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Union Calendar No. ll
118TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION

H. R. ll[Report No. 118–ll]

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, andrelated agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, andfor other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ll --, 2023
Mr. SIMPSON, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on theState of the Union and ordered to be printed

A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior,environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.

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1

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-

2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
4 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
5 Department of the Interior, environment, and related
6 agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024,
7 and for other purposes, namely:
8

TITLE I

9DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

10BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

11

MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES

12

For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-

13 ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi14 fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in
15 lands, and performance of other functions, including main16 tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage17 ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction
18 of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general
19 administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral
20 potential of public lands pursuant to section 1010(a) of
21 Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,180,645,000,
22 to remain available until September 30, 2025; of which
23 $57,140,250 for annual maintenance and deferred mainte24 nance programs and $154,787,000 for the wild horse and25 burro program, as authorized by Public Law 92–195 (16l:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), shall remain available until ex2 pended: Provided, That amounts in the fee account of the3 BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund may be used
4 for any bureau-related expenses associated with the proc5 essing of oil and gas applications for permits to drill and6 related use of authorizations: Provided further, That of the
7 amounts made available under this heading, up to
8 $3,500,000 may be made available for the purposes de9 scribed in section 122(e)(1)(A) of division G of Public Law
10 115–31 (43 U.S.C. 1748c(e)(1)(A)).
11

In addition, $35,000,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-

12 tration program operations, including the cost of admin13 istering the mining claim fee program, to remain available
14 until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the
15 Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining
16 claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby
17 authorized for fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a final
18 appropriation estimated at not more than $1,170,645,000,
19 and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from
20 communication site rental fees established by the Bureau
21 for the cost of administering communication site activities.
22

OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS

23

For expenses necessary for management, protection,

24 and development of resources and for construction, oper25 ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, andl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 other improvements on the revested Oregon and California
2 Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or3 egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and
4 on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in5 terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or
6 adjacent to such grant lands; $60,000,000, to remain
7 available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the
8 aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year
9 from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant
10 lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and
11 California land-grant fund and shall be transferred to the
12 General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the sec13 ond paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of
14 August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 2605).
15

RANGE IMPROVEMENTS

16

For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of

17 lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal
18 rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land
19 Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1751),
20 notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent
21 of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under
22 sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C.
23 315b, 315m) and the amount designated for range im24 provements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts
25 from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Depart-

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1 ment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than
2 $10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro3 vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for
4 administrative expenses.
5

SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES

6

For administrative expenses and other costs related

7 to processing application documents and other authoriza8 tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources,
9 for costs of providing copies of official public land docu10 ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi11 nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations,
12 and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts
13 as may be collected under Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C.
14 1701 et seq.), and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing
15 Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain available until expended:
16 Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con17 trary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C.
18 1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be received
19 pursuant to that section, whether as a result of forfeiture,
20 compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate for refund
21 pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C.
22 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under
23 the authority of this Act by the Secretary of the Interior
24 to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands ad25 ministered through the Bureau of Land Management

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61 which have been damaged by the action of a resource de2 veloper, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person,
3 without regard to whether all moneys collected from each
4 such action are used on the exact lands damaged which
5 led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys
6 that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage
7 to the exact land for which funds were collected may be
8 used to repair other damaged public lands.
9

MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS

10

In addition to amounts authorized to be expended

11 under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such
12 amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of Pub13 lic Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as
14 may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, ap15 praisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands
16 under section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to
17 remain available until expended.
18

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

19

The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the

20 operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure,
21 contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and reimburs22 able agreements with public and private entities, including
23 with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be avail24 able for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of tem25 porary structures, and alteration and maintenance of nec-

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1 essary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the
2 United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at
3 the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence
4 concerning violations of laws administered by the Bureau;
5 miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement ac6 tivities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be
7 accounted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to
8 exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding Public
9 Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the Bureau may, under co10 operative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements au11 thorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators
12 in connection with jointly produced publications for which
13 the cooperators share the cost of printing either in cash
14 or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator
15 is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: Provided
16 further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a written
17 commitment by a State government to provide an identi18 fied amount of money in support of the project may be
19 carried out by the Bureau on a reimbursable basis.
20

UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

21

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

22

For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and

23 Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific
24 and economic studies, general administration, and for the
25 performance of other authorized functions related to such

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81 resources, $1,340,019,000, to remain available until Sep2 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That not to exceed
3 $21,058,200 shall be used for implementing subsections
4 (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Spe5 cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) (except for processing
6 petitions, developing and issuing proposed and final regu7 lations, and taking any other steps to implement actions
8 describedinsubsection(c)(2)(A),(c)(2)(B)(i),or

9 (c)(2)(B)(ii) of such section).
10

CONSTRUCTION11

For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-

12 moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con13 servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti14 lization of fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition
15 of lands and interests therein; $15,000,000, to remain
16 available until expended.
17

COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION

18

FUND

19

For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the

20 Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535),
21 $22,000,000, to remain available until expended, to be de22 rived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Conserva23 tion Fund.

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NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND

2

For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-

3 ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000.
4

NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND

5

For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions

6 of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (167 U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), $48,500,000, to remain available
8 until expended.
9

NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION10

For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical

11 Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et
12 seq.), $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.
13

MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND

14

For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-

15 phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the16 Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C.
17 4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act
18 of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Con19 servation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the
20 Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601
21 et seq.), $20,000,000, to remain available until expended.
22

STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS

23

For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the

24 District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United
25 States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands,

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1 American Samoa, and Indian Tribes under the provisions
2 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and
3 Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and imple4 mentation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their
5 habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished,
6 $72,612,000, to remain available until expended: Pro7 vided, That of the amount provided herein, $6,200,000 is
8 for a competitive grant program for Indian Tribes not sub9 ject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation: Pro10 vided further, That $7,612,000 is for a competitive grant
11 program to implement approved plans for States, terri12 tories, and other jurisdictions and at the discretion of af13 fected States, the regional Associations of fish and wildlife
14 agencies, not subject to the remaining provisions of this15 appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall,
16 after deducting $13,812,000 and administrative expenses,
17 apportion the amount provided herein in the following
18 manner: (1) to the District of Columbia and to the Com19 monwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal to not more
20 than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (2) to Guam,
21 American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and22 the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each
23 a sum equal to not more than one-fourth of 1 percent
24 thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte25 rior shall apportion the remaining amount in the following

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1 manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to
2 which the land area of such State bears to the total land
3 area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of which is
4 based on the ratio to which the population of such State
5 bears to the total population of all such States: Provided
6 further, That the amounts apportioned under this para7 graph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall
8 be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the
9 amount available for apportionment under this paragraph
10 for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount:
11 Provided further, That the Federal share of planning
12 grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of
13 such projects and the Federal share of implementation
14 grants shall not exceed 65 percent of the total costs of
15 such projects: Provided further, That the non-Federal
16 share of such projects may not be derived from Federal
17 grant programs: Provided further, That any amount ap18 portioned in 2024 to any State, territory, or other jurisdic19 tion that remains unobligated as of September 30, 2025,
20 shall be reapportioned, together with funds appropriated
21 in 2026, in the manner provided herein.
22

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

23

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may

24 carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex25 penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements andl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 reimbursable agreements with public and private entities.
2 Appropriations and funds available to the United States
3 Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of
4 damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation
5 areas caused by operations of the Service; options for the
6 purchase of land at not to exceed one dollar for each op7 tion; facilities incident to such public recreational uses on
8 conservation areas as are consistent with their primary
9 purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquar10 ia, buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of
11 the Service and to which the United States has title, and12 which are used pursuant to law in connection with man13 agement, and investigation of fish and wildlife resources:
14 Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Serv15 ice may, under cooperative cost sharing and partnership
16 arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services
17 from cooperators in connection with jointly produced pub18 lications for which the cooperators share at least one-half
19 the cost of printing either in cash or services and the Serv20 ice determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accept21 ed quality standards: Provided further, That the Service
22 may accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing
23 aircraft: Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
24 3302, all fees collected for non-toxic shot review and ap25 proval shall be deposited under the heading ‘‘United

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1 States Fish and Wildlife Service—Resource Management’’
2 and shall be available to the Secretary, without further
3 appropriation, to be used for expenses of processing of
4 such non-toxic shot type or coating applications and revis5 ing regulations as necessary, and shall remain available
6 until expended.
7

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

8OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

9For expenses necessary for the management, oper-

10 ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis11 tered by the National Park Service and for the general
12 administration

of

the

National

Park

Service,

13 $2,654,000,000, of which $11,661,000 shall be for plan14 ning and interagency coordination in support of Ever15 glades restoration, and $15,000,000 shall be for uses au16 thorized by section 101122 of title 54, United States
17 Code, to remain available until September 30, 2025: Pro18 vided, That funds appropriated under this heading are
19 available for the purposes of section 5 of Public Law 95–
20 348: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 9 of
21 the 400 Years of African-American History Commission
22 Act (36 U.S.C. note prec. 101; Public Law 115–102),
23 $2,500,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall
24 be made available for the purposes specified by that Act.

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In addition, for purposes described in section 2404

2 of Public Law 116–9, an amount equal to the amount de3 posited in this fiscal year into the National Park Medical
4 Services Fund established pursuant to such section of
5 such Act, to remain available until expended, shall be de6 rived from such Fund.
7

NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION8

For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-

9 grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage
10 partnership programs, environmental compliance and re11 view, international park affairs, and grant administration,
12 not otherwise provided for, $80,000,000, to remain avail13 able until September 30, 2025.
14

HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND

15

For expenses necessary in carrying out the National

16 Historic Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title
17 54, United States Code), $175,400,000, to be derived
18 from the Historic Preservation Fund and to remain avail19 able until September 30, 2025, of which $26,500,000 shall
20 be for Save America’s Treasures grants for preservation
21 of nationally significant sites, structures and artifacts as
22 authorized by section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land
23 Management Act of 2009 (54 U.S.C. 3089): Provided,
24 That an individual Save America’s Treasures grant shall
25 be matched by non-Federal funds: Provided further, Thatl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 individual projects shall only be eligible for one grant: Pro2 vided further, That all projects to be funded shall be ap3 proved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation
4 with the House and Senate Committees on Appropria5 tions: Provided further, That of the funds provided for the
6 Historic Preservation Fund, $30,250,000 is for the Com7 petitive Grants Subactivity; $11,000,000 is for grants to
8 Historically Black Colleges and Universities; $12,500,000
9 is for competitive grants for the restoration of historic
10 properties of national, State, and local significance listed
11 on or eligible for inclusion on the National Register of His12 toric Places, to be made without imposing the usage or
13 direct grant restrictions of section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C.
14 302904) of the National Historic Preservation Act; and15 $10,000,000 is for a competitive grant program to honor
16 the semiquincentennial anniversary of the United States
17 by restoring and preserving sites and structures listed on
18 the National Register of Historic Places that commemo19 rate the founding of the nation: Provided further, That
20 such competitive grants shall be made without imposing
21 the matching requirements in section 302902(b)(3) of title
22 54, United States Code, to States and Indian Tribes as
23 defined in chapter 3003 of such title, Native Hawaiian or24 ganizations, local governments, including Certified Local
25 Governments, and nonprofit organizations.

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CONSTRUCTION2

For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-

3 ment of physical facilities, and related equipment, and
4 compliance and planning for programs and areas adminis5 tered by the National Park Service, $114,600,000, to re6 main available until expended: Provided, That notwith7 standing any other provision of law, for any project ini8 tially funded in fiscal year 2024 with a future phase indi9 cated in the National Park Service 5–Year Line Item Con10 struction Plan, a single procurement may be issued which
11 includes the full scope of the project: Provided further,
12 That the solicitation and contract shall contain the clause
13 availability of funds found at 48 CFR 52.232–18: Pro14 vided further, That National Park Service Donations,
15 Park Concessions Franchise Fees, and Recreation Fees
16 may be made available for the cost of adjustments and17 changes within the original scope of effort for projects
18 funded by the National Park Service Construction appro19 priation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte20 rior shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations,
21 in accordance with current reprogramming thresholds,
22 prior to making any charges authorized under this head23 ing.

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CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE

2

For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions

3 of section 101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating
4 to challenge cost share agreements, $15,000,000, to re5 main available until expended, for Centennial Challenge
6 projects and programs: Provided, That not less than 50
7 percent of the total cost of each project or program shall
8 be derived from non-Federal sources in the form of do9 nated cash, assets, or a pledge of donation guaranteed by
10 an irrevocable letter of credit.
11

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS12(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

13

In addition to other uses set forth in section

14 101917(c)(2) of title 54, United States Code, franchise
15 fees credited to a sub-account shall be available for ex16 penditure by the Secretary, without further appropriation,
17 for use at any unit within the National Park System to
18 extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or
19 leasehold surrender interest. Such funds may only be used
20 for this purpose to the extent that the benefitting unit an21 ticipated franchise fee receipts over the term of the con22 tract at that unit exceed the amount of funds used to ex23 tinguish or reduce liability. Franchise fees at the benefit24 ting unit shall be credited to the sub-account of the origi25 nating unit over a period not to exceed the term of a single

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1 contract at the benefitting unit, in the amount of funds
2 so expended to extinguish or reduce liability.
3

For the costs of administration of the Land and4 Water Conservation Fund grants authorized by section
5 105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act
6 of 2006 (Public Law 109–432), the National Park Service
7 may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are au8 thorized to be disbursed under such section, such retained
9 amounts to remain available until expended.
10

National Park Service funds may be transferred to

11 the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Depart12 ment of Transportation, for purposes authorized under 23
13 U.S.C. 203. Transfers may include a reasonable amount
14 for FHWA administrative support costs.
15

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

16

SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH

17

For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-

18 logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re19 search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology,
20 and the mineral and water resources of the United States,
21 its territories and possessions, and other areas as author22 ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as
23 to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su24 pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu25 latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-

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1 ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into
2 the economic conditions affecting mining and materials
3 processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50
4 U.S.C. 98g(a)(1)) and related purposes as authorized by
5 law; and to publish and disseminate data relative to the
6 foregoing activities; $1,347,460,000, to remain available
7 until September 30, 2025; of which $84,788,000 shall re8 main available until expended for satellite operations; and9 of which $39,030,000 shall be available until expended for
10 deferred maintenance and capital improvement projects
11 that exceed $100,000 in cost: Provided, That none of the
12 funds provided for the ecosystem research activity shall
13 be used to conduct new surveys on private property, unless
14 specifically authorized in writing by the property owner:
15 Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall
16 be used to pay more than one-half the cost of topographic
17 mapping or water resources data collection and investiga18 tions conducted in cooperation with States and municipali19 ties.
20

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

21

From within the amount appropriated for activities

22 of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are
23 necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur24 nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo25 physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-

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1 tively determined that such procedures are in the public
2 interest; construction and maintenance of necessary build3 ings and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for
4 gauging stations, observation wells, and seismic equip5 ment; expenses of the United States National Committee
6 for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation and7 expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly ap8 pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation
9 and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That
10 activities funded by appropriations herein may be accom11 plished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera12 tive agreements (including noncompetitive cooperative
13 agreements with Tribes) as defined in section 6302 of title
14 31, United States Code: Provided further, That the United
15 States Geological Survey may enter into contracts or coop16 erative agreements directly with individuals or indirectly
17 with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without re18 gard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or intermittent
19 services of students or recent graduates, who shall be con20 sidered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 and 81
21 of title 5, United States Code, relating to compensation
22 for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28,
23 United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not
24 be considered to be Federal employees for any other pur25 poses.

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1

BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT

2OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT3

For expenses necessary for granting and admin-

4 istering leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements
5 for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and ma6 rine-related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and7 approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law;
8 for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for imple9 menting other laws and to the extent provided by Presi10 dential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants
11 or cooperative agreements, $210,000,000, of which
12 $154,000,000 is to remain available until September 30,
13 2025, and of which $56,000,000 is to remain available
14 until expended: Provided, That this total appropriation
15 shall be reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of
16 the Interior and credited to this appropriation from addi17 tions to receipts resulting from increases to lease rental
18 rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery
19 fees from activities conducted by the Bureau of Ocean En20 ergy Management pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf
21 Lands Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and22 miscellaneous administrative activities: Provided further,
23 That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such
24 collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to re25 sult in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated

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1 at not more than $154,000,000: Provided further, That
2 not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable ex3 penses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine
4 cleanup activities.
5

BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL

6

ENFORCEMENT

7

OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT8

For expenses necessary for the regulation of oper-

9 ations related to leases, easements, rights-of-way, and10 agreements for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy,
11 and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental
12 Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and imple13 menting laws and regulations as authorized by law and
14 to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial dele15 gation; and for matching grants or cooperative agree16 ments, $172,000,000, of which $141,000,000 is to remain
17 available until September 30, 2025, and of which
18 $31,000,000 is to remain available until expended, includ19 ing $3,000,000 for offshore decommissioning activities:
20 Provided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced
21 by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and22 credited to this appropriation from additions to receipts
23 resulting from increases to lease rental rates in effect on
24 August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activi25 ties conducted by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental

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1 Enforcement pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf
2 Lands Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and3 miscellaneous administrative activities: Provided further,
4 That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such
5 collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to re6 sult in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated
7 at not more than $144,000,000.
8

For an additional amount, $33,000,000, to remain

9 available until expended, to be reduced by amounts col10 lected by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation,
11 which shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees
12 collected in fiscal year 2024, as provided in this Act: Pro13 vided, That to the extent that amounts realized from such
14 inspection fees exceed $33,000,000, the amounts realized
15 in excess of $33,000,000 shall be credited to this appro16 priation and remain available until expended: Provided
17 further, That for fiscal year 2024, not less than 50 percent
18 of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety
19 and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund per20 sonnel and mission-related costs to expand capacity and21 expedite the orderly development, subject to environmental
22 safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the
23 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et
24 seq.), including the review of applications for permits to
25 drill.

