part 12 of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations as the 
regulatory requirements: Provided further, That such 
grants shall not be subject to section 12.61 of such title; 
the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and deter-
mine a schedule of payments for the work to be performed: 
Provided further, That in considering grant applications, 
the Secretary shall consider whether such grantee would 
be deficient in assuring that the construction projects con-
form to applicable building standards and codes and Fed-
eral, tribal, or State health and safety standards as re-
quired by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with respect to organiza-
tional and financial management capabilities: Provided 
further, That if the Secretary declines a grant application, 
the Secretary shall follow the requirements contained in 
25 U.S.C. 2504(f): Provided further, That any disputes 
between the Secretary and any grantee concerning a grant 
shall be subject to the disputes provision in 25 U.S.C. 
2507(e): Provided further, That in order to ensure timely 
completion of construction projects, the Secretary may as-
sume control of a project and all funds related to the 
project, if, within 18 months of the date of enactment of 
this Act, any grantee receiving funds appropriated in this 
Act or in any prior Act has not completed the planning 
and design phase of the project and commenced construc-
tion: Provided further, That this appropriation may be re-
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imbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee for Amer-
ican Indians appropriation for the appropriate share of 
construction costs for space expansion needed in agency 
offices to meet trust reform implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101– 
618, 108–447, and 111–11, and for implementation of 
other land and water rights settlements, $32,855,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$8,114,000, of which not to exceed $964,000 is for admin-
istrative expenses, as authorized by the Indian Financing 
Act of 1974, as amended: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed or insured, not to exceed $85,242,280. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
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cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs may contract for services in support of the man-
agement, operation, and maintenance of the Power Divi-
sion of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the Revolving Fund for Loans Liquidating Account, 
Indian Loan Guaranty and Insurance Fund Liquidating 
Account, Indian Guaranteed Loan Financing Account, In-
dian Direct Loan Financing Account, and the Indian 
Guaranteed Loan Program account) shall be available for 
expenses of exhibits. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except executive direction and administrative 
services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional 
offices, and facilities operations and maintenance) shall be 
available for contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the 
Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103– 
413). 
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In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this 
action shall not diminish the Federal Government’s trust 
responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-govern-
ment relationship between the United States and that 
tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appropria-
tions. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided 
herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 
452 et seq., shall be available to support the operation of 
any elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other 
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall 
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dor-
mitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bu-
reau school system as of October 1, 1995, except that any 
school or school program that was closed and removed 
from the Bureau school system between 1951 and 1972, 
and its respective tribe’s relationship with the Federal 
Government was terminated, shall be reinstated to the Bu-
reau system and supported at a level based on its grade 
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structure and average student enrollment for the 2009– 
2010, 2010–2011 and 2011–2012 school years. Funds 
made available under this Act may not be used to establish 
a charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term 
is defined in section 1141 of the Education Amendments 
of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school 
that is in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school be-
fore September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during 
that period, but only if the charter school pays to the Bu-
reau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including 
buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau 
does not assume any obligation for charter school pro-
grams of the State in which the school is located if the 
charter school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau- 
funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school and 
performing functions related to the charter school’s oper-
ation and employees of a charter school shall not be treat-
ed as Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of 
title 28, United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
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rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 
distribution formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior, including the collection and dis-
bursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral revenue 
proceeds, as authorized by law, $250,151,000 to remain 
available until September 30, 2013; of which not to exceed 
$15,000 may be for official reception and representation 
expenses; and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available 
for workers compensation payments and unemployment 
compensation payments associated with the orderly clo-
sure of the United States Bureau of Mines; and of which 
$12,112,000 for the Office of Valuation Services is to be 
derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 
shall remain available until expended; and of which 
$36,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the 
purpose of mineral revenue management activities: Pro-
vided, That, for fiscal year 2012, up to $400,000 of the 
payments authorized by the Act of October 20, 1976, as 
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amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907) may be retained for ad-
ministrative expenses of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes 
Program: Provided further, That no payment shall be 
made pursuant to that Act to otherwise eligible units of 
local government if the computed amount of the payment 
is less than $100: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, $15,000 under this heading 
shall be available for refunds of overpayments in connec-
tion with certain Indian leases in which the Secretary con-
curred with the claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed 
to Indian allottees or tribes, or to correct prior unrecover-
able erroneous payments: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 35(b) of the Mineral 
Leasing Act, as amended (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), the Sec-
retary shall deduct 2 percent from the amount payable to 
each State in fiscal year 2012 and deposit the amount de-
ducted to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
$82,558,000, of which: (1) $73,296,000 shall remain 
available until expended for territorial assistance, includ-
ing general technical assistance, maintenance assistance, 
disaster assistance, insular management controls, coral 
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reef initiative activities, and brown tree snake control and 
research; grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for 
compensation and expenses, as authorized by law (48 
U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American 
Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construc-
tion and support of governmental functions; grants to the 
Government of the Virgin Islands as authorized by law; 
grants to the Government of Guam, as authorized by law; 
and grants to the Government of the Northern Mariana 
Islands as authorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 
Stat. 272); and (2) $9,262,000 shall be available until 
September 30, 2013 for salaries and expenses of the Office 
of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial trans-
actions of the territorial and local governments herein pro-
vided for, including such transactions of all agencies or 
instrumentalities established or used by such governments, 
may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, 
at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 
31, United States Code: Provided further, That Northern 
Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be provided 
according to those terms of the Agreement of the Special 
Representatives on Future United States Financial Assist-
ance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public 
Law 104–134: Provided further, That the funds for the 
program of operations and maintenance improvement are 
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appropriated to institutionalize routine operations and 
maintenance improvement of capital infrastructure with 
territorial participation and cost sharing to be determined 
by the Secretary based on the grantee’s commitment to 
timely maintenance of its capital assets: Provided further, 
That any appropriation for disaster assistance under this 
heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may 
be used as non-Federal matching funds for the purpose 
of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section 
404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $3,307,000, to 
remain available until expended, as provided for in sec-
tions 221(a)(2) of the Compact of Free Association for 
the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of the Com-
pacts of Free Association for the Government of the Re-
public of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States 
of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99–658 and 
Public Law 108–188. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-
retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory 
funds provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108– 
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188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for 
Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost 
of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per-
cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost 
of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the 
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for 
construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran-
tees may be made without regard to the population of the 
area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on 
the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 
any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make 
or guarantee loans under such authorities. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$64,946,000. 
