[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2107 Public Print (PP)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 2107


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 1997

    Ordered to be printed with the amendments of the Senate numbered

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                                 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)), 
(1)<DELETED>$581,591,000 </DELETED>$578,851,000, 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, (2)<DELETED>$27,300,000 </DELETED>$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 
(3)<DELETED>$581,591,000 </DELETED>$578,851,000; 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, (4)<DELETED>$280,103,000 
</DELETED>$282,728,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed (5)<DELETED>$5,025,000 </DELETED>$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.), 
(6)<DELETED>$12,000,000 </DELETED>$14,900,000, 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, (7)<DELETED>$3,254,000 
</DELETED>$3,154,000, 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), (8)<DELETED>$113,500,000 
</DELETED>$124,000,000, 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, (9)<DELETED>$12,000,000 
</DELETED>$8,600,000, 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 per 
centum of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby 
made a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant fund and 
shall be transferred to the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance 
with the second paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 
August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).

               (10)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 per 
centum of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 
sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315 et seq.) and 
the amount designated for range improvements from grazing fees and 
mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-Jones lands 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, (11)<DELETED>$591,042,000 
</DELETED>$585,064,000, 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(12)<DELETED>,-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</DELETED>: 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''(13): Provided further, That the 
Bureau of Reclamation transfers to the Fish and Wildlife Service for 
the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the 
Upper Colorado River Basin shall be exempt from any Fish and Wildlife 
Service overhead charge.

                              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; (14)<DELETED>$40,256,000 
</DELETED>$42,053,000, 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; 
(15)<DELETED>$4,128,000 </DELETED>$4,328,000, 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,''(16): 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-4-11), 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, (17)<DELETED>$53,000,000 
</DELETED>$57,292,000, 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), (18)<DELETED>$10,000,000 </DELETED>$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, 
(19)<DELETED>$10,500,000 </DELETED>$13,000,000, 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 
(20)<DELETED>$2,500,000 </DELETED>$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, 
(21)<DELETED>$1,232,325,000 </DELETED>$1,250,429,000, 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, (22)<DELETED>$43,934,000, 
of which $4,500,000 is for grants to Heritage areas in accordance with 
titles I-VI and VIII-IX, division II of Public Law 104-333 and is 
</DELETED>$45,284,000 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), 
(23)<DELETED>$40,412,000 </DELETED>$39,812,000, to be derived from the 
Historic Preservation Fund, to remain available until September 30, 
1999(24), of which $3,200,000 pursuant to section 507 of Public Law 
104-333 shall remain available until expended.

                              construction

    For construction, improvements, repair or replacement of physical 
facilities(25), including the modifications authorized by section 104 
of the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, 
(26)<DELETED>$148,391,000 </DELETED>$173,444,000 to remain available 
until expended(27)<DELETED>:-Provided, That $500,000 for the Rutherford 
B. Hayes Home and $600,000 for the Sotterly Plantation House shall be 
derived from the Historic Preservation Fund pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 
470A</DELETED>: Provided, That $500,000 for the Darwin Martin House in 
Buffalo, New York and $500,000 for the Penn Center, South Carolina, 
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 $5,000,000 for the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial 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

                          (28)(reprogramming)

    Of unobligated amounts previously made available for the Jefferson 
National Expansion Memorial, $838,000 shall be made available for the 
U-505 National Historic Landmark.

                    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-4-11), including 
administrative expenses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable to 
the National Park Service, (29)<DELETED>$129,000,000 
</DELETED>$126,690,000, to be derived from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund, to remain available until expended(30)<DELETED>,-of 
which $1,000,000 is to administer the State assistance 
program</DELETED>: 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(31)<DELETED>:-
Provided further, That of the funds provided herein, $8,500,000 is 
available for acquisition of the Sterling Forest</DELETED>: 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 head 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; 
(32)<DELETED>$755,795,000 </DELETED>$758,160,000 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(33); and of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended for development of a mineral and geologic database; and of 
which (34)<DELETED>$147,794,000 </DELETED>$147,159,000 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(35): Provided further, That hereafter the United States 
Geological Survey may disperse to local entities Payment in Lieu of 
Taxes impact funding appropriated to the Fish and Wildlife Service 
pursuant to the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act that is associated with 
Federal real property being transferred to the United States Geological 
Survey from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

