by the United States has been undertaken, such appraisal 
    has been reviewed for a period not to exceed 30 days by the 
    Comptroller General of the United States, and such appraisal has 
    been provided to the Committee on Resources of the House of 
    Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
    the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
    Senate;
        (6) after the Secretary of the Interior issues an opinion of 
    value to the Committee on Resources of the House of 
    Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
    the Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
    Senate for the land and property to be acquired by the Federal 
    Government. Such opinion of value shall also include the total 
    value of all compensation (including tax benefits) proposed to be 
    provided for the acquisition;
        (7) after an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed 
    Habitat Conservation Plan has been prepared and completed in 
    accordance with the applicable provisions of the National 
    Environmental Policy Act of 1969; and
        (8) when adequate provision has been made for public access to 
    the property.
    (c) Acquisition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount paid by the United States to acquire identified lands and 
interests in lands referred to in section 501(a) may differ from the 
value contained in the appraisal required by section 501(b)(5) if the 
Secretary of the Interior certifies, in writing, to Congress that such 
action is in the best interest of the United States.
    (d) Habitat Conservation Plan.--
        (1) Applicable standards.--Within 60 days after the enactment 
    of this section, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
    Commerce shall report to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
    Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House 
    of Representatives on the scientific and legal standards and 
    criteria for threatened, endangered, and candidate species under 
    the Endangered Species Act and any other species used to develop 
    the habitat conservation plan (hereinafter ``HCP'') and the section 
    10(a) incidental take permit for the Pacific Lumber Company land.
        (2) Report.--If the Pacific Lumber Company submits an 
    application for an incidental take permit under section 10(a) of 
    the Endangered Species Act for the transaction authorized by 
    subsection (a), and the permit is not issued, then the United 
    States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries 
    Service shall set forth the substantive rationale or rationales for 
    why the measures proposed by the applicant for such permit did not 
    meet the issuance criteria for the species at issue. Such report 
    shall be submitted to the Congress within 60 days of the decision 
    not to issue such permit or by May 1, 1999, whichever is earlier.
        (3) HCP standards.--If a section 10(a) permit for the Pacific 
    Lumber Company HCP is issued, it shall be deemed to be unique to 
    the circumstances associated with the acquisition authorized by 
    this section and shall not establish a higher or lesser standard 
    for any other multispecies HCPs than would otherwise be established 
    under existing law.
    (e) Payment to Humboldt County.--Within 30 days of the acquisition 
of the Headwaters Forest, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide a 
$10,000,000 direct payment to Humboldt County, California.
    (f) Payment In Lieu Of Taxes.--The Federal portion of the 
Headwaters Forest acquired pursuant to this section shall be 
entitlement land under section 6905 of title 31 of the United States 
Code.
    (g) Out-Year Budget Limitations.--The following funding limitations 
and parameters shall apply to the Headwaters Forest acquired under 
subsection (a)--
        (1) At least 50 percent of the total funds for management of 
    such lands above the annual level of $100,000 shall (with the 
    exception of law enforcement activities and emergency activities) 
    be from non-Federal sources.
        (2) Subject to appropriations, the authorized annual Federal 
    funding for management of such land is $300,000 (with the exception 
    of law enforcement activities and emergency activities).
        (3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Headwaters Forest 
    Management Trust referenced in subsection (h) is authorized to 
    accept and use donations of funds and personal property from the 
    State of California, private individuals, and other nongovernmental 
    entities for the purpose of management of the Headwaters Forest.
    (h) Headwaters Forest Management Trust.--The Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized, with the written concurrence of the Governor of 
the State of California, to establish a Headwaters Forest Management 
Trust (``Trust'') for the management of the Headwaters Forest as 
follows:
        (1) Management authority.--The Secretary of the Interior is 
    authorized to vest management authority and responsibility in the 
    Trust composed of a board of five trustees each appointed for terms 
    of three years. Two trustees shall be appointed by the Governor of 
    the State of California. Three trustees shall be appointed by the 
    President of the United States. The first group of trustees shall 
    be appointed within 60 days of exercising the authority under this 
    subsection and the terms of the trustees shall begin on such day. 
    The Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Resources of the 
    State of California, and the Chairman of the Humboldt County Board 
    of Supervisors shall be nonvoting, ex officio members of the board 
    of trustees. The Secretary is authorized to make grants to the 
    Trust for the management of the Headwaters Forest from amounts 
    authorized and appropriated.
        (2) Operations.--The Trust shall have the power to develop and 
    implement the management plan for the Headwaters Forest.
    (i) Management Plan.--
        (1) In general.--A concise management plan for the Headwaters 
    Forest shall be developed and periodically amended as necessary by 
    the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the State of 
    California (and in the case that the authority provided in 
    subsection (h) is exercised, the trustees shall develop and 
    periodically amend the management plan), and shall meet the 
