OFFICE OF SALINE WATER SALINE WATER CONVERSION For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of July 3, 1952, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1951 et seq.), authorizing studies for the conversion of saline water for beneficial consumptive uses, including not to exceed $2,540,000 for administration and coordination expenses during the current fiscal year, $27,025,000, to remain available until expended : Provided, That this appropriation shall be available only upon enactment into law of S. 991, Ninety-second Congress, or similar legislation. $27,025,000 OFFICE OF WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1961–1961c-7), $14,290,000, of which not to exceed $960,000 shall be available for administrative expenses. 14,290,000 OFFICE OF TIIE SOLICITOR SALARIES AND EXPENSES 6,800,000 For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, $6,800,000, and in addition, not to exceed $164,000 may be reimbursed or transferred to this appropriation from other accounts available to the Department of the Interior. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13,975,000 For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, including teletype rentals and service, and not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and representation expenses, $13,975,000. [For an additional amount of $500,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 251.). [For an appropriation of $3,746,000, to be derived by transfer, for 1972 for Departmental Operations, see p. 251.] 500,000 SALARIES AND EXPENSES (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) For payments in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department shall determine to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States, for necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, as authorized by law, $500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, to such oflice for payments in the foregoing currencies (7 U.S.C. 1704). [Total, Office of the Secretary, $14,475,000.] 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. perize the expenditure or transfer in addition to the amounts included teral agencies, for the suppression or Cost or range fires on or threatening lands Izpartment of the Interior: Provided, That Tiaw this title for fire suppression purposes shall ile payment of obligations incurred during the preid for reimbursement to other Federal agencies og vehicles, aircraft or other equipment in connection it for tire suppression purposes, such reimbursement to Yeni appropriations currently available at the time of receipt Ippropriations made in this title shall be available for con of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, wprer consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or romy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services dered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized by the Act of June 30, 1932 (31 U.S.C. 686): Provided, That reimbursements for costs of supplies, materials and 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 or in the Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Act, 1972, shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the Secretary, in total amount not to exceed $300,000; 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. 5901–1902 and D.C. Code 4-204). [Total, title I, Department of the Interior:] [Appropriations : ] [Definite $1,164,802,500.] [Indefinite 396,187,000. [Appropriations to liquidate contract authority (49,392,000).] [Total, new budget (obligational) authority---- 1,560,989,500.) TITLE II-RELATED AGENCIES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE FOREST PROTECTION AND UTILIZATION For expenses necessary for forest protection and utilization, as follows: Forest land management: For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise provided for, including the administration, improvement, development, and management of lands under Forest Service administration, fighting and preventing forest fires on or $238,678,300 threatening such lands and for liquidation of obligations incurred in the preceding fiscal year for such purposes, control of white pine blister rust and other forest diseases and insects on Federal and nonFederal lands, $238,678,300, of which $4,275,000 for fighting and preventing forest fires and $1,910,000 for insect and disease control shall be apportioned for use, pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to the extent necessary under the then existing conditions: Provided, That funds appropriated for “Cooperative range improvements”, pursuant to section 12 of the Act of April 24, 1950 (16 U.S.C. 580h), may be advanced to this appropriation. Forest research: For forest research at forest and range experiment stations, the Forest Products Laboratory, or elsewhere, as authorized by law, $54,325,000. State and private forestry cooperation : For cooperation with States in forest-fire prevention and suppression, in forest tree planting on non-Federal public and private lands, and in forest management and processing, and for advising timberland owners, associations, woodusing industries, and others in the application of forest management principles and processing of forest products, as authorized by law, $27,741,000. [Total, Forest Protection and Utilization, $320,744,300.] 54,325,000 27,741,000 CONSTRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISITION For construction and acquisition of buildings and other facilities required in the conservation, management, investigation, protection and utilization of national forest resources and the acquisition of lands and interests therein necessary to these objectives, $35,291,200, to remain available until expended: Provided, That not more than $1,300,000 of this appropriation may be used for acquisition of land under the Act of March 1, 1911, as amended (16 U.S.C. 513-519). 35,291,200 FOREST ROADS AND TRAILS (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORITY) For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of title 23, United States Code, sections 203 and 205, relating to the construction and maintenance of forest development roads and trails, $138,740,000, to remain available until expended, for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority contained in title 23, United States Code, section 203: Provided, That funds available under the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be merged with and made a part of this appropriation:Provided further, That not less than the amount made available under the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1913, shall be expended under the provisions of such Act. [For an additional amount of $10,000,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 251.] ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL ACTS For acquisition of land to facilitate the control of soil erosion and flood damage originating within the exterior boundaries of the following national forests, in accordance with the provisions of the following Acts, authorizing annual appropriations of forest receipts for such purposes, and in not to exceed the following amounts from such receipts, Cache National Forest, Utah, Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347), as amended, $20,000; Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah, Act of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 866), as amended, $20,000; Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1205), as amended, $8,000; Angeles National Forest, California, Act of June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 299), $32,000; in all, $80,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for acquisition of any land which is not within the boundaries of the national forests and/or for the acquisition of any land without the approval of the local government concerned. $80,000 (indefinite) ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES For acquisition of lands in accordance with the Act of December 4, 1967 (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until expended, $26,035, to be derived from deposits by public school authorities under said Act. 26,035 COOPERATIVE RANGE IMPROVEMENTS For artificial revegetation, construction, and maintenance of range improvements, control of rodents, and eradication of poisonous and noxious plants on national forests in accordance with section 12 of the Act of April 24, 1950 (16 U.S.C. 580h), to be derived from grazing fees as authorized by said section, $700,000, to remain available until expended. ASSISTANCE TO STATES FOR TREE PLANTING $700,000 (indefinite) 1,028,000 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year shall be available for: (a) purchase of not to exceed one hundred and seventy-one passenger motor vehicles of which one hundred and fifty shall be for replacement only, and hire of such vehicles; operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed four for replacement only; (b) employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $25,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (c) uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902); (d) purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (e) expenses of the National Forest Reservation Commission as authorized by section 14 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U.S.C. 514); and (f) acquisition of land and interests therein for sites for administrative and not to exceed $75,000 for research purposes, pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 428a). Except to provide materials required in or incident to research or experimental work where no suitable domestic product is available, no part of the funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from commodities or materials produced outside of the United States. Funds appropriated under this Act shall not be used for acquisition of forest lands under the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1911, as amended (16 U.S.C. 513-519, 521), where such land is not within the boundaries of an established national forest or purchase unit. [For an appropriation of $3,500,000 for 1972 for the Youth Conservation Corps, see p. 251.) [Total, Forest Service, $357,869,535.] COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS SALARIES AND EXPENSES $121,000 For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $121,000. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out the purposes of the Act of August 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), as amended; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; purchase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the purposes set forth in sections 301 (with respect to research conducted at facilities financed by this appropriation), 311, 321, 322(d), 324, 328, and 509 of the Public Health Service Act, $153,027,000. [For an additional amount of $42,000 for 1972 for the foregoing purposes, see p. 251.] 153,027,000 INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES For construction, major repair, 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 portable buildings; purchase of trailers; and 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), $30,400,000, to remain available until expended. 30,400,000 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, HEALTH SERVICES AND MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION Sec. 1001. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for salaries and expenses, shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the rate for GS-18. SEC. 1002. Appropriations contained in this Act, available for salaries and expenses shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). Sec. 1003. Appropriations contained in this Act available for salaries and expenses shall be available 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. [Total, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, $183,427,000.] INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act of August 13, 1946 (25 U.S.C. 70), as amended (81 Stat. 11), creating an Indian Claims Commission, $1,025,000, of which not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for expenses of travel. 1,025,000 |