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such estimates shall be presented to the Committees on 
Appropriations for approval. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer provided in, 
this Act or any other Act. 
SEC. 407. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or 
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill 
site claim located under the general mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (a) 
shall not apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines 
that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent application was 
filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; 
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, 
and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 
37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case 
may be, were fully complied with by the applicant by that 
date. 
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(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2010, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
a report on actions taken by the Department under the 
plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208). 
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process 
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, 
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of 
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified 
third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of 
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land 
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose 
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the 
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors. 
SEC. 408. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts appropriated to or otherwise designated in 
committee reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and 
the Indian Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103– 
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332, 104–134, 104–208, 105–83, 105–277, 106–113, 
106–291, 107–63, 108–7, 108–108, 108–447, 109–54, 
109–289, division B and Continuing Appropriations Reso-
lution, 2007 (division B of Public Law 109–289, as 
amended by Public Laws 110–5 and 110–28), Public 
Laws 110–92, 110–116, 110–137, 110–149, 110–161, 
110–329, 111–6, and 111–8 for payments for contract 
support costs associated with self-determination or self- 
governance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the In-
dian Health Service as funded by such Acts, are the total 
amounts available for fiscal years 1994 through 2009 for 
such purposes, except that the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
federally recognized tribes, and tribal organizations of fed-
erally recognized tribes may use their tribal priority alloca-
tions for unmet contract support costs of ongoing con-
tracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements. 
SEC. 409. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 
considered to be in violation of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) 
of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Plan-
ning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because 
more than 15 years have passed without revision of the 
plan for a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing 
in this section exempts the Secretary from any other re-
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quirement of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Re-
sources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any 
other law: Provided, That if the Secretary is not acting 
expeditiously and in good faith, within the funding avail-
able, to revise a plan for a unit of the National Forest 
System, this section shall be void with respect to such plan 
and a court of proper jurisdiction may order completion 
of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 410. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monu-
ment established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 
U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 
20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under 
the Presidential proclamation establishing such monu-
ment. 
SEC. 411. In entering into agreements with foreign 
fire organizations pursuant to the Temporary Emergency 
Wildfire Suppression Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m–1856o), the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
are authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements in 
which the individuals furnished under said agreements to 
provide wildfire services are considered, for purposes of 
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tort liability, employees of the fire organization receiving 
said services when the individuals are engaged in fire sup-
pression or presuppression: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not 
enter into any agreement under this provision unless the 
foreign fire organization agrees to assume any and all li-
ability for the acts or omissions of American firefighters 
engaged in fire suppression or presuppression in a foreign 
country: Provided further, That when an agreement is 
reached for furnishing fire suppression or presuppression 
services, the only remedies for acts or omissions com-
mitted while engaged in fire suppression or presuppression 
shall be those provided under the laws applicable to the 
fire
organization
receiving
the
fire
suppression
or 
presuppression services, and those remedies shall be the 
exclusive remedies for any claim arising out of fire sup-
pression or presuppression activities in a foreign country: 
Provided further, That neither the sending country nor 
any legal organization associated with the firefighter shall 
be subject to any legal action, consistent with the applica-
ble laws governing sovereign immunity, pertaining to or 
arising out of the firefighter’s role in fire suppression or 
presuppression, except that if the foreign fire organization 
is unable to provide such protection under laws applicable 
to it, it shall assume any and all liability for the United 
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States or for any legal organization associated with the 
American firefighter, and for any and all costs incurred 
or assessed, including legal fees, for any act or omission 
pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role in fire 
suppression or presuppression. 
