BOWHEAD WHALE STUDY.

SEC. 313. BOWHEAD WHALE STUDY. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior are authorized to pay as appropriate, $48,464, plus interest since June 6, 1988, to reimburse any unpaid costs incurred in the research and preparation of a paper entitled “Quantification of Subsistence and Cultural Need for Bowhead Whales by Alaska Eskimos”, which was presented by the United States to the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission.