[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1292 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 183
106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1292

                          [Report No. 106-99]

 Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related 
 agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other 
                               purposes.


Rule___________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 28, 1999

    Mr. Gorton, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the 
    following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the 
                                calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
 Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related 
 agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the Department of the Interior and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, 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)), $634,321,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $2,147,000 shall be available 
for assessment of the mineral potential of public lands in Alaska 
pursuant to section 1010 of Public Law 96-487 (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of 
which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be derived from the special 
receipt account established by the Land and Water Conservation Act of 
1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)); and of which $1,500,000 shall 
be available in fiscal year 2000 subject to a match by at least an 
equal amount by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to such 
Foundation for cost-shared projects supporting conservation of Bureau 
lands; in addition, $33,529,000 for Mining Law Administration program 
operations, including the cost of administering the mining claim fee 
program; to remain available until expended, to be reduced by amounts 
collected by the Bureau and credited to this appropriation from annual 
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation estimated at 
not more than $634,321,000, and $2,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, 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 preparedness, suppression 
operations, emergency rehabilitation and hazardous fuels reduction by 
the Department of the Interior, $287,305,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $5,025,000 shall be for the renovation 
or construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are also 
available for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such purposes: 
Provided further, That unobligated balances of amounts previously 
appropriated to the ``Fire Protection'' and ``Emergency Department of 
the Interior Firefighting Fund'' may be transferred and merged with 
this appropriation: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 
U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging without cost from 
funds available from this appropriation: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of 
the Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 
42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., Protection of United States Property, may be 
credited to the appropriation from which funds were expended to provide 
that protection, and are available without fiscal year limitation.

                    central hazardous materials fund

    For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior and any of 
its component offices and bureaus for the remedial action, including 
associated activities, of hazardous waste substances, pollutants, or 
contaminants pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, sums recovered from or paid by a party 
in advance of or as reimbursement for remedial action or response 
activities conducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 or 
113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to this account to be available 
until expended without further appropriation: Provided further, That 
such sums recovered from or paid by any party are not limited to 
monetary 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, $12,418,000, 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), $130,000,000, 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, $17,400,000, 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; 
$99,225,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 25 
percent of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby 
made a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant fund and 
shall be transferred to the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance 
with the second paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 
August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).

               forest ecosystems health and recovery fund

                   (revolving fund, special account)

    In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 102-381, funds 
made available in the Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund can be 
used for the purpose of planning, preparing, and monitoring salvage 
timber sales and forest ecosystem health and recovery activities such 
as release from competing vegetation and density control treatments. 
The Federal share of receipts (defined as the portion of salvage timber 
receipts not paid to the counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 
1181f-1 et seq., and Public Law 103-66) derived from treatments funded 
by this account shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health and 
Recovery Fund.

                           range improvements

    For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and 
interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant to 
section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1701), notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sections 3 
and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315 et seq.) and the amount 
designated for range improvements from grazing fees and mineral leasing 
receipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of the 
Interior pursuant to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain 
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 necessary expenses of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, for scientific and economic studies, conservation, management, 
investigations, protection, and utilization of fishery and wildlife 
resources, except whales, seals, and sea lions, maintenance of the herd 
of long-horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, general 
administration, and for the performance of other authorized functions 
related to such resources by direct expenditure, contracts, grants, 
cooperative agreements and reimbursable agreements with public and 
private entities, $683,519,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2001, except as otherwise provided herein, of which $11,701,000 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:  
Provided, That not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects 
which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as 
authorized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended: Provided further, 
That not to exceed $5,932,000 shall be used for implementing 
subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered 
Species Act, as amended, for species that are indigenous to the United 
States (except for processing petitions, developing and issuing 
proposed and final regulations, and taking any other steps to implement 
actions described in subsections (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 
(c)(2)(B)(ii)): Provided further, That of the amount available for law 
enforcement, up to $400,000 to remain available until expended, may at 
the discretion of the Secretary, be used for payment for information, 
rewards, or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by the 
Service, and miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement 
activity, authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted 
for solely on his certificate: Provided further, That of the amount 
provided for environmental contaminants, up to $1,000,000 may remain 
available until expended for contaminant sample analyses: Provided 
further, That all fines collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
for violations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1362-
1407) and implementing regulations shall be available to the Secretary, 
without further appropriation, to be used for the expenses of the U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service in administering activities for the 
protection and recovery of manatees, polar bears, sea otters, and 
walruses, and shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That, heretofore and hereafter, in carrying out work under reimbursable 
agreements with any state, local, or tribal government, the U.S. Fish 
and Wildlife Service may, without regard to 31 U.S.C. 1341 and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, record 
obligations against accounts receivable from such entities, and shall 
credit amounts received from such entities to this appropriation, such 
credit to occur within 90 days of the date of the original request by 
the Service for payment.

                              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; $40,434,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 
single procurement for the construction of facilities at the Alaska 
Maritime National Wildlife Refuge may be issued which includes the full 
scope of the project: Provided further, That the solicitation and the 
contract shall contain the clauses ``availability of funds'' found at 
48 C.F.R. 52.232.18.

                            land acquisition

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 through 11), including 
administrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or 
interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable to 
the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $55,244,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 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, 
$21,480,000, to be derived from the Cooperative Endangered Species 
Conservation Fund, and to remain available until expended.

                     national wildlife refuge fund

    For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 17, 1978 (16 
U.S.C. 715s), $10,000,000.

                multinational species conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the African Elephant 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201-4203, 4211-4213, 4221-4225, 4241-4245, 
and 1538), the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261-
4266), and the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 
5301-5306), $2,400,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That funds made available under this Act, Public Law 105-277, and 
Public Law 105-83 for rhinoceros, tiger, and Asian elephant 
conservation programs are exempt from any sanctions imposed against any 
country under section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. aa-
1).

               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, 
$15,000,000, to remain available until expended.

              wildlife conservation and appreciation fund

    For necessary expenses of 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 70 
passenger motor vehicles, of which 61 are for replacement only 
(including 36 for police-type use); 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 used pursuant to law in 
connection with management and investigation of fish and wildlife 
resources: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service 
may, under cooperative cost sharing and partnership arrangements 
authorized by law, procure printing 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 Senate Report 105-56.

                         National Park Service

                 operation of the national park system

    For expenses necessary for the management, operation, and 
maintenance of areas and facilities administered by the National Park 
Service (including special road maintenance service to trucking 
permittees on a reimbursable basis), and for the general administration 
of the National Park Service, including not less than $1,000,000 for 
high priority projects within the scope of the approved budget which 
shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by 
16 U.S.C. 1706, $1,355,176,000, of which $8,800,000 is 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 $8,000,000, 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, $49,951,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the National Park Service 
may hereafter recover all fees derived from providing necessary review 
services associated with historic preservation tax certification, and 
such funds shall be available until expended without further 
appropriation for the costs of such review services.

                       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), $42,412,000, 
to be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain available 
until September 30, 2001, of which $8,422,000 pursuant to section 507 
of Public Law 104-333 shall remain available until expended.

                              construction

    For construction, improvements, repair or replacement of physical 
facilities, including the modifications authorized by section 104 of 
the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, 
$221,093,000, to remain available until expended, of which $1,100,000 
shall be for realignment of the Denali National Park entrance road: 
Provided, That $4,000,000 for the Wheeling National Heritage Area and 
$1,000,000 for Montpelier shall be derived from the Historic 
Preservation Fund pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 470a: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, a single procurement for 
the construction of visitor facilities at Brooks Camp at Katmai 
National Park and Preserve 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.

                    land and water conservation fund

                              (rescission)

    The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2000 by 16 U.S.C. 
460l-10a is rescinded.

                 land acquisition and state assistance

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 through 11), including 
administrative expenses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable to 
the National Park Service, $84,525,000, to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until expended, of which 
$500,000 is to administer the State assistance program.

                       administrative provisions

    Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available for 
the purchase of not to exceed 384 passenger motor vehicles, of which 
298 shall be for replacement only, including not to exceed 312 for 
police-type use, 12 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, biology, and the mineral and water resources of the 
United States, its territories and possessions, and other areas as 
authorized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as to their 
mineral and water resources; give engineering supervision to power 
permittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licensees; 
administer the minerals exploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); and 
publish and disseminate data relative to the foregoing activities; and 
to conduct inquiries into the economic conditions affecting mining and 
materials processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 
98g(1)) and related purposes as authorized by law and to publish and 
disseminate data; $813,243,000, of which $72,314,000 shall be available 
only for cooperation with States or municipalities for water resources 
investigations; and of which $16,400,000 shall remain available until 
expended for conducting inquiries into the economic conditions 
affecting mining and materials processing industries; and of which 
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended for ongoing 
development of a mineral and geologic data base; and of which 
$160,248,000 shall be available until September 30, 2001 for the 
biological research activity and the operation of the Cooperative 
Research Units: Provided, That of the funds available for the 
biological research activity, $1,000,000 shall be made available by 
grant to the University of Alaska for conduct of, directly or through 
subgrants, basic marine research activities in the North Pacific Ocean 
pursuant to a plan approved by the Department of Commerce, the 
Department of the Interior, and the State of Alaska: Provided further, 
That none of these funds provided for the biological research activity 
shall be used to conduct new surveys on private property, unless 
specifically authorized in writing by the property owner: Provided 
further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay more 
than one-half the cost of topographic mapping or water resources data 
collection and investigations carried on in cooperation with States and 
municipalities.

                       administrative provisions

    The amount appropriated for the United States Geological Survey 
shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed 53 passenger motor 
vehicles, of which 48 are for replacement only; reimbursement to the 
General Services Administration for security guard services; 
contracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and for the making 
of geophysical or other specialized surveys when it is administratively 
determined that such procedures are in the public interest; 
construction and maintenance of necessary buildings and appurtenant 
facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging stations and observation 
wells; expenses of the United States National Committee on Geology; and 
payment of compensation and expenses of persons on the rolls of the 
Survey duly appointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities 
funded by appropriations herein made may be accomplished through the 
use of contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements as defined in 31 
U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Provided further, That the United States 
Geological Survey may contract directly with individuals or indirectly 
with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 
U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent services of students or 
recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for the purposes of 
chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to 
compensation for travel and 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; $110,682,000, of which $84,569,000 
shall be available for royalty management activities; and an amount not 
to exceed $124,000,000, to be credited to this appropriation and to 
remain available until expended, from additions to receipts resulting 
from increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate 
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf administrative 
activities performed by the Minerals Management Service over and above 
the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, and from additional fees for 
Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities established after 
September 30, 1993: Provided, That $3,000,000 for computer acquisitions 
shall remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided further, That 
funds appropriated under this Act shall be available for the payment of 
interest in accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1721(b) and (d): Provided 
further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable 
expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 
activities: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, $15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds of 
overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases in which the 
Director of the Minerals Management Service concurred with the claimed 
refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to 
correct prior unrecoverable erroneous payments.

                           oil spill research

    For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 1016, title 
IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title VIII, section 8201 of 
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $6,118,000, which shall be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

                       regulation and technology

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, as 
amended, including the purchase of not to exceed 10 passenger motor 
vehicles, for replacement only; $95,891,000: Provided, That the 
Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use directly or 
through grants to States, moneys collected in fiscal year 2000 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, $185,658,000, to be derived from receipts of the 
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain available until expended; 
of which up to $7,000,000, to be derived from the Federal Expenses 
Share of the Fund, shall be for supplemental grants to States for the 
reclamation of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from coal 
mines, and for associated activities, through the Appalachian Clean 
Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants to minimum program States 
will be $1,500,000 per State in fiscal year 2000: Provided further, 
That of the funds herein provided up to $18,000,000 may be used for the 
emergency program authorized by section 410 of Public Law 95-87, as 
amended, of which no more than 25 percent shall be used for emergency 
reclamation projects in any one State and funds for federally 
administered emergency reclamation projects under this proviso shall 
not exceed $11,000,000: Provided further, That prior year unobligated 
funds appropriated for the emergency reclamation program shall not be 
subject to the 25 percent limitation per State and may be used without 
fiscal year limitation for emergency projects: Provided further, That 
pursuant to Public Law 97-365, the Department of the Interior is 
authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of the delinquent 
debt owed to the United States Government to pay for contracts to 
collect these debts: Provided further, That funds made available under 
title IV of Public Law 95-87 may be used for any required non-Federal 
share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal 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 expenses necessary for the operation of Indian programs, as 
authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 
U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amendments 
of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001-2019), and the Tribally Controlled Schools Act 
of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), as amended, $1,631,996,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2001 except as otherwise provided herein, 
of which not to exceed $93,684,000 shall be for welfare assistance 
payments and notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but 
not limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, 
not to exceed $115,229,000 shall be available for payments to tribes 
and tribal organizations for contract support costs associated with 
ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
entered into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2000, as 
authorized by such Act, except that tribes and tribal organizations may 
use their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of 
ongoing contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding agreements 
and for unmet welfare assistance costs; and of which not to exceed 
$402,010,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and 
other education programs shall become available on July 1, 2000, and 
shall remain available until September 30, 2001; and of which not to 
exceed $51,991,000 shall remain available until expended for housing 
improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, self-
governance grants, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, land records 
improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but not limited 
to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and 25 U.S.C. 
2008, not to exceed $44,160,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available to tribes and tribal 
organizations for administrative cost grants associated with the 
operation of Bureau-funded schools: Provided further, That any forestry 
funds allocated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 
2001, may be transferred during fiscal year 2002 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, 
2002.

                              construction

    For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance 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, $146,884,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project 
may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided further, That 
not to exceed 6 percent of contract authority available to the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may be used to 
cover the road program management costs of the Bureau: Provided 
further, That any funds provided for the Safety of Dams program 
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 shall be made available on a nonreimbursable 
basis: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2000, 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): Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, collections from the 
settlements between the United States and the Puyallup tribe concerning 
Chief Leschi school are made available for school construction in 
fiscal year 2000 and hereafter.

 indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to 
                                indians

    For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and individuals and for 
necessary administrative expenses, $27,131,000, to remain available 
until expended; of which $25,260,000 shall be available for 
implementation of enacted Indian land and water claim settlements 
pursuant to Public Laws 101-618 and 102-575, and for implementation of 
other enacted water rights settlements; and of which $1,871,000 shall 
be available pursuant to Public Laws 99-264, 100-383, 103-402 and 100-
580.

                 indian guaranteed loan program account

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $4,500,000, as authorized by the 
Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amended: Provided, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, 
That these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any 
part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $59,682,000.
     In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan programs, $504,000.

                       administrative provisions

    The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the operation of Indian 
programs by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts and grants, either directly or in cooperation with States and 
other organizations.
    Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee and insurance fund, 
and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program account) shall be available for 
expenses of exhibits, and purchase of not to exceed 229 passenger motor 
vehicles, of which not to exceed 187 shall be for replacement only.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office operations or pooled 
overhead general administration (except facilities operations and 
maintenance) shall be available for tribal contracts, grants, compacts, 
or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal Self-
Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-413).
    In the event any tribe returns appropriations made available by 
this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for distribution to other 
tribes, this action shall not diminish the Federal government's trust 
responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-government 
relationship between the United States and that tribe, or that tribe's 
ability to access future appropriations.
    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.
    Appropriations made available in this or any other Act for schools 
funded by the Bureau shall be available only to the schools in the 
Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996. No funds available to the 
Bureau shall be used to support expanded grades for any school or 
dormitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bureau school system as 
of October 1, 1995.
    The Tate Topa Tribal School, the Black Mesa Community School, the 
Alamo Navajo School, and other BIA-funded schools, subject to the 
approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may use prior year school 
operations funds for the replacement or repair of BIA education 
facilities which are in compliance with 25 U.S.C. 2005(a) and which 
shall be eligible for operation and maintenance support to the same 
extent as other BIA education facilities: Provided, That any additional 
construction costs for replacement or repair of such facilities begun 
with prior year funds shall be completed exclusively with non-Federal 
funds.

                           Department Offices

                            Insular Affairs

                       assistance to territories

    For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $67,325,000, of which: 
(1) $63,076,000 shall be available until expended for technical 
assistance, including maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, 
insular management controls, coral reef initiative activities, and 
brown tree snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in 
American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as authorized by law (48 
U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American Samoa, in 
addition to current local revenues, for construction and support of 
governmental functions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands 
as authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, as authorized 
by law; and grants to the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands as 
authorized by law (Public Law 94-241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $4,249,000 
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 used by such 
governments, may be audited by the General Accounting Office, at its 
discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United States 
Code: Provided further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant 
funding shall be provided according to those terms of the Agreement of 
the Special Representatives on Future United States Financial 
Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public Law 104-
134: Provided further, That Public Law 94-241, as amended, is further 
amended (1) in section 4(b) by deleting ``2002'' and inserting ``1999'' 
and by deleting the comma after the words ``$11,000,000 annually'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof the following: ``and for fiscal year 2000, 
payments to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall be 
$5,580,000, but shall return to the level of $11,000,000 annually for 
fiscal years 2001 and 2002. In fiscal year 2003, the payment to the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall be $5,420,000. Such 
payments shall be''; and (2) in section (4)(c) by adding a new 
subsection as follows: ``(4) for fiscal year 2000, $5,420,000 shall be 
provided to the Virgin Islands for correctional facilities and other 
projects mandated by Federal law.'': Provided further, That of the 
amounts provided for technical assistance, sufficient funding shall be 
made available for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: Provided 
further, That the funds for the program of operations and maintenance 
improvement are appropriated to institutionalize routine operations and 
maintenance improvement of capital infrastructure in American Samoa, 
Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 
and the Federated States of Micronesia through assessments of long-
range operations maintenance needs, improved capability of local 
operations and maintenance institutions and agencies (including 
management and vocational education training), and project-specific 
maintenance (with territorial participation and cost sharing to be 
determined by the Secretary based on the individual territory's 
commitment to timely maintenance of its capital assets): Provided 
further, That any appropriation for disaster assistance under this 
heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may be used as non-
Federal matching funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants 
provided pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c).

                      compact of free association

    For economic assistance and necessary expenses for the Federated 
States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands as 
provided for in sections 122, 221, 223, 232, and 233 of the Compact of 
Free Association, and for economic assistance and necessary expenses 
for the Republic of Palau as provided for in sections 122, 221, 223, 
232, and 233 of the Compact of Free Association, $20,545,000, to remain 
available until expended, as authorized by Public Law 99-239 and Public 
Law 99-658.

                        Departmental Management

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for management of the Department of the 
Interior, $62,203,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses and up to $1,000,000 
shall be available for workers compensation payments and unemployment 
compensation payments associated with the orderly closure of the United 
States Bureau of Mines.

                        Office of the Solicitor

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, $36,784,000.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$26,614,000.

             Office of Special Trustee for American Indians

                         federal trust programs

    For operation of trust programs for Indians by direct expenditure, 
contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, $73,836,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That funds for trust 
management improvements may be transferred to the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and Departmental Management: Provided further, That funds made 
available to Tribes and Tribal organizations through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2000, as authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), shall remain 
available until expended by the contractor or grantee: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the statute 
of limitations shall not commence to run on any claim, including any 
claim in litigation pending on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
concerning losses to or mismanagement of trust funds, until the 
affected tribe or individual Indian has been furnished with an 
accounting of such funds from which the beneficiary can determine 
whether there has been a loss: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 
provide a quarterly statement of performance for any Indian trust 
account that has not had activity for at least eighteen months and has 
a balance of $1.00 or less: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
issue an annual account statement and maintain a record of any such 
accounts and shall permit the balance in each such account to be 
withdrawn upon the express written request of the account holder.

                    indian land consolidation pilot

    For implementation of a pilot program for consolidation of 
fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or 
cooperative agreement, $5,000,000 to remain available until expended, 
of which not to exceed $500,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That the Secretary may enter into a cooperative 
agreement, which shall not be subject to Public Law 93-638, as amended, 
with a tribe having jurisdiction over the pilot reservation to 
implement the program to acquire fractional interests on behalf of such 
tribe: Provided further, That the Secretary may develop a reservation-
wide system for establishing the fair market value of various types of 
lands and improvements to govern the amounts offered for acquisition of 
fractional interests: Provided further, That acquisitions shall be 
limited to one or more pilot reservations as determined by the 
Secretary: Provided further, That funds shall be available for 
acquisition of fractional interests in trust or restricted lands with 
the consent of its owners and at fair market value, and the Secretary 
shall hold in trust for such tribe all interests acquired pursuant to 
this pilot program: Provided further, That all proceeds from any lease, 
resource sale contract, right-of-way or other transaction derived from 
the fractional interest shall be credited to this appropriation, and 
remain available until expended, until the purchase price paid by the 
Secretary under this appropriation has been recovered from such 
proceeds: Provided further, That once the purchase price has been 
recovered, all subsequent proceeds shall be managed by the Secretary 
for the benefit of the applicable tribe or paid directly to the tribe.

           Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration

                natural resource damage assessment fund

    To conduct natural resource damage assessment activities by the 
Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 
(Public Law 101-380), and Public Law 101-337; $4,621,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                       administrative provisions

    There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available resources 
within the Working Capital Fund, 15 aircraft, 10 of which shall be for 
replacement and which may be obtained by donation, purchase or through 
available excess surplus property: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, 
with proceeds derived or trade-in value used to offset the purchase 
price for the replacement aircraft: 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)(A) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation which must be requested as promptly as 
possible.
    Sec. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expenditure or transfer 
of any no year appropriation in this title, in addition to the amounts 
included in the budget programs of the several agencies, for the 
suppression or emergency prevention of 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 oil spills; for response 
and natural resource damage assessment activities related to actual oil 
spills; for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or 
potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to the authority in section 
1773(b) of Public Law 99-198 (99 Stat. 1658); for emergency reclamation 
projects under section 410 of Public Law 95-87; and shall transfer, 
from any no year funds available to the Office of Surface Mining 
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)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, and must be replenished by a supplemental 
appropriation which must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided 
further, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a 
pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency funds were transferred.
    Sec. 103. Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, 
wherever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or 
economy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services 
rendered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized by 
sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31, United States Code: Provided, That 
reimbursements for costs and supplies, materials, equipment, and for 
services rendered may be credited to the appropriation current at the 
time such reimbursements are received.
    Sec. 104. Appropriations made to the Department of the Interior in 
this title shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, when authorized by the Secretary, in total amount not to exceed 
$500,000; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for telephone 
service in private residences in the field, when authorized under 
regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when 
authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies or 
associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to 
members lower than to subscribers who are not members.
    Sec. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of the 
Interior for salaries and expenses shall be available for uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902 and D.C. 
Code 4-204).
    Sec. 106. Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
obligation in connection with contracts issued for services or rentals 
for periods not in excess of twelve months beginning at any time during 
the fiscal year.
    Sec. 107. 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. 108. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore oil and natural 
gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities, on lands within the 
North Aleutian Basin planning area.
    Sec. 109. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior to conduct offshore oil and natural gas 
preleasing, leasing and related activities in the eastern Gulf of 
Mexico planning area for any lands located outside Sale 181, as 
identified in the final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas 
Leasing Program, 1997-2002.
    Sec. 110. No funds provided in this title may be expended by the 
Department of the Interior to conduct oil and natural gas preleasing, 
leasing and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic 
planning areas.
    Sec. 111. Advance payments made under this title to Indian tribes, 
tribal organizations, and tribal consortia pursuant to the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or 
the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) 
may be invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organization, or consortium 
before such funds are expended for the purposes of the grant, compact, 
or annual funding agreement so long as such funds are--
            (1) invested by the Indian tribe, tribal organization, or 
        consortium only in obligations of the United States, or in 
        obligations or securities that are guaranteed or insured by the 
        United States, or mutual (or other) funds registered with the 
        Securities and Exchange Commission and which only invest in 
        obligations of the United States or securities that are 
        guaranteed or insured by the United States; or
            (2) deposited only into accounts that are insured by an 
        agency or instrumentality of the United States, or are fully 
        collateralized to ensure protection of the funds, even in the 
        event of a bank failure.
    Sec. 112. (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.
    (f) This section shall remain in effect through fiscal year 2002.
    Sec. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but 
not limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, 
funds available herein and hereafter under this title for Indian self-
determination or self-governance contract or grant support costs may be 
expended only for costs directly attributable to contracts, grants and 
compacts pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination Act and no funds 
appropriated in this title shall be available for any contract support 
costs or indirect costs associated with any contract, grant, 
cooperative agreement, self-governance compact or funding agreement 
entered into between an Indian tribe or tribal organization and any 
entity other than an agency of the Department of the Interior.
    Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the National 
Park Service shall not develop or implement a reduced entrance fee 
program to accommodate non-local travel through a unit. The Secretary 
may provide for and regulate local non-recreational passage through 
units of the National Park System, allowing each unit to develop 
guidelines and permits for such activity appropriate to that unit.
    Sec. 115. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2000 and thereafter, the Secretary is authorized to permit 
persons, firms or organizations engaged in commercial, cultural, 
educational, or recreational activities (as defined in section 612a of 
title 40, United States Code) not currently occupying such space to use 
courtyards, auditoriums, meeting rooms, and other space of the main and 
south Interior building complex, Washington, D.C., the maintenance, 
operation, and protection of which has been delegated to the Secretary 
from the Administrator of General Services pursuant to the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, and to assess 
reasonable charges therefore, subject to such procedures as the 
Secretary deems appropriate for such uses. Charges may be for the 
space, utilities, maintenance, repair, and other services. Charges for 
such space and services may be at rates equivalent to the prevailing 
commercial rate for comparable space and services devoted to a similar 
purpose in the vicinity of the main and south Interior building 
complex, Washington, D.C. for which charges are being assessed. The 
Secretary may without further appropriation hold, administer, and use 
such proceeds within the Departmental Management Working Capital Fund 
to offset the operation of the buildings under his jurisdiction, 
whether delegated or otherwise, and for related purposes, until 
expended.
    Sec. 116. (a) In this section--
            (1) the term ``Huron Cemetery'' means the lands that form 
        the cemetery that is popularly known as the Huron Cemetery, 
        located in Kansas City, Kansas, as described in subsection 
        (b)(3); and
            (2) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the 
        Interior.
    (b)(1) The Secretary shall take such action as may be necessary to 
ensure that the lands comprising the Huron Cemetery (as described in 
paragraph (3)) are used only in accordance with this subsection.
    (2) The lands of the Huron Cemetery shall be used only--
            (A) for religious and cultural uses that are compatible 
        with the use of the lands as a cemetery; and
            (B) as a burial ground.
    (3) The description of the lands of the Huron Cemetery is as 
follows:
    The tract of land in the NW quarter of sec. 10, T. 11 S., R. 25 E., 
of the sixth principal meridian, in Wyandotte County, Kansas (as 
surveyed and marked on the ground on August 15, 1888, by William 
Millor, Civil Engineer and Surveyor), described as follows:
            ``Commencing on the Northwest corner of the Northwest 
        Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 10;
            ``Thence South 28 poles to the `true point of beginning';
            ``Thence South 71 degrees East 10 poles and 18 links;
            ``Thence South 18 degrees and 30 minutes West 28 poles;
            ``Thence West 11 and one-half poles;
            ``Thence North 19 degrees 15 minutes East 31 poles and 15 
        feet to the `true point of beginning', containing 2 acres or 
        more.''.
    Sec. 117. Grazing permits and leases which expire or are 
transferred, in this or any fiscal year, shall be renewed under the 
same terms and conditions as contained in the expiring permit or lease 
until such time as the Secretary of the Interior completes the process 
of renewing the permits or leases in compliance with all applicable 
laws. Nothing in this language shall be deemed to affect the 
Secretary's statutory authority or the rights of the permittee or 
lessee.
    Sec. 118. Refunds or rebates received on an on-going basis from a 
credit card services provider under the Department of the Interior's 
charge card programs may be deposited to and retained without fiscal 
year limitation in the Departmental Working Capital Fund established 
under 43 U.S.C. 1467 and used to fund management initiatives of general 
benefit to the Department of the Interior's bureaus and offices as 
determined by the Secretary or his designee.
    Sec. 119. Appropriations made in this title under the headings 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special Trustee for American 
Indians and any available unobligated balances from prior 
appropriations Acts made under the same headings, shall be available 
for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management activities 
pursuant to the Trust Management Improvement Project High Level 
Implementation Plan.
    Sec. 120. All properties administered by the National Park Service 
at Fort Baker, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and leases, 
concessions, permits and other agreements associated with those 
properties, shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments, 
except sales tax, by the State of California and its political 
subdivisions, including the County of Marin and the City of Sausalito. 
Such areas of Fort Baker shall remain under exclusive federal 
jurisdiction.
    Sec. 121. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the Secretary of 
the Interior is authorized to negotiate and enter into agreements and 
leases, without regard to section 321 of chapter 314 of the Act of June 
30, 1932 (40 U.S.C. 303b), with any person, firm, association, 
organization, corporation, or governmental entity for all or part of 
the property within Fort Baker administered by the Secretary as part of 
Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The proceeds of the agreements or 
leases shall be retained by the Secretary and such proceeds shall be 
available, without future appropriation, for the preservation, 
restoration, operation, maintenance and interpretation and related 
expenses incurred with respect to Fort Baker properties.
    Sec. 122. None of the funds provided in this or any other Act may 
be used for pre-design, design or engineering for the removal of the 
Elwha or Glines Canyon Dams, or for the actual removal of either dam, 
until such time as both dams are acquired by the Federal government 
notwithstanding the proviso in section 3(a) of Public Law 102-495, as 
amended.
    Sec. 123. (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
``Battle of Midway National Memorial Study Act''.
    (b) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) September 2, 1997, marked the 52nd anniversary of the 
        United States victory over Japan in World War II.
            (2) The Battle of Midway proved to be the turning point in 
        the war in the Pacific, as United States Navy forces inflicted 
        such severe losses on the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 
        battle that the Imperial Japanese Navy never again took the 
        offensive against the United States or the allied forces.
            (3) During the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942, an 
        outnumbered force of the United States Navy, consisting of 29 
        ships and other units of the Armed Forces under the command of 
        Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Spruance, out-maneuvered and out-
        fought 350 ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
            (4) It is in the public interest to study whether Midway 
        Atoll should be established as a national memorial to the 
        Battle of Midway to express the enduring gratitude of the 
        American people for victory in the battle and to inspire future 
        generations of Americans with the heroism and sacrifice of the 
        members of the Armed Forces who achieved that victory.
            (5) The historic structures and facilities on Midway Atoll 
        should be protected and maintained.
    (c) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to require a study of the 
feasibility and suitability of designating the Midway Atoll as a 
National Memorial to the Battle of Midway within the boundaries of the 
Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The study of the Midway Atoll 
and its environs shall include, but not be limited to, identification 
of interpretative opportunities for the educational and inspirational 
benefit of present and future generations, and of the unique and 
significant circumstances involving the defense of the island by the 
United States in World War II and the Battle of Midway.
    (d) Study of the Establishment of Midway Atoll as a National 
Memorial to the Battle of Midway.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than six months after the date 
        of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall, 
        acting through the Director of the National Park Service and in 
        consultation with the Director of the United States Fish and 
        Wildlife Service, the International Midway Memorial Foundation, 
        Inc. (hereafter referred to as the ``Foundation''), and Midway 
        Phoenix Corporation, carry out a study of the suitability and 
        feasibility of establishing Midway Atoll as a national memorial 
        to the Battle of Midway.
            (2) Considerations.--In studying the establishment of 
        Midway Atoll as a national memorial to the Battle of Midway 
        under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall address the following:
                    (A) The appropriate federal agency to manage such a 
                memorial, and whether and under what conditions, to 
                lease or otherwise allow the Foundation or another 
                appropriate entity to administer, maintain, and fully 
                utilize the lands (including any equipment, facilities, 
                infrastructure, and other improvements) and waters of 
                Midway Atoll if designated as a national memorial.
                    (B) Whether designation as a national memorial 
                would conflict with current management of Midway Atoll 
                as a wildlife refuge and whether, and under what 
                circumstances, the needs and requirements of the 
                wildlife refuge should take precedence over the needs 
                and requirements of a national memorial on Midway 
                Atoll.
                    (C) Whether, and under what conditions, to permit 
                the use of the facilities on Sand Island for purposes 
                other than a wildlife refuge or a national memorial.
                    (D) Whether to impose conditions on public access 
                to Midway Atoll as a national memorial.
            (3) Report.--Upon completion of the study required under 
        paragraph (1), the Secretary shall submit, to the Committee on 
        Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and 
        the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives, a 
        report on the study, which shall include any recommendations 
        for further legislative action. The report shall also include 
        an inventory of all known past and present facilities and 
        structures of historical significance on Midway Atoll and its 
        environs. The report shall include a description of each 
        historic facility and structure and a discussion of how each 
        will contribute to the designation and interpretation of the 
        proposed national memorial.
    (e) Continuing Discussions.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed 
to delay or prohibit discussions between the Foundation and the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service or any other government entity 
regarding the future role of the Foundation on Midway Atoll.
    Sec. 124. Where any Federal lands included within the boundary of 
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area as designated by the Secretary 
of the Interior on April 5, 1990 (Lake Roosevelt Cooperative Management 
Agreement) were utilized as of March 31, 1997, for grazing purposes 
pursuant to a permit issued by the National Park Service, the person or 
persons so utilizing such lands shall be entitled to renew said permit 
under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, for the 
lifetime of the permittee or 20 years, whichever is less.
    Sec. 125. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to redistribute any Tribal Priority 
Allocation funds, including tribal base funds, to alleviate tribal 
funding inequities by transferring funds on the basis of identified, 
unmet needs. No tribe shall receive a reduction in Tribal Priority 
Allocation funds of more than ten percent in fiscal year 2000.
    Sec. 126. None of the Funds provided in this Act shall be available 
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Department of the Interior to 
transfer land into trust status for the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe in 
Clark County, Washington, unless and until the tribe and the county 
reach a legally enforceable agreement that addresses the financial 
impact of new development on the county, school district, fire 
district, and other local governments and the impact on zoning and 
development.
    Sec. 127. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available 
to the Department of the Interior or agencies of the Department of the 
Interior to implement Secretarial Order 3206, issued June 5, 1997.
    Sec. 128. Of the funds appropriated in title V of the Fiscal Year 
1998 Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, Public Law 105-
83, the Secretary shall provide up to $2,000,000 in the form of a grant 
to the Fairbanks North Star Borough for acquisition of undeveloped 
parcels along the banks of the Chena River for the purpose of 
establishing an urban greenbelt within the Borough. The Secretary shall 
further provide from the funds appropriated in title V up to $1,000,000 
in the form of a grant to the Municipality of Anchorage for the 
acquisition of approximately 34 acres of wetlands adjacent to a 
municipal park in Anchorage (the Jewel Lake Wetlands).
    Sec. 129. Funds sufficient to cover the cost of preparation of an 
Environmental Impact Statement are hereby redirected from the funds 
appropriated in the fiscal year 1999 Department of Interior 
Appropriations Bill, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Safety of Dams 
Construction Account, Weber Dam. These funds are directed to be used 
for completion of an environmental impact statement to facilitate 
resolution of fish passage issues associated with the reconstruction of 
the Weber Dam and Reservoir on the Walker River Paiute Reservation in 
Nevada. The analysis shall include, but not be limited to: (1) an 
evaluation of whether any reservoir, and if so what capacity reservoir, 
is needed to assure that the water rights of the Walker River Paiute 
Tribe can be adequately served with surface water; (2) an evaluation of 
the feasibility and cost of constructing a new off stream reservoir as 
a replacement for Weber Reservoir; (3) an evaluation of the feasibility 
and cost of converting Weber Reservoir into an off stream reservoir; 
and (4) an evaluation of the feasibility and cost of serving the water 
rights of the Walker River Paiute Tribe with groundwater. The BIA is 
directed to work through the Bureau of Reclamation, either via contract 
or memorandum of understanding, to complete this environmental impact 
statement within 18 months of enactment of this act. No contract for 
construction or reconstruction of the Weber Dam shall be awarded until 
such Environmental Impact Statement is completed. In addition, $125,000 
of the funds appropriated in fiscal year 1999 to the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Safety of Dams Construction Account, Weber Dam, shall be 
directed to assist the Walker River Paiute Tribe in exploring the 
feasibility of establishing a Tribal-operated Lahontan cutthroat trout 
hatchery on the Walker River, in recognition of the negative impacts on 
the tribe associated with delay in reconstruction of Weber Dam.

                       TITLE II--RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

                             Forest Service

                     forest and rangeland research

    For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $187,444,000, 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, $190,793,000, to remain 
available until expended, as authorized by law.

                         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, and for administrative expenses 
associated with the management of funds provided under the headings 
``Forest and Rangeland Research'', ``State and Private Forestry'', 
``National Forest System'', ``Wildland Fire Management'', 
``Reconstruction and Construction'', and ``Land Acquisition'', 
$1,239,051,000, to remain available until expended, which shall include 
50 percent of all moneys received during prior fiscal years as fees 
collected under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as 
amended, in accordance with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l-
6a(i)).

                        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 and water, $560,980,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That such funds are available for repayment of advances from 
other appropriations accounts previously transferred for such purposes: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, up 
to $4,000,000 of funds appropriated under this appropriation may be 
used for Fire Science Research in support of the Joint Fire Science 
Program: Provided further, That all authorities for the use of funds, 
including the use of contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, 
available to execute the Forest Service and Rangeland Research 
appropriation, are also available in the utilization of these funds for 
Fire Science Research.
    For an additional amount to cover necessary expenses for emergency 
rehabilitation, presuppression due to emergencies, and wildfire 
suppression activities of the Forest Service, $90,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is 
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That these funds shall be 
available only to the extent an official budget request for a specific 
dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the 
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted 
by the President to the Congress.

                     reconstruction and maintenance

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $362,095,000, to remain available until expended for 
construction, reconstruction, maintenance and acquisition of buildings 
and other facilities, and for construction, reconstruction, repair and 
maintenance of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as 
authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532-538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: Provided, 
That up to $15,000,000 of the funds provided herein for road 
maintenance shall be available for the decommissioning of roads, 
including unauthorized roads not part of the transportation system, 
which are no longer needed: Provided further, That no funds shall be 
expended to decommission any system road until notice and an 
opportunity for public comment has been provided on each 
decommissioning project: Provided further, That any unexpended balances 
of amounts previously appropriated for Forest Service Reconstruction 
and Construction as well as any unobligated balances remaining in the 
National Forest System appropriation in the facility maintenance and 
trail maintenance extended budget line items at the end of fiscal year 
1999 may be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation.

                            land acquisition

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 
through 11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of 
land or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory 
authority applicable to the Forest Service, $37,170,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That subject to valid existing rights, all 
Federally owned lands and interests in lands within the New World 
Mining District comprising approximately 26,223 acres, more or less, 
which are described in a Federal Register notice dated August 19, 1997 
(62 F.R. 44136-44137), are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, 
appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws, and from 
location, entry and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition 
under all mineral and geothermal leasing laws.

         acquisition of lands for national forests special acts

    For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries of the 
Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; the Toiyabe National 
Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland 
National Forests, California, as authorized by law, $1,069,000, to be 
derived from forest receipts.

            acquisition of lands to complete land exchanges

    For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from funds 
deposited by State, county, or municipal governments, public school 
districts, or other public school authorities pursuant to the Act of 
December 4, 1967, as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available 
until expended.

