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ceedings initiated on or after the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
SEC. 823. Section 2 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act Rel-
ative to the control of wharf property and certain public 
spaces in the District of Columbia’’, approved March 3, 
1899 (sec. 10–501.02(a), D.C. Official Code) is amended 
by striking the last sentence. 
SEC. 824. Except as expressly provided otherwise, 
any reference to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this title or in 
title IV shall be treated as referring only to the provisions 
of this title or of title IV. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Services 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009’’. 
DIVISION E—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-
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ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 
potential of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 
(16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $890,194,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $79,478,000 is 
available for oil and gas management; and of which 
$1,500,000 is for high priority projects, to be carried out 
by the Youth Conservation Corps; and of which 
$3,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2009 subject 
to a match by at least an equal amount by the National 
Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cost-shared projects sup-
porting conservation of Bureau lands; and such funds 
shall be advanced to the Foundation as a lump sum grant 
without regard to when expenses are incurred. 
In addition, $36,400,000 is for the processing of ap-
plications for permit to drill and related use authoriza-
tions, to remain available until expended, to be reduced 
by amounts collected by the Bureau and credited to this 
appropriation that shall be derived from $4,000 per new 
application for permit to drill that the Bureau shall collect 
upon submission of each new application, and in addition, 
$34,696,000 is for Mining Law Administration program 
operations, including the cost of administering the mining 
claim fee program; to remain available until expended, to 
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be reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau and cred-
ited to this appropriation from annual mining claim fees 
so as to result in a final appropriation estimated at not 
more than $890,194,000, and $2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, from communication site rental 
fees established by the Bureau for the cost of admin-
istering communication site activities. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, 
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $6,590,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including admin-
istrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interests therein, $14,775,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended. 
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 Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
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