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1

OIL SPILL RESEARCH

2

For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section

3 1016; title IV, sections 4202 and 4303; title VII; and title
4 VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
5 $15,099,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li6 ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.
7

OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND

8

ENFORCEMENT

9REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY

10

For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions

11 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
12 1977, Public Law 95–87, $108,923,000, to remain avail13 able until September 30, 2025, of which $65,000,000 shall
14 be available for State and Tribal regulatory grants: Pro15 vided, That appropriations for the Office of Surface Min16 ing Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the
17 travel and per diem expenses of State and Tribal per18 sonnel attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
19 and Enforcement sponsored training.
20

In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-

21 force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507
22 of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to re23 main available until expended: Provided, That fees as24 sessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section
25 507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary off-

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1 setting collections, to remain available until expended:
2 Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from
3 the general fund shall be reduced as collections are re4 ceived during the fiscal year, so as to result in a fiscal
5 year 2024 appropriation estimated at not more than
6 $108,923,000.
7

ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND

8

For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the

9 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977,
10 Public Law 95–87, $34,000,000, to be derived from re11 ceipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to
12 remain available until expended: Provided, That pursuant
13 to Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is
14 authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of
15 the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government
16 to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided fur17 ther, That funds made available under title IV of Public
18 Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal
19 share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov20 ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re21 lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage
22 from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such
23 projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior24 ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act:
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1 ing may be used for the travel and per diem expenses of
2 State and Tribal personnel attending Office of Surface
3 Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training.
4

In addition, $136,000,000, to remain available until

5 expended, for payments to States and federally recognized
6 Indian Tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands
7 and other related activities in accordance with the terms
8 and conditions described in the report accompanying this
9 Act: Provided, That such additional amount shall be used
10 for economic and community development in conjunction
11 with the priorities described in section 403(a) of the Sur12 face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30
13 U.S.C. 1233(a)): Provided further, That of such additional
14 amount, $89,042,000 shall be distributed in equal
15 amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest
16 amount of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described
17 in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such section, $35,218,000
18 shall be distributed in equal amounts to the three Appa19 lachian States with the subsequent greatest amount of un20 funded needs to meet such priorities, and $11,740,000
21 shall be for grants to federally recognized Indian Tribes,
22 without regard to their status as certified or uncertified
23 under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
24 of 1977, for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and25 other related activities in accordance with the terms andl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 conditions described in the report accompanying this Act
2 and shall be used for economic and community develop3 ment in conjunction with the priorities in section 403(a)4 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
5 1977: Provided further, That such payments shall be made6 to States and federally recognized Indian Tribes not later7 than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act:
8 Provided further, That if payments have not been made9 by the date specified in the preceding proviso, the amount
10 appropriated for salaries and expenses under the heading
11 ‘‘Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’’
12 shall be reduced by $100,000 per day until such payments
13 have been made.
14

INDIAN AFFAIRS15BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS16

OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS17(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

18

For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian

19 programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act
20 of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self21 Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (2522 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $2,010,574,000, to remain available
23 until September 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided
24 herein; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for official
25 reception and representation expenses; of which not to ex-

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1 ceed $78,494,000 shall be for welfare assistance pay2 ments: Provided, That in cases of designated Federal dis3 asters, the Secretary of the Interior may exceed such cap
4 for welfare payments from the amounts provided herein,
5 to provide for disaster relief to Indian communities af6 fected by the disaster: Provided further, That federally rec7 ognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations of feder8 ally recognized Indian Tribes may use their Tribal priority
9 allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided
10 further, That not to exceed $83,402,000 shall remain
11 available until expended for housing improvement, road12 maintenance, land acquisition, attorney fees, litigation
13 support, land records improvement, hearings and appeals,
14 and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided fur15 ther, That any forestry funds allocated to a federally rec16 ognized Tribe which remain unobligated as of September
17 30, 2025, may be transferred during fiscal year 2026 to
18 an Indian forest land assistance account established for
19 the benefit of the holder of the funds within the holder’s
20 trust fund account: Provided further, That any such unob21 ligated balances not so transferred shall expire on Sep22 tember 30, 2026: Provided further, That in order to en23 hance the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau
24 may use funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying
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1 not to exceed $7,096,000 in funds for trust, probate, and2 administrative functions may, as needed, be transferred
3 to the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’
4 account: Provided further, That the Bureau of Indian Af5 fairs may accept transfers of funds from United States
6 Customs and Border Protection to supplement any other7 funding available for reconstruction or repair of roads
8 owned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as identified on
9 the National Tribal Transportation Facility Inventory, 23
10 U.S.C. 202(b)(1).
11

CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS

12For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for

13 contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter14 mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with
15 the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian
16 Education for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec17 essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep18 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any
19 other provision of law, no amounts made available under
20 this heading shall be available for transfer to another21 budget account.
22

PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES23

For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for

24 leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter25 mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C.

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1 5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec2 essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep3 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any
4 other provision of law, no amounts made available under
5 this heading shall be available for transfer to another6 budget account.
7

CONSTRUCTION

8(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

9

For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-

10 nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities,
11 and other facilities, including architectural and engineer12 ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests
13 in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for
14 construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur15 suant to Public Law 87–483; $153,309,000, to remain
16 available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as
17 may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian
18 Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of
19 Reclamation: Provided further, That any funds provided
20 for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of
21 November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available
22 on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That this23 appropriation may be reimbursed from the Bureau of
24 Trust Fund Administration appropriation for the appro25 priate share of construction costs for space expansion

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1 needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa2 tion: Provided further, That of the funds made available
3 under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived from the
4 Indian Irrigation Fund established by section 3211 of the
5 WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749): Pro6 vided further, That amounts provided under this heading
7 are made available for the modernization of Federal field
8 communication capabilities, in addition to amounts other9 wise made available for such purpose.
10

INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND

11

MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS

12

For payments and necessary administrative expenses

13 for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle14 ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264 and 116–260, and15 for implementation of other land and water rights settle16 ments, $825,000, to remain available until expended.
17

INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT

18

For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans,

19 $11,744,000, to remain available until September 30,
20 2025, of which $2,680,000 is for administrative expenses,
21 as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: Pro22 vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying
23 such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con24 gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That
25 these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal,

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1 any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to
2 exceed $150,213,551.
3

BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION

4OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS

5

For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian

6 education programs, as authorized by law, including the
7 Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the In8 dian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of
9 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amend10 ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally
11 Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.),
12 $1,131,617,000 to remain available until September 30,
13 2025, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That
14 federally recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organiza15 tions of federally recognized Indian Tribes may use their
16 Tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance17 costs: Provided further, That not to exceed $833,592,000
18 for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and19 other education programs shall become available on July
20 1, 2024, and shall remain available until September 30,
21 2025: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other22 provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian
23 Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.)
24 and section 1128 of the Education Amendments of 1978
25 (25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed $95,822,000 within andl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 only from such amounts made available for school oper2 ations shall be available for administrative cost grants as3 sociated with grants approved prior to July 1, 2024: Pro4 vided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu5 reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur6 chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for
7 personnel.
8

EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION9

For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-

10 nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary
11 for the operation of Indian education programs, including
12 architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi13 tion of lands, and interests in lands; $267,887,000 to re14 main available until expended: Provided, That in order to
15 ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec16 retary of the Interior may assume control of a project and
17 all funds related to the project, if, not later than 18
18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, any
19 Public Law 100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) grantee
20 receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any prior
21 Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of
22 the project and commenced construction.
23

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

24

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1 grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree2 ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera3 tion with States and other organizations.
4

Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15),

5 the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in
6 support of the management, operation, and maintenance
7 of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project.
8

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds

9 available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau
10 of Indian Education for central office oversight and Exec11 utive Direction and Administrative Services (except Exec12 utive Direction and Administrative Services funding for
13 Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities
14 operations and maintenance) shall be available for con15 tracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with
16 the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian
17 Education under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter18 mination Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994
19 (Public Law 103–413).
20

In the event any Tribe returns appropriations made21 available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or
22 the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di23 minish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to
24 that Tribe, or the government-to-government relationship

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1 between the United States and that Tribe, or that Tribe’s
2 ability to access future appropriations.
3

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds

4 available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than
5 the amounts provided herein for assistance to public
6 schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to
7 support the operation of any elementary or secondary
8 school in the State of Alaska.
9

No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Edu-

10 cation shall be used to support expanded grades for any
11 school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place
12 or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school
13 in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of
14 October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior
15 may waive this prohibition to support expansion of up to
16 one additional grade when the Secretary determines such
17 waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission
18 of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one
19 grade to expand the elementary grade structure for Bu20 reau-funded schools with a K–2 grade structure on Octo21 ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any
22 prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail23 able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula,
24 only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep25 tember 1, 1996, and to any school or school program that

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1 was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds made available
2 under this Act may not be used to establish a charter
3 school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined
4 in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978
5 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is
6 in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and7 that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before Sep8 tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe9 riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau
10 a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for
11 the use of the real and personal property (including buses
12 and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept sepa13 rate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does
14 not assume any obligation for charter school programs of
15 the State in which the school is located if the charter16 school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded
17 schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per18 forming functions related to the charter school’s operation
19 and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as
20 Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28,
21 United States Code.
22

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including

23 section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106–
24 113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi25 rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution

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1 formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the2 Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin3 istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f)4 distribution formula.
5

Funds available under this Act may not be used to

6 establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school
7 system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary
8 may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian Tribe
9 to provide language and cultural immersion educational
10 programs for non-public schools located within the juris11 dictional area of the Tribal government which exclusively
12 serve Tribal members, do not include grades beyond those
13 currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school,
14 provide an educational environment with educator pres15 ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau16 funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal,
17 or State health and safety standards, and the Americans
18 with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es19 tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur20 ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or
21 other impacts to students such as those caused by busing
22 students extended distances: Provided, That no funds
23 available under this Act may be used to fund operations,
24 maintenance, rehabilitation, construction, or other facili25 ties-related costs for such assets that are not owned by

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1 the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite
2 school’’ means a school location physically separated from
3 the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that
4 forms part of the existing school in all other respects.
5

Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations

6 within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In7 dian Education Programs may be used to execute re8 quested adjustments in Tribal priority allocations initiated
9 by an Indian Tribe.
10

BUREAU OF TRUST FUNDS ADMINISTRATION

11FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS12(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

13

For the operation of trust programs for Indians by

14 direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements,
15 compacts, and grants, $104,176,000, to remain available
16 until expended, of which not to exceed $17,867,000 from17 this or any other Act, may be available for settlement sup18 port: Provided, That funds for trust management improve19 ments and litigation support may, as needed, be trans20 ferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
21 ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian
22 Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Programs’’
23 accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Ex24 penses’’ account; and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Depart25 mental Operations’’ account: Provided further, That funds

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1 made available through contracts or grants obligated dur2 ing fiscal year 2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-De3 termination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall4 remain available until expended by the contractor or
5 grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other6 provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to
7 provide a quarterly statement of performance for any In8 dian trust account that has not had activity for at least
9 15 months and has a balance of $15 or less: Provided fur10 ther, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account
11 statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and
12 shall permit the balance in each such account to be with13 drawn upon the express written request of the account
14 holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 is
15 available for the Secretary to make payments to correct
16 administrative errors of either disbursements from or de17 posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after
18 September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous
19 payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re20 main available in this account for this purpose: Provided
21 further, That the Secretary shall not be required to rec22 oncile Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than
23 $500 unless the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration
24 receives proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Ac25 counts claimant: Provided further, That notwithstanding

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1 section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund Manage2 ment Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any
3 other provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the
4 trust accounts of individuals whose whereabouts are un5 known for a continuous period of at least 5 years and shall6 not be required to generate periodic statements of per7 formance for the individual accounts: Provided further,
8 That with respect to the preceding proviso, the Secretary
9 shall continue to maintain sufficient records to determine
10 the balance of the individual accounts, including any ac11 crued interest and income, and such funds shall remain
12 available to the individual account holders.
13

DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES

14

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

15

DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS

16(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

17

For necessary expenses for management of the De-

18 partment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative
19 agreements, as authorized by law, $67,942,000, to remain
20 available until September 30, 2025; of which not to exceed
21 $15,000 may be for official reception and representation
22 expenses; of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available for
23 workers compensation payments and unemployment com24 pensation payments associated with the orderly closure of
25 the United States Bureau of Mines; and of which

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1 $14,958,000 for Indian land, mineral, and resource valu2 ation activities shall remain available until expended: Pro3 vided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource
4 valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred to and5 merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of
6 Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Education ‘‘Op7 eration of Indian Education Programs’’ accounts and the
8 Bureau of Trust Funds Administration ‘‘Federal Trust
9 Programs’’ account: Provided further, That funds made10 available through contracts or grants obligated during fis11 cal year 2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-Deter12 mination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall re13 main available until expended by the contractor or grant14 ee.
15

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

16

For fiscal year 2024, up to $400,000 of the payments

17 authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code,18 may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay19 ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the
20 amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay21 ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts
22 available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of
23 title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the
24 event the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for pay25 ments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to makel:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units
2 of local government, then the payment to each local gov3 ernment shall be made proportionally: Provided further,
4 That the Secretary may make adjustments to payment to
5 individual units of local government to correct for prior
6 overpayments or underpayments: Provided further, That
7 no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to oth8 erwise eligible units of local government if the computed
9 amount of the payment is less than $100.
10

INSULAR AFFAIRS11ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES

12

For expenses necessary for assistance to territories

13 under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior
14 and other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Pub15 lic

Law

108–188,$107,857,000,ofwhich:(1)

16 $97,640,000 shall remain available until expended for ter17 ritorial assistance, including general technical assistance,
18 maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef ini19 tiative and natural resources activities, and brown tree
20 snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in
21 American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au22 thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern23 ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev24 enues, for construction and support of governmental func25 tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands, as

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1 authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam,
2 as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of
3 the Northern Mariana Islands, as authorized by law (Pub4 lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $10,217,000 shall
5 be available until September 30, 2025, for salaries and6 expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That
7 all financial transactions of the territorial and local gov8 ernments herein provided for, including such transactions
9 of all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by
10 such governments, may be audited by the Government Ac11 countability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with
12 chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur13 ther, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant
14 funding shall be provided according to those terms of the
15 Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future
16 United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mar17 iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided
18 further, That the funds for the program of operations and19 maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu20 tionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement
21 of capital infrastructure with territorial participation and
22 cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on
23 the grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its
24 capital assets: Provided further, That any appropriation
25 for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act or

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1 previous appropriations Acts may be used as non–Federal
2 matching funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation
3 grants provided pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T.
4 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
5 (42 U.S.C. 5170c).
6

COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION7

For grants and necessary expenses, $1,463,000, to

8 remain available until expended, as provided for in sec9 tions 221(a)(2) and 233 of the Compact of Free Associa10 tion for the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of
11 the Compacts of Free Association for the Government of
12 the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated
13 States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99–
14 658 and Public Law 108–188.
15

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS16(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

17

At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-

18 retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory
19 funds provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108–
20 188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for
21 Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost
22 of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per23 cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost
24 of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the
25 Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1)

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1 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for
2 construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds
3 shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such
4 costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
5 as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
6 of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran7 tees may be made without regard to the population of the
8 area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on
9 the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica10 tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated
11 Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That
12 any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall
13 be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make14 or guarantee loans under such authorities.
15

OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR

16

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

17

For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor,

18 $90,945,000, to remain available until September 30,
19 2025.
20

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

21

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

22

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector

23 General, $64,000,000, to remain available until September
24 30, 2025.

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1

DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS2WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT

3(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

4

For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire

5 suppression operations, fire science and research, emer6 gency rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and7 rural fire assistance by the Department of the Interior,
8 $1,097,443,000, to remain available until expended, of
9 which not to exceed $12,000,000 shall be for the renova10 tion or construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such
11 funds are also available for repayment of advances to
12 other appropriation accounts from which funds were pre13 viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further,
14 That of the funds provided $247,000,000 is for fuels man15 agement activities: Provided further, That persons hired
16 pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence
17 and lodging without cost from funds available from this18 appropriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42
19 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the
20 Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered
21 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United
22 States property, may be credited to the appropriation from
23 which funds were expended to provide that protection, and24 are available without fiscal year limitation: Provided fur25 ther, That using the amounts designated under this title

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1 of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into
2 procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements,
3 for fuels management activities, and for training and mon4 itoring associated with such fuels management activities
5 on Federal land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for ac6 tivities that benefit resources on Federal land: Provided
7 further, That the costs of implementing any cooperative
8 agreement between the Federal Government and any non9 Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by
10 the affected parties: Provided further, That notwith11 standing requirements of the Competition in Contracting
12 Act, the Secretary, for purposes of fuels management ac13 tivities, may obtain maximum practicable competition
14 among: (1) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities;
15 (2) Youth Conservation Corps crews, Public Lands Corps
16 (Public Law 109–154), or related partnerships with State,
17 local, or nonprofit youth groups; (3) small or micro-busi18 nesses; or (4) other entities that will hire or train locally
19 a significant percentage, defined as 50 percent or more,
20 of the project workforce to complete such contracts: Pro21 vided further, That in implementing this section, the Sec22 retary shall develop written guidance to field units to en23 sure accountability and consistent application of the au24 thorities provided herein: Provided further, That funds ap25 propriated under this heading may be used to reimburse

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1 the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Na2 tional Marine Fisheries Service for the costs of carrying
3 out their responsibilities under the Endangered Species
4 Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and con5 ference, as required by section 7 of such Act, in connection
6 with wildland fire management activities: Provided further,
7 That the Secretary of the Interior may use wildland fire
8 appropriations to enter into leases of real property with
9 local governments, at or below fair market value, to con10 struct capitalized improvements for fire facilities on such
11 leased properties, including but not limited to fire guard
12 stations, retardant stations, and other initial attack and13 fire support facilities, and to make advance payments for
14 any such lease or for construction activity associated with
15 the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte16 rior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the17 transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire manage18 ment, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000
19 between the Departments when such transfers would fa20 cilitate and expedite wildland fire management programs
21 and projects: Provided further, That funds provided for
22 wildfire suppression shall be available for support of Fed23 eral emergency response actions: Provided further, That
24 funds appropriated under this heading shall be available
25 for assistance to or through the Department of State in

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1 connection with forest and rangeland research, technical2 information, and assistance in foreign countries, and, with
3 the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall be avail4 able to support forestry, wildland fire management, and5 related natural resource activities outside the United
6 States and its territories and possessions, including tech7 nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation
8 with United States and international organizations: Pro9 vided further, That of the funds provided under this head10 ing, $383,657,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres11 sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec12 tion 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
13 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
14

WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND

15

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

16

In addition to the amounts provided under the head-

17 ing ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro18 grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres19 sion operations, $350,000,000, to remain available until
20 transferred, is additional new budget authority specified
21 for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced
22 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Pro23 vided, That such amounts may be transferred to and
24 merged with amounts made available under the headings
25 ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland

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1 Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—De2 partment-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’
3 for wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in
4 which such amounts are transferred: Provided further,
5 That amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire
6 Management’’ accounts in the Department of Agriculture
7 or the Department of the Interior only upon the notifica8 tion of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria9 tions that all wildfire suppression operations funds appro10 priated under that heading in this and prior appropria11 tions Acts to the agency to which the funds will be trans12 ferred will be obligated within 30 days: Provided further,
13 That the transfer authority provided under this heading
14 is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by
15 law: Provided further, That, in determining whether all
16 wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated under
17 the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and18 prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Ag19 riculture or the Department of the Interior will be obli20 gated within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso,
21 any funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pur22 suant to any other transfer authority provided by law shall
23 be excluded.

