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None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used in contravention of, or to delay the implementa-
tion of, Executive Order No. 12898 of February 11, 1994 
(59 Fed. Reg. 7629; relating to Federal actions to address 
environmental justice in minority populations and low-in-
come populations). 
Of the funds provided in the Environmental Pro-
grams and Management account, not less than $2,000,000 
shall be available to take such actions as are necessary 
for the proposal of regulations requiring the reduction of 
greenhouse gas emissions and to publish such proposed 
regulations. 
TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $295,937,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $62,329,000 is for the forest inventory and analysis 
program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health man-
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agement, including treatments of pests, pathogens, and 
invasive or noxious plants and for restoring and rehabili-
tating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, cooper-
ative forestry, and education and land conservation activi-
ties and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $280,602,000, to remain available until expended, as 
authorized by law; of which $8,000,000 is for the Inter-
national Program; and of which $56,336,000 is to be de-
rived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
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, 
$1,506,502,000, to remain available until expended, which 
shall include 50 percent of all moneys received during 
prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in 
accordance with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l– 
6a(i)): Provided, That unobligated balances under this 
heading available at the start of fiscal year 2008 shall be 
displayed by budget line item in the fiscal year 2009 budg-
et justification. 
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CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $480,197,000, to remain available 
until expended, for construction, capital improvement, 
maintenance and acquisition of buildings and other facili-
ties, and infrastructure; and for construction, capital im-
provement, decommissioning, and maintenance of forest 
roads and trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 
16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205; and in 
addition $40,000,000 to be transferred from the timber 
roads purchaser election fund and merged with this ac-
count, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
$65,000,000 shall be designated for urgently needed road 
decommissioning, road and trail repair and maintenance 
and associated activities, and removal of fish passage bar-
riers, especially in areas where Forest Service roads may 
be contributing to water quality problems in streams and 
water bodies which support threatened, endangered or 
sensitive species or community water sources and for ur-
gently needed road repairs required due to recent storm 
events: Provided further, That up to $65,000,000 of the 
funds provided herein for road maintenance shall be avail-
able for the decommissioning of roads, including unau-
thorized roads not part of the transportation system, 
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which are no longer needed: Provided further, That the 
decommissioning of unauthorized roads not part of the of-
ficial transportation system shall be expedited in response 
to threats to public safety, water quality, or natural re-
sources: Provided further, That funds becoming available 
in fiscal year 2008 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 available for transfer or obli-
gation for any other purpose unless the funds are appro-
priated. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including ad-
ministrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or wa-
ters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory au-
thority applicable to the Forest Service, $44,485,000, to 
be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
and to remain available until expended. 
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 
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Forests, California, as authorized by law, $1,053,000, 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, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until 
expended. (16 U.S.C. 4601–516–617a, 555a; Public Law 
96–586; Public Law 76–589, 76–591; and 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, as amended, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
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GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$56,000, to remain available until expended, 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 (Public Law 96–487), $5,053,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other 
lands under fire protection agreement, hazardous fuels re-
duction on or adjacent to such lands, and for emergency 
rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands and water, $1,974,648,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds including unobli-
gated balances under this heading, are available for repay-
ment of advances from other appropriations accounts pre-
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
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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 not less than 
50 percent of any unobligated balances remaining (exclu-
sive of amounts for hazardous fuels reduction) at the end 
of fiscal year 2007 shall be transferred to the fund estab-
lished pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 71–319 (16 
U.S.C. 576 et seq.) if necessary to reimburse the fund for 
unpaid past advances: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $8,000,000 of funds 
appropriated under this appropriation shall be used for 
Fire Science Research in support of the Joint Fire Science 
Program: Provided further, That all authorities for the use 
of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and coop-
erative agreements, available to execute the Forest and 
Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available in 
the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research: 
Provided further, That funds provided shall be available 
for emergency rehabilitation and restoration, hazardous 
fuels reduction activities in the urban-wildland interface, 
support to Federal emergency response, and wildfire sup-
pression activities of the Forest Service: Provided further, 
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That of the funds provided, $310,258,000 is for hazardous 
fuels reduction activities, $18,000,000 is for rehabilitation 
and restoration, $23,500,000 is for research activities and 
to make competitive research grants pursuant to the For-
est and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $46,221,000 is for 
State fire assistance, $10,000,000 is for volunteer fire as-
sistance, $14,252,000 is for forest health activities on 
Federal lands and $10,014,000 is for forest health activi-
ties on State and private lands: Provided further, That 
amounts in this paragraph may be transferred to the 
‘‘State and Private Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’, 
and ‘‘Forest and Rangeland Research’’ accounts to fund 
State fire assistance, volunteer fire assistance, forest 
health management, forest and rangeland research, joint 
fire sciences, vegetation and watershed management, her-
itage site rehabilitation, and wildlife and fish habitat man-
agement and restoration: Provided further, That transfers 
of any amounts in excess of those authorized in this para-
graph, shall require approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations in compliance with re-
programming procedures contained in the report accom-
panying this Act: Provided further, That the costs of im-
plementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed-
eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be 
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shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro-
vided further, That in addition to funds provided for State 
Fire Assistance programs, and subject to all authorities 
available to the Forest Service under the State and Pri-
vate Forestry Appropriation, up to $10,000,000 may be 
used on adjacent non-Federal lands for the purpose of pro-
tecting communities when hazard reduction activities are 
planned on national forest lands that have the potential 
to place such communities at risk: Provided further, That 
included in funding for hazardous fuel reduction is 
$5,000,000 for implementing the Community Forest Res-
toration Act, Public Law 106–393, title VI, and any por-
tion of such funds shall be available for use on non-Fed-
eral lands in accordance with authorities available to the 
Forest Service under the State and Private Forestry Ap-
propriation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize 
the transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire man-
agement, in an aggregate amount not to exceed 
$9,000,000, between the Departments when such trans-
fers would facilitate and expedite jointly funded wildland 
fire management programs and projects: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided for hazardous fuels reduction, 
not to exceed $7,000,000, may be used to make grants, 
using any authorities available to the Forest Service under 
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the State and Private Forestry appropriation, for the pur-
pose of creating incentives for increased use of biomass 
from national forest lands: Provided further, That funds 
designated for wildfire suppression shall be assessed for 
cost pools on the same basis as such assessments are cal-
culated against other agency programs. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
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 
from excess sources 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 alter-
ation of buildings and other public improvements (7 
U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of land, waters, and inter-
ests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (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 
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