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opment activities under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as 
amended; necessary expenses for personnel and related costs 
and travel expenses, including uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum 
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; 
procurement of laboratory equipment and supplies; other 
operating expenses in support of research and development; 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project, 
$730,795,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2007. 
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, including 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but 
at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate 
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior level po-
sitions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase 
of reprints; library memberships in societies or associations
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which issue publications to members only or at a price to 
members lower than to subscribers who are not members; 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; and not 
to exceed $9,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses, $2,333,416,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2007, including administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction, alteration, 
repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to 
exceed $85,000 per project, $36,955,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2007. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
$40,218,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
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of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sections 
111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and 
for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and ren-
ovation of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; 
$1,256,165,000, to remain available until expended, con-
sisting of such sums as are available in the Trust Fund 
upon the date of enactment of this Act as authorized by 
section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reau-
thorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to $1,256,165,000 
as a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous Sub-
stance Superfund for purposes as authorized by section 
517(b) of SARA, as amended: Provided, That funds appro-
priated under this heading may be allocated to other Fed-
eral agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of 
CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, $13,536,000 shall be transferred to the 
‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation to remain 
available until September 30, 2007, and $30,606,000 shall 
be transferred to the ‘‘Science and Technology’’ appropria-
tion to remain available until September 30, 2007. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by section 
205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act 
of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
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tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per 
project, $73,027,000, to remain available until expended. 
OIL SPILL RESPONSE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, $15,863,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolving 
funds and performance partnership grants, $3,453,550,000, 
to 
remain 
available 
until 
expended, 
of 
which 
$1,100,000,000 shall be for making capitalization grants for 
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (the 
‘‘Act’’); $850,000,000 shall be for capitalization grants for 
the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under section 
1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, except 
that, notwithstanding section 1452(n) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, as amended, none of the funds made available 
under this heading in this Act, or in previous appropria-
tions Acts, shall be reserved by the Administrator for health 
effects studies on drinking water contaminants; $50,000,000 
shall be for architectural, engineering, planning, design,
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construction and related activities in connection with the 
construction of high priority water and wastewater facili-
ties in the area of the United States-Mexico Border, after 
consultation with the appropriate border commission; 
$40,000,000 shall be for grants to the State of Alaska to 
address drinking water and waste infrastructure needs of 
rural and Alaska Native Villages: Provided, That, of these 
funds: (1) the State of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 
percent; (2) no more than 5 percent of the funds may be 
used for administrative and overhead expenses; and (3) not 
later than October 1, 2005 the State of Alaska shall make 
awards consistent with the State-wide priority list estab-
lished in 2004 for all water, sewer, waste disposal, and 
similar projects carried out by the State of Alaska that are 
funded under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall 
allocate not less than 25 percent of the funds provided for 
projects in regional hub communities; $200,000,000 shall 
be for making grants for the construction of drinking water, 
wastewater and storm water infrastructure and for water 
quality protection in accordance with the terms and condi-
tions specified for such grants in the joint explanatory 
statement of the managers accompanying this Act, and, for 
purposes of these grants, each grantee shall contribute not
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less than 45 percent of the cost of the project unless the 
grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency; 
$90,000,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including 
grants, interagency agreements, and associated program 
support costs; $1,000,000 for cost-shared grants for school 
bus retrofit and replacement projects that reduce diesel 
emissions; and $1,122,550,000 shall be for grants, including 
associated program support costs, to States, federally recog-
nized tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air 
pollution control agencies for multi-media or single media 
pollution prevention, control and abatement and related ac-
tivities, including activities pursuant to the provisions set 
forth under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for 
making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for 
particulate matter monitoring and data collection activities 
subject to terms and conditions specified by the Adminis-
trator, of which $50,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-
tion 128 of CERCLA, as amended, $19,344,000 shall be for 
Environmental Information Exchange Network grants, in-
cluding associated program support costs, and $16,856,000 
shall be for making competitive targeted watershed grants: 
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2006, State authority 
under section 302(a) of Public Law 104–182 shall remain
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in effect: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
603(d)(7) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the 
limitation on the amounts in a State water pollution con-
trol revolving fund that may be used by a State to admin-
ister the fund shall not apply to amounts included as prin-
cipal in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2005 and 
prior years where such amounts represent costs of admin-
istering 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 eligi-
ble purposes of the fund, including administration: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2006, and notwith-
standing section 518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is au-
thorized to use the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year 
under section 319 of that Act to make grants to Indian 
tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act: 
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2006, notwith-
standing the limitation on amounts in section 518(c) of the 
Act, up to a total of 11⁄2 percent of the funds appropriated 
for State Revolving Funds under title VI of that Act may 
be reserved by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) of that Act: Provided further, That no funds provided 
by this legislation to address the water, wastewater and 
other critical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the 
United States along the United States-Mexico border shall
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be made available to a county or municipal government un-
less that government has established an enforceable local or-
dinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents in that juris-
diction the development or construction of any additional 
colonia areas, or the development within an existing colonia 
the construction of any new home, business, or other struc-
ture which lacks water, wastewater, or other necessary in-
frastructure: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, heretofore and hereafter, after con-
sultation with the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations and for the purpose of making technical correc-
tions, the Administrator is authorized to award grants 
under this heading to entities and for purposes other than 
those listed in the joint explanatory statements of the man-
agers accompanying the Agency’s appropriations Acts for 
the construction of drinking water, wastewater and 
stormwater infrastructure and for water quality protection: 
Provided further, That from unobligated prior year funds 
in appropriation accounts available to the Environmental 
Protection Agency, $58,000,000 is hereby rescinded: Pro-
vided further, That such rescissions shall be taken solely 
from amounts associated with grants, contracts, and inter-
agency agreements whose availability under the original pe-
riod for obligation for such grant, contract, or interagency 
agreement has expired.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2006, 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 
consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist 
the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 
programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law, 
except that no such cooperative agreements may be awarded 
from funds designated for State financial assistance agree-
ments. 
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 (as 
added by subsection (f)(2) of the Pesticide Registration Im-
provement Act of 2003), as amended. 
Notwithstanding CERCLA 104(k)(4)(B)(i)(IV), ap-
propriated funds for fiscal year 2006 may be used to award 
grants or loans under section 104(k) of CERCLA to eligible 
entities that satisfy all of the elements set forth in CERCLA 
section 101(40) to qualify as a bona fide prospective pur-
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chaser except that the date of acquisition of the property 
was prior to the date of enactment of the Small Business 
Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act of 2001. 
For fiscal years 2006 through 2011, the Administrator 
may, after consultation with the Office of Personnel Man-
agement, make not to exceed five appointments in any fiscal 
year under the authority provided in 42 U.S.C. 209 for the 
Office of Research and Development. 
Beginning in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter, and not-
withstanding section 306 of the Toxic Substances Control 
Act, the Federal share of the cost of radon program activi-
ties implemented with Federal assistance under section 306 
shall not exceed 60 percent in the third and subsequent 
grant years. 
None of the funds provided in this Act or any other 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) to publish proposed or final regulations pursuant 
to the requirements of section 428(b) of Division G of Public 
Law 108–199 until the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, in coordination with other appropriate 
Federal agencies, has completed and published a technical 
study to look at safety issues, including the risk of fire and 
burn to consumers in use, associated with compliance with 
the regulations. Not later than six months after the date
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of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall complete 
and publish the technical study.
TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $280,892,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the funds provided, 
$58,434,000 is for the forest inventory and analysis pro-
gram. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health manage-
ment, including treatments of pests, pathogens, and 
invasive or noxious plants and for restoring and rehabili-
tating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, coopera-
tive forestry, and education and land conservation activi-
ties and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $254,615,000, to remain available until expended, as 
authorized by law of which $62,632,000 is to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, for management, protection, improve-
ment, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
$1,377,656,000, to remain available until expended, which 
shall include 50 percent of all moneys received during prior 
fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accordance 
with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)): Provided, 
That unobligated balances under this heading available at 
the start of fiscal year 2006 shall be displayed by budget 
line item in the fiscal year 2007 budget justification: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this heading 
for Forest Products, $5,000,000 shall be allocated to the 
Alaska Region, in addition to its normal allocation for the 
purposes of preparing additional timber for sale, to estab-
lish a 3-year timber supply and such funds may be trans-
ferred to other appropriations accounts as necessary to 
maximize accomplishment: Provided further, That within 
funds available for the purpose of implementing the Valles 
Caldera Preservation Act, notwithstanding the limitations 
of section 107(e)(2) of the Valles Caldera Preservation Act 
(Public Law 106–248), for fiscal year 2006, the Chair of 
the Board of Trustees of the Valles Caldera Trust may re-
ceive, upon request, compensation for each day (including
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travel time) that the Chair is engaged in the performance 
of the functions of the Board, except that compensation shall 
not exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate in effect 
for members of the Senior Executive Service at the ES–1 
level, and shall be in addition to any reimbursement for 
travel, subsistence and other necessary expenses incurred by 
the Chair in the performance of the Chair’s duties. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other lands 
under fire protection agreement, hazardous fuels reduction 
on or adjacent to such lands, and for emergency rehabilita-
tion of burned-over National Forest System lands and 
water, $1,745,531,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That such funds including unobligated balances 
under this heading, are available for repayment of advances 
from other appropriations accounts previously transferred 
for such purposes: Provided further, That any unobligated 
balances remaining may be transferred to the ‘‘National 
Forest System’’ account and available without further ap-
propriation to fund vegetative treatments that improve con-
dition class: Provided further, That such funds shall be 
available to reimburse State and other cooperating entities 
for services provided in response to wildfire and other emer-
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gencies 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 not less than 50 percent of any unobligated 
balances remaining (exclusive of amounts for hazardous 
fuels reduction) at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall be trans-
ferred to the fund established pursuant to section 3 of Public 
Law 71–319 (16 U.S.C. 576 et seq.) if necessary to reim-
burse the fund for unpaid past advances: Provided further, 
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$8,000,000 of funds appropriated under this appropriation 
shall be used for Fire Science Research in support of the 
Joint Fire Science Program: Provided further, That all au-
thorities 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: Provided further, That funds provided shall be 
available for emergency rehabilitation and restoration, haz-
ardous fuels reduction activities in the urban-wildland 
interface, support to Federal emergency response, and wild-
fire suppression activities of the Forest Service: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $281,000,000 is for haz-
ardous fuels reduction activities, $2,000,000 is for rehabili-
tation and restoration, $18,385,000 is for research activities
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and to make competitive research grants pursuant to the 
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $40,179,000 is for 
State fire assistance, $7,889,000 is for volunteer fire assist-
ance, $6,974,000 is for forest health activities on Federal 
lands and $4,598,000 is for forest health activities on State 
and private lands: Provided further, That amounts in this 
paragraph may be transferred to the ‘‘State and Private 
Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’, and ‘‘Forest and 
Rangeland Research’’ accounts to fund State fire assistance, 
volunteer fire assistance, forest health management, forest 
and rangeland research, vegetation and watershed manage-
ment, heritage site rehabilitation, and wildlife and fish 
habitat management and restoration: Provided further, 
That transfers of any amounts in excess of those authorized 
in this paragraph, shall require approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations in compliance with 
reprogramming procedures contained in the report accom-
panying this Act: Provided further, That funds provided 
under this heading for hazardous fuels treatments may be 
transferred to and made a part of the ‘‘National Forest Sys-
tem’’ account at the sole discretion of the Chief of the Forest 
Service thirty days after notifying the House and the Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
the costs of implementing any cooperative agreement be-
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tween the Federal Government and any non-Federal entity 
may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected par-
ties: Provided further, That in addition to funds provided 
for State Fire Assistance programs, and subject to all au-
thorities available to the Forest Service under the State and 
Private Forestry Appropriation, up to $15,000,000 may be 
used on adjacent non-Federal lands for the purpose of pro-
tecting communities when hazard reduction activities are 
planned on national forest lands that have the potential to 
place such communities at risk: Provided further, That in-
cluded in funding for hazardous fuel reduction is 
$5,000,000 for implementing the Community Forest Res-
toration Act, Public Law 106–393, title VI, and any por-
tion of such funds shall be available for use on non-Federal 
lands in accordance with authorities available to the Forest 
Service under the State and Private Forestry Appropria-
tion: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior 
and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer 
of funds appropriated for wildland fire management, in an 
aggregate amount not to exceed $12,000,000, between the 
Departments when such transfers would facilitate and expe-
dite jointly funded wildland fire management programs 
and projects: Provided further, That of the funds provided 
for hazardous fuels reduction, not to exceed $5,000,000, may 
be used to make grants, using any authorities available to
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the Forest Service under the State and Private Forestry ap-
propriation, for the purpose of creating incentives for in-
creased use of biomass from national forest lands. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $409,751,000, to remain available until 
expended for construction, reconstruction, maintenance and 
acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and for con-
struction, reconstruction, repair, decommissioning, and 
maintenance of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service 
as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 
and 205: Provided, That up to $15,000,000 of the funds 
provided herein for road maintenance shall be available for 
the decommissioning of roads, including unauthorized roads 
not part of the transportation system, which are no longer 
needed: Provided further, That no funds shall be expended 
to decommission any system road until notice and an op-
portunity for public comment has been provided on each 
decommissioning project: Provided further, That of funds 
provided, $3,000,000 is provided for needed rehabilitation 
and restoration work at Jarbidge Canyon, Nevada: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may au-
thorize the transfer of up to $1,350,000 as necessary to the 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management 
and Fish and Wildlife Service when such transfers would 
facilitate and expedite needed rehabilitation work on Bu-
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reau of Land Management lands, and for the Fish and 
Wildlife Service to implement terms and conditions identi-
fied in the Biological Opinion. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including admin-
istrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, 
or interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority 
applicable to the Forest Service, $44,925,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to re-
main available until expended. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries 
of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; 
the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San 
Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National Forests, Cali-
fornia, as authorized by law, $1,069,000, 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 govern-
ments, public school districts, or other public school authori-
ties, and for authorized expenditures from funds deposited 
by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and Ex-
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change Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until ex-
pended. 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protec-
tion, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received 
during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic 
livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 Western 
States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public Law 94–
579, as amended, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses associated with on-the-ground range reha-
bilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$64,000, to remain available until expended, to be derived 
from the fund established pursuant to the above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 
SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage 
Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII 
of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
(Public Law 96–487), $5,067,000, to remain available until 
expended.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of not to ex-
ceed 119 passenger motor vehicles of which 14 will be used 
primarily for law enforcement purposes and of which 119 
shall be for replacement; acquisition of 25 passenger motor 
vehicles from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; pur-
chase, lease, operation, maintenance, and acquisition of air-
craft from excess sources to maintain the operable fleet at 
195 aircraft for use in Forest Service wildland fire pro-
grams 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) pur-
chase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public 
improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of land, wa-
ters, and interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) 
for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the National For-
est Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) 
the cost of uniforms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 
and (7) for debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 
U.S.C. 3718(c).
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None of the funds made available under this Act shall 
be obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move or 
close any regional office for National Forest System admin-
istration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture 
without the consent of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency reha-
bilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters under 
its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe burning 
conditions upon notification of the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and if and only if all previously 
appropriated emergency contingent funds under the head-
ing ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ have been released by the 
President and apportioned and all wildfire suppression 
funds under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ are 
obligated. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Foreign Agricultural Service 
in connection with forest and rangeland research, technical 
information, and assistance in foreign countries, and shall 
be available to support forestry and related natural resource 
activities outside the United States and its territories and
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possessions, including technical assistance, education and 
training, and cooperation with United States and inter-
national organizations. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service 
under this Act shall be subject to transfer under the provi-
sions of section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Or-
ganic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or 7 U.S.C. 147b, except 
that in fiscal year 2006 the Forest Service may transfer 
funds to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account from other 
agency accounts to enable the agency’s law enforcement pro-
gram to pay full operating costs including overhead. 
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may 
be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in ac-
cordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in 
the report accompanying this Act. 
Not more than $72,646,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service may be transferred to the Working Capital 
Fund of the Department of Agriculture. Nothing in this sec-
tion shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable agree-
ments requested by the Forest Service in order to obtain 
services from the Department of Agriculture’s National In-
formation Technology Center. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available 
to conduct a program of not less than $2,000,000 for high
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priority projects within the scope of the approved budget 
which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $2,500 is 
available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official recep-
tion and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 
101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 
$3,300,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the National 
Forest Foundation to aid conservation partnership projects 
in support of the Forest Service mission, without regard 
to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for administrative 
expenses or projects on or benefitting National Forest Sys-
tem lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 
That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda-
tion, no more than $350,000 shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial 
assistance, private contributions to match on at least one-
for-one basis funds made available by the Forest Service: 
Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Fed-
eral funds to a non-Federal recipient for a project at the 
same rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal 
matching funds: Provided further, That authorized invest-
ments of Federal funds held by the Foundation may be 
made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United
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States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and 
interest by the United States. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 
$2,650,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service shall 
be available for matching funds to the National Fish and 
Wildlife Foundation, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 3701–
3709, and may be advanced in a lump sum to aid conserva-
tion partnership projects in support of the Forest Service 
mission, without regard to when expenses are incurred, for 
projects on or benefitting National Forest System lands or 
related to Forest Service programs: Provided, That the 
Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal 
financial assistance, private contributions to match on at 
least one-for-one basis funds advanced by the Forest Service: 
Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Fed-
eral funds to a non-Federal recipient for a project at the 
same rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal 
matching funds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities for sustainable rural develop-
ment purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to sections
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14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99–
663. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations or funds available to the Forest Service not 
to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Office of 
the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agriculture, for 
travel and related expenses incurred as a result of OGC as-
sistance or participation requested by the Forest Service at 
meetings, training sessions, management reviews, land pur-
chase negotiations and similar non-litigation related mat-
ters. Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service 
and the Department of Agriculture should clearly display 
the sums previously transferred and the requested funding 
transfers. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be used for necessary expenses in the event of 
law enforcement emergencies as necessary to protect natural 
resources and public or employee safety: Provided, That 
such amounts shall not exceed $1,000,000. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 
funded under title V of the Older American 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 pur-
poses of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code.