PUBLIC LAW 108–108—NOV. 10, 2003
117 STAT. 1285
and contracting laws, in order to provide employment and training opportunities to people in rural communities, the Secretaries may award contracts, including contracts for monitoring activities, to local private, non-profit, or cooperative entities; Youth Conservation Corps crews or related partnerships, with State, local and nonprofit youth groups; small or micro-businesses; or other entities that will hire or train a significant percentage of local people to complete such contracts: Provided further, That the authorities described above relating to contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements are available until all funds provided in this title for hazardous fuels reduction activities in the urban wildland interface are obligated: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire management, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $12,000,000, between the Departments when such transfers would facilitate and expedite jointly funded wildland fire management programs and projects. For an additional amount, $301,000,000, to repay prior year advances from other appropriations from which funds were transferred for wildfire suppression and emergency rehabilitation activities: Provided, That this additional amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 502 of H. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004: Provided further, That this additional amount and $253,000,000 of the funds appropriated to the Forest Service for the repayment of advances for fire suppression in Public Law 108–83, shall be transferred to the following Forest Service accounts: $96,000,000 to the Land Acquisition account, $95,000,000 to the Capital Improvement and Maintenance account, $9,000,000 to the Working Capital Fund, $52,000,000 to the National Forest System account, $31,000,000 to the State and Private Forestry account, $10,000,000 to the Forest and Rangeland Research account, $35,000,000 to the Salvage Sale fund, $28,000,000 to the Timber Purchaser Election account, $154,000,000 to the Knutson Vandenburg fund, $20,000,000 to the Brush Disposal account, $14,000,000 to the Forest Service Recreation Fee Demonstration fund, and $10,000,000 to the Forest Land Enhancement Program account. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise provided for, $562,154,000, to remain available until expended for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and for construction, reconstruction, repair, decommissioning, and maintenance of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: Provided, That up to $15,000,000 of the funds provided herein for road maintenance shall be available for the decommissioning of roads, including unauthorized roads not part of the transportation system, which are no longer needed: Provided further, That no funds shall be expended to decommission any system road until notice and an opportunity for public comment has been provided on each decommissioning project: Provided further, That the Forest Service shall transfer $350,000 appropriated
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