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(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.
SEC. 412. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be expended or obligated to complete and
issue the 5-year program under the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act.
SEC. 413. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2005
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the 14th para-
graph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of the
Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501), shall
be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without regard
to the State in which the amounts were derived, to repair
or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National For-
est System lands or to carry out and administer projects
to improve forest health conditions, which may include the
repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and trails on
National Forest System lands in the wildland-community
interface where there is an abnormally high risk of fire.
The projects shall emphasize reducing risks to human
safety and public health and property and enhancing eco-
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logical functions, long-term forest productivity, and bio-
logical integrity. The projects may be completed in a sub-
sequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended under
this section to replace funds which would otherwise appro-
priately be expended from the timber salvage sale fund.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any
project from any environmental law.
SEC. 414. Other than in emergency situations, none
of the funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone
answering machines during core business hours unless
such answering machines include an option that enables
callers to reach promptly an individual on-duty with the
agency being contacted.
SEC. 415. Prior to October 1, 2006, the Secretary
of Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation
of subparagraph 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 Na-
tional Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the
Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C.
1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, That if the Sec-
retary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith, within
the funding available, to revise a plan for a unit of the
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National Forest System, this section shall be void with re-
spect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may
order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis.
SEC. 416. 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.
SEC. 417. EXTENSION OF FOREST SERVICE CONVEY-
ANCES PILOT PROGRAM.—Section 329 of the Department
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2002 (16 U.S.C. 580d note; Public Law 107–63) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘40’’ and in-
serting ‘‘60’’;
(2) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘13’’ and in-
serting ‘‘25’’; and
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘2008’’ and
inserting ‘‘2009’’.
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SEC. 418. In entering into agreements with foreign
countries pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance
Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and
the Secretary of the Interior are authorized to enter into
reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished
under said agreements to provide wildfire services are con-
sidered, for purposes of tort liability, employees of the
country receiving said services when the individuals are
engaged in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not
enter into any agreement under this provision unless the
foreign country (either directly or through its fire organi-
zation) agrees to assume any and all liability for the acts
or omissions of American firefighters engaged in fire-
fighting in a foreign country: Provided further, That when
an agreement is reached for furnishing fire fighting serv-
ices, the only remedies for acts or omissions committed
while fighting fires shall be those provided under the laws
of the host country, and those remedies shall be the exclu-
sive remedies for any claim arising out of fighting fires
in a foreign country: Provided further, That neither the
sending country nor any legal organization associated with
the firefighter shall be subject to any legal action whatso-
ever pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role
in fire suppression.
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SEC. 419. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.
SEC. 420. In awarding a Federal contract with funds
made available by this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Secretaries’’) may,
in evaluating bids and proposals, give consideration to
local contractors who are from, and who provide employ-
ment and training for, dislocated and displaced workers
in an economically disadvantaged rural community, in-
cluding those historically timber-dependent areas that
have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Fed-
eral lands and other forest-dependent rural communities
isolated from significant alternative employment opportu-
nities: Provided, That the Secretaries may award con-
tracts, grants or cooperative agreements to local non-prof-
it entities, Youth Conservation Corps or related partner-
ships with State, local or non-profit youth groups, or small
or disadvantaged business or micro-business: Provided fur-
ther, That the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement
is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, watershed or water
quality monitoring or restoration, wildlife or fish popu-
lation monitoring, or habitat restoration or management: