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DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the Department 
of the Interior, $101,151,000; 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 compensation pay-
ments and unemployment compensation payments 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, $78,613,000, of which: 
(1) $70,137,000 shall remain available until expended for technical 
assistance, including maintenance 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 authorized 
by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American 
Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construction and 
support of governmental functions; 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 (Public 
Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $8,476,000 shall be available 
until September 30, 2009 for salaries and expenses of the Office 
of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial transactions of the 
territorial and local governments herein provided for, including 
such transactions of all agencies or instrumentalities established 
or used by such governments, may be audited by the Government 
Accountability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 
35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That Northern 
Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be provided 
according to those terms of the Agreement of the Special Represent-
atives on Future United States Financial Assistance for the 
Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Pro-
vided further, That of the amounts provided for technical assistance, 
sufficient funds shall be made available for a grant to the Pacific 
Basin Development Council: Provided further, That of the amounts 
provided for technical assistance, 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 
improvement are appropriated to institutionalize routine operations 
and maintenance improvement of capital infrastructure with terri-
torial participation and cost sharing to be determined by the Sec-
retary based on the grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance 
of its capital assets: Provided further, That any appropriation for 
disaster assistance 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 sec-
tion 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c).
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COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $5,362,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, as provided for in sections 221(a)(2), 221(b), 
and 233 of the Compact of Free Association 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, 
$44,572,000. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by direct 
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and 
grants, $182,331,000, 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 litigation 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 further, 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 contractor or grantee: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the statute of limitations shall not 
commence to run on any claim, including any claim in litigation 
pending on the date of the enactment 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 withdrawn 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 deposits to Individual Indian Money
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or Tribal accounts after September 30, 2002: Provided further, 
That erroneous payments that are recovered shall be credited to 
and remain available in this account for this purpose. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands and 
expenses 
associated 
with 
redetermining 
and 
redistributing 
escheated interests in allotted lands, and for necessary expenses 
to carry out the Indian Land Consolidation 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of the Secretary accounts. 
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20, 
1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907), $232,528,000, of which 
not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to otherwise 
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 Interior and 
any of its component offices and bureaus for the remedial action, 
including associated activities, of hazardous waste substances, 
pollutants, or contaminants pursuant 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 expended: 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 response activities con-
ducted 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 further 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 cred-
ited to this account. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and restora-
tion 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.), the 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.), $6,300,000, to remain available until expended.
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WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the acquisition of a departmental financial and business 
management system, $40,727,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act or previous 
appropriations Acts may be used to establish reserves in the 
Working Capital Fund account other than for accrued annual leave 
and depreciation of equipment without prior approval of the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available 
resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 aircraft, 10 of which 
shall be for replacement and which may be obtained by donation, 
purchase or through available excess 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 emergency reconstruction, 
replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facili-
ties or equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or 
other unavoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made 
available under this authority until funds specifically made avail-
able to the Department of the Interior for emergencies 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 expenditure or 
transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, in addition 
to the amounts included in the budget programs of the several 
agencies, for the suppression or emergency prevention of wildland 
fires on or threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned- 
over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related 
to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subsequent to 
actual oil spills; for response and natural resource damage assess-
ment 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 Mining Reclama-
tion 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 regulatory 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 reimbursement