Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 2.djvu/752

 96 STAT. 2114

Establishment.

Construction and improvement funds. Contracts.

Indian labor.

Projects on Indian reservation roads.

State and local cooperation.

PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983

renewable resource and land use planning for the various national forests. "(c) On October 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate the sums authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal year for public lands highways among those States having unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands or other Federal reservations, on the basis of need in such States, respectively, as determined by the Secretary upon application of the State highway departments of the respective States. The Secretary shall give preference to those projects which are significantly impacted by Federal land and resource management activities. "(d) On October 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate the sums authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal year for park roads and parkways each according to the relative needs of the various elements of the national park system, taking into consideration the need for access as identified through Iand use planning and the impact of such planning on existing transportation facilities. "(e) On October 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall allocate the sums authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal year for Indian reservation roads according to the relative needs of the various reservations as jointly identified by the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior.". (b) Section 204 of title 23, United States Ckxie, is amended to read as follows: "§ 204. Federal Lands Highways Program "(a) Recognizing the need for all Federal roads which are public roads to be treated under the same uniform policies as roads which are on the Federal-aid systems, there is established a coordinated Federal lands highways program which shall consist of the forest highways, public lands highways, park roads, parkways, and Indian reservation roads as defined in section 101 of this title. "(b) Funds available for forest highways and public lands highways shall be used by the Secretary to pay for the cost of construction and improvement thereof. Funds available for park roads, parkways, and Indian reservation roads shall be used by the Secretary of the Interior to pay for the cost of construction and improvement thereof. In connection therewith, the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, may enter into construction contracts and such other contracts with a State or civil subdivision thereof or Indian tribe as deemed advisable. In the case of Indian reservation roads, Indian labor may be employed in such construction and improvement under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. No ceiling on Federal employment shall be applicable to construction or improvement of Indiein reservation roa<k. "(c) Before approving as a project on an Indian reservation road any project on a Federal-aid system in a State, the Secretary must determine that the obligation of funds for such project is supplementary to and not in lieu of the obligation, for projects on Indian reservation roads, of a fair and equitable share of funds apportioned to such State under section 104 of this title. "(d) Cooperation of States, counties, or other local subdivisions may be accepted in construction and improvement, and any funds received from a State, county, or local subdivision shall be credited to appropriations available for the class of Federal lands highways to which such funds were contributed.

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