                       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 USGS 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; (36)<DELETED>$139,621,000 
</DELETED>$135,722,000, of which not less than (37)<DELETED>$70,874,000 
</DELETED>$66,175,000 shall be available for royalty management 
activities; and an amount not to exceed $65,000,000 (38)<DELETED>for 
activities within the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Program,</DELETED> 
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 
OCS administrative activities performed by the Minerals Management 
Service over and above the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, and 
from additional fees for OCS administrative activities established 
after September 30, 1993: Provided, That (39)<DELETED>$1,500,000 
</DELETED>$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 head shall be available for refunds of overpayments in connection 
with certain Indian leases in which the Director of the Minerals 
Management Service concurred with the claimed refund due, 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; (40)<DELETED>$94,937,000 
</DELETED>$97,437,000, 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, (41)<DELETED>$179,624,000 </DELETED>$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 per centum shall be used 
for emergency reclamation projects in any one State and funds for 
federally-administered emergency reclamation projects under this 
proviso shall not exceed $11,000,000: Provided further, That prior year 
unobligated funds appropriated for the emergency reclamation program 
shall not be subject to the 25 per centum 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 per centum from the recovery of 
the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government to pay for 
contracts to collect these debts: Provided further, That 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, 
(42)<DELETED>$1,526,815,000 </DELETED>$1,529,024,000, 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 (43)<DELETED>$59,775,000 
</DELETED>$59,479,000 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(44): 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, (45)<DELETED>$110,751,000 </DELETED>$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 per centum of contract authority 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs from the Federal Highway 
Trust Fund may be used to cover the road program management costs of 
the Bureau: 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 non-
reimbursable 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, (46)<DELETED>$41,352,000 
</DELETED>$43,352,000, to remain available until expended; of which 
(47)<DELETED>$40,500,000 </DELETED>$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 
(48)<DELETED>$852,000 </DELETED>$1,352,000 shall be available pursuant 
to Public Laws 99-264(49), 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, 
(50)<DELETED>$68,214,000 </DELETED>$67,214,000, of which (1) 
(51)<DELETED>$64,365,000 </DELETED>$63,365,000 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 head 
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, 
(52)<DELETED>$20,445,000 </DELETED>$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, 
(53)<DELETED>$24,439,000 </DELETED>$24,500,000.

                   National Indian Gaming Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    (54)<DELETED>For necessary expenses of the National Indian Gaming 
Commission, pursuant to Public Law 100-497, $1,000,000.
</DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the National Indian Gaming 
Commission, pursuant to Public Law 100-497, $1,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.

             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, 
(55)<DELETED>$32,126,000 </DELETED>$35,689,000, to remain available 
until expended (56)<DELETED>for trust funds management</DELETED>: 
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 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.
    (57)<DELETED>Sec. 107. No final rule or regulation of any agency of 
the Federal Government pertaining to the recognition, management, or 
validity of a right-of-way pursuant to Revised Statute 2477 (43 U.S.C. 
932) shall take effect unless expressly authorized by an Act of 
Congress subsequent to the date of enactment of this Act.
</DELETED>    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 (58)<DELETED>leasing, or 
the approval or permitting of any drilling or other exploration 
activity, </DELETED>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.
    (59)<DELETED>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.) 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--
        <DELETED>    (a) 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</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (b) deposited only into accounts that are insured 
        by an agency or instrumentality of the United States.</DELETED>
    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--
            (a) 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
            (b) 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.
    (60)<DELETED>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.
<DELETED>    (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.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) Benefits under this section shall be available to 
Helium Operations employees who are or will be involuntarily separated 
before October 1, 2002 because of the cessation of helium production 
and sales and other related activities.</DELETED>
    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.
    (61)<DELETED>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.
</DELETED>    (62)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.
    (63)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''.
    (64)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''.
    (65)Sec. 118. Any funds made available in this Act or any other Act 
for tribal priority allocations (hereinafter 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 representatives from each BIA area. These 
        representatives shall be selected by the Secretary with the 
        participation of the tribes following procedures similar to 
        those used in establishing the Joint/Tribal/BIA/DOI Task Force 
        on Reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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.
    (66)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)''.
    (67)Sec. 120. Kantishna Mining Claims.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, on October 1, 1998, 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 a 
settlement or judgement pursuant to this section) in the Kantishna 
Mining District within Denali National Park and Preserve whose owners 
consent in writing to this action within said 120 day period: Provided, 
That in the event a bankruptcy trustee is an owner in interest in a 
mining claim in the Kantishna Mining District, that consent will be 
deemed timely for purposes of this section if the trustee applies 
within said 120 day period to the bankruptcy court for authority to 
sell the mining claim and to consent to the taking of such claim, and 
that in such event title shall vest in the United States 10 days after 
entry of an unstayed order or judgement approving the trustee's 
application: Provided further, That the United States shall pay just 
compensation to the owners of any property taken 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 property or the valuation of such property awarded by judgment 
and 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 258e-1 of title 
40, United States Code, except that interest shall not be allowed on 
such amounts as shall have been paid into the court registry: Provided 
further, That the United States or the property owner may initiate 
proceedings at any time after said 120 day period seeking a 
determination of just compensation in the District Court for the 
District of Alaska pursuant to sections 1358 and 1403 of title 28, 
United States Code: Provided further, That the United States shall 
deposit in the registry of the court the estimated just compensation, 
or at least seventy-five percent thereof, 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 (other than an estimate 
based on an agency-certified appraisal made prior to the date of 
enactment of this Act) the Secretary of the Interior shall permit the 
property owner to present evidence of the value of the property, 
including potential mineral value, and shall consider such evidence and 
permit the property owner to have a reasonable and sufficient 
opportunity to comment on such estimate: Provided further, That the 
estimated just compensation or part thereof deposited in the court 
registry shall be paid to the property owner upon request: Provided 
further, That any payment from the court registry to the property owner 
shall be deducted from any negotiated settlement or award by judgement: 
Provided further, That the United States may not request the court to 
withhold any payment from the court registry or pursue any claim for 
environmental remediation with respect to such property until 30 days 
after a negotiated settlement or award by judgement with respect to 
such property has been reached and payment has been made: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall not allow any unauthorized use of 
property acquired pursuant to this section after the date of taking, 
and the Secretary shall permit the orderly termination of all operation 
on the lands and the removal of equipment, facilities, and personal 
property.
    (68)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''.
    (69)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) The fair market value of the parcels described in subsection 
(a) shall be reappraised under the normal schedule for appraisals 
adopted 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 or regulation.
    (c) The fair market value computation required under subsection (a) 
shall be effective as of the date of the acquisition of the parcels 
described in such subsection.
    (70)Sec. 123. (a) Androscoggin River Valley Heritage Area Act--
Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Androscoggin River Valley 
Heritage Area Act''.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to establish a locally 
oriented commission to assist the city of Berlin, New Hampshire, in 
identifying and studying the Androscoggin River Valley's historical and 
cultural assets.
    (c) Establishment of Commission.--There is established the 
Androscoggin River Valley Heritage Commission (referred to in this Act 
as the ``Commission''), which shall consist of 10 members appointed not 
later than 3 months after the date of enactment of this Act, as 
follows:
            (1) 1 member appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire, 
        who shall serve as Chairperson.
            (2) 1 member appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
        Representatives of the State of New Hampshire.
            (3) 1 member appointed by the President of the Senate of 
        the State of New Hampshire.
            (4) 2 members appointed by the Secretary of the Interior 
        from among individuals recommended by State and local cultural 
        or historic preservation organizations.
            (5) 1 member, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, 
        who has experience in the area of historical projects.
            (6) 4 members appointed by the mayor of the city of Berlin, 
        New Hampshire.
    (d) Voting.--The Commission shall act and advise by affirmative 
vote of a majority of its members.
    (e) Compensation.--
            (1) In general.--A member of the Commission shall receive 
        no pay on account of the member's service on the Commission.
            (2) Travel expenses.--A member of the Commission, while 
        away from the member's home or regular place of business in the 
        performance of services for the Commission, shall be allowed 
        travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in 
        the same manner as persons employed intermittently in 
        Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703 of 
        title 5, United States Code.
    (f) Exemption From Charter Renewal Requirements.--Section 14(b) of 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to 
the Commission.
    (g) Termination.--The Commission shall terminate on submission of a 
report under section 4(b).
    (h) Support.--
            (1) Staff and technical services.--The Director of the 
        National Park Service may provide such staff support and 
        technical services as are necessary to carry out the functions 
        of the Commission.
            (2) Completion of study.--The Secretary of the Interior may 
        provide the Commission such technical and other assistance as 
        is necessary to complete the study described in subsection (j).
    (i) Open Meetings.--All meetings of the Commission shall be open to 
the public.
    (j) Study.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the completion 
        of appointment of the members of the Commission, the Commission 
        shall complete a comprehensive study of the Androscoggin River 
        Valley's history and culture in New Hampshire, which shall--
                    (A) include a catalog of all available historically 
                and culturally significant sites, buildings, and areas 
                in the region;
                    (B) examine the feasibility of any Federal or State 
                historic recognition in the region;
                    (C) include a set of options for the city of 
                Berlin, New Hampshire, to pursue with respect to 
                heritage-based development, including a list of 
                available Federal, State, and private programs that 
                would further any such efforts; and
                    (D) account for the impacts of any heritage-based 
                development on State, municipal, and private property.
            (2) Report.--The Commission shall provide Congress, the 
        Secretary of the Interior, and the State of New Hampshire with 
        a report based on the study described in paragraph 1.
    (k) No Regulatory Authority.--Nothing in this Act provides the 
Commission with any regulatory authority.
    (l) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying 
out the functions of the Commission, there is authorized to be 
appropriated $50,000.
    (71)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 
thereof:
    ``(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.''.
    (72)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);
            (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.''.
    (73)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.
    (74)Sec. 127. Entry and permit limitations for Glacier Bay National 
Park shall not apply to the Auk Nu Marine--Glacier Bay Ferry entering 
Bartlett Cove 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: Provided, That any such motor vessel 
entering park waters for this stated and sole purpose shall be subject 
to speed, distance from coast lines, and related limitations imposed on 
all vessels operating in waters designated by the Superintendent, 
Glacier Bay, as having a high probability of whale occupancy based on 
recent sighting and/or past patterns of occurrence: Provided further, 
That nothing in this Act shall be construed as constituting approval 
for such vessels entering the waters of Glacier Bay National Park 
beyond the immediate Bartlett Cove area as defined by a line extending 
northeastward from Pt. Carolus to the west to the southernmost point of 
Lester Island, absent required permits.
    (75)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 re-working 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 percentum 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.''.
    (76)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.
    (77)Sec. 131. No funds provided in this or any other Act may be 
expended to develop a rulemaking process relevant to amending the 
National Indian Gaming Commission's definition regulations located at 
25 CFR 502.7 and 502.8.
    (78)Sec. 132. Youth Environmental Service Program.--Not later than 
180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Interior, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall--
            (1) submit to Congress a report identifying at least 20 
        sites on Federal land that are potentially suitable and 
        promising for activities of the Youth Environmental Service 
        program to be administered in accordance with the Memorandum of 
        Understanding signed by the Secretary of the Interior and the 
        Attorney General in February 1994; and
            (2) provide a copy of the report to the appropriate State 
        and local law enforcement agencies in the States and localities 
        in which the 20 prospective sites are located.
    (79)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.
    (80)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, at fair market 
        value, 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 claim 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 68.60 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) Government lot 1 in sec. 24, T. 19 S., R. 60 
                E., Mount Diablo Meridian.
            (3) Conveyance.--
                    (A) In general.--Subject to the condition stated in 
                subparagraph (B), the Secretary shall convey 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).
    (81)Sec. 135. Disposition of Certain Oil Lease Revenue. (a) Deposit 
in 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 ``national Parks and 
Environmental Improvement 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 obligation 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 
subsequent appropriation bills, as follows:
            (1) 40 percent of such amounts shall be available for 
        National Park capital projects in the National Park System that 
        comply with the criteria stated in subsection (d); and
            (2) 40 percent of such amounts shall be available for the 
        State-side matching grant under section 6 of the Land and Water 
        Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-8); and
            (3) 20 percent of such amounts shall be made available to 
        the Secretary of Commerce for the purpose of carrying out 
        marine research activities in accordance with subsection (e).
    (d) Capital Projects.--
            (1) In general.--Funds available under subsection (c)(2) 
        may be used for the design, construction, repair or replacement 
        of high priority National Park Service facilities directly 
        related to enhancing the experience of park visitors, including 
        natural, cultural, recreational and historic resources 
        protection projects.
            (2) Limitation.--A project referred to in paragraph (1) 
        shall be consistent with--
                    (A) the laws governing the National Park System;
                    (B) any law governing the unit of the National Park 
                System in which the project is undertaken; and
                    (C) the general management plan for the unit.
            (3) Notification of congress.--The Secretary shall submit 
        with the annual budget submission to Congress a list of high 
        priority projects proposed to be funded under paragraph (1) 
        during the fiscal year covered by such budget submission.
    (e) Marine Research Activities.--(1) Funds available under 
subsection (c)(3) 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.
    (82)Sec. 136. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 
payment for facilities, equipment, and interests destroyed by the 
Federal Government at the Stampede Mine Site within the boundaries of 
Denali National Park--(1) the Secretary of the Interior, within 
existing funds designated by this Act for expenditure for Departmental 
Management, shall by September 15, 1998--(A) provide funds, subject to 
an appraisal in accordance with standard appraisal methods, not to 
exceed $500,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of 
Mineral Engineering; and (B) shall remove mining equipment at the 
Stampede Mine Site identified by the School of Mineral Engineering to a 
site specified by the School of Mineral Engineering; and (2) 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. Upon transfer of the funds, mining 
equipment, and the completion of all work designated by this section, 
the University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Mineral Engineering shall 
convey all remaining rights and interests in the Stampede Mine Site to 
the Secretary of the Interior.

                       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, (83)<DELETED>$187,644,000 </DELETED>$188,644,000, 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, (84)<DELETED>$157,922,000 
</DELETED>$162,668,000, to remain available until expended, as 
authorized by law(85): 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(86): 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 heads ``Forest and Rangeland 
Research,'' ``State and Private Forestry,'' ``National Forest System,'' 
``Wildland Fire Management,'' ``Reconstruction and Construction,'' and 
``Land Acquisition,'' (87)<DELETED>$1,364,480,000 
</DELETED>$1,346,215,000, to remain available until expended, which 
shall include 50 per centum of all monies 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(88): 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 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, (89)<DELETED>$591,715,000 </DELETED>$582,715,000 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, (90)<DELETED>$160,122,000 (reduced by $5,600,000) 
</DELETED>$160,269,000, 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(91), of which $800,000 shall be available 
for the design and engineering of the Trappers Loop Connector Road in 
the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.(92)<DELETED>:-Provided, That not to 
exceed $50,000,000, (reduced to $25,000,000), to remain available until 
expended, may be obligated for the construction of forest roads by 
timber purchasers.

                       </DELETED>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-4-11), 
including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or 
waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority 
applicable to the Forest Service, (93)<DELETED>$45,000,000 
</DELETED>$49,176,000, 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 per centum 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 per centum shall be available for 
administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground range 
rehabilitation, protection, and improvements.

    gifts, donations and bequests for forest and rangeland research

    For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $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.

             (94)<DELETED>cooperative work, forest service

<DELETED>    For restoring the balances borrowed for previous years 
firefighting, $128,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That the appropriation shall be merged with and made a part 
of the designated fund authorized by Public Law 71-319, as 
amended.</DELETED>

               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 (95)other than the relocation 
of the regional office for Region 10 to Ketchikan and other office 
relocations and closures in Alaska as specified in the Committee report 
accompanying this bill, 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 the 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 
(96)<DELETED>$2,000,000 </DELETED>$2,500,000 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 
(97)<DELETED>$500,000 </DELETED>$1,000,000 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.
    (98)Funds appropriated by this Act for Region 10 of the Forest 
Service to implement the Revised Tongass National Forest Land 
Management Plan, shall be spent and obligated at the Forest Supervisor 
and Ranger District levels. No funds appropriated under this or any 
other Act for the purpose of operations conducted at the Region 10 
headquarters, including funding of centralized field costs for funding 
of persons employed at the Regional Office, shall be obligated or 
expended in excess of $17,500,000 from the total funds appropriated for 
Region 10.

                          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, 
(99)<DELETED>$313,153,000 </DELETED>$363,969,000, 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)

    Monies 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. Monies 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, (100)<DELETED>$115,000,000 
</DELETED>$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 head 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, (101)<DELETED>$644,766,000 </DELETED>$627,357,000, 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 (102)<DELETED>$153,845,000 </DELETED>$160,100,000 
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: 
(103)<DELETED>$123,845,000 </DELETED>$129,000,000 for weatherization 
assistance grants and (104)<DELETED>$30,000,000 </DELETED>$31,100,000 
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.

               (105)<DELETED>strategic petroleum reserve

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    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.), $209,000,000 $207,500,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which $209,000,000 $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, the Secretary 
shall draw down and sell in fiscal year 1998 $209,000,000 $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.</DELETED>

                      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 sales under this heading: 
Provided, That, consistent with Public law 104-106, proceeds in excess 
of $2,000,000,000 from the sale of the Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 
1 shall be deposited into the ``SPR Operating Fund'', and are hereby 
appropriated, to remain available until expended, for repayments under 
this heading and for operations of, or acquisition, transportation, and 
injection of petroleum products into, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: 
Provided further, That if the Secretary of Energy finds that the 
proceeds from the sale of the Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 will 
not be at least $2,207,500,000 in fiscal year 1998, the Secretary, 
notwithstanding section 161 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act 
of 1975, shall draw down and sell oil from the Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve in fiscal year 1998, and deposit the proceeds into the ``SPR 
Operating Fund'', in amounts sufficient to make deposits into the fund 
total $207,500,000 in that fiscal year: Provided further, That the 
amount of $2,000,000,000 in the first proviso and the amount of 
$2,207,500,000 in the second proviso shall be adjusted by the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget to amounts not to exceed 
$2,415,000,000 and $2,622,500,000, respectively, only to the extent 
that an adjustment is necessary to avoid a sequestration, or any 
increase in a sequestration due to this section, under the procedures 
prescribed in the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, as amended: Provided 
further, That the Secretary of Energy, notwithstanding section 161 of 
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, shall draw down and 
sell oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in fiscal year 1998 
sufficient to deposit $15,000,000 into the General Fund of the Treasury 
of the United States, and shall transfer such amount to the General 
Fund: Provided further, That proceeds deposited into the ``SPR 
Operating Fund'' under this heading shall, upon receipt, be transferred 
to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve account for operations and 
activities of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and to satisfy the 
requirements specified under this heading.

                         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, (106)<DELETED>$66,800,000 
</DELETED>$62,800,000, 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 (107)<DELETED>102-496 </DELETED>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, (108)<DELETED>$1,829,008,000 
</DELETED>$1,958,235,000, 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 
(109)<DELETED>$359,348,000 </DELETED>$362,375,000 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(110): Provided further, 
That an amount not to exceed $200,000 shall be available to fund the 
Office of Navajo Uranium Workers for health screening and epidemiologic 
follow up of uranium miners and mill workers, to be derived from funds 
otherwise available for administrative and travel expenses.

                        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(111)<DELETED>,-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, 
$257,310,000 </DELETED>$168,501,000, 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(112)<DELETED>:-Provided further, That funds received from any 
source, including tribal contractors and compactors for previously 
transferred functions which tribal contractors and compactors no longer 
wish to retain, for services, goods, or training and technical 
assistance, shall be retained by the Indian Health Service and shall 
remain available until expended by the Indian Health Service</DELETED>: 
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, 
(113)<DELETED>$18,345,000 </DELETED>$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), (114)<DELETED>$3,000,000 
</DELETED>$5,500,000.

                        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 thirty years), and protection of buildings, facilities, and 
approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; up to 5 replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, 
repair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees; 
(115)<DELETED>$334,557,000 </DELETED>$333,708,000, 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, (116)<DELETED>$50,000,000 </DELETED>$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.

                           (117)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, 
(118)<DELETED>$6,442,000 </DELETED>$5,942,000, 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

    (119)<DELETED>For necessary expenses of the Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars, $1,000,000.
</DELETED>    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

                  (120)National Endowment for the Arts

                     (121)grants and administration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, $83,300,000 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.

                          (122)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, 
(123)<DELETED>$96,100,000 </DELETED>$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, (124)<DELETED>$23,390,000 </DELETED>$22,290,000, 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, (125)<DELETED>$6,000,000 
</DELETED>$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), (126)<DELETED>$2,700,000 
</DELETED>$2,745,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be 
available for the compensation of Executive Level V or higher 
positions.

                  National Capital Planning Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses, as authorized by the National Capital 
Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71-71i), including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, (127)<DELETED>$5,700,000 
</DELETED>$5,740,000: Provided, That all appointed members will be 
compensated at a rate not to exceed the rate for Executive Schedule 
Level IV: 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 VA-HUD and 
Independent Agencies fiscal year 1998 appropriations bill, 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) 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) 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) 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 United States 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.
    (128)<DELETED>Sec. 316. None of the funds available to the 
Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture by this or 
any other Act may be used to prepare, promulgate, implement, or enforce 
any interim or final rule or regulation pursuant to title VIII of the 
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to assert jurisdiction, 
management, or control over any waters (other than non-navigable waters 
on Federal lands), non-Federal lands, or lands selected by, but not 
conveyed to, the State of Alaska pursuant to the Submerged Lands Act of 
1953 or the Alaska Statehood Act, or an Alaska Native Corporation 
pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
</DELETED>    (129)<DELETED>Sec. 317. No funds appropriated under this 
or any other Act shall be used to review or modify sourcing areas 
previously approved under section 490(c)(3) of the Forest Resources 
Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-382) or to 
enforce or implement Federal regulations 36 CFR part 223 promulgated on 
September 8, 1995. The regulations and interim rules in effect prior to 
September 8, 1995 (36 CFR 223.48, 36 CFR 223.87, 36 CFR 223 subpart D, 
36 CFR 223 subpart F, and 36 CFR 261.6) shall remain in effect. The 
Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not 
adopt any policies concerning Public Law 101-382 or existing 
regulations that would restrain domestic transportation or processing 
of timber from private lands or impose additional accountability 
requirements on any timber. The Secretary of Commerce shall extend 
until September 30, 1998, the order issued under section 491(b)(2)(A) 
of Public Law 101-382 and shall issue an order under section 
491(b)(2)(B) of such law that will be effective October 1, 1998.
</DELETED>    (130)<DELETED>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.
</DELETED>    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 unless the proposed expenditure 
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.
    Sec. 319. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal 
year 1998 (131)and hereafter the Secretaries of Agriculture and 
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.
    (132)<DELETED>Sec. 320. Section 101(c) of Public Law 104-134 is 
amended as follows: Under the heading ``TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS'' 
amend section 315(c)(1), subsections (A) and (B) by striking each of 
those subsections and inserting in lieu thereof:
        <DELETED>    ``(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).</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(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).''.</DELETED>
    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 (133)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''.
    (134)<DELETED>Sec. 323. The Secretaries of Agriculture and 
Interior, in their conducting the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem 
Management Project, including both the Eastside Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement and the Upper Columbia River Basin Ecosystem 
Management Strategy Draft Environmental Impact Statement as described 
in a Federal Register notice on January 15, 1997 (Vol. 62, No. 10, page 
2176) (hereinafter ``Project''), shall analyze the economic and social 
conditions, and culture and customs of communities at the sub-basin 
level of analysis within the project area to the extent practicable and 
delineate the impacts the alternatives will have on the communities in 
the 164 sub-basins. The project managers shall release this more 
thorough analysis for public review as an addition to the draft 
environmental impact statements for the project, and incorporate this 
analysis and public comments to this analysis in any final 
environmental impact statements and record of decisions generated by 
the project.
</DELETED>    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.
    (135)<DELETED>Sec. 325. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Indian Health Service by this Act may be used to 
restructure the funding of Indian health care delivery systems to 
Alaskan Natives.
</DELETED>    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 U.S. 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.
    (136)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 
May 1, 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 on 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 by June 1, 1998.
    (137)<DELETED>Sec. 326. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the eviction of any person from real property in 
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore that the person was authorized, 
on July 10, 1997, to occupy under a lease by the Department of the 
Interior or a special use permit issued by the Department of the 
Interior.
</DELETED>    (138)<DELETED>Sec. 327. None of the funds made available 
by this Act may be obligated or expended for the Man and Biosphere 
Program or the World Heritage Program administered by the United 
Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
</DELETED>    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.
    (139)Sec. 329. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment for 
the Arts:
            (a) 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.
            (b) 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.
            (c) 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.
    (140)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.
    (141)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 United States Forest Service.
    (142)Sec. 332. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be expended or obligated to fund any activities associated with 
revision of national forest land management plans until the 
administration publishes new final rules in the Federal Register for 
forest land management planning activities.
    (143)Sec. 333. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be expended or obligated to fund any activities associated with 
issuance of the five year program under the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act.
    (144)Sec. 334. (a) Watershed Restoration and Enhancement 
Agreements--In General.--For fiscal year 1998 and each year thereafter, 
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 non-profit 
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 non-profit 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 land owners, 
        state and local governments or both.
    (145)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--
            (a) 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.'';
            (b) by redesignating section 4 as section 5; and
            (c) 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).''.
    (146)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 hereafter 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.
    (147)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.
    (148)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 United States Senate.
    (149)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 C.F.R. 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 United States Senate and 
the Committees on Resources and Appropriations of the United States 
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 C.F.R. 
3809 prior to November 15, 1998, and shall not finalize such 
regulations prior to 90 days after such publication.
    (150)Sec. 340. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall convey to 
Skamania County, Washington, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to a parcel of unused real property known as the 
Wind River Nursery site, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington. 
(See U.S. Department of Interior Geological Survey modified for USDA 
Forest Service map, Stabler Quadrangle, Washington, Skamania County, 
7.5 minutes series, topographic, Provisional Edition 1983). The 
conveyance under this subsection shall include all improvements to the 
parcel, including all infrastructure, water rights, easements, and 
personal property.
    (b) As consideration for the conveyance under subsection (b), 
Skamania County shall convey to the United States all right, title, and 
interest of the county in a parcel of approximately 120 acres of high 
biodiversity, special management area land located within the Columbia 
River Gorge National Scenic Area.
    (c) The exact acreage and legal description of the real property to 
be exchanged by Skamania County under this section shall be determined 
by a survey. The cost of any such survey shall be borne by Skamania 
County.
    (d) The conveyances made pursuant to this section shall be subject 
to existing valid rights.
    (e) Section 120(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9620(h)) shall apply to 
the conveyance required under subsection (b).
    (f) The Secretary may require such additional terms and conditions 
in connection with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United States 
consistent with existing law.
    (151)Sec. 341. (a) Local Exemptions From Forest Service User Fees 
Due to Less Than Full Funding of Payments in Lieu of Taxes.--Section 
6906 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before 
        ``Necessary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Local Exemptions From User Fees Due to Insufficient 
Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--Unless sufficient funds are appropriated 
        for a fiscal year to provide full payments under this chapter 
        to each unit of general local government that lies in whole or 
        in part within the White Mountain National Forest and is 
        eligible for the payments, persons residing within the 
        boundaries of that unit of general local government shall be 
        exempt during that fiscal year from any requirement to pay a 
        Demonstration Program Fee (parking permit or passport) imposed 
        by the Secretary of Agriculture for access to the Forest.
            ``(2) Administration.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
        establish a method of identifying persons who are exempt from 
        requirements to pay user fees under paragraph (1).''.
    (152)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 for conducting a 
habitat-based population viability analysis.
    (153)Sec. 343. The Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter phase 
in, over a 5 year period, the fee increase for a recreation residence 
special use permit holder whose fee increase 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.
    (154)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.
    (155)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.
    (156)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.
    (157)Sec. 347. Within 90 days of enactment of this legislation, the 
Forest Service shall complete its export policy and procedures on the 
use of Alaskan Western Red Cedar. In completing this policy, the Forest 
Service shall evaluate the costs and benefits of a pricing policy that 
offers any Alaskan Western Red Cedar in excess of domestic processing 
needs in Alaska first to United States domestic processors.
    (158)Sec. 348. Of the funds appropriated and designated an 
emergency requirement in title II, chapter 5 of Public Law 104-134, 
under the heading ``Forest Service, Construction'', $4,000,000 shall be 
available for the reconstruction of the Oakridge Ranger Station, on the 
Willamette National Forest in Oregon: Provided, That the amount shall 
be available only to the extent an official request, that includes 
designation of the amount as an emergency requirement as defined by the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985, as amended, is 
transmitted by the President to Congress: Provided further, That 
reconstruction of the facility is designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    (159)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).
    (160)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.
    (161)Sec. 351. Delete section 103(c)(7) of Public Law 104-333 and 
replace with 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.''.

