Stat. 272); and (2) $11,469,000 shall be available until 
September 30, 2026, for salaries and expenses of the Of-
fice of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial trans-
actions of the territorial and local governments herein pro-
vided 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 Assist-
ance 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 
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404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $813,000, to re-
main available until expended, to support Federal services 
and programs provided to the Republic of Palau, the Re-
public 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 Sec-
retary 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 per-
cent 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 guaran-
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tees 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 Electrifica-
tion 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, emer-
gency rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and 
rural fire assistance by the Department of the Interior, 
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$1,195,086,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed $14,000,000 shall be for the renova-
tion or construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such 
funds are also available for repayment of advances to 
other appropriation accounts from which funds were pre-
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided $255,000,000 is for fuels man-
agement 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 avail-
able 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 Fed-
eral land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities 
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that benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further, 
That the costs of implementing any cooperative agreement 
between the Federal Government and any non-Federal en-
tity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
parties: Provided further, That notwithstanding require-
ments of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Sec-
retary, for purposes of fuels management activities, may 
obtain maximum practicable competition among: (1) local 
private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Con-
servation 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 de-
velop written guidance to field units to ensure account-
ability and consistent application of the authorities pro-
vided 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 re-
sponsibilities 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 
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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 con-
struct 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 Inte-
rior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the 
transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire manage-
ment, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 
between the Departments when such transfers would fa-
cilitate and expedite wildland fire management programs 
and projects: Provided further, That funds provided for 
wildfire suppression shall be available for support of Fed-
eral 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 avail-
able to support forestry, wildland fire management, and 
related natural resource activities outside the United 
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States and its territories and possessions, including tech-
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 
with United States and international organizations: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-
ing, $383,657,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec-
tion 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 head-
ing ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, $360,000,000, to remain available until 
transferred, is additional new budget authority as speci-
fied for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Pro-
vided, 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—De-
partment-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 
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Management’’ accounts in the Department of Agriculture 
or the Department of the Interior only upon the notifica-
tion of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions that all wildfire suppression operations funds appro-
priated under that heading in this and prior appropria-
tions Acts to the agency to which the funds will be trans-
ferred 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 Ag-
riculture or the Department of the Interior will be obli-
gated within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, 
any funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pur-
suant to any other transfer authority provided by law shall 
be excluded. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 
the response action, including associated activities, per-
formed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), $9,200,000, to remain available until expended. 
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ENERGY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior 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 other-
wise 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, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obli-
gations agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court, 
whether for payment of funds or for work to be performed. 
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NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-
toration 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 manage-
ment, information technology improvements of general 
benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and the consoli-
dation of facilities and operations throughout the Depart-
ment, $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 an-
nual leave and depreciation of equipment without prior ap-
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 
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the Secretary of the Interior may assess reasonable 
charges to State, local, and Tribal government employees 
for training services provided by the National Indian Pro-
gram Training Center, other than training related to Pub-
lic 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 gov-
ernment employees or persons or organizations engaged 
in cultural, educational, or recreational activities (as de-
fined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States Code) 
at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equip-
ment, 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 co-
operative agreements to support the Office of Natural Re-
source Revenue’s collection and disbursement of royalties, 
fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized 
by law. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able 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 collec-
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, 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. 
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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 Inte-
rior, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or re-
pair 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 specifi-
cally 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 re-
plenished 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 author-
ize the expenditure or transfer of any no year appropria-
tion in this title, in addition to the amounts included in 
the budget programs of the several agencies, for the sup-
pression or emergency prevention of wildland fires on or 
threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of 
burned-over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency ac-
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tions related to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, 
volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; for contin-
gency 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 con-
trol 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 regu-
latory authority in the event a primacy State is not car-
rying 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 de-
struction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in con-
nection with their use for wildland fire operations, with 
such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations cur-
rently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided 
further, That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall 
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be made available under this authority until the Secretary 
determines that funds appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire sup-
pression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided fur-
ther, That all funds used pursuant to this section must 
be replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which 
must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided fur-
ther, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reim-
burse, 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 re-
placement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped 
law enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-
ation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; pur-
chase 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 so-
cieties or associations which issue publications to members 
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 
who are not members. 
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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 ac-
tivities 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 redis-
tribute 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 reduc-
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 
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percent in fiscal year 2025. Under circumstances of dual 
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-
tribution 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 Envi-
ronmental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated op-
erator 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 in-
spections completed in fiscal year 2025. Fees for fiscal 
year 2025 shall be— 
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(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 com-
pleted in fiscal year 2025. Fees for fiscal year 2025 shall 
be— 
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 
and 
(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating 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 des-
ignated 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 Sec-
retary shall bill designated operators under subsection (d) 
with payment required by the end of the following quarter. 
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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 organiza-
tions 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 Serv-
ice 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. 
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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, during fiscal year 2025, in carrying out work involv-
ing 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 agree-
ments, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make 
grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, pri-
vate 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 au-
thorized 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 agree-
ment would not— 
(1) result in the displacement of individuals 
currently employed by the Department, including 
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partial displacement through reduction of non-over-
time 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 Depart-
ment; 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 reorganiza-
tion only in conformance with the reprogramming guide-
lines described in this Act. 
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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 con-
tracting under the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation 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 
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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 Inte-
rior, 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, ad-
minister, 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 Environ-
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mental 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 Conserva-
tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of 
Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to sup-
port 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 Sec-
retary of the Interior may authorize and execute agree-
ments 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 re-
lated utilities and equipment; 
(2) detailing or assigning staff on a non-reim-
bursable basis for up to 5 business days; and 
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(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 prox-
imity allows for efficiencies. 
(c) Bureaus and offices entering into agreements au-
thorized 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 Dis-
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aster 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 in-
curred 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 Emer-
gency 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 Environ-
mental 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 
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ened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for 
Northern Long-Eared Bat’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 73488 (Novem-
ber 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 Threat-
ened 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 Threat-
ened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status With 
Section 4(d) Rule for North American Wolverine’’ (88 
Fed. Reg. 83726 (November 30, 2023)). 
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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 Threat-
ened 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 Inte-
rior pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to establish an experimental popu-
lation 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 Inte-
rior 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. 
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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 Inte-
rior 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 Per-
taining 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)). 
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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 Land-
scape Health’’ published by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment 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 
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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 Coopera-
tion’’ (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, ad-
minister, or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘National 
Wildlife Refuge System; Biological Integrity, Diversity, 
and Environmental Health’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 7345 (Feb-
ruary 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 immi-
gration 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 
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prepare an environmental impact statement under the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 
et seq.), prior to approving an operations permit, as de-
scribed in 36 Code of Federal Regulations, subpart B 
§§9.80 through 9.90, for the purpose of conducting or pro-
posing 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 defi-
ciencies 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 re-
vise,’’ and inserting ‘‘this section, shall issue 
every five years’’; 
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(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 ‘‘domes-
tic 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 fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(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 sec-
tion, the Secretary shall begin preparing the subse-
quent oil and gas leasing program under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(2) Requirement.—Each subsequent oil and 
gas leasing program under this section shall be ap-
proved by not later than 180 days before the expira-
tion 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 
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Secretary of the Interior shall annually conduct a min-
imum of 2 region-wide oil and gas lease sales in the fol-
lowing planning areas of the Gulf of Mexico region, as de-
scribed 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, be-
ginning 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 Conti-
nental Shelf, as described in the 2017–2022 Outer Conti-
nental 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 enact-
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ment 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 con-
tained 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 ‘‘Memo-
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 
States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi-
tion’’ and dated September 8, 2020; 
(b) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 
States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi-
tion’’ and dated September 25, 2020; 
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(c) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the Atlantic 
Coast on the Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Dis-
position’’ 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 off-
shore energy leasing, exploration, development, or produc-
tion 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 re-
quired 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 
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seq.) needed for Gulf Of Mexico lease sales, provided that 
such actions are necessary to prevent a decrease, reduc-
tion, 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 comple-
tion of all applicable scoping, public comment, and 
environmental analysis requirements under the Min-
eral 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 subpara-
graph (A) are conducted in a timely manner to en-
sure 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 ‘‘Eligi-
ble lands comprise all lands subject to leasing under this 
Act and not excluded from leasing by a statutory or regu-
latory prohibition. Available lands are those lands that 
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have been designated as open for leasing under a land use 
plan developed under section 202 of the Federal Land Pol-
icy and Management Act of 1976 and that have been nom-
inated for leasing through the submission of an expression 
of interest, are subject to drainage in the absence of leas-
ing, 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. 
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(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, devel-
opment, and production under the resource management 
plan in effect for the State. 
(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a re-
placement sale during the same fiscal year if— 
(A) a lease sale under paragraph (1) is can-
celed, delayed, or deferred, including for a lack of el-
igible 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 Represent-
atives and the Senate, the Committee on Natural Re-
sources of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
a report that states what sale was missed and why it was 
missed. 
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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. 
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(b) The reissuance of the final rule described in sub-
section (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 Preserva-
tion 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 here-
after 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 re-
quirements of its permit, lease, or right-of-way or does not 
comply with the regulations of the Secretary, or as a bank-
ruptcy distribution or settlement associated with such fail-
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ure or noncompliance, shall be credited to a separate ac-
count established in the Treasury for decommissioning ac-
tivities and shall be available to the Bureau of Ocean En-
ergy Management without further appropriation or fiscal 
year limitation to cover the cost to the United States or 
any entity conducting any improvement, protection, reha-
bilitation, or decommissioning work rendered necessary by 
the action or inaction that led to the forfeiture or bank-
ruptcy distribution or settlement, to remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That amounts deposited into 
the decommissioning account may be allocated to the Bu-
reau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement for such 
costs: Provided further, That any moneys received for such 
costs currently held in the Ocean Energy Management ac-
count 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 bank-
ruptcy estate, permittee, lessee, or right-of-way holder.’’. 
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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 Environ-
mental 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, to remain available until Sep-
tember 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 accom-
panying this Act. 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT 
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for 
personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-
ation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library member-
ships 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 
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the brownfields program under the Small Business Liabil-
ity Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; im-
plementation of a coal combustion residual permit pro-
gram 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, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2026: Provided further, That of 
the funds included under this heading— 
(1) $35,000,000 shall be for Environmental 
Protection: National Priorities as specified in the re-
port accompanying this Act; and 
(2) $651,226,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-
grams as specified in the report accompanying this 
Act. 
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, 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 pursu-
ant 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 re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That the 
sum herein appropriated in this paragraph from the gen-
eral fund for fiscal year 2025 shall be reduced by the 
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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 re-
ceipts 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 head-
ing, 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, to remain available 
until September 30, 2026. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
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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 Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity 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, 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 as a payment from general reve-
nues 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 Tech-
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nology’’ appropriation to remain available until September 
30, 2026. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-
title 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 Dis-
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Rev-
enue 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 Environ-
mental 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 
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Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants, 
$3,680,203,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which— 
(1) $1,203,013,000 shall be for making capital-
ization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act; and of which $883,515,000 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 cap-
italization grants for the Clean Water State Revolv-
ing Funds and $479,541,446 of the funds made 
available for capitalization grants for the Drinking 
Water State Revolving Funds shall be for the con-
struction of drinking water, wastewater, and storm 
water infrastructure and for water quality protection 
in accordance with the terms and conditions speci-
fied for such grants in the report accompanying this 
Act for projects specified for ‘‘STAG—Drinking 
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Water State Revolving Fund’’ and ‘‘STAG—Clean 
Water State Revolving Fund’’ in the table titled ‘‘In-
terior and Environment Incorporation of Community 
Project Funding Items’’ included in the report ac-
companying 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: Pro-
vided 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 Pollu-
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the 
Clean Watersheds Needs Survey: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Fed-
eral Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on 
the amounts in a State water pollution control re-
volving fund that may be used by a State to admin-
ister 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 rep-
resent 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 pur-
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poses 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 Is-
lands, 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 estab-
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2025, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-
sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and sec-
tion 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 
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(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 
privately owned treatment works serving one or 
more principal residences or small commercial estab-
lishments: 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 sec-
tion 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 Okla-
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior) 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 notwith-
standing the limitation on amounts in section 
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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 Revolv-
ing 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 Pol-
lution Control Act, up to 1.5 percent of the aggre-
gate 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 
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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 cap-
italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-
vide 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 re-
cipient 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 munic-
ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-
ment 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 
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the funds made available under this title to the 
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-
italization grants to provide additional subsidy to eli-
gible recipients: Provided further, That notwith-
standing 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 capitaliza-
tion grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
Funds to pay the costs of monitoring for unregu-
lated 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 procure-
ment requirements for competition and methods of 
procurement applicable to Federal financial assist-
ance, if a Community Project Funding recipient has 
procured services or products through contracts en-
tered 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, engi-
neering, planning, design, construction and related 
activities in connection with the construction of high 
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priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 
of the United States-Mexico Border, after consulta-
tion with the appropriate border commission: Pro-
vided, That no funds provided by this appropriations 
Act to address the water, wastewater and other crit-
ical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the 
United States along the United States-Mexico bor-
der 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 con-
struction of any new home, business, or other struc-
ture which lacks water, wastewater, or other nec-
essary 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 Vil-
lages: 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 con-
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junction 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 Alas-
ka 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 shall be to carry out section 
104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), including grants, interagency agree-
ments, and associated program support costs: Pro-
vided, 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; 
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(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 sub-
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a): Pro-
vided, 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 con-
nected to a public water system for necessary 
and appropriate activities related to a contami-
nant 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 sec-
tion 1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–24(d)); 
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(9) $22,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19b); 
(10) $6,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19a(l)); 
(11) $25,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 
(12) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 224 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1302b); 
(13) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1300); 
(14) $41,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1301); 
(15) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure 
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–270); 
(16) $3,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-
tion 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: 
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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 Okla-
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Pub-
lic Law 92–203; 
(17) $2,250,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19g); 
(18) $4,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-
tion 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, inter-
tribal consortia, public or private agencies, institu-
tions, 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 sec-
tion 50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58); 
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(20) $3,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1276); and 
(21) $1,095,333,000 shall be for grants, includ-
ing associated program support costs, to States, fed-
erally 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, includ-
ing 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 col-
lection 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 as-
sociated 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 
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Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program’’ 
to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-
posal 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 par-
ticipation in national- and State-level statistical sur-
veys 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 guar-
anteed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure 
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $64,634,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined 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 di-
rect 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: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of 
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direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans for 
projects described in section 5026(9) of the Water Infra-
structure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to State 
infrastructure financing authorities, as authorized by sec-
tion 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 cri-
teria 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 Consoli-
dated 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: Pro-
vided 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 Admin-
istrator shall promptly provide, documentation and infor-
mation relating to a project identified in a Letter of Inter-
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est submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice 
of Funding Availability for applications for credit assist-
ance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innova-
tion 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 In-
novation 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 Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 
acceptable Tribal program, may award cooperative agree-
ments to federally recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal 
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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 award-
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 
agreements. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-
istration 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 In-
secticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 
U.S.C. 136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental 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 accord-
ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2025, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$368,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great 
Lakes Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environ-
mental Programs and Management’’ to the head of any 
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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 ac-
tivities; and to make grants to governmental entities, non-
profit organizations, institutions, and individuals for plan-
ning, 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 Pro-
grams and Management, Office of Inspector General, Haz-
ardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground 
Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are avail-
able 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. 
