ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
From within the amount appropriated for activities 
of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 
necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur-
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-
tively determined that such procedures are in the public 
interest; construction and maintenance of necessary build-
ings and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for 
gauging stations, observation wells, and seismic equip-
ment; expenses of the United States National Committee 
for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation and 
expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly ap-
pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 
activities funded by appropriations herein may be accom-
plished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements (including noncompetitive cooperative 
agreements with Tribes) as defined in section 6302 of title 
31, United States Code: Provided further, That the United 
States Geological Survey may enter into contracts or coop-
erative agreements directly with individuals or indirectly 
with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without re-
gard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or intermittent 
services of students or recent graduates, who shall be con-
sidered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 
of title 5, United States Code, relating to compensation 
for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not 
be considered to be Federal employees for any other pur-
poses. 
BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for granting and admin-
istering leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements 
for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and ma-
rine-related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and 
approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law; 
for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for imple-
menting other laws and to the extent provided by Presi-
dential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants 
or cooperative agreements, $210,000,000 (reduced by 
$28,000,000), of which $154,000,000 is to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2025, and of which $56,000,000 
(reduced by $28,000,000) is to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That this total appropriation shall be 
reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and credited to this appropriation from additions to 
receipts resulting from increases to lease rental rates in 
effect on August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from
activities conducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man-
agement pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and miscella-
neous administrative activities: Provided further, That the 
sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such collec-
tions are received during the fiscal year, so as to result 
in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated at not 
more than $154,000,000: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses 
related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 
activities. 
BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL 
ENFORCEMENT 
OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 
For expenses necessary for the regulation of oper-
ations related to leases, easements, rights-of-way, and 
agreements for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, 
and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental 
Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and imple-
menting laws and regulations as authorized by law and 
to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial dele-
gation; and for matching grants or cooperative agree-
ments, $172,000,000, of which $141,000,000 is to remain 
available until September 30, 2025, and of which 
$31,000,000 is to remain available until expended, includ-
ing $3,000,000 for offshore decommissioning activities: 
Provided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced 
by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and 
credited to this appropriation from additions to receipts 
resulting from increases to lease rental rates in effect on 
August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activi-
ties conducted by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental 
Enforcement pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and 
miscellaneous administrative activities: Provided further, 
That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such 
collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to re-
sult in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated 
at not more than $144,000,000. 
For an additional amount, $33,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts col-
lected by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, 
which shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees 
collected in fiscal year 2024, as provided in this Act: Pro-
vided, That to the extent that amounts realized from such 
inspection fees exceed $33,000,000, the amounts realized 
in excess of $33,000,000 shall be credited to this appro-
priation and remain available until expended: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2024, not less than 50 percent 
of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety
and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund per-
sonnel and mission-related costs to expand capacity and 
expedite the orderly development, subject to environmental 
safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et 
seq.), including the review of applications for permits to 
drill. 
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, 
$15,099,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
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, $108,923,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2025, of which $65,000,000 shall 
be available for State and Tribal regulatory grants: Pro-
vided, That appropriations for the Office of Surface Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the 
travel and per diem expenses of State and Tribal per-
sonnel attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement sponsored training. 
In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-
force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 
of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That fees as-
sessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section 
507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary off-
setting collections, to remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from 
the general fund shall be reduced as collections are re-
ceived during the fiscal year, so as to result in a fiscal 
year 2024 appropriation estimated at not more than 
$108,923,000. 
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, $34,000,000, to be derived from re-
ceipts 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 fur-
ther, That funds made available under title IV of Public
Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal 
share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov-
ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re-
lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage 
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such 
projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-
ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: 
Provided further, That amounts provided under this head-
ing 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. 
In addition, $136,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for payments to States and federally recognized 
Indian Tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands 
and other related activities in accordance with the terms 
and conditions described in the report accompanying this 
Act: Provided, That such additional amount shall be used 
for economic and community development in conjunction 
with the priorities described in section 403(a) of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 
U.S.C. 1233(a)): Provided further, That of such additional 
amount, $89,042,000 shall be distributed in equal 
amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest 
amount of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described 
in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such section, $35,218,000
shall be distributed in equal amounts to the three Appa-
lachian States with the subsequent greatest amount of un-
funded needs to meet such priorities, and $11,740,000 
shall be for grants to federally recognized Indian Tribes, 
without regard to their status as certified or uncertified 
under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
of 1977, for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 
other related activities in accordance with the terms and 
conditions described in the report accompanying this Act 
and shall be used for economic and community develop-
ment in conjunction with the priorities in section 403(a) 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977: Provided further, That such payments shall be made 
to States and federally recognized Indian Tribes not later 
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That if payments have not been made 
by the date specified in the preceding proviso, the amount 
appropriated for salaries and expenses under the heading 
‘‘Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’’ 
shall be reduced by $100,000 per day until such payments 
have been made.
INDIAN AFFAIRS 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS 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) and the Indian Self- 
Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $2,010,574,000 (increased by 
$1,500,000), to remain available until September 30, 
2025, except as otherwise provided herein; of which not 
to exceed $8,500 may be for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses; of which not to exceed $78,494,000 
shall be for welfare assistance payments: Provided, That 
in cases of designated Federal disasters, the Secretary of 
the Interior may exceed such cap for welfare payments 
from the amounts provided herein, to provide for disaster 
relief to Indian communities affected by the disaster: Pro-
vided further, That federally recognized Indian Tribes and 
Tribal organizations of federally recognized Indian Tribes 
may use their Tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare 
assistance costs: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$83,402,000 (increased by $1,500,000) shall remain avail-
able until expended for housing improvement, road main-
tenance, land acquisition, attorney fees, litigation support,
land records improvement, hearings and appeals, and the 
Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That 
any forestry funds allocated to a federally recognized 
Tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 2025, 
may be transferred during fiscal year 2026 to an Indian 
forest land assistance account established for the benefit 
of the holder of the funds within the holder’s trust fund 
account: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 
2026: Provided further, That in order to enhance the safe-
ty of Bureau field employees, the Bureau may use funds 
to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles of cloth-
ing for personnel: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$7,096,000 in funds for trust, probate, and administrative 
functions may, as needed, be transferred to the Office of 
the Secretary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’ account: Pro-
vided further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may ac-
cept transfers of funds from United States Customs and 
Border Protection to supplement any other funding avail-
able for reconstruction or repair of roads owned by the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs as identified on the National 
Tribal Transportation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 
202(b)(1).
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 
Education for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec-
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 
budget account. 
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec-
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 
budget account. 
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; $153,309,000, 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 any funds provided 
for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of 
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available 
on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That this 
appropriation may be reimbursed from the Bureau of 
Trust Fund Administration appropriation for the appro-
priate share of construction costs for space expansion 
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-
tion: Provided further, That of the funds made available 
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived from the 
Indian Irrigation Fund established by section 3211 of the 
WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749): Pro-
vided further, That amounts provided under this heading 
are made available for the modernization of Federal field 
communication capabilities, in addition to amounts other-
wise made available for such purpose.
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 and 116–260, and 
for implementation of other land and water rights settle-
ments, $825,000, to remain available until expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$11,744,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025, of which $2,680,000 is for administrative expenses, 
as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, 
any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to 
exceed $150,213,551. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION 
OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 
education programs, as authorized by law, including the 
Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the In-
dian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 
1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), 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.), 
$1,131,617,000 to remain available until September 30, 
2025, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That 
federally recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organiza-
tions of federally recognized Indian Tribes may use their 
Tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance 
costs: Provided further, That not to exceed $833,592,000 
for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and 
other education programs shall become available on July 
1, 2024, and shall remain available until September 30, 
2025: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 
Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) 
and section 1128 of the Education Amendments of 1978 
(25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed $95,822,000 within and 
only from such amounts made available for school oper-
ations shall be available for administrative cost grants as-
sociated with grants approved prior to July 1, 2024: Pro-
vided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-
reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur-
chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for 
personnel.
EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 
for the operation of Indian education programs, including 
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-
tion of lands, and interests in lands; $267,887,000 to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That in order to 
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-
retary of the Interior may assume control of a project and 
all funds related to the project, if, not later than 18 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, any 
Public Law 100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) 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. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of In-
dian Education may carry out the operation of Indian pro-
grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree-
ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera-
tion with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in 
support of the management, operation, and maintenance 
of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau 
of Indian Education for central office oversight and Exec-
utive Direction and Administrative Services (except Exec-
utive Direction and Administrative Services funding for 
Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities 
operations and maintenance) shall be available for con-
tracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian 
Education 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 Tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 
the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di-
minish the Federal 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 access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, 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.
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation shall be used to support expanded grades for any 
school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school 
in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of 
October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior 
may waive this prohibition to support expansion of up to 
one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 
waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission 
of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one 
grade to expand the elementary grade structure for Bu-
reau-funded schools with a K–2 grade structure on Octo-
ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any 
prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail-
able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996, and to any school or school program that 
was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. 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 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 
(25 U.S.C. 2021)), 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 before Sep-
tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe-
riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau 
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 sepa-
rate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does 
not assume any obligation for charter school programs 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 per-
forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as 
Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
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. 
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian Tribe
to provide language and cultural immersion educational 
programs for non-public schools located within the juris-
dictional area of the Tribal government which exclusively 
serve Tribal members, do not include grades beyond those 
currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, 
provide an educational environment with educator pres-
ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau- 
funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, 
or State health and safety standards, and the Americans 
with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es-
tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-
ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or 
other impacts to students such as those caused by busing 
students extended distances: Provided, That no funds 
available under this Act may be used to fund operations, 
maintenance, rehabilitation, construction, or other facili-
ties-related costs for such assets that are not owned by 
the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite 
school’’ means a school location physically separated from 
the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that 
forms part of the existing school in all other respects. 
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-
dian Education Programs may be used to execute re-
quested adjustments in Tribal priority allocations initiated 
by an Indian Tribe. 
BUREAU OF TRUST FUNDS ADMINISTRATION 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts, and grants, $104,176,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $17,867,000 from 
this or any other Act, may be available for settlement sup-
port: Provided, That funds for trust management improve-
ments and litigation support may, as needed, be trans-
ferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian 
Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Programs’’ 
accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’ account; and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Depart-
mental Operations’’ account: Provided further, That funds 
made available through contracts or grants obligated dur-
ing fiscal year 2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-De-
termination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall 
remain available until expended by the contractor or 
grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 
provide a quarterly statement of performance for any In-
dian trust account that has not had activity for at least 
15 months and has a balance of $15 or less: Provided fur-
ther, 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 $100,000 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: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to rec-
oncile Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than 
$500 unless the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 
receives proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Ac-
counts claimant: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund Manage-
ment Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any 
other provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the 
trust accounts of individuals whose whereabouts are un-
known for a continuous period of at least 5 years and shall 
not be required to generate periodic statements of per-
formance for the individual accounts: Provided further,
That with respect to the preceding proviso, the Secretary 
shall continue to maintain sufficient records to determine 
the balance of the individual accounts, including any ac-
crued interest and income, and such funds shall remain 
available to the individual account holders. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative 
agreements, as authorized by law, $67,942,000 (reduced 
by $1,150,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by 
$2,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by 
$5,000,000) (reduced by $2,500,000) (reduced by 
$5,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by 
$3,000,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by 
$4,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000) (reduced by 
$2,000,000) (reduced by $12,500,000) (reduced by 
$15,000), to remain available until September 30, 2025; 
of which not to exceed $15,000 (reduced by $15,000) may 
be for official reception and representation expenses; 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; and of which $14,958,000 for 
Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation activities 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 
funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation ac-
tivities may, as needed, be transferred to and merged with 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of Indian Pro-
grams’’ and Bureau of Indian Education ‘‘Operation of 
Indian Education Programs’’ accounts and the Bureau of 
Trust Funds Administration ‘‘Federal Trust Programs’’ 
account: Provided further, That funds made available 
through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 
2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act 
of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available 
until expended by the contractor or grantee. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2024, up to $400,000 of the payments 
authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 
may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 
amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 
available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of 
title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 
event the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for pay-
ments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make
the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units 
of local government, then the payment to each local gov-
ernment shall be made proportionally: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may make adjustments to payment to 
individual units of local government to correct for prior 
overpayments or underpayments: Provided further, That 
no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to oth-
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 
amount of the payment is less than $100. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior 
and other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Pub-
lic 
Law 
108–188, 
$107,857,000 
(increased 
by 
$12,500,000), of which: (1) $97,640,000 (increased by 
$12,500,000) shall remain available until expended for 
territorial assistance, including general technical assist-
ance, maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, coral 
reef initiative and natural resources 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) $10,217,000 shall 
be available until September 30, 2025, for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That 
all financial transactions of the territorial and local gov-
ernments 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 the funds for the program of operations and 
maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu-
tionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement 
of capital infrastructure 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 assistance under this heading in this Act or 
previous appropriations 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, $1,463,000, to 
remain available until expended, as provided for in sec-
tions 221(a)(2) and 233 of the Compact of Free Associa-
tion 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. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-
retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory 
funds provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108– 
188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for 
Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost 
of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per-
cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost 
of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for 
construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds 
shall remain available until expended: 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: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran-
tees may be made without regard to the population of the 
area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on 
the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 
any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make 
or guarantee loans under such authorities. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$90,945,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $64,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2025.