SEC. 412. In awarding a Federal contract with funds 
made available by this Act, notwithstanding Federal Gov-
ernment procurement and contracting laws, the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Sec-
retaries’’) may, in evaluating bids and proposals, give con-
sideration to local contractors who are from, and who pro-
vide employment and training for, dislocated and displaced 
workers in an economically disadvantaged rural commu-
nity, including those historically timber-dependent areas 
that have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on 
Federal lands and other forest-dependent rural commu-
nities isolated from significant alternative employment op-
portunities: Provided, That notwithstanding Federal Gov-
ernment procurement and contracting laws the Secretaries 
may award contracts, grants or cooperative agreements to 
local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps or re-
lated partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth 
groups, or small or micro-business or disadvantaged busi-
ness: Provided further, That the contract, grant, or cooper-
ative agreement is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, 
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watershed or water quality monitoring or restoration, wild-
life or fish population monitoring, or habitat restoration 
or management: Provided further, That the terms ‘‘rural 
community’’ and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall have 
the same meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101– 
624: Provided further, That the Secretaries shall develop 
guidance to implement this section: Provided further, That 
nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving the 
Secretaries of any duty under applicable procurement 
laws, except as provided in this section. 
SEC. 413. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds 
appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or 
interests in lands may be expended for the filing of dec-
larations of taking or complaints in condemnation without 
the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations. 
SEC. 414. The terms and conditions of section 325 
of Public Law 108–108, regarding grazing permits at the 
Department of the Interior and the Forest Service shall 
remain in effect for fiscal year 2010. 
SEC. 415. Section 6 of the National Foundation on 
the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Public Law 
89–209, 20 U.S.C. 955), as amended, is further amend-
ed— 
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(1) in the first sentence of subsection (b)(1)(C), 
by striking ‘‘14’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘18’’; 
and 
(2) in the second sentence of subsection (d)(1), 
by striking ‘‘Eight’’ and inserting in lieu thereof 
‘‘Ten’’. 
SEC. 416. The item relating to ‘‘National Capital 
Arts and Cultural Affairs’’ in the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as 
enacted into law by section 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 
(99 Stat. 1261; 20 U.S.C. 956a), is amended— 
(1) in the second sentence of the first para-
graph,
by
striking
‘‘$7,500,000’’
and
inserting 
‘‘$10,000,000’’; and 
(2) in the second sentence of the fourth para-
graph,
by
striking
‘‘$500,000’’
and
inserting 
‘‘$650,000’’. 
SEC. 417. Section 339(h) of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, 
as amended, concerning a pilot program for the sale of 
forest botanical products by the Forest Service, is further 
amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2009’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2014’’. 
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SEC. 418. The second sentence of section 2 (a)(1) 
of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 201(a)(1); relating 
to coal bonus bids) does not apply for fiscal year 2010. 
SEC. 419. All monies received by the United States 
in fiscal year 2010 from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royal-
ties under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 shall be dis-
posed of as provided by section 20 of that Act (30 U.S.C. 
1019), as in effect immediately before enactment of the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–58), and 
without regard to the amendments contained in sections 
224(b) and section 234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 
(42 U.S.C. 17673). 
SEC. 420. Section 331(e) of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, 
(Public Law 106–291), as added by section 336 of division 
E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public 
Law 108–447), concerning cooperative forestry agree-
ments known as the Colorado Good Neighbor Act Author-
ity is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2009’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 2013’’. 
SEC. 421. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
shall be used to deposit funds from any Federal royalties, 
rents, and bonuses derived from Federal onshore and off-
shore oil and gas leases issued under the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) and the 
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Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) into the 
Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and 
Other Petroleum Research Fund. 
SEC. 422. Section 302(a) of the Secure Rural Schools 
and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 
U.S.C. 7142(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3), the fol-
lowing: ‘‘(4) to reimburse all or part of the costs in-
curred by the county to pay the salaries and benefits 
of county employees who supervise adults or juve-
niles performing mandatory community service on 
Federal lands.’’. 
SEC. 423. Within the amounts appropriated in this 
Act, funding shall be allocated in the amounts specified 
for those projects and purposes delineated in the table ti-
tled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included in the 
explanatory statement accompanying this Act. The pre-
ceding sentence shall apply in addition to the allocation 
requirements specified in this Act under the heading ‘‘Na-
tional Park Service–Historic Preservation Fund’’ for Save 
America’s Treasures and under the heading ‘‘Environ-
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mental Protection Agency–State and Tribal Assistance 
Grants’’ for special project grants for the construction of 
drinking water, wastewater and storm infrastructure and 
for water quality protection. 
SEC. 424. Not later than 120 days after the date on 
which the President’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget request is 
submitted to Congress, the President shall submit a report 
to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate describing in detail all Federal agency obligations 
and expenditures, domestic and international, for climate 
change programs and activities in fiscal year 2008, fiscal 
year 2009, and fiscal year 2010, including an accounting 
of expenditures by agency with each agency identifying cli-
mate change activities and associated costs by line item 
as presented in the President’s Budget Appendix. 
SEC. 425. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be used to implement any rule that requires man-
datory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure 
management systems. 
SEC. 426. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this or any prior Act may be used to release an individual 
who is detained, as of April 30, 2009, at Naval Station, 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into any of the United States 
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territories of Guam, American Samoa (AS), the United 
States Virgin Islands (USVI), the Commonwealth of Puer-
to Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands (CNMI). 
(b) None of the funds made available in this or any 
other prior Act may be used to transfer an individual who 
is detained, as of April 30, 2009, at Naval Station, Guan-
tanamo Bay, Cuba, into any of the United States terri-
tories of Guam, American Samoa (AS), the United States 
Virgin Islands (USVI), the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
(CNMI), for the purposes of detaining or prosecuting such 
individual, until 2 months after the plan described in sub-
section (c) is received. 
(c) The President shall submit to the Congress, in 
writing, a comprehensive plan regarding the proposed dis-
position of each individual who is detained, as of April 30, 
2009, at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who is 
not covered under subsection (d). Such plan shall include, 
at a minimum, each of the following for each such indi-
vidual: 
(1) The findings of an analysis regarding any 
risk to the national security of the United States 
that is posed by the transfer of the individual. 
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(2) The costs associated with not transferring 
the individual in question. 
(3) The legal rationale and associated court de-
mands for transfer. 
(4) A certification by the President that any 
risk described in paragraph (1) has been mitigated, 
together with a full description of the plan for such 
mitigation. 
(5) A certification by the President that the 
President has submitted to the Governor and legisla-
ture of the State or territory (or, in the case of the 
District of Columbia, to the Mayor of the District of 
Columbia) to which the President intends to transfer 
the individual a certification in writing at least 30 
days prior to such transfer (together with supporting 
documentation and justification) that the individual 
does not pose a security risk to the United States. 
(d) None of the funds made available in this or any 
prior Act may be used to transfer or release an individual 
detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of 
April 30, 2009, to a freely associated State, unless the 
President submits to the Congress, in writing, at least 30 
days prior to such transfer or release, the following infor-
mation: 
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(1) The name of any individual to be trans-
ferred or released and the freely associated State to 
which such individual is to be transferred or re-
leased. 
(2) An assessment of any risk to the national 
security of the United States or its citizens, includ-
ing members of the Armed Services or the United 
States, that is posed by such transfer or release and 
the actions taken to mitigate such risk. 
(3) The terms of any agreement with the freely 
associated State for the acceptance of such indi-
vidual, including the amount of any financial assist-
ance related to such agreement. 
(e) In this section, the term ‘‘freely associated 
States’’ means the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), 
the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Re-
public of Palau. 
SEC. 427. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be used to promulgate or implement any regula-
tion requiring the issuance of permits under title V of the 
Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water 
vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological 
processes associated with livestock production. 
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2010’’. 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Department of the Interior, environment, and related agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for 
other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classifica-
tion, acquisition of easements and other interests in lands, 
and performance of other functions, including maintenance 
of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management of 
lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, including the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential 
of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 
3150(a)), $965,721,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which not to exceed $69,336,000 is available for oil and 
gas management; and of which $1,500,000 is for high pri-
ority projects, to be carried out by the Youth Conservation 
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Corps; and of which $3,000,000 shall be available in fiscal 
year 2010 subject to a match by at least an equal amount 
by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cost- 
shared projects supporting conservation of Bureau lands; 
and such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as a 
lump sum grant without regard to when expenses are in-
curred. 
In addition, $45,500,000 is for the processing of appli-
cations for permit to drill and related use authorizations, 
to remain available until expended, to be reduced by 
amounts collected by the Bureau and credited to this appro-
priation that shall be derived from $6,500 per new applica-
tion for permit to drill that the Bureau shall collect upon 
submission of each new application, and in addition, 
$36,696,000 is for Mining Law Administration program 
operations, including the cost of administering the mining 
claim fee program; to remain available until expended, to 
be reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau and credited 
to this appropriation from annual mining claim fees so as 
to result in a final appropriation estimated at not more 
than $965,721,000, and $2,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, from communication site rental fees estab-
lished by the Bureau for the cost of administering commu-
nication site activities. 
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CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, 
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $8,626,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, 
and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administra-
tive expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests 
therein, $28,650,000, to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund and to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding the joint ex-
planatory statement of the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives accompanying Public Law 
111–8 (123 Stat. 524), the amount of $2,000,000 made 
available for the Henry’s Lake ACEC in the State of Idaho 
(as described in the table entitled ‘‘Congressionally Des-
ignated Spending’’ contained in section 430 of that joint 
explanatory statement) shall be made available for the 
Upper Snake/South Fork River ACEC/SRMA in the State 
of Idaho. 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 
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Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon 
and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adja-
cent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests 
therein, including existing connecting roads on or adjacent 
to such grant lands; $111,557,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all 
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Or-
egon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made 
a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant 
fund and shall be transferred to the General Fund in the 
Treasury in accordance with the second paragraph of sub-
section (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 
876). 
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT) 
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 
102–381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem 
Health and Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of 
planning, preparing, implementing and monitoring salvage 
timber sales and forest ecosystem health and recovery activi-
ties, such as release from competing vegetation and density 
control treatments. The Federal share of receipts (defined 
as the portion of salvage timber receipts not paid to the 
counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–1 et 
seq., and Public Law 106–393) derived from treatments 
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funded by this account shall be deposited into the Forest 
Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund. 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands 
and interests therein, and improvement of Federal range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwith-
standing any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent of all 
moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sections 
3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315 et seq.) 
and the amount designated for range improvements from 
grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead- 
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior 
pursuant to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed 
$600,000 shall be available for administrative expenses. 
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 
For administrative expenses and other costs related to 
processing application documents and other authorizations 
for use and disposal of public lands and resources, for costs 
of providing copies of official public land documents, for 
monitoring construction, operation, and termination of fa-
cilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for re-
habilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
collected under Public Law 94–579, as amended, and Public 
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Law 93–153, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of sec-
tion 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any 
moneys that have been or will be received pursuant to that 
section, whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or set-
tlement, if not appropriate for refund pursuant to section 
305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available 
and may be expended under the authority of this Act by 
the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public 
lands administered through the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment which have been damaged by the action of a resource 
developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized per-
son, without regard to whether all moneys collected from 
each such action are used on the exact lands damaged which 
led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys 
that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to 
the exact land for which funds were collected may be used 
to repair other damaged public lands. 
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of the 
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and such 
amounts as may be advanced for administrative costs, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
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ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 
operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, con-
tracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable 
agreements with public and private entities. Projects funded 
pursuant to a written commitment by a State government 
to provide an identified amount of money in support of 
the project may be carried out by the bureau upon receipt 
of the written commitment. Appropriations for the Bureau 
of Land Management (BLM) shall be available for pur-
chase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary structures, 
and alteration and maintenance of necessary buildings and 
appurtenant facilities to which the United States has title; 
up to $100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Sec-
retary, for information or evidence concerning violations of 
laws administered by the Bureau; miscellaneous and emer-
gency expenses of enforcement activities authorized or ap-
proved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on 
the Secretary’s certificate, not to exceed $10,000: Provided, 
That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Bureau may, 
under cooperative cost-sharing and partnership arrange-
ments authorized by law, procure printing services from co-
operators in connection with jointly produced publications 
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for which the cooperators share the cost of printing either 
in cash or in services, and the Bureau determines the coop-
erator is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: 
Provided further, That projects to be funded pursuant to 
a written commitment by a State government to provide 
an identified amount of money in support of the project 
may be carried out by the Bureau on a reimbursable basis. 
