ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for
personnel and related costs and travel expenses, including
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of air-
craft; purchase of reprints; library memberships 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; construction, alteration, repair, re-
habilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$85,000 per project; and not to exceed $9,000 for official
reception and representation expenses, $2,389,491,000
(increased by $1,903,000) (reduced by $1,903,000), which
shall remain available until September 30, 2007, including
administrative costs of the brownfields program under the
Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revital-
ization Act of 2002.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction,
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facili-
ties, not to exceed $85,000 per project, $37,955,000 to
remain available until September 30, 2007.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of,
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency,
$40,218,000 to remain available until expended.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sec-
tions 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C.
9611), and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $85,000
per project; $1,258,333,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, consisting of such sums as are available in the
Trust Fund upon the date of enactment of this Act as
authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amend-
ments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up
to $1,258,333,000 as a payment from general revenues
to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes as
authorized by section 517(b) of SARA, as amended: Pro-
vided, That funds appropriated under this heading may
be allocated to other Federal agencies in accordance with
section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated under this heading, $13,536,000 shall
be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appro-
priation to remain available until September 30, 2007,
and $30,606,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Science and
technology’’ appropriation to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2007.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sec-
tion 205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$85,000 per project, $73,027,000, to remain available
until expended.
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990, $15,863,000, to be derived from
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until
expended.
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS)
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants,
$3,127,800,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $750,000,000 shall be for making capitalization
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended (the ‘‘Act’’), of which up to $50,000,000 shall
be available for loans, including interest free loans as au-
thorized by 33 U.S.C. 1383(d)(1)(A), to municipal, inter-
municipal, interstate, or State agencies or nonprofit enti-
ties for projects that provide treatment for or that mini-
mize sewage or stormwater discharges using one or more
approaches which include, but are not limited to, decen-
tralized or distributed stormwater controls, decentralized
wastewater treatment, low-impact development practices,
conservation easements, stream buffers, or wetlands res-
toration; $850,000,000 shall be for capitalization grants
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under sec-
tion 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended;
$50,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, plan-
ning, design, construction and related activities in connec-
tion with the construction of high priority water and
wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mex-
ico Border, after consultation with the appropriate border
commission; $15,000,000 shall be for grants to the State
of Alaska to address drinking water and waste infrastruc-
ture needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages;
$200,000,000 shall be for making grants for the construc-
tion of drinking water, wastewater and storm water infra-
structure and for water quality protection (‘‘special project
grants’’) in accordance with the terms and conditions
specified for such grants in the joint explanatory state-
ment of the managers accompanying this Act, and, for
purposes of these grants, each grantee shall contribute not
less than 45 percent of the cost of the project unless the
grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency;
$95,500,000 (increased by $2,000,000) shall be to carry
out section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), as amended, including grants, interagency
agreements, and associated program support costs;
$4,000,000 shall be for a grant to Puerto Rico for drink-
ing 
water 
infrastructure 
improvements 
to 
the
Metropolitano community water system in San Juan;
$10,000,000 for cost-shared grants for school bus retrofit
and replacement projects that reduce diesel emissions:
Provided, That $1,153,300,000 (reduced by $2,000,000)
shall be for grants, including associated program support
costs, to States, federally recognized tribes, interstate
agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollution control agen-
cies for multi-media or single media pollution prevention,
control and abatement and related activities, including ac-
tivities pursuant to the provisions set forth under this
heading in Public Law 104–134, and for making grants
under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particulate
matter monitoring and data collection activities of which
and subject to terms and conditions specified by the Ad-
ministrator, 
of 
which 
$52,000,000 
(reduced 
by
$2,000,000) shall be for carrying out section 128 of
CERCLA, as amended, and $20,000,000 shall be for En-
vironmental Information Exchange Network grants, in-
cluding 
associated 
program 
support 
costs, 
and
$15,000,000 shall be for making competitive targeted wa-
tershed grants: Provided further, That notwithstanding
section 603(d)(7) of the Act, the limitation on the
amounts in a State water pollution control revolving fund
that may be used by a State to administer the fund shall
not apply to amounts included as principal in loans made
by such fund in fiscal year 2006 and prior years where
such amounts represent costs of administering the fund
to the extent that such amounts are or were deemed rea-
sonable by the Administrator, accounted for separately
from other assets in the fund, and used for eligible pur-
poses of the fund, including administration: Provided fur-
ther, That for fiscal year 2006, and notwithstanding sec-
tion 518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is authorized to
use the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under
section 319 of that Act to make grants to Indian tribes
pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2006, notwithstanding
the limitation on amounts in section 518(c) of the Act,
up to a total of 11⁄2 percent of the funds appropriated
for State Revolving Funds under title VI of that Act may
be reserved by the Administrator for grants under section
518(c) of that Act: Provided further, That no funds pro-
vided by this legislation to address the water, wastewater
and other critical infrastructure needs of the colonias in
the United States along the United States-Mexico border
shall be made available to a county or municipal govern-
ment unless that government has established an enforce-
able local ordinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents
in that jurisdiction the development or construction of any
additional colonia areas, or the development within an ex-
isting colonia the construction of any new home, business,
or other structure which lacks water, wastewater, or other
necessary infrastructure: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, such funds that were
appropriated under this heading for special project grants
in fiscal year 2000 or before and for which the Agency
has not received an application and issued a grant by Sep-
tember 30, 2006, shall be made available to the Clean
Water or Drinking Water Revolving Fund, as appropriate,
for the State in which the special project grant recipient
is located: Provided further, That excess funds remaining
after completion of a special project grant shall be made
available to the Clean Water or Drinking Water Revolving
Fund, as appropriate, for the State in which the special
project grant recipient is located: Provided further, That
in the event that a special project is determined by the
Agency to be ineligible for a grant, the funds for that
project shall be made available to the Clean Water or
Drinking Water Revolving Fund, as appropriate, for the
State in which the special project grant recipient is lo-
cated: Provided further, That notwithstanding this or pre-
vious appropriations Acts, after consultation with the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and for
the purposes of making technical corrections, the Adminis-
trator is authorized to award grants to entities under this
heading for purposes other than those listed in the joint
explanatory statements of the managers accompanying the
Agency’s appropriations Acts for the construction of
drinking water, waste water and storm water infrastruc-
ture, and for water quality protection.
For an additional amount for the Clean Water State
Revolving Fund, $100,000,000 shall be made available
from the rescissions of multi-year and no-year funding,
previously appropriated to the Environmental Protection
Agency, the availability of which under the original appro-
priation accounts has not expired, and $100,000,000 in
such funding is hereby rescinded: Provided, That such re-
scissions shall be taken solely from amounts associated
with grants, contracts, and interagency agreements whose
availability under the original period for obligation for
such grant, contract, or interagency agreement has ex-
pired based on the April 2005 review by the Government
Accountability Office.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
For fiscal year 2006, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an
acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative agree-
ments to federally-recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal
consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist
the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental
programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law,
except that no such cooperative agreements may be award-
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance
agreements.
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-
istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (as
added by subsection (f)(2) of the Pesticide Registration
Improvement Act of 2003), as amended.
Notwithstanding CERCLA 104(k)(4)(B)(i)(IV), ap-
propriated funds for fiscal year 2006 may be used to
award grants or loans under section 104(k) of CERCLA
to eligible entities that satisfy all of the elements set forth
in CERCLA section 101(40) to qualify as a bona fide pro-
spective purchaser except that the date of acquisition of
the property was prior to the date of enactment of the
Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitaliza-
tion Act of 2001.
For fiscal years 2006 through 2011, the Adminis-
trator may, after consultation with the Office of Personnel
Management, make not to exceed five appointments in any
fiscal year under the authority provided in 42 U.S.C. 209
for the Office of Research and Development.
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, $285,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $62,100,000 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-
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, $254,875,000, to remain available until expended, as
authorized by law of which $25,000,000 is to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund: Provided,
That none of the funds provided under this heading for
the acquisition of lands or interests in lands shall be avail-
able until the Forest Service notifies the House Committee
on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appro-
priations, in writing, of specific contractual and grant de-
tails including the non-Federal cost share: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds provided herein, $1,000,000 shall
be provided to Custer County, Idaho, for economic devel-
opment in accordance with the Central Idaho Economic
Development and Recreation Act, subject to authorization.
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,
$1,423,920,000 (reduced by $7,000,000) (increased by
$1,000,000), 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 2006 shall be
displayed by budget line item in the fiscal year 2007 budg-
et justification.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER 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, $1,790,506,000, 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,
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 2005 shall be transferred, as repayment for
past advances that have not been repaid, to the fund es-
tablished pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 71–319 (16
U.S.C. 576 et seq.): 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,
That of the funds provided, $286,000,000 is for hazardous
fuels reduction activities, $9,281,000 is for rehabilitation
and restoration, $21,719,000 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.), $41,000,000 is for
State fire assistance, $8,000,000 is for volunteer fire as-
sistance, $15,000,000 is for forest health activities on
Federal lands and $10,000,000 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, vege-
tation and watershed management, heritage site rehabili-
tation, and wildlife and fish habitat management and res-
toration: Provided further, That transfers of any amounts
in excess of those authorized in this paragraph, shall re-
quire approval of the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations in compliance with reprogramming proce-
dures contained in the report accompanying this Act: Pro-
vided further, That funds provided under this heading for
hazardous fuels treatments may be transferred to and
made a part of the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account at
the sole discretion of the Chief of the Forest Service thirty
days after notifying the House and the Senate Committees
on Appropriations: Provided further, That the costs of im-
plementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed-
eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be
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 Appropriations, up to $15,000,000 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
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agri-
culture may authorize the transfer of funds appropriated
for wildland fire management, in an aggregate amount not
to exceed $9,000,000, between the Departments when
such transfers would facilitate and expedite jointly funded
wildland fire management programs and projects: Pro-
vided further, That funds designated for wildfire suppres-
sion, shall be assessed for indirect costs, in a manner con-
sistent with such assessments against other agency pro-
grams.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not
otherwise provided for, $468,260,000, to remain available
until expended for construction, reconstruction, mainte-
nance and acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and
for construction, reconstruction, repair, 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: Provided, That up to $15,000,000
of the funds provided herein for road maintenance shall
be available for the decommissioning of roads, including
unauthorized roads not part of the transportation system,
which are no longer needed: Provided further, That no
funds shall be expended to decommission any system road
until notice and an opportunity for public comment has
been provided on each decommissioning project.
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, $15,000,000, 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
Forests, California, as authorized by law, $1,069,000, 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.
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