    following requirements:
            (A) Management goals for the plan shall be to conserve and 
        study the land, fish, wildlife, and forests occurring on such 
        land while providing public recreation opportunities and other 
        management needs.
            (B) Before a management structure and management plan are 
        adopted for such land, the Secretary of the Interior or the 
        board of trustees, as the case may be, shall submit a proposal 
        for the structure and plan to the Committee on Energy and 
        Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Resources 
        of the House of Representatives. The proposed management plan 
        shall not become effective until the passage of 90 days after 
        its submission to the Committees.
            (C) The Secretary of the Interior or the board of trustees, 
        as the case may be, shall report annually to the Committee on 
        Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, the Committee on 
        Resources of the House of Representatives, and the House and 
        Senate Committees on Appropriations concerning the management 
        of lands acquired under the authority of this section and 
        activities undertaken on such lands.
        (2) Plan.--The management plan shall guide general management 
    of the Headwaters Forest. Such plan shall address the following 
    management issues--
            (A) scientific research on forests, fish, wildlife, and 
        other such activities that will be fostered and permitted on 
        the Headwaters Forest;
            (B) providing recreation opportunities on the Headwaters 
        Forest;
            (C) access to the Headwaters Forest;
            (D) construction of minimal necessary facilities within the 
        Headwaters Forest so as to maintain the ecological integrity of 
        the Headwaters Forest;
            (E) other management needs; and
            (F) an annual budget for the management of the Headwaters 
        Forest, which shall include a projected revenue schedule (such 
        as fees for research and recreation) and projected expenses.
        (3) Compliance.--The National Environmental Policy Act shall 
    apply to the development and implementation of the management plan.
    (j) Cooperative Management.--
        (1) The Secretary of the Interior may enter into agreements 
    with the State of California for the cooperative management of any 
    of the following: Headwaters Forest, Redwood National Park, and 
    proximate State lands. The purpose of such agreements is to acquire 
    from and provide to the State of California goods and services to 
    be used by the Secretary and the State of California in cooperative 
    management of lands if the Secretary determines that appropriations 
    for that purpose are available and an agreement is in the best 
    interests of the United States; and
        (2) an assignment arranged by the Secretary under section 3372 
    of title 5, United States Code, of a Federal or State employee for 
    work in any Federal or State of California lands, or an extension 
    of such assignment, may be for any period of time determined by the 
    Secretary or the State of California, as appropriate, to be 
    mutually beneficial.
    Sec. 502. Protection and Preservation of Yellowstone National Park-
Acquisition of Crown Butte Mining Interests. (a) Authorization.--
Subject to the terms and conditions of this section, up to $65,000,000 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund is authorized to be 
appropriated to acquire identified lands and interests in lands 
referred to in the Agreement of August 12, 1996 to protect and preserve 
Yellowstone National Park.
    (b) Conditions of Acquisition Authority.--The Secretary of 
Agriculture may not acquire the District Property until:
        (1) the parties to the Agreement have entered into and lodged 
    with the United States District Court for the District of Montana a 
    consent decree as required under the Agreement that requires, among 
    other things, Crown Butte to perform response or restoration 
    actions (or both) or pay for such actions in accordance with the 
    Agreement;
        (2) an appraisal of the District Property has been undertaken, 
    such appraisal has been reviewed for a period not to exceed 30 days 
    by the Comptroller General of the United States, and such appraisal 
    has been provided to the Committee on Resources of the House of 
    Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
    the Senate, and the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations;
        (3) after the Secretary of Agriculture issues an opinion of 
    value to the Committee on Resources of the House of 
    Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
    the Senate, and the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
    for the land and property to be acquired by the Federal Government; 
    and
        (4) the applicable requirements of the National Environmental 
    Policy Act have been met.
    (c) Acquisition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount paid by the United States to acquire identified lands and 
interests in lands referred to in the Agreement of August 12, 1996 to 
protect and preserve Yellowstone National Park may exceed the value 
contained in the appraisal required by section 502(b)(2) if the 
Secretary of Agriculture certifies, in writing, to Congress that such 
action is in the best interest of the United States.
    (d) Deposit in Account.--Immediately upon receipt of payments from 
the United States, Crown Butte shall deposit $22,500,000 in an interest 
bearing account in a private, federally chartered financial institution 
that, in accordance with the Agreement, shall be--
        (1) acceptable to the Secretary of Agriculture; and
        (2) available to carry out response and restoration actions.
    The balance of amounts remaining in such account after completion 
of response and restoration actions shall be available to the Secretary 
of Agriculture for use in the New World Mining District for any 
environmentally beneficial purpose otherwise authorized by law.
    (e) Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Beartooth Highway.--
        (1) Maintenance.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall, 
    consistent with the funds provided herein, be responsible for--
            (A) snow removal on the Beartooth Highway from milepost 0 
