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PUBLIC LAW 108–108—NOV. 10, 2003

of 1998 Implementation Agreement to implement this section, which shall include a mechanism to ensure appropriate stakeholders from the States of California and Nevada participate in the process to recommend projects for funding; and’’. SEC. 343. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects and activities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central office operations shall be presented in annual budget justifications. Changes to such estimates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropriations for approval. SEC. 344. (a) ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS.—There is hereby rescinded an amount equal to 0.646 percent of— (1) the budget authority provided for fiscal year 2004 for any discretionary account in this Act; and (2) the budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for fiscal year 2004 for any discretionary account in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003. (b) PROPORTIONATE APPLICATION.—Any rescission made by subsection (a) shall be applied proportionately— (1) to each discretionary account and each item of budget authority described in subsection (a); and (2) within each such account and item, to each program, project, and activity (with programs, projects, and activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying reports for the relevant fiscal year covering such account or item, or for accounts and items not included in appropriation Acts, as delineated in the most recently submitted President’s budget). Flathead and Kootenai National Forest Rehabilitation Act of 2003. Wildfires. Montana.

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TITLE IV—THE FLATHEAD AND KOOTENAI NATIONAL FOREST REHABILITATION ACT SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the ‘‘Flathead and Kootenai National Forest Rehabilitation Act of 2003’’. SEC. 402. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— (1) the Robert Fire and Wedge Fire of 2003 caused extensive resource damage in the Flathead National Forest; (2) the fires of 2000 caused extensive resource damage on the Kootenai National Forest and implementation of rehabilitation and recovery projects developed by the agency for the Forest is critical; (3) the environmental planning and analysis to restore areas affected by the Robert Fire and Wedge Fire will be completed through a collaborative community process; (4) the rehabilitation of burned areas needs to be completed in a timely manner in order to reduce the long-term environmental impacts; and (5) wildlife and watershed resource values will be maintained in areas affected by the Robert Fire and Wedge Fire while exempting the rehabilitation effort from certain applications of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA).

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