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire 
suppression operations, fire science and research, emer-
gency rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and 
rural fire assistance by the Department of the Interior, 
$1,097,443,000 (increased by $2,000,000) (reduced by 
$575,000,000) (increased by $575,000,000) (increased by 
$5,000,000), to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $12,000,000 shall be for the renovation or 
construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds 
are also available for repayment of advances to other ap-
propriation accounts from which funds were previously 
transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That of 
the 
funds 
provided 
$247,000,000 
(increased 
by 
$5,000,000) is for fuels management activities: Provided 
further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 
may be furnished subsistence and lodging without cost 
from funds available from this appropriation: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums re-
ceived by a bureau or office of the Department of the Inte-
rior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 
1856 et seq., protection of United States property, may 
be credited to the appropriation from which funds were
expended to provide that protection, and are available 
without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That using 
the amounts designated under this title of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior may enter into procurement con-
tracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for fuels man-
agement activities, and for training and monitoring associ-
ated with such fuels management activities on Federal 
land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities that 
benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further, That 
the costs of implementing any cooperative agreement be-
tween the Federal Government and any non-Federal entity 
may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected par-
ties: Provided further, That notwithstanding requirements 
of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, for 
purposes of fuels management activities, may obtain max-
imum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 
Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109–154), 
or related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit 
youth groups; (3) small or micro-businesses; or (4) other 
entities that will hire or train locally a significant percent-
age, defined as 50 percent or more, of the project work-
force to complete such contracts: Provided further, That 
in implementing this section, the Secretary shall develop 
written guidance to field units to ensure accountability
and consistent application of the authorities provided here-
in: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 
heading may be used to reimburse the United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries 
Service for the costs of carrying out their responsibilities 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1531 et seq.) to consult and conference, as required by 
section 7 of such Act, in connection with wildland fire 
management activities: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior may use wildland fire appropriations 
to enter into leases of real property with local govern-
ments, at or below fair market value, to construct capital-
ized improvements for fire facilities on such leased prop-
erties, including but not limited to fire guard stations, re-
tardant stations, and other initial attack and fire support 
facilities, and to make advance payments for any such 
lease or for construction activity associated with the lease: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer 
of funds appropriated for wildland fire management, in 
an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 between 
the Departments when such transfers would facilitate and 
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects: 
Provided further, That funds provided for wildfire suppres-
sion shall be available for support of Federal emergency
response actions: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for assistance 
to or through the Department of State in connection with 
forest and rangeland research, technical information, and 
assistance in foreign countries, and, with the concurrence 
of the Secretary of State, shall be available to support for-
estry, wildland fire management, and related natural re-
source activities outside the United States and its terri-
tories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-
cation and training, and cooperation with United States 
and international organizations: Provided further, That of 
the funds provided under this heading, $383,657,000 shall 
be available for wildfire suppression operations, and is pro-
vided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-
ing ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, $350,000,000, to remain available until 
transferred, is additional new budget authority specified 
for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Pro-
vided, That such amounts may be transferred to and 
merged with amounts made available under the headings 
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 
Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—De-
partment-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ 
for wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in 
which such amounts are transferred: Provided further, 
That amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire 
Management’’ accounts in the Department of Agriculture 
or the Department of the Interior only upon the notifica-
tion of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions that all wildfire suppression operations funds appro-
priated under that heading in this and prior appropria-
tions Acts to the agency to which the funds will be trans-
ferred will be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, 
That the transfer authority provided under this heading 
is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by 
law: Provided further, That, in determining whether all 
wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated under 
the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and 
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Ag-
riculture or the Department of the Interior will be obli-
gated within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, 
any funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pur-
suant to any other transfer authority provided by law shall 
be excluded. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 
the response action, including associated activities, per-
formed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), $9,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
ENERGY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond 
to hazardous substance releases, remediate lands pursuant 
to section 40704 of Public Law 117–58 (30 U.S.C. 1245), 
and carry out the purposes of section 349 of the Energy 
Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended, 
$5,000,000 (reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by 
$5,000,000), to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That such amount shall be in addition to amounts other-
wise available for such purposes: Provided further, That 
amounts appropriated under this heading are available for 
program management and oversight of these activities: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer the 
funds provided under this heading in this Act to any other
account in the Department to carry out such purposes, 
and may expend such funds directly, or through grants: 
Provided further, That these amounts are not available to 
fulfill Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obli-
gations agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court, 
whether for payment of funds or for work to be performed. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-
toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by 
the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the 
provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 
et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 
et seq.), and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,750,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the operation and maintenance of a departmental 
financial and business management system, data manage-
ment, information technology improvements of general 
benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and the consoli-
dation of facilities and operations throughout the Depart-
ment, $89,758,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act 
or any other Act may be used to establish reserves in the 
Working Capital Fund account other than for accrued an-
nual leave and depreciation of equipment without prior ap-
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of the Interior may assess reasonable 
charges to State, local, and Tribal government employees 
for training services provided by the National Indian Pro-
gram Training Center, other than training related to Pub-
lic Law 93–638: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
lease or otherwise provide space and related facilities, 
equipment, or professional services of the National Indian 
Program Training Center to State, local and Tribal gov-
ernment employees or persons or organizations engaged 
in cultural, educational, or recreational activities (as de-
fined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States Code) 
at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equip-
ment, or services in the vicinity of the National Indian 
Program Training Center: Provided further, That all funds 
received pursuant to the two preceding provisos shall be 
credited to this account, shall be available until expended, 
and shall be used by the Secretary for necessary expenses 
of the National Indian Program Training Center: Provided
further, That the Secretary may enter into grants and co-
operative agreements to support the Office of Natural Re-
source Revenue’s collection and disbursement of royalties, 
fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized 
by law. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft 
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. 
OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE 
For necessary expenses for management of the collec-
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, as authorized by law, $157,440,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025; of which $71,251,000 
shall remain available until expended for the purpose of 
mineral revenue management activities: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $15,000 shall 
be available for refunds of overpayments in connection 
with certain Indian leases in which the Secretary of the 
Interior concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay
amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to correct 
prior unrecoverable erroneous payments. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—INTRA-BUREAU 
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 of the Inte-
rior, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or re-
pair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities 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 specifi-
cally made available to the Department of the Interior for 
emergencies 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. 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—DEPARTMENT-WIDE 
SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may author-
ize the expenditure or transfer of any no year appropria-
tion in this title, in addition to the amounts included in 
the budget programs of the several agencies, for the sup-
pression 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 ac-
tions related to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, 
volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; for contin-
gency planning subsequent to actual oil spills; for response 
and natural resource damage assessment activities related 
to actual oil spills or releases of hazardous substances into 
the environment; for the prevention, suppression, and con-
trol of actual or potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket 
outbreaks on lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, 
pursuant to the authority in section 417(b) of Public Law 
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); 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 Reclamation and Enforcement, such 
funds as may be necessary to permit assumption of regu-
latory authority in the event a primacy State is not car-
rying 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 to other Federal agencies for de-
struction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in con-
nection with their use for wildland fire operations, with 
such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations cur-
rently 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 sup-
pression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided fur-
ther, That all funds used pursuant to this section must 
be replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which 
must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided fur-
ther, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reim-
burse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency 
funds were transferred. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, 
in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and re-
placement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped 
law enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-
ation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; pur-
chase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private 
residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 
approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when 
authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in so-
cieties or associations which issue publications to members
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 
who are not members. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS, INDIAN TRUST 
MANAGEMENT 
SEC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs,’’ ‘‘Bureau of Indian 
Education,’’ and ‘‘Bureau of Trust Funds Administra-
tion’’ and any unobligated balances from prior appropria-
tions Acts made under the same headings shall be avail-
able for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust manage-
ment and reform activities. Total funding for settlement 
support activities shall not exceed amounts specifically 
designated in this Act for such purpose. The Secretary 
shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations within 60 days of the expenditure or transfer of 
any funds under this section, including the amount ex-
pended or transferred and how the funds will be used. 
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS, BUREAU OF INDIAN 
AFFAIRS 
SEC. 105. 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 Tribe shall receive a reduc-
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 
percent in fiscal year 2024. Under circumstances of dual 
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-
tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 
apply. 
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES 
SEC. 106. (a) In fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of 
the Interior shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, 
which shall be deposited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Envi-
ronmental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated op-
erator for facilities subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C. 
1348(c). 
(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that 
are above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are 
in place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 
2024 shall be— 
(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 
processing equipment or gathering lines; 
(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, 
with any combination of active or inactive wells; and 
(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 
wells, with any combination of active or inactive 
wells.
(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all in-
spections completed in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal 
year 2024 shall be— 
(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of 500 feet or more; and 
(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted 
via non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts 
D, E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections com-
pleted in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal year 2024 shall 
be— 
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 
and 
(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators 
under subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required 
within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des-
ignated operators under subsection (c) within 30 days of 
the end of the month in which the inspection occurred, 
with payment required within 30 days of billing. The Sec-
retary shall bill designated operators under subsection (d) 
with payment required by the end of the following quarter. 
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
multiyear cooperative agreements with nonprofit organiza-
tions and other appropriate entities, and may enter into 
multiyear contracts in accordance with the provisions of 
section 3903 of title 41, United States Code (except that 
the 5-year term restriction in subsection (a) shall not 
apply), for the long-term care and maintenance of excess 
wild free-roaming horses and burros by such organizations 
or entities on private land. Such cooperative agreements 
and contracts may not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal 
at the discretion of the Secretary. 
MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 
SEC. 108. 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. 
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, during fiscal year 2024, in carrying out work involv-
ing cooperation with State, local, and Tribal governments 
or any political subdivision thereof, Indian Affairs may 
record obligations against accounts receivable from any 
such entities, except that total obligations at the end of 
the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 
available at the end of the fiscal year. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCED SERVICES 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law relating to Federal grants and cooperative agree-
ments, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make 
grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, pri-
vate nonprofit organizations designated by the Secretary 
of Labor under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 
to utilize the talents of older Americans in programs au-
thorized by other provisions of law administered by the 
Secretary and consistent with such provisions of law. 
