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Calendar No. 125

109TH CONGRESS REPORT " SENATE ! 1st Session 109–80

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND 

RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2006

JUNE 10, 2005—Ordered to be printed 

Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of January 4, 2005

Mr. BURNS, from the Committee on Appropriations,

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H.R. 2361]

The Committee on Appropriations to which was referred the bill 

(H.R. 2361) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 

September 30, 2006, and for other purposes, reports the same to 

the Senate with an amendment and recommends that the bill as 

amended do pass.

Amounts in new budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2006

Amount of bill passed by House .............................. $26,159,125,000

Amount of increase by Senate ................................. 99,500,000

Total of bill as reported to Senate ........................... 26,258,625,000

Estimates considered by House ............................... 25,724,328,000

Estimates considered by Senate ............................. 25,724,328,000

Above the budget estimate, 2006 ..................... 534,297,000

Below appropriations, 2005 (including emergencies) ........................................................... 739,099,000
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C O N T E N T S 

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Summary of Bill ....................................................................................................... 4

Revenue Generated by Agencies in Bill ................................................................. 4

Major Changes Recommended in the Bill ............................................................. 5

Land and Water Conservation Fund ...................................................................... 6

Reprogramming Guidelines .................................................................................... 6

Title I—Department of the Interior: 

Land and Water Resources: Bureau of Land Management .......................... 9

Fish and Wildlife and Parks: 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ................................................................. 14

National Park Service ............................................................................... 22

Energy and Minerals: 

U.S. Geological Survey .............................................................................. 33

Minerals Management Service ................................................................. 37

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ....................... 39

Indian Affairs: Bureau of Indian Affairs ........................................................ 40

Departmental Offices: 

Insular Affairs ........................................................................................... 45

Departmental Management ...................................................................... 47

Working Capital Fund .............................................................................. 48

Payment in Lieu of Taxes ......................................................................... 48

Central Hazardous Materials Fund ......................................................... 48

Office of the Solicitor ................................................................................. 49

Office of Inspector General ....................................................................... 49

Office of Special Trustee for American Indians ...................................... 49

Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration ....................... 50

Title II—Environmental Protection Agency: 

Science and Technology .................................................................................... 55

Environmental Programs and Management .................................................. 57

Office of Inspector General .............................................................................. 61

Buildings and Facilities ................................................................................... 62

Hazardous Substance Superfund .................................................................... 62

Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund .......................................... 64

Oil Spill Response ............................................................................................. 65

State and Tribal Assistance Grants ................................................................ 65

Administrative Provisions ................................................................................ 74

Title III—Related agencies: 

Department of Agriculture: Forest Service .................................................... 75

Administrative Provisions, Forest Service ..................................................... 89

Department of Health and Human Services: 

Indian Health Service ............................................................................... 89

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ........................... 93

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ................................ 93

Other Related Agencies: 

Council on Environmental Quality .......................................................... 94

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board ................................. 94

Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation .......................................... 95

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 

Development ........................................................................................... 95

Smithsonian Institution ............................................................................ 96

National Gallery of Art ............................................................................. 99

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts .................................. 100

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ............................... 101

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities: 

National Endowment for the Arts .................................................... 102
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Title III—Related agencies—Continued

Other Related Agencies—Continued

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities—Continued

National Endowment for the Humanities ........................................ 103

Commission of Fine Arts .......................................................................... 104

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation ............................................. 105

National Capital Planning Commission .................................................. 106

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .......................................... 107

Presidio Trust ............................................................................................ 107

White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance ..................................................................................................... 108

Title IV—General provisions .................................................................................. 109

Title V—Forest Service Facility Realignment and Enhancement Act ................ 112

Compliance with Paragraph 7, Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate .......................................................................................................................... 114

Compliance with Paragraph 7(c), Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the 

Senate ................................................................................................................... 114

Compliance with Paragraph 12, Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the 

Senate ................................................................................................................... 115
(4)

SUMMARY OF BILL 

For this bill, estimates totaling $25,724,328,000 in new obligational authority were considered by the Committee for the programs and activities of the agencies and bureaus of the Department of the Interior, except the Bureau of Reclamation, and the following related agencies: 

Environmental Protection Agency. 

Department of Agriculture: 

Forest Service. 

Department of Health and Human Services: 

Indian Health Service. 

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 

Council on Environmental Quality. 

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. 

Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation. 

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and 

Arts Development. 

Smithsonian Institution. 

National Gallery of Art. 

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 

National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities: 

National Endowment for the Arts. 

National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Commission of Fine Arts. 

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. 

National Capital Planning Commission. 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

Presidio Trust. 

White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance. 

REVENUE GENERATED BY AGENCIES IN BILL

Oil and gas leasing and other mineral leasing recreation and 

user fees, the timber and range programs, and other activities are 

estimated to generate income to the Government of 

$13,865,597,000 in fiscal year 2006. These estimated receipts, for 

agencies under the subcommittee’s jurisdiction, are tabulated 

below:

Item 

Fiscal year—

2004 2005 2006

Department of the Interior ....................................................... $9,643,359,000 $12,497,212,000 $13,418,547,000

Forest Service ........................................................................... 445,533,000 439,106,000 447,050,000

Total receipts .................................................................. 10,088,892,000 12,936,318,000 13,865,597,000
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MAJOR CHANGES RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL

The Committee has developed revisions to the budget estimate 

for the 2006 fiscal year. 

A comparative summary of funding in the bill by agency is 

shown by agency or principal program in the following table:

[In thousands of dollars] 

Budget estimate Committee recommendation 

Committee recommendation 

compared with 

budget estimate 

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management .................................................................... 1,759,042 1,788,310 ∂29,268

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ................................................................... 1,322,894 1,315,037 ¥7,857

National Park Service ................................................................................ 2,249,275 2,313,332 ∂64,057

United States Geological Survey ................................................................ 933,515 963,057 ∂29,542

Minerals Management Service ................................................................... 167,422 159,522 ¥7,900

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ......................... 356,549 298,549 ¥58,000

Bureau of Indian Affairs ............................................................................ 2,187,469 2,269,371 ∂81,902

Departmental Offices ................................................................................. 815,903 770,563 ¥45,340

Total, Title I—Department of the Interior ................................... 9,792,069 9,877,741 ∂85,672

TITLE II—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Science and Technology ............................................................................. 760,640 730,795 ¥29,845

Environmental Programs and Management .............................................. 2,353,764 2,333,416 ¥20,348

Office of Inspector General ........................................................................ 36,955 36,955 ........................

Building and Facilities .............................................................................. 40,218 40,218 ........................

Hazardous Substance Superfund ............................................................... 1,279,333 1,256,165 ¥23,168

Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program ............................................ 73,027 73,027 ........................

Oil Spill Response ...................................................................................... 15,863 15,863 ........................

State and Tribal Assistance Grants .......................................................... 2,960,800 3,395,550 ∂434,750

Total, Title II—Environmental Protection Agency ........................ 7,520,600 7,881,989 ∂361,389

TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES

Department of Agriculture: Forest Service ................................................ 4,065,000 4,122,767 ∂57,767

Department of Health and Human Services: 

Indian Health Service ....................................................................... 3,047,966 3,067,966 ∂20,000

National Institutes of Health: National Institute of Environmental 

Health Sciences ............................................................................ 80,289 80,289 ........................

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ......................... 76,024 76,024 ........................

Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality .. 2,717 2,717 ........................

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board .................................... 9,200 9,200 ........................

Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation ........................................... 8,601 8,601 ........................

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development ................................................................................................... 6,300 6,300 ........................

Smithsonian Institution ............................................................................. 615,035 624,135 ∂9,100

National Gallery of Art ............................................................................... 113,300 111,600 ¥1,700

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ....................................... 33,000 33,000 ........................

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ................................... 9,201 9,201 ........................

National Endowment for the Arts .............................................................. 121,264 126,264 ∂5,000

National Endowment for the Humanities .................................................. 138,054 143,054 ∂5,000

Commission of Fine Arts ........................................................................... 1,893 1,893 ........................

National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs ............................................... 7,000 7,492 ∂492

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation ................................................. 4,988 4,943 ¥45

National Capital Planning Commission .................................................... 8,344 8,244 ¥100

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ............................................. 43,233 43,233 ........................

Presidio Trust ............................................................................................. 20,000 19,722 ¥278

White House Commission on the National Moment of Remem

brance .................................................................................................... 250 250 ........................

Total, Title III—Related Agencies ................................................ 8,411,659 8,506,895 ∂95,236
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[In thousands of dollars] 

Budget estimate Committee recommendation 

Committee recommendation 

compared with 

budget estimate 

GRAND TOTAL ............................................................................... 25,724,328 26,266,625 ∂542,297

LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND

The following table displays appropriations for the Land and 

Water Conservation Fund.

Agency/Program 

Fiscal year 

House

recommendation 

Committee rec2005 ommendation 

enacted 

2006

estimate 1

Federal Land Acquisition: 

Bureau of Land Management .............................. $11,192,000 $13,350,000 $3,817,000 $12,250,000

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ............................. 37,005,000 40,992,000 14,937,000 40,827,000

National Park Service .......................................... 55,134,000 52,880,000 7,834,000 56,005,000

Forest Service ...................................................... 61,007,000 40,000,000 15,000,000 44,925,000

Departmental Management (appraisal services) 2 .............................................................. ........................ ........................ [7,441,000] 7,441,000

Subtotal, Federal Land Acquisition ................. 164,338,000 147,222,000 41,588,000 161,448,000

National Park Service, State Assistance ...................... 91,215,000 1,587,000 1,587,000 30,000,000

Landowner Incentive Program ...................................... 21,694,000 40,000,000 23,700,000 25,000,000

Private Stewardship Grants .......................................... 6,903,000 10,000,000 7,386,000 7,500,000

State and Tribal Wildlife Grants .................................. 69,028,000 74,000,000 65,000,000 72,000,000

Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation

Fund 3 ....................................................................... 48,698,000 45,653,000 50,053,000 45,653,000

Forest Legacy ................................................................ 57,134,000 80,000,000 25,000,000 62,632,000

Total, Land and Water Conservation Fund ..... 459,010,000 398,492,000 214,314,000 404,233,000

1 2006 estimate reflects only activities for which funds were derived from the LWCF in fiscal year 2005. 

2 Funded in bureau land acquisition accounts in fiscal year 2005 and prior years. 

3 CESCF data only reflects funding for HCP land acquisition. 

REPROGRAMMING GUIDELINES

The Committee has revised the reprogramming guidelines to add 

an exception for certain Environmental Protection Agency grants 

(section 3(b)) and to delete certain instructions to the Forest Service dealing with boundary adjustments and transfer of funds. 

The following are the procedures governing reprogramming actions for programs and activities funded in the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act: 

1. Definition.—‘‘Reprogramming,’’ as defined in these procedures, 

includes the reallocation of funds from one budget activity to another. In cases where either the House or Senate Committee report 

displays an allocation of an appropriation below the activity level, 

that more detailed level shall be the basis for reprogramming. For 

construction accounts, a reprogramming constitutes the reallocation of funds from one construction project (identified in the justification or Committee report) to another. A reprogramming shall 

also consist of any significant departure from the program described in the agency’s budget justifications. This includes proposed 

reorganizations even without a change in funding. 

2. Guidelines for Reprogramming.—(a) A reprogramming should 

be made only when an unforeseen situation arises; and then only 

if postponement of the project or the activity until the next appro-
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priation year would result in actual loss or damage. Mere convenience or desire should not be factors for consideration. 

(b) Any project or activity, which may be deferred through reprogramming, shall not later be accomplished by means of further 

reprogramming; but, instead, funds should again be sought for the 

deferred project or activity through the regular appropriations process. 

(c) Reprogramming should not be employed to initiate new programs or to change allocations specifically denied, limited or increased by the Congress in the Act or the report. In cases where 

unforeseen events or conditions are deemed to require changes, 

proposals shall be submitted in advance to the Committee, regardless of amounts involved, and be fully explained and justified. 

(d) Reprogramming proposals submitted to the Committee for approval shall be considered approved 30 calendar days after receipt 

if the Committee has posed no objection. However, agencies will be 

expected to extend the approval deadline if specifically requested 

by either Committee. 

(e) Proposed changes to estimated working capital fund bills and 

estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks, as 

such estimates were presented in annual budget justifications, 

shall be submitted through the reprogramming process. 

3. Criteria and Exceptions.—Any proposed reprogramming must 

be submitted to the Committee in writing prior to implementation 

if it exceeds $500,000 annually or results in an increase or decrease 

of more than 10 percent annually in affected programs, with the 

following exceptions: 

(a) With regard to the tribal priority allocations activity of the 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Operations of Indian Programs account, 

there is no restriction on reprogrammings among the programs 

within this activity. However, the Bureau shall report on all 

reprogrammings made during the first 6 months of the fiscal year 

by no later than May 1 of each year, and shall provide a final report of all reprogrammings for the previous fiscal year by no later 

than November 1 of each year. 

(b) With regard to the Environmental Protection Agency, State 

and Tribal Assistance Grants account, reprogramming requests associated with States and Tribes applying for partnership grants do 

not need to be submitted to the Committee for approval should 

such grants exceed the normal reprogramming limitations. In addition, the Agency need not submit a request to move funds between 

wastewater and drinking water objectives for those grants targeted 

to specific communities. 

4. Quarterly Reports.—(a) All reprogrammings shall be reported 

to the Committee quarterly and shall include cumulative totals. 

(b) Any significant shifts of funding among object classifications 

also should be reported to the Committee. 

5. Administrative Overhead Accounts.—For all appropriations 

where costs of overhead administrative expenses are funded in part 

from ‘‘assessments’’ of various budget activities within an appropriation, the assessments shall be shown in justifications under the 

discussion of administrative expenses. 

6. Contingency Accounts.—For all appropriations where assessments are made against various budget activities or allocations for 
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contingencies the Committee expects a full explanation, as part of 

the budget justification, consistent with section 405 of this Act. The 

explanation shall show the amount of the assessment, the activities 

assessed, and the purpose of the fund. The Committee expects reports each year detailing the use of these funds. In no case shall 

a fund be used to finance projects and activities disapproved or limited by Congress or to finance new permanent positions or to finance programs or activities that could be foreseen and included in 

the normal budget review process. Contingency funds shall not be 

used to initiate new programs. 

7. Report Language.—Any limitation, directive, or earmarking 

contained in either the House or Senate report which is not contradicted by the other report nor specifically denied in the conference 

report shall be considered as having been approved by both Houses 

of Congress. 

8. Assessments.—No assessments shall be levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by the Interior, 

Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act unless such 

assessments and the basis therefore are presented to the Committees on Appropriations and are approved by such Committees, in 

compliance with these procedures. 

9. Land Acquisitions and Forest Legacy.—Lands shall not be acquired for more than the approved appraised value (as addressed 

in section 301(3) of Public Law 91–646) except for condemnations 

and declarations of taking, unless such acquisitions are submitted 

to the Committees on Appropriations for approval in compliance 

with these procedures. 

10. Land Exchanges.—Land exchanges, wherein the estimated 

value of the Federal lands to be exchanged is greater than 

$500,000, shall not be consummated until the Committees on Appropriations have had a 30-day period in which to examine the proposed exchange. 

11. Appropriations Structure.—The appropriation structure for 

any agency shall not be altered without advance approval of the 

House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

LAND AND WATER RESOURCES 

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

The Bureau of Land Management is charged with administering 

for multiple uses 262 million acres of public land concentrated in 

12 western States, as well as 700 million acres of federally-owned 

sub-surface mineral rights. Minerals, timber, rangeland, fish and 

wildlife, wilderness and recreation are among the resources and activities managed by BLM. 

Recent increases in energy production and recreation visits have 

placed an even greater stress on the Bureau’s multiple use mandate, but great strides are being made to address the needs of an 

ever-growing U.S. population. 

In 2006 over 68 million visitors are expected to participate in recreational activities on public lands. This influx of visitors necessitates ongoing investments in the Bureau’s planning, recreation 

management, facilities construction and law enforcement programs. 

In addition, the Bureau is tasked with managing programs involving the mineral industry, utility companies, ranchers, the timber industry, and the conservation and research communities. In 

2006, it is estimated that public lands will generate $5,000,000,000 

in revenues, the bulk of this amount coming from ongoing energy 

development. BLM will collect an estimated $1,348,000,000 in revenue from the sale of land and materials, grazing fees, timber 

sales, and recreation use and filing fees. Additionally, the Bureau’s 

onshore mineral leasing activities are expected to generate 

$3,600,000,000 in receipts. Of the revenues generated on public 

lands, approximately 39 percent is provided directly to States and 

counties to support roads, schools, and community needs. 

MANAGEMENT OF LAND AND RESOURCES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $836,826,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 850,177,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 845,783,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 867,045,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $867,045,000, 

an increase of $30,219,000 over the enacted level, an increase of 

$16,868,000 over the budget request, and $21,262,000 over the 

House recommendation. The funding amounts described below are 

at the activity level. Additional details on funding for sub-activities 

within the various appropriations accounts for the Bureau are set 

out in a table in the back of the report. 

Land Resources.—The Committee recommends $188,963,000 for 

land resources, which is an increase of $2,000,000 above the request. Increases above the request include $1,000,000 to continue 
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work at the National Center for Invasive Plant Management; and 

$1,000,000 for the Idaho Department of Agriculture to provide coordination, facilitation, administrative support, and cost-shared 

weed control project funding to Cooperative Weed Management 

Areas. The Committee also notes $600,000 is included for the Rio 

Puerco Watershed project, and prior instruction to facilitate cooperative monitoring shall continue. 

The Committee notes the budget request’s suggested elimination 

of the Mandatory Range Improvements Account. The Committee 

does not support this action and expects the discretionary funds 

identified in the request to replace the Mandatory Account be retained for the range related projects as proposed and any excess 

funds be used to support cooperative monitoring activities. 

The Committee has included further direction regarding grazing 

permit stocking levels and the acceptance of third party range monitoring under the Forest Service’s account for grazing management. 

The Committee directs the Bureau to retain its current level of 

support for the National Conservation Training Center, and directs 

that funds shall be made available to NCTC within 60 days of enactment. 

The Committee is aware of the current cooperation between the 

Bureau and the National Wild Horse Association in Nevada. The 

Committee encourages the continuation of this collaborative effort 

and would urge the Bureau to give serious consideration to funding 

the Association’s pilot adoption program. 

Wildlife and Fisheries Management.—The Committee recommends $41,084,000 for wildlife and fisheries management, which 

is equal to the request. This amount includes $3,604,000 for additional sage grouse conservation efforts as proposed by the administration. The Committee applauds the Bureau’s ongoing commitment to address the loss of sagebrush habitat and associated impacts to sage grouse. The Bureau is expected to continue pursuing 

cooperative agreements with States and other entities to ensure 

the increased funding in the budget request is spent as efficiently 

as possible. The Bureau is also encouraged to work with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to implement these measures. 

Threatened and Endangered Species.—The Committee recommends $21,572,000 for threatened and endangered species management, which is equal to the request. 

Recreation Management.—The Committee recommends 

$65,604,000 for recreation management, which is an increase of 

$1,000,000 over the request and $5,015,000 above the enacted 

level. Wilderness Management and Recreation Operations are 

funded at the request level. The Committee fully supports the administration’s addition of $3,693,000 to enhance recreational experiences and access to Bureau properties. Support for the Undaunted Stewardship program is provided at $1,000,000 above the 

request level. 

Energy and Minerals Management Including Alaska Minerals.—

The Committee has provided $109,772,000 for energy and minerals 

management, which is an increase of $3,000,000 above the request 

and $3,141,000 above the enacted level. Increases to the request include $3,000,000 for Oil and Gas Management. Within the increase, the Bureau is expected to provide $250,000 for the Utah Oil 
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and Gas Leasing Internet Pilot program, begin planning for an Oil 

Shale Leasing program, and continue focusing on timely processing 

of APDs. 

The Committee has also provided $3,000,000 for the Alaska min- erals program, which is an increase of $703,000 above the request 

and $944,000 below the 2005 enacted level. 

The Committee strongly believes U.S. oil shale development has 

the potential to reduce America’s growing dependence on unstable 

sources of foreign oil imports, and that development should be accelerated in light of recent technological advances illustrating the 

viability of oil shale as a cost effective energy source. The Committee notes the Secretary of the Interior, through existing and ongoing funded authorities under Section 21 of the Mineral Leasing 

Act of 1920, is currently authorized to develop and implement a 

Federal commercial oil shale leasing program. As referenced above, 

the Committee expects the Secretary to begin planning for such a 

leasing program, and believes it is appropriate in the interim to expedite the placement of Research and Development activities on 

BLM land with management plans addressing and supporting oil 

shale development to further test methods of production. 

Realty and Ownership Management.—The Committee recommends $91,707,000 for realty and ownership management, 

which is an increase of $10,561,000 above the request. Increases 

above the request include $8,401,000 for the Alaska Conveyance 

program; $300,000 for GIS/Cadastral mapping in Utah; $750,000 

for the processing of recordable disclaimer applications in Alaska; 

$160,000 for soil survey mapping in Wyoming; and $950,000 for ongoing Cadastral mapping in Montana. 

The Committee continues to support the Bureau’s work to implement the various realty actions included in the Clark County Act 

(Public Law 107–282). 

Resource Protection and Maintenance.—The Committee recommends $85,216,000 for resource protection and maintenance, 

which is $1,600,000 above the request. 

The Committee notes that the administration’s request of 

$1,000,000 in additional funding for law enforcement is largely reserved for activities in the Southwest. Due to increasing visitation 

on National Landscape Conservation System lands the Committee 

has provided an additional $1,600,000. The Committee expects 

these funds to be used in Montana, Colorado, California, and Arizona. Due to the administration’s focus on the Southwest, the additional funds shall first be focused on fully meeting needs in Montana and Colorado with remaining funds supporting other portions 

of the NLCS across the West. 

Transportation and Facilities Maintenance.—The Committee recommends $78,291,000 for transportation and facilities maintenance, which is $2,000,000 above the request. $1,000,000 of the increase is to continue capping of oil wells in the National Petroleum 

Reserve to prevent leakage and oil spills and $1,000,000 is to support activities on the Pacific Crest, Continental Divide and Iditarod 

trails. 

Land and Information Systems.—The Committee recommends 

$18,217,000 for land and information systems, which is equal to 

the request. 
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Mining Law Administration.—The Committee recommends 

$32,696 for mining law administration, which is equal to the request. 

Workforce Organization and Support.—The Committee recommends $147,619,000 for workforce organization and support 

equal to the request. 

Challenge Cost Share.—The Committee has provided $10,000,000 

for the challenge cost share program; $3,996,000 below the request 

level. Additionally the Committee agrees to the request level of 

$6,000,000 for the Cooperative Conservation Initiative. 

WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $831,295,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 756,564,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 761,564,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 766,564,000

The Committee recommends a total appropriation of 

$766,564,000 for wildland fire management activities, which is 

$64,731,000 below the enacted level, $10,000,000 above the request, and $5,000,000 over the House allowance. 

The Committee retains the current budget structure and recommends $272,852,000 for fire preparedness, which is equal to the 

request. 

The Committee also recommends a total of $234,167,000 for fire 

suppression activities, which is equal to the request. 

The Committee’s recommendation includes $259,545,000 for 

Other Fire Operations, which is $10,000,000 above the request. The 

amount above the request is for the Rural Fire Assistance program. 

Funding for the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis shall 

remain at or above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level of $1,500,000. 

The Committee is dismayed by the budget request’s proposal to 

eliminate the Rural Fire Assistance program. Often, rural fire departments are the first responders to fires on Federal lands, facing 

great risk and expense to battle these fires. The administration 

suggests other programs will fill the void left in the wake of this 

program’s cancellation, but further analysis shows the other accounts suggested are also slated for large programmatic cuts in the 

request. The Committee has restored funding for this program and 

suggests that future action to reduce the program will be met with 

action by the Committee to restore funding directly from the administration’s top priorities. 

CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $11,340,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 6,476,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 11,476,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 9,976,000

The Committee recommends $9,976,000 for construction, which 

is $1,364,000 below the fiscal year 2005 level, an increase of 

$3,500,000 above the request, and $1,500,000 below the House allowance. Increases above the request include: $1,500,000 for the 

Sand Hollow Recreation area pursuant to the MOU with the State 

of Utah; $450,000 for the Paiute Meadows Trail project in Nevada; 
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and $1,550,000 to address critical projects identified in the Bureau’s 5-year construction plan.

LAND ACQUISITION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $11,192,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 13,350,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 3,817,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 12,250,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $12,250,000 for 

land acquisition, an increase of $1,058,000 over the enacted level, 

a decrease of $1,100,000 below the budget estimate, and $8,433,000 

over the House recommendation. 

The following table shows the Committee’s recommendations:

State Project Committee

recommendation 

CA Santa Rosa and San Jacinto National Monument ................................................................................. $500,000

CO CO Canyons Nat’l Conservation Area ..................................................................................................... 1,500,000

ID Upper/South Fork Snake River ACEC/SMRA ............................................................................................ 3,000,000

OR Oregon NWSR, North Fork Owyhee NWSR ............................................................................................... 650,000

OR Sandy River/OR Nat’l Historic Trail ........................................................................................................ 1,600,000

UT Colorado River SRMA .............................................................................................................................. 1,200,000

SUBTOTAL, LINE ITEM PROJECTS ............................................................................................... 8,450,000

Acquisition Management/Land Exchange Processing ............................................................................ 2,300,000

Emergency/Inholdings/Wilderness ........................................................................................................... 1,500,000

TOTAL, BLM LAND ACQUISITION ................................................................................................ 12,250,000

OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $107,497,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 110,070,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 110,070,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 110,070,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $110,070,000, 

an increase of $2,573,000 over the enacted level, and equal to the 

budget request and the House allowance. 

FOREST ECOSYSTEMS HEALTH AND RECOVERY

(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)

The Committee has retained bill language clarifying that the 

Federal share of salvage receipts to be deposited into this account 

shall be those funds remaining after payments to counties. 

RANGE IMPROVEMENTS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $10,000,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 10,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 10,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 10,000,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $10,000,000 for 

range improvements, the same as the fiscal year 2005 enacted 

level, the budget request and the House allowance. The Committee 

rejects the budget request’s proposed elimination of this account. 
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SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $20,055,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 32,940,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 32,940,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 32,940,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $32,940,000, 

equal to the budget estimate and the House allowance. 

MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $12,405,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 12,405,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 12,405,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 12,405,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $12,405,000, the 

same as the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, the budget request and 

the House allowance.

FISH AND WILDLIFE AND PARKS 

U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats. The Service manages the 95 million acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 544 

national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other 

special management areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 63 fish and wildlife management offices and 81 ecological 

services field stations. The Agency enforces Federal wildlife laws, 

administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird 

populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and 

restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds of millions of 

dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to State 

fish and wildlife agencies. 

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $962,940,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 985,563,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,005,225,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 993,485,000

The Committee recommends $993,485,000 for resource manage- ment, which is $30,545,000 above the enacted level, $7,922,000 

above the request, and $11,740,000 below the House recommendation. A table in the back of the report displays the distribution of 

funds at the subactivity level.

Budget estimate Committee

recommendation Change 

Ecological Services .............................................................................. $250,573,000 $254,613,000 ∂$4,040,000

Refuges and Wildlife ........................................................................... 493,141,000 491,708,000 ¥1,433,000

Fisheries ............................................................................................... 107,656,000 111,808,000 ∂4,152,000

General Administration ........................................................................ 134,193,000 135,356,000 ∂1,163,000
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Budget estimate Committee recommendation Change 

Total, Resource Management ................................................. 985,563,000 993,485,000 ∂7,922,000

Ecological Services.—The Committee recommends $254,613,000 

for ecological services which is $4,040,000 above the request. The 

Committee recommends an increase of $500,000 for the candidate 

conservation program which shall be distributed to the Idaho Sage 

Grouse management plan through the Idaho Office of Species Conservation. 

The Committee recommends $18,130,000 for the listing program, 

which is equal to the request, and $49,484,000 for the consultation 

program also equal to the request. The Committee has not continued bill language concerning the Natural Communities Conservation Planning project in California, but notes that this project is eligible to compete for funds from the Section 6 Habitat Conservation 

Planning Grants program through the Cooperative Endangered 

Species Conservation Fund. 

The Committee recommends $72,541,000 for the recovery program which is $8,298,000 above the request. Increases above the 

request are $982,000 to restore funding for the Platte River recovery project, $691,000 to restore funding for the Upper Colorado 

River fish recovery project, $1,114,000 for implementation of the 

Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Conservation Strategy, $500,000 for the 

Lahontan cutthroat trout, $1,202,000 for wolf recovery efforts for a 

total of $1,500,000 for this activity, $1,000,000 for the Penobscot 

River restoration project, $1,000,000 for Atlantic salmon recovery 

activities administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and $1,800,000 for the eider and sea otter recovery work at 

the Alaska SeaLife Center. Of the funds provided for wolf recovery, 

$350,000 is for the Nez Perce Tribe, $730,000 is for the Idaho Office of Species Conservation, $100,000 is for the Service’s Snake 

River Basin office pursuant to a memorandum of agreement between the Nez Perce Tribe and the State of Idaho, and $320,000 

is for wolf monitoring and related activities by the State of Montana. 

Within the funds provided for recovery, the Committee rec- ommends $400,000 for the Peregrine Fund. 

The Committee supports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 

other Department of the Interior investments in Whooping Crane 

recovery particularly for the captive rearing of cranes for reintroduction and for logistical, biological and habitat support. The current Whooping Crane re-introduction in the Eastern United States 

is a landmark in endangered species recovery. The Service should 

continue to support these efforts, which contribute to successful implementation of recovery priorities. The Committee recommends $94,805,000 for habitat conservation, a decrease of $7,173,000 from the budget request. The Committee recommends $44,474,000 for the partners for fish and wildlife program, a decrease of $7,723,000 below the request. Decreases 

from the request include a general program decrease of 

$11,966,000, and a decrease of $3,272,000 for the Upper Klamath 

Basin effort. Increases above the request include $700,000 for the 

Big Hole Watershed restoration project in Montana, $500,000 for 
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the Montana Water Center for the Wild Fish Habitat Initiative, 

$1,250,000 for the Nevada Biodiversity Research and Conservation 

Project, $100,000 for bald eagle restoration work performed in cooperation with the Vermont Natural Heritage Partners Program, 

$1,400,000 for spartina control at Willapa Bay, $540,000 for conservation work at the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge, 

$1,000,000 for the Wildlife Enterprises program at Mississippi 

State University, $250,000 for the Thunder Basin Initiative project 

in Wyoming, $100,000 for invasive species control work by the 

friends of Lake Sakakawea, $550,000 for endangered bird conservation work in Hawaii in cooperation with the Zoological Society of 

San Diego, $500,000 to continue Geographic Information System 

mapping of the National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska by a non-governmental organization that has a proven system of land cover 

products in Alaska and high expertise in forest cover and wetlands, 

$200,000 for a hydrology study on the Lower Colorado River, and 

$425,000 for the completion of a study on declining wildlife populations on the Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge in cooperation with the New Hampshire Audubon Society. The Committee recommends $30,654,000 for project planning, $550,000 above the request. The increase is for the Middle Rio 

Grande (Bosque) Research program. The Committee recommends $14,900,000 for coastal programs 

which is equal to the request. The Committee recommends $4,777,000 for the national wetlands inventory which is equal to the request. The Committee has provided $10,901,000 for the environmental 

contaminants program, which is equal to the enacted level. The 

Committee directs the Service to work with the Environmental Protection Agency to incorporate trustee concerns during Superfund 

remediation and to enhance the integration of Superfund remedial 

activities and natural resource damage assessment activities. 

Refuges and Wildlife.—The Committee recommends $491,708,000 

for refuges and wildlife, a decrease of $1,433,000 below the request. 

The Committee has provided a total of $393,894,000 for the National Wildlife Refuge System which is equal to the request. Within 

this amount, $246,807,000 is for refuge operations and 

$137,687,000 is for maintenance. The Committee approves of the 

Service’s budget restructuring proposal for refuge operations activities but expects the Service to continue to identify as a separate 

line item the amount proposed for refuge maintenance. 

The Committee recommendation for refuges and wildlife includes 

a total of $9,400,000 for the challenge cost share program. Of this 

amount, $4,400,000 is for the traditional cost share program and 

$5,000,000 is for the Cooperative Conservation Initiative grant program. 

The Committee understands that the Fish and Wildlife Service 

relies extensively on information compiled by NatureServe, particularly biological information which it gathers through the State Heritage Network. This has proven to be an effective means to collect 

data that furthers the mission of the Service as well as other Departmental agencies. In order to maintain the quality of this information, the Committee expects that the Service will work cooperatively with NatureServe and make additional funds available if 
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necessary from programs such as the CCI initiative to ensure that 

sufficient funds are available to maintain adequately the integrity 

of this important inventory information. 

The Committee is aware that a number of refuges such as 

Clark’s River in KY, and Don Edwards in CA, have grown substantially in recent years due to large land acquisitions by the Service. 

The Committee strongly encourages the agency to review base 

budgets for these refuges in light of the additional management responsibilities caused by the significant increase in the number of 

refuge acres under the Service’s jurisdiction. The Committee has provided $40,202,000 for migratory bird management which is $1,433,000 below the request. The decrease 

is for the proposed new joint ventures. Given tight budget constraints, the Committee cannot provide these additional funds this 

fiscal year. The Committee expects that funds for the existing joint 

ventures will be distributed consistent with documents provided to 

the Committee by the Service. The Committee has provided $57,612,000 for law enforcement 

which is equal to the request. The Committee is concerned with 

certain reductions proposed in the request for the ports of entry at 

Louisville, Memphis, and Atlanta. The Committee is aware that 

some of the funds provided last year for these ports represented 

one-time start-up costs, but it is the Committee’s expectation that 

the operational capability at each of these Ports shall be maintained at a level consistent with fiscal year 2005. If the level of 

funding proposed in the budget request is insufficient to meet this 

operational level, the Committee directs that additional funds be 

reprogrammed within the law enforcement account. The Service 

shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 

within 30 days of enactment of this Act whether funds must be reprogrammed for this purpose. 

Fisheries.—The Committee recommends $111,808,000 for fisheries, an increase of $4,152,000 above the budget request. 

For hatchery operations and maintenance, the Committee recommends $57,971,000 which is equal to the request. The Committee expects that at this funding level no hatcheries will be 

closed or placed in caretaker status. 

The Committee recommends $53,837,000 for fish and wildlife 

management which is $4,152,000 above the request. Increases 

above the request are $102,000 for aquatic nuisance control, 

$1,400,000 to combat whirling disease and related fish health 

issues, of which $1,000,000 is for the National Partnership on the 

Management of Wild and Native Coldwater Fisheries and $400,000 

is for the Whirling Disease Foundation, $250,000 is for the regional 

mark processing center, and $500,000 is for the Wildlife Health 

Center in Montana. There is a general decrease of $300,000. 

The Committee recommends a total of $4,685,000 for marine 

mammals which is an increase of $2,200,000 above the request. 

The increases are $1,200,000 to continue marine mammal protection work in Alaska through cooperative agreements with various 

marine mammal commissions, and $1,000,000 to continue population assessments on marine mammal stocks in Alaska. 

The Committee remains concerned by the recent discoveries of 

the northern snakehead in the Potomac River and its potential im-
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pact on native fish populations through predation, food and habitat 

competition, or the introduction of diseases and parasites. The 

Committee directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue 

sampling activities in the Potomac River and its tributaries that 

are important for determining the distribution of the species, and 

the potential application of control and management strategies. 

General Administration.—The Committee recommends 

$135,356,000 for general administration, which is $1,163,000 above 

the request. Changes from the request include a decrease of 

$2,000,000 for the science excellence initiative, and increases of 

$1,625,000 to offset partially the proposed administrative efficiencies reduction which was not adequately explained or justified, 

$291,000 to restore funding for the National Fish and Wildlife 

Foundation, $250,000 for enhanced training activities at the National Conservation Training Center [NCTC], and $397,000 to restore cuts to maintenance activities at NCTC. 

The Committee recommends $10,149,000 for international affairs 

which is $600,000 above the request. The increase above the request is to restore the Wildlife Without Borders program to the enacted level. Within the funds provided for international affairs, no 

less than $700,000 is for the Caddo Lake Ramsar Center in Texas. 

CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2005 (including emergency appropriations) ............. $93,210,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 19,676,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 41,206,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 31,811,000

The Committee recommends $31,811,000 for construction, a decrease of $20,847,000 below the enacted level (excluding emergency 

appropriations), an increase of $12,135,000 above the budget estimate, and $9,395,000 below the House recommendation. 

The Committee agrees to the following distribution of funds:

[In thousands of dollars] 

Unit Project Committee

recommendation 

Balcones Canyonlands NWR, TX ................................. Martin Lake and Martin West Dams ......................... 500

Big Oaks NWR, IN ....................................................... Dam Rehabilitation [d/cc] ......................................... 150

Crab Orchard NWR, IL ................................................ Visitor Center Dam Rehabilitation ............................ 2,625

Craig Brook NFH, ME .................................................. Wastewater Treatment Compliance [cc] ................... 2,480

Garrison Dam NFH, ND ............................................... Hatchery renovation [cc] ........................................... 200

Hakalau NWR, HI ........................................................ Ungulate Control Fencing [c] .................................... 1,100

Hanford Reach NM/Saddle Mtn. NWR, WA ................. Visitor Center [cc] ..................................................... 2,250

Kodiak NWR, AK .......................................................... Visitor Center [cc] ..................................................... 4,400

Kofa NWR, AZ ............................................................. Structural Replacement [cc] ..................................... 1,515

National Conservation Training Center ...................... Waterline construction [cc] ....................................... 600

Office of Aircraft Services .......................................... Replacement of Survey Aircraft ................................. 1,500

Ohio River Islands NWR, WV ...................................... Visitor Center [cc] ..................................................... 835

Servicewide ................................................................. Dam Safety and Inspection ....................................... 720

Servicewide ................................................................. Bridge Safety and Inspection .................................... 570

Sevilleta NWR, NM ...................................................... Laboratory Construction [cc] ..................................... 2,100

White Sulphur Springs NFH, WV ................................. Mussell Propagation Facility [cc] .............................. 650

Subtotal, Line Item Construction .................. .................................................................................... 22,195

Servicewide ................................................................. Core Engineering Service ........................................... 5,900

Servicewide ................................................................. CAM ............................................................................ 2,456

Servicewide ................................................................. Seismic Safety Program ............................................ 130

Servicewide ................................................................. Environmental Compliance Management .................. 1,000
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[In thousands of dollars] 

Unit Project Committee recommendation 

Servicewide ................................................................. Waste Prevention, Recycling and Env. Mgmt Sys ..... 130

Subtotal, Nationwide Engineering Svcs. ....... .................................................................................... 9,616

Total .............................................................. .................................................................................... 31,811

The Committee remains concerned about reported poor and unsafe conditions in the research facilities and office buildings at the 

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and Patuxent Research Refuge. 

In the Conference Report to accompany the fiscal 2004 Interior Appropriations bill (H. Rept. 108–330) and in the Senate report to accompany the fiscal 2005 bill (S. Rept. 108–341), the Committee underscored its expectation that the FWS and USGS develop a plan 

and budget for the rehabilitation or replacement of facilities and to 

resolve any jurisdictional issues between the agencies. To date, the 

Department has not submitted such a plan or budget and the Committee understands that there has been no final resolution of the 

jurisdictional issues. The Committee expects the Secretary of the 

Interior to complete a facilities and budget plan by not later than 

March 1, 2006, which identifies the priorities, schedule, funding requirements, phasing options and agencies responsible for the repair, rehabilitation or replacement of facilities, buildings and associated infrastructure at the Center and Refuge.

LAND ACQUISITION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $37,005,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 40,992,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 14,937,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 40,827,000

The Committee recommends $40,827,000, an increase of 

$3,822,000 over the enacted level, a decrease of $165,000 below the 

budget request, and $25,890,000 over the House recommendation. 

The following table shows the Committee’s recommendations:

State Project Committee

recommendation 

AK Alaska Peninsula NWR ............................................................................................................ $400,000

AR Cache River NWR .................................................................................................................... 809,000

AL Cahaba NWR ........................................................................................................................... 500,000

WV Canaan Valley NWR ................................................................................................................ 190,000

TN Chickasaw NWR ...................................................................................................................... 500,000

KY Clark’s River NWR ................................................................................................................... 750,000

ND/SD Dakota Tallgrass Prairie Wildlife Management Area ............................................................. 500,000

VA Eastern Shore NWR ................................................................................................................. 4,000,000

NJ Edwin B. Forsythe NWR .......................................................................................................... 300,000

TX Laguna Atascosa NWR ............................................................................................................ 400,000

NH Lake Umbagog NWR ................................................................................................................ 750,000

TX Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR ................................................................................................ 1,000,000

MN/IA Northern Tallgrass Prairie NWR .............................................................................................. 500,000

DE Primehook NWR ....................................................................................................................... 815,000

ME Rachel Carson NWR ................................................................................................................ 600,000

RI Rhode Island Refuge Complex ................................................................................................ 950,000

MT Rocky Mountain Front ............................................................................................................. 1,500,000

CA San Joaquin River NWR .......................................................................................................... 1,700,000

NH/VT/MA/CN Silvio Conte Nat’l Fish and Wildlife Refuge ........................................................................... 1,000,000

LA Tensas NWR ............................................................................................................................ 1,900,000
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State Project Committee recommendation 

AK Togiak NWR ............................................................................................................................. 300,000

OR Upper Klamath Lake NWR ...................................................................................................... 6,000,000

SUBTOTAL, LINE ITEM PROJECTS ............................................................................... 25,364,000

Acquisition Management ......................................................................................................... 8,393,000

CAM ......................................................................................................................................... 1,820,000

Exchanges ............................................................................................................................... 1,750,000

Inholdings, Wilderness ............................................................................................................ 1,750,000

Emergencies & Hardships ...................................................................................................... 1,750,000

TOTAL, FWS LAND ACQUISITION ................................................................................. 40,827,000

The Committee continues to support the land acquisition program at the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, and 

notes that these funds have frequently been complemented by section 6 grants for the Balcones Canyonlands Habitat Conservation 

Plan. The Committee urges the Service to continue its support for 

this effort. 

The Committee is disappointed by the Service’s failure to approve a proposed boundary expansion for the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the North Shore of Oahu. The proposed 

expansion would join two physically separated sections of the refuge, and include one of Oahu’s last remaining intact native coastal 

habitats, while providing flood control for neighboring communities. 

The Committee expects the Service to provide funding for this expansion should it be authorized. 

Within funds provided for the Silvio Conte NWR, not less than 

$500,000 is for the Pondicherry Division. 

Within funds provided for Acquisition management $500,000 is 

for an environmental impact statement [EIS] of the proposed 

Yukon Flats land exchange between Doyon Ltd. and the United 

States Fish and Wildlife Service.

LANDOWNER INCENTIVE PROGRAM

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $21,694,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 40,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 23,700,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 25,000,000

The Committee recommends $25,000,000 for the Landowner Incentive Program, an increase of $3,306,000 above the enacted level, 

a decrease of $15,000,000 below the budget request, and $1,300,000 

above the House recommendation. 

PRIVATE STEWARDSHIP GRANTS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $6,903,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 10,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 7,386,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 7,500,000

The Committee recommends $7,500,000 for stewardship grants, 

an increase of $597,000 above the enacted level, $2,500,000 below 

the budget request, and $114,000 above the House recommendation. Stewardship grants are competitive awards made directly to 
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individuals and groups involved in endangered species recovery efforts on private lands. 

COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $80,462,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 80,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 84,400,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 80,000,000

The Committee recommends $80,000,000 for the cooperative endangered species conservation fund, of which $2,518,000 is for administration and $45,653,000 is for habitat conservation plan land 

acquisition. The amount provided is $462,000 below the enacted 

level, the same as the budget request and $4,400,000 below the 

House recommendation. 

NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $14,214,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 14,414,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 14,414,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 14,414,000

The Committee recommends $14,414,000 for the national wildlife 

refuge fund, which is $200,000 above the enacted level, and the 

same as the budget request and the House recommended level.

NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $37,472,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 49,949,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 40,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 39,500,000

The Committee recommends $39,500,000 for the North American 

wetlands conservation fund, an increase of $2,028,000 above the 

enacted level, a reduction of $10,449,000 below the budget request, 

and $500,000 below the House recommended level. 

NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $3,944,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... ........................... 

House allowance .................................................................................... 4,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 4,000,000

The Committee recommends $4,000,000 for neotropical migratory bird conservation which is $56,000 above the enacted level and 

equal to the House recommended level. Funding for this program 

was proposed in the budget request within the Multinational Species Conservation Fund account. 

MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $5,719,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 8,300,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 5,900,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 6,500,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $6,500,000 for 

the multinational species conservation fund which is $781,000 

above the enacted level, $1,800,000 below the budget request and 
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$600,000 above the House recommended level. The funds for 

neotropical migratory birds have been provided under a separate 

heading. The rhino and tiger conservation fund shall receive 

$1,600,000, and the remaining funds shall each receive $1,400,000. 

The marine turtles program shall receive $700,000.

STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $69,028,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 74,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 65,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 72,000,000

The Committee recommends $72,000,000 for State and tribal 

wildlife grants which is $2,972,000 above the enacted level, 

$2,000,000 below the budget request, and $7,000,000 above the 

House recommendation. Of the recommended amount, $6,000,000 

is provided for tribal grants.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Since the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park system has grown to encompass 388 sites spanning 

more than 84,000,000 acres in 49 States, the District of Columbia, 

American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Saipan, and the Virgin Islands. The National Park Service, created in 1916, is charged with 

preserving these sites ‘‘unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.’’ The Service and its more than 20,000 employees also 

contribute to the protection of other historical, cultural and recreational resources through a variety of grant and technical assistance programs. 

OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $1,683,564,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 1,734,053,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,754,199,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,748,486,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The operation of the national park system account is the primary 

source of funding for the national parks, and supports the activities, programs and services essential to their day-to-day operations. 

It includes base funding for individual park units, as well as pooled 

funding administered at the national or regional level for training; 

repair, preservation and rehabilitation of facilities and resources; 

information technology; and a variety of other purposes. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $1,748,486,000 for operation of the 

national park system, an increase of $64,922,000 over the fiscal 

year 2005 enacted level, an increase of $14,433,000 over the budget 

request, and a decrease of $5,713,000 below the House recommended funding level. 

The amount provided includes an increase over the budget request of $20,000,000 for recurring park base operating budgets. Of 
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the amounts provided in addition to the budget request, $500,000 

should be allocated to the national trails system. 

Resource Stewardship.—The Committee recommends 

$354,841,000 for resource stewardship, an increase of $725,000 

over the budget request. Changes to the budget request include increases of $225,000 for the International Center for Science and 

Learning at Mammoth Cave NP, $1,000,000 air tour management, 

and $500,000 for vanishing treasures, and a decrease of $1,000,000 

for inventory and monitoring. 

