PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-294 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501), shall be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without regard to the State in which the amounts were derived, to repair or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National Forest System lands or to carry out and administer projects to improve forest health conditions, which may include the repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and trails on National Forest System lands in the wildland-community interface where there is an abnormally high risk of fire. The projects shall emphasize reducing risks to human safety and public health and property and enhancing ecological functions, long-term forest productivity, and biological integrity. The Secretary shall commence the projects during fiscal year 1999, but the projects may be completed in a subsequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended under this section to replace funds which would otherwise appropriately be expended from the timber salvage sale fund. Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any project from any environmental law. SEC. 333. Section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act (20 U.S.C. 974) is amended— (1) in subsection (b) by striking "$3,000,000,000" and inserting "$5,000,000,000 "; (2) in subsection (c) by striking "$300,000,000" and inserting "$500,000,000 "; (3) by striking "or" at the end of subsection (d)(4); (4) in subsection (d)(5) by striking "$200,000,000 or more" and inserting "not less than $200,000,000 but less than $300,000,000" and by striking the final period and inserting a semicolon; and (5) by inserting the following two new subsections after subsection (d)(5): "(6) not less than $300,000,000 but less than $400,000,000, then coverage under this chapter shall extend only to loss or damage in excess of the first $300,000 of loss or damage to items covered; or "(7) $400,000,000 or more, then coverage under this chapter shall extend only to loss or damage in excess of the first $400,000 of loss or damage to items covered.". SEC. 334. TULARE CONVEYANCE, (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsections (c) and (d), all conveyances to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Tulare, California, of lands described in subsection (b), heretofore or hereafter, made directly by the Southem Pacific Transportation Company, or its successors, are hereby validated to the extent that the conveyances would be legal or valid if all right, title, and interest of the United States, except minerals, were held by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company. (b) LANDS DESCRIBED.— The lands referred to in subsection (a) are the parcels shown on the map entitled "Tulare Redevelopment Agency-Railroad Parcels Proposed to be Acquired", dated May 29, 1997, that formed part of a railroad right-of-way granted to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, or its successors, agents, or assigns, by the Federal Government (including the right-of-way approved by an Act of Congress on July 27, 1866). The map referred to in this subsection shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
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