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ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from funds 
deposited by State, county, or municipal governments, public school 
districts, or other public school authorities, and for authorized 
expenditures from funds deposited 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, protection, and 
improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior 
fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic 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 expended, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground range 
rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND 
RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $64,000, to 
remain available until expended, to be derived from the fund estab-
lished pursuant to the above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage Federal 
lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (Public Law 96–487), 
$5,067,000, to remain available until expended. 
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 replace-
ment 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) pur-
chase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public 
improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of land, waters, and 
interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursu-
ant to the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 
558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uniforms as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for debt collection contracts in 
accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
None of the funds made available under this Act shall be 
obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move or close any 
regional office for National Forest System administration of the
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Forest Service, Department of Agriculture without the consent of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service 
may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation 
for forest firefighting, emergency rehabilitation of burned-over or 
damaged lands or waters under its jurisdiction, and fire prepared-
ness due to severe burning conditions upon notification of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and if and only 
if all previously appropriated emergency contingent funds under 
the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ have been released by 
the President and apportioned and all wildfire suppression funds 
under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ are obligated. 
The first transfer of funds into the Wildland Fire Management 
account shall include unobligated funds, if available, from the Land 
Acquisition account and the Forest Legacy program within the 
State and Private Forestry account. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for assistance to or through the Agency for International Develop-
ment and the Foreign Agricultural Service in connection with forest 
and rangeland research, technical information, and assistance in 
foreign countries, and shall be available to support forestry and 
related natural resource activities outside the United States and 
its territories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-
cation and training, and cooperation with United States and inter-
national organizations. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service under 
this Act shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of section 
702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 
U.S.C. 2257) or 7 U.S.C. 147b, except that in fiscal year 2006 
the Forest Service may transfer funds to the ‘‘National Forest 
System’’ account from other agency accounts to enable the agency’s 
law enforcement program to pay full operating costs including over-
head. 
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may be 
reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the re-
programming procedures contained in the report accompanying this 
Act. 
Not more than $72,646,000 of funds available to the Forest 
Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the 
Department of Agriculture. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit 
or limit the use of reimbursable agreements requested by the Forest 
Service in order to obtain services from the Department of Agri-
culture’s National Information Technology Center. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to 
conduct a program of not less than $2,500,000 for high priority 
projects within the scope of the approved budget which shall be 
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 is available 
to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and represen-
tation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 101–
593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, $3,000,000 may 
be advanced in a lump sum to the National Forest Foundation 
to aid conservation partnership projects in support of the Forest 
Service mission, without regard to when the Foundation incurs 
expenses, for administrative expenses or projects on or benefitting
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National Forest System lands or related to Forest Service programs: 
Provided, That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda-
tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation shall obtain, by 
the end of the period of Federal financial assistance, private con-
tributions to match on at least one-for-one basis funds made avail-
able by the Forest Service: Provided further, That the Foundation 
may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient for a project 
at the same rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal 
matching funds: Provided further, That authorized investments of 
Federal funds held by the Foundation may be made only in interest-
bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed 
as to both principal and interest by the United States. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, $2,650,000 
of the funds available to the Forest Service shall be advanced 
to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in a lump sum to 
aid cost-share conservation projects, without regard to when 
expenses are incurred, on or benefitting National Forest System 
lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such 
funds shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 
Foundation or its subrecipients. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for interactions with and providing technical assistance to rural 
communities for sustainable rural development purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for payments to counties within the Columbia River Gorge National 
Scenic Area, pursuant to sections 14(c)(1) and (2), and section 
16(a)(2) of Public Law 99–663. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations 
or funds available to the Forest Service not to exceed $500,000 
may be used to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), 
Department of Agriculture, for travel and related expenses incurred 
as a result of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management reviews, 
land purchase negotiations and similar non-litigation related mat-
ters. Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service and 
the Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums 
previously transferred and the requested funding transfers. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service 
may be used for necessary expenses in the event of law enforcement 
emergencies as necessary to protect natural resources and public 
or employee safety: Provided, That such amounts shall not exceed 
$500,000. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project funded 
under title V of the Older American Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056 
et seq.) and administered by the Forest Service shall be considered 
to be a Federal employee for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be used 
to meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 502(c) of 
the Older American Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)). 
For each fiscal year through 2009, funds available to the Forest 
Service in this Act may be used for the purpose of expenses associ-
ated with primary and secondary schooling for dependents of agency 
personnel stationed in Puerto Rico prior to the date of enactment 
of this Act, who are subject to transfer and reassignment to other 
locations in the United States, at a cost not in excess of those
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authorized for the Department of Defense for the same area, when 
it is determined by the Chief of the Forest Service that public 
schools available in the locality are unable to provide adequately 
for the education of such dependents. 
Funds available to the Forest Service, not to exceed 
$35,000,000, shall be assessed for the purpose of performing facili-
ties maintenance. Such assessments shall occur using a square 
foot rate charged on the same basis the agency uses to assess 
programs for payment of rent, utilities, and other support services. 
In support of management of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System, Lot 6C of United States Survey 2538–A, containing 2.39 
acres and the residential triplex situated thereon, located in Kodiak, 
Alaska, is hereby transferred from the USDA Forest Service to 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954 
(68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination Act, the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health 
Service 
Act 
with 
respect 
to 
the 
Indian 
Health 
Service, 
$2,732,298,000, together with payments received during the fiscal 
year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the 
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made available to 
tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements, 
or any other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 
450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant 
or contract award and thereafter shall remain available to the 
tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Provided 
further, That up to $18,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended, for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: 
Provided further, That $507,021,000 for contract medical care shall 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2007: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, up to $27,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be used to carry out the loan repay-
ment program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment Act: Provided further, That funds provided in this Act may 
be used for one-year contracts and grants which are to be performed 
in two fiscal years, so long as the total obligation is recorded 
in the year for which the funds are appropriated: Provided further, 
That the amounts collected by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services under the authority of title IV of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act shall remain available until expended for the 
purpose of achieving compliance with the applicable conditions and 
requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act 
(exclusive of planning, design, or construction of new facilities): 
Provided further, That funding contained herein, and in any earlier 
appropriations Acts for scholarship programs under the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That amounts received by 
tribes and tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act shall be reported and accounted for and 
available to the receiving tribes and tribal organizations until