           (162)<DELETED>TITLE IV--DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX

<DELETED>SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This title may be cited as the ``Deficit Reduction Lock-
box Act of 1997''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 402. DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX LEDGER.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) Establishment of Ledger.--Title III of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:</DELETED>

         <DELETED>``deficit reduction lock-box ledger</DELETED>

<DELETED>    ``Sec. 314. (a) Establishment of Ledger.--The Director of 
the Congressional Budget Office (hereinafter in this section referred 
to as the `Director') shall maintain a ledger to be known as the 
`Deficit Reduction Lock-box Ledger'. The Ledger shall be divided into 
entries corresponding to the subcommittees of the Committees on 
Appropriations. Each entry shall consist of three parts: the `House 
Lock-box Balance'; the `Senate Lock-box Balance'; and the `Joint House-
Senate Lock-box Balance'.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(b) Components of Ledger.--Each component in an entry 
shall consist only of amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No 
entry of a negative amount shall be made.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(c) Credit of Amounts to Ledger.--(1) The Director 
shall, upon the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House of 
Representatives and upon the engrossment of that bill by the Senate, 
credit to the applicable entry balance of that House amounts of new 
budget authority and outlays equal to the net amounts of reductions in 
new budget authority and in outlays resulting from amendments agreed to 
by that House to that bill.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(2) The Director shall, upon the engrossment of Senate 
amendments to any appropriation bill, credit to the applicable Joint 
House-Senate Lock-box Balance the amounts of new budget authority and 
outlays equal to--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(A) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of 
        (i) the amount of new budget authority in the House Lock-box 
        Balance plus (ii) the amount of new budget authority in the 
        Senate Lock-box Balance for that bill; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(B) an amount equal to one-half of the sum of 
        (i) the amount of outlays in the House Lock-box Balance plus 
        (ii) the amount of outlays in the Senate Lock-box Balance for 
        that bill.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(3) Calculation of Lock-Box Savings in Senate.--For 
purposes of calculating under this section the net amounts of 
reductions in new budget authority and in outlays resulting from 
amendments agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation bill, the 
amendments reported to the Senate by its Committee on Appropriations 
shall be considered to be part of the original text of the 
bill.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term 
`appropriation bill' means any general or special appropriation bill, 
and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or 
continuing appropriations through the end of a fiscal 
year.''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth 
in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act 
of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 313 
the following new item:</DELETED>

<DELETED>``Sec. 314. Deficit reduction lock-box ledger.''.

