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 PUBLIC LAW 106-246—JULY 13, 2000 114 STAT. 545 available until expended, which may be transferred to and merged with appropriations for "Salaries and Expenses": Provided further. That no funds shall be transferred to and merged with appropriations for "Salaries and Expenses" for indirect administrative expenses: Provided further. That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further. That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress. GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER SEC. 2201. For an additional amount for "Operations, Research, and Facilities", for emergency expenses for fisheries disaster relief pursuant to section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, as amended, for the Pribilof Island and East Aleutian area of the Bering Sea, $10,000,000 to remain available until expended: Provided, That in implementing this section, the Secretary of Commerce shall make $7,000,000 available for disaster assistance and $3,000,000 for Bering Sea ecosystem research including $1,000,000 for the State of Alaska to develop a cooperative research plan to restore the crab fishery: Provided further. That the Secretary of Commerce declares a fisheries failure pursuant to section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, as amended: Provided further. That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further. That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget request for $10,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress. SEC. 2202. For an additional amount for "Operations, Research, and Facilities", $10,000,000 to provide emergency disaster assistance for the commercial fishery failure determined under section 308(b)(1) of the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 (16 U.S.C. 4107(b)(1)) with respect to the Northeast multispecies fishery, which shall be used to support a voluntary fishing capacity reduction program in the Northeast multispecies fishery that permanently revokes multispecies, limited access fishing permits so as to obtain the maximum sustained reduction in fishing capacity at the least cost and in the minimum period of time and to prevent the replacement of fishing capacity removed by the program: Provided, That the entire amount made available in this section is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement under section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further. That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget request for $10,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the

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