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derived from that account for resource protection, research, 
interpretation, and maintenance activities related to re-
source protection in the areas at which outdoor recreation 
is available; and of which such sums as become available 
from fees collected under section 217 of Public Law 104– 
303 shall be used to cover the cost of operation and mainte-
nance of the dredged material disposal facilities for which 
such fees have been collected: Provided, That 1 percent of 
the total amount of funds provided for each of the programs, 
projects, or activities funded under this heading shall not 
be allocated to a field operating activity prior to the begin-
ning of the fourth quarter of the fiscal year and shall be 
available for use by the Chief of Engineers to fund such 
emergency activities as the Chief of Engineers determines 
to be necessary and appropriate, and that the Chief of Engi-
neers shall allocate during the fourth quarter any remain-
ing funds which have not been used for emergency activities 
proportionally in accordance with the amounts provided for 
the programs, projects, or activities. 
REGULATORY PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary for administration of laws per-
taining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, 
$200,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2017. 
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FORMERLY UTILIZED SITES REMEDIAL ACTION PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary to clean up contamination 
from sites in the United States resulting from work per-
formed as part of the Nation’s early atomic energy pro-
gram, $101,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES 
For expenses necessary to prepare for flood, hurricane, 
and other natural disasters and support emergency oper-
ations, repairs, and other activities in response to such dis-
asters as authorized by law, $28,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the supervision and general 
administration of the civil works program in the head-
quarters of the Corps of Engineers and the offices of the 
Division Engineers; and for costs of management and oper-
ation of the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, 
the Institute for Water Resources, the United States Army 
Engineer Research and Development Center, and the 
United States Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center al-
locable to the civil works program, $178,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2017, of which not to exceed 
$5,000 may be used for official reception and representation 
purposes and only during the current fiscal year: Provided, 
That no part of any other appropriation provided in this 
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title shall be available to fund the civil works activities of 
the Office of the Chief of Engineers or the civil works execu-
tive direction and management activities of the division of-
fices: Provided further, That any Flood Control and Coastal 
Emergencies appropriation may be used to fund the super-
vision and general administration of emergency operations, 
repairs, and other activities in response to any flood, hurri-
cane, or other natural disaster. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY FOR 
CIVIL WORKS 
For the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army 
for Civil Works as authorized by 10 U.S.C. 3016(b)(3), 
$3,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—CORPS OF ENGINEERS— 
CIVIL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. (a) None of the funds provided in title I 
of this Act, or provided by previous appropriations Acts 
to the agencies or entities funded in title I of this Act that 
remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 
2016, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that: 
(1) creates or initiates a new program, project, 
or activity; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
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(3) increases funds or personnel for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted by this Act, unless prior approval 
is received from the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
activity for a different purpose, unless prior approval 
is received from the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations; 
(5) augments or reduces existing programs, 
projects or activities in excess of the amounts con-
tained in subsections 6 through 10, unless prior ap-
proval is received from the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations; 
(6) INVESTIGATIONS.—For a base level over 
$100,000, reprogramming of 25 percent of the base 
amount up to a limit of $150,000 per project, study 
or activity is allowed: Provided, That for a base level 
less than $100,000, the reprogramming limit is 
$25,000: Provided further, That up to $25,000 may be 
reprogrammed into any continuing study or activity 
that did not receive an appropriation for existing ob-
ligations and concomitant administrative expenses; 
(7) CONSTRUCTION.—For a base level over 
$2,000,000, reprogramming of 15 percent of the base 
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amount up to a limit of $3,000,000 per project, study 
or activity is allowed: Provided, That for a base level 
less than $2,000,000, the reprogramming limit is 
$300,000: Provided further, That up to $3,000,000 
may be reprogrammed for settled contractor claims, 
changed conditions, or real estate deficiency judg-
ments: Provided further, That up to $300,000 may be 
reprogrammed into any continuing study or activity 
that did not receive an appropriation for existing ob-
ligations and concomitant administrative expenses; 
(8) OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.—Unlimited 
reprogramming authority is granted in order for the 
Corps to be able to respond to emergencies: Provided, 
That the Chief of Engineers must notify the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations of these 
emergency actions as soon thereafter as practicable: 
Provided further, That for a base level over 
$1,000,000, reprogramming of 15 percent of the base 
amount a limit of $5,000,000 per project, study or ac-
tivity is allowed: Provided further, That for a base 
level less than $1,000,000, the reprogramming limit is 
$150,000: Provided further, That $150,000 may be re-
programmed into any continuing study or activity 
that did not receive an appropriation; 
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(9) MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES.—The 
same reprogramming guidelines for the Investiga-
tions, Construction, and Operation and Maintenance 
portions of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Ac-
count as listed above; and 
(10) FORMERLY UTILIZED SITES REMEDIAL AC-
TION PROGRAM.—Reprogramming of up to 15 percent 
of the base of the receiving project is permitted. 
(b) DE MINIMUS REPROGRAMMINGS.—In no case 
should a reprogramming for less than $50,000 be submitted 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
(c) CONTINUING AUTHORITIES PROGRAM.—Subsection 
(a)(1) shall not apply to any project or activity funded 
under the continuing authorities program. 
(d) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Corps of Engineers shall submit a report 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations to 
establish the baseline for application of reprogramming and 
transfer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided, 
That the report shall include: 
(1) A table for each appropriation with a sepa-
rate column to display the President’s budget request, 
adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to 
enacted rescissions, if applicable, and the fiscal year 
enacted level; 
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(2) A delineation in the table for each appro-
priation both by object class and program, project 
and activity as detailed in the budget appendix for 
the respective appropriations; and 
(3) An identification of items of special congres-
sional interest. 
SEC. 102. (a) Of the funds made available in prior 
appropriations Acts for water resources efforts under the 
headings ‘‘Corps of Engineers-Civil, Department of the 
Army, Construction’’ that remain unobligated as of the date 
of enactment of this Act, including amounts specified in 
law for particular projects, programs, or activities, 
$128,000,000 is rescinded. 
(b) None of the funds under subsection (a) may be re-
scinded from amounts that the Congress designated as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolu-
tion on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
SEC. 103. The Secretary of the Army may transfer to 
the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Fish and Wildlife 
Service may accept and expend, up to $4,700,000 of funds 
provided in this title under the heading ‘‘Operation and 
Maintenance’’ to mitigate for fisheries lost due to Corps of 
Engineers projects. 
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SEC. 104. None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act making appropriations for Energy and 
Water Development for any fiscal year may be used by the 
Corps of Engineers during the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2016, to develop, adopt, implement, administer, or en-
force any change to the regulations in effect on October 1, 
2012, pertaining to the definitions of the terms ‘‘fill mate-
rial’’ or ‘‘discharge of fill material’’ for the purposes of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.). 
PROJECT DEAUTHORIZATION 
SEC. 105. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall execute a trans-
fer agreement with the South Florida Water Management 
District for the project identified as the ‘‘Ten Mile Creek 
Water Preserve Area Critical Restoration Project’’, carried 
out under section 528(b)(3) of the Water Resources Develop-
ment Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 3768). 
(b) The transfer agreement under subsection (a) shall 
require the South Florida Water Management District to 
operate the transferred project as an environmental restora-
tion project to provide water storage and water treatment 
options. 
(c) Upon execution of the transfer agreement under 
subsection (a), the Ten Mile Creek Water Preserve Area 
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Critical Restoration Project shall no longer be authorized 
as a Federal project. 
SEC. 106. Section 5032(a)(2) of the Water Resources 
Development Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–114; 121 Stat. 
1205) is amended by striking ‘‘15’’ and inserting ‘‘20’’. 
SEC. 107. (a) No funds made available in this Act or 
any prior Act shall be available to reallocate water within 
the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) river basin, or any 
study thereof, until the Corps of Engineers has executed a 
Partnering Agreement with Alabama and Georgia out-
lining the participation of each State in a water realloca-
tion study for the ACT river basin. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall apply to 
the use of contributed or other non-Federal funds. 
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, $9,874,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $1,000,000 shall be deposited 
into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation 
Account for use by the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and 
Conservation Commission: Provided, That, of the amount 
provided under this heading, $1,350,000 shall be available 
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until September 30, 2017, for expenses necessary in car-
rying out related responsibilities of the Secretary of the In-
terior: Provided further, That, for fiscal year 2016, of the 
amount made available to the Commission under this Act 
or any other Act, the Commission may use an amount not 
to exceed $1,500,000 for administrative expenses. 
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
The following appropriations shall be expended to exe-
cute authorized functions of the Bureau of Reclamation: 
WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For management, development, and restoration of 
water and related natural resources and for related activi-
ties, including the operation, maintenance, and rehabilita-
tion of reclamation and other facilities, participation in 
fulfilling related Federal responsibilities to Native Ameri-
cans, and related grants to, and cooperative and other 
agreements with, State and local governments, federally rec-
ognized Indian tribes, and others, $988,131,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which $22,000 shall be avail-
able for transfer to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund 
and $5,899,000 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 Colo-
rado River Dam Fund: Provided, That such transfers may 
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be increased or decreased within the overall appropriation 
under this heading: Provided further, That, of the total ap-
propriated, the amount for program activities that can be 
financed by the Reclamation Fund or the Bureau of Rec-
lamation special fee account established by 16 U.S.C. 6806 
shall be derived from that Fund or account: Provided fur-
ther, That funds contributed under 43 U.S.C. 395 are avail-
able until expended for the purposes for which the funds 
were 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, of the amounts provided herein, funds may be used 
for high-priority projects which shall be carried out by the 
Youth Conservation Corps, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 
1706. 
CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION FUND 
For carrying out the programs, projects, plans, habitat 
restoration, improvement, and acquisition provisions of the 
Central Valley Project Improvement Act, $49,528,000, to be 
derived from such sums as may be collected in the Central 
Valley Project Restoration Fund pursuant to sections 
3407(d), 3404(c)(3), and 3405(f) of Public Law 102–575, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Bu-
reau of Reclamation is directed to assess and collect the full 
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amount of the additional mitigation and restoration pay-
ments authorized by section 3407(d) of Public 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 al-
ready committed to in-stream purposes by a court adopted 
decree or order. 
CALIFORNIA BAY-DELTA RESTORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS 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 ex-
pended, 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 appro-
priated herein may be used for the Federal share of the costs 
of CALFED Program management: Provided further, That 
CALFED implementation shall be carried out in a bal-
anced manner with clear performance measures dem-
onstrating concurrent progress in achieving the goals and 
objectives of the Program. 
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POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses necessary for 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 September 30, 
2017, $58,500,000, 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 budg-
eted as policy and administration expenses. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall 
be available for purchase of not to exceed five passenger 
motor vehicles, which are for replacement only. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF THE 
INTERIOR 
SEC. 201. (a) None of the funds provided in this title 
shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 
reprogramming of funds that— 
(1) creates or initiates a new program, project, 
or activity; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds for any program, project, or 
activity for which funds have been denied or restricted 
by this Act; 
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(4) restarts or resumes any program, project or 
activity for which funds are not provided in this Act, 
unless prior approval is received from the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress; 
(5) transfers funds in excess of the following lim-
its— 
(A) 15 percent for any program, project or 
activity for which $2,000,000 or more is avail-
able at the beginning of the fiscal year; or 
(B) $300,000 for any program, project or 
activity for which less than $2,000,000 is avail-
able at the beginning of the fiscal year; 
(6) transfers more than $500,000 from either the 
Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilita-
tion category or the Resources Management and De-
velopment category to any program, project, or activ-
ity in the other category; or 
(7) transfers, when necessary to discharge legal 
obligations of the Bureau of Reclamation, more than 
$5,000,000 to provide adequate funds for settled con-
tractor claims, increased contractor earnings due to 
accelerated rates of operations, and real estate defi-
ciency judgments. 
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(b) Subsection (a)(5) shall not apply to any transfer 
of funds within the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and 
Rehabilitation category. 
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘transfer’’ 
means any movement of funds into or out of a program, 
project, or activity. 
(d) The Bureau of Reclamation shall submit reports 
on a quarterly basis to the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress detailing all the funds repro-
grammed between programs, projects, activities, or cat-
egories of funding. The first quarterly report shall be sub-
mitted not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 202. (a) None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise 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 Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, to minimize any detrimental 
effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
(b) The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Pro-
gram and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage 
Program shall be classified by the Secretary of the Interior 
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as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully 
repaid pursuant to the ‘‘Cleanup Program—Alternative 
Repayment Plan’’ and the ‘‘SJVDP—Alternative Repay-
ment Plan’’ described in the report entitled ‘‘Repayment 
Report, Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and San 
Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, February 1995’’, pre-
pared by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Rec-
lamation. 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 reim-
bursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries of such service or 
studies pursuant to Federal reclamation law. 
SEC. 203. Section 9504(e) of the Secure Water Act of 
2009 (42 U.S.C. 10364(e)) is amended by striking 
‘‘$300,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$500,000,000’’. 
SEC. 204. Title I of Public Law 108–361 (the Calfed 
Bay-Delta Authorization Act) (118 Stat. 1681), as amended 
by section 210 of Public Law 111–85, is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘2016’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘2020’’. 
SEC. 205. The Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 
1978 is amended by— 
(1) striking ‘‘Construction’’ and inserting ‘‘Ex-
cept as provided in section 5B, construction’’ in sec-
tion 3; and 
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