PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996 110 STAT. 3009-222
of the United States Senate a plan which details how the
Department of the Interior will make a final determination
as to whether or not an applicant is entitled to a patent under
the general mining laws on at least 90 percent of such applications within five years of the enactment of this Act and file
reports annually thereafter with the same committees detailing
actions taken by the Department of the Interior to carry out
such plan; and
(2) Take such actions as may be necessary to carry out
suchplan.
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.— In order to process patent
applications in a timely and responsible manner, upon the request
of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow
the applicant to fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected
by the Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent application as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Management
shall have the sole responsibility to choose and pay the thirdparty contractor in accordance with the standard procedures
employed by the Bureau of Land Management in the retention
of third-party contractors.
SEC. 315. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be used for the purposes of acquiring
lands in the counties of Gallia, Lawrence, Monroe, or Washington,
Ohio, for the Wayne National Forest.
SEC. 316. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment
for the Arts:
(a) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an individual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a literature
fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or American Jazz
Masters Fellowship.
(b) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to ensure
that no funding provided through a grant, except a grant made
to a State or local arts agency, or regional group, may be
used to make a grant to any other organization or individual
to conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient.
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments made in
exchange for goods and services.
(c) No grant shall be used for seasonal support to a group,
unless the application is specific to the contents of the season,
including identified programs and/or projects.
SEC. 317. None of the funds available to the Department of
the Interior or the Department of Agriculture by this or any other
Act may be used to prepare, promulgate, implement, or enforce
any interim or final rule or regulation pursuant to Title VIII of
the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to assert
jurisdiction, management, or control over any waters (other than
non-navigable waters on Federal lands), non-Federal lands, or lands
selected by, but not conveyed to, the State of Alaska pursuant
to the Submerged Lands Act of 1953 or the Alaska Statehood
Act, or an Alaska Native Corporation pursuant to the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act.
SEC. 318. No funds appropriated under this or any other Act
shall be used to review or modify sourcing areas previously approved
under section 490(c)(3) of the Forest Resources Conservation and
Shortage Relief Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-382) or to enforce
or implement Federal regulations 36 CFR part 223 promulgated
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