                         range betterment fund

    For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, and 
improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior fiscal 
year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on lands in National 
Forests in the sixteen Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of 
Public Law 94-579, as amended, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for administrative 
expenses associated with on-the-ground range rehabilitation, 
protection, and improvements.

    gifts, donations and bequests for forest and rangeland research

    For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $92,000, to remain 
available until expended, to be derived from the fund established 
pursuant to the above Act.

               administrative provisions, forest service

    Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to exceed 110 passenger 
motor vehicles of which 15 will be used primarily for law enforcement 
purposes and of which 109 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 three for replacement only, and acquisition of sufficient 
aircraft from excess sources to maintain the operable fleet at 213 
aircraft for use in Forest Service wildland fire programs and other 
Forest Service programs; notwithstanding other provisions of law, 
existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or 
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 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 abolish any region, to move or close any regional office 
for National Forest System administration of the Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture without the consent of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.
    Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be 
transferred to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation for forest 
firefighting, emergency rehabilitation of burned-over or damaged lands 
or waters under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions.
    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 House Report 105-163.
    None of the funds available to the Forest Service may be 
reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the procedures 
contained in House Report 105-163.
    No funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be transferred to 
the Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture without the 
approval of the Chief of the Forest Service.
    Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to conduct 
a program of not less than $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.
    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.
    To the greatest extent possible, and in accordance with the Final 
Amendment to the Shawnee National Forest Plan, none of the funds 
available in this Act shall be used for preparation of timber sales 
using clearcutting or other forms of even-aged management in hardwood 
stands in the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois.
    Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 101-593, of 
the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $2,250,000 may be 
advanced in a lump sum as Federal financial assistance to the National 
Forest Foundation, without regard to when the Foundation incurs 
expenses, for administrative expenses or projects on or benefitting 
National Forest System lands or related to Forest Service programs: 
Provided, That of the Federal funds made available to the Foundation, 
no more than $400,000 shall be available for administrative expenses: 
Provided further, That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the 
period of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to match 
on at least one-for-one basis funds made available by the Forest 
Service: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Federal 
funds to a non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate that 
the recipient has obtained 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 $2,650,000 
of the funds available to the Forest Service shall be available for 
matching funds to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, as 
authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3701-3709, and may be advanced in a lump sum as 
Federal financial assistance, without regard to when expenses are 
incurred, for projects on or benefitting National Forest System lands 
or related to Forest Service programs: 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 non-Federal recipient 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.
    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.
    The Forest Service shall fund overhead, national commitments, 
indirect expenses, and any other category for use of funds which are 
expended at any units, that are not directly related to the 
accomplishment of specific work on-the-ground (referred to as 
``indirect expenditures''), from funds available to the Forest Service, 
unless otherwise prohibited by law: Provided, That the Forest Service 
shall implement and adhere to the definitions of indirect expenditures 
established pursuant to Public Law 105-277 on a nationwide basis 
without flexibility for modification by any organizational level except 
the Washington Office, and when changed by the Washington Office, such 
changes in definition shall be reported in budget requests submitted by 
the Forest Service: Provided further, That the Forest Service shall 
provide in all future budget justifications, planned indirect 
expenditures in accordance with the definitions, summarized and 
displayed to the Regional, Station, Area, and detached unit office 
level. The justification shall display the estimated source and amount 
of indirect expenditures, by expanded budget line item, of funds in the 
agency's annual budget justification. The display shall include 
appropriated funds and the Knutson-Vandenberg, Brush Disposal, 
Cooperative Work-Other, and Salvage Sale funds. Changes between 
estimated and actual indirect expenditures shall be reported in 
subsequent budget justifications: Provided further, That during fiscal 
year 2000 the Secretary shall limit total annual indirect obligations 
from the Brush Disposal, Cooperative Work-Other, Knutson-Vandenberg, 
Reforestation, Salvage Sale, and Roads and Trails funds to 20 percent 
of the total obligations from each fund.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations or 
funds available to the Forest Service may be used to reimburse the 
Office of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agriculture, for 
travel and related expenses incurred as a result of OGC assistance or 
participation requested by the Forest Service at meetings, training 
sessions, management reviews, land purchase negotiations and similar 
non-litigation related matters: Provided, That no more than $500,000 is 
transferred: Provided further, That future budget justifications for 
both the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture clearly 
display the sums previously transferred and request future funding 
levels.
    Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be 
used for necessary expenses in the event of law enforcement emergencies 
as necessary to protect natural resources and public or employee 
safety.
    Of any funds available to Region 10 of the Forest Service, 
exclusive of funds for timber sales management or road reconstruction/
construction, $7,000,000 shall be used in fiscal year 2000 to support 
implementation of the recent amendments to the Pacific Salmon Treaty 
with Canada which require fisheries enhancements on the Tongass 
National Forest.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                         clean coal technology

                               (deferral)

    Of the funds made available under this heading for obligation in 
prior years, $156,000,000 shall not be available until October 1, 2000: 
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, 
$390,975,000, to remain available until expended, of which $24,000,000 
shall be derived by transfer from unobligated balances in the Biomass 
Energy Development account: Provided, That no part of the sum herein 
made available shall be used for the field testing of nuclear 
explosives in the recovery of oil and gas.

                      alternative fuels production

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Moneys received as investment income on the principal amount in the 
Great Plains Project Trust at the Norwest Bank of North Dakota, in such 
sums as are earned as of October 1, 1999, shall be deposited in this 
account and immediately transferred to the general fund of the 
Treasury. Moneys received as revenue sharing from operation of the 
Great Plains Gasification Plant and settlement payments shall be 
immediately transferred to the general fund of the Treasury.

                 naval petroleum and oil shale reserves

    The requirements of 10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) shall not apply to 
fiscal year 2000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, unobligated funds remaining from prior years shall be available 
for all naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities.

                          energy conservation

    For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation 
activities, $682,817,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$25,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from unobligated balances in 
the Biomass Energy Development account: Provided, That $166,000,000 
shall be for use in energy conservation programs as defined in section 
3008(3) of Public Law 99-509 (15 U.S.C. 4507): Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 3003(d)(2) of Public Law 99-509, such sums 
shall be allocated to the eligible programs as follows: $133,000,000 
for weatherization assistance grants and $33,000,000 for State energy 
conservation grants.

                          economic regulation

    For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the Office 
of Hearings and Appeals, $2,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                      strategic petroleum reserve

    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.), $159,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided,  That the Secretary of Energy hereafter may transfer to the 
SPR Petroleum Account such funds as may be necessary to carry out 
drawdown and sale operations of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
initiated under section 161 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6241) from any funds available to the Department of Energy 
under this Act or previous appropriations Acts. All funds transferred 
pursuant to this authority must be replenished as promptly as possible 
from oil sale receipts pursuant to the drawdown and sale.

                   energy information administration

    For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the Energy 
Information Administration, $70,500,000, 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.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                         Indian Health Service

                         indian health services

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954 (68 
Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination Act, the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act 
with respect to the Indian Health Service, $2,135,561,000, 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 $384,442,000 for contract medical care shall 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2001: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, up to $17,000,000 shall be used to 
carry out the loan repayment program under section 108 of the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act: Provided further, That funds provided in 
this Act may be used for one-year contracts and grants which are to be 
performed in two fiscal years, so long as the total obligation is 
recorded in the year for which the funds are appropriated: Provided 
further, That the amounts collected by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services under the authority of title IV of the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act shall remain available until expended for the 
purpose of achieving compliance with the applicable conditions and 
requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act 
(exclusive of planning, design, or construction of new facilities): 
Provided further, That funding contained herein, and in any earlier 
appropriations Acts for scholarship programs under the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 2001: Provided further, That amounts 
received by tribes and tribal organizations under title IV of the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall be reported and accounted for 
and available to the receiving tribes and tribal organizations until 
expended: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, of the amounts provided herein, not to exceed $203,781,000 
shall be for payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract 
or grant support costs associated with contracts, grants, self-
governance compacts or annual funding agreements between the Indian 
Health Service and a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior to or during 
fiscal year 2000.

                        indian health facilities

    For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, and equipment 
of health and related auxiliary facilities, including quarters for 
personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and drawings; 
acquisition of sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings, and 
purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and community 
sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of the 
Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-Determination 
Act, and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and for expenses 
necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to environmental health and facilities 
support activities of the Indian Health Service, $189,252,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, funds appropriated for the planning, design, 
construction or renovation of health facilities for the benefit of an 
Indian tribe or tribes may be used to purchase land for sites to 
construct, improve, or enlarge health or related facilities.

            administrative provisions, indian health service

    Appropriations in this Act to the Indian Health Service shall be 
available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates not 
to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for 
senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase of 
reprints; purchase, renovation and erection of modular buildings and 
renovation of existing facilities; payments for telephone service in 
private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 
approved by the Secretary; and for uniforms or allowances therefore as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and for expenses of attendance at 
meetings which are concerned with the functions or activities for which 
the appropriation is made or which will contribute to improved conduct, 
supervision, or management of those functions or activities: Provided, 
That in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act, non-Indian patients may be extended health care at all 
tribally administered or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to 
charges, and the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal 
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651-2653) shall be credited to 
the account of the facility providing the service and shall be 
available without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other law or regulation, funds transferred from the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health 
Service shall be administered under Public Law 86-121 (the Indian 
Sanitation Facilities Act) and Public Law 93-638, as amended: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service in this 
Act, except those used for administrative and program direction 
purposes, shall not be subject to limitations directed at curtailing 
Federal travel and transportation: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds previously or herein 
made available to a tribe or tribal organization through a contract, 
grant, or agreement authorized by title I or title III of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 
450), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-determination 
contract under title I, or a self-governance agreement under title III 
of such Act and thereafter shall remain available to the tribe or 
tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available to the Indian Health Service in 
this Act shall be used to implement the final rule published in the 
Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by the Department of Health and 
Human Services, relating to the eligibility for the health care 
services of the Indian Health Service until the Indian Health Service 
has submitted a budget request reflecting the increased costs 
associated with the proposed final rule, and such request has been 
included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law: Provided 
further, That funds made available in this Act are to be apportioned to 
the Indian Health Service as appropriated in this Act, and accounted 
for in the appropriation structure set forth in this Act: Provided 
further, That with respect to functions transferred by the Indian 
Health Service to tribes or tribal organizations, the Indian Health 
Service is authorized to provide goods and services to those entities, 
on a reimbursable basis, including payment in advance with subsequent 
adjustment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, along with the 
funds received from those entities pursuant to the Indian Self-
Determination Act, may be credited to the same or subsequent 
appropriation account which provided the funding, said amounts to 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That reimbursements 
for training, technical assistance, or services provided by the Indian 
Health Service will contain total costs, including direct, 
administrative, and overhead associated with the provision of goods, 
services, or technical assistance: Provided further, That the 
appropriation structure for the Indian Health Service may not be 
altered without advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.

                         OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

              Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian 
Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93-531, $8,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That funds provided in this or any 
other appropriations Act are to be used to relocate eligible 
individuals and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-
partitioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not included in the 
preceding categories: Provided further, That none of the funds 
contained in this or any other Act may be used by the Office of Navajo 
and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family 
who, as of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the lands 
partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or replacement home is 
provided for such household: Provided further, That no relocatee will 
be provided with more than one new or replacement home: Provided 
further, That the Office shall relocate any certified eligible 
relocatees who have selected and received an approved homesite on the 
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off the Navajo 
reservation or on the land acquired pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 640d-10.

    Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
                              Development

                        payment to the institute

    For payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native 
Culture and Arts Development, as authorized by title XV of Public Law 
99-498, as amended (20 U.S.C. 56 part A), $4,250,000.

