PRESIDIO TRUST FUND

Appropriations, 2004	$20,445,000
Budget estimate, 2005	20,000,000
Committee recommendation	20,000,000

The Committee recommends $20,000,000 for the Presidio Trust, the same as the budget request.

TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS

The Committee has recommended inclusion of several general provisions in the bill including the following:

SEC. 301. Provides that contracts which provide consulting services be a matter of public record and available for public review, except where otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 302. Provides that appropriations available in the bill shall not be used to produce literature or otherwise promote public support of a legislative proposal on which legislative action is not complete.

SEC. 303. Provides that appropriations made available in this bill will not remain available beyond the current fiscal year unless otherwise provided.

SEC. 304. Provides that appropriations made available in this bill cannot be used to provide a cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants.

SEC. 305. Provides for restrictions on departmental assessments unless approved by the Committees on Appropriations.

SEC. 306. Limits the actions of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management with regard to the sale of giant sequoia trees to a manner consistent with such sales as were conducted in fiscal year 2000.

SEC. 307. Retains mining patent moratorium carried in previous years.

SEC. 308. Provides that funds appropriated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service for contract support costs for fiscal years 1994 through 2004 are the total amounts available except that, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual funding agreements.

SEC. 309. Defines the grantmaking capabilities and responsibilities of the National Endowment of the Arts. Grants to individuals may be made only for literature fellowships, national heritage fellowships, or American jazz masters fellowships. The Chairperson of the Endowment will establish procedures to ensure that grants made, except those to a State or local arts agency, will not be used to make a further grant to any other organization or individual to conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient. Grants for seasonal support may not be awarded unless the application is specific to the contents of the season.

SEC. 310. Allows the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities to raise funds and receive gifts, to deposit such in an interest-bearing account for the appropriate Endowment, and to use such to further the functions of the respective Endowments in accordance with the specified intent of the donors.

SEC. 311. Provides language for awarding financial assistance to underserved populations under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. With funds appropriated to carry out section 5 of the act, the chairman will establish a category of national significance grants. With the exception of this grant category, the chairman will not make grants exceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to any single State.

SEC. 312. Prohibits the use of appropriations to fund any activities associated with the issuance of the 5-year program under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act. Strategic planning activities carried out for that act should now be completed as part of the agency's compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act, Public Law 103-62.

SEC. 313. Prohibits the use of funds to support Government-wide administrative functions unless they are justified in the budget process and approved by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

SEC. 314. Allows the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to limit competition for watershed restoration projects contracts.

SEC. 315. Provides additional authority to use the roads and trails funds for priority forest health related management. The Committee recognizes that there is a serious backlog in important road, trail and bridge work throughout the national forest system just as there is a serious backlog in needed management related to forest health.

SEC. 316. Restricts the use of answering machines during business hours.

SEC. 317. Addresses timber sales involving Alaska western red cedar. Mills which process western red cedar in the Pacific Northwest have an insufficient supply of western red cedar, and the national forest in southeast Alaska sometimes has a surplus. This provision continues a program by which Alaska's surplus western red cedar is made available preferentially to U.S. domestic mills outside Alaska, prior to export abroad.

SEC. 318. Provides that the Forest Service may not inappropriately use the Recreation Fee Demonstration program to supplant existing recreation concessions on the national forests.

SEC. 319. Continues a provision providing that the Secretary of Agriculture shall not be considered in violation of certain provisions of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act solely because more than 15 years have passed without revision of a forest plan, provided that the Secretary is working in good faith to complete the plan revision within available funds.

SEC. 320. Prohibits oil, natural gas and mining related activities within current national monument boundaries, except where such activities are allowed under the presidential proclamation establishing the monument.

SEC. 321. Extends the Forest Service conveyances Pilot Program.

SEC. 322. Makes employees of foundations established by Acts of Congress to solicit private sector funds on behalf of Federal land management agencies eligible to qualify for General Service Administration contract airfares.

SEC. 323. Provides the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior the authority to enter into reciprocal agreements with foreign nations concerning the personal liability of firefighters.

SEC. 324. Allows the Eagle Butte Service Unit of the Indian Health Service to utilize health care funding in a more efficient manner.

SEC. 325. Restricts the ability to transfer funds provided in this Act.

SEC. 326. Allows the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to consider local contractors when awarding contracts for certain activities on public lands.

SEC. 327. Restricts funding appropriated for acquisition of land or interests in land from being used for acts of condemnation.

SEC. 328. Extends by 1 year a current provision concerning judicial review of timber sales in Region 10 of the Forest Service.

SEC. 329. Continues, with certain modifications, language included in the fiscal year 2004 Act which limits the amount of funds available for the conduct of competitive sourcing studies. The Committee has not continued language imposing unique reporting requirements on Interior bill agencies, as very similar annual reporting requirements were mandated on a government-wide basis in the Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004. The Committee has also not included language placing additional limitations on conversion to contractor performance. The Committee expects these issues will be addressed on a government-wide basis as part of the Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005, and sees no compelling reason to impose limitations that may be inconsistent with the contents of that Act.

SEC. 330. Requires budget justification documents to reveal charges levied against programs for other functions.

SEC. 331. Prohibits the use of funds for SAFECOM and Disaster Management proposals.

SEC. 332. Amends the Knutson-Vandenburg Act [KV] to clarify that the Forest Service shall not return KV funds designated as excess to the Treasury if they may be needed for fire suppression, and amounts owed to the fund from prior fire transfers exceed the amount designated as excess.

SEC. 333. Allows the State of Utah, through contracts or cooperative agreements with the Forest Service, to perform certain activities on Forest Service lands.

SEC. 334. Exempts certain local residents from paying fees under the Recreation Fee Demonstration program on the White Mountain National Forest.

SEC. 335. Requires that contact centers associated with the national recreation reservation service be located within the United States.

SEC. 336. Amends ANILCA to allow for fishery management and enhancement projects in additional wilderness areas in Alaska.

SEC. 337. Allows Alaska residents with subsistence rights who are aged, infirm, or disabled to designate another individual to engage in subsistence activities for them and to reimburse such designated person.

SEC. 338. The Committee is very concerned about continued drought conditions in the Upper Missouri River Basin and its effect on water supply, irrigation, and wildlife habitat. As such, the Committee directs the Army Corps of Engineers to implement drought conservation measures contained in its 2004 Missouri River Master Manual when water storage levels within the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin System are at or below 40,000,000 acre feet.

SEC. 339. Provides a categorical exclusion for the environmental review of certain grazing allotments. Further description of this authority is provided in title II under the Forest Service account.

SEC. 340. Amends Public Law 90-542 regarding certain hunting camps on the Salmon River.

SEC. 341. Allows the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition to enter into agreements with the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture.

SEC. 342. Conveys certain lands in the Tongass National Forest to the Community of Elfin Cove, AK.

SEC. 343. The Committee has included language to make permanent a long standing prohibition on Alaska Native villages pulling funds from Alaska Native regional health organizations, which would have expired the end of the current fiscal year. The regional health system in Alaska works well to serve the health needs of Alaska Natives in many small and isolated villages across the State. If villages were to remove funds from regional health organizations, health care to Alaska Natives living in other villages within those regions could be seriously affected. Language in the amendment clarifies the Committee's intent that Eastern Aleutian Tribes, Inc. be considered an Alaska Native regional health entity for purposes of disbursement of funds under this section.

SEC. 344. Provides for the use of previously appropriated funds for the acquisition of lands for the construction of the Seward, Alaska Interagency Center.

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