94 STAT. 2972 Advisory group. 40 USC 131 note.
Report to Secretary of Interior and Congress.
16 USC la-5.
75 Stat. 246.
"Preferred use period."
PUBLIC LAW 96-514—DEC. 12, 1980
SEC. 108. The Secretary is authorized to appoint an advisory group which may include government officials, as well as members from outside the government to undertake such activities as may be appropriate to study the effect of future growth and development on the beauty, historic values and other features that make the national capital area unique, and to recommend measures that will protect its values. The advisory group shall designate a chairman and shall complete its work and submit to the Secretary and to the Congress a report with its findings and recommendations within three years of the date of its organization. To support its activities, the advisory group may also receive gifts and grants from private sources. Members of the group shall receive no compensation, but may be reimbursed for travel, per diem, and other reasonable expenses. SEC. 109. Except as specifically provided otherwise in this Act, no funds appropriated in this title shall be available to fulfill the requirements of section 8 of Public Law 94-458 as they apply to reporting to Congress on potential new areas of the National Park System: Provided, That not to exceed $100,000 may be available to study proposed new areas of the National Park System. SEC. 110. No appropriations made in this title shall be available for the withdrawal, transfer or purchase of any lands for the purpose of extending the current boundaries of the Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Area, Idaho, without specific provision therefor in appropriation Acts. SEC. 111. The Secretary's authority to enter into contracts gmd agreements in any fiscal year pursuant to the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1962 for the development and operation of helium properties is terminated. SEC. 112. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the implementation of any management plan for the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon National Park which reduces the number of user days or passenger-launches for commercial motorized watercraft excursions, for the preferred use period, from all current launch points below that which was available for the same period of use in the calendar year 1978. G)) For the purposes of this section "perferred use period" denotes the period May 1 through September 30, inclusive. TITLE n—RELATED AGENCIES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE FOREST R E S E A R C H
For necessary expenses of forest research as authorized by law, $122,200,000. STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY
16 USC 2101 note.
For necessary expenses of cooperating with, and providing technical and financial assistance to States, Territories, possessions, and others; and for forest insect and disease activities, $73,116,000, of which $66,136,000 shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1982, to carry out activities authorized in Public Law 95-313.
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