        in Yellowstone National Park, into and through Wyoming, to 
        milepost 43.1 on the border between Wyoming and Montana; and
            (B) pavement preservation, in conformance with a pavement 
        preservation plan, on the Beartooth Highway from milepost 8.4 
        to milepost 24.5.
        (2) Rehabilitation.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall be 
    responsible for conducting rehabilitation and minor widening of the 
    portion of the Beartooth Highway in Wyoming that runs from milepost 
    24.5 to milepost 43.1.
        (3) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
    appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture--
            (A) for snow removal and pavement preservation under 
        paragraph (1), $2,000,000; and
            (B) for rehabilitation under paragraph (2), $10,000,000.
        (4) Availability of funds.--Within 30 days of the acquisition 
    of lands and interests in lands pursuant to this section, the funds 
    authorized in subsection (e)(3) and appropriated herein for that 
    purpose shall be made available to the Secretary of Agriculture.
    (f) Response and Restoration Plan.--The Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
approve or prepare a plan for response and restoration activities to be 
undertaken pursuant to the Agreement and a quarterly accounting of 
expenditures made pursuant to such plan. The plan and accountings shall 
be transmitted to the Committee on Resources of the House of 
Representatives, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
and the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    (g) Map.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide to the 
Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives, the Senate 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations, a map depicting the acreage to be 
acquired pursuant to this section.
    (h) Definitions.--In this section:
        (1) Agreement.--The term ``Agreement'' means the agreement in 
    principle, concerning the District Property, entered into on August 
    12, 1996 by Crown Butte Mines, Inc., Crown Butte Resources Ltd., 
    Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Northwest Wyoming Resource Council, 
    Sierra Club, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Wyoming Wildlife 
    Federation, Montana Wildlife Federation, Wyoming Outdoor Council, 
    Beartooth Alliance, and the United States of America, with such 
    other changes mutually agreed to by the parties.
        (2) Beartooth highway.--The term ``Beartooth Highway'' means 
    the portion of United States Route 212 that runs from the northeast 
    entrance of Yellowstone National Park near Silver Gate, Montana, 
    into and through Wyoming to Red Lodge, Montana.
        (3) Crown butte.--The term ``Crown Butte'' means Crown Butte 
    Mines, Inc. and Crown Butte Resources Ltd., acting jointly.
        (4) District property.--The term ``District Property'' means 
    the portion of the real property interests specifically described 
    as District Property in appendix B of the Agreement.
        (5) New world mining district.--The term ``New World Mining 
    District'' means the New World Mining District as specifically 
    described in appendix A of the Agreement.
    Sec. 503. Conveyance to State of Montana. (a) Conveyance 
Requirement.--Not later than January 1, 2001, but not prior to 180 days 
after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
convey to the State of Montana, without consideration, all right, 
title, and interest of the United States in and to--
        (1) $10,000,000 in Federal mineral rights in the State of 
    Montana agreed to by the Secretary of the Interior and the Governor 
    of Montana through negotiations in accordance with subsection (b); 
    or
        (2) all Federal mineral rights in the tracts in Montana 
    depicted as Otter Creek number 1, 2, and 3 on the map entitled 
    ``Ashland Map''.
    (b) Negotiations.--The Secretary of the Interior shall promptly 
enter into negotiations with the Governor of Montana for purposes of 
subsection (a)(1) to determine and agree to mineral rights owned by the 
United States having a fair market value of $10,000,000.
    (c) Federal Law Not Applicable to Conveyance.--Any conveyance under 
subsection (a) shall not be subject to the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
U.S.C. 181 et seq.).
    (d) Availability of Map.--The Secretary of the Interior shall keep 
the map referred to in subsection (a)(2) on file and available for 
public inspection in appropriate offices of the Department of the 
Interior located in the District of Columbia and Billings, Montana, 
until January 1, 2001.
    (e) Conveyance Dependent Upon Acquisition.--No conveyance pursuant 
to subsection (a) shall take place unless the acquisition authorized in 
section 502(a) is executed.
    Sec. 504. The acquisitions authorized by sections 501 and 502 of 
this title may not occur prior to the earlier of: (1) 180 days after 
enactment of this Act; or (2) enactment of separate authorizing 
legislation that modifies section 501, 502, or 503 of this title. 
Within 120 days of enactment, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, shall submit to the Committee 
on Resources of the House of Representatives, the Senate Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources and the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations, reports detailing the status of efforts to meet the 
conditions set forth in this title imposed on the acquisition of the 
interests to protect and preserve the Headwaters Forest and the 
acquisition of interests to protect and preserve Yellowstone National 
Park. For every day beyond 120 days after the enactment of this Act 
that the appraisals required in subsections 501(b)(5) and 502(b)(2) are 
not provided to the Committee on Resources of the House, the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations in accordance with such subsections, the 
180-day period referenced in this section shall be extended by one day.
    Sec. 505. The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (Public 
Law 88-578; 78 Stat. 897) (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 through 11) is amended by 
moving section 13 (as added by section 1021(b) of the Omnibus Parks and 
Public Lands Management Act of 1996; 110 Stat. 4210) so as to appear in 
title I of that Act following section 12.