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1

CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND

2

For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-

3 terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for
4 the response action, including associated activities, per5 formed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Re6 sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601
7 et seq.), $9,000,000, to remain available until expended.
8

ENERGY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM

9(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

10

For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-

11 terior to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond
12 to hazardous substance releases, remediate lands pursuant
13 to section 40704 of Public Law 117–58 (30 U.S.C. 1245),
14 and carry out the purposes of section 349 of the Energy
15 Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended,
16 $5,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
17 That such amount shall be in addition to amounts other18 wise available for such purposes: Provided further, That
19 amounts appropriated under this heading are available for20 program management and oversight of these activities:
21 Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer the
22 funds provided under this heading in this Act to any other23 account in the Department to carry out such purposes,
24 and may expend such funds directly, or through grants:
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1 fulfill Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com2 pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obli3 gations agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court,
4 whether for payment of funds or for work to be performed.
5

NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND

6

RESTORATION

7NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND

8

To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-9 toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by
10 the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the
11 provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
12 Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.),
13 the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251
14 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701
15 et seq.), and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,750,000, to
16 remain available until expended.
17

WORKING CAPITAL FUND

18

For the operation and maintenance of a departmental

19 financial and business management system, data manage20 ment, information technology improvements of general
21 benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and the consoli22 dation of facilities and operations throughout the Depart23 ment, $89,758,000, to remain available until expended:
24 Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act
25 or any other Act may be used to establish reserves in the

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1 Working Capital Fund account other than for accrued an2 nual leave and depreciation of equipment without prior ap3 proval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House
4 of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That
5 the Secretary of the Interior may assess reasonable
6 charges to State, local, and Tribal government employees
7 for training services provided by the National Indian Pro8 gram Training Center, other than training related to Pub9 lic Law 93–638: Provided further, That the Secretary may
10 lease or otherwise provide space and related facilities,
11 equipment, or professional services of the National Indian
12 Program Training Center to State, local and Tribal gov13 ernment employees or persons or organizations engaged
14 in cultural, educational, or recreational activities (as de15 fined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States Code)16 at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equip17 ment, or services in the vicinity of the National Indian
18 Program Training Center: Provided further, That all funds
19 received pursuant to the two preceding provisos shall be
20 credited to this account, shall be available until expended,
21 and shall be used by the Secretary for necessary expenses
22 of the National Indian Program Training Center: Provided
23 further, That the Secretary may enter into grants and co24 operative agreements to support the Office of Natural Re25 source Revenue’s collection and disbursement of royalties,l:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized
2 by law.
3

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION

4

There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-

5 able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft
6 which may be obtained by donation, purchase, or through7 available excess surplus property: Provided, That existing
8 aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived
9 or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the
10 replacement aircraft.
11

OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE

12

For necessary expenses for management of the collec-

13 tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral
14 revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree15 ments, as authorized by law, $157,440,000, to remain
16 available until September 30, 2025; of which $71,251,000
17 shall remain available until expended for the purpose of
18 mineral revenue management activities: Provided, That
19 notwithstanding any other provision of law, $15,000 shall
20 be available for refunds of overpayments in connection
21 with certain Indian leases in which the Secretary of the
22 Interior concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay
23 amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to correct
24 prior unrecoverable erroneous payments.

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1 GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
2(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

3EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—INTRA-BUREAU

4SEC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be

5 available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau
6 or office), with the approval of the Secretary of the Inte7 rior, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or re8 pair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or
9 equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or
10 other unavoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall
11 be made available under this authority until funds specifi12 cally made available to the Department of the Interior for
13 emergencies have been exhausted: Provided further, That
14 all funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished
15 by a supplemental appropriation, which must be requested
16 as promptly as possible.
17

EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—DEPARTMENT-WIDE

18

SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may author-

19 ize the expenditure or transfer of any no year appropria20 tion in this title, in addition to the amounts included in
21 the budget programs of the several agencies, for the sup22 pression or emergency prevention of wildland fires on or
23 threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Depart24 ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of
25 burned-over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency ac-

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1 tions related to potential or actual earthquakes, floods,
2 volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; for contin3 gency planning subsequent to actual oil spills; for response
4 and natural resource damage assessment activities related
5 to actual oil spills or releases of hazardous substances into
6 the environment; for the prevention, suppression, and con7 trol of actual or potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket
8 outbreaks on lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary,
9 pursuant to the authority in section 417(b) of Public Law
10 106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); for emergency reclamation
11 projects under section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall
12 transfer, from any no year funds available to the Office
13 of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, such
14 funds as may be necessary to permit assumption of regu15 latory authority in the event a primacy State is not car16 rying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining
17 Act: Provided, That appropriations made in this title for
18 wildland fire operations shall be available for the payment
19 of obligations incurred during the preceding fiscal year,
20 and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for de21 struction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in con22 nection with their use for wildland fire operations, with
23 such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations cur24 rently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided
25 further, That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall

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1 be made available under this authority until the Secretary
2 determines that funds appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire sup3 pression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided fur4 ther, That all funds used pursuant to this section must
5 be replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which
6 must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided fur7 ther, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reim8 burse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency
9 funds were transferred.
10

AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS

11

SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department

12 of the Interior in this title shall be available for services
13 as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States
14 Code, when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior,
15 in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and re16 placement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped
17 law enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper18 ation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; pur19 chase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private
20 residences in the field, when authorized under regulations
21 approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when
22 authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in so23 cieties or associations which issue publications to members
24 only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers
25 who are not members.

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1

AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS, INDIAN TRUST

2

MANAGEMENT

3

SEC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the

4 headings ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs,’’ ‘‘Bureau of Indian
5 Education,’’ and ‘‘Bureau of Trust Funds Administra6 tion’’ and any unobligated balances from prior appropria7 tions Acts made under the same headings shall be avail8 able for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust manage9 ment and reform activities. Total funding for settlement
10 support activities shall not exceed amounts specifically
11 designated in this Act for such purpose. The Secretary
12 shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appro13 priations within 60 days of the expenditure or transfer of
14 any funds under this section, including the amount ex15 pended or transferred and how the funds will be used.
16

REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS, BUREAU OF INDIAN

17

AFFAIRS18

SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of

19 law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis20 tribute any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including
21 Tribal base funds, to alleviate Tribal funding inequities
22 by transferring funds to address identified, unmet needs,
23 dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate
24 distribution methodologies. No Tribe shall receive a reduc25 tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10

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1 percent in fiscal year 2024. Under circumstances of dual
2 enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis3 tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not
4 apply.
5

OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES

6

SEC. 106. (a) In fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of

7 the Interior shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee,
8 which shall be deposited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Envi9 ronmental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated op10 erator for facilities subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C.
11 1348(c).
12(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that

13 are above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are
14 in place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year
15 2024 shall be—
16(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with17

processing equipment or gathering lines;

18(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells,

19with any combination of active or inactive wells; and20(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 1021wells, with any combination of active or inactive

22

wells.

23(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all in-

24 spections completed in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal
25 year 2024 shall be—

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1(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in2water depths of 500 feet or more; and3(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in

4water depths of less than 500 feet.

5(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted

6 via non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts
7 D, E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections com8 pleted in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal year 2024 shall
9 be—
10

(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-

11

erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more;

12(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-

13

erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet;

14

and

15

(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units op-

16

erating in water depths of less than 500 feet.

17(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators

18 under subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required
19 within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des20 ignated operators under subsection (c) within 30 days of
21 the end of the month in which the inspection occurred,
22 with payment required within 30 days of billing. The Sec23 retary shall bill designated operators under subsection (d)24 with payment required by the end of the following quarter.

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1

CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND

2

BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES

3

SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of

4 this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into
5 multiyear cooperative agreements with nonprofit organiza6 tions and other appropriate entities, and may enter into
7 multiyear contracts in accordance with the provisions of
8 section 3903 of title 41, United States Code (except that
9 the 5-year term restriction in subsection (a) shall not
10 apply), for the long-term care and maintenance of excess
11 wild free-roaming horses and burros by such organizations
12 or entities on private land. Such cooperative agreements
13 and contracts may not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal
14 at the discretion of the Secretary.
15

MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS

16

SEC. 108. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-

17 ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect
18 threatened and endangered species of salmon, implement
19 a system of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended
20 for harvest, that are released from federally operated or
21 federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to
22 fish releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species.
23 Marked fish must have a visible mark that can be readily
24 identified by commercial and recreational fishers.

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1

CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS

2SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of

3 law, during fiscal year 2024, in carrying out work involv4 ing cooperation with State, local, and Tribal governments
5 or any political subdivision thereof, Indian Affairs may
6 record obligations against accounts receivable from any
7 such entities, except that total obligations at the end of
8 the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources
9 available at the end of the fiscal year.
10

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCED SERVICES

11

PROGRAM

12

SEC. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision

13 of law relating to Federal grants and cooperative agree14 ments, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make15 grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, pri16 vate nonprofit organizations designated by the Secretary
17 of Labor under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965
18 to utilize the talents of older Americans in programs au19 thorized by other provisions of law administered by the
20 Secretary and consistent with such provisions of law.
21(b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under

22 subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that the agree23 ment would not—24

(1) result in the displacement of individuals

25

currently employed by the Department, including

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1

partial displacement through reduction of non-over-2

time hours, wages, or employment benefits;3(2) result in the use of an individual under the4

Department of the Interior Experienced Services

5

Program for a job or function in a case in which a

6

Federal employee is in a layoff status from the same7

or substantially equivalent job within the Depart-

8

ment; or9(3) affect existing contracts for services.

10

OBLIGATION OF FUNDS

11

SEC. 111. Amounts appropriated by this Act to the

12 Department of the Interior shall be available for obligation
13 and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of
14 enactment of this Act.
15

SEPARATION OF ACCOUNTS

16

SEC. 112. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to

17 implement an orderly transition to separate accounts of
18 the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian
19 Education, may transfer funds among and between the
20 successor offices and bureaus affected by the reorganiza21 tion only in conformance with the reprogramming guide22 lines described in this Act.

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1

PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILT)

2

SEC. 113. Section 6906 of title 31, United States

3 Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’
4 for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’.
5

INTERAGENCY MOTOR POOL

6

SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of law

7 or Federal regulation, federally recognized Indian Tribes
8 or authorized Tribal organizations that receive Tribally9 Controlled School Grants pursuant to Public Law 100–
10 297 may obtain interagency motor vehicles and related
11 services for performance of any activities carried out
12 under such grants to the same extent as if they were con13 tracting under the Indian Self-Determination and Edu14 cation Assistance Act.
15

APPRAISER PAY AUTHORITY

16

SEC. 115. For fiscal year 2024, funds made available

17 in this or any other Act or otherwise made available to18 the Department of the Interior for the Appraisal and19 Valuation Services Office may be used by the Secretary
20 of the Interior to establish higher minimum rates of basic
21 pay for employees of the Department of the Interior in
22 the Appraiser (GS–1171) job series at grades 11 through23 15 carrying out appraisals of real property and appraisal
24 reviews conducted in support of the Department’s realty
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1 minimum rates of basic pay normally scheduled, and such
2 higher rates shall be consistent with subsections (e)3 through (h) of section 5305 of title 5, United States Code.
4

SAGE-GROUSE

5

SEC. 116. None of the funds made available by this6 or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte7 rior pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (168 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)—
9(1) to write or issue a proposed or final rule10with regard to—

11(A) the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus

12urophasianus);

13(B) the Columbia Basin Distinct Popu-

14

lation Segment of greater sage-grouse; or

15(C) the Bi-State Distinct Population Seg-

16

ment of greater sage-grouse; or

17(2) to implement, administer, or enforce—

18(A) the rule submitted by the United

19

States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to

20‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and21

Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the

22

Bi-State Distinct Population Segment of Great-23

er Sage-Grouse’’ (78 Fed. Reg. 64327; pub-24

lished October 28, 2013);

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1(B) the rule submitted by the United

2States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to

3‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and

4Plants; Threatened Status for the Bi-State Dis-5

tinct Population Segment of Greater Sage-

6

Grouse With Special Rule’’ (78 Fed. Reg.

764357; published October 28, 2013); or

8(C) the rule submitted by the United

9States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to

10‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and11

Plants; Threatened Status for the Bi-State Dis-

12

tinct Population Segment of Greater Sage-

13

Grouse With Section 4(d) Rule and Designation

14of Critical Habitat’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 25613; pub-15

lished April 27, 2023).

16

STATE CONSERVATION GRANTS

17

SEC. 117. For expenses necessary to carry out section

18 200305 of title 54, United States Code, the National Park
19 Service may retain up to 7 percent of the State Conserva20 tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of
21 Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to sup22 port State program administrative costs.

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1

TITLE II

2

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY3

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

4

For science and technology, including research and5 development activities, which shall include research and6 development activities under the Comprehensive Environ7 mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
8 1980; necessary expenses for personnel and related costs
9 and travel expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment
10 and supplies; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft;
11 and other operating expenses in support of research and
12 development, $560,707,000, to remain available until Sep13 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That of the funds included
14 under this heading, $19,475,000 shall be for Research:
15 National Priorities as specified in the report accom16 panying this Act.
17

ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT18

For environmental programs and management, in-

19 cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for20 personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of
21 passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper22 ation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library member23 ships in societies or associations which issue publications
24 to members only or at a price to members lower than to
25 subscribers who are not members; administrative costs of

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1 the brownfields program under the Small Business Liabil2 ity Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; im3 plementation of a coal combustion residual permit pro4 gram under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of
5 2016; and not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and6 representation expenses, $2,428,959,000, to remain avail7 able until September 30, 2025: Provided further, That of
8 the funds included under this heading—
9(1) $35,000,000 shall be for Environmental

10

Protection: National Priorities as specified in the re-11

port accompanying this Act;12(2) $651,226,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-13

grams as specified in the report accompanying this

14

Act.

15 In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex16 pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in
17 section 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (1518 U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursu19 ant to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA
20 Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in
21 fiscal year 2024 shall be retained and used for necessary
22 salaries and expenses in this appropriation and shall re23 main available until expended: Provided further, That the
24 sum herein appropriated in this paragraph from the gen25 eral fund for fiscal year 2024 shall be reduced by the

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1 amount of discretionary offsetting receipts received during
2 fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024
3 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more
4 than $0: Provided further, That to the extent that amounts
5 realized from such receipts exceed $9,000,000, those
6 amounts in excess of $9,000,000 shall be deposited in the
7 ‘‘TSCA Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting re8 ceipts in fiscal year 2024, shall be retained and used for
9 necessary salaries and expenses in this account, and shall
10 remain available until expended: Provided further, That of
11 the funds included in the first paragraph under this head12 ing, the Chemical Risk Review and Reduction program
13 project shall be allocated for this fiscal year, excluding the
14 amount of any fees appropriated, not less than the amount
15 of appropriations for that program project for fiscal year
16 2014.
17

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

18

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector

19 General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
20 General Act of 1978, $44,030,000, to remain available
21 until September 30, 2025.
22

BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES23

For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-

24 teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of,

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1 or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency,
2 $24,000,000, to remain available until expended.
3

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND

4(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

5

For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-

6 sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil7 ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3),8 (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire,
9 maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $355,856,000, to
10 remain available until expended, consisting of such sums
11 as are available in the Trust Fund on September 30,
12 2023, and not otherwise appropriated from the Trust
13 Fund, as authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund
14 Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA)
15 and up to $355,856,000 as a payment from general reve16 nues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes
17 as authorized by section 517(b) of SARA: Provided, That
18 funds appropriated under this heading may be allocated
19 to other Federal agencies in accordance with section
20 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds
21 appropriated under this heading, $13,847,000 shall be
22 paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation
23 to remain available until September 30, 2025, and24 $31,928,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science and Tech-

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1 nology’’ appropriation to remain available until September
2 30, 2025.
3

LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND

4PROGRAM5

For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-

6 ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub7 title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $83,885,000, to
8 remain available until expended, of which $60,691,000
9 shall be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank
10 cleanup activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the
11 Solid Waste Disposal Act; and $23,194,000 shall be for
12 carrying out the other provisions of the Solid Waste Dis13 posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Rev14 enue Code: Provided, That the Administrator is authorized
15 to use appropriations made available under this heading
16 to implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal
17 Act to provide financial assistance to federally recognized
18 Indian Tribes for the development and implementation of
19 programs to manage underground storage tanks.
20

INLAND OIL SPILL PROGRAMS

21

For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-

22 mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil
23 Pollution Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and24 operation of aircraft, $19,865,000, to be derived from the

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1 Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until ex2 pended.
3

STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS

4

For environmental programs and infrastructure as-

5 sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv6 ing

funds

and

performance

partnershipgrants,

7 $2,583,858,000, to remain available until expended, of
8 which—9(1) $535,000,000 shall be for making capital-

10

ization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving

11

Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution

12

Control Act; and of which $460,611,000 shall be for13

making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water

14

State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the

15

Safe

16

$470,139,492 of the funds made available for cap-

17

italization grants for the Clean Water State Revolv-18

ing Funds and $410,309,777 of the funds made19

available for capitalization grants for the Drinking

20

Water State Revolving Funds shall be for the con-21

struction of drinking water, wastewater, and storm

22

water infrastructure and for water quality protection23

in accordance with the terms and conditions speci-

24

fied for such grants in the report accompanying this25

Act for projects specified for ‘‘STAG—Drinking

Drinking

Water

Act:

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1

Water State Revolving Fund’’ and ‘‘STAG—Clean

2

Water State Revolving Fund’’ in the table titled ‘‘In-

3

terior and Environment Incorporation of Community

4

Project Funding Items’’ included in the report ac-

5companying this Act, and, for purposes of these6

grants, each grantee shall contribute not less than7

20 percent of the cost of the project unless the8

grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency: Pro-9

vided further, That the Administrator is authorized10

to use up to $1,500,000 of funds made available for11

the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under this12

heading under title VI of the Federal Water Pollu-

13tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the14

Clean Watersheds Needs Survey: Provided further,15

That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Fed-16

eral Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on17

the amounts in a State water pollution control re-18

volving fund that may be used by a State to admin-

19

ister the fund shall not apply to amounts included20

as principal in loans made by such fund in fiscal

21

year 2024 and prior years where such amounts rep-22

resent costs of administering the fund to the extent

23that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by24

the Administrator, accounted for separately from25

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1

poses of the fund, including administration: Provided

2

further, That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding3

the provisions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of

4

section 201 of the Federal Water Pollution Control

5Act, grants made under title II of such Act for6

American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the

7

Northern Marianas, the United States Virgin Is-

8lands, and the District of Columbia may also be

9made for the purpose of providing assistance: (1)10solely for facility plans, design activities, or plans,

11

specifications, and estimates for any proposed

12

project for the construction of treatment works; and13(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of

14

privately owned treatment works serving one or15

more principal residences or small commercial estab-

16

lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year

172024, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-18

sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and sec-

19

tion 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control

20

Act, funds reserved by the Administrator for grants

21

under section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution

22

Control Act may also be used to provide assistance:

23(1) solely for facility plans, design activities, or24plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed25

project for the construction of treatment works; andl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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751(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of2

privately owned treatment works serving one or3

more principal residences or small commercial estab-4lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year

52024, notwithstanding any provision of the Federal

6

Water Pollution Control Act and regulations issued

7

pursuant thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the8

funds reserved by the Administrator for grants

9

under section 518(c) of such Act may also be used

10

for grants for training, technical assistance, and11

educational programs relating to the operation and12management of the treatment works specified in sec-

13

tion 518(c) of such Act: Provided further, That for

14

fiscal year 2024, funds reserved under section

15518(c) of such Act shall be available for grants only16

to Indian Tribes, as defined in section 518(h) of

17such Act and former Indian reservations in Okla-

18homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-

19rior) and Native Villages as defined in Public Law20

92–203: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024,

21

notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section

22518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,23

up to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated,

24

or $30,000,000, and notwithstanding the limitation25

on amounts in section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking

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1

Water Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the funds

2

appropriated, or $20,000,000, for State Revolving

3

Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the Ad-

4ministrator for grants under section 518(c) and sec-

5

tion 1452(i) of such Acts: Provided further, That for

6

fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding the amounts speci-

7

fied in section 205(c) of the Federal Water Pollution

8

Control Act, up to 1.5 percent of the aggregate

9funds appropriated for the Clean Water State Re-

10

volving Fund program under the Act less any sums

11

reserved under section 518(c) of the Act, may be re-12

served by the Administrator for grants made under

13

title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

14

for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of15

the Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin

16

Islands: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024,17

notwithstanding the limitations on amounts specified

18

in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act,19

up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the20

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs

21

under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved

22by the Administrator for grants made under section231452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided

24

further, That 10 percent of the funds made available

25

under this title to each State for Clean Water State

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1

Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent

2of the funds made available under this title to each3State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-4

italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-5

vide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the6form of forgiveness of principal, negative interest

7loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and8shall be so used by the State only where such funds

9

are provided as initial financing for an eligible re-10

cipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt

11

obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt

12

was incurred on or after the date of enactment of

13

this Act, or where such debt was incurred prior to14

the date of enactment of this Act if the State, with

15

concurrence from the Administrator, determines that16such funds could be used to help address a threat17

to public health from heightened exposure to lead in18

drinking water or if a Federal or State emergency

19

declaration has been issued due to a threat to public

20

health from heightened exposure to lead in a munic-

21

ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-

22

ment of this Act: Provided further, That in a State23

in which such an emergency declaration has been

24

issued, the State may use more than 14 percent of25

the funds made available under this title to the

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1State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-2

italization grants to provide additional subsidy to eli-3

gible recipients: Provided further, That notwith-4

standing section 1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water

5

Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(o)), the Administrator shall6

reserve up to $12,000,000 of the amounts made7

available for fiscal year 2024 for making capitaliza-

8

tion grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving

9

Funds to pay the costs of monitoring for unregu-

10

lated contaminants under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of

11such Act;12(2) $29,000,000 shall be for architectural, engi-

13

neering, planning, design, construction and related

14

activities in connection with the construction of high15

priority water and wastewater facilities in the area

16of the southwestern United States, after consultation

17

with the appropriate commission: Provided, That no18

funds made available by this Act to address the19water, wastewater and other critical infrastructure

20

needs of the colonias in the United States located in21

the southwestern United States shall be made avail-22

able to a county or municipal government unless

23

that government has established an enforceable local

24

ordinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents in25

that jurisdiction the development or construction of

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any additional colonia areas, or the development2

within an existing colonia the construction of any

3

new home, business, or other structure which lacks

4water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure;5(3) $30,558,000 shall be for grants to the State

6of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater

7

infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-8lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State

9of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B)10

no more than 5 percent of the funds may be used

11

for administrative and overhead expenses; and (C)12the State of Alaska shall make awards consistent13

with the Statewide priority list established in con-14

junction with the Agency and the U.S. Department

15

of Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal,

16

and similar projects carried out by the State of Alas-17

ka that are funded under section 221 of the Federal

18

Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or

19

the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act

20(7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate not less21

than 25 percent of the funds provided for projects

22

in regional hub communities;

23(4) $80,000,000 shall be to carry out section

24

104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-

25

sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

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1(CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. 9604(k)), including grants,

2

interagency agreements, and associated program3

support costs: Provided, That at least 10 percent

4

shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty

5

counties: Provided further, That for purposes of this6

section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’

7means any county that has had 20 percent or more

8of its population living in poverty over the past 30

9years, as measured by the 1993 Small Area Income

10

and Poverty Estimates, the 2000 decennial census,

11

and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty

12

Estimates, or any territory or possession of the

13

United States;

14(5) $105,000,000 shall be for grants under title

15

VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005;

16(6) $69,927,000 shall be for targeted airshed

17

grants in accordance with the terms and conditions

18

in the report accompanying this Act;19(7) $23,221,000 shall be for grants under sub-20

sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe

21

Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a);22(8) $30,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-

23

tion 1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (4224

U.S.C. 300j–24(d));

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811(9) $25,011,000 shall be for grants under sec-

2

tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (423

U.S.C. 300j–19b);4(10) $7,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

5

tion 1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (426

U.S.C. 300j–19a(l));7(11) $27,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

8

tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-9trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8));10(12) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

11

tion 224 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

12(33 U.S.C. 1302b);

13(13) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

14

tion 226 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

15(33 U.S.C. 1302d);

16(14) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

17

tion 227 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

18(33 U.S.C. 1302e);19(15) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

20

tion 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

21(33 U.S.C. 1300);

22(16) $50,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

23

tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

24(33 U.S.C. 1301);

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821(17) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

2

tion 4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure3

Act of 2018 (42 U.S.C. 300j-19e);4(18) $3,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-

5

tion 302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C.

64282(a)), of which not more than 2 percent shall be

7

for administrative costs to carry out such section:

8

Provided, That notwithstanding section 302(a) of

9such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants

10

pursuant to such authority to Intertribal consortia

11

consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR

1235.504(a), to former Indian reservations in Okla-

13homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-

14rior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Pub-

15

lic Law 92–203;

16(19) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

17

tion 1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (4218

U.S.C. 300j–19g);

19(20) $2,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-

20

tion 2001 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act21

of 2018 (Public Law 115–270, 42 U.S.C. 300j–3c

22note): Provided, That the Administrator may award

23

grants to and enter into contracts with Tribes,

24Intertribal consortia, public or private agencies, in-25

stitutions, organizations, and individuals, without re-

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1

gard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and sec-

2

tion 6101 of title 41, United States Code, and enter3

into interagency agreements as appropriate;

4(21) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

5

tion 50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and6

Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58);

7(22) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-

8

tion 124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

9(33 U.S.C. 1276); and10(23) $1,073,030,000 shall be for grants, includ-11

ing associated program support costs, to States, fed-

12

erally recognized Tribes, interstate agencies, Tribal

13

consortia, and air pollution control agencies for

14

multi-media or single media pollution prevention,

15

control and abatement, and related activities, includ-16

ing activities pursuant to the provisions set forth17

under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for18

making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air

19

Act for particulate matter monitoring and data col-20

lection activities subject to terms and conditions

21

specified by the Administrator, and under section

222301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016 to assist

23

States in developing and implementing programs for24

control of coal combustion residuals, of which:25$36,340,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 of

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1

CERCLA; $1,505,000 shall be for grants to States

2

under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal

3

Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated4under the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage

5

Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry out the provi-6

sions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in

7

section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other8

than section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal

9Act; $18,512,000 of the funds available for grants

10

under section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution

11

Control Act shall be for State participation in

12

national- and State-level statistical surveys of water

13

resources and enhancements to State monitoring

14

programs.

15

WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION

16PROGRAM ACCOUNT

17

For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guar-

18 anteed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure
19 Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $65,974,000, to re20 main available until expended: Provided, That such costs,
21 including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de22 fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
23 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to24 subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of di25 rect loans, including capitalized interest, and total loan

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1 principal, including capitalized interest, any part of which
2 is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Pro3 vided further, That of the funds made available under this4 heading, $5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of
5 direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans for
6 projects described in section 5026(9) of the Water Infra7 structure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to State
8 infrastructure financing authorities, as authorized by sec9 tion 5033(e) of such Act: Provided further, That the use
10 of direct loans or loan guarantee authority under this11 heading for direct loans or commitments to guarantee
12 loans for any project shall be in accordance with the cri13 teria published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2020
14 (85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso under the
15 heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation
16 Program Account’’ in division D of the Further Consoli17 dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94):
18 Provided further, That none of the direct loans or loan
19 guarantee authority made available under this heading
20 shall be available for any project unless the Administrator
21 and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
22 have certified in advance in writing that the direct loan
23 or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project comply
24 with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: Pro25 vided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the

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1 Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the
2 Congressional Budget Office may request, and the Admin3 istrator shall promptly provide, documentation and infor4 mation relating to a project identified in a Letter of Inter5 est submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice
6 of Funding Availability for applications for credit assist7 ance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innova8 tion Act Program, including with respect to a project that
9 was initiated or completed before the date of enactment
10 of this Act.
11

In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant

12 to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure
13 Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited
14 in this account, to remain available until expended.
15

In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out

16 the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding
17 section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and In18 novation Act of 2014, $6,026,000, to remain available
19 until September 30, 2025.
20

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL

21

PROTECTION AGENCY22(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

23

For fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.

24 6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ25 mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s

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1 function to implement directly Federal environmental pro2 grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an
3 acceptable Tribal program, may award cooperative agree4 ments to federally recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal
5 consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist
6 the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental
7 programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law,
8 except that no such cooperative agreements may be award9 ed from funds designated for State financial assistance
10 agreements.
11

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection

12 Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg13 istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the
14 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (715 U.S.C. 136w–8), to remain available until expended.
16

Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal In-

17 secticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (718 U.S.C. 136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environ19 mental Protection Agency may assess fees under section
20 33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2024.
21

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection

22 Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord23 ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act
24 (42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2024, to remain avail25 able until expended.

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1

The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to

2 $368,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great
3 Lakes Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environ4 mental Programs and Management’’ to the head of any
5 Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of
6 such head, to carry out activities that would support the
7 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes
8 Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities;
9 to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of
10 such Federal department or agency to carry out these ac11 tivities; and to make grants to governmental entities, non12 profit organizations, institutions, and individuals for plan13 ning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation
14 in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
15 and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
16

The Science and Technology, Environmental Pro-

17 grams and Management, Office of Inspector General, Haz18 ardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground
19 Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are avail20 able for the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation,
21 and renovation of facilities, provided that the cost does
22 not exceed $300,000 per project.
23

For fiscal year 2024, and notwithstanding section

24 518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (3325 U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use

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1 the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section
2 319 of the Act to make grants to Indian Tribes pursuant
3 to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act.
4

The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts

5 appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro6 grams and Management’’ for fiscal year 2024 to provide
7 grants to implement the Southeast New England Water8 shed Restoration Program.
9

Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-

10 tion 320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control
11 Act, not less than $2,800,000 of the funds made available
12 under this title for the National Estuary Program shall
13 be for making competitive awards described in section
14 320(g)(4).
15

For fiscal year 2024, the Office of Chemical Safety

16 and Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may,
17 using funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environ18 mental Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and
19 Technology’’, contract directly with individuals or indi20 rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without
21 regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent
22 personal services of students or recent graduates, who
23 shall be considered employees for the purposes of chapters
24 57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to com25 pensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171

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1 of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort claims,
2 but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for3 any other purpose: Provided, That amounts used for this4 purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
5 Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not
6 exceed $2,000,000.
7

TITLE III

8

RELATED AGENCIES

9DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

10OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL

11

RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

12

For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under

13 Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment,
14 $1,000,000: Provided, That funds made available by this15 Act to any agency in the Natural Resources and Environ16 ment mission area for salaries and expenses are available
17 to fund up to one administrative support staff for the of18 fice.
19

FOREST SERVICE

20FOREST SERVICE OPERATIONS

21(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

22

For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not

23 otherwise provided for, $1,069,086,000, to remain avail24 able through September 30, 2027: Provided, That a por25 tion of the funds made available under this heading shall

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1 be for the base salary and expenses of employees in the2 Chief’s Office, the Work Environment and Performance
3 Office, the Business Operations Deputy Area, and the
4 Chief Financial Officer’s Office to carry out administra5 tive and general management support functions: Provided
6 further, That funds provided under this heading shall be
7 available for the costs of facility maintenance, repairs, and8 leases for buildings and sites where these administrative,
9 general management and other Forest Service support
10 functions take place; the costs of all utility and tele11 communication expenses of the Forest Service, as well as
12 business services; and, for information technology, includ13 ing cybersecurity requirements: Provided further, That
14 funds provided under this heading may be used for nec15 essary expenses to carry out administrative and general
16 management support functions of the Forest Service not
17 otherwise provided for and necessary for its operation.
18

FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH

19

For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-

20 search as authorized by law, $275,000,000, to remain
21 available through September 30, 2027: Provided, That of
22 the funds provided, $32,197,000 is for the forest inventory
23 and analysis program: Provided further, That all authori24 ties for the use of funds, including the use of contracts,
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1 the Forest and Rangeland Research appropriation, are
2 also available in the utilization of these funds for Fire
3 Science Research.
4

STATE, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL FORESTRY

5

For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-

6 viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri7 tories, possessions, Tribes, and others, and for forest
8 health management, including for invasive plants, and9 conducting an international program and trade compliance
10 activities as authorized, $305,198,000, to remain available
11 through September 30, 2027.
12

NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

13

For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not

14 otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im15 provement, and utilization of the National Forest System,
16 and for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to17 such lands, $1,816,437,000, to remain available through18 September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the funds pro19 vided, $32,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative
20 Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restora21 tion treatments as authorized by section 4003(f) of the
22 Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (1623 U.S.C. 7303(f)): Provided further, That of the funds pro24 vided, $41,600,000 shall be for forest products: Provided
25 further, That of the funds provided, $207,000,000 shall

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1 be for hazardous fuels management activities, of which not
2 to exceed $20,000,000 may be used to make grants, using
3 any authorities available to the Forest Service under the
4 ‘‘State, Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation, for
5 the purpose of creating incentives for increased use of bio6 mass from National Forest System lands: Provided fur7 ther, That $20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary of
8 Agriculture to enter into procurement contracts or cooper9 ative agreements or to issue grants for hazardous fuels
10 management activities, and for training or monitoring as11 sociated with such hazardous fuels management activities
12 on Federal land, or on non-Federal land if the Secretary
13 determines such activities benefit resources on Federal
14 land: Provided further, That funds made available to im15 plement the Community Forest Restoration Act, Public
16 Law 106–393, title VI, shall be available for use on non17 Federal lands in accordance with authorities made avail18 able to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State, Private, and19 Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation: Provided further, That
20 notwithstanding section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm
21 Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of Agriculture,
22 in calculating a fee for grazing on a National Grassland,
23 may provide a credit of up to 50 percent of the calculated
24 fee to a Grazing Association or direct permittee for a con25 servation practice approved by the Secretary in advance

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1 of the fiscal year in which the cost of the conservation
2 practice is incurred, and that the amount credited shall3 remain available to the Grazing Association or the direct
4 permittee, as appropriate, in the fiscal year in which the
5 credit is made and each fiscal year thereafter for use on
6 the project for conservation practices approved by the Sec7 retary: Provided further, That funds appropriated to this8 account shall be available for the base salary and expenses
9 of employees that carry out the functions funded by the
10 ‘‘Capital Improvement and Maintenance’’ account, the11 ‘‘Range Betterment Fund’’ account, and the ‘‘Manage12 ment of National Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses’’ ac13 count.
14

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE

15(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

16

For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not

17 otherwise provided for, $152,243,000, to remain available
18 through September 30, 2027, for construction, capital im19 provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and20 other facilities and infrastructure; for construction, recon21 struction, and decommissioning of roads that are no
22 longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not
23 part of the transportation system; and for maintenance
24 of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as author25 ized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205:

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1 Provided, That $8,000,000 shall be for activities author2 ized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a): Provided further, That funds
3 becoming available in fiscal year 2024 under the Act of
4 March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to
5 the General Fund of the Treasury and shall not be avail6 able for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless
7 the funds are appropriated.
8

ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL

9

ACTS

10

For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-

11 aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests,
12 Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An13 geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National
14 Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. Francis and
15 Ouachita National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by
16 law, $664,000, to be derived from forest receipts.
17

ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES18

For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived

19 from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov20 ernments, public school districts, or other public school au21 thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de22 posited by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and
23 Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967
24 (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September
25 30, 2027, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–

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1 586; Public Law 76–589, Public Law 76–591; and Public
2 Law 78–310).
3

RANGE BETTERMENT FUND

4

For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-

5 tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re6 ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do7 mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16
8 Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public
9 Law 94–579, to remain available through September 30,
10 2027, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available
11 for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground
12 range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements.
13

GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND

14

RANGELAND RESEARCH

15

For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b),16 $45,000, to remain available through September 30, 2027,
17 to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the
18 above Act.
19

MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR

20

SUBSISTENCE USES21

For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to man-

22 age Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under
23 title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva24 tion Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $1,099,000, to remain
25 available through September 30, 2027.

