1!%!^ -jCvf- --" • PUBLIC LAW 105-83 —NOV. 14, 1997 111 STAT. 1555 which shall be available for the transitionsil cost of initial or expanded tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau under such Act; and of which not to exceed $374,290,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education programs shall become available on July 1, 1998, and shall remain available until September 30, 1999; and of which not to exceed $55,949,000 shall remain available until expended for housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, self-governance grants, the Indian Self- Determination Fund, land records improvements and the Navajo- Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That tribes and tribal contractors may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants or compact agreements and for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided further. That funds made available to tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, compact agreements, or grants obligated during fiscal years 1998 and 1999, as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, or grants authorized by the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2001 and 2008A) shall remain available until expended by the contractor or grantee: Provided further. That to provide funding uniformity within a Self-Governance Compact, any funds provided in this Act with availability for more than two years may be reprogreimmed to two year availability but shall remain available within the Compact until expended: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, Indism tribal governments may, by appropriate changes in eligibility criteria or by other means, change eligibility for general assistance or change the amount of general assistance payments for individusds within the service area of such tribe who are otherwise deemed eligible for general assistance payments so long as such changes are applied in a consistent manner to individuals similarly situated: Provided further. That any savings realized by such changes shall be available for use in meeting other priorities of the tribes: Provided further, That any net increase in costs to the Federal Government which result solely from tribgilly increased payment levels for general assistance shall be met exclusively from funds available to the tribe from within its tribal priority allocation: Provided further. That any forestry funds allocated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 1998, may be transferred during fiscal year 1999 to an Indian forest land assistance account established for the benefit of such tribe within the tribe's trust fund account: Provided further. That any such unobligated balances not Expiration date, so transferred shall expire on September 30, 1999: Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to support the operation of any elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska in fiscal year 1998: Provided further. That funds made available in this or any other Act for expenditure through September 30, 1999 for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996: Provided further. That no funds available to the Bureau shall be used to support expanded grades for any school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bureau 25 USC 2012 school system as of October 1, 1995: Provided further. That begin- no**, ning in fiscal year 1998 and thereaft;er and notwithstanding 25
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