      TITLE VI--FOREST RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND SHORTAGE RELIEF

    Sec. 601. Short Title.--This title may be cited as the ``Forest 
Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1997''.
    Sec. 602. (a) Use of Unprocessed Timber-Limitation on Substitution 
of Unprocessed Federal Timber for Unprocessed Timber From Private 
Land.--Section 490 of the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage 
Relief Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 620b) is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a)--
            (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``paragraph (3) and'' 
        after ``provided in''; and
            (B) by adding at the end the following:
        ``(3) Applicability.--In the case of the purchase by a person 
    of unprocessed timber originating from Federal lands west of the 
    119th meridian in the State of Washington, paragraph (1) shall 
    apply only if--
            ``(A) the private lands referred to in paragraph (1) are 
        owned by the person; or
            ``(B) the person has the exclusive right to harvest timber 
        from the private lands described in paragraph (1) during a 
        period of more than 7 years, and may exercise that right at any 
        time of the person's choosing.'';
        (2) in subsection (c)--
            (A) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Approval of'';
            (B) in paragraph (2)--
                (i) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``for 
            sourcing areas for processing facilities located outside 
            the northwestern private timber open market area''; after 
            ``Application''; and
                (ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``(except 
            private land located in the northwestern private timber 
            open market area)'' after ``lands'';
            (C) in paragraph (3)--
                (i) in the paragraph heading, by inserting ``for 
            sourcing areas for processing facilities located outside of 
            the northwestern private timber open market area.--(A) In 
            general''; after ``approval''; and
                (ii) by striking the last sentence of paragraph (3) and 
            adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) For timber manufacturing facilities located in 
        idaho.--Except as provided in subparagraph (D), in making a 
        determination referred to in subparagraph (A), the Secretary 
        concerned shall consider the private timber export and the 
        private and Federal timber sourcing patterns for the 
        applicant's timber manufacturing facilities, as well as the 
        private and Federal timber sourcing patterns for the timber 
        manufacturing facilities of other persons in the same local 
        vicinity of the applicant, and the relative similarity of such 
        private and Federal timber sourcing patterns.
            ``(C) For timber manufacturing facilities located in states 
        other than idaho.--Except as provided in subparagraph (D), in 
        making the determination referred to in subparagraph (A), the 
        Secretary concerned shall consider the private timber export 
        and the Federal timber sourcing patterns for the applicant's 
        timber manufacturing facilities, as well as the Federal timber 
        sourcing patterns for the timber manufacturing facilities of 
        other persons in the same local vicinity of the applicant, and 
        the relative similarity of such Federal timber sourcing 
        patterns. Private timber sourcing patterns shall not be a 
        factor in such determinations in States other than Idaho.
            ``(D) Area not included.--In deciding whether to approve or 
        disapprove an application, the Secretary shall not--
                ``(i) consider land located in the northwestern private 
            timber open market area; or
                ``(ii) condition approval of the application on the 
            inclusion of any such land in the applicant's sourcing 
            area, such land being includable in the sourcing area only 
            to the extent requested by the applicant.'';
            (D) in paragraph (4), in the paragraph heading, by 
        inserting ``for sourcing areas for processing facilities 
        located outside the northwestern private timber open market 
        area''; after ``application'';
            (E) in paragraph (5), in the paragraph heading, by 
        inserting ``for sourcing areas for processing facilities 
        located outside the northwestern private timber open market 
        area''; after ``Determinations''; and
            (F) by adding at the end the following:
        ``(6) Sourcing areas for processing facilities located in the 
    northwestern private timber open market area.--
            ``(A) Establishment.--In the northwestern private timber 
        open market area--
                ``(i) a sourcing area boundary shall be a circle around 
            the processing facility of the sourcing area applicant or 
            holder;
                ``(ii) the radius of the circle--

                    ``(I) shall be the furthest distance that the 
                sourcing area applicant or holder proposes to haul 
                Federal timber for processing at the processing 
                facility; and
                    ``(II) shall be determined solely by the sourcing 
                area applicant or holder;

                ``(iii) a sourcing area shall become effective on 
            written notice to the Regional Forester for Region 6 of the 
            Forest Service of the location of the boundary of the 
            sourcing area;
                ``(iv) the 24-month requirement in paragraph (1)(A) 
            shall not apply;
                ``(v) a sourcing area holder--

                    ``(I) may adjust the radius of the sourcing area 
                not more frequently than once every 24 months; and
                    ``(II) shall provide written notice to the Regional 
                Forester for Region 6 of the adjusted boundary of its 
                sourcing area before using the adjusted sourcing area; 
                and

                ``(vi) a sourcing area holder that relinquishes a 
            sourcing area may not reestablish a sourcing area for that 
            processing facility before the date that is 24 months after 
            the date on which the sourcing area was relinquished.
            ``(B) Transition.--With respect to a portion of a sourcing 
        area established before the date of enactment of this paragraph 
        that contains Federal timber under contract before that date 
        and is outside the boundary of a new sourcing area established 
        under subparagraph (A)--
                ``(i) that portion shall continue to be a sourcing area 
            only until unprocessed Federal timber from the portion is 
            no longer in the possession of the sourcing area holder; 
            and
                ``(ii) unprocessed timber from private land in that 
            portion shall be exportable immediately after unprocessed 
            timber from Federal land in the portion is no longer in the 
            possession of the sourcing area holder.
        ``(7) Relinquishment and termination of sourcing areas.--
            ``(A) In general.--A sourcing area may be relinquished at 
        any time.
            ``(B) Effective date.--A relinquishment of a sourcing area 
        shall be effective as of the date on which written notice is 
        provided by the sourcing area holder to the Regional Forester 
        with jurisdiction over the sourcing area where the processing 
        facility of the holder is located.
            ``(C) Exportability.--
                ``(i) In general.--On relinquishment or termination of 
            a sourcing area, unprocessed timber from private land 
            within the former boundary of the relinquished or 
            terminated sourcing area is exportable immediately after 
            unprocessed timber from Federal land from within that area 
            is no longer in the possession of the former sourcing area 
            holder.
                ``(ii) No restriction.--The exportability of 
            unprocessed timber from private land located outside of a 
            sourcing area shall not be restricted or in any way 
            affected by relinquishment or termination of a sourcing 
            area.''; and
        (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Domestic Transportation and Processing of Private Timber.--
Nothing in this section restricts or authorizes any restriction on the 
domestic transportation or processing of timber harvested from private 
land, except that the Secretary may prohibit processing facilities 
located in the State of Idaho that have sourcing areas from processing 
timber harvested from private land outside of the boundaries of those 
sourcing areas.''.
    (b) Restriction of Exports of Unprocessed Timber From State and 
Public Land.--Section 491(b)(2) of the Forest Resources Conservation 
and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 620c(b)(2)) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``the following'' and all that follows through 
    ``(A) The Secretary'' and inserting ``the Secretary'';
        (2) by striking ``during the period beginning on June 1, 1993, 
    and ending on December 31, 1995'' and inserting ``as of the date of 
    enactment of the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief 
    Act of 1997''; and
        (3) by striking subparagraph (B).
    Sec. 603. Monitoring and Enforcement.--Section 492 of the Forest 
Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 620d) 
is amended--
        (1) in subsection (c)(2), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(C) Mitigation of penalties.--
                ``(i) In general.--The Secretary concerned--

                    ``(I) in determining the applicability of any 
                penalty imposed under this paragraph, shall take into 
                account all relevant mitigating factors, including 
                mistake, inadvertence, and error; and
                    ``(II) based on any mitigating factor, may, with 
                respect to any penalty imposed under this paragraph--

