UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 
and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-
ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into 
the economic conditions affecting mining and materials 
processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 
U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes as authorized by law; 
and to publish and disseminate data relative to the fore-
going activities; $1,032,764,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2009, of which $63,345,000 shall be avail-
able only for cooperation with States or municipalities for 
water resources investigations; of which $32,150,000 shall 
remain available until expended for satellite operations; of 
which $8,023,000 shall be available until expended for de-
ferred maintenance and capital improvement projects; and 
of which $187,114,000 shall be for the biological research 
activity and the operation of the Cooperative Research
Units: Provided, That none of the funds provided for the 
biological research activity shall be used to conduct new 
surveys on private property, unless specifically authorized 
in writing by the property owner: Provided further, That 
no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay more 
than one-half the cost of topographic mapping or water 
resources data collection and investigations carried on in 
cooperation with States and municipalities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
From within the amount appropriated for activities 
of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 
necessary shall be available for reimbursement to the Gen-
eral Services Administration for security guard services; 
contracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and 
for the making of geophysical or other specialized surveys 
when it is administratively determined that such proce-
dures are in the public interest; construction and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities; 
acquisition of lands for gauging stations and observation 
wells; expenses of the United States National Committee 
on Geology; and payment of compensation and expenses 
of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly appointed to 
represent the United States in the negotiation and admin-
istration of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities 
funded by appropriations herein made may be accom-
plished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Pro-
vided further, That the United States Geological Survey 
may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements di-
rectly with individuals or indirectly with institutions or 
nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, 
for the temporary or intermittent services of students or 
recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for 
the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States 
Code, relating to compensation for travel and work inju-
ries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, re-
lating to tort claims, but shall not be considered to be Fed-
eral employees for any other purposes. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and 
collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing 
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; for 
energy-related or other authorized marine-related pur-
poses on the Outer Continental Shelf; and for matching 
grants or cooperative agreements, $153,552,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2009, of which 
$82,371,000 shall be available for royalty management ac-
tivities; and an amount not to exceed $135,730,000, to 
be credited to this appropriation and to remain available 
until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from 
increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate 
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf ad-
ministrative activities performed by the Minerals Manage-
ment Service (MMS) over and above the rates in effect 
on September 30, 1993, and from additional fees for 
Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities estab-
lished after September 30, 1993: Provided, That to the 
extent $135,730,000 in addition to receipts are not real-
ized from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount 
needed to reach $135,730,000 shall be credited to this ap-
propriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for 
Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 
1993: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall 
be available for reasonable expenses related to promoting 
volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds 
of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases 
in which the Director of MMS concurred with the claimed 
refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or 
tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous pay-
ments: Provided further, That for the costs of administra-
tion of the Coastal Impact Assistance Program authorized 
by section 31 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 
as amended (43 U.S.C. 1456a), MMS in fiscal years 2008 
through 2010 may retain up to three percent of the 
amounts which are disbursed under section 31(b)(1), such 
retained amounts to remain available until expended. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title 
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$6,403,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The eighth proviso under the heading of ‘‘Minerals 
Management Service’’ in division E, title I, of the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447), 
is amended by inserting ‘‘and Indian accounts’’ after 
‘‘States’’, replacing the term ‘‘provision’’ with ‘‘provi-
sions’’, and inserting ‘‘and (d)’’ after 30 U.S.C. 1721(b). 
None of the funds in this Act shall be used to transfer 
funds from any Federal royalties, rents, and bonuses de-
rived from Federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases 
issued under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) and the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
U.S.C. 181 et seq.) into the Ultra-Deepwater and Uncon-
ventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research 
Fund. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 35(b) of 
the Mineral Leasing Act, as amended (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), 
before disbursing a payment to a State, the Secretary shall 
deduct 2 percent from the amount payable to that State 
and deposit the amount deducted to miscellaneous receipts 
of the Treasury. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 
ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977, Public Law 95–87, as amended, $117,337,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2009: Provided, 
That the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to regula-
tions, may use directly or through grants to States, mon-
eys collected in fiscal year 2008 for civil penalties assessed 
under section 518 of the Surface Mining Control and Rec-
lamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim lands 
adversely affected by coal mining practices after August 
3, 1977, to remain available until expended: Provided fur-
ther, That appropriations for the Office of Surface Mining 
Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the travel 
and per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel at-
tending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and En-
forcement sponsored training. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
Public Law 95–87, as amended, $52,774,000, to be de-
rived from receipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation 
Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That pursuant to Public Law 97–365, the Department of 
the Interior is authorized to use up to 20 percent from 
the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to the United 
States Government to pay for contracts to collect these 
debts: Provided further, That amounts provided under this 
heading may be used for the travel and per diem expenses 
of State and tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
With funds available for the Technical Innovation 
and Professional Services program in this Act, the Sec-
retary may transfer title for computer hardware, software 
and other technical equipment to State and tribal regu-
latory and reclamation programs.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally 
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 
as amended, $2,093,545,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (in-
creased by $1,000,000), to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2009 except as otherwise provided herein, of 
which not to exceed $80,179,000 shall be for welfare as-
sistance payments: Provided, That in cases of designated 
Federal disasters, the Secretary may exceed such cap, 
from the amounts provided herein, to provide for disaster 
relief to Indian communities affected by the disaster; not-
withstanding any other provision of law, including but not 
limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as 
amended, not to exceed $149,628,000 shall be available 
for payments for contract support costs associated with 
ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding 
agreements entered into with the Bureau prior to or dur-
ing fiscal year 2008, as authorized by such Act, except
that federally-recognized tribes may use their tribal pri-
ority allocations for unmet contract support costs of ongo-
ing contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding 
agreements and for unmet welfare assistance costs; of 
which not to exceed $487,500,000 for school operations 
costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education pro-
grams shall become available on July 1, 2008, and shall 
remain available until September 30, 2009; and of which 
not to exceed $66,822,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for housing improvement, road maintenance, at-
torney fees, litigation support, the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Fund, land records improvement, and the Navajo- 
Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, including but not lim-
ited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as 
amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed $44,060,000 
within and only from such amounts made available for 
school operations shall be available for administrative cost 
grants associated with ongoing grants entered into with 
the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2007 for the 
operation of Bureau-funded schools, and up to $500,000 
within and only from such amounts made available for 
school operations shall be available for the transitional 
costs of initial administrative cost grants to grantees that 
enter into grants for the operation on or after July 1,
2007, of Bureau-operated schools: Provided further, That 
any forestry funds allocated to a federally-recognized tribe 
which remain unobligated as of September 30, 2009, may 
be transferred during fiscal year 2010 to an Indian forest 
land assistance account established for the benefit of the 
holder of the funds within the tribe’s trust fund account: 
Provided further, That any such unobligated balances not 
so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2010. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-
suant to Public Law 87–483, $207,983,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 
Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may 
be used to cover the road program management costs of 
the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds provided for
the Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 
shall be made available on a nonreimbursable basis: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2008, in implementing 
new construction or facilities improvement and repair 
project grants in excess of $100,000 that are provided to 
grant schools under Public Law 100–297, as amended, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall use the Administrative and 
Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for Assistance 
Programs contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the regulatory 
requirements: Provided further, That such grants shall not 
be subject to section 12.61 of 43 CFR; the Secretary and 
the grantee shall negotiate and determine a schedule of 
payments for the work to be performed: Provided further, 
That in considering applications, the Secretary shall con-
sider whether such grantee would be deficient in assuring 
that the construction projects conform to applicable build-
ing standards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State 
health and safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 
2005(b), with respect to organizational and financial man-
agement capabilities: Provided further, That if the Sec-
retary declines an application, the Secretary shall follow 
the requirements contained in 25 U.S.C. 2504(f): Provided 
further, That any disputes between the Secretary and any 
grantee concerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes 
provision in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided further, That in
order to ensure timely completion of replacement school 
construction projects, the Secretary may assume control 
of a project and all funds related to the project, if, within 
eighteen months of the date of enactment of this Act, any 
grantee receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any 
prior Act, has not completed the planning and design 
phase of the project and commenced construction of the 
replacement school: Provided further, That this Appropria-
tion may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special 
Trustee for American Indians Appropriation for the ap-
propriate share of construction costs for space expansion 
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-
tion. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101– 
618, 107–331, 108–447, 109–379, 109–429, and 109– 
479, and for implementation of other land and water 
rights settlements, $39,136,000 to remain available until 
expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed and insured loans, 
$6,276,000, of which $700,000 is for administrative ex-
penses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 
1974, as amended: 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: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