                        Smithsonian Institution

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, as 
authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, science, 
and history; development, preservation, and documentation of the 
National Collections; presentation of public exhibits and performances; 
collection, preparation, dissemination, and exchange of information and 
publications; conduct of education, training, and museum assistance 
programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease (for terms not to 
exceed 30 years), and protection of buildings, facilities, and 
approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; up to 5 replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, 
repair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees; $364,562,000, of which 
not to exceed $40,704,000 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, $4,400,000, 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, $35,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That contracts awarded for environmental systems, protection systems, 
and exterior repair or restoration of buildings of the Smithsonian 
Institution may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on 
the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.

                              construction

    For necessary expenses for construction, $19,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.

           administrative provisions, smithsonian institution

    None of the funds in this or any other Act may be used to initiate 
the design for any proposed expansion of current space or new facility 
without consultation with the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees.
    The Smithsonian Institution shall not use Federal funds in excess 
of the amount specified in Public Law 101-185 for the construction of 
the National Museum of the American Indian.

                        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, $61,438,000, of which not to exceed $3,026,000 for the special 
exhibition program shall remain available until expended.

            repair, restoration and renovation of buildings

    For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and renovation of 
buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occupied by the National 
Gallery of Art, by contract or otherwise, as authorized, $6,311,000, 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, $14,000,000.

                              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, $20,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.

            Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the 
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356) including hire of 
passenger vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$6,040,000.

           National Foundation on the arts and the Humanities

                    National Endowment for the Arts

                       grants and administration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, $86,000,000 shall be 
available to the National Endowment for the Arts for the support of 
projects and productions in the arts through assistance to 
organizations and individuals pursuant to sections 5(c) and 5(g) of the 
Act, for program support, and for administering the functions of the 
Act, to remain available until expended.

                            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, 
$13,000,000, 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, $97,550,000, 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, 
$14,150,000, to remain available until expended, of which $10,150,000 
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, as amended, $23,905,000, to remain available until expended.

                       administrative provisions

    None of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities may be used to process any grant or contract 
documents which do not include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, 
That none of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities may be used for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided further, That funds from 
nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for official reception 
and representation expenses.

                        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), $1,078,000: Provided, That beginning in 
fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, the Commission is authorized to charge 
fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such fees shall 
be credited to this account as an offsetting collection, to remain 
available until expended without further appropriation.

               national capital arts and cultural affairs

    For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99-190 (20 
U.S.C. 956(a)), as amended, $7,000,000.

               Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation (Public Law 89-665, as amended), $2,906,000: Provided, 
That none of these funds shall be available for compensation of level V 
of the Executive Schedule or higher positions.

                  National Capital Planning Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses, as authorized by the National Capital 
Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71-71i), including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $6,312,000: Provided, That all appointed 
members will be compensated at a rate not to exceed the rate for level 
IV of the Executive Schedule.

                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, $33,286,000, 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.

                             Presidio Trust

                          presidio trust fund

    For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omnibus Parks 
and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, $24,400,000 shall be available 
to the Presidio Trust, to remain available until expended, of which up 
to $1,040,000 may be for the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by 
section 104(d) of the Act: 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 $200,000,000. The Trust is authorized 
to issue obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to 
section 104(d)(3) of the Act, in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000.

