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 PUBLIC LAW 106-562—DEC. 23, 2000 114 STAT. 2795 transfer any funds appropriated to carry out this section to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall obligate such funds through instruments and procedures that are equivalent to the instruments and procedures required to be used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs pursuant to title IV of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.). "(5) PRO RATA DISTRIBUTION OF ASSISTANCE.— In any fiscal year for which less than all of the funds authorized under subsection (c)(1) are appropriated, such funds shall be distributed under this subsection on a pro rata basis among the entities referred to in subsection (c)(1) in the same proportions in which amounts are authorized by that subsection for grants to those entities. "(b) SOLID WASTE ASSISTANCE.— "(1) IN GENERAL.^^ubject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall provide assistance to the State of Alaska for designing, locating, constructing, redeveloping, permitting, or certifying solid waste management facilities on the Pribilof Islands to be operated under permits issued to the City of St. George and the City of St. Paul, Alaska, by the State of Alaska under section 46.03.100 of the Alaska Statutes. "(2) TRANSFER. —The Secretary shall transfer any appropriations received under paragraph (1) to the State of Alaska for the benefit of rural and Native villages in Alaska for obligation under section 303 of Public Law 104—182, except that subsection (b) of that section shall not apply to those funds. "(3) LIMITATION.—In order to be eligible to receive financial Deadline, assistance under this subsection, not later than 180 days after Contracts, the date of the enactment of this paragraph, each of the Cities of St. Paul and St. George shall enter into a written agreement with the State of Alaska under which such City shall identify by its legal boundaries the tract or tracts of land that such City has selected as the site for its solid waste management facility and any supporting infrastructure. "(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal years 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005— "(1) for assistance under subsection (a) a total not to exceed "(A) $9,000,000, for grants to the City of St. Paul; "(B) $6,300,000, for grants to the Tanadgusix Corporation; "(C) $1,500,000, for grants to the St. Paul Tribal Council; "(D) $6,000,000, for grants to the City of St. George; "(E) $4,200,000, for grants to the St. George Tanaq Corporation; and "(F) $1,000,000, for grants to the St. George Tribal Council; and "(2) for assistance under subsection (b), for fiscal years 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 a total not to exceed— "(A) $6,500,000 for the City of St. Paul; and "(B) $3,500,000 for the City of St. George. " (d) LIMITATION ON USE OF ASSISTANCE FOR LOBBYING ACTIVI- TIES.— None of the funds authorized by this section may be available

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