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The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro-
grams and Management’’ for fiscal year 2025 to provide 
grants to implement the Southeast New England Water-
shed Restoration Program. 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-
tion 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 ‘‘Environ-
mental Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and 
Technology’’, contract directly with individuals or indi-
rectly 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 com-
pensation 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 
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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 Rep-
resentatives and Senate with copies of any available De-
partment 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 allo-
cated by program area and program project, and quarterly 
reports for such receipts of obligated balances by program 
area and program project. 
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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 Environ-
ment mission area for salaries and expenses are available 
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the of-
fice. 
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 avail-
able through September 30, 2028: Provided, That a por-
tion 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 administra-
tive and general management support functions: Provided 
further, That funds provided under this heading shall be 
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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 tele-
communication expenses of the Forest Service, as well as 
business services; and, for information technology, includ-
ing cybersecurity requirements: Provided further, That 
funds provided under this heading may be used for nec-
essary 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 re-
search 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 authori-
ties 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 pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
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tories, 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, im-
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
and for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to 
such lands, $1,866,465,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2028: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $30,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative 
Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restora-
tion treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Pro-
vided 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 au-
thorities available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State, 
Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation, for the pur-
pose 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 Agri-
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culture to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative 
agreements or to issue grants for hazardous fuels manage-
ment activities, and for training or monitoring associated 
with such hazardous fuels management activities on Fed-
eral land, or on non-Federal land if the Secretary deter-
mines 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 For-
estry’’ appropriation: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant 
Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in cal-
culating 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 con-
servation 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 Sec-
retary: Provided further, That funds appropriated to this 
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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 ‘‘Manage-
ment of National Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses’’ ac-
count. 
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 im-
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 
other facilities and infrastructure; for construction, recon-
struction, and decommissioning of roads that are no 
longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not 
part of the transportation system; and for maintenance 
of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as author-
ized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: 
Provided, That $6,000,000 shall be for activities author-
ized 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 avail-
able for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless 
the funds are appropriated. 
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ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, 
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-
geles, 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 gov-
ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-
thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de-
posited 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, pro-
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 
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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 man-
age Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under 
title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva-
tion 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 emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest Sys-
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tem lands and water, $2,407,735,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such funds, including un-
obligated balances under this heading, are available for re-
payment of advances from other appropriations accounts 
previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
That any unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fis-
cal year for hazardous fuels management may be trans-
ferred 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 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 Fed-
eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be 
shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-
ing, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-
ing ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service— 
Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression oper-
ations, $2,390,000,000, to remain available until trans-
ferred, 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 ‘‘Depart-
ment of the Interior—Department-Wide Programs— 
Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of Agri-
culture—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 Man-
agement’’ 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 addi-
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tion to any other transfer authority provided by law: Pro-
vided 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 Agri-
culture 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 sec-
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the spe-
cial 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 avail-
able 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 
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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 pur-
suant 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 col-
lection 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 in-
crease or decrease the funds appropriated to any account 
in this fiscal year by more than ten percent: Provided fur-
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ther, 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 Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-
habilitation 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 no-
tification of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations 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 sup-
plemental 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 dis-
cretionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by 
this Act to or within the National Forest System Account, 
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or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of haz-
ardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of 
burned-over National Forest System lands and water: Pro-
vided, 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 Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development in connection with forest and range-
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 
and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 
with United States government, private sector, and inter-
national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service, 
acting for the International Program, may sign direct 
funding agreements with foreign governments and institu-
tions as well as other domestic agencies (including the 
U.S. Agency for International Development, the Depart-
ment of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corpora-
tion), United States private sector firms, institutions and 
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organizations to provide technical assistance and training 
programs on forestry and rangeland management: Pro-
vided further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic 
and international research and cooperation, the Inter-
national Program may utilize all authorities related to for-
estry, 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 perform-
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of 
such lands. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-
ice 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 
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be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for De-
partment 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 tele-
communications and system modifications or enhance-
ments, 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 partner-
ship projects in support of the Forest Service mission, 
without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, 
for projects on or benefitting National Forest System 
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lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 
That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda-
tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for admin-
istrative 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. 
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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 en-
hance Federal investments, resources, or lands, including 
for collaborative and collaboration-based activities, includ-
ing but not limited to facilitation, planning, and imple-
menting 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 (de-
fined at 25 U.S.C. 5304(e)), state government, local gov-
ernments, private and nonprofit entities, for-profit organi-
zations, and educational institutions. The Secretary of Ag-
riculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, 
may enter into such cooperative agreements notwith-
standing chapter 63 of title 31 when the Secretary deter-
mines that the public interest will be benefited and that 
there exists a mutual interest other than monetary consid-
erations. Transactions subject to Title 2 of the Code of 
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Federal Regulations shall be publicly advertised and re-
quire 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 ‘‘for-
est and grassland collaboratives’’ means groups of individ-
uals or entities with diverse interests participating in a 
cooperative process to share knowledge, ideas, and re-
sources 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 Depart-
ment 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 
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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 ac-
cordance 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 as-
sistance 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 sec-
tion 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 pur-
pose 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 Of-
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fice of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri-
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-
sult 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 Depart-
ment of Agriculture should clearly display the sums pre-
viously 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 long-
standing Civilian Conservation Center (as defined in sec-
tion 147(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3197(d))) at regular rates of pay for nec-
essary 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 Re-
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source 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 Au-
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-
tion 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 Serv-
ice, $440,282,000, 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 ad-
dition, $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 ac-
count; and, in addition, $5,124,311,000, which shall be-
come available on October 1, 2025, and remain available 
through September 30, 2027, except as otherwise provided 
herein; together with payments received during the fiscal 
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year pursuant to sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for serv-
ices furnished by the Indian Health Service: Provided, 
That funds made available to Tribes and Tribal organiza-
tions through contracts, grant agreements, or any other 
agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian Self-De-
termination 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 serv-
ices: 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 im-
plementation of the loan repayment program under section 
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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 activi-
ties 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 Fed-
eral 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 author-
ized 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 re-
payment and scholarship programs under sections 104 
and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a): Pro-
vided 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 au-
thority for civilian employees, for Aftercare Pilot Pro-
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grams at Youth Regional Treatment Centers, for trans-
formation 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 re-
duce 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 accredita-
tion 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 pro-
vided 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 appro-
priated: 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 Improve-
ment 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 schol-
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arship programs under the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment 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 In-
dian 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 organi-
zations 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 be-
come available on October 1, 2025, may be used for imple-
mentation 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 Represent-
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atives 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-Deter-
mination 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-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be nec-
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-
tember 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. 
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INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, 
improvement, and equipment of health and related auxil-
iary facilities, including quarters for personnel; prepara-
tion 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 In-
dian Health Care Improvement Act, and for expenses nec-
essary 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 pro-
vision 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 
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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; pur-
chase 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 al-
lowances 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 
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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 In-
dian Health Service in this Act, except those used for ad-
ministrative 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 jus-
tification and provided in this Act, or approved by the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations through 
the reprogramming process: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, funds previously 
or herein made available to a Tribe or Tribal organization 
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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 avail-
able 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 Fed-
eral 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, in-
cluding payments in advance with subsequent adjustment, 
and the reimbursements received therefrom, along with 
the funds received from those entities pursuant to the In-
dian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to the same 
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or subsequent appropriation account from which the funds 
were originally derived, with such amounts to remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That reim-
bursements 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 tech-
nical 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 struc-
ture 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 Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the 
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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 Sub-
stances 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 appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for ATSDR 
to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to 
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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 as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office 
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
ronmental 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 Environ-
mental 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 pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances there-
for, 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 
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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: Provided, That the Chemical 
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (Board) shall have 
not more than three career Senior Executive Service posi-
tions: 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: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Inspector General of the Board shall utilize per-
sonnel of the Office of Inspector General of EPA in per-
forming 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 appro-
priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals 
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and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti-
tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in-
cluded 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 Reloca-
tion 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 re-
placement 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 author-
ized by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 
U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,125,000, which shall become 
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available on July 1, 2025, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2026. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, 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 publica-
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-
ance 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 em-
ployees, $837,802,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 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, Na-
tional Museum of the American Latino, and the repatri-
ation of skeletal remains program shall remain available 
until expended; and including such funds as may be nec-
essary to support American overseas research centers: 
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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 In-
stitution 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 Govern-
ment: Provided further, That no appropriated funds may 
be used directly to service debt which is incurred to fi-
nance the costs of acquiring a portion of the building at 
600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, or of plan-
ning, designing, and constructing improvements to such 
building: Provided further, That any agreement entered 
into by the Smithsonian Institution for the sale of its own-
ership interest, or any portion thereof, in such building 
so acquired may not take effect until the expiration of a 
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30 day period which begins on the date on which the Sec-
retary of the Smithsonian submits to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-
ate, the Committees on House Administration and Trans-
portation and Infrastructure of the House of Representa-
tives, and the Committee on Rules and Administration of 
the Senate a report, as outlined in the explanatory state-
ment 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 Smithso-
nian 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 au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-
lery 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), 
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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, improve-
ment, 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 or-
ganizations 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 
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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: Pro-
vided, 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 pur-
poses: Provided further, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental 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, mainte-
nance, 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 restora-
tion 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. 
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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 Endow-
ment for the Arts for the support of projects and produc-
tions in the arts, including arts education and public out-
reach 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, 
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$203,895,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $195,645,000 shall be available for support of ac-
tivities 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 Endow-
ment for the Humanities under the provisions of sections 
11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during the current and pre-
ceding fiscal years for which equal amounts have not pre-
viously 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 re-
ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 
That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as 
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necessary for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na-
tional 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 col-
lection, to remain available until expended without further 
appropriation: Provided further, That the Commission is 
authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, art-
work, drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history 
and design of the Nation’s Capital or the history and ac-
tivities 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 
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this heading may be used for official reception and rep-
resentation 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. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-
ning 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 per-
cent of the funds provided under this heading may be used 
for official reception and representational expenses associ-
ated 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, to remain available until September 
30, 2026, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available until 
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September 30, 2027, for the Museum’s equipment replace-
ment 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 avail-
able 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 anni-
versary 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. 
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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 publica-
tion 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 over-
head charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including 
working capital fund charges, from programs, projects, ac-
tivities and subactivities to support government-wide, de-
partmental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or 
headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be pre-
sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap-
proval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such esti-
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mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions 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 Sec-
retary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all re-
quirements 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 Com-
mittees 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 
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section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Re-
lated 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 exam-
ination of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a 
patent application as set forth in subsection (b). The Bu-
reau of Land Management shall have the sole responsi-
bility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in ac-
cordance 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 fis-
cal 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 
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Human Services, Indian Health Service, Contract Support 
Costs’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, Contract Sup-
port Costs’’ are the only amounts available for contract 
support costs arising out of self-determination or self-gov-
ernance 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 con-
tract 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 Plan-
ning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Pro-
vided, That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and 
in good faith, within the funding available, to revise a plan 
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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 accel-
erated basis. 
PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 
SEC. 408. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended 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 Monu-
ment 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 monu-
ment. 
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 dec-
larations of taking or complaints in condemnation without 
the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations: Provided, That this provision shall not apply 
to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades Na-
tional Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to 
funds appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of 
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Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration pur-
poses. 
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 410. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act to executive branch agen-
cies may be used to enter into any Federal contract unless 
such contract is entered into in accordance with the re-
quirements 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 con-
tract to be entered into without regard for these re-
quirements, 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 avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
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post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any 
other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen-
cy that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report com-
promises 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 En-
dowment for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant 
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-
dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-
ship. 
(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 
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any other organization or individual to conduct ac-
tivity 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 fi-
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-
priated 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 minori-
ties, 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. 
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(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 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 as-
sistance 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 serv-
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-
tions, 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 Hu-
manities Act of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds 
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to any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by 
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 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 Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the 
Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-
ate quarterly reports on the status of balances of appro-
priations including all uncommitted, committed, and unob-
ligated 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 graz-
ing 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. 
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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 activi-
ties. 
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 adminis-
tered 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 ad-
ministered by the Secretary concerned to other Federal, 
State, and local government agencies for use as work ani-
mals. 
(b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer 
under subsection (a) immediately on the request of a Fed-
eral, State, or local government agency. 
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(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 re-
ceiving an excess wild horse or burro pursuant to sub-
section (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 
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(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 ‘‘Sep-
tember 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 au-
thorized 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, rein-
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-
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mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘Administrator’’) finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-
sistent with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-
duced 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 waiv-
er under this section, the Administrator shall make avail-
able to the public on an informal basis a copy of the re-
quest and information available to the Administrator con-
cerning 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 Inter-
net Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent 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 
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Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out 
the provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for manage-
ment and oversight of the requirements of this section. 
LOCAL COOPERATOR TRAINING AGREEMENTS AND TRANS-
FERS OF EXCESS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR 
WILDFIRES 
SEC. 420. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized 
to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with vol-
unteer 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 sec-
tion 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 man-
agement program to such organizations. 
RECREATION FEES 
SEC. 421. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recre-
ation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied 
by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2026’’ for ‘‘September 30, 
2019’’. 
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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 re-
programming procedures contained in the report accom-
panying 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 sub-
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30, 
2019’’. 
FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION 
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 426. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as 
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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 ap-
plied 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 com-
mence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease pro-
posal. 
(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 sub-
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stituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each 
place it appears. 
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS, NATIONAL PARKS AND PUB-
LIC 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 sec-
tion 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 Sec-
retary 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 
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the projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Al-
location 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 sub-
sections (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 ad-
ministration of programs allocated funds from the Na-
tional 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 Res-
toration Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ to any project funded 
by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-
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tion Fund within the same agency, from any fiscal year, 
that experienced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen 
cost overruns, in accordance with the following require-
ments: 
(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 
reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-
sulting 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 fund-
ed by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy 
Restoration Fund; and 
(3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-
retary of Agriculture must provide written notifica-
tion to the Committees on Appropriations 30 days 
before taking any actions authorized by this sub-
section if the amount reallocated from the ‘‘Contin-
gency 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: Na-
tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-
tion Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ in the report ac-
companying this Act; or 
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(B) The initial estimate in the most recent 
report submitted, prior to enactment of this 
Act, to the Committees on Appropriations pur-
suant 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 sub-
mit 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 allo-
cations 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 
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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 sub-
mit 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 ‘‘Sub-
mission 
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 realloca-
tion in the annual budget submission. 
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(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 sub-
mit 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 in-
formation 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 re-
quired by subparagraph (A). 
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(e) The Department of the Interior and the Depart-
ment of Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Ap-
propriations 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 bal-
ances 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 uncom-
mitted, committed, and unobligated funds, and, for 
amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this 
section, National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-
tion 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 Environ-
mental Protection Agency shall, consistent with their mis-
sions, jointly— 
(1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 
bioenergy— 
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(A) is consistent across all Federal depart-
ments 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, includ-
ing policies that— 
(A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest 
bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable 
energy source, provided the use of forest bio-
mass for energy production does not cause con-
version of forests to non-forest use; 
(B) encourage private investment through-
out 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 im-
prove forest health; and 
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(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 regula-
tion 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 west-
ern 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 addi-
tional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or con-
tiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be ex-
ported to foreign markets at the election of the timber sale 
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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 ADMINIS-
TRATION 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 limi-
tations 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 live-
stock production. 
GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 435. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 
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Act may be used to implement any provision in a rule, 
if that provision requires mandatory reporting of green-
house 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 Extend-
ing Government Funding and Delivering Emergency As-
sistance 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’’. 
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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 in-
serting ‘‘180’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (4) of subsection (b), by in-
serting 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 
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