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 PUBLIC LAW 95-352—AUG. 20, 1978

92 STAT. 515

Public Law 95-352 95th Congress An Act To authorize appropriations for activities and programs carried out by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management. Be it enacted by the Seriate arid House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That pursuant to section 318(b) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (31 U.S.C. 1301 note), there are hereby authorized to be appropriated the following sums for activities and programs administered through the Bureau of Land Management: (a) for management of lands and resources, excluding emergency firefighting and rehabilitation: $312,100,000 for fiscal year 1979, $329,300,000 for fiscal year 1980, $361,300,000 for fiscal year 1981, and $393,300,000 forfiscal year 1982; (b) for land acquisition, construction, and maintenance: $22,600,000 for fiscal year 1979, $22,000,000 for fiscal year 1980, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1981, and $27,000,000 for fiscal year 1982; (c) for implementation of the Act of October 20, 1976 (31 U.S.C. 1601): $105,000,000 and such additional sums as are necessary for payments for fiscal year 1979, $108,000,000 and such additional sums as are necessary for payments for fiscal year 1980, $111,000,000 and such additional sums as are necessary for payments for fiscal year 1981, and $114,000,000 and such additional sums as are necessary for payments for fiscal year 1982; (d) for implementation of section 317(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1747): $40,000,000 for loans for fiscal year 1979, $50,000,000 for loans for fiscal year 1980, $57,000,000 for loans for fiscal year 1981, and $65,000,000 for loans for fiscal year 1982; and (e) such additional or supplemental amounts as may be necessary for increases in salary, pay, retirements and other employee benefits authorized by law, and for other nondiscretionary costs. (f) Paragraph (c) of section 317 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743, 2771; 43 U.S.C. 1701, 1747) is amended to read as follows: "(c)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make loans to States and their political subdivisions in order to relieve social or economic impacts occasioned by the development of minerals leased in such States pursuant to the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended. Such loans shall be confined to the uses specified for the 50 per centum of mineral leasing revenues to be received by such States and subdivisions pursuant to section 35 of such Act. "(2) The total amount of loans outstandina: pursuant to this subsection for any State and political subdivisions thereof in any year shall be not more than the anticipated mineral leasing revenues to be received by that State pursuant to section 35 of the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, for the ten years following. "(3) The Secretary, after consultation with the Governors of the affected States, shall allocate such loans among the States and their political subdivisions in a fair and equitable manner, giving priority to those States and subdivisions suffering the most severe impacts.

Aug. 20, 1978 [H.R. 10787] Bureau of Land Management. Appropriation authorizations. 43 USC 1748.

30 USC 181. 30 USC 191.

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