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $48,493,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN 
INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts, and grants, $152,319,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $31,171,000, from 
this or any other Act, shall be available for historical ac-
counting: Provided, That funds for trust management im-
provements and litigation support may, as needed, be 
transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs, ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account; the Office 
of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the 
Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account: 
Provided further, That funds made available through con-
tracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2012, as au-
thorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), shall remain available until expended 
by the contractor or grantee: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the statute of lim-
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itations shall not commence to run on any claim, including 
any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement 
of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian 
has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from 
which the beneficiary can determine whether there has 
been a loss: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required 
to provide a quarterly statement of performance for any 
Indian trust account that has not had activity for at least 
18 months and has a balance of $15.00 or less: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-
drawn upon the express written request of the account 
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 is 
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-
main available in this account for this purpose. 
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DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency 
rehabilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire as-
sistance by the Department of the Interior, $574,072,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$6,137,000 shall be for the renovation or construction of 
fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are also available 
for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such 
purposes: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant 
to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodg-
ing without cost from funds available from this appropria-
tion: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 
1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the Depart-
ment of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant 
to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United States 
property, may be credited to the appropriation from which 
funds were expended to provide that protection, and are 
available without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 
That using the amounts designated under this title of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into procure-
ment contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for 
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hazardous fuels reduction activities, and for training and 
monitoring associated with such hazardous fuels reduction 
activities, on Federal land, or on adjacent non-Federal 
land for activities that benefit resources on Federal land: 
Provided further, That the costs of implementing any co-
operative agreement between the Federal Government and 
any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed 
on by the affected parties: Provided further, That notwith-
standing requirements of the Competition in Contracting 
Act, the Secretary, for purposes of hazardous fuels reduc-
tion activities, may obtain maximum practicable competi-
tion among: (1) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative en-
tities; (2) Youth Conservation Corps crews, Public Lands 
Corps (Public Law 109–154), or related partnerships with 
State, local, or non-profit youth groups; (3) small or 
micro-businesses; or (4) other entities that will hire or 
train locally a significant percentage, defined as 50 per-
cent or more, of the project workforce to complete such 
contracts: Provided further, That in implementing this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall develop written guidance to field 
units to ensure accountability and consistent application 
of the authorities provided herein: Provided further, That 
funds appropriated under this heading may be used to re-
imburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and 
the National Marine Fisheries Service for the costs of car-
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rying out their responsibilities under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and 
conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, in con-
nection with wildland fire management activities: Provided 
further, That the Secretary of the Interior may use 
wildland fire appropriations to enter into leases of real 
property with local governments, at or below fair market 
value, to construct capitalized improvements for fire facili-
ties on such leased properties, including but not limited 
to fire guard stations, retardant stations, and other initial 
attack and fire support facilities, and to make advance 
payments for any such lease or for construction activity 
associated with the lease: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
may authorize the transfer of funds appropriated for 
wildland fire management, in an aggregate amount not to 
exceed $50,000,000, between the Departments when such 
transfers would facilitate and expedite jointly funded 
wildland fire management programs and projects: Pro-
vided further, That funds provided for wildfire suppression 
shall be available for support of Federal emergency re-
sponse actions: Provided further, That funds appropriated 
under this heading shall be available for assistance to or 
through the Department of State in connection with forest 
and rangeland research, technical information, and assist-
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ance in foreign countries, and, with the concurrence of the 
Secretary of State, shall be available to support forestry, 
wildland fire management, and related natural resource 
activities outside the United States and its territories and 
possessions, including technical assistance, education and 
training, and cooperation with United States and inter-
national organizations: Provided further, That, before obli-
gating any of the funds provided herein for wildland fire 
suppression, the Secretary of the Interior shall obligate 
all unobligated balances previously made available under 
this heading that, when appropriated, were designated by 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the 
Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and 
notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate in writing of the imminent 
need to begin obligating funds provided herein for wildland 
fire suppression: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
the Interior may transfer not more than $50,000,000 of 
the funds provided herein to the Secretary of Agriculture 
if the Secretaries determine that the transfer will enhance 
the efficiency or effectiveness of Federal wildland fire sup-
pression activities. 