not to exceed $85,506,098. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, compacts and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs may contract for services in support of the man-
agement, operation, and maintenance of the Power Divi-
sion of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guar-
antee and insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed 
Loan Program account) shall be available for expenses of 
exhibits. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative
Services (except executive direction and administrative 
services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations and re-
gional offices) shall be available for contracts, grants, com-
pacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any federally-recognized tribe returns 
appropriations made available by this Act to the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs, this action shall not diminish the Fed-
eral Government’s trust responsibility to that tribe, or the 
government-to-government 
relationship 
between 
the 
United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to ac-
cess future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided 
herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 
452 et seq., shall be available to support the operation of 
any elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other 
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall 
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dor-
mitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bu-
reau school system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made 
available under this Act may not be used to establish a 
charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term 
is defined in section 1146 of the Education Amendments 
of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)), except that a charter school 
that is in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school be-
fore September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during 
that period, but only if the charter school pays to the Bu-
reau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including 
buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau 
does not assume any obligation for charter school pro-
grams of the State in which the school is located if the 
charter school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau- 
funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school and 
performing functions related to the charter school’s oper-
ation and employees of a charter school shall not be treat-
ed as Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of 
title 28, United States Code. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 2007(d), and imple-
menting regulations, the funds reserved from the Indian 
Student Equalization Program to meet emergencies and
unforeseen contingencies affecting education programs ap-
propriated herein and in Public Law 109–54 may be used 
for costs associated with significant student enrollment in-
creases at Bureau-funded schools during the relevant 
school year. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 
distribution formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, $136,413,000 (reduced by 
$1,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 
$23,000,000), 
of 
which 
$35,262,000 
(reduced 
by 
$23,000,000) for activities related to the Financial and 
Business Management System shall remain available until 
expended, and of which not to exceed $15,000 may be for 
official reception and representation expenses, and of 
which up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers com-
pensation payments and unemployment compensation pay-
ments associated with the orderly closure of the United 
States Bureau of Mines. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
$78,292,000, of which: (1) $69,816,000 shall be available 
until expended for technical assistance, including mainte-
nance assistance, disaster assistance, insular management 
controls, coral reef initiative activities, and brown tree 
snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in 
American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-
thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-
ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev-
enues, for construction and support of governmental func-
tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands as 
authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, 
as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of 
the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Pub-
lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $8,476,000 shall 
be available until September 30, 2009 for salaries and ex-
penses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all 
financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of
all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by 
such governments, may be audited by the Government Ac-
countability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with 
chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur-
ther, 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 Assistance for the Northern Mar-
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funds shall be made available for a grant 
to the Pacific Basin Development Council: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funding shall be made available for a grant 
to the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, That the 
funds for the program of operations and maintenance im-
provement are appropriated to institutionalize routine op-
erations and maintenance improvement of capital infra-
structure 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 as-
sistance under this heading in this Act or previous appro-
priations Acts may be used as non-Federal matching 
funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants provided
pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $5,362,000 to re-
main available until expended, as provided for in sections 
221(a)(2), 221(b), and 233 of the Compact of Free Asso-
ciation for the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) 
of the Compacts of Free Association for the Government 
of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated 
States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99– 
658 and Public Law 108–188. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$59,250,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $43,822,000. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
For the operation of trust programs by direct expend-
iture, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and 
grants, $182,542,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which not to exceed $56,384,000 from this or any other
Act, shall be available for historical accounting: Provided, 
That funds for trust management improvements and liti-
gation support may, as needed, be transferred to or 
merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ‘‘Operation of 
Indian Programs’’ account; the Office of the Solicitor, 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the Office of the 
Secretary, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account: Provided fur-
ther, That funds made available through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2008, as authorized by 
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 
et seq.), shall remain available until expended by the con-
tractor or grantee: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the statute of limita-
tions shall not commence to run on any claim, including 
any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement 
of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian 
has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from 
which the beneficiary can determine whether there has 
been a loss: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required 
to provide a quarterly statement of performance for any 
Indian trust account that has not had activity for at least 
18 months and has a balance of $15.00 or less: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-
drawn upon the express written request of the account 
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 is 
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-
main available in this account for this purpose. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian 
lands and expenses associated with redetermining and re-
distributing escheated interests in allotted lands, and for 
necessary expenses to carry out the Indian Land Consoli-
dation Act of 1983, as amended, by direct expenditure or 
cooperative agreement, $10,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, and which may be transferred to the Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs and Office of the Secretary ac-
counts. 
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907), 
$232,528,000 (increased by $20,148,000), of which not
to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to oth-
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 
amount of the payment is less than $100. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 
the remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.), $9,954,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That hereafter, notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, sums recovered from or paid by a party in 
advance of or as reimbursement for remedial action or re-
sponse activities conducted by the Department pursuant 
to section 107 or 113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to 
this account, to be available until expended without fur-
ther appropriation: Provided further, That hereafter such 
sums recovered from or paid by any party are not limited 
to monetary payments and may include stocks, bonds or 
other personal or real property, which may be retained, 
liquidated, or otherwise disposed of by the Secretary and 
which shall be credited to this account.
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and 
restoration activities by the Department of the Interior 
necessary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et 
seq.), and Public Law 101–337, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
19jj et seq.), $6,224,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 air-
craft, 10 of which shall be for replacement and which may 
be obtained by donation, purchase or through available ex-
cess 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.
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
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, for the emer-
gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, 
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoid-
able causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made avail-
able under this authority until funds specifically made 
available to the Department of the Interior for emer-
gencies shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That 
all funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished 
by a supplemental appropriation which must be requested 
as promptly as possible. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expendi-
ture or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, 
in addition to the amounts included in the budget pro-
grams of the several agencies, for the suppression or emer-
gency prevention of wildland fires on or threatening lands 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; 
for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
tential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subse-
quent to actual oil spills; for response and natural resource 
damage assessment activities related to actual oil spills; 
for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or 
potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to 
the authority in section 1773(b) of Public Law 99–198 
(99 Stat. 1658); 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 Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be 
necessary to permit assumption of regulatory authority in 
the event a primacy State is not carrying out the regu-
latory 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 reim-
bursement to other Federal agencies for destruction of ve-
hicles, aircraft, or other equipment in connection with 
their use for wildland fire operations, such reimbursement 
to be credited to appropriations currently available at the 
time of receipt thereof: Provided further, That for wildland 
fire operations, no funds shall be made available under 
this authority until the Secretary determines that funds 
appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire operations’’ shall be ex-
hausted within 30 days: Provided further, That all funds
used pursuant to this section must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation which must be requested as 
promptly as possible: Provided further, That such replen-
ishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata 
basis, accounts from which emergency funds were trans-
ferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the 
Secretary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; pur-
chase and replacement of motor vehicles, including spe-
cially equipped law enforcement vehicles; hire, mainte-
nance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for telephone serv-
ice in private residences in the field, when authorized 
under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the pay-
ment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for li-
brary membership in societies or associations which issue 
publications to members only or at a price to members 
lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
SEC. 104. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct 
of offshore preleasing, leasing and related activities placed 
under restriction in the President’s moratorium statement 
of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, central, and
southern California; the North Atlantic; Washington and 
Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 de-
grees north latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude. 
SEC. 105. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct oil 
and natural gas preleasing, leasing and related activities 
in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 106. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special 
Trustee for American Indians and any unobligated bal-
ances from prior appropriations Acts made under the 
same headings shall be available for expenditure or trans-
fer for Indian trust management and reform activities, ex-
cept that total funding for historical accounting activities 
shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in this 
Act for such purpose. 
SEC. 107. 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 federally-recognized tribe 
shall receive a reduction in Tribal Priority Allocation 
funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal year 2008. Under
circumstances of dual enrollment, overlapping service 
areas or inaccurate distribution methodologies, the 10 per-
cent limitation does not apply. 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under 
the authority provided by Public Law 104–134, as amend-
ed by Public Law 104–208, the Secretary may accept and 
retain land and other forms of reimbursement: Provided, 
That the Secretary may retain and use any such reim-
bursement until expended and without further appropria-
tion: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all ac-
tivities authorized by 16 U.S.C. 460zz. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of the Interior may here-
after use or contract for the use of helicopters or motor 
vehicles on the Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Ref-
uges for the purpose of capturing and transporting horses 
and burros. The provisions of subsection (a) of the Act 
of September 8, 1959 (18 U.S.C. 47(a)) shall not be appli-
cable to such use. Such use shall be in accordance with 
humane procedures prescribed by the Secretary. 
SEC. 110. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
can be used to compensate the Special Master and the 
Special Master-Monitor, and all variations thereto, ap-
pointed by the United States District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia in the Cobell v. Kempthorne litigation 
at an annual rate that exceeds 200 percent of the highest 
Senior Executive Service rate of pay for the Washington- 
Baltimore locality pay area. 
SEC. 111. The Secretary of the Interior may use dis-
cretionary funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for 
employees and former employees of the Department of the 
Interior reasonably incurred in connection with Cobell v. 
Kempthorne to the extent that such fees and costs are 
not paid by the Department of Justice or by private insur-
ance. In no case shall the Secretary make payments under 
this section that would result in payment of hourly fees 
in excess of the highest hourly rate approved by the Dis-
trict Court for the District of Columbia for counsel in 
Cobell v. Kempthorne. 
SEC. 112. 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.
SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any implementation of 
the Department of the Interior’s trust reorganization or 
reengineering plans, or the implementation of the ‘‘To Be’’ 
Model, funds appropriated for fiscal year 2008 shall be 
available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust 
Reform Consortium and to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa 
Indian Community, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai 
Tribes of the Flathead Reservation and the Chippewa Cree 
Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation through the same 
methodology as funds were distributed in fiscal year 2003. 
This Demonstration Project shall continue to operate sep-
arate and apart from the Department of the Interior’s 
trust reform and reorganization and the Department shall 
not impose its trust management infrastructure upon or 
alter the existing trust resource management systems of 
the above referenced tribes having a self-governance com-
pact and operating in accordance with the Tribal Self-Gov-
ernance Program set forth in 25 U.S.C. 458aa–458hh: 
Provided, That the California Trust Reform Consortium 
and any other participating tribe agree to carry out their 
responsibilities under the same written and implemented 
fiduciary standards as those being carried by the Sec-
retary of the Interior: Provided further, That they dem-
onstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary that they have 
the capability to do so: Provided further, That the Depart-
ment shall provide funds to the federally-recognized tribes 
in an amount equal to that required by 25 U.S.C. 
458cc(g)(3), including funds specifically or functionally re-
lated to the provision of trust services to the federally- 
recognized tribes or their members. 
SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire 
lands, waters, or interests therein including the use of all 
or part of any pier, dock, or landing within the State of 
New York and the State of New Jersey, for the purpose 
of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of 
transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, 
Governors, and Liberty Islands, and of other program and 
administrative activities, by donation or with appropriated 
funds, including franchise fees (and other monetary con-
sideration), or by exchange; and the Secretary is author-
ized to negotiate and enter into leases, subleases, conces-
sion contracts or other agreements for the use of such fa-
cilities on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may 
determine reasonable. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to issue any new lease that authorizes 
production of oil or natural gas under the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) to any 
lessee under an existing lease issued by the Department
of the Interior pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf 
Deep Water Royalty Relief Act (43 U.S.C. 1337 note), 
where such existing lease is not subject to limitations on 
royalty relief based on market price. 
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, 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 equiv-
alent to the maximum rate payable for senior level posi-
tions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; procurement of laboratory 
equipment and supplies; other operating expenses in sup-
port of research and development; construction, alteration, 
repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to 
exceed $85,000 per project, $788,269,000 (reduced by 
$5,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 
$1,000,000) (reduced by $3,884,000) (increased by
$3,884,000), to remain available until September 30, 
2009. 
COMMISSION ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND 
MITIGATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for support of the activities 
of the Commission on Climate Change Adaptation and 
Mitigation established by this Act, $50,000,000, to remain 
available until the termination of the Commission on Sep-
tember 30, 2009: Provided, That $5,000,000 shall be 
available to the Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency for the direct support of the Commission 
in reviewing science challenges related to adaptation and 
mitigation strategies necessitated by climate change, and 
for identification of specific action steps to address these 
challenges: Provided further, That funding allocated for di-
rect support of Commission activities shall include the sal-
aries and expenses of Commission staff, travel and related 
costs of Commission members and for the contractual 
costs of the National Academy of Sciences: Provided fur-
ther, That, not later than July 1, 2008, the remaining 
$45,000,000 shall be transferred by the Administrator to 
agencies or offices of the Federal Government with climate 
science responsibilities for implementation of Commission 
recommendations.