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same appropriation accounts for such activities established 
pursuant to this title. Available balances may be merged 
with funds in the applicable established accounts and there-
after may be accounted for as one fund for the same time 
period as originally enacted. 
SEC. 302. Funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, 
for intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically au-
thorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the 
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094) during fis-
cal year 2020 until the enactment of the Intelligence Au-
thorization Act for fiscal year 2020. 
SEC. 303. None of the funds made available in this 
title shall be used for the construction of facilities classified 
as high-hazard nuclear facilities under 10 CFR Part 830 
unless independent oversight is conducted by the Office of 
Enterprise Assessments to ensure the project is in compli-
ance with nuclear safety requirements. 
SEC. 304. None of the funds made available in this 
title may be used to approve critical decision-2 or critical 
decision-3 under Department of Energy Order 413.3B, or 
any successive departmental guidance, for construction 
projects where the total project cost exceeds $100,000,000, 
until a separate independent cost estimate has been devel-
oped for the project for that critical decision.
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SEC. 305. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
or any prior Act under the heading ‘‘Defense Nuclear Non-
proliferation’’ may be made available to enter into new con-
tracts with, or new agreements for Federal assistance to, 
the Russian Federation. 
(b) The Secretary of Energy may waive the prohibition 
in subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that such ac-
tivity is in the national security interests of the United 
States. This waiver authority may not be delegated. 
(c) A waiver under subsection (b) shall not be effective 
until 15 days after the date on which the Secretary submits 
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress, in classified form if necessary, a report on the jus-
tification for the waiver. 
SEC. 306. Notwithstanding section 161 of the Energy 
Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6241), upon a de-
termination by the President in this fiscal year that a re-
gional supply shortage of refined petroleum product of sig-
nificant scope and duration exists, that a severe increase 
in the price of refined petroleum product will likely result 
from such shortage, and that a draw down and sale of re-
fined petroleum product would assist directly and signifi-
cantly in reducing the adverse impact of such shortage, the 
Secretary of Energy may draw down and sell refined petro-
leum product from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Pro-
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ceeds from a sale under this section shall be deposited into 
the SPR Petroleum Account established in section 167 of 
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6247), 
and such amounts shall be available for obligation, without 
fiscal year limitation, consistent with that section. 
SEC. 307. Of the offsetting collections, including unob-
ligated balances of such collections, in the ‘‘Department of 
Energy—Power 
Marketing 
Administration—Colorado 
River Basins Power Marketing Fund, Western Area Power 
Administration’’, $21,400,000 shall be transferred to the 
‘‘Department of Interior—Bureau of Reclamation—Upper 
Colorado River Basin Fund’’ for the Bureau of Reclamation 
to carry out environmental stewardship and endangered 
species recovery efforts. 
SEC. 308. (a) Of the unobligated balances available 
from amounts appropriated in prior Acts under the heading 
‘‘Title III—Department of Energy—Energy Programs’’, 
$12,723,000 is hereby rescinded. 
(b) No amounts may be rescinded under (a) from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on 
the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 309. Beginning in fiscal year 2021 and for each 
fiscal year thereafter, fees collected pursuant to subsection
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(b)(1) of section 6939f of title 42, United States Code, shall 
be deposited in ‘‘Department of Energy—Energy Pro-
grams—Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup’’ as discre-
tionary offsetting collections. 
SEC. 310. During fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, notwithstanding any provision of title 5, United 
States Code, relating to classification or rates of pay, the 
Southeastern Power Administration shall pay any power 
system dispatcher employed by the Administration a rate 
of basic pay and premium pay based on those prevailing 
for similar occupations in the electric power industry. 
Basic pay and premium pay may not be paid under this 
section to any individual during a calendar year so as to 
result in a total rate in excess of the rate of basic pay for 
level V of the Executive Schedule (section 5316 of such title). 
TITLE IV 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs au-
thorized by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 
1965, and for expenses necessary for the Federal Co-Chair-
man and the Alternate on the Appalachian Regional Com-
mission, for payment of the Federal share of the adminis-
trative expenses of the Commission, including services as
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authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, $175,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Defense Nuclear Facili-
ties Safety Board in carrying out activities authorized by 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Public Law 
100–456, section 1441, $31,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021. 
DELTA REGIONAL AUTHORITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Delta Regional Author-
ity and to carry out its activities, as authorized by the 
Delta Regional Authority Act of 2000, notwithstanding sec-
tions 382F(d), 382M, and 382N of said Act, $30,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
DENALI COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary for the Denali Commission in-
cluding the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant 
and capital equipment as necessary and other expenses, 
$15,000,000, to remain available until expended, notwith-
standing the limitations contained in section 306(g) of the 
Denali Commission Act of 1998: Provided, That funds shall 
be available for construction projects in an amount not to 
exceed 80 percent of total project cost for distressed commu-
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nities, as defined by section 307 of the Denali Commission 
Act of 1998 (division C, title III, Public Law 105–277), 
as amended by section 701 of appendix D, title VII, Public 
Law 106–113 (113 Stat. 1501A–280), and an amount not 
to exceed 50 percent for non-distressed communities: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law regarding payment of a non-Federal share in connec-
tion with a grant-in-aid program, amounts under this 
heading shall be available for the payment of such a non- 
Federal share for programs undertaken to carry out the 
purposes of the Commission. 
NORTHERN BORDER REGIONAL COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary for the Northern Border Re-
gional Commission in carrying out activities authorized by 
subtitle V of title 40, United States Code, $25,000,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That such 
amounts shall be available for administrative expenses, not-
withstanding section 15751(b) of title 40, United States 
Code. 
SOUTHEAST CRESCENT REGIONAL COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary for the Southeast Crescent Re-
gional Commission in carrying out activities authorized by 
subtitle V of title 40, United States Code, $250,000, to re-
main available until expended.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Commission in carrying 
out the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 
and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, $842,236,000, includ-
ing official representation expenses not to exceed $25,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the 
amount appropriated herein, not more than $9,500,000 
may be made available for salaries, travel, and other sup-
port costs for the Office of the Commission, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2021, of which, notwithstanding 
section 201(a)(2)(c) of the Energy Reorganization Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5841(a)(2)(c)), the use and expenditure 
shall only be approved by a majority vote of the Commis-
sion: Provided further, That revenues from licensing fees, 
inspection services, and other services and collections esti-
mated at $717,125,000 in fiscal year 2020 shall be retained 
and used for necessary salaries and expenses in this ac-
count, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That of the 
amounts appropriated under this heading, not less than 
$15,478,000 shall be for activities related to the development 
of regulatory infrastructure for advanced nuclear tech-
nologies, and $14,500,000 shall be for international activi-
ties, except that the amounts provided under this proviso
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shall not be derived from fee revenues, notwithstanding 42 
U.S.C. 2214: Provided further, That the sum herein appro-
priated shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received 
during fiscal year 2020 so as to result in a final fiscal year 
2020 
appropriation 
estimated 
at 
not 
more 
than 
$125,111,000: Provided further, That of the amounts appro-
priated under this heading, $10,500,000 shall be for univer-
sity research and development in areas relevant to the Com-
mission’s mission, and $5,500,000 shall be for a Nuclear 
Science and Engineering Grant Program that will support 
multiyear projects that do not align with programmatic 
missions but are critical to maintaining the discipline of 
nuclear science and engineering. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $13,314,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That revenues from licensing 
fees, inspection services, and other services and collections 
estimated at $10,929,000 in fiscal year 2020 shall be re-
tained and be available until September 30, 2021, for nec-
essary salaries and expenses in this account, notwith-
standing section 3302 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be 
reduced by the amount of revenues received during fiscal
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year 2020 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2020 appro-
priation estimated at not more than $2,385,000: Provided 
further, That of the amounts appropriated under this head-
ing, $1,171,000 shall be for Inspector General services for 
the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, which shall not 
be available from fee revenues. 
NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Nuclear Waste Tech-
nical Review Board, as authorized by Public Law 100–203, 
section 5051, $3,600,000, to be derived from the Nuclear 
Waste Fund, to remain available until September 30, 2021. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—INDEPENDENT 
AGENCIES 
SEC. 401. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall 
comply with the July 5, 2011, version of Chapter VI of its 
Internal Commission Procedures when responding to Con-
gressional requests for information, consistent with Depart-
ment of Justice guidance for all federal agencies. 
SEC. 402. (a) The amounts made available by this title 
for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may be repro-
grammed for any program, project, or activity, and the 
Commission shall notify the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days prior to the 
use of any proposed reprogramming that would cause any
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program funding level to increase or decrease by more than 
$500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, during the time 
period covered by this Act. 
(b)(1) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may waive 
the notification requirement in subsection (a) if compliance 
with such requirement would pose a substantial risk to 
human health, the environment, welfare, or national secu-
rity. 
(2) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall notify 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress of any waiver under paragraph (1) as soon as prac-
ticable, but not later than 3 days after the date of the activ-
ity to which a requirement or restriction would otherwise 
have applied. Such notice shall include an explanation of 
the substantial risk under paragraph (1) that permitted 
such waiver and shall provide a detailed report to the Com-
mittees of such waiver and changes to funding levels to pro-
grams, projects, or activities. 
(c) Except as provided in subsections (a), (b), and (d), 
the amounts made available by this title for ‘‘Nuclear Regu-
latory Commission—Salaries and Expenses’’ shall be ex-
pended as directed in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act).
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(d) None of the funds provided for the Nuclear Regu-
latory Commission shall be available for obligation or ex-
penditure through a reprogramming of funds that increases 
funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for 
which funds are denied or restricted by this Act. 
(e) The Commission shall provide a monthly report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress, which includes the following for each program, 
project, or activity, including any prior year appropria-
tions— 
(1) total budget authority; 
(2) total unobligated balances; and 
(3) total unliquidated obligations. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
SEC. 502. (a) None of the funds made available in title 
III of this Act may be transferred to any department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality of the United States Government, ex-
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cept pursuant to a transfer made by or transfer authority 
provided in this Act or any other appropriations Act for 
any fiscal year, transfer authority referenced in the explan-
atory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act), or any authority 
whereby a department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States Government may provide goods or services 
to another department, agency, or instrumentality. 
(b) None of the funds made available for any depart-
ment, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Gov-
ernment may be transferred to accounts funded in title III 
of this Act, except pursuant to a transfer made by or trans-
fer authority provided in this Act or any other appropria-
tions Act for any fiscal year, transfer authority referenced 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act), or 
any authority whereby a department, agency, or instru-
mentality of the United States Government may provide 
goods or services to another department, agency, or instru-
mentality. 
(c) The head of any relevant department or agency 
funded in this Act utilizing any transfer authority shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress a semiannual report detailing the transfer au-
thorities, except for any authority whereby a department,
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agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government 
may provide goods or services to another department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality, used in the previous 6 months and 
in the year-to-date. This report shall include the amounts 
transferred and the purposes for which they were trans-
ferred, and shall not replace or modify existing notification 
requirements for each authority. 
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of Executive Order No. 
12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address 
Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low- 
Income Populations). 
SEC. 504. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Energy and Water 
Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2020’’.
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DIVISION D—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTE-
RIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2020 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classifica-
tion, acquisition of easements and other interests in lands, 
and performance of other functions, including maintenance 
of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management of 
lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, including the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential 
of public lands pursuant to section 1010(a) of Public Law 
96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,237,015,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2021; of which $115,000,000 
for annual and deferred maintenance and $101,555,000 for 
the wild horse and burro program, as authorized by Public 
Law 92–195 (16 U.S.C. 1331 et sec.), shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the funds made 
available for the wild horse and burro program, 
$21,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 60
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days after submission to the Congress of the detailed plan 
described in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act): Provided further, That amounts in the fee account of 
the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund may be 
used for any bureau-related expenses associated with the 
processing of oil and gas applications for permits to drill 
and related use of authorizations. 