                        ``(aa) reduce the penalty;
                        ``(bb) not impose the penalty; or
                        ``(cc) on condition of there being no further 
                    violation under this paragraph for a prescribed 
                    period, suspend imposition of the penalty.
                ``(ii) Contractural remedies.--In the case of a minor 
            violation of this title (including a regulation), the 
            Secretary concerned shall, to the maximum extent 
            practicable, permit a contracting officer to redress the 
            violation in accordance with the applicable timber sale 
            contract rather than assess a penalty under this 
            paragraph.''; and
        (2) in subsection (d)(1)--
            (A) by striking ``The head'' and inserting the following:
            ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the head''; 
        and
            (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) Prerequisites for debarment.--
                ``(i) In general.--No person may be debarred from 
            bidding for or entering into a contract for the purchase of 
            unprocessed timber from Federal lands under subparagraph 
            (A) unless the head of the appropriate Federal department 
            or agency first finds, on the record and after an 
            opportunity for a hearing, that debarment is warranted.
                ``(ii) Withholding of awards during debarment 
            proceedings.--The head of an appropriate Federal department 
            or agency may withhold an award under this title of a 
            contract for the purchase of unprocessed timber from 
            Federal lands during a debarment proceeding.''.
    Sec. 604. Definitions.--Section 493 of the Forest Resources 
Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 620e) is 
amended--
        (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (8) as paragraphs 
    (5) through (10), respectively;
        (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
        ``(3) Minor violation.--The term `minor violation' means a 
    violation, other than an intentional violation, involving a single 
    contract, purchase order, processing facility, or log yard 
    involving a quantity of logs that is less than 25 logs and has a 
    total value (at the time of the violation) of less than $10,000.
        ``(4) Northwestern private timber open market area.--The term 
    `northwestern private timber open market area' means the State of 
    Washington.'';
        (3) in subparagraph (B)(ix) of paragraph (9) (as redesignated 
    by paragraph (1))--
            (A) by striking ``Pulp logs or cull logs'' and inserting 
        ``Pulp logs, cull logs, and incidental volumes of grade 3 and 4 
        sawlogs'';
            (B) by inserting ``primary'' before ``purpose''; and
            (C) by striking the period at the end and inserting: ``, or 
        to the extent that a small quantity of such logs are processed, 
        into other products at domestic processing facilities.''; and
        (4) by adding at the end the following:
        ``(11) Violation.--The term `violation' means a violation of 
    this Act (including a regulation issued to implement this Act) with 
    regard to a course of action, including--
            ``(A) in the case of a violation by the original purchaser 
        of unprocessed timber, an act or omission with respect to a 
        single timber sale; and
            ``(B) in the case of a violation of a subsequent purchaser 
        of the timber, an act or omission with respect to an operation 
        at a particular processing facility or log yard.''.
    Sec. 605. Regulations.--Section 495(a) of the Forest Resources 
Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 620f(a)) is 
amended--
        (1) by striking ``The Secretaries'' and inserting the 
    following:
        ``(1) Agriculture and interior.--The Secretaries'';
        (2) by striking ``The Secretary of Commerce'' and inserting the 
    following:
        ``(2) Commerce.--The Secretary of Commerce''; and
        (3) by striking the last sentence and inserting the following:
        ``(3) Deadline.--
            ``(A) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
        title, regulations and guidelines required under this 
        subsection shall be issued not later than June 1, 1998.
            ``(B) The regulations and guidelines issued under this 
        title that were in effect prior to September 8, 1995 shall 
        remain in effect until new regulations and guidelines are 
        issued under subparagraph (A).
        ``(4) Painting and branding.--
            ``(A) In general.--The Secretary concerned shall issue 
        regulations that impose reasonable painting, branding, or other 
        forms of marking or tracking requirements on unprocessed timber 
        if--
                ``(i) the benefits of the requirements outweigh the 
            cost of complying with the requirements; and
                ``(ii) the Secretary determines that, without the 
            requirements, it is likely that the unprocessed timber--

                    ``(I) would be exported in violation of this title; 
                or
                    ``(II) if the unprocessed timber originated from 
                Federal lands, would be substituted for unprocessed 
                timber originating from private lands west of the 100th 
                Meridian in the contiguous 48 States in violation of 
                this title.

            ``(B) Minimum size.--The Secretary concerned shall not 
        impose painting, branding, or other forms of marking or 
        tracking requirements on--
                ``(i) the face of a log that is less than 7 inches in 
            diameter; or
                ``(ii) unprocessed timber that is less than 8 feet in 
            length or less than \1/3\ sound wood.
            ``(C) Waivers.--
                ``(i) In general.--The Secretary concerned may waive 
            log painting and branding requirements--

                    ``(I) for a geographic area, if the Secretary 
                determines that the risk of the unprocessed timber 
                being exported from the area or used in substitution is 
                low;
                    ``(II) with respect to unprocessed timber 
                originating from private lands located within an 
                approved sourcing area for a person who certifies that 
                the timber will be processed at a specific domestic 
                processing facility to the extent that the processing 
                does occur; or
                    ``(III) as part of a log yard agreement that is 
                consistent with the purposes of the export and 
                substitution restrictions imposed under this title.

                ``(ii) Review and termination of waivers.--A waiver 
            granted under clause (i)--

                    ``(I) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be 
                reviewed once a year; and
                    ``(II) shall remain effective until terminated by 
                the Secretary.

            ``(D) Factors.--In making a determination under this 
        paragraph, the Secretary concerned shall consider--
                ``(i) the risk of unprocessed timber of that species, 
            grade, and size being exported or used in substitution;
                ``(ii) the location of the unprocessed timber and the 
            effect of the location on its being exported or used in 
            substitution;
                ``(iii) the history of the person involved with respect 
            to compliance with log painting and branding requirements; 
            and
                ``(iv) any other factor that is relevant to determining 
            the likelihood of the unprocessed timber being exported or 
            used in substitution.
        ``(5) Reporting.--
            ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
        Secretary concerned shall issue regulations that impose 
        reasonable documentation and reporting requirements if the 
        benefits of the requirements outweigh the cost of complying 
        with the requirements.
            ``(B) Waivers.--
                ``(i) In general.--The Secretary concerned may waive 
            documentation and reporting requirements for a person if--

                    ``(I) an audit of the records of the facility of 
                the person reveals substantial compliance with all 
                notice, reporting, painting, and branding requirements 
                during the preceding year; or
                    ``(II) the person transferring the unprocessed 
                timber and the person processing the unprocessed timber 
                enter into an advance agreement with the Secretary 
                concerned regarding the disposition of the unprocessed 
                timber by domestic processing.

                ``(ii) Review and termination of waivers.--A waiver 
            granted under clause (i)--

                    ``(I) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be 
                reviewed once a year; and
                    ``(II) shall remain effective until terminated by 
                the Secretary.''.

