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may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements di-
rectly with individuals or indirectly with institutions or 
nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, 
for the temporary or intermittent services of students or 
recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for 
the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States 
Code, relating to compensation for travel and work inju-
ries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, re-
lating to tort claims, but shall not be considered to be Fed-
eral employees for any other purposes. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and 
collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing 
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; and 
for matching grants or cooperative agreements; including 
the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehi-
cles for replacement only, $157,496,000 (increased by 
$1,000,000) 
(reduced 
by 
$1,000,000), 
of 
which 
$79,158,000 shall be available for royalty management ac-
tivities; and an amount not to exceed $128,730,000, to 
be credited to this appropriation and to remain available 
until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from 
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increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate 
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf ad-
ministrative activities performed by the Minerals Manage-
ment Service (MMS) over and above the rates in effect 
on September 30, 1993, and from additional fees for 
Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities estab-
lished after September 30, 1993: Provided, That to the 
extent $128,730,000 in additions to receipts are not real-
ized from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount 
needed to reach $128,730,000 shall be credited to this ap-
propriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for 
Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 
1993: Provided further, That $3,000,000 for computer ac-
quisitions shall remain available until September 30, 
2008: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall 
be available for reasonable expenses related to promoting 
volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds 
of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases 
in which the Director of MMS concurred with the claimed 
refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or 
tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous pay-
ments: Provided further, That for the costs of administra-
tion of the Coastal Impact Assistance Program authorized 
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by section 31 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 
as amended (43 U.S.C. 1456a), MMS in fiscal years 2007 
through 2010 may retain three percent of the amounts 
which are disbursed under section 31 (b)(1), such retained 
amounts to remain available until expended. 
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, 
$6,903,000, 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, as amended, including the pur-
chase of not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for 
replacement only; $112,109,000: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use 
directly or through grants to States, moneys collected in 
fiscal year 2007 for civil penalties assessed under section 
518 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim lands adversely af-
fected by coal mining practices after August 3, 1977, to 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
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appropriations for the Office of Surface Mining Reclama-
tion and Enforcement may provide for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
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, as amended, including the purchase 
of not more than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, $185,936,000, to be derived from receipts of 
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain 
available until expended; of which up to $10,000,000, to 
be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, 
shall be for supplemental grants to States for the reclama-
tion of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from 
coal mines, and for associated activities, through the Ap-
palachian Clean Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants 
to minimum program States will be $1,500,000 per State 
in fiscal year 2007: Provided further, That pursuant to 
Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is au-
thorized 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 available under title IV of Public Law 
95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal share 
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of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Government 
for the purpose of environmental restoration related to 
treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from aban-
doned mines: Provided further, That such projects must 
be consistent with the purposes and priorities of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act: Provided fur-
ther, 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 allocation estab-
lished in section 402(g)(3) of the Act: Provided further, 
That amounts provided under this heading 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. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
With funds available for the Technical Innovation 
and Professional Services program in this Act, the Sec-
retary may transfer title for computer hardware, software 
and other technical equipment to State and Tribal regu-
latory and reclamation programs. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
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), the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
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U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, 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.), 
as amended, $1,973,403,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2008 except as otherwise provided herein, 
of which not to exceed $74,179,000 shall be for welfare 
assistance payments and, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self- 
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed 
$151,628,000 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 pro-
grams shall become available on July 1, 2007, and shall 
remain available until September 30, 2008; and of which 
not to exceed $66,277,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for housing improvement, road maintenance, at-
torney fees, litigation support, the Indian Self-Determina-
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tion Fund, land records improvement, and the Navajo- 
Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That in cases of des-
ignated Federal disasters, the Secretary may exceed the 
welfare assistance payments cap, from the amounts pro-
vided herein, to provide for disaster relief to Indian com-
munities affected by the disaster: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but 
not limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, 
as amended, and 25 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 administrative cost grants as-
sociated with ongoing grants entered 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 oper-
ations shall be available for the transitional costs of initial 
administrative cost grants to tribes and tribal organiza-
tions that enter into grants for the operation on or after 
July 1, 2006, of Bureau-operated schools: Provided fur-
ther, 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 Indian forest 
land assistance account established for the benefit of such 
tribe within the tribe’s trust fund account: Provided fur-
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ther, That any such unobligated balances not so trans-
ferred 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 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, $215,799,000, 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 not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may 
be used to cover the road program management costs of 
the Bureau: Provided 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: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2007, in implementing 
new construction 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 
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Principles for Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR 
part 12 as the regulatory requirements: 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 payments for the work to be per-
formed: Provided further, That in considering applications, 
the Secretary shall consider whether such grantee would 
be deficient in assuring that the construction projects con-
form to applicable building standards and codes and Fed-
eral, tribal, or State health and safety standards as re-
quired by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with respect to organiza-
tional 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 be-
tween 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 
organization receiving funds appropriated in this Act or 
in any prior Act, has not completed the planning and de-
sign phase of the project and commenced construction of 
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the replacement school: Provided further, That this Appro-
priation may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special 
Trustee for American Indians Appropriation for the ap-
propriate share of construction costs for space expansion 
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-
tion. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and in-
dividuals and for necessary administrative expenses, 
$39,213,000, to remain available until expended, for im-
plementation of Indian land and water claim settlements 
pursuant 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 available for payment to the Quinault Indian Nation 
pursuant to the terms of the North Boundary Settlement 
Agreement dated July 14, 2000, providing for the acquisi-
tion of perpetual conservation easements from the Nation 
and of which $5,067,000 shall be for the Idaho Salmon 
and Clearwater River Basins Habitat Account pursuant 
to the Snake River Water Rights Act of 2004 and of which 
$200,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Bureau of Land 
Management, Management of Lands and Resources’’ ac-
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