PUBLIC LAW 104-134—APR. 26, 1996 110 STAT. 1321-182
authority applicable to the Forest Service, $39,400,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That funding for specific land acquisitions
are subject to the approval of the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations.
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL ACTS
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries of the
Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; the Toiyabe
National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San Bernardino, Sequoia,
and Cleveland National Forests, California, as authorized by law,
$1,069,000, to be derived from forest receipts.
ACQUISITION OF LiliSTDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES
For acquisition of lands, to be derived from funds deposited
by State, county, or municipal governments, public school districts,
or other public school authorities pursuant to the Act of December
4, 1967, as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until
expended.
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, and
improvement, 50 per centum of all moneys received during the
prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on lands
in National Forests in the sixteen Western States, pursuant to
section 401(b)(1) of Public Law 94—579, as amended, to remain
available until expended, of which not to exceed 6 per centum
shall be available for administrative expenses associated with onthe-ground range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements.
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND
RESEARCH
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $92,000, to
remain available until expended, to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the above Act.
SOUTHEAST A]:j^KA ECONOMIC DISASTER FUND
(a) There is hereby established in the Treasury a Southeast
Alaska Economic Disaster Fund. There are hereby appropriated
$110,000,000, which shall be deposited into this account, which
shall be available without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation. All monies from the Fund shall be distributed by the Secretary
of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions set forth herein.
(b) None of the funds provided under this heading shall be
available unless the President exercises the authority provided in
section 325(c) of this Act.
(c)(1) The Secretary shall provide $40,000,000 in direct grants Grants,
from the Fund for fiscal year 1996 and $10,000,000 in each of
fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999 to communities in Alaska as
follows:
(A) to the City and Borough of Sitka, $8,000,000 in fiscal
year 1996 and $2,000,000 in each of fiscal years 1997, 1998,
and 1999;
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