A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, and for other purposes.

Summary

Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 within the Department of the Interior for the Bureau of Land Management for management of land and resources, construction and access, payments in lieu of taxes, Oregon and California grant lands, range improvements, service charges, deposits and forfeitures, miscellaneous trust funds, and land acquisition. Sets forth uses and limitations of appropriations made to the Bureau of Land Management. Appropriates funds for: (1) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for resource management, construction, anadromous fish, the Migratory Bird Conservation Account, land acquisition, and the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (2) the National Park Service for the operation of the National Park System, recreation and preservation programs, the Visitor Facilities Fund, the Historic Preservation Fund, construction, land acquisition and State assistance, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (3) the Geological Survey for surveys, investigations and research; (4) the Minerals Management Service for leasing and royalty management; (5) the Bureau of Mines for the conduct of inquiries, technological investigations and research of mines and minerals; (6) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology, and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (7) the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the operation of Indian programs, construction, road construction, Utah Paiute Trust Fund, tribal trust funds, the revolving fund for loans, and the Indian Loan Guaranty and Insurance Fund; (8) the Office of Territorial and International Affairs for administration and for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and (9) the Secretarial offices, including the Office of the Solicitor for salaries and expenses, the Office of Construction Management, and the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth the uses and limitations on appropriations made available by this title. Makes such appropriations available for expenditure or transfer for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes. Makes funds available for the suppression or emergency prevention of forest or range fires on or threatening lands under the Department of the Interior jurisdiction, for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands, emergency actions related to earthquakes or volcanoes, and emergency reclamation projects. Makes appropriations available for the operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, whenever consolidation of activities all contribute to efficiency or economy. Makes appropriations available for the hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, hire of passenger motor vehicles, purchase or reprints, payment for telephone service in private residences in the field, and the payment of certain dues when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior. States that no funds available to the Department of the Interior are available for any expenses of the Great Hall of Commerce. Prohibits the use of funds for the procurement, leasing, bidding, exploration, or development of certain lands within the Department of the Interior Central and Northern California Planning Area. Prohibits the use of funds for the preparation for, or conduct of, pre-leasing and leasing activities of lands within a certain area of the Outer Continental Shelf off the coastline of Massachusetts. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to finance the changing of the name of Mount McKinley. Makes available appropriations to provide insurance on official motor vehicles, aircraft, and boats operated by the Department of the Interior in Canada and Mexico. Prohibits the use of funds for the lease sale of certain tracts within the Department of Interior Southern California Planning Area. Prohibits the use of funds for any land exchanges or other actions which lead to the alteration, deletion, or diminution of land, resources thereon, or rights and interests therein, within any conservation system unit, National Recreation Area or National Conservation Area as defined or designated by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Prohibits the use of funds to sell or exchange, or to propose to sell or exchange, lands owned by the United States within a unit of the U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System or the National Park System. Prohibits the use of funds to detail any employee to an organization for longer than two weeks except on a reimbursable basis unless in connection with an Office of Personnel Management approved training program. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1985 for the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for forest research, State and private forestry, the National Forest System, construction, land acquisition, Youth Conservation Corps, Range Betterment Fund, acquisition of land for national forests, and miscellaneous trust funds. Makes appropriations for the Department of Energy for fossil energy research and development (including transfer of funds), naval petroleum and oil shale reserves, energy conservation, economic regulation, the Energy Information Administration, and the SPR Petroleum Account. Makes appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Health Services Administration for Indian health services and facilities. Appropriates funds to: (1) the Department of Education for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for Indian education; (2) the Navajo and Hopi Relocation Commission for salaries and expenses; (3) the Smithsonian Institution for salaries and expenses; (4) museum programs and related research; (5) construction and improvements at the National Zoological Park; (6) restoration and renovation of buildings owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution; (7) salaries and expenses of the National Gallery of Art; and (8) salaries and expenses of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Makes appropriations for the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities for: (1) salaries and expenses and matching grants for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities; (2) the Institute of Museum Services; (3) salaries and expenses for the Commission of Fine Arts, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation for salaries and expenses and public development activities and projects; (4) the Federal Inspector for the Alaska Gas Pipeline for permitting and enforcement; and (5) the Holocaust Memorial Council. Title III: General Provisions - Limits procurement contracts for consulting services obtained through appropriations made by this Act to those contracts where expenditures are a matter of public record. Prohibits the use of appropriations by the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior for the sale of unprocessed timber from Federal lands which will be exported from the United States or which will be used as a substitute for timber from private lands which is exported by the purchaser. Prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from using such funds for leasing of oil and natural gas by noncompetitive bidding on public lands within the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. Prohibits the use of such funds for any activity that tends to promote public support or opposition to legislative proposals on which congressional action is incomplete. Prohibits the use of funds to enter into additional contracts pursuant to OMB Circular A-76 until certain studies are completed. Declares that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. Provides that none of the funds appropriated to any department or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or employee of such department or agency. Provides that none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be obligated for any aspect of the processing or issuance of permits or leases pertaining to exploration for or development of coal, oil, gas, oil shale, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite, or geothermal resources on Federal lands within any component of the National Wilderness Preservation System or within any Forest Service RARE II areas recommended for wilderness designation or allocated to further planning. Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to evaluate, consider, process, or award oil, gas or geothermal leases on Federal lands in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, State of Washington. Prohibits assessments from being levied against any program, budget activity, or project funded by this Act. Provides that employment funded by this Act shall not be subject to any personnel ceiling or other personnel restriction for permanent or other than permanent employment except as provided by law. Prohibits the use of funds provided for land acquisition to acquire lands for more than the approved appraised value, except for condemnations and declarations of taking, without the written approval of the Appropriations Committees. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Energy and the Smithsonian Institution to enter into contracts with State and local governments for procurement of services in the presuppression, detection, and suppression of fires.

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Timeline

1. 1 February 1984

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 1 February 1984

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Interior.

   Source: Committee

3. 2 February 1984

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

4. 24 February 1984

   Committee

   Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

5. 1 March 1984

   Committee

   Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

6. 6 March 1984

   Committee

   Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

7. 8 March 1984

   Committee

   Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

8. 15 March 1984

   Committee

   Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

9. 20 March 1984

   Committee

   Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

   Source: Committee

10. 22 March 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

11. 27 March 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

12. 2 April 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-1088 Pt.1.

    Source: Committee

13. 3 April 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

14. 5 April 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

15. 10 April 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

16. 26 April 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

17. 1 May 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

18. 3 May 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

19. 8 May 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

20. 10 May 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

21. 17 May 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.

    Source: Committee

22. 23 May 1984

    Committee

    Senate Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-1088 Pt.2.

    Source: Committee

23. 19 June 1984

    Committee

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.

    Source: Committee

24. 19 June 1984

    Committee

    First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.

    Source: Committee

25. 19 June 1984

    Committee

    Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

    Source: Committee

26. 28 June 1984

    Reported

    Ordered to be Reported.

    Source: Committee

27. 28 June 1984

    Committee

    First Day of Committee Mark-up.

    Source: Committee

28. 29 June 1984

    Calendars

    Placed on Union Calendar No: 508.

    Source: Calendars

29. 29 June 1984

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 98-886.

    Source: Committee

30. 29 June 1984

    Reported

    Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 98-886.

    Source: Committee

31. 29 June 1984

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

32. 29 June 1984

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

33. 24 July 1984

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.551 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

34. 24 July 1984

    Floor

    Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Waiving Clause 2, Rule XXI and Clause 6, Rule XXI Against Specified Provisions of the Bill.

    Source: Floor

35. 25 July 1984

    Failed

    Rule Failed of Passage in House.

    Source: Floor

36. 26 July 1984

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.557 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

37. 26 July 1984

    Floor

    Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Waiving all Points of Order Against Certain Provisions of the Bill for Failure to Comply with the Provisions of Clause 2, Rule XXI; Making in Order an Amendment if Offered by Rep. Conte Printed in the Congressional Record on July 26, 1984; Waiving all Points of Order Against Said Amendment for Failure to Comply the Clause 2, Rule XXI.

    Source: Floor

38. 31 July 1984

    Floor

    Called up by House as Privileged Matter.

    Source: Floor

39. 31 July 1984

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

40. 2 August 1984

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 336 - 57 (Record Vote No: 349).

    Source: Floor

41. 2 August 1984

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 336 - 57 (Record Vote No: 349).

    Source: Floor

42. 6 August 1984

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1099.

    Source: Calendars

43. 6 August 1984

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatfield for Senator McClure with amendments. With written report No. 98-578. Additional views filed.

    Source: Committee

44. 6 August 1984

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Hatfield for Senator McClure with amendments. With written report No. 98-578. Additional views filed.

    Source: Committee

45. 6 August 1984

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    Source: IntroReferral

46. 26 September 1984

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate.

    Source: Floor

47. 27 September 1984

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

48. 12 October 1984

    Committee

    For Further Action See H.J.Res.648.

    Source: Committee

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 6 August 1984

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 2 August 1984

  Open at official source

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Sponsors

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