Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Land Management management of lands and resources For expenses necessary for protection, use, improvement, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, 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 of Land Management, $544,877,000, and $2,500,000 from unobligated balances appropriated under this heading in Public Law 99–591 for insect and disease control projects, including grasshoppers, which balances may be applied to any activity provided for under this heading and of which the following amounts shall remain available until expended: not to exceed $1,450,000 to be derived from the special receipt account established by section 4 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601–6a(i)), and $33,500,000 for the Automated Land and Mineral Record System Project: 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 of Land Management or its contractors; and in addition, $12,430,000 for Mining Law Administration program operations to remain available through September 30, 1993, to be reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau of Land Management and credited to this appropriation from annual mining claim holding fees: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as mining claim holding fees are received during fiscal year 1993 so as to result in a final fiscal year 1993 appropriation estimated at not more than $544,877,000: Provided further, That in addition to funds otherwise available, not to exceed $5,000,000 from annual mining claim holding fees shall be credited to this account for the costs of administering the mining claim holding fee program, and shall remain available until expended. 106 STAT. 1375 fire protection For necessary expenses for fire management, emergency rehabilitation, firefighting, fire presuppression, and other related emergency actions by the Department of the Interior, $119,310,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such funds also are to be available for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts from which funds were previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That unexpended balances of amounts previously appropriated for this purpose under the heading “Firefighting”, Bureau of Land Management, may be transferred to and merged with this appropriation and accounted for as one appropriation for the same time period as originally enacted. emergency department of the interior firefighting fund For emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activities of the Department of the Interior, $113,640,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such funds also are to be available for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts from which funds were previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging without cost from funds available from this appropriation. In addition, for emergency rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activities of the Department of the Interior, $51,200,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That these funds, or any portion thereof, shall be available beginning in fiscal year 1993 only (1) to the extent that the President notifies the Congress of his designation of any or all of these amounts as emergency requirements under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; and (2) if the amounts annually appropriated under this heading, but not designated as emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, have been at least equal to the most recent ten-year historical average, less any enacted cost saving program reforms: Provided further, That Congress hereby designates these amounts as emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. construction and access For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $15,810,000, to remain available until expended. payments in lieu of taxes For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20, 1976 (31 U.S.C. 6901–07), $105,000,000, of which not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative expenses. land acquisition For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 205, 206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579 including administrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, 106 STAT. 1376and for activities authorized under Public Law 102–259 to be carried out by the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation, $28,034,000 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; $83,122,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 25 per centum of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and California land grant fund and shall be transferred to the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876). forest ecosystems health and recovery (revolving fund, special account) There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a special fund to be derived hereafter from the Federal share of moneys received from the disposal of salvage timber prepared for sale from the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior. The money in this fund shall be immediately available to the Bureau of Land Management without further appropriation, for the purposes of planning and preparing salvage timber for disposal, the administration of salvage timber sales, and subsequent site preparation and reforestation. There is hereby appropriated an amount of $1,000,000, to remain available until expended to establish this fund. Nothing in this provision shall alter the formulas currently in existence by law for the distribution of receipts for the applicable lands and timber resources. range improvements For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 per centum of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improvements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than $10,747,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for administrative expenses. 106 STAT. 1377 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 sections 209(b), 304(a), 304(b), 305(a), and 504(g) of the Act approved October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and sections 101 and 203 of Public Law 93–153, to be immediately available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section 305(a) of the Act of October 21, 1976 (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 or subsequent appropriations Acts 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 forfeiture, compromise, or settlement are used on the exact lands damage to which led to the forfeiture, compromise, or settlement: Provided further, That such moneys are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land for which collected. miscellaneous trust funds In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under existing law, 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 of Land Management; 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 appropriations herein made for Bureau of Land Management expenditures in connection with the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands (other than expenditures made under the appropriation “Oregon and California grant lands”) shall be reimbursed to the General Fund of the Treasury from the 25 per centum referred to in subsection (c), title II, of the Act approved August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876), of the special fund designated the “Oregon and California land grant fund” and section 4 of the 106 STAT. 1378Act approved May 24, 1939 (53 Stat. 754), of the special fund designated the “Coos Bay Wagon Road grant fund”: Provided further, That appropriations herein made, in fiscal year 1993 and thereafter, may be expended for surveys of Federal lands and on a reimbursable basis for surveys of Federal lands and for protection of lands for the State of Alaska: Provided further, That an appeal of any reductions in grazing allotments on public rangelands must be taken within thirty days after receipt of a final grazing allotment decision. Reductions of up to 10 per centum in grazing allotments shall become effective when so designated by the Secretary of the Interior. Upon appeal any proposed reduction in excess of 10 per centum shall be suspended pending final action on the appeal, which shall be completed within two years after the appeal is filed: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law and effective upon the date of enactment of this Act, for fiscal year 1993, for each unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site on federally owned lands, in lieu of the assessment work requirements contained in the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28–28e), and the filing requirements contained in section 314 (a) and (c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) (43 U.S.C. 1744 (a) and (c)), each claimant shall, except as provided otherwise by this Act, pay a claim rental fee of $100 to the Secretary of the Interior or his designee on or before August 31, 1993 in order for the claimant to hold such unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site for the assessment year ending at noon on September 1, 1993: Provided further, That for fiscal year 1993, each claimant— (i) that is producing under a valid notice or plan of operation not less than $1,500 and not more than $800,000 in gross revenues per year as certified by the claimant from ten or fewer claims; or—(ii) that is performing exploration work to disclose, expose, or otherwise make known possible valuable mineralization on ten or fewer claims under a valid notice or plan of operation; and that has less than ten acres of unreclaimed surface disturbance from such mining activity or such exploration work, may elect to either pay the claim rental fee for such year or in lieu thereof do assessment work required by the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28–28e) and meet the filing requirements of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744 (a) and (c)) on such ten or fewer claims and certify the performance of such assessment work to the Secretary by August 31, 1993: Provided further, That for fiscal year 1994, for each unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site on federally owned lands, in lieu of the assessment work requirements contained in the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28–28e) and filing requirements of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744 (a) and (c)), each claimant shall, except as provided otherwise by this Act, pay an annual claim rental fee of $100 per claim to the Secretary of the Interior or his designee on or before August 31, 1993 in order for the claimant to hold such unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site for the following assessment year beginning at noon on September 1: Provided further, That in fiscal year 1994, each claimant—(i) that is producing 106 STAT. 1379 under a valid notice or plan of operation not less than $1,500 and not more than $800,000 in gross revenues per year as certified by the claimant from ten or fewer claims; or—(ii) that is performing exploration work to disclose, expose, or otherwise make known possible valuable mineralization on ten or fewer claims under a valid notice or plan of operation; and that has less than ten acres of unreclaimed surface disturbance from such mining activity or such exploration work, may elect to either pay the claim rental fee for such year or in lieu thereof do assessment work required by the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28–28e) and meet the filing requirements of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744 (a) and (c)) on such ten or fewer claims and certify the performance of such assessment work to the Secretary by August 31, 1993: Provided further, That for every unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site located after the date of enactment of this Act through September 30, 1994, the locator shall pay $100 to the Secretary of the Interior or his designee at the time the location notice is recorded with the Bureau of Land Management to hold such claim for the year in which the location was made: Provided further, That the co-ownership provisions of the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28— 28e) will remain in effect except that the annual claim rental fee, where applicable, shall replace applicable assessment requirements and expenditures through fiscal year 1994: Provided further, That failure to make the annual payment of the claim rental fee as required by this Act shall conclusively constitute an abandonment of the unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site by the claimant: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall change or modify the requirements of section 314(b) of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744(b)) or the requirements of section 314(c) of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744(c)) related to filings required by section 314(b), which shall remain in effect: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section as soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act: Provided further, That for proposes of determining eligibility for the exemption from the claim rental fee required by this Act, any claims held by a husband and wife, either jointly or individually, or their children under the age of discretion, shall be counted together toward the ten claim limit.