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allowed under the Presidential proclamation establishing such 
monument. 
SEC. 418. In entering into agreements with foreign countries 
pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
Interior are authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements in which 
the individuals furnished under said agreements to provide wildfire 
services are considered, for purposes of tort liability, employees 
of the country receiving said services when the individuals are 
engaged in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary of Agri-
culture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not enter into any 
agreement under this provision unless the foreign country (either 
directly or through its fire organization) agrees to assume any 
and all liability for the acts or omissions of American firefighters 
engaged in firefighting in a foreign country: Provided further, That 
when an agreement is reached for furnishing fire fighting services, 
the only remedies for acts or omissions committed while fighting 
fires shall be those provided under the laws of the host country, 
and those remedies shall be the exclusive remedies for any claim 
arising out of fighting fires in a foreign country: Provided further, 
That neither the sending country nor any legal organization associ-
ated with the firefighter shall be subject to any legal action whatso-
ever pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role in fire 
suppression. 
SEC. 419. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regula-
tion, to promote the more efficient use of the health care funding 
allocation for fiscal year 2006, the Eagle Butte Service Unit of 
the Indian Health Service, at the request of the Cheyenne River 
Sioux Tribe, may pay base salary rates to health professionals 
up to the highest grade and step available to a physician, phar-
macist, or other health professional and may pay a recruitment 
or retention bonus of up to 25 percent above the base pay rate. 
SEC. 420. In awarding a Federal contract with funds made 
available by this Act, notwithstanding Federal Government procure-
ment and contracting laws, the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Secretaries’’) may, in evaluating 
bids and proposals, give consideration to local contractors who are 
from, and who provide employment and training for, dislocated 
and displaced workers in an economically disadvantaged rural 
community, including those historically timber-dependent areas 
that have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Federal 
lands and other forest-dependent rural communities isolated from 
significant alternative employment opportunities: Provided, That 
notwithstanding Federal Government procurement and contracting 
laws the Secretaries may award contracts, grants or cooperative 
agreements to local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps 
or related partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth groups, 
or small or micro-business or disadvantaged business: Provided 
further, That the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement is for 
forest hazardous fuels reduction, watershed or water quality moni-
toring or restoration, wildlife or fish population monitoring, or 
habitat restoration or management: Provided further, That the 
terms ‘‘rural community’’ and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall 
have the same meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101–
624: Provided further, That the Secretaries shall develop guidance 
to implement this section: Provided further, That nothing in this 
section shall be construed as relieving the Secretaries of any duty
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under applicable procurement laws, except as provided in this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 421. 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 Expan-
sion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for Federal assistance 
to the State of Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration 
purposes. 
SEC. 422. (a) LIMITATION ON COMPETITIVE SOURCING STUDIES.—
(1) Of the funds made available by this or any other Act 
to the Department of the Interior for fiscal year 2006, not 
more than $3,450,000 may be used by the Secretary of the 
Interior to initiate or continue competitive sourcing studies 
in fiscal year 2006 for programs, projects, and activities for 
which funds are appropriated by this Act until such time as 
the Secretary concerned submits a reprogramming proposal 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives, and such proposal has been processed 
consistent with the reprogramming guidelines included in the 
report accompanying this Act. 
(2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not more than 
$3,000,000 may be used in fiscal year 2006 for competitive 
sourcing studies and related activities by the Forest Service. 
(b) COMPETITIVE SOURCING STUDY DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘competitive sourcing study’’ means a study on subjecting 
work performed by Federal Government employees or private con-
tractors to public-private competition or on converting the Federal 
Government employees or the work performed by such employees 
to private contractor performance under the Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A–76 or any other administrative regulation, 
directive, or policy. 
(c) COMPETITIVE SOURCING EXEMPTION FOR FOREST SERVICE 
STUDIES CONDUCTED PRIOR
TO FISCAL YEAR 2006.—The Forest 
Service is hereby exempted from implementing the Letter of Obliga-
tion and post-competition accountability guidelines where a competi-
tive sourcing study involved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the 
performance decision was made in favor of the agency provider; 
no net savings was achieved by conducting the study, and the 
study was completed prior to the date of this Act. 
(d) In preparing any reports to the Committees on Appropria-
tions on competitive sourcing activities, agencies funded in this 
Act shall include the incremental cost directly attributable to con-
ducting the competitive sourcing competitions, including costs 
attributable to paying outside consultants and contractors and, 
in accordance with full cost accounting principles, all costs attrib-
utable to developing, implementing, supporting, managing, moni-
toring, and reporting on competitive sourcing, including personnel, 
consultant, travel, and training costs associated with program 
management. 
(e) In carrying out any competitive sourcing study involving 
Forest Service employees, the Secretary of Agriculture shall—
(1) determine whether any of the employees concerned 
are also qualified to participate in wildland fire management 
activities; and
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(2) take into consideration the effect that contracting with 
a private sector source would have on the ability of the Forest 
Service to effectively and efficiently fight and manage wildfires. 
SEC. 423. None of the funds in this Act or prior Acts making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior and Related Agen-
cies may be provided to the managing partners or their agents 
for the SAFECOM or Disaster Management projects. 
SEC. 424. (a) IN GENERAL.—An entity that enters into a contract 
with the United States to operate the National Recreation Reserva-
tion Service (as solicited by the solicitation numbered WO–04–
06vm) shall not carry out any duties under the contract using: 
(1) a contact center located outside the United States; 
or 
(2) a reservation agent who does not live in the United 
States. 
(b) NO WAIVER.—The Secretary of Agriculture may not waive 
the requirements of subsection (a). 
(c) TELECOMMUTING.—A reservation agent who is carrying out 
duties under the contract described in subsection (a) may not tele-
commute from a location outside the United States. 
(d) LIMITATIONS.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
apply to any employee of the entity who is not a reservation agent 
carrying out the duties under the contract described in subsection 
(a) or who provides managerial or support services. 
SEC. 425. Section 331 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law 
by section 1000(a)(3) of Public Law 106–113; 113 Stat. 1501A–
196; 16 U.S.C. 497 note), as amended, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’. 
SEC. 426. Section 321 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 (division F of Public 
Law 108–7; 117 Stat. 274; 16 U.S.C. 565a–1 note) is amended 
by striking ‘‘September 30, 2005’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 
2007’’. 
SEC. 427. Section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act 
(20 U.S.C. 974) is amended—
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘$8,000,000,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$10,000,000,000’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘$600,000,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$1,200,000,000’’. 
SEC. 428. Section 330 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106–291; 
114 Stat. 996; 43 U.S.C. 1701 note), is amended—
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘2008’’; 
(2) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘may pilot test agency-
wide joint permitting and leasing programs’’ and inserting after 
‘‘Congress,’’ the following: ‘‘may establish pilot programs 
involving the land management agencies referred to in this 
section to conduct projects, planning, permitting, leasing, con-
tracting and other activities, either jointly or on behalf of one 
another; may co-locate in Federal offices and facilities leased 
by an agency of either Department;’’;
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(3) in the third sentence, by inserting ‘‘, National Park 
Service, Fish and Wildlife Service,’’ after ‘‘Bureau of Land 
Management’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘To 
facilitate the sharing of resources under the Service First initia-
tive, the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture may make 
transfers of funds and reimbursement of funds on an annual 
basis, including transfers and reimbursements for multi-year 
projects, except that this authority may not be used to cir-
cumvent requirements and limitations imposed on the use of 
funds.’’. 
SEC. 429. The Secretary of Agriculture may acquire, by 
exchange or otherwise, a parcel of real property, including improve-
ments thereon, of the Inland Valley Development Agency of San 
Bernardino, California, or its successors and assigns, generally com-
prising Building No. 3 and Building No. 4 of the former Defense 
Finance and Accounting Services complex located at the southwest 
corner of Tippecanoe Avenue and Mill Street in San Bernardino, 
California, adjacent to the former Norton Air Force Base. As full 
consideration for the property to be acquired, the Secretary of 
Agriculture may terminate the leasehold rights of the United States 
received pursuant to section 8121(a)(2) of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–287; 118 Stat. 999). 
The acquisition of the property shall be on such terms and condi-
tions as the Secretary of Agriculture considers appropriate and 
may be carried out without appraisals, environmental or adminis-
trative surveys, consultations, analyses, or other considerations of 
the condition of the property. 
SEC. 430. None of the funds in this Act may be used to prepare 
or issue a permit or lease for oil or gas drilling in the Finger 
Lakes National Forest, New York, during fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 431. (a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
Interior are authorized to make grants to the Eastern Nevada 
Landscape Coalition for the study and restoration of rangeland 
and other lands in Nevada’s Great Basin in order to help 
assure the reduction of hazardous fuels and for related pur-
poses. 
(2) Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6301–6308, the Director of 
the Bureau of Land Management may enter into a cooperative 
agreement with the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition for 
the Great Basin Restoration Project, including hazardous fuels 
and mechanical treatments and related work. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this 
section. 
SEC. 432. (a) Section 108(g) of the Valles Caldera Preservation 
Act (16 U.S.C. 698v–6(g)) is amended— 
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) LAW ENFORCEMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; 
(2) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘The Trust’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(B) FEDERAL AGENCY.—The Trust’’; and