Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 114 Part 3.djvu/668

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114 STAT. 1766 PUBLIC LAW 106-408—NOV. 1, 2000 describing the expense for administration and stating the amount of the expense; and "(B) may use any such available amounts for the expense for administration only after the end of the 30- day period beginning on the date of submission of the report under subparagraph (A). "(2) MAXIMUM AMOUNT. —For any fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior may use under paragraph (1) not more than $25,000. "(c) RESTRICTION ON USE TO SUPPLEMENT GENERAL APPROPRIA- TIONS.— The Secretary of the Interior shall not use available amounts under subsection (b) to supplement the funding of any function for which general appropriations are made for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or any other entity of the Department of the Interior. "(d) AUDIT REQUIREMENT. — "(1) IN GENERAL.—The Inspector General of the Department of the Interior shall procure the performance of biennial audits, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, of expenditures and obligations of amounts used by the Secretary of the Interior for expenses for administration incurred in implementation of this Act. "(2) AUDITOR.— "(A) IN GENERAL. —An audit under this subsection shall be performed under a contract that is awarded under competitive procedures (as defined in section 4 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403)) by a person or entity that is not associated in any way with the Department of the Interior (except by way of a contract for the performance of an audit or other review). "(B) SUPERVISION OF AUDITOR.—The auditor selected under subparagraph (A) shall report to, and be supervised by, the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior, except that the auditor shall submit a copy of the biennial audit findings to the Secretary of the Interior at the time at which the findings are submitted to the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior. "(3) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Inspector General of the Department of the Interior shall promptly submit to the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate— "(A) a report on the results of each audit under this subsection; and "(B) a copy of each audit under this subsection.", (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT. —Section 8(b) of the Pittman- Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669g(b)) is amended in the first sentence by striking "section 4(b) of this Act" and inserting "section 4(c)". SEC. 112. FIREARM AND BOW HUNTER EDUCATION AND SAFETY PRO- GRAM GRANTS. The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act is amended— (1) by redesignating section 10 (16 U.S.C. 669i) as section 12; and (2) by inserting after section 9 (16 U.S.C. 669h) the following: