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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-394—DEC. 30, 1982

96 STAT. 1985

any region, to move or close any regional office for research. State and private forestry, and National Forest System administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, without the consent of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in the United States Senate and the Committee on Agriculture in the United States House of Representatives. None of the funds made available under this Act shall be obligated or expended to adjust annual recreational residence fees to an amount greater than that annual fee in effect at the time of the next to last fee adjustment, plus 50 per centum. In those cases where the currently applicable annual recreational residence fee exceeds that adjusted amount, the Forest Service shall credit to the permittee that excess amount, times the number of years that that fee has been in effect, to offest future fees owed to the Forest Service. Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be advanced to the National Forest System appropriation for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands under its jurisdiction. Appropriations and funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to comply with the requirements of section 313(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1323(a)). The appropriation structure for the Forest Service may not be altered without advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for assistance to or through the Agency for International Development and the Office of International Cooperation and Development in connection with forest and rangeland research and technical information and assistance in foreign countries. Funds previously appropriated for timber salvage sales may be recovered from receipts deposited for use by the applicable national forest and credited to the Forest Service Permanent Appropriations to be expended for timber salvage sales from any national forest. Provisions of section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) shall apply to appropriations available to the Forest Service only to the extent that the proposed transfer is approved by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in compliance with the reprograming procedures contained in House Report 97-942. No funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture without the approval of the Chief of the Forest Service. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy research and development activities, under the authority of the IDepartment of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), $215,514,000 and 42 USC 7101 $31,700,000 to be derived by transfer from the account in Public Law "°*^^ 96-126 (93 Stat. 970 (1979)) entitled "Alternative Fuels Production", 42 USC 5915 and $40,000,000 to be derived by transfer from the account in Public "°*® Law 96-304 entitled "Energy Security Reserve" established to carry out the provisions set forth in section 204(a)(2) of the "Energy Security Act" (Public Law 96-294), to remain available until 42 USC 8803. expended: Provided, That no part of the sum herein appropriated