H.R. 4578 (pp) Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes. [Public Print] ...

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prepare and submit a report on the finding of that evaluation to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House.

                          Departmental Offices

                            Insular Affairs


                        ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES

    For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $75,471,000, of which: 
(1) $71,076,000 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, not to exceed $300,000 may be made available for transfer 
to the Disaster Assistance Direct Loan Program Account of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency for the purpose of covering the cost of 
forgiving a portion of the obligation of the Government of the Virgin 
Islands to pay interest which has accrued on Community Disaster Loan 
841 during fiscal year 2000, as required by section 504 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended (2 U.S.C. 661c): 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 of the amounts provided for 
technical assistance, the amount of $700,000 shall be made available to 
the Prior Service Benefits Trust Fund for its program of benefit 
payments to individuals: Provided further, That none of this amount 
shall be used for administrative expenses of the Prior Service Benefits 
Trust Fund: 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, $20,745,000, 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, $64,319,000, of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses, 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, and of which $300,000 shall be 
for a grant to Alaska Pacific University for the development of an 
ANILCA training curriculum.

                        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

    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, $9,000,000, to remain available 
until expended and which may be transferred to the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and Departmental Management, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 
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 interests shall be credited to 
this appropriation, and remain available until expended, until the 
purchase price paid by the Secretary under this appropriation has been 
recovered from such proceeds: Provided further, That once the purchase 
price has been recovered, all subsequent proceeds shall be managed by 
the Secretary for the benefit of the applicable tribe or paid directly 
to the tribe.

           Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration

                natural resource damage assessment fund

    To conduct natural resource damage assessment activities by the 
Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the provisions of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 
(Public Law 101-380) (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and Public Law 101-337, 
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 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 

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