                    TITLE VII--MICCOSUKEE SETTLEMENT

    Sec. 701. Short Title.--This title may be cited as the ``Miccosukee 
Settlement Act of 1997''.
    Sec. 702. Congressional Findings.--Congress finds that:
        (1) There is pending before the United States District Court 
    for the Southern District of Florida a lawsuit by the Miccosukee 
    Tribe that involves the taking of certain tribal lands in 
    connection with the construction of highway Interstate 75 by the 
    Florida Department of Transportation.
        (2) The pendency of the lawsuit referred to in paragraph (1) 
    clouds title of certain lands used in the maintenance and operation 
    of the highway and hinders proper planning for future maintenance 
    and operations.
        (3) The Florida Department of Transportation, with the 
    concurrence of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvements 
    Trust Fund of the State of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe have 
    executed an agreement for the purpose of resolving the dispute and 
    settling the lawsuit.
        (4) The agreement referred to in paragraph (3) requires the 
    consent of Congress in connection with contemplated land transfers.
        (5) The Settlement Agreement is in the interest of the 
    Miccosukee Tribe, as the Tribe will receive certain monetary 
    payments, new reservation lands to be held in trust by the United 
    States, and other benefits.
        (6) Land received by the United States pursuant to the 
    Settlement Agreement is in consideration of Miccosukee Indian 
    Reservation lands lost by the Miccosukee Tribe by virtue of 
    transfer to the Florida Department of Transportation under the 
    Settlement Agreement.
        (7) The lands referred to in paragraph (6) as received by the 
    United States will be held in trust by the United States for the 
    use and benefit of the Miccosukee Tribe as Miccosukee Indian 
    Reservation lands in compensation for the consideration given by 
    the Tribe in the Settlement Agreement.
        (8) Congress shares with the parties to the Settlement 
    Agreement a desire to resolve the dispute and settle the lawsuit.
    Sec. 703. Definitions.--In this title:
        (1) Board of trustees of the internal improvements trust 
    fund.--The term ``Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvements 
    Trust Fund'' means the agency of the State of Florida holding legal 
    title to and responsible for trust administration of certain lands 
    of the State of Florida, consisting of the Governor, Attorney 
    General, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Education, 
    Controller, Secretary of State, and Treasurer of the State of 
    Florida, who are Trustees of the Board.
        (2) Florida department of transportation.--The term ``Florida 
    Department of Transportation'' means the executive branch 
    department and agency of the State of Florida that--
            (A) is responsible for the construction and maintenance of 
        surface vehicle roads, existing pursuant to section 20.23, 
        Florida Statutes; and
            (B) has the authority to execute the Settlement Agreement 
        pursuant to section 334.044, Florida Statutes.
        (3) Lawsuit.--The term ``lawsuit'' means the action in the 
    United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 
    entitled Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. State of Florida 
    and Florida Department of Transportation, et al., docket No. 6285-
    Civ-Paine.
        (4) Miccosukee lands.--The term ``Miccosukee lands'' means 
    lands that are--
            (A) held in trust by the United States for the use and 
        benefit of the Miccosukee Tribe as Miccosukee Indian 
        Reservation lands; and
            (B) identified pursuant to the Settlement Agreement for 
        transfer to the Florida Department of Transportation.
        (5) Miccosukee tribe; tribe.--The terms ``Miccosukee Tribe'' 
    and ``Tribe'' mean the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, a 
    tribe of American Indians recognized by the United States and 
    organized under section 16 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 
    987, chapter 576; 25 U.S.C. 476) and recognized by the State of 
    Florida pursuant to chapter 285, Florida Statutes.
        (6) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
    the Interior.
        (7) Settlement agreement; agreement.--The terms ``Settlement 
    Agreement'' and ``Agreement'' mean the assemblage of documents 
    entitled ``Settlement Agreement'' (with incorporated exhibits) 
    that--
            (A) addresses the lawsuit; and
            (B)(i) was signed on August 28, 1996, by Ben G. Watts 
        (Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation) and 
        Billy Cypress (Chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe); and
            (ii) after being signed, as described in clause (i), was 
        concurred in by the Board of Trustees of the Internal 
        Improvements Trust Fund of the State of Florida.
        (8) State of florida.--The term ``State of Florida'' means--
            (A) all agencies or departments of the State of Florida, 
        including the Florida Department of Transportation and the 
        Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvements Trust Fund; and
            (B) the State of Florida as a governmental entity.
    Sec. 704. Ratification.--The United States approves, ratifies, and 
confirms the Settlement Agreement.
    Sec. 705. Authority of Secretary.--As Trustee for the Miccosukee 
Tribe, the Secretary shall--
        (1)(A) aid and assist in the fulfillment of the Settlement 
    Agreement at all times and in a reasonable manner; and
        (B) to accomplish the fulfillment of the Settlement Agreement 
    in accordance with subparagraph (A), cooperate with and assist the 
    Miccosukee Tribe;
        (2) upon finding that the Settlement Agreement is legally 
    sufficient and that the State of Florida has the necessary 
    authority to fulfill the Agreement--
            (A) sign the Settlement Agreement on behalf of the United 
        States; and
            (B) ensure that an individual other than the Secretary who 
        is a representative of the Bureau of Indian Affairs also signs 
        the Settlement Agreement;
        (3) upon finding that all necessary conditions precedent to the 
    transfer of Miccosukee land to the Florida Department of 
    Transportation as provided in the Settlement Agreement have been or 
    will be met so that the Agreement has been or will be fulfilled, 
    but for the execution of that land transfer and related land 
    transfers--
            (A) transfer ownership of the Miccosukee land to the 
        Florida Department of Transportation in accordance with the 
        Settlement Agreement, including in the transfer solely and 
        exclusively that Miccosukee land identified in the Settlement 
        Agreement for transfer to the Florida Department of 
        Transportation; and
            (B) in conjunction with the land transfer referred to in 
        subparagraph (A), transfer no land other than the land referred 
        to in that subparagraph to the Florida Department of 
        Transportation; and
        (4) upon finding that all necessary conditions precedent to the 
    transfer of Florida lands from the State of Florida to the United 
    States have been or will be met so that the Agreement has been or 
    will be fulfilled but for the execution of that land transfer and 
    related land transfers, receive and accept in trust for the use and 
    benefit of the Miccosukee Tribe ownership of all land identified in 
    the Settlement Agreement for transfer to the United States.
    Sec. 706. Miccosukee Indian Reservation Lands.--The lands 
transferred and held in trust for the Miccosukee Tribe under section 
705(4) shall be Miccosukee Indian Reservation lands.
    Sec. 707. Miscellaneous. (a) Rule of Construction.-- Nothing in 
this Act or the Settlement Agreement shall--
        (1) affect the eligibility of the Miccosukee Tribe or its 
    members to receive any services or benefits under any program of 
    the Federal Government; or
        (2) diminish the trust responsibility of the United States to 
    the Miccosukee Tribe and its members.
    (b) No Reductions in Payments.--No payment made pursuant to this 
Act or the Settlement Agreement shall result in any reduction or denial 
of any benefits or services under any program of the Federal Government 
to the Miccosukee Tribe or its members, with respect to which the Tribe 
or the members of the Tribe are entitled or eligible because of the 
status of--
        (1) the Miccosukee Tribe as a federally recognized Indian 
    tribe; or
        (2) any member of the Miccosukee Tribe as a member of the 
    Tribe.
    (c) Taxation.--
        (1) In general.--
            (A) Moneys.--None of the moneys paid to the Miccosukee 
        Tribe under this Act or the Settlement Agreement shall be 
        taxable under Federal or State law.
            (B) Lands.--None of the lands conveyed to the Miccosukee 
        Tribe under this Act or the Settlement Agreement shall be 
        taxable under Federal or State law.
        (2) Payments and conveyances not taxable events.--No payment or 
    conveyance referred to in paragraph (1) shall be considered to be a 
    taxable event.
      This Act may be cited as the ``Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.