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effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act), 
excluding 
sections 
7.13(1)(3)(ii), 
7.13(1)(4)(vii), 
7.21(a)(3)(ii), 7.21(a)(4)(vii), and 7.22(g)(3)(ii) of title 36, 
Code of Federal Regulations, shall be in force and effect 
until the earlier of— 
(1) the date that is 3 years after the date of en-
actment of this Act; or 
(2) the date on which the Secretary of the Inte-
rior (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 
promulgates and implements regulations to replace 
the final rule. 
(b) If a court of competent jurisdiction enjoins or oth-
erwise limits the implementation of the replacement regula-
tions described in subsection (a)(2), the final rule referred 
to in subsection (a) shall be reinstated for a period of not 
more than 3 years. 
(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and 
subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary may award tem-
porary concession contracts to any snowmobile operator 
that satisfactorily operated, as determined by the Secretary, 
for the winter use season of 2005–2006 at Yellowstone Na-
tional Park, Grand Teton National Park, or the John D. 
Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway.
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(2) A temporary concession contract awarded under 
paragraph (1) may be for 1 or more additional terms of 
not more than a total of 3 years. 
SEC. 125. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
may be used to set up Centers of Excellence and Partnership 
Skills Bank training without prior approval of the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 126. RED ROCK CANYON NATIONAL CONSERVA-
TION AREA. Section 6(a) of the Red Rock Canyon National 
Conservation Area Establishment Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 
460ccc–4(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘with donated 
or appropriated funds’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(3) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively. 
SEC. 127. Pursuant to section 10101f(d)(3) of the Om-
nibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 
28f(d)(3)), the following claims shall be given notice of de-
fect and the opportunity to cure: AA 023149; AA 023163; 
AA 047913; AA 047914; AA 047915; AA 047916; AA 
047917; AA 047918 and AA 047919. 
SEC. 128. OIL AND GAS LEASING INTERNET PILOT 
PROGRAM. Notwithstanding section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Min-
eral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C 226(b)(1)(A)), the Secretary of
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the Interior shall establish an oil and gas leasing Internet 
pilot program, under which the Secretary may conduct 
lease sales through methods other than oral bidding. To 
carry out the pilot program, the Secretary of the Interior 
may use not more than $250,000 of funds in the BLM Per-
mit Processing Improvement Fund described in section 
35(c)(2)(B) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
191(c)(2)(B)). 
SEC. 129. In implementing section 1307 of Public Law 
96–487 (4 Stat. 2479), the Secretary shall deem the present 
holders of entry permit CP–GLBA005–00 and entry permit 
CP–GLBA004–00 each to be a person who, on or before 
January 1, 1979, was engaged in adequately providing vis-
itor services of the type authorized in said permit within 
Glacier Bay National Park. 
SEC. 130. Section 144(b)(2) of the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447, 118 Stat. 3072), 
is amended by striking ‘‘September 24, 2004’’ and inserting 
‘‘May 4, 2005’’. 
SEC. 131. (a) The Natchez Trace Parkway, Natchez 
National Historical Park, Brices Cross Roads National 
Battlefield Site, and Tupelo National Battlefield shall be 
administered under the supervision of the Superintendent 
of the Natchez Trace Parkway.
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(b) The position of Superintendent of the Natchez 
Trace Parkway shall be classified in the Senior Executive 
Service. 
SEC. 132. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is author-
ized and shall seek to enter into written agreements to 
amend the payment responsibilities under all leases issued 
authorizing production of oil and gas from the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf that provide for the relief from the payment 
of royalties and do not include any provision for suspension 
of that relief based on increase of the prices of oil and gas 
above specified thresholds. Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide 
each lessee holding any such lease with a separate written 
offer to amend such payment responsibilities. For purposes 
of implementing this section, where there are multiple per-
sons owning a share of a lease, the Secretary is authorized 
to implement separate agreements with each person regard-
ing that person’s respective interest in the lease. The offer 
shall propose imposing price thresholds beginning in the 
calendar year in which the offer is accepted at a level con-
sistent with the price thresholds contained in Outer Conti-
nental Shelf leases that contained price thresholds granted 
in 1996, 1997, and 2000. 
