[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 13450-13472]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
                                  2001

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
proceed to consideration of H.R. 4578, which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 4578), making appropriations for the 
     Department of the Interior and related agencies for the 
     fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other 
     purposes.

  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill which had been reported 
from the Committee on Appropriations, with an amendment to strike all 
after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic, as 
follows:

     That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department 
     of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management


                   management of lands and resources

       For expenses necessary for protection, use, improvement, 
     development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, 
     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)), 
     $693,133,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
     $3,898,000 shall be available for assessment of the mineral 
     potential of public lands in Alaska pursuant to section 1010 
     of Public Law 96-487 (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of which not to 
     exceed $1,000,000 shall be derived from the special receipt 
     account established by the Land and Water Conservation Act of 
     1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)); and of which 
     $2,500,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2001 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 and such 
     funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as a lump sum grant 
     without regard to when expenses are incurred; in addition, 
     $34,328,000 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 
     $693,133,000, 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, $292,679,000, to 
     remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
     $9,300,000 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, $15,360,000, 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), $145,000,000, 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, $10,600,000, to be derived from the Land and Water 
     Conservation Fund, to remain available until expended.


                   oregon and california grant lands

       For expenses necessary for management, protection, and 
     development of resources and for construction, operation, and 
     maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and other 
     improvements on the revested Oregon and California Railroad 
     grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon and 
     California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adjacent 
     rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests therein 
     including existing connecting roads on or adjacent to such 
     grant lands; $104,267,000, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all 
     receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested 
     Oregon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made a 
     charge against the Oregon and California land-grant fund and 
     shall be transferred to the General Fund in the Treasury in 
     accordance with the second paragraph of subsection (b) of 
     title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876).


               forest ecosystems health and recovery fund

                   (revolving fund, special account)

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


                           range improvements

       For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands 
     and interests therein, and improvement

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     of Federal rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal 
     Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), 
     notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent of 
     all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 
     sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315 et 
     seq.) and the amount designated for range improvements from 
     grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-Jones 
     lands transferred to the Department of the Interior pursuant 
     to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall 
     be available for administrative expenses.


               service charges, deposits, and forfeitures

       For administrative expenses and other costs related to 
     processing application documents and other authorizations for 
     use and disposal of public lands and resources, for costs of 
     providing copies of official public land documents, for 
     monitoring construction, operation, and termination of 
     facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for 
     rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
     collected under Public Law 94-579, as amended, and Public Law 
     93-153, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section 
     305(a) of Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys 
     that have been or will be received pursuant to that section, 
     whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, 
     if not appropriate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of 
     that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be 
     expended under the authority of this Act by the Secretary to 
     improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands 
     administered through the Bureau of Land Management which have 
     been damaged by the action of a resource developer, 
     purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, without 
     regard to whether all moneys collected from each such action 
     are used on the exact lands damaged which led to the action: 
     Provided further, That any such moneys that are in excess of 
     amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land for which 
     funds were collected may be used to repair other damaged 
     public lands.


                       miscellaneous trust funds

       In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under 
     existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as 
     may be contributed under section 307 of the Act of October 
     21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and such amounts as may be 
     advanced for administrative costs, surveys, appraisals, and 
     costs of making conveyances of omitted lands under section 
     211(b) of that Act, to remain available until expended.


                       administrative provisions

       Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management shall be 
     available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of 
     temporary structures, and alteration and maintenance of 
     necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the 
     United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at the 
     discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence 
     concerning violations of laws administered by the Bureau; 
     miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement 
     activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be 
     accounted for solely on his certificate, not to exceed 
     $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the 
     Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and partnership 
     arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services 
     from cooperators in connection with jointly produced 
     publications for which the cooperators share the cost of 
     printing either in cash or in services, and the Bureau 
     determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted 
     quality standards.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service


                          resource management

       For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 
     Wildlife Service, for scientific and economic studies, 
     conservation, management, investigations, protection, and 
     utilization of fishery and wildlife resources, except whales, 
     seals, and sea lions, maintenance of the herd of long-horned 
     cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, general 
     administration, and for the performance of other authorized 
     functions related to such resources by direct expenditure, 
     contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable 
     agreements with public and private entities, $758,442,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2002, except as 
     otherwise provided herein, of which not less than $2,000,000 
     shall be provided to local governments in southern California 
     for planning associated with the Natural Communities 
     Conservation Planning (NCCP) program and shall remain 
     available until expended: Provided, That not less than 
     $1,000,000 for high priority projects which shall be carried 
     out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by the Act 
     of August 13, 1970, as amended: Provided further, That not to 
     exceed $6,355,000 shall be used for implementing 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 subsection 
     (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii)): Provided further, 
     That of the amount available for law enforcement, up to 
     $400,000 to remain available until expended, may at the 
     discretion of the Secretary, be used for payment for 
     information, rewards, or evidence concerning violations of 
     laws administered by the Service, and miscellaneous and 
     emergency expenses of enforcement activity, authorized or 
     approved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on 
     his certificate: Provided further, That of the amount 
     provided for environmental contaminants, up to $1,000,000 may 
     remain available until expended for contaminant sample 
     analyses.


                              construction

       For construction, improvement, acquisition, or removal of 
     buildings and other facilities required in the conservation, 
     management, investigation, protection, and utilization of 
     fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisition of lands 
     and interests therein; $54,803,000, to remain available until 
     expended.


                            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, $46,100,000, to be derived 
     from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain 
     available until expended.


            cooperative endangered species conservation fund

       For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
     Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531-1543), as 
     amended, $26,925,000, to be derived from the Cooperative 
     Endangered Species Conservation Fund, to remain available 
     until expended.


                     national wildlife refuge fund

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


               north american wetlands conservation fund

       For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
     North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public Law 101-233, 
     as amended, $16,500,000, to remain available until expended.


              wildlife conservation and appreciation fund

       For necessary expenses of the Wildlife Conservation and 
     Appreciation Fund, $797,000, to remain available until 
     expended.


                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), $2,500,000, 
     to remain available until expended: Provided, That funds made 
     available under this Act and Public Law 105-277 for 
     rhinoceros, tiger, and Asian elephant conservation programs 
     are exempt from any sanctions imposed against any country 
     under section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2799aa-1).


                       administrative provisions

       Appropriations and funds available to the United States 
     Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for purchase of 
     not to exceed 79 passenger motor vehicles, of which 72 are 
     for replacement only (including 41 for police-type use); 
     repair of damage to public roads within and adjacent to 
     reservation areas caused by operations of the Service; 
     options for the purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each 
     option; facilities incident to such public recreational uses 
     on conservation areas as are consistent with their primary 
     purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, 
     buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the 
     Service and to which the United States has title, and which 
     are used pursuant to law in connection with management and 
     investigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, That 
     notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may, under 
     cooperative cost sharing and partnership arrangements 
     authorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators 
     in connection with jointly produced publications for which 
     the cooperators share at least one-half the cost of printing 
     either in cash or services and the Service determines the 
     cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: 
     Provided further, That the Service may accept donated 
     aircraft as replacements for existing aircraft: Provided 
     further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of the Interior may not spend any of the funds 
     appropriated in this Act for the purchase of lands or 
     interests in lands to be used in the establishment of any new 
     unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System unless the 
     purchase is approved in advance by the House and Senate 
     Committees on Appropriations in compliance with the 
     reprogramming procedures contained in Senate Report 105-56.

                         National Park Service


                 operation of the national park system

       For expenses necessary for the management, operation, and 
     maintenance of areas and facilities administered by the 
     National Park Service (including special road maintenance 
     service to trucking permittees on a reimbursable basis), and 
     for the general administration of the National Park Service, 
     including not less than $2,000,000 for high priority projects 
     within the scope of the approved budget which shall be 
     carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as authorized by 
     16 U.S.C. 1706, $1,443,795,000, of which $9,227,000 for 
     research, planning and interagency coordination in support of 
     land acquisition for Everglades restoration shall remain 
     available until expended, and of which not to exceed 
     $7,000,000, to remain available until expended, is to be 
     derived from the special fee account established pursuant to 
     title V, section 5201 of Public Law 100-203.


                  national recreation and preservation

       For expenses necessary to carry out recreation programs, 
     natural programs, cultural programs,

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     heritage partnership programs, environmental compliance and 
     review, international park affairs, statutory or contractual 
     aid for other activities, and grant administration, not 
     otherwise provided for, $58,209,000, of which $2,000,000 
     shall be available to carry out the Urban Park and Recreation 
     Recovery Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.).


                       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), $44,347,000, to be derived from the Historic 
     Preservation Fund, to remain available until September 30, 
     2002, of which $7,177,000 pursuant to section 507 of Public 
     Law 104-333 shall remain available until expended.


                              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, $207,079,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That $1,000,000 for the Great Falls 
     Historic District, $650,000 for Lake Champlain National 
     Historic Landmarks, and $365,000 for the U.S. Grant Boyhood 
     Home National Historic Landmark shall be derived from the 
     Historic Preservation Fund pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 470a.


                    land and water conservation fund

                              (rescission)

       The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2001 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 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 the statutory authority applicable to the 
     National Park Service, $87,140,000, to be derived from the 
     Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $40,000,000 is for the State assistance 
     program including $1,000,000 to administer the State 
     assistance program, and of which $10,000,000 may be for State 
     grants for land acquisition in the State of Florida: 
     Provided, That the Secretary may provide Federal assistance 
     to the State of Florida for the acquisition of lands or 
     waters, or interests therein, within the Everglades watershed 
     (consisting of lands and waters within the boundaries of the 
     South Florida Water Management District, Florida Bay and the 
     Florida Keys, including the areas known as the Frog Pond, the 
     Rocky Glades and the Eight and One-Half Square Mile Area) 
     under terms and conditions deemed necessary by the Secretary 
     to improve and restore the hydrological function of the 
     Everglades watershed: Provided further, That funds provided 
     under this heading for assistance to the State of Florida to 
     acquire lands within the Everglades watershed are contingent 
     upon new matching non-Federal funds by the State and shall be 
     subject to an agreement that the lands to be acquired will be 
     managed in perpetuity for the restoration of the Everglades: 
     Provided further, That none of the funds provided for the 
     State Assistance program may be used to establish a 
     contingency fund.


                       administrative provisions

       Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be 
     available for the purchase of not to exceed 340 passenger 
     motor vehicles, of which 273 shall be for replacement only, 
     including not to exceed 319 for police-type use, 12 buses, 
     and 9 ambulances: Provided, That none of the funds 
     appropriated to the National Park Service may be used to 
     process any grant or contract documents which 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; $847,596,000, of which $62,879,000 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 $1,525,000 
     shall remain available until expended for ongoing development 
     of a mineral and geologic data base; and of which $32,322,000 
     shall be available until September 30, 2002 for the operation 
     and maintenance of facilities and deferred maintenance; and 
     of which $147,773,000 shall be available until September 30, 
     2002 for the biological research activity and the operation 
     of the Cooperative Research Units: Provided, That none of 
     these funds provided for the biological research activity 
     shall be used to conduct new surveys on private property, 
     unless specifically authorized in writing by the property 
     owner: Provided further, That no part 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.

                      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; $134,010,000, of which $86,257,000, 
     shall be available for royalty management activities; and an 
     amount not to exceed $107,410,000, to be credited to this 
     appropriation and to remain available until expended, from 
     additions to receipts resulting from increases to rates in 
     effect on August 5, 1993, from rate increases to fee 
     collections for Outer Continental Shelf administrative 
     activities performed by the Minerals Management Service over 
     and above the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, and from 
     additional fees for Outer Continental Shelf administrative 
     activities established after September 30, 1993: Provided, 
     That to the extent $107,410,000 in additions to receipts are 
     not realized from the sources of receipts stated above, the 
     amount needed to reach $107,410,000 shall be credited to this 
     appropriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for 
     Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 
     1993: Provided further, That $3,000,000 for computer 
     acquisitions shall remain available until September 30, 2002: 
     Provided further, That funds appropriated under this Act 
     shall be available for the payment of interest in accordance 
     with 30 U.S.C. 1721(b) and (d): Provided further, That not to 
     exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses 
     related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 
     activities: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, $15,000 under this heading shall be 
     available for refunds of 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; 
     $100,801,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, 
     pursuant to regulations, may use directly or through grants 
     to States, moneys collected in fiscal year 2001 for civil 
     penalties assessed under section 518 of the Surface Mining 
     Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30

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     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, $201,438,000, 
     to be derived from receipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
     Fund and to remain available until expended; of which up to 
     $10,000,000, to be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of 
     the Fund, shall be for supplemental grants to States for the 
     reclamation of 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 $1,600,000 per State in 
     fiscal year 2001: Provided further, That of the funds herein 
     provided up to $18,000,000 may be used for the emergency 
     program authorized by section 410 of Public Law 95-87, as 
     amended, of which no more than 25 percent shall be used for 
     emergency reclamation projects in any one State and funds for 
     federally administered emergency reclamation projects under 
     this proviso shall not exceed $11,000,000: Provided further, 
     That prior year unobligated funds appropriated for the 
     emergency reclamation program shall not be subject to the 25 
     percent 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: Provided further, That from the funds provided 
     herein, in addition to the amount granted to the State of 
     Kentucky under Sections 402(g)(1) and 402(g)(5) of the 
     Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, an additional 
     $1,000,000 shall be made available to the State of Kentucky 
     to demonstrate reforestation techniques on abandoned coal 
     mine sites.

                        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, 
     $1,704,620,000, to remain available until September 30, 2002 
     except as otherwise provided herein, of which not to exceed 
     $93,225,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments and 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but not 
     limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as 
     amended, not to exceed $125,485,000 shall be available for 
     payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract 
     support costs associated with ongoing contracts, grants, 
     compacts, or annual funding agreements entered into with the 
     Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2001, as authorized by 
     such Act, except that tribes and tribal 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 up to 
     $5,000,000 shall be for the Indian Self-Determination Fund 
     which shall be available for the transitional cost of initial 
     or expanded tribal contracts, grants, compacts or cooperative 
     agreements with the Bureau under such Act; and of which not 
     to exceed $412,556,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-
     funded schools and other education programs shall become 
     available on July 1, 2001, and shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2002; and of which not to exceed $54,694,000 
     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 $43,160,000 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, 2002, may be transferred during fiscal year 
     2003 to an Indian forest land assistance account established 
     for the benefit of such tribe within the tribe's trust fund 
     account: Provided further, That any such unobligated balances 
     not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2003.


                              construction

       For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
     irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, and other 
     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, $341,004,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That such amounts as may be available for the 
     construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project may be 
     transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation: Provided further, 
     That not to exceed 6 percent of contract authority available 
     to the Bureau of Indian Affairs from the Federal Highway 
     Trust Fund may be used to cover the road program management 
     costs of the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds 
     provided for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 
     13 shall be made available on a nonreimbursable basis: 
     Provided further, That for fiscal year 2001, in implementing 
     new construction or facilities improvement and repair project 
     grants in excess of $100,000 that are provided to tribally 
     controlled grant schools under Public Law 100-297, as 
     amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use the 
     Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for 
     Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the 
     regulatory requirements: Provided further, That such grants 
     shall not be subject to section 12.61 of 43 CFR; the 
     Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and determine a 
     schedule of payments for the work to be performed: Provided 
     further, That in considering applications, the Secretary 
     shall consider whether the Indian tribe or tribal 
     organization would be deficient in assuring that the 
     construction projects conform to applicable building 
     standards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health and 
     safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(a), with 
     respect to organizational and financial management 
     capabilities: Provided further, That if the Secretary 
     declines an application, the Secretary shall follow the 
     requirements contained in 25 U.S.C. 2505(f): Provided 
     further, That any disputes between the Secretary and any 
     grantee concerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes 
     provision in 25 U.S.C. 2508(e).


 indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to 
                                indians

       For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and individuals 
     and for necessary administrative expenses, $35,276,000, to 
     remain available until expended; of which $25,225,000 shall 
     be available for implementation of enacted Indian land and 
     water claim settlements pursuant to Public Laws 101-618 and 
     102-575, and for implementation of other enacted water rights 
     settlements; of which $8,000,000 shall be available for 
     Tribal compact administration, economic development and 
     future water supplies facilities under Public Law 106-163; 
     and of which $1,877,000 shall be available pursuant to Public 
     Laws 99-264, 100-383, 100-580 and 103-402.


                 indian guaranteed loan program account

       For the cost of guaranteed loans, $4,500,000, as authorized 
     by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amended: Provided, 
     That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, 
     shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are 
     available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of 
     which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $59,682,000.
       In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     guaranteed loan programs, $488,000.


                       administrative provisions

       The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the operation of 
     Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative 
     agreements, compacts and grants, either directly or in 
     cooperation with States and other organizations.
       Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
     revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee and 
     insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program 
     account) shall be available for expenses of exhibits, and 
     purchase of not to exceed 229 passenger motor vehicles, of 
     which not to exceed 187 shall be for replacement only.
       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
     available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
     operations, pooled overhead general administration (except 
     facilities operations and maintenance), or provided to 
     implement the recommendations of the National Academy of 
     Public Administration's August 1999 report shall be available 
     for tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative 
     agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 
     provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal 
     Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-413).
       In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
     available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 
     distribution to other tribes, this action shall not diminish 
     the Federal Government's trust responsibility to that tribe, 
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     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. Funds made available under this Act may not 
     be used to establish a charter school at a Bureau-funded 
     school (as that term is defined in section 1146 of the 
     Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)), except that a 
     charter school that is in existence on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-
     funded school before September 1, 1999, may continue to 
     operate during that period, but only if the charter school 
     pays to the Bureau a pro-rata share of funds to reimburse the 
     Bureau for the use of the real and personal property 
     (including buses and vans), the funds of the charter school 
     are kept separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau 
     does not assume any obligation for charter school programs of 
     the State in which the school is located if the charter 
     school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded schools 
     sharing a campus with a charter school and performing 
     functions related to the charter school's operation and 
     employees of a charter school shall not be treated as Federal 
     employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United 
     States Code (commonly known as the ``Federal Tort Claims 
     Act''). Not later than June 15, 2001, the Secretary of the 
     Interior shall evaluate the effectiveness of Bureau-funded 
     schools sharing facilities with charter schools in the manner 
     described in the preceding sentence and prepare and submit a 
     report on the finding of that evaluation to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the Senate and of the House.

                           Department Offices

                            Insular Affairs


                       ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES

       For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under 
     the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
     $68,471,000, of which: (1) $64,076,000 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) $4,395,000 shall be available for 
     salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: 
     Provided, That all financial transactions of the territorial 
     and local 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 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, $64,019,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 may 
     be for official reception and representation expenses and of 
     which 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, 
     $40,196,000.

                      Office of Inspector General


                         Salaries and Expenses

                      office of inspector general

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
     $27,846,000.

             Office of Special Trustee for American Indians


                         federal trust programs

       For operation of trust programs for Indians by direct 
     expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and 
     grants, $82,628,000, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That funds for trust management improvements may be 
     transferred, as needed, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
     ``Operation of Indian Programs'' account and to the 
     Departmental Management ``Salaries and Expenses'' account: 
     Provided further, That funds made available to Tribes and 
     Tribal organizations through contracts or grants obligated 
     during fiscal year 2001, as authorized by the Indian Self-
     Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), shall 
     remain available until expended by the contractor or grantee: 
     Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the statute of limitations shall not commence to run on 
     any claim, including any claim in litigation pending on the 
     date of the 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 18 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

       For implementation of a program for consolidation of 
     fractional interests in Indian lands and expenses associated 
     with redetermining and redistributing escheated interests in 
     allotted lands by direct expenditure or cooperative 
     agreement, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended 
     and which may be transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
     and Departmental Management of which not to exceed $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 reservation to 
     implement the program to acquire fractional interests on 
     behalf of such tribe: Provided further, That the Secretary 
     may develop a reservation-wide system for establishing the 
     fair market value of various types of lands and improvements 
     to govern the amounts offered for acquisition of fractional 
     interests: Provided further, That acquisitions shall be 
     limited to one or more reservations as 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 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 (33 
     U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and the Act of July 27, 1990, as 
     amended (16 U.S.C. 19jj et seq.), $5,403,000, to remain 
     available until expended.


                       administrative provisions

       There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available 
     resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 aircraft, 10 of 
     which shall be for replacement and which may be obtained by

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     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 wildland 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 wildland fire operations 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 wildland fire operations, such 
     reimbursement to be credited to appropriations currently 
     available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided further, 
     That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall be made 
     available under this authority until the Secretary determines 
     that funds appropriated for ``wildland fire operations'' 
     shall be exhausted within thirty days: Provided further, That 
     all funds used pursuant to this section are hereby designated 
     by Congress to be ``emergency requirements'' pursuant to 
     section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985, and must be replenished by a 
     supplemental appropriation which must be requested as 
     promptly as possible: Provided further, That such 
     replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata 
     basis, accounts 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. Annual 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 12 
     months beginning at any time during the fiscal year.
       Sec. 107. No funds provided in this title may be expended 
     by the Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore 
     leasing 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. 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. 113. 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. 114. 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. 115. 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. 116. A grazing permit or lease that expires (or is 
     transferred) during fiscal year 2001 shall be renewed under 
     section 402 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
     1976, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1752) or if applicable, section 
     510 of the California Desert Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 
     410aaa-50). The terms and conditions contained in the 
     expiring permit or lease shall continue in effect under the 
     new permit or lease until such time as the Secretary of the 
     Interior completes processing of such permit or lease in 
     compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, at which 
     time such permit or lease may be canceled, suspended or 
     modified, in whole or in part, to meet the requirements of 
     such applicable laws and regulations. Nothing in this section 
     shall be deemed to alter the Secretary's statutory authority.
       Sec. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     the purpose of reducing the backlog of Indian probate cases 
     in the Department of the Interior, the hearing requirements 
     of chapter 10 of title 25, United States Code, are deemed 
     satisfied by a proceeding conducted by an Indian probate 
     judge, appointed by the Secretary without regard to the 
     provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing the 
     appointments in the competitive service, for such period of 
     time as the Secretary determines necessary: Provided, That 
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     judge so appointed may be fixed by the Secretary without 
     regard to the provisions of chapter 51, and subchapter III of 
     chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, governing the 
     classification and pay of General Schedule employees, except 
     that no such Indian probate judge may be paid at a level 
     which exceeds the maximum rate payable for the highest grade 
     of the General Schedule, including locality pay.
       Sec. 118. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     with respect to amounts made available for tribal priority 
     allocations in Alaska, such amounts shall only be provided to 
     tribes the membership of which on June 1, 2000 is composed of 
     at least 25 individuals who are Natives (as such term is 
     defined in section 3(b) of the Alaska Native Claims 
     Settlement Act).
       (b) Amounts that would have been made available for tribal 
     priority allocations in Alaska but for the limitation 
     contained in subsection (a) shall be provided to the 
     respective Alaska Native regional nonprofit corporation (as 
     listed in section 103(a)(2) of Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 
     2159) for the respective region in which a tribe subject to 
     subsection (a) is located, notwithstanding any resolution 
     authorized under federal law to the contrary.
       Sec. 119. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
     establish a new National Wildlife Refuge in the Kankakee 
     River basin that is inconsistent with the United States Army 
     Corps of Engineers' efforts to control flooding and siltation 
     in that area. Written certification of consistency shall be 
     submitted to the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations prior to refuge establishment.
       Sec. 120. (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. 121. 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. 122. None of the funds provided in this Act may be 
     used by the Department of the Interior to implement the 
     provisions of Principle 3(C)ii and Appendix section 3(B)(4) 
     in Secretarial Order 3206, entitled ``American Indian Tribal 
     Rights, Federal-Tribal Trust Responsibilities, and the 
     Endangered Species Act''.
       Sec. 123. No funds appropriated for the Department of the 
     Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used to study 
     or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or to reduce the 
     water level of the lake below the range of water levels 
     required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam.
       Sec. 124. Funds appropriated for the Bureau of Indian 
     Affairs for postsecondary schools for fiscal year 2001 shall 
     be allocated among the schools proportionate to the unmet 
     need of the schools as determined by the Postsecondary 
     Funding Formula adopted by the Office of Indian Education 
     Programs.
       Sec. 125. On the date of enactment, the National Marine 
     Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
     shall continue consultation with the U.S. Army Corps of 
     Engineers to develop a comprehensive plan to eliminate 
     Caspian Tern nesting at Rice Island in the Columbia River 
     Estuary. The agencies shall develop a report on the 
     significance of tern predation in limiting salmon recovery 
     and their roles and recommendations for the Rice Island 
     colony relocation by March 31, 2001. This report shall 
     address all available options for successfully completing the 
     Rice Island colony relocation.
       Sec. 126. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 
     conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under the authority 
     provided by Public Law 104-134, as amended by Public Law 104-
     208, the Secretary may accept and retain land and other forms 
     of reimbursement: Provided, That the Secretary may retain and 
     use any such reimbursement until expended and without further 
     appropriation: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife 
     Refuge System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all 
     activities authorized by Public Law 100-696; 16 U.S.C. 460zz.
       Sec. 127. Section 112 of Public Law 103-138 (107 Stat. 
     1399) is amended by striking ``permit LP-GLBA005-93'' and 
     inserting ``permit LP-GLBA005-93 and in connection with a 
     corporate reorganization plan, the entity that, after the 
     corporate reorganization, holds entry permit CP-GLBA004-00 
     each''.
       Sec. 128. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of the Interior shall designate Anchorage, Alaska, 
     as a port of entry for the purpose of section 9(f)(1) of the 
     Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1538(f)(1)).
       Sec. 129. (a) The first section of Public Law 92-501 (86 
     Stat. 904) is amended by inserting after the first sentence 
     ``The park shall also include the land as generally depicted 
     on the map entitled `subdivision of a portion of U.S. Survey 
     407, Tract B, dated May 12, 2000' ''.
       (b) Section 3 of Public Law 92-501 is amended to read as 
     follows: ``There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
     as are necessary to carry out the terms of this Act.''.

                       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, $221,966,000, 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, $226,266,000, 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, $1,233,824,000, to 
     remain available until expended, which shall include 50 
     percent of all moneys received during prior fiscal years as 
     fees collected under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act 
     of 1965, as amended, in accordance with section 4 of the Act 
     (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)): Provided, That unobligated balances 
     available at the start of fiscal year 2001 shall be displayed 
     by extended budget line item in the fiscal year 2002 budget 
     justification: Provided further, That of the amount available 
     for vegetation and watershed management, the Secretary may 
     authorize the expenditure or transfer of such sums as 
     necessary to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land 
     Management for removal, preparation, and adoption of excess 
     wild horses and burros from National Forest System lands: 
     Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall be allocated to the 
     Alaska Region, in addition to its normal allocation for the 
     purposes of preparing additional timber for sale, to 
     establish a 3-year timber supply and such funds may be 
     transferred to other appropriations accounts as necessary to 
     maximize accomplishment: Provided further, That of funds 
     available for Wildlife and Fish Habitat Management, $400,000 
     shall be provided to the State of Alaska for cooperative 
     monitoring activities, and of the funds provided for Forest 
     Products, $700,000 shall be provided to the State of Alaska 
     for monitoring activities at Forest Service log transfer 
     facilities, both in the form of an advance, direct lump sum 
     payment.


                        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, $618,500,000, 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 not 
     less than 50 percent of any unobligated balances remaining 
     (exclusive of amounts for hazardous fuels reduction) at the 
     end of fiscal year 2000 shall be transferred, as repayment 
     for post advances that have not been repaid, to the fund 
     established pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 71-319 (16 
     U.S.C. 576 et seq.): Provided further, That notwithstanding 
     any other provision of law, up to $5,000,000 of funds 
     appropriated under this appropriation may be used for Fire 
     Science Research in support of the Joint Fire Science 
     Program: Provided further, That all authorities for the use 
     of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and 
     cooperative agreements, available to execute the Forest 
     Service and Rangeland Research appropriation, are also 
     available in the utilization of these funds for Fire Science 
     Research.
       For an additional amount to cover necessary expenses for 
     emergency rehabilitation, presuppression due to emergencies, 
     and wildfire suppression activities of the Forest Service, 
     $150,000,000, 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 
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     amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined 
     in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the 
     Congress.


                  capital improvement and maintenance

       For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
     provided for, $448,312,000, 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 $5,000,000 of the funds provided herein for roads shall 
     be for the purposes of section 502(e) of Public Law 15-83: 
     Provided further, 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 unobligated balances of 
     amounts previously appropriated to the Forest Service 
     ``Reconstruction and Construction'' account as well as any 
     unobligated balances remaining in the ``National Forest 
     System'' account for the facility maintenance and trail 
     maintenance extended budget line items may be transferred to 
     and merged with the ``Capital Improvement and Maintenance'' 
     account.


                            land acquisition

       For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
     Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
     U.S.C. 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, $76,320,000, to be derived from the Land and 
     Water Conservation Fund, to remain available until expended: 
     Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 
     the funds provided not less than $5,000,000 but not to exceed 
     $10,000,000 shall be made available to Kake Tribal 
     Corporation to implement the Kake Tribal Corporation Land 
     Transfer Act upon its enactment into law.


         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, $1,068,000, to be derived 
     from forest receipts.


            acquisition of lands to complete land exchanges

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


                         Range Betterment Fund

       For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, 
     and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received during the 
     prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on 
     lands in National Forests in the 16 Western States, pursuant 
     to section 401(b)(1) of Public Law 94-579, as amended, to 
     remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 6 
     percent shall be available for administrative expenses 
     associated with on-the-ground range rehabilitation, 
     protection, and improvements.


    Gifts, Donations and Bequests for Forest and Rangeland Research

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


        Management of National Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses

                 subsistence management, forest service

       For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage 
     federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII 
     of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
     (Public Law 96-487), $5,500,000, to remain available until 
     expended.


               ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE

       Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal 
     year shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to exceed 
     132 passenger motor vehicles of which 13 will be used 
     primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which 129 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 six for replacement only, and acquisition of 
     sufficient aircraft from excess sources to maintain the 
     operable fleet at 192 aircraft for use in Forest Service 
     wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs; 
     notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 
     being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in 
     value used to offset the purchase price for the 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 if and only if all previously appropriated 
     emergency contingent funds under the heading ``Wildland Fire 
     Management'' have been released by the President and 
     apportioned.
       Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
     for assistance to or through the Agency for International 
     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 No. 105-
     163.
       None of the funds available to the Forest Service may be 
     reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the 
     procedures contained in House Report No. 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 $2,000,000 for high 
     priority projects within the scope of the approved budget 
     which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as 
     authorized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended by 
     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 
     the 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, 
     $2,650,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service shall 
     be available for matching funds to the National Fish and 
     Wildlife Foundation, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3701-3709, 
     and may be advanced in a lump sum as Federal financial 
     assistance, without regard to when expenses are incurred, for 
     projects on or benefitting National Forest System lands or 
     related to Forest Service programs: Provided, That the 
     Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal 
     financial assistance, private contributions to match on at 
     least one-for-one basis funds advanced by the Forest Service: 
     Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Federal 
     funds to a non-Federal recipient for a project at the same 
     rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 
     funds.
       Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
     for interactions with and providing technical assistance to 
     rural communities for sustainable rural development purposes.
       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 80 percent of 
     the funds appropriated to the Forest Service in the 
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     ``Capital Improvement and Maintenance'' accounts and planned 
     to be allocated to activities under the ``Jobs in the Woods'' 
     program for projects on National Forest land in the State of 
     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).
       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
     appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service not 
     to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Office of the 
     General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agriculture, for travel 
     and related expenses incurred as a result of OGC assistance 
     or participation requested by the Forest Service at meetings, 
     training sessions, management reviews, land purchase 
     negotiations and similar non-litigation related matters. 
     Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service and 
     the Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums 
     previously transferred and the requested funding transfers.
       No employee of the Department of Agriculture may be 
     detailed or assigned from an agency or office funded by this 
     Act to any other agency or office of the department for more 
     than 30 days unless the individual's employing agency or 
     office is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or office 
     for the salary and expenses of the employee for the period of 
     assignment.
       The Forest Service shall fund 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, That during 
     fiscal year 2001 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.
       Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service 
     may be used for necessary expenses in the event of law 
     enforcement emergencies as necessary to protect natural 
     resources and public or employee safety: Provided, That such 
     amounts shall not exceed $750,000.
       The Secretary of Agriculture shall pay $4,449 from 
     available funds to Joyce Liverca as reimbursement for various 
     expenses incurred as a Federal employee in connection with 
     certain high priority duties performed for the Forest 
     Service.
       The Forest Service shall submit a report to the House and 
     Senate Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 2001 
     indicating the anticipated timber offer level in fiscal year 
     2001 with the funds provided in this Act: Provided, That if 
     the anticipated offer level is less than 3.6 billion board 
     feet, the agency shall submit a reprogramming request to 
     attain this offer level by the close of fiscal year 2001.
       Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $150,000 
     shall be made available in the form of an advanced, direct 
     lump sum payment to the Society of American Foresters to 
     support conservation education purposes in collaboration with 
     the Forest Service.
       The Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the sale of 
     excess buildings, facilities, and other properties owned by 
     the Forest Service and located on the Green Mountain National 
     Forest, the revenues of which shall be retained by the Forest 
     Service and available to the Secretary without further 
     appropriation and until expended for maintenance and 
     rehabilitation activities on the Green Mountain National 
     Forest.

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


                         Clean Coal Technology

                               (deferral)

       Of the funds made available under this heading for 
     obligation in prior years, $67,000,000 shall not be available 
     until October 1, 2001: Provided, That funds made available in 
     previous 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

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy 
     research and development activities, under the authority of 
     the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), 
     including the acquisition of interest, including defeasible 
     and equitable interests in any real property or any facility 
     or for plant or facility acquisition or expansion, and for 
     conducting inquiries, technological 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 $413,338,000, to 
     remain available until expended, of which $12,000,000 for oil 
     technology research shall be derived by transfer from funds 
     appropriated in prior years under the heading ``Strategic 
     Petroleum Reserve, SPR Petroleum Account'': 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: Provided further, That up to 4 percent of program 
     direction funds available to the National Energy Technology 
     Laboratory may be used to support Department of Energy 
     activities not included in this account.


                      Alternative Fuels Production

                              (rescission)

       Of the unobligated balances under this heading, $1,000,000 
     are rescinded.


                 Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves

                              (rescission)

       Of the amounts previously appropriated under this heading, 
     $7,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, That the requirements of 
     10 U.S.C. 7430(b)(2)(B) shall not apply to fiscal year 2001 
     and any fiscal year thereafter: Provided further, 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.


                      Elk Hills School Lands Fund

       For necessary expenses in fulfilling installment payments 
     under the Settlement Agreement entered into by the United 
     States and the State of California on October 11, 1996, as 
     authorized by section 3415 of Public Law 104-106, 
     $36,000,000, to become available on October 1, 2001 for 
     payment to the State of California for the State Teachers' 
     Retirement Fund from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund.


                          Energy Conservation

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For necessary expenses in carrying out energy conservation 
     activities, $761,937,000, to remain available until expended, 
     of which $2,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from 
     unobligated balances in the Biomass Energy Development 
     account: Provided, That $172,000,000 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: 
     $138,000,000 for weatherization assistance grants and 
     $34,000,000 for State energy conservation grants: Provided 
     further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of Energy may waive the matching requirement for 
     weatherization assistance provided for by Public Law 106-113 
     in whole or in part for a State which he finds to be 
     experiencing fiscal hardship or major changes in energy 
     markets or suppliers or other temporary limitations on its 
     ability to provide matching funds, provided that the State is 
     demonstrably engaged in continuing activities to secure non-
     federal resources and that such waiver is limited to one 
     fiscal year and that no state may be granted such waiver more 
     than twice: Provided further, That Indian tribal grantees of 
     weatherization assistance shall not be required to provide 
     matching funds.


                          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

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     Act of 1975, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.), 
     $157,000,000, to remain available until expended.


                   Energy Information Administration

       For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of 
     the Energy Information Administration, $74,000,000, 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, $2,184,421,000, 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 $426,756,000 for 
     contract medical care shall remain available for obligation 
     until September 30, 2002: 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 1-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, 2002: Provided further, That amounts received 
     by tribes and tribal organizations under title IV of the 
     Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall be reported and 
     accounted for and available to the receiving tribes and 
     tribal organizations until expended: Provided further, That, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the amounts 
     provided herein, not to exceed $243,781,000 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 2001, of which not to 
     exceed $10,000,000 may be used for such costs associated with 
     new and expanded contracts, grants, self-governance compacts 
     or annual funding agreements: Provided further, That amounts 
     appropriated to the Indian Health Service shall not be used 
     to pay for contract health services in excess of the 
     established Medicare and Medicaid rate for similar services: 
     Provided further, That Indian tribes and tribal organizations 
     that operate health care programs under contracts or compacts 
     pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
     Assistance Act of 1975, Public Law 93-638, as amended, may 
     access prime vendor rates for the cost of pharmaceutical 
     products on the same basis and for the same purposes as the 
     Indian Health Service may access such products: Provided 
     further, That funds available for the Indian Health Care 
     Improvement Fund may be used, as needed, to carry out 
     activities typically funded under the Indian Health 
     Facilities account.


                        Indian Health Facilities

       For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, and 
     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, $349,350,000, 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: 
     Provided further, That from the funds appropriated herein, 
     $5,000,000 shall be designated by the Indian Health Service 
     as a contribution to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation 
     (YKHC) to start a priority project for the acquisition of 
     land, planning, design and construction of 79 staff quarters 
     at Bethel, Alaska, subject to a negotiated project agreement 
     between the YKHC and the Indian Health Service: Provided 
     further, That this project shall not be subject to the 
     construction provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and 
     Education Assistance Act and shall be removed from the Indian 
     Health Service priority list upon completion: Provided 
     further, That the Federal Government shall not be liable for 
     any property damages or other construction claims that may 
     arise from YKHC undertaking this project: Provided further, 
     That the land shall be owned or leased by the YKHC and title 
     to quarters shall remain vested with the YKHC: Provided 
     further, That notwithstanding any provision of law governing 
     Federal construction, $240,000 of the funds provided herein 
     shall be provided to the Hopi Tribe to reduce the debt 
     incurred by the Tribe in providing staff quarters to meet the 
     housing needs associated with the new Hopi Health Center: 
     Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall remain available 
     until expended for the purpose of funding joint venture 
     health care facility projects authorized under the Indian 
     Health Care Improvement Act, as amended: Provided further, 
     That priority, by rank order, shall be given to tribes with 
     outpatient projects on the existing Indian Health Services 
     priority list that have Service-approved planning documents, 
     and can demonstrate by March 1, 2001, the financial 
     capability necessary to provide an appropriate facility: 
     Provided further, That joint venture funds unallocated after 
     March 1, 2001, shall be made available for joint venture 
     projects on a competitive basis giving priority to tribes 
     that currently have no existing Federally-owned health care 
     facility, have planning documents meeting Indian Health 
     Service requirements prepared for approval by the Service and 
     can demonstrate the financial capability needed to provide an 
     appropriate facility: Provided further, That the Indian 
     Health Service shall request additional staffing, operation 
     and maintenance funds for these facilities in future budget 
     requests: Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall 
     be used by the Indian Health Service to purchase TRANSAM 
     equipment from the Department of Defense for distribution to 
     the Indian Health Service and tribal facilities: Provided 
     further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be used by the 
     Indian Health Service to obtain ambulances for the Indian 
     Health Service and tribal facilities in conjunction with an 
     existing interagency agreement between the Indian Health 
     Service and the General Services Administration: Provided 
     further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be placed in a 
     Demolition Fund, available until expended, to be used by the 
     Indian Health Service for demolition of Federal buildings.


            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

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

                         OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

              Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and Hopi 
     Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93-531, 
     $15,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
     That funds provided in this or any other appropriations Act 
     are to be used to relocate eligible individuals and groups 
     including evictees from District 6, Hopi-partitioned lands 
     residents, those in significantly substandard housing, and 
     all others certified as eligible and not included in the 
     preceding categories: Provided further, That none of the 
     funds contained in this or any other Act may be used by the 
     Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any 
     single Navajo or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, 
     was physically domiciled on the lands partitioned to the Hopi 
     Tribe unless a new or replacement home is provided for such 
     household: Provided further, That no relocatee will be 
     provided with more than one new or replacement home: Provided 
     further, That the Office shall relocate any certified 
     eligible relocatees who have selected and received an 
     approved homesite on the Navajo reservation or selected a 
     replacement residence off the Navajo reservation or on the 
     land acquired pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 640d-10.

    Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
                              Development


                        Payment to the Institute

       For payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska 
     Native Culture and Arts Development, as authorized by title 
     XV of Public Law 99-498, as amended (20 U.S.C. 56 part A), 
     $4,125,000.

                        Smithsonian Institution


                         Salaries and Expenses

       For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, as 
     authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, 
     science, and history; development, preservation, and 
     documentation of the National Collections; presentation of 
     public exhibits and 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 five 
     replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, repair, and 
     cleaning of uniforms for employees, $387,755,000, of which 
     not to exceed $47,088,000 for the instrumentation program, 
     collections acquisition, Museum 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: Provided 
     further, That the Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal 
     appropriations designated in this Act for lease or rent 
     payments for long term and swing space, as rent payable to 
     the Smithsonian Institution, and such rent payments may be 
     deposited into the general trust funds of the Institution to 
     the extent that federally supported activities are housed in 
     the 900 H Street, N.W. building in the District of Columbia: 
     Provided further, That this use of Federal appropriations 
     shall not be construed as debt service, a Federal guarantee 
     of, a transfer of risk to, or an obligation of, the Federal 
     Government: Provided further, That no appropriated funds may 
     be used to service debt which is incurred to finance the 
     costs of acquiring the 900 H Street building or of planning, 
     designing, and constructing improvements to such building.


            Repair, Restoration and Alteration of Facilities

       For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and 
     alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithsonian 
     Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized by 
     section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 
     including not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized by 
     5 U.S.C. 3109, $57,600,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $7,600,000 is provided for repair, 
     rehabilitation and alteration of facilities at the National 
     Zoological Park: Provided, That contracts awarded for 
     environmental systems, protection systems, and repair or 
     restoration of facilities of the Smithsonian Institution may 
     be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on the 
     basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.


                              Construction

       For necessary expenses for construction, $4,500,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

           administrative provisions, smithsonian institution

       None of the funds in this or any other Act may be used to 
     initiate the design for any proposed expansion of current 
     space or new facility without consultation with the House and 
     Senate Appropriations Committees.
       The Smithsonian Institution shall not use Federal funds in 
     excess of the amount specified in Public Law 101-185 for the 
     construction of the National Museum of the American Indian.
       None of the funds in this or any other Act may be used for 
     the Holt House located at the National Zoological Park in 
     Washington, D.C., unless identified as repairs to minimize 
     water damage, monitor structure movement, or provide interim 
     structural support.

                        National Gallery of Art


                         salaries and expenses

       For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery of 
     Art, the protection and care of the works of art therein, and 
     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, $64,781,000, 
     of which not to exceed $3,026,000 for the special exhibition 
     program shall remain available until expended.

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            repair, restoration and renovation of buildings

       For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and 
     renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 
     occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 
     otherwise, as authorized, $10,871,000, to remain available 
     until expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for 
     environmental systems, protection systems, and exterior 
     repair or renovation of buildings of the National 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 restoration 
     of the existing features of the building and site of the John 
     F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, $20,000,000, to 
     remain available until expended.

            Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars


                         salaries and expenses

       For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of 
     the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356) 
     including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
     authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $7,310,000.

           National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

                    National Endowment for the Arts


                       grants and administration

       For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation 
     on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 
     $105,000,000 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: Provided, That funds 
     previously appropriated to the National Endowment for the 
     Arts ``Matching Grants'' account may be transferred to and 
     merged with this account.

                 National Endowment for the Humanities


                       grants and administration

       For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation 
     on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 
     $104,604,000, shall be available to the National Endowment 
     for the Humanities for support of activities in the 
     humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act, and for 
     administering the functions of the Act, to remain available 
     until expended.


                            matching grants

       To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the 
     National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 
     1965, as amended, $15,656,000, to remain available until 
     expended, of which $11,656,000 shall be available to the 
     National Endowment for the Humanities for the purposes of 
     section 7(h): Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
     available for obligation only in such amounts as may be equal 
     to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises of 
     money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by 
     grantees of the Endowment 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, $24,907,000, to remain 
     available until expended.


                       Administrative Provisions

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

                        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 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), $3,189,000: 
     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, $6,500,000: 
     Provided, That all appointed members of the Commission will 
     be compensated at a rate not to exceed the daily equivalent 
     of the annual rate of pay for positions at level IV of the 
     Executive Schedule for each day such member is engaged in the 
     actual performance of duties.

                United States Holocaust Memorial Council


                       Holocaust Memorial Council

       For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Council, as 
     authorized by Public Law 96-388 (36 U.S.C. 1401), as amended, 
     $34,439,000, of which $1,900,000 for the museum's repair and 
     rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the museum's 
     exhibitions program shall remain available until expended.

                             Presidio Trust


                          Presidio Trust fund

       For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omnibus 
     Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, $23,400,000 
     shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to remain available 
     until expended. The Trust is authorized to issue obligations 
     to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 
     104(d)(3) of the Act, in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.

                     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. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
     plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified 
     as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located 
     on National Forest System or Bureau of Land Management lands 
     in a manner different than such sales were conducted in 
     fiscal year 2000.
       Sec. 308. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be obligated or expended by the National Park Service to 
     enter into or implement a concession contract which permits 
     or requires the removal of the underground lunchroom at the 
     Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
       Sec. 309. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used for the AmeriCorps program, 
     unless the relevant agencies of the Department of the 
     Interior and/or Agriculture follow appropriate reprogramming 
     guidelines: Provided, That if no funds are provided for the 
     AmeriCorps program by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
     Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2001, then none of the funds appropriated 
     or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for the 
     AmeriCorps programs.
       Sec. 310. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jersey City, New 
     Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent pedestrian use of 
     such bridge, when it is made known to the Federal official 
     having authority to obligate or expend such funds that such 
     pedestrian use is consistent with generally accepted safety 
     standards.
       Sec. 311. (a) Limitation of Funds.--None of the funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act 
     shall be obligated or expended to accept or process 
     applications for a patent for any mining or mill site claim 
     located under the general mining laws.
       (b) Exceptions.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall not 
     apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for 
     the claim concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with 
     the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all 
     requirements established under sections 2325 and 2326 of the 
     Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode 
     claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised 
     Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and 
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     for mill site claims, as the case may be, were fully complied 
     with by the applicant by that date.
       (c) Report.--On September 30, 2001, the Secretary of the 
     Interior shall file with the House 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. 312. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     amounts appropriated to or earmarked in committee reports for 
     the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service by 
     Public Laws 103-138, 103-332, 104-134, 104-208, 105-83, 105-
     277, and 106-113 for payments to tribes and tribal 
     organizations for contract support costs associated with 
     self-determination or self-governance contracts, grants, 
     compacts, or annual 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 2001 for such purposes, except that, for the Bureau 
     of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organizations may use 
     their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of 
     ongoing contracts, grants, self-governance compacts or annual 
     funding agreements.
       Sec. 313. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     fiscal year 2001 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. 314. 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. 315. All interests created under leases, concessions, 
     permits and other agreements associated with the properties 
     administered by the Presidio Trust shall be exempt from all 
     taxes and special assessments of every kind by the State of 
     California and its political subdivisions.
       Sec. 316. 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. 317. 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. 318. The National Endowment for the Arts and the 
     National Endowment for the Humanities are authorized to 
     solicit, accept, receive, and invest in the name of the 
     United States, gifts, bequests, or devises of money and other 
     property or services and to use such in furtherance of the 
     functions of the National 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. 319. (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, including urban minorities, who have 
     historically been outside the purview of arts and humanities 
     programs due to factors such as a high incidence of income 
     below the poverty line or to geographic isolation.
       (2) The term ``poverty line'' means the poverty line (as 
     defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and revised 
     annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the Community 
     Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) 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. 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 15 year 
     legally mandated date to revise before or during calendar 
     year 2001; 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 
     5-year program under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable 
     Resources Planning Act.
       Sec. 322. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
     support Government-wide administrative functions unless such 
     functions are justified in the budget process and funding is 
     approved by the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Sec. 323. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
     of the funds in this Act may be used for GSA 
     Telecommunication Centers or the President's Council on 
     Sustainable Development.
       Sec. 324. None of the funds in this Act may be used for 
     planning, design or construction of improvements to 
     Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House without the 
     advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
     Appropriations.
       Sec. 325. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2000 in the 
     roads and trails 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 2001, but the 
     projects may be completed in a subsequent fiscal year. Funds 
     shall not be expended under this section to replace funds 
     which would otherwise appropriately be expended from the 
     timber salvage sale fund. Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to exempt any project from any environmental law.
       Sec. 326. None of the funds provided in this or previous 
     appropriations Acts for the agencies funded by this Act or 
     provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United 
     States derived by the collection of fees available to the 
     agencies funded by this Act, shall be transferred to or used 
     to fund personnel, training, or other administrative 
     activities at the Council on Environmental Quality or other 
     offices in the Executive Office of the President for purposes 
     related to the American Heritage Rivers program.
       Sec. 327. Other than in emergency situations, none of the 
     funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone answering 
     machines during core business hours unless such answering 
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     promptly an individual on-duty with the agency being 
     contacted.
       Sec. 328. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be advertised 
     if the indicated rate is deficit when appraised under the 
     transaction evidence appraisal system using domestic Alaska 
     values for western red cedar: Provided, That sales which are 
     deficit when appraised under the transaction evidence 
     appraisal system using domestic Alaska values for western red 
     cedar may be advertised upon receipt of a written request by 
     a prospective, informed bidder, who has the opportunity to 
     review the Forest Service's cruise and harvest cost estimate 
     for that timber. Program accomplishments shall be based on 
     volume sold. Should Region 10 sell, in fiscal year 2001, the 
     annual average portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity 
     called for in the current Tongass Land Management Plan in 
     sales which are not deficit when appraised under the 
     transaction evidence appraisal system using domestic Alaska 
     values for western red cedar, all of the western red cedar 
     timber from those sales which is surplus to the needs of 
     domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made available to 
     domestic processors in the contiguous 48 United States at 
     prevailing domestic prices. Should Region 10 sell, in fiscal 
     year 2001, less than the annual average portion of the 
     decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the current 
     Tongass Land Management Plan in sales which are not deficit 
     when appraised under the transaction evidence appraisal 
     system using domestic Alaska values for western red cedar, 
     the volume of western red cedar timber available to domestic 
     processors at prevailing domestic prices in the contiguous 48 
     United States shall be that volume: (i) which is surplus to 
     the needs of domestic processors in Alaska; and (ii) is that 
     percent of the surplus western red cedar volume determined by 
     calculating the ratio of the total timber volume which has 
     been sold on the Tongass to the annual average portion of the 
     decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the current 
     Tongass Land Management Plan. The percentage shall be 
     calculated by Region 10 on a rolling basis as each sale is 
     sold (for purposes of this amendment, a ``rolling basis'' 
     shall mean that the determination of how much western red 
     cedar is eligible for sale to various markets shall be made 
     at the time each sale is awarded). Western red cedar shall be 
     deemed ``surplus to the needs of domestic processors in 
     Alaska'' when the timber sale holder has presented to the 
     Forest Service documentation of the inability to sell western 
     red cedar logs from a given sale to domestic Alaska 
     processors at price equal to or greater than the log selling 
     value stated in the contract. All additional western red 
     cedar volume 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. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
     be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or 
     orders for the purpose of implementation, or in preparation 
     for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted 
     on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference 
     of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on 
     Climate Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate 
     for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article 
     II, section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, 
     and which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25 
     of the Protocol.
       Sec. 330. The Forest Service, in consultation with the 
     Department of Labor, shall review Forest Service campground 
     concessions policy to determine if modifications can be made 
     to Forest Service contracts for campgrounds so that such 
     concessions fall within the regulatory exemption of 29 CFR 
     4.122(b). The Forest Service shall offer in fiscal year 2001 
     such concession prospectuses under the regulatory exemption, 
     except that, any prospectus that does not meet the 
     requirements of the regulatory exemption shall be offered as 
     a service contract in accordance with the requirements of 41 
     U.S.C. 351-358.
       Sec. 331. A project undertaken by the Forest Service under 
     the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program as authorized by 
     section 315 of the Department of the Interior and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1996, as amended, 
     shall not result in--
       (1) displacement of the holder of an authorization to 
     provide commercial recreation services on Federal lands. 
     Prior to initiating any project, the Secretary shall consult 
     with potentially affected holders to determine what impacts 
     the project may have on the holders. Any modifications to the 
     authorization shall be made within the terms and conditions 
     of the authorization and authorities of the impacted agency.
       (2) the return of a commercial recreation service to the 
     Secretary for operation when such services have been provided 
     in the past by a private sector provider, except when--
       (A) the private sector provider fails to bid on such 
     opportunities;
       (B) the private sector provider terminates its relationship 
     with the agency; or
       (C) the agency revokes the permit for non-compliance with 
     the terms and conditions of the authorization.
     In such cases, the agency may use the Recreation Fee 
     Demonstration Program to provide for operations until a 
     subsequent operator can be found through the offering of a 
     new prospectus.
       Sec. 332. Section 801 of the National Energy Conservation 
     Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8287(a)(2)(D)(iii)) is amended by 
     striking ``$750,000'' and inserting ``$10,000,000''.
       Sec. 333. From the funds appropriated in Title V of Public 
     Law 105-83 for the purposes of section 502(e) of that Act, 
     the following amounts are hereby rescinded: $1,000,000 for 
     snow removal and pavement preservation and $4,000,000 for 
     pavement rehabilitation.
       Sec. 334. In section 315(f) of Title III of Section 101(c) 
     of Public Law 104-134 (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a note), as amended, 
     strike ``September 30, 2001'' and insert ``September 30, 
     2002'', and strike ``September 30, 2004'' and insert 
     ``September 30, 2005''.
       Sec. 335. None of the funds in this Act may be used by the 
     Secretary of the Interior to issue a prospecting permit for 
     hardrock mineral exploration on Mark Twain National Forest 
     land in the Current River/Jack's Fork River--Eleven Point 
     Watershed (not including Mark Twain National Forest land in 
     Townships 31N and 32N, Range 2 and Range 3 West, on which 
     mining activities are taking place as of the date of the 
     enactment of this Act): Provided, That none of the funds in 
     this Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to 
     segregate or withdraw land in the Mark Twain National Forest, 
     Missouri under section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and 
     Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1714).
       Sec. 336. 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 28 contracts 
     subject to the same terms and conditions as provided in that 
     section: Provided, That of the additional contracts 
     authorized by this section at least 9 shall be allocated to 
     Region 1 and at least 3 to Region 6.
       Sec. 337. Any regulations or policies promulgated or 
     adopted by the Departments of Agriculture or the Interior 
     regarding recovery of costs for processing authorizations to 
     occupy and use Federal lands under their control shall adhere 
     to and incorporate the following principle arising from 
     Office of Management and Budget Circular, A-25; no charge 
     should be made for a service when the identification of the 
     specific beneficiary is obscure, and the service can be 
     considered primarily as benefiting broadly the general 
     public.
       Sec. 338. 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. 339. None of the funds made available in this or any 
     other Act may be used by the Bureau of Land Management or the 
     U.S. Forest Service to assess, appraise, determine, proceed 
     to determine, or collect rents for right-of-way uses for 
     federal lands except as such rents have been or may be 
     determined in accordance with the linear fee schedule 
     published on July 8, 1997 ([43 CFR 2803.1-2(c)(1)(i)]).
       Sec. 340. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
     fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
     to limit competition for fire and fuel treatment and 
     watershed restoration contracts in the Giant Sequoia National 
     Monument and the Sequoia National Forest. Preference for 
     employment shall be given to dislocated and displaced workers 
     in Tulare, Kern and Fresno Counties, California, for work 
     associated with the establishment of the Sequoia National 
     Monument.
       Sec. 341. The Chief of the Forest Service, in consultation 
     with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, 
     shall prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis, in 
     accordance with chapter 6 of part I of title 5, United States 
     Code, of the impact of the White River National Forest Plan 
     on communities that are within the boundaries of the White 
     River National Forest.
       Sec. 342. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to finalize or implement 
     the published roadless area conservation rule of the Forest 
     Service published on May 10, 2000 (36 Fed. Reg. 30276, 
     30288), or any similar rule, in any inventoried roadless area 
     in the White Mountain National Forest.
       Sec. 343. From funds previously appropriated in Public Law 
     105-277, under the heading ``Department of Energy, Fossil 
     Energy Research and Development'', the Secretary of Energy 
     shall make available within 30 days after enactment of this 
     Act $750,000 for the purpose of executing proposal #FT40770.
       Sec. 344. (a) In addition to any amounts otherwise made 
     available under this Act to carry out the Tribally Controlled 
     College or University Assistance Act of 1978, $1,891,000 is 
     appropriated to carry out such Act for fiscal year 2001.
       (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
     amount of funds provided to a Federal agency that receives 
     appropriations under this Act in an amount greater than 
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     shall be reduced, on a pro rata basis, by an amount equal to 
     the percentage necessary to achieve an aggregate reduction of 
     $1,891,000 in funds provided to all such agencies under this 
     Act. Each head of a Federal agency that is subject to a 
     reduction under this subsection shall ensure that the 
     reduction in funding to the agency resulting from this 
     subsection is offset by a reduction in travel expenditures of 
     the agency.
       (c) Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Director 
     of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate a 
     listing of the amounts by account of the reductions made 
     pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Department of the Interior 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001''.

  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I am pleased to bring before the Senate 
the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 
2001. The bill totals $15.474 billion in discretionary budget 
authority, an amount that is more than $600 million over the current 
year level but almost $1 billion lower than the administration's budget 
request. The bill is right at its 302(b) allocation, and as such any 
amendments must be fully offset.
  Drafting this bill is always a great challenge, in large part because 
it funds programs and activities that have a direct and tangible impact 
on the constituents that we represent. This is particularly true for 
those of my colleagues from western States that contain large amounts 
of Federal and tribal lands. But aside from the usual challenges posed 
by the Interior bill, this year's version has been especially difficult 
given the lofty expectations raised by the administration's rather 
extravagant budget. The administration's request amounts to an increase 
of 11 percent overall--a hefty increase in light of our ongoing efforts 
to maintain some degree of control over Federal spending. The bill 
before the Senate contains a more reasonable increase of about 5 
percent--an amount that I think is appropriate as we attempt to fashion 
an overall budget that protects Social Security and Medicare, reduces 
the national debt, and provides for sensible tax relief.
  Despite the more modest funding levels contained in this bill, I can 
assure my colleagues that the bill is a responsible product that is 
responsive to the most pressing needs of the land management agencies; 
the agencies that provide health, education and other services to 
Indian people; the several cultural institutions under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction; and a number of Department of Energy 
programs that are particularly relevant today in light of the recent 
rise in gasoline prices.
  In drafting this bill in consultation with the ranking member of the 
subcommittee, Senator Byrd, I have followed a number of basic 
principles.
  First, the bill provides nearly 100 percent of the money required to 
fund increases in fixed costs such as pay and benefits. These are cost 
increases over which the subcommittee has little or no control. Failure 
to provide these funds simply means agencies must reduce services or 
program delivery from current year levels. For the Interior bill as a 
whole, these fixed cost increases total more than $300 million in FY 
2001. Providing this amount simply to maintain current levels of 
service takes a large bit out of the overall increase in the 
subcommittee's allocation.
  Second, I have placed a high priority in those agencies and functions 
for which the Federal Government has sole or primary responsibility. 
Providing for the core operating needs of the land management agencies 
continues to be a central priority in this bill. We have also tried to 
provide adequate sums for the operation and maintenance of the 
Smithsonian, the National Gallery, and the Kennedy Center--institutions 
that are our direct responsibility. Finally, we have done our very best 
to provide for the core needs of the Indian peoples for whom we have 
trust responsibility--partiuclarly in the area of health services and 
education.
  The third major principle that has guided me in developing this bill 
really flows from the second. For years, I have listened to Senator 
Domenici, Senator Dorgan, Senator Campbell, and others talk in 
hearings, markups, and casual conservation about the need for major 
investment in the construction and repair of Indian schools. I have 
been shown pictures of Indian schools in other States to which none of 
us would want to send our own children, and am aware of schools in my 
own State that are in desperate need of repair or replacement. Much 
like Department of Defense schools, these Indian schools are the direct 
responsibility of the Federal Government. In many cases, however, they 
look very little like Department of Defense schools, and are not in a 
condition that we would allow to occur within the DOD school system.
  As chairman of the Interior subcommittee, it has been frustrating to 
not be able to respond to such a pressing need in anything more than an 
incremental manner. But given the difficult spending constraints under 
which the committee has been operating for a number of years, it has 
been impossible to make significant progress on this issue without it 
being identified as a priority in administration budget requests. This 
year, however, the administration has responded to the pleas of my 
colleagues--a development that apparently was spurred by the 
President's recent visit to Indian country. The FY 2001 budget request 
includes dramatic increases for both new school construction and repair 
and rehabilitation of existing schools. While the bill before you does 
not provide 100 percent of the request, it does provide an increase of 
$143 million for BIA school construction and repair. This amount is 
enough to complete the next six schools on the construction priority 
list, as well as provide an $84 million increase for the repair and 
rehabilitation account. Maintaining these funding levels will be one of 
my highest priorities in conference with the House.
  Adhering to these fundamental principles while remaining within the 
subcommittee's 302(b) allocation did not leave a great deal of room for 
other program increases. As a result, there is perhaps less in this 
bill for land acquisition, grant programs, and specific member projects 
than some would like. I think, however, that the bill reflects the 
right set of priorities. I have attempted to allocate available 
resources to the most compelling needs identified in agency budget 
requests, as well as to the particular priorities identified to me in 
the more than 2,000 individual requests I have received from Members of 
this body. I regret not being able to do more of the things that my 
colleagues have asked me to do, but want to assure Members on both 
sides of the aisle that I have made every effort to treat these 
requests in a fair and even-handed manner.
  While I do not wish to belabor the details, I do want to take a 
moment to point out a few highlights of the bill for the benefit of my 
colleagues who have not had a chance to review it closely. For the land 
management agencies, the bill provides significant increases for core 
operational needs.
  The bill provides an increase of $80 million for operation of the 
National Park System, including more than $25 million for increases in 
the base operating budgets of more than 80 parks and related sites, 
including the U.S. Park Police. These increases build on similar 
increases that have been provided for the past several years. The bill 
also provides an increase of $11 million for the National Park Service 
to continue efforts to research and document fundamental scientific 
information on the biological, geological, and hydrological resources 
present in our park system.
  For the Bureau of Land Management, the bill fully funds the request 
for noxious weed control, fully funds the budget request for annual and 
deferred maintenance, and provides an increase of $7.2 million for 
recreation programs. The bill also provides a $10 million increase for 
Payments In Lieu of Taxes, continuing the committee's steady effort to 
raise PILT funding toward the authorized level.
  For the Forest Service, the bill provides increases of $10.5 million 
for recreation programs, and provides level funding for the timber 
program to prevent further erosion of timber offer levels. The bill 
also fully funds firefighting preparedness, provides all the

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funds requested to address survey and manage issues under the Northwest 
Forest Plan, and provides increases over the President's budget request 
for both road and trail maintenance.
  For the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the bill provides increases 
of $17 million for refuge operations and maintenance to continue 
efforts to bolster the Service's basic operational capabilities. The 
bill also includes increases of $15 million for endangered species 
accounts, and $5 million for law enforcement programs that have been 
flat-funded for a number of years.
  With respect to the cultural agencies funded in this bill, I am 
pleased to note that funding for the National Endowment for the Arts is 
increased by $7 million, and funding for the National Endowment for the 
Humanities is increased by $5 million. While these increases are fairly 
modest, they are indicative of the widespread support that these two 
agencies have within the Senate. The increases also reflect the degree 
to which the Endowments have responded to congressional concerns about 
the types of activities being funded, and the way in which project 
funding decisions are made. While last year we were not able to 
maintain the higher Senate funding levels in conference with the House, 
I fully intend to maintain the increases provided for the Endowments in 
the final FY 2001 bill. I will put the leadership of the other body on 
notice now that the Senate has no intention of receding on this matter.
  This bill also provides funding for a portion of the Department of 
Energy, including programs that support research on energy conservation 
and fossil energy development. This research is critical to reducing 
our Nation's dependence on foreign oil, and to reducing harmful 
emissions from vehicles, power plants and other sources. The bill 
provides targeted increases for the most effective of these programs. 
Of particular not is the $11 million increase over the request level 
for oil technology research and development. This program, which is 
designed to enhance oil production from domestic sources and to develop 
cleaner petroleum-based fuels, was inexplicably slated for a large 
reduction the administration's budget request. In light of the recent 
and alarming rise in the price of gasoline, such a reduction seems 
highly imprudent at this time. The bill also provides increases for 
research on cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles, including additional 
funding for the Partnership for a Next Generation of Vehicles. This 
program was eliminated by the other body during floor debate--something 
which also seems imprudent in light of our growing dependence on 
foreign oil, and the potentially disastrous impact that rising oil 
prices could have on our economy.
  Among the many Indian programs funded in this bill, I have already 
discussed the high priority that has been placed on education programs. 
The bill provides increases for other Indian programs, however, 
including an increase of $143 million for Indian Health Services. This 
amount includes a $41 million program increase for additional clinical 
services, a $20 million increase for contract health services, and a 
$25 million increase for facilities construction and improvement. The 
bill continues the committee's efforts to help the Department of the 
Interior reform its abysmal trust management system. As many of my 
colleagues are aware, the Department is making a concerted effort to 
deal with a trust management mess that has been building for decades, 
if not the entire 20th century. This bill provides the full 
administration request for the Office of Special Trustee, which is 
charged with overseeing the trust reform initiative. The bill also 
provides an increase of $12.5 million for trust reform activities 
within the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  On a more parochial level, I would like also to talk about what this 
bill means for the people of Washington State. The land management 
agencies funded through the Interior Appropriations bill have a 
dramatic impact on the ecological and economic health of the Pacific 
Northwest. With more than 25 percent of the land in Washington State 
owned by the Federal Government, I have taken a special interest in 
assuring that we have the resources and policies that promote 
recreational and economic opportunities, and environmental 
preservation.
  In preparing the FY 2001 Interior appropriations bill, I focused on 
three key issues for Washington State: restoring the health of our 
salmon runs, providing recreational opportunities, and promoting a 
clean Washington State.
  The salmon crisis has reached new heights in the past 6 months. While 
greeted by the good news that some returning Columbia River runs are at 
their highest levels in more than a decade, the cause of decline and 
the goals for recovery remain a mystery. The clash between local 
governments and the Federal agencies responsible for addressing the 
listing of these species has grown increasingly tense.
  Fortunately, most can agree that homegrown efforts to recover salmon 
will be the foundation for addressing the species' future. In this 
year's Interior bill, I have continued and increased the Federal 
Government's investment in funding volunteer salmon recovery groups 
that have the best track record for identifying and restoring crucial 
stream and river habitat for salmon.
  Increasingly, the role of fish hatcheries in the larger effort to 
restore naturally spawning runs of salmon has come under scrutiny. A 
group of key scientists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 
National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Indian Fisheries 
Commission, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have joined 
forces to develop standards for the more than 100 hatcheries located in 
the State. I have secured funding to continue this effort to redesign 
hatchery practices and retrofit the facilities to ultimately enhance 
salmon runs rather than detract from the larger recovery goals.
  The Northwest continues to be a hot spot for recreation. Whether you 
are a day hiker from downtown Seattle or a back country horseman from 
Okanogan, all of us have a desire to preserve and enhance the 
recreation opportunities on our public lands. This year, I have focused 
my attention on improving camping and hiking opportunities in the 
Middle Fork Snoqualmie Valley and preserving the history of Ebey's 
Landing on Whidbey Island.
  Finally, the health and beauty of our public lands are assets we 
cannot ignore. The diversity of wildlife that resides in our forests, 
refuges and parks must be preserved in the future. I have dedicated 
funding to acquiring key tracts of land that will provide connective 
habitat in the Cascade Range. Our children deserve a clean Washington 
State, and the fiscal year 2001 Interior appropriations bill makes a 
strong investment in the public lands we depend on for ecological and 
economic stability.
  In the interests of expediting debate on this bill, I will not spend 
more of the Senate's time describing its many noteworthy features. I 
do, however, wish to make one final observation regarding the bill as a 
whole. The bill will soon be open to amendment. Any Senator may offer 
an amendment to move funding from one program to another. Some of these 
proposals I may support, as I do not claim to know all there is to know 
about programs funded in this bill. Many such amendments I will oppose, 
however, because I think the bill before you represents an appropriate 
balance among competing priorities. But whatever the case, the point is 
that the process of amendment is available to us--to all Senators.
  The administration's budget request includes a proposal that would 
greatly diminish the right of Senators to offer amendments to change 
spending priorities in this bill. The ``Lands Legacy'' initiative would 
fence off a significant number of the programs in this bill and provide 
a set amount of funding for those programs. An amendment to move 
funding from this Lands Legacy pot to other programs would not be 
possible. For instance, one could not propose to shift funds from Urban 
and Community Forestry to Tribally Controlled Community Colleges, or 
from the Cooperative Endangered Species Fund to the National Park 
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individual Senators might think about such amendments, to prohibit the 
simple offering of the amendment is absurd. That is why the committee 
has rejected the administration proposal entirely. And that is why this 
Senator is vehemently opposing efforts being made elsewhere in Congress 
to take land acquisition and a handful of favored grant programs off 
budget, thereby preventing the Appropriations Committee and the Senate 
as a whole from weighing the merits of those programs against the other 
critical--but sometimes less visible or popular--activities funded in 
this bill.
  On one further matter, I know several of my colleagues have inquired 
about emergency items that were included in the supplemental portion of 
the Agriculture appropriations bill, but which were not included in the 
supplemental title of the military construction bill that was sent to 
the President prior to the recess. This category includes funding for 
hurricane damage to National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service facilities, and funding championed by Senator Grams that would 
address a major timber blowdown in Minnesota and Wisconsin. While I can 
not now say exactly how we will address these issues, I want to assure 
my colleagues that this senator is committed to seeing that these 
previously identified emergency needs are addressed.
  Before I turn to Senator Byrd for his opening remarks, I want to 
state for the record how much I continue to enjoy working with him in 
putting this bill together year after year. He is a forceful and 
eloquent advocate for the interests of the State of West Virginia, as 
well as for the interests of Members on his side of the aisle and I may 
say, my side of the aisle. He is always cognizant, however, of the need 
to put forward a well balanced bill that adequately addresses the 
pressing national priorities that come under the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction. It is a great pleasure to work with him and his able 
staff. I also want to thank my own staff for the many hours they have 
put into this bill. It is often a grueling process, and I know I speak 
for all Senators in expressing appreciation for the work that has been 
done to get us this far.
  With that, I will only add the comment that I hope we will be able to 
deal with this bill relatively promptly and deal with it within the 
parameters set by the bill itself. I think it is not nearly as 
controversial a proposal as sometimes has been the case in the past. 
The House has, of course, already passed its Interior appropriations 
bill, and I have every hope we can finish our task relatively promptly 
and send not only an acceptable but an absolutely first-rate bill to 
the President of the United States.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, it is a great pleasure to join with the 
distinguished Senator from Washington in presenting this bill. He is an 
extraordinarily fine chairman. I have chaired this subcommittee now 
for, oh, a good many years, but Senator Gorton is really one of the 
best subcommittee chairmen in this Senate. I say that without any 
hesitation. I have no compunctions about saying he is one of the finest 
chairmen with whom I have ever served in these 42 years in the Senate. 
I mean every word of it.
  I have found him always to be very courteous, very considerate, very 
cooperative; and he is this way with all Senators--not just with me but 
with all of our colleagues. I could not hope to have a better chairman 
than he. And if it were not for the honor that goes along with the 
chairmanship, I would just as soon he kept this. But there is a certain 
honor with it, so I look forward to the time when I will be chairman of 
the full committee and subcommittee again. But my hat is always off to 
this chairman, Senator Gorton.
  This is an important piece of legislation that provides for the 
management of our natural resources, undertakes important energy 
research, supports vital Indian health and education programs, and 
works to protect and preserve our national and cultural heritage. It is 
a bill on which Senator Gorton and I cooperate very closely on a 
bipartisan basis. We know no party in our relationship in this Senate. 
And that is said without any reservations whatsoever. There is no 
Republican Party, no Democratic Party where Slade Gorton and I are 
concerned in working on this subcommittee. And I can say the same with 
respect to the full committee with respect to Ted Stevens, the 
distinguished Senator from Alaska. There is no party line in that 
committee.
  The programs and activities funded under the jurisdiction of the 
subcommittee are treated in a fair and balanced way, as is customary 
for the annual Interior appropriations bills under the chairmanship of 
Senator Slade Gorton. He is one of the best--if not the best--
subcommittee chairman with whom I have had the opportunity to serve. 
The bill was reported unanimously by the committee, and I urge my 
colleagues to support its passage.
  I will not repeat the summary of the bill just provided by the 
subcommittee chairman, except to say that, as it currently stands, this 
measure provides $15.4 billion in new discretionary budget authority. 
This amount, while less than the administration's request, is 
nevertheless $628 million above last year's enacted level. The bill, as 
reported by the committee, has fully utilized the subcommittee's entire 
302(b) allocation of $15.4 billion in discretionary budget authority. 
Consequently, to remain consistent with the Budget Act, any amendments 
that propose increased funding will have to be fully offset.
  So if any Senator has any amendment in mind that seeks to add money, 
that Senator or his staff, or both, should busy themselves about 
finding an offset because Peter is going to have to pay Paul in this 
instance. It is going to come out of somebody's funding, and I am 
determined it will not be mine. So I suggest that Senators look for an 
offset because they have to have it.
  In terms of total spending, the Interior bill is by no means the 
largest of the 13 annual appropriations measures. Yet, despite its 
relatively modest size, the Interior appropriations bill commands 
significant attention from Members of the Senate. As is the case every 
year, the subcommittee received more than 2,000 Member requests seeking 
consideration of a particular project, or account, or activity under 
the jurisdiction of one agency or another in this bill. All of these 
requests are very important to our colleagues and the people that they 
represent. Unfortunately, because of the constrained spending level 
under the allocations provided to the Congress, it is not possible to 
adequately respond to all of these requests. That is what makes the 
crafting of this bill so difficult. Trying to balance the specific 
needs addressed by the Member requests on one hand, while remaining 
within the budgetary allocations on the other hand, is an arduous task, 
indeed--not as arduous, perhaps, as the problem that Solomon had, but 
sometimes I wonder.
  Nevertheless, it is our responsibility--the responsibility of our 
chairman and myself--to undertake that very difficult assignment, and I 
commend him for his splendid efforts in meeting the highest priority 
needs of all Senators. For months now, he has gone to great lengths to 
work with me and to keep me informed, and to work with my staff to keep 
my staff informed, of his recommendations throughout the process of 
marking up and reporting this bill. Throughout this process, Senator 
Gorton's graciousness--that word is key, ``graciousness''--and his 
dedication to duty have never wavered, and I am personally grateful to 
him for all his courtesies.
  I also express my appreciation to the fine staff members on the 
majority staff side, as well as members on the minority staff side. We 
have a new staff person on this side of the aisle--Peter Kiefhaber, 
German to the core, smart as they come, and hard working. That is what 
I like about him. He is hard working, he is courteous, and he is 
extremely efficient.
  So with that, I think I shall join my chairman in asking Senators, if 
they have them, to bring their amendments to the floor. It would be my 
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urge, with the approval of the chairman of the subcommittee, our floor 
staffs to contact Senators and see if they have any amendments. If they 
have them, let's draw up a list. Let's know which Senators have what 
amendments, and let's draw up a list. It would be my hope that at a 
time not too far away we could get unanimous consent that that be a 
finite list. Then we could go from there.
  But I will not suggest that at the moment. I have not discussed that 
with the chairman. Whenever he is ready to ask his staff on that side 
of the aisle, I will do the same over here. We will have our leadership 
make calls to Senators and let us know if we are to anticipate any 
problems from them. If we are to anticipate such, let us know about it. 
And because we do have other business, we must get on with it.
  I again thank my chairman, Mr. Gorton. I thank our staffs.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.
  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, once again, I thank my friend and 
colleague, Senator Byrd, not only for his kind words but substantively 
for the fact that I believe we have brought to the floor a bill that 
can command wide respect and that is not likely to be faced with 
profound amendments that change the direction or the philosophy of the 
bill itself.
  We have put together a list of rumored amendments as well as some en 
bloc amendments that we can accept in closing. It is relatively modest 
in length. It will be good if some of them can be brought today, of 
course, in the course of the next less than 2 hours. But I do hope that 
by tomorrow we will be in a position to get a unanimous consent 
agreement for a finite number of amendments and can develop a way in 
which to deal with them very promptly.
  The majority leader has told us how much he has to accomplish for the 
week. It will be a wonderful tribute to us, and a great help to us, if 
we are able to be in conference on this committee well before the week 
is over.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota is recognized.
  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Washington 
and Senator Byrd, who I know want to expedite the matter, for allowing 
me to speak about an amendment that I am now drafting. I want to make 
sure this works out well. This is in response to something, as the 
Senator mentioned, that is a priority for both myself and Senator 
Grams. What happened is that we in Minnesota were hit with a once-in-a-
thousand-years storm, literally. It was on July 4, 1999. Over 400,000 
acres in Minnesota were damaged, including the Boundary Waters Canoe 
Area Wilderness, as well as the Gunflint Corridor, in Superior National 
Forest. This started in the Boundary Waters Wilderness area, which is 
really a national treasure.
  What we are worried about is the blow-down to which Senator Gorton 
referred. We had a hearing in Grand Rapids on Friday. Senator Craig 
chaired the hearing, and I thought he did a superb job. Basically, what 
people are focused on right now is how to deal with this blow-down and 
the possibility of a conflagration. Everybody is very worried about 
what could happen. The Forest Service--I think there was also consensus 
on this--is doing a very good job. I think that is what people across 
the spectrum were saying.
  What happened is we had $9.2 million in emergency funding that came 
out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, however we lost much of 
that funding when the MILCON bill got put together. The funding went 
from $9.2 million to $2 million. This additional $7.2 million--and I 
know you heard from Senator Grams on this as well--is critically 
important to us. It is important also for some of the work that the 
Forest Service is trying to do just by way of education.
  It is incredible how few minor fires we have had; people have been 
paying very careful attention and are doing everything they can to 
prevent them. It also goes to the whole question of how we deal with 
the trees that are down and the underbrush and whether or not we can do 
the prescribed burns on what kind of schedule. This is critically 
important to my State of Minnesota.
  So what I want to do is take 10 minutes or so to outline what we are 
dealing with in Minnesota, and then I will have an amendment that I 
will send to the desk, or I can get it to staff and Senators and see 
whether we can just reach some agreement.
  Again, this was an unbelievable storm that hit our State. In many 
ways, what I think has happened is that it has brought Minnesotans 
together; it has brought the best out in people. We are talking about 
our beloved national forests. This is a critically important area; 
400,000 acres in 7 counties were hit by a storm that damaged as much as 
70 percent of the trees in certain areas and wiped out numerous rows. 
The damage of this storm has presented unbelievable challenges, not 
only to land managers but all Minnesotans--people who depend on the 
national forest for their jobs, family incomes, industrial materials 
such as paper and pulp, and family vacations and recreation.
  Mr. President, I do think that the Forest Service, as I said, has 
begun to implement a significant and important effort. In particular, 
what they are trying to deal with is the dead and downed timber, which 
is a great threat to people in the State, and really, I think, a great 
threat to the country because we are talking about a crown jewel 
wilderness area.
  My intention is to have an amendment--we are working on it right now, 
drafting it in such a way that we clearly make the case for emergency 
funding, which I think we can. We really should have had this 
additional money. I want to make sure it is OK with colleagues on both 
sides. And then later on maybe we will have a vote or maybe it can be 
accepted. I hope we can get an agreement on this amendment. I wanted to 
signal my intention to you and spell out what I want to do.
  Mr. President, I heard my colleague refer to this blow-down 
amendment. I wonder whether he might respond.
  Mr. GORTON. Will the Senator yield?
  Mr. WELLSTONE. Yes, but I would like to hold the floor a few more 
minutes. I yield temporarily.
  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, the emergency, the task, the unprecedented 
nature of the storm damage that is described by the Senator from 
Minnesota is absolutely correct. There is not a single thing he has 
said that meets with any resistance or disagreement on the part of this 
Senator.
  I wish that money had been included in the bill that is now law. As I 
believe the Senator knows, it remains in the Agriculture appropriations 
bill. I guess, procedurally at least, the principal challenge or 
principal question is which one of these two bills is going to get to 
the President and actually be signed first because I know the Senator 
from Minnesota wishes to have this money in hand.
  I make this suggestion to the Senator from Minnesota. If he would get 
together in just the next few hours or over the evening with the junior 
Senator from Minnesota and present us with a joint project, I will 
discuss the matter with Senator Byrd and with the leadership and tell 
the Senator that I think he is absolutely right; I want to get this job 
done as quickly as I possibly can. I will be delighted--and I am sure 
Senator Byrd will be delighted as well--to see to it that we do this in 
a way in which it becomes law and the money becomes available as 
quickly as possible.
  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I very much appreciate the Senator's 
comments. As far as I am concerned, this request should come from both 
Senators. I would be delighted if Senator Grams joined me. We will get 
the wording of the amendment to you. We will do this together. We want 
to just get it done for our State. I think the Senator from Washington 
can appreciate that sentiment. That is his modus operandi. I will let 
other Senators come forward with amendments now. I will get the 
amendment to you. We will have Senator Grams join in, and we will try 
to get it done on this bill.
  I yield the floor.
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  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I want to take a few minutes to talk 
about the energy conservation programs in this Interior appropriations 
bill that we are now considering. First, I want to thank Chairman 
Gorton and Senator Byrd for their fine work on this bill. In 
particular, I am very glad to see that funding for energy conservation 
is 5 percent above last year's level. I firmly believe that every 
dollar spent on research and development for energy efficiency pays 
back many times in the real value for the American consumer. These 
programs are saving the Nation an estimated $20 billion per year in 
energy costs at this time.
  I would like to focus my comments today on one particular program in 
the energy conservation budget, and that is, the Partnership for a New 
Generation of Vehicles. This is generally referred to as PNGV. It is a 
cost-shared, industry-government partnership.
  It is working to improve the fuel economy of passenger cars with the 
ultimate goal of developing midsized cars that will get up to 80 miles 
per gallon.
  Talking about energy efficiency in the transportation sector I 
believe is especially timely given the high gasoline prices that we are 
all concerned about throughout the Nation. I believe every Senator 
needs to understand why gasoline prices are rising, why the days of 
cheap oil are unlikely to return anytime soon, and why programs such as 
PNGV are so important to our economic competitors.
  During the last couple of weeks, we have heard a lot on the Senate 
floor about the decline in domestic oil production and various 
proposals to stimulate new production. But production is only one side 
of the coin. A far more important factor in the long-term increase in 
oil prices is the dramatic upsurge in worldwide demand for petroleum 
products. The steep increase in consumption here in the United States 
compounds the worldwide situation.
  Today, the U.S. transportation sector--this includes air, boat, rail, 
and highway travel, all of our transportation sector--is 95-percent 
dependent on oil. Transportation accounts for two-thirds of our 
Nation's oil consumption and a quarter of our total energy use. While 
over the last 25 years the residential, the commercial, and industrial 
sectors have all been able to reduce their dependence on oil, the 
transportation sector consumption of oil has skyrocketed.
  I show you this chart. This shows petroleum use increases mainly 
occurring in the transportation sector. This chart goes back 30 years--
from 1970 to the year 2000--and then forward for 20 years. If you look 
at these other areas, it tries to show the industrial use, and the 
residential, commercial, or electric generation use of petroleum 
products. They are all relatively stable. The increases are not 
excessive in those areas. In fact, there are declines in electric 
generation and residential and commercial. But in transportation the 
increase is very substantial.
  From the first gas price shock in 1973 until 1998, oil use for 
transportation grew an astounding 37 percent. If that is not bad 
enough, according to this chart from the Energy Information Agency--let 
me show you this second chart. The demand for oil in the transportation 
sector is anticipated to increase another 46 percent over the next 20 
years.
  Another key point from the chart is that over half of our oil 
consumption for transportation is used for light-duty vehicles; that 
is, passenger vehicles and pickup trucks. Today, more people are 
driving more miles in vehicles that use more fuel per mile. As you can 
see, unless something is done, our passenger cars will consume half 
again more fuel in 2020 than they do today.
  I think all Senators agree on the need to reduce our dependence on 
imported oil. Today, America imports more than half of its oil. The 
cost of importing oil is a dangerous drag on our economy.
  Reducing our dependence on imported oil is a daunting and long-term 
challenge that will require a variety of measures. Surely efforts to 
increase domestic production need to play a role in that strategy. 
However, I am afraid there is no silver bullet. Increased domestic 
production alone will not meet America's skyrocketing demand for oil.
  With transportation accounting for two-thirds of our oil use, I 
believe the key is to reduce transportation demand through a wide range 
of measures, including technology advances that squeeze more useful 
energy out of every drop of oil.
  That's where PNGV comes in. Started in 1993, PNGV brings together the 
expertise of the nation's colleges and universities, government 
agencies, national laboratories, suppliers, and the auto industry in a 
10-year effort to dramatically improve the fuel efficiency of passenger 
vehicles. PNGV research efforts are focused on developing breakthrough 
technologies that are key to improving fuel economy. Work is underway 
on lightweight materials, aerodynamics, tires, power electronics, 
energy storage, combustion science, fuel cells, and hybrid propulsion 
systems.
  The long-term goal of the program is to develop mid-size passenger 
sedans with up to three-times better fuel economy in a vehicle that 
retains all the performance, comfort, safety, and cost of today's 
comparable models.
  In the past seven years, a number of PNGV's innovations have started 
to improve the fuel economy of today's production vehicles. Many of 
these innovations originated in our national laboratories. I am pleased 
to see our laboratories are playing a major role in PNGV. Let me cite a 
few examples of recent accomplishments:
  One automaker is now using a technology developed at Sandia National 
Laboratories in Albuquerque, in my state of New Mexico, to produce axle 
shafts that are stronger, lighter, and less expensive.
  The Pacific Northwest Laboratory in the Chairman's home state of 
Washington helped develop a hydroforming technique that is being used 
to shape door, deck and hood panels in current model vehicles.
  Using analytical methods developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 
automakers are now producing pickup truck boxes from lightweight 
composite materials.
  And Los Alamos National Laboratory, also in my state, is one of the 
world leaders in fuel cell technology. Through PNGV, the lab's unique 
capabilities are being brought to bear on what may well be the 
automobile technology of the future. A fuel cell offers the highest 
possible efficiency with near zero emissions--certainly a goal worth 
striving for.
  In addition to producing immediate fuel savings, PNGV is a program 
that is meeting its milestones. Earlier this year, and on schedule, all 
three domestic automakers rolled out high efficiency concept vehicles: 
the Ford Prodigy, DaimlerChrysler's ESX-3, and GM's Precept. These cars 
demonstrated, for the first time, the technical feasibility of a 5-
passenger, 80-mile per gallon vehicle. This is truly a remarkable 
achievement.
  I believe all Senators agree that the views of the National Academy 
of Sciences carry considerable weight in this body. Just last month, 
the Academy's National Research Council completed its sixth annual 
review of PNGV. It had this to say about the program:

