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authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members 
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 
who are not members. 
SEC. 104. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct 
of offshore preleasing, leasing and related activities placed 
under restriction in the President’s moratorium statement 
of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, central, and 
southern California; the North Atlantic; Washington and 
Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees 
north latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude. 
SEC. 105. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct oil and 
natural gas preleasing, leasing and related activities in the 
Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 106. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special 
Trustee for American Indians and any unobligated bal-
ances from prior appropriations Acts made under the same 
headings shall be available for expenditure or transfer for 
Indian trust management and reform activities, excluding 
litigation costs. Total funding for historical accounting ac-
tivities shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in 
this Act for such purpose.
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SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute 
any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including tribal base 
funds, to alleviate tribal funding inequities by transferring 
funds to address identified, unmet needs, dual enrollment, 
overlapping service areas or inaccurate distribution meth-
odologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction in Tribal Pri-
ority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal 
year 2008. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, over-
lapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodolo-
gies, the 10 percent limitation does not apply. 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under the au-
thority provided by Public Law 104–134, as amended by 
Public Law 104–208, the Secretary may accept and retain 
land and other forms of reimbursement: Provided, That the 
Secretary may retain and use any such reimbursement 
until expended and without further appropriation: (1) for 
the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge System within 
the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all activities authorized 
by 16 U.S.C. 460zz. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of the Interior may hereafter 
use or contract for the use of helicopters or motor vehicles 
on the Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Refuges for the 
purpose of capturing and transporting horses and burros.
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The provisions of subsection (a) of the Act of September 8, 
1959 (18 U.S.C. 47(a)) shall not be applicable to such use. 
Such use shall be in accordance with humane procedures 
prescribed by the Secretary. 
SEC. 110. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
can be used to compensate the Special Master and the Spe-
cial Master-Monitor, and all variations thereto, appointed 
by the United States District Court for the District of Co-
lumbia in the Cobell v. Kempthorne litigation at an annual 
rate that exceeds 200 percent of the highest Senior Executive 
Service rate of pay for the Washington-Baltimore locality 
pay area. 
SEC. 111. The Secretary of the Interior may use discre-
tionary funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for em-
ployees and former employees of the Department of the Inte-
rior reasonably incurred in connection with Cobell v. 
Kempthorne to the extent that such fees and costs are not 
paid by the Department of Justice or by private insurance. 
In no case shall the Secretary make payments under this 
section that would result in payment of hourly fees in excess 
of the highest hourly rate approved by the District Court 
for the District of Columbia for counsel in Cobell v. Kemp-
thorne. 
SEC. 112. No funds appropriated for the Department 
of the Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used
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to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or 
to reduce the water level of the lake below the range of water 
levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam. 
SEC. 113. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect threat-
ened and endangered species of salmon, implement a system 
of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, 
that are released from federally-operated or federally-fi-
nanced hatcheries including but not limited to fish releases 
of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. Marked fish must 
have a visible mark that can be readily identified by com-
mercial and recreational fishers. 
SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any implementation of the 
Department of the Interior’s trust reorganization or re-
engineering plans, or the implementation of the ‘‘To Be’’ 
Model, funds appropriated for fiscal year 2008 shall be 
available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust 
Reform Consortium and to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa 
Indian Community, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai 
Tribes of the Flathead Reservation and the Chippewa Cree 
Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation through the same 
methodology as funds were distributed in fiscal year 2003. 
This Demonstration Project shall continue to operate sepa-
rate and apart from the Department of the Interior’s trust 
reform and reorganization and the Department shall not
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impose its trust management infrastructure upon or alter 
the existing trust resource management systems of the above 
referenced tribes having a self-governance compact and op-
erating in accordance with the Tribal Self-Governance Pro-
gram set forth in 25 U.S.C. 458aa–458hh: Provided, That 
the California Trust Reform Consortium and any other 
participating tribe agree to carry out their responsibilities 
under the same written and implemented fiduciary stand-
ards as those being carried by the Secretary of the Interior: 
Provided further, That they demonstrate to the satisfaction 
of the Secretary that they have the capability to do so: Pro-
vided further, That the Department shall provide funds to 
the tribes in an amount equal to that required by 25 U.S.C. 
458cc(g)(3), including funds specifically or functionally re-
lated to the provision of trust services to the tribes or their 
members. 
SEC. 115. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands, 
waters, or interests therein including the use of all or part 
of any pier, dock, or landing within the State of New York 
and the State of New Jersey, for the purpose of operating 
and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation 
and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Lib-
erty Islands, and of other program and administrative ac-
tivities, by donation or with appropriated funds, including