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of the New York City Watershed Environmental Assistance Pro-
gram. 
SEC. 136. None of the funds contained in title I of this Act 
shall be available to permanently reassign or to temporarily 
reassign in excess of 180 days personnel from the Charleston, 
South Carolina district office: Provided, That this limitation shall 
not apply to voluntary change of station. 
SEC. 137. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief 
of Engineers, is hereby authorized and directed to design and con-
struct until hereafter completed, the recreation and access features 
designated as Phase II of the Louisville Waterfront Park, Kentucky, 
as described in the Louisville Waterfront Park, Phases II and III, 
Detailed Project Report, by the Louisville District of the Corps 
of Engineers dated May 2002. The project shall be cost shared 
50 percent Federal and 50 percent non-Federal. The cost of project 
work undertaken by the non-Federal interests, including but not 
limited to prior planning, design, and construction, shall be credited 
toward the non-Federal share of project design and construction 
costs. 
SEC. 138. AKUTAN, ALASKA.—(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary 
of the Army is authorized to carry out the project for navigation, 
Akutan, Alaska, substantially in accordance with the plans, and 
subject to the conditions, described in the Report of the Chief 
of Engineers dated December 20, 2004, at a total cost of $19,700,000. 
(b) 
TREATMENT
OF
CERTAIN
DREDGING.—The 
headlands 
dredging for the mooring basin shall be considered a general naviga-
tion feature for purposes of estimating the non-Federal share of 
the cost of the project. 
SEC. 139. (a) IN GENERAL.—The project for the beneficial use 
of dredged material at Poplar Island, Maryland, authorized by 
section 537 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (110 
Stat. 3776) shall be known as and designated as the ‘‘Paul S. 
Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island’’. 
(b) REFERENCE.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation, docu-
ment, paper or other record of the United States (including reference 
by the Corps of Engineers) to the project referred to in subsection 
(a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Paul S. Sarbanes 
Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The project designation in this section 
shall become effective on January 4, 2007. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT 
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACCOUNT 
For carrying out activities authorized by the Central Utah 
Project Completion Act, $32,614,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $946,000 shall be deposited into the Utah Rec-
lamation Mitigation and Conservation Account for use by the Utah 
Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission. 
In addition, for necessary expenses incurred in carrying out 
related responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior, $1,736,000, 
to remain available until expended.
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BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
The following appropriations shall be expended to execute 
authorized functions of the Bureau of Reclamation: 
WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For management, development, and restoration of water and 
related natural resources and for related activities, including the 
operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of reclamation and other 
facilities, participation in fulfilling related Federal responsibilities 
to Native Americans, and related grants to, and cooperative and 
other agreements with, State and local governments, Indian tribes, 
and others, $883,514,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $59,544,000 shall be available for transfer to the Upper 
Colorado River Basin Fund and $21,998,000 shall be available 
for transfer to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund; 
of which such amounts as may be necessary may be advanced 
to the Colorado River Dam Fund; of which not more than $500,000 
is for high priority projects which shall be carried out by the 
Youth Conservation Corps, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1706: Pro-
vided, That such transfers may be increased or decreased within 
the overall appropriation under this heading: Provided further, That 
of the total appropriated, the amount for program activities that 
can be financed by the Reclamation Fund or the Bureau of Reclama-
tion special fee account established by 16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i) shall 
be derived from that Fund or account: Provided further, That funds 
contributed under 43 U.S.C. 395 are available until expended for 
the purposes for which contributed: Provided further, That funds 
advanced under 43 U.S.C. 397a shall be credited to this account 
and are available until expended for the same purposes as the 
sums appropriated under this heading: Provided further, That funds 
available for expenditure for the Departmental Irrigation Drainage 
Program may be expended by the Bureau of Reclamation for site 
remediation on a non-reimbursable basis: Provided further, That 
$500,000 of the funds provided herein shall be used on a non-
reimbursible basis to fund the collection of technical and environ-
mental data to be used to evaluate potential rehabilitation of the 
St. Mary Storage Unit facilities, Milk River Project, Montana, and 
that Reclamation shall enter into cooperative agreements with the 
State of Montana or the Blackfeet Tribe to carry out such work 
if the Secretary determines such agreements would be cost-effective 
and efficient. 
CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION FUND 
For carrying out the programs, projects, plans, and habitat 
restoration, improvement, and acquisition provisions of the Central 
Valley Project Improvement Act, $52,219,000, to be derived from 
such sums as may be collected in the Central Valley Project Restora-
tion Fund pursuant to sections 3407(d), 3404(c)(3), 3405(f), and 
3406(c)(1) of Public Law 102–575, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Bureau of Reclamation is directed 
to assess and collect the full amount of the additional mitigation 
and restoration payments authorized by section 3407(d) of Public
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Law 102–575: Provided further, That none of the funds made avail-
able under this heading may be used for the acquisition or leasing 
of water for in-stream purposes if the water is already committed 
to in-stream purposes by a court adopted decree or order. 
CALIFORNIA BAY-DELTA RESTORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out activities authorized by the Water Supply, 
Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act, consistent with 
plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $37,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which such amounts as 
may be necessary to carry out such activities may be transferred 
to appropriate accounts of other participating Federal agencies to 
carry out authorized purposes: Provided, That funds appropriated 
herein may be used for the Federal share of the costs of CALFED 
Program management: Provided further, That the use of any funds 
provided to the California Bay-Delta Authority for program-wide 
management and oversight activities shall be subject to the approval 
of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That CALFED 
implementation shall be carried out in a balanced manner with 
clear performance measures demonstrating concurrent progress in 
achieving the goals and objectives of the Program: Provided further, 
That $500,000 shall be transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers 
to carry out the report on levee stability reconstruction projects 
and priorities authorized under section 103(f)(3) of Public Law 
108–361. 
POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of policy, administration, and related 
functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, 
and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation, to 
remain available until expended, $57,917,000, to be derived from 
the Reclamation Fund and be nonreimbursable as provided in 43 
U.S.C. 377: Provided, That no part of any other appropriation 
in this Act shall be available for activities or functions budgeted 
as policy and administration expenses. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available 
for purchase of not to exceed 14 passenger motor vehicles, of which 
11 are for replacement only. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
SEC. 201. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to determine the final 
point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit 
until development by the Secretary of the Interior and the State 
of California of a plan, which shall conform to the water quality 
standards of the State of California as approved by the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to minimize any 
detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
(b) The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program 
and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall 
be classified by the Secretary of the Interior as reimbursable or
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nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the 
‘‘Cleanup Program-Alternative Repayment Plan’’ and the ‘‘SJVDP-
Alternative Repayment Plan’’ described in the report entitled 
‘‘Repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and San 
Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, February 1995’’, prepared by 
the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Any future 
obligations of funds by the United States relating to, or providing 
for, drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit 
shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries of such 
service or studies pursuant to Federal reclamation law. 
SEC. 202. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle 
Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless said 
purchase or lease is in compliance with the purchase requirements 
of section 202 of Public Law 106–60. 
SEC. 203. (a) Section 1(a) of the Lower Colorado Water Supply 
Act (Public Law 99–655) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘The Secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement 
or agreements with the city of Needles or the Imperial Irrigation 
District for the design and construction of the remaining stages 
of the Lower Colorado Water Supply Project on or after November 
1, 2004, and the Secretary shall ensure that any such agreement 
or agreements include provisions setting forth: (1) the responsibil-
ities of the parties to the agreement for design and construction; 
(2) the locations of the remaining wells, discharge pipelines, and 
power transmission lines; (3) the remaining design capacity of up 
to 5,000 acre-feet per year which is the authorized capacity less 
the design capacity of the first stage constructed; (4) the procedures 
and requirements for approval and acceptance by the Secretary 
of the remaining stages, including approval of the quality of 
construction, measures to protect the public health and safety, 
and procedures for protection of such stages; (5) the rights, respon-
sibilities, and liabilities of each party to the agreement; and (6) 
the term of the agreement.’’. 
(b) Section 2(b) of the Lower Colorado Water Supply Act (Public 
Law 99–655) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Sub-
ject to the demand of such users along or adjacent to the Colorado 
River for Project water, the Secretary is further authorized to 
contract with additional persons or entities who hold Boulder 
Canyon Project Act section 5 contracts for municipal and industrial 
uses within the State of California for the use or benefit of Project 
water under such terms as the Secretary determines will benefit 
the interest of Project users along the Colorado River.’’. 
SEC. 204. Funds under this title for Drought Emergency Assist-
ance shall be made available primarily for leasing of water for 
specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compli-
ance with existing State laws and administered under State water 
priority allocation. Such leases may be entered into with an option 
to purchase: Provided, That such purchase is approved by the 
State in which the purchase takes place and the purchase does 
not cause economic harm within the State in which the purchase 
is made. 
SEC. 205. The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, is authorized to enter 
into grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements with 
irrigation or water districts and States to fund up to 50 percent