[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 17920-17936]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2000

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                 LEVIN (AND DeWINE) AMENDMENT NO. 1356

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. LEVIN (for himself and Mr. DeWine) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by them to the bill (H.R. 2466) making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes; 
as follows:

       On page 10, line 23, strike ``River:'' and insert ``River, 
     of which $400,000 shall be available for grants under the 
     Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Program, and of 
     which $114,280,000 shall be available for general 
     administration:''.
                                 ______
                                 

                       GORTON AMENDMENT NO. 1357

  Mr. GORTON proposed an amendment to the bill, H.R. 2466, supra; as 
follows:

       Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     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

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     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.

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                         National Park Service


                 operation of the national park system

       For expenses necessary for the management, operation, and 
     maintenance of areas and facilities administered by the 
     National Park Service (including special road maintenance 
     service to 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

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     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

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     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

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     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.

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     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 
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     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.

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       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

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     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

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     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

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     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.

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                 National Endowment for the Humanities


                       grants and administration

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

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     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 
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     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. 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 
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       (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

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     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.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Department of the Interior 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000''.
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                 REED (AND KENNEDY) AMENDMENT NO. 1358

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. REED (for himself and Mr. Kennedy) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by them to the bill, H.R. 2466, supra; as 
follows:

       On page 94, line 7, strike ``$86,000,000'' and insert 
     ``$91,000,000''.
       On page 132, between lines 20 and 21, insert the following:
       Sec. 3. (a) The total discretionary amount made available 
     by this Act is reduced by $5,000,000: Provided, That the 
     reduction pursuant to this subsection shall be made by 
     reducing by a uniform percentage the amount made available 
     for travel, supplies, and printing expenses to the agencies 
     funded by this Act.
       (b) Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
     shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives and the Senate a listing, by account, of 
     the amounts of the reductions made pursuant to subsection 
     (a).
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                       GORTON AMENDMENT NO. 1359

  Mr. GORTON proposed an amendment to the bill, H.R. 2466, supra; as 
follows:

       On page 79, line 19 of the bill, strike ``under this Act or 
     previous appropriations Acts.'' and insert in lieu thereof 
     the following: ``under this or any other Act.''
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                 MURRAY (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 1360

  Mrs. MURRAY (for herself, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. Kerry) proposed an 
amendment to the bill, H.R. 2466, supra; as follows:

       On page 122, strike lines 1 through 15.
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                  REID (AND OTHERS) AMENDMENT NO. 1361

  Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Bryan) proposed an 
amendment to amendment No. 1360 proposed by Mrs. Murray to the bill, 
H.R. 2466, supra; as follows:

       In lieu of the language proposed to be stricken, insert:

     SEC.  . MILLSITES OPINION.

       (a) 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, for any fiscal year, 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 with respect to any patent application 
     grandfathered pursuant to Section 312 of this Interior 
     Appropriations Act of _; any operation or property for which 
     a plan of operations has been previously approved; any 
     operation or property for which a plan of operations has been 
     submitted to the Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service 
     prior to October 1, 2000; or any subsequent amendment or 
     modification to such approved or submitted plans.
       (b) No Ratification.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
     construed as an explicit or tacit adoption, ratification, 
     endorsement or approval of the opinion.
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                  LIEBERMAN AMENDMENTS NOS. 1362-1364

  (Ordered to lie on the table.)
  Mr. LIEBERMAN submitted three amendments intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill, H.R. 2466, supra; as follows:

                           Amendment No. 1362

       On page 18, line 16, strike ``$84,525,000'' and insert 
     ``$86,025,000''.
       On page 18, line 19, before the period, insert the 
     following: ``, and of which not less than $2,500,000 shall be 
     used to acquire the Weir Farm National Historic Site in 
     Connecticut''.
       On page 77, line 16, strike ``$390,975,000'' and insert 
     ``$389,475,000''.
       On page 77, line 19, before the colon, insert the 
     following: ``, and of which not more than $30,796,000 shall 
     be used for exploration and production supporting research''.
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                           Amendment No. 1363

       On page 17, line 10, strike ``$42,412,000'' and insert 
     ``$43,912,000''.
       On page 17, line 14, before the period, insert the 
     following: ``, and of which not less than $1,500,000 shall be 
     used for the preservation of the Mark Twain House in 
     Connecticut''.
       On page 63, line 1, strike ``$1,239,051,000'' and insert 
     ``$1,237,551,000''.
       On page 63, line 6, before the period, insert the 
     following: ``: Provided, That, of the amounts made available 
     under this heading, not more than $227,400,000 may be used 
     for timber sales management''.
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                           Amendment No. 1364

       On page 18, line 16, strike ``$84,525,000'' and insert 
     ``$86,525,000''.
       On page 18, line 19, before the period, insert the 
     following: ``, and of which not less than $2,000,000 shall be 
     used to purchase 668 acres of land in Connecticut, known as 
     ``Trout Brook Valley'', from the Aspetuck Land Trust''.
       On page 63, line 1, strike ``$1,239,051,000'' and insert 
     ``$1,237,051,000''.
       On page 63, line 6, before the period, insert the 
     following: ``: Provided, That, of the amounts made available 
     under this heading, not more than $226,900,000 may be used 
     for timber sales management''.

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