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performance partnership grants, $2,972,595,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $700,000,000 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’’); of which up to $75,000,000 shall be available 
for loans, including interest free loans as authorized by 33 U.S.C. 
1383(d)(1)(A), to municipal, inter-municipal, interstate, or State 
agencies or nonprofit entities for projects that provide treatment 
for or that minimize sewage or stormwater discharges using one 
or more approaches which include, but are not limited to, decentral-
ized or distributed stormwater controls, decentralized wastewater 
treatment, low-impact development practices, conservation ease-
ments, stream buffers, or wetlands restoration; $842,167,000 shall 
be for capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as 
amended; $20,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, plan-
ning, design, construction and related activities in connection with 
the construction of high priority water and wastewater facilities 
in the area of the United States-Mexico Border, after consultation 
with the appropriate border commission; $25,000,000 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 established 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; $135,000,000 
shall be for making special project grants for the construction 
of drinking water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure and 
for water quality protection in accordance with the terms and 
conditions specified for such grants in the explanatory statement 
accompanying this Act, and, for purposes of these grants, each 
grantee shall contribute not less than 45 percent of the cost of 
the project unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by the 
Agency; $95,000,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of the 
Comprehensive 
Environmental 
Response, 
Compensation, 
and 
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including grants, 
interagency agreements, and associated program support costs; 
$50,000,000 shall be for grants under title VII, subtitle G of the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005, as amended; $10,000,000 shall be for 
grants for cost-effective emission reduction projects in accordance 
with the terms and conditions of the explanatory statement accom-
panying this Act; and $1,095,428,000 shall be for grants, including 
associated program support costs, to States, federally-recognized 
tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollution control 
agencies for multi-media or single media pollution prevention, con-
trol and abatement and related activities, including activities pursu-
ant 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 activi-
ties subject to terms and conditions specified by the Administrator,
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of which $49,495,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 of 
CERCLA, as amended, $10,000,000 shall be for Environmental 
Information Exchange Network grants, including associated pro-
gram support costs, $18,500,000 of the funds available for grants 
under section 106 of the Act shall be for water quality monitoring 
activities, $10,000,000 shall be for making competitive targeted 
watershed grants, and, in addition to funds appropriated under 
the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Pro-
gram’’ to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other 
than section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 
$2,500,000 shall be for financial assistance to States under section 
2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended: 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 control revolving fund that may be used by a 
State to administer the fund shall not apply to amounts included 
as principal in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2008 and 
prior years where such amounts represent 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 purposes of the 
fund, including administration: Provided further, That for fiscal 
year 2008, and notwithstanding section 518(f) of the Act, the 
Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated for 
any fiscal year under section 319 of that Act to make grants 
to federally-recognized Indian tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) 
and 518(e) of that Act: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2008, 
notwithstanding 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 appropriations 
Act to address the water, wastewater and other critical infrastruc-
ture needs of the colonias in the United States along the United 
States-Mexico border shall be made available to a county or munic-
ipal government unless that government has established an enforce-
able 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 
construction of any new home, business, or other structure which 
lacks water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2008, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6303(1) and 
6305(1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
in carrying out the Agency’s function to implement directly Federal 
environmental programs required or authorized by law in the 
absence of an acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative 
agreements to federally-recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal con-
sortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist the Adminis-
trator in implementing Federal environmental programs for Indian 
Tribes required or authorized by law, except that no such coopera-
tive agreements may be awarded from funds designated for State 
financial assistance agreements.
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The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized to collect and obligate pesticide registration 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 Improvement Act of 2003), as amended. 
None of the funds provided in this Act may be used, directly 
or through grants, to pay or to provide reimbursement for payment 
of the salary of a consultant (whether retained by the Federal 
Government or a grantee) at more than the daily equivalent of 
the rate paid for level IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifi-
cally authorized by law. 
From unobligated balances to carry out projects and activities 
authorized under section 206(a) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, $5,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
in contravention of, or to delay the implementation of, Executive 
Order No. 12898 of February 11, 1994 (59 Fed. Reg. 7629; relating 
to Federal actions to address environmental justice in minority 
populations and low-income populations). 
Of the funds provided in the Environmental Programs and 
Management account, not less than $3,500,000 shall be provided 
for activities to develop and publish a draft rule not later than 
9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and a final 
rule not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of 
this Act, to require mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emis-
sions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy 
of the United States. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $290,457,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the funds provided, $61,329,000 is 
for the forest inventory and analysis program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing tech-
nical and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, 
and others, and for forest health management, including treatments 
of pests, pathogens, and invasive or noxious plants and for restoring 
and rehabilitating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, 
cooperative forestry, and education and land conservation activities 
and 
conducting 
an 
international 
program 
as 
authorized, 
$266,974,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized 
by law; of which $7,500,000 is for the International Program; and 
of which $53,146,000 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 otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utiliza-
tion of the National Forest System, $1,492,868,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall include 50 percent of all moneys 
received during prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accord-
ance 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 2008 shall be displayed by budget line item 
in the fiscal year 2009 budget justification: Provided further, That 
of the funds provided under this heading for Forest Products, 
$4,000,000 shall be allocated to the Alaska Region, in addition 
to its normal allocation for the purposes of preparing additional 
timber for sale, to establish a 3-year timber supply and such funds 
may be transferred to other appropriations accounts as necessary 
to maximize accomplishment. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $456,895,000, to remain available until expended, 
for construction, capital improvement, maintenance and acquisition 
of buildings and other facilities, and infrastructure; and for 
construction, capital improvement, decommissioning, and mainte-
nance 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; and in addition 
$25,000,000 to be transferred from the timber roads purchaser 
election fund and merged with this account, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That $40,000,000 shall be designated 
for urgently needed road decommissioning, road and trail repair 
and maintenance and associated activities, and removal of fish 
passage barriers, especially in areas where Forest Service roads 
may be contributing to water quality problems in streams and 
water bodies which support threatened, endangered or sensitive 
species or community water sources and for urgently needed road 
repairs required due to recent storm events: Provided further, That 
up to $40,000,000 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 
opportunity for public comment has been provided on each 
decommissioning project: Provided further, That the decommis-
sioning of unauthorized roads not part of the official transportation 
system shall be expedited in response to threats to public safety, 
water quality, or natural resources: Provided further, That funds 
becoming available in fiscal year 2008 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 transfer or obligation 
for any other purpose unless the funds are appropriated: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Forest 
Service shall provide $1,197,000 appropriated in Public Law 110–