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FLAME WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for large fire suppression op-
erations of the Department of the Interior and as a re-
serve fund for suppression and Federal emergency re-
sponse activities, $92,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such amounts are available only 
for transfer to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ account 
and only following a declaration by the Secretary that ei-
ther (1) a wildland fire suppression event meets certain 
previously-established risk-based written criteria for sig-
nificant complexity, severity, or threat posed by the fire 
or (2) funds in the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ account 
will be exhausted within 30 days. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 
the response action, including associated activities, per-
formed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $10,149,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
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NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and 
restoration activities by the Department of the Interior 
necessary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 
et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 
et seq.), and Public Law 101–337, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
19jj et seq.), $5,763,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the acquisition of a departmental financial and 
business management system, information technology im-
provements of general benefit to the Department, and con-
solidation of facilities and operations throughout the De-
partment, $57,019,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in 
this Act or any other Act may be used to establish reserves 
in the Working Capital Fund account other than for ac-
crued annual leave and depreciation of equipment without 
prior approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
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assess reasonable charges to State, local and tribal govern-
ment employees for training services provided by the Na-
tional Indian Program Training Center, other than train-
ing related to Public Law 93–638: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may lease or otherwise provide space and 
related facilities, equipment or professional services of the 
National Indian Program Training Center to State, local 
and tribal government employees or persons or organiza-
tions engaged in cultural, educational, or recreational ac-
tivities (as defined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United 
States Code) at the prevailing rate for similar space, facili-
ties, equipment, or services in the vicinity of the National 
Indian Program Training Center: Provided further, That 
all funds received pursuant to the two preceding provisos 
shall be credited to this account, shall be available until 
expended, and shall be used by the Secretary for necessary 
expenses of the National Indian Program Training Center. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 air-
craft, 10 of which shall be for replacement and which may 
be obtained by donation, purchase or through available ex-
cess surplus property: Provided, That existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or 
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trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—INTRA-BUREAU 
SEC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 
or office), with the approval of the Secretary, for the emer-
gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, 
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoid-
able causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made avail-
able under this authority until funds specifically made 
available to the Department of the Interior for emer-
gencies shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That 
all funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished 
by a supplemental appropriation which must be requested 
as promptly as possible. 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—DEPARTMENT-WIDE 
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expendi-
ture or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, 
in addition to the amounts included in the budget pro-
grams of the several agencies, for the suppression or emer-
gency prevention of wildland fires on or threatening lands 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; 
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for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
tential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subse-
quent to actual oil spills; for response and natural resource 
damage assessment activities related to actual oil spills or 
releases of hazardous substances into the environment; for 
the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or po-
tential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to 
the authority in section 417(b) of Public Law 106–224 
(7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); for emergency reclamation projects 
under section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall trans-
fer, from any no year funds available to the Office of Sur-
face Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as 
may be necessary to permit assumption of regulatory au-
thority in the event a primacy State is not carrying out 
the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining Act: Pro-
vided, That appropriations made in this title for wildland 
fire operations shall be available for the payment of obliga-
tions incurred during the preceding fiscal year, and for 
reimbursement to other Federal agencies for destruction 
of vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in connection with 
their use for wildland fire operations, such reimbursement 
to be credited to appropriations currently available at the 
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time of receipt thereof: Provided further, That for wildland 
fire operations, no funds shall be made available under 
this authority until the Secretary determines that funds 
appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire operations’’ and ‘‘FLAME 
Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund’’ shall be exhausted 
within 30 days: Provided further, That all funds used pur-
suant to this section must be replenished by a supple-
mental appropriation which must be requested as prompt-
ly as possible: Provided further, That such replenishment 
funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, ac-
counts from which emergency funds were transferred. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, when authorized by the Secretary, in total amount 
not to exceed $500,000; purchase and replacement of 
motor vehicles, including specially equipped law enforce-
ment vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of air-
craft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of re-
prints; payment for telephone service in private residences 
in the field, when authorized under regulations approved 
by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when author-
ized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies 
or associations which issue publications to members only 
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or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who 
are not members. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS, INDIAN TRUST 
MANAGEMENT 
SEC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of the Spe-
cial Trustee for American Indians and any unobligated 
balances from prior appropriations Acts made under the 
same headings shall be available for expenditure or trans-
fer for Indian trust management and reform activities. 
Total funding for historical accounting activities shall not 
exceed amounts specifically designated in this Act for such 
purpose. 
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS, BUREAU OF INDIAN 
AFFAIRS 
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis-
tribute 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 methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduc-
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 
percent in fiscal year 2012. Under circumstances of dual 
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-
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tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 
apply. 
TWIN CITIES RESEARCH CENTER 
SEC. 106. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under 
the authority provided by Public Law 104–134, the Sec-
retary may accept and retain land and other forms of re-
imbursement: Provided, That the Secretary may retain 
and use any such reimbursement until expended and with-
out further appropriation: (1) for the benefit of the Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge System within the State of Min-
nesota; and (2) for all activities authorized by section 701 
of Public Law 100–696 (16 U.S.C. 460zz). 
PAYMENT OF FEES 
SEC. 107. The Secretary of the Interior may use dis-
cretionary funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for 
employees and former employees of the Department of the 
Interior reasonably incurred in connection with Cobell v. 
Salazar 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 sec-
tion 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. Sala-
zar. 
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EVERGLADES ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION 
SEC. 108. This and any subsequent fiscal year, the 
National Park Service is authorized to implement modi-
fications to the Tamiami Trail as described in, and in ac-
cordance with, the preferred alternative identified in the 
final environmental impact statement noticed in the Fed-
eral Register on December 14, 2010, (75 Fed. Reg. 
77896), relating to restoration efforts of the Everglades 
ecosystem. 
ELLIS, GOVERNORS, AND LIBERTY ISLANDS 
SEC. 109. 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 Liberty Islands, and of other program and 
administrative activities, by donation or with appropriated 
funds, including franchise fees (and other monetary con-
sideration), or by exchange; and the Secretary is author-
ized to negotiate and enter into leases, subleases, conces-
sion contracts or other agreements for the use of such fa-
cilities on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may 
determine reasonable. 
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INDIAN PROBATE JUDGES 
SEC. 110. In fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, for the purpose of adjudicating Indian probate 
cases in the Department of the Interior, the hearing re-
quirements of chapter 10 of title 25, United States Code, 
are deemed satisfied by a proceeding conducted by an In-
dian probate judge, appointed by the Secretary without 
regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, 
governing the appointments in the competitive service, for 
such period of time as the Secretary determines necessary: 
Provided, That the basic pay of an Indian probate judge 
so appointed may be fixed by the Secretary without regard 
to the provisions of chapter 51, and subchapter III of 
chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, governing the 
classification and pay of General Schedule employees, ex-
cept that no such Indian probate judge may be paid at 
a level which exceeds the maximum rate payable for the 
highest grade of the General Schedule, including locality 
pay. 
BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, REGULATION 
AND ENFORCEMENT REORGANIZATION 
SEC. 111. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to 
implement a reorganization of the Bureau of Ocean En-
ergy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, may es-
tablish accounts and transfer funds among and between 
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the offices and bureaus affected by the reorganization only 
in conformance with the reprogramming guidelines de-
scribed in the report accompanying this Act. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF INDIAN EDUCATION FUNDS 
SEC. 112. Beginning July 1, 2008, any funds (includ-
ing investments and interest earned, except for construc-
tion funds) held by a Public Law 100–297 grant or a Pub-
lic Law 93–638 contract school shall, upon retrocession 
to or re-assumption by the Bureau of Indian Education, 
remain available to the Bureau of Indian Education for 
a period of 5 years from the date of retrocession or re- 
assumption for the benefit of the programs approved for 
the school on October 1, 1995. 
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 
SEC. 113. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
multiyear cooperative agreements with nonprofit organiza-
tions and other appropriate entities, and may enter into 
multiyear contracts in accordance with the provisions of 
section 304B of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 254c) (except that the 
5 year term restriction in subsection (d) shall not apply), 
for the long-term care and maintenance of excess wild free 
roaming horses and burros by such organizations or enti-
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ties on private land. Such cooperative agreements and con-
tracts may not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal at the 
discretion of the Secretary. 
(b) During fiscal year 2012 and subsequent fiscal 
years, in carrying out work involving cooperation with any 
State or political subdivision thereof, the Bureau of Land 
Management may record obligations against accounts re-
ceivable from any such entities. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION OPERATED SCHOOLS 
SEC. 114. (a)(1) Nothwithstanding section 586(c) of 
title 40, United States Code, the head of a Bureau-oper-
ated school is authorized to enter into agreements with 
public and private persons and entities that provide for 
such persons and entities to rent or lease the land or facili-
ties of the school in exchange for a consideration (in the 
form of funds) that benefits the school, as determined by 
the head of the school when such rent or lease does not 
interfere with school operations. 
(2) Funds received under paragraph (1) shall be re-
tained by the school and used for school purposes other-
wise authorized by law. Any funds received under para-
graph (1) are hereby made available until expended for 
such purposes, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, 
United States Code. 
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(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow 
for the diminishment of, or otherwise affect, the appro-
priation of funds to the budget accounts for the operation 
and maintenance of Bureau-operated schools. No funds 
shall be withheld from the distribution to the budget of 
any Bureau-operated school due to the receipt by the 
school of a benefit in accordance with this section. 
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of title 5, United 
States Code, or any regulation promulgated under such 
title, education personnel who are under the direction and 
supervision of the Secretary of the Interior may partici-
pate in a fundraising activity for the benefit of a Bureau- 
operated school in an official capacity as part of their offi-
cial duties. When participating in such an official capacity, 
the employee may use the employee’s official title, position, 
and authority. Nothing in this subsection shall be con-
strued to authorize participation in political activity (as 
such term is used in section 7324 of title 5, United States 
Code) otherwise prohibited by law. 
(c) The Secretary of the Interior shall promulgate 
regulations to carry out this section not later than 12 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act. Such 
regulations shall include— 
(1) provisions for the establishment and admin-
istration of mechanisms for the acceptance of con-
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sideration for the use and benefit of a school in ac-
cordance with this section (including, in appropriate 
cases, the establishment and administration of trust 
funds); 
(2) accountability standards to ensure ethical 
conduct; and 
(3) provisions for monitoring the amount and 
terms of consideration received, the manner in which 
the consideration is used, and any results achieved 
by such use. 
