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PUBLIC LAW 106-113—APPENDIX C 113 STAT. 1501A-209 summer jobs available for youths, ages 15 through 22, on Federal lands. (b) Within 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall jointly submit a report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives that includes the following— (1) the number of youths, ages 15 through 22, employed during the summer of 1999, and the number estimated to be employed during the summer of 2000, through the Youth Conservation Corps, the Public Land Corps, or a related partnership with a State, local or nonprofit youth conservation corps or other entities such as the Student Conservation Association; (2) a description of the different types of work accomplished by youths during the summer of 1999; (3) identification of any problems that prevent or limit the use of the Youth Conservation Corps, the Public Land Corps, or related partnerships to accomplish projects described in subsection (a); (4) recommendations to improve the use and effectiveness of partnerships described in subsection (a); and (5) an analysis of the maintenance backlog that identifies the tjHpes of projects that the Youth Conservation Corps, the Public Land Corps, or related partnerships are qualified to complete. SEC. 352. (a) NORTH PACIFIC RESEARCH BOARD.—Section 401 of Public Law 105-83 is amended as follows: (1) In subsection (c)— (A) by striking "available for appropriation, to the extent provided in the subsequent appropriations Acts," and inserting "made available"; (B) by inserting "To the extent provided in the subsequent appropriations Acts," at the beginning of paragraph (1); (C) by inserting "without further appropriation" after "20 percent of such amounts shall be made available"; and (2) by striking subsection (f). SEC. 353. None of the funds in this Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to issue a prospecting permit for hardrock mineral exploration on Mark Twain National Forest land in the Current River/Jack's Fork River—Eleven Point Watershed (not including Mark Twain National Forest land in Townships 3 IN and 32N, Range 2 and Range 3 West, on which mining activities are taking place as of the date of the enactment of tWs Act): Provided, That none of the funds in this Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to segregate or withdraw land in the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri under section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1714). SEC. 354. Public Law 105-83, the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of November 17, 1997, title III, section 331 is hereby amended by adding before the period: ": Provided further, That to carryout the provisions of this section.