                     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 1999.
    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. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used for the AmeriCorps program, unless 
the relevant agencies of the Department of the Interior and/or 
Agriculture follow appropriate reprogramming guidelines: Provided, That 
if no funds are provided for the AmeriCorps program by the Departments 
of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, then none of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for the AmeriCorps 
programs.
    Sec. 311. 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. 312. (a) Limitation of Funds.--None of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or 
expended to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining 
or mill site claim located under the general mining laws.
    (b) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply 
if the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the claim 
concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with the Secretary on or 
before September 30, 1994; and (2) all requirements established under 
sections 2325 and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the 
Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and 
section 2337 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site 
claims, as the case may be, were fully complied with by the applicant 
by that date.
    (c) Report.--On September 30, 2000, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall file with the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on 
actions taken by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to 
section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104-208).
    (d) Mineral Examinations.--In order to process patent applications 
in a timely and responsible manner, upon the request of a patent 
applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow the applicant to 
fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of 
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of the mining claims 
or mill sites contained in a patent application as set forth in 
subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Management shall have the sole 
responsibility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in 
accordance with the standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors.
    Sec. 313. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts 
appropriated to or earmarked in committee reports for the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service by Public Laws 103-138, 
103-332, 104-134, 104-208, 105-83, and 105-277 for payments to tribes 
and tribal organizations for contract support costs associated with 
self-determination or self-governance contracts, grants, compacts, or 
annual funding agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the 
Indian Health Service as funded by such Acts, are the total amounts 
available for fiscal years 1994 through 1999 for such purposes, except 
that, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organizations 
may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of 
ongoing contracts, grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding 
agreements.
    Sec. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal 
year 2000 the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior are 
authorized to limit competition for watershed restoration project 
contracts as part of the ``Jobs in the Woods'' component of the 
President's Forest Plan for the Pacific Northwest or the Jobs in the 
Woods Program established in Region 10 of the Forest Service to 
individuals and entities in historically timber-dependent areas in the 
States of Washington, Oregon, northern California and Alaska that have 
been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Federal lands.
    Sec. 315. None of the funds collected under the Recreational Fee 
Demonstration program may be used to plan, design, or construct a 
visitor center or any other permanent structure without prior approval 
of the House and the Senate Committees on Appropriations if the 
estimated total cost of the facility exceeds $500,000.
    Sec. 316. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act or any 
other Act providing appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
the Forest Service or the Smithsonian Institution may be used to submit 
nominations for the designation of Biosphere Reserves pursuant to the 
Man and Biosphere program administered by the United Nations 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
    (b) The provisions of this section shall be repealed upon enactment 
of subsequent legislation specifically authorizing United States 
participation in the Man and Biosphere program.
    Sec. 317. None of the funds made available in this or any other Act 
for any fiscal year may be used to designate, or to post any sign 
designating, any portion of Canaveral National Seashore in Brevard 
County, Florida, as a clothing-optional area or as an area in which 
public nudity is permitted, if such designation would be contrary to 
county ordinance.
    Sec. 318. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment for the 
Arts--
            (1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an 
        individual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a 
        literature fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or 
        American Jazz Masters Fellowship.
            (2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to ensure 
        that no funding provided through a grant, except a grant made 
        to a State or local arts agency, or regional group, may be used 
        to make a grant to any other organization or individual to 
        conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
        Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments made in 
        exchange for goods and services.
            (3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support to a group, 
        unless the application is specific to the contents of the 
        season, including identified programs and/or projects.
    Sec. 319. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National 
Endowment for the Humanities are authorized to solicit, accept, 
receive, and invest in the name of the United States, gifts, bequests, 
or devises of money and other property or services and to use such in 
furtherance of the functions of the National Endowment for the Arts and 
the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any proceeds from such 
gifts, bequests, or devises, after acceptance by the National Endowment 
for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities, shall be 
paid by the donor or the representative of the donor to the Chairman. 
The Chairman shall enter the proceeds in a special interest-bearing 
account to the credit of the appropriate endowment for the purposes 
specified in each case.
    Sec. 320. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be expended or obligated to fund new revisions of national forest land 
management plans until new final or interim final rules for forest land 
management planning are published in the Federal Register. Those 
national forests which are currently in a revision process, having 
formally published a Notice of Intent to revise prior to October 1, 
1997; those national forests having been court-ordered to revise; those 
national forests where plans reach the fifteen year legally mandated 
date to revise before or during calendar year 2000; national forests 
within the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem study area; and the White 
Mountain National Forest are exempt from this section and may use funds 
in this Act and proceed to complete the forest plan revision in 
accordance with current forest planning regulations.
    Sec. 321. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be expended or obligated to complete and issue the five-year program 
under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act.
    Sec. 322. (a) In providing services or awarding financial 
assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 
Act of 1965 from funds appropriated under this Act, the Chairperson of 
the National Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given 
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for projects, 
productions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved populations.
    (b) In this section:
            (1) The term ``underserved population'' means a population 
        of individuals who have historically been outside the purview 
        of arts and humanities programs due to factors such as a high 
        incidence of income below the poverty line or to geographic 
        isolation.
            (2) The term ``poverty line'' means the poverty line (as 
        defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and revised 
        annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the Community 
        Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) applicable to a 
        family of the size involved.
    (c) In providing services and awarding financial assistance under 
the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 with 
funds appropriated by this Act, the Chairperson of the National 
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing 
services or awarding financial assistance for projects, productions, 
workshops, or programs that will encourage public knowledge, education, 
understanding, and appreciation of the arts.
    (d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out section 5 of 
the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965--
            (1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant category for 
        projects, productions, workshops, or programs that are of 
        national impact or availability or are able to tour several 
        States;
            (2) the Chairperson shall not make grants exceeding 15 
        percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to any single State, 
        excluding grants made under the authority of paragraph (1);
            (3) the Chairperson shall report to the Congress annually 
        and by State, on grants awarded by the Chairperson in each 
        grant category under section 5 of such Act; and
            (4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of grants to 
        improve and support community-based music performance and 
        education.
    Sec. 323. None of the funds in this Act may be used for planning, 
design or construction of improvements to Pennsylvania Avenue in front 
of the White House without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 324. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds provided in this Act to the Indian Health Service or Bureau of 
Indian Affairs may be used to enter into any new or expanded self-
determination contract or grant or self-governance compact pursuant to 
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, for any 
activities not previously covered by such contracts, compacts or 
grants. Nothing in this section precludes the continuation of those 
specific activities for which self-determination and self-governance 
contracts, compacts and grants currently exist or the renewal of 
contracts, compacts and grants for those activities; implementation of 
section 325 of Public Law 105-83 (111 Stat. 1597); or compliance with 
25 U.S.C. 2005.
    Sec. 325. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 1999 in the roads 
and trails fund provided for in the fourteenth paragraph under the 
heading ``FOREST SERVICE'' of the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 
16 U.S.C. 501), shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without 
regard to the State in which the amounts were derived, to repair or 
reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National Forest System lands 
or to carry out and administer projects to improve forest health 
conditions, which may include the repair or reconstruction of roads, 
bridges, and trails on National Forest System lands in the wildland-
community interface where there is an abnormally high risk of fire. The 
projects shall emphasize reducing risks to human safety and public 
health and property and enhancing ecological functions, long-term 
forest productivity, and biological integrity. The Secretary shall 
commence the projects during fiscal year 2000, but the projects may be 
completed in a subsequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended 
under this section to replace funds which would otherwise appropriately 
be expended from the timber salvage sale fund. Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to exempt any project from any environmental law.
    Sec. 326. Hardwood Technology Transfer and Applied Research. (a) 
The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter the ``Secretary'') is hereby 
and hereafter authorized to conduct technology transfer and 
development, training, dissemination of information and applied 
research in the management, processing and utilization of the hardwood 
forest resource. This authority is in addition to any other authorities 
which may be available to the Secretary including, but not limited to, 
the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
2101 et. seq.), and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Act of 
1978, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1600-1614).
    (b) In carrying out this authority, the Secretary may enter into 
grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements with public and private 
agencies, organizations, corporations, institutions and individuals. 
The Secretary may accept gifts and donations pursuant to the Act of 
October 10, 1978 (7 U.S.C. 2269) including gifts and donations from a 
donor that conducts business with any agency of the Department of 
Agriculture or is regulated by the Secretary of Agriculture.
    (c) The Secretary is hereby and hereafter authorized to operate and 
utilize the assets of the Wood Education and Resource Center 
(previously named the Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technology Center in West 
Virginia) as part of a newly formed ``Institute of Hardwood Technology 
Transfer and Applied Research'' (hereinafter the ``Institute''). The 
Institute, in addition to the Wood Education and Resource Center, will 
consist of a Director, technology transfer specialists from State and 
Private Forestry, the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Princeton, West 
Virginia, and any other organizational unit of the Department of 
Agriculture as the Secretary deems appropriate. The overall management 
of the Institute will be the responsibility of the USDA Forest Service, 
State and Private Forestry.
    (d) The Secretary is hereby and hereafter authorized to generate 
revenue using the authorities provided herein. Any revenue received as 
part of the operation of the Institute shall be deposited into a 
special fund in the Treasury of the United States, known as the 
``Hardwood Technology Transfer and Applied Research Fund'', which shall 
be available to the Secretary until expended, without further 
appropriation, in furtherance of the purposes of this section, 
including upkeep, management, and operation of the Institute and the 
payment of salaries and expenses.
    (e) There are hereby and hereafter authorized to be appropriated 
such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
    Sec. 327. No timber in Region 10 of the Forest Service shall be 
advertised for sale which, when using domestic Alaska western red cedar 
selling values and manufacturing costs, fails to provide at least 60 
percent of normal profit and risk of the appraised timber, except at 
the written request by a prospective bidder. Program accomplishments 
shall be based on volume sold. Should Region 10 sell, in fiscal year 
2000, the annual average portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity 
called for in the current Tongass Land Management Plan which provides 
greater than 60 percent of normal profit and risk at the time of the 
sale advertisement, all of the western red cedar timber from those 
sales which is surplus to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska, 
shall be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 
United States based on values in the Pacific Northwest as determined by 
the Forest Service and stated in the timber sale contract. Should 
Region 10 sell, in fiscal year 2000, less than the annual average 
portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the 
current Tongass Land Management Plan meeting the 60 percent of normal 
profit and risk standard at the time of sale advertisement, the volume 
of western red cedar timber available to domestic processors at rates 
specified in the timber sale contract in the contiguous 48 states shall 
be that volume: (i) which is surplus to the needs of domestic 
processors in Alaska; and (ii) is that percent of the surplus western 
red cedar volume determined by calculating the ratio of the total 
timber volume which has been sold on the Tongass to the annual average 
portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the 
current Tongass Land Management Plan. The percentage shall be 
calculated by Region 10 on a rolling basis as each sale is sold. (For 
purposes of this amendment, a ``rolling basis'' shall mean that the 
determination of how much western red cedar is eligible for sale to 
various markets shall be made at the time each sale is awarded.) 
Western red cedar shall be deemed ``surplus to the needs of domestic 
processors in Alaska'' when the timber sale holder has presented to the 
Forest Service documentation of the inability to sell western red cedar 
logs from a given sale to domestic Alaska processors at a price equal 
to or greater than the log selling value stated in the contract. All 
additional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 
United States domestic processors may be exported to foreign markets at 
the election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may be 
sold at prevailing export prices at the election of the timber sale 
holder.
    Sec. 328. No funds available to the Secretary of Agriculture or the 
Secretary of the Interior in any fiscal year shall be used to introduce 
grizzly bears into the State of Idaho or the State of Montana without 
the express written approval of the governors of both states.
    Sec. 329. For fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of Agriculture, with 
respect to lands within the National Forest System, and the Secretary 
of the Interior, with respect to lands under the jurisdiction of the 
Bureau of Land Management, shall use the best available scientific and 
commercial data in amending or revising resource management plans for, 
and offering sales, issuing leases, or otherwise authorizing or 
undertaking management activities on, lands under their respective 
jurisdictions: Provided, That the Secretaries may at their discretion 
determine whether any additional information concerning wildlife 
resources shall be collected prior to approving any such plan, sale, 
lease or other activity, and, if so, the type of, and collection 
procedures for, such information.
    Sec. 330. The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
Interior shall:
            (a) prepare the report required of them by section 323(a) 
        of the Fiscal Year 1998 Interior and Related Agencies 
        Appropriations Act (Public Law 105-83; 111 Stat. 1543, 1596-7);
            (b) make the report available for public comment for a 
        period of not less than 120 days; and
            (c) include the information contained in the report and a 
        detailed response or responses to any such public comment in 
        any final environmental impact statement associated with the 
        Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Project.
    Sec. 331. Section 7 of the Service Contract Act (SCA), 41 U.S.C. 
section 356 is amended by adding the following paragraph:
            ``(8) any concession contract with Federal land management 
        agencies, the principal purpose of which is the provision of 
        recreational services to the general public, including lodging, 
        campgrounds, food, stores, guiding, recreational equipment, 
        fuel, transportation, and skiing, provided that this exemption 
        shall not affect the applicability of the Davis-Bacon Act, 40 
        U.S.C. section 276a et seq., to construction contracts 
        associated with these concession contracts.''.
    Sec. 332. Timber and Special Forest Products. (a) Definition of 
Special Forest Product.--For purposes of this section, the term 
``special forest product'' means any vegetation or other life forms, 
such as mushrooms and fungi that grows on National Forest System lands, 
excluding trees, animals, insects, or fish except as provided in 
regulations issued under this section by the Secretary of Agriculture.
    (b) Fair Market Value for Special Forest Products.--The Secretary 
of Agriculture shall develop and implement a pilot program to charge 
and collect not less than the fair market value for special forest 
products harvested on National Forest System lands. The authority for 
this pilot program shall be for fiscal years 2000 through 2004. The 
Secretary of Agriculture shall establish appraisal methods and bidding 
procedures to ensure that the amounts collected for special forest 
products are not less than fair market value.
    (c) Fees.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall charge 
        and collect from persons who harvest special forest products 
        all costs to the Department of Agriculture associated with the 
        granting, modifying, or monitoring the authorization for 
        harvest of the special forest products, including the costs of 
        any environmental or other analysis.
            (2) Security.--The Secretary of Agriculture may require a 
        person that is assessed a fee under this subsection to provide 
        security to ensure that the Secretary of Agriculture receives 
        fees authorized under this subsection from such person.
    (d) Waiver.--The Secretary of Agriculture may waive the application 
of subsection (b) or subsection (c) pursuant to such regulations as the 
Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe.
    (e) Collection and Use of Funds.--
            (1) Funds collected in accordance with subsection (b) and 
        subsection (c) shall be deposited into a special account in the 
        Treasury of the United States.
            (2) Funds deposited into the special account in the 
        Treasury in accordance with this section in excess of the 
        amounts collected for special forest products during fiscal 
        year 1999 shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary 
        of Agriculture on October 1, 2000 without further 
        appropriation, and shall remain available until expended to pay 
        for--
                    (A) in the case of funds collected pursuant to 
                subsection (b), the costs of conducting inventories of 
                special forest products, monitoring and assessing the 
                impacts of harvest levels and methods, and for 
                restoration activities, including any necessary 
                vegetation; and
                    (B) in the case of fees collected pursuant to 
                subsection (c), the costs for which the fees were 
                collected.
            (3) Amounts collected in accordance with subsection (b) and 
        subsection (c) shall not be taken into account for the purposes 
        of the sixth paragraph under the heading of ``Forest Service'' 
        of the Act of May 23, 1908 (16 U.S.C. Sec.  500); section 13 of 
        the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U.S.C. Sec.  500); the Act of 
        March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. Sec.  501); the Act of July 22, 1937 
        (7 U.S.C. Sec.  1012); the Acts of August 8, 1937 and of May 
        24, 1939 (43 U.S.C. Sec. Sec.  1181 et. seq.); the Act of June 
        14, 1926 (43 U.S.C. Sec.  869-4); chapter 69 of title 31 United 
        States Code; section 401 of the Act of June 15, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 
        Sec.  715s); the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 
        (16 U.S.C. Sec.  460l-6a); and any other provision of law 
        relating to revenue allocation.
    Sec. 333. Title III, section 3001 of Public Law 106-31 is amended 
by inserting after the word ``Alabama,'' the following phrase ``in 
fiscal year 1999 or 2000''.
    Sec. 334. The authority to enter into stewardship and end result 
contracts provided to the Forest Service in accordance with Section 347 
of Title III of Section 101(e) of Division A of Public Law 105-825 is 
hereby expanded to authorize the Forest Service to enter into an 
additional 9 contracts in Region One.
    Sec. 335. Local Exemptions From Forest Service Demonstration 
Program Fees. 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 Demonstration Program Fees.--
            ``(1) In general.--Each unit of general local government 
        that lies in whole or in part within the White Mountain 
        National Forest and 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 
        paying user fees under paragraph (1). This method may include 
        valid form of identification including a drivers license.''.
    Sec. 336. Millsites Opinion. Prohibition on Millsite Limitations.--
Notwithstanding the opinion dated November 7, 1997, by the Solicitor of 
the Department of the Interior concerning millsites under the general 
mining law (referred to in this section as the ``opinion''), in 
accordance with the millsite provisions of the Bureau of Land 
Management's Manual Sec. 3864.1.B (dated 1991), the Bureau of Land 
Management Handbook for Mineral Examiners H-3890-1, page III-8 (dated 
1989), and section 2811.33 of the Forest Service Manual (dated 1990), 
the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture shall 
not limit the number or acreage of millsites based on the ratio between 
the number or acreage of millsites and the number or acreage of 
associated lode or placer claims for any fiscal year.
    Sec. 337. Notwithstanding section 343 of Public Law 105-83, 
increases in recreation residence fees may be implemented in fiscal 
year 2000: Provided, That such an increase would not result in a fee 
that exceeds 125 percent of the fiscal year 1998 fee.
    Sec. 338. No federal monies appropriated for the purchase of land 
by the Forest Service in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area 
(``CRGNSA'') may be used unless the Forest Service complies with the 
acquisition protocol set out in this section:
            (a) Purchase Option Requirement.--Upon the Forest Service 
        making a determination that the agency intends to pursue 
        purchase of land or an interest in land located within the 
        boundaries of the CRGNSA, the Forest Service and the owner of 
        the land or interest in land to be purchased shall enter into a 
        written purchase option agreement in which the landowner agrees 
        to retain ownership of the interest in land to be acquired for 
        a period not to exceed one year. In return, the Forest Service 
        shall agree to abide by the bargaining and arbitration process 
        set out in this section.
            (b) Opt Out.--After the Forest Service and landowner have 
        entered into the purchase option agreement, the landowner may 
        at any time prior to federal acquisition voluntarily opt out of 
        the purchase option agreement.
            (c) Selection of Appraisers.--Once the landowner and Forest 
        Service both have executed the required purchase option, the 
        landowner and Forest Service each shall select an appraiser to 
        appraise the land or interest in land described in the purchase 
        option. The landowner and Forest Service both shall instruct 
        their appraiser to estimate the fair market value of the land 
        or interest in land to be acquired. The landowner and Forest 
        Service both shall instruct their appraiser to comply with the 
        Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions 
        (Interagency Land Acquisition Conference 1992) and Public Law 
        91-646 as amended. Both appraisers shall possess qualifications 
        consistent with state regulatory requirements that meet the 
        intent of Title XI, Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, 
        and Enforcement Act of 1989.
            (d) Period to Complete Appraisals.--The landowner and 
        Forest Service each shall be allowed a period of 180 days to 
        provide to the other an appraisal of the land or interest in 
        land described in the purchase option. This 180-day period 
        shall commence upon execution of a purchase option by the 
        landowner and the Forest Service.
            (e) Bargaining Period.--Once the landowner and Forest 
        Service each have provided to the other a completed appraisal, 
        a 45-day period of good faith bargaining and negotiation shall 
        commence. If the landowner and Forest Service cannot agree 
        within this period on the proper purchase price to be paid by 
        the United States for the land or interest in land described in 
        the purchase option, the landowner may request arbitration 
        under subsection (f) of this section.
            (f) Arbitration Process.--If a landowner and the Forest 
        Service are unable to reach a negotiated settlement on value 
        within the 45-day period of good faith bargaining and 
        negotiation, during the 10 days following this period of good 
        faith bargaining and negotiation the landowner may request 
        arbitration. The process for arbitration shall commence with 
        each party submitting its appraisal and a copy of this 
        legislation, and only its appraisal and a copy of this 
        legislation, to the arbitration panel within 10 days following 
        the receipt by the Forest Service of the request for 
        arbitration. The arbitration panel shall render a written 
        advisory decision on value within 45 days of receipt of both 
        appraisals. This advisory decision shall be forwarded to the 
        Secretary of Agriculture by the arbitration panel with a 
        recommendation to the Secretary that if the land or interest in 
        land at issue is to be purchased that the United States pay a 
        sum certain for the land or interest in land. This sum certain 
        shall fall within the value range established by the two 
        appraisals. Costs of employing the arbitration panel shall be 
        divided equally between the Forest Service and the landowner, 
        unless the arbitration panel recommends either the landowner or 
        the Forest Service bear the entire cost of employing the 
        arbitration panel. The arbitration panel shall not make such a 
        recommendation unless the panel finds that one of the 
        appraisals submitted fails to conform to the Uniform Appraisal 
        Standard for Federal Land Acquisition (Interagency Land 
        Acquisition Conference 1992). In no event, shall the cost of 
        employing the arbitration panel exceed $10,000.
            (g) Arbitration Panel.--The arbitration panel shall consist 
        of one appraiser and two lawyers who have substantial 
        experience working with the purchase of land and interests in 
        land by the United States. The Secretary is directed to ask the 
        Federal Center for Dispute Resolution at the American 
        Arbitration Association to develop lists of no less than ten 
        appraisers and twenty lawyers who possess substantial 
        experience working with federal land purchases to serve as 
        third-party neutrals in the event arbitration is requested by a 
        landowner. Selection of the arbitration panel shall be made by 
        mutual agreement of the Forest Service and landowner. If mutual 
        agreement cannot be reached on one or more panel members, 
        selection of the remaining panel members shall be by blind draw 
        once each party has been allowed the opportunity to strike up 
        to 25 percent of the third-party neutrals named on either list. 
        Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $15,000 
        shall be available to the Federal Center for Dispute Resolution 
        to cover the initial cost of establishing this program. Once 
        established, costs of administering the program shall be borne 
        by the Forest Service, but shall not exceed $5,000 a year.
            (h) Qualifications of Third-Party Neutrals.--Each appraiser 
        selected by the Federal Dispute Resolution Center, in addition 
        to possessing substantial experience working with federal land 
        purchases, shall possess qualifications consistent with state 
        regulatory requirements that meet the intent of Title XI, 
        Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery & Enforcement Act of 
        1989. Each lawyer selected by the Federal Dispute Resolution 
        Center, in addition to possessing substantial experience 
        working with federal land purchases, shall be an active member 
        in good standing of the bar of one of the 50 states or the 
        District of Columbia.
            (i) Decision Required by the Secretary of Agriculture.--
        Upon receipt of a recommendation by an arbitration panel 
        appointed under subsection (g), the Secretary of Agriculture 
        shall notify the landowner and the CRGNSA of the day the 
        recommendation was received. The Secretary shall make a 
        determination to adopt or reject the arbitration panel's 
        advisory decision and notify the landowner and the CRGNSA of 
        this determination within 45 days of receipt of the advisory 
        decision.
            (j) Admissability.--Neither the fact that arbitration 
        pursuant to this act has occurred nor the recommendation of the 
        arbitration panel shall be admissible in any court or 
        administrative proceeding.
            (k) Expiration Date.--This act shall expire on October 1, 
        2002.
    Sec. 339. A project undertaken by the Forest Service under the 
Recreation Fee Demonstration Program as authorized by Section 315 of 
the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 
for Fiscal Year 1996, as amended, shall not result in--
            (1) displacement of the holder of an authorization to 
        provide commercial recreation services on Federal lands. Prior 
        to initiating any project, the Secretary shall consult with 
        potentially affected holders to determine what impacts the 
        project may have on the holders. Any modifications to the 
        authorization shall be made within the terms and conditions of 
        the authorization and authorities of the impacted agency.
            (2) the return of a commercial recreation service to the 
        Secretary for operation when such services have been provided 
        in the past by a private sector provider, except when--
                    (A) the private sector provider fails to bid on 
                such opportunities,
                    (B) the private sector provider terminates its 
                relationship with the agency, or,
                    (C) the agency revokes the permit for non-
                compliance with the terms and conditions of the 
                authorization.
In such cases, the agency may use the Recreation Fee Demonstration 
Program to provide for operations until a subsequent operator can be 
found through the offering of a new prospectus.
    Sec. 340. Hardrock Mineral Prospecting, Leasing, and Development on 
the Mark Twain National Forest. (a) Prohibition on Issuance of 
Prospecting Permits for Exploratory Drilling.--Before June 1, 2001, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall not issue a prospecting permit for 
hardrock mineral exploration on Mark Twain National Forest land in the 
Current River/Jack's Fork River--Eleven Point Watershed (not including 
Mark Twain National Forest land in Townships 31N and 32N, Range 2 and 
Range 3 West, on which mining activities are taking place as of the 
date of enactment of this Act).
    (b) Prohibition on Segregation and Withdrawal.--Before June 1, 
2001, none of the funds made available to the Department of the 
Interior by this Act may be used to segregate or withdraw land in the 
Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri, under section 204 of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1714), from--
            (1) the operation of the public land laws;
            (2) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land 
        laws;
            (3) location, entry, prospecting, or leasing under the 
        mining laws;
            (4) disposition under laws pertaining to mineral and 
        geothermal leasing or mineral materials; or
            (5) mining as a congressionally recognized multiple use.
    (c) Studies.--
            (1) Environmental analysis of exploratory drilling.--The 
        heads of the National Forest Service, Bureau of Land 
        Management, United States Geological Service, and National Park 
        Service, in conjunction with the University of Missouri at 
        Rolla, shall conduct a study of exploratory drilling operations 
        on Mark Twain National Forest land in the Current River/Jack's 
        Fork River--Eleven Point Watershed.
            (2) Cessation of lead mining.--
                    (A) In general.--The Comptroller General of the 
                United States shall conduct a study of--
                            (i) the direct and indirect effects on the 
                        public and private sectors;
                            (ii) the impact on the strategic 
                        availability of lead in the United States; and
                            (iii) the impact on the economy of the 
                        United States, the State of Missouri, and 
                        surrounding States;
                as a result of the cessation of lead mining in the Mark 
                Twain National Forest and the State of Missouri, and 
                surrounding States.
                    (B) Consultation.--The study under subparagraph (A) 
                shall be prepared in consultation with the Department 
                of Commerce, the Department of Defense, the National 
                Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest 
                Service, the United States Geological Survey, the State 
                of Missouri, any existing or potential lessee for the 
                affected lands, and interested members of the public.
            (3) Submission to congress.--Not later than March 1, 2001, 
        the agency heads and the Comptroller General shall submit to 
        the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and 
        the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives 
        reports on the studies under paragraphs (1) and (2).
    Sec. 341. No funds shall be used to study, develop, or implement 
procedures or policies to establish energy efficiency, energy use or 
energy acquisition rules or guidelines other than those based upon the 
provisions of the Energy Conservation Policy Act (ECPA) of 1975.
    Sec. 342. Valuation of Crude Oil for Royalty Purposes. Section 130 
of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999 (112 Stat. 2681-263), is amended by striking ``June 1, 1999'' 
and inserting ``June 30, 2001''.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000''.


                                                       Calendar No. 183

106th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 1292

                          [Report No. 106-99]

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                                 A BILL

 Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related 
 agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other 
                               purposes.

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                             June 28, 1999

                 Read twice and placed on the calendar