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 PUBLIC LAW 106-393—OCT. 30, 2000 114 STAT. 1613 subsection (c)(1), the eligible county may elect to expend all such funds in accordance with subsection (c)(2). (e) TIME FOR PAYMENT. —The payment to an eligible State under this section for a fiscal year shall be made as soon as practicable after the end of that fiscal year. SEC. 103. PAYMENTS TO COUNTIES FROM BUREAU OF LAND MANAGE- 16 USC 500 note. MENT LANDS FOR USE TO BENEFIT PUBLIC SAFETY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, EDUCATION, AND OTHER PUBLIC PUR- POSES. (a) PAYMENT. — The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay an eligible county either— (1) the 50-percent payment under the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 1181f), or the Act of May 24, 1939 (43 U.S.C. 1181f-l) as appropriate; or (2) the full payment amount in place of the 50-percent payment. (b) ELECTION TO RECEIVE FULL PAYMENT AMOUNT.— (1) ELECTION; DURATION.—The election to receive the full payment amount shall be made at the discretion of the county. Once the election is made, it shall be eflfective for the fiscal year in which the election is made and all subsequent fiscal years through fiscal year 2006. (2) SOURCE OF PAYMENT AMOUNTS. — The payment to an eligible county under this section for a fiscal year shall be derived from any revenues, fees, penalties, or miscellaneous receipts, exclusive of deposits to any relevant trust fund, or permanent operating funds, received by the Federal Government from activities by the Bureau of Land Management on the Federal lands described in section 3(1)(B) and to the extent of any shortfall, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. (c) EXPENDITURE RULES FOR ELIGIBLE COUNTIES. — (1) ALLOCATIONS.— (A) USE OF PORTION IN SAME MANNER AS SO-PERCENT PAYMENTS. —Of the funds to be paid to an eligible county pursuant to subsection (a)(2), not less than 80 percent, but not more than 85 percent, of the funds distributed to the eligible county shall be expended in the same manner in which the 50-percent payments are required to be expended. (B) ELECTION AS TO USE OF BALANCE.—An eligible county shall elect to do one or more of the following with the balance of the funds not expended pursuant to subparagraph (A): (i) Reserve the balance for projects in accordance with title n. (ii) Reserve the balance for projects in accordance with title in. (iii) Return the balance to the General Treasury in accordance with section 402(b). (2) DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS. — (A) TREATMENT OF TITLE II FUNDS.— Funds reserved by an eligible county under paragraph (l)(B)(i) shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury of the United States and shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior, without further appropriation, and

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