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 104 STAT. 1978 PUBLIC LAW 101-512—NOV. 5, 1990 the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, on grants or contracts to institutions or facilities whose main activity is the conduct of scientific research and such agencies shall be relieved from the requirement of seeking comments on such undertakings unless requested in writing by the grantee. \ SEC. 325. Each amount of budget authority for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991, provided in this Act, for payments not required by law is hereby reduced by 0.524 per centum: Provided, That such reductions shall be applied ratably to each account, program, activity, and project provided for in this Act. TRANSFER REPORT SEC. 326. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is directed to report to Congress by March 1, 1991 the following: (1) Identification of lands and properties that were transferred to Alaska Native Corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act as amended, which at the time of transfer were represented or disclosed by the Federal Government as being free from contaminants, and which subsequent to transfer, were discovered to be contaminated; and (2) Identification of lands and properties that the Federal Government knowingly transferred to Alaska Native Corporations with contaminants. Qo) For the purposes of this section "contaminants" are defined as hazardous substances as described in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and asbestos as described in the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act. (c) Nothing in this section requires the Secretary to conduct an inthe-field survey to determine the presence or absence of contaminants on transferred lands or properties. This Act may be cited as the "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991", Approved November 5, 1990. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5769: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 101-789 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 101-971 (Comm. of Conference). SENATE REPORTS: No. 101-534 (Comm. on Appropriations). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 136 (1990): Oct. 12, 15, considered and passed House. Oct. 22-24, considered and passed Senate, amended. Oct. 27, House and Senate agreed to conference report. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 26 (1990): Nov. 5, Presidential statement.

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