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365, the Department of the Interior is authorized to use up 
to 20 percent from the recovery of the delinquent debt owed 
to the United States Government to pay for contracts to 
collect these debts: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able 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 Government for the purpose of environ-
mental restoration related to treatment or abatement of acid 
mine drainage from abandoned mines: Provided further, 
That such projects must be consistent with the purposes and 
priorities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act: Provided further, That amounts allocated under section 
402(g)(2) of such Act as of September 30, 2006, but not 
appropriated as of that date, are reallocated to the alloca-
tion established in section 402(g)(3) of the Act: Provided 
further, That the State of Maryland may set aside the great-
er of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total of the grants 
made available to the State under title IV of the Act, if 
the amount set aside is deposited in an acid mine drainage 
abatement and treatment fund established under a State 
law, pursuant to which law the amount (together with all 
interest earned on the amount) is expended by the State 
to undertake acid mine drainage abatement and treatment 
projects, except that before any amounts greater than 10 
percent of its title IV grants are deposited in an acid mine
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drainage abatement and treatment fund, the State of Mary-
land must first complete all Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act priority one projects: Provided further, 
That amounts provided under this heading may be used for 
the travel and per diem expenses of State and tribal per-
sonnel attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 
Enforcement sponsored training. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
With funds available for the Technical Innovation and 
Professional Services program in this Act, the Secretary 
may transfer title for computer hardware, software and 
other technical equipment to State and Tribal regulatory 
and reclamation programs. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian pro-
grams, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of 
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 
450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amendments of 
1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally Controlled 
Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), as amended, 
$2,005,538,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2008 except as otherwise provided herein, of which not to 
exceed $80,179,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments: 
Provided, That in cases of designated Federal disasters, the
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Secretary may exceed such cap, from the amounts provided 
herein, to provide for disaster relief to Indian communities 
affected by the disaster; notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self- 
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed 
$147,628,000 shall be available for payments to tribes and 
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated 
with ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements entered into with the Bureau prior to or 
during fiscal year 2007, as authorized by such Act, except 
that tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal 
priority allocations for unmet contract support costs of on-
going contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding 
agreements and for unmet welfare assistance costs; and of 
which not to exceed $457,352,000 for school operations costs 
of Bureau-funded schools and other education programs 
shall become available on July 1, 2007, and shall remain 
available until September 30, 2008; and of which not to 
exceed $66,298,000 shall remain available until expended 
for housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, 
litigation support, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, 
land records improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement 
Program: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, including but not limited to the In-
dian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and 25
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U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed $44,060,000 within and only 
from such amounts made available for school operations 
shall be available to tribes and tribal organizations for ad-
ministrative cost grants associated with ongoing grants en-
tered into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 
2006 for the operation of Bureau-funded schools, and up 
to $500,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available for the 
transitional costs of initial administrative cost grants to 
tribes and tribal organizations that enter into grants for 
the operation on or after July 1, 2006, of Bureau-operated 
schools: Provided further, That any forestry funds allocated 
to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 
2008, may be transferred during fiscal year 2009 to an In-
dian forest land assistance account established for the ben-
efit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust fund account: Pro-
vided further, That any such unobligated balances not so 
transferred shall expire on September 30, 2009. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in 
lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for con-
struction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant 
to Public Law 87–483, $221,459,000, to remain available
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until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclama-
tion: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 percent of con-
tract authority available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may be used to cover 
the road program management costs of the Bureau: Pro-
vided further, That any funds provided for the Safety of 
Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 shall be made 
available on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, 
That for fiscal year 2007, in implementing new construc-
tion or facilities improvement and repair project grants in 
excess of $100,000 that are provided to tribally controlled 
grant schools under Public Law 100–297, as amended, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall use the Administrative and 
Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for Assistance Pro-
grams contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the regulatory re-
quirements: Provided further, That such grants shall not 
be subject to section 12.61 of 43 CFR; the Secretary and 
the grantee shall negotiate and determine a schedule of pay-
ments for the work to be performed: Provided further, That 
in considering applications, the Secretary shall consider 
whether such grantee would be deficient in assuring that 
the construction projects conform to applicable building 
standards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health
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and safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), 
with respect to organizational and financial management 
capabilities: Provided further, That if the Secretary declines 
an application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements 
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2504(f): Provided further, That any 
disputes between the Secretary and any grantee concerning 
a grant shall be subject to the disputes provision in 25 
U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided further, That in order to ensure 
timely completion of replacement school construction 
projects, the Secretary may assume control of a project and 
all funds related to the project, if, within eighteen months 
of the date of enactment of this Act, any tribe or tribal orga-
nization receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any 
prior Act, has not completed the planning and design phase 
of the project and commenced construction of the replace-
ment school: Provided further, That this Appropriation 
may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee 
for American Indians Appropriation for the appropriate 
share of construction costs for space expansion needed in 
agency offices to meet trust reform implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and indi-
viduals 
and 
for 
necessary 
administrative 
expenses, 
$39,213,000, to remain available until expended, for imple-
mentation of Indian land and water claim settlements pur-
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suant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 107–331, 
and 108–477, and for implementation of other land and 
water rights settlements, of which $316,000 shall be avail-
able for payment to the Quinault Indian Nation pursuant 
to the terms of the North Boundary Settlement Agreement 
dated July 14, 2000, providing for the acquisition of per-
petual conservation easements from the Nation. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed and insured loans, 
$6,262,000, of which $626,000 is for administrative ex-
penses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, 
as amended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost 
of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, 
That these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 
$87,376,744. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, compacts and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs may contract for services in support of the manage-
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ment, operation, and maintenance of the Power Division 
of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee 
and insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Pro-
gram account) shall be available for expenses of exhibits, 
and purchase and replacement of passenger motor vehicles. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except executive direction and administrative 
services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations and re-
gional offices) shall be available for tribal contracts, grants, 
compacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 
distribution to other tribes, this action shall not diminish 
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.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided 
herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 
et seq., shall be available to support the operation of any 
elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other 
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available only 
to the schools in the Bureau school system as of September 
1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall be used to 
support expanded grades for any school or dormitory be-
yond the grade structure in place or approved by the Sec-
retary of the Interior at each school in the Bureau school 
system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made available under 
this Act may not be used to establish a charter school at 
a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined in section 
1146 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 
2026)), except that a charter school that is in existence on 
the date of the enactment of this Act and that has operated 
at a Bureau-funded school before September 1, 1999, may 
continue to operate during that period, but only if the char-
ter 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 char-
ter school are kept separate and apart from Bureau funds, 
and the Bureau does not assume any obligation for charter
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school programs of the State in which the school is located 
if the charter school loses such funding. Employees of Bu-
reau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school 
and performing functions related to the charter school’s op-
eration and employees of a charter school shall not be treat-
ed as Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 
28, United States Code. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 2007(d), and imple-
menting regulations, the funds reserved from the Indian 
Student Equalization Program to meet emergencies and un-
foreseen contingencies affecting education programs appro-
priated herein and in Public Law 109–54 may be used for 
costs associated with significant student enrollment in-
creases at Bureau-funded schools during the relevant school 
year. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if a tribe or tribal organization in fiscal year 2003 
or 2004 received indirect and administrative costs pursuant 
to a distribution formula based on section 5(f) of Public 
Law 101–301, the Secretary shall continue to distribute in-
direct and administrative cost funds to such tribe or tribal 
organization using the section 5(f) distribution formula.
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DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
$76,481,000, of which: (1) $68,857,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended for technical assistance, including 
maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, insular man-
agement controls, coral reef initiative activities, and brown 
tree snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in 
American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-
thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-
ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local reve-
nues, 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 (Public 
Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $7,624,000 shall re-
main available until September 30, 2008, for salaries and 
expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all 
financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of 
all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by such 
governments, may be audited by the Government Account-
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ability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 
35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That 
Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be 
provided according to those terms of the Agreement of the 
Special Representatives on Future United States Financial 
Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by 
Public Law 104–134: Provided further, That of the amounts 
provided for technical assistance, sufficient funds shall be 
made available for a grant to the Pacific Basin Develop-
ment Council: Provided further, That of the amounts pro-
vided for technical assistance, sufficient funding shall be 
made available for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: 
Provided further, That the funds for the program of oper-
ations and maintenance improvement are appropriated to 
institutionalize routine operations and maintenance im-
provement of capital infrastructure with territorial partici-
pation 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 appropria-
tion for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act 
or previous appropriations Acts may be used as non-Fed-
eral 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).