Appropriations herein made shall not be available for the 
destruction of healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros 
in the care of the Bureau of Land Management or its con-
tractors or for the sale of wild horses and burros that results 
in their destruction for processing into commercial prod-
ucts. 
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 
and economic studies, general administration, and for the 
performance of other authorized functions related to such 
resources, $1,244,386,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2011 except as otherwise provided herein: Pro-
vided, That $2,500,000 is for high priority projects, which 
shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $22,103,000 shall be used 
for implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 
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4 of the Endangered Species Act, as amended, (except for 
processing petitions, developing and issuing proposed and 
final regulations, and taking any other steps to implement 
actions described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 
(c)(2)(B)(ii)), of which not to exceed $11,632,000 shall be 
used for any activity regarding the designation of critical 
habitat, pursuant to subsection (a)(3), excluding litigation 
support, for species listed pursuant to subsection (a)(1) 
prior to October 1, 2009: Provided further, That of the 
amount available for law enforcement, up to $400,000, to 
remain available until expended, may at the discretion of 
the Secretary be used for payment for information, rewards, 
or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by 
the Service, and miscellaneous and emergency expenses of 
enforcement activity, authorized or approved by the Sec-
retary and to be accounted for solely on the Secretary’s cer-
tificate: Provided further, That of the amount provided for 
environmental contaminants, up to $1,000,000 may remain 
available until expended for contaminant sample analyses. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-
servation, management, investigation, protection, and utili-
zation of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 
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of lands and interests therein; $39,741,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest 
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable 
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $82,790,000, 
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
and to remain available until expended, of which, notwith-
standing 16 U.S.C. 460l–9, not more than $1,500,000 shall 
be for land conservation partnerships authorized by the 
Highlands Conservation Act of 2004: Provided, That none 
of the funds appropriated for specific land acquisition 
projects can be used to pay for any administrative over-
head, planning or other management costs. 
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 
as amended, $85,001,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which $30,307,000 is to be derived from the Co-
operative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, of which 
$5,146,000 shall be for the Idaho Salmon and Clearwater 
River Basins Habitat Account pursuant to the Snake River 
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Water Rights Act of 2004; and of which $54,694,000 is to 
be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 
17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $14,500,000. 
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, as amend-
ed (16 U.S.C. 4401–4414), $45,147,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 
Migratory Bird Conservation Act, as amended, (16 U.S.C. 
6101 et seq.), $5,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201–4203, 4211–4214, 
4221–4225, 4241–4246, and 1538), the Asian Elephant 
Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261–4266), the Rhi-
noceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 
5301–5306), the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000 (16 
U.S.C. 6301–6305), and the Marine Turtle Conservation 
Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601–6606), $11,500,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
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STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States 
Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American 
Samoa, and Indian tribes under the provisions of the Fish 
and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and Wildlife Coordi-
nation Act, for the development and implementation of pro-
grams for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including 
species that are not hunted or fished, $80,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That of the 
amount provided herein, $7,000,000 is for a competitive 
grant program for Indian tribes not subject to the remain-
ing provisions of this appropriation: Provided further, That 
$5,000,000 is for a competitive grant program for States, 
territories, and other jurisdictions with approved plans, not 
subject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall, for fiscal year 
2010 and each fiscal year thereafter, after deducting 
$12,000,000 and administrative expenses, apportion the 
amount provided herein in the following manner: (1) to the 
District of Columbia and to the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, each a sum equal to not more than one-half of 1 per-
cent thereof; and (2) to Guam, American Samoa, the United 
States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the North-
ern Mariana Islands, each a sum equal to not more than 
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