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State, be used for projects to address green infrastructure, water 
or energy efficiency improvements, or other environmentally innova-
tive activities; $5,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, 
planning, design, construction and related activities in connection 
with the construction of high priority water and wastewater facili-
ties in the area of the United States-Mexico Border, after consulta-
tion with the appropriate border commission; $10,000,000 shall 
be for grants to the State of Alaska to address drinking water 
and wastewater infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native 
Villages: Provided further, That, of these funds: (1) the State of 
Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (2) no more than 
5 percent of the funds may be used for administrative and overhead 
expenses; and (3) the State of Alaska shall make awards consistent 
with the State-wide 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 
Pollution 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 communities; $95,000,000 shall be to carry out 
section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, 
including grants, interagency agreements, and associated program 
support costs; $30,000,000 shall be for grants under title VII, sub-
title G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, as amended; and 
$1,090,558,000 shall be for grants, including associated program 
support costs, to States, federally recognized tribes, interstate agen-
cies, tribal consortia, and air pollution control agencies for multi- 
media or single media pollution prevention, control and abatement 
and related activities, including activities pursuant to the provisions 
set forth under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for making 
grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particulate matter 
monitoring and data collection activities subject to terms and condi-
tions specified by the Administrator, of which $49,396,000 shall 
be for carrying out section 128 of CERCLA, as amended, $9,980,000 
shall be for Environmental Information Exchange Network grants, 
including associated program support costs, $18,463,000 of the 
funds available for grants under section 106 of the Act shall be 
for State participation in national- and State-level statistical sur-
veys of water resources and enhancements to State monitoring 
programs, and, in addition to funds appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry 
out the 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, as amended, $1,550,000 
shall be for grants to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act, as amended: Provided further, That notwith-
standing 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 principal in loans 
made by such fund in fiscal year 2012 and prior years where 
such amounts represent costs of administering the fund to the 
extent that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by the 
Administrator, accounted for separately from other assets in the
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fund, and used for eligible purposes of the fund, including adminis-
tration: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2012, and notwith-
standing section 518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is authorized 
to use the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 
319 of that Act to make grants to federally recognized Indian 
tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2012, notwithstanding the limitation 
on amounts in section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act and section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up to 
a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated for State Revolving 
Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the Administrator 
for grants under section 518(c) and section 1452(i) of such Acts: 
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2012, notwithstanding the 
amounts specified in section 205(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, up to 1.5 percent of the aggregate funds appropriated 
for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program under the 
Act less any sums reserved under section 518(c) of the Act, may 
be reserved by the Administrator for grants made under title II 
of the Clean Water Act for American Samoa, Guam, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin Islands: 
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2012, notwithstanding the 
limitations on amounts specified in section 1452(j) of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act, up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated 
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs under the 
Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved by the Administrator 
for grants made under section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water 
Act: Provided further, That not less than 20 percent but not more 
than 30 percent of the funds made available under this title to 
each State for Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants and not less than 20 percent but not more than 30 percent 
of the funds made available under this title to each State for 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants shall 
be used by the State to provide additional subsidy to eligible recipi-
ents 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 recipient 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, except 
that for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grant 
appropriation this section shall only apply to the portion that 
exceeds $1,000,000,000: Provided further, That no funds provided 
by this appropriations Act to address the water, wastewater and 
other critical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the United 
States along the United States-Mexico border shall be made avail-
able to a county or municipal government unless that government 
has established an enforceable local ordinance, or other zoning 
rule, which prevents in that jurisdiction the development or 
construction of any additional colonia areas, or the development 
within an existing colonia the construction of any new home, busi-
ness, or other structure which lacks water, wastewater, or other 
necessary infrastructure: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2012 
and hereafter, the Administrator may transfer funds provided for 
tribal set-asides through funds appropriated for the Clean Water 
State Revolving Funds and for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
Funds between those accounts in such manner as the Administrator
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deems appropriate, but not to exceed the transfer limits given 
to States under section 302(a) of Public Law 104–182. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2012, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6303(1) and 
6305(1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
in carrying out the Agency’s function to implement directly Federal 
environmental programs required or authorized by law in the 
absence of an acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative 
agreements to federally recognized Indian tribes or Intertribal con-
sortia, if authorized by their member tribes, to assist the Adminis-
trator 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 finan-
cial assistance agreements. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized to collect and obligate pesticide registration service fees 
in accordance with section 33 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
and Rodenticide Act, as amended by Public Law 110–94, the Pes-
ticide Registration Improvement Renewal Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to $300,000,000 
of the funds appropriated for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 
under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs and Management’’ 
to the head of any Federal department or agency, with the concur-
rence 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 department 
or agency to carry out these activities; and to make grants to 
governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, institutions, and 
individuals for planning, research, monitoring, outreach, and 
implementation in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Ini-
tiative and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
From unobligated balances available to the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, $50,000,000 are permanently 
rescinded: Provided, That of these funds, $5,000,000 shall be 
rescinded from unobligated balances within the ‘‘Hazardous Sub-
stance Superfund’’ account; $5,000,000 shall be rescinded from 
unobligated Brownfields balances within the ‘‘State and Tribal 
Assistance Grants’’ account; $5,000,000 shall be rescinded from 
unobligated Mexico Border balances within the ‘‘State and Tribal 
Assistance Grants’’ account; $5,000,000 shall be rescinded from 
unobligated Diesel Emissions Reduction Act balances within the 
‘‘State and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ account; $20,000,000 shall 
be rescinded from unobligated categorical grant balances within 
the ‘‘State and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ account; and $10,000,000 
shall be rescinded from unobligated Clean Water State Revolving 
Funds balances within the ‘‘State and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ 
account: 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, as amended.
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For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, the require-
ments of section 513 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1372) shall apply to the construction of treatment works 
carried out in whole or in part with assistance made available 
by a State water pollution control revolving fund as authorized 
by title VI of that Act (33 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.), or with assistance 
made available under section 205(m) of that Act (33 U.S.C. 
1285(m)), or both. 
For fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, the require-
ments of section 1450(e) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–9(e)) shall apply to any construction project carried out in 
whole or in part with assistance made available by a drinking 
water treatment revolving loan fund as authorized by section 1452 
of that Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12). 
Notwithstanding section 104 of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9604), 
the Administrator may authorize the expenditure or transfer of 
up to $10,000,000 from any appropriation in this title, in addition 
to the amounts included in the ‘‘Inland Oil Spill Programs’’ account, 
for removal activities related to actual oil spills 5 days after noti-
fying the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of the 
intention to expend or transfer such funds: Provided, That no funds 
shall be expended or transferred under this authority until the 
Administrator determines that amounts made available for expendi-
ture in the ‘‘Inland Oil Spill Programs’’ account will be exhausted 
within 30 days: Provided further, That such funds shall be replen-
ished to the appropriation that was the source of the expenditure 
or transfer, following EPA’s receipt of reimbursement from the 
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund pursuant to the Oil Pollution Act 
of 1990. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $295,773,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the funds provided, $64,372,000 is 
for the forest inventory and analysis program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing tech-
nical and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, 
and others, and for forest health management, including treatments 
of pests, pathogens, and invasive or noxious plants and for restoring 
and rehabilitating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, 
cooperative forestry, and education and land conservation activities 
and 
conducting 
an 
international 
program 
as 
authorized, 
$253,331,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized 
by law; of which $53,388,000 is to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund.