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to as the Federal Tort Claims Act) and any other Federal tort 
liability statute shall not apply to an employee who is assigned 
to a contractor under subsection (a). 
SEC. 180. (a) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘Conservation Area’’ means the Sloan Canyon 
National Conservation Area established by section 604(a) of 
the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural 
Resources Act of 2002 (116 Stat. 2010). 
(2) The term ‘‘County’’ means Clark County, Nevada. 
(3)(A) The term ‘‘helicopter tour’’ means a commercial heli-
copter tour operated for profit. 
(B) The term ‘‘helicopter tour’’ does not include a helicopter 
tour that is carried out to assist a Federal, State, or local 
agency. 
(4) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of the 
Interior. 
(5) The term ‘‘Wilderness’’ means the North McCullough 
Mountains Wilderness established by section 202(a)(13) of the 
Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural 
Resources Act of 2002 (116 Stat. 2000). 
(b) As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall convey to the County, subject to valid 
existing rights, for no consideration, all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to the parcel of land described in 
subsection (c). 
(c) The parcel of land to be conveyed under subsection (b) 
is the parcel of approximately 229 acres of land depicted as tract 
A on the map entitled ‘‘Clark County Public Heliport Facility’’ 
and dated May 3, 2004. 
(d)(1) The parcel of land conveyed under subsection (b)— 
(A) shall be used by the County for the operation of a 
heliport facility under the conditions stated in paragraphs (2), 
(3), and (4); and 
(B) shall not be disposed of by the County. 
(2)(A) Any operator of a helicopter tour originating from or 
concluding at the parcel of land described in subsection (c) shall 
pay to the Clark County Department of Aviation a $3 conservation 
fee for each passenger on the helicopter tour if any portion of 
the helicopter tour occurs over the Conservation Area. 
(B)(i) Not earlier than 10 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act and every 10 years thereafter, the Secretary shall conduct 
a review to determine whether to raise the amount of the conserva-
tion fee. 
(ii) After conducting a review under clause (i) and providing 
an opportunity for public comment, the Secretary may raise the 
amount of the conservation fee in an amount determined to be 
appropriate by the Secretary, but by not more than 50 percent 
of the amount of the conservation fee in effect on the day before 
the date of the increase. 
(3)(A) The amounts collected under paragraph (2) shall be 
deposited in a special account in the Treasury of the United States. 
(B) Of the amounts deposited under subparagraph (A)— 
(i) 2⁄3 of the amounts shall be available to the Secretary, 
without further appropriation, for the management of cultural, 
wildlife, and wilderness resources on public land in the State 
of Nevada; and
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(ii) 1⁄3 of the amounts shall be available to the Director 
of the Bureau of Land Management, without further appropria-
tion, for the conduct of Bureau of Land Management operations 
for the Conservation Area and the Red Rock Canyon National 
Conservation Area. 
(4)(A) Except for safety reasons, any helicopter tour originating 
or concluding at the parcel of land described in subsection (c) 
that flies over the Conservation Area shall not fly— 
(i) over any area in the Conservation Area except the 
area that is between 3 and 5 miles north of the latitude of 
the southernmost boundary of the Conservation Area; 
(ii) lower than 1,000 feet over the eastern segments of 
the boundary of the Conservation Area; or 
(iii) lower than 500 feet over the western segments of 
the boundary of the Conservation Area. 
(B) The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
shall establish a special flight rules area and any operating proce-
dures that the Administrator determines to be necessary to imple-
ment subparagraph (A). 
(5) If the County ceases to use any of the land described 
in subsection (c) for the purpose described in paragraph (1)(A) 
and under the conditions stated in paragraph (2)— 
(A) title to the parcel shall revert to the United States, 
at the option of the United States; and 
(B) the County shall be responsible for any reclamation 
necessary to revert the parcel to the United States. 
(e) The Secretary shall require, as a condition of the conveyance 
under subsection (b), that the County pay the administrative costs 
of the conveyance, including survey costs and any other costs associ-
ated with the transfer of title. 
SEC. 181. The first sentence of section 29(c) of the International 
Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 (Public Law 96–192; 
94 Stat. 48) is amended by inserting ‘‘Missouri,’’ before ‘‘and Texas’’. 
SEC. 182. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds provided in or limited by this Act may be obligated 
or expended to provide a budget justification for fiscal year 2007 
concurrently with the President’s annual budget submission to Con-
gress under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to 
any congressional committee other than the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations prior to May 31, 2006. 
SEC. 183. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any 
funds provided in or limited by this Act are subject to a reprogram-
ming action that requires notice to be provided to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, said reprogramming action 
shall be approved or denied solely by the Committees on Appropria-
tions: Provided, That the Secretary may provide notice to other 
congressional committees of the action of the Committees on Appro-
priations on such reprogramming but not sooner than 30 days 
following the date on which the reprogramming action has been 
approved or denied by the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations. 
SEC. 184. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
projects numbered 5094 and 5096 in the table contained in section 
1702 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation 
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (Public Law 109–59; 119 Stat. 
1144) shall be subject to section 120(c) of title 23, United States 
Code.
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SEC. 185. For necessary expenses, including an independent 
verification regime, to reimburse fixed-based general aviation opera-
tors and the providers of general aviation ground support services 
at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport; College Park Air-
port in College Park, Maryland; Potomac Airpark in Fort Wash-
ington, Maryland; Washington Executive/Hyde Field in Clinton, 
Maryland; and Washington South Capitol Street Heliport in Wash-
ington, DC; for direct and incremental financial losses incurred 
while such airports were closed to general aviation operations, 
or as of the date of enactment of this provision in the case of 
airports that have not reopened to such operations, by these opera-
tors and service providers solely due to the actions of the Federal 
Government following the terrorist attacks on the United States 
that occurred on September 11, 2001, not to exceed $17,000,000, 
to be available until expended: Provided, That of this amount not 
to exceed $5,000,000 shall be available on a pro-rata basis, if 
necessary, to fixed-based general aviation operators and the pro-
viders of general aviation ground support services located at College 
Park Airport in College Park, Maryland; Potomac Airpark in Fort 
Washington, Maryland; and Washington Executive/Hyde Field in 
Clinton, Maryland: Provided further, That no funds shall be obli-
gated or distributed to fixed-based general aviation operators and 
providers of general aviation ground support services until an inde-
pendent audit is completed: Provided further, That losses incurred 
as a result of violations of law, or through fault or negligence, 
of such operators and service providers or of third parties (including 
airports) are not eligible for reimbursements: Provided further, That 
obligation and expenditure of funds are conditional upon full release 
of the United States Government for all claims for financial losses 
resulting from such actions. 
SEC. 186. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
amounts made available pursuant to Public Law 109–59 for the 
Gravina Island bridge and the Knik Arm bridge shall be made 
available to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public 
Facilities for any purpose eligible under section 133(b) of title 
23, United States Code: Provided, That in allocating funds for 
the equity bonus program under section 105 of such title, the 
Secretary shall make the calculations required under that section 
as if this section had not been enacted: Provided further, That 
the descriptions for High Priority Projects #406, the Gravina Island 
bridge, and #2465, the Knik Arm bridge, in section 1702 of Public 
Law 109–59 are hereby deleted and in their place is inserted 
‘‘the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities’’. 
SEC. 187. (a) In addition to amounts available to carry out 
section 10204 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor-
tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (Public Law 109–59) as 
of the date of enactment of this Act, of the amounts made available 
by section 112 of this Act, $1,000,000 shall be used by the Secretary 
of Transportation and the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
jointly— 
(1) complete the review and assessment of catastrophic 
hurricane evacuation plans under that section; and 
(2) submit to Congress, not later than June 1, 2006, the 
report described in subsection (d) of that section. 
(b) Section 10204 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (Public Law 109–
59) is amended—
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(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting after ‘‘evacuation plans’’ the following: 
‘‘(including the costs of the plans)’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘and other catastrophic events’’ before 
‘‘impacting’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘and local’’ and inserting 
‘‘parish, county, and municipal’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘safe and’’ before 
‘‘practical’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ‘‘States’’ the 
following: ‘‘and adjoining jurisdictions’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semi-
colon at the end; 
(D) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(E) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) the availability of food, water, restrooms, fueling sta-
tions, and shelter opportunities along the evacuation routes; 
‘‘(6) the time required to evacuate under the plan; and 
‘‘(7) the physical and mental strains associated with the 
evacuation.’’. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Transportation 
Appropriations Act, 2006’’. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices including 
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, and 
improvements of, and purchase of commercial insurance policies 
for, real properties leased or owned overseas, when necessary for 
the performance of official business, not to exceed $3,000,000 for 
official travel expenses; $196,592,000, of which not to exceed 
$8,642,000 is for executive direction program activities; not to 
exceed $7,852,000 is for general counsel program activities; not 
to exceed $32,011,000 is for economic policies and programs activi-
ties; not to exceed $26,574,000 is for financial policies and programs 
activities; pursuant to section 3004(b) of the Exchange Rates and 
International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 (22 U.S.C. 
5304(b)), not to exceed $1,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, is for the Secretary of the Treasury, in conjunction with 
the President, to implement said subsection as it pertains to govern-
ments and trade violations involving currency manipulation and 
other trade violations; not to exceed $39,939,000 is for financial 
crimes policies and programs activities; not to exceed $16,843,000 
is for Treasury-wide management policies and programs activities; 
and not to exceed $63,731,000 is for administration programs activi-
ties: Provided, That of the amount appropriated for financial crimes 
policies and programs activities, $22,032,016 is for the Office of