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 123STA T . 2 957PUBLIC LA W 111 –8 8 —O CT. 3 0, 2009 (c)REPORT.—OnSept e mb e r30,2 0 1 0,t h e Secret a r yof the I nter i or s ha l l file w ith the H o u se an d Senate C ommittees on A ppro - priations and the Committee on N atural Resources of the House and the Committee on E ner g y and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions ta k en by the D epartment under the plan sub- mitted pursuant to section 31 4 (c) of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1 9 9 7 ( P ublic L aw 104 – 20 8 ). (d) MIN ER AL E X A M INATION S .—In order to process patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, upon the re q uest of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected by the B ureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral e x amina- tion of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent applica- tion as set forth in subsection (b). T he Bureau of Land Management shall ha v e the sole responsibility to choose and pay the third- party contractor in accordance with the standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land Management in the retention of third-party contractors. C ONTRACT S U PPORT COSTS SEC. 409. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts appropriated to or otherwise designated in committee reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 104–134, 104–208, 10 5 –83, 105– 277, 10 6 –113, 106–291, 107–63, 108–7, 108–108, 108–447, 109– 54, 109–289, division B and Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (division B of Public Law 109–289, as amended by Public Laws 110–5 and 110–28), Public Laws 110–92, 110–116, 110–137, 110–149, 110–161, 110–329, 111–6, and 111–8 for payments for contract support costs associated with self-determination or self- governance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agree- ments with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service as funded by such Acts, are the total amounts available for fiscal years 1994 through 2009 for such purposes, except that the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organi z ations may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet contract support costs of ongoing contracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual funding agreements. F OREST MANA G EMENT PLANS SEC. 410. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the F orest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U .S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more than 15 years have passed with- out revision of the plan for a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law
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d , That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith, within the funding available, to revise a plan for a unit of the National Forest System, this section shall be void with respect to such plan and a court of proper j urisdiction may order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis. 16USC 16 04note.