       Though confronted with enormous technological problems, 
     PNGV has made significant progress in meeting its objectives, 
     and reaching the 2000 milestones represents an outstanding 
     effort.

  I ask unanimous consent that a summary of the National Research 
Council's sixth report on PNGV be printed in the Record at the 
conclusion of my remarks.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered
  (See exhibit 1.)
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, the NRC's report went on to describe the 
major challenges that remain in the final four years of the program. 
PNGV's goal is ambitious but achievable: to develop production vehicles 
that meet all safety and emissions standards while simultaneously 
maintaining current vehicle cost levels. The increase in federal 
funding in the bill

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before us today will help ensure that PNGV can meet its goal.
  Last month, Chairman Gorton lead a debate here on the Senate floor 
about fuel efficiency standards, and I want to thank him for his 
effort. I do believe it is an important issue. How ever that debate 
eventually plays out, it should be clear that we are not going to be 
able to reduce our dangerous dependence on imported foreign oil without 
vehicles that are more efficient. And the American public is not going 
to stand for vehicles that do not provide the same levels of safety, 
comfort, and performance they've come to expect. That's exactly what 
PNGV is all about.
  I'd like to make one last point. Both Europe and Japan have recently 
taken steps to raise the average fuel economy of their vehicles. In 
Europe, automakers are committed to increasing fuel economy by 33 
percent by 2008. In Japan, fuel economy levels are set to increase 23 
percent by 2010. I do believe fuel efficiency is an issue of 
international economic competitiveness. We must aggressively pursue 
efforts like PNGV, or risk falling behind in the global automotive 
market.
  In closing, I am pleased that the Senate bill provides adequate 
funding for PNGV. However, I am concerned this year about maintaining 
the Senate's funding level for PNGV in conference. In what I believe 
was a very wrongheaded action, the House all but eliminated funding for 
this vital program. Mr. President, this is not the time to reduce our 
commitment to cutting-edge research that offers the promise of dramatic 
reductions in our need for oil. I hope all senators will want to work 
with the committee to maintain the Senate's funding level for PNGV as 
the bill moves to conference.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a letter from Secretary 
Richardson opposing the House's actions be printed the Record at the 
conclusion of my remarks.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  (See exhibit 2.)
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, PNGV represents the best of America's 
minds working together on one of the most important issues we face 
today.
  I again thank Chairman Gorton, and Senator Byrd for their work on 
this bill and especially for the funding they've provided for energy 
conservation and PNGV.

                               Exhibit I

              [From the National Academies, June 15, 2000]

    Fuel Economy, Cost May Be Compromised To Meet Tougher Emission 
                   Standards in Next-Generation Cars

       Washington.--A public-private partnership to create a 
     highly fuel-efficient car reached a major milestone earlier 
     this year with the unveiling of concept vehicles, but the 
     ability to meet both fuel-economy objectives and emission 
     standards by a 2004 deadline remains a monumental challenge, 
     says a new report from the National Academies' National 
     Research Council.
       The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new emissions 
     standards for vehicle exhaust, which will be phased in 
     beginning in 2004, are significantly more stringent than 
     those that were in place when the public-private program, 
     called the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles 
     (PNGV), was initiated six years ago. All of the demonstrated 
     concept vehicles--DaimlerChrysler's ESX3, Ford's Prodigy, and 
     GM's Precept--use hybrid electric technology, which 
     incorporates electric power from a battery with a small 
     diesel engine. While the concept vehicles can achieve a fuel 
     economy in the range of 70 to 80 miles per gallon, none meet 
     the new emission standards.
       ``Though confronted with enormous technological problems, 
     PNGV has made significant progress in meeting its objectives, 
     and reaching the 2000 milestone represents an outstanding 
     effort,'' said Trevor O. Jones, chair of the committee that 
     wrote the report and chairman and chief executive officer of 
     Biomec Inc., Cleveland. ``As the program moves toward the 
     2004 deadline to introduce production prototype vehicles, 
     major attention will need to be devoted to meeting the new 
     emissions standards while simultaneously attaining cost and 
     fuel economy objectives, which continue to elude PNGV 
     engineers.''
       In the committee's judgment, EPA's ``Tier 2'' standards for 
     nitrogen oxides and particulate matter will delay the use of 
     the diesel engine--and its significant fuel-economy benefit--
     until systems can be developed that meet the new standards. 
     PNGV also may have to shift its attention to other internal 
     combustion engine designs with greater potential for 
     extremely low emissions and high fuel efficiency.
       The partnership should develop models that can predict the 
     type and amount of emissions for a variety of engines and 
     exhaust treatment systems in different versions of hybrid 
     electric vehicles, the report says. These efforts will assist 
     researchers in evaluating the feasibility of meeting the Tier 
     2 standards and provide data that could then be used to 
     establish an appropriate plan for the next phase of the 
     program.
       Currently, fuel cells--an alternative power source--have 
     the greatest potential to meet emissions standards and 
     energy-efficiency requirements. All of the vehicle 
     manufacturers are building concept vehicles powered by fuel 
     cells that are estimated to get up to an equivalent of 100 
     mpg. Though notable progress has been made, the automotive 
     fuel cell remains a long-range development facing significant 
     hurdles, including the need to substantially reduce costs, 
     which are running about five times higher than the program 
     projected. The fuel cells are targeted for production 
     automobiles sometime after 2004 by some vehicle builders.
       New types of fuel and the infrastructure of refineries, 
     distribution systems, and service stations are extremely 
     important considerations in developing both internal 
     combustion engines and fuel cells. The committee recommends 
     that PNGV and the petroleum industry more fully address fuel 
     issues and strengthen their cooperative programs.
       As the program moves closer to commercially viable 
     vehicles, the National Highway and Traffic Safety 
     Administration should support major safety studies to 
     determine how lightweight cars perform in collisions with 
     heavier vehicles, the report says. These activities are 
     critically important because PNGV vehicles, although similar 
     in size to today's vehicles, will weigh much less with 
     lighter bodies, frames, interior components, and window 
     glass.
       Although substantial accomplishments have been made, high 
     cost is a serious problem in almost every area of the PNGV 
     program, the committee said. The costs of most components of 
     the concept vehicles are higher than their target values. For 
     example, research continues to be conducted on aluminum and 
     other composite materials for use in major vehicle 
     components, but costs still are not competitive with steel. 
     Battery costs are at least three times greater than the 
     program's target. And DaimlerChrysler has estimated that its 
     ESX3 concept vehicle would cost $7,500 more than a 
     traditional vehicle in its class.
       Given the complexity of the assignment and the tight 
     timeline, the committee lauded PNGV's technical teams for 
     their overall achievements and effectiveness in meeting 
     project goals and their ability to develop solid industry-
     government-academia working relationships despite their 
     competitive positions. And while the individual car 
     manufacturers took different approaches in building their 
     concept vehicles, all have made significant contributions and 
     benefited by using technologies developed through the 
     collaborative program. Further, many of the technologies--
     such as lightweight body materials--are being incorporated 
     into vehicles that are in production today.
       The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles is an 
     alliance of U.S. government agencies and the U.S. Council for 
     Automotive Research (USCAR), whose members are the country's 
     three major automakers--DaimlerChrysler, Ford, and General 
     Motors. PNGV was formed in late 1993 to develop an affordable 
     midsize vehicle by 2004 with a fuel economy of up to 80 mpg--
     three times more efficient than today's vehicles--while 
     meeting or exceeding government safety and emission 
     requirements. Since 1994, the Research Council has conducted 
     annual reviews of the program's goals and progress at the 
     request of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
       The study was sponsored by the U.S. departments of 
     Commerce, Energy, and Transportation. The Research Council is 
     the principal operating arm of the National Academy of 
     Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. It is a 
     private, nonprofit institution that provides independent 
     advice on science and technology issues under a congressional 
     charter. A committee roster follows.


 standing committee to review the research program of the partnership 
                    for a new generation of vehicles

       Trevor O. Jones (chair), Chair and Chief Executive Officer, 
     Biomec Inc., Cleveland.
       Craig Marks (vice chair), President, Creative Management 
     Solutions, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
       William Agnew, Director, Programs and Plans, General Motors 
     Research Laboratories (retired), Washington, Mich.
       Alexis T. Bell, Professor, Department of Chemical 
     Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
       W. Robert Epperly, President, Epperly Associates Inc., 
     Mountain View, Calif.
       David E. Foster, Professor, Department of Mechanical 
     Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
       Norman A. Gjostein, Clinical Professor of Engineering, 
     University of Michigan, Dearborn.
       David F. Hagen, General Manager of Alpha Simultaneous 
     Engineering, Ford Technical Affairs, Ford Motor Co. 
     (retired), Dearborn, Mich.

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       John B. Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical 
     Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
     Cambridge.
       Fritz Kalhammer, Consultant, Strategic Science and 
     Technology, and Transportation Groups, and Former Vice 
     President, Strategic Research and Development, Electric Power 
     Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif.
       John G. Kassakian, Professor, Department of Electrical 
     Engineering, and Director, Laboratory for Electromagnetic and 
     Electronic Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
     Cambridge.
       Harold H. Kung, Professor, Department of Chemical 
     Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
       John Scott Newman, Professor, Department of Chemical 
     Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.
       Roberta Nichols, Manager, Electric Vehicles External 
     Strategy and Planning Department, Ford Motor Co. (retired), 
     Plymouth, Mich.
       Vernon P. Roan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and 
     Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering, 
     University of Florida, Palm Beach Gardens.

                         Research Council Staff

       James Zucchetto, Director, Board on Energy and 
     Environmental Systems.

