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Calendar No. 125
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H.R. 2361
[Report No. 109–80] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 20, 2005
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations 
JUNE 10, 2005
Reported, under authority of the order of the Senate of January 4, 2005, by 
Mr. BURNS, with an amendment 
[Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Department of the Interior, environment, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 
and for other purposes, namely:
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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-
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)), $845,783,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $1,000,000 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 2006 subject to a match by at least an equal amount 
by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cost-
shared projects supporting 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, $32,696,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering the mining claim fee program; to remain available
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until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from annual 
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation 
estimated
at
not
more
than
$845,783,000,
and 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from com-
munication site rental fees established by the Bureau for 
the cost of administering communication site activities. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency 
rehabilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire as-
sistance by the Department of the Interior, $761,564,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$7,849,000 shall be for the renovation or construction of 
fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are also available 
for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such 
purposes: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant 
to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodg-
ing without cost from funds available from this appropria-
tion: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 
1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the Depart-
ment of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant 
to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United States 
property, may be credited to the appropriation from which
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funds were expended to provide that protection, and are 
available without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 
That using the amounts designated under this title of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into procure-
ment contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for 
hazardous fuels reduction activities, and for training and 
monitoring associated with such hazardous fuels reduction 
activities, on Federal land, or on adjacent non-Federal 
land for activities that benefit resources on Federal land: 
Provided further, That the costs of implementing any co-
operative agreement between the Federal Government and 
any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed 
on by the affected parties: Provided further, That notwith-
standing requirements of the Competition in Contracting 
Act, the Secretary, for purposes of hazardous fuels reduc-
tion activities, may obtain maximum practicable competi-
tion among: (1) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative en-
tities; (2) Youth Conservation Corps crews or related part-
nerships with State, local, or non-profit youth groups; (3) 
small or micro-businesses; or (4) other entities that will 
hire or train locally a significant percentage, defined as 
50 percent or more, of the project workforce to complete 
such contracts: Provided further, That in implementing 
this section, the Secretary shall develop written guidance 
to field units to ensure accountability and consistent appli-
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cation of the authorities provided herein: Provided further, 
That funds appropriated under this head may be used to 
reimburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and 
the National Marine Fisheries Service for the costs of car-
rying out their responsibilities under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and 
conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, in con-
nection with wildland fire management activities: Provided 
further, That the Secretary of the Interior may use 
wildland fire appropriations to enter into non-competitive 
sole source leases of real property with local governments, 
at or below fair market value, to construct capitalized im-
provements for fire facilities on such leased properties, in-
cluding but not limited to fire guard stations, retardant 
stations, and other initial attack and fire support facilities, 
and to make advance payments for any such lease or for 
construction activity associated with the lease: Provided 
further, That the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer of funds 
appropriated for wildland fire management, in an aggre-
gate amount not to exceed $9,000,000, between the De-
partments when such transfers would facilitate and expe-
dite jointly funded wildland fire management programs 
and projects: Provided further, That funds provided for