112 STAT. 2681-269 PUBLIC LAW 105-277 —OCT. 21, 1998 STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing technical and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, and others, and for forest health management, cooperative forestry, and education and land conservation activities, $170,722,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized by law. NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utilization of the National Forest System, and for administrative expenses associated with the management of funds provided under the headings "Forest and Rangeland Research", "State and Private Forestry", "National Forest System", "Wildland Fire Management", "Reconstruction and Construction", and "Land Acquisition", $1,298,570,000, to remain available until expended, which shall include 50 percent of all moneys received during prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accordance with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 4601-6a(i)): Provided, That up to $3,000,000 of funds provided herein may be used to construct or reconstruct facilities of the Forest Service: Provided further. That no more than $150,000 shall be used on any single project, exclusive of plsuining and design costs: Provided further, That any unobligated balances remaining in this appropriation in the road maintenance extended budget line item at the end of fiscal year 1998 may be transferred to and made a peirt of the "Reconstruction and Construction" appropriation, road maintenance and decommissioning extended budget line item. WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System lands and water, $560,176,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That such funds are available for repa5ment of advances from other appropriations accounts previously tr£m.sferred for such purposes. For an additioned amount to cover necessary expenses for emergency rehabilitation, presuppression due to emergencies, and wildfire suppression activities of the Forest Service, $102,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further. That these funds shall be available only to the extent an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
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