The House of Representatives should withdraw its opposition to the Senate amendment. That the House withdraw its dissent from Senate Amendment No. 23 and agree to the same with an. That the House withdraw its dissent from Senate amendment No. 128 and agree to the same with an.
PRIORITY LAND ACQUISITIONS, LAND EXCHANGES, AND MAINTENANCE
Such maps are kept in the office of the main cadastral geodetic service or the land office. Governor of the State of California to establish the Headwaters Forest Stewardship Trust (uTrust'') to manage the Headwaters Forest. The plan and financial statements are sent to the Committee for reconsideration. resources of the House of Representatives) Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House and ena.te Committee-.
Secretary of the Interior shall convey to the State of Montana, without consideration, all right, title and interest of the United States in and to._. in federal mineral rights in the State of Montana agreed to by the Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of Montana through negotiations in accordance with paragraph (b); or. Withzn 120 da or enactmen the secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of · cult re pecti l will to the Committee on Re-.
34; (i) the boundary of the extraction area is a circle around the processing plant of the extraction area ap-. 34; (II) notifies the regional forester for region 6 in writing about the adjusted boundary.
TITLE VII MICCOSUKEE SETTLEMENT
That the House withdraws from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate number 165, and agrees to the same with an amendment as follows:. The leaders of the House and Senate at the conference on the dissenting votes of the two houses. As requested by the Department of the Interior, leaders have reluctantly agreed to statutorily limit funding for the endangered species listing program.
Funding provided herein represents the completion of the federal commitment for the Audubon Institute, LA and Walter B. The directors understand that the estimated total cost of the Bair Island acquisition at the Don Edwards NWR in California is. The managers do not object to part of the transferred funds being used to provide the necessary loan subsidy for the authorized loan guarantee programme.
Leaders are concerned that the environmental cleanup proposed by the Department of the Army for the Presidio will not meet the ecological, health and safety criteria appropriate for a national park. The leaders have included to help with the construction of the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Of the construction funds made available to the Vancouver National Historic Reserve, $150,000 is for the development of a.
Changes in the amount proposed h.)1 The House Inc~u.de ~n Increase in the resource estimate for the marine mineral resource center program and decrease of 1 000 000 in OC. land regulatory program for a clearinghouse for offshore oil production information and 2.300 000 in, ro)ralty man-.
Administrators understand that requests to the Office of the Special Trustee to support activities related to settlement efforts and ongoing tribal and liM litigation are significant. The Senate bill or FY 1998 did not contain any provision similar to Section 107 because the Senate argued that Section 108 of the FY 1997 Appropriations Act was intended to be a permanent law. The Comptroller General recently reviewed section 108 of the Fiscal Year 1997 Interior Appropriations Act and found it to be appropriate legislation (Opinion B-277719, August 20, 1997).
Furthermore, the managers note that notice in the deletion of section 107 or in any provision of the conference report will be constructed as contradicting or diminishing the per11anence of section 108 of the fiscal year 1997 Domestic ap-. The managers note that the Vice President's National Performance Review goals are aimed at reducing the size of the Federal bureaucracy and empowering employees to take responsibility for their work assignments without a multi-layered review bureaucracy. The managers urge that the task force and the Secretary, in the event that the Secretary must distribute the funds without a distribution recommendation supported by a majority of the task force members, the inequities in the current TPA allocation and the diverse economic situations of the tribes to be considered.
It is also the sense of the Senate that the Department of Justice should enforce the provisions of the Indian Gambling Regulation Act. The managers agree that this section prohibits the Secretary of the Interior during fiscal year 1998 from adopting specific procedures to authorize and manage Indian gaming activities in any particular state in the absence of a tribal-state agreement provided by.
RELATED AGENCIES
The managers agree to the amounts proposed by the Senate, including $300,000, for the major feasibility study of the Western Trail in the United States. Amendment No. 91: Removes Senate proposed language setting aside $800,000 for the Trappers Loop Connector Road in the. The trustees support the Senate's proposed instructions regarding road credits for timber buyers.
123: Applicable to grants and administration of the National Endowment for the Humanities as proposed by the Senate instead of as proposed by the House. 134: Amends language proposed by the House and struck by the Senate on the Inland ~olumbia ~iver Basin. Adjust the boundaries of the Wenatchee National Forest in Chelan County, Washington, as proposed by the Senate.
156: Amends language proposed by the Senate to include additional remarks on the National Endowment for the Arts. The amendment also limits funding to a single state to no more than 15% of the total amount.
TITLE IV
Managers are also concerned that funds previously expended on the planning of this project, which were to be reimbursed by other federal agencies, have never been repaid. Given the significant backlog of critical repair and maintenance needs that the National Park Service has identified, this project should not commence until it has been carefully balanced against other National Park Service priorities. 159: Limits the use of funds proposed by the Senate to implement guidelines or modify plans for National Forests in Arizona and New Mexico.
160: Amends section 6901(2)(A)(i) of title 31, United States Code, as proposed by the Senate, to include the population of cities in unorganized counties of Alaska for PILT purposes. 161: Amends section 103(c)(7) of Public Law 104-333, as proposed by the Senate, to provide for the appointment and compensation of officers of the Presidio Trust.
PRIORITY LAND ACQUISITIONS, LAND EXCHANGES , AND MAINTENANCE
for the acquisition of forests, will provide valuable advice to the House Committee on Resources, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate for the land and properties to be acquired. By the. Headwaters Forest and a clause ensuring that any substantial expansion of the forest is specifically permitted. Subsection (b) makes the authorization effective until March 1, 1999, in accordance with the anticipated timetable for completion of the Headwaters Forest Agreement.
The authorized funding level for the federal portion of the Headwaters Forest is set at $300,000, with an exception for law enforcement and emergencies. Subsection (h) authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the Governor of California, to: Subsection (i) requires a summary management plan for the Headwaters Forest to be prepared by the Secretary of State or the Headwaters Trust once the forest is acquired.
The goals of the management plan, as stated by the administration, should be conservation. Subsection (j) provides the Secretary of the Interior with the flexibility to develop cooperative agreements with state e.
FOREST RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND SHORTAGE RELIEF
The language provides that the Secretary may not condition the approval of a procurement area for a processing facility located outside of Washington on the inclusion or exclusion of any Washington territory. The decision to include or exclude Washington land in such acquisition area is at the discretion of the applicant or acquisition area holder. Acquisition zone boundaries for processing facilities located in Washington State are determined solely by the applicant or holder of the acquisition zone.
Section 490(c)(7) provides that a resource area is waived when the owner of the resource area gives written notice to the appropriate U.S. Forest Service regional forester that timber harvested from private land in a resource area is exportable after that relief area has been removed and timber from federal land in that relief area is no longer in the possession of the relief area owner. If a relief area owner's federal timber contract is still open, it does not matter whether private timber from an abandoned relief area is exportable.
This provision also makes clear that specifying a source area will not affect exportability to timber harvested from private land located outside the source area. The Secretary may also waive paint and branding requirements for raw wood sourced from private lands within an approved source area.
MICCOSUKEE SETTL~MENT
The Secretary is also authorized to waive the coloring and branding requirements if it is determined that the risk of export or substitution is low in the region. The Secretary may also waive the staining and marking requirements for timber harvested from Federal land if there has been no export to the area for an extended period and a person certifies that any raw timber subject to the waiver is exported that area. will be branded.