(d) Provisions of this section shall apply to fiscal year 
2012 and subsequent fiscal years. 
MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 
SEC. 115. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect 
threatened 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 financed 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 commercial and recreational fishers. 
YUKON-CHARLEY NATIONAL PRESERVE 
SEC. 116. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to imple-
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ment or enforce regulations concerning boating and other 
activities on or relating to waters located within Yukon- 
Charley National Preserve, including waters subject to the 
jurisdiction of the United States, pursuant to section 3(h) 
of Public Law 91–383 (16 U.S.C. 1a–2(h)) or any other 
authority. This section does not affect the authority of the 
Coast Guard to regulate the use of waters subject to the 
jurisdiction of the United States within the Yukon-Charley 
National Preserve. 
DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY 
SEC. 117. (a) DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY.—During 
fiscal year 2012 and thereafter, the Secretary of the Inte-
rior may appoint, without regard to the provisions of sub-
chapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, 
other than sections 3303 and 3328 of such title, a quali-
fied candidate described in subsection (b) directly to a po-
sition with a land managing agency of the Department 
of the Interior for which the candidate meets Office of 
Personnel Management qualification standards. 
(b) QUALIFIED
CANDIDATES
DESCRIBED.—Sub-
section (a) applies with respect to a former resource assist-
ant (as defined in section 203 of the Public Land Corps 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1722)) who— 
(1) completed a rigorous undergraduate or 
graduate summer internship with a land managing 
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agency, such as the National Park Service Business 
Plan Internship; 
(2) successfully fulfilled the requirements of the 
internship program; and 
(3) subsequently earned an undergraduate or 
graduate degree from an accredited institution of 
higher education. 
(c) DURATION.—The direct hire authority under this 
section may not be exercised with respect to a specific 
qualified candidate after the end of the 2-year period be-
ginning on the date on which the candidate completed the 
undergraduate or graduate degree, as the case may be. 
REVIEW PROCESS FOR CERTAIN BUREAU OF LAND 
MANAGEMENT ACTIONS 
SEC. 118. (a) EXHAUSTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE RE-
VIEW REQUIRED.—Hereafter, a person may bring a civil 
action challenging a proposed action of the Bureau of 
Land Management concerning grazing on public lands (as 
defined in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702(e))) or an 
amendment to a land use plan proposed under section 202 
of such Act (43 U.S.C. 1712) in a Federal district court 
only if the person has challenged the action or amendment 
at the agency level and exhausted the administrative hear-
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ings and appeals procedures established by the Depart-
ment of the Interior. 
(b) ISSUE LIMITATION.—An issue may be considered 
in the judicial review of an action or amendment referred 
to in subsection (a) only if the issue was raised in the 
administrative review process described in such subsection. 
(c) EXCEPTION.—An exception to the requirement of 
exhausting the administrative review process before seek-
ing judicial review shall be available if a Federal court 
finds that the agency failed or was unable to make infor-
mation timely available during the administrative review 
process for issues of material fact. For the purposes of 
this subsection, ‘‘timely’’ means within 120 calender days 
from the date that the challenge to the agency action or 
amendment at issue is received for administrative review. 
GRAY WOLVES 
SEC. 119. Hereafter, any final rule published by the 
Department of the Interior that provides that the gray 
wolf (Canis lupus) in the State of Wyoming or in any of 
the States within the range of the Western Great Lakes 
Distinct Population Segment of the gray wolf (as defined 
in the rule published on May 5, 2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 26086 
et seq.)) is not an endangered species or threatened spe-
cies under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1531 et seq.), including any rule to remove such species 
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in such a State from the list of endangered species or 
threatened species published under that Act, shall not be 
subject to judicial review if such State has entered into 
an agreement with the Secretary of the Interior that au-
thorizes the State to manage gray wolves in that State. 
TRAILING LIVESTOCK OVER PUBLIC LAND 
SEC. 120. During fiscal years 2012 through 2014, 
the trailing of livestock across public land (as defined by 
section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702)) and the implementation 
of trailing practices by the Bureau of Land Management 
shall not be subject to review under section 102(2)(C) of 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 
4332(2)(C)). 
BOEMRE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 121. The Secretary of the Interior shall— 
(1) log and track the specific reasons for the 
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation 
and Enforcement returning to an applicant, without 
approval, any exploration plan, development and 
production plan, development operations coordina-
tion document, or application for permit to drill sub-
mitted with respect to any oil and gas lease for the 
Outer Continental Shelf; and 
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(2) provide quarterly reports to the Committee 
on Appropriations and Committee on Natural Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Appropriations and Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources of the Senate that in-
clude— 
(A) the date of original submission of each 
document referred to in paragraph (1) received 
by the Bureau in the period covered by a re-
port; 
(B) for each such document— 
(i) the date the document was re-
turned to the applicant; 
(ii) the date the document is treated 
by the Bureau as submitted; and 
(iii) the date of final agency action 
the document. 
