PUBLIC LAW 104-134—APR. 26, 1996 110 STAT. 1321-180 Preserve in fiscal year 1996, the Secretary must obtain the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. This provision expires on September 30, 1996. (b) The President is authorized to suspend the provisions of subsection (a) of this section if he determines that such suspension is appropriate based upon the public interest in sound environmental management, sustainable resource use, protection of national or locally-affected interests, or protection of any cultural, biological or historic resources. Any suspension by the President shall take effect on such date, and continue in effect for such period (not to extend beyond the period in which subsection (a) would otherwise be in effect), as the President may determine, and shall be reported to the Congress. TITLE II—RELATED AGENCIES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE Termination date. President. Reports. FOREST RESEARCH For necessary expenses of forest research as authorized by law, $178,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997. 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 pest management activities, cooperative forestry and education and land conservation activities, $136,884,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized by law: Provided, That of funds available under this heading for Pacific Northwest Assistance in this or prior appropriations Acts, $200,000 shall be provided to the World Forestry Center for purposes of continuing scientific research and other authorized efforts regarding the land exchange efforts in the Umpqua River Basin Region. 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, for ecosystem planning, inventory, and monitoring, and for administrative expenses associated with the management of funds provided under the heads "Forest Research", "State and Private Forestry", "National Forest System", "Construction", "Fire Protection and Emergency Suppression", and "Land Acquisition", $1,257,057,000, to remain available for obligation until September 30, 1997, and including 65 per centum of all monies received during the prior fiscal year 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 unobligated and unexpended balances in the National Forest System account at the end of fiscal year 1995, shall be merged with and made a part of the fiscal year 1996 National Forest System appropriation, and shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 1997: Provided further. That
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