<DELETED>SEC. 403. TALLY DURING HOUSE CONSIDERATION.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    There shall be available to Members in the House of 
Representatives during consideration of any appropriations bill by the 
House a running tally of the amendments adopted reflecting increases 
and decreases of budget authority in the bill as reported.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 404. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF 602(A) ALLOCATIONS AND 
              SECTION 602(B) SUBALLOCATIONS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) Allocations.--Section 602(a) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(5) Upon the engrossment of Senate amendments to 
        any appropriation bill (as defined in section 314(d)) for a 
        fiscal year, the amounts allocated under paragraph (1) or (2) 
        to the Committee on Appropriations of each House upon the 
        adoption of the most recent concurrent resolution on the budget 
        for that fiscal year shall be adjusted downward by the amounts 
        credited to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-box Balance 
        under section 314(c)(2). The revised levels of budget authority 
        and outlays shall be submitted to each House by the chairman of 
        the Committee on the Budget of that House and shall be printed 
        in the Congressional Record.''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Suballocations.--Section 602(b)(1) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ``Whenever an adjustment is made under 
subsection (a)(5) to an allocation under that subsection, the chairman 
of the Committee on Appropriations of each House shall make downward 
adjustments in the most recent suballocations of new budget authority 
and outlays under subparagraph (A) to the appropriate subcommittees of 
that committee in the total amounts of those adjustments under section 
314(c)(2). The revised suballocations shall be submitted to each House 
by the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of that House and 
shall be printed in the Congressional Record.''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 405. PERIODIC REPORTING OF LEDGER STATEMENTS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Section 308(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``Such 
reports shall also include an up-to-date tabulation of the amounts 
contained in the ledger and each entry established by section 
314(a).''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 406. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING 
              LIMITS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The discretionary spending limits for new budget authority 
and outlays for any fiscal year set forth in section 601(a)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as adjusted in strict conformance 
with section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the amounts set forth in the final 
regular appropriation bill for that fiscal year or joint resolution 
making continuing appropriations through the end of that fiscal year. 
Those amounts shall be the sums of the Joint House-Senate Lock-box 
Balances for that fiscal year, as calculated under section 602(a)(5) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. That bill or joint resolution 
shall contain the following statement of law: ``As required by section 
406 of the Deficit Reduction Lock-box Act of 1997, for fiscal year 
[nsert appropriate fiscal year] and each outyear, the adjusted 
discretionary spending limit for new budget authority shall be reduced 
by $ [insert appropriate amount of reduction] and the adjusted 
discretionary limit for outlays shall be reduced by $ [insert 
appropriate amount of reduction] for the budget year and each 
outyear.''. Notwithstanding section 904(c) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, section 306 of that Act as it applies to this statement 
shall be waived. This adjustment shall be reflected in reports under 
sections 254(g) and 254(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 407. EFFECTIVE DATE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) In General.--This title shall apply to all 
appropriation bills making appropriations for fiscal year 1998 or any 
subsequent fiscal year.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term 
``appropriation bill'' means any general or special appropriation bill, 
and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or 
continuing appropriations through the end of a fiscal year.</DELETED>

         (163)TITLE V--PRIORITY LAND ACQUISITIONS AND EXCHANGES

    For priority land acquisitions and land exchange agreements to be 
conducted by the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service, 
$700,000,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, 
to remain available until September 30, 2001, of which not to exceed 
$65,000,000 may be available for the acquisition of identified lands 
and interests in lands to carry out the Agreement of August 12, 1996, 
to acquire interests to protect and preserve Yellowstone National Park, 
of which not to exceed $250,000,000 may be available for the 
acquisition of identified lands and interest in lands, at the purchase 
price specified, in the September 28, 1996, Headwaters Forest 
Agreement, and of which $100,000,000 shall be available for financial 
assistance to States pursuant to section 6 of the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4-11): 
Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture, after consultation with the heads of the National Park 
Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of 
Land Management, and the Forest Service, shall jointly submit to 
Congress a report listing the lands and interests in land, in order of 
priority, that the Secretaries propose for acquisition or exchange 
using funds provided under this heading: Provided further, That in 
determining the order of priority, the Secretaries shall consider with 
respect to each property the following: The natural resources located 
on the property; the degree to which a natural resource on the property 
is threatened; the length of time required to consummate the 
acquisition or exchange; the extent to which an increase in the cost of 
the property makes timely completion of the acquisition or exchange 
advisable; the extent of public support for the acquisition or exchange 
(including support of local governments and members of the public); the 
total estimated costs associated with the acquisition or exchange, 
including the costs of managing the lands to be acquired; the extent of 
current Federal ownership of property in the region; and such other 
factors as the Secretaries consider appropriate, which factors shall be 
described in the report in detail: Provided further, That the report 
shall describe the relative weight accorded to each such factor in 
determining the priority of acquisitions and exchanges: Provided 
further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall 
be available until the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate 
Committee on Appropriations approve, in writing, a project list to be 
submitted by the Secretary: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for the acquisition 
of lands and interests in lands to carry out the Agreement of August 
12, 1996, to acquire interests to protect and preserve Yellowstone 
National Park, or for the acquisition of lands and interest in lands 
identified in the September 28, 1996, Headwaters Forest Agreement until 
enactment of legislation specifically authorizing such expenditure: 
Provided further, 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 of the 
funds provided herein, $8,500,000 is available for acquisition of the 
Sterling Forest: Provided further, That the National Park Service may 
use not to exceed $2,500,000 annually of the amounts provided herein 
for the state assistance program to administer the state assistance 
program.

    (164)TITLE VI--FOREST RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND SHORTAGE RELIEF

    Sec. 601. Short Title.--This Act 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, this 
        paragraph 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 on 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) Contractual 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 by 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) Interim regulations and guidelines.--The 
                regulations and guidelines issued under this title that 
                were in effect on the date of enactment of this 
                paragraph 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.''.

                 (165)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 United States lands referred to in paragraph (6) 
        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. 91-285-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. 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 that 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. 705. Miccosukee Indian Reservation Lands. The lands 
transferred and held in trust for the Miccosukee Tribe under section 
704(4) shall be Miccosukee Indian Reservation lands.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 15, 1997.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.

            Passed the Senate September 18, 1997.

            Attest:

                                                    GARY SISCO,

                                                             Secretary.