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106 STAT. 1378 PUBLIC LAW 102-381—OCT. 5, 1992 43 USC 1731 note. Grazing lands. 43 USC 1752 note. eooperatives. Pri nti ng. eiaims. Public lands. Minerals and mining. Act 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 wr 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 timnel 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 impatented mining claim, mill or timnel 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