In addition, $40,196,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering the mining claim fee program, to remain available 
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining 
claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby 
authorized for fiscal year 2020, so as to result in a final 
appropriation estimated at not more than $1,237,015,000, 
and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from 
communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 
for the cost of administering communication site activities. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able under this heading in fiscal year 2017 or before, 
$19,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the
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Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able under this heading $5,400,000 is permanently re-
scinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution 
on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, 
and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administra-
tive expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests 
therein, $32,300,000, to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund and to remain available until 
expended. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for Land Acquisition and derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund, $2,367,000 is hereby perma-
nently rescinded from projects with cost savings or failed 
or partially failed projects: Provided, That no amounts may 
be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
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gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concur-
rent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon 
and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adja-
cent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests 
therein, including existing connecting roads on or adjacent 
to such grant lands; $112,094,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all 
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Or-
egon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made 
a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant 
fund and shall be transferred to the General Fund in the 
Treasury in accordance with the second paragraph of sub-
section (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 
U.S.C. 2605). 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands 
and interests therein, and improvement of Federal range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy
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and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1751), notwith-
standing any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent of all 
moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sections 
3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315b, 315m) 
and the amount designated for range improvements from 
grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead- 
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior 
pursuant to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed 
$600,000 shall be available for administrative expenses. 
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 
For administrative expenses and other costs related to 
processing application documents and other authorizations 
for use and disposal of public lands and resources, for costs 
of providing copies of official public land documents, for 
monitoring construction, operation, and termination of fa-
cilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for re-
habilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
collected under Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
185), to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section 
305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any 
moneys that have been or will be received pursuant to that 
section, whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or set-
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tlement, if not appropriate for refund pursuant to section 
305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available 
and may be expended under the authority of this Act by 
the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public 
lands administered through the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment which have been damaged by the action of a resource 
developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized per-
son, without regard to whether all moneys collected from 
each such action are used on the exact lands damaged which 
led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys 
that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to 
the exact land for which funds were collected may be used 
to repair other damaged public lands. 
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of Public 
Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as may 
be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, appraisals, 
and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands under sec-
tion 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 
operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, con-
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tracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable 
agreements with public and private entities, including with 
States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be available for 
purchase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary struc-
tures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary build-
ings and appurtenant facilities to which the United States 
has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at the discretion 
of the Secretary, for information or evidence concerning vio-
lations of laws administered by the Bureau; miscellaneous 
and emergency expenses of enforcement activities authorized 
or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely 
on the Secretary’s certificate, not to exceed $10,000: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding Public Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 
501), the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and 
partnership arrangements authorized by law, procure 
printing services from cooperators in connection with joint-
ly produced publications for which the cooperators share the 
cost of printing either in cash or in services, and the Bureau 
determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted 
quality standards: Provided further, That projects to be 
funded pursuant to a written commitment by a State gov-
ernment to provide an identified amount of money in sup-
port of the project may be carried out by the Bureau on 
a reimbursable basis.
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UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 
and economic studies, general administration, and for the 
performance of other authorized functions related to such 
resources, $1,364,289,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That not to exceed $20,318,000 
shall be used for implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and 
(e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1533) (except for processing petitions, developing 
and issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking any 
other steps to implement actions described in subsection 
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii)): Provided further, 
That of the amounts made available under this heading for 
central office operations, $1,000,000 shall not be available 
for obligation until the Landscape Conservation Coopera-
tives report is received by the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in ac-
cordance with the explanatory statement described in sec-
tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act). 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-
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servation, management, investigation, protection, and utili-
zation of fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 
of lands and interests therein; $29,704,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out chapter 2003 of 
title 54, United States Code, including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest 
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable 
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $70,715,000, 
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
and to remain available until expended, of which, not more 
than $10,000,000 shall be for land conservation partner-
ships authorized by the Highlands Conservation Act of 
2004, including not to exceed $320,000 for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated for 
specific land acquisition projects may be used to pay for 
any administrative overhead, planning or other manage-
ment costs. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for the Fish and Wildlife Service and derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, $3,628,000 is hereby 
permanently rescinded from projects with cost savings or 
failed or partially failed projects: Provided further, That
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no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), 
$54,502,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$23,702,000 is to be derived from the Cooperative Endan-
gered Species Conservation Fund; and of which $30,800,000 
is to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund. 
Of the unobligated balances made available from the 
Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, 
$18,771,000 is permanently rescinded from projects or from 
other grant programs with an unobligated carry over bal-
ance: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution 
on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985.
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NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 
17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000. 
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 
4401 et seq.), $46,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 
Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), 
$4,910,000, to remain available until expended. 
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the Asian 
Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261 et seq.), 
the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Conservation Act of 
2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the Marine Turtle Con-
servation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), $15,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States 
Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American
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Samoa, and Indian tribes under the provisions of the Fish 
and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and Wildlife Coordi-
nation Act, for the development and implementation of pro-
grams for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including 
species that are not hunted or fished, $67,571,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That of the 
amount provided herein, $5,209,000 is for a competitive 
grant program for Indian tribes not subject to the remain-
ing provisions of this appropriation: Provided further, That 
$7,362,000 is for a competitive grant program to implement 
approved plans for States, territories, and other jurisdic-
tions and at the discretion of affected States, the regional 
Associations of fish and wildlife agencies, not subject to the 
remaining provisions of this appropriation: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall, after deducting $12,571,000 
and administrative expenses, apportion the amount pro-
vided herein in the following manner: (1) to the District 
of Columbia and to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, each 
a sum equal to not more than one-half of 1 percent thereof; 
and (2) to Guam, American Samoa, the United States Vir-
gin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, each a sum equal to not more than one-fourth 
of 1 percent thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall apportion the remaining amount in the following 
manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to
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which the land area of such State bears to the total land 
area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of which is based 
on the ratio to which the population of such State bears 
to the total population of all such States: Provided further, 
That the amounts apportioned under this paragraph shall 
be adjusted equitably so that no State shall be apportioned 
a sum which is less than 1 percent of the amount available 
for apportionment under this paragraph for any fiscal year 
or more than 5 percent of such amount: Provided further, 
That the Federal share of planning grants shall not exceed 
75 percent of the total costs of such projects and the Federal 
share of implementation grants shall not exceed 65 percent 
of the total costs of such projects: Provided further, That 
the non-Federal share of such projects may not be derived 
from Federal grant programs: Provided further, That any 
amount apportioned in 2020 to any State, territory, or 
other jurisdiction that remains unobligated as of September 
30, 2021, shall be reapportioned, together with funds appro-
priated in 2022, in the manner provided herein. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may 
carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex-
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and re-
imbursable agreements with public and private entities. Ap-
propriations and funds available to the United States Fish
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and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of damage 
to public roads within and adjacent to reservation areas 
caused by operations of the Service; options for the purchase 
of land at not to exceed $1 for each option; facilities inci-
dent to such public recreational uses on conservation areas 
as are consistent with their primary purpose; and the 
maintenance and improvement of aquaria, buildings, and 
other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Service and to 
which the United States has title, and which are used pur-
suant to law in connection with management, and inves-
tigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, That not-
withstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may, under cooper-
ative cost sharing and partnership arrangements author-
ized by law, procure printing services from cooperators in 
connection with jointly produced publications for which the 
cooperators share at least one-half the cost of printing either 
in cash or services and the Service determines the coop-
erator is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: 
Provided further, That the Service may accept donated air-
craft as replacements for existing aircraft: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, all fees collected for 
non-toxic shot review and approval shall be deposited under 
the heading ‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Service—Re-
source Management’’ and shall be available to the Sec-
retary, without further appropriation, to be used for ex-
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penses of processing of such non-toxic shot type or coating 
applications and revising regulations as necessary, and 
shall remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, operation, 
and maintenance of areas and facilities administered by 
the National Park Service and for the general administra-
tion of the National Park Service, $2,576,992,000, of which 
$10,282,000 for planning and interagency coordination in 
support of Everglades restoration and $135,950,000 for 
maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation projects for con-
structed assets and $153,575,000 for cyclic maintenance 
projects for constructed assets and cultural resources and 
$5,000,000 for uses authorized by section 101122 of title 
54, United States Code shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this heading in this Act are available for the purposes of 
section 5 of Public Law 95–348: Provided further, That not-
withstanding 
section 
9(a) 
of 
the 
United 
States 
Semiquincentennial Commission Act of 2016 (Public Law 
114–196; 130 Stat. 691), $3,300,000 of the funds made 
available under this heading shall be provided to the organi-
zation selected under section 9(b) of that Act for expenditure 
by the United States Semiquincentennial Commission in
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accordance with that Act: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 9 of the 400 Years of African-American 
History Commission Act (36 U.S.C. note prec. 101; Public 
Law 115–102), $3,300,000 of the funds provided under this 
heading shall be made available for the purposes specified 
by that Act: Provided further, That sections (7)(b) and (8) 
of that Act shall be amended by striking ‘‘July 1, 2020’’ 
and inserting ‘‘July 1, 2021’’. 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage part-
nership programs, environmental compliance and review, 
international park affairs, and grant administration, not 
otherwise provided for, $71,166,000. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the National 
Historic Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 
54, United States Code), $118,660,000, to be derived from 
the Historic Preservation Fund and to remain available 
until September 30, 2021, of which $16,000,000 shall be for 
Save America’s Treasures grants for preservation of na-
tional significant sites, structures and artifacts as author-
ized by section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land Manage-
ment Act of 2009 (54 U.S.C. 3089): Provided, That an indi-
vidual Save America’s Treasures grant shall be matched by
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non-Federal funds: Provided further, That individual 
projects shall only be eligible for one grant: Provided fur-
ther, That all projects to be funded shall be approved by 
the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds provided for the Historic Preserva-
tion Fund, $750,000 is for competitive grants for the survey 
and nomination of properties to the National Register of 
Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks asso-
ciated with communities currently under-represented, as de-
termined by the Secretary, $18,750,000 is for competitive 
grants to preserve the sites and stories of the Civil Rights 
movement, $10,000,000 is for grants to Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities, and $7,500,000 is for competitive 
grants for the restoration of historic properties of national, 
State and local significance listed on or eligible for inclu-
sion on the National Register of Historic Places, to be made 
without imposing the usage or direct grant restrictions of 
section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C. 302904) of the National His-
torical Preservation Act: Provided further, That such com-
petitive grants shall be made without imposing the match-
ing requirements in section 302902(b)(3) of title 54, United 
States Code, to States and Indian tribes as defined in chap-
ter 3003 of such title, Native Hawaiian organizations, local
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governments, including Certified Local Governments, and 
non-profit organizations. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-
ment of physical facilities, and compliance and planning 
for programs and areas administered by the National Park 
Service, $389,345,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for any project initially funded in fiscal year 2020 with 
a future phase indicated in the National Park Service 5- 
Year Line Item Construction Plan, a single procurement 
may be issued which includes the full scope of the project: 
Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall 
contain the clause availability of funds found at 48 CFR 
52.232–18: Provided further, That National Park Service 
Donations, Park Concessions Franchise Fees, and Recre-
ation Fees may be made available for the cost of adjust-
ments and changes within the original scope of effort for 
projects funded by the National Park Service Construction 
appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
Interior shall consult with the Committees on Appropria-
tions, in accordance with current reprogramming thresh-
olds, prior to making any charges authorized by this sec-
tion.
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LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out chapter 2003 of 
title 54, United States Code, including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest 
therein, in accordance with the statutory authority applica-
ble to the National Park Service, $208,400,000, to be de-
rived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 
to remain available until expended, of which $140,000,000 
is for the State assistance program and of which 
$13,000,000 shall be for the American Battlefield Protection 
Program grants as authorized by chapter 3081 of title 54, 
United States Code. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for the National Park Service and derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, $2,279,000 is hereby 
permanently rescinded from projects or from other grant 
programs with an unobligated carry over balance: Pro-
vided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts 
that were designed by the Congress as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985.
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CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
section 101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating to 
challenge cost share agreements, $15,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for Centennial Challenge projects 
and programs: Provided, That not less than 50 percent of 
the total cost of each project or program shall be derived 
from non-Federal sources in the form of donated cash, as-
sets, or a pledge of donation guaranteed by an irrevocable 
letter of credit. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In addition to other uses set forth in section 
101917(c)(2) of title 54, United States Code, franchise fees 
credited to a sub-account shall be available for expenditure 
by the Secretary, without further appropriation, for use at 
any unit within the National Park System to extinguish 
or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or leasehold sur-
render interest. Such funds may only be used for this pur-
pose to the extent that the benefitting unit anticipated fran-
chise fee receipts over the term of the contract at that unit 
exceed the amount of funds used to extinguish or reduce li-
ability. Franchise fees at the benefitting unit shall be cred-
ited to the sub-account of the originating unit over a period 
not to exceed the term of a single contract at the benefitting
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unit, in the amount of funds so expended to extinguish or 
reduce liability. 
For the costs of administration of the Land and Water 
Conservation 
Fund 
grants 
authorized 
by 
section 
105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 
2006 (Public Law 109–432), the National Park Service 
may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are au-
thorized to be disbursed under such section, such retained 
amounts to remain available until expended. 
National Park Service funds may be transferred to the 
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Department of 
Transportation, for purposes authorized under 23 U.S.C. 
203. Transfers may include a reasonable amount for 
FHWA administrative support costs. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geological 
Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and research cov-
ering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, and the min-
eral and water resources of the United States, its territories 
and possessions, and other areas as authorized by 43 U.S.C. 
31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as to their mineral and 
water resources; give engineering supervision to power per-
mittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licens-
ees; administer the minerals exploration program (30
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U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into the economic conditions 
affecting mining and materials processing industries (30 
U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related 
purposes as authorized by law; and to publish and dissemi-
nate 
data 
relative 
to 
the 
foregoing 
activities; 
$1,270,957,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2021; of which $84,337,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for satellite operations; and of which $76,164,000 
shall be available until expended for deferred maintenance 
and capital improvement projects that exceed $100,000 in 
cost: Provided, That none of the funds provided for the eco-
system research activity shall be used to conduct new sur-
veys on private property, unless specifically authorized in 
writing by the property owner: Provided further, That no 
part of this appropriation shall be used to pay more than 
one-half the cost of topographic mapping or water resources 
data collection and investigations carried on in cooperation 
with States and municipalities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
From within the amount appropriated for activities 
of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 
necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur-
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-
tively determined that such procedures are in the public in-
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terest; construction and maintenance of necessary buildings 
and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging 
stations, observation wells, and seismic equipment; expenses 
of the United States National Committee for Geological 
Sciences; and payment of compensation and expenses of 
persons employed by the Survey duly appointed to represent 
the United States in the negotiation and administration 
of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities funded by 
appropriations herein made may be accomplished through 
the use of contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements as 
defined in section 6302 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That the United States Geological Survey 
may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements directly 
with individuals or indirectly with institutions or non-
profit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for 
the temporary or intermittent services of students or recent 
graduates, who shall be considered employees for the pur-
pose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, 
relating to compensation for travel and work injuries, and 
chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort 
claims, but shall not be considered to be Federal employees 
for any other purposes.
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BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for granting and administering 
leases, easements, rights-of-way and agreements for use for 
oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and marine-related 
purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and approving op-
erations related thereto, as authorized by law; for environ-
mental studies, as authorized by law; for implementing 
other laws and to the extent provided by Presidential or 
Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants or coopera-
tive agreements, $191,611,000, of which $131,611,000 is to 
remain available until September 30, 2021, and of which 
$60,000,000 is to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced by 
amounts collected by the Secretary and credited to this ap-
propriation from additions to receipts resulting from in-
creases to lease rental rates in effect on August 5, 1993, 
and from cost recovery fees from activities conducted by the 
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pursuant to the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including studies, as-
sessments, analysis, and miscellaneous administrative ac-
tivities: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
shall be reduced as such collections are received during the 
fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2020 appro-
priation estimated at not more than $131,611,000: Pro-
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vided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall be available 
for reasonable expenses related to promoting volunteer beach 
and marine cleanup activities. 
BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 
OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the regulation of operations 
related to leases, easements, rights-of-way and agreements 
for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and marine- 
related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf, as author-
ized by law; for enforcing and implementing laws and regu-
lations as authorized by law and to the extent provided by 
Presidential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching 
grants or cooperative agreements, $149,333,000, of which 
$123,333,000 is to remain available until September 30, 
2021, and of which $26,000,000 is to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That this total appropriation shall be 
reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary and credited 
to this appropriation from additions to receipts resulting 
from increases to lease rental rates in effect on August 5, 
1993, and from cost recovery fees from activities conducted 
by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement 
pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, includ-
ing studies, assessments, analysis, and miscellaneous ad-
ministrative activities: Provided further, That the sum
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herein appropriated shall be reduced as such collections are 
received during the fiscal year, so as to result in a final 
fiscal year 2020 appropriation estimated at not more than 
$123,333,000: Provided further, That of the unobligated bal-
ances from amounts made available under this heading 
$4,788,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided further, 
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. 
For an additional amount, $43,479,000, to remain 
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected 
by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, which 
shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees col-
lected in fiscal year 2020, as provided in this Act: Provided, 
That to the extent that amounts realized from such inspec-
tion fees exceed $43,479,000, the amounts realized in excess 
of $43,479,000 shall be credited to this appropriation and 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2020, not less than 50 percent of the inspection 
fees expended by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental 
Enforcement will be used to fund personnel and mission- 
related costs to expand capacity and expedite the orderly 
development, subject to environmental safeguards, of the
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Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), including the re-
view of applications for permits to drill. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title 
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$14,899,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 
ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
Public Law 95–87, $117,768,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021: Provided, That appropriations for the 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
may provide for the travel and per diem expenses of State 
and tribal personnel attending Office of Surface Mining 
Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training. 
In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-
force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 
of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That fees assessed and 
collected by the Office pursuant to such section 507 shall
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be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting collec-
tions, to remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund 
shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal 
year, so as to result in a fiscal year 2020 appropriation 
estimated at not more than $117,768,000. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public 
Law 95–87, $24,713,000, to be derived from receipts of the 
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That pursuant to Public 
Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is authorized 
to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of the delinquent 
debt owed to the United States Government to pay for con-
tracts to collect these debts: Provided further, That funds 
made available under title IV of Public Law 95–87 may 
be used for any required non-Federal share of the cost of 
projects funded by the Federal Government for the purpose 
of environmental restoration related to treatment or abate-
ment of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines: Pro-
vided further, That such projects must be consistent with 
the purposes and priorities of the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act: Provided further, That amounts pro-
vided under this heading may be used for the travel and
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per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
In addition, $115,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for grants to States and federally recognized In-
dian Tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 
other related activities in accordance with the terms and 
conditions described in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act): Provided, That such additional amount shall 
be used for economic and community development in con-
junction with the priorities in section 403(a) of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1233(a)): Provided further, That of such additional 
amount, $75,000,000 shall be distributed in equal amounts 
to the 3 Appalachian States with the greatest amount of 
unfunded needs to meet the priorities described in para-
graphs (1) and (2) of such section, $30,000,000 shall be dis-
tributed in equal amounts to the 3 Appalachian States with 
the subsequent greatest amount of unfunded needs to meet 
such priorities, and $10,000,000 shall be for grants to feder-
ally recognized Indian Tribes without regard to their status 
as certified or uncertified under the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)), for rec-
lamation of abandoned mine lands and other related activi-
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ties in accordance with the terms and conditions described 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act) and 
shall be used for economic and community development in 
conjunction with the priorities in section 403(a) of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977: Pro-
vided further, That such additional amount shall be allo-
cated to States and Indian Tribes within 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
INDIAN AFFAIRS 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian pro-
grams, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of 
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 
5301 et seq.), $1,577,110,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021, except as otherwise provided herein; 
of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for official reception 
and representation expenses; of which not to exceed 
$74,734,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments: Pro-
vided, That in cases of designated Federal disasters, the Sec-
retary may exceed such cap for welfare payments from the 
amounts provided herein, to provide for disaster relief to
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Indian communities affected by the disaster: Provided fur-
ther, That federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal or-
ganizations of federally recognized Indian tribes may use 
their tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance 
costs: Provided further, That not to exceed $57,424,000 shall 
remain available until expended for housing improvement, 
road maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, land 
records improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Pro-
gram: Provided further, That any forestry funds allocated 
to a federally recognized tribe which remain unobligated as 
of September 30, 2021, may be transferred during fiscal 
year 2022 to an Indian forest land assistance account estab-
lished for the benefit of the holder of the funds within the 
holder’s trust fund account: Provided further, That any 
such unobligated balances not so transferred shall expire on 
September 30, 2022: Provided further, That in order to en-
hance the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau may 
use funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles 
of clothing for personnel: Provided further, That the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs may accept transfers of funds from United 
States Customs and Border Protection to supplement any 
other funding available for reconstruction or repair of roads 
owned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as identified on the 
National Tribal Transportation Facility Inventory, 23 
U.S.C. 202(b)(1).
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CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 
Education for fiscal year 2020, such sums as may be nec-
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no amounts made available under this 
heading shall be available for transfer to another budget ac-
count. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in 
lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for con-
struction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant 
to Public Law 87–483; $128,591,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclama-
tion: Provided further, That any funds provided for the 
Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of November
391 
2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available on a nonre-
imbursable basis: Provided further, That this appropriation 
may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee 
for American Indians appropriation for the appropriate 
share of construction costs for space expansion needed in 
agency offices to meet trust reform implementation: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived from the Indian Irri-
gation Fund established by section 3211 of the WIIN Act 
(Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749). 
Of the unobligated balances made available for the 
‘‘Construction, 
Resources 
Management’’ 
account, 
$2,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
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, 
111–11, 111–291, and 114–322, and for implementation of
392 
other land and water rights settlements, $45,644,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$11,779,000, of which $1,590,000 is for administrative ex-
penses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: 
Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional 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 
$183,476,740. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION 
OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian edu-
cation programs, as authorized by law, including the Sny-
der Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amendments of 
1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally Controlled 
Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $943,077,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2021, except as oth-
erwise provided herein: Provided, That Federally recognized 
Indian tribes and tribal organizations of Federally recog-
393 
nized Indian tribes may use their tribal priority allocations 
for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $702,837,000 for school operations costs of Bu-
reau-funded schools and other education programs shall be-
come available on July 1, 2020, and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2021: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, including but not lim-
ited to the Indian Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) and section 1128 of the Education 
Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed 
$83,407,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available for admin-
istrative cost grants associated with grants approved prior 
to July 1, 2020: Provided further, That in order to enhance 
the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau may use 
funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles of 
clothing for personnel. 
EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 
for the operation of Indian education programs, including 
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-
tion of lands, and interests in lands; $248,257,000 to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That in order to 
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-
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retary may assume control of a project and all funds related 
to the project, if, not later than 18 months after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, any Public Law 100–297 (25 
U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) grantee receiving funds appropriated 
in this Act or in any prior Act, has not completed the plan-
ning and design phase of the project and commenced con-
struction. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of In-
dian Education may carry out the operation of Indian pro-
grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree-
ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera-
tion with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in 
support of the management, operation, and maintenance of 
the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau 
of Indian Education for central office oversight and Execu-
tive Direction and Administrative Services (except execu-
tive direction and administrative services funding for Trib-
al Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities oper-
ations and maintenance) shall be available for contracts,
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grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian Education 
under the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act 
or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 
103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 
the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di-
minish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to 
that tribe, or the government-to-government relationship be-
tween the United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s abil-
ity to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, 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. 
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Education 
shall be used to support expanded grades for any school or 
dormitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bureau 
of Indian Education school system as of October 1, 1995, 
except that the Secretary of the Interior may waive this 
prohibition to support expansion of up to one additional
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grade when the Secretary determines such waiver is needed 
to support accomplishment of the mission of the Bureau of 
Indian Education, or more than one grade to expand the 
elementary grade structure for Bureau-funded schools with 
a K–2 grade structure on October 1, 1996. Appropriations 
made available in this or any prior Act for schools funded 
by the Bureau shall be available, in accordance with the 
Bureau’s funding formula, only to the schools in the Bureau 
school system as of September 1, 1996, and to any school 
or school program that was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. 
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 Amend-
ments 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 
before 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 programs 
of the State in which the school is located if the charter 
school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded
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schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per-
forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated 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-
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 adminis-
trative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) dis-
tribution formula. 
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian tribe 
to provide language and cultural immersion educational 
programs for non-public schools located within the jurisdic-
tional area of the tribal government which exclusively serve 
tribal members, do not include grades beyond those cur-
rently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, provide 
an educational environment with educator presence and 
academic facilities comparable to the Bureau-funded school, 
comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, or State health
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and safety standards, and the Americans with Disabilities 
Act, and demonstrate the benefits of establishing operations 
at a satellite location in lieu of incurring extraordinary 
costs, such as for transportation or other impacts to stu-
dents such as those caused by busing students extended dis-
tances: Provided, That no funds available under this Act 
may be used to fund operations, maintenance, rehabilita-
tion, construction or other facilities-related costs for such 
assets that are not owned by the Bureau: Provided further, 
That the term ‘‘satellite school’’ means a school location 
physically separated from the existing Bureau school by 
more than 50 miles but that forms part of the existing 
school in all other respects. 
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-
dian Education Programs may be used to execute requested 
adjustments in tribal priority allocations initiated by an 
Indian Tribe. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for management of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, as authorized by law, $131,832,000, to remain avail-
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able until September 30, 2021; of which no less than 
$1,000,000 shall be for the hiring of additional personnel 
to assist the Department with its compliance responsibil-
ities under 5 U.S.C. 552; 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 closure of the United 
States Bureau of Mines; and of which $10,000,000 for the 
Appraisal and Valuation Services Office is to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and shall re-
main available until expended; and of which $11,061,000 
for Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation activities 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 
funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation ac-
tivities may, as needed, be transferred to and merged with 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of Indian Pro-
grams’’ and Bureau of Indian Education ‘‘Operation of In-
dian Education Programs’’ accounts and the Office of the 
Special Trustee for American Indians ‘‘Federal Trust Pro-
grams’’ account: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 
2020, as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act 
of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available 
until expended by the contractor or grantee.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2020, up to $400,000 of the payments 
authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 
may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 
amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 
available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of title 
31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the event 
the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for payments 
pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make the full 
payments authorized by that chapter to all units of local 
government, then the payment to each local government 
shall be made proportionally: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may make adjustments to payment to individual 
units of local government to correct for prior overpayments 
or underpayments: Provided further, That no payment shall 
be made pursuant to that chapter to otherwise eligible units 
of local government if the computed amount of the payment 
is less than $100. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and 
other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Public
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Law 108–188, $102,881,000, of which: (1) $93,390,000 shall 
remain available until expended for territorial assistance, 
including general technical assistance, maintenance assist-
ance, disaster assistance, coral reef initiative and natural 
resources activities, and brown tree snake control and re-
search; grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for com-
pensation 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 construction and sup-
port 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 au-
thorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and 
(2) $9,491,000 shall be available until September 30, 2021, 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: 
Provided, That all financial transactions of the territorial 
and local governments herein provided for, including such 
transactions of all agencies or instrumentalities established 
or used by such governments, may be audited by the Gov-
ernment Accountability Office, at its discretion, in accord-
ance with chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant 
grant funding shall be provided according to those terms 
of the Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future
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United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mar-
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 
further, That the funds for the program of operations and 
maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu-
tionalize 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 dis-
aster 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 Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $8,463,000, to re-
main available until expended, as provided for in sections 
221(a)(2) and 233 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 Repub-
lic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Mi-
cronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99–658 and Public 
Law 108–188: Provided, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, $5,000,000 is for deposit into the Com-
pact Trust Fund of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
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as compensation authorized by Public Law 108–188 for ad-
verse financial and economic impacts. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Secretary 
may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory funds pro-
vided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108–188 and Pub-
lic Law 104–134, that are allocated for Guam, to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost of direct or guar-
anteed loans, plus not to exceed three percent of the amount 
of the subsidy transferred for the cost of loan administra-
tion, for the purposes authorized by the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act for construction and re-
pair projects in Guam, and such funds shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec-
tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided 
further, That such loans or loan guarantees may be made 
without regard to the population of the area, credit else-
where requirements, and restrictions on the types of eligible 
entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and 
section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural De-
velopment Act: Provided further, That any funds trans-
ferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be in addition
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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, 
$66,816,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, $55,986,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2021. 
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN 
INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by di-
rect expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, com-
pacts, and grants, $111,540,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $19,016,000 from this or 
any other Act, may be available for historical accounting: 
Provided, That funds for trust management improvements 
and litigation support may, as needed, be transferred to or 
merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ‘‘Operation of 
Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Education, ‘‘Op-
eration of Indian Education Programs’’ accounts; the Office
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of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the 
Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’ ac-
count: Provided further, That funds made available through 
contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2020, as 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available until ex-
pended by the contractor or grantee: 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 15 months and has a balance of $15 
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 withdrawn 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 deposits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal ac-
counts after September 30, 2002: Provided further, That er-
roneous payments that are recovered shall be credited to and 
remain available in this account for this purpose: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to reconcile 
Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than $500 
unless the Office of the Special Trustee receives proof of
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ownership from a Special Deposit Accounts claimant: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding section 102 of the 
American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 
1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any other provision of law, 
the Secretary may aggregate the trust accounts of individ-
uals whose whereabouts are unknown for a continuous pe-
riod of at least five years and shall not be required to gen-
erate periodic statements of performance for the individual 
accounts: Provided further, That with respect to the eighth 
proviso, the Secretary shall continue to maintain sufficient 
records to determine the balance of the individual accounts, 
including any accrued interest and income, and such funds 
shall remain available to the individual account holders. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indi-
ans, $3,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That 
no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985.
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DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency re-
habilitation, fuels management activities, and rural fire as-
sistance by the Department of the Interior, $952,338,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$18,427,000 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 pur-
poses: Provided further, That of the funds provided 
$194,000,000 is for fuels management activities: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided $20,470,000 is for 
burned area rehabilitation: Provided further, That persons 
hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsist-
ence and lodging without cost from funds available from 
this appropriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of 
the Department 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 fur-
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ther, That using the amounts designated under this title 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, 
for fuels management activities, and for training and moni-
toring associated with such fuels management 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 cooperative agreement 
between the Federal Government and any non-Federal enti-
ty may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
parties: Provided further, That notwithstanding require-
ments of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, 
for purposes of fuels management activities, may obtain 
maximum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 
Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109–154), 
or related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit youth 
groups; (3) small or micro-businesses; or (4) other entities 
that will hire or train locally a significant percentage, de-
fined as 50 percent or more, of the project workforce to com-
plete such contracts: Provided further, That in imple-
menting this section, the Secretary shall develop written 
guidance to field units to ensure accountability and con-
sistent application of the authorities provided herein: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated under this heading
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may be used to reimburse the United States Fish and Wild-
life Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for 
the costs of carrying out their responsibilities under the En-
dangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to 
consult and conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, 
in connection 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 at-
tack and fire support facilities, and to make advance pay-
ments for any such lease or for construction activity associ-
ated with the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may author-
ize 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 wildland fire management 
programs and projects: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided for wildfire suppression shall be available for support 
of Federal emergency response actions: Provided further, 
That funds appropriated under this heading shall be avail-
able for assistance to or through the Department of State
410 
in connection with forest and rangeland research, technical 
information, and assistance 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 assist-
ance, education and training, and cooperation with United 
States and international organizations: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided under this heading $383,657,000 
is provided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, $300,000,000, to remain available until 
transferred, is additional new budget authority as specified 
for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That 
such amounts may be transferred to and merged with 
amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Department 
of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Manage-
ment’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide
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Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire sup-
pression operations in the fiscal year in which such 
amounts are transferred: Provided further, That amounts 
may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ ac-
counts in the Department of Agriculture or the Department 
of the Interior only upon the notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire sup-
pression operations funds appropriated under that heading 
in this and prior appropriations Acts to the agency to 
which the funds will be transferred will be obligated within 
30 days: Provided further, That the transfer authority pro-
vided under this heading is in addition to any other trans-
fer authority provided by law. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior and any of its component offices and bureaus for the 
response action, including associated activities, performed 
pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 
$10,010,000, to remain available until expended. 
For an additional amount for a competitive grant pro-
gram to fund radium decontamination and remediation at 
any land-grant university that has been subjected to such 
contamination as a result of actions of the former United 
States Bureau of Mines, $12,000,000.
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NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-
toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by the 
Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the provi-
sions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), 
and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,767,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the operation and maintenance of a departmental 
financial and business management system, information 
technology improvements of general benefit to the Depart-
ment, cybersecurity, and the consolidation of facilities and 
operations throughout the Department, $55,735,000, to re-
main available until expended: 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 ac-
count other than for accrued annual leave and depreciation 
of equipment without prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate: Provided further, That the Secretary may assess
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reasonable charges to State, local and tribal government em-
ployees for training services provided by the National In-
dian Program Training Center, other than training 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 govern-
ment employees or persons or organizations engaged in cul-
tural, educational, or recreational activities (as defined in 
section 3306(a) of title 40, United States Code) at the pre-
vailing rate for similar space, facilities, equipment, or serv-
ices in the vicinity of the National Indian Program Train-
ing Center: Provided further, That all funds received pursu-
ant 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 In-
dian Program Training Center: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may enter into grants and cooperative agree-
ments to support the Office of Natural Resource Revenue’s 
collection and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other 
mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized by law. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft 
which may be obtained by donation, purchase or through
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available excess surplus property: Provided, That existing 
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft. 
OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE 
For necessary expenses for management of the collec-
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, as authorized by law, $147,330,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2021; of which $50,651,000 shall 
remain available until expended for the purpose of mineral 
revenue management activities: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $15,000 shall be avail-
able for refunds of overpayments in connection with certain 
Indian leases in which the Secretary concurred with the 
claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian 
allottees or tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erro-
neous payments. 
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,
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buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable 
causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made available 
under this authority until funds specifically made available 
to the Department of the Interior for emergencies shall have 
been exhausted: Provided further, That all funds used pur-
suant to this section must be replenished by a supplemental 
appropriation, which must be requested as promptly as pos-
sible. 
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 programs 
of the several agencies, for the suppression or emergency 
prevention of wildland fires on or threatening lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; for the 
emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands under its ju-
risdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or ac-
tual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other un-
avoidable causes; for contingency planning subsequent 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 pre-
vention, suppression, and control of actual or potential 
grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under
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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 transfer, from any no 
year funds available to the Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary 
to permit assumption of regulatory authority in the event 
a primacy State is not carrying out the regulatory provi-
sions of the Surface Mining Act: Provided, That appropria-
tions made in this title for wildland fire operations shall 
be available for the payment of obligations 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, with such reimbursement to be credited to 
appropriations currently available at the 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 suppression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 
days: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to this 
section must be replenished by a supplemental appropria-
tion, which must be requested as promptly as possible: Pro-
vided further, That such replenishment funds shall be used
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to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, accounts 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 vehi-
cles, including specially equipped law enforcement vehicles; 
hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for 
telephone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and 
the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for 
library membership in societies or associations which issue 
publications to members only 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 Bureau of Indian 
Education, and Office of the Special Trustee for American 
Indians and any unobligated balances from prior appro-
priations Acts made under the same headings shall be avail-
able for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust manage-
ment and reform activities. Total funding for historical ac-
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counting activities shall not exceed amounts specifically 
designated in this Act for such purpose. The Secretary shall 
notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
within 60 days of the expenditure or transfer of any funds 
under this section, including the amount expended or trans-
ferred and how the funds will be used. 
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute 
any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including tribal base 
funds, to alleviate tribal funding inequities by transferring 
funds to address identified, unmet needs, dual enrollment, 
overlapping service areas or inaccurate distribution meth-
odologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction in Tribal Pri-
ority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal 
year 2020. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, over-
lapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodolo-
gies, the 10 percent limitation does not apply. 
ELLIS, GOVERNORS, AND LIBERTY ISLANDS 
SEC. 106. 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
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and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Lib-
erty Islands, and of other program and administrative ac-
tivities, by donation or with appropriated funds, including 
franchise fees (and other monetary consideration), or by ex-
change; and the Secretary is authorized to negotiate and 
enter into leases, subleases, concession contracts or other 
agreements for the use of such facilities on such terms and 
conditions as the Secretary may determine reasonable. 
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES 
SEC. 107. (a) In fiscal year 2020, the Secretary shall 
collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, which shall be depos-
ited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Environmental Enforce-
ment’’ account, from the designated operator for facilities 
subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C. 1348(c). 
(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that are 
above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are in 
place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 2020 
shall be— 
(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 
processing equipment or gathering lines; 
(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, with 
any combination of active or inactive wells; and 
(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 
wells, with any combination of active or inactive 
wells.
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(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all inspec-
tions completed in fiscal year 2020. Fees for fiscal year 
2020 shall be— 
(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of 500 feet or more; and 
(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted via 
non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts D, 
E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections completed 
in fiscal year 2020. Fees for fiscal year 2020 shall be— 
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 
and 
(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units oper-
ating in water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators under 
subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required within 30 
days of billing. The Secretary shall bill designated operators 
under subsection (c) within 30 days of the end of the month 
in which the inspection occurred, with payment required 
within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des-
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ignated operators under subsection (d) with payment re-
quired by the end of the following quarter. 
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into multiyear 
cooperative agreements with nonprofit organizations and 
other appropriate entities, and may enter into multiyear 
contracts in accordance with the provisions of section 3903 
of title 41, United States Code (except that the 5-year term 
restriction in subsection (a) shall not apply), for the long- 
term care and maintenance of excess wild free roaming 
horses and burros by such organizations or entities on pri-
vate land. Such cooperative agreements and contracts may 
not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal at the discretion of 
the Secretary. 
MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 
SEC. 109. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect threat-
ened and endangered species of salmon, implement a system 
of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, 
that are released from federally operated or federally fi-
nanced hatcheries including but not limited to fish releases 
of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. Marked fish must
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have a visible mark that can be readily identified by com-
mercial and recreational fishers. 
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
during fiscal year 2020, in carrying out work involving co-
operation with State, local, and tribal governments or any 
political subdivision thereof, Indian Affairs may record ob-
ligations against accounts receivable from any such entities, 
except that total obligations at the end of the fiscal year 
shall not exceed total budgetary resources available at the 
end of the fiscal year. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCED SERVICES 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 111. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law relating to Federal grants and cooperative agreements, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make grants 
to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, private non-
profit organizations designated by the Secretary of Labor 
under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 to utilize 
the talents of older Americans in programs authorized by 
other provisions of law administered by the Secretary and 
consistent with such provisions of law. 
(b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that the agreement 
would not—
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(1) result in the displacement of individuals cur-
rently employed by the Department, including partial 
displacement through reduction of non-overtime 
hours, wages, or employment benefits; 
(2) result in the use of an individual under the 
Department of the Interior Experienced Services Pro-
gram for a job or function in a case in which a Fed-
eral employee is in a layoff status from the same or 
substantially equivalent job within the Department; 
or 
(3) affect existing contracts for services. 
OBLIGATION OF FUNDS 
SEC. 112. Amounts appropriated by this Act to the De-
partment of the Interior shall be available for obligation 
and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
EXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 113. (a) Section 512 of title V of division J of 
Public Law 108–447 is amended by striking ‘‘on the date 
that is 15 years after the date that funds are first made 
available for this title.’’ and inserting ‘‘after September 30, 
2022.’’. 
(b) Section 608 of title VI of division J of Public Law 
108–447 is amended by striking ‘‘the expiration of the 15- 
year period beginning on the date that funds are first made
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available for this title.’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 
2022.’’. 
(c) Section 109 of title I of Public Law 103–449, as 
amended by Public Law 111–11, title VIII section 8201(c), 
is further amended by striking ‘‘$15,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$17,000,000’’. 
(d) Section 608(a) of division II of Public Law 104– 
333, as amended by Public Law 110–229 section 461, is 
further amended by striking ‘‘$15,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$17,000,000’’. 
(e) Section 810(a)(1) of title VIII of division B of ap-
pendix D of Public Law 106–554, as amended by Public 
Law 115–31, division G, title I section 115(b), is further 
amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘$12,000,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$14,000,000’’. 
SEPARATION OF ACCOUNTS 
SEC. 114. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to 
implement an orderly transition to separate accounts of the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation, may transfer funds among and between the successor 
offices and bureaus affected by the reorganization only in 
conformance with the reprogramming guidelines described 
in this Act.
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PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILT) 
SEC. 115. Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, 
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ for ‘‘fis-
cal year 2019’’. 
SAGE-GROUSE 
SEC. 116. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to write or issue pursuant to section 4 of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533)— 
(1) a proposed rule for greater sage-grouse 
(Centrocercus urophasianus); 
(2) a proposed rule for the Columbia basin dis-
tinct population segment of greater sage-grouse. 
DISCLOSURE OF DEPARTURE OR ALTERNATE PROCEDURE 
APPROVAL 
SEC. 117. (a) Subject to subsection (b), beginning no 
later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, in any 
case in which the Bureau of Safety and Environmental En-
forcement or the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pre-
scribes or approves any departure or use of alternate proce-
dure or equipment, in regards to a plan or permit, under 
30 C.F.R. § 585.103, 30 C.F.R. § 550.141; 30 C.F.R. 
§550.142; 30 C.F.R. § 250.141, or 30 C.F.R. § 250.142, 
the head of such bureau shall post a description of such de-
parture or alternate procedure or equipment use approval
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on such bureau’s publicly available website not more than 
15 business days after such issuance. 
(b) The head of each bureau may exclude confidential 
business information. 
TITLE II 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
For science and technology, including research and de-
velopment activities, which shall include research and devel-
opment activities under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; nec-
essary expenses for personnel and related costs and travel 
expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment and sup-
plies; and other operating expenses in support of research 
and development, $716,449,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021: Provided, That of the funds included 
under this heading, $6,000,000 shall be for Research: Na-
tional Priorities as specified in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act). 
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 pas-
senger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of
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aircraft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members 
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 
who are not members; administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; imple-
mentation of a coal combustion residual permit program 
under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016; 
and not to exceed $31,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses, $2,663,356,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021: Provided, That of the funds in-
cluded under this heading, $17,700,000 shall be for Envi-
ronmental Protection: National Priorities as specified in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Pro-
vided further, That of the funds included under this head-
ing, $510,276,000 shall be for Geographic Programs speci-
fied in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
In addition, $5,000,000 to remain available until ex-
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in sec-
tion 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 
U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursuant 
to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Serv-
ice Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal
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year 2020 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries 
and expenses in this appropriation and shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated in this paragraph from the general fund for 
fiscal year 2020 shall be reduced by the amount of discre-
tionary offsetting receipts received during fiscal year 2020, 
so as to result in a final fiscal year 2020 appropriation 
from the general fund estimated at not more than $0: Pro-
vided further, That to the extent that amounts realized from 
such receipts exceed $5,000,000, those amount in excess of 
$5,000,000 shall be deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Service Fee 
Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal year 
2020, shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and 
expenses in this account, and shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That of the funds included in 
the first paragraph under this heading, the Chemical Risk 
Review and Reduction program project shall be allocated 
for this fiscal year, excluding the amount of any fees appro-
priated, not less than the amount of appropriations for that 
program project for fiscal year 2014. 
HAZARDOUS WASTE ELECTRONIC MANIFEST SYSTEM 
FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 3024 of the 
Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6939g), including the 
development, operation, maintenance, and upgrading of the
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HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5), 
(c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, maintenance, 
and operation of aircraft, $1,184,755,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, consisting of such sums as are available 
in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2019, as authorized 
by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reau-
thorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to $1,184,755,000 
as a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous Sub-
stance Superfund for purposes as authorized by section 
517(b) of SARA: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this heading may be allocated to other Federal agencies in 
accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$11,586,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’ appropriation to remain available until September 
30, 2021, and $30,747,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science 
and Technology’’ appropriation to remain available until 
September 30, 2021.
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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, $91,941,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which $66,572,000 shall 
be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank clean-
up activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act; $25,369,000 shall be for carrying out 
the other provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act speci-
fied in section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code: Pro-
vided, That the Administrator is authorized to use appro-
priations made available under this heading to implement 
section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide fi-
nancial assistance to federally recognized Indian tribes for 
the development and implementation of programs to man-
age underground storage tanks. 
INLAND OIL SPILL PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and operation 
of aircraft, $19,581,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended.
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STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolving 
funds and performance partnership grants, $4,246,232,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which— 
(1) $1,638,826,000 shall be for making capital-
ization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act; and of which $1,126,088,000 shall be for 
making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water 
State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act: Provided, That for fiscal year 
2020, to the extent there are sufficient eligible project 
applications and projects are consistent with State 
Intended Use Plans, not less than 10 percent of the 
funds made available under this title to each State for 
Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants shall be used by the State for projects to ad-
dress green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency 
improvements, or other environmentally innovative 
activities: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2020, 
funds made available under this title to each State for 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants may, at the discretion of each State, be used 
for projects to address green infrastructure, water or
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energy efficiency improvements, or other environ-
mentally innovative activities: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the 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 prin-
cipal in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2020 
and prior years where such amounts represent costs 
of administering the fund to the extent that such 
amounts are or were deemed reasonable by the Ad-
ministrator, accounted for separately from other as-
sets in the fund, and used for eligible purposes of the 
fund, including administration: Provided further, 
That for fiscal year 2020, notwithstanding the provi-
sions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, grants 
made under title II of such Act for American Samoa, 
Guam, the commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, 
the United States Virgin Islands, and the District of 
Columbia may also be made for the purpose of pro-
viding assistance: (1) solely for facility plans, design 
activities, or plans, specifications, and estimates for 
any proposed project for the construction of treatment 
works; and (2) for the construction, repair, or replace-
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ment of privately owned treatment works serving one 
or more principal residences or small commercial es-
tablishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2020, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-
sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and section 
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
funds reserved by the Administrator for grants under 
section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act may also be used to provide assistance: (1) solely 
for facility plans, design activities, or plans, speci-
fications, and estimates for any proposed project for 
the construction of treatment works; and (2) for the 
construction, repair, or replacement of privately 
owned treatment works serving one or more principal 
residences or small commercial establishments: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2020, notwith-
standing any provision of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act and regulations issued pursuant 
thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the funds re-
served by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) of such Act may also be used for grants for 
training, technical assistance, and educational pro-
grams relating to the operation and management of 
the treatment works specified in section 518(c) of such 
Act: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2020, funds
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reserved under section 518(c) of such Act shall be 
available for grants only to Indian tribes, as defined 
in section 518(h) of such Act and former Indian res-
ervations in Oklahoma (as determined by the Sec-
retary of the Interior) and Native Villages as defined 
in Public Law 92–203: Provided further, That for fis-
cal year 2020, notwithstanding the limitation on 
amounts in section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the 
funds appropriated, or $30,000,000, whichever is 
greater, and notwithstanding the limitation on 
amounts in section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the funds ap-
propriated, or $20,000,000, whichever is greater, for 
State Revolving Funds under such Acts may be re-
served by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) and section 1452(i) of such Acts: Provided fur-
ther, That for fiscal year 2020, notwithstanding the 
amounts specified in section 205(c) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, up to 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 Federal Water Pollution Control Act for
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American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin Is-
lands: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2020, 
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 fur-
ther, That 10 percent of the funds made available 
under this title to each State for Clean Water State 
Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent 
of the funds made available under this title to each 
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-
italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-
vide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the 
form of forgiveness of principal, negative interest 
loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and 
shall be so used by the State only where such funds 
are provided as initial financing for an eligible re-
cipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt 
obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt 
was incurred on or after the date of enactment of this 
Act, or where such debt was incurred prior to the date
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of enactment of this Act if the State, with concurrence 
from the Administrator, determines that such funds 
could be used to help address a threat to public health 
from heightened exposure to lead in drinking water or 
if a Federal or State emergency declaration has been 
issued due to a threat to public health from height-
ened exposure to lead in a municipal drinking water 
supply before the date of enactment of this Act: Pro-
vided further, That in a State in which such an emer-
gency declaration has been issued, the State may use 
more than 14 percent of the funds made available 
under this title to the State for Drinking Water State 
Revolving Fund capitalization grants to provide ad-
ditional subsidy to eligible recipients; 
(2) $25,000,000 shall be for architectural, engi-
neering, planning, design, construction and related 
activities in connection with the construction of high 
priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 
of the United States-Mexico Border, after consultation 
with the appropriate border commission: Provided, 
That no funds provided by this appropriations Act to 
address the water, wastewater and other critical in-
frastructure 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
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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 existing colonia the construction of any 
new home, business, or other structure which lacks 
water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure; 
(3) $29,186,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State of 
Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) no 
more than 5 percent of the funds may be used for ad-
ministrative and overhead expenses; and (C) the State 
of Alaska shall make awards consistent with the 
Statewide priority list established in conjunction with 
the Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
for all water, sewer, waste disposal, and similar 
projects carried out by the State of Alaska that are 
funded under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et 
seq.) which shall allocate not less than 25 percent of 
the funds provided for projects in regional hub com-
munities;
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(4) $89,000,000 shall be to carry out section 
104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), including grants, interagency agree-
ments, and associated program support costs: Pro-
vided, That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for 
assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided 
further, That for purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that 
has had 20 percent or more of its population living 
in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 
1990 and 2000 decennial censuses and the most recent 
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any 
territory or possession of the United States; 
(5) $87,000,000 shall be for grants under title 
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 
(6) $56,306,000 shall be for targeted airshed 
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act); 
(7) $4,000,000 shall be to carry out the water 
quality program authorized in section 5004(d) of the 
Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation 
Act (Public Law 114–322);
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(8) $25,408,000 shall be for grants under sub-
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a); 
(9) $26,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–24(d)); 
(10) $19,511,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19b); 
(11) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19a(l)); 
(12) $12,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 
(13) $28,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1301); 
(14) $1,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–270); and 
(15) $1,075,907,000 shall be for grants, includ-
ing associated program support costs, to States, feder-
ally recognized tribes, interstate agencies, tribal con-
sortia, and air pollution control agencies for multi-
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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 par-
ticulate matter monitoring and data collection activi-
ties subject to terms and conditions specified by the 
Administrator, of which: $46,190,000 shall be for car-
rying out section 128 of CERCLA; $9,332,000 shall 
be for Environmental Information Exchange Network 
grants, including associated program support costs; 
$1,449,000 shall be for grants to States under section 
2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, which 
shall be in addition to funds appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust 
Fund Program’’ to carry out the provisions 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; $17,848,000 
of the funds available for grants under section 106 of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act shall be for 
State participation in national- and State-level sta-
tistical surveys of water resources and enhancements 
to State monitoring programs; $13,000,000 shall be
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for multipurpose grants, including interagency agree-
ments. 
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaran-
teed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance and Innovation Act of 2014, $55,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, includ-
ing the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, 
including capitalized interest, and total loan principal, in-
cluding capitalized interest, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $11,500,000,000: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of direct loans 
and for the cost of guaranteed loans for projects described 
in section 5026(9) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and 
Innovation Act of 2014 to State infrastructure financing 
authorities, as authorized by section 5033(e) of such Act: 
Provided further, That the Administrator, together with the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the 
Secretary of the Treasury, shall jointly develop criteria for 
project eligibility for direct loans and loan guarantees au-
443 
thorized by the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innova-
tion Act of 2014 that limit Federal participation in a 
project consistent with the requirements for the budgetary 
treatment provided for in section 504 of the Federal Credit 
Reform Act of 1990 and based on the recommendations con-
tained in the 1967 Report of the President’s Commission 
on Budget Concepts; and the Administrator, the Director, 
and the Secretary, shall, not later than 120 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, publish such criteria in the 
Federal Register: Provided further, That, in developing the 
criteria to be used, the Administrator, the Director, and the 
Secretary, shall consult with the Director of the Congres-
sional Budget Office: Provided further, That the require-
ments of section 553 of title 5, United States Code, shall 
not apply to the development and publication of such cri-
teria: Provided further, That the use of direct loans or loan 
guarantee authority under this heading for direct loans or 
commitments to guarantee loans for any project shall be 
in accordance with the criteria published pursuant to this 
Act: Provided further, That the Administrator, the Director, 
and the Secretary, shall also certify, and publish such cer-
tification in the Federal Register, that the criteria is com-
pliant with this paragraph, at the same time the Adminis-
trator, the Director, and the Secretary, publish the criteria 
in the Federal Register: Provided further, That the Admin-
444 
istrator may not issue a Notice of Funding Availability for 
applications for credit assistance under the Water Infra-
structure Finance and Innovation Act Program in fiscal 
year 2020 until the criteria have been developed and pub-
lished pursuant to the fourth proviso and certified pursuant 
to the previous proviso: Provided further, That none of the 
direct loans or loan guarantee authority made available 
under this heading shall be available for any project unless 
the Administrator and the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget have certified in advance in writing that 
the direct loan or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the 
project comply with the criteria developed and published 
pursuant to this Act: Provided further, That the criteria 
developed and published pursuant to this Act shall not 
apply to the use of direct loans or loan guarantee authority 
provided by prior appropriations Acts: Provided further, 
That not later than 15 days after the date upon which cri-
teria have been published pursuant to the fourth proviso, 
the Administrator shall report to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate, the 
Committees on Energy and Commerce and Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the 
Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate 
on any statutory improvements to the Water Infrastructure 
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 or to the Water Infra-
445 
structure Finance and Innovation Act Program Account’s 
appropriations language that would further align such Act 
and such language with the budgetary treatment and rec-
ommendations referred to in the fourth proviso: Provided 
further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office may request, and the Administrator shall 
promptly provide, documentation and information relating 
to a project identified in a Letter of Interest submitted to 
the Administrator pursuant to a Notice of Funding Avail-
ability for applications for credit assistance under the 
Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Pro-
gram, including with respect to a project that was initiated 
or completed before the date of enactment of this Act. 
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited in this 
account, to remain available until expended. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Inno-
vation Act of 2014, $5,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021.
446 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 
PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2020, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 
acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative agree-
ments to federally recognized Indian tribes or Intertribal 
consortia, if authorized by their member tribes, to assist the 
Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 
programs for Indian tribes required or authorized by law, 
except that no such cooperative agreements may be awarded 
from funds designated for State financial assistance agree-
ments. 
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 116–8, the Pesticide Registration 
Improvement Extension Act of 2018. 
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal Insec-
ticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 
136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environmental
447 
Protection Agency may assess fees under section 33 of 
FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2020. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$320,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environmental 
Programs 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 
an interagency agreement with the head of such Federal de-
partment or agency to carry out these activities; and to 
make grants to governmental entities, nonprofit organiza-
tions, institutions, and individuals for planning, research, 
monitoring, outreach, and implementation in furtherance 
of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the Great 
Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
The Science and Technology, Environmental Programs 
and Management, Office of Inspector General, Hazardous 
Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground Storage 
Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are available for the 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, provided that the cost does not exceed 
$150,000 per project.
448 
For fiscal year 2020, and notwithstanding section 
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use the 
amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 319 
of the Act to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant to sec-
tions 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs 
and Management’’ for fiscal year 2020 to provide grants 
to implement the Southeastern New England Watershed 
Restoration Program. 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in section 
320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
not less than $1,350,000 of the funds made available under 
this title for the National Estuary Program shall be for 
making competitive awards described in section 320(g)(4). 
The fourth paragraph under heading ‘‘Administrative 
Provisions’’ in title II of Public Law 109–54 is amended 
by striking ‘‘2020’’ and inserting ‘‘2025’’.
449 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Natural Resources and Environment, $875,000: 
Provided, That funds made available by this Act to any 
agency in the Natural Resources and Environment mission 
area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to 
one administrative support staff for the office. 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $305,000,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2023: Provided, That of the 
funds provided, $77,000,000 is for the forest inventory and 
analysis program: Provided further, That all authorities for 
the use of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and 
cooperative agreements, available to execute the Forest and 
Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available in 
the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
450 
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health manage-
ment, and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $346,990,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2023, as authorized by law; of which $63,990,000 is to 
be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
to be used for the Forest Legacy Program, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, for management, protection, improve-
ment, and utilization of the National Forest System, and 
for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to such 
lands, $1,957,510,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2023: Provided, That of the funds provided, 
$40,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative Forest 
Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restoration 
treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $373,000,000 shall be 
for forest products: Provided further, That of the funds pro-
vided, $445,310,000 shall be for hazardous fuels manage-
ment activities, of which not to exceed $15,000,000 may be 
used to make grants, using any authorities available to the 
Forest Service under the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’ ap-
propriation, for the purpose of creating incentives for in-
creased use of biomass from National Forest System lands:
451 
Provided further, That $20,000,000 may be used by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to enter into procurement contracts 
or cooperative agreements or to issue grants for hazardous 
fuels management activities, and for training or moni-
toring associated with such hazardous fuels management 
activities on Federal land, or on non-Federal land if the 
Secretary determines such activities benefit resources on 
Federal land: Provided further, That funds made available 
to implement the Community Forestry Restoration Act, 
Public Law 106–393, title VI, shall be available for use on 
non-Federal lands in accordance with authorities made 
available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State and Private 
Forestry’’ appropriations: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant 
Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in calcu-
lating a fee for grazing on a National Grassland, may pro-
vide a credit of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee to 
a Grazing Association or direct permittee for a conservation 
practice approved by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal 
year in which the cost of the conservation practice is in-
curred. And, that the amount credited shall remain avail-
able to the Grazing Association or the direct permittee, as 
appropriate, in the fiscal year in which the credit is made 
and each fiscal year thereafter for use on the project for 
conservation practices approved by the Secretary.
452 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $455,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2023, for construction, capital im-
provement, maintenance and acquisition of buildings and 
other facilities and infrastructure; and for construction, re-
construction, decommissioning of roads that are no longer 
needed, including unauthorized roads that are not part of 
the transportation system, 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 funds 
becoming available in fiscal year 2020 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 available 
for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless the 
funds are appropriated. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, including ad-
ministrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, 
or interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority 
applicable to the Forest Service, $78,898,000, to be derived
453 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to re-
main available until expended. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for Forest Service and derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund, $2,000,000 is hereby perma-
nently rescinded from projects with cost savings or failed 
projects or partially failed that had funds returned: Pro-
vided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts 
that were designated by the Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the 
Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries 
of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; 
the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San 
Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National Forests, Cali-
fornia; and the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National 
Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by law, $700,000, 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 govern-
ments, public school districts, or other public school authori-
454 
ties, and for authorized expenditures from funds deposited 
by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and Ex-
change Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 (16 
U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 30, 
2023, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; Pub-
lic Law 76–589, 76–591; and Public Law 78–310). 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protec-
tion, 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, to remain available through September 30, 2023, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses associated with on-the-ground range reha-
bilitation, 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 through September 30, 2023, 
to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the 
above Act.
455 
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 (16 
U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $2,500,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2023. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or 
other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands and water, $2,350,620,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds including unobligated 
balances under this heading, are available for repayment 
of advances from other appropriations accounts previously 
transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That any 
unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fiscal year 
for hazardous fuels management may be transferred to the 
‘‘National Forest System’’ account: 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
456 
such reimbursements by the Forest Service for non-fire 
emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible emergency 
management agency: Provided further, That funds provided 
shall be available for support to Federal emergency re-
sponse: 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 under this heading, $1,011,000,000 
shall be available for wildfire suppression operations, and 
is 
provided 
to 
the 
meet 
the 
terms 
of 
section 
251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 
Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression operations, 
$1,950,000,000, to remain available until transferred, is ad-
ditional new budget authority as specified for purposes of 
section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That such 
amounts may be transferred to and merged with amounts 
made available under the headings ‘‘Department of the Inte-
rior—Department-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Man-
457 
agement’’ and ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Serv-
ice—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression 
operations in the fiscal year in which such amounts are 
transferred: Provided further, That amounts may be trans-
ferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ accounts in the 
Department of the Interior or the Department of Agri-
culture only upon the notification of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire suppression 
operations funds appropriated under that heading in this 
and prior appropriations Acts to the agency to which the 
funds will be transferred will be obligated within 30 days: 
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 
under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au-
thority provided by law. 
COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–334), as amended by this Act, shall be 
deposited in the special account established by section 
8705(f)(1) of such Act, shall be available to cover the costs 
described in subsection (c)(3) of such section of such Act, 
and shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such amounts shall be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest 
System’’ account.
458 
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, op-
eration, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft to main-
tain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service wildland 
fire programs and other Forest Service programs; notwith-
standing other provisions of law, existing aircraft being re-
placed may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value 
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement air-
craft; (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 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 pursuant to the Volunteers in the Na-
tional 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 accord-
ance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency reha-
459 
bilitation 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 sup-
pression funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Wildland 
Fire Management’’ will be obligated within 30 days: Pro-
vided, That all funds used pursuant to this paragraph must 
be replenished by a supplemental appropriation which must 
be requested as promptly as possible. 
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or 
transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland fire 
management, hazardous fuels management, and State fire 
assistance when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
wildland fire management programs and projects. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of discre-
tionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by this 
Act to or within the National Forest System Account, or 
reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of hazardous 
fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of burned-over 
National Forest System lands and water, such transferred 
funds shall remain available through September 30, 2023: 
Provided, That none of the funds transferred pursuant to 
this section shall be available for obligation without written
460 
notification to and the prior approval of the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Provided 
further, That this section does not apply to funds derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
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 U.S., private, and international organizations. The 
Forest Service, acting for the International Program, may 
sign direct funding agreements with foreign governments 
and institutions as well as other domestic agencies (includ-
ing the U.S. Agency for International Development, the De-
partment of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corpora-
tion), U.S. private sector firms, institutions and organiza-
tions to provide technical assistance and training programs 
overseas on forestry and rangeland management. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer to the Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal, 
preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros
461 
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of such 
lands. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service 
in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year 
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), section 442 of Public Law 106–224 
(7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public Law 107– 
171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 
$14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall 
be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for Depart-
ment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to as 
Greenbook charges. Nothing in this paragraph shall pro-
hibit or limit the use of reimbursable agreements requested 
by the Forest Service in order to obtain information tech-
nology services, including telecommunications and system 
modifications or enhancements, from the Working Capital 
Fund of the Department of Agriculture. 
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
462 
by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried out 
under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 
(16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 is 
available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official recep-
tion 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 Na-
tional Forest Foundation to aid conservation partnership 
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 Foundation, 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 
contributions to match funds made available by the Forest 
Service on at least a one-for-one basis: Provided further, 
That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Fed-
eral or a non-Federal recipient for a project at the same 
rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal match-
ing funds.
463 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, up 
to $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 Founda-
tion or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That the Foun-
dation 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. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section 
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 
663. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be 
used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 
502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 
3056(c)(2)).
464 
The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-
pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities 
maintenance and decommissioning. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of 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 as-
sistance or participation requested by the Forest Service at 
meetings, training sessions, management reviews, land pur-
chase negotiations and similar matters unrelated to civil 
litigation. Future budget justifications for both the Forest 
Service and the Department of Agriculture should clearly 
display the sums previously transferred and the sums re-
quested for transfer. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 
funded under title V of the Older Americans 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 pur-
poses of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
through the Office of Budget and Program Analysis, the 
Forest Service shall report no later than 30 business days 
following the close of each fiscal quarter all current and 
prior year unobligated balances, by fiscal year, budget line
465 
item and account, to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations. 
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 and 
Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health Service 
Act 
with 
respect 
to 
the 
Indian 
Health 
Service, 
$4,315,205,000 to remain available until September 30, 
2021, except as otherwise provided herein, together with 
payments received during the fiscal year pursuant to sec-
tions 231(b) and 233 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for services furnished by the In-
dian 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 Assist-
ance 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 orga-
nization without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 
That $2,000,000 shall be available for grants or contracts
466 
with public or private institutions to provide alcohol or 
drug treatment services to Indians, including alcohol de-
toxification services: Provided further, That $964,819,000 
for Purchased/Referred Care, including $53,000,000 for the 
Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund, shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, up to $40,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended for implementation of the loan repayment 
program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act: Provided further, That of the funds pro-
vided, $125,000,000 shall remain available until expended 
to supplement funds available for operational costs at tribal 
clinics operated under an Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act compact or contract where health 
care is delivered in space acquired through a full service 
lease, which is not eligible for maintenance and improve-
ment and equipment funds from the Indian Health Service, 
and $58,000,000 shall be for costs related to or resulting 
from accreditation emergencies, including supplementing 
activities funded under the heading ‘‘Indian Health Facili-
ties,’’ of which up to $4,000,000 may be used to supplement 
amounts otherwise available for Purchased/Referred Care: 
Provided further, That the amounts collected by the Federal 
Government as authorized by sections 104 and 108 of the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a
467 
and 1616a) during the preceding fiscal year for breach of 
contracts shall be deposited in the Fund authorized by sec-
tion 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–1) and shall re-
main available until expended and, notwithstanding section 
108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–1(c)), funds shall be 
available to make new awards under the loan repayment 
and scholarship programs under sections 104 and 108 of 
that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a): Provided further, 
That the amounts made available within this account for 
the Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Program, for 
Opioid Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Services, for 
the Domestic Violence Prevention Program, for the Zero 
Suicide Initiative, for the housing subsidy authority for ci-
vilian employees, for Aftercare Pilot Programs at Youth Re-
gional Treatment Centers, for transformation and mod-
ernization costs of the Indian Health Service Electronic 
Health Record system, for national quality and oversight 
activities, to improve collections from public and private 
insurance at Indian Health Service and tribally operated 
facilities, and for accreditation emergencies shall be allo-
cated at the discretion of the Director of the Indian Health 
Service and shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That funds provided in this Act may be used 
for annual contracts and grants that fall within 2 fiscal 
years, provided the total obligation is recorded in the year
468 
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 (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain 
available until expended for the purpose of achieving com-
pliance with the applicable conditions and requirements of 
titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act, except for 
those related to the planning, design, or construction of new 
facilities: Provided further, That funding contained herein 
for scholarship programs under the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available 
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 ac-
counted for and available to the receiving tribes and tribal 
organizations until expended: Provided further, That the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs may collect from the Indian 
Health Service, and from tribes and tribal organizations 
operating health facilities pursuant to Public Law 93–638, 
such individually identifiable health information relating 
to disabled children as may be necessary for the purpose 
of carrying out its functions under the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.): Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided, $72,280,000 is 
for the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund and may
469 
be used, as needed, to carry out activities typically funded 
under the Indian Health Facilities account: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act to 
the Indian Health Service for the Electronic Health Record 
system shall be available for obligation or expenditure for 
the selection or implementation of a new Information Tech-
nology infrastructure system, unless the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
are consulted 90 days in advance of such obligation. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 
the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2020, such sums 
as may be necessary: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 
this heading shall be available for transfer to another budget 
account. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, 
and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities, in-
cluding quarters for personnel; preparation of plans, speci-
fications, and drawings; acquisition of sites, purchase and 
erection of modular buildings, and purchases of trailers; 
and for provision of domestic and community sanitation
470 
facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 of the Act 
of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-Deter-
mination Act, and the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Act, and for expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and 
titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act with re-
spect to environmental health and facilities support activi-
ties of the Indian Health Service, $911,889,000 to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, funds appropriated for the plan-
ning, design, construction, renovation or expansion of 
health facilities for the benefit of an Indian tribe or tribes 
may be used to purchase land on which such facilities will 
be located: Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 
may be used by the Indian Health Service to purchase 
TRANSAM equipment from the Department of Defense for 
distribution to the Indian Health Service and tribal facili-
ties: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
to the Indian Health Service may be used for sanitation 
facilities construction for new homes funded with grants by 
the housing programs of the United States Department of 
Housing and Urban Development: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $2,700,000 from this account and the ‘‘Indian 
Health Services’’ account may be used by the Indian Health 
Service to obtain ambulances for the Indian Health Service 
and tribal facilities in conjunction with an existing inter-
471 
agency agreement between the Indian Health Service and 
the General Services Administration: Provided further, 
That not to exceed $500,000 may be placed in a Demolition 
Fund, to remain available until expended, and be used by 
the Indian Health Service for the demolition of Federal 
buildings. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian 
Health Service shall be available for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate 
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level po-
sitions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase 
of reprints; purchase, renovation and erection of modular 
buildings and renovation of existing facilities; payments for 
telephone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services; uniforms or allowances there-
for as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and for expenses 
of attendance at meetings that relate to the functions or ac-
tivities of the Indian Health Service: Provided, That in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act, non-Indian patients may be extended health 
care at all tribally administered or Indian Health Service 
facilities, subject to charges, and the proceeds along with
472 
funds recovered under the Federal Medical Care Recovery 
Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall be credited to the account 
of the facility providing the service and shall be available 
without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other law or regulation, funds transferred 
from the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
to the Indian Health Service shall be administered under 
Public Law 86–121, the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act 
and Public Law 93–638: Provided further, That funds ap-
propriated to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except 
those used for administrative and program direction pur-
poses, shall not be subject to limitations directed at cur-
tailing Federal travel and transportation: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available to the Indian Health 
Service in this Act shall be used for any assessments or 
charges by the Department of Health and Human Services 
unless identified in the budget justification and provided 
in this Act, or approved by the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations through the reprogramming process: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, funds previously or herein made available to a tribe 
or tribal organization through a contract, grant, or agree-
ment authorized by title I or title V of the Indian Self- 
Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), may be deobligated and reobligated to
473 
a self-determination contract under title I, or a self-govern-
ance agreement under title V of such Act and thereafter 
shall remain available to the tribe or tribal organization 
without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That none 
of the funds made available to the Indian Health Service 
in this Act shall be used to implement the final rule pub-
lished in the Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by 
the Department of Health and Human Services, relating 
to the eligibility for the health care services of the Indian 
Health Service until the Indian Health Service has sub-
mitted a budget request reflecting the increased costs associ-
ated with the proposed final rule, and such request has been 
included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law: 
Provided further, That with respect to functions transferred 
by the Indian Health Service to tribes or tribal organiza-
tions, the Indian Health Service is authorized to provide 
goods and services to those entities on a reimbursable basis, 
including payments in advance with subsequent adjust-
ment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, along 
with the funds received from those entities pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to the same 
or subsequent appropriation account from which the funds 
were originally derived, with such amounts to remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That reimburse-
ments for training, technical assistance, or services pro-
474 
vided by the Indian Health Service will contain total costs, 
including direct, administrative, and overhead costs associ-
ated with the provision of goods, services, or technical as-
sistance: Provided further, That the Indian Health Service 
may provide to civilian medical personnel serving in hos-
pitals operated by the Indian Health Service housing allow-
ances equivalent to those that would be provided to members 
of the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public 
Health Service serving in similar positions at such hos-
pitals: Provided further, That the appropriation structure 
for the Indian Health Service may not be altered without 
advance notification to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 
SCIENCES 
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities 
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the Superfund 
Amendments 
and 
Reauthorization 
Act 
of 
1986, 
$81,000,000.
475 
AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY 
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH 
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out ac-
tivities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019 of 
the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $76,691,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of per-
forming a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of 
CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct other 
appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, in-
cluding, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 
healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing 
any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, or 
activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be bound 
by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of CERCLA: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for ATSDR to issue in excess 
of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of 
CERCLA during fiscal year 2020, and existing profiles 
may be updated as necessary.
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OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned 
to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of En-
vironmental Quality pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality Im-
provement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 
1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses, $2,994,000: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 202 of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of one member, ap-
pointed by the President, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all 
powers, functions, and duties of the Council. 
