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 PUBLIC LAW 102-381—OCT. 5, 1992 106 STAT. 1379 under a valid notice or plan of operation not less than $1,500 and not more than $800,000 in gross revenues per year as certified by the claimant from ten or fewer claims; or—(ii) that is performing exploration work to disclose, expose, or otherwise make known possible valuable mineralization on ten or fewer claims under a valid notice or plan of operation; and that has less than ten acres of imreclaimed surface disturbance from such mining activity or such exploration work, may elect to either pay the claim rental fee for such year or in lieu thereof do assessment work required by the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28-28e) and meet the filing requirements of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744 (a) and (c)) on such ten or fewer claims and certify the performance of such assessment work to the Secretary by August 31, 1993: Provided further, That for every unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site located after the date of enactment of this Act through September 30, 1994, the locator shall pay $100 to the Secretary of the Interior or his designee at the time the locatioil notice is recorded with the Bureau of Land Management to hold such claim for the year in which the location was made: Provided further, That the coownership provisions of the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28- 28e) will remain in effect except that the annual claim rental fee, where applicable, shall replace applicable assessment requirements and expenditures through fiscal year 1994: Provided further. That failure to make the annual payment of the claim rental fee as required by this Act shall conclusively constitute an abandonment of the impatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site by the claimant: Provided further, That nothing in this Act shall change or modify the requirements of section 314(b) of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744(b)) or the requirements of section 314(c) of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1744(c)) related to filings required by section 314(b), which shall remain in effect: Provided further. That the Secretary of the Interior Regulations. shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section as soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act: Provided further. That for purposes of determining eligibility for the exemption from the claim rental fee required by this Act, any claims held by a husband and wife, either jointly or individually, or their children under the age of discretion, shall be counted together toward the ten claim limit. UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT For expenses necessary for scientific and economic studies, conservation, management, investigations, protection, and utilization of sport fishery and wildlife resources, except whales, seals, and sea lions, and for the performance of other autnorized functions related to such resources; for the general administration of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and for maintenance of the herd of long-homed cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge; and not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects within the scope of the approved budget which shall be carried out by Youth Conservation Corps as if authorized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended by Public Law 93-408, and $440,000 which shall be available only tor a contract, without competition, with the National Research Council for a study of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, $535,085,000, of which $10,687,000 shall be for operation and maintenance of fishery miti-

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