(b) The Congress hereby reaffirms the application of 
section 8(a)(1)(H) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands
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Act, particularly with respect to the authority of the Sec-
retary of the Interior to vary the suspension of royalties 
based on the price of production from a lease, to all leases 
subject to the Deepwater Royalty Relief Act of 1995. 
(c) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall report to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the Senate, and the Committee on Resources of the House 
of Representatives on the results of the efforts of the Sec-
retary under subsection (a). 
SEC. 133. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to issue any new lease that authorizes pro-
duction of oil or natural gas under the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) to any lessee under 
an existing lease issued by the Department of the Interior 
in accordance with the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water 
Royalty Relief Act (43 U.S.C. 1337 note; Public Law 104– 
58), where such existing lease is not subject to limitations 
on royalty relief based on market price. An exception will 
be made if, at the request of the lessee, the royalty clause 
of the lease is renegotiated or a settlement agreement is 
reached with the Department of the Interior to incorporate 
limitations on royalty relief based on market price.
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SEC. 134. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of the Interior may be used, 
in relation to any proposal to store water for the purpose 
of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar au-
thorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands man-
aged by the Needles Field Office of the Bureau of Land Man-
agement, or for carrying out any activities associated with 
such right-of-way or similar approval. 
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, as 
amended; necessary expenses for personnel and related costs 
and travel expenses, including uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum 
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; 
procurement of laboratory equipment and supplies; other 
operating expenses in support of research and development; 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project,
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$793,362,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2008. 
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, including 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but 
at rates for individuals 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; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase 
of reprints; library memberships in societies or associations 
which issue publications to members only or at a price to 
members lower than to subscribers who are not members; 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; and not 
to exceed $9,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses, $2,310,674,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2008, including administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General
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Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction, alteration, 
repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to 
exceed $85,000 per project, $35,100,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2008. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
$39,816,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sections 
111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and 
for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and ren-
ovation of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; 
$1,261,345,000, to remain available until expended, con-
sisting of such sums as are available in the Trust Fund 
on September 30, 2006, as authorized by section 517(a) of 
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 
1986 (SARA) and up to $1,261,345,000 as a payment from 
general revenues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for 
purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of SARA, as 
amended: Provided, That funds appropriated under this
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heading may be allocated to other Federal agencies in ac-
cordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, 
That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$13,316,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’ appropriation to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2008, and $27,811,000 shall be transferred to 
the ‘‘Science and Technology’’ appropriation to remain 
available until September 30, 2008. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by section 
205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act 
of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per 
project, $72,759,000, to remain available until expended. 
OIL SPILL RESPONSE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, $16,506,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolving
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funds and performance partnership grants, $3,000,362,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which $687,555,000 
shall be for making capitalization grants for the Clean 
Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’); 
$841,500,000 shall be for capitalization grants for the 
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under section 1452 
of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended; $30,750,000 
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 
consultation with the appropriate border commission; 
$24,850,000 shall be for grants to the State of Alaska to 
address drinking water and waste infrastructure needs of 
rural and Alaska Native Villages: Provided, 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) not 
later than October 1, 2005 the State of Alaska shall make 
awards consistent with the State-wide priority list estab-
lished in 2004 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
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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; $210,000,000 shall 
be for making special project grants for the construction of 
drinking water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure 
and for water quality protection in accordance with the 
terms and conditions specified for such grants in the joint 
explanatory statement of the managers accompanying this 
Act, and, for purposes of these grants, each grantee shall 
contribute not less than 45 percent of the cost of the project 
unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency; 
$89,119,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including 
grants, interagency agreements, and associated program 
support costs; $20,127,000 for grants under sections 791– 
797 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; and $1,096,461,000 
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