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1

WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT

2(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

3

For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression

4 activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency
5 wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or
6 other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer7 gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest Sys8 tem lands and water, $2,116,956,000, to remain available
9 until expended: Provided, That such funds, including un10 obligated balances under this heading, are available for re11 payment of advances from other appropriations accounts
12 previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further,
13 That any unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fis14 cal year for hazardous fuels management may be trans15 ferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account: Provided
16 further, That such funds shall be available to reimburse
17 State and other cooperating entities for services provided
18 in response to wildfire and other emergencies or disasters
19 to the extent such reimbursements by the Forest Service
20 for non-fire emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible
21 emergency management agency: Provided further, That
22 funds provided shall be available for support to Federal
23 emergency response: Provided further, That the costs of
24 implementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed25 eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be

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1 shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro2 vided further, That of the funds provided under this head3 ing, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres4 sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec5 tion 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
6 Deficit Control Act of 1985.
7

WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND

8(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

9

In addition to the amounts provided under the head-

10 ing‘‘Department

ofAgriculture—Forest

Service—

11 Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression oper12 ations, $2,300,000,000, to remain available until trans13 ferred, is additional new budget authority specified for
14 purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget
15 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided,
16 That such amounts may be transferred to and merged
17 with amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Depart18 ment of the Interior—Department-Wide Programs—
19 Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of Agri20 culture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’’ for
21 wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in which
22 such amounts are transferred: Provided further, That
23 amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Man24 agement’’ accounts in the Department of the Interior or
25 the Department of Agriculture only upon the notification

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1 of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
2 that all wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated
3 under that heading in this and prior appropriations Acts
4 to the agency to which the funds will be transferred will
5 be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, That the
6 transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi7 tion to any other transfer authority provided by law: Pro8 vided further, That, in determining whether all wildfire
9 suppression operations funds appropriated under the
10 heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and prior
11 appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agri12 culture or the Department of the Interior will be obligated
13 within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, any
14 funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pursuant
15 to any other transfer authority provided by law shall be
16 excluded.
17

COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION18(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

19

Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-

20 tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of
21 2018 (Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the spe22 cial account established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act,23 shall be available to cover the costs described in subsection
24 (c)(3) of such section of such Act, and shall remain avail-

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1 able until expended: Provided, That such amounts shall
2 be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account.
3

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE

4(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

5

Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current

6 fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger
7 motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles
8 from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase,
9 lease, operation, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft
10 to maintain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service
11 wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs;
12 notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft
13 being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or
14 trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the
15 replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C.
16 2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under
17 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration of
18 buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250);
19 (4) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pur20 suant to 7 U.S.C. 2268a; (5) for expenses pursuant to
21 the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (1622 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uni23 forms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for
24 debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C.
25 3718(c).

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1

Funds made available to the Forest Service in this2 Act may be transferred between accounts affected by the
3 Forest Service budget restructure outlined in section 435
4 of division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations
5 Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided, That any
6 transfer of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not in7 crease or decrease the funds appropriated to any account8 in this fiscal year by more than ten percent: Provided fur9 ther, That such transfer authority is in addition to any
10 other transfer authority provided by law.
11

Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest

12 Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage13 ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re14 habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters
15 under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe
16 burning conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture’s no17 tification of the House and Senate Committees on Appro18 priations that all fire suppression funds appropriated19 under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be
20 obligated within 30 days: Provided, That all funds used
21 pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished by a sup22 plemental appropriation which must be requested as
23 promptly as possible.
24

Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to

25 the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or

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1 transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland
2 fire management, hazardous fuels management, and State
3 fire assistance when such transfers would facilitate and4 expedite wildland fire management programs and projects.
5

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the

6 Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of dis7 cretionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by
8 this Act to or within the National Forest System Account,
9 or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of haz10 ardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of
11 burned-over National Forest System lands and water: Pro12 vided, That such transferred funds shall remain available
13 through September 30, 2027: Provided further, That none
14 of the funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall
15 be available for obligation without written notification to
16 and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropria17 tions of both Houses of Congress.
18

Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be

19 available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter20 national Development in connection with forest and range21 land research, technical information, and assistance in for22 eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry
23 and related natural resource activities outside the United
24 States and its territories and possessions, including tech25 nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation

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1 with United States government, private sector, and inter2 national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service,
3 acting for the International Program, may sign direct
4 funding agreements with foreign governments and institu5 tions as well as other domestic agencies (including the
6 U.S. Agency for International Development, the Depart7 ment of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corpora8 tion), United States private sector firms, institutions and9 organizations to provide technical assistance and training
10 programs on forestry and rangeland management: Pro11 vided further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic
12 and international research and cooperation, the Inter13 national Program may utilize all authorities related to for14 estry, research, and cooperative assistance regardless of
15 program designations.
16

Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be

17 available to enter into a cooperative agreement with the
18 section 509(a)(3) Supporting Organization, ‘‘Forest Serv19 ice International Foundation’’ to assist the Foundation in
20 meeting administrative, project, and other expenses, and21 may provide for the Foundation’s use of Forest Service
22 personnel and facilities.
23

Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be

24 available for expenditure or transfer to the Department
25 of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal,

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1 preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros
2 from National Forest System lands, and for the perform3 ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of
4 such lands.
5

None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-

6 ice in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal
7 year shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of
8 section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic
9 Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public Law
10 106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public
11 Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)).
12

Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the

13 Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital
14 Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than
15 $14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall
16 be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for De17 partment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to
18 as Greenbook charges: Provided, That nothing in this19 paragraph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable
20 agreements requested by the Forest Service in order to
21 obtain information technology services, including tele22 communications and system modifications or enhance23 ments, from the Working Capital Fund of the Department
24 of Agriculture.

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1

Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to

2 $5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within
3 the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried
4 out by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried
5 out under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act
6 of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.).
7

Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000

8 is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official
9 reception and representation expenses.
10

Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public

11 Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service,
12 up to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the
13 National Forest Foundation to aid conservation partner14 ship projects in support of the Forest Service mission,
15 without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses,
16 for projects on or benefitting National Forest System
17 lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided,
18 That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda19 tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for admin20 istrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation
21 shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial
22 assistance, private contributions to match funds made23 available by the Forest Service on at least a one-for-one
24 basis: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer
25 Federal funds to a Federal or a non-Federal recipient for

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1 a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained
2 the non-Federal matching funds.
3

Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244,

4 up to $1,500,000 of the funds available to the Forest
5 Service may be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife
6 Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation
7 projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred,
8 on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related
9 to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds
10 shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the
11 Foundation or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That
12 the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal
13 or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate
14 that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching
15 funds.
16

Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the

17 National Forest System heading shall be available for the
18 Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agree19 ments with other Federal agencies, Tribes, States, local
20 governments, private and nonprofit entities, and edu21 cational institutions to support the work of forest or grass22 land collaboratives on activities benefitting Federal lands
23 and adjacent non-Federal lands, including for technical
24 assistance, administrative functions or costs, and other ca25 pacity support needs identified by the Forest Service.

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1

Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be

2 available for interactions with and providing technical as3 sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based
4 businesses for sustainable rural development purposes.
5

Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be

6 available for payments to counties within the Columbia
7 River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section
8 14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99–
9 663.
10

Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may

11 be used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in sec12 tion 502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (4213 U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)).
14The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-

15 pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities
16 maintenance and decommissioning.
17

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any

18 appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service,
19 not to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Of20 fice of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri21 culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re22 sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the
23 Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management
24 reviews, land purchase negotiations, and similar matters
25 unrelated to civil litigation: Provided, That future budget

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1 justifications for both the Forest Service and the Depart2 ment of Agriculture should clearly display the sums pre3 viously transferred and the sums requested for transfer.
4

An eligible individual who is employed in any project

5 funded under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965
6 (42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest
7 Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for8 purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code.
9

Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be

10 available to pay, from a single account, the base salary
11 and expenses of employees who carry out functions funded
12 by other accounts for Enterprise Program, Geospatial
13 Technology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Re14 source Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and
15 Development Program.
16

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

17

SERVICES18

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE19

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES

20

For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-

21 gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina22 tion and Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health
23 Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public
24 Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Serv25 ice, $273,556,000, to remain available until September 30,

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1 2025, except as otherwise provided herein; and shall be
2 in addition to funds previously appropriated under this3 heading that became available on October 1, 2023, and
4 in addition, $4,901,524,000, which shall become available
5 on October 1, 2024, and remain available through Sep6 tember 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided herein; to7 gether with payments received during each fiscal year pur8 suant to sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public Health
9 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for services fur10 nished by the Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds
11 made available to Tribes and Tribal organizations through12 contracts, grant agreements, or any other agreements or
13 compacts authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and
14 Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301), shall
15 be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant or con16 tract award and thereafter shall remain available to the
17 Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal year limitation:
18 Provided further, That $2,500,000 shall be available for
19 fiscal year 2025 for grants or contracts with public or pri20 vate institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment serv21 ices to Indians, including alcohol detoxification services:
22 Provided further, That $996,755,000 shall remain avail23 able until expended for fiscal year 2025 for Purchased/
24 Referred Care: Provided further, That of the total amount25 specified in the preceding proviso for Purchased/Referred

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1 Care, $54,000,000 shall be for the Indian Catastrophic
2 Health

Emergency

Fund:

Providedfurther,That

3 $51,000,000 shall remain available until expended for fis4 cal year 2025 for implementation of the loan repayment
5 program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Im6 provement Act: Provided further, That $58,000,000 for
7 fiscal year 2025 shall be for costs related to or resulting
8 from accreditation emergencies, including supplementing
9 activities funded under the heading ‘‘Indian Health Facili10 ties’’, of which up to $4,000,000 may be used to supple11 ment amounts otherwise available for Purchased/Referred
12 Care: Provided further, That the amounts collected by the
13 Federal Government as authorized by sections 104 and
14 108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (2515 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a) during the preceding fiscal year
16 for breach of contracts shall be deposited in the Fund au17 thorized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–
18 1) and shall remain available until expended and, notwith19 standing section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–
20 1(c)), funds shall be available to make new awards under
21 the loan repayment and scholarship programs under sec22 tions 104 and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and23 1616a): Provided further, That the amounts made avail24 able within this account for the Substance Abuse and Sui25 cide Prevention Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treat-l:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 ment and Recovery Services, for the Domestic Violence
2 Prevention Program, for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for
3 the housing subsidy authority for civilian employees, for
4 Aftercare Pilot Programs at Youth Regional Treatment
5 Centers, for transformation and modernization costs of
6 the Indian Health Service Electronic Health Record sys7 tem, for national quality and oversight activities, for im8 proving collections from public and private insurance at
9 Indian Health Service and Tribally-operated facilities, for
10 an initiative to treat or reduce the transmission of HIV
11 and HCV, for a maternal health initiative, for the
12 Telebehaviorial Health Center of Excellence, for Alz13 heimer’s activities, for Village Built Clinics, for a produce
14 prescription pilot, and for accreditation emergencies shall
15 be allocated at the discretion of the Director of the Indian
16 Health Service and shall remain available until expended:
17 Provided further, That funds provided in this Act that are
18 available for two fiscal years may be used in their second
19 year of availability for annual contracts and grants that
20 fall within 2 fiscal years, provided the total obligation is
21 recorded in such second year of availability: Provided fur22 ther, That the amounts collected by the Secretary of
23 Health and Human Services under the authority of title
24 IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C.
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1 pose of achieving compliance with the applicable condi2 tions and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of the So3 cial Security Act, except for those related to the planning,
4 design, or construction of new facilities: Provided further,
5 That funding contained herein for scholarship programs
6 under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25
7 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until expended: Pro8 vided further, That amounts received by Tribes and Tribal
9 organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care Im10 provement Act shall be reported and accounted for and
11 available to the receiving Tribes and Tribal organizations
12 until expended: Provided further, That the Bureau of In13 dian Affairs may collect from the Indian Health Service,
14 and from Tribes and Tribal organizations operating health
15 facilities pursuant to Public Law 93–638, such individ16 ually identifiable health information relating to disabled
17 children as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying
18 out its functions under the Individuals with Disabilities
19 Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.): Provided further,
20 That of the funds provided for fiscal year 2025,
21 $74,138,000 is for the Indian Health Care Improvement
22 Fund and may be used, as needed, to carry out activities
23 typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities ac24 count: Provided further, That none of the funds appro25 priated by this Act, or any other Act, to the Indian Healthl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 Service for the Electronic Health Record system shall be
2 available for obligation or expenditure for the selection or
3 implementation of a new Information Technology infra4 structure system, unless the Committees on Appropria5 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are
6 consulted 90 days in advance of such obligation.
7

CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS

8For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for

9 contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter10 mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with
11 the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2024, such sums
12 as may be necessary: Provided, That notwithstanding any
13 other provision of law, no amounts made available under
14 this heading shall be available for transfer to another15 budget account: Provided further, That amounts obligated
16 but not expended by a Tribe or Tribal organization for
17 contract support costs for such agreements for the current
18 fiscal year shall be applied to contract support costs due
19 for such agreements for subsequent fiscal years.
20

PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES21

For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for

22 leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter23 mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C.
24 5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec25 essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-

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1 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any
2 other provision of law, no amounts made available under
3 this heading shall be available for transfer to another4 budget account.
5

INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES6

For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition,

7 improvement, and equipment of health and related auxil8 iary facilities, including quarters for personnel; prepara9 tion of plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of
10 sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings, and11 purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and
12 community sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized
13 by section 7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C.
14 2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act, and the In15 dian Health Care Improvement Act, and for expenses nec16 essary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the
17 Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental
18 health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health
19 Service, $475,209,000, which shall remain available until
20 expended and shall be in addition to funds previously ap21 propriated under this heading that became available on
22 October 1, 2023; and, in addition, $976,699,000, which
23 shall become available on October 1, 2024, and remain
24 available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding
25 any other provision of law, funds appropriated for the

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1 planning, design, construction, renovation, or expansion of
2 health facilities for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or
3 Tribes may be used to purchase land on which such facili4 ties will be located: Provided further, That not to exceed
5 $500,000 may be used for fiscal year 2025 by the Indian
6 Health Service to purchase TRANSAM equipment from
7 the Department of Defense for distribution to the Indian
8 Health Service and Tribal facilities: Provided further, That
9 none of the funds appropriated to the Indian Health Serv10 ice may be used for sanitation facilities construction for
11 new homes funded with grants by the housing programs
12 of the United States Department of Housing and Urban
13 Development.
14

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

15Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian

16 Health Service shall be available for services as authorized
17 by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate
18 equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level
19 positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor
20 vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; pur21 chase of reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of
22 modular buildings and renovation of existing facilities;
23 payments for telephone service in private residences in the
24 field, when authorized under regulations approved by the
25 Secretary of Health and Human Services; uniforms, or al-

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1 lowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902;
2 and for expenses of attendance at meetings that relate to
3 the functions or activities of the Indian Health Service:
4 Provided, That in accordance with the provisions of the
5 Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients
6 may be extended health care at all Tribally administered
7 or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and8 the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal
9 Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall
10 be credited to the account of the facility providing the
11 service and shall be available without fiscal year limitation:
12 Provided further, That notwithstanding any other law or
13 regulation, funds transferred from the Department of
14 Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health
15 Service shall be administered under Public Law 86–121,
16 the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act and Public Law 93–
17 638: Provided further, That funds appropriated to the In18 dian Health Service in this Act, except those used for ad19 ministrative and program direction purposes, shall not be
20 subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel
21 and transportation: Provided further, That none of the
22 funds made available to the Indian Health Service in this23 Act shall be used for any assessments or charges by the
24 Department of Health and Human Services unless such
25 assessments or charges are identified in the budget jus-

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1 tification and provided in this Act, or approved by the
2 House and Senate Committees on Appropriations through3 the reprogramming process: Provided further, That not4 withstanding any other provision of law, funds previously
5 or herein made available to a Tribe or Tribal organization
6 through a contract, grant, or agreement authorized by
7 title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination and
8 Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et
9 seq.), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-deter10 mination contract under title I, or a self-governance agree11 ment under title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain
12 available to the Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal
13 year limitation: Provided further, That none of the funds
14 made available to the Indian Health Service in this Act
15 shall be used to implement the final rule published in the
16 Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by the Depart17 ment of Health and Human Services, relating to the eligi18 bility for the health care services of the Indian Health
19 Service until the Indian Health Service has submitted a
20 budget request reflecting the increased costs associated21 with the proposed final rule, and such request has been
22 included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law:23 Provided further, That with respect to functions trans24 ferred by the Indian Health Service to Tribes or Tribal
25 organizations, the Indian Health Service is authorized to

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1 provide goods and services to those entities on a reimburs2 able basis, including payments in advance with subsequent
3 adjustment, and the reimbursements received therefrom,
4 along with the funds received from those entities pursuant
5 to the Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to
6 the same or subsequent appropriation account from which
7 the funds were originally derived, with such amounts to
8 remain available until expended: Provided further, That re9 imbursements for training, technical assistance, or serv10 ices provided by the Indian Health Service will contain
11 total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead
12 costs associated with the provision of goods, services, or
13 technical assistance: Provided further, That the Indian
14 Health Service may provide to civilian medical personnel
15 serving in hospitals operated by the Indian Health Service
16 housing allowances equivalent to those that would be pro17 vided to members of the Commissioned Corps of the
18 United States Public Health Service serving in similar po19 sitions at such hospitals: Provided further, That the appro20 priation structure for the Indian Health Service may not
21 be altered without advance notification to the House and
22 Senate Committees on Appropriations.