The Committee understands that the Service intends to conduct 

a history study to improve interpretation of Civil War homefront 

themes at Marsh Billings Rockefeller NHP. 

Visitor Services.—The Committee recommends $346,181,000 for 

visitor services, the same as the budget request. 

The Committee is aware of the major celebrations planned in October 2006 for the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown, 

representing the end of the American Revolution, and throughout 

2007 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of 

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. 

The Committee encourages the Service to increase staffing as appropriate to strengthen law enforcement and visitor interpretation 

services to meet the needs of the expected increase in visitation 

during this time. 

Maintenance.—The Committee recommends $595,186,000 for 

maintenance, a decrease of $400,000 below the budget request for 

the repair and restoration of historic buildings. The amount provided for the repair and restoration of historic buildings represents 

a $3,000,000 increase over the enacted level. 

Within the amounts provided, $640,000 is for restriping and sealing of portions of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. The 

Committee further understands that restoring maintenance services at Natchez Trace Parkway is a high regional priority. 

The Committee understands that the Service intends to conduct 

an historic structures report on Civilian Conservation Corps cabins 

and structures within Buffalo National River. 

Park Support.—The Committee recommends $301,721,000 for 

park support, a decrease of $5,892,000 below the budget request. 

Changes to the request include an increase of $250,000 for partnership wild and scenic rivers, and decreases of $400,000 for Jamestown 2007, $61,000 for FOCUS, $310,000 for partnership oversight, 

and $5,371,000 for resource restoration challenge cost share. Funding for Jamestown 2007 is provided in the National Recreation and 

Preservation account. 

The Committee continues to expect the Service to allocate one 

third of the amount provided for the traditional challenge cost 

share program to the National Trails System. 

The amount provided includes the $1,000,000 requested for the 

Service to implement training and data conversion for the Federal 

Budget Management System, but the Committee is not impressed 

by the presentation of this item in the budget justification as an 

‘‘uncontrollable’’ change. This is a program increase and should 

have been displayed as such. The Committee also notes that at 

least $2,138,000 of the amounts requested for various IT-related activities are presented as non-recurring, and expects that cor-
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responding reductions will be displayed in the fiscal year 2007 justification. 

External Administrative Costs.—The Committee recommends 

$130,557,000 for external administrative costs, the same as the 

budget request. 

Other.—The Committee notes that the park area budget presentation indicates that the distribution of the $12,600,000 increase 

for visitor services provided by Congress in fiscal year 2005 is to 

be non-recurring at the parks to which it was allocated. This is not 

what the Committee intended and is not consistent with the parkspecific justifications provided for these increases. The Committee 

provided these funds in response to widespread concerns that park 

managers had been forced to reduce visitor facility hours of operation and other recurring visitor services due to the absorption of 

pay and other fixed costs in their base budgets. In many cases, 

treating these funds as non-recurring does not allow parks to use 

them as the Committee intended. 

The National Park Service budget has numerous programs that 

exist to meet non-recurring park needs for maintenance, and natural and cultural resource management. The budget also regularly 

proposes specific funding in the park base for one-time or isolated 

events such as the presidential inaugural, and subsequent budget 

justifications then reflect the proposed reduction of these funds 

when the program is complete. If, however, there is a need to create a new fund source to meet an unfunded non-recurring park requirement, then the administration should request this in a future 

budget. But in this case the funds provided were clearly intended 

to be part of the parks’ permanent base budgets, and the Committee expects them to be treated as such. 

The Committee does not recommend continuation of language 

carried in previous appropriations acts regarding the inclusion of 

18 U.S.C. 1913 in the text of National Park Service grants or contracts. Removal of this requirement should not be construed as either a recommendation for change in National Park Service procedures, or any lessening of the Committee’s interest in seeing that 

the anti-lobbying provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1913 and section 402 of 

this Act are followed in both letter and spirit. 

UNITED STATES PARK POLICE

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $80,076,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 80,411,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 82,411,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 80,411,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The United States Park Police is a full-time, full-service uniformed law enforcement entity of the National Park Service that 

operates primarily in the Washington, DC, area, the New York City 

metropolitan area, and San Francisco. Its primary functions are 

the protection of icon parks and their visitors, patrol of the National Mall and adjacent parks, special events and crowd management, criminal investigations, and traffic control and parkway patrol. 
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COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $80,411,000 for the United States 

Park Police, an increase of $335,000 over the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, the same as the budget request, and $2,000,000 below 

the House recommended funding level. 

NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $60,973,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 36,777,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 48,997,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 56,729,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The national recreation and preservation appropriation funds a 

variety of authorized programs that are associated with local community efforts to preserve natural and cultural resources. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $56,729,000 for national recreation 

and preservation, a decrease of $4,244,000 from the fiscal year 

2005 enacted level, an increase of $19,952,000 over the budget request, and an increase of $7,732,000 over the House recommended 

funding level. 

Recreation Programs.—The Committee recommends $554,000 for 

recreation programs, the same as the budget request. 

Natural Programs.—The Committee recommends $10,045,000 for 

natural programs, an increase of $500,000 over the budget request. 

The increase provided is for the rivers and trails conservation assistance program. 

Cultural Programs.—The Committee recommends $20,403,000 

for cultural programs, an increase of $2,681,000 over the budget request. The amount provided includes increases of $1,931,000 for 

the National Center for Preservation Technology and $750,000 for 

the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program. 

Further discussion of National Park Service training facility needs 

is contained in the construction portion of this report. 

International Park Affairs.—The Committee recommends 

$1,618,000 for international park affairs, the same as the budget 

request. 

Environmental and Compliance Review.—The Committee recommends $399,000 for environmental compliance and review, the 

same as the budget request. 

Grant Administration.—The Committee recommends $1,913,000 

for grant administration, the same as the budget request. 

Heritage Partnership Programs.—The Committee recommends 

$13,572,000 for heritage partnership programs, an increase of 

$8,546,000 over the budget request. The Committee recommends 

the following distribution of funds:

[In thousands of dollars] 

Project Committee recommendation 

America’s Agricultural Heritage Partnership ....................................................................................................... 750

Augusta Canal National Heritage Area ............................................................................................................... 400
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[In thousands of dollars] 

Project Committee recommendation 

Automobile National Heritage Area ...................................................................................................................... 500

Blue Ridge National Heritage Area ...................................................................................................................... 500

Cane River National Heritage Area ...................................................................................................................... 800

Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor ................................................................................................ 800

Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor ........................................................................................................... 700

Essex National Heritage Area .............................................................................................................................. 800

Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area ....................................................................................................... 400

John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor .................................................................. 800

Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area ......................................................................................................... 550

Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area ................................................................................................... 500

National Aviation Heritage Area .......................................................................................................................... 100

National Coal Heritage Area ................................................................................................................................ 100

Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor ................................................................................................. 800

Oil Region National Heritage Area ....................................................................................................................... 100

Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor .................................................................. 750

Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area ................................................................................................................ 800

Schuykill River Valley National Heritage Center .................................................................................................. 400

Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District .................................................................................. 500

South Carolina National Heritage Corridor .......................................................................................................... 800

Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area ...................................................................................................................... 400

Wheeling National Heritage Area ......................................................................................................................... 800

Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area ............................................................................................................... 400

Subtotal, Commissions & Grants ........................................................................................................... 13,450

Technical Support ................................................................................................................................................ 122

TOTAL, Heritage Partnership Pgms ........................................................................................................ 13,572

The Committee remains concerned about the potential growth in 

the number of authorized heritage areas given ongoing fiscal limitations and inconstant administration support for the program. 

Three new heritage areas were authorized in the 108th Congress, 

and proposals to create dozens more are under active discussion. 

Continued growth in the number of areas will inevitably lead to the 

dilution of available funding and could potentially diminish program effectiveness. The Committee is aware that the relevant authorizing committees have spent considerable time debating the future of the heritage area program, and that the National Park 

Service Advisory Board is also conducting a review. The Committee 

hopes that all stakeholders will work to produce a coherent vision 

for heritage programs that encompasses not only the heritage partnership program but also other existing and proposed programs related to heritage tourism. 

Statutory or Contractual Aid.—The Committee recommends 

$8,225,000 for statutory or contractual aid, as opposed to zero funding as proposed in the budget request. The distribution of funds is 

shown in the table below.

[In thousands of dollars] 

Amount 

Statutory or Contractual Aid: 

Brown Foundation ........................................................................................................................................... 250

Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Water Trails ................................................................................................. 2,000

Crossroads of the West Historic District ........................................................................................................ 750

Delta Interpretive Center ................................................................................................................................. 1,000

Ft. Mandan, Ft. Lincoln, and No. Plains Foundations .................................................................................... 625

Harper’s Ferry NHP (Niagra Movement) .......................................................................................................... 300
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[In thousands of dollars] 

Amount 

Ice Age National Scientific Reserve ................................................................................................................ 700

International Peace Gardens ........................................................................................................................... 200

Jamestown 2007 ............................................................................................................................................. 400

Lamprey River ................................................................................................................................................. 750

Native Hawaiian culture & arts program ....................................................................................................... 750

Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission (Contraband Comp) ...................................................................... 500

Subtotal, Statutory or Contractual Aid ....................................................................................................... 8,225

Neither the budget request nor the House bill include funding for 

the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Water Trails program authorized in Public Law 105–312. The House Committee report also describes ‘‘problems’’ with program management that were identified 

in a routine oversight review performed by the Surveys and Investigations staff of the House Committee. This Committee would welcome the opportunity to review these findings and discuss them 

with program managers and stakeholders, but understands that 

the findings of the oversight team are unpublished and generally 

unavailable to stakeholders or the public for review or comment. 

The Committee sees little redeeming value in this Star Chamber 

approach to oversight, and recommends an appropriation of 

$2,000,000 for continued program activities. The Committee urges 

the National Park Service to implement its action plan for the 

Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Water Trails program, and to work 

openly with Congress, the Department, stakeholder groups and 

others to ensure that the program is managed in a way that meets 

its statutory goals in the most efficient manner possible.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $71,739,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 66,205,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 72,705,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 72,500,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Historic Preservation Fund was established in the National 

Historic Preservation Act of 1966 to provide grant assistance to 

States, territories, and tribes to aid in the preservation of historical 

sites and cultural heritage. A portion of these funds are used by 

State Historic Preservation Offices to operate national programs 

such as the National Register of Historic Places and the Section 

106 review process, as well as to provide technical assistance and 

to make matching grants to local communities for preservation 

projects. This appropriation has also supported a variety of targeted programs at the national level designed to achieve historic 

preservation goals. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $72,500,000 for the historic preservation fund, an increase of $761,000 over the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, an increase of $6,295,000 over the budget request, and 

a decrease of $205,000 below the House recommended funding 

level. 
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The amount provided includes increases over the budget request of $3,000,000 for grants-in-aid to States, $795,000 for grants-in-aid 

to tribes and $15,000,000 for Save America’s Treasures. There is a 

decrease of $12,500,000 for Preserve America, but the Committee 

has included language in the bill allowing the Service to award not 

to exceed $7,500,000 in Save America’s Treasures funds for Preserve America pilot grants. The Committee notes that Congress 

this year is expected to consider legislation to reauthorize the National Historic Preservation Act, and that consideration of both the 

Preserve America and Save America’s Treasures programs in that 

context may have merit.

CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2005 (including emergency appropriations) ............. $352,982,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 307,362,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 291,230,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 299,201,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The construction appropriation supports the following principal 

activities: the construction and rehabilitation of historic buildings 

and structures, the construction and rehabilitation of public use facilities and utility systems, the purchase of equipment, and the 

preparation of construction and general management plans. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $299,201,000 for construction, a decrease of $2,979,000 from the fiscal year 2005 enacted level (excluding emergencies), a decrease of $8,161,000 below the budget request, and an increase of $7,971,000 above the House recommended funding level. The Committee recommends the following 

distribution of funds:

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CONSTRUCTION 

[In thousands of dollars] 

State Project Committee recommendation 

IL Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum ........................................................................ 1,000

MA Amistad NRA (upgrade water and wastewater systems at Diablo East) ........................................ 1,003

VA Blue Ridge Parkway (replace Otter Creek Bridge and campground services) ................................ 804

MA Boston Harbor Islands NRA (construct floating docks) ................................................................... 832

MA Boston Harbor Islands NRA (Harbor Park pavilion construction) .................................................... 554

MA Boston NHP (Bldg. 5) ....................................................................................................................... 3,082

NM Chaco Culture NHP (replace and upgrade curation facilities w/UNM) ........................................... 4,238

MD Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NHP (rehab Great Falls visitor center and facilities) ....................... 1,847

NJ Delaware Water Gap NRA (replace Depew recreation site) ............................................................. 2,871

FL Dry Tortugas NP (preserve Fort Jackson) ......................................................................................... 6,618

FL Everglades NP (modified water delivery system) ............................................................................. 25,000

NY Fire Island NS (West Entrance Ranger Station and construct restrooms) ...................................... 764

KS Fort Larned NHS (North Officers’ Quarters) ..................................................................................... 1,159

MD Fort Washington Park (stabilization) ................................................................................................ 2,876

VA George Washington Memorial Parkway (rehab Arlington House) ..................................................... 1,251

MT Glacier NP (remove hazmat and correct fire egress at Many Glacier hotel) .................................. 758

MN Grand Portage NM (establish heritage center) ................................................................................ 4,000

FL Gulf Islands NS (rehab Fort Pickens water system) ........................................................................ 971

WV Harpers Ferry NHP (rehab Jackson House, School House Ridge trails and waysides, Armory) ...... 1,350

NE Homestead NM (heritage museum and education center) .............................................................. 3,690

OH Hopewell Culture NHP (salvage archaeological resources threatened by erosion) ......................... 389
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CONSTRUCTION—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

State Project Committee recommendation 

AR Hot Springs NP (rehab bathhouses) ................................................................................................. 6,059

PA Independence NHP (Mall landscaping/infrastructure) ..................................................................... 2,000

PA Independence NHP (rehab Deschler-Morris-Bringhurst House utilities and exhibits) ..................... 3,932

RI John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley NHC .................................................................................. 750

HI Kalaupapa NHP (replace non-compliant cesspools) ........................................................................ 3,779

AK Kenai Fjords NP (multi-agency center) ............................................................................................ 495

MI Keweenaw NHP (Calumet & Hecla Bldg. rehab, Phase II) .............................................................. 1,650

AR Little Rock Central High School NHS (complete visitor center) ....................................................... 5,100

MO Mark Twain Boyhood Home NHL (restoration) .................................................................................. 500

WA Mount Rainier NP (replace Jackson Visitor Center and rehab parking areas) ............................... 14,307

WA Mount Rainier NP (rehab structural components of Paradise Inn and Annex) ............................... 7,900

WV New River Gorge NR (various) .......................................................................................................... 1,509

WA Olympic NP (Elwha River ecosystem) ............................................................................................... 5,000

CA Pinnacles NM (relocate and replace maintenance and visitor facilities) ....................................... 4,794

CA Redwood NP (protect park resources by removing failing roads) ................................................... 2,169

CA San Francisco Maritime NHP (repair Sala Burton Maritime Museum Bldg.) .................................. 4,350

MA Saugus Iron Works NHS (rehab resources for accessibility and safety) ......................................... 1,334

VA Shenandoah NP (rehab and remodel Panorama facility as visitor/learning center) ...................... 4,835

MS Shiloh NMP (Corinth intepretive film) .............................................................................................. 1,000

NJ Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island NMs (rehab Ellis Island seawall) ...................................................... 8,452

AL Tuskegee Airmen NHS (preserve and rehab Moton Airfield site) ..................................................... 6,767

HI USS Arizona Memorial (replace failing visitor center) ..................................................................... 1,690

UT Utah Public Lands Artifact Preservation Act ................................................................................... 5,000

PA Valley Forge NHP (George Washington’s headquarters) ................................................................... 2,326

AK Western Arctic National Parklands (NW Alaska Heritage Center and admin. facilities) ................ 12,733

DC White House (structural and utility rehab) ...................................................................................... 6,523

SD Wind Cave NP (replace failing wastewater treatment facility) ....................................................... 4,928

WY Yellowstone NP (Madison Wastewater Facilities) ............................................................................. 4,114

WY Yellowstone NP (Old Faithful Inn) .................................................................................................... 11,118

WY Yellowstone NP (replace Old Faithful Visitor Center) ...................................................................... 11,175

CA Yosemite NP (replace hazardous gas disinfection system at El Portal wastewater plant) ............ 2,176

Subtotal, Line Item Construction ............................................................................................. 213,522

Emergency and Unscheduled Projects .............................................................................................. 3,944

Housing Replacement ....................................................................................................................... 7,889

Dam Safety ........................................................................................................................................ 2,662

Equipment Replacement: 

Replacement of park operations equipment ........................................................................... 13,387

Conversion to narrowband radio system ................................................................................. 12,527

Modernization of information mgmt. system .......................................................................... 986

Subtotal, Equipment Replacement ...................................................................................... 26,900

Construction Planning ....................................................................................................................... 19,925

Construction Program Management and Operations: 

Associate Director, Professional Services ................................................................................ 1,084

Denver Service Center operations ............................................................................................ 16,757

Regional facility project support ............................................................................................. 9,764

Subtotal, Const. Program Mgmt. & Ops. ............................................................................ 27,605

General Management Planning: 

EIS planning and compliance ................................................................................................. 4,917

General management plans .................................................................................................... 7,663

Strategic planning ................................................................................................................... 666

Special resource studies .......................................................................................................... 508
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CONSTRUCTION—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

State Project Committee recommendation 

Subtotal, General Management Planning ........................................................................... 13,754

Subtotal, Other Construction ............................................................................................... 102,679

Use of prior year balances ............................................................................................................... ¥17,000

Total, NPS Construction ...................................................................................................... 299,201

The Committee is pleased with the progress being made towards 

the completion of the Federal commitments made pursuant to the 

Utah Public Land Artifact Preservation Act. The Committee encourages the Service to work closely with the State of Utah to expedite this project in a timely manner with regard to the site identified at the University of Utah. 

The Committee is troubled by the Service’s proposal to fund a 

new Western Preservation Center for Training and Technology 

while terminating the existing National Center for Preservation 

Technology and Training. Budget documents provide little explanation for this seemingly incongruous proposal. The Committee invites the Service, if desired, to present a comprehensive and cohesive plan for NPS training facility needs nationwide. Such a plan 

should address all training facilities that are currently operated by 

the Service, are potentially available for Service use, or are proposed to be constructed. 

In the wake of the catastrophic floods of 1997 that decimated 

parts of Yosemite National Park, Congress provided more than 

$186,000,000 in emergency funding to repair roads, trails, structures and utilities, and to relocate certain facilities to locations 

more appropriate for Park purposes. Due in large part to extensive 

litigation over various aspects of the restoration, more than 

$80,000,000 of the amount provided remained unobligated as of the 

end of calendar year 2004. The most recent quarterly report provided to the Committee indicates that significant additional project 

completions will occur in 2005 and 2006. Presumably a significant 

amount of the remaining funds will be obligated on these projects. 

As such, the Committee requests that the Service include in its 

coming quarterly reports a more thorough discussion of the closeout of the Yosemite recovery effort. The Committee is particularly 

interested in knowing what portion of the remaining funds will be 

required to complete planned recovery activities, whether additional funds are expected to be required, and what funding sources 

are contemplated to provide any such additional funding. The Committee has found the Service’s quarterly reports to be helpful, and 

believes this additional information will be useful as the project 

moves forward. 

Of the funds provided for New River Gorge NSR, $940,000 is for boundary surveys, stabilization and HVAC work, $231,000 is for 

design of the restoration of the Cliffside Amphitheater, $125,000 is 

for the New River Parkway Authority, and $213,000 is for design 

for the stabilization of the Nutall Mine Complex. 
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The Committee has included additional funds for general management planning for the El Camino Real de los Tejas. The Committee also strongly encourages the National Park Service to complete the management plan for the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove 

National Historical Park no later than September 1, 2007. 

The Committee understands that in fiscal year 2006 the Service 

will initiate construction planning for repair of scenic overlooks at 

Shenandoah NP. 

No funds have been provided for the Safety Interoperable Communications Program [SAFECOM]. 

The West Yellowstone Solid Waste Composting Facility was developed by Yellowstone National Park and other regional stakeholders to reduce both the volume and cost of solid waste transportation and disposal from the Park and surrounding area. Regrettably, problems with process design and waste characteristics have 

left the facility operating at well below design capacity. The Park 

is now the only user of the facility, and the diminished capacity has 

both jeopardized project financing and put unexpected pressure on 

the Park’s operating budget. Given the Service’s prominent role in 

the development, design and ultimate use of the composting facility, the Committee believes it appropriate that the Service bear a 

large portion of the responsibility for fixing the problem. While 

process improvements have been implemented and may help at the 

margins, it appears that buying down the project debt is the only 

sensible solution. The Committee expects the Service to identify 

and make available promptly the funding required to implement 

such a solution. 

Language has been included in the bill relating to funds provided 

for construction projects at Mount Rainier National Park.

LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND

(RESCISSION)

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. ¥$30,000,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... ¥30,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... ¥30,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. ¥30,000,000

The Committee recommends a rescission of $30,000,000 in annual contract authority provided by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a. This authority has not been used in recent years and there are no plans 

to use it in fiscal year 2005. 

LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $146,349,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 54,467,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 9,421,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 86,005,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The land acquisition and State assistance appropriation supports 

the acquisition of lands and interests in lands to preserve historical 

and natural sites, primarily for inclusion in the national park system. This account also provides funding for the State Assistance 

program (‘‘Stateside’’), which was authorized in the Land and 
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Water Conservation Fund Act to support recreation development 

and recreation-related land acquisition by State and local governments. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $86,005,000 for land acquisition and 

State assistance, a decrease of $60,344,000 from the enacted level, 

an increase of $31,538,000 over the budget request and $76,584,000 

over the House recommendation. 

The following table shows the Committee recommendation:

State Project Committee

recommendation 

TX Big Thicket National Preserve ................................................................................................................ $3,600,000

DC Carter G. Woodson NHS .......................................................................................................................... 1,000,000

TN Chickamauga-Chattanooga NMP ............................................................................................................ 1,800,000

Civil War Battlefields (multi-state) ........................................................................................................ 4,000,000

PA Flight 93 National Memorial ................................................................................................................... 4,281,000

WV Gauley River NRA .................................................................................................................................... 1,500,000

CA Golden Gate NRA ..................................................................................................................................... 525,000

HI Haleakala NP ........................................................................................................................................... 4,050,000

WV Harpers Ferry NHP ................................................................................................................................... 2,000,000

WI Ice Age NST ............................................................................................................................................. 1,000,000

OR Lewis and Clark NHP .............................................................................................................................. 1,600,000

WV New River Gorge NR ............................................................................................................................... 2,000,000

CA Pinnacles National Monument ................................................................................................................ 3,000,000

VA Shenandoah Valley Battlefields NHD ...................................................................................................... 1,000,000

MI Sleeping Bear Dunes NL ......................................................................................................................... 5,300,000

MO Wilson’s Creek NB ................................................................................................................................... 1,200,000

AK Wrangell-St. Elias NP .............................................................................................................................. 1,900,000

SUBTOTAL, LINE ITEM PROJECTS ............................................................................................... 39,756,000

Emergencies/Hardships ........................................................................................................................... 3,000,000

Inholdings/Exchanges/Wilderness ........................................................................................................... 3,500,000

Acquisition management ........................................................................................................................ 9,749,000

SUBTOTAL, NPS FEDERAL LAND ACQ. ....................................................................................... 56,005,000

State assistance grants .......................................................................................................................... 30,000,000

TOTAL, NPS LASA ....................................................................................................................... 86,005,000

The Committee understands that the town of Blowing Rock, NC 

and the Blue Ridge Parkway have agreed to a mutually beneficial 

land exchange. Within funds provided, the Service is directed to 

perform the necessary environmental impact statement to complete 

this exchange. 

The Committee has provided additional funds for the Shenadoah 

Valley Battlefield National Historic District. The Committee expects the Service to recognize the value of conservation easements 

as a cost effective conservation method to protect battlefield lands 

within the District, and utilize easements to the greatest extent 

possible. 

The Committee is aware of opportunities to preserve Civil War 

battlefields at Pilot Knob, MO and Lone Jack, MO and encourages 

the Service to consider allocating preservation funds for these sites 

to the extent that applicants meet the established criteria for the 

civil war battlefield preservation program. 
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The Committee is aware of an ongoing land acquisition project 

at the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Kentucky and 

provided funds in fiscal year 2005 for this effort. The Committee 

remains very supportive for this project and hopes that the National Park Service will continue to acquire available property from 

willing sellers.

ENERGY AND MINERALS 

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Established in 1879, the U.S. Geological Survey [USGS] serves 

as the Earth and natural science research bureau for the Department of the Interior and is the only integrated natural resources 

research bureau in the Federal Government. The Survey conducts 

research, monitoring, and assessments to contribute to understanding America’s lands, water, and biological resources. Its research and data products support the Department’s resource and 

land management needs and also provide the water, biological, energy, and mineral resources information needed by other Federal, 

State, tribal and local government agencies to guide planning, 

management, and regulatory programs. More than 9,000 scientists, 

technicians, and support staff of the USGS are located in nearly 

400 offices in every state and in several foreign countries throughout the world. The USGS leverages its resources and expertise in 

partnership with more than 200 agencies of Federal, State, local, 

and tribal governments; the academic community; non-governmental organizations; and the private sector. 

SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH

Appropriations, 2005 (including emergency appropriations) ............. $944,564,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 933,515,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 974,586,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 963,057,000

The Committee recommends $963,057,000 for surveys, investigations and research activities of the U.S. Geological Survey, an 

amount that is $27,593,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level 

(excluding emergency appropriations), $29,542,000 above the budget request and a reduction of $11,529,000 from the House allowance. The table at the back of the report displays the proposed allocation of funding among the Survey’s various activities. 

Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Geographic Investigations.—The 

Committee recommends $127,203,000 for mapping, remote sensing, 

and geographic investigations, a decrease of $6,250,000 from the 

budget request. Changes to the budget request include reductions 

of $250,000 for a new science impact proposal and $6,000,000 for 

additional support of Landsat 7 satellite operations. 

In agreement with the budget request, the Committee has included $7,450,000 for development of the Landsat Data Continuity 

Mission and commends the Department of the Interior and the 

Survey for working with their Federal partners to develop a plan 

for future operations. The Committee is less enthusiastic, however, 

about the Department’s proposal for the continuation of Landsat 7 

operations in the foreseeable future. In essence, the proposal put 

before the Committee is no different than previous recommenda-
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tions, all of which amount to a subsidy of current operations. The 

Committee had cautioned the Department and the Survey to look 

for savings, both within the mapping program and throughout the 

Survey and, further, urged the Survey to reexamine its priorities 

in order to dedicate funds to the most significant core activities. 

Travel and buyout savings were both areas previously identified by 

the Committee as potential sources for additional funds—but none 

of these funds appear to be redirected to the data center’s operations. In last year’s Senate report, this Committee directed the 

Survey to provide quarterly reports for the Landsat program that 

would display operational costs, revenue and any required supplemental funding. To date, none has been received. Between now and 

the time the 2006 Interior bill is conferenced, the Committee expects the Survey and Department to provide far greater detail and 

further explanation of this proposal before it will give this request 

further consideration. 

Geology.—The Committee recommends $237,202,000 for the geol- ogy program, an increase of $29,066,000 above the budget request. 

Changes to the budget request include increases of $1,000,000 

above projected base funding for the Alaska Volcano Observatory 

to purchase, install and operate volcano monitoring equipment in 

Shemya, Alaska; $26,478,000 to restore the mineral resources research and assessment program; $2,000,000 to restore the minerals 

information data collection and analysis program; and $500,000 for 

the gas hydrates research program in Alaska. A decrease of 

$912,000 from the budget request has been assumed for the proposed expansion of Puget Sound ecosystem studies. 

The Committee is dismayed that the proposal to discontinue 

much of the mineral resources activity has again resurfaced in the 

fiscal 2006 budget request. The Survey has made this recommendation during previous budget cycles and each time it has been rejected by both the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. No factual evidence has been supplied to indicate that the 

private sector could or should absorb this program’s domestic and 

international responsibilities. The United States is the world’s largest user of mineral commodities and, as developing nations become 

increasingly industrialized, the demand and competition for these 

resources will increase significantly. With no other agency providing the data and analysis in this area of critical importance to 

our national security, it would seem irresponsible to decrease or 

eliminate funding for what clearly would appear to be an inherently Federal responsibility. 

Following a 2003 review of the mineral resources program by the 

National Research Council, its recommendation to develop an external grants program was implemented by the Survey with 

$200,000 in base funding. In the coming fiscal year, the Committee 

expects the Survey to dedicate $1,000,000 of its base funds to this 

program and explore further the ways in which other Council recommendations, such as the establishment of outside advisory committee of the Council, can be achieved. 

Within the coastal and marine geology program, the Committee 

encourages the Survey to continue its significant research investment in the southern Louisiana area in support of both State and 

Federal agency coastal restoration planning efforts. In addition to 
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collaborative efforts with partners such as the University of New 

Orleans and the Long-Term Estuary Assessment Group, the Committee expects the Survey to work with the Lake Pontchartrain 

Stakeholders Conference to identify priority projects in the Lake 

Pontchartrain Basin. 

Water Resources Investigations.—The Committee recommends 

$214,751,000 for water resources investigations, an increase of 

$10,580,000 above the budget request. Changes to the budget request include increases of $500,000 to support development of a 

Memphis aquifer study [MATRAS]; $230,000 to support an Ozark 

aquifer study; $1,500,000 to continue the Roubidoux acquifer study 

in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma; $450,000 to continue support for a well monitoring project in Hawaii; $900,000 to 

continue the Tongue River coalbed methane study; $900,000 for the 

San Francisco South Bay Salt Ponds restoration project; and 

$6,500,000 to restore the water resources research institutes program, which was proposed to be eliminated. A reduction of 

$400,000 from the budget request has been made for a proposed 

multi-state water availability study. With respect to the increase 

provided for San Francisco South Bay Salt Ponds water monitoring, the Committee has been made aware recently that these additional funds are critical in the coming fiscal year to replace a loss 

of financial support from non-Federal partners that would cripple 

ongoing multi-agency cooperative efforts in the area. The Committee expects that this requirement will be reflected in the Survey’s fiscal year 2007 budget submission. 

The Committee notes that monitoring and research assessment 

activities at Lake Champlain are proposed to be funded at 

$190,000 in fiscal year 2006. The Committee expects the Survey to 

provide an additional amount of up to $295,000 from within base 

funds to continue that program at no less than the current level 

in the coming fiscal year. The Committee further expects that the 

full requirement for this program will be included in future budget 

submissions, thereby eliminating the need for an annual adjustment. 

Biological Research.—The Committee recommends $174,280,000 

for the biological research program, an increase of $1,355,000 above 

the budget request. Changes to the budget request include increases of $400,000 to complete a bear DNA sampling study; 

$500,000 to continue research on the pallid sturgeon; $1,000,000 to 

continue molecular biology and water studies at the Leetown 

Science Center; $400,000 to continue studies on the impact of lead 

mining in the Mark Twain National Forest; $200,000 to continue 

diamondback terrapin research in the Chesapeake Bay; and 

$55,000 to restore base funding for the cooperative research units 

that was proposed to be redirected to other activities. Decreases 

from the budget request include $750,000 for expansion of activities 

at the Glen Canyon Dam and $450,000 for additional DOI science 

programs. Within the amounts provided for biological monitoring, 

the Committee expects collaborative invasive species work with 

Mississippi State University to be continued at a level of 

$1,000,000. 

The Committee remains concerned that despite the significant 

amount of time and effort that has been dedicated to producing a 
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report on future direction for the National Biological Information 

Infrastructure, no clearly coordinated budgetary and programmatic 

plan has emerged for its expansion. The Committee expects that 

any additional future funding for the program will be requested by 

the Survey in some sort of priority order that allows the Committee 

to consider these proposals within the overall context of the Survey’s other programs. 

The National Wildlife Health Center’s Diagnostic Microbiology 

Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin routinely tests for the presence 

of botulism as a possible cause of death in wildlife. It conducts 

about 250 botulism tests annually by infecting live mice as a 

means of determining the presence of toxins, which takes a long 

time to determine results. A modern test is needed that would be 

prompt and more effective, yet reduce the cost of testing. The Committee recommends that the U.S. Geological Survey evaluate during fiscal year 2006 a modern diagnostic botulism test for the Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory that does not require the use of live 

animals, using fluorescence resonance energy transfer technology 

developed in conjunction with the Wisconsin Alumni Research 

Foundation. 

Enterprise Information.—The Committee recommends 

$47,087,000 for enterprise information activities, a reduction of 

$680,000 from the budget request. The Committee does not agree 

to the transfer of $680,000 from the Survey’s programs to support 

the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster management e-gov initiative as proposed in the budget request. 

In agreement with the budget request, the Committee has included $1,059,000 for a continuing program of certification and accreditation to ensure the security and integrity of USGS information systems. To the fullest extent possible, funds appropriated to 

the Survey for the purposes of certification and accreditation 

should be used to conduct risk assessments and remediation of 

USGS information systems for the further improvement of the 

USGS security infrastructure and the strengthening of the USGS 

operational security posture. 

Also in agreement with the budget request, the Committee has 

provided an additional $1,235,000 for the Department’s Enterprise 

Services Network [ESN]. The Committee is concerned, however, 

that the security of the ESN could be compromised if the computer 

systems that house DOI Indian Trust and Non-Trust information 

are not sufficiently segmented. The Committee expects the DOI to 

design and implement the ESN in such a way that there is both 

a logical and physical separation between the Trust system and the 

non-trust USGS systems. 

Science Support.—The Committee recommends $66,337,000 for 

science support, a decrease of $6,000,000 from the budget request. 

The Committee does not agree to the proposed $6,000,000 increase 

to reimburse programs that potentially may be reduced in the current fiscal year in order to provide additional operating funds for 

Landsat 7. This issue is discussed in greater length within the context of the mapping program section above. The Committee notes 

that it has not yet received a reprogramming request for the funds 

that are proposed to be redirected in fiscal year 2005. 
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Facilities.—The Committee recommends $96,197,000 for facilities 

programs, an increase of $1,471,000 above the budget request. This 

increase restores funds for a number of facilities through the Nation that were slated for closure in conjunction with proposed reductions to the mineral resources program. That program proposal 

has been rejected by the Committee for the reasons articulated in 

the geology section above. 

The Committee remains concerned about reported poor and unsafe conditions in the research facilities and office buildings at the 

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and Patuxent Research Refuge. 

In the conference report to accompany the fiscal 2004 Interior Appropriations bill (H. Rept. 108–330) and in the Senate report to accompany the fiscal 2005 bill (S. Rept. 108–341), the Committee underscored its expectation that the Fish and Wildlife Service and the 

U.S. Geological Survey develop a plan and budget for the rehabilitation or replacement of facilities and resolve any jurisdictional 

issues between the agencies. To date, the Department has not submitted such a plan or budget and the Committee understands that 

there has been no final resolution of the jurisdictional issues. The 

Committee expects the Secretary of the Interior to complete a facilities and budget plan by not later than March 1, 2006, which 

identifies the priorities, schedule, funding requirements, phasing 

options and agencies responsible for the repair, rehabilitation or replacement of facilities, buildings and associated infrastructure at 

the Center and Refuge.

MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE

The Minerals Management Service oversees 1.76 billion acres of 

the Outer Continental Shelf, managing offshore energy and minerals while protecting the human, marine, and coastal environments through advanced science and technology research. The OCS 

provides 30 percent of oil and 23 percent of natural gas produced 

domestically, and sand used for coastal restoration. The MMS also 

collects, accounts for, and disburses mineral revenues from Federal 

and American Indian lands, with fiscal year 2004 disbursements of 

approximately $8,000,000,000 and more than $143,000,000,000 

since 1982. 

ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $166,820,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 160,416,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 152,676,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 152,516,000

The Committee recommends $152,516,000 for royalty and offshore minerals management, which is a decrease of $14,304,000 

below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, $7,900,000 below the 

budget request, and $160,000 below the House recommended funding level. The funding amounts set out below are at the activity 

level. Additional details on funding for sub-activities for the Service 

are set out in a table in the back of this report.

Budget estimate Committee

recommendation Change 

Outer Continental Shelf lands ............................................................. $148,341,000 $149,241,000 ∂$900,000
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Budget estimate Committee recommendation Change 

Royalty management ........................................................................... 87,329,000 78,529,000 ¥8,800,000

General administration ........................................................................ 47,476,000 47,476,000 ..........................

Use of receipts ..................................................................................... ¥122,730,000 ¥122,730,000 ..........................

Total, royalty and offshore minerals management ................ 160,416,000 152,516,000 ¥7,900,000

Within the funds for the leasing and environmental program in 

the Outer Continental Shelf lands activity, the Committee has provided $150,000 for the Alaska Whaling Commission to ensure that 

proposed OCS sales in Alaska properly consider the impacts of offshore drilling on whale migration patterns and whaling activities. 

The Committee has provided an increase of $900,000 above the 

budget request for the resource evaluation program in the Outer 

Continental Shelf lands activity. The increase is for the Center for 

Marine Resources and Environmental Technology to support exploration and sustainable development of seabed minerals including 

gas hydrates. Within the funds provided for royalty management, 

the Committee has provided $1,000,000 above the request for the 

State and tribal audit program. 

The Committee has recommended bill language that provides 

permanent authority for the Royalty in Kind program and allows 

the MMS to recover transportation costs, salaries, and other administrative costs directly related to the program. Accordingly, the 

$9,800,000 requested for administrative costs associated with the 

filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the RIK program 

have not been provided. 

The Committee has continued bill language carried in prior years 

prohibiting the use of funds for Outer Continental Shelf leasing 

and development in certain areas. However, the Committee notes 

as it has in prior years that development activities outside of areas 

identified in the agency’s 5 year OCS development plan are not 

permitted under law. The current 5 year plan does not expire until 

2007. Accordingly, this moratoria language is largely irrelevant 

during the remaining period of the plan.

Given the uncertainties with projecting offsetting receipts 1 to 2 

years in advance, the Committee has again given the Minerals 

Management Service the authority to utilize receipts accruing from 

rental rates in effect prior to August 5, 1993, to augment primary 

sources of receipts should this be necessary to reach the operating 

levels intended by the Committee. 

The Committee has been notified that the Department intends to 

merge the GovWorks program administrated by the Minerals Management Service [MMS] into the National Business Center [NBC]. 

The GovWorks program has long been regarded as one of the best 

managed, innovative and competitive fee-for-service organizations 

in government. The Committee requests that the Department conduct a study that includes an assessment of the impact this change 

will have on the ability of MMS to accomplish its mission. The 

Committee expects this study to be provided prior to any permanent reorganization. 
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OIL SPILL RESEARCH

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $7,006,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 7,006,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 7,006,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 7,006,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $7,006,000 for 

oil spill research, which is equal to the fiscal year 2005 enacted 

level, the budget request and the House recommended funding 

level.

OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement was 

established in 1977 to oversee and carry out the requirements of 

the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act [SMCRA] in concert with States and Indian Tribes. OSM’s primary objectives are 

to ensure coal mining activities are conducted in a manner that 

protects citizens and the environment during mining, ensure the 

land is properly reclaimed, and mitigate effects of past mining by 

reclaiming abandoned coal mines. OSM addresses its mission with 

a mix of grants to States and Tribes to carry out their own regulatory and reclamation programs, and the administration of OSM’s 

own regulatory and reclamation programs. 

SMCRA originally authorized the collection of tonnage fees on 

mined coal to support reclamation work through September 30, 

2004. Several short term extensions of this authority have been enacted pending congressional action on comprehensive SMCRA reauthorization legislation. 

REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $108,368,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 110,535,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 110,535,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 110,535,000

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $110,535,000 for regulation and 

technology, an increase of $2,167,000 over the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and equal to both the budget request and the House 

recommendation. A comparison of the budget estimate and the 

Committee recommendation is as follows:

Budget estimate Committee recommendation Change 

Environmental restoration .................................................................... $159,000 $159,000 ..........................

Environmental protection ..................................................................... 79,566,000 79,566,000 ..........................

Technology development and transfer ................................................. 15,126,000 15,126,000 ..........................

Financial management ........................................................................ 488,000 488,000 ..........................

Executive direction ............................................................................... 15,096,000 15,096,000 ..........................

Subtotal, regulation and technology ...................................... 110,435,000 110,435,000 ..........................

Civil penalties ...................................................................................... 100,000 100,000 ..........................

Total, regulation and technology ........................................... 110,535,000 110,535,000 ..........................
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ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND

(Definite, Trust Fund)

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $188,205,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 246,014,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 188,014,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 188,014,000

The Committee recommends $188,014,000 for the abandoned 

mine reclamation fund, which is $191,000 below the enacted level, 

and equal to both the budget request and the House recommendation. A comparison of the Committee recommendation and the 

budget estimate is as follows:

Budget estimate Committee recommendation Change 

Environmental restoration .................................................................... $170,112,000 $170,112,000 ..........................

Legislative proposal ............................................................................. 58,000,000 .......................... ¥$58,000,000

Technology development and transfer ................................................. 3,922,000 3,922,000 ..........................

Financial management ........................................................................ 6,234,000 6,234,000 ..........................

Executive direction ............................................................................... 7,746,000 7,746,000 ..........................

Total ........................................................................................ 246,014,000 188,014,000 ¥58,000,000

In the absence of legislation extending the collection of fees 

under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act [SMCRA], 

the Committee has not provided funds for the administration’s proposal to provide additional funds to pay down the State share balances in the AML fund of certified States. 

Bill Language.—As in prior years, the bill includes language related to the conduct of the abandoned mine land program. The 

Committee also has recommended language which would fund minimum program State grants at $1,500,000 per State, as well as language which provides $10,000,000 to be used for projects in the Appalachian clean streams initiative. 

The Committee also has included language specific to the State 

of Maryland authorizing the State to set aside for acid mine drainage abatement the greater of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total 

of the grants made available to the State under title IV of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, subject to specific provisions identified in the bill language.

INDIAN AFFAIRS 

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was founded in 1824 to uphold a 

government-to-government relationship between the Federal Government and tribal entities. The Federal Government retained 

trust responsibility for individual Indians and Tribes as a result of 

formal treaties and agreements with Native Americans. 

The Bureau provides services directly or through contracts, 

grants, or compacts to a population of 1.5 million American Indians 

and Alaska Natives who are members of 562 federally recognized 

Indian Tribes in the lower 48 States and Alaska. Programs administered by the BIA and Tribes include an education system for almost 48,000 elementary and secondary students; 28 tribal colleges, 
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universities and post-secondary schools; social services; natural resource management on 56 million acres of trust land; economic development; law enforcement; administration of tribal courts; implementation of land and water claim settlements; replacement and 

repair of schools; repair and maintenance of roads and bridges; and 

repair of structural deficiencies on high hazard dams. 

Approximately 40 percent of the BIA budget is used for Tribal 

Priority Allocations funding basic tribal services such as social 

services, adult vocational training, child welfare, natural resources 

management and contract support; 30 percent supports Native 

American education programs; 11 percent is dedicated to BIA Administration; and 19 percent supports Other Reservation Programs. 

OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $1,926,091,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 1,924,230,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,992,737,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,971,132,000

The Committee recommends $1,971,132,000 for the operation of 

Indian programs, an increase of $45,041,000 over the fiscal year 

2005 enacted level, an increase of $46,902,000 over the budget request, and $21,605,000 below the House recommendation. The following table provides a comparison of the budget estimate and 

Committee recommendations in the major programmatic areas:

Budget estimate Committee

recommendation Change 

TRIBAL BUDGET SYSTEM

Tribal Priority Allocations ..................................................................... $760,149,000 $775,407,000 ∂$15,258,000

Other Recurring Programs ................................................................... 602,301,000 621,295,000 ∂18,994,000

Non-Recurring Programs ...................................................................... 65,325,000 70,475,000 ∂5,150,000

Total, Tribal Budget System ................................................... 1,427,775,000 1,467,177,000 ∂39,402,000

BIA OPERATIONS

Central Office Operations .................................................................... 151,534,000 151,534,000 ..........................

Regional Office Operations .................................................................. 41,590,000 41,590,000 ..........................

Special Programs and Pooled Overhead ............................................. 303,331,000 310,831,000 ∂7,500,000

Total, BIA Operations ............................................................. 496,455,000 503,955,000 ∂7,500,000

Total, Operation of Indian Programs ..................................... 1,924,230,000 1,971,132,000 ∂46,902,000

Additional details on the funding for the Bureau’s Activities are 

provided in a table in the back of this report. 

The BIA has proposed a new budget structure for fiscal year 

2006. While the aim of the restructuring is reportedly to align similar programs, concern has been raised that the new structure is 

less transparent, particularly when tracking Tribal Priority Allocations. Furthermore, the Committee is unhappy with the level of 

consultation with tribes prior to the circulation of the new budget 

proposal. If the Bureau wishes to propose this restructuring again 

in fiscal year 2007 the Committee expects a higher level of consultation with tribes and will not adopt the change without their 

strong support. 
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Tribal Priority Allocation.—The Committee recommends 

$775,407,000 for tribal priority allocations [TPA], an increase of 

$15,258,000 above the budget request and $5,864,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level. Increases above the budget request include an additional $8,838,000 for Johnson-O’Malley grants, and 

$6,420,000 for welfare assistance. 

The Committee is concerned with the Bureau’s proposed bill language and subsequent change to the allocation of Contract Support 

Costs that would split $5,000,000 into a separate account for Direct 

Contract Support Costs. Numerous tribes have expressed concern 

that this proposal would reduce flexibility in allocating funds to 

meet current contract costs. The Committee is concerned that 

tribes weren’t given adequate notice of this change and tribes have 

expressed frustration in the Bureau’s unwillingness to consider 

other options. The Bureau is expected to work with tribes to develop an updated policy on the payment of Contract Support Costs 

that is widely accepted amongst the tribal community and includes 

additional funding for Direct Costs rather than allocating them 

from within an already anemic budget allocation for Indirect Contract Support Costs. 

Other Recurring Programs.—The Committee recommends 

$621,295,000 for other recurring programs, an increase of 

$8,376,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and 

$18,994,000 above the budget estimate. Changes to the budget estimate include: increases of $12,500,000 for operating grants and 

$500,000 for technical assistance to support Tribally Controlled 

Community Colleges; $210,000 for fish hatchery maintenance; and 

$5,784,000 for the following Tribal Management/Development programs: the Alaska Sea Otter Commission ($98,000), the Wetlands/

Waterfowl Management program ($600,000), the Upper Columbia 

United Tribes ($320,000), the Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association 

($790,000), the bison program ($3,000,000), Lake Roosevelt Management ($630,000), and the Chugach Regional Resources Commission ($346,000). 

Millions of dollars have been invested by the Federal Government over the past 40 years to build a nationwide system of Bureau of Indian Affairs fish hatcheries to help meet trust and treaty 

obligations to the tribes. The Committee is concerned that past 

Federal infrastructure investment is not being properly maintained. Further, new operating requirements under the Federal 

Endangered Species Act are placing increasing demands upon 

these hatcheries. The managers direct the Bureau of Indian Affairs 

to provide the Committee a comprehensive report identifying all 

hatcheries by region, examining the hatcheries’ value to local recovery efforts, and identifying unmet needs and cost for maintenance 

and rehabilitation. The report is expected do be delivered to the 

Committee on Appropriations by February 1, 2006. The Bureau is 

also requested to propose a fiscal year 2007 budget initiative to address the inadequate maintenance and rehabilitation plans for Bureau and tribal hatcheries. 

Non-Recurring Programs.—The Committee recommends 

$70,475,000 for non-recurring programs, a decrease of $5,510,000 

below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, and an increase of 

$5,150,000 above the budget estimate. Increases above the budget 
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estimate include $500,000 for continuation of the Rocky Mountain 

Technology Foundation’s Native American Patient Advocate Program, $750,000 for the rural Alaska fire program, $1,500,000 for 

the Information Technology Resource Facility at Salish and 

Kootenai Tribal College, $400,000 for the Alaska Legal Services 

program, and $2,000,000 to restore the administration’s reduction 

to the Water Management and Planning program. Within funds 

provided for Water Management and Planning, $200,000 is for the 

Operation, Maintenance and Repair of the Fort Peck Reservation 

Tribal Water System. 

Central Office Operations.—The Committee recommends 

$151,534,000 for central office operations, an increase of 

$11,513,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and equal to 

the budget request. 

Regional Office Operations.—The Committee recommends 

$41,590,000 for regional office operations, an increase of $228,000 

over the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and fully commensurate 

with the budget estimate. 

Special Programs/Pooled Overhead.—The Committee recommends $310,831,000 for special programs/pooled overhead, an 

increase of $24,570,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level 

and $7,500,000 above the budget estimate. Increases above the 

budget estimate include the following: $3,500,000 for the United 

Tribes Technical College, $450,000 for the United Sioux Tribes Development Corporation, $1,800,000 for the Crownpoint Institute of 

Technology, $1,250,000 for the Western Heritage Center’s Distance 

Learning and tribal histories project, $400,000 for the Lakota 

Water Economic Development Expansion, and $100,000 for the 

Rocky Mountain Tribal Educational Symposia proposed by the 

Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council. The Bureau is expected 

to work with the Council to support and enhance their vision to 

provide a continuing education program for tribal leaders. The 

Committee applauds the Council’s desire to strengthen the ties between tribes in the region to work together furthering economic development and addressing social conditions impacting their members. 

The Committee notes and fully supports the increases of $12,202,000 for law enforcement activities, and $1,163,000 for postsecondary schools and education scholarships. 

The Committee expects the Secretary to report to Congress within 60 days of the enactment of this Act on the status of all ongoing 

litigation, negotiations, and settlements with the Samish Indian 

Nation regarding funding for services and programs offered to tribal members. The report should contain a synopsis of all past and 

ongoing litigation and court decisions, and a detailed outline of 

payments and contracts disputed by the tribe.

CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $319,129,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 232,137,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 284,137,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 267,137,000

The Committee recommends $267,137,000 for construction, 

which is $35,000,000 over the budget request. The Committee re-
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luctantly notes this amount is significantly below the enacted level. 

While Indian school construction and replacement remains a high 

priority, at the time of the preparation of this report the school replacement construction account held approximately $200,000,000 in 

unobligated balances. 

The Committee is disturbed by the decrease in funding for school 

replacement, but compelling needs in other Native American programs prevent the Committee from fully replacing the budget request’s reduction to this account. 

Additions to the budget request include $15,000,000 for Replacement School Construction, $10,000,000 for Education Facilities Improvement and Repair and $10,000,000 for Indian Irrigation Rehabilitation under Resources Management Construction. 

The addition of $10,000,000 for Indian Irrigation Rehabilitation 

is separate from the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, which retains its own construction budget of $12,773,000. Within the funds 

provided for Indian Irrigation Rehabilitation, a number of Bureau 

and tribal projects are in desperate need of immediate attention to 

continue delivering water to users. The Bureau is expected to consult with the Committee prior to obligating funds and is expected 

to address projects with the greatest need of rehabilitation. Construction of new projects or expansion of existing projects is secondary to the rehabilitation, reconstruction, and necessary upgrade 

of current irrigation systems. Specific projects to be addressed 

under these guidelines, and to be addressed in the Bureau’s proposal for the obligation of these funds are; the Fort Yates Unit of 

the Standing Rock Sioux Project, the Blackfeet Irrigation Project, 

the Crow Irrigation project, the Fort Belknap Irrigation Project, the 

Fort Peck Irrigation Project, and the Wind River Irrigation Project 

rehabilitation. 

INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS

PAYMENTS TO INDIANS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $44,150,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 24,754,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 34,754,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 24,754,000

The Committee recommends $24,754,000 for Indian land and 

water claims settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, 

which is a decrease of $19,396,000 below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, the same as the budget request, and $10,000,000 below 

the House recommended funding level. Funding is provided as follows:

Budget estimate Committee recommendation Change 

White Earth Land Settlement Act (Admin) .......................................... $634,000 $634,000 ..........................

Hoopa-Yurok settlement fund .............................................................. 254,000 254,000 ..........................

Pyramid Lake water rights settlement ................................................ 144,000 144,000 ..........................

Colorado Ute Settlement ...................................................................... 8,111,000 8,111,000 ..........................

Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw settlement ................................. 10,167,000 10,167,000 ..........................

Zuni Water Settlement ......................................................................... 5,444,000 5,444,000 ..........................

Total, Miscellaneous Payments to Indians ............................ 24,754,000 24,754,000 ..........................
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INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $6,332,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 6,348,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 6,348,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 6,348,000

The Committee recommends $6,348,000 for the Indian guaran- teed loan program, an increase of $16,000 over the fiscal year 2005 

enacted level and the same as the budget request and the House 

recommended funding level.

DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES

INSULAR AFFAIRS

The Office of Insular Affairs [OIA] was established on August 4, 

1995 through Secretarial Order No. 3191, which also abolished the 

former Office of Territorial and International Affairs. OIA has administrative responsibility for coordinating Federal policy in the 

territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 

the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and oversight 

of Federal programs and funds in the freely associated states of the 

Federated States of Micronesia [FSM], the Republic of the Marshall 

Islands [RMI], and the Republic of Palau. 

Following the expiration of the first Compact of Free Association 

in 2003, a new Compact of Free Association was negotiated between the United States and the states of FSM and RMI. Under 

the Compact, the status of free association recognizes each Freely 

Associated State as a sovereign state with the capacity to conduct 

foreign affairs consistent with the terms of the Compact. The Compact places full responsibility for defense with the United States. 

The Compact also provides grant funds and Federal program assistance, principally through the Department of the Interior. 

ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $75,581,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 74,263,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 76,563,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 76,683,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $76,683,000 which is $1,102,000 above the enacted level, $2,420,000 above the 

budget request, and $120,000 above the House recommended funding level. The amounts recommended by the Committee compared 

to the budget estimate are shown in the following table:

Budget estimate Committee

recommendation Change 

Territorial assistance: 

Office of Insular Affairs ............................................ $6,881,000 $6,881,000 ................................

Technical assistance ................................................ 8,561,000 10,981,000 ∂$2,420,000

Maintenance assistance fund .................................. 2,300,000 2,300,000 ................................

Brown tree snake ...................................................... 2,700,000 2,700,000 ................................

Insular management controls ................................... 1,491,000 1,491,000 ................................

Coral reef initiative ................................................... 500 500 ................................

Waste and wastewater projects ............................... 1,000,000 1,000,000 ................................

Subtotal, territorial assistance ............................ 23,433,000 25,853,000 ∂2,420,000
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Budget estimate Committee recommendation Change 

American Samoa: Operations grants ................................. 23,110,000 23,110,000 ................................

Northern Mariana Islands: Covenant grants ..................... 27,720,000 27,720,000 ................................

Total, assistance to territories ............................. 74,263,000 76,683,000 ∂2,420,000

Territorial Assistance.—The Committee recommends $25,853,000 

for territorial assistance which is $2,420,000 above the request and 

$771,000 above the enacted level. 

Within the increase above the request, the Committee has pro- vided $320,000 to maintain the Continuing Judicial, Court Education, and Court Administration Improvement Project that is conducted in cooperation with the Pacific Islands Committee of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit. 

The Committee has also included a $1,000,000 increase above the 

request to continue health care programs under Article II, Section 

1, of the Agreement between the Government of the United States 

and the Government of the Marshall Islands for implementation of 

section 177 of the Compact of Free Association. These funds shall 

first be used to provide primary healthcare to members of the 

Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap and Utrik communities who currently 

reside on Enewetak Atoll, Kili Island, Mejetto Island, Rongelap 

Atoll following resettlement, and Utrik Atoll. Such primary medical 

care shall consist of a clinic with at least one doctor and an assistant, and necessary supplies and logistical support. If excess funds 

are available, these funds may be used to augment primary 

healthcare for members of these communities who get primary 

healthcare services from the facilities in Ebeye and Majuro. The Committee recommends an increase of $300,000 above the 

request to enhance oversight of Compact assistance. The recently 

enacted Compact Amendments Act anticipated regular travel by 

DOI personnel to the two U.S. Embassies, and by staff from the 

Compact Office in Hawaii. However, current staff and travel funding levels are inadequate for proper oversight of the over 

$200,000,000 in annual assistance being provided to the RMI and 

FSM under the new, more rigorous, accountability provisions of the 

new Compact. Accordingly, these additional funds shall be used for 

staff and for travel expenses so that proper oversight is maintained. 

The Committee strongly supports the efforts for an agreement 

between the pension systems of the Republic of Palau, the CNMI, 

the RMI, and FSM to assume responsibilities for the enrollees of 

the Prior Services Trust Fund. The Committee recommends an increase of $800,000 for distribution among the pension systems for 

payments to the enrollees, provided that the agreement is fully implemented by each jurisdiction as stated in the fiscal year 2005 Interior Appropriations conference report. The Committee directs 

that this funding shall be reprogrammed for general technical assistance if there is a failure to fully implement the new agreement. 

The Committee is concerned that given the possibility of an economic downturn in the CNMI garment industry, additional efforts 

must be focused on the Immigration, Labor, and Law Enforcement 

Initiative. The Committee directs the Office of Insular Affairs to 

describe fully the use of CNMI Initiative funding in future budget 
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justifications; coordinate regular interagency meetings between 

Federal and local immigration, labor, and law enforcement officials; 

and report annually to Congress on immigration, labor, and law enforcement conditions, issues, and trends in the CNMI. 

American Samoa Operations Grants/American Samoa Construction.—The Committee recommends $23,110,000 for operations 

grants to American Samoa, which is equal to the request and 

$331,000 more than the enacted level. 

CNMI/Covenant Grants.—The Committee recommends 

$27,720,000 for convenant grants as proposed in the request. 

COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $5,450,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 4,862,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 5,362,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 4,862,000

The Committee recommends $4,862,000 for compact of free asso- ciation, which is $588,000 below the enacted level, equal to the 

budget request, and $500,000 below the House recommended funding level. A comparison of the Committee recommendation to the 

budget estimate follows:

Budget estimate Committee

recommendation Change 

Compact of free association—Federal services ................................. $2,862,000 $2,862,000 ..........................

Mandatory payments—Program grant assistance ............................. 2,000,000 2,000,000 ..........................

Total, compact of free association ........................................ 4,862,000 4,862,000 ..........................

Federal Services Assistance.—The Committee recommends 

$2,862,000 for Federal services assistance, equal to the budget request and $95,000 below the enacted level. 

Program Grant Assistance.—The Committee recommends 

$2,000,000 for program grant assistance, equal to the budget request and the enacted level.

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 (including emergency appropriations) ............. $98,821,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 120,155,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 97,755,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 94,627,000

The Committee recommends $94,627,000 for departmental management, a decrease of $4,194,000 below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, $25,528,000 below the budget request, and $3,128,000 

below the House recommended funding level. Changes from the request include decreases of $501,000 for Take Pride in America, 

$250,000 for performance data contracting, $700,000 for OLES, 

$322,000 for IT certification, $200,000 for partnership training, and 

$23,555,000 for the financial and business management system. 

The change to the enacted level reflects, in part, transfers into this 

account of funding for the appraisal services directorate. The 

amount provided for appraisal services, which were previously 

funded in the DOI land acquisition accounts, is derived from the 
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Land and Water Conservation Fund as the appraisal services directorate largely supports the bureaus’ land acquisition programs. 

The budget justification describes the Department’s long term 

plan to transfer to non-Federal entities the management of three 

museums currently operated by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. 

The Committee is aware that the Department has only just begun 

to discuss this proposal with tribes, local communities and other 

potential partners, and that it has no intention of closing the museums in fiscal year 2006. The Committee expects that the Department’s discussions with tribes, local communities and others will be 

a true dialogue, and that it will keep the Committee well informed 

of the status of those discussions. 

Due to continued constraints on funding for land acquisition and 

the ongoing prospect of substantial borrowing for fire suppression, 

it remains important that funding provided for land acquisition be 

obligated promptly. The Committee notes the annual unobligated 

balance reporting requirement included in its fiscal year 2004 report, and urges timely submission of the report. 

Language is included in the bill providing for a reduction of $10,000,000 from administrative expenses in operating accounts for 

bureaus and offices of the Department of the Interior.

WORKING CAPITAL FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. ........................... 

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... ........................... 

House allowance .................................................................................... ........................... 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. $22,555,000

The Committee recomends $22,555,000 for the working capital 

fund for the financial and business management system. Funding 

for this critical systems project was requested in the Departmental 

Management account. 

PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $226,805,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 200,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 242,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 235,000,000

The Committee recommends $235,000,000 for Payments in Lieu of Taxes [PILT], an increase of $8,195,000 over the fiscal year 2005 

enacted level and $35,000,000 over the budget request, and a decrease of $7,000,000 below the House recommended funding level. 

CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $9,855,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 9,855,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 9,855,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 9,855,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $9,855,000 for 

the central hazardous materials fund, which is equal to the fiscal 

year 2005 enacted level, the budget request, and the House recommended funding level. Language has been included in the bill 

providing permanent authority for the expenditure of certain sums 

recovered by the Department for remedial action or response activities.
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OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $51,656,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 55,752,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 55,340,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 55,652,000

The Committee recommends $55,652,000 for the Office of the Solicitor, an increase of $3,996,000 over the fiscal year 2005 enacted 

level, a decrease of $100,000 from the budget request, and an increase of $312,000 over the House recommended funding level. The 

change to the budget request is a decrease for FOIA support.

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $37,275,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 40,999,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 39,566,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 39,116,000

The Committee recommends $39,116,000 for the Office of Inspector General, an increase of $1,841,000 over the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, a decrease of $1,883,000 from the budget request, and 

a decrease of $450,000 below the House recommended funding 

level. Changes to the budget request include decreases of $300,000 

for FISMA, $300,000 for additional audit staff, $170,000 for PCS 

relocations, $900,000 for new investigations staff, and $213,000 for 

administrative services and information management.

OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS

The Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians holds responsibility for approximately 56 million acres of land, with over 10 

million acres belonging to individual Indians and 46 million acres 

held in trust for Indian Tribes. On these lands the Department of 

the Interior manages over 100,000 leases for individual Indians 

and Tribes. Leasing, use permits, land sale revenue, and interest 

totaling $205,000,000 per year are collected for 245,000 individual 

Indian money accounts. $414,000,000 per year is collected in 1,400 

tribal accounts serving 300 Tribes. Additionally, the trust manages 

approximately $3,000,000,000 in tribal funds and $400,000,000 in 

individual Indian funds. 

Over the past decade, nearly $3,000,000,000 has been invested in 

management, reform, and improvement of Indian trust programs. 

Ongoing reforms and expenditures are highly dependent on court 

activity related to the ongoing Cobell v. Norton case and negotiations between the Department of the Interior, tribal governments, 

the plaintiffs and the courts. 

FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $193,540,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 269,397,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 191,593,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 191,593,000
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The Committee recommends an appropriation of $191,593,000 for 

the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, which is 

$1,947,000 below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, $77,804,000 

below the budget request and the same as the House recommended 

funding level. The Committee continues to recognize the Federal 

Government’s responsibility to improve Indian trust management 

and continues to support the Department’s efforts in this regard. 

However, due to ongoing litigation and uncertainty as to whether 

the Department’s Historical Accounting plan will be fully accepted 

by the court, the Committee is unable to fully fund the budget request and has instead placed emphasis on supporting other Indian 

programs and Departmental functions. 

INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION PROJECT

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $34,514,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 34,514,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 34,514,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 34,514,000

The Committee recommends $34,514,000 for the Indian land consolidation program, equal to the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, the 

budget request, and the House recommended funding level.

NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION

The mission of the natural resource damage assessment and restoration program is to restore natural resources injured as a result 

of oil spills or hazardous substance releases into the environment. 

As authorized in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 

Compensation and Liability Act [CERCLA], the Clean Water Act, 

and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, injuries to natural resources that 

the Department of the Interior manages or controls are assessed 

and appropriate restoration projects are identified. Recoveries from 

potentially responsible parties, either through negotiated settlements or legal actions, are used to finance restoration of the injured resources. The Restoration Program Office coordinates the 

various technical, scientific, legal, and economic aspects of this 

work, as well as the various departmental bureaus and offices involved. 

NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $5,737,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 6,106,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 6,106,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 6,106,000

The Committee recommends $6,106,000 for natural resource 

damage assessment and restoration, which is $369,000 over the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, and the same as the budget request 

and the House recommended funding level. The increase provided 

is primarily for fixed costs and to enhance natural resource restoration science. 

The Committee directs the Department to continue its focus on 

restoration activities and to work with the Environmental Protection Agency to incorporate trustee concerns during Superfund remediation, and to enhance the integration of Superfund remedial 

activities and natural resource damage assessment activities. A 
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joint Interior and EPA report on these efforts should be provided 

to the Committee by September 29, 2006.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

The Committee has included in ‘‘General Provisions, Department 

of the Interior’’ various legislative provisions affecting the Department of the Interior. Several of these provisions have been carried 

in previous years and others are proposed new this year. The provisions are: 

SEC. 101. Provides Secretarial authority to transfer program 

funds for expenditures in cases of emergency when all other emergency funds are exhausted. 

SEC. 102. Provides for expenditure or transfer of funds by the 

Secretary in the event of actual or potential emergencies including 

forest fires, range fires, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, 

storms, oilspills, grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks, and 

surface mine reclamation emergencies. 

SEC. 103. Provides for use of appropriated funds for contracts, 

rental cars and aircraft, certain library memberships, and certain 

telephone expenses. 

SECS. 104–106. Prohibit the use of funds provided in the act for 

certain offshore leasing and related activities pursuant to the revised 5-year plan for Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing. 

SEC. 107. Provides for the transfer of unobligated balances from 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Office of Special Trustee for 

American Indians for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management activities. 

SEC. 108. Allows through fiscal year 2010 the hiring of administrative law judges to address the Indian probate backlog. 

SEC. 109. Permits the redistribution of tribal priority allocation 

and tribal base funds to alleviate funding inequities. 

SEC. 110. Continues a provision requiring the allocation of Bureau of Indian Affairs postsecondary schools funds consistent with 

unmet needs. 

SEC. 111. Continues a provision that land and other reimbursement the Secretary may receive in the conveyance of the Twin Cities Research Center may be used for the benefit of the National 

Wildlife Refuge System in Minnesota and for activities authorized 

by Public Law 104–134. 

SEC. 112. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to use helicopters or motor vehicles to capture and transport horses and burros at the Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Refuges. 

SEC. 113. Allows certain funds provided for land acquisition to be 

granted to a State, a local government, or any other land management entity. 

SEC. 114. Restricts the Secretary from entering into or implementing a contract which permits or requires the removal of the 

underground lunchroom at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. 

SEC. 115. Continues a limitation on compensation for the Special 

Master and Court Monitor appointed in the Cobell v. Norton litigation. 
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SEC. 116. Allows the Secretary to use funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for employees and former employees of the Department for costs incurred as a result of Cobell v. Norton. SEC. 117. Clarifies the effect of section 134 of the Department of 

the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 regarding certain lands in the State of Kansas. 

SEC. 118. Continues a prohibition on the use of funds to study 

or implement drainage of Lake Powell or reduce water levels below 

the range necessary to operate Glen Canyon Dam. 

SEC. 119. Allows the National Indian Gaming Commission [NIGC] to collect $12,000,000 in fees for fiscal year 2007. The 

NIGC should work with tribal governments on an ongoing basis 

and may use tribal advisory committees and negotiated rule-making with tribal governments in the development of regulatory policies, standards and definitions. 

SEC. 120. Continues the Tribal Trust Reform Demonstration 

Project in fiscal year 2006, which will allow the continuation of a 

successful model between Tribes and the Department of the Interior with respect to compacting and management of trust resources. 

SEC. 121. Modifies language in Public Law 108–108 with regard 

to grazing permits authorized by the Jarbidge field office of the Bureau of Land Management. 

SEC. 122. Authorizes the acquisition of lands for the purpose of 

operating and maintaining facilities that support visitors to Ellis, 

Governors and Liberty Islands. 

SEC. 123. Continues language providing that the final winter use 

rules for Yellowstone National Park, published in the Federal Register on November 10, 2004, shall be in force and effect for the winter season of 2005–2006. 

SEC. 124. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to obtain the approval of the governing body of an Indian tribe before closing or 

taking any other action relating to a school of the tribe. 

SEC. 125. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to collect and retain parking fees at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial. 

SEC. 126. Extends authority of the Kalaupapa National Historic 

Park Advisory Commission. 

SEC. 127. Extends the authority of the Secretary of the Interior 

to collect fees pursuant to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act until June 30, 2006.
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TITLE II—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] was created 

through Executive Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970, designed to 

consolidate certain Federal Government environmental activities 

into a single agency. The plan was submitted by the President to 

the Congress on July 8, 1970, and the Agency was established as 

an independent agency in the executive branch on December 2, 

1970, by consolidating 15 components from 5 departments and 

independent agencies. 

A description of EPA’s pollution control programs by media 

follows: 

Air.—The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 authorize a national program of air pollution research, regulation, prevention, 

and enforcement activities. 

Water Quality.—The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 

amended, provides the framework for protection of the Nation’s 

surface waters. The law recognizes that it is the primary responsibility of the States to prevent, reduce, and eliminate water pollution. The States determine the desired uses for their waters, set 

standards, identify current uses and, where uses are being impaired or threatened, develop plans for the protection or restoration 

of the designated use. They implement the plans through control 

programs such as permitting and enforcement, construction of municipal waste water treatment works, and nonpoint source control 

practices. The CWA also regulates discharge of dredge or fill material into waters of the United States, including wetlands. 

Drinking Water.—The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, as 

amended in 1996, charges EPA with the responsibility of implementing a program to assure that the Nation’s public drinking 

water supplies are free of contamination that may pose a human 

health risk, and to protect and prevent the endangerment of 

ground water resources which serve as drinking water supplies. 

Hazardous Waste.—The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 

of 1976 mandated EPA to develop a regulatory program to protect 

human health and the environment from improper hazardous 

waste disposal practices. The RCRA Program manages hazardous 

wastes from generation through disposal. 

EPA’s responsibilities and authorities to manage hazardous 

waste were greatly expanded under the Hazardous and Solid 

Waste Amendments of 1984. Not only did the regulated universe 

of wastes and facilities dealing with hazardous waste increase significantly, but past mismanagement practices, in particular prior 

releases at inactive hazardous and solid waste management units, 

were to be identified and corrective action taken. The 1984 amend-
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ments also authorized a regulatory and implementation program 

directed to owners and operators of underground storage tanks. 

Pesticides.—The objective of the Pesticide Program is to protect 

the public health and the environment from unreasonable risks 

while permitting the use of necessary pest control approaches. This 

objective is pursued by EPA under the Food Quality Protection Act, 

the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the 

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 through three principal means: (1) 

review of existing and new pesticide products; (2) enforcement of 

pesticide use rules; and (3) research and development to reinforce 

the ability to evaluate the risks and benefits of pesticides. 

Radiation.—The radiation program’s major emphasis is to minimize the exposure of persons to ionizing radiation, whether from 

naturally occurring sources, from medical or industrial applications, nuclear power sources, or weapons development. 

Toxic Substances.—The Toxic Substances Control Act establishes 

a program to stimulate the development of adequate data on the 

effects of chemical substances on health and the environment, and 

institute control action for those chemicals which present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. The act’s coverage affects more than 60,000 chemicals currently in commerce, 

and all new chemicals. 

Multimedia.—Multimedia activities are designed to support programs where the problems, tools, and results are cross media and 

must be integrated to effect results. This integrated program encompasses the Agency’s research, enforcement, and abatement activities. 

Superfund.—The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 established a national program 

to protect public health and the environment from the threats 

posed by inactive hazardous waste sites and uncontrolled spills of 

hazardous substances. The original statute was amended by the 

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Under 

these authorities, EPA manages a hazardous waste site cleanup 

program including emergency response and long-term remediation. 

Brownfields.—The Comprehensive Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 as amended by the Small 

Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 

2002 establishes a national program to assess, cleanup, and provide support to States, Tribes, local communities and other stakeholders to work together to reuse Brownfields. 

Leaking Underground Storage Tanks.—The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 established the leaking underground storage tank [LUST] trust fund to conduct corrective actions for releases from leaking underground storage tanks that contain petroleum or other hazardous substances. EPA implements 

the LUST response program primarily through cooperative agreements with the States. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends a total of $7,881,989,000 for EPA. 

This is a decrease of $144,496,000 below the fiscal year 2005 en-
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acted level, an increase of $361,389,000 above the budget request, 

and an increase of $173,962,000 above the House recommendation. 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $744,061,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 760,640,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 765,340,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 730,795,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

EPA’s ‘‘Science and technology’’ account provides funding for the 

scientific knowledge and tools necessary to support decisions on 

preventing, regulating, and abating environmental pollution and to 

advance the base of understanding on environmental sciences. 

These efforts are conducted through contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements with universities, industries, other private commercial firms, nonprofit organizations, State and local governments, and Federal agencies, as well as through work performed at 

EPA’s laboratories and various field stations and field offices. In 

addition, Hazardous Substance Superfund Trust Fund resources 

are transferred to this account directly from the Hazardous Substance Superfund. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $730,795,000 for science and technology, which is $29,845,000 below the budget request and 

$13,266,000 below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level. In addition, 

the Committee recommends the transfer of $30,606,000 from the 

Superfund account, for a total of $761,401,000 for science and technology. Transferred funds are for ongoing research activities consistent with the intent of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended. 

Changes to the budget request are listed below. 

The Committee recommends a $619,000 decrease below the 

request for the Clean Air Allowance Trading program. 

The Committee recommends a $250,000 decrease below the 

request for Facilities Infrastructure and Operations. 

The Committee recommends a $5,131,000 decrease below the 

request for the Federal Vehicle and Fuels Standards and Certification program. 

The Committee recommends a $38,489,000 decrease below 

the request for Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection. The Committee further recommends that $5,585,000 in 

this program is allocated to the new Water Sentinel initiative. 

The Committee recommends a $15,701,000 decrease below 

the request for Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, 

and Recovery. The Committee did not allocate funding for the 

laboratory preparedness and response program or the new Safe 

Buildings initiative. 

The Committee recommends a $1,838,000 decrease below the 

request for Research: Computational Toxicology. 

The Committee recommends a $1,687,000 increase above the 

request for Research: Endocrine Disruptor. 
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The Committee recommends a $3,715,000 increase above the 

request for Research: Fellowships. The Committee recommends a $956,000 decrease below the 

request for Research: Global Change. The Committee recommends a $2,276,000 decrease below the 

request for Research: Human Health and Ecosystems. The Committee recommends a $4,631,000 decrease below the 

request for Research: Land Protection and Restoration. The Committee recommends a $9,308,000 decrease below the 

request for Research: Water Quality. The Committee recommends a $6,048,000 decrease below the 

request for Research: NAAQS. 

In addition, the Committee recommends the following increases 

to the budget request: $1,000,000 for the American Water Works Association Research Foundation; 

$2,600,000 for the Water Environment Research Foundation; 

$750,000 for the Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research; 

$750,000 for the New England Green Chemistry Consortium; 

$2,100,000 for the Mine Waste Technology program at the 

National Environmental Waste Technology, Testing, and Evaluation Center; 

$500,000 for Boise State University to continue research on 

multi-purpose sensors to detect and analyze contaminants and 

time-lapse imaging of shallow subsurface fluid flow; $500,000 for The Ohio State University Olentangy River 

Wetlands Park Teaching, Research, and Outreach Initiative; $500,000 for the UNC Charlotte VisualGRID; 

$500,000 for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Natural Resources Policy Center; $500,000 for the University of Memphis Groundwater Institute to conduct a groundwater study; 

$800,000 for the Texas State University System Geography 

and Geology Project; 

$1,500,000 for the University of Louisville Lung Biology/

Translational Lung Disease Program; 

$500,000 for the University of South Alabama Center for Estuarine Research; 

$500,000 for the Ohio University Consortium for Energy, Economics, and the Environment; 

$250,000 for the Center for the Study of Metals in the Environment at the University of Delaware; 

$375,000 for the Central California Ozone Study, San Joaquin Valleywide Air Pollution Study Agency; 

$2,000,000 for the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium at West Virginia University; 

$2,000,000 for the Center for Air Toxic Metals, EERC at the 

University of North Dakota; 

$800,000 for the Clean Air Counts program emission reduction partnership with the Illinois Environmental Protection 

Agency; 

$400,000 for the Missouri River Institute at the University 

of South Dakota; 
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$250,000 for paper industry byproduct waste reduction research in Wisconsin; 

$500,000 for the Louisiana Smart Growth program in the 

State of Louisiana; 

$500,000 for the National Environmental Respiratory Center 

[NERC] at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico; 

$450,000 for an environmental program at the Water Policy 

Institute at Texas Tech University; 

$200,000 for a comprehensive assessment of Lake Whitney 

at Baylor University; 

$250,000 for an air quality study for the Greater Houston 

Partnership/Houston Advanced Research Center; 

$200,000 for a poultry science project at Stephen F. Austin 

State University; 

$400,000 for Aiken Greening at the University of Vermont; 

and 

$200,000 for the Proctor Maple Research Station in 

Underhill, Vermont. 

The Committee recognizes the Agency’s commitment to developing a Computational Toxicology program that reduces the use of 

animal testing. The Committee encourages EPA to implement specific plans for validating computational toxicology methods to assure compliance with the ICCVAM Authorization Act of 2000, and 

requests details of these validation activities be included in the 

Agency’s annual Computational Toxicology report.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $2,294,902,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 2,353,764,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 2,389,491,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,333,416,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Agency’s ‘‘Environmental programs and management’’ account includes the development of environmental standards; monitoring and surveillance of pollution conditions; direct Federal pollution control planning; technical assistance to pollution control agencies and organizations; preparation of environmental impact statements; enforcement and compliance assurance; and assistance to 

Federal agencies in complying with environmental standards and 

ensuring that their activities have minimal environmental impact. 

It provides personnel compensation, benefits, and travel and other 

administrative expenses for all agency programs except Hazardous 

Substance Superfund, LUST, Science and Technology, Oil Spill Response, and OIG. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $2,333,416,000 for environmental 

programs and management, $20,348,000 below the budget request 

and $38,514,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level. 

The Committee supports the EPA Brownfields program at ap- proximately the fiscal year 2005 enacted level of $25,000,000 with-
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in this account. The Committee notes that the inclusion of these 

funds in conjunction with funding of $140,000,000 in the State and 

Tribal Assistance Grants account for Brownfields activities results 

in a total of $165,000,000 being available in fiscal year 2006. 

Changes to the budget request are listed below. The Committee recommends a $4,638,000 decrease below the 

request for the Brownfields program. The Committee recommends a $1,000,000 decrease below the 

request for the Climate Protection program. The Committee 

further recommends in this program that $50,500,000 is allocated to the Energy Star program, and that $3,000,000 is allocated for the new Methane to Markets Partnership. The Committee recommends a $6,084,000 decrease below the 

request for Compliance Monitoring. The Committee recommends a $1,775,000 increase above the 

request for Criminal Enforcement. The Committee recommends a $6,090,000 decrease below the 

request for Drinking Water Programs. The Committee recommends a $929,000 increase above the 

request for Enforcement Training. The Committee recommends a $7,000,000 increase above the 

request for Environmental Education. The Committee recommends a $4,739,000 decrease below the 

request for the Exchange Network. The Committee recommends a $18,046,000 decrease below 

the request for Facilities Infrastructure and Operations. The Committee recommends a $22,699,000 decrease below 

the request for Federal Support for Air Quality Management. 

The Committee did not allocate funding for the new Clean 

Diesel initiative in this program. The Committee recommends a $841,000 decrease below the 

request for Federal Support for Air Toxics Program. The Committee recommends a $2,254,000 increase above the 

request for the Geographic Program: Chesapeake Bay. The 

Committee further recommends that the increased funding in 

this program is allocated for Chesapeake Bay small watershed 

grants. 

The Committee recommends a $481,000 increase above the 

request for the Geographic Program: Great Lakes. 

The Committee recommends a $532,000 increase above the 

request for the Geographic Program: Gulf of Mexico. 

The Committee recommends a $1,000,000 increase above the 

budget request for the Geographic Program: Lake Champlain. 

The Committee recommends a $3,349,000 decrease below the 

request for Geographic program: Other. The Committee did not 

allocate increased funding for the CARE initiative in this program. The Committee further recommends a $1,167,000 increase for Lake Pontchartrain above the request. 

The Committee recommends a $20,000,000 decrease below 

the request for the Great Lakes Legacy Act. 

The Committee recommends a $1,230,000 decrease below the 

request for Homeland Security: Communication and Information. The Committee did not allocate funding for the Laboratory Preparedness and Response program. 
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The Committee recommends a $100,000 decrease below the 

request for Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection. The Committee did not allocate funding for the Decontamination program. 

The Committee recommends a $600,000 decrease below the 

request for Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, and 

Recovery. 

The Committee recommends a $1,872,000 decrease below the 

request for Human Resources Management. 

The Committee recommends a $918,000 decrease below the 

request for Indoor Air: Radon. 

The Committee recommends a $1,450,000 decrease below the 

request for International Capacity Building. 

The Committee recommends a $12,999,000 decrease below 

the request for IT/Data Management. 

The Committee recommends a $1,554,000 increase above the 

request for the National Estuary Program/Coastal Waterways. 

The Committee recommends a $3,582,000 decrease below the 

request for the Pollution Prevention Program. 

The Committee recommends a $1,179,000 decrease below the 

request for POPS Implementation. 

The Committee recommends a $643,000 decrease below the 

request for Radiation: Protection. 

The Committee recommends a $12,000 decrease below the 

request for Radiation: Response Preparedness. 

The Committee recommends a $1,302,000 decrease below the 

request for Reduce Risks from Indoor Air. 

The Committee recommends a $1,862,000 decrease below the 

request for Regional Geographic Initiatives. 

The Committee recommends a $5,007,000 decrease below the 

request for Regulatory Innovation. 

The Committee recommends a $1,892,000 decrease below the 

request for Regulatory/Economic-Management and Analysis. 

The Committee recommends a $111,000 decrease below the 

request for Science Policy and Biotechnology. 

The Committee recommends a $473,000 decrease below the 

request for State and Local Prevention and Preparedness. 

The Committee recommends a $1,044,000 increase above the 

request for Stratospheric Ozone: Domestic Programs. 

The Committee recommends a $5,500,000 decrease below the 

request for Stratospheric Ozone: Multilateral Fund. 

The Committee recommends a $4,801,000 decrease below the 

request for Surface Water Protection. The Committee further 

recommends in this program that $4,499,000 is allocated for 

Water Quality Monitoring programs. 

The Committee recommends a $1,356,000 increase above the 

request for Toxic Substances: Chemical Risk Review and Reduction. The Committee further recommends in this program 

that the $1,356,000 increase is allocated to the High Production Volume Chemical Challenge Program and the High Production Volume Information System. 

The Committee recommends a $2,754,000 decrease below the 

request for TRI/Right to Know program. 
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In addition, the Committee recommends the following increases 

to the budget request: 

$11,000,000 for the National Rural Water Association, including source water protection programs; 

$3,000,000 for the Rural Community Assistance Program; 

$650,000 for the Groundwater Protection Council; 

$750,000 for the Water Systems Council Wellcare Program; 

$2,000,000 for America’s Clean Water Foundation; 

$4,000,000 for the Small Public Water System Technology 

Centers at Western Kentucky University, the University of 

New Hampshire, the University of Alaska-Sitka, Pennsylvania 

State University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, Montana State University, the University of Illinois, and Mississippi State University; 

$1,500,000 for the Southwest Missouri Water Quality Improvement Project; 

$1,000,000 for an air quality improvement program in Lincoln County, Montana; 

$500,000 for the University of Northern Iowa to develop new 

environmental technologies for small business outreach; 

$2,000,000 for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental 

Quality to complete remediation work on Tar Creek; 

$500,000 for the Alabama Department of Environmental 

Management for a water and wastewater training program; 

$1,000,000 for EPA Region 10 environmental compliance; 

$500,000 for the Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute at Southwest Missouri State University; 

$250,000 for the Spokane River Bi-State Non-Point Phosphorus study; 

$1,800,000 for Long Island Sound restoration; 

$300,000 for a restoration project in Greenwood Lake, New 

Jersey; 

$500,000 for a brownfields remediation project in the City of 

Waterbury, Connecticut; 

$500,000 for a water quality project in Storm Lake, Iowa; 

$500,000 for Hawaii Island Economic Development Board’s 

Big Island Recycle program; 

$450,000 for the storm water research program at the University of Vermont; 

$500,000 for the environmental and science education program in New Bedford, Massachusetts; 

$200,000 for Grambling University in Louisiana for a water 

quality research program; 

$500,000 for Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation lake restoration in Louisiana; 

$775,000 for environmental clean-up and research programs 

in Lake Champlain, Vermont; 

$250,000 for the Waste to Energy project in Stamford, Connecticut; 

$250,000 for the Northwest Straits Commission, Washington 

State University beach watchers marine resources program; 

$500,000 for a lead-based paint hazard control program in 

Omaha, Nebraska; 
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$500,000 for the University of West Florida Partnership for 

Environmental Research and Community Health [PERCH] 

program; 

$250,000 for waterfront stormwater management analysis in 

East Providence, Rhode Island; 

$250,000 for Walker Lake, Nevada Working Group’s lake 

restoration program; 

$250,000 for Mohawk Valley, New York Water Authority’s 

bacteria detection program; 

$250,000 for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality site assessment program; 

$130,000 for an environmental education initiative at Crow’s 

Neck Environmental Education Center in Tishomingo County, 

Mississippi; and 

$300,000 for the Rathdrum Prairie/Spokane Valley Aquifer 

study. 

The Committee provides the budget request of $2,000,000 for the 

Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center [Water ISAC], and 

directs that the Water ISAC shall be implemented through a grant 

to the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies. 

Unclear regulations, conflicting court decisions and inadequate 

scientific information are creating confusion about whether emergency release reporting requirements in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act apply to emissions from poultry, dairy or livestock operations. Producers want to 

meet their environmental obligations, but need clarification from 

the EPA on the applicability of these laws to their operations. The 

Committee directs the Agency to resolve this issue expeditiously. 

The Committee is aware of the work EPA is doing through the 

NAFTA Technical Working Group on Pesticides, and encourages 

the efforts to harmonize regulatory processes. Prices for agricultural pesticides continue to be a concern for farmers in the United 

States due to unnecessary barriers to trade in agricultural pesticides. The Committee urges EPA to work swiftly to complete harmonization actions through the Technical Working Group as soon 

as possible, and to seek input from stakeholders on development 

and implementation of a joint labeling process. 

The Committee supports initiatives at EPA to develop a marketbased sustainable electronics recycling infrastructure, and encourages the Agency to work with manufacturers on a product stewardship solution. The Committee is concerned about the growing 

patchwork of State laws that confuses and burdens manufacturers, 

retailers, recyclers and consumers. 

The Committee directs the Environmental Protection Agency to 

continue administering the fiscal year 2005 and subsequent annual 

Lake Champlain appropriations through Region I and the New 

England Interstate Water Pollution Commission.

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $37,696,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 36,955,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 37,955,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 36,955,000
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Office of Inspector General [OIG] provides audit, evaluation, 

and investigation products and advisory services to improve the 

performance and integrity of EPA programs and operations. The IG 

also holds the position of Inspector General for the Chemical Safety 

and Hazard Investigation Board. 

Trust fund resources are transferred to this account directly from 

the Hazardous Substance Superfund. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $36,955,000 for the Office of Inspec- tor General, which is equal to the budget request and $741,000 

below the fiscal year 2005 level. In addition, $13,536,000 will be 

available by transfer from the Superfund account, for a total of 

$50,491,000. 

BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

Appropriations, 2005 (including emergency appropriations) ............. $41,688,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 40,218,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 40,218,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 40,218,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The appropriation for buildings and facilities at EPA provides for 

the design and construction of EPA-owned facilities as well as for 

the repair, extension, alteration, and improvement of facilities utilized by the Agency. These funds correct unsafe conditions, protect 

health and safety of employees and Agency visitors, and prevent 

deterioration of structures and equipment. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $40,218,000 for buildings and facili- ties, $1,530,000 above the fiscal year 2005 level (excluding emergency appropriations) and equal to the budget request and the 

House allowance. 

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $1,247,477,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 1,279,333,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,258,333,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,256,165,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

On October 17, 1986, Congress amended the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 

[CERCLA] through the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 [SARA]. SARA reauthorized and expanded the 

Hazardous Substance Superfund to address the problems of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites and spills. Specifically, the legislation 

mandates that EPA: (1) provide emergency response to hazardous 

waste spills; (2) take emergency action at hazardous waste sites 
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that pose an imminent hazard to public health or environmentally 

sensitive ecosystems; (3) engage in long-term planning, remedial 

design, and construction to clean up hazardous waste sites where 

no financially viable responsible party can be found; (4) take enforcement actions to require responsible private and Federal parties to clean up hazardous waste sites; and (5) take enforcement actions to recover costs where the fund has been used for cleanup. 

Due to the site-specific nature of the Agency’s Superfund program, 

site-specific travel is not considered part of the overall travel ceiling set for the Superfund account. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $1,256,165,000 for Superfund, 

$8,688,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and 

$23,168,000 below the budget request and $2,168,000 below the 

House allowance. 

Changes to the budget request are listed below. 

The Committee recommends a $1,479,000 decrease below the 

request for Acquisition Management. 

The Committee recommends a $140,000 decrease below the 

request for Alternative Dispute Resolution. 

The Committee recommends a $2,066,000 decrease below the 

request for Central Planning, Budgeting, and Finance. 

The Committee recommends a $441,000 decrease below the 

request for Civil Enforcement. 

The Committee recommends a $11,000 decrease below the 

request for Compliance Assistance and Centers. 

The Committee recommends a $11,000 decrease below the 

request for Compliance Incentives. 

The Committee recommends a $499,000 decrease below the 

request for Compliance Monitoring. 

The Committee recommends a $6,000 decrease below the request for congressional, intergovernmental, and external relations. 

The Committee recommends a $5,646,000 decrease below the 

request for Facilities Infrastructure and Operations. 

The Committee recommends a $300,000 decrease below the 

request for Homeland Security: Communication and Information. The Committee did not allocate funding for the Laboratory Preparedness and Response program. 

The Committee recommends a $200,000 decrease below the 

request for Homeland Security: Critical Infrastructure Protection. The Committee did not allocate funding for the Decontamination program. 

The Committee recommends a $11,965,000 decrease below 

the request for Homeland Security: Preparedness, Response, 

and Recovery. 

The Committee recommends a $414,000 decrease below the 

request for Human Resources Management. 

The Committee recommends a $3,000 decrease below the request for Information Security. 

The Committee recommends a $20,000 decrease below the 

request for Legal Advice: Environmental Program. 
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The Committee recommends a $356,000 decrease below the 

request for Radiation: Protection. 

The Committee recommends a $105,000 decrease below the 

request for Research: Land Protection and Restoration. 

The Committee recommends a $494,000 increase above the 

request for Superfund: Emergency Response and Removal. The 

Committee recommends a total of $849,761,000 for Superfund 

cleanup. 

The Committee is concerned that EPA has not yet issued a 

Record of Decision [ROD] for Libby, Montana, despite years of 

cleanup efforts. The Committee directs the Agency to issue its 

Record of Decision for Libby, Montana no later than December 1, 

2005. The Agency should also provide a report on the contents contained within the ROD to the Committee no later than January 15, 

2006. 

The Committee directs the Agency to work with the Fish and 

Wildlife Service and other trustee bureaus within the Department 

of the Interior to incorporate trustee concerns during Superfund remediation and to enhance the integration of Superfund remedial 

activities and natural resource damage assessment activities. A 

joint EPA and Interior report on these efforts should be provided 

to the Committee by September 29, 2006. 

At this time, the Committee disagrees with the position of the 

House as to the need for an additional contaminated sediment sites 

study and does not recommend that EPA enter into any further 

agreement with the National Academy of Sciences.

LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $69,440,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 73,027,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 73,027,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 73,027,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorizations Act of 1986 

[SARA] established the leaking underground storage tank [LUST] 

trust fund to conduct corrective actions for releases from leaking 

underground storage tanks containing petroleum and other hazardous substances. EPA implements the LUST program through 

State cooperative agreement grants which enable States to conduct 

corrective actions to protect human health and the environment, 

and through non-State entities including Indian tribes under section 8001 of RCRA. The trust fund is also used to enforce responsible parties to finance corrective actions and to recover expended 

funds used to clean up abandoned tanks. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends the budget request of $73,027,000 

for the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund, which is 

$3,587,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and equal to 

the budget request and the House allowance. The Committee directs that not less than 85 percent of these funds be provided to 

the States and tribal governments. 
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OIL SPILL RESPONSE

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $15,872,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 15,863,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 15,863,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 15,863,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This appropriation, authorized by the Federal Water Pollution 

Control Act of 1987 and amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 

provides funds to prepare for and prevent releases of oil and other 

petroleum products into navigable waterways. EPA is also reimbursed for incident specific response costs through the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which pursuant to law is managed by the 

United States Coast Guard. EPA is responsible for: directing all 

cleanup and removal activities posing a threat to public health and 

the environment; conducting site inspections, including compelling 

responsible parties to undertake cleanup actions; reviewing containment plans at facilities; reviewing area contingency plans; pursuing cost recovery of fund-financed cleanups; and conducting research of oil cleanup techniques. Funds for this appropriation are 

provided through the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund which is composed of fees and collections made through provisions of the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990, the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability 

and Compensation Act, the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, the Outer 

Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, and the Federal 

Water Pollution Control Act as amended. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $15,863,000 for the oil spill re- sponse trust fund, which is $9,000 below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and equal to the budget request and the House allowance.

STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS

(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $3,575,349,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 2,960,800,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 3,127,800,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 3,395,550,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The ‘‘State and tribal assistance grants’’ account funds grants to 

support the State revolving fund programs; State, tribal, regional, 

and local environmental programs; and special projects to address 

critical water and waste water treatment needs. 

Included in this account are funds for the following infrastructure grant programs: Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds; United States-Mexico Border Program; Alaska Native villages; and Brownfield State and Tribal Response program 

grants authorized by CERCLA section 128(a). 

It also contains the following categorical environmental grants, 

State/tribal program grants, and assistance and capacity building 

grants: (1) air resource assistance to State, regional, local, and trib-
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al governments (secs. 105 and 103 of the Clean Air Act); (2) radon 

State and Tribal grants; (3) water pollution control agency resource 

supplementation (sec. 106 of the FWPCA); (4) BEACHS Protection 

grants (sec. 406 of FWPCA as amended); (5) nonpoint source (sec. 

319 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act); (6) wetlands State 

program development; (7) water quality cooperative agreements 

(sec. 104(b)(3) of FWPCA); (8) targeted watershed grants; (9) wastewater operator training grants; (10) public water system supervision; (11) underground injection control; (12) drinking water program State homeland security coordination grants; (13) hazardous 

waste financial assistance; (14) Brownfields activities authorized by 

CERCLA section 104(k); (15) underground storage tanks; (16) pesticides program implementation; (17) lead grants; (18) toxic substances compliance; (19) pesticides enforcement; (20) the Environmental Information Exchange Network; (21) pollution prevention; 

(22) sector program; and (23) Indians general assistance grants. 

As in past fiscal years, reprogrammings associated with Performance Partnership Grants need not be submitted to the Committee 

for approval should such grants exceed the normal reprogramming 

limitations. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,395,550,000 

for State and Tribal Assistance Grants, a decrease of $179,799,000 

below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, an increase of 

$434,750,000 over the budget request, and $267,750,000 over the 

House allowance. 

Bill language specifically provides funding levels for the following 

programs in this account: 

$1,100,000,000 for the Clean Water State Revolving Loan 

Fund, which is $370,000,000 above the request; 

$850,000,000 for the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan 

Fund, which is equal to the request; 

$50,000,000 for the United States-Mexico Border program, 

which is equal to the request, and includes $7,000,000 for the 

El Paso Utilities Board and $2,000,000 for the City of Brownsville water supply project; 

$40,000,000 for grants to address drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs in rural and native Alaskan communities, which is $25,000,000 above the request; 

$1,000,000 for the Clean School Bus Initiative, which is 

$9,000,000 below the request; and 

$90,000,000 for Brownfields infrastructure projects, which is 

$30,500,000 below the request. 

Within the State and Tribal Categorical Grant program, the 

changes to the budget request are listed below. 

The Committee recommends a $10,000,000 decrease below 

the request for Categorical Grant: Brownfields. 

The Committee recommends a $656,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Environmental Information. 

The Committee recommends a $934,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Hazardous Waste Financial Assistance. 
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The Committee recommends a $1,772,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Nonpoint Source (Sec. 319). 

The Committee recommends a $16,900,000 decrease below 

the request for Categorical Grant: Pollution Control (Sec. 106). 

The Committee further recommends in this program that 

$43,000,000 is allocated to water quality monitoring activities. 

The Committee recommends a $1,040,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Pollution Prevention. 

The Committee recommends a $854,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Public Water System Supervision [PWSS]. 

The Committee recommends a $1,206,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Radon. 

The Committee recommends a $18,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Sector Program. 

The Committee recommends a $23,000,000 decrease below 

the request for Categorical Grant: State and Tribal Performance Fund. 

The Committee recommends a $1,856,000 increase above the 

request for Categorical Grant: Targeted Watersheds. The Committee further recommends that $6,000,000 in this program is 

allocated for a regional pilot program for the Chesapeake Bay 

that shall demonstrate effective non-point source nutrient reduction approaches that target small watersheds and accelerate nutrient reduction in innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective ways. Partners in the effort to protect the Bay include: 

Maryland; Pennsylvania; Virginia; the District of Columbia; 

the Chesapeake Bay Commission, a tri-state legislative body; 

EPA, which represents the Federal Government; and participating citizen advisory groups. 

The Committee recommends a $306,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Underground Injection Control 

[UIC]. 

The Committee recommends a $1,200,000 increase above the 

request for Categorical Grant: Wastewater Operator Training. 

The Committee recommends a $5,120,000 decrease below the 

request for Categorical Grant: Wetlands Program Development. 

The Committee has not included funding for the infrastructure assistance grant for Puerto Rico. 

The Committee includes $200,000,000 for targeted project grants. 

These grants include a local match of 45 percent for all grants utilized unless a hardship waiver is provided by the EPA. The EPA 

is directed to expedite any request for a waiver and assist any communities that are likely to qualify for a waiver in processing such 

a request. The targeted project grants are as follows: 

$800,000 for the Coosa Valley Water Supply District surface 

water project in Alabama; 

$700,000 for the sewer improvement project in the City of 

York, Alabama; 

$750,000 for a water and sewer project in Unalaska, Alaska; 

$250,000 for a water and sewer project in the City of Craig, 

Alaska; 
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$800,000 for the drinking water project in the Town of Walden, Colorado; 

$650,000 for the water treatment facility in the City of 

Alamosa, Colorado; 

$100,000 for a wastewater treatment facility improvements 

project in Brush, Colorado; 

$100,000 for wastewater facility upgrades in Yuma, Colorado; 

$500,000 for the West Area Combined Sewer Overflow Tunnel in the City of Atlanta, Georgia; 

$500,000 for a wastewater treatment project in the City of 

Twin Falls, Idaho; 

$400,000 for water system infrastructure improvements in 

the City of Castleford, Idaho; 

$600,000 for construction of a wastewater collection and 

treatment facility in Valley County, Idaho; 

$750,000 for construction of a wastewater treatment facility 

in the Town of Waverly and Morgan County, Indiana; 

$500,000 for construction of a wastewater treatment plant in 

Sioux City, Iowa; 

$500,000 for a new drinking water transmission line in the 

City of Medicine Lodge, Kansas; 

$500,000 for water infrastructure improvements in Johnson 

County, Kansas; 

$1,000,000 for the wastewater sewer line extension project in 

the City of South Campbellsville, Kentucky; 

$500,000 for the City of Columbia, Kentucky, and the Adair 

County Regional Water Treatment Plant; 

$472,000 for the waterline extension and water system upgrade project in the Town of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine; 

$500,000 for the wastewater treatment project in the Town 

of Machias, Maine; 

$500,000 for the construction of a new wastewater treatment 

plant in the City of Willmar, Minnesota; 

$750,000 for a wastewater treatment improvements project 

in Wheeler, Mississippi; 

$500,000 for wastewater treatment improvements in the City 

of Flowood, Mississippi; 

$500,000 for the regional wastewater program in DeSoto 

County, Mississippi; 

$2,000,000 for wastewater system rehabilitation for the West 

Rankin Water Authority in Mississippi; 

$747,383 for a drinking water and wastewater treatment improvements project in the Chipley area in the City of 

Pascagoula, Mississippi; 

$500,000 for a wastewater infrastructure evaluation and repair project in the City of Ridgeland, Mississippi; 

$1,200,000 for wastewater treatment facilities improvements 

in the City of Pontotoc, Mississippi; 

$1,000,000 for a water and sewer infrastructure project in 

the City of Biloxi, Mississippi; 

$250,000 for a water and sewer infrastructure project in the 

Town of McLain, Mississippi; 
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$700,000 for a water and sewer infrastructure project in Forrest County, Mississippi; $1,000,000 for wastewater treatment improvements in the 

City of Brookhaven, Mississippi; $500,000 for the St. Louis, Missouri Combined Sewer Overflow Project; $500,000 for the expansion of the Clarence Cannon Wholesale Water Commission Treatment Plant in Missouri; 

$2,250,000 for water system infrastructure improvements in 

the City of Helena, Montana; $1,000,000 for wastewater treatment improvements in the 

Seeley Lake Sewer District, Montana; $750,000 for wastewater treatment improvements in the 

Town of St. Ignatius, Montana; $500,000 for wastewater treatment improvements in the 

Pablo/Lake County Water and Sewer District, Montana; $500,000 for wastewater treatment improvements in the 

Wisdom Sewer District, Montana; 

$500,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure improvements in the City of Lincoln, Nebraska; $500,000 for the Waterworks Project in the City of Berlin, 

New Hampshire; $500,000 for the combined sewer overflow separation project 

in the City of Manchester, New Hampshire; $1,000,000 for the Valley Utilities Project in the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, New Mexico; $1,000,000 for wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal 

system in the Town of Edgewood, New Mexico; $1,000,000 for completion of Phase I of a sewer system in 

Kirtland, New Mexico; 

$150,000 for the Greene Community in Greene County, Ohio 

for wastewater and drinking water projects; $850,000 for construction of a sewer collection and treatment 

system in the Village of Higginsport, Ohio; 

$200,000 for a drinking water line replacement in 

Muskingum County, Ohio; 

$800,000 for the wastewater collection and treatment system 

in the City of Elmira, Ohio, and the City of Burlington, Ohio; 

$250,000 for storm sewer pipe construction in Millcreek 

Township, Pennsylvania; 

$1,750,000 for the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority for 

the Three Rivers Wet Weather program in Allegheny County, 

Pennsylvania; 

$500,000 for water infrastructure improvements in the City 

of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; 

$250,000 for public sewer service extensions in Menallen 

Township, Pennsylvania; 

$250,000 for central sewer collection and treatment replacement in Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania; 

$800,000 for the combined sewer overflow and flood protection project in the City of Plum Creek and Allegheny County, 

Pennsylvania; 

$200,000 for an interceptor improvements project in Penn 

Hills, Pennsylvania; 
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$250,000 for the stormwater infrastructure improvements 

project in the Borough of Pottstown, Pennsylvania; 

$750,000 for a sewer improvement project in the Borough of 

Archbald, Pennsylvania; 

$875,000 for a new water storage tank in the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island; 

$1,000,000 for the Lake Tansi Sewer Project in Cumberland 

County, Tennessee; 

$1,000,000 for the Watauga River Regional Water Authority 

in Carter County, Tennessee; 

$1,000,000 for the West End water and wastewater infrastructure project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; 

$500,000 for the sewer overflow prevention project in the 

City of Austin, Texas; 

$1,500,000 for construction of a drinking water nitrate remediation plant for Centerfield, Utah, and Mayfield, Utah; 

$700,000 for an arsenic and perchlorate removal project in 

Magna, Utah; 

$300,000 for water infrastructure improvements for Judge 

Tunnel in Park City, Utah; 

$500,000 for a wastewater treatment plant in Eagle Mountain, Utah; 

$1,000,000 for drinking water and stormwater infrastructure 

improvements in Sandy City, Utah; 

$500,000 for a wastewater treatment infrastructure improvements project in the Town of Onancock, Virginia; 

$500,000 for Project Alpha in Lee County, Virginia; 

$1,000,000 for a wastewater treatment plant improvements 

project in the City of Cheyenne, Wyoming; 

$500,000 for regional wastewater treatment improvements 

for the City of Fayetteville, Arkansas; 

$500,000 for improvements to the Little Maumelle water 

treatment plant in the City of Little Rock, Arkansas; 

$375,000 for the Martin Slough interceptor project in the 

City of Eureka, California; 

$375,000 for a water facility project in the City of Santa 

Paula, California; 

$375,000 for a wastewater treatment plant expansion in 

Crescent City, California; 

$375,000 for a perchlorate treatment program in the City of 

Pasadena, California; 

$500,000 for wastewater treatment plant improvements in 

the Cities of Englewood and Littleton, Colorado; 

$500,000 for a stormwater improvement program in Jefferson County, Colorado; 

$500,000 for infrastructure upgrades at water pollution control plant in the Town of Plainville, Connecticut; 

$500,000 for a wastewater turbine technology project for the 

City of New Haven, Connecticut; 

$1,000,000 for a combined sewer overflow program in the 

City of Wilmington, Delaware; 

$800,000 for the Emerald Coast treatment plant replacement 

project for the Northwest Florida Water Management District; 
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$300,000 for Lake Region water treatment plant improvements for the South Florida Water Management District; $1,000,000 for statewide cesspool replacement in the County 

of Maui and other communities, Hawaii; 

$800,000 for a combined sewer separation project in the City 

of Ottumwa, Iowa; 

$800,000 for a sewer separation project in the City of Davenport, Iowa; $250,000 for drinking water infrastructure improvements in 

the City of Springfield, Illinois; $250,000 for construction of a wastewater treatment facility 

in the Village of Pecatonica, Illinois; $750,000 for drinking water improvements in the City of 

Wauconda, Illinois; 

$500,000 for the Sewer Improvement Consortium of Lake 

Bluff, Highwood, Highland Park and Lake Forest, Illinois; $250,000 for water system upgrades in the Village of Port 

Byron, Illinois; $1,700,000 for water infrastructure upgrades in the City of 

Upland, Indiana; $400,000 for the Shreveport Municipal Water Distribution 

system backflow prevention project in Shreveport, Louisiana; $1,000,000 for a combined sewer overflow abatement project 

in Bristol County, Massachusetts; $1,000,000 for the Greenmount Interceptor sewer improvement project in the City of Baltimore, Maryland; $500,000 for a combined sewer overflow project in the City 

of Westernport, Maryland; $500,000 for a combined sewer overflow project in the City 

of Frostburg, Maryland; $350,000 for a combined sewer overflow project in the City 

of Cumberland, Maryland; $150,000 for a sewer line repair project in the City of Emmitsburg, Maryland; 

$150,000 for wastewater lagoon repair in the City of 

Funkstown, Maryland; 

$150,000 for a septage treatment program in Traverse City, 

Michigan; 

$1,000,000 for a combined sewer overflow control program 

for the City of Port Huron, Michigan; 

$500,000 for the Oakland County, Michigan Comprehensive 

Water Security Program; 

$500,000 for the Rouge River CSO, SSO Wet Weather demonstration project in Wayne County, Michigan; 

$250,000 for the North-East Relief Sewer [NERS] project in 

Genesee County, Michigan; 

$250,000 for sewer plant improvements in the City of Saginaw, Michigan; 

$250,000 for public sewer system improvements in the City 

of Northport, Michigan; 

$225,000 for regional wastewater treatment system improvements in Eastern Calhoun County, Michigan; 

$500,000 for the sanitary management district of Crow Wing 

County, Minnesota; 
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$500,000 for the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District in 

the City of Duluth, Minnesota; 

$170,000 for a wastewater treatment plant improvement 

project in the City of Bozeman, Montana; 

$750,000 for drinking water system upgrades in the City of 

Belgrade, Montana; 

$725,000 for water treatment plant regulatory improvements 

in the City of Grafton, North Dakota; 

$500,000 for water infrastructure improvements in the City 

of Devils Lake, North Dakota; 

$500,000 for regional water treatment facility infrastructure 

in the City of Riverdale, North Dakota; 

$400,000 for regional water treatment facility improvements 

in the City of Washburn, North Dakota; 

$300,000 for regional drinking water infrastructure expansion for the Towns of Hankinson, Wyndemere, LaMoure, and 

Oakes, North Dakota (Southeast Area); 

$300,000 for wastewater treatment facility upgrades in the 

City of Lakota, North Dakota; 

$300,000 for water treatment facility improvements in the 

City of Parshall, North Dakota; 

$250,000 for water and sewer improvement projects in the 

City of Crosby, North Dakota; 

$250,000 for drinking water distribution improvements for 

the North Central Rural Water Consortium, North Dakota; 

$250,000 for rural water district infrastructure improvements in Walsh County, North Dakota; 

$500,000 for combined sewer separation projects in the City 

of Omaha, Nebraska; 

$500,000 for stormwater infrastructure improvements at 

Farnham Park in the City of Camden, New Jersey; 

$500,000 for the Sip Avenue CSO retention and flooding 

abatement project engineering and design in Jersey City, New 

Jersey; 

$1,000,000 for a water project in the City of Las Cruces, New 

Mexico; 

$1,000,000 for a wastewater project in the City of Belen, 

New Mexico; 

$150,000 for water infrastructure improvements for the 

North Lemmon Valley Artificial Recharge Project in North 

Lemmon Valley, Nevada; 

$100,000 for wastewater infrastructure improvements at the 

Henderson Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant in the City 

of Henderson, Nevada; 

$50,000 for water and wastewater infrastructure improvements for the Marlette/Hobart water system in Carson City, 

Nevada; 

$650,000 for the Searchlight sewer system upgrades/Clark 

County Reclamation District improvement project in Nevada; 

$400,000 for water infrastructure improvements in Douglas 

County, Nevada; 

$1,000,000 for a stormwater restoration project in the Town 

of North Hempstead, New York; 
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$1,000,000 for a water and sewer extension project in the 

Town of Bethel, New York; 

$750,000 for sanitary district facility upgrades in the City of 

Winchester, Oregon; 

$500,000 for water infrastructure improvements in the City 

of Cumberland, Rhode Island; 

$200,000 for water infrastructure improvements in the City 

of North Smithfield, Rhode Island; 

$180,000 for water infrastructure improvements in the City 

of Springfield, South Dakota; 

$800,000 for a water and wastewater master plan development in Rapid City, South Dakota; 

$1,000,000 for a wastewater treatment project in the Town 

of Pownal, Vermont; 

$1,000,000 for water treatment projects in the Town of 

Waitsfield, Vermont; 

$500,000 for a groundwater remediation project in North 

Clark County, Washington; 

$500,000 for a sewer collection system in the City of Carnation, Washington; 

$800,000 for a radionuclide standard drinking water project 

in the City of Waukesha, Wisconsin; and 

$800,000 for a metropolitan sewage district interceptor system program in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

The Committee includes a total of $140,000,000 for Brownfields 

activities within this account. These funds augment funding of 

$25,000,000 included in the Environmental Programs and Management account for fiscal year 2006, a total of $165,000,000 for EPA 

Brownfields program. 

The Committee also recommends a rescission of $58,000,000 in 

unobligated amounts associated with grants, contracts, and interagency agreements whose availability has expired. 

The Committee has included bill language, as carried in previous 

appropriations acts, to clarify that drinking water health effects 

studies are to be funded through the science and technology account. 

The Committee also includes bill language addressing technical 

corrections to targeted project grants. 

The Committee has also included bill language, as requested by 

the administration and as carried in previous appropriations acts, 

to: (1) extend for 1 year the authority for States to transfer funds 

between the Clean Water SRF and the Drinking Water SRF; (2) 

waive the one-third of 1 percent cap on the Tribal set aside from 

non-point source grants; (3) increase to 1.5 percent the cap on the 

Tribal set-aside for the Clean Water SRF; (4) require that any 

funds provided to address the water infrastructure needs of 

colonias within the United States along the United States-Mexico 

border be spent only in areas where the local governmental entity 

has established an enforceable ordinance or rule which prevents 

additional development within colonias that lack water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure; and (5) change the limitation on the amounts of the SRF a State can use for administration. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

The Committee has included bill language, as proposed in the 

budget request and as carried in previous appropriations acts, permitting EPA, in carrying out environmental programs required or 

authorized by law in the absence of an acceptable tribal program, 

to use cooperative agreements with federally-recognized tribes and 

inter-tribal consortia. 

The Committee includes language authorizing EPA to collect and 

obligate pesticide registration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 

as amended. 

The bill includes a provision to extend eligibility to Brownfields 

sites that were purchased prior to the enactment of the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act of 2001. 

The Committee has included bill language providing certain personnel authority for the Office of Research and Development. 

The Committee has included a provision that addresses the Federal cost share for the radon program. 

Bill language requires EPA to complete and publish a technical 

study to look at safety issues, including the risk of fire and burn 

to consumers in use, associated with compliance with small engines 

regulations, required pursuant to Public Law 108–199. The Committee directs EPA to coordinate this study with the U.S. Fire Administration and/or the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The study of small engines in use by consumers shall include 

real-world scenarios involving at minimum: operator burn, fire due 

to contact with flammable items, and refueling.
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TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

FOREST SERVICE

FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $276,384,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 285,400,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 285,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 280,892,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Forest and rangeland research and development carries out basic 

and applied scientific research to provide information and solutions 

to sustain the Nation’s forests and rangelands. Research scientists 

collaborate with industry, non-governmental organizations, colleges 

and universities, State foresters, and other governmental agencies. 

The research program works on a number of issues that are critical 

to the mission of the Forest Service including fire and fuels; 

invasive species; forest inventory and analysis; vegetation and protection; wildlife and fish habitat; soil, water, and air resources; 

valuation of forests and grasslands; urban forests and the urbanwildland interface. Research is conducted at six research stations, 

the Forest Products Laboratory, and the International Institute of 

Tropical Forestry located in Puerto Rico, with approximately 500 

scientists and 67 sites located throughout the United States. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $280,892,000 for 

forest and rangeland research, which is $4,508,000 above the enacted level, $4,508,000 below the budget request, and $4,108,000 

below the House recommended level. 

Increases above the enacted level are $2,508,000 for the Forest 

Inventory and Analysis program for a total of $58,434,000 within 

the research account (additional funds for the program are included 

under the State and Private Forestry heading), $500,000 for the 

Center for Bottomlands Hardwood Research in Mississippi, 

$155,000 for the Joe Skeen Institute at Montana State University 

for a total of $500,000 for this project, $300,000 for the Forest 

Products Laboratory to continue research on salvaging lumber for 

use in low income housing construction for a total of $892,000 for 

this project, $500,000 for the Northeastern States Research Cooperative to add Maine to the program (the $1,972,000 included in the 

request for the NSRC shall be evenly divided between the programs in Vermont and New Hampshire as in the past) and 

$500,000 for hydrology studies at the Southern Research Station 
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located in Starkville, Mississippi. There is a general program increase of $45,000. 

The Committee expects that unless otherwise stated in this report, ongoing research projects specifically designated in previous 

years’ bills shall be continued at no less than the fiscal year 2005 

level. Such projects would include $197,000 to continue high priority applied research, including methods to reduce urban sprawl 

and improve livability, with the Urban Watershed Forestry Research and Demonstration Cooperative in Baltimore, Maryland; 

$1,282,000 for the advanced research housing consortium; $493,000 

for research in the control of pests and pathogens at the forest 

science laboratory in Morgantown, West Virginia; $2,465,000 for 

sudden oak death research; $227,000 for the completion of the hydrology study on the Fernow Experimental Forest; $1,114,000 for 

the research laboratory in Sitka, Alaska; and $908,000 for operations at the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center at Purdue. 

The Committee is aware that certain research facility managers 

may not be fully cognizant of Congressional directives to the Forest 

Service regarding the allocation of Congressional funding priorities. 

The Committee expects the Forest Service to make sure that all facility managers understand this allocation policy and emphasize 

the importance of complying with Congressional allocations in full 

and in a timely manner. 

The Committee notes that the agency has established two new 

threat assessment centers in Prineville, Oregon and Asheville, 

North Carolina as authorized by the Healthy Forest Restoration 

Act. The Committee strongly supports these efforts. However, the 

Forest Service should more fully explain this funding in future 

budget submissions. These centers should rely to a large extent on 

emerging remote sensing technology and geospatial modeling. The 

Committee has provided further instructions under the National 

Forest System account regarding the use of these technologies by 

these centers. 

STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY

Appropriations, 2005 (includes emergency appropriations) ............... $341,606,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 253,387,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 254,875,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 254,615,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

State and private forestry programs provide technical and financial assistance to landowners and resource managers to help sustain the Nation’s urban and rural forests and protect communities 

and the environment from wildland fires. Through a coordinated effort in management, protection, conservation education, and resource use, State and private forestry programs facilitate sound 

stewardship across lands of all ownerships on a landscape scale, 

while maintaining the flexibility for individual forest landowners to 

pursue their own objectives. 
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COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $254,615,000 for 

State and private forestry, a decrease of $37,891,000 below the enacted level (excluding emergency funds), an increase of $1,228,000 

above the request, and a decrease of $260,000 below the House recommended level.

Budget estimate Committee

recommendation Change 

Forest health management .................................................................. $72,331,000 $72,631,000 ∂$300,000

Cooperative fire protection .................................................................. 26,836,000 32,500,000 ∂5,664,000

Cooperative forestry ............................................................................. 149,231,000 142,484,000 ¥6,747,000

International forestry ........................................................................... 4,989,000 7,000,000 ∂2,011,000

Total, State and private forestry ............................................ 253,387,000 254,615,000 ∂1,228,000

Forest Health Management.—The Committee recommends 

$72,631,000 for forest health management activities. 

The Committee has provided $50,023,000 for Federal lands forest 

health management. 

The Committee has provided $22,608,000 for forest health cooperative lands management. The increase above the request is for 

the Vermont forest monitoring cooperative. 

The Committee has also provided $350,000 from within the cooperative lands forest health activity to the southern Appalachian office of the American Chestnut Foundation to be used in cooperation 

with outside partners which may include universities such as Western Kentucky University. 

Cooperative Fire Protection.—The Committee recommends 

$32,500,000 for cooperative fire protection. The Committee has provided $26,500,000 for State fire assistance and $6,000,000 for volunteer fire assistance. 

The Committee expects the Forest Service to continue its efforts 

to partner with State and local governments and other organizations to leverage scarce resources for conservation and fire protection activities. The Fire Safe Councils of California provide an innovative model for State and local fire assistance that should be considered as a template for other areas. Therefore, the Committee directs the Forest Service to make up to $4,000,000 in funding from 

State and Volunteer Fire Assistance available to the Fire Safe 

Councils of California to implement community fire plans and fund 

fuels reduction, planning and education activities. 

Cooperative Forestry.—The Committee recommends $142,484,000 

for cooperative forestry. 

The Committee has provided $32,320,000 for the forest stewardship program. Within the funds provided, $950,000 is for the 

Chesapeake Bay program to support forestry efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. 

The Committee has provided $62,632,000 for the forest legacy 

program. This allocation also includes the use of an additional 

$3,000,000 from prior year funds for projects which have either 

failed or received funding from other sources. The Committee recommends the following distribution of funds:
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State Project Name Committee recommendation 

HI Wao Kele o Puna ................................................................................................................................. $3,400,000

TN Walls of Jericho ................................................................................................................................... 1,400,000

MA Quabbin Corridor Connection .............................................................................................................. 2,500,000

ME Katahdin Ironworks ............................................................................................................................. 5,000,000

WA Cedar Green Forest ............................................................................................................................. 2,000,000

PA History of Forestry ............................................................................................................................... 2,800,000

WA Carbon River Forest ............................................................................................................................ 1,630,000

CA Baxter Ranch ...................................................................................................................................... 1,000,000

MT North Swan River Valley ..................................................................................................................... 3,300,000

DE Green Horizons .................................................................................................................................... 2,000,000

ME Machias River Project Phase II .......................................................................................................... 1,500,000

CT Skiff Mountain .................................................................................................................................... 1,000,000

CA Six Rivers to the Sea Phase II ........................................................................................................... 1,000,000

GA Altamaha River Corridor ..................................................................................................................... 2,000,000

NY Adirondack Working Forest Easement ................................................................................................ 1,000,000

UT Cedar Project #3 ................................................................................................................................. 1,500,000

WV Potomac River Hills ............................................................................................................................ 1,800,000

VT Green Mountain Wildlife Corridor ....................................................................................................... 1,052,000

NJ Sparta Mountain South ....................................................................................................................... 1,800,000

MT Nevada Creek-Blackfoot Phase II ....................................................................................................... 1,400,000

ID Singleton Kilgore ................................................................................................................................. 650,000

MI Kamehameha School Land Conservation Easement .......................................................................... 2,000,000

IN Land Bridge ........................................................................................................................................ 550,000

KY Knobs State Forest and Wildlife Management Area .......................................................................... 1,750,000

USVI Annaly Bay/Hermitage Valley .............................................................................................................. 500,000

WI Wolf River ............................................................................................................................................ 1,000,000

CO Banded Peaks Ranch Phase II ........................................................................................................... 1,500,000

ID St. Joe Basin/Mica Creek .................................................................................................................... 2,000,000

UT Range Creek/Rainbow Glass Ranch ................................................................................................... 750,000

NH Rossview ............................................................................................................................................. 2,000,000

AK Agulowak River ................................................................................................................................... 600,000

NM Horse Springs ...................................................................................................................................... 1,250,000

MN Brainerd Lakes Forest Legacy ............................................................................................................. 1,200,000

VA New River Corridor .............................................................................................................................. 230,000

RI Bugnet Tract ....................................................................................................................................... 600,000

IL Pere Marquette Project ....................................................................................................................... 500,000

MD Broad Creek ........................................................................................................................................ 1,000,000

PR The Gutierrez Project ........................................................................................................................... 150,000

IA Monona ................................................................................................................................................ 320,000

NH Willard Pond ........................................................................................................................................ 1,300,000

GA Paulding County .................................................................................................................................. 250,000

AZ New State Start-up ............................................................................................................................. 500,000

MO New State Start-up ............................................................................................................................. 500,000

Forest Legacy Program Administration, Acquisition Management, and Assessment of Need Planning ................................................................................................................................................. 5,450,000

Total ....................................................................................................................................... 65,632,000

Use of prior year funds ...................................................................................................................... 3,000,000

Total ....................................................................................................................................... 62,632,000

The Committee has provided $28,675,000 for the urban and community forestry program. Increases above the request are $500,000 

for the City of Bellevue Greenstreets program, $350,000 for the 

Chicago Greenstreets program, and $350,000 for the City of Milwaukee tree planting program. The Committee encourages the Forest Service to continue its support of the Chicago Wilderness initiative, a consortium of more than 170 organizations that support environmental and forestry programs and education in the Chicago/

Northeastern Illinois region. 

Within the funds provided, $150,000 shall be made available for 

the People and Parks Foundation to continue urban natural re-
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source stewardship work as part of the Urban Watershed Forestry 

Research and Demonstration cooperative in Baltimore, Maryland. 

The Committee is pleased with the efforts of the National Association of State Foresters and the Forest Service to develop and implement a new allocation methodology for the urban and community forestry program. The Committee expects the new system to 

more effectively balance program performance and State program 

needs and capability. The Committee expects this new methodology 

to be fully implemented for fiscal year 2006. 

The Committee does not concur with the administration’s proposal to eliminate funding for the Economic Action Program [EAP] 

and has provided $14,200,000 for the program. The Committee continues to believe that EAP provides critical economic assistance to 

help rural, timber-dependent communities diversify and improve 

their economies. The allocation of funds is set out in the table 

below.

[In thousands of dollars] 

Amount 

Economic Recovery Program ................................................................................................................................ 5,000

Rural Development Program ................................................................................................................................ 2,000

Special Projects: 

Fuels-in-schools biomass program, MT ...................................................................................................... 2,000

Hinkle Creek, OR watershed study ............................................................................................................. 1,000

University of Idaho, Mica Cr. ...................................................................................................................... 300

Northern Forests Partnership program ....................................................................................................... 350

Purdue Hardwood Scanning Center, IN ...................................................................................................... 1,000

Wood Enterprise Agent, MT ......................................................................................................................... 400

Private Landowner Database, WA ............................................................................................................... 1,000

Hubbard Brook Foundation, NH .................................................................................................................. 750

Ketchikan Wood Technology Center, AK ...................................................................................................... 400

Subtotal special projects ........................................................................................................................ 7,200

TOTAL, ECONOMIC ACTION PROGRAMS .................................................................................................. 14,200

The Committee directs that within funds available for the State 

and Private Forestry appropriation, the Wood Education and Resource Center shall be funded at no less than $2,700,000 as stated 

in the request. 

Forest Resource Information and Analysis.—The Committee recommends $4,657,000 for forest resource information and analysis 

as part of the Forest Inventory and Analysis program, which is 

equal to the request. 

International Programs.—The Committee recommends 

$7,000,000 for the international program.

NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2005 (includes emergency appropriations) ............... $1,392,959,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 1,651,357,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,417,920,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,377,656,000
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The National Forest System [NFS] provides for the planning, assessment, and conservation of ecosystems while delivering multiple 

public services and uses. Within the NFS, there are 155 national 

forests and 20 national grasslands located in 43 States, as well as 

Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, managed under multiple-use 

and sustained yield principles. The natural resources of timber, 

minerals, range, wildlife, outdoor recreation, watershed, and soil 

are managed to best meet the needs of the Nation without impairing productivity of the land or damaging the environment. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,377,656,000, 

a decrease of $15,303,000 compared to the enacted level (excluding 

emergency appropriations), a decrease of $273,701,000 compared to 

the request excluding the proposed transfer of hazardous fuels to 

the National Forest System appropriation, and $40,264,000 below 

the House recommendation. The Committee has kept the hazardous fuels funds under the wildland fire management account. 

The distribution of the Committee’s recommendations are as follows:

Budget estimate Committee recommendation Change 

Land management planning ............................................................... $59,057,000 $59,057,000 ..........................

Inventory and monitoring ..................................................................... 167,009,000 167,009,000 ..........................

Recreation, heritage and wilderness ................................................... 257,344,000 257,344,000 ..........................

Wildlife and fish habitat management ............................................... 124,951,000 125,001,000 ∂$50,000

Grazing management ........................................................................... 44,659,000 48,500,000 ∂3,841,000

Forest products .................................................................................... 278,297,000 278,297,000 ..........................

Vegetation and watershed management ............................................. 193,774,000 193,774,000 ..........................

Minerals and geology management .................................................... 73,791,000 73,791,000 ..........................

Land ownership management ............................................................. 84,157,000 84,157,000 ..........................

Law enforcement operations ................................................................ 86,326,000 87,076,000 ∂750,000

Valles Caldera National Preserve ........................................................ 992,000 3,650,000 ∂2,658,000

Hazardous Fuels ................................................................................... 281,000,000 .......................... ¥281,000,000

Total, National Forest System ................................................ 1,651,357,000 1,377,656,000 ¥273,701,000

Land Management Planning.—The Committee recommends 

$59,057,000 for land management planning. Within the funds for 

land management planning, the Committee has provided $400,000 

for the agency to continue the comprehensive environmental training, review, and compliance program for agency employees. This 

program should help ensure that employees are aware of, and remain fully compliant with existing Federal requirements. The Committee again encourages the agency to identify and partner with a 

private sector entity with a successful record of developing similar 

programs for other governmental agencies. 

Inventory and Monitoring.—The Committee recommends 

$167,009,000 for inventory and monitoring. Within the funds provided $170,000 is for a hillslope hydrology study on the Fernow Experimental Forest. 

The Committee directs that out of the funds made available to 

the Threat Assessment Centers in North Carolina and Oregon in 

the research, State and private, and National Forest System ac-
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counts, $1,000,000 shall be provided to the Stennis Space Center. 

These funds shall be used to acquire remote sensing data to inventory and monitor National Forest System and private lands pursuant to Title VI of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. 

Recreation, Heritage, and Wilderness.—The Committee recommends $257,344,000 for recreation, heritage, and wilderness 

which is equal to the request. 

Wildlife and Fish Habitat Management.—The Committee recommends $125,001,000 for wildlife and fish habitat management. 

Within the funds provided, $250,000 shall be used to continue work 

at Batten Kill River to protect and improve the river, stream banks 

and adjacent habitat areas. 

Grazing Management.—The Committee has provided $48,500,000 for grazing management, which is $3,841,000 above the request. 

The Committee remains extremely concerned with the lack of 

progress the agency has made in completing the environmental review of grazing allotments that are governed by the Rescissions Act 

schedule (Section 504 of Public Law 104–19). Despite this lack of 

progress, the agency continues to propose large reductions to the 

grazing management program. The Committee does not concur 

with these reductions and expects that future submissions will 

more adequately reflect the true needs of the program. Accordingly, 

the Committee has provided an additional $3,841,000 above the request for completing environmental review of grazing allotments, 

processing permits, and short and long term monitoring in conjunction with grazing permittees. 

The Committee notes the dramatic improvement in moisture conditions in portions of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado 

and Utah and expects the Bureau of Land Management and the 

Forest Service to increase grazing permit stocking levels to the 

maximum extent possible given range conditions on the allotments, 

or subunits of the allotments. In the event the Forest Service or 

Bureau of Land Management does not have up-to-date monitoring 

information needed to document the improvement of the range conditions, the Secretaries shall accept credible range condition monitoring provided from professional range conservationists employed 

by State or county governments or Universities. 

Forest Products.—The Committee recommends $278,297,000 for 

forest products. 

The Committee is increasingly concerned about forest outputs 

and whether on-the-ground accomplishments remain a high priority for the Forest Service. In order to ensure an adequate and reliable flow of outputs to support the social and economic needs of 

small, forest-dependent communities, the Committee expects the 

Forest Service to maintain a performance management system that 

includes performance standards for every National Forest System 

line officer and specifies expected output levels for current and 

multi-year projects and programs. The Chief of the Forest Service 

is directed to provide a report to the House and Senate Committees 

on Appropriations and the relevant House and Senate authorizing 

committees on this performance management system within 90 

days of enactment. This information shall also be made available 

to the public following submission of the report to the committees 

noted above. 
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The Committee is concerned with the ability of the Lincoln National Forest to undertake restoration and stewardship contracts. 

The Committee directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and 

execute at least one stewardship contract in excess of 15,000 acres 

on the Lincoln National Forest as authorized in Public Law 108–

278 no later than June 1, 2006. The Secretary is directed to work 

with the Mescalero Apache Tribe and the New Mexico State Forester to assure the stewardship contract is drafted so that lands on 

the Lincoln National Forest are treated. The Secretary shall assure 

contract terms reflect maximum flexibility in order to allow the 

Tribe a reasonable chance of success. The Forest Service shall provide the Tribe with assistance in developing the stewardship proposal at no cost to the Tribe. 

The Committee has retained bill language included in prior years 

which allows the funds provided for timber pipeline supply above 

the normal regional allocation on the Tongass National Forest to 

be allocated between the Capital Improvement and Maintenance 

and the National Forest System appropriation. The amount provided for this purpose is $5,000,000. 

The Committee expects the Forest Service to continue preparing 

and submitting its quarterly reports on the timber sales program. 

The Committee recommends that the agency identify the volumes 

that are offered, sold, and harvested categorized as net merchantable sawtimber in its quarterly reports. 

Vegetation and Watershed Management.—The Committtee recommends $193,774,000 for vegetation and watershed management. 

Within the funds provided, $350,000 shall be used to continue 

Leafy Spurge eradication efforts in North Dakota. 

The Committee remains interested in the efforts of counties in 

Region 3 of the Forest Service to implement the county partnership 

on restoration and appreciate the funds that the Secretary has directed towards these efforts. The Committee expects the Secretary 

of Agriculture, to the extent practicable, to increase financial support for these programs and encourages the Secretary to provide 

additional funding from unobligated funds from the Forest Service 

and the Department of Agriculture to help fund these projects. 

Minerals and Geology Management.—The Committee recommends $73,791,000 for minerals and geology management. 

Landownership Management.—The Committee recommends 

$84,157,000 for landownership management. 

Law Enforcement Operations.—The Committee recommends 

$87,076,000 for law enforcement operations. Within the funds provided, $900,000 shall be provided for counterdrug operations on the 

Daniel Boone National Forest and $750,000 is for the Forest Service to develop, in consultation with local law enforcement officials, 

an emergency warning system for the Spring Mountains NRA in 

Nevada. 

The Committee has included bill language under administrative 

provisions that allows the transfer of funds from other accounts to 

the law enforcement program. These transfers are necessary to realign the law enforcement budget so that it will pay full indirect 

costs in the same fashion as all other agency programs. 
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Valles Caldera.—The Committee has provided $3,650,000 for the 

Valles Caldera Trust for management activities at the Baca Ranch, 

New Mexico which is $2,658,000 above the request. 

Other.—The Committee directs that overall funding for the Land Between the Lakes NRA be no less than $7,900,000. The Forest 

Service should determine the funding mix from all accounts. 

The Committee did not move funds for hazardous fuels reduction 

from the wildland fire account to the National Forest System appropriation as proposed in the request. However, the Committee 

has included bill language under the wildland fire management appropriation allowing transfer of these funds to the National Forest 

System account at the discretion of the Chief of the Forest Service 

following notification of the Committee. 

WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2005 (including emergency appropriations) ............. $2,098,487,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 1,444,267,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,790,506,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,745,531,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Wildland Fire Management provides funding for fire management including preparedness and fire suppression operations on 

National Forest System and adjacent lands, and also supports the 

National Fire Plan. The program seeks to protect life, property, and 

natural resources on the 192,000,000 acres of National Forest System lands, as well as on an additional 20,000,000 acres of adjacent 

State and private lands. The program recognizes that wildfire is a 

critical natural process that must be integrated into land and resource management plans and activities on a landscape scale 

across agency boundaries. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends a total appropriation of $1,745,531,000 for wildland fire management activities, which is 

$352,956,000 below the enacted level, $301,264,000 above the request, and $44,975,000 below the House recommendation. Of the 

increase above the request, $281,000,000 is explained by virtue of 

keeping the hazardous fuels reduction program in the fire account 

instead of moving it to the National Forest System appropriation 

as proposed in the request. The Committee has included bill language allowing transfer of these funds to the National Forest System account following notification of the Committees on Appropriations. 

The Committee recommendation includes $676,014,000 for preparedness. Funding for the joint fire science program is not included under preparedness but instead the Committee has provided these funds in the other fire operations account at the requested level of $8,000,000. 

The Committee notes once again that the amounts proposed for 

preparedness in the request do not appear to be adequate to maintain the agency’s firefighting readiness capability at current levels. 
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Maintaining a robust initial attack capability is a critical component of the National Fire Plan and also reduces the overall costs 

of firefighting by containing fires before they escalate and cause 

loss of life and property as well as natural resource damage. Therefore, the agency shall analyze current readiness levels to determine 

whether maintaining preparedness resources in the field at a level 

not less than fiscal year 2005 will, based on the best information 

available, result in lower overall firefighting costs. If the Forest 

Service makes such a determination, the Committee directs the 

Forest Service to adjust the levels for preparedness and suppression accordingly and report on these adjustments to the House and 

Senate Committees on Appropriations. The Secretary of Agriculture should advise the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in writing prior to the decision. 

The Committee has provided $700,492,000 for fire suppression. 

This level of funding exceeds the 10 year average for suppression 

by $45,560,000. 

The Committee has provided a total of $369,025,000 for other fire 

operations. As stated earlier, $281,000,000 is included for hazardous fuels reduction which fully funds the request. Of the funds 

provided for hazardous fuels reduction $1,500,000 shall be used to 

continue work on the Santa Fe Watershed Thinning Project on the 

Santa Fe National Forest. 

The Committee understands that the Forest Service plans to expend $1,600,000 during fiscal year 2006 for work at the Ecological 

Restoration Institute [ERI] at Northern Arizona University 

through a cooperative agreement between the parties. The Committee believes this is an efficient arrangement for furthering the 

agency’s mission in reducing hazardous fuels. 

The remaining funds within the other fire appropriations account 

are allocated as follows, $18,385,000 for research and development, 

which is $1,500,000 above the request; $2,000,000 for rehabilitation 

and restoration; $8,000,000 for the joint fire science program; 

$40,179,000 for the State fire assistance program; $7,889,000 for 

volunteer fire assistance; and $11,572,000 for forest health activities as proposed in the request. 

Within the funds provided for research and development, 

$1,500,000 shall be allocated to the National Center for Landscape 

Fire Analysis at the University of Montana, of which $350,000 

shall be to continue work in conjunction with the University of 

Idaho on the FRAMES project. 

Within the funds provided for State fire assistance, $6,500,000 is 

for activities in Alaska, primarily in areas affected by the Spruce 

Bark Beetle which has caused a severe fire danger in areas adjacent to many communities. These funds are to be distributed as follows: $2,100,000 to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, $1,500,000 to the 

Municipality of Anchorage to remove dead and dying trees caused 

by Spruce Bark beetle, $1,000,000 for the Fairbanks North Star 

Borough, $1,600,000 for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, and 

$300,000 for the Cook Inlet Tribal Council. Each of the amounts in 

this paragraph shall be distributed in the form of an advanced direct lump sum payment. None of the funds may be used for the 

purchase of equipment. 
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The Committee notes that progress has been made in treating 

the forest health and hazardous fuels problems facing many forests. The Committee believes that greater funding for the hazardous fuels program, the passage of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, and authorization of stewardship contracting are playing 

an important role in addressing the unhealthy state of many Federal forests. However, the Committee is concerned that prescribed 

burning treatments may not always be compatible with the need 

to better utilize commercially valuable biomass products. The Forest Service shall coordinate with the Bureau of Land Management 

to develop an annual report that describes by administrative unit 

(National Forest or BLM District) the number of acres of each fire 

regime and condition class managed during the previous year and 

which method of treatment was utilized. In addition, the report 

shall include the quantity of commercially valuable biomass products from the treatment areas prior to prescribed burning. 

The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish utilization goals for 

hazardous fuels reduction and restoration projects that include volume (in tons and acres treated) of low-value and small diameter 

trees. The Secretary shall also report to Congress on the percentage of contracts that contained utilization criteria that were awarded to enterprises as directed in section 202 of Public Law 108–148. 

The Committee recognizes that utilization of timber related biomass is largely market driven but the Committee directs the Secretary to encourage utilization of small diameter trees by making 

those trees available to markets and by reducing barriers to this 

use through flexible contract provisions. Utilization goals shall include low-value and small diameter trees used for the full range of 

wood products, including timber, engineered lumber, paper and 

pulp, furniture and value added commodities, pellets, and other innovative uses, as well as bio-energy and bio-based products such as 

plastics, ethanol and diesel. The Committee believes that supporting new markets for low-value and small diameter trees will 

help to reduce the costs of hazardous fuels reduction projects and 

allow the agency to treat more acres.

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE

Appropriations, 2005 (including emergency appropriations) ............. $589,906,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 380,792,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 468,260,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 409,751,000

The Committee recommends $409,751,000 for capital improvement and maintenance, which is $104,950,000 below the enacted 

level (excluding emergency appropriations), $28,959,000 above the 

budget request, and $58,509,000 below the House recommendation. 

The Committee agrees to the following distribution of funds:

Budget estimate Committee

recommendation Change 

Facilities ......................................................................................... $117,716,000 $120,666,000 ∂$2,950,000

Roads ............................................................................................. 189,559,000 215,568,000 ∂26,009,000

Trails .............................................................................................. 63,792,000 63,792,000 ............................

Infrastructure improvement ........................................................... 9,725,000 9,725,000 ............................

Total, capital improvement and maintenance ................. 380,792,000 409,751,000 ∂28,959,000
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Facilities.—The Committee recommends $120,666,000 for facilities capital improvement and maintenance. Of the funds provided 

$51,522,000 is for maintenance and $69,144,000 is for capital improvement. Increases above the request are for the following 

projects: $950,000 is for facilities improvements on the 

Monongahela National Forest, $2,000,000 is continue work on the 

Smith County Lake project in Mississippi, and $1,500,000 is for 

various infrastructure improvement on the Valles Caldera Preserve. The Committee has not included $10,000,000 for the Forest 

Products Lab [FPL] as proposed in the request. Instead the Committee has provided $2,800,000 for this project which will allow the 

FPL to complete work on the durability test facility. The agency 

has not undertaken a strategic analysis of this entire project which 

was recommended by a consultant hired by the Forest Service. The 

Committee believes that the agency should not go forward until it 

has completed a strategic plan to ensure that the project fits within 

the overall mission of the national research program over the long 

term. 

The Committee has included bill language under Title V which 

provides new authorities for the agency to sell unneeded facilities 

and retain the proceeds for maintenance and capital improvement 

needs. It is anticipated that the agency will raise in excess of 

$30,000,000 in fiscal year 2006 which will offset the reduction in 

appropriated funds. As part of this proposal, the agency will also 

establish a new working capital fund and assess each program area 

based on the amount of office space it occupies. This practice 

should provide an incentive for program managers to more efficiently utilize space and it will also reduce the Agency’s deferred 

maintenance backlog. 

Roads.—The Committee recommends $215,568,000 for road 

maintenance and capital improvement. Of the funds provided, 

$148,066,000 is for maintenance and $67,502,000 is for capital improvement. Increases above the request are $2,300,000 for road improvements on the Monongahela National Forest, $4,000,000 for 

road improvements on the Tongass National Forest, and $3,000,000 

for improvements on the Jarbidge Canyon Road in Nevada. The 

Committee has included bill language allowing the Forest Service 

to transfer a portion of the funds for the Jarbidge project to the Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service in 

order to expedite the project. 

Trails.—The Committee recommends $63,792,000 for trail maintenance and capital improvement. Of these funds $37,540,000 is for 

trail maintenance and $26,252,000 is for capital improvements. 

Infrastructure Improvement.—The Committee recommends 

$9,725,000 for infrastructure improvement.

LAND ACQUISITION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $61,007,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 40,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 15,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 44,925,000

The Committee recommends $44,925,000 for land acquisition, 

which is $16,082,000 below the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, 
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$4,925,000 above the budget request, and $29,925,000 over the 

House recommendation. 

The Committee recommends the following distribution of funds:

State Forest Project 

Committee

recommenda- tion 

AL Multiple .......................................... Alabama National Forests ..................................................... $500,000

AR Multiple .......................................... Arkansas Forests ................................................................... 1,000,000

AZ Coconino ........................................ Sedona/Red Rocks/Oak Creek ................................................ 1,000,000

CA Six Rivers ....................................... Goose Creek-Smith River ....................................................... 1,000,000

CA Tahoe ............................................. Middle Yuba-Baker Pass ....................................................... 500,000

CA/OR/WA Multiple .......................................... Pacific Crest Trail .................................................................. 500,000

CO White River .................................... High Elk Corridor ................................................................... 500,000

GA Chattahoochee-Oconee .................. Georgia Mountains Riparian Project ..................................... 500,000

ID Payette ........................................... Thunder Mountain .................................................................. 1,000,000

IL Shawnee ........................................ Illinois Disappearing Habitat ................................................ 500,000

IN Hoosier ........................................... Hoosier Unique Areas ............................................................ 500,000

KY Daniel Boone ................................. Daniel Boone National Forest ................................................ 1,000,000

MN Chippewa/Superior ......................... Minnesota Wilderness ............................................................ 125,000

MS Delta National Forest .................... ................................................................................................ 1,500,000

MT Helena & Lolo NFs ......................... Blackfoot Challenge ............................................................... 6,000,000

MT Flathead ......................................... Swan Valley ........................................................................... 3,000,000

MT Helena ............................................ Spring Hill .............................................................................. 600,000

MT Beaverhead/Deerlodge ................... Selway Valley Preserve .......................................................... 1,500,000

MT Gallatin .......................................... Greater Yellowstone Area ....................................................... 1,000,000

OR/WA Multiple .......................................... Columbia River Gorge NSA .................................................... 2,000,000

SC Francis Marion-Sumter .................. Francis Marion ....................................................................... 500,000

SD Black Hills ..................................... Lady C Ranch ........................................................................ 1,500,000

UT Multiple .......................................... Bonneville Shoreline Trail ...................................................... 1,500,000

UT Wasatch-Cache .............................. High Uintas ............................................................................ 1,000,000

VT Green Mtn ...................................... ................................................................................................ 1,000,000

WA Okanogan-Wenatchee .................... I–90 Corridor ......................................................................... 1,200,000

SUBTOTAL, LINE ITEM PROJECTS .................................. 30,925,000

Cash equalization .................................................................. 500,000

Crit. Inholdings/wilderness protection ................................... 1,000,000

Acquisition Management (incl. Cash Equilization) ............... 12,500,000

TOTAL, FS LAND ACQUISITION ....................................... 44,925,000

The Committee has previously provided funding for Pacific 

Northwest Streams projects located in Oregon and Washington and 

understands some funds remain unspent. The Committee expects 

the purchase of the Rader property located in the Mount BakerSnoqualmie National Forest to receive the highest priority for funding using these unobligated sums. 

From the funds made available for land acquisition for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, the Committee requests 

the Forest Service consider the acquisition of GIP Tract number 

432 located at township 1 north, range 5 east, section 16, W.M., in 

Skamania County at a fair market value as determined by Federal 

appraisal guidelines. The Forest Service shall report back to the 

Committee prior to March 15, 2006, if the service and parcel owner 

are unable to agree on fair market value. 

Due to continued constraints on funding for land acquisition and 

the ongoing prospect of borrowing for fire suppression, it remains 

important that funding provided for land acquisition be obligated 

promptly. The Committee notes the annual unobligated balance reporting requirement included in its fiscal year 2004 report, and 

urges timely submission of the report. 
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The Committee is aware of the pressing land acquisition needs 

in the Wisconsin National Forests (Chequamegon and Nicolet) and 

will consider options to address these needs as the bill proceeds.

ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS, SPECIAL ACTS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $1,054,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 1,069,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,069,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,069,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,069,000, 

which is an increase of $15,000 over the enacted level and equal 

to the budget request and the House recommendation. These funds 

are derived from receipts at certain forests.

ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $231,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 234,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 234,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 234,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $234,000, which 

is a $3,000 increase over the enacted level and equal to the budget 

request and the House recommendation. This amount is derived 

from funds deposited by State, county, and municipal governments 

or public school authorities pursuant to the Act of December 4, 

1967, as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a). 

RANGE BETTERMENT FUND

(Special Fund, Indefinite)

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $3,021,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 2,963,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 2,963,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,963,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,963,000, 

which is a decrease of $58,000 from the enacted level and equal to 

the request and the House recommendation. This amount is for 

range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement, and is derived 

from fees received for livestock grazing on national forests pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public Law 94–579, as amended. 

GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND

RESEARCH

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $64,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 64,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 64,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 64,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $64,000, the 

same as the enacted level, the budget estimate and the House recommendation. This amount is derived from the fund established 

under 16 U.S.C. 1643(b). 
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MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES

SUBSISTENCE MANAGEMENT, FOREST SERVICE

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $5,879,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 5,467,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 5,467,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 5,067,000

The Committee recommends $5,067,000 for subsistence management of forest lands in the State of Alaska, which is a decrease of 

$812,000 from the enacted level and $400,000 below the budget request and the House recommendation.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE

The Committee has continued many of the same administrative 

provisions as provided in prior years. 

Language is included which authorizes the Forest Service to provide funds to the National Forest Foundation to match up to 

$3,300,000 in private contributions on a 1-for-1 basis for projects on 

National Forest System lands or related to Forest Service programs. The Committee has authorized up to $350,000 of Federal 

funds to be used for administrative expenses of the Foundation. 

Language is included which provides funds for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in the amount of $2,650,000 on a 1-for-1 

matching basis with private contributions for projects on or benefiting National Forest System lands. 

Language is included which allows the Forest Service to transfer 

appropriated funds to the Bureau of Land Management from the 

National Forest System account for work related to the management of wild horses and burros. The amount of funds transferred 

with this authority should be displayed in subsequent budget justifications. 

The Committee notes the Defense Department closing of the Roosevelt School in Puerto Rico, and has included language to provide 

for the use of funds by the Forest Service for expenses associated 

with primary and secondary schooling for employees stationed in 

Puerto Rico prior to the date of this Act.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $2,596,492,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 2,732,298,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 2,732,298,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,732,323,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Indian Health Service [IHS] is the Agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that has responsibility for 

providing Federal health services to American Indians and Alaska 

Natives. The provision of health services to members of federally 

recognized tribes grew out of the special government-to-government 

relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribes. 

This relationship, established in 1787, is based on Article I, Section 
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8 of the Constitution, and has been given form and substance by 

numerous treaties, laws, Supreme Court decisions, and Executive 

Orders. 

The IHS currently provides health services to approximately 1.5 

million American Indians and Alaska Natives who belong to more 

than 557 federally recognized tribes in 35 States. IHS services are 

provided directly and through tribally contracted and operated 

health programs. Health services also include health care purchased from more than 9,000 private providers annually. The Federal system consists of 36 hospitals, 61 health centers, 49 health 

stations, and 5 residential treatment centers. In addition, 34 urban 

Indian health projects provide a variety of health and referral services. 

The IHS clinical staff consist of approximately 2,700 nurses, 900 

physicians, 350 engineers, 450 pharmacists, 300 dentists, 150 

sanitarians and 83 physician assistants. The IHS also employs various allied health professionals, such as nutritionists, health administrators, engineers, and medical records administrators. 

Through Public Law 93–638 self-determination contracts, American Indian tribes and Alaska Native corporations administer 13 

hospitals, 158 health centers, 28 residential treatment centers, 76 

health stations, and 170 Alaska village clinics. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $2,732,323,000 for Indian health 

services, an increase of $135,831,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and $25,000 above the budget request and the House 

allowance. The increase to the budget request is provided to increase base funding for the InMed program at the University of 

North Dakota to $775,000. In agreement with the budget request, 

the Committee has recommended operational increases of 

$29,301,000 for pay and benefits, $30,850,000 for the staffing of 

new facilities, $5,000,000 for contract support costs, $31,498,000 for 

population growth and $42,212,000 for medical inflation. It is the 

Committee’s understanding that all programs funded within the 

services appropriation are assumed to be recurring unless specifically designated to the contrary. The Committee expects the Service to manage its loan repayment program in the same manner as 

it has previous years. 

Language is retained in the bill designating $15,000,000 for alcohol prevention and treatment work in Alaska, from which amounts 

are to be distributed among the program’s participants as specified 

in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the fiscal 2005 

conference report (House Rept. 108–792). The budget request proposed to eliminate the direction associated with these funds. Language is also retained in the bill in Title IV, General Provisions, 

continuing the demonstration program of the Cheyenne River 

Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, which provides bonus payments to 

health professionals. This provision, too, was proposed for elimination in the budget request. In agreement with the budget request, the Committee supports continued funding for the Alaska 

Federal Health Care Access Network, InPsych programs at the 

University of Montana and the University of North Dakota, as well 

as the Recruitment of American Indians into Nursing [RAIN] pro-
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gram at the University of North Dakota, at no less than the current year enacted levels. The Committee remains supportive of the 

Service’s work with the Joslin diabetes program and encourages 

the continuation of this collaborative effort in the coming fiscal 

year. 

The Committee has included language in the bill to provide the 

Bureau of Indian Affairs with access to Indian Health Service 

records as necessary for the implementation of certain provisions of 

the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Specifically, the 

Act provides for the creation of a comprehensive system of coordinated services to ensure adequate health and human services for 

American Indian and Alaska Native children with disabilities, who 

are enrolled in Bureau-funded schools, and this provision provides 

a mechanism for identifying those children. 

The Committee is pleased to receive an interim report from the 

Indian Health Service on the implementation of the Special Diabetes Program for Indians established in the Balanced Budget Act of 

1997. Diabetes is a particularly serious chronic disease that disproportionately affects American Indians and Alaska Natives. This 

program will provide over $1,100,000,000 for prevention and treatment programs over 10-year period. The interim report provides 

valuable information on the extent of this serious disease, best 

practice models that have been developed to prevent and treat diabetes, and on the utilization of these funds to provide actual services to native peoples. This knowledge will help build a stronger, 

more effective program in future years. 

INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $388,574,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 315,668,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 370,774,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 335,643,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Indian health services are provided in over 500 IHS and tribal 

health care facilities scattered throughout many States, mostly in 

rural and isolated areas. Total space is over 1.4 million square meters, of which the Government owns approximately 65 percent and 

the tribes 35 percent. The IHS health facilities account provides 

funds for the maintenance and improvement, sanitation, health facilities construction, equipment, and environmental health support 

programs operated by the Service. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $335,643,000 for Indian health facilities, a decrease of $52,931,000 from the fiscal year 2005 enacted 

level, an increase of $19,975,000 above the budget request, and a 

decrease of $35,131,000 below the House allowance. Changes to the 

budget request include increases of $975,000 for maintenance and 

improvement, and $2,000,000 for facilities and environmental 

health support. This last amount is provided to assist the Service, 

through its headquarters operations, in addressing inherently Federal functions such as new real property asset management requirements. A proposed increase of $17,000,000 for health facilities 
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construction will provide a total amount of $20,326,000 for these 

activities, to be distributed as follows:

Project Budget request Committee

recommendation 

Fort Belknap, MT staff quarters ............................................................................................. $3,326,000 $3,326,000 

Phoenix Indian Medical Center, AZ ......................................................................................... ........................ 8,000,000 

Barrow Hospital, AK ................................................................................................................ ........................ 5,000,000 

Nome Hospital, AK .................................................................................................................. ........................ 3,000,000 

Mobile dental units ................................................................................................................. ........................ 1,000,000

Total ........................................................................................................................... 3,326,000 20,326,000

The Committee understands that funds provided for the Fort 

Belknap staff quarters will complete this construction project. The 

amount provided to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center is to be 

used to start construction of the SW ambulatory care clinic. Funds 

for the Barrow hospital are provided to complete design of the facility and begin construction. The amount specified for the Nome hospital will be used to continue planning and design of the facility. 

In conjunction with this project, the Committee has included language in the bill authorizing the Service to construct a facility on 

land owned by the Norton Sound Health Corporation. 

As in previous years, the Committee urges the Service that funding for construction of a new drinking water system for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho should 

continue at the highest level possible within the current IHS priority list for the sanitation facilities construction program. 

Both the budget request and the Committee recommendation for 

health facilities construction for fiscal year 2006 contain substantially lower funding levels than amounts provided in previous 

years. The administration has proposed a pause in construction 

while attempting to bolster health services funding to more adequately reflect the level of need throughout Indian country. In 

large part, the Committee concurs with this temporary arrangement, particularly since the Service, in consultation with the tribes, 

is still in the midst of revising its construction priority system. The 

Committee understands that this situation is temporary and, 

therefore, expects to see a more aggressive construction schedule 

planned in future budget requests. In the meantime, the Committee strongly urges the Service to complete its revisions and 

issue a new policy for construction priorities that better accommodates tribal needs. The Committee notes that the Service has been 

studying this issue at length for several years and, therefore, 

should be in a position to complete its work in the very near future. 

The Committee is aware that Public Law 108–437, the ‘‘Three 

Affiliated Tribes Health Facility Compensation Act,’’ was enacted 

on December 3, 2004. As stated in the congressional findings of 

that Act, the United States made a commitment in 1949 to replace 

vital infrastructure on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. That 

infrastructure was lost as a result of flooding associated with the 

construction of the Garrison Dam and Reservoir. While the Committee wishes to reiterate this 56-year-old commitment, it also recognizes that funding for construction of Indian Health Service facilities is currently limited to only those facilities already on the 

IHS construction priority list, and that the facility authorized by 
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the Act is not on that list. The Committee does not wish to bypass 

the current priority list, since some of the projects on that list have 

been waiting a decade or more to be funded. However, the Committee does recognize the unique Federal responsibility for replacing the facility on the Fort Berthold Reservation and expects the 

Federal Government to fulfill its promise. The Committee therefore 

urges the administration to give this project full and fair consideration as the priority list is updated. 

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, an 

agency within the National Institutes of Health, was authorized in 

section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, to conduct 

multidisciplinary research and training activities associated with 

the Nation’s Hazardous Substance Superfund program, and in section 126(g) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorizations 

Act of 1986, to conduct training and education of workers who are 

or may be engaged in activities related to hazardous waste removal 

or containment or emergency response. 

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $79,842,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 80,289,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 80,289,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 80,289,000

The Committee recommends $80,289,000 for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, an increase of $447,000 

over the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and the same as the budget 

request and the House allowance. 

AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry [ATSDR], 

an agency of the Public Health Service, was created in section 

104(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. The ATSDR’s primary mission is to 

conduct surveys and screening programs to determine relationships 

between exposure to toxic substances and illness. Other activities 

include the maintenance and annual update of a list of hazardous 

substances most commonly found at Superfund sites, the preparation of toxicological profiles on each such hazardous substance, consultations on health issues relating to exposure to hazardous or 

toxic substances, and the development and implementation of certain research activities related to ATSDR’s mission. 

TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $76,041,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 76,024,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 76,024,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 76,024,000

The Committee recommends $76,024,000 for the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry, which is a decrease of $17,000 
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from the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and the same as the budget 

request and the House recommendation. 

The Committee recognizes that significant savings have been 

achieved through the consolidation of ATSDR administrative functions within the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The 

Committee remains interested in seeing that administrative costs 

are assigned to benefiting agencies in an equitable and transparent 

manner, and urges that a more thorough discussion of these costs 

and charges be included in future ATSDR budget justifications.

OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 

COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $3,258,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 2,717,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 2,717,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,717,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Council on Environmental Quality/Office of Environmental 

Quality was established by the National Environmental Policy Act 

and the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970. The 

Council serves as a source of environmental expertise and policy 

analysis for the White House, Executive Office of the President, 

and other Federal agencies. CEQ promulgates regulations binding 

on all Federal agencies to implement the procedural provisions of 

the National Environmental Policy Act and resolves interagency 

environmental disputes informally and through issuance of findings 

and recommendations. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $2,717,000 for the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality, which is 

a decrease of $541,000 from the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and 

the same as the budget request and the House recommendation. 

The decrease from the enacted level is largely a result of health 

center and space costs being centralized in the Office of Administration within the Executive Office of the President.

CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board was authorized by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 to investigate 

accidental releases of certain chemical substances resulting in, or 

that may cause, serious injury, death, substantial property damage, 

or serious adverse effects on human health. It became operational 

in fiscal year 1998. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $9,424,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 9,200,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 9,200,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 9,200,000
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The Committee recommends $9,200,000 for the Chemical Safety 

and Hazard Investigation Board, the same as the budget request 

and a decrease of $224,000 from the fiscal year 2005 enacted level. 

The change from the enacted level is comprised of an increase of 

$173,000 for salaries and expenses and a reduction of $397,000 for 

the emergency fund. 

The Committee has again included bill language limiting the 

number of career senior executive service positions to three and bill 

language identifying the EPA Inspector General as the Inspector 

General for the Board. 

OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION

The Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation was established 

by Public law 93–531, and is authorized for appropriation through 

fiscal year 2008 following the enactment of Public Law 108–204. 

The Office is charged with planning and conducting relocation activities associated with the settlement of land disputes between the 

Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe. The Office continues relocation efforts and is slated to move 110 clients to new lands in fiscal year 

2006. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $4,930,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 8,601,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 8,601,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 8,601,000

The Committee recommends an appropriation of $8,601,000, 

which $3,671,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and 

equal to both the budget request and the House recommendation. 

The reduced level in fiscal year 2005 was due to the use of carry 

over funds.

INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND

ARTS DEVELOPMENT

The Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and 

Arts Development [IAIA] was founded in 1962 as a Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA] high school. The Institute was moved out of the 

BIA in 1988 to become a federally chartered 4-year college governed by a board of trustees appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Its mission is to serve as the national center 

of research, training, language and scholarship for Native Americans and Alaska Natives through the dedicated study, creative application, preservation and care of Native cultures and arts. Today, 

IAIA is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and by the National Association of Schools of 

Arts and Design, the only national professional accrediting agency 

in higher education covering the entire field of art and design that 

is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. In addition to 

its academic programs, IAIA houses the National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art and carries the designation as the National 

Repository for Native Languages. IAIA’s operations are funded by 

direct Federal support and a diversified private sector approach to 

foundations, corporations, tribes and individual donors. 
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PAYMENTS TO THE INSTITUTE

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $5,916,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 6,300,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 6,300,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 6,300,000

The Committee recommends $6,300,000 for the Institute of 

American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, an increase of $384,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted 

level and the same amount as the budget request and the House 

allowance. The additional funding will assist the Institute in meeting its fixed cost increases.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $489,035,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 524,135,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 524,381,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 524,135,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Congress established the Smithsonian Institution in 1846 to administer a large bequest left to the United States by James 

Smithson, an English scientist, for the purpose of establishing in 

Washington, DC, an institution ‘‘. . . for the increase and diffusion 

of knowledge among men.’’ The act establishing the Smithsonian 

provided for the administration of the trust, independent of the 

Government itself, by a Board of Regents and a Secretary, who 

were given broad discretion in the use of these funds. The board 

was to be composed of both private citizens and members of all 

three branches of the Federal Government in order to ensure ‘‘the 

wise and faithful use’’ of the Institution’s funds. The trust funds 

were permanently loaned to the Treasury to be maintained in a 

separate account; and the principal was to be maintained and the 

interest from that money used for the operation of the Institution. 

Construction of the Smithsonian Castle was completed in 1855 and 

collections that the Government had accepted on behalf of the Institution were moved into the building. One hundred and fifty 

years since its doors first opened, the Smithsonian Institution 

today is the world’s largest museum and research complex, housing 

approximately 144 million objects and specimens, and receiving an 

estimated 25 million visitors to its museums and nearly 40,000 visits by researchers to its facilities annually. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $524,135,000 for salaries and expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, an increase of $35,100,000, 

or 7 percent, above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, which meets 

the budget request and is $246,000 below the House allowance. 

In agreement with the budget request, program increases include 

$9,000,000 for the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery and 

the American Art Museum, $1,000,000 for collections care, 

$1,000,000 for repatriation activities, $5,500,000 for facilities maintenance, $940,000 for IT programs, and $452,000 for audit costs. 
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An amount of $18,401,000 is provided to meet fixed cost adjustments such as pay, rent, and utilities. An increase of $2,428,000 is 

provided for operations of the National Zoological Park, which is 

$154,000 above the budget request for this activity. The Committee 

has not agreed to the proposed increase of $1,154,000 for the National Museum of African American History and Culture and continues funding at the current year enacted level of $3,944,000. The 

Committee remains supportive of this new museum and will make 

every effort to meet future requests for additional funds, either 

through the annual budget process or by reprogramming request, 

as the pace of development accelerates. Decreases proposed in the 

budget request and agreed to by the Committee include $1,732,000 

for non-recurring costs of the National Museum of the American 

Indian, $949,000 for deferred telephone modernization work, 

$440,000 for the Information Resource Management Pool and 

$500,000 for a soils research initiative at STRI. The Committee 

does not agree to the proposed reduction of $1,000,000 to the Institution’s Outreach activity and has restored that amount to ensure 

the funding for programs such as SITES will be continued at no 

less than the current year enacted levels. 

Administrative provisions relating to the Smithsonian Institution, which have been carried in this bill in past years, have not 

been included by the Committee this year. The Smithsonian should 

continue, however, to make every effort to consult with the House 

and Senate Appropriations Committees prior to undertaking any 

activity that would have a substantive impact on its programs and/

or annual appropriation. As a part of this effort, the Smithsonian 

should review the revised reprogramming guidelines included in 

the front of this report to ensure that it will be in full compliance 

with these requirements. 

FACILITIES CAPITAL

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $126,123,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 90,900,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 90,900,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 100,000,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Smithsonian Institution’s facilities inventory has expanded 

over the years to include 18 museums and galleries, 10 science centers, a zoo, and other facilities—most located in or near Washington, DC, with others in Massachusetts, New York, Florida, Arizona, Hawaii, and the Republic of Panama. These facilities include 

about 660 buildings and structures, owned and leased, ranging 

from major museum buildings to storage buildings and storage 

sheds. There are about 8.6 million square feet of owned space and 

1 million square feet of leased space. More than half of the buildings owned by the Smithsonian are more than 25 years old, 6 are 

designated as National Historic Landmarks and about 40 are listed 

on the National Register of Historic Places or otherwise eligible for 

special consideration under Federal guidelines for historic buildings. The Smithsonian’s growth will continue for the foreseeable future with the construction of an aircraft restoration area at the 

Udvar-Hazy Center, which should be completed in 2008, and the 
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design and construction of a National Museum of African American 

History and Culture, authorized by Congress in 2003. This vast 

campus, much of which houses priceless collections and is open to 

the public daily, presents significant challenges for meeting the repair, revitalization, and construction requirements of the Institution. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $100,000,000 for the Smithsonian 

Institution’s facilities capital program, a decrease of $26,123,000 

from the fiscal year 2005 enacted level and an increase of 

$9,100,000 over the budget request and the House allowance. The 

reduction from the enacted level reflects, in part, a decrease of 

$44,000,000 resulting from completion of the restoration of the Patent Office Building. 

Increases proposed in the budget request and supported by the Committee for revitalization activities include $8,400,000 for the 

National Museum of American History for a total project amount 

of $18,400,000; $5,800,000 for the National Museum of Natural 

History for a total project amount of $12,800,000; $7,900,000 for 

anti-terrorism protection; and an additional $9,000,000 for a total 

of $15,000,000 for other smaller revitalization projects throughout 

the Institution. An increase of $9,100,000 above the budget request 

of $9,000,000 for construction provides a total of $18,100,000 for 

the POD 5 Museum Support Center storage facility that will house 

approximately 365,000 gallons of alcohol-stored collections when 

completed. An increase of $1,100,000 for facilities planning and design provides a total amount of $9,000,000 for these activities in 

the coming fiscal year. Decreases of $44,000,000 for completion of 

the Patent Office Building, $6,500,000 for activities at the National 

Zoological Park, and $17,600,000 for the Arts and Industries building closure have also been assumed in agreement with the budget 

request. An amount of $5,800,000 remains in the budget to complete the relocation of staff, collections and equipment from the 

Arts and Industries building. To date, $13,200,000 has been appropriated to initiate design of the future restoration of this historic 

landmark. The reduction to the budget for the National Zoo provides a base of $13,000,000 for its facilities capital projects. 

In recent months, there has been much focus on the proposed 

canopy design that would enclose the courtyard of the Old Patent 

Office Building. The National Capital Planning Commission approved both the concept and the preliminary design for the canopy. 

The Commission of Fine Arts completed its review in January 

2005, approving the final design of the canopy enclosure, but not 

approving the Smithsonian’s submission for reconstruction of the 

south stairs to the building. Both the Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation and the National Capital Planning Commission have 

since rejected the canopy or any roof enclosure unless a commitment is made to reconstruct the south stairs, the same proposal rejected by the Commission of Fine Arts earlier in the process. The 

Committee understands the Smithsonian has committed to reconstruct the south stairs with private funds. With disagreement 

among the reviewing agencies, and the Smithsonian now forced to 

incur additional costs of no less than $7,000,000 to $10,000,000 as 
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work is stopped on a project that in concept was authorized by 

Public Law 108–72, the Committee finds it highly unfortunate that 

accommodation appears to be beyond the reach of all interested 

parties. The Committee further notes the difficulty inherent in providing additional Federal funding for revitalization work outside 

the scope of the original project given current budgetary constraints. The Committee urges the Smithsonian and the National 

Capital Planning Commission to work together to reach an agreement so this project can go forward as authorized.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 by a joint resolution of Congress accepting Andrew W. Mellon’s gift to the Nation 

of his art collection. The generosity of the Mellon family also provided the funds to construct the Gallery’s two landmark buildings, 

the West Building, designed by Alexander Pope and completed in 

1941, and the East Building, completed in 1978 and designed by 

I.M. Pei. In 1999, an outdoor sculpture garden was created with 

funding from the Cafritz Foundation. Today, these two buildings 

and the Sculpture Garden form a museum complex that houses one 

of the world’s premier art collections. Since its founding, Federal 

funds have been appropriated to ensure the operation and maintenance and the protection and care of this collection, enabling the 

Gallery to remain open 363 days a year at no charge to visitors. 

Private contributions are used by the Gallery for art acquisition 

and conservation, scholarly and scientific research, exhibitions, and 

educational outreach programs. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $91,708,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 97,100,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 97,100,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 96,600,000

The Committee recommends $96,600,000 for salaries and expenses of the National Gallery of Art, an increase of $4,892,000 

above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, and a decrease of $500,000 

below the budget request and the House allowance. The decrease 

from the budget request has been taken as a general reduction to 

be met through administrative savings. Additional funds are provided for the Gallery to meet its fixed costs increases for pay, benefits, utilities, and other operational requirements. The table at the 

back of the report displays the distribution of funds among the Gallery’s various activities. 

REPAIR, RESTORATION, AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $10,946,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 16,200,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 16,200,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 15,000,000

The Committee recommends $15,000,000 for the repair, restoration and renovation of facilities at the National Gallery of Art, a 

decrease of $1,200,000 from the budget request and an increase of 

$4,054,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level. 
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In fiscal years 2004 and 2005, funding for facilities capital 

projects was reduced in order to provide additional funds for critical needs in areas such as information technology and security. 

The increase proposed for fiscal year 2006 would restore this account to a level that more adequately meets the Gallery’s annual 

facilities requirements as detailed in its Master Facilities Plan. 

In fiscal year 2006 renovation will begin on the West Building 

chiller plant. Construction will also begin on Work Area #3 at the 

West Building’s east end, a space that includes some of the art conservation laboratories, an art storage vault and galleries on the 

main floor. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems will be 

renovated and fire protection/life safety improvements made. While 

the first phases of this project will be initiated in fiscal year 2006, 

the bulk of the work to be accomplished will occur in fiscal year 

2007. In order to avoid scheduling delays and related additional 

costs, the Committee has included bill language authorizing the 

Gallery to contract for the full scope of the project. 

In reviewing the table of project costs associated with the Master 

Facilities Plan, the Committee notes that annual rental costs of 

$2,500,000 are included as an off-site relocation expense in the facilities account. The Committee recognizes the need for temporary 

swing space during major construction activity and had been informed by the Gallery that such rental space would be necessary 

through 2012/13. However, as there is now an extended off-site relocation plan estimated at $29,400,000 for fiscal years 2016 and beyond, it would appear that the relocation of staff to rental space is 

relatively permanent. In the Committee’s view, therefore, this 

amount should be shown in future budget submissions as an annual operating expense within the salaries and expenses account 

rather than absorbed into the no-year appropriation for construction.

JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Originally established in 1958 as the National Cultural Center 

and an independently administered bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was 

designated a living memorial to President Kennedy in 1964. The 

Kennedy Center building was constructed with a combination of 

private contributions, Federal matching funds and long-term revenue bonds held by the U.S. Department of Treasury. Since 1972, 

Congress has provided funds for the operations and repair of the 

presidential monument, initially through the National Park Service 

and since 1995 to the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. Approximately 87 percent of the Center’s total annual operating budget is 

derived from non-appropriated funds such as ticket sales, auxiliary 

income, investment income and private contributions to support 

performing arts programming and administrative activities. 

OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $16,914,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 17,800,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 17,800,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 17,800,000
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The Committee recommends $17,800,000 for operations and 

maintenance of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 

Arts, an increase of $886,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted 

level, which is the same amount as the budget request and the 

House allowance. Additional funding is provided to assist the Kennedy Center in meeting its fixed cost increases for pay, benefits, 

utilities and facilities maintenance contracts. 

CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $16,107,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 15,200,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 10,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 15,200,000

The Committee recommends $15,200,000 for the Kennedy Center’s construction program, a reduction of $907,000 below the fiscal 

year 2005 enacted level, the same amount as the budget request 

and an increase of $5,200,000 above the House allowance. 

Life safety and accessibility issues, as well as the repair of aging 

building systems, will continue to be addressed in fiscal year 2006, 

with a primary focus on the Eisenhower Theater. The project 

monthly progress reports prepared by the Center have proven to be 

a useful tool for providing current information on construction activities and should continue to be shared with the Committee as 

they become available. 

The Committee is aware that the Government Accountability Office [GAO] recently completed a facilities review that cast some 

doubt on the adequacy of fire protection measures put in place by 

the Center during recent renovations. The Committee is concerned 

that any outstanding safety issues be addressed as quickly as possible to ensure that the Center is meeting in full its responsibility 

to protect the visiting public. The Committee supports the Kennedy 

Center’s intention to hire a qualified independent fire protection 

engineering firm at the earliest possible date to conduct a peer review of the modeling study and the life safety issues raised by the 

GAO. The Committee expects to be kept informed as this process 

moves forward and the analysis is completed.

WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $8,863,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 9,201,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 9,085,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 9,201,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the living, national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress 

in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, DC. It’s mission is to 

commemorate the ideals and concerns of the former president by 

providing a link between the world of ideas and the world of policy; 

and by fostering research, study, discussion and collaboration 

among a full spectrum of individuals concerned with policy and 

scholarship in national and world affairs. The Woodrow Wilson 
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Center is a nonpartisan institution that is supported by a combination of public and private funds. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $9,201,000 for salaries and expenses 

of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an increase of $338,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, the 

same amount as the budget request and $116,000 above the House 

allowance. The proposed increase will assist the Center in meeting 

escalating fixed costs such as pay and stipend adjustments. The 

Committee expects these funds to be distributed among the Center’s various program activities as displayed in the budget request.

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

Established in 1965 as an independent agency of the Federal 

Government, the National Endowment for the Arts is the official 

arts organization of the United States Government. The Endowment is the largest annual funder of the arts in the United States, 

helping to create regional theater, opera, ballet, symphony orchestras, museums and other arts organizations that Americans now 

enjoy. In its 38-year history, the National Endowment for the Arts 

has awarded more than 120,000 grants that have brought art to 

Americans in communities both large and small. The Arts Endowment, through its competitive, peer reviewed grants process, uses 

the majority of its annual operating funds to awards grants to nonprofit organizations for arts education, arts outreach, artistic excellence and partnership agreements. In addition to those activities, 

State and jurisdictional arts agencies are awarded 40 percent of 

the Endowment’s funds. 

GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $121,264,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 121,264,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 131,264,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 126,264,000

The Committee recommends $126,264,000 for the National Endowment of the Arts, $5,000,000 above both the fiscal year 2005 

enacted level and the budget request and a reduction of $5,000,000 

from the House allowance. 

Proposed changes to the Endowment’s current activity levels, as 

outlined in the budget request, include a redirection of $1,304,000 

from grants programs to administration/program support in order 

to maintain current services; a reduction of $6,505,000 to the Challenge America program; an increase of $6,028,000 for the American 

Masterpieces initiative; and an overall programmatic increase of 

$5,000,000. The Committee agrees to these proposals but emphasizes its expectation that the American Masterpieces program will 

be conducted through the same rigorous competition and peer review process that is applied to other Endowment programs. 

Language is included in the bill directing the Endowment to operate its grant programs in accordance with the provisions of sec-
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tions 309 and 311 of Public Law 108–108 regarding priority for 

rural and underserved communities; priority for grants that encourage public knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of the arts; restrictions regarding individual grants, subgranting, and seasonal support; a 15-percent cap on the total 

amount of grant funds directed to any one State; and the designation of a category for grants of national significance. The Committee has also included language in title IV of the bill to make 

permanent the Endowment’s authority to solicit and invest funds. 

The Committee has provided this authority on an annual basis for 

the last several years. 

The table at the back of the report displays the proposed distribution of funds among the Endowment’s activities. 

The Committee recognizes the unique cultural, social and educational contributions of the performing arts. Many performing arts 

organizations in communities across the Nation are revitalizing 

urban areas and offering unique educational opportunities for students, the disabled and senior citizens. The Committee is also 

aware of the valuable work the performing arts have done for our 

military. The Committee congratulates the Endowment on the 

many successful grants it has provided to performing arts organizations in every State and urges it to continue this strong show of 

support for the performing arts.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

The National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH] was established by the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act as an independent Federal agency of the United States 

Government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. Today, it is the largest funder of humanities programs in the Nation. NEH’s longstanding tradition of a peer-reviewed competitive grant process is 

designed to ensure that the most meritorious projects are funded. 

Typically, NEH grants are used to support cultural institutions, 

such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public 

television and radio stations, and individual scholars. The NEH, 

through its State-Federal partnership, also provides grants to State 

humanities councils in all 50 States and the 6 territories. 

GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $122,156,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 122,605,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 127,605,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 127,605,000

The Committee recommends $127,605,000 for grants and administration of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an increase of $5,449,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, 

$5,000,000 above the budget request and equal to the House allowance. 

The increase proposed in the budget request would be derived by 

a commensurate reduction to the Matching Grants account, as described below, and would be applied to the administration activity 

to meet fixed cost increases. As in past years, the Committee ex-
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pects the Endowment to involve the State humanities councils in 

the implementation of ‘‘We the People’’ programs to the same degree that it has to date. The table at the back of the report displays 

the proposed distribution of funds among the Endowment’s various 

activities. 

The Committee has included language in title IV of the bill to 

provide the Endowment with permanent authority to solicit and invest funds. The Committee has included this language annually for 

the past several years. 

MATCHING GRANTS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $15,898,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 15,449,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 15,449,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 15,449,000

The Committee recommends $15,449,000 for the Matching 

Grants account of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a 

reduction of $449,000 from the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, and 

the same amount as the budget request and the House allowance. 

The Grants and Administration account has been increased by this 

same amount, thereby assisting the Endowment in maintaining 

current services and meeting fixed cost increases.

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS

The Commission of Fine Arts was established in 1910 to fill the 

need for a permanent agency whose members would be qualified to 

make available to the Government expert opinion on questions of 

art and architecture. The Commission’s mission, as design proposals are brought before it, is to safeguard and improve the appearance and symbolic significance of the City as a capital. The 

Commission provides knowledgeable advice on matters pertaining 

to architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture, painting and the 

decorative arts to all branches and departments of the Federal and 

District of Columbia governments when such matters affect the National Capital. The Commission also must approve of the site and 

design of all commemorative works and memorials erected in the 

District. The Commission advises on the design of circulating and 

commemorative coinage and must approve the siting and design for 

national memorials, both in the United States and on foreign soil, 

in accordance with the American Battle Monuments Act and the 

Commemorative Works Act. The Commission also administers the 

National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs program, which was 

created by Congress to benefit nonprofit local cultural entities. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $1,768,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 1,893,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 1,893,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,893,000

The Committee recommends $1,893,000 for the Commission of 

Fine Arts, an increase of $125,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, and the same amount as the budget request and the 

House allowance. 
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Additional funds will assist the Commission in meeting anticipated increases in pay, benefits, rent and other operational expenses. An increase of $50,000 is included to cover costs charged 

by the Department of the Interior’s National Business Center for 

producing and printing the baseline accounting reports necessary 

for conducting an audit as required by the Accountability of Tax 

Dollars Act of 2002. In the future, the Committee urges the Department of the Interior to account for the Commission as an add-on 

to the Departmental audit report contract, a move which would significantly lower the Commission’s report production costs. Inasmuch as the Department provides other administrative services to 

the Commission on a reimbursable basis, it would seem that there 

is some precedent for extending this cooperation to the audit process.

NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $6,902,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 7,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 7,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 7,492,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs program was established by Public Law 99–190 to provide grants for general operating support to District of Columbia nonprofit arts and other cultural organizations. In fiscal year 1988, administrative responsibility for the program was transferred from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Commission of Fine Arts. In fiscal 

year 2004, this program helped support 21 nationally renowned organizations in the Nation’s capital, providing funding for operating 

expenses, jobs, and exhibits and performances that might not otherwise have been possible. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $7,492,000 for the National Capital 

Arts and Cultural Affairs program, an increase of $590,000 above 

the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, and an increase of $492,000 over 

the budget request and the House allowance.

ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $4,536,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 4,988,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 4,860,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 4,943,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 established the 

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation as an independent Federal agency. The Council’s mission is to promote the preservation, 

enhancement, and productive use of our Nation’s historic resources, 

and advise the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy. It also provides a forum for discussion of Federal activities, programs, and policies that affect historic properties. One 

of the principal responsibilities of the Council is to implement Sec-
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tion 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which requires 

that the Council be given an opportunity to comment on the impacts of projects or actions undertaken by other Federal agencies 

on sites or structures eligible for inclusion in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $4,943,000 for the Advisory Council 

on Historic Preservation, which is an increase of $407,000 over the 

fiscal year 2005 enacted level, a decrease of $45,000 from the budget request, and an increase of $83,000 over the House recommendation. The amount provided does not include the increase requested 

for data analysis associated with production of a February 2006 report.

NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION

The National Capital Planning Commission [NCPC] was established in 1924 as a park planning agency. Two years later, the 

Agency’s role was expanded to included comprehensive planning. 

The National Capital Planning Act of 1952 designated the NCPC 

as the central planning agency for the Federal Government in the 

National Capital Region. Major functions of the Commission include preparation and adoption of the Federal Elements of the 

Comprehensive Plan of the National Capital and review D.C. elements for the Federal interest; preparation and adoption of an annual 6-year Federal Capital Improvements Program report for the 

region containing land acquisition and development proposals from 

all Federal agencies; review of plans and proposals submitted to 

the Commission; and development of specialized plans for longrange development in the National Capital Region. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $7,888,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 8,344,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 8,177,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 8,244,000

The Committee recommends $8,244,000 for salaries and expenses 

of the National Capital Planning Commission, an increase of 

$356,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, $100,000 below 

the budget request, and $67,000 above the House allowance. 

The change to the budget request is a decrease of $100,000 for 

a GIS mapping initiative. The Committee does not object to the 

Commission’s participation in this multi-agency project to the extent it can be supported within base funding. The increase above 

the enacted level is provided to meet fixed cost adjustments such 

as pay and utilities. 

As it has done in past years, the Committee has included language in the bill permitting the use of up to one-quarter of 1 percent of funds for official representational activities to be used only 

when hosting international visitors associated with the international capitals working group.
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UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was created by 

Congress in 1980 through Public Law 96–388 with the mandate to 

operate and maintain a permanent living memorial museum to the 

victims of the Holocaust; provide appropriate ways for the Nation 

to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust through the annual 

national civic observances known as the Days of Remembrance; 

and carry out the recommendations of the President’s Commission 

on the Holocaust. The building that houses the museum was constructed with private funds and opened to the public in 1993. Since 

that time, the museum has attracted 4–5 times the number of expected visitors and has been highly successful in its fundraising efforts. In fiscal year 2005, little more than a decade since the museum opened its doors, non-appropriated sources of funding comprise nearly 50 percent of the museum’s annual operating budget. 

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $40,858,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 43,233,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 41,880,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 43,233,000

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $43,233,000 for expenses of the 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, an increase of 

$2,375,000 above the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, the same 

amount as the budget request and $1,353,000 above the House allowance. 

Additional expenses anticipated by the museum in the coming 

fiscal year include $1,702,000 for federally mandated pay and 

grade increases, $404,000 in escalating contract costs for security, 

exhibition maintenance, IT network maintenance, and database administration, a $600,000 increase in GSA rent and an increase of 

$300,000 for utility costs. 

The Committee understands that during a recent inspection of 

the Ross Administrative Center building, museum facilities staff 

found that the large stone parapets along the roof line are no 

longer securely in place. Because of the threat to public safety, exterior stone restoration of this historic building will be required in 

the immediate future at an estimated cost of $1,300,000. The Committee notes that this unanticipated funding need will make it necessary for the museum to revisit the repair and rehabilitation program outlined in its fiscal year 2006 budget request. The museum 

should continue to keep the Committee informed as further adjustments to its $1,874,000 annual repair program are considered.

PRESIDIO TRUST

Upon deciding that the U.S. Army would end its 148 year presence at the Presidio, Congress created the Presidio Trust as part 

of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996. 

The Trust’s mission is to preserve and enhance the natural, cultural, scenic, and recreational resources of the Presidio for public 

use in perpetuity, and to achieve long-term financial sustainability 
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through rental, lease and other revenues derived from the use of 

Presidio buildings and spaces. The Trust manages the interior 80 

percent of Presidio lands (known as Area B), including most buildings and infrastructure. The National Park Service manages coastal areas (known as Area A) as part of the Golden Gate National 

Recreation Area. Appropriations for the Trust are expected to decline from year to year, and to cease entirely at or before the end 

of fiscal year 2012. 

PRESIDIO TRUST FUND

Appropriations, 2005 ............................................................................. $19,722,000

Budget estimate, 2006 ........................................................................... 20,000,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 20,000,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 19,722,000

The Committee recommends $19,722,000 for the Presidio Trust, 

which is the same as the fiscal year 2005 enacted level, and a decrease of $278,000 from the budget request and the House recommendation. The Committee recognizes that significant challenges remain if the Trust is to achieve self-sufficiency by its statutory deadline, but is unable to recommend an increased appropriation given current fiscal limitations. The Committee commends the 

Trust for the cost reductions it has achieved in recent years. 

WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL MOMENT OF

REMEMBRANCE

Appropriations, 2004 ............................................................................. $248,000

Budget estimate, 2005 ........................................................................... 250,000

House allowance .................................................................................... 250,000

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 250,000

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The White House Commission on Remembrance was established 

by Congress through Public Law 106–579 to honor America’s fallen, her veterans, and the men and women who continue to serve 

our country. The Commission has a 10-year mission to sustain the 

American spirit through acts of rememberance throughout the 

year; institutionalize the National Moment of Remembrance; enhance the commemoration and understanding of Memorial Day; 

and to educate and give the younger generation a sense of their 

country’s history and what it means to be an American. The Commission is dedicated to educating this and future generations of 

Americans to remember the sacrifices and costs in human life 

made to preserve this Nation’s freedom. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Committee recommends $250,000 for the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance, the same 

amount as the budget request, $2,000 above the fiscal year 2005 

enacted level, and the same amount as the House allowance.
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TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

The Committee has recommended inclusion of several general 

provisions in the bill including the following: 

SEC. 401. Provides that contracts which provide consulting services be a matter of public record and available for public review, 

except where otherwise provided by law. 

SEC. 402. Provides that appropriations available in the bill shall 

not be used to produce literature or otherwise promote public support of a legislative proposal on which legislative action is not complete. The provision has been modified to make clear that it does 

not restrict authorized communications with Congress. 

SEC. 403. Provides that appropriations made available in this bill 

will not remain available beyond the current fiscal year unless otherwise provided. 

SEC. 404. Provides that appropriations made available in this bill 

cannot be used to provide a cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants. 

SEC. 405. Refines language carried in prior years with regard to 

assessments for government-wide, departmental, agency, or bureau 

functions. 

SEC. 406. Modifies language carried in prior years restricting the 

transfer of funds made available in this Act. 

SEC. 407. Limits the actions of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management with regard to the sale of giant sequoia 

trees to a manner consistent with such sales as were conducted in 

fiscal year 2005. 

SEC. 408. Retains mining patent moratorium carried in previous 

years. 

SEC. 409. Allows the National Endowment for the Arts and the 

National Endowment for the Humanities to raise funds and receive 

gifts, to deposit such in an interest-bearing account for the appropriate Endowment, and to use such to further the functions of the 

respective Endowments in accordance with the specified intent of 

the donors. The Committee proposes to make permanent this authority. 

SEC. 410. Prohibits the use of appropriations to fund any activities associated with the issuance of the 5-year program under the 

Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act. Strategic planning activities carried out for that act should now be completed as part of the agency’s compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act, Public Law 103–62. 

SEC. 411. The Committee has provided additional authorities for 

the Forest Service that will allow a broader array of activities to 

be paid for with Knutson-Vandenburg [KV] funds. Additional activities that can be funded through KV include watershed restoration, wildlife habitat improvement, control of insects, disease and 

noxious weeds, community protection activities such as fuels reduc-
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tion, and the maintenance of forest roads. The Committee believes 

that the critical forest health problems facing the Nation’s forests 

warrant providing these new authorities so that additional funds 

may be used to address this critical issue. 

SEC. 412. Provides additional authority to use the roads and 

trails funds for priority forest health related management. The 

Committee recognizes that there is a serious backlog in important 

road, trail and bridge work throughout the national forest system 

just as there is a serious backlog in needed management related to 

forest health. 

SEC. 413. Restricts the use of answering machines during business hours. 

SEC. 414. Addresses timber sales involving Alaska western red 

cedar. Mills which process western red cedar in the Pacific Northwest have an insufficient supply of western red cedar, and the national forest in southeast Alaska sometimes has a surplus. This 

provision continues a program by which Alaska’s surplus western 

red cedar is made available preferentially to U.S. domestic mills 

outside Alaska, prior to export abroad. 

SEC. 415. Continues a provision providing that the Secretary of 

Agriculture shall not be considered in violation of certain provisions of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 

Act solely because more than 15 years have passed without revision of a forest plan, provided that the Secretary is working in good 

faith to complete the plan revision within available funds. 

SEC. 416. Prohibits oil, natural gas and mining related activities 

within current national monument boundaries, except where such 

activities are allowed under the presidential proclamation establishing the monument. 

SEC. 417. Provides the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary 

of the Interior the authority to enter into reciprocal agreements 

with foreign nations concerning the personal liability of firefighters. 

The May 19 Statement of Administration Policy on the House bill 

objected to this provision ‘‘to the extent that it would infringe on 

the President’s constitutional authority over negotiations with foreign states.’’ The Committee has no desire to infringe on the President’s authority in this arena, but is simply including the exact 

language contained in the budget request that enables agencies involved in wildland firefighting to engage in valuable firefighter exchange programs. The Committee would welcome the opportunity 

to review alternate language that would both fulfill the objectives 

of the exchange program and address the constitutional concerns 

raised by the Administration. 

SEC. 418. Allows the Eagle Butte Service Unit of the Indian 

Health Service to utilize health care funding in a more efficient 

manner. 

SEC. 419. Allows the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary 

of the Interior to consider local contractors when awarding contracts for certain activities on public lands. 

SEC. 420. Restricts funding appropriated for acquisition of land 

or interests in land from being used for declarations of taking or 

complaints in condemnation. 
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SEC. 421. Continues, with certain modifications, language included in the fiscal year 2005 Act which controls the amount of 

funds available for the conduct of competitive sourcing studies. 

SEC. 422. Restricts the use of funds for SAFECOM and Disaster 

Management. 

SEC. 423. Requires that contact centers associated with the national recreation reservation service be located within the United 

States. 

SEC. 424. Extends for 1 year a pilot program to enhance Forest 

Service administration of rights-of-way. 

SEC. 425. Extends by 1 year the Forest Service’s ability to enter 

into certain cooperative agreements with third parties that are of 

mutually significant benefit. 

SEC. 426. Amends section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity 

Act to raise the Federal indemnity ceilings on individual exhibitions from $600,000,000 to $1,200,000,000, and in the aggregate 

from $8,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000. 

SEC. 427. Allows the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition to 

enter into agreements with the Department of the Interior and the 

Department of Agriculture. 

SEC. 428. Provides for the conduct of fire preparedness, suppression, and emergency rehabilitation services in the Valles Caldera 

National Preserve.
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TITLE V—FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND 

ENHANCEMENT ACT 

The Committee has included legislation that will provide for the 

reduction of the Forest Service administrative site maintenance 

backlog and improve the Service’s ability to realign facilities to 

meet the needs of its workforce and program management. The legislation authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell, lease, exchange or combine a sale and exchange of any administrative site 

the Secretary determines is no longer needed for National Forest 

System purposes. The legislation incorporates new authorities for 

streamlining regulations to facilitate the timely disposal of administrative sites and to improve the marketability of the sites. 

Receipts derived from the conveyance of administrative sites and 

facilities would be deposited in the Sisk Act fund and remain available to the Secretary until expended, without further appropriations. These funds will be used for the administrative costs incurred in conveying sites; the acquisition of land for administrative 

sites; and for the decommissioning, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, and improvement of administrative sites. 

The legislation also amends the existing Working Capital Fund 

[WCF] to allow the fund to be used for the purchase, construction, 

capital repair, renovation, rehabilitation, disposal, or replacement 

of buildings and improvements for programs of the Forest Service.
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BUDGETARY IMPACT OF BILL

PREPARED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE PURSUANT TO SEC. 

308(a), PUBLIC LAW 93–344, AS AMENDED

[In millions of dollars] 

Budget authority Outlays 

Committee 

allocation 

Amount

of bill 

Committee 

allocation 

Amount

of bill 

Comparison of amounts in the bill with Committee allocations 

to its subcommittees of amounts in the Budget Resolution 

for 2006: Subcommittee on Interior: 

Discretionary ........................................................................ 26,207 26,207 27,373 1 27,361

Projection of outlays associated with the recommendation: 

2006 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 2 15,902

2007 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 5,564

2008 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 2,502

2009 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 1,297

2010 and future years ........................................................ .................... .................... .................... 587

Financial assistance to State and local governments for

2006 ......................................................................................... NA 5,851 NA 2,251

1 Includes outlays from prior-year budget authority. 

2 Excludes outlays from prior-year budget authority.

NA: Not applicable. 
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COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7, RULE XVI OF THE 

STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 

Rule XVI, paragraph 7 requires that every report on a general 

appropriation bill filed by the Committee must identify each recommended amendment which proposes an item of appropriation 

which is not made to carry out the provisions of an existing law, 

a treaty stipulation, or an act or resolution previously passed by 

the Senate during that session. 

Those items are as follows:

—Sums provided to the Bureau of Land Management to inventory, manage, and improve rangelands for domestic livestock 

grazing pursuant to Public Law 95–514, the Public Rangeland 

Improvement Act of 1978. —$261,907,000 for the endangered species program, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service. 

—$3,400,000 for the Yukon River Restoration and Enhancement 

Fund, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, pursuant to the Fisheries 

Act of 1995. 

—Sums provided to the Fish and Wildlife Service for the conservation and protection of marine mammals pursuant to Public Law 103–238, the Marine Mammal Protection Act Amendments of 1994. 

—$500,000 for Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration grants. 

—$1,400,000 for Great Ape conservation. 

—$4,000,000 for neotropical nigratory bird conservation. 

—$1,256,165,000 for the hazardous substances Superfund. 

—$40,000,000 for State and tribal assistance grants: Alaska Native Villages. —$1,100,000,000 for State and tribal assistance grants: Clean 

Water SRF. 

—$850,000,000 for State and tribal assistance grants: Drinking 

Water SRF. 

—Sums provided pursuant to the Clean Air Act, Radon Abatement Act, Clean Water Act, BEACH Act, Safe Drinking Water 

Act, Solid Waste Disposal Act [RCRA], Toxic Substances Control Act, Pollution Prevention Act, and the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program Act. —$3,300,000 for start-up and matching funds for projects of the 

National Forest Foundation, U.S. Forest Service. 

—$121,264,000 for the National Endowment for the Arts. 

—$138,054,000 for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(C), RULE XXVI, OF THE 

STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 

Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, on June 9, 2005, the 

Committee ordered reported, H.R. 2361 an Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for 
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the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, subject to amendment 

and subject to the budget allocations, by a recorded vote of 28–0, 

a quorum being present. The vote was as follows: 

Yeas Nays 

Chairman Cochran 

Mr. Stevens 

Mr. Specter 

Mr. Domenici 

Mr. Bond 

Mr. McConnell 

Mr. Burns 

Mr. Shelby 

Mr. Gregg 

Mr. Bennett 

Mr. Craig 

Mrs. Hutchison 

Mr. DeWine 

Mr. Brownback 

Mr. Allard 

Mr. Byrd 

Mr. Inouye 

Mr. Leahy 

Mr. Harkin 

Ms. Mikulski 

Mr. Reid 

Mr. Kohl 

Mrs. Murray 

Mr. Dorgan 

Mrs. Feinstein 

Mr. Durbin 

Mr. Johnson 

Ms. Landrieu 

COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 12, RULE XXVI OF THE 

STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 

Paragraph 12 of rule XXVI requires that Committee reports on 

a bill or joint resolution repealing or amending any statute or part 

of any statute include ‘‘(a) the text of the statute or part thereof 

which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a comparative print of 

that part of the bill or joint resolution making the amendment and 

of the statute or part thereof proposed to be amended, showing by 

stricken-through type and italics, parallel columns, or other appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions which 

would be made by the bill or joint resolution if enacted in the form 

recommended by the committee.’’

In compliance with this rule, the following changes in existing 

law proposed to be made by the bill are shown as follows: existing 

law to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets; new matter is 

printed in italic; and existing law in which no change is proposed 

is shown in roman.

TITLE 16—CONSERVATION 

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CHAPTER 1—NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, 

MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES 

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SUBCHAPTER LIX–H—KALAUPAPA NATIONAL HISTORICAL 

PARK 

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§ 410jj–7. Advisory Commission

(a) * * *

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(e) Termination The Commission shall expire øtwenty-five 

years from¿ on the date that is 45 years after December 22, 1980. 

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CHAPTER 3—FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; 

REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT 

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SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

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§ 576b. Purchasers of national-forest timber; deposits of 

money in addition to payments for timber; use of 

deposits; seedlings and young trees for burnedover areas in national parks

The Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his judgment such 

action will be in the public interest, require any purchaser of national-forest timber to make deposits of money in addition to the 

payments for the timber, to cover the cost to the United States of 

(1) planting (including the production or purchase of young trees), 

(2) sowing with tree seeds (including the collection or purchase of 

such seeds), (3) cutting, destroying, or otherwise removing undesirable trees or other growth, on the national-forest land cut over by 

the purchaser, in order to improve the future stand of timber, øor¿

(4) protecting and improving the future productivity of the renewable resources of the forest land on such sale area, including sale 

area improvement operations, maintenance and construction, reforestation and wildlife habitat managementø.¿, or (5) watershed restoration, wildlife habitat improvement, control of insects, disease 

and noxious weeds, community protection activities, and the maintenance of forest roads, within the Forest Service region in which the 

timber sale occurred: Provided, That such activities may be performed through the use of contracts, forest product sales, and cooperative agreements. Such deposits shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is appropriated and 

made available until expended, to cover the cost to the United 

States of such tree planting, seed sowing, and forest improvement 

work, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct: Provided, That 

any portion of any deposit found to be in excess of the cost of doing 

said work shall, upon the determination that it is so in excess, be 

transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest reserve fund, as a na-
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tional-forest receipt of the fiscal year in which such transfer is 

made: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, upon application of the Secretary of the Interior, to furnish seedlings and/or young trees for replanting of burned-over 

areas in any national park. 

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§ 579b. Working capital fund; establishment; availability; 

transfer; capitalization; advance payments credited

øThere is established a working capital fund which shall be 

available without fiscal year limitation for expenses necessary, including the purchase or construction of buildings and improvements within the limitations thereon set forth in the appropriations for the Forest Service, for furnishing supply and equipment 

services in support of programs of the Forest Service. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to transfer to the fund, without 

reimbursement, and to capitalize in the fund at fair and reasonable 

values, such receivables, inventories, equipment, and other assets 

as he may determine, and assume the liabilities in connection with 

such assets: Provided, That the fund shall be credited with advance 

payments in connection with firm orders and reimbursements from 

appropriations and funds of the Forest Service, other departmental 

and Federal agencies, and from other sources, as authorized by 

law, at rates approximately equal to the cost of furnishing the facilities and service.¿

SEC. 13. WORKING CAPITAL FUND. 

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a working capital 

fund (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Fund’’), which shall be 

available without fiscal year limitation. 

(b) USE.—Amounts in the Fund shall be used to pay the costs 

of purchasing, constructing, performing capital repairs on, renovating, rehabilitating, disposing, or replacing buildings and to 

carry out deferred maintenance and improvements to land for programs of the Forest Service, subject to any limitations in appropriations for the Forest Service. 

(c) TRANSFER AND CAPITALIZATION.—The Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may— 

(1) transfer to the Fund, without reimbursement, and capitalize in the Fund at fair and reasonable values, any receivables, inventories, equipment, buildings, improvements, and 

other assets as the Secretary determines to be appropriate; and 

(2) assume the liabilities associated with the assets transferred under paragraph (1). 

(d) ADVANCE PAYMENTS.—The fund shall be credited with advance payments in connection with firm orders and reimbursements 

from appropriations and funds of the Forest Service, other departmental and Federal agencies, and from other sources, as authorized 

by law, at rates approximately equal to the cost of furnishing the 

facilities and service.

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CHAPTER 6—GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; 

PROTECTION 

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§ 698v–6. Resource management

(a) * * *

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(g) Law enforcement and fire management

øThe Secretary¿ (1) LAW ENFORCEMENT.— 

(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide law enforcement services under a cooperative agreement with the Trust to 

the extent generally authorized in other units of the National 

Forest System. 

øThe Trust¿ (B) FEDERAL AGENCY.—The Trust shall be 

deemed a Federal agency for purposes of the law enforcement 

authorities of the Secretary (within the meaning of section 

559g of this title). øAt the request of the Trust, the Secretary 

may provide fire presuppression, fire suppression, and rehabilitation services: Provided, That the Trust shall reimburse the 

Secretary for salaries and expenses of fire management personnel, commensurate with services provided.¿

(2) FIRE MANAGEMENT.— 

(A) NON-REIMBURSABLE SERVICES.— 

(i) DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN.—Subject to the availability 

of appropriations under section 111(a), the Secretary shall, 

in consultation with the Trust, develop a plan to carry out 

fire preparedness, suppression, and emergency rehabilitation services on the Preserve. 

(ii) CONSISTENCY WITH MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.—The 

plan shall be consistent with the management program developed pursuant to subsection (d). 

(iii) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT.—To the extent generally authorized at other units of the National Forest System, the Secretary shall provide the services to be carried 

out pursuant to the plan under a cooperative agreement entered into between the Secretary and the Trust. 

(B) REIMBURSABLE SERVICES.—To the extent generally authorized at other units of the National Forest System and subject to the availability of appropriations under section 111(a), 

the Secretary shall provide presuppression and nonemergency 

rehabilitation and restoration services for the Trust at any time 

on a reimbursable basis.

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TITLE 20—EDUCATION 

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CHAPTER 26A—INDEMNITY FOR EXHIBITIONS OF ARTS 

AND ARTIFACTS 

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§ 974. Indemnity limits

(a) * * *

(b) Maximum limits of coverage

The aggregate of loss or damage covered by indemnity agreements made under this chapter shall not exceed ø$8,000,000,000¿

$10,000,000,000 at any one time.

(c) Limit for single exhibition

No indemnity agreement for a single exhibition shall cover loss 

or damage in excess of ø$600,000,000¿ $1,200,000,000. 

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TITLE 25—INDIANS 

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CHAPTER 22—BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS PROGRAMS 

* * * * * * * 

§ 2001. Accreditation for the basic education of Indian children in Bureau of Indian Affairs schools

(a) Purpose; declarations of purpose 

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(d) Closure or consolidation of schools

(1) In general Except as specifically required by law—

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ø(7) Tribal governing body approval required for certain actions The Secretary may, with the approval of the tribal governing 

body, terminate, contract, transfer to any other authority, consolidate, or substantially curtail the operation or facilities of—

ø(A) any Bureau-funded school that is operated on or after 

January 1, 1999; 

ø(B) any program of such a school that is operated on or 

after January 1, 1999; or 

ø(C) any school board of a school operated under a grant 

under the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 [25 U.S.C. 

2501 et seq.].¿

(7) APPROVAL OF INDIAN TRIBES.—The Secretary shall not terminate, close, consolidate, contract, transfer to another authority, or 

take any other action relating to an elementary school or secondary 

school (or any program of such a school) of an Indian tribe without 

the approval of the governing body of any Indian tribe that would 

be affected by such an action.

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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING 

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CHAPTER 25—SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND 

RECLAMATION 

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SUBCHAPTER IV—ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATIONS 

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§ 1232. Reclamation fee

(a) Payment; rate

All operators of coal mining operations subject to the provisions of this chapter shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, for 

deposit in the fund, a reclamation fee of 35 cents per ton of coal 

produced by surface coal mining and 15 cents per ton of coal produced by underground mining or 10 per centum of the value of the 

coal at the mine, as determined by the Secretary, whichever is less, 

except that the reclamation fee for lignite coal shall be at a rate 

of 2 per centum of the value of the coal at the mine, or 10 cents 

per ton, whichever is less.

(b) Due date

Such fee shall be paid no later than thirty days after the end 

of each calendar quarter beginning with the first calendar quarter 

occurring after August 3, 1977, and ending øSeptember 30, 2005,¿

June 30, 2006, after which time the fee shall be established at a 

rate to continue to provide for the deposit referred to in subsection 

(h) of this section. 

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PUBLIC LAW 106–113

Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, 

and for other purposes. 

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APPENDIX C—H.R. 3423 

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 

Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 

2000, and for other purposes, namely: 

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

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TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

SEC. 301. * * *

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SEC. 331. ENHANCING FOREST SERVICE ADMINISTRATION OF

RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND LAND USES. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture 

shall develop and implement a pilot program for the purpose of enhancing forest service administration of rights-of-way and other 

land uses. The authority for this program shall be for fiscal years 

2000 through ø2004¿ 2006. Prior to the expiration of the authority 
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for this pilot program, the Secretary shall submit a report to the 

House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 

Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives that evaluates whether the use of funds under this section resulted in more 

expeditious approval of rights-of-way and special use authorizations. This report shall include the Secretary’s recommendation for 

statutory or regulatory changes to reduce the average processing 

time for rights-of-way and special use permit applications. 

(b) DEPOSIT OF FEES.—Subject to subsections (a) and (f), during 

fiscal years 2000 through ø2004¿ 2006, the Secretary of Agriculture 

shall deposit into a special account established in the Treasury all 

fees collected by the Secretary to recover the costs of processing applications for, and monitoring compliance with, authorizations to 

use and occupy National Forest System lands pursuant to section 

28(l) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185(l)), section 504(g) 

of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 

1764(g)), section 9701 of title 31, United States Code, and section 

110(g) of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470h–

2(g)). 

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CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2003, 

PUBLIC LAW 108–7

Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, 

and for other purposes. 

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DIVISION F—INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES 

APPROPRIATIONS, 2003

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes. 

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

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TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

SEC. 301. * * *

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SEC. 321. Until øSeptember 30, 2005¿ September 30, 2007, the 

authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into an agreement under the first section of Public Law 94–148 (16 U.S.C. 565a–

1) for a purpose described in such section includes the authority to 

use that legal instrument when the principal purpose of the resulting relationship is to the mutually significant benefit of the Forest 

Service and the other party or parties to the agreement, including 

nonprofit entities. An agreement entered into under this section 

shall not be subject to Public Law 95–224, Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act (1977).
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

Management of Lands and Resources

Land Resources: 

Soil, water and air management ................................................................................ 34,738 33,343 34,443 33,343 ¥1,395 ........................ ¥1,100Range management .................................................................................................... 69,183 69,212 70,068 71,212 ∂2,029 ∂2,000 ∂1,144Forestry management .................................................................................................. 8,895 10,559 10,559 10,559 ∂1,664 ........................ ........................Riparian management ................................................................................................ 21,228 21,704 22,704 21,704 ∂476 ........................ ¥1,000Cultural resources management ................................................................................. 14,925 15,240 15,240 15,240 ∂315 ........................ ........................Wild horse and burro management ............................................................................ 39,045 36,905 36,905 36,905 ¥2,140 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Land Resources ....................................................................................... 188,014 186,963 189,919 188,963 ∂949 ∂2,000 ¥956

Wildlife and Fisheries: 

Wildlife management ................................................................................................. 25,063 28,587 28,587 28,587 ∂3,524 ........................ ........................Fisheries management ................................................................................................ 11,884 12,497 12,497 12,497 ∂613 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Wildlife and Fisheries ............................................................................. 36,947 41,084 41,084 41,084 ∂4,137 ........................ ........................

Threatened and endangered species ................................................................................... 21,144 21,572 21,572 21,572 ∂428 ........................ ........................Recreation Management: 

Wilderness management ............................................................................................. 16,431 16,806 16,806 16,806 ∂375 ........................ ........................Recreation resources management ............................................................................. 44,158 47,798 48,798 48,798 ∂4,640 ∂1,000 ........................

Subtotal, Recreation Management ......................................................................... 60,589 64,604 65,604 65,604 ∂5,015 ∂1,000 ........................

Energy and Minerals: 

Oil and gas ................................................................................................................. 87,360 87,291 89,291 90,291 ∂2,931 ∂3,000 ∂1,000Coal management ....................................................................................................... 9,311 9,296 9,296 9,296 ¥15 ........................ ........................
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Other mineral resources .............................................................................................. 9,960 10,185 10,185 10,185 ∂225 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Energy and Minerals ............................................................................... 106,631 106,772 108,772 109,772 ∂3,141 ∂3,000 ∂1,000

Alaska minerals ................................................................................................................... 3,944 2,297 2,297 3,000 ¥944 ∂703 ∂703Realty and Ownership Management: 

Alaska conveyance ...................................................................................................... 41,975 33,599 33,599 42,000 ∂25 ∂8,401 ∂8,401Cadastral survey ......................................................................................................... 15,590 13,866 13,866 16,026 ∂436 ∂2,160 ∂2,160Land and realty management .................................................................................... 35,059 33,681 33,681 33,681 ¥1,378 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Realty and Ownership Management ....................................................... 92,624 81,146 81,146 91,707 ¥917 ∂10,561 ∂10,561

Resource Protection and Maintenance: 

Resource management planning ................................................................................ 48,863 49,516 50,516 49,516 ∂653 ........................ ¥1,000Resource protection and law enforcement ................................................................. 16,788 17,974 19,224 19,574 ∂2,786 ∂1,600 ∂350Hazardous materials management ............................................................................. 15,850 16,126 16,126 16,126 ∂276 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Resource Protection and Maintenance ................................................... 81,501 83,616 85,866 85,216 ∂3,715 ∂1,600 ¥650

Transportation and Facilities Maintenance: 

Operations ................................................................................................................... 6,057 6,271 6,271 6,271 ∂214 ........................ ........................Annual maintenance ................................................................................................... 30,564 31,293 31,293 32,293 ∂1,729 ∂1,000 ∂1,000Deferred maintenance ................................................................................................. 41,192 38,727 38,727 39,727 ¥1,465 ∂1,000 ∂1,000

Subtotal, Transportation/Facilities Maintenance .................................................... 77,813 76,291 76,291 78,291 ∂478 ∂2,000 ∂2,000

Land and resources information systems ........................................................................... 18,062 18,217 18,217 18,217 ∂155 ........................ ........................Mining Law Administration: 

Administration ............................................................................................................. 32,696 32,696 32,696 32,696 ........................ ........................ ........................Offsetting fees ............................................................................................................ ¥32,696 ¥32,696 ¥32,696 ¥32,696 ........................ ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Mining Law Administration ..................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................

Workforce and Organizational Support: 

Information systems operations .................................................................................. 19,651 21,455 21,455 21,455 ∂1,804 ........................ ........................Administrative support ................................................................................................ 50,164 51,437 51,437 51,437 ∂1,273 ........................ ........................Bureauwide fixed costs ............................................................................................... 72,346 74,727 74,727 74,727 ∂2,381 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Workforce and Organizational Support ................................................... 142,161 147,619 147,619 147,619 ∂5,458 ........................ ........................

Challenge cost share ........................................................................................................... 7,396 13,996 7,396 10,000 ∂2,604 ¥3,996 ∂2,604
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Cooperative Conservation Initiative ..................................................................................... ........................ 6,000 ........................ 6,000 ∂6,000 ........................ ∂6,000

Subtotal, Challenge Cost Share ............................................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................Total, Management of Lands and Resources ........................................................ 836,826 850,177 845,783 867,045 ∂30,219 ∂16,868 ∂21,262

Wildland Fire Management

Preparedness ........................................................................................................................ 258,939 272,852 272,852 272,852 ∂13,913 ........................ ........................

Fire facilities ............................................................................................................... ........................ 7,849 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥7,849 ........................Joint fire science ......................................................................................................... ........................ 6,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥6,000 ........................

Subtotal, Preparedness ........................................................................................... 258,939 286,701 272,852 272,852 ∂13,913 ¥13,849 ........................

Fire suppression operations ................................................................................................. 218,445 234,167 234,167 234,167 ∂15,722 ........................ ........................

Additional appropriations, Title IV .............................................................................. 98,611 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥98,611 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Fire suppression operations .................................................................... 317,056 234,167 234,167 234,167 ¥82,889 ........................ ........................

Other operations: 

Hazardous fuels reduction .......................................................................................... 201,409 211,220 211,220 211,220 ∂9,811 ........................ ........................Burned area rehabilitation .......................................................................................... 23,939 24,476 24,476 24,476 ∂537 ........................ ........................State and local fire assistance .................................................................................. 9,861 ........................ 5,000 10,000 ∂139 ∂10,000 ∂5,000Fire facilities ............................................................................................................... 12,202 ........................ 7,849 7,849 ¥4,353 ∂7,849 ........................Joint fire science ......................................................................................................... 7,889 ........................ 6,000 6,000 ¥1,889 ∂6,000 ........................

Subtotal, Other operations ..................................................................................... 255,300 235,696 254,545 259,545 ∂4,245 ∂23,849 ∂5,000Total, Wildland Fire Management .......................................................................... 831,295 756,564 761,564 766,564 ¥64,731 ∂10,000 ∂5,000
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Central Hazardous Materials Fund

Bureau of Land Management .............................................................................................. 9,855 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥9,855 ........................ ........................Rescission of balances ........................................................................................................ ¥13,500 ........................ ........................ ........................ ∂13,500 ........................ ........................

Construction

Construction ......................................................................................................................... 11,340 6,476 11,476 9,976 ¥1,364 ∂3,500 ¥1,500

Land Acquisition

Land Acquisition: 

Acquisitions ................................................................................................................. 6,755 9,550 ........................ 8,450 ∂1,695 ¥1,100 ∂8,450Emergencies and hardships ....................................................................................... 1,479 1,500 1,500 1,500 ∂21 ........................ ........................Acquisition management ............................................................................................ 2,958 2,300 2,317 2,300 ¥658 ........................ ¥17

Total, Land Acquisition ........................................................................................... 11,192 13,350 3,817 12,250 ∂1,058 ¥1,100 ∂8,433

Oregon and California Grant Lands

Western Oregon resources management ............................................................................. 88,775 96,692 96,692 96,692 ∂7,917 ........................ ........................Western Oregon information and resource data systems ................................................... 2,151 2,173 2,173 2,173 ∂22 ........................ ........................Western Oregon transportation & facilities maintenance ................................................... 10,619 10,903 10,903 10,903 ∂284 ........................ ........................Western Oregon construction and acquisition ..................................................................... 291 302 302 302 ∂11 ........................ ........................Jobs in the woods ................................................................................................................ 5,661 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥5,661 ........................ ........................

Total, Oregon and California Grant Lands ............................................................. 107,497 110,070 110,070 110,070 ∂2,573 ........................ ........................

Range Improvements

Improvements to public lands ............................................................................................. 7,873 7,873 7,873 7,873 ........................ ........................ ........................Farm Tenant Act lands ........................................................................................................ 1,527 1,527 1,527 1,527 ........................ ........................ ........................Administrative expenses ...................................................................................................... 600 600 600 600 ........................ ........................ ........................

Total, Range Improvements .................................................................................... 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 ........................ ........................ ........................

Service Charges, Deposits, and Forfeitures

Rights-of-way processing .................................................................................................... 8,025 11,910 11,910 11,910 ∂3,885 ........................ ........................Energy and minerals cost recovery ...................................................................................... 1,840 10,840 10,840 10,840 ∂9,000 ........................ ........................Adopt-a-horse program ........................................................................................................ 1,225 1,225 1,225 1,225 ........................ ........................ ........................Repair of damaged lands .................................................................................................... 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 ........................ ........................ ........................Cost recoverable realty cases .............................................................................................. 515 515 515 515 ........................ ........................ ........................Timber purchaser expenses ................................................................................................. 50 50 50 50 ........................ ........................ ........................
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Commercial film and photography fees .............................................................................. 200 200 200 200 ........................ ........................ ........................Copy fees .............................................................................................................................. 3,200 3,200 3,200 3,200 ........................ ........................ ........................

Subtotal (gross) ...................................................................................................... 20,055 32,940 32,940 32,940 ∂12,885 ........................ ........................

Offsetting fees ..................................................................................................................... ¥20,055 ¥32,940 ¥32,940 ¥32,940 ¥12,885 ........................ ........................

Total, Service Charges, Deposits & Forfeitures ..................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................

Miscellaneous Trust Funds

Current appropriations ......................................................................................................... 12,405 12,405 12,405 12,405 ........................ ........................ ........................

TOTAL, BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT ................................................................ 1,816,910 1,759,042 1,755,115 1,788,310 ¥28,600 ∂29,268 ∂33,195

UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Resource Management

Ecological Services: 

Endangered species: 

Candidate conservation ..................................................................................... 9,255 8,252 8,852 8,752 ¥503 ∂500 ¥100Listing ................................................................................................................ 15,960 18,130 18,130 18,130 ∂2,170 ........................ ........................Consultation ....................................................................................................... 48,129 49,484 49,484 49,484 ∂1,355 ........................ ........................Recovery ............................................................................................................. 69,870 64,243 70,443 72,541 ∂2,671 ∂8,298 ∂2,098

Subtotal, Endangered species ....................................................................... 143,214 140,109 146,909 148,907 ∂5,693 ∂8,798 ∂1,998

Habitat conservation ................................................................................................... 94,457 101,978 102,798 94,805 ∂348 ¥7,173 ¥7,993Environmental contaminants ...................................................................................... 10,901 8,486 11,186 10,901 ........................ ∂2,415 ¥285

Subtotal, Ecological Services ................................................................................. 248,572 250,573 260,893 254,613 ∂6,041 ∂4,040 ¥6,280
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Refuges and Wildlife: 

Refuge operations and maintenance .......................................................................... 381,019 393,894 394,394 393,894 ∂12,875 ........................ ¥500Migratory bird management ....................................................................................... 35,451 41,635 38,152 40,202 ∂4,751 ¥1,433 ∂2,050Law enforcement operations ....................................................................................... 55,615 57,612 57,812 57,612 ∂1,997 ........................ ¥200

Subtotal, Refuges and Wildlife .............................................................................. 472,085 493,141 490,358 491,708 ∂19,623 ¥1,433 ∂1,350

Fisheries: 

Hatchery operations and maintenance ....................................................................... 56,755 57,971 58,871 57,971 ∂1,216 ........................ ¥900Fish and wildlife management ................................................................................... 58,418 49,685 59,885 53,837 ¥4,581 ∂4,152 ¥6,048

Subtotal, Fisheries .................................................................................................. 115,173 107,656 118,756 111,808 ¥3,365 ∂4,152 ¥6,948

General Administration: 

Science excellence ....................................................................................................... ........................ 2,000 500 ........................ ........................ ¥2,000 ¥500Central office administration ...................................................................................... 27,120 27,827 27,827 27,827 ∂707 ........................ ........................Regional office administration ................................................................................... 39,992 40,807 40,807 40,807 ∂815 ........................ ........................Administrative efficiencies .......................................................................................... ........................ ¥2,025 ........................ ¥400 ¥400 ∂1,625 ¥400Servicewide administrative support ............................................................................ 25,625 30,736 30,736 30,736 ∂5,111 ........................ ........................National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ....................................................................... 7,761 7,470 7,770 7,761 ........................ ∂291 ¥9National Conservation Training Center ....................................................................... 17,058 17,829 17,829 18,476 ∂1,418 ∂647 ∂647International affairs .................................................................................................... 9,160 9,549 9,749 10,149 ∂989 ∂600 ∂400Caddo Lake Ramsar Center ........................................................................................ 394 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥394 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, General Administration ........................................................................... 127,110 134,193 135,218 135,356 ∂8,246 ∂1,163 ∂138Total, Resource Management ................................................................................. 962,940 985,563 1,005,225 993,485 ∂30,545 ∂7,922 ¥11,740

Construction

Construction and rehabilitation: 

Line item construction ................................................................................................ 41,793 10,060 31,590 22,195 ¥19,598 ∂12,135 ¥9,395Nationwide engineering services ................................................................................ 10,865 9,616 9,616 9,616 ¥1,249 ........................ ........................Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324) ..................................................... 40,552 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥40,552 ........................ ........................

Total, Construction ................................................................................................. 93,210 19,676 41,206 31,811 ¥61,399 ∂12,135 ¥9,395

Land Acquisition

Fish and Wildlife Service: 

Acquisitions—Federal refuge lands ........................................................................... 22,593 26,029 ........................ 25,364 ∂2,771 ¥665 ∂25,364Inholdings .................................................................................................................... 1,479 1,750 1,750 1,750 ∂271 ........................ ........................
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Emergencies and hardships ....................................................................................... 986 1,750 1,750 1,750 ∂764 ........................ ........................Exchanges ................................................................................................................... 1,726 1,750 1,724 1,750 ∂24 ........................ ∂26Acquisition management ............................................................................................ 8,249 7,893 7,893 8,393 ∂144 ∂500 ∂500Cost allocation methodology ....................................................................................... 1,972 1,820 1,820 1,820 ¥152 ........................ ........................

Total, Land Acquisition ........................................................................................... 37,005 40,992 14,937 40,827 ∂3,822 ¥165 ∂25,890

Landowner Incentive Program

Grants to States ................................................................................................................... 21,694 40,000 23,700 25,000 ∂3,306 ¥15,000 ∂1,300

Private Stewardship Grants Program

Stewardship grants .............................................................................................................. 6,903 10,000 7,386 7,500 ∂597 ¥2,500 ∂114

Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund

Grants to States ................................................................................................................... 15,846 17,643 17,643 17,643 ∂1,797 ........................ ........................Species recovery land acquisition ....................................................................................... 13,400 14,186 14,186 14,186 ∂786 ........................ ........................HCP land acquisition ........................................................................................................... 48,698 45,653 50,053 45,653 ¥3,045 ........................ ¥4,400Administration ...................................................................................................................... 2,518 2,518 2,518 2,518 ........................ ........................ ........................

Total, Cooperative Endangered Species Fund ........................................................ 80,462 80,000 84,400 80,000 ¥462 ........................ ¥4,400

National Wildlife Refuge Fund

Payments in lieu of taxes .................................................................................................... 14,214 14,414 14,414 14,414 ∂200 ........................ ........................

North American Wetlands Conservation Fund

Wetlands conservation ......................................................................................................... 35,973 47,949 38,400 37,920 ∂1,947 ¥10,029 ¥480Administration ...................................................................................................................... 1,499 2,000 1,600 1,580 ∂81 ¥420 ¥20
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Total, North American Wetlands Conservation Fund ............................................. 37,472 49,949 40,000 39,500 ∂2,028 ¥10,449 ¥500

Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Fund

Migratory bird grants ........................................................................................................... 3,944 ........................ 4,000 4,000 ∂56 ∂4,000 ........................

Multinational Species Conservation Fund

African elephant conservation ............................................................................................. 1,381 1,000 1,400 1,400 ∂19 ∂400 ........................Rhinoceros and tiger conservation ...................................................................................... 1,477 1,100 1,400 1,600 ∂123 ∂500 ∂200Asian elephant conservation ................................................................................................ 1,381 1,000 1,400 1,400 ∂19 ∂400 ........................Great ape conservation ........................................................................................................ 1,381 900 1,400 1,400 ∂19 ∂500 ........................Marine turtles ....................................................................................................................... 99 300 300 700 ∂601 ∂400 ∂400Neotropical Bird Conservation ............................................................................................. ........................ 4,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥4,000 ........................

Total, Multinational Species Conservation Fund .................................................... 5,719 8,300 5,900 6,500 ∂781 ¥1,800 ∂600

State and Tribal Wildlife Grants

State and tribal wildlife grants ........................................................................................... 69,028 74,000 65,000 72,000 ∂2,972 ¥2,000 ∂7,000

TOTAL, U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE .............................................................. 1,332,591 1,322,894 1,306,168 1,315,037 ¥17,554 ¥7,857 ∂8,869

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Operation of the National Park System

Park Management: 

Resource stewardship ................................................................................................. 348,036 354,116 354,116 354,841 ∂6,805 ∂725 ∂725Visitor services ............................................................................................................ 338,454 346,181 346,181 346,181 ∂7,727 ........................ ........................Maintenance ................................................................................................................ 582,739 595,586 594,686 595,186 ∂12,447 ¥400 ∂500Park support ................................................................................................................ 290,400 307,613 298,659 301,721 ∂11,321 ¥5,892 ∂3,062Park base increase ..................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ 30,000 20,000 ∂20,000 ∂20,000 ¥10,000Additional park base increase .................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Park Management ................................................................................... 1,559,629 1,603,496 1,623,642 1,617,929 ∂58,300 ∂14,433 ¥5,713

External administrative costs .............................................................................................. 123,935 130,557 130,557 130,557 ∂6,622 ........................ ........................

Total, Operation of the National Park System ....................................................... 1,683,564 1,734,053 1,754,199 1,748,486 ∂64,922 ∂14,433 ¥5,713
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

United States Park Police

Park Police ........................................................................................................................... 80,076 80,411 82,411 80,411 ∂335 ........................ ¥2,000

National Recreation and Preservation

Recreation programs ............................................................................................................ 543 554 554 554 ∂11 ........................ ........................Natural programs ................................................................................................................. 10,865 9,545 9,545 10,045 ¥820 ∂500 ∂500Cultural programs ................................................................................................................ 19,933 17,722 19,953 20,403 ∂470 ∂2,681 ∂450International park affairs .................................................................................................... 1,593 1,618 1,618 1,618 ∂25 ........................ ........................Environmental and compliance review ................................................................................ 391 399 399 399 ∂8 ........................ ........................Grant administration ............................................................................................................ 1,866 1,913 1,913 1,913 ∂47 ........................ ........................Heritage Partnership Programs: 

Commissions and grants ............................................................................................ 13,966 4,904 14,893 13,450 ¥516 ∂8,546 ¥1,443Newly authorized areas ............................................................................................... 493 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥493 ........................ ........................Administrative support ................................................................................................ 120 122 122 122 ∂2 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Heritage Partnership Programs .............................................................. 14,579 5,026 15,015 13,572 ¥1,007 ∂8,546 ¥1,443

Statutory or Contractual Aid: 

Alaska National Parks ................................................................................................. 740 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥740 ........................ ........................Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission ............................................................. 247 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥247 ........................ ........................Black Jack Battlefield trust ........................................................................................ 88 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥88 ........................ ........................Brown Foundation ....................................................................................................... 247 ........................ ........................ 250 ∂3 ∂250 ∂250Chesapeake Bay Gateway ........................................................................................... 2,465 ........................ ........................ 2,000 ¥465 ∂2,000 ∂2,000Crossroads of the West Historic District .................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 750 ∂750 ∂750 ∂750Delta Interpretive Center ............................................................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,000 ∂1,000 ∂1,000 ∂1,000Flight 93 Memorial (Sommerset) ................................................................................ 247 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥247 ........................ ........................George Washington Memorial Bridge (Gravely Point) ................................................. 99 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥99 ........................ ........................Ft. Mandan, Ft. Lincoln, & Northern Plains Foundation ............................................ 616 ........................ ........................ 625 ∂9 ∂625 ∂625Harpers Ferry NHP (Niagra Movement) ....................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 300 ∂300 ∂300 ∂300
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Ice Age National Scientific Reserve ............................................................................ 785 ........................ ........................ 700 ¥85 ∂700 ∂700International Peace Gardens ....................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 200 ∂200 ∂200 ∂200Jamestown 2007 ......................................................................................................... 394 ........................ ........................ 400 ∂6 ∂400 ∂400Johnstown Area Heritage Association ......................................................................... 48 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥48 ........................ ........................Keweenaw NHP (Main Street) ..................................................................................... 789 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥789 ........................ ........................Lamprey River ............................................................................................................. 887 ........................ ........................ 750 ¥137 ∂750 ∂750Lower Eastside Tenement Museum ............................................................................. 247 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥247 ........................ ........................Mississippi Museum of Natural Science .................................................................... 740 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥740 ........................ ........................Mt. Ranier National Park (study) ................................................................................ 690 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥690 ........................ ........................Natchez NHP (Forks of the Road) ............................................................................... 148 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥148 ........................ ........................Native Hawaiian culture and arts program ............................................................... 740 ........................ ........................ 750 ∂10 ∂750 ∂750Sewall-Belmont House ................................................................................................ 394 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥394 ........................ ........................Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission ................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 500 ∂500 ∂500 ∂500Sleeping Rainbow Ranch, Capitol Reef NP ................................................................ 592 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥592 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Statutory or Contractual Aid ................................................................... 11,203 ........................ ........................ 8,225 ¥2,978 ∂8,225 ∂8,225Total, National Recreation and Preservation ......................................................... 60,973 36,777 48,997 56,729 ¥4,244 ∂19,952 ∂7,732

Historic Preservation Fund

State historic preservation offices ....................................................................................... 35,500 35,500 36,000 38,500 ∂3,000 ∂3,000 ∂2,500Tribal grants ........................................................................................................................ 3,205 3,205 3,205 4,000 ∂795 ∂795 ∂795Save America’s Treasures .................................................................................................... 29,583 15,000 30,000 30,000 ∂417 ∂15,000 ........................Preserve America .................................................................................................................. ........................ 12,500 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥12,500 ........................HBCUs .................................................................................................................................. 3,451 ........................ 3,500 ........................ ¥3,451 ........................ ¥3,500

Total, Historic Preservation Fund ........................................................................... 71,739 66,205 72,705 72,500 ∂761 ∂6,295 ¥205

Construction

Emergency and unscheduled ............................................................................................... 3,944 3,944 3,944 3,944 ........................ ........................ ........................Housing ................................................................................................................................ 7,889 7,889 7,889 7,889 ........................ ........................ ........................Equipment replacement ....................................................................................................... 36,900 26,900 26,900 26,900 ¥10,000 ........................ ........................Planning, construction ......................................................................................................... 20,925 19,925 19,925 19,925 ¥1,000 ........................ ........................General management plans ................................................................................................. 13,128 13,254 13,754 13,754 ∂626 ∂500 ........................Line item construction and maintenance ............................................................................ 189,748 221,183 204,241 213,522 ∂23,774 ¥7,661 ∂9,281Construction program management .................................................................................... 26,984 28,605 28,605 27,605 ∂621 ¥1,000 ¥1,000Dam safety ........................................................................................................................... 2,662 2,662 2,662 2,662 ........................ ........................ ........................Manage partnership construction ........................................................................................ ........................ ........................ 310 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥310
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324) .............................................................. 50,802 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥50,802 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Construction ............................................................................................ 352,982 324,362 308,230 316,201 ¥36,781 ¥8,161 ∂7,971

Use of prior year balances .................................................................................................. ........................ ¥17,000 ¥17,000 ¥17,000 ¥17,000 ........................ ........................

Total, Construction ................................................................................................. 352,982 307,362 291,230 299,201 ¥53,781 ¥8,161 ∂7,971

Land and Water Conservation Fund

(Rescission of contract authority) ....................................................................................... ¥30,000 ¥30,000 ¥30,000 ¥30,000 ........................ ........................ ........................

Land Acquisition and State Assistance

Assistance to States: 

State conservation grants ........................................................................................... 89,736 ........................ ........................ 28,413 ¥61,323 ∂28,413 ∂28,413Administrative expenses ............................................................................................. 1,479 1,587 1,587 1,587 ∂108 ........................ ........................

Total, Assistance to States .................................................................................... 91,215 1,587 1,587 30,000 ¥61,215 ∂28,413 ∂28,413

National Park Service: 

Acquisitions ................................................................................................................. 39,839 35,131 ........................ 39,756 ¥83 ∂4,625 ∂39,756Emergencies and hardships ....................................................................................... 2,465 4,000 4,000 3,000 ∂535 ¥1,000 ¥1,000Acquisition management ............................................................................................ 10,365 9,749 9,749 9,749 ¥616 ........................ ........................Inholdings .................................................................................................................... 2,465 4,000 4,000 3,500 ∂1,035 ¥500 ¥500Use of prior year balances ......................................................................................... ........................ ........................ ¥9,915 ........................ ........................ ........................ ∂9,915

Total, National Park Service ................................................................................... 55,134 52,880 7,834 56,005 ∂871 ∂3,125 ∂48,171Total, Land Acquisition and State Assistance ....................................................... 146,349 54,467 9,421 86,005 ¥60,344 ∂31,538 ∂76,584TOTAL, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ............................................................................ 2,365,683 2,249,275 2,228,963 2,313,332 ¥52,351 ∂64,057 ∂84,369
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Appropriations ................................................................................................ (2,344,881) (2,279,275) (2,258,963) (2,343,332) (¥1,549) (∂64,057) (∂84,369) Rescission ...................................................................................................... (¥30,000) (¥30,000) (¥30,000) (¥30,000) ........................ ........................ ........................

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Surveys, Investigations, and Research

Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Geographic Investigations: 

Cooperative topographic mapping .............................................................................. 71,393 71,882 71,882 71,882 ∂489 ........................ ........................Land remote sensing .................................................................................................. 32,730 46,396 46,396 40,396 ∂7,666 ¥6,000 ¥6,000Geographic analysis and monitoring .......................................................................... 14,628 15,175 14,925 14,925 ∂297 ¥250 ........................

Subtotal, National Mapping Program ..................................................................... 118,751 133,453 133,203 127,203 ∂8,452 ¥6,250 ¥6,000

Geologic Hazards, Resource and Processes: 

Geologic hazards assessments ................................................................................... 75,979 82,209 82,209 83,209 ∂7,230 ∂1,000 ∂1,000Geologic landscape and coastal assessments ........................................................... 76,253 77,228 78,726 76,316 ∂63 ¥912 ¥2,410Geologic resource assessments .................................................................................. 77,014 48,699 78,311 77,677 ∂663 ∂28,978 ¥634

Subtotal, Geologic Hazards, Resource & Processes ............................................... 229,246 208,136 239,246 237,202 ∂7,956 ∂29,066 ¥2,044

Water Resources Investigations: 

Hydrologic monitoring, assessments and research: 

Ground water resources program ...................................................................... 6,998 7,417 7,417 7,747 ∂749 ∂330 ∂330National water quality assessment ................................................................... 61,645 63,132 63,132 63,132 ∂1,487 ........................ ........................Toxic substances hydrology ................................................................................ 14,476 13,120 13,350 14,620 ∂144 ∂1,500 ∂1,270Hydrologic research and development ............................................................... 15,997 14,428 15,278 14,428 ¥1,569 ........................ ¥850National streamflow information program ........................................................ 13,814 14,152 14,152 14,152 ∂338 ........................ ........................Hydrologic networks and analysis ..................................................................... 29,524 28,152 28,152 30,402 ∂878 ∂2,250 ∂2,250

Subtotal, Hydrologic monitoring, assessments and research ....................... 142,454 140,401 141,481 144,481 ∂2,027 ∂4,080 ∂3,000

Federal-State program ......................................................................................................... 62,337 63,770 63,770 63,770 ∂1,433 ........................ ........................Water resources research institutes .................................................................................... 6,409 ........................ 6,500 6,500 ∂91 ∂6,500 ........................

Subtotal, Water Resources Investigations .............................................................. 211,200 204,171 211,751 214,751 ∂3,551 ∂10,580 ∂3,000

Biological Research: 

Biological research and monitoring ............................................................................ 133,130 134,348 135,788 135,648 ∂2,518 ∂1,300 ¥140Biological information management and delivery ...................................................... 23,999 24,149 24,149 24,149 ∂150 ........................ ........................Cooperative research units ......................................................................................... 14,570 14,428 14,828 14,483 ¥87 ∂55 ¥345

Subtotal, Biological Research ................................................................................ 171,699 172,925 174,765 174,280 ∂2,581 ∂1,355 ¥485
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Enterprise Information: 

Enterprise information security and technology ......................................................... 22,714 25,237 25,237 25,237 ∂2,523 ........................ ........................Enterprise information resources ................................................................................ 16,989 17,153 17,153 17,153 ∂164 ........................ ........................Federal geographic data coordination ........................................................................ 4,670 5,377 4,697 4,697 ∂27 ¥680 ........................

Subtotal, Enterprise Information ............................................................................ 44,373 47,767 47,087 47,087 ∂2,714 ¥680 ........................

Science support .................................................................................................................... 65,584 72,337 72,337 66,337 ∂753 ¥6,000 ¥6,000Facilities ............................................................................................................................... 94,611 94,726 96,197 96,197 ∂1,586 ∂1,471 ........................Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324) .............................................................. 1,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥1,000 ........................ ........................Emergency appropriations (Public Law 109–13) ................................................................ 8,100 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥8,100 ........................ ........................

TOTAL, UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ........................................................ 944,564 933,515 974,586 963,057 ∂18,493 ∂29,542 ¥11,529

MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE

Royalty and Offshore Minerals Management

OCS Lands: 

Leasing and environmental program .......................................................................... 37,224 37,768 37,968 37,768 ∂544 ........................ ¥200Resource evaluation .................................................................................................... 29,566 28,682 28,882 29,582 ∂16 ∂900 ∂700Regulatory program ..................................................................................................... 51,516 51,766 52,166 51,766 ∂250 ........................ ¥400Information management program ............................................................................. 29,972 30,125 30,525 30,125 ∂153 ........................ ¥400

Subtotal, OCS Lands .............................................................................................. 148,278 148,341 149,541 149,241 ∂963 ∂900 ¥300

Royalty Management: 

Compliance and asset management .......................................................................... 41,550 51,903 42,103 43,103 ∂1,553 ¥8,800 ∂1,000Revenue and operations ............................................................................................. 33,867 35,426 35,426 35,426 ∂1,559 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Royalty Management ............................................................................... 75,417 87,329 77,529 78,529 ∂3,112 ¥8,800 ∂1,000
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General Administration: 

Executive direction ...................................................................................................... 2,057 2,086 2,116 2,086 ∂29 ........................ ¥30Policy and management improvement ....................................................................... 4,132 4,216 4,246 4,216 ∂84 ........................ ¥30Administrative operations ........................................................................................... 16,964 17,025 17,525 17,025 ∂61 ........................ ¥500General support services ............................................................................................ 23,702 24,149 24,449 24,149 ∂447 ........................ ¥300

Subtotal, General Administration ........................................................................... 46,855 47,476 48,336 47,476 ∂621 ........................ ¥860Subtotal (gross) ...................................................................................................... 270,550 283,146 275,406 275,246 ∂4,696 ¥7,900 ¥160

Use of receipts ..................................................................................................................... ¥103,730 ¥122,730 ¥122,730 ¥122,730 ¥19,000 ........................ ........................

Total, Royalty and Offshore Minerals Management ............................................... 166,820 160,416 152,676 152,516 ¥14,304 ¥7,900 ¥160

Oil Spill Research

Oil spill research .................................................................................................................. 7,006 7,006 7,006 7,006 ........................ ........................ ........................

TOTAL, MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE ............................................................. 173,826 167,422 159,682 159,522 ¥14,304 ¥7,900 ¥160

OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT

Regulation and Technology

Environmental restoration .................................................................................................... 158 159 159 159 ∂1 ........................ ........................Environmental protection ..................................................................................................... 79,821 79,566 79,566 79,566 ¥255 ........................ ........................Technology development and transfer ................................................................................. 13,300 15,126 15,126 15,126 ∂1,826 ........................ ........................Financial management ........................................................................................................ 485 488 488 488 ∂3 ........................ ........................Executive direction ............................................................................................................... 14,505 15,096 15,096 15,096 ∂591 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Regulation and Technology ..................................................................... 108,269 110,435 110,435 110,435 ∂2,166 ........................ ........................

Civil penalties ...................................................................................................................... 99 100 100 100 ∂1 ........................ ........................

Total, Regulation and Technology .......................................................................... 108,368 110,535 110,535 110,535 ∂2,167 ........................ ........................

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund

Environmental restoration .................................................................................................... 167,861 170,112 170,112 170,112 ∂2,251 ........................ ........................

Legislative proposal .................................................................................................... ........................ 58,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥58,000 ........................

Technology development and transfer ................................................................................. 4,479 3,922 3,922 3,922 ¥557 ........................ ........................Financial management ........................................................................................................ 8,444 6,234 6,234 6,234 ¥2,210 ........................ ........................
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Executive direction ............................................................................................................... 7,421 7,746 7,746 7,746 ∂325 ........................ ........................

Total, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund ............................................................ 188,205 246,014 188,014 188,014 ¥191 ¥58,000 ........................TOTAL, OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT ............. 296,573 356,549 298,549 298,549 ∂1,976 ¥58,000 ........................

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Operation of Indian Programs

Tribal Budget System

Tribal Priority Allocations: 

Tribal government ....................................................................................................... 389,183 394,558 394,558 394,558 ∂5,375 ........................ ........................Human services ........................................................................................................... 147,387 141,561 149,481 147,981 ∂594 ∂6,420 ¥1,500Education .................................................................................................................... 48,300 39,466 48,304 48,304 ∂4 ∂8,838 ........................Public safety and justice ............................................................................................ 1,222 ........................ 1,162 ........................ ¥1,222 ........................ ¥1,162Community development ............................................................................................. 40,412 40,789 40,789 40,789 ∂377 ........................ ........................Resources management .............................................................................................. 61,999 63,149 63,149 63,149 ∂1,150 ........................ ........................Trust services .............................................................................................................. 56,115 56,038 56,038 56,038 ¥77 ........................ ........................General administration ............................................................................................... 24,925 24,588 24,588 24,588 ¥337 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Tribal Priority Allocations ........................................................................ 769,543 760,149 778,069 775,407 ∂5,864 ∂15,258 ¥2,662

Other Recurring Programs: 

Education: 

School operations: 

Forward-funded ......................................................................................... 449,721 454,725 478,085 454,725 ∂5,004 ........................ ¥23,360Other school operations ............................................................................ 67,926 66,908 66,908 66,908 ¥1,018 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, School operations .................................................................. 517,647 521,633 544,993 521,633 ∂3,986 ........................ ¥23,360
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Continuing education ......................................................................................... 53,141 43,375 43,375 56,375 ∂3,234 ∂13,000 ∂13,000

Subtotal, Education ....................................................................................... 570,788 565,008 588,368 578,008 ∂7,220 ∂13,000 ¥10,360

Resources management .............................................................................................. 42,131 37,293 47,969 43,287 ∂1,156 ∂5,994 ¥4,682

Subtotal, Other Recurring Programs ...................................................................... 612,919 602,301 636,337 621,295 ∂8,376 ∂18,994 ¥15,042

Non-Recurring Programs: 

Community development ............................................................................................. 3,452 ........................ ........................ 2,750 ¥702 ∂2,750 ∂2,750Resources management .............................................................................................. 36,225 32,348 34,714 34,348 ¥1,877 ∂2,000 ¥366Trust services .............................................................................................................. 36,308 32,977 32,977 33,377 ¥2,931 ∂400 ∂400

Subtotal, Non-Recurring Programs ......................................................................... 75,985 65,325 67,691 70,475 ¥5,510 ∂5,150 ∂2,784Total, Tribal Budget System ................................................................................... 1,458,447 1,427,775 1,482,097 1,467,177 ∂8,730 ∂39,402 ¥14,920

BIA Operations

Central Office Operations: 

Tribal government ....................................................................................................... 2,248 2,288 2,288 2,288 ∂40 ........................ ........................Human services ........................................................................................................... 887 912 912 912 ∂25 ........................ ........................Community development ............................................................................................. ........................ 500 500 500 ∂500 ........................ ........................Resources management .............................................................................................. 3,416 3,044 3,044 3,044 ¥372 ........................ ........................Trust services .............................................................................................................. 19,071 27,169 27,169 27,169 ∂8,098 ........................ ........................General administration: 

Education program management ...................................................................... 2,348 2,411 2,411 2,411 ∂63 ........................ ........................Personnel services .............................................................................................. 5,863 8,378 8,378 8,378 ∂2,515 ........................ ........................Other general administration ............................................................................. 106,188 106,832 106,832 106,832 ∂644 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, General administration .................................................................. 114,399 117,621 117,621 117,621 ∂3,222 ........................ ........................Subtotal, Central Office Operations .............................................................. 140,021 151,534 151,534 151,534 ∂11,513 ........................ ........................

Regional Office Operations: 

Tribal government ....................................................................................................... 1,095 1,323 1,323 1,323 ∂228 ........................ ........................Human services ........................................................................................................... 3,038 3,019 3,019 3,019 ¥19 ........................ ........................Community development ............................................................................................. 778 966 966 966 ∂188 ........................ ........................Resources management .............................................................................................. 5,319 5,403 5,403 5,403 ∂84 ........................ ........................Trust services .............................................................................................................. 24,049 27,376 27,376 27,376 ∂3,327 ........................ ........................General administration ............................................................................................... 7,083 3,503 3,503 3,503 ¥3,580 ........................ ........................
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Subtotal, Regional Office Operations ..................................................................... 41,362 41,590 41,590 41,590 ∂228 ........................ ........................

Special Programs and Pooled Overhead: 

Education .................................................................................................................... 16,336 17,499 17,499 17,499 ∂1,163 ........................ ........................Public safety and justice ............................................................................................ 180,063 192,265 200,765 192,265 ∂12,202 ........................ ¥8,500Community development ............................................................................................. 8,102 ........................ 5,685 7,500 ¥602 ∂7,500 ∂1,815Resources management .............................................................................................. 1,269 1,269 1,269 1,269 ........................ ........................ ........................General administration ............................................................................................... 80,491 92,298 92,298 92,298 ∂11,807 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Special Programs and Pooled Overhead ................................................ 286,261 303,331 317,516 310,831 ∂24,570 ∂7,500 ¥6,685Total, BIA Operations .............................................................................................. 467,644 496,455 510,640 503,955 ∂36,311 ∂7,500 ¥6,685Total, Operation of Indian Programs ...................................................................... 1,926,091 1,924,230 1,992,737 1,971,132 ∂45,041 ∂46,902 ¥21,605

BIA SPLITS

Natural resources ................................................................................................................. (150,359) (142,506) (155,548) (150,500) (∂141) (∂7,994) (¥5,048) Forward-funding ................................................................................................................... (449,721) (454,725) (478,085) (454,725) (∂5,004) ........................ (¥23,360) Education ............................................................................................................................. (188,051) (169,659) (178,497) (191,497) (∂3,446) (∂21,838) (∂13,000) Community development ...................................................................................................... (1,137,960) (1,157,340) (1,180,607) (1,174,410) (∂36,450) (∂17,070) (¥6,197)

Total, BIA splits ...................................................................................................... (1,926,091) (1,924,230) (1,992,737) (1,971,132) (∂45,041) (∂46,902) (¥21,605)

Construction

Education ............................................................................................................................. 263,372 173,875 225,875 198,875 ¥64,497 ∂25,000 ¥27,000Public safety and justice ..................................................................................................... 7,381 11,777 11,777 11,777 ∂4,396 ........................ ........................Resources management ....................................................................................................... 40,289 38,272 38,272 48,272 ∂7,983 ∂10,000 ∂10,000General administration ........................................................................................................ 2,126 2,136 2,136 2,136 ∂10 ........................ ........................Construction management ................................................................................................... 5,961 6,077 6,077 6,077 ∂116 ........................ ........................
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Total, Construction ................................................................................................. 319,129 232,137 284,137 267,137 ¥51,992 ∂35,000 ¥17,000

Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians

Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw settlement .................................................................. 9,833 10,167 10,167 10,167 ∂334 ........................ ........................Colorado Ute Settlement ...................................................................................................... 7,889 8,111 8,111 8,111 ∂222 ........................ ........................Cuba Lake Settlement .......................................................................................................... 1,726 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥1,726 ........................ ........................Hoopa-Yurok settlement fund .............................................................................................. 247 254 254 254 ∂7 ........................ ........................Pyramid Lake water rights settlement ................................................................................ 140 144 144 144 ∂4 ........................ ........................Quinault Settlement ............................................................................................................. 9,893 ........................ 10,000 ........................ ¥9,893 ........................ ¥10,000White Earth Land Settlement Act (Admin) .......................................................................... 616 634 634 634 ∂18 ........................ ........................Zuni Water Settlement ......................................................................................................... 13,806 5,444 5,444 5,444 ¥8,362 ........................ ........................

Total, Miscellaneous Payments to Indians ............................................................. 44,150 24,754 34,754 24,754 ¥19,396 ........................ ¥10,000

Indian Guaranteed Loan Program Account

Indian guaranteed loan program account ........................................................................... 6,332 6,348 6,348 6,348 ∂16 ........................ ........................

TOTAL, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS ....................................................................... 2,295,702 2,187,469 2,317,976 2,269,371 ¥26,331 ∂81,902 ¥48,605

DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES

Insular Affairs

Assistance to Territories

Territorial Assistance: 

Office of Insular Affairs .............................................................................................. 6,472 6,881 7,381 6,881 ∂409 ........................ ¥500Technical assistance ................................................................................................... 11,716 8,561 10,361 10,981 ¥735 ∂2,420 ∂620Maintenance assistance fund ..................................................................................... 2,268 2,300 2,300 2,300 ∂32 ........................ ........................Brown tree snake ........................................................................................................ 2,663 2,700 2,700 2,700 ∂37 ........................ ........................Insular management controls ..................................................................................... 1,470 1,491 1,491 1,491 ∂21 ........................ ........................Coral reef initiative ..................................................................................................... 493 500 500 500 ∂7 ........................ ........................Water and wastewater projects .................................................................................. ........................ 1,000 1,000 1,000 ∂1,000 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Territorial Assistance .............................................................................. 25,082 23,433 25,733 25,853 ∂771 ∂2,420 ∂120

American Samoa: Operations grants ................................................................................... 22,779 23,110 23,110 23,110 ∂331 ........................ ........................Northern Marianas: Covenant grants .................................................................................. 27,720 27,720 27,720 27,720 ........................ ........................ ........................

Total, Assistance to Territories ............................................................................... 75,581 74,263 76,563 76,683 ∂1,102 ∂2,420 ∂120
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Compact of Free Association

Compact of Free Association—Federal services ................................................................. 2,957 2,862 2,862 2,862 ¥95 ........................ ........................

Mandatory payments—program grant assistance ..................................................... 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 ........................ ........................ ........................

Enewetak support ................................................................................................................. 493 ........................ 500 ........................ ¥493 ........................ ¥500

Total, Compact of Free Association ....................................................................... 5,450 4,862 5,362 4,862 ¥588 ........................ ¥500Total, Insular Affairs .............................................................................................. 81,031 79,125 81,925 81,545 ∂514 ∂2,420 ¥380

Departmental Management

Departmental direction ........................................................................................................ 13,358 13,591 13,591 14,090 ∂732 ∂499 ∂499Management and coordination ............................................................................................ 28,554 30,298 29,598 29,348 ∂794 ¥950 ¥250Hearings and appeals .......................................................................................................... 7,919 8,068 8,068 8,068 ∂149 ........................ ........................Central services ................................................................................................................... 27,696 34,387 34,187 33,865 ∂6,169 ¥522 ¥322Bureau of Mines workers compensation/unemployment ..................................................... 629 653 653 653 ∂24 ........................ ........................Take Pride in America .......................................................................................................... 490 1,000 500 ........................ ¥490 ¥1,000 ¥500Financial and business management system ..................................................................... 14,160 23,555 23,555 ........................ ¥14,160 ¥23,555 ¥23,555Indian Arts and Crafts Board .............................................................................................. 1,042 1,162 1,162 1,162 ∂120 ........................ ........................Grant to Kendall County, Illinois ......................................................................................... 4,931 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥4,931 ........................ ........................General reduction ................................................................................................................. ¥2,958 ........................ ........................ ........................ ∂2,958 ........................ ........................Appraisal services ................................................................................................................ ........................ 7,441 7,441 7,441 ∂7,441 ........................ ........................Reductions in House floor action ........................................................................................ ........................ ........................ ¥21,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ∂21,000Emergency appropriations (Public Law 109–13) ................................................................ 3,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥3,000 ........................ ........................

Total, Departmental Management .......................................................................... 98,821 120,155 97,755 94,627 ¥4,194 ¥25,528 ¥3,128

Working Capital Fund

Financial and Business Management System ..................................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 22,555 ∂22,555 ∂22,555 ∂22,555
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Payments in Lieu of Taxes

Payments to local governments ........................................................................................... 226,805 200,000 242,000 235,000 ∂8,195 ∂35,000 ¥7,000

Central Hazardous Materials Fund

Central hazardous materials fund ....................................................................................... ........................ 9,855 9,855 9,855 ∂9,855 ........................ ........................

Office of the Solicitor

Legal services ...................................................................................................................... 40,916 42,660 42,472 42,660 ∂1,744 ........................ ∂188General administration ........................................................................................................ 9,701 12,020 11,801 11,920 ∂2,219 ¥100 ∂119Ethics ................................................................................................................................... 1,039 1,072 1,067 1,072 ∂33 ........................ ∂5

Total, Office of the Solicitor ................................................................................... 51,656 55,752 55,340 55,652 ∂3,996 ¥100 ∂312

Office of Inspector General

Audit ..................................................................................................................................... 16,270 17,744 17,274 16,974 ∂704 ¥770 ¥300Investigations ....................................................................................................................... 13,529 15,241 14,491 14,341 ∂812 ¥900 ¥150Administrative services and information management ...................................................... 7,476 8,014 7,801 7,801 ∂325 ¥213 ........................

Total, Office of Inspector General .......................................................................... 37,275 40,999 39,566 39,116 ∂1,841 ¥1,883 ¥450

Office of Special Trustee for American Indians

Federal Trust Programs

Program operations, support, and improvements ............................................................... 191,324 267,165 189,361 189,361 ¥1,963 ¥77,804 ........................Executive direction ............................................................................................................... 2,216 2,232 2,232 2,232 ∂16 ........................ ........................

Total, Federal Trust programs ................................................................................ 193,540 269,397 191,593 191,593 ¥1,947 ¥77,804 ........................

Indian Land Consolidation Program

Indian land consolidation .................................................................................................... 34,514 34,514 34,514 34,514 ........................ ........................ ........................

Total, Office of Special Trustee for American Indians .......................................... 228,054 303,911 226,107 226,107 ¥1,947 ¥77,804 ........................

Natural Resource Damage Assessment Fund

Damage assessments .......................................................................................................... 3,845 3,931 3,931 3,931 ∂86 ........................ ........................Program management .......................................................................................................... 1,526 1,592 1,592 1,592 ∂66 ........................ ........................Restoration support .............................................................................................................. 366 583 583 583 ∂217 ........................ ........................
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Total, Natural Resource Damage Assessment Fund .............................................. 5,737 6,106 6,106 6,106 ∂369 ........................ ........................TOTAL, DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES ............................................................................ 729,379 815,903 758,654 770,563 ∂41,184 ¥45,340 ∂11,909TOTAL, TITLE I, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR .................................................... 9,955,228 9,792,069 9,799,693 9,877,741 ¥77,487 ∂85,672 ∂78,048

Appropriations ................................................................................................ (9,543,364) (9,509,904) (9,495,648) (9,565,744) (∂22,380) (∂55,840) (∂70,096) Emergency appropriations ............................................................................. (103,454) ........................ ........................ ........................ (¥103,454) ........................ ........................Rescission ...................................................................................................... (¥30,000) (¥30,000) (¥30,000) (¥30,000) ........................ ........................ ........................

TITLE II—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Science and Technology

Air toxics and quality: 

Clean air allowance trading programs (also EPM) .................................................... 8,734 9,353 9,353 8,734 ........................ ¥619 ¥619Federal support for air quality mgmt (also EPM) ...................................................... 10,521 10,016 10,016 10,016 ¥505 ........................ ........................Federal support for air toxics program (also EPM) .................................................... 2,562 2,265 2,265 2,265 ¥297 ........................ ........................Federal vehicle and fuels standards/certification ...................................................... 57,436 66,567 59,567 61,436 ∂4,000 ¥5,131 ∂1,869Radiation: Protection (also EPM; HSS) ....................................................................... 3,069 2,121 2,121 2,121 ¥948 ........................ ........................Radiation: Response preparedness (also EPM) .......................................................... 2,320 3,576 3,576 3,576 ∂1,256 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Air toxics and quality ............................................................................. 84,642 93,898 86,898 88,148 ∂3,506 ¥5,750 ∂1,250

Enforcement: Forensics support (also HSS) ........................................................................ 13,048 13,737 13,737 13,737 ∂689 ........................ ........................Climate protection: Climate protection program (also EPM) 19,006 17,732 20,032 17,732 ¥1,274 ........................ ¥2,300Homeland security: 

Homeland security: Critical infrastructure protection: 

Critical infrastructure protection (except water sentinel) (also EPM; HSS) ..... 3,495 3,569 3,569 3,495 ........................ ¥74 ¥74Water sentinel and related training .................................................................. ........................ 44,000 9,000 5,585 ∂5,585 ¥38,415 ¥3,415
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Subtotal, Homeland security: Critical infrastructure protection ................... 3,495 47,569 12,569 9,080 ∂5,585 ¥38,489 ¥3,489

Homeland security: Preparedness, response, and recovery: 

Preparedness, response, and recovery (other activities) (also HSS) ................ 13,671 14,806 14,806 14,806 ∂1,135 ........................ ........................Decontamination (also EPM; HSS) ..................................................................... 13,609 24,710 16,710 13,609 ........................ ¥11,101 ¥3,101Laboratory preparedness & response (also EPM; HSS) ..................................... ........................ 600 600 ........................ ........................ ¥600 ¥600Safe buildings .................................................................................................... ........................ 4,000 4,000 ........................ ........................ ¥4,000 ¥4,000(Transfer from Hazardous substance superfund) .............................................. (2,071) (2,000) (2,000) (2,000) (¥71) ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Homeland security: Preparedness, response, and recovery .......... 27,280 44,116 36,116 28,415 ∂1,135 ¥15,701 ¥7,701

Homeland security: Protection of EPA personnel and infrastructure (also EPM; B&F; 

HSS) ................................................................................................................................. 2,024 2,100 2,100 2,100 ∂76 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Homeland security .................................................................................. 32,799 93,785 50,785 39,595 ∂6,796 ¥54,190 ¥11,190

IT/Data management/Security: IT/Data management (also EPM; LUST; OSR; HSS) ........... 4,345 4,251 4,251 4,251 ¥94 ........................ ........................Indoor air: 

Indoor air: Radon program (also EPM) ....................................................................... 495 442 442 442 ¥53 ........................ ........................Indoor air: Schools and workplace program (moved to reduce risks in fiscal year 

2006) ...................................................................................................................... 843 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥843 ........................ ........................

Reduce risks from indoor air (also EPM) ................................................................... ........................ 832 832 832 ∂832 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Indoor air ................................................................................................ 1,338 1,274 1,274 1,274 ¥64 ........................ ........................

Operations and administration: 

Facilities infrastructure and operations (also EPM; B&F; LUST; OSR; HSS) ............. 8,466 8,716 8,716 8,466 ........................ ¥250 ¥250

Pesticide licensing: 

Pesticides: Registration of new pesticides (also EPM) .............................................. 2,466 2,490 2,490 2,490 ∂24 ........................ ........................Pesticides: Review/Reregistration of existing pesticides (also EPM) ......................... 2,478 2,506 2,506 2,506 ∂28 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Pesticide licensing .................................................................................. 4,944 4,996 4,996 4,996 ∂52 ........................ ........................

Research/Congressional priorities ........................................................................................ 65,665 ........................ 40,000 50,000 ¥15,665 ∂50,000 ∂10,000Research: Clean air: 

Research: Air toxics .................................................................................................... 16,956 16,387 16,387 16,387 ¥569 ........................ ........................Research: Global change ............................................................................................ 19,578 20,534 20,534 19,578 ........................ ¥956 ¥956Research: National ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) ..................................... ........................ 71,451 71,451 65,403 ∂65,403 ¥6,048 ¥6,048Research: Particulate matter (Moved to NAAQS in fiscal year 2006) ....................... 60,863 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥60,863 ........................ ........................Research: Troposphere ozone ...................................................................................... 4,041 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥4,041 ........................ ........................
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Subtotal, Research: Clean air ................................................................................ 101,438 108,372 108,372 101,368 ¥70 ¥7,004 ¥7,004

Research: Clean water: 

Research: Drinking water ............................................................................................ 48,665 45,690 45,690 45,690 ¥2,975 ........................ ........................Research: Water quality .............................................................................................. 44,993 55,900 55,900 46,592 ∂1,599 ¥9,308 ¥9,308

Subtotal, Research: Clean water ............................................................................ 93,658 101,590 101,590 92,282 ¥1,376 ¥9,308 ¥9,308

Research: Human health and ecosystems: 

Human health risk assessment .................................................................................. 32,723 36,240 36,240 36,240 ∂3,517 ........................ ........................

(By transfer from Hazardous substance superfund) ......................................... (3,559) (4,022) (4,022) (4,022) (∂463) ........................ ........................

Research: Computational toxicology ........................................................................... 11,994 13,832 12,632 11,994 ........................ ¥1,838 ¥638Research: Endocrine disruptor .................................................................................... 10,392 8,705 10,605 10,392 ........................ ∂1,687 ¥213Research: Fellowships ................................................................................................. 12,042 8,327 12,027 12,042 ........................ ∂3,715 ∂15Research: Human health and ecosystems ................................................................. 167,356 169,632 177,632 167,356 ........................ ¥2,276 ¥10,276

Subtotal, Research: Human health and ecosystems ............................................. 234,507 236,736 249,136 238,024 ∂3,517 ∂1,288 ¥11,112

Research: Land protection: 

Research: Land protection & restoration (also HSS) ................................................. 9,065 13,696 13,696 9,065 ........................ ¥4,631 ¥4,631

(By transfer from Hazardous substance superfund) ......................................... (22,994) (23,099) (23,099) (23,099) (∂105) ........................ ........................(By transfer from Hazardous substance superfund) ......................................... (6,596) (1,485) (1,485) (1,485) (¥5,111) ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Research: Land protection ............................................................. 9,065 13,696 13,696 9,065 ........................ ¥4,631 ¥4,631

Research: Sustainability: 

Research: Economics and decision science (EDS) ..................................................... ........................ 2,645 2,645 2,645 ∂2,645 ........................ ........................Research: Environmental technology verification (ETV) ............................................. 3,181 3,203 3,203 3,203 ∂22 ........................ ........................Research: Pollution prevention (also HSS) ................................................................. 37,232 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥37,232 ........................ ........................

(By transfer from Hazardous substance superfund) ......................................... (588) ........................ ........................ ........................ (¥588) ........................ ........................

Research: Sustainability (other activities) ................................................................. ........................ 23,188 23,188 23,188 ∂23,188 ........................ ........................
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Subtotal, Research: Sustainability ................................................................ 40,413 29,036 29,036 29,036 ¥11,377 ........................ ........................

Toxic research and prevention: 

Research: Pesticides and toxics ................................................................................. 27,792 29,753 29,753 29,753 ∂1,961 ........................ ........................

Water: Human health protection: 

Drinking water programs (also EPM) ......................................................................... 2,935 3,068 3,068 3,068 ∂133 ........................ ........................

Total, Science and Technology ............................................................................... 744,061 760,640 765,340 730,795 ¥13,266 ¥29,845 ¥34,545(By transfer from Hazardous substance superfund) ............................................. (35,808) (30,606) (30,606) (30,606) (¥5,202) ........................ ........................

Environmental Programs and Management

Air toxics and quality; 

Clean air allowance trading programs (also S&T) .................................................... 16,873 18,234 18,234 18,234 ∂1,361 ........................ ........................Federal stationary source regulations ........................................................................ 21,768 23,509 23,509 23,509 ∂1,741 ........................ ........................Federal support for air quality management: 

Federal support for air quality management (other activities) (also S&T) ...... 88,192 95,891 95,891 88,192 ........................ ¥7,699 ¥7,699Clean diesel initiative ........................................................................................ ........................ 15,000 10,000 ........................ ........................ ¥15,000 ¥10,000

Subtotal, Federal support for air quality management ................................ 88,192 110,891 105,891 88,192 ........................ ¥22,699 ¥17,699

Federal support for air toxics program (also S&T) .................................................... 24,590 25,431 25,431 24,590 ........................ ¥841 ¥841Radiation: Protection (also S&T; HSS) ........................................................................ 11,122 11,765 11,765 11,122 ........................ ¥643 ¥643Radiation: Response preparedness (also S&T) .......................................................... 2,624 2,636 2,636 2,624 ........................ ¥12 ¥12Stratospheric ozone: Domestic programs ................................................................... 5,013 3,969 5,169 5,013 ........................ ∂1,044 ¥156Stratospheric ozone: Multilateral fund ....................................................................... 9,920 13,500 10,500 8,000 ¥1,920 ¥5,500 ¥2,500

Subtotal, Air toxics and quality ............................................................................. 180,102 209,935 203,135 181,284 ∂1,182 ¥28,651 ¥21,851

Brownfields ........................................................................................................................... 24,301 29,638 24,638 25,000 ∂699 ¥4,638 ∂362Climate protection program: 

Climate protection program (other activities) (also S&T) .......................................... 43,910 41,030 41,030 41,030 ¥2,880 ........................ ........................Energy star .................................................................................................................. 46,700 50,500 50,000 50,500 ∂3,800 ........................ ∂500Methane to markets .................................................................................................... 300 4,000 500 3,000 ∂2,700 ¥1,000 ∂2,500

Subtotal, Climate protection .................................................................................. 90,910 95,530 91,530 94,530 ∂3,620 ¥1,000 ∂3,000

Compliance: 

Compliance assistance and centers (also LUST; OSR; HSS) ..................................... 26,613 29,097 29,097 29,097 ∂2,484 ........................ ........................Compliance incentives (also HSS) .............................................................................. 8,963 9,622 9,622 9,622 ∂659 ........................ ........................
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Compliance monitoring (also HSS) (Some of these funds were in IT/Data management in fiscal year 2005) ...................................................................................... 66,328 93,412 90,512 87,328 ∂21,000 ¥6,084 ¥3,184

Subtotal, Compliance ......................................................................................... 101,904 132,131 129,231 126,047 ∂24,143 ¥6,084 ¥3,184

Enforcement: 

Civil enforcement (also OSR; HSS) ............................................................................. 112,463 117,462 114,462 117,462 ∂4,999 ........................ ∂3,000Criminal enforcement (also HSS) ............................................................................... 39,101 37,326 36,326 39,101 ........................ ∂1,775 ∂2,775Enforcement training (also HSS) ................................................................................ 3,428 2,499 2,499 3,428 ........................ ∂929 ∂929Environmental justice (also HSS) ............................................................................... 5,883 3,980 5,883 3,980 ¥1,903 ........................ ¥1,903NEPA implementation .................................................................................................. 12,039 12,440 12,440 12,440 ∂401 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Enforcement ............................................................................................ 172,914 173,707 171,610 176,411 ∂3,497 ∂2,704 ∂4,801

Environmental protection/Congressional priorities .............................................................. 92,326 ........................ 40,000 50,000 ¥42,326 ∂50,000 ∂10,000Geographic programs: 

Geographic program: Chesapeake Bay ....................................................................... 22,756 20,746 20,746 23,000 ∂244 ∂2,254 ∂2,254Geographic program: Great Lakes .............................................................................. 21,287 21,519 21,519 22,000 ∂713 ∂481 ∂481Geographic program: Gulf of Mexico .......................................................................... 3,895 4,468 4,468 5,000 ∂1,105 ∂532 ∂532Geographic program: Lake Champlain ....................................................................... 2,480 955 2,000 1,955 ¥525 ∂1,000 ¥45Geographic program: Long Island Sound ................................................................... 2,332 477 2,000 477 ¥1,855 ........................ ¥1,523Geographic program: Puget Sound ............................................................................. ........................ ........................ 2,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥2,000

Geographic program: Other: 

Community action for a renewed environment (CARE) .............................................. 1,984 9,000 3,000 1,984 ........................ ¥7,016 ¥1,016Other (other activities) ................................................................................................ 4,923 4,686 4,686 5,853 ∂930 ∂1,167 ∂1,167

Subtotal, Geographic program: Other .................................................................... 6,907 13,686 7,686 7,837 ∂930 ¥5,849 ∂151

Regional geographic initiatives .................................................................................. 7,687 8,862 7,762 7,000 ¥687 ¥1,862 ¥762
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Subtotal, Geographic programs .............................................................................. 67,344 70,713 68,181 67,269 ¥75 ¥3,444 ¥912

Homeland security: 

Homeland security: Communication and information (also HSS): 

Communication and information (other activities) ........................................... 5,133 5,450 5,450 5,450 ∂317 ........................ ........................Laboratory preparedness and response (also S&T) ........................................... ........................ 1,230 1,230 ........................ ........................ ¥1,230 ¥1,230

Subtotal, Homeland security: Communication and information ................... 5,133 6,680 6,680 5,450 ∂317 ¥1,230 ¥1,230

Homeland security: Critical infrastructure protection: 

Critical infrastructure protection (except decontamination) (also S&T; HSS) .. 6,896 6,847 6,847 6,847 ¥49 ........................ ........................Decontamination (also S&T; EPM; HSS) ............................................................ ........................ 100 100 ........................ ........................ ¥100 ¥100

Subtotal, Homeland security: critical infrastructure protection ................... 6,896 6,947 6,947 6,847 ¥49 ¥100 ¥100

Homeland security: Preparedness, response, and recovery (also S&T; HSS): Decontamination (also S&T; EPM; HSS) .......................................................................... 1,822 3,348 3,348 2,748 ∂926 ¥600 ¥600Homeland security: Protection of EPA personnel and infrastructure (also S&T; 

B&F; HSS) ............................................................................................................... 6,294 6,403 6,403 6,403 ∂109 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Homeland security .............................................................................. 20,145 23,378 23,378 21,448 ∂1,303 ¥1,930 ¥1,930

Indoor air: 

Indoor air: Asthma program ....................................................................................... 10,468 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥10,468 ........................ ........................Indoor air: Environment tobacco smoke program ...................................................... 2,400 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥2,400 ........................ ........................Indoor air: Radon program (also S&T) ....................................................................... 5,142 5,918 5,918 5,000 ¥142 ¥918 ¥918Indoor air: Schools and workplace program ............................................................... 9,326 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥9,326 ........................ ........................Reduce risks from indoor air (also S&T) .................................................................... ........................ 23,496 23,496 22,194 ∂22,194 ¥1,302 ¥1,302

Subtotal, Indoor air ................................................................................................ 27,336 29,414 29,414 27,194 ¥142 ¥2,220 ¥2,220

Information exchange/Outreach: 

Children and other sensitive populations: Agency coordination ................................ 5,970 6,890 6,890 6,890 ∂920 ........................ ........................Congressional, intergovernmental, external relations (also HSS) .............................. 48,624 49,753 49,753 49,753 ∂1,129 ........................ ........................Environmental education ............................................................................................ 8,957 ........................ 9,000 7,000 ¥1,957 ∂7,000 ¥2,000Exchange network (also HSS) ..................................................................................... 16,361 22,739 18,739 18,000 ∂1,639 ¥4,739 ¥739Small business ombudsman ....................................................................................... 3,712 3,911 3,911 3,911 ∂199 ........................ ........................Small minority business assistance ........................................................................... 2,264 2,348 2,348 2,348 ∂84 ........................ ........................State and local prevention and preparedness ........................................................... 11,855 12,328 12,328 11,855 ........................ ¥473 ¥473Toxics release inventory (TRI)/Right to know ............................................................. 14,310 14,754 14,754 12,000 ¥2,310 ¥2,754 ¥2,754Tribal—Capacity building .......................................................................................... 10,640 11,049 11,049 11,049 ∂409 ........................ ........................
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Subtotal, Information exchange/Outreach .............................................................. 122,693 123,772 128,772 122,806 ∂113 ¥966 ¥5,966

International programs: 

Children and other sensitive populations: Agency coordination ................................ 244 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥244 ........................ ........................Commission for environmental cooperation ............................................................... 3,773 4,210 4,210 4,210 ∂437 ........................ ........................Environment and trade ............................................................................................... 1,500 1,787 1,787 1,787 ∂287 ........................ ........................International capacity building ................................................................................... 5,751 6,450 6,450 5,000 ¥751 ¥1,450 ¥1,450Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) implementation ............................................... 1,627 2,806 2,806 1,627 ........................ ¥1,179 ¥1,179U.S./Mexico border ....................................................................................................... 5,612 5,975 5,975 5,975 ∂363 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, International programs ........................................................................... 18,507 21,228 21,228 18,599 ∂92 ¥2,629 ¥2,629

IT/Data management/Security: 

Information security (also HSS) .................................................................................. 4,131 3,888 3,888 3,888 ¥243 ........................ ........................IT/Data management (also S&T; LUST; OSR; HSS) ($22.59 million moved to EPM 

Compliance in fisca year 2006) ............................................................................. 106,123 105,999 95,999 93,000 ¥13,123 ¥12,999 ¥2,999

Subtotal, IT/Data management/Security ............................................................ 110,254 109,887 99,887 96,888 ¥13,366 ¥12,999 ¥2,999

Legal/Science/Regulatory/Economic review: 

Administrative law ...................................................................................................... 4,890 5,109 5,109 5,109 ∂219 ........................ ........................Alternative dispute resolution (also HSS) ................................................................... 931 1,051 1,051 1,051 ∂120 ........................ ........................Civil rights/Title VI compliance .................................................................................. 12,119 12,530 12,530 12,530 ∂411 ........................ ........................Legal advice: Environmental program (also HSS) ...................................................... 34,644 36,314 36,314 36,314 ∂1,670 ........................ ........................Legal advice: Support program .................................................................................. 12,555 13,088 13,088 13,088 ∂533 ........................ ........................Regional science and technology ............................................................................... 3,245 3,643 3,643 3,643 ∂398 ........................ ........................Regulatory innovation ................................................................................................. 20,014 25,021 23,118 20,014 ........................ ¥5,007 ¥3,104Regulatory/Economic-management and analysis ....................................................... 14,821 16,713 16,713 14,821 ........................ ¥1,892 ¥1,892Science advisory board ............................................................................................... 4,361 4,881 4,881 4,881 ∂520 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Legal/Science/Regulatory/Economic review ............................................ 107,580 118,350 116,447 111,451 ∂3,871 ¥6,899 ¥4,996
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Operations and administration: 

Acquisition management (also LUST; HSS) ................................................................ 22,714 23,055 23,055 23,055 ∂341 ........................ ........................Central planning, budgeting, and finance (also LUST; HSS) .................................... 69,387 72,790 72,790 72,790 ∂3,403 ........................ ........................Facilities infrastructure and operations (also S&T; B&F; LUST; OSR; HSS) .............. 314,614 358,046 353,046 340,000 ∂25,386 ¥18,046 ¥13,046Financial assistance grants/Interagency agreements (IAG) management (also

HSS) ........................................................................................................................ 20,366 19,916 19,916 19,916 ¥450 ........................ ........................

Human resources management (also LUST; HSS) ...................................................... 39,461 38,872 38,872 37,000 ¥2,461 ¥1,872 ¥1,872

Subtotal, Operations and administration ............................................................... 466,542 512,679 507,679 492,761 ∂26,219 ¥19,918 ¥14,918

Pesticide licensing: 

Pesticides: Field programs .......................................................................................... 24,362 24,683 24,683 24,683 ∂321 ........................ ........................Pesticides: Registration of new pesticides (also S&T) .............................................. 39,159 41,472 41,472 41,472 ∂2,313 ........................ ........................Pesticides: Review/Reregistration of existing pesticides (also S&T) ......................... 51,315 57,991 54,950 57,991 ∂6,676 ........................ ∂3,041Science policy and biotechnology ............................................................................... 1,640 1,751 1,751 1,640 ........................ ¥111 ¥111

Subtotal, Pesticide licensing .................................................................................. 116,476 125,897 122,856 125,786 ∂9,310 ¥111 ∂2,930

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA): 

RCRA: Corrective action .............................................................................................. 39,667 42,710 42,710 42,710 ∂3,043 ........................ ........................RCRA: Waste management ......................................................................................... 66,696 68,228 68,228 68,228 ∂1,532 ........................ ........................RCRA: Waste minimization and recycling .................................................................. 11,508 14,376 14,376 14,376 ∂2,868 ........................ ........................RCRA: General reduction ............................................................................................. ........................ ........................ ¥5,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ∂5,000

Subtotal, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) .................................. 117,871 125,314 120,314 125,314 ∂7,443 ........................ ∂5,000

Toxics risk review and prevention: 

Toxic substances: Chemical risk management .......................................................... 8,341 9,058 9,058 9,058 ∂717 ........................ ........................Toxic substances: Chemical risk review & reduction ................................................. 44,814 44,523 45,523 45,879 ∂1,065 ∂1,356 ∂356Endocrine disruptors ................................................................................................... 8,540 9,097 9,097 9,097 ∂557 ........................ ........................Toxic substances: Lead risk reduction program ......................................................... 10,970 10,549 10,549 10,549 ¥421 ........................ ........................Pollution prevention program ...................................................................................... 16,408 19,990 17,990 16,408 ........................ ¥3,582 ¥1,582

Subtotal, Toxics risk review and prevention .......................................................... 89,073 93,217 92,217 90,991 ∂1,918 ¥2,226 ¥1,226

Underground storage tanks (LUST/UST) (also LUST) ........................................................... 7,125 7,719 7,719 7,719 ∂594 ........................ ........................Water: Ecosystems: 

Great Lakes Legacy Act .............................................................................................. 22,320 50,000 28,000 30,000 ∂7,680 ¥20,000 ∂2,000National estuary program/Coastal waterways ............................................................ 25,065 19,446 24,446 21,000 ¥4,065 ∂1,554 ¥3,446Wetlands ...................................................................................................................... 20,085 20,375 20,375 20,375 ∂290 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Water: Ecosystems .................................................................................. 67,470 89,821 72,821 71,375 ∂3,905 ¥18,446 ¥1,446
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Water: Human health protection: 

Beach/Fish programs .................................................................................................. 3,210 3,264 3,264 3,264 ∂54 ........................ ........................Drinking water programs (also S&T) .......................................................................... 93,258 101,090 98,090 95,000 ∂1,742 ¥6,090 ¥3,090National Rural Water Association ............................................................................... ........................ ........................ 10,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥10,000

Subtotal, Water: Human health protection ............................................................ 96,468 104,354 111,354 98,264 ∂1,796 ¥6,090 ¥13,090

Water quality protection: Marine pollution .......................................................................... 11,358 12,279 12,279 12,279 ∂921 ........................ ........................

Surface water protection: 

Surface water protection (other activities) ........................................................ 179,503 185,501 185,501 185,501 ∂5,998 ........................ ........................Water quality monitoring ................................................................................... 6,700 9,300 9,300 4,499 ¥2,201 ¥4,801 ¥4,801

Subtotal, Surface water protection ............................................................... 186,203 194,801 194,801 190,000 ∂3,797 ¥4,801 ¥4,801Subtotal, Water quality protection ................................................................ 197,561 207,080 207,080 202,279 ∂4,718 ¥4,801 ¥4,801Subtotal, Environmental Programs and Management .................................. 2,294,902 2,403,764 2,389,491 2,333,416 ∂38,514 ¥70,348 ¥56,075

Offsetting receipts from toxics and pesticides fees ........................................................... ........................ ¥50,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ∂50,000 ........................

Total, Environmental Programs and Management ................................................. 2,294,902 2,353,764 2,389,491 2,333,416 ∂38,514 ¥20,348 ¥56,075

Office of Inspector General

Audits, evaluations, and investigations .............................................................................. 37,696 36,955 37,955 36,955 ¥741 ........................ ¥1,000

(By transfer from Hazardous substance superfund) .................................................. (12,896) (13,536) (13,536) (13,536) (∂640) ........................ ........................

Buildings and Facilities

Homeland security: 

Homeland security: Protection of EPA personnel and infrastructure (also S&T; 

EPM; HSS) ............................................................................................................... 11,408 11,500 11,500 11,500 ∂92 ........................ ........................
151

Operations and administration: 

Facilities infrastructure and operations (also S&T; EPM; HSS; LUST; OSR) .............. 27,280 28,718 28,718 28,718 ∂1,438 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Buildings and Facilities .......................................................................... 38,688 40,218 40,218 40,218 ∂1,530 ........................ ........................

Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324) .............................................................. 3,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥3,000 ........................ ........................

Total, Buildings and Facilities ............................................................................... 41,688 40,218 40,218 40,218 ¥1,470 ........................ ........................

Hazardous Substance Superfund

Air toxics and quality: Radiation: Protection (also S&T; EPM) ........................................... 2,031 2,387 2,387 2,031 ........................ ¥356 ¥356Audits, evaluations, and investigations .............................................................................. 12,896 13,536 13,536 13,536 ∂640 ........................ ........................

(Transfer to Office of Inspector General) ................................................................... (¥12,896) (¥13,536) (¥13,536) (¥13,536) (¥640) ........................ ........................

Enforcement: 

Civil enforcement (also EPM; OSR) ............................................................................ 122 883 883 442 ∂320 ¥441 ¥441Criminal enforcement (also EPM) ............................................................................... 7,895 9,504 8,504 9,504 ∂1,609 ........................ ∂1,000Enforcement training (also EPM) ................................................................................ 822 614 614 614 ¥208 ........................ ........................Environmental justice (also EPM) ............................................................................... 938 845 845 845 ¥93 ........................ ........................Forensics support (also S&T) ...................................................................................... 4,112 3,840 3,840 3,840 ¥272 ........................ ........................Superfund: Enforcement .............................................................................................. 153,266 164,258 157,258 164,258 ∂10,992 ........................ ∂7,000Superfund: Federal facilities enforcement .................................................................. 10,667 10,241 10,241 10,241 ¥426 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Enforcement ............................................................................................ 177,822 190,185 182,185 189,744 ∂11,922 ¥441 ∂7,559

Compliance: 

Compliance assistance and centers (also EPM; LUST; OSR) ..................................... ........................ 23 23 12 ∂12 ¥11 ¥11Compliance incentives (also EPM) ............................................................................. 145 168 168 157 ∂12 ¥11 ¥11Compliance monitoring (also EPM) ............................................................................ 159 1,157 1,157 658 ∂499 ¥499 ¥499

Subtotal, Compliance ............................................................................................. 304 1,348 1,348 827 ∂523 ¥521 ¥521

Homeland security: 

Homeland security: Communication and information (also EPM): 

Laboratory preparedness and response (also S&T; EPM; HSS) ......................... ........................ 300 300 ........................ ........................ ¥300 ¥300

Homeland security: Critical infrastructure protection: 

Critical infrastructure protection (other activities) (also S&T; EPM) ................ 1,923 852 852 852 ¥1,071 ........................ ........................Decontamination (also S&T; EPM; HSS) ............................................................ ........................ 200 200 ........................ ........................ ¥200 ¥200

Subtotal, Homeland security: Critical infrastructure protection ................... 1,923 1,052 1,052 852 ¥1,071 ¥200 ¥200
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2005 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Homeland security: Preparedness, response, and recovery: 

Decontamination (also S&T; EPM; HSS) ............................................................ 8,283 12,550 10,550 10,550 ∂2,267 ¥2,000 ........................Laboratory preparedness and response (also S&T; EPM; HSS) ......................... ........................ 9,500 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥9,500 ........................Preparedness, response, and recovery (other activities) (also S&T) ................ 25,996 26,915 26,915 26,450 ∂454 ¥465 ¥465(Transfer to Science and Technology) ............................................................... (¥2,071) (¥2,000) (¥2,000) (¥2,000) (∂71) ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Homeland security: Preparedness, response, and recovery .......... 34,279 48,965 37,465 37,000 ∂2,721 ¥11,965 ¥465

Homeland security: Protection of EPA personnel and infrastructure (also S&T; EPM; 

B&F) ................................................................................................................................. 672 600 600 600 ¥72 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Homeland security .................................................................................. 36,874 50,917 39,417 38,452 ∂1,578 ¥12,465 ¥965

Information exchange/Outreach: 

Congressional, intergovernmental, external relations (also EPM) .............................. 155 161 161 155 ........................ ¥6 ¥6Exchange network (also EPM) ..................................................................................... 2,235 1,676 1,676 1,676 ¥559 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Information exchange/Outreach .............................................................. 2,390 1,837 1,837 1,831 ¥559 ¥6 ¥6

IT/Data management/Security: 

Information security (also EPM) ................................................................................. 406 409 409 406 ........................ ¥3 ¥3IT/Data management (also S&T; EPM; LUST; OSR) .................................................... 17,945 16,113 16,113 16,113 ¥1,832 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, IT/Data management/Security ................................................................ 18,351 16,522 16,522 16,519 ¥1,832 ¥3 ¥3

Legal/Science/Regulatory/Economic review: 

Alternative dispute resolution (also EPM) .................................................................. 845 985 985 845 ........................ ¥140 ¥140Legal advice: Environmental program (also EPM) ..................................................... 816 836 836 816 ........................ ¥20 ¥20

Subtotal, Legal/Science/Regulatory/Economic review ............................................ 1,661 1,821 1,821 1,661 ........................ ¥160 ¥160
153

Operations and administration: 

Financial assistance grants/Interagency agreements (IAG) management (also 

EPM) ........................................................................................................................ 2,943 2,579 2,579 2,579 ¥364 ........................ ........................

Facilities infrastructure and operations (also S&T; EPM; B&F; LUST; OSR) ............. 67,080 72,726 71,226 67,080 ........................ ¥5,646 ¥4,146Acquisition management (also EPM; LUST) ............................................................... 18,888 20,367 20,367 18,888 ........................ ¥1,479 ¥1,479Human resources management (also EPM; LUST) ..................................................... 4,376 4,790 4,790 4,376 ........................ ¥414 ¥414Central planning, budgeting, and finance (also EPM; LUST) .................................... 20,379 22,445 22,445 20,379 ........................ ¥2,066 ¥2,066

Subtotal, Operations and administration ............................................................... 113,666 122,907 121,407 113,302 ¥364 ¥9,605 ¥8,105

Research: Human health and ecosystems: 

Human health risk assessment .................................................................................. 3,559 4,022 4,022 4,022 ∂463 ........................ ........................

(Transfer to Science and Technology) ............................................................... (¥3,559) (¥4,022) (¥4,022) (¥4,022) (¥463) ........................ ........................

Research: Land protection: 

Research: Land protection and restoration ................................................................ 22,994 23,099 23,099 22,994 ........................ ¥105 ¥105

(Transfer to Science and Technology) ............................................................... (¥22,994) (¥23,099) (¥23,099) (¥23,099) (¥105) ........................ ........................

Research: Superfund innovative technology (SITE) program ..................................... 6,596 1,485 1,485 1,485 ¥5,111 ........................ ........................

(Transfer to Science and Technology) ............................................................... (¥6,596) (¥1,485) (¥1,485) (¥1,485) (∂5,111) ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Research: Land protection ............................................................. 29,590 24,584 24,584 24,479 ¥5,111 ¥105 ¥105

Research: Sustainability: 

Pollution prevention (also S&T) .................................................................................. 588 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥588 ........................ ........................

(Transfer to Science and Technology) ............................................................... (¥588) ........................ ........................ ........................ (∂588) ........................ ........................

Superfund cleanup: 

Superfund: Emergency response and removal ........................................................... 198,494 198,000 198,000 198,494 ........................ ∂494 ∂494Superfund: EPA emergency preparedness .................................................................. 10,009 10,507 10,507 10,507 ∂498 ........................ ........................Superfund: Federal facilities ....................................................................................... 31,512 31,611 31,611 31,611 ∂99 ........................ ........................Superfund: Remedial ................................................................................................... 597,139 599,395 599,395 599,395 ∂2,256 ........................ ........................Superfund: Support to other Federal agencies ........................................................... 10,591 9,754 9,754 9,754 ¥837 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Superfund cleanup .................................................................................. 847,745 849,267 849,267 849,761 ∂2,016 ∂494 ∂494Total, Hazardous Substance Superfund ................................................................. 1,247,477 1,279,333 1,258,333 1,256,165 ∂8,688 ¥23,168 ¥2,168(Transfer to Office of Inspector General) ............................................................... (¥12,896) (¥13,536) (¥13,536) (¥13,536) (¥640) ........................ ........................(Transfer to Science and Technology) .................................................................... (¥35,808) (¥30,606) (¥30,606) (¥30,606) (∂5,202) ........................ ........................

Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUST)

Compliance: 

Compliance assistance and centers (also EPM; OSR; HSS) ...................................... 855 774 774 774 ¥81 ........................ ........................
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

IT/Data management/Security: 

IT/Data management (also S&T; EPM; HSS; OSR) ..................................................... 176 178 178 178 ∂2 ........................ ........................

Operations and administration: 

Acquisition management (also EPM; HSS) ................................................................. 341 346 346 346 ∂5 ........................ ........................Central planning, budgeting, and finance (also EPM; HSS) ..................................... 866 936 936 936 ∂70 ........................ ........................Facilities infrastructure and operations (also S&T; EPM; B&F; HSS; OSR) ............... 872 884 884 884 ∂12 ........................ ........................Human resources management (also EPM; HSS) ....................................................... 3 3 3 3 ........................ ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Operations and administration ............................................................... 2,082 2,169 2,169 2,169 ∂87 ........................ ........................

Research: Land protection: 

Research: Land protection and restoration (also S&T; HSS; OSR) ............................ 624 646 646 646 ∂22 ........................ ........................

Underground storage tanks (LUST/UST): 

Underground storage tanks (LUST/UST) (also EPM) ................................................... 9,279 10,584 10,584 10,584 ∂1,305 ........................ ........................LUST Cooperative agreements .................................................................................... 56,424 58,676 58,676 58,676 ∂2,252 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Underground storage tanks (LUST/UST) ................................................. 65,703 69,260 69,260 69,260 ∂3,557 ........................ ........................Total, Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program .............................................. 69,440 73,027 73,027 73,027 ∂3,587 ........................ ........................

Oil Spill Response

Enforcement: Civil enforcement (also EPM; HSS) ............................................................... 1,742 1,789 1,789 1,789 ∂47 ........................ ........................Compliance: Compliance assistance and centers (also EPM; HSS; LUST) ......................... 274 287 287 287 ∂13 ........................ ........................IT/Data management/Security: IT/Data management (also S&T; EPM; HSS; LUST) ........... 33 33 33 33 ........................ ........................ ........................Oil Oil spill: Prevention, preparedness and response ......................................................... 12,465 12,344 12,344 12,344 ¥121 ........................ ........................Operations and administration: Facilities infrastructure and operations (also S&T; EPM; 

B&F; HSS; LUST) .............................................................................................................. 463 504 504 504 ∂41 ........................ ........................

Research: Land protection Research: Land protection and restoration (also S&T; HSS; 

LUST) ................................................................................................................................ 895 906 906 906 ∂11 ........................ ........................
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Total, Oil Spill Response ........................................................................................ 15,872 15,863 15,863 15,863 ¥9 ........................ ........................

Pesticide registration fund .................................................................................................. 19,245 15,000 15,000 15,000 ¥4,245 ........................ ........................Pesticide registration fees ................................................................................................... ¥19,245 ¥15,000 ¥15,000 ¥15,000 ∂4,245 ........................ ........................

State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG)

Air toxics and quality: Clean school bus initiative ............................................................. 7,440 10,000 10,000 1,000 ¥6,440 ¥9,000 ¥9,000Brownfields: Brownfields projects ........................................................................................ 89,280 120,500 97,500 90,000 ∂720 ¥30,500 ¥7,500Infrastructure assistance: 

Infrastructure assistance: Alaska Native villages ...................................................... 44,640 15,000 15,000 40,000 ¥4,640 ∂25,000 ∂25,000Infrastructure assistance: Clean water state revolving fund (SRF) .......................... 1,091,200 730,000 750,000 1,100,000 ∂8,800 ∂370,000 ∂350,000

Use of balances from expired contracts, grants, and interagency agreements ........................ ........................ 100,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥100,000

Subtotal, Clean water state revolving fund .................................................. 1,091,200 730,000 850,000 1,100,000 ∂8,800 ∂370,000 ∂250,000

Infrastructure assistance: Drinking water state revolving fund (SRF) ...................... 843,200 850,000 850,000 850,000 ∂6,800 ........................ ........................Infrastructure assistance: Mexico border ................................................................... 49,600 50,000 50,000 50,000 ∂400 ........................ ........................Infrastructure assistance: Puerto Rico ....................................................................... 3,849 4,000 4,000 ........................ ¥3,849 ¥4,000 ¥4,000

Subtotal, Infrastructure assistance ........................................................................ 2,032,489 1,649,000 1,769,000 2,040,000 ∂7,511 ∂391,000 ∂271,000

STAG infrastructure grants/Congressional priorities ........................................................... 309,548 ........................ 200,000 200,000 ¥109,548 ∂200,000 ........................

Subtotal, State and Tribal Assistance Grants (excluding categorical grants) ..... 2,438,757 1,779,500 2,076,500 2,331,000 ¥107,757 ∂551,500 ∂254,500

Categorical grants: 

Categorical grant: Beaches protection ....................................................................... 9,920 10,000 10,000 10,000 ∂80 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Brownfields ................................................................................... 49,600 60,000 50,000 50,000 ∂400 ¥10,000 ........................Categorical grant: Environmental information ........................................................... 19,344 20,000 20,000 19,344 ........................ ¥656 ¥656Categorical grant: Hazardous waste financial assistance ........................................ 103,466 104,400 104,400 103,466 ........................ ¥934 ¥934Categorical grant: Homeland security ........................................................................ 4,960 5,000 5,000 5,000 ∂40 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Lead .............................................................................................. 13,392 13,700 13,700 13,700 ∂308 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Nonpoint source (Sec. 319) .......................................................... 207,328 209,100 209,100 207,328 ........................ ¥1,772 ¥1,772Categorical grant: Pesticides enforcement ................................................................. 19,344 18,900 18,900 18,900 ¥444 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Pesticides program implementation ............................................. 12,896 13,100 13,100 13,100 ∂204 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Pollution control (Sec. 106) Pollution control (Sec. 106) (other 

activities) ................................................................................................................ 168,620 177,900 169,900 172,000 ∂3,380 ¥5,900 ∂2,100

Water quality monitoring ............................................................................................ 39,700 54,000 54,000 43,000 ∂3,300 ¥11,000 ¥11,000

Subtotal, Categorical grant: Pollution control (Sec. 106) ..................................... 208,320 231,900 223,900 215,000 ∂6,680 ¥16,900 ¥8,900
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Categorical grant: Pollution prevention ...................................................................... 4,960 6,000 5,000 4,960 ........................ ¥1,040 ¥40Categorical grant: Public water system supervision (PWSS) ..................................... 99,746 100,600 100,600 99,746 ........................ ¥854 ¥854Categorical grant: Radon ............................................................................................ 6,944 8,150 8,150 6,944 ........................ ¥1,206 ¥1,206Categorical grant: Sector program ............................................................................. 2,232 2,250 2,250 2,232 ........................ ¥18 ¥18Categorical grant: State and local air quality management ..................................... 223,200 223,550 223,550 223,550 ∂350 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: State and tribal performance fund .............................................. ........................ 23,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥23,000 ........................Categorical grant: Targeted watersheds .................................................................... 17,856 15,000 15,000 16,856 ¥1,000 ∂1,856 ∂1,856Categorical grant: Toxics substances compliance ..................................................... 5,007 5,150 5,150 5,150 ∂143 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Tribal air quality management .................................................... 10,743 11,050 11,050 11,050 ∂307 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Tribal general assistance program .............................................. 61,504 57,500 57,500 57,500 ¥4,004 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Underground injection control (UIC) ............................................. 10,694 11,000 11,000 10,694 ........................ ¥306 ¥306Categorical grant: Underground storage tanks .......................................................... 11,904 11,950 11,950 11,950 ∂46 ........................ ........................Categorical grant: Wastewater operator training ....................................................... 1,488 ........................ ........................ 1,200 ¥288 ∂1,200 ∂1,200Categorical grant: Water quality cooperative agreements ......................................... 16,864 ........................ 15,000 ........................ ¥16,864 ........................ ¥15,000Categorical grant: Wetlands program development ................................................... 14,880 20,000 17,000 14,880 ........................ ¥5,120 ¥2,120

Subtotal, Categorical grants .................................................................................. 1,136,592 1,181,300 1,151,300 1,122,550 ¥14,042 ¥58,750 ¥28,750Subtotal, State and Tribal Assistance Grants ....................................................... 3,575,349 2,960,800 3,227,800 3,453,550 ¥121,799 ∂492,750 ∂225,750

Rescission of expired contracts, grants, and interagency agreements (various EPA accounts) ............................................................................................................................. ........................ ........................ ¥100,000 ¥58,000 ¥58,000 ¥58,000 ∂42,000

Total, State and Tribal Assistance Grants ............................................................. 3,575,349 2,960,800 3,127,800 3,395,550 ¥179,799 ∂434,750 ∂267,750TOTAL, TITLE II, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ....................................... 8,026,485 7,520,600 7,708,027 7,881,989 ¥144,496 ∂361,389 ∂173,962

Appropriations ................................................................................................ (8,023,485) (7,520,600) (7,808,027) (7,939,989) (¥83,496) (∂419,389) (∂131,962) Emergency appropriations ............................................................................. (3,000) ........................ ........................ ........................ (¥3,000) ........................ ........................Rescissions .................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ (¥100,000) (¥58,000) (¥58,000) (¥58,000) (∂42,000) (Transfer out) ................................................................................................. (¥48,704) (¥44,142) (¥44,142) (¥44,142) (∂4,562) ........................ ........................
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(By transfer) .................................................................................................. (48,704) (44,142) (44,142) (44,142) (¥4,562) ........................ ........................

TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FOREST SERVICE

Forest and Rangeland Research

Forest inventory and analysis .............................................................................................. 55,926 68,714 62,100 58,434 ∂2,508 ¥10,280 ¥3,666Research and development programs ................................................................................. 220,458 216,686 222,900 222,458 ∂2,000 ∂5,772 ¥442

Total, Forest and rangeland research .................................................................... 276,384 285,400 285,000 280,892 ∂4,508 ¥4,508 ¥4,108

State and Private Forestry

Forest Health Management: 

Federal lands forest health management .................................................................. 54,236 50,023 55,000 50,023 ¥4,213 ........................ ¥4,977Cooperative lands forest health management ........................................................... 47,629 22,308 48,000 22,608 ¥25,021 ∂300 ¥25,392

Subtotal, Forest Health Management ..................................................................... 101,865 72,331 103,000 72,631 ¥29,234 ∂300 ¥30,369

Cooperative Fire Protection: 

State fire assistance ................................................................................................... 32,920 20,919 35,422 26,500 ¥6,420 ∂5,581 ¥8,922Volunteer fire assistance ............................................................................................ 5,917 5,917 6,000 6,000 ∂83 ∂83 ........................

Subtotal, Cooperative Fire Protection ..................................................................... 38,837 26,836 41,422 32,500 ¥6,337 ∂5,664 ¥8,922

Cooperative Forestry: 

Forest stewardship ...................................................................................................... 32,320 37,099 37,399 32,320 ........................ ¥4,779 ¥5,079Forest Legacy .............................................................................................................. 57,134 80,000 25,000 62,632 ∂5,498 ¥17,368 ∂37,632Urban and Community Forestry .................................................................................. 31,950 27,475 28,175 28,675 ¥3,275 ∂1,200 ∂500Economic action programs ......................................................................................... 19,032 ........................ 7,979 14,200 ¥4,832 ∂14,200 ∂6,221Forest resource information and analysis .................................................................. 4,958 4,657 5,000 4,657 ¥301 ........................ ¥343

Subtotal, Cooperative Forestry ................................................................................ 145,394 149,231 103,553 142,484 ¥2,910 ¥6,747 ∂38,931

International program .......................................................................................................... 6,410 4,989 6,900 7,000 ∂590 ∂2,011 ∂100Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324) .............................................................. 49,100 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥49,100 ........................ ........................

Total, State and Private Forestry ........................................................................... 341,606 253,387 254,875 254,615 ¥86,991 ∂1,228 ¥260
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

National Forest System

Land management planning ................................................................................................ 63,167 59,057 59,057 59,057 ¥4,110 ........................ ........................Inventory and monitoring ..................................................................................................... 167,302 167,009 169,009 167,009 ¥293 ........................ ¥2,000Recreation, heritage and wilderness ................................................................................... 257,343 257,344 265,200 257,344 ∂1 ........................ ¥7,856Wildlife and fish habitat management ............................................................................... 134,749 124,951 134,800 125,001 ¥9,748 ∂50 ¥9,799Grazing management ........................................................................................................... 48,034 44,659 49,000 48,500 ∂466 ∂3,841 ¥500Forest products .................................................................................................................... 273,247 278,297 283,297 278,297 ∂5,050 ........................ ¥5,000Vegetation and watershed management ............................................................................. 189,614 193,774 183,700 193,774 ∂4,160 ........................ ∂10,074Minerals and geology management ..................................................................................... 55,747 73,791 85,865 73,791 ∂18,044 ........................ ¥12,074Landownership management ............................................................................................... 92,129 84,157 93,000 84,157 ¥7,972 ........................ ¥8,843Law enforcement operations ................................................................................................ 86,014 86,326 91,000 87,076 ∂1,062 ∂750 ¥3,924Valles Caldera National Preserve ........................................................................................ 3,599 992 992 3,650 ∂51 ∂2,658 ∂2,658Centennial of Service challenge .......................................................................................... 9,861 ........................ 9,000 ........................ ¥9,861 ........................ ¥9,000Hazardous fuels ................................................................................................................... ........................ 281,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥281,000 ........................Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324) .............................................................. 12,153 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥12,153 ........................ ........................Net general reduction in House floor action ....................................................................... ........................ ........................ ¥6,000 ........................ ........................ ........................ ∂6,000

Total, National Forest System ................................................................................ 1,392,959 1,651,357 1,417,920 1,377,656 ¥15,303 ¥273,701 ¥40,264

Wildland Fire Management

Preparedness ........................................................................................................................ 676,470 676,014 691,014 676,014 ¥456 ........................ ¥15,000Fire suppression operations ................................................................................................. 648,859 700,492 700,492 700,492 ∂51,633 ........................ ........................

Additional appropriations, Title IV .............................................................................. 394,443 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥394,443 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Fire suppression operations .................................................................... 1,043,302 700,492 700,492 700,492 ¥342,810 ........................ ........................

Other operations: 

Hazardous fuels .......................................................................................................... 262,539 ........................ 286,000 281,000 ∂18,461 ∂281,000 ¥5,000Rehabilitation .............................................................................................................. 12,819 2,000 9,281 2,000 ¥10,819 ........................ ¥7,281
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Fire plan research and development .......................................................................... 21,719 16,885 21,719 18,385 ¥3,334 ∂1,500 ¥3,334Joint fire sciences program ........................................................................................ 7,889 ........................ 8,000 8,000 ∂111 ∂8,000 ........................Forest health management (federal lands) ................................................................ 14,792 6,974 15,000 6,974 ¥7,818 ........................ ¥8,026Forest health management (co-op lands) .................................................................. 9,861 4,598 10,000 4,598 ¥5,263 ........................ ¥5,402State fire assistance ................................................................................................... 40,179 29,415 41,000 40,179 ........................ ∂10,764 ¥821Volunteer fire assistance ............................................................................................ 7,889 7,889 8,000 7,889 ........................ ........................ ¥111

Subtotal, Other operations ..................................................................................... 377,687 67,761 399,000 369,025 ¥8,662 ∂301,264 ¥29,975

Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324) .............................................................. 1,028 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥1,028 ........................ ........................Funded in Defense Bill (Public Law 108–287) (sec. 8098) ............................................... (30,000) ........................ ........................ ........................ (¥30,000) ........................ ........................

Total, Wildland Fire Management .......................................................................... 2,098,487 1,444,267 1,790,506 1,745,531 ¥352,956 ∂301,264 ¥44,975

Capital Improvement and Maintenance

Facilities: 

Maintenance ................................................................................................................ 77,657 51,522 78,000 51,522 ¥26,135 ........................ ¥26,478Construction ................................................................................................................ 121,112 66,194 75,761 69,144 ¥51,968 ∂2,950 ¥6,617

Subtotal, Facilities .................................................................................................. 198,769 117,716 153,761 120,666 ¥78,103 ∂2,950 ¥33,095

Roads: 

Maintenance ................................................................................................................ 148,066 131,357 148,066 148,066 ........................ ∂16,709 ........................Construction ................................................................................................................ 78,330 58,202 77,433 67,502 ¥10,828 ∂9,300 ¥9,931

Subtotal, Roads ...................................................................................................... 226,396 189,559 225,499 215,568 ¥10,828 ∂26,009 ¥9,931

Trails: 

Maintenance ................................................................................................................ 41,823 37,540 42,000 37,540 ¥4,283 ........................ ¥4,460Construction ................................................................................................................ 33,884 26,252 34,000 26,252 ¥7,632 ........................ ¥7,748

Subtotal, Trails ....................................................................................................... 75,707 63,792 76,000 63,792 ¥11,915 ........................ ¥12,208

Infrastructure improvement ................................................................................................. 13,829 9,725 13,000 9,725 ¥4,104 ........................ ¥3,275

Subtotal, Capital improvement and maintenance ................................................. 514,701 380,792 468,260 409,751 ¥104,950 ∂28,959 ¥58,509

Emergency appropriations (Public Law 108–324): 

Facilities ...................................................................................................................... 9,195 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥9,195 ........................ ........................Roads .......................................................................................................................... 33,204 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥33,204 ........................ ........................Trails ........................................................................................................................... 8,416 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥8,416 ........................ ........................Funded in Defense Bill (Public Law 108–287) (sec. 8098) ...................................... (10,000) ........................ ........................ ........................ (¥10,000) ........................ ........................
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FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006—Continued

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Emergency appropriations (Public Law 109–13) ................................................................ 24,390 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥24,390 ........................ ........................

Total, Capital Improvement and Maintenance ....................................................... 589,906 380,792 468,260 409,751 ¥180,155 ∂28,959 ¥58,509

Land Acquisition

Forest Service: 

Acquisitions ................................................................................................................. 45,722 25,000 ........................ 30,925 ¥14,797 ∂5,925 ∂30,925Acquisition management ............................................................................................ 12,820 13,000 13,000 12,500 ¥320 ¥500 ¥500Cash equalization ....................................................................................................... 986 500 500 500 ¥486 ........................ ........................Critical inholdings/wilderness protection ................................................................... 1,479 1,500 1,500 1,000 ¥479 ¥500 ¥500

Total, Land Acquisition ........................................................................................... 61,007 40,000 15,000 44,925 ¥16,082 ∂4,925 ∂29,925

Acquisition of lands for national forests, special acts ...................................................... 1,054 1,069 1,069 1,069 ∂15 ........................ ........................Acquisition of lands to complete land exchanges .............................................................. 231 234 234 234 ∂3 ........................ ........................Range betterment fund ........................................................................................................ 3,021 2,963 2,963 2,963 ¥58 ........................ ........................Gifts, donations and bequests for forest and rangeland research .................................... 64 64 64 64 ........................ ........................ ........................Management of national forest lands for subsistence uses .............................................. 5,879 5,467 5,467 5,067 ¥812 ¥400 ¥400

TOTAL, FOREST SERVICE ......................................................................................... 4,770,598 4,065,000 4,241,358 4,122,767 ¥647,831 ∂57,767 ¥118,591

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Indian Health Services

Clinical Services: 

IHS and tribal health delivery: 

Hospital and health clinic programs ................................................................. 1,289,418 1,359,541 1,359,541 1,359,541 ∂70,123 ........................ ........................
161

Dental health program ....................................................................................... 109,023 119,489 119,489 119,489 ∂10,466 ........................ ........................Mental health program ...................................................................................... 55,060 59,328 59,328 59,328 ∂4,268 ........................ ........................Alcohol and substance abuse program ............................................................. 139,073 145,336 145,336 145,336 ∂6,263 ........................ ........................

Contract care .............................................................................................................. 480,318 507,021 507,021 507,021 ∂26,703 ........................ ........................Catastrophic health emergency fund ......................................................................... 17,750 18,000 18,000 18,000 ∂250 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Clinical Services ............................................................................ 2,090,642 2,208,715 2,208,715 2,208,715 ∂118,073 ........................ ........................

Preventive Health: 

Public health nursing ................................................................................................. 45,015 49,690 49,690 49,690 ∂4,675 ........................ ........................Health education ......................................................................................................... 12,429 13,787 13,787 13,787 ∂1,358 ........................ ........................Community health representatives program .............................................................. 51,365 53,737 53,737 53,737 ∂2,372 ........................ ........................Immunization (Alaska) ................................................................................................ 1,572 1,645 1,645 1,645 ∂73 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Preventive Health .................................................................................... 110,381 118,859 118,859 118,859 ∂8,478 ........................ ........................

Urban health projects .......................................................................................................... 31,816 33,233 33,233 33,233 ∂1,417 ........................ ........................Indian health professions .................................................................................................... 30,392 31,503 31,503 31,528 ∂1,136 ∂25 ∂25Tribal management .............................................................................................................. 2,343 2,430 2,430 2,430 ∂87 ........................ ........................Direct operations .................................................................................................................. 61,649 63,123 63,123 63,123 ∂1,474 ........................ ........................Self-governance .................................................................................................................... 5,586 5,752 5,752 5,752 ∂166 ........................ ........................Contract support costs ........................................................................................................ 263,683 268,683 268,683 268,683 ∂5,000 ........................ ........................Medicare/Medicaid Reimbursements: 

Hospital and clinic accreditation (Est. collecting) ................................................... (598,662) (648,208) (648,208) (648,208) (∂49,546) ........................ ........................

Total, Indian Health Services ................................................................................. 2,596,492 2,732,298 2,732,298 2,732,323 ∂135,831 ∂25 ∂25

(Non-contract services) ................................................................................. (2,098,424) (2,207,277) (2,207,277) (2,207,302) (∂108,878) (∂25) (∂25) (Contract care) .............................................................................................. (480,318) (507,021) (507,021) (507,021) (∂26,703) ........................ ........................(Catastrophic health emergency fund) ......................................................... (17,750) (18,000) (18,000) (18,000) (∂250) ........................ ........................

Indian Health Facilities

Maintenance and improvement ........................................................................................... 49,204 49,904 54,904 50,879 ∂1,675 ∂975 ¥4,025Sanitation facilities .............................................................................................................. 91,767 93,519 93,519 93,519 ∂1,752 ........................ ........................Construction facilities .......................................................................................................... 88,597 3,326 50,132 20,326 ¥68,271 ∂17,000 ¥29,806Facilities and environmental health support ...................................................................... 141,669 150,959 150,959 152,959 ∂11,290 ∂2,000 ∂2,000Equipment ............................................................................................................................ 17,337 17,960 21,260 17,960 ∂623 ........................ ¥3,300

Total, Indian Health Facilities ................................................................................ 388,574 315,668 370,774 335,643 ¥52,931 ∂19,975 ¥35,131
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[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

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2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

TOTAL, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE ............................................................................ 2,985,066 3,047,966 3,103,072 3,067,966 ∂82,900 ∂20,000 ¥35,106

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ......................................................... 79,842 80,289 80,289 80,289 ∂447 ........................ ........................

AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY

Toxic substances and environmental public health ............................................................ 76,041 76,024 76,024 76,024 ¥17 ........................ ........................

TOTAL, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ...................................... 3,140,949 3,204,279 3,259,385 3,224,279 ∂83,330 ∂20,000 ¥35,106

OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality ............................ 3,258 2,717 2,717 2,717 ¥541 ........................ ........................

CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................... 9,027 9,200 9,200 9,200 ∂173 ........................ ........................Emergency fund ................................................................................................................... 397 ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥397 ........................ ........................

Total, Chemical Safety and Hazard ....................................................................... 9,424 9,200 9,200 9,200 ¥224 ........................ ........................

OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................... 4,930 8,601 8,601 8,601 ∂3,671 ........................ ........................INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENTPayment to the Institute ...................................................................................................... 5,916 6,300 6,300 6,300 ∂384 ........................ ........................
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Salaries and Expenses

Museum and Research Institutes: 

Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture ............... 1,864 1,897 1,897 1,897 ∂33 ........................ ........................Archives of American Art ............................................................................................ 1,806 1,843 1,843 1,843 ∂37 ........................ ........................Arthur M. Sackler Gallery/Freer Gallery of Art ............................................................ 5,657 5,772 5,772 5,772 ∂115 ........................ ........................Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage ................................................................... 1,910 1,945 1,945 1,945 ∂35 ........................ ........................Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum ................................................................... 3,054 3,118 3,118 3,118 ∂64 ........................ ........................Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ................................................................. 3,997 4,078 4,078 4,078 ∂81 ........................ ........................National Air and Space Museum ................................................................................ 16,262 16,596 16,596 16,596 ∂334 ........................ ........................National Museum of African American History and Culture ...................................... 3,944 5,098 3,944 3,944 ........................ ¥1,154 ........................National Museum of African Art ................................................................................. 4,175 4,257 4,257 4,257 ∂82 ........................ ........................Smithsonian American Art Museum ........................................................................... 7,561 12,028 12,028 12,028 ∂4,467 ........................ ........................National Museum of American History ....................................................................... 19,962 20,441 20,441 20,441 ∂479 ........................ ........................National Museum of the American Indian ................................................................. 31,739 30,540 30,540 30,540 ¥1,199 ........................ ........................National Museum of Natural History .......................................................................... 42,177 44,063 44,063 44,063 ∂1,886 ........................ ........................National Portrait Gallery ............................................................................................. 4,957 8,409 8,409 8,409 ∂3,452 ........................ ........................National Zoological Park ............................................................................................. 17,576 20,194 20,194 20,348 ∂2,772 ∂154 ∂154Astrophysical Observatory ........................................................................................... 21,301 22,295 22,295 22,295 ∂994 ........................ ........................Center for Materials Research and Education ........................................................... 3,184 3,251 3,251 3,251 ∂67 ........................ ........................Environmental Research Center .................................................................................. 3,006 3,065 3,065 3,065 ∂59 ........................ ........................Tropical Research Institute ......................................................................................... 11,514 11,219 11,519 11,219 ¥295 ........................ ¥300

Subtoal, Museums and Research Institutes .......................................................... 205,646 220,109 219,255 219,109 ∂13,463 ¥1,000 ¥146

Program Support and Outreach: 

Outreach ...................................................................................................................... 10,050 9,200 9,200 10,200 ∂150 ∂1,000 ∂1,000Communications .......................................................................................................... 1,480 1,502 1,502 1,502 ∂22 ........................ ........................Institution-wide programs ........................................................................................... 6,053 6,613 6,113 6,613 ∂560 ........................ ∂500Office of Exhibits Central ........................................................................................... 2,598 2,658 2,658 2,658 ∂60 ........................ ........................Major scientific instrumentation ................................................................................. 3,944 3,944 3,944 3,944 ........................ ........................ ........................Museum Support Center ............................................................................................. 1,640 1,675 1,675 1,675 ∂35 ........................ ........................Smithsonian Institution Archives ................................................................................ 1,656 1,695 1,695 1,695 ∂39 ........................ ........................Smithsonian Institution Libraries ............................................................................... 8,611 8,779 8,779 8,779 ∂168 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Program Support and Outreach .............................................................. 36,032 36,066 35,566 37,066 ∂1,034 ∂1,000 ∂1,500

Administration ...................................................................................................................... 63,903 65,929 65,529 65,929 ∂2,026 ........................ ∂400Facilities Services: 

Facilities maintenance ................................................................................................ 39,371 45,680 47,680 45,680 ∂6,309 ........................ ¥2,000
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[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Facilities operations, security and support ................................................................ 144,083 156,351 156,351 156,351 ∂12,268 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Facilities Services ................................................................................... 183,454 202,031 204,031 202,031 ∂18,577 ........................ ¥2,000Total, Salaries and Expenses ................................................................................. 489,035 524,135 524,381 524,135 ∂35,100 ........................ ¥246

Facilities Capital

Revitalization ........................................................................................................................ 110,355 72,900 73,900 72,900 ¥37,455 ........................ ¥1,000Construction ......................................................................................................................... 7,879 9,000 9,000 18,100 ∂10,221 ∂9,100 ∂9,100Facilities planning and design ............................................................................................ 7,889 9,000 8,000 9,000 ∂1,111 ........................ ∂1,000

Total, Facilities capital ........................................................................................... 126,123 90,900 90,900 100,000 ¥26,123 ∂9,100 ∂9,100TOTAL, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ......................................................................... 615,158 615,035 615,281 624,135 ∂8,977 ∂9,100 ∂8,854

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

Salaries and Expenses

Care and utilization of art collections ................................................................................ 32,110 34,023 34,023 34,023 ∂1,913 ........................ ........................Operation and maintenance of buildings and grounds ...................................................... 21,958 23,268 23,268 23,268 ∂1,310 ........................ ........................Protection of buildings, grounds and contents ................................................................... 19,437 20,675 20,675 20,675 ∂1,238 ........................ ........................General administration ........................................................................................................ 18,203 19,134 19,134 19,134 ∂931 ........................ ........................General reduction ................................................................................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ ¥500 ¥500 ¥500 ¥500

Total, Salaries and Expenses ................................................................................. 91,708 97,100 97,100 96,600 ∂4,892 ¥500 ¥500

Repair, Restoration and Renovation of Buildings

Base program ....................................................................................................................... 10,946 16,200 16,200 15,000 ∂4,054 ¥1,200 ¥1,200
165

TOTAL, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ........................................................................ 102,654 113,300 113,300 111,600 ∂8,946 ¥1,700 ¥1,700

JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Operations and maintenance ............................................................................................... 16,914 17,800 17,800 17,800 ∂886 ........................ ........................Construction ......................................................................................................................... 16,107 15,200 10,000 15,200 ¥907 ........................ ∂5,200

TOTAL, JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS .......................... 33,021 33,000 27,800 33,000 ¥21 ........................ ∂5,200

WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................... 8,863 9,201 9,085 9,201 ∂338 ........................ ∂116

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

National Endowment for the Arts

Grants and Administration

Grants: 

Direct grants ............................................................................................................... 45,631 45,118 45,118 45,118 ¥513 ........................ ........................Challenge America grants .......................................................................................... 12,857 8,966 8,966 8,966 ¥3,891 ........................ ........................National Initiative: American Masterpieces ................................................................ 1,183 4,800 4,800 4,800 ∂3,617 ........................ ........................State partnerships: 

State and regional ............................................................................................. 23,942 23,691 23,691 23,691 ¥251 ........................ ........................Underserved set-aside ....................................................................................... 6,480 6,417 6,417 6,417 ¥63 ........................ ........................Challenge America grants ................................................................................. 8,570 5,956 5,956 5,956 ¥2,614 ........................ ........................National Initiative: American Masterpieces ....................................................... 789 3,200 3,200 3,200 ∂2,411 ........................ ........................

Subtotal, State partnerships ......................................................................... 39,781 39,264 39,264 39,264 ¥517 ........................ ........................Subtotal, Grants ............................................................................................ 99,452 98,148 98,148 98,148 ¥1,304 ........................ ........................

Program support .................................................................................................................. 1,270 1,470 1,470 1,470 ∂200 ........................ ........................Administration ...................................................................................................................... 20,542 21,646 21,646 21,646 ∂1,104 ........................ ........................General increase in House floor action ............................................................................... ........................ ........................ 10,000 5,000 ∂5,000 ∂5,000 ¥5,000

Total, Arts ............................................................................................................... 121,264 121,264 131,264 126,264 ∂5,000 ∂5,000 ¥5,000
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[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

National Endowment for the Humanities

Grants and Administration

Grants: 

Federal/State partnership ........................................................................................... 31,387 31,387 31,387 31,387 ........................ ........................ ........................Preservation and access ............................................................................................. 18,643 18,643 18,643 18,643 ........................ ........................ ........................Public programs .......................................................................................................... 12,932 12,566 12,566 12,566 ¥366 ........................ ........................Research programs ..................................................................................................... 12,881 12,881 12,881 12,881 ........................ ........................ ........................Education programs .................................................................................................... 12,449 12,449 12,449 12,449 ........................ ........................ ........................Program development ................................................................................................. 392 381 381 381 ¥11 ........................ ........................We The People Initiative grants .................................................................................. 11,217 11,217 11,217 11,217 ........................ ........................ ........................

Subtotal, Grants ..................................................................................................... 99,901 99,524 99,524 99,524 ¥377 ........................ ........................

Administrative Areas: 

Administration ............................................................................................................. 22,255 23,081 23,081 23,081 ∂826 ........................ ........................

General increase in House floor action ............................................................................... ........................ ........................ 5,000 5,000 ∂5,000 ∂5,000 ........................

Total, Grants and Administration ........................................................................... 122,156 122,605 127,605 127,605 ∂5,449 ∂5,000 ........................

Matching Grants

Treasury funds ..................................................................................................................... 5,607 5,449 5,449 5,449 ¥158 ........................ ........................Challenge grants .................................................................................................................. 10,291 10,000 10,000 10,000 ¥291 ........................ ........................

Total, Matching Grants ........................................................................................... 15,898 15,449 15,449 15,449 ¥449 ........................ ........................Total, Humanities ................................................................................................... 138,054 138,054 143,054 143,054 ∂5,000 ∂5,000 ........................
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TOTAL, NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES .................... 259,318 259,318 274,318 269,318 ∂10,000 ∂10,000 ¥5,000

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................... 1,768 1,893 1,893 1,893 ∂125 ........................ ........................

NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

Grants ................................................................................................................................... 6,902 7,000 7,000 7,492 ∂590 ∂492 ∂492

ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................... 4,536 4,988 4,860 4,943 ∂407 ¥45 ∂83

NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................... 7,888 8,344 8,177 8,244 ∂356 ¥100 ∂67

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Holocaust Memorial Museum ............................................................................................... 40,858 43,233 41,880 43,233 ∂2,375 ........................ ∂1,353

PRESIDIO TRUST

Operations ............................................................................................................................ 19,722 20,000 20,000 19,722 ........................ ¥278 ¥278

WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE

Operations ............................................................................................................................ 248 250 250 250 ∂2 ........................ ........................

TOTAL, TITLE III, RELATED AGENCIES ..................................................................... 9,036,011 8,411,659 8,651,405 8,506,895 ¥529,116 ∂95,236 ¥144,510

Appropriations ................................................................................................ (8,940,145) (8,411,659) (8,651,405) (8,506,895) (¥433,250) (∂95,236) (¥144,510) Emergency appropriations ............................................................................. (95,866) ........................ ........................ ........................ (¥95,866) ........................ ........................

GRAND TOTAL, ALL TITLES ...................................................................................... 27,017,724 25,724,328 26,159,125 26,266,625 ¥751,099 ∂542,297 ∂107,500

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management .............................................................................................. 1,816,910 1,759,042 1,755,115 1,788,310 ¥28,600 ∂29,268 ∂33,195U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ............................................................................................. 1,332,591 1,322,894 1,306,168 1,315,037 ¥17,554 ¥7,857 ∂8,869National Park Service ........................................................................................................... 2,365,683 2,249,275 2,228,963 2,313,332 ¥52,351 ∂64,057 ∂84,369United States Geological Survey .......................................................................................... 944,564 933,515 974,586 963,057 ∂18,493 ∂29,542 ¥11,529Minerals Management Service ............................................................................................. 173,826 167,422 159,682 159,522 ¥14,304 ¥7,900 ¥160Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement .................................................... 296,573 356,549 298,549 298,549 ∂1,976 ¥58,000 ........................Bureau of Indian Affairs ...................................................................................................... 2,295,702 2,187,469 2,317,976 2,269,371 ¥26,331 ∂81,902 ¥48,605
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Item 2005 appropriation Budget estimate House allowance Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation compared with (∂

or ¥) 

2005

appropriation Budget estimate House allowance 

Departmental Offices ........................................................................................................... 729,379 815,903 758,654 770,563 ∂41,184 ¥45,340 ∂11,909

Total, Title I—Department of the Interior ............................................................. 9,955,228 9,792,069 9,799,693 9,877,741 ¥77,487 ∂85,672 ∂78,048

TITLE II—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Environmental Protection Agency ......................................................................................... 8,026,485 7,520,600 7,708,027 7,881,989 ¥144,496 ∂361,389 ∂173,962

TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES

Forest Service ....................................................................................................................... 4,770,598 4,065,000 4,241,358 4,122,767 ¥647,831 ∂57,767 ¥118,591Indian Health Service ........................................................................................................... 2,985,066 3,047,966 3,103,072 3,067,966 ∂82,900 ∂20,000 ¥35,106National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ......................................................... 79,842 80,289 80,289 80,289 ∂447 ........................ ........................Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ............................................................ 76,041 76,024 76,024 76,024 ¥17 ........................ ........................Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality ............................ 3,258 2,717 2,717 2,717 ¥541 ........................ ........................Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board .............................................................. 9,424 9,200 9,200 9,200 ¥224 ........................ ........................Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation ...................................................................... 4,930 8,601 8,601 8,601 ∂3,671 ........................ ........................Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development ............... 5,916 6,300 6,300 6,300 ∂384 ........................ ........................Smithsonian Institution ........................................................................................................ 615,158 615,035 615,281 624,135 ∂8,977 ∂9,100 ∂8,854National Gallery of Art ......................................................................................................... 102,654 113,300 113,300 111,600 ∂8,946 ¥1,700 ¥1,700John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ................................................................. 33,021 33,000 27,800 33,000 ¥21 ........................ ∂5,200Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ............................................................. 8,863 9,201 9,085 9,201 ∂338 ........................ ∂116National Endowment for the Arts ........................................................................................ 121,264 121,264 131,264 126,264 ∂5,000 ∂5,000 ¥5,000National Endowment for the Humanities ............................................................................ 138,054 138,054 143,054 143,054 ∂5,000 ∂5,000 ........................Commission of Fine Arts ...................................................................................................... 1,768 1,893 1,893 1,893 ∂125 ........................ ........................National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs ......................................................................... 6,902 7,000 7,000 7,492 ∂590 ∂492 ∂492Advisory Council on Historic Preservation ........................................................................... 4,536 4,988 4,860 4,943 ∂407 ¥45 ∂83National Capital Planning Commission ............................................................................... 7,888 8,344 8,177 8,244 ∂356 ¥100 ∂67United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ........................................................................ 40,858 43,233 41,880 43,233 ∂2,375 ........................ ∂1,353Presidio Trust ....................................................................................................................... 19,722 20,000 20,000 19,722 ........................ ¥278 ¥278
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White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance ................................ 248 250 250 250 ∂2 ........................ ........................

Total, Title III—Related Agencies .......................................................................... 9,036,011 8,411,659 8,651,405 8,506,895 ¥529,116 ∂95,236 ¥144,510GRAND TOTAL .......................................................................................................... 27,017,724 25,724,328 26,159,125 26,266,625 ¥751,099 ∂542,297 ∂107,500

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