Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 110 Part 2.djvu/330

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110 STAT. 1321-183 PUBLIC LAW 104-134—APR. 26, 1996 (B) to the City of Wrangell, $18,700,000 in fiscal year 1996 and $4,700,000 in each of fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999" and (C) to the City and Borough of Ketchikan, $13,300,000 in fiscal year 1996 and $3,300,000 in each of fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999. (2) The funds provided under paragraph (1) shall be used to employ former timber workers in Wrangell and Sitka, and for related community development projects in Sitka, Wrangell, and Ketchikan. (3) The Secretary shall allocate an additional $10,000,000 from the Fund for each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 to communities in Alaska according to the following percentages: (A) the Borough of Haines, 5.5 percent; (B) the City and Borough of Juneau, 10.3 percent; (C) the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, 4.5 percent; (D) the City and Borough of Sitka, 10.8 percent; (E) the City and Borough of Yakutat, 7.4 percent; and (F) the unorganized Boroughs within the Tongass National Forest, 61.5 percent. (4) Funds provided pursuant to paragraph (3)(F) shall be allocated by the Secretary of Agriculture to the unorganized Boroughs in the Tongass National Forest in the same proportion as timber receipts were made available to such Boroughs in fiscal year 1995, and shall be in addition to any other monies provided to such Boroughs under this Act or any other law. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year shall be available for: (a) purchase of not to exceed 183 passenger motor vehicles of which 32 will be used primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which 151 shall be for replacement; acquisition of 22 passenger motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; operation and maintenance of aircraft, the purchase of not to exceed two for replacement only, and acquisition of 20 aircraft from excess sources; notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft; (b) services pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2225), and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (c) purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (d) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein, pursuant to the Act of August 3, 1956 (7 U.S.C. 428a); (e) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, 558a note); and (0 for debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). None of the funds made available under this Act shall be obligated or expended to change the boundaries of any region, to abolish any region, to move or close any regional office for research. State and private forestry, or National Forest System administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, or to implement any reorganization, "reinvention" or other type of organizational restructuring of the Forest Service, other than the relocation of the Regional Office for Region 5 of the Forest Service from San Francisco to excess military property at Mare