Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 2.djvu/804

 102 STAT. 1808

PUBLIC LAW 100-446—SEPT. 27, 1988

with proceeds derived or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft; (b) services pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (c) uniform allowances for each uniformed employee of the Forest Service, not in excess of $400 annually; (d) purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (e) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein, pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 428a); (f) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, 558a note); and (g) for debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). None of the funds made available under this Act shall be obligated or expended to change the boundaries of any region, to abolish any region, to move or close any regional office for research. State and private forestry, or National Forest System administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, without the consent of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in the United States Senate and the Committee on Agriculture in the United States House of Representatives. Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be transferred to the National Forest System appropriation for forest firefighting and the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands under its jurisdiction. The appropriation structure for the Forest Service may not be altered without advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be used to reimburse employees for the cost of State licenses and certification fees pursuant to their Forest Service position and that are necessary to comply with State laws, regulations, and requirements. Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for assistance to or through the Agency for International Development and the Office of International Cooperation and Development in connection with forest and rangeland research, technical information, and assistance in foreign countries. Funds previously appropriated for timber salvage sales may be recovered from receipts deposited for use by the applicable national fewest and credited to the Forest Service Permanent Appropriations to be expended for timber salvage sales from any national forest, and for sales preparation of timber sales to replace sales lost to fire or other causes, and sales preparation activities to replace sales inventory on the shelf for any national forest to a level sufficient to maintain new sales availability equal to a rolling five-year average of the total sales offerings, and for design, engineering, and supervision of construction of roads lost to fire or other causes associated with the timber sales programs described above: Provided, That not less than $47,561,000 shall be made available to the Forest Service for obligation in fiscal year 1989 from the Timber Salvage Sales Fund appropriation: Provided further, That moneys received from the timber salvage sales program in fiscal year 1989 shall be considered as money received for purposes of computing and distributing 25 per centum payments to local governments under 16 U.S.C. 500, as amended.

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