                               Exhibit 2


                                      The Secretary of Energy,

                                    Washington, DC, June 15, 2000.
     Hon. Ralph Regula,
     Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, 
         Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of 
         Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing to express my concern 
     regarding yesterday's House action to effectively terminate 
     Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) 
     activities. I thank you for your efforts to defeat this 
     amendment. I know you agree that especially now, during this 
     current spike in energy prices, is not the time to reduce the 
     U.S. commitment to cutting-edge research and development that 
     will reduce our dependence on petroleum.
       The Sununu amendment virtually eliminates the entire budget 
     for the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV). 
     This is a matter of great concern to the Department, since 
     PNGV has been a highly successful program aimed at reducing 
     our country's growing consumption of petroleum products for 
     transportation. As gasoline prices exceed $2.00 per gallon in 
     the mid-west, we are reminded that the United States has 
     become increasingly vulnerable to oil price shocks and supply 
     disruptions. Other impacts of this growing petroleum 
     consumption are greater air pollution and increasing 
     greenhouse gas emissions.
       Technologies from PNGV results have already appeared in 
     cars available for sale today. Earlier this year, the three 
     PNGV year 2000 concept cars demonstrated the technical 
     feasibility of 80 mile per gallon 5-passenger sedans. Each of 
     these cars represents a unique approach to the challenges 
     addressed by PNGV and showcases the progress made in advanced 
     technology research and development through the partnership. 
     The work is not finished, however.
       Major challenges remain to be addressed during the final 
     four years of this program, especially the size, weight, cost 
     and emissions performance of individual components. The 
     reliability of these technologies, both individually and in 
     the context of a system, also needs to be demonstrated.
       In its sixth review of the PNGV, released today, the 
     National Research Council (NRC) notes that, measured against 
     the magnitude of the challenge, ``PNGV is making good 
     progress.'' The NRC characterizes meeting the PNGV 2000 
     concept vehicle milestone as ``an outstanding . . . effort.''
       Given projections of substantial growth in the number of 
     vehicles worldwide in the years ahead, combined with 
     uncertainty about the ability of worldwide petroleum 
     production to keep up, it would be extremely unwise to 
     terminate this program that is key to developing high energy 
     efficiency vehicles without compromising the features that 
     make them attractive to U.S. consumers.
       Also, it is vital, during a period of increasing worldwide 
     competition to produce more fuel-efficient vehicles, that we 
     maintain support for U.S. producers. In view of significant 
     support being provided by governments in Europe and Japan, it 
     seems particularly ill-advised for us to abandon our 
     leadership. Any reduction in PNGV funding would jeopardize 
     achievement of our objectives.
       I appreciate your leadership in protecting energy research 
     and development funding. If you have further questions, you 
     may contact me or have a member of your staff contact Mr. 
     John C. Angell, Assistant Secretary for Congressional and 
     Intergovernmental Affairs, at (202) 586-5450.
           Yours sincerely,
                                                  Bill Richardson.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Bunning). The Senator from Washington.
  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, I compliment the Senator from New Mexico 
on his presentation and I ask if he will return to the two charts.
  I appreciate the kind words of the Senator from New Mexico on this 
general field. My own view is we do need to do what we can to produce 
more petroleum products from sources that are within the control of the 
United States. I am convinced we also, in meeting this challenge, need 
to move aggressively toward the development and increased use of 
alternative fuels for our automobiles. Even if we are relatively 
successful in both of those courses of action, the challenge of an 
increased dependence and increased use of fossil fuels in 
transportation, or of even alternative fuels, is simply going to 
continue to grow.
  The Senator from New Mexico, in stressing the importance of a greater 
degree of efficiency in the use of energy for transportation purposes, 
is directly on point. As he stated, this appropriations bill includes a 
modest increase in its appropriation for the Partnership for a New 
Generation of Vehicles, a program I have supported ever since I took 
the chairmanship of this subcommittee. I think it is very important to 
the country as a whole. I think it is a constructive partnership 
between government and the private sector.
  I am delighted to have a Member speak on this specific element of the 
bill that I had to pass over rather quickly. The top line on the chart 
indicates the nature of the problem.
  The Senator from New Mexico also mentioned my effort in a different 
appropriations bill, once again, to go back to mandated, better fuel 
efficiency standards on the part of automobiles and small trucks. That 
is at least a first cousin, if not closer, to the proposition to which 
the Senator from New Mexico is speaking.
  If we are to be successful, if we are to turn that rapidly rising 
line in the chart and even flatten it out, it seems to me we have to 
engage in all of these. The subject about which he spoke is 
particularly important.
  I can assure the Senator from New Mexico that in a conference 
committee with the House on this subject, I will hold out as eloquently 
as I possibly can for the full Senate appropriation.
  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I respond by thanking the Senator from 
Washington for his comments and indicate that I think his leadership on 
this issue is extremely important, particularly so given the 
wrongheaded action the House of Representatives has taken in their bill 
of essentially zeroing out the funding for this very important program 
after 6 successful years of progress in a 10-year program.
  I am encouraged by the Senator's statements. I will certainly do 
anything I can to assist the Senator in seeing to it that this is 
adequately funded in the future.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wyoming.
  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. President, I take a few minutes to comment on the 
bill and some of the areas of particular concern.
  First, I recognize and thank the chairman and Senator Byrd for their 
good work. It is a tough job on any appropriations bill to hold down 
spending and keep it within the budget. Yet it is very difficult to set 
the priorities. This is one of the hardest jobs in the Congress. I 
appreciate the work they have done.
  Particularly in this Interior bill, it is very hard to put together a 
bill that gets support throughout the entire Congress, representing all 
the States in the country, when a large part of the activity goes on, 
of course, in the public land States.
  I want to comment on a few of those areas that are of particular 
concern to those who live in the West, where much of the State is owned 
by the Federal Government, ranging from 25 to nearly 90 percent of some 
States belonging to the Federal Government. Our economy, our future, 
all those things are tied very closely to what happens with the 
management of Federal lands. Much of that is within this budget of 
Interior.
  I am particularly pleased, as chairman of the Subcommittee on 
National Parks, that the funding for national parks is in this budget, 
as well. Certainly we would all like to see as much support as possible 
for parks, but there is an increase here, as there has been

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over the past several years. There are some 379 parks in this country, 
national parks, all of which are quite different--from Yellowstone to 
the Statue of Liberty--parks that are unique.
  The idea, of course, is to have the basic support for parks come from 
appropriations. We have developed over the past several years some 
alternative support, supplemental sources of funding that are not meant 
to replace, of course, but simply to supplement. These are such things 
as demonstration fees, which are then used in the park in which they 
are collected, or highway funds which come from the highways and go to 
the parks. I am thinking particularly in this case of Yellowstone Park, 
where highways are a very important part of their funding. Much of that 
goes there. We encourage contributions that can be made from the 
private sector.
  There are several areas of concern, of course. One of them is PILT--
payment in lieu of taxes. This is a program designed for a county where 
much of the land is owned by the Federal Government, where they would 
normally have real estate taxes that would come in through the 
operations of the county. Of course, when the Federal Government owns 
the land, those taxes are not collected and therefore this is a 
replacement and one that has been there for a very long time. It is 
quite important. It is very important because, in most cases, the 
counties provide the kinds of services on the public lands that they 
would provide on the private lands, even though the Federal Government, 
by its nature, does not pay the taxes. So these are payments that are 
made in lieu of.
  There are some increases in this budget over the last year, but not 
nearly equal to the taxes that would be collected if the Federal 
Government did not own the land. So to the extent that is some 
measurement of fairness, then we are still quite below where we ought 
to be in the PILT area. We raised the authorization a number of years 
ago. Now it is tied to some kind of growth in the economy. We are, of 
course, quite below what the authorized level would be. We have some 
increases. We would like to have some consideration given to them.
  Large amounts of land in Wyoming belong to the Federal Government--in 
the entire West. It creates some responsibility. Last week I met with 
county commissioners in Big Horn, WY, and their primary concern was 
what we are going to do with PILT because much of their county is 
Federal land. We have a unique relationship with the Federal 
Government. The Government depends on local communities to provide this 
infrastructure. Without the support of these counties, the Federal 
Government would be unable to manage theirs. I am talking about 
highways; I am talking about police protection; I am talking about 
health care and emergency care. All these things are provided without 
the basis of support that is usually there. So that is what the payment 
in lieu of taxes is all about. I know it is very difficult, but I think 
it is a program that merits some consideration and perhaps we will have 
the opportunity to increase those payments somewhat.
  Actually, it is not confined to Western States. About 49 different 
States participate in the PILT program throughout the country, 
including the District of Columbia and three territories, so, of 
course, it is widespread in support.
  Earlier this year, we had 57 Senators join in a letter supporting an 
increase in PILT funding. I will submit, a little later, for 
consideration some opportunity perhaps to give a little boost to that 
kind of funding. It is something that has a real meaning.
  Let me give a little example. We have 23 counties in my State of 
Wyoming. Teton County is 96 percent Federally owned, Park County, 82 
percent federally owned, on down the line; in Big Horn County, which I 
mentioned a little while ago, 80 percent of that county belongs to the 
Federal Government. It goes on. So I think there is a great deal of 
interest in that, and in the question of fairness.
  Let me say, too, even though the appropriations are not actually the 
area where these kinds of decisions are often made, I think it is 
important to recognize this administration has made a drive towards the 
end. I understand the President is seeking to change the legacy to be 
one of a sort of Theodore Roosevelt thing, with land acquisition, the 
proposal to have 40 million acres roadless, in addition to the 
Antiquities Act and other things. This is going on currently.
  One of the difficulties is not so much the idea of controlling roads. 
I have no problem with that. There should not be roads everywhere; we 
need to take a look at them. I am more concerned about the method in 
which it has been undertaken. Rather than having a major decision made 
by bureaucrats in Washington, we ought to go through the process. We 
have what are called forest studies over several years, and we have 
forest planning. That is where it ought to be done, so the people 
locally can participate.
  We have talked about all the meetings we have had, and I have 
attended some of them, but the problem is, because this was done on a 
nationwide basis, hardly anyone who came to the meetings knew what they 
were talking about, including many of the people from the Forest 
Service. So there needs to be some real input. Perhaps there is 
something we can do to slow down that area.
  Going back to parks, there are some 27 or 28 parks where one of the 
access functions that people enjoy is using snow machines in the 
wintertime in places such as Teton Park and Yellowstone Park and in 
Minnesota--there are a number there. Now we have another one of these 
bureaucratic knee-jerk responses that we are going to eliminate the use 
of snowmobiles in national parks.
  I do not argue there ought not be some control. There should be, and 
there can be. There ought to be some control over the machines 
themselves. The manufacturers have said they are willing to do that, to 
lower the noise and do something about the emissions. The problem is 
the EPA has never set up any standards with which they need to comply. 
I understand if you are going to put a great deal of money into 
research to change these machines, you have to know where you need to 
be to be able to comply. We have never done this.
  In addition, even though it seems as if a lot of people are using 
them, there are many fewer using the facilities in the wintertime. So 
it would have been possible, if the park had managed the snow machines 
rather than just letting them go, to separate the uses if they conflict 
with one another. If you have snow machines conflicting with cross-
country skiers, in most parts you can have some space in between them. 
The park is never managed. Instead of seeking to manage these kinds of 
things, they simply say: Now we are going to do away with them.
  The real issue there is access. Parks and public lands at least have 
two major functions. One is to preserve the resource. The second is to 
give the owners, who are the taxpayers, an opportunity to enjoy them. 
One of the ways of enjoying them is, in this case, a snow machine. 
Rather than simply eliminate it, it seems to me we ought to take a 
little bit more time and find some ways to fit that into what we are 
doing, whether it is used for hunting or hiking or sightseeing.
  We were talking about energy over here. One of the reasons we are 
having energy problems is that our domestic production is down. One of 
the reasons it is down is we have made it more difficult to have access 
in the public lands. In Wyoming, that is a real problem because half 
the land belongs to the Federal Government.
  So I think there are a lot of things we can do to be able to still 
protect the resource yet provide for multiple use of those resources.
  Finally, there is grazing. A year ago, the Senate bill had language 
in it that if the Bureau of Land Management, didn't have the resources 
to go in and investigate and take a look at a grazing allotment--if the 
BLM did not get there, as they were supposed to, then they could cancel 
the allotment of this grazing. All we are saying is, when the BLM can't 
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to, they ought to be able to go on as they have before, under their 
original contract. That is language that should be there. We would like 
to make sure it is there as we go through this.
  Finally, there is a wild horse problem. We have a large number of 
wild horses in Wyoming. Not many people have to deal with that problem. 
The administration has requested $9 million for the next 4 years as 
part of an effort to bring the wild horses back to manageable levels. 
As a matter of fact, in the Red Desert of Wyoming, about 10 years ago, 
there was a lawsuit which required that these numbers be brought down. 
The BLM has never done that. Now they say: We can't do it unless we 
have some additional funding. The House funded the administration's 
request, but an amendment on the floor brought it down to $5 million. 
The Senate bill does not fund the administration's request. Now we have 
the possibility of BLM taking money away from other uses unless they 
have some more resources to handle these wild horses.
  I hope we can talk about some of these issues. I understand they are 
unique problems. I do not think there are many wild horses in Rhode 
Island, but they are in other places. This is the kind of bill where we 
have to deal with the unique things that happen in the West.
  Again, I appreciate very much the work of the chairman. I know he 
comes from a western State with a considerable amount of unique and 
public resources as well. I also know that he is very interested in 
dealing with them fairly.
  I compliment that effort. I want to work with him to see if we can 
deal with some of these other unique problems that arise.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota.
  Mr. WELLSTONE. My colleague from Missouri is very gracious and I can 
do this in 30 seconds.


                           amendment no. 3772

  (Purpose: To increase funding for emergency expenses resulting from 
                              wind storms)

  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I call up my amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       The Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Wellstone], for himself and 
     Mr. Grams, proposes an amendment numbered 3772.

  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment is as follows:

       On page 165, between lines 18 and 19, insert the following:
       For an additional amount for emergency expenses resulting 
     from damage from windstorms, $7,249,000 to become available 
     upon enactment of this Act and, to remain available until 
     expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available 
     only to the extent that the President submits to Congress an 
     official budget request for a specific dollar amount that 
     includes designation of the entire amount of the request as 
     an emergency requirement for the purposes of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
     900 et seq.): Provided further, That the entire amount is 
     designated by Congress as an emergency requirement under 
     section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)).

  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, this amendment, again, is to restore 
$7.2 million in emergency funding. My colleague from Washington made a 
helpful suggestion. Senator Grams is coming back from Minnesota today. 
I believe we can do this together. I ask unanimous consent that my 
amendment be laid aside, and when Senator Grams comes back, we will 
talk tonight. We will both come out together. He will join me.
  I thank my colleague from Washington and my colleague from West 
Virginia as well for their support. It is terribly important to get 
this additional money to deal with the blow-down. I thank my 
colleagues.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Missouri.
  Mr. BOND. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I may be 
permitted to proceed for 4 minutes as in morning business.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

                          ____________________