(b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that the agree-
ment would not—
(1) result in the displacement of individuals 
currently employed by the Department, including 
partial displacement through reduction of non-over-
time hours, wages, or employment benefits; 
(2) result in the use of an individual under the 
Department of the Interior Experienced Services 
Program for a job or function in a case in which a 
Federal employee is in a layoff status from the same 
or substantially equivalent job within the Depart-
ment; or 
(3) affect existing contracts for services. 
OBLIGATION OF FUNDS 
SEC. 111. Amounts appropriated by this Act to the 
Department of the Interior shall be available for obligation 
and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
SEPARATION OF ACCOUNTS 
SEC. 112. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to 
implement an orderly transition to separate accounts of 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 
Education, may transfer funds among and between the 
successor offices and bureaus affected by the reorganiza-
tion only in conformance with the reprogramming guide-
lines described in this Act.
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILT) 
SEC. 113. Section 6906 of title 31, United States 
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ 
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 
INTERAGENCY MOTOR POOL 
SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or Federal regulation, federally recognized Indian Tribes 
or authorized Tribal organizations that receive Tribally- 
Controlled School Grants pursuant to Public Law 100– 
297 may obtain interagency motor vehicles and related 
services for performance of any activities carried out 
under such grants to the same extent as if they were con-
tracting under the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act. 
APPRAISER PAY AUTHORITY 
SEC. 115. For fiscal year 2024, funds made available 
in this or any other Act or otherwise made available to 
the Department of the Interior for the Appraisal and 
Valuation Services Office may be used by the Secretary 
of the Interior to establish higher minimum rates of basic 
pay for employees of the Department of the Interior in 
the Appraiser (GS–1171) job series at grades 11 through 
15 carrying out appraisals of real property and appraisal 
reviews conducted in support of the Department’s realty 
programs at rates no greater than 15 percent above the
minimum rates of basic pay normally scheduled, and such 
higher rates shall be consistent with subsections (e) 
through (h) of section 5305 of title 5, United States Code. 
SAGE-GROUSE 
SEC. 116. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)— 
(1) to write or issue a proposed or final rule 
with regard to— 
(A) the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus 
urophasianus); 
(B) the Columbia Basin Distinct Popu-
lation Segment of greater sage-grouse; or 
(C) the Bi-State Distinct Population Seg-
ment of greater sage-grouse; or 
(2) to implement, administer, or enforce— 
(A) the rule submitted by the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to 
‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 
Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the 
Bi-State Distinct Population Segment of Great-
er Sage-Grouse’’ (78 Fed. Reg. 64327; pub-
lished October 28, 2013);
(B) the rule submitted by the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to 
‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 
Plants; Threatened Status for the Bi-State Dis-
tinct Population Segment of Greater Sage- 
Grouse With Special Rule’’ (78 Fed. Reg. 
64357; published October 28, 2013); or 
(C) the rule submitted by the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to 
‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 
Plants; Threatened Status for the Bi-State Dis-
tinct Population Segment of Greater Sage- 
Grouse With Section 4(d) Rule and Designation 
of Critical Habitat’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 25613; pub-
lished April 27, 2023). 
STATE CONSERVATION GRANTS 
SEC. 117. For expenses necessary to carry out section 
200305 of title 54, United States Code, the National Park 
Service may retain up to 7 percent of the State Conserva-
tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of 
Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to sup-
port State program administrative costs.
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; necessary expenses for personnel and related costs 
and travel expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment 
and supplies; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; 
and other operating expenses in support of research and 
development, $560,707,000 (increased by $1,000,000) 
(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (re-
duced by $1,000,000), to remain available until September 
30, 2025: Provided, That of the funds included under this 
heading, $19,475,000 shall be for Research: National Pri-
orities as specified in the report accompanying this Act. 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT 
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for 
personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-
ation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library member-
ships in societies or associations which issue publications 
to members only or at a price to members lower than to
subscribers who are not members; administrative costs of 
the brownfields program under the Small Business Liabil-
ity Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; im-
plementation of a coal combustion residual permit pro-
gram under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 
2016; and not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $2,428,959,000 (reduced by 
$1,750,000) (increased by $4,000,000) (increased by 
$3,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 
$3,000,000) (increased by $1) (reduced by $1) (reduced 
by $12,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000) (reduced by 
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 
$17,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 
2025: Provided further, That of the funds included under 
this heading— 
(1) $35,000,000 (increased by $4,000,000) 
shall be for Environmental Protection: National Pri-
orities as specified in the report accompanying this 
Act; 
(2) $651,226,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-
grams as specified in the report accompanying this 
Act. 
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in 
section 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15
U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursu-
ant to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA 
Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in 
fiscal year 2024 shall be retained and used for necessary 
salaries and expenses in this appropriation and shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That the 
sum herein appropriated in this paragraph from the gen-
eral fund for fiscal year 2024 shall be reduced by the 
amount of discretionary offsetting receipts received during 
fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more 
than $0: Provided further, That to the extent that amounts 
realized from such receipts exceed $9,000,000, those 
amounts in excess of $9,000,000 shall be deposited in the 
‘‘TSCA Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting re-
ceipts in fiscal year 2024, shall be retained and used for 
necessary salaries and expenses in this account, and shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That of 
the funds included in the first paragraph under this head-
ing, the Chemical Risk Review and Reduction program 
project shall be allocated for this fiscal year, excluding the 
amount of any fees appropriated, not less than the amount 
of appropriations for that program project for fiscal year 
2014.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $44,030,000 (increased by 
$10,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 
2025. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
$24,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), 
(c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $355,856,000 (re-
duced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), to re-
main available until expended, consisting of such sums as 
are available in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2023, 
and not otherwise appropriated from the Trust Fund, as 
authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amend-
ments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up 
to $355,856,000 as a payment from general revenues to
the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes as au-
thorized by section 517(b) of SARA: Provided, That funds 
appropriated under this heading may be allocated to other 
Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of 
CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading, $13,847,000 shall be paid to 
the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation to remain 
available until September 30, 2025, and $31,928,000 shall 
be paid to the ‘‘Science and Technology’’ appropriation to 
remain available until September 30, 2025. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $83,885,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $60,691,000 
shall be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank 
cleanup activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the 
Solid Waste Disposal Act; and $23,194,000 shall be for 
carrying out the other provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code: Provided, That the Administrator is authorized 
to use appropriations made available under this heading 
to implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act to provide financial assistance to federally recognized
Indian Tribes for the development and implementation of 
programs to manage underground storage tanks. 
INLAND OIL SPILL PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and 
operation of aircraft, $19,865,000, to be derived from the 
Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants, 
$2,583,858,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 
$1,000,000) (increased by $1,769,351,000) (reduced by 
$1,769,351,000), to remain available until expended, of 
which— 
(1) 
$535,000,000 
(increased 
by 
$1,103,861,000) (reduced by $1,103,861,000) (in-
creased 
by 
$100,000,000) 
(reduced 
by 
$100,000,000) shall be for making capitalization 
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds 
under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act; and of which $460,611,000 (increased by 
$665,490,000) (reduced by $665,490,000) (in-
creased 
by 
$100,000,000) 
(reduced 
by 
$100,000,000) shall be for making capitalization 
grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act: Provided, That $470,139,492 (increased 
by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) of the 
funds made available for capitalization grants for 
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds and 
$410,309,777 of the funds made available for cap-
italization grants for the Drinking Water State Re-
volving Funds shall be for the construction of drink-
ing water, wastewater, and storm water infrastruc-
ture and for water quality protection in accordance 
with the terms and conditions specified for such 
grants in the report accompanying this Act for 
projects specified for ‘‘STAG—Drinking Water 
State Revolving Fund’’ and ‘‘STAG—Clean Water 
State Revolving Fund’’ in the table titled ‘‘Interior 
and Environment Incorporation of Community 
Project Funding Items’’ included in the report ac-
companying this Act, and, for purposes of these 
grants, each grantee shall contribute not less than 
20 percent of the cost of the project unless the 
grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency: Pro-
vided further, That the Administrator is authorized
to use up to $1,500,000 of funds made available for 
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under this 
heading under title VI of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the 
Clean Watersheds Needs Survey: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Fed-
eral Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on 
the amounts in a State water pollution control re-
volving fund that may be used by a State to admin-
ister the fund shall not apply to amounts included 
as principal in loans made by such fund in fiscal 
year 2024 and prior years where such amounts rep-
resent costs of administering the fund to the extent 
that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by 
the Administrator, accounted for separately from 
other assets in the fund, and used for eligible pur-
poses of the fund, including administration: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 
the provisions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of 
section 201 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, grants made under title II of such Act for 
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Marianas, the United States Virgin Is-
lands, and the District of Columbia may also be 
made for the purpose of providing assistance: (1)
solely for facility plans, design activities, or plans, 
specifications, and estimates for any proposed 
project for the construction of treatment works; and 
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 
privately owned treatment works serving one or 
more principal residences or small commercial estab-
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2024, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-
sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and sec-
tion 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 
under section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act may also be used to provide assistance: 
(1) solely for facility plans, design activities, or 
plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed 
project for the construction of treatment works; and 
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 
privately owned treatment works serving one or 
more principal residences or small commercial estab-
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2024, notwithstanding any provision of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act and regulations issued 
pursuant thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the 
funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 
under section 518(c) of such Act may also be used
for grants for training, technical assistance, and 
educational programs relating to the operation and 
management of the treatment works specified in sec-
tion 518(c) of such Act: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2024, funds reserved under section 
518(c) of such Act shall be available for grants only 
to Indian Tribes, as defined in section 518(h) of 
such Act and former Indian reservations in Okla-
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior) and Native Villages as defined in Public Law 
92–203: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 
notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
up to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, 
or $30,000,000, and notwithstanding the limitation 
on amounts in section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the funds 
appropriated, or $20,000,000, for State Revolving 
Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the Ad-
ministrator for grants under section 518(c) and sec-
tion 1452(i) of such Acts: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding the amounts speci-
fied in section 205(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, up to 2 percent of the aggregate funds 
appropriated for the Clean Water State Revolving
Fund program under the Act less any sums reserved 
under section 518(c) of the Act, may be reserved by 
the Administrator for grants made under title II of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for Amer-
ican Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin Is-
lands: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 
notwithstanding the limitations on amounts specified 
in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 
up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs 
under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved 
by the Administrator for grants made under section 
1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided 
further, That 10 percent of the funds made available 
under this title to each State for Clean Water State 
Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent 
of the funds made available under this title to each 
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-
italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-
vide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the 
form of forgiveness of principal, negative interest 
loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and 
shall be so used by the State only where such funds 
are provided as initial financing for an eligible re-
cipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt 
obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt 
was incurred on or after the date of enactment of 
this Act, or where such debt was incurred prior to 
the date of enactment of this Act if the State, with 
concurrence from the Administrator, determines that 
such funds could be used to help address a threat 
to public health from heightened exposure to lead in 
drinking water or if a Federal or State emergency 
declaration has been issued due to a threat to public 
health from heightened exposure to lead in a munic-
ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That in a State 
in which such an emergency declaration has been 
issued, the State may use more than 14 percent of 
the funds made available under this title to the 
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-
italization grants to provide additional subsidy to eli-
gible recipients: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water 
Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(o)), the Administrator shall 
reserve up to $12,000,000 of the amounts made 
available for fiscal year 2024 for making capitaliza-
tion grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
Funds to pay the costs of monitoring for unregu-
lated contaminants under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of 
such Act; 
(2) $29,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (re-
duced by $5,000,000) shall be for architectural, en-
gineering, planning, design, construction and related 
activities in connection with the construction of high 
priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 
of the southwestern United States, after consultation 
with the appropriate commission: Provided, That no 
funds made available by this Act to address the 
water, wastewater and other critical infrastructure 
needs of the colonias in the United States located in 
the southwestern United States shall be made avail-
able to a county or municipal government unless 
that government has established an enforceable local 
ordinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents in 
that jurisdiction the development or construction of 
any additional colonia areas, or the development 
within an existing colonia the construction of any 
new home, business, or other structure which lacks 
water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure; 
(3) $30,558,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State
of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) 
no more than 5 percent of the funds may be used 
for administrative and overhead expenses; and (C) 
the State of Alaska shall make awards consistent 
with the Statewide priority list established in con-
junction with the Agency and the U.S. Department 
of Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal, 
and similar projects carried out by the State of Alas-
ka that are funded under section 221 of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or 
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate not less 
than 25 percent of the funds provided for projects 
in regional hub communities; 
(4) $80,000,000 (increased by $20,000,000) 
(reduced by $20,000,000) shall be to carry out sec-
tion 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. 9604(k)), including grants, 
interagency agreements, and associated program 
support costs: Provided, That at least 10 percent 
shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty 
counties: Provided further, That for purposes of this 
section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ 
means any county that has had 20 percent or more
of its population living in poverty over the past 30 
years, as measured by the 1993 Small Area Income 
and Poverty Estimates, the 2000 decennial census, 
and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty 
Estimates, or any territory or possession of the 
United States; 
(5) $105,000,000 shall be for grants under title 
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 
(6) $69,927,000 shall be for targeted airshed 
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 
in the report accompanying this Act; 
(7) $23,221,000 shall be for grants under sub-
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a); 
(8) $30,500,000 (increased by $6,500,000) (re-
duced by $6,500,000) shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–24(d)); 
(9) $25,011,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19b); 
(10) $7,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19a(l));
(11) $27,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 
(12) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 224 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1302b); 
(13) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 226 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1302d); 
(14) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 227 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1302e); 
(15) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1300); 
(16) $50,000,000 (increased by $230,000,000) 
(reduced by $230,000,000) shall be for grants under 
section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1301); 
(17) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure 
Act of 2018 (42 U.S.C. 300j-19e); 
(18) $3,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-
tion 302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 
4282(a)), of which not more than 2 percent shall be
for administrative costs to carry out such section: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 302(a) of 
such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 
pursuant to such authority to Intertribal consortia 
consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR 
35.504(a), to former Indian reservations in Okla-
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Pub-
lic Law 92–203; 
(19) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19g); 
(20) $2,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-
tion 2001 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act 
of 2018 (Public Law 115–270, 42 U.S.C. 300j–3c 
note): Provided, That the Administrator may award 
grants to and enter into contracts with Tribes, 
Intertribal consortia, public or private agencies, in-
stitutions, organizations, and individuals, without re-
gard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and sec-
tion 6101 of title 41, United States Code, and enter 
into interagency agreements as appropriate; 
(21) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58);
(22) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1276); and 
(23) $1,073,030,000 shall be for grants, includ-
ing associated program support costs, to States, fed-
erally recognized Tribes, interstate agencies, Tribal 
consortia, and air pollution control agencies for 
multi-media or single media pollution prevention, 
control and abatement, and related activities, includ-
ing activities pursuant to the provisions set forth 
under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for 
making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air 
Act for particulate matter monitoring and data col-
lection activities subject to terms and conditions 
specified by the Administrator, and under section 
2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016 to assist 
States in developing and implementing programs for 
control of coal combustion residuals, of which: 
$36,340,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 of 
CERCLA; $1,505,000 shall be for grants to States 
under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage 
Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry out the provi-
sions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in
section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other 
than section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act; $18,512,000 of the funds available for grants 
under section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act shall be for State participation in 
national- and State-level statistical surveys of water 
resources and enhancements to State monitoring 
programs. 
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guar-
anteed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure 
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $65,974,000 (re-
duced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of di-
rect loans, including capitalized interest, and total loan 
principal, including capitalized interest, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of 
direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans for
projects described in section 5026(9) of the Water Infra-
structure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to State 
infrastructure financing authorities, as authorized by sec-
tion 5033(e) of such Act: Provided further, That the use 
of direct loans or loan guarantee authority under this 
heading for direct loans or commitments to guarantee 
loans for any project shall be in accordance with the cri-
teria published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2020 
(85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso under the 
heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 
Program Account’’ in division D of the Further Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): 
Provided further, That none of the direct loans or loan 
guarantee authority made available under this heading 
shall be available for any project unless the Administrator 
and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
have certified in advance in writing that the direct loan 
or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project comply 
with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: Pro-
vided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office may request, and the Admin-
istrator shall promptly provide, documentation and infor-
mation relating to a project identified in a Letter of Inter-
est submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice
of Funding Availability for applications for credit assist-
ance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innova-
tion Act Program, including with respect to a project that 
was initiated or completed before the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure 
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited 
in this account, to remain available until expended. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and In-
novation Act of 2014, $6,026,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 
PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 
acceptable Tribal program, may award cooperative agree-
ments to federally recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal 
consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist
the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 
programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law, 
except that no such cooperative agreements may be award-
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 
agreements. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-
istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 
U.S.C. 136w–8), to remain available until expended. 
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal In-
secticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 
U.S.C. 136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency may assess fees under section 
33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2024. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-
ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2024, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$368,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great 
Lakes Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environ-
mental Programs and Management’’ to the head of any 
Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of
such head, to carry out activities that would support the 
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes 
Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities; 
to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of 
such Federal department or agency to carry out these ac-
tivities; and to make grants to governmental entities, non-
profit organizations, institutions, and individuals for plan-
ning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation 
in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 
and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
The Science and Technology, Environmental Pro-
grams and Management, Office of Inspector General, Haz-
ardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground 
Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are avail-
able for the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, 
and renovation of facilities, provided that the cost does 
not exceed $300,000 per project. 
For fiscal year 2024, and notwithstanding section 
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use 
the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 
319 of the Act to make grants to Indian Tribes pursuant 
to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro-
grams and Management’’ for fiscal year 2024 to provide 
grants to implement the Southeast New England Water-
shed Restoration Program. 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-
tion 320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, not less than $2,800,000 of the funds made available 
under this title for the National Estuary Program shall 
be for making competitive awards described in section 
320(g)(4). 
For fiscal year 2024, the Office of Chemical Safety 
and Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may, 
using funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environ-
mental Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and 
Technology’’, contract directly with individuals or indi-
rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without 
regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent 
personal services of students or recent graduates, who 
shall be considered employees for the purposes of chapters 
57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to com-
pensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 
of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort claims, 
but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 
any other purpose: Provided, That amounts used for this 
purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not 
exceed $2,000,000. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, 
$1,000,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 
Act to any agency in the Natural Resources and Environ-
ment mission area for salaries and expenses are available 
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the of-
fice. 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST SERVICE OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $1,069,086,000 (reduced by 
$2,000,000), to remain available through September 30, 
2027: Provided, That a portion of the funds made avail-
able under this heading shall be for the base salary and 
expenses of employees in the Chief’s Office, the Work En-
vironment and Performance Office, the Business Oper-
ations Deputy Area, and the Chief Financial Officer’s Of-
fice to carry out administrative and general management 
support functions: Provided further, That funds provided 
under this heading shall be available for the costs of facil-
ity maintenance, repairs, and leases for buildings and sites 
where these administrative, general management and 
other Forest Service support functions take place; the 
costs of all utility and telecommunication expenses of the 
Forest Service, as well as business services; and, for infor-
mation technology, including cybersecurity requirements: 
Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
may be used for necessary expenses to carry out adminis-
trative and general management support functions of the 
Forest Service not otherwise provided for and necessary 
for its operation. 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $275,000,000 (increased by 
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), to remain available 
through September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the funds 
provided, $32,197,000 is for the forest inventory and anal-
ysis program: Provided further, That all authorities for the 
use of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and 
cooperative agreements, available to execute the Forest 
and Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available 
in the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research.
STATE, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, Tribes, and others, and for forest 
health management, including for invasive plants, and 
conducting an international program and trade compliance 
activities as authorized, $305,198,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2027. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
and for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to 
such lands, $1,816,437,000 (increased by $2,000,000) 
(increased by $409,843,000) (reduced by $409,843,000) 
(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), to re-
main available through September 30, 2027: Provided, 
That of the funds provided, $32,000,000 shall be depos-
ited in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 
Fund for ecological restoration treatments as authorized 
by section 4003(f) of the Omnibus Public Land Manage-
ment Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(f)): Provided further, 
That of the funds provided, $41,600,000 shall be for for-
est products: Provided further, That of the funds provided, 
$207,000,000 shall be for hazardous fuels management
activities, of which not to exceed $20,000,000 may be used 
to make grants, using any authorities available to the For-
est Service under the ‘‘State, Private, and Tribal For-
estry’’ appropriation, for the purpose of creating incen-
tives for increased use of biomass from National Forest 
System lands: Provided further, That $20,000,000 may be 
used by the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into procure-
ment contracts or cooperative agreements or to issue 
grants for hazardous fuels management activities, and for 
training or monitoring associated with such hazardous 
fuels management activities on Federal land, or on non- 
Federal land if the Secretary determines such activities 
benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further, That 
funds made available to implement the Community Forest 
Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, title VI, shall be 
available for use on non-Federal lands in accordance with 
authorities made available to the Forest Service under the 
‘‘State, Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding section 33 of the 
Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the 
Secretary of Agriculture, in calculating a fee for grazing 
on a National Grassland, may provide a credit of up to 
50 percent of the calculated fee to a Grazing Association 
or direct permittee for a conservation practice approved 
by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year in which
the cost of the conservation practice is incurred, and that 
the amount credited shall remain available to the Grazing 
Association or the direct permittee, as appropriate, in the 
fiscal year in which the credit is made and each fiscal year 
thereafter for use on the project for conservation practices 
approved by the Secretary: Provided further, That funds 
appropriated to this account shall be available for the base 
salary and expenses of employees that carry out the func-
tions funded by the ‘‘Capital Improvement and Mainte-
nance’’ account, the ‘‘Range Betterment Fund’’ account, 
and the ‘‘Management of National Forest Lands for Sub-
sistence Uses’’ account. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $152,243,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2027, for construction, capital im-
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 
other facilities and infrastructure; for construction, recon-
struction, and decommissioning of roads that are no 
longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not 
part of the transportation system; and for maintenance 
of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as author-
ized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: 
Provided, That $10,000,000 shall be for activities author-
ized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a): Provided further, That funds 
becoming available in fiscal year 2024 under the Act of 
March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to 
the General Fund of the Treasury and shall not be avail-
able for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless 
the funds are appropriated. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, 
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-
geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National 
Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. Francis and 
Ouachita National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by 
law, $664,000, to be derived from forest receipts. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived 
from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov-
ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-
thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de-
posited by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and 
Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 
(16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 
30, 2027, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–
586; Public Law 76–589, Public Law 76–591; and Public 
Law 78–310). 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 
Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public 
Law 94–579, to remain available through September 30, 
2027, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$45,000, to remain available through September 30, 2027, 
to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the 
above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 
SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to man-
age Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under 
title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $1,099,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2027.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or 
other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest Sys-
tem lands and water, $2,116,956,000 (increased by 
$2,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That such funds, including 
unobligated balances under this heading, are available for 
repayment of advances from other appropriations accounts 
previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
That any unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fis-
cal year for hazardous fuels management may be trans-
ferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account: Provided 
further, That such funds shall be available to reimburse 
State and other cooperating entities for services provided 
in response to wildfire and other emergencies or disasters 
to the extent such reimbursements by the Forest Service 
for non-fire emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible 
emergency management agency: Provided further, That 
funds provided shall be available for support to Federal 
emergency response: Provided further, That the costs of 
implementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed-
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eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be 
shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-
ing, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-
ing ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service— 
Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression oper-
ations, $2,300,000,000, to remain available until trans-
ferred, is additional new budget authority specified for 
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, 
That such amounts may be transferred to and merged 
with amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Depart-
ment of the Interior—Department-Wide Programs— 
Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of Agri-
culture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’’ for 
wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in which 
such amounts are transferred: Provided further, That 
amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Man-
agement’’ accounts in the Department of the Interior or
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the Department of Agriculture only upon the notification 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
that all wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated 
under that heading in this and prior appropriations Acts 
to the agency to which the funds will be transferred will 
be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, That the 
transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi-
tion to any other transfer authority provided by law: Pro-
vided further, That, in determining whether all wildfire 
suppression operations funds appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and prior 
appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agri-
culture or the Department of the Interior will be obligated 
within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, any 
funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pursuant 
to any other transfer authority provided by law shall be 
excluded. 
COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the spe-
cial account established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act, 
shall be available to cover the costs described in subsection 
(c)(3) of such section of such Act, and shall remain avail-
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able until expended: Provided, That such amounts shall 
be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles 
from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase, 
lease, operation, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft 
to maintain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service 
wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs; 
notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or 
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 
5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration of 
buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); 
(4) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pur-
suant to 7 U.S.C. 2268a; (5) for expenses pursuant to 
the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 
U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uni-
forms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for 
debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 
3718(c).
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Funds made available to the Forest Service in this 
Act may be transferred between accounts affected by the 
Forest Service budget restructure outlined in section 435 
of division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided, That any 
transfer of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not in-
crease or decrease the funds appropriated to any account 
in this fiscal year by more than ten percent: Provided fur-
ther, That such transfer authority is in addition to any 
other transfer authority provided by law. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture’s no-
tification of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations that all fire suppression funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be 
obligated within 30 days: Provided, That all funds used 
pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished by a sup-
plemental appropriation which must be requested as 
promptly as possible. 
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or
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transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland 
fire management, hazardous fuels management, and State 
fire assistance when such transfers would facilitate and 
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of dis-
cretionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by 
this Act to or within the National Forest System Account, 
or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of haz-
ardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of 
burned-over National Forest System lands and water: Pro-
vided, That such transferred funds shall remain available 
through September 30, 2027: Provided further, That none 
of the funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall 
be available for obligation without written notification to 
and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development in connection with forest and range-
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 
and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation
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with United States government, private sector, and inter-
national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service, 
acting for the International Program, may sign direct 
funding agreements with foreign governments and institu-
tions as well as other domestic agencies (including the 
U.S. Agency for International Development, the Depart-
ment of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corpora-
tion), United States private sector firms, institutions and 
organizations to provide technical assistance and training 
programs on forestry and rangeland management: Pro-
vided further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic 
and international research and cooperation, the Inter-
national Program may utilize all authorities related to for-
estry, research, and cooperative assistance regardless of 
program designations. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available to enter into a cooperative agreement with the 
section 509(a)(3) Supporting Organization, ‘‘Forest Serv-
ice International Foundation’’ to assist the Foundation in 
meeting administrative, project, and other expenses, and 
may provide for the Foundation’s use of Forest Service 
personnel and facilities. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer to the Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal,
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preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros 
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of 
such lands. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-
ice in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal 
year shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of 
section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic 
Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public Law 
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public 
Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 
$14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall 
be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for De-
partment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to 
as Greenbook charges: Provided, That nothing in this 
paragraph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable 
agreements requested by the Forest Service in order to 
obtain information technology services, including tele-
communications and system modifications or enhance-
ments, from the Working Capital Fund of the Department 
of Agriculture.
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Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to 
$5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within 
the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried 
out by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried 
out under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act 
of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 
reception and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public 
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 
up to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the 
National Forest Foundation to aid conservation partner-
ship projects in support of the Forest Service mission, 
without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, 
for projects on or benefitting National Forest System 
lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 
That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda-
tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for admin-
istrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial 
assistance, private contributions to match funds made 
available by the Forest Service on at least a one-for-one 
basis: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer 
Federal funds to a Federal or a non-Federal recipient for
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a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 
the non-Federal matching funds. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 
up to $1,500,000 of the funds available to the Forest 
Service may be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife 
Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation 
projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, 
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds 
shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 
Foundation or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That 
the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal 
or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate 
that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 
funds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the 
National Forest System heading shall be available for the 
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agree-
ments with other Federal agencies, Tribes, States, local 
governments, private and nonprofit entities, and edu-
cational institutions to support the work of forest or grass-
land collaboratives on activities benefitting Federal lands 
and adjacent non-Federal lands, including for technical 
assistance, administrative functions or costs, and other ca-
pacity support needs identified by the Forest Service.
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Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section 
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 
663. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may 
be used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in sec-
tion 502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 
U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)). 
The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-
pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities 
maintenance and decommissioning. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any 
appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service, 
not to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Of-
fice of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri-
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management 
reviews, land purchase negotiations, and similar matters 
unrelated to civil litigation: Provided, That future budget
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justifications for both the Forest Service and the Depart-
ment of Agriculture should clearly display the sums pre-
viously transferred and the sums requested for transfer. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 
funded under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 
(42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest 
Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for 
purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available to pay, from a single account, the base salary 
and expenses of employees who carry out functions funded 
by other accounts for Enterprise Program, Geospatial 
Technology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Re-
source Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and 
Development Program. 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-
tion and Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public 
Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Serv-
ice, $273,556,000, to remain available until September 30,
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2025, except as otherwise provided herein; and shall be 
in addition to funds previously appropriated under this 
heading that became available on October 1, 2023, and 
in addition, $4,901,524,000, which shall become available 
on October 1, 2024, and remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided herein; to-
gether with payments received during each fiscal year pur-
suant to sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for services fur-
nished by the Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds 
made available to Tribes and Tribal organizations through 
contracts, grant agreements, or any other agreements or 
compacts authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301), shall 
be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant or con-
tract award and thereafter shall remain available to the 
Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: 
Provided further, That $2,500,000 shall be available for 
fiscal year 2025 for grants or contracts with public or pri-
vate institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment serv-
ices to Indians, including alcohol detoxification services: 
Provided further, That $996,755,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended for fiscal year 2025 for Purchased/ 
Referred Care: Provided further, That of the total amount 
specified in the preceding proviso for Purchased/Referred
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Care, $54,000,000 shall be for the Indian Catastrophic 
Health 
Emergency 
Fund: 
Provided 
further, 
That 
$51,000,000 shall remain available until expended for fis-
cal year 2025 for implementation of the loan repayment 
program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act: Provided further, That $58,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2025 shall be for costs related to or resulting 
from accreditation emergencies, including supplementing 
activities funded under the heading ‘‘Indian Health Facili-
ties’’, of which up to $4,000,000 may be used to supple-
ment amounts otherwise available for Purchased/Referred 
Care: Provided further, That the amounts collected by the 
Federal Government as authorized by sections 104 and 
108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 
U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a) during the preceding fiscal year 
for breach of contracts shall be deposited in the Fund au-
thorized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a– 
1) and shall remain available until expended and, notwith-
standing section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a– 
1(c)), funds shall be available to make new awards under 
the loan repayment and scholarship programs under sec-
tions 104 and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 
1616a): Provided further, That the amounts made avail-
able within this account for the Substance Abuse and Sui-
cide Prevention Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treat-
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ment and Recovery Services, for the Domestic Violence 
Prevention Program, for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for 
the housing subsidy authority for civilian employees, for 
Aftercare Pilot Programs at Youth Regional Treatment 
Centers, for transformation and modernization costs of 
the Indian Health Service Electronic Health Record sys-
tem, for national quality and oversight activities, for im-
proving collections from public and private insurance at 
Indian Health Service and Tribally-operated facilities, for 
an initiative to treat or reduce the transmission of HIV 
and HCV, for a maternal health initiative, for the 
Telebehaviorial Health Center of Excellence, for Alz-
heimer’s activities, for Village Built Clinics, for a produce 
prescription pilot, and for accreditation emergencies shall 
be allocated at the discretion of the Director of the Indian 
Health Service and shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That funds provided in this Act that are 
available for two fiscal years may be used in their second 
year of availability for annual contracts and grants that 
fall within 2 fiscal years, provided the total obligation is 
recorded in such second year of availability: Provided fur-
ther, That the amounts collected by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services under the authority of title 
IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1613) shall remain available until expended for the pur-
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pose of achieving compliance with the applicable condi-
tions and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of the So-
cial Security Act, except for those related to the planning, 
design, or construction of new facilities: Provided further, 
That funding contained herein for scholarship programs 
under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 
U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That amounts received by Tribes and Tribal 
organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act shall be reported and accounted for and 
available to the receiving Tribes and Tribal organizations 
until expended: Provided further, That the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs may collect from the Indian Health Service, 
and from Tribes and Tribal organizations operating health 
facilities pursuant to Public Law 93–638, such individ-
ually identifiable health information relating to disabled 
children as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying 
out its functions under the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.): Provided further, 
That of the funds provided for fiscal year 2025, 
$74,138,000 is for the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Fund and may be used, as needed, to carry out activities 
typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities ac-
count: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated by this Act, or any other Act, to the Indian Health
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Service for the Electronic Health Record system shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure for the selection or 
implementation of a new Information Technology infra-
structure system, unless the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are 
consulted 90 days in advance of such obligation. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 
the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2024, such sums 
as may be necessary: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 
budget account: Provided further, That amounts obligated 
but not expended by a Tribe or Tribal organization for 
contract support costs for such agreements for the current 
fiscal year shall be applied to contract support costs due 
for such agreements for subsequent fiscal years. 
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec-
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-
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tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 
budget account. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, 
improvement, and equipment of health and related auxil-
iary facilities, including quarters for personnel; prepara-
tion of plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of 
sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings, and 
purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and 
community sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized 
by section 7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 
2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act, and the In-
dian Health Care Improvement Act, and for expenses nec-
essary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental 
health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health 
Service, $475,209,000, which shall remain available until 
expended and shall be in addition to funds previously ap-
propriated under this heading that became available on 
October 1, 2023; and, in addition, $976,699,000, which 
shall become available on October 1, 2024, and remain 
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, funds appropriated for the
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planning, design, construction, renovation, or expansion of 
health facilities for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or 
Tribes may be used to purchase land on which such facili-
ties will be located: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$500,000 may be used for fiscal year 2025 by the Indian 
Health Service to purchase TRANSAM equipment from 
the Department of Defense for distribution to the Indian 
Health Service and Tribal facilities: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated to the Indian Health Serv-
ice may be used for sanitation facilities construction for 
new homes funded with grants by the housing programs 
of the United States Department of Housing and Urban 
Development. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian 
Health Service shall be available for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate 
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level 
positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; pur-
chase of reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of 
modular buildings and renovation of existing facilities; 
payments for telephone service in private residences in the 
field, when authorized under regulations approved by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; uniforms, or al-
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lowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 
and for expenses of attendance at meetings that relate to 
the functions or activities of the Indian Health Service: 
Provided, That in accordance with the provisions of the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients 
may be extended health care at all Tribally administered 
or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and 
the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal 
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall 
be credited to the account of the facility providing the 
service and shall be available without fiscal year limitation: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other law or 
regulation, funds transferred from the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health 
Service shall be administered under Public Law 86–121, 
the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act and Public Law 93– 
638: Provided further, That funds appropriated to the In-
dian Health Service in this Act, except those used for ad-
ministrative and program direction purposes, shall not be 
subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel 
and transportation: Provided further, That none of the 
funds made available to the Indian Health Service in this 
Act shall be used for any assessments or charges by the 
Department of Health and Human Services unless such 
assessments or charges are identified in the budget jus-
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tification and provided in this Act, or approved by the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations through 
the reprogramming process: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, funds previously 
or herein made available to a Tribe or Tribal organization 
through a contract, grant, or agreement authorized by 
title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et 
seq.), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-deter-
mination contract under title I, or a self-governance agree-
ment under title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain 
available to the Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal 
year limitation: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available to the Indian Health Service in this Act 
shall be used to implement the final rule published in the 
Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, relating to the eligi-
bility for the health care services of the Indian Health 
Service until the Indian Health Service has submitted a 
budget request reflecting the increased costs associated 
with the proposed final rule, and such request has been 
included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law: 
Provided further, That with respect to functions trans-
ferred by the Indian Health Service to Tribes or Tribal 
organizations, the Indian Health Service is authorized to
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provide goods and services to those entities on a reimburs-
able basis, including payments in advance with subsequent 
adjustment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, 
along with the funds received from those entities pursuant 
to the Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to 
the same or subsequent appropriation account from which 
the funds were originally derived, with such amounts to 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That re-
imbursements for training, technical assistance, or serv-
ices provided by the Indian Health Service will contain 
total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead 
costs associated with the provision of goods, services, or 
technical assistance: Provided further, That the Indian 
Health Service may provide to civilian medical personnel 
serving in hospitals operated by the Indian Health Service 
housing allowances equivalent to those that would be pro-
vided to members of the Commissioned Corps of the 
United States Public Health Service serving in similar po-
sitions at such hospitals: Provided further, That the appro-
priation structure for the Indian Health Service may not 
be altered without advance notification to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 
SCIENCES 
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities 
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the 
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 
$75,000,000. 
AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE 
REGISTRY 
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC 
HEALTH 
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out 
activities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019 
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $76,000,000: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu 
of performing a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) 
of CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct 
other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, 
including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical
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evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 
healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing 
any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, 
or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be 
bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 
CERCLA: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for ATSDR 
to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to 
section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2024, and 
existing profiles may be updated as necessary. 
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office 
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality 
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 
1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception 
and representation expenses, $3,750,000 (increased by 
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by 
$2,750,000): Provided, That notwithstanding section 202 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, the 
Council shall consist of one member, appointed by the
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President, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-
ate, serving as chairman and exercising all powers, func-
tions, and duties of the Council. 
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances there-
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and for serv-
ices authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individ-
uals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum 
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 
5376, $12,960,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety 
and Hazard Investigation Board (Board) shall have not 
more than three career Senior Executive Service positions: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the individual appointed to the position of In-
spector General of the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also hold the 
position of Inspector General of the Board: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Inspector General of the Board shall utilize personnel of 
the Office of Inspector General of EPA in performing the 
duties of the Inspector General of the Board, and shall 
not appoint any individuals to positions within the Board.
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OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 
531, $3,060,000, to remain available until expended, 
which shall be derived from unobligated balances from 
prior year appropriations available under this heading: 
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appro-
priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals 
and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti-
tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in-
cluded in the preceding categories: Provided further, That 
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may 
be used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Reloca-
tion to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as 
of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the 
lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or re-
placement home is provided for such household: Provided 
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than 
one new or replacement home: Provided further, That the 
Office shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who 
have selected and received an approved homesite on the 
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off
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the Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant 
to section 11 of Public Law 93–531 (88 Stat. 1716). 
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 
CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author-
ized by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 
U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,000,000, which shall become 
available on July 1, 2024, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2025. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields 
of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and 
documentation of the National Collections; presentation of 
public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, 
dissemination, and exchange of information and publica-
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease 
agreements of no more than 30 years, and protection of 
buildings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed 
$100,000 for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and 
purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for em-
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ployees, $852,215,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided herein; of 
which not to exceed $16,938,000 for the instrumentation 
program, collections acquisition, exhibition reinstallation, 
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and 
the repatriation of skeletal remains program shall remain 
available until expended; and including such funds as may 
be necessary to support American overseas research cen-
ters: Provided, That funds appropriated herein are avail-
able for advance payments to independent contractors per-
forming research services or participating in official 
Smithsonian presentations: Provided further, That the 
Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropria-
tions designated in this Act for lease or rent payments, 
as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and such 
rent payments may be deposited into the general trust 
funds of the Institution to be available as trust funds for 
expenses associated with the purchase of a portion of the 
building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, 
to the extent that federally supported activities will be 
housed there: Provided further, That the use of such 
amounts in the general trust funds of the Institution for 
such purpose shall not be construed as Federal debt serv-
ice for, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or 
an obligation of the Federal Government: Provided further,
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That no appropriated funds may be used directly to serv-
ice debt which is incurred to finance the costs of acquiring 
a portion of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, 
Washington, DC, or of planning, designing, and con-
structing improvements to such building: Provided further, 
That any agreement entered into by the Smithsonian In-
stitution for the sale of its ownership interest, or any por-
tion thereof, in such building so acquired may not take 
effect until the expiration of a 30 day period which begins 
on the date on which the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and Senate, the Committees on 
House Administration and Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 
on Rules and Administration of the Senate a report, as 
outlined in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 
(Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 2536) on the intended 
sale. 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized 
by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 
and for construction, including necessary personnel,
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$107,500,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art 
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as 
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), 
as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 
(Public Resolution 9, 76th Congress), including services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when 
authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership 
in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose 
publications or services are available to members only, or 
to members at a price lower than to the general public; 
purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as 
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or 
rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and 
contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, improve-
ment, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; 
and purchase of services for restoration and repair of 
works of art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts 
made, without advertising, with individuals, firms, or or-
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ganizations at such rates or prices and under such terms 
and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper, 
$160,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and 
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 
otherwise, for operating lease agreements of no more than 
10 years, that address space needs created by the ongoing 
renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized, 
$18,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That such funds may be obligated for design and 
construction of an off-site art storage facility in partner-
ship with the Smithsonian Institution and may be trans-
ferred to the Smithsonian Institution for such purposes: 
Provided further, That contracts awarded for environ-
mental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair or 
renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art may 
be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on 
the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 
ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-
nance, and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts, $20,000,000, to remain available 
until September, 30, 2025. 
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-
tion of the existing features of the building and site of 
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 
SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $12,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025.
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 
HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
$186,300,000 shall be available to the National Endow-
ment for the Arts for the support of projects and produc-
tions in the arts, including arts education and public out-
reach activities, through assistance to organizations and 
individuals pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program 
support, and for administering the functions of the Act, 
to remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
$186,300,000 to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That appropriations for carrying out section 
10(a)(2) of such Act shall be available for obligation only 
in such amounts as may be equal to the total amounts 
of gifts, bequests, devises of money, and other property 
accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the National 
Endowment for the Humanities under the provisions of 
sections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) of such Act during
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the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal 
amounts have not previously been appropriated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used 
to process any grant or contract documents which do not 
include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none 
of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on 
the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re-
ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 
That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as 
necessary for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants of up 
to $10,000, if in the aggregate the amount of such grants 
does not exceed 5 percent of the sums appropriated for 
grantmaking purposes per year: Provided further, That 
such small grant actions are taken pursuant to the terms 
of an expressed and direct delegation of authority from 
the National Council on the Arts to the Chairperson. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under 
chapter 91 of title 40, United States Code, $3,464,000: 
Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge
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fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such 
fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col-
lection, to remain available until expended without further 
appropriation: Provided further, That the Commission is 
authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, art-
work, drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history 
and design of the Nation’s Capital or the history and ac-
tivities of the Commission of Fine Arts, for the purpose 
of artistic display, study, or education: Provided further, 
That one-tenth of one percent of the funds provided under 
this heading may be used for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), $4,750,000: Provided, That the 
item relating to ‘‘National Capital Arts and Cultural Af-
fairs’’ in the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as enacted into law 
by section 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 (20 U.S.C. 
956a), shall be applied in fiscal year 2024 in the second 
paragraph by inserting ‘‘, calendar year 2020 excluded’’ 
before the first period.
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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $8,285,000. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-
ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United 
States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $8,500,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 per-
cent of the funds provided under this heading may be used 
for official reception and representational expenses associ-
ated with hosting international visitors engaged in the 
planning and physical development of world capitals. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301– 
2310), $67,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (increased 
by $2,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 
2025, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2026, for the Museum’s equipment replace-
ment program; and of which $4,000,000 for the Museum’s 
repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the
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Museum’s outreach initiatives program shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
WORLD WAR I CENTENNIAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
Notwithstanding section 9 of the World War I Cen-
tennial Commission Act, as authorized by the World War 
I Centennial Commission Act (Public Law 112–272) and 
the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public 
Law 113–291), for necessary expenses of the World War 
I Centennial Commission, $1,500,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That in addition to the authority 
provided by section 6(g) of such Act, the World War I 
Commission may accept money, in-kind personnel services, 
contractual support, or any appropriate support from any 
executive branch agency for activities of the Commission. 
UNITED STATES SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States 
Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate 
observances and activities associated with the 250th anni-
versary of the founding of the United States, as authorized 
by Public Law 116–282, the technical amendments to 
Public Law 114–196, $15,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025.
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TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 
promote public support or opposition to any legislative 
proposal on which Congressional action is not complete 
other than to communicate to Members of Congress as 
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
OBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
DISCLOSURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
SEC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated over-
head charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including 
working capital fund charges, from programs, projects, ac-
tivities and subactivities to support government-wide, de-
partmental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or 
headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be pre-
sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap-
proval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such esti-
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mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions for approval. 
MINING APPLICATIONS 
SEC. 404. (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.—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 Sec-
retary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all re-
quirements established under sections 2325 and 2326 of 
the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or 
lode claims, 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. 
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2025, 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 and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken 
by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to
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section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Re-
lated 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 Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral exam-
ination of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a 
patent application as set forth in subsection (b). The Bu-
reau of Land Management shall have the sole responsi-
bility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in ac-
cordance with the standard procedures employed by the 
Bureau of Land Management in the retention of third- 
party contractors. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, PRIOR YEAR LIMITATION 
SEC. 405. Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2015 (Public Law 113–235) shall continue in effect in fis-
cal year 2024. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2024 
LIMITATION 
SEC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal 
year 2024 under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and
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Human Services, Indian Health Service, Contract Support 
Costs’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Contract Support Costs’’ are the only amounts 
available for contract support costs arising out of self-de-
termination or self-governance contracts, grants, com-
pacts, or annual funding agreements for fiscal year 2024 
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation, and the Indian Health Service: Provided, That 
such amounts provided by this Act are not available for 
payment of claims for contract support costs for prior 
years, or for repayments of payments for settlements or 
judgments awarding contract support costs for prior 
years. 
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS 
SEC. 407. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 
considered to be in violation of section 6(f)(5)(A) of the 
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 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 requirement 
of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Plan-
ning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Pro-
vided, That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and 
in good faith, within the funding available, to revise a plan
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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 accel-
erated basis. 
PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 
SEC. 408. 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. 
LIMITATION ON TAKINGS 
SEC. 409. 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: Provided, That this provision shall not apply 
to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades Na-
tional Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to 
funds appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of
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Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration pur-
poses. 
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 410. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act to executive branch agen-
cies may be used to enter into any Federal contract unless 
such contract is entered into in accordance with the re-
quirements of Chapter 33 of title 41, United States Code, 
or Chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless— 
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a con-
tract to be entered into without regard for these re-
quirements, including formula grants for States, or 
federally recognized Indian Tribes; 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) or by 
any other Federal laws that specifically authorize a 
contract within an Indian Tribe as defined in section 
4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 5304(e)); or 
(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c),
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post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any 
other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen-
cy that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report com-
promises national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to 
the requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for 
no less than 45 days. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT 
GUIDELINES 
SEC. 412. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant 
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-
dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-
ship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures 
to ensure that no funding provided through a grant, 
except a grant made to a State or local arts agency, 
or regional group, may be used to make a grant to
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any other organization or individual to conduct ac-
tivity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments 
made in exchange for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the 
contents of the season, including identified programs 
or projects. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM 
PRIORITIES 
SEC. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-
priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National 
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given 
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve 
underserved populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means 
a population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview 
of arts and humanities programs due to factors such 
as a high incidence of income below the poverty line 
or to geographic isolation.
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(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of 
the size involved. 
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and 
Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this 
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv-
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-
tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public 
knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of 
the arts. 
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds
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to any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by 
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 5 of such Act; and 
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 
grants to improve and support community-based 
music performance and education. 
STATUS OF BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 414. The Department of the Interior, the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the 
Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-
ate quarterly reports on the status of balances of appro-
priations including all uncommitted, committed, and unob-
ligated funds in each program and activity within 60 days 
of enactment of this Act. 
EXTENSION OF GRAZING PERMITS 
SEC. 415. The terms and conditions of section 325 
of Public Law 108–108 (117 Stat. 1307), regarding graz-
ing permits issued by the Forest Service on any lands not 
subject to administration under section 402 of the Federal 
Lands Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1752), 
shall remain in effect for fiscal year 2024.
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FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 416. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network is designed to block access 
to pornography websites. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local 
law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out 
criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activi-
ties. 
HUMANE TRANSFER AND TREATMENT OF ANIMALS 
SEC. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management, or the 
Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land adminis-
tered by the Forest Service (referred to in this section as 
the ‘‘Secretary concerned’’), may transfer excess wild 
horses and burros that have been removed from land ad-
ministered by the Secretary concerned to other Federal, 
State, and local government agencies for use as work ani-
mals. 
(b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer 
under subsection (a) immediately on the request of a Fed-
eral, State, or local government agency.
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(c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under 
subsection (a) shall lose status as a wild free-roaming 
horse or burro (as defined in section 2 of Public Law 92– 
195 (commonly known as the ‘‘Wild Free-Roaming Horses 
and Burros Act’’) (16 U.S.C. 1332)). 
(d) A Federal, State, or local government agency re-
ceiving an excess wild horse or burro pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall not— 
(1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that 
results in the destruction of the horse or burro into 
a commercial product; 
(2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro 
in a manner that results in the destruction of the 
horse or burro for processing into a commercial 
product; or 
(3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the 
recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case 
of severe injury, illness, or advanced age. 
(e) Amounts appropriated by this Act shall not be 
available for— 
(1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted, 
and wild horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary concerned (including a contractor); or
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(2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results 
in the destruction of the wild horse or burro for 
processing into a commercial product. 
FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND 
ENHANCEMENT AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 418. Section 503(f) of Public Law 109–54 (16 
U.S.C. 580d note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 
USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 
SEC. 419. (a)(1) None of the funds made available 
by a State water pollution control revolving fund as au-
thorized by section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300j–12) shall be used for a project for the 
construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 
water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and 
steel products used in the project are produced in the 
United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel’’ products 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, 
pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-
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mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘Administrator’’) finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-
sistent with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 
the overall project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiv-
er under this section, the Administrator shall make avail-
able to the public on an informal basis a copy of the re-
quest and information available to the Administrator con-
cerning the request, and shall allow for informal public 
input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making 
a finding based on the request. The Administrator shall 
make the request and accompanying information available 
by electronic means, including on the official public Inter-
net Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent 
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and
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Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out 
the provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for manage-
ment and oversight of the requirements of this section. 
LOCAL COOPERATOR TRAINING AGREEMENTS AND TRANS-
FERS OF EXCESS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR 
WILDFIRES 
SEC. 420. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized 
to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with vol-
unteer fire departments, rural fire departments, rangeland 
fire protection associations, and similar organizations to 
provide for wildland fire training and equipment, including 
supplies and communication devices. Notwithstanding sec-
tion 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or section 521 
of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further 
authorized to transfer title to excess Department of the 
Interior firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry 
out the functions of the Department’s wildland fire man-
agement program to such organizations. 
RECREATION FEES 
SEC. 421. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recre-
ation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied 
by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30, 
2019’’.
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FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION 
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 426. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as 
enacted into law by Public Law 106–113; 16 U.S.C. 528 
note), as amended by section 335(6) of Public Law 108– 
108 and section 432 of Public Law 113–76, shall be ap-
plied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 
2019’’. 
TRIBAL LEASES 
SEC. 427. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, in the case of any lease under section 105(l) of 
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease term shall com-
mence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease pro-
posal. 
(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and 
Human Services shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal 
year 2024 consult with Tribes and Tribal organizations 
through public solicitation and other means regarding the 
requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 
U.S.C. 5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and 
transparent process for the payment of such leases.
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FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
SEC. 428. The authority provided under the heading 
‘‘Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title 
I of Public Law 111–88, as amended by section 117 of 
division F of Public Law 113–235, shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each 
place it appears. 
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS, NATIONAL PARKS AND PUB-
LIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND AND LAND 
AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
SEC. 429. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts 
made available from the National Parks and Public Land 
Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2024 pursuant 
to subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, United 
States Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such sec-
tion of such title, to the agencies of the Department of 
the Interior and the Department of Agriculture specified, 
in the amounts specified, for the stations and unit names 
specified, and for the projects and activities specified in 
the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National Parks and 
Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ 
in the report accompanying this Act. 
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture,
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as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for 
expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
for fiscal year 2024 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 
200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies 
and accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for 
the projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Al-
location of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund 
Fiscal Year 2024’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 
(b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) 
of this section, neither the President nor his designee may 
allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 
year under subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 
United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 200303 
of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts 
and for projects and activities that are allocated by sub-
sections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section: Provided, That 
in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall 
not apply to the allocation of amounts for continuing ad-
ministration of programs allocated funds from the Na-
tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund 
or the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which may 
be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the 
allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and 
(a)(2) of this section.
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(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Agriculture may reallocate amounts from each agency’s 
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line in the table titled ‘‘Allocation 
of Funds: National Parks and Public Land Legacy Res-
toration Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ to any project funded 
by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-
tion Fund within the same agency, from any fiscal year, 
that experienced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen 
cost overruns, in accordance with the following require-
ments— 
(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 
reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-
sulting from unforeseen cost overruns; 
(2) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 
reallocated for cost of adjustments and changes 
within the original scope of effort for projects fund-
ed by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy 
Restoration Fund; and 
(3) the Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-
retary of Agriculture must provide written notifica-
tion to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and Senate 30 days before 
taking any actions authorized by this subsection if 
the amount reallocated from the ‘‘Contingency
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Fund’’ line for a project is projected to be 10 per-
cent or greater than the following, as applicable— 
(A) the amount allocated to that project in 
the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 
Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ in the report accom-
panying this Act; or 
(B) the initial estimate in the most recent 
report submitted, prior to enactment of this 
Act, to the Committees on Appropriations pur-
suant to section 431(e) of division G of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public 
Law 117–328). 
(d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 
of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets for 
the projects in the ‘‘Submission of Annual List of Projects 
to Congress’’ required by section 200402(h) of title 54, 
United States Code: Provided, That the ‘‘Submission of 
Annual List of Projects to Congress’’ must include a 
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line for each agency within the allo-
cations defined in subsection (e) of section 200402 of title 
54, United States Code: Provided further, That in the
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event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act for 
the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 
Fund are no longer needed to complete a specified project, 
such amounts may be reallocated in such submission to 
that agency’s ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line: Provided further, 
That any proposals to change the scope of or terminate 
a previously approved project must be clearly identified 
in such submission. 
(2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 
of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a list of supplementary 
allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 
Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and 
the U.S. Forest Service that are in addition to the ‘‘Sub-
mission 
of 
Cost 
Estimates’’ 
required 
by 
section 
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are 
prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, 
and that total no less than half the full amount allocated 
to each account for that land management Agency under 
the allocations submitted under section 200303(c)(1) of 
title 54, United States Code: Provided, That in the event 
amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant
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to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United 
States Code are no longer needed because a project has 
been completed or can no longer be executed, such 
amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for realloca-
tion in the annual budget submission. 
(B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 
projects in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required 
by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, 
and on the list of supplementary allocations required by 
subparagraph (A) shall be comprised only of projects for 
which a willing seller has been identified and for which 
an appraisal or market research has been initiated. 
(C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 
of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets in 
the same format and containing the same level of detailed 
information that is found on such sheets in the Budget 
Justifications annually submitted by the Department of 
the Interior with the President’s Budget for the projects 
in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the 
same format and containing the same level of detailed in-
formation that is found on such sheets submitted to the
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(vi) paper manufacturing; 
(C) encourage forest management to im-
prove forest health; and 
(D) recognize State initiatives to produce 
and use forest biomass. 
SMALL REMOTE INCINERATORS 
SEC. 431. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the regulation 
issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 CFR part 60 subparts 
CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State of 
Alaska that are defined as ‘‘small, remote incinerator’’ 
units in those regulations and, until a subsequent regula-
tion is issued, the Administrator shall implement the law 
and regulations in effect prior to such date. 
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 432. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall 
be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as 
the value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging 
and stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk 
allowance under the Forest Service’s appraisal process) 
when appraised using a residual value appraisal. The west-
ern red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus 
to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall 
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 
48 United States at prevailing domestic prices. All addi-
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tional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or con-
tiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be ex-
ported to foreign markets at the election of the timber sale 
holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing 
export prices at the election of the timber sale holder. 
TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINIS-
TRATION FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC 
LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND 
SEC. 433. Funds made available or allocated in this 
Act to the Department of the Interior or the Department 
of Agriculture that are subject to the allocations and limi-
tations in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and prohibitions in 54 
U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further allocated or reallocated 
to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation 
projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C. 
200401(2). 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 434. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this Act or any 
other Act may be used to promulgate or implement any 
regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V 
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon 
dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 
resulting from biological processes associated with live-
stock production.
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GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 435. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be used to implement any provision in a rule, 
if that provision requires mandatory reporting of green-
house gas emissions from manure management systems. 
FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 436. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to regulate the lead content 
of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle 
under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 
et seq.) or any other law. 
ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL HEALTH ENTITIES 
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 437. Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of 
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 
113–76) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘October 1, 
2024’’ for ‘‘December 24, 2022’’. 
RESCISSION OF GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION FUND 
SEC. 438. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-
propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the 
Environmental Protection Agency by subsection (a) of sec-
tion 134 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7434(a)), 
$7,765,000,000 are permanently rescinded.
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RESCISSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE 
GRANTS 
SEC. 439. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-
propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the 
Environmental Protection Agency by section 138(a) of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7438(a)), $1,353,000,000 are 
hereby permanently rescinded. 
HUNTING, FISHING, AND RECREATIONAL SHOOTING ON 
FEDERAL LAND 
SEC. 440. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to 
prohibit the use of or access to Federal land (as such term 
is defined in section 3 of the Healthy Forests Restoration 
Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6502)) for hunting, fishing, or 
recreational shooting if such use or access— 
(1) was not prohibited on such Federal land as 
of January 1, 2013; and 
(2) was conducted in compliance with the re-
source management plan (as defined in section 101 
of such Act (16 U.S.C. 6511)) applicable to such 
Federal land as of January 1, 2013. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of 
the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture may tempo-
rarily close, for a period not to exceed 30 days, Federal 
land managed by the Secretary to hunting, fishing, or rec-
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reational shooting if the Secretary determines that the 
temporary closure is necessary to accommodate a special 
event or for public safety reasons. The Secretary may ex-
tend a temporary closure for one additional 90-day period 
only if the Secretary determines the extension is necessary 
because of extraordinary weather conditions or for public 
safety reasons. 
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as af-
fecting the authority, jurisdiction, or responsibility of the 
several States to manage, control, or regulate fish and 
resident wildlife under State law or regulations. 
WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEC. 441. The rule submitted by the Department of 
the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense 
and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘Re-
vised Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’ ’’ (88 
Fed. Reg. 3004 (January 18, 2023)) shall have no force 
or effect. 
LIMITATION 
SEC. 442. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be obligated to en-
force Public Land Order 7917 (88 Fed. Reg. 6308 (Janu-
ary 31, 2023)).
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MINERAL LEASES 
SEC. 443. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
and not subject to further judicial review, not later than 
30 days after the date of enactment of this Act the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall reinstate the hardrock mineral 
leases in the Superior National Forest in the State of Min-
nesota issued in 2019 and identified as MNES-01352 and 
MNES-01353. 
USE OF MINING CLAIMS FOR ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 444. Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 28f) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) SECURITY OF TENURE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A claimant shall have 
the right to use, occupy, and conduct operations 
on public land, with or without the discovery of 
a valuable mineral deposit, if— 
‘‘(i) such claimant makes a timely 
payment of the location fee required by 
section 10102 and the claim maintenance 
fee required by subsection (a); or 
‘‘(ii) in the case of a claimant who 
qualifies for a waiver under subsection (d), 
such claimant makes a timely payment of
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the location fee and complies with the re-
quired assessment work under the general 
mining laws. 
‘‘(B) OPERATIONS
DEFINED.—For the 
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘oper-
ations’ means— 
‘‘(i) any activity or work carried out 
in connection with prospecting, exploration, 
processing, discovery and assessment, de-
velopment, or extraction with respect to a 
locatable mineral; 
‘‘(ii) the reclamation of any disturbed 
areas; and 
‘‘(iii) any other reasonably incident 
uses, whether on a mining claim or not, in-
cluding the construction and maintenance 
of facilities, roads, transmission lines, pipe-
lines, and any other necessary infrastruc-
ture or means of access on public land for 
support facilities. 
‘‘(2) FULFILLMENT OF FEDERAL LAND POLICY 
AND
MANAGEMENT
ACT.—A claimant that fulfills 
the requirements of this section and section 10102 
shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of any 
provision of the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
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ment Act that requires the payment of fair market 
value to the United States for use of public lands 
and resources relating to use of such lands and re-
sources authorized by the general mining laws. 
‘‘(3) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this sub-
section may be construed to diminish the rights of 
entry, use, and occupancy, or any other right, of a 
claimant under the general mining laws.’’. 
CHARLES M. RUSSELL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 
SEC. 445. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to facilitate or allow for the introduction of American 
bison (Bison bison) on the Charles M. Russell National 
Wildlife Refuge (as originally established in Executive 
Order No. 7509, renamed in Public Land Order 2951, and 
redesignated in Public Land Order 5635). 
COTTONWOOD 
SEC. 446. No later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
issue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened 
Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Interagency Coopera-
tion’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 2373 (January 12, 2021)).
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SOCIAL COST OF CARBON 
SEC. 447. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to consider or incorporate the social cost 
of carbon— 
(1) as part of any cost-benefit analysis required 
or performed pursuant to— 
(A) any law; 
(B) Executive Order No. 13990 (86 Fed. 
Reg. 7037; relating to protecting public health 
and the environment and restoring science to 
tackle the climate crisis); 
(C) Executive Order No. 14094 (88 Fed. 
Reg. 21879; relating to modernizing regulatory 
review); 
(D) the Presidential Memorandum entitled 
‘‘Modernizing Regulatory Review’’ issued by the 
President on January 20, 2021; 
(E) any revisions to Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A-4 proposed or finalized 
under Executive Order No. 14094; or 
(F) ‘‘Technical Support Document: Social 
Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide 
Interim Estimates under Executive Order 
13990,’’ published under the Interagency Work-
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ing Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse 
Gases, in February of 2021; 
(2) in any rulemaking; 
(3) in the issuance of any guidance; 
(4) in taking any other agency action; or 
(5) as a justification for any rulemaking, guid-
ance document, or agency action. 
LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN 
SEC. 448. None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 
or enforce the rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened 
Wildlife and Plants; Lesser Prairie-Chicken; Threatened 
Status With Section 4(d) Rule for the Northern Distinct 
Population Segment and Endangered Status for the 
Southern Distinct Population Segment’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 
72674 (November 25, 2022)). 
ECOGRIEF 
SEC. 449. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended to carry 
out the program for Federal employees at the Department 
of the Interior entitled ‘‘Acknowledging Ecogrief and De-
veloping Resistance’’ or any counseling sessions, work-
shop, or any other meeting pertaining to ecological grief, 
ecogrief, or eco-resilience.
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NORTH CASCADES ECOSYSTEM GRIZZLY BEAR 
SEC. 450. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to prepare an environ-
mental impact statement for, or to implement, administer, 
or enforce, the North Cascades Ecosystem Grizzly Bear 
Restoration Plan (87 Fed. Reg. 68190). 
WATER RIGHTS 
SEC. 451. None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act may be obligated to require or request, 
as a condition of the issuance, renewal, or extension of 
any Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management per-
mit, lease, allotment, easement, or other land use and oc-
cupancy, arrangement, the transfer, or relinquishment of 
any water right, in whole, or in part, granted under State 
law. 
GRAY WOLF 
SEC. 452. Not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall reissue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and 
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf 
(Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threat-
ened Wildlife’’ (85 Fed. Reg. 69778 (November 3, 2020)). 
COST RECOVERY 
SEC. 453. (a) Any regulation promulgated by the Sec-
retary of the Interior to establish fees to recover the costs
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of processing an application for a special recreation permit 
or monitoring an authorization under a special recreation 
permit for competitive or organized group or event use 
shall include an exemption providing that fee may not be 
recovered for not less than the first 100 hours of work 
necessary in any 1 year to process the application or mon-
itor the authorization. 
(b) Not later than 30 days after the date of enact-
ment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
revise section 2932.31(e) of title 43, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, to be consistent with subsection (a) of this sec-
tion. 
EXECUTIVE ORDER FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 454. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Ex-
ecutive Order No. 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. 
Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial equity and support 
for underserved communities through the Federal Govern-
ment), Executive Order No. 14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 
Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, 
and accessibility in the Federal workforce), or Executive 
Order No. 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 
10825, relating to further advancing racial equity and
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support for underserved communities through the Federal 
Government). 
LIMITATION 
SEC. 455. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or 
activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory 
or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 
WUHAN INSTITUTE LIMITATION 
SEC. 456. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 
a foreign adversary. 
NORTHERN LONG-EARED BAT 
SEC. 457. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement the final rule ‘‘Endangered 
and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species 
Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 
73488 (November 30, 2020)).
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EXEMPTION TO COASTAL BARRIER RESTRICTIONS FOR 
SHORELINE BORROW SOURCES 
SEC. 458. Section 6 of the Coastal Barrier Resources 
Act (16 U.S.C. 3505) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection: 
‘‘(e) BORROW SOURCE.—Section 5 shall not apply to 
Federal expenditures or financial assistance for the use 
of a borrow source located within the System if such bor-
row source, or a portion thereof, has been used as a bor-
row source by a coastal storm risk management project 
at least once prior to December 31, 2008.’’. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SEC. 459. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be obligated for the planning, design, or con-
struction of the National Museum of the American Latino 
or the operation of the Molina Family Latino Gallery. 
GAO ANALYSIS 
SEC. 460. Notwithstanding any provision of law, none 
of the funds made available by this Act may be obligated 
or expended for the purpose of pre-leasing, leasing, or the 
conveyance of leases for onshore wind energy activities in 
Idaho, unless or until the Comptroller General of the 
United States completes a report identifying potential ad-
verse effects of wind energy development including with 
respect to, wildlife, cultural resources, transportation,
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hunting, wetlands and the connected surface and ground 
waters. 
PESTICIDES 
SEC. 461. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended to issue 
or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any regulatory 
action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling 
that is inconsistent with or in any respect different from 
the conclusion of— 
(a) a human health assessment performed pursuant 
to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 
(7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.); or 
(b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide. 
STEAM RULE 
SEC. 462. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be obligated to finalize, administer, 
or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘Supplemental Effluent 
Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Elec-
tric Power Generating Point Source Category’’ published 
on March 29, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 18824). 
WAIVER 
SEC. 463. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to approve a waiver 
submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency by the 
State of California, pursuant to section 209(e) of the
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Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7543(e)), for the State of Cali-
fornia’s amendments to its rule titled ‘‘Small Off-Road 
Engine Regulations: Transition to Zero Emissions’’. 
5-YEAR PLAN 
SEC. 464. Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subsections (c) and (d) of 
this section, shall prepare and periodically re-
vise,’’ and inserting ‘‘this section, shall issue 
every five years’’; 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) Each five-year program shall include at 
least two Gulf of Mexico region-wide lease sales per 
year.’’. 
(C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘domes-
tic energy security,’’ after ‘‘between’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) 
as subsections (h) through (k), respectively; and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f) Five-Year Program for 2023–2028.—The Sec-
retary shall issue the five-year oil and gas leasing program 
for 2023 through 2028 and issue the Record of Decision
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on the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact State-
ment by not later than 60 days of enactment of this Act. 
‘‘(g) Subsequent Leasing Programs.— 
‘‘(1) In General.—Not later than 36 months 
after conducting the first lease sale under an oil and 
gas leasing program prepared pursuant to this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall begin preparing the subse-
quent oil and gas leasing program under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(2) Requirement.—Each subsequent oil and 
gas leasing program under this section shall be ap-
proved by not later than 180 days before the expira-
tion of the previous oil and gas leasing program.’’. 
TRANSPARENCY 
SEC. 465. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall reissue and implement Order No. 3368 ‘‘Promoting 
Transparency and Accountability in Consent Decrees and 
Settlement Agreements’’ dated September 11, 2018. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be available to rescind the Order reissued under subsection 
(a), reissue, enforce, administer, or implement Order No. 
3408 ‘‘Rescission of Secretary’s Order 3368’’ dated June 
17, 2022, or to issue, enforce, administer, or implement 
any substantially similar order.
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LIMITATION 
SEC. 466. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 
Public Land Order No. 7921 (relating to the withdrawal 
of public land for satellite calibration in Railroad Valley; 
Nye County, Nevada), published by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the Federal Register on April 27, 2023 
(88 Fed. Reg. 25682). 
OZONE 
SEC. 467. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be made available to implement, ad-
minister, or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Federal ‘Good 
Neighbor Plan’ for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air 
Quality Standards’’ published by the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency in the Federal Register on June 5, 2023 
(88 Fed. Reg. 36654). 
OFFSHORE WIND 
SEC. 468. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be obligated or expended for the purpose of 
pre-leasing, leasing, or the conveyance of leases for off-
shore wind energy activity in the Florida administrative 
boundary until the Comptroller General of the United 
States submits, to the appropriate Congressional Commit-
tees, a study regarding the potential impact of offshore 
wind development and associated infrastructure in the