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and for services au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not 
to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum rate pay-
able for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376,
477 
$12,000,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Haz-
ard Investigation Board (Board) shall have not more than 
three career Senior Executive Service positions: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the individual appointed to the position of Inspector Gen-
eral of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shall, 
by virtue of such appointment, also hold the position of In-
spector General of the Board: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Board shall utilize personnel of the Office of In-
spector General of EPA in performing the duties of the In-
spector General of the Board, and shall not appoint any 
individuals to positions within the Board. 
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 
531, $7,500,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That funds provided in this or any other appropria-
tions Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals and 
groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-partitioned 
lands residents, those in significantly substandard housing, 
and all others certified as eligible and not included in the 
preceding categories: Provided further, That none of the 
funds contained in this or any other Act may be used by
478 
the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict 
any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as of November 
30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the lands partitioned 
to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or replacement home is pro-
vided for such household: Provided further, That no 
relocatee will be provided with more than one new or re-
placement home: Provided further, That the Office shall re-
locate any certified eligible relocatees who have selected and 
received an approved homesite on the Navajo reservation 
or selected a replacement residence off the Navajo reserva-
tion or on the land acquired pursuant to section 11 of Pub-
lic Law 93–531 (88 Stat. 1716). 
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 
CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as authorized 
by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 U.S.C. 
4411 et seq.), $10,458,000, which shall become available on 
July 1, 2020, and shall remain available until September 
30, 2021. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, 
as authorized by law, including research in the fields of art,
479 
science, and history; development, preservation, and docu-
mentation of the National Collections; presentation of pub-
lic exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, dis-
semination, and exchange of information and publications; 
conduct of education, training, and museum assistance pro-
grams; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease agreements 
of no more than 30 years, and protection of buildings, fa-
cilities, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and purchase, rental, re-
pair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees, $793,658,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2021, except as oth-
erwise provided herein; of which not to exceed $6,908,000 
for the instrumentation program, collections acquisition, 
exhibition reinstallation, and the repatriation of skeletal re-
mains program shall remain available until expended; and 
including such funds as may be necessary to support Amer-
ican overseas research centers: Provided, That funds appro-
priated herein are available for advance payments to inde-
pendent contractors performing research services or partici-
pating in official Smithsonian presentations: Provided fur-
ther, That the Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal 
appropriations designated in this Act for lease or rent pay-
ments, as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and 
such rent payments may be deposited into the general trust 
funds of the Institution to be available as trust funds for
480 
expenses associated with the purchase of a portion of the 
building at 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
to the extent that Federally supported activities will be 
housed there: Provided further, That the use of such 
amounts in the general trust funds of the Institution for 
such purpose shall not be construed as Federal debt service 
for, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or an obli-
gation of the Federal Government: Provided further, That 
no appropriated funds may be used directly to service debt 
which is incurred to finance the costs of acquiring a portion 
of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, 
D.C., or of planning, designing, and constructing improve-
ments to such building: Provided further, That any agree-
ment entered into by the Smithsonian Institution for the 
sale of its ownership interest, or any portion thereof, in such 
building so acquired may not take effect until the expiration 
of a 30 day period which begins on the date on which the 
Secretary submits to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and Senate, the Committees 
on House Administration and Transportation and Infra-
structure of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration of the Senate a report, 
as outlined in the explanatory statement described in sec-
tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act), on the intended sale.
481 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized by 
section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), and 
for 
construction, 
including 
necessary 
personnel, 
$253,700,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery 
of Art, the protection and care of the works of art therein, 
and administrative expenses incident thereto, as authorized 
by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended 
by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 (Public Resolu-
tion 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when au-
thorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in 
library, museum, and art associations or societies whose 
publications or services are available to members only, or 
to members at a price lower than to the general public; pur-
chase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uni-
forms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as author-
ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or rental of
482 
devices and services for protecting buildings and contents 
thereof, and maintenance, alteration, improvement, and re-
pair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; and purchase 
of services for restoration and repair of works of art for 
the National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without ad-
vertising, with individuals, firms, or organizations at such 
rates or prices and under such terms and conditions as the 
Gallery may deem proper, $147,022,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2021, of which not to exceed 
$3,660,000 for the special exhibition program shall remain 
available until expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and ren-
ovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occu-
pied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or other-
wise, for operating lease agreements of no more than 10 
years, with no extensions or renewals beyond the 10 years, 
that address space needs created by the ongoing renovations 
in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized, $26,203,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That of this 
amount, $1,000,000 shall be available for design of an off- 
site art storage facility in partnership with the Smithso-
nian Institution: Provided further, That contracts awarded 
for environmental systems, protection systems, and exterior 
repair or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery
483 
of Art may be negotiated with selected contractors and 
awarded on the basis of contractor qualifications as well 
as price. 
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance 
and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per-
forming Arts, $25,690,000. 
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-
tion of the existing features of the building and site of the 
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$17,800,000, to remain available until expended. 
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 
SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $14,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2021.
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 
HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
$162,250,000 shall be available to the National Endowment 
for the Arts for the support of projects and productions in 
the arts, including arts education and public outreach ac-
tivities, through assistance to organizations and individuals 
pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program support, and 
for administering the functions of the Act, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
$162,250,000 to remain available until expended, of which 
$147,750,000 shall be available for support of activities in 
the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act and for 
administering the functions of the Act; and $14,500,000 
shall be available to carry out the matching grants program 
pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Act, including 
$12,500,000 for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That 
appropriations for carrying out section 10(a)(2) shall be
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available for obligation only in such amounts as may be 
equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, devises of 
money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by 
grantees of the National Endowment for the Humanities 
under 
the 
provisions 
of 
sections 
11(a)(2)(B) 
and 
11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal years 
for which equal amounts have not previously been appro-
priated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used to 
process any grant or contract documents which do not in-
clude the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none of 
the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities may be used for official reception 
and representation expenses: Provided further, That funds 
from nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for 
official reception and representation expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That the Chairperson of the National Endowment for 
the Arts may approve grants of up to $10,000, if in the 
aggregate the amount of such grants does not exceed 5 per-
cent of the sums appropriated for grantmaking purposes per 
year: Provided further, That such small grant actions are 
taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed and direct dele-
486 
gation of authority from the National Council on the Arts 
to the Chairperson. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under 
chapter 91 of title 40, United States Code, $3,240,000: Pro-
vided, That the Commission is authorized to charge fees to 
cover the full costs of its publications, and such fees shall 
be credited to this account as an offsetting collection, to re-
main available until expended without further appropria-
tion: Provided further, That the Commission is authorized 
to accept gifts, including objects, papers, artwork, drawings 
and artifacts, that pertain to the history and design of the 
Nation’s Capital or the history and activities of the Com-
mission of Fine Arts, for the purpose of artistic display, 
study, or education: Provided further, That one-tenth of one 
percent of the funds provided under this heading may be 
used for official reception and representation expenses. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), $5,000,000. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on His-
toric Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $7,378,000.
487 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-
ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United 
States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $8,124,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 percent 
of the funds provided under this heading may be used for 
official reception and representational expenses associated 
with hosting international visitors engaged in the planning 
and physical development of world capitals. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301–2310), 
$60,388,000, of which $715,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2022, for the Museum’s equipment replace-
ment program; and of which $2,000,000 for the Museum’s 
repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the 
Museum’s outreach initiatives program shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
The Presidio Trust is authorized to issue obligations 
to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 
104(d)(3) of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Manage-
489 
I Commission may accept money, in-kind personnel serv-
ices, contractual support, or any appropriate support from 
any executive branch agency for activities of the Commis-
sion. 
ALYCE SPOTTED BEAR AND WALTER SOBOLEFF 
COMMISSION ON NATIVE CHILDREN 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Alyce Spotted Bear and 
Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children (referred 
to in this paragraph as the ‘‘Commission’’), $500,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2021: Provided, That 
amounts made available to the Commission under the head-
ing ‘‘Department of the Interior—Departmental Oper-
ations—Office of the Secretary—Departmental Operations’’ 
in division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 
(Public Law 116–6) may be transferred to or merged with 
such amounts: Provided further, That in addition to the 
authority provided by section 3(g)(5) and 3(h) of Public 
Law 114–244, the Commission may hereafter accept in- 
kind personnel services, contractual support, or any appro-
priate support from any executive branch agency for activi-
ties of the Commission.
490 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 
promote public support or opposition to any legislative pro-
posal on which Congressional action is not complete other 
than to communicate to Members of Congress as described 
in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
OBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
DISCLOSURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
SEC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated overhead 
charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks, including work-
ing capital fund and cost pool charges, from programs, 
projects, activities and subactivities to support government- 
wide, departmental, agency, or bureau administrative func-
tions or headquarters, regional, or central operations shall 
be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to 
approval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such esti-
491 
mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions for approval. 
MINING APPLICATIONS 
SEC. 404. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or proc-
ess applications for a patent for any mining or mill site 
claim located under the general mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if 
the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the claim 
concerned (1) a patent application was filed with the Sec-
retary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all require-
ments established under sections 2325 and 2326 of the Re-
vised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode 
claims, sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and 
section 2337 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill 
site claims, as the case may be, were fully complied with 
by the applicant by that date. 
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2021, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken 
by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to
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section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208). 
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process 
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, 
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified third- 
party contractor to be selected by the Director of the Bureau 
of Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land 
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose and 
pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the 
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land Man-
agement in the retention of third-party contractors. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, PRIOR YEAR LIMITATION 
SEC. 405. Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2015 (Public Law 113–235) shall continue in effect in fiscal 
year 2020. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2020 LIMITATION 
SEC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal year 
2020 under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and 
Human Services, Indian Health Service, Contract Support 
Costs’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, Contract Support
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Costs’’ are the only amounts available for contract support 
costs arising out of self-determination or self-governance 
contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
for fiscal year 2020 with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bu-
reau of Indian Education, and the Indian Health Service: 
Provided, That such amounts provided by this Act are not 
available for payment of claims for contract support costs 
for prior years, or for repayments of payments for settle-
ments or judgments awarding contract support costs for 
prior years. 
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS 
SEC. 407. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 
considered to be in violation of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of 
the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 
Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more 
than 15 years have passed without revision of the plan for 
a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing in this sec-
tion exempts the Secretary from any other requirement of 
the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, 
That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and in 
good faith, within the funding available, to revise a plan 
for a unit of the National Forest System, this section shall 
be void with respect to such plan and a court of proper
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jurisdiction may order completion of the plan on an acceler-
ated basis. 
PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 
SEC. 408. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) 
or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 
et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monument es-
tablished pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 
431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, 
except where such activities are allowed under the Presi-
dential proclamation establishing such monument. 
LIMITATION ON TAKINGS 
SEC. 409. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds 
appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or in-
terests in lands may be expended for the filing of declara-
tions of taking or complaints in condemnation without the 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to 
funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National 
Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds 
appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of Florida 
to acquire lands for Everglades restoration purposes.
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PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 410. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act to executive branch agencies may 
be used to enter into any Federal contract unless such con-
tract is entered into in accordance with the requirements 
of Chapter 33 of title 41, United States Code, or Chapter 
137 of title 10, United States Code, and the Federal Acqui-
sition Regulation, unless— 
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a contract 
to be entered into without regard for these require-
ments, including formula grants for States, or feder-
ally recognized Indian tribes; 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or by any 
other Federal laws that specifically authorize a con-
tract within an Indian tribe as defined in section 
4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)); or 
(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any other
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Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency that 
it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report compromises 
national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to the 
requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for no less 
than 45 days. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT GUIDELINES 
SEC. 412. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to 
an individual if such grant is awarded to such indi-
vidual for a literature fellowship, National Heritage 
Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellowship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to 
ensure that no funding provided through a grant, ex-
cept a grant made to a State or local arts agency, or 
regional group, may be used to make a grant to any 
other organization or individual to conduct activity 
independent of the direct grant recipient. Nothing in 
this subsection shall prohibit payments made in ex-
change for goods and services.
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(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the 
contents of the season, including identified programs 
or projects. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM 
PRIORITIES 
SEC. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding finan-
cial assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts 
and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appropriated 
under this Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment 
for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing 
services or awarding financial assistance for projects, pro-
ductions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved 
populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means a 
population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview of 
arts and humanities programs due to factors such as 
a high incidence of income below the poverty line or 
to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant