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may direct giving priority to those subdivisions of 

 the State social or economically impacted by devel- 

 opment of minerals leased under this Act. for (il 

 planning, (ii> construction and maintenance of 

 public facilities, and 'iii> provision of public serv- 

 ice; and excepting those from Alaska. 40 per cen- 

 tum thereof shall be paid into, reserved, appropri- 

 ated, as part of the reclamation fund created by the 

 Act of Congress known as the Reclamation Act, ap- 

 proved June 17, 1902, and of those from Alaska as 

 soon as practicable after March 31 and September 

 30 of each year, 90 per centum thereof shall be paid 

 to the State of Alaska for disposition by the legis- 

 lature thereof: Provided, That all moneys which 

 may accrue to the United States under the pro- 

 visions of this Act and the Geothermal Steam Act 

 of 1970 from lands within the naval petroleum 

 reserves shall be deposited in the Treasury as 'mis- 

 cellaneous receipts,' as provided by the Act of 

 June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 813), as amended June 30, 

 1938 (52 Stat. 1252) . All moneys received under the 

 provisions of this Act and the Geothermal Steam 

 Act of 1970 not otherwise disposed of by this sec- 

 tion shall be credited to miscellaneous receipts.". 



(b) Funds now held pursuant to said section 35 

 by the States of Colorado and Utah separately 

 from the Department of the Interior oil shale test 

 leases known as C-A; C-B; U-A and U-B shall be 

 used by such States and subdivisions as the legis- 

 lature of each State may direct giving priority to 

 those subdivisions socially or economically impacted 

 by the development of minerals leased under this 

 Act for (1) planning, (2) construction and mainte- 

 nance of public facilities, and (3) provision of 

 public services. 



(c)(1) The Secretary is authorized to make loans 

 to States and their political subdivisions in order 

 to relieve social or economic impacts occasioned by 

 the development of minerals leased in such States 

 pursuant to the Act of February 25, 1920, as 

 amended. Such loans shall be confined to the uses 

 specified for the 50 per centum of mineral revenues 

 to be received by such States and subdivisions pur- 

 suant to section 35 of such Act. All loans shall bear 

 interest at a rate not to exceed 3 per centum and 

 shall be for such amounts and durations as the 

 Secretary shall determine. The Secretary shall 

 limit the amounts of such loans to all States ex- 

 cept Alaska to the anticipated mineral revenues 

 to be received by the recipients of said loans and to 

 Alaska to 55 per centum of anticipated mineral 

 revenues to be received by it pursuant to said sec- 

 tion 35 for any prospective 10-year period. Such 

 loans shall be repaid by the loan recipients from 

 mineral revenues to be derived from said section 

 35 by such recipients, as the Secretary determines. 



(2) The Secretary, after consultation with Gov- 

 ernors of the affected States, shall allocate such 

 loans among the States and their subdivisions in 

 a fair and equitable manner, giving priority to 

 those States and subdivisions suffering the most 

 severe impacts. 



(3) Loans under this subsection shall be subject 

 to such terms and conditions as the Secretary de- 



termines necessary to assure that the purpose of 

 this subsection will be achieved. The Secretary 

 shall issue such regulations as may be necessary 

 to carry out the provisions of this section. 



APPROPRIATION AUTHORIZATION 



Sec. 318. (a) There are hereby authorized to be 

 appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry 

 out the purposes and provisions of this Act, but no 

 amounts shall be appropriated to carry out after 

 October 1, 1978. anv program, function, or activity 

 of the Bureau under this or any other Act unless 

 such sums are specifically authorized to be ap- 

 propriated as of the date of approval of this Act 

 or are authorized to be appropriated in accordance 

 with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. 



(b) Consistent with section 607 of the Congres- 

 sional Budget Act of 1974, beginning May 15, 1977, 

 and not later than May 15 of each second even 

 numbered year thereafter, the Secretary shall sub- 

 mit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives 

 and the President of the Senate a request for the 

 authorization of appropriations for all programs, 

 functions, and activities of the Bureau to be carried 

 out during the four-fiscal-year period beginning on 

 October 1 of the calendar year following the cal- 

 endar year in which such request is submitted. The 

 Secretary shall include in his request, in addition 

 to the information contained in his budget request 

 and justification statement to the OfiBce of Man- 

 agement and Budget, the funding levels which he 

 determines can be efficiently and effectively utilized 

 in the execution of his responsibilities for each such 

 program, function, or activity, notwithstanding any 

 budget guidelines or limitations imposed by any of- 

 ficial or agency of the executive branch. 



<c) Nothing in this section shall apply to the dis- 

 tribution of receipts of the Bureau from the dis- 

 posal of lands, natural resources, and interests in 

 lands in accordance with applicable law, nor to 

 the use of contributed funds, private deposits for 

 public survey work, and townsite trusteeships, nor 

 to fund allocations from other Federal agencies, 

 reimbursements from both Federal and non-Fed- 

 eral sources, and funds expended for emergency 

 firefighting and rehabilitation. 



(d) In exercising the authority to acquire by 

 purchase granted by subsection (a) of section 205 

 of this Act, the Secretary may use the Land and 

 Water Conservation Fund to purchase lands which 

 are necessary for proper management of public 

 lands which are primarily of value for outdoor rec- 

 reation purposes. 



Title IV — Range Management 



GRAZING fees 



Sec 401. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture and 

 the Secretary of the Interior shall jointly cause 

 to be conducted a study to determine the value of 

 grazing on the lands under their jurisdiction in 

 the eleven Western States with a view to establish- 

 ing a fee to be charged for domestic livestock graz- 

 ing on such lands which is equitable to the United 



