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319 of the Act to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant 
to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro-
grams and Management’’ for fiscal year 2022 to provide 
grants to implement the Southeastern New England Wa-
tershed Restoration Program. 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-
tion 320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, not less than $2,000,000 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). 
Section 122(b)(3) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9622(b)(3)), shall be applied by inserting 
before the period: ‘‘, including for the hire, maintenance, 
and operation of aircraft.’’. 
The Environmental Protection Agency Working Cap-
ital Fund, established by Public Law 104–204 (42 U.S.C. 
4370e), is available for expenses and equipment necessary 
for modernization and development of information tech-
nology of, or for use by, the Environmental Protection 
Agency. 
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For fiscal year 2022, 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 
purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 
Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not 
exceed $2,000,000. 
During each of fiscal years 2022 through 2025, the 
Administrator may, after consultation with the Office of 
Personnel and Management, employ up to seventy-five 
persons at any one time in the Office of Research and 
Development and twenty-five persons at any one time in 
the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention 
under the authority provided in 42 U.S.C. 209. 
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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, 
$1,396,000: 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, $1,074,086,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2025: 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 cyber security 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, $363,797,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2025: Provided, That of 
the funds provided, $22,197,000 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 AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
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tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health man-
agement, and conducting an international program and 
trade compliance activities as authorized, $324,876,000, 
to remain available through September 30, 2025, as au-
thorized 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, $2,232,344,000 (increased by $2,000,000) 
(reduced by $13,050,000) (increased by $13,050,000), to 
remain available through September 30, 2025: Provided, 
That of the funds provided, $60,000,000 shall be depos-
ited in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 
Fund for ecological restoration treatments as authorized 
by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Provided further, That of the funds 
provided, $39,017,000 shall be for forest products: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided, $321,388,000 
(increased by $2,000,000) shall be for hazardous fuels 
management 
activities, 
of 
which 
not 
to 
exceed 
$15,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any au-
thorities available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State 
and Private Forestry’’ appropriation, for the purpose of 
creating incentives for increased use of biomass from Na-
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tional Forest System lands: Provided further, That 
$20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture 
to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative agree-
ments or to issue grants for hazardous fuels management 
activities, and for training or monitoring associated with 
such hazardous fuels management activities on Federal 
land, or on non-Federal land if the Secretary determines 
such activities benefit resources on Federal land: Provided 
further, That funds made available to implement the Com-
munity Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, title 
VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in ac-
cordance with authorities made available to the Forest 
Service under the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’ appro-
priation: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 
1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in calculating a fee 
for grazing on a National Grassland, may provide a credit 
of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee to a Grazing As-
sociation or direct permittee for a conservation practice 
approved by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year 
in which the cost of the conservation practice is incurred, 
and that the amount credited shall remain available to the 
Grazing Association or the direct permittee, as appro-
priate, in the fiscal year in which the credit is made and 
each fiscal year thereafter for use on the project for con-
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servation practices approved by the Secretary: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated to this account shall be 
available for the base salary and expenses of employees 
that carry out the functions funded by the ‘‘Capital Im-
provement and Maintenance’’ account, the ‘‘Range Better-
ment Fund’’ account, and the ‘‘Management of National 
Forests for Subsistence Uses’’ account. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $153,302,000 (reduced by 
$153,302,000) (increased by $153,302,000) (reduced by 
$3,000,000), to remain available through September 30, 
2025, for construction, capital improvement, maintenance, 
and acquisition of buildings and other facilities and infra-
structure; and for construction, reconstruction, decommis-
sioning of roads that are no longer needed, including un-
authorized roads that are not part of the transportation 
system, 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 funds becoming 
available in fiscal year 2022 under the Act of March 4, 
1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to the General 
Fund of the Treasury and shall not be available for trans-
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fer or obligation for any other purpose unless the funds 
are appropriated. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior 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, 2025, (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-
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ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 
Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public 
Law 94–579, to remain available through September 30, 
2025, 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, 2025, 
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, 2025. 
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 
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other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest Sys-
tem lands and water, $2,097,622,000 (increased by 
$1,000,000), to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That such funds including unobligated balances under this 
heading, are available for repayment of advances from 
other appropriations accounts previously transferred for 
such purposes: Provided further, That any unobligated 
funds appropriated in a previous fiscal year for hazardous 
fuels management may be transferred to the ‘‘National 
Forest System’’ account: Provided further, That such 
funds shall be available to reimburse State and other co-
operating entities for services provided in response to wild-
fire and other emergencies or disasters to the extent such 
reimbursements by the Forest Service for non-fire emer-
gencies are fully repaid by the responsible emergency man-
agement agency: Provided further, That funds provided 
shall be available for support to Federal emergency re-
sponse: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Govern-
ment and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutu-
ally agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided under this heading, 
$1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire suppression 
operations, and is provided to the meet the terms of sec-
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tion 1(h) of H. Res. 467 of the 117th Congress as en-
grossed in the House of Representatives on June 14, 
2021. 
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, $2,120,000,000, to remain available until trans-
ferred, is additional new budget authority for purposes of 
section 1(h) of H. Res. 467 of the 117th Congress as en-
grossed in the House of Representatives on June 14, 
2021: Provided, That such amounts may be transferred 
to and merged with amounts made available under the 
headings ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide 
Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Depart-
ment of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire 
Management’’ for wildfire suppression operations in the 
fiscal year in which such amounts are transferred: Pro-
vided further, That amounts may be transferred to the 
‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ accounts in the Department 
of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture only upon 
the notification of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations that all wildfire suppression operations 
funds appropriated under that heading in this and prior 
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