LEASE AUTHORIZATION 
SEC. 122. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the 
Interior (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 
may lease to the Savannah Bar Pilots Association, or a 
successor organization, no more than 30,000 square feet 
of land and improvements within Fort Pulaski National 
Monument (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Monu-
ment’’) at the location on Cockspur Island that has been 
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used continuously by the Savannah Bar Pilots Association 
since 1940. 
(b) RENTAL FEE AND PROCEEDS.— 
(1) RENTAL FEE.—For the lease authorized by 
this Act, the Secretary shall require a rental fee 
based on fair market value adjusted, as the Sec-
retary deems appropriate, for amounts to be ex-
pended by the lessee for property preservation, 
maintenance, or repair and related expenses. 
(2) PROCEEDS.—Disposition of the proceeds 
from the rental fee required pursuant to paragraph 
(1) shall be made in accordance with section 3(k)(5) 
of Public Law 91–383 (16 U.S.C. 1a–2(k)(5)). 
(c) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—A lease entered into 
under this section— 
(1) shall be for a term of no more than 10 
years and, at the Secretary’s discretion, for succes-
sive terms of no more than 10 years at a time; and 
(2) shall include any terms and conditions the 
Secretary determines to be necessary to protect the 
resources of the Monument and the public interest. 
(d) EXEMPTION FROM APPLICABLE LAW.—Except 
as provided in section 2(b)(2) of this Act, the lease author-
ized by this Act shall not be subject to section 3(k) of 
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Public Law 91–383 (16 U.S.C. 1a–2(k)) or section 321 
of Act of June 30, 1932 (40 U.S.C. 1302). 
SELF-DETERMINATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT 
SEC. 123. The Director of the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs shall reinstate the Demonstration Project that was 
in place from 2004 until 2008 for the Indian tribes within 
the California Tribal Trust Reform Consortium, the Salt 
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Confed-
erated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Res-
ervation, and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boys 
Reservation; shall thereby ensure that the participating 
tribes shall be able to continue operations independent of 
the Department of the Interior’s trust reform and reorga-
nization; and shall not impose its trust management infra-
structure upon or alter the existing trust resource man-
agement systems of the above referenced tribes having a 
self-governance compact and operating in accordance with 
the Tribal Self-Governance Program set forth in title IV 
of Public Law 93–638 (25 U.S.C. 458aa–458hh): Pro-
vided, That the California Trust Reform Consortium and 
any other participating Indian tribe agree to carry out 
their responsibilities under the same written and imple-
mented fiduciary standards as those being carried by the 
Secretary of the Interior, including complying with section 
102 of Public Law 103–412 (25 U.S.C. 4011): Provided 
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further, That participating Indian tribes shall timely 
transfer funds and supply sufficient data to enable the 
Secretary of the Interior to comply with section 102 of 
Public Law 103–412 (25 U.S.C. 4011) for accounts that 
are maintained by the Department of the Interior when 
funds are being collected by the Indian tribes: Provided 
further, That such Indian tribes demonstrate to the satis-
faction of the Secretary of the Interior that they have the 
capability to do so: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of the Interior shall provide funds to the Indian tribes in 
an amount equal to that required by section 403(g) of 
Public Law 93–638 (25 U.S.C. 458cc(g)(3)), including 
funds specifically or functionally related to the provision 
of trust services to the Indian tribes or their members. 
WILD LANDS FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available in this 
Act or any other Act may be used to implement, admin-
ister, or enforce Secretarial Order No. 3310 issued by the 
Secretary of the Interior on December 22, 2010. 
TITLE II—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
For science and technology, including research and 
development activities, which shall include research and 
development activities under the Comprehensive Environ-
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mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980, as amended; necessary expenses for personnel and 
related costs and travel expenses; procurement of labora-
tory equipment and supplies; and other operating expenses 
in support of research and development, $754,611,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2013. 
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; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-
ation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library member-
ships in societies or associations which issue publications 
to members only or at a price to members lower than to 
subscribers who are not members; administrative costs of 
the brownfields program under the Small Business Liabil-
ity Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; and 
not to exceed $19,000 for official reception and represen-
tation expenses, $2,498,433,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2013: Provided, That of the funds included 
under this heading, not less than $346,280,000 shall be 
for the Geographic Programs specified in the explanatory 
statement accompanying this Act. 
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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, $41,099,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2013. 
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, 
$36,428,000, 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) $1,224,295,000, to remain available until expended, 
consisting of such sums as are available in the Trust Fund 
on September 30, 2011, as authorized by section 517(a) 
of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act 
of 1986 (SARA) and up to $1,224,295,000 as a payment 
from general revenues to the Hazardous Substance Super-
fund for purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of 
SARA, as amended: Provided, That funds appropriated 
under this heading may be allocated to other Federal 
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agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA: 
Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under 
this heading, $9,955,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Office of 
Inspector General’’ appropriation to remain available until 
September 30, 2013, and $23,016,000 shall be paid to the 
‘‘Science and Technology’’ appropriation to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2013. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 
$105,669,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $78,051,000 shall be for carrying out leaking un-
derground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by 
section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as 
amended; $34,430,000 shall be for carrying out the other 
provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in sec-
tion 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended: 
Provided, That the Administrator is authorized to use ap-
propriations made available under this heading to imple-
ment section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to pro-
vide financial assistance to federally recognized Indian 
tribes for the development and implementation of pro-
grams to manage underground storage tanks. 
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INLAND OIL SPILL PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990, $18,274,000, to be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until 
expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants, 
$2,610,393,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $689,000,000 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 $829,000,000 shall be for 
making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State 
Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, as amended; $60,000,000 shall be to carry out 
section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), as amended, including grants, interagency 
agreements, and associated program support costs; 
$30,000,000 shall be for grants under title VII, subtitle 
G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; and $1,002,393,000 
shall be for grants, including associated program support 
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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 subject to 
terms and conditions specified by the Administrator, of 
which $49,396,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 
of CERCLA, as amended, $9,980,000 shall be for Envi-
ronmental Information Exchange Network grants, includ-
ing associated program support costs, $11,300,000 of the 
funds available for grants under section 106 of the Act 
shall be for state participation in national- and state-level 
statistical surveys of water resources and enhancements 
to state monitoring programs and, in addition to funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground 
Storage Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry out the pro-
visions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in section 
9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other than section 
9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 
$1,550,000 shall be for grants to States under section 
2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the 
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Federal Water Pollution Control 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 2012 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 2012, 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 Federally recog-
nized Indian tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) and 
518(e) of that Act: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2012, notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in sec-
tion 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
and section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up 
to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated for State 
Revolving Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the 
Administrator for grants under section 518(c) and section 
1452(i) of such Acts: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2012, notwithstanding the amounts specified in section 
205(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up to 
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1.5 percent of the aggregate funds appropriated for the 
Clean Water State Revolving Fund program under the Act 
less any sums reserved under section 518(c) of the Act, 
may be reserved by the Administrator for grants made 
under title II of the Clean Water Act for American Samoa, 
Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and 
United States Virgin Islands: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2012, notwithstanding the limitations on 
amounts specified in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated 
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs 
under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved by 
the Administrator for grants made under section 1452(j) 
of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided further, That 
not less than 30 percent of the funds made available under 
this title to each State for Clean Water State Revolving 
Fund capitalization grants and not less than 30 percent 
of the funds made available under this title to each State 
for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants shall be used by the State to provide additional sub-
sidy to eligible recipients in the form of forgiveness of 
principal, negative interest loans, or grants (or any com-
bination of these), and shall be so used by the State only 
where such funds are provided as initial financing for an 
eligible recipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the 
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debt obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt 
was incurred on or after the date of enactment of this 
Act: Provided further, That no funds provided by this ap-
propriations Act 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 government 
unless that government has established an enforceable 
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 for fiscal 
year 2012 and hereafter, of the funds provided for the 
Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act State Re-
volving Fund Tribal Set-Asides, the Administrator may 
transfer funds between those accounts in the same manner 
as provided to States under section 302(a) of Public Law 
104–182, as amended by Public Law 109–54. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL 
PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RECISSION OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2012, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-
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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 
amended by Public Law 110–94, the Pesticide Registra-
tion Improvement Renewal Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$250,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great 
Lakes Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro-
grams and Management’’ to the head of any Federal de-
partment or agency, with the concurrence of such head, 
to carry out activities that would support the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes Water Quality 
Agreement programs, projects, or activities; to enter into 
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an interagency agreement with the head of such Federal 
department or agency to carry out these activities; and 
to make grants to governmental entities, nonprofit organi-
zations, institutions, and individuals for planning, re-
search, monitoring, outreach, and implementation in fur-
therance of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the 
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
From unobligated balances to carry out projects and 
activities funded through the ‘‘State and Tribal Assistance 
Grants’’ and ‘‘Hazardous Substance Superfund’’ accounts, 
$140,000,000 are permanently rescinded: Provided, That 
no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended. 
For fiscal year 2012 the requirements of section 513 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1372) shall apply to the construction of treatment works 
carried out in whole or in part with assistance made avail-
able by a State water pollution control revolving fund as 
authorized by title VI of that Act (33 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.), 
or with assistance made available under section 205(m) 
of that Act (33 U.S.C. 1285(m)), or both. 
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For fiscal year 2012 the requirements of section 
1450(e) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j– 
9(e)) shall apply to any construction project carried out 
in whole or in part with assistance made available by a 
drinking water treatment revolving loan fund as author-
ized by section 1452 of that Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12). 
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, $277,282,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $66,805,000 is for the forest inventory and analysis 
program: Provided further, That of the funds provided, no 
less than $29,161,000 is for the forest products labora-
tory. 
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-
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ties as authorized, and conducting an international pro-
gram as authorized, $208,608,000, to remain available 
until expended, as authorized by law; of which $3,000,000 
is to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund and shall remain available until expended. 
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, 
$1,546,463,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That of the funds provided, $336,722,000 shall be 
for forest products: Provided further, That of the funds 
provided, $30,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collabo-
rative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological 
restoration treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 
7303(f): Provided further, That of the funds provided, up 
to $122,600,000 is for the Integrated Resource Restora-
tion pilot program for Region 1, Region 3 and Region 4. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $378,088,000, to remain available 
until expended, for construction, capital improvement, 
maintenance and acquisition of buildings and other facili-
ties and infrastructure; and for construction, reconstruc-
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tion, 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 $35,000,000 shall 
be designated for urgently needed road decommissioning, 
road and trail repair and maintenance and associated ac-
tivities, and removal of fish passage barriers, 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: Provided further, That funds 
becoming available in fiscal year 2012 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 avail-
able for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless 
the funds are appropriated: Provided further, That of the 
funds provided for decommissioning of roads, up to 
$9,000,000 may be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest 
System’’ to support the Integrated Resource Restoration 
pilot program. 
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 
waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory 
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authority applicable to the Forest Service, $12,500,000, 
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, $955,000, 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 
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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. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$45,000, 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), $2,000,000, 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 
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lands and water, $1,805,099,000, 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 amounts in 
this paragraph may be transferred to the ‘‘State and Pri-
vate Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’, and ‘‘Forest 
and Rangeland Research’’ accounts to fund State fire as-
sistance, volunteer fire assistance, forest health manage-
ment, forest and rangeland research, the Joint Fire 
Science Program, vegetation and watershed management, 
heritage site rehabilitation, and wildlife and fish habitat 
management and restoration: Provided further, That the 
costs of implementing any cooperative agreement between 
the Federal Government and any non-Federal entity may 
be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: 
Provided further, That of the funds provided herein, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may enter into procurement con-
tracts or cooperative agreements, or issue grants for haz-
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ardous fuels reduction activities and for training and mon-
itoring associated with such hazardous fuels reduction ac-
tivities, on Federal land, or on adjacent non-Federal land 
for activities that benefit resources on Federal land: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer of 
funds appropriated for wildland fire management, in an 
aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000, between the 
Departments when such transfers would facilitate and ex-
pedite jointly funded wildland fire management programs 
and projects: Provided further, That of the funds provided 
for hazardous fuels reduction, not to exceed $5,000,000, 
may be used to make grants, using any authorities avail-
able to the Forest Service under the State and Private 
Forestry appropriation, for the purpose of creating incen-
tives for increased use of biomass from national forest 
lands: Provided further, That no amounts may be cancelled 
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Pro-
vided further, That, before obligating any of the funds pro-
vided herein for wildland fire suppression, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall obligate all unobligated balances pre-
viously made available under this heading that, when ap-
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propriated, were designated by Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the 
Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture may transfer not more than $50,000,000 
of the funds provided herein to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior if the Secretaries determine that the transfer will en-
hance the efficiency or effectiveness of Federal wildland 
fire suppression activities: Provided further, That of the 
funds for hazardous fuels reduction, up to $27,100,000 
may be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ to 
support the Integrated Resource Restoration pilot pro-
gram. 
FLAME WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for large fire suppression op-
erations of the Department of Agriculture and as a reserve 
fund for suppression and Federal emergency response ac-
tivities, $290,418,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That such amounts are available only for trans-
fer to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ account and only 
following a declaration by the Secretary that either (1) 
a wildland fire suppression event meets certain previously- 
established risk-based written criteria for significant com-
plexity, severity, or threat posed by the fire or (2) funds 
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in the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ account will be ex-
hausted within 30 days. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
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) expenses pur-
suant 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) debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 
3718(c). 
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Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions upon the Secretary’s notification of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that all 
fire suppression funds appropriated under the headings 
‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘FLAME Wildfire 
Suppression Reserve Fund’’ will be obligated within 30 
days. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development in connection with forest and range-
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 
and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 
with United States, private organizations, and inter-
national organizations. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service up to 
$5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within 
the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried 
out by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried 
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out under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act 
of 1993, Public Law 103–82, as amended by Public Lands 
Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005, Public 
Law 109–154. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 
reception and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public 
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 
up to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the 
National Forest Foundation to aid conservation partner-
ship projects in support of the Forest Service mission, 
without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, 
for projects on or benefitting 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 admin-
istrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial 
assistance, private contributions to match on at least one- 
for-one basis funds made available by the Forest Service: 
Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Fed-
eral funds to Federal or a non-Federal recipient for a 
project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 
the non-Federal matching funds: Provided further, That 
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authorized investments of Federal funds held by the Foun-
dation 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, 
$3,000,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service 
may be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife Foun-
dation 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 sub-recipients: Provided further, That 
the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal 
or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate 
that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 
funds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, an 
amount not to exceed $55,000,000 shall be assessed for 
the purpose of performing fire, administrative and other 
facilities maintenance. Such assessments shall occur using 
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a square foot rate charged on the same basis the agency 
uses to assess programs for payment of rent, utilities, and 
other support services. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations 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 Agri-
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management 
reviews, land purchase negotiations and similar non-litiga-
tion related matters. Future budget justifications for both 
the Forest Service and Department of Agriculture should 
clearly display the sums previously transferred and the re-
quested funding transfers. 
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 ac-
cordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in 
the joint explanatory statement of the managers accom-
panying this Act. 
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and 
titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act with re-
spect to the Indian Health Service, $4,034,322,000 to-
gether with payments received during the fiscal year pur-
suant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b for services furnished 
by the Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made 
available to tribes and tribal organizations through con-
tracts, grant agreements, or any other agreements or com-
pacts 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 con-
tract award and thereafter shall remain available to the 
tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: 
Provided further, That $836,685,000 for contract medical 
care, including $51,500,000 for the Indian Catastrophic 
Health Emergency Fund, shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That of the funds provided, up 
to $36,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 
implementation of the loan repayment program under sec-
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