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1

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

2

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH3

SCIENCES

4

For necessary expenses for the National Institute of

5 Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities
6 set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ7 mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
8 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the
9 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986,
10 $75,000,000.
11

AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE

12REGISTRY

13

TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC

14

HEALTH15

For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-

16 stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out
17 activities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the
18 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
19 and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019
20 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $76,000,000: Provided,
21 That notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu
22 of performing a health assessment under section 104(i)(6)23 of CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct
24 other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities,
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1 evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited
2 healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing
3 any such health assessment or health study, evaluation,
4 or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be
5 bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of
6 CERCLA: Provided further, That none of the funds appro7 priated under this heading shall be available for ATSDR
8 to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to
9 section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2024, and10 existing profiles may be updated as necessary.
11

OTHER RELATED AGENCIES12EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

13

COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF

14ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

15

For necessary expenses to continue functions as-

16 signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office
17 of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi18 ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality
19 Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No.
20 1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception
21 and representation expenses, $3,750,000: Provided, That
22 notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environ23 mental Policy Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of
24 one member, appointed by the President, by and with the

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1 advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and
2 exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council.
3 CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
4

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

5

For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-6 suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including
7 hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances there8 for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and for serv9 ices authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individ10 uals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum
11 rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C.
12 5376, $12,960,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety
13 and Hazard Investigation Board (Board) shall have not
14 more than three career Senior Executive Service positions:
15 Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi16 sion of law, the individual appointed to the position of In17 spector General of the Environmental Protection Agency
18 (EPA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also hold the
19 position of Inspector General of the Board: Provided fur20 ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
21 Inspector General of the Board shall utilize personnel of
22 the Office of Inspector General of EPA in performing the23 duties of the Inspector General of the Board, and shall
24 not appoint any individuals to positions within the Board.

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1

OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION

2SALARIES AND EXPENSES

3

For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and4 Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93–
5 531, $3,060,000, to remain available until expended,
6 which shall be derived from unobligated balances from
7 prior year appropriations available under this heading:
8 Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appro9 priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals
10 and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti11 tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard
12 housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in13 cluded in the preceding categories: Provided further, That
14 none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may
15 be used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Reloca16 tion to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as
17 of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the
18 lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or re19 placement home is provided for such household: Provided
20 further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than
21 one new or replacement home: Provided further, That the
22 Office shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who
23 have selected and received an approved homesite on the
24 Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off

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1 the Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant
2 to section 11 of Public Law 93–531 (88 Stat. 1716).
3

INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE

4CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT

5PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE

6

For payment to the Institute of American Indian and

7 Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author8 ized by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20
9 U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,000,000, which shall become
10 available on July 1, 2024, and shall remain available until
11 September 30, 2025.
12

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

13

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

14

For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-

15 tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields
16 of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and17 documentation of the National Collections; presentation of
18 public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation,
19 dissemination, and exchange of information and publica20 tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist21 ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease22 agreements of no more than 30 years, and protection of
23 buildings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed
24 $100,000 for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and25 purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for em-

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1 ployees, $852,215,000, to remain available until Sep2 tember 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided herein; of
3 which not to exceed $16,938,000 for the instrumentation
4 program, collections acquisition, exhibition reinstallation,
5 Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and6 the repatriation of skeletal remains program shall remain
7 available until expended; and including such funds as may
8 be necessary to support American overseas research cen9 ters: Provided, That funds appropriated herein are avail10 able for advance payments to independent contractors per11 forming research services or participating in official
12 Smithsonian presentations: Provided further, That the
13 Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropria14 tions designated in this Act for lease or rent payments,
15 as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and such
16 rent payments may be deposited into the general trust
17 funds of the Institution to be available as trust funds for
18 expenses associated with the purchase of a portion of the
19 building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC,
20 to the extent that federally supported activities will be
21 housed there: Provided further, That the use of such
22 amounts in the general trust funds of the Institution for
23 such purpose shall not be construed as Federal debt serv24 ice for, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or
25 an obligation of the Federal Government: Provided further,

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1 That no appropriated funds may be used directly to serv2 ice debt which is incurred to finance the costs of acquiring
3 a portion of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW,
4 Washington, DC, or of planning, designing, and con5 structing improvements to such building: Provided further,
6 That any agreement entered into by the Smithsonian In7 stitution for the sale of its ownership interest, or any por8 tion thereof, in such building so acquired may not take9 effect until the expiration of a 30 day period which begins
10 on the date on which the Secretary of the Smithsonian
11 submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the
12 House of Representatives and Senate, the Committees on
13 House Administration and Transportation and Infrastruc14 ture of the House of Representatives, and the Committee
15 on Rules and Administration of the Senate a report, as
16 outlined in the explanatory statement described in section
17 4 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
18 (Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 2536) on the intended
19 sale.
20

FACILITIES CAPITAL

21

For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and22 alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso23 nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized
24 by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623),
25 and for construction, including necessary personnel,

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1 $107,500,000, to remain available until expended, of
2 which not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as au3 thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
4

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

5

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

6

For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-

7 lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art
8 therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as
9 authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51),
10 as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939
11 (Public Resolution 9, 76th Congress), including services
12 as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when
13 authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership
14 in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose
15 publications or services are available to members only, or
16 to members at a price lower than to the general public;
17 purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and18 uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as
19 authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or
20 rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and
21 contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, improve22 ment, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds;
23 and purchase of services for restoration and repair of
24 works of art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts
25 made, without advertising, with individuals, firms, or or-

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1 ganizations at such rates or prices and under such terms
2 and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper,
3 $160,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
4 2025.
5

REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS6(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

7

For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and8 renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or
9 occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or
10 otherwise, for operating lease agreements of no more than
11 10 years, that address space needs created by the ongoing
12 renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized,
13 $18,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro14 vided, That such funds may be obligated for design and
15 construction of an off-site art storage facility in partner16 ship with the Smithsonian Institution and may be trans17 ferred to the Smithsonian Institution for such purposes:
18 Provided further, That contracts awarded for environ19 mental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair or
20 renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art may
21 be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on
22 the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.

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1

JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING

2

ARTS

3

OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

4

For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-

5 nance, and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for
6 the Performing Arts, $20,000,000, to remain available
7 until September, 30, 2025.
8

CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION9

For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-

10 tion of the existing features of the building and site of
11 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
12 $10,000,000, to remain available until expended.
13

WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR

14SCHOLARS

15

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

16

For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions

17 of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat.
18 1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as
19 authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $12,000,000, to remain
20 available until September 30, 2025.

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1

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE

2

HUMANITIES3NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

4GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION5

For necessary expenses to carry out the National

6 Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,
7 $186,300,000 shall be available to the National Endow8 ment for the Arts for the support of projects and produc9 tions in the arts, including arts education and public out10 reach activities, through assistance to organizations and
11 individuals pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program
12 support, and for administering the functions of the Act,
13 to remain available until expended.
14

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES15

GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION16

For necessary expenses to carry out the National

17 Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,
18 $186,300,000 to remain available until expended: Pro19 vided, That appropriations for carrying out section
20 10(a)(2) of such Act shall be available for obligation only
21 in such amounts as may be equal to the total amounts
22 of gifts, bequests, devises of money, and other property
23 accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the National
24 Endowment for the Humanities under the provisions of
25 sections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) of such Act during

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1 the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal
2 amounts have not previously been appropriated.
3

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

4

None of the funds appropriated to the National

5 Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used
6 to process any grant or contract documents which do not
7 include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none
8 of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on
9 the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re10 ception and representation expenses: Provided further,
11 That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as
12 necessary for official reception and representation ex13 penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na14 tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants of up
15 to $10,000, if in the aggregate the amount of such grants
16 does not exceed 5 percent of the sums appropriated for
17 grantmaking purposes per year: Provided further, That
18 such small grant actions are taken pursuant to the terms
19 of an expressed and direct delegation of authority from20 the National Council on the Arts to the Chairperson.
21

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS22

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

23

For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under

24 chapter 91 of title 40, United States Code, $3,464,000:
25 Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge

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1 fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such
2 fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col3 lection, to remain available until expended without further
4 appropriation: Provided further, That the Commission is
5 authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, art6 work, drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history
7 and design of the Nation’s Capital or the history and ac8 tivities of the Commission of Fine Arts, for the purpose
9 of artistic display, study, or education: Provided further,
10 That one-tenth of one percent of the funds provided under
11 this heading may be used for official reception and rep12 resentation expenses.
13

NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS14

For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law

15 99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), $4,750,000: Provided, That the
16 item relating to ‘‘National Capital Arts and Cultural Af17 fairs’’ in the Department of the Interior and Related
18 Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as enacted into law
19 by section 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 (20 U.S.C.
20 956a), shall be applied in fiscal year 2024 in the second
21 paragraph by inserting ‘‘, calendar year 2020 excluded’’
22 before the first period.

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1

ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION

2SALARIES AND EXPENSES

3

For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on

4 Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $8,285,000.
5NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION

6SALARIES AND EXPENSES

7

For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-

8 ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United
9 States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
10 3109, $8,500,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 per11 cent of the funds provided under this heading may be used
12 for official reception and representational expenses associ13 ated with hosting international visitors engaged in the
14 planning and physical development of world capitals.
15

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

16

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

17

For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as

18 authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301–
19 2310), $67,000,000, to remain available until September
20 30, 2025, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available until
21 September 30, 2026, for the Museum’s equipment replace22 ment program; and of which $4,000,000 for the Museum’s
23 repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the
24 Museum’s outreach initiatives program shall remain avail25 able until expended.

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1WORLD WAR I CENTENNIAL COMMISSION

2

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

3

Notwithstanding section 9 of the World War I Cen-

4 tennial Commission Act, as authorized by the World War
5 I Centennial Commission Act (Public Law 112–272) and6 the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National
7 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public
8 Law 113–291), for necessary expenses of the World War
9 I Centennial Commission, $1,500,000, to remain available
10 until expended: Provided, That in addition to the authority
11 provided by section 6(g) of such Act, the World War I
12 Commission may accept money, in-kind personnel services,
13 contractual support, or any appropriate support from any
14 executive branch agency for activities of the Commission.
15

UNITED STATES SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION16

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

17

For necessary expenses of the United States

18 Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate
19 observances and activities associated with the 250th anni20 versary of the founding of the United States, as authorized
21 by Public Law 116–282, the technical amendments to
22 Public Law 114–196, $15,000,000, to remain available
23 until September 30, 2025.

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1
2

TITLE IV

3

GENERAL PROVISIONS

4(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

5

RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS

6

SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in

7 this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica8 tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to
9 promote public support or opposition to any legislative
10 proposal on which Congressional action is not complete
11 other than to communicate to Members of Congress as
12 described in 18 U.S.C. 1913.
13

OBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

14

SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in

15 this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
16 current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
17

DISCLOSURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

18

SEC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated over-

19 head charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including
20 working capital fund charges, from programs, projects, ac21 tivities and subactivities to support government-wide, de22 partmental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or
23 headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be pre24 sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap25 proval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House

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1 of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such esti2 mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria3 tions for approval.
4

MINING APPLICATIONS

5

SEC. 404. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the

6 funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant
7 to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or
8 process applications for a patent for any mining or mill
9 site claim located under the general mining laws.
10(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if

11 the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the claim
12 concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with the Sec13 retary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all re14 quirements established under sections 2325 and 2326 of
15 the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or
16 lode claims, sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the
17 Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer
18 claims, and section 2337 of the Revised Statutes (3019 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case may be, were
20 fully complied with by the applicant by that date.
21(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2025, the Secretary

22 of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com23 mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural
24 Resources of the House and the Committee on Energy and
25 Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken

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1 by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to
2 section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Re3 lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law
4 104–208).
5(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process

6 patent applications in a timely and responsible manner,
7 upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of
8 the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified
9 third-party contractor to be selected by the Director of the
10 Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral exam11 ination of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a
12 patent application as set forth in subsection (b). The Bu13 reau of Land Management shall have the sole responsi14 bility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in ac15 cordance with the standard procedures employed by the
16 Bureau of Land Management in the retention of third17 party contractors.
18

CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, PRIOR YEAR LIMITATION

19

SEC. 405. Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the

20 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act,
21 2015 (Public Law 113–235) shall continue in effect in fis22 cal year 2024.

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1

CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2024

2

LIMITATION

3

SEC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal

4 year 2024 under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and5 Human Services, Indian Health Service, Contract Support
6 Costs’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian
7 Affairs, Contract Support Costs’’ are the only amounts
8 available for contract support costs arising out of self-de9 termination or self-governance contracts, grants, com10 pacts, or annual funding agreements for fiscal year 2024
11 with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Edu12 cation, and the Indian Health Service: Provided, That
13 such amounts provided by this Act are not available for
14 payment of claims for contract support costs for prior
15 years, or for repayments of payments for settlements or
16 judgments awarding contract support costs for prior
17 years.
18

FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS

19

SEC. 407. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be

20 considered to be in violation of section 6(f)(5)(A) of the
21 Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
22 of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more
23 than 15 years have passed without revision of the plan
24 for a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing in this
25 section exempts the Secretary from any other requirement

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1 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Plan2 ning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Pro3 vided, That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and
4 in good faith, within the funding available, to revise a plan
5 for a unit of the National Forest System, this section shall
6 be void with respect to such plan and a court of proper
7 jurisdiction may order completion of the plan on an accel8 erated basis.
9

PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS

10

SEC. 408. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-

11 pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities
12 under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et
13 seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C.
14 1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monu15 ment established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (1616 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January
17 20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under
18 the Presidential proclamation establishing such monu19 ment.
20

LIMITATION ON TAKINGS

21

SEC. 409. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds

22 appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or
23 interests in lands may be expended for the filing of dec24 larations of taking or complaints in condemnation without
25 the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap-

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1 propriations: Provided, That this provision shall not apply
2 to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades Na3 tional Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to
4 funds appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of
5 Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration pur6 poses.
7

PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS

8

SEC. 410. None of the funds appropriated or other-

9 wise made available by this Act to executive branch agen10 cies may be used to enter into any Federal contract unless
11 such contract is entered into in accordance with the re12 quirements of Chapter 33 of title 41, United States Code,
13 or Chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the
14 Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless—15(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a con-16

tract to be entered into without regard for these re-17

quirements, including formula grants for States, or18federally recognized Indian Tribes;

19(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian20

Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

21(Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) or by22

any other Federal laws that specifically authorize a23contract within an Indian Tribe as defined in section

244(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 5304(e)); or

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1401(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date2of enactment of this Act.

3

POSTING OF REPORTS

4

SEC. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-

5 able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c),6 post on the public website of that agency any report re7 quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any
8 other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen9 cy that it shall serve the national interest.
10(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if—

11(1) the public posting of the report com-12

promises national security; or

13(2) the report contains proprietary information.

14(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall

15 do so only after such report has been made available to
16 the requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for
17 no less than 45 days.
18

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT

19

GUIDELINES

20

SEC. 412. Of the funds provided to the National En-

21 dowment for the Arts—
22(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant23

to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-24

dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-

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1

age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-

2

ship.

3

(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures4

to ensure that no funding provided through a grant,

5

except a grant made to a State or local arts agency,

6or regional group, may be used to make a grant to7

any other organization or individual to conduct ac-

8

tivity independent of the direct grant recipient.

9

Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments

10

made in exchange for goods and services.

11(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support

12

to a group, unless the application is specific to the13

contents of the season, including identified programs

14

or projects.

15

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM

16

PRIORITIES

17

SEC. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-

18 nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the
19 Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro20 priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National
21 Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given
22 to providing services or awarding financial assistance for
23 projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve
24 underserved populations.
25(b) In this section:

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1(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means

2

a population of individuals, including urban minori-3

ties, who have historically been outside the purview

4of arts and humanities programs due to factors such5

as a high incidence of income below the poverty line6

or to geographic isolation.

7(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty

8line (as defined by the Office of Management and9Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-

10

tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant

11

Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of12

the size involved.

13(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-

14 sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and
15 Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this16 Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the
17 Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv18 ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc19 tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public
20 knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of
21 the arts.
22(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out

23 section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu24 manities Act of 1965—

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1431(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-2

egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-3

grams that are of national impact or availability or4

are able to tour several States;

5(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-6ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds

7

to any single State, excluding grants made under the8

authority of paragraph (1);9(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-

10

gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by

11

the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-

12

tion 5 of such Act; and13(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of

14

grants to improve and support community-based

15

music performance and education.

16

STATUS OF BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS

17

SEC. 414. The Department of the Interior, the Envi-

18 ronmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the
19 Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on
20 Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen21 ate quarterly reports on the status of balances of appro22 priations including all uncommitted, committed, and unob23 ligated funds in each program and activity within 60 days
24 of enactment of this Act.

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1

EXTENSION OF GRAZING PERMITS

2

SEC. 415. The terms and conditions of section 325

3 of Public Law 108–108 (117 Stat. 1307), regarding graz4 ing permits issued by the Forest Service on any lands not
5 subject to administration under section 402 of the Federal
6 Lands Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1752),
7 shall remain in effect for fiscal year 2024.
8

FUNDING PROHIBITION

9

SEC. 416. (a) None of the funds made available in

10 this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer
11 network unless such network is designed to block access
12 to pornography websites.
13(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of

14 funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local
15 law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out
16 criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activi17 ties.
18

HUMANE TRANSFER AND TREATMENT OF ANIMALS

19

SEC. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision

20 of law, the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land
21 administered by the Bureau of Land Management, or the
22 Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land adminis23 tered by the Forest Service (referred to in this section as
24 the ‘‘Secretary concerned’’), may transfer excess wild
25 horses and burros that have been removed from land ad-

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1 ministered by the Secretary concerned to other Federal,
2 State, and local government agencies for use as work ani3 mals.
4(b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer

5 under subsection (a) immediately on the request of a Fed6 eral, State, or local government agency.
7(c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under

8 subsection (a) shall lose status as a wild free-roaming
9 horse or burro (as defined in section 2 of Public Law 92–
10 195 (commonly known as the ‘‘Wild Free-Roaming Horses
11 and Burros Act’’) (16 U.S.C. 1332)).
12(d) A Federal, State, or local government agency re-

13 ceiving an excess wild horse or burro pursuant to sub14 section (a) shall not—15

(1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that16

results in the destruction of the horse or burro into17

a commercial product;18(2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro

19

in a manner that results in the destruction of the20

horse or burro for processing into a commercial

21

product; or

22(3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the23

recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case24of severe injury, illness, or advanced age.

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2 available for—3

(1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted,

4

and wild horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the5

Secretary concerned (including a contractor); or

6(2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results

7in the destruction of the wild horse or burro for8

processing into a commercial product.

9

FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND

10

ENHANCEMENT AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION

11

SEC. 418. Section 503(f) of Public Law 109–54 (1612 U.S.C. 580d note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep13 tember 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’.
14

USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL

15

SEC. 419. (a)(1) None of the funds made available

16 by a State water pollution control revolving fund as au17 thorized by section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act
18 (42 U.S.C. 300j–12) shall be used for a project for the
19 construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public
20 water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and
21 steel products used in the project are produced in the
22 United States.
23(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel’’ products

24 means the following products made primarily of iron or
25 steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers

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1 and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges,
2 pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein3 forced precast concrete, and construction materials.
4(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-

5 egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ6 mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as
7 the ‘‘Administrator’’) finds that—8(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-

9sistent with the public interest;

10(2) iron and steel products are not produced in

11

the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-12

able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or

13(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-14

duced in the United States will increase the cost of15

the overall project by more than 25 percent.

16(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiv-

17 er under this section, the Administrator shall make avail18 able to the public on an informal basis a copy of the re19 quest and information available to the Administrator con20 cerning the request, and shall allow for informal public
21 input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making
22 a finding based on the request. The Administrator shall
23 make the request and accompanying information available
24 by electronic means, including on the official public Inter25 net Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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1481(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-

2 sistent with United States obligations under international
3 agreements.
4(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent

5 of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and6 Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out
7 the provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for manage8 ment and oversight of the requirements of this section.
9

LOCAL COOPERATOR TRAINING AGREEMENTS AND TRANS-10FERS OF EXCESS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR

11

WILDFIRES

12

SEC. 420. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized

13 to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with vol14 unteer fire departments, rural fire departments, rangeland
15 fire protection associations, and similar organizations to
16 provide for wildland fire training and equipment, including
17 supplies and communication devices. Notwithstanding sec18 tion 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or section 521
19 of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further
20 authorized to transfer title to excess Department of the
21 Interior firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry
22 out the functions of the Department’s wildland fire man23 agement program to such organizations.

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1

RECREATION FEES

2

SEC. 421. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recre-

3 ation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied
4 by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30,
5 2019’’.
6

REPROGRAMMING GUIDELINES

7

SEC. 422. None of the funds made available in this

8 Act, in this and prior fiscal years, may be reprogrammed
9 without the advance approval of the House and Senate
10 Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the re11 programming procedures contained in the report accom12 panying this Act.
13

LOCAL CONTRACTORS

14

SEC. 423. Section 412 of division E of Public Law

15 112–74 shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’
16 for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’.
17

INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION

18

SEC. 424. Section 426 of division G of Public Law

19 113–76 (16 U.S.C. 565a–1 note) shall be applied by sub20 stituting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30,
21 2019’’.
22

PUERTO RICO SCHOOLING AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION

23

SEC. 425. The authority provided by the 19th un-

24 numbered paragraph under heading ‘‘Administrative Pro25 visions, Forest Service’’ in title III of Public Law 109–

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1 54, as amended, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal
2 year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’.
3

FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION

4

AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION

5SEC. 426. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-

6 rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as7 enacted into law by Public Law 106–113; 16 U.S.C. 528
8 note), as amended by section 335(6) of Public Law 108–
9 108 and section 432 of Public Law 113–76, shall be ap10 plied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year
11 2019’’.
12

TRIBAL LEASES

13

SEC. 427. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision

14 of law, in the case of any lease under section 105(l) of
15 the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance16 Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease term shall com17 mence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease pro18 posal.
19(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and

20 Human Services shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal
21 year 2024 consult with Tribes and Tribal organizations
22 through public solicitation and other means regarding the
23 requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the Indian
24 Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25l:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 U.S.C. 5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and
2 transparent process for the payment of such leases.
3

FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND

4

SEC. 428. The authority provided under the heading

5 ‘‘Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title
6 I of Public Law 111–88, as amended by section 117 of
7 division F of Public Law 113–235, shall be applied by sub8 stituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each
9 place it appears.
10

ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS, NATIONAL PARKS AND PUB-

11

LIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND AND LAND

12AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND

13

SEC. 429. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this

14 Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts
15 made available from the National Parks and Public Land
16 Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2024 pursuant
17 to subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, United
18 States Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such sec19 tion of such title, to the agencies of the Department of
20 the Interior and the Department of Agriculture specified,
21 in the amounts specified, for the stations and unit names
22 specified, and for the projects and activities specified in
23 the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National Parks and
24 Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’
25 in the report accompanying this Act.

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1521(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-

2 retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture,
3 as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for
4 expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund
5 for fiscal year 2024 pursuant to subsection (a) of section
6 200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies
7 and accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for8 the projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Al9 location of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund
10 Fiscal Year 2024’’ in the report accompanying this Act.
11(b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c)12 of this section, neither the President nor his designee may
13 allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal
14 year under subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54,
15 United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 200303
16 of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts
17 and for projects and activities that are allocated by sub18 sections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section: Provided, That
19 in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall
20 not apply to the allocation of amounts for continuing ad21 ministration of programs allocated funds from the Na22 tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund
23 or the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which may
24 be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the

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1 allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and2 (a)(2) of this section.
3(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary

4 of Agriculture may reallocate amounts from each agency’s
5 ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line in the table titled ‘‘Allocation
6 of Funds: National Parks and Public Land Legacy Res7 toration Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ to any project funded
8 by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora9 tion Fund within the same agency, from any fiscal year,
10 that experienced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen
11 cost overruns, in accordance with the following require12 ments—
13(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be

14

reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-15

sulting from unforeseen cost overruns;

16(2) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be

17reallocated for cost of adjustments and changes

18

within the original scope of effort for projects fund-19

ed by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy

20

Restoration Fund; and21(3) the Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-22

retary of Agriculture must provide written notifica-

23

tion to the Committees on Appropriations of the24

House of Representatives and Senate 30 days before

25

taking any actions authorized by this subsection if

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1

the amount reallocated from the ‘‘Contingency

2

Fund’’ line for a project is projected to be 10 per-3

cent or greater than the following, as applicable—

4(A) the amount allocated to that project in5

the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National

6

Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration

7

Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ in the report accom-

8

panying this Act; or

9(B) the initial estimate in the most recent

10report submitted, prior to enactment of this

11

Act, to the Committees on Appropriations pur-12

suant to section 431(e) of division G of the

13

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public14

Law 117–328).

15(d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission

16 of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the
17 Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub18 mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
19 of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets for
20 the projects in the ‘‘Submission of Annual List of Projects
21 to Congress’’ required by section 200402(h) of title 54,
22 United States Code: Provided, That the ‘‘Submission of
23 Annual List of Projects to Congress’’ must include a
24 ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line for each agency within the allo25 cations defined in subsection (e) of section 200402 of title

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1 54, United States Code: Provided further, That in the
2 event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act for
3 the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration
4 Fund are no longer needed to complete a specified project,
5 such amounts may be reallocated in such submission to
6 that agency’s ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line: Provided further,
7 That any proposals to change the scope of or terminate
8 a previously approved project must be clearly identified
9 in such submission.
10(2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission

11 of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the
12 Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub13 mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
14 of Representatives and the Senate a list of supplementary
15 allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy
16 Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and
17 Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and18 the U.S. Forest Service that are in addition to the ‘‘Sub19 mission

of

Cost

Estimates’’requiredbysection

20 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are
21 prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project,
22 and that total no less than half the full amount allocated
23 to each account for that land management Agency under
24 the allocations submitted under section 200303(c)(1) of
25 title 54, United States Code: Provided, That in the event

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1 amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant
2 to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United
3 States Code are no longer needed because a project has
4 been completed or can no longer be executed, such
5 amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for realloca6 tion in the annual budget submission.
7(B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy

8 projects in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required
9 by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code,
10 and on the list of supplementary allocations required by
11 subparagraph (A) shall be comprised only of projects for
12 which a willing seller has been identified and for which
13 an appraisal or market research has been initiated.
14(C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission

15 of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the
16 Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub17 mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
18 of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets in
19 the same format and containing the same level of detailed
20 information that is found on such sheets in the Budget
21 Justifications annually submitted by the Department of
22 the Interior with the President’s Budget for the projects
23 in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section
24 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the
25 same format and containing the same level of detailed in-

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1 formation that is found on such sheets submitted to the
2 Committees pursuant to section 427 of division D of the
3 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public
4 Law 116–94) for the list of supplementary allocations re5 quired by subparagraph (A).
6(e) The Department of the Interior and the Depart-

7 ment of Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Ap8 propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate
9 quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and
10 activities funded by the National Parks and Public Land
11 Legacy Restoration Fund for amounts allocated pursuant
12 to subsection (a)(1) of this section and the status of bal13 ances of projects and activities funded by the Land and
14 Water Conservation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant
15 to subsection (a)(2) of this section, including all uncom16 mitted, committed, and unobligated funds, and, for
17 amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this18 section, National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora19 tion Fund amounts reallocated pursuant to subsection (c)20 of this section.
21

POLICIES RELATING TO BIOMASS ENERGY

22SEC. 430. To support the key role that forests in the

23 United States can play in addressing the energy needs of
24 the United States, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary
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1 mental Protection Agency shall, consistent with their mis2 sions, jointly—
3(1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest

4

bioenergy—5(A) is consistent across all Federal depart-6

ments and agencies; and

7(B) recognizes the full benefits of the use

8of forest biomass for energy, conservation, and9responsible forest management; and

10(2) establish clear and simple policies for the11

use of forest biomass as an energy solution, includ-12

ing policies that—

13(A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest

14

bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable

15

energy source, provided the use of forest bio-

16

mass for energy production does not cause con-17

version of forests to non-forest use;

18(B) encourage private investment through-19

out the forest biomass supply chain, including

20

in—

21

(i) working forests;

22(ii) harvesting operations;

23(iii) forest improvement operations;

24(iv) forest bioenergy production;

25(v) wood products manufacturing; or

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1591(vi) paper manufacturing;2(C) encourage forest management to im-3

prove forest health; and4(D) recognize State initiatives to produce

5

and use forest biomass.

6

SMALL REMOTE INCINERATORS

7

SEC. 431. None of the funds made available in this

8 Act may be used to implement or enforce the regulation
9 issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 CFR part 60 subparts
10 CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State of
11 Alaska that are defined as ‘‘small, remote incinerator’’12 units in those regulations and, until a subsequent regula13 tion is issued, the Administrator shall implement the law
14 and regulations in effect prior to such date.
15

TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS

16

SEC. 432. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall

17 be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as
18 the value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging
19 and stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk
20 allowance under the Forest Service’s appraisal process)21 when appraised using a residual value appraisal. The west22 ern red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus
23 to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall
24 be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous
25 48 United States at prevailing domestic prices. All addi-

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1 tional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or con2 tiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be ex3 ported to foreign markets at the election of the timber sale
4 holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing
5 export prices at the election of the timber sale holder.
6

TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINIS-

7

TRATION FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC

8

LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND

9SEC. 433. Funds made available or allocated in this10 Act to the Department of the Interior or the Department
11 of Agriculture that are subject to the allocations and limi12 tations in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and prohibitions in 54
13 U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further allocated or reallocated
14 to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation
15 projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C.
16 200401(2).
17PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS

18

SEC. 434. Notwithstanding any other provision of

19 law, none of the funds made available in this Act or any
20 other Act may be used to promulgate or implement any
21 regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V
22 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon
23 dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions
24 resulting from biological processes associated with live25 stock production.

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1

GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS

2

SEC. 435. Notwithstanding any other provision of

3 law, none of the funds made available in this or any other
4 Act may be used to implement any provision in a rule,
5 if that provision requires mandatory reporting of green6 house gas emissions from manure management systems.
7

FUNDING PROHIBITION

8

SEC. 436. None of the funds made available by this9 or any other Act may be used to regulate the lead content
10 of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle
11 under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601
12 et seq.) or any other law.
13

ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL HEALTH ENTITIES14AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION

15

SEC. 437. Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of

16 the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law
17 113–76) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘October 1,
18 2024’’ for ‘‘December 24, 2022’’.
19RESCISSION OF GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION FUND

20

SEC. 438. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-

21 propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the
22 Environmental Protection Agency by subsection (a) of sec23 tion 134 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7434(a)),
24 $7,765,000,000 are permanently rescinded.

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1

RESCISSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE

2GRANTS

3

SEC. 439. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-

4 propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the
5 Environmental Protection Agency by section 138(a) of the
6 Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7438(a)), $1,353,000,000 are
7 hereby permanently rescinded.
8

HUNTING, FISHING, AND RECREATIONAL SHOOTING ON

9

FEDERAL LAND

10SEC. 440. (a) None of the funds made available by

11 this or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to
12 prohibit the use of or access to Federal land (as such term
13 is defined in section 3 of the Healthy Forests Restoration
14 Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6502)) for hunting, fishing, or
15 recreational shooting if such use or access—16(1) was not prohibited on such Federal land as

17

of January 1, 2013; and18(2) was conducted in compliance with the re-19

source management plan (as defined in section 101

20

of such Act (16 U.S.C. 6511)) applicable to such

21

Federal land as of January 1, 2013.

22(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of

23 the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture may tempo24 rarily close, for a period not to exceed 30 days, Federal
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1 reational shooting if the Secretary determines that the
2 temporary closure is necessary to accommodate a special
3 event or for public safety reasons. The Secretary may ex4 tend a temporary closure for one additional 90-day period
5 only if the Secretary determines the extension is necessary
6 because of extraordinary weather conditions or for public
7 safety reasons.
8(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as af-

9 fecting the authority, jurisdiction, or responsibility of the
10 several States to manage, control, or regulate fish and
11 resident wildlife under State law or regulations.
12

WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES

13

SEC. 441. The rule submitted by the Department of

14 the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense
15 and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘Re16 vised Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’ ’’ (88
17 Fed. Reg. 3004 (January 18, 2023)) shall have no force
18 or effect.
19

LIMITATION

20

SEC. 442. None of the funds appropriated or other-

21 wise made available by this Act may be obligated to en22 force Public Land Order 7917 (88 Fed. Reg. 6308 (Janu23 ary 31, 2023)).

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1

MINERAL LEASES

2

SEC. 443. Notwithstanding any other provision of law

3 and not subject to further judicial review, not later than
4 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act the Sec5 retary of the Interior shall reinstate the hardrock mineral
6 leases in the Superior National Forest in the State of Min7 nesota issued in 2019 and identified as MNES-01352 and
8 MNES-01353.
9

USE OF MINING CLAIMS FOR ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES

10

SEC. 444. Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget

11 Reconciliation Act of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 28f) is amended
12 by adding at the end the following:13‘‘(e) SECURITY OF TENURE.—

14‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—

15‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A claimant shall have16

the right to use, occupy, and conduct operations

17

on public land, with or without the discovery of

18

a valuable mineral deposit, if—

19‘‘(i) such claimant makes a timely

20

payment of the location fee required by

21

section 10102 and the claim maintenance22

fee required by subsection (a); or23‘‘(ii) in the case of a claimant who

24

qualifies for a waiver under subsection (d),25such claimant makes a timely payment of

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the location fee and complies with the re-2quired assessment work under the general3

mining laws.

4‘‘(B) OPERATIONSDEFINED.—Forthe5

purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘oper-

6

ations’ means—7‘‘(i) any activity or work carried out

8in connection with prospecting, exploration,

9

processing, discovery and assessment, de-10velopment, or extraction with respect to a11

locatable mineral;

12‘‘(ii) the reclamation of any disturbed

13

areas; and14‘‘(iii) any other reasonably incident

15

uses, whether on a mining claim or not, in-16

cluding the construction and maintenance17

of facilities, roads, transmission lines, pipe-

18

lines, and any other necessary infrastruc-19

ture or means of access on public land for20

support facilities.

21‘‘(2) FULFILLMENT OF FEDERAL LAND POLICY

22

AND MANAGEMENT ACT.—A

23

the requirements of this section and section 10102

24

shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of any

25

provision of the Federal Land Policy and Manage-

claimant that fulfills

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1ment Act that requires the payment of fair market

2value to the United States for use of public lands

3

and resources relating to use of such lands and re-4sources authorized by the general mining laws.

5‘‘(3) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this sub-6

section may be construed to diminish the rights of7

entry, use, and occupancy, or any other right, of a8claimant under the general mining laws.’’.

9

CHARLES M. RUSSELL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

10

SEC. 445. None of the funds made available by this11 or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte12 rior to facilitate or allow for the introduction of American
13 bison (Bison bison) on the Charles M. Russell National
14 Wildlife Refuge (as originally established in Executive
15 Order 7509, renamed in Public Land Order 2951, and re16 designated in Public Land Order 5635).
17

COTTONWOOD

18

SEC. 446. No later than 60 days after the date of

19 enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall
20 issue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened
21 Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Interagency Coopera22 tion’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 2373 (January 12, 2021)).

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1

SOCIAL COST OF CARBON

2

SEC. 447. None of the funds made available by this

3 Act may be used to consider or incorporate the social cost
4 of carbon—
5(1) as part of any cost-benefit analysis required6

or performed pursuant to—7(A) any law;

8(B) Executive Order 13990 (86 Fed. Reg.

97037; relating to protecting public health and10the environment and restoring science to tackle

11

the climate crisis);

12(C) Executive Order 14094 (88 Fed. Reg.

13

21879; relating to modernizing regulatory re-14view);

15(D) the Presidential Memorandum entitled16‘‘Modernizing Regulatory Review’’ issued by the17

President on January 20, 2021;

18(E) any revisions to Office of Management

19

and Budget Circular A-4 proposed or finalized

20

under Executive Order 14094; or

21(F) ‘‘Technical Support Document: Social

22

Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide

23

Interim24

13990,’’ published under the Interagency Work-

Estimates

under

ExecutiveOrder

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ing Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse2

Gases, in February of 2021;

3(2) in any rulemaking;4(3) in the issuance of any guidance;

5(4) in taking any other agency action; or

6(5) as a justification for any rulemaking, guid-7

ance document, or agency action.

8

LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN

9SEC. 448. None of the funds made available in this10 or any other Act may be used to implement, administer,
11 or enforce the rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened
12 Wildlife and Plants; Lesser Prairie-Chicken; Threatened
13 Status With Section 4(d) Rule for the Northern Distinct
14 Population Segment and Endangered Status for the
15 Southern Distinct Population Segment’’ (87 Fed. Reg.
16 72674 (November 25, 2022)).
17

ECOGRIEF

18

SEC. 449. None of the funds made available by this19 or any other Act may be obligated or expended to carry
20 out the program for Federal employees at the Department
21 of the Interior entitled ‘‘Acknowledging Ecogrief and De22 veloping Resistance’’ or any counseling sessions, work23 shop, or any other meeting pertaining to ecological grief,
24 ecogrief, or eco-resilience.

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1

NORTH CASCADES ECOSYSTEM GRIZZLY BEAR

2

SEC. 450. None of the funds made available by this

3 Act may be obligated or expended to prepare an environ4 mental impact statement for, or to implement, administer,
5 or enforce, the North Cascades Ecosystem Grizzly Bear
6 Restoration Plan (87 Fed. Reg. 68190).
7

WATER RIGHTS

8

SEC. 451. None of the funds made available in this9 or any other Act may be obligated to require or request,
10 as a condition of the issuance, renewal, or extension of
11 any Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management per12 mit, lease, allotment, easement, or other land use and oc13 cupancy, arrangement, the transfer, or relinquishment of
14 any water right, in whole, or in part, granted under State
15 law.
16

GRAY WOLF

17

SEC. 452. Not later than 60 days after the date of

18 enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior
19 shall reissue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and
20 Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf
21 (Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threat22 ened Wildlife’’ (85 Fed. Reg. 69778 (November 3, 2020)).
23

COST RECOVERY24

SEC. 453. (a) Any regulation promulgated by the Sec-

25 retary of the Interior to establish fees to recover the costs

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1 of processing an application for a special recreation permit
2 or monitoring an authorization under a special recreation
3 permit for competitive or organized group or event use
4 shall include an exemption providing that fee may not be
5 recovered for not less than the first 100 hours of work
6 necessary in any 1 year to process the application or mon7 itor the authorization.
8(b) Not later than 30 days after the date of enact-

9 ment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall
10 revise section 2932.31(e) of title 43, Code of Federal Reg11 ulations, to be consistent with subsection (a) of this sec12 tion.
13

EXECUTIVE ORDER FUNDING PROHIBITION

14

SEC. 454. None of the funds appropriated or other-

15 wise made available by this Act may be made available
16 to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Ex17 ecutive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg.
18 7009, relating to advancing racial equity and support for
19 underserved communities through the Federal Govern20 ment), Executive Order 14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed.
21 Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and
22 accessibility in the Federal workforce), or Executive Order
23 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relat24 ing to further advancing racial equity and support for un25 derserved communities through the Federal Government).

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1

LIMITATION

2

SEC. 455. None of the funds made available by this

3 Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or
4 activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory
5 or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory.
6

WUHAN INSTITUTE LIMITATION

7

SEC. 456. None of the funds made available by this

8 Act may be made available to support, directly or indi9 rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory
10 owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s
11 Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re12 public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
13 the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven14 ezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, or any
15 other country determined by the Secretary of State to be
16 a foreign adversary.
17

NORTHERN LONG-EARED BAT

18

SEC. 457. None of the funds made available by this19 Act may be used to implement the final rule ‘‘Endangered
20 and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species
21 Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat’’ (87 Fed. Reg.
22 73488 (November 30, 2020)).

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1

EXEMPTION TO COASTAL BARRIER RESTRICTIONS FOR

2SHORELINE BORROW SITES

3

SEC. 458. Section 6 of the Coastal Barrier Resources

4 Act (16 U.S.C. 3505) is amended by adding at the end
5 the following new subsection:6‘‘(e) BORROW SITE.—Section 5 shall not apply to

7 expenditures or financial assistance relating to the use of
8 funds to use a borrow site located within the System if
9 such site has been in use as a borrow site by a coastal
10 storm risk management project for a period of more than
11 15 years.’’.
12

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

13

SEC. 459. None of the funds made available by this

14 Act shall be obligated for the planning, design, or con15 struction of the National Museum of the American Latino
16 or the operation of the Molina Family Latino Gallery.
17

GAO ANALYSIS

18

SEC. 460. Notwithstanding any provision of law, none

19 of the funds made available by this Act may be obligated
20 or expended for the purpose of pre-leasing, leasing, or the
21 conveyance of leases for onshore wind energy activities in
22 Idaho, unless or until the Comptroller General of the
23 United States completes a report identifying potential ad24 verse effects of wind energy development including with
25 respect to, wildlife, cultural resources, transportation,

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1 hunting, wetlands and the connected surface and ground2 waters.
3

PESTICIDES

4SEC. 461. None of the funds made available by this5 or any other Act may be obligated or expended to issue
6 or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any regulatory
7 action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling8 that is inconsistent with or in any respect different from
9 the conclusion of—
10(a) a human health assessment performed pursuant

11 to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
12 (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.); or
13(b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide.

14

STEAM RULE

15

SEC. 462. None of the funds made available by this16 or any other Act may be obligated to finalize, administer,
17 or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘Supplemental Effluent
18 Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Elec19 tric Power Generating Point Source Category’’ published
20 on March 29, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 18824).
21

WAIVER

22

SEC. 463. None of the funds made available by this23 Act or any other Act may be used to approve a waiver
24 submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency by the
25 State of California, pursuant to section 209(e) of the

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1 Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7543(e)), for the State of Cali2 fornia’s amendments to its rule titled ‘‘Small Off-Road
3 Engine Regulations: Transition to Zero Emissions’’.
4

5-YEAR PLAN

5

SEC. 464. Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf

6 Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended—
7(1) in subsection (a)—8(A) by striking ‘‘subsections (c) and (d) of

9this section, shall prepare and periodically re-10vise,’’ and inserting ‘‘this section, shall issue

11

every five years’’;

12(B) by adding at the end the following:

13

‘‘(5)

Each

five-year

program14

shall include at least two Gulf of Mex-

15

ico region-wide lease sales per year.’’.

16(C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘domes-

17

tic energy security,’’ after ‘‘between’’;18(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i)19as subsections (h) through (k), respectively; and20(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-21

lowing:22‘‘(f) Five-Year program for 2023–2028.—The Sec-

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1 on the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact State2 ment by not later than 60 days of enactment of this Act.
3‘‘(g) Subsequent leasing programs.—

4‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 36

5months after conducting the first lease sale under an

6

oil and gas leasing program prepared pursuant to7this section, the Secretary shall begin preparing the8subsequent oil and gas leasing program under this9

section.

10‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT.—Each subsequent oil

11

and gas leasing program under this section shall be

12

approved by not later than 180 days before the expi-

13

ration of the previous oil and gas leasing program.’’.

14

TRANSPARENCY

15

SEC. 465. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date

16 of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior
17 shall reissue and implement Order No. 3368 ‘‘Promoting
18 Transparency and Accountability in Consent Decrees and
19 Settlement Agreements’’ dated September 11, 2018.
20(b) None of the funds made available by this Act shall

21 be available to rescind the Order reissued under subsection
22 (a), reissue, enforce, administer, or implement Order No.
23 3408 ‘‘Rescission of Secretary’s Order 3368’’ dated June
24 17, 2022, or to issue, enforce, administer, or implement
25 any substantially similar order.

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1

LIMITATION

2

SEC. 466. None of the funds made available by this

3 Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce
4 Public Land Order No. 7921 (relating to the withdrawal
5 of public land for satellite calibration in Railroad Valley;
6 Nye County, Nevada), published by the Bureau of Land
7 Management in the Federal Register on April 27, 2023
8 (88 Fed. Reg. 25682).
9

OZONE

10

SEC. 467. None of the funds made available by this11 or any other Act may be made available to implement, ad12 minister, or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Federal ‘Good
13 Neighbor Plan’ for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air
14 Quality Standards’’ published by the Environmental Pro15 tection Agency in the Federal Register on June 5, 2023
16 (88 Fed. Reg. 36654).
17

OFFSHORE WIND

18

SEC. 468. (a) None of the funds made available by

19 this Act may be obligated or expended for the purpose of
20 pre-leasing, leasing, or the conveyance of leases for off21 shore wind energy activity in the Florida administrative
22 boundary until the Comptroller General of the United
23 States submits, to the appropriate Congressional Commit24 tees, a study regarding the potential impact of offshore
25 wind development and associated infrastructure in the

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1 Florida administrative boundary on military readiness and
2 training, marine environment and ecology, tourism, and3 other uses of the Outer Continental Shelf.
4(b) In this section, the term ‘‘administrative bound-

5 ary’’ means the offshore administrative boundary for a
6 State depicted in ‘‘Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
7 Administrative Boundaries Extending from the Sub8 merged Lands Act Boundary seaward to the Limit of the
9 United States Outer Continental Shelf’’ published Janu10 ary 3, 2006 (71 Fed. Reg. 127).
11(c) In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate Congres-

12 sional Committees’’ means the Committees on Appropria13 tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the
14 Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Rep15 resentatives, and the Committee on Energy and Natural
16 Resources of the Senate.
17RECORD OF DECISION

18

SEC. 469. Notwithstanding any other provision of

19 law, not later than September 30, 2024, the Secretary of
20 the Interior shall issue a new Record of Decision for the
21 Caldwell Canyon Mine project that addresses the defi22 ciencies identified by the United States District Court for
23 the District of Idaho in its decisions and orders issued
24 in Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. United States

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1 Bureau of Land Management, et al. (Case Number 4:212 CV-00182-BLW) on January 24, 2023, and June 2, 2023.
3

EPA OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

4SEC. 470. Beginning on October 1, 2023, of the

5 amounts made available to the Environmental Protection
6 Agency under each of sections 60101, 60102, 60104,
7 60105, 60106, 60107, 60108, 60109, 60110, 60111,
8 60112, 60113, 60115, 60116, and 60201 of Public Law
9 117–169, two-tenths of one percent of such amounts shall
10 be transferred to the Office of the Inspector General of
11 the Environmental Protection Agency for oversight of
12 funding provided to the Environmental Protection Agency
13 by such Public Law: Provided, That amounts so trans14 ferred shall be derived from the unobligated balances of
15 amounts under each such section.
16

GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT

17

SEC. 471. None of the funds made available by this18 Act may be used for management of the Grand Staircase19 Escalante National Monument except in compliance with
20 the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Manage21 ment Plans for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
22 Monument, dated February 2020.
23

OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING

24

SEC. 472. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall con-

25 duct all lease sales described in the 2017–2022 Outer Con-

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1 tinental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Pro2 gram (November 2016) that have not been conducted as
3 of the date of the enactment of this Act by not later than
4 September 30, 2024.
5(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and6 except within areas subject to existing oil and gas leasing
7 moratoria beginning in fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of
8 the Interior shall annually conduct a minimum of 2 re9 gion-wide oil and gas lease sales in the following planning
10 areas of the Gulf of Mexico region, as described in the
11 2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing
12 Proposed Final Program (November 2016):
13(1) The Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.

14(2) The Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.

15(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, be-

16 ginning in fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of the Interior
17 shall annually conduct a minimum of 2 region-wide oil and
18 gas lease sales in the Alaska region of the Outer Conti19 nental Shelf, as described in the 2017–2022 Outer Conti20 nental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program
21 (November 2016).
22(d) In conducting lease sales under subsections (b)23 and (c), the Secretary of the Interior shall—

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1801(1) issue such leases in accordance with the2Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1332

3

et seq.); and4(2) include in each such lease sale all unleased

5

areas that are not subject to a moratorium as of the

6date of the lease sale.

7

ONSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING

8

SEC. 473. (a)(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall

9 immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease
10 sales in compliance with the Mineral Leasing Act (3011 U.S.C. 181 et seq.).
12(2) The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure—13(A) that any oil and gas lease sale pursuant to14paragraph (1) is conducted immediately on comple-

15

tion of all applicable scoping, public comment, and16

environmental analysis requirements under the Min-17

eral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) and the18

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (4219

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); and

20(B) that the processes described in subpara-

21

graph (A) are conducted in a timely manner to en-22

sure compliance with subsection (b)(1).

23(3) Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act

24 (30 U.S.C. 226(b)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘Eligi25 ble lands comprise all lands subject to leasing under thisl:\v7\071123\7071123.002.xml
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1 Act and not excluded from leasing by a statutory or regu2 latory prohibition. Available lands are those lands that
3 have been designated as open for leasing under a land use
4 plan developed under section 202 of the Federal Land Pol5 icy and Management Act of 1976 and that have been nom6 inated for leasing through the submission of an expression
7 of interest, are subject to drainage in the absence of leas8 ing, or are otherwise designated as available pursuant to9 regulations adopted by the Secretary.’’ after ‘‘sales are
10 necessary.’’.
11(b)(1) In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act

12 (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), each fiscal year, the Secretary
13 of the Interior shall conduct a minimum of four oil and
14 gas lease sales in each of the following States:
15(A) Wyoming.

16(B) New Mexico.

17(C) Colorado.

18(D) Utah.

19(E) Montana.

20(F) North Dakota.

21(G) Oklahoma.

22(H) Nevada.

23(I) Alaska.

24(J) Any other State in which there is land25

available for oil and gas leasing under the Mineral

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Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or any other2mineral leasing law.

3(2) In conducting a lease sale under paragraph (1)4 in a State described in that paragraph, the Secretary of
5 the Interior shall offer all parcels nominated and eligible
6 pursuant to the requirements of the Mineral Leasing Act
7 (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) for oil and gas exploration, devel8 opment, and production under the resource management
9 plan in effect for the State.
10(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a re-

11 placement sale during the same fiscal year if—
12(A) a lease sale under paragraph (1) is can-13

celed, delayed, or deferred, including for a lack of el-

14

igible parcels; or

15(B) during a lease sale under paragraph (1) the16

percentage of acreage that does not receive a bid is

17

equal to or greater than 25 percent of the acreage

18

offered.

19(4) Not later than 30 days after a sale required under

20 this subsection is canceled, delayed, deferred, or otherwise
21 missed the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the
22 Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent23 atives and the Senate, the Committee on Natural Re24 sources of the House of Representatives, and the Com25 mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate

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1 a report that states what sale was missed and why it was
2 missed.
3

RESCISSION OF COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

4

FUNDS

5

SEC. 474. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-

6 propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the
7 Council on Environmental Quality under sections 60401
8 and 60402 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as
9 the ‘‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’’) as of the date of
10 the enactment of this Act are rescinded.
11

RESCISSION OF DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FUNDS

12SEC. 475. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-

13 propriated or otherwise made available under section
14 50224 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as the
15 ‘‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’’) as of the date of the
16 enactment of this Act are rescinded.
17

OFFICIAL FLAGS

18

SEC. 476. None of the funds made available by this19 Act may be obligated or expended to fly or display a flag
20 over a facility of a Department or agency funded by this21 Act other than the flag of the United States; the flag of
22 a State, insular area, or the District of Columbia; the flag
23 of a Federally recognized Tribal entity; the official flag
24 of the Secretary of the Interior; the official flag of a U.S.
25 Department or agency; or the POW/MIA flag.

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EFFECT ON OTHER LAW

2SEC. 477. Nothing in this Act, or any amendments

3 made by this Act, shall affect—
4(a) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-

5 randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United
6 States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi7 tion’’ and dated September 8, 2020;
8(b) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-

9 randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United
10 States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi11 tion’’ and dated September 25, 2020;
12(c) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-

13 randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the Atlantic
14 Coast on the Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Dis15 position’’ and dated December 20, 2016; or
16(d) the ban on oil and gas development in the Great

17 Lakes described in section 386 of the Energy Policy Act
18 of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15941).
19

SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT

20

SEC. 478. $0

21This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-

22 terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations
23 Act, 2024’’.

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H. R. ll

Union Calendar No. ll[FULL COMMITTEE PRINT]
118TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION[Report No. 118–ll]

A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of theInterior, environment, and related agencies forthe fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, andfor other purposes.

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