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from the Indian Irrigation Fund established by section 
3211 of the WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 
1749). 
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 implemen-
tation of other land and water rights settlements, 
$55,457,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary shall make payments in such 
amounts as necessary to satisfy the total authorized 
amount for the Navajo Nation Water Rights Trust Fund. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$9,279,000, of which $1,252,000 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 Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That these funds are available to subsidize total loan 
principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, 
not to exceed $123,565,389. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions. 
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 for central office 
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except executive direction and administrative 
services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional 
offices, and facilities operations and maintenance) shall be 
available for contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the 
Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103– 
413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this 
action shall not diminish the Federal Government’s trust 
responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-govern-
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ment relationship between the United States and that 
tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appropria-
tions. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau 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 Edu-
cation 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 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 Bu-
reau-funded schools with a K–2 grade structure on Octo-
ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any 
prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail-
able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
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tember 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 Amendments of 1978 
(25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is 
in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and 
that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before Sep-
tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe-
riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau 
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 sepa-
rate 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 
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-
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rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 
distribution formula. 
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 juris-
dictional area of the tribal government which exclusively 
serve tribal members, do not include grades beyond those 
currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, 
provide an educational environment with educator pres-
ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau- 
funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, 
or State health and safety standards, and the Americans 
with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es-
tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-
ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or 
other impacts to students such as those caused by busing 
students extended distances: Provided, That no funds 
available under this Act may be used to fund operations, 
maintenance, rehabilitation, construction or other facili-
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ties-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. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative 
agreements, as authorized by law, $131,673,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2020; of which not to 
exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and represen-
tation expenses; and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be 
available for workers compensation payments and unem-
ployment compensation payments associated with the or-
derly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines; and 
of which $9,000,000 for the Office of Valuation Services 
is to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund and shall remain available until expended; and of 
which $9,704,000 for Indian land, mineral, and resource 
valuation activities shall remain available until expended: 
Provided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and re-
source valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred 
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to and merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bu-
reau of Indian Education ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ 
account and the Office of the Special Trustee for Amer-
ican Indians ‘‘Federal Trust Programs’’ account: Provided 
further, That funds made available through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2019, 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: Provided further, That within avail-
able amounts provided under this heading, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall designate the rest area bound by Alex-
andria Avenue, West Boulevard Drive, and the George 
Washington Memorial Parkway on the Mount Vernon 
Trail within the George Washington Memorial Parkway 
as the ‘‘Peter B. Webster III Memorial Area’’ and any 
reference in a law, map regulation, document, paper, or 
other record of the United States to the rest area shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Peter B. Webster III 
Memorial Area’’; Provided further, That the Secretary of 
the Interior shall accept and expend private contributions 
for the design, procurement, preparation, and installation 
of a plaque honoring Peter B. Webster III on the condition 
that the Director of the National Park Service shall ap-
prove the design and placement of the plaque: Provided 
further, That of the amounts made available under this 
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heading, $400,000 shall be made available to the commis-
sion established by section 3(a) of the Alyce Spotted Bear 
and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act 
(Public Law 114–244; 130 Stat. 981). 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2019, 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 pay-
ments 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 gov-
ernment 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 oth-
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 
amount of the payment is less than $100. 
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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 Pub-
lic 
Law 
108–188, 
$100,688,000, 
of 
which: 
(1) 
$91,240,000 shall remain available until expended for ter-
ritorial assistance, including general technical assistance, 
maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef ini-
tiative activities, and brown tree snake control and re-
search; grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for 
compensation and expenses, as authorized by law (48 
U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American 
Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construc-
tion and support of governmental functions; grants to the 
Government of the Virgin Islands, as authorized by law; 
grants to the Government of Guam, as authorized by law; 
and grants to the Government of the Northern Mariana 
Islands , as authorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 
Stat. 272); and (2) $9,448,000 shall be available until 
September 30, 2020, for salaries and expenses of the Of-
fice of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial trans-
actions of the territorial and local governments herein pro-
vided for, including such transactions of all agencies or 
instrumentalities established or used by such governments, 
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may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, 
at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 
31, United States Code: Provided further, That Northern 
Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be provided 
according to those terms of the Agreement of the Special 
Representatives on Future United States Financial Assist-
ance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public 
Law 104–134: Provided further, That the funds for the 
program of operations and maintenance improvement are 
appropriated to institutionalize routine operations and 
maintenance improvement of capital infrastructure with 
territorial participation and cost sharing to be determined 
by the Secretary based on the grantee’s commitment to 
timely maintenance of its capital assets: Provided further, 
That any appropriation for disaster assistance under this 
heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may 
be used as non–Federal matching funds for the purpose 
of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section 
404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $3,563,000, to 
remain available until expended, as provided for in sec-
tions 221(a)(2) and 233 of the Compact of Free Associa-
tion for the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of 
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the Compacts of Free Association for the Government of 
the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated 
States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99– 
658 and Public Law 108–188. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-
retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory 
funds provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108– 
188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for 
Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost 
of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per-
cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost 
of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the 
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for 
construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran-
tees may be made without regard to the population of the 
area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on 
the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
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Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 
any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make 
or guarantee loans under such authorities. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$65,674,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $52,486,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN 
INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts, and grants, $112,380,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $19,016,000 from 
this or any other Act, may be available for historical ac-
counting: Provided, That funds for trust management im-
provements and litigation support may, as needed, be 
transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs and Bureau of Indian Education, ‘‘Operation of In-
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dian Programs’’ account; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Sala-
ries and Expenses’’ account; and the Office of the Sec-
retary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’ account: Provided fur-
ther, That funds made available through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2019, 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: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the Secretary shall 
not be required to provide a quarterly statement of per-
formance 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 
erroneous 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 
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less than $500 unless the Office of the Special Trustee 
receives proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Ac-
counts claimant: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund Manage-
ment Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any 
other provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the 
trust accounts of individuals whose whereabouts are un-
known for a continuous period of at least five years and 
shall not be required to generate 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. 
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire 
suppression operations, fire science and research, emer-
gency rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and 
rural fire assistance by the Department of the Interior, 
$1,116,076,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed $18,427,000 shall be for the renova-
tion or construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such 
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funds are also available for repayment of advances to 
other appropriation accounts from which funds were pre-
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided $188,000,000 is for fuels man-
agement 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 subsistence 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 avail-
able without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That 
using the amounts designated under this title of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Interior may enter into procurement 
contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for fuels 
management activities, and for training and monitoring 
associated with such fuels management activities on Fed-
eral 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 en-
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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 Federal or a non-Federal recipient for 
a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 
the non-Federal matching funds. 
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 
Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation 
projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, 
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds 
shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 
Foundation or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That 
the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal 
or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate 
that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 
funds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 
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