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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8998 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 509
118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8998

_______________________________________________________________________

                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 1, 2024

                                Received

                           September 12, 2024

                 Read twice and placed on the calendar

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
    That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2025, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                   management of lands and resources

    For necessary expenses for protection, use, improvement, 
development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, acquisition 
of easements and other interests in lands, and performance of other 
functions, including maintenance of facilities, as authorized by law, 
in the management of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general administration 
of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential of public lands 
pursuant to section 1010(a) of Public Law 96-487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), 
$1,185,063,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026; of which 
$53,900,000 for annual maintenance and deferred maintenance programs 
and $143,000,000 (reduced by $11,000,000) (increased by $11,000,000) 
for the wild horse and burro program, as authorized by Public Law 92-
195 (16 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), shall remain available until expended:  
Provided, That amounts in the fee account of the BLM Permit Processing 
Improvement Fund may be used for any bureau-related expenses associated 
with the processing of oil and gas applications for permits to drill 
and related use of authorizations:  Provided further, That of the 
amounts made available under this heading, up to $1,000,000 may be made 
available for the purposes described in section 122(e)(1)(A) of 
division G of Public Law 115-31 (43 U.S.C. 1748c(e)(1)(A)):  Provided 
further, That of the amounts made available under this heading, not to 
exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and representation 
expenses.
    In addition, $42,696,000 is for Mining Law Administration program 
operations, including the cost of administering the mining claim fee 
program, to remain available until expended, to be reduced by amounts 
collected by the Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining 
claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby authorized for 
fiscal year 2025, so as to result in a final appropriation estimated at 
not more than $1,185,063,000, and $2,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, from communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 
for the cost of administering communication site activities.

                   oregon and california grant lands

    For expenses necessary for management, protection, and development 
of resources and for construction, operation, and maintenance of access 
roads, reforestation, and other improvements on the revested Oregon and 
California Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon 
and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adjacent rights-
of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests therein, including 
existing connecting roads on or adjacent to such grant lands; 
$107,799,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 25 
percent of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby 
made a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant fund and 
shall be transferred to the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance 
with the second paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 
August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 2605).

                           range improvements

    For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and 
interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant to 
section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1751), notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sections 3 
and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315b, 315m) and the amount 
designated for range improvements from grazing fees and mineral leasing 
receipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of the 
Interior pursuant to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall 
be available for administrative expenses.

               service charges, deposits, and forfeitures

    For administrative expenses and other costs related to processing 
application documents and other authorizations for use and disposal of 
public lands and resources, for costs of providing copies of official 
public land documents, for monitoring construction, operation, and 
termination of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and 
for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
collected under Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and under 
section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That notwithstanding any provision 
to the contrary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 
1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be received pursuant to 
that section, whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or 
settlement, if not appropriate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of 
that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended 
under the authority of this Act by the Secretary of the Interior to 
improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands administered through 
the Bureau of Land Management which have been damaged by the action of 
a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, 
without regard to whether all moneys collected from each such action 
are used on the exact lands damaged which led to the action:  Provided 
further, That any such moneys that are in excess of amounts needed to 
repair damage to the exact land for which funds were collected may be 
used to repair other damaged public lands.

                       miscellaneous trust funds

    In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under existing 
laws, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as may be contributed 
under section 307 of Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such 
amounts as may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, 
appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands under 
section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to remain available 
until expended.

                       administrative provisions

    The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the operations funded 
under this Act by direct expenditure, contracts, grants, cooperative 
agreements, and reimbursable agreements with public and private 
entities, including with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be 
available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary 
structures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary buildings and 
appurtenant facilities to which the United States has title; up to 
$100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary, for 
information or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by 
the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement 
activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted 
for solely on the Secretary's certificate, not to exceed $10,000:  
Provided, That notwithstanding Public Law 90-620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the 
Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements 
authorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators in 
connection with jointly produced publications for which the cooperators 
share the cost of printing either in cash or in services, and the 
Bureau determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality 
standards:  Provided further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a 
written commitment by a State government to provide an identified 
amount of money in support of the project may be carried out by the 
Bureau on a reimbursable basis.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service

                          resource management

    For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific and economic studies, 
general administration, and for the performance of other authorized 
functions related to such resources, $1,385,096,000 (increased by 
$1,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) 
(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $5,268,000), to remain available 
until September 30, 2026, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses:  Provided, That not to 
exceed $17,597,000 shall be used for implementing subsections (a), (b), 
(c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1533) (except for processing petitions, developing and issuing 
proposed and final regulations, and taking any other steps to implement 
actions described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 
(c)(2)(B)(ii) of such section).

                              construction

    For construction, improvement, acquisition, or removal of buildings 
and other facilities required in the conservation, management, 
investigation, protection, and utilization of fish and wildlife 
resources, and the acquisition of lands and interests therein; 
$8,114,000, to remain available until expended.

            cooperative endangered species conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), $23,000,000 (reduced by 
$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), to remain available until 
expended, to be derived from the Cooperative Endangered Species 
Conservation Fund.

                     national wildlife refuge fund

    For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 17, 1978 (16 
U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000.

               north american wetlands conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the North 
American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), 
$49,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                neotropical migratory bird conservation

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical Migratory Bird 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), $5,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                multinational species conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the African Elephant 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the Asian Elephant 
Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and 
Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape 
Conservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the Marine 
Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), $21,000,000, 
to remain available until expended.

                    state and tribal wildlife grants

    For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the District of 
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the 
Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Indian Tribes under the 
provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and 
Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and implementation of 
programs for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including 
species that are not hunted or fished, $73,812,000 (increased by 
$5,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000), to 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That of the amount provided 
herein, $6,200,000 is for a competitive grant program for Indian Tribes 
not subject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation:  
Provided further, That $7,612,000 is for a competitive grant program to 
implement approved plans for States, territories, and other 
jurisdictions and at the discretion of affected States, the regional 
Associations of fish and wildlife agencies, not subject to the 
remaining provisions of this appropriation:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall, after deducting $13,812,000 and administrative 
expenses, apportion the amount provided herein in the following manner: 
(1) to the District of Columbia and to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
each a sum equal to not more than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and 
(2) to Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each a sum equal to not 
more than one-fourth of 1 percent thereof:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary of the Interior shall apportion the remaining amount in the 
following manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to which 
the land area of such State bears to the total land area of all such 
States; and (2) two-thirds of which is based on the ratio to which the 
population of such State bears to the total population of all such 
States:  Provided further, That the amounts apportioned under this 
paragraph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall be 
apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the amount available 
for apportionment under this paragraph for any fiscal year or more than 
5 percent of such amount:  Provided further, That the Federal share of 
planning grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of such 
projects and the Federal share of implementation grants shall not 
exceed 65 percent of the total costs of such projects:  Provided 
further, That the non-Federal share of such projects may not be derived 
from Federal grant programs:  Provided further, That any amount 
apportioned in 2025 to any State, territory, or other jurisdiction that 
remains unobligated as of September 30, 2026, shall be reapportioned, 
together with funds appropriated in 2027, in the manner provided 
herein.

                       administrative provisions

    The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may carry out the 
operations of Service programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable agreements with public 
and private entities. Appropriations and funds available to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of 
damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation areas caused 
by operations of the Service; options for the purchase of land at not 
to exceed one dollar for each option; facilities incident to such 
public recreational uses on conservation areas as are consistent with 
their primary purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, 
buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Service 
and to which the United States has title, and which are used pursuant 
to law in connection with management, and investigation of fish and 
wildlife resources:  Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the 
Service may, under cooperative cost sharing and partnership 
arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services from 
cooperators in connection with jointly produced publications for which 
the cooperators share at least one-half the cost of printing either in 
cash or services and the Service determines the cooperator is capable 
of meeting accepted quality standards:  Provided further, That the 
Service may accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing 
aircraft:  Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, all 
fees collected for non-toxic shot review and approval shall be 
deposited under the heading ``United States Fish and Wildlife Service--
Resource Management'' and shall be available to the Secretary, without 
further appropriation, to be used for expenses of processing of such 
non-toxic shot type or coating applications and revising regulations as 
necessary, and shall remain available until expended.

                         National Park Service

                 operation of the national park system

    For expenses necessary for the management, operation, and 
maintenance of areas and facilities administered by the National Park 
Service and for the general administration of the National Park 
Service, $2,709,203,000 (reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by 
$3,000,000) (reduced by $500,000) (increased by $500,000) (increased by 
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) 
(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), of which $11,661,000 
for planning and interagency coordination in support of Everglades 
restoration and $15,000,000 for uses authorized by section 101122 of 
title 54, United States Code shall remain available until September 30, 
2026, and not to exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and 
representative expenses:  Provided, That funds appropriated under this 
heading in this Act are available for the purposes of section 5 of 
Public Law 95-348:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 9 of 
the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act (36 U.S.C. 
note prec. 101; Public Law 115-102), $3,300,000 of the funds provided 
under this heading shall be made available for the purposes specified 
by that Act:  Provided further, That sections 7(b) and 8(a) of that Act 
is amended by striking ``July 1, 2025'' and inserting ``July 1, 2026''.
    In addition, for purposes described in section 2404 of Public Law 
116-9, an amount equal to the amount deposited in this fiscal year into 
the National Park Medical Services Fund established pursuant to such 
section of such Act, to remain available until expended, shall be 
derived from such Fund.

                  national recreation and preservation

    For expenses necessary to carry out recreation programs, natural 
programs, cultural programs, heritage partnership programs, 
environmental compliance and review, international park affairs, and 
grant administration, not otherwise provided for, $89,593,000 (reduced 
by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000), to 
remain available until September 30, 2026.

                       historic preservation fund

    For expenses necessary in carrying out the National Historic 
Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States 
Code), $168,900,000, to be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund 
and to remain available until September 30, 2026, of which $25,500,000 
shall be for Save America's Treasures grants for preservation of 
nationally significant sites, structures and artifacts as authorized by 
section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (54 
U.S.C. 3089):  Provided, That an individual Save America's Treasures 
grant shall be matched by non-Federal funds:  Provided further, That 
individual projects shall only be eligible for one grant:  Provided 
further, That all projects to be funded shall be approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations:  Provided further, That of the funds 
provided for the Historic Preservation Fund, $30,250,000 is for the 
Competitive Grants Subactivity; $11,000,000 is for grants to 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities; $10,000,000 (reduced by 
$15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000) is for competitive grants for 
the restoration of historic properties of national, State, and local 
significance listed on or eligible for inclusion on the National 
Register of Historic Places, to be made without imposing the usage or 
direct grant restrictions of section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C. 302904) of 
the National Historic Preservation Act; $7,000,000 is for a competitive 
grant program to honor the semiquincentennial anniversary of the United 
States by restoring and preserving sites and structures listed on the 
National Register of Historic Places that commemorate the founding of 
the nation:  Provided further, That such competitive grants shall be 
made without imposing the matching requirements in section 302902(b)(3) 
of title 54, United States Code to States and Indian Tribes as defined 
in chapter 3003 of such title, Native Hawaiian organizations, local 
governments, including Certified Local Governments, and nonprofit 
organizations.

                              construction

    For construction, improvements, repair, or replacement of physical 
facilities, and related equipment, and compliance and planning for 
programs and areas administered by the National Park Service, 
$135,616,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any project initially 
funded in fiscal year 2025 with a future phase indicated in the 
National Park Service 5-Year Line Item Construction Plan, a single 
procurement may be issued which includes the full scope of the project: 
 Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall contain the 
clause availability of funds found at 48 CFR 52.232-18:  Provided 
further, That National Park Service Donations, Park Concessions 
Franchise Fees, and Recreation Fees may be made available for the cost 
of adjustments and changes within the original scope of effort for 
projects funded by the National Park Service Construction 
appropriation:  Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior 
shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, in accordance with 
current reprogramming thresholds, prior to making any charges 
authorized under this heading.

                          centennial challenge

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of section 
101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating to challenge cost 
share agreements, $12,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
Centennial Challenge projects and programs:  Provided, That not less 
than 50 percent of the total cost of each project or program shall be 
derived from non-Federal sources in the form of donated cash, assets, 
or a pledge of donation guaranteed by an irrevocable letter of credit.

                       administrative provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    In addition to other uses set forth in section 101917(c)(2) of 
title 54, United States Code, franchise fees credited to a sub-account 
shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary, without further 
appropriation, for use at any unit within the National Park System to 
extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or leasehold 
surrender interest. Such funds may only be used for this purpose to the 
extent that the benefitting unit anticipated franchise fee receipts 
over the term of the contract at that unit exceed the amount of funds 
used to extinguish or reduce liability. Franchise fees at the 
benefitting unit shall be credited to the sub-account of the 
originating unit over a period not to exceed the term of a single 
contract at the benefitting unit, in the amount of funds so expended to 
extinguish or reduce liability.
    For the costs of administration of the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund grants authorized by section 105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico 
Energy Security Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-432), the National Park 
Service may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are authorized 
to be disbursed under such section, such retained amounts to remain 
available until expended.
    National Park Service funds may be transferred to the Federal 
Highway Administration (FHWA), Department of Transportation, for 
purposes authorized under 23 U.S.C. 203. Transfers may include a 
reasonable amount for FHWA administrative support costs.

                    United States Geological Survey

                 surveys, investigations, and research

    For expenses necessary for the United States Geological Survey to 
perform surveys, investigations, and research covering topography, 
geology, hydrology, biology, and the mineral and water resources of the 
United States, its territories and possessions, and other areas as 
authorized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as to their 
mineral and water resources; give engineering supervision to power 
permittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licensees; 
administer the minerals exploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct 
inquiries into the economic conditions affecting mining and materials 
processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(a)(1)) 
and related purposes as authorized by law; and to publish and 
disseminate data relative to the foregoing activities; $1,374,385,000 
(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by 
$2,000,000) (increased by $81,049,000) (reduced by $81,049,000), to 
remain available until September 30, 2026; of which $107,334,000 shall 
remain available until expended for satellite operations; and of which 
$54,130,000 shall be available until expended for deferred maintenance 
and capital improvement projects that exceed $100,000 in cost:  
Provided, That none of the funds provided for the ecosystem research 
activity shall be used to conduct new surveys on private property, 
unless specifically authorized in writing by the property owner:  
Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to 
pay more than one-half the cost of topographic mapping or water 
resources data collection and investigations carried on in cooperation 
with States and municipalities:  Provided further, That of the amount 
appropriated under this heading, not to exceed $15,000 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses.

                       administrative provisions

    From within the amount appropriated for activities of the United 
States Geological Survey such sums as are necessary shall be available 
for contracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and for the 
making of geophysical or other specialized surveys when it is 
administratively determined that such procedures are in the public 
interest; construction and maintenance of necessary buildings and 
appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging stations, 
observation wells, and seismic equipment; expenses of the United States 
National Committee for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation 
and expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly appointed to 
represent the United States in the negotiation and administration of 
interstate compacts:  Provided, That activities funded by 
appropriations herein made may be accomplished through the use of 
contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements (including noncompetitive 
cooperative agreements with Tribes) as defined in section 6302 of title 
31, United States Code:  Provided further, That the United States 
Geological Survey may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
directly with individuals or indirectly with institutions or nonprofit 
organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or 
intermittent services of students or recent graduates, who shall be 
considered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, 
United States Code, relating to compensation for travel and work 
injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, relating to 
tort claims, but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 
any other purposes.

                   Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

                        ocean energy management

    For expenses necessary for granting and administering leases, 
easements, rights-of-way, and agreements for use for oil and gas, other 
minerals, energy, and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental 
Shelf and approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law; 
for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for implementing other 
laws and to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial 
delegation; and for matching grants or cooperative agreements, 
$199,057,000, of which $144,057,000 is to remain available until 
September 30, 2026, and of which $55,000,000 is to remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That this total appropriation shall be 
reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and 
credited to this appropriation from additions to receipts resulting 
from increases to lease rental rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and 
from cost recovery fees from activities conducted by the Bureau of 
Ocean Energy Management pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and miscellaneous 
administrative activities:  Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated shall be reduced as such collections are received during 
the fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2025 
appropriation estimated at not more than $144,057,000:  Provided 
further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable 
expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 
activities:  Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses.

             Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

             offshore safety and environmental enforcement

    For expenses necessary for the regulation of operations related to 
leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements for use for oil and 
gas, other minerals, energy, and marine-related purposes on the Outer 
Continental Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and implementing 
laws and regulations as authorized by law and to the extent provided by 
Presidential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants or 
cooperative agreements, $168,330,000, of which $138,450,000, including 
not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses, is to remain available until September 30, 2026, and of which 
$29,880,000 is to remain available until expended, including $2,880,000 
for offshore decommissioning activities:  Provided, That this total 
appropriation shall be reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of 
the Interior and credited to this appropriation from additions to 
receipts resulting from increases to lease rental rates in effect on 
August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activities conducted 
by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement pursuant to the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including studies, assessments, 
analysis, and miscellaneous administrative activities:  Provided 
further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such 
collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to result in a 
final fiscal year 2025 appropriation estimated at not more than 
$141,330,000.
    For an additional amount, $37,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary and 
credited to this appropriation, which shall be derived from non-
refundable inspection fees collected in fiscal year 2025, as provided 
in this Act:  Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, not less 
than 50 percent of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety 
and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund personnel and 
mission-related costs to expand capacity and expedite the orderly 
development, subject to environmental safeguards, of the Outer 
Continental Shelf pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), including the review of applications for permits 
to drill.

                           oil spill research

    For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 1016; title 
IV, sections 4202 and 4303; title VII; and title VIII, section 8201 of 
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $15,099,000, which shall be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

                       regulation and technology

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, 
$119,786,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), to 
remain available until September 30, 2026, of which $66,000,000 shall 
be available for State and Tribal regulatory grants, and of which not 
to exceed $5,000 may be for official reception and representation 
expenses:  Provided, That appropriations for the Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and Tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training.
    In addition, for costs to review, administer, and enforce permits 
issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 of Public Law 95-87 (30 
U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That fees assessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section 
507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting 
collections, to remain available until expended:  Provided further, 
That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced 
as collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to result in 
a fiscal year 2025 appropriation estimated at not more than 
$119,786,000.

                    abandoned mine reclamation fund

    For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, $33,231,000, to 
be derived from receipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That pursuant to Public Law 
97-365, the Department of the Interior is authorized to use up to 20 
percent from the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to the United 
States Government to pay for contracts to collect these debts:  
Provided further, That funds made available under title IV of Public 
Law 95-87 may be used for any required non-Federal share of the cost of 
projects funded by the Federal Government for the purpose of 
environmental restoration related to treatment or abatement of acid 
mine drainage from abandoned mines:  Provided further, That such 
projects must be consistent with the purposes and priorities of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act:  Provided further, That 
amounts provided under this heading may be used for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and Tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training:  Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided under this heading, not to exceed 
$5,000 shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses.
    In addition, $135,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
payments to States and federally recognized Indian Tribes for 
reclamation of abandoned mine lands and other related activities in 
accordance with the terms and conditions described in the report 
accompanying this Act:  Provided, That such additional amount shall be 
used for economic and community development in conjunction with the 
priorities described in section 403(a) of the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)):  Provided further, 
That of such additional amount, $88,850,000 shall be distributed in 
equal amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest amount 
of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described in paragraphs (1) 
and (2) of such section, $34,400,000 shall be distributed in equal 
amounts to the three Appalachian States with the subsequent greatest 
amount of unfunded needs to meet such priorities, and $11,750,000 shall 
be for grants to federally recognized Indian Tribes, without regard to 
their status as certified or uncertified under the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)), for 
reclamation of abandoned mine lands and other related activities in 
accordance with the terms and conditions described in the report 
accompanying this Act and shall be used for economic and community 
development in conjunction with the priorities in section 403(a) of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977:  Provided further, 
That such payments shall be made to States and federally recognized 
Indian Tribes not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act:  Provided further, That if payments have not been made by the 
date specified in the preceding proviso, the amount appropriated for 
salaries and expenses under the heading ``Office of Surface Mining 
Reclamation and Enforcement'' shall be reduced by $100,000 per day 
until such payments have been made.

                             Indian Affairs

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                      operation of indian programs

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian programs, as 
authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 
U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $2,189,150,000 (reduced by 
$500,000) (increased by $500,000), to remain available until September 
30, 2026, except as otherwise provided herein; of which not to exceed 
$15,000 may be for official reception and representation expenses; of 
which not to exceed $79,494,000 shall be for welfare assistance 
payments:  Provided, That in cases of designated Federal disasters, the 
Secretary of the Interior may exceed such cap for welfare payments from 
the amounts provided herein, to provide for disaster relief to Indian 
communities affected by the disaster:  Provided further, That federally 
recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations of federally 
recognized Indian Tribes may use their Tribal priority allocations for 
unmet welfare assistance costs:  Provided further, That not to exceed 
$75,987,000 shall remain available until expended for housing 
improvement, road maintenance, land acquisition, attorney fees, 
litigation support, land records improvement, hearings and appeals, and 
the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program:  Provided further, That any 
forestry funds allocated to a federally recognized Tribe which remain 
unobligated as of September 30, 2026, may be transferred during fiscal 
year 2027 to an Indian forest land assistance account established for 
the benefit of the holder of the funds within the holder's trust fund 
account:  Provided further, That any such unobligated balances not so 
transferred shall expire on September 30, 2027:  Provided further, That 
in order to enhance the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau 
may use funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles of 
clothing for personnel:  Provided further, That not to exceed 
$7,664,000 of funds made available under this heading may, as needed, 
be transferred to ``Office of the Secretary--Departmental Operations'' 
for trust, probate, and administrative functions:  Provided further, 
That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may accept transfers of funds from 
United States Customs and Border Protection to supplement any other 
funding available for reconstruction or repair of roads owned by the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs as identified on the National Tribal 
Transportation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 202(b)(1).

                         contract support costs

    For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for contract 
support costs associated with Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the 
Bureau of Indian Education for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be 
necessary, which shall be available for obligation through September 
30, 2026:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no amounts made available under this heading shall be available for 
transfer to another budget account.

                       payments for tribal leases

    For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for leases pursuant 
to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) for fiscal year 2025, such sums as 
may be necessary, which shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2026:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall be available 
for transfer to another budget account.

                              construction

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, and other 
facilities, including architectural and engineering services by 
contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in lands; and preparation 
of lands for farming, and for construction of the Navajo Indian 
Irrigation Project pursuant to Public Law 87-483; $146,296,000, to 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project 
may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation:  Provided further, 
That any funds provided for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the 
Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available on a 
nonreimbursable basis:  Provided further, That this appropriation may 
be reimbursed from the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 
appropriation for the appropriate share of construction costs for space 
expansion needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementation: 
 Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$10,000,000 shall be derived from the Indian Irrigation Fund 
established by section 3211 of the WIIN Act (Public Law 114-322; 130 
Stat. 1749):  Provided further, That amounts provided under this 
heading are made available for the modernization of Federal field 
communication capabilities, in addition to amounts otherwise made 
available for such purpose.

 indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to 
                                indians

    For payments and necessary administrative expenses for 
implementation of Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant to 
Public Laws 99-264, 101-618, and 117-349, and for implementation of 
other land and water rights settlements, $32,263,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                 indian guaranteed loan program account

    For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, $20,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2026, of which $2,125,000 is for 
administrative expenses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 
1974:  Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such 
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974:  Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed 
or insured, not to exceed $399,114,126.

                       Bureau of Indian Education

                 operation of indian education programs

    For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian education 
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of November 2, 
1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education 
Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001-2019), and the Tribally Controlled 
Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $1,198,216,000 (reduced 
by $2,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000) to remain available until 
September 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided herein:  Provided, 
That federally recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations of 
federally recognized Indian Tribes may use their Tribal priority 
allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs:  Provided further, That 
not to exceed $871,983,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-funded 
schools and other education programs shall become available on June 1, 
2025, and shall remain available until September 30, 2026:  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but 
not limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 
5301 et seq.) and section 1128 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 
U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed $96,886,000 within and only from such 
amounts made available for school operations shall be available for 
administrative cost grants associated with grants approved prior to 
June 1, 2025:  Provided further, That in order to enhance the safety of 
Bureau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to purchase uniforms 
or other identifying articles of clothing for personnel.

                         education construction

    For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary for the operation 
of Indian education programs, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in lands; 
$270,867,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That in 
order to ensure timely completion of construction projects, the 
Secretary of the Interior may assume control of a project and all funds 
related to the project, if, not later than 18 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, any Public Law 100-297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et 
seq.) grantee receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any prior 
Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of the project and 
commenced construction.

                       administrative provisions

    The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education may 
carry out the operation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, 
contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, either 
directly or in cooperation with States and other organizations.
    Notwithstanding Public Law 87-279 (25 U.S.C. 15), the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs may contract for services in support of the management, 
operation, and maintenance of the Power Division of the San Carlos 
Irrigation Project.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian Education for 
central office oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except Executive Direction and Administrative Services 
funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and 
facilities operations and maintenance) shall be available for 
contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian Education under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal Self-
Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-413).
    In the event any Tribe returns appropriations made available by 
this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian 
Education, this action shall not diminish the Federal Government's 
trust responsibility to that Tribe, or the government-to-government 
relationship between the United States and that Tribe, or that Tribe's 
ability to access future appropriations.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to 
the Bureau of Indian Education, other than the amounts provided herein 
for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be 
available to support the operation of any elementary or secondary 
school in the State of Alaska.
    No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Education shall be used 
to support expanded grades for any school or dormitory beyond the grade 
structure in place or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each 
school in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of October 1, 
1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior may waive this 
prohibition to support expansion of up to one additional grade when the 
Secretary determines such waiver is needed to support accomplishment of 
the mission of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one grade 
to expand the elementary grade structure for Bureau-funded schools with 
a K-2 grade structure on October 1, 1996. Appropriations made available 
in this or any prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be 
available, in accordance with the Bureau's funding formula, only to the 
schools in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996, and to any 
school or school program that was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds 
made available under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined in section 
1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that 
a charter school that is in existence on the date of the enactment of 
this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before 
September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that period, but only 
if the charter school pays to the Bureau a pro rata share of funds to 
reimburse the Bureau for the use of the real and personal property 
(including buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does not assume 
any obligation for charter school programs of the State in which the 
school is located if the charter school loses such funding. Employees 
of Bureau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school and 
performing functions related to the charter school's operation and 
employees of a charter school shall not be treated as Federal employees 
for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section 113 
of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106-113, if in fiscal year 2003 
or 2004 a grantee received indirect and administrative costs pursuant 
to a distribution formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101-301, 
the Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and administrative 
cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) distribution formula.
    Funds available under this Act may not be used to establish 
satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school system as of 
September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary may waive this prohibition 
in order for an Indian Tribe to provide language and cultural immersion 
educational programs for non-public schools located within the 
jurisdictional area of the Tribal government which exclusively serve 
Tribal members, do not include grades beyond those currently served at 
the existing Bureau-funded school, provide an educational environment 
with educator presence and academic facilities comparable to the 
Bureau-funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, or 
State health and safety standards, and the Americans with Disabilities 
Act, and demonstrate the benefits of establishing operations at a 
satellite location in lieu of incurring extraordinary costs, such as 
for transportation or other impacts to students such as those caused by 
busing students extended distances:  Provided, That no funds available 
under this Act may be used to fund operations, maintenance, 
rehabilitation, construction, or other facilities-related costs for 
such assets that are not owned by the Bureau:  Provided further, That 
the term ``satellite school'' means a school location physically 
separated from the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but 
that forms part of the existing school in all other respects.
    Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations within 
Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of Indian Education Programs 
may be used to execute requested adjustments in Tribal priority 
allocations initiated by an Indian Tribe.

                  Bureau of Trust Funds Administration

                         federal trust programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the operation of trust programs for Indians by direct 
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, 
$105,277,000, to remain available until expended, of which not to 
exceed $17,997,000 from this or any other Act, may be available for 
settlement support:  Provided, That funds for trust management 
improvements and litigation support may, as needed, be transferred to 
or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ``Operation of Indian 
Programs'' and Bureau of Indian Education, ``Operation of Indian 
Education Programs'' accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ``Salaries 
and Expenses'' account; and the Office of the Secretary, ``Departmental 
Operations'' account:  Provided further, That funds made available 
through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2025, as 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 
et seq.), shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 
grantee:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary shall not be required to provide a quarterly 
statement of performance for any Indian trust account that has not had 
activity for at least 15 months and has a balance of $15 or less:  
Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and shall permit 
the balance in each such account to be withdrawn upon the express 
written request of the account holder:  Provided further, That not to 
exceed $100,000 is available for the Secretary to make payments to 
correct administrative errors of either disbursements from or deposits 
to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after September 30, 2002: 
 Provided further, That erroneous payments that are recovered shall be 
credited to and remain available in this account for this purpose:  
Provided further, That the Secretary shall not be required to reconcile 
Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than $500 unless the 
Bureau of Trust Funds Administration receives proof of ownership from a 
Special Deposit Accounts claimant:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund 
Management Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-412) or any other 
provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the trust accounts of 
individuals whose whereabouts are unknown for a continuous period of at 
least 5 years and shall not be required to generate periodic statements 
of performance for the individual accounts:  Provided further, That 
with respect to the preceding proviso, the Secretary shall continue to 
maintain sufficient records to determine the balance of the individual 
accounts, including any accrued interest and income, and such funds 
shall remain available to the individual account holders.

                          Departmental Offices

                        Office of the Secretary

                        departmental operations

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses for management of the Department of the 
Interior and for grants and cooperative agreements, as authorized by 
law, $102,292,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) 
(reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) 
(reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (reduced by 
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by 
$4,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by $7,000,000), to remain 
available until September 30, 2026; of which not to exceed $15,000 may 
be for official reception and representation expenses; of which up to 
$1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensation payments and 
unemployment compensation payments associated with the orderly closure 
of the United States Bureau of Mines; and of which $14,295,000 for 
Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation activities shall remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That funds for Indian land, 
mineral, and resource valuation activities may, as needed, be 
transferred to and merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs ``Operation 
of Indian Programs'' and Bureau of Indian Education ``Operation of 
Indian Education Programs'' accounts and the Bureau of Trust Funds 
Administration ``Federal Trust Programs'' account:  Provided further, 
That funds made available through contracts or grants obligated during 
fiscal year 2025, as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 
1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available until expended by 
the contractor or grantee.

                       administrative provisions

    For fiscal year 2025, up to $550,000 of the payments authorized by 
chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, may be retained for 
administrative expenses of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program:  
Provided, That the amounts provided under this Act specifically for the 
Payments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts available for 
payments authorized under chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code:  
Provided further, That in the event the sums appropriated for any 
fiscal year for payments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to 
make the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units of local 
government, then the payment to each local government shall be made 
proportionally:  Provided further, That the Secretary may make 
adjustments to payment to individual units of local government to 
correct for prior overpayments or underpayments:  Provided further, 
That no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to otherwise 
eligible units of local government if the computed amount of the 
payment is less than $100.

                            Insular Affairs

                       assistance to territories

    For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $118,689,000, of which: 
(1) $107,220,000 shall remain available until expended for territorial 
assistance, including general technical assistance, maintenance 
assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef initiative and natural 
resources activities, and brown tree snake control and research; grants 
to the judiciary in American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as 
authorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of 
American Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construction 
and support of governmental functions; grants to the Government of the 
Virgin Islands, as authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, 
as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, as authorized by law (Public Law 94-241; 90 Stat. 
272); and (2) $11,469,000 shall be available until September 30, 2026, 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs:  Provided, 
That all financial transactions of the territorial and local 
governments herein provided for, including such transactions of all 
agencies or instrumentalities established or used by such governments, 
may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, at its 
discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United States 
Code:  Provided further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant 
funding shall be provided according to those terms of the Agreement of 
the Special Representatives on Future United States Financial 
Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public Law 104-
134:  Provided further, That the funds for the program of operations 
and maintenance improvement are appropriated to institutionalize 
routine operations and maintenance improvement of capital 
infrastructure with territorial participation and cost sharing to be 
determined by the Secretary based on the grantee's commitment to timely 
maintenance of its capital assets:  Provided further, That any 
appropriation for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts may be used as non-Federal matching funds 
for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to 
section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c).

                      compact of free association

    For grants and necessary expenses, $813,000, to remain available 
until expended, to support Federal services and programs provided to 
the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 
Federated States of Micronesia.

                       Administrative Provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Secretary may transfer 
discretionary funds or mandatory funds provided under section 104(e) of 
Public Law 108-188 and Public Law 104-134, that are allocated for Guam, 
to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost of direct or 
guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three percent of the amount of the 
subsidy transferred for the cost of loan administration, for the 
purposes authorized by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and 
section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
for construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds shall 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  Provided further, That such 
loans or loan guarantees may be made without regard to the population 
of the area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on the 
types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 
and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act:  Provided further, That any funds transferred to the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall be in addition to funds otherwise made available to 
make or guarantee loans under such authorities.

                        Office of the Solicitor

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, $93,964,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2026.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$68,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026.

                        Department-Wide Programs

                        wildland fire management

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire suppression 
operations, fire science and research, emergency rehabilitation, fuels 
management activities, and rural fire assistance by the Department of 
the Interior, $1,195,086,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed $14,000,000 shall be for the renovation or 
construction of fire facilities:  Provided, That such funds are also 
available for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such purposes:  
Provided further, That of the funds provided $255,000,000 is for fuels 
management activities:  Provided further, That of the funds provided 
$10,000,000 is for burned area rehabilitation:  Provided further, That 
persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence 
and lodging without cost from funds available from this appropriation:  
Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received 
by a bureau or office of the Department of the Interior for fire 
protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of 
United States property, may be credited to the appropriation from which 
funds were expended to provide that protection, and are available 
without fiscal year limitation:  Provided further, That using the 
amounts designated under this title of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior may enter into procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative 
agreements, for fuels management activities, and for training and 
monitoring associated with such fuels management activities on Federal 
land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities that benefit 
resources on Federal land:  Provided further, That the costs of 
implementing any cooperative agreement between the Federal Government 
and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the 
affected parties:  Provided further, That notwithstanding requirements 
of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, for purposes of 
fuels management activities, may obtain maximum practicable competition 
among: (1) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth 
Conservation Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109-154), or 
related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit youth groups; (3) 
small or micro-businesses; or (4) other entities that will hire or 
train locally a significant percentage, defined as 50 percent or more, 
of the project workforce to complete such contracts:  Provided further, 
That in implementing this section, the Secretary shall develop written 
guidance to field units to ensure accountability and consistent 
application of the authorities provided herein:  Provided further, That 
funds appropriated under this heading may be used to reimburse the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine 
Fisheries Service for the costs of carrying out their responsibilities 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to 
consult and conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, in 
connection with wildland fire management activities:  Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the Interior may use wildland fire appropriations 
to enter into leases of real property with local governments, at or 
below fair market value, to construct capitalized improvements for fire 
facilities on such leased properties, including but not limited to fire 
guard stations, retardant stations, and other initial attack and fire 
support facilities, and to make advance payments for any such lease or 
for construction activity associated with the lease:  Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may 
authorize the transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire 
management, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 between 
the Departments when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
wildland fire management programs and projects:  Provided further, That 
funds provided for wildfire suppression shall be available for support 
of Federal emergency response actions:  Provided further, That funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for assistance to or 
through the Department of State in connection with forest and rangeland 
research, technical information, and assistance in foreign countries, 
and, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall be available 
to support forestry, wildland fire management, and related natural 
resource activities outside the United States and its territories and 
possessions, including technical assistance, education and training, 
and cooperation with United States and international organizations:  
Provided further, That of the funds provided under this heading, 
$383,657,000 shall be available for wildfire suppression operations, 
and is provided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

              wildfire suppression operations reserve fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    In addition to the amounts provided under the heading ``Department 
of the Interior--Department-Wide Programs--Wildland Fire Management'' 
for wildfire suppression operations, $360,000,000, to remain available 
until transferred, is additional new budget authority as specified for 
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985:  Provided, That such amounts may be 
transferred to and merged with amounts made available under the 
headings ``Department of Agriculture--Forest Service--Wildland Fire 
Management'' and ``Department of the Interior--Department-Wide 
Programs--Wildland Fire Management'' for wildfire suppression 
operations in the fiscal year in which such amounts are transferred:  
Provided further, That amounts may be transferred to the ``Wildland 
Fire Management'' accounts in the Department of Agriculture or the 
Department of the Interior only upon the notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire suppression 
operations funds appropriated under that heading in this and prior 
appropriations Acts to the agency to which the funds will be 
transferred will be obligated within 30 days:  Provided further, That 
the transfer authority provided under this heading is in addition to 
any other transfer authority provided by law:  Provided further, That 
in determining whether all wildfire suppression operations funds 
appropriated under the heading ``Wildland Fire Management'' in this and 
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agriculture or 
the Department of the Interior will be obligated within 30 days 
pursuant to the preceding proviso, any funds transferred or permitted 
to be transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority provided by 
law shall be excluded.

                    central hazardous materials fund

    For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior and any of 
its component offices and bureaus for the response action, including 
associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), $9,200,000, to remain available until expended.

                energy community revitalization program

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior to 
inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond to hazardous 
substance releases, remediate lands pursuant to section 40704 of Public 
Law 117-58 (30 U.S.C. 1245), and carry out the purposes of section 349 
of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended, 
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That such 
amount shall be in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
purposes:  Provided further, That amounts appropriated under this 
heading are available for program management and oversight of these 
activities:  Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer the 
funds provided under this heading in this Act to any other account in 
the Department to carry out such purposes, and may expend such funds 
directly, or through grants:  Provided further, That these amounts are 
not available to fulfill Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obligations 
agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court, whether for payment of 
funds or for work to be performed.

           natural resource damage assessment and restoration

                natural resource damage assessment fund

    To conduct natural resource damage assessment, restoration 
activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by the Department of the 
Interior necessary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and 54 
U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,715,000, to remain available until expended.

                          working capital fund

    For the operation and maintenance of a departmental financial and 
business management system, data management, information technology 
improvements of general benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and 
the consolidation of facilities and operations throughout the 
Department, $99,453,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That none of the funds appropriated in this Act or any other Act may be 
used to establish reserves in the Working Capital Fund account other 
than for accrued annual leave and depreciation of equipment without 
prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
of the Interior may assess reasonable charges to State, local, and 
Tribal government employees for training services provided by the 
National Indian Program Training Center, other than training related to 
Public Law 93-638:  Provided further, That the Secretary may lease or 
otherwise provide space and related facilities, equipment, or 
professional services of the National Indian Program Training Center to 
State, local and Tribal government employees or persons or 
organizations engaged in cultural, educational, or recreational 
activities (as defined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States 
Code) at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equipment, 
or services in the vicinity of the National Indian Program Training 
Center:  Provided further, That all funds received pursuant to the two 
preceding provisos shall be credited to this account, shall be 
available until expended, and shall be used by the Secretary for 
necessary expenses of the National Indian Program Training Center:  
Provided further, That the Secretary may enter into grants and 
cooperative agreements to support the Office of Natural Resource 
Revenue's collection and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other 
mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized by law.

                        administrative provision

    There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available resources 
within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft which may be obtained by 
donation, purchase, or through available excess surplus property:  
Provided, That existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, with 
proceeds derived or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price 
for the replacement aircraft.

                  office of natural resources revenue

    For necessary expenses for management of the collection and 
disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, 
and for grants and cooperative agreements, as authorized by law, 
$160,446,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026; of which 
$59,751,000 shall remain available until expended for the purpose of 
mineral revenue management activities:  Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, $50,000 shall be available for refunds of 
overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases in which the 
Secretary of the Interior concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay 
amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to correct prior 
unrecoverable erroneous payments.

             General Provisions, Department of the Interior

                     (including transfers of funds)

               emergency transfer authority--intra-bureau

    Sec. 101.  Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer (within each bureau or office), with the 
approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the emergency 
reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, 
utilities, or other facilities or equipment damaged or destroyed by 
fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes:  Provided, That no 
funds shall be made available under this authority until funds 
specifically made available to the Department of the Interior for 
emergencies shall have been exhausted:  Provided further, That all 
funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation, which must be requested as promptly as 
possible.

             emergency transfer authority--department-wide

    Sec. 102.  The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the 
expenditure or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, in 
addition to the amounts included in the budget programs of the several 
agencies, for the suppression or emergency prevention of wildland fires 
on or threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the 
Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands under 
its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or actual 
earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; 
for contingency planning subsequent to actual oil spills; for response 
and natural resource damage assessment activities related to actual oil 
spills or releases of hazardous substances into the environment; for 
the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or potential 
grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to the authority in section 
417(b) of Public Law 106-224 (7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); for emergency 
reclamation projects under section 410 of Public Law 95-87; and shall 
transfer, from any no year funds available to the Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary to 
permit assumption of regulatory authority in the event a primacy State 
is not carrying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining 
Act:  Provided, That appropriations made in this title for wildland 
fire operations shall be available for the payment of obligations 
incurred during the preceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to 
other Federal agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or other 
equipment in connection with their use for wildland fire operations, 
with such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations currently 
available at the time of receipt thereof:  Provided further, That for 
wildland fire operations, no funds shall be made available under this 
authority until the Secretary determines that funds appropriated for 
``wildland fire suppression'' shall be exhausted within 30 days:  
Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to this section must be 
replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which must be requested as 
promptly as possible:  Provided further, That such replenishment funds 
shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which 
emergency funds were transferred.

                        authorized use of funds

    Sec. 103.  Appropriations made to the Department of the Interior in 
this title shall be available for services as authorized by section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, when authorized by the Secretary 
of the Interior, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and 
replacement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped law 
enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for 
telephone service in private residences in the field, when authorized 
under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, 
when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies 
or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price 
to members lower than to subscribers who are not members.

            authorized use of funds, indian trust management

    Sec. 104.  Appropriations made in this Act under the headings 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, and Bureau of 
Trust Funds Administration and any unobligated balances from prior 
appropriations Acts made under the same headings shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management and reform 
activities. Total funding for settlement support activities shall not 
exceed amounts specifically designated in this Act for such purpose. 
The Secretary shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations within 60 days of the expenditure or transfer of any 
funds under this section, including the amount expended or transferred 
and how the funds will be used.

           redistribution of funds, bureau of indian affairs

    Sec. 105.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute any Tribal 
Priority Allocation funds, including Tribal base funds, to alleviate 
Tribal funding inequities by transferring funds to address identified, 
unmet needs, dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate 
distribution methodologies. No Tribe shall receive a reduction in 
Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal year 
2025. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, overlapping service areas 
or inaccurate distribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation 
does not apply.

                outer continental shelf inspection fees

    Sec. 106. (a) In fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, which shall be deposited 
in the ``Offshore Safety and Environmental Enforcement'' account, from 
the designated operator for facilities subject to inspection under 43 
U.S.C. 1348(c).
    (b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that are above 
the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are in place at the start 
of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 2025 shall be--
            (1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 
        processing equipment or gathering lines;
            (2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, with any 
        combination of active or inactive wells; and
            (3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 wells, with 
        any combination of active or inactive wells.
    (c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all inspections 
completed in fiscal year 2025. Fees for fiscal year 2025 shall be--
            (1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in water 
        depths of 500 feet or more; and
            (2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in water 
        depths of less than 500 feet.
    (d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted via non-rig 
units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts D, E, F, and Q shall be 
assessed for all inspections completed in fiscal year 2025. Fees for 
fiscal year 2025 shall be--
            (1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units operating in 
        water depths of 2,500 feet or more;
            (2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units operating in 
        water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; and
            (3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units operating in 
        water depths of less than 500 feet.
    (e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators under subsection 
(b) quarterly, with payment required within 30 days of billing. The 
Secretary shall bill designated operators under subsection (c) within 
30 days of the end of the month in which the inspection occurred, with 
payment required within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill 
designated operators under subsection (d) with payment required by the 
end of the following quarter.

  contracts and agreements for wild horse and burro holding facilities

    Sec. 107.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior may enter into multiyear cooperative 
agreements with nonprofit organizations and other appropriate entities, 
and may enter into multiyear contracts in accordance with the 
provisions of section 3903 of title 41, United States Code (except that 
the 5-year term restriction in subsection (a) shall not apply), for the 
long-term care and maintenance of excess wild free roaming horses and 
burros by such organizations or entities on private land. Such 
cooperative agreements and contracts may not exceed 10 years, subject 
to renewal at the discretion of the Secretary.

                       mass marking of salmonids

    Sec. 108.  The United States Fish and Wildlife Service shall, in 
carrying out its responsibilities to protect threatened and endangered 
species of salmon, implement a system of mass marking of salmonid 
stocks, intended for harvest, that are released from federally operated 
or federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to fish 
releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. Marked fish must have 
a visible mark that can be readily identified by commercial and 
recreational fishers.

              contracts and agreements with indian affairs

    Sec. 109.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during 
fiscal year 2025, in carrying out work involving cooperation with 
State, local, and Tribal governments or any political subdivision 
thereof, Indian Affairs may record obligations against accounts 
receivable from any such entities, except that total obligations at the 
end of the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 
available at the end of the fiscal year.

        department of the interior experienced services program

    Sec. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating 
to Federal grants and cooperative agreements, the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to make grants to, or enter into cooperative 
agreements with, private nonprofit organizations designated by the 
Secretary of Labor under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 to 
utilize the talents of older Americans in programs authorized by other 
provisions of law administered by the Secretary and consistent with 
such provisions of law.
    (b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under subsection (a), 
the Secretary shall ensure that the agreement would not--
            (1) result in the displacement of individuals currently 
        employed by the Department, including partial displacement 
        through reduction of non-overtime hours, wages, or employment 
        benefits;
            (2) result in the use of an individual under the Department 
        of the Interior Experienced Services Program for a job or 
        function in a case in which a Federal employee is in a layoff 
        status from the same or substantially equivalent job within the 
        Department; or
            (3) affect existing contracts for services.

                          obligation of funds

    Sec. 111.  Amounts appropriated by this Act to the Department of 
the Interior shall be available for obligation and expenditure not 
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

                         separation of accounts

    Sec. 112.  The Secretary of the Interior, in order to implement an 
orderly transition to separate accounts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
and the Bureau of Indian Education, may transfer funds among and 
between the successor offices and bureaus affected by the 
reorganization only in conformance with the reprogramming guidelines 
described in this Act.

                    payments in lieu of taxes (pilt)

    Sec. 113.  Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2025'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

                         interagency motor pool

    Sec. 114.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or Federal 
regulation, federally recognized Indian Tribes or authorized Tribal 
organizations that receive Tribally Controlled School Grants pursuant 
to Public Law 100-297 may obtain interagency motor vehicles and related 
services for performance of any activities carried out under such 
grants to the same extent as if they were contracting under the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.

                        appraiser pay authority

    Sec. 115.  For fiscal year 2025, funds made available in this or 
any other Act or otherwise made available to the Department of the 
Interior for the Appraisal and Valuation Services Office may be used by 
the Secretary of the Interior to establish higher minimum rates of 
basic pay for employees of the Department of the Interior in the 
Appraiser (GS-1171) job series at grades 11 through 15 carrying out 
appraisals of real property and appraisal reviews conducted in support 
of the Department's realty programs at rates no greater than 15 percent 
above the minimum rates of basic pay normally scheduled, and such 
higher rates shall be consistent with subsections (e) through (h) of 
section 5305 of title 5, United States Code.

                              sage-grouse

    Sec. 116.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533)--
            (1) to write or issue a proposed or final rule with regard 
        to the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) or any 
        distinct population segment of greater sage-grouse; or
            (2) to implement, administer, or enforce any threatened 
        species or endangered species status of the greater sage-grouse 
        (Centrocercus urophasianus) or any distinct population segment 
        of greater sage-grouse.

                          sage-grouse habitat

    Sec. 117.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the 
Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment or Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement for Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning referenced in the 
Notice titled ``Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management 
Plan Amendment and Environmental Impact Statement for Greater Sage-
Grouse Rangewide Planning'' (89 Fed. Reg. 18963 (March 15, 2024)).

                       state conservation grants

    Sec. 118.  For expenses necessary to carry out section 200305 of 
title 54, United States Code, the National Park Service may retain up 
to 7 percent of the State Conservation Grants program to provide to 
States, the District of Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants 
to support state program administrative costs.

                  historic preservation fund deposits

    Sec. 119.  Section 303102 of title 54, United States Code, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2025'' for ``fiscal year 2023''.

             interior authority for operating efficiencies

    Sec. 120. (a) In fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the Secretary of the 
Interior may authorize and execute agreements to achieve operating 
efficiencies among and between two or more component bureaus and 
offices through the following activities:
            (1) co-locating in facilities leased or owned by any such 
        component bureau or office and sharing related utilities and 
        equipment;
            (2) detailing or assigning staff on a non-reimbursable 
        basis for up to 5 business days; and
            (3) sharing staff and equipment necessary to meet mission 
        requirements.
    (b) The authority provided by subsection (a) shall be to support 
areas of mission alignment between and among component bureaus and 
offices or where geographic proximity allows for efficiencies.
    (c) Bureaus and offices entering into agreements authorized under 
subsections (a)(1) and (a)(3) shall bear costs for such agreements in a 
manner that reflects their approximate benefit and share of total 
costs, which may or may not include indirect costs.
    (d) In furtherance of the requirement in subsection (c), the 
Secretary of the Interior may make transfers of funds in advance or on 
a reimbursable basis.

                   emergency law enforcement ceiling

    Sec. 121.  Section 103101 of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended in subsection (c)(1) by striking ``$250,000'' and inserting 
``$500,000''.

                    contribution authority extension

    Sec. 122.  Section 113 of division G of Public Law 113-76, as 
amended by Public Law 116-6, is further amended by striking ``2024'' 
and inserting ``2029''.

                         period of availability

    Sec. 123.  Funds previously made available in the Further 
Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements 
Act, 2018 (Div. B of Public Law 115-123) for the ``National Park 
Service - Historic Preservation Fund'' that were available for 
obligation through fiscal year 2019 are to remain available through 
fiscal year 2026 for the liquidation of valid obligations incurred 
during fiscal years 2018 and 2019: Provided, That amounts repurposed 
pursuant to this section that were previously designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

                          onshore wind project

    Sec. 124.  The final environmental impact statement for the Lava 
Ridge Wind Project described in the notice of availability issued by 
the Bureau of Land Management and titled ``Notice of Availability of 
the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Lava Ridge 
Wind Project in Jerome, Lincoln, and Minidoka Counties, ID'' (89 Fed. 
Reg. 48681 (June 7, 2024)) shall have no force or effect.

                       lead ammunition and tackle

    Sec. 125. (a) None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to prohibit the use of lead ammunition or tackle on 
Federal land or water that is made available for hunting or fishing 
activities or to issue regulations relating to the level of lead in 
ammunition or tackle to be used on Federal land or water, unless--
    (1) the Secretary of the Interior determines that a decline in 
wildlife population on the specific unit of Federal land or water is 
primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on 
field data from the specific unit of Federal land or water; and
    (2) the prohibition or regulation, as applicable, is--
            (A) consistent with--
                    (i) the law of the State in which the specific unit 
                of Federal land or water is located; or
                    (ii) an applicable policy of the fish and wildlife 
                department of the State in which the specific unit of 
                Federal land or water is located; or
            (B) approved by the fish and wildlife department of the 
        State in which the specific unit of Federal land or water is 
        located.
    (b) In any case in which the Secretary of the Interior determines 
under subsection (a) that there is a wildlife population decline on a 
specific unit of Federal land or water that warrants a prohibition on 
or regulation relating to the level of lead in ammunition or tackle, 
the Secretary shall include in a Federal Register notice an explanation 
of how the prohibition or regulation, as applicable, meets the 
requirements of this section.

                                ecogrief

    Sec. 126.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to carry out the program for Federal employees at the 
Department of the Interior titled ``Acknowledging Ecogrief and 
Developing Resistance'' or any counseling sessions, workshop, or any 
other meeting pertaining to ecological grief, ecogrief, or eco-
resilience.

                         lesser prairie-chicken

    Sec. 127.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Lesser Prairie-
Chicken; Threatened Status With Section 4(d) Rule for the Northern 
Distinct Population Segment and Endangered Status for the Southern 
Distinct Population Segment'' (87 Fed. Reg. 72674 (November 25, 2022)).

                        northern long-eared bat

    Sec. 128.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered 
Species Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat'' (87 Fed. Reg. 73488 
(November 30, 2022)).

                         dunes sagebrush lizard

    Sec. 129.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the threatened 
species or endangered species status of the dunes sagebrush lizard 
(Sceloporus arenicolus) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).

                               gray wolf

    Sec. 130.  Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall reissue the final 
rule titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing 
the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threatened 
Wildlife'' (85 Fed. Reg. 69778 (November 3, 2020)).

                               wolverine

    Sec. 131.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened 
Species Status With Section 4(d) Rule for North American Wolverine'' 
(88 Fed. Reg. 83726 (November 30, 2023)).

                 north cascades ecosystem grizzly bear

    Sec. 132.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Establishment 
of a Nonessential Experimental Population of Grizzly Bear in the North 
Cascades Ecosystem, Washington State'' (89 Fed. Reg. 36982 (May 3, 
2024)).

                   bitterroot ecosystem grizzly bear

    Sec. 133.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to establish an 
experimental population of the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) 
within the Bitterroot Ecosystem of Montana and Idaho.

                     fish legally held in captivity

    Sec. 134.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to implement, 
administer, or enforce a proposed or final rule with regard to a fish 
legally held in captivity or in a controlled environment in a manner 
that maintains physical separation of such fish from any wild 
population of the same species.

              charles m. russell national wildlife refuge

    Sec. 135.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate or allow 
for the introduction of American bison (Bison bison) on the Charles M. 
Russell National Wildlife Refuge (as originally established in 
Executive Order No. 7509, renamed in Public Land Order 2951, and 
redesignated in Public Land Order 5635).

                      endangered species act rules

    Sec. 136.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce--
            (1) the final rule titled ``Endangered and Threatened 
        Wildlife and Plants; Regulations Pertaining to Endangered and 
        Threatened Wildlife and Plants'' (89 Fed. Reg. 23919 (April 5, 
        2024));
            (2) the final rule titled ``Endangered and Threatened 
        Wildlife and Plants; Listing Endangered and Threatened Species 
        and Designating Critical Habitat'' (89 Fed. Reg. 24300 (April 
        5, 2024)); or
            (3) the final rule titled ``Endangered and Threatened 
        Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Interagency Cooperation'' 
        (89 Fed. Reg. 24268 (April 5, 2024)).

                              transparency

    Sec. 137. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall reissue and 
implement Order No. 3368 ``Promoting Transparency and Accountability in 
Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements'' dated September 11, 2018.
    (b) None of the funds made available by this Act shall be available 
to rescind the Order reissued under subsection (a), reissue, enforce, 
administer, or implement Order No. 3408 ``Rescission of Secretary's 
Order 3368'' dated June 17, 2022, or to issue, enforce, administer, or 
implement any substantially similar order.

                 funding limitation regarding blm rule

    Sec. 138.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Conservation and Landscape Health'' published by the Bureau of 
Land Management in the Federal Register on May 9, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 
40308).

              grand staircase-escalante national monument

    Sec. 139.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used for management of the Grand Staircase-Escalante 
National Monument except in compliance with the document titled 
``Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plans for the 
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument'' (February 2020).

                               cottonwood

    Sec. 140.  Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue the final rule 
titled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for 
Interagency Cooperation'' (86 Fed. Reg. 2373 (January 12, 2021)).

      funding limitation regarding fish and wildlife service rule

    Sec. 141.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the 
proposed rule titled ``National Wildlife Refuge System; Biological 
Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health'' (89 Fed. Reg. 7345 
(February 2, 2024)).

                     national park service housing

    Sec. 142.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the National Park Service to provide housing to an alien without 
lawful status under the immigration laws (as such term is defined in 
section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)).

                     big cypress national preserve

    Sec. 143.  The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Director of the National Park Service, shall prepare an environmental 
impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), prior to approving an operations permit, as 
described in 36 Code of Federal Regulations, subpart B Sec. Sec. 9.80 
through 9.90, for the purpose of conducting or proposing to conduct 
non-federal oil or gas operations within the Big Cypress National 
Preserve.

                            caldwell canyon

    Sec. 144.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later 
than December 31, 2024, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue a new 
Record of Decision for the Caldwell Canyon Mine project that addresses 
the deficiencies identified by the United States District Court for the 
District of Idaho in its decisions and orders issued in Center for 
Biological Diversity, et al. v. United States Bureau of Land 
Management, et al. (Case Number 4:21-CV-00182-BLW) on January 24, 2023, 
and June 2, 2023.

                              5-year plan

    Sec. 145.  Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
U.S.C. 1344) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``subsections (c) and (d) of this 
                section, shall prepare and periodically revise,'' and 
                inserting ``this section, shall issue every five 
                years'';
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Each five-year program shall include at least two 
        Gulf of Mexico region-wide lease sales per year.''.
                    (C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``domestic 
                energy security,'' after ``between'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) as 
        subsections (g) through (j), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
    ``(f) Subsequent Leasing Programs.--
            ``(1) In General.--Not later than 36 months after 
        conducting the first lease sale under an oil and gas leasing 
        program prepared pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall 
        begin preparing the subsequent oil and gas leasing program 
        under this section.
            ``(2) Requirement.--Each subsequent oil and gas leasing 
        program under this section shall be approved by not later than 
        180 days before the expiration of the previous oil and gas 
        leasing program.''.

                      offshore oil and gas leasing

    Sec. 146. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
except within areas subject to existing oil and gas leasing moratoria 
beginning in fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
annually conduct a minimum of 2 region-wide oil and gas lease sales in 
the following planning areas of the Gulf of Mexico region, as described 
in the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed 
Final Program (November 2016):
            (1) The Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
            (2) The Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal 
year 2025, the Secretary of the Interior shall annually conduct a 
minimum of 2 region-wide oil and gas lease sales in the Alaska region 
of the Outer Continental Shelf, as described in the 2017-2022 Outer 
Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program (November 
2016).
    (c) In conducting lease sales under subsections (a) and (b), the 
Secretary of the Interior shall--
            (1) issue such leases in accordance with the Outer 
        Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1332 et seq.); and
            (2) include in each such lease sale all unleased areas that 
        are not subject to a moratorium as of the date of the lease 
        sale.

                       continuing offshore energy

    Sec. 147. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later 
than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall hold Lease Sale 262, which shall 
include offering for leasing any tracts--
            (1) that were offered for leasing under Lease Sale 259 (as 
        defined in section 50264 of Public Law 117-169); and
            (2) for which the Secretary of the Interior did not issue a 
        lease.
    (b) Leases from Lease Sale 262 shall be conveyed using the same 
lease form and containing the same lease terms, economic conditions, 
and lease stipulations as contained in the Final Notice of Sale for 
Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 257 (86 
Fed. Reg. 54728 (Oct 4, 2021)).

                          effect on other law

    Sec. 148.  Nothing in this Act, or any amendments made by this Act, 
shall affect--
     (a) the Presidential memorandum titled ``Memorandum on Withdrawal 
of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf From 
Leasing Disposition'' and dated September 8, 2020;
    (b) the Presidential memorandum titled ``Memorandum on Withdrawal 
of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf From 
Leasing Disposition'' and dated September 25, 2020;
    (c) the Presidential memorandum titled ``Memorandum on Withdrawal 
of Certain Areas off the Atlantic Coast on the Outer Continental Shelf 
From Leasing Disposition'' and dated December 20, 2016; or
    (d) the ban on oil and gas development in the Great Lakes described 
in section 386 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15941).

                             marine mammals

    Sec. 149. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used to implement, administer, or enforce any restriction, stipulation, 
or mitigation related to offshore energy leasing, exploration, 
development, or production carried out pursuant to the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) intended to reduce 
or eliminate possible disturbance to the North Pacific right whale 
(Eubalaena japonica), North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), 
or Rice's whale (Balaenoptera ricei).
    (b) Subsection (a) does not apply to any action required to comply 
with a court order in regard to litigation concerning the document 
titled ``Biological Opinion on the Federally Regulated Oil and Gas 
Program Activities in the Gulf of Mexico'' (OPR-2017-00002; March 13, 
2020) or any environmental document required under the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) needed for 
Gulf Of Mexico lease sales, provided that such actions are necessary to 
prevent a decrease, reduction, or prohibition of access to the Gulf of 
Mexico Outer Continental Shelf for energy-related activities.

                      onshore oil and gas leasing

    Sec. 150. (a)(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall immediately 
resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales in compliance with the 
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.).
    (2) The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure--
            (A) that any oil and gas lease sale pursuant to paragraph 
        (1) is conducted immediately on completion of all applicable 
        scoping, public comment, and environmental analysis 
        requirements under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
        seq.) and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
        U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); and
            (B) that the processes described in subparagraph (A) are 
        conducted in a timely manner to ensure compliance with 
        subsection (b)(1).
    (3) Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
226(b)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ``Eligible lands comprise all 
lands subject to leasing under this Act and not excluded from leasing 
by a statutory or regulatory prohibition. Available lands are those 
lands that have been designated as open for leasing under a land use 
plan developed under section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 and that have been nominated for leasing through 
the submission of an expression of interest, are subject to drainage in 
the absence of leasing, or are otherwise designated as available 
pursuant to regulations adopted by the Secretary.'' after ``sales are 
necessary.''.
    (b)(1) In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
seq.), each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a 
minimum of four oil and gas lease sales in each of the following 
States:
            (A) Wyoming.
            (B) New Mexico.
            (C) Colorado.
            (D) Utah.
            (E) Montana.
            (F) North Dakota.
            (G) Oklahoma.
            (H) Nevada.
            (I) Alaska.
            (J) Any other State in which there is land available for 
        oil and gas leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
        181 et seq.) or any other mineral leasing law.
    (2) In conducting a lease sale under paragraph (1) in a State 
described in that paragraph, the Secretary of the Interior shall offer 
all parcels nominated and eligible pursuant to the requirements of the 
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) for oil and gas 
exploration, development, and production under the resource management 
plan in effect for the State.
    (3) The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a replacement sale 
during the same fiscal year if--
            (A) a lease sale under paragraph (1) is canceled, delayed, 
        or deferred, including for a lack of eligible parcels; or
            (B) during a lease sale under paragraph (1) the percentage 
        of acreage that does not receive a bid is equal to or greater 
        than 25 percent of the acreage offered.
    (4) Not later than 30 days after a sale required under this 
subsection is canceled, delayed, deferred, or otherwise missed the 
Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report that 
states what sale was missed and why it was missed.

                            domestic mining

    Sec. 151.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce any recommendation of the 
Interagency Working Group on Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting 
of the Department of the Interior contained in the report titled 
``Recommendations to Improve Mining on Public Lands'' (published 
September 12, 2023).

                            ten-day notices

    Sec. 152.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``Ten-Day 
Notices and Corrective Action for State Regulatory Program Issues'' (89 
Fed. Reg. 24714 (April 9, 2024)).

                     lease cancellations in alaska

    Sec. 153.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for the cancellation or suspension of oil and gas leases in the Arctic 
National Wildlife Refuge or the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

                  national petroleum reserve in alaska

    Sec. 154.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``Management 
and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska'' and 
published by the Bureau of Land Management in the Federal Register on 
May 7, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 38712), or any substantially similar rule.

                          trademark litigation

    Sec. 155.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to oppose an application for trademark related to the logo for the 
Glacier Rough Riders or pursue litigation or other action against the 
Glacier Range Riders for trademark rights infringement related to such 
logo.

                                renewal

    Sec. 156.  The first section of Public Law 99-338 (100 Stat. 641) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``3 renewals'' and inserting ``7 
        renewals''; and
            (2) by striking ``of Southern California Edison Company''.

               greater yellowstone ecosystem grizzly bear

    Sec. 157. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall reissue the final rule 
entitled ``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the 
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears From the 
Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife'' (82 Fed. Reg. 
30502 (June 30, 2017)), without regard to any other provision of law 
that applies to the issuance of that final rule.
    (b) The reissuance of the final rule described in subsection (a) 
(including this section) shall not be subject to judicial review.

                            wilderness area

    Sec. 158.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the National Park Service to designate or manage Big Cypress 
National Preserve as wilderness or as a component of the National 
Wilderness Preservation System.

                        decommissioning account

    Sec. 159.  The matter under the amended heading ``Royalty and 
Offshore Minerals Management'' for the Minerals Management Service in 
Public Law 101-512 (104 Stat. 1926, as amended) (43 U.S.C. 1338a), as 
amended by section 123 of title I of division E of (Public Law 118-42), 
is further amended by striking the fifth through eighth provisos in 
their entirety and inserting the following: ``Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, any 
moneys hereafter received as a result of the forfeiture of a bond or 
other security by an Outer Continental Shelf permittee, lessee, or 
right-of-way holder that does not fulfill the requirements of its 
permit, lease, or right-of-way or does not comply with the regulations 
of the Secretary, or as a bankruptcy distribution or settlement 
associated with such failure or noncompliance, shall be credited to a 
separate account established in the Treasury for decommissioning 
activities and shall be available to the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation to 
cover the cost to the United States or any entity conducting any 
improvement, protection, rehabilitation, or decommissioning work 
rendered necessary by the action or inaction that led to the forfeiture 
or bankruptcy distribution or settlement, to remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That amounts deposited into the 
decommissioning account may be allocated to the Bureau of Safety and 
Environmental Enforcement for such costs: Provided further, That any 
moneys received for such costs currently held in the Ocean Energy 
Management account shall be transferred to the decommissioning account: 
Provided further, That only such portion of the moneys so credited that 
are in excess of the amount expended in performing the work 
necessitated by the action or inaction which led to their receipt or, 
if the bond or security was forfeited for failure to pay the civil 
penalty, in excess of the civil penalty imposed shall be returned to 
the bankruptcy estate, permittee, lessee, or right-of-way holder.''.

                                TITLE II

                    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

                         Science and Technology

    For science and technology, including research and development 
activities, which shall include research and development activities 
under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980; necessary expenses for personnel and related 
costs and travel expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment and 
supplies; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; and other 
operating expenses in support of research and development, $522,500,000 
(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $13,000,000) (reduced by 
$3,500,000), to remain available until September 30, 2026:  Provided, 
That of the funds included under this heading, $21,475,000 shall be for 
Research: National Priorities as specified in the report accompanying 
this Act.

                 Environmental Programs and Management

    For environmental programs and management, including necessary 
expenses not otherwise provided for, for personnel and related costs 
and travel expenses; hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library 
memberships in societies or associations which issue publications to 
members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are 
not members; administrative costs of the brownfields program under the 
Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 
2002; implementation of a coal combustion residual permit program under 
section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016; and not to exceed 
$40,000 for official reception and representation expenses, 
$2,250,445,000 (increased by $500,000) (reduced by $500,000) (increased 
by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $4,000,000) 
(reduced by $12,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000) (reduced by 
$20,000) (reduced by $3,500,000) (reduced by $7,000,000), to remain 
available until September 30, 2026:  Provided further, That of the 
funds included under this heading--
            (1) $35,000,000 (increased by $4,000,000) shall be for 
        Environmental Protection: National Priorities as specified in 
        the report accompanying this Act; and
            (2) $651,226,000 shall be for Geographic Programs as 
        specified in the report accompanying this Act.
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
necessary expenses of activities described in section 26(b)(1) of the 
Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)):  Provided, That 
fees collected pursuant to that section of that Act and deposited in 
the ``TSCA Service Fee Fund'' as discretionary offsetting receipts in 
fiscal year 2025 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and 
expenses in this appropriation and shall remain available until 
expended:  Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated in this 
paragraph from the general fund for fiscal year 2025 shall be reduced 
by the amount of discretionary offsetting receipts received during 
fiscal year 2025, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2025 
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $0:  
Provided further, That to the extent that amounts realized from such 
receipts exceed $9,000,000, those amounts in excess of $9,000,000 shall 
be deposited in the ``TSCA Service Fee Fund'' as discretionary 
offsetting receipts in fiscal year 2025, shall be retained and used for 
necessary salaries and expenses in this account, and shall remain 
available until expended:  Provided further, That of the funds included 
in the first paragraph under this heading, the Chemical Risk Review and 
Reduction program project shall be allocated for this fiscal year, 
excluding the amount of any fees appropriated, not less than the amount 
of appropriations for that program project for fiscal year 2014.

                      Office of Inspector General

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$43,250,000 (increased by $2,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to 
remain available until September 30, 2026.

                        Buildings and Facilities

    For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration, and 
purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, or for use by, the 
Environmental Protection Agency, $40,676,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                     Hazardous Substance Superfund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including 
sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and 
hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $661,167,000 (reduced by 
$5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000) (increased by $13,000,000), to 
remain available until expended, consisting of such sums as are 
available in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2024, and not otherwise 
appropriated from the Trust Fund, as authorized by section 517(a) of 
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up 
to $661,167,000 (increased by $13,000,000) as a payment from general 
revenues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes as 
authorized by section 517(b) of SARA:  Provided, That funds 
appropriated under this heading may be allocated to other Federal 
agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA:  Provided 
further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, $13,979,000 
shall be paid to the ``Office of Inspector General'' appropriation to 
remain available until September 30, 2026, and $32,120,000 shall be 
paid to the ``Science and Technology'' appropriation to remain 
available until September 30, 2026.

          Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program

    For necessary expenses to carry out leaking underground storage 
tank cleanup activities authorized by subtitle I of the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act, $80,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$57,167,000 shall be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank 
cleanup activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act; and $22,833,000 shall be for carrying out the other 
provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in section 9508(c) 
of the Internal Revenue Code:  Provided, That the Administrator is 
authorized to use appropriations made available under this heading to 
implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide 
financial assistance to federally recognized Indian Tribes for the 
development and implementation of programs to manage underground 
storage tanks.

                       Inland Oil Spill Programs

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental Protection 
Agency's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
including hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $19,600,000, to 
be derived from the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available 
until expended.

                   State and Tribal Assistance Grants

    For environmental programs and infrastructure assistance, including 
capitalization grants for State revolving funds and performance 
partnership grants, $3,680,203,000 (increased by $748,735,000) (reduced 
by $748,735,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (increased by $4,000,000) 
(increased by $1,500,000,000) (reduced by $1,500,000,000), to remain 
available until expended, of which--
            (1) $1,203,013,000 (increased by $35,987,000) (reduced by 
        $35,987,000) shall be for making capitalization grants for the 
        Clean Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal 
        Water Pollution Control Act; and of which $883,515,000 
        (increased by $242,485,000) (reduced by $242,485,000) shall be 
        for making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State 
        Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water 
        Act:  Provided, That $553,936,004 of the funds made available 
        for capitalization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
        Funds and $479,541,446 of the funds made available for 
        capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
        Funds shall be for the construction of drinking water, 
        wastewater, and storm water infrastructure and for water 
        quality protection in accordance with the terms and conditions 
        specified for such grants in the report accompanying this Act 
        for projects specified for ``STAG--Drinking Water State 
        Revolving Fund'' and ``STAG--Clean Water State Revolving Fund'' 
        in the table titled ``Interior and Environment Incorporation of 
        Community Project Funding Items'' included in the report 
        accompanying this Act, and, for purposes of these grants, each 
        grantee shall contribute not less than 20 percent of the cost 
        of the project unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by 
        the Agency:  Provided further, That the Administrator is 
        authorized to use up to $1,500,000 of funds made available for 
        the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under this heading under 
        title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
        1381) to conduct the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey:  Provided 
        further, That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Federal 
        Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on the amounts in a 
        State water pollution control revolving fund that may be used 
        by a State to administer the fund shall not apply to amounts 
        included as principal in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 
        2025 and prior years where such amounts represent costs of 
        administering the fund to the extent that such amounts are or 
        were deemed reasonable by the Administrator, accounted for 
        separately from other assets in the fund, and used for eligible 
        purposes of the fund, including administration:  Provided 
        further, That for fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding the 
        provisions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 
        of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, grants made under 
        title II of such Act for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth 
        of the Northern Marianas, the United States Virgin Islands, and 
        the District of Columbia may also be made for the purpose of 
        providing assistance: (1) solely for facility plans, design 
        activities, or plans, specifications, and estimates for any 
        proposed project for the construction of treatment works; and 
        (2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of privately 
        owned treatment works serving one or more principal residences 
        or small commercial establishments:  Provided further, That for 
        fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding the provisions of such 
        subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and section 
        518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, funds 
        reserved by the Administrator for grants under section 518(c) 
        of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act may also be used to 
        provide assistance: (1) solely for facility plans, design 
        activities, or plans, specifications, and estimates for any 
        proposed project for the construction of treatment works; and 
        (2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of privately 
        owned treatment works serving one or more principal residences 
        or small commercial establishments:  Provided further, That for 
        fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding any provision of the Federal 
        Water Pollution Control Act and regulations issued pursuant 
        thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the funds reserved by 
        the Administrator for grants under section 518(c) of such Act 
        may also be used for grants for training, technical assistance, 
        and educational programs relating to the operation and 
        management of the treatment works specified in section 518(c) 
        of such Act:  Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, 
        funds reserved under section 518(c) of such Act shall be 
        available for grants only to Indian Tribes, as defined in 
        section 518(h) of such Act and former Indian reservations in 
        Oklahoma (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior) and 
        Native Villages as defined in Public Law 92-203:  Provided 
        further, That for fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding the 
        limitation on amounts in section 518(c) of the Federal Water 
        Pollution Control Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the funds 
        appropriated, or $30,000,000, whichever is greater, and 
        notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 1452(i) of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the 
        funds appropriated, or $20,000,000, whichever is greater, for 
        State Revolving Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the 
        Administrator for grants under section 518(c) and section 
        1452(i) of such Acts:  Provided further, That for fiscal year 
        2025, notwithstanding the amounts specified in section 205(c) 
        of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up to 1.5 percent 
        of the aggregate funds appropriated for the Clean Water State 
        Revolving Fund program under the Act less any sums reserved 
        under section 518(c) of the Act, may be reserved by the 
        Administrator for grants made under title II of the Federal 
        Water Pollution Control Act for American Samoa, Guam, the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin 
        Islands:  Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, 
        notwithstanding the limitations on amounts specified in section 
        1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up to 1.5 percent of 
        the funds appropriated for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
        Fund programs under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved 
        by the Administrator for grants made under section 1452(j) of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act:  Provided further, That 10 percent 
        of the funds made available under this title to each State for 
        Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 
        percent of the funds made available under this title to each 
        State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
        grants shall be used by the State to provide additional subsidy 
        to eligible recipients in the form of forgiveness of principal, 
        negative interest loans, or grants (or any combination of 
        these), and shall be so used by the State only where such funds 
        are provided as initial financing for an eligible recipient or 
        to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt obligations of 
        eligible recipients only where such debt was incurred on or 
        after the date of enactment of this Act, or where such debt was 
        incurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act if the 
        State, with concurrence from the Administrator, determines that 
        such funds could be used to help address a threat to public 
        health from heightened exposure to lead in drinking water or if 
        a Federal or State emergency declaration has been issued due to 
        a threat to public health from heightened exposure to lead in a 
        municipal drinking water supply before the date of enactment of 
        this Act:  Provided further, That in a State in which such an 
        emergency declaration has been issued, the State may use more 
        than 14 percent of the funds made available under this title to 
        the State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 
        capitalization grants to provide additional subsidy to eligible 
        recipients:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
        1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(o)), 
        the Administrator shall reserve up to $12,000,000 of the 
        amounts made available for fiscal year 2025 for making 
        capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
        Funds to pay the costs of monitoring for unregulated 
        contaminants under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of such Act:  Provided 
        further, That the funds made available under this heading for 
        Community Project Funding grants in this or prior 
        appropriations Acts are not subject to compliance with Federal 
        procurement requirements for competition and methods of 
        procurement applicable to Federal financial assistance, if a 
        Community Project Funding recipient has procured services or 
        products through contracts entered into prior to the date of 
        enactment of this Act that complied with State and/or local 
        laws governing competition;
            (2) $45,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, 
        planning, design, construction and related activities in 
        connection with the construction of high priority water and 
        wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mexico 
        Border, after consultation with the appropriate border 
        commission:  Provided, That no funds provided by this 
        appropriations Act to address the water, wastewater and other 
        critical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the United 
        States along the United States-Mexico border shall be made 
        available to a county or municipal government unless that 
        government has established an enforceable local ordinance, or 
        other zoning rule, which prevents in that jurisdiction the 
        development or construction of any additional colonia areas, or 
        the development within an existing colonia the construction of 
        any new home, business, or other structure which lacks water, 
        wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure;
            (3) $30,000,000 shall be for grants to the State of Alaska 
        to address drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs 
        of rural and Alaska Native Villages:  Provided, That of these 
        funds: (A) the State of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 
        percent; (B) no more than 5 percent of the funds may be used 
        for administrative and overhead expenses; and (C) the State of 
        Alaska shall make awards consistent with the Statewide priority 
        list established in conjunction with the Agency and the U.S. 
        Department of Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal, 
        and similar projects carried out by the State of Alaska that 
        are funded under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution 
        Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
        Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate 
        not less than 25 percent of the funds provided for projects in 
        regional hub communities;
            (4) $90,292,000 (increased by $9,708,000) (reduced by 
        $9,708,000) shall be to carry out section 104(k) of the 
        Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
        Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including grants, interagency 
        agreements, and associated program support costs:  Provided, 
        That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for assistance in 
        persistent poverty counties:  Provided further, That for 
        purposes of this section, the term ``persistent poverty 
        counties'' means any county that has had 20 percent or more of 
        its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as 
        measured by the 1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, 
        the 2000 decennial census, and the most recent Small Area 
        Income and Poverty Estimates, or any territory or possession of 
        the United States;
            (5) $90,000,000 shall be for grants under title VII, 
        subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005;
            (6) $67,800,000 shall be for targeted airshed grants in 
        accordance with the terms and conditions in the report 
        accompanying this Act;
            (7) $27,500,000 shall be for grants under subsections (a) 
        through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
        U.S.C. 300j-19a):  Provided, That for fiscal year 2025, funds 
        provided under subsections (a) through (j) of such section of 
        such Act may be used--
                    (A) by a State to provide assistance to benefit one 
                or more owners of drinking water wells that are not 
                public water systems or connected to a public water 
                system for necessary and appropriate activities related 
                to a contaminant pursuant to subsection (j) of such 
                section of such Act; and
                    (B) to support a community described in subsection 
                (c)(2) of such section of such Act;
            (8) $28,000,000 shall be for grants under section 1464(d) 
        of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-24(d));
            (9) $22,000,000 shall be for grants under section 1459B of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19b);
            (10) $6,500,000 shall be for grants under section 1459A(l) 
        of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19a(l));
            (11) $25,500,000 shall be for grants under section 
        104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
        1254(b)(8));
            (12) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under section 224 of 
        the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1302b);
            (13) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under section 220 of 
        the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1300);
            (14) $41,000,000 shall be for grants under section 221 of 
        the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301);
            (15) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under section 4304(b) 
        of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (Public Law 
        115-270);
            (16) $3,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 302(a) of 
        the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 4282(a)), of which not 
        more than 2 percent shall be for administrative costs to carry 
        out such section:  Provided, That notwithstanding section 
        302(a) of such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 
        pursuant to such authority to intertribal consortia consistent 
        with the requirements in 40 CFR 35.504(a), to former Indian 
        reservations in Oklahoma (as determined by the Secretary of the 
        Interior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Public Law 
        92-203;
            (17) $2,250,000 shall be for grants under section 1459F of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19g);
            (18) $4,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 2001 of 
        the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-
        270, 42 U.S.C. 300j-3c note):  Provided, That the Administrator 
        may award grants to and enter into contracts with Tribes, 
        intertribal consortia, public or private agencies, 
        institutions, organizations, and individuals, without regard to 
        section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of title 
        41, United States Code, and enter into interagency agreements 
        as appropriate;
            (19) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under section 50217(b) 
        of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 
        1302f(b); Public Law 117-58);
            (20) $3,500,000 shall be for grants under section 124 of 
        the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1276); and
            (21) $1,095,333,000 shall be for grants, including 
        associated program support costs, to States, federally 
        recognized Tribes, interstate agencies, Tribal consortia, and 
        air pollution control agencies for multi-media or single media 
        pollution prevention, control and abatement, and related 
        activities, including activities pursuant to the provisions set 
        forth under this heading in Public Law 104-134, and for making 
        grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particulate 
        matter monitoring and data collection activities subject to 
        terms and conditions specified by the Administrator, and under 
        section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016 to assist 
        States in developing and implementing programs for control of 
        coal combustion residuals, of which: $42,250,000 shall be for 
        carrying out section 128 of CERCLA; $7,000,000 shall be for 
        Environmental Information Exchange Network grants, including 
        associated program support costs; $1,475,000 shall be for 
        grants to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste 
        Disposal Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated 
        under the heading ``Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund 
        Program'' to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste 
        Disposal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal 
        Revenue Code other than section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste 
        Disposal Act; $18,512,000 of the funds available for grants 
        under section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
        shall be for State participation in national- and State-level 
        statistical surveys of water resources and enhancements to 
        State monitoring programs.

      Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account

    For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans, 
as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 
2014, $64,634,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), to 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  Provided further, That these 
funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal 
amount of direct loans, including capitalized interest, and total loan 
principal, including capitalized interest, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000:  Provided further, That of 
the funds made available under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be used 
solely for the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed 
loans for projects described in section 5026(9) of the Water 
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to State 
infrastructure financing authorities, as authorized by section 5033(e) 
of such Act:  Provided further, That the use of direct loans or loan 
guarantee authority under this heading for direct loans or commitments 
to guarantee loans for any project shall be in accordance with the 
criteria published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2020 (85 FR 
39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso under the heading ``Water 
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account'' in division D 
of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-
94):  Provided further, That none of the direct loans or loan guarantee 
authority made available under this heading shall be available for any 
project unless the Administrator and the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget have certified in advance in writing that the 
direct loan or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project comply 
with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso:  Provided 
further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office may 
request, and the Administrator shall promptly provide, documentation 
and information relating to a project identified in a Letter of 
Interest submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice of Funding 
Availability for applications for credit assistance under the Water 
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program, including with 
respect to a project that was initiated or completed before the date of 
enactment of this Act.
    In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant to sections 
5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 
2014 shall be deposited in this account, to remain available until 
expended.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding section 5033 of the Water 
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $7,640,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2026.

       Administrative Provisions--Environmental Protection Agency

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6303(1) and 
6305(1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 
carrying out the Agency's function to implement directly Federal 
environmental programs required or authorized by law in the absence of 
an acceptable Tribal program, may award cooperative agreements to 
federally recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal consortia, if 
authorized by their member Tribes, to assist the Administrator in 
implementing Federal environmental programs for Indian Tribes required 
or authorized by law, except that no such cooperative agreements may be 
awarded from funds designated for State financial assistance 
agreements.
    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized to collect and obligate pesticide registration service fees 
in accordance with section 33 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136w-8), to remain available until 
expended.
    Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136w-8(d)(2)), the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may assess fees 
under section 33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w-8) for fiscal year 2025.
    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized to collect and obligate fees in accordance with section 3024 
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2025, 
to remain available until expended.
    The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to $368,000,000 
(increased by $82,000,000) (reduced by $82,000,000) of the funds 
appropriated for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative under the 
heading ``Environmental Programs and Management'' to the head of any 
Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of such head, to 
carry out activities that would support the Great Lakes Restoration 
Initiative and Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, 
or activities; to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of 
such Federal department or agency to carry out these activities; and to 
make grants to governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, 
institutions, and individuals for planning, research, monitoring, 
outreach, and implementation in furtherance of the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
    The Science and Technology, Environmental Programs and Management, 
Office of Inspector General, Hazardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking 
Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are available for 
the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of 
facilities, provided that the cost does not exceed $300,000 per 
project.
    For fiscal year 2025, and notwithstanding section 518(f) of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1377(f)), the 
Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated for any 
fiscal year under section 319 of the Act to make grants to Indian 
Tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act.
    The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated 
under the heading ``Environmental Programs and Management'' for fiscal 
year 2025 to provide grants to implement the Southeast New England 
Watershed Restoration Program.
    Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in section 320(i)(2)(B) 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, not less than $2,500,000 of 
the funds made available under this title for the National Estuary 
Program shall be for making competitive awards described in section 
320(g)(4).
    For fiscal year 2025, the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 
Prevention and the Office of Water may, using funds appropriated under 
the headings ``Environmental Programs and Management'' and ``Science 
and Technology'', contract directly with individuals or indirectly with 
institutions or nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, 
for the temporary or intermittent personal services of students or 
recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for the purposes of 
chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to 
compensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not be 
considered to be Federal employees for any other purpose:  Provided, 
That amounts used for this purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and 
Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not 
exceed $2,000,000.
    The Environmental Protection agency shall provide the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate with copies 
of any available Department of Treasury quarterly certification of 
trust fund receipts collected from section 13601 of Public Law 117-169 
and section 80201 of Public Law 117-58, an annual operating plan for 
such receipts showing amounts allocated by program area and program 
project, and quarterly reports for such receipts of obligated balances 
by program area and program project.

                               TITLE III

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

  office of the under secretary for natural resources and environment

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Natural Resources and Environment, $1,000,000:  Provided, That funds 
made available by this Act to any agency in the Natural Resources and 
Environment mission area for salaries and expenses are available to 
fund up to one administrative support staff for the office.

                             Forest Service

                       forest service operations

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $1,035,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2028:  Provided, That a portion of the funds made available under this 
heading shall be for the base salary and expenses of employees in the 
Chief's Office, the Work Environment and Performance Office, the 
Business Operations Deputy Area, and the Chief Financial Officer's 
Office to carry out administrative and general management support 
functions:  Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
shall be available for the costs of facility maintenance, repairs, and 
leases for buildings and sites where these administrative, general 
management and other Forest Service support functions take place; the 
costs of all utility and telecommunication expenses of the Forest 
Service, as well as business services; and, for information technology, 
including cybersecurity requirements:  Provided further, That funds 
provided under this heading may be used for necessary expenses to carry 
out administrative and general management support functions of the 
Forest Service not otherwise provided for and necessary for its 
operation.

                     forest and rangeland research

    For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $299,760,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2028:  Provided, That of the funds provided, $32,000,000 is for the 
forest inventory and analysis program:  Provided further, That all 
authorities for the use of funds, including the use of contracts, 
grants, and cooperative agreements, available to execute the Forest and 
Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available in the utilization 
of these funds for Fire Science Research.

                  state, private, and tribal forestry

    For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing technical 
and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, Tribes, 
and others, and for forest health management, including for invasive 
plants, and conducting an international program and trade activities as 
authorized, $282,960,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2028, as authorized by law.

                         national forest system

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utilization 
of the National Forest System, and for hazardous fuels management on or 
adjacent to such lands, $1,866,465,000 (reduced by $3,000,000) 
(increased by $2,000,000), to remain available through September 30, 
2028:  Provided, That of the funds provided, $30,000,000 shall be 
deposited in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for 
ecological restoration treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f):  
Provided further, That of the funds provided, $43,000,000 shall be for 
forest products:  Provided further, That of the funds provided, 
$202,000,000 shall be for hazardous fuels management activities, of 
which not to exceed $30,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any 
authorities available to the Forest Service under the ``State, Private, 
and Tribal Forestry'' appropriation, for the purpose of creating 
incentives for increased use of biomass from National Forest System 
lands:  Provided further, That $20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary 
of Agriculture to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative 
agreements or to issue grants for hazardous fuels management 
activities, and for training or monitoring associated with such 
hazardous fuels management activities on Federal land, or on non-
Federal land if the Secretary determines such activities benefit 
resources on Federal land:  Provided further, That funds made available 
to implement the Community Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106-393, 
title VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in accordance 
with authorities made available to the Forest Service under the 
``State, Private, and Tribal Forestry'' appropriation:  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm 
Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in 
calculating a fee for grazing on a National Grassland, may provide a 
credit of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee to a Grazing 
Association or direct permittee for a conservation practice approved by 
the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year in which the cost of the 
conservation practice is incurred, and that the amount credited shall 
remain available to the Grazing Association or the direct permittee, as 
appropriate, in the fiscal year in which the credit is made and each 
fiscal year thereafter for use on the project for conservation 
practices approved by the Secretary:  Provided further, That funds 
appropriated to this account shall be available for the base salary and 
expenses of employees that carry out the functions funded by the 
``Capital Improvement and Maintenance'' account, the ``Range Betterment 
Fund'' account, and the ``Management of National Forest Lands for 
Subsistence Uses'' account.

                  capital improvement and maintenance

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $157,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2028, for construction, capital improvement, maintenance, and 
acquisition of buildings and other facilities and infrastructure; for 
construction, reconstruction, and decommissioning of unauthorized roads 
that are not part of the transportation system; and for maintenance of 
forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 16 
U.S.C. 532-538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205:  Provided, That $6,000,000 
shall be for activities authorized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a):  Provided 
further, That funds becoming available in fiscal year 2025 under the 
Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to the 
General Fund of the Treasury and shall not be available for transfer or 
obligation for any other purpose unless the funds are appropriated.

         acquisition of lands for national forests special acts

    For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries of the 
Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; the Toiyabe National 
Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland 
National Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita 
National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by law, $664,000, to be 
derived from forest receipts.

            acquisition of lands to complete land exchanges

    For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from funds 
deposited by State, county, or municipal governments, public school 
districts, or other public school authorities, and for authorized 
expenditures from funds deposited by non-Federal parties pursuant to 
Land Sale and Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 
(16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 30, 2028, (16 
U.S.C. 516-617a, 555a; Public Law 96-586; Public Law 76-589, Public Law 
76-591; and Public Law 78-310).

                         range betterment fund

    For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, and 
improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior fiscal 
year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on lands in National 
Forests in the 16 Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of 
Public Law 94-579, to remain available through September 30, 2028, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for administrative 
expenses associated with on-the-ground range rehabilitation, 
protection, and improvements.

    gifts, donations and bequests for forest and rangeland research

    For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $45,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2028, to be derived from the fund 
established pursuant to the above Act.

        management of national forest lands for subsistence uses

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage Federal 
lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), 
$1,099,000, to remain available through September 30, 2028.

                        wildland fire management

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression activities on 
National Forest System lands, for emergency wildland fire suppression 
on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under fire protection 
agreement, and for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over National 
Forest System lands and water, $2,407,735,000, to remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That such funds, including unobligated 
balances under this heading, are available for repayment of advances 
from other appropriations accounts previously transferred for such 
purposes:  Provided further, That any unobligated funds appropriated in 
a previous fiscal year for hazardous fuels management may be 
transferred to the ``National Forest System'' account:  Provided 
further, That such funds shall be available to reimburse State and 
other cooperating entities for services provided in response to 
wildfire, search and rescue, and other emergencies or disasters to the 
extent such reimbursements by the Forest Service for non-fire 
emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible emergency management 
agency:  Provided further, That funds provided shall be available for 
support to Federal emergency response:  Provided further, That the 
costs of implementing any cooperative agreement between the Federal 
Government and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed 
on by the affected parties:  Provided further, That of the funds 
provided under this heading, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for 
wildfire suppression operations, and is provided to meet the terms of 
section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985.

              wildfire suppression operations reserve fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    In addition to the amounts provided under the heading ``Department 
of Agriculture--Forest Service--Wildland Fire Management'' for wildfire 
suppression operations, $2,390,000,000, to remain available until 
transferred, is additional new budget authority as specified for 
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985:  Provided, That such amounts may be 
transferred to and merged with amounts made available under the 
headings ``Department of the Interior--Department-Wide Programs--
Wildland Fire Management'' and ``Department of Agriculture--Forest 
Service--Wildland Fire Management'' for wildfire suppression operations 
in the fiscal year in which such amounts are transferred:  Provided 
further, That amounts may be transferred to the ``Wildland Fire 
Management'' accounts in the Department of the Interior or the 
Department of Agriculture only upon the notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire suppression 
operations funds appropriated under that heading in this and prior 
appropriations Acts to the agency to which the funds will be 
transferred will be obligated within 30 days:  Provided further, That 
the transfer authority provided under this heading is in addition to 
any other transfer authority provided by law:  Provided further, That, 
in determining whether all wildfire suppression operations funds 
appropriated under the heading ``Wildland Fire Management'' in this and 
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agriculture or 
the Department of the Interior will be obligated within 30 days 
pursuant to the preceding proviso, any funds transferred or permitted 
to be transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority provided by 
law shall be excluded.

                   communications site administration

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to section 
8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-
334), shall be deposited in the special account established by section 
8705(f)(1) of such Act, shall be available to cover the costs described 
in subsection (c)(3) of such section of such Act, and shall remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That such amounts shall be 
transferred to the ``National Forest System'' account.

               administrative provisions--forest service

                     (including transfers of funds)

    Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger motor vehicles; 
acquisition of passenger motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire 
of such vehicles; purchase, lease, operation, maintenance, and 
acquisition of aircraft to maintain the operable fleet for use in 
Forest Service wildland fire programs and other Forest Service 
programs; notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value 
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft; (2) 
services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration 
of buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) 
acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the National 
Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost 
of uniforms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and (7) for debt 
collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c).
    Funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act may be 
transferred between accounts affected by the Forest Service budget 
restructure outlined in section 435 of division D of the Further 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94):  Provided, 
That any transfer of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not 
increase or decrease the funds appropriated to any account in this 
fiscal year by more than ten percent:  Provided further, That such 
transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer authority 
provided by law.
    Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be 
transferred to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation for forest 
firefighting, emergency rehabilitation of burned-over or damaged lands 
or waters under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture's notification of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that all fire 
suppression funds appropriated under the heading ``Wildland Fire 
Management'' will be obligated within 30 days:  Provided, That all 
funds used pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation which must be requested as promptly as 
possible.
    Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to the Forest 
Service shall be available for expenditure or transfer to the 
Department of the Interior for wildland fire management, hazardous 
fuels management, and State fire assistance when such transfers would 
facilitate and expedite wildland fire management programs and projects.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Forest Service 
may transfer unobligated balances of discretionary funds appropriated 
to the Forest Service by this Act to or within the National Forest 
System Account, or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of 
hazardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of burned-over 
National Forest System lands and water:  Provided, That such 
transferred funds shall remain available through September 30, 2028:  
Provided further, That none of the funds transferred pursuant to this 
paragraph shall be available for obligation without written 
notification to and the prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
assistance to or through the Agency for International Development in 
connection with forest and rangeland research, technical information, 
and assistance in foreign countries, and shall be available to support 
forestry and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including technical 
assistance, education and training, and cooperation with United States 
government, private sector, and international organizations:  Provided, 
That the Forest Service, acting for the International Program, may sign 
direct funding agreements with foreign governments and institutions as 
well as other domestic agencies (including the U.S. Agency for 
International Development, the Department of State, and the Millennium 
Challenge Corporation), United States private sector firms, 
institutions and organizations to provide technical assistance and 
training programs on forestry and rangeland management:  Provided 
further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic and international 
research and cooperation, the International Program may utilize all 
authorities related to forestry, research, and cooperative assistance 
regardless of program designations.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Land Management, for removal, preparation, and adoption of excess wild 
horses and burros from National Forest System lands, and for the 
performance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of such 
lands.
    None of the funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act 
or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year shall be subject to 
transfer under the provisions of section 702(b) of the Department of 
Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public 
Law 106-224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public Law 107-171 
(7 U.S.C. 8316(b)).
    Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the Forest Service 
shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the Department of 
Agriculture and not more than $14,500,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Department of Agriculture 
for Department Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to as Greenbook 
charges:  Provided, That nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit or 
limit the use of reimbursable agreements requested by the Forest 
Service in order to obtain information technology services, including 
telecommunications and system modifications or enhancements, from the 
Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture.
    Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $5,000,000 
shall be available for priority projects within the scope of the 
approved budget, which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation 
Corps and shall be carried out under the authority of the Public Lands 
Corps Act of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.).
    Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 is available 
to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and 
representation expenses.
    Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 101-593, of 
the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $3,000,000 may be 
advanced in a lump sum to the National Forest Foundation to aid 
conservation partnership projects in support of the Forest Service 
mission, without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for 
projects on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related to 
Forest Service programs:  Provided, That of the Federal funds made 
available to the Foundation, no more than $300,000 shall be available 
for administrative expenses:  Provided further, That the Foundation 
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial assistance, 
private contributions to match funds made available by the Forest 
Service on at least a one-for-one basis:  Provided further, That the 
Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal or a non-Federal 
recipient for a project at the same rate that the recipient has 
obtained the non-Federal matching funds.
    Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98-244, up to $3,000,000 
of the funds available to the Forest Service may be advanced to the 
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share 
conservation projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, on 
or benefitting National Forest System lands or related to Forest 
Service programs:  Provided,  That such funds shall be matched on at 
least a one-for-one basis by the Foundation or its sub-recipients:  
Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a 
Federal or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate that 
the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching funds.
    Any amounts made available to the Forest Service in this fiscal 
year, including available collections, may be used by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to enter 
into Federal financial assistance grants and cooperative agreements to 
support forest or grassland collaboratives in the accomplishment of 
activities benefitting both the public and the National Forest System, 
Federal lands and adjacent non-Federal lands. Eligible activities are 
those that will improve or enhance Federal investments, resources, or 
lands, including for collaborative and collaboration-based activities, 
including but not limited to facilitation, planning, and implementing 
projects, technical assistance, administrative functions, operational 
support, participant costs, and other capacity support needs, as 
identified by the Forest Service. Eligible recipients are Indian Tribal 
entities (defined at 25 U.S.C. 5304(e)), state government, local 
governments, private and nonprofit entities, for-profit organizations, 
and educational institutions. The Secretary of Agriculture, acting 
through the Chief of the Forest Service, may enter into such 
cooperative agreements notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31 when the 
Secretary determines that the public interest will be benefited and 
that there exists a mutual interest other than monetary considerations. 
Transactions subject to Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
shall be publicly advertised and require competition when required by 
such Title 2. For those transactions not subject to Title 2 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations, the agency may require public advertising and 
competition when deemed appropriate. The term ``forest and grassland 
collaboratives'' means groups of individuals or entities with diverse 
interests participating in a cooperative process to share knowledge, 
ideas, and resources about the protection, restoration, or enhancement 
of natural and other resources on Federal and adjacent non-Federal 
lands, the improvement or maintenance of public access to Federal 
lands, or the reduction of risk to such lands caused by natural 
disasters.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the headings 
``National Forest System'' and ``Forest and Rangeland Research'' may be 
used for fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025 expenses associated with 
primary and secondary schooling for dependents of agency personnel 
stationed in Puerto Rico, who are subject to transfer and reassignment 
to other locations in the United States, at a cost not in excess of 
those authorized for the Department of Defense for the same area, when 
it is determined by the Chief of the Forest Service that public schools 
available in the locality are unable to provide adequately for the 
education of such dependents:  Provided, That the Congress hereby 
ratifies and approves payments for such purposes to agency employees 
stationed in Puerto Rico made by the Forest Service after August 2, 
2005, in accordance with the 19th unnumbered paragraph under the 
heading ``Administrative Provisions, Forest Service'' in title III of 
Public Law 109-54, as amended.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
interactions with and providing technical assistance to rural 
communities and natural resource-based businesses for sustainable rural 
development purposes.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
payments to counties within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic 
Area, pursuant to section 14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of 
Public Law 99-663.
    Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be used to meet 
the non-Federal share requirement in section 502(c) of the Older 
Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)).
    The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the purpose of 
performing fire, administrative, and other facilities maintenance and 
decommissioning.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any appropriations 
or funds available to the Forest Service, not to exceed $500,000 may be 
used to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), Department 
of Agriculture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a result of 
OGC assistance or participation requested by the Forest Service at 
meetings, training sessions, management reviews, land purchase 
negotiations, and similar matters unrelated to civil litigation:  
Provided, That future budget justifications for both the Forest Service 
and the Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums 
previously transferred and the sums requested for transfer.
    An eligible individual who is employed in any project funded under 
title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and 
administered by the Forest Service shall be considered to be a Federal 
employee for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code.
    The Forest Service may employ or contract with an individual who is 
enrolled in a training program at a longstanding Civilian Conservation 
Center (as defined in section 147(d) of the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3197(d))) at regular rates of pay for 
necessary hours of work on National Forest System lands.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available to pay, 
from a single account, the base salary and expenses of employees who 
carry out functions funded by other accounts for Enterprise Program, 
Geospatial Technology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Resource 
Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and Development Program.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                         Indian Health Service

                         indian health services

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954 (68 
Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 
the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Service, 
$440,282,000 (increased by $7,000,000) (increased by $20,000), to 
remain available until September 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided 
herein, which shall be in addition to funds previously appropriated 
under this heading that became available on October 1, 2024; in 
addition, $150,472,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, 
for the Electronic Health Record System and the Indian Healthcare 
Improvement Fund, of which $75,472,000 is for the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Fund and may be used, as needed, to carry out activities 
typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities account; and, in 
addition, $5,124,311,000, which shall become available on October 1, 
2025, and remain available through September 30, 2027, except as 
otherwise provided herein; together with payments received during the 
fiscal year pursuant to sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for services furnished by the 
Indian Health Service:  Provided, That funds made available to Tribes 
and Tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements, or any 
other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450), 
shall be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant or contract 
award and thereafter shall remain available to the Tribe or Tribal 
organization without fiscal year limitation:  Provided further, That 
from the amounts that become available on October 1, 2025, $2,500,000 
shall be available for grants or contracts with public or private 
institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment services to Indians, 
including alcohol detoxification services:  Provided further, That from 
the amounts that become available on October 1, 2025, $1,048,804,000 
shall remain available until expended for Purchased/Referred Care:  
Provided further, That of the total amount specified in the preceding 
proviso for Purchased/Referred Care, $54,000,000 shall be for the 
Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund:  Provided further, That from 
the amounts that become available on October 1, 2025, up to $51,000,000 
shall remain available until expended for implementation of the loan 
repayment program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act:  Provided further, That from the amounts that become 
available on October 1, 2025, $58,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be for costs related to or resulting from accreditation 
emergencies, including supplementing activities funded under the 
heading ``Indian Health Facilities'', of which up to $4,000,000 may be 
used to supplement amounts otherwise available for Purchased/Referred 
Care:  Provided further, That the amounts collected by the Federal 
Government as authorized by sections 104 and 108 of the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a) during the preceding 
fiscal year for breach of contracts shall be deposited in the Fund 
authorized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a-1) and shall 
remain available until expended and, notwithstanding section 108A(c) of 
that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a-1(c)), funds shall be available to make new 
awards under the loan repayment and scholarship programs under sections 
104 and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a):  Provided further, 
That the amounts made available within this account for the Substance 
Abuse and Suicide Prevention Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treatment 
and Recovery Services, for the Domestic Violence Prevention Program, 
for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for the housing subsidy authority for 
civilian employees, for Aftercare Pilot Programs at Youth Regional 
Treatment Centers, for transformation and modernization costs of the 
Indian Health Service Electronic Health Record system, for national 
quality and oversight activities, to improve collections from public 
and private insurance at Indian Health Service and Tribally operated 
facilities, for an initiative to treat or reduce the transmission of 
HIV and HCV, for a maternal health initiative, for the Telebehaviorial 
Health Center of Excellence, for Alzheimer's activities, for Village 
Built Clinics, for a produce prescription pilot, and for accreditation 
emergencies shall be allocated at the discretion of the Director of the 
Indian Health Service and shall remain available until expended:  
Provided further, That funds provided in this Act may be used for 
annual contracts and grants that fall within 2 fiscal years, provided 
the total obligation is recorded in the year the funds are 
appropriated:  Provided further, That the amounts collected by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services under the authority of title IV 
of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain 
available until expended for the purpose of achieving compliance with 
the applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of 
the Social Security Act, except for those related to the planning, 
design, or construction of new facilities:  Provided further, That 
funding contained herein for scholarship programs under the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available 
until expended:  Provided further, That amounts received by Tribes and 
Tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act shall be reported and accounted for and available to 
the receiving Tribes and Tribal organizations until expended:  Provided 
further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may collect from the Indian 
Health Service, and from Tribes and Tribal organizations operating 
health facilities pursuant to Public Law 93-638, such individually 
identifiable health information relating to disabled children as may be 
necessary for the purpose of carrying out its functions under the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.):  
Provided further, That none of the funds provided that become available 
on October 1, 2025, may be used for implementation of the Electronic 
Health Record System or the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund:  
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act, or 
any other Act, to the Indian Health Service for the Electronic Health 
Record system shall be available for obligation or expenditure for the 
selection or implementation of a new Information Technology 
infrastructure system, unless the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate are consulted 90 days in 
advance of such obligation.

                         contract support costs

    For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for contract 
support costs associated with Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act agreements with the Indian Health Service for fiscal 
year 2025, such sums as may be necessary:  Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, no amounts made available 
under this heading shall be available for transfer to another budget 
account:  Provided further, That amounts obligated but not expended by 
a Tribe or Tribal organization for contract support costs for such 
agreements for the current fiscal year shall be applied to contract 
support costs due for such agreements for subsequent fiscal years.

                       payments for tribal leases

    For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for leases pursuant 
to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) for fiscal year 2025, such sums as 
may be necessary, which shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2026:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall be available 
for transfer to another budget account.

                        indian health facilities

    For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, improvement, and 
equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities, including 
quarters for personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and 
drawings; acquisition of sites, purchase and erection of modular 
buildings, and purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and 
community sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 
of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-
Determination Act, and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and for 
expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental health and 
facilities support activities of the Indian Health Service, 
$344,010,000, to remain available until expended, which shall be in 
addition to funds previously appropriated under this heading that 
became available on October 1, 2024; in addition, $850,864,000, which 
shall become available on October 1, 2025, and remain available until 
expended:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds appropriated for the planning, design, construction, renovation, 
or expansion of health facilities for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or 
Tribes may be used to purchase land on which such facilities will be 
located:  Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 may be used for 
fiscal year 2026 by the Indian Health Service to purchase TRANSAM 
equipment from the Department of Defense for distribution to the Indian 
Health Service and Tribal facilities:  Provided further, That none of 
the funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service may be used for 
sanitation facilities construction for new homes funded with grants by 
the housing programs of the United States Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.

            administrative provisions--indian health service

    Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian Health Service 
shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable 
for senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase of 
reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of modular buildings and 
renovation of existing facilities; payments for telephone service in 
private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 
approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; uniforms, or 
allowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and for 
expenses of attendance at meetings that relate to the functions or 
activities of the Indian Health Service:  Provided, That in accordance 
with the provisions of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-
Indian patients may be extended health care at all Tribally 
administered or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, 
and the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal Medical 
Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651-2653) shall be credited to the 
account of the facility providing the service and shall be available 
without fiscal year limitation:  Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other law or regulation, funds transferred from the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health Service shall be 
administered under Public Law 86-121, the Indian Sanitation Facilities 
Act and Public Law 93-638:  Provided further, That funds appropriated 
to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except those used for 
administrative and program direction purposes, shall not be subject to 
limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel and transportation:  
Provided further, That none of the funds made available to the Indian 
Health Service in this Act shall be used for any assessments or charges 
by the Department of Health and Human Services unless such assessments 
or charges are identified in the budget justification and provided in 
this Act, or approved by the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations through the reprogramming process:  Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds previously or 
herein made available to a Tribe or Tribal organization through a 
contract, grant, or agreement authorized by title I or title V of the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 450et seq.), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-
determination contract under title I, or a self-governance agreement 
under title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain available to the 
Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal year limitation:  Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available to the Indian Health 
Service in this Act shall be used to implement the final rule published 
in the Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by the Department of 
Health and Human Services, relating to the eligibility for the health 
care services of the Indian Health Service until the Indian Health 
Service has submitted a budget request reflecting the increased costs 
associated with the proposed final rule, and such request has been 
included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law:  Provided 
further, That with respect to functions transferred by the Indian 
Health Service to Tribes or Tribal organizations, the Indian Health 
Service is authorized to provide goods and services to those entities 
on a reimbursable basis, including payments in advance with subsequent 
adjustment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, along with the 
funds received from those entities pursuant to the Indian Self-
Determination Act, may be credited to the same or subsequent 
appropriation account from which the funds were originally derived, 
with such amounts to remain available until expended:  Provided 
further, That reimbursements for training, technical assistance, or 
services provided by the Indian Health Service will contain total 
costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead costs associated 
with the provision of goods, services, or technical assistance:  
Provided further, That the Indian Health Service may provide to 
civilian medical personnel serving in hospitals operated by the Indian 
Health Service housing allowances equivalent to those that would be 
provided to members of the Commissioned Corps of the United States 
Public Health Service serving in similar positions at such hospitals:  
Provided further, That the appropriation structure for the Indian 
Health Service may not be altered without advance notification to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

                     National Institutes of Health

          national institute of environmental health sciences

    For necessary expenses for the National Institute of Environmental 
Health Sciences in carrying out activities set forth in section 311(a) 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the 
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, $75,000,000.

            Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

            toxic substances and environmental public health

    For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out activities set forth in 
sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 
3019 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $76,000,000:  Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of performing a 
health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of CERCLA, the Administrator 
of ATSDR may conduct other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or 
activities, including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited healthcare 
providers:  Provided further, That in performing any such health 
assessment or health study, evaluation, or activity, the Administrator 
of ATSDR shall not be bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 
CERCLA:  Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for ATSDR to issue in excess of 40 
toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during 
fiscal year 2025, and existing profiles may be updated as necessary.

                         OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

                   Executive Office of the President

  council on environmental quality and office of environmental quality

    For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned to the 
Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality 
pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 
Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan 
No. 1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $1,000,000:  Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 202 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, the 
Council shall consist of one member, appointed by the President, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and 
exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council.

             Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pursuant to 
section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including hire of passenger 
vehicles, uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901-5902, rental of space, and for services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109 but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem equivalent 
to the maximum rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 
5376, $13,824,000 (increased by $1,000,000):  Provided, That the 
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (Board) shall have not 
more than three career Senior Executive Service positions:  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
individual appointed to the position of Inspector General of the 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shall, by virtue of such 
appointment, also hold the position of Inspector General of the Board:  
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Inspector General of the Board shall utilize personnel of the Office of 
Inspector General of EPA in performing the duties of the Inspector 
General of the Board, and shall not appoint any individuals to 
positions within the Board.

              Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian 
Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93-531, $3,060,000, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be derived from unobligated 
balances from prior year appropriations available under this heading:  
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appropriations Act 
are to be used to relocate eligible individuals and groups including 
evictees from District 6, Hopi-partitioned lands residents, those in 
significantly substandard housing, and all others certified as eligible 
and not included in the preceding categories:  Provided further, That 
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may be used by the 
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any single Navajo 
or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled 
on the lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or replacement 
home is provided for such household:  Provided further, That no 
relocatee will be provided with more than one new or replacement home:  
Provided further, That the Office shall relocate any certified eligible 
relocatees who have selected and received an approved homesite on the 
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off the Navajo 
reservation or on the land acquired pursuant to section 11 of Public 
Law 93-531 (88 Stat. 1716).

    Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
                              Development

                        payment to the institute

    For payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native 
Culture and Arts Development, as authorized by part A of title XV of 
Public Law 99-498 (20 U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,125,000, which shall 
become available on July 1, 2025, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2026.

                        Smithsonian Institution

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, as 
authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, science, 
and history; development, preservation, and documentation of the 
National Collections; presentation of public exhibits and performances; 
collection, preparation, dissemination, and exchange of information and 
publications; conduct of education, training, and museum assistance 
programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease agreements of no 
more than 30 years, and protection of buildings, facilities, and 
approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; and purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for 
employees, $837,802,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 
$1,000,000) (reduced by $27,000,000) (increased by $27,000,000), to 
remain available until September 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided 
herein; of which not to exceed $27,000,000 for the instrumentation 
program, collections acquisition, exhibition reinstallation, 
Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, National Museum of the 
American Latino, and the repatriation of skeletal remains program shall 
remain available until expended; and including such funds as may be 
necessary to support American overseas research centers:  Provided, 
That funds appropriated herein are available for advance payments to 
independent contractors performing research services or participating 
in official Smithsonian presentations:  Provided further, That the 
Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropriations designated in 
this Act for lease or rent payments, as rent payable to the Smithsonian 
Institution, and such rent payments may be deposited into the general 
trust funds of the Institution to be available as trust funds for 
expenses associated with the purchase of a portion of the building at 
600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, to the extent that federally 
supported activities will be housed there:  Provided further, That the 
use of such amounts in the general trust funds of the Institution for 
such purpose shall not be construed as Federal debt service for, a 
Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or an obligation of the 
Federal Government:  Provided further, That no appropriated funds may 
be used directly to service debt which is incurred to finance the costs 
of acquiring a portion of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, 
Washington, DC, or of planning, designing, and constructing 
improvements to such building:  Provided further, That any agreement 
entered into by the Smithsonian Institution for the sale of its 
ownership interest, or any portion thereof, in such building so 
acquired may not take effect until the expiration of a 30 day period 
which begins on the date on which the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate, the Committees on House Administration and 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate a report, as 
outlined in the explanatory statement described in section 4 of the 
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94; 133 
Stat. 2536) on the intended sale.

                           facilities capital

    For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and alteration of 
facilities owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution, by 
contract or otherwise, as authorized by section 2 of the Act of August 
22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), and for construction, including necessary 
personnel, $121,913,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109.

                        National Gallery of Art

                         salaries and expenses

    For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery of Art, the 
protection and care of the works of art therein, and administrative 
expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 
(50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 
(Public Resolution 9, 76th Congress), including services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when authorized by the treasurer 
of the Gallery for membership in library, museum, and art associations 
or societies whose publications or services are available to members 
only, or to members at a price lower than to the general public; 
purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, for other employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901-5902); purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting 
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, 
improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; and 
purchase of services for restoration and repair of works of art for the 
National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without advertising, with 
individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates or prices and under 
such terms and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper, $171,050,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2026.

            repair, restoration and renovation of buildings

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and renovation of 
buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occupied by the National 
Gallery of Art, by contract or otherwise, for operating lease 
agreements of no more than 10 years, that address space needs created 
by the ongoing renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as 
authorized, $17,266,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That of this amount, $5,651,000 shall be available for the completion 
of an off-site art storage facility in partnership with the Smithsonian 
Institution and may be transferred to the Smithsonian Institution for 
such purposes:  Provided further, That contracts awarded for 
environmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair or 
renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art may be 
negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on the basis of 
contractor qualifications as well as price.

             John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

                       operations and maintenance

    For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance, and security 
of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, $32,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2026.

                     capital repair and restoration

    For necessary expenses for capital repair and restoration of the 
existing features of the building and site of the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts, $6,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.

            Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the 
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356) including hire of 
passenger vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$12,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026.

           National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

                    National Endowment for the Arts

                       grants and administration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, $203,895,000 shall be available to 
the National Endowment for the Arts for the support of projects and 
productions in the arts, including arts education and public outreach 
activities, through assistance to organizations and individuals 
pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program support, and for 
administering the functions of the Act, to remain available until 
expended.

                 National Endowment for the Humanities

                       grants and administration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, $203,895,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $195,645,000 shall be available for support of 
activities in the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act and 
for administering the functions of the Act; and $8,250,000 shall be 
available to carry out the matching grants program pursuant to section 
10(a)(2) of the Act, including $6,250,000 for the purposes of section 
7(h):  Provided, That appropriations for carrying out section 10(a)(2) 
shall be available for obligation only in such amounts as may be equal 
to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, devises of money, and other 
property accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the National 
Endowment for the Humanities under the provisions of sections 
11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal 
years for which equal amounts have not previously been appropriated.

                       Administrative Provisions

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

                        Commission of Fine Arts

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under chapter 91 of 
title 40, United States Code, $3,600,000:  Provided, That the 
Commission is authorized to charge fees to cover the full costs of its 
publications, and such fees shall be credited to this account as an 
offsetting collection, to remain available until expended without 
further appropriation:  Provided further, That the Commission is 
authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, artwork, 
drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history and design of the 
Nation's Capital or the history and activities of the Commission of 
Fine Arts, for the purpose of artistic display, study, or education:  
Provided further, That one-tenth of one percent of the funds provided 
under this heading may be used for official reception and 
representation expenses.

               national capital arts and cultural affairs

    For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99-190 (20 
U.S.C. 956a), $4,950,000.

               Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation (Public Law 89-665), $8,375,000 (reduced by $600,000) 
(increased by $600,000).

                  National Capital Planning Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Capital Planning Commission 
under chapter 87 of title 40, United States Code, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,700,000:  Provided, That one-quarter of 
1 percent of the funds provided under this heading may be used for 
official reception and representational expenses associated with 
hosting international visitors engaged in the planning and physical 
development of world capitals.

                United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

                       holocaust memorial museum

    For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as authorized by 
Public Law 106-292 (36 U.S.C. 2301-2310), $65,231,000 (increased by 
$2,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to remain available until 
September 30, 2026, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2027, for the Museum's equipment replacement program; and 
of which $4,000,000 for the Museum's repair and rehabilitation program 
and $1,264,000 for the Museum's outreach initiatives program shall 
remain available until expended.

              United States Semiquincentennial Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the United States Semiquincentennial 
Commission to plan and coordinate observances and activities associated 
with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, as 
authorized by Public Law 116-282, the technical amendments to Public 
Law 114-196, $15,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026.

                                TITLE IV

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

             (including transfers and rescission of funds)

                      restriction on use of funds

    Sec. 401.  No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for any activity or the publication or distribution of 
literature that in any way tends to promote public support or 
opposition to any legislative proposal on which Congressional action is 
not complete other than to communicate to Members of Congress as 
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913.

                      obligation of appropriations

    Sec. 402.  No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein.

                 disclosure of administrative expenses

    Sec. 403.  The amount and basis of estimated overhead charges, 
deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including working capital fund 
charges, from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to 
support government-wide, departmental, agency, or bureau administrative 
functions or headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be 
presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate. Changes to such estimates shall be presented to the 
Committees on Appropriations for approval.

                          mining applications

    Sec. 404. (a) Limitation of Funds.--None of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or 
expended to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining 
or mill site claim located under the general mining laws.
    (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary of 
the Interior determines that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent 
application was filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 
1994; and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 and 2326 
of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode claims, 
sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 
35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case may be, were 
fully complied with by the applicant by that date.
    (c) Report.--On September 30, 2026, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall file with the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Natural Resources of the House and the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken by 
the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of 
the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1997 (Public Law 104-208).
    (d) Mineral Examinations.--In order to process patent applications 
in a timely and responsible manner, upon the request of a patent 
applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow the applicant to 
fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected by the Director 
of the Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent application as 
set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Management shall have 
the sole responsibility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in 
accordance with the standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors.

             contract support costs, prior year limitation

    Sec. 405.  Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the Consolidated 
and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 113-235) 
shall continue in effect in fiscal year 2025.

          contract support costs, fiscal year 2025 limitation

    Sec. 406.  Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal year 2025 under 
the headings ``Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health 
Service, Contract Support Costs'' and ``Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, Contract 
Support Costs'' are the only amounts available for contract support 
costs arising out of self-determination or self-governance contracts, 
grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements for fiscal year 2025 
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, and the 
Indian Health Service:  Provided, That such amounts provided by this 
Act are not available for payment of claims for contract support costs 
for prior years, or for repayments of payments for settlements or 
judgments awarding contract support costs for prior years.

                        forest management plans

    Sec. 407.  The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be considered to 
be in violation of section 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) 
solely because more than 15 years have passed without revision of the 
plan for a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing in this section 
exempts the Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or 
any other law:  Provided, That if the Secretary is not acting 
expeditiously and in good faith, within the funding available, to 
revise a plan for a unit of the National Forest System, this section 
shall be void with respect to such plan and a court of proper 
jurisdiction may order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis.

                 prohibition within national monuments

    Sec. 408.  No funds provided in this Act may be expended to conduct 
preleasing, leasing and related activities under either the Mineral 
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National 
Monument established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 431 
et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, except where 
such activities are allowed under the Presidential proclamation 
establishing such monument.

                         limitation on takings

    Sec. 409.  Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds appropriated 
in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands may be 
expended for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in 
condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations:  Provided, That this provision shall not apply to funds 
appropriated to implement the Everglades National Park Protection and 
Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for Federal assistance 
to the State of Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration 
purposes.

                    prohibition on no-bid contracts

    Sec. 410.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act to executive branch agencies may be used to enter 
into any Federal contract unless such contract is entered into in 
accordance with the requirements of Chapter 33 of title 41, United 
States Code, or Chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless--
            (1) Federal law specifically authorizes a contract to be 
        entered into without regard for these requirements, including 
        formula grants for States, or federally recognized Indian 
        Tribes;
            (2) such contract is authorized by the Indian Self-
        Determination and Education Assistance Act (Public Law 93-638, 
        25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) or by any other Federal laws that 
        specifically authorize a contract within an Indian Tribe as 
        defined in section 4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 5304(e)); or
            (3) such contract was awarded prior to the date of 
        enactment of this Act.

                           posting of reports

    Sec. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in this 
Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public 
website of that agency any report required to be submitted by the 
Congress in this or any other Act, upon the determination by the head 
of the agency that it shall serve the national interest.
    (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if--
            (1) the public posting of the report compromises national 
        security; or
            (2) the report contains proprietary information.
    (c) The head of the agency posting such report shall do so only 
after such report has been made available to the requesting Committee 
or Committees of Congress for no less than 45 days.

            national endowment for the arts grant guidelines

    Sec. 412.  Of the funds provided to the National Endowment for the 
Arts--
            (1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an 
        individual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a 
        literature fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or 
        American Jazz Masters Fellowship.
            (2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to ensure 
        that no funding provided through a grant, except a grant made 
        to a State or local arts agency, or regional group, may be used 
        to make a grant to any other organization or individual to 
        conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
        Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments made in 
        exchange for goods and services.
            (3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support to a group, 
        unless the application is specific to the contents of the 
        season, including identified programs or projects.

           national endowment for the arts program priorities

    Sec. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding financial 
assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 
Act of 1965 from funds appropriated under this Act, the Chairperson of 
the National Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given 
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for projects, 
productions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved populations.
    (b) In this section:
            (1) The term ``underserved population'' means a population 
        of individuals, including urban minorities, who have 
        historically been outside the purview of arts and humanities 
        programs due to factors such as a high incidence of income 
        below the poverty line or to geographic isolation.
            (2) The term ``poverty line'' means the poverty line (as 
        defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and revised 
        annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the Community 
        Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a 
        family of the size involved.
    (c) In providing services and awarding financial assistance under 
the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 with 
funds appropriated by this Act, the Chairperson of the National 
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing 
services or awarding financial assistance for projects, productions, 
workshops, or programs that will encourage public knowledge, education, 
understanding, and appreciation of the arts.
    (d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out section 5 of 
the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965--
            (1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant category for 
        projects, productions, workshops, or programs that are of 
        national impact or availability or are able to tour several 
        States;
            (2) the Chairperson shall not make grants exceeding 15 
        percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to any single State, 
        excluding grants made under the authority of paragraph (1);
            (3) the Chairperson shall report to the Congress annually 
        and by State, on grants awarded by the Chairperson in each 
        grant category under section 5 of such Act; and
            (4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of grants to 
        improve and support community-based music performance and 
        education.

                  status of balances of appropriations

    Sec. 414.  The Department of the Interior, the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Indian Health Service 
shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of balances 
of appropriations including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated 
funds in each program and activity within 60 days of enactment of this 
Act.

                      extension of grazing permits

    Sec. 415.  The terms and conditions of section 325 of Public Law 
108-108 (117 Stat. 1307), regarding grazing permits issued by the 
Forest Service on any lands not subject to administration under section 
402 of the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1752), 
shall remain in effect for fiscal year 2025.

                          funding prohibition

    Sec. 416. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network is 
designed to block access to pornography websites.
    (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds 
necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local law enforcement 
agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, 
prosecution, or adjudication activities.

                humane transfer and treatment of animals

    Sec. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land administered by the 
Bureau of Land Management, or the Secretary of Agriculture, with 
respect to land administered by the Forest Service (referred to in this 
section as the ``Secretary concerned''), may transfer excess wild 
horses and burros that have been removed from land administered by the 
Secretary concerned to other Federal, State, and local government 
agencies for use as work animals.
    (b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer under subsection 
(a) immediately on the request of a Federal, State, or local government 
agency.
    (c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under subsection (a) 
shall lose status as a wild free-roaming horse or burro (as defined in 
section 2 of Public Law 92-195 (commonly known as the ``Wild Free-
Roaming Horses and Burros Act'') (16 U.S.C. 1332)).
    (d) A Federal, State, or local government agency receiving an 
excess wild horse or burro pursuant to subsection (a) shall not--
            (1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that results in 
        the destruction of the horse or burro into a commercial 
        product;
            (2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro in a 
        manner that results in the destruction of the horse or burro 
        for processing into a commercial product; or
            (3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the 
        recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case of severe 
        injury, illness, or advanced age.
    (e) Amounts appropriated by this Act shall not be available for--
            (1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted, and wild 
        horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 
        concerned (including a contractor); or
            (2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results in the 
        destruction of the wild horse or burro for processing into a 
        commercial product.

   forest service facility realignment and enhancement authorization 
                               extension

    Sec. 418.  Section 503(f) of Public Law 109-54 (16 U.S.C. 580d 
note) shall be applied by substituting ``September 30, 2025'' for 
``September 30, 2019''.

                     use of american iron and steel

    Sec. 419. (a)(1) None of the funds made available by a State water 
pollution control revolving fund as authorized by section 1452 of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12) shall be used for a project 
for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 
water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and steel 
products used in the project are produced in the United States.
    (2) In this section, the term ``iron and steel'' products means the 
following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or unlined 
pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal castings, 
hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, valves, 
structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, and construction 
materials.
    (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or category of cases 
in which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (in 
this section referred to as the ``Administrator'') finds that--
            (1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent with the 
        public interest;
            (2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United 
        States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of 
        a satisfactory quality; or
            (3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the 
        United States will increase the cost of the overall project by 
        more than 25 percent.
    (c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiver under this 
section, the Administrator shall make available to the public on an 
informal basis a copy of the request and information available to the 
Administrator concerning the request, and shall allow for informal 
public input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making a 
finding based on the request. The Administrator shall make the request 
and accompanying information available by electronic means, including 
on the official public Internet Web site of the Environmental 
Protection Agency.
    (d) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
United States obligations under international agreements.
    (e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent of the funds 
appropriated in this Act for the Clean and Drinking Water State 
Revolving Funds for carrying out the provisions described in subsection 
(a)(1) for management and oversight of the requirements of this 
section.

local cooperator training agreements and transfers of excess equipment 
                       and supplies for wildfires

    Sec. 420.  The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter 
into grants and cooperative agreements with volunteer fire departments, 
rural fire departments, rangeland fire protection associations, and 
similar organizations to provide for wildland fire training and 
equipment, including supplies and communication devices. 
Notwithstanding section 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or 
section 521 of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further 
authorized to transfer title to excess Department of the Interior 
firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry out the functions of 
the Department's wildland fire management program to such 
organizations.

                            recreation fees

    Sec. 421.  Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement 
Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied by substituting ``October 1, 
2026'' for ``September 30, 2019''.

                        reprogramming guidelines

    Sec. 422.  None of the funds made available in this Act, in this 
and prior fiscal years, may be reprogrammed without the advance 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in 
accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in the report 
accompanying this Act.

                           local contractors

    Sec. 423.  Section 412 of division E of Public Law 112-74 shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2025'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

      shasta-trinity marina fee authority authorization extension

    Sec. 424.  Section 422 of division F of Public Law 110-161 (121 
Stat 1844), as amended, shall be applied by substituting ``fiscal year 
2025'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

            interpretive association authorization extension

    Sec. 425.  Section 426 of division G of Public Law 113-76 (16 
U.S.C. 565a-1 note) shall be applied by substituting ``September 30, 
2025'' for ``September 30, 2019''.

    forest botanical products fee collection authorization extension

    Sec. 426.  Section 339 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
Public Law 106-113; 16 U.S.C. 528 note), as amended by section 335(6) 
of Public Law 108-108 and section 432 of Public Law 113-76, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2025'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

                             tribal leases

    Sec. 427. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the 
case of any lease under section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Determination 
and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease 
term shall commence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease 
proposal.
    (b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and Human Services 
shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal year 2025 consult with 
Tribes and Tribal organizations through public solicitation and other 
means regarding the requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and transparent process for 
the payment of such leases.

               forest ecosystem health and recovery fund

    Sec. 428.  The authority provided under the heading ``Forest 
Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund'' in title I of Public Law 111-88, 
as amended by section 117 of division F of Public Law 113-235, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2025'' for ``fiscal year 2020'' 
each place it appears.

     allocation of projects, national parks and public land legacy 
         restoration fund and land and water conservation fund

    Sec. 429. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts made available from 
the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal 
year 2025 pursuant to subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 
United States Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such section 
of such title, to the agencies of the Department of the Interior and 
the Department of Agriculture specified, in the amounts specified, for 
the stations and unit names specified, and for the projects and 
activities specified in the table titled ``Allocation of Funds: 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 
2025'' in the report accompanying this Act.
    (2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, shall 
allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2025 pursuant to subsection (a) of 
section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies and 
accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the projects and 
activities specified in the table titled ``Allocation of Funds: Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2025'' in the report 
accompanying this Act.
    (b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) of this section, 
neither the President nor his designee may allocate any amounts that 
are made available for any fiscal year under subsection (c) of section 
200402 of title 54, United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 
200303 of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts and for 
projects and activities that are allocated by subsections (a)(1) and 
(a)(2) of this section:  Provided, That in any fiscal year, the matter 
preceding this proviso shall not apply to the allocation of amounts for 
continuing administration of programs allocated funds from the National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund or the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund, which may be allocated only in amounts that are no 
more than the allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and 
(a)(2) of this section.
    (c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
may reallocate amounts from each agency's ``Contingency Fund'' line in 
the table titled ``Allocation of Funds: National Parks and Public Land 
Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2025'' to any project funded by the 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund within the same 
agency, from any fiscal year, that experienced a funding deficiency due 
to unforeseen cost overruns, in accordance with the following 
requirements:
            (1) ``Contingency Fund'' amounts may only be reallocated if 
        there is a risk to project completion resulting from unforeseen 
        cost overruns;
            (2) ``Contingency Fund'' amounts may only be reallocated 
        for cost of adjustments and changes within the original scope 
        of effort for projects funded by the National Parks and Public 
        Land Legacy Restoration Fund; and
            (3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
        Agriculture must provide written notification to the Committees 
        on Appropriations 30 days before taking any actions authorized 
        by this subsection if the amount reallocated from the 
        ``Contingency Fund'' line for a project is projected to be 10 
        percent or greater than the following, as applicable:
                    (A) The amount allocated to that project in the 
                table titled ``Allocation of Funds: National Parks and 
                Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2025'' 
                in the report accompanying this Act; or
                    (B) The initial estimate in the most recent report 
                submitted, prior to enactment of this Act, to the 
                Committees on Appropriations pursuant to section 430(e) 
                of division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
                2024 (Public Law 118-42).
    (d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the 
President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate project 
data sheets for the projects in the ``Submission of Annual List of 
Projects to Congress'' required by section 200402(h) of title 54, 
United States Code:  Provided, That the ``Submission of Annual List of 
Projects to Congress'' must include a ``Contingency Fund'' line for 
each agency within the allocations defined in subsection (e) of section 
200402 of title 54, United States Code:  Provided further, That in the 
event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act for the National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund are no longer needed to 
complete a specified project, such amounts may be reallocated in such 
submission to that agency's ``Contingency Fund'' line:  Provided 
further, That any proposals to change the scope of or terminate a 
previously approved project must be clearly identified in such 
submission.
    (2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the 
President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a list of 
supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest 
Legacy Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Forest 
Service that are in addition to the ``Submission of Cost Estimates'' 
required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that 
are prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, and that 
total no less than half the full amount allocated to each account for 
that land management Agency under the allocations submitted under 
section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code:  Provided, That 
in the event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant to 
subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code are no 
longer needed because a project has been completed or can no longer be 
executed, such amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for 
reallocation in the annual budget submission.
    (B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy projects in the 
``Submission of Cost Estimates'' required by section 200303(c)(1) of 
title 54, United States Code, and on the list of supplementary 
allocations required by subparagraph (A) shall be comprised only of 
projects for which a willing seller has been identified and for which 
an appraisal or market research has been initiated.
    (C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President 
for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets in the 
same format and containing the same level of detailed information that 
is found on such sheets in the Budget Justifications annually submitted 
by the Department of the Interior with the President's Budget for the 
projects in the ``Submission of Cost Estimates'' required by section 
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the same format 
and containing the same level of detailed information that is found on 
such sheets submitted to the Committees pursuant to section 427 of 
division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 
Law 116-94) for the list of supplementary allocations required by 
subparagraph (A).
    (e) The Department of the Interior and the Department of 
Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of 
balances of projects and activities funded by the National Parks and 
Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to 
subsection (a)(1) of this section and the status of balances of 
projects and activities funded by the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section, 
including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated funds, and, for 
amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this section, 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund amounts 
reallocated pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.

                  policies relating to biomass energy

    Sec. 430.  To support the key role that forests in the United 
States can play in addressing the energy needs of the United States, 
the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, consistent 
with their missions, jointly--
            (1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 
        bioenergy--
                    (A) is consistent across all Federal departments 
                and agencies; and
                    (B) recognizes the full benefits of the use of 
                forest biomass for energy, conservation, and 
                responsible forest management; and
            (2) establish clear and simple policies for the use of 
        forest biomass as an energy solution, including policies that--
                    (A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest 
                bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy 
                source, provided the use of forest biomass for energy 
                production does not cause conversion of forests to non-
                forest use;
                    (B) encourage private investment throughout the 
                forest biomass supply chain, including in--
                            (i) working forests;
                            (ii) harvesting operations;
                            (iii) forest improvement operations;
                            (iv) forest bioenergy production;
                            (v) wood products manufacturing; or
                            (vi) paper manufacturing;
                    (C) encourage forest management to improve forest 
                health; and
                    (D) recognize State initiatives to produce and use 
                forest biomass.

                       small remote incinerators

    Sec. 431.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to implement or enforce the regulation issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 
CFR part 60 subparts CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State 
of Alaska that are defined as ``small, remote incinerator'' units in 
those regulations and, until a subsequent regulation is issued, the 
Administrator shall implement the law and regulations in effect prior 
to such date.

                        timber sale requirements

    Sec. 432.  No timber sale in Alaska's Region 10 shall be advertised 
if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as the value of the timber is 
not sufficient to cover all logging and stumpage costs and provide a 
normal profit and risk allowance under the Forest Service's appraisal 
process) when appraised using a residual value appraisal. The western 
red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the needs of the 
domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made available to domestic 
processors in the contiguous 48 United States at prevailing domestic 
prices. All additional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or 
contiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be exported to 
foreign markets at the election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska 
yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing export prices at the election of 
the timber sale holder.

 transfer authority to federal highway administration for the national 
             parks and public land legacy restoration fund

    Sec. 433.  Funds made available or allocated in this Act to the 
Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture that are 
subject to the allocations and limitations in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and 
prohibitions in 54 U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further allocated or 
reallocated to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation 
projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C. 200401(2).

                      prohibition on use of funds

    Sec. 434.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds made available in this Act or any other Act may be used to 
promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of 
permits under title V of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for 
carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 
resulting from biological processes associated with livestock 
production.

                 greenhouse gas reporting restrictions

    Sec. 435.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds made available in this or any other Act may be used to implement 
any provision in a rule, if that provision requires mandatory reporting 
of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.

                          funding prohibition

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

                          firefighter pay cap

    Sec. 437.  Section 1701 of division B of the Extending Government 
Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), 
as amended, is further amended by striking ``2021 or 2022 or 2023 or 
2024'' each place it appears and inserting ``calendar years 2021 
through 2025''.

     alaska native regional health entities authorization extension

    Sec. 438.  Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113-76) shall be 
applied by substituting ``October 1, 2025'' for ``December 24, 2022''.

         wildfire suppression funding and forest management act

    Sec. 439.  Section 104 of the Wildfire Suppression Funding and 
Forest Management Activities Act (division O of Public Law 115-141) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``90'' and inserting 
        ``180''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4) of subsection (b), by inserting the 
        following before the semi-colon: ``, and shall include an 
        accounting of any spending in the first two quarters of the 
        succeeding fiscal year that is attributable to suppression 
        operations in the fiscal year for which the report was 
        prepared''.

      hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting on federal land

    Sec. 440. (a) None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act for any fiscal year may be used to prohibit the use of or access to 
Federal land (as such term is defined in section 3 of the Healthy 
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6502)) for hunting, fishing, 
or recreational shooting if such use or access--
    (1) was not prohibited on such Federal land as of January 1, 2013; 
and
    (2) was conducted in compliance with the resource management plan 
(as defined in section 101 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 6511)) applicable to 
such Federal land as of January 1, 2013.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior 
or the Secretary of Agriculture may temporarily close, for a period not 
to exceed 30 days, Federal land managed by the Secretary to hunting, 
fishing, or recreational shooting if the Secretary determines that the 
temporary closure is necessary to accommodate a special event or for 
public safety reasons. The Secretary may extend a temporary closure for 
one additional 90-day period only if the Secretary determines the 
extension is necessary because of extraordinary weather conditions or 
for public safety reasons.
    (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the 
authority, jurisdiction, or responsibility of the several States to 
manage, control, or regulate fish and resident wildlife under State law 
or regulations.

                     coastal barrier resources act

    Sec. 441.  Section 6(a) of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 
U.S.C. 3505(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Use of a sand source within a System unit by Federal 
        coastal storm risk management projects or their predecessor 
        projects that have used a System unit for sand to nourish 
        adjacent beaches outside the System pursuant to section 5 of 
        the Act of August 18, 1941 (commonly known as the `Flood 
        Control Act of 1941') (55 Stat. 650, chapter 377; 33 U.S.C. 
        701n) at least once between December 31, 2008, and December 31, 
        2023, in response to an emergency situation prior to December 
        31, 2023.''

             rescission of department of the interior funds

    Sec. 442.  The unobligated balances of amounts appropriated or 
otherwise made available under section 50224 of Public Law 117-169 
(commonly known as the ``Inflation Reduction Act of 2022'') are hereby 
rescinded.

                  executive order funding prohibition

    Sec. 443.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order No. 13985 of 
January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial 
equity and support for underserved communities through the Federal 
Government), Executive Order No. 14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 
34593, relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in 
the Federal workforce), or Executive Order No. 14091 of February 16, 
2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relating to further advancing racial equity 
and support for underserved communities through the Federal 
Government).

                       masks and vaccine mandates

    Sec. 444.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce any COVID-19 mask or vaccine 
mandates.

                               limitation

    Sec. 445.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to carry out any program, project, or activity that promotes or 
advances Critical Race Theory or any concept associated with Critical 
Race Theory.

                             official flags

    Sec. 446.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to fly or display a flag over a facility of a Department or agency 
funded by this Act other than the flag of the United States; the flag 
of a State, insular area, or the District of Columbia; the flag of a 
Federally recognized Tribal entity; the official flag of the Secretary 
of the Interior; the official flag of a U.S. Department or agency; or 
the POW/MIA flag.

                                marriage

    Sec. 447. (a) In general.--Notwithstanding section 7 of title 1, 
United States Code, section 1738C of title 28, United States Code, or 
any other provision of law, none of the funds provided by this Act, or 
previous appropriations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially, on the 
basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely 
held religious belief, or moral conviction, that marriage is, or should 
be recognized as, a union of one man and one woman.
    (b) Discriminatory action defined.--As used in subsection (a), a 
discriminatory action means any action taken by the Federal Government 
to--
            (1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment of, or cause 
        any tax, penalty, or payment to be assessed against, or deny, 
        delay, or revoke an exemption from taxation under section 
        501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person 
        referred to in subsection (a);
            (2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax purposes of any 
        charitable contribution made to or by such person;
            (3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, exclude, 
        terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, any Federal 
        grant, contract, subcontract, cooperative agreement, guarantee, 
        loan, scholarship, license, certification, accreditation, 
        employment, or other similar position or status from or to such 
        person;
            (4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make 
        unavailable or deny, any entitlement or benefit under a Federal 
        benefit program, including admission to, equal treatment in, or 
        eligibility for a degree from an educational program, from or 
        to such person; or
            (5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make 
        unavailable or deny access or an entitlement to Federal 
        property, facilities, educational institutions, speech fora 
        (including traditional, limited, and nonpublic fora), or 
        charitable fundraising campaigns from or to such person.
    (c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.--The Federal 
Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or certified for 
purposes of Federal law any person that would be accredited, licensed, 
or certified, respectively, for such purposes but for a determination 
against such person wholly or partially on the basis that the person 
speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 
or moral conviction described in subsection (a).

                         american climate corps

    Sec. 448.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for the American Climate Corps.

                    climate change executive orders

    Sec. 449.  None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to implement any of the following executive orders:
            (1) Executive Order No. 13990, relating to Protecting 
        Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To 
        Tackle the Climate Crisis;
            (2) Executive Order No. 14008, relating to Tackling the 
        Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad;
            (3) Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, relating to 
        Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle Refugees and 
        Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration;
            (4) Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Climate-Related 
        Financial Risk;
            (5) Executive Order 14037, relating to Strengthening 
        American Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks;
            (6) Executive Order No. 14057, relating to Catalyzing Clean 
        Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability;
            (7) Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Implementation 
        of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation 
        Reduction Act of 2022; and
            (8) Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Revitalizing Our 
        Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.

                             natural assets

    Sec. 450.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to develop or implement guidance related to the valuation of ecosystem 
and environmental services and natural assets in Federal regulatory 
decision-making pursuant to Executive Order 14072 (87 Fed. Reg. 24851, 
relating to strengthening the Nation's forests, communities, and local 
economies).

             use of mining claims for ancillary activities

    Sec. 451.  Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 
of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 28f) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Security of Tenure.--
            ``(1) In general.--
                    ``(A) In general.--A claimant shall have the right 
                to use, occupy, and conduct operations on public land, 
                with or without the discovery of a valuable mineral 
                deposit, if--
                            ``(i) such claimant makes a timely payment 
                        of the location fee required by section 10102 
                        and the claim maintenance fee required by 
                        subsection (a); or
                            ``(ii) in the case of a claimant who 
                        qualifies for a waiver under subsection (d), 
                        such claimant makes a timely payment of the 
                        location fee and complies with the required 
                        assessment work under the general mining laws.
                    ``(B) Operations defined.--For the purposes of this 
                paragraph, the term `operations' means--
                            ``(i) any activity or work carried out in 
                        connection with prospecting, exploration, 
                        processing, discovery and assessment, 
                        development, or extraction with respect to a 
                        locatable mineral;
                            ``(ii) the reclamation of any disturbed 
                        areas; and
                            ``(iii) any other reasonably incident uses, 
                        whether on a mining claim or not, including the 
                        construction and maintenance of facilities, 
                        roads, transmission lines, pipelines, and any 
                        other necessary infrastructure or means of 
                        access on public land for support facilities.
            ``(2) Fulfillment of federal land policy and management 
        act.--A claimant that fulfills the requirements of this section 
        and section 10102 shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements 
        of any provision of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
        that requires the payment of fair market value to the United 
        States for use of public lands and resources relating to use of 
        such lands and resources authorized by the general mining laws.
            ``(3) Savings clause.--Nothing in this subsection may be 
        construed to diminish the rights of entry, use, and occupancy, 
        or any other right, of a claimant under the general mining 
        laws.''.

                         public land order 7917

    Sec. 452.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to enforce Public Land Order 7917 (88 Fed. Reg. 6308 
(January 31, 2023)).

                             mineral leases

    Sec. 453.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law and not 
subject to further judicial review, not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall 
reinstate the hardrock mineral leases in the Superior National Forest 
in the State of Minnesota issued in 2019 and identified as MNES-01352 
and MNES-01353.

                         social cost of carbon

    Sec. 454.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to consider or incorporate the social cost of carbon--
            (1) as part of any cost-benefit analysis required or 
        performed pursuant to--
                    (A) any law;
                    (B) Executive Order No. 13990 (86 Fed. Reg. 7037; 
                relating to protecting public health and the 
                environment and restoring science to tackle the climate 
                crisis);
                    (C) Executive Order No. 14094 (88 Fed. Reg. 21879; 
                relating to modernizing regulatory review);
                    (D) the Presidential Memorandum titled 
                ``Modernizing Regulatory Review'' issued by the 
                President on January 20, 2021;
                    (E) any revisions to Office of Management and 
                Budget Circular A-4 proposed or finalized under 
                Executive Order No. 14094; or
                    (F) ``Technical Support Document: Social Cost of 
                Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates 
                under Executive Order 13990,'' published under the 
                Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of 
                Greenhouse Gases, in February of 2021;
            (2) in any rulemaking;
            (3) in the issuance of any guidance;
            (4) in taking any other agency action; or
            (5) as a justification for any rulemaking, guidance 
        document, or agency action.

                       incorporation by reference

    Sec. 455. (a) The provisions of the following bills of the 118th 
Congress are hereby enacted into law:
            (1) H.R. 548 (Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands 
        Reacquisition Act), as passed by the House of Representatives 
        on February 6, 2023.
            (2) Title III of H.R. 7408 (America's Wildlife Habitat 
        Conservation Act) as ordered to be reported on April 16, 2024, 
        by the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
        Representatives.
    (b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the United States 
Statutes at large pursuant to section 112 of title 1, United States 
Code, the Archivist of the United States shall include after the date 
of approval at the end an appendix setting forth the text of the 
sections of the bills referred to in subsection (a).

          special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters

    Sec. 456.  (a) Subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 5332 the following:
``Sec. 5332a. Special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `firefighter' means an employee who--
                    ``(A) is a firefighter within the meaning of 
                section 8331(21) or section 8401(14);
                    ``(B) in the case of an employee who holds a 
                supervisory or administrative position and is subject 
                to subchapter III of chapter 83, but who does not 
                qualify to be considered a firefighter within the 
                meaning of section 8331(21), would otherwise qualify if 
                the employee had transferred directly to that position 
                after serving as a firefighter within the meaning of 
                that section;
                    ``(C) in the case of an employee who holds a 
                supervisory or administrative position and is subject 
                to chapter 84, but who does not qualify to be 
                considered a firefighter within the meaning of section 
                8401(14), would otherwise qualify if the employee had 
                transferred directly to that position after performing 
                duties described in section 8401(14)(A) for at least 3 
                years; or
                    ``(D) in the case of an employee who is not subject 
                to subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84, holds a 
                position that the Office of Personnel Management 
                determines would satisfy subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) 
                if the employee were subject to subchapter III of 
                chapter 83 or chapter 84;
            ``(2) the term `General Schedule base rate' means an annual 
        rate of basic pay established under section 5332 before any 
        additions, such as a locality-based comparability payment under 
        section 5304 or 5304a or a special rate supplement under 
        section 5305;
            ``(3) the term `special base rate' means an annual rate of 
        basic pay payable to a wildland firefighter, before any 
        additions or reductions, that replaces the General Schedule 
        base rate otherwise applicable to the wildland firefighter and 
        that is administered in the same manner as a General Schedule 
        base rate; and
            ``(4) the term `wildland firefighter' means a firefighter--
                    ``(A) who is employed by the Forest Service or the 
                Department of the Interior; and
                    ``(B) the duties of the position of whom primarily 
                relate to fires occurring in forests, range lands, or 
                other wildlands, as opposed to structural fires.
    ``(b) Special Base Rates of Pay.--
            ``(1) Entitlement to special rate.--Notwithstanding section 
        5332, a wildland firefighter is entitled to a special base rate 
        at grades 1 through 15, which shall--
                    ``(A) replace the otherwise applicable General 
                Schedule base rate for the wildland firefighter;
                    ``(B) be basic pay for all purposes, including the 
                purpose of computing a locality-based comparability 
                payment under section 5304 or 5304a; and
                    ``(C) be computed as described in paragraph (2) and 
                adjusted at the time of adjustments in the General 
                Schedule.
            ``(2) Computation.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The special base rate for a 
                wildland firefighter shall be derived by increasing the 
                otherwise applicable General Schedule base rate for the 
                wildland firefighter by the following applicable 
                percentage for the grade of the wildland firefighter 
                and rounding the result to the nearest whole dollar:
                            ``(i) For GS-1, 42 percent.
                            ``(ii) For GS-2, 39 percent.
                            ``(iii) For GS-3, 36 percent.
                            ``(iv) For GS-4, 33 percent.
                            ``(v) For GS-5, 30 percent.
                            ``(vi) For GS-6, 27 percent.
                            ``(vii) For GS-7, 24 percent.
                            ``(viii) For GS-8, 21 percent.
                            ``(ix) For GS-9, 18 percent.
                            ``(x) For GS-10, 15 percent.
                            ``(xi) For GS-11, 12 percent.
                            ``(xii) For GS-12, 9 percent.
                            ``(xiii) For GS-13, 6 percent.
                            ``(xiv) For GS-14, 3 percent.
                            ``(xv) For GS-15, 1.5 percent.
                    ``(B) Hourly, daily, weekly, or biweekly rates.--
                When the special base rate with respect to a wildland 
                firefighter is expressed as an hourly, daily, weekly, 
                or biweekly rate, the special base rate shall be 
                computed from the appropriate annual rate of basic pay 
                derived under subparagraph (A) in accordance with the 
                rules under section 5504(b).''.
    (b) The table of sections for subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating 
to section 5332 the following:

``5332a. Special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters.''.
    (c) Section 5343 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g)(1) For a prevailing rate employee described in section 
5342(a)(2)(A) who is a wildland firefighter, as defined in section 
5332a(a), the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior 
(as applicable) shall increase the wage rates of that employee by an 
amount (determined at the sole and exclusive discretion of the 
applicable Secretary after consultation with the other Secretary) that 
is generally consistent with the percentage increases given to wildland 
firefighters in the General Schedule under section 5332a.
    ``(2) An increased wage rate under paragraph (1) shall be basic pay 
for the same purposes as the wage rate otherwise established under this 
section.
    ``(3) An increase under this subsection may not cause the wage rate 
of an employee to increase to a rate that would produce an annualized 
rate in excess of the annual rate for level IV of the Executive 
Schedule.''.
    (d) The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the 
first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after 
either October 1, 2024 or the date of enactment of this Act, whichever 
is later.
    (e) Notwithstanding section 40803(d)(4)(B) of the Infrastructure 
Investment and Jobs Act (16 U.S.C. 6592(d)(4)(B)) and authority 
provided under the headings ``wildland fire management - forest 
service'' and ``wildland fire management - department of the interior'' 
in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the salary increase in such section and 
under such headings shall not apply to the positions described in such 
section 40803(d)(4)(B) for service performed on or after the effective 
date described in subsection (d) of this section.

              wildland fire incident response premium pay

    Sec. 457.  (a) Subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5, United Sates 
Code, is amended by inserting after section 5545b the following:
``Sec. 5545c. Incident response premium pay for employees engaged in 
              wildland firefighting
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `appropriate committees of Congress' means--
                    ``(A) the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
                of Representatives;
                    ``(B) the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
                of the House of Representatives;
                    ``(C) the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
                Representatives;
                    ``(D) the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
                House of Representatives;
                    ``(E) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
                Senate;
                    ``(F) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
                    ``(G) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
                of the Senate; and
                    ``(H) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
                Forestry of the Senate;
            ``(2) the term `covered employee' means an employee of the 
        Forest Service or the Department of the Interior who is--
                    ``(A) a wildland firefighter, as defined in section 
                5332a(a); or
                    ``(B) certified by the applicable agency to perform 
                wildland fire incident-related duties during the period 
                that employee is deployed to respond to a qualifying 
                incident;
            ``(3) the term `incident response premium pay' means pay to 
        which a covered employee is entitled under subsection (c);
            ``(4) the term `prescribed fire incident' means a wildland 
        fire originating from a planned ignition in accordance with 
        applicable laws, policies, and regulations to meet specific 
        objectives;
            ``(5) the term `qualifying incident'--
                    ``(A) means--
                            ``(i) a wildfire incident, a prescribed 
                        fire incident, or a severity incident; or
                            ``(ii) an incident that the Secretary of 
                        Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior 
                        determines is similar in nature to an incident 
                        described in clause (i); and
                    ``(B) does not include an initial response incident 
                that is contained within 36 hours; and
            ``(6) the term `severity incident' means an incident in 
        which a covered employee is pre-positioned in an area in which 
        conditions indicate there is a high risk of wildfires.
    ``(b) Eligibility.--A covered employee is eligible for incident 
response premium pay under this section if--
            ``(1) the covered employee is deployed to respond to a 
        qualifying incident; and
            ``(2) the deployment described in paragraph (1) is--
                    ``(A) outside of the official duty station of the 
                covered employee; or
                    ``(B) within the official duty station of the 
                covered employee and the covered employee is assigned 
                to an incident-adjacent fire camp or other designated 
                field location.
    ``(c) Entitlement to Incident Response Premium Pay.--
            ``(1) In general.--A covered employee who satisfies the 
        conditions under subsection (b) is entitled to premium pay for 
        the period in which the covered employee is deployed to respond 
        to the applicable qualifying incident.
            ``(2) Computation.--
                    ``(A) Formula.--Subject to subparagraphs (B) and 
                (C), premium pay under paragraph (1) shall be paid to a 
                covered employee at a daily rate of 450 percent of the 
                hourly rate of basic pay of the covered employee for 
                each day that the covered employee satisfies the 
                requirements under subsection (b), rounded to the 
                nearest whole cent.
                    ``(B) Limitation.--Premium pay under this 
                subsection may not be paid--
                            ``(i) with respect to a covered employee 
                        for whom the annual rate of basic pay is 
                        greater than that for step 10 of GS-10, at a 
                        daily rate that exceeds the daily rate 
                        established under subparagraph (A) for step 10 
                        of GS-10; or
                            ``(ii) to a covered employee in a total 
                        amount that exceeds $9,000 in any calendar 
                        year.
                    ``(C) Adjustments.--
                            ``(i) Assessment.--The Secretary of 
                        Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
                        shall assess the difference between the average 
                        total amount of compensation that was paid to 
                        covered employees, by grade, in fiscal years 
                        2023 and 2024.
                            ``(ii) Report.--Not later than 180 days 
                        after the date that is 1 year after the 
                        effective date of this section, the Secretary 
                        of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
                        Interior shall jointly publish a report on the 
                        results of the assessment conducted under 
                        clause (i).
                            ``(iii) Administrative actions.--After 
                        publishing the report required under clause 
                        (ii), the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
                        Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with 
                        the Director of the Office of Personnel 
                        Management, may, in the sole and exclusive 
                        discretion of the Secretaries acting jointly, 
                        administratively adjust the amount of premium 
                        pay paid under this subsection (or take other 
                        administrative action) to ensure that the 
                        average annual amount of total compensation 
                        paid to covered employees, by grade, is more 
                        consistent with such amount that was paid to 
                        those employees in fiscal year 2023.
                            ``(iv) Congressional notification.--Not 
                        later than 3 days after an adjustment made, or 
                        other administrative action taken, under clause 
                        (iii) becomes final, the Secretary of 
                        Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
                        shall jointly submit to the appropriate 
                        committees of Congress a notification regarding 
                        that adjustment or other administrative action, 
                        as applicable.
    ``(d) Treatment of Incident Response Premium Pay.--Incident 
response premium pay under this section--
            ``(1) is not considered part of the basic pay of a covered 
        employee for any purpose;
            ``(2) may not be considered in determining a covered 
        employee's lump-sum payment for accumulated and accrued annual 
        leave under section 5551 or section 5552;
            ``(3) may not be used in determining pay under section 8114 
        (relating to compensation for work injuries);
            ``(4) may not be considered in determining pay for hours of 
        paid leave or other paid time off during which the premium pay 
        is not payable; and
            ``(5) shall be disregarded in determining the minimum wage 
        and overtime pay to which a covered employee is entitled under 
        the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et 
        seq.).''.
    (b) Subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in section 5544--
                    (A) by amending the section heading to read as 
                follows: ``Wage-board overtime, Sunday rates, and other 
                premium pay''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) A prevailing rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) 
shall receive incident response premium pay under the same terms and 
conditions that apply to a covered employee under section 5545c if that 
employee--
            ``(1) is employed by the Forest Service or the Department 
        of the Interior; and
            ``(2)(A) is a wildland firefighter, as defined in section 
        5332a(a); or
            ``(B) is certified by the applicable agency to perform 
        wildland fire incident-related duties during the period the 
        employee is deployed to respond to a qualifying incident (as 
        defined in section 5545c(a)).''; and
            (2) in section 5547(a), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by inserting ``5545c,'' after ``5545a,''.
    (c) The table of sections for subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by amending the item relating to section 5544 to read 
        as follows:

``5544. Wage-board overtime, Sunday rates, and other premium pay.''; 
                            and
            (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 5545b 
        the following:

``5545c. Incident response premium pay for employees engaged in 
                            wildland firefighting.''.
    (d) The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the 
first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after 
either October 1, 2024 or the date of enactment of this Act, whichever 
is later.

                              water rights

    Sec. 458.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be obligated to require or request, as a condition of the 
issuance, renewal, or extension of any Forest Service or Bureau of Land 
Management permit, lease, allotment, easement, or other land use and 
occupancy, arrangement, the transfer, or relinquishment of any water 
right, in whole, or in part, granted under State law.

                             cactus channel

    Sec. 459.  Subject to the terms provided herein, if the Riverside 
County Flood Control and Water Conservation District submits to the 
Secretary of Agriculture, not later than 365 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, a written request for the conveyance of certain 
National Forest System land located in the County of Riverside, 
California, as generally depicted on the map titled ``Sunnymead Cactus 
Avenue Channel Proposed Land Conveyance'' and dated ``May 13, 2024'' 
the Secretary shall convey to that District all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to those lands:  Provided, That 
the exact acreage and legal description of the National Forest System 
land herein identified shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to 
the Secretary:  Provided further, That then conveyance shall be made by 
quitclaim deed and subject to existing rights and any other terms and 
conditions the Secretary considers appropriate to protect the interests 
of the United States:  Provided further,  That the District shall pay 
to the United States fair market value for the conveyed National Forest 
System land herein identified:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall deposit any funds received by the United States from such 
conveyance in the fund established under Public Law 90-171 (16 U.S.C. 
484a) (commonly known as the ``Sisk Act'') and such deposits shall be 
made available without future appropriations:  Provided further,  That 
as a condition of the conveyance, the District shall pay all costs 
associated with the conveyance, including the survey herein required 
and any environmental analysis and resource surveys required by Federal 
law:  Provided further, That notwithstanding the requirements of 
Section 120(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C, 9620(h)), with 
respect to the National Forest System land herein identified, the 
Secretary shall only be required to meet disclosure requirements for 
hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants under Section 120(h) 
and shall not otherwise be required to remediate or abate any hazardous 
substances, pollutants, or contaminants:  Provided further,  That if 
the National Forest System land herein identified is conveyed to the 
District, the Secretary shall not be required to contribute to the cost 
of any infrastructure, facilities, or improvements developed on that 
land after the conveyance.

                               limitation

    Sec. 460.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used for the Climate Justice Alliance.

                               limitation

    Sec. 461.  None of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Smithsonian Institution by this Act may be made 
available for partnerships or activities associated with the Hong Kong 
Economic and Trade Offices.

                            land withdrawals

    Sec. 462.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to withdraw any Federal land from any form of entry, appropriation, or 
disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, or patent under 
the general mining laws, or disposition under the mineral leasing, 
mineral materials, or geothermal leasing laws unless such withdrawal is 
authorized by an Act of Congress.

                                fast-41

    Sec. 463.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled 
``Revising Scope of the Mining Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for 
Coverage Under Title 41 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation 
Act'' (88 Fed. Reg. 65350; September 22, 2023).

                    privately owned mineral estates

    Sec. 464.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to issue or revise any regulation pursuant to Section 17(o) of the 
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226(o)) relating to oil and gas 
development of outstanding and reserved mineral rights within the 
Allegheny National Forest.

                               appraisals

    Sec. 465.  Section 5 of the Act of June 22, 1948 (62 Stat. 568, 
chapter 593; 16 U.S.C. 577g), is amended by striking ``of the fair 
appraised value of such'' and inserting ``of the highest fair appraised 
value, including the historical fair appraised value, as determined by 
the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with this section, of 
such''.

                      waters of the united states

    Sec. 466.  Not later than 15 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and 
the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works shall provide to 
the appropriate congressional committees any guidance documents 
relating to the implementation of the rule entitled ``Revised 
Definition of `Waters of the United States'; Conforming'' published by 
the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency in 
the Federal Register on September 8, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 61964).

                               pesticides

    Sec. 467.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to issue or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any 
regulatory action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling 
that is inconsistent with or in any respect different from the 
conclusion of--
     (a) a human health assessment performed pursuant to the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.); or
    (b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide.

                               steam rule

    Sec. 468.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Supplemental Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for 
the Steam Electric Power Generating Point Source Category'' published 
by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on May 
9, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 40198).

                      small off-road engine waiver

    Sec. 469.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to approve a waiver submitted to the Environmental 
Protection Agency by the State of California, pursuant to section 
209(e) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7543(e)), for the State of 
California's amendments to its rule titled ``Small Off-Road Engine 
Regulations: Transition to Zero Emissions''.

                          ozone good neighbor

    Sec. 470.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Federal `Good Neighbor Plan' for the 2015 Ozone National 
Ambient Air Quality Standards'' published by the Environmental 
Protection Agency in the Federal Register on June 5, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 
36654).

                    epa office of inspector general

    Sec. 471.  Beginning on October 1, 2024, of the amounts made 
available to the Environmental Protection Agency under each of sections 
60101, 60102, 60104, 60105, 60106, 60107, 60108, 60109, 60110, 60111, 
60112, 60113, 60115, 60116, and 60201 of Public Law 117-169, two-tenths 
of one percent of such amounts shall be transferred to the Office of 
the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency for 
oversight of funding provided to the Environmental Protection Agency by 
such Public Law:  Provided,  That amounts so transferred shall be 
derived from the unobligated balances of amounts under each such 
section.

                            clean power plan

    Sec. 472.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric 
Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From 
Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; and Repeal of the 
Affordable Clean Energy Rule'' published by the Environmental 
Protection Agency in the Federal Register on May 9, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 
39798).

                             ethylene oxide

    Sec. 473.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed interim 
registration review decision and draft risk assessment addendum for 
ethylene oxide described in the notice titled ``Pesticide Registration 
Review; Proposed Interim Decision and Draft Risk Assessment Addendum 
for Ethylene Oxide; Notice of Availability'' published by the 
Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 13, 
2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 22447) unless the Commissioner of Food and Drugs 
certifies that, as relevant, finalization, implementation, 
administration, or enforcement of such rule, decision, or addendum for 
ethylene oxide will not adversely impact the availability of ethylene 
oxide to sterilize medical products in the United States or result in 
the movement of any sterilization capacity of such products outside of 
the United States.

                    light- and medium-duty vehicles

    Sec. 474.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and 
Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles'' published by the 
Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 18, 
2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 27842), or any substantially similar rule.

                          heavy-duty vehicles

    Sec. 475.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles-
Phase 3'' and published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 
Federal Register on April 22, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 29440), or any 
substantially similar rule.

                      clean water act section 401

    Sec. 476.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, titled ``Clean Water Act Section 401 
Water Quality Certification Improvement Rule'', and published on 
September 27, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 66558).

      interagency working group on social cost of greenhouse gases

    Sec. 477.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse 
Gases.

                      nepa greenhouse gas guidance

    Sec. 478.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the notice of interim 
guidance titled ``National Environmental Policy Act Guidance on 
Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change'' 
published by the Council on Environmental Quality in the Federal 
Register on January 9, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 1196).

                              nepa phase 1

    Sec. 479.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``National 
Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions'' published 
by the Council on Environmental Quality in the Federal Register on 
April 20, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 23453).

                              nepa phase 2

    Sec. 480.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled 
``National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions 
Phase 2'' published by the Council on Environmental Quality in the 
Federal Register on May 1, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 35442).

                          oil and natural gas

    Sec. 481.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``Standards 
of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and 
Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector 
Climate Review'' published by the Environmental Protection Agency in 
the Federal Register on March 8, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 16820).

                        risk management programs

    Sec. 482.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``Accidental 
Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the 
Clean Air Act; Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention'' 
published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 
Register on March 11, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 17622).

                             ghg reporting

    Sec. 483.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
titled ``Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule: Revisions and Confidentiality 
Determinations for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems'' published by the 
Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on May 14, 2024 
(89 Fed. Reg. 42062).

                       meat and poultry products

    Sec. 484.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled 
``Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the 
Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category'' published by the 
Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on January 23, 
2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 4474).

                 disposal of coal combustion residuals

    Sec. 485.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``Hazardous 
and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion 
Residuals From Electric Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface Impoundments'' 
published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 
Register on May 8, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 38950).

                    aerially applied fire retardant

    Sec. 486.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to ban the use of aerially applied fire retardant.

                         california rcra action

    Sec. 487.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement a regulation issued by the State of California, pursuant 
to the authority provided under the 2009 Memorandum of Agreement 
between the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and 
Region IX of the Environmental Protection Agency (or any successor 
agreement), that classifies metal shredding facilities as hazardous 
waste treatment facilities.

                     report on cellulosic biofuels

    Sec. 488. (a) Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a 
report outlining a plan to qualify any fuel derived from waste plastic 
or waste tires as cellulosic biofuel under section 211(o) of the Clean 
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)).
    (b) In preparing the report described in subsection (a), the 
Administrator shall consult with relevant stakeholders and incorporate 
into such report any input from such stakeholders that the 
Administrator determines appropriate.

                        good neighbor authority

    Sec. 489. (a) Section 8206(b)(2)(C)(ii) of the Agricultural Act of 
2014 (16 U.S.C. 2113a) is amended by striking ``2024'' and inserting 
``2025''.
    (b) Notwithstanding the amendment made by subsection (a), the 
authorities provided by title III of the America's Wildlife Habitat 
Conservation Act (as enacted by section 455 of this Act), and the terms 
and conditions of such Act, shall apply to the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service.

                              methane fee

    Sec. 490.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used--
            (1) to develop, propose, finalize, implement, or enforce 
        regulations implementing subsection (c) of section 136 of the 
        Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7436); or
            (2) otherwise impose, collect, or enforce a charge on 
        methane emissions under such section 136.

                               limitation

    Sec. 491.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``National 
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired 
Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review of the Residual Risk and 
Technology Review'' published by the Environmental Protection Agency in 
the Federal Register on May 7, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 38508).

                          state permit program

    Sec. 492.  The notice of the Environmental Protection Agency 
approving the State of Florida's request to carry out a permit program 
for the discharge of dredged or fill material pursuant to section 404 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344), published 
on December 22, 2020, and titled ``EPA's Approval of Florida's Clean 
Water Act Section 404 Assumption Request'' (85 Fed. Reg. 83553) shall 
have the force and effect of law.

                                  iris

    Sec. 493.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to develop, finalize, issue, or use assessments under the Integrated 
Risk Information System (IRIS).

                          upper columbia river

    Sec. 494.  None of the funds made available by this Act or any 
other Act may be used to finalize, implement, or administer the 
addition of the Upper Columbia River, Washington site under the General 
Superfund Section of the proposed rule entitled ``National Priorities 
List'' and published by the Environmental Protection Agency on March 7, 
2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 16502).

                               old-growth

    Sec. 495.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to--
            (1) finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the 
        environmental impact statement entitled ``EIS No. 20240110, 
        Draft, USFS, NAT, Land Management Plan Direction for Old-Growth 
        Forest Conditions Across the National Forest System'' published 
        by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register 
        on June 21, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 52039) or any substantially 
        similar environmental impact statement; or
            (2) carry out any proposed action included in such 
        environmental impact statement (or notice relating to such 
        environmental impact statement) or any substantially similar 
        action.

                               naaqs rule

    Sec. 496.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled 
``Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for 
Particulate Matter'' and published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in the Federal Register on March 6, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 16202).
    Sec. 497.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for the establishment of a national monument in Malheur County, Oregon, 
under chapter 3203 of title 54, United States Code (commonly referred 
to as the ``Antiquities Act of 1906'').
    Sec. 498.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Council at 
the Department of the Interior.
    Sec. 499.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to carry out the Bicycle Subsidy Benefit Program of the Department of 
the Interior.
    Sec. 500.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the draft resource 
management plan and supplemental environmental impact statement 
referred to in the notice of availability titled ``Notice of 
Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Colorado River Valley Field 
Office and Grand Junction Field Office Resource Management Plans, 
Colorado'' (88 Fed. Reg. 51855 (August 4, 2023)).
    Sec. 501.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for the establishment of a national monument in Montrose County, 
Colorado; Mesa County, Colorado; Monezuma County, Colorado; San Juan 
County, Colorado; or Dolores County, Colorado, under chapter 3203 of 
title 54, United States Code (commonly referred to as the ``Antiquities 
Act of 1906'').
    Sec. 502.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 
any major rule under subparagraph (A) of section 804(2) of title 5, 
United States Code.
    Sec. 503.  None of the funds made available by this Act for 
payments to States and federally recognized Indian Tribes for 
reclamation of abandoned mine lands and other related activities under 
the heading ``Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement--
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund'' may be used to implement, administer, 
or enforce section 200.311 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 504.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the draft programmatic 
environmental impact statement referred to in the notice of 
availability titled ``Notice of Availability of the Draft Programmatic 
Environmental Impact Statement for Utility-Scale Solar Energy 
Development and Notice of Public Meetings'' (89 Fed. Reg. 3687 (January 
19, 2024)).
    Sec. 505.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the draft resource 
management plan referred to in the notice of availability titled 
``Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, 
Wyoming'' (88 Fed. Reg. 56654 (August 18, 2023)).
    Sec. 506.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the following:
            (1) The proposed resource management plan amendment and 
        final supplemental environmental impact statement referred to 
        in the notice of availability titled ``Notice of Availability 
        of the Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final 
        Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Buffalo 
        Field Office, Wyoming'' (89 Fed. Reg. 43431 (May 17, 2024)).
            (2) The proposed resource management plan amendment and 
        final supplemental environmental impact statement referred to 
        in the notice of availability titled ``Notice of Availability 
        of the Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final 
        Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Miles City 
        Field Office, Montana'' (89 Fed. Reg. 43432 (May 17, 2024)).
    Sec. 507.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to designate the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, or any portion 
thereof, as a national monument under chapter 3203 of title 54, United 
States Code (commonly referred to as the ``Antiquities Act of 1906'').

                       spending reduction account

    Sec. 508.  $0

guadalupe fatmucket, texas fatmucket, guadalupe orb, texas pimpleback, 
            balcones spike, false spike, and texas fawnsfoot

    Sec. 509. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``Endangered 
and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status With 
Critical Habitat for Guadalupe Fatmucket, Texas Fatmucket, Guadalupe 
Orb, Texas Pimpleback, Balcones Spike, and False Spike, and Threatened 
Species Status With Section 4(d) Rule and Critical Habitat for Texas 
Fawnsfoot'' (89 Fed. Reg. 48034; published June 4, 2024).

         muleshoe national wildlife refuge land protection plan

    Sec. 510. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Land Protection Plan 
described in the document published by the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service titled ``Final Land Protection Plan & Environmental 
Assessment Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge'' (February 2023).
    Sec. 511.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Smithsonian Institution for any drag show performance.

                          fluid mineral leases

    Sec. 512. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ``Fluid 
Mineral Leases and Leasing Process'' (89 Fed. Reg. 30916; published 
April 23, 2024).
    Sec. 513.  The salary of Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, 
shall be reduced to $1.
    Sec. 514.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Indian Health Service to provide gender-transition services or 
gender-affirming care.
    Sec. 515.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for establishing or operating an Office of Agriculture and Rural 
Affairs in the Environmental Protection Agency.
    Sec. 516.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled 
``Determinations of Attainment by the Attainment Date, Extensions of 
the Attainment Date, and Reclassification of Areas Classified as 
Marginal for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards'' 
published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 
Register on October 7, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 60897) with respect to--
            (1) Allegan County, Michigan;
            (2) Berrien County, Michigan; or
            (3) Muskegon County, Michigan.

                           texas kangaroo rat

    Sec. 517. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled 
``Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species 
Status for Texas Kangaroo Rat and Designation of Critical Habitat'' (88 
Fed. Reg. 55962; published August 17, 2023).
    Sec. 518.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be made 
available to the Environmental Protection Agency's Justice, Equity, 
Diversity and Inclusion Workgroup.
    Sec. 519.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement or enforce the final rule titled ``Control of Air 
Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle 
Standards'' published in the Federal Register by the Environmental 
Protection Agency on January 24, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 4296).
    Sec. 520.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to approve a waiver, pursuant to section 209(e) of the Clean Air Act 
(42 U.S.C. 7543(e)), for the In-Use Locomotive Regulation adopted by 
the California Air Resources Board on April 27, 2023.

                   mineral leasing act modernization

    Sec. 521. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce section 50262 of Public Law 117-
169 (commonly known as the ``Inflation Reduction Act'').
    Sec. 522.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the Environmental 
Protection Agency.
    Sec. 523.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. Global Change 
Research Program (USGCRP).
    Sec. 524.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
by the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out the powers granted 
under section 3063 of title 18, United States Code.
    Sec. 525.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for any diversity, equity, and inclusion program or office.
    Sec. 526.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled ``National 
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime Manufacturing 
Plants Technology Review'' published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in the Federal Register on July 16, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 57738).

       no designation of permian basin as nonattainment for ozone

    Sec. 527. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to designate or redesignate the Permian Basin (or any portion thereof) 
as nonattainment for ozone under section 107(d) of the Clean Air Act 
(42 U.S.C. 7407(d)).
    Sec. 528.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to expand the area designated as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area 
Wilderness by section 3 of Public Law 95-495.
    Sec. 529.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to carry out Executive Order 14019 (863 Fed. Reg. 13623; relating to 
promoting access to voting), except for sections 7, 8, and 10 of such 
Order.

                    environmental justice activities

    Sec. 530. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
for environmental justice activities.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of the Interior, 
Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 2024.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.
                                                       Calendar No. 509

118th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 8998

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and 
                          for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 12, 2024

                 Read twice and placed on the calendar
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